1 never forget

2 foist foist!

3 I tried...

4 Meow

5 Hey

6 Sorry I'm late, my hula hoop got caught on a moose antler.

7 Why do June bugs always end up wiggling helplessly on their backs?

8 Good evening morons e grazie wd for Friday Night Memes

The Shat!

9 What would be accomplished by covering France with three inches of ranch dressing? Well, the smell would immediately improve.

10 Say, do they make a sex robot version of that Radio Police Automaton? I mean, it's kinda hot and you wouldn't need the tear gas dispenser.

11 Let's see. On the screen for the tip, I'd tap custom, and add a 50 cent tip. If you're that arrogant, you don't deserve more.

12 I'm a frankly ridiculous tipper... I have a soft spot for wait staff. Very generous.

If I saw that bullshit, I'd walk the fuck out. If I saw ANY charge on my card in the morning I'd call the bank, contest it as fraudulent, and stop payment.

And then I'd go on Google Reviews and tell everyone I got Hep A from the fish sandwich and had to get a liver transplant and it didn't work and now I'm GOING TO DIE.

13
Videos of heavy equipment in Third World countries provide hours of entertainment. Guys running around yelling "Ya, ya, ya, ya!" while trucks, cranes and rollers plunge into an abyss.

14 What do you do? I walk out, and I tip very well

Dear server, my 'custom tip' is you're an entitled cvnt and I will laugh when your stupid whiny ass gets fired.



Would bet the 'barista' has some worthless basket-weaving degree with 6-digit debt.

.... and yeah, I tend to give fatter tips too. Not always though!

15 Darn, that WDONT content will trip me up every time!

16 So, is the champion baker saying that no one can tell the difference if you use butter, extra egg, and milk, or that no one can tell the difference between box mix and champion baking if you do that?

17 7 Why do June bugs always end up wiggling helplessly on their backs?
Posted by: mindful webworker - dumb bugs at April 25, 2025 10:05 PM (+bW3+)

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Substandard mechanical engineering. Probably designed by interns.

18 Evenin'


Robocop 1924


Is that available for sale?

19 When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see

And I, I won't be afraid
I won't be afraid
Just as long as I have my ONT.

20 Some goats get struck down by Zeus's thunderbolt.

Some goats get struck down by Liberace.

21 Puddleglum - Sarris is fully stocked with chocolate. I repeat. Sarris is fully stocked with chocolate.

22
Ah, Hugo Gernsback.

23 > Why do June bugs always end up wiggling helplessly on their backs?
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Because the Mayflies already borked 'em.

24 Sorry I’m late, I was helping a moose with a hula hoop stuck on his antler.

25 Hey Dave psst 4chan is back. Not sure if this is good or bad.

26 Food for thought, but probably real...

https://x.com/RealHickory/status/1915937363819143387

27 Gen Z invents hanging out



We called that the 80s

28 Food for thought, but probably real...

https://x.com/RealHickory/status/1915937363819143387

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 25, 2025 10:14 PM (hOUT3)


It's real. Her family announced it.

29 Why does nobody in these types of vids ever say “Uh, guys?”

Because they're morons? I thought that was understood.

30 Did Norm Macdonald write that Bert and Ernie joke?

31 1 never forget

Posted by: Ciampino - irony at April 25, 2025 09:58 PM (sPQoU)

Thanks for reminding me.

32 Almond extract is of the devil. Add it to the trash.

33 Evenin’, All.

I’ve already forgotten what I was on about on the previous thread, so I love you all, including those that I have been arguing with there.

34 21 Puddleglum - Sarris is fully stocked with chocolate. I repeat. Sarris is fully stocked with chocolate.
Posted by: TRex


Shearer's closed earlier this year, sadly.

35 Robocop 1924 - my favorite bit is the strategic placement of the engine exhaust.

36 24 Sorry I’m late, I was helping a moose with a hula hoop stuck on his antler.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 10:12 PM (u73oe)

You win.

37 One the theft, grift, graft and embedded rate taps are closed Social Security is solvent, retirements funded and the deficit amortized. More Chardonnay?

38 34 Shearer's closed earlier this year, sadly.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2025 10:18 PM
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Got it. Don't invade Mexico.

39 Good grief...
We have to go through a whole pile of shit to talk to each other...
These adds can suck a bunch of dickage....
Come on AoS ..Jeez..? Honestly....
Or I am missing something.... 😒😒😒

40 Interesting that they thought that the most important functions for a copbot was to gas and flail people. So... pretty much like regular cops.

41 That mandatory tip screen? Expect to see more like it if "No taxes on tips" becomes the law of the land. I foresee employers cutting back on wages since tip income is untaxed.

You can start to really worry when the last page of the sign-in form at your doctor's office asks how much of a tip you'll be leaving.

Go on, you can get started on your circumcision jokes now.

42 I would select "Custom Tip" and leave $0.01.

It's only once in a blue moon that I tip above 20%. Equally rare that I tip below 15%, but I have no sympathy with this demand for 30% or higher.

43 I have a theory about the wallet switch. Perhaps it just highlights my behavior. BUT, I hate switching wallets. I know what's in there. I know where it is. Most importantly, I don't want to have to pressure myself into streamlining things I really don't need in there, but need to keep somewhere. That just creates more decisions, that require consideration and thought about possible occurrences where that particular removed item might be necessary.

In other words, my wallet is just fine. Leave me alone. See, it still fits in my pocket and everything, and it only causes minor back pain. Mind your own business.

44 Let's see. On the screen for the tip, I'd tap custom, and add a 50 cent tip. If you're that arrogant, you don't deserve more.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Oh, I didn't see the custom button. I thought, that's really arrogant. "Not optional" - still arrogant and says to me, "won't be back."

45 I just got "swatted" in the Late Nite hours

Was OK

Just Darleen, Marleen and Charleen got off shift at the same time.

46 Has anybody mentioned boobs yet?

47 Yay, National Hairball Awareness Day ONT!

48 And shouting. I forgot the shouting.

49 Notice she doesn't complain that we similarly have a hard time giving up an old, faithful, falling apart wife.

50
On the tipping, i flat refuse to tip if there isn't food, or interpersonal customer service involved. Especially in states where food service people get minimum wage (Nevada).

Was forced to use a kiosk to order a sandwich, employee retrieves bag, puts it on a shelf, says nothing. My phone beeps that my food is ready. I go show the message and number, clerk spins the paysystem around and that 30% minimum tip is staring at me. I aks if tips are shared with the cooks in the back.was told no. I hit custom tip, selected zero, and swiped the card.

51 Circumcision is no joke.

52 Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 25, 2025 10:20 PM (0ohAJ)
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I just work here.

53 15 Darn, that WDONT content will trip me up every time!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (hOUT3
Yeah, I was just gonna brush my teeth and be right back.

54 46 Has anybody mentioned boobs yet?
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)

Not that I've noticed,. Please feel free to do so.

55 Sorry I’m late, I was helping a moose with a hula hoop stuck on his antler.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

*offers Pop Rocks to make it Perfect*

56 My old wallet fits impression in my ass cheeck.
The new wallet, even if the exact same product will have sharp corners and be uncomfortable.

Really not much different from a comfortable pair of old shoes.

57 > Gen Z invents hanging out

We called that the 80s
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The 60's would like a word or two.

In fact... generations going back a century would, if not longer.

58 Top picture Rainbow Demon.

59 51 Circumcision is no joke.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

Nothing like a cutting remark so early in the ONT responses!

60 Robocop 1924 - my favorite bit is the strategic placement of the engine exhaust.

Then I guess you'll love the tear gas outlets.

61 Re: the wallet thing, every few years my wife gives me a new wallet for Christmas. I have half-dozen brand new ones in a drawer and am still using one from the 1990's. It works perfectly well, fits my ass, and looks better than the one in the picture.

Re: mandatory tips, I would walk out without paying anything, after "accidentally" knocking over the overpriced shitty coffee all over their counter. I also tip well for good service, however I *never* tip for service when I have to order at the counter.

62 Is it too much to hope that a judge arrested on a Friday might just have to sit in the clink until Monday to be arraigned?

Lie to me if you must

63 'nother thing about the tip -- even if I pay by credit card, I like to leave the tip in cash. Where's the button for that, huh, eh huh?

64 Guys being Guys.... yes...

But if they were MILITARY Guys... much more explosives.

65 >>> 41 That mandatory tip screen? Expect to see more like it if "No taxes on tips" becomes the law of the land. I foresee employers cutting back on wages since tip income is untaxed.
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Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 10:21 PM (eIjvK)

Maybe, but that might not work out so well either.

66 TCM is very Svengooly-esque tonight. Me likey.
Except for that commie Been Mangy-wits.

67 Hello. How is everyone?

68 Even at Michelin star restaurants, a 20% tip is the starter. I think that one is either a truly bizarre exception or bullshit.
Another thing that drives me nuts with those iPad type cashier things is they always pop up a tip when you go to pay. If I'm at a bakery and all the person did was turn around and take a croissant off the shelf and hand it to me, you are not getting a tip.

69 I tip generously, sometimes 25%, because when I was in college I worked as a waitress. But if I were given that demand for a tip, I would probably stop going to that restaurant. If tips aren't going to be voluntary, then do away with tipping, raise the servers' pay, and raise the price of the food.

70 Posted by: COMountainMarie

*deplorable crush*

Don't tell

It's a Secret

71 Thanks, WD. My Friday is finally, actually, Friday.

72 I really enjoyed meeting a bunch of you at the 2024 NoVaMoMe. I'm not used to fun. But the event was "fun."

73 Oh, and BOOBS!

74 In other words, my wallet is just fine. Leave me alone. See, it still fits in my pocket and everything, and it only causes minor back pain. Mind your own business.
Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 10:22 PM (dIske)

Try finding a new wallet that is identical to the one you've been carrying forever. After my ancient wallet disintegrated, I had to try three new ones before I found one I could live with.

75 51 Circumcision is no joke.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

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Do you tip your mohel?

Asking for a friend.

76 51 Circumcision is no joke.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM

Are you trying to cut off this conversation?

77 58 Top picture Rainbow Demon.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 10:27 PM (63Dwl)
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Oh, thank God. I thought that was a leprechaun who got carried away with hormone transitioning process and wigged out on the testosterone shots.

78 There's always this confusion that happened after Covid when we thought we had to tip everyone because they were potentially risking their lives to hand us a sandwich off the shelf. This whole tipping thing came into effect and then I was kind of OK with it. But I read this thing where someone said if I am standing up when I order my meal, you are not getting a tip. I pretty much go by that. Except when I am at a sandwich place like Jersey Mike's, where all the young kids are really Cheerful and helpful and working their asses off. Then I will definitely tip them.

79 Gosh Miklos! So sorry honey....yet.... perhaps you're a lucky guy....

80 But the event was "fun."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 10:30 PM (CHHv1)

Then you better be planning to show up for the 2025 NoVaMoMe!

81 The worst thing about living with a cat: the cat.

82 Hello. How is everyone?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

About like an honest weather report-

Tomorrow about like Yesterday

83 IRL i think I've met MS. RI; but in California.

84 Is it too much to hope that a judge arrested on a Friday might just have to sit in the clink until Monday to be arraigned?

Lie to me if you must
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 25, 2025 10:28 PM (pIfcn)

Hopefully they're in the holding cell with some illegals and some hardened criminals. Might provide some perspective.

85 >>> 69 I tip generously, sometimes 25%, because when I was in college I worked as a waitress. But if I were given that demand for a tip, I would probably stop going to that restaurant. If tips aren't going to be voluntary, then do away with tipping, raise the servers' pay, and raise the price of the food.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

Yeah, "It's rude not to" says the entitled asshoe? Fck you (the 'server', not YOU). I know a few people who had those jobs and I highly doubt any of them would put something like that out there.

86 Yay, National Hairball Awareness Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2025

***
About time!

87 Do you tip your mohel?

That scans like it ought to be a parody of a Lonnie Donegan song.

88 16 So, is the champion baker saying that no one can tell the difference if you use butter, extra egg, and milk, or that no one can tell the difference between box mix and champion baking if you do that?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (EXyHK

That was my question as well.

89 Good evening good people.

I heard #4 son said "Nice job, Asshole!" today.

Clearly, sarcasm is passed along the generations.

90 I no longer use a wallet, because it's too obvious. If I use something obvious like that, my 5 year old daughter WILL find it, and those cards WILL vanish. She has an obsession with my wallet.

I have no idea where the heap of cards and cash she's already pilfered is stashed, but I'm not dealing with it anymore. My cards now go in a shelf in the back bathroom I myself can barely reach. She doesn't know about it because I lock the room and just sneak in there to select needed cards, which I hide in my clothing til I return them.

It's like I'm having an affair with the pizza parlor and the liquor store and the Ace Hardware.

91 I tip and well. That prompt is rude and there is not a single reasonable default tip option displayed. If I saw that sign, I'd be inclined to not tip, never come back, and make a point of saying whyto management.

92 Heh, they had to link two sets of handcuffs together to get that judge’s hands behind her back.

93 The mandatory tip screen has a button for "Custom Tip." I'd investigate that and see how low an amount I could leave. Then I'd register my complaint, loudly enough for everyone in the restaurant to hear, and walk out for good.

I try to pay cash for meals out anyway, and leave a tip in cash even if I use a card.

94 81 The worst thing about living with a cat: the cat.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 10:32 PM (CHHv1)

The worst thing about living with a human: the human.

95 92 Heh, they had to link two sets of handcuffs together to get that judge’s hands behind her back.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 10:34 PM (u73oe)

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You need two sets to keep her from gumming her way to freedom.

96 Many moons ago, I was a sales manager at a place.
Took the whole crew over to a bar across the street Friday afternoon.
We drank top shelf. Had to wave the waitress over every time we wanted something. Had to ask for the ashtrays to be emptied (I'm that old).
We ran a tab over $100, which took some doing then, and I left a $.10 tip.
Manager came over. I told him what I thought of the service. He comped the ticket.
She wasn't there the next Friday.

