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Grandpup Cafe

The angel in St. Michael's Cave, Gibraltar
Supposedly an entrance to the underworld
a lightshow makes it even stranger
Ecad_Guy Deathofautocad/@EcadGuy2509

This dog doesn't know what he's doing but he's very enthusiastic in doing it!

This dog "voted" for Nithya Raman.

This snail is so EXTREME! he could have been a cartoon character in the 90s.

Enjoying the storm that is safely outside your window.

Visiting hours.

So I guess a cat isn't saying "I Love You" when he rubs against me.

Obsession is just the story of normal dogs.

Hedgehog babies look like massage pads for your toes.

Puppy exhausts cat.

Dog wants to make sure her older sister gets attention, too.

Bear tries to scratch his back on a tree but completely misses the tree.. 😂

🎥 Debra Howell pic.twitter.com/Fp1SJDGLOZ
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 8, 2026

New week.. enjoy your day! 😊 pic.twitter.com/ntz1WJAGJz
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 8, 2026

“Hey bird, I can do that too” 😅

🎥 IG: nautilus_liveaboards pic.twitter.com/MDr2iYiNL4
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 6, 2026

Meeting her granddaughter..🐕🐾😍 pic.twitter.com/23rn6dHhn6
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) June 8, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:15 PM

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1 "This dog "voted" for Nithya Raman."

Typical.

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 07:17 PM (Av6i5)

2 ALL my pets-- including the cockroaches-- voted for Raman.

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 07:17 PM (Av6i5)

3 Wthout my knwledge.

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 07:18 PM (Av6i5)

4 woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 07:18 PM (VyBeY)

5 >>>Supposedly an entrance to the underworld

I know, let's add a lightshow! The tickets will sell like hotcakes.

--Typical Promoter

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 08, 2026 07:19 PM (syz1S)

6 Here comes Steyer, down 310K now to 250.5K.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 07:19 PM (W5mpo)

7 But seriously, Califnria is no longer a legitmate state.

Nte: They're going tosteal the Governor primary too. Pushing Steyer uppast Hilton, even though everyne hates sStayer and hehad no buzz and polled in the teens.

I no longer recognize the legitimacy of my state government.

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 07:19 PM (Av6i5)

8
"This dog "voted" for Nithya Raman."

Typical.
Posted by: zombie

Looks like a Ferengi mix.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 07:20 PM (Cqx++)

9 By their carrots in chili shall ye know them.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 07:20 PM (Fi81e)

10 >>>So I guess a cat isn't saying "I Love You" when he rubs against me.

More like a street gang tagging you. He's saying this one belongs to me.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 08, 2026 07:21 PM (syz1S)

11 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 07:21 PM (Ia/+0)

12 Steyer won't get 24,000 votes in a roll

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 07:22 PM (Ia/+0)

13 "This dog "voted" for Nithya Raman."

Typical.
Posted by: zombie

---
#1 Dogs never vote.

#2 We are forbidding all dogcatchers within 200 yards of a polling station.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 07:23 PM (Fi81e)

14 Yep, California needs warrants, door kicks, asset seizures, perp walks, plea agreements and lots of Federal prison time to clean up the elections.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 08, 2026 07:23 PM (YlWIZ)

15 In the top 15!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 07:24 PM (WONhk)

16 Outrageus, blantant, llaugh-in-your-face election fraud. Right out in the open.

I didn't think they would try it, as Prattand Tilton were "outside the margin of fraud."

But no-- evnt hough theyWERE utside the margin of fraud, the Dem crrok who run the machinery of government just went ahead and did it anyway, even though y so doing they revealed the fraud, since it was statistically impossible.

They don't care. They have a super-majority in the state assembly and senate, can pass anything and voter down anything they want, with no oppostion, and no debate.

This is what is waxlike to live in the Sviet Unin.

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 07:24 PM (Av6i5)

17 But seriously, Califnria is no longer a legitmate state.

Nte: They're going tosteal the Governor primary too. Pushing Steyer uppast Hilton, even though everyne hates sStayer and hehad no buzz and polled in the teens.

I no longer recognize the legitimacy of my state government.
Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 07:19 PM (Av6i5)

I did that with the unconstitutional jungle primary.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 07:24 PM (8avO+)

18 This dog "voted" for Nithya Raman.
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That dog just crawled out of Stephen King's Pet Sematery.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 07:25 PM (gnNyN)

19 That bear got into some camper's beer cooler.

Posted by: They're out of control and alcoholics too at June 08, 2026 07:25 PM (TbWk/)

20 No more cave visits for me. I don't even like going into my basement. Most of the time when I have to go down there, it costs me money for some damn repairs. IOW, as tourist caves go, the price of the entrance ticket is VIP.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 07:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

21 I once told my husband, after our first Golden, that I wanted to breed them. He looked worried for awhile and figured I'd forget by the time we retired.

I just remembered from the sweet video above.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 07:26 PM (WONhk)

Candace Owens and Her Mentally-Ill Cultists Are Now Ginning Up Powerful Assassination Prep... Against Erika Kirk

Maybe if Candace Owens can get all members of the Kirk family murdered, TPUSA will devolve into her control just because there's no one else left.

Erika Kirk wowed the crowd at Turning Point USA's Women Leadership Summit with her cool response to a heckler who tried -- and failed -- to derail her speech.
A woman could be heard off camera, shouting from the audience as the CEO urged the crowd at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter to put their faith in God.
"Erika Kirk protects pedophiles! Erika Kirk protects pedophiles!" the woman screamed, video of the Friday event showed.
"It's important to remember that happiness comes and goes -- and I pray that you find it," she said to the heckler.
A protester outside a Turning Point USA event hosted by Erika Kirk dressed up as Charlie Kirk and re-enacted his death as crowds chanted, "He deserved to die."

The audience responded with cheers and applause, with some members of the crowd shouting: "We love you, Erika!"
The widow took several more jabs at the heckler -- who was removed from the crowd.
"That's an important moment because that just shows duty to faithfulness gives life meaning, and we must pray for our enemies and those that do not feel like their life has meaning. And that's a perfect example of that. A perfect example. You pray for your enemies. You pray for those that persecute you," Kirk said.
"That's not the enemy. We know who the real enemy is," she continued, without elaborating.

🚨 A heckler tried to attack Erika Kirk during one of the hardest moments of her life.

She responded with grace, dignity, and strength. The crowd’s reaction says it all. pic.twitter.com/JJzoA5DUYt
— Tevin Macharia Mukabana (@TevinMacharia) June 7, 2026

Candace Owens has repeatedly pushed defamatory lies about Erika Kirk supposedly being some kind of lesbian pedophile groomer.

She loves it! Can't wait to monetize the hate she's ginning up against a widow!

Turning Point chops, screws and premieres Charlie-GPT.
Erika gets heckled and called a supporter of pedophiles.

Yeah, it’s time for me to get back on air. Monday can’t come fast enough! https://t.co/EXMK2Aob3I
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 6, 2026

Russia Times is part of the op. Which is why Russia just hosted the vile leftist Candace Owens to push propaganda for them.

'Erika protects PEDOS' CHANTERS get Kirk EVIL EYE

'Know REAL ENEMY' pic.twitter.com/Nb3EiU5WwZ
— RT (@RT_com) June 6, 2026

Dana Loesch is on fire here.

Doesn't matter -- Candy's Cultists are all in the comments saying Akshually Jezebel was a Widow so widows deserve hate.

Dana Loesch: “God has ordered His church to care for widows, that widows be included, so they are not isolated, to protect widows, to care for widows, to not persecute a widow in the most ungodly ways, because you're jealous that you are not the one controlling an organization… pic.twitter.com/FZrHs0WYNW
— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) June 6, 2026

Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
Jun 7
Notice it's no longer called the "young" women's leadership summit? Because they've completely lost the youth since Charlie's passing. This is RNC-lite.
It's now the Hags-Nagging summit with donors occupying speaking slots to lecture women about how it's "biblical" to not question anything.
Turning Point no longer has anything to do with Charlie Kirk and the whole world knows it-- including them. No spark. No energy. No debate. Frankly, stale.

Ridiculous low-IQ brat who never had anyone say "no" to her, until Charlie Kirk. And it broke her brain.

The spirit of Christianity does not exist beneath a yarmulke, kissing a wall in a city where religious leaders teach their children to spit upon those who worship Jesus Christ.

It would therefore be my distinct honor to become “the bridge” that unites Christians in the East… https://t.co/hlgCr88ldF
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 6, 2026

More deep thoughts.

Literally everything is fuel for her ego:

Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
Great news! Thanks to the wall-to-wall western media meltdown about my trip to Russia, their entire nation became aware of my presence here.
I have now been cordially invited to hear President Putin speak today at SPIEF.
This is why we say there is no such thing as bad press.
Also, isn't it kind of weird how Trump sent an entire delegation, (including the architect building his "ballroom") and yet Zionists never accused any of them of being Russian spies?
It's almost as if the people who refuse to peddle their talking points, get smeared.
Stay tuned!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:05 PM

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1 ANd here I was just speaking of Candy Retardo below.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 06:05 PM (73/SM)

2 1st

Posted by: GF at June 08, 2026 06:05 PM (owahb)

3 What a c@nt.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 06:06 PM (Sco7b)

4 Nooded

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 06:06 PM (qx7Zg)

5 Dana Loesch won the weekend, though.

Posted by: huerfano at June 08, 2026 06:07 PM (VJX5o)

6 Maybe if Candace Owens can get all members of the Kirk family murdered, TPUSA will devolve into her control just because there's no one else left.

Kit Marlowe and Bill Shakespeare would have got into a fistfight for the rights to this character.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 06:07 PM (gKWVE)

7
"Bitch had it coming." - All Leftists

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:07 PM (O0L8i)

8 Pray for her safety

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)

9 How does EK "support pedos"?

Must be something I missed.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e)

10 Candy is just fucking stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

11
She never was on my radar before, but how did Candace sink into wackitude?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:10 PM (O0L8i)

12 We know who the real enemy is, Candy. We’re looking at you.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 06:10 PM (ZVgZ4)

13 This freaking bitch…

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 08, 2026 06:10 PM (lBqsU)

14 10 Candy is just fucking stupid.

Not just stupid. Also evil.

Posted by: huerfano at June 08, 2026 06:10 PM (VJX5o)

15 Viola!
Balanced
on
the
a
glitch!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 08, 2026 06:10 PM (YlWIZ)

16 A bridge too far.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 08, 2026 06:11 PM (+FZpF)

17 I have no comprehension of the pedophilia protection accusation. Anyone here have an idea whatshe’s on about??

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 06:11 PM (Gqar8)

18 I have Candace Owens Fatigue

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 08, 2026 06:11 PM (wBaIH)

19 Westboro Candace is now questioning why no one ever accused Trump of being a Russian spy?

That demented loon must be stuck in some sort of Jew Time Control--the AIPAC Agents are deleting her memories and forcing her to think it's 2014!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 06:11 PM (73/SM)

20 Charlie Kirk came to Ace in a dream and told him he needed to befriend the Crows.

Posted by: garrett at June 08, 2026 06:12 PM (Uiv+l)

21 She's also like a caricature.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 06:12 PM (zZu0s)

22 WTH happened to Nostrils ? I don't remember her being this whacko

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 06:12 PM (FtULh)

23 Candace ... excuse me cavernous nostrils, sees Joo hate as a career enhancer now as it has become popular(again).

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 06:12 PM (qbz5w)

24 Boobs
( . ) ( . )

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 06:12 PM (xcxpd)

25
My
next
trick:
portrait
insted
of
landscape

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 08, 2026 06:12 PM (YlWIZ)

26 heh
centered and symmetrical, as all boobs should be

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 06:13 PM (xcxpd)

27 Candace Owens is a lunatic with a big mouth. If she was besmirching my family she would pay a heavy price. But she appears to be female so people let it slide.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 06:13 PM (pSkMS)

28 OK, never mind.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 08, 2026 06:13 PM (YlWIZ)

29 She never was on my radar before, but how did Candace sink into wackitude?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:10 PM (O0L8i)

I remember her being mentioned as based (also people saying she was hot.) I think i watched a video with her and I thought 'is she getting the Colin Powell treatment? Getting kudos merely because she's black?'

Did not pay attention to her until she started going whackadoo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 06:14 PM (zZu0s)

30 Lemme see, can we make it:

Candy Retardo, the Wesboro Baptist of YouTube?

Missing her deranged Jew hatred, though.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 06:14 PM (73/SM)

31
The Owens-Tucker-Mandami-Omar cookout will be friendly and harmonious.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:15 PM (O0L8i)

32 Candice seems to have a few screws loose in her head

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 06:15 PM (Ia/+0)

33 Vile two legged 'people' doing vile things.

They seriously need to get knocked off their asses and get a clue. Please Lord have them see Your Light.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 06:15 PM (SkxUg)

34 They framed Nixon.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 08, 2026 06:15 PM (YlWIZ)

35 Candy Ovens has the nuts aisle at Lowe's loose in her head.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 06:16 PM (SkxUg)

36

When will Candy Retardo sing Babalú?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 06:16 PM (Cqx++)

37 That is one nosty woman.

Posted by: connected and litigious at June 08, 2026 06:17 PM (cS1cw)

38 Candice Ovens is just a grifter.
She's always been an attention whore.
Nothing more.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 06:17 PM (xcxpd)

39 Candy Retardo, the Wesboro Baptist of YouTube?

Missing her deranged Jew hatred, though.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 06:14 PM (73/SM)

Maybe work in 'Fraulein' somewhere in there?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 06:17 PM (zZu0s)

40 awww

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 06:17 PM (xcxpd)

41 Now they're flopping off to the left...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 06:17 PM (xcxpd)

42 Candice seems to have a few screws loose in her head
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Yes, in the way that they're rattling around every time she shakes her head.

I think Macon realized she does more damage to the US than to him so he's kinda stalled his lawsuit, hasn't he?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 06:17 PM (73/SM)

43 Would she be a nostrily woman?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 06:18 PM (SkxUg)

44 Candice Ovens is just a grifter.
She's always been an attention whore.
Nothing more.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 06:17 PM (xcxpd)

We should go to an event and hold up a 'Show us your tits!' Sign.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

45 CO commenting on "old" women is ironic. A while ago I saw her on a video and didn't recognize her until she spoke. She's developing the jowly, matronly figure of an older woman. (Unless she's in her 40s, in which case I apologize.)

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 08, 2026 06:19 PM (p6DxW)

46 Personally, I think it'd be appropriate for Erika to snap-back at Owens. This grieving widow act is getting old.

At least put up the appearance that you're not going to put up with her shit anymore.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 06:19 PM (jehhT)

47 Man, she really has been lost to the dark side.

I wonder why she can't see it and why her husband isn't doing something to help her?

Posted by: LASue at June 08, 2026 06:19 PM (lCppi)

48 I appreciate Erika's hearfelt sentiment of praying for her enemies, but it reminds me of:

Quirt Evans: [reads the plaque on the wall] "Each human being has an integrity that can be hurt only by the act of that same human being and not by the act of another human being."

Quirt Evans: Is that Quaker stuff?

Penelope Worth: Uh huh.

Quirt Evans: You mean nobody can hurt you but yourself?

Penelope Worth: That's a Friend's belief.

Quirt Evans: Well, supposin' someone whacks you over the head with a branding iron? Won't that hurt?

Penelope Worth: Physically, of course. But in reality it would injure only the person doing the act of force of violence. Only the doer can be hurt by a mean or evil act.

Quirt Evans: Are there very many of you Quakers?

Penelope Worth: Very few.

Quirt Evans: I sort of figured that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:19 PM (6ydKt)

49 38 Candice Ovens is just a grifter.
She's always been an attention whore.
Nothing more.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 06:17 PM (xcxpd)

I think you have nailed it, Mark. Perhaps the term Malignant Narcissist has fallen out of favor, but it pretty wel describes her - and perhaps Carlson too. The grift is part of it.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 06:19 PM (Gqar8)

50 47 Man, she really has been lost to the dark side.

I wonder why she can't see it and why her husband isn't doing something to help her?
Posted by: LASue at June 08, 2026 06:19 PM (lCppi)

Because he's cashing in, just like she is.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 06:20 PM (xcxpd)

51 Frauline Candy Ovens?

Now got Mel Brooks' Hitler Rap playing...

"Do it Adolf!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 06:20 PM (SkxUg)

52 Candace acts like a woman who was rejected for another woman. Which, she was

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 06:20 PM (UZCuZ)

53 How about:

Candy Retardo, YouTube She-Wolf of the SS Westboro Baptist Division?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 06:20 PM (73/SM)

54 Erika, sweetie, I think you're amazing, but blondes should not wear straight gray.

Posted by: pookysgirl, natural blonde at June 08, 2026 06:20 PM (Wt5PA)

55 44 Candice Ovens is just a grifter.
She's always been an attention whore.
Nothing more.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 06:17 PM (xcxpd)

We should go to an event and hold up a 'Show us your tits!' Sign.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

Tempting....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 06:21 PM (xcxpd)

56 She never was on my radar before, but how did Candace sink into wackitude?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:10 PM (O0L8i)

She has always been a mentally ill whackadoodle. It took awhile for it to become apparent.

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 08, 2026 06:21 PM (YGJ8E)

57 Nostrildumbass. She can predict the past.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 08, 2026 06:21 PM (xMmtz)

58 Every time I think she can't sink any lower, she does. I don't even think of her too much per se, she's a ridiculous clown. But her "followers" (beyond the bots), them I worry about.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at June 08, 2026 06:22 PM (qivay)

59 OT: Again with the "our" democracy.......

Xavier Becerra
@XavierBecerra
·
2h
California isn’t the problem. Trump’s hatred of our democracy is.

In California, we count every vote. Not just the ones Donald Trump likes.
Quote

Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X
@TrumpTruthOnX
·
19h

Commentary account
Has anybody been watching the CROOKED Election going on in California. Two great Republican Candidates are being cheated, and so is America, which if the Dumocrats are able to fulfill their mission, great trouble and consternation will follow. Watch this “Election” closely!!!

Posted by: beckster at June 08, 2026 06:22 PM (kX27y)

60 Personally, I think it'd be appropriate for Erika to snap-back at Owens. This grieving widow act is getting old.

At least put up the appearance that you're not going to put up with her shit anymore.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 06:19 PM (jehhT)

"Grieving widow act"!?!? Wow. It hasn't even been a year, and her husband's murderer hasn't been tried. I bet everyday is a gut punch for her. I grieved for my dog longer than this.

Posted by: LASue at June 08, 2026 06:22 PM (lCppi)

61 Penelope Worth: Very few.

Quirt Evans: I sort of figured that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:19 PM (6ydKt)
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LOL. Love it.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:22 PM (Fi81e)

62
Would she be a nostrily woman?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 06:18 PM (SkxUg)

_________

Waxman-class nostrils?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:22 PM (O0L8i)

63 "Our" as in they posses Democracy and no one else can.

Maybe the Athenians were right with the black ball.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 06:24 PM (SkxUg)

64 Beck, ughh. Candice is as affective in her function of finding and sorting out types of people as Trump is, but in opposite directions. I guess the proper term for her would be something like a shitpass filter.

Shitpass filter - passes people with a higher shitiness than a specified cutoff shit level and attenuates people with lower shitiness.

Not going to get into fourier transfers of shitpass filters and the like but y'all get the picture.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 08, 2026 06:24 PM (3uBP9)

65 CNN has just learned after the latest Mail in Ballot Count that write-in candidate Vladimir Putin (D) Russia has now surpassed Steve Hilton for second place in the California Governor's race...

Standby for additional reports later on tonight....

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 08, 2026 06:24 PM (1qVfI)

66 In California, we count every vote. Not just the ones Donald Trump likes.

Quote
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And not just how many times Trump likes!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:25 PM (Fi81e)

67 Some people think there is something wrong with Candace Owens. The rest know there is.

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 06:25 PM (dIske)

68 She never was on my radar before, but how did Candace sink into wackitude?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:10 PM (O0L8i)

She's been on a downward spiral since Charlie fired her, then Ben Shapiro fired her, and then she found out Brigitte Macron was a man.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:25 PM (6ydKt)

69 "Our" as in they posses Democracy and no one else can.

Maybe the Athenians were right with the black ball.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 06:24 PM (SkxUg)

"Our" as in we bought and paid for it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 06:26 PM (qx7Zg)

70 Make California a territory.

MCAT.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 06:26 PM (SkxUg)

71 From Owns June 7 tweet

"...Turning Point no longer has anything to do with Charlie Kirk and the whole world knows it-- including them. No spark. No energy. No debate. Frankly, stale."

Yet, she remains maniacally obsessed with TPUSA and Erika Kirk. It is not stale in her fevered brain or bank account.

Posted by: Cheri at June 08, 2026 06:26 PM (oiNtH)

72 62
Nostrildamus!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 08, 2026 06:27 PM (6pSrt)

73 > Personally, I think it'd be appropriate for Erika to snap-back at Owens. This grieving widow act is getting old.

At least put up the appearance that you're not going to put up with her shit anymore.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 06:19 PM (jehhT)

"Grieving widow act"!?!? Wow. It hasn't even been a year, and her husband's murderer hasn't been tried. I bet everyday is a gut punch for her. I grieved for my dog longer than this.
Posted by: LASue at June 08, 2026 06:22 PM (lCppi)
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"Act" was probably the wrong term.

She needs to pivot to a more aggressive posture with Owens. I understand the grieving. I'd presume one can do both.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 06:27 PM (jehhT)

74 In Californica it suggested that you vote early and often to keep Californica elections fair ........

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 08, 2026 06:27 PM (dm7SR)

75 And yet in the end Quirt Evans became a Quaker.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 06:27 PM (Cqx++)

76 "...Turning Point no longer has anything to do with Charlie Kirk and the whole world knows it-- including them. No spark. No energy. No debate. Frankly, stale."
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Um.... yeah....

The shooter took care of that link to Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:27 PM (Fi81e)

77 And yet in the end Quirt Evans became a Quaker.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 06:27 PM (Cqx++)

I guess I don't know what the reference is, but the dialogue was kind of funny. TV show? Movie? Book?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 06:29 PM (0aYVJ)

78 "Our" as in they posses Democracy and no one else can.
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Well, it's spelled "Democratocracy", the "crato" is silent.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:29 PM (Fi81e)

79 Candy c*nt is like every lib today...sadly untouchable....too bad she doesn't have to contend with a few rotten tomatoes in the face, like every single time she went out in public.

Posted by: zigggggy at June 08, 2026 06:29 PM (EDeJ/)

80

Perry Mason and The Case of the Candy Queen

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 06:29 PM (Cqx++)

81 I wonder why she can't see it and why her husband isn't doing something to help her?
Posted by: LASue at June 08, 2026 06:19 PM

If I had four children and my spouse was nuts, I'd stick close to home and encourage the lunatic to be away on business a lot.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 08, 2026 06:30 PM (p6DxW)

82 CNN has just learned after the latest Mail in Ballot Count that write-in candidate Vladimir Putin (D) Russia has now surpassed Steve Hilton for second place in the California Governor's race...

Standby for additional reports later on tonight....
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 08, 2026 06:24 PM (1qVfI)

I'd favor that, some nasty people would be flung out of windows mysteriously.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:30 PM (8avO+)

83 Erika Kirk is trying to model a Christian response to things, as Jesus taught. Jesus tore apart the temple not because they were jerks but because they were making a mockery of God and His temple. He was quiet and did not lash out at people who attacked HIM, only those who mocked God.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 06:30 PM (UZCuZ)

84 67 Some people think there is something wrong with Candace Owens. The rest know there is.

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 06:25 PM (dIske)
YUP!

Posted by: zigggggy at June 08, 2026 06:30 PM (EDeJ/)

85 The CA bugernatorial count is proceeding and Hilton's lead on Steyer is growing. Now 310,100. His last-minute swan dive is going to be epic.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 06:31 PM (W5mpo)

86
I guess I don't know what the reference is, but the dialogue was kind of funny. TV show? Movie? Book?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian

Angel and the Badman (movie)

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 06:31 PM (Cqx++)

87 Candy c*nt is like every lib today...sadly untouchable....too bad she doesn't have to contend with a few rotten tomatoes in the face, like every single time she went out in public.

Posted by: zigggggy at June 08, 2026 06:29 PM (EDeJ/)
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It just illustrates that bad form of "debate" is bad form of debate.

It's not simply the Democratic party that can stoop to it. And we non-Democrats probably need to watch out for bad form as well.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:31 PM (Fi81e)

88 Angel and the Badman (movie)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 06:31 PM (Cqx++)

Ah. Thanks. I'll search it up.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 06:32 PM (0aYVJ)

89 I have no comprehension of the pedophilia protection accusation. Anyone here have an idea whatshe’s on about??
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 06:11 PM (Gqar

I think it's nothing more than "racist" has lost its zing.

"Communist" is a point of pride for the Left and Fake Right.

So, "pedo" is the new 'wreck your reputation and career' insult.

These a-holes need to be sued.

Trump has shown the way.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 06:32 PM (iJfKG)

90 75 And yet in the end Quirt Evans became a Quaker.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 06:27 PM (Cqx++)

Penny was too cute to resist, I admit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:33 PM (6ydKt)

91 85 The CA bugernatorial count is proceeding and Hilton's lead on Steyer is growing. Now 310,100. His last-minute swan dive is going to be epic.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 06:31 PM (W5mpo)

Harder to cheat on that one I guess but I'm sure they'll find a way

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 06:33 PM (FtULh)

92 She is so amazingly vile.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 06:34 PM (OoFl2)

93 The internet is interesting in that social media seems to serve to radicalize people. They get into opinion bubbles and then in order to stand out, they have to further radicalize.

She has gotten money from the gift after Charlie Kirk was killed. So in order to appease her social bubble and keep them interested, she has to keep going harder.

OT, just saw a video of Billie Eilish slapping her breasts. She may be a commie whackadoo, but nice cans.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

94 I have no comprehension of the pedophilia protection accusation. Anyone here have an idea whatshe’s on about??
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 06:11 PM (Gqar

I think it's nothing more than "racist" has lost its zing.

"Communist" is a point of pride for the Left and Fake Right.

So, "pedo" is the new 'wreck your reputation and career' insult.

These a-holes need to be sued.

Trump has shown the way.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 06:32 PM (iJfKG)

It is another projection attack. Dems have tons of pedo scandals and Epstein is their man and anti Trump, so just declare Trump and Maga are Epstein protectors.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:34 PM (8avO+)

95 The first time I had a little concern with Owens was when she went rabid after Stephen Crowder.

I don't like the candid video any more than anybody else, but I thought Candace's frothing was a little uncalled for from a person professing to be a Christian.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:35 PM (Fi81e)

96
The TPUSA board needs to come right out in public and declare that Owens will NEVER run the org, or have a leadership position. I'm *this* close to thinking that she needs to be kicked out of the organization entirely, but I'm not a totalitarian asshole.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 08, 2026 06:35 PM (KlGB0)

97 Jesus tore apart the temple not because they were jerks but because they were making a mockery of God and His temple. He was quiet and did not lash out at people who attacked HIM, only those who mocked God.

Well... They were one and the same...

Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 08, 2026 06:35 PM (WiGsv)

98 Angel Studios is doing a remake of Angel and the Badman

Trailer:
https://youtu.be/Hv9zks39mK8

I hope they don't screw it up.
It's one of my favorite Wayne movies, and he actually did some subtly good acting in sections of it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:35 PM (6ydKt)

99
Great news! Thanks to the wall-to-wall western media meltdown about my trip to Russia, their entire nation became aware of my presence here.

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Wall-to-wall coverage? Did even one news source report on it?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 06:35 PM (biznJ)

100 Owens has crossed the Rubicon of insanity and eternal bitterness to find her place in demonism.

It is demonic, her entire "platform" of vengeance.

All because Charlie Kirk did not choose her. He fired her. She was not invite to his wedding or funeral is what he thought of her and her wickedness.

Apparently she's forgotten about Mrs. Macron's gonads and moved on to this.

Mrs. Kirk, I am sorry you have to deal with this on top of being widowed in such a violent and public manner with two young children.

My husband's brother dropped dead from a rare heart problem 40yrs ago, training for the Boston Marathon. His sons were 4 and 2yrs old. I helped as much as I could from FL after the funeral. My SIL's grief overwhelmed her as she tried, with a lot of support, to carry on. She became anorexic to the point she nearly damaged her kidneys.

It was horrific and Erika Kirk is going through this x 1 million thanks to the evil Owens creature. For what, exactly? Attention? To stretch her demon wings?

I have to wonder how her husband feels or thinks. Is he ok with this? Money for clicks? Whether pretending to be Catholic or dining with Putin?

Why can her "mouthpiece" not be stopped? Why?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 06:36 PM (WONhk)

101 I think the pedophile charge is regarding Trump and Epstein.. Trump's a pedophile and Erika "protects" him somehow....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 06:36 PM (FtULh)

102 She is so amazingly vile.
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 06:34 PM (OoFl2)

It is interesting to watch. In anyone else this would be like a Quartering level flame out, but this is her brand.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 06:36 PM (zZu0s)

103 "So, "pedo" is the new 'wreck your reputation and career' insult."

"Goat raper" is right out.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 06:36 PM (vFG9F)

104 The vote in california doesn't bother me because I know that this time all the leftist politicians and voters that are publicly gloating about the steal, gleefully and with great abandon, and all the cowardly republicans cowering silently in fear are now going to be forced to react because of how bad it is, as a result of their great shame, and to satisfy what's demanded by their last shred of honor.

My confidence in this outcome is bolstered by the fact that the many many times this has all played out in the exact same way under the exact same circumstances it has ended exactly as I predict a very hefty zero percent of the time.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 08, 2026 06:36 PM (3uBP9)

105 I have no comprehension of the pedophilia protection accusation. Anyone here have an idea whatshe’s on about??
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 06:11 PM (Gqar
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My hunch was that it was that EK has not come out as burn the whole government to the ground to release ALL the "Epstein files" I THINK probably exists!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:37 PM (Fi81e)

106 Russia is a place I would find very interesting to visit

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 06:37 PM (Ia/+0)

107 Great news! Thanks to the wall-to-wall western media meltdown about my trip to Russia, their entire nation became aware of my presence here.

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Wall-to-wall coverage? Did even one news source report on it?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 06:35 PM (biznJ)

Russia TV did. About as good as the MSM.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:38 PM (8avO+)

108 There are people out there on X thinking that Trump is "shredding" Epstein files, that existed through the Biden administration.

They would probably think that the lack of prosecution for all the dirt they had on Trump is some sort of testimony to the Biden administration's "restraint". (Although the probably can't "understand why") But they will never have the evidence to show that the Biden administration was being so lenient because Trump is destroying it as we speak.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:39 PM (Fi81e)

109 Angel Studios is not to be trusted after "Animal Farm".

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 06:39 PM (gKWVE)

110 Wall-to-wall coverage? Did even one news source report on it?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 06:35 PM (biznJ)

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I must be as famous as I think I am.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:40 PM (Fi81e)

111
Angel Studios is doing a remake of Angel and the Badman

I've pretty much lost interest in Angel Studios since they screwed the pooch with "Animal Farm".

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 06:40 PM (iJfKG)

112 Still Mayor bitches! Yes, I am the big boss!

Badda boop beep beep tweedle dee dee boop bop beep!

Posted by: Mayor For Life Karen Bass at June 08, 2026 06:40 PM (z20w/)

113 Angel Studios is not to be trusted after "Animal Farm".
Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 06:39 PM (gKWVE)

Yeah, they do have taint.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

114 I'm trying to figure out what will be the Nemesis for Candace. A massive verdict by Mrs Macron? Some crazy going after Candace? One of her followers turning on her?
It's coming but the form is the question

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 06:41 PM (zj5z7)

115 Candace Owens and her massive intellect keep me coming back for more. She's a world changing force of nature. Settle in, boys, and learn how to save the world.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 06:41 PM (pSkMS)

116 I think that the only way to a least curb Owens is to threaten her bank account via a lawsuit. I was hoping that the Macrons could take one for the team but haven't heard anything about their lawsuit if it even exists anymore. I don't know if Erika has any actionable case against her that would have any chance in court.

Posted by: Cheri at June 08, 2026 06:42 PM (oiNtH)

117 It's coming but the form is the question
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 06:41 PM (zj5z7)

Its the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man.

Posted by: Ray at June 08, 2026 06:43 PM (zZu0s)

118 How long should a widow grieve after her husband is assassinated in front of a crowd of people? Weeks, months, years? Style guide says what?

Posted by: Betty at June 08, 2026 06:43 PM (PV9Tt)

119 115 Candace Owens and her massive intellect keep me coming back for more. She's a world changing force of nature. Settle in, boys, and learn how to save the world.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 06:41 PM (pSkMS)

Well, she's definitely not part of the saving.. she's part of the destroying

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 06:44 PM (FtULh)

120 I think that the only way to a least curb Owens is to threaten her bank account via a lawsuit. I was hoping that the Macrons could take one for the team but haven't heard anything about their lawsuit if it even exists anymore. I don't know if Erika has any actionable case against her that would have any chance in court.
Posted by: Cheri at June 08, 2026 06:42 PM (oiNtH)

The 'public figure' defense for slander is a big hurdle to get over.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:45 PM (8avO+)

121 How long should a widow grieve after her husband is assassinated in front of a crowd of people? Weeks, months, years? Style guide says what?
Posted by: Betty at June 08, 2026 06:43 PM (PV9Tt)
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How many months of appearance should you look appropriately griefy.

My wife lost her mother after Memorial day, and I'm sure I caught her laughing at a joke I made within the WEEK!!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:45 PM (Fi81e)

122 I think the pedophile charge is regarding Trump and Epstein.. Trump's a pedophile and Erika "protects" him somehow....
Posted by: It's me donna

Also, don't forget her raging affair with JD Vance!

Posted by: Cheri at June 08, 2026 06:45 PM (oiNtH)

123 This whole thing has been disturbing since the assassination. I never would have guessed at the dark turn all this has taken since then.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 06:45 PM (n5tGW)

124 There's also the new term "The Epstein Class" that's been floating around for several months now.

It's not exactly defined specifically, but near as I can tell it includes anybody, left, right or center, in the ruling class of the entire Western world.

Therefore the popular thing seems to include screaming "Pedo!!" at these elites incessantly, Trump & Crew included.

It's all far too similar to Q-Anon for me with how overboard people on the far left & right have gone with it, and how closely aligned the populists on either end of the political spectrum have congregated together on this one issue.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:46 PM (6ydKt)

125 Also, don't forget her raging affair with JD Vance!
Posted by: Cheri at June 08, 2026 06:45 PM (oiNtH)

Right...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 06:46 PM (FtULh)

126 Watching Glen Beck, WHO the fuck is Dugan and what did he say?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:47 PM (cW1mv)

127 To add:
The Epstein Class thing seems to imply that (((Zionists))) are behind the elites and blackmail/pay them to do their bidding.

More whack-o-doodle stuff from the extremes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:48 PM (6ydKt)

128
Wayne was a better actor than Eastwood.

Fight me.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 06:48 PM (Y8DZL)

129 We're only in it for the money.

Posted by: Angel Studios at June 08, 2026 06:48 PM (nvKZ7)

130 The 'public figure' defense for slander is a big hurdle to get over.
Posted by: Oldcat

That's what I thought. Ugh.

Posted by: Cheri at June 08, 2026 06:48 PM (oiNtH)

131 Put Candace on her own private C-17 and send her to Brazil. She'll be very happy there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:49 PM (cW1mv)

132 Looking up Orthodoxy, there's a 40 day period of mourning within the church, as in set days of religious observance. If the specific church is any good they're not going to be jerks about what exact day to do what exact service.
Then there's about a year of wearing black. Widows up to two. Again if the church is any good they're not pushing it, although I expect they have the 2000 years of prior experience to know if there's insincerity or if the widow is having a nervous breakdown or if she's on a "rebound" effect or whatever.
In general I trust Erika on this one and not Candace.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 06:49 PM (gKWVE)

133 The whole pedo stuff serves two purposes. One it maligns one party yes. But the second thing it does is it trivializes the horrible crime. And there is obviously some very bad stuff happening to kids, well documented trafficking. And the worry about that has been coming from the right, like the movie Sound of Freedom. And so the left has been ridiculously opposing that. It puts them in one of their many morally untenable situations.

And now these fiends have nullified the interest, made it into a joke, and evil acts that are done in secret are more easily done.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 08, 2026 06:49 PM (3uBP9)

134 Watching Glen Beck, WHO the fuck is Dugan and what did he say?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:47 PM (cW1mv)

Dugan is a she - the judge who personally tried to help some illegals avoid ICE with full knowledge.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:49 PM (8avO+)

135 I just wonder who all is allowed to Hallucinate material that "must be" in the Epstein files?

I mean should they let Bill Clinton get away with the robed Satanic child sacrifices that I'm picturing?!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:49 PM (Fi81e)

136 The only thing that fully explains what’s happening in some corners of the right is demonic possession.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 06:49 PM (XV/Pl)

137
She never was on my radar before, but how did Candace sink into wackitude?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:10 PM

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From what I've seen, she's always been an opportunistic sociopath who is willing to make things up. It's just more visible now. Apparently she's making good money doing this. The more outrageous the whopper she tells, the more audience she gets, and the more money she gets. Also, I think she likes to hurt people.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 06:49 PM (biznJ)

138 I understand freedom of speech.

However, how do you defend basically murder threats? Or libel, defamation, slander to the point of malice and whipping up other insane demons to murder for her?

Are there no laws to protect Kirk from this demon? I am serious in asking.

Why is she allowed to continue her tantrum and threats?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 06:50 PM (WONhk)

139 And now these fiends have nullified the interest, made it into a joke, and evil acts that are done in secret are more easily done.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 08, 2026 06:49 PM (3uBP9)

Yes, when Democrats get attached to Epstein (as they do) they can just call it tit for tat.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:50 PM (8avO+)

140 Dat bitch Kray Kray.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 06:50 PM (Vb3xW)

141 Reasons the Left pushes the "pedo" slander.

1. Repeat a lie often enough, and it will stick. They have good results so far convincing low IQ people that it might be true.

2. Accuse others of what you are doing.

3. Simple messages work best. They have no other succinct slander against him that carries so much impact.

4. Emotional issue for key demographics - single moms, young, low IQ

5. Because it is impossible to defend against. How to prove a negative?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 06:50 PM (4JJmm)

142 I hadn't paid any attention to her.

She is pure trash.

Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 06:50 PM (RCjYY)

143 Wayne was a better actor than Eastwood.

Fight me.
Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 06:48 PM (Y8DZL)

I'd agree. His range was better. Variations on a theme.

Searchers of course.
Man who shot Liberty Valence
The Shootist
True Grit
Quiet Man

Posted by: Ray at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (zZu0s)

144
Then there's about a year of wearing black. Widows up to two.

Fiddle-dee-dee!

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (O0L8i)

145 My mom kept dad’s ashes in a closet for a year before she laid him to rest. She didn’t want to rush it. They were married 52 years.
I am working for a guy who agrees with the horde on most things except he thinks Trump didn’t release all the Epstein stuff because Trump is way more involved.
What people believe makes no sense.

Posted by: Accomack at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (GbONR)

146 >>> Watching Glen Beck, WHO the fuck is Dugan and what did he say?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:47 PM (cW1mv)

He's that weird occultist that buddies with putin. Weird Rasputin level stuff.

Posted by: banana Dream - Ra Ra Rasputin at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (3uBP9)

147 The lawsuit against the WH UFC fight is as stupid, or stupider, than you imagine.

It's some old dried up bitch, same that complained about the Ballroom, saying she'll suffer, and I quote, "aesthetic injury" meaning she doesn’t like looking at it.
She also claims watching it would worsen the physical pain from her osteoarthritis.

Yes, yes--Trump is literally dragging her from her home and forcing her to see the stage and, not only that, forcing her to watch the fight!!

The fact that the judge hasn't already dismissed it tells you how corrupt and venal our Cartel Class of federal judges are.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (73/SM)

148 Angel Studios is not to be trusted after "Animal Farm".

At the very least, they have really poor judgement in scripts and film projects

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (UZCuZ)

149 Candice Ovens is just a grifter.
She's always been an attention whore.
Nothing more.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Some may think she is saying ludicrous things now.
Some may think she always has been saying ludicrous things, even when she was supposedly 'based'.

She may believe she has always said ludicrous things.
It is her brand.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (/lPRQ)

150 I just can't take any California governor's election seriously since they elected Ahhhnold into the role. I don't care what political party he belonged to....the simple fact of the matter is a vast majority of votes were directly related to nothing more than popularity, and not for anything resembling competence.

It's the same mentality that was asked to name the British autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), and "Boaty McBoatface" won by a large margin. California voters are not serious people, and they don't understand the serious consequences that they bring upon themselves.

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (dIske)

151 Watching Glen Beck, WHO the fuck is Dugan and what did he say?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:47 PM (cW1mv)

Aleksandar Dugin is a Russian author/philosopher who Putin supposedly favors.

He's an ultra-nationalist, anti-liberal, type.
The Ukrainians drone bombed a limo a few years back killing Dugin's daughter, thinking he was inside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (6ydKt)

152
Coming soon to YouTube: The Complete Bodycam Videos of Candace Owens

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:52 PM (O0L8i)

153 TPUSA has pumped out a lot of videos and shorts over the last several months with Charlie's substitutes. They're pretty good. My current favorite is Officer Tatum asking if his mom should have been aborted because she was a product of r*pe. There was a lot of sputtering afterwards.

Posted by: pookysgirl at June 08, 2026 06:52 PM (Wt5PA)

154 Trying to figure out when the Epstein thing will end. Maybe after the next prez election, unless Vance is elected.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 06:52 PM (n5tGW)

155 But that doesn't mean their SOLUTION (to divide the "Antichrist" West with propaganda until it's weak enough to destroy) is correct._Beck

Glen, that's been the Russian solution for us since WWII. Divide and conquer, it's an old axiom.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:52 PM (cW1mv)

156 Wayne was a better actor than Eastwood.

Fight me.
Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 06:48 PM (Y8DZL)

I'd agree. His range was better. Variations on a theme.

Searchers of course.
Man who shot Liberty Valence
The Shootist
True Grit
Quiet Man
Posted by: Ray at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (zZu0s)

From what I've read, John Wayne intended to become a lawyer if he hadn't injured his knee and lost his scholarship.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 06:53 PM (qx7Zg)

157 {redacted in its entirety}

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 06:53 PM (VyBeY)

158 Repeat a lie often enough, and it will stick. They have good results so far convincing low IQ people that it might be true.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 06:50 PM (4JJmm)
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That goes with human psychology.

The more times you hear something the more likely it's going to have the same resonance with you that something true would.

Thus people who are uncritical, will undergo this conditioning.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:53 PM (Fi81e)

159 At the very least, they have really poor judgement in scripts and film projects
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (UZCuZ)

They just distributed it and did not make it, BUT they paid a lot of retards to shill the movie as something it wasn't.

Posted by: Ray at June 08, 2026 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

160 I'd agree. His range was better. Variations on a theme.

Searchers of course.
Man who shot Liberty Valence
The Shootist
True Grit
Quiet Man
Posted by: Ray at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (zZu0s)

and he played a Mongol Khan of Khans!

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:54 PM (8avO+)

161
From what I've read, John Wayne intended to become a lawyer if he hadn't injured his knee and lost his scholarship.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 06:53 PM (qx7Zg)

"Draft dodger!!!" - Every Leftist

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:54 PM (O0L8i)

162 Alexander Dugan - Russian author. Apparently very evil and Putin listens to him regularly.

Posted by: DanMa'am at June 08, 2026 06:55 PM (8uzBS)

163 148 Angel Studios is not to be trusted after "Animal Farm".

At the very least, they have really poor judgement in scripts and film projects

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (UZCuZ)

From what I understand, Angel bought that movie almost completed from Andy Serkis when nobody else wanted it.

Why? I have no clue.
Maybe they wanted to get into animation and this was the easiest path, despite how crappy the product was.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:55 PM (6ydKt)

164 "Draft dodger!!!" - Every Leftist
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:54 PM (O0L8i)

He also had two small children when war broke out. His career was just taking off.

Posted by: Ray at June 08, 2026 06:55 PM (zZu0s)

165
Thus people who are uncritical, will undergo this conditioning.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:53 PM (Fi81e)

That's how Derek Jeter became The Greatest Shortstop in History.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 06:55 PM (O0L8i)

166 Ray: They just distributed it and did not make it

Which is fair enough; but if I'm offered to distribute a parcel of crack cocaine, I'm turning down that opportunity.

Posted by: probably why gKWVE isn't popular on linkedin at June 08, 2026 06:55 PM (gKWVE)

167 /off Ghostbusters sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 06:56 PM (zZu0s)

168 Trying to figure out when the Epstein thing will end. Maybe after the next prez election, unless Vance is elected.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 06:52 PM (n5tGW)
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Yeah, and if Vance does not release the files that they have convinced themselves exist in the Epstein files, then "Of course he can't, because that would implicate Trump!! I bet he doesn't want to release the pictures of his own visits to Epstein Island..." and we're off.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:56 PM (Fi81e)

169 They just distributed it and did not make it, BUT they paid a lot of retards to shill the movie as something it wasn't.

Yeah they chose to take on a terrible movie everyone else passed on featuring Seth Rogan. Like I said, bad judgement

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 06:56 PM (UZCuZ)

170 Dugan is a she - the judge who personally tried to help some illegals avoid ICE with full knowledge.
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Thanks. .Beck is a nut, associating Putin and Dugan. Dugan should have been invited to that meeting along with Owens.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:56 PM (cW1mv)

171 I just can't take any California governor's election seriously since they elected Ahhhnold into the role. I don't care what political party he belonged to....the simple fact of the matter is a vast majority of votes were directly related to nothing more than popularity, and not for anything resembling competence.

It's the same mentality that was asked to name the British autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), and "Boaty McBoatface" won by a large margin. California voters are not serious people, and they don't understand the serious consequences that they bring upon themselves.
Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (dIske)

Oh we were serious about voting for Arnie, as he at least wasn't a Dem snake like the outgoing Dem Grey Davis or the Dem candidate Bustemonte.

Sure he wasn't MAGA, but none of them were.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:57 PM (8avO+)

172 Never underestimate the power of illegitimate foreign funding, money laundering, and greed. What's the goal? Chaos.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 06:57 PM (pSkMS)

173 ---
Yeah, and if Vance does not release the files that they have convinced themselves exist in the Epstein files, then "Of course he can't, because that would implicate Trump!! I bet he doesn't want to release the pictures of his own visits to Epstein Island..." and we're off.
Posted by: Axeman
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The Epstein Files are in Biden's garage in the trunk of his Corvette.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:58 PM (cW1mv)

174 I can only speak to what I know.

My SIL, widowed at 32yrs, remarried the best friend of her husband, who had never married, a little over 2yrs later. As a family we were happy for them. They had mutual grief that became love.

In reality she's told other family stuff like she will never love him as much as my late BIL. Which made me sad, as there are different types of love and to say this a decade or so after his death I found troubling. He raised those boys who call him Dad. Does he always feel like second best?

Her grief later turned to alcoholism in this second marriage, even with grief therapy.

I'm not sure what I would have done so young if my husband dropped dead running. I'm sure move back to my parent's farm with our sons. I would not have had the support of her large family and friends, nor my husband's best friend to marry me.

Now, after being with the same man for 47yrs I know I'd grieve forever in private and there would never be anyone else. I'd try to put on a brave face in public, as Erick Kirk is doing and more than most could, God bless her and keep her strong.

Yet this demon keeps shouting and I wish someone, anyone, would shut her up.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 06:59 PM (WONhk)

175 Sure he wasn't MAGA, but none of them were.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:57 PM (8avO+)
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Was MAGA even on the table when nanny-banginator ran?

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:59 PM (Fi81e)

176 Other than Biden, has any president so closely associated himself with a vehicle?

Oh, wait. Reagan and his jeep.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:59 PM (cW1mv)

177 Dana Loesch won the weekend, though.

Posted by: huerfano at June 08, 2026 06:07 PM (VJX5o)

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+1

And F*ck The #Woke Reich!

Posted by: ShainS at June 08, 2026 07:00 PM (oofVe)

178

Aleksandr Dugin

wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 07:00 PM (Cqx++)

179 >>> Ray: They just distributed it and did not make it

Which is fair enough; but if I'm offered to distribute a parcel of crack cocaine, I'm turning down that opportunity.
Posted by: probably why gKWVE isn't popular on linkedin at June 08, 2026 06:55 PM (gKWVE)

The studio also directly challenged and tried to shame on social media anyone that questioned the idea that "Erm... Axually dummy, Animal Farm is a celebration of Communism and is very anti-capitalist."

They never, woops my bad, I guess we really screwed up. No they doubled down supporting it.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 08, 2026 07:00 PM (3uBP9)

180 My current favorite is Officer Tatum asking if his mom should have been aborted because she was a product of r*pe. There was a lot of sputtering afterwards.
Posted by: pookysgirl at June 08, 2026 06:52 PM (Wt5PA)

Huh. I would have told him "legally, not 'should', but 'could'".

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 07:00 PM (gKWVE)

181 "This whole thing has been disturbing since the assassination. I never would have guessed at the dark turn all this has taken since then."

Notably, folks like TuCa and Owens have moved "Christian" to the top of their branding. Is it sincere? Doubt it.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 07:01 PM (Jr5Lq)

182 Ultimately every descendant of Genghis (there are many) likely weren't consulted if they should have been born.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 07:02 PM (gKWVE)

183 Sure he wasn't MAGA, but none of them were.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:57 PM (8avO+)
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Was MAGA even on the table when nanny-banginator ran?
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:59 PM (Fi81e)

No not even the tea party was. This was 2003 when the CA GOP basically died out due to fraud.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 07:02 PM (8avO+)

184 The Democrats Propaganda Ministry nightly putting out Propaganda has brainwashed millions. Bet my mother believes all their garbage

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 07:02 PM (Ia/+0)

185 170 Dugan is a she - the judge who personally tried to help some illegals avoid ICE with full knowledge.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Thanks. .Beck is a nut, associating Putin and Dugan. Dugan should have been invited to that meeting along with Owens.

Posted by: Braenyard -

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apparently, there are more than one person named Dugin.

Beck is talking about Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian Rasputin. No, that can't be right. The new rasputin who is credited with convincing Putin on a strategy to take over the world.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 07:03 PM (4JJmm)

186 Notably, folks like TuCa and Owens have moved "Christian" to the top of their branding. Is it sincere? Doubt it.
Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 07:01 PM (Jr5Lq)
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AFAIK, Owens has had a lot more years calling herself a Christian than Tucker, who was just checking it out in 2024 (I believe).

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 07:03 PM (Fi81e)

187 "This whole thing has been disturbing since the assassination. I never would have guessed at the dark turn all this has taken since then."

Notably, folks like TuCa and Owens have moved "Christian" to the top of their branding. Is it sincere? Doubt it.
Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 07:01 PM (Jr5Lq)

There's usually an inverse correlation between the number of times you have to say you are a Christian and how Christian you are.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 07:03 PM (8avO+)

188 The left is pushing hard the idea of joining with the right to fight common enemies, ie the Jews. Shockingly, Tucker is all giddy at the prospect.

Oh did I say Jews? Sorry my bad. I mean Zionists and the “Epstein Class”. Those guys could be anything Jews, Muslims, Buddhists.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 07:04 PM (Vb3xW)

189 150 I just can't take any California governor's election seriously since they elected Ahhhnold into the role. I don't care what political party he belonged to....the simple fact of the matter is a vast majority of votes were directly related to nothing more than popularity, and not for anything resembling competence.

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 06:51 PM (dIske)
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I haven't been able to take California's gubernatorial elections seriously since they voted in a divorced Hollywood actor.

Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Zombie GHWB at June 08, 2026 07:05 PM (VCZZt)

190 I haven't been able to take California's gubernatorial elections seriously since they voted in a divorced Hollywood actor.

Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Zombie GHWB at June 08, 2026 07:05 PM (VCZZt)

So since 1966?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 07:07 PM (6ydKt)

191 And of course, you have the current California gubenor trying to show you he's just as dumb as you are, when he mentioned a "break glass" plan and saying they wouldn't let a gubernatorial election be held without at least one Democrat.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 07:07 PM (Fi81e)

192 There's usually an inverse correlation between the number of times you have to say you are a Christian and how Christian you are.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 07:03 PM (8avO+)

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Posted by: Spoon, Arthur. SPOON! at June 08, 2026 07:08 PM (TbWk/)

193 TPUSA Action is their political PAC. They've done a lot of great work.

Similar to Scott Presler's Early Vote Action.

I contribute to both.

Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 07:08 PM (RCjYY)

194 Other than Biden, has any president so closely associated himself with a vehicle?

Oh, wait. Reagan and his jeep.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:59 PM (cW1mv)

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I remember as a yute in '74 seeing an editorial cartoon in the local newspaper after Ford pardoned Nixon showing the latter in a "getaway" limousine speeding away from The White House with the vehicle having a Ford Motor Company logo on it captioned "Nixon's Getaway Vehicle."

Posted by: ShainS at June 08, 2026 07:08 PM (oofVe)

195 >>> Watching Glen Beck, WHO the fuck is Dugan and what did he say?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:47 PM (cW1mv)
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Dugan is a she - the judge who personally tried to help some illegals avoid ICE with full knowledge.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 06:49 PM (8avO+)

I believe the individual that Beck was referring to is the teenager Doogie, Doogie Howser, M.D. who, as a child genius graduates from Princeton at the age of 10, finishes medical school at 14, and becomes a fully licensed medical practitioner at the age of 16.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 08, 2026 07:08 PM (3uBP9)

196 Damn. I have a Honda car. It just cost me $50 Can to fill it up and it was about one third full. $1.80 a Liter. I fill it up about once a month so there's that...

I hope this nosedives for the midterms.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 07:09 PM (Sco7b)

197 "There's usually an inverse correlation between the number of times you have to say you are a Christian and how Christian you are."

By their fruits, you'll know them.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 07:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

198 There's usually an inverse correlation between the number of times you have to say you are a Christian and how Christian you are.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 07:03 PM (8avO+)

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* The French Davidians have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS at June 08, 2026 07:11 PM (oofVe)

199 My favorite lesser known John Wayne film is The
Shepherd of the Hills. With Harey Carey and Betty Field who did her role barefoot for the whole film.

Posted by: Glenn at June 08, 2026 07:11 PM (nvKZ7)

200 Ace.......... you just gave Candace Owen way too much ink, time and space........ she is just a vile person and she will be judged by God.

Posted by: Monica at June 08, 2026 07:11 PM (cZnIJ)

201 Of course Beck was talking about Dum Dum Dugan, the early member of Nick Fury's Howling Commandos who later joined Fury's S.H.I.E.L.D.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 07:11 PM (Fi81e)

202 I used to have on and listen to Glenn Beck when he would talk about history while I cooked dinner. I'm guessing over 15yrs ago. Tea Party era.

I decided he was a nutcase when watching a show of him post-op from having hemorrhoids removed. He was totally wacko. I guess due to anesthesia and his previous either alcohol or drug problems. Altho I do not know. Someone should have not let him put this on air.

Being a RN who has taken care of post op heart patients and other surgeries for many years, I was blown away. Out of his mind insane and paranoid, crying and wailing. Wanting to sue the hospital and doctors for reasons I could not tell. A lunatic.

Therefore, since then I have paid no attention to him at all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 07:12 PM (WONhk)

203 I believe the individual that Beck was referring to is the teenager Doogie, Doogie Howser, M.D. who, as a child genius graduates from Princeton at the age of 10, finishes medical school at 14, and becomes a fully licensed medical practitioner at the age of 16.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 08, 2026 07:08 PM (3uBP9)

Then grew up to become a self-obsessed alcoholic on a show about meeting somebody's mother.

I did enjoy it when he killed some big space bugs, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 07:12 PM (6ydKt)

204 By their fruits, you'll know them.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 07:11 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Pineapple on pizza?

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 07:12 PM (Fi81e)

205 Guy Mohawk

Let's release the really secret Epstein files, that prove Gates, Bill Clinton, and Bernie Sanders were violent pedophiles. And that Sen. Collins, Kamala, and Hillary used the Biden government to ship a number of 'Missing" underage girls to the island.

And that Alex Soros and Massie were the buyer for all the illicit drugs used to end the underage girls lives.

Chester James Carville Jr. took the bodies out to sea to feed the sharks.

Those files. This will never be reported, after release.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:13 PM (u82oZ)

206 Remember when Cucker went to meet Putin? That was before he made the switch to Hamas supporter. The msm went apeshit over it.

But candy goes and does the same thing msm is oddly silent.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 07:13 PM (Vb3xW)

207 200 comments from only 59 different commenters.

Traffic here has really dropped off next to nothing.

Posted by: Fading into Obscurity at June 08, 2026 07:13 PM (zUc6A)

208 199 My favorite lesser known John Wayne film is The
Shepherd of the Hills. With Harey Carey and Betty Field who did her role barefoot for the whole film.

Posted by: Glenn at June 08, 2026 07:11 PM (nvKZ7)

I liked that one, too.
Nice little family drama.

Wayne must have liked Carey, he was in Angel and the Badman, too, which Wayne produced.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 07:14 PM (6ydKt)

209 188 The left is pushing hard the idea of joining with the right to fight common enemies, ie the Jews. Shockingly, Tucker is all giddy at the prospect.

Oh did I say Jews? Sorry my bad. I mean Zionists and the “Epstein Class”. Those guys could be anything Jews, Muslims, Buddhists.
Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 07:04 PM (Vb3xW)

The old old hotness was the Jews controlled all banking.
The old hotness was the Jews controlled all the porn.
The new hotness is the Jews are trying to get rid of white people.
Jews. Is there anything they CAN'T do?

Posted by: Very very busy at June 08, 2026 07:14 PM (TbWk/)

210 Here's a palate cleanser from Mike Rowe's mother.

https://youtube.com/shorts/D7TV0_c4ZSA

Enjoy!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 07:14 PM (qx7Zg)

211 "Pineapple on pizza?"

That's one infernal temptation that's been easy to decline. Try harder, Satan.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 07:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

212 207 200 comments from only 59 different commenters.

Traffic here has really dropped off next to nothing.

Posted by: Fading into Obscurity at June 08, 2026 07:13 PM (zUc6A)

What are you, the Nielsens or something?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 07:16 PM (6ydKt)

213 Being a RN who has taken care of post op heart patients and other surgeries for many years, I was blown away. Out of his mind insane and paranoid, crying and wailing. Wanting to sue the hospital and doctors for reasons I could not tell. A lunatic.

Therefore, since then I have paid no attention to him at all.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 07:12 PM (WONhk)

Putting yourself on camera coming out of general anesthesia is a recipe for disaster.

Posted by: Or hilarity. But it's a bad idea. at June 08, 2026 07:16 PM (TbWk/)

214 200 comments from only 59 different commenters.

Traffic here has really dropped off next to nothing.
Posted by: Fading into Obscurity at June 08, 2026 07:13 PM (zUc6A)
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How unstylish!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 07:17 PM (Fi81e)

215 60!

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

216 61!

Posted by: Pawl at June 08, 2026 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

217 Posted by: Fading into Faggotry at June 08, 2026 07:13 PM (zUc6A)

*this* is the best the trolls can come up with now?

Posted by: try harder at June 08, 2026 07:18 PM (R+iUD)

218 I shall feel mortified for the rest of the thread (! NOOD !) about how many people aren't posting on AoSHQ right now!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 07:18 PM (Fi81e)

219 200 comments from only 59 different commenters.

Traffic here has really dropped off next to nothing.
Posted by: Fading into Obscurity at June 08, 2026 07:13 PM (zUc6A)
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How unstylish!
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 07:17 PM (Fi81e)

he's worried his rates will be cut because he's not affecting enough people.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 07:18 PM (8avO+)

220 What are you, the Nielsens or something?

......

Just a casual observer.

Looks like it's headed the same way as Daily Wire in terms of relevance.

Posted by: Fading into Obscurity at June 08, 2026 07:18 PM (zUc6A)

221 "59 different commenters"

59 diff nics, or 59 diff hashes? He's prob using AI to survey us, so might as well be specific.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 07:18 PM (Jr5Lq)

222 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 07:19 PM (VyBeY)

223 "Pineapple on pizza?"
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Only caramelized and Canadian bacon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 07:19 PM (cW1mv)

224 stop quoting it!

*stamps feet*

Posted by: You People dissapoint me at June 08, 2026 07:19 PM (R+iUD)

225 Doogie’s friend Vinnie was on the Sopranos. He should have paid Doogie a visit on how I met your mother.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 07:19 PM (Vb3xW)

226 O, & 62!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 07:20 PM (VyBeY)

227 224 stop quoting it!

*stamps feet*

Posted by: You People dissapoint me at June 08, 2026 07:19 PM (R+iUD)

......

You should thank me.

I increased traffic by 10% just by noticing how empty it is in here and mentioning it.

Posted by: Fading into Obscurity at June 08, 2026 07:21 PM (zUc6A)

228 200 comments from only 59 different commenters.

Traffic here has really dropped off next to nothing.

++

This place has become a maga superfan club. Even the slightest criticism of Trump gets one banned or called a troll. Echo chambers don’t bring in eyeballs.

Posted by: Sorry But It Is True at June 08, 2026 07:25 PM (qH8ho)

The Trump Administration Announces First (of Many) Foreign Criminals to be De-Naturalized and Deported

I call them "foreign," which they are, though they've all defrauded the US into granting them citizenship.

The Trump administration on Monday announced it is seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud, expanding its unprecedented denaturalization campaign.
CBS News exclusively reported about the plans before they were unveiled by the Justice Department.
Officials said the move represents the largest-ever effort by the U.S. government to use its denaturalization powers, which were rarely invoked before President Trump returned to the White House last year with promises to launch a historic deportation blitz. Between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed an average of just 11 legal complaints per year seeking to denaturalize American citizens, historical figures indicate.
Federal law has long allowed the government to try to denaturalize foreign-born U.S. citizens who officials believe committed fraud to obtain their citizenship, such as by concealing information, like criminal conduct, on their immigration applications. But the process has been historically lengthy, complex and seldom exercised, requiring officials to persuade judges to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship in civil or criminal proceedings in federal court.
The Trump administration has sought to vastly escalate denaturalization efforts as part of its larger crackdown on illegal and legal immigration. In 2025, the Justice Department broadened the categories of naturalized citizens who should be prioritized for denaturalization. Last month, officials announced a dozen denaturalization cases, at the time the largest such effort in years.
Some of the 17 citizens targeted in the latest denaturalization campaign were convicted of violent or serious crimes, including sex offenses against children. Others were convicted of fraud crimes or accused of committing immigration fraud.
In federal court complaints filed across the country in recent days, Justice Department officials argued that the individuals concealed their criminal activity when they applied for U.S. citizenship or were otherwise ineligible to be naturalized, including because they lacked a "good moral character," one of the requirements in the naturalization process.
Those targeted in the latest round of denaturalization cases include a Haitian immigrant who allegedly sexually abused his daughter; a man from the former Yugoslavia convicted of sexually abusing a child under the age of 15; an immigrant from Mexico convicted of receiving sexually explicit images of minors; a former Catholic priest born in Colombia accused of child sex abuse; and a Filipino-born man who pleaded guilty to a child sex crime.
The group also includes an Indian immigrant accused of filing fraudulent H-1B visa petitions; the daughter of a Colombian drug trafficker accused of money laundering; a man born in Jamaica convicted of wire fraud; and a Cuban-born woman accused of defrauding a tribal casino. Other naturalized citizens were accused of using false identities.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department would have "zero tolerance" for abuse of the naturalization process.
"Criminal aliens are lying about their past crimes, including drug dealers, sexual predators, and fraudsters," Blanche said.

This Department of Justice has filed DENATURALIZATION ACTIONS in various U.S. district courts against 17 individuals accused of serious offenses.

“When criminal aliens exploit the naturalization process by breaking the law, there are consequences. Criminal aliens are lying about… pic.twitter.com/mhr1D9xxT8
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) June 8, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:53 PM

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1 MOAR

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 04:53 PM (N1tpc)

2 We need several orders of magnitude more.

The US has done exactly nothing about immigration fraud for my entire lifetime.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 04:53 PM (N1tpc)

3 Oh, I guess I should nood.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (N1tpc)

4 Get them the fuck out.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (YwEeS)

5 And done.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (N1tpc)

6 We need to do the very prominent ones: 11han Omar, for example.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 04:55 PM (N1tpc)

7 Bro-Fo Omar should be at the top of that list.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 04:55 PM (IG3/x)

8 now do soros

Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at June 08, 2026 04:55 PM (jrgJz)

9 The defense has rested its case without calling Caramelo to the witness stand.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:55 PM (dK+Kv)

10 The ones that openly brag about it, too.

LOTS of low hanging fruit.

(Ironically, many of them committed the fraud by pretending to be fruits...)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 04:55 PM (N1tpc)

11 Not so fast........

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at June 08, 2026 04:56 PM (0N4FZ)

12 Good for Blanche. He’s the guy that Fetterman said he could not support for AG. What I see so far is that he is aggressive.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:56 PM (Gqar8)

13 Oh no you don't!

Posted by: Some Federal Judge at June 08, 2026 04:56 PM (1Ff7Z)

14 now do soros
Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at June 08, 2026 04:55 PM (jrgJz)

He's almost dead.

Go after the sons and confiscate all assets.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 04:56 PM (N1tpc)

15 Crazy Ivan!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 04:56 PM (0N4FZ)

16 Destructed > Denaturalized

At this point it'd be easier to just do that... no judges.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 04:56 PM (jehhT)

17 Get them the fuck out.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (YwEeS)

And take their coats.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:56 PM (dK+Kv)

18 > low hanging fruit

That used to be my nickname before I got the scrotum tuck.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey Graham at June 08, 2026 04:57 PM (IG3/x)

19 Just put them in a cargo bay of a C-130 and drop them off anywhere else in the world.

Posted by: morigu at June 08, 2026 04:57 PM (K1ZvU)

20 Willowed:

349 Back the Bobbies
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (Cqx++)

Back the Boobies! They're more reliable than the bobbies.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 04:57 PM (qx7Zg)

21 #6,#7: Horde Mind at work.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 04:58 PM (IG3/x)

22 Just put them in a cargo bay of a C-130 and drop them off anywhere else in the world.
Posted by: morigu at June 08, 2026 04:57 PM (K1ZvU)

Be kind and tell them you'll at least drop them in water.

(Most won't know it doesn't matter.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 04:58 PM (N1tpc)

23 Yeah, there will be Judicial Obstruction over this. Bank on it. Abrego Garcia, Part Deux.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:58 PM (Gqar8)

24 It's like murdering a family member.

Posted by: Scott Pelley at June 08, 2026 04:58 PM (vFG9F)

25
And take their coats.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:56 PM (dK+Kv)

"My lucky coat!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 04:58 PM (O0L8i)

26 FAFO time!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 08, 2026 04:59 PM (IP7s4)

27 Between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed an average of just 11 legal complaints per year seeking to denaturalize American citizens, historical figures indicate.

And now we're up to a whopping 17 complaints?

* wanking motion *

We need several orders of magnitude more.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

This is the way.

Posted by: mikeski at June 08, 2026 04:59 PM (VHUov)

28 group also includes an Indian immigrant accused of filing fraudulent H-1B visa petitions;

—

Lol. If this is grounds for deportation then 98% of Indians should be on the next plane to Mumbai tomorrow.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 04:59 PM (Vb3xW)

29 319 CO, DC, IL, IN, IA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MT, NE, ND, OH, OR, TN, TX, VT, WA, WI have bar reciprocity with CA.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:59 PM (cW1mv)

30 Back The Back Boobies!

Posted by: LaTonoya Lardass at June 08, 2026 05:00 PM (vFG9F)

31 Yeah, there will be Judicial Obstruction over this. Bank on it. Abrego Garcia, Part Deux.
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:58 PM (Gqar

----
If any of those judges are naturalized citizens, immediately begin procedures to revoke THEIR citizenship.

Clearly, they don't deserve it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 05:00 PM (gnNyN)

32 18 > low hanging fruit

That used to be my nickname before I got the scrotum tuck.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey Graham at June 08, 2026 04:57 PM (IG3/x)

Most people go for the traditional hair transplant, but I guess you take the donor area where you can find it.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 08, 2026 05:00 PM (w/O5Q)

33 > 349 Back the Bobbies

Please to show bobbies and vagine.

Posted by: Rajeev Sundanajasambanthan at June 08, 2026 05:00 PM (IG3/x)

34 9 The defense has rested its case without calling Caramelo to the witness stand.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026

Only smart move from that team. That said, everyone is entitled to a fair trial and defense. This case did not give the defense team a whole lot to work with, so a few hail Mary’s to plant a tiny seed of doubt in someone, anyone, seemed to be the strategy.

It seemed like they tried one more time at a plea bargain- is Karmelo refusing it, I wonder?

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 05:00 PM (Wmg4n)

35 Wow! An unprecedented number of de-naturalizations! And then you look at the number. 17. 17. No, there's no missing digits. Sure, that's a higher than the annual average of 11, but when you're at that kind of level, it's easy to portray any difference as a sizeable increase or decrease.

And yes, 17 this month is on top of 12 last month. But we aren't talking about thousands of cases each month. We'll be lucky to reach 100 in a full year.

(I realize that to build a case like this, you can't do hundreds or thousands at a time because all paperwork has to be unique and specific to the case at hand. So I'll give the administration a break, but not the fear-mongers who have no sense of proportionality.)

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 08, 2026 05:01 PM (KFbdf)

36 Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib please.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:01 PM (cW1mv)

37 Denature them like alcohol.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 05:01 PM (Cqx++)

38 Under the Magical Soil Clause of the Historical Shit We Made Up, these are American as any American that was ever an American and we are dirty racists for daring to suggest maybe they are not actually very American.

Did you all see out of Boston, the left is all pissed 'cause Trump took down some woke-baby bullshit quotes around some monument?

Some gayass shit from some anti-war Vietnam vets, all "make love not war" type shit.

But what has them pissed is there was some obscure quote from some letter of some colonial about how we must welcome any and all who wanted to come.

Yeah, basically the source for their Magical Soil Theory.

Moral of the story though:
Go to monuments and historical sites now.
If you see any dipshit leftie BS--report it. Make a stink.
Cause Trump is slicing like a hammer on that shit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 05:01 PM (73/SM)

39 Those targeted in the latest round of denaturalization cases include a Haitian immigrant who allegedly sexually abused his daughter; a man from the former Yugoslavia convicted of sexually abusing a child under the age of 15; an immigrant from Mexico convicted of receiving sexually explicit images of minors; a former Catholic priest born in Colombia accused of child sex abuse; and a Filipino-born man who pleaded guilty to a child sex crime.

The group also includes an Indian immigrant accused of filing fraudulent H-1B visa petitions; the daughter of a Colombian drug trafficker accused of money laundering; a man born in Jamaica convicted of wire fraud; and a Cuban-born woman accused of defrauding a tribal casino. Other naturalized citizens were accused of using false identities.

Give them a choice. Leave, or spend the rest of your miserable life in prison.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 05:01 PM (Riz8t)

40 I have a place for Omar to stay.
She'll have to earn it.
And like dogs.

The US needs a Purge. All the West does. Just not like in the movies...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 05:02 PM (Sco7b)

41 >>> an Indian immigrant accused of filing fraudulent H-1B

Seen elsewhere that some think up to 90% of hindians commit fraud on their H-1B applications.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 05:02 PM (/lPRQ)

42 Karmelo Anthony trial update?

The Defense has rested their case. Closing arguments will be tomorrow. Jury will be sequestered.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 05:03 PM (2GVsD)

43 and a Cuban-born woman accused of defrauding a tribal casino

Well that makes sense.

Cubans haven't been big fans of casinos since the 50s.

And, really, who hasn't defrauded an indian in the past 500 years?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)

44
Give them a choice. Leave, or spend the rest of your miserable life in prison.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026

A prison that is closed and has no staff or utilities.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 05:03 PM (Wmg4n)

45 34 9 The defense has rested its case without calling Caramelo to the witness stand.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026

Only smart move from that team. That said, everyone is entitled to a fair trial and defense. This case did not give the defense team a whole lot to work with, so a few hail Mary’s to plant a tiny seed of doubt in someone, anyone, seemed to be the strategy.

It seemed like they tried one more time at a plea bargain- is Karmelo refusing it, I wonder?

Their only hope is jury nullification. Sadly, that's probably a pretty good hope.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 05:03 PM (Riz8t)

46 By the way, for no reason, it's 11:04 am in Hawaii.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 05:03 PM (Sco7b)

47 The last few months IT hiring started picking up. Yes even as meta and the other behemoths announced layoffs. In large part due to a lack of employers willing to pay $100k to bring in new H1Bs.

Today a “judge” said charging 100k is illegal somehow. Apparently charging $5k is ok but $100k isn’t. It’s only constitutional if the amount is low enough to not matter and keep Americans from working in IT.

I fucking leather these people with the intensity of 1000 suns.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 05:04 PM (Vb3xW)

48 ----
If any of those judges are naturalized citizens, immediately begin procedures to revoke THEIR citizenship.

Clearly, they don't deserve it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
---

Must be American born to be a judge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:04 PM (cW1mv)

49
Wow! An unprecedented number of de-naturalizations! And then you look at the number. 17. 17.

__________

A 54.5% increase! That's amazing!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 05:04 PM (O0L8i)

50 Give them a choice. Leave, or spend the rest of your miserable life in prison.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026

A prison that is closed and has no staff or utilities.

Food, water, and oxygen are contingent on good behavior and productivity in making license plates.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 05:04 PM (Riz8t)

51 Between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed an average of just 11 legal complaints per year seeking to denaturalize American citizens, historical figures indicate.

Why did we have to ask zombie James A. Garfield to get these numbers? Couldn't we just get them from Grok or something?

Posted by: mikeski at June 08, 2026 05:04 PM (VHUov)

52 Used to be that the vast majority of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS were squeeky clean - no illegal activity ever.

Now it is becoming common for even those who do the paperwork to be legal immigrants are criminals.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 05:04 PM (/lPRQ)

53 It seemed like they tried one more time at a plea bargain- is Karmelo refusing it, I wonder?

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 05:00 PM

AM talk radio out of Dallas this morning said his father refused to accept a plea deal right before the trial. And from the testimony from saturday it looks like he is going to be found guilty.

This is going to get ugly if they find him guilty. There are already black protestors in front of the courthouse saying "the only good cracker is a dead one".

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 05:05 PM (0N4FZ)

54 Please to show bobbies and vagine.

Posted by: Rajeev Sundanajasambanthan at June 08, 2026 05:00 PM (IG3/x)

lmao

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:05 PM (6ydKt)

55 Seen elsewhere that some think up to 90% of hindians commit fraud on their H-1B applications.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 05:02 PM (/lPRQ)

Try more like up to and including 100%.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 05:05 PM (Vb3xW)

56 >>>Give them a choice. Leave, or ~~spend the rest of your miserable life in prison~~ be hunted for sport.

Better.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 05:05 PM (dK+Kv)

57 >>>It seemed like they tried one more time at a plea bargain- is Karmelo refusing it, I wonder?

His lawyers are probably banking on an appeal based on the fact that all blacks were excluded from the jury. Self-excluded, but no matter. Plus, the family gets to 'fundraise' for a bit longer.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 08, 2026 05:05 PM (CwhoI)

58 Now it is becoming common for even those who do the paperwork to be legal immigrants are criminals.
===

Maybe because so many are from shit-holes now.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 05:05 PM (/lPRQ)

59 Commassar Judges rule in 3.2....

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 05:06 PM (Ia/+0)

60 CNN can now report with over 90% of the Mail in Ballots from all the Cemeteries within the LA City Limits that 100% of vote went to a Democrat thus Platner slipping to a distant third place.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 08, 2026 05:06 PM (xl8DV)

61
The Defense has rested their case. Closing arguments will be tomorrow. Jury will be sequestered.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 05:03 PM (2GVsD)

___________

He's a good boy who's the victim of systemic racism. Also kinda cute!

Posted by: Karen McAWFL, Juror at June 08, 2026 05:06 PM (O0L8i)

62 CNN can now report with over 90% of the Mail in Ballots from all the Cemeteries within the LA City Limits that 100% of vote went to a Democrat thus Platner slipping to a distant third place.

Platner?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 05:06 PM (Riz8t)

63 I fucking leather these people with the intensity of 1000 suns.
Posted by: Heroq

Wielding a bullwhip with the intensity of 1000 suns is amazingly hardcore.

Totally deserved by the targets, but still amazingly hardcore.

Posted by: mikeski at June 08, 2026 05:07 PM (VHUov)

64 CNN can now report with over 90% of the Mail in Ballots from all the Cemeteries within the LA City Limits that 100% of vote went to a Democrat thus Platner slipping to a distant third place.

Platner?

Shhhh. He's rolling.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 05:07 PM (Riz8t)

65 Odd that Cali stopped counting the second Republicans lost the lead.

It’s almost as if…

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 05:07 PM (Vb3xW)

66 I fucking leather these people with the intensity of 1000 suns.
Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 05:04 PM (Vb3xW)

Sounds a bit kinky if you ask me.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 05:07 PM (bl07w)

67 Between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed an average of just 11 legal complaints per year seeking to denaturalize American citizens, historical figures indicate.

And now we're up to a whopping 17 complaints?

* wanking motion *
---
Trump is basically building the OPLA from the ground up.
The institutional know-how is simply not there.
You have to understand, building the forms, the caselaw, learning the practical application of the law, knowing the judges, anticipating the defenses or weaknesses is all why the left has such a huge lawfare advantage.
It's not just they have more money and more slimeball lawyers.

For the first time in living memory, that machinery is being built to work FOR us.
That's not just 17, that a 54% increase YoY.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 05:08 PM (73/SM)

68
Well, Her Majesty's luggage arrived. In Newark. But she's at home.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 05:08 PM (O0L8i)

69 Huh

Kit Noel the Cosplay bomber, zero new news stories.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 05:08 PM (2GVsD)

70 This is going to get ugly if they find him guilty. There are already black protestors in front of the courthouse saying "the only good cracker is a dead one".

--

Golly, I wonder if CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNOW, CNN, etc. would be front and center getting those people on film if it were white people saying "the only good ****** is a dead one." That is, after a white guy viciously and ruthlessly murdered a black guy.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 08, 2026 05:08 PM (qBdHI)

71 Platner slipping to a distant third place.
Posted by: CNN Breaking News

Platner?
Posted by: Archimedes

Like you can expect better from CNN.

Posted by: mikeski at June 08, 2026 05:08 PM (VHUov)

72 His lawyers are probably banking on an appeal based on the fact that all blacks were excluded from the jury. Self-excluded, but no matter. Plus, the family gets to 'fundraise' for a bit longer.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 08, 2026 05:05 PM

My gut feeling is that was done on purpose so when they find him guilty it will be over turned on appeal. Too bad for Frisco though it will already be burnt to the ground in protest.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 05:08 PM (0N4FZ)

73
This is going to get ugly if they find him guilty. There are already black protestors in front of the courthouse saying "the only good cracker is a dead one".
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
---

He also indicated that he is not from Texas. Many of the loudest are bought, paid for and shipped from out of state.

If Soros wants to make a BLM try in TX he picked the soft under belly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:08 PM (cW1mv)

74 The defense has rested its case without calling Caramelo to the witness stand.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

Which is what every lawyer does when the client is guilty.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 08, 2026 05:09 PM (0U5gm)

75 There are some "judges" who ought to be ejected from this country.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 05:09 PM (R+iUD)

76 Tell me the number is 17,000 and I’ll say that’s a start.

And that’s 17,000 actually thrown out of the country with nothing but the shirt on their back. No phone. No bank accounts. Nothing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 08, 2026 05:10 PM (W2Pud)

77 This is going to get ugly if they find him guilty. There are already black protestors in front of the courthouse saying "the only good cracker is a dead one".
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 05:05 PM (0N4FZ)

Boy, it's a good think that black people can't be racists.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 05:10 PM (bl07w)

78 Banish them with lead if they won't leave quietly. Why do we allow this parasites to become a burden upon our culture?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 05:10 PM (pSkMS)

79 66 I fucking leather these people with the intensity of 1000 suns.
Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 05:04 PM (Vb3xW)

Sounds a bit kinky if you ask me.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 05:07 PM (bl07w)

Cat o' nine tails would probably be more efficient.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt)

80 The Indian government recently admitted that there is a MASSIVE fraud operation that has been going on for the last decade in that country. There are organized crime syndicates that are forging credentials and diplomas (right down to the watermark). The Indian government estimates that there are over 1 Million Indians who used this fraud service to secure foreign VISAs including H-1b VISAs to the US.

The reason they had to admit this is because the Ministry of Law in India required all practicing lawyers in that country to submit their credentials for review and over 40% outright refused.

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 05:11 PM (dIske)

81 CBS News exclusively reported about the plans before they were unveiled by the Justice Department."

Anybody notice this part?

Leaking

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 05:11 PM (XuXeR)

82 Denature them like alcohol.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
===

That is right - inject them with bone oil.

Which is even nastier than it sounds.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 05:12 PM (/lPRQ)

83 The Indian government recently admitted that there is a MASSIVE fraud operation that has been going on for the last decade in that country. There are organized crime syndicates that are forging credentials and diplomas (right down to the watermark). The Indian government estimates that there are over 1 Million Indians who used this fraud service to secure foreign VISAs including H-1b VISAs to the US.

The reason they had to admit this is because the Ministry of Law in India required all practicing lawyers in that country to submit their credentials for review and over 40% outright refused.

The 3rd world is 3rd world for a reason.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 05:12 PM (Riz8t)

84 Denied!

Posted by: Any random, anti-Trump district judge at June 08, 2026 05:12 PM (W5mpo)

85 This is going to get ugly if they find him guilty. There are already black protestors in front of the courthouse saying "the only good cracker is a dead one".
Posted by: Mister Scott

-

Justice to the left involves mobs of people threatening the prosecution, the judge, the jury, and the local community unless they get the result that they want.

It is literally out of Thomas Sowell's A Conflict of Visions.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 08, 2026 05:13 PM (0U5gm)

86 By the way, for no reason, it's 11:04 am in Hawaii.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog

With a slight chance of lava on your head.
x.com/rmjr2654/status/2063209170950615488

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 08, 2026 05:13 PM (diia5)

87 The US has done exactly nothing about immigration fraud for my entire lifetime.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Well, it has rewarded it....

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 05:13 PM (W5mpo)

88 Must be American born to be a judge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:04 PM (cW1mv)
====

Plenty of naturalized judges.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 05:13 PM (RIvkX)

89 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:13 PM (Zz0t1)

90 17? You could literally find 17 million filthy foreign hirudos warranting denaturalization without even breaking a sweat. But I’ll take 17 to start. For now.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:13 PM (srWET)

91 Well that certainly does not help Karmelo's defense.

Witness who said he saw it all, prosecutor ran the video showing the witness had his back to the altercation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 05:13 PM (2GVsD)

92 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Sorry, my PTSD is kicking in.

Posted by: Scott Pelley, MoH recipient at June 08, 2026 05:13 PM (Riz8t)

93 The 3rd world is 3rd world for a reason"

Magic soil, baby

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 05:14 PM (XuXeR)

94 11han Omar next, please.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:14 PM (Zz0t1)

95 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 05:05 PM (0N4FZ)

How many black folks are there? I think this is less likely to cause riots than George Floyd which was presented as a white cop kneeling on a dying black man. And of course there is probably slightly less money to pay rioters and not as many BLM people .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 05:14 PM (lQ+/f)

96 Well that certainly does not help Karmelo's defense.

Witness who said he saw it all, prosecutor ran the video showing the witness had his back to the altercation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 05:13 PM (2GVsD)

And defense witness who initially said Caramelo was ganged up on changes his statement and says Caramelo instigated.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 05:15 PM (dK+Kv)

97 Anybody notice this part?

Leaking

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 05:11 PM (XuXeR)
---
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW on alternate Tuesdays!!!!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:15 PM (Fi81e)

98 Fake lawyer Indians can cause havoc and entertainment.

Indian fake programmers can screw up Windows and other software which can now be fixed by AI (programmed by other Indians).

But how many medical doctors are Indians with fake degrees?

That's the scary part to me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

99 And of course there is probably slightly less money to pay rioters"

Huh.

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 05:16 PM (XuXeR)

100 There are some "judges" who ought to be ejected from this country.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 05:09 PM (R+iUD)

Some? I'd say likely most.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:16 PM (Zz0t1)

101 NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW on alternate Tuesdays!!!!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:15 PM (Fi81e)

While supplies last. Void where prohibited. Batteries sold separately.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 05:16 PM (dK+Kv)

102
No secular society with a kinda-sorta attachment to the express Supreme Law of the Land can stand.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:16 PM (Fi81e)

103 But how many medical doctors are Indians with fake degrees?"

More than you think...

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 05:17 PM (XuXeR)

104 >>> 98 Fake lawyer Indians can cause havoc and entertainment.

Indian fake programmers can screw up Windows and other software which can now be fixed by AI (programmed by other Indians).

But how many medical doctors are Indians with fake degrees?

That's the scary part to me.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

Plenty of other imports in the mix, and then there's the home-grown DEI tards fcking things up through stupidity and/or malice.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 05:17 PM (R+iUD)

105 ...but we should TRUST the EXPERTS!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 05:17 PM (R+iUD)

106
The Indian government recently admitted that there is a MASSIVE fraud operation that has been going on for the last decade in that country. There are organized crime syndicates that are forging credentials and diplomas (right down to the watermark).

_____________

I have an inherent distrust of journal articles originating in places like India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Non-zero chance they're fake, unless they're garbage.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 05:17 PM (O0L8i)

107 The defense has rested its case without calling Caramelo to the witness stand.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

Which is what every lawyer does when the client is guilty.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 08, 2026 05:09 PM (0U5gm)
——

How can they prove a self-defense case if the guy claiming self-defense won’t tell the jury that he feared for his life? Is this little shitstain giving up the claim of self defense?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:18 PM (srWET)

108 There will be at least one holdout. Hung jury coming.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 05:19 PM (J4Dwc)

109 I have an inherent distrust of journal articles originating in places like India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia"

I'm not so trusting of manufactured goods, either....especially metals.

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 05:19 PM (XuXeR)

110 Please to be showing me bobs and vagene. I am a doctor!

Posted by: Dr. Sanjay Oopenhooloker at June 08, 2026 05:19 PM (Zz0t1)

111 Hung jury coming."

Phrasing?

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 05:19 PM (XuXeR)

112 Time to go teach. Have a good afternoon!

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Wmg4n)

113
There will be at least one holdout. Hung jury coming.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 05:19 PM (J4Dwc)

___________

If there are any Orientals, it won't be them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (O0L8i)

114 How can they prove a self-defense case if the guy claiming self-defense won’t tell the jury that he feared for his life? Is this little shitstain giving up the claim of self defense?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:18 PM (srWET)
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The burden is not on Anthony or his counsel to show that he feared for his life.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)

115 This is Nazism, straight up!

Posted by: Hysterical leftist who doesn't know what Nazism is at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (TbWk/)

116 Sarah J Fields - Karmelo Anthony Trial
I’m going to be honest: the defense was abysmal.
The few witnesses called to the stand today either could not remember key details or simply did not see what actually happened. Their testimony was thoroughly challenged during cross-examination by Bill Wirsky. The defense presented no additional evidence beyond witnesses who were unable to confirm the long-standing claim that Karmelo Anthony was “attacked” - a claim that has circulated since the beginning of this case.
There were also persistent rumors that the Metcalf brothers were “bullies.” No evidence was presented to support those claims. In fact, the testimony painted a very different picture. More than 20 witnesses called by the prosecution consistently described Austin and Hunter as leaders, role models, “their brothers”.
Closing arguments are tomorrow morning. After that, the jury will begin deliberations. Judge Roach has informed the jurors that they will be sequestered during deliberations. If they do not reach a verdict by the end of the day, they will be housed in a hotel and isolated from outside communication until deliberations are complete.
(Cont.)

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (lwhHh)

117 Please to be showing me bobs and vagene. I am a doctor!
Posted by: Dr. Sanjay Oopenhooloker at June 08, 2026 05:19 PM (Zz0t1)

We have scheduled an appointment for you with Dylan Mulvaney. Enjoy!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (qx7Zg)

118 There will be at least one holdout. Hung jury coming.

Paolo is on jury duty?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Riz8t)

119 I do not foresee this jury taking more than a day to reach a verdict.
During jury selection, the prospective jurors were educated on several important aspects of Texas law regarding self-defense.
First, murder under Texas law involves intentionally or knowingly causing the death of another person. Contrary to what many people believe, Texas law does not require the state to prove premeditation in order to secure a murder conviction.
Jurors were also told that words alone do not justify the use of deadly force. Additionally, a person cannot provoke a confrontation, escalate it, and then successfully claim self-defense after using deadly force.
I will be posting a full video later today with a detailed account of everything that occurred inside the courtroom.

This lady has been doing yoeman's work on reporting. If anyone wants to look her up on Facebook and follow the trial.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (lwhHh)

120
How can they prove a self-defense case if the guy claiming self-defense won’t tell the jury that he feared for his life? Is this little shitstain giving up the claim of self defense?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:18 PM (srWET)

Nope. He countin' on skin culah to get him off.

That, and riots.

Posted by: Dr. Sanjay Oopenhooloker at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)

121 Shyte.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)

122

I hope this is true.

Shaggy
@MAGAShagster
·
3h
California election insiders/whistleblowers are reportedly feeding the Department of justice evidence of fraud in the LA mayor primary race.

Posted by: beckster at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (kX27y)

123 Hung jury coming.
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Man. That really hurts!

Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein at June 08, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)

124
9 The defense has rested its case without calling Caramelo to the witness stand.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:55 PM

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I'm trying to think of anything the entitled little shit could say that would help him, and I can't think of anything. He can't even say he's sorry, because his self-defense claim means he dindu nuffin. His only hope is a ringer on the jury who slipped through the selection process.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 05:21 PM (VWtfl)

125 Nope. He countin' on skin culah to get him off.

That, and riots."

Benjamin Crump, incoming!

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 05:21 PM (XuXeR)

126 Roll out the paddie wagons, round them up, put them on C-17s or whatever and send them home.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:21 PM (cW1mv)

127 I hope this is true.

Shaggy @MAGAShagster ·
3h
California election insiders/whistleblowers are reportedly feeding the Department of justice evidence of fraud in the LA mayor primary race.
Posted by: beckster at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (kX27y)
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No standing!

Posted by: Judges RULE! at June 08, 2026 05:22 PM (Fi81e)

128
There will be at least one holdout. Hung jury coming.

__________

"11 hamburgers and ONE cheeseburger!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 05:22 PM (O0L8i)

129 Nope. He countin' on skin culah to get him off.

That, and riots.
Posted by: Dr. Sanjay Oopenhooloker at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)
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Hilarious sock fail!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 05:22 PM (gnNyN)

130 >>> 114 How can they prove a self-defense case if the guy claiming self-defense won’t tell the jury that he feared for his life? Is this little shitstain giving up the claim of self defense?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:18 PM (srWET)
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The burden is not on Anthony or his counsel to show that he feared for his life.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)

Er, how do you figure that?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 05:22 PM (R+iUD)

131 Well, there's money for the Newark Delaney Hall riots but I still think there would be less of it in this situation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 05:22 PM (lQ+/f)

132 Put the judges on the planes too. Let them fight their way back into the country. Let them fight but don't let them in, just bleed their money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:23 PM (cW1mv)

133 11han Omar next, please.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:14 PM (Zz0t1)

Nice work there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 05:23 PM (1Ff7Z)

134 ---
Hilarious sock fail!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 05:22 PM (gnNyN)

Hey. If you can't laugh at me, who CAN you laugh at?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:23 PM (Zz0t1)

135 Hung jury coming.
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Man. That really hurts!
Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein

"Tell me about it" - David Carradine.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 05:23 PM (2GVsD)

136 Hey. If you can't laugh at me, who CAN you laugh at?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:23 PM (Zz0t1)
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Zombie Piper

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 05:24 PM (gnNyN)

137 Additionally, a person cannot provoke a confrontation, escalate it, and then successfully claim self-defense after using deadly force.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (lwhHh)
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Well, that should bag him right there.

or ...

Texas has RACIST LAWS!!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:24 PM (Fi81e)

138
The burden is not on Anthony or his counsel to show that he feared for his life.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)

_________

What?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 05:24 PM (O0L8i)

139 need to add like six zeros to that . . .

Posted by: its a start at June 08, 2026 05:24 PM (anL5R)

140 Put the judges on the planes too. Let them fight their way back into the country. Let them fight but don't let them in, just bleed their money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:23 PM (cW1mv)

(From Fantasy Island, their destination): De Plane, Boss! De Plane!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 05:24 PM (qx7Zg)

141 >>> 137 Additionally, a person cannot provoke a confrontation, escalate it, and then successfully claim self-defense after using deadly force.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (lwhHh)
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Well, that should bag him right there.

or ...

Texas has RACIST LAWS!!
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:24 PM (Fi81e)

Ha, I get it now. [/BEN R]

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 05:24 PM (R+iUD)

142 I'm trying to think of anything the entitled little shit could say that would help him, and I can't think of anything. He can't even say he's sorry, because his self-defense claim means he dindu nuffin. His only hope is a ringer on the jury who slipped through the selection process.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 05:21 PM (VWtfl)
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I'm betting his acting skills during pre-trial preparation were not up to snuff.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 05:25 PM (gnNyN)

143 Shaggy @MAGAShagster ·
3h
California election insiders/whistleblowers are reportedly feeding the Department of justice evidence of fraud in the LA mayor primary race.
Posted by: beckster at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (kX27y)

YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE!!!!!

Posted by: NBC News at June 08, 2026 05:25 PM (Zz0t1)

144 The burden is not on Anthony or his counsel to show that he feared for his life.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)

Er, how do you figure that?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 05:22 PM (R+iUD)
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Because the burden of proof is on the prosecution. Like all criminal cases (except, almost, Rittenhouse's)

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:25 PM (Fi81e)

145 I hope this is true.

Shaggy
@MAGAShagster
·
3h
California election insiders/whistleblowers are reportedly feeding the Department of justice evidence of fraud in the LA mayor primary race.

Posted by: beckster at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (kX27y)

It would be nice to blow the cheat wide open before November.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

146 114 How can they prove a self-defense case if the guy claiming self-defense won’t tell the jury that he feared for his life? Is this little shitstain giving up the claim of self defense?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:18 PM (srWET)
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The burden is not on Anthony or his counsel to show that he feared for his life.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)
——

Technically, no. But practically, yes. A critical element of self defense is that the defendant have a reasonable fear for his life. Prosecutor says ‘no he didn’t and here’s why.’ Jury hears it. Defendant refuses to take the stand to say ‘yes I did and here’s why.’ That’s a slam-dunk for the prosecution, in any normal case. The question is whether this case is normal.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:25 PM (srWET)

147 Zombie Piper
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 05:24 PM (gnNyN)

Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:26 PM (Zz0t1)

148 > Plenty of naturalized judges.
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Yea.... a huge problem.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 05:26 PM (jehhT)

149 Suck it, bitches.

Posted by: He who questions all of it at June 08, 2026 05:26 PM (pcjfs)

150 -----------

I'm trying to think of anything the entitled little shit could say...
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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He's such an ass they thought the best was to keep his mouth shut?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:26 PM (cW1mv)

151 Paging Ilhan Omar, Ilhan Omar to the courtesy phone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 05:27 PM (zj5z7)

152 Watch the Democrat Tragic Theater fight tooth and nail for them.

Posted by: Cheri at June 08, 2026 05:27 PM (oiNtH)

153 I'm trying to think of anything the entitled little shit could say that would help him, and I can't think of anything. He can't even say he's sorry, because his self-defense claim means he dindu nuffin. His only hope is a ringer on the jury who slipped through the selection process.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 05:21 PM (VWtfl)
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I'm betting his acting skills during pre-trial preparation were not up to snuff.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 05:25 PM (gnNyN)
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I’m betting he’s got a long history of criminal and violent behavior. That would all come in on cross examination as impeachment material.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:27 PM (srWET)

154 This is going to get ugly if they find him guilty. There are already black protestors in front of the courthouse saying "the only good cracker is a dead one".
==
Which is exactly the attitude that got Harmelo in the hot seat to begin with . . .

Stupidity is not a crime, it just leads to them . . .

Posted by: its a start at June 08, 2026 05:27 PM (anL5R)

155 I think we have to accept that the future of Western government is

Government by What Passes for Government.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:27 PM (Fi81e)

156 I'm betting his acting skills during pre-trial preparation were not up to snuff.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 05:25 PM (gnNyN)

He's a sub-moronic punk who brought a knife to a track meet, escalated a confrontation into murder for "being dissed," and then lied, poorly, about it. There's not much there to work with.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 05:28 PM (dK+Kv)

157 He's such an ass they thought the best was to keep his mouth shut?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:26 PM (cW1mv)
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Yeah, probably.

How well would he do in cross-examination?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 05:28 PM (gnNyN)

158 Amusing news:
Texas Tech Sorsby wins an injunction against the NCAA; is reinstated for the year but will miss the first 2 games.

Sorsby admitted to betting on wins for Indiana when he was there.
Oh, that's Bad.
"Next on ESPN.
Today's segment is sponsored by DraftKings. Get $200 free when you sign up now."

What's funny is, all the national sport jocksniffers--who never wrote a bad word (beyond "oh those rascals!") about the rampant cheating at every SEC school, most of the Big 10 and USC when it was on top are all crying.

Screw the NCAA. It's corrupt, dirty and stupid. And that's their good points.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 05:28 PM (73/SM)

159 There was a guy named Plattner in the LA mayor race??

Must have been a late addition to make sure Pratt did not finish in the top two....

Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman "Noodles" will surprisingly finish second..

Gee, never saw this coming !!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 08, 2026 05:29 PM (1qVfI)

160 This is going to get ugly if they find him guilty. There are already black protestors in front of the courthouse saying "the only good cracker is a dead one".
==

I don't think there's been more than 10 people outside of the courthouse protesting. The racist yelling that and "Imma push you. I get close, Imma push you in your grave" to counter protesters should've been arrested for making public threats, but no.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)

161 ’m betting he’s got a long history of criminal and violent behavior. That would all come in on cross examination as impeachment material.
==
Wait Wut?! You mean stabby mcstabberson was not just a one off moment, but a pattern of assaultive conduct going back years? ZOMG?!!! Zoinks. Jinkies even.

Yeah, this kid isn't a valedictorian in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Posted by: its a start at June 08, 2026 05:30 PM (anL5R)

162 Won't nobody have no sympathy?

Posted by: LaTonoya Lardass at June 08, 2026 05:31 PM (vFG9F)

163 122

I hope this is true.

Shaggy
@MAGAShagster
·
3h
California election insiders/whistleblowers are reportedly feeding the Department of justice evidence of fraud in the LA mayor primary race.
Posted by: beckster at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (kX27y)

Oooohhh. That would be amazing.

Sadly, I tried hopium from November, 2020 until January 2021.

I kept chasing those hopium highs only to be constantly disappointed. Nastiest of drugs.

Hopium.
'Just say no!'

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 05:31 PM (Sco7b)

164 That first CBS news piece though! they run through 'historic', 'historical', and 'historically' and they never mess it up. Are they just being showy?

Because most news outlets get it wrong. Very wrong, historically.

Posted by: Pedanticist in Training at June 08, 2026 05:31 PM (ojBxe)

165 How well would he do in cross-examination?

He'd do a Perry Mason. "Yeah, I did it, and I'm glad, you hear me, I'm glad!!!

Also, f*** you, honky.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 05:32 PM (Riz8t)

166 He's a sub-moronic punk who brought a knife to a track meet, escalated a confrontation into murder for "being dissed," and then lied, poorly, about it. There's not much there to work with.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 05:28 PM (dK+Kv)

And he hasn't shown one ounce of remorse for what he's done.

He's the typical raised victim by his parents, taught to hate whitey and everything's racist. Never had a chance in civil society.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:32 PM (Zz0t1)

167
Screw the NCAA. It's corrupt, dirty and stupid. And that's their good points.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 05:28 PM (73/SM)

Yes. Yes it is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:33 PM (Zz0t1)

168
Sadly, I tried hopium from November, 2020 until January 2021.

I kept chasing those hopium highs only to be constantly disappointed. Nastiest of drugs.
=
I feel your pain.

And enjoy it.

Posted by: Q at June 08, 2026 05:33 PM (anL5R)

169 "Tell me about it" - David Carradine."

Ok - Michael Hutchence.

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 05:34 PM (XuXeR)

170 "I kept chasing those hopium highs only to be constantly disappointed. Nastiest of drugs.

Hopium.
'Just say no!'
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog"

This is the way.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at June 08, 2026 05:34 PM (vFG9F)

171 He's a sub-moronic punk who brought a knife to a track meet, escalated a confrontation into murder for "being dissed," and then lied, poorly, about it. There's not much there to work with.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 05:28 PM

Plus he was not even supposed to be at the track meet that day because he was suspended from the team for bringing a knife to school just a few weeks before this happened. And he was asked to leave the opposing team's tent at least 15 times according to a dozen witnesses before the stabbing occurred. And the kid he killed told him he was not going to fight him.

It is a slam dunk murder case according to all of the witnesses but we will se what happens.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 05:34 PM (0N4FZ)

172 Technically, no. But practically, yes. A critical element of self defense is that the defendant have a reasonable fear for his life. Prosecutor says ‘no he didn’t and here’s why.’ Jury hears it. Defendant refuses to take the stand to say ‘yes I did and here’s why.’ That’s a slam-dunk for the prosecution, in any normal case. The question is whether this case is normal.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:25 PM (srWET)
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Right, so the prosecution has to give the jury enough to pass reasonable doubt that he acted as if he was in fear for his life.

The only thing we have from Anthony at the time is "touch", if Anthony anticipated a "touch", it's not a strong case that this could be construed to be fear for his life.

Perhaps "Don't touch me!" could be construed that way. But "Touch me and see" sounds like somebody trying to command the situation, not simply preserve life.

"Touch me and see" actually sounds a lot like somebody who could have walked away at that point, but obviously did not, because he wanted to stay and "demonstrate".

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:35 PM (Fi81e)

173 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Sorry, my PTSD is kicking in.
Posted by: Scott Pelley

No sorry Scott. That's your PMS.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 08, 2026 05:36 PM (jnTpz)

174 Plus he was not even supposed to be at the track meet that day because he was suspended from the team for bringing a knife to school just a few weeks before this happened. And he was asked to leave the opposing team's tent at least 15 times according to a dozen witnesses before the stabbing occurred. And the kid he killed told him he was not going to fight him.

It is a slam dunk murder case according to all of the witnesses but we will see what happens.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 05:34 PM (0N4FZ)

Thanks for the context.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 05:36 PM (dK+Kv)

175 Cool, about 10,000,000 to go before the dirt starts to wash off the country, and thats being kind.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 08, 2026 05:36 PM (snZF9)

176 He's seen so many get away with it he thought he could too. No matter, he will get some cred in jail and be out in 10 years.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 05:37 PM (vFG9F)

177
Sorsby admitted to betting on wins for Indiana when he was there.
Oh, that's Bad.
"Next on ESPN.
Today's segment is sponsored by DraftKings. Get $200 free when you sign up now."
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So, he threw the games in his teams favor?
hahahaha
If every coach had a player that could do that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:37 PM (cW1mv)

178 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Sorry, my PTSD is kicking in.
Posted by: Scott Pelley

No sorry Scott. That's your PMS.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 08, 2026 05:36 PM (jnTpz)

I thought it was the deflation of his ego.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 05:37 PM (qx7Zg)

179 I’m betting he’s got a long history of criminal and violent behavior. That would all come in on cross examination as impeachment material.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:27 PM (srWET)

Some news crew was interviewing Anthony's classmates the day it happened, and one girl said she wasn't surprised that he'd stabbed someone. Gee, I wonder why she said that?

Posted by: pookysgirl isn't buying the "Melo" at June 08, 2026 05:38 PM (Wt5PA)

180 176 He's seen so many get away with it he thought he could too. No matter, he will get some cred in jail and be out in 10 years.
Posted by: fd
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If they put him in solitare.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:38 PM (cW1mv)

181
"Touch me and see" actually sounds a lot like somebody who could have walked away at that point, but obviously did not, because he wanted to stay and "demonstrate".
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:35 PM (Fi81e)
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Yea. The “touch and find out’ statement is brutal for the defense because it almost on its face negates reasonable fear for life. In fact, it shows just the opposite: that the punk was taunting the other kid and not afraid at all.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:39 PM (srWET)

182 "If you want me to move, you'll have to move me" and "try it and see what happens" are pretty damming for this piece of shit.

He went there for the sole purpose to create havoc. He intended to stab someone. He had the knife open in his bag. He knew what he was going to do. He just didn't know who his victim was going to be.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 05:39 PM (Zz0t1)

183 It is a slam dunk murder case according to all of the witnesses but we will see what happens.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 05:34 PM (0N4FZ)

Thanks for the context.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 05:36 PM

I am just relaying what Dallas talk radio guys are saying. They have access to people inside the court room and that's pretty much our only sources as any video or recordings were banned in the court by the judge.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 05:40 PM (0N4FZ)

184 USAID would come in handy about now.

Posted by: connected and litigious at June 08, 2026 05:40 PM (cS1cw)

185
Sorsby admitted to betting on wins for Indiana when he was there.
Oh, that's Bad.

__________

Is it? Lots of people say Pete Rose should be in the HOF because he only bet on his team to win.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 05:40 PM (O0L8i)

186 If they put him in solitare.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:38 PM (cW1mv)

With a spider! That'd teach him.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 05:40 PM (1Ff7Z)

187 The one thing about Platner's ass raping fantasy that has me befuddled is that he wanted to "express dominance".

To whom?

This guy who breaks into your house and if you can rape him you can dispatch of him as a problem anyway?

Or to all the convicts in prison who might rape him more thoroughly than you did?

Who would he be sending a message to?

It's such a weird idea that the fantasy scenario is better fit.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:41 PM (Fi81e)

188 Watching Scott Pelley give the interview to the NYT you want to do the Rocky Horror Show reaction to Brad " Scott you're an asshole"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 05:41 PM (zj5z7)

189 Why would the pross want to prove KA feared for his life?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 05:41 PM (W5mpo)

190 --
Right, so the prosecution has to give the jury enough to pass reasonable doubt that he acted as if he was in fear for his life.

The only thing we have from Anthony at the time is "touch", if Anthony anticipated a "touch", it's not a strong case that this could be construed to be fear for his life.

Perhaps "Don't touch me!" could be construed that way. But "Touch me and see" sounds like somebody trying to command the situation, not simply preserve life.

"Touch me and see" actually sounds a lot like somebody who could have walked away at that point, but obviously did not, because he wanted to stay and "demonstrate".
Posted by: Axeman
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174 Plus he was not even supposed to be at the track meet that day because he was suspended from the team for bringing a knife to school just a few weeks before this happened. And he was asked to leave the opposing team's tent at least 15 times according to a dozen witnesses before the stabbing occurred. And the kid he killed told him he was not going to fight him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:41 PM (cW1mv)

191 122

I hope this is true.

Shaggy
@MAGAShagster
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3h
California election insiders/whistleblowers are reportedly feeding the Department of justice evidence of fraud in the LA mayor primary race.
Posted by: beckster at June 08, 2026 05:20 PM (kX27y)

Now they'll change from a snail's pace to the speed of an F-22. They'll finish counting ballots by midnight and certify the election results by 9 AM tomorrow. No Cali judge will agree to hear a motion challenging a certified Cali election. Not if he/she knows what's good for them.

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 05:42 PM (5rh/l)

192 I am just relaying what Dallas talk radio guys are saying. They have access to people inside the court room and that's pretty much our only sources as any video or recordings were banned in the court by the judge.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 05:40 PM (0N4FZ)

I hadn't followed, I am not on Twitter, and I got very few details of this POS's miserable existence. It was only a matter of time that he graduated to murder.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 05:42 PM (dK+Kv)

193
And he was asked to leave the opposing team's tent at least 15 times according to a dozen witnesses before the stabbing occurred. And the kid he killed told him he was not going to fight him.

____________

*gavel bangs*

Case dismissed!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 05:42 PM (O0L8i)

194 Some news crew was interviewing Anthony's classmates the day it happened, and one girl said she wasn't surprised that he'd stabbed someone. Gee, I wonder why she said that?

Posted by: pookysgirl isn't buying the "Melo" at June 08, 2026 05:38 PM (Wt5PA)
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Racism, straight up.

Posted by: Janeane Garofalo at June 08, 2026 05:43 PM (Fi81e)

195 With a spider! That'd teach him.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Walter Raleigh, he's not.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:43 PM (cW1mv)

196 What about the Somolians?

And the cobra turban congresswoman?

OUT! GET THEM OUT!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 05:43 PM (WONhk)

197 Lol. If this is grounds for deportation then 98% of Indians should be on the next plane to Mumbai tomorrow.

+++
Yes please.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at June 08, 2026 05:44 PM (jPdyB)

198 Possibility of Manslaughter as a Lesser Included Offense?

(AI Overview): While the grand jury indicted him on murder, juries in Texas can sometimes consider lesser charges like manslaughter (recklessly causing death) during deliberations. If the jury rejects the murder charge but does not fully acquit on self-defense, it is possible for a conviction of a lesser charge, but it relies on specific instructions from the judge.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 05:45 PM (NFX2v)

199
It's clear that Karmelo Anthony couldn't think straight cuz of the racism.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:45 PM (Fi81e)

200 And, it was raining.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 05:47 PM (NFX2v)

201 Given that Beto, and his fake Hispanic cred, bombed with Texas voters, and Six Gender Jimmy and his fake Christian cred is gonna bomb, can we assume that Karmelo Anthony will get nominated at some future, post-parole date for the Democrat nomination for Senate in Texas due to his established cred in the Black Community?

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at June 08, 2026 05:47 PM (MNCvZ)

202 "Touch me and see" = FAFO

it isn't exactly a declaration of war, but its not surrender either. If you act, I will react.

I'm not sure you get to stab another kid in the chest if there isn't evidence that he didn't assault you .. legal definition of it - intentional act creating reas fear of imminent harmful physical contact: "Now I'm gonna kill your ass" . . . "You are dead MFer!" Or Cocking a fist, pulling a weapon. I don't know the deets, but it sounded like Harmelo was the one who pulled the weapon. Did the other kid shove him first? Or threaten to kick his ass? Make any kind of contact at all? Slap fight? Its weak defense. Not impossible. Was the other kid a lot bigger/Older? Known history of violence? Didn't Cameron Poe get sent to prison for less?

Posted by: Movie Reference at June 08, 2026 05:48 PM (anL5R)

203 I’m a bit surprised that the Anthony trial didn’t reveal that the confrontation involved a girl. Didn’t it seem like it would? Especially since the initial reports were that these two had an earlier confrontation over some vague drama.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 08, 2026 05:49 PM (srWET)

204 No mater the Anthony verdict, violence will acelerate afterwards.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 05:50 PM (Gqar8)

205 Doof, if you're around, I sent a new image link.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 05:51 PM (qx7Zg)

206 Nope... uh uh, can't do it!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at June 08, 2026 05:51 PM (mP0Kj)

207 "Criminal aliens are lying about their past crimes, including drug dealers, sexual predators, and fraudsters," Blanche said.

And Soros DAs (now judges?) and associated police departments will not: hold them or transfer them back to states where criminal behavior occurred, or even consider past convictions (even when criminal aliens fled certain jurisdictions) when they are found to be breaking the law again, in a different region.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 05:53 PM (NFX2v)

208 Now, most importantly, from Deadline....

The Tony's had their first tranny winner.

And I looked it up. That FIFA thing is in 3 days!!! Pants off!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 05:54 PM (Sco7b)

209 The defense witness, an unnamed teenager, said on cross that Karmelo was "on the wrong".
Say goodnight Gracie

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 05:54 PM (zj5z7)

210 Liches should not hold high office.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 05:02 PM (rbvCR)
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Too late to tell Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:54 PM (Fi81e)

211 The Constitution gives Congress the ability to regulate citizenship issues via the law.

The Supreme Court was the entity that made Dual Citizenship Legal... which was not their call to make at all.

This needs to be fixed in Congress. If you want to be American, be American, and ONLY American.

But first? No Dual Citizens in any Public Office. How can we expect them to put Americans first when they have divided loyalties (as shown by retaining their other citizenship).

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)

212 With another 0.1% ballots counted (72.2% -> 72.3%) Hilton's lead over Steyer has increased by about 3,500. I wish ballots for the bullet train to nowhere had been counted this slowly.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 05:55 PM (W5mpo)

213 The Fear Factor for the jury is a thing.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 05:55 PM (Gqar8)

214 If Obama had a son...

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 05:55 PM (NFX2v)

215 214 If Obama had a son...
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 05:55 PM (NFX2v)

He’d be Billy Porter.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 05:57 PM (Gqar8)

216 This is going to get ugly if they find him guilty. There are already black protestors in front of the courthouse saying "the only good cracker is a dead one".

+++
They need to find guilty and make an example. Enough of the reverse racism. You don't get to go into someone else's home base, refuse to leave, pick a fight, hold your hand on a lethal concealed weapon for part of the fight picking (premeditated intent), use lethal force against an unarmed person who did't put so much as a scratch or bruise on you, run away and throw the murder weapon away (guilt) then pretend like you were the victim because you are an entitled A hole.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at June 08, 2026 05:57 PM (jPdyB)

217 Now do Ilhan Omar

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 05:57 PM (UZCuZ)

218 Give them a choice. Leave, or spend the rest of your miserable life in prison.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 05:01 PM (Riz8t)

No, the choice should be Leave, or spend the life in El Salvador's prison.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 05:57 PM (8avO+)

219 Now do Ilhan Omar

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 05:57 PM (UZCuZ)
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Rule #1.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 05:58 PM (Fi81e)

220 >>>...but we should TRUST the EXPERTS!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket

>Don't forget scientists say... blah, blah, blah. Scientists.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 05:58 PM (pSkMS)

221 Yeah but the Commissar Judges get final ruling on every Presidential decisions

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 05:58 PM (Ia/+0)

222 OT- Just a nice story about two boys with a lemonade stand in Kansas City, Kansas and some kind cops. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/wwtukwhy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 05:58 PM (rZCVI)

223 Now, most importantly, from Deadline....

The Tony's had their first tranny winner.

And I looked it up. That FIFA thing is in 3 days!!! Pants off!
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 05:54 PM (Sco7b)

Manual or Automatic Transmission? Ford, GM, Chrysler, or Foreign?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 05:59 PM (qx7Zg)

224 If Obama had a son he'd be a tranny like Big Mike

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 05:59 PM (zj5z7)

225 Yeah but the Commissar Judges get final ruling on every Presidential decisions

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 05:58 PM (Ia/+0)
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That's what I described as Government by Whatever Passes for Government.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:00 PM (Fi81e)

226 222 OT- Just a nice story about two boys with a lemonade stand in Kansas City, Kansas and some kind cops. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/wwtukwhy
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 05:58 PM (rZCVI)

Thanks for that, Fen.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 06:00 PM (Gqar8)

227 212 With another 0.1% ballots counted (72.2% -> 72.3%) Hilton's lead over Steyer has increased by about 3,500. I wish ballots for the bullet train to nowhere had been counted this slowly.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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_Best Practices Printing, always gets you there on time

Thirteen states have reciprocity with CA.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 06:01 PM (cW1mv)

228 Fen occasionally see a Lemonade stand from kids, should stopat one this summer

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 06:01 PM (Ia/+0)

229 The Bee:
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Playskool Introduces "My First Hobo Camp" for California Children.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 06:04 PM (Fi81e)

230 17?

Yawn

Posted by: Gonzotx at June 08, 2026 06:04 PM (nGraA)

231 Massie is back in Congress, speaking on the floor and reading the Epstein List.

No, wait:
Correction.

He's gone full Candy Retardo and is demanding the an investigation into the attack by Israel on the USS Liberty.

And he won't rest until the investigation blames the Jews.

Only then can he be sure AIPAC won't try to kill him when he reads the Epstein List.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 06:04 PM (73/SM)

232

DC Comics has once again inserted transgender ideology into its flagship superhero universe with the release of Justice League: Dream Girls, A DC Pride Event #1, a comic that spotlights a transgender version of Wonder Woman.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 06:04 PM (Cqx++)

233 Scientists are why Gordon Freeman had to fend off against jumping crabs in Half-Life.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 06:05 PM (pSkMS)

234 Nood Candy Retardo

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 06:06 PM (qx7Zg)

235 The Karmelo Anthony case is being held in McKinney, Texas, not Dallas. The defendant will likely be found guilty. If it were being held in Dallas or any big, blue-leaning city in the state, things might be different.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 06:08 PM (ZVgZ4)

236 "Researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom'" --Phys.org
https://tinyurl.com/msdez3pf

(All the other scientists in the complex are busy leaving haunting messages on recording devices, painting warnings in blood and leaving Health Potions scattered around around)

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 06:09 PM (rbvCR)

237 If any of those judges are naturalized citizens, immediately begin procedures to revoke THEIR citizenship.

Clearly, they don't deserve it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Must be American born to be a judge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 05:04 PM (cW1mv)

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That will have to be codified somewhere or there will be no justice.

Posted by: Decaf at June 08, 2026 06:10 PM (xpP6J)

238 Fen - thank you. Nice story as a palate cleanser and much needed.

Posted by: Cheri at June 08, 2026 06:14 PM (oiNtH)

239 Posted by: Cheri at June 08, 2026 06:14 PM (oiNtH

Your're most welcome, Cheri . I enjoyed it as well and sometimes need a palate cleanser myself.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 06:23 PM (rZCVI)

240 Posted by: tubal

You're welcome.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 06:25 PM (rZCVI)

Heads Must Roll: Hampton Police Planned to Cover Their Asses by Insisting that Henry Nowak Was a Racist Aggressor, Even After the Evidence That Digwa Was a Lunatic Thug With a Knife-Murder Fetish

And even more than that -- they planned this PR campaign against Nowak and in favor of themselves even as prosecutors were preparing murder charges against Digwa, which would of course prejudice the trial in his favor.

They were blocked from doing this, but the intent was there.

C3
@C_3C_3

Henry Nowak's case gets worse...
Hampshire Police wanted to paint Henry as the racist aggressor.
Even after they had evidence Vickrum was guilty and lying about "racism".
They didn't want truth out.
If it wasn't for X they would've likely gotten away with it.
People must pay.

Fire the entire department, except for those who give evidence against the others.

The police force at the centre of the Henry Nowak scandal has been criticised for trying to release a statement 'portraying him as the aggressor' three days after his murder.
Hampshire Police planned to publish a statement implying that the 18-year-old had assaulted killer Vickrum Digwa and his brother, according to reports.
Mr Nowak died in the early hours of December 4 after being stabbed multiple times by Digwa, who is Sikh and had lied to police about being the victim of a racially motivated assault.
A police statement released later that morning said: 'It was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.' Officers told the Nowak family that the next update would also imply that the teenager was the initial aggressor, it is claimed.
But they later dropped that section of the statement, which only referred to an 'altercation' in its published form. At that point, police had substantial evidence that Digwa had lied to them.
Hampshire Police are also said to have risked collapsing Digwa's trial by trying to issue a statement over so-called 'disinformation' - while proceedings were already underway.
However, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) advised the force that the highly unusual move would risk jeopardising the 'integrity' of the case.
Ameer Kotecha, CEO of the Centre for Government Reform, said: 'These are appalling new details. As I have been saying, the no-questions-asked credulity with which the police treated Digwa's false racism claims just goes to show how deep the DEI rot has become.'
Nick Timothy MP, Shadow Justice Secretary, also criticised the police for threatening the 'integrity' of the trial with 'irresponsible statements'.
'Equality before the law should mean that trials are fair, that we all have the same legal rights and that we are subject to the same rules. Sadly, it has been displaced by an ideology that seeks to treat us differently based on race or identity.'

Instead of treating the first-year finance student as a victim, officers handcuffed him as he lay dying due to Digwa's false claim that he was a racist thug.
Digwa was handed a minimum jail term of 21 years on Monday, before riots erupted in Southampton a day later.
Hampshire Police said today: 'Following the opening of the trial and the media reporting that followed, a significant amount of mis- and disinformation was circulating online.
'This included requests for information to be shared that had not been fully examined as part of the murder trial.
'The intention of the statement was to remind the public that there were ongoing legal proceedings and that the law is clear that nothing could be published which could prejudice the trial. The decision not to publish was taken following advice from the CPS.'
Police diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies have come under scrutiny amid allegations Mr Nowak was failed by 'two-tier' policing.
Last year, West Yorkshire police had 19 staff dedicated to inclusion, costing £970,000 in combined salaries and benefits. The force also paid more than £360,000 to an external training provider.
Several policies are inspired by the National Police Chiefs' Council and Royal College of Policing's Police Race Action Plan, which was published in 2022 following the murder of George Floyd.
They include an 'About Time' timeline documenting events relevant to relations between the police and black people. One was issued to every force in England and Wales at a total cost of £97,000.
Meanwhile, the College of Policing paid £7,700 for a speaking 'masterclass' from Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, a controversial lawyer who criticised police for kicking the Golders Green suspect while arresting him following the stabbing of two Jewish men.

If you think things couldn't get any worse over the horrific murder of Henry Nowak.

It's now been revealed that Hampshire police were going to release a statement warning the public not to talk about it online and paint Henry as the aggressor before Digwa's trial! pic.twitter.com/0MPAspCuo7
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 7, 2026

Digwa should have been in prison, but was allowed to walk the streets despite having previously stolen 1,000 pounds of knives, and threatening strangers with his sword in a "road rage" incident.

White people go to jail for tweets.

🔥🚨 BREAKING — Video has now emerged of Vickrum Digwa, the killer of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, brandishing a sword while threatening others in a road rage encounter.

The footage provides additional context into Digwa’s behavior before the fatal December stabbing. pic.twitter.com/sUD0uUMfLK
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) June 2, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:45 PM

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1 BLADE IS VERY FIRSTY TODAY

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:47 PM (3IrX0)

3 FIRST

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 03:47 PM (T6aVk)

4 The British police are acting like the colonial authorities before Britain gave up its Empire.

The point is not justice for British citizens, the point is to make sure they know they are ruled by the current regime and if they resist they will pay a price

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

5 Heads must roll.

Heads will not roll.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (1Ff7Z)

6 In before the guy who always says nothing will happen?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (E3CZG)

7 Corgis have been called. The otters too.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (qx7Zg)

8 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Obligatory Post at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (DqYhM)

9 "Come at me, bruh. I'll call a snap election, and you'll all go down with me."
-Keir Starmer, to his party

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:49 PM (IOrWk)

10 They did beat the shit out of an old crippled man because he wouldn't get off a wall fast enough.

They're really showing the people they care.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:49 PM (3IrX0)

11 First: Give up your guns and you will be safe

Then: Give up your knives and you will be safe

Finally: Of course our immigrants carry knives. You plebes are too dangerous.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

12 I said on the last thread on this:

If this were my son, I'd be demanding heads on pikes. Not metaphorically.

ALL the police, every single member of that department, should be strung up pour encourager les autres

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 03:49 PM (N1tpc)

13 I don't see anyone being tossed or arrested for this. They don't care and no one is going to be held accountable. Oh they may fire some cops but nothing much more. The UK is gone. I have friends in England and they just can't understand why I tell them to leave. "It's fine here. What are you on about?" Clueless wonders.

Posted by: turambar at June 08, 2026 03:49 PM (Q0yOR)

14 Digwa should have been in prison, but was allowed to walk the streets despite having previously stolen 1,000 pounds of knives, and threatening strangers with his sword in a "road rage" incident.

======

$5 says this description could apply to like 5 people in England.

Only limited because of the name.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:50 PM (IOrWk)

15 6 In before the guy who always says nothing will happen?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (E3CZG)

*Shakes fist angrily*

Posted by: Obligatory Post at June 08, 2026 03:50 PM (DqYhM)

16 Paging Berthold Brecht, paging Berthold Brecht....

Posted by: The Solution at June 08, 2026 03:50 PM (1Ff7Z)

17 >>> 4 The British police are acting like the colonial authorities before Britain gave up its Empire.

The point is not justice for British citizens, the point is to make sure they know they are ruled by the current regime and if they resist they will pay a price
Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

Things may not work out as the filth expect.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 03:50 PM (R+iUD)

18 It's an odd flex to say "Nowak was racist so it was totes cool that he was stabbed to death." Odd, but totally predictable.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

19 I still wonder what the Upper Class Twits think will happen to them once the Muslims get control? I suspect the same thing that happened to the Iranian commies that helped Khomeni

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (mMytc)

20 I could have been first but first is boring.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (vFG9F)

21 Everything the left claimed about George Floyd actually happened here...and the left does not care.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

22 20th is where it's at.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (vFG9F)

23 19 I still wonder what the Upper Class Twits think will happen to them once the Muslims get control? I suspect the same thing that happened to the Iranian commies that helped Khomeni

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (mMytc)

======

They'll move to New Zealand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (IOrWk)

24 >>>Heads Must Roll: Hampton Police Planned [...]

Heads can't roll, at least not until NAMES have been attached to the heads. All the quotes just say Hampton Police did this and planned that. What were the names of the individuals who were carrying forth the disgusting policy?

Name and shame. Then the ones who are named and shamed can point their fingers at the people above who ordered their actions.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (8mulE)

25
I don't know what I'm looking at in that video tbh.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (n7rxJ)

26 I think we all have to accept that government has become a Lie-first enterprise.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:52 PM (Fi81e)

27 Some first yet never nood. I am not that guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:52 PM (3IrX0)

28 Fucking hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:52 PM (zZu0s)

29 I don't know what I'm looking at in that video tbh.

Digwa is walking around with a sword and threatening people with it

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

30 AHH HHAHHH, FIRST!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 03:52 PM (XV/Pl)

31 Heads Must Roll: Hampton Police Planned [...]

Heads can't roll, at least not until NAMES have been attached to the heads. All the quotes just say Hampton Police did this and planned that. What were the names of the individuals who were carrying forth the disgusting policy?

Name and shame. Then the ones who are named and shamed can point their fingers at the people above who ordered their actions.
Posted by: No Name Today

Fuck 'em. Start axing people until the guilty squeal.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (lwhHh)

32 29 I don't know what I'm looking at in that video tbh.

Digwa is walking around with a sword and threatening people with it

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

=====

False.

Pixels. You are looking at pixels.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (IOrWk)

33 Those coppers need to be charged as accessories to the homicide, since they did not render aid or treat his wounds, but handcuffed him, allowing him to die.

Their taunts and laughs, along with non-actions is pre-meditated. There is video of this.

They both need fired and tormented for their failure to their charge - serve and protect. Utter and complete failures...

Posted by: Pinochet Air Flight Attendant at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (zL/eJ)

34 Digwa should have been in prison, but was allowed to walk the streets despite having previously stolen 1,000 pounds of knives, and threatening strangers with his sword in a "road rage" incident.

White people go to jail for tweets.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:45 PM

Of course he did. Of course he did.

Our blue cities have the exact same two-tier policing except we are still protected by the first amendment, so people don't go to jail for tweets.

Not that the left would hesitate to do it, if they could.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (N1tpc)

35 Some first yet never nood. I am not that guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:52 PM (3IrX0)

Gentleman's Burden.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (zZu0s)

36
The Expert class is just not that into you.

This is the whimper on which liberal government ends.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (Fi81e)

37 BLADE IS VERY FIRSTY TODAY

-
Appropriate for the thread.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (ndZc7)

38 Was expecting worse. I think this story will get even worse when any video from before the police show up is released.

Or video on the victim's phone from before he was stabbed -- why did digby take his phone?

They claim it was to prevent him from calling the police, but then digby called police. I think he took the phone to erase any video from beforehand.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (qNPFr)

39 4 The British police are acting like the colonial authorities before Britain gave up its Empire.

The point is not justice for British citizens, the point is to make sure they know they are ruled by the current regime and if they resist they will pay a price
Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

Britain effectively gave up their right to own guns in 1997. Civilian handguns are pretty much outlawed, and you need a Permit to even have a hunting rifle.

And the Left here still attacks the Second Amendment.

Some assembly required.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (mP0Kj)

40 36
The Expert class is just not that into you.

This is the whimper on which liberal government ends.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (Fi81e)

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The Expert class is only an expert in how to be hired by the best institutions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (IOrWk)

41 I'm sure the Democrats are dissecting this incident for tips on how to deal with MAGA supporters once they've regained power.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (jehhT)

42 Those coppers need to be charged as accessories to the homicide, since they did not render aid or treat his wounds, but handcuffed him, allowing him to die./i]

Likely their manhandling of Nowak is what immediately killed him.

If they just left him in his pool of blood and he would have had a higher chance of living

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

43 34 Digwa should have been in prison, but was allowed to walk the streets despite having previously stolen 1,000 pounds of knives, and threatening strangers with his sword in a "road rage" incident.

White people go to jail for tweets.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:45 PM

Of course he did. Of course he did.

Our blue cities have the exact same two-tier policing except we are still protected by the first amendment, so people don't go to jail for tweets.

Not that the left would hesitate to do it, if they could.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (N1tpc)

California was trying to criminalize "misgendering" people iirc.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (okun6)

44 38 Was expecting worse. I think this story will get even worse when any video from before the police show up is released.

Or video on the victim's phone from before he was stabbed -- why did digby take his phone?

They claim it was to prevent him from calling the police, but then digby called police. I think he took the phone to erase any video from beforehand.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 03:53 PM (qNPFr)

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There was video that the judge didn't allow to be shown in evidence because it was too disturbing.

I believe it was Digwa's own video.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (IOrWk)

45
I guess this is weird without the context of the previous thread but

Beauty is proof of God.

Ok, we "evolved to appreciate sunsets... people who liked sunsets saw more reason to survive". Fine. How does that explain the beauty of deep space, and microscopic things, each never before seen until the last 70 years. They shouldn't both be beautiful, if we had to evolve to get here. But they are. And almost everyone agrees.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (XGfD9)

46 Fuck the police coming straight from Southampton Town
Young Briton got it bad 'cause he ain't brown
And instead the other color, so police think
They got the authority to kill for a minority

Posted by: Disregard the constabulary at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (TbWk/)

47 It's now been revealed that Hampshire police were going to release a statement warning the public not to talk about it online and paint Henry as the aggressor
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We need a new Hampshire!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (Fi81e)

48 Pretend this guy was a total racist. Who the hell cares?

Is that how we're going to dispense emergency services, vetting their social media footprint and then deciding if a stab victim deserves help?

Posted by: Leupold at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (eIzlH)

49 Heads can't roll, at least not until NAMES have been attached to the heads. All the quotes just say Hampton Police did this and planned that. What were the names of the individuals who were carrying forth the disgusting policy?

Name and shame. Then the ones who are named and shamed can point their fingers at the people above who ordered their actions.
Posted by: No Name Today at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (8mulE)

No no. It's not necessary to name names. All that is necessary is that EVERY member of that police department have their head on a pike. Naming names is only necessary if you're taking heads metaphorically.

People can figure out the names later, when writing up the warning for posterity.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (N1tpc)

50 Not that the left would hesitate to do it, if they could.

Douglass Mackey.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (kYmoU)

51 this country will be there, if not worse, by 2030

the wave of vote fraud in November, and in 2028, will end this country, and all of us.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (VyBeY)

52 This is the kind of stuff that can only be solved by burning down government buildings and hanging public officials. There is no working within this system.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (2z+OF)

53 If the Reform party actually gets control over Parliament, they need to deploy a deprogramming campaign to remove the neo-marxism from all levels of government. Otherwise, the UK is headed for complete ruin which will be a virtual battle between the CCP and muslims.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (diia5)

54
Where were the Hampshire cops going to get objective proof of Nowak's supposed racist aggression?

We still don't know what happened in the minutes and seconds before the stabbing. We don't know what the altercation even consisted of. The only people who know are the Digwas, and they'll take that to their graves.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (n7rxJ)

55 eventually yes

heads will certainly roll

whose heads, still not sure

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (j+aD2)

56 51 this country will be there, if not worse, by 2030

the wave of vote fraud in November, and in 2028, will end this country, and all of us.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (VyBeY)

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You know, this level of doomerism made more sense in 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (IOrWk)

57 I believe it was Digwa's own video.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (IOrWk)

Serial killer shit.

Filmed Nowak bleeding out with dick taunting him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (zZu0s)

58 Do they let him have his religo-murder-knife in prison? If not, Racist!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 03:56 PM (n5tGW)

59 53 If the Reform party actually gets control over Parliament, they need to deploy a deprogramming campaign to remove the neo-marxism from all levels of government. Otherwise, the UK is headed for complete ruin which will be a virtual battle between the CCP and muslims.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (diia5)

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"How uncouth."
-the majority of Reform MPs who are former CP and voted for all the open border shit the first time

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:56 PM (IOrWk)

60 Long drop and a short stop.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:56 PM (zZu0s)

61 Everything the left claimed about George Floyd actually happened here...and the left does not care.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

To be fair they did not care about Floyd either, just that they found it useful at the time. Note nobody takes the knee for Floyd anymore and BLM is getting rounded up for misuse of donations.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:57 PM (8avO+)

62 60 Long drop and a short stop.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:56 PM (zZu0s)

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I love that guy in Coupling!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:57 PM (IOrWk)

63 41, spot-on!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 03:57 PM (VyBeY)

64 I highly recommend that anyone with plans to visit the UK find a different locale for a vacation. Not only for your safety, but to ensure that any portion of your spending doesn't help pay for active discrimination and endangerment of the actual British people.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 08, 2026 03:57 PM (0U5gm)

65
There was video that the judge didn't allow to be shown in evidence because it was too disturbing.

I believe it was Digwa's own video.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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That's right. I was posting that the Digwas would take all knowledge of facts of the altercation to their graves, but there is video...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:57 PM (n7rxJ)

66 This is all bullshit. Whatever happened to fist fights? In what culture is it okay to stab someone to death over an insult, even if it was 'racial'?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 03:58 PM (pSkMS)

67 I still wonder what the Upper Class Twits think will happen to them once the Muslims get control?

That's why I've said for a while that the Great Replacement was apparently planned by the underwear gnomes from South Park:

1) Infinite muslims kill all the conservatives
2) ???
3) Profit

I have no idea what step 2 is and I strongly suspect neither do they.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 03:58 PM (2ocoG)

68 66 This is all bullshit. Whatever happened to fist fights? In what culture is it okay to stab someone to death over an insult, even if it was 'racial'?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 03:58 PM (pSkMS)

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Every culture but western European?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:58 PM (IOrWk)

69 5 Heads must roll.

Heads will not roll.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Oh, they'll roll alright....just not the heads you expect.

Posted by: Zombie Fusilier Lee Rigby at June 08, 2026 03:58 PM (BZChZ)

70 Hmmm... Sikh are allowed to carry knives because it is part of their religion.

One of the very last things Jesus told his disciples?

Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Sounds to me like Jesus himself is telling us to carry swords to protect ourselves, thus making it a religious obligation.

So Christians should be able to carry swords, just like Sikhs can carry knives.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:58 PM (mP0Kj)

71 Meanwhile . . .

“The medical examiner, Dr. Elizabeth Ventura, just testified.” Morello wrote on X. “The medical examiner testifies that Austin was stabbed once in the chest. The stabbing pieced a portion of his heart and the bone on his center of the chest.”

She added, “The knife went completely through Austin’s heart wall. The prosecutors were trying to show a photo of the autopsy. They walked the photo to the defense. Karmelo looked away. According to the Daily Mail, one female juror was “covering her mouth” when she saw Austin’s heart. Both Austin Metcalf’s parents and some of his family left the room to avoid hearing the details. Karmelo Anthony’s mother also walked out.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (ndZc7)

72 I've seen reports that the dude brandishing the sword in the road rage incident is Digwa's brother.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (J4Dwc)

73 Like I keep saying, the only reason the police showed up at all was because they were all excited they were going to be able to arrest a white for a hate crime.

And the reason they were so ... callous at the scene was because Henry ruined their chance to add a hate crime arrest to the annual review for promotion.

If Henry had called and said he'd been stabbed, the dispatch would have said, "I don't think you have, mate." and hung up on him.
And the cops never would have shown up.
Until the coroner alerted them that it might be a homicide.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (73/SM)

74 You know, this level of doomerism made more sense in 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It makes sense now, every day we're looking at California and chuckling, oh those scamps! with those electoral "shenanigans". Hrrr hrr California, fruits n' nuts. Glad we're not there!
No; Republicans still have to live in California, and so do many unaffiliated who don't vote Republican because they've lost hope their vote counts. Because their vote is outcounted.
Also the California of fake voting has spread.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (gKWVE)

75 I still wonder what the Upper Class Twits think will happen to them once the Muslims get control? I suspect the same thing that happened to the Iranian commies that helped Khomeni

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (mMytc)

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They'll move to New Zealand.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (IOrWk)

Won't matter. The muslims will come as well, to compete for the sheep.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (qx7Zg)

76 71 Karmelo Anthony’s mother also walked out.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (ndZc7)

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I wonder where Anthony got the idea that honkies needed to defer to powerful, beautiful black people no matter what?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (IOrWk)

77 And another thing ---

Queer Starmer leaned on the parents request that this incident "not cause division." The media is also leaning on that statement by the father.

Father read the statement I would bet quid to crumpets that the policed and CPS told him to make that statement, and probably wrote it for him, under threat that if there was violence by the public they would charge *him* for incitement. They have a unit in the police forces specifically to force familes of these crimes to fall in line.

That there deserves outrage.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (qNPFr)

78 Burn the precinct down.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (yKfDA)

79 semi OT but watching Widows Bay (which rocks) and thought I'd try the latest season of Slow Horses

wow it started out woke and shitty

does it improve or should I stop now? the first episode suuuucccckkked

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (j+aD2)

80 What's weird about the whole thing with these police idiots is that you don't get to kill someone for saying something racist anyway. Unless the law there is different than I think.

But yes, people have to get fired here if there is to be any change at all. After all they will protect their phony baloney jobs instead of the dei crap if they think there are consequences.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (n5tGW)

81 I have no idea what step 2 is and I strongly suspect neither do they.

Some leftists will tell you the odious parts of Islam are just there because of colonialism and racism and therefore win the left wins Islamists will all become gay feminists soibois like them.

Most don't believe it though - the goal is just kill conservatives and reduce normies to formal serfdom. What to do with the jihadis is a future problem

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

82 UK cops are scum-sucking assholes.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (rJ48h)

83
That's Sir Vickrum Digwa, as of the King's Birthday List.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (O0L8i)

84 64 I highly recommend that anyone with plans to visit the UK find a different locale for a vacation. Not only for your safety, but to ensure that any portion of your spending doesn't help pay for active discrimination and endangerment of the actual British people.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

My two oldest kids (mid 20s) have a trip to Europe planned for later this month. Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and France. Sadly, they're a bit on the normy-Lefty side of things, so I'm hoping the trip scares them a bit lol.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (JCZqz)

85 everybody's got their opinion. you've got yours.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 04:01 PM (VyBeY)

86 74 You know, this level of doomerism made more sense in 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It makes sense now, every day we're looking at California and chuckling, oh those scamps! with those electoral "shenanigans". Hrrr hrr California, fruits n' nuts. Glad we're not there!
No; Republicans still have to live in California, and so do many unaffiliated who don't vote Republican because they've lost hope their vote counts. Because their vote is outcounted.
Also the California of fake voting has spread.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (gKWVE)

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And this process in California will apply in Texas? Maine? Ohio? Florida?

Seriously...they did this in 2024, and it wasn't enough. When the DOJ was on their side.

And we have the DOJ Civil Rights division led by Harmeet Dhillon with a central mission of cleaning up voter rolls to take us through to 2028 no matter what else happens.

Hey, maybe it's not all doom and gloom just because CA is a hellhole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:01 PM (IOrWk)

87 Seems like the solution is for everyone who's left sane in England is to carry swords and just go "oh, yeah, I'm totally Sikh, I'm allowed" when questioned about it.

What are you going to do, say they're lying? Now you're racist/religiously intolerant, mate!

Posted by: Gaff at June 08, 2026 04:01 PM (EqzMw)

88 So, how's the "Back the Bobby" campaign going?

/

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 04:01 PM (cGjQu)

89 Note in the UK they disarmed them, then took speech, now this.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:01 PM (XGfD9)

90 See: Richard Jewell, FBI, Atlanta Constitution

They literally hounded Jewell into a fatal Heart attack.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 08, 2026 04:02 PM (XeU6L)

91
40-odd years ago when I lived there, British cops were the nicest guys around. They were also all white.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 04:02 PM (O0L8i)

92 My two oldest kids (mid 20s) have a trip to Europe planned for later this month. Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and France. Sadly, they're a bit on the normy-Lefty side of things, so I'm hoping the trip scares them a bit lol.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (JCZqz)

Leave out France.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 04:02 PM (8avO+)

93 "Hampshire police were going to release a statement warning the public not to talk about it online..."

This is why i like being a citizen and not a subject. Such a warning here would result in a flood of responses...most of them telling the police to go pack sand.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 04:02 PM (2WIwB)

94
ABAB

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:02 PM (XGfD9)

95 Those cops beat the shit out of some tatted up guy with their riot shields. Kicked him in the head while he was down too.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:02 PM (YwEeS)

96 Every cop in that department needs to be fired. All of them! If 4 different cops showed up to the scene, they would have done the exact same thing, and Henry would still be dead.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 08, 2026 04:03 PM (THY4u)

97 ABAB
have to admit, that's a lot catchier than our version

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 04:03 PM (j+aD2)

98 The UK wants vigilantism, since this is the sort of behavior that causes vigilantism...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 04:03 PM (l3cgK)

99 Note in the UK they disarmed them, then took speech, now this.
Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:01 PM (XGfD9)

The UK never had free speech de jure, just a custom of one spot in a London park. Muslims took over that spot decades ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 04:03 PM (8avO+)

100 Looks like Peru is gonna get a right-wing president.

Japanese heritage, to make it even more interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:04 PM (IOrWk)

101 My two oldest kids (mid 20s) have a trip to Europe planned for later this month. Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and France. Sadly, they're a bit on the normy-Lefty side of things, so I'm hoping the trip scares them a bit lol.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (JCZqz)

I was totally non political in my early 20's...

Then, traveling the world via the US Navy opened my eyes to how politics really matters.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 04:04 PM (mP0Kj)

102 If Henry had called and said he'd been stabbed, the dispatch would have said, "I don't think you have, mate." and hung up on him.
And the cops never would have shown up.
Until the coroner alerted them that it might be a homicide.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
__________

Someone else in the neighborhood did call and report he thought someone had been stabbed. They didn't show up in response to that. It was only when the Digwas called later with the racial complaint that they responded.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 04:04 PM (XvL8K)

103 Heads must roll in the Hampton police. Turn them over to the Sikhs, they'll lop them off

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 04:04 PM (zj5z7)

104 66 This is all bullshit. Whatever happened to fist fights? In what culture is it okay to stab someone to death over an insult, even if it was 'racial'?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 03:58 PM (pSkMS)

Digwa claimed to the police that Nowak had knocked his turban off and hit him.

At the beginning of the bodycam video you can see Digwa explaining to the cop and pointing to a spot below his eye where he was supposedly punched (I couldn’t see a mark).

Still doesn’t justify murder even if it happened that way. Nowak wasn’t armed and nobody has ever claimed he was.

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

105 83, LOL! Probably!

maybe even throw in a VC!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 04:04 PM (VyBeY)

106 wonder where Anthony got the idea that honkies needed to defer to powerful, beautiful black people no matter what?"

You white people crack me up...

/

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 04:04 PM (cGjQu)

107 Digwa and his family were there, recording Henry by the way ,while waiting for the cops.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:05 PM (YwEeS)

108 No; Republicans still have to live in California,

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (gKWVE)
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No the fuck they do not, and nor should they, at this point.

The time for getting the hell out is long past, and please spare me the "but muh job" "but muh family" bullshit.

Posted by: ballistic at June 08, 2026 04:05 PM (oqH4h)

109 Has any of this case even been mentioned by our vaunted, prestigious MSM?

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 04:05 PM (GUOwU)

110 Blood for the Blood God time.
UK skulls for the Skull Throne.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 04:06 PM (xcxpd)

111 Beauty is proof of God.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (XGfD9)
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To me, this is what keeps me coming back to the Christian model:

The main themes of a Christian God--specifically some significant names, solve some of the biggest "Problems in Philosophy".

There is no reason to type another sentence in your life if we don't believe in the WORD sent from one WHO IS.

The problem of language? The problem of "Other Minds" is reverse to the faith that I AM and I send to you my WORD to dwell in your mind, to testify that I AM.

If you want to believe that words are more than an expression of willful preference that you either buffet up against or align with, more or less out of control of whatever it is you are, if you believe in the value of writing another word on the unprovable assumption that somebody on the other side can hear what you mean, by simply withholding snap judgments and taking time to take it in....

You believe in something. You can't even prove it because the skepticism against it is well advanced and prolific. But you take another step and write another word, and pray that somebody--like what you take yourself to be--is out there.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:06 PM (Fi81e)

112 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 04:00 PM (j+aD2)

I couldn't get past S01E01, piece of shit. Although some here said "it's complicated". Sorry.... white supremacists threatening to behead an innocent muslim teen at the behest of a xenophobic politician was all I needed to pack it in.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:06 PM (XGfD9)

113 Has any of this case even been mentioned by our vaunted, prestigious MSM?

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 04:05 PM (GUOwU)
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It's more than 10 miles from the US.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:06 PM (Fi81e)

114 Serial killer shit.

Filmed Nowak bleeding out with dick taunting him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:55 PM (zZu0s)

Diversity is their strength.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:06 PM (3IrX0)

115 Looks like Peru is gonna get a right-wing president.

Japanese heritage, to make it even more interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

They've already had a Japanese president. Alberto Fujimori in the 90s.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

116 There was video that the judge didn't allow to be shown in evidence because it was too disturbing.

I believe it was Digwa's own video.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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bullshit -- not too disturbing, too inciting. I bet it showed digba to be guilty and taunting. It showed stuff that would not "disturb" the public, but would make them angry that such people have been imported into their country -- there is a difference.

Remember the stabbing of little girls in Southport, and how they put one mother (Lucy Connoly) in prison for tweeting something about how there needs to be deportations and "set things on fire." That was because they are terrified the public will wake up and there will be civil war. It is coming.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 04:07 PM (qNPFr)

117 Karmelo Anthony trial:

Defense rested. Closing arguments tomorrow. Jury to be sequestered during deliberations.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 04:07 PM (lwhHh)

118 I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony . . .
but first we have to see off all the whiteys

Posted by: Keir Starmer at June 08, 2026 04:08 PM (anL5R)

119 The only heads that will roll is whitey's when it's chopped off by an angry immigrant for reasons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:08 PM (3IrX0)

120 Also, when the cops first got on the scene, the father said they had Henry propped up against a wall because his mouth kept filling with blood if he was down. But they still didn't believe him when he said he'd been stabbed.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 04:08 PM (XvL8K)

121 ABAB
have to admit, that's a lot catchier than our version"

Or Abacab...

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 04:08 PM (cGjQu)

122 They claim it was to prevent him from calling the police, but then digby called police. I think he took the phone to erase any video from beforehand.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June

Right before this, Henry was walking around filming himself singing, he had a few beers in him. He saw Digwa and his sword. Henry started filming Digwa saying “You're a bad man, say you're a bad man, go on." Digwa replying (while still walking away): "I am a bad man.” Digwa then grabbed the phone to stop the recording, that is when the scuffle happened and Digwa stabbed Henry.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 04:08 PM (Wmg4n)

123 Karmelo Anthony trial:

Defense rested. Closing arguments tomorrow. Jury to be sequestered during deliberations.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 04:07 PM (lwhHh)

May they return the verdict in 15 minutes.

Enjoy prison bitch, bitch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:08 PM (3IrX0)

124 116 Remember the stabbing of little girls in Southport, and how they put one mother (Lucy Connoly) in prison for tweeting something about how there needs to be deportations and "set things on fire." That was because they are terrified the public will wake up and there will be civil war. It is coming.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 04:07 PM (qNPFr)

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There were anti-immigration riots in England 2 years ago.

It was one of the earliest "Starmer's definitely gonna resign now" moments.

Not to mention the establishment's fucking up of Brexit plus the decades of immigration that the people have rejected.

England' ain't happy and hasn't been for a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (IOrWk)

125 Those cops beat the shit out of some tatted up guy with their riot shields. Kicked him in the head while he was down too.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:02 PM (YwEeS)
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Secular society will never be as good and as well-intentioned as the secularists want you to believe.

We'll just be locked in here with us monkeys, after all.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (Fi81e)

126 Narrator: no head in fact will roll

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (Vb3xW)

127 Looks like Peru is gonna get a right-wing president.

Columbia's new President has promised to go full Bukele on the cartels and left-wing judges and journalists. I can only get so hard.

But more broadly, it's amazing how Latin American Marxism collapsed in multiple countries within a year of USAID's end.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (2ocoG)

128 Digwa and his family were there, recording Henry by the way ,while waiting for the cops."

Gotta get the story straight...

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (cGjQu)

129 I checked the NYT headlines...nothing about Digwa/Nowak.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

130 I couldn't get past S01E01, piece of shit. Although some here said "it's complicated". Sorry.... white supremacists threatening to behead an innocent muslim teen at the behest of a xenophobic politician was all I needed to pack it in.

agree! we stopped watching after THAT

but then other people who I think are smart were like "give it more time" and it did totally swerve around and become interesting (and not woke)

but now? this? I have a really bad feeling. first of all the dialog writing is soap opera level. second it's all talking and therapy-speak

it's not the same show!

btw I would advise you to try again. Seasons 1-4 were excellent

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (j+aD2)

131 127 Looks like Peru is gonna get a right-wing president.

Columbia's new President has promised to go full Bukele on the cartels and left-wing judges and journalists. I can only get so hard.

But more broadly, it's amazing how Latin American Marxism collapsed in multiple countries within a year of USAID's end.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (2ocoG)

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Foreign aid means propping up leftist governments that allow crime to flourish for the good of the people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (IOrWk)

132 Lucy Connoly said something about wanting mosques burned down. Meanwhile a muslim politician said " these are terrible far right people should cut their throats"(while making a throat slash) . He was quickly aquitted.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:10 PM (YwEeS)

133 They were just so callous as he laid there and died, I don't know how they can even live with themselves.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 04:10 PM (n5tGW)

134 Columbia's new President has promised to go full Bukele on the cartels and left-wing judges and journalists. I can only get so hard.

But more broadly, it's amazing how Latin American Marxism collapsed in multiple countries within a year of USAID's end.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (2ocoG)

Funny thing, that. After Marxism had done so much for the people, too.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 04:10 PM (8avO+)

135 133 They were just so callous as he laid there and died, I don't know how they can even live with themselves.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 04:10 PM (n5tGW)

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"We followed procedure. It's not my fault. It's the procedure's fault. Oh, also, there's no need to change the procedure. We did everything right."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:11 PM (IOrWk)

136 Ya know, police need goodwill to be safe. The UK police have deliberately burned through their goodwill.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 04:11 PM (u82oZ)

137 In before the guy who always says nothing will happen?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (E3CZG)

*Shakes fist angrily*
Posted by: Obligatory Post at June 08, 2026 03:50 PM

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who always intones "Nothing will happen." at June 08, 2026 04:11 PM (0sNs1)

138 s) and thought I'd try the latest season of Slow Horses

wow it started out woke and shitty

does it improve or should I stop now? the first episode suuuucccckkked
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Stick with it. The real enemy is the progressive govt and the Hillary Clintons running the dept. Gary Oldman is fantastic.

Posted by: Keir Starmer at June 08, 2026 04:11 PM (anL5R)

139 checked the NYT headlines...nothing about Digwa/Nowak.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

Local story.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 04:11 PM (Vb3xW)

140 I've seen reports that the dude brandishing the sword in the road rage incident is Digwa's brother.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (J4Dwc)

Meh. They all look alike.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:11 PM (3IrX0)

141 Stick with it. The real enemy is the progressive govt and the Hillary Clintons running the dept. Gary Oldman is fantastic.

cool thanks

this is what season 1 was like so I was hoping!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (j+aD2)

142
Right before this, Henry was walking around filming himself singing, he had a few beers in him. He saw Digwa and his sword. Henry started filming Digwa saying “You're a bad man, say you're a bad man, go on." Digwa replying (while still walking away): "I am a bad man.” Digwa then grabbed the phone to stop the recording, that is when the scuffle happened and Digwa stabbed Henry.

Posted by: Piper

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Oh wow, thanks for that. I thought we didn't know anything about the prelude to the stabbing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (n7rxJ)

143 119 The only heads that will roll is whitey's when it's chopped off by an angry immigrant for reasons.

That happened already, Lee Rigby.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (YwEeS)

144 140 I've seen reports that the dude brandishing the sword in the road rage incident is Digwa's brother.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM (J4Dwc)

Meh. They all look alike.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:11 PM (3IrX0)

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Still stories from supposedly former classmates of Digwa that said that Digwa would shock people in school with tasers just for the hell of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (IOrWk)

145 We give police the power to arrest. That means arrest people--but also arrest situations.

If your triage is to worry about the claim that somebody punched a turban off his head more than the guy saying he's bleeding out while he may be gurgling blood....

You're not good at your job.

Critical wounds over critical theory.

But this is were secularism has gotten us (and I'm not saying any-brand Christianity is any better, mind you).

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (Fi81e)

146 Lucy Connoly said something about wanting mosques burned down. Meanwhile a muslim politician said " these are terrible far right people should cut their throats"(while making a throat slash) . He was quickly aquitted.

One of the games the left has played for a long time is taking an aggressive view of whatever the laws are against those they want to harm, and taking a very conservative view of the laws against those they want to protect.

And you can see this all over the place. The people saying George Zimmerman "he needed to take a beating" also claim Karmelo Anthony had every right to stab someone to death for touching him...and given leftwing authorities they will arrest/judge people with these differing standards

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (sKqQm)

147 Will the people responsible for the attempted cover up face any charges for the murder of an innocent man?

That was a rhetorical quesiton.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (0N4FZ)

148 >>Some first yet never nood. I am not that guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:52 PM (3IrX0)

Some nood, but rarely SPONGE! :-)

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (NcvvS)

149 Daily Mail also ran a piece the other day about the Sikh community in London growing uneasy over fear of...wait for it...

...backlash.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (J4Dwc)

150 Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:06 PM (Fi81e)

I'm sure if this wasn't over my head I would agree with this

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (XGfD9)

151 How does Peru get a Jap president?

Posted by: Don Black, ballin' the jack at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (ZxPkt)

152 Derek Chauvin also followed procedure...

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (YwEeS)

153 This is like the election steal in California. Not only will nothing happen they take pleasure in us knowing nothing will happen.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (Vb3xW)

154 149 Daily Mail also ran a piece the other day about the Sikh community in London growing uneasy over fear of...wait for it...

...backlash.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (J4Dwc)

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Are they afraid enough to leave the country for their own safety?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (IOrWk)

155 I saw a report that claims that 55% of Democrats hate living in the US, and want to leave. It looks like they'd enjoy living in the new UK, and should emigrate. They can take Meghan and Harry back with them, as well.

UK gets new targets for their fun, and the US loses some of its self-loathing. Win-Win.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (qx7Zg)

156 Their smarmy Top Cop (aka "gay Inspector Lestrade") gave a press conference the other day insisting that all they wanted was to "see justice done".

At the time I said "Justice being done would mean your officers go to jail (excuse me..."gaol") and you get fired (excuse me..."sacked") without a pension".

After reading this I've changed my mind. He needs to go to His Majesty's Own Pound Me In The Ass Penitentiary too.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 04:14 PM (IG3/x)

157 Lunch was delayed or extended for the jurors on the Anthony case? Developments? Defense trying to get a plea deal?

Anthony, the Nowak stabbing case in the Uk...All of this random senseless death of young kids with potential lives ahead of them is heartbreaking and soul numbing. As is the media trying to reduce reporting on it because it's not convenient for them.

Also upset about the voting in CA. Technically the final deadline for LA ballots is tomorrow (?!), but they got enough for Ramen now, so hey, they're done counting now! Nothing to see here!

And H1B fees struck down by a judge. Annoying. Not the best of Mondays.

(This is the end of your drive-by commenting from LizLem, back to lurking)

Posted by: LizLem at June 08, 2026 04:14 PM (gWBY1)

158
That happened already, Lee Rigby.
Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (YwEeS)

They're not done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:14 PM (3IrX0)

159 This is like the election steal in California. Not only will nothing happen they take pleasure in us knowing nothing will happen.

Making sure that Raman beats Pratt is intentional

They could have let it go with just the normal fraud and have Bass win 55-45 again in the runoff but what's the fun in that?

Make the citizens vote for the woman that burned down their homes over the lunatic that wants to bring them the USSR.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

160 They were just so callous as he laid there and died, I don't know how they can even live with themselves.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 04:10 PM (n5tGW)
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Worse. Digwa filmed and taunted him for five or ten minutes before the police arrived.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (amcLV)

161 "There were anti-immigration riots in England 2 years ago.

It was one of the earliest "Starmer's definitely gonna resign now" moments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison"

In response Starmer actually made some statement acknowledging massive immigration was destabilizing , not a good idea and there should be scaled way back.

Of course that was to save his sorry ass and was never followed up on.

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (GUOwU)

162 This is all bullshit. Whatever happened to fist fights? In what culture is it okay to stab someone to death over an insult, even if it was 'racial'?
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Philippines. Finland.

Posted by: Immediately come to mind at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (anL5R)

163 Is X completely open/available to England?
Can they dial up AoS in Britain?
IOW do they know what we know about their cops.
The rape gangs? The buggers?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (cW1mv)

164 155 I saw a report that claims that 55% of Democrats hate living in the US, and want to leave. It looks like they'd enjoy living in the new UK, and should emigrate. They can take Meghan and Harry back with them, as well.

UK gets new targets for their fun, and the US loses some of its self-loathing. Win-Win.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (qx7Zg)

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I said it before, but Trump should set up a program that helps people renounce their citizenship and leave.

Once they renounce their citizenship, they'd be, perhaps, eligible for deportation and compensation of travel through CBPOne.

Spend hundreds of millions selling it to the people in the blue enclaves to get 100,000 out in the first year.

Completely worth it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (IOrWk)

165
Some nood, but rarely SPONGE! :-)

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (NcvvS)

No one wants to be me. I don't blame them. It is for the best.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (3IrX0)

166 Liz there is not day that goes by without some judge striking down something Trump has done. Don't sweat it.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (YwEeS)

167 How does Peru get a Jap president?
Posted by: Don Black

TEMU?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (lwhHh)

168 NaCly Dog,

Did you see that *all* 5 Astute class SSNs are non-operationally capable?

On a topic from last week, the U.S. and RN send a few sub officers to each other's training each year. The people going to Perisher probably get the better end of the deal.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (0sNs1)

169 161 In response Starmer actually made some statement acknowledging massive immigration was destabilizing , not a good idea and there should be scaled way back.

Of course that was to save his sorry ass and was never followed up on.

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (GUOwU)

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"Oh, I can survive anything, huh?"
-the lesson he took

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (IOrWk)

170 Right before this, Henry was walking around filming himself singing, he had a few beers in him. He saw Digwa and his sword. Henry started filming Digwa saying “You're a bad man, say you're a bad man, go on." Digwa replying (while still walking away): "I am a bad man.” Digwa then grabbed the phone to stop the recording, that is when the scuffle happened and Digwa stabbed Henry.

Posted by: Piper

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Oh wow, a message from beyond.

So whose version is this? Henry or digka? How would anyone know, unless you are speaking to Henry -- tell him we all said "hey", and we are pulling for justice.

I think the truth is much worse.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (qNPFr)

171 These aren't simple racist police.
These are agents of an corrupt government.

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (RHGPo)

172 A LOT of Japanese moved to Peru before and after WW 2. Big population there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (xcxpd)

173 This is like the election steal in California. Not only will nothing happen they take pleasure in us knowing nothing will happen.
Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (Vb3xW)
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Gavin Newsom is really trying to prove he's as dumb as he's been trying to tell us.

He said yesterday that there was a "break glass" plan if there were no Democrats in the election and they "would not let that happen".

Now, I expect the progs to get just as incensed about that as a McConnell's statement that his job was to make Obama a one-term president... in ... never.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (Fi81e)

174 Also please let me say David Lammy is asshoe.

Posted by: turambar at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (Q0yOR)

175
How did the all-white Karmelo Anthony jury even get seated? I think we went through some of this, but how does the prosecution ever think a guilty verdict won't be overturned on the basis of "jury of his peers"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (n7rxJ)

176 Vikrum Digwa, Karmelo Anthony.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:17 PM (Gqar8)

177 >>No one wants to be me. I don't blame them. It is for the best.

And yet, you're referenced in others' posts quite often. Cf 'ESPONJA!!'

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 04:17 PM (NcvvS)

178 This is all bullshit. Whatever happened to fist fights? In what culture is it okay to stab someone to death over an insult, even if it was 'racial'?

This isn't a couple of yutes arguing over pride or a girl or a sports team.

This is a member of the new immigrant class and one of the people the British wants to reduce to formal serfdom. They want armed immigrants killing unarmed Brits and the police allowing it to happen the more directly to make sure the serfs understand their place.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 04:17 PM (sKqQm)

179 I WAS FIRST!!

Posted by: Dirka Dirka Digwa at June 08, 2026 04:17 PM (Cqx++)

180 109 Has any of this case even been mentioned by our vaunted, prestigious MSM?

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 04:05 PM (GUOwU)

It is taboo for the Democrats and the Media to give any credence to the notion of reverse discrimination. Them saying reverse discrimination may or does exist would be capital punishment-level heresy.

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 04:17 PM (5rh/l)

181 Wish I could reactivate my old IRA shipping channels -- I would hope they would have a little fight left in 'em.

If we wanted to fund and supply a British insurgency (we cannot afford to have a hostile regime have access to WMD), I asked Grok to help me calculate:

- We can ship approx 400 M-9s per 463L pallet
- A C-17 can carry up to 18ea 463Ls on a trans-Atlantic flight from Charleston AFB to RAF Mildenhall (crew get to RON at the old Bird in Hand)
- In theory, one C-17 can deliver 47,200 sidearms to be distributed via RAF Mildenhall smuggling channels.

- Ammunition would be a separate issued handled by A-3.

In and of itself, one C-17 could effectively outgun pretty much ever Constabulary in East Anglia.

This is your A-4 report for today.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 08, 2026 04:17 PM (qwx/I)

182 175
How did the all-white Karmelo Anthony jury even get seated? I think we went through some of this, but how does the prosecution ever think a guilty verdict won't be overturned on the basis of "jury of his peers"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (n7rxJ)

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Defense accepted all 12 in the end.

"Peer" doesn't mean racial group in America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:17 PM (IOrWk)

183 No one wants to be me. I don't blame them. It is for the best.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (3IrX0)
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Very few of us are sponge-worthy.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:17 PM (Fi81e)

184 Correction, one C-17 could transport 7,200 M-9s.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 08, 2026 04:18 PM (qwx/I)

185 I must say, I am morbidly facinated by the British government's commitment to civilizational suicide.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 08, 2026 04:18 PM (LbUS+)

186 If LA has parades, some groups should throw unlit torches into the crowd, labeled "Karen Bass Fire Starter", and a different group can throw single packages of Ramen noodles into the crowd labeled "Nithya Raman Weekly Food Allowance. Feeds 4."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 04:18 PM (qx7Zg)

187 How does Peru get a Jap president?
Posted by: Don Black, ballin' the jack at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (

Peru elected a Japanese prezzie in the 90s too. It’s a thing there.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 04:19 PM (Vb3xW)

188
Starmer actually made some statement acknowledging massive immigration was destabilizing , not a good idea and there should be scaled way back.

Of course that was to save his sorry ass and was never followed up on.

Posted by: Ripley

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This is amazingly like the final months of the Biden term. Let them stream in for 3.5 years, then get a little shook up when the race got on for real.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:19 PM (n7rxJ)

189 We all know that with a name like "Karmelo" he was going to wind up in prison as surely as naming your daughter "Tiphanee" means she's going to wind up on the pole.

Right?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 04:19 PM (IG3/x)

190 "We followed procedure. It's not my fault. It's the procedure's fault. Oh, also, there's no need to change the procedure. We did everything right."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:11 PM

Cut. Jib. Newsletter?

Posted by: Hampshire Constables at June 08, 2026 04:19 PM (0sNs1)

191 The Anthony case, help me out Horde. Charge Murder One, death penalty on the table?

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:19 PM (Gqar8)

192 The Anthony case, help me out Horde. Charge Murder One, death penalty on the table?
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:19 PM

No. Anthony was 17 when he murdered Austin.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:20 PM (3IrX0)

193 ====

I said it before, but Trump should set up a program that helps people renounce their citizenship and leave.

Once they renounce their citizenship, they'd be, perhaps, eligible for deportation and compensation of travel through CBPOne.

Spend hundreds of millions selling it to the people in the blue enclaves to get 100,000 out in the first year.

Completely worth it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering
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Hear, hear

Very civil action advocated above. One step further, if they advocate leaving or engage in anti-American speech or belong to anti-American organizations or cults - expropriate them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:20 PM (cW1mv)

194 191 The Anthony case, help me out Horde. Charge Murder One, death penalty on the table?

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:19 PM (Gqar

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He was 17 at the time, so no.

Judge Roy Bean wouldn't have let that detail let this punk off.

What happened to you, Texas?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:20 PM (IOrWk)

195 Meh. They all look alike.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:11 PM (3IrX0)

Gurpreet Digwa, the older brother, has a fuller beard, which is why I think he is the one swinging the sword in the road rage incident.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 04:20 PM (J4Dwc)

196 Defense accepted all 12 in the end.
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They must know their case sucks and are hoping for the appeal by BLM to help with the election.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:20 PM (XGfD9)

197 This is your A-4 report for today.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 08, 2026 04:17 PM

The Scooter was a fine airframe.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2026 04:21 PM (0sNs1)

198 These aren't simple racist police.
These are agents of an corrupt government.
Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (RHGPo)

No one seems to realize that, very often, the police *are* the invaders. That was one of the things that kept the lid on Rotherham for so long. Yes, the rapists were Pakistani, but so were the police officers.

Scotland doesn't look to have even that excuse, it seems. All the photos I've seen suggest their police are generally white collaborators.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 04:21 PM (lFFaq)

199 I mean, are we going to allow a Muslim caliphate in the UK access to nuclear weapons?

King Charles has clearly shown his allegiance to Islam.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 08, 2026 04:21 PM (qwx/I)

200 What happened to you, Texas?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:20 PM (IOrWk)

Yankee transplants.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:21 PM (3IrX0)

201 I think Japanese started emigrating to Central/South America after the U.S. stopped the open immigration policy. Second-best choice.