97 On the ol' worn wallet - not to worry, he keeps familiar things that are good. You're good, right?

98 63 'nother thing about the tip -- even if I pay by credit card, I like to leave the tip in cash. Where's the button for that, huh, eh huh?
Posted by: mindful webworker - nobody needs to know at April 25, 2025 10:28 PM (+bW3+)

Yeah... that tip thing? I'd leave nothing... tell them I am not legally obligated to pay their employees wages... and never go back again.

99 Re: Tipping. On the other hand, there are people who are notoriously low tippers. And it's not a state secret that some of the worst tippers are part of the post-Sunday church brunch/lunch crowd. Whether they haven't gotten up to speed with 20% being considered the minimum instead of 10-15%, or they're just cheap, I dunno. But there have been times when someone else has paid the bill and I'll quietly slip some extra cash on the table.

100 In California, they started a sneaky little thing where they would add on a 6% "service charge "to help the workers with living costs. Then the state legislature actually mandated that this show up on the menu in a statement so you know going in. Well, good for them that was probably the only non-hare brained thing they've done in the past 10 years. So now there will be a small little statement on the bottom of the menu saying that. And yet they still ask you to tip them 20%.
This is all about the restaurant owners who don't have the balls to just raise the prices on the menu by 6% I know they've got it rough too, but for God sake stop trying to sneak all these extra charges in here.
Does this happen in any other state besides California?

101 >>> 93 The mandatory tip screen has a button for "Custom Tip." I'd investigate that and see how low an amount I could leave. Then I'd register my complaint, loudly enough for everyone in the restaurant to hear, and walk out for good.

I try to pay cash for meals out anyway, and leave a tip in cash even if I use a card.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 10:35 PM (omVj0)

I used to tip in cash most if not all of the time, until some other asshoes thought it would be SMAHHHHRRRT to go to farcebuk and claim to have received a $0 tip along with a rayciss / sexiss / whateveriss note.

102 Yay, National Hairball Awareness Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2025

***
About time!
Posted by: Wolfus's Cats

Cough it up girl

GET IT AOUT

*files lawsuit about Disproportionate Impact on Dogs v Cats*

103 Instead of a Saturday Night Special, that gun is a Handyman's Special.

104 Almond extract is of the devil. Add it to the trash.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Not completely worthless - I'll add a bit to my pizzelles at Christmastime.

105 When I was 12 my dad gave me my first real wallet. It was special bc it was made out of real leather and meant to be a really nice gift for me. Decades later, I still use it. Part of it finally fell off and it's more of just a credit card holder now, but it still works. Only wallet I've ever had.

106 The lazy guy's old wallet looks infected. Not sure if it's fungus, bacteria, lichen or what. Switch over and ditch that thing before you develop a serious ass disease. Never mind touching the wallet, then putting fingers in mouth.

107 By the way, let me just say I tip standard at 20% and more of the service is better, but I really resent being forced into tipping in any way shape or form. And actually, we've created a bad precedent in the US. . When we were in the Amalfi coast last summer, They all expect you to tip them. It's known that Americans tip. They will even ask for it. Now they're all very nice, but they most definitely expect a tip. I'm sure the Germans don't get bothered like that.

108
Not completely worthless - I'll add a bit to my pizzelles at Christmastime.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:39 PM (vKNmo)

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Seems like that would sting, but you be you.

109 -
Circumcision is no joke.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

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Do you tip your mohel?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:31

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Nope. He will just take your tip and expect to be paid for doing THAT.

110 On the other hand, there are people who are notoriously low tippers. And it's not a state secret that some of the worst tippers are part of the post-Sunday church brunch/lunch crowd. Whether they haven't gotten up to speed with 20% being considered the minimum instead of 10-15%, or they're just cheap, I dunno. But there have been times when someone else has paid the bill and I'll quietly slip some extra cash on the table.
Posted by: Vendette

Got a daughter in law who used to waitress. NO ONE wants to work the post church crowd.

111 Yeah, "It's rude not to" says the entitled asshoe? Fck you (the 'server', not YOU). I know a few people who had those jobs and I highly doubt any of them would put something like that out there.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:32 PM (Vqx30)
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Looks fake to me.

112 Changing to a new wallet is an experience every man experiences but which cannot be described in words. Not exactly a religiously cosmic sort of thing. Or maybe it is. I mean, you know how the current one feels in you hands, knowing which side is which because one side is flatter from being against your butt in a back pocket. You know exactly where everything is and how to access every every little section, nook, and cranny.

113 I don't leave tips. I leave gratuities.

114 And she doesn't do it to her mom. Lady YD leaves her purse, with its nearly inexhaustible bounty of colorful cards spilling out like a cornucopia, wherever she pleases. No problems.

But if that little girl so much as smells me thinking about a wallet it will be as empty as the day I bought it before I can lay a hand on it.

115 I usually tip a lot (20%+), but I have also walked out of three places in a row because they didn't notice me in a "Please Wait to be Seated" place, or the waitstaff were really slow in showing up at the table, or the fast food people were rude on taking an order. Best to cut your losses. If they're rude at the beginning, it usually doesn't get any better. But if they do a good job, lay it on 'em.

116 She wasn't there the next Friday.
Posted by: MkY

Asshole

I was a single mother at the time, and needed that tip money for rent and diapers

117 Did Norm Macdonald write that Bert and Ernie joke?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 10:16 PM (63Dwl)

Naw. Norm would have followed up with an explanation like, "it's you know, a play on words. Ernie kind of, well, is trying to, you know, lighten the mood in a pretty intense situation, you know."

118 113 I don't leave tips. I leave gratuities.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (TrKJG)

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WE GOT A TOFF HERE!!!

119 Hi! I am going camping tomorrow with Girl Scouts. Why did I agree to this? 😂

120 Question on the legality of mandatory tips.

If it is not on the menu price, does that not constitute fraud, as it is a bait and switch? It is advertising one price (for the meal or whatever) then forcing you to pay more to cover their employee wages?

Same as if a car dealer put a deal in front of you for $30 K for a car, but then said we will charge you $8 K more to cover the car Salesmans salary.

121 Let's see. On the screen for the tip, I'd tap custom, and add a 50 cent tip. If you're that arrogant, you don't deserve more.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

That calls for a 1% tip.

122 I’m a very generous tipper but that screen is a walk out for me. In fact, I really hate the tip screens. Let me add a tip if I’d like to.

123 >>> 104
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Not completely worthless - I'll add a bit to my pizzelles at Christmastime.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:39 PM (vKNmo)

I had to look that up. It sort of makes sense there but please, not in vanilla cake. Ick.

124 Miss Congeniality is a great silly film and Miss Rhode Island is a special pleasure

125 If it is not on the menu price, does that not constitute fraud, as it is a bait and switch? It is advertising one price (for the meal or whatever) then forcing you to pay more to cover their employee wages?

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*ahem*

126 That was my question as well.
Posted by: Emmie at April 25, 2025 10:33 PM (Sf2cq)

______________________________

I make one of those cake mixes (usually Duncan Hines) on average once a week. I'm looking forward to giving those switches a shot. It's going to be more healthy just cutting out the vegetable oil. I notice he doesn't detail whether the butter should be salted or unsalted.

127 106
Hey, there, fella! Get yer fingers outta yer mouth!

128 Conversations about wallets and circumcision means I have to share:

There was once a rabbi who was never able to dispose of the foreskin after a bris- he just thought it disrespectful, so he kept them all in a jug. When the jar started getting full, he wondered if he could do anything useful with them, and the Ides came to him that maybe a leather worker could make something from them. So, off the the leather worker he goes with the jar, and is assured that the craftsman will, indeed, be able to make something of them. "Come back in a week, and you'll get your item."

A week passes and he returns to the leather worker, who presents him with a brand new wallet.

"Wait a second," said the rabbi. "That was an almost full gallon jug, and all I get from it is a wallet?"
The leather worker looked at him and said, "Sir, all you have to do is rub it a few times and it grows into a briefcase."

129 Not getting a new wallet every Christmas is what I miss about the sons getting older.

130 Tipping is for porta potties. Tennessee has a ruffed grouse season. Suddenly I have this urge to move.

131 WE GOT A TOFF HERE!!!
Posted by: Cicero

You ain't a Toff unless you Doff

132 Question on the legality of mandatory tips.

If it is not on the menu price, does that not constitute fraud, as it is a bait and switch? It is advertising one price (for the meal or whatever) then forcing you to pay more to cover their employee wages?

Same as if a car dealer put a deal in front of you for $30 K for a car, but then said we will charge you $8 K more to cover the car Salesmans salary.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 10:42 PM (QAkQ3)


They're having that issue in DC after the mandatory minimum wage relating to restaurants went into effect. Restaurants have been adding Prop 82 surcharges to bills, in some cases up to 5% of the bill. So people who happily voted for Prop 82 are complaining about the extra fee being tacked on by restaurants to pay for it.

133 20% being considered the minimum instead of 10-15%, or they're just cheap, I dunno. But there have been times when someone else has paid the bill and I'll quietly slip some extra cash on the table.
Posted by: Vendette


20% minimum tip? That is bullshit. Tips are for good service, not even normal service... we are just being expected to subsidize the Salaries of employees... which is IMO fraud.

And at a place where all you are doing is handing me a coffee, or food? Fuck that.

134 Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:44 PM (x/vdX)

Well done TD!

135 >>> 111

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Looks fake to me.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

C'mon man, it's on the internet!!!

I mean, it *could* be a troll, but I wouldn't be all that surprised if it were real, and I don't see anything obvious like a six-fingered hand to clue me in.

136 Tipping is for porta potties. Tennessee has a ruffed grouse season. Suddenly I have this urge to move.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Come and do your worst

We gone take yo ass

137 As much as I love my guns and other more effective weapons, I still kind of want one of those night stands.

138 13
Videos of heavy equipment in Third World countries provide hours of entertainment. Guys running around yelling "Ya, ya, ya, ya!" while trucks, cranes and rollers plunge into an abyss.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (QnmlO)


+1 The concept of center of gravity of heavy equipment and of truck loads of logs and rocks, seems to be unknown in the Third World.

139 And she doesn't do it to her mom. Lady YD leaves her purse, with its nearly inexhaustible bounty of colorful cards spilling out like a cornucopia, wherever she pleases. No problems.

But if that little girl so much as smells me thinking about a wallet it will be as empty as the day I bought it before I can lay a hand on it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)


Get a decoy wallet with fake credit cards?

140 Can you imagine the paybacks on tippin' a port-o-potty?

141 137 As much as I love my guns and other more effective weapons, I still kind of want one of those night stands.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 10:47 PM (wgbpW)

LOL, I'm sitting within 20 feet of 3 Guns and /counts... 15 swords right now...

Night stand?

142 >>> 114 And she doesn't do it to her mom. Lady YD leaves her purse, with its nearly inexhaustible bounty of colorful cards spilling out like a cornucopia, wherever she pleases. No problems.

But if that little girl so much as smells me thinking about a wallet it will be as empty as the day I bought it before I can lay a hand on it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)

In a way that's pretty adorable.

143 Is it too much to hope that a judge arrested on a Friday might just have to sit in the clink until Monday to be arraigned?

Lie to me if you must
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here

They can be held for years w/o arraignment if classed "J6".
Even if by mistake.

144 Waiting tables is hard work. There's a lot of jerks. Probably not too many people leave a big tip. Unless the service is execrable, I automatically leave a big tip. It probably doesn't change the night's take all that much, but it probably improves the waitress's mood quite a bit.

But if you're demanding it? Fuck you.

I was shocked by that crap in Europe twenty years ago. Barbaric.

145 Evenin’, All.

I’ve already forgotten what I was on about on the previous thread, so I love you all, including those that I have been arguing with there.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)

146 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?

147 119 Hi! I am going camping tomorrow with Girl Scouts. Why did I agree to this? 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (KQxQb)

Did you feel a need for penance?

148 Adios, Au Revior, Auf Weiedersehen to you.

149 20% minimum tip? That is bullshit. Tips are for good service, not even normal service... we are just being expected to subsidize the Salaries of employees... which is IMO fraud.

And at a place where all you are doing is handing me a coffee, or food? Fuck that.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 10:46 PM (QAkQ3)


Sorry, I meant 20% for sit-down places, but it is considered the standard these days. As for the non-sit-down spots, maybe a dollar or two in the jar depending on the circumstances (I don't drink coffee, so rarely venture into a coffee shop).


Believe it or not, I've seen tip jars in liquor stores.

150 Can you imagine the paybacks on tippin' a port-o-potty?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 10:48 PM (vd6bO)

Or tipping a cow into a porta-potty?

151 WE GOT A TOFF HERE!!!
Posted by: Cicero

I'll have you know , my formal overalls are by Carhart.

152 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)

He and Kaepernick could train together. It could be fun.

153 Hi! I am going camping tomorrow with Girl Scouts. Why did I agree to this? 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (KQxQb)

Sounds like fun!

154
I love the things I see, "If you're not going to leave a 30% tip, stay home." OK, what's 30% of $0.00?

155 Re: old wallet

This woman does not understand us at all. Sad.

Thanks for the ONT.

156 Evenin’, All.

I’ve already forgotten what I was on about on the previous thread, so I love you all, including those that I have been arguing with there.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 10:49 PM (FCbAQ)

Well hell, I had a comment to make and it seemed to post itself just as a copy/paste.

At any rate, you're nearly the perfect Moron.
If you can take abuse from someone who's already forgotten what they were on about, then you're custom made for here.

157 >>> 119 Hi! I am going camping tomorrow with Girl Scouts. Why did I agree to this? 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (KQxQb)

Because you're a nice mama???