Same as the way that nowadays any mook who can't get into the US winds up in Canada.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 04:21 PM (IG3/x)

202 Are there not cases where states charge under 18’s as adults due to the nature of the crime?

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:21 PM (Gqar8)

203 192 The Anthony case, help me out Horde. Charge Murder One, death penalty on the table?
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:19 PM

No. Anthony was 17 when he murdered Austin.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Put him in a cell with Butch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:21 PM (cW1mv)

204 196 Defense accepted all 12 in the end.
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They must know their case sucks and are hoping for the appeal by BLM to help with the election.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:20 PM (XGfD9)

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The defense case is shit. Karmelo refusing to accept guilty pleas is the problem here.

He feels he's justified because he was disrepected. That's not law in America. At least not yet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:21 PM (IOrWk)

205
Gurpreet Digwa, the older brother, has a fuller beard, which is why I think he is the one swinging the sword in the road rage incident.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 04:20 PM (J4Dwc)

I was kidding. I'm a kidder.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:21 PM (3IrX0)

206 The entire Royal Navy’s nuclear-powered attack submarine fleet is currently out of service, with all five operational Astute-class submarines stuck in port undergoing maintenance or repair. A sixth Astute-class boat, though commissioned, is not yet ready for deployment RT. This means the UK has zero% availability for its hunter-killer submarines, which are critical for anti-submarine warfare, protecting aircraft carriers, and escorting the Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarines carrying the UK’s nuclear deterrent.

... The Brits are making Dementia Joe look good

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:22 PM (RHGPo)

207 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (n7rxJ)

Because the black potential jurors were so nakedly partisan that even the defense had to reject them.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 04:22 PM (lFFaq)

208 The UK is what happens when you have two leftard parties at the helm.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:22 PM (XGfD9)

209 132 Lucy Connoly said something about wanting mosques burned down. Meanwhile a muslim politician said " these are terrible far right people should cut their throats"(while making a throat slash) . He was quickly aquitted.
Posted by: steevy

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not mosques, the relocation centers they are putting in vulnerable communities and filling with invaders. (IIRC)

but it was a tweet, quickly deleted, in a moment of anger.

But yes, they should be burnt down. The mosques should be too.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 04:22 PM (qNPFr)

210 I realize there is more the UK government is hiding.

The UK is blanketed with CCTV cameras.
Every street.
Every intersection.
Everywhere.
And drones.

It's one of the things they are most proud of, after the socialist health care, their totalitarian surveillance state.

And ... not a single CCTV video? Of any part of the street that day?

Riiiight.

You know why?

Because it shows the killer was chasing Henry.
And only stabbed him when he'd cornered him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 04:22 PM (73/SM)

211 Peru elected a Japanese prezzie in the 90s too. It’s a thing there.
Posted by: Heroq

Alberto Fujimori. He killed off the Shining Path, but then got caught up in some corruption scheme, IIRC, and fled back to Japan.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 04:22 PM (77rzZ)

212 >>> 43
==
California was trying to criminalize "misgendering" people iirc.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (okun6)

They *did*, iirc back in 2017 specifically for "health care workers". Don't know if the asshoes expended it since then.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:23 PM (R+iUD)

213 >>>We need a new Hampshire!

New Hampshire is also full of self-flagellants who vote for authoritarian leftists. We need a New-New Hampshire.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 08, 2026 04:23 PM (CwhoI)

214 207 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (n7rxJ)

Because the black potential jurors were so nakedly partisan that even the defense had to reject them.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 04:22 PM (lFFaq)

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I think they were struck by the prosecution because they were teachers, not because of their race.

Outside of the people who were saying things like "I couldn't put a brother behind bars" which was probably equal parts stupidity and just trying to get out of a high-profile jury trial. I believe these were struck by the judge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:23 PM (IOrWk)

215 JustTheNews: Supreme Court overturns ruling on Biden-era furnace rules in win for natural gas groups

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:23 PM (RHGPo)

216 the Upper Class Twits think will happen to them once the Muslims get control? I suspect the same thing that happened to the Iranian commies that helped Khomeni
===
The upper class twit can't imagine a world where their position doesn't insulate them from the not upper class. The class system is so ingrained in their minds that they can not conceive of any other world.
The importation of coolies, or wogs, is of no matter to them. They think that from now on, their servant class will simply be darker than the typical Irish ghost skins that served them for centuries.

Posted by: Immediately come to mind at June 08, 2026 04:24 PM (anL5R)

217 New Hampshire is also full of self-flagellants who vote for authoritarian leftists. We need a New-New Hampshire.

Meh American New Hampshire is full of right leaning people and cities that produce a bunch of ballots for leftwing lunatics

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

218 Anecdote:

Last week I was at the Va (don't ask), and it being a 1/4 mile hike from remote parking to the entrance, I waited until the shuttle came around. I said good morning to the driver, and thought that I detected a British accent in his reply. Then, he hestitated closing the shuttle door while looking at the back of my truck cap, which has a St. George flag sticker on the rear window. 'I can't tell you how much I appreciate the St.George flag sticker' he said.

There followed some conversation as he transported me up to the hospital entrance. It turns out that he was an ex-London bobby. They left because he and his wife could not stand London anymore.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 08, 2026 04:24 PM (XeU6L)

219 U.S. President Donald Trump is considering the possibility of purchasing the strategically important Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean directly from Mauritius. This scenario has gained momentum due to delays in the UK’s plans to transfer sovereignty over these islands. The new U.S. administration seeks to gain full control over the archipelago to secure its military positions in the region. Washington’s main goal is to preserve and protect the strategic Diego Garcia military base, which is currently jointly used by the U.S. and the UK.

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:24 PM (RHGPo)

220 I liked the fact that the local Sikh community had banned him from the temple because they considered him an active risk to their safety.
But nothing could be done.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 04:25 PM (rbvCR)

221 How did the all-white Karmelo Anthony jury even get seated? I think we went through some of this, but how does the prosecution ever think a guilty verdict won't be overturned on the basis of "jury of his peers"?

Every black prospective juror questioned during jury selection said openly that they would refuse to convict a black man even if he was guilty.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 04:25 PM (2ocoG)

222 How did the all-white Karmelo Anthony jury even get seated? I think we went through some of this, but how does the prosecution ever think a guilty verdict won't be overturned on the basis of "jury of his peers"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
____________

As far as I know, there is no law applicable to the entire panel called in for jury selection. Any blacks on that original panel were:

1) struck for cause (something they said during jury selection indicating they could not be impartial)
2) struck through use of a peremptory strike (which are subject to a Batson challenge on racial grounds), or
3) not randomly selected from the jurors remaining after strikes for cause and peremptory strikes.

If all of that was done properly, then he's got no issue on appeal.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 04:25 PM (XvL8K)

223
Defense accepted all 12 in the end.

"Peer" doesn't mean racial group in America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

I don't remember exactly, but is there some idea that the defense agreed to the all-white jury in order to poison pill any guilty verdict?

And lol "peer" can certainly mean racial group to the right federal district court, although I hear that the relevant district and circuit courts for this case ARE conservative.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:25 PM (n7rxJ)

224 He was 17 at the time, so no.

Judge Roy Bean wouldn't have let that detail let this punk off.

What happened to you, Texas?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wimmenses.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 04:25 PM (lwhHh)

225 > They must know their case sucks and are hoping for the appeal by BLM to help with the election.
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Mistrial... no blacks on the jury. Racism. Any other potential reason they can come up with based on the demographics.

Rince and repeat until a "correct" verdict is reached.

It's their only hope.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 04:26 PM (jehhT)

226 I mean, are we going to allow a Muslim caliphate in the UK access to nuclear weapons?
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Don't worry, it won't be long before we have another president with the middle name Hussein . . .

Posted by: Laughter and tears at June 08, 2026 04:26 PM (anL5R)

227 They've already had a Japanese president. Alberto Fujimori in the 90s.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

Coincidentally, the right-wing politician leading is also named Fujimori; Alberto's daughter, Keiko Fujimori.

This is like the fourth time she's run for president.
This might finally be her chance.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 04:26 PM (6ydKt)

228 H1B ruling was a judge (from Massachusetts of course) literally saying $100k is a tax and only congress can enact new taxes.

He channeled John Roberts.

But I’m sure the gop will pass a law mandating $100k. Right after they pass SAVE.

God forbid Americans getting IT jobs. That’s like unconstitutional bruh.

Spit.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 04:26 PM (Vb3xW)

229 227
Coincidentally, the right-wing politician leading is also named Fujimori; Alberto's daughter, Keiko Fujimori.

This is like the fourth time she's run for president.
This might finally be her chance.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 04:26 PM (6ydKt)

=====

"Get a job!"

"I'm trying!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:26 PM (IOrWk)

230 NY releases rules for doctor-assisted patient suicide — Governor Hochul to set example

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:26 PM (RHGPo)

231 206 The entire Royal Navy’s nuclear-powered attack submarine fleet is currently out of service,
...
... The Brits are making Dementia Joe look good
Posted by: SMOD
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We should take our nukes back.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:27 PM (cW1mv)

232 We should take out nukes back while we can.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:27 PM (cW1mv)

233
Every black prospective juror questioned during jury selection said openly that they would refuse to convict a black man even if he was guilty.
Posted by: Ian S.

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

EVERY one, yeesh. And that was in good ol' conservative Texas. Well, I guess we have a way to go in winning over the Black vote.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:27 PM (n7rxJ)

234 How did the all-white Karmelo Anthony jury even get seated? I think we went through some of this, but how does the prosecution ever think a guilty verdict won't be overturned on the basis of "jury of his peers"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia

While the media will report it's an 'all white jury' to provoke racial war, there are a couple Asians and a hijab wearing Indian or some such woman.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:28 PM (3IrX0)

235 Hang them all.

Or Heads Will Roll.

https://youtu.be/auzfTPp4moA

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:28 PM (dK+Kv)

236 >
Meh American New Hampshire is full of right leaning people and cities that produce a bunch of ballots for leftwing lunatics
Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

Reinstituting property ownership as a qualification for voting would go a long way toward remedying this, and I say that as someone who sold out and now lives in a retirement community (i.e., I wouldn't get to vote any more).

If we could add literacy and numeracy tests, we'd be in, as older-timers than me used to say, "high clover".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 04:28 PM (IG3/x)

237 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:25 PM (n7rxJ)

That's where my mind goes plus it gives the election season riots some fuel. Blacks used to matter to Democrats only every four years but I'm thinking it might be two now with more people paying attention to "midterms".

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:28 PM (XGfD9)

238 >>>Well, I guess we have a way to go in winning over the Black vote.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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The 'culture' is thick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:28 PM (cW1mv)

239 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:25 PM (n7rxJ)

"All white" ignores that there are asians and hispanics on the jury as well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (lFFaq)

240 Start up a campaign to insist Parliament pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act verbatim.

It would actually go a long way to preventing the two-tiered justice system in the UK.

Which is precisely why it will be hilarious watching the usual suspects denounce, by name, 'the most landmark human rights legislation passed in the 20th century'.

Posted by: Malicious Compliance at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (Xl4WS)

241 175
How did the all-white Karmelo Anthony jury even get seated? I think we went through some of this, but how does the prosecution ever think a guilty verdict won't be overturned on the basis of "jury of his peers"?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:16 PM (n7rxJ)

Is it actually "all white" or is it simply being portrayed that way because there aren't any black jurors? Also consider that they were only able to get THREE potential qualified black jurors essentially because the rest said they just couldn't send a poor little black child to prison. And these three got struck because they're all teachers, which the judge ruled was a race-neutral basis. If Anthony gets convicted, and he should based on the overwhelming evidence of his guilt as we know it to be, they are going to appeal and would have appealed regardless of jury composition.

Posted by: I hate the tribalism forced upon us at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (TbWk/)

242 murder of George Floyd.

Murder? Dint he stuff a lethal OD in his own keester?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (Kt19C)

243 How does Peru get a Jap president?
Posted by: Don Black

Pre-WWII there was a lot of Japanese emigration from the islands. Part of it was an economic thing where contractors found land and encouraged emigration to South America, especially Peru and Brazil, and part of it was liberal minded Japanese who had an inkling of what was coming. Remember there was a lot of Japanese on the West Coast of the US, in places like Seattle, Tacoma and Portland too, and for the the same reasons.
Japan's move from an isolated medieval society to an industrial society in four generations left a lot of people on the outside, and one reaction for those who were losing in the conversion was to emigrate

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (rbvCR)

244 EVERY one, yeesh. And that was in good ol' conservative Texas. Well, I guess we have a way to go in winning over the Black vote.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:27 PM (n7rxJ)

I'm not at all sure I want the black vote, if this is the way they think and act.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (bl07w)

245 @232 I think the nukes at RAF Lakenheath have been pulled out, of course the DoD's policy is to neither confirm nor yada yada yada.

Those NSIs were fun.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (qwx/I)

246 Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 04:26 PM (6ydKt)

Very interesting. Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

247 Was Ted Bundy for or against aparteid?

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (dIske)

248 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:28 PM (3IrX0)

Yeah so I don't think the presence of asians is going to calm tensions

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (XGfD9)

249 Yuba City McDonald’s boss rushed to ICU with horrific injuries after colleague threw scorching hot oil over him

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (RHGPo)

250
I don't remember exactly, but is there some idea that the defense agreed to the all-white jury in order to poison pill any guilty verdict?
——

It’s not all white, though. Sounds to me like armchair lawyering of the hopeful variety, but maybe one of our real lawyers (obviously not me!) can educate us.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 04:30 PM (Wmg4n)

251 Posted by: Ian S.

I think that may have more to do with the fact that they didn't want to spend the time on the jury and were worried about being dox d if they did serve . And voted to convict People frequently try to get out of jury service if they possibly can/people of all races.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 04:30 PM (looXz)

252 He was 17 at the time, so no.

Judge Roy Bean wouldn't have let that detail let this punk off.

What happened to you, Texas?

Roper v. Simmons, 2005

Posted by: Oddbob at June 08, 2026 04:30 PM (vTZFs)

253 As long as the govt submits or subsidizes anti-culture it will continue. It may metastasize as its own merchandises it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:30 PM (cW1mv)

254 something something
slowly, then all at once

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:30 PM (R+iUD)

255 239 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:25 PM (n7rxJ)

"All white" ignores that there are asians and hispanics on the jury as well.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (lFFaq)

The term White is always used situationally by the Left. Been that way for a long term.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:30 PM (Gqar8)

256 So, that divisive beginning to the movie "Hot Fuzz" was more or less accurate

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:30 PM (RHGPo)

257 228 H1B ruling was a judge (from Massachusetts of course) literally saying $100k is a tax and only congress can enact new taxes.

He channeled John Roberts.
Posted by: Heroq at June

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This is same as tariff issue, but simpler. If admin can not tax, well they can ban. Or they can delay. The fee is the "easy way" solution but the administration has power to do it the hard way too.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 04:31 PM (qNPFr)

258 I'm sure if this wasn't over my head I would agree with this
Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (XGfD9)
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Let me take another shot at it. If I were to leave my faith behind, I am still confronted by 1) what do we know, and 2) how do we know it. And the many questions of epistemology just make it harder to establish any of that.

As well, some moderns now tell us that there is no "freewill" (which is not per se "God", so the "atheists" just continue to make salad out of everything). Thus I don't even know that anything I read can change my mind or that I can consciously take in anything. People like Daniel Dennett want to caution me against the assumption that there is even such a thing as can be described a "me", or that "I" can make a decision.

All of which does not feel like the holistic experience of reading and writing. Thus and reading and writing on the chance that there are other people out there is a sort of faith in its own. And that relationship can be described in this model: My Word testifies that I AM.

Thus my faith in the Christian model of God is intermixed with my faith in the worth of writing anything to other primates.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:31 PM (Fi81e)

259 This used to be funny take on Bobbies. Now, it looks about right.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pwfP7rz4aoM

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 04:31 PM (qx7Zg)

260 The 'culture' is thick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:28 PM

Thicc is good.

Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at June 08, 2026 04:31 PM (0sNs1)

261 Seems like the Anthony team could have used the services of Vincent LaGuardia Gambini and Mona Lisa Vito.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 08, 2026 04:31 PM (qwx/I)

262 So the Anthony kid, what is he looking at, maximum?

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (Gqar8)

263 Karmeli trial . Jury deliberations tomorrow. Verdict Wed. Riots Wed night after guilty verdict

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (zj5z7)

264
She added, “The knife went completely through Austin’s heart wall. The prosecutors were trying to show a photo of the autopsy. They walked the photo to the defense. Karmelo looked away. According to the Daily Mail, one female juror was “covering her mouth” when she saw Austin’s heart. Both Austin Metcalf’s parents and some of his family left the room to avoid hearing the details. Karmelo Anthony’s mother also walked out.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:59 PM

---------

I would have expected the mother to beam with pride and hungry glee.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (biznJ)

265 The media will report it as all white. Facts won't matter to the paid mob any more than any time in the past.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (XGfD9)

266 "All white" ignores that there are asians and hispanics on the jury as well.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (lFFaq)

So now you are either white, or black. No other options. Well, that excludes most of the population of the world. Just how stupid are the journalists? Well, I guess we knew that already, didn't we?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (bl07w)

267 And these three got struck because they're all teachers, which the judge ruled was a race-neutral basis.
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Yeah, I don't like teachers. Three on the panel at the same time, no way. Social workers, also a problem. Believe it or not, air traffic controllers also.

Posted by: Laughter and tears at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (anL5R)

268 It’s not all white, though. Sounds to me like armchair lawyering of the hopeful variety, but maybe one of our real lawyers (obviously not me!) can educate us.
Posted by: Piper
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Right. I read the roster and there is much diversity, just no blacks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (cW1mv)

269 The term White is always used situationally by the Left. Been that way for a long term.
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:30 PM (Gqar

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Which is another way of saying they have built up elaborate scheme to not mean what they are saying at any time.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (Fi81e)

270 Ofc there will be Karmelo Anthony riots.It's riot season.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (YwEeS)

271 The time for getting the hell out is long past, and please spare me the "but muh job" "but muh family" bullshit.
Posted by: ballistic

I'm almost 59. I have 29.5 years experience practicing California law. What do you expect me to do to earn a living at this point? Construction?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (W5mpo)

272 255 239 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:25 PM (n7rxJ)

"All white" ignores that there are asians and hispanics on the jury as well.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (lFFaq)

The term White is always used situationally by the Left. Been that way for a long term.

asians and hispanics are the off-white face of white supremacy.

Posted by: anachronda at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (oY6Yp)

273 Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (bl07w)

That's why Democrats invented "brown". I'm sure blacks just looooove being lumped in with "brown". Very enlightened and progressive.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (XGfD9)

274 I would have expected the mother to beam with pride and hungry glee.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (biznJ)

She already got paid. Why should she care what happens to her wayward spawn?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (bl07w)

275 New York bill replaces ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’ in state law

Next session, they plan to replace "politician" with "elected criminal"

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (RHGPo)

276 @ 249, there's a few identifying traits of perp and victim you left out of the headline. but otoh we all know.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (n5tGW)

277 Yuba City McDonald’s boss rushed to ICU with horrific injuries after colleague threw scorching hot oil over him

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (RHGPo)

WTF is wrong with people?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (dK+Kv)

278 @262 most Karmelo can get is life

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (zj5z7)

279 >>> 164 155 I saw a report that claims that 55% of Democrats hate living in the US, and want to leave. It looks like they'd enjoy living in the new UK, and should emigrate. They can take Meghan and Harry back with them, as well.

UK gets new targets for their fun, and the US loses some of its self-loathing. Win-Win.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (qx7Zg)

====

I said it before, but Trump should set up a program that helps people renounce their citizenship and leave.

Once they renounce their citizenship, they'd be, perhaps, eligible for deportation and compensation of travel through CBPOne.

Spend hundreds of millions selling it to the people in the blue enclaves to get 100,000 out in the first year.

Completely worth it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:15 PM (IOrWk)

istr there is currently a massive *penalty* for leaving, on the oder of $100k minimum, which may have been set up during Bush junior's admin.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (R+iUD)

280 I was kidding. I'm a kidder.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 04:21 PM (3IrX0)

I know.

If you're interested:

https://tinyurl.com/yt8ae7vk

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (J4Dwc)

281 Or Heads Will Roll.

https://youtu.be/auzfTPp4moA

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:28 PM (dK+Kv)

I discovered that video/song several years ago.

It's actually weird how much I enjoy it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 04:34 PM (6ydKt)

282 271 The time for getting the hell out is long past, and please spare me the "but muh job" "but muh family" bullshit.
Posted by: ballistic

I'm almost 59. I have 29.5 years experience practicing California law. What do you expect me to do to earn a living at this point? Construction?

well, learning to code is out...

Posted by: claude at June 08, 2026 04:34 PM (oY6Yp)

283 269 The term White is always used situationally by the Left. Been that way for a long term.
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:30 PM (Gqar
______________________________

My favorite courtesy of the LA Times. "White Supremacist, Larry Elder."

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 04:34 PM (dIske)

284 Believe it or not, air traffic controllers also.

Posted by: Laughter and tears at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (anL5R)

Any particular reason?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 04:35 PM (lFFaq)

285 271 I'm almost 59. I have 29.5 years experience practicing California law. What do you expect me to do to earn a living at this point? Construction?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (W5mpo)

I am hiring! 🤣

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 04:35 PM (Wmg4n)

286 277 Yuba City McDonald’s boss rushed to ICU with horrific injuries after colleague threw scorching hot oil over him

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (RHGPo)

WTF is wrong with people?

some days you just can't get rid of ~~a bomb~~ scorching hot oil

Posted by: batman at June 08, 2026 04:35 PM (oY6Yp)

287 Yuba City McDonald’s boss rushed to ICU with horrific injuries after colleague threw scorching hot oil over him

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (RHGPo)

WTF is wrong with people?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (dK+Kv)
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There's a book that goes into that. Some people call it The Book.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:35 PM (Fi81e)

288 After talking with my wife about the KA trial I think the kid's toast. It's telling that no big name race baiting attorney(s) "volunteered" to defend him. While sucking up some of that sweet BLM cash. And probably sticking it to his parents who've obviously got assets they could sell and probably a large GFM account.

*shrugs* He deserves to be knifed in prison. Karma and all that shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 04:35 PM (jehhT)

289 One of my most favorite "Ha ha! You stupid MAGA thought Pratt would win?! lol" tweets so far is:

L.A. is 60% registered Democrats, of course Pratt was going to lose.

Oh?
Oh, then how come Pratt didn't get 40% of the vote? Is not even breaking 20%?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 04:36 PM (73/SM)

290 When did the British become so awful?

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 04:36 PM (fZiTB)

291 278 @262 most Karmelo can get is life
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (zj5z7)

Yeah, but he's stupid enough to cock off in prison and get shanked, so at least there is hope.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 04:36 PM (bl07w)

292 istr there is currently a massive *penalty* for leaving, on the oder of $100k minimum, which may have been set up during Bush junior's admin.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (R+iUD)

If it's administrative law, set it to $20, same as in town.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 04:36 PM (qx7Zg)

293 "Digwa was handed a minimum jail term of 21 years on Monday, before riots erupted in Southampton a day later."

That's only acceptable IF he is killed in prison, the sooner the better.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 08, 2026 04:36 PM (vbXSk)

294 My favorite courtesy of the LA Times. "White Supremacist, Larry Elder."

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 04:34 PM (dIske)
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WSOC - White supremacist Of Color.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:36 PM (Fi81e)

295 WTF is wrong with people?
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this is what a post christian/jewish culture acts like. Feral.

Posted by: Laughter and tears at June 08, 2026 04:36 PM (anL5R)

296 This used to be funny take on Bobbies.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

I first read this (of course) as "Boobies."

Benny Hill did some funny takes on boobies.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 04:37 PM (77rzZ)

297 266 "All white" ignores that there are asians and hispanics on the jury as well.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (lFFaq)

So now you are either white, or black.

ebony and ivory, baby.

Posted by: paul mccartney and stevie wonder at June 08, 2026 04:37 PM (oY6Yp)

298 296 This used to be funny take on Bobbies.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

I first read this (of course) as "Boobies."

Benny Hill did some funny takes on boobies.

pretty sure he's done at least one about bobbies with boobies

Posted by: anachronda at June 08, 2026 04:37 PM (oY6Yp)

299

"Heads Must Roll"

How Islamic of you, Ace!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 08, 2026 04:37 PM (x0n13)

300 Will he be allowed to wear his purely ceremonial Sikh knife in prison? It is purely a religious symbol, after all.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (vbXSk)

301 @290 -- I was stationed there twice. I think things got worse when Oasis broke up (the first time), or it may have been when Blair got elected. So 1997.

We were riding the Spice Girls high in 96 and came crashing down in 97.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (qwx/I)

302 ---
I'm almost 59. I have 29.5 years experience practicing California law. What do you expect me to do to earn a living at this point? Construction?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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It's not that difficult to get a license in other states.
I think one can get a temp license while he works on the specifics of the new state.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (cW1mv)

303 You know what is really bad for the economy, investment, productivity, public safety and hygiene?

A feral culture.

Posted by: Laughter and tears at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (anL5R)

304 Cultural Marxists covering their tracks
Get out Anglo-Saxons while getting out is still good.

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)

305 I am hiring! 🤣
Posted by: Piper

From beyond the grave?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (W5mpo)

306 > I'm sure blacks just looooove being lumped in with "brown". Very enlightened and progressive.
Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (XGfD9)

Ask the blacks who got ethnically cleansed out of Compton, California, which is now majority Hispanic.

1980: 70% black
2020: 70% Hispanic

Guess NWA and the other Boyz In Da Hood weren't quite as badass as they pretended to be, huh?

"You'd better get your ass Straight Outta Compton, pendejo!"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (IG3/x)

307 Ebony and Ivory. That is one smarmy, saccharine song.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (Gqar8)

308
"All white" ignores that there are asians and hispanics on the jury as well.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

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

Those people got lumped in with us pale devils when George Zimmerman was found to be Hispanic.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:39 PM (n7rxJ)

309 I am hiring! 🤣
Posted by: Piper

From beyond the grave?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (W5mpo)

Benevolent spirits need minions, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:39 PM (dK+Kv)

310 When did the British become so awful?

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 04:36 PM (fZiTB)
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Just like the rest of Europe: When they told God they could take it from here.

They knew just how to play Jenga with Western Civilization. They were scientific-minded people.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:39 PM (Fi81e)

311 305 I am hiring! 🤣
Posted by: Piper

From beyond the grave?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (W5mpo)

Teaching fitness through a medium.

Posted by: Sweating to the Seance at June 08, 2026 04:40 PM (TbWk/)

312
California was trying to criminalize "misgendering" people iirc.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

They passed an anti-Nick Shirley law.

Serious. You can't be Shirley.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 04:40 PM (Cqx++)

313 309 I am hiring! 🤣
Posted by: Piper

From beyond the grave?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at

Pay and benefits are garbage. The environment is awesome.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 04:40 PM (Wmg4n)

314 >>> 266 "All white" ignores that there are asians and hispanics on the jury as well.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 04:29 PM (lFFaq)

So now you are either white, or black. No other options. Well, that excludes most of the population of the world. Just how stupid are the journalists? Well, I guess we knew that already, didn't we?
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 04:32 PM (bl07w)

Bluebell the hen is smarter than most if not all of them.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:41 PM (R+iUD)

315 > They must know their case sucks and are hoping for the appeal by BLM to help with the election.
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Mistrial... no blacks on the jury. Racism. Any other potential reason they can come up with based on the demographics.
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Texas has been under "You all are racists" for so long, the courts have gotten very, very good at insulating juries and trials from fake claims of racial bias.

Like, so so much caselaw.

yes, the defense will try.
And it will fail badly.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 04:41 PM (73/SM)

316 Those people got lumped in with us pale devils when George Zimmerman was found to be Hispanic.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:39 PM (n7rxJ)
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Actually, there's a trend that the longer a Hispanic family stays in the US, the more likely they have been to identify as white.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

317 his parents who've obviously got assets they could sell and probably a large GFM account.

*shrugs* He deserves to be knifed in prison. Karma and all that shit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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They have/has a GFM account (fat) - imagine they are burning through it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:41 PM (cW1mv)

318 Once they renounce their citizenship, they'd be, perhaps, eligible for deportation and compensation of travel through CBPOne.

Spend hundreds of millions selling it to the people in the blue enclaves to get 100,000 out in the first year.

Completely worth it.
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Hey, you just made social security solvent . . .

naw, just kidding, that shits busted beyond belief

Posted by: Laughter and tears at June 08, 2026 04:41 PM (anL5R)

319 CO, DC, IL, IN, IA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MT, NE, ND, OH, OR, TN, TX, VT, WA, WI have bar reciprocity with CA.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 04:42 PM (IG3/x)

320 I am hiring! 🤣
Posted by: Piper

From beyond the grave?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (W5mpo)

Well, that does mean there's an opening.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 04:43 PM (1Ff7Z)

321 Serious. You can't be Shirley.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 04:40 PM (Cqx++)
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Don't Say Nick Shirley law.

Posted by: Bill O'Attainder at June 08, 2026 04:43 PM (Fi81e)

322 >>> 305 I am hiring! 🤣
Posted by: Piper

From beyond the grave?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 04:38 PM (W5mpo)

She has a Quality Learing and Other Stuff Center; she's probably rolling in dough.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:43 PM (R+iUD)

323 What ever happened to the two lesbian bobbies who caused this murder to take place?

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at June 08, 2026 04:43 PM (OhZoB)

324 316 Actually, there's a trend that the longer a Hispanic family stays in the US, the more likely they have been to identify as white.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

=======

It's like a generation, by the way, if they don't already come in thinking they're white.

And it's because Latin Americans are deeply racist against indigenous people and like to imagine that they're all descended from Spaniard colonizers. Many of whom are.

There's a chance that AOC is more white than Ron Wyden.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:43 PM (IOrWk)

325 154 149 Daily Mail also ran a piece the other day about the Sikh community in London growing uneasy over fear of...wait for it...

...backlash.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 04:12 PM (J4Dwc)

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Are they afraid enough to leave the country for their own safety?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:13 PM (IOrWk)

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Afraid enough to sharpen their kirpans?

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 04:44 PM (rj6Yv)

326 > Quality Learing
> Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:43 PM (R+iUD)

This is never going to not be funny.

Generations from now people will still be saying this, even though they have no idea where it came from.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 04:44 PM (IG3/x)

327 I'm sure blacks just looooove being lumped in with "brown". Very enlightened and progressive.

My favorite is still that the latest version of the trans flag lumps black and brown in with LGBT.

The Canadian acronym that says if you're kidnapped or murdered you become LGBT may actually beat that though.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 04:45 PM (2ocoG)

328 It's not that difficult to get a license in other states.
I think one can get a temp license while he works on the specifics of the new state.
Posted by: Braenyard

Actually, it is. California does not have reciprocity so I would have to pass another state's bar exam, meaning I would have to learn a new set of statutory and case law, legal procedures, etc. Practicing law is not like practicing medicine. Medicine is pretty portable, even internationally. Law is not. Besides, California real property and consumer law certainly aren't. And then who's going to hire a 60 year old lawyer who's the equivalent of a 1st or 2nd year? No one. Get real.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 04:45 PM (W5mpo)

329 Hampshire Police must be getting pounded in their feedback section online. They have three separate security protocols up on the site. On cancels out bots. The next requires cookies to determine your location. The third is only determined by how slow the site loads.

I wonder if they are doing follow up visits on those people that don't appreciate their idiocy.

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 04:45 PM (dIske)

330 It's been awhile, or since a week ago, that any news has left me this outraged.

The video of Novak on the elevator, and looking over his shoulder...

I read he was initially threatened in that building then tried to leave.

The first video of his last breaths he was almost under a car. I guess crawling like a wounded animal to escape. This was after, with five knife wounds, he had jumped a fence and dumpster and landed there.

God bless his family with the comfort of many prayers. Novak should not have died, being 5min from a trauma center.

This monster should not have been on the bloody streets to murder him.

Perhaps the next step for the UK Government is to shut down the Internet like Iran?

I see that Queer Stuttering Startled Starmer met with Macron and little z of Youcrane today. With another dorky guy. I guess for a round of jacking off and forming a committee, after giving little z more money. SPIT

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 04:45 PM (WONhk)

331 225 > They must know their case sucks and are hoping for the appeal by BLM to help with the election.
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Mistrial... no blacks on the jury.

The judge isn't going to declare a mistrial based on jury composition that he approved. The defense may and probably will appeal and cite that as a basis, but mistrial isn't going to happen.

Posted by: No judge would ever do that. Ever. at June 08, 2026 04:45 PM (TbWk/)

332
Actually, there's a trend that the longer a Hispanic family stays in the US, the more likely they have been to identify as white.
Posted by: Axeman

Passing

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 04:46 PM (Cqx++)

333 I wonder if they are doing follow up visits on those people that don't appreciate their idiocy.
Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 04:45 PM (dIske)
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I'm starting to wonder which, if any, countries would offer Starmer and his confederates asylum.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 04:47 PM (rj6Yv)

334 She has a Quality Learing and Other Stuff Center; she's probably rolling in dough.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:43 PM (R+iUD)

It's gluten-free kale-based dough though.

Posted by: Do. Not. Want. at June 08, 2026 04:47 PM (TbWk/)

335
US: Back the Blue

UK: Back the Yellow

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 08, 2026 04:47 PM (OkYzo)

336 I see that Queer Stuttering Startled Starmer met with Macron and little z of Youcrane today. With another dorky guy. I guess for a round of jacking off and forming a committee, after giving little z more money. SPIT

Starmer and Macron have this fantasy that they'll show Trump and fix Ukraine themselves now. It's laughable at best.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 04:48 PM (2ocoG)

337 >>> 333 I wonder if they are doing follow up visits on those people that don't appreciate their idiocy.
Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 04:45 PM (dIske)
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I'm starting to wonder which, if any, countries would offer Starmer and his confederates asylum.
Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 04:47 PM (rj6Yv)

Iran?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:48 PM (R+iUD)

338 > There's a chance that AOC is more white than Ron Wyden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:43 PM (IOrWk)

Almost certainly. The Spaniards genocided the entire indigenous population of Puerto Rico. Any melanin she has likely came by way of Portuguese immigrants, with maybe some black. Definitely little-or-no feather Indian.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 04:49 PM (IG3/x)

339 And it's because Latin Americans are deeply racist against indigenous people and like to imagine that they're all descended from Spaniard colonizers. Many of whom are.

There's a chance that AOC is more white than Ron Wyden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:43 PM (IOrWk)

My son is from Guatemala, and he's nearly all Mayan. The hispanics in Guatemala are so hateful toward the Mayans that most Mayans can't get jobs any better than being maids or lawn care folks for the obviously superior hispanics. And being poor in Guatemala is crushingly poor, like, living in cardboard shanties. That's why so many boys were put up for adoption. Girls don't need to be educated to be maids, so nobody had to pay for them to go to school, but boys need to read and write, and it costs real money to send them to even elementary school. So, they put them up for adoption.

Heartbreaking.

So when people say the US is racist, they have no idea.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 04:49 PM (bl07w)

340 Roseanne Boyland and Ashli Babbitt remain unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 08, 2026 04:50 PM (X+xvk)

341 I'm starting to wonder which, if any, countries would offer Starmer and his confederates asylum.
Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 04:47 PM (rj6Yv)

Iran?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:48 PM (R+iUD)

Where Starmer would get his first flying lesson - off a tall building.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 04:51 PM (qx7Zg)

342 >>> 339 And it's because Latin Americans are deeply racist against indigenous people and like to imagine that they're all descended from Spaniard colonizers. Many of whom are.

There's a chance that AOC is more white than Ron Wyden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 04:43 PM (IOrWk)

My son is from Guatemala, and he's nearly all Mayan. The hispanics in Guatemala are so hateful toward the Mayans that most Mayans can't get jobs any better than being maids or lawn care folks for the obviously superior hispanics. And being poor in Guatemala is crushingly poor, like, living in cardboard shanties. That's why so many boys were put up for adoption. Girls don't need to be educated to be maids, so nobody had to pay for them to go to school, but boys need to read and write, and it costs real money to send them to even elementary school. So, they put them up for adoption.

Heartbreaking.

So when people say the US is racist, they have no idea.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 04:49 PM (bl07w)

Yikes. ...and I'd heard somewhere that Mexicans refer to stupid people as Guatemalans.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:51 PM (R+iUD)

343 Starmer and Macron have this fantasy that they'll show Trump and fix Ukraine themselves now. It's laughable at best.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 04:48 PM (2ocoG)

They are going to go and do a bunch of coke with Z, and brag about how they are going to win this so hard it will emasculate Trump and Rubio, and how after that Farage will beg to give them pedicures while they go on to win election after election.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 04:51 PM (rbvCR)

344 Roseanne Boyland and Ashli Babbitt remain unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 08, 2026 04:50 PM (X+xvk)

You're right.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:51 PM (dK+Kv)

345 Don't you love it when you get catch the cops in a conspiracy?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 08, 2026 04:52 PM (sM4Un)

346 They are going to go and do a bunch of coke with Z, and brag about how they are going to win this so hard it will emasculate Trump and Rubio, and how after that Farage will beg to give them pedicures while they go on to win election after election.
==
They will spend the rest of the evening sunk into each other up to their nuts.

Posted by: Laughter and tears at June 08, 2026 04:53 PM (anL5R)

347 324 There's a chance that AOC is more white than Ron Wyden.
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Ron Wyden is a wax-american.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 08, 2026 04:53 PM (0bjKf)

348 Yikes. ...and I'd heard somewhere that Mexicans refer to stupid people as Guatemalans.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 04:51 PM (R+iUD)

And yet people pay inordinate sums of money to purchase hand weaving by the self-same Mayans in Guatemala. So much so that most village women weave and then send one to the city with the finished product to sell to the tourists.

And it is beautiful stuff.

Maybe not so stupid.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (bl07w)

349 Back the Bobbies

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (Cqx++)

350 Nood denaturalization.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (N1tpc)

351 344 Roseanne Boyland and Ashli Babbitt remain unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 08, 2026 04:50 PM (X+xvk)

You're right.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

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

Perhaps Victoria White could hold forth on what, precisely, she did to deserve having Capitol Police punch her in the face fifty-some times. I think it had something to do with being white and conservative, but I'd love to hear her tell it.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (X+xvk)

352 White people go to jail for tweets.
====

The blatant racism is getting a bit tiresome.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (/lPRQ)

353 347 324 There's a chance that AOC is more white than Ron Wyden.
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Ron Wyden is a wax-american.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 08, 2026 04:53 PM (0bjKf)

We talking Edgar Winter white?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 04:54 PM (bl07w)

354 The defense has rested its case without calling Caramelo to the witness stand.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 04:55 PM (dK+Kv)

355 Construction?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 04:33 PM (W5mpo)

There's that. And "just move bro" is something I've done a lot of, in my life. Do I have to do it again? Eventually I'll run out of boltholes.
I suppose I could just look into the end of a long cylinder and take my chances in the next life, but my judgement would likely be that I'd have to move again.

Posted by: gKWVE learnt to code at June 08, 2026 04:55 PM (gKWVE)

356 =======

It's like a generation, by the way, if they don't already come in thinking they're white.

And it's because Latin Americans are deeply racist against indigenous people and like to imagine that they're all descended from Spaniard colonizers. Many of whom are.

There's a chance that AOC is more white than Ron Wyden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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There was a claim settlement early this century in Texas regarding a land grant from King Phillip of Spain.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:56 PM (cW1mv)

357 354 The defense has rested its case without calling Caramelo to the witness stand.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

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

No worries. This is Dallas. There will be two or three obstinate, delusional white people on that jury who will insist, against all reason, that he was "defending himself from whitey."

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 08, 2026 04:56 PM (X+xvk)

358 319 CO, DC, IL, IN, IA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MT, NE, ND, OH, OR, TN, TX, VT, WA, WI have bar reciprocity with CA.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 04:58 PM (cW1mv)

359 Ron Wyden is a wax-american.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 08, 2026 04:53 PM (0bjKf)

Litches should not hold high office.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 05:02 PM (rbvCR)

Politico Cancels "Climate Change" Grift Subscription Service-- A Year After DOGE Turns Off the Government Subsidy

You probably remember (at least if prompted) that during the days of DOGE upsetting all the socialist applecarts, it was revealed that Politico had a grifter newsletter with an exorbitantly high subscription price -- and that the main consumer was the US government, buying pricey subscriptions for leftwing bureaucrats who either wanted to read climate propaganda or just wanted to direct taxpayer money to support climate propaganda.

DOGE cancelled those subscriptions. The media howled, claiming that nearly $500,000 per year of taxpayer money was a very reasonable price to read Al Gore's Daily Diary.

And without that government subsidy, Politico now cancels this terrific value whose pricetag was totally justified by the marketplace.

Politico is discontinuing an energy and environmental news product a little over a year after the government canceled a nearly half a million dollar annual subscription to it.
Politico on Monday announced plans to shutter E&E News and introduce two new energy-focused newsletters in September, Semafor first reported. The move comes after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in February 2025 that the agency "will not be renewing our membership with Politico and Politico E&E, saving the American taxpayers $458,919 per year."

"Best $458,919 we ever saved on behalf of taxpayers," a spokesperson for the EPA told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "The government shouldn't subsidize poor journalism, and it's a stinging indictment of the previous administration that they wasted so many hard-earned American tax dollars keeping this outlet afloat."
"Beginning in September, we are modernizing how we deliver our energy and environmental policy journalism and launching a more focused, high-impact portfolio of daily news and intelligence products," Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Politico Global Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Greenberger said in a joint statement on Monday. "By bringing together our reporting from Washington, U.S. state capitals, Europe, and across industry, these newsletters will help subscribers see how policy decisions, political fights, and market forces intersect to reshape energy and climate."
...
"As part of this shift, E&E News will no longer operate as a separate brand. Its journalism and expertise will be fully integrated into POLITICO's energy and environment portfolio of stories, briefs, analysis and newsletters," according to Politico's statement. "The current E&E News publication structure will evolve into a connected set of energy and environment editorial products that share our deep reporting and strong analysis while showcasing our greater global editorial coordination."
When reached for comment, a Politico spokesperson referred the DCNF to the company's announcement from Monday.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:39 PM

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1 In the beginning,
God made the land.
Then he made the waters, and creatures,
Then he made man.

He was born with a passion, love and hate.
A restless spirit, with a need for a mate.
But there was something missing, something lost.
So he came up with the answer, here's what it cost:

One part love, one part wild
One part lady, one part child
I give you ...

THE BLADE IN FIRST

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

2 And I read the content.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (N1tpc)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (NcvvS)

4 Hey, we've NEVER been right, but we need that money!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (Kdi1r)

5 first?

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (vFG9F)

6 Close enough.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 02:40 PM (vFG9F)

7 Hehehehe

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 02:40 PM (Ia/+0)

8
Jeez, the CCP must be getting tight with their money.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 02:40 PM (Y8DZL)

9 Ahhhh haahh, First!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:40 PM (XV/Pl)

10 So many of liberal institutions have been forcing conservatives to fund them through government.

They cannot survive on their own.

It's also why they take over a conservative institution and destroy it. They CAN survive on their own, so they must be destroyed.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 02:40 PM (N1tpc)

11 Lol. Get fucked.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:41 PM (zZu0s)

12 I blame the war and that bastard Johnson!

Posted by: Red Buttons at June 08, 2026 02:41 PM (Fi81e)

13 Its journalism and expertise will be fully integrated into 8 page Tijuana bibles.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 08, 2026 02:41 PM (Kt19C)

14 Imagine if every Leftist grift was defunded

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 02:42 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Well, look what Doge did! Now where in hell are the government stooges gonna get their politically slanted bullshit reading materials? Reading that crap took up a good two hours per day. Do you really expect them to start WORKING those hours?

Oh, the huge manatee.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 02:42 PM (bl07w)

16 lolgf

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 02:42 PM (dK+Kv)

17 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:42 PM (3IrX0)

18 Well, look what Doge did! Now where in hell are the government stooges gonna get their politically slanted bullshit reading materials? Reading that crap took up a good two hours per day. Do you really expect them to start WORKING those hours?

Oh, the huge manatee.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 02:42 PM (bl07w)

You don't think the government people ever *read* those do you?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:42 PM (8avO+)

19 After the IPCC said " nevermind" subsequent to DOGE cutting the government grift, Politico finally said "no mas"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 02:42 PM (zj5z7)

20 I am very angry at myself that I did not figure out how to get the government to pay for my business. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 02:43 PM (p4NUW)

21 Well, look what Doge did! Now where in hell are the government stooges gonna get their politically slanted bullshit reading materials? Reading that crap took up a good two hours per day. Do you really expect them to start WORKING those hours?

Oh, the huge manatee.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 08, 2026 02:42 PM (bl07w)

Are you kidding? They can have AI generate that crap for them - or have it generate other types of porn for them.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 02:44 PM (qx7Zg)

22 You don't think the government people ever *read* those do you?
Posted by: Oldcat

Since they're not written in Ebonics, probably not.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

23 1 In the beginning,
God made the land.
Then he made the waters, and creatures,
Then he made man.

He was born with a passion, love and hate.
A restless spirit, with a need for a mate.
But there was something missing, something lost.
So he came up with the answer, here's what it cost:

One part love, one part wild
One part lady, one part child
I give you ...

THE BLADE IN FIRST
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

Not "Women"?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:45 PM (T6aVk)

24 You don't think the government people ever *read* those do you?

Probably not, but it was prominent on many an SES's coffee table.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 02:45 PM (Riz8t)

25 So many of liberal institutions have been forcing conservatives to fund them through government.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 02:40 PM (N1tpc)
---
Been on that trail for decades.

But, HOW DARE conservatives try to FUND themselves through non-profits where the government didn't tax organizations taking no profits!! It's a good thing Obama's IRS was there to bust them, then.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:45 PM (Fi81e)

26 years ago, when I said that academia and government had become a welfare system for the college-educated I had no f'ing idea how true it was / how deeply the rot had penetrated.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 02:45 PM (VyBeY)

27 I want an ice age.......250k years of -75 average

Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at June 08, 2026 02:45 PM (jrgJz)

28 I am very angry at myself that I did not figure out how to get the government to pay for my business. 🤣
Posted by: Piper

You should've talked up your Pawnee ancestry.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

29 Climate has always changed, is changing and always will change.

That money could be better spent paying down the debt.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:46 PM (T6aVk)

30 I imagine 10s of thousands make good money from tax money

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 02:46 PM (Ia/+0)

31 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (yKfDA)

32 I imagine 10s of thousands make good money from tax money
Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 02:46 PM (Ia/+0)

way way way way more than that.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (8avO+)

33 I wonder if anybody else had such a subscription to Politico, or was it just a $500,000 federal grant to a friendly site?

Posted by: Random PJ at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (+jscL)

34 " ... You don't think the government people ever *read* those do you?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:42 PM (8avO+) "

LOL, exactly! it would cut into their pron-viewing time!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (VyBeY)

35 income tax has to END

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (j+aD2)

36 31 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (yKfDA)

Not here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:48 PM (T6aVk)

37 I am very angry at myself that I did not figure out how to get the government to pay for my business. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 02:43 PM (p4NUW)

Zombie Piper Learing Center and Daycare

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:48 PM (3IrX0)

38 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (yKfDA)

Says its a hoax. Coincidentally I saw a infomercial about how 4 things from Japan cured him of Alzheimer's the other day.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:49 PM (8avO+)

39 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

It's a hoax, apparently.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:49 PM (77rzZ)

40 Not "Women"?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:45 PM (T6aVk)

Perhaps that was Blade's way of announcing he's had a sex change operation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 02:49 PM (PFs9e)

41 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (yKfDA)

His birthday was the other day and his son said he was finally retired, but that's about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:49 PM (3IrX0)

42 The whole leftwing media complex is ultimately paid for by the US taxpayers.

It is good we stopped USAID but it is by far not the only way they get funding

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

43 Usually if you look someone up who may have died its quickly out there

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 02:49 PM (Ia/+0)

44 "Beginning in September, we are modernizing how we deliver our energy and environmental policy journalism and launching a more focused, high-impact portfolio of daily news and intelligence products," Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Politico Global Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Greenberger said in a joint statement on Monday. "By bringing together our reporting from Washington, U.S. state capitals, Europe, and across industry, these newsletters will help subscribers see how policy decisions, political fights, and market forces intersect to reshape energy and climate."

this is all a long-winded way of saying "data centers > climate change", isn't it?

Posted by: anachronda at June 08, 2026 02:49 PM (oY6Yp)

45 @31

>>Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?

I think his son recently announced his retirement from film making.

He is 96 after all and has had a good run.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:49 PM (XV/Pl)

46 There's no telling how man NGOs and non-profits have laid off significant staff from DOGE and USAID.

I never did though get a real answer if when DOGE was showing say 130 year olds as still being "active" on Social Security, did that literally mean there really was 130 year old names getting social security checks distributed to these obviously long dead people?

Posted by: Leupold at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (eIzlH)

47 Does this mean I can use my recycling container as a make shift pool?

Posted by: Los Angeles Voter and Weirdo at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (OhZoB)

48 I blame the war and that bastard Johnson!

Reverend!

Posted by: Gabby Johnson at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (LbUS+)

49 39 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

It's a hoax, apparently.

it happens

Posted by: abe vigoda at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (oY6Yp)

50 Lol. Get fucked.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:41 PM (zZu0s)

It really can't be expressed enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (3IrX0)

51 He is 96 so it will be someday

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)

52 Politico should be printed on a 2-ply roll.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (oofEE)

53 There's no telling how man NGOs and non-profits have laid off significant staff from DOGE and USAID.

I never did though get a real answer if when DOGE was showing say 130 year olds as still being "active" on Social Security, did that literally mean there really was 130 year old names getting social security checks distributed to these obviously long dead people?
Posted by: Leupold at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (eIzlH)

im sure the answer is 'yes'

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:51 PM (8avO+)

54 The irony in all this is that will finally get rid of Global Warming is that the oligarchs that were controlling the narrative think they can get a better ROI from data centers which need all the energy we can generate.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 02:51 PM (sKqQm)

55 45 @31

>>Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?

I think his son recently announced his retirement from film making.

He is 96 after all and has had a good run.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:49 PM (XV/Pl)

=====

Which is news because everyone though he was retired after Cry Macho, then he made Juror #2.

And he'd put out things saying that he was looking for another project to direct.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:51 PM (IOrWk)

56 31 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (yKfDA)

_______________________

"Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy."

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 02:51 PM (dIske)

57 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (yKfDA)

He don't let the old man in.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:52 PM (3IrX0)

58 "Politico is discontinuing an energy and environmental news product"

I'm going to guess there wasn't single person at Politico that worked on this that could talk about energy production and use at above a 4th grade level.

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 02:52 PM (GUOwU)

59 What was the last movie that Eastwood starred in? Unforgiven?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

60 59 What was the last movie that Eastwood starred in? Unforgiven?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

======

Cry Macho. 2021.

It's not very good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:53 PM (IOrWk)

61
I am very angry at myself that I did not figure out how to get the government to pay for my business. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 02:43 PM (p4NUW)

Do it like I do with all of my municipal and state govt agency customers. Of course, I actually work on their equipment and provide an actual service, unlike these shit-heels. Invoices are immediately due, no Net 30 shit, because govt agencies think that Net 30 is actually Net 180. Had enough problems with credit accounts that I killed off most of them, unless we had an actual, formal contract.

Don't pay your bills? I don't ship you your product back. For a couple of customers I'm thinking about sending them their payment reminder emails in a ransom note format, complete with cutout letter font.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 08, 2026 02:53 PM (FkdoK)

62 What was the last movie that Eastwood starred in? Unforgiven?
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

Grand Torino?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (3IrX0)

63 "Politico is discontinuing an energy and environmental news product"

I'm going to guess there wasn't single person at Politico that worked on this that could talk about energy production and use at above a 4th grade level.
Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 02:52 PM (GUOwU)

I'm going to guess there wasn't single person at Politico that could talk at above a 4th grade level.

(fixed it for you)

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (8avO+)

64 *Gran.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (3IrX0)

65 income tax has to END

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM

Property taxes need to end as well. Either go to a national sales tax or some form of consumption tax. But this picking on people with money system needs to end and everyone needs to have some skin in the game.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (0N4FZ)

66 59 What was the last movie that Eastwood starred in? Unforgiven?
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

The Force Awakens, I think.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (Gqar8)

67 @55

>>And he'd put out things saying that he was looking for another project to direct.

I mean, anything is possible, but at 96, I highly doubt he has the physical stamina to undertake the rigors of film production and post-production.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (XV/Pl)

68 ny times, feb 2025:

Politico has been at the center of a social media misinformation campaign this week, with X users posting screenshots that falsely purported to show millions of dollars funneled from the United States Agency for International Development to the site. Mr. Trump spread a similar message on his Truth Social platform.

In fact, the screenshots described government subscriptions to Politico Pro, which added up to millions of dollars. The service offers policy-related resources and tracks news and legislation, and has more than 30,000 subscribers, according to a Politico overview.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (CWTWj)

69 I have long suspected that most of these big left leaning operations maintain subscriptions (like the New York Times) largely by government subsidy. Libraries, schools, government offices, etc all buying a subscription on your tax dollar to prop up stuff that cannot make it on its own

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (UZCuZ)

70 67 @55

>>And he'd put out things saying that he was looking for another project to direct.

I mean, anything is possible, but at 96, I highly doubt he has the physical stamina to undertake the rigors of film production and post-production.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (XV/Pl)

======

He did it at 93!

No press, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (IOrWk)

71 Any of you following the hysteria over the screwworm?

On the left, they're sure that they have a "DOGE did this!"
And "the whole world is going to ban American beef!!!"

Everyone else is like:
- And this has nothing to do with Mexico refusing monitoring flights?
- And this has nothing to do with the group of Chinese nationals just arrested at the border?
- And why are there no cases of screwworm south of the border, just--totally coincidentally--right near the border where the Chinese were arrested?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (73/SM)

72 60 59 What was the last movie that Eastwood starred in? Unforgiven?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

======

Cry Macho. 2021.

It's not very good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:53 PM (IOrWk)

Really weird name.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (Gqar8)

73 I googled how many SS recipients are over 100 and got an interesting answer from google:

Recent public scrutiny by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) highlighted an internal database containing 18.9 million active Social Security Numbers (SSNs) belonging to individuals born in 1920 or earlier who lack a registered death date.However, independent investigations and reports from the Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of the Inspector General confirm that 98% of these old records are not being paid any benefits

Which meas 2% of those 19m records ARE getting payouts.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (sKqQm)

74 51 He is 96 so it will be someday
Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)

With any luck, not til he's 100 or more.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (T6aVk)

75 Zombie Piper Learing Center and Daycare
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:48 PM (3IrX0)
-----
Exercise studio costs extra...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (gnNyN)

76 37 I am very angry at myself that I did not figure out how to get the government to pay for my business. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 02:43 PM (p4NUW)

Zombie Piper Learing Center and Daycare
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02

Zombie Piper Learing Center and Daycare and Exercise Emporium

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (p4NUW)

77 What was the last movie that Eastwood starred in? Unforgiven?

"Cry Macho" in 2021

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (UZCuZ)

78 Property taxes need to end as well. Either go to a national sales tax or some form of consumption tax. But this picking on people with money system needs to end and everyone needs to have some skin in the game.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM

Meant to say.....everyone that votes needs to have some skin in the game.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (0N4FZ)

79
Politico should be printed on a 2-ply roll.
Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (oofEE)

Rather like The Nation, printed on newsprint paper.

Soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (FkdoK)

80 Ah, DOGE. The good old days. Whatever happened to that, anyway?

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (KhH9E)

81 What was the last movie that Eastwood starred in? Unforgiven?
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

The Force Awakens, I think.
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (Gqar

Narrator for Star Wars X: Jar Jar, the Early Years. Soon to be followed by XI: Jar Jar, Politician, and XII: Jar Jar, Sith Lord.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (qx7Zg)

82 I miss Piper.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (3IrX0)

83 In the beginning,
God made the land.
Then he made the waters, and creatures,
Then he made man.

He was born with a passion, love and hate.
A restless spirit, with a need for a mate.
But there was something missing, something lost.
So he came up with the answer, here's what it cost:

One part love, one part wild
One part lady, one part child
I give you ...

THE BLADE IN FIRST
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

Not "Women"?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:45 PM (T6aVk)
______

What's a "woman"?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (iFTx/)

84 I have long suspected that most of these big left leaning operations maintain subscriptions (like the New York Times) largely by government subsidy. Libraries, schools, government offices, etc all buying a subscription on your tax dollar to prop up stuff that cannot make it on its own
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 02:54 PM (UZCuZ)

Universities also do this with Science Journals. Those are marked up an absolute ton.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (8avO+)

85 or was it just a $500,000 federal grant to a friendly site?"

Imagine all the grift and vig to get $40 Trillion in debt.

I certainly feel good about it, don't you?

/

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (cGjQu)

86 lmao, good

Politico's base product was complete shit 20ish years ago when I had to read it for work.

I'm sure that whatever leftoid propaganda arm they stood up was complete shit warmed up in the microwave next to a wharf at low tide.

Posted by: ballistic at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (oqH4h)

87 72 Cry Macho. 2021.

It's not very good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:53 PM (IOrWk)

Really weird name.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (Gqar

======

It's a script from the 70s that he had liked forever and never got funding for. (Also apparently never got a rewrite.)

Then, he pulled all his strings at WB and got it funded.

The financial failure of it was predicted by everyone in the executive suite, and when Zaslav took over, it was ground zero for him tearing things up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (IOrWk)

88 53 There's no telling how man NGOs and non-profits have laid off significant staff from DOGE and USAID.
Posted by: Leupold at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (eIzlH)
_________________________________

The termination of Catholic Church-affiliated staff occurred when the Trump administration froze and subsequently dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The sweeping cancellation of federal grants and contracts forced major Catholic charities to lay off thousands of workers and drastically scale back global and domestic humanitarian programs.

Got that? The Catholic church laid of THOUSANDS when the USAID money stopped flowing. It annoys me that the Catholic Church never acknowledged that US Tax payers were paying for their "good works." It, also, raises questions about separation of Church and State.

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 02:57 PM (dIske)

89 anyway, why pay for gov't propaganda when you can still get it for free from the tv and internet?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 08, 2026 02:57 PM (CWTWj)

90 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (yKfDA)
---
There goes that Cocoon remake (from the last thread).

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:57 PM (Fi81e)

91 And why are there no cases of screwworm south of the border, just--totally coincidentally--right near the border where the Chinese were arrested?

This is incredibly key. Chinese guys in camo outfits were busted at the border miles from the Screw worm outbreak. Just like Chinese operatives have been busted trying to smuggle invasive and destructive fungus, bugs, and other bio material in the USA. Why do we have a zillion ticks now? Chinese. Why are new insects previously only found in China here now? Get it?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 02:57 PM (UZCuZ)

92 I miss Piper.
Posted by: Sponge

I raise a vodka-kale smoothie to her memory every afternoon.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (77rzZ)

93 @90

>>There goes that Cocoon remake (from the last thread).

He was already in a Quasi-Cocoon remake called Space Cowboys.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (XV/Pl)

94 20 I am very angry at myself that I did not figure out how to get the government to pay for my business. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 02:43 PM (p4NUW)

I literally have to post a prayer every week in the Prayer Thread for strength to not take the law into my own hands

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (KMQMu)

95
"As we transition from the AKE;SPUBNEPS model to an exciting new suite of products and services--"

I never know what this shyte means.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (n7rxJ)

96 Now that BLM and climate change are passe what will be the next big hoax/grift?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (yz/88)

97 Got that? The Catholic church laid of THOUSANDS when the USAID money stopped flowing. It annoys me that the Catholic Church never acknowledged that US Tax payers were paying for their "good works." It, also, raises questions about separation of Church and State.

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 02:57 PM (dIske)
---
No, it just raises the normal questions of how much Dems believe any of what they say.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (Fi81e)

98 Anyone see Project Hail Mary? All threads are movie threads. Anyway, is it worth renting ( when the price comes down)?

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (Gqar8)

99
At least the thieves are American for once.

Oh well, nowhere to deport them, we'll have to figure something else out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 08, 2026 02:59 PM (BI5O2)

100 Send your climate change / EPA newsletter trash out as a PDF attachment. It costs nothing. Politico is a cesspool almost as much as the Drudge Report.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 02:59 PM (pSkMS)

101 @98

>>anyway, is it worth renting ( when the price comes down)?

Yes, probably the best film of the year.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:59 PM (XV/Pl)

102 Ah, DOGE. The good old days. Whatever happened to that, anyway?

The law that allowed it to be formed and act also had a time limit how long it could function, and unlike the left the right doesn't rename something and keep it going infinitely.

Congress ignored nearly everything DOGE suggested. They implemented some of it, then reversed it the next chance they got a few months later

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 02:59 PM (UZCuZ)

103 Got that? The Catholic church laid of THOUSANDS when the USAID money stopped flowing. It annoys me that the Catholic Church never acknowledged that US Tax payers were paying for their "good works." It, also, raises questions about separation of Church and State.
Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 02:57 PM (dIske)

These weren't actual charities, these were people shipping illegals around the country and hiding them from ICE. CC got taken over long ago. That protestant Bishop in DC shows it isn't just Catholics.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:59 PM (8avO+)

104 Anyone see Project Hail Mary? All threads are movie threads. Anyway, is it worth renting ( when the price comes down)?
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM

I've heard nothing but good things about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:59 PM (3IrX0)

105 Eastwood was ok in The Mule and Trouble with the Curve. He was excellent in Gran Torino

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 03:00 PM (zj5z7)

106
Everyone else is like:
- And this has nothing to do with Mexico refusing monitoring flights?
- And this has nothing to do with the group of Chinese nationals just arrested at the border?
- And why are there no cases of screwworm south of the border, just--totally coincidentally--right near the border where the Chinese were arrested?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (73/SM)

Chinese or not, to me, the Mexican government THROWING A FIT over U.S. offers to help them out with the New World Screwworm (which benefits BOTH sides of the Rio Grande) is the biggest issue. It's always fun to blame the fact people die on the existence of the PRC, but the incompetents in the Mexican government to me is the real culprit for now swallowing their pride, admitting there is a problem, and confronting it with a willing ally.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 03:00 PM (T6aVk)

107 I raise a vodka-kale smoothie to her memory every afternoon.
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (77rzZ)

So, has Clint has joined the ghostly pale-rider kalercise brigade - or is it rumor not tumor again?

Posted by: Boswell at June 08, 2026 03:00 PM (V7158)

108 Eastwood was ok in The Mule and Trouble with the Curve. He was excellent in Gran Torino
Posted by: Smell the Glove

But his greatest moment on screen was when he sang in Paint Your Wagon.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (77rzZ)

109 Project Hail Mary… starring Roger Staubach and Drew Pearson? Nate Wright hates it…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (yz/88)

110 Meant to say.....everyone that votes needs to have some skin in the game.
Posted by: Mister Scott

I'd reorder the words such that ONLY those with skin in the game get to vote.

But hey, that's just me.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (jnTpz)

111
Spielberg Claims His New Movie "Disclosure Day" Will Leave Christians Questioning Their Belief in God

https://instapundit.com/802308/

Lessee here.

Only Christians will be left questioning their faith in God.

Not Jews, not Buddhists, and certainly not Muslims, with their state of Science belief that the sun dips into a puddle of mud at sunset and emerges from the Space Mud(TM) to begin the next day's morning.

This is so tiresome, so predictable that there's not even any reason to get angry. Just decline to see his, apparently, very costly piece of any Christians propaganda.

Anyway, it's a stupid concept that that somehow the existence of outer space critters negates the existence of God.

Atheists from space? Meh.

Doesn't anyone in Hollywood know how to play the entertainment game anymore?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (iJfKG)

112 DataRepublican published a similar report concerning PunchBowl news and John Thune on her Substack this morning.

90% of their revenue is from "VIP memberships" not subscriptions but what people are getting is access to Thune and the party line.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (RIvkX)

113 the incompetents in the Mexican government to me is the real culprit for now swallowing their pride, admitting there is a problem, and confronting it with a willing ally.

The drug cartels are muy, muy angry at the US government right now, and they utterly control Mexico's government (and Arizona, for that matter)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (UZCuZ)

114 Cry (because they served you) Matcha.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

115 So, has Clint has joined the ghostly pale-rider kalercise brigade - or is it rumor not tumor again?
Posted by: Boswell

It's a hoax.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (77rzZ)

116 I never did though get a real answer if when DOGE was showing say 130 year olds as still being "active" on Social Security, did that literally mean there really was 130 year old names getting social security checks distributed to these obviously long dead people?
Posted by: Leupold at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (eIzlH)

im sure the answer is 'yes'
Posted by: Oldcat

===

I would think so, but one would also think Trump's DOJ/FBI would be all over that, making arrests, etc.

Even if it was just a small number of people.

Posted by: Leupold at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (eIzlH)

117 I miss Piper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (3IrX0)

She was special. Poor Soup.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

118 102 The law that allowed it to be formed and act also had a time limit how long it could function, and unlike the left the right doesn't rename something and keep it going infinitely.

Congress ignored nearly everything DOGE suggested. They implemented some of it, then reversed it the next chance they got a few months later

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 02:59 PM (UZCuZ)

======

DOGE is still functioning in a modified form.

The central office is defunct, but personnel got moved to other departments, continuing the work.

Like BigBalls moving to SSA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:02 PM (IOrWk)

119
These weren't actual charities, these were people shipping illegals around the country and hiding them from ICE. CC got taken over long ago. That protestant Bishop in DC shows it isn't just Catholics.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:59 PM (8avO+)

A lot of churches are very deeply upset that you have to show a passport to a CBP official at a PoE in order to enter the United States. (The fact that other countries demand the same of foreign nationals crossing their borders? They are mute.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 03:02 PM (T6aVk)

120 Probably not, but it was prominent on many an SES's coffee table.

Ahh, the virtue signal coffee table book. A classic genre.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 03:02 PM (2ocoG)

121 As this has become another movie thread, I saw that Christy biopic last weekend. It was ... not good.

Slow, boring, cheaply made, and despite it being a true story is was like an AI version of every other "underdog" sports movie ever made.

Also annoyingly woke. Christy is getting physically abused by her fake husband -- and he ends up stabbing and shooting her -- but the movie wants you to think the real bad guy is her mother for not accepting she's a lesbian.

Oh and SS looks terrible. Short, dumpy, weird. Unrecognizable. And looks like the boxing scenes were using doubles or speeded up.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 03:02 PM (iFTx/)

122 Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM

Husband and son saw it. Husband thought main actor was good, but he thought the actor talking to a rock was silly. Son enjoyed it though.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 03:02 PM (ix8EF)

123 @ Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum, funds sent

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 03:02 PM (73/SM)

124 94 20 I am very angry at myself that I did not figure out how to get the government to pay for my business. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 02:43 PM (p4NUW)

I literally have to post a prayer every week in the Prayer Thread for strength to not take the law into my own hands
Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (KMQMu)

Lord, Grant me Patience, because if you Grant me Strength, I'll need bail money. -- Sen. Kennedy (LA)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 03:03 PM (qx7Zg)

125 Why would a movie about aliens make a Christian question his faith in God?

Watching the recent Aliens moves for example made me question my choice in movies, but not my religious faith

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

126 "the agency "will not be renewing our membership with Politico and Politico E&E""

Well that's too bad. E&E had those cute little cartoons like The New Yorker does (did?) Folks will miss the crossword puzzles and horoscopes too.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 03:03 PM (Jr5Lq)

127 Doesn't anyone in Hollywood know how to play the entertainment game anymore?

From early reports its... not good. Like, Spielberg either lost his mojo entirely or is phoning it in. For a long time, people have said that he often barely paid attention to his films, letting others do the work like it was too much bother for him, maybe that's all he's doing now.

Supposedly it has Spielberg-type moments, but they just don't work or pay off like they used to. Guys should know when to retire. And he needs to give up this UFO fixation LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:03 PM (UZCuZ)

128 Congress ignored nearly everything DOGE suggested. They implemented some of it, then reversed it the next chance they got a few months later

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

==

I also got the impression Trump wasn't "all in" on DOGE.

I think he was scared there would be sky high unemployment on "his" watch if he really cut what needed to be cut.

Posted by: Leupold at June 08, 2026 03:03 PM (eIzlH)

129 "91 And why are there no cases of screwworm south of the border, just--totally coincidentally--right near the border where the Chinese were arrested?

This is incredibly key. Chinese guys in camo outfits were busted at the border miles from the Screw worm outbreak. Just like Chinese operatives have been busted trying to smuggle invasive and destructive fungus, bugs, and other bio material in the USA. Why do we have a zillion ticks now? Chinese. Why are new insects previously only found in China here now? Get it?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 02:57 PM (UZCuZ) "

been going on for so many years ... accelerating lately

almost like someone, somewhere was waging war against us ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 03:03 PM (VyBeY)

130 I assume as of 10 minutes ago Clint was still breathing, another 10? But good chance he will still

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 03:04 PM (Ia/+0)

131 So, has Clint has joined the ghostly pale-rider kalercise brigade - or is it rumor not tumor again?
Posted by: Boswell

It's a hoax.
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (77rzZ)

But then what about Clint?

Posted by: Boswell at June 08, 2026 03:04 PM (V7158)

132 We totally don’t have anywhere we can cut the budget, in fact it’s gone up.

I know you’re thinking over a trillion in fraud should subtract from somewhere. But, sorry peasants.

Posted by: Congress at June 08, 2026 03:04 PM (DZ6nv)

133 We're not allowed to have entertainment. Joy and fun have been outlawed.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 03:04 PM (XGfD9)

134 Thanks all for the movie responses. I am deeply suspicious of any movie being made now. I’ll give it a go, down the road, based upon Horde recommendation.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 03:04 PM (Gqar8)

135 From early reports its... not good. Like, Spielberg either lost his mojo entirely or is phoning it in. For a long time, people have said that he often barely paid attention to his films, letting others do the work like it was too much bother for him, maybe that's all he's doing now.

Supposedly it has Spielberg-type moments, but they just don't work or pay off like they used to. Guys should know when to retire. And he needs to give up this UFO fixation LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:03 PM (UZCuZ)

Indy and the Crystal Skull should have showed you that a long time ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:04 PM (8avO+)

136
I would think so, but one would also think Trump's DOJ/FBI would be all over that, making arrests, etc.

Even if it was just a small number of people

---

I hate it, but I'm losing faith and am beginning to blackpill.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 08, 2026 03:04 PM (KhH9E)

137 *sigh*

any Christian = anti-Christian

Thx AC!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 03:05 PM (iJfKG)

138
Mark Halperin once explained what these pricey high-tier publications are. All the news services produce them -- AP, Reuters, UPI, and other publications like Politico. They have the type of microscopic data that other news agencies and government agencies need but can't get unless they have "reporters" themselves absolutely everywhere. Halperin defended the services and the prices, BUT -- normally you can get group subscriptions. Apparently, almost no government agency ever bothered to do this. Every desk had its own insanely expensive subscription because it was too much of a bother to set up the group subscriptions.

So that's where some dumb amount of money went.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:05 PM (n7rxJ)

139 The central office is defunct, but personnel got moved to other departments, continuing the work.

Like BigBalls moving to SSA.

Yeah I think a bunch of them are acting as consultants basically. How much influence and good they are doing, who knows. There are such huge, huge distractions right now its hard to even know what is going on

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:05 PM (UZCuZ)

140 The NGOs were jam-packed with no-skills nepo kids.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:05 PM (rj6Yv)

141 Only Christians will be left questioning their faith in God.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 03:01 PM (iJfKG)
---
Jesus talked about this, Only Christians, will still believe in God, given "plausible scenarios" to believe in something else.

But seriously questioning of my faith is totally independent of a director who thinks he's smarter than I am releasing a film. And I've done it so long that I have weathered probably better "challenges" to it than Speilberg can muster.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:06 PM (Fi81e)

142 What's a "woman"?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM

How would I know? I'm not a biologist.

Posted by: Jumanji Jackson at June 08, 2026 03:07 PM (bFu5X)

143 I’m getting confused by comments in this thread. Some say they miss Piper then I see a Piper comment….

I know I don’t miss kale smoothies!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:07 PM (+gA9j)

144 I wonder how civil servants typically expense hookers and blow?

Separately, ace hasn't covered the soccer or Tony Awards yet?

....................

Crap. 3 pm. News quickly

CBC - conservative leader speech
CNN, FoxNews - Iran, Israel and Schrodinger's Ceasefire, Peace Deal

MS Now - lawsuit to stop UFC White House fight. Damn, I wish all these assholes would just die...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 03:07 PM (Sco7b)

145 "Anyway, it's a stupid concept that that somehow the existence of outer space critters negates the existence of God.
Posted by: naturalfake"

Sort of like leftists that believe evolution negates the existence of God. Especially a Christian God.

Which is the main reason leftists insist everybody accept evolution unquestioningly.

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 03:07 PM (GUOwU)

146 141 But seriously questioning of my faith is totally independent of a director who thinks he's smarter than I am releasing a film. And I've done it so long that I have weathered probably better "challenges" to it than Speilberg can muster.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:06 PM (Fi81e)

=====

If Bunuel couldn't do it, Spielberg can't either.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:08 PM (IOrWk)

147 Is Spielberg a practicing Jew? Why would his movie affect Christian belief in God, and not Jewish belief in God?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

148 It's a lot easier to just cut off the 'leak' of funds to the accounts and see who dares to complain when the checks dry up. But it is interesting how quickly the anti Elon and anti Trump animus spiked upward about that time from some interesting sources.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:08 PM (8avO+)

149 If God does not exist, then it is a hell of a coincidence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:08 PM (zZu0s)

150 I'm waiting for Bill AHOY! Kristol to default on his mortgage.

*sulk*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 03:08 PM (R+iUD)

151 Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 03:04 PM (Gqar8

I suggest "Pressure" whenever that comes out as a subscription thing. Several of us here have seen it and thought it was great.

I am going to see " Sheep Detectives" tomorrow which sounds fun.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 03:08 PM (ix8EF)

152 I’m getting confused by comments in this thread. Some say they miss Piper then I see a Piper comment….

I know I don’t miss kale smoothies!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:07 PM (+gA9j)

Soup Dog gave her a tumor. It was over quickly during a thread last week.

Anything else is false and unreal.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:08 PM (3IrX0)

153 MS Now - lawsuit to stop UFC White House fight. Damn, I wish all these assholes would just die...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 03:07 PM

There are thousands of people out there that exist solely to try and make other people feel as $hitty as they do.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 03:08 PM (0N4FZ)

154
68 ny times, feb 2025:

Politico has been at the center of a social media misinformation campaign this week, with X users posting screenshots that falsely purported to show millions of dollars funneled from the United States Agency for International Development to the site. Mr. Trump spread a similar message on his Truth Social platform.

In fact, the screenshots described government subscriptions to Politico Pro, which added up to millions of dollars. The service offers policy-related resources and tracks news and legislation, and has more than 30,000 subscribers, according to a Politico overview.

------

Didn't those turn out to be the same thing?

"This screenshot purports to show a car, but it's actually a Toyota."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (azNOR)

155 149 If God does not exist, then it is a hell of a coincidence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:08 PM (zZu0s)

======

Who started it all?

Who is the prime mover?

Random chance, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (IOrWk)

156 rap. 3 pm. News quickly

CBC - conservative leader speech
CNN, FoxNews - Iran, Israel and Schrodinger's Ceasefire, Peace Deal

MS Now - lawsuit to stop UFC White House fight. Damn, I wish all these assholes would just die...
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 03:07 PM (Sco7b)
===

I heard it was 3 or 4 separate activist orgs that filed the suits. Shotgun, wall-sticking stuff.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (rj6Yv)

157 God can do anything He pleases with His creation. We don’t get a say, and we don’t get a vote.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (Gqar8)

158 Sort of like leftists that believe evolution negates the existence of God. Especially a Christian God.

Which is the main reason leftists insist everybody accept evolution unquestioningly.
Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 03:07 PM (GUOwU)

Especially since the people doing the early work on Evolution were all Christians of one sort or another.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (8avO+)

159 I will remain a loyal subscriber to all things Politico.

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (+FZpF)

160
If anyone thinks Trump can meaningfully address the corruption, they're in for a surprise. Nobody can. Nobody can even publicly acknowledge its extent.

If you were to clean up this government, there'd be little of it left, and whatever remained would be swept away in the resulting unrest, as millions see their way of life destroyed.

Nothing but time and economic collapse will reform this. The system became more cancer than healthy tissue long ago.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 08, 2026 03:10 PM (BI5O2)

161 I’m getting confused by comments in this thread. Some say they miss Piper then I see a Piper comment….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:07 PM (+gA9j)
---
She's not fooling anybody.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:10 PM (Fi81e)

162 Politico has been at the center of a social media misinformation campaign this week, with X users posting screenshots that falsely purported to show millions of dollars funneled from the United States Agency for International Development to the site. Mr. Trump spread a similar message on his Truth Social platform.

In fact, the screenshots described government subscriptions to Politico Pro, which added up to millions of dollars. The service offers policy-related resources and tracks news and legislation, and has more than 30,000 subscribers, according to a Politico overview.

------

Didn't those turn out to be the same thing?

"This screenshot purports to show a car, but it's actually a Toyota."
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (azNOR)

More like, they say the bribe went in the left pocket, but actually it was in the right pocket.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:11 PM (8avO+)

163 There are also around-the-clock MSM teams tracking the "Donald J. Trump" sign on the Kennedy Center, waiting for the cranes to arrive for the removal. A sacred rite for the Left.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:11 PM (rj6Yv)

164 163 There are also around-the-clock MSM teams tracking the "Donald J. Trump" sign on the Kennedy Center, waiting for the cranes to arrive for the removal. A sacred rite for the Left.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:11 PM (rj6Yv)

====

The Kennedy Center is the 512th most holy site in Leftism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:12 PM (IOrWk)

165 Random chance, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (IOrWk)

Atheism is also a good argument against abortion. If conscious thought and sentience is itself just a happy accident, then it is even more a crime to snuff it out.

Life matters.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:12 PM (zZu0s)

166 As I've pointed out a few times recently.

There is more statistical evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud, then there is for CO2 driven man made Global Warming.

Yet we've spent 100s of Billions on one, and they are passing laws to make it impossible to investigate the other.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:12 PM (mP0Kj)

167 Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (rj6Yv)

Why is the UFC doing a fight at the WH even an issue, except that everything must be politicized against Trump?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 03:12 PM (ix8EF)

168 God can do anything He pleases with His creation. We don’t get a say, and we don’t get a vote.
Posted by: tubal

And most of the time, we can't even figure out what He's doing with it. Or we figure it wrongly.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

169 >A Somali referee acclaimed as the best in Africa has reportedly been denied entry to the United States and sent on a flight back to Istanbul, Turkey upon arrival at Miami International Airport for the 2026 World Cup.

Omar Abdulkadir Artan, 34, had his travel facilitated by the Somali Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, who said they had granted him a diplomatic passport to help with visa-related issues.

Daily Mail

Posted by: mr tmz at June 08, 2026 03:13 PM (rJ48h)

170 There is more statistical evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud, then there is for CO2 driven man made Global Warming.

Yet we've spent 100s of Billions on one, and they are passing laws to make it impossible to investigate the other.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:12 PM (mP0Kj)

YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE!!!!!

- - - - - - NBC News

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:13 PM (3IrX0)

171 @164

>>The Kennedy Center is the 512th most holy site in Leftism.

The Left was so triggered by TKC Trump takeover that Ben Folds Five quit in protest.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 03:13 PM (XV/Pl)

172 Christians questioning their faith is not something that never happens. On the contrary, only an areligious person would assume this… After her death Mother Theresa’s diaries revealed lots of doubt… but the key thing about faith is it’s an action word not an emotional attachment to a belief…. Emotions come and go and move here and there. Faith is actually putting your trust in that belief. Like the old story at the Grand Canyon a tightrope walker traversed that canyon on a wire for his audience and then did it with a 150 lb weight on his back. Then he asked the audience: How many believe I could carry you across? Everyone raised their hand. Next question: Who’ll volunteer to have me carry them across now? Only one person raised their hand. That was the only person in the audience with faith… they acted on their ( intellectual) belief

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:13 PM (+gA9j)

173 >>> 76 37 I am very angry at myself that I did not figure out how to get the government to pay for my business. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 02:43 PM (p4NUW)

Zombie Piper Learing Center and Daycare
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02

Zombie Piper Learing Center and Daycare and Exercise Emporium
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 02:55 PM (p4NUW)

Please bring business cards to the next TX MoMee. I want one.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 03:13 PM (R+iUD)

174 Leftists and atheists are always experts in theology and Scripture. They will tell you this.

I don't read Koran or study Islam. I'm no expert. But I listen to what practitioners say it says.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 03:14 PM (RIvkX)

175 >A Somali referee acclaimed as the best in Africa has reportedly been denied entry to the United States and sent on a flight back to Istanbul, Turkey upon arrival at Miami International Airport for the 2026 World Cup.

Omar Abdulkadir Artan, 34, had his travel facilitated by the Somali Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, who said they had granted him a diplomatic passport to help with visa-related issues.

Daily Mail
Posted by: mr tmz at June 08, 2026 03:13 PM (rJ48h)

He's a diplomat? We definitely don't want that in here.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)

176
Probably not, but it was prominent on many an SES's coffee table.

Ahh, the virtue signal coffee table book. A classic genre.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 03:02 PM (2ocoG)

Hey, that genre made Stephen Hawking a FORTUNE.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 08, 2026 03:14 PM (FkdoK)

177 "A System Is What It Does."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 03:14 PM (RIvkX)

178 164 163 There are also around-the-clock MSM teams tracking the "Donald J. Trump" sign on the Kennedy Center, waiting for the cranes to arrive for the removal. A sacred rite for the Left.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:11 PM (rj6Yv)

====

The Kennedy Center is the 512th most holy site in Leftism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:12 PM (IOrWk)

In order to bring a Civil Lawsuit, you are supposed to be able to show how you are harmed by an action, and show how that can be remedied, to gain standing to sue.

How is ANYONE harmed by a name change? Who has standing to sue? How are they DAMAGED?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:14 PM (mP0Kj)

179 Atheism is also a good argument against abortion. If conscious thought and sentience is itself just a happy accident, then it is even more a crime to snuff it out.

Life matters.
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Not to atheists, but they are too cowardly to follow through their reasoning to a natural conclusion.

If life doesn't matter, then THEIR lives don't matter. In fact, because of human suffering, they should feel an obligation to remove themselves from this suffering world in the most expedient manner possible.

But they never seem to want to argue for that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 03:15 PM (gnNyN)

180 There are also around-the-clock MSM teams tracking the "Donald J. Trump" sign on the Kennedy Center, waiting for the cranes to arrive for the removal. A sacred rite for the Left.
Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:11 PM (rj6Yv)

I'm waiting for the wrecking balls to arrive, for the building removal.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 03:15 PM (qx7Zg)

181
How is ANYONE harmed by a name change? Who has standing to sue? How are they DAMAGED?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:14 PM (mP0Kj)

It's cute you think rules apply to leftist retards.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:15 PM (3IrX0)

182 Who started it all?

Who is the prime mover?

Random chance, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (IOrWk)

This is the main question that, outside of faith, no one can answer.

I think evolution could easily be the mechanism God used to create us and life on Earth.

Really, until someone has the inescapable answer to "what started everything?".

God is the best answer.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 03:16 PM (iJfKG)

183 But they never seem to want to argue for that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 03:15 PM (gnNyN)

They don't argue for it but they push policies that may as well.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 03:16 PM (XGfD9)

184 182
This is the main question that, outside of faith, no one can answer.

I think evolution could easily be the mechanism God used to create us and life on Earth.

Really, until someone has the inescapable answer to "what started everything?".

God is the best answer.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 03:16 PM (iJfKG)

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"We're in a simulation, dude. I can't believe you believe in such backwards things like religion when I can prove that we're just parts of a large computer simulation."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:17 PM (IOrWk)

185 Indy and the Crystal Skull should have showed you that a long time ago.
Posted by: Oldcat
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I checked out at the third one. He made Marcus out to be a bumbling fool, whereas in Raiders he has him saying he'd go after the ark himself if he was ten years younger. No consistency whatsoever with one of the major characters.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 03:17 PM (XvL8K)

186
Omar Abdulkadir Artan, 34, had his travel facilitated by the Somali Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, who said they had granted him a diplomatic passport to help with visa-related issues.

Posted by: mr tmz

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Nice try, and I'm glad the State Department (apparently) saw right through that trick. Diplomat my hat.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:17 PM (n7rxJ)

187 If life doesn't matter, then THEIR lives don't matter. In fact, because of human suffering, they should feel an obligation to remove themselves from this suffering world in the most expedient manner possible.

But they never seem to want to argue for that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 03:15 PM (gnNyN)

There was a funny story by Jack Vance where someone is murdered on a starship and the detective finds out it was a Bonze who believed in reincarnation so completely that when the victim complained about his troubles to him in a bar he went and killed him to speed him to the next incarnation.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:17 PM (8avO+)

188 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?

They already tried that, and look where it got them.

Posted by: Jed Cooper at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (MDua2)

189 Anyone seeing Clint Eastwood died?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 08, 2026 02:47 PM (yKfDA)

It’s not on Wikipedia.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (pB7yW)

190 God exists.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (OoFl2)

191 I have a copy of the free government grant book from back in the 90's that they advertised on talk radio all the time. It's been bad for a long time.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (ZxzYs)

192 Who started it all?

Who is the prime mover?

Random chance, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Well, Taylor Lorenz was around when it happened. Maybe we could ask her.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (77rzZ)

193 If God does not exist, then it is a hell of a coincidence.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:08 PM (zZu0s)
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What naturalists forget about Ockham's razor is that it's about explanations. ex=out, plain=flat.

To lay out flat, clear, obvious. "The universe (somehow) did it" is not an "easier explanation". Especially as regards the methodology of Science.

We learned more about meat and maggots when we checked the presumption that rotting meat just generated maggots. So we learned not to attribute rotting meat with a power it did not exhibit under scrutiny.

It became a much stronger principle of Science: life has not been exhibited to come from non-life. It's an extraordinary claim that should require extraordinary evidence, were atheists more consistent than Democrats.

Thus "something unliving in the universe sprung to life" is NOT scientific. It's the opposite of scientific. It preserves naturalism at the expense of methodology.

We have to find things with sufficiency to do something.

Which is why "God" may be a simple answer, but it is the recognition that whatever did it had sufficient power to do so.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (Fi81e)

194 I'm still giggling at the fit the left threw for Trump *checks notes* fixing the reflecting pool. HOW DARE HE???!?!??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (UZCuZ)

195 A silly sci-fi movie isn't going to challenge my faith.

But if intelligent extra terrestrial life was indeed "proven" and revealed, I can't pretend that it wouldn't affect a lot of people's faith. Mostly because the Bible, Jesus, etc was completely silent on the matter. And was there an alien Jesus that went to that other planet to save their people? You can see the Theological questions would be difficult.

Posted by: Leupold at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (eIzlH)

196 167 Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM (rj6Yv)

Why is the UFC doing a fight at the WH even an issue, except that everything must be politicized against Trump?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 03:12 PM (ix8EF)
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The Pain of Trump II "The Reckoning" has been far more painful than even the Left imagined could have happened. Their funding stream has been grievously impacted. People laugh at Leftists. The wets are gradually shifting in the social sphere from being noisome nuisances towards being judged as dangerous mental cases. Which, of course, they are.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (rj6Yv)

197 Leftists don’t believe in God, because it allows them to think of themselves as a deity. Deities are not constrained by the power of an all powerful God of Abraham who is the Creator and has articulated His laws, which are the laws of nature, the natural world and the basis for living tenets like morals. It allows them to avoid the lessons of time, and factual basis for a great deal of societies morals and the social contract. It’s also why these people don’t believe in liberty or freedom. For them it also puts constraints on what they desire to do, whimsically, to their fellow man. You see this in their subversion of constitution, government, law, our schools, our institutions and the fundamental underpinnings of freedom, like our election. Their philosophy has no basis in facts or demonstrable truths, which is why they spend all their time lying, obscuring and subverting conclusions and systems that are provably good and just. This is the very definition of evil, which, you should remember doesn’t come as some Middle Ages painting of a demon. It wears the cloak of liberalism, progressivism and the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 08, 2026 03:19 PM (DZ6nv)

198 Tough but fair.

Stephen A. Says If The Knicks Lose Game 3, He's Blaming Trump

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:19 PM (ndZc7)

199 There is too much order for there to be anything other than an intentional mechanism at work somewhere in it. The natural state is chaos, and yet we have all this order and all these rules. It makes zero sense to me as something accidental.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 03:19 PM (XGfD9)

200 Omar Abdulkadir Artan, 34, had his travel facilitated by the Somali Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, who said they had granted him a diplomatic passport to help with visa-related issues.

Daily Mail
Posted by: mr tmz at June 08, 2026 03:13 PM (rJ48h)

Giving a diplomatic passport to someone who is NOT a diplomat, would be passport fraud... Diplomatic Passports often come with Diplomatic Immunity...

Giving a Somali Sports guy Diplomatic Immunity? Yeah... not really a good idea.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:19 PM (mP0Kj)

201 185
I checked out at the third one. He made Marcus out to be a bumbling fool, whereas in Raiders he has him saying he'd go after the ark himself if he was ten years younger. No consistency whatsoever with one of the major characters.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 03:17 PM (XvL8K)

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Marcus Brody is in like two scenes in the first film. He's not a major character.

And his talk in the first film could have been empty bluster.

The third film makes him out to be an academic in the real world: completely out of his depth and sticking out like a sore thumb.

I've seen this complaint before, and it always feels silly. This isn't the character derailment of Han Solo in Return of the Jedi (he's completely pussy whipped in the third film).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:19 PM (IOrWk)

202 192 Who started it all?

Who is the prime mover?

Random chance, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Well, Taylor Lorenz was around when it happened. Maybe we could ask her.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (77rzZ)

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Now that we lost Vic, we have to go with the second oldest creature.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:20 PM (IOrWk)

203 I'm still giggling at the fit the left threw for Trump *checks notes* fixing the reflecting pool. HOW DARE HE???!?!??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (UZCuZ)

And he spent half of what Owebama did to destroy it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:20 PM (3IrX0)

204 To lay out flat, clear, obvious. "The universe (somehow) did it" is not an "easier explanation". Especially as regards the methodology of Science.

I respect atheists who say "I have no idea how everything got here" or "we don't understand yet". The whole "science explains it" or "the universe always existed" or worse "muh multiverse" thing is underpants gnome science, its science of the gaps.

Science does not and I would argue CANNOT explain metaphysical things like the origin of the universe. Its necessarily outside the possibility of scientific examination.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:20 PM (UZCuZ)

205 God exists.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (OoFl2)

If ANYONE would know for sure, it's Piper.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 03:20 PM (Kdi1r)

206 But if intelligent extra terrestrial life was indeed "proven" and revealed, I can't pretend that it wouldn't affect a lot of people's faith. Mostly because the Bible, Jesus, etc was completely silent on the matter. And was there an alien Jesus that went to that other planet to save their people? You can see the Theological questions would be difficult.
Posted by: Leupold at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (eIzlH)

My Father's House has many mansions.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:20 PM (mP0Kj)

207
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Now that we lost Vic, we have to go with the second oldest creature.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:20 PM (IOrWk)

Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (3IrX0)

208 Indiana Jones and the Government Filing System. The Second Search for the Arc.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (ZxzYs)

209 >>> 175 >A Somali referee acclaimed as the best in Africa has reportedly been denied entry to the United States and sent on a flight back to Istanbul, Turkey upon arrival at Miami International Airport for the 2026 World Cup.

Omar Abdulkadir Artan, 34, had his travel facilitated by the Somali Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, who said they had granted him a diplomatic passport to help with visa-related issues.

Daily Mail
Posted by: mr tmz at June 08, 2026 03:13 PM (rJ48h)

He's a diplomat? We definitely don't want that in here.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)

I was expecting asteroid deflection or cancer cures. The latter sure would have helped Piper.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (R+iUD)

210 I have a copy of the free government grant book from back in the 90's that they advertised on talk radio all the time. It's been bad for a long time.
Posted by: Reforger

*waves*
-- Matthew Lesko

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

211 "We're in a simulation, dude. I can't believe you believe in such backwards things like religion when I can prove that we're just parts of a large computer simulation."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:17 PM (IOrWk)
_______________________________

I'm pretty sure Keith Richards is involved in some capacity. Someone had to create the simulation.

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (dIske)

212 What kind of extreme right-wing Christian nationalism is this?

Polyamorous Presbyterians rage against PCUSA's new rule that requires priests (even gay ones) to be monogamous

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (ndZc7)

213 "We're in a simulation, dude. I can't believe you believe in such backwards things like religion when I can prove that we're just parts of a large computer simulation."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:17 PM (IOrWk)

In 1999 I thought the Wachowski brothers were extremely creative and clever. The original Matrix was so awesome . But then reloaded and revolutions happened… and I found out they were totally screwed up individuals. Sad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (yz/88)

214 This is the main question that, outside of faith, no one can answer.

I think evolution could easily be the mechanism God used to create us and life on Earth.

Really, until someone has the inescapable answer to "what started everything?".

God is the best answer.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 03:16 PM (iJfKG)

Evolution is a fact - life forms have changed over the eons based on fossil records, etc. the Theory is that it is driven by Natural Selection. But its certainly a lot of busywork for God if he has to go in and make sure that mama cats don't give birth to elephants by a divine intervention each time. Having the physical world work by consistent rules makes a lot more sense.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:22 PM (8avO+)

215 The third film makes him out to be an academic in the real world: completely out of his depth and sticking out like a sore thumb.

I didn't appreciate him being turned into a joke, a stumbling buffoon after being depicted in (yes, brief scenes) as a very smart, confident, and able person in his field.

He didn't come across as too brainy, too isolated, or too nerdy, he came across as an idiot.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:22 PM (UZCuZ)

216 Who started it all?

Who is the prime mover?

Random chance, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:09 PM

The math to calculate those kinds of odds has not been invented yet and I doubt it ever will be. Intelligent design is the only thing that makes any kind of sense to me.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2026 03:22 PM (0N4FZ)

217 213 In 1999 I thought the Wachowski brothers were extremely creative and clever. The original Matrix was so awesome . But then reloaded and revolutions happened… and I found out they were totally screwed up individuals. Sad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (yz/8

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The Matrix is massively derivative of anime.

"Original" only means, "I don't know the influences," about 99% of the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:22 PM (IOrWk)

218
God exists.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (OoFl2)

Well, there you go.

Proof positive, since Piper's living the after life, she'd know.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 03:22 PM (iJfKG)

219 144 I wonder how civil servants typically expense hookers and blow?

My guess is they hide it in meals and entertainment and maybe subscriptions.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 08, 2026 03:22 PM (6cXzZ)

220 There are several YT videos of the now-working fountains in DC. The residents and tourists alike are amazed and happy. The waterfalls and fountains are a big hit, like at Columbus Square, where the marble statues and pediments have been pressure-washed back to their original brilliance.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:23 PM (rj6Yv)

221 Isn’t it odd that those who put so little value in life, are the ones who cling to it most dearly, and will take everything from their fellow man to extend their own?

Remember, Jesus told us His kingdom in noting this world. That is a giant clue.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 08, 2026 03:23 PM (DZ6nv)

222 215
He didn't come across as too brainy, too isolated, or too nerdy, he came across as an idiot.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:22 PM (UZCuZ)

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Honestly, he comes off like my dad.

A lifelong academic, incredibly well respected in his field, and a bit of a joke when he travels (still...and he's been traveling a lot for a long time).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:23 PM (IOrWk)

223 Who started it all?

Who is the prime mover?

Random chance, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Lightning struck a slime pit and a slug crawled out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:23 PM (ndZc7)

224 @213

>>The original Matrix was so awesome.

There is only one Matrix film.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 03:23 PM (XV/Pl)

225 Tough but fair.

Stephen A. Says If The Knicks Lose Game 3, He's Blaming Trump
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:19 PM (ndZc7)

Yeah that’s why you wish he wasn’t going. Also they cancelled the watch party outside MSG and blamed that on his attendance ugh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (yz/88)

226
219 144 I wonder how civil servants typically expense hookers and blow?

My guess is they hide it in meals and entertainment and maybe subscriptions.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 08, 2026 03:22 PM (6cXzZ)

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We've degraded so much there will be Concur codes for them explicitly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (IOrWk)

227 Is Sheikholesalmi a real name? If so Goli and Greenburger should open a Shwarma Deli. They'd make dozens of bucks.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (wBaIH)

228
Why is the UFC doing a fight at the WH even an issue, except that everything must be politicized against Trump?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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If you mean what excuses they're using, they've got "adverse/unknown environmental impact" and "not funded by Congress" plus a few more that I can't remember. Just lame as heck.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (n7rxJ)

229 There are several YT videos of the now-working fountains in DC. The residents and tourists alike are amazed and happy.

They are very happy with how Trump cleaned up their streets, put criminals in jail, and now they can go to the park or walk their street without being harassed or robbed.

All it took was this crazy thing called "trying"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (UZCuZ)

230 And his talk in the first film could have been empty bluster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
___________

But there is no indication whatsoever that it's bluster. Not a wry smile from Jones. Nothing. There's no reason not to take it at face value.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (XvL8K)

231 In 1999 I thought the Wachowski brothers were extremely creative and clever. The original Matrix was so awesome . But then reloaded and revolutions happened… and I found out they were totally screwed up individuals. Sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (yz/8

Probably the first one they had people reigning them in, but when they had a success they had a free hand. But often the constraints make your work better. You can see this in books where you have 20 volume series of paperbacks getting fatter each entry and containing less content each iteration.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (8avO+)

232
Stephen A. Says If The Knicks Lose Game 3, He's Blaming Trump
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:19 PM (ndZc7)

Stephen A. Smith can stick it in his ear and blow it out his ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (3IrX0)

233 *waves*
-- Matthew Lesko
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah. That guy. Have to admit I thought it was all BS at the time. How wrong I was.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (ZxzYs)

234 YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE!!!!!

- - - - - - NBC News
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:13 PM (3IrX0)
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Because they had so much evidence of Joe being "Sharper than ever" when they carried that water, right?

If so, why did Tapper have to rebrand a book under his name that said those bad Biden Administration people kept the press from close contact with Biden?

So they really had no vantage point to verify "sharper than ever", except the sayso of the bad, bad Biden Administration!

Why is it that only Trump needs "proof"?

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:25 PM (Fi81e)

235 230 But there is no indication whatsoever that it's bluster. Not a wry smile from Jones. Nothing. There's no reason not to take it at face value.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (XvL8K)

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He's an unreliable narrator of his own capabilities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:25 PM (IOrWk)

236 Look at some of the latest quantum findings, especially where they have proven that all things down to their dna can be changed at the same time immediately. Only as if there is one God at the head of it all.

This isn’t that complicated.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 08, 2026 03:25 PM (DZ6nv)

237 224 @213

>>The original Matrix was so awesome.

There is only one Matrix film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 03:23 PM (XV/Pl)

It is like Highlander 2... the movie we all agreed to just ignore.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:25 PM (mP0Kj)

238 Why is the UFC doing a fight at the WH even an issue, except that everything must be politicized against Trump?

Its so gauche! Its crass! He's ruining the lawn!

Its just "Trump bad so everything he does is bad" monomania. The old jokes about newspapers all apply, "Jesus can't swim" etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (UZCuZ)

239 Trump showing up at the BBall game and causing people who paid up to $100,000 to wait in line for up to 2 hours in NYC is hilarious by the way...

.........,,,

Test complete.

My friends' cat Snowflake is sleeping upstairs in my chair. I opened a can of tuna fish. She slept thru it!! I'm kind of surprised.

I put some in her bowl. Ralphy got his share and eggs too. Back to Affinity soon.

I'm surprised 'Master' pages weren't renamed. All those Master and Slave items running around causing society to function.....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (Sco7b)

240 237 224 @213

>>The original Matrix was so awesome.

There is only one Matrix film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 03:23 PM (XV/Pl)

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I'm hoping Drew Goddard does something interesting with Matrix 5.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (IOrWk)

241 In 1999 I thought the Wachowski brothers were extremely creative and clever. The original Matrix was so awesome . But then reloaded and revolutions happened… and I found out they were totally screwed up individuals. Sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (yz/8

_______________________

Ahem....it is now THE WACHOWSKI SISTERS!!!! Bigot!!!!!

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske)

242 Why is the UFC doing a fight at the WH even an issue, except that everything must be politicized against Trump?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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If you mean what excuses they're using, they've got "adverse/unknown environmental impact" and "not funded by Congress" plus a few more that I can't remember. Just lame as heck.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (n7rxJ)

Funny how these all get slid right to the top where if you sue because they are tearing down your house they tell you to come back in 7-10 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (8avO+)

243 >>> 212 What kind of extreme right-wing Christian nationalism is this?

Polyamorous Presbyterians rage against PCUSA's new rule that requires priests (even gay ones) to be monogamous
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:21 PM (ndZc7)

The PCUSA that Billy Jeff and Hillzebub belong to? LOL

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (R+iUD)

244 226
219 144 I wonder how civil servants typically expense hookers and blow?

My guess is they hide it in meals and entertainment and maybe subscriptions.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 08, 2026 03:22 PM (6cXzZ)

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We've degraded so much there will be Concur codes for them explicitly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (IOrWk)

Sex work is real work and deserves to be expensed as such.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (okun6)

245 Ahem....it is now THE WACHOWSKI SISTERS!!!! Bigot!!!!!
Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske)

Shouldn't they be using their mother's maiden name now?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (8avO+)

246 Washington Free Beacon
@FreeBeacon
Graham Platner was recruited to run for Senate by a pair of socialist political operatives, Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan, who determined that another prospective candidate had “a skeleton in the closet.”

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That other guy's skeleton must've been a doozy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:27 PM (ndZc7)

247 I see a federal judge just bleated the $100 H1-b visa fee is illegal.

I guess federal judges are now in charge of immigration too.

F them.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 08, 2026 03:27 PM (DZ6nv)

248 Probably the first one they had people reigning them in, but when they had a success they had a free hand. But often the constraints make your work better.

This happens to authors so often its hard to watch. One big seller too early in their career and they start to put out crap. You can't tell ME how to write, I sold 11 million books!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:27 PM (UZCuZ)

249 Hey, Red Turban. Good to see you.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:27 PM (77rzZ)

250 245 Ahem....it is now THE WACHOWSKI SISTERS!!!! Bigot!!!!!
Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske)

Shouldn't they be using their mother's maiden name now?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (8avO+)

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They call themselves the Wachowski Starship.

And it's fascism that they can't fund massively expensive movies anymore, not that both Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending both were massively expensive flops.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:27 PM (IOrWk)

251 It is like Highlander 2... the movie we all agreed to just ignore.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:25 PM (mP0Kj)

They never made a Highlander 2.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (ZxzYs)

252 *Waves from Missouri*

Posted by: SMH at God's Mercy at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (IJDEV)

253 But seriously questioning of my faith is totally independent of a director who thinks he's smarter than I am releasing a film. And I've done it so long that I have weathered probably better "challenges" to it than Speilberg can muster.
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The Three Body Problem series had a bit where the Christians, having proof of no God due to the aliens, instead built a giant glowing cross in space and the devout would hover before it in space suits praying.

Anyway, then he basically ends the series on "Unknown supremely powerful entity says you all get back in here so it can all fix this mess you all made."

But totally not God ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (73/SM)

254 I wish they had played Marcus a bit more straight in the third film. He doesn't need to be James bond all of a sudden, but I always liked the gravity of the character before that and it felt a bit derailed.

The movie is still LIGHT YEARS ahead of any of the crap we get now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (zZu0s)

255 I'm surprised 'Master' pages weren't renamed. All those Master and Slave items running around causing society to function.....
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (Sco7b)

They made a stab at it, as with male and female connectors. Didn't catch on.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (8avO+)

256 Posted by: SMH at God's Mercy at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (IJDEV)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (3IrX0)

257 >>> 247 I see a federal judge just bleated the $100 H1-b visa fee is illegal.

I guess federal judges are now in charge of immigration too.

F them.
Posted by: Vengeance at June 08, 2026 03:27 PM (DZ6nv)

Donny Two Scoops ought to bump it to $100 million.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (R+iUD)

258 Hey, SMH!

*waves back from Virginia*

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (77rzZ)

259 I like the the theory I have read on occasion that life on earth came from another planet in some rudimentary form somehow so we don't have to prove how it got stared from rocks and water.

Which explains absolutely nothing in the long run.

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (GUOwU)

260 202 I miss Vic. He was a hoot and a holler. And his stories about the drunk neighbor were great.

Posted by: turambar at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (Q0yOR)

261 251 It is like Highlander 2... the movie we all agreed to just ignore.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:25 PM (mP0Kj)

They never made a Highlander 2.
Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (ZxzYs)

Highlander - There can only be One!

Highlander 2 - There should only have been One!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (edUvp)

262 They never made a Highlander 2

Can you imagine? What would they even do with that, since Highlander ends with the one guy winning and bringing peace and justice to the world! They'd have to do something really stupid like, I dunno, calling them all aliens and bringing Sean Connery back from the dead!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (UZCuZ)

263 *Waves from Missouri*
Posted by: SMH at God's Mercy

Yay! You made it!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (lwhHh)

264 There is only one Matrix film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Then demons took over the Wachowskis' bodies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (ndZc7)

265 Bill and Ted proved God exists.

They congratulated him on his most excellent creation, Earth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (3IrX0)

266 Ahem....it is now THE WACHOWSKI SISTERS!!!! Bigot!!!!!
Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske)

Shouldn't they be using their mother's maiden name now?
Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (8avO+)

You mean their grandfather's last name?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (qx7Zg)

267 257 >>> 247 I see a federal judge just bleated the $100 H1-b visa fee is illegal.

I guess federal judges are now in charge of immigration too.

F them.
Posted by: Vengeance at June 08, 2026 03:27 PM (DZ6nv)

Donny Two Scoops ought to bump it to $100 million.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (R+iUD)

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It's $100,000, by the way.

But the Trump admin went through full APA processes, including comment periods, to implement it.

This is a speedbump. It'll be back in no time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (IOrWk)

268 251 It is like Highlander 2... the movie we all agreed to just ignore.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:25 PM (mP0Kj)

They never made a Highlander 2.
Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (ZxzYs)

and the number thou shalt count will be Three...

Two is right out!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (mP0Kj)

269 >>> 252 *Waves from Missouri*
Posted by: SMH at God's Mercy at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (IJDEV)

SMH!

Road trip or new residence?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 03:30 PM (R+iUD)

270 It is not outside the realm of possibility that alien life forms also believe in God and have similar stories to ours. That will be an incredibly interesting point to those who smugly refer to a SkyGod- their reaction may be the telling one, the ones in question of their faith, or lack thereof.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 03:30 PM (OoFl2)

271 265 Bill and Ted proved God exists.

They congratulated him on his most excellent creation, Earth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (3IrX0)

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Station!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:30 PM (IOrWk)

272
*Waves from Missouri*
Posted by: SMH

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Waves back from California. Congrats to you! Happy unpacking!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:30 PM (n7rxJ)

273 247 I see a federal judge just bleated the $100 H1-b visa fee is illegal.

I guess federal judges are now in charge of immigration too.

F them.
Posted by: Vengeance at June 08, 2026 03:27 PM (DZ6nv)

Donny Two Scoops ought to bump it to $100 million.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (R+iUD)
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Renewable annually.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:30 PM (rj6Yv)

274 The movie is still LIGHT YEARS ahead of any of the crap we get now.

Yeah it has some flaws, but at least they didn't nuke the fridge or try to replace Indiana Jones with a charisma-free British chick.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:30 PM (UZCuZ)

275 Ahem....it is now THE WACHOWSKI SISTERS!!!! Bigot!!!!!
Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske)

Shouldn't they be using their mother's maiden name now?
Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:26 PM (8avO+)

You mean their grandfather's last name?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (qx7Zg)

Good point.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:31 PM (8avO+)

276 It is not outside the realm of possibility that alien life forms also believe in God and have similar stories to ours. That will be an incredibly interesting point to those who smugly refer to a SkyGod- their reaction may be the telling one, the ones in question of their faith, or lack thereof.
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 03:30 PM (OoFl2)

It's the ego of man that thinks we're God's only experiment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:31 PM (3IrX0)

277 Stephen A. Smith can stick it in his ear and blow it out his ass.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:24 PM (3IrX0)

This made me laugh. Reminded me of an episode of 2.5 men when Alan’s having a nervous breakdown and yells at the movie screen in the theater: Blow it out your ass!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:31 PM (laP4O)

278
This is a speedbump. It'll be back in no time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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How do we get rid of the speedbump judges making outright illegal decisions like this?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:31 PM (n7rxJ)

279 252 *Waves from Missouri*
Posted by: SMH at God's Mercy at June

Thinking about you and all the unpacking!

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 03:32 PM (OoFl2)

280 ==============

How do we get rid of the speedbump judges making outright illegal decisions like this?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:31 PM (n7rxJ)

Lampposts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:32 PM (3IrX0)

281 There is a theory that Sophia Stewart the black female "Mother of the Matrix" who sued the Wachowski's for infringement and whose case was dismissed in 2005, was a fake who was planted to block the REAL person that had been infringed by them, for some manuscript the was called the Cipher Men and had to do with the x-men or something.

His name was Anderson, as alluded in the movie, and of course in the movie there is a character called Cipher. Reports are the story was passed around the set and contained the Matrix network and dream world etc etc.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 03:32 PM (XGfD9)

282 124 94 20 I am very angry at myself that I did not figure out how to get the government to pay for my business. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 02:43 PM (p4NUW)

I literally have to post a prayer every week in the Prayer Thread for strength to not take the law into my own hands
Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (KMQMu)

Lord, Grant me Patience, because if you Grant me Strength, I'll need bail money. -- Sen. Kennedy (LA)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 03:03 PM (qx7Zg)

He is a wry wit. I think he wants to be seen as so, but it"s also true.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 03:32 PM (KMQMu)

283 278
This is a speedbump. It'll be back in no time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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How do we get rid of the speedbump judges making outright illegal decisions like this?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:31 PM (n7rxJ)

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Either impeachment through Congress or new Congressional statute that eliminates the court itself.

The head of judiciary, SCOTUS, doesn't even have the power to fire judges. They do have some ability to bar judges from types of cases, but these are rare.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:33 PM (IOrWk)

284 There's some asshole on FB and Twitter who's always falsely posting some celebrity's death for clicks.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 08, 2026 03:33 PM (wBaIH)

285 There are several YT videos of the now-working fountains in DC. The residents and tourists alike are amazed and happy. The waterfalls and fountains are a big hit, like at Columbus Square, where the marble statues and pediments have been pressure-washed back to their original brilliance.
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It really is insane how pissed the left is that Trump is ruining their recreation of "decaying Soviet city" that they've worked so hard to build in DC.

Like, they are genuinely angry that he's restoring all these fountains and monuments to their original beauty.

It demonic, their rage.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 03:33 PM (73/SM)

286 Remember that God loves you. He always has time for you. You are never alone.

You don’t need to text or email. He’s not on iMessage or Signal.

He is right there next to you, watching over you.

Talk to Him.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 03:33 PM (DZ6nv)

287 SMH!

Road trip or new residence?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

New residence. Home. Land. Ozarks. Jealous.
The Ozarks are beautiful country.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 03:33 PM (lwhHh)

288 I like the the theory I have read on occasion that life on earth came from another planet in some rudimentary form somehow so we don't have to prove how it got stared from rocks and water.

Which explains absolutely nothing in the long run.
Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (GUOwU)

panspermia.

But yeah, it doesn't solve anything, but the idea sure helps the budgets of SF movies so they can find cute perky aliens instead of blobs of rock that cost a lot to make.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:33 PM (8avO+)

289 What would've been really funny is if they tried a Highlander TV show.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (ZxzYs)

290 SMH b"h for safe arrivals

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (RIvkX)

291
{{{SMH}}}

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (XGfD9)

292
An alien Jesus was referenced at the end of a Star Trek original episode, so there's that.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (Y8DZL)

293 It is not outside the realm of possibility that alien life forms also believe in God and have similar stories to ours.

The last good sci fi book I read was called "Calculating God" in which aliens visit earth and find atheism hilarious and bizarre, since EVERY alien race is theistic and they go through a long, overwhelming series of arguments to utterly prove God to the scientists.

It was written by an atheist but he wanted to explore the idea, "what if God really did exist and aliens knew it?"

The book goes very odd places by the end but its a fresh and interesting concept for the story. He got a lot of flack for publishing it at the time

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (UZCuZ)

294 How do we get rid of the speedbump judges making outright illegal decisions like this?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Woodchippers.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (yKfDA)

295 New residence. Home. Land. Ozarks. Jealous.
The Ozarks are beautiful country.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 03:33 PM (lwhHh)

Nice! REALLY glad to hear they were able to flee the socialist utopia that is Illinois.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (3IrX0)

296 The Presbyterian Church is the PCA and the OPC. I don’t know what you could call the PCUSA.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (Gqar8)

297 NGOs shutting down and Scott Pelley getting canned are all a part of the change for the better in the U S of A.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (rj6Yv)

298 He is a wry wit. I think he wants to be seen as so, but it"s also true.
Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 03:32 PM (KMQMu)
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His memoir was very good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 03:35 PM (RIvkX)

299 What would've been really funny is if they tried a Highlander TV show.
Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (ZxzYs)

They tried the GEICO cavemen..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:35 PM (3IrX0)

300 I see a federal judge just bleated the $100 H1-b visa fee is illegal.

I guess federal judges are now in charge of immigration too.

F them.
Posted by: Vengeance at June 08, 2026 03:27 PM (DZ6nv)

In order to hire an H1B visa holder, you must pay $100M/year, and pay 4x what you'd pay for an American with similar skills. In addition, you give up the right to bid for any government contract.

If Apple would pay $300k/year for an American with a specific skill set, then they have to pay the H1B $1.2M, after paying $100M for the privilege. Apple could not sell iPhones, iPads, or Macs to the US Government or any state or local government.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 03:35 PM (qx7Zg)

301 The Ozarks. MY home. I pray that I am able to live and die here.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 03:35 PM (Gqar8)

302 299 I thought that was a drunken thought I had. Was it real??

Posted by: turambar at June 08, 2026 03:36 PM (Q0yOR)

303 In my day, we had snow days.

Japan Closes Almost 100 Schools After Black Bear Sighting

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:36 PM (ndZc7)

304 I don’t know what you could call the PCUSA.

Not a church, that's for sure.

What would've been really funny is if they tried a Highlander TV show.

That was actually pretty good, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:36 PM (UZCuZ)

305 Anyway, then he basically ends the series on "Unknown supremely powerful entity says you all get back in here so it can all fix this mess you all made."

But totally not God ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 03:28 PM (73/SM)
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That's basically the end of Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy.

The heroes find the cosmic "reset button" at the center of the galaxy and press it in order to send the antagonists back to the endless hell dimension they escaped from.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 03:36 PM (gnNyN)

306 They tried the GEICO cavemen..........
Posted by: Sponge

Karmelo Anthony should have used Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer from SNL.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 03:36 PM (lwhHh)

307 296 The Presbyterian Church is the PCA and the OPC. I don’t know what you could call the PCUSA.
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (Gqar

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Heretical

Posted by: ballistic at June 08, 2026 03:37 PM (oqH4h)

308 It is not outside the realm of possibility that alien life forms also believe in God and have similar stories to ours. That will be an incredibly interesting point to those who smugly refer to a SkyGod- their reaction may be the telling one, the ones in question of their faith, or lack thereof.
Posted by: Piper
__________

I would think any alien civilization that can sustain itself through technological progress sufficient to reach us has some form of religion. Otherwise, they likely would have destroyed themselves long before reaching that stage. Nihilism is nihilism, whether it's here or a million light years away.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 03:37 PM (XvL8K)

309 I respect atheists who say "I have no idea how everything got here" or "we don't understand yet". The whole "science explains it" or "the universe always existed" or worse "muh multiverse" thing is underpants gnome science, its science of the gaps.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:20 PM (UZCuZ)
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I'm not even talking about whether it is entertain the absence of a Creator is reasonable--since even the fine-tuning argument, in my opinion, fails to be conclusive, and "you think it all just got here on accident" is also not a convincing argument to me, as an intellectual agnostic, but practicing doctrinal Christian.

But the reasonableness of the case for that lack doesn't excuse the hash they made of everything else they present.

Including "You're wrong and backwards and bad, and you just need to let us kick the can down the road longer...".

To fulfill the burden of "First Claimant" is a quality of information, it should not be a demarcation of models. Just like verifiability is a quality of a claim, not a delimiter.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:37 PM (Fi81e)

310 304 I enjoyed the show. You got to see a lot of different people playing a villain or needing help. Sheena Easton was so hot.

Posted by: turambar at June 08, 2026 03:37 PM (Q0yOR)

311 An alien Jesus was referenced at the end of a Star Trek original episode, so there's that.
Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (Y8DZL)
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That was a great counterhistory episode that postulated the Roman Empire had survived through to the late 20th century and only then had there developed a nascent group of so-called "Son" worshippers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 03:37 PM (RIvkX)

312 I had to visit DC and met with a friend of mine who has lived there for 25 years. He said the city has never been this safe or clean. I transited through Union Station. I never remember the Columbus fountain working or being that clean. The reflecting pool is now stunning. It feels like they are working on every monument.

But Trump is a terrible guy or something.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 03:38 PM (DZ6nv)

313
Japan Closes Almost 100 Schools After Black Bear Sighting
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:36 PM (ndZc7)

That black bear is asshoe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:38 PM (3IrX0)

314 312 I had to visit DC and met with a friend of mine who has lived there for 25 years. He said the city has never been this safe or clean. I transited through Union Station. I never remember the Columbus fountain working or being that clean. The reflecting pool is now stunning. It feels like they are working on every monument.

But Trump is a terrible guy or something.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 03:38 PM (DZ6nv)

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I miss the authentic NYC in the 70s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:38 PM (IOrWk)

315 I would like to see the bank records of a number of "media outlets" whose existence seems improbable from an economic standpoint.

Posted by: I'm just saying at June 08, 2026 03:38 PM (anL5R)

316 Heh...just opened the mail and got a check for $100 for winning a contest. A venture capital group ( think is was ARGON or something like that) had a contest for people to subit what they called "Simple Innovations". You had to submit an idea for development.

Mine was natural "Cool Pops" for kids. 100% natural juice instead of food coloring, corn syrup and artificial flavors. Forces kids to eat fruit under the guise that it's a treat on a hot day. I'm shocked I won. I did it as a joke, and my first sentence on the proposal was "Kids are stupid."

Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 03:38 PM (dIske)

317 316 Yeah but that first sentence isn't wrong. Nice job.

Posted by: turambar at June 08, 2026 03:39 PM (Q0yOR)

318 It was written by an atheist but he wanted to explore the idea, "what if God really did exist and aliens knew it?"

The book goes very odd places by the end but its a fresh and interesting concept for the story. He got a lot of flack for publishing it at the time
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (UZCuZ)

There's a very short SF story where the Pioneer plaque is picked up by alien races who are so shocked by the nude pictures on it they are coming to blow up the Earth. Another fun one is that they finally discover Hyperspace but find out travel using it is slower than real space.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:39 PM (8avO+)

319 I think we'll eventually find the universe is teeming with life.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 03:39 PM (ZxzYs)

320 Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 03:38 PM (dIske

Congratulations! That's great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 03:40 PM (rZCVI)

321 313
Japan Closes Almost 100 Schools After Black Bear Sighting
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:36 PM (ndZc7)

That black bear is asshoe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:38 PM (3IrX0)

Hmmm. I did not, nor did the neighbors, close down our back yards after the other night wanderings of little Yogi.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 03:40 PM (Gqar8)

322 It is not outside the realm of possibility that alien life forms also believe in God and have similar stories to ours. That will be an incredibly interesting point to those who smugly refer to a SkyGod- their reaction may be the telling one, the ones in question of their faith, or lack thereof.
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There was a short sci fi story I read about a guy racing from planet to planet trying to catch up with basically Jesus.
It was kinda cool.
The inhabitants would be all peaceful and happy after every visit.
And, "sorry dude, you just missed him. Don't know where he went. But let us tell you--you missed a really great guy."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 03:40 PM (73/SM)

323 My trip to the stationary store was a smashing success.

I now have, for me, the perfect rollerball pen set up: Lamy Rollerball Body, Pentel. 0.7 mm Pentel Energel Needle point refills, and a the spring, trimmed to size, from a Pilot G2 pen to hold the Pentel refill in place inside the Lamy body.

It rocks. Seriously rocks. Heavy metal rocks. WTH is wrong with me?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 03:40 PM (glnUu)

324 Only Christians, will still believe in God

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Only Christians? Is that where you have to pay to watch an Amish woman churn butter?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 03:40 PM (ndZc7)

325 I had to visit DC and met with a friend of mine who has lived there for 25 years. He said the city has never been this safe or clean. I transited through Union Station. I never remember the Columbus fountain working or being that clean. The reflecting pool is now stunning. It feels like they are working on every monument.

But Trump is a terrible guy or something.
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I, for one, miss the vast amount of goose shit floating in and lining the bottom of the reflecting pool. In the july heat, nothing says democratic party control, like the smell of avian fecal matter sweltering in the sun!

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at June 08, 2026 03:41 PM (anL5R)

326
NGOs shutting down and Scott Pelley getting canned are all a part of the change for the better in the U S of A.
Posted by: mrp

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Little white pills of the day in a bottle full of black ones.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 03:41 PM (n7rxJ)

327 Never understood just why any alien life would be a challenge to Almighty God. Must be a case of atheists glitching.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 03:41 PM (Gqar8)

328 I like the the theory I have read on occasion that life on earth came from another planet in some rudimentary form somehow so we don't have to prove how it got stared from rocks and water.

Which explains absolutely nothing in the long run.
Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 03:29 PM (GUOwU)
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Those scientists have girlfriends that go to a different university, so you wouldn't know them.

It just relocates the problem into a domain we have fewer information about.

It solves the chirology problem because it's on a different planet, duh!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:41 PM (Fi81e)

329 Having lived near and worked in DC 20-odd years ago, I'd actually like to go back and see what it's like when it's not being allowed to fall into something resembling a Soviet dystopia.

Working fountains? No bums everywhere? A reflecting pool not full of goose shit and smelling like a hobo's ass?

The hell you say!

Now if Trump could raze all of the ugly-ass Brutalist government buildings along the mall and replace them (or, don't, for that matter) with architecture that doesn't suck....

Posted by: ballistic at June 08, 2026 03:41 PM (oqH4h)

330 I did it as a joke, and my first sentence on the proposal was "Kids are stupid."
Posted by: Orson at June 08, 2026 03:38 PM

Lol

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 08, 2026 03:42 PM (6cXzZ)

331 Japan Closes Almost 100 Schools After Black Bear Sighting
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

WTF? 100 schools?

Does the bear move the Godzirra or Mothra? WTF?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 03:42 PM (lwhHh)

332 >> miss the authentic NYC in the 70s.

So do the squeegee guys, prostitutes, pimps, race rioters, homeless encampments and open air drugs dealers.

It’s going back on that direction btw. The outflow of people has been remarkable.

I don’t think it will ever recover. Democrats are successfully destroying the entire state. The middle class is fleeing and a large part of the population are people who are old, and illegal immigrants.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 03:42 PM (DZ6nv)

333
Science is a great method.

It makes a shitty "worldview" (because it's not made to be a worldview).

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:42 PM (Fi81e)

334 Indiana Jones and the Quest for a Titanium Hip Replacement

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 03:43 PM (pSkMS)

335 323 My trip to the stationary store was a smashing success.

I now have, for me, the perfect rollerball pen set up: Lamy Rollerball Body, Pentel. 0.7 mm Pentel Energel Needle point refills, and a the spring, trimmed to size, from a Pilot G2 pen to hold the Pentel refill in place inside the Lamy body.

It rocks. Seriously rocks. Heavy metal rocks. WTH is wrong with me?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 03:40 PM (glnUu)

.7mm? That's practically magic marker width. .5mm or nothing.

Posted by: A LOT is wrong with you at June 08, 2026 03:43 PM (TbWk/)

336 I miss the authentic NYC in the 70s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 03:38 PM (IOrWk)
===

I spent a week there in 1975. Times Square was an effin' zoo. I walked down Broadway from Central Park to the Battery (did it again in 1981). At least there weren't any homeless defecating or overdosing on the sidewalks.

Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 03:43 PM (rj6Yv)

337 I think we'll eventually find the universe is teeming with life.
==
Yeah, and they're mostly a-holes.

Posted by: Dungeon Crawler Carl at June 08, 2026 03:43 PM (anL5R)

338 I now have, for me, the perfect rollerball pen set up: Lamy Rollerball Body, Pentel. 0.7 mm Pentel Energel Needle point refills, and a the spring, trimmed to size, from a Pilot G2 pen to hold the Pentel refill in place inside the Lamy body.

It rocks. Seriously rocks. Heavy metal rocks. WTH is wrong with me?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

I'm old skool. I prefer a Bic Crystal.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 03:43 PM (lwhHh)

339 It rocks. Seriously rocks. Heavy metal rocks. WTH is wrong with me?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 03:40 PM (glnUu)

Sometimes, it's the little things.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:44 PM (3IrX0)

340 Japan Closes Almost 100 Schools After Black Bear Sighting

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Most likely there weren't women making this decision--because why wouldn't they close down 100 schools after sighting a human male?

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:44 PM (Fi81e)

341 New residence. Home. Land. Ozarks. Jealous.
The Ozarks are beautiful country.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 03:33 PM (lwhHh)

Nice! REALLY glad to hear they were able to flee the socialist utopia that is Illinois.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (3IrX0)

a pair of good Civil War battlefields in the area - Wilson's Creek near Springfield MO, and Pea Ridge in Arkansas. Prairie Grove is also in the area but I haven't been to area to see if it is set up well.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:44 PM (8avO+)

342 I am pleasantly surprised at AI capabilities… I’m here at work using our internal tool and I can ask it to build a Matlab script to do a detailed simulation of fairly complicated stuff and it provides one in less than 60 seconds! In the old days it would’ve taken me weeks to build that

Now it has to be checked but wow

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 03:44 PM (yz/88)

343 @319

>>I think we'll eventually find the universe is teeming with life.

Doubtful, but we at least can be certain that there is no intelligent space traveling life within 12k light years of us.

So we have that going for us.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 03:44 PM (XV/Pl)

344 Your mom is teeming with life

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 03:45 PM (XGfD9)

345 New residence. Home. Land. Ozarks. Jealous.
The Ozarks are beautiful country.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 03:33 PM (lwhHh)

Nice! REALLY glad to hear they were able to flee the socialist utopia that is Illinois.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (3IrX0)

They'll be up and laundering cartel money in no time!

Posted by: It's MissourAH to you! at June 08, 2026 03:45 PM (TbWk/)

346 Science is a great method.

It makes a shitty "worldview" (because it's not made to be a worldview).
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:42 PM (Fi81e)

the intent is quite the opposite, to describe what is rather than should be.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:46 PM (8avO+)

347 274 The movie is still LIGHT YEARS ahead of any of the crap we get now.

Yeah it has some flaws, but at least they didn't nuke the fridge or try to replace Indiana Jones with a charisma-free British chick.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:30 PM (UZCuZ)

I have not seen anyone else mention this, so it falls to me to explain that her hatchet or quarter-moon face is precise for cunnilingus, with one point also stimulating the anus.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 03:47 PM (KMQMu)

348 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:47 PM (3IrX0)

349 NOOD British Police Assholes

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 03:47 PM (qx7Zg)

350 FIRST!!

Posted by: Bonecrusher at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (JNTt1)

351 I think we'll eventually find the universe is teeming with life

I think that if we ever get interstellar we'll find that almost all the universe is dead rocks, and what life we find will be not only not intelligent (lichen, etc) but often so alien we have a hard time recognizing it as life.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (UZCuZ)

352 Considering "High Plains Drifter", if Clint dies is he going to come back as a vision and wipe out everyone in Hollywood and set it afire?

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (mMytc)

353 Stationery: most stores are stationary, excepting earthquakes, sink holes, atomic blasts, etc.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (pB7yW)

354 >>> 341 New residence. Home. Land. Ozarks. Jealous.
The Ozarks are beautiful country.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 03:33 PM (lwhHh)

Nice! REALLY glad to hear they were able to flee the socialist utopia that is Illinois.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 03:34 PM (3IrX0)

a pair of good Civil War battlefields in the area - Wilson's Creek near Springfield MO, and Pea Ridge in Arkansas. Prairie Grove is also in the area but I haven't been to area to see if it is set up well.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:44 PM (8avO+)

Recently found a connection to the battle of Wilson's Creek.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2026 03:48 PM (R+iUD)

355 346 Science is a great method.

It makes a shitty "worldview" (because it's not made to be a worldview).
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:42 PM (Fi81e)

the intent is quite the opposite, to describe what is rather than should be.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:46 PM (8avO+)

The left have, of course, perverted it into another form of coercive diktat. We said it's THE SCIENCE™ therefore it is irrefutable, incontestable, and you are a heretic, fool, and tought criminal to say otherwise.

Posted by: Lysenkoism ain't just a river in Egypt at June 08, 2026 03:49 PM (TbWk/)

356 Never understood just why any alien life would be a challenge to Almighty God. Must be a case of atheists glitching.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 03:41 PM (Gqar

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Because it makes it hard for humans to come up with a complete enough explanation for why Jesus died for humans on Earth, or what is the effect on the accepted schema to introduce more species to die or not die for.

And your average atheist is going to put it upon you to make sense of it or it "doesn't make sense".

However, enough of them won't take the challenge on "human equality" and "human rights" if they want to preserve those. And they'll just say you must be a bad person if you don't want people to be considered equal or to have rights.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 03:50 PM (Fi81e)

357 Japan Closes Almost 100 Schools After Black Bear Sighting
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

WTF? 100 schools?

Does the bear move the Godzirra or Mothra? WTF?
Posted by: rickb223

You should see what happens in Las Cruces when the temperatures fall below 50 degrees or there is a hint a trace of snow might fall.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (glnUu)

358 >>I think we'll eventually find the universe is teeming with life.

Doubtful, but we at least can be certain that there is no intelligent space traveling life within 12k light years of us.

So we have that going for us.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 03:44 PM (XV/Pl)

Startide Rising and the other books in the Uplift books by Brin solve that by having emerging worlds be in effect nature reserves. New sapient species have to serve a patron race for a period because all of them had to be uplifted by another sapient. Humans are unique in that when we were found, we had uplifted dolphins and chimps and gorillas and thus had to be part of the elite club of races, and aren't they pissed about it.

Of course, the idea that everyone had to be uplifted leads to the question of who uplifted the first race.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 03:51 PM (8avO+)

359 Stationery: most stores are stationary, excepting earthquakes, sink holes, atomic blasts, etc.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Spelling matters. Who knew?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 03:52 PM (glnUu)

360 343 @319

>>I think we'll eventually find the universe is teeming with life.

Doubtful, but we at least can be certain that there is no intelligent space traveling life within 12k light years of us.

So we have that going for us.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 03:44 PM (XV/Pl)

This is incredibly good news. Say what you will about fiction writers, but they have gamed this out, and it does not end well for the colonized.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 03:56 PM (KMQMu)

361 "...it's a stinging indictment of the previous administration that they wasted so many hard-earned American tax dollars keeping this outlet afloat."

A stinging indictment?

Sub par, but what else could anyone expect?
I really dislike this government.

Posted by: ibid at June 08, 2026 03:57 PM (BiQ2s)

362 Teddy Roosevelt used to fight people. As president. He had a boxing ring. He wound up with a detached retina as a result. Switched to judo.

You can't hate the media enough. It is a wine karen activation program. Its function is to tell Karen what Trump action to seethe about next. And yes, all the male progressives are Karen's also. My Gawd, Scott Pelley is the biggest Karen of them all. Pulls a I want to speak to your manager routine, and gets fired. Cries about it. I refuse to believe he is a man. There is too much contrary evidence.

Posted by: And that's science at June 08, 2026 03:57 PM (anL5R)

363 Universities also do this with Science Journals. Those are marked up an absolute ton.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:56 PM (8avO+)

There was some talk that the NIH and research funded by US grants would not be allowing the grant money to print in the Springer journals, which charge a metric copulating ton amounts to publish the articles -- which until Trump was considered obligatory.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 04:10 PM (rbvCR)

Totally Informed Serious Intellectual Scott Pelley to Bari Weiss: Where Are You Getting This Lunatic Claim that the American Public Thinks We're Biased? Because We Sure Don't Think That

The Royal We. And by "royal" I don't mean of noble birth, I mean "inbred, stupid, and incapable of caring for themselves."

Scott Pelley describes pushing back after Bari Weiss, his now-former boss at CBS News, asked 60 Minutes staffers to reflect on why Americans think mainstream journalists are biased.

“Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about? Because we certainly… pic.twitter.com/oEktN7Zfae
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) June 8, 2026

He literally says, "I never wore the uniform, but I've been in combat for this country."

He's been in combat for you, you guys.

He's a War Hero, Racists.

Oh and he cries at how hurtful it is to be denied the respect that his Combat Experience has earned him.

Fired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley on the verge of tears:

"I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert." pic.twitter.com/me6BJ9Eetg
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 7, 2026

He's such a brilliant reporter and student of society that he had no idea that repeatedly insulting your boss (and his boss, on top of that) to get cheap applause from the other communist droogs is a firing offense.

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
23h
Lulu Garcia-Navarro: "But it really didn't occur to you that you could be fired after so many of your colleagues had been let go after you'd had this, you know, very contentious interaction with your new boss?"
Scott Pelley: "You know, some reporter, I turned out to be. I just didn't connect the dots. I mean, was this meeting contentious? Yes, but 60 Minutes is known for two things, a ticking stopwatch and hard questions. And we ask ourselves those hard questions in the shop because they sharpen us and make us better..."
Garcia-Navarro: "So, you walk in, and what was the energy of the room?"
Pelley: "Hostile, dismissive before I could take my seat. Tom Cibrowski said, this is a firing offense. I was confused. I wasn't sure who he was talking about in the room, but it became plain very quickly that they were talking about me, and they were unhappy about the meeting that had occurred, a meeting that had ended in thunderous applause for me, if I may say so, because somebody had stood up for the broadcast."

He cried again later in the interview, but insisting he was crying for his fellow Fake Journalists, not shimself:

Scott Pelley cries again when declaring CBS’s Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski showed “breathtaking, completely lack of empathy,” “callousness,” and “inhumanity” by letting go Tanya Simon because her “family is legendary at CBS News.”

He again insists the tears are not “about me,”… pic.twitter.com/5WSjQDJjmF
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 7, 2026

Via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, Scott Pelley is a Theater Kid Dum-Dum, writes Jonathan Leaf.

And a nasty one, too.

Pelley is a classic talking-head--someone who started in television and whose whole career has been forged within it. This is the world that the movie Broadcast News depicts. Someone handsome and deep-voiced appears on camera. Others do most or all of the writing and the research.
(Interestingly, the producer of the 2009 Chevron piece, Draggan Mihailovich, was among the top 60 Minutes producers fired late last month by CBS News management, enraging Pelley.)
In Britain, news anchors have traditionally been called "newsreaders." That's because this is what they are. Their job is to make sure that their hair is coiffed when they read from the teleprompter. Pelley was a male bimbo: a himbo.
Over the years, he made many absurd and bombastic statements. For example, in 2006 he presented a completely uncritical two-part report on climate change. When critics asked him why he didn't speak to anyone who questioned the assertions of those who said that climate change was an existential threat to humanity, he responded by saying that this idea was akin to Holocaust denial.

...
"The job of on camera talent is that of a performer. Take Christiane Amanpour. She has often appeared on TV wearing flak jackets when she is far from a combat zone. This is her way of selling the message that she is a field correspondent accustomed to visiting dangerous terrain. Similarly, Pelley is said to have liked to end news broadcasts by taking off his glasses and gazing gravely as the camera dramatically panned in to him. That was his way of ending on a weighty yet "intimate" note."

Apparently this gaywad's big Theater Kid Power Bottom Move is chewing solemnly on his glasses as he contemplates the injustices of the universe.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:25 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (3IrX0)

2 I'll fetch em

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Centered.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (3IrX0)

4 Fair to middlin.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (3IrX0)

5 What a tool. No idea how insulated he is, or - worse - knows EXACTLY how insulated he is and loves being distanced from the masses.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:26 PM (Kdi1r)

6 I can get better talking heads from social media.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:26 PM (IOrWk)

7 Got em for you Sponge

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:26 PM (Ia/+0)

8 I don't mean of noble birth, I mean "inbred, stupid, and incapable of caring for themselves."

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"They're the same picture."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:26 PM (IOrWk)

9 Malcom

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 08, 2026 01:26 PM (yInIL)

10 Dang it! Malcom is not in the middle.

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 08, 2026 01:27 PM (yInIL)

11 And we thought Barky didn't believe his own BS

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:27 PM (Ia/+0)

12 pelycosaurs >> Scott Pelly

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

13 Scott Pillow is a detached from reality, pompous narcissist.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 01:28 PM (u82oZ)

14 11 And we thought Barky didn't believe his own BS

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:27 PM (Ia/+0)

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Barack Obama is a man who only knows the smell of his own farts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:28 PM (IOrWk)

15 Fired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley on the verge of tears:

"I�ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert."

*fistbump*

Fam.

Posted by: Brian Williams at June 08, 2026 01:28 PM (3IrX0)

16 He's as beautiful as a toe.

Posted by: Pawl at June 08, 2026 01:28 PM (vFG9F)

17 He was in a desert foxhole during monsoon season? Seems like that could be checked up on.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 01:29 PM (lFFaq)

18 Barack Obama is a man who only knows the smell of his own farts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:28 PM (IOrWk)

Please. Let's be fair.

He also knows what his wife's dick tastes like.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:29 PM (Kdi1r)

19 I'm sorry. I don't think I ever watched Scott Pelley, or of if I did,it it was years ago. I cannot feel sorry for a leftist whiner who is worth about $18 million or more.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 01:29 PM (Nx5jP)

20 <

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 08, 2026 01:29 PM (4NO2D)

21 Maybe he can go to Iran and report from there.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 01:29 PM (vFG9F)

22 Got em for you Sponge
Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:26 PM (Ia/+0)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM (3IrX0)

23 Scott Pelley describes pushing back after Bari Weiss, his now-former boss at CBS News, asked 60 Minutes staffers to reflect on why Americans think mainstream journalists are biased.

“Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about? Because we certainly didn't believe that."

======

It's funny for two reasons.

The first is that this is the personification of that "SOURCE?!" meme.

The second is that, yes, there are a lot of polls about it, and they all indicate that the American public thinks the media is biased.

There's also academic research into how pervasive the leftward bias is and its effects on American elections. As of about 20 years ago, if America had an actual unbiased press, the median state would be akin to Wyoming was in the mid-2000s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM (IOrWk)

24 f he doesn't think he's biased, and if he doesn;'t think the Anerican public thinks he's biased, then his claim that she's pushing him out for plitical reasn is baseless.

Why would she kick out a completely neutral presenter -- for political reasons?

Reality: The very fact that he claims to be fired for political reasons PROVES that he knows he's biased. Duh.

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Av6i5)

25 The fact he thought this interview would snowball torches and pitchforks agains Bari Weiss is stunning. Truly.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM (OoFl2)

26 Fired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley

We need you to go to the front lines in Iran.

*back channel to Iran*

Yo IRCG. Put this guy next to a ballistic missile launcher trying to hit Israel, please.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM (u82oZ)

27 Carried over:

338 "I just hope people are finally being red-pilled -- or black-pilled"

What's darker than black-pilled? I guess whatever that is, I'm darker than that too.
Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

Yeah, I'm Vantablack-pilled. It only takes one to have a war, and with the (now demolished) Georgia Guidestones, TPTB have literally openly declared their intent to eradicate 94% of the human race.

There will be war, and all they have to do to win is live. They *want* 94% of humans to die. That means they don't have to be efficient or effective, or even succeed at a stated goal. The death will be the point. So to make them lose, we have to have worked out where they'll be hiding and how to dig them out.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Sy6m/)

28 Turn those studio lights back on!

Posted by: Scott Pelley at June 08, 2026 01:31 PM (wVcYX)

29 24 Reality: The very fact that he claims to be fired for political reasons PROVES that he knows he's biased. Duh.

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Av6i5)

=====

"Bari Weiss, lesbian Obama voter, was trying to change me from being a straight-shootin' truth teller to a right-wing mouthpiece for David Ellison."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:31 PM (IOrWk)

30 Sponge, you mentioned First Daughter in the last thread. How's she doing?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

31 Empathy has become the most annoying and over used word in the English language. The left use it as a sword and shield. "Have empathy or we'll kill you", says the left. Pelley got none, poor baby

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 01:31 PM (zj5z7)

32 25 The fact he thought this interview would snowball torches and pitchforks agains Bari Weiss is stunning. Truly.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM (OoFl2)

=======

There's a shocking number of people who seem to think it's always 1963.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:31 PM (IOrWk)

33 f he doesn't think he's biased, and if he doesn;'t think the Anerican public thinks he's biased, then his claim that she's pushing him out for plitical reasn is baseless.

Why would she kick out a completely neutral presenter -- for political reasons?

Reality: The very fact that he claims to be fired for political reasons PROVES that he knows he's biased. Duh.
Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM

Whoa.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 08, 2026 01:32 PM (4NO2D)

34 Don't forget, they tried to kill the the last guy they stole an election from in broad daylight.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:32 PM (XGfD9)

35 Totally Informed Serious Intellectual Scott Pelley to Bari Weiss: Where Are You Getting This Lunatic Claim that the American Public Thinks We're Biased? Because We Sure Don't Think That

—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Did anybody inform Fox Butterfield?

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:32 PM (Fi81e)

36 I'm not biased. Everything fits perfectly with my reality.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 01:33 PM (vFG9F)

37 "The job of on camera talent is that of a performer. Take Christiane Amanpour. She has often appeared on TV wearing flak jackets when she is far from a combat zone. This is her way of selling the message that she is a field correspondent accustomed to visiting dangerous terrain. Similarly, Pelley is said to have liked to end news broadcasts by taking off his glasses and gazing gravely as the camera dramatically panned in to him. That was his way of ending on a weighty yet "intimate" note."

*insert image of Anderson Cooper standing in a flooded ditch here*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:33 PM (3IrX0)

38 34 Don't forget, they tried to kill the the last guy they stole an election from in broad daylight.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:32 PM (XGfD9)

======

"Like you believe that actually happened? I mean, I hope and pray and advocate for his assassination every single day publicly and loudly, but my side would never do that."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:33 PM (IOrWk)

39 Vets need to challenge Pelley to make his DoD service record public. At every possible opportunity. With phone cameras recording.

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 01:33 PM (5rh/l)

40 Our entire ruling class are nothing but pampered, spoiled rich kids.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 01:33 PM (N1tpc)

41 What a faggot.

Posted by: ballistic at June 08, 2026 01:34 PM (oqH4h)

42 18 Barack Obama is a man who only knows the smell of his own farts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:28 PM (IOrWk)

Please. Let's be fair.

He also knows what his wife's dick tastes like.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:29 PM (Kdi1r)

However, his Presidential Library of Doom IS NOT opening on JULY 4th.

That must have taken great restraint.

Or was an oversight....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 01:34 PM (Sco7b)

43 Biggest pussy Lubbock Texas ever produced.

Posted by: huerfano at June 08, 2026 01:34 PM (VJX5o)

44 Have to say when Scott came up couple days ago was first I seen him in years
He is getting old

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:34 PM (Ia/+0)

45 Sponge, you mentioned First Daughter in the last thread. How's she doing?
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

She's doing Ok. Still dealing with the harsh reality she f*cked up, bigly. But, getting there.

We're looking forward to having her home for a couple weeks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:34 PM (3IrX0)

46 Scott Pelley in a remake of Sunset Blvd.

"It was the newsroom that got too small."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:35 PM (2GVsD)

47 Cry more, bitch tits.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)

48 I always thought of news readers as just wanna be hollywood actors with little talent. They just read somebody else's lines. As the kids say these days, it's not that deep.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 01:35 PM (n5tGW)

49 Why would she kick out a completely neutral presenter -- for political reasons?

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM
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You're forgetting the ready narrative: As Trump's lackey.

For quite some time, the street Democrat has only needed a "side of the story" to push. And the Democrat operatives at all levels make sure they are well supplied with a "side of the story".

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Fi81e)

50 Pelley is a cretin, but I was doing a job at Penn State a couple of years ago, I was in the Penn State college paper Newsroom doing some work, Milo was off-campus holding an event and they were discussing how they intended to cover it.

They make Scott Pelley look like Sharyl Attkinson by comparison.

I think the news profession attracts psychopaths and extreme narcissists, generally.

It's not really an honorable profession.

Ask William Tecumseh Sherman what he thought of journalists.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 01:35 PM (XV/Pl)

51 Darker than a black hole after it just got done eating a bunch of other black holes.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Jr5Lq)

52 Scott Pelley? That man is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with him, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at June 08, 2026 01:36 PM (wVcYX)

53 44 Have to say when Scott came up couple days ago was first I seen him in years
He is getting old

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:34 PM (Ia/+0)

He was born in 1957. 69 years old.

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 01:36 PM (5rh/l)

54 Looks like Scott Pelley could wear that Soviet uniform of Bernie Sanders.

That uniform tovarich?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:36 PM (2GVsD)

55 Is this the fag that had to wear a helmet every time he went on camera during the Iraq war, and was jumping or cringing every time an explosion happened within a quarter mile?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 08, 2026 01:36 PM (0U5gm)

56 Tangential:

Roman Helmet Guy (quality follow on X), reposted this exchange a few days ago:

https://x.com/latinedisce/status/
2061927147913073130

"You still don't understand the point of translating a work, do you?"
-modern Classicist, presumably an academic

"The point is to accurately represent it to an audience who can't read it in the original [language]."
-guy on X

"Nope."
-modern Classicist, presumably an academic

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:36 PM (IOrWk)

57 " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up !"

---Scott Pelley

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 01:36 PM (GD0B3)

58 Darker than a black hole after it just got done eating a bunch of other black holes.
Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Jr5Lq)

*squeals* That's hot!

Posted by: Don Lemon at June 08, 2026 01:36 PM (wVcYX)

59 If Rambo was a journalist, he’d be Scott Pelley. Or Brian Williams. One of those two combat vets.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 08, 2026 01:36 PM (u73oe)

60 Runner

#46

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:37 PM (2GVsD)

61 Pelley knows that his tribe demands not just opposition to the Other, but an actual astonishment that Other even exists.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 08, 2026 01:37 PM (poY66)

62 Funny I had been screaming about the guidestones for years, nobody cared and what I really should have done was blow them up. The story behind them is weird.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 01:38 PM (ZxzYs)

63 @60 LOL!

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 01:38 PM (GD0B3)

64 News divisions should have stayed the networks' loss leader.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:38 PM (2GVsD)

65 Our entire ruling class are nothing but pampered, spoiled rich kids.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 01:33 PM (N1tpc)
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It's not easy pretending that you're into about self-government. When you've long surpassed that "folklore".

Most people in power today want to "Scientifically" manage the population/herd.

You don't want laymen involved.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:38 PM (Fi81e)

66 I don't know how the Army guys can do it. If you put me in a chaotic situation far away from civilization with a broadcast journalist and a loaded gun, some sadly predictable shit would happen out in the windswept sand.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 08, 2026 01:39 PM (BI5O2)

67
"A meeting I might add that ended with thunderous applause."

Are you sure that wasn't just your flapping labia?

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:39 PM (XGfD9)

68 Are you sure that wasn't just your flapping labia?

Taggart, "you use words prettier than a $20 whore."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:40 PM (2GVsD)

69 All my friends clapped for me! I must be right!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 01:40 PM (n5tGW)

70 I just want to see our opponents reduced the state of Niedermeyer impotently screaming, "Faggots! Faggots!" as the chaos roils around them.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 08, 2026 01:40 PM (amcLV)

71 Remember when Dan Rather, asked what he thought was a neutral news source, said, 'The New York Times.'?

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 01:40 PM (NcvvS)

72 He literally says, "I never wore the uniform, but I've been in combat for this country."
He's been in combat for you, you guys.
He's a War Hero, Racists.

To be fare, he was probably more at risk of hostile injury than David French was, although LTC Vindman was actually injured by an IED in Iraq, so I guess he wins.

Posted by: Military Moron at June 08, 2026 01:40 PM (JCZqz)

73 I saw Flapping Labia open for Pussy Riot at The Kremlin in 2018.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:40 PM (3IrX0)

74 "The job of on camera talent is that of a performer. Take Christiane Amanpour. She has often appeared on TV wearing flak jackets when she is far from a combat zone. This is her way of selling the message that she is a field correspondent accustomed to visiting dangerous terrain. Similarly, Pelley is said to have liked to end news broadcasts by taking off his glasses and gazing gravely as the camera dramatically panned in to him. That was his way of ending on a weighty yet "intimate" note."

Pelley should get a closeup of himself on his yacht, talking about the hurricane he's currently weathering. Then the camera should pan out to show him tied up at the marina with a fan blowing on him.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 01:40 PM (Riz8t)

75 Ask William Tecumseh Sherman what he thought of journalists.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June

Milo is NOT a journalist. He is an incredibly intelligent weirdo who has, on occasion, used his brilliance for good. He has also used it for very, very bad.

I do wonder why he is still in the country, though.

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 01:41 PM (OoFl2)

76 65 Our entire ruling class are nothing but pampered, spoiled rich kids.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 01:33 PM (N1tpc)

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It's not just that they're spoiled rich kids.

It's that the rich kids are destined for less wealth than their parents. They're downwardly mobile.

Mamdani had a failed rap career before he ran for mayor. Platner can't keep a business afloat without his parents' money.

They're seeing their station, the level of existence that they were guaranteed by their births, taken away by a society that doesn't value their contributions. They are the most privileged in America, and even they are seeing their fortunes falter!

Best case scenario, they're trying to make themselves working class to appeal to broader concerns (without any knowledge of anything beyond their emotions at their downward mobility). Worst case, they know exactly what they're doing and how they're manipulating people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:41 PM (IOrWk)

77 although LTC Vindman was actually injured by an IED in Iraq,

Jelly rolls for the win?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:41 PM (2GVsD)

78 If Rambo was a journalist, he’d be Scott Pelley. Or Brian Williams. One of those two combat vets.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 08, 2026 01:36 PM (u73oe)

He's the Neil Armstrong of Alvin Yorks of journalists.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 01:41 PM (dK+Kv)

79 I'm sure ace is getting to it, but President Trump's interview with that NBC bitch.

Wow.

I have chocolate when Western 'journalists' die.
For good reason.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 01:41 PM (Sco7b)

80 > a meeting that had ended in thunderous applause for me, if I may say so,
----

LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 01:42 PM (ZxPkt)

81 Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 01:38 PM (ZxzYs)

I'd hoped that with their destruction we'd find out who was behind them being placed. Guess not.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 01:42 PM (lFFaq)

82 "we ask ourselves those hard questions in the shop because they sharpen us and make us better"
I don't believe they asked their previous bosses any hard questions, least of all in public. This is just a lie.

Posted by: PG at June 08, 2026 01:42 PM (5tjvu)

83
This guy is a pussy.

Posted by: Ernie Pyle at June 08, 2026 01:42 PM (OkYzo)

84 Posers.

The Media. Social Media. This generation. All of them are posers. Take a selfie. Quite a few of them make bank doing it, but it's all they know.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 01:42 PM (pSkMS)

85 Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert."
---
Pissing your pants less would have helped.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:43 PM (Fi81e)

86 The bubbleheaded bleached blonde with a gleam in her eye.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:43 PM (2GVsD)

87 Anna Politkovskaya is an example of a f'n brave journalist.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:43 PM (Jr5Lq)

88 a meeting that had ended in thunderous applause for me, if I may say so

Could we stop you?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 01:44 PM (Riz8t)

89
Mamdani had a failed rap career before he ran for mayor.

Oh, tell me there's footage of that somewhere.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:44 PM (3IrX0)

90
For my birthday I want a Scott Pelley action figure
the kind with kung-fu grip

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 01:44 PM (ZxPkt)

91 Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 01:35 PM (XV/Pl)

A Penn State senior who worked for the Daily Collegian was murdered in Philly on Saturday. "Youths" stole his cellphone and then shot him in the chest when he asked for it back.

I guarantee he was a leftist through and through, like all college journalists are, but damn. What a horrible price to pay.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:44 PM (Kdi1r)

92 Mamdani is the Zelensky of NYC?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:44 PM (2GVsD)

93 This ass clown has gotten more attention the past few days than the rest of his life combined

Posted by: Otto Penn at June 08, 2026 01:44 PM (sJHOI)

94 Foxholes filling with water in the desert? What magical place was this?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 01:45 PM (8avO+)

95 Saw a poll that 55% of Democrats want to leave America.

They always played like it was underhanded to take what they said about America and conclude "Gee, you guys really don't like America."

Increasingly, they don't.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:45 PM (Fi81e)

96 Pelley should get a closeup of himself on his yacht, talking about the hurricane he's currently weathering. Then the camera should pan out to show him tied up at the marina with a fan blowing on him.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 01:40 PM (Riz8t)

The best recap of American network news ever recorded will forever be some lady reporting on a storm in a rowboat on the water in the street.

And two guys walk past her.....

That's all you have to know about the news....

Oh good, a really pretty young lady just won a $6940 car on 'The Price is Right" with Barker. Good for her. I hope it brought her a lot of happiness....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 01:45 PM (Sco7b)

97 Among combat reporters, one Andy Ngo is worth 100 Pelleys.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:45 PM (Jr5Lq)

98 I'd hoped that with their destruction we'd find out who was behind them being placed. Guess not.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 01:42 PM (lFFaq)

I think it was Ted Turner.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (ZxzYs)

99 Washington Nearsider

As horrible as that young white woman in Baltimore who let in her killer because he was black and she had drank the Kumbaya Kool-Aid.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (2GVsD)

100 Mamdani is the Zelensky of NYC?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:44 PM (2GVsD)

To be fair Mandami didn't lie about his policies nearly as much as Zelensky. He said he was a commie and an Islamist and the only lie was that his policies would work.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (8avO+)

101 Foxholes filling with water in the desert? What magical place was this?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 01:45 PM (8avO+)
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Jesus foretold it.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (Fi81e)

102 95 Saw a poll that 55% of Democrats want to leave America.

They always played like it was underhanded to take what they said about America and conclude "Gee, you guys really don't like America."

Increasingly, they don't.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:45 PM (Fi81e)

======

Trump should start a self-denaturalization push.

Work with foreign governments to accept Americans giving up their American citizenship in order to accelerate their citizenship in other countries.

Get 100,000 to give it all up in the first year. 250,000 the next year.

Allow for chain migration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (IOrWk)

103 It's really hard for most Republicans--and quite a few conservatives--to understand that the vast majority of Democrats don't think their political views are political in any way.

They see whatever line the Democrat Party pushes (no matter how radical) is just "common sense."
The kinds of things everyone should agree on.

And so, the only reason Republicans or conservatives oppose their "common sense" policies has to be due to evil intentions or ignorance.

And that's a real hard thing to believe--that they see you as evil and/or stupid.

They are, "it's just common sense that 9 year old children should be able to choose their gender and choose to take puberty blockers."
And we're, "they're children! They can't know that! And it sterilizes them!"
Then they're, "well, you're just being evil and uneducated."
Followed by the GOPe "I'm sure we can all find a common ground. Send $50 today!"

Yeah, what kind of common ground is between sterilizing children and not sterilizing children?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 01:47 PM (73/SM)

104 Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 01:41 PM (Sco7b)

PsyOpAnime has "the walk out" up on his channel.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 01:47 PM (lFFaq)

105 91 Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 01:35 PM (XV/Pl)

A Penn State senior who worked for the Daily Collegian was murdered in Philly on Saturday. "Youths" stole his cellphone and then shot him in the chest when he asked for it back.

I guarantee he was a leftist through and through, like all college journalists are, but damn. What a horrible price to pay.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:44 PM (Kdi1r)

=====

His last words were, "I deserved this because of my implicit white supremacy..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:47 PM (IOrWk)

106 As horrible as that young white woman in Baltimore who let in her killer because he was black and she had drank the Kumbaya Kool-Aid.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (2GVsD)

Suicidal empathy.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:47 PM (Kdi1r)

107 His last words were, "I deserved this because of my implicit white supremacy..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:47 PM (IOrWk)

I think BlackOrchid knew him.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:48 PM (Kdi1r)

108 97 Among combat reporters, one Andy Ngo is worth 100 Pelleys.

No, your math is wrong. Andy Ngo contributes to the knowledge of mankind. He's a net positive. Pelley detracts from it. He's a net negative. No matter how many Pelleys there are, truth and knowledge are still diminished.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 01:48 PM (Riz8t)

109

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:44 PM (Kdi1r)

The best part is when all his leftard colleagues end up claiming he probably used the n-word to them and deserved it

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:48 PM (XGfD9)

110 as he contemplates the injustices of the universe.

I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.

Posted by: U.S.M.C Recruiter at June 08, 2026 01:48 PM (0sNs1)

111 Allow for chain migration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (IOrWk)
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Sounds good. Until you consider whether you want existing GOP to relax.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:48 PM (Fi81e)

112 I think BlackOrchid knew him.
-------

oh man

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:48 PM (XGfD9)

113 @91

>>I guarantee he was a leftist through and through, like all college journalists are, but damn. What a horrible price to pay.

I used to love to go to Philly especially for ComiCONS and dining.

I'll never go there ever again and if I had to for a job, I would go door to door from the hotel.

Same goes for NYC.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 01:48 PM (XV/Pl)

114 Has ace done a "Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?" take on the new Masters of the Universe movie yet?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (cWLG3)

115 I am still not quite sure who this guy is, but he seems like a retard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (hiMNi)

116 Ask William Tecumseh Sherman what he thought of journalists.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June

Milo is NOT a journalist. He is an incredibly intelligent weirdo who has, on occasion, used his brilliance for good. He has also used it for very, very bad.

I do wonder why he is still in the country, though.
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 01:41 PM (OoFl2)

Well he can't go back to England and live in London.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (8avO+)

117 I guarantee he was a leftist through and through, like all college journalists are, but damn. What a horrible price to pay.

nope

not at all

they robbed him of all his money, wallet and phone. he only wanted to keep his phone (would've been bricked anyway)

they wanted to shot the white boy. and they did. there's video. he was assassinated right in front of his home.

South Philly. nice part of it, too.

and no, he was pretty based.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (j+aD2)

118 113
I used to love to go to Philly especially for ComiCONS and dining.

I'll never go there ever again and if I had to for a job, I would go door to door from the hotel.

Same goes for NYC.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 01:48 PM (XV/Pl)

======

Different side of the state, but Dolley went to Pittsburgh a few weeks back for work.

She felt...deeply unsafe alone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (IOrWk)

119 108 Good point!

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

120 These poor kids in the Philippines are braver than Pelley.

https://tinyurl.com/yyv6cau5

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (n5tGW)

121 His last words were, "I deserved this because of my implicit white supremacy..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:47 PM (IOrWk)
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Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (Fi81e)

122 "Pelley should get a closeup of himself on his yacht, talking about the hurricane he's currently weathering."

Pelley should put on an astronauts suit when talking about a space mission. It is just as dangerous.

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (GUOwU)

123 > Saw a poll that 55% of Democrats want to leave America.
----

but they never go
what a gyp

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (ZxPkt)

124 sorry "wanted to shoot"

this story - this event - very personal.

am very very very very MAD

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (j+aD2)

125 This fairy no doubt blames Trump for being called Scott Smelly in junior high

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (XGfD9)

126 Thanks Ace for describing Pelley with precision. Plus it is funny as hell.

Early this AM I was far more generous when I asked if Scott Pelley has stopped sobbing long enough to announce his new podcast. Seems the name should be something like "The View From My Hole" after finding out he nearly died from combat wet feet a couple dozen times from sitting in a foxhole when it was raining. Such a stud.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (gBMew)

127 I think BlackOrchid knew him.
-------

oh man

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:48 PM (XGfD9)

The story is on Townhall. There's a frame from a camera that shows the shooter. Complete, total, casual indifference.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (Kdi1r)

128 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (IOrWk)

Might have a hard time finding any country willing to take them though.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (lFFaq)

129 117 South Philly. nice part of it, too.

and no, he was pretty based.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (j+aD2)

======

Well, now I feel bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (IOrWk)

130 Work with foreign governments to accept Americans giving up their American citizenship in order to accelerate their citizenship in other countries.

Get 100,000 to give it all up in the first year. 250,000 the next year.

Allow for chain migration.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (IOrWk)

And, when none of them take advantage of it because they're full of shit, tear a page out of their book, and fill out and file 250,000 applications on their behalf.

The receiving country can duly report that they were shot on the tarmac for resisting rescue.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (BI5O2)

131 I am still not quite sure who this guy is, but he seems like a retard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (hiMNi)

At least the Rather generation of press idiots had stood out in the field in a real shooting war for a considerable time and learned a bit about the world. This generation is just larping as Dan Rather.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (8avO+)

132 The way the crew from Nerdrotic reacted to He-Man, it could have been truly great because the writing and acting was almost there. Because the crew either liked it or hated it. That was an interesting show.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (2GVsD)

133 this story - this event - very personal.

am very very very very MAD

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (j+aD2)

I'm so sorry for Billy and for you and yours having to bear this.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (Kdi1r)

134 So sorry Orchid. So so sorry. Fuckin shit

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (XGfD9)

135 TJM he was a member of the PSU College Republicans

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (j+aD2)

136
Alright, you bastards, I've had it.

Now, I shall take off my glasses and chew them at you!!!

Feel the steely rebuke and contemptuous majesty of My Glasses Chewing!

How ashamed you must feel.

Posted by: Pelley at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (iJfKG)

137 So sorry for you, blackorchid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (hiMNi)

138 there's a vigil Thursday night I am planning on attending

this one - this murder - we're not going to let this go

nope nope nope

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (j+aD2)

139 130 And, when none of them take advantage of it because they're full of shit, tear a page out of their book, and fill out and file 250,000 applications on their behalf.

The receiving country can duly report that they were shot on the tarmac for resisting rescue.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (BI5O2)

======

Heck, mask it as a TikTok trending thing, and you'll get a million in the first few hours.

"Move to Djibouti where diversity is at a maximum and there are no billionaires to steal your wages."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (IOrWk)

140 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (IOrWk)

Might have a hard time finding any country willing to take them though.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (lFFaq)

Money always talks, just pay them to lock em up, even in a gilded cage like a remittance man.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (8avO+)

141 Pelly volunteered to do that reporting and always had the option to say no to going to war zones.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 08, 2026 01:52 PM (mseD3)

142 "Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert." 😭

He's lucky he wasn't fragged. Imagine how aggravating it would be to have him in your fox hole if there was real danger?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 08, 2026 01:52 PM (cWLG3)

143 Dan Rather hid out in the National Guard during the Korean War.

Eff him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:52 PM (2GVsD)

144 135 TJM he was a member of the PSU College Republicans

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (j+aD2)

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Yes, I feel bad for making light of it.

Mea culpa.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:52 PM (IOrWk)

145 140 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (IOrWk)

Might have a hard time finding any country willing to take them though.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (lFFaq)

Money always talks, just pay them to lock em up, even in a gilded cage like a remittance man.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (8avO+)

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Make it like the CBPOne app. Pay their moving expenses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM (IOrWk)

146 Can't really say I know who this Scott Pelley chap is.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM (0sNs1)

147 Has ace done a "Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?" take on the new Masters of the Universe movie yet?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 08, 2026 01:49 PM (cWLG3)

It'd be interesting to see. The Critical Drinker liked it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM (/HDaX)

148 Hey Scott -You haven't made it until your selling hearing aids on late night TV.

Posted by: Joe Namath at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM (nvKZ7)

149 Scott Pelley: "You know, some reporter, I turned out to be...."
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Exactly, Scott, exactly.

You are not very good at connecting dots, for all your "60 Minutes Tradition" bull. You demonstrated that you are very good at saying exactly what you want to say regardless of circumstance.

There is almost nobody who might click over to 60 minutes who could disrupt a staff meeting AFTER the new boss said that you could take it offline, and NOT know what might be coming down the pipe.

It just shows how secure your self-expressive bubble was.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM (Fi81e)

150 At least the Rather generation of press idiots had stood out in the field in a real shooting war for a considerable time and learned a bit about the world. This generation is just larping as Dan Rather.

Rather went to Afghanistan after the Russian invasion and dressed in mufti with the mujahideen. He appeared to put his life in legitimate peril. His name after that: Gunga Dan.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM (Riz8t)

151 Two things I've heard recently:

1) America is the only country in the world where even its deepest critics refuse to leave.

2) No one fights harder to be where they're not wanted in America than black people.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM (73/SM)

152 it's fucking Krasner

he's letting us all twist in the wind

he does NOTHING about crime!

you can't even walk bc of the "no car stops" in town thing - insane people hitting pedestrians all over

people are TRYING but city leadership is doing nothing, worse than nothing

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:54 PM (j+aD2)

153 TJM he was a member of the PSU College Republicans

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM (j+aD2)

He and I are PSU Republican 'frat' brothers.

My email's in my nic if you need anything. Truly. Anything.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:54 PM (Kdi1r)

154 I am so sorry Black Orchid.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 01:54 PM (2GVsD)

155 "Move to Djibouti where diversity is at a maximum and there are no billionaires to steal your wages."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM

You'll need my permission first.

Posted by: Sheik Djibouti at June 08, 2026 01:54 PM (0sNs1)

156 ======

Yes, I feel bad for making light of it.

Mea culpa.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:52 PM (IOrWk)

I mean, you ARE an asshole, so........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:55 PM (3IrX0)

157 the kids all have seen He-Man already

they loved it! telling me to go lol

so, maybe it's good? they told me to see PHM and that was EXCELLENT

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:55 PM (j+aD2)

158 IIRC, Rather, wearing a fifty-pound manpack Journalist Transceiver, got punched in the gut on the floor of a 1960's political convention. Am I imagining that?

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:55 PM (Jr5Lq)

159 LTC Vindman was actually injured by an IED in Iraq, so I guess he wins.
Posted by: Military Moron

That was just a couple of privates screwing around with MRE heaters and water bottles.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 01:55 PM (/lPRQ)

160
155 "Move to Djibouti where diversity is at a maximum and there are no billionaires to steal your wages."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:51 PM

You'll need my permission first.

Posted by: Sheik Djibouti at June 08, 2026 01:54 PM (0sNs1)

=====

They already take our illegal immigrants that their own countries don't want.