I thought of you (even though kale is not mentioned) when I saw this comment in an earlier thread:

235 In honor of Ace's vacation, I'd like to report my GAINZZZ progress--I haven't seen a thread for a while.

I started dedicating myself to getting healthy (body, mind, emotions) on August 12, the first day of the school year.

I've lost 75 pounds and, thanks to Pure Barre, developed muscle tone and definition and greater strength, flexibility, and balance. Vigorous walking (30 minutes 5 times a week) has also helped my stamina.

It's never too late to choose health. It can be challenging to break bad habits and build new ones, but feeling (and looking) truly well is worth it.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (USyCi)

158 They sit at the bar
And put bread in my jar

159 Re: Tipping. On the other hand, there are people who are notoriously low tippers. And it's not a state secret that some of the worst tippers are part of the post-Sunday church brunch/lunch crowd. Whether they haven't gotten up to speed with 20% being considered the minimum instead of 10-15%, or they're just cheap, I dunno. But there have been times when someone else has paid the bill and I'll quietly slip some extra cash on the table.
Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 10:38 PM (OVKfs)

IMHO, the "standard" tip is still 15%. So, the cost of living has gone up? It has for all of us. The meal I got for 12 bucks a few years ago is now 20 bucks. So if I tip 15%, you're now getting 3 bucks instead of two. You're keeping up better than me.

160 -
Adios, Au Revior, Auf Weiedersehen to you.
Posted by: Miklos Welk, turning in early, because started early -
-

Wunnerful, wunnerful.

161 Happy Friday Everybody!

I don't care how great of a president he is....fifty bucks is a lot of money for a hat.....

Early to bed tonight - up early to hike up to the Hollywood sign tomorrow morning. Maybe a side trip to Bronson Cave - which is the cave they used at the opening of the old Batman series in the 1960's - the cave the batmobile came out of....

Hello Jim SND.

162 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)

Coming soon to the WNBA, Shedeura Sanders.

163 30%?!?

Are you giving me a blow job with the meal? Are you hot?

164 If you're not going to leave a 30% tip, stay home

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What? Like, a sign that says this? Are you from Boston?

165 >I’m a very generous tipper but that screen is a walk out for me. In fact, I really hate the tip screens. Let me add a tip if I’d like to.
---

there's a 'custom tip' option
select custom tip
enter 0.01%

166 You're keeping up better than me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 10:53 PM (8zz6B)

These people are not smart, AOP.

167 Or tipping a cow into a porta-potty?
_-_-_
Kinda funny - I grew up in cattle country, went to school with other fellas that took time off from school in the spring for branding, but never even heard of cow-tipping until I went to college...

168 146 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)


The issue with Shedeur Sanders: If you add him to your team you get his father as a team-disruption bonus that you can only get rid of by getting rid of Shadeur.

169 It's not a rickshaw it's a dogshaw.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7p3bj2

170 've lost 75 pounds and, thanks to Pure Barre, developed muscle tone and definition and greater strength, flexibility, and balance. Vigorous walking (30 minutes 5 times a week) has also helped my stamina.

It's never too late to choose health. It can be challenging to break bad habits and build new ones, but feeling (and looking) truly well is worth it.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (USyCi)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

That is so cool! It really is a great workout, even if I am biased. But it’s why I own a Pure Barre!

171
What? Like, a sign that says this? Are you from Boston?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:54 PM (BI5O2)

_________

https://images.app.goo.gl/THFUQ

172 I think that tipping screen is fake

the tablet seems to be tilted away from the camera, but the text on the screen isn't similarly tilted

173 Except when I am at a sandwich place like Jersey Mike's, where all the young kids are really Cheerful and helpful and working their asses off. Then I will definitely tip them.
Posted by: keena

Sounds like Chick-fil-a.

174 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)

Coming soon to the WNBA, Shedeura Sanders.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Picks 92 and 94 went QB and still the Legendary Prima Donna sits.

I am trying to decide if he is a more of McDonald's assistant manager type or if he should go all out and apply at a call center.

175 172 I think that tipping screen is fake

the tablet seems to be tilted away from the camera, but the text on the screen isn't similarly tilted

--------

I hope this doesn't mean that 50 comments of indignant outrage were typed in vain.

176 169 It's not a rickshaw it's a dogshaw.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7p3bj2
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 10:55 PM (MJMyx)

Dogshaw meet dog roll
http://tiny.cc/k0qh001

177 I hope this doesn't mean that 50 comments of indignant outrage were typed in vain.
_-_-_
Harumph!

178 30% minimum tip? Sorry, but I'm going to have to see some amazing tiddies first.

179 Yudhishthira's Dice,
How long before she figures out how to charge stuff at Amazon?

180 Off to bed, don’t think I will have much in the way of service so enjoy your Saturday! I will get pics in this week of Saijo for next week. He is now playing and wagging his tail. He went to the vet today, he does have two ear infections, poor guy. Otherwise he is a healthy puppy!

181 I notice he doesn't detail whether the butter should be salted or unsalted.

I’ve generally found no difference in baking between the two if the recipe also calls for salt.

I made some Dominique Ansel peppermint buttercrunch on Easter. Amazing stuff. The recipe called for unsalted butter and then a small amount of salt. I did the math and the amount of salt called for was the amount of salt in the salted butter I used.

If using unsalted butter in that recipe would have made it noticeably better, I don’t think I want to know.

182 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:33 PM (BI5O2)
====

If I were you I would expect delivery of a pony any day now...

183 I liked the bait Tesla prank.

184 Have to admit that sometimes there just ain't a tip big enough - like the time my daughter threw up all over the table...BIG mess, no apologies seemed adequate, and they insisted on cleaning it up. We were all dressed up and the kid was too old, so no diaper bag full of baby wipes and stuff.

185 https://images.app.goo.gl/THFUQ
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 10:57 PM (QnmlO)

"Friday Special:

Hot Ham & Cheese: $57.50

Free-Floating Aggression: FREE, you stupid, poor asshole who should've died in a gutter"

What a sales pitch.

186 Wait, how can you tell the text is tilted or not???

I second Don in SoCo's Harumph!!!

187 I hope this doesn't mean that 50 comments of indignant outrage were typed in vain.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:59 PM (hY4dx)
====

Comments of indignant outrage are literally my only social communication.

188 I just drafted Shadeur Sanders. We are going to change positions for him from quarterback to janitor.

189 Is it too late for Shedeur to go back to Colorado?

He's either learning humility or he's seething.
I'm guessing humility wasn't big in the D Sanders household.

190 Is it too late for Shedeur to go back to Colorado?

He's either learning humility or he's seething.
I'm guessing humility wasn't big in the D Sanders household.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 11:05 PM (FCbAQ)


Considering the big necklaces he wears have the word "LEGENDARY" on them...

191 51 Circumcision is no joke.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)
----
Castration: The unkindest cut of all.

192 >>> 178 30% minimum tip? Sorry, but I'm going to have to see some amazing tiddies first.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 11:00 PM (wgbpW)

How about amazing boobs? Would boobs work?

193 Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (USyCi)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

That is so cool! It really is a great workout, even if I am biased. But it’s why I own a Pure Barre!
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 10:56 PM (p4NUW)
====

So glad you saw that. Seventy five pounds is a LOT.

194 Is it too late for Shedeur to go back to Colorado?
_-_-_
As long as he's not from California.

195 My wallet story:

I knew me dear old Mum (pbuh) kept Dad's wallet when he passed. Just brought it home and put it in a drawer, like a little leather time capsule.
Years later, my wallet fell apart and I asked Mom for Dad's wallet. She gave it to me. When I took his old cards and bits of paper out of the wallet to be replaced my mine, I found five crisp $100 bills.
Mom was surprised. MY guess was: Dad grew up poor (Appalachia during the Depression), and I think carrying that kind of cash in his wallet made him feel good.

196 193 So glad you saw that. Seventy five pounds is a LOT.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025

It really is and I am so proud of her for doing this, it’s hard, it’s hard to change your entire life like that!

197 30% minimum tip? Sorry, but I'm going to have to see some amazing tiddies first.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 11:00 PM (wgbpW)

Bob! BOB! Waddle out here and take your shirt off! Now!

198 ANNNNND! When he does get drafted, he'll even be seething against the team that drafts him.
Plently of QBs have used falling in the draft to grow that chip on their shoulder, to stoke that competitive fire. Aaron Rodgers famously comes to mind. But that's tough to do when every body has passed on you.
More than once.

199 16 So, is the champion baker saying that no one can tell the difference if you use butter, extra egg, and milk, or that no one can tell the difference between box mix and champion baking if you do that?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (EXyHK)
----
Yes.

200 I have reviewed the image using a Hewlett-Packard 5710-A dual-column gas chromatograph with flame analyzation detectors.

I have determined to a high degree of confidence that the text that appears on the screen is at a significant deviation from the frame of reference perspective that applies to the frame.

The image is fake.

201 If we outlaw tips I’m going to start writing software for free but with a mandatory $200 /hr tip. Take that, IRS! From Hell’s heart I stab at thee!

202 And it's not a state secret that some of the worst tippers are part of the post-Sunday church brunch/lunch crowd. …
Posted by: Vendette

When Daughter was waitressing, she said some of the Church folk would leave little evangelical pamphlets as a "tip." Adding insult to injury, IIRC, some of them looked like a dollar on the outside.

203 There's a button for "custom". If 0 doesn't work, 1% (17 cents) should send the message. I would also tell the person presenting me with this tablet, "This is insulting, I will never be back".

204 Coming soon to the WNBA, Shedeura Sanders.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 10:53 PM (VNX3d)

aLOL, funny shit right there

205 BTW, my county assessor is asshoe. I might run against him next year, since it's an elected office.

Simple campaign:

"JKA, Jr. is asshoe, but you all know that. Vote for YD, and I promise you in 2030, nobody gets an assessment higher than 10% less than 2025's absurd assessment. It doesn't matter if your property is worth more by then. He made up the numbers when he swindled you, and I'll make up whatever numbers I need to make it right.

Vote YD - not asshoe."

206 200
Dad used to run one of those machines back when you had to work over the paper output to calculate the final result - said he'd retire if they ever computerized those machines, but he didn't. Then he taught me how to code, and that stuck.

207 >>>The primary mechanism of solvent-based paint removers is to interrupt the bond between the painted object and the paint. These removers contain specific ingredients that induce the paint to expand, ultimately decreasing its adherence to the surface.
---
Don't think one can buy that good stuff in Merika.

https://tinyurl.com/ypkzbd3e

208 That top pic is disturbing.

209 You know, it really doesn't matter if the tip screen presented above is or is not genuine. The question remains, what would you do if confronted with such grasping rudeness?

210
There are very few industries that can afford to be openly contemptuous of their customers. Restaurants are not one of them.

211 I remember when the silicone lab I worked in wanted to change from acetone to 'safety solvent' (some kind of oil based thing.)

This shit did not cut at all. It was like you were rubbing the vessels clean. Which I guess, you were.

212 Don't think one can buy that good stuff in Merika.

https://tinyurl.com/ypkzbd3e
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 11:16 PM (MJMyx)

Methylene chloride is often used for that. Often made as a runny gel, so it will adhere better to the work.

213 Round 3 of the NFL draft is done and Coach Prima Donna is still not drafted. Being completely fair here he is the worst stage mom since Patsy Ramsey and we all know how that worked out.

214 You know, it really doesn't matter if the tip screen presented above is or is not genuine. The question remains, what would you do if confronted with such grasping rudeness?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:18 PM (8zz6B)

Turn around and walk out?

215 On to Round 4 tomorrow.

Let's say, hypothetically, that Sanders does not get drafted, not even good enough for Mr. Irrelevant. How soon do the accusations of collusion start flying? Because even if there wasn't any, I bet there would be people claiming there was.

216
I have reviewed the image using a Hewlett-Packard 5710-A dual-column gas chromatograph with flame analyzation detectors.

_________

Should have used a Hewlett-Packard 5710-A dual-column, Fourier-transform gas chromatograph with flame analyzation detectors. Loser.

217 >The question remains, what would you do if confronted with such grasping rudeness?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

give it a quick disdainful glance on my way to the door

218
N-methylpyrrolidone is another paint remover.

219 Should have used a Hewlett-Packard 5710-A dual-column, Fourier-transform gas chromatograph with flame analyzation detectors. Loser.
_-_-_
Oh, nice! Fourier Transform, eh? Look at the big brain on Hadrian! Don't need no Fourier-transform - just count the little squares on the paper...

220 Virginia Giuffre didn't kill herself.

Bondi, release all the files.

221 I'm a Mohel, what do you think I should put in the front window?

--Just the punchline

222 Turn around and walk out?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (/dDa4)

And then tell everyone you meet that their fish sandwich gave you hepatitis A, I presume?

It's the gentlemanly rejoinder.

223 Turn around and walk out?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (/dDa4)

Well, you're not going to see that screen until you are done eating, and getting ready to pay for it.

224 >Let's say, hypothetically, that Sanders does not get drafted, not even good enough for Mr. Irrelevant. How soon do the accusations of collusion start flying?
----

well, the accusations of racism are already flying-
which is odd, considering how many Negroes have been drafted so far, same as it ever was.

NFL teams are shying away from all the PrimeTime shit that would come with drafting the guy.

225
Sorry, any quarterback with 2 as the jersey number is trouble. Jamarcus Russell, Johnny Manziel, Ryan Leaf, etc.

226 duckduckgo's 'mohel'...Ow, no way, man!

227 "JKA, Jr. is asshoe, but you all know that. Vote for YD, and I promise you in 2030, nobody gets an assessment higher than 10% less than 2025's absurd assessment. It doesn't matter if your property is worth more by then. He made up the numbers when he swindled you, and I'll make up whatever numbers I need to make it right.

Vote YD - not asshoe."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 11:15 PM (BI5O2)

This is basically the way to win my vote.

228 Should have used a Hewlett-Packard 5710-A dual-column, Fourier-transform gas chromatograph with flame analyzation detectors. Loser.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (QnmlO)

Maybe an ICP-MS?