The government pockets a few thousand per illegal and then lets Hispanic criminals loose in a largely French-speaking African nation where Hispanic criminals ending up dead in ditches doesn't merit headlines.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:55 PM (IOrWk)

161 156
I mean, you ARE an asshole, so........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:55 PM (3IrX0)

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I wish I knew what this said.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:56 PM (IOrWk)

162 My email's in my nic if you need anything. Truly. Anything.

thanks

no it is just hitting so close to home

I feel like it's purposeful

I believe the Left is purposely trying to kill off the good kids

like right now they're happy this young man was killed

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:56 PM (j+aD2)

163 Speaking of "youths" casually murdering white boys: The prosecution has rested in Karmelo Anthony's murder trial.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:56 PM (Kdi1r)

164 You'll need my permission first.
Posted by: Sheik Djibouti

Sheik sheik sheik Djibouti, sheik it all da time!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 01:56 PM (lwhHh)

165 Our entire ruling class are nothing but pampered, spoiled rich kids.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 08, 2026 01:33 PM (N1tpc)

Even worse are the ones that aren't rich kids, but want to hang out with them and be mistaken for one.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 01:57 PM (8avO+)

166 163 Speaking of "youths" casually murdering white boys: The prosecution has rested in Karmelo Anthony's murder trial.

probably plead hopefully gets life

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:57 PM (j+aD2)

167 The Left has systematically brought us to a point where the first thing *we* wonder (or even assume) when someone is murdered in cold blood is what they believed and who they voted for. It's no accident.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:57 PM (XGfD9)

168 STFU, Pelley. And come kiss my ass on Veterans Day.

And I might be courteous and not take the sage advice of Chairman Mao.

Anyway, imagine my horror when I saw that asshole Pelley's hometown is San Antonio. And where did he start his climb up the ladder? Fucking LUBBOCK.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 01:57 PM (T6aVk)

169 Hugging and puffing with his $30,000 watch

What a tool.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at June 08, 2026 01:57 PM (/SMZp)

170 Pelley should stop whining and do podcast investigative journalism. He'd find an audience, perhaps small, but if what he cares about is capital-J Journalism, he's completely free to go do it his way.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

171 166 163 Speaking of "youths" casually murdering white boys: The prosecution has rested in Karmelo Anthony's murder trial.

probably plead hopefully gets life

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:57 PM (j+aD2)

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"I get to kill white boys who disrespctin' me, bro. Fuck 'im. Jury will let me go, or I kill dem too."
-Anthony in court

*slices wrists*
-defense attorney

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (IOrWk)

172 btw I know you guys "love" it when the parents of murdered kids act all "oh we forgive it wasn't bc of XYZ"

well Billy's parents are very much NOT LIKE THAT

I'll try to find video to share

they are PISSED

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (j+aD2)

173 Boomers trusted Walter Cronkite even as he lied; millions died.

Dan Rather turned the news into a reality show with his fake-ass "I'M STANDING IN HURRICANE TO SHOW YOU HOW BAD IT IS!!" bullshit.

And every other piece of shit with a college degree in being a newsperson had tried to top the last generation in lies and showmanship.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (73/SM)

174 LOL Scott Pelley

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (YwEeS)

175 "Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert." 😭

He's lucky he wasn't fragged. Imagine how aggravating it would be to have him in your fox hole if there was real danger?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

Imagine fragging yourself just to get rid of him.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (lwhHh)

176 >>I believe the Left is purposely trying to kill off the good kids

This. Spend a lot of time worrying about great-nieces and -nephews.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (NcvvS)

177 like right now they're happy this young man was killed

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:56 PM (j+aD2)

Yup.

It's equal parts sickening and enraging when you realize they actually MEAN it when they say they want you dead.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:59 PM (Kdi1r)

178 167 The Left has systematically brought us to a point where the first thing *we* wonder (or even assume) when someone is murdered in cold blood is what they believed and who they voted for. It's no accident.

exactly three dots

good kids are getting killed and good people

IDC who they vote for or if they vote!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:59 PM (j+aD2)

179 1) America is the only country in the world where even its deepest critics refuse to leave.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM (73/SM)
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That's because they want to bring the strongest bastion against Marxism down. That's how I believe it started, anyway.

Now, America lacks the proper amount of collectivism for the World Managers (where there will be no "withering away of the state/Management Class")

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 01:59 PM (Fi81e)

180 So we're not going to tag him with "MissPelley"? Because this will be the last time we hear from him.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 08, 2026 01:59 PM (diia5)

181 they are PISSED

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (j+aD2)

I'd be raging.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 01:59 PM (dK+Kv)

182 Exactly how far does one have to have their head wedged up their own ass to NOT know that putting your boss and boss' boss on blast in a staff meeting could result in your boss shitcanning you?

I mean how comically fucking retarded do you have to be to not understand that's on the menu?

Posted by: ballistic at June 08, 2026 01:59 PM (oqH4h)

183 151 Two things I've heard recently:

1) America is the only country in the world where even its deepest critics refuse to leave.

2) No one fights harder to be where they're not wanted in America than black people.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM (73/SM)

Some people who bitch about how horrible this country is the most are the ones who most greedily suck its tits.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 01:59 PM (T6aVk)

184 Boomers trusted Walter Cronkite even as he lied; millions died.

Dan Rather turned the news into a reality show with his fake-ass "I'M STANDING IN HURRICANE TO SHOW YOU HOW BAD IT IS!!" bullshit.

And every other piece of shit with a college degree in being a newsperson had tried to top the last generation in lies and showmanship.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I loved the news broad sitting in the canoe talking about the hurricane and flooding as two guys walk behind her in ankle deep water. 😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 02:00 PM (lwhHh)

185
The story is on Townhall. There's a frame from a camera that shows the shooter. Complete, total, casual indifference.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:50 PM (Kdi1r)

Fatigue. So much fatigue.

Posted by: I don't like where this is going at June 08, 2026 02:00 PM (TbWk/)

186 I believe the Left is purposely trying to kill off the good kids
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Eggs, revolution, some disassembly required....

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:00 PM (Fi81e)

187 I have seen reports that upon cross-examination, one of the defense witnesses did serious damage to the self-defense strategy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:00 PM (2GVsD)

188 The Critical Drinker loved the new HeMan movie, the problem is that HeMan is a thing for Gen X and early millennials, it really hasn't been a thing in the zeitgeist for over 30 years.

And the bigger problem is that we are simply not a movie going people, sure people go to movies, but nothing like we used to.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:00 PM (XV/Pl)

189 At least the Rather generation of press idiots had stood out in the field in a real shooting war for a considerable time and learned a bit about the world. This generation is just larping as Dan Rather.

Rather went to Afghanistan after the Russian invasion and dressed in mufti with the mujahideen. He appeared to put his life in legitimate peril. His name after that: Gunga Dan.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM (Riz8t)

i was thinking more about his time in Vietnam than his later adventures. But these days its helicoptering in for a few minutes and out assuming they want any 'on the spot' input at all.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:00 PM (8avO+)

190 Can't really say I know who this Scott Pelley chap is.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2026 01:53 PM

I can't either. He seems like quite the dick, though.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 02:01 PM (bFu5X)

191 "I get to kill white boys who disrespctin' me, bro. Fuck 'im. Jury will let me go, or I kill dem too."
-Anthony in court

*slices wrists*
-defense attorney

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (IOrWk)

You jest, but...

Defense has already called witnesses. Of those, two have already testified that Anthony tried to make Metcalf fight him and Metcalf refused, saying "I'm not going to fight you at a track meet," and they also testified that Anthony shouldn't have been in the tent and shouldn't have had a knife.

The first part is devastating to the defense. Anthony - according to defense witnesses - tried to escalate to violence and Metcalf refused.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:01 PM (Kdi1r)

192 Saw a great description of Pelley.

Ted Baxter without the charm.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 08, 2026 02:01 PM (viF8m)

193
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I wish I knew what this said.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:56 PM (IOrWk)

Damn. I forgot.

Illiterate asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:01 PM (3IrX0)

194 >> Pelley was a male bimbo: a himbo.

Classic Seinfeld reference… Tony Tony

George: I make great sandwiches, Tony.
Tony: Step off, George!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 02:01 PM (+gA9j)

195 187 I have seen reports that upon cross-examination, one of the defense witnesses did serious damage to the self-defense strategy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:00 PM (2GVsD)

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Like admitting that Anthony was asked to leave 15 times, that he had his hand in his backpack before he was touched, or that he was antagonistic to everyone to the point of rhetorically asking for a fight?

Because that's just their culture, and we shouldn't be disrespectin' dat, yo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:01 PM (IOrWk)

196 We are witnessing a new generation of the Hitler Youth, callously laughing as they murder someone but cry when an animal is killed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:02 PM (2GVsD)

197 I'm so sorry Black Orchid.
Prayers up.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 02:02 PM (ZxzYs)

198
Barack Obama is a man who only knows the smell of his own farts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:28 PM (IOrWk)

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao Zedong (1893-1976) at June 08, 2026 02:02 PM (T6aVk)

199 191 Defense has already called witnesses. Of those, two have already testified that Anthony tried to make Metcalf fight him and Metcalf refused, saying "I'm not going to fight you at a track meet," and they also testified that Anthony shouldn't have been in the tent and shouldn't have had a knife.

The first part is devastating to the defense. Anthony - according to defense witnesses - tried to escalate to violence and Metcalf refused.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:01 PM (Kdi1r)

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I hope prosecution doesn't pursue any kind of deal and just lets the jury put the fucking kid to death.

The 8 supporters who want a race war outside the courthouse will be happy with that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:02 PM (IOrWk)

200 The Critical Drinker loved the new HeMan movie, the problem is that HeMan is a thing for Gen X and early millennials, it really hasn't been a thing in the zeitgeist for over 30 years.

And the bigger problem is that we are simply not a movie going people, sure people go to movies, but nothing like we used to.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:00 PM (XV/Pl)

Yeah its like in the 70s if we had been into things from the 1920s and 30s. There was a bit of 50s nostalgia but that was at least just one generation back.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:03 PM (8avO+)

201 Pelley seems really full of himself and unaware of the rest of the universe

Oh and he gets close to the Gavin Newsom double jointed ball-less leg cross…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 02:03 PM (+gA9j)

202 they are PISSED

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (j+aD2)

I'd be raging.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 01:59 PM (dK+Kv)

You wouldn't hear a word from me. Nobody would. I'd just quietly solve the problem myself.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:03 PM (Kdi1r)

203 192 Saw a great description of Pelley.

Ted Baxter without the charm.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 08, 2026 02:01 PM (viF8m)

Haven't we all known a Pelley? Someone who will step on everyone and be a total asshole in order to move up the next rung on the ladder?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:04 PM (T6aVk)

204 Heck, mask it as a TikTok trending thing, and you'll get a million in the first few hours.

"Move to Djibouti where diversity is at a maximum and there are no billionaires to steal your wages."
---
Some hilarious shit seeing the folks that fell for the social media influencers who told them all how you could move to Thailand (or other countries) for pennies a day.

And the folks that took them up on that are all crawling back to the States ....

It's like, did you even stop to think about, if it's so great, why everyone is not already doing it?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 02:04 PM (73/SM)

205 Because Killer Karmalo was 17 when his murdered Metcalf, all he can be sentenced to is life.

He is now 19. I hope the sentence is life without parole. Let him rot in jail.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:04 PM (2GVsD)

206 Saw a great description of Pelley.

Ted Baxter without the charm.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 08, 2026 02:01 PM (viF8m)
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The Real Deal with Bill McNeil.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:05 PM (Fi81e)

207
I loved the news broad sitting in the canoe talking about the hurricane and flooding as two guys walk behind her in ankle deep water. 😂😂
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 02:00 PM (lwhHh)

My favorite was the broad standing in the wind and rain and the stop sign flies by and smashes her in the face.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:05 PM (3IrX0)

208 205 Because Killer Karmalo was 17 when his murdered Metcalf, all he can be sentenced to is life.

He is now 19. I hope the sentence is life without parole. Let him rot in jail.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:04 PM (2GVsD)

======

It's Texas.

The state of Judge Roy Bean.

Make it happen!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:05 PM (IOrWk)

209 I am indebted to Ace again, for enriching my vocabulary. "Himbo", noted and cataloged for future use.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 08, 2026 02:05 PM (PV3WW)

210 Are we eight days away from the grand opening of Gaylord's bathhouse and flak tower?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:05 PM (2GVsD)

211 I loved the news broad sitting in the canoe talking about the hurricane and flooding as two guys walk behind her in ankle deep water. 😂😂
Posted by: rickb223

The guy that tied himself to a palm tree...
Sometimes they are just goofing around.

...not that it forgives them for being professional propagandists and a-holes in general.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 02:05 PM (/lPRQ)

212 You jest, but...

Defense has already called witnesses. Of those, two have already testified that Anthony tried to make Metcalf fight him and Metcalf refused, saying "I'm not going to fight you at a track meet," and they also testified that Anthony shouldn't have been in the tent and shouldn't have had a knife.

The first part is devastating to the defense. Anthony - according to defense witnesses - tried to escalate to violence and Metcalf refused.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:01 PM (Kdi1r)

So when the case goes to the jury, the attorneys and the judge may as well just have a seat where they are because the jury is coming back in 15 minutes or less?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (T6aVk)

213 @200

>>Yeah its like in the 70s if we had been into things from the 1920s and 30s. There was a bit of 50s nostalgia but that was at least just one generation back.

There are really only two IP's that are multi-generational and continue to preform well, Spider-Man and Batman

Superman to a lesser extent.

And that's pretty much it.

Everything else is hit or miss.

And speaking of Spider-man, Nicholas Cage deserves an emmy for Spider Noir.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (XV/Pl)

214 Pelley should stop whining and do podcast investigative journalism. He'd find an audience, perhaps small, but if what he cares about is capital-J Journalism, he's completely free to go do it his way.
Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

LOL. without anyone to write his copy and put on his make up? Even setting up a podcast takes some tech savvy.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (8avO+)

215 And the folks that took them up on that are all crawling back to the States ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 02:04 PM (73/SM)
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Selling your ass on the streets of Bangkok is not all it promised to be.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (Fi81e)

216 My favorite was the broad standing in the wind and rain and the stop sign flies by and smashes her in the face.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:05 PM (3IrX0)

I laughed out loud just reading this post. I LOVE that video.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (Kdi1r)

217
I hope prosecution doesn't pursue any kind of deal and just lets the jury put the fucking kid to death.

The 8 supporters who want a race war outside the courthouse will be happy with that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:02 PM (IOrWk)

He isn't eligible for the death penalty as he was 17 years old when he committed murder.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (3IrX0)

218 >>I mean how comically fucking retarded do you have to be to not understand that's on the menu?

Utterly insulated from any consequences to one's behaviour for several decades. Functionally indistinguishable from 'fucking retarded'.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (NcvvS)

219 Karmelo's defense team looked shocked when the prosecution rested. It was "oh a defense, hold on"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (zj5z7)

220 Because Killer Karmalo was 17 when his murdered Metcalf, all he can be sentenced to is life.

He is now 19. I hope the sentence is life without parole. Let him rot in jail.
Posted by: Anna Puma

State of Texas looks at life as 40 years. Eligible for parole at 15 to 20.

Out in 20 for good behavior.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 02:07 PM (lwhHh)

221 Speaking of "youths" casually murdering white boys: The prosecution has rested in Karmelo Anthony's murder trial.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

He has a solid self-defense case if you ignore all the teenagers that witnessed the stabbing testified he kept provoking matters by call them "b*thches", '*ussies", and "touch me and find out." That right there ends all claims of self-defense.

Plus the whole the bit about proportionality of a response to a threat. Being told to get lost and pushed a bit doesn't rise to justifying stabbing somebody in the heart.

Then there is that bit about having formed intent by opening and the holding the knife in his backpack just before pulling it out and stabbing the victim in the heart.

They dude is going down for murder. The only question left is how much rioting happens.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:07 PM (gBMew)

222
"Get out of the office by five. What company in the world treats their precious employees this way?"

--------

Every company I've ever worked for. You can even be escorted out by security, immediately. That's what would have happened to anyone who went off on their boss like he did. You don't even have to be guilty, they can just do it. What a delusional pompous old sissy.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 02:07 PM (azNOR)

223 Selling your ass on the streets of Bangkok is not all it promised to be.

Thai ladybois do not welcome the competition.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:07 PM (2GVsD)

224 217 He isn't eligible for the death penalty as he was 17 years old when he committed murder.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (3IrX0)

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"I thought this was Texas!"
-Judge Roy Bean

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:07 PM (IOrWk)

225 He isn't eligible for the death penalty as he was 17 years old when he committed murder.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Luckily after he shanks someone to death in prison he will be eligible for death penalty.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:08 PM (YZ0Fo)

226
I laughed out loud just reading this post. I LOVE that video.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (Kdi1r)

You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/NXJMWwSICHg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:08 PM (3IrX0)

227 187 I have seen reports that upon cross-examination, one of the defense witnesses did serious damage to the self-defense strategy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:00 PM (2GVsD)

All the reports I've seen of eyewitness testimony puts to the lie all the bullshit claims about self-defense, how he was surrounded and attacked by four hulking white football players, etc. Made up out of whole cloth by grifters, hucksters, and other apologists for race-based murder. He went there finna kill hisself a white boy and that's what he did.

Posted by: I REALLY don't like where this is going at June 08, 2026 02:08 PM (TbWk/)

228 221 They dude is going down for murder. The only question left is how much rioting happens.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:07 PM (gBMew)

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There will be none rioting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:08 PM (IOrWk)

229 Boomers trusted Walter Cronkite even as he lied; millions died.

Boomers would be somewhere between 18 and 35 when Cronkite died...with the peak at 1957 the median age would be around 24. Given the life experience between then and now, Boomers don't give a shit what broadcast news sez...and certainly don't want to hear about it from babies.

Posted by: DanMan at June 08, 2026 02:08 PM (8uzBS)

230
Anyone else at CBS we can get rid of? I mean, we're on a roll. Let's not stop.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 02:08 PM (O0L8i)

231 They dude is going down for murder. The only question left is how much rioting happens.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:07 PM

*makes "call me" gesture*

- Roof Korean

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 02:09 PM (bFu5X)

232
Luckily after he shanks someone to death in prison he will be eligible for death penalty.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:08 PM (YZ0Fo)

One can only hope......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:09 PM (3IrX0)

233 225 He isn't eligible for the death penalty as he was 17 years old when he committed murder.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Luckily after he shanks someone to death in prison he will be eligible for death penalty.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:08 PM (YZ0Fo)

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"He disrespectin' me!"
-Anthony in, like, 6 months

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:09 PM (IOrWk)

234 I look forward to buying property near Pelley river - as soon as he finishes crying it.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 08, 2026 02:09 PM (LbUS+)

235 Luckily after he shanks someone to death in prison he will be eligible for death penalty.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:08 PM (YZ0Fo)
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But let out for the service he did the community.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:09 PM (Fi81e)

236
"Get out of the office by five. What company in the world treats their precious employees this way?"

___________

Mine

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 02:10 PM (O0L8i)

237 Spider-Noir?

https://youtu.be/JLwjFYG_KyQ

Li Jun Li would make an awesome Dragon Lady for Terry and the Pirates.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:10 PM (2GVsD)

238 There are really only two IP's that are multi-generational and continue to preform well, Spider-Man and Batman

Superman to a lesser extent.

And that's pretty much it.

Everything else is hit or miss.

And speaking of Spider-man, Nicholas Cage deserves an emmy for Spider Noir.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:06 PM (XV/Pl)

Well 007 was another that has been pretty much killed. Ditto for Stars Trek and Wars.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:10 PM (8avO+)

239 You wouldn't hear a word from me. Nobody would. I'd just quietly solve the problem myself.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:03 PM (Kdi1r)

I didn't say anything about words.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 02:10 PM (dK+Kv)

240 I'd be raging.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 01:59 PM (dK+Kv)

I would be catatonic

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 02:10 PM (XGfD9)

241
*insert image of Anderson Cooper standing in a flooded ditch here*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:33 PM (3IrX0)

Fuck you. I was in Saudi when the Scuds rained down, where were you, nepo boy?

Okay, I was at the hotel bar, but I was there with the grunts, you pogue. You know di-di. It was like on Hastings...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKnJW_r3ojU

Posted by: Charles Jaco, former CNN reporter, now spinning the hits during St Louis rush hour at June 08, 2026 02:10 PM (FkdoK)

242 The "He white" defense is not working?

They need a change of venue.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:10 PM (Fi81e)

243
They dude is going down for murder. The only question left is how much rioting happens.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:07 PM (gBMew)

The 8 black people standing outside the courthouse will be totes mad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:10 PM (3IrX0)

244 The funniest was the dude that went to Thailand and his employer was like, "sure man, it's cool, it's a remote job--live where you want."

Then, when he got there, boss was, "You Thai now, you get Thai pay." Gave him the local pay rate, not the US pay rate.

Sales pitch:
"It's just like living in America* but cheaper!+"

* Not available outside America.
+ Terms and conditions apply.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 02:11 PM (73/SM)

245 They dude is going down for murder. The only question left is

how much rioting happens.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Not much. McKinney/Frisco is 40 miles from South Oak Cliff, aka The Hood.
KA comes from a well to do/middle class family.

He's not a hood rat. More "to the manor born" than a peasant. I honestly doubt many are going to riot for him.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 02:11 PM (lwhHh)

246 238 Well 007 was another that has been pretty much killed. Ditto for Stars Trek and Wars.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:10 PM (8avO+)

=======

The last Bond movie made $775 million at the box office.

And the time between entries will allow interest to accelerate again when filming finally starts sometime next year.

Bond is very far from dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:11 PM (IOrWk)

247 Scott Pelley scores 10/10 on the Weasel Face Punchability Index (WFPI)

Posted by: Weasel at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (myLXD)

248 Teens have been trial as adults

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (Ia/+0)

249 Pelley upset that company owners and executive management are making changes to improve profitability by presenting news that more appeals to everyone by applying more objectiveness.

Pelley never upset that management and executive management ignored profitabiliity in exchange for a one-sided political agenda and pure subjectivity.

For someone calling himself a journalist, that's pretty sad.

Posted by: Donald Rumsfeld at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (dIske)

250 242 The "He white" defense is not working?

They need a change of venue.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:10 PM (Fi81e)

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To Compton?

Oh, wait...Compton is now majority Hispanic, most of whom self-describe as white.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (IOrWk)

251 https://youtu.be/NXJMWwSICHg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:08 PM (3IrX0)

Uproarious cackling. I love this so much.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (Kdi1r)

252 >>The Real Deal with Bill McNeil.

Ron Burgundy

Posted by: JackStraw at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (viF8m)

253 There will be none rioting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Are you saying everybody is stocked up on flat screen TVs?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (gBMew)

254 Bond is very far from dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:11 PM (IOrWk)
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I believe I saw something about Cavill being the next one.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (Fi81e)

255 That feral shooter looks to be about 14. Maybe just short, I don't know.

This is society under long term dem rule. Trading the lives of future independent productive members of society for feral hood rats.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (n5tGW)

256 https://youtu.be/kJ7Gbm6rPws

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 08, 2026 02:13 PM (kOluj)

257 253 There will be none rioting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Are you saying everybody is stocked up on flat screen TVs?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (gBMew)

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Pretty much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:13 PM (IOrWk)

258 Convicts are already calling KA "Candy Bar".

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 02:13 PM (lwhHh)

259 I'm nearly 29, but the fossils hanging onto their careers like, as the kids say, the third monkey clinging to the ark, is pathetic. The world doesn't need you, old man.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 08, 2026 02:13 PM (w8dnx)

260 Scott Pelley scores 10/10 on the Weasel Face Punchability Index (WFPI)

Posted by: Weasel at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (myLXD

Douchebag personified.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:14 PM (3IrX0)

261 Karmelo's defense team looked shocked when the prosecution rested. It was "oh a defense, hold on"
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You know what their top-tier brilliant defense strategy is?

Calling him "Melo."
Short for Karmelo.
Cause some in his school had nicknamed him that.

See, he's mellow--so of course he Dindu Nuffin.
No, seriously. That's what they are doing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 02:14 PM (73/SM)

262 >>>The Real Deal with Bill McNeil.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:05 PM (Fi81e)

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Nailed it.

Posted by: Turn 2 at June 08, 2026 02:14 PM (kmKtc)

263 Then there is that bit about having formed intent by opening and the holding the knife in his backpack just before pulling it out and stabbing the victim in the heart.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:07 PM (gBMew)

"Touch me and find out" pretty solid evidence of premeditation. I was confused when I saw that they only charged him with murder 2.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 02:14 PM (dK+Kv)

264 TJM, I am still miffed that you ranked some black and white film above Lawrence of Arabia. Maybe I should be asking, U OK?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:14 PM (gBMew)

265 Teens have been trial as adults

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (Ia/+0)

Correct, but Roper v. Simmons holds that you can't execute someone who was a minor at the time the crime was committed. You can still try and imprison them for life though.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:14 PM (Kdi1r)

266 @237

>>Li Jun Li would make an awesome Dragon Lady for Terry and the Pirates.

My main criticisms for Spider-Noir is that it wasn't shot on film, it was shot in color, and all of the atmospherics are CGI'd in.

If this was shot like Blade Runner, it would have been epic.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:15 PM (XV/Pl)

267 254 Bond is very far from dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:11 PM (IOrWk)
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I believe I saw something about Cavill being the next one.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (Fi81e)

======

The only real news is that Steve McKnight is still writing (he did an interview recently that sounds like it's going to be modern day, so period piece is out, because he was doing a bunch of interviewing of intelligence people about practical realities of modern spycraft and such), and that Denis Villenuenve is still in post on Dune Part 3.

There is casting going on, but everything official is saying men in their 20s. Cavill is in his 40s.

It's not going to be Cavill.

Amazon is like EON was, they want a young guy to hold onto the mantle for 15-20 years or so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:15 PM (IOrWk)

268 =======

The last Bond movie made $775 million at the box office.

And the time between entries will allow interest to accelerate again when filming finally starts sometime next year.

Bond is very far from dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:11 PM (IOrWk)

You act like you know something about the movie industry......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:15 PM (3IrX0)

269 There is casting going on, but everything official is saying men in their 20s. Cavill is in his 40s.

It's not going to be Cavill.

Amazon is like EON was, they want a young guy to hold onto the mantle for 15-20 years or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

My money is on Elordi.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:16 PM (YZ0Fo)

270 264 TJM, I am still miffed that you ranked some black and white film above Lawrence of Arabia. Maybe I should be asking, U OK?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:14 PM (gBMew)

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In the Lean ranking?

I mean...I love Lawrence. I also love Brief Encounter. I just love Brief Encounter a bit more.

See? This is why rankings are stupid.

And yet...people click on 'em. Le sigh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:16 PM (IOrWk)

271 But Stargate reboot got killed because it appealed too much to the fanbase and they want something with 'broader' appeal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:16 PM (2GVsD)

272 Finished Spider Noir in black and white last night. Recommend.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 02:16 PM (n5tGW)

273 Bond is very far from dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:11 PM (IOrWk)
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I believe I saw something about Cavill being the next one.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (Fi81e)

Not a black woman? Plenty of people have said he'd be great but they cast him as the bad guy in one instead, didn't they?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (8avO+)

274 268 You act like you know something about the movie industry......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:15 PM (3IrX0)

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I act like it a lot.

I don't actually, though.

Me stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (IOrWk)

275 25 The fact he thought this interview would snowball torches and pitchforks agains Bari Weiss is stunning. Truly.
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM (OoFl2)

Can you blame him? He thought blatant insubordination was a great tactic to employ on the job.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (T6aVk)

276 269 There is casting going on, but everything official is saying men in their 20s. Cavill is in his 40s.

It's not going to be Cavill.

Amazon is like EON was, they want a young guy to hold onto the mantle for 15-20 years or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

My money is on Elordi.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:16 PM (YZ0Fo)

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He would be interesting. Very tall, though. He's like 6'7. That would feel kind of weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (IOrWk)

277 But Stargate reboot got killed because it appealed too much to the fanbase and they want something with 'broader' appeal.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:16 PM (2GVsD)

Just make it fake and gay and it's fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (3IrX0)

278 264 TJM, I am still miffed that you ranked some black and white film above Lawrence of Arabia. Maybe I should be asking, U OK?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Grumbling murmurs of agreement circulate in the background.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (Y8DZL)

279 There is casting going on, but everything official is saying men in their 20s. Cavill is in his 40s.

It's not going to be Cavill.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:15 PM (IOrWk)
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Well, I'd prefer Cavill to continue working on his WH40K series that he wanted to produce, anyway.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (Fi81e)

280 Working my second job as a concessions bartender over the past weekend, I handed a guy a bottle of water, which was his cue to launch into a tirade over how CBS is just as fascist as Fox News. I just smiled politely until he left. These people are nucking futs.

Posted by: Josephistan at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (y9ksN)

281 Not a black woman? Plenty of people have said he'd be great but they cast him as the bad guy in one instead, didn't they?
Posted by: Oldcat at

He was a double agent in mission impossible fallout.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (YZ0Fo)

282 For a Time Lord, the clock is ticking to find a sucker to play The Doctor for the promised 2026 Christmas Special.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (2GVsD)

283 In the Lean ranking?

I mean...I love Lawrence. I also love Brief Encounter. I just love Brief Encounter a bit more.

See? This is why rankings are stupid.

And yet...people click on 'em. Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:16 PM (IOrWk)

That's why the 'teir list' S A B C D F is better. You can put them both in the same tier, even for different reasons.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (8avO+)

284 Just so you know what kind of stab Karmelo gave:

He stabbed him through the sternum.

Not the stomach, not dodging in a rib--stabbed him with enough force that it buried the knife hilt-deep through the sternum and into the heart.

Metcalf was dead the moment that knife came out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (73/SM)

285 279 Well, I'd prefer Cavill to continue working on his WH40K series that he wanted to produce, anyway.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (Fi81e)

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Gosh...that was announced like 3-4 years ago?

At least God of War got to casting. I think it's shooting now. And they went through a complete creative reset last year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (IOrWk)

286
Me stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (IOrWk)

*fistbump*

Fam.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (3IrX0)

287 Can you blame him? He thought blatant insubordination was a great tactic to employ on the job.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (T6aVk)
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I don't think you can tie the word "thought" to that performance.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:19 PM (Fi81e)

288 The rioting, if there is any, for KA it would probably be imported, and not necessarily in TX.

All Antifa needs is a reason handed to them. Same with the militant blacks. Scream "injustice and racism" and point to where you want them to riot.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 02:19 PM (jehhT)

289 @274

>>I don't actually, though.

You know enough to know that The Searchers is John Ford's best film, I was waiting for you to do something cute, but you didn't go all Pauline Kael on us.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:19 PM (XV/Pl)

290 283 That's why the 'teir list' S A B C D F is better. You can put them both in the same tier, even for different reasons.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (8avO+)

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I hate the tier list even more.

I hate reducing art to numbers or grades.

But clicks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:19 PM (IOrWk)

291 I never wore the uniform, but I was right there in Korea.

Posted by: Corporal Klinger at June 08, 2026 02:19 PM (65cLN)

292 According to Seinfeld, the correct term for male bimbo is "mimbo"

Posted by: the dandy at June 08, 2026 02:19 PM (xblMX)

293 286
Me stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (IOrWk)

*fistbump*

Fam.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (3IrX0)

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*falls over, hits head*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:19 PM (IOrWk)

294 268 You act like you know something about the movie industry......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:15 PM (3IrX0)

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I act like it a lot.

I don't actually, though.

Me stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (IOrWk)

Well that makes you kind of an asshole, doesn't it.

Posted by: Keeping the theme alive at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (TbWk/)

295
Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs. Like, Christians for centuries been oppressed, suppressed, uprooted, exiled, tortured, mutilated and killed without renouncing their faith, but they'll do it because a director made a film. Can you believe the hubris?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (O0L8i)

296 The last Bond movie made $775 million at the box office.

And the time between entries will allow interest to accelerate again when filming finally starts sometime next year.

Bond is very far from dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:11 PM (IOrWk)

Didn't it cost nearly a billion to make?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (T6aVk)

297 Spider Noir is banging good fun.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (gBMew)

298 289 @274

>>I don't actually, though.

You know enough to know that The Searchers is John Ford's best film, I was waiting for you to do something cute, but you didn't go all Pauline Kael on us.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:19 PM (XV/Pl)

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My rankings are genuine feelings on my part. I don't troll intentionally.

If The Fugitive hit me harder than The Searchers, I would put it atop, but it doesn't. So it goes to #2.

And I don't think I've ever convinced anyone to discover The Fugitive. Which makes me sad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:21 PM (IOrWk)

299
"That mean old lesbian lady was mean to me, mommy!"

-Scotty. During Pride Month for God's sake!

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 02:21 PM (Y8DZL)

300 "Touch me and find out" pretty solid evidence of premeditation. I was confused when I saw that they only charged him with murder 2.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 02:14 PM (dK+Kv)

I think they feared overcharging and wanted the conviction for murder.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:21 PM (Kdi1r)

301 53 44 Have to say when Scott came up couple days ago was first I seen him in years
He is getting old

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:34 PM (Ia/+0)

He was born in 1957. 69 years old.
Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 01:36 PM (5rh/l)

Okay, I have to interject: my dad was born in '39 and looks better. What the hell is Pelley doing after hours?!

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 02:21 PM (KMQMu)

302 294
Well that makes you kind of an asshole, doesn't it.

Posted by: Keeping the theme alive at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (TbWk/)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:21 PM (IOrWk)

303 I don't think Pelley did any thinking in that confrontation.

I think his diaper sprang a leak.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:21 PM (Fi81e)

304 Thirty years ago I heard Evan Thomas (Newsweek I think?) sya that the liberal bias in media was worth 15-20 points in every election. He was a lib, but an honest one.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (xJx8R)

305 You want me on that narrative, you need me on that narrative!

Posted by: Scott Pelele at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (is5Ol)

306 Hugh Jackman to star in Treasure Island by Ridley Scott.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (YZ0Fo)

307 Spider Noir is banging good fun.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (gBMew

Now it's a sex thread?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (3IrX0)

308 The rioting, if there is any, for KA it would probably be imported, and not necessarily in TX.

All Antifa needs is a reason handed to them. Same with the militant blacks. Scream "injustice and racism" and point to where you want them to riot.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 02:19 PM (jehhT)

Antifa needs to be paid. I'm not sure if the militant blacks would not be content to burn their own areas down again for free, but the leadership would also need to be paid.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (8avO+)

309 We are witnessing a new generation of the Hitler Youth, callously laughing as they murder someone but cry when an animal is killed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:02 PM (2GVsD)

Pitch Meeting for John Wick (the only one) was not exactly wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (zZu0s)

310 @295

>>Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs.

Only Christians?

What about Zoastrians, Bahai, Hidues or Sikh's?

Is Spiedlberg saying he made an anti-Christ film?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (XV/Pl)

311
Okay, I have to interject: my dad was born in '39 and looks better. What the hell is Pelley doing after hours?!

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 02:21 PM (KMQMu)

$5 handies under a bridge.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:23 PM (3IrX0)

312 "say" not "sya".

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 08, 2026 02:23 PM (xJx8R)

313 296 Didn't it cost nearly a billion to make?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (T6aVk)

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The most expensive movies cost $400 million.

No Time to Die's budget went high (reportedly $250 million, which I think is reliable because British productions have to report costs to the British government, which become public record).

So, it's so expensive that $775 million means it's honestly near break even at the box office. But then ancillary sales, product placement, pre-booking, and such probably add another nine figures to the revenue stream.

That one watch brand pays something like ten million for the product placement alone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:23 PM (IOrWk)

314 Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:17 PM (T6aVk)
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I don't think you can tie the word "thought" to that performance.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:19 PM (Fi81e)

Admittedly I am a normie who knows that blatant insubordination is among the fastest ways to get fired (and for a good amount of time in my life a good way to guarantee a multi year stay at Leavenworth).

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:23 PM (T6aVk)

315 I too liked Spider Noir. I'm only on episode 4 or 5. It is peak good black and white.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:23 PM (zZu0s)

316 Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs. Like, Christians for centuries been oppressed, suppressed, uprooted, exiled, tortured, mutilated and killed without renouncing their faith, but they'll do it because a director made a film. Can you believe the hubris?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (O0L8i)
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I'm curious to learn what he thinks will shock me.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:23 PM (Fi81e)

317 We all assume Karmelo will get convicted and get the life sentence he deserves. But this assumes a rational jury and I’m not so sure that’s a good assumption anymore even in the great state of Texas. I hope justice is served

My Monday pessimism continues

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 02:23 PM (+gA9j)

318 Can we negotiate something over your Lean rankings. Say swapping out Bridge for Lawrence for #2. I could live with that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:24 PM (gBMew)

319 Not the stomach, not dodging in a rib--stabbed him with enough force that it buried the knife hilt-deep through the sternum and into the heart.

Metcalf was dead the moment that knife came out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (73/SM)

And the blade punched out the back of the ventricle.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:24 PM (Kdi1r)

320 310 @295

>>Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs.

Only Christians?

What about Zoastrians, Bahai, Hidues or Sikh's?

Is Spiedlberg saying he made an anti-Christ film?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (XV/Pl)

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Spielberg is just trying to make headlines because the movie is tracking really badly and cost $120 million to make.

I'm sure all the Christians who saw Prometheus suddenly decided that God wasn't responsible for our creation but it was the Engineers and left their faith.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:24 PM (IOrWk)

321 At least God of War got to casting. I think it's shooting now. And they went through a complete creative reset last year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (IOrWk)

If they do it right it'll be a throwback/homage to 70-80s blood and gore T&A fests but with better acting, effects, and production values. However considering how almost every video game movie ever is a complete fuckup, I'm not holding my breath.

Posted by: Uwe Boll better not even be in the same hemisphere at June 08, 2026 02:24 PM (TbWk/)

322 I would put Spider-Noir up there with Chernobyl with the best things I've watched on TV in the last 10 years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:24 PM (XV/Pl)

323 Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs. Like, Christians for centuries been oppressed, suppressed, uprooted, exiled, tortured, mutilated and killed without renouncing their faith, but they'll do it because a director made a film. Can you believe the hubris?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (O0L8i)

It's much more likely - actually certain - that I'll be doubting Spielberg, not My Lord.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 08, 2026 02:25 PM (xJx8R)

324 Pricks and Minidicks update

The co-owners for the already closed Keizer, OR store have parted ways with the company. The store is now officially closed. And Ammon McJerkoff is promising to make Bryan whole in regard to his stolen Lego collection.

But there are still problems - two lawsuits. And now a possible third lawsuit because McJerkoff accused the co-owners of 'gross negligence' in the announcement, which might be grounds for a defamation suit.

And the American Fork Police Department is still forked.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:25 PM (2GVsD)

325 Pitch Meeting for John Wick (the only one) was not exactly wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (zZu0s)
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They didn't need to kill the puppy!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:25 PM (Fi81e)

326 318 Can we negotiate something over your Lean rankings. Say swapping out Bridge for Lawrence for #2. I could live with that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:24 PM (gBMew)

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That look on Alec Guinness's face at the end of Bridge...

*chef's kiss*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:25 PM (IOrWk)

327 295
Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs. Like, Christians for centuries been oppressed, suppressed, uprooted, exiled, tortured, mutilated and killed without renouncing their faith, but they'll do it because a director made a film. Can you believe the hubris?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Camera rolls toward Spielburg, holding VHS copies of his greatest hits, as he sheds a single tear.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 02:25 PM (Y8DZL)

328 Have they announced the replacement for Scott 'Pellet' Pelley for the new 30 Minutes?

Is it Chief Wahoo of Cleveland? Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed? Dylan Mulvaney? Some other minority to replace his white male butt?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (qx7Zg)

329 I saw Say Not Sya open for Was Not Was at The Starplex in '92.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (3IrX0)

330 Thirty years ago I heard Evan Thomas (Newsweek I think?) sya that the liberal bias in media was worth 15-20 points in every election. He was a lib, but an honest one.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (xJx8R)

At first I read that as Helen Thomas and threw up a little in the back of my throat…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (+gA9j)

331 Remember when ABC let Terry Moran go and to the extent that anyone noticed, people basically shrugged. Pelley wasn't going to let that happen to him, even if he had to Don Lemon the situation.

Posted by: Ktgreat at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (33LJY)

332 321 At least God of War got to casting. I think it's shooting now. And they went through a complete creative reset last year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:18 PM (IOrWk)

If they do it right it'll be a throwback/homage to 70-80s blood and gore T&A fests but with better acting, effects, and production values. However considering how almost every video game movie ever is a complete fuckup, I'm not holding my breath.

Posted by: Uwe Boll better not even be in the same hemisphere at June 08, 2026 02:24 PM (TbWk/)

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Showrunner is Ronald D. Moore.

I have hope.

I even held onto Outlander for like 6 years because of him. It just went way beyond it's sell-by date after like 3 seasons, but I kept on. I think that's a source material issue more than anything, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (IOrWk)

333 320 310 @295

>>Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs.

Only Christians?

What about Zoastrians, Bahai, Hidues or Sikh's?

Is Spiedlberg saying he made an anti-Christ film?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (XV/Pl)

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Spielberg is just trying to make headlines because the movie is tracking really badly and cost $120 million to make.

I'm sure all the Christians who saw Prometheus suddenly decided that God wasn't responsible for our creation but it was the Engineers and left their faith.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:24 PM (IOrWk)

My worry is that Disclosure Day will just be "How Close Encounters would have looked with today's technology".

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (T6aVk)

334
To Compton?

Oh, wait...Compton is now majority Hispanic, most of whom self-describe as white.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:12 PM (IOrWk)

Just don't ask how Compton became Hispanic. Hint: Black gangs are in The Game to get enough street cred for their rap career. Hispanics are in The Game because they enjoy peeling your face off while you're still breathing.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (FkdoK)

335 Pelley's face looks like an ant or maybe a grasshopper hybrid.

Posted by: Eromero at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (LHPAg)

336 313.

Elsinore beer was the most successful product placement in film history.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (0PCyC)

337 Never having to watch or hear 60Minutes again might have been the best part of growing up.

Posted by: connected and litigious at June 08, 2026 02:27 PM (cS1cw)

338 Ihave B&W films higher than colored

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 02:27 PM (Ia/+0)

339 However considering how almost every video game movie ever is a complete fuckup, I'm not holding my breath.

Posted by: Uwe Boll better not even be in the same hemisphere at June 08, 2026 02:24 PM (TbWk/)

Fallout was pretty awesome. That's a tv show, though, so I guess it wouldn't count.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:27 PM (Kdi1r)

340 333
My worry is that Disclosure Day will just be "How Close Encounters would have looked with today's technology".

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (T6aVk)

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I have some hope that it'll be a quality entertainment.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:27 PM (IOrWk)

341 >>Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs.

Only Christians?

What about Zoastrians, Bahai, Hidues or Sikh's?

Is Spiedlberg saying he made an anti-Christ film?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:22 PM (XV/Pl)

That's what is so funny about secularists and atheists. There's only one religion they think exists for them to oppose.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:27 PM (8avO+)

342 I'm sure all the Christians who saw Prometheus suddenly decided that God wasn't responsible for our creation but it was the Engineers and left their faith.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

My day is complete. Prometheus got mentioned in a thread and I didn't have to bring it up. Next up: lottery tickets.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:27 PM (gBMew)

343 I'm sure all the Christians who saw Prometheus suddenly decided that God wasn't responsible for our creation but it was the Engineers and left their faith.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:24 PM (IOrWk)
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LOL. Good point.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:27 PM (Fi81e)

344 295
Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs. Like, Christians for centuries been oppressed, suppressed, uprooted, exiled, tortured, mutilated and killed without renouncing their faith, but they'll do it because a director made a film. Can you believe the hubris?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (O0L8i)

Yes, it kind of takes a lot just to deny/defy the Creator of All in the first place, so yeah

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 02:28 PM (KMQMu)

345 Remember when ABC let Terry Moran go and to the extent that anyone noticed, people basically shrugged. Pelley wasn't going to let that happen to him, even if he had to Don Lemon the situation.

Posted by: Ktgreat at June 08, 2026 02:26 PM (33LJY)

Scott Pelley is the Terry Moran of Dan Rathers.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:28 PM (Kdi1r)

346 Steven Spielberg is 79 years old with a net worth of $7B (with a B). Honest question: Why is he still making movies???? If I had that much dough and I’d retire at 50 and enjoy the “good life” with zero pressure of deadlines etc… seriously, why???

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 02:28 PM (+gA9j)

347 343 LOL. Good point.

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:27 PM (Fi81e)

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Anyone remember the movie Knowing?

Love it.

Anyway, I remember there was some small kerfuffle because someone had said, "See? it proves Christianity because the aliens look like angels," or something.

It was dumb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:28 PM (IOrWk)

348 Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs. Like, Christians for centuries been oppressed, suppressed, uprooted, exiled, tortured, mutilated and killed without renouncing their faith, but they'll do it because a director made a film. Can you believe the hubris?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (O0L8i)

Putting my boots on now, boss.

Posted by: Nemesis at June 08, 2026 02:29 PM (TbWk/)

349 Don't we have Street Fighter hitting the screen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:29 PM (2GVsD)

350 Steven Spielberg is 79 years old with a net worth of $7B (with a B). Honest question: Why is he still making movies???? If I had that much dough and I’d retire at 50 and enjoy the “good life” with zero pressure of deadlines etc… seriously, why???
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

He is still trying to laid?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:29 PM (gBMew)

351 "I've been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert."

He left out the part where he partied every night with bacha bazi boys ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

352
Steven Spielberg is 79 years old with a net worth of $7B (with a B).

___________

A billionaire. Aren't they all supposed to be executed by the Left and their assets confiscated?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (O0L8i)

353 Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg, join George Lucas in retirement.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (2GVsD)

354
So dissing your potential audience is the new Hollywierd norm.

Bold strategy Cotton, le... oh fuck it.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (Y8DZL)

355 "I've been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert."

He left out the part where he partied every night with bacha bazi boys ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

Sometimes you're the horny jihadist, sometimes you're the goat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (3IrX0)

356 Prometheus didn't make Christians leave their faith, but it did make people leave the theater

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (zj5z7)

357 Meanwhile, Spielberg says his new flick will have Christians doubting their beliefs. Like, Christians for centuries been oppressed, suppressed, uprooted, exiled, tortured, mutilated and killed without renouncing their faith, but they'll do it because a director made a film. Can you believe the hubris?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (O0L8i)

It's much more likely - actually certain - that I'll be doubting Spielberg, not My Lord.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 08, 2026 02:25 PM (xJx8R)

Weren't all his alien movies anti Christian metaphors? Close Encounters, ET, one in the 80s/90s...

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:31 PM (8avO+)

358 353 Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg, join George Lucas in retirement.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (2GVsD)

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Ridley news today!

He's put together a package to make a new version of Treasure Island (starring Hugh Jackman).

20th Century Studios has passed, presumably because of their new entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

He's shopping it to other studios now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:31 PM (IOrWk)

359 Don't we have Street Fighter hitting the screen?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:29 PM (2GVsD)

We already did years ago, with JCVD as Guile and Raul Julia as Bison. It was...well it was garbage. But looks like they're going to give it another go.

Posted by: Sometimes it's best to leave it be at June 08, 2026 02:31 PM (TbWk/)

360 Wonder when they will try to remake Cocoon?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (2GVsD)

361 A Monster Hunter International: Nemesis movie has still not been made, and that makes me sad.

I want to see an Earl Harbinger vs Agent Franks fight before I die.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (0PCyC)

362 They didn't need to kill the puppy!
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:25 PM (Fi81e)

*face goes blank* 'Some people better die for that.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (zZu0s)

363 Steven Spielberg is 79 years old with a net worth of $7B (with a B). Honest question: Why is he still making movies???? If I had that much dough and I’d retire at 50 and enjoy the “good life” with zero pressure of deadlines etc… seriously, why???

Ego. My ego won't let it go. Without movie making, what am I? Just another old fart who has a hard time moving my bowels. Thank God for Metamucil.

Posted by: Steve Spielberg at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (OhZoB)

364 Peter Weir had enough and said I'm retired. Others should follow

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (zj5z7)

365 That look on Alec Guinness's face at the end of Bridge...

*chef's kiss*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

David Lean...so great. so great.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (gBMew)

366 M. Bison to Chun Li, "it became your whole life. But to me it was Tuesday."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:33 PM (2GVsD)

367 Anyway, I remember there was some small kerfuffle because someone had said, "See? it proves Christianity because the aliens look like angels," or something.

It was dumb.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:28 PM (IOrWk)
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I thought that they were angels,
But to my surprise,
They climbed aboard their starships
And headed for the skies!

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:33 PM (Fi81e)

368 Wonder when they will try to remake Cocoon?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (2GVsD)

The world is screaming for a Felix the Cat live-action movie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:33 PM (3IrX0)

369 365 That look on Alec Guinness's face at the end of Bridge...

*chef's kiss*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

David Lean...so great. so great.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (gBMew)

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Might I also recommend...Alexander Mackendrick?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:33 PM (IOrWk)

370 Steven Spielberg is 79 years old with a net worth of $7B (with a B). Honest question: Why is he still making movies???? If I had that much dough and I’d retire at 50 and enjoy the “good life” with zero pressure of deadlines etc… seriously, why???
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

He is still trying to laid?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:29 PM (gBMew)

Well, doing what he did 40 years ago WAS the good life. But he isn't the person he was 40 years ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:33 PM (8avO+)

371 Scott Pelley forgot the most basic rule:
He who has the gold makes the rules.

With PBS in tatters, not sure where Pelley goes next.

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 02:33 PM (RHGPo)

372 A billionaire. Aren't they all supposed to be executed by the Left and their assets confiscated?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (O0L8i)

Not if you are in entertainment or government.

Everyone else who makes as much as one single red cent above PCI needs to be violently, brutally killed.

All of this because reasons.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:33 PM (T6aVk)

373 "I've been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert."

He left out the part where he partied every night with bacha bazi boys ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

Sometimes you're the horny jihadist, sometimes you're the goat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:30 PM (3IrX0)
_______

"And sometimes both!"

-- Ahmed's Train Gang

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 08, 2026 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

374 Wonder when they will try to remake Cocoon?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (2GVsD)

Where the old people swim in a special pool, turn into a cocoon when they go to sleep, and emerge as giant butterflies?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 02:34 PM (qx7Zg)

375 Don't we have Street Fighter hitting the screen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:29 PM (2GVsD)
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Fighting the streets and the screen?

Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 02:34 PM (Fi81e)

376 It's like, did you even stop to think about, if it's so great, why everyone is not already doing it?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Thailand has 2 seasons: hot and humid, and very warm and OMFG humid.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 02:35 PM (W5mpo)

377
Where the old people swim in a special pool, turn into a cocoon when they go to sleep, and emerge as giant butterflies?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 02:34 PM (qx7Zg)

Diabeetus! Dance with the one who brung ya!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 02:35 PM (3IrX0)

378 Is there a shoppe I can go to, to get an oversized flak jacket with an enormous 'press' stenciled across it, a kevlar helmet, and a giant microphone? If I'm out in the field, I want to signal that I'm roughing it totally.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 02:35 PM (pSkMS)

379 The thing about Lawrence of Arabia is that every frame of that film is absolutely gorgeous, and quality of the story and the acting matches the frames.

The ending of Bridge on The River Kwai is implausible.

It's still a great film and masterpiece.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:35 PM (XV/Pl)

380 378 Is there a shoppe I can go to, to get an oversized flak jacket with an enormous 'press' stenciled across it, a kevlar helmet, and a giant microphone? If I'm out in the field, I want to signal that I'm roughing it totally.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 02:35 PM (pSkMS)

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Your local Hamas commander should have a couple of spares.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:35 PM (IOrWk)

381 Steven Spielberg is 79 years old with a net worth of $7B (with a B). Honest question: Why is he still making movies???? If I had that much dough and I’d retire at 50 and enjoy the “good life” with zero pressure of deadlines etc… seriously, why???
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Saw an interview with Alice Cooper. He was asked why rockers are still performing ? The answer was simple. They love to perform. If it was just a matter of money they would have retired in the 80s and 90s.

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (RHGPo)

382 Peter Weir had enough and said I'm retired.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (zj5z7)
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He nevah had a dinnah!!

Posted by: Red Buttons at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (Fi81e)

383 "Ridley news today!

He's put together a package to make a new version of Treasure Island (starring Hugh Jackman)."

And Elliot Page as Long John Silver!

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (vFG9F)

384 Might I also recommend...Alexander Mackendrick?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Now I have an excuse to avoid working on processing and image for my next blog post. Thanks!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (gBMew)

385 M. Bison to Chun Li, "it became your whole life. But to me it was Tuesday."
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:33 PM (2GVsD)

Raul Julia was having the time of his life in that.

RIP.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (zZu0s)

386 He's put together a package to make a new version of Treasure Island (starring Hugh Jackman).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

There is only one Long John Silver. Robert Newton.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

387
They're making a new Street Fighter, huh. I can't wait until M Bison, played by Mark Ruffalo, fights Guile (Timothee Chalamet) and it turns into a shocking and transgressive scene of rage and passion in the Octagon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (BI5O2)

388 Wilfred Brimley was only 49 when they started shooting Cocoon.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (YZ0Fo)

389 360 Wonder when they will try to remake Cocoon?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (2GVsD)
Oh, yeah. That would be a pile of dog vomit.

Posted by: Eromero at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (LHPAg)

390 Scott Pelley will be staring a new movie: Kung Fu Fighting, with the soundtrack by Carl Douglas.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 02:37 PM (qx7Zg)

391 386 He's put together a package to make a new version of Treasure Island (starring Hugh Jackman).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

There is only one Long John Silver. Robert Newton.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

======

That's a funny way to spell Tim Curry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:37 PM (IOrWk)

392 Wilfred Brimley was only 49 when they started shooting Cocoon.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (YZ0Fo)

The Abe Vigoda club of people who looked old at birth.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:37 PM (8avO+)

393 First of all, you can't remake Cocoon because there are no elderly beloved actors you can put in it.

Who you going to get that would match the original cast?

Nobody, that's who.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:37 PM (XV/Pl)

394 With PBS in tatters, not sure where Pelley goes next.
Posted by: SMOD

TO COURT!

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 02:38 PM (Y8DZL)

395 Thailand has 2 seasons: hot and humid, and very warm and OMFG humid.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 02:35 PM (W5mpo)
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My nephew bought a house with a four season room ... in FLORIDA!!

I said to my BiL, they're short about 3 seasons.

Posted by: Red Buttons at June 08, 2026 02:38 PM (Fi81e)

396 "First of all, you can't remake Cocoon because there are no elderly beloved actors you can put in it.

Who you going to get that would match the original cast?

Nobody, that's who.
Posted by: Thomas Bender"

AI.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 02:38 PM (vFG9F)

397 393 First of all, you can't remake Cocoon because there are no elderly beloved actors you can put in it.

Who you going to get that would match the original cast?

Nobody, that's who.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:37 PM (XV/Pl)

=====

Counter:

The only beloved actors left are the elderly actors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:38 PM (IOrWk)

398 Who you going to get that would match the original cast?

Nobody, that's who.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:37 PM (XV/Pl)

Clint Eastwood. Helen Mirren. Ian Mckellan. Patrick Stewart.

Tell me you wouldnt pay to see that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (zZu0s)

399 Tim Curry played Long John Silver?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

400 Nood climate change.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (Kdi1r)

401 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (NcvvS)

402 Wonder when they will try to remake Cocoon?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (2GVsD)

Oh, yeah. That would be a pile of dog vomit.
Posted by: Eromero at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (LHPAg)
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Transmas.

Posted by: Red Buttons at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (Fi81e)

403 Thailand has 2 seasons: hot and humid, and very warm and OMFG humid.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 02:35 PM (W5mpo)
---
My nephew bought a house with a four season room ... in FLORIDA!!

I said to my BiL, they're short about 3 seasons.
Posted by: Red Buttons at June 08, 2026 02:38 PM (Fi81e)

Hurricane counts as an extra season in Florida. So 2 seasons needed. Spring Break season?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (8avO+)

404 313 296 Didn't it cost nearly a billion to make?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:20 PM (T6aVk)

=======

The most expensive movies cost $400 million.

No Time to Die's budget went high (reportedly $250 million, which I think is reliable because British productions have to report costs to the British government, which become public record).

So, it's so expensive that $775 million means it's honestly near break even at the box office. But then ancillary sales, product placement, pre-booking, and such probably add another nine figures to the revenue stream.

That one watch brand pays something like ten million for the product placement alone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:23 PM (IOrWk)

I screwed up. I remember seeing somewhere that it needed to hit $956 million to break even. Not that it cost a billion to make.

In any case, I don't even acknowledge NTTD to exist in canon. You Do Not Kill Bond.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:40 PM (T6aVk)

405 Morgan Freeman would have to be in a new Cocoon. Probably narrating

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 02:40 PM (zj5z7)

406 My favorite Lean film is Dr Zhivago. Followed by Lawrence. Master filmmaker.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 08, 2026 02:41 PM (xJx8R)

407 The thing about Lawrence of Arabia is that every frame of that film is absolutely gorgeous, and quality of the story and the acting matches the frames.

The ending of Bridge on The River Kwai is implausible.

It's still a great film and masterpiece.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I saw Lawrence as a youth in a theater by myself when it was first released. This was, as I recall things, the first time I saw a film in a theater by myself. Blew my mind. It was right there I realized there was a world beyond Clutch Cargo. It occupies something like the first 5 spots of my all time favorite films.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 08, 2026 02:41 PM (gBMew)

408 Wilfred Brimley was only 49 when they started shooting Cocoon.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (YZ0Fo)

I’m convinced people generally age better now than they did 40+ years ago. I recently watched an old Johnny Carson and by coincidence he was as old at the time of that show as I am now…. He had completely white thinning hair and just looked old (he was fit and trim). Me I’m no physical specimen and yet I look much younger than he looked at the same age… he’s just one example I could cite many others. We just have better medicine and diet now?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 02:41 PM (yz/88)

409 Who you going to get that would match the original cast?

Nobody, that's who.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 02:37 PM (XV/Pl)

Clint Eastwood. Helen Mirren. Ian Mckellan. Patrick Stewart.

Tell me you wouldnt pay to see that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:39 PM (zZu0s)

Let Dana Carvey fill in for some of the missing players.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 02:41 PM (qx7Zg)

410
Fallout was pretty awesome. That's a tv show, though, so I guess it wouldn't count.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 02:27 PM (Kdi1r)

I need to get back into watching. Maybe I'll start binge-watching this weekend.

The first ep had the best joke I've seen in awhile. She's all spent and quivering after honeymoon-banging the hot guy from the next-door bunker. Then you get the first real indication that there's something.... wrong... about the neighbors when he gets up from the bed and wipes his dick on the drapes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 08, 2026 02:42 PM (FkdoK)

411 Ridley news today!

He's put together a package to make a new version of Treasure Island (starring Hugh Jackman).

20th Century Studios has passed, presumably because of their new entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

He's shopping it to other studios now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:31 PM (IOrWk)
------------
When people complain how unlike the book it is, he'll respond, "Were you there? Fuck you!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 08, 2026 02:43 PM (amcLV)

412 381 Steven Spielberg is 79 years old with a net worth of $7B (with a B). Honest question: Why is he still making movies???? If I had that much dough and I’d retire at 50 and enjoy the “good life” with zero pressure of deadlines etc… seriously, why???
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Saw an interview with Alice Cooper. He was asked why rockers are still performing ? The answer was simple. They love to perform. If it was just a matter of money they would have retired in the 80s and 90s.
Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (RHGPo)

Yes, this. I entertained a conspiracy theory until I learned this. It is useful to know.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 02:46 PM (KMQMu)

413 Wilford was in "The China Syndrom" with Lemon. Goofy fucks almost exposed the core.

Posted by: connected and litigious at June 08, 2026 02:48 PM (cS1cw)

414 391 386 He's put together a package to make a new version of Treasure Island (starring Hugh Jackman).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

There is only one Long John Silver. Robert Newton.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

======

That's a funny way to spell Tim Curry.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 02:37 PM (IOrWk)

... odd spelling for Charleton Heston

Posted by: browndog says woof at June 08, 2026 02:50 PM (3sXRv)

415 I read that 60 minutes received two Emmy Awards, and then a month later everyone was fired.

Now they all know the exact value of those Emmy Awards.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 08, 2026 03:15 PM (bufu1)

416 Pellet was soooooo close to being Ed Grimsley there with his “I must say” remark. Now he can comb up his remaining hair and learn the Grimsley dance, I must certainly say.

Posted by: WestCoastRich at June 08, 2026 03:18 PM (Ut2tG)

417 @414 ... odd spelling for Charleton Heston

Which in in itself an odd spelling for Charlton Heston.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 08, 2026 03:43 PM (zdLoL)

418 Plus, Pelley talks too slow.

Even when he's reading from a script.

Posted by: scottst at June 08, 2026 03:54 PM (Sg7Ko)

419 Pelly: "Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert."
Like my walk to school: ten miles, uphill both ways, through waist-deep snow under the blazing desert sun.

Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatrick at June 08, 2026 05:07 PM (VrQ+c)

They've Stolen Another One and They're Daring You to Accuse Them

VoteHub
@VoteHub
Los Angeles City 6/6 Drop
🔵 Nithya Raman -- 23,514 (40.2%)
🔵 Karen Bass -- 19,312 (33.0%)
🔴 Spencer Pratt -- 10,336 (17.7%)
Raman's rough benchmark against Pratt was 8.7%, so this is a 14-point overperformance.

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Mail-ins arriving before Election Day:
🔵 Bass: 38.1%
🔴 Pratt: 27.9%
🔵 Raman: 20%
Mail-ins arriving after Election Day:
🔵 Raman: 37% (+17% surge)
🔵 Bass: 34.9% (-3% drop)
🔴 Pratt: 19% (-9% drop)
Who are we kidding here? This is fraud.

Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
14h
Five days after the LA election, Spencer Pratt falls to third place and a woman who hardly anyone voted for in person, Nithya Raman, totally dominated in mail voting to come in second. No one with a functional brain believes these results.

@amuse
@amuse
LA MAYOR RACE: A magical late mail drop just put Raman at 39.9%, Bass 32.8%, Pratt 17.8%. Raman steals the runoff spot from Pratt. They did it right in front of us. Outlaw election month, end late mail ballots, require universal voter ID & citizenship.

If you run an unstoppable play, you just keep running it until someone stops it.

Preposterously blatant election fraud is like that. https://t.co/2APQgFXlw2
— Andrew Isker 🌳🪓 (@BonifaceOption) June 8, 2026

Spencer Pratt FIRES BACK at Democrat Nithya Raman’s suspicious vote swing in the LA mayor’s race.

After Decision Desk HQ predicted Raman would advance to the runoff against incumbent Karen Bass, Pratt pointed out that her surge was the exact same number as LA’s homeless… pic.twitter.com/dt2hEh9IOs
— Overton (@overton_news) June 8, 2026

They want you to believe this happened in the LA Mayors race…

3rd place jumps to 1st in *every* ballot drop *after* Election Day

Defies all mathematical probability, the law of averages and has never happened in US election history

No one with a functional brain believes this pic.twitter.com/dytiUmW6zI
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 8, 2026

A lot of people don't want to confront the implications of what they just saw happen in LA, even those who are appalled by it. They want an out, just so they can go on, not be terrified, feel a tiny tiny bit in control still. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) June 8, 2026

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying." https://t.co/HO9Q8UkGrS
— Disinformation Expert Lizzy (@StarChamberMaid) June 7, 2026

The DOJ is investigating the obvious, blatant, civil-war level vote fraud.

I just hope people are finally being red-pilled -- or black-pilled -- into the truth about The Regime.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:18 PM

Comments

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1 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (Ia/+0)

2 They are trying to do to LA what they did to NY. Jihadi central , baby!

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:19 PM (GD0B3)

3 3d?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at June 08, 2026 12:19 PM (Vpqw1)

4 No one hardly knew who the fk Mamdani was , all of a sudden he is the nominee and now the mayor.

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:19 PM (GD0B3)

5 Green-red alliance is moving fast.

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:20 PM (GD0B3)

6 Read the content. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 12:20 PM (bFu5X)

7 Suck it! Big mama runs dis house!

Posted by: Karen Bass, Big Momma Boss Lady at June 08, 2026 12:20 PM (OhZoB)

8 Thats rank choice 3 Card Monte voting, its a scam

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:20 PM (Ia/+0)

9 I am gonna drop this in from the prior thread, being relevant.

- Rigid container, enough to project the contents from a shovel and not collapse under the weight of soil. PVC actually doesn't work great for modern arms because you need the really fat stuff and it's a pain in the ass, but any cheap hard case will do.

- Mylar bags, the type you'd use to do long term food storage. The heavy stuff that's an oxygen barrier

- Hair straightener (flat iron), the tong style ones, to seal the mylar

- Clean and heavily oil firearms... stick packaged ammo in some ammo cans for a couple of weeks with dessicant to dry them out. Toss either one (not together) into mylar with fresh dessicants and seal it

- Throw it in the hard container, and there you go.

Most modern waterproof cases like Pelicans have goretex vents that will let vapor in, making them unsuitable for burial by themselves. Old school medical chests have clasps that rust, and Hardigg cases have manual pressure valves but may also have latch corrosion, and the valves have to be protected from being activated. The mylar takes on the burden of a vapor barrier instead.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 12:20 PM (CL4hu)

10 They are trying to do to LA what they did to NY. Jihadi central , baby!
Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:19 PM

South Central >>> Saud Central

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 12:21 PM (bFu5X)

11 Welcome to my World yet every election I dutifully vote anyway

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:21 PM (JOQH4)

12 1 in a million shot doc.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 12:21 PM (YwEeS)

13 I just hope people are finally being red-pilled -- or black-pilled -- into the truth about The Regime.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:18 PM

That's the thing: We know they are cheating. They know we know they are cheating. It actually makes it better for them because the only way to stop them is to *types* *deletes* them and no one wants to face that.

These are not our countrymen. They are not people we can deal with. They will use our system and subvert and pervert it in order to gain power (just once is all they need) and then they will make sure they never lose again. This is thousand years of Darkness shit.

And until things get bad enough to where people realize this and do something, we are fucked.

Dammit, I am sneaking black jelly beans from MP4s supply again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:21 PM (mPXxA)

14 Hang them all.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:21 PM (dK+Kv)

15 Tons of people have accused them of cheating. People pointed it out on X in real time.

Now, what can be done about it?

Posted by: Ann at June 08, 2026 12:22 PM (SHHm+)

16 No standing

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 08, 2026 12:22 PM (Vh9CX)

17 .... you also may need to wrap firearms and parts with sharper edges in bubble wrap or foam after oiling them to protect the mylar

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (CL4hu)

18 I still maintain that this is a conspiracy between Raman and Bass.

Raman advances to second place, then leads a lackluster campaign into the general or drops out altogether.

She receives a handsome consolation prize from a third-party that can't be traced (yeah, right) back to Bass' campaign.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (gnNyN)

19 So does Raman also lead Bass overall?

Or were the percentages just referring to the late mail ballot drop percentages?

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (GseMx)

20 Raman is a Democrat Socialist (spits) like Mamdani. Because we love our 3rd world refuse from Socialist hellholes!

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (GD0B3)

21 If you still live in one of these places, get the fuck out. Yesterday was best. Today is still good. Tomorrow is okay.

Just get out. You have NO HOPE and NO VOICE in these deep commie shitholes. Just leave and regroup somewhere else. Standing and fighting sounds great when you're beating your chest, not so much when the commies put you and yours at the edge of a big ditch.

Posted by: ballistic at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (oqH4h)

22 Foolish of the Dems to do this. They should have just let Pratt place second and then steal the final election for Bass.

This puts far more attention on their cheating. Evidently they couldn't help themselves.

Posted by: alanon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (jHMkm)

23 Why Sacramento and downtown Los Angeles doesn’t look like East Berlin or Leipzig circa Oct/Nov 1989 I have no idea.

Unless the people of CA have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (T6aVk)

24 Tons of people have accused them of cheating. People pointed it out on X in real time.

Now, what can be done about it?

Posted by: Ann at June 08, 2026 12:22 PM (SHHm+)

Ballot box and jury box are kaput.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (dK+Kv)

25 More states are playing this game

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (Ia/+0)

26 I still maintain that this is a conspiracy between Raman and Bass.

Raman advances to second place, then leads a lackluster campaign into the general or drops out altogether.

She receives a handsome consolation prize from a third-party that can't be traced (yeah, right) back to Bass' campaign.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (gnNyN)

I maintain... that Raman will win.

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:24 PM (GD0B3)

27 It's worse than you all know out here. Calif just signed into law SB 73, which makes it illegal for virtually any outside group, INCLUDING FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, to seize any ballot, voters rolls, or election documentation.

Yes, they made it HARDER to investigate fraud, days before this election.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 12:24 PM (mP0Kj)

28 Jake Tapper calls this a conspiracy theory with zero evidence and looks down his rather large nose at you...

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (YwEeS)

29
I maintain... that Raman will win.
Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:24 PM (GD0B3)

If so they deserve her...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (JOQH4)

30 She's gonna be given the whole kaboodle

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (XGfD9)

31 22 Foolish of the Dems to do this. They should have just let Pratt place second and then steal the final election for Bass.

This puts far more attention on their cheating. Evidently they couldn't help themselves.
Posted by: alanon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (jHMkm)

If they had done that, Pratt's ads continue with the same and increased energy. They knew they were never going to lose the election, but the ads and energy were all his way. This way they smother it in the crib NOW rather than enduring it for 5 more months.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (mPXxA)

32 The issue is apparently, you can vote after election day, all you need to do is date your ballot, you don't even need a postmark and the ballot can be signed by simple putting a smilely symbol as your signature.

As Benny Johnson showed, Raman has overwhelmingly won skid row districts, aka, the homeless encampment set, she didn't even win her own district.

Pratt better high tail it out of LA before they decide to make an example out of him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (XV/Pl)

33 They mail ballots to you whether you want to vote or not. For some reason my ballots have always come a few days LATER than the text message from the Registrar of Voters says it should, but my wife's was always on time and my son's was on time (one son does not get a ballot...he doesn't have a driver's license)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (l3cgK)

34 I think the fact that they stole is so blatantly is hilarious.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (73/SM)

35 California is trying to see of they can give the DOJ enough ammo to actually do something. This was unnecessary - no way Pratt was winning the general.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (GZYu7)

36 Good thing the DOJ is investigating. They’ll get to the bottom of this after everyone involved has been long dead of old age.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (DaWOz)

37 So it's Frog Lady or Noodles?
Maybe L.A. will get some bike lanes out of the deal.
Good luck, suckers.

Posted by: wth at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (UjdFS)

38 They can stop counting (stealing) now, they are "ahead".

Posted by: illiniwek at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (vbXSk)

39 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (dK+Kv)

That leaves Jack in the Box

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (XGfD9)

40 Every Republican needs to memorize a version of this and repeat it until the Dems stop asking:

"In 2000, when the Democrats broke decades of precedent, and began declaring every election they lost as fraudulent, Republicans in FL gave anyone and everyone access to the ballots to look for themselves.
Every major news organization that examined the ballots saw Bush legitimately won.
Full transparency for everyone.
20 years later, not one single Democrat jurisdiction allowed any independent examination of their ballots.
Not one.
So, it's not a question of whether Joe Biden won, it's a question of whether the election was ever legitimate in the first place.
Prove that and I'll answer whether Joe Biden won."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (73/SM)

41 Raman should play Powerball next.
Hit Vegas.
Play the ponies.

After 2020 "election" night, Gateway Pundit had a series of great articles about the exact math required by Biden to overcome President Trump's lead in ALL those states to pull off the Biden miracle.

I'm shocked nothing came of it. And after typing "Nothing will happen" crossed my mind.

That chick interviewing Trump was a sub-human c@nt too.

Okay, let the people in LA walk in human shit. They apparently desire and deserve it.

Murderous-rage Monday has started off nicely.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

42 This is some third-world shit.

Communism, Marxism and now fixed elections.

SCOTUS issues an opinion on Thursday about the “Election Day” case. Let’s see how that goes.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (i14TE)

43 I have a theory.

Primaries are weird things in that they both are and aren't elections. They're party selections, and parties have power over who they nominate no matter what. This is CA, though, which has the jungle primary system, making it murkier. It is an election, but it's not really THE election.

There have been multiple reports that the USA of Southern California is looking into this, actually opening investigations.

I suspect that the federal effort at fighting this won't happen in public until November. That Harmeet Dhillon will make it a special focus for the midterms, to chop at the pillars holding up CA election fraud, and the federal DOJ is looking at the primary to scoop up evidence of the specifics around the hows, whos, and whats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (IOrWk)

44 It's easier to get an ID than it is to get a mail ballot , complete it and dropping it off .

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (GseMx)

45
Pratt better high tail it out of LA before they decide to make an example out of him.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (XV/Pl)

Before the election he said he would leave if he lost....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (JOQH4)

46 Pratt can add "election denier" to his resume. I am contemplating cutting CA voters some slack.

Nope, f them as the f themselves.

Posted by: connected and litigious at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (cS1cw)

47 @31

>>They knew they were never going to lose the election, but the ads and energy were all his way.

If they allowed Pratt he would have kept hammering the issues and the democrats don't ever talk issues, they talk around the issues, plus they would have had to spend money campaigning, now they don't.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)

48 Afternoon Ace.
Raman is no dummie. She set up a not for profit for the homeless and it was quite profitable for her. Now she has profited from the Dem Socialist vote theft. Communists sure like profit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (zj5z7)

49 22 Foolish of the Dems to do this. They should have just let Pratt place second and then steal the final election for Bass.

This puts far more attention on their cheating. Evidently they couldn't help themselves.
Posted by: alanon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (jHMkm)

I was surprised they didn't do exactly this.

Posted by: Ann at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (SHHm+)

50 Is it actually fraud if it's all legal under California laws?

Posted by: Josephistan at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (y9ksN)

51 22 Foolish of the Dems to do this. They should have just let Pratt place second and then steal the final election for Bass.

This puts far more attention on their cheating. Evidently they couldn't help themselves.
Posted by: alanon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (jHMkm)

Islam wants its 2nd big city win. They don't care it's obvious - every cheating they've ever done has been obvious...they win at all costs...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (tOcjL)

52 probably doesn't matter, no way the dems would let a repub become los angeles mayor. still stinks, cheating when you're gonna win anyway.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (CWTWj)

53 ...
As Benny Johnson showed, Raman has overwhelmingly won skid row districts, aka, the homeless encampment set, she didn't even win her own district.
...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (XV/Pl)

And NOBODY ever pays the homeless to vote. Just doesn't happen.
https://tinyurl.com/4xzhh286

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (l3cgK)

54 They are intent on dropping Bass and see Raman as a viable alternative.

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (GD0B3)

55 47 @31

>>They knew they were never going to lose the election, but the ads and energy were all his way.

If they allowed Pratt he would have kept hammering the issues and the democrats don't ever talk issues, they talk around the issues, plus they would have had to spend money campaigning, now they don't.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)

=====

Now the election can be about bike lanes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:28 PM (IOrWk)

56 Unless the people of CA have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM

You think we let them have a say in this?

Posted by: Democrats at June 08, 2026 12:28 PM (bFu5X)

57 45
Pratt better high tail it out of LA before they decide to make an example out of him.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (XV/Pl)

Before the election he said he would leave if he lost....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (JOQH4)

He’d better. Being murdered on the street is a real possibility.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 12:28 PM (Gqar8)

58 If they had done that, Pratt's ads continue with the same and increased energy. They knew they were never going to lose the election, but the ads and energy were all his way. This way they smother it in the crib NOW rather than enduring it for 5 more months.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (mPXxA)
==
Yeah, that's the fear. But it would have been localized - now you have put it out there after you just redistricted the congressional map - and the Feds can interfere like crazy there - the State courts will be helpless to stop it. So the DOJ can play around with this now, and then get ready for November.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 08, 2026 12:28 PM (GZYu7)

59 It’s wierd that CA just passed a law forbidding ballots being investigated by federal officals. I mean talk about coincidences.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 08, 2026 12:28 PM (DaWOz)

60 52 probably doesn't matter, no way the dems would let a repub become los angeles mayor. still stinks, cheating when you're gonna win anyway.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (CWTWj)

They have so little fear that, instead of cheating in November to make it seem at least somewhat fair, they pump up the fake votes to completely eliminate any real competition.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (l3cgK)

61 39 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (dK+Kv)

That leaves Jack in the Box
Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (XGfD9)

Can we talk about this? I remember being out in California and trying Carl's Jr. It is not good. It is big patties, but the entire burger is bland and tasteless.

By contrast, Jack in the Box (ultimate cheeseburger) or whataburger is FAR superior.

I liked Carl's Jr's commercials, but their food is shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (mPXxA)

62 Oh, by the way, how incompetent are you to not be able to do the cheating all in one night?

Seriously, just have the ballots nearby.

One for the Rs. Two for the Dems. One for the Rs. Two for the Dems...

Stupid retards can't even cheat in a smart manner.

"yeah, yeah....they don't care...rub it in our faces..."

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (Sco7b)

63 So, he who counts the votes has won yet again.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (Q/FnY)

64
The really scary part about all this is that Karen Bass, lifelong Venceremos Brigade Cuban Marxist Terrorist member has now been overthrown by...

people to the left of her.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (Y8DZL)

65 56 Unless the people of CA have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM

You think we let them have a say in this?

Posted by: Democrats at June 08, 2026 12:28 PM (bFu5X)

======

It is illegal to offer your ID to an election official while voting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (IOrWk)

66 That leaves Jack in the Box

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (XGfD9)

And Jack's off today.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (dK+Kv)

67 >>If you run an unstoppable play, you just keep running it until someone stops it.

Of course. Like running the Pick 6 play I talked about. No one can stop it, so teams should keep running it.

Posted by: Tim Walz at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (J4Dwc)

68 Pratt's trying to pull off a wolf’s in sheep’s clothing in a California election. And is surprised it’s failing. He’s putting up as much smoke as he can to attract attention so he either wins (snowball’s chance in hell), or gets Trump to send in the Gestapo. All of this is pretty much standard operating procedures for the guardians of pedophiles.

Typical republican crybully bullshit. He lost. The idea that some Temu Trump douche ever had a real shot to become mayor of LA was always a fantasy.

The ultra conservative heritage foundation have investigated california mail-in ballots for the last ten years and found only a few instances of mail-in ballot fraud less than 00000000.66 percent.

The celebrities who supported him and were at his election night party should be outed. I want to shame those idiots for holding 2 women of color to a far higher standard than his white failed ass.😒

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (Qejbo)

69 What can be done about it? On a state level, nothing. However, you can still be Constitutionally correct if for federal offices you tell the State that they can run the elections any way they see fit, however, if they don't meet minimum standards for "fair and open" elections, their results will not be accepted.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (nfOOG)

70 Islam wants its 2nd big city win. They don't care it's obvious - every cheating they've ever done has been obvious...they win at all costs...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (tOcjL)

Islam using useful idiots to gain political power? Say it aint so... that NEVER happens...

I mean.... Look at Gays for Palestine... oh... wait...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (mP0Kj)

71 California has declared itself its’ own nation. They will do things the California Way.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 12:30 PM (Gqar8)

72 Islam wants its 2nd big city win. They don't care it's obvious - every cheating they've ever done has been obvious...they win at all costs...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (tOcjL)

Communists have no use for evil Islam because evil Islam is an opiate of the people.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 12:30 PM (T6aVk)

73 68 The ultra conservative heritage foundation have investigated california mail-in ballots for the last ten years and found only a few instances of mail-in ballot fraud less than 00000000.66 percent.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (Qejbo)

======

"It's a ballot, and it has a selection on it. Therefore it is legal."
-the investigation from the outside.

"Was this ballot sent to a legal voter, and did that legal voter return it themselves?"
-not able to be investigated from the outside

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:31 PM (IOrWk)

74 @55

>>Now the election can be about bike lanes.

Bike lanes, teacher pay raises, pay equity for marginalized communities, UBI, splitters, hoarders and wreckers.

The usual bullsh*t democrats get on about.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:31 PM (XV/Pl)

75 best idea might be all the pratt voters get the mail-in ballots, mail them the day before the election, write in pratt's name, mess up the late counting. maybe or they'll all be mysteriously ignored

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 08, 2026 12:31 PM (CWTWj)

76 Pratt better sue and audit this.
Or not. Fuck LA and everyone who tolerates this.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 12:31 PM (xcxpd)

77 21 If you still live in one of these places, get the fuck out. Yesterday was best. Today is still good. Tomorrow is okay.

Just get out. You have NO HOPE and NO VOICE in these deep commie shitholes. Just leave and regroup somewhere else. Standing and fighting sounds great when you're beating your chest, not so much when the commies put you and yours at the edge of a big ditch.
Posted by: ballistic at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (oqH4h)

But dat WEATHER tho!

Posted by: Only thing that matters! at June 08, 2026 12:31 PM (TbWk/)

78 The celebrities who supported him and were at his election night party should be outed. I want to shame those idiots for holding 2 women of color to a far higher standard than his white failed ass.😒
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (Qejbo)

Oh boy....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:31 PM (JOQH4)

79 I guess they broke the glass.

Posted by: connected and litigious at June 08, 2026 12:32 PM (cS1cw)

80 fraud less than 00000000.66 percent.

which is the same as 0.66%...no need for so many leading zeros...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:32 PM (l3cgK)

81 Article at American Thinker spelled out how the Marxists actually have Union count the votes, gather the ballots, paid toslow roll the count

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:32 PM (Ia/+0)

82 78 The celebrities who supported him and were at his election night party should be outed. I want to shame those idiots for holding 2 women of color to a far higher standard than his white failed ass.😒
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (Qejbo)

Oh boy....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:31 PM (JOQH4)

His white failed ass. Totally not racist.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 12:32 PM (Gqar8)

83 If they had done that, Pratt's ads continue with the same and increased energy. They knew they were never going to lose the election, but the ads and energy were all his way. This way they smother it in the crib NOW rather than enduring it for 5 more months.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (mPXxA)

Yep. Pratt became too dangerous, too quickly. Not only would he annoy Bass and force the November fraud, but he would also perhaps have some coattails and help some of the Republicans in the redrawn Congressional districts, necessitating greater fraud measures state-wide. Better to take the hit now and count on people forgetting or not caring in 5 months.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 08, 2026 12:32 PM (KFbdf)

84 If they allowed Pratt he would have kept hammering the issues and the democrats don't ever talk issues, they talk around the issues, plus they would have had to spend money campaigning, now they don't.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)
--

This. Plus, it would continue to be a national story sucking oxygen away from other races.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 08, 2026 12:33 PM (0bjKf)

85 "It’s wierd that CA just passed a law forbidding ballots being investigated by federal officals. I mean talk about coincidences."

I'm totally sure nothing in the primacy clause covers this a all! NOTHING AT ALL!!!

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 08, 2026 12:33 PM (YGJ8E)

86 54 They are intent on dropping Bass and see Raman as a viable alternative.

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (GD0B3)

Bass is damaged goods. Thanks to Pratt. Raman gives communism a clean-sheet re-start in LA, for at least 4 years. Pratt was never going to be allowed on the November ballot. His ads would have embarrassed and damaged Bass or Raman. Not fatally, but the emperor can not be shown to be wearing no clothes.

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 12:33 PM (5rh/l)

87 TBH, I don't know what to make of Pratt's legal strategy.

It was obvious from the very beginning they were going to open hell's doors of cheating to prevent him from winning.

And he's ... done nothing, as far as I can tell.

Of course, the "fraud" as we see it, is perfectly legal under CA law.
All of it is all within the rules.

And, realistically, I don't think there is anything he can do:
Because it's almost purely under state law in a local election with no federal candidate on the ballot.
He really doesn't have any basis to file in federal court so any suit will be in the highly-corrupt, completely partisan state courts.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 12:33 PM (73/SM)

88 If that’s true show me widespread verifiable fraud cases. It’s one of those lies that gets repeated enough so morons believe it.

I’ll bite. Why do 34 of 47 European counties completely forbid the practice of mail in voting? They’re way to the political left of the US.

Why Russia, Japan, Israel, Mexico?

People like this are the ones proving to me that humanity is moving backward despite endless access to REAL information.

Mail in voting without controls is a crime against the people of a nation.

Notice that the guy at the top references "widespread" voter fraud, without specifying what he means. It's the old "rich people should pay their fair share" without saying what constitutes a fair share. The answer, of course, is always "more".

https://tinyurl.com/yhk762yz

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 12:34 PM (Riz8t)

89 It would be more efficient for CA to have an election that works like this:

You have a preprinted ballot. The names of the candidates are already on there. You approve of everyone, you fold the paper and put it in the ballot box. If you object to any of the candidates, you can cross them off - directly in front of a police officer.

(More or less how Volkskammer elections occurred in the GDR)

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 12:34 PM (T6aVk)

90 So who's going to stop the unstoppable play?

All I hear is a lot of empty outrage.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 12:34 PM (fZiTB)

91 We should demand that we get to recount the fraudulent ballots 4 or 5 times to make sure the totals are correct.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 12:34 PM (nfOOG)

92 The only remedy for L.A. is to nullify the election results. Of course, that'll never happen.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 12:35 PM (jehhT)

93
So now the left wants a hit list of Pratt supporters?

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 12:35 PM (Y8DZL)

94 Pratt better be looking over his shoulder. He's a candidate for the Seth Rich treatment.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 08, 2026 12:35 PM (rJ48h)

95 Raman Noodles was a poor candidate with low numbers before the election.. Now she's the next coming.. Who would have thought ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:35 PM (JOQH4)

96 57 45
Pratt better high tail it out of LA before they decide to make an example out of him.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:25 PM (XV/Pl)

Before the election he said he would leave if he lost....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:26 PM (JOQH4)

He’d better. Being murdered on the street is a real possibility.
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 12:28 PM (Gqar

"Only good cracka is a dead cracka," yelled the hate-filled villian of color outside the Anthony trial.

Posted by: Yeah he's in danger at June 08, 2026 12:35 PM (TbWk/)

97 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:31 PM (IOrWk)

As one guy who was looking into the ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, It's not just counting the number of ballots and seeing if they match up with votes, it's also making sure the ballots are valid. It's like saying "We have 1000 apples", only to find out that 125 are plastic, another 50 are Christmas ornaments, and a final 200 are oranges...only 625 are real apples...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:35 PM (l3cgK)

98 well, yeah. no argument from me, Ace. Boldface theft.

not even trying to hide it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 12:35 PM (VyBeY)

99 And until things get bad enough to where people realize this and do something, we are fucked.

Dammit, I am sneaking black jelly beans from MP4s supply again.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:21 PM (mPXxA)

Problem is that it’s fa too late for anyone to do anything about this - Pratt was their last, best hope. So now it’s up to the test of the country to see if we are willing to use force to take back control in California, or if we would rather just shut off all the mover and sit back while the state collapses into chaos.

I favor the more proactive approach, as ithink it is a situation that requires leadership, not passivity; but doing nothing is always the easiest path to take.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 08, 2026 12:36 PM (orF8y)

100 92 The only remedy for L.A. is to nullify the election results. Of course, that'll never happen.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 12:35 PM (jehhT)

Of course not and they know this. Only because of their justified certainty would they be so brazen.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 12:36 PM (Gqar8)

101 Kristen Welker says it's totally legit.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 12:36 PM (Cqx++)

102 Islam wants its 2nd big city win. They don't care it's obvious - every cheating they've ever done has been obvious...they win at all costs...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (tOcjL)

Is Raman a muzzie or a Hindu?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 12:36 PM (1z8ji)

103 97 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:31 PM (IOrWk)

As one guy who was looking into the ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, It's not just counting the number of ballots and seeing if they match up with votes, it's also making sure the ballots are valid. It's like saying "We have 1000 apples", only to find out that 125 are plastic, another 50 are Christmas ornaments, and a final 200 are oranges...only 625 are real apples...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:35 PM (l3cgK)

=====

Recount vs. audit, yup. I know the xeet you're talking about.

And ballots are designed to be untraceable in California. So, there's no way to look at a ballot and figure out if its from a valid voter or not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:36 PM (IOrWk)

104 As one guy who was looking into the ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, It's not just counting the number of ballots and seeing if they match up with votes, it's also making sure the ballots are valid. It's like saying "We have 1000 apples", only to find out that 125 are plastic, another 50 are Christmas ornaments, and a final 200 are oranges...only 625 are real apples...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:35 PM (l3cgK)

What color is an orange apple?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:36 PM (mPXxA)

105 Foolish of the Dems to do this. They should have just let Pratt place second and then steal the final election for Bass.

This puts far more attention on their cheating. Evidently they couldn't help themselves.

Posted by: alanon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (jHMkm)

No. Doing it your way gives Pratt five more months to put out ads. They simply can't let him talk anymore. He's too effective.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:37 PM (Kdi1r)

106 Raman Noodles was a poor candidate with low numbers before the election.. Now she's the next coming.. Who would have thought ?
Posted by: It's me donna
......

She had ZERO chance until the Machine kicked in.

Posted by: wth at June 08, 2026 12:38 PM (UjdFS)

107 I suspect that SCOTUS will rule against the after election day reception of ballots, and some states will see bifurcation of election processes.

State and local races will count for days.

Federal races will be forced to follow federal law.

Which will create situations where state elections march leftward but federal elections march rightward.

It'll be massively expensive to do two elections at the same time, but, you know, these states aren't exactly afraid of spending money to keep themselves in power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:38 PM (IOrWk)

108 50 Is it actually fraud if it's all legal under California laws?
Posted by: Josephistan at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (y9ksN)

There is a difference between “legal” and “moral”. (Unless you are a cop or a politician)

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 12:38 PM (T6aVk)

109
Why Sacramento and downtown Los Angeles doesn’t look like East Berlin or Leipzig circa Oct/Nov 1989 I have no idea.

Unless the people of CA have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (T6aVk)

As for architecture, Berlin and Leipzig had a bunch of vacant lots and spare bricks all over the place, IYKWIM. So they could rebuild with genuine designs from the Stalinist Wedding Cake and Cabrini-Green architectural style.

When it come to the people on the street, public sanitation was taken care of by arresting bums and sending them to nice vacation spots like Nazino Island.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (FkdoK)

110 Here's how this stops and why it will never stop. Someone like Raman would have to say, "No, I can't do this. My conscience won't permit it. I lost fair and square. I concede. And I demand an investigation." But of course that is about as likely as the laws of gravity suddenly being suspended, because we live in a era of especially shitty character from politicians who don't give a shit about the greater good.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (fZiTB)

111 What color is an orange apple?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:36 PM (mPXxA)

Damn! Now I cannot think of words that rhyme with apple, either!

Posted by: Zombie Rod McKuen at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (5rh/l)

112 3 3d?
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at June 08, 2026 12:19 PM (Vpqw1)

Nope! You're first, now! Congrats!

Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (heS7T)

113
Why Republicans didn't have much interest in looking at stolen 2020:

Becauae Republicans benefit from rigged primaries too.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (XGfD9)

114 Someone with standing (like a U.S. citizen) should bring a lawsuit against the State of California for diluting his vote with mail-in ballots that are not checked for properly registered voters. The Supreme Court could eventually hear the case and ban mail-in voting.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (nfOOG)

115 "It's a ballot, and it has a selection on it. Therefore it is legal."
-the investigation from the outside.

"Was this ballot sent to a legal voter, and did that legal voter return it themselves?"
-not able to be investigated from the outside
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:31 PM (IOrWk)

The ONLY protection on a mail in ballot, is that they are supposed to make sure the signature on the outside of the envelope is the same as on the voter Registration card.

But, you can register via the DMV, or ONLINE...

They supposedly scanned all your signatures, and use some computer program to compare scan in your envelope signature and then it compares it. If invalid it goes to a Human to be verified.

I know for a FACT this entire process is bogus. I'm Lefthanded, but one election cycle I'd broken my Left wrist, so signed with my Right Hand... yet my ballot was not questioned.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (mP0Kj)

116 Raman was polling well behind Bass and Pratt, ran a terrible campaign, had a poor debate performance, and came in 3rd on on election day, post election, she got 80pct of the vote.

Amazing but true.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (XV/Pl)

117 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who intones, sonorously, "Nothing will happen." at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (0sNs1)

118 How'd the gubernatorial primary turn out in Cali?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (77rzZ)

119 So who's going to stop the unstoppable play?

All I hear is a lot of empty outrage.
-
We're apparently going to try to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Americans doing the necessary thing to get a government that answered to them, in just under a month. Maybe someone will take some inspiration from that.

Posted by: Methos at June 08, 2026 12:40 PM (vSvIl)

120 Of course, the "fraud" as we see it, is perfectly legal under CA law.
All of it is all within the rules.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 12:33 PM (73/SM)

The purpose of a system is what it does.

The purpose of the CA election laws is to disenfranchise voters and protect entrenched interests. There should be no surprise here, for anyone paying attention. CA is just a microcosm of the entire DNC.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:40 PM (dK+Kv)

121 This is when the Republicans need to litigate the shit out of the situation and keep at it until Pratt is declared winner.

It's what the left does all the time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 12:40 PM (jehhT)

122 The celebrities who supported him and were at his election night party should be outed. I want to shame those idiots for holding 2 women of color to a far higher standard than his white failed ass.😒

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (Qejbo)

Now explain why you supported a white CIA employee over the black, immigrant woman in Virginia.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:40 PM (Kdi1r)

123 A victory by Bass or Raman increases the likelihood that LA could lose the Olympics in 28. Continued downfall of basic infrastructure and services doesn't bode well for something complex like an Olympic Games

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 12:40 PM (zj5z7)

124 Foolish of the Dems to do this. They should have just let Pratt place second and then steal the final election for Bass.

This puts far more attention on their cheating. Evidently they couldn't help themselves.
---
The couldn't afford the risk.
November has:
1) federal candidates on the ballot = federal lawsuit
2) almost certain SCOTUS ban on counting ballots received post-election.

Stealing it now keeps any litigation in state court and they can have Raman end her campaign on the promise she will not be challenged in 2030.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 12:40 PM (73/SM)

125 What color is an orange apple?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:36 PM (mPXxA)

Damn! Now I cannot think of words that rhyme with apple, either!
Posted by: Zombie Rod McKuen at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (5rh/l)

Scrapple!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 08, 2026 12:41 PM (wVcYX)

126 Damn! Now I cannot think of words that rhyme with apple, either!
Posted by: Zombie Rod McKuen at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (5rh/l)

Dapple.
Scrapple.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:41 PM (mPXxA)

127 This puts far more attention on their cheating. Evidently they couldn't help themselves.

Posted by: alanon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (jHMkm)

They want you to know.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:41 PM (XGfD9)

128 Damn! Now I cannot think of words that rhyme with apple, either!
Posted by: Zombie Rod McKuen

"dapple"
"grapple"

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:41 PM (77rzZ)

129 What color is an orange apple?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:36 PM

Green.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 12:41 PM (bFu5X)

130 116 Raman was polling well behind Bass and Pratt, ran a terrible campaign, had a poor debate performance, and came in 3rd on on election day, post election, she got 80pct of the vote.

Amazing but true.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (XV/Pl)

We call it Strategic Voting, bitchez!

Posted by: Democrats Everywhere at June 08, 2026 12:41 PM (5rh/l)

131 "It’s wierd that CA just passed a law forbidding ballots being investigated by federal officals. I mean talk about coincidences."

Supremacy Clause, motherfuckers. Do you speak it?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:41 PM (Kdi1r)

132 No. Doing it your way gives Pratt five more months to put out ads. They simply can't let him talk anymore. He's too effective.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:37 PM (Kdi1r)

Agreed. They had to stop the red pilling of Los Angeles.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 08, 2026 12:42 PM (iERP6)

133 108 50 Is it actually fraud if it's all legal under California laws?
Posted by: Josephistan at June 08, 2026 12:27 PM (y9ksN)

There is a difference between “legal” and “moral”. (Unless you are a cop or a politician)

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 12:38 PM (T6aVk)

Technically voter fraud is illegal in California, but like with anything, if the laws are crafted to allow for it and make it hard to investigate and prosecute, it's the will of the Legislators and Governor that it be that way on purpose.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:42 PM (l3cgK)

134 Damn! Now I cannot think of words that rhyme with apple, either!
Posted by: Zombie Rod McKuen at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM

grapple, babble, tackle, gamble, scramble, battle, dapple, rattle, and dabble

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 08, 2026 12:42 PM (0sNs1)

135 124 The couldn't afford the risk.
November has:
1) federal candidates on the ballot = federal lawsuit
2) almost certain SCOTUS ban on counting ballots received post-election.

Stealing it now keeps any litigation in state court and they can have Raman end her campaign on the promise she will not be challenged in 2030.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 12:40 PM (73/SM)

========

Yeah, but they're drawing attention to the feds already.

And giving the feds preliminary work for an investigation on how the CA political machine does this.

It's a dryrun for any federal investigation into the November election.

If the DOJ is interested in this, it could be...interesting. And early signs are that the DOJ is interested in this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:42 PM (IOrWk)

136
The DOJ is investigating the obvious, blatant, civil-war level vote fraud.

--------

The comments in that X link are at least 50% "nothing to see here," "Trump lies,"'etc. The usual caveats apply -- automated accounts, unrepresentative sample, etc.

I think CA will fight exposure every step of the way. This will include destruction of evidence. Get them. Make it happen.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 12:42 PM (VWtfl)

137 Foolish? When have they ever got caught and it mattered?
Someone going to order another vote?

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:42 PM (Ia/+0)

138 111 What color is an orange apple?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:36 PM (mPXxA)

Damn! Now I cannot think of words that rhyme with apple, either!

Posted by: Zombie Rod McKuen at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (5rh/l)

Scrapple

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:42 PM (l3cgK)

139 And Jack's off today.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (dK+Kv)

Aka day ending in Y

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:43 PM (XGfD9)

140 114 Someone with standing (like a U.S. citizen) should bring a lawsuit against the State of California for diluting his vote with mail-in ballots that are not checked for properly registered voters. The Supreme Court could eventually hear the case and ban mail-in voting.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (nfOOG)

No Standing.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge in Kalifornia at June 08, 2026 12:43 PM (l3cgK)

141 And how does your average homeless person living in a tent on some no name street apply for a mail in ballot and then the post office deliver it.

Is this another "retirement home" operation?

Posted by: WisRich at June 08, 2026 12:43 PM (G0vdT)

142 24 Tons of people have accused them of cheating. People pointed it out on X in real time.

Now, what can be done about it?

Posted by: Ann at June 08, 2026 12:22 PM (SHHm+)

Ballot box and jury box are kaput.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

The Soap Box was Spencer Pratt's ads, I doubt they will get to the last box because most of the nugs are held by gangs ang a shooting war over this is extremist to say the least.

This was their plan all along, now they are just daring normies.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 08, 2026 12:43 PM (Q/FnY)

143 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Sid at June 08, 2026 12:43 PM (HGpgG)

144 Above continued.

Once the Envelope signature is 'verified', there is NO identifying numbers or markings on the ballot itself.

So once out of the envelope, it cannot be tracked as to validity. There is no way to follow that ballot through the process, nor anyway to go back and see if said ballot is fraudulent... like the ballots they found GA with no folding marks on them... which would mean that mail in ballot was never put in any envelope.

THIS is why Calif just signed into law SB73 making it almost impossible for any outside entity to look at the ballots themselves.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 12:44 PM (mP0Kj)

145 Allowing ballots to be counted almost a month after Election Day was specifically implemented in order to cheat and not give the opposition party any chance of a win.

I think Trump should use every tool he has to hold back federal money because CA is defying Federal laws and SC decisions. . Make CA threaten to withhold taxes.

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 12:44 PM (GseMx)

146 135
Yeah, but they're drawing attention to the feds already.

And giving the feds preliminary work for an investigation on how the CA political machine does this.

It's a dryrun for any federal investigation into the November election.

If the DOJ is interested in this, it could be...interesting. And early signs are that the DOJ is interested in this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:42 PM (IOrWk)

So, Book Two of “The Neverending Story”.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 12:44 PM (Gqar8)

147 Its a voting rights violation. And tgere are likely dead bodies in a body of water over it. FBI and the National Guard stepped on over it in Alabama. Look it up.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 08, 2026 12:44 PM (YlWIZ)

148 Pratt needs to find a judge that will nullify the primary based on statistical evidence. Have a few world class professors testify that the odds of the results are less than one in a hundred billion.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 12:44 PM (nfOOG)

149 I heard putting up plywood over voting observation windows helps keep shit legit...

Fuck every last one of the socialist shitbags

War

Now

Posted by: Melodicmetal at June 08, 2026 12:44 PM (CqJuY)

150 For those saying Californians should fight back.

Shasta County voters approved a ballot measure that would require hand-counting ballots (and voter ID, conflicting with California election law.")

Newsom already outlawed the provisions in the above for communities larger than 5000 people because Shasta already tried to do this.

Posted by: 13times at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (UBKe1)

151 How is President Harris doing today?

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (XGfD9)

152 We have clear cheating going on and the GOP can't pass the save act.

They've been cheating here for a long time and I'm not surprised at all. I even expected it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (Y6Hh/)

153 And Jack's off today.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM (dK+Kv)

Fapple!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (wVcYX)

154 140 114 Someone with standing (like a U.S. citizen) should bring a lawsuit against the State of California for diluting his vote with mail-in ballots that are not checked for properly registered voters. The Supreme Court could eventually hear the case and ban mail-in voting.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (nfOOG)

No Standing.
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge in Kalifornia at June 08, 2026 12:43 PM (l3cgK)

Isn't it strange that someone has standing to sue Trump to stop the UFC thing at the WhiteHouse, and to stop construction at the Whitehouse... but no one on the RIGHT ever seems to have standing to sue?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (mP0Kj)

155 Strengthening rules/laws around mail-in voting is striving after wind. It needs to be completely abolished.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (LbUS+)

156 134 Damn! Now I cannot think of words that rhyme with apple, either!
Posted by: Zombie Rod McKuen at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM

grapple, babble, tackle, gamble, scramble, battle, dapple, rattle, and dabble

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 08, 2026 12:42 PM (0sNs1)

Tackle? Rattle? You need to calibrate your rhyme discovery machine.

Posted by: Zombie Rod McKuen at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (5rh/l)

157 Posted by: Sid at June 08, 2026 12:43 PM (HGpgG)

Mentally ill retarded loser says what? One day motherfucker. One day .

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 12:46 PM (GseMx)

158 Posted by: Sid at June 08, 2026 12:43 PM (HGpgG)

Why didn't Glorious President Obama gift us with Universal Healthcare when he owned the entirety of the US Government?

He's such a failure, refusing to do what the people want. We should avoid Democrats for at least a generation just to mitigate the risk they pose.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:46 PM (Kdi1r)

159 stepped in over it.
AI doesn't have the capacity to type that kind of error,

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 08, 2026 12:46 PM (YlWIZ)

160 They've been cheating here for a long time and I'm not surprised at all. I even expected it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (Y6Hh/)

Yup, but I vote anyway... I'm a glutton for punishment...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:46 PM (JOQH4)

161 And if the "homeless" are voting, doesn't that mean they are not a resident?

Posted by: WisRich at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (G0vdT)

162 "The American people want more immigration," is a real take after 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (IOrWk)

163 Pratt can become stronger now. He and his supporters can take the gloves off.

A good reason to room temp him. Fading away without a whimper best for lifespan.

Posted by: connected and litigious at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (cS1cw)

164 I just hope people are finally being red-pilled -- or black-pilled -- into the truth about The Regime.
==
Some people can't manage reality. There are people that are angry that the reflecting pool and fountains in DC are being cleaned up/fixed. If Trump cured cancer, they would be pro - cancer. Its so bizarre it is literally unreal.

Most of the people who are going to get it, have gotten it already. YUGE swaths of people are never going to get it.

Posted by: you can't make the horse drink at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (anL5R)

165
Damn! Now I cannot think of words that rhyme with apple, either!
Posted by: Zombie Rod McKuen

School's out completely.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (Cqx++)

166 Oh boy. there he is.

Posted by: wth at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (UjdFS)

167 117 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who intones, sonorously, "Nothing will happen." at June 08, 2026 12:39 PM (0sNs1) "

gotta say, this is where I'm at.

eh after a dogs#i7 weekend, blackpilling me is not a high bar ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (VyBeY)

168
I think CA will fight exposure every step of the way. This will include destruction of evidence. Get them. Make it happen.
-
Pretti and Goode taught them that all they need to do to get Trump to back down is throw their cannon fodder at whatever law enforcement types are looking into it. So expect to see that, too.

Posted by: Methos at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (vSvIl)

169 Barry's failure is as that of Nicholas ezcept he and his family were not disappeared.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (YlWIZ)

170 This might be a litmus test for other blue states that have questionable voting laws and ID requirements. If California gets away with it, other states will follow. Those like NY, Colorado, Oregon and now, VA will ratchet up the fraud because nobody will stop them.

You think the fraud's bad now...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (jehhT)

171 This puts far more attention on their cheating. Evidently they couldn't help themselves.

Posted by: alanon at June 08, 2026 12:23 PM (jHMkm)

I said this before, but authoritarian ideologies tied to political parties, like the left is to the Democratic Party, requires an occasional show of authority, who is in charge, etc.

This Pratt guy was that "no taking line, slave!" Spartacus moment for the left, and they needed to make an example of him...

Posted by: Boswell at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (V7158)

172 'The couldn't afford the risk.
November has:
1) federal candidates on the ballot = federal lawsuit
2) almost certain SCOTUS ban on counting ballots received post-election.

Stealing it now keeps any litigation in state court and they can have Raman end her campaign on the promise she will not be challenged in 2030.'

Thank you for this clarification.

Posted by: alanon at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (jHMkm)

173 160 They've been cheating here for a long time and I'm not surprised at all. I even expected it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (Y6Hh/)

Yup, but I vote anyway... I'm a glutton for punishment...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:46 PM (JOQH4)

Yeah, same here. Only one election I didn't vote in because the Dem registrar of voters of that county removed me from the rolls because I wrote that Jury duty would be a hardship for me as my work 5 days a week was in another county...as soon as the election was over my name was magically added back to the voter rolls like magic...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (l3cgK)

174 There’s no point in Pratt having a “legal strategy” -the California legal system is one of the chief authors of the fraud. It would be like going to a cartel boss and whining that his soldados were being mean to you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (orF8y)

175 Many states, signing up for any government program also get you to register., welfare, food payments,
Every nursing home patient probably gets a ballot, mental capacity issues ir not.
Temporary residents move around, you think that old address gets changed?

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Ia/+0)

176 168 Pretti and Goode taught them that all they need to do to get Trump to back down is throw their cannon fodder at whatever law enforcement types are looking into it. So expect to see that, too.

Posted by: Methos at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (vSvIl)

=======

There are more deportations happening now than before Goode and Pretti.

Congress just passed $70 billion more funding for DHS.

The feds didn't back down on immigration. At all. In fact, they didn't back down so much that the left has been rioting in front of an ICE facility in New Jersey for a couple of weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (IOrWk)

177
Yup, but I vote anyway... I'm a glutton for punishment...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:46

Same.

They know we know and don't care.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Y6Hh/)

178 If Trump cured cancer, they would be pro - cancer. Its so bizarre it is literally unreal.

Posted by: you can't make the horse drink at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (anL5R)

My mom has said, explicitly, that even if Trump cures her specific cancer, she'll fight against him until she dies.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Kdi1r)

179 As a young pup growing up in the south, I remember the feds didn’t hesitate to investigate fraud and discrimination in State elections.

Posted by: Dempsy at June 08, 2026 12:49 PM (jIDzl)

180 I call into question the legitimacy of every elected Democrat in Congress.

I don’t believe a single one is elected legitimately. Even the ones who may be, have a percentage of fraud built it.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 12:49 PM (i14TE)

181 And Jack's off today.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM

Well, one can't simply go cold turkey after the furious activity of May's International Masturbation Month.

Posted by: Jack at June 08, 2026 12:49 PM (0sNs1)

182 When my son was 6, he was chewing on my leather belt. I looked at him and told him to stop chewing it, and after he pulled the drool dripping end out of his mouth, he responded with, “I’m not chewing it”.

This election feels the same.

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 08, 2026 12:49 PM (RE971)

183 It's pretty frustrating and frightening that Newsom said he has a secret "break the glass" plan to prevent California from electing a Republican governor.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 08, 2026 12:49 PM (NpAcC)

184 178 If Trump cured cancer, they would be pro - cancer. Its so bizarre it is literally unreal.

Posted by: you can't make the horse drink at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (anL5R)

My mom has said, explicitly, that even if Trump cures her specific cancer, she'll fight against him until she dies.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Kdi1r)

======

"Do you see that bitch eating crackers like she owns the place?"
-your mother watching Trump eat crackers

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:50 PM (IOrWk)

185 178 If Trump cured cancer, they would be pro - cancer. Its so bizarre it is literally unreal.

Posted by: you can't make the horse drink at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (anL5R)

My mom has said, explicitly, that even if Trump cures her specific cancer, she'll fight against him until she dies.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Kdi1r)

Trump cures cancer. Headline the next day:

"Trump puts 100,000 Researchers Out of Jobs"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:50 PM (l3cgK)

186 178 If Trump cured cancer, they would be pro - cancer. Its so bizarre it is literally unreal.

Posted by: you can't make the horse drink at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (anL5R)

My mom has said, explicitly, that even if Trump cures her specific cancer, she'll fight against him until she dies.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Kdi1r)

I'm sorry to have to tell you this but your mother is insane.

Posted by: Along with a frighteningly large number of other people at June 08, 2026 12:50 PM (TbWk/)

187
And how does your average homeless person living in a tent on some no name street apply for a mail in ballot and then the post office deliver it.

Is this another "retirement home" operation?
Posted by: WisRich at June 08, 2026 12:43 PM (G0vdT)

General delivery, some homeless shelters will accept mail, churches in homeless-heavy neighborhoods.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 08, 2026 12:51 PM (FkdoK)

188 If Trump cured cancer, they would be pro - cancer. Its so bizarre it is literally unreal.

Posted by: you can't make the horse drink at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (anL5R)

This is your mistake. They are already pro-cancer.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:51 PM (XGfD9)

189 181 And Jack's off today.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM

Well, one can't simply go cold turkey after the furious activity of May's International Masturbation Month.

Posted by: Jack at June 08, 2026 12:49 PM (0sNs1)

I think it's called "No Nut November"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:51 PM (l3cgK)

190 It's pretty frustrating and frightening that Newsom said he has a secret "break the glass" plan to prevent California from electing a Republican governor.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 08, 2026 12:49 PM (NpAcC)

It's the most well-funded voter fraud program ever, Jack!
- Joe Biden

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:51 PM (Kdi1r)

191 "I'm not chewing it, and it's a good thing that I am."

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (77rzZ)

192 Strengthening rules/laws around mail-in voting is striving after wind. It needs to be completely abolished.
Posted by: Halfhand at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (LbUS+)

Precisely.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (1z8ji)

193 I'm sorry to have to tell you this but your mother is insane.

Posted by: Along with a frighteningly large number of other people at June 08, 2026 12:50 PM (TbWk/)

She's a crazy person. I think medically and metaphorically, both.

It's why she almost never gets to see her grandkids.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (Kdi1r)

194 Even more fun, you know if the DOJ declares they have found significant fraud, the Dims will claim political bias and fraud by the DOJ.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (vHMT8)

195 It's pretty frustrating and frightening that Newsom said he has a secret "break the glass" plan to prevent California from electing a Republican governor.
Posted by: redridinghood

Feds roll in. Arrest people for fraud. De-list the state as a state and give them territorial status for five years or until they can get their shit together.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (lwhHh)

196 I suspect that SCOTUS will rule against the after election day reception of ballots, and some states will see bifurcation of election processes.
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I had thought they could do that, the "this was a federal issue in federal court, the SCOTUS ruling doesn't apply to state and local elections."

But, that's not how it goes. Once SCOTUS lays the general principle, it applies to all similar cases, state and local.
The Constitutional principle applies down the line.

It's like Evers in WI trying to say, "the SCOTUS opinion on conversion therapy bans doesn't apply to our conversion therapy ban."
Or, another way, (while it said it specifically there) it'd be like saying "Obergefell only applies to marriage licenses in CA not nationwide."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (73/SM)

197 90 So who's going to stop the unstoppable play?

All I hear is a lot of empty outrage.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 12:34 PM (fZiTB)
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Nobody is. The politicians are beyond corrupt. The courts are run by leftists and the juries are leftists. Leftists have no conscience beyond pure will to power and will do anything and everything to acquire more and more power.

The choices in these kinds of places have come down to:
1) Kinetic solutions
2) Leave and let them rule the ashes.

Take your pick.

Posted by: ballistic at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (oqH4h)

198 194 Even more fun, you know if the DOJ declares they have found significant fraud, the Dims will claim political bias and fraud by the DOJ.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (vHMT

======

"Well, that saved me, for sure."
-John Bolton, $2 million poorer

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (IOrWk)

199 So, now the Houthis are threatening to attack any Israeli ships or "Israeli affiliated" ships sailing through the Gate of Tears.

Wonderful.

Posted by: Tim Walz at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (J4Dwc)

200 152 We have clear cheating going on and the GOP can't pass the save act.

They've been cheating here for a long time and I'm not surprised at all. I even expected it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 08, 2026 12:45 PM (Y6Hh/)

Same with Nevada. Just wait. The selected candidates will be pushed to just outside mandatory recount range about 2 weeks after tomorrow.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (ZxzYs)

201 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (3IrX0)

202 163 Pratt can become stronger now. He and his supporters can take the gloves off.

A good reason to room temp him. Fading away without a whimper best for lifespan.

Posted by: connected and litigious at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (cS1cw)

I predict state campaign finance law violation indictments in poor Mr. Pratt's future. That's how the French deal with troublesome non-commie politicians, I believe.

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (5rh/l)

203 We can't chose our family... but we sure can chose our friends !

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (GD0B3)

204 This is your mistake. They are already pro-cancer.
Posted by: ...

They ARE a cancer.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (77rzZ)

205 197 90 So who's going to stop the unstoppable play?

All I hear is a lot of empty outrage.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 12:34 PM (fZiTB)
-----

Nobody is. The politicians are beyond corrupt. The courts are run by leftists and the juries are leftists. Leftists have no conscience beyond pure will to power and will do anything and everything to acquire more and more power.

The choices in these kinds of places have come down to:
1) Kinetic solutions
2) Leave and let them rule the ashes.

Take your pick.

Posted by: ballistic at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (oqH4h)

We used Kinetic Solutions for security training in San Diego in '04...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (l3cgK)

206 Off you fat, gay sock

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (J4Dwc)

207 The DOJ is investigating the obvious, blatant, civil-war level vote fraud.

It won't change the result.

LA is f*cked. Pratt is f*cked.

Cali gotta Cali. F*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (3IrX0)

208 "Isn't it strange that someone has standing to sue Trump to stop the UFC thing at the WhiteHouse, and to stop construction at the Whitehouse... but no one on the RIGHT ever seems to have standing to sue?"

weird, innit?

they started marching through the institutions 60 years ago, or more ... and today they own almost all of them.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (VyBeY)

209 Wonder why Noodles held that tearful speech on election eve ? Sure sounded like a concession speech to me...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:54 PM (JOQH4)

210 "Well, that saved me, for sure."
-John Bolton, $2 million poorer

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:52 PM (IOrWk)

Style Guide error.

"Confessed Felon John Bolton..."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:54 PM (Kdi1r)

211 Again, there is no actual going out to and getting homeless people to put their John Hanncock on any ballot, all they need is the number, the ballots are generated based on the number, then the people who have the ballots fill them out and put any signature on it, up to and including smiley faces, there is no independent entity that is verifying any of this.

Remember, you "vote" after election day.

These votes are all post election day votes that are being counted.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 12:54 PM (XV/Pl)

212 207 The DOJ is investigating the obvious, blatant, civil-war level vote fraud.

It won't change the result.

LA is f*cked. Pratt is f*cked.

Cali gotta Cali. F*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (3IrX0)

=======

Yet, the city will use the same methods in November during federal elections. Methods that the DOJ is cataloguing actively now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:54 PM (IOrWk)

213 Leftists have no conscience beyond pure will to power and will do anything and everything to acquire more and more power.

In fairness, it's for you mouth-breathing troglodytes' own good, since you insist on continuing to vote against your own interests.

Posted by: Leftists at June 08, 2026 12:54 PM (0sNs1)

214 And top o' the nooner to ya Ace!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:55 PM (3IrX0)

215 grapple, babble, tackle, gamble, scramble, battle, dapple, rattle, and dabble
***
Two *real* rhymes and several slant-rhymes.
Bogus

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 08, 2026 12:55 PM (PJdmB)

216 The feds didn't back down on immigration. At all. In fact, they didn't back down so much that the left has been rioting in front of an ICE facility in New Jersey for a couple of weeks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (IOrWk)

Which suggests that they still believe rioting works, which was my point. If the feds make any serious effort to look into CA election fraud, expect there to be some excuse for riots.

Posted by: Methos at June 08, 2026 12:55 PM (vSvIl)

217 re 143: 2016, bitch boy

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 08, 2026 12:56 PM (CWTWj)

218 @ClayTravis
14h

Five days after the LA election, Spencer Pratt falls to third place and a woman who hardly anyone voted for in person, Nithya Raman, totally dominated in mail voting to come in second. No one with a functional brain believes these results.

THIS IS HOW THEY DO THEIR ELECTIONS!!!!!!

Stop hating, bigots.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:56 PM (3IrX0)

219 175 Many states, signing up for any government program also get you to register., welfare, food payments,
Every nursing home patient probably gets a ballot, mental capacity issues ir not.
Temporary residents move around, you think that old address gets changed?
Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Ia/+0)

Turbo Tax asked me if I wanted to register to vote this year... had never seen that before.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 12:56 PM (mP0Kj)

220 207 The DOJ is investigating the obvious, blatant, civil-war level vote fraud.

It won't change the result.

LA is f*cked. Pratt is f*cked.

Cali gotta Cali. F*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (3IrX0)

Californication
https://youtu.be/6L0LIo35sF4

Posted by: Red Hot Chili Peppers at June 08, 2026 12:56 PM (l3cgK)

221 I'm seeing a few leftists (not the majority yet) arguing yeah they stole the election because they have to stop "fascism" and what are you going to do about it?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 12:56 PM (sKqQm)

222 Even in my congregation district some elections ago , it was looked into same day registration and thousands had no legal address with that vote

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:56 PM (Ia/+0)

223 And Jack's off today.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:29 PM

Well, one can't simply go cold turkey after the furious activity of May's International Masturbation Month.

Posted by: Jack at June 08, 2026 12:49 PM (0sNs1)

I think it's called "No Nut November"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:51 PM (l3cgK)

. . . from my cold, dead hands.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:56 PM (dK+Kv)

224 We can't chose our family... but we sure can chose our friends !
Posted by: runner

You can pick your nose and you can pick your butt, but you can't pick your friend's butt.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 12:57 PM (lwhHh)

225 "170 This might be a litmus test for other blue states that have questionable voting laws and ID requirements. If California gets away with it, other states will follow. Those like NY, Colorado, Oregon and now, VA will ratchet up the fraud because nobody will stop them.

You think the fraud's bad now...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (jehhT) "

just wait until November and it goes nationwide.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 12:57 PM (VyBeY)

226 We can't chose our family... but we sure can chose our friends !
Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 12:53 PM (GD0B3)

This explains why I have no friends.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:57 PM (3IrX0)

227 I warned everybody exactly this was going to happen and was insulted as a 'doomer' and 500 synonyms.

It just shocks me conservatives are this stupid.

The left cheats.

They cheat because it works.

They cheat because there are no consequences.

They cheat because The Dread Coward Roberts has declared that nobody, anywhere, for any reason, 'has standing' to question blatantly fraudulent elections.

And they will CONTINUE to cheat.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 08, 2026 12:57 PM (setIA)

228 215 grapple, babble, tackle, gamble, scramble, battle, dapple, rattle, and dabble
***
Two *real* rhymes and several slant-rhymes.
Bogus

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 08, 2026 12:55 PM (PJdmB)

The word "doggerel" comes to mind...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:57 PM (l3cgK)

229
59 It’s wierd that CA just passed a law forbidding ballots being investigated by federal officals. I mean talk about coincidences.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 08, 2026 12:28 PM

---------

If federal law says they can investigate, then the state has no power to stop them. This is a confession.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (azNOR)

230 Don't know how much money Spencer Pratt has, but he needs to keep rolling out those ads, only now with a slightly different spin. If people can't be outraged, at least they can be shown what a farce this has been.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (QaH55)

231 . . . from my cold, dead hands.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:56 PM (dK+Kv)

This is why I could never be a mortician

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (XGfD9)

232 When I was a kid, I remember a product called "Wrapples." They were little sheets of caramel that you could wrap around an apple to make caramel apples. I can still remember the TV ad jingle.

"That's how you make caramel apples,
With Wrapples, from Kraft!

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (77rzZ)

233 The left has multiple armies at its disposal, primarily SEIU and teachers' unions. Local and state governments in blue control cannot shake off the existing power structure because of the infinite money loop between politicians, public sector unions, and tax dollars.

Posted by: IanDeal at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (WP0Ze)

234 Trump facilitated a Covid vaccine and the Left claimed they wouldn't take it. Once the msm and lefty powers to be took away any credit Trump had for the vaccines they pivoted to wanting to make them mandatory.

These Lefties are all mentally ill.

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (GseMx)

235 The last two times I voted in CA (Orange Cty) before I escaped.....I voted on election day only to receive a text the next day that I had already voted and my election day vote was not being counted. One of those was the Newsom recall that he supposedly won in a landslide.

Posted by: DitkaCA at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (utChY)

236 You can pick your nose and you can pick your butt, but you can't pick your friend's butt.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 12:57 PM

What?? When did this change?

Posted by: Lady G. at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (0sNs1)

237 This might be a litmus test for other blue states that have questionable voting laws and ID requirements. If California gets away with it, other states will follow. Those like NY, Colorado, Oregon and now, VA will ratchet up the fraud because nobody will stop them.

You think the fraud's bad now...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 12:47 PM (jehhT) "

Go look at all the states that passed the "popular vote winner gets their EC votes" laws. Those states will commit the biggest fraud.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (3IrX0)

238 Remember in 2022 a Republican got 45% of the vote.

If you believe the numbers being pushed right now, after Bass burned down their houses 15% of them decided to vote for her or Raman.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

239 Newsome already gave up the game by saying they had a break the glass scenario to prevent repubs from gaining power. I don't know what the solution is to this type of electoral tyranny, the courts are owned by them and scotus won't intervene.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (n5tGW)

240 This is why I could never be a mortician

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (XGfD9)

Too handsy with a stiffy?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (dK+Kv)

241 229
59 It’s wierd that CA just passed a law forbidding ballots being investigated by federal officals. I mean talk about coincidences.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 08, 2026 12:28 PM

---------

If federal law says they can investigate, then the state has no power to stop them. This is a confession.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (azNOR)

Red County Sheriffs here in Calif were the real target.

Some were trying to clean up the elections from inside the State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (mP0Kj)

242 Socialism means never having to win an election (legitimately). Now I guess we see if the communist can cheat better than the socialist. (or are higher powers making that decision?)

Posted by: illiniwek at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (vbXSk)

243
You can pick your nose and you can pick your butt, but you can't pick your friend's butt.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 12:57 PM (lwhHh)

I beg to differ.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (3IrX0)

244 Which suggests that they still believe rioting works, which was my point. If the feds make any serious effort to look into CA election fraud, expect there to be some excuse for riots.
Posted by: Methos at June 08, 2026 12:55 PM (vSvIl)

And riots are a good excuse for crew-served weapons. Kill enough of them, and the riots cease.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (1z8ji)

245 >>Turbo Tax asked me if I wanted to register to vote this year... had never seen that before.

You can register at Planet Fitness, in Cali...apparently.

Posted by: garrett at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (Uiv+l)

246 The left/taxpayers fund NGOs to ballot harvest and register people and here we are.

California is the model for all the other states if the left gets more power.

Don't let them.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (Y6Hh/)

247 Trump facilitated a Covid vaccine and the Left claimed they wouldn't take it. Once the msm and lefty powers to be took away any credit Trump had for the vaccines they pivoted to wanting to make them mandatory.

During the campaign Biden said he would never mandate a vaccine and Kamala said she wouldn't take the "Trump vaccine". A few months later they mandated it

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (sKqQm)

248 This explains why I have no friends.
Posted by: Sponge

By the way, your friendship payments to me are in arrears...

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

249 Pratt will make an issue of the steal, then be convicted of Election Denier!

Posted by: davidt at June 08, 2026 01:00 PM (Q+gd/)

250 209 Wonder why Noodles held that tearful speech on election eve ? Sure sounded like a concession speech to me...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:54 PM (JOQH4)

Post-election private polling must have told the Democrats Bass was damaged goods and would become more and more damaged if she ran against Pratt. The Dems would have made sure she won, but the local press would have kept pestering her about everything Pratt highlighted. Bass is not equipped to deal with a hostile press. Raman isn't either, but the press won't smell blood in the water from her as with Bass.

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 01:00 PM (5rh/l)

251 238 Remember in 2022 a Republican got 45% of the vote.

If you believe the numbers being pushed right now, after Bass burned down their houses 15% of them decided to vote for her or Raman.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

Jews for that Austrian Painter...isn't that what they said in Palm County in 2000 regarding the f'd up ballots created by Dems themselves?...

Chickens for the Kentucky Colonel.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 01:00 PM (l3cgK)

252 Too handsy with a stiffy?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (dK+Kv)

It's lunch time sir. Have you no shame.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:00 PM (XGfD9)

253 "That's how you make caramel apples,
With Wrapples, from Kraft!
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (77rzZ)

I never bothered with the apple part.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 01:01 PM (ZxzYs)

254 243
You can pick your nose and you can pick your butt, but you can't pick your friend's butt.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 12:57 PM (lwhHh)

I beg to differ.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (3IrX0)

Oh my...

Posted by: George Takei at June 08, 2026 01:01 PM (l3cgK)

255 I posted on F Book... just for giggles.

There is more statistical evidence of California Voter Fraud, then there is of Man Made caused CO2 Global Warming.

Asked my friends if they had seen the post... not a single person had.

What a Co Ink E Dink!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 01:01 PM (mP0Kj)

256 I warned everybody exactly this was going to happen and was insulted as a 'doomer' and 500 synonyms.

I don't think this is true. EVERYONE knew LA wasn't going to allow Pratt to compete. It's California. it's SOP to lie, cheat and steal.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at June 08, 2026 01:01 PM (3IrX0)

257 216 Which suggests that they still believe rioting works, which was my point. If the feds make any serious effort to look into CA election fraud, expect there to be some excuse for riots.

Posted by: Methos at June 08, 2026 12:55 PM (vSvIl)

======

In what way did it work if it didn't get the feds to back down from deportations, in fact, it lead to increased deportations?

Because, yes, deportations are higher now than they were in January.

https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2055470442400350563

287(g) agreements with local police continue to rise, giving local jurisdictions authority to arrest people for immigration offenses.

https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2062683864829505609

Asylum grant rates remain in the basement.

https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2061827793072071026

In what way did the Minneapolis riots work?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:01 PM (IOrWk)

258 Damn.......

f*cking Mondays......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:02 PM (3IrX0)

259 OT: I just put a GiveSendGo for my situation live. I do have a more immediate need (can't transfer for a couple of days while they confirm everything I guess). Link in nic. Also have Paypal for faster (honestly could use a hotel room right now), let me know if you want.

I hate begging. I don't want to be like this.

All help appreciated, though. I'm not completely dim.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 08, 2026 01:02 PM (OUMaO)

260 CA nothing on the levsl; everything is a racket. Is it any wonder the ONLY good thing people can claim for the state is "njce weather?"

And even that sucks roughly 1/3 of the time: June Gloom, wildfire season, mudslides and drought.

They say the fucking smog is the fucking reason they have such beatiful fucking sunsets.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 08, 2026 01:02 PM (wBaIH)

261 249 Pratt will make an issue of the steal, then be convicted of Election Denier!

Posted by: davidt at June 08, 2026 01:00 PM (Q+gd/)

And remember, in Kalifornia, it's illegal to do investigative journalism that exposes the left...those recordings, cameras, computers, hard drives...they'll all be collected by the State Attorney General and the popo...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

262 What would Vlad the Impaler do???

"People, investigations take far too long.... I have an alternative solution, but it will require most of the land in MacArthur Park."

Posted by: ironwolf32 at June 08, 2026 01:03 PM (I/vCG)

263 Grew up with a lot of hamburger helper...I have had Wrapples.

Posted by: connected and litigious at June 08, 2026 01:03 PM (cS1cw)

264 >>You can register at Planet Fitness, in Cali...apparently.

You have to go see the naked tranny in the locker room to register

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 01:03 PM (J4Dwc)

265
You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 08, 2026 01:03 PM (asKFr)

266 How did the gubernatorial primary go? Are they still counting the ballots for that one, too?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 01:03 PM (77rzZ)

267 Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 08, 2026 01:02 PM (wBaIH)

Don't forget the sewage beaches now.

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 01:04 PM (GseMx)

268 There might be an upside to a Bass v Raman matchup. The left is known for fighting amongst factions and this could push it. The number of African Americans in LA is decreasing and they don't like it. Get the factions fighting each other

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 01:04 PM (zj5z7)

269 Jews for that Austrian Painter...isn't that what they said in Palm County in 2000 regarding the f'd up ballots created by Dems themselves?...

There was some discussion of that, but the real issue was that many ballot had incorrectly pushed through holes. Which is about impossible to do on a vot-a-matic machine. Well...unless you take a stack of ballots, put them on the machine, and then try to punch through all of them.

On a completely unrelated note, a local Dem in Palm Beach, Irv Slosberg was found to have a stolen vot-a-matic in his car.

Local media interviewed the man that ran the voting site it was taken from who claimed he had no idea how Slosberg got it. Theresa LePore declined to press charges.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm)

270 This thing was stolen, but nothing will be done about it.

I just don't understand logistically how they are doing it because it would take teams and teams of low wage people to do it and fill out all those ballots. You would think someone would talk for the right price.

Maybe Musk can offer like $1 million rewards for exposing voter fraud?

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:04 PM (jc9/A)

271 "163 Pratt can become stronger now. He and his supporters can take the gloves off."

He hadn't already taken them off?

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 01:04 PM (fZiTB)

272 I have also used the "sunset line".

Posted by: connected and litigious at June 08, 2026 01:04 PM (cS1cw)

273 262 What would Vlad the Impaler do???

"People, investigations take far too long.... I have an alternative solution, but it will require most of the land in MacArthur Park."

Posted by: ironwolf32 at June 08, 2026 01:03 PM (I/vCG)

He'd have to have a stake in it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 01:04 PM (l3cgK)

274

By the way, your friendship payments to me are in arrears...
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

I pay my debts. It may take me a decade or two, but I pay.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:05 PM (3IrX0)

275 You have to go see the naked tranny in the locker room to register

Out: Hanging Chads

In: Hanging Lady Peens

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

276 NGOs collected a shitload of harvested ballots they filled out except the candidate choice left blank. Then once the results came in they filled in the name of the third place candidate to boost them over Pratt and turned them in late, which you are allowed to do.

Pretty much impossible to detect after the fact.

Posted by: Jose at June 08, 2026 01:05 PM (V6W16)

277 230 Don't know how much money Spencer Pratt has, but he needs to keep rolling out those ads, only now with a slightly different spin. If people can't be outraged, at least they can be shown what a farce this has been.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 08, 2026 12:58 PM (QaH55)

I believe many if not most of the most popular Pratt ad/videos were created by people who were never formally part of Pratt's campaign. No ad production or 'broadcast' costs for Pratt. YouTube provided a free 'broadcast' platform for his ads and those by un-paid supporters.

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 01:05 PM (5rh/l)

278 grapple, babble, tackle, gamble, scramble, battle, dapple, rattle, and dabble
***
Two *real* rhymes and several slant-rhymes.
Bogus

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 08, 2026 12:55 PM (PJdmB)

The word "doggerel" comes to mind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 12:57 PM (l3cgK

A bit of doggerel I recall from English class - "You say his poems are garbage - that's balderdash. / Garbage has some meat, I say his poems are trash."

Posted by: Josephistan at June 08, 2026 01:05 PM (y9ksN)

279 A write-in campaign for Pratt would be interesting.

Doomed to failure, but interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:06 PM (IOrWk)

280 SECU collects the ballots, counts the ballots

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

281 I just don't understand logistically how they are doing it because it would take teams and teams of low wage people to do it and fill out all those ballots. You would think someone would talk for the right price.

Every now and then someone does talk. No one gets prosecuted and the talker gets cut off from access to all their lefty associates/money/opportunities.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 01:06 PM (sKqQm)

282 A write-in campaign for Pratt would be interesting.

Doomed to failure, but interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:06 PM (IOrWk)

He has nothing to lose but his chains!

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 01:07 PM (GD0B3)

283 What would Vlad the Impaler do

Stick it to them?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

284 Is the Post Office an Executive agency?

If they can pass a rule you can't mail a certain sized package from your home, why can't Trump (or whoever he appointed) just order the Post Office to no longer pick up mail in ballots for security reasons?

Every state is going to adopt mail in voting and the GOP will never win another election

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:07 PM (jc9/A)

285 What would Vlad the Impaler do

Stick it to them?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

He'd get right to the point.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 01:08 PM (dK+Kv)

286 "I just hope people are finally being red-pilled -- or black-pilled -- into the truth about The Regime."

huh?

Posted by: A LIV at June 08, 2026 01:08 PM (vFG9F)

287
284 Is the Post Office an Executive agency?

If they can pass a rule you can't mail a certain sized package from your home, why can't Trump (or whoever he appointed) just order the Post Office to no longer pick up mail in ballots for security reasons?

Every state is going to adopt mail in voting and the GOP will never win another election

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:07 PM (jc9/A)

======

He has.

https://tinyurl.com/45d5z62m

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:08 PM (IOrWk)

288 They say the fucking smog is the fucking reason they have such beatiful fucking sunsets.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 08, 2026 01:02 PM (wBaIH)

I miss them. Back in the 70's and 80's the sky West of me would glow red and orange. Does sometimes still during arson season but now it just sort of goes dark. I want my pollution back.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 01:08 PM (ZxzYs)

289
Every now and then someone does talk. No one gets prosecuted and the talker gets cut off from access to all their lefty associates/money/opportunities.
Posted by: 18-1

==

I get that the top of the food chain people won't talk, but there's some person getting like $15 an hour to fill out these ballots. It's not the person in charge of the public service union.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:08 PM (jc9/A)

290 What would Vlad the Impaler do

Out: Remove Kebab

In: Put Kebab on Kebab

/Requires knowledge of modern Euro-slang...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

291 Have little sympathy for LA actually, feel for the conservatives that can't escape. But go ahead, please elect Raman at this point, full extra commie.

That said, CA elects a lot of federal positions that effect and affect us all. That part I care about.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 01:09 PM (n5tGW)

292 I get that the top of the food chain people won't talk, but there's some person getting like $15 an hour to fill out these ballots. It's not the person in charge of the public service union.

yeah but they're illegals

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:09 PM (j+aD2)

293 The Supreme Court is too cowardly to put an end to the obvious voter fraud that is happening.

Just enforce what the Constitution says, Election Day, you have to line up and vote in person. You don't get to vote 2 months early anymore.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:10 PM (jc9/A)

294 With 72.2% counted according to the SF Comical, Hilton is in 2nd place with about 301,000 lead over Steyer in 3rd. Hilton is closer to Becerra than to Steyer (so far) - about 92,500 separate Becerra and Hilton.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 01:10 PM (W5mpo)

295 He'd get right to the point.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

With sharp words.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 01:10 PM (77rzZ)

296 @270

>>This thing was stolen, but nothing will be done about it.

What can be done, all of what they are doing is technically legal..

you can vote after election day.
you can harvest ballots.
you can cure ballots.
you can assist in the filling out of ballots.
you can register anywhere.
A smiley face or x is an acceptable signature.
You don't need a postmark you only need to manually date a ballot.

The entire system is built around the ability to manipulate election outcomes.

So they are manipulating election outcomes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 01:11 PM (XV/Pl)

297
Out: Remove Kebab

In: Put Kebab on Kebab

/Requires knowledge of modern Euro-slang...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

Quite the shish.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:11 PM (3IrX0)

298 4 Republicans were too cowered to stop vote fraud

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:11 PM (Ia/+0)

299 I prefer to sock it to 'em.

Posted by: J. Random AoSHQ Celebrity Commenter at June 08, 2026 01:11 PM (0sNs1)

300 I would say that Los Angelinos get what they vote for, except they obviously didn't vote for this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 08, 2026 01:11 PM (4NO2D)

301 From the Morning Rant:

"We on the right often joke that “You are the carbon they want to eliminate,” but with the climate cultists now openly endorsing slavery, they are just one small step away from openly advocating for radical “de-population” efforts in pursuit of their Net Zero utopia."

I was not joking. I was not the first to say it, and I will not be the last. You are the carbon that they want to reduce.

You may have thought that was too audacious to be serious, you may have that that I and other people saying it were just making a jest, but it was literally right there out in the open on the (now demolished) Georgia Guidestones. They aren't even hiding it.

"Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
. . .
Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature."

They want to kill you. They want to murder you and yours. Our politics is an actually existential struggle. I'm #SorryNotSorry if this is hard to hear, but it's harder to live, and some (like Charlie Kirk) have already paid the ultimate price just for being there. When they want to kill 94% of the human race, your life means nothing.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 01:12 PM (Sy6m/)

302 Didn't the SAVE act just go down in the Senate with an assist from a few Republican Senators?

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:12 PM (jc9/A)

303 293 The Supreme Court is too cowardly to put an end to the obvious voter fraud that is happening.

Just enforce what the Constitution says, Election Day, you have to line up and vote in person. You don't get to vote 2 months early anymore.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:10 PM (jc9/A)

======

Oral arguments from the SCOTUS case arguing against post-election day reception of ballots.

https://tinyurl.com/5n82jt5x

Most tea leaves suggest it'll go against late ballots.

But, remember, the court that overturned Roe v Wade, with actual protests outside the jurists' houses that included a guy who showed up with weapons and admitted to wanting to kill Kavanaugh, are cowardly and will never go against the left.

Ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:12 PM (IOrWk)

304 Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 01:10 PM (W5mpo)

They can't over come the eastern counties to close the gap in the Governors race. They will save the big cheat for the general.

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (GseMx)

305 295 With sharp words.

sharp cheddar > sharp words

Posted by: anachronda at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (oY6Yp)

306 302 Didn't the SAVE act just go down in the Senate with an assist from a few Republican Senators?

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:12 PM (jc9/A)

=====

There was an attempt to add it to a budget bill, and four Republicans (Mitch, Murkowski, Tillis, and Collins) voted against its inclusion.

Mitch and Tillis are gone after this year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (IOrWk)

307 Just enforce what the Constitution says, Election Day, you have to line up and vote in person. You don't get to vote 2 months early anymore.
Posted by: Sharpie

"Election Day" is not mentioned in the Constitution, nor a popular vote. Some states in the past didn't even bother to have a popular vote. The legislature just chose the electors and that was it.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (77rzZ)

308 Just remember. Collins, Murkowski, Tillis, and McConnell’s corpse vote against the SAVE Act.

Thune doesn’t want it, because his donors don’t.

If you don’t have legitimate elections, you don’t have a republic.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (i14TE)

309 Time to start a write in campaign. People can just write in Pratt’s name in the general election. If the LA people can get.the message out

Posted by: Carol Aguilar at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (6q/wS)

310 Just saw the news my state ballots being mailed out today, have a month to vote in primary. It's crazy and they don't even check signatures anymore.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (n5tGW)

311 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:12 PM (IOrWk)

Has the work of James Hodgkinson been labeled a terrorist attack yet?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (l3cgK)

312 The entire system is built around the ability to manipulate election outcomes.

So they are manipulating election outcomes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 01:11 PM (XV/Pl)

I think you potentially have that backwards.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:14 PM (XGfD9)

313 311 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:12 PM (IOrWk)

Has the work of James Hodgkinson been labeled a terrorist attack yet?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (l3cgK)

=====

I know Patel fired the analyst or agent or whomever who labeled it as suicide by cop.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:14 PM (IOrWk)

314 Oral arguments from the SCOTUS case arguing against post-election day reception of ballots.

https://tinyurl.com/5n82jt5x

Most tea leaves suggest it'll go against late ballots.

But, remember, the court that overturned Roe v Wade, with actual protests outside the jurists' houses that included a guy who showed up with weapons and admitted to wanting to kill Kavanaugh, are cowardly and will never go against the left.

Ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

==

I know that will probably go our way, but that's almost too little too late.

Yes, of course late ballots shouldn't be counted. And it's a source of fraud, but it's the mail in ballots in general that are the real source imo.

Just so easy to harvest ballots that way for like months. The few stragglers that come in late are not the main issue.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:14 PM (jc9/A)

315 Didn't the SAVE act just go down in the Senate with an assist from a few Republican Senators?
Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:12 PM (jc9/A)

Yes.

McConnell
Collins
Murkowski
Tillis

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:14 PM (3IrX0)

316 Time to start a write in campaign. People can just write in Pratt’s name in the general election. If the LA people can get.the message out

Posted by: Carol Aguilar at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (6q/wS)

There is just one little problem with your plan.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 01:14 PM (XGfD9)

317 By the way, your friendship payments to me are in arrears...
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

I pay my debts. It may take me a decade or two, but I pay.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Lannisters always pay their debts.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 01:15 PM (lwhHh)

318 There was an attempt to add it to a budget bill, and four Republicans (Mitch, Murkowski, Tillis, and Collins) voted against its inclusion.

Mitch and Tillis are gone after this year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM

I wouldn't mind Collins leaving as well. Maine needs a Nazi.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 08, 2026 01:15 PM (4NO2D)

319 If you don’t have legitimate elections, you don’t have a republic.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (i14TE)

Spoiler alert.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 01:15 PM (dK+Kv)

320 I would urge anyone in Maine to sit out the election or simply not vote for Collins. This don’t care if we lose the seat. Let them have their gruppenfuhrer.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 01:15 PM (i14TE)

321 Too disgusted and disappointed to even comment and I don't even live in L.A.

I hope all of Pratts supporters show up and vote for Ramen Noodle.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 08, 2026 01:16 PM (QGaXH)

322 Doesn't Ace pay a First! bounty?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2026 01:16 PM (0sNs1)

323
Late to the thread. Just wondering, how are they going to investigate? There are bar codes and stuff, but do they go to the addresses and ask people?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 01:16 PM (n7rxJ)

324 Marcus T

This is a sound plan. Stop the internal rot, then go after the commies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 01:17 PM (u82oZ)

325 They should tie Murkowski to an iceberg and let her float to sea.

The next time somebody tells me about how free Alaska is, they get a throat punch.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 01:17 PM (i14TE)

326
"Election Day" is not mentioned in the Constitution, nor a popular vote. Some states in the past didn't even bother to have a popular vote. The legislature just chose the electors and that was it.
Posted by: Bulg

==

Congress is granted the power to choose an election day by the constitution

"Elections for Representatives and Delegates to Congress shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in every even-numbered year

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:17 PM (jc9/A)

327 318 I wouldn't mind Collins leaving as well. Maine needs a Nazi.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 08, 2026 01:15 PM (4NO2D)

=======

The pattern is that Collins always comes through when leadership needs her vote.

I suspect she voted against it as cover for another senator while giving her something to say to "moderates" in Maine that she bucked Trump or whatever.

There are probably 20 GOP Senators, at least, who are actually against the SAVE act.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:17 PM (IOrWk)

328 Most tea leaves suggest it'll go against late ballots.

But, remember, the court that overturned Roe v Wade, with actual protests outside the jurists' houses that included a guy who showed up with weapons and admitted to wanting to kill Kavanaugh, are cowardly and will never go against the left.

Ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:12 PM (IOrWk)
----
IF the tea leaves are correct...WHEN states decide to ignore SCOTUS' ruling in the next election cycle, what state, if any, will step up and sue the offender? Will SCOTUS even give them standing?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 01:18 PM (gnNyN)

329 The next time somebody tells me about how free Alaska is, they get a throat punch.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 01:17 PM (i14TE)

But they get a lot of free shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:18 PM (3IrX0)

330 >> This is a sound plan. Stop the internal rot, then go after the commies.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 01:17 PM (u82oZ)

I think the senate is solid without Collins. I also believe we should rid ourselves of Thune. He’s poison. I don’t care how popular he is on his home state.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 01:18 PM (i14TE)

331 You aren’t going to find the people from the harvested ballots at the address they were mailed to. Most of them were mailed to NGOs.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 08, 2026 01:19 PM (DaWOz)

332 It's also just discouraging for Republican turnout in CA.

If I lived there, I have to be honest, I'd be asking myself what's the point of voting.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:19 PM (jc9/A)

333 I saw this theft comng the nmorning after the electin when Pratt surged to within 3.8 percent of Bass, and was obviously going to pass her into first place -- and the vote-count suddenly stopped. Froze. And then whenn they started dribbling out results every 12 hours or so, each drubble had nearly zro votesnfor Pratt. When the corrupt Dem operative in charge of counting the voted was asked about this by a reorter, she grinned evilly, and literally said, "Don't worry about it. This is just the primary. Who cars abut the primary? You'll have another bite at the apple in the general election."

Yeah, the general election, where we will only have a choice between two communists.

This interview was 5 days ago. I knew it then -- they were planning to freeze Pratt out.

California is done. Cooked. No coming back from this.

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 01:19 PM (Av6i5)

334
A write-in campaign for Pratt would be interesting.

Doomed to failure, but interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

That's what I was thinking. The only reason it would be doomed is the same reason he lost out to Raman.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 01:19 PM (n7rxJ)

335 @321

>>I hope all of Pratts supporters show up and vote for Ramen Noodle.

They showed a breakdown of where each candidates votes were coming from, Pratt's from Beverly Hills and other well to do areas, Bass's from the urban, black and Latino areas, Ramen's from skid row.

Pratt's voters are simply going to move out and or go underground.

My prediction is the race in November will have the lowest participation rate of any race in LA History.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 01:19 PM (XV/Pl)

336 328 IF the tea leaves are correct...WHEN states decide to ignore SCOTUS' ruling in the next election cycle, what state, if any, will step up and sue the offender? Will SCOTUS even give them standing?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 01:18 PM (gnNyN)

======

Well, that's a matter of will.

And judicial calendars.

We may get to a point where Trump's DOJ refuses to recognize that states out of alignment with federal election law cannot hold federal elections at all. Could be interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 08, 2026 01:19 PM (IOrWk)

337 Congress is granted the power to choose an election day by the constitution

"Elections for Representatives and Delegates to Congress shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in every even-numbered year
Posted by: Sharpie

You're right. I don't know what I was thinking when I posted that.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

338 "I just hope people are finally being red-pilled -- or black-pilled"

What's darker than black-pilled? I guess whatever that is, I'm darker than that too.

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

339 289
Every now and then someone does talk. No one gets prosecuted and the talker gets cut off from access to all their lefty associates/money/opportunities.
Posted by: 18-1

==

I get that the top of the food chain people won't talk, but there's some person getting like $15 an hour to fill out these ballots. It's not the person in charge of the public service union.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:08 PM (jc9/A)

You're right. I believe most of the fraudulent mail-in ballots are prepared by large numbers of teachers, municipal and county employees, and service workers. Those who their union honchos know are completely down with the struggle. There are teachers, etc., on every block in LA.

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 01:20 PM (5rh/l)

340 Probably the people who harvest the votes are the same as those who run "anti-poverty" and pro-drug programs for the homeless and for illegal immigrants. They know their livelihoods, their power, their money are all on the line.
Expect the new mayor to further cut the police budget and increase spending on these "social" programs. Whatever it is that Pratt and normal people want, they'll do the exact opposite.

Posted by: PG at June 08, 2026 01:20 PM (5tjvu)

341 Just remember, when you control the mail, you control... information.” And elections.

Posted by: Newman at June 08, 2026 01:20 PM (wVcYX)

342
Lannisters always pay their debts.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 01:15 PM (lwhHh)

They also bone their sisters and defenestrate little kids, so...

Posted by: Balances out? at June 08, 2026 01:20 PM (TbWk/)

343 "I don't know what I was thinking when I posted that."

Boobies?

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

344 >> But they get a lot of free shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:18 PM (3IrX0)

It’s a huge free shit state. It’s what they vote for. And if they didn’t have oil revenue it would be one of the biggest welfare states.

Hope all is well with the family, btw. Huge advancements in cancer announced at ASCO.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 01:21 PM (i14TE)

345 there is video of the LA vote counting center place

it's all foreigners

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 01:21 PM (j+aD2)

346 I get that the top of the food chain people won't talk, but there's some person getting like $15 an hour to fill out these ballots. It's not the person in charge of the public service union.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 08, 2026 01:08 PM (jc9/A)

You're right. I believe most of the fraudulent mail-in ballots are prepared by large numbers of teachers, municipal and county employees, and service workers. Those who their union honchos know are completely down with the struggle. There are teachers, etc., on every block in LA.
Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 01:20 PM (5rh/l)

Grading papers here, Boss! *snickers*

Posted by: LAUSD educator at June 08, 2026 01:23 PM (wVcYX)

347 Boobies?
Posted by: gp

Well, that's what I'm thinking about during nearly every post I make.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 01:24 PM (77rzZ)

348
Hope all is well with the family, btw. Huge advancements in cancer announced at ASCO.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 01:21 PM (i14TE)

We're doing ok. I'm tired, but what else is new. First Lady is headed south today and will be bringing the First Daughter home for a couple weeks. That will be nice.

Last mammogram showed all is well and so far, 100% cancer free. Radiation oncologist said if she makes it to the 2 year checkup without a recurrence, she's cured.

That checkup is next February.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:24 PM (3IrX0)

349 It's who PRINTS the ballots that matters.

Posted by: torabora at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (KtOUo)

350
Well I did get into town about an hour ago
took a look around to see which way the wind blows
with a little girl in a Hollywood bungalow
are you a lucky little lady in the City Of Light?
or just another lost angel...

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (ZxPkt)

351 345 there is video of the LA vote counting center place

it's all foreigners
Posted by: Black Orchid

There are also videos of the vote-counting place on various days after the election, and it was nearly vacant. Huge room, hundreds f table, nobody doing anything. When asked what was taking so long, the people in charge said, "We're counting as fast as we can! We're overwhelmed! Give us more time!" But it was all a lie. They were just sitting around waiting for the ballots to be manufactured. Counting them *done by machine) took 3 seconds.

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (Av6i5)

352 The dems have figured it out, top two and rank choice ballots, mail in voting, and they can game it every time. And once they have power, there is no overcoming it. They will crack down on any gop ballot harvesting or just throw them in the trash.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (n5tGW)

353 nood

Posted by: gp at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (Jr5Lq)

354 The biggest issue of the day is election security. If Collins or any Republican can’t vote for that, f them. It’s time to go scorched earth. You can call the broken arrow of we don’t get fair and fraud free elections. They will chew away at the republic in small bites.

BTW not only did Trump win on 2020, Zeldin won in NY. It’s fraud all the way down.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (i14TE)

355 ANOTHER NOOD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0)

356 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:25 PM (3IrX0)

357 Nood pelly.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 01:26 PM (Kdi1r)

358 "there is video of the LA vote counting center place
it's all foreigners
Posted by: Black Orchid"

Mass immigration, legal and illegal has destroyed us. We need 20 years of deportations at the rate of Trump 2 to restore the country. I seriously doubt that will happen.

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 01:26 PM (GUOwU)

359 309 Time to start a write in campaign. People can just write in Pratt’s name in the general election. If the LA people can get.the message out

Posted by: Carol Aguilar at June 08, 2026 01:13 PM (6q/wS)

Unfortunately, if there were a huge write-in effort for Pratt, the ballot counters would declare a huge number of the write-in names are illegible. "I cannot determine if these scrawled letters are supposed to be Pratt or Orange! Rejected!"

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 01:27 PM (5rh/l)

360 334
A write-in campaign for Pratt would be interesting.

Doomed to failure, but interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

That's what I was thinking. The only reason it would be doomed is the same reason he lost out to Raman.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 01:19 PM (n7rxJ)

I also seem to recall there is no option for a write-in in the general election...unless there is only 1 candidate.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 01:27 PM (l3cgK)

361 338 "I just hope people are finally being red-pilled -- or black-pilled"

What's darker than black-pilled? I guess whatever that is, I'm darker than that too.
Posted by: gp

Vanta Black-pilled.

Posted by: zombie at June 08, 2026 01:27 PM (Av6i5)

362 We're doing ok. I'm tired, but what else is new. First Lady is headed south today and will be bringing the First Daughter home for a couple weeks. That will be nice.

Last mammogram showed all is well and so far, 100% cancer free. Radiation oncologist said if she makes it to the 2 year checkup without a recurrence, she's cured.

That checkup is next February.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 01:24 PM (3IrX0)
Praise GOD!

Posted by: Eromero at June 08, 2026 01:28 PM (LHPAg)

363
It's a done deal, boys
Hey- just try to make the best of it.

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 01:28 PM (ZxPkt)

364 I was just thinking about B-1Bob Dornan and Loretta Sanchez.

Posted by: Baldy at June 08, 2026 01:29 PM (Q5bj5)

365 Updating nic to reflect election steal - I mean 'count' completed

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 08, 2026 01:30 PM (QGaXH)

366 >>> Mail-ins arriving after Election Day:

They vote AFTER election day?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 01:31 PM (/lPRQ)

367
Forget it, Spencer, it's Cheatifornia

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 08, 2026 01:32 PM (WI8ZF)

368 366 >>> Mail-ins arriving after Election Day:

They vote AFTER election day?

there's a bit of latency in the mail system. you can drop your ballot in the mail on election day; it takes a while for the post office to deliver it.

Posted by: anachronda at June 08, 2026 01:39 PM (oY6Yp)

369 WITHOUT EVIDENCE!

Posted by: Scott Pelley at June 08, 2026 01:46 PM (U/Eoe)

370 there's a bit of latency in the mail system. you can drop your ballot in the mail on election day; it takes a while for the post office to deliver it.
Posted by: anachronda

So, yes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 01:57 PM (/lPRQ)

371 there's a bit of latency in the mail system. you can drop your ballot in the mail on election day; it takes a while for the post office to deliver it.

That is, according to the postmark that somebody has stamped on it.

I love this. It destroys the GOP, daring them to vote against real elections.

Why don't we take over the vote counting and pass the the Save America Act 1032 to 217?

Posted by: t-bird at June 08, 2026 02:15 PM (+t04h)

372 1) We now have to assume that all elections are rigged.
2) How we "vote" has no effect on policy.
3) The Social Contract that is the basis for this country, its laws, and its Constitution are functionally void.
4) Steps need to be taken to create a new Social Contract binding on all.
5) Tyranny is not a Social Contract.

Subotai Bahadur

Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at June 08, 2026 02:32 PM (KxlvF)

373 This is an outrage and anyone not outraged by it is not my countryman.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 08, 2026 02:35 PM (xJx8R)

374 .
.
Ewe and ewer silly numbers.
.
They did NOT even need to bring out the dead to vote.
.
Only about seven percent of the registered voters in Los Angeles gave enough of a shit to vote.
.
They only had to manufacture about another two percent to make the election come out "right."
.
There are places where over ONE-HUNDRED PERCENT of registered voters participate.
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This election was too easy.

Posted by: Marooned at June 08, 2026 02:58 PM (kt8QE)

MORNING RANT: The Renormalization of Slavery – Great Britain is Backing Off from Forced Labor Ban in Pursuit of Net Zero Objectives

One of the great triumphs of western civilization, especially since the Age of Enlightenment, has been the rejection of slavery in western societies. Human chattel and slave labor were the norm throughout most of human existence. The rejection of slavery these past couple centuries has been an anomaly. Or maybe I should say “had been an anomaly.” Slavery is now being justified by the climate cultists as necessary to save the planet.

Disturbingly, there is a broad coalition of westerners who fancy themselves as being “enlightened,” but they are actually leading the effort to re-establish slavery. As I documented in an American Spectator piece titled “The War on Labor Expense is Renormalizing Slavery, Just in a 21st Century Form,” free market libertarians advocate for the use of offshore forced labor so as to lower labor costs. With a straight face they make the argument that a prohibition on the use of foreign slaves is a tax on American consumers. Where slavery can’t be offshored, human trafficking cartels are importing slave labor into the United States and other western countries. Their human chattel is put to work by legitimate business entities, but through an opaque hiring process involving layers of “sub-contractors.”

Among the greatest achievements of the British empire and the Royal Navy was the eradication of slavery in the western world / in the 19th century. But with the Church of Climate replacing Christianity as Britain’s state religion, slavery is being re-normalized as a necessary sacrifice to please their angry climate God.

“UK Retreats from Forced Labor Pledge” [Politico EU – 5/14/2026]

The U.K. government has walked back a promise to banish forced labor from the supply chains of its state-run clean energy company, as ministers rush to hit climate goals.

“Ban on Slave Labour Sidelined to Meet Red Ed's Net Zero goals” [MSN – 5/19/2026]

The UK has backtracked on its pledge to ban slave labour from its renewable supply chain to meet Ed Miliband's Net Zero goals.
Labour enshrined in law a promise that its state-run company GB Energy would not fund companies using forced labour. But following a probe that revealed that it had funded solar panels for schools without guarantees that they were ethically manufactured, it rowed back.
In a statement, the energy department introduced a new caveat to say that it would only ensure panels were free from forced labour 'as far as possible'.
It came as the Government announced that it would push to rid the energy system of fossil fuels and focus on renewables instead.

The Sustainable Organic Church of the Climate Apocalypse is a demonic religion that first advocated for a reduction in human standards of living, and is now embracing the re-normalization of slavery. Its high priests are actually making the argument that the use of slave labor is a moral good when used in pursuit of the church’s anti-carbon mission.

We on the right often joke that “You are the carbon they want to eliminate,” but with the climate cultists now openly endorsing slavery, they are just one small step away from openly advocating for radical “de-population” efforts in pursuit of their Net Zero utopia.

Too many Republicans in the U.S. and “conservatives” abroad have played nice with those pushing the climate agenda, accepting the false premise that “climate actions” are motivated by good intentions. That’s not acceptable. We must realize that the left and its climate agenda are a de-humanizing death cult that is heading full-steam toward a societal overhaul such as what was imposed by Mao and Pol Pot.

Net Zero must be repudiated and politically de-fanged. We cannot let this get any further out of control.

*****

Nevada Primary is Tomorrow – Vote Jeffrey Carter for State Treasurer

Just a reminder, tomorrow is election day in Nevada, and I’d like to encourage all readers in the Silver State to get and out vote in the Republican primary, and vote Jeffrey Carter for Treasurer. He is one of us.

Mr. Carter is a long-time Ace of Spades reader, and unlike some of his peers in the world of venture capital, he is an unapologetic supporter of Donad Trump. (Mr. Carter writes the widely linked political site “Points & Figures.”

While I would endorse Jeffrey Carter, who is a friend of mine, irrespective of the quality of his opponent, Jeff is the clear choice in this race. His opponent, Drew Johnson, is a serial candidate who has name recognition from the races he has lost. The critical thing to know is that Drew Johnson is a fringe libertarian who admires Thomas Massie. When Mr. Johnson ran for Congress a few years ago (a race he lost) he promised to work with Massie to undermine President Trump.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 11:00 AM (Ia/+0)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 11:00 AM (ohSsM)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

4 /need to skip skip

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 11:00 AM (ohSsM)

5 Bring back the comments!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 11:02 AM (ohSsM)

6 Carter has my vote tomorrow. Wife already has.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 11:03 AM (ZxzYs)

7 Eh, they will open the Gulags first to make undesirables work

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 11:03 AM (Ia/+0)

8 Too many Republicans in the U.S. and “conservatives” abroad have played nice with those pushing the climate agenda, accepting the false premise that “climate actions” are motivated by good intentions. That’s not acceptable. We must realize that the left and its climate agenda are a de-humanizing death cult that is heading full-steam toward a societal overhaul such as what was imposed by Mao and Pol Pot.

Net Zero must be repudiated and politically de-fanged. We cannot let this get any further out of control.

At the risk of being labelled a Pollyanna, I think it's already being repudiated. It no longer enjoys the cache' of something that is not to be thought about, simply obeyed, and polling indicates most people no longer see it as an existential crisis.

Shorter version: the left cried wolf too often and for too long.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

9 that it would only ensure panels were free from forced labour 'as far as festive little hats'.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 08, 2026 11:04 AM (Kt19C)

10 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 11:04 AM (bFu5X)

11 Biden’s Dog, hows the forecast today?
Any showers of missiles?

Keep your head down.

Posted by: RI Red at June 08, 2026 11:05 AM (xpEsk)

12 Oops.

It no longer enjoys the cachet

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

13 > Slavery is now being justified by the climate cultists as necessary to save the planet.
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Sounds like a platform plank the Democrats could rally around.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 11:07 AM (jehhT)

14 It no longer enjoys the cache' of something that is not to be thought about, simply obeyed, and polling indicates most people no longer see it as an existential crisis.

Shorter version: the left cried wolf too often and for too long.
Posted by: Archimedes
_________

So they'll just move on to their next substitute religion. Anything to give them purpose.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 11:07 AM (XvL8K)

15 @12

You seem nice.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

16 "Climate Change" like most things today is pure, unadulterated bullshit.

Posted by: Like EVs, Fair Elections and Homosexual Marriages at June 08, 2026 11:09 AM (OhZoB)

17 @12

You seem nice.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
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Heh. The comment you referred to was deleted, but your subsequent comment replaced it.

Nicely self-referential...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 11:09 AM (gnNyN)

18 UK is asshoe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

19 Slavery is just their culture...

Posted by: t-bird at June 08, 2026 11:09 AM (+t04h)

20 I'm getting too old to keep slaves or be one.

*puts finger on chin* I wonder what they'll do with me.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 08, 2026 11:09 AM (g8Ew8)

21 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 11:04 AM (bFu5X)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

22 You seem nice.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

Patting yourself on the back, Archi?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:09 AM (1Ff7Z)

23 Heh. The comment you referred to was deleted, but your subsequent comment replaced it.

Nicely self-referential...

And self-reverential!

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

24 I'm getting too old to keep slaves or be one.

*puts finger on chin* I wonder what they'll do with me.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 08, 2026 11:09 AM (g8Ew

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I hear Solent Green, Inc., is always on the lookout for warm bodies...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 11:10 AM (gnNyN)

25
At the risk of being labelled a Pollyanna, I think it's already being repudiated. It no longer enjoys the cache' of something that is not to be thought about, simply obeyed, and polling indicates most people no longer see it as an existential crisis.

The class that pushed CC so hard pivoted quickly to promoting AI, which is a new species of slavery.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 11:10 AM (O0L8i)

26 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 11:10 AM (gnNyN)

Perf, I've already been in contact with EW. No need to pass my info on to her.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:11 AM (1Ff7Z)

27 It came as the Government announced that it would push to rid the energy system of fossil fuels and focus on renewables instead.

Fossil fuels. HA!

Oil is renewable. The Earth just keeps on making it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

28 Speaking of convenient rationalizations . . .

At a Graham Platner rally in Portland.

“Would an Israeli flag tattoo be a deal breaker?”

“Honestly yeah, because I don’t support genocide.”

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What's Nazism compared to Israeli genocide?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 11:12 AM (ndZc7)

29
Oil is renewable. The Earth just keeps on making it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

I've never kept up with status of the abiotic oil hypothesis.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 11:12 AM (O0L8i)

30 >>One of the great triumphs of western civilization, especially since the Age of Enlightenment, has been the rejection of slavery in western societies.

Aaaaaand why was that?
Christianity, perhaps?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 11:12 AM (X8xt3)

31 They're also bringing back debtor prisons.

Just read an article that a 59 year old woman is facing 2 years in prison and unlimited fines for the felony* crime of ... building a room in her barn in order to stay near her sheep during lambing season.

See, she failed to apply for the proper permits and submit to the code inspections.
Then failed to comply with a court-order that she stop staying there and further failed to tear it all out until the local council had a chance to extract their fees and permits.

* under common law, any confinement over 1 year is a felony. Traditionally, the worst of crimes.
Which, of course, this clearly is ....

Do I have to mention that she is white, or were you able to know that from the hammer-and-tongs way they've gone after her?

And that she's an actual benefit to society, not an illiterate, retarded, ethnic welfare wog.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:12 AM (73/SM)

32 Fossil fuels. HA!

Oil is renewable. The Earth just keeps on making it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

True. There are some here who don't believe it, however.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:12 AM (1Ff7Z)

33
“Honestly yeah, because I don’t support genocide.”

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Who's being genocided?

Don't say 'palestinians' because there's no such thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

34 "...they are just one small step away from openly advocating for..."

Can you say Georgia Guidestones?

Posted by: TeeJ at June 08, 2026 11:14 AM (N6m+x)

35
True. There are some here who don't believe it, however.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:12 AM (1Ff7Z)

Besides the fact there's no possible way there were enough dinosaurs on Earth to make the amount of oil we've already extracted and burned, much less keep us drilling and extracting more for generations to come.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

36 Muslims also love slavery ... but the Muslims and the "Woke Globalist Elite" have opposite ideas on exactly who will be the slaves. For now the Globalists smile as they ride down the Nile (or the Thames) on the back of the crocodile.

At the end of the ride, the globalists would be on the inside, and the smile is on the Muslim crocodile. Preferably, Western Civ' asserts control before that comes to pass.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 08, 2026 11:14 AM (vbXSk)

37 -
What's Nazism compared to Israeli genocide?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 11:12 AM (ndZc7)

"We must elect Nazis to defeat the Nazis and save democracy!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

38 >>At a Graham Platner rally in Portland.

“Would an Israeli flag tattoo be a deal breaker?”

“Honestly yeah, because I don’t support genocide.”

Holy shizzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 11:15 AM (X8xt3)

39 Besides the fact there's no possible way there were enough dinosaurs on Earth to make the amount of oil we've already extracted and burned, much less keep us drilling and extracting more for generations to come.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

Right. Some of the first wells in PA went dry, but are producing again. Fossil fuelers say it's not from just dinos, but algae and other plant material.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:15 AM (1Ff7Z)

40 As bad as Platner obviously is, at least he hasn't called for the murder of Susan Collins's children in her arms. Cause that would be disqualifying.
Unless he was running for AG in Virginia, in which case it's just fine.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at June 08, 2026 11:16 AM (MNCvZ)

41 Abiotic oil. Very likely. Biotic oil is pretty well established. Both sources are real, and it’s not a case of one only. Not an either/or.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 11:17 AM (Gqar8)

42 Thx Buck
The UN (I believe) group on climate change just admitted their numbers were ridiculous. Still a lot of true believers who haven't gotten the memo, or won't stop no matter what.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 11:17 AM (zj5z7)

43 Right. Some of the first wells in PA went dry, but are producing again. Fossil fuelers say it's not from just dinos, but algae and other plant material.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:15 AM (1Ff7Z)

Entirely possible. As the surface of the Earth rotates and materials are forced towards the core, the heat and pressures will turn such materials into various things, including oil.