229 Stanley Cup playoffs are lit AF so far

Canadiens vs Caps
BOTH goalies left the game, hurt

now, Kings v Oilers is F&F

230 ICP-MS
Looks pretty spendy...other than the vacuum pump part and it, well, you know.

231 Virginia Giuffre didn't kill herself.

Bondi, release all the files.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (/lPRQ)

She had close to 20 years to compile a list of all the Deep State/Globohomo creeps that boinked her. Why has that never come out?

232 Heh. Co-Worker wanted to watch the draft and options are limited here at work, so the draft was on all night. The pearl clutching over Sanders not getting picked is amusing and pathetic. Maybe scouting departments of all the NFL teams saw something about him they didn't like. ESPN is acting teen girls crying over there QB being dissed. It's retarded.

233 NFL teams are shying away from all the PrimeTime shit that would come with drafting the guy.

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:27 PM (AOsQT)


Absolutely; it's a package deal. Helicopter coaching, and I bet he would show up on Sundays too.

234 Thank you, Ace, for all you do for us.

(Lines like, "And then she ate a Volkswagen Jetta" sustain me.)

Best blog on Earth. Best writing. Best co-bloggers. Best (smartest, funniest, most capable, most genuinely decent) commenters you'll ever find.

Wish you true rest, relaxation and enjoyment. God bless you and good on ya, man. And may God bless and keep every single member of the Moron Horde.

235 Let's say, hypothetically, that Sanders does not get drafted, not even good enough for Mr. Irrelevant. How soon do the accusations of collusion start flying? Because even if there wasn't any, I bet there would be people claiming there was.
Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (OVKfs)
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What's an 80 year old.softboy going to do for a football tsam, anyway?

236 BTW ladies, the old wallet fits the shape of our ass like a glove. New wallets feel like a lump for the first 4 weeks.

237
The pearl clutching over Sanders not getting picked is amusing and pathetic. Maybe scouting departments of all the NFL teams saw something about him they didn't like. ESPN is acting teen girls crying over there QB being dissed. It's retarded.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2025 11:31 PM (AdHga)

___________

If a team really thought a potential pick could help them, they wouldn't care if he was a Martian. All I, and likely they, see is trouble.

238 Also, huge bench clearing brawl at end of 2nd period between Caps and Canadiens

spilled into the seats

one guy got a 12 minute penalty

239 "On Thursday, Sanders made it clear he felt he was worthy of a first-round pick and told a group gathered at the Sanders family home in Texas for a draft party “this shouldn’t have happened,” according to a video shared by his father and coach at Colorado, Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders"


Yep, that's the sort of attitude you want in a rookie player. /s

240 >ESPN is acting teen girls crying over there QB being dissed. It's retarded.
---

another angle to it: Shadeur being drafted #1 was the story that the sporting press really wanted to write. I mean they had a hardon for that story. That is didn't happen broke the spirits of many ink-stained wretches.

241 Also, huge bench clearing brawl at end of 2nd period between Caps and Canadiens

spilled into the seats

one guy got a 12 minute penalty

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:35 PM (AOsQT)


Heck, a chunk of the fight between Wilson (WAS) and Anderson (MTL) was on the Caps' bench, with a linesman along for the dance. They each got a 2-minute minor and 10-minute misconduct, so 12 minutes total (not the linesman, of course). I've been to regular season games in Montreal; I'd love to experience a playoff game.

242 Okay - you are gonna get half of the news now, and whenever the radiology department sends their report to my doctor, I will pass along the rest of the results. It may be sometime Monday, because my scan wasn't done until 2:00 pm today.

My CA19-9 results keep going in the right direction - DOWN!!!! Today's number was 4.4 - the lowest it has been in the 6 months (😲 since my initial diagnosis 🥳🥳🥳

Fingers crossed that this means the tumors are also shrinking - I will know more in a couple of days. I see the oncology surgeon in Dallas on Monday, and I have a feeling he will be letting us know what the plan will be going forward. I will see my oncologist in Fort Worth on Tuesday.

So far, so good! ❤️😊🥳

243 I really wish I could travel back in time and sit down with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, show them videos of modern day tranny supporters, and be like “You know what you jackasses are doing here, right?”

244 so 4chan is back i guess

245 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (SRRAx)


Yay!

246 I read something for increasing your tip income years ago if you were had one of those pay apps. It was set the middle value higher because people tend to select that.

So if rude coffee barista wants 35% tip, they should have 20%, 35%, and 50% options and drop the mandatory BS.

I have a very cheap co-worker. 15-20 years ago or so a bunch of us routinely walked to a coffee shop after the work cafeteria and get coffees. Mr Cheapo would pay with a check for $10 extra to have a bit of cash and still not leave a tip. Now that was rude as a customer. By that apps standards I was cheap, I think I usually left .50 on the $2.xx drink.

247 >>>Why has that never come out?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Wasn't part of her job assignment.

248 Mom was surprised. MY guess was: Dad grew up poor (Appalachia during the Depression), and I think carrying that kind of cash in his wallet made him feel good.
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:09 PM (AOsQT)

If you could keep a C note in your wallet, you were never poor. I have run across that sentiment before, from men talking about living through the Depression

249 221 I'm a Mohel, what do you think I should put in the front window?

--Just the punchline

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (D7oie)
----
With time I remembered the joke.

250 Fingers crossed that this means the tumors are also shrinking - I will know more in a couple of days. I see the oncology surgeon in Dallas on Monday, and I have a feeling he will be letting us know what the plan will be going forward. I will see my oncologist in Fort Worth on Tuesday.

So far, so good! ❤️😊🥳
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (SRRAx)

Good news, Teresa! Any chance you could go down to Galveston and give a big hug to Jim Sunk New Dawn? Maybe some of that magic would rub off on him, too.

251 Current GF bought me a wallet a few years ago. I don't think I've ever bought a wallet for myself, first from my parents the rest from GFs over the years so there definitely is something to this...

252 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (SRRAx)

That’s wonderful news, Teresa!

253 At that time 20% was a generous tip. I hardly eat out these days but I tend to bump the tip percentage up if its a lower cost meal place.

254 When I was a kid,watching the draft was an oddball thing for compulsive gamblers. If normies are watching it these days, I'm guessing it's for fantasy football reasons?

255 If you could keep a C note in your wallet, you were never poor. I have run across that sentiment before, from men talking about living through the Depression
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 11:42 PM (D7oie)
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In the 70s-80s, I carried $80 or so on me. Now, not so much.

256 TIFW
Congrats. We're dealing with cancer in my wife now.
Have you had issues with phantom pains?

257 >>>So far, so good! ❤️😊🥳
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.
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YES!

258 More falling objects, please.

259 Looking forward to seeing you in TX, Teresa.

260 Whoa it was more like 30 years ago that my work group did that coffee shop thing. I'm getting so old.

261 In 2000 mother's brother told her, 'always have at least $100 when you leave the house'. That would be about $250 or 300 today.
Sounds about right. You never know what's going to happen out on the streets.

262 I just woke up because I thought I had not started the dishwasher.

Darleen said, no honey, you got the dishwasher started and finished, on the One Hour Cycle.

263 In the 70s-80s, I carried $80 or so on me. Now, not so much.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 11:46 PM (6YdsJ)

I always carry a silver dollar, a silver ounce and three dollars in quarters. The first two are for luck and the quarters are for parking meters.

264 >>>Why has that never come out?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Looking over some old articles...
For such a big news case only a handfull of names are known.
Three so far suicided.

265 another angle to it: Shadeur being drafted #1 was the story that the sporting press really wanted to write. I mean they had a hardon for that story. That is didn't happen broke the spirits of many ink-stained wretches.
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (AOsQT)

All the sports writers already wrote that #1 pick story and just left the team name blank. They are pissed over all the time they wasted.

266 IMHO, the "standard" tip is still 15%. So, the cost of living has gone up? It has for all of us. The meal I got for 12 bucks a few years ago is now 20 bucks. So if I tip 15%, you're now getting 3 bucks instead of two. You're keeping up better than me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Bingo! Tip percentage doesn't have to "keep up with inflation". When income is a percentage of price, it is, by definition, keeping up.

267 Was going to put up intro to Homicide, Life on the Streets but even the intro is copyrighted. money money money

268 More falling objects, please.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 11:47 PM (VJc7E)

Like Shadeur Sanders?

(rimshot)

269 The self-agrandizement of the Sanders family has turned me off since Daddy played for the 9r's.
OVERRATED

270 Lol!

271 261 In 2000 mother's brother told her, 'always have at least $100 when you leave the house'. That would be about $250 or 300 today.
Sounds about right. You never know what's going to happen out on the streets.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 11:51 PM (MJMyx)

While having some cash is always useful, the ease of use for debit cards these days means you probably don't have to carry as much.

272 TIFW - Prayers for more good results!

273 Like Shadeur Sanders?

(rimshot)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 11:55 PM (eIjvK)

Needs a meme of him sitting in an auditorium chair backed against the wall at a dance, with a fat chick sitting two seats away.

274 Oh, now I see the picture. I though a Shedeur was one of those big, black veils that the gals have to wear in muzzie territories. He's a sportsball guy! Helps if ya spell it right.

275 I am making it publicy known that in in way, shape or form am I suicidal. I have made this know to my therapist and GP – If something happens to me – in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quited.

https://tinyurl.com/3emvbk9a
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Especially your handlers.

276 146 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)


I could use a guy to mow my lawn while I christen my sloop.

277 I always carry a silver dollar, a silver ounce and three dollars in quarters. The first two are for luck and the quarters are for parking meters.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 11:51 PM (D7oie)

I used to carry a Liberty head half eagle around. There’s something nice about physical money.

278 I'd of been here sooner but I was staring at the goat.

279 If you could keep a C note in your wallet, you were never poor.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Never?
I keep a couple c-notes in my wallet, but my single mother family was working class poor. We did ok as long as the job held out, but when the economy turned down, household income went to zero for months on end. There were times when I ate once a day, while mom dodged the landlord.
I was poor until I got my first job out of college, then, at a salary almost three times what most of my family ever made, I was rich.
Never say never, to quote a movie.

280 278
I ustacud say I'd of but I hear you affosta do that.

281 Today's question

We guys use stuff until it doesn't work and can't be fixed.

282 I'd of been here sooner but I was staring at the goat.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 12:06 AM (W/lyH)

Goat is startled because a pot of gold just appeared in his colon.

283 What do you do? I walk out, and I tip very well

Custom tip option...

284 Uh...ain't[\i] affosta do that.

285 Pretty sure IRL podcast thing is a joke.

286 Oh, no, Jim! Look what I've done! the [\i] didn't kill the italics!

287 Oh, no, Jim! Look what I've done! the [\i] didn't kill the italics!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:12 AM (vd6bO)

Frontslash, not backslash

288 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)


I could use a guy to mow my lawn while I christen my sloop.
Posted by: Judge Smails at April 26, 2025 12:05 AM (Yt3E
***

Uncle Sam wants YOU!!!

289 Andy Ngo@MrAndyNgo

I’ve learned that a trans Portland Antifa Satanist leader who celebrated when I was beaten in 2019 by Antifa ended up k—lling himself.

Ralph Baker, who used the alias “Rani Baker,” committed s—icide in October 2023. He ran the @destroyed4com4t account
----

James Woods @RealJamesWoods

Never speak ill of the dead regardless how evil their actions were in life.
If you can’t say something good about a person, say nothing at all.

Rani Baker is dead...

Good

290 Stopped carrying a wallet long ago. I have 1 credit card, drivers license and $20 in my pocket.Thats my “wallet”.

291 Frontslash, not backslash
_-_-_
Thanks. It's like I was trying to escape something, eh? Probably should drink less, too.

292 Goat in that top pic has a cousin:

youtube.com/watch?v=U-EZizbG7ms

293 When I was just getting started, I always had change for a phone call. Later I always had $5 tucked away in my wallet. Then. $10. Today it's $20. No more. I also have a credit card, and concealed carry.
No need for anything more.

294 290 Stopped carrying a wallet long ago. I have 1 credit card, drivers license and $20 in my pocket.Thats my “wallet”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:14 AM (ziEdw)

I have credit cards, driver's license, medical card, business cards, cash, pics of my kids when small, and some cash and receipts in mine...
Wife, God rest her soul, streamlined it all into her cell phone case...

295 I used a money clip for necessaries however, I keep my wallet and other stuff in a handy stash.

296 293 When I was just getting started, I always had change for a phone call. Later I always had $5 tucked away in my wallet. Then. $10. Today it's $20. No more. I also have a credit card, and concealed carry.
No need for anything more.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 12:19 AM (W/lyH)

Does you concealed carry fit in your wallet?

297 What really cracked me up about Shedeur was that he had this whole glammed up media room ready to celebrate his first round draft choice in. What an ass!!! I don’t know anything about him and I’m glad he got dissed just for that.

298 James Woods @RealJamesWoods

Never speak ill of the dead regardless how evil their actions were in life.
If you can’t say something good about a person, say nothing at all.

Rani Baker is dead...

Good
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:14 AM (MJMyx)

And it took a year and a half for the good news to get out?

299 Woman who was an Epstein Client Accuser... suddenly dies at 41 of suicide...

Yeah.... Epstein...

300 Does you concealed carry fit in your wallet?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:20 AM (ynpvh)


No.
It just protects it.

301 Virginia Giuffre was dealt a crummy hand. I felt badly for her. Hopefully she mailed a packet spilling all the beans.

302 231 Virginia Giuffre didn't kill herself.

Bondi, release all the files.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (/lPRQ)

She had close to 20 years to compile a list of all the Deep State/Globohomo creeps that boinked her. Why has that never come out?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:30 PM (8zz6B)

I thought she was involved in a serious car accident earlier in the year and was given only weeks to live...