Thousands of barrels per day seep through the ocean's floor.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

44 CRUNCH!

Dropping the mic has been replaced with crushing it.

President trump walked out of probably the worst interview ever. Kristen Welker was talking over him and wouldn't let him complete a sentence.

After enduring her onslaught, he casually dropped the mic to the floor as he said the interview was over and then accidently crushed it while standing up to go.

You can here the poor thing go "Crunch!".

This bitch was absolutely out of her mind acting like she was coked out of her skull.

A new journalistic low.

Posted by: pawn at June 08, 2026 11:18 AM (+rSJz)

45
Her Majesty is home (and asleep) after her abortive trip to Newark. She had to fly back from DFW on a different airline and to a different airport. God only knows where her luggage is.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 11:19 AM (O0L8i)

46 The UN (I believe) group on climate change just admitted their numbers were ridiculous. Still a lot of true believers who haven't gotten the memo, or won't stop no matter what.

Yup. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says their original hysterics might have been a WEE bit overblown. Sounds like they've figured out that the grift is failing and they need to sound a bit more rational.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

47 45
Her Majesty is home (and asleep) after her abortive trip to Newark. She had to fly back from DFW on a different airline and to a different airport. God only knows where her luggage is.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 11:19 AM (O0L8i)

Narnia.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 11:20 AM (Gqar8)

48 20 I'm getting too old to keep slaves or be one.

*puts finger on chin* I wonder what they'll do with me.

hello, sailor!

Posted by: maid at June 08, 2026 11:20 AM (oY6Yp)

49 >>The UN (I believe) group on climate change just admitted their numbers were ridiculous. Still a lot of true believers who haven't gotten the memo, or won't stop no matter what.

I recall a few years back, the US admitted that if every car is the world was eliminated it would reduce carbon emissions by less than 1%. It won't make a difference, but we should still do it because reasons.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 11:20 AM (X8xt3)

50 God only knows where her luggage is.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 11:19 AM (O0L8i)

*waves*

Posted by: That Warehouse From Raiders of the Lost Ark at June 08, 2026 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

51 Every new impending disaster that awaits mankind only makes government bigger and richer.

Funny, that.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

52 Her Majesty is home (and asleep) after her abortive trip to Newark. She had to fly back from DFW on a different airline and to a different airport. God only knows where her luggage is.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 11:19 AM (O0L8i)

I take it that you're talking about your wife and not a cat.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 08, 2026 11:21 AM (g8Ew8)

53 Oops, that's the UN, not US

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 11:22 AM (X8xt3)

54 True. There are some here who don't believe it, however.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

We're running out of oil, land, water, food. We're even running out of time because of the climate, sea levels, and nuclear weapons. Shortages and dire emergencies everywhere.

...unless you turn off the TV.

Posted by: t-bird at June 08, 2026 11:22 AM (+t04h)

55 Isn't islam slavery?

- bow to master 5 times a day
- can not leave (under penalty of death)
- must identify yourself as slave (dress, etc.)
- watch towers over your neighborhood
- must do slave labor of jihad.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 08, 2026 11:22 AM (YNnm1)

56 H1B visas need to be permanently banned.

There never was and never will be a need for importing large numbers of foreigners to do high-skilled jobs in the US.

Worse, it's wage destruction on American citizens.

Let's say there's 100k engineering jobs in the US.
But 80k qualified citizens.
Industry demands 20k H1B visas.
Who then work for less than the average wage.

Thus, a triple attack on the wages of American citizens:
1) instead of forcing industry to raise wages to increase supply, they are allowed to artificially inflate supply.
2) and this artificial inflation comes at cheaper wages, driving the average wage--and pressure to increase wages for citizens--down.
3) by keeping supply artificially high, while inflation continues its march, American citizens--even those already with engineering jobs--get priced out of the market.

All of these--deliberately caused by industry and their government cronies--are then pointed to as proof for the need for more H1B visas.

Trump should propose a $1 million "Equalization" penalty for every current H1B visa--because they've cost us 10 times that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:22 AM (73/SM)

57 Her Majesty is home (and asleep) after her abortive trip to Newark. She had to fly back from DFW on a different airline and to a different airport. God only knows where her luggage is.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 11:19 AM (O0L8i)

Flying into Newark seems to be a difficult thing to do.

I went 2 weeks ago and was 4.5 hours late to my hotel.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

58 This is an area where cynicism can take hold.

Boutique movements like climate change, and other oddities like Trans, have gone dormant. Once the 'correct' people are back in charge, they'll be back . . angrier than ever.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 08, 2026 11:23 AM (poY66)

59 H1B visas need to be permanently banned.

There never was and never will be a need for importing large numbers of foreigners to do high-skilled jobs in the US.

There are reports that 85% or more of the H1B's were falsified and the applicants have no skills whatsoever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

60 Boutique movements like climate change, and other oddities like Trans, have gone dormant. Once the 'correct' people are back in charge, they'll be back . . angrier than ever.

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Darn. Just missed it.

Posted by: Zombie Dr. Paul Ehrlich at June 08, 2026 11:25 AM (u/oMr)

61 So what was the point of Wilberforce and the West Africa Squadron Britain?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:25 AM (2GVsD)

62
I take it that you're talking about your wife and not a cat.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 08, 2026 11:21 AM (g8Ew

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My wife. She was stranded in Dallas last night after her flight to Newark was canceled and no flights could get her there yesterday or this morning. Poor thing got to bed at the airport hotel at midnight and had to get up at 3:00 AM for a 5:30 flight to Houston.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 11:25 AM (O0L8i)

63 The climate crisis cult is treated like a religion by it's most ardent supporters. Of course they're going to grift off it.

Every once in a while there will be someone standing outside a store with their climate crisis literature on a table and asking for money.... not offering their silly pamphlets. No, they want money.

It's begging with pseudo science.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 11:25 AM (jehhT)

64 For those interested in a fresh perspective on slavery and the origins of the CW, I highly recommend this book: A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War, by Thomas Fleming.

The biggest insight I got was the impact of the abolitionist's contempt for southerners in general, and slaveowners in particular. The South understood that's how they were viewed, and in Fleming's opinion, if the abolitionists had been a bit more diplomatic, a war might have been averted. I'm sure that attitude would not have been pleasing to the slaves, and we'll never know, but maybe.

The other big stumbling block to a resolution was the South's fear of a race war along the lines of Haiti's brutal war with the French. Fleming suggests that the way to solve that problem was to station large numbers of Federal troops in states as they were sequentially emancipated. That actually sounds reasonable to me. The South wouldn't hear of it, of course, because they also had a financial interest in keeping slavery.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

65 Daily Mail is one of eight media organizations selected by the court to attend the Karmelo Anthony trial in McKinney, Texas.

The DM reporter says a group of Black Panthers were spotted in the protest area outside the courthouse this morning.

Oh, joy.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 11:26 AM (J4Dwc)

66 My wife. She was stranded in Dallas last night after her flight to Newark was canceled and no flights could get her there yesterday or this morning. Poor thing got to bed at the airport hotel at midnight and had to get up at 3:00 AM for a 5:30 flight to Houston.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 11:25 AM (O0L8i)

Ooh.....that sucks. Poor thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

67 I went 2 weeks ago and was 4.5 hours late to my hotel.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

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We still left a light on for him.

Posted by: Tom Bodette at June 08, 2026 11:26 AM (u/oMr)

68 Poems are made by fools like me
But only dinosaurs can make it oily

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 11:27 AM (ndZc7)

69 45. God only knows where her luggage is.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Dress size?

Posted by: Sam Brinton's stylist at June 08, 2026 11:27 AM (NFX2v)

70 CRUNCH!!!

https://tinyurl.com/yvm24yat

Posted by: pawn at June 08, 2026 11:27 AM (+rSJz)

71 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 11:19 AM (O0L8i)

Hee hee.

Posted by: Sam Brinton at June 08, 2026 11:27 AM (1Ff7Z)

72 Daily Mail is one of eight media organizations selected by the court to attend the Karmelo Anthony trial in McKinney, Texas.

The DM reporter says a group of Black Panthers were spotted in the protest area outside the courthouse this morning.

Oh, joy.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 11:26 AM (J4Dwc)

Good thing I don't have anything taking me to McKinney. I would be way too tempted to stop by and say hello.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

73 Ok, here's the deal: I've never considered any stupid shit like solar panels.

But I'll go ahead and agree to full home conversion as long as three conditions:

1.) every last component is produced with the endless toil of slaves in the most minimal conditions necessary for life and work.

2.) they are all from Western ruling classes.

3.) every step from the rare earth mines to the installation on my roof is paid for from the expropriated estates of them and their toxic metal dust-coated family members. Out to 3rd-cousins.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 08, 2026 11:27 AM (BI5O2)

74 64
The other big stumbling block to a resolution was the South's fear of a race war along the lines of Haiti's brutal war with the French. Fleming suggests that the way to solve that problem was to station large numbers of Federal troops in states as they were sequentially emancipated. That actually sounds reasonable to me. The South wouldn't hear of it, of course, because they also had a financial interest in keeping slavery.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

The Fire-Eaters, like the Poor, will always be with us.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 11:28 AM (Gqar8)

75 >>>Flying into Newark seems to be a difficult thing to do.

"You have no idea how difficult," says the cockpit crew of the United jet that hit the light pole on short final into Newark.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 11:29 AM (J4Dwc)

76 Isn't islam slavery?
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islam is for slaves and slavers; it is not fit for any other system.

You are either a slave or a slaver in islam.

There is no holiness, no good deeds, no mercy, no salvation, nothing of good report--only the endless turmoil of slavers fighting to keep their slaves and slaves fighting to be the slavers.

And many American blacks willingly join that system ... on both sides.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:29 AM (73/SM)

77 There is nothing new under the Sun

Posted by: Halfhand at June 08, 2026 11:29 AM (LbUS+)

78
"You have no idea how difficult," says the cockpit crew of the United jet that hit the light pole on short final into Newark.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 11:29 AM (J4Dwc)

But the new A terminal is nice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

79 The other big stumbling block to a resolution was the South's fear of a race war along the lines of Haiti's brutal war with the French.

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I've seen Nat Turner blamed for the Civil War.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 11:29 AM (ndZc7)

80
And many American blacks willingly join that system ... on both sides.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:29 AM (73/SM)

Because they all think they'll be the slavers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

81 Biden’s Dog, hows the forecast today?
Any showers of missiles?

Keep your head down.

Posted by: RI Red at June 08, 2026 11:05 AM (xpEsk)
-

Literally several big booms just 5 seconds ago from somewhere up north, don't know which side of the border.

Earlier today, after Israel finished bombing Iran and Trump said "stop that, both of you," Hizballah paid zero attention and lobbed some rockets at us. Israel has been responding in kind all over S. Lebanon.

Israel Defence Minister Yisrael Katz said if our north can't have quiet, then neither can Beirut. Here's hoping he's carrying a big stick!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 11:31 AM (ohSsM)

82 The other big stumbling block to a resolution was the South's fear of a race war along the lines of Haiti's brutal war with the French.

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I've seen Nat Turner blamed for the Civil War.

Yes, they were both discussed in Fleming's book and were highlighted by the South as an object lesson in what would happen if you freed blacks.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

83 >>The DM reporter says a group of Black Panthers were spotted in the protest area outside the courthouse this morning.

Oh, joy.

Probably because his self defense and racism claims were debunked after numerous witnesses, both white and black, testified he as repeatedly asked to leave (15x?) and all he did as taunt them while gripping his hidden knife.

Black Panthers are there to reset the narrative back to raaaacism, pronto!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 11:31 AM (X8xt3)

84 Many Leftists foot soldiers are sold the promise of living like a Duke or Duchess once the old system is replaced.

A gold-plated lie told by a silver tongue devil will snare many a soul.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:32 AM (2GVsD)

85 80
And many American blacks willingly join that system ... on both sides.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:29 AM (73/SM)

Because they all think they'll be the slavers.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

When we takes the Ring, THEN WE’LL be the Master, Preciouss!!!

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 11:32 AM (Gqar8)

86 "Net Zero must be repudiated and politically de-fanged."

I'm old enough to remember when acid rain was going to kill us all, turned out be a very localized, occasional problem. Then it was the ozone layer destruction but that proved to be mostly a hoax as well since it was easily measured and quantified.

The climate cult is based on a huge web of faulty models, questionable data, anecdotal stories like polar bears on ice floes or more shark attacks or more hurricanes or less hurricanes or .... It is proving extreme difficult to stop this train.

It has been pounded into the minds of the youth although in reality they don't give shit about stopping global warming if it infringes on their comfort.

Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 11:33 AM (GUOwU)

87 Before we totally write off slavery, I think it might be enlightening to ask the potential slaves. There are people who would welcome the opportunity to have their lives managed by someone else if that someone took responsibility for housing, feeding, clothing, etc. the individual. Perhaps a new age of enlightened slavery could be considered based on the directionless youth we have now.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 11:33 AM (nfOOG)

88
It has been pounded into the minds of the youth although in reality they don't give shit about stopping global warming if it infringes on their comfort.
Posted by: Ripley at June 08, 2026 11:33 AM (GUOwU)

The elite keep buying ocean front property........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

89 Yes, they were both discussed in Fleming's book and were highlighted by the South as an object lesson in what would happen if you freed blacks.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08
___________

But wasn't Haiti like 90 plus % black? Not sure if that would be an object lesson.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 11:35 AM (XvL8K)

90 Trump should propose a $1 million "Equalization" penalty for every current H1B visa--because they've cost us 10 times that.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:22 AM (73/SM)

Then factor in 20,000 people plus family added to the market for housing, food, etc... Extra wear and tear on infrastructure. Hospitals.
The costs are almost infinite.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 11:35 AM (ZxzYs)

91 87 Before we totally write off slavery, I think it might be enlightening to ask the potential slaves. There are people who would welcome the opportunity to have their lives managed by someone else if that someone took responsibility for housing, feeding, clothing, etc. the individual. Perhaps a new age of enlightened slavery could be considered based on the directionless youth we have now.
Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 11:33 AM (nfOOG)

You are joking, right? Somewhat in line with “A Modest Proposal” satire, yes?

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 11:35 AM (Gqar8)

92 Perhaps a new age of enlightened slavery could be considered based on the directionless youth we have now.

The US Military has entered the chat.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 11:35 AM (jjoN6)

93 Before we totally write off slavery, I think it might be enlightening to ask the potential slaves. There are people who would welcome the opportunity to have their lives managed by someone else if that someone took responsibility for housing, feeding, clothing, etc. the individual. Perhaps a new age of enlightened slavery could be considered based on the directionless youth we have now.
Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 11:33 AM (nfOOG)

I learned all I needed to know when someone interviewed a purple haired fat British lesbian cow and asked "does it bother you that they'd murder you because you're a lesbian?"

"No. Whatever it takes for them to feel included."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

94 My wife. She was stranded in Dallas last night after her flight to Newark was canceled and no flights could get her there yesterday or this morning. Poor thing got to bed at the airport hotel at midnight and had to get up at 3:00 AM for a 5:30 flight to Houston.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Ooh.....that sucks. Poor thing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

That definitely sucks. Timeline was so short that no one could have done anything to help.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 11:36 AM (lwhHh)

95 Adriana Guzman-Fralick is running for Nevada attorney general is a friend of mine. Trump endorsed her last week. I’d appreciate Nevada members of AoS voting for her.

Posted by: JROD at June 08, 2026 11:36 AM (+5C8W)

96 The US military looks at the party-colored hair crowd and says "Nope."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:37 AM (2GVsD)

97 The trial down in TX is exposing a whole new generation to the sort of bullshit we got a dose of in the OJ Simpson trial.

Except unlike back then, we're not coasting along through a warm fuzzy post-racial period. The zoomers are taking notes, and a lot of them were already paying attention.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 11:37 AM (CL4hu)

98
1.1 And then did Steven Spielberg descend, enlightening and delighting all mankind with his wonderment.

1.2 So in those days, he documented his rise in "The Fablemans", and showed how he was personally bestowed with the greatest director magic from John Ford himself.

1.3 Seeing those things about Kate Capshaw that displeased him, he did make them disappear, and unto his daughter's interest in porn production he did also.

1.4 And in the knowledge that aliens were cool and cuddly, he brought forth "Disclosure" with the truth that Christians just didn't get it; and that the cool California era of consciousness would come to the world and do box office for a couple weeks, then live on forever at Netflix or Amazon, whatever.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 11:37 AM (Y8DZL)

99 Slavery never made any logical sense to me. It was a dumb system that only the very large and wealthy plantation owners could make any profit from.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 11:37 AM (77rzZ)

100 You are joking, right? Somewhat in line with “A Modest Proposal” satire, yes?
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 11:35 AM (Gqar

Totally serious. Call it indentured survitude to make it more palatable, but it would be the same thing.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 11:38 AM (nfOOG)

101 Slavery is the "easy way out" when you don't have a skilled population that can make, or literally do a fucking thing for themselves.

It's the "DoorDash" culture. Lay around all day sucking the government's tit and expect everyone else to take care of you because you can't do it yourself.

God forbid they be told to buck up and deal with it when someone else can be made to do it for them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 11:38 AM (jehhT)

102 G'day, y'all.

Something I've found curious. There are the Population Bombers who think there's too many people. And there's the Population Replacers who deem a crisis of infertility means we need to import people. Yet a Kamala Diagram of these two seemingly diametrically opposite sets would appear to have considerable overlap.

I think I know the cognitive disconnect trick to this. And it's raacisss.

But my brain is still catching up this late in the morning.

Posted by: mindful webworker - conundrum solo at June 08, 2026 11:38 AM (dn9xm)

103 >>It has been pounded into the minds of the youth although in reality they don't give shit about stopping global warming if it infringes on their comfort.

Gen Z has had the climate hysteria directed at them from all angles for the entirety of their childhood.

Not only must they be sick of the scolding, I'm guessing that the doomsday talk has convinced them that since it is inevitable*, why not live it up today? Damage is done, why bother with austerity? That, and "FU, I am done with being lectured!"

*How many celebrities and politicians have said "we only have 10 years blah blah blah!"?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 11:38 AM (X8xt3)

104 99 Slavery never made any logical sense to me. It was a dumb system that only the very large and wealthy plantation owners could make any profit from.
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 11:37 AM (77rzZ)

And morally wrong. That part too.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 11:39 AM (Gqar8)

105 I also support Donad Trump. Most of the time.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:39 AM (Cqx++)

106 The trial down in TX is exposing a whole new generation to the sort of bullshit we got a dose of in the OJ Simpson trial.

Best part about it is, the kid already admitted to killing him. The trial is just about whether it was self defense or not.

It wasn't. Not by any stretch.

"Touch me and see what happens" removed any chance of it being 'self defense.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

107 The ones interviewed on camera supporting Karmalo Anthony outside the courthouse are the most violent unhinged racists I have ever encountered I think, in all honesty the SS would recruit them if they were white.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:40 AM (2GVsD)

108 Before we totally write off slavery, I think it might be enlightening to ask the potential slaves. There are people who would welcome the opportunity to have their lives managed by someone else if that someone took responsibility for housing, feeding, clothing, etc. the individual. Perhaps a new age of enlightened slavery could be considered based on the directionless youth we have now.
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After you pay for your basic needs, pay your taxes--especially the endless taxes on your basic needs--what are you, at the end of the week with a few pennies left in your pocket?
Who are you really working for?
Who really is getting the bulk of your labor--for free?

Who is the master and who is the slave?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:40 AM (73/SM)

109 I can't think of a worse country than the UK for solar power. It's like those low IQ persons getting solar panels in Seattle (which has more annual equivalent sunny days than the UK - 71 vs 62) and claiming they were scammed since they don't ever get close to the claimed installed kilowatt generation.

Posted by: scruboak at June 08, 2026 11:40 AM (XCwJv)

110 Ahhhhhh... had to cut off from two remaining ancestral family members. Only one of them is a dumb lib but they are both narcissists and think for some unholy reason they can load a bunch of old horseshit lies and manipulation on me with vague promises of family money, because the only person that actually ever gave a fuck about me or anything else besides them, is dead. They are welcome to each other. I wish them a long and interesting life.

It only sucks it took this much time, as I have known. They were 90% out anyway. I have eternal patience and a long fuse, but it is connected to an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. Now I just gotta work on that whole internal forgiveness shit because outwardly I am done.

Posted by: ... at June 08, 2026 11:41 AM (XGfD9)

111 Bringing a knife to a track meet = premeditation

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:42 AM (2GVsD)

112 Perhaps a new age of enlightened slavery could be considered based on the directionless youth we have now.

May their chains rest lightly upon them.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 08, 2026 11:42 AM (LbUS+)

113 Just wait and see.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at June 08, 2026 11:43 AM (+f7ml)

114 Yes, they were both discussed in Fleming's book and were highlighted by the South as an object lesson in what would happen if you freed blacks.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08
___________

But wasn't Haiti like 90 plus % black? Not sure if that would be an object lesson.

It was, however the French (Nappy B) sent a bunch of French troops there, who would, it was assumed, make short work of the locals. He didn't figure on yellow fever and malaria, to say nothing of the high motivation of the locals. In the end, the ex-slaves won independence.

There were parts of the South where black slaves outnumbered whites, and it was assumed that's where the race war would start. That's probably not a bad assumption.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

115 Israel Defence Minister Yisrael Katz said if our north can't have quiet, then neither can Beirut. Here's hoping he's carrying a big stick!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 11:31 AM (ohSsM)

I look on in, how you say, envy.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 08, 2026 11:44 AM (Kdi1r)

116 May their chains rest lightly upon them.
Posted by: Halfhand at June 08, 2026 11:42 AM (LbUS+)

I'm certain the Bureau of Slave Welfare would look poorly on chains. Remember, this would be a new, kinder age of slavery. Also, in the tradition of Rome, slave could be of any race, color or creed.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 11:45 AM (nfOOG)

117 You are joking, right? Somewhat in line with “A Modest Proposal” satire, yes?
Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 11:35 AM (Gqar

Totally serious. Call it indentured survitude to make it more palatable, but it would be the same thing.
Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 11:38 AM (nfOOG)
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At church yesterday, my pastor brought up a survey that was conducted among Gen Z. Apparently their number one concern overall is "safety."

Many of them would gleefully sacrifice their own liberty for security.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 11:45 AM (gnNyN)

118 Before we totally write off slavery, I think it might be enlightening to ask the potential slaves. There are people who would welcome the opportunity to have their lives managed by someone else if that someone took responsibility for housing, feeding, clothing, etc. the individual.

What you describe is not slavery, it's the welfare state. A slave doesn't have a choice in being or not being a slave. That's not how it works.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

119 "Chains? I ain't got no chains! Damn, my SNAP befits are zero!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:45 AM (2GVsD)

120 "64 The biggest insight I got was the impact of the abolitionist's contempt for southerners in general, and slaveowners in particular. The South understood that's how they were viewed, and in Fleming's opinion, if the abolitionists had been a bit more diplomatic, a war might have been averted. I'm sure that attitude would not have been pleasing to the slaves, and we'll never know, but maybe.
8, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)"

Yeah, but... why? Does anyone think things would be better off without a war?

I think it's pretty clear that the democrats have been a cancer from damn near day one. The damage they've done from being unwilling to pick their own damn cotton has been incalculable. Especially if you look at the role of their imports in the post-68 democrat voting plantations. Not to mention all of their other bullshit from FDR on.

I struggle to come up with a plausible way to make things better at any point along the way, past or future, that doesn't involve launching a lot of them into the sun.

Perhaps we should actually have let them split off, and made them keep their slaves to themselves.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 11:46 AM (CL4hu)

121 Many of them would gleefully sacrifice their own liberty for security.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 11:45 AM (gnNyN

Exactly. That is the bargain.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 11:47 AM (nfOOG)

122 117

At church yesterday, my pastor brought up a survey that was conducted among Gen Z. Apparently their number one concern overall is "safety."

Many of them would gleefully sacrifice their own liberty for security.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 11:45 AM (gnNyN)

Uh-huh. As long as it does not interfere in any way with their having their “ fun”.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 11:47 AM (Gqar8)

123 We managed to get the silver loaded up though.

Posted by: French navy at June 08, 2026 11:47 AM (ZxzYs)

124 The last good Dem president was Polk.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

125 Except unlike back then, we're not coasting along through a warm fuzzy post-racial period. The zoomers are taking notes, and a lot of them were already paying attention.
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yup.
On X, it's moved well past "black fatigue."
That was the nice ask.
We are now 3-4 steps past "we asked nicely."

And there are a lot of blacks who are horrified at what they are seeing from their fellow blacks ....
Because, once you have an IQ above 90, you can see exactly where this is going.

Watched a funny vid over the weekend; black US lady who answered the call to "come home" back to Ghana.
Building a house, hired locals, even hired cooks to feed them.
And they robbed her blind.
Tools would be stolen and sold; 10 bags of concrete ordered would show up as 6; and on and on.
Same skin color don't mean shit to them--steal or be stolen from.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:48 AM (73/SM)

126 My oldest got mildly reprimanded in class (5th grade) for pointing out that slavery predates the United States and still exists all over the world.

They only want kids learning that AMERICA had slavery. If they were to ever learn that America is unique in all of human history for being the only country on the planet to fight a war against itself to - in part - end slavery... Well. Kids might love America, and we just can't have that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 11:48 AM (Kdi1r)

127 "At church yesterday, my pastor brought up a survey that was conducted among Gen Z. Apparently their number one concern overall is "safety."

Many of them would gleefully sacrifice their own liberty for security.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 11:45 AM (gnNyN)"

Have you been inside a public school other than in the most whitey-white deep red areas of the deepest red non-southern states? They're open air prisons where you're screeched at by cat ladies and freaks on one side and brutalized by barbarian peers on the other. That's what's shaped these people.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 11:49 AM (CL4hu)

128 Holy crap.

My retirement lost $120k last week......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

129 If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams

Posted by: Unkaren at June 08, 2026 11:49 AM (MaRK8)

130 Yeah, but... why? Does anyone think things would be better off without a war?

I suppose because 700k-800k people wouldn't have died horrible deaths and the south would not have become an economic death zone for a century after the war. We'll never know if things really would have been better sans a war, but it's an interesting topic to contemplate.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

131 Uh oh, Sponge is gonna have to raid the sofa fund.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:50 AM (2GVsD)

132 At church yesterday, my pastor brought up a survey that was conducted among Gen Z. Apparently their number one concern overall is "safety."

Many of them would gleefully sacrifice their own liberty for security.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I think a lot of them just aren't able to get past childhood, where grownups take care of them, at the price of following someone else's rules.

There's an argument this is a natural result of the traditional hallmarks of adulthood all seeming completely out of reach. I don't know if that's completely it, but it seems like part.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 08, 2026 11:50 AM (OUMaO)

133 Uh oh, Sponge is gonna have to raid the sofa fund.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:50 AM (2GVsD)

I'm in shock......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

134 I'm certain the Bureau of Slave Welfare would look poorly on chains.

Ah yes, I am remiss to mention the aristocratic, neo-feudalistic aims of the WEF and the globalists at large - the "You'll own nothing and be happy" crowd where they of course own everthing and you are a serf.

I'll say it again: There is nothing new under the Sun

Posted by: Halfhand at June 08, 2026 11:52 AM (LbUS+)

135 Southern plantation owners didn't view themselves as villains, they thought they were heroes. Who else would take godless heathen savages, feed, clothe and house them, instill Christian instruction so that they wouldn't burn in hell and teach them how to be productive agricultural workers?

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 11:52 AM (nfOOG)

136 Totally off topic but Bulg will appreciate it.
Sydney Sweeney was spotted in Sumner WA.
Sumner is about 5 miles away. If I see her at the Ferelli's Pizza, I'll get a picture.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 11:52 AM (2WIwB)

137 OK then...I've been considering starting a GiveSendGo to try to give myself a boost out of my housing vicious cycle I've been stuck in. Might give me the stability I need to hunt for better work...anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or experience on the subject they could share...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 08, 2026 11:53 AM (OUMaO)

138 My retirement lost $120k last week......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

Was there a stock market crash I wasn't aware of?
HTF?

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 11:53 AM (ZxzYs)

139 Washington Nearsider

Did they bring up Wilberforce in class?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:53 AM (2GVsD)

140 Who else would take godless heathen savages, feed, clothe and house them, instill Christian instruction so that they wouldn't burn in hell and teach them how to be productive agricultural workers?

Posted by: jwest

Which worked out oh, so well...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 08, 2026 11:54 AM (OUMaO)

141 After enduring her onslaught, he casually dropped the mic to the floor as he said the interview was over and then accidently crushed it while standing up to go.
****

Wow. Complete boss mode. Only thing better would have been a cat-of-nine-tails in his hand.

Posted by: clarence at June 08, 2026 11:54 AM (FLIKO)

142 Oil is renewable. The Earth just keeps on making it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

As indeed it keeps on making fossils.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 11:54 AM (1z8ji)

143
Was there a stock market crash I wasn't aware of?
HTF?
Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 11:53 AM (ZxzYs)

I read something this weekend about Trump being pissed about the market after the great job numbers released, but I didn't know it was THAT bad. Holy shit......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

144 Did they bring up Wilberforce in class?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:53 AM (2GVsD)

That dweeb? Hurricane Hattie always ate his lunch.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:54 AM (1Ff7Z)

145 "125
And there are a lot of blacks who are horrified at what they are seeing from their fellow blacks ....
Because, once you have an IQ above 90, you can see exactly where this is going.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:48 AM (73/SM)"

Not nearly enough of them. If they're smart, they'll GTFO. It's extremely unfortunate but it is what it is.

I'm a product of the "everyone is the same color : green" pre-Obama military. The natural state of people sharing foxholes is not bigotry between each other.

But enough is enough. You do what needs done to protect your kids, family, and community. I know a lot of groups and individuals who signed on with the prog plague for various reasons, and a lot of those who will be assumed to have been swept along by external observers.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 11:54 AM (CL4hu)

146 Well, this is evil.

But I wonder if this is a consequence of China as much as it is the commies being evil. Same difference, I guess.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 11:54 AM (mPXxA)

147 > The biggest insight I got was the impact of the abolitionist's contempt for southerners in general, and slaveowners in particular.
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The cultures between the north and south were misunderstood by each. For slavery, it was a human rights issue before human rights existed. For them.

There's still a rift of sorts between blue and red states that has nothing to do with slavery, but is more about the culture each has. In some places that cultural rift bleeds over into racism and violence... aside from the political divide.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 11:54 AM (jehhT)

148 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who sonorously intones "Nothing will happen." at June 08, 2026 11:55 AM (0sNs1)

149 Right over Left Everytime
@RightSide_Uk
A British Army colonel has warned that civil war between Christians and Muslims in the UK is inevitable.
“The United Kingdom is heading towards civil war because the government fears stopping the Islamization of the country.”
This is not alarmism. It is the logical outcome of years of mass migration, grooming gang cover-ups, two-tier policing, attacks on British flags, and the deliberate suppression of native identity.
The establishment’s cowardice has created this crisis. The only way to avoid bloodshed is to halt Islamization now — secure the borders, deport criminals and failed asylum seekers, and restore British law and culture.
The warning has been given. Will it be heeded?

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 11:55 AM (RHGPo)

150 "I read something this weekend about Trump being pissed about the market after the great job numbers released, but I didn't know it was THAT bad. Holy shit......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)"

Don't count out deliberate sabotage. Remember, what kicked off 2008 wasn't an accident.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 11:55 AM (CL4hu)

151 Who else would take godless heathen savages, feed, clothe and house them, instill Christian instruction so that they wouldn't burn in hell and teach them how to be productive agricultural workers?
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Every country colonized by Europe was better off when they left than when they found it.

Very few are better off now than when they left.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:55 AM (73/SM)

152 The only way to avoid bloodshed is to halt Islamization now — secure the borders, deport criminals and failed asylum seekers, and restore British law and culture.
The warning has been given. Will it be heeded?
Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 11:55 AM (RHGPo)

It will not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

153 "135 Southern plantation owners didn't view themselves as villains, they thought they were heroes. Who else would take godless heathen savages, feed, clothe and house them, instill Christian instruction so that they wouldn't burn in hell and teach them how to be productive agricultural workers?
Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 11:52 AM (nfOOG)"

Democrats are still doing this shit. They're just on welfare after they import them instead of living in the slave cabins.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 11:57 AM (CL4hu)

154 Which worked out oh, so well...
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 08, 2026 11:54 AM (OUMaO)

Over half the youth believe that communism is an acceptable form of government. I simply believe that if you're going to have serfs, they might as well be privately owned instead of collectively owned by the government. The lure of communism is that the state will take care of you. It's better to have individuals "own" these people in a capitalistic society.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 11:57 AM (nfOOG)

155 It can be lunch time

Wait, not at work, lunch is whenever I want it to be

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 11:57 AM (Ia/+0)

156 >Was there a stock market crash I wasn't aware of?
HTF?

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 11:53 AM (ZxzYs)

A bit of a sell-off last week. YTD returns are solid.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at June 08, 2026 11:57 AM (GTqXr)

157 Southern plantation owners didn't view themselves as villains, they thought they were heroes. Who else would take godless heathen savages, feed, clothe and house them, instill Christian instruction so that they wouldn't burn in hell and teach them how to be productive agricultural workers?

Depends. Many of the planter class in VA (e.g. Washington, Madison, Jefferson, etc.) knew slavery was evil, and wanted to get rid of it, but didn't know how to do it because of their assumption that blacks and whites could not coexist. Jefferson's analogy was that whites were holding a wolf by the ears, and didn't dare let go or the wolf would consume them.

The Deep South cotton planter class is different, in that they told themselves the story you outline above. I doubt they really believed it, but I guess it let them sleep at night.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

158 The cultures between the north and south were misunderstood by each. For slavery, it was a human rights issue before human rights existed. For them.
The cultures between the north and south were misunderstood by each. For slavery, it was a human rights issue before human rights existed. For them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Both sections loved killing Indians, though. They were able to come together in that project after the CW ended.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

159 The establishment’s cowardice has created this crisis. The only way to avoid bloodshed is to halt Islamization now — secure the borders, deport criminals and failed asylum seekers, and restore British law and culture.
The warning has been given. Will it be heeded?
Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 11:55 AM (RHGPo)

England will soon find out what is hidden in those mosques.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 11:58 AM (ZxzYs)

160 Good morning, friends!

Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 11:59 AM (Dd38x)

161 The warning has been given. Will it be heeded?

Magic Eight Ball says "maybe, but don't count on it".

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

162 A British Army colonel has warned that civil war between Christians and Muslims in the UK is inevitable.

The warning has been given. Will it be heeded?
Posted by: SMOD
_________

Has he been cashiered yet?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 12:00 PM (XvL8K)

163 Right. Some of the first wells in PA went dry, but are producing again. Fossil fuelers say it's not from just dinos, but algae and other plant material.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:15 AM (1Ff7Z)

It never was "dinosaurs". The Sinclair Dino is, get this, just a mascot. It always was attributed to single-celled marine organisms by people actually in the industry. Oil can be found on rocks predating the advent of the dinosaurs, an in rocks laid down since their demise, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 12:00 PM (1z8ji)

164 I just thought I heard Piper's voice from the great beyond.

Sigh...I miss Piper.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

165 "There's an argument this is a natural result of the traditional hallmarks of adulthood all seeming completely out of reach. I don't know if that's completely it, but it seems like part.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 08, 2026 11:50 AM (OUMaO)"

See my post higher up. This is because of the nature of public schools. And this isn't just a "oh no, we're skeered" desire for safety, it's a "hey maybe we need the trains to run on time" kind of desire for safety.

Virtually any public school with a meaningful fraction of students that aren't white/asian features screeching prog cat ladies and limp wristed administrators allowing their favored minorities to brutalize the other students.

I have younger relatives who had to go to school near St. Louis. What goes on in those places is vile.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 12:00 PM (CL4hu)

166 Good morning, friends!
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 11:59 AM

How are things on your side?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2026 12:01 PM (0sNs1)

167 Good morning, friends!
Posted by: Piper at June 08, 2026 11:59 AM

How are things on your side?

Did Dante have it about right, or...

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

168 "163 Right. Some of the first wells in PA went dry, but are producing again. Fossil fuelers say it's not from just dinos, but algae and other plant material.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:15 AM (1Ff7Z)

It never was "dinosaurs". The Sinclair Dino is, get this, just a mascot. It always was attributed to single-celled marine organisms by people actually in the industry. Oil can be found on rocks predating the advent of the dinosaurs, an in rocks laid down since their demise, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 12:00 PM (1z8ji)"

It's been decades since abiogenic synthesis of mineral oil was demonstrated in the lab using methane and the conditions in the crust.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 12:02 PM (CL4hu)

169 158 The cultures between the north and south were misunderstood by each. For slavery, it was a human rights issue before human rights existed. For them.
The cultures between the north and south were misunderstood by each. For slavery, it was a human rights issue before human rights existed. For them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Both sections loved killing Indians, though. They were able to come together in that project after the CW ended.
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

They were in the way.

Posted by: tubal at June 08, 2026 12:02 PM (Gqar8)

170 I'm still Hulk angry about the LA mayor's race.

It's like someone giving me the finger while I see them burglarizing my house on my ring camera.

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 12:02 PM (GseMx)

171 Islam still believes in 8th Century belief, and women are all but slaves, captured people are definitely slaves, or held for ransom.

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:04 PM (Ia/+0)

172 I see dead people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

173 I've been considering starting a GiveSendGo to try to give myself a boost out of my housing vicious cycle I've been stuck in. Might give me the stability I need to hunt for better work...anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or experience on the subject they could share...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 08, 2026 11:53 AM (OUMaO)

I was fired from my federal law enforcement agency because I wouldn't target members of a religious group, nor would I order my subordinate GS-13s to do the same. Insubordination.

I told the Horde about it and how stressed I was that I'd lose my house and custody of my kids (single dad).

The Horde donated enough to pay all my bills for 60 days. It was nuts how generous they were.

If you need help, ask. We'll be there for you.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 12:04 PM (Kdi1r)

174 "170 I'm still Hulk angry about the LA mayor's race.

It's like someone giving me the finger while I see them burglarizing my house on my ring camera.
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 12:02 PM (GseMx)"

Every time you're hulk angry like that, go snag a case of ammo or supplies suitable for building caches.

The old saw about "if it's time to bury them, it's time to use them" is wrong. Probably deliberately so. When it's time to use them, it's time to bury 3/4 of them in several different locations. After 20+ years of fighting goatfuckers we know how this works.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 12:05 PM (CL4hu)

175 True. There are some here who don't believe it, however.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:12 AM (1Ff7Z)

Besides the fact there's no possible way there were enough dinosaurs on Earth to make the amount of oil we've already extracted and burned, much less keep us drilling and extracting more for generations to come.

100 % this! The dinosaurs would have had to been asshole to elbow (and more!) over the entire earth if fossil fuels actually were the result of dead compressed dinos.

Posted by: The guy that says nothing will happen (again) at June 08, 2026 12:05 PM (LNVkW)

176 >>I just thought I heard Piper's voice from the great beyond.

I heard an angelic voice singing at FloraBama Church yesterday. Pretty sure it was her.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 12:07 PM (J4Dwc)

177 170 I'm still Hulk angry about the LA mayor's race.

It's like someone giving me the finger while I see them burglarizing my house on my ring camera.
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 12:02 PM (GseMx)

While cops on the scene watch the whole thing start to finish, high-five the burglars as they leave, have a laugh about the 80-year-old lady with dementia they beat up the other day, shoot the neighbor's dog, then go out for donuts.

Posted by: Frustrating ain't it? at June 08, 2026 12:08 PM (TbWk/)

178 Virtually any public school with a meaningful fraction of students that aren't white/asian features screeching prog cat ladies and limp wristed administrators allowing their favored minorities to brutalize the other students.
---
Yeah, seeing lots of comments along the lines of "when we competed against you-know-who, we never dared leave our stuff unattended--it'd all be gone when we got back."

But it's everyone--they steal from everyone.

One black girl was like, my stuff would go missing at practice and I'd see it on someone else at school next week, I didn't sign up for golf--and I love golf--because I knew I couldn't afford to keep replacing it all.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 12:09 PM (73/SM)

179 solar panels for schools without guarantees that they were ethically manufactured
......

So much bullshit.

Posted by: wth at June 08, 2026 12:09 PM (UjdFS)

180 So how good are those 72 virgins at making sammiches, anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:09 PM (77rzZ)

181 California pols will sell the state to China and will eventually be hanged.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 08, 2026 12:09 PM (rJ48h)

182 170 I'm still Hulk angry about the LA mayor's race.

It's like someone giving me the finger while I see them burglarizing my house on my ring camera.
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 12:02 PM (GseMx)

That's the point. The reason to do this is manifold:

1) Neutralize Pratt. They knew he had energy and was affecting sentiment- even if they knew he was never going to win.

2) Further demoralize any opposition. They are fine if more people move out of the state. They are perfectly content on ruling the ashes.

We keep saying and pointing out how disastrous their policies are (Mamdani is another example.) We keep missing the point: They do not care, all they want is power. It does not have to work or be moral in any aspect, as long as they are in charge, forever.

How much of this is foreign (read China) and how much is just them being commies themselves (and stupid)? I dunno. Probably a bit of both.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:09 PM (mPXxA)

183 At some point when Muslims start to take over it will be ugly

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:09 PM (Ia/+0)

184 I see dead people.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:04 PM

Is Piper posting from the hereafter again?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 12:10 PM (bFu5X)

185 For those interested in a fresh perspective on slavery and the origins of the CW, I highly recommend this book: A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War, by Thomas Fleming.

The biggest insight I got was the impact of the abolitionist's contempt for southerners in general, and slaveowners in particular. The South understood that's how they were viewed, and in Fleming's opinion, if the abolitionists had been a bit more diplomatic, a war might have been averted. I'm sure that attitude would not have been pleasing to the slaves, and we'll never know, but maybe.

The other big stumbling block to a resolution was the South's fear of a race war along the lines of Haiti's brutal war with the French. Fleming suggests that the way to solve that problem was to station large numbers of Federal troops in states as they were sequentially emancipated. That actually sounds reasonable to me. The South wouldn't hear of it, of course, because they also had a financial interest in keeping slavery.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
==
Eh - his second premise you listed is incorrect - it had been over 50 years. His 2nd, assumes alot.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 08, 2026 12:11 PM (GZYu7)

186 I see dead people.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 12:04 PM

'They don't know they're dead!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:11 PM (mPXxA)

187 Why isnt Bill Gates completely ostracized, Napoleon style? Exiled to Molaki to live with the lepers.

nobody cares

Posted by: burp at June 08, 2026 12:14 PM (+yda9)

188 Muslims do appear to be the greatest threat, but China is not peaceful either. And they also love their slaves, and have no regard for "the other", or even for their own, actually.

China's "birth(right) tourism" campaign seems alive and well, unless SCOTUS gets it right and stops the insanity.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 08, 2026 12:14 PM (vbXSk)

189 More OT

Spielberg is shooting his mouth off again and alienating (SWIDT) half the movie-going audience by saying his new alien movie will leave Christians questioning their faith in God.
Dumbass.

Perhaps Pipes can clarify from her perspective there?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 12:14 PM (2WIwB)

190 It's like no one has ever seen an election in a one party state before.

They had "elections" in the USSR too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 12:14 PM (RIvkX)

191 On a practical note, now that I mentioned caching things;

- Rigid container, enough to project the contents from a shovel and not collapse under the weight of soil. PVC actually doesn't work great for modern arms because you need the really fat stuff and it's a pain in the ass, but any cheap hard case will do.

- Mylar bags, the type you'd use to do long term food storage. The heavy stuff that's an oxygen barrier

- Hair straightener (flat iron), the tong style ones, to seal the mylar

- Clean and heavily oil firearms... stick packaged ammo in some ammo cans for a couple of weeks with dessicant to dry them out. Toss either one (not together) into mylar with fresh dessicants and seal it

- Throw it in the hard container, and there you go.

Most modern waterproof cases like Pelicans have goretex vents that will let vapor in, making them unsuitable for burial by themselves. Old school medical chests have clasps that rust, and Hardigg cases have manual pressure valves but may also have latch corrosion, and the valves have to be protected from being activated. The mylar takes on the burden of a vapor barrier instead.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 12:15 PM (CL4hu)

192 Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 12:14 PM (2WIwB)

What's the movie about?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:15 PM (77rzZ)

193 190 It's like no one has ever seen an election in a one party state before.

They had "elections" in the USSR too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 12:14 PM (RIvkX)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:16 PM (mPXxA)

194 I still contend that by not forcing the issue with California's batshit crazy voting laws and ID scams, we encourage other states to go the CA way too.

And not for 'just' local/county/state elections.

National elections as well. I mean, some states are doing it already, but this just reinforces it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 12:16 PM (jehhT)

195 ace is up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (mPXxA)

196 If Bill Gates really wanted to do something to help humanity, he would take a small mercenary force and become the King of Haiti. Lob some heads off, bring order and certainty to the people and run it as an absolute ruler for the next 500 or so years.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (nfOOG)

197 What's the movie about?
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:15 PM (77rzZ)

Aliens apparently.
But screw that.
did you see my earlier post? Sidney Sweeny is in town. Apparently, her grandparents live nearby. If I see her I'll tell her hi for ya.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (2WIwB)

198 "183 At some point when Muslims start to take over it will be ugly
Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:09 PM (Ia/+0)

There is no outcome here that does not involve some towns or city districts getting ransacked by mobs with knives and machetes killing native english at some point, Rwanda style. I'm calling it right now.

Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (CL4hu)

199 A British Army colonel has warned that civil war between Christians and Muslims in the UK is inevitable.

--

Since their gov't is all in on islam, it will be very hard going for Christians if anything like that were to transpire.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (qBdHI)

200 Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 12:14 PM (2WIwB)

There is nothing Steven Spielberg can put out that would make me question my belief in God, and I did not intend to go to his movie anyway.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (n3VHW)

201 did you see my earlier post? Sidney Sweeny is in town. Apparently, her grandparents live nearby. If I see her I'll tell her hi for ya.
Posted by: Diogenes

Yeah, I did. Thanks!

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (77rzZ)

202 THE BOSS HAS A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (Ia/+0)

203 195 ace is up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (mPXxA)

I was just getting warmed up on this thread.

Posted by: jwest at June 08, 2026 12:19 PM (nfOOG)

204 It's been decades since abiogenic synthesis of mineral oil was demonstrated in the lab using methane and the conditions in the crust.
Posted by: heya at June 08, 2026 12:02 PM (CL4hu)

The chemistry seems to work, but the problem with abiogenic oil is that there is no pore space in rocks at that depth for any oil so created to accumulate. There have been a few wells drilled to test the abiogenic oil theory, none have been successful, or they would have been cited out the ying yang.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 12:19 PM (1z8ji)

205 There is nothing Steven Spielberg can put out that would make me question my belief in God, and I did not intend to go to his movie anyway.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 12:18 PM (n3VHW)

I was going to go. Not now.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 12:19 PM (2WIwB)

206 The drive to emancipating the blacks much earlier was impacted by the Haitian issue - and the opening of the larger southern plantation system. But this was the early 1800s. Perhaps the generalized fear of the tormented becoming the tormentors was in the back of their minds, but Haiti was long since past.
But the South's repudiation of the Missouri Compromise shows where this all was headed. The South needed the institution to continue to spread, when large swaths of the population - yes mostly in the North - wanted it contained in the hope it would just die. The South won the first political battle, then lost the second (Lincoln's election), then decided to take their toys and go home. Then, they preferred to allow Grant to actually destroy them than give it up, in the vain hope Lincoln would lose in 64.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 08, 2026 12:21 PM (GZYu7)

207 Amazing how something horrifying yesterday is really not all that bad today.
Nuclear power was the devil incarnate yesterday but now that AI will require huge amounts of power to print all that new money, well, nuclear isn't all that bad, just don't let the Russians design to plants or run the safety tests.
And if AI is not allowed to print all that new money, how is Bernie Sanders supposed to Scrooge McDuck into that 50% he plans to 'socialize'?
CNN chevron from January 2029 "Donald Trump, not all that bad, JD Vance was the true evil!"

Posted by: JB1000 at June 08, 2026 12:21 PM (sORf4)

208 The UKistan run by muzzies are going to need the infidels to keep working for them so yeah it's time to legitimize slavery.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 08, 2026 12:44 PM (n5tGW)

209 if the abolitionists had been a bit more diplomatic, a war might have been averted. I'm sure that attitude would not have been pleasing to the slaves, and we'll never know, but maybe.

The other big stumbling block to a resolution was the South's fear of a race war along the lines of Haiti's brutal war with the French.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

The Southern Aristos had pretty much the same contempt for the 'mudsills' of the North and of course the South, but they had to be polite. The pressure on them as times changed had economic aspects, but nearly as much social ones as nobody likes to be looked down on especially when you harbor doubts about slavery too.

The problem with the fear of revolt argument is that it was paired in the Southern mind with the growing idea of slavery as the best solution for the blacks as well, mostly to avoid the social problem of blacks afterward. Northern states sold their slaves South to get free, for the most part.

But it sounds like this guy is soft-pedaling the aggressiveness of the Southern side with filibustering, acquiring new lands for slavery, and of course Kansas.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 08, 2026 01:39 PM (8avO+)

210 Human chattel and slave labor were the norm throughout most of human existence.
Still is. It's rampant across Africa, Asia, sub-Asia, and the Middle East. Obama & Hillary toppled the Libyan government and it only took a month for the slave markets there to reopen.

The rejection of slavery these past couple centuries has been an anomaly.
No one seems to want to notice that through the history of humankind, it's only White Christians who found slavery to be repugnant. Every other culture, every other religion, every other race has no trouble with slavery. Even the race grifters across the US could only operate against the White Christian background of our society. If they tried their schtick anywhere else, they'd be laughed off the streets.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 08, 2026 03:32 PM (bufu1)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets)
Jean-Léon Gérôme

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM (lwhHh)

3 LULULULU!

*explodes*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Figures, hiding ammunition where no one expects

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (Ia/+0)

5 lum has been NOOD'ed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

6 Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets)

Looks like my side porch.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (lwhHh)

7 Before the speed loader....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (jehhT)

8 Where's the snake charmer? I expect a snake charmer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

9 Wait, is this the art thread or the gun thread?

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (OUMaO)

10 The guy in the back is moving like he saw a cockroach or mouse...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (l3cgK)

11 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title: Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets)
Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, Vesoul 1824–1904 Paris)
Date: 1884 or earlier
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 24 3/4 in. (54.6 x 62.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (/+uur)

12 Why are they casting bullets at the cafe house? Bad coffee?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

13 This is a repeat, methinks.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

14 9 Wait, is this the art thread or the gun thread?

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (OUMaO)

Don't all threads devolve to guns, boobs and movies?

Posted by: moki at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (wLjpr)

15 Mamdani's cabinet.
Nice use of colors in a dark setting.
Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (zj5z7)

16 experiencing vu ja de

Posted by: edgar n. cleaver at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (R11M+)

17 I'm guessing the fumes from melting and casting lead aren't great for you...

Posted by: Military Moron at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (JCZqz)

18 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM

Sponge!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM

I demand time stamps going out to the hundreds of seconds!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (lwhHh)

19 Really maybe stove was there so they needed to melt some lead

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (Ia/+0)

20 Bullets, coffee, and dancing. What's not to love?

Posted by: Otto Penn at June 08, 2026 09:33 AM (sJHOI)

21 You can't expect to cast a quality bullet without a decent mustache.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 08, 2026 09:33 AM (8mulE)

22 The Cafe House was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at June 08, 2026 09:33 AM (CJnkZ)

23 18 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM

Sponge!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM

I demand time stamps going out to the hundreds of seconds!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (lwhHh)

So not even to the nearest minute?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:33 AM (l3cgK)

24 I'm guessing the fumes from melting and casting lead aren't great for you...
Posted by: Military Moron

That's why you are supposed to do it outside in a slight breeze.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:33 AM (lwhHh)

25 Gimme back my boolits.

Posted by: Lynyrd Skynyrd at June 08, 2026 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

26 One shot or two?

Posted by: Rex B at June 08, 2026 09:34 AM (rgnea)

27 This is a repeat, methinks.
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

CBD will just tell you you're wrong.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

28 I always make bullets outside

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 09:34 AM (Ia/+0)

29 25 Gimme back my boolits.

Posted by: Lynyrd Skynyrd at June 08, 2026 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

That might mean something different to a gay man during pride month...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:34 AM (l3cgK)

30 8 Where's the snake charmer? I expect a snake charmer.
+++
And a belly dancer.

Posted by: There should be a belly dancer at June 08, 2026 09:34 AM (CJnkZ)

31 Kinda dark. Must be an eclipse.

Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 09:35 AM (+zXtV)

32 I think we've had this one before. It looks familiar.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 08, 2026 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

33 No lead soup for you!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:35 AM (l3cgK)

34 The guy in the back is moving like he saw a cockroach or mouse...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (l3cgK)

He's waving his hands in the air like he just don't care.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 08, 2026 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

35 Where's the snake charmer? I expect a snake charmer.
+++
And a belly dancer.
Posted by: There should be a belly dancer

And a thieving, pickpocket urchin.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:35 AM (lwhHh)

36 Posted by: Lynyrd Skynyrd at June 08, 2026 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

It's funny when you learn they're named after the high school gym teacher, Leonard Skinnerd.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

37 Not a fan of men in dresses.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 08, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

38 Stay in your lane, pal.

Posted by: Thieving Pickpocket Urchins local #408 at June 08, 2026 09:37 AM (CJnkZ)

39 Pretty sure we've seen one or more of Gerome's paintings before but maybe not this one.

Posted by: Tuna at June 08, 2026 09:37 AM (lJ0H4)

40 Is this some sort of proto-MoMe cafe?

Where you can get both coffee and ammo?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 09:37 AM (gnNyN)

41 In a CAFE?

I'll have the Ta'meya, and some koshary, aaaaand...a side of ammo.

Posted by: Delurker at June 08, 2026 09:38 AM (gtcuf)

42
Where you can get both coffee and ammo?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 09:37 AM (gnNyN)

And Buc-Ee's fudge!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

43 The dude in a dress and red stockings waving a spear around and hopping on one foot?…,,, Jeepers, how gay can you get?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 08, 2026 09:38 AM (c5xxP)

44 >>This is a repeat, methinks.

Yep.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 09:38 AM (NcvvS)

45 The dude in a dress and red stockings waving a spear around and hopping on one foot?…,,, Jeepers, how gay can you get?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 08, 2026 09:38 AM (c5xxP)

No one is flipping another man's meat.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

46 Where you can get both coffee and ammo?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 09:37 AM (gnNyN)

And Buc-Ee's fudge!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)
----
Hard pass on the camel jerky, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 09:39 AM (gnNyN)

47 What's in the cage?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at June 08, 2026 09:39 AM (CJnkZ)

48 Dark, muddled, and I bet it smells in there
I rate this as Meh
no hang

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 09:39 AM (ZxPkt)

49 37 Not a fan of men in dresses.

And a towel is not a hat.

Posted by: Delurker at June 08, 2026 09:39 AM (gtcuf)

50 ----
Hard pass on the camel jerky, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 08, 2026 09:39 AM (gnNyN)

Tougher than dog.......

Posted by: Barack Hussein Owebama at June 08, 2026 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

51 finna kill some infidels

Posted by: Otto Penn at June 08, 2026 09:40 AM (sJHOI)

52 And Buc-Ee's fudge!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Too sweet, but the jerky is solid.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 08, 2026 09:40 AM (iERP6)

53 The cage appears to be empty. Is it a metaphor?

Posted by: Delurker at June 08, 2026 09:40 AM (gtcuf)

54 Is this some sort of proto-MoMe cafe?

Where you can get both coffee and ammo?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

ATF Convenience Store.
Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:40 AM (lwhHh)

55 37 Not a fan of men in dresses.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 08, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

How do you know it's a man?

Posted by: Princess Fatemeh Khanum "Esmat al-Dowleh" and Princess Zahra Khanum "Taj al-Saltaneh" at June 08, 2026 09:41 AM (l3cgK)

56 Too sweet, but the jerky is solid.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 08, 2026 09:40 AM (iERP6)

Agreed.

They used to be overly salty in the jerky department. Now, their flavors match some that I used to make.

Am a fan.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

57 And Buc-Ee's fudge!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
+++
Is there brisket?

Posted by: Now I want brisket at June 08, 2026 09:41 AM (CJnkZ)

58 When I cast bullets, I cast at around 2800 fps.

Posted by: RI Red at June 08, 2026 09:42 AM (XMoZf)

59 Biggified, it's quite good. Are those ankle zippers on the pants, or velcro?

Posted by: From about That Time at June 08, 2026 09:42 AM (sl73Y)

60 +++
Is there brisket?
Posted by: Now I want brisket at June 08, 2026 09:41 AM (CJnkZ)

FRESH brisket on the boARD!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

61 Boolets to keel you.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 08, 2026 09:42 AM (g8Ew8)

62 When I cast bullets, I cast at around 2800 fps.

Posted by: RI Red at June 08, 2026 09:42 AM (XMoZf)

How fast do you cast aspersions?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 09:43 AM (dK+Kv)

63 62 When I cast bullets, I cast at around 2800 fps.

Posted by: RI Red at June 08, 2026 09:42 AM (XMoZf)

How fast do you cast aspersions?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 09:43 AM (dK+Kv)

at the speed of sound...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:43 AM (l3cgK)

64 No Velcro.
Can't stand that tearing sound.

Posted by: Morty Seinfeld at June 08, 2026 09:43 AM (CJnkZ)

65 Don't Cast Your Bullets Before Swine - a limerick

When you have your opponents on the run
It's true that casting bullets can be fun
But to inflict the most harm
If you have a weak arm
It's better to fire them from a gun

Posted by: muldoon at June 08, 2026 09:44 AM (qgHp7)

66 is this where the mulluhs meet to elect a new ayatollah? If not, why the turbans?

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 08, 2026 09:44 AM (YGJ8E)

67 I just hope no one starts brandishing a scimitar again.

Posted by: Professor I. Jones at June 08, 2026 09:44 AM (wVcYX)

68 I don't want to see what the casting couch looks like.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 08, 2026 09:46 AM (0nHVk)

69 at the speed of sound...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:43 AM (l3cgK)

Nice!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 09:46 AM (dK+Kv)

70 Who'd like a slug?

Posted by: Omar the Barista at June 08, 2026 09:46 AM (rgnea)

71 They’re also casting ballots. To be mailed to California.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

72 I once had a job as a bullet.
But I was fired immediately.

Posted by: Oh, no... at June 08, 2026 09:47 AM (CJnkZ)

73 >And Buc-Ee's fudge!

Go on.

Posted by: Hello Fresh at June 08, 2026 09:48 AM (rJ48h)

74 Pass de hookah on de left hand side.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 09:49 AM (RIvkX)

75 If you like Pina coladas...
Casting bullets in cafes...

Posted by: 496 at June 08, 2026 09:49 AM (U0KA6)

76 Muldoon's poem should be posted on a Gun Thread

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 09:49 AM (Ia/+0)

77 I don't want to see what the casting couch looks like.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 08, 2026 09:46 AM (0nHVk)

Goat hair and jizz.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

78 Pew, pew, pew.

Posted by: Church bullets at June 08, 2026 09:50 AM (CJnkZ)

79 72 I once had a job as a bullet.
But I was fired immediately.

Posted by: Oh, no... at June 08, 2026 09:47 AM (CJnkZ)

Was it because you always had lead in your pants?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:50 AM (l3cgK)

80 Am a fan.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

I just tried the Jalapeno and the Steakhouse flavors, and they were both really good. Plus, their texture was excellent!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 08, 2026 09:51 AM (iERP6)

81 I enjoy Gérôme's topics and style: realistic, detailed, and colorful. This one is a good example. The clothing seems appropriate to the time and place, each face is individual which reminds me of Rembrandt's group paintings, and his use of light to set a mood and atmosphere helps make the painting.

FWIW, the casting activity is correct, the tools are as well, even the man on the right cutting away the sprue left from the mold. I'm impressed. Either Gérôme knew the process or he copied it exactly while painting.

Check out his Wiki page. Plenty of female nudes. His landscapes are lovely. And he has a sense of humor. Two paintings called The Tryst, one from the outside with a man looking in and one with the woman looking out from the interior.

Posted by: JTB at June 08, 2026 09:51 AM (yTvNw)

82 Pass de hookah on de left hand side.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 09:49 AM (RIvkX)

Don't bogart that pipe, my friend.

Posted by: Little Feat at June 08, 2026 09:52 AM (wVcYX)

83
I just tried the Jalapeno and the Steakhouse flavors, and they were both really good. Plus, their texture was excellent!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 08, 2026 09:51 AM (iERP6)

A couple MoMe's ago, Doof and I experimented with deep frying the Ghost Pepper and a couple other flavors. Surprisingly, it didn't ruin it. Changed the texture, but the flavors will still there. Very edible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

84 Someone in the back is waiving hello.

Dude casting lead in bare feet must have a steady hand.

Posted by: pawn at June 08, 2026 09:53 AM (+rSJz)

85 72 I once had a job as a bullet.
But I was fired immediately.

(rimshot)

Posted by: Delurker at June 08, 2026 09:53 AM (gtcuf)

86 How fast do you cast aspersions?

***********

Castaway - a limerick

An orthopedic surgeon named Meg
Was generally a pretty good 'egg'
Her wits were really keen
And man you should have seen
How fast she could cast a broken leg!

Posted by: muldoon at June 08, 2026 09:54 AM (qgHp7)

87 *Was it because you always had lead in your pants?*

They said I was too slow. They even gave me a cruel nickname:
slug.

Posted by: The fired bullet at June 08, 2026 09:55 AM (CJnkZ)

88 I have never seen anybody making bullets in a cafe. Then again I have never been to Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, St. Louis, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, or Philadelphia. Does this fall into the "there is still a chance" category?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 09:57 AM (glnUu)

89 They probably do that in my coffeehouse. They have an antiracism poster and now a "No ICE" poster. Pretty sure it's an antifa den.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 09:58 AM (gKWVE)

90 You can just tell that all those guys are up to no good.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 09:58 AM (jehhT)

91 Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets), 1884
Jean-Léon Gérôme

Looks familiar. No doubt an excellent painter but he had a huge body of work that also included many sculptures.

Musée d'Orsay houses some of his celebrated bronzes. Dahesh Museum of Art details his famous sculptural process.

Wikipedia: In part, "Despite charges that the Orientalizing paintings of Gérôme (and others) exploited and indulged in stereotypes of Arab and Muslim cultures, there is now "a high level of interest in collecting Gérôme's art in the Middle East," as evinced by high prices paid at auction for his work by the Qatar Museums Authority in Doha.[45] "They want to take it back and have it for themselves," says art historian Emily M. Weeks.[46]"

Would pass hanging but interesting lesson. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 09:59 AM (NFX2v)

92 No goats dressed like little boys. Unbelievable!

Posted by: Unkaren at June 08, 2026 09:59 AM (MaRK8)

93 Posted by: Unkaren at June 08, 2026 09:59 AM (MaRK

Your hash is a Lincoln.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

94 Shyte.

Posted by: Unkaren at June 08, 2026 09:59 AM (MaRK8 )

Lincoln hash.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

95 Looks familiar. No doubt an excellent painter but he had a huge body

This is about me, isn't it.......

Posted by: JB Pritzker at June 08, 2026 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

96 I am looking forward to going to the stationary store today.

Pretty sure that is something I shouldn't be discussing in pubic.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:01 AM (glnUu)

97 How fast do you cast aspersions?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 09:43 AM (dK+Kv)

at the speed of sound...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:43 AM (l3cgK)

Ya gotta be fast around here.

Posted by: RI Red at June 08, 2026 10:02 AM (RZTmI)

98 I saw Goats Dressed Like Little Boys open for They Might Be Giants at Arcadia in '98.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

99 As to the guy in the moustache dancing around like it was Kansas City, uh. Does his wife know?

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 10:03 AM (gKWVE)

100 I once had a job as a bullet.
But I was fired immediately.

(rimshot)
Posted by: Delurker

Dad Joke #4,378,932

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 10:03 AM (lwhHh)

101 As to the guy in the moustache dancing around like it was Kansas City, uh. Does his wife know?
Posted by: gKWVE

She does now.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 10:03 AM (lwhHh)

102 I'm shocked! Shocked to find that bullet casting is going on in here.

Staff: [hands the captain a heavy package] Your bullets, sir.

Posted by: Captain Mahmoud at June 08, 2026 10:05 AM (wVcYX)

103 "Federal lawsuit aims to stop UFC event on the White House South Lawn"

Under/Over on how long it takes for a communist Biden judge, that was born in [fill in your favorite left wing sh*thole country], to issue a national injunction stopping it and never once get the irony in the that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:07 AM (glnUu)

104 And one from the archives:

Let's Get Cracking - a limerick

My sister is an over-reacter
Nonetheless my parents have backed her
"Go to med school!" they said
She had other plans instead
Moved to Egypt and became a Cairo-practer!

Posted by: muldoon at June 08, 2026 10:09 AM (qgHp7)

105 Maybe my truck isn't catastrophic, needs a few things but better than could have been

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 10:09 AM (Ia/+0)

106 Moved to Egypt and became a Cairo-practer!
Posted by: muldoon at June 08, 2026 10:09 AM (qgHp7)

You truly a national treasure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

107 Has Scott Pelly finally stopping sobbing long enough to announce his new podcast?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:11 AM (glnUu)

108 South America continues to shift hard to the right as Keiko Fujimori is projected to become president of Peru

-
Well, they haven't the vote making machine that California has.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

109 Are.

Truly ARE a national treasure.

Damn Mondays.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

110 228 Don't get high when you get high.

Flying with cannabis? TSA's new guidance comes with a major health warning
Clinical data shows cannabis alters heart rhythm and oxygen demand, combining dangerously with cabin altitude
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 09:13 AM (ndZc7)

The cabin altitude of a modern airliner cruising at, say, 30,000 feet MSL, is around 7,000 feet. There are a whole lot of dope smokers living in cities/towns in Colorado and elsewhere out west with elevations at or above that who are apparently in mortal danger, I guess.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 08, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)

111 Upon embiggining, the exotic dancer has a mustache. Yet another artifact of Pride Month. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2026 10:12 AM (0sNs1)

112 Has Scott Pelly finally stopping sobbing long enough to announce his new podcast?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:11 AM (glnUu)

He's still sailing around the world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)

113 @81. He painted nudes and we get this?
I feel cheated.

Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 10:12 AM (+zXtV)

114 Are they silver bullets?

Oh the Ag ony!!

Posted by: Make it stop at June 08, 2026 10:12 AM (CJnkZ)

115 Upon embiggining, the exotic dancer has a mustache. Yet another artifact of Pride Month. Sad!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2026 10:12 AM (0sNs1)

It's MA'AM!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)

116 Scott Pelley's been in combat you know. Ask him. Just don't invite him to an American Legion hall to tell the vets to their face.

Posted by: gKWVE would actually like to see this at June 08, 2026 10:12 AM (gKWVE)

117 Has Scott Pelly finally stopping sobbing long enough to announce his new podcast?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions

Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss asked 60 Minutes staffers: “Why do you think the country thinks you’re biased?"

Pelley: "Why do you think so? Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about?"

"Because we certainly didn't believe that."

-
Well, I guess he ought to know.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)

118 The dude in a dress and red stockings waving a spear around and hopping on one foot?…,,, Jeepers, how gay can you get?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 08, 2026 09:38 AM

Hold our beer.

Posted by: Kansas City at June 08, 2026 10:14 AM (0sNs1)

119 Vampire hunters, hadn't thought of that

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 10:14 AM (Ia/+0)

120 Has Scott Pelly finally stopping sobbing long enough to announce his new podcast?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram -

Scott Pelele?
(Pelele is a Spanish word, slang for wimp and or puppet)

Posted by: Rex B at June 08, 2026 10:14 AM (rgnea)

121 @81. He painted nudes and we get this?
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 10:12 AM (+zXtV)

Woof. Looked up a few. Damn. His nudes are DARK in theme......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

122 *Pelley: "Why do you think so? Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about?"*
+++
I have a letter to prove it.

Posted by: Dan Rather at June 08, 2026 10:15 AM (CJnkZ)

123 In Islam aren't supernatural Jins?

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 10:15 AM (Ia/+0)

124 Democrats have brought you communists and Nazis. I don’t know why anyone is surprised that in California, they’ve now brought you unabashed, outright electoral fraud.

If you are one of those people who still believes the 2020 election and up to this day elections in most Blue States aren’t corrupt, and fraudulent, check your pulse.

This is some real third-world shit.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 08, 2026 10:16 AM (ScG/9)

125 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Interesting art today. Can a painting cause you to smell the scene. This one has my nose twitching.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:16 AM (2WIwB)

126 121 His Birth of Venus is nice.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

127 *Pelley: "Why do you think so? Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about?"*

You. Are. A. DOOOOOOOSHHH!!!!!!

Posted by: Woody at June 08, 2026 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

128 There's no escaping Pride Month.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 08, 2026 10:17 AM (wGerL)

129 Can a painting cause you to smell the scene. This one has my nose twitching.

Coffee grounds, gunpowder, and astroglide
kind of like a Lindsey Graham campaign rally

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 10:17 AM (gKWVE)

130 There's no escaping Pride Month.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 08, 2026 10:17 AM (wGerL)

They're not stuffing things in each other's ass.......so there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

131 Truth Coming Out of Hell is interesting
But Cock Fight in 1846 isn't what it is today

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 10:18 AM (Ia/+0)

132 Coffee grounds, gunpowder, and astroglide
kind of like a Lindsey Graham campaign rally
Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 10:17 AM (gKWVE)

That's hot.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at June 08, 2026 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

133 David Letterman auditions for Airplane!

https://tinyurl.com/4ashnwhz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:19 AM (ndZc7)

134 I missed the Tony Awards on CBS last night because I was watching the Indy car race. Somehow I just can't find my way to feeling guilty about that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:20 AM (glnUu)

135 Have scanned the comments. Muldoon is in rare form today. Well done sir!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:21 AM (2WIwB)

136 Bari Weiss: The country thinks you're biased.

Scott Pelley: Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 08, 2026 10:21 AM (wVcYX)

137 Last one, I promise. I just stumbled upon this one in the archives, I had forgotten all aboout it.

Walk This Way - a limerick

My Cairo practor said with a smile
"I'll sell you a used crocodile."
'E gypped me!", I screamed
"It's a pyramid scheme!"
Now I live in a state of de Nile.

Posted by: muldoon at June 08, 2026 10:21 AM (qgHp7)

138 Democrats have brought you communists and Nazis. I don’t know why anyone is surprised that in California, they’ve now brought you unabashed, outright electoral fraud.

If you are one of those people who still believes the 2020 election and up to this day elections in most Blue States aren’t corrupt, and fraudulent, check your pulse.

This is some real third-world shit.
Posted by: Vengeance at June 08, 2026 10:16 AM (ScG/9)

YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE!!!!!!!

Posted by: Kristen Welker at June 08, 2026 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

139 When pouring molten lead I would recommend wearing shoes.

Posted by: Weasel at June 08, 2026 10:22 AM (PVV5z)

140 "Federal lawsuit aims to stop UFC event on the White House South Lawn"

I'm just surprised no one has sued yet to make it illegal for Trump to breathe...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:22 AM (JOQH4)

141 Bari Weiss: The country thinks you're biased.

Scott Pelley: Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 08, 2026 10:21 AM (wVcYX)

He has jars of his own farts stashed around his apartment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

142 PSA:

Burger King's Pride Whoppers come with two top or two bottom buns 🍔

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 10:23 AM (lwhHh)

143 Can a painting cause you to smell the scene. This one has my nose twitching.

Coffee grounds, gunpowder, and astroglide
kind of like a Lindsey Graham campaign rally
Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 10:17 AM (gKWVE)

Wait until you're at one of my freakoffs.

Posted by: P. Diddy at June 08, 2026 10:23 AM (wVcYX)

144 "When pouring molten lead I would recommend wearing shoes.
Posted by: Weasel"

"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

Posted by: Scott Pelley at June 08, 2026 10:23 AM (vFG9F)

145 When pouring molten lead I would recommend wearing shoes.
Posted by: Weasel

And a leather aprin.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 10:24 AM (lwhHh)

146 What would Jesus do?

https://tinyurl.com/mr85xdv2

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

147 I am looking forward to going to the stationary store today.

Pretty sure that is something I shouldn't be discussing in pubic.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

I take it from your nic that you're a chick. So going to stationery stores is OK for you. It's one of those things that chicks do.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

148 What is UFC?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

149 The dude in a dress and red stockings waving a spear around and hopping on one foot?…,,, Jeepers, how gay can you get?

The guy on the bench behind him has just started the solo from Stairway to Heaven.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)

150 Bari Weiss: The country thinks you're biased.

Scott Pelley: Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Ha!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:26 AM (ndZc7)

151 I'm just surprised no one has sued yet to make it illegal for Trump to breathe...
Posted by: It's me donna
__________

He should preempt that by giving a speech extolling the benefits of continued breathing to promote life. Our lib problems would all be solved within two minutes.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 10:26 AM (XvL8K)

152 What is UFC?
Posted by: Bulg

Unlimited Fight Club.

But we don't talk about that.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 10:27 AM (lwhHh)

153 Foundry work. I approve.
Would hang.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 10:27 AM (ZxzYs)

154 What would Jesus do?

https://tinyurl.com/mr85xdv2
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

https://shorturl.at/qaO0M

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

155
Fascinating passage from a book by an RC bishop, discussing Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde:

1/2

"When the two reunite in Act Two, their euphoric singing leaves us in no doubt: they are quite out of their minds. Later in the same act, wileful bliss reveals its true face as perversion, spelt out in Wagner’s libretto. The music is gorgeous. The words are lovely, too. Charmed, we must really pay attention to note the sickness of erotic inebriation in which there is no trace of romance. Tristan and Isolde seek, not communion, but possession. Possession, they see, can only become final in death."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:28 AM (O0L8i)

156 What is UFC?
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

Utah Fried Chicken.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 08, 2026 10:28 AM (wVcYX)

157 Unanimous f*ck chickens.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

158
2/2

"The Liebestod motif makes its first appearance in an effusion of Tristan’s, aspiring to be ‘ever one’ with Isolde, yet to be ‘nameless’, deprived of personhood, offered up to a divinized Love which uncannily resembles ancient Moloch, who consumed his children. When Isolde develops the theme at the end of the opera, the music’s sublimity, cutting right through us, can make us forget that she is, in fact, throwing herself dying into the arms of a corpse. Such is the fulfilment of this kind of eros."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:28 AM (O0L8i)

159 You a Wagner fan, Hadrian?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

160 You know who else was a Wagner fan?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:30 AM (u/oMr)

161 I like the colors of the clothing of the men in front The one has a particularly striking shade of green. I'm not sure what it's called.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (OYsYV)

162 Wagner makes lightbulbs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Now it's an opera thread? Can we at least do Rocky Horror?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (ndZc7)

164 161 I like the colors of the clothing of the men in front The one has a particularly striking shade of green. I'm not sure what it's called.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (OYsYV)

Chartreuse ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (JOQH4)

165 Now it's an opera thread? Can we at least do Rocky Horror?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (ndZc7)

Fag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

166 The one has a particularly striking shade of green. I'm not sure what it's called.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (OYsYV)

Ask the guy who's dancing. He'll know.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 10:32 AM (gKWVE)

167 You know who else was a Wagner fan?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:30 AM (u/oMr)

Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 08, 2026 10:32 AM (wVcYX)

168 162 Wagner makes lightbulbs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

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He was best known for overwrought orchestral arrangements and power sprayers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:32 AM (u/oMr)

169 Is 'casting bullets' diff'rent from 'casting aspersions' … ? Or is that 'casting asparagus' … ? Enquiring minds 'n all that …

Posted by: Dr_No at June 08, 2026 10:33 AM (ayRl+)

170 163 Now it's an opera thread? Can we at least do Rocky Horror?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (ndZc7)

Damn it.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 10:33 AM (ZxzYs)

171 Thanks. It could be . But it looks like it has blue mixed in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 10:33 AM (OYsYV)

172 165 Now it's an opera thread? Can we at least do Rocky Horror?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (ndZc7)

Fag.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

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A toast!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:33 AM (u/oMr)

173 sickness of erotic inebriation

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Or maybe a Penthouse Forum thread?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:33 AM (ndZc7)

174 I watched Kristen Welker harass President Trump on Meet the Nation.

I am confused about what is supposed to happen in an interview. I, naively, that the role of interviewer was to ask well crafted questions and let the interviewed answer, thus building an organic narrative.

Apparently that is an old fashioned notion. Modern interviewers don't really ask questions, rather they hurl accusations, score left-wing propaganda points, hiss at and interrupt the interviewed non-stop, and when the interviewed walks out stare at the camera in wide-eyed amazement that happened.

Plus she has scary crazy eyes when she gets aroused on camera.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:34 AM (glnUu)

175 Drab. It's called drab.

Posted by: US Army Field Manual at June 08, 2026 10:34 AM (CJnkZ)

176 Wagner makes lightbulbs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

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He was best known for overwrought orchestral arrangements and power sprayers.
Posted by: Cicero

And for rogering the pool boy while he was married to one of the most beautiful women on the planet.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

177
You a Wagner fan, Hadrian?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

_____________

Depends on what. The music is sublime, extraordinary. Unfortunately, it is put in service of Wagner's characters, interchangeable gasbags venting the composer's dorm-room bong-hit philosophy in the libretto.

Verdi is inferior musically, but we bleed and cry with his all-too-human characters. In Wagner, we're all secretly relieved when they die and finally shut up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:35 AM (O0L8i)

178 Plus she has scary crazy eyes when she gets aroused on camera.

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That's hot.

Posted by: Scott Pelley, Free Speech Martyr at June 08, 2026 10:35 AM (u/oMr)

179 Eh. Hang? Maybe in the garage. Needs light.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at June 08, 2026 10:35 AM (9hNi7)

180 Now it's an opera thread? Can we at least do Rocky Horror?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM

You do look like you're kind of groovy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2026 10:35 AM (0sNs1)

181 Reforger at June 08, 2026 10:27 AM (ZxzYs)

154 What would Jesus do?

https://tinyurl.com/mr85xdv2
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

https://shorturl.at/qaO0M
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck

Wasn't that called the Flosbury Flop?

Posted by: From about That Time at June 08, 2026 10:36 AM (sl73Y)

182 171 Thanks. It could be . But it looks like it has blue mixed in.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 10:33 AM (OYsYV)

Right... Chartreuse has more yellow to it...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:36 AM (JOQH4)

183 Nice painting. I especially like the contrasting color with the dark background. Good start to the week.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 08, 2026 10:36 AM (HYRFr)

184 Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 10:32 AM

But it looks like he's wearing a petticoat. I'd prefer not to ask him. I don't t know what that part of the outfit is supposed to be and the descriptions of this work on the net don't explain that-other than to say he's engaged in "revelry".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 10:36 AM (OYsYV)

185 Who was it that said Wagner's music is better than it sounds?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:37 AM (u/oMr)

186 @ 96 I am looking forward to going to the stationary store today. Pretty sure that is something I shouldn't be discussing in pubic.
____________________________________

How do you know it's the right one? They're all stationary …

Posted by: Dr_No at June 08, 2026 10:37 AM (ayRl+)

187 Wagner: The Graham Platner of composers.

Wagner was a genius. Also an asshole even beyond his anti-Jewishness. An asshole genius.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:37 AM (ndZc7)

188 Plus she has scary crazy eyes when she gets aroused on camera.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:34 AM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Madonna at June 08, 2026 10:37 AM (0sNs1)

189 Opera is nothing more than gay European soap operas set to music. Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:38 AM (glnUu)

190 "Federal lawsuit aims to stop UFC event on the White House South Lawn"

How exactly does anyone have standing to dictate what the executive branch does on the executive branch's property?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 10:38 AM (2ocoG)

191 Now it's an opera thread? Can we at least do Rocky Horror?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM

You do look like you're kind of groovy.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2026 10:35 AM

Wait. Let him shiver with antici........

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 10:38 AM (bFu5X)

192
A mistake made by Sheik Jihad al Bed
Instead of coffee, he drank molten lead
As he died with a shriek
He let out a squeak
At least, it's better than Starbucks, he said.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 10:38 AM (iJfKG)

193 The one has a particularly striking shade of green. I'm not sure what it's called.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (OYsYV)

Metallic mint green?

Posted by: Miss Mona Lisa Vito at June 08, 2026 10:39 AM (wVcYX)

194 How exactly does anyone have standing to dictate what the executive branch does on the executive branch's property?
Posted by: Ian S. at June 08, 2026 10:38 AM (2ocoG)

Right...

Posted by: White House Ballroom at June 08, 2026 10:39 AM (JOQH4)

195 Song writing is easy.

https://tinyurl.com/2zjmd657

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7)

196 193 The one has a particularly striking shade of green. I'm not sure what it's called.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (OYsYV)

Metallic mint green?
Posted by: Miss Mona Lisa Vito at June 08, 2026 10:39 AM (wVcYX)

Metallic pea ?

Posted by: Wagon Queen Family Truckster at June 08, 2026 10:40 AM (JOQH4)

197 Opera is nothing more than old greek homos

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 08, 2026 10:40 AM (Kt19C)

198 Soooo … the 'cafe house' is where they get the lead for their - ahem - 'pencil', yes … ? Who'da thunk … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at June 08, 2026 10:40 AM (ayRl+)

199 At least, it's better than Starbucks, he said.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 10:38 AM

Narrator: He was not wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 10:40 AM (bFu5X)

200
Talks to bring Mike Tyson and Robin Givins together for a live action remake of "Beauty and the Beast" have been knocked down.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 10:41 AM (Y8DZL)

201 137. Saved the best for last. 😄

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 10:42 AM (NFX2v)

202 It's a bullshit question.

Posted by: Mona Lisa Vito at June 08, 2026 10:42 AM (u/oMr)

203 Opera is nothing more than gay European soap operas set to music. Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions

Beautiful music though.

Posted by: Tuna at June 08, 2026 10:43 AM (lJ0H4)

204
Wagner was a genius. Also an asshole even beyond his anti-Jewishness. An asshole genius.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:37 AM (ndZc7)

____________

This is what sets my teeth on edge. Even without his Jew hatred, he would be among the most despicable people in music. Unfortunately, that colors everything when I listen.

Or Benjamin Britten, who had an unnatural interest in young boys. All of them, interviewed years later, said oh no nothing happened. Sure. As such I can't hear his stuff without distaste.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:43 AM (O0L8i)

205 200
Talks to bring Mike Tyson and Robin Givins together for a live action remake of "Beauty and the Beast" have been knocked down.
Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 10:41 AM (Y8DZL)

Have you seen her lately?

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 10:43 AM (ZxzYs)

206 Personally, I don't care for a lot of Wagner's stuff.

In the Brahms v. Wagner war, I'm firmly on Brahms' side.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

207
last night, we had a great dinner.

Smash Tacos!!!

Along with guac and chips, fresh melon, and Illegal margaritas.

Super delightful, loved by all, and stupidly easy.

This one is definitely going on the rotation

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 10:43 AM (iJfKG)

208 I am confused about what is supposed to happen in an interview. I, naively, that the role of interviewer was to ask well crafted questions and let the interviewed answer, thus building an organic narrative.

Apparently that is an old fashioned notion. Modern interviewers don't really ask questions, rather they hurl accusations, score left-wing propaganda points, hiss at and interrupt the interviewed non-stop, and when the interviewed walks out stare at the camera in wide-eyed amazement that happened.

They're copying their heroes at the BBC, who have long used this approach. For some reason, American leftists worship Brits. But, you know, no kings.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 10:44 AM (Riz8t)

209 Or Benjamin Britten, who had an unnatural interest in young boys. All of them, interviewed years later, said oh no nothing happened. Sure. As such I can't hear his stuff without distaste. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Guess you aren't Michael Jackson either.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:44 AM (glnUu)

210 Face shield, welders gloves are also my bullet making kit

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 10:45 AM (Ia/+0)

211 Teddy Roosevelt totally would have hosted UFC events at the Whitehouse if it existed in his day.

Posted by: steevy at June 08, 2026 10:45 AM (YwEeS)

212 Beautiful music though.
Posted by: Tuna at June 08, 2026 10:43 AM (lJ0H4)

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There's nothing like the Anvil Chorus to usher you off to a dream-filled sleep.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:45 AM (u/oMr)

213 I like the colors of the clothing of the men in front The one has a particularly striking shade of green. I'm not sure what it's called.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (OYsYV)

Chartreuse ?

No, chartreuse is a yellowish green. This is more like turquoise or some other shade intermediate between blue and green.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 10:45 AM (Riz8t)

214 There's nothing like the Anvil Chorus to usher you off to a dream-filled sleep.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:45 AM (u/oMr)

I prefer Smetana's The Moldau Or Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:46 AM (JOQH4)

215 This is what sets my teeth on edge. Even without his Jew hatred, he would be among the most despicable people in music. Unfortunately, that colors everything when I listen.

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He's been dead for over a century so I've forgiven him. So there's hope for Springsteen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:46 AM (ndZc7)

216 SEATTLE MAYOR CRIES as Largest Bagel Franchise OFFICIALLY Shuts Down For Good!

After 25 years and serving over 7 million bagels, Blazing Bagels — Seattle’s iconic local chain with 5 locations — has collapsed. Employees were stunned when they received a sudden email Thursday night: effective immediately, all locations closed, no warning, no severance.

The family business survived recessions and a pandemic, but couldn’t survive Seattle’s crushing $21.30 minimum wage, skyrocketing taxes, and anti-business policies.

With downtown office vacancy at a record 35.6%, more restaurants are shuttering while Mayor Katie Wilson responds to fleeing businesses with one word: “Bye.”

Hardworking employees are now jobless, and communities are losing beloved institutions.

Is this the final warning for Seattle's economy?

Bwahahahahahahaha!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (lwhHh)

217 No, chartreuse is a yellowish green. This is more like turquoise or some other shade intermediate between blue and green.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 10:45 AM (Riz8t)

Teal

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (JOQH4)

218 How come CBD never posts any Robert Crumb art?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (glnUu)

219 Teddy Roosevelt totally would have hosted UFC events at the Whitehouse if it existed in his day.
Posted by: steevy

Teddy probably would've competed in UFC events.

He was our most eccentric president, I think.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

220 No, chartreuse is a yellowish green. This is more like turquoise or some other shade intermediate between blue and green.

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Pantone 3262C

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (u/oMr)

221 Face shield, welders gloves are also my bullet making kit
Posted by: Skip

+1

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (lwhHh)

222 No, chartreuse is a yellowish green. This is more like turquoise or some other shade intermediate between blue and green.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 10:45 AM (Riz8t)

Teal

Close, but not quite. I can't put my finger on it.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (Riz8t)

223 He's been dead for over a century so I've forgiven him. So there's hope for Springsteen.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:46 AM (ndZc7)

No.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2026 10:48 AM (ZxzYs)

224 I prefer Smetana's The Moldau or Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
Posted by: It's me donna

I LOVE The Moldau.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

225 There's nothing like the Anvil Chorus to usher you off to a dream-filled sleep.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

LOL. I always think of the Marx Brothers' "Night at the Opera" whenever I hear that tune.

Posted by: Tuna at June 08, 2026 10:48 AM (lJ0H4)

226 So, someone(s) got a burr up their ass and want's the UFC event pulled from the White House?

Did anyone file a suit to stop *biden's gay/transgender event with the topless transgender parading around the grounds?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 10:48 AM (jehhT)

227 SEATTLE MAYOR CRIES as Largest Bagel Franchise OFFICIALLY Shuts Down For Good!

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Moar bad luck again!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 10:48 AM (RIvkX)

228 Archimedes, don't try to compete with the 'Ettes in the color game. Women can see something like 43,850 separate colors. Most guys max out at around 8.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

229 227 SEATTLE MAYOR CRIES as Largest Bagel Franchise OFFICIALLY Shuts Down For Good!

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Moar bad luck again!

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*fistbump*

Posted by: R. Heinlein at June 08, 2026 10:50 AM (u/oMr)

230 I'm going with Day-Glo green...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:50 AM (JOQH4)

231
I prefer Smetana's The Moldau

____________

Have you heard the rest of the cycle? Vyšehrad, with its opening harp solo, is beautiful as well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:50 AM (O0L8i)

232 He was our most eccentric president, I think.
Posted by: Bulg
__________

I'd put Lincoln up there. And Jackson.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 08, 2026 10:51 AM (XvL8K)

233 228 Archimedes, don't try to compete with the 'Ettes in the color game. Women can see something like 43,850 separate colors. Most guys max out at around 8.

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Then there are squid.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:51 AM (u/oMr)

234 Have you heard the rest of the cycle? Vyšehrad, with its opening harp solo, is beautiful as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:50 AM (O0L8i)

No but I'm gonna look for it...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:51 AM (JOQH4)

235 Have you heard the rest of the cycle? Vyšehrad, with its opening harp solo, is beautiful as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Oh yes. That's a glorious piece.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

236
Hardworking employees are now jobless, and communities are losing beloved institutions.

Is this the final warning for Seattle's economy?

Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (lwhHh)

What me worry?

- - - - - - Seattle Voters

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

237 I like the colors of the clothing of the men in front The one has a particularly striking shade of green. I'm not sure what it's called.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 10:31 AM (OYsYV)

According to the Pantone Color Charts it's called-

"Radioactive Bile Barfed Up During An Exorcism Inside the Chernobyl Reactor Green"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

238 I'm going with Day-Glo green...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:50 AM (JOQH4)

Well played.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

239 Benny Johnson twitter

Spencer Pratt Goes Scorched EARTH! Exposes Entire Fraud Industry in LA as Woke Communist ‘Wins…’

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Chat is on.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 10:52 AM (NFX2v)

240 How come CBD never posts any Robert Crumb art?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM

CBD strikes me as more of a Panko Crumb kind of guy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 10:52 AM (bFu5X)

241 Jake brings clarity.

Jake Tapper
@jaketapper
That is some wild, unhinged stuff from the President.
Welker is a good person and honest journalist and didn’t deserve that but more importantly we have a president who constantly pushes conspiracy theories with zero evidence and can’t respond when politely challenged on that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)

242 How come CBD never posts any Robert Crumb art?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (glnUu)

"When you start your own blog....."

"The Hot Air Art Thread is begging for your company."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

243 CBD not ever not once has posted any of the magnificent work by the great modernist Jean-Michel Folon. Not that I'm salty about it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 10:53 AM (RIvkX)

244 Will Leftists ever learn economics 101?
Probably not

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 10:53 AM (Ia/+0)

245
How come CBD never posts any Robert Crumb art?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM

___________

Screw Robert Crumb.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:54 AM (O0L8i)

246 @jaketapper
That is some wild, unhinged stuff from the President.
Welker is a good person and honest journalist and didn’t deserve that but more importantly we have a president who constantly pushes conspiracy theories with zero evidence and can’t respond when politely challenged on that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)

Tapper is asshoe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

247 I'm going with Day-Glo green...
Posted by: It's me donna

Are we talking about WNBA dildo-tossing again?

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

248 235 Have you heard the rest of the cycle? Vyšehrad, with its opening harp solo, is beautiful as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Just went to listen to it.. I have heard it but I didn't realize it

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:54 AM (JOQH4)

249 burt munro casting pistons.

Posted by: edgar n. cleaver at June 08, 2026 10:55 AM (R11M+)

250 218 How come CBD never posts any Robert Crumb art?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (glnUu)

Same reason he never posts any art by Chadians and Solomons Islanders.

Posted by: Gref at June 08, 2026 10:55 AM (5rh/l)

251 Trump is too nice to these people.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 10:55 AM (vFG9F)

252 SEATTLE MAYOR CRIES as Largest Bagel Franchise OFFICIALLY Shuts Down For Good!

That stupid twit has no idea what it takes to be the one who signs the front of a paycheck. She is genuinely that dumb.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:55 AM (2WIwB)

253 Socialist mayors are about allocating, not producing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 10:56 AM (RIvkX)

254
How come CBD never posts any Robert Crumb art?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:47 AM (glnUu)

Mostly, cuz he Keeps On Truckin' towards the good stuff.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 10:56 AM (iJfKG)

255
In the Brahms v. Wagner war, I'm firmly on Brahms' side.
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

They make the best malts.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 08, 2026 10:57 AM (g8Ew8)

256 Someone earlier said they accuse Trump not interview him.. They were right...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:57 AM (JOQH4)

257 Have you heard the rest of the cycle? Vyšehrad, with its opening harp solo, is beautiful as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Just went to listen to it.. I have heard it but I didn't realize it/ Posted by: It's me donna

Banging classical music. The harp solo reminds of Eddie Van Halen on the Eruption cadenza.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 08, 2026 10:57 AM (glnUu)

258 Chivalry is not dead.

UFC Fighter Bryce Mitchell's Message to Ben Shapiro:

"I promise you, if you lay one little greasy finger on Candace Owens, I will beat your ass. He wants us to go die and bomb Muslim kids for his Jewish people."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:57 AM (ndZc7)

259
Seattle mayor's supporters are people who do not care what gets destroyed or expelled, so long as they rule over the remaining rubble.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:58 AM (O0L8i)

260 UFC Fighter Bryce Mitchell's Message to Ben Shapiro:

"I promise you, if you lay one little greasy finger on Candace Owens, I will beat your ass. He wants us to go die and bomb Muslim kids for his Jewish people."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 10:57 AM (ndZc

Who's Bryce Mitchell ? Don't think that's gonna help his career in that sport

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:59 AM (JOQH4)

261 Who's Bryce Mitchell ? Don't think that's gonna help his career in that sport
Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 10:59 AM

No idea, but it sounds as if he's taken one too many shots to the head.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 11:00 AM (bFu5X)

262 Every Republican needs to memorize a version of this and repeat it until the Dems stop asking:

"In 2000, when the Democrats broke decades of precedent, and began declaring every election they lost as fraudulent, Republicans in FL gave anyone and everyone access to the ballots to look for themselves.
Every major news organization that examined the ballots saw Bush legitimately won.
Full transparency for everyone.
20 years later, not one single Democrat jurisdiction allowed any independent examination of their ballots.
Not one.
So, it's not a question of whether Joe Biden won, it's a question of whether the election was ever legitimate in the first place.
Prove that and I'll answer whether Joe Biden won."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 11:00 AM (73/SM)

263 WE HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 11:00 AM (Ia/+0)

264 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

265 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

266 If Trump wants to do something that'll (maybe) resuscitate his chances for a 'pub victory in both Houses in the coming election, he'll make Iran into a veritable mound of (ahem) 'nuclear dust' and (hopefully) restrain himself from putting boots on the ground. We don't need a repeat of Bagram or 'Nam … let's just kill the bastards and come home with as few losses as possible. Right now, Trump's pissing away whatever remaining good will exists in the public - and higher prices for gas and food are NOT gonna make him look any better. Just sayin' …

Posted by: Dr_No at June 08, 2026 11:02 AM (ayRl+)

267 I often cast bullet as well.
Out of spells, but not out of shells!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 08, 2026 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

268 the green is called deforest kelly.

Posted by: cmeat at June 08, 2026 12:04 PM (R11M+)

269 the oil based paint was too smelly
the latex was thicker than jelly
when deciding between
a wide palette of green
he painted deforest kelly

Posted by: cmeat at June 08, 2026 12:12 PM (R11M+)

The Morning Report — 6/ 8 /26

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Good morning kids. We are loaded with links to kick off the new week. First up, there was a massive earthquake that struck the Philippines, so prayers up for those affected.

Also overseas there seems no real end in sight for the conflict with Iran. Certainly no real long term good end to it...

In a post on X, Barak Ravid, a global affairs correspondent for Axios, shared that Trump told him he was “going to call Netanyahu” and tell Netanyahu “not to strike back.” Trump’s comments to Ravid come after Iran retaliated with a missile strike on Israel after Israel struck Beirut in response to an attack from Hezbollah, according to Axios. Axios reported that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “said sirens sounded in northern Israel as four missiles were launched from Iran”:
. . . One United States official, along with “two other sources” told the outlet that Israel had “notified the Trump administration before the strike” on Beirut. Another U.S. official told the outlet that the U.S. “supports Israel’s right to self-defense and stands with the legitimate Government of Lebanon as it works to deliver a better future for its citizens.”

Yes,I get it that unnamed sources as well as propaganda organs like Axios are to be taken with a grain of salt. But there is no doubt that President Trump no doubt would like the conflict to be over with as soon as possible, both to spare the lives of American service personnel and any innocent parties on the ground and to staunch the political fallout here at home as we get closer and closer to the crucial midterm elections.

But to expect Israel to not respond after a massive and deadly missile barrage is just as clueless as not understanding the nature of not merely Iran but of that nation's motivating force Islam. That is why there really is no successful endgame other than the absolute defeat of the Mullahs and the eradication of those who support it and the replacement of some sort of at least minimally benign regime that will not export Islamic terrorism and aggression in he name of Islamic global conquest and the destruction ofAmerica, the West and our allies. that is why negotiations are delusional unless President Trump himself is somehow using them as some sort of feint before delivering some sort of unknown knockout blow that will give him an unambiguous victory. And I have no idea what that would be.

“This is regime change,” Trump added. “One regime is gone, another regime is gone, we’re dealing with the third. Pieces of it, because some of them are gone, too.”
Regrettably, the president’s math is premised on a misguided assumption. Regime change requires the eradication of the ruling ideology, not merely the removal of some of the rulers who enforce it.
The two obvious examples of successful regime change that spring to mind are from World War II. Both prove the point in different ways.
When the U.S. and its allies occupied Nazi Germany following its unconditional surrender, de-Nazification was a comprehensive, whole-of-society effort to eradicate both the ruling ideology and the rulers themselves. This was necessary to eradicate over a decade of Nazi indoctrination and genocidal totalitarian rule over the German people, as well as the vile regime’s similar domination of occupied nations, which occurred with the support of elements within those local populations. Consequently, a root-and-branch elimination of the Nazi ideology followed. While Hitler and other top Nazis cheated the hangman, the Nuremberg war crimes trials resulted in the execution and/or imprisonment of remaining key regime leaders. Thus, in the instance of regime change in Nazi Germany, both the National Socialist ideology and its regime’s leadership were eradicated.

And of course closer to home Ho-Hum-Ho-Hum the Democrats have stolen yet another election.

The way the game is being played this time is even sleazier with an attempt to knock out Spencer Pratt, who finished second on Election Night, in the first round with a whole lot of ‘late arriving ballots’ for the third place candidate, Nithya Raman.
It’s not remotely credible for a third place candidate who finished on Election Night in the twenties to be picking up 40% of late arriving ballots.
The previous defense that Democrats pick up more late arriving ballots doesn’t work either because it turns out that the Democrat who gets the most late arriving ballots is… the one who needs them more.
Magical isn’t it.
All with a turnout that somehow topped the much more popular and momentous 2022 mayoral election.

You know, getting rid of the Mullahs is all well and good, but unless and until the Democrat/Left is wiped off the face of the earth for all time (rhetorically speaking of course!) we are going over the cliff.

Have a great day,

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!

The missile launches were identified at roughly 3:05 p.m. EDT, according to an X post by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Iran Launches First Missile Attack On Israel In 61 Days
Israel struck several military targets in Iran on Sunday, hours after the Islamic Republic launched a barrage of missiles at the Jewish State.
Israel strikes back at Iran military targets hours after missile barrage over Lebanon attack
Thad McCotter: Trump’s “regime change” claim mistakes dead dictators for dead ideologies—the mullahs’ anti-American regime endures because its governing creed remains intact.
‘Regime Change’ Requires Eradicating an Ideology
The victor dictates the terms.
Iran: ‘This War Will End Only When It Ends in Lebanon as Well’
“Trump’s refusal to return to war with Iran will cost him dearly."
How the Saudis Have Lost Faith in America

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Democrat Chris Murphy is REFUSING to apologize after saying it was "awesome" that Iranian ships slipped past the U.S. blockade....He says it was just "sarcasm."...This traitor needs to resign in disgrace.
Filthy Pinko of the Week: Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy!

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . AND HISTORY
IDF eliminates Hamas Nukhba commander behind Kissufim massacre during October 7 attack.
IDF Strikes Hezbollah’s Beirut Stronghold as Terror Group Rejects Ceasefire, Attacks Northern Israel
In a little over three months, Israelis have had to deal with more than a thousand attempted terrorist attacks. The latest attack turned deadly. And yet the world media and politicians continue to completely ignore the constant terror and destruction inflicted on Israeli civilians.
Latest Arab Terror Attack Is One of a Thousand Since March Targeting Israelis

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The latest embarrassment for the UN group will likely lead to more calls for UNRWA to be formally classified as a terrorist organization
Exclusive: US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists
Despite the 2023 October 7th terror attacks on Israel seeing over 1,200 mostly civilians being brutally killed by jihadists and hundreds more being taken as hostages, 28 per cent of students polled said that they viewed Hamas’ actions that day as “defensible”.
Over One in Four UK Undergraduate Students Say October 7th Terror Attacks on Israel ‘Defensible’
Judith Miller: Two Israeli journalists conduct an unsparing analysis of the failures that led to Hamas’s atrocities.
How Israel Can Prevent the Next October 7
When the Israeli navy detained Greta Thunberg and other pro-Hamas radicals who were trying to “break the siege on Gaza,” the global sob-sister class went crazy on cue. . .The Global Sumud Flotilla, traveling overland from Tunisia, found themselves seized by Libyan forces and held incommunicado for weeks, and the world’s moral police said . . . nothing. Crickets. No marches or protests. No front-page coverage alleging torture and beatings.
The pro-Gaza brigade whose suffering you never heard of — and why
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Some lives matter more than others
DSA Campaigner for BLM Candidate Beats Up 98-Year-Old Man
Organizers instructed participants to “Be as loud as you can. Be as obnoxious as you can. Make these people hate us. Make sure they know you hate them.”
Left-Wing Scum Stage Mock Assassination of Charlie Kirk Outside TPUSA Event
The murder of Henry Nowak at the hands of a protected minority -- and the police -- has become the spark that set Britain ablaze.
Minneapolis to Hampshire: Mass Derangement to Murder
The silence surrounding Henry Nowak’s murder reveals which victims command outrage and which are simply ignored.
The Ideological Needle and the Damage Done
Roger Kimball: Multiculturalism promised diversity, but by weakening assimilation and shared identity, it risks unraveling the cultural bonds that made America one nation.
The Hyphen and the Melting Pot
The world has always known psychopathic tyrants who oppressed everything and everybody, but in our time they disguise themselves as champions of social justice.
The Mask Of The Savior
“The FBI’s most fundamental principles is that investigative activity may not be based solely on the exercise of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.”
Patel Fires Five Tied to Anti-Catholic FBI Memo
A superseding indictment filed this week against the Southern Poverty Law Center is probably the signal that a long legal battle is starting.
The New SPLC Indictment Is Probably Also Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
What's old is new again for today's Democratic Socialists.
Germany's National Socialist policies seem strangely familiar
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The advisory aims to protect legitimate businesses from unfair competition, prevent wage suppression, and safeguard taxpayer funds from being siphoned into illegal schemes. Banks are encouraged to file suspicious activity reports and collaborate with ICE to combat these practices. Ignoring such advisories could result in severe regulatory and reputational consequences for financial institutions.
Treasury Pushes Banks Over Payroll Fraud Connected to Illegal Immigrant Labor.
The policies were put in place by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) after an Afghan national shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.
Rhode Island Judge Strikes Down Trump Immigration Freeze
The safety of federal officers and their families and the future of America hang in the balance.
The ICE mask contrived controversy takes an ugly turn
Democrat electeds who exercised their rights to inspect the facility came out recounting complaints from those inside — but now GOP Rep. Jeff Van Drew (NJ) has done his own walk-through, and notes the detainees have access to “full soccer fields and an excellent gym” with squat, fly bench-press and leg machines. Not to mention the library computer rooms, yoga sessions and even aromatherapy.
Democrats embraced tapestry of lies about ‘inhumane’ conditions at Delaney Hall (They wove it - jjs)
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
‘The American people are tired of a government that treats their citizenship as cheap, their laws as optional and their generosity as an invitation to be exploited.’
Senators Explore Avenues To Denaturalize And Deport More Fraudsters And America-Haters
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
California’s decline was not destiny but the product of political choices that turned America’s greatest success story into a cautionary tale.
California’s Choice
Kvetching, complaining, and lawfare -- anything to try to stop the beautiful city the capital is becoming under President Trump's leadership.
Trump's beautification of Washington, D.C. infuriates Democrats

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
“I wish I could kill 300,000,000 Americans.”
3 Middle Eastern Men in U.S., Including Navy Sailor, Dreamed of Helping ISIS Kill Americans
Washington has managed political Islam as a distributed system rather than confronting it, and that same framework now defines the struggle playing out in Texas.
The Shell Game and America’s Institutional Enemy Inside our Gates
There is unending propaganda about an Islamic Golden Age of the past that today's Islamists want to recreate.
The West Owes Islam Nothing
“There is a culture of fear.”
British Cop Sacked for Asking Questions About Islam
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
The elephant in the room of liberal multiculturalism.
Antisemitism is a Diversity Problem
“When the city’s leader can’t even speak out against raw antisemitic violence invoking the darkest libels of the past, it signals to every hater that such cruelty is tolerable in New York.”
Antisemitic Crimes in NYC Surging As Mamdani Ignores Another Violent Subway Attack
“There is real concern that Abdul would not be able to beat Rogers and then potentially lose us a majority possibility in the Senate.”
Establishment Dems on Edge As Anti-Israel El-Sayed Surge Continues in MI Primary
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
James Comey and E. Jean Carroll hopefully will open wide the gates to widespread punishment for the leftist crimes of the last ten years.
The DOJ’s Broken Windows
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Trump and Welker also sparred over allegations of fraud in California’s primary election, especially as socialist Democratic Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman benefited from late ballot counting which increased the likelihood Republican candidate Spencer Pratt could be boxed out of the November general election.
‘I’ve Had Enough, Thank You Darling’: Trump Walks Out On NBC Interview
CBS News' shakeup and the future of the mainstream press.
The Woke Newsroom That Got Fired
"I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at."
Scott Pelley Takes Military Cosplay To New Level In Deluded NYT Interview
A personal experience reveals the fraudulent nature of fired '60 Minutes' correspondent
Scott Pelley Isn’t a Serious Journalist
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The Federal Reserve, under new chairman Kevin Warsh, is likely to prioritize controlling inflation over cutting interest rates, despite calls from President Donald J. Trump to reduce rates. The seeming stabilization of the labor market over the last three months may influence the Fed’s upcoming policy decisions during its mid-June meeting.
U.S. Economy Beats Expectations, Adding 172,000 New Jobs in May.
Is the money you earn yours, or does it intrinsically belong to the government?
Government's Insatiable Lust for Your Money
Zohran Mamdani’s regulatory agenda will make dining out and ordering in costlier than ever.
The Progressive War on Cheap Eats
No, they aren't losing money. Living with Democrat rule is worse.
California's tax policies are so bad billionaires are willing to pay extra to flee
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
. . . two counties in southeastern New Mexico – Lea and Eddy – now account for 78 percent of oil produced on U.S. onshore federal lands. It’s a stunning, unprecedented dominance by such a compact land footprint.
Will New Mexico’s Next Governor Kill The State’s Golden Goose?
Shed no tears for the loss of another cog in the global warming propaganda machine.
Climate Alarm On The Run, Part II
Repealing the EPA’s biofuel boondoggle ought to be a no-brainer—but can reformers overcome the “liquid pork” regime?
A Simple Policy to Reduce Food Prices
California didn’t just embrace green energy; it embraced dependence on China, leaving consumers to pay the price at the pump and on their utility bills.
How China Captured California
For Brussels’ net-zero ideologues, it is deeply inconvenient that people are beginning to focus on reality.
Can Romania Lead the Way Out of the EU's Green Nightmare?
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Police believe the two suspects were "probably shooting at each other."
Festival Horror: At Least 12 Shot As Hunt For Suspects Intensifies
In the Tenderloin, the “Hondos” have cornered the fentanyl market.
Honduran Drug Gangs Rule the Streets of San Francisco
ABORTION
The tragedy is not Valentina’s life with Down syndrome; the tragedy would have been never letting her live it.
Down Syndrome Babies Like My Little Sister-In-Law Are Not Defects To Eliminate
SECOND AMENDMENT
Democrat Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the ban on so-called “assault weapons,” SB 749, into law on May 14, drawing immediate suits from pro-Second Amendment organizations, including the National Rifle Association (NRA), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC). Clarke County Commonwealth’s Attorney Matthew Bass, who announced his refusal to enforce the ban on May 29 alongside Clarke County Sheriff Travis M. Sumption, told the DCNF he discussed the implications of the legislation with the sheriff before their joint statement.
These Local Prosecutors Are Taking The Fight To Abigail Spanberger’s Semi-Auto Gun Ban
The National Rifle Association (NRA) filed the suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida in August 2025, seeking to invalidate the state’s three-day waiting period on Second Amendment grounds. Uthmeier announced his office’s decision to end the legal battle in a statement.
Florida Ends Legal Fight With NRA By Conceding Gun Law Violates Second Amendment
THE 2020 AND 2022 ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
How does the third place candidate win the majority of late arriving ballots?
The LA Mayoral Election is Being Stolen
3 reasons this was fraud.
LA Mayoral Steal Pushes the Limits of Fraud People Will Accept
“We’ve seen this now probably for about a decade out there. It’s those votes that get tabulated after election day, they tend to be almost always or heavily, heavily Democratic.”
Surprise! California Dems Surge in Post-Election Day Mail In Ballots
Because the appearance of fraud is just as bad as its actual existence.
Californians Deserve Better Than Endless, Fraud-Prone Vote Counting
In California, a person can register to vote with a gym membership card, drug prescription, public housing card, or criminal pardon. Wait till you see the entire list.
Wait Till You See What ‘IDs’ California Accepts for Voter Registration
If passed, election integrity in the state would be significantly strengthened, mitigating voter fraud, identity theft, foreign interference, and other corrupt practices. The measure could also reverse declining public trust in elections. Whether the proposal is strengthened to prevent mail-in fraud remains to be seen. However, the data is clear that there is overwhelming bipartisan support for voter ID among the public, including roughly 70 percent of Democrats nationwide.
Vast Majority of Voters Want Voter ID in This State.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
“Democrats believe in respecting the equality and dignity of women, and we always will. And we reject unequivocally misogyny. We reject it. But you know who else rejects it? Graham Platner.”
RIP ‘Believe All Women’ As Democrats Go All in for Graham Platner
Democrats are casting Platner’s accusers as unreliable after treating the word of Kavanaugh’s suspect accusers as gospel.
Dems’ Shrug At Platner Scandal Proves Kavanaugh Hearings Were Always A Partisan Witch Hunt
Fetterman told Platner he could clear the matter by showing that every recipient of his messages was an adult.
John Fetterman Says He’ll Start Wearing Suits If Graham Platner Proves He Didn’t Send ‘Dick Pics’ To Minors
If you want the bluntest of all perspectives on Platner and the identicide behind him, you simply have to catch up to a blue collar Mainer.
Platner’s Pine Tree State Appeal Is All About The Leftist Saps Who Moved Here

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David Harsanyi: They had a chance to be normal. They chose crazy.
Are Dems in Any Position to Lecture Anyone About Candidates?
For Jeffries, “leadership” means willful ignorance about any facts that might get in the way of taking power.
Hakeem Jeffries just doesn’t want to know about the monsters he’s trying to elect
Dingell-berry used repeated obscenities while defending her work on Cuba and Venezuela, in a clip making the rounds on social media. The question that preceded her remarks is not audible in the available video, and the recording cuts off
Michigan Dem Rep Debbie Dingell Loses It, Drops F-Bombs In A Viral Clip
The taxpayer-funded plan, which Paige Cognetti commissioned as mayor of Scranton, said the city should work to 'equalize outcomes between more and less advantaged groups'
Pennsylvania Mayor Running for House on Record of ‘Cutting Waste’ Spent $75K on ‘Equity Plan’ That Called To Put DEI at ‘Core of Every Decision’
POLITICS
Massie’s defeat signals a GOP split: a donor-backed old guard prevailing for now, and a younger America First faction challenging wars, debt, and executive power.
Thomas Massie’s Defeat Exposes the GOP’s Post-Trump Identity Crisis
Rubio recently said he would be the first to support Vance if he ran for president in 2028, and it is unlikely Don Jr. will run. Therefore, if one were to add Rubio’s and Don Jr.’s numbers to Vance’s percentage — since those two are likely to support Vance from the get-go — it would show Vance starting with a dominant majority of Republicans at 66 percent with the total of those three combined.
Poll: Vice President JD Vance and Kamala Harris Dominate Potential 2028 Candidates
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Miranda Devine: Maybe it was a comedy routine the former first couple had practiced, but it fell flat. There wasn’t much laughter from the audience. Who humiliates her 83-year-old husband in public to try and boost lackluster book sales? “Dr.” Jill Biden — that’s who: a 76-year-old egotist who, in her delusional attempts to rewrite history, now claims that she thought Joe was having a “stroke” when he malfunctioned and started babbling more unintelligibly than usual during his first and final debate against Donald Trump almost exactly two years ago.
. . . Yep, that’s exactly what we assumed, since we had been watching Joe glitch for more than four years, despite the best efforts of his “American Politburo” of minders, led by the ambitious Jill, to conceal her husband’s frailties.
Democrats can’t escape the Bidens and their drama — even if they’re done covering for them
The burst comes as the Biden family name faces another round of damage. “CALL ME DOCTOR” Jill Biden has a new memoir out, and Joe's age, decline, and 2024 debacle remain part of the national conversation. Hunter stepped into the noise with the same scandals trailing behind him, but with a new tone; he's trying to turn the evidence locker into a comedy set and the family defense into a personal comeback tour.
Hunter Biden Is Posting Like the Biden Name Needs Rescuing
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the threat of a tsunami largely passed about five hours after the quake. Six shanties on stilts were damaged in a coastal village in Zamboanga del Sur due to the quake and taller waves, officials said.
A 7.8 magnitude quake in the Philippines kills at least 16, fells buildings and sets off a tsunami

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Europe’s EU project has reached its limits: a centralized bureaucracy replacing politics itself, draining legitimacy, and pointing back toward sovereign, competitive states.
Europe 2.0, Beyond Brussels: The End of the European Union as We Know It
South Korea’s travel ban on an American ambassador reveals a regime more afraid of scrutiny than committed to democratic norms.
American ‘Ally’ Imposes Travel Ban on American Ambassador
Lammy, who also serves as the left-wing Labour Party government’s Justice Secretary, said that while the “starting point” should be equality before the law, it is not always appropriate to be treated “the same”, noting the disproportionate arrest rates of certain ethnic minority groups, such as Roma travellers [Gypsies] and black Britons.
UK Deputy PM Says Equality Before Law Doesn’t Mean Treating All Ethnic Groups the ‘Same’ After Nowak Killing
Official British cowardice claims another innocent victim.
The Needless Death of Henry Nowak – and Britain’s Shame
The shocking post came in response to an opinion column endorsing a political opponent.
Latin American Trump Rival Tweets ‘Heil Hitler’
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The meeting comes in the wake of a Russian drone strike that killed three people waiting at a bus stop in southeastern Ukraine. Another person was wounded in the drone attack in Balabyne in Ukraine´s southern Zaporizhzhia region, the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov, wrote on his Telegram channel.
Starmer(bahnfuhrer) Hosts Zelensky, Merz, and Macron for Downing Street Ukraine Talks
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The Defense Cyber Defense Command (DCDC) is one of the newest agencies in the Department of War. It has one mission: to protect America from all digital threats that could undermine U.S. national security.
The Pentagon Gears Up For An Internet-Based War
“This case illustrates the lengths to which the Chinese Communist Party will go to undermine our democratic institutions and degrade our political freedoms, but it also demonstrates the FBI’s resolve to defend the homeland from threats to our national security.” – Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division
American ‘Journalist’ Pleads Guilty to Working for China.
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Americans are older, wiser, and still very, very angry.
A COVID memoir
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Researchers also noted a broader deterioration in adult mortality beginning around 2010, driven largely by heart disease, and warned that the United States could face prolonged stagnation or even declines in life expectancy if the trend is not reversed. This trend has continued with subsequent generations, exacerbated by factors such as obesity and the opioid epidemic. This could have significant implications for public health policy and economic planning.
Americans Born After 1970 Are Dying Younger.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in April aiming to “accelerate innovative research models and appropriate drug approvals to increase access to psychedelic drugs that could save lives and reverse the crisis of serious mental illness in America.” While some experts have touted the antidepressant effects of psychedelic-assisted mental healthcare treatments, others have raised concerns about potential ethical issues and gaps in psychedelic research.
How Trump Admin’s Psychedelic Drug Research Push Could Shake Up US Mental Healthcare System
ObamaCare, among many other disasters, is Obama’s legacy
Obamacare is a fraud X 2.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
In a new record for the farthest measurement yet achieved (10 billion light years away), astronomers have now used the Webb Space Telescope obtain a reasonably accurate measurement of the mass of supermassive black hole in the early universe, estimated to be six billion times the mass of our Sun.
Astronomers measure weight of supermassive black hole 10 billion light years away
If the leak rate has suddenly jumped from one pound per day to two pounds a day, that suggests the situation is worsening, and doing so at an alarming rate.
NASA clarifies air leak situation yesterday on ISS
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
What was once controversial (when Rush Limbaugh said it) is now mainstream.
Rush Was Right
The bottom of the box office barrel for Star Wars is unquestionably Solo: A Star Wars Story (201, which petered out with a $214
million domestic gross and a $179 million overseas gross, for a global total of $393 million. . . That’s catastrophic math for any blockbuster. For a Star Wars movie, it revealed a major disturbance in the force, and that disturbance went by the name of Kathleen “The Force Is Female” Kennedy. Remember, Solo is a movie that told fans that the legendary Lando Calrissian would be revealed as a robot-humping “pansexual.” I don’t know what a pansexual is. I don’t want to know what a pansexual is. But I do know it’s gross.
Nolte: Disney’s ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ Flops Hard in Weekend Three
Christian Toto:Aussie animated series breaks Fathom Entertainment record, He-Man stumbles
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HelloFresh tries to roll back the clock to a much more explicit era of Pride.
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DC Comics Publishes Pride Month Issue with Trans ‘Wonder Woman’
Decline is not fate but a choice; the argument holds that America endures by defending its institutions and rejecting narratives of inevitable collapse.
Decline Is a Choice—Success Isn’t Inevitable
HITHER & YON
Woodrow Wilson rejected the Founders’ constitutional order, replacing it with expert-driven administration that still defines American government.
Woodrow Wilson’s War Against the Constitution

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1 Morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 07:42 AM (svLOV)

2 Happy Monday

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 08, 2026 07:43 AM (/+uur)

3 The murder of Henry Nowak at the hands of a protected minority -- and the police -- has become the spark that set Britain ablaze.

I truly hope that's the case. Britain should be a safe country.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 07:44 AM (svLOV)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 07:45 AM (NcvvS)

5 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 07:46 AM (Ia/+0)

6 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

7 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 07:49 AM (jehhT)

8 “This is regime change,” Trump added. “One regime is gone, another regime is gone, we’re dealing with the third. Pieces of it, because some of them are gone, too.”
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Da fuq?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

9 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

10 Mossad had pictures of Paul cavorting with all the underage girl Trump refused to sleep with.

Posted by: Raul at June 08, 2026 07:50 AM (uPdai)

11 It's 2026. Everything, everywhere is being recorded all the time 24/7. Everything is documented somewhere, everything has a bar code number. Everything is on file.

Yet the democrat election fraud system is a riddle wrapped in a condom inside a giant green dildo and just cannot be identified, prosecuted and dismantled.

Pathetic.

Posted by: Enough Of The Balloon Juice at June 08, 2026 07:50 AM (OhZoB)

12 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at June 08, 2026 07:51 AM (kmSxS)

13 disabled marine a Nazi because of one tattoo he got 20 years ago.

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The troll has got to realize how laughable this line of argument is.

Literally "some Nazis are good Nazis"

They have tried about 6 different ways to try explaining it away.

The hypocrisy is so obvious even a dummy like the troll must get it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

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

FIFY ;-)

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 08, 2026 07:53 AM (3Ope8)

15 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 08, 2026 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

16 Mornin’ party people!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 08, 2026 07:54 AM (lBqsU)

17 CrotchetyOldJarhead

I am increasingly OK with this. Leftists have transmogrified into Hamas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

18 JJ you're hysterical with the edits!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:55 AM (RIvkX)

19 CoJ your garden is amazing!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:56 AM (RIvkX)

20 The IRGC after firing 22 missiles at Israel last night in a devastating response to Israeli agression has called off the bombing.
20 of the IRGC missiles were intercepted but the one that landed in the Judean desert was enough to scare Israel into submission.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 08, 2026 07:57 AM (5P5DO)

21
Prayers for the people of the Philippines.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 07:58 AM (Y8DZL)

22 >>>The two obvious examples of successful regime change that spring to mind are from World War II. Both prove the point in different ways.

America is not prepared for that level of commitment, especially while we fight commies here on our own shores.

So I am satisfied that we continue to support our allies, militarily, in their defensive and preemptive strikes that are not limited by our own domestic enemies, and politically, while we work toward a peaceful and long-lasting conclusion.

Otherwise, people so determined to have a Workd War 11 style end, are you sending your sons and daughters?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 07:59 AM (dK+Kv)

23 Over One in Four UK Undergraduate Students Say October 7th Terror Attacks on Israel ‘Defensible’

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For the ones that aren't muslim scum, force these idiots to sit down with their eyes propped open with toothpicks to watch the unspeakable, inhumane brutality that was filmed by these demonic animals following that massacre. Ask them if it's "defensible."

Half the world is so hopelessly brainwashed, they'd probably still agree.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 08, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

24 Posted by: Paul at June 08, 2026 07:49 AM (Xxf6T)

Vets also police their own. Platner is a Blue Falcon of the highest order. That guy doesn't get protected by everybody else - he gets blanket party'd.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 08, 2026 08:02 AM (Kdi1r)

25 Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

We can cripple Iran with drones. We have our own supply.

A nation with no electrical generation ability is mission-killed in the 21st Century. I put my plan in the tech thread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

26 HelloFresh Crosses Line With Repulsive Pride Month Ad. It’s Sickening.

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I'm glad you put up a link to this, JJ. I saw this yesterday and was knocked back on my feet at how utterly disgusting it was. I'm out of words to describe the Sodom and Gomorrah we seem to be living in. That post, along with their "BottomsUp" promo code is so beyond grotesque and inappropriate, it's hard to believe it's real. But it is.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 08, 2026 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

27 where to start
so much f***ed up stuff

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 08:05 AM (ZxPkt)

28 "We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here". -Remember this line? Well now they're making inroads over here. Since we will not commit troops to fighting anymore ME wars at least we will have them to fight here some years down the road(?) Again, I guess we've thumbed China in the eye as far as oil, whacked some bad guys in Iran, now we have to bail. I guess any Iranians left to fight the regime have been croaked by the bad Iranians, so that's a wash. Honestly I think maybe we should just nuke them, you know, KILL THEM ALL. Maybe that'll help us in defeating them and the left here in the United States. Just spit balling, I dunno WTF I'm watching with them murderous pricks over there. I just know they've done well exploiting our system here with help from the left.

Posted by: JROD at June 08, 2026 08:06 AM (IlL6s)

29 ......nuke them after the midterms.

Posted by: JROD at June 08, 2026 08:07 AM (IlL6s)

30 A nation with no electrical generation ability is mission-killed in the 21st Century. I put my plan in the tech thread.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

"Bomb 'em back to the Stone Age" has become "Bomb 'em back to the 20th century".

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

31 Morning JJ and the Horde. No matter what happens, Planter is still a gift. Current Governor Mills would have beaten Collins easily in a midterm election. A woman and only a few years older than Collins

Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:08 AM (YCxFk)

32 Paul, call your parents and actually talk to them. We're not here for your therapy.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 08:08 AM (svLOV)

33 Wonder Woman comes from a land of Amazons. She is already a powerful woman. The comics people at DC think replacing a powerful woman with a guy is the greatest thing in the world. Have they not paid attention to their own errors and the errors of film makers? DC should die of blunt force trauma.

Posted by: clarence at June 08, 2026 08:08 AM (FLIKO)

34 Was it one of the Horde who called Platner Maine Kampf? Because that was hilarious.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 08:09 AM (svLOV)

35 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

36 And of course closer to home Ho-Hum-Ho-Hum the Democrats have stolen yet another election.

Owebama, laughing, spreads his wings.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

37 We can cripple Iran with drones. We have our own supply.

A nation with no electrical generation ability is mission-killed in the 21st Century. I put my plan in the tech thread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

I saw your tech thread post and agree, there is no question of ability, or ability with minimal American casualties.

We are now in a state where "hostilities have ceased," we are in a blockade/freedom to navigate operation, and Iran is attacking it's Arab and Israeli neighbors, carefully avoiding striking American targets, while we support Israel militarily.

I'm OK with this. It's been three months.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 08:10 AM (dK+Kv)

38 Morn' all.. That Pratt thing really pissed me off... I'm in CA and I knew it was inevitable but still....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 08:10 AM (FtULh)

39 The Dems stole another election… this time in LA. Ho hum

And I hate to say it, but Trump is really stepping on his dick with Iran. Stalling for a deal is delusional. Telling Israel to tolerate attacks is stupid

I’m Mr negativity this morning I guess

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 08:11 AM (CUP/i)

40 If not for the necessity of a huge military presence, due to simple Geography, LA and Cal can rot. Fires roast their homes due to imcompetence, and the idiot voters still bring back Bass and a insane marxist for the run off

Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:12 AM (YCxFk)

41 Also overseas there seems no real end in sight for the conflict with Iran. Certainly no real long term good end to it...

So which ends first...the Russo-Ukranian war or the Iranian war?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:12 AM (l3cgK)

42 This is regime change,” Trump added. “One regime is gone, another regime is gone, we’re dealing with the third. Pieces of it, because some of them are gone, too.”

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Yes! They replaced Brezhnev with Gromyko, and Gromyko with Andropov! Regime change baby !

🤡🤡🤡

*to "replace" unrepentant islamonazi with another islamonazi is not regime change...same rotten terrorists

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:13 AM (GD0B3)

43 fd

Maybe 1901. The Arabs in Iran should ponder what led to the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols. Basically they goaded the largest army on the planet, and then were astonished when their most advanced city was razed, and all but the pretty women were executed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

44 40 If not for the necessity of a huge military presence, due to simple Geography, LA and Cal can rot. Fires roast their homes due to imcompetence, and the idiot voters still bring back Bass and a insane marxist for the run off
Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:12 AM (YCxFk)

I hope Raman Noodles wins... Give it to LA good and hard...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 08:13 AM (JOQH4)

45 Main thing is there is no US troops on the ground per Iran. That is the political rubicon. Bush would have 10k soldiers over there by now

Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:14 AM (YCxFk)

46 40 If not for the necessity of a huge military presence, due to simple Geography, LA and Cal can rot. Fires roast their homes due to imcompetence, and the idiot voters still bring back Bass and a insane marxist for the run off
Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:12 AM (YCxFk)

I would offer… we really don’t know what Cali voters wanted. The entire election process there is corrupt intentionally obtuse and entirely controlled by the Dem machine there. The voters may be idiots or maybe not…. We’ll never know

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 08:14 AM (CUP/i)

47 Morn' all.. That Pratt thing really pissed me off... I'm in CA and I knew it was inevitable but still....

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I feel for you, donna. I knew it was inevitable too, but there was always a little shred of hope that the obvious, blatant avalanche of fraud wouldn't materialize.

It's as plain as the nose on Klinger's face what they did. They'll keep doing it. Who's going to stop them?

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 08, 2026 08:14 AM (qBdHI)

48 "its," stupid autocorrect

It's so random some times allowing clear misspellings while correcting clearly and correctly used words. I am about at the point of turning it off completely.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 08:15 AM (dK+Kv)

49 Pratt got cheated. California sucks. What's Pratt going to do about it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

50 >>Was it one of the Horde who called Platner Maine Kampf?

Ace himself.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 08:15 AM (NcvvS)

51 Cal will never go bankrupt due to high paying civilian military jobs. Ya know how many Cal paychecks are printed in D.C? That does not include all the military contracts Silicon valley gets

Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:16 AM (YCxFk)

52 50. Perfect LOL

Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:17 AM (YCxFk)

53 >And I hate to say it, but Trump is really stepping on his dick with Iran. Stalling for a deal is delusional. Telling Israel to tolerate attacks is stupid
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you have crystallized my thoughts exactly

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 08:17 AM (ZxPkt)

54 Platner is the epitome of where the Democrat party is. He's the vile poster child of their poisonous ideology. I will not be half surprised if they truck in enough fraud to catapult this POS into the Senate.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 08, 2026 08:17 AM (qBdHI)

55 Main thing is there is no US troops on the ground per Iran. That is the political rubicon. Bush would have 10k soldiers over there by now

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you know, 1/4 of century is a long time, there have been advances in warfare capabilities....

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:17 AM (GD0B3)

56 49. Nothing. Acting us attorney for L.A. turned out to be a big pussy

Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:18 AM (YCxFk)

57 Pratt got cheated. California sucks. What's Pratt going to do about it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

He’ll do social media posts and not much else. I wish he would’ve won but from what I’ve seen (admittedly not much) he’s a media savvy but not particularly smart bomb thrower… he’s a million times better than the Dems but I don’t think he could’ve accomplished much as mayor anyway

I’m really a Debbie downer this morning. Must be Monday

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 08:18 AM (CUP/i)

58 I have never used a meal prep delivery service. I'm guessing, though, that there are alternatives to "Hello Fresh" for people fed up with its crude advertising for "Hello Pride" month.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 08:18 AM (IYIYn)

59 Trump trashed the 'news' person that interviewed him in Wisconsin when it came to the California elections.

"But sir, you have no evidence."

Um......You're an insufferable twat. To say there's no evidence in election fraud over the past decade means you're a corrupt retard that hasn't been paying attention.

"That's how California does their elections."

Yeah, it's corrupt.

I hate what the left has done to my world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

60 FenelonSpoke

Answered your question at the end of the tech thread.

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

61 I’m really a Debbie downer this morning. Must be Monday
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 08:18 AM (CUP/i)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

62 On one silver lining. US House seat has two Republicans advancing to the General in Cal. Big surprise that Dems were shutout. JJ may have mentioned already

Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:20 AM (YCxFk)

63 >And I hate to say it, but Trump is really stepping on his dick with Iran. Stalling for a deal is delusional. Telling Israel to tolerate attacks is stupid
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you have crystallized my thoughts exactly

==

Mine as well. I'm not seeing the 3D chessboard here, if there even is one. Trump is not handling this well. A lot of moving parts I'm not privy to, and I accept that. But he's not looking too successful in this mission. I'll gladly admit to being wrong if the winds start blowing in a positive direction...

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 08, 2026 08:21 AM (qBdHI)

64 Pride is one of the seven deadly sins.

Happy pride month.......

Blasphemy.

It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

65 "The Arabs in Iran should ponder what led to the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols."

Trump is far too nice to these people.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 08:21 AM (vFG9F)

66 On one silver lining. US House seat has two Republicans advancing to the General in Cal. Big surprise that Dems were shutout. JJ may have mentioned already
Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:20 AM (YCxFk)

They still won't pass the SAVE Act.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

67 50 >>Was it one of the Horde who called Platner Maine Kampf?

Ace himself.
Posted by: Nazdar

Thanks. I'm saving it for later use.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 08:22 AM (svLOV)

68 Sponge

The eternal problem of evil.

I wonder if the successor species to humans would have such a problem. Can squirrels or dolphins be evil?

Fuck cancer.

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

69 Aytollahs are waiting for the midterms, hoping Trump loses the house and with many islamists in Congress now, and basic communists, socialists, and antisemites of all stripes that are coming in, they know they will be keen on taking the tools away from Trump. Trump should have bombed all those fkrs months ago, and let Israel do what it needs to do - those guys have plans, they know the neighborhood better than any of the characters advising Trump. Who the hell is telling him he can negotiate with terrorists and that they are somehow different than the last batch of terrorists ??

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:22 AM (GD0B3)

70 >Pratt got cheated. California sucks. What's Pratt going to do about it?
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he can shout it far and wide
but that's about it
he sure won't get a break from any California court

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)

71 >> Nothing. Acting us attorney for L.A. turned out to be a big pussy

How so? You know there is already an ongoing lawsuit against California for refusing to turn over their voter roles and there will likely be more coming as he has been saying for weeks, right?

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

72 Why does Donald keep sitting down with Marxist Comcast NBC in the First place. Welker is a committed left winger. Watch her on election night 2024 on Youtube. She talked racism all night

Posted by: Jonah at June 08, 2026 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

73 Happy Monday!!

DoJ better have been monitoring the LA vote fraud extravaganza. It was obviously going to happen, this must not stand.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 08:23 AM (X8xt3)

74 59 Trump trashed the 'news' person that interviewed him in Wisconsin when it came to the California elections.

"But sir, you have no evidence."

Um......You're an insufferable twat. To say there's no evidence in election fraud over the past decade means you're a corrupt retard that hasn't been paying attention.

"That's how California does their elections."

Yeah, it's corrupt.

I hate what the left has done to my world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

We have a literal cock-sucking dem mayor in Sandy Eggo...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:23 AM (l3cgK)

75 Hello Fresh is sending out a free extra cucumber with every order!

🥒

Posted by: Pawl at June 08, 2026 08:23 AM (vFG9F)

76 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 08:24 AM (lwhHh)

77 Jack, he came last week and said the vote was clean, and the delay is normal

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

78 >>Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 08:22 AM (svLOV)

*fistbump* It's truly Ace-level cruelty.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 08:24 AM (NcvvS)

79 64 Pride is one of the seven deadly sins.

Happy pride month.......

Blasphemy.

It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

Shitty dinner...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:24 AM (l3cgK)

80 Jonah

To leave a marker for the Left and their fellow travelers. This way, his calling them retards is at least momentarily on their radar.

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

81 So, why do they do it now, right out in the open, why not wait quietly until the fall election - Bass is going win anyway, right?

Because there comes a time when every authoritarian ideology attached to a political party, like the left is attached to the Democrats, must show the commoners whose running the show, who is in authority around here.

This Pratt guy was the impetus for the "No talking in line, slave!" Spartacus moment for the left and they took it.

Posted by: Boswell at June 08, 2026 08:25 AM (V7158)

82
Fuck cancer.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

First Lady found out that a former classmate from high school has some whack rare form of cancer in her eye. Prognosis isn't good. Tumor is quite large. She either does radiation and loses her sight in the eye, or they take the eye and she gets a prosthetic. She's looking into ivermectin and that other drug to start a regimin.

Yeah. F*ck cancer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

83 I thought Trump was playing 3D chess with the ceasefire.

Guess I was wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

84 Iran: ‘This War Will End Only When It Ends in Lebanon as Well’

Sounds fair. Okay, Israel, level Lebannon...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:25 AM (l3cgK)

85 First Lady found out that a former classmate from high school has some whack rare form of cancer in her eye. Prognosis isn't good. Tumor is quite large. She either does radiation and loses her sight in the eye, or they take the eye and she gets a prosthetic. She's looking into ivermectin and that other drug to start a regimin.

Yeah. F*ck cancer.
Posted by: Sponge

Prayers, bud. Seriously. I hope she beats it.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 08:26 AM (lwhHh)

86 "I called Netaneyhu! We are so close to a GREAT DEAL! THE BEST MOST BEAUTIFUL DEAL! We will call it OSLO II!"

🤡

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (GD0B3)

87 In some tranches of the late arriving "ballots", Raman received 80 pct of them and overall, she's picked up roughly 50 pct of the ballots "post marked" after election day.

So the candidate who polled far in third, can barely speak without sounding like a lunatic, performed poorly at the debate, and came in third on election day, is now a couple points out of first.

Not plausible by any stretch of the imagination.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (XV/Pl)

88 Watched clips from the Welker interview.
Watch it on mute, take in her body language - the animated gestures, facial expressions, etc.

She never interviews Trump. More like a prosecutor interrogating him while playing to the jury. It’s bizarre.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (X8xt3)

89 "Sounds fair. Okay, Israel, level Lebannon...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

Time to get Syrias.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (vFG9F)

90 The system designed to prevent proof of fraud also cannot prove the election was legitimate.

But that relies upon plausible outcomes and overwhelming control of the media and courts.

The most insane part is yet to come.
If you thought the cheating was blatant, the media disgusting, wait until you're served the steaming pile of shit from the CA state courts:
It'll make everything prior look restrained and reasoned.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (73/SM)

91 I thought Trump was playing 3D chess with the ceasefire.

Guess I was wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

What has happened that's given you a reason not to trust he knows what he's doing?

Just asking.

Iran is a shitty situation all around, but why abandon Trump now?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

92 I doubt any sort of scrutiny in California's elections are going to have any effect. The L.A. mayor's race needs to be nullified. But it won't.

This only emboldens the state to continue using fraudulent elections to get the desired results... whether it's local, county, state or national.

And emboldens other states to widen their own election fraud operations.

Maybe the DoJ will look into doing something other than... you know, looking into it and saying "yea, there's fraud here, y'all should fix it."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (jehhT)

93 We're played out in Iran. We obviously haven't the will to "obliterate" them and are now stuck in a mock dance toward a deal that will never transpire. So there will be some sort steady disengagement with periodic brushbacks by Israel and us, as Iran slowly remilitarizes. Trump and team will crow about how Iran and their nuclear capabilities have been crippled (which is no doubt partly true) and that we "won." And on we go.

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

94 Exclusive: US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists

The UN is a hive of scum and villainy. And we are paying for it!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:28 AM (l3cgK)

95 Today Is Thomas Paine Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 08, 2026 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

96 89 "Sounds fair. Okay, Israel, level Lebannon...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

Time to get Syrias.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (vFG9F)

It's a Pali-a-tive measure.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:28 AM (l3cgK)

97 "Clean out your colon for your ramped-up, debauched ghey sex celebrations during pride month!" What a winning ad campaign...

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

98
Prayers, bud. Seriously. I hope she beats it.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 08:26 AM (lwhHh)

I do too.....

She's one that treated First Lady like shit back then, but has tried to make amends. I don't wish this on just about everyone.

Liberals, however......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

99 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 08:29 AM (77rzZ)

100 the islamic regime in Iran knows it can't beat the US militarily.
They don't have to. They just have to outlast our will to continue.

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 08:30 AM (ZxPkt)

101 Mail-in ballots. Nuke it.

Gain of function research. Nuke it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

102 97 "Clean out your colon for your ramped-up, debauched ghey sex celebrations during pride month!" What a winning ad campaign...

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

Some gheys be eating lots of chocolate covered bananas this month...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:30 AM (l3cgK)

103 Iran is a shitty situation all around, but why abandon Trump now?

===

too many bad steps, the results are not good, there is no ceasefire, and islamists are doing the usual things we have seen them do for decades - call a hudna, proceed with terror attacks, then blame the victims; even stupid people can see it;

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:31 AM (GD0B3)

104 >>Jack, he came last week and said the vote was clean, and the delay is normal

You sure you are thinking about the right guy? This

--In a vaguely-worded social media post, Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said prosecutors in Los Angeles working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation on “multiple election fraud investigations,” as federal officials followed President Donald Trump’s lead and raised doubts about California’s election integrity amid its slow vote-counting process.

https://tinyurl.com/3ncc55xh

The California voter roll case is in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, likely headed to the Supreme Court. I think you might be thinking of a different guy, this guy has been working hand in hand with Harmeet Dhillon.

We all knew they were going to cheat. This time the cheating was so obvious you can see it from the moon. Best chance for finally exposing it is in the courts.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 08, 2026 08:31 AM (viF8m)

105 Forth Worth ISD in Texas has just 'reassigned' a newly prompted school principal after it was revealed she has social media posts supporting Sharia, supports BLM, and posted an image of her showing a sign with "Jerusalem is the capitol of Palestine."

Yes, the woman is Islamic and wearing the head covering. And made principal after only ten years with the school district.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 08:31 AM (2GVsD)

106 Make California a territory again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 08:31 AM (2GVsD)

107 She never interviews Trump. More like a prosecutor interrogating him while playing to the jury. It’s bizarre.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (X8xt3)

Check out Robert Kaplan's great essay, "Media and Medievalism." It's never about "interviewing," but always the interrogation. And we endlessly concede to them this prerogative and power. Trump walked off, which I understand and sympathize with, but he could have humiliated her if he'd stuck with it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 08:32 AM (fZiTB)

108 Iran is a shitty situation all around, but why abandon Trump now?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)
====

I mostly shot my load on Pixy thread. It seems to me that Trump does not understand our adversary, that they are defeatable, but for some reason he is avoiding further military action in favor of a negotiated agreement rather than unconditional surrender. If they survive, they win. Period.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

109 Go back a few months ago and several independent conservative journalists went undercover in LA and recorded/documented in detail groups getting homeless people to register to vote under other people’s names. Iirc, they got law enforcement involved.

How many of the late mail-in ballots were from fake homeless registrations?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 08:34 AM (X8xt3)

110 I hate what the left has done to my world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

Let it turn to something else. Just let it turn - to something else.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 08:35 AM (dK+Kv)

111 We're played out in Iran. We obviously haven't the will to "obliterate" them and are now stuck in a mock dance toward a deal that will never transpire. So there will be some sort steady disengagement with periodic brushbacks by Israel and us, as Iran slowly remilitarizes. Trump and team will crow about how Iran and their nuclear capabilities have been crippled (which is no doubt partly true) and that we "won." And on we go.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (fZiTB)
====

I give this scenario 75-99% probability.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 08:36 AM (RIvkX)

112 Forth Worth ISD in Texas has just 'reassigned' a newly prompted school principal after it was revealed she has social media posts supporting Sharia, supports BLM, and posted an image of her showing a sign with "Jerusalem is the capitol of Palestine."

Yes, the woman is Islamic and wearing the head covering. And made principal after only ten years with the school district.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 08:31 AM (2GVsD)

We need to stop catering to the death cult that is islham.

You wear a headscarf, you need to leave.

NEVER put them in positions of power. It needs to stop.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

113 There is a video out there, guy is saying "my father left California sixteen years ago and he got a mail-in ballot sent to his Georgia address. Not forwarded."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 08:36 AM (2GVsD)

114 @108

>>he is avoiding further military action in favor of a negotiated agreement rather than unconditional surrender.

In order to "win," we would have to destroy critical civilian infrastructure and generally destroy the place, that would then lead to a humanitarian crisis and not really accomplish much without putting boots on the ground.

Again, what needed to happen was what we did in Venezuela, remove the leaders, install a puppet and run the place from behind the curtains.

Doing that in Iran is obviously not possible, hence the quagmire.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 08:37 AM (XV/Pl)

115 Trump does not understand our adversary, that they are defeatable, but for some reason he is avoiding further military action in favor of a negotiated agreement rather than unconditional surrender. If they survive, they win. Period.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

I don't believe this. I think Trump understands, but doesn't want to level the country as the Iranian people aren't our enemy. He wants a diplomatic solution more than anything else. But I do think he'll drop more bombs should the situation call for it.

I haven't lost faith in the man. Yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

116 *pauses*

Trump is He-Man, "I have the power to destroy you totally Ayatollah Skeletor and your little country too. But I am a merciful man, just quit already. You lost, admit it. Or I will level your country."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 08:40 AM (2GVsD)

117 Regime change requires the eradication of the ruling ideology, not merely the removal of some of the rulers who enforce it.

... but I was told a few hundred folks "attacking" the Capitol were involved in a "coup"

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 08:40 AM (RHGPo)

118 This is so simple! You don't negotiate with terrorists, you will never "understand",their mindset. There is no "mindset" they are not human !

"The Shah’s Final Warning

In one of his last interviews, the Shah of Iran looked straight at Western liberals and said:
“Stop trying to ‘understand’ the radicals.
Stop establishing ‘dialogue’ with them.”

The world ignored him. Iran fell into 46 years of terror.
The Shah was right.

h/t @visegrad24"

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:41 AM (GD0B3)

119 116 *pauses*

Trump is He-Man, "I have the power to destroy you totally Ayatollah Skeletor and your little country too. But I am a merciful man, just quit already. You lost, admit it. Or I will level your country."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 08:40 AM (2GVsD)

I thought James Carville was Skeletor...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:42 AM (l3cgK)

120 I haven't lost faith in the man. Yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)
====

I haven't lost faith because I presume he knows a lot more about it than I do. But I am basing my opinions on what I know about the situation and the history of how we got here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

121 How does my ass taste now?

Posted by: Mayor For Life Karen Bass at June 08, 2026 08:42 AM (OhZoB)

122 Anna Puma, I’ve read that in CA out of state, even out of country people can register to vote and get ballots? Some kind of “honor” system (I.e. fraud enabling with a wink) where they have to say they qualify to vote and it’s all good.

However, with the homeless voter registration, they were giving the the names of real people to register. Makes one wonder where the list of names came from/what criteria was used to generate the list - deceased, moved, married???

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 08:43 AM (X8xt3)

123 And speaking of Cali vote fraud.. while Pratt obviously got screwed they still haven’t called the guv primary… only commie Becerra has made it to the general for sure…. Hilton is about 250K ahead of Steyer for 2nd but only 74% counted… still

It wouldn’t be shocking if Steyer eventually comes 2nd…. Although it really doesn’t matter. If Hilton makes it to the general he gets wiped out in November

How did the union get the southern states back in line after the civil war? Cali needs to be booted out and treated that way and only be re-admitted after their affairs are in order and non-communist

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 08:43 AM (+gA9j)

124 Quote of the day: "Everything destructive comes from China. Bugs, plants and people."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (svLOV)

125 Went to the place in NE TX. Got the 2nd window unit A/C installed. Repaired the eaves and cleaned the other A/C unit (disgusting........).

Water heater is ruined. Leaving the sulfur rich water in it after heating for weeks makes it stink like rotten eggs. Leaving that water in it for a while embeds that smell in the tank.

Add that to the list.......

There's SOOOOO much work to do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

126 Can the rest of the US give no honors or recognition to the CA politicians who cheated their way into power?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)

127 It occurred to me that news shows like "60 Minutes" will go to great lengths to interview an Ayatollah who expresses "Death to America" but none of them have ever (to my mind) tried to interview the seditious conspirators of Jan-6

Posted by: SMOD at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (RHGPo)

128 Quote of the day: "Everything destructive comes from China. Bugs, plants and people."
Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (svLOV)

Truth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

129 Iran is a shitty situation all around, but why abandon Trump now?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

I don't know if I'd call it abandonment.

But people need to come to grips that it's been three months and much has already been accomplished.

Gas prices are coming down, shipping is establishing alternate routes, Iran is attacking its Arab neighbors out of frustration, Israel is bombing Iran and proxies at will while we support them militarily, and Trump says some words that don't comport with people's feels and hopes about his prior words.

I'd just ask for some patience, reasonable expectations, and a bit of backbone in the face of war against obstinate and entrenched foe. And a pony.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (dK+Kv)

130 Iran is not Venezuela, you can't "reuse" a plan like that! Throw that plan away for Iran, get in touch with reality and start from scratch, I say.

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:45 AM (GD0B3)

131 China now has an N whatever H whoever virus that's 100000 times more deadly in mammals than previous.

I'm sorry. You create a virus, you get sent to Hell immediately. No passing Go. No $200.

Meet your maker.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

132 How does my ass taste now?
Posted by: Mayor For Life Karen Bass at June 08, 2026 08:42 AM (OhZoB)

It doesn't . I don't live in Ca , didn't vote for Bassura and think the fraud was so blatant ( See the "Hot Air" article on it ) that this time it will be challenged.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 08:46 AM (uPdai)

133 128 Quote of the day: "Everything destructive comes from China. Bugs, plants and people."
Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (svLOV)

Truth.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

From China and Islam.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 08, 2026 08:47 AM (N39Ws)

134 I'd imagine the more destruction we lay on Iran is going to be more rebuilding at our expense. You'd hope the other Gulf Nations in the region would pick up the tab, but they won't.

There's an awful lot of hate over there.

*shrugs* I'd like to see a structured surrender that doesn't result in massive rebuilding and at least a government that's interested in it's own people and not killing everyone else in the region. At some point that might be reached. Maybe. I think it's worth the time and effort to try before leveling the place as an alternative.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 08:47 AM (jehhT)

135
I'd just ask for some patience, reasonable expectations, and a bit of backbone in the face of war against obstinate and entrenched foe. And a pony.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (dK+Kv)

Well THAT doesn't support the hair fire fuel industry.....TRAITOR!!!!!

What would you do with a pony?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

136 I'm honestly getting sick of the people who are telling me that Trump is playing some 4D chess game and that he "knows more than I do".

That may be the case that he knows more than I do, but I also know that Iran's regime isn't governed by reason, logic, public or even self-interest. They're a religious death cult. They've broken every "agreement" they've made and will do so for time eternal.

There's no negotiating with them. There's only extermination.

Thats what I know - I don't understand why Trump doesn't know this.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 08, 2026 08:48 AM (WYStd)

137 Sponge - F*ck Cancer

The arrest of 6 Chinese men of military age near where the New World Screwworm showed up, unexpectedly, calls for retaliation on China.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

138
From China and Islam.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 08, 2026 08:47 AM (N39Ws)

Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

139 126 Can the rest of the US give no honors or recognition to the CA politicians who cheated their way into power?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)

That would mean giving no honors or recognition to the other politicians from other states who cheated their way into power...That'd gut Congress, not that that's a bad thing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:48 AM (l3cgK)

140 Now to what extent is this driving antisemitism rates among younger people? That’s still the big question that no one seems to want to touch. I believe rates of antisemitism are elevated among younger people, especially those, as the survey tracked, who get their views from social media, but I suspect a whole lot of that bump is ‘diversity’.

Diversity is just discrimination via HR and other admins.
The first step to destroy Meritocracy was the creation of Education, Sociology, and Humanities departments that follow ZERO hard math and science rules.
Then those department heads became leaders of the colleges and Unis and their Diversity became weaponized against Godly people like Jews and Christians.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 08, 2026 08:48 AM (/+uur)

141 >>I'd just ask for some patience, reasonable expectations, and a bit of backbone in the face of war against obstinate and entrenched foe. And a pony.

As you type, Trump is announcing that both Israel and Iran have agreed to stop shooting at each other.

Regime change was never part of the mission. I wish Trump wouldn't even talk about it but from day 1 Trump never said he was going to do a regime change. That's something others have demanded.

One thing I feel very confident about is Trump is not going to walk away. The mullahs might think Trump will fold do to political pressure, I don't.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 08, 2026 08:48 AM (viF8m)

142
The arrest of 6 Chinese men of military age near where the New World Screwworm showed up, unexpectedly, calls for retaliation on China.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

Nuclear retaliation. Sorry not sorry. You asked for it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

143 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at June 08, 2026 08:49 AM (CJnkZ)

144 jim (in Kalifornia)

Start with the most obvious.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

145
As you type, Trump is announcing that both Israel and Iran have agreed to stop shooting at each other.

I hope Israel took out some good things for us....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 08:50 AM (JOQH4)

146 I don't want a pony.

However, I was promised an air car and I won't stop bitching about until I get what was promised.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 08:50 AM (RIvkX)

147 The arrest of 6 Chinese men of military age near where the New World Screwworm showed up, unexpectedly, calls for retaliation on China.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Not wearing a uniform, caught releasing a biological weapon. Bullet to brain pan, bill sent to China for bullet and body disposal.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 08:50 AM (svLOV)

148 >>Gas prices are coming down

Still paying about $6/gallon for diesel around here. Worse than it ever was during Shitpants Biden.

That kind of energy cost is definitely going to drive inflation since diesel is the fuel that runs our modern economy.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 08, 2026 08:50 AM (WYStd)

149 144 jim (in Kalifornia)

Start with the most obvious.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

Joe Biden's no longer P(resident)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:50 AM (l3cgK)

150 Ugh, was at a state park yesterday for a nice hike with the family. At the trailhead there was a covered area available for reservation for gatherings. Chinese event in progress. So much screaming, not joyful, just being loud a$$holes.

I’m so tired of being around people who have no idea, nor desire, to behave appropriately. Go to the mountains for peace, and nowadays still surrounded by Bidens diversity. Guess I should count myself lucky for not seeing hijabs this trip.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 08:51 AM (X8xt3)

151 Sponge

The Yangtze River Three Gorges Dam is not fastened to bedrock.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

152 Still paying about $6/gallon for diesel around here. Worse than it ever was during Shitpants Biden.

That kind of energy cost is definitely going to drive inflation since diesel is the fuel that runs our modern economy.
Posted by: Defenestratus at June 08, 2026 08:50 AM (WYStd)

Saw $4.54 this weekend for diesel. It was over $5 under Biden.

Still sucks.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

153 "...rates of antisemitism..."

What's the unit of measure for antisemitism?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 08, 2026 08:52 AM (CJnkZ)

154 The Yangtze River Three Gorges Dam is not fastened to bedrock.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

It would only take an M80 to bring that thing down. It should be considered.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

155
Saw $4.54 this weekend for diesel. It was over $5 under Biden.

Still sucks.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:52 AM (Zz0t1

$7.50 here in good old Commiefornia...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 08:52 AM (JOQH4)

156 don't want a pony.

However, I was promised an air car and I won't stop bitching about until I get what was promised.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I just want my hoverboard.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 08:52 AM (YZ0Fo)

157 This is from a real expert (however it's 15 hours old, still holds)

"Jonathan Conricus
@jconricus
15h
The current situation is a battle of will and nerves, boiled down to equations:
🇮🇷 The Iranian regime wants to save Hezbollah and is tethering the future of the region to preventing Hezbollah’s demise;
🇮🇱 Israel wants to degrade Hezbollah first and then deal with the Iranian regime.
🇺🇸 What does the US want?"

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:53 AM (GD0B3)

158
What's the unit of measure for antisemitism?
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 08, 2026 08:52 AM (CJnkZ)

A Jew-el.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

159 39 The Dems stole another election… this time in LA. Ho hum

And I hate to say it, but Trump is really stepping on his dick with Iran. Stalling for a deal is delusional. Telling Israel to tolerate attacks is stupid

I’m Mr negativity this morning I guess
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 08:11 AM (CUP/i)

A deal is fine IF WE LEAVE ENTIRELY. If the rest of the Middle East, without our oversight, wants to go WWIII on each other, well, we'll backroll and stock Israel, so I know who I have my bets on.

They will fight a war the way it's needs fighting to win. We currently will not. So, we should get out if we are not planning on winning the war.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 08, 2026 08:53 AM (tOcjL)

160 157 This is from a real expert (however it's 15 hours old, still holds)

"Jonathan Conricus
@jconricus
15h
The current situation is a battle of will and nerves, boiled down to equations:
🇮🇷 The Iranian regime wants to save Hezbollah and is tethering the future of the region to preventing Hezbollah’s demise;
🇮🇱 Israel wants to degrade Hezbollah first and then deal with the Iranian regime.
🇺🇸 What does the US want?"

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:53 AM (GD0B3)

The US doesn't know what it wants.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (l3cgK)

161 Sponge

The eternal problem of evil.

I wonder if the successor species to humans would have such a problem. Can squirrels or dolphins be evil?...

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

Of course, they would. At least, from our point of view. Dogs or squirrels would not be the same in their world as they are in a human dominated world.

Any successor species would have their own laws and versions of evil.

Not sharing nuts or whatever for squirrels.

Don't trust the squirrels!

like so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojZVpb0cVkE

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (iJfKG)

162
$7.50 here in good old Commiefornia...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 08:52 AM (JOQH4)

I think California is the only state that taxes fuel higher than the federal government does. And the feds tax at $0.35 a gallon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Good morning Horde thx JJ. Happy Monday.
The Maine primary is tomorrow. Platner should win. Then we'll see how much the Republicans have on Platner . Fun, fun.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (zj5z7)

164 IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE WELKER DEMANDED TRUMP DENY ELECTION FRAUD IS REAL THE SAME DAY LA COUNTY CLAIMED NITHYA RAMAN MAGICALLY DOUBLED HER VOTE COUNT AFTER ELECTION DAY.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (X8xt3)

165 162
$7.50 here in good old Commiefornia...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 08:52 AM (JOQH4)

I think California is the only state that taxes fuel higher than the federal government does. And the feds tax at $0.35 a gallon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

Hawaii?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (l3cgK)

166 110 I hate what the left has done to my world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)
*******
I do too. It's the stuff of nightmares and I fear this is just the beginning of their complete destruction of our once beloved nation.

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

167 I want my MTV.

Posted by: And chicks for free at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (CJnkZ)

168 I wonder if the successor species to humans would have such a problem. Can squirrels or dolphins be evil?...

if it's dogs/wolves, sure. I've known evil dogs. mostly they were ill bred and just "wrong"

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 08:55 AM (j+aD2)

169 163 Good morning Horde thx JJ. Happy Monday.
The Maine primary is tomorrow. Platner should win. Then we'll see how much the Republicans have on Platner . Fun, fun.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (zj5z7)

Better be good... So far none of it seems to be sticking....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 08:55 AM (JOQH4)

170 Squirrels are already evil. So sick of those little bastards digging up my lawn.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

171 164 IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE WELKER DEMANDED TRUMP DENY ELECTION FRAUD IS REAL THE SAME DAY LA COUNTY CLAIMED NITHYA RAMAN MAGICALLY DOUBLED HER VOTE COUNT AFTER ELECTION DAY.

yet no new votes for Bass! amazing

what chutzpah you'd think they'd just manufacture votes for Bass too? too much effort or they like being super obvious?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 08:56 AM (j+aD2)

172 also the late-found votes suspiciously don't have votes for Governor

but you knew that would happen, right

too much trouble to fill in one more bubble

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 08:56 AM (j+aD2)

173 AI sez...

Rank State State(¢/gal) Total (¢/gal)
1 California 70.92 89.32
2 Illinois 66.40 84.80
3 Washington 59.00 77.40
4 Pennsylvania 57.20 75.60
5 New Jersey 45.00 63.40

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:56 AM (l3cgK)

174 $7.50 here in good old Commiefornia...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 08:52 AM (JOQH4)

👀

How can people afford such a thing??

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:56 AM (GD0B3)

175 >>I hope Israel took out some good things for us....

Wouldn't surprise me if the attacks start again. And then stop again. No deal seems to survive more than a few moments in the Middle East.

Trump's plan, like it or not, is obviously to try and starve Iran of economic activity and bring them to their knees. That's going to take time.

Invading Iran is not in the cards and you don't kill an ideology with bombs. There's a nazi running in Maine and a communist Senator in Vermont. Pretty sure we already nazi Germany and the communist USSR yet the ideology lives on.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 08, 2026 08:57 AM (viF8m)

176 good morning I'm still pissed off about Billy getting shot over the weekend IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE

nice part of South Philly too

very very mad. tangentially know his aunt and uncle. great great kid.

he was murdered, cold blood

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 08:57 AM (j+aD2)

177
Hawaii?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (l3cgK)

No clue. I don't think about Hawaii other than the fact I got married there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

178 also the late-found votes suspiciously don't have votes for Governor

but you knew that would happen, right

too much trouble to fill in one more bubble
Posted by: Black Orchid

That's what they did in 2020 too pres only or pres and senate like in GA. Nothing else.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 08:57 AM (YZ0Fo)

179 yet no new votes for Bass! amazing

what chutzpah you'd think they'd just manufacture votes for Bass too? too much effort or they like being super obvious?
Posted by:
(j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 08:56 AM (j+aD2)Black Orchid

Simple... They got her the number she needed so she could coast to the runoff and gave Raman Noodles what she needed... We weren't supposed to notice...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 08:58 AM (JOQH4)

180
"Votes."
That's cute.

Posted by: Dominion Systems at June 08, 2026 08:58 AM (CJnkZ)

181 The US doesn't know what it wants.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (l3cgK)

The US just needs to like Israel's plan....

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 08:58 AM (GD0B3)

182 Haven't much cared about the NBA, even though bad a kid I went to a lot of games at MSG. I'll watch tonight just to see the reaction to Trump. Bet a lot more NYers will cheer than the left thinks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 08:58 AM (zj5z7)

183 I like the part where new ballots were AIR LIFTED into LA via HELICOPTER late at night

pretty good! nice job cartels who own Cali

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 08:59 AM (j+aD2)

184 naturalfake

That is LOL funny. Hope it isn't true.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

185 How do you intend to get rid of them? You are not going to destroy the IRGC by bombing alone. They designed their leadership on dealing with that. Are you planning to send troops in?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 08, 2026 08:59 AM (7T8ei)

186 182 Haven't much cared about the NBA, even though bad a kid I went to a lot of games at MSG. I'll watch tonight just to see the reaction to Trump. Bet a lot more NYers will cheer than the left thinks

they will fuck with the sound feed to make it sound like booing

they've done this before

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 08:59 AM (j+aD2)

187 Squirrels are already evil. So sick of those little bastards digging up my lawn.
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

I have little oak trees growing in unfortunate places because they buried acorns everywhere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

188 Black Orchid, they also processed a lot of ballots for mayor containing no vote for governor.

Just like a lot of the ballots dumped in 2020 where they only contained votes for press, not Senate, House, ballot issues.

They don’t even bother trying to make it look legit, just check the one box needed and leave the rest blank.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 08, 2026 08:59 AM (X8xt3)

189 I'm glad the LA votes have finally been counted. L.A. deserves its own Mamdani and we don’t have to watch a nonsense Pratt campaign.

MAGAs are big mad on Twotter tonight. They're calling for the DOJ, the Army, the ghost of Chuck Norris, and zombie Charlie Kirk to invade and arrest every Dem in power.

Raman isn't quite mamdani. She basically has no charisma and her record as a progressive is pretty spotty. Pratt had no chance in hell of beating Bass anyways but now it looks like he won't get the chance.

the reporting around election results is toxic. The result did not "flip". There was only ever one outcome. Preliminary results need to just be banned by law and only the final result reported.

My parents are going to be pissed and I couldn't be happier

Voting for Spencer Pratt is the same as voting for a dog. You’re just making a statement that you would rather have a dog mayor than keep the status quo. That’s not really a solution.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 08, 2026 09:00 AM (JCZqz)

190 @169 it's me donna, I think it's sticking, but quietly. Lot of noise but only the hard left are coming out in full support. The other lib voters are kind of quiet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 09:00 AM (zj5z7)

191 It's the stuff of nightmares and I fear this is just the beginning of their complete destruction of our once beloved nation.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 08, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

No one to blame but ourselves. We've let them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 09:00 AM (fZiTB)

192 the main thing about LA/Cali is ... this was actually legal in Cali

everything they did is legal there

that's bad.

it's a fully corrupt, Cartel-run state in the USA

we can't let this stand. somehow .. we just can't let Cali be like this.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 09:01 AM (j+aD2)

193 We're played out in Iran.

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

Sane, but otherwise, this war is not only on the ground, in Iran, and it is still very much alive, ongoing, and proceeding mostly with our success.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 09:01 AM (dK+Kv)

194 the reporting around election results is toxic. The result did not "flip". There was only ever one outcome. Preliminary results need to just be banned by law and only the final result reported

=========

That way we do g even have to pretend to count the votes. We will just release the number that gives us what we want.
-Reddit

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 09:02 AM (YZ0Fo)

195 114 @108
>>he is avoiding further military action in favor of a negotiated agreement rather than unconditional surrender.
...
In order to "win," we would have to

A:
Realize that Pity for the Guilty is nought but Treason to the Innocent; that the LIBs ceaseless quest for the unearned remains forever ceaseless because the Value illicitly obtained retains no value. They will be the first into the bunkers, not because they value their own lives, but rather to displace someone else who does; as if there be any compromise between food and poison that can result in anything but death -- the only common ground they seek with the desperate and deliberately evil is to put you in it, so that the crocodile comes for them last

Real Answer:
1. Liquidate IRG assets abroad and replace their currency with non-military civilian only use
2. Free Port Cuba/Replace Kharg forever
3. Indict Brennan, float plea deal, leak the kompromatee material he has on 'his' epstein/ownee's and watch them drop ship a canoe to him faster than light
4. Depose Dimon/Holier than Thou: Demon War Capitalist, follow the thread to all 'his' dirty deals, he'll get a canoe too

LET's GO BRANDON!
https://iran.liveuamap.com/

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 08, 2026 09:02 AM (hEPab)

196
Raman isn't quite mamdani. She basically has no charisma and her record as a progressive is pretty spotty. Pratt had no chance in hell of beating Bass anyways but now it looks like he won't get the chance.

I disagree with this... If Pratt had won second I think he would have beaten Bass... And they knew it...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 09:02 AM (JOQH4)

197 I ran the odds of the results they are getting in LA. They are so low it should never happen in human history.

Hell if the galaxy has a million human like civilizations it would still never happen once in all the elections those millions of civilizations would have.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm)

198 Voting for Spencer Pratt is the same as voting for a dog. You’re just making a statement that you would rather have a dog mayor than keep the status quo. That’s not really a solution.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 08, 2026 09:00 AM (JCZqz)

Voting for a baked potato, even without sour cream, chives, and bacon, would be better than the commie duo.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:03 AM (l3cgK)

199 Donald, don't go wobley on me. Steel the spine.

Posted by: Maggie Thatcher at June 08, 2026 09:03 AM (ehY6c)

200 LET's GO BRANDON!
https://iran.liveuamap.com/
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 08, 2026 09:02 AM (hEPab)

There are 3 boobs near the Strait of Harmuz.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

201 197 I ran the odds of the results they are getting in LA. They are so low it should never happen in human history.

Hell if the galaxy has a million human like civilizations it would still never happen once in all the elections those millions of civilizations would have.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm)

But it happened in Saddam's Iraq! 100%, baby!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:03 AM (l3cgK)

202 @171

>>yet no new votes for Bass! amazing

Bass got some votes but Raman has gotten the overwhelming share of the votes being counted after election day.

Again, the third place candidate is now a hair's breadth and couple of fraudulent votes away from being in first place.

I think the message being sent is two fold, Republicans out, don't even think you are going to win, and stop trying, donks run Cali town.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 09:03 AM (XV/Pl)

203 Please tell me how the US is going to do any with the regime in Iran. Many of you tout this how do think it is going to beaccomplished in country of 90 million people?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 08, 2026 09:03 AM (5P5DO)

204 196
Raman isn't quite mamdani. She basically has no charisma and her record as a progressive is pretty spotty. Pratt had no chance in hell of beating Bass anyways but now it looks like he won't get the chance.

I disagree with this... If Pratt had won second I think he would have beaten Bass... And they knew it...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 09:02 AM (JOQH4)

Well, no...seeing how this election has gone, Pratt could not win. He could never beat the mountain of fraud (beating the fraud in LA seems like it means winning by 50pts on election day voting - that's not possible).

Posted by: Nova Local at June 08, 2026 09:04 AM (tOcjL)

205 MAGAs are big mad on Twotter tonight. They're calling for the DOJ, the Army, the ghost of Chuck Norris, and zombie Charlie Kirk to invade and arrest every Dem in power.

Until Dem powerbrokers go to jail for election theft it will continue.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

206
Eh, Trump's fallen into the trap of thinking that islam isn't the problem.

To put it simply, if you reeeeeeally believe that the koran is the direct word of God, then who are you as a muslim going to believe.

Some non-muslim guy trying to get you to live in the modern world or at least stop being total dicka all the time. (The Morality of the Squirrel World so to speak)

Or, are you going to believe the word of God, and prophets that assert that the 12th imam has been living at the bottom of a we'll for centuries and will climb out and conquer the non-muslim world if you just start armageddon.

Germany required de-Naizification. About a quarter of the world requires de-islamification.

Are we willing to do what that would take? No, we are not.

Trump is expecting rationality, rationality is not coming.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2026 09:04 AM (iJfKG)

207 I just thought this about the Iranian attacks. Notice the decrease in number of missiles launched? Their missile arsenal is a wasting asset. No resupply or manufacturing has occurred.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 09:05 AM (u82oZ)

208 We're played out in Iran. We obviously haven't the will to "obliterate" them and are now stuck in a mock dance toward a deal that will never transpire. So there will be some sort steady disengagement with periodic brushbacks by Israel and us, as Iran slowly remilitarizes. Trump and team will crow about how Iran and their nuclear capabilities have been crippled (which is no doubt partly true) and that we "won." And on we go.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 08:27 AM (fZiTB)

A divided nation will never win a war. And we are most definitely a divided nation. Iran knows this too. Time is on their side.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 08, 2026 09:05 AM (g8Ew8)

209 My favorite piss about Pratt in LA is "He has no experience!!!!"

Yeah? Well, how has the experienced been working out for you thus far?

Die in a fire, Kimmel. Die in a fire.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

210 Morn' all.. That Pratt thing really pissed me off... I'm in CA and I knew it was inevitable but still....

TBH, I'm slightly surprised they bothered to cheat this one or at least cheat so blatantly. Bass was going to win in November not matter what. So if anything, this was just a test run for Newsom.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 08, 2026 09:05 AM (vTZFs)

211 202 @171

>>yet no new votes for Bass! amazing

Bass got some votes but Raman has gotten the overwhelming share of the votes being counted after election day.

Again, the third place candidate is now a hair's breadth and couple of fraudulent votes away from being in first place.

I think the message being sent is two fold, Republicans out, don't even think you are going to win, and stop trying, donks run Cali town.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2026 09:03 AM (XV/Pl)

They ran the ballots through Raman Spectroscopy first...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:05 AM (l3cgK)

212 Until Dem powerbrokers go to jail for election theft it will continue.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

It's why we can't have nice things.

We'll never have nice things.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

213 Now I want ramen noodles.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

214 yes so yes Bass was going to win the election proper, and will likely do so vs Ramen

BUT they have that fixed. if Pratt was in, they'd have to spend money and effort campaigning.

now they can just chill and enjoy their grift in peace.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 09:06 AM (j+aD2)

215 212 Until Dem powerbrokers go to jail for election theft it will continue.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

It's why we can't have nice things.

We'll never have nice things.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

The penalty needs to be stiffer than jail...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:06 AM (l3cgK)

216 A 2022 Department of Energy report concludes that “the carbon intensity of corn ethanol produced under the RFS is no less than gasoline and likely at least 24 percent higher.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 08, 2026 09:06 AM (/+uur)

217 Well THAT doesn't support the hair fire fuel industry.....TRAITOR!!!!!

What would you do with a pony?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

Cheer up a lot of people with a case of the Mondays.

Be well.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 09:07 AM (dK+Kv)

218 Remember in 2022 a regular Republican running a regular Republican campaign got 45% of the vote.

So the argument is that at least 15% of the populace that chose Rick Caruso in 22 have now decided to vote for Bass, after she burned their homes down, or the Communist bowl of lukewarm Ramen.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 09:07 AM (sKqQm)

219 Iran. Destroy all electrical generation. Keep the blockade tight. Eliminate every bridge. Nuke their holy city. Show no mercy.

Posted by: Maggie Thatcher at June 08, 2026 09:08 AM (ehY6c)

220 Remember in 2022 a regular Republican running a regular Republican campaign got 45% of the vote.

So the argument is that at least 15% of the populace that chose Rick Caruso in 22 have now decided to vote for Bass, after she burned their homes down, or the Communist bowl of lukewarm Ramen.
Posted by: 18-1 at June

I'd wager a lot of the Caruso voters have moved out of CA.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 09:08 AM (YZ0Fo)

221 Oh no! We may lose the peace!

Israeli Strike Kills Three Lebanese Army Members, Including General, In Move That May Jeopardize U.S.-Brokered Truce

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

222 221 Oh no! We may lose the peace!

Israeli Strike Kills Three Lebanese Army Members, Including General, In Move That May Jeopardize U.S.-Brokered Truce

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

But Iran lobbing missiles doesn't imperil the truce, right? Right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:10 AM (l3cgK)

223 Trump is a good man and doesn’t want the Iranian population at large to suffer. But he’s gotta get over that and destroy their infrastructure… it’s the only way to bring the leadership to their knees. Start with Kharg island

If we weren’t willing to do this, we shouldn’t have started…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 09:10 AM (yz/88)

224 You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Thus it has ever been at June 08, 2026 09:10 AM (CJnkZ)

225 >>he is avoiding further military action in favor of a negotiated agreement rather than unconditional surrender.
...
In order to "win," we would have to

. . .

Real Answer:
1. Liquidate IRG assets abroad and replace their currency with non-military civilian only use
2. Free Port Cuba/Replace Kharg forever
3. Indict Brennan, float plea deal, leak the kompromatee material he has on 'his' epstein/ownee's and watch them drop ship a canoe to him faster than light
4. Depose Dimon/Holier than Thou: Demon War Capitalist, follow the thread to all 'his' dirty deals, he'll get a canoe too

LET's GO BRANDON!
https://iran.liveuamap.com/

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 08, 2026 09:02 AM (hEPab)

Feels like just a bit of mission creep in there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 09:11 AM (dK+Kv)

226
Israeli Strike Kills Three Lebanese Army Members, Including General, In Move That May Jeopardize U.S.-Brokered Truce

Lebanese with Hezbollah ties no doubt...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 09:11 AM (JOQH4)

227 223 Trump is a good man and doesn’t want the Iranian population at large to suffer. But he’s gotta get over that and destroy their infrastructure… it’s the only way to bring the leadership to their knees. Start with Kharg island

If we weren’t willing to do this, we shouldn’t have started…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 09:10 AM (yz/8

I'm sure Trump got told the large leadership decapitation strike and initial military site strikes were all that was gonna be needed to get Iran to settle. That was obviously really, really wrong. Now, he's been stuck.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 08, 2026 09:12 AM (tOcjL)

228 Don't get high when you get high.

Flying with cannabis? TSA's new guidance comes with a major health warning
Clinical data shows cannabis alters heart rhythm and oxygen demand, combining dangerously with cabin altitude

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 09:13 AM (ndZc7)

229 RICO. RICO. RICO.

The big wave is coming. It starts with smaller cases which we're already seeing that will then be folded into larger cases that are connected through the "enterprise."

RICO was invented to go after the Mob, and it fits so well here because the Left have become political gangsters.

Much of the evidence will come from what Surfer Girl will turn over this month before she leaves the NSA. She's already said that this will include the 2020 election.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 08, 2026 09:13 AM (dtajH)

230 The Swiss have banned the burka and de-listed Islam as an official religion. Hard to believe, and bravo to the Swiss.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 09:13 AM (fZiTB)

231 I'm sure Trump got told the large leadership decapitation strike and initial military site strikes were all that was gonna be needed to get Iran to settle. That was obviously really, really wrong. Now, he's been stuck.
Posted by: Nova Local at June 08, 2026 09:12 AM (tOcjL)

I think the plan was to bankrupt them and make them come to the bargaining table... Thing is he's not dealing with rational people... They would rather die and meet Allah....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 09:14 AM (JOQH4)

232 The only remaining asset Iran has left is Hezbollah...so getting rid of them should be top priority. Israel is willing to do the hard work. Good!

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 09:14 AM (GD0B3)

233 The Swiss have banned the burka and de-listed Islam as an official religion. Hard to believe, and bravo to the Swiss.

There's 0% chance that the EU allows that to stand.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 08, 2026 09:15 AM (vTZFs)

234 Cali IDs

health club identification card;

insurance plan identification card; or

public housing identification card.

hahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 08, 2026 09:15 AM (/+uur)

235 203 Please tell me how the US is going to do any with the regime in Iran. Many of you tout this how do think it is going to be accomplished in country of 90 million people?

Simple answer, simultaneous concentric neutron warhead over Kharg Island. Israel is the only nation on the planet with this capability; and as if we don't know that IRG is already going the MadMAX/movie refinery solution anyway -- interdict? or replace? A: BOTH.

Short term, replace currency off liquidated IRG assets with Int'l bankers (like Epstein class/DIMON's ilk) all good-to-go.

Neutralize the island, one way or another

Freeport Cuba/Replace Kharg/Products: Delivered Worldwide from Gulf of America.

LIBs what Price their Vision?
https://tinyurl.com/LIBs-WhatPriceTheirVision
ATLAS SHRUGGED UPDATED FOR THE CURRENT
(WORLD EXISTENTIAL) CRISIS

https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
...that the more brazen and relentless one’s acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one’s door offering to forget, to forgive, and to give forgiveness a bad name

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 08, 2026 09:15 AM (Bd8m7)

236 "Trump is a good man and doesn’t want the Iranian population at large to suffer. But he’s gotta get over that and destroy their infrastructure… it’s the only way to bring the leadership to their knees. Start with Kharg island
"

Please explain how the irgc gives a crap about any infrastructure? Hint: they don't. They will let the rest of the country suffer for one more day in power.

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 08, 2026 09:15 AM (YGJ8E)

237 Better win the war before the midterms. President Trump’s last two years is likely to be impeachmentpalooza, and you can bet that the Vichypublicans will vote accordingly.

Posted by: Unkaren at June 08, 2026 09:16 AM (MaRK8)

238 I’ve seen some leftists saying yeah we stole it from Ptartt, so what we’re untouchable.

And they’re kinda right. They are untouchable in California.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 09:16 AM (Vb3xW)

239 Don't mess with us.
We've got a full range of pocket knives in every color of the rainbow.

Posted by: The Swiss Army at June 08, 2026 09:16 AM (CJnkZ)

240 Oddbob

Switzerland is not a member of the European Union (EU) and never has been a member. It maintains close ties through bilateral agreements and participation in certain EU frameworks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 09:17 AM (u82oZ)