303 295 I used a money clip for necessaries however, I keep my wallet and other stuff in a handy stash.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:20 AM (MJMyx)

I had a money belt... nice standard looking leather belt, with a zipper inside... that I had for many many years, with $1000 in it...

Traveled all over the world with it... thinking that $1K could get me out of just about any local type of trouble I could get into as a Young sailor.

Never had to use.... now I have multiple $K in the locked gun safe that I travel with...

304 My wallet is merged with my cell phone case.

305 I have like 9 credit/debit cards in my wallet. But every one has a purpose. One gives me 6% back at supermarkets, another 5% back on restaurants, another 3% back on prescriptions. Each has its place.

306 301 Virginia Giuffre was dealt a crummy hand. I felt badly for her. Hopefully she mailed a packet spilling all the beans.
Posted by: 496 at April 26, 2025 12:23 AM (FASZa)

Those of us with eyes to see... know the situation...

The LAW will not do a thing... which is why those with Eyes to See, no longer have any confidence, in what we call the 'Justice' system.

307 305 I have like 9 credit/debit cards in my wallet. But every one has a purpose. One gives me 6% back at supermarkets, another 5% back on restaurants, another 3% back on prescriptions. Each has its place.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 12:29 AM (/dDa4)

3 Cards... 2 Debit cards which lead to multiple K bank accounts... and a 'Gift' Card, with $2 K on it... I don't do credit... ANY credit adds to inflation through Fractional Lending.

308 That mandatory tip screen? Expect to see more like it if "No taxes on tips" becomes the law of the land. I foresee employers cutting back on wages since tip income is untaxed.
==
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 10:21 PM (eIjvK)

Maybe, but that might not work out so well either.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at Ap
****
$20 hour wage for fast food in California.
BK #1 $13

309 Those 'Epstein Files' are long gone.

310 Where can I say “I don’t believe in tipping?”

311 I keep a $100 bill in my glove compartment, concealed.
Only because, on the weekends, when doing errands, I don't always remember to pack my wallet.
Driving 15 miles to pick up straw, only to realize I got no cash, I got no cards...

312 306
Even DU agrees - of course they add "recruited at Mar a Lago" to her name.

And I know it's old news, but, dang, what happened to Drudge? He hates us all as far as I can tell.

313 ANY credit adds to inflation through Fractional Lending.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 12:32 AM (QAkQ3)

Of course. But consider the Cantillon Effect: he who is closest to the creation of new money derives the most benefit. As the one spending new money into existence, I derive the most benefit.

Plus cash back. They’re literally paying me to use their cards. It’s free money!

314 Twenty dollars is lunch for one at GoodBurger's or a tip for Tasty Lunch. Some people have a get-a-way bag in the trunk. In a general emergency cash is a better option.

315 Those 'Epstein Files' are long gone.
Posted by: Puddleglum

As are most of the publically known involved the racket.

Weird. Not a single known John but Maxwell waiting in prison for her inevitable suicide after being convicted of trafficing to ... nobody.

316 307 305 I have like 9 credit/debit cards in my wallet. But every one has a purpose. One gives me 6% back at supermarkets, another 5% back on restaurants, another 3% back on prescriptions. Each has its place.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Ramsey wants to talk to you.

317 Virginia Giuffre was dealt a crummy hand. I felt badly for her. Hopefully she mailed a packet spilling all the beans.
Posted by: 496 at April 26, 2025 12:23 AM (FASZa)

Those of us with eyes to see... know the situation...

The LAW will not do a thing... which is why those with Eyes to See, no longer have any confidence, in what we call the 'Justice' system.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 12:30 AM (QAkQ3)

She said she was in a serious car wreck. "hit by a school bus going 110 km/hr", and that her kidneys had shut down as a result. She was going to die in a few days. Then the hospital released her and sent her home? Apparently the school bus driver reported a minor collision the next day. A 70 mph wreck would have done major damage to a school bus, too. I don't know who to believe here. Sounds like there may well be some false information being put out there.

318 >>>but, dang, what happened to Drudge? He hates us all as far as I can tell.
Posted by: Don in SoCo
---------

During Drudge's heyday Andrew Breitbart was his editor.

319 I tip. Used to be only at waitress restaurants. Now it's everywhere even fast food. Thing is, if you go to place that might remember you and considering the general bad behavior and lack of morals now, it's kind of risky NOT to tip even though you already have the food. Who knows what they might do in the back next time?

320 She's had the list for years. She could have published it, passed it off to a friend, seen to it that it was circulated any number of ways.

321 but, dang, what happened to Drudge?

He sold out years ago with the contract apparently requiring he claims to still run it. Still useful as a one stop headline conglomerate of what the Establishment wants you to think

322 319 I tip. Used to be only at waitress restaurants. Now it's everywhere even fast food. Thing is, if you go to place that might remember you and considering the general bad behavior and lack of morals now, it's kind of risky NOT to tip even though you already have the food. Who knows what they might do in the back next time?

Posted by: azjaeger at April 26, 2025 12:44 AM (3/XaG)

I only tip cash, even if I pay the bill with a credit card.

323 I've never tipped a cow.

324 She's had the list for years. She could have published it, passed it off to a friend, seen to it that it was circulated any number of ways.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:45 AM (MJMyx)

Well, if Virginia Giuffre had a deadman's switch, it might take time for the results to appear. The people holding the goods have to verify to their own satisfaction that she is in fact dead, and then find a way to disseminate the information without it being traced to them.

325 321
Yep. I try not to click on anything over there, but, you're right. Opposition research matters. I am very grateful for the Morning Report here.

326 What's in my wallet?

For thirty years a single crisp new $1.
First dollar in cash I got after crazy ex diitched me downtown, drove home, and cleaned out the joint accounts on the way. Couldn't even draw $5 (the min from ATMs then) to get bus fare.
Walking home I swore to keep the first $1 I get for bus fare because I sure could have used that instead of walking 12 miles.

327 She said she was in a serious car wreck. "hit by a school bus going 110 km/hr", and that her kidneys had shut down as a result. She was going to die in a few days. Then the hospital released her and sent her home? Apparently the school bus driver reported a minor collision the next day. A 70 mph wreck would have done major damage to a school bus, too. I don't know who to believe here. Sounds like there may well be some false information being put out there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:42 AM (8zz6B)

Based on that, her story makes very little sense. No dialysis? I guess it’s not inconceivable she was released to die at home, but her medical records should reflect that. Trauma can definitely kill you weeks or even years away, but it seems odd, especially given the suicide.

328 I've never tipped a cow.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:48 AM (ynpvh)

And you wonder why your milk goes off so soon, even in the fridge, right?

329 I've never tipped a cow.
_-_-_
I explained to one once about not standing in the middle of the road. She didn't budge. So, being a little green at the time, I honked my horn. She kicked and broke my passenger-side headlight. Then all the other cattle swarmed the road...didn't quite get that until I saw the cowboy working that ranch was kicking bales off the back and honking his horn later that year...oh.

330 323 I've never tipped a cow.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:48 AM (ynpvh)

Yeah... about that...

/Lived in a county with more cattle than people...

331 Just got back from Walmart What have I missed?

Speaking of Walmart. Lately they have become quite aggressive with their demands to see my receipt before I can leave the building. I refuse to show it to them because I have zero contractual obligation to do that; Walmart is not Sam's Club or Costco.

Additionally, every second I was shopping and checking out I was under intense surveillance; if they didn't have probable cause to think I was shoplifting before I paid for my goods I am of the opinion they can pound sand once I did.

Am I out in left field here legally? It seems to be quite the grey area.

332 Well, if Virginia Giuffre had a deadman's switch, it might take time for the results to appear. The people holding the goods have to verify to their own satisfaction that she is in fact dead, and then find a way to disseminate the information without it being traced to them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

She testified against two.
One's dead.

333 whispers to Elsie, "Seabiscuit to win in the fourth."

334 330
https://tinyurl.com/Cows-Around

335 331
I always tell them no at Walmart. At Sam's the say "Can I see your receipt?" I hand it to them and keep going.

336 WalMart greeter, oh shit, here comes Altaria, get ready for the grief.

337 >> Who knows what they might do in the back next time?

I never worked in food service, but nearly everyone I know has in some capacity. So I’ve heard stories.

It doesn’t matter what you tip, at some point in your life some guy has shoved the buns from your burger into his pants, or somebody spit in your coffee. Earning a reputation as a good tipper might help reduce the number of those incidents, but it won’t eliminate them. The guys in the back aren’t even seeing you, they’re just having fun.

And there’s the indiscriminate stuff, like the 3-star restaurant where they throw live rats into the deep fryer? How can you avoid that?

338 How can you avoid that?
_-_-_
Bring a sack lunch.

339 There are a few states where you must show a receipt at Walmart, but in most you can refuse. IANAL.

I always comply, very politely. Which is why they always ask me. Because I don’t look like the kind of person who’s going to say no or make a scene or actually be shoplifting.

They gotta meet their quota somehow.

340 331: rarely, if ever, will Walmart do that to me. Maybe I just give off the vibe that it’s just a bad idea to accuse me of thievery.

341 Additionally, every second I was shopping and checking out I was under intense surveillance; if they didn't have probable cause to think I was shoplifting before I paid for my goods I am of the opinion they can pound sand once I did.

Am I out in left field here legally? It seems to be quite the grey area.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 12:55 AM (amnH6)

Well, WalMart has been hit hard by low-lifes committing scanner fraud at the self checkout. I don't blame them for trying to police it a bit. Usually, the guy or woman assigned that task recognizes me, and waves me through.

Funny thing happened: I bought a few things last night there, Including one of those small pouches of white chicken chunks. Which slipped out of my sight between the panels of the shopping cart, and I failed to scan it. Got everything else, and paid for it. Found it when I got to the car. And I really, really had to go home and pee, so i didn't go back in the store. But what I will do is go back there, buy one more of those pouches, and scan it twice. That will square me up.

342 339 There are a few states where you must show a receipt at Walmart, but in most you can refuse. IANAL.

I always comply, very politely. Which is why they always ask me. Because I don’t look like the kind of person who’s going to say no or make a scene or actually be shoplifting.

They gotta meet their quota somehow.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 01:04 AM (/dDa4)

Until the change in the law here recently, in the People Republik of Kalifornia, shoplifters were mostly not stopped...

343 Debit, credit, cash, oh my...

Credit card because it is quite handy for larger expenses. Rule: I always pay it off within 48 hours.

Debit card is plastic cash because at some establishments it is just easier to go that route.

Cash is on the up swing again in my life because when I am out of cash it is time to go home. Just like in the good old days.

I do like the idea of stashing a $100.00 somewhere in the care for those moments when you need a quick $100.00.

344 338 How can you avoid that?
_-_-_
Bring a sack lunch.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:02 AM (vd6bO)

That means something different to Kumala Whoris...

345 344
Oof. Sure glad we dodged that bullet.

346 Whoohoo!

Hello horde! What’s shakin? Hopefully the Manhattans.

347 Oof. Sure glad we dodged that bullet.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:10 AM (vd6bO)

With Hillary, it would have been a box lunch.

348
Hello horde! What’s shakin? Hopefully the Manhattans.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:11 AM (mT+6a)

Well, I had two Caesars earlier, but ran out of Clamato. So a Cuba Libre, it is.

349 But what I will do is go back there, buy one more of those pouches, and scan it twice. That will square me up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:05 AM (8zz6B)

😓 You had me sweating there until the end. That’s what I would do in your situation.

I understand the need for loss prevention. I wish I lived in a society where shoplifters were more heavily prosecuted. Instead the Walmart Stasi look at me and say “This is a put-together middle-aged white dude. He’s not going to stab me in the heart because he’s trying to steal $12 of Smirnoff Ice by not scanning it at the self checkout.”

I can hardly blame them. Walmart greeter is not a job worth dying over. So they pretend to look for shoplifting and I pretend to not be insulted.

350 President Trump says Ukraine's "Zelenskyy, has not signed the final papers on the very important Rare Earths Deal with the United States."

"It is at least three weeks late."

351 Hey AOP!

I just got home from the Mariners game. We lost. But. It’s a beautiful evening for sitting outside, drinking beer and watching baseball.

352 So they pretend to look for shoplifting and I pretend to not be insulted.
_-_-_
Thing is, if the one or two employees loitering around the self-checkout and checking receipts were actually doing the checkout for you, it seems that the rate of loss would go way down. But then there's Pueblo.

353 I get the consensus about showing a receipt is a minor inconvenience. On the other hand when this employee stepped in front of my cart and made it clear he wasn't moving until I showed my receipt, welp, that was a quite GFYS monument.

354 Hey nurse, I hope you had fun at the ball game! I am just stopping in to glance at the ONT, fell asleep on the couch with a book in my hand and now I need to sleep. I always have some cash on hand, I had to bail my neighbor out last fall when she couldn't gas up her car with a credit card during a power outage.

355 Went out to the desert today and exercised some cordless hole punchers. The "AR-9" pistol-caliber carbine ran really well with 124 grain ammo. No jams at all, and one failure to feed, which I think may have been caused by the mag not fully seated in the mag well. Went through 100 rounds.

356 353
Yeah, that sure seems like an accusation to me. I have noticed that on days I have to open carry, they never bother me. Of course, I go out of my way to be very polite and friendly.

357
_Pakistan suspends all trade with India.

_India reportedly preparing to end LoC ceasefire agreement with Pakistan.

_Pakistan says any attempt by India to cut off Indus river supply is an 'act of war'

358 The "AR-9" pistol-caliber carbine ran really well with 124 grain ammo. No jams at all, and one failure to feed, which I think may have been caused by the mag not fully seated in the mag well. Went through 100 rounds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I just find a new thing to buy. I need one of those.

359 @visegrad24

Pakistan starts sending tanks, artillery and other heavy weapon systems toward the border with India

@9mm_smg
It's going to be wild if this escalates. Might be the first time since ww2 we see nukes go off.