241 good morning I'm still pissed off about Billy getting shot over the weekend IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE
nice part of South Philly too
very very mad. tangentially know his aunt and uncle. great great kid.
he was murdered, cold blood
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 08, 2026 08:57 AM (j+aD2)
~~~~~

Heartbreaking and infuriating. We cannot live like this.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at June 08, 2026 09:17 AM (3ImbR)

242 >>I think the plan was to bankrupt them and make them come to the bargaining table... Thing is he's not dealing with rational people... They would rather die and meet Allah....

Have you noticed that the mullahs themselves don't wear suicide bomb vests? They are fine sending minions do die for allah, they seem pretty keen on the idea of staying alive themselves.

One thing that's very different about this war is the lack of information coming from inside Iran. We don't really know the exact situation in the country and how bad it is today but I doubt it's good.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 08, 2026 09:17 AM (viF8m)

243 Iran is trying real hard to insert Hezbollah and its occupation of Lebanon into the "negotiations" 🤡🤡 with the US. It is the only thing of value it has left.

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 09:17 AM (GD0B3)

244 Cali IDs
health club identification card;
insurance plan identification card; or
public housing identification card.

hahahaha

CA CHL?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 08, 2026 09:17 AM (vTZFs)

245 There's 0% chance that the EU allows that to stand.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 08, 2026 09:15 AM (vTZFs)

Switzerland isn’t in the EU.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 09:17 AM (Vb3xW)

246 If my state told the Federal Government they could not see how we count votes or know who is voting,etc. We would have troops here with the national media and Federal judges by the butt load going over every single vote cast. We would lose any federal funding and put on double secret probation for the foreseeable future. But then we are a small Southern state and obviously racist so we deserve it. That is the double standard we live under.

Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 09:18 AM (4Pn+V)

247 RICO. RICO. RICO.

RICO was invented to go after the Mob, and it fits so well here because the Left have become political gangsters.

Rico! You see a bug hole, YOU NUKE IT!

Posted by: Lieutenant Jean Rasczak at June 08, 2026 09:18 AM (JCZqz)

248 >>There's 0% chance that the EU allows that to stand.

Switzerland isn't a member.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 09:18 AM (NcvvS)

249 245 There's 0% chance that the EU allows that to stand.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 08, 2026 09:15 AM (vTZFs)

Switzerland isn’t in the EU.
Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 09:17 AM (Vb3xW)

And the Swiss can own guns...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 09:18 AM (JOQH4)

250 From people who have contacts with people in I-ran

"From inside Iran:

"My representative is nobody else than Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. Period.

The infrastructure can go fuck itself, and the warmongering (islamic regime) bastards can cry about it too."

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 09:19 AM (GD0B3)

251 Wonders what CHL stands for.
Doesn't bother to look it up.

Posted by: Random horde member at June 08, 2026 09:19 AM (CJnkZ)

252 245 There's 0% chance that the EU allows that to stand.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 08, 2026 09:15 AM (vTZFs)

Switzerland isn’t in the EU.
Posted by: Heroq

So?

Posted by: EU/WEF Technocrats at June 08, 2026 09:19 AM (JCZqz)

253 There's 0% chance that the EU allows that to stand.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 08, 2026 09:15 AM (vTZFs)

Switzerland isn’t in the EU.
Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 09:17 AM (Vb3xW)

And the Swiss can own guns...
Posted by: It's me donna

Full auto.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:19 AM (lwhHh)

254 "Gas is a 2% budget item in the average Americans household."

But the ones hit hard are working class who have to drive a distance to a poor paying job. And it's real pain.

But this is Trump's base, and the growth in their Turnout is why Trump is President. Signs are they still back Trump. If they Turnout for the mid-terms Trump & Co will win in November.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 08, 2026 09:20 AM (dtajH)

255 I think the plan was to bankrupt them and make them come to the bargaining table... Thing is he's not dealing with rational people... They would rather die and meet Allah

That should have been considered along with a contingency plan prior to the initial strike.

Posted by: Unkaren at June 08, 2026 09:20 AM (MaRK8)

256 The Swiss have banned the burka and de-listed Islam as an official religion. Hard to believe, and bravo to the Swiss.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 09:13 AM (fZiTB)

really ?? they can do that ?! awesome!

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 09:20 AM (GD0B3)

257 238 I’ve seen some leftists saying yeah we stole it from Ptartt, so what we’re untouchable.

And they’re kinda right. They are untouchable in California.

Yet to fathom the power of a cruise ship size dung flinging Balista?

And when the filth of all their corruption foams up around their waists, they will all look up an cry: SAVE US. and Trump will whisper: NO.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-AgentOrangeOwnsTheLIBs
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WotHapToAmericanDream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDEyL_sS0eY&t=89s
Don't forget to Vote!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 08, 2026 09:20 AM (Ko9dG)

258 Wonders what CHL stands for.
Doesn't bother to look it up.
Posted by: Random horde member

Certified Hobo License.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:20 AM (lwhHh)

259 Old politicians never die, and they won't simply fade away

Bidens Go Public: Hunter, Jill, and Joe Are Not Going Away Quietly — Angering Democrats

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 09:21 AM (ndZc7)

260 And the Swiss can own guns...
+++
Sittin' right here, boss.

Posted by: Red Pocket Knives at June 08, 2026 09:21 AM (CJnkZ)

261 Switzerland isn’t in the EU.

[ CarsonVoice ]
I did not know that.
[ /CarsonVoice ]

Then it will be interesting to see what they try to do.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 08, 2026 09:21 AM (vTZFs)

262 rickb223

Add ammo is stored next to the in-house armory. A number of buildings and homes in Switzerland were hardened against nuclear weapons in the 80s-90s.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 09:21 AM (u82oZ)

263 243 Iran is trying real hard to insert Hezbollah and its occupation of Lebanon into the "negotiations" 🤡🤡 with the US. It is the only thing of value it has left.

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 09:17 AM (GD0B3)

That's why Israel needs to take it off the table.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:21 AM (l3cgK)

264 I think the plan was to bankrupt them and make them come to the bargaining table... Thing is he's not dealing with rational people...

They would rather die and meet Allah

Funny. But for once, I agree with islam.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:22 AM (lwhHh)

265 1 hour to walk 3 miles

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 09:22 AM (Ia/+0)

266 251 Wonders what CHL stands for.
Doesn't bother to look it up.

Posted by: Random horde member at June 08, 2026 09:19 AM (CJnkZ)

California Hooker's License?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:22 AM (l3cgK)

267 Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

Jill is one pillow fight away from being the honored and compensated widow of Joe. She will still hate the DNC and Kamala.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 09:23 AM (u82oZ)

268 There's some sort of deal in California with identification's and signatures that's wild. If you can't write your name you can "make a mark" with a single witness present and it's treated as legit. There was a photo of a document, perhaps something to do with elections, and the "mark" was a smiley face.

That is considered "proof if ID" in California.

And allows you to vote.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 09:23 AM (jehhT)

269 Yep. Most people walk at a pace of three miles an hour.

Posted by: Random Trivia Daily at June 08, 2026 09:23 AM (CJnkZ)

270 But this is Trump's base, and the growth in their Turnout is why Trump is President. Signs are they still back Trump. If they Turnout for the mid-terms Trump & Co will win in November.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Crawling over broken glass while dousing self with rubbing alcohol to turn out for TrumpCo come midterms.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:24 AM (lwhHh)

271 270 But this is Trump's base, and the growth in their Turnout is why Trump is President. Signs are they still back Trump. If they Turnout for the mid-terms Trump & Co will win in November.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Crawling over broken glass while dousing self with rubbing alcohol to turn out for TrumpCo come midterms.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:24 AM (lwhHh)

Masochist much?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK)

272 Rumors that gay Kamanei may have been killed overnight. Makes negotiations with him kind of difficult

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 09:24 AM (zj5z7)

273 I'm gobsmacked!

Review Finds “The Science” Used to Justify Transing Kids Is Built on Lies

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 09:25 AM (ndZc7)

274 272 Rumors that gay Kamanei may have been killed overnight. Makes negotiations with him kind of difficult

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 09:24 AM (zj5z7)

They need to find a happy medium...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:25 AM (l3cgK)

275 L.A. deserves its own Mamdani

He's right but not the way that he thinks he is.

My parents are going to be pissed and I couldn't be happier

Meanwhile, they're happier that you aren't around.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 09:25 AM (svLOV)

276 Rumors that gay Kamanei may have been killed overnight. Makes negotiations with him kind of difficult
Posted by: Smell the Glove

But not impossible
-Ouija Board

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 09:25 AM (YZ0Fo)

277 272 Rumors that gay Kamanei may have been killed overnight. Makes negotiations with him kind of difficult
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 09:24 AM (zj5z7)

Hope so... If he was even still alive....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 09:25 AM (JOQH4)

278 1 hour to walk 3 miles
Posted by: Skip

Learned that in Boy Scouts. Of course, that was supposedly for flat, level ground.

I wish we had hiked on flat, level ground.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:25 AM (lwhHh)

279 Rumors that gay Kamanei may have been killed overnight. Makes negotiations with him kind difficult
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 09:24 AM (zj5z7)

"No worries ! We have more cardboard!"

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 09:26 AM (GD0B3)

280 * I've seen no reports of Cardboard Aytoolah being hit, though...

Posted by: runner at June 08, 2026 09:27 AM (GD0B3)

281 All signs point to YES.

Posted by: Magic Iranian Eight Ball at June 08, 2026 09:27 AM (CJnkZ)

282 Rumors that gay Kamanei may have been killed overnight. Makes negotiations with him kind of difficult

Biden managed to to "serve" as president for 4 years, and wasn't in much better shape?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 08, 2026 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

283 Rumors that gay Kamanei may have been killed overnight. Makes negotiations with him kind of difficult
Posted by: Smell the Glove

But not impossible
-Ouija Board
Posted by: BruceWayne

When I pass on, I want mini Ouija boards passed out at my wake so we can keep in touch.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2026 09:27 AM (lwhHh)

284 279 Rumors that gay Kamanei may have been killed overnight. Makes negotiations with him kind difficult
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 09:24 AM (zj5z7)

Love the way Tousi says his name... Moosetabah....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 09:27 AM (JOQH4)

285 At 3mph you could walk from LA to Vegas and back twice in the legal time it takes CA to receive and count ballots.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 08, 2026 09:28 AM (YZ0Fo)

286 Wonders what CHL stands for.

It's how Texans spell CCW. I didn't even notice that I was doing that.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 08, 2026 09:28 AM (vTZFs)

287 Path was flat to notice but know from GPS its a few hundred feet up

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 09:28 AM (Ia/+0)

288 Better win the war before the midterms. President Trump’s last two years is likely to be impeachmentpalooza, and you can bet that the Vichypublicans will vote accordingly.
Posted by: Unkaren at June 08, 2026 09:16 AM (MaRK

+1 Consider that term stolen.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 08, 2026 09:28 AM (wVcYX)

289 284 279 Rumors that gay Kamanei may have been killed overnight. Makes negotiations with him kind difficult
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 09:24 AM (zj5z7)

Love the way Tousi says his name... Moosetabah....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 09:27 AM (JOQH4)

The Moosetabahtside shoulda told ya...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:28 AM (l3cgK)

290 Please explain how the irgc gives a crap about any infrastructure? Hint: they don't. They will let the rest of the country suffer for one more day in power.
Posted by: Will Robinson at June 08, 2026 09:15 AM (YGJ8E)

Oh I agree. But destroying infrastructure destroys their ability to pay their soldiers…. Right now we’re slowly destroying that but it’s too slow. Start hitting their infrastructure and accelerate the timeline. At some point they run out of money; at that point no matter how fanatical they are they lose control

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 08, 2026 09:28 AM (+gA9j)

291 279 Rumors that gay Kamanei may have been killed overnight. Makes negotiations with him kind difficult
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 08, 2026 09:24 AM
++++

Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Autopen, Farsi edition at June 08, 2026 09:29 AM (CJnkZ)

292 Notice the Houthis have emerged from hibernation.

Memo to CENTCOM:

Arrange to have six separate groups of B-52s loaded with gravity bombs.

Stage them over the capital city of North Yemen.

Create 6 different bomb lanes. But have the lines in two triangles, so we put the Star of David in bomb damage over the city.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 09:29 AM (u82oZ)

293 >>>yet no new votes for Bass! amazing
----

she'll stage a great comeback win in the general election
it'll be a great story- real movie of the week stuff

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 09:29 AM (ZxPkt)

294 "Better win the war before the midterms."

Voters wake up after Labor Day. I expect Trump knows this.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM (dtajH)

295 293 >>>yet no new votes for Bass! amazing
----

she'll stage a great comeback win in the general election
it'll be a great story- real movie of the week stuff

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 09:29 AM (ZxPkt)

Even though not legal, if I was a voter in LA, come November I'd write in Pratt's name anyway...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM (l3cgK)

296 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

297 Even though not legal, if I was a voter in LA, come November I'd write in Pratt's name anyway...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 08, 2026 09:30 AM (l3cgK)

I say vote for Raman .. LA deserves her...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (JOQH4)

298 gay Kamanei had no power.

It is all IRCG now, and we have killed the top three echelons of IRCG leadership. We are into the backups of the backups to the understudies of the original leadership.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (u82oZ)

299 I'm gobsmacked!

Review Finds “The Science” Used to Justify Transing Kids Is Built on Lies

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 09:25 AM (ndZc7)

Wait until you read about the dangers of pot.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 09:31 AM (dK+Kv)

300 Scott Pelley is like a genius.

Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss asked 60 Minutes staffers: “Why do you think the country thinks you’re biased?"

Pelley: "Why do you think so? Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about?"

"Because we certainly didn't believe that."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (ndZc7)

301 'Morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

From above, "In California, a person can register to vote with a gym membership card, drug prescription, public housing card, or criminal pardon. Wait till you see the entire list.
Wait Till You See What ‘IDs’ California Accepts for Voter Registration."

>My LWV Org: Accepted forms of PHOTO ID:
You do NOT need photo ID to vote in person. However, when voting for the first time at a polling place, you must show proof of identification, either with photo or not.

Accepted forms of PHOTO ID:
PA driver's license or other ID card issued by PennDOT
ID issued by a PA or U.S. agency
U.S. passport, Military ID, Student ID, Employee ID

Accepted NON-PHOTO IDs:
(must list your name and current address)
Voter registration card, Recent utility bill, Recent bank statement, Gun permit, Recent paycheck, ID issued by a PA or U.S. agency
🤷‍♀️

Have a good day. 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 09:32 AM (NFX2v)

302 The cost of gas has always been an outsized thing. People freak out over it but in reality the impact is a lot less than the attention it receives.

If you drive 1k miles year with is typical, and a car that gets 20 mpg you buy 50 gallons a month. An extra $1 is $50/mo. Which isn’t nothing but it’s also not $500 the way a lot of people act.

And that’s at 20 mpg. Lots of cars get 30 or even 40 mpg.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 09:35 AM (Vb3xW)

303 1k miles a month not a year.

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 09:35 AM (Vb3xW)

304
Roger Goodell "Declines the invitation" to talk to a house committee about the new paid broadcast deal of the NFL.

Shows you who's in charge. The plebes no longer get the games free.

Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 09:36 AM (Y8DZL)

305 Why does congress give a fuck where nfl games are?

Posted by: Heroq at June 08, 2026 09:37 AM (Vb3xW)

306 Shows you who's in charge. The plebes no longer get the games free.
Posted by: Auspex at June 08, 2026 09:36 AM (Y8DZL)

No OTA broadcast at all? LOL.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 08, 2026 09:47 AM (BI5O2)

307 One wonders what would stop MAGA voters in Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona from engaging in a bit of "voter tourism" in CA this November.

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 08, 2026 09:51 AM (U45Jp)

308 307. West Coast and NY 'invented' it.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 10:18 AM (NFX2v)

309 From above, "Honduran Drug Gangs Rule the Streets of San Francisco. In the Tenderloin, the “Hondos” have cornered the fentanyl market."

May they be anchor babies?

President Bill Clinton's administration granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Honduras following the catastrophic destruction of Hurricane Mitch in October 1998.

TPS for Honduras was launched January 5, 1999 & officially terminated on September 8, 2025, after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) concluded that country conditions had improved sufficiently for nationals to return.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 10:40 AM (NFX2v)

Daily Tech News 8 June 2026

Top Story

The Sound Blaster Katana V2X is a walking disaster. (Ars Technica)

It's a USB speaker. How bad can it be?

Well, it is a USB speaker, yes. It also supports Bluetooth connectivity for your mobile devices. At the same time.

And it makes it easy to upgrade the firmware should you need to do so.

Over Bluetooth. Without authentication. While it is plugged into your PC.

Meaning that anyone within Bluetooth range can reprogram it with arbitrary functionality. Make it open Powershell and wipe your hard drive? Sure. The only problem there is the lack of imagination.

Oh, and Bluetooth is always on, even when the device is powered down to "sleep" mode, so just turning it off won't save you.

Creative - the company that sells Sound Blaster devices - states that it does not regard this as a vulnerability, which leaves me to wonder what kind of creeping cosmic horrors they would regard as vulnerabilities.

Tech News

AMD's next-generation RDNA5 graphics cards are expected in the second half of next year. (Tom's Hardware)

A little over two years after we first saw RDNA4.

We may see RTX 6000 series cards from Nvidia around the same time, but that's a fuzzier prediction.
Suffering from the memory drought? Retropad is a Windows Notepad clone that weighs in at 2794 bytes. (Tom's Hardware)

Which was honestly never a lot.
ASML is now Europe's most valuable company at around $650 billion. (Tom's Hardware)

That's actually respectable, though it would only rank 15th on the US stock market - between AMD and Exxon Mobil.
The user manual - such as it is - for the Beelink Me Mini.

No, that's not on Beelink's website. Yes, that is the official link. No, I don't know either.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Two days, one night, complimentary late checkout. It's a package deal.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 BOING! AND BOOM!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 04:32 AM (ohSsM)

2 Big bada boom.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 08, 2026 04:32 AM (BLOW1)

3 Boom boodee boom boodee boom boom boom!

https://youtu.be/DUZCXaStvnc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 04:36 AM (ohSsM)

4 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at June 08, 2026 04:37 AM (FLIKO)

5 Where's m? His people are featured here today.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 04:38 AM (ohSsM)

6 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 04:38 AM (Ia/+0)

7 Not sure I want to get up yet

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 04:39 AM (Ia/+0)

8 Well, let's hope no one at the FBI installs that speaker to a mainframe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 04:40 AM (zZu0s)

9 Leeloo multipass!

Posted by: Leeloo at June 08, 2026 04:40 AM (/HDaX)

10 ASML is now Europe's most valuable country at around $650 billion.

Not sure if typo or snark.

Posted by: mikeski at June 08, 2026 04:41 AM (VHUov)

11 Hmmm, so ASML is also part of the AI bubble.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 04:44 AM (zZu0s)

12 Every AI chip is made with ASML's tools.

Posted by: mikeski at June 08, 2026 04:45 AM (VHUov)

13 I'm going with snark.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at June 08, 2026 04:45 AM (/HDaX)

14 A partial list from Bing AI:
The Pentagon removed roughly 180 religions in 2026, including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick practitioners, New Age groups, Pagans, Rosicrucians, Shamans, Spiritualists, The Troth, Unitarian Universalists, and various Wiccan traditions.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Fuckers.

In Basic mid 90s I identified as a Druid, NA, and insisted that my religion required that I go into the hinterlands with a case of beer and commune with nature from Friday night until Monday morning. Denied.
Then these same a-holes then made a big production about hiking out and camping over night in those same woods.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 04:45 AM (/lPRQ)

15 Disclaimer: Two days, one night, complimentary late checkout. It's a package deal.
****

At a Super 8, in Needles, on a Tuesday, in August.

Posted by: clarence at June 08, 2026 04:48 AM (FLIKO)

16 Speaking of the stock market, since tech companies observably discriminate against white men, I'm against them. If socialists would harm them, yay! I hate the people that hate me, and wish ill for them.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 04:49 AM (Sy6m/)

17 They don't allow Magick the gathering? What's next, pinochle?

Posted by: Dark L at June 08, 2026 04:49 AM (W5mpo)

18 ASML is exactly what corporate fascists want: one point of control.
The Humidity has arrived for the summer.

Posted by: Accomack at June 08, 2026 04:52 AM (/Chlc)

19 10 ASML is now Europe's most valuable country at around $650 billion.

Not sure if typo or snark.
Posted by: mikeski
****

Ace of Spades, pixy misa, oh dark thirty: always snark.

Posted by: clarence at June 08, 2026 04:52 AM (FLIKO)

20 In Basic mid 90s I identified as a Druid, NA, and insisted that my religion required that I go into the hinterlands with a case of beer and commune with nature from Friday night until Monday morning. Denied.
Then these same a-holes then made a big production about hiking out and camping over night in those same woods.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 04:45 AM (/lPRQ)

Well, good on you. I mean you were stupid but so were they, and making them show it is a good thing.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 04:54 AM (Sy6m/)

21 Byron Donald's-Candidate for Governor of Florida-recalls when he gave his life to Jesus:

https://tinyurl.com/2dac2n3a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 04:55 AM (n3VHW)

22 w00t

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 04:58 AM (6wpGE)

23 I've got some Creative (maker of the Soundblaster above) speakers hooked to this computer.

Mine are the "Pebble X Plus" with left & right ball-shaped speakers and a separate subwoofer box.

I don't use the Bluetooth functionality with it and hook it up through USB, though. Creative sends out firmware updates occasionally, and I haven't seen anything in the upgrade notes about Bluetooth vulnerability.

I hope this problem is limited to the Soundblaster speaker, but I'm not too worried about a Bluetooth hack here in the house to be honest.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 04:58 AM (6ydKt)

24 Dance off between lamb and vet in Texas:

https://tinyurl.com/454ckt9m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 04:59 AM (n3VHW)

25 This is one of the flowers spouse and I saw our walk yesterday . I like it, not only because it's pretty,, but because of the name "yellow toadflax":

https://tinyurl.com/4eyhewyd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 05:02 AM (n3VHW)

26 5 Where's m? His people are featured here today.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 04:38 AM (ohSsM)

haha

M People - One Night in Heaven

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 05:03 AM (6wpGE)

27 I hope this problem is limited to the Soundblaster speaker, but I'm not too worried about a Bluetooth hack here in the house to be honest.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 04:58 AM (6ydKt)

Well, I hope that is a thing not weirdo.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 05:03 AM (Sy6m/)

28 M People - One Night in Heaven

I kinda like that!

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 05:07 AM (6wpGE)

29 Hi folks, has anyone set up one of those Beelink 6-bay Me Mini NAS boxes? I can't seem to find any documentation that might have come with mine. And trying to find anything on Beelink's site seems to be a fool's errand.

I've finally got enough drives to give it a go, but I'm wondering what steps are needed to make it useful. Like, what OS to put on it, what RAID software to use and so on. I suppose I could just fire it up and see what it says, but what's the use of laziness if you're not going to use it?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 08, 2026 05:07 AM (CHHv1)

30 wikipedia

M People are an English dance music band that formed in 1990 and achieved success throughout most of the 1990s. The name M People is derived from the first letter of the first name of band member Mike Pickering, who formed the group.

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 05:09 AM (6wpGE)

31 10 ASML is now Europe's most valuable country at around $650 billion.

Not sure if typo or snark.
Posted by: mikeski

Sorry to disappoint everyone, but more of a tiredpo. A typo I made because I'm tired.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 08, 2026 05:10 AM (BLOW1)

32
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 08, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

33 31 10 ASML is now Europe's most valuable country at around $650 billion.

Not sure if typo or snark.
Posted by: mikeski

Sorry to disappoint everyone, but more of a tiredpo. A typo I made because I'm tired.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 08, 2026 05:10 AM (BLOW1)

tiredpo

; )

Still making us laugh!

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 05:12 AM (6wpGE)

34 33 31 10 ASML is now Europe's most valuable country at around $650 billion.

Not sure if typo or snark.
Posted by: mikeski

Sorry to disappoint everyone, but more of a tiredpo. A typo I made because I'm tired.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 08, 2026 05:10 AM (BLOW1)

tiredpo

; )

Still making us laugh!
Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 05:12 AM (6wpGE)

I read right through it; never saw it!

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 05:13 AM (6wpGE)

35 In a stunning come from behind victory Ramen Noodles, the third place finisher on election night in the LA mayor race is suddenly in second place after over half of the mail-in ballots were cast in favor of the Communist candidate and is now being declared the winner of the second position for the runoff election in November. The weird part is she only received about 20% of the vote on election Day.

And if any of you get it in your head that this is a stolen and corrupt election you are going to be placed in a locked room with Kirsten Welker for a week where she will hector you, yell at you, and interrupt you non-stop until you get your mind right.

Rule one of elections in California: the reason vote counting is so slow is so it can be determined how many votes for the candidate preferred by the Democrat party need to be ginned up for the inevitable stunning come from behind victory.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:14 AM (glnUu)

36 Sorry to disappoint everyone, but more of a tiredpo. A typo I made because I'm tired.
****

Am disappoint. See my #19.

Posted by: clarence at June 08, 2026 05:15 AM (FLIKO)

37 My speaker doesn't allow firmware updates via Bluetooth, or at least it doesn't appear to.

I've got to disconnect the power and USB from the head speaker, then press a button on the speaker to set it to Firmware Update Mode, then reconnect everything for it to update.

It's actually a PITA so I rarely do it.
There's a firmware update waiting now for a month or more that I haven't bothered with yet.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:16 AM (6ydKt)

38 Rule one of elections in California: the reason vote counting is so slow is so it can be determined how many votes for the candidate preferred by the Democrat party need to be ginned up for the inevitable stunning come from behind victory.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:14 AM (glnUu)

He who votes decides nothing. He who counts the votes decides everything.

Posted by: Josef Vissarionovich Dzugashvili at June 08, 2026 05:17 AM (T6aVk)

39 Sorry to disappoint everyone, but more of a tiredpo. A typo I made because I'm tired. Posted by: Pixy Misa

Kill joy. That was the best thing I read all weekend and now you ruined it. Sigh.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:17 AM (glnUu)

40 29 Hi folks, has anyone set up one of those Beelink 6-bay Me Mini NAS boxes? I can't seem to find any documentation that might have come with mine. And trying to find anything on Beelink's site seems to be a fool's errand.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm

See the (new) last entry in today's post. It comes with a pre-installed operating system which is the easiest way to run it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 08, 2026 05:18 AM (BLOW1)

41 I suppose I could just fire it up and see what it says, but what's the use of laziness if you're not going to use it?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 08, 2026 05:07 AM (CHHv1)

I'd try searching on YouTube and see if anybody on there has a setup video for the Beelink NAS.

Chances are somebody has.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:20 AM (6ydKt)

42 Biden's Dog, did Haifa get hit?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 08, 2026 05:20 AM (5P5DO)

43 I am sorry you are tired, Pixy. Thanks very much for the good work you do here and elsewhere. Don't worry about the "tiredpos" and take care of yourself.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 05:24 AM (OYsYV)

44 @40 thank you very much, Pixy, it is greatly appreciated. I note on their site that the item has nearly doubled in price.

Thank you again!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 08, 2026 05:25 AM (CHHv1)

45 This guy unboxes and sets up his Beelink Me Mini with TrueNAS:

https://youtu.be/TkFfTekB3eM

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:26 AM (6ydKt)

46 Biden's Dog, did Haifa get hit?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 08, 2026 05:20 AM (5P5DO)
-

Zilch up north got hit.

In the center of Samaria, some homes were damaged by intercepted missiles which landed close enough for the shock waves to make a mess:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhz8tfb

Parents of bratty school-age children hardest hit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 05:28 AM (ohSsM)

47 Wendell from Level1Techs (I really trust his expertise) also plays with a Beelink Me Mini, and runs through setting it up using Proxmox, and troubleshooting problems, etc. here:

https://youtu.be/KPilnjN72Ls

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:29 AM (6ydKt)

48 Happy Monday, one and all.

In Basic mid 90s I identified as a Druid, NA

Had a guy in Boot that claimed he was an atheist. My Senior DI had him in tears as he made him justify his beliefs.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 05:30 AM (svLOV)

49 Thank you, SpeakingOf. I appreciate the information and the links; I also appreciate the search you made.

I generally find YouTube videos great info for certain things. So many times I've watched some where the person's hands cover up what they're doing to remove or replace a component. Yelling at the screen doesn't help.

Thank you again. I'm going back to see if there's any sleep to be found.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 08, 2026 05:30 AM (CHHv1)

50 Biden's Dog, thank you. Last I saw about 1 am my time was IDF 20. IRGC.0

Posted by: Ben Had at June 08, 2026 05:33 AM (5P5DO)

51 What I need are USB/Bluetooth speakers/earbuds that can reproduce music like they are the sound system in an IMAX theater, and undo the hearing loss due to age and excessive youthful rock and roll. Do that and we can then talk about any related security issues.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:35 AM (glnUu)

52 It is time for the Israeli military to create an internal economic blockade inside Iran by knocking out all their modern infrastructure.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:36 AM (glnUu)

53 @NR Pax, re Tech News, Friday June 5, comment 90:

"I'll have to see them at home but you gave me something to look forward to."

Did you manage to get to see those three memes? They were linked at my #89 comment that day.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420019
(Don't accidentally post in old threads!)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 08, 2026 05:37 AM (O7YUW)

54 51 What I need are USB/Bluetooth speakers/earbuds that can reproduce music like they are the sound system in an IMAX theater, and undo the hearing loss due to age and excessive youthful rock and roll. Do that and we can then talk about any related security issues.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:35 AM (glnUu)

I like the sound quality of the Raykon buds, but phone calls kind of sound like you and them are at the bottom of different wells.

A friend has had some hearing loss and she uses the apple buds.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 05:38 AM (p7PcC)

55 It is time for the Israeli military to create an internal economic blockade inside Iran by knocking out all their modern infrastructure.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:36 AM (glnUu)
-

Way overdue.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 05:38 AM (ohSsM)

56 A friend has had some hearing loss and she uses the apple buds.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

These come up short when it comes to inspiring lengthy air guitar sessions.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:40 AM (glnUu)

57 Did you manage to get to see those three memes?

Oh yes. And I knew the perfect people to forward them to. The whole thing was hilarious.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 05:45 AM (svLOV)

58 * Ship's whistle * * Voice of James Cagney as Capt. Morton *

Now hear this! Now hear this! This is the captain speaking. Yes, it's Monday. Get over it. Remember what you were told in basic? "Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Carry on. That is all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 08, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

59 It is time for the Israeli military to create an internal economic blockade inside Iran by knocking out all their modern infrastructure.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:36 AM (glnUu)
-

Way overdue.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

I would say it is time for Israel and the USA to do this but The Donald it's too busy doing his Charlie Brown imitation when Lucy yanks the football away. The Iranians have no intention of ever signing a peace deal voluntarily let alone honoring it. That leaves it to other powers to get the Iranians to "voluntarily" come to the table in a manner that would be quite familiar to the Germans and Japanese at the end of World War II. Rubble has a way of clarifying the minds of fanatics.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:47 AM (glnUu)

60 And a good evening and morning to all. June is one-fourth over, or almost. Whatchoo doin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 08, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

61 I would say it is time for Israel and the USA to do this but The Donald it's too busy doing his Charlie Brown imitation when Lucy yanks the football away.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 05:47 AM (glnUu)
-

Yup. This just in:

https://tinyurl.com/yfxs3r6u

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 05:52 AM (ohSsM)

62 Now I should get up

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 05:54 AM (Ia/+0)

63 I got dragged to the local German-American Center yesterday for a talk about German immigrants to America in the 19th Century and how the speaker's great (x3?)-grandfather wound up getting shot in California, and his great (x2)-grandfather set up shop as an oyster broker in coastal Lousyana . . . only to be wiped out by an October 1893 hurricane. Pretty interesting stuff, I admit. Apparently this hurricane hit at such an angle and at such a setup of tides that the village of Cheniere Caminada, set on (slightly) higher ground, was inundated by three interlocking sets of waves, including a tidal wave some thirty feet high. Two thousand people died. The village was almost obliterated.

The survivors were offered money, I forget from whom, to go back and rebuild. And almost nobody took the benefactors up on it. They had learned about hurricanes and wanted nothing to do with living near them again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 08, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

64 A friend has had some hearing loss and she uses the apple buds.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 08, 2026 05:38 AM (p7PcC)

The newer AirPods 2 & 3 are actually being used as hearing aids for people with mild to moderate hearing loss.

Supposed to do a pretty good job at it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 05:58 AM (6ydKt)

65 It's the usual nasty 78 with high humidity here before dawn. It won't be any better later this week, so I need to get my (short) workout in today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 08, 2026 06:05 AM (wzUl9)

66 They had learned about hurricanes and wanted nothing to do with living near them again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 08, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

A lot of people said the same thing after Camille and Katrina I'm sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:07 AM (6ydKt)

67 Supposed to get to 92 this afternoon here.
95 by the end of the week.

Summer is coming.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 06:08 AM (6ydKt)

68 A lot of people said the same thing after Camille and Katrina I'm sure.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026

***
The sensible ones with the resources to move away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 08, 2026 06:09 AM (wzUl9)

69 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: You can check out any time you want.
But you can never leave.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 08, 2026 06:11 AM (amcLV)

70 A British police officer who stood firm in his Christian convictions has achieved a significant legal victory after being punished for simply asking questions during a mandatory diversity training session.

It sounds like the UK government is reading the writing on the wall and doing their best to stop things from getting ugly.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 06:13 AM (svLOV)

71 Somehow this Iran thing is not total war. If it was every military assets would be a target today and onward.with no let up

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 06:13 AM (Ia/+0)

72 I've used Kim.com's mega as a cloud backup for many years and it's worked well and never bothered me. I think I get 50 free gigs and I've never used that much.

Posted by: meh at June 08, 2026 06:16 AM (kK7U2)

73 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 08, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

That sounds interesting. My soon- to-be new hometown of Fredericksburg was founded by German immigrants in the 1800s, and many of their families are still mainstays of the community. It was a rough place to live, with frequent Indian raids and harsh weather.

Posted by: LASue at June 08, 2026 06:23 AM (lCppi)

74 LASue, Fredericksburg is lovely. Congratulations on you upcoming move.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 08, 2026 06:25 AM (5P5DO)

75 Good morning morons

Can't find video of Tehran but I smell smoke.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 06:40 AM (RIvkX)

76 SanFranpsycho, Tousi has some.. IDF 20. IRGC. 0
The IRGC are straight up lying about a strike on Haifa

Posted by: Ben Had at June 08, 2026 06:42 AM (5P5DO)

77 mornin yall. Monday morning. What kind of cease fire allows the continued firing of missiles? This is no way to destroy a civilization.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

78 present

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2026 06:43 AM (ZxPkt)

79 Good to see you are ok BD. ?הכל בסדר

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 06:43 AM (RIvkX)

80 Posted by: LASue

You will love it! Congrats. I walked into a restaurant there once and was hit with a bunch of the locals speaking their version of Pennsylvania Dutch. It was glorious.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 08, 2026 06:45 AM (jnTpz)

81 In other news, I booked a flight towards the end of the month to see my dad. Not going to do much but I'd rather see him while I still can.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 06:50 AM (svLOV)

82
from the ONT
This looks like a LOT of tech-thread-commenters:

Top 10 commenters:
1 [778 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer' [110.47 posts/day]
2 [585 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films'
3 [384 comments] 'Axeman'
4 [373 comments] 'Aetius451AD work phone'
5 [304 comments] '...'
6 [289 comments] 'San Franpsycho'
7 [285 comments] 'm'
8 [263 comments] 'Skip'
9 [261 comments] 'NaCly Dog'
10 [257 comments] 'jim (in Kalifornia)'

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 06:52 AM (6wpGE)

83 https://tinyurl.com/yfxs3r6u
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 05:52 AM (ohSsM)
=====

Is Trump trying to make himself irrelevant? Because that is how to do it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 06:53 AM (RIvkX)

84 I gotta boost my comment numbers. Maybe I should retire early.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 08, 2026 06:53 AM (svLOV)

85 73 My soon- to-be new hometown of Fredericksburg was founded by German immigrants in the 1800s, and many of their families are still mainstays of the community. It was a rough place to live, with frequent Indian raids and harsh weather.
Posted by: LASue at June 08, 2026 06:23 AM (lCppi)

I haven't been there in a bazillion years, but I liked it a lot. Remember shucking peas with a friend's mom on her porch.

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 06:54 AM (6wpGE)

86 This looks like a LOT of tech-thread-commenters:
===

The irony being of course I know jack sh*t about technology.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 06:54 AM (RIvkX)

87 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 08, 2026 06:56 AM (CJnkZ)

88 The IDF and CENTCOM are coordinating the strikes on Iran.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 08, 2026 06:59 AM (5P5DO)

89 The irony being of course I know jack sh*t about technology.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

We compensate for not knowing things by having an opinion about everything.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 06:59 AM (glnUu)

90 "Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering"

Complaint filed with the SPLC.

Posted by: the crows at June 08, 2026 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

91 We compensate for not knowing things by having an opinion about everything.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 06:59 AM (glnUu)
====
Sounds like me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:00 AM (RIvkX)

92 91 We compensate for not knowing things by having an opinion about everything.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 06:59 AM (glnUu)
====
Sounds like me.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:00 AM (RIvkX)

Sounds like purty darn near everybody in the tech-thread comments!
NTTAWWT

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:01 AM (6wpGE)

93 My people came to Texas from Alsace Loraine when Texas was a republic, about 1842. After a stint near Corpus Christi, they settled in central Texas south of Waco and commenced to farming. Every little town in the area was settled by a different group: German, Czech, Italian etc.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 08, 2026 07:02 AM (l26NL)

94 Trump keeps saying "we are very close to a deal". There is no deal to be made with Islamists. Here's the deal. You die and we win.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 07:02 AM (vFG9F)

95 Well, good on you. I mean you were stupid but so were they, and making them show it is a good thing.

I hope you are being sarcastic.

If not, have you been weaned yet?

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 08, 2026 07:02 AM (JbM8E)

96 It's been my experience after traveling around the Western United States extensively is 19th century cemeteries are full of dead Germans.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 07:05 AM (glnUu)

97 Trump keeps saying "we are very close to a deal". There is no deal to be made with Islamists. Here's the deal. You die and we win.
Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 07:02 AM (vFG9F)
=====

Say what now?

Posted by: Gaza Board of Peace at June 08, 2026 07:06 AM (RIvkX)

98 Like, what OS to put on it, what RAID software to use and so on. I suppose I could just fire it up and see what it says, but what's the use of laziness if you're not going to use it?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 08, 2026 05:07 AM (CHHv1)

I use OpenMediaVault, and it meets my needs as a secondary NAS, backup NAS, etc. I haven't really pushed it with a ton of different services. It is running on 2009-era x86 hardware with 8 GB, of RAM, which used to be a lot, as it is said.

Free, open source, if that matters.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 07:09 AM (dK+Kv)

99 Good to see you are ok BD. ?הכל בסדר

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 06:43 AM (RIvkX)
-

הודו לה' כי טוב, כי לעולם חסדו

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 07:10 AM (ohSsM)

100 100

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:10 AM (6wpGE)

101 So the denuded Iranian forces just sent ballistic missiles toward Israel. Israel responded. Good. Maybe Bibi can finish the job we started, since we seem to have lost our way among the weeds of a delusional "deal."

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 07:12 AM (fZiTB)

102 >>It's been my experience after traveling around the Western United States extensively is 19th century cemeteries are full of dead Germans.

Whole lot of the Midwest, too. Mornin', Horde.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 07:12 AM (NcvvS)

103 In Basic mid 90s I identified as a Druid, NA, and insisted that my religion required that I go into the hinterlands with a case of beer and commune with nature from Friday night until Monday morning. Denied.

A mark of a civilization is institutional memory: lessons that were learned earlier provide the earlier solution to the current problem.

The drawback to institutional memory is that the current problem has important differences to the perceived matched past problem, so the solution doesn't match the problem.

The alternate solution to the above quoted problem was to have "Itinerant Alley Butcher" fellow trainees beat the fuck out of him for being a shithead. And then chapter his ass out of the military.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 08, 2026 07:13 AM (JbM8E)

104 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:15 AM (u82oZ)

105 Spider solitaire is evil

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 07:15 AM (Ia/+0)

106 The IDF and CENTCOM are coordinating the strikes on Iran.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 08, 2026 06:59 AM (5P5DO)

While Trump is outwardly saying we want a deal, shooting must stop, and pressing our 60 day limits on military force.

Kind of wily.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 07:15 AM (dK+Kv)

107 heh

Aelfred The Great
@aelfred_D
15h
My solidly Irish (ancestry) wife, went to Ireland for a week and, well she has some takes

“The Irish are the ones God chose to look away from”

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:16 AM (6wpGE)

108 It was a rough place to live, with frequent Indian raids and harsh weather.

The dot-Indians may bring the past to life.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 08, 2026 07:16 AM (JbM8E)

109 It was a rough place to live, with frequent Indian raids and harsh weather.

The dot-Indians may bring the past to life.
Posted by: Richard Cranium

Sounds like you've stayed in more than a few hotels in the smaller Western USA cities and towns.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 08, 2026 07:18 AM (glnUu)

110 9 on the Wall of Shame!!!??

OMG. This is only the second time in 18 years I am on that wall.

Is there an AoSHQ Support Group?

*Approaches whiteboard with Navy Blue marker*
*Scruffy crowd of miscreants and rapscallions watches*

I write "My Name is Salty, and I have sinned."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

111 The alternate solution to the above quoted problem was to have "Itinerant Alley Butcher" fellow trainees beat the fuck out of him for being a shithead. And then chapter his ass out of the military.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 08, 2026 07:13 AM (JbM8E)

Or help him carry his case of beer out on ruck marches. Afterall, we are not savages.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 07:20 AM (dK+Kv)

112 Except the Iranians can't abide by a agreement for even 12 hours before breaking it.

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 07:20 AM (Ia/+0)

113 huh

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
10h
Graham Platner: “If I had my way, elections would last two months, they would be publicly funded, and if a billionaire looked at a TV ad the wrong way we’d put ‘em in jail.”

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:21 AM (6wpGE)

114 *with video

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:21 AM (6wpGE)

115 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

This could be the start of good news. I'd like a different plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

116 My plan:

Every day we do not get the enriched uranium and a surrender, strike a power plant. Use drones to destroy it.

Start with the plants that power Tehran City, then Tehran Province. Use IRGC control status to sort the next targets.
Do this every day.

After each power plant is destroyed, have Trump send a message by his hidden channels of communications: "Inshallah."

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

117 It's been my experience after traveling around the Western United States extensively is 19th century cemeteries are full of dead Germans."

Indeed. Lot's of 'em...

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 07:24 AM (XuXeR)

118 >>*Scruffy crowd of miscreants and rapscallions watches*

What about us lowlifes?

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 07:24 AM (NcvvS)

119 Nazdar

All right. You too.

But no Methodists.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

120 116 .. have Trump send a message by his hidden channels of communications: "Inshallah."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

Cultural appropriation!!!

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:25 AM (6wpGE)

121 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 08, 2026 07:25 AM (bfy6w)

122 What about us lowlifes?"

Thankfully, no Irish...

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 07:26 AM (XuXeR)

123 man

The proto-Irish or the "from Africa" Irish of today?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

124 There's Irish all over this thread!

122 What about us lowlifes?"

Thankfully, no Irish...
Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 07:26 AM (XuXeR)

107
Aelfred The Great
@aelfred_D
15h
My solidly Irish (ancestry) wife, went to Ireland for a week and, well she has some takes

“The Irish are the ones God chose to look away from”
Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:16 AM (6wpGE)

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:27 AM (6wpGE)

125 It was a rough place to live, with frequent Indian raids and harsh weather."

C'mon - Fredricksburg Virginia isn't that bad.

Oh, nevermind/

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 07:28 AM (XuXeR)

126 >>But no Methodists.

*shocked face*
Of course not!

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 07:28 AM (NcvvS)

127 G'mornin' everyone!
Happy Monday!

what a fershlugginer weekend. (spit)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 07:28 AM (VyBeY)

128 man

Dot Indians out of control?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

129

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 08, 2026 07:29 AM (zKdU6)

130 The proto-Irish or the "from Africa" Irish of today?"

Is it wrong that I first read that as "The potato-Irish"?

Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 07:29 AM (XuXeR)

131 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:30 AM (u82oZ)

132 I got an email that says my brand is invisible in ChatGPT. It seems I have no AI citation footprint. Listen up, AI. Cite this. Bite me.

Posted by: fd at June 08, 2026 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

133 IRGC calls a halt to bombing against Israel after what the IRGC called a devastating response .

Blowing the shit put of that piece of Judean desert really showed Israel.

I can't quit laughing

Posted by: Ben Had at June 08, 2026 07:33 AM (5P5DO)

134 President Trump’s advertised reaction was not impressive. “I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate. Each of them had their fun. Israel had its strike, and Iran had its strike. We don’t need another one,” he told Barak Ravid. I consider Ravid an unreliable narrator, but I trust him to get a quote right. That is pathetic. We don’t know what Trump actually told Netanyahu, but there is no way Israel is having fun or should suck it up and take it. Northern Israel is once again being depopulated by Hezbollah’s attacks. -Scott Johnson
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It is pathetic and sad.

It makes me think Trump is unreliable and in the end we will all be thrown to the dogs for the sake of propriety.

Posted by: Gaza Board of Peace at June 08, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

135 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at June 08, 2026 07:34 AM (CJnkZ)

136 130 The proto-Irish or the "from Africa" Irish of today?"

Is it wrong that I first read that as "The potato-Irish"?
Posted by: man at June 08, 2026 07:29 AM (XuXeR)

Leon Uris, Trilogy. Oh, man, I need to read that again.

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:36 AM (6wpGE)

137 134 President Trump’s advertised reaction ... -Scott Johnson
Posted by: Gaza Board of Peace at June 08, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

publicized reaction?

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:38 AM (6wpGE)

138 Dear President Trump,

Please drop the Godfather routine and grow up.

They are never going to love you. But we still do.

Love, Franpsycho

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

139 Politicized reaction?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 08, 2026 07:39 AM (CJnkZ)

140 adversative reaction?

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:40 AM (6wpGE)

141 in the end we will all be thrown to the dogs for the sake of propriety.
Posted by: Gaza Board of Peace at June 08, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

More like, everything, all our hard-fought gains and sacrifices, must be sacrificed to the holy promise of a "deal." Once the enemy grasps this obsession, we're done.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 07:40 AM (fZiTB)

142 I wish it was Sunday
Thats my Sauvignon fun day

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 07:40 AM (Ia/+0)

143 what a fershlugginer weekend. (spit)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 08, 2026 07:28 AM (VyBeY)
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nurse said last night you were having a bad time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)

144 "Pay no attention to the [deal-maker] behind the curtain."

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 07:41 AM (6wpGE)

145 Salty-

Did you go to "Grease" with the widow? How was the show?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 07:44 AM (7RYym)

146 It's been a little over three months, yes?

I don't know what people expected. A pony?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 07:44 AM (dK+Kv)

147 Once the enemy grasps this obsession, we're done.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 08, 2026 07:40 AM (fZiTB)
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I think that was Johnson's main point.

Do they love death more than we love life?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

148 JJ up.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 08, 2026 07:45 AM (NcvvS)

149 I don't know what people expected. A pony?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 07:44 AM (dK+Kv)
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A victory for American arms.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

150 A victory for American arms.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

In 3 months? With Congressional limits on continued use of force?

Is that overly optimistic or unrealistic?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 07:48 AM (dK+Kv)

151 FenelonSpoke

Yes, I did.

It was very well produced. Great singing, dancing, blocking, poodle skirts among great costumes, with an exuberant cast.

I told her that in 1959 I was 5 years old living in Japan. The story did not really resonate with me. But I had fun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 08, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

152 I am glad that you had fun, Salty. That is important in life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 08, 2026 08:22 AM (IYIYn)

153 Or help him carry his case of beer out on ruck marches. Afterall, we are not savages.

Basic training exists to teach new recruits important things that should be their baseline when entering the military.

Learning to cut corners and flaunt regulations isn't appropriate there.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 08, 2026 10:20 AM (JbM8E)

Sunday Overnight Open Thread - June 7, 2026 [Doof]

From sun

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday night ONT. First one of June 2026. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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The GOAT

🚨🚨Holy Crap!! President Trump had enough of Welker’s lies and rips off microphone and walks out of interview.

BRAVO!!! We have the best President!! pic.twitter.com/KR8TIROgZk
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) June 7, 2026

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Tough times for Chicago. The Bears are leaving for nearby Hammond, Indiana. Looks like they're not the only Chicago institutions to announce their departure.

BREAKING:
Italian Beef has announced its intentions to relocate from Chicago to Indianapolis, Indiana. A Chicago staple since the Great Depression, Italian Beef cited high crime, corruption and an overall unfriendly business climate as its reasons for leaving Chicago and… pic.twitter.com/ktOG7IaxQI
— MJ Tomko (@Tomko_1) June 5, 2026

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WANT!

Man Builds Autonomous AI-Powered Water Gun Turret to Keep Pigeons Away

Seriously - this is just sooper kewl!

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Wholesome content

We were absolutely floored by the millions of you that watched us make silly water sillouettes on our driveway last summer. We are starting out the summer the only way we know how, and this time it’s all about movies! What else do you want to see? We have a whole summer ahead, a… pic.twitter.com/BoQXsqVm0t
— Fun Viral Vids (@Fun_Viral_Vids2) June 7, 2026

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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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Shorts Season, Served with Sass: How to Make Them Look Expensively Polished in 2026
I’m not a shorts girl. I own exactly two pairs: my beloved cut-off Levi’s 501s (great for beach days, questionable everywhere else) and one tailored olive green pair that occasionally sees daylight. I gravitate to skirts and dresses, but sometimes you just need something that doesn’t involve wrestling with wind.
These are the exact looks I would put together for myself. Elevated, flattering, and full of personality so I actually feel excited to wear shorts instead of defaulting to a dress.
The good news? Shorts can look polished, and even a little sexy, when styled right. Let’s prove it with three looks that lean into the best of Ralph Lauren, Ted Baker, and Dolce & Gabbana drama.

Look 1: Ralph Lauren Chic (The “Luxury on Vacation” Vibe)

This look is pure effortless elegance. Think Piper in the Italian countryside. Monochromatic linen blends, clean lines, and the most forgiving pleats you’ll ever meet. These shorts are strategically designed so the pleats sit in all the right places instead of creating new ones. 😉
• Pleated Linen Blend Twill Shorts by Lauren Ralph Lauren in Light Agave Green
• Twist Front Sleeveless Top by Lauren Ralph Lauren in Light Agave Green
• Lina Wedge Sandal by Reformation in Rum Leather
• Romy Straw Bucket Bag by Tory Burch (large)
• The Vivienne 59mm Gradient Round Sunglasses by Ralph Lauren
Slip this on and suddenly you’re the woman who “just threw this together” while secretly looking like you have a summer house in Tuscany.

Look 2: Ted Baker Preppy (Brunch-to-Errands Queen Energy)

Sunshine in clothing form. This combo brings playful British preppy meets summer ease. The perfect mix of textures feels rich without trying too hard. Cotton-blend shorts keep things crisp, the ruffle-trim knit adds softness, and those sky-blue patent slides? Chef’s kiss. Retro sunnies seal the polished-but-fun deal.
• Hana Plaid Cotton Blend Shorts by Ted Baker in Camellia Rose
• Elisa Rib Ruffle Trim Sweater by Ted Baker in Vanilla Ice
• Fina Slide Sandal by Bruno Magli in Sky Blue Patent
• 50mm Oval Sunglasses by Mia Mia
• Paddington Leather Shoulder Bag by Chloé in Cloudy Cream (small)
Wear this and you’ll feel like the main character running around town looking annoyingly cute.

Look 3: Dolce & Gabbana Luxe (Main Character Energy, Activated)

When you want shorts to scream “I’m expensive and I know it.” Matching Majolica prints, a flirty bustier, and embroidered mules make every step feel like a runway moment. Heels + shorts = instant leg-lengthening sorcery.
• Majolica Print Mat Bermuda Shorts by Dolce & Gabbana
• Majolica Print Charmeuse Bustier Top by Dolce & Gabbana
• Majolica Print brocade mules with embroidery by Dolce & Gabbana
• DG Sunglasses
This look is confident, feminine, and just the right amount of extra.
Shorts don’t have to feel like giving up on style, they can be your secret weapon for warm-weather polish. Whether you’re channeling Ralph Lauren ease, Ted Baker charm, or D&G drama, the key is tailoring, texture play, and confidence.
Which of these three looks is making you want to give shorts another chance? ☀️

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Thanks, Piper!

Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.

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DJ Doof - Random Stuff Edition

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Opening night of the Rush Fifty Something Tour is tonight. First of 4 shows at the KIA Forum near Los Angeles. Word is, this guy came down from Ridgemont and was seen near the venue.

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 06-07-2026

AoSHQ Commenter Statistics:
Number of posts: 91
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Number of unique hashes: 1579

Top 10 commenters:
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Tonight's ONT brought to you by the backstory on the boss

H/T - Mindful webworker

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This has probably not been the best ONT effort from Doof Enterprises, LLC.

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1 A very important message for everyone. Prepare immediately! Aliens are planni

Posted by: mindful webworker - critically ordinary at June 07, 2026 10:00 PM (dn9xm)

2 definitely not first, but close

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at June 07, 2026 10:01 PM (g14+z)

3 Ah... the filters are ok in that top pic.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:02 PM (1Ff7Z)

4 It is a great ONT!

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 10:02 PM (hftzA)

5 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 10:02 PM (jnTpz)

6 from second city to second rate city

Posted by: gKWVE at June 07, 2026 10:03 PM (gKWVE)

7 Mmmmm. Italian beef sammich with giardiniera. Thanks for the ONT, Doof and Piper.

Posted by: scampydog - occasional contributor at June 07, 2026 10:03 PM (41CYW)

8 Sponge!

Posted by: RandomDave at June 07, 2026 10:04 PM (aJQbY)

9 It is a great ONT!
Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 10:02 PM (hftzA)

It's Piper the Friendly Ghost!

Posted by: Doof at June 07, 2026 10:04 PM (QMAsf)

10 Not on the lists of shame again. Yay. But, got an h/t in the post. Double yay.

Posted by: mindful webworker - fame and glory at June 07, 2026 10:05 PM (dn9xm)

11 Opening night of the Rush Fifty Something Tour is tonight. First of 4 shows at the KIA Forum near Los Angeles.

The Killed In Action Forum?? I think I'd stay away from there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:05 PM (1Ff7Z)

12 9 It is a great ONT!
Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 10:02 PM (hftzA)

It's Piper the Friendly Ghost!
Posted by: Doof at June 07, 2026 10:04

👻

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 10:06 PM (hftzA)

13 First of all Rat, you never let on how much you like a girl. "Oh, Debbie. Hi." Two, you always call the shots. "Kiss me. You won't regret it." Now three, act like wherever you are, that's the place to be. "Isn't this great?" Four, when ordering food, you find out what she wants, then order for the both of you. It's a classy move. "Now, the lady will have the linguini and white clam sauce, and a Coke with no ice." And five, now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.

Posted by: scampydog - Finds the Dimone Quote at June 07, 2026 10:06 PM (41CYW)

14 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 07, 2026 10:07 PM (bfy6w)

15 Opening night of the Rush Fifty Something Tour is tonight. First of 4 shows at the KIA Forum near Los Angeles.

The Killed In Action Forum?? I think I'd stay away from there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

The reality is even scarier. Cheap Korean cars.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

16 The lst photo was taken seconds before the faggy care bear was stabbed and cooked for dinner.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at June 07, 2026 10:07 PM (l6rin)

17 Someone could probably make a nice painting out of that pic up top.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:08 PM (1Ff7Z)

18 70,000 dumbass Hoosiers all demanding the right to drive 45mph in the passing lane, and attempting to converge on a single location . . .

It will bring traffic in the Midwest to a grinding halt.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 07, 2026 10:08 PM (gpQ8/)

19 Those kids with the sidewalk art are awesome. Love it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 07, 2026 10:08 PM (0aYVJ)

20 That movie, The Human Duplicators, is a parade of classic cars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 10:09 PM (UcW11)

21 Piper, the shorts are nice. But, except for one photo - NO legs! What were you thinking, that we'd like to see JUST the shorts? C'mon.

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 10:09 PM (Jr+re)

22 Spencer Pratt (R) has dropped to 3rd place in the L.A. mayor's race tonight, due to another mail-in ballot drop.

So, the "general election" will almost certainly be incumbent mayor Karen (Light My Fire) Bass vs. a middle eastern woman who criticizes Bass for being too conservative.

Sorry to be the bearer of unwelcome tidings.

Posted by: mnw at June 07, 2026 10:09 PM (RCjYY)

23 Great opening photo for a wonderful,ONT. Thank you, Disco Doof and Intrepid Fashion Reporter Piper!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:09 PM (qx7Zg)

24 I approve of the handbag with the massive padlock on it. Makes for a handy bludgeon and a tasteful gift.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 07, 2026 10:09 PM (w/O5Q)

25 The lst photo was taken seconds before the faggy care bear was stabbed and cooked for dinner.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops

Wait, weren't ewoks supposed to be all "one with nature" and stuff?

Surely they'd recognize aposematic coloration, and not try to eat the obviously-toxic bright pink bear.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

26 23 Great opening photo for a wonderful,ONT. Thank you, Disco Doof and Intrepid Fashion Reporter Piper!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:09 PM (qx7Zg)

Thank you!

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 10:11 PM (hftzA)

27 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 07, 2026 10:12 PM (+9wcF)

28 Mikeski
They'd skin the care bear first. Singed fur tastes really bad over an open fire.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at June 07, 2026 10:12 PM (l6rin)

29 Thanks to both Doof and Piper for another great ONT! Thanks.

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 10:12 PM (Jr+re)

30 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco and Piper!

Posted by: TRex - short armed dino at June 07, 2026 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

31 Sorry to be the bearer of unwelcome tidings.
Posted by: mnw at June 07, 2026 10:09 PM (RCjYY)

Golly! This is totally unexpected.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 07, 2026 10:13 PM (0aYVJ)

32 21 Piper, the shorts are nice. But, except for one photo - NO legs! What were you thinking, that we'd like to see JUST the shorts? C'mon.
Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 10:09 PM

Ohhh….maybe this is an excuse to buy the D&G outfit! For pictures, I mean science!

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 10:13 PM (hftzA)

33 Thanks, LRob!

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 10:14 PM (hftzA)

34 I really admire the creativity of people who can come up with so many different handles.

And I appreciate the fashion, Piper. Agave is a nice color I also think Dolce and Gabana is meant for someone wealthier and younger than I am.

Thanks for the ONT, Doof.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 10:14 PM (ZeH0U)

35
Nithya Ramon v. Karen Bass.

A televised debate would be hilarious, if incomprehensible.

Posted by: Auspex at June 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Y8DZL)

36 It was nice to see Pres Trump tell the tele-press what he thinks! We don't have enough government/elected people doing so.

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)

37 Did anyone notice that Ace might have competition for the mightiest Ewok on the Internet?

Some angry person called Elon Musk an Ewok over his changes to Twitter.

If Ace and Elon chose to fight for rulership of Ewoks, what weapon would be used? Wits, spears, bolos, or flamethrowers?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:15 PM (qx7Zg)

38 There has to be some way of getting redress from the government of LA, right? This is completely unacceptable. How can people put up with it?

Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado at June 07, 2026 10:15 PM (uit7w)

39 OMG - Trump called a woman "Darling".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)

40 Sitting in that cushy chair with piranha Welkers, he should have worn a back brace. They make furniture for short people which stress out the wrong places for tall people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 10:15 PM (UcW11)

41 Israel ignored Trump's request and attacked Iran just a few hours ago.

Posted by: mnw at June 07, 2026 10:16 PM (RCjYY)

42 South Korean stock market closed after falling the limit - minus 8.4%.

Fun day tomorrow.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 07, 2026 10:17 PM (aD4fx)

43 We tried to find shorts for Pookette in Wal-Mart this week. No luck! She can't shop in the Girls section anymore because she's too tall, and the Women's section was full of short shorts. "Why would anyone want to show off their underwear?!" Oh, my sweet naive child...

Posted by: pookysgirl never wanted to show off her underwear either at June 07, 2026 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)

44 Illinois loses another icon. Don't worry they are getting a new one. Sister state with Minnesota.

Hello Illinois -

• Vairt: The Leading Halal Real Estate Investment Platform in the USA

• Vairt (a Sharia-compliant real estate investment platform founded by Jail Ahmed Sukhera) is developing/marketing the 165 acre site,
2558 N 3653 Rd or 3650 Rd, Sheridan, IL 60551

• https://community. > zoya.finance > /t/vairt-real-estate/3131
Vairt - Real Estate - Alternative Investments - Zoya Halal Investor ...
Vairt is a Sharia-Compliant Real Estate Investment Platform, a US-based company currently with offices in the USA, Europe, and the UAE

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 10:18 PM (UcW11)

45 Man Builds Autonomous AI-Powered Water Gun Turret to Keep Pigeons Away
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Prototype.
The real deal will be used to keep drones away.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 10:18 PM (/lPRQ)

46 Portillo's is still holding out, headquartered in the Chicago suburbs. If they leave the state, there is no return.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 07, 2026 10:18 PM (NcvvS)

47 "This has probably not been the best ONT effort from Doof Enterprises, LLC."

We still love ya.

Posted by: Bones at June 07, 2026 10:18 PM (R1Ziy)

48 Piper, I went too far in a couple comments last night, that could easily have been taken as insults. I apologize for making them.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:18 PM (qx7Zg)

49 Israel ignored Trump's request and attacked Iran just a few hours ago.

I don't get why Trump hasn't flattened the elite neighborhoods in Tehran...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 07, 2026 10:19 PM (sKqQm)

50 Little known rock history.

Chip Monck was the guy making announcements from the stage during Woodstock 1969. For a year after the concert, he was repeatedly receiving death threats. The cops eventually tracked down the fellow doing it. Turns out it was the guy who had been trying to sell the brown acid.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and you can believe me because I'm always right and I never lie at June 07, 2026 10:19 PM (dn9xm)

51 Thanks for the Sunday Night ONT, Doof!

Fabulous photo up top. And thanks to Piper for the shorts 4-1-1.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 07, 2026 10:20 PM (D/6p1)

52 Vairt (a Sharia-compliant real estate investment platform founded by Jail Ahmed Sukhera) is developing/marketing the 165 acre site,

Pig blood, crop duster, you can figure out the rest.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 07, 2026 10:20 PM (+9wcF)

53 There has to be some way of getting redress from the government of LA, right? This is completely unacceptable. How can people put up with it?
Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado
**************
Personal experience, they can't. So they leave. Yet it continues....until it can't.....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

54 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete

A Bit exclusionary don't you think?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 07, 2026 10:21 PM (IP7s4)

55 Sprayed water silhouettes was pretty cool.

Posted by: mindful webworker - now do Terminator at June 07, 2026 10:22 PM (dn9xm)

56 Well, I took a Sunday afternoon nap and missed the Gun Thread. I wanted to share that I did some cursory research on chamberings favored in the grim lands of our conquered forebears, and while English cops don't normally carry, what guns they have in their HQ are all the familiar NATO ones: 9mm handguns, 5.56mm carbines, 7.62mm sniper rifles (really?), and 12-gauge shotguns (nice Imperial there).

The point of this exercise was to find out what kind of ammo might be readily available at gunpoint, if we were to airdrop crates of Liberty Starter Kits with just a single case of Freedom Seeds per Pew Pew. AI refused, unsurprisingly, to tell me what kind of guns were in mosque armories; the closest I could get was that the firearms most commonly captured being smuggled were AK-47s, and the ones most commonly confiscated off being carried by criminals were 9mm pistols.

Other commenters have pointed out that our kin across the pond don't have any practice or experience with guns. So, with cops and criminals alike settling on 9mm, and with discomfort and unfamiliarity being an issue, I think Pistol-Caliber Carbines are the way to go. And several companies make them for Glock magazines.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 10:22 PM (Sy6m/)

57 >>70,000 dumbass Hoosiers all demanding the right to drive 45mph in the passing lane

Tell us you've never driven I-65 past Hobart without explicitly saying so. Oh, wait! You're not flattened by the traffic!

Posted by: Nazdar at June 07, 2026 10:22 PM (NcvvS)

58 Sorry I'm.late, I was trying to watch the sunset, but it was overcast.

And I was facing east.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 07, 2026 10:22 PM (jaIBk)

59
Paid $3.24 / gal for gas outside Hammond Ind. this afternoon.

Had lunch on the sidewalk cafe at the Green Street Local in Chicago; no gunshots heard, but we were blocks away from the Obama flacktower.

A beautiful day.

Posted by: Auspex at June 07, 2026 10:22 PM (Y8DZL)

60 I head a Sharia-compliant real estate investment platform!

Send money now!

That's the ticket!

Posted by: Tommy Flanagan at June 07, 2026 10:22 PM (Q+gd/)

61 Israel ignored Trump's request and attacked Iran just a few hours ago.
-
Talk is worthless.

Action is required.

Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2026 10:23 PM (vSvIl)

62 I was just looking at the latest IERS data for the earth's rotation. I got fascinated by a little unexpected speed-up starting around 2020.

That appears to have settled down, and we're back to normal (mean solar day yearly average back to a smidge over 24 hours, rather a smidge less). If that little speed-up had kept up, we'd have needed a negative leap second by around 2029 - 2030.

No need to worry about that for now, although it will be a while before a normal positive leap second is needed again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 07, 2026 10:23 PM (w6EFb)

63 This has probably not been the best ONT effort from Doof Enterprises, LLC.

No, it was an excellent effort!

Thanks, Doof

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 07, 2026 10:23 PM (NFX2v)

64 The pigeon gun needs a power up, and programming to target stupid people. It would need a 55 gallon drum for congressional hearings.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:23 PM (qx7Zg)

65 pookysgirl, what about the boys' section? Should be able to find some mid/low-thigh stuff or even (gasp) school dress code compatible stuff there? If she's open to wearing, eww, boy's clothes.

Posted by: RandomDave at June 07, 2026 10:23 PM (aJQbY)

66 32 ARC

I was thinking the same thing.

One can only buy so many dips.

Posted by: mnw at June 07, 2026 10:23 PM (RCjYY)

67 "This has probably not been the best ONT effort from Doof Enterprises, LLC."
*******
Doof, we get it. We are praying for your mom, your family and you. Thank you for the ONT effort you gave us.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 10:23 PM (IQ6Gq)

68 Presuming the Trump admin allows the theft in LA to continue I guess people should vote for Ramen. She is crazier then Bass but if she comes in different dem powerbrokers will get paid

Posted by: 18-1 at June 07, 2026 10:24 PM (sKqQm)

69
Dropped Her Majesty at Hobby at 7:15 AM
Her flight to DFW was delayed until 10:30
Her flight to DFW was delayed until 11:30
Her flight to DFW was delayed until 12:30
Her flight to DFW was delayed until 1:00
Her flight to DFW departed at 3:30
Her flight to Newark was canceled
No flights to Newark arriving tomorrow AM
She will be flying back to Bush, arriving 6:30 AM

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:24 PM (O0L8i)

70 Good evening morons e grazie Disco e Piper.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

71 The reason why 7.62x51mm sniper rifles are a (really?) is because that's a relatively light cartridge suitable for battle rifles. Indeed, the .30-06 Springfield (or 7.62x63mm), "the cartridge that won two World Wars," was a battle rifle chambering in its day, with even water-cooled BARs. So if you're going to make a 30-caliber sniper rifle, at least go x63mm for goodness' sake.

And 12-gauge is an Imperial because of math. Gauge is inverse pounder. If a cannon has a bore where a lead sphere of that diameter would weigh 12 pounds, then it's a 12-pounder. Gauge is the inverse, for how many spheres of that diameter it would take to make 1 pound, which is why a 10-gauge is bigger than a 12-gauge is bigger than a 20-gauge. A 12-gauge shotgun is a 1/12th pounder cannon.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 10:25 PM (Sy6m/)

72 I know that place in the top photo. It's a creepy little island called "Sepia". Time moves differently there as most of the men still wear hats, and the women never wear skirts above the knee. Everyone still smokes, doctors make housecalls, and there's this guy wearing a brimmed cap that delivers glass bottles of milk.

I was there for a week's vacation, and for some reason I had the urge to grow a pencil think moustache. This one guy kept calling me a "Dick". Turns out he thought I was a detective. And, there was a rather embarrassing occurrence when I mixed up the word "mug" in ordering a beer, and the bartended punched some poor guy in the face.

Posted by: Orson at June 07, 2026 10:25 PM (dIske)

73 Israel ignored Trump's request and attacked Iran just a few hours ago.
-
Talk is worthless.

Action is required.
Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2026 10:23 PM (vSvIl)

Needs Gojira doing stompy feet dance, with Rodan to eat buzzing drones.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:26 PM (qx7Zg)

74 This has probably not been the best ONT effort from Doof Enterprises, LLC.

Does this entitle us to some sort of monetary compensation?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 07, 2026 10:26 PM (jaIBk)

75 Evening all,

We have an early launch in the morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-35
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs LIve
Launch Date: June 8, 2026
Launch Time: 6:13 a.m. EDT (1013 UTC, 12:13 CEST)

https://youtu.be/pGDQkw3Bevg

Posted by: Joyenz at June 07, 2026 10:26 PM (2F0/Y)

76 Man Builds Autonomous AI-Powered Water Gun Turret to Keep Pigeons Away
===

Prototype.
The real deal will be used to keep drones away.

I prefer the old ways.

https://tinyurl.com/2tperwst

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 10:26 PM (Riz8t)

77 Piper forgot, we don't come for the clothes, we come for the bodies in the clothes. sad trombone.....

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 10:26 PM (UcW11)

78
When's Piper's survey of angelic couture?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:27 PM (O0L8i)

79 Sorry I'm.late, I was trying to watch the sunset, but it was overcast.
And I was facing east.
Posted by: tankdemon
*******
You are my favorite unicorn...and before that get's twisted, it is meant as the highest compliment.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 10:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

80
Doof, you done well. Take care.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:27 PM (O0L8i)

81 Had lunch on the sidewalk cafe at the Green Street Local in Chicago; no gunshots heard, but we were blocks away from the Obama flacktower.
Posted by: Auspex

'Teens' made up for that oversight in Columbus at a Catholic Church festival yesterday. 12 shot with a couple seriously wounded. Cops responded with overwhelming force but the damage was done.

They keep on using that word 'teens'. I do not think that descriptor is specific enough for the perps.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 10:27 PM (jnTpz)

82 Wholesome content good
Piper content good
well-played

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 10:27 PM (ZxPkt)

83 Too high on the leaderboard, I need to practice my shutting-up skillz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

84 1 A very important message for everyone. Prepare immediately! Aliens are planni
Posted by: mindful webworker - critically ordinary at June 07, 2026 10:00 PM (dn9xm)

I wonder what he was trying to warn us about.
Heh, couldn't be that important if he is just going to forget about it mid-sentance.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 07, 2026 10:28 PM (jaIBk)

85 They have had sprinklers that activate to keep birbs away for a long time. Decades. I’m not sure how they work, not using ai decades ago, but people use them to keep fish eating birbs away from their koi ponds. They probably work similar to security cameras and ring doorbells but for birbs

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 10:28 PM (XPjei)

86 Apparently a $1 gym membership is considered valid ID in California to vote.

Make California a territory again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 10:29 PM (2GVsD)

87
Too high on the leaderboard, I need to practice my shutting-up skillz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

__________

As a Jewish husband you should get lots of practice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:29 PM (O0L8i)

88 A very important message for everyone. Prepare immediately! Aliens are planni
Posted by: mindful webworker - critically ordinary at June 07, 2026 10:00 PM (dn9xm)

I wonder what he was trying to warn us about.
Heh, couldn't be that important if he is just going to forget about it mid-sentance.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 07, 2026 10:28 PM (jaIBk)

Maybe they're planning to eat at Taco Bell to load their butt cannons?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:30 PM (qx7Zg)

89
I wonder what he was trying to warn us about.

___________

Involuntary prostate exams?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:30 PM (O0L8i)

90 They keep on using that word 'teens'. I do not think that descriptor is specific enough for the perps.

At this point, everyone knows what "teens" or "youths" mean.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 07, 2026 10:30 PM (aD4fx)

91 73 Israel ignored Trump's request and attacked Iran just a few hours ago.
-
Talk is worthless.

Action is required.
Posted by: Methos
------

Don't know who they are playing the most, Iran or the media. → in private, they has chuckles

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 10:30 PM (UcW11)

92 "planning a cookbook" ??

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 10:31 PM (2GVsD)

93 84 1 A very important message for everyone. Prepare immediately! Aliens are planni
Posted by: mindful webworker - critically ordinary at June 07, 2026 10:00 PM (dn9xm)

I wonder what he was trying to warn us about.
Heh, couldn't be that important if he is just going to forget about it mid-sentance.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 07, 2026 10:28 PM (jaIBk)
______________________________

I've looked into it. It is nothing to be concerned about. Hiiiisssssssss Hissssssssssss Hisssssssssssss.

Posted by: Donald Rumsfeld at June 07, 2026 10:31 PM (dIske)

94 Piper forgot, we don't come for the clothes, we come for the bodies in the clothes. sad trombone.....

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 10:26 PM (UcW11)

***

Well. I for one pulled out a pen and filled in a beautiful body!
Sadly I used indelible ink and now I need to figure out how to clean the screen.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 10:31 PM (2WIwB)

95 Prepare immediately! Aliens are planni
***
I wonder what he was trying to warn us about.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 07, 2026 10:28 PM
***
I read too quickly and thought it said "panini." Invasion by sandwich??

Posted by: TRex - deli dino at June 07, 2026 10:31 PM (IQ6Gq)

96 I wonder what he was trying to warn us about.
-
ETs are going to scalp all the Disclosure Day collectible popcorn buckets.

Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2026 10:32 PM (vSvIl)

97 Son in law set up sprinklers to scare deer off their property, the only problem is they were also activated by passing cars. Their water bill was $400 for that first month. He had to do a bit of adjustment to the system. Also, it’s CA so the water cops came after him.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 07, 2026 10:32 PM (2NHgQ)

98 48 Piper, I went too far in a couple comments last night, that could easily have been taken as insults. I apologize for making them.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:18 PM (qx7Zg)

I have no idea what you are talking about, so obviously not offended in the least!

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 10:32 PM (Dd38x)

99 The shorts worn by young people here are almost pornographic. Butt cheeks hang out, so low you can see the top of the crack, and they may as well just be wearing a thong bikini.

Males included.

*shudders*
Can’t be comfortable.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 10:32 PM (6RjQv)

100 I think someone - FenelonSpoke maybe - already mentioned this in an earlier thread.
Girl Kept from Church, Bible, and Christian Friends by Portland Judge Awaits Appeals Court Ruling
…issued the shocking ruling in late 2024 as part of a dispute between the girl’s parents. … judge relied on author and “cult expert” Dr. Janja Lalich, a California State University sociologist professor, who described Calvary Chapel of Portland as “cultic” and its pastor of as having a “Moses complex.”

https://bit.ly/judge-vs-faith

"California State University sociologist professor"
Trust the experts.

Posted by: mindful webworker - leader of my own cult of one at June 07, 2026 10:33 PM (dn9xm)

101
The Skyway into I-94 northbound into the Eisenhower West.

The Iraqi highway of death has nothin' on this section of road.

Posted by: Auspex at June 07, 2026 10:33 PM (Y8DZL)

102 I was there for a week's vacation, and for some reason I had the urge to grow a pencil think moustache. This one guy kept calling me a "Dick". Turns out he thought I was a detective. And, there was a rather embarrassing occurrence when I mixed up the word "mug" in ordering a beer, and the bartended punched some poor guy in the face.
Posted by: Orson at June 07, 2026 10:25 PM (dIske)

I bet all the men were wearing awesome fedoras.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB)

103 Hadrian the Seventh, I do not miss taking trips that require air travel.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 07, 2026 10:34 PM (0Htd1)

104 @politico
Lawsuit seeks to stop the UFC fight on the White House South Lawn for Trump’s birthday

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 10:35 PM (ZxPkt)

105 I read too quickly and thought it said "panini." Invasion by sandwich??
Posted by: TRex - deli dino

They'd be hard-pressed to get that invasion going quickly. I'm sure they'll waffle for a while.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)

106 I see Piper has made a full recovery.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 10:35 PM (2GVsD)

107 37
If Ace and Elon chose to fight for rulership of Ewoks, what weapon would be used? Wits, spears, bolos, or flamethrowers?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:15 PM (qx7Zg)

I dunno, what does Ace usually use while hobo-hunting?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 07, 2026 10:35 PM (jaIBk)

108 Spencer Pratt (R) has dropped to 3rd place in the L.A. mayor's race tonight, due to another mail-in ballot drop.

So, the "general election" will almost certainly be incumbent mayor Karen (Light My Fire) Bass vs. a middle eastern woman who criticizes Bass for being too conservative.

Sorry to be the bearer of unwelcome tidings.
Posted by: mnw
------------
Ballot drop for the woman that gave the conession speech? She is now in 2nd place? The proud tradition of the cheating left marches on.

Posted by: scampydog at June 07, 2026 10:36 PM (41CYW)

109 I see Piper has made a full recovery.
Posted by: Anna Puma

She was only mostly dead.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 10:36 PM (jnTpz)

110
I bet all the men were wearing awesome fedoras.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB)

____________

Did he call one a "gunsel"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:36 PM (O0L8i)

111 97 Son in law set up sprinklers to scare deer off their property, ...Their water bill was $400... it’s CA so the water cops came after him.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
----------

I by water bottled in CA. I live 2000 miles from CA.
It is the cheapest bottled water in my area.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 10:37 PM (UcW11)

112 It would have been much cooler if Trump had wearing gloves and he doffed one and slapped her with it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 10:37 PM (RIvkX)

113
They'd be hard-pressed to get that invasion going quickly. I'm sure they'll waffle for a while.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)

___________

Join the club!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:37 PM (O0L8i)

114 You are my favorite unicorn...and before that get's twisted, it is meant as the highest compliment.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 10:27 PM (IQ6Gq

Thank you.

My favorite unicorn is Charlie.

https://youtu.be/CsGYh8AacgY

Posted by: tankdemon at June 07, 2026 10:38 PM (jaIBk)

115 @politico
Lawsuit seeks to stop the UFC fight on the White House South Lawn for Trump’s birthday
Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 10:35 PM (ZxPkt)

Trump hires boxer to fight their lawyer for the birthday fights.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:38 PM (qx7Zg)

116 everyone in England should have a copy of "Expedient Homemade Firearms".

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 07, 2026 10:39 PM (IP7s4)

117 The shorts worn by young people here are almost pornographic. Butt cheeks hang out, so low you can see the top of the crack, and they may as well just be wearing a thong bikini.

Males included.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I got news for them.

Posted by: Ice T. at June 07, 2026 10:39 PM (VHUov)

118 108 Spencer Pratt (R) has dropped to 3rd place in the L.A. mayor's race tonight, due to another mail-in ballot drop.
...
Posted by: scampydog
---

Rollin', rolling, rolling, those Buicks keep on rolling.
Roll on.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 10:39 PM (UcW11)

119
The Left NPC module for the LA election is that Pratt said not to mail in ballots.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:39 PM (O0L8i)

120 Doof, we get it. We are praying for your mom, your family and you. Thank you for the ONT effort you gave us.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 10:23 PM (IQ6Gq)

Thanks for the continued prayers

Posted by: Doof at June 07, 2026 10:39 PM (QMAsf)

121 Panini?

I guess the aliens ordered Door Dash from Panera and are mad.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 10:39 PM (2GVsD)

122 22 Spencer Pratt (R) has dropped to 3rd place in the L.A. mayor's race tonight, due to another mail-in ballot drop."

I'll repeat something I wrote this morning - I think it's better for us in the long run that it happen this way. First, you know that they were going to steal it from him in November; no realistic person can have any doubt about that. But they would have had time to prepare, and that would have been semi-plausible 51-49 Bass win and nobody would have known for sure how much cheating this was.

But this way, they are so bold as to steal blatantly, right out in the open, in about the most ridiculous way possible. Why? Because they can - but also everyone in the country can see it out in the open, and there is no doubt that California elections are absolutely corrupt, and will remain corrupt until some outside force steps in to clean them up. Now what shape that cleanup will take is up for debate - I have some ideas, as do you - but there can no longer be any doubt at all that it is absolutely necessary, and that the constitutional rights of all Californians are being infringed until that happens.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 10:40 PM (edUvp)

123 Spencer Pratt (R) has dropped to 3rd place in the L.A. mayor's race tonight, due to another mail-in ballot drop.

So, the "general election" will almost certainly be incumbent mayor Karen (Light My Fire) Bass vs. a middle eastern woman who criticizes Bass for being too conservative.

Sorry to be the bearer of unwelcome tidings.
Posted by: mnw

====

A truly incredible election.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 10:40 PM (/lPRQ)

124 I think it gives Trump and his government cause to turn the Federal tap off that goes to California.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 10:40 PM (2GVsD)

125 Something Welker and the media have failed to learn. Trump does not suffer fools gladly. He is a brilliant man. I have spoken to several people who work for him. He hires excellence. You don't need to have a high IQ. You just have to be exceptional in your field. Most idiot media asshats drink a cup of their own koolaide, go into an interview filled with their own BS, and are clueless to the real world. He eats them alive.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 10:40 PM (2WIwB)

126 They keep on using that word 'teens'. I do not think that descriptor is specific enough for the perps.
Posted by: Tonypete

The AP guide to writing no longer includes the word pic@ninny. 🙄

Posted by: mindful webworker - and the word is banned on .mu.nu comments, too, at June 07, 2026 10:41 PM (dn9xm)

127 90 They keep on using that word 'teens'. I do not think that descriptor is specific enough for the perps.
At this point, everyone knows what "teens" or "youths" mean.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

And when they don't show photos of the perps, everyone knows why.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 07, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

128 Yeah Welker kept going "but... but... but"

Never seen an outboard motor in a dress before.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 10:42 PM (2GVsD)

129 There has to be some way of getting redress from the government of LA, right? This is completely unacceptable. How can people put up with it?
Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado
**************
Personal experience, they can't. So they leave. Yet it continues....until it can't.....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
==========

Unfortunately, even a "California Conservative" is a flaming progtard by more objective standards.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)

130 The sad thing is Welker still thinks she scored a gotcha.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 10:43 PM (2GVsD)

131 I fell off the carnivore wagon today.

Had not one but two PB&J’s.

Darn those grand kids.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 07, 2026 10:44 PM (XV/Pl)

132 Did he call one a "gunsel"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:36 PM (O0L8i)

Besides the hat, it was the wide lapels and the violin case. But mostly the violin case.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 10:45 PM (2WIwB)

133 Who has watched Spider-Noir starring Nick Cage?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 10:46 PM (2GVsD)

134 AP style guide?

Did I write it? Where's my cut!

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

135 And when they don't show photos of the perps, everyone knows why.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Because every security-cam photo of a dark-colored hoodie looks the same?

Posted by: mikeski almost left the "Ice T" sock on for this one at June 07, 2026 10:47 PM (VHUov)

136 Dog: I heard someone broke into your house last night. What did you do?

Cat: He was looking for money, so I got up and helped.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 10:48 PM (qx7Zg)

137 Now what shape that cleanup will take is up for debate - I have some ideas, as do you - but there can no longer be any doubt at all that it is absolutely necessary, and that the constitutional rights of all Californians are being infringed until that happens.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 10:40 PM

What do you do when a government becomes so obviously illegitimate? A statewide strike? A day of rage? Massive civil disobedience?
Ha. Not in California.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 10:49 PM (2WIwB)

138 Presuming the Trump admin allows the theft in LA to continue I guess people should vote for Ramen. She is crazier then Bass but if she comes in different dem powerbrokers will get paid
Posted by: 18-1

Not a bad plan.
Instead of the Repubs sitting out, vote for the greater evil.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 10:50 PM (/lPRQ)

139 It is way past bedtime! Y’all have a good night!

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 10:50 PM (hftzA)

140 A message to the Horde
https://bit.ly/then-i-came-across-you

Posted by: mindful webworker - death of innocence at June 07, 2026 10:50 PM (dn9xm)

141 Thanks Doof!
You are a treasured Rocker,
Saga…haven’t heard this one for, maybe decades.
The ultimate in power vocals. If there’s such a thing.

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 07, 2026 10:53 PM (HZfH/)

142 I prefer the old ways.

https://tinyurl.com/2tperwst
Posted by: Archimedes

I like the way that kid thinks!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 10:53 PM (/lPRQ)

143
This has probably not been the best ONT effort from Doof Enterprises, LLC.

Does this entitle us to some sort of monetary compensation?
Posted by: tankdemon

Compensation? Call the Allied man.

https://youtu.be/On-ydxoo-5o

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 10:55 PM (Cqx++)

144 >>>123 Spencer Pratt (R) has dropped to 3rd place in the L.A. mayor's race tonight, due to another mail-in ballot drop.
---

I told you. We're printing as fast as we can.
_Best Practices Printing Inc.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 10:56 PM (UcW11)

145 “So, the "general election" will almost certainly be incumbent mayor Karen (Light My Fire) Bass vs. a middle eastern woman who criticizes Bass for being too conservative.”

This was foreseen by all not in the cult.

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 07, 2026 10:57 PM (HZfH/)

146
California is just gone. No hope, barring a miracle.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 07, 2026 10:58 PM (w6EFb)

147 What do you do when a government becomes so obviously illegitimate? A statewide strike? A day of rage? Massive civil disobedience?
Posted by: Diogenes

That's not who we are. We just let is slowly wither and die on the vine. The individuals or companies with the means move out. What's left behind can run on fumes for decades.

See: Detroit.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 10:58 PM (VHUov)

148 137 Now what shape that cleanup will take is up for debate - I have some ideas,...
Posted by: Tom Servo
---

Here, have a Handi-Wipe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 10:59 PM (UcW11)

149 Thanks for the ONT Doof and Piper.

Gorgeous photo on top! Wonder if the photographer used a lens. I have a former nursing school friend who is also a professional landscape photographer. I have several of her prints and one is of aspen at first snowfall. The aspen are pink vs yellow and she used an infrared lens (I think).

Home By the Sea by Genesis brings back good memories from 40yrs ago. Moving from the Intermountain West to the Atlantic coast of FL. Eldest son at 2.5yrs knew the words to this song. Raised our boys on rock and roll. He's the professional musician (now engineer to make a living). Now back where we belong in West.

Wonderful time and fairly good trip driving 8hrs/day til MS, where we spent 3 wks. Then another 2 day drive to the coast. We also had an 8wk old boy, which made for excitement in my "milking stall" of the Datsun, as my brother called it when I staggered out. Baby had a growth spurt on the trip and gained about 2#.

I am in a better mood tonight & not wanting to kill anyone (yet). Baby girl doing well from her delayed antibiotic. I just pray she stays healthy & her kidneys will be fine for the routine ultrasound next month.

Have a wonderful evening.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 10:59 PM (WONhk)

150 I have no idea what you are talking about, so obviously not offended in the least!
Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 10:32 PM (Dd38x)
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I'm offended you're not offended.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 11:01 PM (RIvkX)

151 Those, 'Escape From _ _ ', movies were prescient.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 11:02 PM (UcW11)

152 Evenin’, All. Happy Monday Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at June 07, 2026 11:02 PM (77rzZ)

153 I don't get why Trump hasn't flattened the elite neighborhoods in Tehran...
Posted by: 18-1
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Never interrupt your adversary while he's killing himself.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 11:03 PM (UcW11)

154 Has anyone mentioned boobs yet?

Posted by: Bulg at June 07, 2026 11:05 PM (77rzZ)

155 There has to be some way of getting redress from the government of LA, right? This is completely unacceptable. How can people put up with it?
Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado at June 07, 2026 10:15 PM (uit7w)

If LA does nothing to address this obvious cheat, then they most definitely deserve ALL of the shithole misery heaped on them times a thousand.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026 11:05 PM (g8Ew8)

156 Has anyone mentioned boobs yet?

I would have, Bulg, but Piper threw me off the the no-legs shorts photos. Sent my mind in a tizzy or something!

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 11:06 PM (Jr+re)

157 If not, BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at June 07, 2026 11:07 PM (77rzZ)

158 Has anyone mentioned boobs yet?
Posted by: Bulg

Only indirectly. Piper's Fashion segment contained the word "bustier."

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 11:07 PM (VHUov)

159 there is no doubt that California elections are absolutely corrupt, and will remain corrupt until some outside force steps in to clean them up. Now what shape that cleanup will take is up for debate
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Perhaps we could try a blockade, since that's all the rage these days.

Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2026 11:07 PM (vSvIl)

160 There were six too many comments last week. Do better people, do better.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 07, 2026 11:08 PM (n5tGW)

161 Spencer Pratt (R) has dropped to 3rd place in the L.A. mayor's race tonight, due to another mail-in ballot drop.

So, the "general election" will almost certainly be incumbent mayor Karen (Light My Fire) Bass vs. a middle eastern woman who criticizes Bass for being too conservative.

Sorry to be the bearer of unwelcome tidings.
Posted by: mnw at June 07, 2026 10:09 PM (RCjYY)

Unwelcome, but scarcely unexpected, given the blatant corruption in Kalifuckya.

Raman is not middle Eastern. Curry dish from India, south Asian.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 11:08 PM (1z8ji)

162 There were six too many comments last week. Do better people, do better.

I would comment to try to do better, but that would add to the comment count.

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 11:09 PM (Jr+re)

163 When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.
Posted by: scampydog - Finds the Dimone Quote

Unless she prefers to make out to side one of "2112".

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 11:09 PM (W5mpo)

164 "Unfortunately, even a "California Conservative" is a flaming progtard by more objective standards."

Well I dunno that's

Me
Rhomboid
Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornia
Caligirl
Jim in HB
etc...

Posted by: MAxIE at June 07, 2026 11:09 PM (9DOTQ)

165 Sometimes I think the best way to deal with the LA metro area would be to wall it off and declare it as a mental institution. This would, of course, include Hollywood and Malibu.

Everyone who gets out of criminal prosecution for insanity spends 20-100 years there.

Since they're all nuts, they don't get to vote.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 11:10 PM (qx7Zg)

166 They'd skin the care bear first. Singed fur tastes really bad over an open fire.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at June 07, 2026 10:12 PM (l6rin)

There really needs to be a "Don't Give A Fuck Bear".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 11:10 PM (1z8ji)

167 The Socialists Republic of California. Will they get a seat at the U.N.?

Posted by: Case at June 07, 2026 11:10 PM (4Pn+V)

168 Meet The Depressed

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 11:11 PM (T6aVk)

169 53 There has to be some way of getting redress from the government of LA, right? This is completely unacceptable. How can people put up with it?
Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado
**************
Personal experience, they can't. So they leave. Yet it continues....until it can't.....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

Greetings Horde

Thank you Doof for excellent content.

L. A. Consists of some 80 suburbs in search of a city some wit observed decades ago. To remove oneself from the City of L. A. to a usually much more saner city government In most cases is a move of but a few miles.

Removing oneself from California is a 'oss of a different color it is....(sorry - I've been watching a lot of old Sherlock Holmes movies lately)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 07, 2026 11:11 PM (QGaXH)

170 161 Spencer Pratt (R) has dropped to 3rd place in the L.A. mayor's race tonight, due to another mail-in ballot drop.

So, the "general election" will almost certainly be incumbent mayor Karen (Light My Fire) Bass vs. a middle eastern woman who criticizes Bass for being too conservative.

Sorry to be the bearer of unwelcome tidings.
Posted by: mnw at June 07, 2026 10:09 PM (RCjYY)

Unwelcome, but scarcely unexpected, given the blatant corruption in Kalifuckya.

Raman is not middle Eastern. Curry dish from India, south Asian.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 11:08 PM (1z8ji)

This is happening because people in CA want it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 11:12 PM (T6aVk)

171 FKNG CA!!

Posted by: runner at June 07, 2026 11:13 PM (GD0B3)

172 I don't think California can be fixed. The radicals have a super-majority, and will do whatever it takes to preserve it. The only practical thing the People can do is leave.

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 11:13 PM (ZxPkt)

173 Increased my total from last week, dropped two spots.

I am ok with that.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 11:13 PM (zZu0s)

174 169 Hey ARogue I'm just north of Pomona

Posted by: MAxIE at June 07, 2026 11:13 PM (9DOTQ)

175 Have a good friend who lived in Palmdale with his fairly liberal schoolteacher wife. He wanted to move out of the state for a couple of decades and they finally did. All the way to Prescott, AZ! He loves it there and I don't think she does.

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 11:13 PM (Jr+re)

176 So, surprise, the other commie in the mayoral race has gotten nearly all the mail ins. So Pratt is out and the two commies with runoff.

It was so obvious. Knew it was going to happen. Seems so wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 11:15 PM (zZu0s)

177 170 This is happening because people in CA want it.

Your misdiagnosis of the phenomena is what leaves you to be overtaken by it

Posted by: MAxIE at June 07, 2026 11:15 PM (9DOTQ)

178 Have a good friend who lived in Palmdale with his fairly liberal schoolteacher wife. He wanted to move out of the state for a couple of decades and they finally did. All the way to Prescott, AZ! He loves it there and I don't think she does.

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I will never, ever understand these types of relationships. Too weird to live with and enemy...

Posted by: runner at June 07, 2026 11:15 PM (GD0B3)

179 Unfortunately, even a "California Conservative" is a flaming progtard by more objective standards.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I don’t think that’s fair at all. Blonde Morticia is hardly a progtard by any standard.

And does Seattle qualify for that designation as well? Because I’ll challenge you on that one.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 11:15 PM (2xVPz)

180 ..and then it's too late to get out...

Posted by: runner at June 07, 2026 11:15 PM (GD0B3)

181 My middle sis and I were discussing “Friends” - she likes Phoebe and could not understand why, as a guy, I much prefer Monica and Rachel, and why Phoebe does nothing for me. “You just like Monica and Rachel because they are preppy!”

An accusation I cannot deny.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 11:15 PM (T6aVk)

182 I will never, ever understand these types of relationships.

I can't either.

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 11:16 PM (Jr+re)

183 And I'm sure a lot of Californians are perfectly happy the way things are. They're deluded, but they're happy.

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 11:16 PM (ZxPkt)

184 F**k California. Such a beautiful state, with such ugly people.

Posted by: Bulg at June 07, 2026 11:17 PM (77rzZ)

185 Trump interviewer is a petulant child. The Media is a joke. Sadly too many people still listen to them.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 11:17 PM (pSkMS)

186 172 I don't think California can be fixed. The radicals have a super-majority, and will do whatever it takes to preserve it. The only practical thing the People can do is leave.
Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 11:13 PM (ZxPkt)

There is only one way.

CA must lose its statehood, revert to territory status, and only be allowed to rejoin the union when its people are fit to be free and are capable of self government.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 11:17 PM (T6aVk)

187 I have 4 generations buried in this state and leaving seems like being pushed out of my home by invaders.
Which of course it actually is

Posted by: MAxIE at June 07, 2026 11:18 PM (9DOTQ)

188 185 Libs are passing around the same video as a home run for their team

Posted by: MAxIE at June 07, 2026 11:19 PM (9DOTQ)

189 Love the sidewalk art. Can't waste water this sorry year after not as much snow as normal and gloom and doom. No fruit on our trees, either. Roses and many flowers have been odd. Life goes on, however, and all is well.

The good news is that winter will be here soon to start all over again. Or a monsoon season would be nice. Bring it on! I sure as heck don't want drab trees in the mountains this fall!

There's a nursing school reunion in September and I'm going if my posse is. We had so much fun! Old grannies now, but most of us look good, or I do. Which is what counts.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 11:19 PM (WONhk)

190 This is happening because people in CA want it.
Posted by: Cow Demon

No. It’s happening because there’s a minority of power brokers with a TON of money and influence have bastardized the process. Most Californians are too busy trying to make ends meet and don’t have the wherewithall to fight back. Their votes are invalidated.

Same thing here.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 11:20 PM (2xVPz)

191
I don't think California can be fixed.

How do you "fix" Utopia?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 11:20 PM (Cqx++)

192 I will never, ever understand these types of relationships. Too weird to live with and enemy...
Posted by: runner at June 07, 2026 11:15 PM (GD0B3)

In college, I understood it, even indulged in it. As i got older though you realize that the differences are so fundamental that having a different opinion means a fundamental difference on how you see everything.

The other point is: a lot of kids got married in college or right after. So they may not have come into that realization until it was too late and they were bound by vows and blood (kids.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 11:20 PM (zZu0s)

193 There are thousands, tens of thousands of wonderful people in CA. If you go outside the larger cities, they are farmers, business owners, retirees, etc, who just want to be left alone. I know some and have met many more.

I tell my kids (who are by means young) often that the political problems in the US extend to each state, conservative or liberal, between the large cities and the rest of the state. Possibly the very small states are exceptions.

Here in OK, where Trump won all 77 counties, there are lots of liberals loose in the cities and are often elected to city councils and especially school boards!

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 11:21 PM (Jr+re)

194 I come here for an Yves St. Laurent update and I get Ralph Lauren?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 11:22 PM (u/oMr)

195 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 07, 2026 11:23 PM (+LGfl)

196 When did L.A. become more communist than S.F.? L.A.'s rent control is stricter. We got rid of DA Chesa Boudin for someone who actually seems to care about the job (and, frankly, isn't too bad on the eyes when she smiles), and our mayor is not only a rich, straight, white guy, but way less leftie than anyone else with any chance to win. Strange.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 11:23 PM (W5mpo)

197 How do you "fix" Utopia?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 11:20 PM (Cqx++)

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I hear it's similar to how one fixes your wagon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 11:23 PM (u/oMr)

198 I meant above that my kids are by NO means young.

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 11:24 PM (Jr+re)

199 hot girls can wear anything.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 07, 2026 11:24 PM (xcxpd)

200
There's a nursing school reunion in September and I'm going if my posse is. We had so much fun! Old grannies now, but most of us look good, or I do. Which is what counts.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Ha! You just want to show off!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 11:25 PM (Cqx++)

201 hot girls can wear anything.

Or less!

I denounce myself for that comment.

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 11:25 PM (Jr+re)

202 I come here for an Yves St. Laurent update and I get Ralph Lauren?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 11:22 PM (u/oMr)

Talk to your stylist! Maybe he can give you an update!

Posted by: runner at June 07, 2026 11:25 PM (GD0B3)

203 Has anyone mentioned boobs yet?
Posted by: Bulg

Had this one in reserve, for you, Bulg, and other Morons

https://t.co/AoGJPo7mem

Posted by: mindful webworker - 53003 will save the world at June 07, 2026 11:25 PM (dn9xm)

204 I will never, ever understand these types of relationships. Too weird to live with and enemy...
Posted by: runner at June 07, 2026 11:15 PM (GD0B3)
*************

I think it's weird as well. Because we knew exactly what we were getting when we married. First son was named after we were engaged and four years before his birth; discussions of God, beliefs, and politics as well as the fun stuff and romance.

I don't get a surprise after the vows. Or trying to change the other person (never works).

In my opinion I think people settle, figuring they can't do better, watching their friends and family marry. My neurotic SIL (not the nun who is OCD) did this. SHE asked the guy to marry, the only guy she ever dated. I was horrified.

Miserable marriage and divorce after the girls were in HS. They are screwed up as well. She's still neurotic but now also bitter and a Karen.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 11:25 PM (WONhk)

205 This is happening because people in CA want it.
Posted by: Cow Demon

No. It’s happening because there’s a minority of power brokers with a TON of money and influence have bastardized the process. Most Californians are too busy trying to make ends meet and don’t have the wherewithall to fight back. Their votes are invalidated.

Same thing here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 11:20 PM (2xVPz)

Oregon and Colorado as well. We were fortunate to be able to relocate. Not everyone can (or want to). I get pretty tired of the "y'all voted for this" trope. All too often a large majority of good people are stifled by the "elites". Things in Colorado changed rapidly for the worse when uber-rich leftists like Pat Stryker landed in the state. It was a targeted campaign, and it worked.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 07, 2026 11:26 PM (0aYVJ)

206 196 It's simple- l.a. has more illegals

Posted by: MAxIE at June 07, 2026 11:26 PM (9DOTQ)

207 Hey, Teresa! May I have this dance?

Posted by: Bulg at June 07, 2026 11:27 PM (77rzZ)

208 Hi DOOF! Hi Scampy and T Rex!
Nice ONT, and always nice Piper content.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 07, 2026 11:29 PM (uTEOj)

209 Did anyone really think the CA elections would really turn out any different than what happened?

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at June 07, 2026 11:30 PM (cysjH)

210 The whole “vote with your feet” mantra is bullshit.

I’m not leaving my home. That’s how they win. By driving me out. And they aren’t going to. I will do my best to undermine them one mom on the beach at a time.

That’s how you win. By not giving up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 11:31 PM (c5xxP)

211 Anyone really surprised about LA?

Posted by: Dean Logan at June 07, 2026 11:31 PM (rgnea)

212 Did anyone really think the CA elections would really turn out any different than what happened?
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at June 07, 2026 11:30 PM (cysjH)

No, and they did what I thought and speculated was the better play- make nitty the second place winner to force a runoff between her and bass so libs can carry the fig leaf that the election was clean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 11:32 PM (zZu0s)

213 Ha! You just want to show off!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 11:25 PM (Cqx++)
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Well, yes! I expect fun as well. I am thinking of kicking my husband out and having some of the girls stay here instead of hotels. Or he can stay and cook for us. Which would not be new as he used to cook for my roommate and me as we did not know how.

He was part of the nursing school crowd from the hospital 3-11 swing shift. We swung, y'all. Let our hair down for two nights a week before the ironed uniforms and all the other stuff required Monday mornings. Gay disco bars if not a kegger somewhere. Masses of people. It was a great time.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 11:32 PM (WONhk)

214 >>It was so obvious. Knew it was going to happen. Seems so wrong.

As noted above, Trump walked out of an interview with NBC today. This was the reason why.

Not that often a President of the United States walks out of an interview from a major network. Trump made a lot of money not just by building but by marketing. He knows how to sell an issue.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 11:32 PM (viF8m)

215 129 ....Unfortunately, even a "California Conservative" is a flaming progtard by more objective standards.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)

Dude...you're harshing my vibe.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 07, 2026 11:32 PM (QGaXH)

216 Jake Tapper really is a twinky bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 11:33 PM (zZu0s)

217 Did anyone really think the CA elections would really turn out any different than what happened?

==

It was bottom up, grassroots, so it did not happen; if it was top down, for example a bunch of billionaires who want a change put their resources together, and conjure up a campaign, it can happen. It would take a tremendous effort, but it can happen. Pratt literally , wen viral ! With nothing, just will and talent.

Posted by: runner at June 07, 2026 11:33 PM (GD0B3)

218 No. It’s happening because there’s a minority of power brokers with a TON of money and influence have bastardized the process. Most Californians are too busy trying to make ends meet and don’t have the wherewithall to fight back. Their votes are invalidated.

Same thing here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 11:20 PM (2xVPz)

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

Virginia is going through this now. This is what the majority of the people in Virginia want. I live in a place that is about 78% Dem. People talk about the commonwealth's attorney here like the people are shocked that they have a Soros DA who wants to let the illegals go.

No. He ran on that, expressly. And he got 78% of the vote the first time, and same amount on re-election.

Yeah, Soros and power brokers but the people here are nuts and they would sooner get stabbed at the bus stop (more accurately someone else get stabbed) than make some brown person feel any discomfort.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 07, 2026 11:34 PM (NlEaG)

219 210, Amen, Nurse.

Posted by: Bulg at June 07, 2026 11:35 PM (77rzZ)

220 I've got to get out for the evening. Thanks for the ONT, all the horde. Be nice to each other, please!

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 11:37 PM (Jr+re)

221 blaster, you sweet summer child, you seem to be under the mistaken impression that the elections were clean.

Posted by: RandomDave at June 07, 2026 11:38 PM (aJQbY)

222 Love the shorts except the D&G drama, Piper. That is too Paris Hilton for me or Legally Blonde.

I'm also not a fan of orange, so that might be why. Nor do I have a pocket dog like Demi Moore (her's died this week and made the UK DM). She's turning into a skeleton (Demi, unsure about the dog she'll probably clone or take to a taxidermist).

I am understated or try to be vs HERE I AM!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 11:38 PM (WONhk)

223 Hi bulg!

I hope your new job is going well and you are feeling useful and validated.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 11:38 PM (c5xxP)

224 210 The whole “vote with your feet” mantra is bullshit.

I’m not leaving my home. That’s how they win. By driving me out. And they aren’t going to. I will do my best to undermine them one mom on the beach at a time.

That’s how you win. By not giving up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 11:31 PM (c5xxP)

I hear you - but I can't say I agree entirely. I have lived here in Northern Virginia longer than anywhere else in my life. But we are getting the house ready for sale. We are headed to the Free State of Florida. Granted that was part of a retirement plan that has been in the works for years, even before the White Witch took office. But Virginia is a lost cause. It is gone and never coming back.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 07, 2026 11:39 PM (NlEaG)

225 221 blaster, you sweet summer child, you seem to be under the mistaken impression that the elections were clean.
Posted by: RandomDave at June 07, 2026 11:38 PM (aJQbY)

Umm, yeah.

You must be new here? I'm way too young to be this cynical.

I know Virginia's elections are rigged when they need to be. But I live in Fairfax. I know these people. They are wackadoodle through and through. Yes, they vote for the guy who promises to let illegal aliens off the hook.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 07, 2026 11:41 PM (NlEaG)

226 Hi, Nurse.

I had to take a break from the job to visit my ailing sister, but I am ready to hop back in the saddle.

Posted by: Bulg at June 07, 2026 11:42 PM (77rzZ)

227 How do you "fix" Utopia?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 11:20 PM (Cqx++)

Intellivision had a game called "Utopia" - it was kinda like Sim City circa 1981. I realized that if you played the left landmass and put your housing in certain places, hurricanes would eventually kill everybody.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 11:42 PM (W5mpo)

228 174 169 Hey ARogue I'm just north of Pomona
Posted by: MAxIE at June 07, 2026 11:13 PM (9DOTQ)

Hi MAxIE

Someday we'll put together a West Coast Mo Me

In your list - who is Jim in HB? Did you mean Jim in San Diego?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 07, 2026 11:42 PM (QGaXH)

229 Fixing California will be like fixing an alcoholic or a druggie: they have to hit absolute bottom first. And this is why we have to retain the House, the Senate, and the Presidency: to keep the Feds from giving one red penny to California and her sister blue states.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at June 07, 2026 11:43 PM (DK5Sh)

230 210 That’s how you win. By not giving up.

Yep. I call CO Cali junior. But screw 'em. I'm not moving off of my mountain. I figure the powers that be will have to take me out horizontally....😑

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 07, 2026 11:43 PM (uTEOj)

231 I think California is more conservative, especially San Diego. Without the cheating and illegals the Dims could not win in many of these states.

The blue cities vote Dim because they can get away with fake ballots. That leaves the rural people screwed six ways to Sunday (whatever that means, but I think applies here).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 11:46 PM (WONhk)

232 >>Oregon and Colorado as well. We were fortunate to be able to relocate. Not everyone can (or want to). I get pretty tired of the "y'all voted for this" trope. All too often a large majority of good people are stifled by the "elites". Things in Colorado changed rapidly for the worse when uber-rich leftists like Pat Stryker landed in the state. It was a targeted campaign, and it worked.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, ---

TV ads have won election for many a whoa..er politician.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 11:47 PM (UcW11)

233 228 Yeah you might be right about that...

Posted by: MAxIE at June 07, 2026 11:47 PM (9DOTQ)

234 210 The whole “vote with your feet” mantra is bullshit.

I’m not leaving my home. That’s how they win. By driving me out. And they aren’t going to. I will do my best to undermine them one mom on the beach at a time.

That’s how you win. By not giving up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 11:31 PM (c5xxP)

Good on ya for sticking around, but voting with your feet is NOT bullshit and cannot be stopped. The GDR spent vast money, time and resources trying to stop people from voting with their feet…

…and still got destroyed.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 11:47 PM (T6aVk)

235 175 Have a good friend who lived in Palmdale with his fairly liberal schoolteacher wife. He wanted to move out of the state for a couple of decades and they finally did. All the way to Prescott, AZ! He loves it there and I don't think she does.
Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 11:13 PM (Jr+re)

I remember the Billie Jack movies used Prescott as a backdrop. I recall the towns people were very angry about being portrayed as a bunch of small minded bigots. Or was it they were mad at not being portrayed as bigoted enough? Well you can never make everybody happy I guess. I still think the ending of the trial movie was one of the stupidest movie endings I've ever seen.

Fun fact: Prescott is pronounced as rhyming with Biscuit

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 07, 2026 11:49 PM (QGaXH)

236 "But I live in Fairfax. I know these people. They are wackadoodle through and through."

LOL, in 1985 I couldn't wait to get away from that conservative straitjacket.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 11:49 PM (W5mpo)

237 179 Unfortunately, even a "California Conservative" is a flaming progtard by more objective standards.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I don’t think that’s fair at all. Blonde Morticia is hardly a progtard by any standard.

And does Seattle qualify for that designation as well? Because I’ll challenge you on that one.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 11:15 PM (2xVPz)

Incoming from all sides IAB...Laughing!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 07, 2026 11:51 PM (QGaXH)

238 184 F**k California. Such a beautiful state, with such ugly people.
Posted by: Bulg at June 07, 2026 11:17 PM (77rzZ)

Ouch! I resemble that remark....

I think ugly is a harsh word. I admit to being sartorially challenged and I haven't kept up the haircuts since I left off working but man.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 07, 2026 11:53 PM (QGaXH)

239
Here in OK, where Trump won all 77 counties, there are lots of liberals loose in the cities and are often elected to city councils and especially school boards!
Posted by: LRob in OK at June 07, 2026 11:21 PM (Jr+re)

Yep. And your school system is beholden to teacher’s unions (which should be 100% illegal), I’m afraid. OK also has a state income tax. Shame y’all can’t get rid of that.

Never forget (this applies everywhere, even here in TX - especially here in TX) that the dumbasses that get to federal offices like Rep and Senator start out getting voted into school boards, county office, city office, etc. Which means vigilance is required on those levels.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 11:53 PM (T6aVk)

240 But this way, they are so bold as to steal blatantly, right out in the open, in about the most ridiculous way possible. Why? Because they can - but also everyone in the country can see it out in the open, and there is no doubt that California elections are absolutely corrupt, and will remain corrupt until some outside force steps in to clean them up. Now what shape that cleanup will take is up for debate - I have some ideas, as do you - but there can no longer be any doubt at all that it is absolutely necessary, and that the constitutional rights of all Californians are being infringed until that happens.
Posted by: Tom Servo

+++++++++++

IIRC the Cali Progtards flipped out when they found Pratt polling so well. Tried to change the rules that were so favorable to them before...

Seize the ballots produced and they will be found to have been produced after election day, many found to be just photocopies, and not match reported tabulations.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 11:53 PM (/lPRQ)

241 For those who need a laugh...

https://youtube.com/shorts/228e506SJV0

Should be safe for work.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 11:54 PM (qx7Zg)

242 Fun fact: Prescott is pronounced as rhyming with Biscuit
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 07, 2026 11:49 PM (QGaXH)

But damnit, the “o” is there for a reason!

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 11:55 PM (T6aVk)

243 "L. A. Consists of some 80 suburbs in search of a city some wit observed decades ago. To remove oneself from the City of L. A. to a usually much more saner city government In most cases is a move of but a few miles."

I think the reason why things never got really bad here in S.F. in 2020 is that in a city of 49 sq miles, not all of which is land, our super rich can't hide behind barricaded and gated communities. If the SRHTF, they're fucked. So they tolerate some tomfoolery in the lowlands of Market Street, but don't they dare think of moving that shit even 2 miles north. Of course, our hills have way of dampening enthusiasm for such things.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 11:55 PM (W5mpo)

244 >>Good on ya for sticking around, but voting with your feet is NOT bullshit and cannot be stopped. The GDR spent vast money, time and resources trying to stop people from voting with their feet…

>>…and still got destroyed.

The trouble with running is eventually you run out of places to go. Last I looked Texas has some sort of weird fruit running for Senator. He won't win but he won't be the last one. Viruses spread.

And I won't ever let someone tell me where I can live.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 11:56 PM (viF8m)

245 Now that I think of it, maybe Demi and some of the others we think are on the Ozymandias injections (I can never spell it and don't want to look it up) are seeing taxidermists?

Some scare me to look at. Then they did something called buccal fat removal of their cheeks, which I cannot imagine or research. To look like skulls.

I don't want fillers or Botox or nuthin.

I had half of my face carved on for a basal cell that looked like a clogged pore near my nostril. Plastic surgeon put two scars (can't see them but horror at the time) to my dimple near my mouth to yank up skin to cover the whole from MOH's. Then CO2 laser to that once healed, and, whoa Nelly that was wild to itch and hurt at the same time. Gorked out on Benedryl and advil, but it worked.

I kept telling my husband, people pay for their entire face to suffer like this! Some lasers are ok, but the CO2 is harsh. I have to show people the scars now if they ask. I was lucky to get in that afternoon and surgery the next day. Being on drugs blurred the entire ordeal.

I'd have to go through a windshield for plastic surgery or to yank up my eyebrows, etc. Nope!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 11:57 PM (WONhk)

246 Of course, our hills have way of dampening enthusiasm for such things.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 11:55 PM (W5mpo)

Carrying bricks up them hills is a bitch, yo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 11:57 PM (zZu0s)

247 The hour grows late.

Options are narrowing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 11:58 PM (zZu0s)

248 I never realized crabs had such an active underground social life.

camera on crab's back ... X link

https://tinyurl.com/bdfb79uk

Posted by: illiniwek at June 07, 2026 11:59 PM (vbXSk)

249 Seize the ballots produced and they will be found to have been produced after election day, many found to be just photocopies, and not match reported tabulations.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 11:53 PM (/lPRQ)

Calif just signed SB 73, which makes it a CRIME for anyone to look at Election documents or seize ballots... INCLUDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ITSELF.

Yes, just signed into law a couple days ago.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2026 11:59 PM (mP0Kj)

250 245 ChristyBlinky, I envision you as gorgeous without any surgery whatsoever.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:00 AM (77rzZ)

251

Six people were injured in a stabbing at New York’s Penn Station Sunday evening, raising security concerns a day before the city is set to host the NBA Finals – with President Donald Trump in attendance.

The attack comes amid heightened security around Madison Square Garden, which lies directly above the busy intercity railroad station, where the New York Knicks are hosting the San Antonio Spurs for Games 3 and 4 on Monday and Wednesday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 12:03 AM (Cqx++)

252 Calif just signed SB 73, which makes it a CRIME for anyone to look at Election documents or seize ballots... INCLUDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ITSELF.

Yes, just signed into law a couple days ago.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2026 11:59 PM (mP0Kj)

They don't have to hide it. Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:03 AM (zZu0s)

253 You have to do what is best for you and your family.

I will only leave Seattle if I’m summoned to help raise grandchildren.

Otherwise, I’m here. I’m not leaving. And Seattle is as freaking ridiculous as Fairfax or NYC or SF. Could we have a progtard contest, please? An Olympics of libtardia. There are so many different disciplines to consider.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 08, 2026 12:04 AM (Nfeqn)

254 Calif just signed SB 73, which makes it a CRIME for anyone to look at Election documents or seize ballots... INCLUDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ITSELF.

Yes, just signed into law a couple days ago.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2026 11:59 PM (mP0Kj)

Let Trump send in the Marines to seize the ballots, then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 12:04 AM (1z8ji)

255 Calif just signed SB 73, which makes it a CRIME for anyone to look at Election documents or seize ballots... INCLUDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ITSELF.

Yes, just signed into law a couple days ago.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2026 11:59 PM (mP0Kj)

They don't have to hide it. Nice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:03 AM (zZu0s)

Since its burn before reporting, they should have finished already.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 12:06 AM (qx7Zg)

256
The trouble with running is eventually you run out of places to go.

Is that why Elon Musk wants to go to Mars?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 12:06 AM (Cqx++)

257 The Welker clip is just ... too great. I could watch that on an endless loop.

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 12:07 AM (6wpGE)

258 California is headed for a truly major crackup, although it may take years to really be obvious. Most of the major tech companies are following Elon and moving to Texas, and most other successful companies are relocating around the country. They don’t need to put up with that shit, and the naked display of corrupt power will only accelerate the move.

Now everyone knows there’s no hope of it getting better. The last piece of the puzzle needs to be Trump shutting down most federal money going in, and the collapse should be truly epic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 08, 2026 12:09 AM (Ua9s7)

259 "Unfortunately, even a "California Conservative" is a flaming progtard by more objective standards."

Well I dunno that's

Me
Rhomboid
Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornia
Caligirl
Jim in HB
etc...
Posted by: MAxIE

====

Those may not be typical.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 12:09 AM (/lPRQ)

260
Calif just signed SB 73, which makes it a CRIME for anyone to look at Election documents or seize ballots... INCLUDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ITSELF.

Didn't they pass a law which makes it illegal to be Nick Shirley?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 12:09 AM (Cqx++)

261 >>Calif just signed SB 73, which makes it a CRIME for anyone to look at Election documents or seize ballots... INCLUDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ITSELF.

>>Yes, just signed into law a couple days ago.

Without a warrant. Fortunately, Biden is not running the DOJ anymore.

Seriously, Trump just walked out of an interview with NBC on Meet the Press because he was arguing with Welker over the fraudulent election in California. We've all watched Trump in politics for a decade now. Who thinks he is letting election integrity go?

Trump has been hammering Thune and the dirtbag RINOs to pass the Save America Act. This is not the end. This is going to be one of the biggest election issues over the next 5 months.

Unless you think Trump doesn't like fighting anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 08, 2026 12:10 AM (viF8m)

262 Some people want to live in blue jurisdictions.

Posted by: It's Okay at June 08, 2026 12:11 AM (eT+hI)

263 There are signs up and down the beach proclaiming ICE cannot operate on city property.

I’d like to see a Seattle cop stand up to Federal Law Enforcement. It’s hysterical. Virtue signaling.

They know it.

Our mayor just today decided it was a good idea to turn on the surveillance cameras installed all over the city for the FIFA World Cup games. We spent millions on those cameras and the city refused to turn them on because illegal alien criminials may be observed and apprehended.

So retarded.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 08, 2026 12:13 AM (dp11t)

264 With all the election shenanigans in California, is there a chance for Katie Porter to make a comeback?

Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 12:13 AM (X5Jzz)

265 The Welker clip is just ... too great. I could watch that on an endless loop.
Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 12:07 AM (6wpGE)

Pretty standard. She repeats the 'no evidence' bullshit. Yadda yadda- which tapper then repeated in his tweet.

The thing is Nurse and Jack are right. You can't run. But no one wants to face the arithmetic these people represent. Things aren't bad enough and people are too comfortable. By the time they are bad enough, chances of success will be worse.

The other problem is: this is almost exactly the same issue Sulla faced. Everything was falling apart. He tried to fix the system and restore it. Bloody prescriptions. Essentially he murdered everyone he suspected. And it did not change a damn thing. Merely doing what he thought needed doing, he also broke the system further. And so Caesar or someone like him was inevitable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:13 AM (zZu0s)

266 262 Some people want to live in blue jurisdictions.
Posted by: It's Okay

Go and fuck yourself.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 08, 2026 12:14 AM (dp11t)

267 250 245 ChristyBlinky, I envision you as gorgeous without any surgery whatsoever.
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:00 AM (77rzZ)

Thank you. I was once something but now I am a Nana. A Nana who has not given in to anything but highlights to stay blonde. I may be the oldest person in the salon someday (I go every 8wks).

That and sunscreen are my thing. No mani pedis as I don't like people messing with my feet and don't trust them to clean the instruments. I tell my husband I save money this way and he's happy so whatever! I refused to whack off my hair past my shoulders when I hit 30yrs with two babies as was The Rule per my MIL. My long hair drove her mad (well she was barking mad to begin with).

Hope your sister is continuing to improve. Good luck with the new job.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 12:18 AM (WONhk)

268 Proscriptions, phone. It was medicine, but not that type.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:21 AM (zZu0s)

269 267 Thank you, Christy.

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:23 AM (77rzZ)

270 Let California do what they want to. They are ruining their state. The leftists are stealing the states money. Nothing is improving. Taxes are going up. Jobs are leaving. California is hurting themselves. No one is to blame but their terrible government. It will implode. Let them. And NO bailouts from the rest of the country.

Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 12:23 AM (4Pn+V)

271 And the funny thing is, Sulla put Caesar's name on the proscription lists. Caesar had to hide out with family in the country. Iirc, this went on for a while until Sulla's wife and daughter asked him to take Caesar off the list.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:24 AM (zZu0s)

272 Merely doing what he thought needed doing, he also broke the system further. And so Caesar or someone like him was inevitable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:13 AM (zZu0s)

I'm tanned, rested, and ready.

Posted by: Nehemiah Scudder at June 08, 2026 12:26 AM (UE9Fq)

273 I'm tanned, rested, and ready.
Posted by: Nehemiah Scudder at June 08, 2026 12:26 AM (UE9Fq)

Huh. Did not know that one. Thanks. The synopsis reminds me of Bioshock Infinite. Must have been an inspiration.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:27 AM (zZu0s)

274 Another thing with this LA election. Yes there are more Dems then non-Dems in LA.

But in 2022 Bass won by 10% over a regular Republican that ran a regular republican campaign in the middle of COVID mania

So if you believe the results at least 15% of the Caurso voters want Bass after she burned their houses down...or a foreign communist

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 12:28 AM (sKqQm)

275 The whole “vote with your feet” mantra is bullshit.

I’m not leaving my home. That’s how they win. By driving me out. And they aren’t going to. I will do my best to undermine them one mom on the beach at a time.

That’s how you win. By not giving up.
Posted by: nurse ratched

=====

There are always exceptions...

Who knows. Maybe if we had honest elections or audits we'd find even the deep blue cities are actually 60% repub leaning.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 12:29 AM (/lPRQ)

276 266 262 Some people want to live in blue jurisdictions.
Posted by: It's Okay

Go and fuck yourself.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 08, 2026 12:14 AM (dp11t)

The funny thing: you're 1000 x more aggressive with me in this comment than you ever are with any of the leftists in your daily life.

You're angry. But not with me.

Posted by: It's Okay at June 08, 2026 12:29 AM (0FERa)

277 I say all Republican Californians should vote for Raman... kick Bass's ass out and really give LA what they deserve... Good and hard

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:30 AM (FtULh)

278 Top pic is so pretty-- I've saved it for desktop background!

Thanks for the summer shorts, Piper. You choose classy stuff.

Too bad my legs are so.. ugly. I don't wear shorts unless I'm swimming. (been many years, alas)

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 12:31 AM (rdVOm)

279 275 The whole “vote with your feet” mantra is bullshit.

I’m not leaving my home. That’s how they win. By driving me out. And they aren’t going to. I will do my best to undermine them one mom on the beach at a time.

That’s how you win. By not giving up.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I'm in CA and they're not driving me out either...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:31 AM (FtULh)

280 Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:35 AM (zZu0s)

281 I'm not normally on the OT but the Pratt thing pissed me off... I see there are trolls here too...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 08, 2026 12:35 AM (FtULh)

282 Sulla was an interesting guy.

He was willing to work with Marius until he took away the military command Sulla wanted...

Then Marius's political opponents found just the military genius they needed to lead their opposition to him.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 12:37 AM (sKqQm)

283 Its like a troll generator. 'Cuck' that will piss them off.

Learn context, you retard.

I can literally think of several better insults to hurl.

You all are really making the case for commie retardation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:37 AM (zZu0s)

284 Then Marius's political opponents found just the military genius they needed to lead their opposition to him.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 08, 2026 12:37 AM (sKqQm)

He was a lieutenant under Marius in... I think it was rhe campaign in north Africa against Jugurtha. Sulla was the one who negotiated with the ones who betrayed him into Roman hands- and then Marius took all credit for it.

Thats the kind of thing that will set off a life long enmity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:40 AM (zZu0s)

285 When did this blog become the target of so many assholes? It's amazing.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 12:41 AM (pSkMS)

286 Interesting choice of topic, troll.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:41 AM (zZu0s)

287 When did this blog become the target of so many assholes? It's amazing.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 12:41 AM (pSkMS)

Its been this way in about the same amount since I started reading the comments. So... 2008ish?

The trolls did seem smarter back then and less .... generic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:42 AM (zZu0s)

288 276 Hey, Loser, go f**k yourself:

Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 12:42 AM (77rzZ)

289 Ok, I generally pay no attention to and am not in the loop for new bands. New music has gone in directions that don't move me. But there seems to be a trend of kid bands that are "classically" influenced. A few weeks ago I became aware of a band called "The Paradox", four young black guys who sound EXACTLY like Blink 182. There's another one called Willowake who to me kind of like a mid 90s mix of Foo Fighters and Gin Blossoms. If you like that sort of music give them a listen.

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 08, 2026 12:43 AM (3/XaG)

290 And there is the Cob.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:46 AM (zZu0s)

291 Taco to netanyahu I don't want you to retaliate against Iran, ignore their provocations like I am doing. I have to get gas prices down for the midterms. I call the shots! Netanyahu to taco you are mine and putin's bitch not the other way around.

Posted by: jojo at June 08, 2026 12:46 AM (dpuk3)

292 I asked YouTube to show me songs I haven't heard before, songs which are new to me. One of the top listed was one of my own videos. Smart.🙄

So, can't go wrong with Steve Goodman.

https://youtu.be/SVB_-jBom1k

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - artificially real at June 08, 2026 12:48 AM (dn9xm)

293 So retarded.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Seriously, what's the deal with your mayor? Being progressive (to a point) I can understand. But even when we had incompetent left wingers in S.F. (like our previous mayor) they had enough sense or advice to realize that some money has to come from some kind of business productivity. And then Katie went "ooops, I went to Starbucks. Tee hee." How often did her parents drop her on her head?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 12:48 AM (W5mpo)

294 So, is that primarily an anti Zionist(antisemitic) troll or an antitrump one? The two are getting harder and harder to differentiate these days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:49 AM (zZu0s)

295 Mike Huckabee describes Tehran as "the mothership of Satan."

That's pretty good.

Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 12:50 AM (RCjYY)

296 OK, here's a question: is California the current version of the austrohungarian empire? The dead old man of Europe. Fractured, sclerotic. Rotting from within. Literally letting shit pile up in the streets.

Its education system falling behind Mississippi. That has to sting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:52 AM (zZu0s)

297 How often did her parents drop her on her head?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 12:48 AM (W5mpo)

Hey, you all avoided her- so you got that going for you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:54 AM (zZu0s)

298 The way to win in CA is to wear the enemy's skin as camouflage. Run as one of Them, pretend to be one of Them, infiltrate. Then, after winning and getting settled in, that's when you start changing things from within, and take Them apart very fast.
But not alone. The more of you that sneak in, the better you can coordinate your actions and support/cover each other over a wide area. Yes, it will take a lot of planning to select objectives to take over, but it's doable.
Be Their friend! :-) Take Their money (They'll throw it at you! :-) Then harf Them out of Their own system!

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at June 08, 2026 12:54 AM (MpwrB)

299 Its like he's running down a printed list. Its kind of hilarious.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:54 AM (zZu0s)

300 Someone needs to tell him that his information is dated.
"Finance and technology are NOT all in blue states."

Fortune Magazine recently reported that TX has more Fortune 500 HQs than any other state. This is a recent develpoment, & it's still accelerating.

Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 12:55 AM (RCjYY)

301 Lol. I love people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:56 AM (zZu0s)

302 As predictable as a monkey with a coke button.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 12:56 AM (zZu0s)

303 A monkey with a coke button could troll better than this year's crop.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 12:58 AM (qx7Zg)

304 "Shasta County voters approved a ballot measure that would require hand-counting ballots and voter ID, conflicting with California election law."

King Newsom the Terrible and his Coastal Estate Barons will make Shasta County suffer for its democratic impertinence!

Posted by: 13times at June 08, 2026 12:58 AM (Ckdnn)

305 The answer to trolls is gas. Anhydrous ammonia would work nicely, and when you vent the chamber afterwards, the ammonia dissolves in airborne moisture, rains out, and becomes fertilizer to green up the land. Go green!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 12:59 AM (1z8ji)

306 I need a job that isn't physically strenuous.. wonder how much it pays to troll?

Does "our side" bother with paid trolls? Where can I sign up?! LOL

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

307 Does "our side" bother with paid trolls? Where can I sign up?! LOL
Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

I think you have to relocate to Pakistan.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 01:07 AM (1z8ji)

308 Pocky-stahn? Eww...

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)

309 VPN?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:09 AM (zZu0s)

310 How often did her parents drop her on her head?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at

Not enough, apparently.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 08, 2026 01:10 AM (A5RD0)

311
With all the election shenanigans in California, is there a chance for Katie Porter to make a comeback?
Posted by: a.moron

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

She got less than 5% I believe. Who would give her money?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 01:11 AM (n7rxJ)

312 308 I need a job that isn't physically strenuous.. wonder how much it pays to troll?

Does "our side" bother with paid trolls? Where can I sign up?! LOL
Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

ewww, it might get all over you

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 01:11 AM (6wpGE)

313 I do not wonder that the troll cannot do the mental gymnastics to realize that if you are 'stealing' elections, you are admitting that you are a small, insular minority out to subvert the will of the people and enforce your will. Hmmm. Not likely to be a line reading either.

More likely one from 'our' side. Word choice matters.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:13 AM (zZu0s)

314 You girls are good girls
We have tent, come
We'll drink tea, eat chocolate
Get to know each other.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:13 AM (UcW11)

315 Advertising for the CHAZ, Braenyard?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:14 AM (zZu0s)

316 You gotta pay the troll toll.

Posted by: Frank Reynolds at June 08, 2026 01:14 AM (5y9Cv)

317 Can't imagine trolls get paid very much. I could probably make more, doing legit work, almost anywhere. Like, fast food LOL!

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

318 JQ would make excellent troll. Don't know if our side hires trolls but if they do, she should receive a bonus hire.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:16 AM (UcW11)

319 You're sweet, Braenyard. Haha, thanks for the "reference"

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

320 I honestly doubt they are getting paid. My guess is they are like Intrepid. In a way. They come on usually when they think they have won some victory and want to end zone dance.

I think it more likely they are just really pathetic retards acting on their own.

Paul and raimondo are old commie agitators, would be my guess. This new guy is just stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:18 AM (zZu0s)

321 I need a part-time, big-bucks, no-show job with full benefits!

Too bad I didn't stay in kollidge...

Posted by: JQ, troll for hire at June 08, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

322 Also note that p and r come on at any time while new nics usually follow the pattern I noted.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:21 AM (zZu0s)

323 Only 0121Hrs?

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:21 AM (Ia/+0)

324 Too bad I didn't stay in kollidge...
Posted by: JQ, troll for hire at June 08, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

Oh, what was the name... Kay Kaiser and his Musical Kollege? Keyser?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:22 AM (zZu0s)

325 319 Can't imagine trolls get paid very much. I could probably make more, doing legit work, almost anywhere. Like, fast food LOL!
Posted by: JQ
--

We have some high class trolls here. Subtle. They make more than most. Being paid to confound the oppositions could be gratifing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:22 AM (UcW11)

326 325 Only 0121Hrs?
Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2026 01:21 AM (Ia/+0)

Looks like it!

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 01:22 AM (6wpGE)

327 Oh, what was the name... Kay Kaiser and his Musical Kollege? Keyser?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:22 AM (zZu0s)

Kay Kyzer and his College of Musical Knowledge, I think.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 01:24 AM (1z8ji)

328 Kay Kyser.

https://youtu.be/FXNiCDBEPk0?
si=iZy2BloBWHpp6mDo

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:24 AM (zZu0s)

329 Telling an abused wife to stick around and fight for the marriage instead of getting out while you can is not the best advice.

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 01:25 AM (GseMx)

330 FOX11 LA just now

Raman takes No. 2 spot over Pratt in LA mayor's race

Nithya Raman jumped ahead of Spencer Pratt in the battle for second place in the race for Los Angeles mayor. This comes as 83% of total votes have been counted by officials.

Posted June 7, 2026 10:17pm PDT

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 01:26 AM (6wpGE)

331 Today and yesterday were nice & cool. Got lots of yardwork done, but didn't have to sweat and suffer the heat!

Supposed to rain tomorrow, so mowed today even though it could've waited. But-- rain predicted until Wednesday, and lawn would be very shaggy by then-- I don't like slogging through thick, wet grass.

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

332 And now counting may end!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:26 AM (zZu0s)

333 331 Telling an abused wife to stick around and fight for the marriage instead of getting out while you can is not the best advice.
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 01:25 AM (GseMx)

The hell you say!

Posted by: Loretta Lynn at June 08, 2026 01:28 AM (bvNhH)

334 And now counting may end!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 01:26 AM (zZu0s)

We knew it was going to happen but it's still a gut punch.

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 01:28 AM (GseMx)

335
326 Too bad I didn't stay in kollidge...
Posted by: JQ, troll for hire
---

OK, you're not STEM or Chem., other than that which graduate knows more than you? Bah.
You have a wealth of experience, knowledge and wisdom that few graduates have. Bah to their credential.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:29 AM (UcW11)

336
Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 01:26 AM (6wpGE)

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

Oh my god. Oh god. I have to stay away from most social media for a while. That woman's smug, superior, triumphalist preening will drive me crazy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 01:30 AM (n7rxJ)

337 They sued to stop the ball room construction and now they're suing to stop the UFC fight . I hate these motherfuckers.

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 01:33 AM (GseMx)

338 Kay Kyser,

'Save the Bones for Henry Jones cause He Don't Eat No Meat.'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:34 AM (UcW11)

339 Well, that's spicy:

@sentdefender
·
32m
The Israel Defense Force confirms strikes earlier against the Karun Petrochemical Company in Bandar-e Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province of Southwestern Iran.

Posted by: Methos at June 08, 2026 01:34 AM (vSvIl)

340 It rained three days last week. Yesterday, today and tomorrow ( excuse me Sofia ) are Sunny. If I don't cut by Tuesday it will be a hay field.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:37 AM (UcW11)

341 Bah to their credential.
Posted by: Braenyard

Hah. That reminded me of long ago... when I began my very first "job hunt" and checked the classifieds every day.

Most ads went something like this: '...(X) years of experience required. Willing to consider education/ (x) degree in lieu of (X amount of) experience.'

Now?

"Willing to consider experience in lieu of education."

What's wrong with that picture? LOL

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

342 I attach a rolling bucket with 2 clippers, Ryobi sawzall with Diablo blade, weed eater and a 4 prong rake (mostly for moss). Not going back to get another tool.
My bushes on the side yard are turning into trees - can't have that. They're next on the agenda.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:42 AM (UcW11)

343 Posted by: Methos at June 08, 2026 01:34 AM (vSvIl)
-

It was a bit annoying here last night at 10:30PM but after that we all had a great night's sleep.

Another bright sunny blue sky morning here in northern Israel, with a cool breeze.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 01:43 AM (ohSsM)

344 Well, getting close to midnight here, and I am becoming sleepy. Going to hit the sack. I have a rear axle swap to do tomorrow, so a busy day lies ahead. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 01:46 AM (1z8ji)

345
Hold down that snake Newsom and waterboard him until he explains what he meant by the "break glass" option.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 01:47 AM (n7rxJ)

346 My deepest sympathies for all the fire victims who were praying for a Spenser Pratt win to cut through the red tape and let them rebuild.

Stealing Steve Hilton’s victory, too, is just gob-smacking evil.

Posted by: EveR at June 08, 2026 01:48 AM (wTevN)

347 They sued to stop the ball room construction and now they're suing to stop the UFC fight . I hate these motherfuckers.
Posted by: polynikes

It's the Judges.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 01:49 AM (/lPRQ)

348
Well, that's spicy:

@sentdefender
·
32m
The Israel Defense Force confirms strikes earlier against the Karun Petrochemical Company in Bandar-e Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province of Southwestern Iran.
Posted by: Methos

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

I'm looking at Tousi's channel and his last dozen streams have been ISRAEL STRIKES IRAN - IRAN WAR BACK - US MILITARY STRIKES IRAN

When is it going to put an end to something?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 01:50 AM (n7rxJ)

349 If I don't cut by Tuesday it will be a hay field.
Posted by: Braenyard

Oh yeah, I know that drill! Let it go too long, would need a combine.. Almost had that problem early this spring! Ended up mowing slowly, with half-width passes. Had about a cu. yard of clippings, *after* letting them dry for 24hrs!

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm)

350 Now?

"Willing to consider experience in lieu of education."

What's wrong with that picture? LOL
Posted by: JQ
---

That's the way it is. There are those that know how to do it or have a foundational experience that complements the job. And there are those that, at best, memorized the book and the test.

Translating the book into functional accomplishment is another thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:50 AM (UcW11)

351 285 When did this blog become the target of so many assholes? It's amazing.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2026 12:41 AM (pSkMS)

Election year. I'd be disappointed if troll activity didn't ramp up.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 08, 2026 01:51 AM (w/O5Q)

352 When is it going to put an end to something?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 01:50 AM (n7rxJ)
-

When Trump finally wakes up.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 01:51 AM (ohSsM)

353 @PressTV (IRAN)

Iran also launched attack drones toward occupied territories, with papers attached to them bearing the message: 'We will not abandon Lebanon.'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:53 AM (UcW11)

354
Ewoks are devolved Dust Bunnies. Who would have thought that was possible?

Prove me wrong!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 08, 2026 01:54 AM (ixS3i)

355
When is it going to put an end to something?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 01:50 AM (n7rxJ)
-

When Trump finally wakes up.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

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

So much frustration this evening.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 01:55 AM (n7rxJ)

356 *IRAN'S TASNIM: A NEW WAVE OF MISSILES WAS FIRED AT ISRAEL

*IRAN'S IRGC SAYS ISRAEL MUST STOP ATTACKS ON S. LEBANON: TASNIM

*ISRAEL SAYS IDENTIFIED INCOMING MISSILES LAUNCHED FROM IRAN

*IRAN SAYS ISRAEL WILL FACE 'CRUSHING' BLOWS IF IT RESPONDS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEe4p4Wmkn8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:55 AM (UcW11)

357
When Trump finally wakes up.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
-------

You misunderstand Trump.
He's playing it,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:57 AM (UcW11)

358
They sued to stop the ball room construction and now they're suing to stop the UFC fight.

No UFC. Thunderdome.

I have altered the agreement -- pray that I do not alter it further.

-- PDJT

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 08, 2026 01:57 AM (ixS3i)

359 72 I know that place in the top photo. It's a creepy little island called "Sepia". Time moves differently there as most of the men still wear hats, and the women never wear skirts above the knee. Everyone still smokes, doctors make housecalls, and there's this guy wearing a brimmed cap that delivers glass bottles of milk.'

Women never wear skirts above the knee?

(shudders)

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 01:58 AM (T6aVk)

360 Now?

"Willing to consider experience in lieu of education."

What's wrong with that picture? LOL
Posted by: JQ
====

I saw one (29 years ago) for a highly technical position in BFE which started with
- License and ten years experience
go down to
- Good in High School math.

The were looking for a specific ethnicity but could not (legally) come out and say it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 01:59 AM (/lPRQ)

361 You misunderstand Trump.
He's playing it,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 01:57 AM (UcW11)
-

Overplaying.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 02:00 AM (ohSsM)

362 ==============

So much frustration this evening.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
----

Don't buy it. We knew the California cheat would win. So, the obvious happened. And as far as the game between Trump and Iran - has Trump ever let you down?
Be of good cheer. We're winning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 02:00 AM (UcW11)

363
No. It’s happening because there’s a minority of power brokers with a TON of money and influence have bastardized the process. Most Californians are too busy trying to make ends meet and don’t have the wherewithall to fight back. Their votes are invalidated.

Same thing here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 11:20 PM (2xVPz)

If the people of CA didn't want it, why aren't thousands and thousands of people jamming the streets of Sacramento demanding change? Why isn't Sacramento and other CA cities looking like Leipzig, East Berlin, Prague or Bucharest circa the fall of 1989?

Because the people of CA VERY, VERY CHEERFULLY acquiesce in the destruction of their liberty. Until the people of CA do something to show otherwise, I have to assume the worst: that far too many there are in fact unfit to be free and are incapable of self-government.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 02:02 AM (T6aVk)

364 -

Overplaying.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs
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Overplaying is pushing. Trump's not pushing, he's biding his time while they kill each other for top dog.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 02:02 AM (UcW11)

365
I saw one (29 years ago) for a highly technical position in BFE which started with
- License and ten years experience
go down to
- Good in High School math.

The were looking for a specific ethnicity but could not (legally) come out and say it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Openings for most post doctoral positions are advertised in such a way as to beat a path to a specific (and the desired) applicant.

But it's all totes open and aboveboard, yo!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 08, 2026 02:02 AM (ixS3i)

366 good take, I think:

PoIiMath
@politicalmath
8h

No one expected Pratt to win

But they were surprised that he cleanly beat the second place Dem on election night only to have her win the late ballots so hard that they look like two completely different elections

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 02:04 AM (6wpGE)

367 I've always been willing to put in an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Sometimes, throughout the years, I even *received* that honest day's pay. Sometimes.

Happened less and less, as years went by, but I still did the work. Silly (chump!) me.

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 02:06 AM (rdVOm)

368 326 Too bad I didn't stay in kollidge...
Posted by: JQ, troll for hire
---

Email or contact Musk when he puts out for jobs.
He hires other than tech people. He hire people who are quick and think. There are all kinds of jobs in a business. Tell him what you are and request and interview. You know what to say to get the interview. That's all you need.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 02:09 AM (UcW11)

369 alexthechick got in a good one:

PoIiMath retweeted
alexandriabrown
@alexthechick
13h
What's a little false imprisonment, right?

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
14h
Ro Khanna defends Graham Platner against abuse allegations from ex-girlfriends:

“There was no harm, no injury. There was toxicity, and there was, uh, verbal intimidation…but Graham has made it clear that there was no evidence of violence. To me, is a red line.”

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 02:12 AM (6wpGE)

370 Paul and raimondo are old commie agitators, would be my guess. This new guy is just stupid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The strange thing about "Raimondo" is that once in a blue moon he says something non-trolling related to some non-political issue that's being talked about, like racing or something. It's like he just can't resist being normal.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 02:13 AM (W5mpo)

371 Silly top story at insty.

Ok, you have a thing about GOP maybe winning the redistricted races and just below it pointing out the dems openly stole a race. Que?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:13 AM (zZu0s)

372 It's like he just can't resist being normal.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 02:13 AM (W5mpo)

He or Paul made a reference the other night to being in his 70s, I think. I remarked 'even our trolls are old.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:19 AM (zZu0s)

373 Too bad I didn't stay in kollidge...
Posted by: JQ, troll for hire
---

Email or contact Musk when he puts out for jobs.
He hires other than tech people. He hire people who are quick and think. There are all kinds of jobs in a business. Tell him what you are and request and interview. You know what to say to get the interview. That's all you need.

Posted by: Braenyard
===

They surely have shit loads of blue collar jobs that don't make the press. No idea how they advertise though.

They have so much infrastructure going on that most may be in-house rather than contractors.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 02:20 AM (/lPRQ)

374 I honestly expected Pratt to lose in November, it js LA after all, but there was a small hope he could really generate a movement there for people to get behind and maybe he could win, barely.

What I didn’t expect was for the Dem Machine in LA to cheat during a primary.

That Raman was getting 40% of the vote in these late ballot dumps is far too obvious.

Perhaps the Dems went too far this time and the cheat will be exposed by Trump’s DOJ?
I wouldn’t bet on that, but it’s still a possibility.

And at least Steve Hilton is in second place still… for now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 08, 2026 02:20 AM (6ydKt)

375 but Graham has made it clear that there was no evidence of violence. To me, is a red line.”
Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 02:12 AM (6wpGE)

'No evidence'. Wow. Soft tissue damage. Some black eyes and other bruises.

The party of Women, ladies and Gentlemen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:21 AM (zZu0s)

376 No UFC. Thunderdome.

I have altered the agreement -- pray that I do not alter it further.

-- PDJT
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 08, 2026 01:57 AM (ixS3i)

512 judges enter the ring. 16 walk out.

Are You Ready to Rumble!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 02:22 AM (qx7Zg)

377 Fixing it this way instead of waiting for the runoff turns off pratts ads (at least that is my guess for their thinking.) Now it can just be a nice boring race between two commies. It also makes Pratt a third place closer who could not podium, so less likely to try to run for anything else.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:23 AM (zZu0s)

378 Platner just *looks like* a scrounge. Ugh. No surprise that he likes to slap women around, he's too fugly and arrogant to keep a decent gal happy.

JMHO, of course.

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)

379 Incoming!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 02:29 AM (ohSsM)

380 Platner and E. Jean Carroll are perfect for each other. Quick, someone write some fan fic!

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 02:29 AM (W5mpo)

381 It'd be a hoot if Pratt or his followers continue to make those ads!

Point out all the demotard fuckups, repeatedly. Just to be a burr under their blankets.

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

382 ===

They surely have shit loads of blue collar jobs that don't make the press. No idea how they advertise though.

They have so much infrastructure going on that most may be in-house rather than contractors.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
----

Forget that. At his X site he offers job openings and how to contact him. Forget middle men. There is a place. He appreciates sharp, quick, character, ability to be cool with under tension with judgement. They just need to talk.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 02:42 AM (UcW11)

383 Hmm. Getting late, even for West Coast.

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 02:44 AM (rdVOm)

384 377 but Graham has made it clear that there was no evidence of violence. To me, is a red line.”
Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 02:12 AM (6wpGE)

'No evidence'. Wow. Soft tissue damage. Some black eyes and other bruises.

The party of Women, ladies and Gentlemen.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:21 AM (zZu0s)

"Some black eyes and other bruises."
I haven't seen that stated anywhere.

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 02:45 AM (6wpGE)

385 381 Incoming!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs
--

Daytime rockets. Be safe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 02:46 AM (UcW11)

386 Thanks for the idea, Braenyard, but I really don't work well under pressure. Probably would *crack* under someone like Musk.

Besides: I'm "too 29" for that, not very tech-savvy, and unwilling to relocate.

Don't really have time for a job right now anyway. Too much other BS to deal with... I may not live long enough to need a job, by the time I'm done with it all!

Eh. Come what may.

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 02:48 AM (rdVOm)

387 Daytime rockets. Be safe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 02:46 AM (UcW11)
-

Thanks. Just stepped out of safe room 2-3 minutes ago. All's well.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 02:50 AM (ohSsM)

388 "Some black eyes and other bruises."
I haven't seen that stated anywhere.
Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 02:45 AM (6wpGE)

Pardon, my supposition. HE said there was no 'evidence.' Interesting choice of words. Meaning no broken bones or hospital reports, hence soft tissue, bruises. Stuff you might not file a police report over.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:51 AM (zZu0s)

389 Tech savvy is not a point. Relocation would be a sticking point.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 02:56 AM (UcW11)

390 390 "Some black eyes and other bruises."
I haven't seen that stated anywhere.
Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 02:45 AM (6wpGE)

Pardon, my supposition. HE said there was no 'evidence.' Interesting choice of words. Meaning no broken bones or hospital reports, hence soft tissue, bruises. Stuff you might not file a police report over.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 02:51 AM (zZu0s)

Well, in that clip, "no evidence" was Ro Khanna's words.

371 alexthechick got in a good one:

PoIiMath retweeted
alexandriabrown
@alexthechick
13h
What's a little false imprisonment, right?

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
14h
Ro Khanna defends Graham Platner against abuse allegations from ex-girlfriends:

“There was no harm, no injury. There was toxicity, and there was, uh, verbal intimidation…but Graham has made it clear that there was no evidence of violence. To me, is a red line.”
Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 02:12 AM (6wpGE)

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 02:59 AM (6wpGE)

391 There is no evidence, on the web, that Platner physically harmed any woman.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:03 AM (UcW11)

392 Which means thats what he asked him. Is there any police reports or doctors records that can still come out.

I'm just saying Platner fits for that kind of thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:04 AM (zZu0s)

393 I'm just saying Platner fits for that kind of thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
---

Right, he fits it. But you said he did it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:07 AM (UcW11)

394 Thanks. Just stepped out of safe room 2-3 minutes ago. All's well.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

===========

If you got them, smoke them.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 03:09 AM (/lPRQ)

395 You may be surprised at what 'too twenty-nines' do.
Look the the Prezzie.
Old age and wisdom will always beat youth and exuberance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:10 AM (UcW11)

396 There is no evidence, on the web, that Platner physically harmed any woman.

Posted by: Braenyard

No evidence that any woman ever broke into his house and needed to be dominated.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 03:11 AM (/lPRQ)

397 Night. Big project due Wednesday. Anticipate on-time departure to the court.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 08, 2026 03:12 AM (W5mpo)

398 Pratt, platner, platner, pratt. I keep getting these 2 mixed up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 08, 2026 03:13 AM (snZF9)

399 Right, he fits it. But you said he did it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:07 AM (UcW11)

Again, I did not. Speculation and snark.

Braenyard is Platner's Campaign manager!

THAT would be actually saying it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:13 AM (zZu0s)

400 119
The Left NPC module for the LA election is that Pratt said not to mail in ballots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:39 PM (O0L8i)

Narrator voice: he did not actually say that, and also would not have been obeyed. Obedience is a leftist thing.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 03:14 AM (Sy6m/)

401 No evidence that any woman ever broke into his house and needed to be dominated.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 03:11 AM (/lPRQ)

Per accounts, he likes men for that scenario.

Am I allowed to say that?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:14 AM (zZu0s)

402 Tomorrow's another busy day...

G'night, horde! Take care, all. Thanks for being here.

Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

403 Zelensky published an open letter to Putin that [many], believe was timed deliberately to coincide with the SPIEF plenary session… a provocative move aimed at disrupting the forum's atmosphere. He (Putin) called the letter “rude” and said it was “no way to set up a face-to-face meeting.”

Rather than engage with Zelensky’s proposals, Putin ...said the ones to be addressed were Russia’s combatants and soldiers at the line of contact, telling them:

The country is proud of you and places its hopes on you. We should address not the authors of this letter [Zelensky], nor lovers of the epistolary genre, but our fighters on the front line.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:17 AM (UcW11)

404 G'night, JQ! May you have a simple night of continuous sleep.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 03:19 AM (Sy6m/)

405 You said it. Own it.

"'No evidence'. Wow. Soft tissue damage. Some black eyes and other bruises."
...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:19 AM (UcW11)

406 *eyeroll*

THAT you can quote me on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:23 AM (zZu0s)

407 Godfathers combo is great. Chi-congo can keep The Bums and all of the hip hop thugs

no public money for pro sports

no public money for stadiums

no, I don't watch thugball of any flavor

Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at June 08, 2026 03:26 AM (jrgJz)

408 The country is proud of you and places its hopes on you. We should address not the authors of this letter [Zelensky], nor lovers of the epistolary genre, but our fighters on the front line.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:17 AM (UcW11)

There are several lessons to be learned.

* Do not be wedded to your priors.

* Also, make changes to your things based on what you see.

* No, seriously, what the hell is wrong with you

And the entire world is observably refusing to learn the lessons taught by the Russo-Ukrainian War. It's amazing.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 03:26 AM (Sy6m/)

409 Pentagon Officially Removes 180 Faiths From Military Religion List

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:27 AM (UcW11)

410 Question, in order to sue, you need to have some type of Personal damage, so there can be some type of restitution, or you do not have standing to sue.

Who is damaged by the UFC White House thing? How does anyone have standing to sue?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:28 AM (mP0Kj)

411 409 Pentagon Officially Removes 180 Faiths From Military Religion List
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:27 AM (UcW11)

The Force, and Flying Spaghetti Monster are right out!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:28 AM (mP0Kj)

412 @zerohedge
4h
Platner Has Fundraising Surge After NYT Exposé, Which Is Bad News For Nervous Democrats
_mainemorninstar dot com

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:31 AM (UcW11)

413 Pentagon Officially Removes 180 Faiths From Military Religion List

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 03:27 AM (UcW11)

The Force, and Flying Spaghetti Monster are right out!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:28 AM (mP0Kj)
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Guessing by the large number: also Howard Johnsons.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 03:32 AM (ohSsM)

414 Per bing AI:
The lawsuit against the UFC event at the White House is based on several grounds:
Violation of National Park Service Regulations: The event is alleged to violate National Park Service regulations that prohibit sporting events on federal parkland.
5
Lack of Congressional Authorization: The construction of the large arch overlooking the event space was not authorized by Congress.
5
Environmental Review Requirement: No environmental review was conducted before the construction of the event space.
5
Private and Commercial Use: The event is described as a private, commercial, and corrupt use of national monuments for private gain.
5

The lawsuit aims to stop the event and seek a federal judge's order to declare the authorization unlawful. The White House has dismissed the lawsuit as obstructionist, baseless, and dilatory.
5

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:33 AM (zZu0s)

415 Who is damaged by the UFC White House thing? How does anyone have standing to sue?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2026 03:28 AM (mP0Kj)

The thing that I want you to understand is that they have no standing and don't care, since it's all about power for them. So they'll just try whatever. So we need to defeat them thoroughly and in detail, to make them stop.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 03:34 AM (Sy6m/)

416 Guessing by the large number: also Howard Johnsons.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 03:32 AM (ohSsM)

I DO miss those green roofs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:34 AM (zZu0s)

417 And the entire world is observably refusing to learn the lessons taught by the Russo-Ukrainian War. It's amazing.
Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 03:26 AM (Sy6m/)

What lessons? I am curious. Drones?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:44 AM (zZu0s)

418 Here is an uncomfortable thing. You probably think you're above this, and you're probably wrong:

"Fan" Star Trek Original Series Clip to "Common People" by William Shatner

https://youtu.be/zI3UfxyIdgs

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 03:50 AM (Sy6m/)

419 Speak-singin' Shat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:55 AM (zZu0s)

420 What lessons? I am curious. Drones?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 03:44 AM (zZu0s)

That is just the first level. You need indigenous manufacture of drones.

Then it gets weird. You can't make any kind of easy incursion. There will be "loitering munitions" on the road.

So your fancy top-tier best of class invasion is to put a dozen guys on motorbikes, with the guy on the back of each bike having heavy ECM (electronic counter measures) to try to keep drones from just killing them.

* You need indigenous drone manufacture.
* Train your guys in motorbike infiltration.
* Stop pretending you can just drive with tanks to crush things, when the Russians are literally refabbing old '50s Soviet hulls to just get destroyed because why not.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 04:03 AM (Sy6m/)

421
Pentagon Officially Removes 180 Faiths From Military Religion List
Posted by: Braenyard

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Those exotic and obscure religion people were doing better than the genders.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:10 AM (n7rxJ)

422 I want to emphasize that anyone claiming to be afraid of Russian invasion oh no the Baltics oh my eek is just pretending or stupid. There is no NATO or European concern at all. They are neither a tragic nuclear gas station clown, nor a sinister dominant horror movie clown. They are just a country with more people than Ukraine, so a simple war of attrition is inevitable.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 04:18 AM (Sy6m/)

423 Those exotic and obscure religion people were doing better than the genders.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 08, 2026 04:10 AM (n7rxJ)

I'd kind of like to see a list. 'Religion of Dave'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 04:27 AM (zZu0s)

424 A partial list from Bing AI:
The Pentagon removed roughly 180 religions in 2026, including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick practitioners, New Age groups, Pagans, Rosicrucians, Shamans, Spiritualists, The Troth, Unitarian Universalists, and various Wiccan traditions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 04:29 AM (zZu0s)

425 What about Jedi? Can you still be a Jedi soldier?

Posted by: mikeski at June 08, 2026 04:33 AM (VHUov)

426 Pixy is here!

Posted by: clarence at June 08, 2026 04:36 AM (FLIKO)

427 424 A partial list from Bing AI:
The Pentagon removed roughly 180 religions in 2026, including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick practitioners, New Age groups, Pagans, Rosicrucians, Shamans, Spiritualists, The Troth, Unitarian Universalists, and various Wiccan traditions.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 04:29 AM (zZu0s)

They could just call themselves Anti-Christian. That would be accurate.

Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 04:36 AM (Sy6m/)

428 Loitering drones are generally ineffective in jungle, taiga, forest. Same with tanks and motorcycles (plus marsh and swamp). It can be hell even with pack mules.Training combat soldiers to ride cross-country on dirt bikes? Fording muddy, steep, grassy/brushy ditches and crossing ravines?

Fighting on the Ukrainian steppe across leveled farm land is one thing ..

Posted by: 13times at June 08, 2026 04:40 AM (GZBF2)

429 A partial list from Bing AI:
The Pentagon removed roughly 180 religions in 2026, including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick practitioners, New Age groups, Pagans, Rosicrucians, Shamans, Spiritualists, The Troth, Unitarian Universalists, and various Wiccan traditions.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Fuckers.

In Basic mid 90s I identified as a Druid, NA, and insisted that my religion required that I go into the hinterlands with a case of beer and commune with nature from Friday night until Monday morning. Denied.
Then these same a-holes then made a big production about hiking out and camping over night in those same woods.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 04:44 AM (/lPRQ)

430 426 Pixy is here!
Posted by: clarence at June 08, 2026 04:36 AM (FLIKO)

Posted by: m at June 08, 2026 04:58 AM (6wpGE)

Gun Thread: First June Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving hell did it get to be the First June Edition? For those keeping track at home, there will be four June Gun Threads this month. That is to say one per week, on Sundays. Please do try and keep up, 'kay?

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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FUNdamentals

Are you practicing your fundamentals indoors or outdoors? What kind of targets are you using? Are you changing them frequently, making notes, and taking them home for later study? If not, why not?

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You're Kidding, Right?

Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea? I like Swiss mechanical watches as much as the next guy, but I do not want complex watch movements incorporated into my firearms. Plus it's ugly as hell, and should have been disqualified on that basis alone.

Would you want to be shot by this thing? I would not. Have some respect and consideration for your targets!

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Worst Gun Ever?

The above notwithstanding, I present to you the USFA Zip 22.

and...

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This Looks Like Fun

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Our Pal The Slinky

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Timber Fellers!

We timber fellers are a tough breed.

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NoVaMoMe 2026

What - you thought there wasn't going to be a NoVaMoMe in 2026?

Note: One of the great joys of NoVAMoMe season, at least for me, is being able to cut and paste the entire block of text below and haranguing you to attend the event. Are you attending? Are you focusing on the fundamentals of attending?

Alright, guys and gals, the long awaited and highly anticipated details of the 2026 NoVAMoMe are here! That's right, I finally got my act together and updated the information page for 2026, and need to go over a few details. First, the date is June 20th, 2026 from 11am to 3pm. Nextly, my bestest blog buddy bluebell and I have decided 2026 will continue the longstanding tradition of NoVAMoMe simplification, and want to pass along the changes from prior years.

First, no registration and no advance charge for food. If you would like to attend, send an email to WeaselBell Productions, and let us know. You will be directed to a sekrit webpage with all of the details. We do ask once you have decided to attend to let us know so we can coordinate an expected count with venue management. Once there if you are hungry or thirsty simply order from the onsite menu and pay separately. Cash and credit cards accepted. Next, although fun, we have decided to again take a break from the raffles and mug sales this year. Depending on how it goes, that may be something we bring back in future years. While your generosity is always appreciated, with no prize table, please leave donations and contributions at home, but bring your appetite for a great afternoon spent with your imaginary online friends.

Next, a NoVAMoMe PSA from our pal bluebell

Hi folks - just a quick PSA. If you write for info about the MoMe, please give us a few words in the body of the email just so I know you are a Moron and not a spammer (moron). I do receive spam on this email account because it's sitting right here in my nic, so that's why I'm asking. I don't want to give our details to a spammer. Also, remember to check your spam folder if you don't receive a reply email.
Thanks.
bluebell

Seriously, just send an email then go to the website with the password provided. If you forget, a link to the email is on the main page, left sidebar. If you do not sign up, bluebell will be disappointed. Weasel will be disappointed, too, but it's bluebell you need to worry about.

That's it, people. Don't be a dork. Email WeaselBell Productions today!

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Highway Patrol!

This week's episode: Phony Insurance!

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The Human Duplicators!

Yikes!

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Cigar of the Week

How cigars are made at Plasencia

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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.

Cigarsinternational.com
Cigarpage.com
Famous-smoke.com
Cigarsdaily.com
Neptunecigar.com
Smallbatchcigar.com
Bobalu Cigar Company
Cigarbid.com
Nicks Cigar World New!

A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid

Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!

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Ammo Link-O-Rama
I'm really very seriously not kidding around anymore. Buy Ammo
AmmoSeek - online ammo search tool
GunBot - online ammo search tool
SG Ammo
Palmetto State Armory
Georgia Arms
AmmoMan
Target Sports USA
Bud's Gun Shop
American Elite Ammo
Lucky Gunner Ammo NEW!

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Please note the new and improved protonmail account gunthread at protonmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. Future expansion plans are in the works for the site Weasel Gun Thread. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!

That's it for this week - have you been to the range?

Posted by: Weasel at 07:00 PM

Comments

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1 Let's Go!!!!

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 07, 2026 07:00 PM (g5tO/)

2 First

Posted by: Coelacanth at June 07, 2026 07:00 PM (vt7xw)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 07:00 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Bang

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2026 07:01 PM (LHPAg)

5 Second I guess

Posted by: Coelacanth at June 07, 2026 07:01 PM (vt7xw)

6 Yay, gubs, yay!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 07, 2026 07:02 PM (/g2NY)

7 Pew-pew!

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 07, 2026 07:04 PM (VCgbV)

8 Yay! Gubs!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:04 PM (Wnv9h)

9 It's a wonderful toy.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

10 Otters called

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 07:07 PM (Sy6m/)

11 Piper did not focus on fundamentals.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 07:07 PM (zZu0s)

12 Dang, I’m missing tonight

That H&K is indeed ugly

Reminds me of an old joke…

“If I’m ever killed by a Hi-Point, don’t let that out. Just tell everyone I was buggered to death in a gay bathhouse…”

Posted by: Coelacanth at June 07, 2026 07:07 PM (vt7xw)

13 Good evening, Weasel and fellow gubbies!

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 07:08 PM (cFhze)

14 Well, had an outstanding time at the NHMiniMoMe. Did not have luck with the 1,000 yard target, but I did hit at 866. :-)

It was also nice to have The Grateful and T-Rex join us on this foray.

I think the others that attended can put into words much better than I on how much fun we had.

I would especially like to thank our host RI Red. Did a damn fine job getting this together and be the main spotter on the Friday session ( I was not there Thursday)
Thank you Red, cannot wait to get up there again.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 07, 2026 07:08 PM (g5tO/)

15 I like the caseless idea. In theory.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 07:08 PM (zZu0s)

16 Reminds me of an old joke…

“If I’m ever killed by a Hi-Point, don’t let that out. Just tell everyone I was buggered to death in a gay bathhouse…”
Posted by: Coelacanth

I used to tell the same joke but instead of a Hi-Point reference, I said something along the lines of 'don't tell my Mother I worked as a banker, instead. . . '.

And I meant it.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 07:10 PM (jnTpz)

17 Scoobs is withholding information. The Curse of the 1100 Yard Ram.

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 07:10 PM (cFhze)

18 Hello, Weasel!

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 07:11 PM (BCwQW)

19 The G11 is more like a proof of concept than a field able rifle.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 07:12 PM (zZu0s)

20 Holy Crap! Half the year's gone by already … ? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 07:12 PM (ayRl+)

21 https://www.defensenews.com/news/not just a gun new socom rifle allows barrel swapping and cartridge changes

https://tinyurl.com/53mptdw7

Capable offiring 7.62 and 6.5 with only a barrel change

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 07:13 PM (Ia/+0)

22 I know that "You're doing [ X ] wrong!" is a popular Youtube genre but "Choosing the Right Target?" Really, we've run out of real problems and we're down to target-shaming?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:13 PM (vTZFs)

23 17 Scoobs is withholding information. The Curse of the 1100 Yard Ram.

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 07:10 PM

Yeah, and brought his foxy friends with him. :-(

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 07, 2026 07:13 PM (g5tO/)

24 Scoobs is withholding information. The Curse of the 1100 Yard Ram.
Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 07:10 PM

But the fox was smaller. And it was hit. Just sayin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:14 PM (Wnv9h)

25 There were 267 comments on the Food thread, but that was only because they started arguing about barbecue.

I am sure that this crew is too fine and noble to run up the comment count with petty squabbling.

BTW: The 1911 is the finest handgun ever invented, people who carry appendix-style deserve to be rendered incapable of reproducing, and any man who carries a 9mm is currently on a very high fiber diet.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 07, 2026 07:14 PM (UE9Fq)

26 Continuing the multi-thread dialogue, on narcissists and compulsive liars -- on topic because it's important to be *honest* with yourself around guns, as otherwise physical reality will correct you violently:

268 as Steve Jobs was said to, where their charisma sucks you in to a false perception. Sounds like yours was between.
Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 06:57 PM (Sy6m/)

The liars who are compulsive i have seen almost always trip themselves up because it becomes impossible to keep their shit straight they contradict so many times they lose track of where they are at. They could save so much effort and trouble just by not lying. But it like... psychological armor (the lies.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

Well, that's where the Cluster B concept comes into play, because it's neither easy nor relevant for us to distinguish between all the different personality disorders that involve reality distortion, including also histrionic, borderline, and antisocial. We just need to develop defense mechanisms against all of them.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 07:15 PM (Sy6m/)

27 And a great time was had by all in NH. Thanks to RI Red for making this happen again.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:16 PM (Wnv9h)

28 Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:13 PM (vTZFs)
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It's part of a series for beginners, I think.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 07:17 PM (3nqLb)

29 The 4.7mm ammo of the G11 was meant to save weight compared to conventional brass cased ammo and the magazines required to hold it. Testing revealed that prolonged firing (burst fire was at about 2,200 RPM) made it easier to cook off the ammo. The brass case provided a heat sink that allowed for greater safety when firing high round counts on automatic fire from a rifle. The G11 took that away. As far as I know, no one else has made any attempt to go with caseless ammo since the end of the G11 program.

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 07:17 PM (BCwQW)

30 27 And a great time was had by all in NH. Thanks to RI Red for making this happen again.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:16 PM

Here!! Here!!

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 07, 2026 07:18 PM (g5tO/)

31 The Mk-24 will replace Mk-17 SCAR

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 07:18 PM (Ia/+0)

32 Capable offiring 7.62 and 6.5 with only a barrel change

My prediction, which is really that hard because it's happened before*, is that each operational group will choose whichever best fits their mission and never change. The gov't will wind up spending extra for a cool-sounding capability that nobody really needs or wants.

* see the Forgotten Weapons linked here some weeks ago about the convertible Colt

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:19 PM (vTZFs)

33 Good evening all, and thanks for the thread Weasel.
Finally home after two weeks of travel which included the famous NH MicroMini MoMe! Fantastic weather, fabulous teachers, and great conversations, not to mention the best host with a great local range. Lord Red outdid himself. Day 1 morning was an involved tutorial of AR type gubs, including take down, cleaning and reassemble. Tons of information. That afternoon, after lunch at the best little diner, we hit the range shooting at 25, 100 and 300. The next day was the long distance range, which for me was a different set of skills. But I was able to hit at 500 and 860.
Sincere thanks to Lord Red, and RMBS, CBD and Scube for their patience, knowledge, and for genuinely trying to help us be successful. I feel very blessed.
And yes, I now have long distance precision shooting in my blood - I think that should go into Lord Red's permanent record!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 07:21 PM (IQ6Gq)

34 Siiiigh. Slinky video @1:25
Metal or plastic wound into a spring
"Wound" pronounced like a gunshot wound.

Quit watching.

I hate robot narrators, especially stupid ones. Doesn't any human watch and edit these things before uploading?

All slinkys lasted until that one bit of metal got bent. (Never had plastic - after my time.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - the wonderful wonderful tye at June 07, 2026 07:21 PM (dn9xm)

35 and any man who carries a 9mm is currently on a very high fiber diet.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 07, 2026 07:14 PM (UE9Fq)

Check out HelloFresh during Pride Month!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 07:23 PM (zZu0s)

36 Posted by: mindful webworker - the wonderful wonderful tye at June 07, 2026 07:21 PM (dn9xm)
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I heard that too, but decided to go ahead and use it. Sorry you didn't like it.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 07:23 PM (3nqLb)

37 Sincere thanks to Lord Red, and RMBS, CBD and Scube for their patience, knowledge, and for genuinely trying to help us be successful. I feel very blessed.
And yes, I now have long distance precision shooting in my blood - I think that should go into Lord Red's permanent record!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 07:21 PM

It was our great pleasure to help out. Half of the fun is helping newer shooters get better and making sure they get bitten by the bug.

Weasel, I think Grateful's gonna put a hurtin' on that 1,000 yard steel in October.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:24 PM (Wnv9h)

38 Oddbob can't disagree with you

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 07:24 PM (Ia/+0)

39 We just need to develop defense mechanisms against all of them.
Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 07:15 PM (Sy6m/)

Be honest. And blunt. That usually fucks with all of them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 07:24 PM (zZu0s)

40 If CBD is around, tell him to send me one of those oven mitts and I will sew him about 20 of them, probably better designed. Just sayin'. I have the technology.... [6 million dollar man music].

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 07, 2026 07:25 PM (bl07w)

41 I am sure that this crew is too fine and noble to run up the comment count with petty squabbling.

BTW: The 1911 is the finest handgun ever invented...

Which Moron author was it that said that he hated Glocks so much that whenever he was writing a Bad Guy With a Gun character, he always made sure to mention that it was a Glock? I don't agree with the underlying idea but I thought that was really funny.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:25 PM (vTZFs)

42 Human Duplicators with Huge Beaumont.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 07:25 PM (Cqx++)

43 Once you got the Slinky to go down the stairs a couple of times there wasn't much to do with it except see how far it would stretch.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 07:25 PM (vFG9F)

44 Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 07:13 PM (Ia/+0)

I suggest reading "Taking Back The Infantry Half-Kilometer," a 2009 paper written by Major Thomas Erhart for his School for Advanced Military Studies course. He discusses exactly the concepts the new SOCOM rifle executes. The big news is that the Army is putting the concepts discussed by Major Erhart into action.

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 07:26 PM (BCwQW)

45 "Human Duplicators with Huge Beaumont.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."

And Jaws!

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 07:26 PM (vFG9F)

46 Weasel, I think Grateful's gonna put a hurtin' on that 1,000 yard steel in October.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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How did you know that is one of my written goals? Furthered by a cousin who questioned whether I could actually achieve that.....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 07:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

47 the 30mm looks like fun.

I wonder how our electronic scoring system would read shot from it? I sort of assume the HDT would obliterate everything out to the 8 ring....

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 07:28 PM (UJMvS)

48 Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 07:13 PM (Ia/+0)

Forgot to add: Major Erhart's paper is available for free download from the Army. Just search for the title, and you should see it pop up.

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 07:28 PM (BCwQW)

49 33 Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 07:21 PM

Happy to help out. :-)

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 07, 2026 07:29 PM (g5tO/)

50 Weasel, I think Grateful's gonna put a hurtin' on that 1,000 yard steel in October.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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How did you know that is one of my written goals? Furthered by a cousin who questioned whether I could actually achieve that.....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 07:27 PM

We will make this happen.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Wnv9h)

51 32 Capable offiring 7.62 and 6.5 with only a barrel change

My prediction, which is really that hard because it's happened before*, is that each operational group will choose whichever best fits their mission and never change. The gov't will wind up spending extra for a cool-sounding capability that nobody really needs or wants.

* see the Forgotten Weapons linked here some weeks ago about the convertible Colt
Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:19 PM (vTZFs)

Isn't that the story of the LCS? Nice in theory, in practice better to have all the hulls/lowers and move those around as needed.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 07:30 PM (Sy6m/)

52 Once you got the Slinky to go down the stairs a couple of times there wasn't much to do with it except see how far it would stretch.

Remember the TV commercial* where they show somebody throwing it upwards and catching it? I'm pretty sure they showed that to generate repeat sales because every time I tried it, I got back a tangled mess of coils.

* if you do, I bet you remember at least part of the jingle too

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:30 PM (vTZFs)

53 As far as I know, no one else has made any attempt to go with caseless ammo since the end of the G11 program.
Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 07:17 PM (BCwQW)

I remember when I watched that video, I loved the bit about the fact (as you said) that you were not just ejecting the brass, but also a lot of heat with the brass. That is .... I am not sure of the right word. Like a beneficial unforseen incentive. Its brilliant (even though they did not realize it when they designed the thing.)

So the gun can be seen as eating cans of food in a car. Eat the goodies (lead and copper) then fills the cans with poop (heat) and throws the cans out the car window.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 07:31 PM (zZu0s)

54 June, four gun threads and MoMe.

Weasel, great job on the ONT.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 07:33 PM (5P5DO)

55 - I think that should go into Lord Red's permanent record!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 07:21 PM (IQ6Gq)

Now that we have that out of the way!

We did it a little differently this year and added a new first day of AR 15 and AR pattern rifle orientation. Grateful and TRex were great guinea pigs to see how it went. Future students have big shoes to fill.

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 07:33 PM (yyRth)

56 Weasel, great job on the ONT.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 07:33 PM (5P5DO)
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Aw shucks. Thank you ma'am.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 07:33 PM (3nqLb)

57 So the gun can be seen as eating cans of food in a car. Eat the goodies (lead and copper) then fills the cans with poop (heat) and throws the cans out the car window.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 07:31 PM (zZu0s)

I guess that is one way of describing a gun.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 07:35 PM (ZxzYs)

58 June, four gun threads and(2) MoMes.
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Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 07:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

59 I guess that is one way of describing a gun.
Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 07:35 PM

Toob.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:35 PM (Wnv9h)

60 Hey Idaho -
Nothing you said is incorrect or particularly controversial…

Posted by: Coelacanth at June 07, 2026 07:36 PM (vt7xw)

61 So, finally a few minutes of range time - mid distance (up to 500yds)
Bore sighting got on paper at 100, then able to work on some pretty decent shots. I'd like to try to work up to the 1K mark, but that will take time.
Oh, it's a Weatherby Vanguard (Howa 1500 Short Action) in 6.5 C with a Vortex Viper 6.5 - 20 x 50, using Federal ammo...

A real delight to shoot, and it packs a punch!

Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 07:36 PM (XuXeR)

62 Weasel and/or bluebell...is there going to be a NoVaMoMe pregame on Friday?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:37 PM (Wnv9h)

63 The 30mm Wolf thingy is cool until a drone comes by.

Posted by: yep at June 07, 2026 07:37 PM (s9TOl)

64 New addition to the TXMOME. We are going to add some archery targets.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 07:37 PM (5P5DO)

65 "Choosing the Right Target?" Really, we've run out of real problems and we're down to target-shaming?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:13 PM (vTZFs)

Yeah. Soup cans no good?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 07:38 PM (h7ZuX)

66 Good evening Horde. Thanks Weasel!

I echo everything said above about the NH MicroMiniMoMe. Great people and time well spent. Thank you.

Posted by: TRex - guinea pig dino at June 07, 2026 07:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

67 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:37 PM (Wnv9h)
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A handful of people usually show up in the late afternoon and early evening. If you're interested I'll swing by for a bit.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 07:40 PM (3nqLb)

68 Weasel, we did miss your Wind Whispering.

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 07:40 PM (wKEfX)

69 My prediction, which is really that hard because it's happened before*, is that each operational group will choose whichever best fits their mission and never change. The gov't will wind up spending extra for a cool-sounding capability that nobody really needs or wants.

* see the Forgotten Weapons linked here some weeks ago about the convertible Colt
Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:19 PM (vTZFs)

Major Erhart's paper talks about swapping upper receivers on the AR-15 style platform. Swappable upper receivers and quad 1913 rails, argues Major Erhart, give users enough flexibility to move between urban CQB scenarios to longer range DMR missions with the same weapon. The USMC equipped its Force Recon units with the Recon Weapons Kit, which provides a 10.5" barrel upper receiver with quad 1913 rails, interchangeable with the standard USMC M27 (H&K 416) rifle. The 3.5X35 ACOG can be replaced with an EOTECH red dot sight.

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 07:41 PM (BCwQW)

70 A handful of people usually show up in the late afternoon and early evening. If you're interested I'll swing by for a bit.
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 07:40 PM

Just curious. Usually we're busy Friday evening, but this year we're free.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:41 PM (Wnv9h)

71 Weasel, we did miss your Wind Whispering.
Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 07:40 PM

Truth. Hope to see you in the wilds of NH next year.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:42 PM (Wnv9h)

72 Just curious. Usually we're busy Friday evening, but this year we're free.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:41 PM (Wnv9h)
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What kind of cigars does mom smoke?

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 07:43 PM (3nqLb)

73 Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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A handful of people usually show up in the late afternoon and early evening. If you're interested I'll swing by for a bit.
Posted by: Weasel
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We'll be there too. If you come earlier in the day, we could do the USMC museum, too

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 07:43 PM (IQ6Gq)

74
*** DESPERATELY SEEKING SEEKINS ***

Rumor has it that the AR-10 is starting to show indications of being a rather poorly engineered concept [vis-a-vis its little brother, the AR-15], and that Seekins might be the only shop which can ship a quality AR-10 with a reasonable expectation of mechanical longevity & fidelity to specifications.

Does anyone here have any experience with Seekins?

Or with AR-10s [in general] falling apart & failing to preserve the specs of their initial manufacturing?

Posted by: David Ben Gurion at June 07, 2026 07:43 PM (mcvmf)

75 What kind of cigars does mom smoke?
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 07:43 PM

She generally leaves the cigar smoking to me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:43 PM (Wnv9h)

76 So, anyway, wound up sending my Leupold rifle scope back to Leupold, again. Failed a tall target test.

Aggravating, as this is the second time I've had trouble with the scope not tracking vertically. I also told Leupold the turrets are mushy. I didn't realize that was a thing until I checked on it.

Anyway, I told Leupold I want the scope replaced as this is the second time I've sent it back. I'm also a bit peeved they didn't do something about the turrets when I first sent the scope back. I may not have asked, but, still, they did rebuild the internals so, you think the guy working on it would have noticed.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 07:44 PM (UJMvS)

77 We'll be there too. If you come earlier in the day, we could do the USMC museum, too
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 07:43 PM

We usually get in around 5:00 or 6:00.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:44 PM (Wnv9h)

78 "Choosing the Right Target?" Really, we've run out of real problems and we're down to target-shaming?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:13 PM (vTZFs)

Yeah. Soup cans no good?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Piece of paper with a small circle drawn on it with a sharpy.
To cut costs you can 'borrow' the neighbors mail and a sharpy from some dude at the range.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 07:45 PM (/lPRQ)

79 She generally leaves the cigar smoking to me.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 07:43 PM (Wnv9h)
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Got it!

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 07:45 PM (3nqLb)

80 Saw an interest gadget on Friday at the range. One of the other members that showed up after we did had created a small portable fan that he used to cool down the barrel of the rifle.

He took one of those small fans that are used to fill up pool toys and the like, attached a plastic tube to the outflow on one end and drilled out a rifle casing that would fit the rifle and attached that at the other end.
The amount of air flow coming out of the end of the barrel was impressive. It definitely cooled down the barrel much much quicker than letting it cool down naturally.

Looking at making one to use with my rifle.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 07, 2026 07:46 PM (g5tO/)

81 Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 07:45 PM (/lPRQ)
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That's pretty much what I do.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 07:47 PM (3nqLb)

82 Speaking of targets, we have a doofus on the silhouette range who likes to leave their empty spray paint can on the ground by steel. They're waiting for shrapnel to hit the can so it explodes. I wouldn't mind but they explode the can then leave it. Tossing it in the trash after they're done, I guess, is too much trouble.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 07:48 PM (UJMvS)

83
Which Moron author was it that said that he hated Glocks so much that whenever he was writing a Bad Guy With a Gun character, he always made sure to mention that it was a Glock? I don't agree with the underlying idea but I thought that was really funny.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:25 PM (vTZFs)

*puts on hat*
*Pats Glock 17 on hip*

Posted by: Perry the Platypus at June 07, 2026 07:48 PM (xcxpd)

84 "Choosing the Right Target?" Really, we've run out of real problems and we're down to target-shaming?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:13 PM (vTZFs)

Yeah. Soup cans no good?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 07:38 PM (h7ZuX)

Empty, or getting use out of dented/bulging cans?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 07:51 PM (qx7Zg)

85 Looking at making one to use with my rifle.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 07, 2026 07:46 PM (g5tO/)

Yep, we definitely heated up Scoobs’ brand new Tikka.
Unlike past times, we did not have the Long Range to ourselves. But everyone synched nicely, we were able to compare notes, and we saw that new barrel cooler in action.
Everybody played nicely, especially after they learned that our group were all escaping communist hell holes.

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 07:51 PM (wKEfX)

86 Ah, Weasel, reliably providing us the finest in cheesy old SF movies.

The Human Duplicators (1964) - Remastered!!

Features Hugh Beaumont, who was a little hard on the Beaver. Also Richard "Jaws" Kiel suitably cast as the alien.

Naturally, the world is saved by Barbara Nichols, the "archetypal brassy, bosomy, Brooklynesque blonde." (IMDb) Oops, no, it wasn't her, it was the other gal.

Posted by: mindful webworker - shooting a movie at June 07, 2026 07:52 PM (dn9xm)

87 Or with AR-10s [in general] falling apart & failing to preserve the specs of their initial manufacturing?

Posted by: David Ben Gurion at June 07, 2026 07:43 PM (mcvmf)

You won't like my answer, but my choices for an AR-10 platform are H&K and Knight's Armament. The Army adopted both of these companies' offerings as the M110A1 (KAC) and M110A2 (H&K). H&K guarantees that the barrel on their MR762A4 (civilian AR-10) will shoot within 1-2 MOA for your lifetime. If it shoots 2 or more MOA from a rest, they'll replace it. Blaster zeroed a H&K MR762A4 "Assaulter" (13" barrel SBR) last week and shot overlapping holes with 4 of 5 rounds on the final adjustment at 25 yards. Both H&K and KAC are premium outfits charging premium prices for their stuff. H&K wants $4500 for the MR762A4, and KAC is in that range as well. That's without any optics, BTW.

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 07:53 PM (BCwQW)

88 Well, I went and did it. I cleaned and lubricated my 1911. I think I even got it back together correctly.

At that point, I quit while I was ahead and decided to take the rest of the weekend off.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at June 07, 2026 07:53 PM (VmDLh)

89 At that point, I quit while I was ahead and decided to take the rest of the weekend off.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at June 07, 2026 07:53 PM (VmDLh)
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Congratulations, and a well deserved break!

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 07:55 PM (3nqLb)

90 AR-10s [in general] falling apart & failing to preserve the specs of their initial manufacturing?"

Dunno. What I do know is that a .308 out of a shorter barrel is...wow.
A whole lotta bang.

Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 07:59 PM (XuXeR)

91 The 1911 is the finest handgun ever invented, people who carry appendix-style deserve to be rendered incapable of reproducing, and any man who carries a 9mm is currently on a very high fiber diet.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 07, 2026 07:14 PM (UE9Fq)

There is much wisdom in these words.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at June 07, 2026 07:59 PM (1P6bz)

92 Speaking of overly complicated firearms, have you seen the Ounce pistol? I think I'm going to get one eventually, the waitlist is like 6 months out. It's a crazy design. Doesn't look like it will be that durable, but it's cool as hell.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 07, 2026 07:59 PM (P4bJX)

93 He took one of those small fans that are used to fill up pool toys and the like, attached a plastic tube to the outflow on one end and drilled out a rifle casing that would fit the rifle and attached that at the other end.

I've seen benchrest guys do something similar with the tube but just blowing into it by mouth. Pretty much by definition, they're all "on the spectrum."

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 07:59 PM (vTZFs)

94 Once you got the Slinky to go down the stairs a couple of times there wasn't much to do with it except see how far it would stretch.
Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 07:25 PM

Well, I also used mine for antennas, but I may be a special case.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at June 07, 2026 08:00 PM (VmDLh)

95 The Human Duplicators. Yet another old film I've only seen via Mystery Science Theater. the blind brunette was a dolly.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 07, 2026 08:00 PM (0aYVJ)

96 Oh yeah, I had a senior shooter moment.

I was going through my round count notes and noticed one of my rifles was showing sufficient rounds to need a cleaning. But, I was almost certain I'd already cleaned it. And, the problem was, I'd shot the rifle since it had been cleaned, if, indeed, I'd forgotten to note date of most recent cleaning.

Sigh.

So, I cleaned, and, yep, it wasn't all that dirty, leading me to believe, yes, yes it had been cleaned. However, duly recorded, this time, in the round count log.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:00 PM (UJMvS)

97 Yep, we definitely heated up Scoobs’ brand new Tikka.
Unlike past times, we did not have the Long Range to ourselves. But everyone synched nicely, we were able to compare notes, and we saw that new barrel cooler in action.
Everybody played nicely, especially after they learned that our group were all escaping communist hell holes.
Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 07:51 PM

That was a good crowd. Lots of good discussion. It made for a good day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 08:03 PM (Wnv9h)

98 Dunno. What I do know is that a .308 out of a shorter barrel is...wow.
A whole lotta bang.
Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 07:59 PM (XuXeR)

Which is why a good flow through suppressor is mandatory when shooting an SBR'd .308.

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 08:05 PM (BCwQW)

99 my 1911"

Only one? Well, okey dokey....

Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 08:05 PM (XuXeR)

100 Does your 1911 have a name?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 08:07 PM (2GVsD)

101 my 1911"

Only one? Well, okey dokey....

I don't get it.

Posted by: Norm "my routah" Abrams at June 07, 2026 08:08 PM (vTZFs)

102 Howdy weasel!

Thank you for the gun thread!

I’ve been doing more .22 plinking lately. Both my Ruger Mark IV and the lever action Henry rifle.

I love how the fundamentals remain the same, recoil is negligible, ammo is cheap and it’s less flash and bang. I can shoot .22 all day and be happy as a bird.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 08:08 PM (Mn5g+)

103 One last comment on our get together:
In two days, Grateful went from 8” groups at 25 yards with an iron sights AR 15, to ringing steel at 860 yards with an AR 10 in .308 and a 6.5 Creedmoor. CBD got TRex ringing steel at 530 with the AR 10 - standing at a barricade. No bench shooting for him!

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:09 PM (xKYnC)

104 Nothing Ihave has a name

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 08:10 PM (Ia/+0)

105 What's the story with the 2011? Is it sort of a modernized 1911, or a completely different animal?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2026 08:10 PM (Ot/FD)

106 RI Red, that's excellent! Good job.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:11 PM (UJMvS)

107 Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:09 PM (xKYnC)
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Sounds like a productive weekend!

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:12 PM (3nqLb)

108 Nothing Ihave has a name
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 08:10 PM (Ia/+0)
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Not even your bologna?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:12 PM (UJMvS)

109 I just learned of a great cigar bar not far from the house! In Washington State??? Well, yes, on the local Indian reservation. Apparently cigar smoke in a casino will not hurt you! Who knew??? Because the communist muthas in Olympia closed all the cigar bars in the state some years ago. Apparently it was going to kill everyone! But it was part of a deal between the dems and the natives to give them a monopoly. But mostly because of the deal.
Bastards.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 08:12 PM (2WIwB)

110 Weasel, they are ready for your instruction now!

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:13 PM (wKEfX)

111 What's the story with the 2011? Is it sort of a modernized 1911, or a completely different animal?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2026 08:10 PM (Ot/FD)

It's a mostly different platform. Biggest differences are the use of double stack magazines vs. the 1911's single stack and primary chambering of 9mm vs. .45 ACP for the 1911.

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 08:13 PM (BCwQW)

112 What's the story with the 2011? Is it sort of a modernized 1911, or a completely different animal?

I don't know if it's an actual trade name but "2011" usually means a pistol that operates internally like a 1911 but uses a double-stack mag and usually a polymer frame. Strayer-Tripp debuted it some time in the mid-90s. Then that company split into Strayer-Voight and STI. I believe STI is what became Stacatto.

Posted by: Norm at June 07, 2026 08:16 PM (vTZFs)

113 /This Old Sock

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 08:17 PM (vTZFs)

114 Does your 1911 have a name?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 08:07 PM (2GVsD)

My 1911 has a first name. It's O-S-C-A-R.
My 1911 has a last name. It's G-R-O-U-C-H.
I shoot Oscar at targets when I feel like a grouch.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 08:17 PM (qx7Zg)

115 RI Red, that's excellent! Good job.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:11 PM (UJMvS)

Blake, both RMBS and Scoobs have mentioned becoming a member at my club - that would mean the guest list would expand by 4 each. We could open this up a bit more.
And if you can ever get to NH, there are 1100 yards and 50 targets waiting. Hilly terrain, hidden wind factors. And great small town dining!

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:18 PM (wKEfX)

116 Weasel, they are ready for your instruction now!
Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:13 PM (wKEfX)
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I thought you liked them!

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:19 PM (3nqLb)

117 Sounds like a productive weekend!
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:12 PM

It was, indeed. They're ready for more advanced instruction. Corsicana should be fun.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 08:19 PM (Wnv9h)

118 H/T Insty, here's yet another thing I have absolutely no need for and absolutely want.

https://tinyurl.com/mr22r568

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 08:21 PM (vTZFs)

119 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 08:19 PM (Wnv9h)
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I hear you're quite the coach. Congratulations! More work for you!

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:22 PM (3nqLb)

120 115 And great small town dining!

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:18 PM
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Live free or dine!

Posted by: TRex - belgian waffle dino at June 07, 2026 08:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

121 I thought you liked them!
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:19 PM (3nqLb)
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Okay, I have to put this out there: Without Weasel's sage advice about shooting, I wouldn't be nearly as successful at the long range game as I am. Weasel is an excellent coach and should be listened to.

Which is my roundabout way of saying, "Thank you."

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:22 PM (UJMvS)

122 I hear you're quite the coach. Congratulations! More work for you!
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:22 PM

I try. Occasionally I succeed.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 08:24 PM (Wnv9h)

123 Oh, yeah. We worked up RMBS’ dope for his new 6.5 Creedmoor, and he was nailing everything, Including a 39” x 9” fox at 1107.

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:24 PM (wKEfX)

124 RI Red, is NH suppressor friendly? Because I prefer shooting my rifles suppressed. Unless you need me to empty the range.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:25 PM (UJMvS)

125 And great small town dining!

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:18 PM
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Live free or dine!
Posted by: TRex - belgian waffle dino at June 07, 2026 08:22 PM

A most cromulent small town diner experience.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 08:26 PM (Wnv9h)

126 And great small town dining!

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:18 PM
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Live free or dine!
Posted by: TRex - belgian waffle dino at June 07, 2026 08:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Hah!

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:26 PM (UJMvS)

127 Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:22 PM (UJMvS)
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I have coached a lot of very good shooters, but all of your success is because of you. RI Red too. You guys listen to instruction, ask good questions, think about the answers, and apply what you have learned through diligent practice. Every instructor's dream student. No shit.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:26 PM (3nqLb)

128 I'm still PO'd that the owner of USFA screwed up the company and quit manufacturing those excellent SAAs. The one I managed to obtain is of better quality than the Colt SAAs made during the same time IMHO.

Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at June 07, 2026 08:27 PM (iKI7b)

129
I saw that SOCOM has started a program (HICAR) to develop a high-pressure 5 56 mm round (82,000 psi vs 62,000) and new high-pressure firearm components to increase performance of existing M4 carbines. The requirements included performance from an 11.5" barrel, which seems awfully short for a rifle. Anyway, the stated objective is to increase effective range of the M4 from 300 yards to 600.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 07, 2026 08:28 PM (HLgI3)

130 Good, if tardy, Sunday evening, gub 'ettes and 'rons, and thanks to Weasel for the forum. I spent 3+ hours doing yardwork today (not even my own yard, a family in need) and that not only removed my shootin' practice time, but plum wore me out in the process!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 07, 2026 08:29 PM (xVpNO)

131 Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 07, 2026 08:29 PM (xVpNO)
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A handful of Aleve and you'll be good as new!

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:30 PM (3nqLb)

132 Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:25 PM

Northern New England is suppressor friendly. Southern New England is asshoe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 08:31 PM (Wnv9h)

133 I thought the best cigars* were hand-rolled on the nubile thighs of young maidens, who retired after marriage?

* Horde-favorite Swisher Sweets excepted.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 08:35 PM (0sNs1)

134 I went to the Virginia Gun Collectors' Association's gun show this weekend. I saw a Colt Army Special in .38 Special with most of the finish still intact on a table for $700. I couldn't resist that price, so I picked it up. The serial number checks out to 1925. For something that's 101 years old, it still looks pretty good and still functions quite well. In fact, the turn line on the cylinder is barely visible. I'm guessing that it wasn't shot very much.

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 08:36 PM (BCwQW)

135 RI Red, is NH suppressor friendly? Because I prefer shooting my rifles suppressed. Unless you need me to empty the range.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:25 PM (UJMvS)

Abso-f’ing-lutely! This is a bastion of freedom in the North East. Constitutional Carry, Suppressors are most common.
I was hoping to put our students on my 6.5 Creed suppressed, but we ran out of time and steam.

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:36 PM (W8s7v)

136 Did anyone else notice the Hobby Thread dissing the Gun Thread this week?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)

137 Couple weeks ago watched a interesting French movie, 15 Minutes of War, based on a real hostage situation, Somalians terrorists take a bus load of French children. A force of French shooters go to solve this situation.
Watched it on Tubi sure its on other streaming video

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 08:36 PM (Ia/+0)

138 Did anyone else notice the Hobby Thread dissing the Gun Thread this week?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)
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*Gasp!*

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:37 PM (6PF3l)

139 Nothing Ihave has a name"

"Richard Roundtree"

Heh.

Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 08:38 PM (XuXeR)

140 A handful of Aleve and you'll be good as new!
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:30 PM (3nqLb)

There was a time when that was true; sadly, all the NSAIDs in the world cannot fully soothe me.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 07, 2026 08:39 PM (xVpNO)

141 Did anyone else notice the Hobby Thread dissing the Gun Thread this week?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)
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*Gasp!*
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:37 PM

The top pic on the Saturday ONT looked suspiciously like the lawn of Schloss Red.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 08:39 PM (Wnv9h)

142 Howdy!

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 07, 2026 08:40 PM (Xrd0y)

143 There was a time when that was true; sadly, all the NSAIDs in the world cannot fully soothe me.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 07, 2026 08:39 PM (xVpNO)
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Percocet?

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:41 PM (6PF3l)

144 Live free or dine!
Posted by: TRex - belgian waffle dino at June 07, 2026 08:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Hah!
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:26 PM (UJMvS)

TRex took a picture of that sign at the diner. He may also have used in an ONT a view of a pond from the lawn of Schloss Rot.

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:42 PM (xKYnC)

145 Percocet?
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:41 PM (6PF3l)
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Ah, the old, "still have allergies but no longer care" route,

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:42 PM (UJMvS)

146 Anyone here familiar with Rost Martin? Specifically the RM1C 9mm. I've read some good reviews, seen some positive videos, and my local distributer has a kit with the pistol, an optic (green dot ), 3 extra mags and a range bag for about $4xx and change.

Interested in folks who have one.

Not folks who want to pontificate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 08:42 PM (jehhT)

147 Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:42 PM (UJMvS)
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If none of that works, mango ice cream.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:43 PM (6PF3l)

148 TRex took a picture of that sign at the diner. He may also have used in an ONT a view of a pond from the lawn of Schloss Rot.
Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 08:42 PM (xKYnC)
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Wait, it's the name of a diner in NH? If so, great name. Or, great advertisement.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:43 PM (UJMvS)

149 I was hoping to put our students on my 6.5 Creed suppressed, but we ran out of time and steam.
Posted by: RI Red
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Writing this down in my notebook for next year.....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 08:44 PM (IQ6Gq)

150 I've been wanting to go shooting for a couple of weeks now, but every time I've been ready to go, the weather hasn't cooperated. I need to do some sighting in for a couple of rifles, but 20 mph wind makes this problematic.

I may have to embrace it and just go plinking, blasting at tin cans with a pistol as the wind blows them across the gravel pit.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 07, 2026 08:44 PM (UE9Fq)

151 136 Did anyone else notice the Hobby Thread dissing the Gun Thread this week?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)

No chance TRex would let that happen ...

... right?

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 07, 2026 08:44 PM (xVpNO)

152 If none of that works, mango ice cream.
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:43 PM (6PF3l)

Now there's a medication regime I can get behind!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 07, 2026 08:46 PM (xVpNO)

153 136 Did anyone else notice the Hobby Thread dissing the Gun Thread this week?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 08:36 PM
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"dissing"? No. Referencing? Yes. The content even (correctly, I think) incorporated Density Altitude and MOA!

Geez. Let's not stir up trouble (at least any more trouble than usual). That's the kind of stuff that earns marks on permanent records.

Posted by: TRex - live free or dino at June 07, 2026 08:47 PM (IQ6Gq)

154 Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 07, 2026 08:46 PM (xVpNO)
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Not Italian ice or sherbet, actual mango ice cream. You can usually find it at Indian (dot, not woo-woo) grocers.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 08:47 PM (6PF3l)

155 I saw that SOCOM has started a program (HICAR) to develop a high-pressure 5 56 mm round (82,000 psi vs 62,000) and new high-pressure firearm components to increase performance of existing M4 carbines. The requirements included performance from an 11.5" barrel, which seems awfully short for a rifle. Anyway, the stated objective is to increase effective range of the M4 from 300 yards to 600.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 07, 2026 08:28 PM (HLgI3)

The requirements you're quoting imply 1) replacement of the existing bolt and bolt carrier, 2) a significantly tougher buffer spring and denser buffer (that pressure has to get soaked up somewhere), 3) some kind of adjustable gas block (suppressor use by SOCOM is a given, especially with 11.5" barrels), and 4) advanced suppressor technology using 3D printed titanium cans. Only a few of the big boys will be able to play in this sandbox: H&K, KAC, SIG, LMT, and a couple others.

11.5" barrels are not that shot in the SOCOM world. the XM177E2 carbines used by MACV-SOG in Vietnam sixty years ago all featured 11.5" barrels. They seem longer because of the "moderator" added on the front to cut down on the muzzle flash and muzzle blast.

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 08:48 PM (BCwQW)

156 Not Italian ice or sherbet, actual mango ice cream. You can usually find it at Indian (dot, not woo-woo) grocers.
Posted by: Weasel
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OK, that made me laugh....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 08:49 PM (IQ6Gq)

157 Was thinking cross threaded with Hobby thread, but one has to admit archery hasn't come up here much.

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 08:52 PM (Ia/+0)

158 Good evening gub threaders and all the ships at sea!

There was an EOD robot with disruptor for sale on FB Marketplave and I had to remind everyone that Father's Day is coming up.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 07, 2026 08:55 PM (NlEaG)

159 Well, time to wander. Later!

Thanks again, weasel!

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 07, 2026 08:56 PM (UJMvS)

160 I started wathing ground school video for pilot training (because I do not have enough expensive hobbies) and they talked about Density Altitude and how it was a complex topic and I am all "heard about it!"

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 07, 2026 08:56 PM (NlEaG)

161 Cosmolene is apparently not the storage medium of choice for gubs now. The new hotness is VCI?

I guess that's better than wiping all the gunk off.

Florida is humid. Plans for blaster acres are gelling.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 07, 2026 08:59 PM (NlEaG)

162 Indian (dot, not woo-woo) grocers.
Posted by: Weasel
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OK, that made me laugh....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 08:49 PM (IQ6Gq)

Same here, ma'am.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 07, 2026 08:59 PM (xVpNO)

163 I started wathing ground school video for pilot training (because I do not have enough expensive hobbies) and they talked about Density Altitude and how it was a complex topic and I am all "heard about it!"
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 07, 2026 08:56 PM

Just remember. Density altitude is an altitude. As the altitude goes up, the air gets thinner and the airplane performs less well. So, high density altitude is less performance because high altitude is less performance.

Could be important.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at June 07, 2026 09:00 PM (VmDLh)

164 Time for me to punch out. Thanks for another great Gub Thread, Weasel.

See y'all in the Morning Report.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 09:05 PM (Wnv9h)

165 Guns!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 07, 2026 09:05 PM (xcxpd)

166 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 09:05 PM (Wnv9h)
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Adios, amigo. See you soon.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:05 PM (6PF3l)

167 "dissing"? No. Referencing? Yes.
Posted by: TRex - live free or dino at June 07, 2026 08:47 PM

What about the phrase "and no movies about the wonders of ball bearings." ???

Ball bearings are our pal. So it's hard to avoid the diss that the movies about our pals that Weasel spends uncounted hours finding for our elucidation and delectation aren't appreciated.

* patriotic background music begins to play*

Well, I, for one, appreciate them! As do all chiroptophiles and Spheniscidaephobes who support Truth, Justice, and the American Way!

Don't be a H8er and diss Our Pals!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 09:08 PM (0sNs1)

168 Just remember. Density altitude is an altitude. As the altitude goes up, the air gets thinner and the airplane performs less well. So, high density altitude is less performance because high altitude is less performance.
Could be important.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at June 07, 2026 09:00 PM (VmDLh)

Excellent point as to aircraft (especially rotary wing trying to beat the air into submission).
HOWEVER, for bullet performance, it’s the opposite. The thinner the air (higher DA), the faster the bullet flies.
A silver lining, so to speak.

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 09:09 PM (Nnk6l)

169 Anyone look at the timber felling vid? Believe it or not, in a previous life I was a certified tree cutter-upper on federal land.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:09 PM (6PF3l)

170 169 Anyone look at the timber felling vid? Believe it or not, in a previous life I was a certified tree cutter-upper on federal land.
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:09 PM (6PF3l)

I did watch it. Dude's arms are amazing. That is hard-ass work right there.

We need to half-clear about an acre this summer, but those are tiny little birch trees with a few scrubby spruce. Nothing like in that video.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 07, 2026 09:11 PM (bl07w)

171 Anyone look at the timber felling vid? Believe it or not, in a previous life I was a certified tree cutter-upper on federal land.
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:09 PM

Federal lands don't have the organic free-range trees that you're currently wrangling though, correct?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 09:11 PM (0sNs1)

172 blaster acres is covered with trees. I am going to have to be a tree feller too. Though more like bulldozing and timber mulching.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 07, 2026 09:11 PM (NlEaG)

173 HOWEVER, for bullet performance, it’s the opposite. The thinner the air (higher DA), the faster the bullet flies.
A silver lining, so to speak.
Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 09:09 PM (Nnk6l)

DH discovered this fact when golfing in Wyo.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 07, 2026 09:12 PM (bl07w)

174 Hi pressure rounds probably are a bad idea. Eventually we might get true HPV rounds that are only a few grains of tungsten but truck along at 6k FPS.....but today is not that day.

These are going to be expensive rounds that burn out guns in a hurry.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 07, 2026 09:12 PM (xcxpd)

175 Don't be a H8er and diss Our Pals!
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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One thinks you are reaching far to come to that conclusion. There was no intent for your conclusion. And there won't be, both sports can exist at the same time.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 09:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

176 Time to pack it in.
Weasel, I don’t know if it’s part of a master plan, but the seeds you have planted around the country regarding long range shooting, have sprouted well. A bunch of people on this site owe you big time.
Me, fer sher!

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 09:15 PM (Nnk6l)

177 Federal lands don't have the organic free-range trees that you're currently wrangling though, correct?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 09:11 PM (0sNs1)
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Nah. All non-organic. Full of GMOs too!

Logging is very hard and verrrry dangerous work.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:16 PM (6PF3l)

178 I hope I linked my email correctly in my sig.

I need to offload some firearms to keep a roof over my head.
I have a M-1 from CMP, and a Python. Nothing else I own is worth much. If anyone is interested, shoot me an email and we can talk. Otherwise I'll head to the pawn shop/gun store this coming week.

Posted by: GWB at June 07, 2026 09:16 PM (cKPoE)

179 Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 09:15 PM (Nnk6l)
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Thank you, grasshopper. My pleasure and privilege!

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:17 PM (6PF3l)

180 Believe it or not, in a previous life I was a certified tree cutter-upper on federal land.
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:09 PM (6PF3l)

He's a lumberjack and he's ok,
He sleeps all night and he works all day!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 09:17 PM (zZu0s)

181 No work tomorrow. But better get to bed
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 09:17 PM (Ia/+0)

182 Hi pressure rounds probably are a bad idea. Eventually we might get true HPV rounds that are only a few grains of tungsten but truck along at 6k FPS.....but today is not that day.

These are going to be expensive rounds that burn out guns in a hurry.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 07, 2026 09:12 PM (xcxpd)

If you buy guns and their spares in bulk like Uncle Sugar, replacement costs aren't as much of a concern as they are for the rest of us.

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 09:18 PM (BCwQW)

183 He cuts down trees. He eats his lunch.
He goes to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays he goes shoppin'
And has buttered scones for tea.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 09:18 PM (zZu0s)

184 He cuts down trees. He skips and jumps.
He likes to press wild flowers.
He puts on women's clothing
And hangs around in bars?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 09:19 PM (zZu0s)

185 OK, 9:20pm thank you time!

Thank you!!

Sure do appreciate all y'all being here and being my pals. Means a lot to me. Hope to see you next Sunday!

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:20 PM (6PF3l)

186 178 I hope I linked my email correctly in my sig.

I need to offload some firearms to keep a roof over my head.
I have a M-1 from CMP, and a Python. Nothing else I own is worth much. If anyone is interested, shoot me an email and we can talk. Otherwise I'll head to the pawn shop/gun store this coming week.
Posted by: GWB at June 07, 2026 09:16 PM (cKPoE)

So sorry to hear that man.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 07, 2026 09:20 PM (xcxpd)

187 Logging is for tough SOBs. DH's grandpa, who was at Iwo Jima among other places, was cutting trees on his farm, dropped one on himself, broke all his ribs on one side, dragged his ass to his truck and drove himself to the hospital. F----king hell.

He was also, apparently, a complete ass. But one tough one. After Iwo Jima, I guess he got a pass.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 07, 2026 09:21 PM (bl07w)

188 Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 09:15 PM (Nnk6l)
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Thank you, grasshopper. My pleasure and privilege!
Posted by: Weasel
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I will forever be grateful to both of you.....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 09:23 PM (IQ6Gq)

189 For those interested in shooting after the Virginia MoMe we are thinking maybe of changing the venue - you can all become Apex members here:

http://alturl.com/e88y7

(I keed, I keed)

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 07, 2026 09:23 PM (NlEaG)

190 Thanks for hosting, Weasel!

Posted by: Ed L at June 07, 2026 09:24 PM (BCwQW)

191 Haven’t been to the range in a while, but loaded up some 308 rounds this weekend with 175 SMKs, trying to reverse engineer Federal Gold Medal rounds for the RPR. It liked IMR 3031 with 168s better than IMR 4064 or H4895.

Just wrapping up smoking a Tabacos Baez serie SF. Pretty good cigar, nice even burn and easy draw.

Posted by: Arch Stanton at June 07, 2026 09:25 PM (TVkKh)

192 174 Hi pressure rounds probably are a bad idea. Eventually we might get true HPV rounds that are only a few grains of tungsten but truck along at 6k FPS.....but today is not that day.

These are going to be expensive rounds that burn out guns in a hurry.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Yep. Same thing with short barrelled AR-10's. Basically each cartridge is optimized for certain pressures, recoil, burning rate for powder, projectile, (gas rifles--a certain dwell time and pressure curve )etc.

Once you start monkeying with one variable, then suddenly you start buggering up other variables which makes it damn hard to figure out what the causal relationship and path dependence is with other variables.

Shorter barrels, higher blast when you have a cartridge designed around longer barrels and/or greater dwell time. Want to do that sort of thing---go to a switch barrel bolt action which is manageable. Semi auto or full auto simply is asking for endless headaches. Same reason an A-10 is still around--it excels at certain tasks that the rest of our fighters can't do effectively.

Brute force engineering is almost always a kludge and not optimal.

Posted by: whig at June 07, 2026 09:26 PM (E4rtv)

193 Believe it or not, in a previous life I was a certified tree cutter-upper on federal land.
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:09 PM (6PF3l)

My roommate in college set chokers one summer for employment. Said it was the worst job ever.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 09:27 PM (2WIwB)

194 Just wrapping up smoking a Tabacos Baez serie SF. Pretty good cigar, nice even burn and easy draw.
Posted by: Arch Stanton at June 07, 2026 09:25 PM (TVkKh)
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I was sorting through my cigar deep storage and found a half box of Cain Maduros. I'd forgotten how much I like them!

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:27 PM (6PF3l)

195 Nothing else I own is worth much. If anyone is interested, shoot me an email and we can talk. Otherwise I'll head to the pawn shop/gun store this coming week.
Posted by: GWB
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If you need the most bang per buck, consider raffling them here perhaps--dunno about the mechanics of it. Kim DuToit did a couple of his firearms or perhaps Jim's that way recently. I think it was Jim's to benefit his widow. Raised quite a bit.

Posted by: whig at June 07, 2026 09:28 PM (E4rtv)

196 Yep. Same thing with short barrelled AR-10's. Basically each cartridge is optimized for certain pressures, recoil, burning rate for powder, projectile, (gas rifles--a certain dwell time and pressure curve )etc.

Once you start monkeying with one variable, then suddenly you start buggering up other variables which makes it damn hard to figure out what the causal relationship and path dependence is with other variables.

Shorter barrels, higher blast when you have a cartridge designed around longer barrels and/or greater dwell time. Want to do that sort of thing---go to a switch barrel bolt action which is manageable. Semi auto or full auto simply is asking for endless headaches. Same reason an A-10 is still around--it excels at certain tasks that the rest of our fighters can't do effectively.
Brute force engineering is almost always a kludge and not optimal.
Posted by: whig
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Wow, for the first time, I fully followed all of that reasoning....add that to RI Red's permanent record!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 09:29 PM (IQ6Gq)

197 My roommate in college set chokers one summer for employment. Said it was the worst job ever.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 09:27 PM (2WIwB)
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I used to do a lot of volunteer trail work in National Parks, and to use a chain saw you had to be certified as a logger. It's really no joke, especially felling trees. There are a zillion ways to kill or maim yourself. And I was doing it for FREE.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:30 PM (6PF3l)

198 What Ed L. said,

Ditto on thanks Weasel.

Just got in from a long 8 hour trip back home from checking in on my mother in memory care and dealing with some of her issues coming back from hip surgery.

First long car trip since well before my back surgery. Tomorrow, more spinal injections but lumbar instead of my cervical. Phy Assistant gave me an intramuscular shot that quelled back spasms enough to make the trip. That plus Salonpas pain patches.

Posted by: whig at June 07, 2026 09:32 PM (E4rtv)

199 Wow, for the first time, I fully followed all of that reasoning....add that to RI Red's permanent record!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 09:29 PM (IQ6Gq)

Ha!

Posted by: RI Red at June 07, 2026 09:32 PM (qW5d6)

200 Wow, for the first time, I fully followed all of that reasoning....add that to RI Red's permanent record!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 09:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
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You've been infected.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:34 PM (6PF3l)

201 I used to do a lot of volunteer trail work in National Parks, and to use a chain saw you had to be certified as a logger. It's really no joke, especially felling trees. There are a zillion ways to kill or maim yourself. And I was doing it for FREE.
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:30 PM (6PF3l)

Heh.
A buddy of mine is doing that now and I told him he's too old to be slinging a chains around. He agrees and lets the younger guys do it. No idea if they are certified. Probably I imagine.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 09:34 PM (2WIwB)

202 GWB
Email sent.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 09:36 PM (2WIwB)

203 OK, 9:20pm thank you time!

Thanks, Weasel. And good night to good li'l Morons everywhere.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 09:36 PM (vTZFs)

204 Wow, for the first time, I fully followed all of that reasoning....add that to RI Red's permanent record!
Posted by: The Grateful

If you like reading for technical education, picking up Richard Lee's Reloading Manual is a great way to start. Cheap enough (well under 20 bucks the last time I checked even for hardbound) but Richard Lee, because he was addressing to beginning reloaders how cartridges are made, pressure curves, bullets, brass, etc. , it gives any shooter excellent information about cartridges, primers, etc. for both safety reasons to be able to check their own ammo, and for understanding how bullet cartridges work.

Nice thing is that Lee's Reloading Manual can be picked up read a couple of things, and then put down, then picked up again when you understand a bit more, and so on. Some others are good but often at a higher level like Lyman manuals include a lot of cartridge history which matters for a few but not necessarily for how to understand workings of cartridges when fired.

Posted by: whig at June 07, 2026 09:37 PM (E4rtv)

205 Heh.
A buddy of mine is doing that now and I told him he's too old to be slinging a chains around. He agrees and lets the younger guys do it. No idea if they are certified. Probably I imagine.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 09:34 PM (2WIwB)
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It's fun and the camaraderie is great, but it's extremely difficult work. Learned a ton over the years about digging holes and tree work and using rigging equipment to move boulders and dry-laid stone work.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:38 PM (6PF3l)

206 On AR-10's, an 18 inch barrel is sufficient enough for a rifle length gas system which makes them operate far smoother than 16 inch or worse below in a 7.62x51 Second, there are two different patterns out there--the original Armalite pattern which is about dead, and the second was DPMS pattern in either low or high receiver. PSA did its own little special twist on the DPMS version (cannot remember whether it is high or low) but that mainly affects handguard choice and perhaps gas system components like adjustable gas blocks.

And then there is tolerance creep any time you are putting components from different manufacturers together and the AR-10, unlike the M-16/AR-15 never truly had a full tech documentation of manufacturing specifications. The Army insists, rightfully so, on those specs and mfg info for any Army issued firearm so that they can subcontract parts or the whole rifle if needed for wartime.

Posted by: whig at June 07, 2026 09:43 PM (E4rtv)

207 Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 09:36 PM (vTZFs)
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Nite Ob!

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:44 PM (6PF3l)

208 Thanks Whig, will look into that this week.
and yes Weasel, I am infected....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 07, 2026 09:45 PM (IQ6Gq)

209 GWB.
First email kicked back.
Second one on the way.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 09:50 PM (2WIwB)

210 208 Thanks Whig, will look into that this week.
and yes Weasel, I am infected....
Posted by: The Grateful

Richard Lee was a talented inventer of most of Lee's products for reloaders and he has the knack of explaining things at the surface but repeats the information so rereading it can give deeper insight.

Reading about his lead bullet adventures is a hoot and his son worked with him on that project as teenager. He also discusses black powder a bit, bullet design, primer information, and so on.

RIchard's son now owns and runs Lee Precision and sadly his father passed away about ten years ago.

Posted by: whig at June 07, 2026 09:50 PM (E4rtv)

211 Breaking
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
BREAKING:

Iran has launched a number of ballistic missiles at northern Israel.

Expect Israeli airstrikes against Iran in the coming hours…

Posted by: whig at June 07, 2026 09:51 PM (E4rtv)

212 I Loved the Slinky as a kid.
The perpetual motion down a staircase was awesome, and actually worked, just like on the commercials.
But! I learned a lifelong lesson playing with them. Slinky’s are MORTAL ENEMIES OF ONE ANOTHER!
Do not introduce any one Slinky to another. They will fight, and everyone loses. Especially the Slinky(s)’ owner!

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 07, 2026 09:51 PM (HZfH/)

213 Posted by: Gunslinger at June 07, 2026 09:51 PM (HZfH/)
----
Hey amigo - I mentioned Cain Maduros earlier. Are you familiar with them?

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:53 PM (6PF3l)

214 >>>Believe it or not, in a previous life I was a certified tree cutter-upper on federal land.
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 09:09 PM (6PF3l)

My roommate in college set chokers one summer for employment. Said it was the worst job ever.

Posted by: Diogenes

>In a previous life, I worked with a group of loggers and I drove the skidder. Not a modern day skidder, but a beast. Also trucked those logs off of the mountian down to the mill. Very dangerous work.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 09:53 PM (pSkMS)

215 I need to offload some firearms to keep a roof over my head.
I have a M-1 from CMP, and a Python. Nothing else I own is worth much. If anyone is interested, shoot me an email and we can talk. Otherwise I'll head to the pawn shop/gun store this coming week.
Posted by: GWB

At a local gun show a guy brought in a M-1. He started getting offers before he even got in the door. Good offers? Don't know, but quite a bit of interest.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 09:55 PM (/lPRQ)

216 Boy, some of these cheesy old SF movies have clunker endings. It's like, the budget is used up, end it here.

Posted by: mindful webworker - critically ordinary at June 07, 2026 09:58 PM (dn9xm)

217 It's official.

Decision Desk HQ
@DecisionDeskHQ
Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 09:58 PM (ndZc7)

218 “The 1911 is the finest handgun ever invented, people who carry appendix-style deserve to be rendered incapable of reproducing, and any man who carries a 9mm is currently on a very high fiber diet.”

There is a whole lot of truth going on here. But…
Since I do not have “love handles”, but but “love railings”, Apex carry is not within my possibilities…
So, the 5 o’clock position is my result.

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 07, 2026 09:58 PM (HZfH/)

219 I Loved the Slinky as a kid.
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 07, 2026 09:51 PM (HZfH/)

Some people are a lot like Slinky's. They really don't do much and aren't terribly useful, but you can't help but smile when you push them down the stairs.

Posted by: GWB at June 07, 2026 09:59 PM (kU0PQ)

220 And thanks to those who emailed.

Posted by: GWB at June 07, 2026 09:59 PM (kU0PQ)

221 Good luck GWB.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 10:00 PM (6PF3l)

222 It suddenly occurs to me, after my delightful Sunday afternoon nap, that I should tell the gun thread what I learned.

So. I did some cursory research on chamberings favored in the grim lands of our conquered forebears, and while English cops don't normally carry, what guns they have in their HQ are all the familiar NATO ones: 9mm handguns, 5.56mm carbines, 7.56mm sniper rifles (really?), and 12-gauge shotguns (nice Imperial there).

The point of this exercise was to find out what kind of ammo might be readily available at gunpoint, if we were to airdrop crates of Liberty Starter Kits with just a single case of Freedom Seeds per Pew Pew. AI refused, unsurprisingly, to tell me what kind of guns were in mosque armories; the closest I could get was that the firearms most commonly captured being smuggled were AK-47s, and the ones most commonly confiscated off being carried by criminals were 9mm pistols.

Other commenters have pointed out that our kin across the pond don't have any practice or experience with guns. So, with cops and criminals alike settling on 9mm, and with discomfort and unfamiliarity being an issue, I think Pistol-Caliber Carbines are the way to go.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 10:04 PM (Sy6m/)

223 Hey Weasel-San.
I actually can’t say I’m familiar with the Cain brand.
Not opposed to Maduros, per se, and have smoked many, but not my first choice.
But…I actually thought of you today, as I was smoking a Diesel 6X60. In fact, it was a maduro…
It’s an investment in time.
And then, I had a CAO Brazilia.
Which I know you like…
Car maintenance day, so stogies were mandatory. As if there was a time when they aren’t. lol.

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 07, 2026 10:07 PM (HZfH/)