Conventional warfare wise, India destroys Pakistan. Bigger military, better equipment etc... But if Pakistan is suffering huge losses, they might just decide to go nuclear. India has a very defensive nuclear weapon policy where they wouldn't be a 1st strike, but they would retaliate massively. It's going to be interesting to see if this spreads to more than localized skirmishes

360 I get the consensus about showing a receipt is a minor inconvenience. On the other hand when this employee stepped in front of my cart and made it clear he wasn't moving until I showed my receipt, welp, that was a quite GFYS monument.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:20 AM (amnH6)

Some of the greeters are good, and some are not so good. Green, or poorly trained? Or just assholes?

361 357
_Pakistan suspends all trade with India.

_India reportedly preparing to end LoC ceasefire agreement with Pakistan.

_Pakistan says any attempt by India to cut off Indus river supply is an 'act of war'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:22 AM (MJMyx)

What happens if 1,000,000,000 Indians bathe in the river before it gets to Paki-land?

362 Thing is, if the one or two employees loitering around the self-checkout and checking receipts were actually doing the checkout for you, it seems that the rate of loss would go way down. But then there's Pueblo.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:18 AM (vd6bO)

Some bean counter in Bentonville was like “Well, self-checkout increases our shrink rate by 90% but the increase in legitimate purchases gives us that 0.1% increase in profits we’ve been looking for.”

I shop in two places, a very rural red area where the Walmart has no receipt checkers ever, and a somewhat rural blue area where the receipt checkers hassle me and not the large, loud group of youths who are obviously stealing alcohol but everyone is too afraid to confront them.

In some chain stores in certain areas everything is under glass and the store employees are basically risking their lives to protect the stash of deodorant.

God bless GloboHomo!

363 All Quiet On The Western Ports... Is This The Calm Before The Trade War Storm? _zerohedge

No, we're in the middle of the trade storm now.
Someone should employ Rick Santelli to call it ringside.

364 Re: Virginia Giuffre, I read that she was in the middle of a messy divorce/custody thing, sounded like she didn't have custody of her kids, and was under some domestic restraining order. She wouldn't be the first woman to end it in those circumstances. :-(

365 more info:

@Global_Mil_Info 2h

For the second consecutive night, Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged fire along the Line of Control.

According to the Indian Army, no casualties were sustained.

366 I just find a new thing to buy. I need one of those.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:23 AM (amnH6)

This was built by me from an 80% lower, and upper and lower parts kits. It uses a mag well adaptor, and Colt 30-rd SMG mags. Recoil is negligible. I need to make a stock with more drop in it, as i have a hard time getting my eye down to the level of the sights.

367 Some of the greeters are good, and some are not so good. Green, or poorly trained? Or just assholes?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Well, the guy tonight that was hassling me was wearing a surgical mask. Out of your three options asshole seems to fit the best.

368 367
I have noticed the mask thing lingering in New Mexico. Colorado was pretty eat-up with it for a while, but you don't see it so much anymore - at least in the smaller towns.

369 It's going to be interesting to see if this spreads to more than localized skirmishes
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:25 AM (MJMyx)

It won’t, because the people running things aren’t total morons. Oh, they’re evil, but they don’t want to rule over ashes.

This is why nukes effectively ended war between large powers: they’re a weapon that can kill the old men responsible for making wars, guaranteeing they won’t be used.

Small-scale wars or proxy wars from here on out. The nice thing about modern, conventional weapons is they chew through young, male cannon fodder, leaving behind a generation of young, fertile women in need of support from the old men who wage war.

370 Re: Virginia Giuffre, I read that she was in the middle of a messy divorce/custody thing, sounded like she didn't have custody of her kids, and was under some domestic restraining order. She wouldn't be the first woman to end it in those circumstances. :-(
Posted by: Momlady at April 26, 2025 01:28 AM (m+A2x)

She was apparently abused, and on the streets when she got recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell, so it's quite possible that she has had a pattern of erratic behavior. Sad story.

371 The President on Iran, Israel, and the bomb:

..."Ultimately I was going to leave that choice to them, but I said I would much prefer a deal than bombs being dropped," Trump described in the interview. "We can make a deal without the attack. I hope we can."
...
But Trump has said he's not worried that Israel would drag him into war. But that's when he warned that, "I may go in very willingly if we can't get a deal. If we don't make a deal, I'll be leading the pack."

372 I want to by a Honda Shadow Aero because at my age creating more opportunities to end what little time I left on this prematurely somehow is striking me as the rational thing to do. For extra credit I have never owned or ridden a bike this big. I have gone nuts.

373 Well, the guy tonight that was hassling me was wearing a surgical mask. Out of your three options asshole seems to fit the best.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:30 AM (amnH6)

Yep. The mark of the beast, LOL.

374 Let's see. On the screen for the tip, I'd tap custom, and add a 50 cent tip. If you're that arrogant, you don't deserve more.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Yeah, that's a level of dickish I haven't seen outside of politics.

I might see if it took negative numbers.

375 368 367
I have noticed the mask thing lingering in New Mexico. Colorado was pretty eat-up with it for a while, but you don't see it so much anymore - at least in the smaller towns.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:34 AM (vd6bO)

Was asked by doc if I had my flu shot and if not, if I'd like one during visit; I said no and no.
I'm high risk, but my faith in the system is at an all-time low after the COVID stuff.

376 Well, the guy tonight that was hassling me was wearing a surgical mask. Out of your three options asshole seems to fit the best.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:30 AM (amnH6)

Did you cough all over him while he attempted a cavity search?

377 373 Well, the guy tonight that was hassling me was wearing a surgical mask. Out of your three options asshole seems to fit the best.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:30 AM (amnH6)

Yep. The mark of the beast, LOL.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:36 AM (8zz6B)

When COVID was near full-tilt, I saw an Asian guy at Costco with a mask over his nose, a mask over his mouth, his ears covered, and glasses over his eyes...he was eating and drinking between the mouth and nose mask. He looked like some deranged Muppet.

378 376 Well, the guy tonight that was hassling me was wearing a surgical mask. Out of your three options asshole seems to fit the best.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:30 AM (amnH6)

Did you cough all over him while he attempted a cavity search?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 26, 2025 01:38 AM (eIjvK)

I only allow my dentist to do cavity searches...

379 night all, I'm out.

380 The nice thing about modern, conventional weapons is they chew through young, male cannon fodder, leaving behind a generation of young, fertile women in need of support from the old men who wage war.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

I'm not in charge of waging any wars, but if there's a 22-year-old Ukrainian smokeshow with no better option than me, who am I to say "no"?

381 Didn’t see many, but did see some folks still wearing masks at the baseball game.

Whatever. Thank you for alerting me to the fact I need to give you a wide berth.

382 Why is the MSM so focused on pope Frankie?

It’s very interesting.

383 I have a question about China.

You may have heard me talking about The China Show on yewtewb lately. Getting the inside view has been fascinating.

It seems that many Chinese are already suffering grinding poverty, and the tariffs are going to make everything worse. I feel for the Chinese people.

But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?

384 Didn’t see many, but did see some folks still wearing masks at the baseball game.

Whatever. Thank you for alerting me to the fact I need to give you a wide berth.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:40 AM (mT+6a)

Masks have joined danger hair and face tats...

385 *tap tap tap*

*tappity tap tap*

386 I get the consensus about showing a receipt is a minor inconvenience. On the other hand when this employee stepped in front of my cart and made it clear he wasn't moving until I showed my receipt, welp, that was a quite GFYS monument.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

What is the legal situation with these dickheads?

If I try to blow by them, and claim false arrest/false imprisonment if I don't want to bother with the receipt nazis, do I have a case? Especially if I went through an actual manned checkout lane, and not the self-check, like the last time I was at WallyWorld?

387 My daughter is yucking it up over the "danger hair" line. We run in the musical crowd around here, and oh, brother, you should...well no, you don't wanna.

388 Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
------------

Think of all the starving children in China.
That was the inducement to clean my plate.

389 But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

Well, the Party members weren't. But most of the plebes? Yes. The Commies did a lot of absolutely insane shit that wrecked what little economy that China had.

390 The receipt checkers are just doing a job. They hassle low risk folks because the cameras are on. Prolly even get a bonus.

But if they harassment a BIOPIC person……. No no no. The company would be sued into oblivion. So, they have to harass the low risk folks.

391 390
Like the way Colorado hassles the legal gun owners instead of going after the real problems.

392 Think of all the starving children in China.
That was the inducement to clean my plate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:49 AM (MJMyx)

Hory shit! look at all the peas!

393 I've ordered extra hours for the day from Amazon, but my order seems to keep getting lost in transit. Meanwhile, I can't seem to get caught up.

Wonder if I can get up for the coffee & prayer thread tomorrow. In case I don't make it, somebody put in a good word for healing of broken families? It's high on my list.

I'm exiting now. (Shows receipt to the moose at the door.)

https://youtu.be/DgV7RG9Qgvk

G'nite y'all.

394 I don't mind showing my receipt... at Costco... where they check *everyone's* papers.

When lowbrow places like wallyworld wannabe Costco, but select only a few to be checked, rather than ALL?

KMA!

Maybe they should charge "cover" upon entry, to cut out the riffraff? Make it 5 or 10 bucks, refundable with purchase over 30? I dunno.

395 372
That Honda looks like a fun bike to own...and not horrifically expensive

396 The receipt checkers are just doing a job. They hassle low risk folks because the cameras are on. Prolly even get a bonus.

But if they harassment a BIOPIC person……. No no no. The company would be sued into oblivion. So, they have to harass the low risk folks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:50 AM (mT+6a)

Consider it as theater. We are playing a role, so the receipt checkers can claim to be even-handed when they do bust some illegal alien with 20 stolen boxes of Tide.

397 But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Mainly, yes

398 Think of all the starving children in China.
That was the inducement to clean my plate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:49 AM (MJMyx)

Hory shit! look at all the peas!

Posted by: some starving kid in China at April 26, 2025 01:52 AM (8zz6B)

In our house it was the starving children in India. They actually like peas, so...

399 We are playing a role, so the receipt checkers can claim to be even-handed when they do bust some illegal alien with 20 stolen boxes of Tide.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I stopped stealing P&G products years ago.

A kind of boycott.

400 But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM

at what point did we give the Chinese “all of our manufacturing”?

401 Hory shit! look at all the peas!
Posted by: some starving kid in China

You can have the liver, too kid

402 Consider it as theater. We are playing a role, so the receipt checkers can claim to be even-handed when they do bust some illegal alien with 20 stolen boxes of Tide.
_-_-_

Funny, I just heard that in Stephen Fry's voice. (No disrespect intended).

403 Hory shit! look at all the peas!
Posted by: some starving kid in China

You can have the liver, too kid
-----

And the brussels sprouts! (I like them *now* but didn't when I was little, LOL)

404 You can have the liver, too kid
Posted by: Mikloso El generoso at April 26, 2025 02:00 AM (IKhKt)

Too rich for me. I'd just puke it back up. Got any chicken bones?

405 But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM

at what point did we give the Chinese “all of our manufacturing”?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

They were given the opportunity to take it and the multinationals had a cost-cutting incentive. Accelerated by wholesale theft of IPR.

What does means, motive, and opportunity normally mean?

406 Well, past 2300 here. Time for me to get some sleep. Night, Horde.

407 308
****
$20 hour wage for fast food in California.
BK #1 $13
Posted by: torabora at April 26, 2025 12:33 AM (riPCw)

Unintended Consequences: $20/hour was only supposed to apply to big fast food places with more than 100 (?) locations or somesuch ie BK, MickyD, In-n-Out....

What happened as soon as it went into effect? The smaller places lost all their good people to the $20/hour places. As did most anyplace else that paid less than $20/hour.

Now...effective minimum wage everywhere here is $20/hour because anyone with a brain can go get a fast food job for $20/hour....

408 drat. Off, starvingsock

409 But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

I don’t think China’s suffering that much now because of the tariffs. Probably no worse than us.

But, yeah, they were pretty poor in the recent past. Giving them favored nation status and the WTO was a big step for them.

That said, they probably would have built up a lot on their own. The confluence of events that made China an industrial superpower wasn’t down to a single bad policy. It was decades of bad decisions compounding, and now we’re paying the long-overdue price.

410 Things I've learned from that channel:

There's no welfare in China, so you need a kid to take care of you when you're old (not a bad thing in the US, either). There's a massive child kidnapping issue that China doesn't allow people to talk about. They're not all adopted to childless couples, of course. Trafficking for other reasons, just like here in the US.

Despair and anger drives people to plow into crowds with cars, especially crowds of schoolchildren. It's very common, so they have bollards everywhere to discourage that. Problem is, the bollards are hollow because that's how China rolls.

There's a lot of drug users.

China gives fentanyl producers tax breaks while denying that any fentanyl is made in China.

Theft is rampant. There are bars on ALL windows, even on the 32nd floor. Yes. people climb up that high. It's crazy.

411 386 I get the consensus about showing a receipt is a minor inconvenience. On the other hand when this employee stepped in front of my cart and made it clear he wasn't moving until I showed my receipt, welp, that was a quite GFYS monument.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
------------

Around here that's a direct threat. Never seen it. Only encountered polite personnel understanding that it's an inconvenience.

412 Now...effective minimum wage everywhere here is $20/hour because anyone with a brain can go get a fast food job for $20/hour....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

*convenes Waffle House All Hands staff meeting including Dwayne Swain, Regional Associate Engagement Manager*

413 402
Like this:
https://tinyurl.com/43khw7ju

414 386
What is the legal situation with these dickheads?

If I try to blow by them, and claim false arrest/false imprisonment if I don't want to bother with the receipt nazis, do I have a case? Especially if I went through an actual manned checkout lane, and not the self-check, like the last time I was at WallyWorld?
Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 01:47 AM (DgGvY)

If I was seriously going to do something like that I would first carefully check the front windows and make sure there isn't a postage-stamp size notice posted somewhere stating that by entering the premises you consent to a search upon exit.