224 The odds of what happened in the mayor's race are so low that you would not expect them to happen once in the history of mankind

Posted by: 18-1 at June 07, 2026 10:13 PM (sKqQm)

225 I misspoke. I mean 7.62x51mm sniper rifles, which is a (really?) because that's a relatively light cartridge suitable for battle rifles. Indeed, the .30-06 Springfield (or 7.62x63mm), "the cartridge that won two World Wars," was a battle rifle chambering in its day, with even water-cooled BARs. So if you're going to make a 30-caliber sniper rifle, at least go x63mm for goodness' sake.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 10:13 PM (Sy6m/)

226 Oh, there's an ONT. Oops.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 10:18 PM (Sy6m/)

227 Alas, I can't make the meetup this year. I already have two events booked for that day. I can't make a third happen.

Posted by: Semper Why at June 07, 2026 10:39 PM (NKi1g)

Food Thread: Brisket, Patty Melts, And Other Fine Foods

Pastrami is the quintessential Jewish deli meat, and when done well can be delicious. It can also be too lean, dried out, and very disappointing! Too many delis around here overcook the pastrami and dry it out, and even worse, buy into the hysterical diet insanity that fat is bad, and sell lean meat that is devoid of flavor.

Of course pastrami is nothing more than smoked and spiced corned beef, and corned beef is nothing more than salted brisket! And do we know where a lot of good brisket is made using a very different technique? Why yes...we do!

Texas!

But Unlike pastrami, Texas brisket is almost always smoked with a simple preparation of salt and black pepper. That is not a bad thing, and in fact, a good Texas smoked brisket is one of the glories of the food world.

So what happens when you combine the two? Magic. Magic is what happens!

A friend was kind enough to bring a brisket from a place in Austin for a small gathering. And when I say "a place in Austin," I mean a pizza joint. This is where the fabric of the universe is torn, and the strong forces start doing strange things!

This unassuming pizza place (called "Pieous") makes absolutely spectacular pastrami, that is really a blend of the best of Jewish deli pastrami and Texas brisket. I hesitate to describe it further because I have never had anything like it, and it is better than either of its progenitors! It has the smoke of Texas, the interesting spiciness of the deli, but it blends them perfectly into something unique.

It reminds me of a place in Northern Maryland...also a pizza joint...that makes the best crab cakes I have ever had. The pizza is crap, but damn, the crab is amazing.

Anyway, if Austin weren't terminally weird and leftist, this pastrami would be a damned good reason to move there!

******

I live in New Jersey...the land of the diner. Well, to be accurate, the land of a certain kind of diner that does lots of things adequately, but very little is done well.

But there are other diners to be had, and one in particular has piqued my interest. It is the quintessential New England coffee shop/breakfast joint/lunch joint, and it does what it does with very little regard for anything other than good food and pleasant company. Everyone who works there is friendly in that particular New England way, but that friendliness is made easier by a kitchen that keeps it simple and tasty. Oh, the coffee is good and hot.

But the best part on my last visit was the waitress and her earrings!

Well, the patty melt was excellent too. And cooked to medium-rare, which shocked me!

******
Ina Garten's Outrageous Brownies are as advertised. They are indeed outrageous, and in a good way! Absolutely delicious, and worth a try, especially if your dessert taste favors less sweet options. These are very chocolaty without being sweet. Fantastic, even though the recipe is a typical Garten one...a few too many steps and a few too many bowls!
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Thick cut fries twice-cooked in duck fat. It does not get better than that.

Duck fat adds a rich deliciousness that is absolutely a game-changer if you are a fry aficionado, and the thick cut gives enough surface area for the potato to soak up that flavor. Cooking them twice (the first cook is lower temp) is essential because of that thick cut, otherwise the outside would burn before the inside got cooked.

Yes, I ate that pastrami AND those fries on the same weekend. And yes, I need to go clothes shopping for some elastic-waisted pants.

******

Peking Duck is a great dish, and can be had in the United States with a little luck that the Chinese joint that is making it has not succumbed to the all-too-common failing that Americans don't know good Chinese food, so just mail it in!

But that platter is from a restaurant in Hong Kong, and no, sadly I was not at the table! It sure does look good though, and the report is that it was delicious.

And stupidly expensive. Thank God for expense accounts!

******

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The garlic is doing well! For now. It was 42 degrees this morning, and I am unsure how well garlic will tolerate that. I know all of you are worried, but it is still tall and green and healthy! And if they survive the deer and squirrel apocalypse, and actually grow into something edible, I will be in garlic heaven! In case it doesn't, send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.

Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!

Posted by: CBD at 04:00 PM

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1 Food

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 04:01 PM (qEb4U)

2 I wouldn't put pineapple on a pizza if I was starving to death

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 04:03 PM (qEb4U)

3 Think I'll do breakfast for dinner tonight. Scrambled eggs with cheese, bacon and some rye bread toast. A slice of cantaloupe too.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 04:04 PM (lJ0H4)

4 OK, now I really need to know how they made that pastrami. I mean REALLY need to know.

It might justify me actually getting a good grill. (When I have money again.)

Posted by: GWB at June 07, 2026 04:06 PM (kU0PQ)

5 I figured out the issue with the poor crumb of my breads was due to not enough water to make steam.
Is twice cooked fires how charcoal is made?

Posted by: Accomack at June 07, 2026 04:06 PM (wkU1F)

6 There is enough salt on those fries to kill 10,000 people.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 04:07 PM (0N4FZ)

7 A friend was kind enough to bring a brisket from a place in Austin for a small gathering. And when I say "a place in Austin," I mean a pizza joint. This is where the fabric of the universe is torn, and the strong forces start doing strange things!

I expected Franklin's. I rather doubt that Franklin's makes pizza.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 04:07 PM (Riz8t)

8 So I have a problem.

I bought a set of Gren Pans in 2006. I paid good money for them. I had to actually throw away the two frying pans because they worked like Velcro.

Is 20 years for a non stick pan too much to ask?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 04:08 PM (aRyyL)

9 OK, now I really need to know how they made that pastrami. I mean REALLY need to know.

Yeah, I'm thinking about two briskets in the smoker; one for, you know, brisket, and one for pastrami.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 04:08 PM (Riz8t)

10 *Green Pans*

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 04:08 PM (aRyyL)

11 Yeah, I'm thinking about two briskets in the smoker; one for, you know, brisket, and one for pastrami.

Or is that redundant? What are the spices in pastrami?

A classic pastrami rub is a robust, intensely aromatic blend that features coarsely cracked black peppercorns and crushed coriander seeds as its heavy hitters. These are rounded out with garlic, onion, paprika, mustard, and a touch of brown sugar to create the famous deli bark

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

12 Fat is flavor.

Posted by: Your grandmother at June 07, 2026 04:09 PM (CJnkZ)

13 Is 20 years for a non stick pan too much to ask?

Why yes. Yes it is. Unless you're talking about carbon steel.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

14 Good afternoon, horde!

Had a mostly successful day in the kitchen.

First canning of the year: I canned the tart cherries that I picked last weekend. I decided on simple preserves. Once it all cooked down, I got three half-pint jars. That is all. But it's a very small tree--more of a bush, really, so it's all that can really be expected. Dad's gonna love it, though!

And, I have made a break-through with my sourdough. I reduced the hydration a tiny bit, and have learned/understand how to form the loaf to give it more structure, and this time it held its shape and rose! So much that the lid of my little dutch oven actually interfered, so we'll go with no lid next time.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 04:09 PM (h7ZuX)

15 On my walk, I popped in to Target, and they had 6 1lb packs of Laura's 92% ground beef for $4.76/lb. Spouse grabbed 4 of the 6 packs (we were walking home and had 2 bags and needed bread...so we were nice), and I changed tonight's dinner menu.

With low fat ground beef, I like to make sloppy joes and tacos. Since I was planning chipotle chicken tacos, I just moved that to tomorrow, and I'm doing sloppy joes tonight with air fried garlic potatoes, a red leaf baby spinach and carrot salad (both using my leftover homemade BBQ aoili) and watermelon and cherries.

If great ground beef is under $5/lb, it's a must buy. So I did. Hopefully, it naturally gets cheaper the next few months.

I bought Safeway's $3.79/lb single pack 80-20 ground beef earlier this weekend - that's gonna probably be meatloaf or meatballs (aka, the types of things that need the fat, or they dry out)...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 07, 2026 04:10 PM (tOcjL)

16 I do like pastrami, and that pastrami looks good.
But tonight, a simple steak sandwich. That's also good.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 07, 2026 04:10 PM (sl73Y)

17 Where da Nobel peace prize at?

Posted by: Clevon Little at June 07, 2026 04:10 PM (sRz+x)

18 And, those fries are a potato-lover's dream. They look amazing!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 04:10 PM (h7ZuX)

19 6 There is enough salt on those fries to kill 10,000 people.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 04:07 PM (0N4FZ)

One issue is it's not mixed in...it's just dumped on top. It would seem way more appropriate if they got tossed more...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 07, 2026 04:11 PM (tOcjL)

20 6 There is enough salt on those fries to kill 10,000 people.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 04:07 PM (0N4FZ)

Only one of them. The rest are perfect.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 04:11 PM (h7ZuX)

21 3 Think I'll do breakfast for dinner tonight. Scrambled eggs with cheese, bacon and some rye bread toast. A slice of cantaloupe too.
Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 04:04 PM (lJ0H4)

Love eggs, bacon, toast...simple and perfect...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 07, 2026 04:11 PM (tOcjL)

22 Wow, I want some of that Pieous Pastrami right now!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 04:11 PM (3mtTi)

23 So I have a problem.

I bought a set of Gren Pans in 2006. I paid good money for them. I had to actually throw away the two frying pans because they worked like Velcro.

Is 20 years for a non stick pan too much to ask?
Posted by: nurse ratched

That's why I usually buy the cheap grocery store non stick pans. I figure if they last a year or two I've gotten my money's worth.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 04:12 PM (lJ0H4)

24 That's why I usually buy the cheap grocery store non stick pans. I figure if they last a year or two I've gotten my money's worth.

How much Teflon pyrolysis product do you reckon you ingest that way?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 04:13 PM (Riz8t)

25 We had our church luncheon today. One of the things which I particularly enjoyed was the lattice type rhubarb pie made by one of the ladies. I'm
an o.k. cook, but baking from scratch was something I never got into.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 04:13 PM (7RYym)

26 That's why I usually buy the cheap grocery store non stick pans. I figure if they last a year or two I've gotten my money's worth.
Posted by: Tuna

Unfortunately, the cheap “Teflon” coatings are a known carcinogen. And not just in California. Plus, the coating flakes off in your food after a few high heat uses.

I like the ceramic coating on the green pans. My
Youngest told me to get hexclad. Anyone have experience with them? They are expensive.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 04:15 PM (aRyyL)

27 *adds Pieous to list of places to go next trip to Austin*

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 04:16 PM (2WIwB)

28 We had our church luncheon today. One of the things which I particularly enjoyed was the lattice type rhubarb pie made by one of the ladies. I'm
an o.k. cook, but baking from scratch was something I never got into.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

My mom made the best strawberry rhubarb pie. From scratch all the way. Like you, I'm not much of a baker so I've never been able to replicate it.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 04:16 PM (lJ0H4)

29 Kitchen efforts complete.
Blueberry-lemon scones coming up!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 04:17 PM (2WIwB)

30 I made some dead-easy pastry from Jacques Pépin’s mother last week.

6 oz flour
1 egg, beaten
3 tbsp butter, softened
3 tbsp lard
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp hot milk

Stir together flour, egg, butter, lard, sugar, and baking powder until it starts to combine. Add the hot milk and stir just until well-mixed.

Press into a 9-inch pie plate or tart pan, using a little extra flour on your fingers to spread over the bottom and sides of pan. To pre-bake, bake for about ten to twenty minutes at 425° until golden brown.

This is from his book The Apprentice:My Life in the Kitchen, which I heartily recommend. (I was traveling this weekend, and must have left the hotel just as the Book Thread was starting this morning. Probably a good thing, as I can easily go on for book-length about books and food!)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 07, 2026 04:17 PM (kYmoU)

31 But tonight, a simple steak sandwich. That's also good.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 07, 2026 04:10 PM (sl73Y)

Hell yes! But a steak sandwich isn't simple to make. What kind d of bread...what kind of steak...how to slice the steak...what condiments if any...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:18 PM (iERP6)

32 I use cast iron, myself, but Mr. Dmlw! likes a lighter non-stick pan. The last one we got is an All-Clad, not sure what the non-stick finish is. Got it for about $25 at Marshall's, and that was about 4 years ago, and it's still unmarred.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 04:18 PM (h7ZuX)

33 How much Teflon pyrolysis product do you reckon you ingest that way?
Posted by: Archimedes

Not much as I'm still ticking at 76.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 04:20 PM (lJ0H4)

34 The gaming convention I was at this weekend makes sure to get food trucks in. One was “Egg Stand”, mostly sandwiches. Yesterday for lunch I had their Steak and Egg It, with thinly sliced sirloin, provolone cheese, caramelized onions, banana peppers, jalapeños, fried egg, chipotle ketchup, on a brioche bun

It was good.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 07, 2026 04:20 PM (kYmoU)

35 Yeah...that's a great diner. And those earrings were
*chef's kiss*.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 04:20 PM (Wnv9h)

36 I tend to be higher on the hematocrit, so extra iron isn’t good for me. And cooking in iron is great for all you anemic ladies. Not so good if you already have too much.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 04:21 PM (GQ1ui)

37 "A friend was kind enough to bring a brisket from a place in Austin for a small gathering. And when I say 'a place in Austin,' I mean a pizza joint."

I read that and said, "Oh, Pieous!"

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 07, 2026 04:22 PM (TrISa)

38 I use cast iron, myself, but Mr. Dmlw! likes a lighter non-stick pan. The last one we got is an All-Clad, not sure what the non-stick finish is.

If they're the ones I have, it's basically a glass.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t)

39 I did a favor for my friends (Snowflake's owners) and scored supper!

Salad, corn on the cob, baked potato, fried chicken and that may be fish. Cool!

Oh, and the dollar store had a box of Whoppers - chocolate covered malt balls and bags of the marshmallow bananas. I haven't had those in forever but very good.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 04:22 PM (Sco7b)

40 Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 04:21 PM (GQ1ui)

Leeches!

That's what you need!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:22 PM (iERP6)

41 Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 04:16 PM

It's nice to have those memories of great food our loved ones made for us in the past, even if we can't exactly replicate it. My husband liked his mother's creamed tuna.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 04:23 PM (7RYym)

42 Leeches!

That's what you need!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:22 PM

"I had no idea you were a medical man, sir."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 04:24 PM (Wnv9h)

43 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 07, 2026 04:20 PM (kYmoU)

That sounds delicious

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 04:24 PM (lQ+/f)

44 And cooking in iron is great for all you anemic ladies. Not so good if you already have too much.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 04:21 PM (GQ1ui)

Ah, exactly. I tend low, so it's beneficial for me.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 04:25 PM (h7ZuX)

45 Pieous is actually in Dripping Springs which is just west of SW Austin. They have great salad and the pizza is pretty good as long as you eat it there right out of the oven. They house make the mozzarella and mustard. The other thing they do is beautiful pastries like croissants and cheesecake.
But, yes, the pastrami is the star IMHO.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 07, 2026 04:26 PM (VCgbV)

46 CBD, I have duck fat and a cooker. What temp was the first fry?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 04:26 PM (5P5DO)

47 I made California Roll-style tacos earlier this week using frozen avocado instead of fresh and everything-bagel sprinkles instead of expensive seeds. Very good.

I have one Green Pan left, a milk pan with an edge for pouring. The rest are stainless steel, mostly old American-made RevereWare. For a while, thrift stores had them for $5 or less.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 04:26 PM (p6DxW)

48 "It reminds me of a place in Northern Maryland...also a pizza joint...that makes the best crab cakes I have ever had. The pizza is crap, but damn, the crab is amazing."

Interestingly, just down the road from Pieous is another pizza restaurant that makes mediocre pizza but great hamburgers.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 07, 2026 04:28 PM (TrISa)

49 Art,
Which restaurant is that?

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 07, 2026 04:29 PM (VCgbV)

50 The rest are stainless steel, mostly old American-made RevereWare. For a while, thrift stores had them for $5 or less.
Posted by: NaughtyPine

With the copper bottoms? I remember having to polish the bottoms of my mom's Revere Ware.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 04:29 PM (lJ0H4)

51 I have failed at getting my crab cakes as good as I would like them. Definitely edible but not great.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 04:30 PM (5P5DO)

52 47 I made California Roll-style tacos earlier this week using frozen avocado instead of fresh and everything-bagel sprinkles instead of expensive seeds. Very good.

I have one Green Pan left, a milk pan with an edge for pouring. The rest are stainless steel, mostly old American-made RevereWare. For a while, thrift stores had them for $5 or less.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 04:26 PM (p6DxW)

Tacos or sandwich wraps? I've been getting in to sandwich wraps this spring with the kids b/c it allows more produce per entree and the chicken-unhappy kids loves different chickens this way (we've done an Indian chicken wrap, a Thai chicken wrap, etc) - can't say we've gone Japanese, but cheap fish (which is California roll fish), sliced English cucumber, diced avocado, soy, and wasabi and marinated ginger could be a fun roll...I might plan that...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 07, 2026 04:31 PM (tOcjL)

53 What temp was the first fry?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 04:26 PM (5P5DO)

Between 275 and 300. The thick cut fries are forgiving...thinner ones would have required more precise temp control, and wouldn't have been as good anyway.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:31 PM (iERP6)

54 should say kid - it's youngest boy who would eat beef every meal every day if I would serve it.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 07, 2026 04:32 PM (tOcjL)

55 lin-duh

Hill Country Ranch Pizzeria. It's in the same shopping center as the HEB at 12 and 150.

And I agree with you about Pieous's pizza. My whole family thinks it was better in their tiny old location.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 07, 2026 04:32 PM (TrISa)

56 Fries look amazing.
Baked salmon with paprika, garlic powder and pepper. Cooked up collard greens yesterday. I’m good for a few days. Wife recovering from broken leg. 4 more weeks of double duty. All good.

Posted by: Billythesquid at June 07, 2026 04:32 PM (ijc3Q)

57 With the copper bottoms? I remember having to polish the bottoms of my mom's Revere Ware.
Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 04:29 PM

Two of them. They were pretty blackened and I cleaned them only once. I cook over fire, so they're tarnished again.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 04:33 PM (p6DxW)

58 WILLOWED FROM FWP THREAD
>>>@203 I despise silicone mitts of all designs, and I think they are an engine of the devil. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iERP6)
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Greetings, CBD ...
Many of the mitts suggested @157 were made of cloth ... The Le Creuset Pot Grips, for example, are cotton.

Posted by: Kathy at June 07, 2026 04:33 PM (MOK4W)

59 Ah, yes, the famous jewish beef cattle. Mahangus.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2026 04:33 PM (diia5)

60 A proper patty melt is about texture. Too many slimy onions ruins the experience.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 04:34 PM (pSkMS)

61 Posted by: Billythesquid at June 07, 2026 04:32 PM (ijc3Q)

You're crossing the streams! Salmon and collards!

Love it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:35 PM (iERP6)

62 CBD--

Where was the New England diner? The only one I've been to is the A1 Diner in Gardiner and and it was great! (At least it was a decade ago when I was there.)

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 07, 2026 04:37 PM (TrISa)

63 Wifey is out for dinner... so...homemade bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers for dinner.

Posted by: goatexchange at June 07, 2026 04:37 PM (hyS0X)

64 The Le Creuset Pot Grips, for example, are cotton.collars!

Posted by: Kathy at June 07, 2026 04:33 PM (MOK4W)

It looks like they have silicone on the hot side...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:38 PM (iERP6)

65 Leeches!

That's what you need!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:22 PM

"I had no idea you were a medical man, sir."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 04:24 PM (Wnv9h)

Sounds like this isn't a case for using a hot iron.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 04:38 PM (2WIwB)

66 I've thrown corned beef using the corned beef spices as a rub on the grill for a brisket style smoking.

It's always delish. I wonder how close this is to the Austin brisket CBD had

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 04:39 PM (iJfKG)

67 The pizza is a sugar daddy that allows them to pursue their true passion: smoking meat.

During Pride month.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 04:39 PM (DR/Xu)

68 Recently bought a green griddle pan, so far so good.

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 04:40 PM (Ia/+0)

69 Tacos or sandwich wraps? I've been getting in to sandwich wraps this spring with the kids b/c it allows more produce per entree and the chicken-unhappy kids loves different chickens this way (we've done an Indian chicken wrap, a Thai chicken wrap, etc) - can't say we've gone Japanese, but cheap fish (which is California roll fish), sliced English cucumber, diced avocado, soy, and wasabi and marinated ginger could be a fun roll...I might plan that...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 07, 2026 04:31 PM

I used tortillas, but I'll probably just use rice next time because I ran out of flour. I haven't seen frozen avocados recently, so that's probably the next to go.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 04:41 PM (p6DxW)

70 Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 07, 2026 04:37 PM (TrISa)

Littleton Diner in Littleton NH.

It's not the only reason to go to Littleton...it's a very nice New England town with a superb brewery and fun restaurants. But if I were anywhere near there I would detour to have a meal at the diner, just for its authenticity.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:41 PM (iERP6)

71 Chicken Caesar wraps with avocado in garlic Naan bread was lunch today.

Made chocolate/ pistachio biscotti this afternoon.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 04:42 PM (5P5DO)

72 I wonder how close this is to the Austin brisket CBD had

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 04:39 PM (iJfKG)

The spices were similar to classic pastrami, but not identical.

But fantastic...just amazing stuff.

Oh...cooked perfectly too! Juicy and rich and just great.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:43 PM (iERP6)

73 > But tonight, a simple steak sandwich. That's also good.
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For some reason, months ago my wife bought a box of "Steak Umms." You know, those wafer thin pieces of beef used for steak sandwiches. She'd never in her life had them and was blown away when she opened the box.

She had to come ask me what to do with them.

Interesting fact; the only ingredient on the box is "beef." Yes, I know what that implies. But still...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 04:44 PM (jehhT)

74 I just finished a quarter pounder w/ cheese. Deluxe, no pickle or tomato. Working another 12 today so no time to cook. Tasty, but crap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 04:44 PM (DR/Xu)

75 Oddly amazon does not carry asbestos oven mitts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 04:46 PM (DR/Xu)

76 Made chocolate/ pistachio biscotti this afternoon.
Posted by: Ben Had

Just had a salad caramel biscotti with my coffee this morning. Store bought though.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 04:46 PM (lJ0H4)

77 With the copper bottoms? I remember having to polish the bottoms of my mom's Revere Ware.
Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 04:29 PM (lJ0H4)

We had those pans, but thank goodness my mama didn't care that they were tarnished.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 04:47 PM (h7ZuX)

78 Those are good-looking fries. I have had duck fat fries, and was not blown away. OK, but nothing special. IMHO, the best fries are cooked in lard. I had a burger and fries at 5 Guys in Red Deer last week, and the fries were great, as is usual with them. They cook them in peanut oil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 04:47 PM (1z8ji)

79 Littleton Diner in Littleton NH.

It's not the only reason to go to Littleton...it's a very nice New England town with a superb brewery and fun restaurants. But if I were anywhere near there I would detour to have a meal at the diner, just for its authenticity.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:41 PM

Can confirm. 10/10, will go again.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 04:47 PM (Wnv9h)

80 The hello fresh thing is kind of hilarious. Where did you think all this shit was going people?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 04:48 PM (DR/Xu)

81 Tuna, the store doesn't carry them anymore so if I want it I get to make it.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 04:48 PM (5P5DO)

82 They cook them in peanut oil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 04:47 PM (1z8ji)

I think technique has a lot to do with the quality of fried foods, but duck fat fries when done well are amazing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 04:49 PM (iERP6)

83 Trying to cook in a townhome kitchen while spouse is brewing beer is an art form...

At least he's now toasting the sloppy joe buns for me...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 07, 2026 04:50 PM (tOcjL)

84
I had a great new to me cocktail last night.

Oaxacan Negroni

1oz Mezcal ( I used an Espadin mezcal)
1oz Nardini Amaro
1 oz Cocchi Dopo Teatro Vermouth
Pour into Old- Fashioned glass with ice
Squeeze orange peel over glass then drop into cocktail. Give a stir then drink!
I like to have my Negronis straight up do I shake with ice and pour into a cocktail glass to drink.

Either way it's super-delicious and give it a whirl.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 04:51 PM (iJfKG)

85 For some reason, months ago my wife bought a box of "Steak Umms."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 04:44
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Sautee with peppers and onion. Smother with some cheese whiz. Poor man Philly Cheesesteak.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 07, 2026 04:52 PM (hcPzc)

86 Oddly amazon does not carry asbestos oven mitts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 04:46 PM (DR/Xu)

It doesn't carry strike-anywhere matches, either.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 04:55 PM (p6DxW)

87 I hope the bourbon bubble is bursting. For now I am pretty much stuck with maker's mark and tin cup, which I enjoy but I would like to see the prices back down where I used to be experimenting a bunch. But I'm a cheap bastard.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 07, 2026 04:56 PM (n5tGW)

88 This is either going to work or be a spectacular failure. Instant pancake mix with blueberries and lemon zest baked in a loaf pan.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 04:56 PM (5P5DO)

89 > For some reason, months ago my wife bought a box of "Steak Umms."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 04:44
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Sautee with peppers and onion. Smother with some cheese whiz. Poor man Philly Cheesesteak.
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 07, 2026 04:52 PM (hcPzc)
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Exactly. Except we used some sliced Provolone. And put it on leftover hotdog buns that were borderline stale. Probably 15 minutes start to finish.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 04:57 PM (jehhT)

90 It doesn't carry strike-anywhere matches, either.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 04:55 PM

walmart has those in the store in the camping section.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 04:57 PM (0N4FZ)

91 Actually making Manwich BbQ, had it before and it was good and fast

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)

92 This is either going to work or be a spectacular failure. Instant pancake mix with blueberries and lemon zest baked in a loaf pan.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 04:56 PM

I wish you luck.

I made a chicken pie with Bisquick. It was weird but delicious.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 04:59 PM (p6DxW)

93 It doesn't carry strike-anywhere matches, either.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 04:55 PM (p6DxW)

Somebody needs to open the "Stuff They Don't Sell Anymore" online store. Strike-anywhere matches, asbestos, TSP that works, tincture of iodine, laudanum, decongestants with ephedrine, Freon 12, DDT, you name it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 05:00 PM (1z8ji)

94 I dunno if its still there but Pal’s Diner was my teen hangout.

Posted by: epador at June 07, 2026 05:02 PM (oMOW7)

95 It's pretty hard to screw up smoking a brisket unless you fall asleep.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 05:02 PM (pSkMS)

96 I’ve made brisket pastrami on an electric MasterBuilt smoker. Followed the recipe from Meathead’s Amazing Ribs website. Used the pre-brined corned beef. Comes out delicious.

https://tinyurl.com/n9d36w7r

Posted by: MentalBloch at June 07, 2026 05:02 PM (2LgD3)

97 Somebody needs to open the "Stuff They Don't Sell Anymore" online store. Strike-anywhere matches, asbestos, TSP that works, tincture of iodine, laudanum, decongestants with ephedrine, Freon 12, DDT, you name it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Paregoric, mercurochrome.....

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 05:05 PM (lJ0H4)

98 walmart has those in the store in the camping section.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026

Diamond matches were on sale online but not the strike-anywhere. I heard since they're classified as hazardous materials for shipping.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 05:05 PM (p6DxW)

99 “I made a chicken pie with Bisquick. It was weird but delicious.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 04:59 PM (p6DxW)

I’ve known people who loved bisquick, especially on camping trips, but I never liked the taste. Too much baking soda or something. Nevertheless, there are some recipes it works great with, I’m sure yours was wonderful.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 05:07 PM (3mtTi)

100 At one time couldn't you buy dynamite at the hardware store?

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 05:07 PM (DJPFk)

101 Paregoric, mercurochrome.....

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 05:05 PM (lJ0H4)

Coca-Cola with real cocaine...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 05:08 PM (iERP6)

102 Leaded gas pumps out front.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

103 Same guy who taught us dry cured bacon.
My wife calls this the only thing she'll spend 12 days on...cause it's not all her time!
Montreal Meat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI_NIEJhcWs

Posted by: MkY at June 07, 2026 05:09 PM (q6tQZ)

104 Lawn darts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

105 At one time couldn't you buy dynamite at the hardware store?
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 05:07 PM (DJPFk)

Payne Hardware on Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver, BC used to sell it. Never bought any. But I did buy a miner's lamp and carbide to run it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 05:09 PM (1z8ji)

106 Pastrami and Peking Duck are among my favorite meats. Very unctuous. Only as a rare treat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:09 PM (RIvkX)

107 At one time couldn't you buy dynamite at the hardware store?
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 05:07 PM (DJPFk)

Weren't there a rash of bombings in the 20s?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

108 Weasel could run the machine gun counter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:11 PM (zZu0s)

109 >>>At one time couldn't you buy dynamite at the hardware store?

Posted by: Weasel

>Yep. We used it at the quarry on the ranch and occasionally for fishing.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 05:11 PM (pSkMS)

110 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI_NIEJhcWs
Posted by: MkY at June 07, 2026 05:09 PM (q6tQZ)
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Please. They also call their "bagels" superior.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:11 PM (RIvkX)

111 Internet tells me by 1970's dynamite purchases were restricted. Prior to that though you could buy it and apparently get it through the Sears catalogue.

I remember my dad telling me about buying 1/2 sticks at times.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 07, 2026 05:12 PM (n5tGW)

112 Thanks for the food teases... but I'm not going to Austin.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 07, 2026 05:14 PM (IP7s4)

113 I've had some pretty good diner food in New Jersey. Essex Fells, Short Hills, Atlantic City.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:14 PM (RIvkX)

114 How many people would lose their shit if they knew we used dynamite to fish on the Yellowstone river? Of course, intoxicants were never involved.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 05:15 PM (pSkMS)

115 My steak sandwich is delicious, leftover petite sirloin sliced thin, roughly chopped, and tossed with a light touch of yellow mustard and crushed hot peppers and some of the pickling juice, topped with thinly sliced extra sharp cheddar; under broiler along side a potato roll.
Hit the spot.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 07, 2026 05:15 PM (sl73Y)

116 How many people did Boars Head meet company end up killing?

Posted by: Geoffrey at June 07, 2026 05:16 PM (Tj3Ji)

117
Is 20 years for a non stick pan too much to ask?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 04:08 PM (aRyyL)

Not if it is well-seasoned Wagner Ware cast iron, no.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2026 05:16 PM (rbvCR)

118 one time couldn't you buy dynamite at the hardware store?
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 05:07 PM (DJPFk)

Weren't there a rash of bombings in the 20s?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:10

I only remember one: the farmer Jack Kehoe, the "Mad Bomber of Bath", who perpetrated the worst school massacre in US history.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 05:17 PM (p6DxW)

119
Yeah, I'm thinking about two briskets in the smoker; one for, you know, brisket, and one for pastrami.
Posted by: Archimedes

Humble bragging how wealthy you are... on a food thread even!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 07, 2026 05:17 PM (IP7s4)

120 >>>@64 ... It looks like they have silicone on the hot side ... Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo ... You're correct, CBD ... The Le Creuset Pot Grips do contain silicone (not shown at the website I first viewed, sorry).

The Caraway mitts, however, are 100% cotton (VERY pricey @$20 each):
https://tinyurl.com/2rj2h7dm

Better deal at Amazon ... Country Cottons (brand) 100% Cotton Pot Holders & Hot Pads, 8", High Heat Resistance, Made in America ... Priced $15.75 for package of 2:
https://tinyurl.com/39n5benm

Posted by: Kathy at June 07, 2026 05:17 PM (MOK4W)

121 Nurse - we've had pretty good luck with our Blue Diamond skillet. They're a little more than the cheap teflon coating, but nothing like hexclad, etc. I think we've had ours at least 5 years and only seeing very minor chips around the outer rim of the pan. Think I paid $40 for it, so it doesn't owe us anything. Seems like we could get a couple more years out of it, maybe more.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 07, 2026 05:17 PM (vPkHP)

122 No Sanpycho, Montreal meat is truly glorious.
Unlike anything you've ever had...and introduced us to coriander

Posted by: MkY at June 07, 2026 05:20 PM (q6tQZ)

123 Just got home from the studio. I need to figure out dinner. I have really thin asparagus that should be eaten, that is as far as I have gotten.

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:21 PM (pZEOD)

124 123 Just got home from the studio. I need to figure out dinner. I have really thin asparagus that should be eaten, that is as far as I have gotten.
Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:21 PM (pZEOD)

I like egg with an asparagus side...too late for a quiche, but even soft scrambled works...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 07, 2026 05:23 PM (tOcjL)

125 Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:21 PM (pZEOD)
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All y'all hear something?

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 05:23 PM (DJPFk)

126 At one time couldn't you buy dynamite at the hardware store?
Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 05:07 PM

*sigh*

We used to be a proper country.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 05:23 PM (Wnv9h)

127 this month's project is to make "plum olives"
I had so many green plums on my Shiro plum tree that it broke a branch, so I picked the green plums and I am processing them like olives. Since they are not as bitter as green olives, I am not soaking and changing the water daily, but I am now changing the brine after one week.
Per the recipe, I will be letting the plums sit in the new brine for two weeks, and then again for three weeks, and then I can set up the pickle with vinegar, rosemary, garlic and very likely currant leaves

It used to be a thing to make "olives" this way, and we will see if it is worth the hassle.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2026 05:24 PM (rbvCR)

128 That Peking duck looks good, but what really makes the best Peking duck is the accoutrements that you roll together in the pancake. Perfectly cooked duck is only half the trick.

Very hard for get it right. A few Chinese places can do it. Most American places fuck the duck.

The best I’ve ever had was, not surprisingly, in Beijing. Very expensive by Chinese standards but very reasonable by NYC standards. They brought an entire duck out on a cart and sliced the meat off in front of you. Very theatrical.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 07, 2026 05:24 PM (aeiyZ)

129 I’ve known people who loved bisquick, especially on camping trips, but I never liked the taste. Too much baking soda or something. Nevertheless, there are some recipes it works great with, I’m sure yours was wonderful.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 05:07 PM

One of my friends invited me to "shop" the family's prepper pantry. She told me, "Here; take this" on a couple things. So this month I'm using Bisquick, instant mashed potatoes, and chicken chunks.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 05:24 PM (p6DxW)

130 123 Just got home from the studio. I need to figure out dinner. I have really thin asparagus that should be eaten, that is as far as I have gotten.
Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:21 PM (pZEOD)

Do you have eggs, milk/cream and cheese ? Make a asparagus quiche or if you don't want a crust make a frittata...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 07, 2026 05:25 PM (FtULh)

131 Nurse, I have non-stick pans of a brand Swiss Diamond. They are so good, the directions recommend using a lower temperature than you're used to, and so far (over a year) I have yet to go over medium. When I'm finished, of course I do the normal washing, but truly I can wipe the pan clean with a paper towel.

Posted by: Wenda at June 07, 2026 05:25 PM (WBRcn)

132 129 I’ve known people who loved bisquick, especially on camping trips, but I never liked the taste. Too much baking soda or something. Nevertheless, there are some recipes it works great with, I’m sure yours was wonderful.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 05:07 PM

One of my friends invited me to "shop" the family's prepper pantry. She told me, "Here; take this" on a couple things. So this month I'm using Bisquick, instant mashed potatoes, and chicken chunks.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 05:24 PM (p6DxW)

Instant potatoes are good to thicken a potato based soup...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 07, 2026 05:26 PM (tOcjL)

133 First thought upon glancing at the first image: "Face Jerky".

Posted by: Another Anon at June 07, 2026 05:27 PM (4h45B)

134 Long ago we always had Bisquick on hand, pancakes or biscuits were easy. Stopped maybe 10 years or some more

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 05:27 PM (Ia/+0)

135 It doesn't carry strike-anywhere matches, either.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 04:55 PM (p6DxW)

Once upon a time you could stuff a strike-anywhere match in the mouth of a BB gun and fire the match across the room, where it would most likely ignite, or not depending.
We were young and stupid, once.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2026 05:28 PM (rbvCR)

136 100 At one time couldn't you buy dynamite at the hardware store?

Back in 1961, when I was 16 years old, the local hardware store sold me dynamite. I used it to remove tree roots to help create a path a jeep could use to get to the top of a local hill to install a TV tower so the folks in the valley could get TV. Surprised I didn't kill anyone (including myself)

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at June 07, 2026 05:29 PM (/enuJ)

137 The heavily-hyped “Philly Cheesesteak” is basically steak-umms and cheez whiz. Not joking. I think the cheesesteaks you get at those famous places in Philly taste like ass. Tourist traps. I make my own using better quality ingredients.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 07, 2026 05:29 PM (aeiyZ)

138
116 How many people did Boars Head meet company end up killing?
Posted by: Geoffrey at June 07, 2026 05:16 PM (Tj3Ji)

I just hope they didn’t end up in the sausage.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 05:29 PM (3mtTi)

139 Anyone ever have a duck rueben? Well I had one on Friday night.
Absolutely delicious. Paired with a local brew and good company was the topping on the cake after a wonderful day.

To bad CBD, RMBS & RI Red missed out.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 07, 2026 05:30 PM (g5tO/)

140
Sounds like this isn't a case for using a hot iron.
Posted by: Diogenes

Oh contraire, a hot iron would cause the leech to release!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 07, 2026 05:30 PM (IP7s4)

141 We get Boars Head deli all the time, at least not dead yet

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

142
Once upon a time you could stuff a strike-anywhere match in the mouth of a BB gun and fire the match across the room, where it would most likely ignite, or not depending.
We were young and stupid, once.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2026 05:28 PM (rbvCR)
Fired into the fireplace.

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2026 05:31 PM (LHPAg)

143 Do you have eggs, milk/cream and cheese ? Make a asparagus quiche or if you don't want a crust make a frittata...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 07, 2026 05

I have all of those things…wonder if J would have a coronary over no meat on a Sunday. Let me scope the asparagus out, if it looks like it can make it to tomorrow, this may be dinner for the kiddo and me. We don’t care if meat is involved. lol.

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:33 PM (pZEOD)

144 80 The hello fresh thing is kind of hilarious. Where did you think all this shit was going people?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Just in time for the food thread, Instapundit ensured I didn't want any.
I do have some summerwear I was having trouble fitting into, so, there's that.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 07, 2026 05:33 PM (gKWVE)

145 nyone ever have a duck rueben? Well I had one on Friday night.
Absolutely delicious. Paired with a local brew and good company was the topping on the cake after a wonderful day.

To bad CBD, RMBS & RI Red missed out.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 07, 2026 05:30 PM

That sounds tasty. I had a nice steak. Long day, though.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Wnv9h)

146 One of my friends invited me to "shop" the family's prepper pantry. She told me, "Here; take this" on a couple things. So this month I'm using Bisquick, instant mashed potatoes, and chicken chunks.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 05:24 PM (p6DxW)

Instant potato flakes are wonderful for making really tender bread. I am told it helps hold the water in the bread to keep it from going stale so fast, and it helps make the crust soft. I used to use a 1/4 cup or so with a standard bread recipe. I think it also helps speed up the fermentation in the dough and helps it raise faster.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2026 05:34 PM (rbvCR)

147 And do we know where a lot of good brisket is made using a very different technique? Why yes...we do!

Texas!

Glory be! Just when you begin to think there isn't, there may, in fact, be hope for a few New Jerseyites (New Jerseyians?) after all.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:35 PM (0sNs1)

148 Posted by: Paul at June 07, 2026 05:34 PM (CCM9V)

You should not talk about your mother's "friends" that way.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 05:37 PM (1z8ji)

149 We were young and stupid, once.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2026 05:28 PM

Once?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:37 PM (0sNs1)

150 Instant potato flakes are wonderful for making really tender bread. I am told it helps hold the water in the bread to keep it from going stale so fast, and it helps make the crust soft. I used to use a 1/4 cup or so with a standard bread recipe. I think it also helps speed up the fermentation in the dough and helps it raise faster.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2026 05:34 PM

Thanks! I am saving that for use later.
Right now, it's officially too hot and humid to bake bread at home.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 05:37 PM (p6DxW)

151 The heavily-hyped “Philly Cheesesteak” is basically steak-umms and cheez whiz. Not joking. I think the cheesesteaks you get at those famous places in Philly taste like ass. Tourist traps. I make my own using better quality ingredients.

Posted by: Elric the Blade

>Word. I could have ordered something better at Arbys.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 05:38 PM (pSkMS)

152 Right now, it's officially too hot and humid to bake bread at home.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 05:37 PM

Humidity can help with softer, more nubile crust.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:38 PM (0sNs1)

153 Posted by: Kathy at June 07, 2026 05:17 PM (MOK4W)

I think you underestimate my OCD!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 05:39 PM (iERP6)

154 We get Boars Head deli all the time, at least not dead yet
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

Listeria was the issue (unless there has been a new one.) Wash the exterior of the packages well and get to a er if your neck gets stiff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:40 PM (zZu0s)

155 One can smoke corned beef brisket, as well. They are often on sale immediately after St. Patrick's Day, for some reason.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:40 PM (0sNs1)

156 Humidity can help with softer, more nubile crust.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:38 PM

Umm...what, exactly are you doing with that loaf?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Wnv9h)

157 It will be either Shrimp Quiche or Coconut crusted shrimp.

But the apple crumble us already cooling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:41 PM (RIvkX)

158 Humidity can help with softer, more nubile crust.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:38 PM (0sNs1)

Take the crust to a nice dinner. Maybe some dancing. Some smooth jazz and candles...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:41 PM (zZu0s)

159 Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:35 PM (0sNs1)

I love Texas! And their brisket is excellent, but the idea that it is the ne plus ultra of BBQ is simply arrogant and incorrect.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 05:41 PM (iERP6)

160 Humidity can help with softer, more nubile crust.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Sexy bread.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 05:41 PM (lJ0H4)

161 Just got home from the studio. I need to figure out dinner. I have really thin asparagus that should be eaten, that is as far as I have gotten.
Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:21 PM

Chicken nuggets?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:42 PM (0sNs1)

162 Just got home from the studio. I need to figure out dinner. I have really thin asparagus that should be eaten, that is as far as I have gotten.
Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:21 PM

Chicken nuggets?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:42 PM (0sNs1)

Maybe some spam. Or Underwood chicken spread sandwiches.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:43 PM (zZu0s)

163 I remember when I had a softer, more nubile crust.

Posted by: Betty White's muffin at June 07, 2026 05:43 PM (CJnkZ)

164 I was just replying to the screwworm commenter (didn't know it was a troll). It's been an increasing problem in Mexico for several years. Mexican Ag ministry had a sterilized fly program that eradicated it in the '90s but it started spreading from Central America.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 05:44 PM (p6DxW)

165 157 It will be either Shrimp Quiche or Coconut crusted shrimp.

But the apple crumble us already cooling.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:41 PM (RIvkX)

For me, that would be an easy call - coconut crusted shrimp!

Posted by: Nova Local at June 07, 2026 05:44 PM (tOcjL)

166 I think the cheesesteaks you get at those famous places in Philly taste like ass. Tourist traps.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 07, 2026 05:29 PM (aeiyZ)

Don't buy cheese steaks at tourist traps and they won't taste like ass.

Go to Angelo's.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 05:45 PM (iERP6)

167 i smoked a brisket on friday for an event at the gym Saturday. Bubba told me that it was ‘on point’, which is the highest praise there is

Posted by: Daggit at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM (dBS6O)

168 but the idea that it is the ne plus ultra of BBQ is simply arrogant and incorrect.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 05:41 PM

IYKYK.

https://tinyurl.com/bp7s7shw

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM (0sNs1)

169 Great place here for Peking Duck is R&G Lounge on Kearny St. Not greasy can be a little like candy sometimes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM (RIvkX)

170 156 Humidity can help with softer, more nubile crust.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:38 PM

Umm...what, exactly are you doing with that loaf?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 05:40 PM

The food thread has crossed with the book thread again: YA cookbooks.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM (p6DxW)

171 Maybe some spam. Or Underwood chicken spread sandwiches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:43 PM

This sounds awful. Truly.

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM (pZEOD)

172 https://tinyurl.com/bp7s7shw

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM (0sNs1)

That's great!

Wrong, but very funny.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 05:49 PM (iERP6)

173 My, gawd, I love pastrami. Sexually. The last real pastrami sandwich I had was *mumble* years ago from a Jewish deli in Sacramento. I still remember that and their marzo ball soup. Like soft pillows floating in a savory, fatty, salty swimming pool of chicken broth. Also, I love pastrami.

Posted by: fly gal at June 07, 2026 05:49 PM (TVRRM)

174 Maybe some spam. Or Underwood chicken spread sandwiches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:43 PM

This sounds awful. Truly.
Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM

How about just the Spam? That only has a little Spam in it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 05:49 PM (Wnv9h)

175 My homemade cheesesteaks are very good.

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 05:50 PM (Ia/+0)

176 >Word. I could have ordered something better at Arbys.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at Jun

There's is REALLY good. And I love their gyros. And they give the dog a free cup of meat!

........

The food my friend brought was excellent. I think it was barbecued too which was great. I still have food I was going to finish off today in the fridge.

Two suppers?!?

I think the food thread would approve.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 05:50 PM (Sco7b)

177 it is the ne plus ultra of BBQ is simply arrogant and incorrect.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 05:41 PM (iERP6)

That's because you get all French about it and stuff.

Posted by: GWB at June 07, 2026 05:51 PM (kU0PQ)

178 Don't buy cheese steaks at tourist traps and they won't taste like ass.

Go to Angelo's.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 05:45 PM (iERP6)
===

Jim's is a decent steak and a tourist trap!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:51 PM (RIvkX)

179 Matzo, not "marzo." Stupid keyboard.

Posted by: fly gal at June 07, 2026 05:53 PM (TVRRM)

180 My homemade cheesesteaks are very good.
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 05:50 PM (Ia/+0)
====

I've taken note how often they appear on your menu.

Kudos.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:53 PM (RIvkX)

181 Pastrami vs Montreal Smoked Meat? Where does the difference lie?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 05:53 PM (1z8ji)

182 Pastrami vs Montreal Smoked Meat? Where does the difference lie?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Montreal isn't a real place. Pastrami is in the Star Wars canon.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2026 05:56 PM (diia5)

183 To me the Montreal style has a different flavor. Not as peppery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:56 PM (RIvkX)

184 This sounds awful. Truly.
Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM (pZEOD)

I hate spam. But Underwood chicken spread is absolute crap- but also delicious. It is one of those things you eat trying to figure out why it tastes good. But on bread with lettuce? It's good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:57 PM (zZu0s)

185 OK, Duncanthrax's link mentions BBQing seafood. When looking it up I see lots of stuff for grilling seafood, but nothing about BBQ (in my quick search).

How about some words on that? Any ideas?

Posted by: GWB at June 07, 2026 05:57 PM (kU0PQ)

186 Maybe some spam. Or Underwood chicken spread sandwiches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:43 PM

This sounds awful. Truly.

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM

Why do you care? you're dead.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 05:57 PM (0N4FZ)

187 How about some words on that? Any ideas?
Posted by: GWB at June 07, 2026 05:57 PM (kU0PQ)

Smoked salmon?

What makes BBQ BBQ? Grilling? Brushing the meat with some sort of sauce.

I bet the mustard based BBQ sauce would be really good on fish.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:59 PM (zZu0s)

188 Underwood chicken spread is chicken, but they never say what part.

/beaks

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:59 PM (RIvkX)

189 Matzo, not "marzo." Stupid keyboard.
Posted by: fly gal at June 07, 2026 05:53 PM

Piper may have some advice on that.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05:59 PM (0sNs1)

190 189 Matzo, not "marzo." Stupid keyboard.
Posted by: fly gal at June 07, 2026 05:53 PM

Piper may have some advice on that.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 05

☠️

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 06:00 PM (Dd38x)

191 Why do you care? you're dead.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 05:57 PM (0N4FZ)

She's a specter sent back to earth to try to get us to eat healthy. Well me and my Underwood chicken spread outlived you!*

*joke, don't really die.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:00 PM (zZu0s)

192 To me the Montreal style has a different flavor. Not as peppery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:56 PM (RIvkX)

I remember routinely getting deli sandwiches of Montreal smoked meat when I worked in downtown Calgary, lo these many years ago. I have rarely had either it or pastrami in recent years. Rural Alberta is kind of a deli desert. But there are many other urban "features" we don't have, too. So I will take the win.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 06:01 PM (1z8ji)

193 186 Maybe some spam. Or Underwood chicken spread sandwiches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:43 PM

This sounds awful. Truly.

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM

Why do you care? you're dead.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 05:57 PM (0N4FZ)

Oh yeah….well, guess they are on their own for dinner!

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 06:01 PM (Dd38x)

194 What makes BBQ BBQ?
=====

These are the kind of questions that turn brother against brother, sister against sister.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 06:01 PM (RIvkX)

195 Matzo, not "marzo." Stupid keyboard.

Posted by: fly gal at June 07, 2026 05:53 PM (TVRRM)

Matzo balls are really easy to make. And if you can make a flavorful chicken stock then you are 99% of the way there.

The extra 1% requires that you be a Jewish grandmother.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:01 PM (iERP6)

196 Maybe some spam. Or Underwood chicken spread sandwiches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:43 PM

This sounds awful. Truly.
Posted by: Piper

Try the Potted Meat Food Product.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 06:01 PM (/lPRQ)

197 Underwood chicken spread is chicken, but they never say what part.

/beaks
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:59 PM (RIvkX)

Their deviled ham spread is disgusting. They have a roast beef one that I have not got up the gumption to try.

I think mom got it from Grandpa. The man ate anything. Pickled pigs feet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)

198 Underwood chicken spread is chicken, but they never say what part.

/beaks
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 05:59 PM (RIvkX)

Typewriter platens.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 06:02 PM (1z8ji)

199 >>Pastrami vs Montreal Smoked Meat? Where does the difference lie?

My ex brother in law, who was and remains Jewish, turned me on to Montreal smoked meat. Fantastic. Might be the best thing to come out of Canada since the hockey puck

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 06:03 PM (viF8m)

200 My cousin used to have a smoked meat restaurant on Decarie Blvd but the state persecuted him for speaking the wrong language. So it got burned down.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 06:04 PM (RIvkX)

201 How about some words on that? Any ideas?
Posted by: GWB at June 07, 2026 05:57 PM

I've smoked lobster tails. Good! Apple, pecan, and cherry are the best woods. (Peach might work, but I've never tried it.)

Alder-smoked salmon (and wild trout) are fantastic.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 06:04 PM (0sNs1)

202 My cousin used to have a smoked meat restaurant on Decarie Blvd but the state persecuted him for speaking the wrong language. So it got burned down.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 06:04 PM (RIvkX)

English?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:04 PM (zZu0s)

203 Well, lunch break is over. Back to the salt mines.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 06:05 PM (1z8ji)

204 These are the kind of questions that turn brother against brother, sister against sister.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 06:01 PM

And Southerners to say "Bless your hearts" to Yankees.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 06:06 PM (0sNs1)

205 What makes BBQ BBQ? Grilling? Brushing the meat with some sort of sauce.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 05:59 PM

* types *

* deletes *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 06:08 PM (0sNs1)

206 English?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:04 PM (zZu0s)
====
Yeah.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 06:09 PM (RIvkX)

207 * types *

* deletes *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 06:08 PM (0sNs1)

Low, indirect heat, with some natural smoke.

The perfect example would be Kansas City pork ribs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:09 PM (iERP6)

208 If you don't mind the risk of getting shivved by a methed-up hobo, Tat's Deli near Pioneer Square in Seattle makes outstanding Philly cheese steak sammiches. They must weigh 5 lbs. each at least, with a choice of cheese. The go-to is "wit' whiz" (Cheez Whiz).

Posted by: fly gal at June 07, 2026 06:11 PM (TVRRM)

209 I never had real bbq until I was a h.s. senior and it blew my mind. Life-changing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 06:11 PM (RIvkX)

210 Low, indirect heat, with some natural smoke.

The perfect example would be Kansas City pork ribs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:09 PM (iERP6)

*takes out new sheet*

So, in your mind Mr Dildo, what separates BBQ and smoking?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:12 PM (zZu0s)

211 Nearly $500k worth of bourbon stolen from North Philadelphia warehouse
By 6abc Digital Staff
Sunday, June 7, 2026

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- An unusual daytime heist is under investigation after nearly half a million dollars worth of bourbon vanished from a North Philadelphia warehouse.

The theft happened Friday afternoon at a facility on the 2400 block of North American Street.

It appears to have been a coordinated cargo theft.

According to the Chief Operating Officer of A-21 Wine and Spirits, Rob Koch, the shipment of about 1,800 cases of Noble Oak bourbon was being stored at the warehouse and was scheduled to be transported to a location in North Jersey.

🤔

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 07, 2026 06:15 PM (NFX2v)

212 Wenda, DanMan bought us a set of Swiss Diamond pans a few Christmases ago. We both love them! Highly recommend~

Posted by: DanMa'am at June 07, 2026 06:15 PM (8uzBS)

213
According to the Chief Operating Officer of A-21 Wine and Spirits, Rob Koch, the shipment of about 1,800 cases of Noble Oak bourbon was being stored at the warehouse and was scheduled to be transported to a location in North Jersey.

🤔

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 07, 2026 06:15 PM (NFX2v)
The streets were thirsty that day.

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2026 06:17 PM (LHPAg)

214 It appears to have been a coordinated cargo theft.

According to the Chief Operating Officer of A-21 Wine and Spirits, Rob Koch, the shipment of about 1,800 cases of Noble Oak bourbon was being stored at the warehouse and was scheduled to be transported to a location in North Jersey.
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It is what it is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 06:18 PM (RIvkX)

215 Montreal meat is cured, smoked, then steamed.
Unreal

Posted by: MkY at June 07, 2026 06:19 PM (q6tQZ)

216 So, in your mind Mr Dildo, what separates BBQ and smoking?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:12 PM (zZu0s)

Interesting question. I think there is so much overlap that only a Texan with his monomania could answer the question confidently.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:19 PM (iERP6)

217 There's BBQ, and there is BBQing.
A lot of people refer to cooking outside on a grill as bbqing, or having a BBQ.
BBQ is another kettle of fish altogether.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 07, 2026 06:20 PM (sl73Y)

218 Montreal meat is cured, smoked, then steamed.
Unreal
Posted by: MkY at June 07, 2026 06:19 PM (q6tQZ)

Dry.
Burn some wood under it.
Add water.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:20 PM (zZu0s)

219 DanMa'am, aren't they terrific? Some food really tastes better than any other way.

Posted by: Wenda at June 07, 2026 06:21 PM (WBRcn)

220 Sprinkled a little of Spice House's Yazu Citrus Salt on my cantaloupe tonight. Yum.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 06:22 PM (lJ0H4)

221 I seriously thought that pastrami was from the outer layer of the rib cage of a beef that bacon is from a pig. But what i hear you saying is that pastrami is from a brisket?

The only Jew I ever knew, (they're not terribly prominent in rural TX) could not shut the fuck up about the fact that the only thing he hated about leaving NY was that he couldn't get decent pastrami.

Posted by: Pendejo at June 07, 2026 06:22 PM (92ma5)

222 True! I still like my cast iron skillet for frying, but for everything else I love the Swiss Diamond.

Posted by: DanMa'am at June 07, 2026 06:23 PM (8uzBS)

223 In my mind, BBQ (the thing nit the action) is meat that has been cooked (either smoked or over flame) simultaneous to some other ingredient being added, either through the application of sauce or if using some spice dry rub, prepared before the actual cooking.

But I think the application of flavor (dry or wet) to the meat in conjunction with the method of cooking is key.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:24 PM (zZu0s)

224 Oh great, making chicken salad gor lunch this week

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)

225
Maybe some spam. Or Underwood chicken spread sandwiches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Deviled ham. How do you devil something?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 06:24 PM (Cqx++)

226 Deviled ham. How do you devil something?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 06:24 PM (Cqx++)

If you can devil a ham, you can devil an egg.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

227 >>Maybe some spam. Or Underwood chicken spread sandwiches.

One of the funnier moments in my life was the result of Underwood chicken spread.

And it's God awful stuff. Sorry, it's practically a crime against humanity.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 06:27 PM (viF8m)

228 213. Distracted by meat thieves, no one thought them brave enough to steal the bourbon supply.

So they say. 😉. (Inside job, that one.)
---
June 5th, "3 arrested in bid to steal cheesesteak meat from truck in Upper Darby."

Drivers sleep with their trucks but they're still robbed.

A big deal around here, but do not steal Skinny Joey's.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 07, 2026 06:27 PM (NFX2v)

229 Our local bbq place is out of everything. Must have been the thing t eat today.

Tandoori Chicken and Biryani it is. I have officially punted cooking dinner. I will make the quiche tomorrow.

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 06:28 PM (hftzA)

230 Is joining aarp or amac worth it?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 06:29 PM (LmPA0)

231 The only Jew I ever knew, (they're not terribly prominent in rural TX) could not shut the fuck up about the fact that the only thing he hated about leaving NY was that he couldn't get decent pastrami.

Posted by: Pendejo at June 07, 2026 06:22 PM (92ma5)

I would put that pastrami from Austin up against anything in NYC.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:30 PM (iERP6)

232 Is joining aarp or amac worth it?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 06:29 PM (LmPA0)

AARP is hard left.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:30 PM (iERP6)

233 A Texas hamburger place called Hat Creek burger has great Tallow fried fries and sweet potato fries.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 07, 2026 06:31 PM (VCgbV)

234 I have officially punted cooking dinner.

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 06:28 PM (hftzA)

Well...being dead will do that.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:31 PM (iERP6)

235 Nothing fancy for dinner. Two cod filets and roasted baby potatoes, sprinkled with Old Bay.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 07, 2026 06:33 PM (0aYVJ)

236 AARP has sent me hundreds of dollars worth of junk mail over the years but I will never send a penny to those commie rat bastards.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 06:34 PM (vFG9F)

237 CBD,
Too bad you don't have a picture of that pastrami sliced into to show the inside.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 07, 2026 06:34 PM (VCgbV)

238 230 Is joining aarp or amac worth it?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 06:29 PM (LmPA0)

What is the purpose of either of them, besides taking your dues and donating them to political parties?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 06:35 PM (h7ZuX)

239 CBD,
Too bad you don't have a picture of that pastrami sliced into to show the inside.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 07, 2026 06:34 PM (VCgbV)

Yup. It was difficult to slice because it was so tender and juicy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:35 PM (iERP6)

240 "Too bad you don't have a picture of that pastrami sliced into to show the inside."

At first glance I thought it was a meteorite.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 06:36 PM (vFG9F)

241 Ha, fd!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 06:37 PM (h7ZuX)

242 Okay, I just finished off the KFC chicken and french fries that were in the fridge. The french fries were actually really good cold. With nothing on them.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 06:38 PM (Sco7b)

243 Yup. It was difficult to slice because it was so tender and juicy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
----
I've only ever had it sliced on a pizza pan. It's beautiful on the inside.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 07, 2026 06:39 PM (VCgbV)

244 Hand slicing a pastrami like the one pictured almost ruins it.

You need a commercial grade slicer.

Now we’re talking.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2026 06:40 PM (HSjdE)

245 I'm sure it was very tasty. Now I want pastrami.

I kind of dread the food thread because it always makes me hungry.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 06:40 PM (vFG9F)

246 AARP has sent me hundreds of dollars worth of junk mail over the years but I will never send a penny to those commie rat bastards.
Posted by: fd

Slightly off topic; But THIS is the way!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 07, 2026 06:40 PM (IP7s4)

247 Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 05:47 PM

Why do you care? you're dead.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 05:57 PM

Wait... Piper's dead?

Is Buzzion aware of this?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 06:47 PM (Wnv9h)

248 Now I want brisket. And smoked mac and cheese. Maybe some smoked shrimp as well.

Next weekend

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 06:47 PM (viF8m)

249 Smoked an 18lbs and a 13lbs brisket two weekends ago. My crust was perfect. The 18lbs brisket however was about the fattiest brisket I've ever smoked - and that was after I probably trimmed a solid 1/3" off the fat cap. The middle of it was just ... ugh. I cooked them for 27 hours but it probably could have done with another 6 or so to render all that fat away.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 07, 2026 06:48 PM (WYStd)

250 234 I have officially punted cooking dinner.

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 06:28 PM (hftzA)

Well...being dead will do that.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026

The quiche will be heavenly.

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 06:48 PM (hftzA)

251 Finally watching a WWII movie that promised a happy ending
Goebbels and Hitler

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 06:48 PM (Ia/+0)

252 Maybe some smoked shrimp as well.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 06:47 PM (viF8m)

I love smoked shrimp, but it is almost always overcooked. Do you make it yourself?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:48 PM (iERP6)

253 I love smoked shrimp, but it is almost always overcooked. Do you make it yourself?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:48 PM

I love to hot smoke large sardines after about 15 min in some brine. Sadly, I have no smoker right now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 06:50 PM (Wnv9h)

254 "Is joining aarp or amac worth it?"

They might have been a decade or more ago but in my experience most places that have AARP or AMAC discounts have senior discounts for EVERYONE of the qualifying age.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 07, 2026 06:52 PM (TrISa)

255 The quiche will be heavenly.
Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 06:48 PM (hftzA)

Or devilishly good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:54 PM (zZu0s)

256 I just had a mental image of a fitness instructor in a red stretch suit (think yoga pants) her pitchfork had asparagus for tines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 06:55 PM (zZu0s)

257 The quiche will be heavenly.
Posted by: Piper

Or devilishly good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

ISWYDT.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 06:55 PM (lwhHh)

258 Real men don't eat quiche

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 06:55 PM (Ia/+0)

259 Time for cocktails!

Thanks for reading and commenting...even that dead lady!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 06:56 PM (iERP6)

260 Bleh. Left over cheeseburger from last night and tater tots. Nothing fancy. Use up the leftovers instead of throwing them out.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 06:56 PM (lwhHh)

261 From a previous thread:

131
>> I believe you’re correct. If you’ve ever known a true pathological liar (fortunately they’re rare) they get to where they are compelled to lie about everything, while also lying to themselves most of all. I had a boss once who would lie even objectively he would have been in a far better position just by telling the truth. (He finally got fired when his sucking up to his superiors couldn’t cover up how many screwups he was lying about)

>> Anyway Democrats are they - they’ve completely broken with objective reality. Everything is a big socialist LARP to them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 01:46 PM (3mtTi)

I don't want to dwell on the latter; here's the interview with Theodore Dalrymple on "Our Culture, What's Left Of It":

https://archive.is/WBcUY

But to go to the first. I have bifurcated opinions on narcissists. I have known the benign, who just are baffling and can completely change on a dime, so you wouldn't even recognize them, because they decided. And I have known the extreme who have a "reality distortion field," as Steve Jobs was said to, where their charisma sucks you in to a false perception. Sounds like yours was between.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 06:57 PM (Sy6m/)

262 Real men don't eat quiche
Posted by: Skip

Pfffftttt. No other way to eat bacon, eggs & cheese one handed while sitting in a deer blind.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 06:57 PM (lwhHh)

263 CBD yes it can be scotch time

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 06:58 PM (Ia/+0)

264 >Real men don't eat quiche
Posted by: Skip

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dude it's a ham/egg/cheese breakfast pie

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 07:00 PM (ZxPkt)

265 >>I love smoked shrimp, but it is almost always overcooked. Do you make it yourself?

Yea, they can get dried out easily. I found a recipe for cooking them in a bed of vegetables that are smoked for a while in a tequila based sauce in an iron skillet and then the shrimp goes on top for about 45 minutes or till they are cooked. Seems to keep them moister and very tasty.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 07:01 PM (viF8m)

266 Real men don't even know what quishe is.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 07:01 PM (vFG9F)

267 "dude it's a ham/egg/cheese breakfast pie
Posted by: Don Black"

Oh. Ok then.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

268 as Steve Jobs was said to, where their charisma sucks you in to a false perception. Sounds like yours was between.
Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 06:57 PM (Sy6m/)

The liars who are compulsive i have seen almost always trip themselves up because it becomes impossible to keep their shit straight they contradict so many times they lose track of where they are at. They could save so much effort and trouble just by not lying. But it like... psychological armor (the lies.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

269 Oh, there's a Gun Thread. so you know.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 07:05 PM (Sy6m/)

270 Real men don't even know what quishe is.
Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 07:01 PM (vFG9F)

Is it like an egg casserole with a crust? I am really asking.

I have been making this sausage egg and spinach casserole that keeps coming out really well. I think I am going to try a bacon version next.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

271 >>I have been making this sausage egg and spinach casserole that keeps coming out really well. I think I am going to try a bacon version next.

Congratulations. Toss in some cheese and you just invented Quiche Lorraine.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 07:09 PM (viF8m)

272 Nurse - we've had pretty good luck with our Blue Diamond skillet. They're a little more than the cheap teflon coating, but nothing like hexclad, etc. I think we've had ours at least 5 years and only seeing very minor chips around the outer rim of the pan. Think I paid $40 for it, so it doesn't owe us anything. Seems like we could get a couple more years out of it, maybe more.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 07, 2026 05:17 PM (vPkHP)

Coming in late to say I got a small Blue Diamond skillet at a thrift store 4 years ago, in practically new condition, and it's still going great. Recommend the brand.

Posted by: Vendette at June 07, 2026 07:16 PM (pJK38)

273 The girl's golf is great, four were tied finishing up and Korda birtdies 17 to go ahead by one. Playing 18 now.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 07, 2026 07:38 PM (sl73Y)

First World Problems...

If there was a Platonic Ideal of oven mitts, that would be it!

Except...the designers clearly fell down on the job and did not design it to last forever, so my three mitts (I bought two more as soon as I realized that it was perfect) are not long for this world.

Sadly, the manufacturer discontinued the design in favor of a clearly inferior one, but probably cheaper and easier to manufacture.

I have considered having it copied and manufactured for myself, and even hit up you maniacs for advice, but the small-run required is not cost effective.

The alternatives are grim: keep using the mitts and accept the occasional burn as they fall apart, then stop using mitts altogether, and accept burns every day; or stop cooking.

It is a real struggle!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Really prefer waterproof oven mitts

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Welding gloves. You're welcome

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2026 02:04 PM (LHPAg)

4 A used and deteriorating oven mitt is a test of manhood. You pick up a hot pan with it, only to realize that there's very little between you and the heat source. Do you drop it and curse, or do you carry it to it's intended location as your flesh sears?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 02:04 PM (Riz8t)

5 Heavier dish towels...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 02:05 PM (Sco7b)

6 Burn the kitchen down, buy new mitts, build new kitchen to match their theme.

Posted by: RandomDave at June 07, 2026 02:05 PM (aJQbY)

7 When I saw that picture, I thought a cat had barfed up a hairball on a throw rug

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at June 07, 2026 02:06 PM (/enuJ)

8 What in fresh hello is this?!?!?!

https://tinyurl.com/5n6rwc6a

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:06 PM (3UbC6)

9 I use pot holders, not mitts, but same problem. Favorites wear out and replacements seem shoddier.
Accept the occasional burn.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 07, 2026 02:06 PM (sl73Y)

10 Cloth from Hobby Lobby or Walmart, needle and thread.
Some assembly required.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 02:07 PM (UcW11)

11 dude surely that big co-blogger money can afford new oven mitts

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 02:07 PM (ZxPkt)

12 The answer is obvious, welders gloves.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2026 02:08 PM (XeU6L)

13
CBD,

It's too funny your post is about potholders.

Yesterday I was doing some baking and looking at my potholders and was trying to decide whether to wash them or buy new ones.

I think I'll buy new ones.

Posted by: four seasons at June 07, 2026 02:08 PM (x4yF4)

14 looks like a petri dish

I kid of course
great stuff

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 02:08 PM (ZxPkt)

15 One word: carry out.

Posted by: Weasel at June 07, 2026 02:08 PM (vt7xw)

16 Burn the kitchen down, buy new mitts, build new kitchen to match their theme.

Posted by: RandomDave at June 07, 2026 02:05 PM (aJQbY)

Your plan is a good one!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 02:08 PM (iERP6)

17 Happy Pride Foods for those special days.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 02:09 PM (UcW11)

18 Red Brick heat resistant gloves. There are other ones out there but I like them best. Available from RS Hughes.
I've done lot's of foundry work. Keeping people from burning themselves was a big thing.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 02:09 PM (ZxzYs)

19 2 Really prefer waterproof oven mitts

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)

These, or high-heat kitchen gloves. The gloves I have have silicone knubs on the the fingers and thumbs to improve holding friction. Not waterproof, though. But very flexible. Mine allow you to easily grasp cups and other small containers out of the oven or microwave, using the thumb plus one or two fingers. Not designed to let you hold a 450 F pan for a long time, but who does that?

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 02:10 PM (5rh/l)

20 The alternatives are grim: keep using the mitts and accept the occasional burn as they fall apart, then stop using mitts altogether, and accept burns every day; or stop cooking.

Use cheap illegal Aztec labor to sew them mitts?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 02:11 PM (l3cgK)

21 8 What in fresh hello is this?!?!?!

https://tinyurl.com/5n6rwc6a
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:06 PM (3UbC6)

NSFW

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:11 PM (6wpGE)

22 Red Brick Hot Mill.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 02:11 PM (ZxzYs)

23 Had a stump that looked just like that.

Suggest dynamite!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 02:12 PM (/lPRQ)

24 Looks like the beginning of a wall display of retired oven mitts. Perhaps they deserve to be included in a national display at the Smithsonian.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 02:12 PM (qx7Zg)

25 21 8 What in fresh hello is this?!?!?!

https://tinyurl.com/5n6rwc6a
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:06 PM (3UbC6)

NSFW

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:11 PM (6wpGE)

Colonoscopy prep kits are sold out this month...probably.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 02:13 PM (l3cgK)

26 I wear heat resistant plastic gloves now. I've had too many burns and my hands slipping off the mitts. I fully admit it is a me problem. I am simply very uncoordinated. But the plastic gloves work well. Kitchenaid, soft silicone, ribbed more my oven's pleasure. Works very nice. Will last a long time I hope. cost $17

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 02:13 PM (3uBP9)

27 Learn to sew.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 07, 2026 02:13 PM (IP7s4)

28 Red Brick heat resistant gloves. There are other ones out there but I like them best. Available from RS Hughes.
I've done lot's of foundry work. Keeping people from burning themselves was a big thing.

If heat were the only consideration, you'd wear asbestos pipe insulation or space shuttle tiles. There are competing needs, though. You want thermal isolation, and that's pretty easy if you don't care about tactile fidelity or the ability to insert your fingers into a loop handle. If you do care about the other qualities, then you have to select something that still allows you to grip, and tell when you're picking something up.

A folded towel provides adequate isolation, and can be folded different ways to lessen or enhance the thermal isolation.

I may be overthinking this.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 02:13 PM (Riz8t)

29 I have food-grade silicone oven gloves that tolerate up to 600F

Amazon

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 02:14 PM (ZxPkt)

30 I'd think a local fabric shop would have ideas about making those, maybe even a pattern.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:14 PM (6wpGE)

31 What in fresh hello is this?!?!?!

https://tinyurl.com/5n6rwc6a
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:06 PM (3UbC6)

NSFW

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:11 PM (6wpGE)
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Not safe anywhere!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:14 PM (3UbC6)

32 26 I wear heat resistant plastic gloves now. I've had too many burns and my hands slipping off the mitts. I fully admit it is a me problem. I am simply very uncoordinated. But the plastic gloves work well. Kitchenaid, soft silicone, ribbed more my oven's pleasure. Works very nice. Will last a long time I hope. cost $17
Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 02:13 PM (3uBP9)

... ribbed for my oven's pleasure! haha!

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:15 PM (6wpGE)

33 31 What in fresh hello is this?!?!?!

https://tinyurl.com/5n6rwc6a
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:06 PM (3UbC6)

NSFW

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:11 PM (6wpGE)
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Not safe anywhere!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:14 PM (3UbC6)

I thought maybe you had found a source for CBD's oven mitt. But nooo....

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:16 PM (6wpGE)

34 I have food-grade silicone oven gloves that tolerate up to 600F

Amazon

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 02:14 PM (ZxPkt)
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Been using them for years in the kitchen and with the grill.

Mrs. BD doesn't like them for some reason and insists on using half destroyed mitts like those discussed here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:16 PM (3UbC6)

35 >>> ... ribbed for my oven's pleasure! haha!
Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:15 PM (6wpGE)

Yeah I got autocucumbered but I'm glad someone got it.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 02:17 PM (3uBP9)

36 You know who else needed oven mitts?

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 02:17 PM (ZxzYs)

37 Church groups and small towns often have craft fairs around the holidays, where people who could make this sort of thing abound. And perhaps even have interesting ideas about perfection in oven mitts.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 07, 2026 02:17 PM (kYmoU)

38 I would have like to see a back view of the mitt, too, CBD.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:18 PM (6wpGE)

39 23 Had a stump that looked just like that.

Suggest dynamite!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 02:12 PM (/lPRQ)

Three thinks I learned in chem class at the JC: How to make a fertilizer bomb (for stumps...trees, but if you're not careful, your hands/feet), distilling alcohol, and treating cyanide poisoning (sodium thiosulfate)...

Oh, and antimony can be used as an emetic (stibnite)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 02:18 PM (l3cgK)

40 *liked

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:18 PM (6wpGE)

41 Yeah, don't try the stibnite...it's toxic. LOL.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 02:19 PM (l3cgK)

42 Yeah I got autocucumbered but I'm glad someone got it.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 02:17 PM (3uBP9)

I caught it but last time I commented on something like that...
The repercussions are still ongoing.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 02:19 PM (ZxzYs)

43 I'd think a local fabric shop would have ideas about making those, maybe even a pattern.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:14 PM (6wpGE)

It's actually a complicated design, with three layers of different thin protective material.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 02:22 PM (iERP6)

44 Three thinks I learned in chem class at the JC: How to make a fertilizer bomb

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 02:18 PM (l3cgK)
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@fbiSnitchLine

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:22 PM (3UbC6)

45 Every oven mitt and pot holder I own came from mom's kitchen. I know where all the thin spots are, and can shift my fingers so they don't get too blackened...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 07, 2026 02:23 PM (nbLIj)

46 Need to start including something for scale... maybe a quarter or giraffe...

Anyway, I see the first problem, that is not an oven mitt.

What you need are professional grade Z-rated hot pads.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 02:24 PM (/lPRQ)

47 44 Three thinks I learned in chem class at the JC: How to make a fertilizer bomb

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 02:18 PM (l3cgK)
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@fbiSnitchLine
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:22 PM (3UbC6)

; )

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:25 PM (6wpGE)

48 The local supermarket now offers three sizes of shopping carts: Standard, small, and extra small. Perhaps this is an effort to differentiate itself from Wal-mart, which only has one size of cart.

My FWP: When I return my cart to the cart corral in the parking lot, I find the corral is set up to contain only two rows of carts, and the rows are not marked for size. Should I:
a. Go ahead and shove my cart into a row, all higgily-piggily and willy-nilly?
b. Carefully sort the carts out by size, placing them in rows, and leave the smallest row outside the corral?
c. Act like a Democrat and just abandon my cart in the parking lot and let somebody else worry about it?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 07, 2026 02:25 PM (TR4+2)

49 I use those little high temp silicon mats at work when I do monthly solder samples. I set stainless cupcake pans full of molten solder on them all the time and you can't even tell. Probably 900°f. Not a mark or a puff of smoke. I was amazed they even worked. I figured the pan would melt right through them.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 02:26 PM (ZxzYs)

50 That looks like an oven mitt designed for bears.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 07, 2026 02:26 PM (cWLG3)

51 PRO TIP: Silicone rubber oven mitts are to cloth oven mitts what Star Wars is to Disney Star Wars.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 02:27 PM (guGkK)

52 46 ... I see the first problem ... that is not an oven mitt.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 02:24 PM (/lPRQ)

It MIGHT be an oven mitt. CBD's not letting us see the other side.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:27 PM (6wpGE)

53 I have mitts but they're not always convenient when you're working the grill.

I was working the grill while intoxicated and burned three of my fingers on a 600deg grill and decided it was time to get some fancy new gloves. They are worth every penny.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 02:28 PM (pSkMS)

54 49 I use those little high temp silicon mats at work when I do monthly solder samples. I set stainless cupcake pans full of molten solder on them all the time and you can't even tell. Probably 900°f. Not a mark or a puff of smoke. I was amazed they even worked. I figured the pan would melt right through them.
Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 02:26 PM (ZxzYs)

That's scary, to me.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:28 PM (6wpGE)

55 >>That looks like an oven mitt designed for bears.

Certain types of bears.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 02:28 PM (viF8m)

56 My two padded oven mitts got lost in my move so I've been using the humble potholders. I do wash them on occasion though. You'd think with all the other crap I order from Amazon I could put in an order for replacement mitts. Maybe I will now.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 02:30 PM (lJ0H4)

57 Bring it back to the corral and let staff handle it.

Posted by: Accomack at June 07, 2026 02:30 PM (8jVAy)

58 This is funny, a new home security sign:

x.com/PatchoSombrero/status/
2063566739195990302

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 02:30 PM (3uBP9)

59 I get burned more from wrongly judging that I don't need mitts when moving something a short distance than from poorly constructed mitts.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 07, 2026 02:30 PM (XvL8K)

60 55 >>That looks like an oven mitt designed for bears.

Certain types of bears.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 02:28 PM (viF8m)

I was just thinking that the other side of the mitt might look ghey.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:31 PM (6wpGE)

61 My FWP: When I return my cart to the cart corral in the parking lot, I find the corral is set up to contain only two rows of carts, and the rows are not marked for size.

In cart corrals around here, the normal size generally ends up going in one column, the small size (which I very much prefer) go in the other, and the extra small size, if such exists, goes in the supermarket lobby or just past the entrance, because they are designed for kids and not for real shopping (alternate theory: they are designed for AlexTheChick, whose custom all supermarkets must compete to attract).

I do not know if this organization is set up by the SMPTB or arises naturally from customers, but it does seem to work well. Which column is which appears to be random, which is a reasonable check on over-regimentation.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 07, 2026 02:31 PM (kYmoU)

62 Going over to see my parents
Back when I get there maybe

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 02:31 PM (Ia/+0)

63 In cart corrals around here, the normal size generally ends up going in one column, the small size (which I very much prefer) go in the other,

I always go for the small cart. Maneuverability wins out over payload every time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 02:33 PM (guGkK)

64 That's scary, to me.
Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:28 PM (6wpGE)

"Okay now set it there and get the next one."
"What? No way. That's rubber."
"It'll take it. Set it down we have to be quick."
Sets down pie tin and waits.
"Damn. It did it."
"I said QUICK!!"

Posted by: Reforger in training at June 07, 2026 02:33 PM (ZxzYs)

65 I'd put it in the corral as best I can.

Because we have the loonie coins up here, in my part of Ontario, the carts have a slot you put in a loonie to release a chain attached to the cart in front. When you put your cart away, you chain it up and get your dollar back.

It's annoying when you forget about that but I keep loonies in the car just for that.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 02:35 PM (Sco7b)

66 48 The local supermarket now offers three sizes of shopping carts: Standard, small, and extra small. Perhaps this is an effort to differentiate itself from Wal-mart, which only has one size of cart.

My FWP: When I return my cart to the cart corral in the parking lot, I find the corral is set up to contain only two rows of carts, and the rows are not marked for size. Should I:
a. Go ahead and shove my cart into a row, all higgily-piggily and willy-nilly?
b. Carefully sort the carts out by size, placing them in rows, and leave the smallest row outside the corral?
c. Act like a Democrat and just abandon my cart in the parking lot and let somebody else worry about it?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 07, 2026 02:25 PM (TR4+2)

"Get on the cart!"

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:35 PM (6wpGE)

67 Grilling ribeye's today. Mushrooms going into the cast iron. I keep a towel or two on the oven handle when I take the pan off the heat. Off to prep the mashy taters now, so I'll miss the food thread. Bon apetit...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 07, 2026 02:35 PM (nbLIj)

68 I always go for the small cart. Maneuverability wins out over payload every time.

Words never spoken in Costco.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 02:36 PM (Riz8t)

69 67 Grilling ribeye's today. Mushrooms going into the cast iron. ... Off to prep the mashy taters....
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 07, 2026 02:35 PM (nbLIj)

yum

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:36 PM (6wpGE)

70 Send the wife to the shopping center.

Hermit life is good.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 02:37 PM (ZxzYs)

71 Because we have the loonie coins up here, in my part of Ontario, the carts have a slot you put in a loonie to release a chain attached to the cart in front. When you put your cart away, you chain it up and get your dollar back.

Wow. A dollar. Aldi's uses the same system and it's only a quarter.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 02:37 PM (lJ0H4)

72 Sounds like a growth market for Spatula City.

Posted by: Conniving Capitalist at June 07, 2026 02:37 PM (CJnkZ)

73 Dreary overcast here, cooking purplehull peas and rice with biscuits, you know, comfort food.

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2026 02:38 PM (LHPAg)

74 1st World Problem: Valero in Kali

A profitable refinery did not collapse. It escaped. Valero chose to spend $1 billion to exit California, shutting down its Benicia refinery years ahead of schedule and taking roughly 8% of the state’s refining capacity off the map. Punishing fines, unpredictable carbon credit rules, and relentless regulatory pressure made staying in business more costly than walking away from a billion dollars. When a World War II-era refinery with skilled workers, existing infrastructure, and real output cannot attract a single buyer, the conclusion is hard to avoid: California’s energy policies are not just squeezing industry, they are driving it out.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 02:38 PM (lwhHh)

75 I always go for the small cart. Maneuverability wins out over payload every time.

Words never spoken in Costco.
Posted by: Archimedes
___________

Kroger got rid of the hand baskets where I'm at. Nothing but carts. Don't know why.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 07, 2026 02:38 PM (XvL8K)

76 Grilling ribeye's today

*squints sourly*

Ribeye's what?

Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant at June 07, 2026 02:38 PM (guGkK)

77 I'm supposed to go shooting in a couple of hours. I got a bad case of the lazies right now though.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 02:41 PM (ZxzYs)

78 I will do such amazingly stupid things. Like, "Hey I think I need to adjust the racks", and I will proceed to take the oven pan out using my mitt, set the mitt down, and proceed to rearrange the oven racks, at 400degrees with my bare hands. Also I will take out a cast iron dutch oven at 350degree, set it on top the oven, set my mitts down, and proceed to lift the lid off with my bare hands.

Wearing the gloves is like a constant reminder that I'm dumb and need to be careful. I think that's the biggest way they passively help me. I put them on and keep them on until I think I'm completely done with the oven.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 02:41 PM (3uBP9)

79 75 I always go for the small cart. Maneuverability wins out over payload every time.

Words never spoken in Costco.
Posted by: Archimedes
___________

Kroger got rid of the hand baskets where I'm at. Nothing but carts. Don't know why.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 07, 2026 02:38 PM (XvL8K)

To sell more, I'd think. You fill a hand basket and there's one more item you'd get, but your hand basket's full.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:42 PM (6wpGE)

80 76 Grilling ribeye's today

*squints sourly*

Ribeye's what?
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant at June 07, 2026 02:38 PM (guGkK)

ribeye's today

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:42 PM (6wpGE)

81 >>> Because we have the loonie coins up here, in my part of Ontario, the carts have a slot you put in a loonie to release a chain attached to the cart in front. When you put your cart away, you chain it up and get your dollar back.

Maybe your supermarket is selling carts for $1 CDN

Posted by: fluffy at June 07, 2026 02:42 PM (V0/Sp)

82 I always go for the small cart. Maneuverability wins out over payload every time.

Words never spoken in Costco.
Posted by: Archimedes
___________

Kroger got rid of the hand baskets where I'm at. Nothing but carts. Don't know why.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 07, 2026 02:38 PM (XvL8K)

My guess is that they can't easily guilt you into putting them back, and have to have employees do it from the checkout lanes.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 02:42 PM (qx7Zg)

83 My FWP is that I saw a group of words in order, and they don't make sense:

own a gun

There are people who stop at one?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 02:45 PM (qx7Zg)

84 To sell more, I'd think. You fill a hand basket and there's one more item you'd get, but your hand basket's full.
Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:42 PM (6wpGE)

They've probably got hours and hours of video people trying to stuff a frozen pizza into one after a round through the store and just leaving the pizza behind.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 02:45 PM (ZxzYs)

85 Wow. A dollar. Aldi's uses the same system and it's only a quarter.
Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 02:37 PM (lJ0H4)

Checked the loonie/dollar exchange rate recently?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 07, 2026 02:45 PM (TR4+2)

86 Some stores had smaller carts for kids. I asked about it once and the idea was to teach kids proper etiquette and responsibility. 99.99999% of the time those carts were taken by kids in families in which that was never ever going to happen. They were weapons. I don't see those around anymore.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 02:45 PM (3uBP9)

87 81 >>> Because we have the loonie coins up here, in my part of Ontario, the carts have a slot you put in a loonie to release a chain attached to the cart in front. When you put your cart away, you chain it up and get your dollar back.
+++
Aldi stores in the US do that. It requires a quarter.
It makes a lot of sense. No rouge carts doing damage in the parking lot and you don't have to pay employees to keep rounding them up.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 02:46 PM (CJnkZ)

88 No rouge carts doing damage in the parking lot…

I always choose the rouge carts over the carmine carts.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 07, 2026 02:47 PM (kYmoU)

89 It doesn't look like a glove, more like a pot holder.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 07, 2026 02:48 PM (bss/y)

90 Grilling ribeye's today

*squints sourly*

Ribeye's what?
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant at June 07, 2026 02:38 PM (guGkK)

Good catch. Not sure why my apostrophe muscle memory kicked in at that moment. Can't be too careful with spelling and grammar around here, given the unfounded tumo - I mean, rumors that have been flying around here...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 07, 2026 02:48 PM (nbLIj)

91 I always choose the rouge carts over the carmine carts.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 07, 2026 02:47 PM (kYmoU)

Rogue versus Rouge. I had to look it up.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 07, 2026 02:49 PM (TR4+2)

92 >>>Grilling ribeye's today. Mushrooms going into the cast iron. I keep a towel or two on the oven handle when I take the pan off the heat. Off to prep the mashy taters now, so I'll miss the food thread. Bon apetit...

Posted by: Joe Kidd

>Don't forget the AOSHQ steak sauce.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 02:49 PM (pSkMS)

93 Heh. What word was I looking for? Rogue, I guess. Love the quick wit around here.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 02:49 PM (CJnkZ)

94
oven mitt (British English oven glove)
noun
a padded mitten for handling hot dishes and pans.

mitten
noun
a glove with two sections, one for the thumb and the other for all four fingers.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:49 PM (6wpGE)

95 mitten
noun
A map of the state of Michigan.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 02:51 PM (CJnkZ)

96 The Ove Glove. We have 4 and they are almost indestructible. I can bring a cast iron pan straight from the hot oven and carry it for minutes without searing my flesh.

Posted by: LASue at June 07, 2026 02:51 PM (lCppi)

97 96 The Ove Glove. We have 4 and they are almost indestructible. I can bring a cast iron pan straight from the hot oven and carry it for minutes without searing my flesh.
Posted by: LASue at June 07, 2026 02:51 PM (lCppi)

Neat name.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:52 PM (6wpGE)

98 >>>Don't forget the AOSHQ steak sauce.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 02:49 PM (pSkMS)

Is that like bum gravy?

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 02:52 PM (3uBP9)

99 I break in my oven mitts by raping them. To show them who's boss. I run the kitchen. Not those little oven sluts.

Posted by: Graham Platner at June 07, 2026 02:52 PM (f3DLx)

100 100

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:52 PM (6wpGE)

101 break in my oven mitts by raping them. To show them who's boss. I run the kitchen. Not those little oven sluts.
Posted by: Graham Platner

You go, boy!

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein, ficus fucker at June 07, 2026 02:54 PM (rzEIv)

102 Is bum gravy a low-budget hobo fixin? Or is it made from actual bums?

Posted by: The Limping Gourmet at June 07, 2026 02:54 PM (f3DLx)

103 I once read a short novel where the author consistently spelled "minion" as "mignon." A speech-to-text problem, perhaps.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 07, 2026 02:54 PM (TR4+2)

104 mitten
noun
a glove with two sections, one for the thumb and the other for all four fingers.
Posted by: m

Since we are arguing about definitions of simple words that even grade school kids know....

... connected by a string which runs through the shirt or coat sleeves so mama's precious little spawn won't lose a mitten and burn its whittle handses.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 02:55 PM (/lPRQ)

105 A profitable refinery did not collapse. It escaped. Valero chose to spend $1 billion to exit California, shutting down its Benicia refinery years ahead of schedule and taking roughly 8% of the state’s refining capacity off the map. Punishing fines, unpredictable carbon credit rules, and relentless regulatory pressure made staying in business more costly than walking away from a billion dollars. When a World War II-era refinery with skilled workers, existing infrastructure, and real output cannot attract a single buyer, the conclusion is hard to avoid: California’s energy policies are not just squeezing industry, they are driving it out.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 02:38 PM (lwhHh)

Smart people there at Valero. Generally conservative; know Newsome is no bueno and finally had enough.

Posted by: LASue at June 07, 2026 02:55 PM (lCppi)

106 Maybe not exactly a problem, but…

Noticed that the latest ~~toilet paper~~ bathroom tissue was the "new, improved" type with wavy (vs straight) perforation. It may actually tear a little more cleanly, but they probably could've improved the straight perfs so they actually tear more easily.

MiladyJo did not get this intentionally. She wonders if this is all they're going to offer in the future. I wonder if there's a ½" additional "unusable surface" waste. For rea$ons.

Wavy perforations: the biggest improvement in ~~toilet paper~~ bathroom tissue since the cardboard core!

Posted by: mindful webworker - use the rabbit at June 07, 2026 02:56 PM (dn9xm)

107 Like unto CBD's pot holder conundrum, my FWP was similar. I use a one quart sauce pan when camping. The metal handle gets very hot, so I added a black silicone insulated sleeve to it. However, when the pan is empty and the lid is removed, the weight of the silicone insulator causes the pan to tip over.
A cloth insulating sleeve solved the problem because it doesn't weigh too much.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 02:56 PM (CJnkZ)

108 Sew So Happy Folding Oval Clamshell Pot Holder/Oven Mitt

Looks similar!

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:56 PM (6wpGE)

109 Meh. I like my Ove Golve.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2026 02:58 PM (neMKr)

110 Don't forget the AOSHQ steak sauce.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 02:49 PM (pSkMS)

Is that like bum gravy?
Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 02:52 PM (3uBP9)

I'm not a steak sauce guy, but just before pulling them off the grill, I'll hit them with a rosemary herbed butter. I do not do this with strips and Tbones, but ribeyes and filets really seem to benefit with a bit of rosemary or oregano..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 07, 2026 02:59 PM (nbLIj)

111 I can bring a cast iron pan straight from the hot oven and carry it for minutes without searing my flesh.

Posted by: LASue at June 07, 2026 02:51 PM (lCppi)

These slip on and off in a flash...that's one reason I like them so much.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 02:59 PM (iERP6)

112 We've embraced silicon cooking utensils. They don't scratch the old coated pots and pans and can be used at the grill or smoker.

Easy to clean.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 02:59 PM (jehhT)

113 Mitts and pot holders work fine for the kitchen, but for the grill, I'm confident my gloves can handle any task. Pot holders are not for beginners.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 02:59 PM (pSkMS)

114 Bathroom tissue perforations?

Don't get me started on paper towels.
Why must all paper towels be rectangular now?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 03:00 PM (CJnkZ)

115 People who drive away from the grocery without returning the cart to the corral should be run down by pursuit cars

PIT maneuver to stop their car
dragged out and horse-whipped
video posted online
as a warning to the others

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 03:00 PM (ZxPkt)

116 Because we have the loonie coins up here, in my part of Ontario, the carts have a slot you put in a loonie to release a chain attached to the cart in front. When you put your cart away, you chain it up and get your dollar back.

It's annoying when you forget about that but I keep loonies in the car just for that.
Posted by: Stateless

Not often I go to those stores, but I usually get lucky and see a cart in the parking lot closer than the cart return, back my cart up to it, make a little shopping cart 69, and score a quarter.

Years later.... the carts are probably still out in the parking lot as the stores are too cheap to pay some kid to round them up.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 03:03 PM (/lPRQ)

117 In our safe room with grandpups

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 03:03 PM (3UbC6)

118 People who drive away from the grocery without returning the cart to the corral should be run down by pursuit cars

Musk has this problem already solved. Self-driving carts that put themselves away. I had one the last time I went to the grocery store. Apparently it needed to be stored in the chocolate aisle.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 07, 2026 03:03 PM (kYmoU)

119 People who drive away from the grocery without returning the cart to the corral should be run down by pursuit cars

How does "hooking the front wheels of the cart over the aisle divider curbs" qualify in this scheme?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 03:03 PM (guGkK)

120 Most memorable oven mitt disaster for me was when I was taking a hot cast iron pan out of the oven, set at 400. Couldn’t find the oven mitt, so just grabbed a wet cloth that I’d been wiping up with.

Didn’t realize that the water in the cloth would turn to steam as soon as it made contact with the pan, and par-boil my hand!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 03:03 PM (3mtTi)

121 Musk has this problem already solved. Self-driving carts that put themselves away. I had one the last time I went to the grocery store. Apparently it needed to be stored in the chocolate aisle.

You start letting shopping carts make their own decisions and you're just asking for trouble.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 03:04 PM (guGkK)

122 Wavy perforations: the biggest improvement in toilet paper bathroom tissue since the cardboard core!
Posted by: mindful webworker

They're supposed to make it easier to tear?

I thought they were just decorative.

Actually, I figured some Charmin employee earned himself a bonus check for filing the patent for "Method and Apparatus for Sine-Wave Perforation Patterns on Sanitary Tissue."

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 03:04 PM (VHUov)

123 Cooking is for servants!

Posted by: Oven Mitt Romney at June 07, 2026 03:04 PM (f3DLx)

124 I legit thought this was the food thread and that was a collapsed brioche.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 03:05 PM (kpS4V)

125 .My FWP is truck may need transmission or parts there of.
It has lots of other issues

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 03:05 PM (qEb4U)

126 or stop cooking.
----------
Oh no, mister. You get back in the kitchen. Oven mitts - end of life - not CBD.

Posted by: scampydog at June 07, 2026 03:08 PM (41CYW)

127 Some years ago a neighbor lady removed something hot from the oven and immediately hung the oven mitt on a hook on the side of a cabinet. The mitt was SO HOT it actually caused the wooden kitchen cabinet to ignite and started a fire.
Fire trucks, ambulance, EMTs...the whole eight and a half yards.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 03:09 PM (CJnkZ)

128 Is bum gravy a low-budget hobo fixin? Or is it made from actual bums?
Posted by: The Limping Gourmet

Just the rump.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 03:10 PM (/lPRQ)

129 Maybe not exactly a problem, but…

Noticed that the latest toilet paper bathroom tissue was the "new, improved" type with wavy (vs straight) perforation. It may actually tear a little more cleanly, but they probably could've improved the straight perfs so they actually tear more easily.

MiladyJo did not get this intentionally. She wonders if this is all they're going to offer in the future. I wonder if there's a ½" additional "unusable surface" waste. For rea$ons.

Wavy perforations: the biggest improvement in toilet paper bathroom tissue since the cardboard core!

Posted by: mindful webworker - use the rabbit at June 07, 2026 02:56 PM

Rolled crapping paper.......what a luxury.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 03:11 PM (0N4FZ)

130 You have toilet paper?? Luxury!

Posted by: Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed at June 07, 2026 03:12 PM (vFG9F)

131 Ain't no math like TP and paper towel math.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 03:12 PM (CJnkZ)

132 Wavy perforations: the biggest improvement in toilet paper bathroom tissue since the cardboard core!
Posted by: mindful webworker - use the rabbit at June 07, 2026 02:56 PM (dn9xm)

No perforations needed.
I can tear TP almost like it is made of tissue paper.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 03:12 PM (/lPRQ)

133 Giving door gop

Posted by: Paul at June 07, 2026 03:12 PM (6PD/b)

134 The fix is in.

Spencer Pratt May End Up Being Shut Out of LA Mayoral Race

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 03:13 PM (ndZc7)

135 Rolled crapping paper.......what a luxury.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 03:11 PM (0N4FZ)

Yep. We were so poor that my mom forced us kids to go out in the neighbor's yard to drag our butt on the grass like a dog.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 03:13 PM (yEL0o)

136 Noticed that today's book thread was also an art thread but mostly a food thread.

Then we come here and find it, relatively, is also a food thread. Not so sure about the "art," though.

Discussions in the food thread should be about books. And art. And boobs, of course.

https://bit.ly/pierced-cupcakes

Posted by: mindful webworker - careful on that image search, podner at June 07, 2026 03:13 PM (dn9xm)

137 127 Some years ago a neighbor lady removed something hot from the oven and immediately hung the oven mitt on a hook on the side of a cabinet. The mitt was SO HOT it actually caused the wooden kitchen cabinet to ignite and started a fire.
Fire trucks, ambulance, EMTs...the whole eight and a half yards.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 03:09 PM (CJnkZ)

wow

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 03:13 PM (6wpGE)

138 "Don't get me started on paper towels.
Why must all paper towels be rectangular now?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty"

My dad hates those too. To save the planet, I guess. Never mind they are made from a renewable resource.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 03:14 PM (vFG9F)

139 Speaking of FWPs . .

Tipping Fatigue Explodes as Diners Rebel Against Ever-Present Gratuity Prompts

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 03:14 PM (ndZc7)

140 Good food is an art. Good cookbooks are a treasure.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 07, 2026 03:15 PM (qFwJc)

141 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at June 07, 2026 03:15 PM (CJnkZ)

142 My dad's the kind of guy who would send paper towels back to Amazon because they sent the wrong size.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 03:15 PM (vFG9F)

143 135 Rolled crapping paper.......what a luxury.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 03:11 PM (0N4FZ)

Yep. We were so poor that my mom forced us kids to go out in the neighbor's yard to drag our butt on the grass like a dog.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 03:13 PM (yEL0o)

You lived next to a neighbor with a lawn!?

Luxury!

Posted by: The Game is a Foot at June 07, 2026 03:15 PM (f3DLx)

144 Meanwhile, in Texas . . .

Texas Rangers to Hold “Faith and Family Night” Instead of Celebrating Pride Night

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 03:16 PM (ndZc7)

145 Paper towels....

My wife goes through them like lightning. She's a bit of a germaphobe and after wiping her hands on one, it's trashed. A roll lasts, maybe, 10 days.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 03:16 PM (jehhT)

146 "Spencer Pratt May End Up Being Shut Out of LA Mayoral Race"

Write-in campaign.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 07, 2026 03:16 PM (qFwJc)

147 My FWP: When I return my cart to the cart corral in the parking lot, I find the corral is set up to contain only two rows of carts, and the rows are not marked for size. Should I…
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

If the two rows are of different size, the largest carts go in the larger row, of course. In the smaller row, if there are already small carts but you have a smallest cart, you are supposed to pull all the carts out and sort them by size, then push them back in.

Then go back to the store's service desk and demand wages.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's all so simple, really at June 07, 2026 03:17 PM (dn9xm)

148 "Spencer Pratt May End Up Being Shut Out of LA Mayoral Race
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy"

What happens in other parts of the country does affect everybody else and that's why there needs to be more Federal regulation of elections, even state ones.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 03:17 PM (vFG9F)

149 If we can get CBD barefoot and back in the kitchen, I'd buy him some new mitts.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 03:17 PM (pSkMS)

150 Intercepting missiles in the air.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 03:18 PM (3UbC6)

151 Some years ago a neighbor lady removed something hot from the oven and immediately hung the oven mitt on a hook on the side of a cabinet. The mitt was SO HOT it actually caused the wooden kitchen cabinet to ignite and started a fire.
Fire trucks, ambulance, EMTs...the whole eight and a half yards.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

She could just tell them she was cooking up some meth...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 03:18 PM (/lPRQ)

152 Rich states don't want them
We would rather pay an extra 10 cents per hal and have poor Ted states do it
Posted by: Paul at June 07, 2026 03:12 PM (6PD/b)

In actual fact California will now be getting much of its gas from Mexico and Indonesia, places with no environmental protections at all. This is what feel good “environmentalism” does; it actually creates much worse environmental issues while allowing foolish wealthy people to feel good about their moral purity.

And in the end, California will pay twice for gasoline what the rest of the country is paying.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 03:19 PM (3mtTi)

153 >>> 146 "Spencer Pratt May End Up Being Shut Out of LA Mayoral Race"

Write-in campaign.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 07, 2026 03:16 PM (qFwJc)

Drive-in campaign. Rent cars and show up with trunks full of ballots.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 07, 2026 03:19 PM (R+iUD)

154 "Spencer Pratt May End Up Being Shut Out of LA Mayoral Race"

Write-in campaign.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 07, 2026 03:16 PM (qFwJc)

Your trust in the system is ... charming.

Posted by: The Ones Who Count The Votes at June 07, 2026 03:19 PM (yEL0o)

155 Paper towels....

My wife goes through them like lightning. She's a bit of a germaphobe and after wiping her hands on one, it's trashed. A roll lasts, maybe, 10 days.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I go through paper towels quickly also. That's why I always have 5 or 6 rolls in reserve. I buy the big multi packs.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 03:19 PM (lJ0H4)

156 I've never even considered oven mitts before. They are just there, in drawer in the kitchen. It's not something I spend a lot of time thinking about. In fact, I just spent more time thinking about it than I ever have.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 03:20 PM (vFG9F)

157 CBD ... Without knowing exactly WHY you consider your old mitts to be "perfect", here are a few suggestions:

Le Creuset Pot Grips (williams-sonoma.com)
Caraway Pot Holder (carawayhome.com)
Choice 8" Round Terry Cloth Pot Holder (Webrestaurantstore.com)
Search for "Pot Pinchers" rather than "Pot Holders"
Visit Etsy for various mini pincher mitts

Posted by: Kathy at June 07, 2026 03:20 PM (MOK4W)

158 Never mind shouldn’t have quoted the fool.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 03:20 PM (3mtTi)

159 134 The fix is in.

Forgrt it Jake, its Chinatown

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 03:20 PM (qEb4U)

160 Burn the kitchen down, buy new mitts, build new kitchen to match their theme.
Posted by: RandomDave

What's this 'match' crap?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2026 03:22 PM (diia5)

161 I kind of like the new hash. It seems friendly.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 03:22 PM (yEL0o)

162 Some years ago a neighbor lady removed something hot from the oven and immediately hung the oven mitt on a hook on the side of a cabinet. The mitt was SO HOT it actually caused the wooden kitchen cabinet to ignite and started a fire.
Fire trucks, ambulance, EMTs...the whole eight and a half yards.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Step 1. Find out what she used to clean her kitchen cabinets.

Step B. Never use that in your own house.

Step 3. Maybe keep it in the back of your mind in case you need an accelerant someday.....

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 03:24 PM (VHUov)

163 117 In our safe room with grandpups
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 03:03 PM (3UbC6)

Prayers up BDS. Stay safe.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 03:24 PM (ZxzYs)

164 We just are like another whne arg bonna diggle

Posted by: Pawl at June 07, 2026 03:24 PM (vFG9F)

165 People who drive away from the grocery without returning the cart to the corral should be run down by pursuit cars

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This employee is working the problem.

https://tinyurl.com/4jkbekfz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 03:25 PM (ndZc7)

166 161 I kind of like the new hash. It seems friendly.
Posted by: Cicero
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No yEL0o!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at June 07, 2026 03:25 PM (CJnkZ)

167 No, you just inherit the most ridiculous crap from two parent sets and pretend it's vintage while realizing you can't clean any of it to make sense of 1970's shite because it's all garbage that's just slightly better than the china shit we throw away weekly. * huffs ... Gimme a moment .... *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2026 03:25 PM (diia5)

168 "Step 1. Find out what she used to clean her kitchen cabinets.

Step B. Never use that in your own house.

Step 3. Maybe keep it in the back of your mind in case you need an accelerant someday.....
Posted by: mikeski"

Rubbed 'em down with linseed oil.

Posted by: Pawl at June 07, 2026 03:25 PM (vFG9F)

169 There is, fortunately, a Third Way! Keep using these as they are and use them until they are naught but an collexion of worn and hoary threadlets. Sure, there'll be burns, but hey!, there's also the memories of all the great things they've been a part of. Do not listen to the Siren Song of New Cheap Gloves - they have no loyalty these days, y' know – and they're prolly Chinese, too …

Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 03:27 PM (ayRl+)

170 161 I kind of like the new hash. It seems friendly.
Posted by: Cicero
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No yEL0o!
Posted by: Hunter Biden at June 07, 2026 03:25 PM (CJnkZ)
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Lol. Well done.

Posted by: scampydog at June 07, 2026 03:27 PM (41CYW)

171 nd even hit up you maniacs for advice

Our expertise lies in first aid, and relationship and dating advice. Have you tried Little Green Footballs or Instapundit?

Posted by: HordeSource (tm) at June 07, 2026 03:28 PM (0sNs1)

172 AI says Valero will ship gasoline into California. So, they reduced US capacity by 170kb/ day.

Posted by: Accomack at June 07, 2026 03:28 PM (wkU1F)

173 Pot holders. Hash.

The constant drug talk is disgusting.

Posted by: Temperance Goodbody at June 07, 2026 03:28 PM (f3DLx)

174 Pot holders. Hash.
The constant drug talk is disgusting.
Posted by: Temperance Goodbody

You can't hold your pot and smoke it too.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 03:30 PM (W5mpo)

175 Or how bout the fat slobs that leave the scooters all over the parking lot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 07, 2026 03:31 PM (rzEIv)

176 3rd Iranian missile wave on the way.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 03:32 PM (3UbC6)

177 Is it just me or does this look like a toilet seat cover that didn't get raised a couple times?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 03:32 PM (2WIwB)

178 Webglobgleep.

Posted by: Paul at June 07, 2026 03:32 PM (6PD/b)

179 Worn and Hoary Threadlets used to tour with The Luvin' Spoonful back in the day.

Posted by: Music nerd at June 07, 2026 03:32 PM (CJnkZ)

180 134 The fix is in.

Spencer Pratt May End Up Being Shut Out of LA Mayoral Race
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 03:13 PM (ndZc7)

Who could have seen this coming?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 07, 2026 03:33 PM (bss/y)

181 175 Or how bout the fat slobs that leave the scooters all over the parking lot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 07, 2026 03:31 PM (rzEIv)

Well the scooters don't exactly drive themselves back to the store.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 03:33 PM (ZxzYs)

182 The mitt was SO HOT it actually caused the wooden kitchen cabinet to ignite and started a fire.…
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

That's… kind of hard to imagine.

Was the cabinet really that flammable? Made of pine so the sap ignited?

Perhaps the mitt was smoldering already unnoticed?

We need more info on this mystery.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the case of the smoldering kitchen mitt at June 07, 2026 03:34 PM (dn9xm)

183 176 3rd Iranian missile wave on the way.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 03:32 PM (3UbC6)

Thank goodness there's a ceasefire for negotiations.

Posted by: gormless observer at June 07, 2026 03:34 PM (f3DLx)

184 The mitt was SO HOT it actually caused the wooden kitchen cabinet to ignite and started a fire.

A few weeks ago, I was baking something (I no longer remember what it was—that wasn’t the memorable part) at 500°. I had the bright idea of using parchment paper instead of greasing and dusting the pan, to make it easier to remove the baked good from the pan.

Bradbury fans can guess what happened next, and very quickly after putting the dish into the oven.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 07, 2026 03:35 PM (kYmoU)

185 *Well the scooters don't exactly drive themselves back to the store.*

https://youtu.be/__NoZ6p1roc

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at June 07, 2026 03:35 PM (CJnkZ)

186 My wife goes through them like lightning. She's a bit of a germaphobe and after wiping her hands on one, it's trashed. A roll lasts, maybe, 10 days.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 03:16 PM

10 days? I am lucky to get a roll to last 3 days and we use those bounty ones that are half sheets. I have OCD and have an issue with "contamination" in the kitchen and a grease down the kitchen sink phobia.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 03:36 PM (0N4FZ)

187 Damn.
Second round of prayers BDS.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 03:36 PM (ZxzYs)

188 181 175 Or how bout the fat slobs that leave the scooters all over the parking lot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 07, 2026 03:31 PM (rzEIv)

Well the scooters don't exactly drive themselves back to the store.
Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 03:33 PM (ZxzYs)

Am I the only one on planet earth who still rolls into a parking lot and chooses a space, not furthest from the door, but off by itself with no cars (which can end up being furthest from the door?) Not just because I have door damage aversion. I like walking. I'd like to keep doing it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 07, 2026 03:36 PM (bss/y)

189 10 days? I am lucky to get a roll to last 3 days and we use those bounty ones that are half sheets. I have OCD and have an issue with "contamination" in the kitchen and a grease down the kitchen sink phobia.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2026 03:36 PM (0N4FZ)

Viva Cloth. I am just ruined for other paper towels.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 07, 2026 03:37 PM (bss/y)

190
172 AI says Valero will ship gasoline into California. So, they reduced US capacity by 170kb/ day.
Posted by: Accomack at June 07, 2026 03:28 PM (wkU1F)

No choice - California is an “energy island” with respect to the rest of the US, because they never allowed pipelines to be built which could have connected them to the Gulf refineries in Texas and Louisiana.

Train transport is horribly inefficient and not available for the volumes required. It must be brought in by ocean going tankers. But large oil tankers cannot go through Panama, and instead most go around the tip of South America.

So in terms of actual transportation mileage, Texas and Louisiana are 12,500 miles away from Los Angeles, while Indonesia is a less expensive 8,000 miles away. So that’s where the oil and gas will come from.

And these are the kinds of choices a state is left with after making idiotic energy decisions for 30 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 03:37 PM (3mtTi)

191 B's D

get small, friend

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 03:37 PM (ZxPkt)

192 This administration, for whatever reason is not playing war to win.
Maybe because they won't get the Marxists to declare war on their Muslim brothers

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 03:37 PM (qEb4U)

193 Perhaps the mitt was smoldering already unnoticed?

We need more info on this mystery.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the case of the smoldering kitchen mitt at June 07, 2026 03:34 PM
***
I think so. I never got a factual firsthand account.
It just became the stuff of neighborhood lore.

Like the stories about The Widow Douglas.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 03:38 PM (CJnkZ)

194 There is always a reason to bomb Iran. The mistake was making a big deal of it.

Posted by: Accomack at June 07, 2026 03:39 PM (wkU1F)

195 "Technically, Norfolk has more gross tonnage."

Posted by: Obscure and oblique Seinfeld reference at June 07, 2026 03:40 PM (CJnkZ)

196 So,... are we bombing Iran yet?

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 03:41 PM (ZxzYs)

197 That’s what Valero claims they will do.
The real issue is the loss of capacity.

Posted by: Accomack at June 07, 2026 03:41 PM (wkU1F)

198 WTF? Did any of you see the HelloFresh ad campaign (over at Insty.)

Prep your colon for pride month with high fiber foods!

What a fucking world. Stop the planet. I want off.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 07, 2026 03:41 PM (bss/y)

199 We have a new name for the month of June.

Posted by: HelloFag at June 07, 2026 03:42 PM (CJnkZ)

200 Glirp.gleep.gloop!

Posted by: Paul at June 07, 2026 03:42 PM (6PD/b)

201 Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 07, 2026 03:36 PM (bss/y)

I take the first available parking space. People who get as close as possible to the store doors and then wait for a space to open up means the terrorists have won.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 03:43 PM (iERP6)

202 Fleeb gore blipgob

Posted by: Paul at June 07, 2026 03:44 PM (6PD/b)

203 Posted by: Kathy at June 07, 2026 03:20 PM (MOK4W)

I despise silicone mitts of all designs, and I think they are an engine of the devil.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iERP6)

204 Stepehn Price Blair, that's what aluminum foil is for!

Posted by: RandomDave at June 07, 2026 03:46 PM (aJQbY)

205 Planning to burglarize Graham Platner's home?

We've got you covered in case things go awry!

Posted by: HELLO FRESH at June 07, 2026 03:49 PM (f3DLx)

206 I despise silicone mitts of all designs, and I think they are an engine of the devil.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 03:46 PM

Replace the 'm' with a 't', and it is equally valid.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2026 03:49 PM (0sNs1)

207 Heads up for those interested. Women's golf open fian round NBC over the air begins at 5pm edt. It's been great so far.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 07, 2026 03:49 PM (sl73Y)

208 My FWP.

My town has a DOMINOS!!! And I like it.

They have a buy one pizza and get one more for a dollar. But I'm one person in the house. However, I can eat the same thing for days.

And pineapple pizza sounds great right now!!!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 03:50 PM (Sco7b)

209 I park in the same distant spot every time.

Because I'm absent minded. And I'll end up walking the parking lot like a small child otherwise.

"Has anyone seen my vroom, vroom?"

Posted by: I'm not 29 enough for this to be okay at June 07, 2026 03:51 PM (f3DLx)

210 Oven mitt material wars begun, they have...

Posted by: In my best Yoda voice at June 07, 2026 03:51 PM (CJnkZ)

211 And pineapple pizza sounds great right now!!!
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 03:50 PM

Begun the Pineapple on Pizza wars have.

Posted by: Yoda at June 07, 2026 03:51 PM (0sNs1)

212 205 Planning to burglarize Graham Platner's home?

We've got you covered in case things go awry!
Posted by: HELLO FRESH at June 07, 2026 03:49 PM (f3DLx)

And NOTHING for the women during Pride month...!!

At least put cucumbers and carrots on sale.
Maybe zucchini...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 03:52 PM (Sco7b)

213 At least put cucumbers and carrots on sale.
Maybe zucchini...
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 03:52 PM

None of which are ribbed.

Posted by: WNBAPA at June 07, 2026 03:53 PM (0sNs1)

214 >So,... are we bombing Iran yet?
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on even-numbered days only
odd-numbered days we negotiate

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 03:54 PM (ZxPkt)

215 Posted by: I'm not 29 enough for this to be okay at June 07, 2026 03:51 PM (f3DLx)

Hah!

I have wandered a parking lot or two in my time..

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 03:55 PM (iERP6)

216 Demographics - white residents in California have about the same life expectancy as white residents anywhere; same goes for Hispanic residents, same goes for black residents. The only real difference between individual states is in their racial demographic makeup. It’s well documented that black residents everywhere have a lower life expectancy than all other demographic groups; the reasons for that are an entirely different topic, too large for this discussion.

Suffice it to say, in the terms of this topic, that California shows to have a higher average life expectancy than, say, Mississippi because Mississippi is 37% black, while California is only 5% black.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 03:58 PM (3mtTi)

217 BD.
Throw on some Creedance.
Hunker in the Bunker.
Prayers for you all.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 04:00 PM (2WIwB)

218 FOOD NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 04:01 PM (qEb4U)

219
Tipping Fatigue Explodes as Diners Rebel Against Ever-Present Gratuity Prompts
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 03:14 PM (ndZc7)

Me too. I tip actual wait staff well, but I flat out refuse to tip even a penny to the cashier at fucking Burger King or the local 7-11.

I'm pretty sure it's a scam by the management to pay shitty wages to their illegal alien workforce.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 07, 2026 04:02 PM (FkdoK)

220 I can’t imagine a legitimate reason for AA’s to have a lower life expectancy.
I have too pot holders a lady at church made. I use wet towels with cast iron.
If the Iran business turns into a farce of boobs and slurs, did the terrorists win?

Posted by: Accomack at June 07, 2026 04:03 PM (wkU1F)

221 >>>@203 I despise silicone mitts of all designs, and I think they are an engine of the devil. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iERP6)
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Greetings, CBD ... Many of the mitts I suggested @157 were made of cloth ... The Le Creuset Pot Grips, for example, are cotton.

Posted by: Kathy at June 07, 2026 04:30 PM (MOK4W)

222 3rd Iranian missile wave on the way.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 03:32 PM (3UbC6)

Thank goodness there's a ceasefire for negotiations.
Posted by: gormless observer

Ceasefire was for digging out the missile tunnels.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 04:42 PM (/lPRQ)

223 209 I park in the same distant spot every time.

Because I'm absent minded. And I'll end up walking the parking lot like a small child otherwise.

"Has anyone seen my vroom, vroom?"
Posted by: I'm not 29 enough for this to be okay at June 07, 2026 03:51 PM (f3DLx)

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That, and I save my nine year old car from some dings in the parking lot

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 07, 2026 05:30 PM (/K2a0)

224 You're llate to the get together again!

I know. It's a rainy afternoon and I fell asleep

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 07, 2026 05:37 PM (Je+XU)

225 We were so poor that my mom forced us kids to go out in the neighbor's yard to drag our butt on the grass like a dog.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 03:13 PM (yEL0o)

You too? I'm tellin' you....we get no respect!

Posted by: zombie Rodney Dangerfield at June 07, 2026 06:19 PM (5xuJ/)

226 Hello. I cannot tell the design of the mitt from the photo. I would like to know, so I can decide if I would like to make one.

Comments are a firehose. Will someone please direct me to a more understandable image? TYIA.

Posted by: CloseTheFed at June 07, 2026 08:41 PM (lZILf)

227 Notice I am always on the tail end of these things..... Oh well....

Posted by: CloseTheFed at June 07, 2026 08:42 PM (lZILf)

The Democrat Party Is The Party Of Violence And Hatred, And They Are Proving It Every Day

[Hat Tip: TC]

The normalization of violence and class/racial/ethnic hatred is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. Consolidate power, then kill your enemies is the tried-and-true playbook, and the reality is that nothing else will work. A non-violent socialism will fail eventually because of the innate desire of man to better himself, and socialism restricts that possibility.

And they know it. The ruling class of every totalitarian regime in history has internalized the primacy of violence, and see it as a tool to acquire and use power. So the exposure of violent tendencies in a Democrat politician is surprising only because he has allowed the mask to fall away. The violence and hatred is simply part of the political philosophy! From Democrat politicians raping children to their street thugs burning cities...they are indistinguishable from the totalitarians of history because they ARE totalitarians.

Platner Has Best Fundraising Day After Being Accused of Assaulting Women

Graham Platner, the likely Democrat Senate candidate for Maine, who got an SS Nazi tattoo and lied about most of his past, and cheated repeatedly on his wife while she was undergoing IVF was featured in a New York Times article describing how he had abused an ex and discussed raping people.
And raised $200,000 making it his biggest fundraising haul since Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the race.
A whole lot of Dems and lefties are voting with their bucks and supporting what they like .

Violence against women? Rape as a tool of power? That is perfectly acceptable for the Democrat party because the acquisition and exercise of power over the people is the only thing that matters, and any tool that allows them to achieve those goals is perfectly reasonable.

How else to explain Platner's fundraising haul? All of those middle-aged blue-haired lunatic women who find him exciting are curiously quiet when it comes to his casual misogyny. And if they find rape to be acceptable, they certainly won't blink an eye at his Jew-hate.

'What else do we have?' Maine Democrats signal they'll stick with Graham Platner, some with regret

That is a clear signal that power is more important to any ethical standards in the Democrat Party. They would rather have a violent rape-fantasizing Nazi than cede the election to a milquetoast ersatz Republican.

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 Good afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 howdy

Posted by: doug at June 07, 2026 12:02 PM (Hy+R4)

3 I watch Dr Felton often enough, so wonder if Mr Nazi has every bit of insignia absolutely correct.
Because there are rules to follow

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:03 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Nice pic, CBD. Do you, the Dem voter, National Socialist or International Socialist?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 12:04 PM (kpS4V)

5 Notsees and Commies are two brothers that hate each other...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 12:06 PM (l3cgK)

6 Fake but accurate.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 12:06 PM (ndZc7)

7 3 I watch Dr Felton often enough, so wonder if Mr Nazi has every bit of insignia absolutely correct.
Because there are rules to follow
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:03 PM (Ia/+0)
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Don't wear Totenkopf tux before 6:00 p.m.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 12:06 PM (kpS4V)

8 That guy probably doesn't even lock the portapotty when he's in there.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 07, 2026 12:07 PM (rkZTG)

9 7 3 I watch Dr Felton often enough, so wonder if Mr Nazi has every bit of insignia absolutely correct.
Because there are rules to follow
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:03 PM (Ia/+0)
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Don't wear Totenkopf tux before 6:00 p.m.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 12:06 PM (kpS4V)

if you're allergic to Totenkopf, don't use Totenkopf...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 12:07 PM (l3cgK)

10 8 That guy probably doesn't even lock the portapotty when he's in there.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 07, 2026 12:07 PM (rkZTG)

He's the type that'll wait at the bottom of an outhouse pit with a video camera...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 12:08 PM (l3cgK)

11

FoxNews is covering Platner now.

MS Now - Velshi and Senate races to watch.

CNN - GOP pushback against Trump!!! From the most loyal. I'm sure.

CBC - Brace yourselves. There was violence in the Middle East, which is a huge part of CBC broadcasting. Otherwise irt would be curling results.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 12:08 PM (Sco7b)

12 The Democrat party is and always has been the party of sexual deviants, philanderers, sociopaths, mentally ill, homosexuals and communists, they just don't try to hide it anymore.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 07, 2026 12:09 PM (Q/FnY)

13 "What else do we have?" Clearly ethical standards isn't in the mix.

Posted by: windbag at June 07, 2026 12:09 PM (tMgrj)

14 Well if nothing else, the Communists and Nazis are getting the band back together like 1933 revisited

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:09 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Do the two enjoy the sport of cornholing?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 12:09 PM (l3cgK)

16
It was really really long ago, but weren't Nazis allies with Fascists? I keep hearing that we're being ruled by fascists nowadays. So is that good or bad?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 07, 2026 12:10 PM (n7rxJ)

17 Graham Platner exemplifies today's Democrats. He's everything they champion, support and stand for.

Any revulsion shown by them is performative at best.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 12:10 PM (jehhT)

18 This is today's FWP thread, right?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 12:11 PM (WTnTn)

19 Fake but accurate.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

I find this disturbingly true, in more ways than I care to think about.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 07, 2026 12:11 PM (Q/FnY)

20 But what the really want is a good man.

The normalization of violence and class/racial/ethnic hatred is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. Consolidate power, then kill your enemies is the tried-and-true playbook, and the reality is that nothing else will work.

Just look at what segments of the "black community" are doing in response to the Austin Metcalfe murder. A completely nonpolitical figure, a nonpublic figure, a noncontroversial figure, a nobody outside of his own community, stabbed to death for being white. And celebration and money flowed forth to the murderer and his parents. They're standing outside the trial chanting the only good white is a dead white.

Posted by: Bosnia redux? at June 07, 2026 12:12 PM (TbWk/)

21 16
It was really really long ago, but weren't Nazis allies with Fascists? I keep hearing that we're being ruled by fascists nowadays. So is that good or bad?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 07, 2026 12:10 PM (n7rxJ)

Fascists, Notsees, and Commies, oh my!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 12:12 PM (l3cgK)

22 Mrs. Wrecks and I watched the Dateline about Luigi Mangione. My take, he pure f*cking evil. Her take, he was just a little confused.

I fear the effect on the country of two pending trials, Mangione and Karmelo Anthony.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 12:13 PM (ndZc7)

23 Answer: Totenkopf
Question: What do you get when you wear your Pickelhaube upside down!

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at June 07, 2026 12:13 PM (967/Q)

24 It was really really long ago, but weren't Nazis allies with Fascists?

Molotov and Ribbentrop say YES

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 12:13 PM (guGkK)

25 Just look at what segments of the "black community" are doing in response to the Austin Metcalfe murder. A completely nonpolitical figure, a nonpublic figure, a noncontroversial figure, a nobody outside of his own community, stabbed to death for being white. And celebration and money flowed forth to the murderer and his parents. They're standing outside the trial chanting the only good white is a dead white.

LBJ inflicted the mortal wound and The Dogeater poured acid on it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 12:15 PM (guGkK)

26 I saw Ersatz Milquetoast open for Adel al-Jubeir at the Riyahd Folk Fest back in '01.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 07, 2026 12:16 PM (w/O5Q)

27 And celebration and money flowed forth to the murderer and his parents. They're standing outside the trial chanting the only good white is a dead white.

Posted by: Bosnia redux? at June 07, 2026 12:12 PM (TbWk/)

I read about crap like that and want the pendulum swinging back to be sharply edged and slicing throats....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 12:16 PM (Sco7b)

28 $200,000 making it his biggest fundraising haul

That could just be Soros's couch change.

Posted by: DaveA at June 07, 2026 12:16 PM (FhXTo)

29 I watched the first three episodes of Tom Hanks WWII last night. Dealt factually with the whys of Hitlers rise to power. The parallels to the Democrat party are frightening.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 07, 2026 12:17 PM (FL/4Y)

30 There's no money left in my budget for jackboots, but if there was, mine would be of the finest leather.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 12:17 PM (pSkMS)

31 When Graham Platner says, Vee ist der Master race
We heil, heil, right in Graham Platner's face

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 12:18 PM (guGkK)

32 Meanwhile the gop won’t pass a voter ID bill.

Tells you all you need you need to know about the two parties.

Posted by: Heroq at June 07, 2026 12:18 PM (tNkpt)

33 CBD: Violence against women? Rape as a tool of power? That is perfectly acceptable for the Democrat party because the acquisition and exercise of power over the people is the only thing that matters, and any tool that allows them to achieve those goals is perfectly reasonable.

That's a state of mind that's alien to moral, fair-minded people. The two mentalities are literally incomprehensible to one another.

Worth a regular re-read:
The Unbridgeable Abyss: Why Reason and Truth Shatter Against the Leftist Mind
The left, as currently constituted in its activist, academic, and media incarnations, operates under constraints that render genuine dialogue impossible. They do not process truth because they cannot; they do not want it because it threatens the psychic and social scaffolding of their identity. And the venom here is deliberate: this is not mere disagreement…it is civilizational self-sabotage wearing the mask of compassion.
https://tinyurl.com/52678z89
h/t LGD on A♠

Posted by: mindful webworker - still waking up after all these years at June 07, 2026 12:18 PM (dn9xm)

34 > They're standing outside the trial chanting the only good white is a dead white.
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They're likely to kick off a race war. Perhaps just in the immediate area, but still. Whites have had enough of this sort of shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 12:19 PM (jehhT)

35 They're standing outside the trial chanting the only good white is a dead white.

—

Kill the Boer, American style.

Posted by: Heroq at June 07, 2026 12:20 PM (tNkpt)

36 Violence against women? Rape as a tool of power?

I'd like to know how Platner keeps stray dogs out of his yard.

"I fuck 'em once and they never come back"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 12:20 PM (guGkK)

37 Blonde Morticia a quick history lesson
To start, Fascism is the government and everyone works for the state, Communism is more a class warfare as it was stated, of course by 1930s when National Socialism got stsrted it really exchanged Royalist for government. The 2, German Socialists and Russian Communism actually worked together in 30s up to 1941 when Germany invaded Russia.
That day on anyone not a Communist was a Fascist

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:20 PM (Ia/+0)

38 She platner about elected me life an over you independents and maine voted not be
she oh like elect be out you questionable tattoo it little don't a 23 yo marine me life your over trump stay read poisoned you gop brand

Posted by: Paul, who enjoys the sexual affections of dogs at June 07, 2026 12:21 PM (LaDYU)

39 Heh. Paul is suddenly ok with nazi tattoos.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 12:22 PM (guGkK)

40 Questionable tattoo? Lol
Questionable tattoo is a tattoo of a naked chick or something. This is a fucking NAZI ratio. It’s a bit beyond questionable.

Posted by: Heroq at June 07, 2026 12:23 PM (tNkpt)

41 How's that race going Paul?

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 12:23 PM (ZxzYs)

42 And celebration and money flowed forth to the murderer and his parents. They're standing outside the trial chanting the only good white is a dead white.

Posted by: Bosnia redux?

Damn selfish white people just don't want to get raped and murdered!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 12:23 PM (ndZc7)

43 What Democrats tell us are their standards and values are really just tactics.

Posted by: Socratease at June 07, 2026 12:23 PM (YgfoU)

44 Hey Paul look around you. If everyone on your side is an Orc, maybe you're an Orc.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 12:24 PM (guGkK)

45 IF Platner is elected it will only because the Independents of Maine voted for him

If they do elect him despite the questionable tattoo he got as a 23 yo Marine it will be because Trump has completely poisoned the GOP brand.

Posted by: Paul at June 07, 2026 12:21 PM (LaDYU)
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So you're saying that Maine's independent voters are as numbskulled as you. OK. Valid argument.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 12:25 PM (WTnTn)

46 34 > They're standing outside the trial chanting the only good white is a dead white.
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They're likely to kick off a race war. Perhaps just in the immediate area, but still. Whites have had enough of this sort of shit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 12:19 PM (jehhT)

I think a commenter here mentioned that the huge crowds at the trials are probably paid people trying to influence juries. I don't folliw stuff like that but thought it was an interesting point.

I don't know about the 'kill whitey' crowd but I could see that too.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 12:27 PM (Sco7b)

47 Don't play with the troll... You don't know where it's been...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 07, 2026 12:27 PM (lxEw/)

48 The Candy Bar Killer had a side hustle of going to school activities to steal whatever was left unattended, misplaced or just sitting around like cell phones, electronics and the occasional wallet or other goodie in the tents.

Kid was most likely stealing since he fell out the crib.

Posted by: Chocolate Payday at June 07, 2026 12:27 PM (z20w/)

49 Platner is the kind of Democrat who'd more than likely actually enact many of the policies the rank and file Democrats only run their mouths about.

All that's needed for that political ideology is a few people like Platner in office who'll actually do what they claim. Then the herd instinct kicks in and... well, the proverbial shit hits the fan.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 12:28 PM (jehhT)

50 From Democrat politicians raping children to their street thugs burning cities...they are indistinguishable from the totalitarians...

They are desperate for a reaction by conservatives, or just anyone who has had enough. They will push and push until they get one, probably just before the midterms. Then the media propagandists will go into overdrive.
So plan accordingly.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 12:33 PM (2WIwB)

51 Don't play with the troll... You don't know where it's been...
Posted by: It's me donna

Paul is the salad tosser of the bunch.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 07, 2026 12:35 PM (qZb7K)

52
I think a commenter here mentioned that the huge crowds at the trials are probably paid people trying to influence juries.

It was mentioned here that the Karamelo crowd is tiny.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 12:36 PM (Cqx++)

53 If you view your opponent as an existential threat and of complete moral depravity, the use of violence in all fashions becomes justified in your own narrative.

For instance, look at what Israel has done to the people of Palestine.

Posted by: But...It's Different at June 07, 2026 12:38 PM (Q/qow)

54 On a broader level I'm just sick and tired of seeing truly bad people get whatever the fuck they want and good people left broken in the dust. It's exhausting on an existential level.

Posted by: Virtue isn't its own reward, or any at all at June 07, 2026 12:38 PM (TbWk/)

55 I saw Ersatz Milquetoast open for Adel al-Jubeir at the Riyahd Folk Fest back in '01.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 07, 2026 12:16 PM (w/O5Q)

Partied afterwards at Mustafa Mike's. Awesome band and that night was the wet burka contest! Great times...great times.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2026 12:39 PM (2WIwB)

56 Be a shmarty, join the Nazi Party!

Posted by: G. Platner, part-time Oysteman and ful-time Obergruppenfuhrer at June 07, 2026 12:40 PM (5rh/l)

57 Partied afterwards at Mustafa Mike's. Awesome band and that night was the wet burka contest! Great times...great times.
Posted by: Diogenes

You'll get some T&A.

Toes and ankles.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 07, 2026 12:42 PM (qZb7K)

58 Is he a singing Hitler or a dancing Hitler?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 12:43 PM (Cqx++)

59 The Democrat Party is rapidly becoming America’s Islamist party. Platner is obviously a natural ally. The horseshoe alliance of LGBT whites and Islamists in the Dem party are united in their hatred of the U.S. and those who love our country. In a dozen years there will be no room for elected Jews in the Dem party.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 07, 2026 12:43 PM (d9Cw3)

60 What Democrats tell us are their standards and values are really just tactics.

Posted by: Socratease at June 07, 2026 12:23 PM (YgfoU)

Yes...exactly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 12:43 PM (iERP6)

61 Molotov and von Ribbentropp are getting the band back together?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 12:47 PM (qFVoe)

62 I listen to Tony Katz occasionally on the radio, and he made an interesting point when it came to the Democrats and Platner: the Democrats could have run many other people for this spot, and they specifically chose Platner. Therefore, this is a choice-not something that they feel they can't do anything about now because it is too late. All they would have had to do was just a little bit of a background check to find out about this guy, but they went with him anyway. What does this say about the state of the Democratic Party at the moment? At the very least, it says that they are okay with anti-Semitism and misogyny.

Posted by: Wendi Riser at June 07, 2026 12:47 PM (/+XXk)

63 Friday leaving Philadelphia over land ( as opposed to taking highway,) saw quite a few men in whats looked like dresses for Friday prayers.

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:49 PM (Ia/+0)

64 In a dozen years there will be no room for elected Jews in the Dem party.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 07, 2026 12:43 PM (d9Cw3)

Someone should tell Jews that because the overwhelming majority still vote and support Democrats wholeheartedly.

Mamdani (!!) got a majority of Jewish votes for those under 40 years old.

Posted by: Heroq at June 07, 2026 12:50 PM (tNkpt)

65 Deimoscrats - power by any means uber alles!

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 12:50 PM (qFVoe)

66 Friday leaving Philadelphia over land ( as opposed to taking highway,) saw quite a few men in whats looked like dresses for Friday prayers.
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:49 PM (Ia/+0)

Please tell me they were wearing slim black cocktail dresses and matching 5" heels. Lie if you must.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 12:52 PM (qx7Zg)

67 We, at least on this site, decry the craziness of the left.
But, MHOO, if the "news" was down the middle, a huge percentage of the "left" would decide they really don't belong there.
There are maybe 10% actual crazies out there. The rest just want to be nice, and be mean to those icky Trumpites.
How many folks in NYC actually knew what Mandami really is? Who in Maine knows the least bit about Platner?
The solution is MORE information... but, you can lead a horse to water...

Posted by: MkY at June 07, 2026 12:52 PM (q6tQZ)

68 Springtime for Prancing Hitler?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 12:53 PM (qFVoe)

69 One other thing... the Demoncrats are desperate for a "manly man" to lead them out of the miasma.
This Platner is the best they can do!

Posted by: MkY at June 07, 2026 12:54 PM (q6tQZ)

70 Thx CBD
I still believe this summer will be a horror show in the big cities. Add that to the abhorrent candidates the Dems have, Platner, Talarico, whichever person wins the Dem Sen primary in Michigan and the independents will move right in November

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 07, 2026 12:55 PM (zj5z7)

71 whichever person wins the Dem Sen primary in Michigan and the independents will (pretend to) move right in November
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Suggested edit

Posted by: MkY at June 07, 2026 12:56 PM (q6tQZ)

72 There is a Muslim community center in my little township

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:56 PM (Ia/+0)

73 In a dozen years there will be no room for elected Jews in the Dem party.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 07, 2026 12:43 PM (d9Cw3)

I agree. And what is fascinating is that the vast majority of Jews in American politics are thoroughly assimilated, and even that isn't enough for the left.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 12:56 PM (iERP6)

74 My bookshelves are full of WW2 books. We had a really, really talented guitarist playing in our band and he saw my collection. Total liberal. Accused me of being a nazi etc... I said "No. Know thy enemy."
Then he started in on how that was the republicans.
So we spent the whole of band practice with me proving to him that the only factor between the all but identical political philosophies of communism and nazism is who is in charge.
The socialist who didn't get killed in the street fights and purges in Germany became nazis.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 12:58 PM (ZxzYs)

75 And what is fascinating is that the vast majority of Jews in American politics are thoroughly assimilated, and even that isn't enough for the left.

Curiously, it wasn't enough for Hitler either.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 12:59 PM (guGkK)

76 The normalization of violence and class/racial/ethnic hatred is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. Consolidate power, then kill your enemies is the tried-and-true playbook, and the reality is that nothing else will work.
--

Clip last night of the 'problems' in NJ. One of them threatened death upon one of the Cops. Amazing how they can physically overcome the protester line when they want to. They walked through that line and yanked him up. He went straight to jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 01:01 PM (UcW11)

77 The other thing the nazis and the democrats have in common is they were and are all losers at the time in their lives when they joined the "party" and viola! instant success and riches and the ability to tell others how to live their lives. AOC and Himmler are cut from the same cloth.

Posted by: Loserville at June 07, 2026 01:01 PM (z20w/)

78 Curiously, it wasn't enough for Hitler either.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 12:59 PM (guGkK)

He kept some around. Anton Flettner, the inventer of the attack helicopter, managed to keep his family alived.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:03 PM (ZxzYs)

79

Another Beau

Indiana Democrats chose Beau Bayh as their secretary of state nominee Saturday, sending the first-time candidate — with one of the state’s most recognizable political names — into a race that party leaders see as their best opportunity for a statewide seat in more than a decade.

The victory sends the attorney and former Marine Corps infantry officer into a general election contest that Democrats hope can capitalize on mounting Republican turmoil surrounding incumbent Secretary of State Diego Morales and an increasingly tumultuous GOP nomination fight.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 01:04 PM (Cqx++)

80 MI's Muzzies will vote for the muzzie and due to MI cheating he will win.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 07, 2026 01:04 PM (IP7s4)

81 75 And what is fascinating is that the vast majority of Jews in American politics are thoroughly assimilated, and even that isn't enough for the left.

Curiously, it wasn't enough for Hitler either.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Something the Right doesn't understand about dealing with the moose limbs. Not Justifying, just saying -technically-, if you want to get rid of something you do it thoroughly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 01:04 PM (UcW11)

82 80 MI's Muzzies will vote for the muzzie and due to MI cheating he will win.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
--

California waves, Hi.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 01:06 PM (UcW11)

83 Something the Right doesn't understand about dealing with the moose limbs. Not Justifying, just saying -technically-, if you want to get rid of something you do it thoroughly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 01:04 PM (UcW11)

*types*
kudzu
*deletes*

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 01:06 PM (qx7Zg)

84 Reforger someone poking around my books would sware I am a Royalist

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

85 The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that leftists have tricked themselves. They lied so long about soldiers all being psychopaths that I think they actually believe it now, in which case they may actually think they don't have any choice but to accept a conscienceless creep if they want to run a veteran.

I mean especially the party insiders who selected and promoted him, but it will apply to some extent to Democrat voters too. With our cultural bifurcation, they might literally not have a single living friend or family member who served, so they wouldn't know any better.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 01:07 PM (Sy6m/)

86 The problem is that the Democrats have a MONOPOLY on violence.

Republicans want to prove that they are the opposite, so they let the Democrats run right over them and their families.

This is why women vote Democrat most of the time. They see them as the alpha party.

Republicans need to use violence against the Democrats. Just remember, if you hurt a random Democrat, you hurt someone who supported raping Sarah Palin for not aborting her baby. They are demons.

Posted by: Ken at June 07, 2026 01:08 PM (TTVd4)

87 Anyone happen to catch Trump's interview with Kristen Welker this morning? You will.

The news isn't that the Democrats are corrupt and cheat like hell to win. We've all known that for years. The big news is we now have a President who is making it THE topic of conversation.

A taste.

https://tinyurl.com/fe72c73m

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 01:08 PM (viF8m)

88 31 When Graham Platner says, Vee ist der Master race
We heil, heil, right in Graham Platner's face

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2026 12:18 PM (guGkK)

Hah. Dad used to play the Spike Jones' song, "In Der Fuhrer's Face"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 01:11 PM (l3cgK)

89 Do the two enjoy the sport of cornholing?
Posted by: jim

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All of these insults during Pride month are being noted.

Posted by: Ernst Röhm at June 07, 2026 01:12 PM (XeU6L)

90
JackStraw,

I just read the transcript of the interview.

The witch kept saying "but we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview."

FO witch. What does that have to do with the interview?

Posted by: four seasons at June 07, 2026 01:13 PM (x4yF4)

91 Do the two enjoy the sport of cornholing?
Posted by: jim
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All of these insults during Pride month are being noted.

Posted by: Ernst Rohm at June 07, 2026 01:13 PM (XeU6L)

92 I sometimes repeat myself.

Posted by: Ernst Rohm at June 07, 2026 01:14 PM (XeU6L)

93 Posted by: But...It's Different at June 07, 2026 12:38 PM (Q/qow)

Looks like a Stormfag.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 01:14 PM (1z8ji)

94 84 Reforger someone poking around my books would sware I am a Royalist
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

That conclusion could also be drawn from my shelves. My grandson is amazed.
"You've read all those?"
"Most."
I get pissed though when people start splitting hairs about the ideal of socialism blah blah blah. It's the same turd, idiots. Same result. Lots of people die.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:14 PM (ZxzYs)

95 Pretty good photoshop. I don't suppose there are many pics of flabby fat NAZIs to better match the wannabe Platner.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2026 01:14 PM (PV+Zw)

96 70 Thx CBD
I still believe this summer will be a horror show in the big cities. Add that to the abhorrent candidates the Dems have, Platner, Talarico, whichever person wins the Dem Sen primary in Michigan and the independents will move right in November

Absolutely Correct and prescient. November will be the LIB's finale to their Independance-Day like countdown for Trump which will officially start once Spenser Pratt's Candidacy is stolen from him, and the pre-planned sequence of events from FIFA to the 28'Olympics forefeiture will be blamed on Trump rather than Lord BASSura.

With Susan Rice at the helm of the nu-purge, ALL NORMAL PEOPLE will become the target -- because the Truth of the Matter is a Liability to them which they would reduce the world to a cinder rather than admit their culpability.

TRUMP needs to realize this, sooner rather than later -- which he usually does, overreacting in the very way they have set their trap at -- with adamSchiff/darvo/Davos/DARVORs piroutting in delight!

LordBASSura as ZARDOZ --the gift of the Gun! go forth and.... Who's the Deplorable?
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-SaveDaWorldTakeTheGun
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-lordBASSuraHasSPOKEN

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 07, 2026 01:15 PM (XSBsr)

97 93 Posted by: But...It's Different at June 07, 2026 12:38 PM (Q/qow)

Looks like a Stormfag.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 01:14 PM (1z8ji)

speaking of cornholing...I hear they get lots on Thursdays in Prision...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 01:15 PM (l3cgK)

98 94 84 Reforger someone poking around my books would sware I am a Royalist
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

That conclusion could also be drawn from my shelves. My grandson is amazed.
"You've read all those?"
"Most."
I get pissed though when people start splitting hairs about the ideal of socialism blah blah blah. It's the same turd, idiots. Same result. Lots of people die.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:14 PM (ZxzYs)

As Ronald Reagan said, “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 01:17 PM (l3cgK)

99 If "left" and "right" name directions on the socialist/free market continuum, then violence characterizes the left.

Crime by county dot com/[State name] gives 2022 rate of crime, violent and property, for all counties in a State.
Wikipedia gives 2020 vote percent, Trump, Biden, and other, by county.

Correlation(2022 violent rate, 2020 Trump%)
Wyoming: +0.04
Ohio: -0.49
Kansas: -0.52
Georgia: -0.34
Colorado: -0.28

Correlation(2019-2023 mean county-level homicide rate, 2020 Trump%)
New Jersey: -0.45
I would like to have 2020 homicides, by county, but not all States supply these statistics.
Preliminary investigation suggests that the level of violence is higher in D-voting counties.

Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatrick at June 07, 2026 01:17 PM (VrQ+c)

100 >>JackStraw,

>>I just read the transcript of the interview.

>>The witch kept saying "but we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview."

>>FO witch. What does that have to do with the interview?

They are used to being in control and having Republicans who will not fight back. They have no idea what to do with a guy like Trump who calls them liars and frauds right to their faces.

They can complain about Trump all they want but he will punch back twice as hard and what really scares them is they know there are 10s of millions of us cheering him and wanting him to hit back even harder.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 01:17 PM (viF8m)

101 I wonder if the SPLC is funding SF too.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:18 PM (ZxzYs)

102 Here's an article I found on Insty today about how Senate candidate Platner was created out of whole cloth.

https://tinyurl.com/5f88tmfa

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 01:19 PM (5rh/l)

103 >>The witch kept saying "but we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview."

They make Wisconsin sound as inviting as Antartica, don't they.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 01:19 PM (qx7Zg)

104 I wonder if the SPLC is funding SF too.
Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:18 PM (ZxzYs)

Certainly in their wheelhouse, that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 01:21 PM (1z8ji)

105 The fact that the Left has made it impossible to talk to or reason with them, combined with the incalculable, ruinous damage they're bringing on the country fulfills two of the four definitions of Just War in the Catholic Catechism. And this is a war that they are waging on us. And it is the worst kind of war - turning citizen against citizen, neighbor against neighbor.

During previous wars our enemies at least had the honor of wearing a uniform and opposing us openly. When I patrolled the East German border during the Cold War the Soviets were bad guys but they at least had the honor of wearing the uniform and presenting themselves openly as the enemy. The fuckers inside our country slink around in the open masquerading as our neighbors but ready to kill you at the sight of you wearing a MAGA hat.

This is becoming intolerable.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 07, 2026 01:23 PM (XjQMV)

106 >>> 103 The witch kept saying "but we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview."
==
They make Wisconsin sound as inviting as Antartica, don't they.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 01:19 PM (qx7Zg)

She's doing the meme of that old New Yorkey cover.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 07, 2026 01:23 PM (R+iUD)

107 The whole Communism vs. Fascism vs. Naziism vs. Maoism used to confuse me but I think I finally figured it out.
Communism is Socialism with a side of beets and vodka.
Naziism is Socialism with a side of potatoes and beer.
Fascism is Socialism with pasta and Chianti.
Maoism is Socialism with fried rice and rice wine.
The Democrat party is Socialism (Sides extra).

Posted by: JB1000 at June 07, 2026 01:24 PM (sORf4)

108

Hour of the Wolf,

Yep. I thought the same thing. To them only New York and California matter.

Posted by: four seasons at June 07, 2026 01:25 PM (x4yF4)

109 43 What Democrats tell us are their standards and values are really just tactics.
Posted by: Socratease at June 07, 2026 12:23 PM (YgfoU)

I have been saying for some time now, leftists only have preferences, not principles. The closest they get are the pseudo-'principles' of Power & Clique. They will unhesitatingly compromise every single other value they claim to hold, if it gets in the way of the only two they truly hold dear. And they would do away with Clique if they could, but Power requires it.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 01:25 PM (Sy6m/)

110 Reforger,
Here's a video that may help you out about German aviation fuels in WW2, responding to one of your comments in the book thread.

https://tinyurl.com/9cwx7tt6

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 01:25 PM (5rh/l)

111 > The witch kept saying "but we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview."
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While it was amusing to see her grovel, I have to wonder who in Trump's orbit keeps giving the ok for this sort of shit. Quit talking to the likes of ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN.

The only people who'll give a fuck about that are other members of the chattering class.

Trump's not getting the milage out this sort of confrontational dressing down of media whores he thinks he's getting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 01:25 PM (jehhT)

112 Oh, it was on one of the shows. Probably Fox.

The Maine Dems have a nuclear option I guess. If Platner was to win but then drop out for some reason, probably with a boatload of cash and some excuse, then the Dems could apparently just select someone to run in his place.I thought that's how it went.

Still, like that would EVER happen!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 01:27 PM (Sco7b)

113 Daily Mail-

Irate Trump storms off NBC set mid-sentence as he blasts 'dishonest press'
President Trump blasted the reporter, calling her a liar to her face before he walked off.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 07, 2026 01:28 PM (NpAcC)

114 The news isn't that the Democrats are corrupt and cheat like hell to win. We've all known that for years. The big news is we now have a President who is making it THE topic of conversation.

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He made it a topic of conversation after the 2020 steal. Where did it take us? To California stealing elections in 2026 even more out in the open than usual.

Posted by: Heroq at June 07, 2026 01:28 PM (tNkpt)

115 I take it the Socialist Propaganda Lawfare Center was paying the Front uniform group we saw until Trump took over

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 01:30 PM (Ia/+0)

116 114 The news isn't that the Democrats are corrupt and cheat like hell to win. We've all known that for years. The big news is we now have a President who is making it THE topic of conversation.

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He made it a topic of conversation after the 2020 steal. Where did it take us? To California stealing elections in 2026 even more out in the open than usual.

Posted by: Heroq at June 07, 2026 01:28 PM (tNkpt)

Some ballots are worth more than others...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 01:32 PM (l3cgK)

117 111 > The witch kept saying "but we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview."
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While it was amusing to see her grovel, I have to wonder who in Trump's orbit keeps giving the ok for this sort of shit. Quit talking to the likes of ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN.

The only people who'll give a fuck about that are other members of the chattering class.

Trump's not getting the milage out this sort of confrontational dressing down of media whores he thinks he's getting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2026 01:25 PM (jehhT)

I believe one of Trump's goals in doing Hostile Media interviews is to demonstrate he's not afraid of tough interviews, unlike all Lefties. Lefties who get unexpected questions or tough follow-up questions bitch more on-camera about the interviewer and the questions than Trump does in his interviews by Lefties.

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 01:32 PM (5rh/l)

118 While it was amusing to see her grovel, I have to wonder who in Trump's orbit keeps giving the ok for this sort of shit. Quit talking to the likes of ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN.

The only people who'll give a fuck about that are other members of the chattering class.

Trump's not getting the milage out this sort of confrontational dressing down of media whores he thinks he's getting.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Trump is still a man of his era. As much as he rails against the msm, he still in the mentality where NBC or CBS is important and if it happens there it matters. Same with wanting his name of the Kennedy center. Who gives a fuck? Well he does because for his generation still like that matters.

Posted by: Heroq at June 07, 2026 01:32 PM (tNkpt)

119 Party of violence and hatred? You left out the other five deadly sins...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 07, 2026 01:33 PM (nbLIj)

120 "Are we the baddies?"

Posted by: 496 at June 07, 2026 01:33 PM (WOWuu)

121
64 In a dozen years there will be no room for elected Jews in the Dem party.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 07, 2026 12:43 PM (d9Cw3)

What are you talking about? That day is here already. The ones that are there, like Schumer, are just Kapos left over from the old days before the Jew hate was out in the open.

I find it darkly amusing when people talk about Rahm Emanuel as a potential candidate - the day when he or anyone like him could be nominated for any high office by the Dems is long past.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 01:34 PM (3mtTi)

122 >>He made it a topic of conversation after the 2020 steal. Where did it take us? To California stealing elections in 2026 even more out in the open than usual.

To him being the 47th President and yes California being so blatantly cheating the entire world now sees it no matter what they say.

We are in a completely different world than we were in 2020 or 2016. We didn't get to this place in one election and we aren't getting out of it in one election. Tearing down the infrastructure, inside and outside the government, that perpetuated the corrupt process we've been living in is huge task and it will require years of fighting back. Doesn't mean we haven't come a long way already and we are now fully on offense.

I bet we will see the DOJ go after California hammer and tong over this corrupt election. That's new.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 01:34 PM (viF8m)

123 there are 10s of millions of us cheering him and wanting him to hit back even harder.
Posted by: JackStraw

Hope he knows it too!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 07, 2026 01:35 PM (IP7s4)

124 105 The fact that the Left has made it impossible to
...
During previous wars our enemies at least had the honor of wearing a uniform and opposing us openly. ...
This is becoming intolerable.

LIBs would have you pity the Devil for being EVIL.
A Terrorist has the integrity to brandish their weapons and lay claim to their seige, LIB politico's keep their weapons concealed to ensure maximal damage and thein feign ignorance -- so sorry!

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsChickenRun
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell

Cruise Ship deployed Dung Slinging Balistas may be insufficient; An actual Cruise Ship sized balista would not only be supersonic at launch, be orbital capable as well.

YES, there is Profit in WAR but only at a Distance.
as the Newly Reformed/SorosSonspored/Hunter Biden circles the minefield in his gryo-copter to waylay travelers who's cooked yams he does not like.

LET's GO BRANDON!
Idict and expose Brennnan as Epstein enabler
Depose Dimon as war capitalist
Freeport/Cuba as replacement for Kharg
Close Malacca if China closes their strait -- and they'll eat each other!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 07, 2026 01:39 PM (/rrz5)

125 In the long run I think it’s better that the Dems ard going to steal the LA election from Platt right now, out in the open where it’s obvious, rather than let them pull off some semi plausible 51/49 win for Basura in November. (Which was guaranteed).

Doing it this nakedly and openly builds contempt and hatred for the Dem party among a broad range of nornies, not just us, and that will be very useful as the chaos gets worse through the year.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 01:40 PM (3mtTi)

126 I hope President Trump's next MSM interview is in Mississippi, about Public Education.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 01:42 PM (qx7Zg)

127 121
64 In a dozen years there will be no room for elected Jews in the Dem party.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 07, 2026 12:43 PM (d9Cw3)

What are you talking about? That day is here already. The ones that are there, like Schumer, are just Kapos left over from the old days before the Jew hate was out in the open.

I find it darkly amusing when people talk about Rahm Emanuel as a potential candidate - the day when he or anyone like him could be nominated for any high office by the Dems is long past.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 01:34 PM (3mtTi)

More so because he served as a civilian service volunteer for two weeks aiding the IDF, repairing trucks, in 1991 during the 1st Gulf War. He did that service in an IDF base in northern Israel. The Leftists will call him a baby-killer if he runs and that label will stick.

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 01:43 PM (5rh/l)

128 111 > The witch kept saying "but we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview."
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While it was amusing to see her grovel, I have to wonder who in Trump's orbit keeps giving the ok for this sort of shit.
...

All the more rationale to construct the cruise ship sized balista, to return that which was freely given.

LET's GO BRANDON! they're coming for YOU first! and then the rest of US just like DeepState/SusanRice proudly announced.
TRY AND STOP THEM IF YOU THINK YOU CAN!

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-PutASmileOnThatFace
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 07, 2026 01:44 PM (NURNI)

129 A taste.

https://tinyurl.com/fe72c73m
Posted by: JackStraw
--

Picking on a person's looks is not a fair thing.
But when a person intentionally presents themselves in a manner unbecoming it's fair game.

Opening scene, she looks like a piranha.
I think she wants to look that way; threatening.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 01:45 PM (UcW11)

130 >>>The Democrat party is Socialism (Sides extra).

Posted by: JB1000

>The Democrat party is Socialism with raw cheeseburgers at a weekend cookout.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 01:45 PM (pSkMS)

131 “I mean especially the party insiders who selected and promoted him, but it will apply to some extent to Democrat voters too. With our cultural bifurcation, they might literally not have a single living friend or family member who served, so they wouldn't know any better.
Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 01:07 PM”

I believe you’re correct. If you’ve ever known a true pathological liar (fortunately they’re rare) they get to where they are compelled to lie about everything, while also lying to themselves most of all. I had a boss once who would lie even objectively he would have been in a far better position just by telling the truth. (He finally got fired when his sucking up to his superiors couldn’t cover up how many screwups he was lying about)

Anyway Democrats are they - they’ve completely broken with objective reality. Everything is a big socialist LARP to them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 01:46 PM (3mtTi)

132 Tom Servo. well thanks for the silver lining on that!

it's heinous what's going on in LA

oh well.

meanwhile a wonderful young man was just murdered going home from an NBA watch party. 22 years old, right in front of his house.

by misguided youths.

no I cannot get over this. nope. not supposed to happen in South Philly.

can we get the Mafia back?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 07, 2026 01:46 PM (j+aD2)

133

I will not ever understand the hatred towards Jewish people.

I know we've talked about that many times and I don't expect any responses.

Some of the finest people Hubby and I have known are Jewish.

Posted by: four seasons at June 07, 2026 01:46 PM (x4yF4)

134 Financial Times has Chlamydia Harris leading potential Dem nominees for 2028.

Sometimes we need to sit back and enjoy the show!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 01:46 PM (iERP6)

135 We are in a completely different world than we were in 2020 or 2016. We didn't get to this place in one election and we aren't getting out of it in one election. Tearing down the infrastructure, inside and outside the government, that perpetuated the corrupt process we've been living in is huge task and it will require years of fighting back. Doesn't mean we haven't come a long way already and we are now fully on offense.

The Red Army didn't just give up after Stalingrad. Sure, they won, but they didn't destroy Nazism in one battle. This will be a generational battle, but it's one we can win.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 01:51 PM (Riz8t)

136 Still, like that would EVER happen!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 07, 2026 01:27 PM (Sco7b)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Robert Toricelli at June 07, 2026 01:51 PM (XE5AP)

137 Quite nice outside, sunny, light breeze, 82

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 01:51 PM (Ia/+0)

138 I guess california has finished counting now.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 01:52 PM (3uBP9)

139 110 Reforger,
Here's a video that may help you out about German aviation fuels in WW2, responding to one of your comments in the book thread.

https://tinyurl.com/9cwx7tt6
Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 01:25 PM (5rh/l)

Thank you. I've seen that one. Will watch again though when it gets to hot for yardwork. It post dates the discussion I was refering to. There is a lot more to it.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:53 PM (ZxzYs)

140 134 Financial Times has Chlamydia Harris leading potential Dem nominees for 2028.

Sometimes we need to sit back and enjoy the show!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 01:46 PM (iERP6)

It will be another year or so until Dems begin declaring they are POTUS candidates. SAme with Republicans officially declaring. IIRC, the timing is no earlier than this each cycle due to FEC campaign financial reporting rules for a formally FEC-registered campaign.

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 01:55 PM (5rh/l)

141
Trump's not getting the milage out this sort of confrontational dressing down of media whores he thinks he's getting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
---

Trump is fighting for every single vote.
He fought at hundreds of rallies while O'Biden was president. If he doesn't fight for every eye and ear he loses. Nay sayers ought to give it up and get on his side.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 01:56 PM (UcW11)

142 The witch kept saying "but we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview

He needs to be ready with two questions:

1) What are the odds that after a time when the votes were split roughly equally, you would get tens of thousands of votes for only one candidate?
2) In any of the prolonged, post-election vote "counts", how many went in favor of the Republican?

Let her hem and haw for awhile with that.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 01:56 PM (Riz8t)

143 The witch kept saying "but we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview."

FO witch. What does that have to do with the interview?

Posted by: four seasons at June 07, 2026 01:13 PM (x4yF4)

Wow. All the way to Wisconsin, you say? Sorry to have pulled you away from your 3 AM Thai noodles just so you could catch the flight. Not all heroes wear capes, I guess...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 07, 2026 01:56 PM (nbLIj)

144 139 110 Reforger,
Here's a video that may help you out about German aviation fuels in WW2, responding to one of your comments in the book thread.

https://tinyurl.com/9cwx7tt6
Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 01:25 PM (5rh/l)

Thank you. I've seen that one. Will watch again though when it gets to hot for yardwork. It post dates the discussion I was refering to. There is a lot more to it.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:53 PM (ZxzYs)

A book by British author Callum Douglas may help you on this topic. I cannot recall the title. It was published within the past 5-7 years.

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 01:58 PM (5rh/l)

145 PS: Douglas's book is "The Secret Horsepower Race."

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 01:59 PM (5rh/l)

146 I don't believe Collins' vote is going to matter after November. As if it ever did. Just another minority vote in a sea of worthless ineffectual out of power recucklicans. She wants to broker power to join with the majority dems after the mid-terms. It's all about her. I do not care. Let her be shat out and forgotten.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 01:59 PM (3uBP9)

147 Historically old VPs have little chance once removed

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 01:59 PM (Ia/+0)

148 I guess california has finished counting now.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2026 01:52 PM (3uBP9)

I stopped counting California for several years now.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 02:00 PM (qx7Zg)

149 WE HAZ 1ST WORLD NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)

150 She traveled all the way to Wisconsin. She could have spent the time prepping for an interview, not a confrontation.

Even if she wanted to present controversial questions, manners count. Manners that she is void of. Interrupting and contradicting the President appeals only to the anointed left.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 02:03 PM (UcW11)

151 >>Trump is fighting for every single vote.
He fought at hundreds of rallies while O'Biden was president. If he doesn't fight for every eye and ear he loses. Nay sayers ought to give it up and get on his side.

From now through election day in November Democrat cheating in CA is going to be on the minds of millions of voters across the country. And I've got a feeling we'll be hearing more from GA and perhaps AZ as well. Trump is making the public deal with it when the left would like nothing better than the entire topic to be dropped.

The left can't win without cheating, even in frigging LA. There is no more important issue to be dealt with than free and fair elections. It doesn't matter how good our candidates and policies are if we can't win.

That's why Trump goes into the lion's den and pushes it in their faces. He's going to force them to talk about it.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 02:03 PM (viF8m)

152 Look, IVF is not easy. The appointments, the discomfort of various procedures, THE SHOTS, the weeks of waiting to see if it worked... It's not for fair-weather relationships. However, for the husbands who love their wives (like Pooky), it's their chance to shine. He's got the shots down to a science, knows how to apply a heat pack to maximum effect, gets me cushions and Tylenol when I need it, and gives me hugs when the hormones are too much. I'm not surprised Platner couldn't deal with it, he seems to struggle with commitment.

Posted by: pookysgirl has 11 days of shots left at June 07, 2026 02:07 PM (Wt5PA)

153 I'm not surprised Platner couldn't deal with it, he seems to struggle with commitment.

He seems to struggle with any aspect of adulthood, or even decency.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 07, 2026 02:08 PM (Riz8t)

154 Hah. Dad used to play the Spike Jones' song, "In Der Fuhrer's Face"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 01:11 PM (l3cgK)

A filmed performance. Flashing the bird.
https://tinyurl.com/ycy5m8p7

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 07, 2026 02:08 PM (5xuJ/)

155 Rape as a tool of power?
====

This is not why homosexuals were banned from the military.
Well, not directly...

Homosexuals banned specifically because that dynamic would be lost lost in the 'fog of war'.
It is not about 'rape', nor who one could make suck their cock (proverbially), but whose cock one could suck climbing to the top.

Traditional power dynamics require one to be the best Kamala Harris one can be to reach the top.

Homosexuals really really fog that up.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 02:17 PM (/lPRQ)

156 133

I will not ever understand the hatred towards Jewish people.

I know we've talked about that many times and I don't expect any responses.

Some of the finest people Hubby and I have known are Jewish.

Posted by: four seasons at June 07, 2026 01:46 PM (x4yF4)

Consider in Orwell's 1984, there was a ritual Two Minutes Hate directed at Emmanuel Goldstein. Orwell was himself a disillusioned socialist, and understood it quite well. It's a Failure Factory, because it's a confidence scheme based on lies about human nature itself; it literally *cannot* work, and will never reform itself, because the point is power for the insiders.

They do not care at all about the nation's success; that's just part of the scam patter they use to Con the Rubes. Since they will never fix the problems, they need a scapegoat to redirect the public's anger at, and con artists like to reuse old schemes that worked before. (That's why they keep going back to gnosticism, just tarting it up in new clothes like Christian Science or Critical Theory.)

And, as insular outsiders everywhere, the Jewish Diaspora from the Roman subjugation of Israel was always a convenient target for nasty rumors.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 02:20 PM (Sy6m/)

157 Fifield was a GOP worker for years at Heritage Foundation
She also founded Ladies for Kavanaugh.

Her relationship was so bad it only lasted 2years. He broke up with her

He never flew on Epstein's plane

Posted by: Paul at June 07, 2026 02:26 PM (6PD/b)

158 Platner has had another big UP jump on Kalish wagering.
Platner seems to be attracting more support from the vets. Maine has one of the highest per capita vet populations of any state.
CBD doesn't have a good understanding of that voter cohort.

Pls continue to call him a Nazi.

Posted by: Paul at June 07, 2026 02:42 PM (6PD/b)

159 German Socialists and Russian Communism actually worked together in 30s up to 1941 when Germany invaded Russia.

Hitler and Stalin made a deal to split up Poland. Before that Nazis and Commies were bitter rivals, and both knew they would eventually fight. Stalin just didnt think Hitler would attack that fast, and Stalin didnt think the USSR was ready yet or he would have attacked

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 07, 2026 03:02 PM (3/XaG)

160 Start a race war? I predicted this.

Posted by: Charles Manson at June 07, 2026 03:08 PM (qFwJc)

161 Jealousy. They hate the Jews because they are, generally, educated and intelligent. They are smart and productive. They admire education in the sciences and business.

Stupid, ignorant people hate that.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 07, 2026 03:12 PM (qFwJc)

162 What if you got that TDS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytq5N3VxTKU

Posted by: Jeff at June 07, 2026 03:22 PM (vNLae)

163 I hope this FINALLY puts the lie to the nonsense from the establishment RINOs that we 'HAVE to vote for 'moderate' candidates because they're the only ones that can win!'

Collins is the most milquetoast moderate RINO who ever RINOed.

And they're STILL mass supporting the woman abusing Nazi tattooed serial liar over her.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 07, 2026 03:33 PM (setIA)

164
I watch Dr Felton often enough, so wonder if Mr Nazi has every bit of insignia absolutely correct.
Because there are rules to follow
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:03 PM (Ia/+0)

Closer to correct than Bernie in uniform. The Soviet uniform is totally bogus. Hero of the Soviet Union medal is being worn on the wrong side, should be at the top of the left breast. Plus, it appears to be too large, like it's a costume medal.

Worst of the inaccuracies is that the uniform appears to fit. Soviets wear floppy, oversized uniforms from off the rack. Mainly because they likely sent all the tailors to the Kolyma camps.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 07, 2026 03:41 PM (FkdoK)

165
Hitler and Stalin made a deal to split up Poland. Before that Nazis and Commies were bitter rivals, and both knew they would eventually fight. Stalin just didnt think Hitler would attack that fast, and Stalin didnt think the USSR was ready yet or he would have attacked
Posted by: Azjaeger at June 07, 2026 03:02 PM (3/XaG)

I have a pet theory that Finland saved Europe from the Nazis. After the Finns slaughtered the Red Army in the first part of the Winter War, I believe that this was the last straw that convinced Hitler that he didn't have to wait to beat the Soviets. If tiny little Finland could stop them (at least until Stalin overwhelmed them with an invading army equal to HALF the Finnish population), then the Mighty Third Reich would have an easy romp to Moscow.

Oops.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 07, 2026 03:49 PM (FkdoK)

166 "What else do we have?" 305,000 registered Democrats in Maine and this is the best they could come up with?

I'm a strong MAGA supporter, but I can't help but wonder why Rep. Jared Golden didn't make a bid. He would have been a very formidable opponent for the ever-squishy Susan Collins.

Posted by: Flakey Foont at June 07, 2026 09:02 PM (kvDvI)

Book Thread: June 7th, 2026 (MP4)

Good morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes. It’s time once again for the monthly MP4-hosted Sunday Book Thread. As it’s June, it’s time for Royal Ascot!

So ask the barman at the Enclosure for a 1995 Louis Roederer, covfefe or tea and let’s get started!

‘food, glorious food’

If you’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting me, you can tell from my waistline that I love to eat. I won’t give you my exact measurements, but I will note that Edward VII had a waistline of 48 inches, which in his day was considered grossly obese. His Majesty and I could share closets.

I love to eat. I like to cook, but unlike CBD, I’m not very good at it. But I love to read about food. Not just recipe books, which, although entertaining on their own, can be somewhat dull, but books about the history and sociology of food. For instance, I have several books dedicated to food, its preparation and the status of cooks in both high and low society during the Middle Ages, each of which is the sort of read that both informs you and leaves you hungry. Here are three:The Medieval Cook, and Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society, both by Bridget Ann Henisch and Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony, by Madeline Pelner Cosman.

I also love books about dining outside the house, in restaurants, cafés and roadside venues; two of my faves are Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910, by Michael Lesy & Lisa Stoffer and Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York, by William Grimes. And that’s not even touching other tomes like Duncan Hines’ various editions of Adventures in Good Eating, histories of the Harvey Girls and drive-ins, or bios of the founders of the great fast-food chains such as Colonel Sanders, the McDonald brothers or Billy Ingram, the man behind White Castle.

What about you? Are cookbooks just instruction manuals to you or treats to dip into during a particularly puckish mood? Have you ever, like me, come across a Delmonico’s menu from 1895 and wonder if you could make your way through a Gay Nineties lobster palace night?

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:00 AM

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1 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 09:00 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Read “The Cardinal’s Curse,” a short pulp-era story by J. Allen Dunn. It’s a pirate tale. “And don't all good stories involve pirates?" – The History Guy.
A crew attacks a galleon that has a Cardinal on board. He doesn’t really pronounce a curse on the pirates, but after stealing his cross, bad things start to happen to the pirate who takes it. Suffice to say, everyone who acquires it comes to a bad end. The story is full of rousing sea action and a fight to the death to possess the cross. If you like stories of that type, you’d probably like this one.
Also read “Vengeance is Mine,” by George W. Ogden, a pulp-era western tale concerning a driver escorting a railroad man through a region of the West with sheepherder and cattlemen trouble. The driver tells about his time running sheep and a confrontation with a cattleman in the past that cost him dearly. A man who resembles someone who was just at the camp while the driver was elsewhere. The driver goes to find the man and returns later, having not taken revenge. A storm breaks out, leading to a strange ending for the cattleman. Coincidences abound, but they don’t detract from the story.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:01 AM (1Ff7Z)

3 BOING!

Someone needs to author a book: "Is Beirut Burning?"

Yeh, jets in the air.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:01 AM (5UTWB)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 07, 2026 09:01 AM (NcvvS)

5 Good morning, fellow bibliophages.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 09:02 AM (kpS4V)

6 Booken morgen, horden & MP4!

Lovely pic up top.

I read Nine Goblins by T.Kingfisher the other day. This was her first self-published book, and her first non-kids book, written for fun. It is fun, and author says she was inspired by Terry Pratchett.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 09:02 AM (fE6HJ)

7 Thought slept through day and was the Food thread
Very slowly reading Carl v.Clauswitz's On War
And am convinced those in the White House and Pete's people should be reading the same thing

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 09:03 AM (Ia/+0)

8 The Medieval Cook, and Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society, both by Bridget Ann Henisch and Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony, by Madeline Pelner Cosman.

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These are just the sort of historical books I find fascinating

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 09:03 AM (fE6HJ)

9 Morning, Horde....How goes it?

Thanks, MP4, for once again hosting an excellent Sunday Morning Book Thread!

I don't have too many books about food, but I do have James Lileks "Gallery of Regrettable Food" and its sequel "Gastroanomalies."

Both are a hilarious look at hideous culinary creations of the past.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 09:04 AM (gnNyN)

10 Louis l'amour's son beau has a throwback cold war thriller in the style of cussler and forsyth

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:04 AM (bXbFr)

11 Skyring station, i had to do a double take

L'amour had done his fare share of adventure stories

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:05 AM (bXbFr)

12 I know that in Papua, New Guinea, a popular cookbook is How to Serve Man.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 09:05 AM (0U5gm)

13 I don't have too many books about food, but I do have James Lileks "Gallery of Regrettable Food" and its sequel "Gastroanomalies."

Both are a hilarious look at hideous culinary creations of the past.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 09:04 AM (gnNyN)

Poor fella's in a bad way right now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z)

14 Thank you to the person who recommended Ed McBain's "Ghosts." I enjoyed it and plan to read more McBain.

Posted by: Wethal at June 07, 2026 09:06 AM (gihWY)

15 MP, have you ever looked into those eighteenth century cookbooks that Jon Townsend talks about on his YT channel?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:07 AM (1Ff7Z)

16 Good Sunday morning, horde.

MP4, I love the artwork. I'm thinking it's Toulouse-Lautrec, but now I'm doubting myself.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 09:07 AM (h7ZuX)

17 There are several recipe-type cookbooks out there that are vehicles for comedy: Sandra Boynton's Chocolate: The Consuming Passion (more fun stuff, esp. her illustrations, than recipes), Steve Graham's Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man, and Real Men Don't Cook Quiche.

And, of course, The Deplorable Gourmet, with great recipes & wit.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 07, 2026 09:08 AM (NcvvS)

18 Morning, book people,

Yes, I'd say a waistline of 48 in. is obese, whether in 1905 or now! I love to eat, but cooking is something that I have rarely dabbled in. I heat things, via oven or microwave, but mixing or blending diverse ingredients is beyond me at present. So cookbooks have rarely figured in my reading or as any part of my library.

When I have to write a scene where people are eating out, or even at home, and are preparing something unusual, I have to research it, even if it is in the present day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:08 AM (wzUl9)

19 I'm thinking of having melons for breakfast.

Posted by: Guy at the table at June 07, 2026 09:08 AM (1Ff7Z)

20 Stephen Price Blair is the one to go to about books on food and cookbooks.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 07, 2026 09:09 AM (VCgbV)

21 I once found a very old cookbook of sorts in an out of the way shop, with some fascinating recipes. Of course, some old recipes are impossible to recreate, given the difficulty of obtaining eye of newt these days.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 09:10 AM (0U5gm)

22 I love cookbooks. I almost never make anything directly from them. They are more inspiration for me.

Books about food, though, especially historical, are always interesting to me.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 09:10 AM (h7ZuX)

23 I read The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. The generation which matured using flip phones are mentally much healthier than Gen Z which matured using smart phones and social media apps. Haidt gives an overview of the many studies in this area and how almost constant screen time affects pre-teen and teens. Finally, he suggests actions that parents, schools, and various levels of government can do to restore sound mental health in our children.

Posted by: Zoltan at June 07, 2026 09:10 AM (VOrDg)

24 Humorist Robert Benchley was also a man "of substance" and in one of his essays longingly reviewed a menu from Delmonico's, one of those marathon dinners with a dozen courses featuring fish, flesh, and fowl. Something those captains of industry, like the top-hatted gent above, could linger over unashamedly.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 09:10 AM (kpS4V)

25 For those ive sent samples i'm probably a little too exposition heavy in my work

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:11 AM (bXbFr)

26 I think there is a companion book to Patrick O'Brian's series with recipes of British food served in Napoleonic era ships
I don't have it but remember it coming out.

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 09:11 AM (Ia/+0)

27 Re the artwork:

"Well now we are just negotiating the price."

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 09:11 AM (jnTpz)

28 Poor fella's in a bad way right now.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z)

??

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2026 09:12 AM (/HDaX)

29 'A dozen oysters here, waiter!'
-dude with hat

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2026 09:12 AM (LHPAg)

30 I think there is a companion book to Patrick O'Brian's series with recipes of British food served in Napoleonic era ships
I don't have it but remember it coming out.

Posted by: Skip

I bet the sailors remember that, too.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 09:12 AM (0U5gm)

31 Travel books with extended remarks about the local dietary habits are usually a delight.

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 09:13 AM (rj6Yv)

32 Currently I'm finishing Eleanor Herman's 2004 Sex With Kings, an overview with fascinating anecdotes about royal mistresses from medieval times -- well, about 1350 or so -- until Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII in the early 20th Century.

I finished off the Isaac Asimov collection, Nightfall and Other Stories, which has several very solid stories in it. His robot collection -- I, Robot with connecting material between the widely spaced stories -- is next, and then the second in S.M. Stirling's alternate-universe series about a Burroughs-like Venus and Mars, with humans, Neanderthals, sabertooths, and dinosaurs, in the late 1980s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:13 AM (wzUl9)

33 Alistsir maclean was spsring in some stories like puppet on a string which is like french connection but ser in amsterdam

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:13 AM (bXbFr)

34 What about you? Are cookbooks just instruction manuals to you or treats to dip into during a particularly puckish mood? Have you ever, like me, come across a Delmonico’s menu from 1895 and wonder if you could make your way through a Gay Nineties lobster palace night?

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:00 AM
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We have a few, but I never use them. We have a book of family recipes that I consult on specific dishes, but mostly I cook by habit or instinct. My grandmother did this - so that there was always a bit of variation in the same dish.

Obviously, most of the food we eat is pretty standard fare, especially in the summer: hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill. But even when using taco mix, we sometimes spice things up and my youngest (who is doing more cooking these days) is experimenting in her own way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

35 Poor fella's in a bad way right now.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Lileks? Is he sick?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 09:14 AM (dE3DB)

36 I love to eat, but cooking is something that I have rarely dabbled in. I heat things, via oven or microwave, but mixing or blending diverse ingredients is beyond me at present.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:08 AM (wzUl9)

If I was going to create a You Tube channel, I think I'd make one called "Real, plain, food." Teach those bache types how to make their own food instead of spending money on premade stuff. It's cost too much money and you'd need a good kitchen set up to do it with good camera angles. Nothing fancy with sissy ingredients, just show how to make your own burgers, ribs, chicken. You know, real food.*

*Narrator: "He will, in fact, not create a You Tube channel.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:14 AM (1Ff7Z)

37 Of course, some old recipes are impossible to recreate, given the difficulty of obtaining eye of newt these days.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026

***
"First, catch the newt . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:14 AM (wzUl9)

38 Art Thread!

It seems he asked for a seat with a view.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 09:15 AM (vFG9F)

39 Good morning fellow Book Threadists. I hope everyone had a great week of reading.

Hello to MP4 and thanks for an interesting topic.

Posted by: JTB at June 07, 2026 09:15 AM (yTvNw)

40 Last Sunday afternoon, finished the last of Donald Westlake's 24 Parker novels. And I've gotta say, the couple of lines of dialog that finish that book are just about the hardest of hard-boiled you're likely to stumble across.

Still haven't decided on a series or big book to read next, so am revisiting a book of interviews with Robert Silverberg and am a couple of chapters into the new translation of Simenon's The Cat.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 09:16 AM (q3u5l)

41 I think there is a companion book to Patrick O'Brian's series with recipes of British food served in Napoleonic era ships
I don't have it but remember it coming out.

Posted by: Skip

"Garnish with weevils."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 09:16 AM (ndZc7)

42 Oh, and...

Morning, MP4.

Howdy, Horde.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 09:17 AM (q3u5l)

43 ??
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2026 09:12 AM (/HDaX)

Lileks? Is he sick?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 09:14 AM (dE3DB)

Yeah. A year or so ago, his wife texted him that she wanted a divorce. While he was on vacation in England.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:17 AM (1Ff7Z)

44 I read almost exclusively on my iPad using Kindle these days. Still have all my books, but I've read them. I'm finished with Kindle $0.99 compilations of short stories written in the '50s.

I downloaded three new books, from an author I had never read, on a topic I rarely follow. And they entertained me mightily.

They are three novellas in The Garden at the End of the Galaxy series, by Jon Kiln. Old Man's Patch, Old Man's Vines, and Old Man's Bloom. These are about gardening in a science fiction setting, with a curmudgeonry old man (no resemblance, since I don't garden) and his cucumber garden, with a fiesta older woman neighbor who verbally spars with him, and then stuff happens.

Well drawn characters, fluid writing, and nice plot twists enhance these stories. These could easily be dreary tales of woe in an indifferent universe. But they were heartwarming instead.

I gave the stories 5 stars, something I rarely do.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 09:17 AM (u82oZ)

45 Had a grits bowl at Waffle House yesterday. Sausage, eggs, cheese, and bacon. Delicious. It's fun to watch a well trained WH crew do their thing with Pull, Mark and Drop.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 09:18 AM (CJnkZ)

46 With the lawn mowed and my wife out of town, I had a free weekend for reading, but I was still considering my options when, to my surprise, the inter-library system fulfilled an order that I thought it had canceled. (I miss the previous system, MOBIUS; it worked so well.) So I'm into the world of "Rip" Kirby, a postwar comic strip detective originally drawn by Alex Raymond, who came to fame as the creator of the strip "Flash Gordon." This was the first "Rip Kirby" omnibus put out by IDW's Library of American Comics imprint. With IDW's demise, LAC may be defunct, too.

This is definitely postwar; in a 1946 story, a World Congress of top scientists gathers to discuss how to control a (stolen) formula for a deadly biological agent and lesser weapons, such as the atom bomb.

Rip Kirby was promoted as a cultured intellectual -- he wears glasses, plays piano, and smokes a pipe -- who is handy with his fists or guns. Other than the first story, a murder mystery, I've seen a lot more adventuring than detecting.

(Bio of Alex Raymond to follow.)

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 07, 2026 09:18 AM (tIPDA)

47 MP4, I have got to ask if you are a fan of Pino Daeni paintings.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 09:18 AM (5P5DO)

48 Cookbooks? I have a few dozen BUT, I mostly use my family recipes that are collected in a 3 ring binder. I've been making an effort to try new things lately as I've been in a bit of a food rut.

One of the church ladies has been giving me specialty foods and ingredients recently - cheeses, homemade pastas, and the like. She loves to cook but it's only her now and cooking for one is difficult.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 09:19 AM (jnTpz)

49 >>It seems he asked for a seat with a view.

Gent in the background looks like he's checking out the side view, which will likely annoy the lady who seems to be talking to him.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 07, 2026 09:19 AM (NcvvS)

50 For the study of creative writing, it's hard to beat the Biden FBI's adventure tales:

"FBI fires several analysts tied to disputed ‘Catholic ideology’ memo"

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/5n8mkzcb

Hat tip to renowned author of fiction, Sarah Hoyt.

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 09:19 AM (rj6Yv)

51 Instead of moving along with the story of FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast after more than twenty cases, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have chosen in Pendergast, The Beginning to go back in time to the earliest days of his FBI career, with a case assigned to him and his overseer Dwight Chambers, of a serial killer near his home town of New Orleans.

It is a strange case, beginning with a murder victim being found with his right arm removed in a surgical manner. As they pursue the leads, many of the idiosyncratic quirks of Pendergast are already beginning to appear; his manner of dress, his affectations of language, as well as his esoteric tastes and interests.

We also get a glimpse farther back, along with that of his aide-de-camp Proctor, who re-enters Pendergast's life in an unusual way, years after they had served together in a secretive military outfit. The situations they encounter are tense, despite the fact that we know they survive, since they appear later in time in other Pendergast books. As the case progresses, Pendergast and Chambers begin to wonder if they are just chasing a serial killer, or something even more sinister is going on.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 09:20 AM (0U5gm)

52 Alex Raymond is considered one of the three pioneers in realistic comic strip art. The others are Milton Caniff ("Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon") and Hal Foste⁷r ("Prince Valiant"). He'd left "Flash Gordon" in 1944 to join the Marines, and after his discharge in 1946, his syndicate refused to reinstate him. Instead it asked him to start a detective strip and offered 60 percent ownership. "Rip Kirby" was successful, and Raymond was riding high until he died in a car crash in 1956. The circumstances of the crash are subject to speculation.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 07, 2026 09:21 AM (tIPDA)

53 Phooey! Have to take the wife to work again!

I hope by the time I return I find a classy and witty bunch of comments to read and savor. Like you'd find if you spent an evening with the panel of What's My Line?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:21 AM (1Ff7Z)

54 We also get a glimpse farther back, along with that of his aide-de-camp Proctor, who re-enters Pendergast's life in an unusual way, years after they had served together in a secretive military outfit. The situations they encounter are tense, despite the fact that we know they survive, since they appear later in time in other Pendergast books. As the case progresses, Pendergast and Chambers begin to wonder if they are just chasing a serial killer, or something even more sinister is going on.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 09:20 AM (0U5gm)
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I've been debating whether to read that one...

Is it worth it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 09:21 AM (gnNyN)

55 We used Modern Cooking by Betty Crocker as the textbook in Home Ec and I stuck with that for years.

Creative Wok Cooking (1976) was also a mainstay.

Of course, The Deplorable Gourmet.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 09:21 AM (RIvkX)

56 Yeah. A year or so ago, his wife texted him that she wanted a divorce. While he was on vacation in England.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:17 AM (1Ff7Z)

Oof. Although it does raise the question of why he was vacationing in England w/o his wife.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2026 09:21 AM (/HDaX)

57 Now I do come up with some dishes which require more than popping the dish into the microwave. Generally I put together things I like, and sometimes I achieve. Years ago, you may remember, there were *baked* breaded chicken filets to be found in the freezer at the grocery. I took one, spread some spaghetti sauce on it and sprinkled it with parmesan cheese, and heated it as per instructions in the oven.

Imagine my surprise when I found I had independently reinvented chicken parmigiana.

I will also "supercharge" chicken soup with canned chicken. I saute the canned chunks first, sprinkling paprika and chili powder on it, while the soup heats in the MW. Then I stir the grilled chunks into the soup, and voila. Same with canned chili; chunks of grilled, seasoned chicken in that make for a solid meal.

Angel hair pasta plus sauce atop a microwaved beef & bean burrito, I call "Mexitalian," or "Italomex" (which last term sounds like a wall cement, but it's very tasty).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:22 AM (wzUl9)

58 I've finished A Canticle for Liebowitz, and am casting about for my next read. Nothing is really speaking to me at the moment.

Although, I was at the library yesterday to pick up Thunderstruck by Erik Larson. On the shelf next to it was a small volume that caught my interest: The First CELEBRITY SERIAL KILLER in Southwest Ohio: Confessions of the Strangler Alfred Knapp.

Probably can't go wrong with a historical account of a regional serial killer.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 09:22 AM (h7ZuX)

59 38 Art Thread!

It seems he asked for a seat with a view.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 09:15 AM (vFG9F)

Yes, I thought it was Monday all of a sudden...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:22 AM (l3cgK)

60 Morning, all. Sorry to be late.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 09:23 AM (qRla/)

61 Reading about food just makes me hungry. I am reminded of when I was doing genealogical research, some years back. I found that one of my ancestors was a man named John Pancake, a captain in the Virginia State Militia. That's right; I'm a direct descendant of Captain Pancake.

Anyway, every time I looked at records on this family, I felt an intense desire to stop reading and head over to IHOP.

Posted by: Toad-0 at June 07, 2026 09:23 AM (Z2Qim)

62 So what'd you think of Canticle?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2026 09:23 AM (/HDaX)

63 My salad arrangement has been the same for many years. Iceberg lettuce, chopped fine; slices of radishes and green onions; and pickles instead of cucumbers, with the pickle juice instead of dressing. Chill for a few hours, so that the lettuce is a little less crisp and the juice has marinated it. It's fresh and salty and very good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:23 AM (wzUl9)

64 I have two cookbooks that I reference routinely. One is an old Betty Crocker cookbook, the other a Crock Pot cookbook that I got when my parents got me a crock pot for Christmas.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 09:24 AM (T6aVk)

65 My wife loved cook books...but only ever cooked recipes from a few of the many, many cookbooks she bought...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK)

66 Like you'd find if you spent an evening with the panel of What's My Line?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Hey Bennett, how's things going with The Famous Writers School? Any new bullshit you preparing for the gullible public?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 09:25 AM (jnTpz)

67 There are a few cookbooks on the shelves, but they don't get much use here at Casa Some Guy. Unless Mrs Some Guy decides to throw something into the crock pot, meals tend to be catch as catch can here. Out to eat for lunch a couple of times a week maybe.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 09:25 AM (q3u5l)

68 55 We used Modern Cooking by Betty Crocker as the textbook in Home Ec and I stuck with that for years.

Creative Wok Cooking (1976) was also a mainstay.

Of course, The Deplorable Gourmet.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 09:21 AM (RIvkX)

Home Ec was one of my favorite classes. Did I care about sewing? No. The cooking? Hell yes.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 09:25 AM (T6aVk)

69 The picture up top is A Social Occasion in the Sophiensaal by Joseh Engelhart.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 09:26 AM (qRla/)

70 Related to the earl oc sandwich

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:27 AM (bXbFr)

71 America 250

Hasty pudding.

Hasty pudding is a pudding or porridge of grains cooked in milk or water. In the United States, it often refers specifically to a version made primarily with ground corn. It is mentioned in the lyrics of "Yankee Doodle", a traditional American song of the eighteenth century.

Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2026 09:28 AM (adGdA)

72 I've been debating whether to read that one...

Is it worth it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Yes, it is surprisingly good. The only knock I can give it is that it doesn't read like a first book in a series, more like someone you know well relating an old story. The authors already developed their style with Pendergast books, and it is probably impossible to unlearn that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 09:29 AM (0U5gm)

73 71 America 250

Hasty pudding.

Hasty pudding is a pudding or porridge of grains cooked in milk or water. In the United States, it often refers specifically to a version made primarily with ground corn. It is mentioned in the lyrics of "Yankee Doodle", a traditional American song of the eighteenth century.

Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2026 09:28 AM (adGdA)

Doesn't beat spotted dick...

Posted by: Ken Starmer at June 07, 2026 09:29 AM (l3cgK)

74 Yeah. A year or so ago, his wife texted him that she wanted a divorce. While he was on vacation in England.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:17 AM (1Ff7Z)
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I used to read him regularly as part of my daily blog tour, but after a while his schtick got really dull.

I have to say that this is not surprising because being professionally Very Online can't be good for relationships with actual humans, especially talking in such detail about one's family. If memory serves, his kid is probably out of the house, which is one of the classic Danger Zones for modern marriages. Sad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

75 MP4, thank you for a delightful painting on top and a welcoming book thread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 09:30 AM (u82oZ)

76 Home Ec was just cooking.

We called it Second Breakfast.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 09:31 AM (RIvkX)

77 When I read Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories, I'm always at sea about the food. I don't know exactly what "squabs" are, though I expect they're tasty. In Too Many Cooks -- which you'd guess from the title involves cooking and chefs -- Wolfe dictates a letter to a fellow gourmet about how raising pigs on a diet including peanuts produces very fine ham. I can harldy look at a can of peanuts now without thinking of ham and bacon.

The TMC novel involves something Wolfe is trying to get the recipe for, "saucisse minuit," which I think means "small sausage."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

78 MP4, I have got to ask if you are a fan of Pino Daeni paintings.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 09:18 AM (5P5DO)

Hadn't heard of him. I looked him up and his pictures are nice, though the women seem a bit 'book illustration' to me. Thanks!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 09:32 AM (qRla/)

79 I purchased Caroline Glick's book, "Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad," when it came out in 2008. I somehow let it slip off of my to-read pile and gather dust on a shelf until about a month ago. 18 years. But maybe there's good in the delay.

The book compiles many of Glick's media columns published worldwide between around 2003 and 2007. The material covers the post-9/11 world, including the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions and Israel's 2nd Lebanon War - and Iran's nuclear threat to the world. It points out the obvious failures of most everyone but especially of Israel, especially Prime Ministers Barak and more so Olmert (yuk!).

It's deja vu all over again. You could lightly edit some of these essays and republish them now. In 2026, it's practically an entire book of unintended I Told You Sos.

The last section of the book contains some of Glick's essays written as she travelled during battle in Iraq with US troops.

Whether it's Bush, Powell, Rice, Olmert, Netanyahu or US military brass and personnel - or to Glick herself, for that matter - the one thing everyone got wrong and still doesn't get is that you can't fix Islam.

Regards from northern Israel.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:33 AM (5UTWB)

80 Of course one of the best things about red sparrow are the country specific recopes

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:33 AM (bXbFr)

81 "I don't know exactly what "squabs" are, though I expect they're tasty."

Pigeons.

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 07, 2026 09:33 AM (YGJ8E)

82 81 "I don't know exactly what "squabs" are, though I expect they're tasty."

Pigeons.

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 07, 2026 09:33 AM (YGJ8E)

my solution to both pigeons and hungry homeless is feeding pigeons to the hungry homeless...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:34 AM (l3cgK)

83 Apparently theres is a russian specific cubsn sandwich

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:34 AM (bXbFr)

84 Hey Bennett, how's things going with The Famous Writers School? Any new bullshit you preparing for the gullible public?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026

***
Larry Niven said that the Famous Writers School taught him to recognize when he was a real writer. It was when his name appeared on a magazine's or publisher's check.

I've always been amused by Bennett Cerf's name since I learned that his last name means "deer" -- the male deer, which can also be translated as "stag" or "buck."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:35 AM (wzUl9)

85 83 Apparently theres is a russian specific cubsn sandwich

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:34 AM (bXbFr)

No bread, no meat, no condiments?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:35 AM (l3cgK)

86 I like the painting, and the orange (not green!) oranges on the table are a nice touch.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 07, 2026 09:36 AM (R+iUD)

87 "I don't know exactly what "squabs" are, though I expect they're tasty."

Pigeons.

Posted by: Will Robinson

With an attitude.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 09:36 AM (ndZc7)

88 "I don't know exactly what "squabs" are, though I expect they're tasty."

Pigeons.

Posted by: Will Robinson

Colloquially known as rats with wings.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 09:36 AM (0U5gm)

89 my solution to both pigeons and hungry homeless is feeding pigeons to the hungry homeless...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:34 AM (l3cgK)
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I suspect it can also work the other way around as well...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 09:36 AM (gnNyN)

90 We used Modern Cooking by Betty Crocker as the textbook in Home Ec and I stuck with that for years.

I think we have that one in a ring binder format which is nice. Not haute cuisine but very good for day-to-day type cooking.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 09:36 AM (vTZFs)

91 I'm currently flipping through Self-Helf from the Middle Ages: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living by Peter Jones.

He's a professor of mediaeval studies and the book is an adaptation of lectures he gave while in residence at the University of Tyumen in Siberia. Very nicely written, and the chapter on "Sloth" has given me a lot to ponder.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 09:36 AM (qRla/)

92 62 So what'd you think of Canticle?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2026 09:23 AM (/HDaX)

I really wasn't getting it, at first. I don't know what I expected. I finally realized it is an examination of faith and how it carries humanity through all the things humanity does to itself. I think I'll probably re-read it soon.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 09:37 AM (h7ZuX)

93 That and the interior dialogues of the characters

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:37 AM (bXbFr)

94 ~~Haute~~ Hot[/b Cuisine - a limerick or two

History will never know the name
(Though the guy is deserving of fame)
He's the very first man
To pry open a can
And cook beans o'er an open flame

Canned chili (you'll get used to the stink)
Is tastier than at first you might think
Whether morning or noon
Just grab a big spoon
And eat 'em leaning over the sink

Posted by: muldoon at June 07, 2026 09:37 AM (qgHp7)

95 I finished "Fractured," by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole, whichnis book 25 in the Galaxy's Edge series (which actually contains 46 books if you include spinoff series, which you should also read, as they are phenomenal). Fractured is the second book of the third "season" of the series.

Holy Shit!! So many dramatic developments, call-backs to much-loved characters from the spinoffs and some of the earliest-established characters.

"The galaxy is a dumpster fire" indeed! I love this series abd highly recommend that anyone who likes military sci-fi should try to read all 46 books in in-universe chronological order.

About to start "Platform Decay," the 8th book in Martha Wells' excellent MurderBot series.

Good morning, Book Nerds!

Posted by: Sharkman at June 07, 2026 09:37 AM (/RHNq)

96 Drat. format fail.

Posted by: muldoon at June 07, 2026 09:37 AM (qgHp7)

97 Yay Book Thread!

Cookbooks are fun, especially historical ones. I had some kid-friendly ones growing up that I read more than I cooked from them, got hooked on reading about historical foods with The Little House Cookbook (with recipes for foods mentioned in the Little House books, adapted for modern kitchens), and eventually graduated to collecting cool cookbooks and looking things up on Gode Cookery and Feeding America. It makes for useful detail in fiction, too, especially when there's a culture clash involved--I'm planning a scene in Loyal Valley: Diversion in which a British character gets introduced to the chili queens of San Antonio, which should be good for comic relief.

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Now, for the reason I'm delurking: could anybody use an editor? I'm not teaching this summer for the first time since '22, which would be great were it not for the fact that health problems and a paucity of classes to teach over the last ~3 years mean that I can't afford to take the summer off entirely but don't have the energy to go hunting for projects. The good Perfessor has my email, if you want to get in touch.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 09:37 AM (azG9/)

98 There are cookbooks I use for recipes and some I use for information about food. The facsimile cookbooks from Townsends are fascinating, not always practical but interesting for the materials and procedures. (Some amounts would help.) I have a book about the foods of the early Quebecois settlers my ancestors would have used. We have a small book of colonial recipes put out by the restaurant where we had our wedding reception.

Some are have great recipes and are also gorgeous like the Kent Rollins books: history of chuck wagon cooking, beautiful photos of the area, society of cowboys on a cattle drive. Every one of the recipes I've tried have been delicious and not too complicated.

The Deplorable Gourmet is always a good starting point for greatr recipes and fun reading.

Posted by: JTB at June 07, 2026 09:37 AM (yTvNw)

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 09:38 AM (0U5gm)

100 Close tags in the nic for the win, muldoon!

Posted by: Nazdar at June 07, 2026 09:38 AM (NcvvS)

101 my solution to both pigeons and hungry homeless is feeding pigeons to the hungry homeless...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:34 AM (l3cgK)

What did those poor pigeons ever do to deserve that?

Feed hobos to the pigeons!

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 07, 2026 09:38 AM (YGJ8E)

102 "I don't know exactly what "squabs" are, though I expect they're tasty."
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Pigeons.

Posted by: Will Robinson
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Colloquially known as rats with wings.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026

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I'd hope that Wolfe's chef Fritz gets his pigeons from someone who breeds healthy ones, not hapless city birds in the park.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

103 I have about 30 cookbooks but rarely use them anymore. My standbys are the Joy of Cooking and an older version of the New York Times cookbook. I just don't cook from scratch like I use to. Many times it's easier to search for a recipe online. smitten kitchen has good recipes along with pioneer woman. Pioneer woman recipes are also accessible and pretty simple to me. I use to like Cooks Illustrated magazine but it's very fussy and complicated in most cases. They do have some gems I still use with a few tweaks.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 07, 2026 09:40 AM (VCgbV)

104 Oops, my bad, it was a menu dated 1885 from a Chicago restaurant in "The Dear Dead Table d'Hôte Days":

"As I look at it today, I can only stand, hat in hand, and now my head in reverence for the imagination, as well as the capacity, of that earlier day."

Blue points, soup, fish, broiled leg of mountain sheep, wild Turkey, leg if moose, loin of elk, cinnamon bear, black-tail deer, loin of venison, saddle of antelope, opossum, black bear, and duck. The list of birds takes two more paragraphs.

"The National Geographic Society evidently did the shopping for meat on behalf of the hotel."

Benchley, a portly gentleman often on a diet who felt like a crook when sneaking a furtive forkful of potato, rightly opined that constantly being cross and hungry might not be better than the occasional Victorian excess.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 09:40 AM (kpS4V)

105 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:33 AM (5UTWB)

Doesn't she write for the Jerusalem Post or is she a freelance writer?

Posted by: dantesed at June 07, 2026 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

106
I have an odd fascination while reading with descriptions of food and people eating.

My favorite FB site is Eating History, showing menus from the late 19th and first half of the 20th century from restaurants, inns, resorts, trains, steamships and social club dinners. Mutton, pigs feet, clams and shrimp cocktail, I notice, are now out of style.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 09:40 AM (O0L8i)

107 Ol' Dude at the table in back (with the cigar) is lookin' at the girl leaning forward and he's thinkin' "Whoa! I wants me some o' dat!" - but in French. You know he is … yes, he is.

Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 09:40 AM (ayRl+)

108 I use to like Cooks Illustrated magazine but it's very fussy and complicated in most cases. They do have some gems I still use with a few tweaks.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 07, 2026

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Please don't tell me they have a centerfold . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

109 Never tasted squab but just yesterday I tasted quail eggs for the first time.

Taste like chicken eggs but only a quarter of the calories.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:41 AM (5UTWB)

110 BTW, thanks to everyone who prayed for me in December; I keep forgetting to send Annie's Stew an update. The surgery was successful, but it threw me into a flare once my recovery reached a certain point, and getting my energy back since then has been... challenging.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 09:41 AM (azG9/)

111 from Insty - remove space, b/c both shorturl and is gd are being turds:

https://x.com/EmpireEnjoyer3 /status/2062747187251933472
[images]

Note one of the routes shown in the lower right image...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 07, 2026 09:41 AM (R+iUD)

112 Ol' Dude at the table in back (with the cigar) is lookin' at the girl leaning forward and he's thinkin' "Whoa! I wants me some o' dat!" - but in French. You know he is … yes, he is.
Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026

***
The balding fellow with the van Dyke beard? Oh, yeah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

113 I had the good fortune of spending my formative years on the Gulf of America coast, specifically Mobile. A unique phenomenon occurs there known as a Jubilee when dense populations of crab, shrimp and flounder will come into extremely shallow water and you can fill a washtub with delicious fresh seafood in minutes.
My mom had the Recipe Jubilee! cookbook from The Junior League of Mobile. Stained, dogeared and held together by rubber bands it was the inspiration for some of the best gumbo on the planet. And then there was the best thing of all: West Indies Salad.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 09:42 AM (CJnkZ)

114 Fritz and Wolfe should be okay as long as they're not getting their pigeons from Tom Lehrer.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 09:42 AM (q3u5l)

115 108 I use to like Cooks Illustrated magazine but it's very fussy and complicated in most cases. They do have some gems I still use with a few tweaks.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 07, 2026

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Please don't tell me they have a centerfold . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

Gordon Ramsey on an Ottoman...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:43 AM (l3cgK)

116 Doesn't she write for the Jerusalem Post or is she a freelance writer?

Posted by: dantesed at June 07, 2026 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)
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Certainly used to publish in the JPost. Dunno if she still does. Have not seen her writing pop up for a while now, though I've seen event advertisements where she is a featured speaker.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:43 AM (5UTWB)

117 As for my own writing - well, the less said about that, the better.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 09:43 AM (qRla/)

118 The hilarious dude who runs the "You Suck At Cooking" YouTube channel has a very funny cookbook out. Easily found at Amazon by just searching "You Suck At Cooking."

Posted by: Sharkman at June 07, 2026 09:43 AM (/RHNq)

119 Larry Corriea's new series is only on book 2,so you may not want to get started on it. I would have waited If I'd realized. I knew it wasn't finished, but had misread the Amazon entry for book 3 and didn't notice it was a preorder entry.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 07, 2026 09:43 AM (lFFaq)

120 65 My wife loved cook books...but only ever cooked recipes from a few of the many, many cookbooks she bought...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK)

Some of us use them more as a guideline. I rarely buy a cookbook, unless from the thrift store. Check them out at the library a lot.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 09:43 AM (h7ZuX)

121 109 Never tasted squab but just yesterday I tasted quail eggs for the first time.

Taste like chicken eggs but only a quarter of the calories.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:41 AM (5UTWB)

Given the size compared to chicken eggs, I'd expect the calories per egg to be much less than 1/4...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM (l3cgK)

122 And then there was the best thing of all: West Indies Salad.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Where does one buy fresh West Indians these days?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM (jnTpz)

123 It's swimming pool time! Water's still a bit cold but Scott Adams taught me that the cold makes me stronger. It worked!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM (5UTWB)

124 I don't consider what I do cooking, just meal preparation. As I'd said, my wife -- a superb cook -- is out of town. With that in mind, I mixed up a big bowl of pasta, Alfredo sauce, diced ham, corn, and green besns. It will provide several lunches. She says corn and pasta is too much starch. Maybe, but it tastes so good.

I also bought sausage with cheese filling, something else she doesn't like. That will be today's lunch, along with store- ought potato salad.

My complaint about recipe books is that they cheat. "Preparation time: 20 minutes," and then one ingredient is diced green peppers. Uh, that didn't account for the time needed to dice the peppers.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM (tIPDA)

125 120 65 My wife loved cook books...but only ever cooked recipes from a few of the many, many cookbooks she bought...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK)

Some of us use them more as a guideline. I rarely buy a cookbook, unless from the thrift store. Check them out at the library a lot.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 09:43 AM (h7ZuX)

I think she liked the pretty pictures, and had the full intention of cooking from them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM (l3cgK)

126 Murder is Corny (1964) by Rex Stout.

"Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish."

Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM (adGdA)

127 Larry Corriea's new series is only on book 2,so you may not want to get started on it. I would have waited If I'd realized. I knew it wasn't finished, but had misread the Amazon entry for book 3 and didn't notice it was a preorder entry.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 07, 2026 09:43 AM (lFFaq)
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I really hope he gets back to MHI soon.

He left that series on a rather significant cliffhanger.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM (gnNyN)

128 Biden's Dog, live dangerously and try Cajun spiced pickled quail eggs.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 09:45 AM (5P5DO)

129 Never tasted squab but just yesterday I tasted quail eggs for the first time.

Taste like chicken eggs but only a quarter of the calories.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:41 AM (5UTWB)

Given the size compared to chicken eggs, I'd expect the calories per egg to be much less than 1/4...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM (l3cgK)
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Where's Captain Obvious when you need him!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:45 AM (5UTWB)

130
Recommended: The Taste of War by Lizzie Collingham, a history of the role of food (civilian and military) in World War II.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 09:45 AM (O0L8i)

131 I don't think I've ever followed a cookbook recipe except if you count the back of a hamburger helper box.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 09:45 AM (GseMx)

132 I've also been following a couple of guys on the Instagrams that posts short vids of dishes. For us folks that are pretty decent cooks, you really don't need much more than 3-4 minutes of instruction.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 09:46 AM (jnTpz)

133 Shes an advisor to netanyahu

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:46 AM (bXbFr)

134 Elisabeth G. Wolfe,glad to hear your surgery went well. Prayers for a full recovery.
The writer dojo fb group seems to frequently need editors.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 09:47 AM (GhIJO)

135 Note one of the routes shown in the lower right image...

Which one and why?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 09:47 AM (vTZFs)

136 @ 77 When I read Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories, I'm always at sea about the food. I don't know exactly what "squabs" are, though I expect they're tasty.
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You don't WANT to know what squab is. Oil, greasy, smelly when they're prepared … and not much in the Flavor & Fun departments, either. Mom fixed 'em once when my brother brought about a dozen home from his hunting trip - then she told him to never bring 'those things!' home again. No mo' squab.

Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 09:47 AM (ayRl+)

137 Squab was the funniest Two and a Half Men episode .

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 09:47 AM (GseMx)

138 Biden's Dog, live dangerously and try Cajun spiced pickled quail eggs.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 09:45 AM (5P5DO)
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Love hot spice. Learned from my late father.

Even had fresh green chili peppers added to my salad for lunch today.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:47 AM (5UTWB)

139 Art Commentary: TLDR; too little too late.

What SHE thinks: Just hangin' out havin' a bud.
What HE thinks: Cruise shiped dung flinging balista's surrounding the LIB BASSholes and, firestarting BASStards...

And when the filth and corruption foams up around their waists and they all look up an cry "Save Us" TRUMP will whisper: NO.

Too late to save the LA Election/2028 Olympics -- and thus his legacy. Not to late to interdict the FIFA/False flag engineered to make BASSura the hero that she's not.

YES! Hunter Biden swooping in on his gyrocopter/hang-glider like Super Chicken! (but in real world: more like Kite Man)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsChickenRun

LET'S GO BRANDON!
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-PutASmileOnThatFace
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 07, 2026 09:48 AM (PfkJ2)

140 There's a stretch in the book of Silverberg interviews (Traveler of Worlds) where he discusses restaurants and his days discovering that food was not necessarily just fuel. It's fun reading even for a culinary illiterate like myself.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 09:48 AM (q3u5l)

141 I used to love reading cookbooks, but have stopped for some reason. Probably because any recipe I'm interested in, like unfamiliar foods in the anime Solo Camping for Two, has several options (and an ai explanation) with just a copy/paste into the browser.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 07, 2026 09:49 AM (lFFaq)

142 I have some favorite cookbooks - I do use them! My cookbook is a binder that I've put together over the years. I also have my mother's similar binder, and my grandmother's notebook/recipe book.

The "real cookbooks" I still use are the Frog Commissary one, a really fun Disney restaurant recipes one from ages ago, an Aruban cooking one, and one that the IHM Sisters put together with their own favorite family recipes.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 07, 2026 09:49 AM (j+aD2)

143 I read a memorable story this past week. Not a good one, but a memorable one. It was a sword and sorcery short story in the 'Savage Realms' e-zine. It was about a Conan-esque character, and a scribe that traveled with him. The scribe enjoyed fanciful stories and flowery prose, while Not-Conan was blunt and straightforward. The gimmick of the story, however, was that it was being relayed to the reader by the scribe, and thus even Not-Conan's words were paraphrased with unnecessary flourishes. "I then spied upon the creature of the temple; a sudden dread came upon me, and I deemed it wise to quit the place with all haste."

It was a was distinctive style, but not one I would enjoy for a whole novel.

Posted by: Castle Guy at June 07, 2026 09:49 AM (3v7ra)

144
44 I read almost exclusively on my iPad using Kindle these days. Still have all my books, but I've read them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 09:17 AM (u82oZ)

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This 100 percent! Kindle has been a Godsend for my aging eyes.

I will sometimes purchase the Kindle editions of books I already own the hard copies of if I want to re-read them: Lord of the Rings, Brother Cadfael series are some examples.

Right now I am in the middle of re-reading on Kindle a 47 book series of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories. Just finished Book 19, Murder by the Book. Written around 1950.

I try to read something different in between the books (right now my daughter in law's recommended Amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters), but I love immersing myself in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe world. When I take a break I find myself missing Archie Goodwin and Fritz and Saul and Inspector Cramer, and I can hardly wait to get back!

Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at June 07, 2026 09:49 AM (TPFQA)

145 I'm about to finish Mao's Army Goes to Sea. The account of the conquest of Hainan is interesting, and while the operation was accomplished competently, once again it has very limited application to the current challenges confronting the PLAN. For one thing, the Nationalists at that time were defeated and demoralized, in complete disarray and while they had US aid and equipment, it was not in good shape following the retreat. Their troops were brittle and broke easily, while the Red Chinese were flushed with the confidence of victory and eager to reunify all of China's empire.

On the face of it, credit to the PLAN for managing invasions with sailing vessels, but crossing 20 nm straits under cover of darkness against an enemy without radar (or radio communication) is a bit different than the Taiwan Strait.

And of course the spirit of innovation, the freedom to improvise and cut corners, commanders being empowered to take huge risks for huge reward - those qualities are anathema to Xi Jinping's regime.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)

146 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?

That's a VERY underserved market.

Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 09:50 AM (ayRl+)

147 Where does one buy fresh West Indians these days?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM
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Right next to the store where you can get fresh monkey for making Monkey Bread.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 09:50 AM (CJnkZ)

148 Taste of Literary Intrigue The "Saucisse Minuit" (Midnight Sausage) is not just a recipe; it's a glimpse into the sophisticated world of Rex Stout's iconic detective, Nero Wolfe.

This particular recipe, originating from The Nero Wolfe Cookbook ...

Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2026 09:50 AM (adGdA)

149 a young man was murdered by his own home last night in South Philly. in a nice part. he was robbed and executed by "youths."

22 years old, heading into his senior year at PSU.

heartbreaking

bad things still do happen in Philadelphia

thanks Krasner

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 07, 2026 09:51 AM (j+aD2)

150 Shes an advisor to netanyahu

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 09:46 AM (bXbFr)
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Grok with the details:

https://tinyurl.com/yc6tbad9

To the pooL!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:51 AM (5UTWB)

151 On Friday Miss Linda and I visited a local pet shelter/thrift store. The store has a slew of nice older furniture bits, glass, porcelain, and gadgets, which are donated to them and they sell the items to support the cats they have for adoption. Anyway, in the back room, their "Book Nook," I found a book club edition of Richard Bradford's hilarious 1968 novel Red Sky at Morning. I have a good quality paperback of it, but a hardcover with dust jacket for $2.00 is a bargain.

The novel is set in WWII New Mexico in a town modeled on Santa Fe. It's a coming-of-age story; but unlike the usual ones of that ilk, it's laugh-out-loud funny. Sagrado, the town, is filled with bizarre and quirky characters, and 17-year-old Josh, the narrator, is a fast man with a quip -- as are his friends.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9)

152 "murdered NEAR" I mean. "by" as in "near"

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 07, 2026 09:51 AM (j+aD2)

153 >>> 127 Larry Corriea's new series is only on book 2,so you may not want to get started on it. I would have waited If I'd realized. I knew it wasn't finished, but had misread the Amazon entry for book 3 and didn't notice it was a preorder entry.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 07, 2026 09:43 AM (lFFaq)
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I really hope he gets back to MHI soon.

He left that series on a rather significant cliffhanger.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM (gnNyN)

https://monsterhunternation .com/2025/08/07/wip/

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 07, 2026 09:51 AM (R+iUD)

154 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?

That's a VERY underserved market.

I think Twilight Zone pretty much killed interest in the topic.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 09:51 AM (vTZFs)

155 I came to a book thread and a food thread popped out.

Posted by: dantesed at June 07, 2026 09:52 AM (Oy/m2)

156 129 quail eggs are mostly yolk, so more calorie dense than chicken eggs

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 09:52 AM (dE3DB)

157 Thanks, vmom, both for the tip and for the prayers! I'll shoot OrangeEnt an email sometime this week.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 09:52 AM (azG9/)

158 Book I'm currently reading:

Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces

Can't say I'm enthralled with a lot of her choices so far.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 09:52 AM (GseMx)

159 I like cookbooks related to my reading. I have the Nero Wolfe Cookbook with recipes used in the stories. Then "Delish!" by Philip Craig with meals used in his Martha's Vineyard mystery series. The Nero Wolfe recipes are mostly beyond my abilities but the Philip Craig recipes are both delish, hence the title, and easy.

Our honorary niece (we've known her since she was three months old) got married last year. (How the hell did she get into her twenties? Last week she was a toddler.) She and her husband are Tolkien fanatics. Her mom made a wedding cake that looked like the entrance to Bag End. Part of their wedding gift from us was several Middle-Earth related cook books. They've made quite a few of the recipes so far.

Posted by: JTB at June 07, 2026 09:52 AM (yTvNw)

160 146 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?

That's a VERY underserved market.
Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 09:50 AM (ayRl+)

Could be fascinating. What DO they eat in the outlying galaxies?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 09:53 AM (h7ZuX)

161 Yeah. A year or so ago, his wife texted him that she wanted a divorce. While he was on vacation in England.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:17 AM (1Ff7Z)

The fact that she wasn't with him on his vacation might have been a clue.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 07, 2026 09:53 AM (syz1S)

162 Oh and the paintings she chose are in alphabetical order based on artist's name.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 09:53 AM (GseMx)

163 Certainly used to publish in the JPost. Dunno if she still does. Have not seen her writing pop up for a while now, though I've seen event advertisements where she is a featured speaker.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 09:43 AM (5UTWB
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She is in the PMO!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 09:54 AM (RIvkX)

164 Correia has a new series getting released on June 23.
American Paladin.
I saw a post of the first paragraph and I am already invested.
I think Nick Searcy will narrate the audiobook

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 09:54 AM (fE6HJ)

165
I once made a dish from the 14th Century called, "Hindle Wakes".

It came from a cookbook titled: "Great British Cooking: A Well-Kept Secret". The recipe for "Hindle Wakes" has survived basically unchanged since Ye Olde 14th Century, and gives you a good idea of eating among Their Betters as the average Brit peasant at that time probably ate at diet of turnips, weeds, and dirt.

Anyway, it's a very odd tasting chicken dish to the modern palate. Not really any seasoning beyond vinegar and prunes. I looked up some other medieval type dished and they all seem to run in that same neighborhood.

I fixed it for the family and everyone hated it. Not so much that it tasted bad but it was the alieness of HN. Anywho, I thought it was pretty good but have never felt the desire to remake the dish.

So, in summery- Take a time trip to the ancient world of Albion, and whip up a batch of handle Wakes.

So it now.

Now!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

166 Some of my most successful dishes (i.e., people ask for the recipe) came from Sunset magazine cookbooks.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 07, 2026 09:55 AM (FMtrg)

167 SF cookbooks?

Anne McCaffrey edited one called Cooking Out of This World, in which a bunch of sf writers presented some of their favorite recipes.

And then there's To Serve Man, inspired by the Damon Knight story. It's exactly what you think it is.

I don't know of any others.

Richard Brautigan's novel The Abortion is set in part in a strange library where people can leave the never-to-be-published books they've written and the librarian will add them to the collection. One guy drops off a book of recipes culled from the works of Dostoevsky, and says "I've eaten everything Dostoevsky ever cooked."

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 09:55 AM (q3u5l)

168 Oof. Although it does raise the question of why he was vacationing in England w/o his wife.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2026 09:21 AM (/HDaX)

Back.

Don't know if anyone's said, but...

James is from Fargo ND. There was a woman named Peg (can't recall last name) who made it big in radio and tv in the 50s. He found out she was still alive a decade or so ago and made contact with her and became a family friend. Peg's daughter and husband live in England and he goes to visit them multiple times a year. Maybe the wife thought something was going on and decided to divorce him over it? They seemed to occasionally take separate vacs over the years and she might not have liked England. But yeah. I'd probably not spent as much time there as he did.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 09:55 AM (1Ff7Z)

169 > Duncan Hines’ various editions of Adventures in Good Eating

Not to be confused with Adventures in Good Drinking, by Drunken Hines.

> Larry Corriea's new series is only on book 2,so you may not want to get started on it.

It sounds like you're talking about the "Academy of Outcasts" series. It's pretty good.

He's actually got yet *another* new series dropping June 23, "American Paladin". From the opening paragraph:

No one likes getting pulled over for speeding, but that feeling's a whole lot worse when there's a dead pedophile in the back of your truck.

But man...close to $30 for a Kindle book, though. I'll have to think that one over. Academy of Outcasts is on Kindle Unlimited.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 09:56 AM (IG3/x)

170 Get your minds out of the gutter. Cook Illustrated went along with a TV show. they also had Americas Test Kitchen. They were both pricey but had great, solid recipes if you had the time and wanted to make the effort. Since going back to work 8+ years ago, I don't.
That Kenji Alt Lopez communist got his start there but far exceeded them. Talk about fussy and complicated! But he has the science to back his methods up. The Food Lab is the cookbook, it's expensive and weights about 20lbs. but it will teach you about the science behind what cooking does to food and why it tastes good.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 07, 2026 09:56 AM (VCgbV)

171 Alternate title of Painting:

"You're Sure You're Rich?...Well then, Sir, If You Don't Like This View. Check Me Out From the Other Side of the Table"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (iJfKG)

172 Grandpa, an immigrant from eastern Europe, loved his squabs. He even converted a chicken coop into a pigeon loft on his farm for a reliable supply. His preferred dish was a soup. Whenever a skunk or weasel broke into the loft, we were entertained with a stream of cusswords in three languages

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (rj6Yv)

173 Right now I am in the middle of re-reading on Kindle a 47 book series of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories. Just finished Book 19, Murder by the Book. Written around 1950.

I try to read something different in between the books (right now my daughter in law's recommended Amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters), but I love immersing myself in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe world. When I take a break I find myself missing Archie Goodwin and Fritz and Saul and Inspector Cramer, and I can hardly wait to get back!
Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at June 07, 2026

***
Murder by the Book is one of his very best, along with Might As Well Be Dead, The Mother Hunt, and the Arnold Zeck trilogy. Stout really found his voice with NW & AG after the war and the move to Viking Press. Somehow the earlier books don't seem quite the same, as he was feeling his way. Always entertaining, but they are not at quite the same level.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (wzUl9)

174 Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces

Can't say I'm enthralled with a lot of her choices so far.
Posted by: polynikes

Yeah, the lovely Mrs. bought that for me a few years ago. I was completely underwhelmed. It sits collecting dust next to a book on Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment. The contrast is striking - The good sister posts one paragraph on some mediocre work and then I have a few hundred pages on ONE of Michelangelo's paintings.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (jnTpz)

175 46 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?

That's a VERY underserved market.
Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 09:50 AM (ayRl+)

Could be fascinating. What DO they eat in the outlying galaxies?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 09:53 AM (h7ZuX)
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There are several Star Wars cookbooks out there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (gnNyN)

176 This week I finished « A Full Blown Yankee of the Iron Brigade » by Rufus R. Dawes. This is far and away the best Civil War memoir I’ve ever read. He includes excerpts from his diaries, letters home and to his fiancé and letters from others. He writes clear, east to follow accounts of all the battles of the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers from the beginning of the war until he was mustered out at the end of his 3 year enlistment. He can be funny relating incidents of camp life without pulling any punches on the hardships and horror of war. If you have an interest in the Civil War it is a must read
Based on moron recommendations (IIRC) I started Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. Only one chapter in but so far, so funny. A comic novel(?) that’s laugh out loud funny. Reminds a little of Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad

Posted by: Who Knew at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (0QMbS)

177 I read a book called A Bite-Sized History of France, but I put it down a few times because it was so disgustingly political, and contemptuous of everything to the right of Rabelais. There were gratuitous shots at everything "right wing," and not a whit of criticism of the excesses of the left.

I would have bought a copy had the authors been less barking-mad commies, and more interested in just telling the history of food in France!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (iERP6)

178 130