415 I don’t think China’s suffering that much now because of the tariffs. Probably no worse than us.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:06 AM (/dDa4)

Factories are already closing. You do understand that there is no safety net whatsoever, right? No welfare, unemployment, food stamps.

416 It's crazy.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

You forgot the sex preference for boy babies, leading to abortion of fetus girls. So. At least 80 million permanently dateless guys-prostitution, kidnapping, buying Nork chicks etc.

But basically tens of millions of permanently unhappy men. The traditional outlet is war.

417 at what point did we give the Chinese “all of our manufacturing”?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 26, 2025 01:59 AM (vm8sq)

During the Clinton years. They ripped out a plastics factory I worked at and shipped it there. That was in 95 and there were articles in trade mags about what was happening up in Wisconsin and that area. They also buy a lot of our old amusment park stuff that doesn't meet regulations anymore. Lots of the older dufunct roller coasters are set up over there.

418 416 It's crazy.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

You forgot the sex preference for boy babies, leading to abortion of fetus girls. So. At least 80 million permanently dateless guys-prostitution, kidnapping, buying Nork chicks etc.

But basically tens of millions of permanently unhappy men. The traditional outlet is war.
Posted by: Miklos only repeats what is and has been known at April 26, 2025 02:14 AM (IKhKt)

And all they had to do to prevent it, or most of it, was to say if the first child was a girl you could keep trying until you got a boy or hit some arbitrary maximum like 3.

Now they have an 80 million man nightmare as you rightly pointed out.

419 drat. Off, starvingsock
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Eat your peas, Pierre

420 415 I don’t think China’s suffering that much now because of the tariffs. Probably no worse than us.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:06 AM (/dDa4)

Factories are already closing. You do understand that there is no safety net whatsoever, right? No welfare, unemployment, food stamps.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:13 AM (w6EFb)

I thought it was a communist country? I thought the whole point of communism was you didn't need welfare because from each according to his ability to each according to his need?

(I know.."the whole point of having a doomsday machine yadda yadda yadda....")

421 Factories are already closing. You do understand that there is no safety net whatsoever, right? No welfare, unemployment, food stamps.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:13 AM (w6EFb)

No welfare sounds nice. Unfortunately it’s not true. It’s pretty easy to verify that China has a welfare system.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure you’ve never been to China and are just repeating some really obviously goofy propaganda you saw.

422 America was becoming a "service economy" and we didn't need those icky plastics factories anymore.

423 417 at what point did we give the Chinese “all of our manufacturing”?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 26, 2025 01:59 AM (vm8sq)

During the Clinton years. They ripped out a plastics factory I worked at and shipped it there. That was in 95 and there were articles in trade mags about what was happening up in Wisconsin and that area. They also buy a lot of our old amusment park stuff that doesn't meet regulations anymore. Lots of the older dufunct roller coasters are set up over there.
Posted by: Reforger at April 26, 2025 02:17 AM (xcIvR)

Same with the defunct Kaiser Steel Plant in Fontana. The irony was the union that represented the former workers at the plant got into a fight with the owners over who would disassemble the plant for shipment...the union people or the new owner's Chinese people...talk about rats fighting while the ship sinks...

424 I'm supposed to get up early and go hiking.

Good night everyone.

425 382: because he was a commie?

426 They're doing it in Scunthorpe England right now... or were.
According to my in-laws they have been running trucks out of the pit for months while shutting down parts of the foundry.

427 There's no welfare in China, so you need a kid to take care of you when you're old (not a bad thing in the US, either). There's a massive child kidnapping issue that China doesn't allow people to talk about. They're not all adopted to childless couples, of course. Trafficking for other reasons, just like here in the US.
Posted by: Miley

You forgot the sex preference for boy babies, leading to abortion of fetus girls. So. At least 80 million permanently dateless guys-prostitution, kidnapping, buying Nork chicks etc.
Posted by: Miklos

No welfare. Children are responsible for their parents in their dotage.

If a guy gets married and has a kid, his wife stops working. "Tradwife" never stopped there.

Now, hubby is pulling one salary, and is responsible for seven people. Himself, his wife, all four of their parents, and the new kid.

Gotta have a pretty swell job to pull that off.

So the other side of the child trafficking is the families trying to do things "the right way," which leads to grandma and grandpa abandoning their identities and moving back to the sticks and living as beggars. Or just wandering into the wilderness to die. So their children can have children.

428 Yeah, our "capitalism" does more than their "communism."

429 Anyway, I’m pretty sure you’ve never been to China and are just repeating some really obviously goofy propaganda you saw.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:23 AM (/dDa4)

I have never been to China, no. But these guys lived there for a long time and they seem to know what they're talking about. Meanwhile, the CCP puts out a shitton of propaganda.

Please show me how to easily verify that they have a welfare system.

430 Some punk at Wal-Mart demands to see my receipt, I'll show him all the hand to hand combat moves I learned back in the Parachute Ski Marines.
Right after I get off the electric cart I've been running around in the aisles and terrorizing the other customers with.
I sure hope my oxygen concentrator is impact resistant. That punk will never see it coming when I loop the hose around his ankles and pull.

431 Meep meep.

That’s all folks!

Goodnight.

432 Y'all are great fun, but there goes my battery...goodnight!

433 No welfare sounds nice. Unfortunately it’s not true. It’s pretty easy to verify that China has a welfare system.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure you’ve never been to China and are just repeating some really obviously goofy propaganda you saw.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

I don't normally respond to ignorant shitstains, however-

Please provide your personal knowledge of the Chinese welfare and/or public health and/or pension systems.

I'll wait while you consult some AI bot.

434 Goodnight.
Posted by: nurse ratched

And God Bless

435 I have never been to China, no. But these guys lived there for a long time and they seem to know what they're talking about. Meanwhile, the CCP puts out a shitton of propaganda.
Posted by: Miley

Never been there myself. One of my sis-in-laws has, for business reasons. She said what I wrote in #427.

When you hear "16% of people strongly approve of congressional Democrats?" She's part of that 16%. I can't imagine her making shit up to badmouth China.

She knows our politics don't align, to put it mildly, but if she knew I was MAGA enough to read/post here, she'd probably never speak to me again.

436 Miklos, did you get the email I sent you some days ago?

437 >>>She knows our politics don't align, to put it mildly, but if she knew I was MAGA enough to read/post here, she'd probably never speak to me again.

LOL!

I never thought of AoS as a MAGA stronghold. It sure as hell wasn't in 2016.

438 Miklos, did you get the email I sent you some days ago?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Did it involve a regrettable color and texture of carpet?

439 I never thought of AoS as a MAGA stronghold. It sure as hell wasn't in 2016.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I wasn't neither. It was hard for me to understand why Old Papa was such an ardent supporter of some rich guy from New York.

As always, Papa was right.

440 FUN FACT

The State Dance of South Carolina is the Shag

You can get Shag Tags for your car.

I think my parents had Shag 161 on the Cadillac, sadly, those can not be passed down.

441 Yes, yours languished in the spam folder for almost a week before I found it.

No matter how many times I tell it you aren't spam, it persists.

442 I never thought of AoS as a MAGA stronghold. It sure as hell wasn't in 2016.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I may have overstated it, but it would be accurate from the view of a woman with a book by Hillary as a coffee-table ornament.

443 Please show me how to easily verify that they have a welfare system.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:33 AM (w6EFb)

Are you really that incapable of working the Google machine? I don’t know anyone who seriously disputes its existence.

Do you want the first ten links from Google? Because if someone tells me America doesn’t have a welfare system, that’s all I can really do. I can lead you to water but I can’t make you do a rudimentary amount of research before you make an easily disproven claim.

444 No matter how many times I tell it you aren't spam, it persists.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

*Sends a can of actual Spam, labelled "Not Me"*

445 I wasn't neither. It was hard for me to understand why Old Papa was such an ardent supporter of some rich guy from New York.

As always, Papa was right.

Posted by: Make Miklos Great Again at April 26, 2025 02:50 AM (IKhKt)

God bless Old Papa. He made a good one. Sadly, my dad didn't make it to Trumpy times. I was still a default lib when he died. I think his spirit possessed me and made me pay attention to politics.

Life was better before I knew what I know now. Ignorance is kinda blissful, maybe.

446 >> When you hear "16% of people strongly approve of congressional Democrats?" She's part of that 16%. I can't imagine her making shit up to badmouth China.

You do realize Democrats spend a lot of time complaining about China, right? The most China-obsessed person I know is a TDS-afflicted Boomer.

I don’t know anyone under the age of 40 who actually cares that much. It’s like “Well, we shouldn’t have let our politicians and oligarchs make us dependent on them, but may as well separate while we can.”

Frankly, even though I know for a fact China has a welfare system, I could give a damn. America’s enough of a shithole in need of fixing, I don’t know why I would care about China.

447 Do you want the first ten links from Google? Because if someone tells me America doesn’t have a welfare system, that’s all I can really do. I can lead you to water but I can’t make you do a rudimentary amount of research before you make an easily disproven claim.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:54 AM (/dDa4)

Ah, you're a Google man. Do you know that Google lies on behalf of the CCP and claims China made the first glass bridge?

You're an idiot and I'll waste no time on you.

448 I may have overstated it, but it would be accurate from the view of a woman with a book by Hillary as a coffee-table ornament.

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 02:53 AM (DgGvY)

Wow, she's got it bad, poor thing.

449 I may have overstated it, but it would be accurate from the view of a woman with a book by Hillary as a coffee-table ornament.

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 02:53 AM (DgGvY)


If it's autographed, consider insurance

450 >> Ah, you're a Google man.

Ok, use DuckDuckGo. Or literally any other tool for searching through data. Or have those all been infested with gremlins, too?

>> Do you know that Google lies on behalf of the CCP and claims China made the first glass bridge?

I don’t.. even really know what you’re referring to. Was that something vitally important to you? The first glass bridge?

Look, if it makes you feel better about your life to live vicariously through achievements in transparent bridge construction, I’ll agree with you. Whatever it takes, man. I don’t you to feel threatened by anyone’s lead in glass bridge technology.

451 You're an idiot and I'll waste no time on you.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I approve, as a matter of General Policy-

Don't like oysters? More for me

Don't like okra? More for me

Man who doesn't like women? More for me

452 FEED NOT THE TROLLS

453 I haven't spent much time on the ONT lately, so I didn't know he was an ass. Now I know.

454 You should come visit.

455 Speaking with Publius is a bit different.

"I am still confused, but at a much higher level".

456 You should come visit.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

WOOF

457 In America our welfare system supports inner-city folks, single mothers, illegal immigrants, veterans, Boomers and other useless eaters.

In China the welfare system mostly supports the rural population.

I’d really prefer to live in a country without a welfare system. It’s really sad having to pay taxes to keep 350 pound beasts in Coca-Cola and diabetes medication.

458 If you slept under bridges, the presece of glass bridges might be more important.

459 I miss Miss Dixie too. You should both come soon.

Okra's gonna be planted this weekend, if it stops raining.

460 Goodnight, gotta start winding down. 9 am comes too quickly.

461 Later than I thought, but still too early to get up

462 I have never been cooperative with the receipt checkers. Over time I have trained them to leave me the hell alone.

463 Look, if it makes you feel better about your life to live vicariously through achievements in transparent bridge construction, I’ll agree with you. Whatever it takes, man. I don’t you to feel threatened by anyone’s lead in glass bridge technology.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 03:17 AM (/dDa4)

Hmmm... gotta say, just coming into this late, that if a 'source' lies about one thing, can you then trust them on other things.

It aint about the Glass Bridge... its about the Transparent lie.

464 Later than I thought, but still too early to get up
Posted by: Skip

Not a School Night, you little scamp

Your little friends are approved for a Saturday sleepover.

465 It aint about the Glass Bridge... its about the Transparent lie.
Posted by: Romeo13

Clearly.

466 465 It aint about the Glass Bridge... its about the Transparent lie.
Posted by: Romeo13

Clearly.
Posted by: Miklos sees and perceives at April 26, 2025 03:53 AM (IKhKt)

funny how a lot of folks can't 'See that' though...

467 funny how a lot of folks can't 'See that' though...
Posted by: Romeo13

This reminds me of Vaclav Havel's "Power of the Powerless" in which he describes the reason and method of not simply lying from a position of power, but finding and enforcing ways of getting people to repeat what, at least before, they knew to be lies.

468 Another tipoff on the authenticity of that 30% tip thing?

There's no such business as Caut Coffee & Tea.

469 If anyone is still here
TECH THREAD IS NOOD

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The Week In Woke

Vegan "butcher" complains has her "vegan butcher shop" goes bankrupt.

Vegan 'butcher' unleashes as business dries up amid surprising new trend: 'We're out of money'

The owner of a once bustling vegan butcher shop in Sydney fears her business will soon close amid an emerging trend away from meat-free products.

The shift has resulted in dozens of vegan restaurants closing, companies that made meat alternatives collapsing and supermarkets shrinking their vegan offerings - though those in the industry have struggled to put a finger on why.

Suzy Spoon has run meat-free butcheries that bear her name in the Sydney suburbs of Marrickville and Newtown for more than a decade but business is drying up.

'Woolworths has reduced our range dramatically and Harris Farm has quartered what they would buy from us before Covid. It's terrible for our business,' the entrepreneur told news.com.au.

'We're out of money. We're out of everything, we're tired.'

She said she has seen other vegan business making a shift to serving up some meat products.

'But I can't do that, because that's just not how I roll. That will never be what I do.'

A shift away from meat had been happening over the last decade. At its peak, one report found that between 2020 and 2023 there was a 47 per cent increase in plant-based meat sales - but over the last two years it seems the bubble has burst.

...

A quick browse of the Australian Vegan Reddit thread showed that its being noticed by those who adhere to the diet.

'What happened? For a little while it was awesome being vegan in Australia. But the last few years have been brutal,' one person said.

See if you can psychically divine what this "Suzy Spoons" pyrsyn might look like.

Do you have an image in your mind's eye?

Pete Hegseth fired Benghazi cover-up architect Susan Rice. As well as all the other leftists bitterly clinging to power in the DOD.

Why the hell was she still on "advisory boards" with access to Pentagon officials?

Breanna Morello
@BreannaMorello

BREAKING NEWS

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ended the service of all committee members on DOD advisory committees.

This would include the seat held by Susan Rice.

Hegseth thanked the members for their work but said changes are needed to align with the department's new goals and to use resources more effectively.

You probably know that when the White House began investigating the leaks of top-secret information to leftwing "news" outlets, one group of suspected culprits were all the Obama/Biden appointees hanging on to "advisory" board positions.

They've now all been fired. Thank goodness.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Good move. There are thousands of committees that take up a lot of time without clear accomplishments.

A reset was needed.

Surprise! Adam Carolla was right when he said that California would slow-roll approvals for rebuilding the houses the city and state conspired to destroy, and Karen Bass and Gavin Newsome were lying when they said they'd accelerate the permitting process.

Months after the catastrophic wildfires that devastated large swaths of Southern California, Los Angeles--under Democrat leadership--continues to lag in its rebuilding efforts. Despite President Donald Trump's swift declaration of a national emergency and promises to waive federal red tape, city officials have only approved a fraction of the necessary rebuilding permits.

Key Details:

As of late April, just 23 rebuilding permits have been issued in Pacific Palisades, where 5,619 structures were damaged or destroyed.

President Trump declared a national emergency within days of his inauguration and pledged to waive all federal permits to speed up rebuilding.

California Assembly Leader James Gallagher blames Governor Newsom and Democrat lawmakers for dragging their feet despite federal action.

John Cusack, who seems to be learning disabled, claimed that MAGA crucified Jesus or something.

John Cusack
@johncusack

Happy Easter - Christ was tortured and executed as a Political calculation by the Trumps of the Day...

Happy Easter

Does this developmentally-disabled adult know what "calculation" even means?

Terrorist propaganda organization the AP lost its motion to compel Trump to restore its previous unearned privileges.

A federal judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a new White House press policy that downgrades The Associated Press to the same status as newspapers, eliminating the wire service's previously privileged access to the president.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee who had earlier ruled that the White House unlawfully discriminated against AP for declining to use the term "Gulf of America," said the revised policy appears to be viewpoint neutral.

"I'm not inclined to see anything wrong with it," said McFadden during a Friday hearing.

The new policy places reporters from the Associated Press--along with those from Bloomberg and Reuters--on equal footing with newspaper outlets like The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Under the revised rules, AP photographers will also hold the same status as other photojournalists.
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As a result, AP reporters will now join the rotating pool of journalists who cover the president's daily activities. With dozens of outlets in the rotation, this means AP will receive special access less than once a month, on par with the newspapers.

Ugly charisma vacuum Pedro Pascal once again showed that Disney allows leftwing firebrands to alienate as much as the public as they like while also firing Gina Carano for saying that the Nazis began their campaign of hatred by first normalizing the hatred of one neighbor for another.

That's not the real reason they fired her. They fired her because she wouldn't bend to the trans mafia and post her pronouns.

But Disney didn't want to admit that they fired a popular actress for not obeying the corporate line on constant promotion of transgenderism for children, so they claimed that Carano's warning about the Nazi campaign of hate was some kind of attack on the Jews.

Really.

Anyway, here's the guy who's about to lose his career after Fantastic Four makes $60 million in its opening weekend:

Pedro Pascal blasted author J.K. Rowling for her latest trans tweets, calling the author a "heinous loser" in a comment on Instagram.

The Last of Us star was responding to a post by activist Tariq Ra'ouf, who criticized the author for celebrating the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom's landmark ruling last week that trans women should not be recognized as women and that "sex" should legally mean biological sex.

Rowling had posted, "I love it when a plan comes together," along with noting to a critic, "I get the same royalties whether you read [my books] or burn them. Enjoy your marshmallows!"

Wrote Pascal in the comment section of Ra'ouf's post: "Awful disgusting SHIT is exactly right. Heinous LOSER behavior."

In related news, Pedro Pascal's skin looks exactly like an aerial photograph of Dresden in June 1945.

BTW, Gina Carano is obtaining information about how much Disney pays Pedro Pascal. She wants to show the court how much Disney will pay someone for following their corporate political line.

Gina Carano is getting the salaries she's looking for.

A federal judge has ruled that the mixed martial arts fighter turned actor will be allowed to see compensation information for other stars in the "Star Wars" universe on Disney+, including Pedro Pascal, Diego Luna, and Rosario Dawson.

The April 3 ruling came in a lawsuit Carano filed against Disney over her termination from the "Star Wars" spinoff show "The Mandalorian" after two seasons.

Disney announced in 2021 that Carano wouldn't return to the show for a third season after she had made social media posts comparing political conservatives in America to Jews in the Holocaust, questioning the results of the 2020 election and the use of masks during the coronavirus pandemic, and using the pronouns section of her Twitter (now known as X) page to mock transgender people.

Carano's lawsuit, which was funded by X owner Elon Musk, accuses Disney of violating California labor laws by firing her because of her political views. Disney says the company has creative control over which characters it discontinues as well as a First Amendment right to disassociate itself from Carano's views.

As part of the lawsuit, Carano's attorneys asked for salary information related to a constellation of other stars in "Star Wars" shows on Disney's streaming service.

They said the information was crucial for calculating damages if Carano were to win her lawsuit.

Carano's lawyers also argued Disney should be forced to disclose salary information for the lead actors of other "Star Wars" shows -- such as Amandla Stenberg and Luna -- because Carano had been set to star in a "Mandalorian" spinoff titled "Rangers of the New Republic" before Disney fired her.

US Magistrate Judge Steve Kim ruled in Carano's favor, ruling that Disney needed to turn over a spreadsheet or chart of the compensation Pascal, Dawson, and the costar Carl Weathers received for the first three seasons of "The Mandalorian," Dawson's salary for "The Book of Boba Fett" and the first two seasons of "Ahsoka," Stenberg's salary for "The Acolyte," and the compensation Luna received for the first two seasons of "Andor."

Remember, California passed a law to protect communists. The law says that employers cannot punish employees for political speech. If it protects dirty filthy communists, it also protects nice Catholic girls like Gina Carano.

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

The plan we're watching play out:

Overload the country with as many unvetted illegals as possible, by any means necessary.

Know that mobilization of resources and enforcement operations to remove them would be extraordinarily daunting.

Rely on heavily funded leftwing legal groups and activist courts to delay, obstruct and impede deportations at every possible turn --

-- in an attempt to nullify the election result and override Americans' overwhelming desire for deportations, while looking to enshrine millions of illegals permanently into the country, reshaping congressional apportionment and securing future voter blocs for the Democrat party.

In parallel, utilize that same set of lawfare groups and activist judges to fight any and all election security measures, such as implementing voter ID and stopping non-citizen voting.

And, of course, count on their legacy media PR arm to run information ops and secrete a never-ending deluge of propaganda to run cover for it all.

The end goal being: Single-party, permanent power.

If Kamala would've won, the borders would have remained open, and mass importation would've continued. Game over.

Because Trump won, and the border closed -- the judicial contingency has been implemented.

That's where we are now.

The plan stays in motion, as they attempt to run out the clock on Trump 47.

Firealarm-puller and antisemite Jamaal Bowman says that the NFL is rigged against black players.

BLM influencer calls for "hunting" whites and piling up their bodies on the floor.

An illegal alien captured, but then released into the country again by Biden, forcibly sodomized a 13-year-old boy. No big deal, just a kid exposed to AIDS who will have permanent trauma. I hope the somewhat-lower costs to trim the verge on your mansions was worth it!

Hope this was worth it, too!

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_

EXCLUSIVE: The families of two teens killed by an illegal alien who crashed into them while drunk, high, & speeding at 100 mph in OC in 2021 have been told by the state of CA that their killer will be released from prison early in July, just 3.5 years into a 10-year sentence for killing the teens, who both burned alive.

Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, a twice deported Mexican illegal alien, had a lengthy rap sheet prior to killing 19-year-olds Anya Varfolomeev & Nikolay Osokin in the DUI crash on the 405 freeway in Seal Beach in November 2021. Both were US citizens, and they were dating. Ortega-Anguiano had several felony convictions, had gone to state prison, and had multiple convictions for driving without a license, but was still on the streets when he crashed into the teens' vehicle.

In spring of 2022, Ortega-Anguiano was convicted in OC of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for killing the teens, and a judge sentenced him to serve 10 years in prison for each count, but concurrently, meaning he would serve both 10-year-sentences at the same time.

The victims' families felt that was already a weak sentence, but they tell me they were notified by the CA Department of Corrections on Easter Sunday that Ortega-Anguiano is scheduled for an early release on July 19th, 2025, only a little more than 3 years into his sentence, leaving the victims' families shocked, and outraged given the seriousness of the crime and his prior criminal history. They provided us the CDCR document showing the July 19th release date.

The CA Department of Corrections wouldn't confirm the release date when I reached out, saying they "cannot provide information on an incarcerated person's release date or location in advance of their release." They added that "incarcerated persons may earn credits for participating in rehabilitative programming, which may move parole eligible dates to an earlier date.

ICE confirms to @FoxNews that they have placed a detainer on Ortega-Anguiano with the CA Dept of Corrections and intend to take him into custody upon his release. They hope the CA Dept. of Corrections will honor the detainer request and transfer him to their custody upon his release, which they often do. But the families fear, even if he is deported, he will just re-enter the US as a gotaway, as he's done twice before.

Noted Astronaut Katie Perry has hit the Demented Bag-Lady Madonna phase of her career faster than I ever would have guessed.

Unhinged Democrats in Florida are OPPOSING a bill that would remove p*rnographic books from schools.

Why do Democrats want to give your kids p**n in schools?pic.twitter.com/8ryxHCnsCx

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 24, 2025

Of course True Conservative David French agrees with them.

The noodle-armed wokescold attacks the "anti-woke right" for making his LGBT allies sad.

This pathetic cuck opened up his dicksucker to complain about the right's anti-speech efforts.

Remember, this pansy called drag queen story hours for children "a blessing of liberty," so that's his default setting.

All of this has been obvious for some time. Or, another way to put it is that Ron DeSantis walked so that Donald Trump could run. When the time came to formulate a policy response to the woke left, no one mattered more than the governor of Florida.

He tried to ban critical race theory in education. He sharply limited discussion of gender and sexuality in public schools. He tried to limit the free speech of university professors. He retaliated against Disney when it had the audacity to exercise its freedom of speech to criticize the governor's policies.

And through it all, DeSantis declared that Florida was the place where "woke goes to die."

In his second term, Trump is a scaled-up version of DeSantis. Every element of the DeSantis model has been deployed against Trump's ideological enemies. Trump retaliated against law firms based on politics. He's attacking the academic freedom and independence of private universities. He's sweeping immigrants off the street based on nothing more than the content of their speech.

Precious few anti-woke activists objected to DeSantis's tactics. And precious few object to Trump today. It turns out that when they said, "Let us speak," they weren't embracing free speech as a universal value, but rather as an instrumental value -- free speech is important only so long as they get to say what they think.

The left? It's too dangerous to be heard.

He continually fails to note that the speech being "controlled" here is the speech of paid employees of the state "teaching" children.

He thinks woke teachers have an unassailable right to fly their freak flags for other people's children. He's in favor of censoring rightist speech so that adults can't hear it, but when right-leaning people forbid radicals to indoctrinate children on the taxpayer's dime (and therefore rightly subject to oversight by the government cutting their checks), he claims their speech rights are absolute.

We must protect adults from hearing Trumpian claims, but children? Feel free to talk about anal dildos and polyamory with them.

Like other hard left-wing propaganda organizations, the Dispatch is offering up the canard, "Well, some of the most extremist left-wingers accuse us of not being left-wing enough, therefore, we must be down-the-middle centrist."

Mollie Hemingway isn't having that:

Let’s let your managing editor weigh in with her thoughts on this week’s oral arguments. pic.twitter.com/oO9B2kR8lN

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 23, 2025

Diagnosable moron Jasmine Ratchet appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's Unfunny Sweaty Propaganda Hour to declare that Elon Musk is an "idiot" and she wants to take head-to-head IQ tests to prove that she's as smart as the guy sending Corvettes to f***ing Mars.

Jasmine Crockett: "Elon ain't a genius, he an idiot" pic.twitter.com/QKx46dNDVa

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 23, 2025

Trump doesn't agree that Jasmine Ratchet is smarter than Musk:

"It's just so bad. Their policy is so bad," Trump said, shaking his head. "You know, they're great at cheating, and they're great at certain things, but they are so bad on policy, they're so far off."

Trump pointed out the absurdity of the Democrats clinging to the same losing strategies that already cost them a major election defeat. "When I watched them trying to prosecute the same things that just lost an election in a landslide on, and they're still going through the same things. It's just crazy," he said. "And they don't know who their leaders are."

Turning to the party's emerging figures, Trump singled out Crockett.

"They have a new one, Crockett. Have you seen Crockett? Have you ever seen her talk? This is going to be their leader?" he asked incredulously.

Beck joked that he hoped Crockett would be the next Democratic presidential candidate, to which Trump responded with a mix of amusement and concern.

"Well, we can hope in one way," Trump said, "but in another way, it's pretty demeaning. It's demeaning to our country. You don't see anybody out there."

Video at the link.

This classic deserves a repost:

Michelle Obama: "As black women, we don't articulate our pain" pic.twitter.com/UHoI7ZryTy

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 23, 2025