Recommended: The Taste of War by Lizzie Collingham, a history of the role of food (civilian and military) in World War II.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 09:45 AM (O0L8i)

An army travels on its stomach.

Posted by: Napoleon at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (T6aVk)

179 125 120 65 My wife loved cook books...but only ever cooked recipes from a few of the many, many cookbooks she bought...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK)

Same here. It was somewhat difficult putting all of her cook books in the trash for pickup, but it had to be done. I don't cook and I'm slowly, but persistently decluttering my home.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 07, 2026 09:58 AM (J4Dwc)

180 Oh yeah, reading.

"Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans" by Garrett Ryan is not just one of the greatest book titles, it's a new genre for me: highbrow bathroom reading. You know, short blasts, high volume.

BTW, the gladiators were fed a protein paste of mashed up bean soup and barley gruel to put meat on their bones, as a layer of fat was thought to protect the fighter from injuries.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 09:58 AM (kpS4V)

181 Re: Murder By the Book, Cramer has two of his best lines in it. He looks at Archie and says, "You know who's opinion I'd like to have of you? Darwin's. Where were you while evolution was going on?"

And later, he asks Wolfe, "What will you do in the meantime?" Wolfe: "Sit here." Cramer: "Someday you'll get chair sores."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:58 AM (wzUl9)

182 An army travels on its stomach.
Posted by: Napoleon at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (T6aVk)

The more they eat, the more they shit.

Posted by: Mao at June 07, 2026 09:58 AM (T6aVk)

183 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?

That's a VERY underserved market.

Posted by: Dr_No

That is a bit disconcerting, given that I have left instructions in my will to donate my body to science fiction.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 09:59 AM (0U5gm)

184 175 46 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?

That's a VERY underserved market.
Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 09:50 AM (ayRl+)

Could be fascinating. What DO they eat in the outlying galaxies?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 09:53 AM (h7ZuX)
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There are several Star Wars cookbooks out there...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (gnNyN)

I wonder how much longer the "Mandalorian Menu" will last at Burger King.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 09:59 AM (T6aVk)

185 Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?

B'Elanna Torres' Warp Core Breach Chili.

Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2026 09:59 AM (adGdA)

186 Hey Bennett, how's things going with The Famous Writers School? Any new bullshit you preparing for the gullible public?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2026 09:25 AM (jnTpz)

Now, now. There were a couple of people who came out of it with contracts. Had more than one book published. Besides, Rod Serling pitched the school, too. If you can't trust Bennett Cerf and Rod Serling, who can you trust? Hal Block?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:00 AM (1Ff7Z)

187 >>> 170 Get your minds out of the gutter. Cook Illustrated went along with a TV show. they also had Americas Test Kitchen. They were both pricey but had great, solid recipes if you had the time and wanted to make the effort. Since going back to work 8+ years ago, I don't.
That Kenji Alt Lopez communist got his start there but far exceeded them. Talk about fussy and complicated! But he has the science to back his methods up. The Food Lab is the cookbook, it's expensive and weights about 20lbs. but it will teach you about the science behind what cooking does to food and why it tastes good.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 07, 2026 09:56 AM (VCgbV)

Shirley there's an earlier book like that:
https://shorturl.at/QJldV

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 07, 2026 10:00 AM (R+iUD)

188 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?
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There are many themed and tie-in cookbooks out there geared toward the fantasy/SF crowd.

My favorite title is The Necronomnomnom

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 10:00 AM (kpS4V)

189 177 I read a book called A Bite-Sized History of France, but I put it down a few times because it was so disgustingly political, and contemptuous of everything to the right of Rabelais. There were gratuitous shots at everything "right wing," and not a whit of criticism of the excesses of the left.

I would have bought a copy had the authors been less barking-mad commies, and more interested in just telling the history of food in France!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (iERP6)

I shoulda wrote a cookbook.

Posted by: Frederic Bastiat at June 07, 2026 10:01 AM (T6aVk)

190 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (iERP6)

I like we call the various proteins we eat by a variation of the French word because the Normans conquered England. All except Fish which sounds like poison in French.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:01 AM (GseMx)

191 On topic - I received Max Miller's "Tasting History" cookbook for Christmas. I've skimmed it but haven't read it cover-to-cover yet. I do enjoy his YouTube channel. He did a series on the Titanic which I found interesting, as well as a series on cooking during wartime shortages (may be useful information someday).

I finally started re-reading The Camp of the Saints, this time the 2025 Vauban edition translated by Ethan Randell. Jean Raspail apparently released three different editions of CotS, and this one omits some of the scenes that had become outdated by the 2000s. The man was either a prophet or had keys to a time machine.

Posted by: PabloD at June 07, 2026 10:02 AM (K1RVP)

192 Sharkman,
Sooner or later I expect to dip into Galaxy's Edge.
However it will be in publication order as required.
(Fictional future sci-fi universe)
Chronological order would be acceptable for a historical series.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at June 07, 2026 10:02 AM (KaHlS)

193 The first Nero Wolfe book I read, "The Golden Spiders," opens with Wolfe in a snit because Fritz tried something different with starlings they received once a year from a farmer in upstate New York.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 07, 2026 10:02 AM (tIPDA)

194 If memory serves, his kid is probably out of the house, which is one of the classic Danger Zones for modern marriages. Sad.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

Yeah, Nat is out on her own in Boston. Has a career in advertising.

He bitched a couple weeks ago about the wife complaining he had an easy life. She's a high powered attorney, he was just a guy who wrote stuff....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:03 AM (1Ff7Z)

195 My mother had a few cookbooks on the shelves at home. Of much more interest to me was the section in one on "Cocktails." Sadly, we never had the ingredients to make Manhattans or anything above a basic whiskey-and-water highball.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:03 AM (wzUl9)

196 Squabs are pre-flight pigeons. They are removed from the nest or perch before they can fly.

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 10:04 AM (rj6Yv)

197 They had scenes of the crew eating a few times on Star Trek .

I also liked the class warfare menu in the movie Passengers.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:04 AM (GseMx)

198 > "Garnish with weevils."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 09:16 AM (ndZc7)

Place meat in a wooden cask along with fifty pounds of salt, then send it on round trips to the West Indies by sailing ship until done (approximately 3-5 years, or when dysentery develops after trying a small sample).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:05 AM (IG3/x)

199 The first Nero Wolfe book I read, "The Golden Spiders," opens with Wolfe in a snit because Fritz tried something different with starlings they received once a year from a farmer in upstate New York.
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 07, 2026

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Right! That was the one Tim Hutton and his producers used as the first episode of the A & E series back in the late '90s. GS has actual action scenes in it -- fairly rare in Stout's intellectual brand of mystery.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:05 AM (wzUl9)

200 146 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?
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Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: To Serve Man at June 07, 2026 10:05 AM (CJnkZ)

201 Please don't tell me they have a centerfold . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

LOL. No, but they have beautiful back covers suitable for framing.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 10:06 AM (lJ0H4)

202 My favorite title is The Necronomnomnom
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 10:00 AM (kpS4V)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 10:06 AM (h7ZuX)

203 They had scenes of the crew eating a few times on Star Trek .

I also liked the class warfare menu in the movie Passengers.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026

***
"What's this? Green leaves?"

"Dr. McCoy ordered your diet card changed, sir. I thought you knew."

"Bring some for the doctor, too."

"Oh, no. I never eat until the *crew* eats."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)

204
My favorite title is The Necronomnomnom
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 10:00 AM (kpS4V)

I can't get over Cryptonomicon having 10 pages dedicated to how to properly prepare and eat Cap'n Crunch cereal.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 10:06 AM (T6aVk)

205 Charles Spencer's memoir "A Very Private School" reminisces on his hellish years at the boys' school Maidwell back in the 70's. Isolated, with family contact limited to a letter home written every Sunday under the watchful eyes of teachers, the students were subject to the whims of bullies and sexual sadists. "This, while being molded into end products that were not only damaged but outmoded, even back then."

I kept thinking of another Spencer, Winston Churchill, whose headmaster at St. George's flogged boys so viciously that the walls of his study were flecked with blood.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 10:07 AM (kpS4V)

206 I like we call the various proteins we eat by a variation of the French word because the Normans conquered England. All except Fish which sounds like poison in French.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:01 AM (GseMx)

The French word for fish is puse'.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026 10:07 AM (g8Ew8)

207 But man...close to $30 for a Kindle book, though. I'll have to think that one over. Academy of Outcasts is on Kindle Unlimited.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Ask your local library to get a copy. There's usually a form.
Most libraries wont get Correia books because he's so actively anti-woke, but if you request they have to justify saying no, and may find it easier to buy it.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 10:07 AM (LmPA0)

208 He bitched a couple weeks ago about the wife complaining he had an easy life. She's a high powered attorney, he was just a guy who wrote stuff....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:03 AM (1Ff7Z)
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Wife out-earning/working husband? Another huge red flag.

Almost always fatal to a marriage.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)

209 There are several Star Wars cookbooks out there...

Not a new thing. I have a couple of reproduction Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind cookbooks from the 30s.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 10:07 AM (qRla/)

210 I really can't find my reading glasses, its not that I absolutely need them, its just better.

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 10:08 AM (Ia/+0)

211 I like we call the various proteins we eat by a variation of the French word because the Normans conquered England. All except Fish which sounds like poison in French.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:01 AM (GseMx)

Meat

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 10:08 AM (T6aVk)

212 Had to step out for a bit, sorry...

I really wasn't getting it, at first. I don't know what I expected. I finally realized it is an examination of faith and how it carries humanity through all the things humanity does to itself. I think I'll probably re-read it soon.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 09:37 AM (h7ZuX)

I've read it a number of times and no matter how hard I try, I keep coming back with a pessimistic view of humanity rather than an optimistic one.

Oh well.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2026 10:09 AM (/HDaX)

213 There was a discussion of shipboard fare in one of the Hornblower books. The captain's ship is in tropical waters, and one of his lieutenants eats happily of the cooked pork. Hornblower reflects that the fellow must have a strong constitution, to eat salt pork in hot weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:09 AM (wzUl9)

214 I like we call the various proteins we eat by a variation of the French word because the Normans conquered England. All except Fish which sounds like poison in French.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:01 AM (GseMx)
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The French word for fish is puse'.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026

***
I thought it was poisson.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:10 AM (wzUl9)

215 Never got around to reading it, but a title I always liked was one from Jack Douglas: The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves. Douglas had some nice titles. His autobiography was called A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Grave. And then there was one I stumbled over when I was 12 -- My Brother Was an Only Child, which included chapters like "The Boy Who Cried Dinosaur" and "Six G Strings in Search of an Old Violin Named Charlie," all of which I found hilarious. Maybe it helped to be 12?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 10:10 AM (q3u5l)

216 Perf, if you're lurking, I sent you an email.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:10 AM (1Ff7Z)

217 really can't find my reading glasses, its not that I absolutely need them, its just better.
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 10:08 AM (Ia/+

You should have socked Burgess Meredith .

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:10 AM (GseMx)

218 Yes stephenson could do with an editor

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 10:10 AM (bXbFr)

219 Charles Spencer's memoir "A Very Private School" reminisces on his hellish years at the boys' school Maidwell back in the 70's. Isolated, with family contact limited to a letter home written every Sunday under the watchful eyes of teachers, the students were subject to the whims of bullies and sexual sadists. "This, while being molded into end products that were not only damaged but outmoded, even back then."
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Alec Waugh's first book, The Loom of Youth, was about his time at Sherbourne and was considers so scandalous that he was kicked out of the alumni society (crucial for networking) and his brother Evelyn barred from attending.

About 15 years later, in Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves observed that the boarding school system seemed designed to create homosexuals.

The purpose of a thing is what it does.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 10:10 AM (ZOv7s)

220 188 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?
...
There are many themed and tie-in cookbooks out there geared toward the fantasy/SF crowd.
....
My favorite title is The Necronomnomnom

Veganomicon, real book, real Fast, real FEAR!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 07, 2026 10:10 AM (+U3bF)

221 The French word for fish is puse'.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026

ISWYDT. I think.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:11 AM (GseMx)

222 146 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?

That's a VERY underserved market.
Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 09:50 AM (ayRl+)

Well, I'm sure there a Klingon bookbook out there, if you're interested in eating 'gagh.' Be warned, there isn't much 'cooking' involved...

Posted by: Castle Guy at June 07, 2026 10:12 AM (3v7ra)

223 Never got around to reading it, but a title I always liked was one from Jack Douglas: The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves. Douglas had some nice titles. His autobiography was called A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Grave. And then there was one I stumbled over when I was 12 -- My Brother Was an Only Child, which included chapters like "The Boy Who Cried Dinosaur" and "Six G Strings in Search of an Old Violin Named Charlie," all of which I found hilarious. Maybe it helped to be 12?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026

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Was that the Jack Douglas who, with his Japanese wife, was *always* guesting on Merv Griffin (the old Westinghouse show)?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:12 AM (wzUl9)

224 Speaking of food, I just remembered that I need to bake a cake this morning. It's a little treat for the kiddo since she just wrapped up her junior year. Strange to think that we're going to be empty nesters in the fall of 2027.

Posted by: PabloD at June 07, 2026 10:12 AM (K1RVP)

225 I thought it was poisson.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

That is correct.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 10:13 AM (0U5gm)

226 I've read it a number of times and no matter how hard I try, I keep coming back with a pessimistic view of humanity rather than an optimistic one.

Oh well.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2026 10:09 AM (/HDaX)

So, you focused on the things humanity does to itself. Heh.

I kept expecting various bishops to be power-hungry and acting in self-serving interest, but they kept just wanting what was best. I must have been expecting the conflict and diabolical tendencies of modern Rome.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 10:13 AM (h7ZuX)

227 Speaking of food, I just remembered that I need to bake a cake this morning.
Posted by: PabloD at June 07, 2026 10:12 AM (K1RVP)
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Don't leave it out in the rain.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)

228 About 15 years later, in Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves observed that the boarding school system seemed designed to create homosexuals.

The purpose of a thing is what it does.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 10:10 AM (ZOv7s)

A philosophy happily adopted by the American Public School System.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026 10:14 AM (g8Ew8)

229 What I recall of A Canticle for Leibowitz is that it has a little welcome humor -- it's not all grim and post-apocalyptic. It is that, but not all of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:14 AM (wzUl9)

230 Interesting painting.

He's eating tangerines (or oranges). Two on the plate, closest to the "lady". One, peeled and half-eaten in front of him. She has orangey hair, and her breastworks are orange. She is also wearing an orange sash and a dress with orange stitching. I suspect the approving fellow facing the viewer is the artist's self-portrait.

Orange.

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 10:15 AM (rj6Yv)

231 The same way I recall To Kill a Mockingbird too is that it has some welcome humor. Reviews of it never mention that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)

232 Well, I'm sure there a Klingon bookbook out there, if you're interested in eating 'gagh.' Be warned, there isn't much 'cooking' involved...
Posted by: Castle Guy at June 07, 2026 10:12 AM (3v7ra)
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One of the concepts I enjoyed from Babylon 5 was the 'fact' that every sentient race makes a form of Swedish meatballs. I believe the Narn called them "spoo".

I also liked the way the various races told ethnic jokes about each other.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)

233 If I remember right (and it's been a while), when Churchill was about to graduate from Sandhurst, he wanted to join a cavalry regiment. His father wanted him to join Duke Hyphen-Hyphen Blueblood's regiment instead.

Winnie's exam scores were such that he wasn't qualified for the Upperclass Twit's Own Dining Club, but was still qualified for the cavalry. Amazing coincidence, eh?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:16 AM (IG3/x)

234 The more I read Sister Wendy the more I think 20th century art blew chunks with very few exceptions.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:16 AM (GseMx)

235 Wolfus,

Yep, that was the Douglas. I think he's out of print now. In the late 70s or early 80s Pocket Books reprinted a bunch of his stuff but I don't think his books are currently available. Haven't checked for Kindle editions.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 10:16 AM (q3u5l)

236 In line with comment 10, I've been rereading my old copy of Louis L'Amour's Education of a Wandering Man. It's part autobiography but mostly about how reading and his approach to education shaped his life. The back of the book shows a list, year by year during the 1930s, of what he read. He might have been on tramp steamers, guarding a mine or just waiting in various lines. The variety is staggering. He considered what he was reading to be worth keeping track of, long before he became a writer.

I recall that in several of his westerns he talks about the books pioneers took with them or kept at their ranch. Space and weight in traveling were at a premium so they had be judicious about the books they carried and focused on fundamental books, history and classic literature. Also, that the books were treasured.

His opinions about how education should work would benefit society today on many levels. I suspect if he wrote a book about a school board or teachers union, they would have been the villains.

Posted by: JTB at June 07, 2026 10:16 AM (yTvNw)

237 I really hope he gets back to MHI soon.

He left that series on a rather significant cliffhanger.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 09:44 AM (gnNyN)

Agreed. Maybe I should remind him on Twitter next time he teases GRR Martin for being unable to finish a series, not that I have any sympathy for Martin.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 07, 2026 10:17 AM (lFFaq)

238 The same way I recall To Kill a Mockingbird too is that it has some welcome humor. Reviews of it never mention that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)
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One of the virtues of the book is that it is well written. The style is very Southern, and that adds a lot to the experience of reading.

Nothing makes me quit a book faster than terrible writing style. Stephen King is my paragon for this. Don't care about his stories, his writing to me is like fingernails and a blackboard.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)

239 The Word is eternal even though the vessels may be weak

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 10:18 AM (bXbFr)

240 Nothing makes me quit a book faster than terrible writing style. Stephen King is my paragon for this. Don't care about his stories, his writing to me is like fingernails and a blackboard.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)

To each his own, I guess.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026 10:19 AM (g8Ew8)

241 Yep, that was the Douglas. I think he's out of print now. In the late 70s or early 80s Pocket Books reprinted a bunch of his stuff but I don't think his books are currently available. Haven't checked for Kindle editions.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026

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I hope his writing is better than his guesting persona. At age 13, I was already forming opinions on entertainment (and much too pleased with myself for doing so), and I thought he and Reiko (?) were dull.

Pocket Books used to produce quite a lot of stuff. I fondly recall their 2001 Insults for All Occasions, which gave me a lifelong appreciation for the smart crack and the pun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:19 AM (wzUl9)

242 June 25th will be the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. If you want to learn about the battle, the life of George A. Custer before the battle, along with the lives of notable 7th Cavalry officers, Sioux, and Cheyenne before and after the battle, I highly recommend "Son of the Morning Star," by Evan S. Connell.

It is not a dry military history. The book supplies many large and small details about Custer's life and mid-19th Century life on the Central Plains for both whites and Indians. It is very readable.

It is largely based upon, and provides quotes from, first-person sources on both sides. Connell provides their takes on the battle and many other events, often contradictory. Illustrating how different people will recall large and small events differently. Some no doubt shading their accounts to make them look good or others look bad.

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 10:20 AM (5rh/l)

243 Not a new thing. I have a couple of reproduction Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind cookbooks from the 30s.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 10:07 AM (qRla/)

I can hardly ... Oz recipe. Scarecow's sour apple fritters (he's vegetarian). Tin Woodman's monkey liver pudding? Munchkin yellow lemon marmalade?

Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2026 10:20 AM (adGdA)

244 The same way I recall To Kill a Mockingbird too is that it has some welcome humor. Reviews of it never mention that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)

That was probably Truman Capote's influence. I do wonder how true the rumors were that he helped her write it.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:21 AM (GseMx)

245 >He's eating tangerines (or oranges). Two on the plate, closest to the "lady". One, peeled and half-eaten in front of him. She has orangey hair, and her breastworks are orange. She is also wearing an orange sash and a dress with orange stitching. I suspect the approving fellow facing the viewer is the artist's self-portrait.

Orange.

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 10:15 AM
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There was a sale on orange paint.
I overbought!

Posted by: Joseh Engelhart at June 07, 2026 10:21 AM (CJnkZ)

246 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?

That's a VERY underserved market.
Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 09:50 AM (ayRl+)

Where the hell are you going to find a Sehlat to roast? Helluva long way to Vulcan....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:21 AM (1Ff7Z)

247 The same way I recall To Kill a Mockingbird too is that it has some welcome humor. Reviews of it never mention that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)

That was probably Truman Capote's influence. I do wonder how true the rumors were that he helped her write it.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026

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Truman was a witty fellow in real life, but the works of his I've read, aside from his memoirs, were hardly comic. There's some happy humor in "A Christmas Memory," and maybe a few funny lines in Breakfast at Tiffany's (not sure), but they are not strong in that department.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:23 AM (wzUl9)

248 Somerset Maugham at the end of his essay "The Art of Fiction:"

"There is no obligation to read a work of fiction."

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 10:23 AM (q3u5l)

249 I've read a couple of books I didn't like because the writing style was very good and effortless to read.

While I've put down books which are well regarded because I just didn't like how the writing style flowed.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:24 AM (GseMx)

250 I've added another book to my "to be read" pile, "The Dog's Gaze, A Visual History" by Thomas W. Laqueur. The "No dogs, not art" people on the art thread would love it. A bit pricey but the cover drew me in.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 10:24 AM (lJ0H4)

251 Thanks, vmom, both for the tip and for the prayers! I'll shoot OrangeEnt an email sometime this week.
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 09:52 AM (azG9/)

I sent an email to Perf. I'm here now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:24 AM (1Ff7Z)

252 I had an amusing text from my millennial daughter this week. She asked if I knew Jaws, as in the movie, was a book? She was searching for a new audiobook to listen to and came across it.

I laughed, because of course! We didn't get to go the the movies very often, and all of the kids at school were talking about it, so I had to read it to be able to be in on the conversation.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 10:24 AM (h7ZuX)

253
Squabs are pre-flight pigeons. They are removed from the nest or perch before they can fly.
Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 10:04 AM (rj6Yv)

Squab is tasty.

When one of the youngsters and I went to Old Blighty, we went to a famous olde restaurant that's been around for a couple of centuries as the big splurge for the trip.

The kiddo had the squab in season, fresh from the hunt and fixed in Ye Olde Fashion though I doubt they aged it till the tail feathers fell out(!).

It was delicious.

I suggest that you eat squab today.

Right now!

Do it!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 10:24 AM (iJfKG)

254 > Ask your local library to get a copy.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 10:07 AM (LmPA0)

Hmm... I'll keep an eye out for it. The local library doesn't seem to have a problem stocking Correia... three pages of results in the catalog.

But then this is Alaska, where you can recognize liberals by the fact they don't own anything larger than .357 Magnum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:25 AM (IG3/x)

255 I can hardly ... Oz recipe. Scarecow's sour apple fritters (he's vegetarian). Tin Woodman's monkey liver pudding? Munchkin yellow lemon marmalade?
Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2026 10:20 AM (adGdA)

Some actual recipes:
"Miss Gulch's Sour Cherry Kuchen"
"Talking Trees' Apple Biscuits"
"Cowardly Crudites With Goat Cheese Dip"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 10:25 AM (qRla/)

256 My favorite Truman Capote anecdote:

He was dining at a restaurant, prob. in NYC, when a drunken man wove his way to TC's table and began berating him. "Big-time author! Big shot!", etc. The guy then proceeded to whip out his, er, equipment and snarled: "My wife wants your autograph. Okay, autograph *this*!"

Truman's reply was audible all over the restaurant. "I don't think I can autograph it, but I can initial it. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:26 AM (wzUl9)

257 Wolfus,

Never saw Douglas on the tube, but some of the stuff in My Brother Was an Only Child was deranged enough to appeal enormously to 12-year-old me. Ran across a copy of that one a little over a decade ago and grabbed it; still funny IMHO, which is either a tribute to Douglas or a comment on my continuing immaturity.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 10:26 AM (q3u5l)

258 Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 10:24 AM (h7ZuX)

Did you tell her the book was a little more risqué and the movie changed up the character interactions?

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:26 AM (GseMx)

259 If you want an easy entertaining read for the summer I just read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.. It's about an elderly woman and an Octopus.... Not in the smutty way some of you are imagining... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at June 07, 2026 10:27 AM (FtULh)

260 It is largely based upon, and provides quotes from, first-person sources on both sides. Connell provides their takes on the battle and many other events, often contradictory. Illustrating how different people will recall large and small events differently. Some no doubt shading their accounts to make them look good or others look bad.
Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 10:20 AM (5rh/l)
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There has been a lot of revisionist scholarship surrounding WW II tank performance in the past few years. Veterans' recollections are valuable, but often very biased by factors not immediately obvious.

On paper, the Sherman was a mediocre tank and it had its flaws, but it was mechanically very reliable, and while technically inferior to many of its opponents, the vast majority of tank losses did not come from other tanks. The classic duel was a rarity.

A friend read a memoir by a US tank corps officer, and remarked that the number of Tiger tanks the guy claimed to have encountered in 1944-5 exceeded Germany's available inventory.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)

261 "That's not writing. That's typing."

-- Capote on Kerouac

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:28 AM (IG3/x)

262 Re the art featured above: The gentleman directly to the left of the lovely lady leaning over the table looks like he's side eying her rear end.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 10:28 AM (lJ0H4)

263 The more I read Sister Wendy the more I think 20th century art blew chunks with very few exceptions.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:16 AM (GseMx)
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1914 put an end to the Bell Epoque with an exclamation point. No God, no thirst for Truth and Beauty after the Somme, Verdun, Passchendaele, and the Argonne Forest. Ever since, Mankind has been bound, beaten, and butchered into servitude and the current state of Approved "Art" reflects that.

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 10:28 AM (rj6Yv)

264 While I've put down books which are well regarded because I just didn't like how the writing style flowed.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:24 AM (GseMx)

Finnegans Wake or any other book by James Joyce.

Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2026 10:28 AM (adGdA)

265 I had an amusing text from my millennial daughter this week. She asked if I knew Jaws, as in the movie, was a book? She was searching for a new audiobook to listen to and came across it.

I laughed, because of course! We didn't get to go the the movies very often, and all of the kids at school were talking about it, so I had to read it to be able to be in on the conversation.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026

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I read it in the Reader's Digest Condensed Books version, about a year before the movie came out. I was very pleased that the movie jettisoned all the soap opera elements (such as Hooper the shark expert having an affair with the Chief's wife!), and just gave us the essential adventure: Three men in a boat go out to catch a deadly fish as big as the boat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9)

266
"What's this? Green leaves?"

"Dr. McCoy ordered your diet card changed, sir. I thought you knew."

"Bring some for the doctor, too."

"Oh, no. I never eat until the ~~*crew*~~ crow eats."

- Excerpt from "The Lifa and Times of Ace: An Ewok's journey"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 10:29 AM (iJfKG)

267 I sent an email to Perf. I'm here now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:24 AM (1Ff7Z)

Ah, great! Is the email on the main page still the best for info on the writers' group?

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 10:29 AM (azG9/)

268 I don’t know how to make many complex meals, but I think my favorite meal to make is burritos w/ Jimmy Dean sausage, bleu cheese, pico de gallo and Cholula.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at June 07, 2026 10:30 AM (tRYqg)

269 Never saw Douglas on the tube, but some of the stuff in My Brother Was an Only Child was deranged enough to appeal enormously to 12-year-old me. Ran across a copy of that one a little over a decade ago and grabbed it; still funny IMHO, which is either a tribute to Douglas or a comment on my continuing immaturity.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026

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I'd probably love it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:30 AM (wzUl9)

270 Richard Brautigan's novel The Abortion is set in part in a strange library where people can leave the never-to-be-published books they've written and the librarian will add them to the collection.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 09:55 AM (q3u5l)

(Looks at finished works)

Where's this place, again?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:30 AM (1Ff7Z)

271
ugh.

Really slacking on my reading lately.

Been writing furiously and studying one of them furrier languages for our vacation this year.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 10:30 AM (iJfKG)

272 If you want an easy entertaining read for the summer I just read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.. It's about an elderly woman and an Octopus.... Not in the smutty way some of you are imagining... LOL
Posted by: It's me donna

I saw that there is a movie coming out based on the book. It stars Sally Field.

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 10:30 AM (lJ0H4)

273 26 ... "I think there is a companion book to Patrick O'Brian's series with recipes of British food served in Napoleonic era ships"

It's called "Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels". I have a copy. Given my aversion to spoiled food and weevils in the bread, I read it for information not recipes. O'Brian deals with the difficulty of getting provisions for a sea voyage in several of the books, not just food but all sorts of materials. Talk about specialized knowledge.

Posted by: JTB at June 07, 2026 10:31 AM (yTvNw)

274 I saw that there is a movie coming out based on the book. It stars Sally Field.
Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 10:30 AM (lJ0H4)

It's on Netflix which I don't get

Posted by: It's me donna at June 07, 2026 10:31 AM (FtULh)

275 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)

The Sherman relied on speed. Of course our military procurement process is frustrating. Only second to France as the worst ( at least we admit our mistakes eventually)

We shunned the American who invented the tank suspension and sloped armor so he sold it to Russia.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:31 AM (GseMx)

276
There has been a lot of revisionist scholarship surrounding WW II tank performance in the past few years.

_____________

Given the tank doctrine at the time and the constraints of shipping (which limited the size), the Sherman was a fine tank, especially after modification to wet storage.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:31 AM (O0L8i)

277 Just for knowledge, the Sophiensaal is a banquet hall in Vienna that has been used for gala events since the 1830s. Presumably, this painting is a representation of a ball of some kind, which the Viennese were famous for

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 10:32 AM (qRla/)

278 The Food Lab is the cookbook, it's expensive and weights about 20lbs. but it will teach you about the science behind what cooking does to food and why it tastes good.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 07, 2026 09:56 AM (VCgbV)

On Food And Cooking by Harold McGee is a spectacular book that puts commie-Kenji to shame!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2026 10:32 AM (iERP6)

279 BTW, the gladiators were fed a protein paste of mashed up bean soup and barley gruel to put meat on their bones, as a layer of fat was thought to protect the fighter from injuries.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Well, they didn't have to worry about developing diabetes or heart disease in later life.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 10:33 AM (ndZc7)

280 Good morning all.
Overslept again. Think it was carbs at dinner.
Finally did some serious reading this week, meaning I actually finished two books and started something new.
Death in a Darkening Mist by Iona Whishaw is second book in her Lane Winslow mystery series. It is set in rural Canada just after WWII. Lane is a former British war intelligence operative with a mysterious past in a small nosy community who often helps the local constabulary with dead bodies that keep turning up. No cell phones, no DNA searches, no internet, just police work in an environment where everyone was touched by the war in one way or another. Well done.
I found this in the condo library but book 3 not there so checked my library and more available on Hoopla. She's written at least 6. They remind me of the interaction between Strike and Robin in the Rowling books. This is pure mystery genre.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 07, 2026 10:33 AM (kJmSS)

281
181 Re: Murder By the Book, Cramer has two of his best lines in it. He looks at Archie and says, "You know who's opinion I'd like to have of you? Darwin's. Where were you while evolution was going on?"

And later, he asks Wolfe, "What will you do in the meantime?" Wolfe: "Sit here." Cramer: "Someday you'll get chair sores."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 09:58 AM (wzUl9)

***

If Cramer and Wolfe ever actually aged, I can imagine an elderly retired Cramer with a cane precariously navigating the the seven steps to the Brownstone just so he and Wolfe could grump at each other and Cramer could toss a chewed cigar on the office floor.

Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at June 07, 2026 10:33 AM (TPFQA)

282
Furrier = furriner

Thx AC!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 10:33 AM (iJfKG)

283 "Where's this place again?"

OrangeEnt,
I haven't looked into this much, but I understand there have been attempts to set up just such a creature. Google "brautigan library." I just did, and there are hits.

I may have to check this out myself.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 10:34 AM (q3u5l)

284 Did you tell her the book was a little more risqué and the movie changed up the character interactions?
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:26 AM (GseMx)

I didn't. If she reads it, she'll find out!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 10:35 AM (h7ZuX)

285 The British supposedly nicknamed the Sherman Zippo because it went up in flames easily.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:35 AM (GseMx)

286 > On paper, the Sherman was a mediocre tank and it had its flaws, but it was mechanically very reliable,

It also helped that Detroit was cranking 'em out like God makes poor folk. Quantity has a quality all its own.

Likewise planes and ships.

Fifth-generation German craftsmen polishing products one at a time under a loupe got curbstomped by a bunch of hillbillies with rivet guns and sheet metal presses.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:36 AM (IG3/x)

287 265 ... "I had an amusing text from my millennial daughter this week. She asked if I knew Jaws, as in the movie, was a book?"

LOL! Reminds me of a time in a record store (remember them?). A teenybopper asked her friend if she knew Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings. (Sigh!)

I agree with Wolfus. The movie was much better than the book for getting rid of the soap opera stuff.

Posted by: JTB at June 07, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw)

288 If you want an easy entertaining read for the summer I just read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.. It's about an elderly woman and an Octopus.... Not in the smutty way some of you are imagining... LOL
Posted by: It's me donna

I saw that there is a movie coming out based on the book. It stars Sally Field.
Posted by: Tuna

Mrs. Wrecks loved that book and had me watch the movie. Definitely a chick flick but OK if you're willing to suspend sufficient disbelief.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 10:37 AM (ndZc7)

289
If Cramer and Wolfe ever actually aged, I can imagine an elderly retired Cramer with a cane precariously navigating the the seven steps to the Brownstone just so he and Wolfe could grump at each other and Cramer could toss a chewed cigar on the office floor.
Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at June 07, 2026

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Good point!

Have you ever seen the A & E series with Timothy Hutton (Jim's son) as Archie? The casting of the main actors was superb, and Bill Smitrovich as Cramer was the best.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:37 AM (wzUl9)

290 Looking through my cookbooks, I do have some themed stuff:

Alien: the Official Cookbook (Turkey Tenderloin Chestburster, Avocado and Bacon Stuffed Deviled Alien Tea Eggs, etc.)

The Official Wednesday Cookbook (Snake Hair Soup, Paint It Black Beans, Like Lamb Shanks to the Slaughter)

A Star Wars cookbook somewhere, that used sweet pea flowers to dye udon noodles bright blue. I need to try that one.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 10:37 AM (kpS4V)

291 273 26 ... "I think there is a companion book to Patrick O'Brian's series with recipes of British food served in Napoleonic era ships"

It's called "Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels". I have a copy. Given my aversion to spoiled food and weevils in the bread, I read it for information not recipes. O'Brian deals with the difficulty of getting provisions for a sea voyage in several of the books, not just food but all sorts of materials. Talk about specialized knowledge.

Posted by: JTB at June 07, 2026 10:31 AM (yTvNw)

O'Brian read the archived daily logs of many, many Royal Navy and merchant ships active during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The details in his Aubry/Maturin novels are based on or come straight from those ship's logs.

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 10:37 AM (5rh/l)

292 Based on moron recommendations (IIRC) I started Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. Only one chapter in but so far, so funny. A comic novel(?) that’s laugh out loud funny. Reminds a little of Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad
Posted by: Who Knew at June 07, 2026 09:57 AM (0QMbS)

After it was published, there was a craze for a while in England to follow the story while doing the journey itself.

The program, Cribb (US version, Sgt. Cribb) had an episode about that. It's available on YT:

https://tinyurl.com/cctbzubc

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:37 AM (1Ff7Z)

293 Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices by George Leonard Herter and Berthe E Herter is an unusual cookbook that I purchased a few years ago. It was recommended by someone on the book thread. It includes history of the recipes and can be quite wordy. It includes recipes for St Anthony sandwich or spread This recipe is over 7 centuries old. Garlic toast Dupont, Argentina mocha toast etc. It includes some history of New Orleans food, restaurants and culture. I have not tried any of the recipes. I feel inadequate trying to describe this book. At times it reminds me of the Foxfire survival books.

Posted by: Glenn at June 07, 2026 10:38 AM (vneJl)

294 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:36 AM (IG3/x)

If the Germans had Germans producing their tanks instead of slave labor they may have been a bit more reliable. That said I don't know how accurate post evaluation of their production was. Could just be winners writing the history.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:39 AM (GseMx)

295 Have you ever seen the A & E series with Timothy Hutton (Jim's son) as Archie? The casting of the main actors was superb, and Bill Smitrovich as Cramer was the best.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:37 AM (wzUl9)

Mr Dmlw! and I really love this series, and the cast. It's like comfort food for him--if he's not interested in anything else, or just wants something fun and familiar, he puts that on. It's oft-quoted at our house. Great musical selections, also.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 10:39 AM (h7ZuX)

296 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 09:58 AM (kpS4V)

He has a new book: Leaky Aqueducts, Battle Pigeons, and Mystery Cults: More Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Greeks and Romans

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:40 AM (1Ff7Z)

297 The British supposedly nicknamed the Sherman Zippo because it went up in flames easily.
Posted by: polynikes

Supposedly, that was because the Sherman ran on gas rather than diesel as did most German tanks. I don’t understand that as diesel must be easily combustible if it's used for fuel.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 10:41 AM (ndZc7)

298 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 09:56 AM (IG3/x)

Yes, Academy of Outcasts. The story is interesting, I suspect the genre was a spite choice, since that seems to be his thing lately. There's a lot of standard modern swearing, which I think is unfortunate and somewhat detracting from the experience. Ironically, if it weren't such an interesting story it wouldn't matter as much that the series isn't finished.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 07, 2026 10:41 AM (lFFaq)

299 Yes the fact that A&E cancelled it and replaced with reality shows fills me with rage

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 07, 2026 10:41 AM (bXbFr)

300 Did you tell her the book was a little more risqué...

And yet at the same time, more boring?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 10:41 AM (vTZFs)

301
Just for knowledge, the Sophiensaal is a banquet hall in Vienna that has been used for gala events since the 1830s.

_____________

Decca used it for recording the Vienna Philharmonic, preferring it to the Musikverein. Neglected for many years, the interior was destroyed in a fire and later rebuilt.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:41 AM (O0L8i)

302 1914 put an end to the Bell Epoque with an exclamation point. No God, no thirst for Truth and Beauty after the Somme, Verdun, Passchendaele, and the Argonne Forest. Ever since, Mankind has been bound, beaten, and butchered into servitude and the current state of Approved "Art" reflects that.

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 10:28 AM (rj6Yv)

Yep. That's precisely why I start my lecture on the Moderns with a brief discussion of World War I. Mind you, The Fat Electrician maintains that the reason the Moderns became Approved "Art" was a CIA psyop during the Cold War to prove to the Soviets that American artistic freedom was superior to state-controlled art, even though a lot of the artists were Commies themselves.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 10:41 AM (azG9/)

303 Here's the artwork described in the style of Stephen King:

"The chandelier breathed; laughter curdled into whispers as the Sophiensaal's gilt teeth watched, patient — secrets slithering beneath satin, hungry for one more dance."

Posted by: Your friendly neighborhood AI search engine at June 07, 2026 10:42 AM (CJnkZ)

304 I have a very old edition of the Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook that is over 1000 pages. It's pretty great reading recipes about what people would prepare over 70 years ago. Modern civilization wouldn't eat half of this stuff.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 10:42 AM (pSkMS)

305 51 ... " Instead of moving along with the story of FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast after more than twenty cases, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have chosen in Pendergast, The Beginning to go back in time to the earliest days of his FBI career, with a case assigned to him and his overseer Dwight Chambers, of a serial killer near his home town of New Orleans."

Mrs. JTB is reading that now and enjoying it. She's read all the others in the series. I am amused. It fits Douglas and Preston's sense of humor to call the final Pendergast book "The Beginning".

Posted by: JTB at June 07, 2026 10:42 AM (yTvNw)

306 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:36 AM (IG3/x)

Oh and that was so true with Hitler's obsession building his battleships. Wasted a lot of steel and good labor for nothing.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:42 AM (GseMx)

307 Supposedly, that was because the Sherman ran on gas rather than diesel as did most German tanks. I don’t understand that as diesel must be easily combustible if it's used for fuel.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026

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A diesel engine works by compressing the fuel to make it combustible, I understand. The pure diesel is not as flammable as gasoline.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:43 AM (wzUl9)

308 In Parker's Spenser detective series, he often stopped the action while Spenser cooks up a meal for Susan Silverman or himself. I found his cooking to be boring and simply filler. He would do this often including describing all the businesses along a route he is taking driving or on a run. Luckily, the mystery was interesting enough and books short enough that it would leave me hungry for the next one. 😉

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 07, 2026 10:43 AM (kJmSS)

309 German armor doctrine took a fatal hit after US WWII aircraft production hit its stride. Although the fighter-bombers had limited success against the AFVs, they were pure hell on the service and support vehicles that kept them operable. No fuel, no lubricants, no ammo, no spare parts, and dead or wounded maintenance personnel meant abandoned tanks left by the side of the road after the German infantry was obliterated.

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 10:44 AM (rj6Yv)

310 Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 10:41 AM (azG9/)

I note it had gone rogue prior to WW1.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:45 AM (GseMx)

311 222 146 Query: Why don't we have any Science Fiction cookbooks … ?

That's a VERY underserved market.
Posted by: Dr_No at June 07, 2026 09:50 AM (ayRl+)

Well, I'm sure there a Klingon bookbook out there, if you're interested in eating 'gagh.' Be warned, there isn't much 'cooking' involved...

Posted by: Castle Guy at June 07, 2026 10:12 AM (3v7ra)

It's called gagh, because that's the noise you make eating it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 10:45 AM (l3cgK)

312 If the Germans had Germans producing their tanks instead of slave labor they may have been a bit more reliable. That said I don't know how accurate post evaluation of their production was. Could just be winners writing the history.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:39 AM (GseMx)

One of the drawbacks to many German tools of war was over-engineering. Tolerances were so tight that even slight deviations from them tended to disrupt the whole system. It's just the way Germans build things.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026 10:46 AM (g8Ew8)

313 Supposedly, that was because the Sherman ran on gas rather than diesel as did most German tanks. I don’t understand that as diesel must be easily combustible if it's used for fuel.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Diesel is less volatile than gasoline, so it is somewhat safer as a fuel.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 10:46 AM (0U5gm)

314 The Germans built around 6,000 Panthers and around 2,000 Tiger I and Tiger II.

The US built around 50,000 Shermans.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:46 AM (IG3/x)

315 312 If the Germans had Germans producing their tanks instead of slave labor they may have been a bit more reliable. That said I don't know how accurate post evaluation of their production was. Could just be winners writing the history.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:39 AM (GseMx)

One of the drawbacks to many German tools of war was over-engineering. Tolerances were so tight that even slight deviations from them tended to disrupt the whole system. It's just the way Germans build things.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026 10:46 AM (g8Ew

Yeah, I've heard things about BMWs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 10:46 AM (l3cgK)

316 In Parker's Spenser detective series, he often stopped the action while Spenser cooks up a meal for Susan Silverman or himself. I found his cooking to be boring and simply filler. He would do this often including describing all the businesses along a route he is taking driving or on a run. Luckily, the mystery was interesting enough and books short enough that it would leave me hungry for the next one. 😉
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 07, 2026

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We would often get Spenser's reaction to the areas he drove through, though. In the second book, I think it was, he heads up from Boston toward Cape Cod, and notes the endless series of tire shops, fast food places, and other examples of 1975 charm along the highway. He comments to himself, "Maybe Squanto made a mistake."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:46 AM (wzUl9)

317
German armor doctrine took a fatal hit after US WWII aircraft production hit its stride.

_________

Now, now. Sir Max Hastings will tell you that German equipment, tactical doctrines, officers and personnel were all superior to the Americans and British, who unimaginatively bumbled their way almost to Berlin.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:47 AM (O0L8i)

318 Had to step out for a bit, sorry...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2026 10:09 AM (/HDaX)

Had to take the wife to work too, huh?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:47 AM (1Ff7Z)

319 He has a new book: Leaky Aqueducts, Battle Pigeons, and Mystery Cults: More Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:40 AM (1Ff7Z)

I have a similar book, A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire, by J.C. McKeown. He also wrote a similar book about Greece.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 10:47 AM (qRla/)

320 Supposedly, that was because the Sherman ran on gas rather than diesel as did most German tanks. I don’t understand that as diesel must be easily combustible if it's used for fuel.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 10:41 AM (ndZc7)

Diesel is much like kerosene - you can drop a lit match into a bucket of it and it will just go out, as opposed to gasoline which will explode. Has to do with the outgassing of combustible fumes, which in gasoline is very high. Also why diesel engines never used carburetors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2026 10:48 AM (3mtTi)

321 One of the drawbacks to many German tools of war was over-engineering. Tolerances were so tight that even slight deviations from them tended to disrupt the whole system. It's just the way Germans build things.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026
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Yeah, I've heard things about BMWs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026

***
They have some peculiar ideas about engineering. If the 23rd Century Germans build the Enterprise, Scotty will have to take the entire engine nacelles off to change the dilithium crystals every 20,000 light years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:48 AM (wzUl9)

322 319 He has a new book: Leaky Aqueducts, Battle Pigeons, and Mystery Cults: More Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:40 AM (1Ff7Z)

I have a similar book, A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire, by J.C. McKeown. He also wrote a similar book about Greece.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 10:47 AM (qRla/)

the difference between cult and culture is three letters...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 10:48 AM (l3cgK)

323 Mrs. JTB is reading that now and enjoying it. She's read all the others in the series. I am amused. It fits Douglas and Preston's sense of humor to call the final Pendergast book "The Beginning".

Posted by: JTB

I wonder if the customer response to their decision to stop Pendergast books put them in a position where they need to tell more stories from earlier times, rather than to just stop writing about him.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 10:48 AM (0U5gm)

324 Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026 10:46 AM (g8Ew

Yes and the precision required in production wasn't always followed by the slave labor intentionally. Again could just be revisionism.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:49 AM (GseMx)

325 321 One of the drawbacks to many German tools of war was over-engineering. Tolerances were so tight that even slight deviations from them tended to disrupt the whole system. It's just the way Germans build things.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026
*
Yeah, I've heard things about BMWs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026

***
They have some peculiar ideas about engineering. If the 23rd Century Germans build the Enterprise, Scotty will have to take the entire engine nacelles off to change the dilithium crystals every 20,000 light years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:48 AM (wzUl9)

LOL! My son owns a BMW motorcycle...he traded his last one for an older model due to issues with changing the oil...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 10:49 AM (l3cgK)

326 I am re-reading Anne of Avonlea by L.M Montgomery. When I feel slightly dispirited I like to read her books because Anne says, "There is always something good to see or hear" ( or something like that) and I try to put it in practice-whether that's from looking at beautiful flowers at the Senior Center or listening to the calls of birds and looking them up or, yes, "smelling the roses."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 10:50 AM (eT41E)

327 I remember reading that one of the reasons gasoline was chosen by the early car dudes was that it was dirt-cheap, being considered a useless (and dangerous) byproduct of kerosene refining.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:51 AM (IG3/x)

328
I read that German automotive engineering focuses on how people should drive while Japanese engineering focuses on how people actually drive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:51 AM (O0L8i)

329 I haven’t read the comments yet, but my first thought about the painting was:
Showing off those apples and oranges!

Betcha a dollar that’s hoard mentality right there!

Posted by: Fenderbender at June 07, 2026 10:51 AM (1FEc1)

330 327 I remember reading that one of the reasons gasoline was chosen by the early car dudes was that it was dirt-cheap, being considered a useless (and dangerous) byproduct of kerosene refining.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:51 AM (IG3/x)

Wow! This is cheap AND dangerous! Lets use this instead!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 10:51 AM (l3cgK)

331 Miss Linda is dragging me to a talk at the German-American Center in the city proper. (No, it's not "National Socialism: Its Time Is Now!") It's at 2 pm, so I'm going to nap for a little bit, then get cleaned up to look like an adult human.

I wish they'd hold these things earlier in the day during hot weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:52 AM (wzUl9)

332
Have you ever seen the A & E series with Timothy Hutton (Jim's son) as Archie? The casting of the main actors was superb, and Bill Smitrovich as Cramer was the best.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:37 AM (wzUl9)

***

I have not seen any dramatizations of the Nero Wolfe sagas. I was thinking I might attempt seeking some out after I finish this re-read.

I have such a fixed idea of the characters in my mind, how they look and how they sound, that I haven't been prepared to dilute that with someone else's vision.

But after this re-read, maybe I will be willing to chance it. I'll remember about the A and E series.

Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at June 07, 2026 10:52 AM (TPFQA)

333 One of the drawbacks to many German tools of war was over-engineering. Tolerances were so tight that even slight deviations from them tended to disrupt the whole system. It's just the way Germans build things.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

At the risk of turning a food thread into a gun thread, the Luger pistol was a good example of this. They are made with such tight tolerances that changing the extractor requires filing and test fitting, or the pistol will not function properly. Now add dust and dirt from the battlefield into the mix.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 10:52 AM (0U5gm)

334 328
I read that German automotive engineering focuses on how people should drive while Japanese engineering focuses on how people actually drive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:51 AM (O0L8i)

What does that say of British automotive engineering?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 10:52 AM (l3cgK)

335 > Wow! This is cheap AND dangerous! Lets use this instead!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 10:51 AM (l3cgK)

Yep...they were real men back in those days. Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:53 AM (IG3/x)

336 Nothing makes me quit a book faster than terrible writing style. Stephen King is my paragon for this. Don't care about his stories, his writing to me is like fingernails and a blackboard.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 07, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)

The fear of many an unpublished writer, I'd wager. How do I know my writing is any good if no one will read it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:53 AM (1Ff7Z)

337 The British supposedly nicknamed the Sherman Zippo because it went up in flames easily.

No, they called them Ronsons, because the Ronson ad motto was "Lights first time, every time."

I was at the site of a tank skirmish with US and German veterans, and a bazooka-loader related how he'd failed to stop a King Tiger. I knew there had only been a handful of King Tigers in his area, and a German vet volunteered that it had almost certainly been a Panzer Mk IV, a good tank but no King Tiger (also, the Germans referred to that as 'an Austrian tank with a German gun.') The ex-GI allowed as how once you had seen one King Tiger, every German tank looked like a King Tiger to you from then on.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 07, 2026 10:55 AM (zdLoL)

338 Reminded me of Cliff clavin trivia

Maybeline was named after the founder's sister who combined coal dust and Vaseline to make mascara. Vaseline being a byproduct of oil production. Petroleum Jelly.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:55 AM (GseMx)

339 329 I haven’t read the comments yet, but my first thought about the painting was:
Showing off those apples and oranges!

Betcha a dollar that’s hoard mentality right there!

Posted by: Fenderbender at June 07, 2026 10:51 AM (1FEc1)

No pumelos or melons were used in this painting...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 10:55 AM (l3cgK)

340 LOL! My son owns a BMW motorcycle...he traded his last one for an older model due to issues with changing the oil...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026

***
My '86 and '97 Mercedes were easy for me to change oil on. I had a suction kit that drew the oil out through the dipstick -- much like the units the dealership used -- and the oil filter was right on top.

Eight quarts were needed for the '86 V-8, though, and six for the '97 4-cylinder. They really believe in LOTS of oil.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:55 AM (wzUl9)

341 Need some recommendations from the horde for audio books to consume during an upcoming road trip.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 10:56 AM (CJnkZ)

342 339 Reminded me of Cliff clavin trivia

Maybeline was named after the founder's sister who combined coal dust and Vaseline to make mascara. Vaseline being a byproduct of oil production. Petroleum Jelly.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:55 AM (GseMx)

"It tastes awful on toast!"--blonde

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 10:56 AM (l3cgK)

343 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 10:07 AM (kpS4V)

It certainly seems like the "public schools" of Britain were much better suited to creating the humiliation fetishists we see than anything else. I wonder when it changed from "the playing fields of Eton" creating real leaders. I suspect it was longer ago than we think, if Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster stories were at all accurate. The world it shows is essentially a matriarchy.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 07, 2026 10:56 AM (lFFaq)

344 Well, folks, I think I will call it a day. Thanks to you all for being here and thanks to CBD for letting me host.

If you could spare a thought for me tomorrow, I would appreciate it. I'm going into Boston to check out a clinical depression study. I hate driving into the city and I also have no idea what to expect from the assessment.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 10:56 AM (qRla/)

345 Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 07, 2026 10:55 AM (zdLoL)

Thank you . You are correct of course. I thought Zippo was wrong but couldn't think of the other famous lighter.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:56 AM (GseMx)

346 Yes and the precision required in production wasn't always followed by the slave labor intentionally. Again could just be revisionism.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:49 AM (GseMx)

I agree. Slave labor as it was then had no chances of building a Swiss chronograph. Perhaps a Timex.....maybe.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026 10:56 AM (g8Ew8)

347 I just finished a light, but quite enjoyable, read called "I Am Phil," written by the drummer for Kansas, Phil Ehart. Yes, I've been a huge Kansas fan since the 70s and this was a fun read about his early life, his life in the band and all the stuff in between and beyond. And it was quite humorous in parts, as well.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 10:57 AM (qBdHI)

348 I note it had gone rogue prior to WW1.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:45 AM (GseMx)

Granted, but I cover the Impressionists and the Expressionists (and maybe the Decadents) in my lecture on the Victorians. The trauma of WWI drove art way off the rails into the really bonkers stuff like Dadaism and Cubism.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 10:58 AM (azG9/)

349
What does that say of British automotive engineering?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 10:52 AM (l3cgK)

___________

British engineering focuses on people not driving at all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:58 AM (O0L8i)

350 I have not seen any dramatizations of the Nero Wolfe sagas. I was thinking I might attempt seeking some out after I finish this re-read.

I have such a fixed idea of the characters in my mind, how they look and how they sound, that I haven't been prepared to dilute that with someone else's vision.

But after this re-read, maybe I will be willing to chance it. I'll remember about the A and E series.
Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at June 07, 2026

***
They are done as period pieces, set in the 1946-1955 era, with period cars, hats, suits and dresses. So don't fear that the A & E series "modernized" the stories.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:58 AM (wzUl9)

351 re #180 ""Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans" by Garrett Ryan".

Garrett Ryan has two more books in that series out now.

He also has a Youtube channel "toldinstone" that is well worth watching.

Posted by: John F. MacMichael at June 07, 2026 10:58 AM (aYnHS)

352 the Sherman ran on gas rather than diesel as did most German tanks.

German tanks were not diesels. They just plain were not.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 07, 2026 10:59 AM (zdLoL)

353 Ah, great! Is the email on the main page still the best for info on the writers' group?
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 10:29 AM (azG9/)

Yes, and I have the email open.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:59 AM (1Ff7Z)

354 Off to a quick nap, all. I'll check this thread when I get up, or back from the German center.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:59 AM (wzUl9)

355 285 The British supposedly nicknamed the Sherman Zippo because it went up in flames easily.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:35 AM (GseMx)

Tommycooker.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 11:00 AM (ZxzYs)

356 The Germans built around 6,000 Panthers and around 2,000 Tiger I and Tiger II.

The US built around 50,000 Shermans.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2026 10:46 AM (IG3/x)
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There are several recent YT videos that go into depth on the Sherman M2 v German armor stuff.

One of the major points was the US standardization of parts for the Sherman and the easy access to those parts in the field. A Sherman could be disabled by enemy fire, and as long as the hull was repairable, the tank could be back in service in as few as 48 hours. A German tank, because they were constantly modified at the factory and then sent to the front with few or no spare parts, usually had to be sent back to the factory for repair. This meant days or weeks before the tank was repaired. Enemy air superiority made even these delays ... speculative.

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 11:00 AM (rj6Yv)

357 In that book of interviews with Silverberg, there's a brief discussion of Thomas Hardy -- the openings of a couple of Hardy novels are quoted and then gone over, demonstrating some of the writing that makes them rough sledding.

In one of his essays (collected in Musings and Meditations, I think) Silverberg said that after years and years of reading, he had formulated what he regarded as a set of principles for good fiction writing and proceeded from there. He said they could probably be put down on a single page, but he had never let himself be talked into putting that page into print.

Wish he had -- I'd pay to read it.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 11:00 AM (q3u5l)

358 Commenter number two spoke highly of Pirate stories. May I recommend “A High Wind in Jamaica” by Hughes (?).
It was an optional “classic” to read in my high school days, but I read it as an adult.

Posted by: Fenderbender at June 07, 2026 11:00 AM (1FEc1)

359 If you could spare a thought for me tomorrow, I would appreciate it. I'm going into Boston to check out a clinical depression study. I hate driving into the city and I also have no idea what to expect from the assessment.

--

Very best of luck to you, MP3. {{{hugs}}}

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 11:00 AM (qBdHI)

360 Need some recommendations from the horde for audio books to consume during an upcoming road trip.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty

All of the Narnia books are available on audio, and are very well done. Also, Devil in the White City was a good audio book.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 11:00 AM (0U5gm)

361 276
There has been a lot of revisionist scholarship surrounding WW II tank performance in the past few years.

_____________

Given the tank doctrine at the time and the constraints of shipping (which limited the size), the Sherman was a fine tank, especially after modification to wet storage.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026

Shipping volume of vehicles, equipment, and supplies was a significant factor in creating the Standard Tables of Organization and Equipment for all WW2 US Army units, from division on down. I read the official US Army history of creating and equipping standardized Army units able to fight anywhere in Europe and in the Pacific. Estimated available shipping volume, combat power, and mobility had to be carefully balanced. Lt. Gen. Leslie McNair, Chief of Army Ground Forces, was ruthless in trimming equipment and especially vehicles from units. An excellent account of the high-level logistics factors of fighting modern overseas wars the US way.

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 11:01 AM (5rh/l)

362 Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 10:58 AM (azG

Dadaism yes . Cubism was a decade before WW1. But I agree WW 1 was a catalyst. I love Franz Marc by the way.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 11:01 AM (GseMx)

363 Thanks JBT, remembered a book but not title

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 11:03 AM (Ia/+0)

364 Richard Brautigan's novel The Abortion

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In Dean Koontz' One Door Away From Heaven, the carzy/evil drug addict mom is obsessed with In Watermelon Sugar. I read Brautigan in the late '60s/early '70s and did enjoy it but that was in my hippy days.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 11:04 AM (ndZc7)

365 356 285 The British supposedly nicknamed the Sherman Zippo because it went up in flames easily.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:35 AM (GseMx)

Tommycooker.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 11:00 AM (ZxzYs)

The Red Army had similar nicknames for Lend-Lease US and British tanks.

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2026 11:04 AM (5rh/l)

366 285 The British supposedly nicknamed the Sherman Zippo because it went up in flames easily.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 10:35 AM (GseMx)

Tommycooker.
Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 11:00 AM (ZxzYs)
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Once Shermans were equipped with "wet" storage for the ammo, the fire problem was largely mitigated. Survival rates for Sherman crews were far higher than those in German and Soviet AFVs.

Posted by: mrp at June 07, 2026 11:04 AM (rj6Yv)

367 At the risk of turning a food thread into a gun thread, the Luger pistol was a good example of this. They are made with such tight tolerances that changing the extractor requires filing and test fitting, or the pistol will not function properly. Now add dust and dirt from the battlefield into the mix.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 07, 2026 10:52 AM (0U5gm)

On the other side of the coin though was the German 88. An excellent, powerful, and versatile gun. We should have copied it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 07, 2026 11:04 AM (g8Ew8)

368 I love to read cookbooks, and have a modest collection.
My immigrant grandmother was a cook at a mining camp in the Black Hills pre-WW I, and I have often thought, after learning some of her recipes and techniques, and listening to stories of wood and coal stoves, and the doctor accepting her rye bread during the depression in lieu of cash, what it meant to be a "good cook", considering the ingredients and methods available.
No wonder it was an appellation of honor!
My MIL gave me her mother's Swedish cookbook, and it is a history and geography lesson as well as a cooking one.
Some very strange dishes in there (Christmas Eve lutfisk recipe begins with a dried ling and a barrel of lime water on December 8th), and some very good ones as well--if you can acclimate to making almost everything out of herring, root vegetables (VERY heavy on the beets), ginger, cloves, and cream.
(Had a moment when going through MIL's store of Swedish cookbooks after her passing, when I saw a recipe for herring cocktail that I thought for a moment meant the kind you drink. I would not have been surprised, as every one of the books had one for herring pudding.)

Posted by: barbarausa at June 07, 2026 11:05 AM (enw9G)

369 I may have to check this out myself.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 10:34 AM (q3u5l)

Eh, they want your real name. Forget it. I use pseudonyms.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 11:06 AM (1Ff7Z)

370 For fun I checked out "27 Years of Jeff MacNelly's SHOE". He was one of my favorite cartoonists. Loved how young Skyler's summer camp ended up being USMC boot camp at Parris Island.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 11:06 AM (kpS4V)

371 They are done as period pieces, set in the 1946-1955 era, with period cars, hats, suits and dresses. So don't fear that the A & E series "modernized" the stories.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 10:58 AM (wzUl9)

***

That's good to hear!

I just looked them up and saw they were produced about a quarter of a century ago, so they've got that going for them as well!

Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at June 07, 2026 11:08 AM (TPFQA)

372 Good luck, MP4.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 11:09 AM (kpS4V)

373 Yes, and I have the email open.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 10:59 AM (1Ff7Z)

Email sent. Thanks!

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at June 07, 2026 11:10 AM (azG9/)

374 Anonosaurus,

I read Brautigan in college and for a few years after (graduated in 71), and haven't read him since. Don't know how he'd read now. But there are fragments that have stuck in my memory ever since those first readings. The setting of the library of unpublished books. Releasing the baby alligators into the pond to make the frogs shut up in A Confederate General from Big Sur: "The frogs are gone." "Yeah. Nothing in there now but alligators." A few bits from the poems.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 11:10 AM (q3u5l)

375 British engineering focuses on people not driving at all.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 10:58 AM (O0L8i)
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We have people to do that for us!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 11:11 AM (kpS4V)

376 It was a truism of a certain era of college education that World War One changed everything, setting off ripples of madness in poetry, painting, music and the novel. It's just one of those things you're expected to believe; all else leans on it.

Some scholars aver that fin-de-siecle madness had already begun to catch on a generation before the War, and that if anything the oddities of the war culture were an outgrowth of a mental and cultural illness already greatly at large in the world. A film called "The White Ribbon" (2009) kind of plays with this.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 07, 2026 11:11 AM (zdLoL)

377 seems like most of those 50000 Shermans are on the lawns of VFW and Legion posts across America.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 07, 2026 11:11 AM (VyBeY)

378 I started Project Hail Mary this week. It is a unique writing style that I find fascinating. It open with the main character awakening not knowing where he is, how he got there or even what his name is. We then go on a journey of discovery entirely narrated by this character. Even after seeing the movie, I kept reading. It also made me realize what a fantastic actor Ryan Gosl___ is to pull off carrying the entire movie all by himself.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 07, 2026 11:12 AM (kJmSS)

379 >>For fun I checked out "27 Years of Jeff MacNelly's SHOE".

Another one we lost 'way too young.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 07, 2026 11:13 AM (NcvvS)

380 I just started The First Henry Ford. By Anne Jardim.
Starts out talking about Hiram Maxim jr...?

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxzYs)

381 MP4,

Good luck on the assessment. And thanks for the thread.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 11:13 AM (q3u5l)

382 I have a similar book, A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire, by J.C. McKeown. He also wrote a similar book about Greece.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 07, 2026 10:47 AM (qRla/)

So many different books out about ancient history. Lit Prof said nothing left to study in ancient literature except the uses of cheese in the poems of Tibullus.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 11:14 AM (1Ff7Z)

383 Richard Brautigan's novel The Abortion is set in part in a strange library where people can leave the never-to-be-published books they've written and the librarian will add them to the collection.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 09:55 AM (q3u5l)

I really enjoy reading Richard Brautigan, however I stayed away from "The Abortion" for years because I assumed it would be distasteful in the extreme.

But, no it was what I assumed it was at all or what would happen. I wound up liking it a lot.

Brautigan's one of those very misunderstood authors. He was adopted by the hippies as one of their own, buuuuut-

if you read his stuff, it's clear he hated hipp9ies with a passion.

"Trout Fishing in America" is a good intro to Brautigan if you're curios about him.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 11:14 AM (iJfKG)

384 EW, I'll send a link in a min.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 11:14 AM (1Ff7Z)

385
But, no it was what I assumed = But, no it was NOT what I assumed

Stupid brain.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 11:17 AM (iJfKG)

386 176 ... "
Based on moron recommendations (IIRC) I started Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. Only one chapter in but so far, so funny."

I had to stop reading that in public. I couldn't stifle my laughter and some overly sensitive people were bothered by a big old guy laughing out loud to himself.

Posted by: JTB at June 07, 2026 11:18 AM (yTvNw)

387 Very best of luck to you, MP3. {{{hugs}}}

Dittoes. I hope you find the answers you need, probably not tomorrow but eventually.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2026 11:20 AM (vTZFs)

388 Today, a modern cookbook would be;

page one; order chicken tenders
page two; order taco bell
page three; order pizza

There is a warning flag that civilization is precariously balanced on a straight edge.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 11:20 AM (pSkMS)

389 About to start "Platform Decay," the 8th book in Martha Wells' excellent MurderBot series.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 07, 2026 09:37 AM (/RHNq)

***

That's next on my to be read list! Love that series as well!

Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at June 07, 2026 11:21 AM (TPFQA)

390 I think just about all Brautigan's stuff is still in print, and I've heard that William Hjortsberg's biography of Brautigan, Jubilee Hitchhiker, is pretty good. Another writer way overdue for a revisit.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 11:21 AM (q3u5l)

391 Read churchils books on WWDuece. Six volumes.

To quote the Chinese guy it was over before it started

Posted by: save the wails at June 07, 2026 11:21 AM (jrgJz)

392
Three Men in a Boat

and the sequel-

"Three Men on a Bummel"

are both hilarious and-

BONUS! Great Peeks into the past...

...before Old Blighty turned itself into an anti-white racist tyranny. irony is ironic, ain't it?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2026 11:21 AM (iJfKG)

393 I hate driving into the city and I also have no idea what to expect from the assessment.

Hard not to envision some mad-doctor psychobabbler rubbing his bony fingers in glee at forcing people to be screened for clinical depression by submitting themselves to the most clinical and depressing environment imaginable.

There's a Philosophy of Science: Experimental Design thesis in this somewhere. "I'm a doctor. I don't have to care about that."

Good luck.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 07, 2026 11:23 AM (zdLoL)

394 332 ... "Have you ever seen the A & E series with Timothy Hutton (Jim's son) as Archie? The casting of the main actors was superb, and Bill Smitrovich as Cramer was the best."

Loved that series. When it was cancelled it was one more reason to get rid of cable. We have the whole series on DVD. The use of the ensemble cast is brilliant.

Posted by: JTB at June 07, 2026 11:23 AM (yTvNw)

395 Books are dumb relics. I'm confining my reading to practical matters these days. Microwave instructions for frozen chicken cordon bleu is ever so much more stimulating than anything Dickens wrote.

Posted by: Davis Middleton III at June 07, 2026 11:23 AM (A7YPA)

396 Speaking of WWII, didja see what that damn Hesgeth has done now?

https://tinyurl.com/y82jmhkk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 11:23 AM (ndZc7)

397 Commenter number two spoke highly of Pirate stories. May I recommend “A High Wind in Jamaica” by Hughes (?).
It was an optional “classic” to read in my high school days, but I read it as an adult.
Posted by: Fenderbender at June 07, 2026 11:00 AM (1FEc1)

The ones I've read and posted about here are from "Deej" from Raconteur Press emails. They may be on their substack.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 11:26 AM (1Ff7Z)

398 Speaking of Three Men In a Boat, Connie Willis wrote a time travel syfy based in part on that, To Say Nothing of the Dog.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 11:29 AM (ndZc7)

399 I started Project Hail Mary this week. It is a unique writing style that I find fascinating. It open with the main character awakening not knowing where he is, how he got there or even what his name is.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 07, 2026 11:12 AM (kJmSS)

(shrieks)

That's no way to open a novel!!! It's wrong, wrong, wrong!!

Posted by: You Tube Writing Teachers at June 07, 2026 11:31 AM (1Ff7Z)

400 Got. to. get. to. 400.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 11:32 AM (ZxzYs)

401 started Project Hail Mary this week. It is a unique writing style that I find fascinating. It open with the main character awakening not knowing where he is, how he got there or even what his name is.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 07, 2026 11:12 AM (kJmSS)

Was his name Jason Bourne?

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 11:33 AM (GseMx)

402 Trying to focus on my book but am plagued by a case of cattus interruptus. Silly beast!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 11:35 AM (kpS4V)

403 396 Speaking of WWII, didja see what that damn Hesgeth has done now?

https://tinyurl.com/y82jmhkk
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 11:23 AM (ndZc7)

I also read he paid for kids airfare instead of suck the sweet Big Govt teat.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 07, 2026 11:37 AM (/+uur)

404 Only Hjortsberg I've ever read was Falling Angel (after watching Angel Heart) and I enjoyed it very much

Posted by: barbarausa at June 07, 2026 11:37 AM (enw9G)

405 Well, I'm all caught up!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 11:37 AM (1Ff7Z)

406 Our cat likes to park on my table so that she can interfere with my typing. A little while ago, she nearly kicked the mouse off the table. She is now sleeping (?) and trying to look innocent. But I know better.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 11:38 AM (q3u5l)

407 Don't leave it out in the rain.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June

Just yesterday heard what must be a new cover, some female, of McArthur Park.
Heaven help us.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 07, 2026 11:39 AM (sl73Y)

408 Speaking of WWII, a blast from the past!

Indonesian village rocked by detonation of a bomb left over from WWII, leaving five dead and more wounded

https://tinyurl.com/4b6vjnve

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Apparently, they don't know the type or whether it was the good guys or the bad guys.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 11:44 AM (ndZc7)

409 some recommendations from the horde for audio books to consume during an upcoming road trip.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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The Joe Pickett series by CJ Box
Saga of the Forgotten Warrior by Larry Correia

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 07, 2026 11:47 AM (kfkXh)

410 Upthread someone mentioned German fuel during WW2.
There is a whole long book to be written on that. All I can find are research papers. I worked for one of the scientists who was part of the alternative fuel program. Brought here by operation paperclip.
An aviation buff and I have discussed this at length. I told him about Rudolf Gunnerman and he dove down a rabithole to make sure the historically accurate models he had built over the years were correct in their markings. Some were some weren't.
I need to call that dude.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 11:47 AM (ZxzYs)

411 Do not click!

https://tinyurl.com/2k88umeb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 11:47 AM (ndZc7)

412 "Apparently, they don't know the type or whether it was the good guys or the bad guys."

Donald Trump, having mastered time travel for his own evil purposes, went back and planted it there as part of his globe-spanning conspiracy to do...something or other.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 11:48 AM (q3u5l)

413 If you want an easy entertaining read for the summer I just read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.. It's about an elderly woman and an Octopus.... Not in the smutty way some of you are imagining... LOL
Posted by: It's me donna

I saw that there is a movie coming out based on the book. It stars Sally Field.
Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 10:30 AM (lJ0H4)

Who will voice Marcellus? That is important casting.

And the book was great. Lonely widow works as a night cleaner at the local aquarium. Marcellus the octopus starts taking an interest in her and the book sets out his thoughts about her life and where he thinks things went wrong for her...but I don't want to spoil the plot. A very good summer read.

Posted by: Wethal at June 07, 2026 11:50 AM (gihWY)

414 Off to perform various exercises in futility here at Casa Some Guy.

Thanks again for the thread, MP4.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 07, 2026 11:55 AM (q3u5l)

415 Thanks for the recommendation for "Remarkably Bright Creatures", or as the Spanish version puts it, "Creaturas Luminosas". It's in my library queue.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 11:56 AM (kpS4V)

416 omg Baron Trump should step out wearing fatigues

I'm in it for the splodey heads. You ain't votin your way outta this

Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at June 07, 2026 11:57 AM (jrgJz)

417 Thanks, MP4, for the tasty topic of today's Book Thread.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 11:57 AM (kpS4V)

418 8 The Medieval Cook, and Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society, both by Bridget Ann Henisch and Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony, by Madeline Pelner Cosman.

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These are just the sort of historical books I find fascinating
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 09:03 AM (fE6HJ)

I cannot remember the title, but I recall a book containing recipes for preparing food at royal court. It was things like "prepare and roaste seven great haunchef of fyne meates" kind of stuff. The scale of everything was what struck me. It was like cooking for a battleship galley or something.

Posted by: History can be tasty at June 07, 2026 11:58 AM (TbWk/)

419 (sigh)

That time of day again. The end of the Book Thread. Now what do I do?

(wanders off morosely)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 12:00 PM (1Ff7Z)

420 WE HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 12:00 PM (Ia/+0)

421 413 If you want an easy entertaining read for the summer I just read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.. It's about an elderly woman and an Octopus.... Not in the smutty way some of you are imagining... LOL
Posted by: It's me donna

I saw that there is a movie coming out based on the book. It stars Sally Field.
Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2026 10:30 AM (lJ0H4)

Who will voice Marcellus? That is important casting.

And the book was great. Lonely widow works as a night cleaner at the local aquarium. Marcellus the octopus starts taking an interest in her and the book sets out his thoughts about her life and where he thinks things went wrong for her...but I don't want to spoil the plot. A very good summer read.
Posted by: Wethal at June 07, 2026 11:50 AM (gihWY)

I saw the netflix movie. I won't spoil who voices Marcellus but it's a really good choice. It's overall not bad, a tad maudlin, but Sally Field always delivers.

Posted by: A but sappy but in a non-repulsive way at June 07, 2026 12:01 PM (TbWk/)

422 "The program, Cribb (US version, Sgt. Cribb) had an episode about ['Three Men In a Boat']."

There have been at least two movie versions of the book. One in 1956 with Laurence Harvey, and one in 1975 with Tim Curry and Michal Palin. Both are sometimes available on Youtube.

BTW, "Three Men in a Boat" was the favorite book of the teen-aged hero's father in Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel," and it's quoted from at least once.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at June 07, 2026 12:04 PM (7ZRgl)

423 Thanks, horde for the audiobook recommendations!
I'll check my library's Libby app to see what's available.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 12:13 PM (CJnkZ)

424 "'Three Men in a Boat"
and the sequel-'Three Men on a Bummel' are both hilarious and-BONUS! Great Peeks into the past..."

Jerome K Jerome was a bit of a literary man of many parts; he worked variously as an actor, playwright, writer and magazine editor. Most of his stuff is light and humorous, but like many Victorians he also had a mawky and sentimental side. Even "Three Men in a Boat" has a few bits that, are (IMHO) a bit out of tune with the comic theme of the book. Jerome's play "The Passing of the Third Floor Back" was very famous and popular at the time (also a movie for those interested), but also very unlike his light and funny pieces.

Jerome mostly wrote short, humorous magazine pieces that were light and fluffy, with the intellectually equivalent nutritional value of a marshmallow, but they were well-written and funny. For those interested in reading Jerome's short pieces, "Idle Thoughts of An Idle Fellow" and "Further Thoughts of An Idle Fellow" are easily available from the usual out-of-copyright sources. For Jeeves and Wooster fans, Plum Wodehouse cited Jerome as an influence on his writing and even has a comic reference to Jerome in the novel "Smith in the City."

Posted by: Pope John 20th at June 07, 2026 12:46 PM (7ZRgl)

425 "'Three Men in a Boat"
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In something of a cosmic intersection, I have a copy of that here within reach. Read it long ago, took it with other books yesterday to sell to the local used book store. They turned it down.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2026 01:03 PM (XeU6L)

426 For the 4th week in a row, I report my continuing slog through 'The Brothers Karamazov'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2026 01:05 PM (XeU6L)

427 69 The picture up top is A Social Occasion in the Sophiensaal by Joseh Engelhart.

Looks more like a transactional occasion to me...

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 07, 2026 01:13 PM (UWN7z)

428 A favorite bit from "Three Men in a Boat": one of the three fusses when he realizes they have missed stopping to visit a famous pet cemetery. Created by a rich woman for her many pets it features inscribed marble headstones over the individual burial plots. J. sardonically remarks: "Ah well, I dare say they deserve quite as much as the average Christian does."

Posted by: John F. MacMichael at June 07, 2026 01:14 PM (aYnHS)

429 Drat (and other swear words appropriate to spell "correcting" software), that's "Psmith in the City."

Posted by: Pope John 20th at June 07, 2026 01:21 PM (7ZRgl)

430 427 69 The picture up top is A Social Occasion in the Sophiensaal by Joseh Engelhart.

Looks more like a transactional occasion to me...
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 07, 2026 01:13 PM (UWN7z)

I was gonna guess Moulin Rouge!
Thanks!

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 02:08 PM (6wpGE)

431 I ran into A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story on Project Gutenberg the other day. It looked short (it was) so I downloaded it and read it.
I am surrounded by LDS, and they are all nice people (their theology is strange, but, then again, viewed objectively, who's isn't?), but Part 2 of the story is not at all kind to the Mormons of the late 1800s.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 07, 2026 02:57 PM (ezP9C)

432 @401 --

Matt Helm. "The Terrorizers."

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 07, 2026 03:40 PM (p/isN)

433 Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible changed my life. I love the precision and science part of recipes now. It is 38 years old now.

Posted by: Manitoba and Gobi at June 07, 2026 04:48 PM (o3x7F)

434 someone mailed me a used copy of harrison's "the raw and the cooked." aside from some name dropping i enjoyed reading.

Posted by: cmeat at June 08, 2026 01:24 PM (R11M+)

Daily Tech News 7 June 2026

Top Story

I mentioned before how PCIe switches - at least ones operating faster than PCIe 3.0 - are prohibitively expensive and reserved for enterprise customers except for the ones built into every mainstream PC motherboard. All but the cheapest models have a chipset, and that chipset's primary function is to act as a PCIe switch.

And hobbyists have started tinkering with using AMD's B650 chip, which is a serviceable and reasonably priced example - plus one that already works because every operating system has drivers to support it.

Now it's moving beyond a hobby. (Tom's Hardware)

Raspberry Pi shop WisdPi announced its PROM21 All In Expansion Card - the codename for the chip in the B650 chipset is Promontory 21. For $199 - not cheap, but it's a small production run - you get four extra M.2 slots, five 10Gb USB 3 ports, a selection of USB 2 headers, and an OCuLink header that can provide four PCIe 4.0 lanes or through an adaptor cable four SATA ports (the magic happens in the chipset, so the cable is easy). And it's a single slot half-height half-length card so it will fit easily into any PC.

Minisforum is preparing a similar card.

This would have been much more interesting before storage prices went into orbit, but at least it exists.

Tech News

Speaking of things more interesting in the Before Times, the Zima Cube 2 is a worthy successor to the old Cobalt Cube, though a little larger and disappointingly unblue. (Notebook Check)

It has an Intel 1215U or 1235U processor, two DDR5 SODIMM slots (so up to a nominal 64GB and a theoretical 128GB), one M.2 slot on the motherboard for the boot device, four more M.2 slots in a removable bay for storage, 6 3.5" drive bays for more storage, two 2.5Gb Ethernet ports plus a 10Gb port in the Pro model, HDMI, DisplayPort, and Thunderbolt 4, two regular USB ports, and two PCIe slots, all in a compact, roughly 9" cube.

The Qube was a little less than 8" on a side so the newer device beats it in every respect except that.

$799 for the basic model with 8GB RAM; $1299 for the Pro model with 16GB.

Also, the power supply is pretty limited so if you want to add a graphics card you need one that doesn't require any more than the 70W it can draw from the motherboard.
AMD has expanded on its continued support for its current AM5 motherboards, stating that new products will arrive for that standard until 2029. (WCCFTech)

AM6 with support for DDR6 memory and the PCIe 6.0 bus will arrive only when it "makes sense". PCIe 6.0 devices for the enterprise are trickling out now, but DDR6 isn't expected to appear until 2028.
CXMT is coming to the rescue in the memory drought. (WCCFTech)

Unfortunately it is rescuing itself, raising prices to match the Big Three.
And Lexar's regional manager for Australia and New Zealand says that memory prices are expected to double by the end of the year. (Tom's Hardware)

On top of the already 5x increase, making the 128GB kit I bought a year ago one of the most valuable items I own.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Orange-lemon.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 04:30 AM (6wpGE)

2 uh-oh

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 04:36 AM (6wpGE)

3 Tammy Wynette - Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad

; )

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 04:39 AM (6wpGE)

4 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at June 07, 2026 04:41 AM (FLIKO)

5 wikipedia

Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; May 5, 1942 – April 6, 199

... was born and raised near Tremont, a small town in Itawamba County, Mississippi, by her mother, stepfather, and maternal grandparents. ... In 1967, she had her first commercial success with the single "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad".

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 04:47 AM (6wpGE)

6 *April 6, 1998

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 04:48 AM (6wpGE)

7 >> And Lexar's regional manager for Australia and New Zealand says that memory prices are expected to double by the end of the year. (Tom's Hardware)

> On top of the already 5x increase, making the 128GB kit I bought a year ago one of the most valuable items I own.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Matthew 25:29 "For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away."

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 04:54 AM (Sy6m/)

8 From the ONT:

400 Live cam showing the reflecting pool filling up

https://tinyurl.com/bduutu2d
Posted by: Piper
****

Currently too dark to see the pool.

Posted by: clarence at June 07, 2026 04:58 AM (FLIKO)

9 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at June 07, 2026 05:02 AM (V0/Sp)

10 @5. If you like them painted up, powdered up, then you gotta be glad cause your good girl is gonna go bad.
In 1967 I was ten years old and if I was in the car with Mom that song was going to be blasting. I don't know why but she loved that song.

Posted by: Case at June 07, 2026 05:03 AM (4Pn+V)

11 I recently started looking into upgrading my laptop’s memory. While
looking for answers I discovered https://znayka.com.ua.
I couldn’t find practical upgrade instructions on most websites. Many sources were confusing.
On this site I found clear explanations about RAM compatibility, along with images that made everything much easier to understand.
Now I definitely recommend this website if you want reliable information about laptops and hardware upgrades.

Posted by: Andrey Ivanchenko at June 07, 2026 05:08 AM (EzY64)

12 Belated BOING!

Another gorgeous day up here in north Israel. Did some house maintenance this morning. Lunchtime with some of the pups and grandpups at a restaurant we all like.

Maybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 05:13 AM (V6c7t)

13 10 @5. If you like them painted up, powdered up, then you gotta be glad cause your good girl is gonna go bad.
In 1967 I was ten years old and if I was in the car with Mom that song was going to be blasting. I don't know why but she loved that song.
Posted by: Case at June 07, 2026 05:03 AM (4Pn+V)

Girls Just Want to Have Fun!

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 05:13 AM (6wpGE)

14
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 07, 2026 05:18 AM (AMvSw)

15 Thanks Pixy, and to the Horde support.
I was able to fix my browser issue mentioned yesterday.
After spending about an hour through the week trying to fix it I restarted with most simple ones suggested yesterday.
When I went into settings of clean Chrome browser, there was an alert that once clicked resolved the issue. I'd spent much more time earlier in Brave & Windows settings.
Link from Comrade Flounder saved much more aggravation.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at June 07, 2026 05:19 AM (KaHlS)

16 Yes, but do you sell quality lace wigs?

Posted by: fluffy at June 07, 2026 05:20 AM (V0/Sp)

17 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 07, 2026 05:21 AM (hcPzc)

18 16 Yes, but do you sell quality lace wigs?
Posted by: fluffy at June 07, 2026 05:20 AM (V0/Sp)

haha!

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 05:21 AM (6wpGE)

19 Posted by: clarence at June 07, 2026 04:41 AM (FLIKO)

FLIKO sounds like an television series spy organization, like CONTROL or KAOS.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 05:24 AM (6wpGE)

20 "an television"?

covfefe

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 05:24 AM (6wpGE)

21 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 05:26 AM (Ia/+0)

22 8 From the ONT:

400 Live cam showing the reflecting pool filling up

https://tinyurl.com/bduutu2d
Posted by: Piper
****

Currently too dark to see the pool.
Posted by: clarence at June 07, 2026 04:58 AM (FLIKO)

5:35am

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 05:35 AM (6wpGE)

23
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 05:39 AM (O0L8i)

24 WAMO Cam
Washington Monument Cam

Check out the view from the highest point in the nation's capital - the Washington Monument. 24/7 views over the National Mall in Washington, DC are delivered in higher resolution than ever by EarthCam’s specially designed 5G camera, embedded in a secret, 3" diameter hole drilled by engineers in 2011 to allow climbers to rappel down the monument to inspect earthquake damage.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 05:39 AM (6wpGE)

25 Evening to the Sunday toilers! Morning to the early risers!

I don't know if any of you remember, but Tammy Wynette and the young Burt Reynolds once had an affair. Early '70s, I think, around the time he did his controversial Playgirl centerfold. He also had an affair with Dinah Shore around then. Apparently he had a thing for older hot ladies.

And for cute-cute ones; I recall he and Sally Field were an item at one time too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 05:43 AM (wzUl9)

26 FLIKO sounds like an television series spy organization, like CONTROL or KAOS.
Posted by: m at June 07, 2026

***
Hmph. Those upstarts.

Posted by: Thrush Supreme Council at June 07, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

27 AM6 with support for DDR6 memory and the PCIe 6.0

* all the curse words ... and more *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2026 05:50 AM (diia5)

28 Anyhow! I am awake, sipping my coffee. Stirling is roaming around like a miniature panther, and Dagny (who at one point last night was on the bed with us) trotted out from her window when I called her name. They are not due for breakfast for an hour, though.

And I really do need to work out this morning. I've been off since Thursday, and you get rusty if you don't work out regularly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

29 Coffee in hand but its very hot

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 06:12 AM (Ia/+0)

30 "an television"?

covfefe
Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 05:24 AM (6wpGE)
---
The "t" is silent.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 06:12 AM (gnNyN)

31 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Say the bells of St. Clement's.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 07, 2026 06:13 AM (amcLV)

32 mornin yall

"Young man plunges to his death from scenic California cliff overlooking nude beach"

The report says that it was unclear what the young man was doing on the cliff overlooking the nude beach.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2026 06:19 AM (vFG9F)

33 30 "an television"?

covfefe
Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 05:24 AM (6wpGE)
---
The "t" is silent.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 06:12 AM (gnNyN)

THANK YOU!

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 06:19 AM (6wpGE)

34 hank you

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 06:21 AM (Ia/+0)

35
Coffee in hand but its very hot

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 06:12 AM (Ia/+0)

_____________

Most of us use cups.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 06:25 AM (O0L8i)

36 In a similar vein to the musical interlude:

tinyurl.com/8zwra3pk

Posted by: Nazdar at June 07, 2026 06:28 AM (NcvvS)

37
Needs must take Her Majesty to the airport this morning. Afternoon Mass today, which I don't much like, but people are falling over each other arriving and leaving the morning ones.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 06:34 AM (O0L8i)

38 @15/InspiredHistoryMike: "... When I went into settings of clean Chrome browser, there was an alert that once clicked resolved the issue. I'd spent much more time earlier in Brave & Windows settings."

What was the text of the alert you got?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 07, 2026 06:40 AM (O7YUW)

39 Good morning! Lotsa rain and rumbly grumbly goin on here. It's a good morning to chill on the patio with a cuppa and watch the lighting.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 07, 2026 06:41 AM (3Ope8)

40 What was the text of the alert you got?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 07, 2026 06:40 AM (O7YUW)

Browser warrantee was expired.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 06:44 AM (1Ff7Z)

41 @27/weft cut-loop: "AM6 with support for DDR6 memory and the PCIe 6.0

* all the curse words ... and more *"

I might start using "Hynix", "Samsung", and "Micron" as curse words.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 07, 2026 06:47 AM (O7YUW)

42 Disclaimer: Orange-lemon.

I don't know what that means, but:

OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 06:44 AM (1Ff7Z)

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 06:50 AM (6wpGE)

43 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 07, 2026 06:54 AM (CJnkZ)

44 "Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering"

Lawsuit filed.

Posted by: the crows at June 07, 2026 06:57 AM (vFG9F)

45 I'm half hoping Elon Musk will decide do something about the memory drought, kind of the way he freed Twitter by buying it (at a loss to himself) from the censorious idjits that owned it previously.

If anyone could spin up a memory fabrication facility in a lot less time than the "years" the big three (now big four?) existing memory manufacturers claim it would take, it'd be him.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 07, 2026 07:00 AM (O7YUW)

46 @34/Skip: "hank you"

Dang it, Skip!

Posted by: Propane and Propane Accessories at June 07, 2026 07:02 AM (O7YUW)

47 Grumpy, Sorry I was so relieved I didn't need to dig into DOS registry I didn't retain verbage of Chrome alert. I'd not done anything abnormal proceeding the issue. All browsers were effected, after windows 11 update, Edge also had the webpage unavailable error to most sites.
I'd been avoiding 10 to 11 upgrade obviously, but had installed the prolonged support which will expire in October. The only thing I'm happy with is that the upgrade did not force me to add a log-in password for start up.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at June 07, 2026 07:02 AM (KaHlS)

48 "Tammy Wynette ... was born and raised near Tremont, a small town in Itawamba County, Mississippi..."
------
Which I think is right next to Yoknapatawpha County.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 07, 2026 07:11 AM (CJnkZ)

49 I don't know if any of you remember, but Tammy Wynette and the young Burt Reynolds once had an affair. Early '70s, I think, around the time he did his controversial Playgirl centerfold. He also had an affair with Dinah Shore around then. Apparently he had a thing for older hot ladies.

And for cute-cute ones; I recall he and Sally Field were an item at one time too.

--

And then of course, there was Loni Anderson. I recall seeing Sally Field on something a few years back where she conveyed a story that Burt had told her she was the love of his life. The one.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 07:11 AM (qBdHI)

50 @47/InspiredHistoryMike: Well, I'm glad you're back up and running. Microsoft's software is a house of cards, and always has been.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 07, 2026 07:14 AM (O7YUW)

51 OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 06:44 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 06:50 AM (6wpGE)

Sorry, reading something.

InspiredHistoryMike's trouble with his browser was because its extended warranty had expired. Just like his car's....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 07:18 AM (1Ff7Z)

52 The holdouts on the SAVE act claim that voting regulations should be handled by the states.

So if one state says that only Democrats can be on the ballots, the Feds can do nothing. If one state says that anyone can vote in federal elections, everyone else has to live with it.

Posted by: the crows at June 07, 2026 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

53 Good morning!

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

For a morning sashay around the kitchen:
https://youtu.be/R9T2H8QJjlw
Reveillez-Vous
Peter White

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 07:24 AM (u82oZ)

54 I was just out from coming back from the store. In the woods by the side of the road was a doe with the smallest fawn I have ever seen. It must have just been born. It was the size of a chihuahua. It flattened itself out because it obviously hadn't seen a car before.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 07:25 AM (OYsYV)

55 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 07:25 AM (RIvkX)

56 51 OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 06:44 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 06:50 AM (6wpGE)

Sorry, reading something.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 07:18 AM (1Ff7Z)

I thought an OrangeEnt might know what this means (which I don't):

Disclaimer: Orange-lemon.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 07:25 AM (6wpGE)

57 SanFranpsycho, Good morning. You haven't whined up any delectable treats lately.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 07:29 AM (5P5DO)

58 Disclaimer: Orange-lemon.
Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 07:25 AM (6wpGE)

Oh, thought you meant my "joke" about Mike's browser trouble.

I think Pixy was thinking "green" for a password reset. Either that, or he was riffing on making "American lemonade" like all the influencers have been doing on YT. And mostly doing it wrong.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 07:31 AM (1Ff7Z)

59 Good morning dear Ben Had. Mrs. F. has been baking mostly english muffins and bagels. I did have a delicious cheese scone yesterday. She has been in more a savory rather than sweet mode.

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

60 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I wonder what the net gain in time from using Microsoft software is. There seems to be a lot of time-sucking care and attention needed to get it to run right.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

61 Good morning, everyone!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 07:34 AM (OYsYV)

62 I might start using "Hynix", "Samsung", and "Micron" as curse words."

Hynix sounds like a generic version of Hydrox... and just as tasty.

Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 07:37 AM (XuXeR)

63 FenelonSpoke

Greetings to you, FenelonSpouse, and FenelonSon.

I was going through my stickies yesterday, and I came across my offer to fund FenelonSon for a first date to a nice restaurant. You told me to wait.

Hopefully that offer is no longer needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

64 The British Patriot
@TheBritLad
🚨BREAKING: Multiple reports are coming in that Britain citizens are kneeling inside local police stations across the country.
7:19 AM · Jun 6, 2026
====

I hope it doesn't end there...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

65 SanFranpsycho, I'm going to whip up a batch of chocolate/ pistachio biscotti later this morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 07:39 AM (5P5DO)

66
SanFranpsycho, Good morning. You haven't whined up any delectable treats lately.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 07:29 AM (5P5DO)

____________

"If you make me blueberry pancakes, I'll give you some of my strong loving tonight."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2026 07:40 AM (O0L8i)

67 Ask your proctologist if Hynix is right for you.

Posted by: Big Phat Pharma at June 07, 2026 07:40 AM (CJnkZ)

68 I fear part of my wife's crazy issues are from Apple news, which I understand is 95% woke. I try to avoid evil. It's obviously impossible to though.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at June 07, 2026 07:41 AM (KaHlS)

69 Hadrian, blueberry pancakes in my house has to have lemon zest in them.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 07:42 AM (5P5DO)

70 San Franpsycho

PM Stammer is squealing like a pig, per the movie Deliverance. VP Vance said the truth, and he could not handle it.

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

71 Chocolate biscotti are da bomb.

I'm trying to maintain dietary discipline over the weekend and blueberry pancakes just aren't part of that plan.

Sadz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 07:42 AM (RIvkX)

72 I hope it doesn't end there...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

Depends on what they're kneeling for. Sounds like submission to me. Is this some kind of satiric protest? Offering their necks to the knife? I don't think this kind of protest will embarrass and shame the police into protecting Britons over their soon to be masters.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 07:42 AM (1Ff7Z)

73 InspiredHistoryMike

You can stop Apple News from appearing using MacOS on any computer. I have.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

74 I think I'm getting hooked on the embedded systems hobby. The variety of components and prototype/debugging boards available on amazon is stunning and allows endless possibilities.

I'm working on my electroviscous fan clutch controller for my truck now but I can already think of another project after I figure this out.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 07, 2026 07:43 AM (WYStd)

75 Herr Starmer muss raus!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 07:44 AM (RIvkX)

76 Herr Starmer muss raus!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 07:44 AM (RIvkX)

I just wonder if calling him Quisling might be more effective than Der Starmer?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 07:46 AM (1Ff7Z)

77 Depends on what they're kneeling for. Sounds like submission to me. Is this some kind of satiric protest? Offering their necks to the knife? I don't think this kind of protest will embarrass and shame the police into protecting Britons over their soon to be masters.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 07:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
=====

They are demonstrating the double standard considering all the kneeling done in honor of a foreign criminal who died of an OD in police custody.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

78 San Franpsycho

I agree. But the replacement possible will not change the course of Labour governance. A new government is needed.

Nigel needs to be in charge to even give the UK a recovery path.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

79 Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 07:42

Perhaps because Starmer kneeled for George Floyd and this is a response to the death of Henry Nowak through the utter negligence of British police.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 07:48 AM (n3VHW)

80 Media in England is reporting the police tried to intervene in the Nowak murder trial by presenting a false narrative of the event.

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

81 Good morning, horde.

I love this time of a weekend morning, when nobody's up but me and Tank. Nice and quiet.

Big day ahead, it's cooking day, but Sunday morning is all mine.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 07:50 AM (h7ZuX)

82 A little over two weeks til the bi-election to see if Andy Burnham get elected as an MP.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 07:51 AM (5P5DO)

83 Perhaps because Starmer kneeled for George Floyd and this is a response to the death of Henry Nowak through the utter negligence of British police.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 07:48 AM (n3VHW)

Could be. Certainly PM Keir Quisling needs to be mocked about it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 07:51 AM (1Ff7Z)

84 Metal Leo posted a video documenting Santa Cruz's decline.

That guy is a bummer.

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

85 69 Hadrian, blueberry pancakes in my house has to have lemon zest in them.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 07:42 AM (5P5DO)

Blueberry is divinely enhanced with lemon zest.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 07, 2026 07:53 AM (h7ZuX)

86 That guy is a bummer.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

I saw those two vids. He seems more hopeful in them than the ones on SF. We used to camp in the summers at Sunset Beach as a kid. Haven't been in SC for a long time. Not in this millennium.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 07:54 AM (1Ff7Z)

87 The decline I see is that there is nothing being produced. It's bars, nail salons, pawn shops, and used clothing stores, and used record stores.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 07:58 AM (RIvkX)

88 The decline I see is that there is nothing being produced. It's bars, nail salons, pawn shops, and used clothing stores, and used record stores.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 07:58 AM (RIvkX)

Has SC ever been known for making anything? Always been a tourist town, as far as I can remember. I know it's a prime strawberry area, but don't know there was ever any manufacturing there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 08:01 AM (1Ff7Z)

89 70 and 80 degrees in April and May in the Bitterroot Valley MT, 6/7 and it's currently 45 degrees and it's snowing around 7000 ft in the mountains. I'm hoping I don't have frozen plants again in the next few days. 3 out of 4 tomato plants took a hit a couple weeks ago as well as other assorted planting. The tomato plants are generating new growth, we shall see.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 07, 2026 08:02 AM (2NHgQ)

90 Has SC ever been known for making anything? Always been a tourist town, as far as I can remember. I know it's a prime strawberry area, but don't know there was ever any manufacturing there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 08:01 AM (1Ff7Z)
====

I don't mean manufacturing, I mean commerce. There are no new good being sold, just junk. No banks, few non franchise eateries, no drug stores, no shoe stores...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

91 neverenoughcaffeine

Are you getting enough moisture to prevent raging wildfires?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

92 NaCly, dearest. Good morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 08:07 AM (5P5DO)

93 We need rain on the eastern shore. Had a good stretch Memorial Day week but now it looks dry until the Fourth.
A lot of people here are dry farms.

Posted by: Accomack at June 07, 2026 08:08 AM (T8bqm)

94 G'mornin' everyone!

55 degrees, sunny, temp rising rapidly (muffled cursing)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 07, 2026 08:08 AM (VyBeY)

95 That Tammy Wynette can really rock.

Posted by: Hillzabub Clinton at June 07, 2026 08:10 AM (NCDB7)

96 Hopefully, once King Charles gets done with his evening prayers at the mosque he will have time to consult with his imam on what to do next about the white folks breaking laws and rioting in the street.

Posted by: Yusuf Islam at June 07, 2026 08:10 AM (z20w/)

97 8, thx clarence, what a cool view!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 07, 2026 08:10 AM (VyBeY)

98 I was just out from coming back from the store. In the woods by the side of the road was a doe with the smallest fawn I have ever seen. It must have just been born. It was the size of a chihuahua. It flattened itself out because it obviously hadn't seen a car before.

--

It sounds precious. Deer are beautiful animals to me anyway, but the fawns just melt my heart. We have woods behind us and Mr. Black leaves corn feed out for the deer all the time. I hate seeing them splattered on the road from being hit by cars. A definite problem here.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

99 that Britain citizens are kneeling"

Just like their ancestors.

Meh to them.

Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 08:11 AM (XuXeR)

100 {{{Ben Had}}}

May sunshine light your path today. And your cooking skills bring happiness to others.

I am going to see the play Grease in a nearby town with one of the widows I walk with. She wanted to go. And I said yes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

101 And someone from "Restore Britain" put up a video of people kneeling with flags, some of which say things like "I can't breathe":

https://tinyurl.com/y3m2ba5h

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 08:12 AM (n3VHW)

102 Media in England is reporting the police tried to intervene in the Nowak murder trial by presenting a false narrative of the event.

--

That whole story turns my stomach. There are many people that need to be skinned alive for what happened to that young man. From the politicians to the DEI-soaked police to the POS that killed him.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

103 affirm, we need rain here, too ... had to water every day for a week +

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 07, 2026 08:13 AM (VyBeY)

104 Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

That's nice iod your husband . We have the same problems here with them flattened by cars, and I'd be sad if the tiny fawn or his mom got killed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 08:14 AM (n3VHW)

105 102 Media in England is reporting the police tried to intervene in the Nowak murder trial by presenting a false narrative of the event.

--

That whole story turns my stomach. There are many people that need to be skinned alive for what happened to that young man. From the politicians to the DEI-soaked police to the POS that killed him.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

I guess, like in the US, perjury doesn't have the penalties it's supposed to have...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:15 AM (l3cgK)

106 And some of the people in the British video look like it was quite an effort to kneel, God bless them!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 08:16 AM (n3VHW)

107 "American lemonade" ?

dare I search this phrase?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 07, 2026 08:16 AM (VyBeY)

108 "According to the Oxford Internet Institute, the cost of creating a deep fake has plunged to near zero. Using 'Low Rank Adaption', or LoRA, an existing image generation model running on consumer hardware can be trained on a specific person using just 20 reference images. Once trained, that model can create an unlimited number of synthetic images of that person."
~~ Memorandum Newsletter
===================
or, don't believe your lying eyes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2026 08:17 AM (X1vwc)

109 huh, never mind ... no double meaning ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 07, 2026 08:19 AM (VyBeY)

110 Salty, lots of rain and the snow will help when it comes to wildfires. Unfortunately the rain will stop and everything will brown up. We only receive 14 inches of rain annually and we had less snow this year. I expect the wildfires to ramp up early August.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 07, 2026 08:19 AM (2NHgQ)

111 We have our primaries for a new governor here in SC on Tuesday. I'm completely at a loss on who to vote for. I've been bombarded with text messages from various campaigns of one candidate sliming the other. With having little record on these people to go by, I can see how the slime machines work on influencing people. It leaves me confused on whom to vote for.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 08:20 AM (qBdHI)

112 Top o' the morning to all the horde. Lots of wind and dark ominous looking clouds here last night, resulting in a not very torrential downpour over a brief time. So I watered all the planters this morning. Very peaceful. Hope the neighbors understand my "no pants at dawn" rule.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2026 08:21 AM (X1vwc)

113 huh, never mind ... no double meaning ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 07, 2026 08:19 AM (VyBeY)

Nope. It's just Europeons have carbonated lemonade, not still watered like ours. Quite a few YTers have made it and compared it to what "lemonade" is in those benighted countries.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 08:22 AM (1Ff7Z)

114 111 We have our primaries for a new governor here in SC on Tuesday. I'm completely at a loss on who to vote for. I've been bombarded with text messages from various campaigns of one candidate sliming the other. With having little record on these people to go by, I can see how the slime machines work on influencing people. It leaves me confused on whom to vote for.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 08:20 AM (qBdHI)

Will you know who won before July 1st?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:22 AM (l3cgK)

115 113 huh, never mind ... no double meaning ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 07, 2026 08:19 AM (VyBeY)

Nope. It's just Europeons have carbonated lemonade, not still watered like ours. Quite a few YTers have made it and compared it to what "lemonade" is in those benighted countries.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 08:22 AM (1Ff7Z)

Root Beer...
My wife's ex-boyfriend was from France, and the first time he saw root beer, he tried it and was unpleasantly surprised it was not beer...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:23 AM (l3cgK)

116 Will you know who won before July 1st?...

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Heh, we can't get rid of Graham, but we at least do that right. Should know by evening who won the R primary.

Graham's up for reelection too, and I won't be voting for him Tuesday. But alas, I fear we will be stuck with this pustule for another 6 years...

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 08:23 AM (qBdHI)

117 Root Beer...
My wife's ex-boyfriend was from France, and the first time he saw root beer, he tried it and was unpleasantly surprised it was not beer...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:23 AM (l3cgK)

Most Euros don't like root beer. They think it tastes like toothpaste. Why the heck would you make tp out of sasparilla instead of mint like nature intended?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 08:25 AM (1Ff7Z)

118 thx clarence, what a cool view!
****

Yes, it is. I did not know there was a camera that could see the pool. It looks like it has been filled now.

Fixing the pool was a no-brainer but PDJT is the only one to do something about it. There have been several projects quietly done and the enemedia says nothing about them.

Posted by: clarence at June 07, 2026 08:26 AM (FLIKO)

119 I am voting for Pamela Evette. She is the Lt. Gov. and I have seen her a couple of times. None of the other candidates have any executive experience.

Miss Lindsay will never get my vote again.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 07, 2026 08:27 AM (qFwJc)

120 Anyone else see the photo of Scott Pelley at the helm of his sailboat that he posted on Instagram and was amplified on 'X' by Variety?

It's laughable.

Legs splayed apart presumably for stability while maintaining a two-handed death grip on the wheel as though he's sailing through a Nor'easter, when the water around him clearly shows a sea state of about a 2 on the Beaufort Scale

https://tinyurl.com/msmnjmjf

Posted by: one hour sober at June 07, 2026 08:28 AM (J4Dwc)

121 The US vice-president is the most outspoken member of an administration evangelistic about encouraging Christian nationalism in the West and opposing an influx of people from other cultures, with a particular focus on the UK.
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Encouraging equal treatment under the law is now "Christian Nationalism" according to Two Tier Kier.

Can we just say "what an asshoe" and have done with him?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2026 08:28 AM (fGoax)

122 I don't have much expectations that the murder in England or naked vote steal in California will do anything in the short term.

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 08:28 AM (Ia/+0)

123 Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2026 08:20 AM (qBdHI)

Nancy Mace is the only one I have heard of, because she is active on X

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 08:31 AM (fE6HJ)

124 >>> Why the heck would you make tp out of sasparilla instead of mint like nature intended?

Totally nuts.

And yet, as a properly cultured American I can use mint toothpaste and still enjoy the flavor of mint in various confection.

Europeans are so unsophisticated.

Posted by: fluffy at June 07, 2026 08:31 AM (V0/Sp)

125 I don't have much expectations that the murder in England or naked vote steal in California will do anything in the short term.
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 08:28 AM (Ia/+0)
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So, you're saying, "nothing will happen"?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2026 08:31 AM (fGoax)

126 And thanks to Piper for posting or reposting the link to the camera in DC.

Posted by: clarence at June 07, 2026 08:31 AM (FLIKO)

127 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at June 07, 2026 08:32 AM (CJnkZ)

128 Somewhat tech related... anyone else seeing a number of news and such reports popping up with the byline "AI Generated" or similar?
No reporter's name, no other byline...

Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

129 Anyone else see the photo of Scott Pelley at the helm of his sailboat that he posted on Instagram and was amplified on 'X' by Variety?

It's laughable.
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What you don't see is the photographer, Pelley's "significant other".

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge? at June 07, 2026 08:33 AM (fGoax)

130 Europeans are so unsophisticated.
Posted by: fluffy at June 07, 2026 08:31 AM (V0/Sp)

Indeed. Barbarians.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 08:33 AM (1Ff7Z)

131 128 Somewhat tech related... anyone else seeing a number of news and such reports popping up with the byline "AI Generated" or similar?
No reporter's name, no other byline...

Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

AI generated news is the most accurate news!

Posted by: AI Newscaster at June 07, 2026 08:33 AM (l3cgK)

132 Nancy Mace is the only one I have heard of, because she is active on X
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 08:31 AM (fE6HJ)
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That's certainly one way to describe her

Posted by: Her Therapist at June 07, 2026 08:34 AM (fGoax)

133 My biggest election issue this year is data centers. I am full NIMBY
I might crossover to vote for a Dem locally in fact

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 07, 2026 08:35 AM (6U1c2)

134 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 07, 2026 08:36 AM (bfy6w)

135 Somewhat tech related... anyone else seeing a number of news and such reports popping up with the byline "AI Generated" or similar?
No reporter's name, no other byline...
****

It used to be that no name on the article would mean one of the staff would do the writing. Evidently, it seems that it is just someone prompting a program.

Posted by: clarence at June 07, 2026 08:36 AM (FLIKO)

136 Anyone else see the photo of Scott Pelley at the helm of his sailboat that he posted on Instagram and was amplified on 'X' by Variety?

It's laughable.
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There's a blowhard joke there somewhere. But I'm not fully awake yet.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 07, 2026 08:36 AM (Lo97M)

137 Spencer Pratt’s once-comfortable lead in the Los Angeles mayoral primary has been slashed yet again — as a fresh batch of ballots delivered another major boost to progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman in their race to the November runoff.
~~the California Post
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Just steal it already.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2026 08:38 AM (fGoax)

138 Good morning!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2026 08:38 AM (X8xt3)

139 The internet is dead.

Posted by: And has been for years at June 07, 2026 08:39 AM (CJnkZ)

140 Posted by: Her Therapist"

Rape is bad....

Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

141 >>There's a blowhard joke there somewhere. But I'm not fully awake yet.

"Thar he blowwws!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2026 08:40 AM (X8xt3)

142 A French man will say he is French. A Spaniard will say he is Spanish.

The only man that will say he is "European" is a German because they are ashamed of their history.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 07, 2026 08:40 AM (qFwJc)

143 Teardrops fall like rain
Now our passions rise and fall
Seasons pass us by

fin

Posted by: clarence at June 07, 2026 08:40 AM (FLIKO)

144 Florida Peasant

Scott Pelley is the very picture of pompous. And he is gargles commie waste.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

145 IMO, the Dems have turned against data centers because the centers are pushing for small nuclear reactors and not for green power for consumers and stable carbon power for the centers.
Everything is about The Revolution.

Posted by: Accomack at June 07, 2026 08:41 AM (8jVAy)

146 137 Spencer Pratt’s once-comfortable lead in the Los Angeles mayoral primary has been slashed yet again — as a fresh batch of ballots delivered another major boost to progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman in their race to the November runoff.
~~the California Post
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Just steal it already.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2026 08:38 AM (fGoax)

The process is the punishment. Do it too quickly and you don't extract the maximum pain.

Posted by: AI Newscaster at June 07, 2026 08:41 AM (l3cgK)

147 "Just steal it already."

We are doing our best to do that

Posted by: California Demonrats at June 07, 2026 08:41 AM (qFwJc)

148 142 A French man will say he is French. A Spaniard will say he is Spanish.

The only man that will say he is "European" is a German because they are ashamed of their history.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 07, 2026 08:40 AM (qFwJc)

Only because they lost...

Posted by: AI Newscaster at June 07, 2026 08:41 AM (l3cgK)

149 >>The US vice-president is the most outspoken member of an administration evangelistic about encouraging Christian nationalism in the West and opposing an influx of people from other cultures, with a particular focus on the UK.

shorter: Icky Catholic convert is also shamelessly patriotic!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2026 08:42 AM (X8xt3)

150 It was the damn strawberries I'm telling you!

Posted by: Captain Pelley at June 07, 2026 08:42 AM (CJnkZ)

151 PDT is trolling and jerking the iRGC's chain. He said all their frozen assets shoulde be sent UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain for reconstruction from IRGC bombing damages

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 08:42 AM (5P5DO)

152 151 PDT is trolling and jerking the iRGC's chain. He said all their frozen assets shoulde be sent UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain for reconstruction from IRGC bombing damages

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 08:42 AM (5P5DO)

You wanna REALLY troll them, send it to Israel to reimburse for their proxies' attacks from Lebannon and Gaza...

Posted by: AI Newscaster at June 07, 2026 08:43 AM (l3cgK)

153 McDonald’s Tests AI-Powered Drive-Thru Ordering System at Five U.S. Locations

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You vill haff der Big Mac and you vill like it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 08:44 AM (ndZc7)

154 140 Posted by: Her Therapist"

Rape is bad....

Posted by: man at June 07, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

It is? Nobody told me it was bad...

Posted by: Psycho-the-Rapist at June 07, 2026 08:44 AM (l3cgK)

155 Ben Had

*Gasp*

This would start to remove the incentives to be a tyrant and bleed your own country dry for your personal wealth generation.

Deep State will not like this, at all.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

156 153 McDonald’s Tests AI-Powered Drive-Thru Ordering System at Five U.S. Locations

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You vill haff der Big Mac and you vill like it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 07, 2026 08:44 AM (ndZc7)

Wait until it makes you buy the anti-Jew Notsee fries...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:45 AM (l3cgK)

157 >>Anyone else see the photo of Scott Pelley at the helm of his sailboat that he posted on Instagram and was amplified on 'X' by Variety?

Nice boat. Morris 36 I believe.

Selling your soul can be profitable.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 08:47 AM (viF8m)

158 Sorry, I'm out of commission today.

Posted by: The AI-Powered Ice Cream Machine at June 07, 2026 08:47 AM (CJnkZ)

159 100 Billion + has been frozen in Economic Fury so far.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2026 08:47 AM (5P5DO)

160 So, to an outsider, California elections look like they keep unearthing "ballots" and counting them until they get the answer they want, and only then do they stop and declare the "winner". Like in Philadelphia, but without all the subsequent indictments.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2026 08:48 AM (fGoax)

161 Wait until it makes you buy the anti-Jew Notsee fries...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:45 AM (l3cgK)
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Arbeit Macht Fries! 🍟

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 08:50 AM (kpS4V)

162 100 Billion what? Popsicles?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 07, 2026 08:51 AM (CJnkZ)

163 >>So, to an outsider, California elections look like they keep unearthing "ballots" and counting them until they get the answer they want, and only then do they stop and declare the "winner".

Yup.
Worse, the ballot ratios post election day are completely different than those cast on or before election day. Nithya Raman was training third, but magically, she's now by far the biggest vote-getter, ensuring she overtakes Pratt without nearing Bass.

WEIRD!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2026 08:52 AM (X8xt3)

164 Nice boat. Morris 36 I believe.

Selling your soul can be profitable.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2026 08:47 AM (viF8m)
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Only the best for the self-satisfied commentariat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2026 08:52 AM (fGoax)

165 161 Wait until it makes you buy the anti-Jew Notsee fries...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:45 AM (l3cgK)
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Arbeit Macht Fries! 🍟

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 07, 2026 08:50 AM (kpS4V)

Indeed!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:53 AM (l3cgK)

166 So, to an outsider, California elections look like they keep unearthing "ballots" and counting them until they get the answer they want, and only then do they stop and declare the "winner". Like in Philadelphia, but without all the subsequent indictments.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Funny how the count drags on and on and on. But as soon as the dim goes in front, the counting is over and the dim won.
Every single time.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 07, 2026 08:53 AM (Lo97M)

167 Morning all.

82 years +1 day.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 08:53 AM (lwhHh)

168 Article at American Thinker explains how California slow roles, makes good bank out of slow rolling vote counts and makes sure their candidate they support wins

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 08:54 AM (Ia/+0)

169 Yup.
Worse, the ballot ratios post election day are completely different than those cast on or before election day. Nithya Raman was training third, but magically, she's now by far the biggest vote-getter, ensuring she overtakes Pratt without nearing Bass.

WEIRD!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2026 08:52 AM (X8xt3)
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I'm pretty sure that there's a conspiracy between Bass and Raman. Raman will be handsomely rewarded with a consolation prize for throwing the final race to Bass.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 07, 2026 08:55 AM (gnNyN)

170 163 >>So, to an outsider, California elections look like they keep unearthing "ballots" and counting them until they get the answer they want, and only then do they stop and declare the "winner".

Yup.
Worse, the ballot ratios post election day are completely different than those cast on or before election day. Nithya Raman was training third, but magically, she's now by far the biggest vote-getter, ensuring she overtakes Pratt without nearing Bass.

WEIRD!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2026 08:52 AM (X8xt3)

It takes a great deal of coordination to get so many people (living, dead, illegal, imaginary) into one small address for voting purposes. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How many voters can reside in a one-bedroom apartment?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:55 AM (l3cgK)

171 Wait. Cheap Asian noodles are on the ballot?
Californians are weird.

Posted by: East Coaster at June 07, 2026 08:55 AM (CJnkZ)

172 167 Morning all.

82 years +1 day.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 08:53 AM (lwhHh)

Happy belated birthday! You share a birthday with my Dad, whose 100th was yesterday (he passed less than 5 years ago).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:56 AM (l3cgK)

173 Happy belated birthday! You share a birthday with my Dad, whose 100th was yesterday (he passed less than 5 years ago).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not my bday. D Day.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 08:57 AM (lwhHh)

174 Make California a territory again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 08:57 AM (qFVoe)

175 Wait. Cheap Asian noodles are on the ballot?
Californians are weird.
Posted by: East Coaster at June 07, 2026 08:55 AM (CJnkZ)

No, no. That's Ramune. It's some crazy Japanese drink.

Hm. I really didn't need the adjective before Japanese, did I?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 08:57 AM (1Ff7Z)

176 173 Happy belated birthday! You share a birthday with my Dad, whose 100th was yesterday (he passed less than 5 years ago).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not my bday. D Day.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 08:57 AM (lwhHh)

Oh. D-day was Dad's 18th birthday...he was inducted a few months later...high school class of 1944...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 08:58 AM (l3cgK)

177 Make California a territory again.
Posted by: Anna Puma

This. Until they get their shit together.

No statehood for you! Come back. One year!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 08:58 AM (lwhHh)

178 Wonton Soup would have been a better candidate than Bass Raman.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 08:58 AM (qFVoe)

179 Oh. D-day was Dad's 18th birthday...he was inducted a few months later...high school class of 1944...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Oh wow. Salute! 🫡

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2026 08:59 AM (lwhHh)

180 I am watching the Covid era Bengals Titans game. After the game, the players are mingling as usual but Burrow is 6’ from his interviewer.
Gah, what stupid time

Posted by: Accomack at June 07, 2026 09:00 AM (T8bqm)

181 175 Wait. Cheap Asian noodles are on the ballot?
Californians are weird.
Posted by: East Coaster at June 07, 2026 08:55 AM (CJnkZ)

No, no. That's Ramune. It's some crazy Japanese drink.

Hm. I really didn't need the adjective before Japanese, did I?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2026 08:57 AM (1Ff7Z)

Japan: the land of tentacle pron, eyeball licking, and weird vending machine products...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:00 AM (l3cgK)

182 Book thread up.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 07, 2026 09:01 AM (NcvvS)

183 178 Wonton Soup would have been a better candidate than Bass Raman.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 07, 2026 08:58 AM (qFVoe)

That Bass Ramen is the fishy dish...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:01 AM (l3cgK)

184 Bring your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Ow where are my glasses?

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)

185 184 Bring your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Ow where are my glasses?

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)

Prolly on yer head...but it'll be the last place you look, because it would be stupid to keep looking after you've found them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2026 09:02 AM (l3cgK)

186 Skip

Where are my pants?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2026 09:03 AM (u82oZ)

187 I know there are a lot of flavors of Ramen available, but I've never heard of Nithya.

Posted by: East Coaster at June 07, 2026 09:04 AM (CJnkZ)

188 Speaking of the newly painted reflecting pool on the mall in DC, I'm old enough to remember Wilbert Mills wading in it with the floozy late at night. He was a congressman who played around, and in modern times we would probably have videos of it.

Posted by: Colin at June 07, 2026 09:16 AM (CiQE7)

189 112 Top o' the morning to all the horde. ... Hope the neighbors understand my "no pants at dawn" rule.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2026 08:21 AM (X1vwc)

; )

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 11:00 AM (6wpGE)

190 Thanks Pixy, and to the Horde support.
I was able to fix my browser issue mentioned yesterday.
After spending about an hour through the week trying to fix it I restarted with most simple ones suggested yesterday.
When I went into settings of clean Chrome browser, there was an alert that once clicked resolved the issue. I'd spent much more time earlier in Brave & Windows settings.
Link from Comrade Flounder saved much more aggravation.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at June 07, 2026 05:19 AM (KaHlS)

Glad you hot it resolved. And yes, Windows is a relative time suck.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 07, 2026 11:50 AM (dK+Kv)

Saturday Night Club ONT - June 6, 2026 [D Squared]

School is out, summer is in. Time for some backyard barbecue and quality time spent with good people in good places.

Welcome to Club ONT - a collaboration of The Disco and The Dino (with a dash of guest Doggo tonight!). We built this place for you so you can have some fun. Come in in, grab a drink or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Jerks need not enter the premises (the moose out front will keep watch).

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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

Double Positive

An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative." A voice from the back of the room said, "Yeah, right."

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Psychic short jokes.

What do you call a fat psychic?
A four chin teller.

What do you call a dwarf psychic who escaped from prison?
A small medium at large.

Every Psychic I ever visited was either a bit depressed or way too excitable..
It's really hard to find the happy Medium

Can see the future. Needs a bike lock for their sign? Apparently they already knew what was coming.

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Drink of the Night

Rum Forest Rum

1 Dash Bitters
1 1/4 oz. Champagne
1 oz Rum
1 1/4 oz. Vermouth

- Fill a shaker halfway with ice cubes
- Add all ingredients, shake till perfectly chilled
- Fill glass and dream of ways to make evil Jenny miserable

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Club ONT Department of 'murica

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Club ONT Department of Obvious Mystery Clicks

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Club ONT Department of Jokes Writing Themselves

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Club ONT Department of Potentially Unlikely Electoral Outcomes

Anyone want to be Mayor?

New York village to vote for mayor with a blank ballot

A village on New York's Long Island is facing a highly unusual mayoral election after no candidates registered to run for the office.
Bayville Mayor Steve Minicozzi announced in April that he would not be seeking reelection, and Christopher Vivona, the village's deputy clerk-treasurer, confirmed no one else registered to run.
Vivona said June 16 will mark the first time he knows of that the village of approximately 7,000 people will go to the polls to vote for mayor with a blank ballot.
Officials said the election will be decided by write-in votes. John Taylor, who ran against Minicozzi in 2022, said he would be willing to serve if he gains enough write-in votes.
"[If] some guy comes up there with 50 of his friends, he's your mayor," Watson told NBC New York. "If 100 people get one write in each it's a tie. So it's a strange situation."

Any Morons live in Bayville?

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Club ONT Updated Password Security Requirements

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Club ONT Department of Aerodynamics

Aerodynamic Beaver would be a great name for a band.

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Club ONT Department of Aviation News

End of an era

VMA-223 celebrates sundown as Marine Corps' final Harrier squadron

Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 223, known as "the Bulldogs," celebrated the conclusion of nearly 40 years of operational history with the AV-8B Harrier II during a public ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Wednesday. The ceremony marked an important moment in time for VMA-223 and also signaled the end of an era for Marine Corps aviation as the service continues its transition to an all-5th generation tactical aircraft fleet.

Colloquially known as a "jump jet" for its ability to take off and land within short distances, the AV-8B is a V/STOL aircraft designed to support the Marine Air Ground Task Force commander by destroying surface targets and escorting friendly aircraft. The AV-8B's lethality and V/STOL capability made it uniquely suited for deployments in support of Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs). VMA-223's final detachment of Harriers to support a MEU returned to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point last month after supporting operations with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit in the Caribbean.
In fiscal year 2028 VMA-223 is scheduled to reactivate as Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA)-223 and will begin flying the F-35B Lightning II. VMA-223 is the last Marine Corps squadron to operate the Harrier.

Farewell Harrier.

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Smarty for Club ONT Smarties

History of Smarties. Now we are talking!

This all sounds like a fairly unsurprising origin story, save for one thing - the original candies were made using old wartime pellet machines designed to compress gunpowder into ammunition. That's right! Instead of making bullets, Dee made candy.

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Club ONT Jukebox

A bit of old school rock this evening.

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Top 10ish Comments of the Week

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Club ONT is brought to you tonight by playing kids birthday parties:

(Alternative title: "I would like to know more about why YouTube recommends certain videos that it thinks I would like (not that it is wrong."))

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Are you whelmed? We hope you are whelmed. Whelmage is good.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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1 Explosive terrifying clickbait scientists can't explain and they don't want you to see hidden for years that changes the course of human history forever. And it's aliens.

https://youtu.be/2Gg6Seob5Mg

Posted by: mindful webworker - essential non-entity at June 06, 2026 10:01 PM (dn9xm)

2 Yay

Posted by: four seasons at June 06, 2026 10:01 PM (x4yF4)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2026 10:01 PM (jnTpz)

4 Eighty-two years ago today, thousands of ordinary young men from America, Britain, Canada, and other nations climbed down into landing craft and headed straight into hell on the beaches of Normandy

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 10:01 PM (0kM66)

5 Wut!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 06, 2026 10:02 PM (uTEOj)

6 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 06, 2026 10:02 PM (2C9lS)

7 ONT

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 06, 2026 10:03 PM (fE6HJ)

8 Almost famous - almost first!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 10:03 PM (3mtTi)

9 With! A bride...never first😐

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 06, 2026 10:03 PM (uTEOj)

10 Thing is... when you blow the margins... you can pretend it's something else.
When CharlieBrownsDildo makes you toss the salad, though...

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 10:03 PM (gKWVE)

11 LOL, Dagen on last night's Gutfeld! said Platner had a "Totenkopf tit". 😆

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 10:04 PM (kpS4V)

12 Yay! Saturday ONT ! Second only to Friday ONT in the pantheon of ONTs.

Thank you Ds

Still counting ballots here in California, but the weather was perfect today!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 06, 2026 10:04 PM (QGaXH)

13 Smarties?

Oh, right I remember them being mentioned in the book Bimbos of the Death Sun.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:04 PM (2GVsD)

14 Aerodynamic Beaver would be a great name for a band.

I don't even want to know what happens when someone orders 'flaps down'.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2026 10:05 PM (jnTpz)

15 I had no idea Smarties are an English candy. No wonder they have no flavor.

Posted by: huerfano at June 06, 2026 10:05 PM (VJX5o)

16 Came across this meme, and immediately thought of nurse ratched and BeckoningChasm.

I want to be like my cat and just slap the shit out of everything that irritates me.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 10:05 PM (qx7Zg)

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 10:05 PM (kpS4V)

18 Smarties are the weak sisters to SweeTarts.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 10:06 PM (kpS4V)

19 Electric Avenue is one of those songs like Henley's All She Wants To Do Is Dance. Or Born In The USA
Everyone just knows the chorus.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 10:06 PM (gKWVE)

20 Why can't I find photos of the completed Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool project? I've searched images and videos in Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. and can't find any pics.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 10:07 PM (X+xvk)

21 Smarties are the weak sisters to SweeTarts.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 10:06 PM (kpS4V)

I could eat myself into a sugar coma with either of those.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 10:07 PM (snZF9)

22 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 06, 2026 10:07 PM (+9wcF)

23 tcn in ak got 5 of this week's Top 10 comments?

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for ONE of my comments to make the list....

***taps foot impatiently, cries into non alcoholic beverage***

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 06, 2026 10:07 PM (2C9lS)

24 Saturday Night Club ONT - June 6, 2026 [D Squared]

Oh come on! You guys aren't L7.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

25 Eighty-four years ago, the Imperial Japanese Fleet with Admiral Isoruko Yamamato in command slunk away in the night after losing four aircraft carriers and one "cheat cruiser" to the American Pacific Fleet under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance.

It was a little place called Midway.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:07 PM (2GVsD)

26 What the bold heck is going on?

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 06, 2026 10:07 PM (Jr+re)

27 Jerks need not enter the premises (the moose out front will keep watch).

Ah, phooey. Guess I'll wait for the Book Thread....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2026 10:08 PM (1Ff7Z)

28 Good evening morons и слава Двоим!

I have a little tray of Sweettarts right here. I stock up at Walgreen's on Senior Day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

29 The Go-Go's - Vacation - sounds like some Saturday morning cartoon theme. Don't know what the lyrics were.

Posted by: mindful webworker - or something like a Schoolhouse Rock song at June 06, 2026 10:08 PM (dn9xm)

30 18 Smarties are the weak sisters to SweeTarts.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 10:06 PM (kpS4V)

You kids are cute

Posted by: Giant Pixie Sticks at June 06, 2026 10:08 PM (w/O5Q)

31 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 10:09 PM (bfy6w)

32 Yay! Saturday ONT ! Second only to Friday ONT in the pantheon of ONTs.

Thank you Ds

Still counting ballots here in California, but the weather was perfect today!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 06, 2026 10:04 PM (QGaXH)

Do the new ballots still get delivered by Buicks, or did they upgrade to Cadillac sedans for a trunk?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 10:09 PM (qx7Zg)

33 Evening, D-squared, and NT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2026 10:09 PM (1z8ji)

34 The Go-Go's - Vacation - sounds like some Saturday morning cartoon theme. Don't know what the lyrics were.

"Our lips are sealed."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:09 PM (2GVsD)

35 An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day.
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Internationally Acclaimed Douchebag Noam Cho sky?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:09 PM (RIvkX)

36 The Go-Go's - Vacation - sounds like some Saturday morning cartoon theme. Don't know what the lyrics were.

Posted by: mindful webworker - or something like a Schoolhouse Rock song at June 06, 2026 10:08 PM (dn9xm)

Nobody of good breeding knows those lyrics. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 10:10 PM (snZF9)

37 I have an honest question. Did any US Harrier ever fire a shot in anger?

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 06, 2026 10:10 PM (Jr+re)

38 !

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2026 10:10 PM (R+iUD)

39 I'm feeling pretty bold tonight! The fortune teller made me want to do a "same as in town" joke, but I see inflation has made itself known...

Posted by: RandomDave at June 06, 2026 10:10 PM (aJQbY)

40 tcn in ak got 5 of this week's Top 10 comments?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

I was wondering why the CoBs were all wearing shiny new Crocs.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

41 Smarties are the weak sisters to SweeTarts.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 10:06 PM (kpS4V)

You kids are cute

Posted by: Giant Pixie Sticks at June 06, 2026 10:08 PM (w/O5Q)

All hail the Straw of Awe.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 10:11 PM (snZF9)

42 Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 223, known as "the Bulldogs," celebrated the conclusion of nearly 40 years of operational history with the AV-8B Harrier II during a public ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Wednesday. The ceremony marked an important moment in time for VMA-223 and also signaled the end of an era for Marine Corps aviation as the service continues its transition to an all-5th generation tactical aircraft fleet.
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Should have tricked them out to be UAVs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 06, 2026 10:11 PM (/lPRQ)

43 Good evening Horde! Hello to all Club patrons.

Posted by: TRex - Club ONT doorman dino at June 06, 2026 10:12 PM (afA7R)

44 34 "Our lips are sealed."
Posted by: Anna Puma

36 Nobody of good breeding knows those lyrics. lol
Posted by: Berserker

The dreaded Hordemind self-own.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)

45 Bananarama were the British Go-Gos

Posted by: it's a cruel summer at June 06, 2026 10:12 PM (gKWVE)

46 I have an honest question. Did any US Harrier ever fire a shot in anger?

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 06, 2026 10:10 PM (Jr+re)

Only in an Ahnold movie. He sent a muslim through a building.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 10:12 PM (snZF9)

47 Sorry I'm late, I thought the bottlecap was a twist off.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 06, 2026 10:12 PM (/ly7b)

48 USMC Harriers flew both during Desert Storm and the later Global War on Terror.

British Harriers, a little thing called Operation Corporate in the South Atlantic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:12 PM (2GVsD)

49 Eighty-four years ago, the Imperial Japanese Fleet with Admiral Isoruko Yamamato in command slunk away in the night after losing four aircraft carriers and one "cheat cruiser" to the American Pacific Fleet under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance.

Posted by: Anna Puma

*Ring, ring*

Operator "Hold for The Emperor"

Admiral Yamamoto "(天皇陛下

Your Majesty the Emperor"

Emperor Hirohito "So, how'd it go?"

Yamamoto "Um. . . . . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2026 10:13 PM (jnTpz)

50 Eighty-four years ago, the Imperial Japanese Fleet with Admiral Isoruko Yamamato in command slunk away in the night after losing four aircraft carriers and one "cheat cruiser" to the American Pacific Fleet under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance.

It was a little place called Midway.

It's onry a fresh wound!

Posted by: Admiral Isoruko Yamamato at June 06, 2026 10:13 PM (Riz8t)

51 Thanks for the Saturday Night Club ONT, D Squared (plus Doggo)!

The Moron comments are outstanding!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 06, 2026 10:13 PM (D/6p1)

52 Very nice ONT, D Squared.

However, if you think those tunes are OLD rock, I've got lots of news for you!

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 06, 2026 10:13 PM (Jr+re)

53 Dagen on last night's Gutfeld! said Platner had a "Totenkopf tit". 😆
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 10:04 PM (kpS4V)
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Does she hate Todd Pirro or what?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:14 PM (RIvkX)

54 Club ONT is brought to you tonight by playing kids birthday parties

Nyango Star is awesome.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:14 PM (VHUov)

55 Here's a different take on astrological signs.

https://tinyurl.com/29ajcuba

Includes kudzu, front porch, and the Mason jar.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 10:14 PM (qx7Zg)

56 There's been 2 bright lights in the night sky fairly close to each other
I am not a stargazer do I have no idea what they are

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 06, 2026 10:14 PM (fE6HJ)

57 @23 It's politics Teresa, all politics. A large donation may help.

Posted by: Case at June 06, 2026 10:14 PM (4Pn+V)

58 So...Ten in AK gets five of the top ten COTW???
Sheesh!
Who's counting these things? The LA Elections Committee?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 10:15 PM (2WIwB)

59 Good evening, Club goers.

Posted by: scampydog - occasional contributor at June 06, 2026 10:15 PM (41CYW)

60 Eighty-two years ago today, thousands of ordinary young men from America, Britain, Canada, and other nations climbed down into landing craft and headed straight into hell on the beaches of Normandy
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 10:01 PM (0kM66)

And now, the descendants of many of these people are surrendering their countries without a fight, or are actively aiding the spiritual heirs of the Austrian.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)

61 I'm only basking in tcn's reflected glory.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

62 In a more serious vein, I am pondering reporting two Japanese sellers to eBay.

Both are selling an anime cel. Which is way cool. Except both cels have the same freaking sequence code in the upper right corner, the image is identical, and both have the same colored douga sketch.

That is impossible.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:17 PM (2GVsD)

63 >>> 56 There's been 2 bright lights in the night sky fairly close to each other
I am not a stargazer do I have no idea what they are
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 06, 2026 10:14 PM (fE6HJ)

ALIENS!!!!!

... in the west just after sunset? Jupiter and Venus.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2026 10:17 PM (R+iUD)

64 Anyone want to be Mayor?

I'm mayor in my oh so awesome mind.
Yeah baby!
Hi lovely Ds....for what it's worth...🦖 DOOF!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 06, 2026 10:17 PM (uTEOj)

65 So...Ten in AK gets five of the top ten COTW???
Sheesh!
Who's counting these things? The LA Elections Committee?
Posted by: Diogenes
******
Obviously not, or we wouldn't have the results until August!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 06, 2026 10:17 PM (afA7R)

66 Why can't I find photos of the completed Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool project? I've searched images and videos in Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. and can't find any pics.
Posted by: Sam Adams

Like taking a picture of a mirror - all you see is what it is reflecting.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 06, 2026 10:17 PM (/lPRQ)

67 "I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant, and finger-poked him in both eyes and cranked his nose with a pipe wrench."

Posted by: Isaroku "Curly" Yamamoto at June 06, 2026 10:17 PM (u/oMr)

68 Sorry I'm late, I thought the bottlecap was a twist off.
Posted by: tankdemon

That's a chuckleworthy one, tanks.

Posted by: mindful webworker - struggling with churchkey at June 06, 2026 10:18 PM (dn9xm)

69 I have an honest question. Did any US Harrier ever fire a shot in anger?

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 06, 2026 10:10 PM (Jr+re)

We had them in Somalia.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

70 And now, the descendants of many of these people are surrendering their countries without a fight, or are actively aiding the spiritual heirs of the Austrian.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Yes, the irony certainly dampens the memory.

EU > Das dritten Reich

but not by very much.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:19 PM (RIvkX)

71 However, if you think those tunes are OLD rock, I've got lots of news for you!
Posted by: LRob in OK

In the 80s and 90s, the "oldies station" played rock music from the 50s and 60s.

So, in the 2020s.....

Posted by: mikeski adjusts his ear-trumpet at June 06, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov)

72 There's been 2 bright lights in the night sky fairly close to each other
I am not a stargazer do I have no idea what they are
Posted by: vmom deport deport depor
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Careful, if those lights blink at you like Christmas lights (white ones, of course), it means you have been selected.

Posted by: scampydog - occasional contributor at June 06, 2026 10:20 PM (41CYW)

73 So...Ten in AK gets five of the top ten COTW???
Sheesh!
Who's counting these things? The LA Elections Committee?
Posted by: Diogenes
******
Obviously not, or we wouldn't have the results until August!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 06, 2026 10:17 PM (afA7R)

***

Point taken.
I was thinking they all arrived in last nights ballot drop.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)

74 in the west just after sunset? Jupiter and Venus.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2026 10:17 PM (R+iUD)

Thank you!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 06, 2026 10:20 PM (fE6HJ)

75 Posted by: Giant Pixie Sticks at June 06, 2026 10:08 PM (w/O5Q)

(shoves message through window from outside the club)

Is it really a Pixie stick if it's giant? Pixie's are small.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2026 10:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

76 That book was fun, especially trying to match up the charcters to real life. There were a few...

Posted by: Lirio100 at June 06, 2026 10:20 PM (ky7/T)

77 Sorry I'm late, I thought the bottlecap was a twist off.
Posted by: tankdemon

If you turn it enough it will come off.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 06, 2026 10:21 PM (/lPRQ)

78 Eighty-two years ago today, thousands of ordinary young men from America, Britain, Canada, and other nations climbed down into landing craft and headed straight into hell on the beaches of Normandy
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 10:01 PM (0kM66)

Eighty-two years ago today, thousands of ordinary young men from America, Britain, Canada, and other nations climbed down into landing craft and broke the laws of physics when Normandy didn't go black hole from the collective mass of those huge balls.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 10:21 PM (snZF9)

79 Sorry I'm late, I thought the bottlecap was a twist off.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 06, 2026 10:12 PM (/ly7b)

How’s your hand?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 06, 2026 10:21 PM (ZVgZ4)

80 66 Why can't I find photos of the completed Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool project? I've searched images and videos in Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. and can't find any pics.
Posted by: Sam Adams

Like taking a picture of a mirror - all you see is what it is reflecting.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

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

I'm guessing it looks spectacular. If it looked bad, the pictures and video would be everywhere.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 10:22 PM (X+xvk)

81 Does she hate Todd Pirro or what?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:14 PM (RIvkX)
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They all do! The poor guy tries too hard.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 10:23 PM (kpS4V)

82 The message of the Japanese Emperor to his subjects after every major Japanese city had been reduced to ashes, two cities were nuked, 19 American carriers sat offshore from the home islands launching air raids at will, the entire Japanese empire had been rolled back to the shores of Honshu, and Japanese civilians were starving, was a classic gem of understatement:

"The direction of the war has not gone entirely to Japan's advantage..."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 06, 2026 10:23 PM (u/oMr)

83 Attended a priest's orientation today. Just a lovely ceremony. He was raised Jewish and has a VERY traditionally Jewish last name. To hear him introduced as something akin to 'Father Epstein' was a scream.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2026 10:23 PM (jnTpz)

84 Harriers are British. I never did like that fact. (Rolls Royce does make a great jet engine though)

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 10:24 PM (GseMx)

85 Meme:

MERCUROCHROME WASN'T JUST MEDICINE.

IT WAS A BRIGHT RED BADGE OF HONOR.

MOM PAINTED IT ON YOUR OPEN WOUND, IT BURNED LIKE BATTERY ACID, AND YOU WENT RIGHT BACK OUTSIDE TO PLAY.

After a few times, you didn't bother Mom unless it was bad.

(Yep, I need to find an iPad app to correct case.)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 10:25 PM (qx7Zg)

86 Here's a different take on astrological signs.…
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Not to be competitive or anything, but gotta use these hooks when I get 'em:
My own take, from a while back. Currently, we're in Xerograff.

Zordiac
Conditions may vary depending on your hemisphere.

https://bit.ly/zordiac

Posted by: mindful webworker - illustrated at June 06, 2026 10:25 PM (dn9xm)

87 I'm just to shy here....
I surely love this ONT.

I simply can't keep up...
I so dig you guys...gonna step out and lurk...😧

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 06, 2026 10:25 PM (uTEOj)

88 Today is my MIL's birthday. Went visit her and my husband asked her some questions about family history. A few interesting things came up.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 06, 2026 10:25 PM (VCgbV)

89 I would not want Dagen McDowell mad at me she terrifies me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

90 In the 80s and 90s, the "oldies station" played rock music from the 50s and 60s.

So, in the 2020s.....

Posted by: mikeski adjusts his ear-trumpet at June 06, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov)

..they play led zeppelin to sell cars to geezers

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 10:25 PM (snZF9)

91 HELENA HANDBASKET!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 10:26 PM (A5RD0)

92 Evenin’, All. Happy Saturday night.

Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 10:26 PM (77rzZ)

93 "The direction of the war has not gone entirely to Japan's advantage..."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 06, 2026 10:23 PM (u/oMr)

Could have gone better.

Posted by: George Armstrong Custer at June 06, 2026 10:27 PM (gKWVE)

94 >>> 90 Today is my MIL's birthday. Went visit her and my husband asked her some questions about family history. A few interesting things came up.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 06, 2026 10:25 PM (VCgbV)

We should compare notes...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2026 10:27 PM (R+iUD)

95 NURSE!!!

Hazel cat says Purr.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2026 10:27 PM (R+iUD)

96 81 66 Why can't I find photos of the completed Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool project? I've searched images and videos in Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. and can't find any pics.
Posted by: Sam Adams
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It's not completed until it's filled with water.

https://tinyurl.com/bdek4rw5

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 10:27 PM (0kM66)

97 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 10:28 PM (77rzZ)

98 Let's face it. Tcn got so many in the top 10 for simple reporting on her crazy vacation.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 10:28 PM (qx7Zg)

99 Attended a priest's orientation today. Just a lovely ceremony. He was raised Jewish and has a VERY traditionally Jewish last name. To hear him introduced as something akin to 'Father Epstein' was a scream.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2026 10:23 PM (jnTpz)
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People think Gutfeld is Jewish

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:29 PM (RIvkX)

100 Searched YooToob on "Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool" and got several hits.

Here's Trump holding up a photo of it.🤪
https://youtu.be/ks46Aasx24Y

Posted by: mindful webworker - i got yer picture at June 06, 2026 10:29 PM (dn9xm)

101 Boobs!
Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 10:28 PM (77rzZ)

That was covered in the last thread. Sorry you missed it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 10:29 PM (qx7Zg)

102 People think Gutfeld is Jewish

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:29 PM (RIvkX)

Hitler's mentor was named Rosenberg.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 10:29 PM (GseMx)

103 Heh...Bayville, NY is where Rick Pitino and Jackie Martling grew up.

Posted by: Orson at June 06, 2026 10:30 PM (dIske)

104 Why can't I find photos of the completed Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool project? I've searched images and videos in Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. and can't find any pics.
Posted by: Sam Adams

The last time I walked along it, it was vile.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 10:30 PM (2WIwB)

105 Any aircraft that embraces STOL or VTOL always comes off looking odd.

The Rockwell XFV-12A was such an example that seemed to have escaped the comics page.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:30 PM (2GVsD)

106 63 >>> 56 There's been 2 bright lights in the night sky fairly close to each other
I am not a stargazer do I have no idea what they are
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 06, 2026 10:14 PM (fE6HJ)

ALIENS!!!!!

... in the west just after sunset? Jupiter and Venus.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Jupiter is ever so slowly getting closer to that dirty little hussy, Venus.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 10:31 PM (bfy6w)

107 tcn produces quality unlike you slackers!

Type monkeys, type!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

108 103 Damn, so am I.

Didn’t know boob talk was allowed in the gun thread.

Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 10:32 PM (77rzZ)

109 To hear him introduced as something akin to 'Father Epstein' was a scream.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2026 10:23 PM (jnTpz)

Sounds like Saint Leibowitz from A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 06, 2026 10:32 PM (ZVgZ4)

110 It's not completed until it's filled with water.

https://tinyurl.com/bdek4rw5

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

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Thank you. I would swear I saw pictures of them beginning to refill the pool several days ago.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 10:32 PM (X+xvk)

111 I just knew there'd be a psychic picture tonight.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 10:32 PM (2WIwB)

112 COMM

I love you, sweet lady. Can I join you in the corner at out little wobbly table? Rat sends his love. He’s having a …. Struggle.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 10:32 PM (ikoqu)

113 Today is my MIL's birthday. Went visit her and my husband asked her some questions about family history. A few interesting things came up.
Posted by: lin-duh

We should compare notes...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

My wife's grandmother had an illegitimate son in the middle of all of her other children with a cousin's husband. I tried to draw the whole thing out once but nah. . . . too weird.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2026 10:32 PM (jnTpz)

114 I served in the Army. I honestly wonder how I would have faced something like D-Day, or Anzio, or the numerous Pacific island landings.

Every man has that moment, I think: "No way, man!" Or, "Fuck it! Let's go!"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)

115 Canadian Smarties are THE BEST. Chocolate shelled candy slightly less harder shells than M&Ms. And when they had big boxes, you could use them to make noise.

I'm in my computer room, half below ground level and I'm on the computer. Snowflake just came up to the window, looked in and meowed to come in. She's inside now on top of the bookcase looking outside, Ralphy the dog is sleeping on his quilt and blanket. Cute scene.

Back to my projects. Everyone have a great night and rest of the weekend.

I finally turned my AC on in my part of Canada. There were 2 days a while back but now it's getting hot....

Good night.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 06, 2026 10:33 PM (Sco7b)

116 The last time I walked along it, it was vile.

Somalis coming ashore?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:35 PM (2GVsD)

117 110 103 Damn, so am I.

Didn’t know boob talk was allowed in the gun thread.
Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 10:32 PM (77rzZ)

Movie thread, Bulg. 80's movies.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 10:35 PM (qx7Zg)

118

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:36 PM (ZxPkt)

119 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)

For me I'd have to have reconcile with myself that I'm going to die in order for me to function freely.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 10:36 PM (GseMx)

120 *Sticks tongue out at YouTube*

Thanks for the reminder, Art Garfunkel singing "Bright Eyes" for Watership Down.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:37 PM (2GVsD)

121 So the gun thread is also a movie thread and a boob thread?

Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 10:37 PM (77rzZ)

122 You’re such a sweet man, Statelss.

You do know the Snowflake has chosen her person…..

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 10:37 PM (ikoqu)

123 Now I have Virginia Madsen reciting the info dump at the start of Dune.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD)

124 I served in the Army. I honestly wonder how I would have faced something like D-Day, or Anzio, or the numerous Pacific island landings.

Every man has that moment, I think: "No way, man!" Or, "Fuck it! Let's go!"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)

My father-in-law had three landings in the Pacific. He didn't talk much about them other than to say you just got inside yourself and went out and did your job. Essentially his thinking was if your time was up, your time was up.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 10:38 PM (2WIwB)

125 It's not completed until it's filled with water.
https://tinyurl.com/bdek4rw5
Posted by: Braenyard

Thank you. I would swear I saw pictures of them beginning to refill the pool several days ago.
Posted by: Sam Adams

I'm working as fast as I can!

Posted by: henchman with a 5-gallon bucket at June 06, 2026 10:38 PM (VHUov)

126 What do you call a rich psychic who works at a bank?

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 10:39 PM (GseMx)

127 So the gun thread is also a movie thread and a boob thread?

And a floor wax.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:39 PM (2GVsD)

128 120
Posted by: Don Black
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That type of comment usually shows up LATER at the Club.

Posted by: scampydog - occasional contributor at June 06, 2026 10:39 PM (41CYW)

129 So the gun thread is also a movie thread and a boob thread?

And a floor wax.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:39 PM (2GVsD)

And a spacecraft sealant - but only on Saturdays.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 10:40 PM (qx7Zg)

130 Carolina scored 3 goals in 39 seconds

4-3 Vegas 3rd

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:40 PM (ZxPkt)

131 *Blinks*

An orchestra performing "99 Luftballoon"? Vas ist?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:41 PM (2GVsD)

132 So the gun thread is also a movie thread and a boob thread?
Posted by: Bulg

All threads are movie threads and boob threads.

But the official gub thread is on Sundays, not Saturdays.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:41 PM (VHUov)

133 Anna's youtube recommendations are weirder than mine.

And that's saying something.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:41 PM (VHUov)

134 Just putting it out there

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:42 PM (ZxPkt)

135 Mikeski

#62

Ano?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:42 PM (2GVsD)

136 128 OK, tell us.

Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ)

137 124 You’re such a sweet man, Statelss.

You do know the Snowflake has chosen her person…..

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 10:37 PM (ikoqu)

Thanks nurse. Now just because she comes in, sleeps with Ralphy and I until 2 or 4 am then goes outside...oh wait. lol.

I did see 'Zombeavers.' It was alright. We'll see how 'Catnado' is.

Have a very happy week!
All of you.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 06, 2026 10:42 PM (Sco7b)

138
Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter will occur on the 8th (or the 9th, I forget). But according to the stupid weather forecasts, it's likely going to be cloudy and I won't be able to see Jack. Hell, it's been clouding up every evening before sunset for the past week, and I haven't been able to watch Venus closing in on Jove.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 06, 2026 10:42 PM (w6EFb)

139
A teller

Posted by: four seasons at June 06, 2026 10:42 PM (x4yF4)

140 Every man has that moment, I think: "No way, man!" Or, "Fuck it! Let's go!"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian

Never go first.

In the jungle let the other guy take point to clear out the spider webs.
In a landing let the other guy show you it's not too deep.

Minefields... bayonette charge... crossing a rickety old bridge.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 06, 2026 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)

141 Gosh nurse!
I so love when you stroll over here!
So many cheers!
Love you sweet girl!
*watch out for that wobbly stool*

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 06, 2026 10:43 PM (uTEOj)

142 So remember those safety briefings about "never work with heavy gauge wire stringing fences and arbors because the ends will whip when you slip and will rip your callouses off your hands"?

. . . So today when I was stringing new wire on my grape arbors . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 10:43 PM (rbvCR)

143 128 OK, tell us.
Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ

I thought it was obvious.

Fortune Teller

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 10:43 PM (GseMx)

144 Just putting it out there
Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:42 PM (ZxPkt)

(shoves message through the window)

Dude, there are ladies present.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2026 10:44 PM (1Ff7Z)

145 San Franpsycho, is "Glory to the Two" a reference to the two-headed anime eagle on 86-EightySix?

"и слава Двоим!"

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 10:44 PM (X+xvk)

146 In the 80s and 90s, the "oldies station" played rock music from the 50s and 60s.

Antique malls play 70s and 80s music because they know their audience -- late boomers and early Xers who remember the crap their parents and grandparents had around the house. Last weekend we were in one and the music was "Walk Like an Egyptian."

Posted by: Oddbob at June 06, 2026 10:44 PM (vTZFs)

147 135 Anna's youtube recommendations are weirder than mine.

And that's saying something.
Posted by: mikeski
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That's for sure.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 10:44 PM (0kM66)

148 *sits down*

*falls over*

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 10:46 PM (cqahf)

149 Just finished watching . . . And Justice For All, and kind of dramatic black comedy with Al Pacino as a beleaguered defense lawyer in the Baltimore of 1979. Fine, affecting stuff. I'm no Pacino fan, though I acknowledge that he is a solid actor. But he was good in this. He often plays guys who are bizarre in some fashion. In this one, he is the sane, ethical, moral person, while nearly everybody around him is cracked, unethical, amoral, or close to nuts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 10:46 PM (wzUl9)

150 Was the Hindenburg Jewish?

Posted by: Case at June 06, 2026 10:46 PM (4Pn+V)

151 Anna's youtube recommendations are weirder than mine.

And that's saying something.
Posted by: mikeski
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That's for sure.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 10:44 PM (0kM66)

You guys are getting Viking Rap/hip-hop tracks as well?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)

152 Sorry, I don’t get the fortune-teller joke. Just doesn’t make sense to me.

Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 10:46 PM (77rzZ)

153 My father-in-law had three landings in the Pacific. He didn't talk much about them other than to say you just got inside yourself and went out and did your job. Essentially his thinking was if your time was up, your time was up.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 10:38 PM (2WIwB)

I think that's where training comes in. Doing the same drill over and over, so you can detach is a way. I was a medic. Even in FTXs and just regular training, you get to the point where it's muscle memory. I think that's what it boils down to: do your job, ignore the noise.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 10:46 PM (0aYVJ)

154 Oh, and another essential '80s movie is Body Heat. That is all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 10:46 PM (wzUl9)

155 Last weekend we were in one and the music was "Walk Like an Egyptian."
Posted by: Oddbob at June 06, 2026 10:44 PM (vTZFs)

Guys 8 to 80 would like the Hoff's side eye .

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 10:46 PM (GseMx)

156 Danish National Symphony - "The Blade Runner Suite"

They are even quoting the dialog from the movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:48 PM (2GVsD)

157 British Harriers, a little thing called Operation Corporate in the South Atlantic.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:12 PM (2GVsD)

The Argie Mirages didn't like to fly low, and the Harriers couldn't do well getting up where the Mirages liked to play.
On the other hand, once the landing fields on the Falklands were interdicted, the Argentine AF could only attack from the mainland and they didn't have the fuel capacity to do the full run. They lost a couple of good pilots trying.
Advantage was probably to the Harriers

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 10:48 PM (rbvCR)

158 Sorry, I don’t get the fortune-teller joke. Just doesn’t make sense to me.
Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 10:46 PM (77rzZ

You don't have to apologize to someone who doesn't care.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 10:48 PM (GseMx)

159 Two Nun story

https://youtube.com/shorts/atcq9soyH3Y

AI voice, sorry.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 10:48 PM (qx7Zg)

160 159 nurse

I KNOW!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 06, 2026 10:48 PM (uTEOj)

161 That does not seem to be the proper amount of Rum for that drink.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 10:48 PM (XV/Pl)

162 I think I've seen that drummer before.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2026 10:49 PM (Cqx++)

163 158 Danish National Symphony - "The Blade Runner Suite"

They are even quoting the dialog from the movie.
Posted by: Anna Puma
---

It's either our culture or Mohammad.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 10:49 PM (0kM66)

164 Going to quit neglecting my lovely wife so I guess I'll be neglecting y'all instead. BBL or not.

Annoying hippish "Irish" version of what Bill showed So-crates
https://youtu.be/NBdjVUN0Vok

Posted by: mindful webworker - all we are is rust in the hinge at June 06, 2026 10:50 PM (dn9xm)

165 Alternative title: "I would like to know more about why YouTube recommends certain videos that it thinks I would like (not that it is wrong.")

My most-favorite recent recommendation from The Algorithm:

https://youtu.be/DKXp5uw_YZ8

And something that The Algorithm lobbed at me yesterday, which is exactly weird enough:

https://youtu.be/ng36WuVQIhg

And, since this is a boob thread, one from Wednesday (NSFW, so stop working on Saturday nights):

https://youtu.be/I5exBdSLQ2s

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)

166 164 I think I've seen that drummer before.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
-

I like the one where he goes of on a 5 minute solo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 10:50 PM (0kM66)

167 Mikeski
#62
Ano?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Counterfeiters suck.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)

168 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 10:46 PM (wzUl9)

I like Pacino way more than Deniro.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 10:50 PM (0aYVJ)

169 Time to toddle off, got dri Wurgers on the bench to werk on.

And time to switch the music to anime. Start with Gundam 0083 - "The Winner."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:52 PM (2GVsD)

170 So remember those safety briefings about "never work with heavy gauge wire stringing fences and arbors because the ends will whip when you slip and will rip your callouses off your hands"?
====

*stops flossing*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:52 PM (RIvkX)

171 set your browser to dump all cookies when you close out

then youtube won't recommend anything the next time you visit, just prompt you to search

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:53 PM (ZxPkt)

172 https://youtu.be/I5exBdSLQ2s
Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)

Are they Russian?

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 10:53 PM (GseMx)

173 Bulg, but does it make cents?

Posted by: RandomDave at June 06, 2026 10:54 PM (aJQbY)

174 My local psychic, "Madame Marie Reader and Advisor" works out of a small shack next to the liquor store (Red Dot Store in South Carolina).

My purchases are always advised, with adventure and challenge in my future.

She also sells lottery tickets, but when I offer to buy one together, she says no.

Unethical, she says

Posted by: Miklos on payday at June 06, 2026 10:54 PM (6VErX)

175 Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 10:44 PM (X+xvk)
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Dino and Doggo

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

176
set your browser to dump all cookies when you close out

then youtube won't recommend anything the next time you visit, just prompt you to search
Posted by: Don Black

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

Do I have to log into everything all over?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2026 10:56 PM (n7rxJ)

177 Unethical, she says

Posted by: Miklos on payday at June 06, 2026 10:54 PM (6VErX)
====

Does she take cheques?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:56 PM (RIvkX)

178 Are they Russian?
Posted by: polynikes

Their lead-singer-slash-swimwear-model is ethnically Russian, at least based on her last name.

But the band is from pixyland. Melbourne.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:56 PM (VHUov)

179 Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)
---------

A railroad track went by, just the other side of the elementary school. I was told not to venture the other side of the tracks or hand out with the kids that lived there; their fathers were drunks, louts and beat their wive's and children. We don't do that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 10:58 PM (0kM66)

180 Nurse...many good times...
Good night sweet one😇

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 06, 2026 10:58 PM (uTEOj)

181 116 I served in the Army. I honestly wonder how I would have faced something like D-Day, or Anzio, or the numerous Pacific island landings.

Every man has that moment, I think: "No way, man!" Or, "Fuck it! Let's go!"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)

I've known my dad landed at Normandy on D-Day, and I met the French family he quartered with (once things got calmer) who carried a photo of him in their wallet because he gave them his C-Rats when he stayed with them (they were starving.) This year I learned he was with an ordnance group that marched with patton, fought in the ardennes, he and his group were wounded and captured and he was a POW in a stalag near Dachau. Now I know why he were never talk about anything other than Normandy. And how I better not ever come home married to a Limey.

Posted by: moki at June 06, 2026 10:59 PM (wLjpr)

182 I just don't like my machines accumulating temp files

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:59 PM (ZxPkt)

183 Are they Russian?
Posted by: polynikes

Russian? Ha!

Slav? Perhaps

THE HORDE CRIES OUT

Posted by: Miklosov Miklosevich for Uncle Palp at June 06, 2026 11:00 PM (6VErX)

184 Seen online:

My wife told me she wanted us to start "eating like our ancestors," so I spent the afternoon sitting on the floor in the dark, eating a raw carrot and grunting at the Wi-Fi router. When she came home with a bag of expensive organic kale, I told her, "Ancestors didn't have credit cards, Karen.
Give me a rock and some dignity." We ended up ordering pizza, which is the true ancestor of all modern happiness.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 11:00 PM (qx7Zg)

185 ===============

Do I have to log into everything all over?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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You can specify sites you want to keep.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 11:00 PM (0kM66)

186 set your browser to dump all cookies when you close out

then youtube won't recommend anything the next time you visit, just prompt you to search
Posted by: Don Black

Do I have to log into everything all over?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

.....probably? I've never gone to that extreme for it.

If you have a google/youtube login, it keeps track in your account there, and not on your computer.

You can go to:

https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

And either "delete all history" on the right sidebar, or click the 3 dots on any particular item in your history to delete just that one. Then those don't color your recommendations anymore.

You can also pause and restart its history-gathering there.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 11:00 PM (VHUov)

187
Mercury is also trying to joining the evening show, but it will hard to see as the little bugger is so close to the horizon at sunset. Alignment isn't favorable for us in the North this time, but it's much better in the southern hemisphere, and you could easily see Mercury as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 06, 2026 11:00 PM (w6EFb)

188 I just don't like my machines accumulating temp files
Posted by: Don Black

Temp workers + machines = Workplace Disability files

Posted by: Mainly Compliant Miklos at June 06, 2026 11:01 PM (6VErX)

189 But the band is from pixyland. Melbourne.
Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:56 PM (VHUov)

Pixyland used to be an amusement park on hwy 22 between Salem and Lincoln City, poised to take advantage of the holiday traffic to the coast, in Oregon.
Unfortunately there was not enough holiday traffic going from Salem to Lincoln City to turn it into the next Disneyland, and honestly there was not enough traffic to turn it even into the next Enchanted Forest.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 11:01 PM (rbvCR)

190 Mercury is also trying to joining the evening show, but it will hard to see as the little bugger is so close to the horizon at sunset. Alignment isn't favorable for us in the North this time

God knows, God knows he wants to break free.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 11:03 PM (gKWVE)

191 A possum just walked by my back door. Hazel cat is not pleased.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2026 11:03 PM (R+iUD)

192 Does she take cheques?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Unlike the Red Dot Store, she lets me run a tab most times.

Says we'll settle when the stars align or something

Posted by: Miklos got eough damn wimmin to rassle as it is at June 06, 2026 11:04 PM (6VErX)

193 184 I just don't like my machines accumulating temp files
Posted by: Don Black
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Mine dumps when I close the file.
Old, old windoz, one could go through the files - pick and choose or dump.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 11:05 PM (0kM66)

194 Jerks need not enter the premises

Well, damn, why don't you just ban me then. After you tell me the Piper situation. Then ban away.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 06, 2026 11:05 PM (CHHv1)

195 this game 3 is nuts

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 11:07 PM (ZxPkt)

196 Well, damn, why don't you just ban me then. After you tell me the Piper situation. Then ban away.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 06, 2026 11:05 PM (CHHv1)

We can still look in through the window, BC.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2026 11:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

197 Unfortunately there was not enough holiday traffic going from Salem to Lincoln City to turn it into the next Disneyland, and honestly there was not enough traffic to turn it even into the next Enchanted Forest.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 11:01 PM (rbvCR)

I would like to buy land near the Petrified Forest, and open the Slightly Apprehensive Forest Amusement Park.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2026 11:07 PM (1z8ji)

198 A few months ago, I was shopping in a Giant grocery store in Alexandria, VA. It was in the evening, 8pm more or less. Music was playing on the sound system of the store but I mostly ignored it until I started hearing Don Felder - Taking a Ride (on Heavy Metal). I was probably the only person in the store who recognized it. I'm hoping to hear Rush-Analog Kid in there someday!! Maybe I can make a request!

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 11:08 PM (bfy6w)

199 I thought it was obvious.

Fortune Teller
Posted by: polynikes

I am design Atom Bombs for you Americans peoples, and only am get such unintellectual humor.

I not only predicted, was also make Fusion Bomb

Posted by: Ede "Edward" Teller at June 06, 2026 11:08 PM (6VErX)

200 When I was a kid, I thought Circuit City was somewhere in Maryland.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 06, 2026 11:09 PM (W5mpo)

201 Why did the turtle crossed the road? He needed to get to the Shell station. He was out of Turtle Wax.

Why did the hare cross the road? To beat the turtle.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 11:10 PM (qx7Zg)

202 Just got back from watching the movie Pressure with the fetching Mrs Beartooth. It's a dramatization of the decision to not launch D-day of June 5th based upon a recommendation by a Brit meteorologist.

A very enjoyable movie.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 06, 2026 11:10 PM (IYeV+)

203 I missed something. What IS the deal with Piper?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 11:10 PM (wzUl9)

204 I'll know I am old and things have really changed when I hear the Sex Pistols on the grocery store muzak

Posted by: Miklos, 29 and holding at June 06, 2026 11:10 PM (6VErX)

205 Rush-Analog Kid in there someday!! Maybe I can make a request!
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 11:08 PM (bfy6w)

Heh. That is prolly my favorite Rush song. I got Signals as a teenager. That song hit me hard. Just dang.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 11:11 PM (0aYVJ)

206 I missed something. What IS the deal with Piper?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

She's chatting with buzzion.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 11:12 PM (VHUov)

207 I didn't nap much this p.m., so I'm thinking to head off to bed shortly. Exercise is on my calendar for tomorrow, then relaxing with the Book Thread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 11:12 PM (wzUl9)

208 So the mass shooting in Toledo seems like a thug shoot out again and they are search for the suspects but the PD and MSM don't think it's important to give a description of the suspects they are searching for.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 11:12 PM (GseMx)

209 And how I better not ever come home married to a Limey.
Posted by: moki
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Good man.
Family friend, bombardier/photographer shot down over Italy said the chutes opened so hard it slapped the snaps open; the sky was filled with guns, money, maps, every thing.
He was taken in and nursed by a farm family. When he was OK they got him back across the line.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 11:12 PM (0kM66)

210 I missed something. What IS the deal with Piper?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

She picked a peck of peppers (or passel by some accounts)

OK now though

Posted by: Informative Miklos at June 06, 2026 11:13 PM (6VErX)

211 I would like to buy land near the Petrified Forest, and open the Slightly Apprehensive Forest Amusement Park.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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And the park psychic predicts you will spend $22.50 on a hot dog and soda.

Posted by: scampydog - occasional contributor at June 06, 2026 11:13 PM (41CYW)

212 Fine looking top photo, there. A man could relax in a spot like that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 06, 2026 11:14 PM (Wnv9h)

213 Eighty-two years ago today, thousands of ordinary young men from America, Britain, Canada, and other nations climbed down into landing craft and headed straight into hell on the beaches of Normandy
Posted by: Braenyard

I'm getting old. I remember when they were saying "Forty years ago today...." Forty-two years later and it's eighty-two years ago. Damn. Just damn. And a few of those guys are still alive.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 06, 2026 11:15 PM (W5mpo)

214 I hear they're making a new short Mission: Impossible film with Tom Cruise. He has to get large soup cans from the top shelf of the kitchen cabinets.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 11:15 PM (qx7Zg)

215 Fine looking top photo, there. A man could relax in a spot like that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The beer cooler is just out of shot

Posted by: Relaxful Miklos at June 06, 2026 11:16 PM (6VErX)

216 I could eat myself into a sugar coma with either of those.
Posted by: Berserker

Candy corn FTW

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 06, 2026 11:16 PM (W5mpo)

217 Piper mistyped rumor as tumor, and the Horde was off to the races.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 11:17 PM (qx7Zg)

218 Well, damn, why don't you just ban me then.

I realize that it probably kills you to hear this but we like you.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 06, 2026 11:17 PM (vTZFs)

219 I would like to buy land near the Petrified Forest, and open the Slightly Apprehensive Forest Amusement Park.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

We should talk

Posted by: Crazy Miklos' Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Vacation Destination at June 06, 2026 11:17 PM (6VErX)

220 34 "Our lips are sealed."
Posted by: Anna Puma

36 Nobody of good breeding knows those lyrics. lol
Posted by: Berserker

I always heard it as "Honest, I'll see ya"

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 06, 2026 11:18 PM (W5mpo)

221 Evenin' Horde.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at June 06, 2026 11:18 PM (N5734)

222 Piper unalived herself with a bad typo

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:19 PM (RIvkX)

223 Piper mistyped rumor as tumor, and the Horde was off to the races.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

autocucumber first sent everyone off to the laces

Posted by: Miklos does own artisanal typos, thank you at June 06, 2026 11:19 PM (6VErX)

224 I realize that it probably kills you to hear this but we like you.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Shhhh. You weren't supposed to tell.

Posted by: scampydog - occasional contributor at June 06, 2026 11:20 PM (41CYW)

225 iper unalived herself with a bad typo
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026

***
Oh. Good. I was worried there for a minute . . . though if something serious had genuinely affected her, the tone of the comments would not have been so lighthearted.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 11:21 PM (wzUl9)

226 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2026 11:21 PM (UfDpa)

227 Dino and Doggo
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)
====

Oops. Dino and Disco.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:21 PM (RIvkX)

228 Wildly unrealistic PSA airing during the hockey game. A Jewish kid is getting harassed at school when a black kid sticks up for him. Right. Why not just make it a Muslim kid while you're at it?

Posted by: Wally at June 06, 2026 11:21 PM (0e5Te)

229 34 "Our lips are sealed."
Posted by: Anna Puma

36 Nobody of good breeding knows those lyrics. lol
Posted by: Berserker

1982 Belinda Carlisle?

One of the things I actually remember from 1982

Posted by: Miklos liked at June 06, 2026 11:21 PM (6VErX)

230 G'night, all

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 11:22 PM (wzUl9)

231 Fine looking top photo, there. A man could relax in a spot like that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The beer cooler is just out of shot
Posted by: Relaxful Miklos at June 06, 2026 11:16 PM (6VErX)

If Karmello has angry groupies outside the trial on Monday, I'd like to see a group of older men on on the opposite side of the street, sitting in folding chairs in the shade, drinking beer and shooting the bull. They ignore the groupies unless attacked.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 11:22 PM (qx7Zg)

232 (Rolls Royce does make a great jet engine though)
Posted by: polynikes

Rolls Royce made the P-51 Mustang what it became

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 06, 2026 11:22 PM (W5mpo)

233 Also, the waxing crescent Moon will join the Venus-Jupiter-Mercury show after the new Moon late on the 14th. (Moon will be near Saturn near sunrise in the east as late waning crescent, too).

In fact, there will be a lunar occultation (Moon will pass in front of and cover up) of Venus on June 17th. It will be visible (due the large lunar parallax) only over NA, and then dip down to NE SA. Unfortunately, it's broad daylight (for the eastern US, it will happen a little after 2PM). By sunset, the Moon will have moved on past Venus.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 06, 2026 11:22 PM (w6EFb)

234 ZOD IMPERIAL.

~~Hail~~ Hi ZOD!

Posted by: Oddbob at June 06, 2026 11:23 PM (vTZFs)

235 The Iranians have been utilizing basic construction equipment to dig out several missile launchers and reopen subterranean tunnels tied to its missile program.

"... percentage-wise maybe 21%-22% of the missiles. That's a lot, but it's not what it was before the war."
_PDJT

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 11:23 PM (0kM66)

236 *quietly takes seat*

*takes bets on who has to do what, and DO IT NOW*

Posted by: Miklos slides a cold one Zod's way at June 06, 2026 11:23 PM (6VErX)

237 207 Rush-Analog Kid in there someday!! Maybe I can make a request!
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 11:08 PM (bfy6w)

Heh. That is prolly my favorite Rush song. I got Signals as a teenager. That song hit me hard. Just dang.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Yup!
youtu.be/r-_XspE2hcs

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 11:23 PM (bfy6w)

238 1982 Belinda Carlisle?

One of the things I actually remember from 1982
Posted by: Miklos liked at June 06, 2026 11:21 PM (6VErX)

The videos or the self-titled album cover?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 11:24 PM (qx7Zg)

239 Oh, mmm
I know a place
Ain't nobody cryin'
Ain't nobody worried
Ain't no smilin' faces
Mmm, no no
Lyin' to the races

Posted by: I'll Take You There at June 06, 2026 11:24 PM (RIvkX)

240 They ignore the groupies unless attacked.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

You can drink beer and shoot the breeze just fine with shotguns across your lap.

Posted by: Miklos so visualizes at June 06, 2026 11:25 PM (6VErX)

241 ZOD IMPERIAL.
Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2026 11:21 PM (UfDpa)

Yo ZOD! Long time. How are you keeping?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2026 11:25 PM (1z8ji)

242 "Any aircraft that embraces STOL or VTOL always comes off looking odd."

Whereas those that embrace regular take off but vertical landing look smashing!

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 06, 2026 11:25 PM (W5mpo)

243 I still eat kale in the afterlife. So there.

Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:26 PM (Dd38x)

244 Wait a minute..?
Is Miklos here?!
Oh honey, so good to see you darlin'!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 06, 2026 11:26 PM (uTEOj)

245 they are search for the suspects but the PD and MSM don't think it's important to give a description of the suspects they are searching for.

Posted by: polynikes

Which tells you who the suspects are.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 11:26 PM (bfy6w)

246 @220 what the heck? This is a trick. right? Get an axe.

What if Piper made a thread to explain it all? I'd like that. Mostly because I like Piper and would like to know she's OK.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 06, 2026 11:26 PM (CHHv1)

247 The videos or the self-titled album cover?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

One live performance that required driving across and back on the old Huey P. Long bridge.

The Vacation video in particular

Posted by: Miklos so recalls at June 06, 2026 11:27 PM (6VErX)

248 I still eat kale in the afterlife. So there.
Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:26 PM (Dd38x)

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I have so many questions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:27 PM (RIvkX)

249 @CENTCOM
2h
Earlier today, U.S. forces in the Middle East shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones that threatened international maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
---

It's 7 AM in Tehran so, not tonight.
We wait another week, give the market time to rebound? It's just a matter of time.

youtube.com/watch?v=gVpaXi5kuXA

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 11:28 PM (0kM66)

250 Calling Anna Puma for a ruling:

Do the Arleigh Burke-class of DDGs use Rolls-Royce gas turbines for electrical power generation or are they also used for the main propulsion units?

I did see the RR units aboard DDG 114 but I didn't pay attention to usage.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2026 11:28 PM (jnTpz)

251 I apparently invent arguments with my son in advance. He might be sleeping in peace from his week in Australia. Afte I battled to keep his baby girl alive with a pediatrician professor I'd like to report.

The rumor is (from DIL) he may want to keep this professor. Fine. This was malpractice. Your and DIL's choice and it was she who brought up a new doc subject to me.

He may or may not want to send this precious baby to her daycare germ factory while she is on antibiotics. Not fine. DIL brought this up. I offered to watch her before their vacation in two weeks to try to keep her alive vs a new bug.

People, I cannot help it that I was a RN. A very good one. A smart one by all accounts. I know my stuff. I even looked up if cultures are different now for reports as I could have missed something. Nay. Same as always. This MD did not give this baby an antibiotic for an obvious cathed UA of an infection. Oh, no, she waited almost 48hrs to put her on an antibiotic. I kept asking about the 24hr preliminary report and it was never in the "portal."

This was the sweetest son of mine. Now a hotshot in his field and a contrarian with me. I did not raise a dikhead. Maybe aliens probed him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 06, 2026 11:28 PM (WONhk)

252 Oh honey, so good to see you darlin'!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie

wha..

*Sits up straight, tries to look presentable*

Posted by: Miklos says don't listen to all their lies at June 06, 2026 11:29 PM (6VErX)

253
It's 7 AM in Tehran so, not tonight.
We wait another week, give the market time to rebound? It's just a matter of time.

youtube.com/watch?v=gVpaXi5kuXA

Posted by: Braenyard

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

Before what?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2026 11:29 PM (n7rxJ)

254 248 @220 what the heck? This is a trick. right? Get an axe.

What if Piper made a thread to explain it all? I'd like that. Mostly because I like Piper and would like to know she's OK.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 06, 2026 11:26

There were 3 threads on it. Maybe 4.

Boo! 👻

Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:29 PM (Dd38x)

255 they are search for the suspects but the PD and MSM don't think it's important to give a description of the suspects they are searching for.
Posted by: polynikes

Which tells you who the suspects are.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Those guys all look alike, anyway.

"Indistinguishable Hoodies" would be a good band name, in an alternate universe. They could open for Men Without Hats.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 11:30 PM (VHUov)

256 If I have a big funeral, I want someone to use my phone and send texts to the attendees, thanking them for coming to my final shindig.

It would be funny to see how many calls and texts came in response.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 11:31 PM (qx7Zg)

257 And, since this is a boob thread, one from Wednesday (NSFW, so stop working on Saturday nights):

https://youtu.be/I5exBdSLQ2s
Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)

Well that’s a new look.
Or maybe it’s a very old look, I’m not sure.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 11:31 PM (3mtTi)

258
When I was a kid, I thought Circuit City was somewhere in Maryland.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

It's just 30 miles south of Suffragette City.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2026 11:32 PM (Cqx++)

259 258 If I have a big funeral, I want someone to use my phone and send texts to the attendees, thanking them for coming to my final shindig.

It would be funny to see how many calls and texts came in response.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 11:31 PM (qx7Zg

If anyone wants to do the crying, mysterious woman in the back of the room dressed in black with a big hat and sunglasses, I will do it for a fee. Slip in, slip out.

Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:33 PM (Dd38x)

260 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 11:33 PM (zZu0s)

261 >>Yo ZOD! Long time. How are you keeping?

Thank you for asking. Health concerns that were conquered without mercy. Lost a dog. Garden unproductive. Mower blade needs sharpening. Trismus. Had a strawberry this morning, poached by a fucking bird by lunch. My governor is a communist disgrace. Found a range to sight in the .270 Winchester. Killed clays with the new Beretta A400. Erectile overperformance. Better, stronger, faster.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2026 11:34 PM (UfDpa)

262 I still eat kale in the afterlife. So there.
Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:26 PM (Dd38x)

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I have so many questions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:27 PM (RIvkX)
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kale > hell

All your questions have now been answered.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 06, 2026 11:34 PM (ohSsM)

263 If anyone wants to do the crying, mysterious woman in the back of the room dressed in black with a big hat and sunglasses, I will do it for a fee. Slip in, slip out.
Posted by: Piper

Somehow, I plan to be the lawyer who reads my will to the assembled aspirants

Posted by: Miklos is working on the details at June 06, 2026 11:34 PM (6VErX)

264 Boo! 👻
Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:29 PM (Dd38x)

Get her, Ray!

Posted by: P Venkman at June 06, 2026 11:35 PM (vSvIl)

265 ...honestly there was not enough traffic to turn it even into the next Enchanted Forest.
Posted by: Kindltot
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The Enchanted Forest was a kid's version of Tiger Balm Gardens. It requires a lot of imagination.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 06, 2026 11:35 PM (ezP9C)

266 Erectile overperformance. Better, stronger, faster.
Posted by: ZOD

txt us

Posted by: Elon's numerous exes at June 06, 2026 11:36 PM (6VErX)

267 Erectile overperformance. Better, stronger, faster.
Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2026 11:34 PM (UfDpa)
=====

Mazel!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:37 PM (RIvkX)

268 Brother Tim

Be well. If you were in Seattle, I’d help you out.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 11:37 PM (HmAPM)

269 Found a range to sight in the .270 Winchester. Killed clays with the new Beretta A400. Erectile overperformance. Better, stronger, faster.
Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2026 11:34 PM (UfDpa)

Ate a stick of rhubarb from the garden. Shot a gopher.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2026 11:37 PM (1z8ji)

270 www.youtube.com/watch?v=72KdQKwxWyk

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 06, 2026 11:38 PM (W5mpo)

271 Hello horde. I bought a brand new pickup today. Hopefully it lasts my lifetime. Started with looking at used, but they just were not much less than the new ones. I had hoped to just keep driving my 2003, for a diesel it didn't have that high of miles, but last year a fuel pump had quit and this year it developed a short or something where it kept turning on something and draining the battery, and the other day I went to start it and the battery disconnect work around for that issue that the mechanic told me might take many hours of labor to track down kept disconnecting the battery on me and I decided god was Gibbs slapping me to just buy a new pickup.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 06, 2026 11:38 PM (PV+Zw)

272 Deleted scenes from Heavy Metal

https://youtu.be/I5exBdSLQ2s

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 11:39 PM (X+xvk)

273 The Enchanted Forest was a kid's version of Tiger Balm Gardens. It requires a lot of imagination.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 06, 2026 11:35 PM (ezP9C)

There is an Enchanted Forest tourist trap on the Trans-Canada Highway near Revelstoke, BC. I think it has a hot spring, too. Never stopped there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2026 11:39 PM (1z8ji)

274 Elon: Occupy Mars.

ZOD: Conquer Everything.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2026 11:39 PM (UfDpa)

275 I wish I could apply some sort of brain erasing test or pill to zip out any medical/nursing knowledge I have and become a Walmart greeter. Just an empty noggin of joy and no thought processes but not yet drooling in a bucket.

I can't help it if I want to keep my grandchildren alive. I don't care what you do as an adult,but they are mine, too. They love us.DIL seems to love me more than my son this week. Or I could be imagining him being a big turd about all I have done or suggested to her as she needed us. He was a day away in Sydney.

I mind my own business unless asked. She was caling and texting me about this baby and all of them when they get sick. Because we love them as much as our sons. We helped her with them, and never mind doing it. Some grandparents, I hear or read, don't help at all.

Tomorrow I shall have the first gin and tonic of the summer and erase memory of this week, whether all is well or not.

And this MD had better be hoping and if she prays, pray, that this baby's kidney's are normal with her renal ultrasound (routine after febrile UTI under 2yrs) is normal. Done a week or two after the antibiotic is completed.

Bloody hell, it's been one hideous week.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 06, 2026 11:40 PM (WONhk)

276 Ate a stick of rhubarb from the garden. Shot a gopher.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

In your pajamas?

Posted by: Miklos asks the necessary at June 06, 2026 11:40 PM (6VErX)

277 20 Why can't I find photos of the completed Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool project? I've searched images and videos in Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. and can't find any pics.
Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 10:07 PM (X+xvk)

I encountered the same thing last night. And then today I saw an interview, I didn't watch it since I got the gist, a "man on the street" type thing with a local black woman saying that she hated that she liked it. She didn't want to like it, but she had to admit the blue really made the reflection 'pop'. So then I had my answer: TPTB don't want us to see it, because then people would like it, and it would be a Win for Trump.

Posted by: SciVo at June 06, 2026 11:40 PM (Sy6m/)

278 *curtsies*

Hail Zod! Good to see you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 11:41 PM (HmAPM)

279 Bloody hell, it's been one hideous week.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Prayers for better

Posted by: Miklos at June 06, 2026 11:41 PM (6VErX)

280 I have an honest question. Did any US Harrier ever fire a shot in anger?
Posted by: LRob
----
Doesn't matter. It looked bitchin' in True Lies, which, incidentally, is the second best movie Ahhhnold ever made.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 06, 2026 11:41 PM (ezP9C)

281 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 06, 2026 11:40 PM (WONhk)
=====

They will survive horrible judgement, poor decision making, and inexperience. We did.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:42 PM (RIvkX)

282 The first time my mother heard that Def Leppard album she thought we were all on drugs.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 06, 2026 11:42 PM (x/s3z)

283 >>280 *curtsies* Hail Zod! Good to see you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 11:41 PM (HmAPM)

(Commands a regiment of Aztecs to disrobe, form up, and kneel, bowing)

Good to see you, too, Nurse.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2026 11:44 PM (UfDpa)

284 How do you know the Go-Gos were virgins?

> "Our lips are sealed."
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:09 PM (2GVsD)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 06, 2026 11:44 PM (IG3/x)

285 279 20 Why can't I find photos of the completed Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool project? I've searched images and videos in Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. and can't find any pics.
Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 10:07 PM (X+xvk)

I encountered the same thing last night. And then today I saw an interview, I didn't watch it since I got the gist, a "man on the street" type thing with a local black woman saying that she hated that she liked it. She didn't want to like it, but she had to admit the blue really made the reflection 'pop'. So then I had my answer: TPTB don't want us to see it, because then people would like it, and it would be a Win for Trump.

Posted by: SciVo

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

Wow. That was my first thought when I couldn't find any images of the completed project. Un-effing-believable.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 11:44 PM (X+xvk)

286 The first time my mother heard that Def Leppard album she thought we were all on drugs.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

You can't fool Mama

Posted by: Miklos may have partaken on rare occasions at June 06, 2026 11:44 PM (6VErX)

287 In your pajamas?
Posted by: Miklos asks the necessary at June 06, 2026 11:40 PM (6VErX)

No, but I was driving the golf cart.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2026 11:45 PM (1z8ji)

288 #286: I heard that one from my sister when the song was popular.

Yes, the whole family is that way.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 06, 2026 11:45 PM (IG3/x)

289 Mrs. Zod's mother (RIP) innocently thought the band was "The Boobie Brothers."

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2026 11:45 PM (UfDpa)

290 265 If anyone wants to do the crying, mysterious woman in the back of the room dressed in black with a big hat and sunglasses, I will do it for a fee. Slip in, slip out.
Posted by: Piper

Somehow, I plan to be the lawyer who reads my will to the assembled aspirants
Posted by: Miklos is working on the details at June 06, 2026

You are leaving it all to me, the mysterious woman dressed in black in the back of the room with a large hat and sunglasses, crying quietly.

Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:45 PM (pZEOD)

291 We found out Girl F. is allergic to azithromycin when she started a course at about 14 months and she blew up like a plump little sausage.

That was scary.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:46 PM (RIvkX)

292 > 284 The first time my mother heard that Def Leppard album she thought we were all on drugs.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 06, 2026 11:42 PM (x/s3z)

"No, Mom. You're thinking of that Suicidal Tendencies song."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 06, 2026 11:46 PM (IG3/x)

293 288 The first time my mother heard that Def Leppard album she thought we were all on drugs.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

You can't fool Mama

Posted by: Miklos may have partaken on rare occasions

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

"High and Dry" and "On Through the Night" were better than everything that came after.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 11:46 PM (X+xvk)

294
Rolls Royce made the P-51 Mustang what it became
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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The Brit people have brains, they have invention and engineering in their blood, it's, some how, just like they are trying here, the forces of evil have the reins. They've got to man up and take their country back.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 11:46 PM (0kM66)

295 You are leaving it all to me, the mysterious woman dressed in black in the back of the room with a large hat and sunglasses, crying quietly.
Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:45 PM (pZEOD)
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Is your mascara running?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:47 PM (RIvkX)

296 No, but I was driving the golf cart.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

If you had shot a goose, you would have gotten a birdie

Posted by: Miklos was ejected from Bushwood at June 06, 2026 11:47 PM (6VErX)

297 'night

youtu.be/Cnchea6LHN0

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 11:48 PM (bfy6w)

298 Picture of the reflecting pool:

https://tinyurl.com/yeedu5zt

Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:48 PM (pZEOD)

299

She eats kale up in heaven with a silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2026 11:48 PM (Cqx++)

300 Prosecution rested today in the Karmelo trial. Two days-- get in & get out., then sit down.

Seems like a strong case of Murder 2, to me.

It's not going to be a long O.J.-type trial.

Posted by: mnw at June 06, 2026 11:49 PM (RCjYY)

301 >>a large hat and sunglasses, crying quietly.
Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:45 PM (pZEOD)

You are from (very well) north of the equator.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2026 11:49 PM (UfDpa)

302 "No, Mom. You're thinking of that Suicidal Tendencies song."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I'm guessing Mom was a negatory on the Pepsi

Posted by: Miklos is also not crazy like they say at June 06, 2026 11:50 PM (6VErX)

303 297 You are leaving it all to me, the mysterious woman dressed in black in the back of the room with a large hat and sunglasses, crying quietly.
Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:45 PM (pZEOD)
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Is your mascara running?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026

Nope, waterproof. But I am obviously distraught. Unless you want running mascara and maybe smudged lipstick, kinda psycho looking. That is extra.

Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:50 PM (pZEOD)

304 They will survive horrible judgement, poor decision making, and inexperience. We did.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:42 PM (RIvkX)
*********************
This is their third baby. They relied on me, big time, with the first. I doubt either had changed a diaper before. I never questioned any new baby stuff from the professor MD and did as I was told.

My own MIL refused to watch our first baby when I wanted to work part-time (because we were poor). She was busy with her volunteer work and bowling league.

I am the opposite of my MIL. We never asked their advice that I can recall in child rearing as I knew babies and was a nurse, which seems to be the curse of my very existence now to know how cultures work. And that this 9mo old baby could have become septic as she looked bad.

I don't question his decisions on about anything and he doesn't ask. He did not have a hard childhood at all, a good lad. It's only been the last few years of dikhead and we don't know why.

But when the mother of his children ask me I answer and help her when he's a day's flight away.

Shoot me now.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 06, 2026 11:51 PM (WONhk)

305 The Enchanted Forest was a kid's version of Tiger Balm Gardens. It requires a lot of imagination.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 06, 2026 11:35 PM (ezP9C)

My sister's Ex had two kids 8 and 10 that we took to Enchanted Forest, and they had fun, it was a fun day there. In the Haunted Mansion they were scared green and for some reason they ran to me to grab onto instead of their dad. Apparently they thought I was more dependable in an emergency . . . Which may have been accurate.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 11:52 PM (rbvCR)

306 @273

>>I had hoped to just keep driving my 2003

You got 23 years of service out of it.

Pretty damn good if you ask me.

If you're above 29, then this new one may out last you.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 11:52 PM (XV/Pl)

307 274 Deleted scenes from Heavy Metal

https://youtu.be/I5exBdSLQ2s
Posted by: Sam Adams
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trash

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 11:52 PM (0kM66)

308 a large hat and sunglasses, crying quietly.
Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:45 PM (pZEOD)

You are from (very well) north of the equator.
Posted by: ZOD

Correct

A few sobbed words in indecipherably accented English would be so

*Fritz Feld POP!*

Posted by: Miklos sees the scene set at June 06, 2026 11:52 PM (6VErX)

309 I like the reflecting pool secret entrance to CONTROL in the Get Smart movie.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 11:53 PM (GseMx)

310 Ate a stick of rhubarb from the garden. Shot a gopher.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2026 11:37 PM (1z8ji)

I canned a batch of rhubarb this week, I was pleased since it is the first year it has been enough to do anything with.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 11:53 PM (rbvCR)

311 Unless you want running mascara and maybe smudged lipstick, kinda psycho looking. That is extra.
Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:50 PM (pZEOD)
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All that plus a run in your stockings.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:53 PM (RIvkX)

312
Nope, waterproof. But I am obviously distraught. Unless you want running mascara and maybe smudged lipstick, kinda psycho looking. That is extra.
Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:50 PM (pZEOD)
***********************
I assure you, after the week I've had, that I will die before you next week.

My mascara, a very expensive and awesome brand, is not waterproof. However, I never cry so that helps.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 06, 2026 11:54 PM (WONhk)

313
Prosecution rested today in the Karmelo trial. Two days-- get in & get out., then sit down.

Shorter than a Perry Mason episode.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2026 11:54 PM (Cqx++)

314 312 Ate a stick of rhubarb from the garden. Shot a gopher.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2026 11:37 PM (1z8ji)
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I find this very impressive, Peon. Especially if you did both at the same time.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 06, 2026 11:55 PM (WONhk)

315 253 I apparently invent arguments with my son in advance.

I've done that for centuries. I'm sorry, it's a sign of aging. After the first few centuries it won't bother you.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 06, 2026 11:56 PM (CHHv1)

316 MERCUROCHROME WASN'T JUST MEDICINE.

IT WAS A BRIGHT RED BADGE OF HONOR.

MOM PAINTED IT ON YOUR OPEN WOUND, IT BURNED LIKE BATTERY ACID, AND YOU WENT RIGHT BACK OUTSIDE TO PLAY.
After a few times, you didn't bother Mom unless it was bad.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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You are obviously under 29.
Mercurochrome was the pussy antiseptic. The active ingredient, merbromin, is water soluble, so mercurochrome stung hardly at all.
Real ~~men~~ boys asked for merthiolate, who's active ingredient, thimerosal, is only soluble in alcohol. That stuff gave you a reason to squirm.
It wasn't as spectacular a mark, though, since it left the skin yellow, instead of crimson.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 06, 2026 11:56 PM (ezP9C)

317 302 Prosecution rested today in the Karmelo trial. Two days-- get in & get out., then sit down.

Seems like a strong case of Murder 2, to me.

It's not going to be a long O.J.-type trial.
Posted by: mnw
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If they don't execute him there should be vigilantes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 11:56 PM (0kM66)

318 Shorter than a Perry Mason episode.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Like they say-

An incompetent prosecutor can't convict a Ham Burger

Posted by: Miklos likes that Raymond Burr was miraculously healed in a way at June 06, 2026 11:57 PM (6VErX)

319 >>Shoot me now.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 06, 2026 11:51 PM (WONhk)

You will put on the blindfold and smoke the cigarette.

Do it. Do it now.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2026 11:57 PM (UfDpa)

320 I find this very impressive, Peon. Especially if you did both at the same time.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 06, 2026 11:55 PM (WONhk)

Concurrently. I had to set the mostly-eaten rhubarb stalk on my knee, so i could pick up the rifle, take aim, and get a shot off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2026 11:57 PM (1z8ji)

321 I assure you, after the week I've had, that I will die before you next week. ....
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 06, 2026 11:54 PM (WONhk)
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Always Check Spelling Before Commenting!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:58 PM (RIvkX)

322 I bet you charge a high price to run up to the closed casket, wailing with deep sobs. Once you get there, you yell "Why did you have to die during the best sex I've ever had?" Ushers have to remove you from the ceremony.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 11:58 PM (qx7Zg)

323 I've been drinking too much to claim I'm not confused. Good to know Piper is still among us. I guess.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 06, 2026 11:59 PM (CHHv1)

324 It wasn't as spectacular a mark, though, since it left the skin yellow, instead of crimson.
Posted by: buddhaha

I now realize that our mothers were actually quite familiar with Nietzsche

Posted by: Miklos somehow got stronger, not killt at June 06, 2026 11:59 PM (6VErX)

325 I am off to bed. Church and somehow I ended up having to teach our Sunday class this week.

Nightsie noodles!

Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:59 PM (pZEOD)

326 To go to the horse's mount on the DC reflecting pool, according to Sec Interior Doug Burgum, they are still working on it as of yesterday - per this snappy little video

https://tinyurl.com/3whze5wm

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 11:59 PM (rbvCR)

327 I encountered the same thing last night. And then today I saw an interview, I didn't watch it since I got the gist, a "man on the street" type thing with a local black woman saying that she hated that she liked it. She didn't want to like it, but she had to admit the blue really made the reflection 'pop'. So then I had my answer: TPTB don't want us to see it, because then people would like it, and it would be a Win for Trump.
Posted by: SciVo
====

Gateway Pundit had a similar testimonial from a TDS vlogger.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 06, 2026 11:59 PM (/lPRQ)

328 Unless you want running mascara and maybe smudged lipstick, kinda psycho looking. That is extra.
Posted by: Piper

All that plus a run in your stockings.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

A walk in the woods
and I will try
Something under the trees
that made you cry
It's so erotic
when your makeup runs

https://youtu.be/73O6L90El7c

Posted by: Porcupine Tree at June 06, 2026 11:59 PM (VHUov)

329 >>Real men asked for merthiolate,

Pronounced in Virginianese as "muh-thai-o-hlet."

Posted by: ZOD at June 07, 2026 12:00 AM (UfDpa)

330 Game 3 going to a 2nd OT

Posted by: Don Black at June 07, 2026 12:01 AM (ZxPkt)

331 ================

Before what?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Trump usually waits until the market's closed on Friday. That way, the hystericals shall have settled down before opening Monday.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:01 AM (0kM66)

332 293 We found out Girl F. is allergic to azithromycin when she started a course at about 14 months and she blew up like a plump little sausage.

That was scary.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 11:46 PM (RIvkX)
***************
I am allergic to everything except a few. So I will go out easy someday.

I was also shocked (and it hasn't taken much) that this doc put my girlie on Keflex, and old drug. I briefly questioned this in my mind but carried on. I am not a big fan of this pediatrician if you cannot tell. She's a professor as well at the med school. Still wearing a mask, so I can guess how she votes.

My husband claims I can't sue her for malpractice if my girl's kidneys are damaged in July for the ultrasound. We'll see about that and I'll burn that bridge when I come to it and hope I don't.

This baby girl is perfection. Never cries. She was pitiful on Tuesday and broke my heart into pieces. And this witch waited two more days before an antibiotic with a cathed UA showing infection.

I need to go to bed and dream of wonderful things or simply pass out.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 12:01 AM (WONhk)

333 Betadine > Mercurochrome

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 07, 2026 12:01 AM (RIvkX)

334 The first time my mother heard that Def Leppard album she thought we were all on drugs.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

You can't fool Mama
Posted by: Miklos may have partaken on rare occasions

She thought you all were on drugs two years before when she caught you all in the basement with a bong and staring at a lava lamp too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 12:02 AM (/lPRQ)

335
Any aircraft that embraces STOL or VTOL always comes off looking odd.

The Rockwell XFV-12A was such an example that seemed to have escaped the comics page.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Hah! You want weird looking - Convair XFY-1.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 07, 2026 12:03 AM (ezP9C)

336 "If you're above 29, then this new one may out last you.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 11:52 PM (XV/Pl)"
The 2003 was bought used, but I did get 18-19 years out of it. I had to replace the injectors when I'd only owned it a couple of years but other than that it served me well. Yup I'm over 29 so it is a good chance that the new pickup will last out my lifetime. I let myself be talked into "platinum coverage" plan. Probably shouldn't have, but I can't kidnap AOP and have him along in case of vehicle issues and I let myself decide it would be good to have Ford on the hook to tow to a dealership and fix anything that goes wrong in the first 7 years.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2026 12:04 AM (PV+Zw)

337 I wonder how you test for a psychosomatic allergy.

About 25 years ago, I started joking that I was allergic to stupidity. In the last 10 years, I almost always have sinus congestion, and it seems to be getting worse as the world gets dumber.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 12:04 AM (qx7Zg)

338 323

OK, you started it. The Brits are the only ones who spell judgment "judgement."

It's 'judgment" to SCOTUS & every other court in 'Murica.

Posted by: mnw at June 07, 2026 12:05 AM (RCjYY)

339 Doesn't anyone just use iodine?

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 12:05 AM (GseMx)

340 -----
You are obviously under 29.
Mercurochrome was the pussy antiseptic. The active ingredient, merbromin, is water soluble, so mercurochrome stung hardly at all.
Real men boys asked for merthiolate, who's active ingredient, thimerosal, is only soluble in alcohol. That stuff gave you a reason to squirm.
It wasn't as spectacular a mark, though, since it left the skin yellow, instead of crimson.
Posted by: buddhaha
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Iodine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:05 AM (0kM66)

341 Did Piper leave, or is she calculating how many wailing funeral performances to get her own private island.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 12:07 AM (qx7Zg)

342 >>a large hat and sunglasses, crying quietly.
Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2026 11:45 PM (pZEOD)

You are from (very well) north of the equator.
Posted by: ZOD

Those in the real deep south prefer an open casket set up on a stage with stripper poles and duets of very talented performers during the funeral.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2026 12:07 AM (/lPRQ)

343 Live cam showing the reflecting pool filling up

https://tinyurl.com/bduutu2d

Posted by: Piper at June 07, 2026 12:07 AM (p4NUW)

344 The Reflecting Pool ought to have been painted gold.

If you're gonna shiv, twist.

Posted by: ZOD at June 07, 2026 12:08 AM (UfDpa)

345 Iodine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:05 AM (0kM66)

Sold as "tincture of iodine". Can you still get it? Iodine dissolved in alcohol.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 12:08 AM (1z8ji)

346 To top off the week, my dude tells me there is no fruit on our cherry and plum trees. This is a bummer. We had weird hot weather early, confused every plant and tree, then a hard freeze.

I have had such a weird and bizarre set of stress insanity for six weeks I didn't notice. I really wanted those large plums. The cherries we used to eat by the ton before we discovered white worms or someone told us. Pity. Protein, I guess.

The plums are normally plentiful and gorgeous and very good. I am quickly deciding this is not my year (so far). Unusual. Bad karma has shat all over me for six weeks.

It will get better. It will. This is a test of my limits and I have a lot more. *knocks wood, crosses fingers, crosses self, praying a whole lot

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 12:09 AM (WONhk)

347 353

RE: Trump doing stuff on Fridays, after the markets close

I've noticed that too.

Posted by: mnw at June 07, 2026 12:09 AM (RCjYY)

348

We were a merthiolate house.
Some had Mercurochrome.
Some had iodine.

The rich kids had Bactine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2026 12:09 AM (Cqx++)

349 >>Iodine. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:05 AM (0kM66)

Rubbing alcohol, if you were rich. Otherwise, gasoline.

Posted by: ZOD at June 07, 2026 12:10 AM (UfDpa)

350 >>>>Doesn't anyone just use iodine?

Posted by: polynikes

>Iodine was the go-to. And dirt. You can bathe later when you get home.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 12:10 AM (x/s3z)

351 Neighbor's mom would paint son's chest with Mercurochrome, he would be the monster as we played 'Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell blood of an Englishman'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:11 AM (0kM66)

352 Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:11 AM (0kM66)

What a cool mom he had.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2026 12:13 AM (PV+Zw)

353 Ok, this clip seems right for the time and this ONT.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Q-IAya95d5Y

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 07, 2026 12:13 AM (qx7Zg)

354 Neorologists Warn Mental Decline Often Starts When You Can't Say This One Thing

Hail ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at June 07, 2026 12:14 AM (UfDpa)

355 Dirt was only if you had to stop the bleeding. But for minor wounds it was "oh good, its bleeding, that will flush the germs out"

Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2026 12:15 AM (PV+Zw)

356 Dirt was only if you had to stop the bleeding. But for minor wounds it was "oh good, its bleeding, that will flush the germs out"

Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2026 12:15 AM (PV+Zw)

You weren't a serious contender if you didn't play through the blood.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 07, 2026 12:16 AM (dK+Kv)

357 I fell on the street with little gravel rocks imbedded in my knee at my grandmother's house.

She sat me on the commode and sprayed methiolate and I almost shot through the roof.

Apparently did not clean it super well and it got infected. Or I kept bumping it. Either/or. Have a scar but never cared because my legs were great when I needed greatness.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 12:17 AM (WONhk)

358 Doesn't anyone just use iodine?
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2026 12:05 AM (GseMx)

It is hard to get Iodine in the pharmacies here nowadays. I think they either use it for brewing meth or curing Covid.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2026 12:18 AM (rbvCR)

359 It's 'judgment" to SCOTUS & every other court in 'Murica.
Posted by: mnw

I spell it wrong, then.
But most my early reading was Brit Lit, so...
Well, that's my excuse.

Posted by: MkY at June 07, 2026 12:20 AM (q6tQZ)

360 Launch in 4 minutes

https://youtu.be/aT0ZZo9aNyM

Posted by: Joyenz at June 07, 2026 12:20 AM (2F0/Y)

361 Top picture looks like my father's lake, but without fire ants and poison snakes.

Goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow. And know it's probably a better day than mine is going to be based on recent history.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 07, 2026 12:20 AM (WONhk)

362
You weren't a serious contender if you didn't play through the blood.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 07, 2026 12:16 AM (dK+Kv)

Chicks dig scars.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 12:21 AM (DR/Xu)

363 Yes, the irony certainly dampens the memory.

EU > Das dritten Reich

but not by very much.

Only because the EU is incapable of projecting itself other places like the Reich could

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 07, 2026 12:22 AM (3/XaG)

364
Live cam showing the reflecting pool filling up

https://tinyurl.com/bduutu2d
Posted by: Piper

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

Cool!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 07, 2026 12:22 AM (n7rxJ)

365 Launch is a GO!

Posted by: MkY at June 07, 2026 12:24 AM (q6tQZ)

366 Celox Gauze is designed to prevent schoolyard bleed-outs. Quickly expose the wound. Identify the point of bleeding. If the blood is pooled, remove excess with plain gauze. Pack the wound with Celox Gauze while applying and maintaining pressure.

Posted by: ZOD at June 07, 2026 12:25 AM (UfDpa)

367 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:05 AM (0kM66)

Sold as "tincture of iodine". Can you still get it? Iodine dissolved in alcohol.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Walmart:
Liquid Iodine Drops | 2 fl oz | 150mcg | Vegetarian Tincture | by Horbaach
NATURALLY FREE OF: Gluten, Wheat, Yeast, Milk, Lactose, Soy, Artificial Color & Flavoring & NON-GMO
(says iodine and Potassium iodide)
It appears to be sold as a food supplement, not an antiseptic.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:25 AM (0kM66)

368 227 iper unalived herself with a bad typo
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026

***
Oh. Good. I was worried there for a minute . . . though if something serious had genuinely affected her, the tone of the comments would not have been so lighthearted.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 11:21 PM (wzUl9)

The whole Piper saga started with a typo in Pipers post 255 at 2:00 PM in the Karmelo Anthony thread on June 4; post=420005

Search the thread for Piper and see the whole sorry story....hee hee hee

Vaguely reminiscent of the whole Paul is dead thing with the Beatles...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 07, 2026 12:27 AM (QGaXH)

369 362 Launch in 4 minutes

https://youtu.be/aT0ZZo9aNyM
Posted by: Joyenz

It's up.
Thanks for getting those launches scheduled at more reasonable times. Those early morning launches are rough.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:29 AM (0kM66)

370 I often feel like I am looking into a mirror maze and I have no idea what is real and what isn't. But I think Piper is still alive and that's a good thing to know.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 07, 2026 12:31 AM (CHHv1)

371 Tulsi Gabbard 🌺
@TulsiGabbard
Jun 4
My husband Abraham was diagnosed with a very rare sacral chordoma. The surgery to remove bone and surrounding tissue lasted almost seven hours and was successful.

He had a rough night and is in a lot of pain but is finally home resting. Now recovery begins. We’re so grateful for the outpouring of prayers and kind messages from all of you. Our hearts are full.❤️

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:31 AM (0kM66)

372 328 To go to the horse's mount on the DC reflecting pool, according to Sec Interior Doug Burgum, they are still working on it as of yesterday - per this snappy little video

https://tinyurl.com/3whze5wm
Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 11:59 PM (rbvCR)

He's a surprisingly good communicator. I mean, I did not know that about him. Does Trump rub off on people, attract fellow rhetoricians, or select for the ability?

In a 41-second video, Burgum made sure to end with a tight closer, "Safe and Beautiful." And he set it up shortly before with "never been safer, never been more beautiful," so it was a callback without dull repetition.

Like the late great Scott Adams, I'm an "enthusiastic amateur" student of the skill. So I know a practitioner when I see one.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 12:32 AM (Sy6m/)

373 When I was a young lass I bought iodine to purify water for camping. I think that was tablets though, not a tincture. I did use them on one trip. The water did not taste great but I did not get dysentery.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2026 12:32 AM (PV+Zw)

374 Well, I guess as an author and speaker, Scott Adams was a pro. But he didn't have a psych or marketing degree, AFAIK.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 12:33 AM (Sy6m/)

375 When I was a young lass I bought iodine to purify water for camping. I think that was tablets though, not a tincture. I did use them on one trip. The water did not taste great but I did not get dysentery.
Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2026 12:32 AM (PV+Zw)

And you protected your thyroid from radiation!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 12:34 AM (DR/Xu)

376 She sat me on the commode and sprayed methiolate and I almost shot through the roof.
-----------
That bacteria doesn't go quietly. Here bacteria take some methiolate. Bacteria says, I am fighting back with a blowtorch.

Posted by: scampydog - occasional contributor at June 07, 2026 12:34 AM (41CYW)

377 Okay, I take it back. Scott Adams was a trained professional rhetorician. In addition to a Berkely MBA, he also took Dale Carnegie Training. He just also did a lot of independent reading on top of that. My bad.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 12:35 AM (Sy6m/)

378
Eight minutes 45 seconds to orbit. Looked like the grid fins on that booster during landing were getting a bit of a work out.

Not as much as one of the recent launched. I saw a video of that. Apparently there were some cross winds that picked up and those fins were really dancing compensating for all that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 07, 2026 12:36 AM (w6EFb)

379 When I was a young lass I bought iodine to purify water for camping. I think that was tablets though, not a tincture. I did use them on one trip. The water did not taste great but I did not get dysentery.
Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2026 12:32 AM (PV+Zw)

I had a bottle of the military tablets when I was in boy scouts. Yeah, water tasted a tad nasty, but they work.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 07, 2026 12:36 AM (snZF9)

380 But I think Piper is still alive and that's a good thing to know.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

She posted seven times in this thread, so if she's not alive, she's doing a great impression of it!

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 12:37 AM (VHUov)

381 Hello Illinois -

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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:39 AM (0kM66)

382 Wild ending to the hockey game. They were all getting tired.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 12:40 AM (x/s3z)

383 372 I often feel like I am looking into a mirror maze and I have no idea what is real and what isn't. But I think Piper is still alive and that's a good thing to know.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 07, 2026 12:31 AM (CHHv1)

She was nearly killed by a stray typo. I forget exactly how it started, I think someone joked that she had Saijo's name tattooed, and she swiftly clarified that she did not have any Oriental language tattoos, in case the tumor took off. We were all confused how kanji would harm cancer treatment, but shrugged and went straight to divvying up her stuff. So, heading off one small rumor sparked a bigger one. But her ghost has been a very good sport about the whole thing.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 12:41 AM (Sy6m/)

384 @382 AI is still in the early stages. Talk to Pixy when you can't afford a backup drive. And there's a laughing Piper telling you why this is a good thing.

I was only miles away.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 07, 2026 12:42 AM (CHHv1)

385 374 328 To go to the horse's mount on the DC reflecting pool, according to Sec Interior Doug Burgum, they are still working on it as of yesterday - per this snappy little video

https://tinyurl.com/3whze5wm
Posted by: Kindltot
----

Trump fixed it, that's the bottom line.
Don't think they had the tech to get it right when it was built?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:44 AM (0kM66)

386 @385 There are names, there are masks. I have been in the AoS community for over 20 years. Any time I can confirm a human soul, that's a positive day. (Also, I don't feed on those souls. Ick!)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 07, 2026 12:45 AM (CHHv1)

387 Howdy, horde!

Wooo... long day... but got the chores done & a shower to wash all the dust & dirt off.

Great tunes, D&D! Thanks for the ONT!

Posted by: JQ at June 07, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

388 Good Night Everbody

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue still waiting for election results in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 07, 2026 12:51 AM (QGaXH)

389 Those in the real deep south prefer an open casket set up on a stage with stripper poles and duets of very talented performers during the funeral.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Open bar

Posted by: Miklos thinks you forgot something at June 07, 2026 12:52 AM (6VErX)

390 19 Electric Avenue is one of those songs like Henley's All She Wants To Do Is Dance. Or Born In The USA
Everyone just knows the chorus.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 10:06 PM (gKWVE)

This 2:35-long sit-down comedy bit is actually funny and worth the time:

fritzie -
guy at a party who only knows one line of tiny dancer
https://youtu.be/mp2Xh0ONoTM

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 12:52 AM (Sy6m/)

391 Sold as "tincture of iodine". Can you still get it? Iodine dissolved in alcohol.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Barkeep?

I'll have a tincture of me, please

Posted by: Miklos thinks this might cost at June 07, 2026 12:53 AM (6VErX)

392 Those in the real deep south prefer an open casket set up on a stage with stripper poles and duets of very talented performers during the funeral.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

* nods *

Nothing classes up an event like synchronized pole dance.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 12:54 AM (VHUov)

393 Good night Rogue, I am out as well.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2026 12:54 AM (PV+Zw)

394 >> Nothing classes up an event like synchronized pole dance.

And some twerking for the coup de grace of class.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 07, 2026 12:55 AM (w6EFb)

395 Howdy, horde!

Wooo... long day... but got the chores done & a shower to wash all the dust & dirt off.

Great tunes, D&D! Thanks for the ONT!

Posted by: JQ at June 07, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

Well then, its time for a shot. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 07, 2026 12:56 AM (snZF9)

396 Trump fixed it, that's the bottom line.
Don't think they had the tech to get it right when it was built?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:44 AM (0kM66)

even the Panama Canal has required multiple rebuilds in the last century

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2026 12:57 AM (rbvCR)

397 fritzie -
guy at a party who only knows one line of tiny dancer
https://youtu.be/mp2Xh0ONoTM
Posted by: SciVo
---

He does a good impersonation of a female.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:57 AM (0kM66)

398 Live cam showing the reflecting pool filling up

https://tinyurl.com/bduutu2d
Posted by: Piper

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

Cool!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Compare and Contrast-

Trump fixes reflecting Pool and Fountains

DC spews sewage into the Potomac

Posted by: Miklos does not see mere coincidence at June 07, 2026 12:57 AM (6VErX)

399 >>>>> Nothing classes up an event like synchronized pole dance.

And some twerking for the coup de grace of class.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

>There is only one way to do this right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9V78UbdzWI

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 12:58 AM (x/s3z)

400 Well then, its time for a shot. lol
Posted by: Berserker

Damn right!

*shots for both of us!*

Heck, a round for the house!

Posted by: JQ at June 07, 2026 12:59 AM (rdVOm)

401 I have discovered that Amoxicillin can give one unending hiccups that may or may not go away. I have another day before I can call the MD back to see if he can switch me to another antibiotic

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2026 12:59 AM (rbvCR)

402 even the Panama Canal has required multiple rebuilds in the last century
Posted by: Kindltot

Trump is a kind of A Man A Plan Panama guy

Kicked the Chinese out

Posted by: Miklos sees non-palindromic significance at June 07, 2026 12:59 AM (6VErX)

403 Barkeep?

I'll have a tincture of me, please
Posted by: Miklos thinks this might cost at June 07, 2026 12:53 AM (6VErX)

??
You want to be dissolved in alcohol?

Um, I don't know if da boss will let me do that for ya...

Posted by: JQ at June 07, 2026 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

404 Heck, a round for the house!
Posted by: JQ

Looks like I picked the wrong week to pretend to stop drinking

Posted by: Miklos is unopposed at June 07, 2026 01:01 AM (6VErX)

405 Um, I don't know if da boss will let me do that for ya...
Posted by: JQ

Slowly

Not the full Jeremy Bentham treatment

Posted by: Miklos likes what is for internal use only at June 07, 2026 01:02 AM (6VErX)

406 ...Got this sinking feeling that I will be rather sore in the morning. Perhaps even have difficulty moving at all. LOL!

Posted by: JQ at June 07, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

407 And some twerking for the coup de grace of class.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

>There is only one way to do this right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9V78UbdzWI

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

I bet the Ghanaian pallbearers would beat the piss out of any twerking bitches try to interlope in one of their funerals

Posted by: Miklos would pay to see it too at June 07, 2026 01:05 AM (6VErX)

408 Dropping back in to say a proper au revoir before dropping back out for the night.

What I think of when I see Zud Imperial
https://youtu.be/eeZaiSVPXTM

Tomorrow night's ONT fashion section by the late Piper will feature fashionable funereal wear and proper mourning outfits, as well as tips on looking dashing in your casket.

And something soft and sweet to lull you to sleep
https://youtu.be/LdLYMqAVZ6Q

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - bless its pointed little head at June 07, 2026 01:07 AM (dn9xm)

409 Well, time for me to call it a night. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2026 01:07 AM (1z8ji)

410 You want to be dissolved in alcohol?

Um, I don't know if da boss will let me do that for ya...
Posted by: JQ at June 07, 2026 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

406 Heck, a round for the house!
Posted by: JQ

I was overserved!

Posted by: Puddle of Solution at June 07, 2026 01:07 AM (zZu0s)

411 Oh, and I missed the Movie Thread, which started on quintessential '80s movies and branched out into each decade, but I didn't see anyone mention this one: The President's Analyst (1967) is about as solid a distillation of the essence of the age as can be imagined. Wait, let me see if they have a trailer online... yep.

https://youtu.be/5XvaDL-laNA

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 01:08 AM (Sy6m/)

412 Well, time for me to call it a night. Later, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

This time of year, gets dark early up North

Posted by: Miklos is probably right but too lazy to check at June 07, 2026 01:09 AM (6VErX)

413 I feel so guilty being part of the Piper fiasco.
I'm gonna change my nic.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:09 AM (ZxzYs)

414 He advocated individual and economic freedoms, ...freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and ...the decriminalizing of homosexual acts.[8][9]

He called for the abolition of slavery,[10] capital punishment, and physical punishment, including that of children.... he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights (both of which are considered "divine" or "God-given" in origin), calling them "nonsense upon stilts"
---

String him up!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 01:09 AM (0kM66)

415 Dulurks.
Hi fine people.
Nice to meet you.

Posted by: Murderorger at June 07, 2026 01:11 AM (ZxzYs)

416 Dulurks.
Hi fine people.
Nice to meet you.
Posted by: Murderorger

Damn glad to meet ya!

Have a seat

Posted by: Miklos sitting with Sidney, Clayton ang Jugdish at June 07, 2026 01:14 AM (6VErX)

417 I have discovered that Amoxicillin can give one unending hiccups that may or may not go away.
Posted by: Kindltot

Amoxicillin (aka obnoxiouscillin) can also give one unending, full-body hives. (Vicodin to the rescue)

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 01:15 AM (W5mpo)

418 Hi fine people.
Nice to meet you.
Posted by: Murderorger at June 07, 2026 01:11 AM (ZxzYs)

'Sup. Have a beer. Don't cost nothin'.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 07, 2026 01:15 AM (0aYVJ)

419 399 fritzie -
guy at a party who only knows one line of tiny dancer
https://youtu.be/mp2Xh0ONoTM
Posted by: SciVo
---

He does a good impersonation of a female.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 12:57 AM (0kM66)

Her timing is on point, everything, she really sells it -- but then the kicker is after, when you realize that since she apparently recorded the bit at home, she didn't need to mime holding a drink. She could've grabbed a wine glass. She just didn't want to be accused of being a prop comic, I guess.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 01:15 AM (Sy6m/)

420 *slides a cold Fosters down the bar for 'Murderorger' LOL

Posted by: JQ at June 07, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

421 The Piper Fiasco of '26

Many Morons fell for it that day, my friends

Posted by: Miklos trying to tell the kids that at June 07, 2026 01:17 AM (6VErX)

422 Still booking accommodations for the mostly-Wyoming trip for July. Nggghhhh....

Requirements are:

Pooky must sleep in a bed or his back gets messed up.
If I sleep with Pooky, it must be a king size or he'll hit/kick me during a PTSD nightmare. If it's a queen, I won't sleep and therefore won't be safe to drive.
Pookette must sleep off the floor or her hips will hurt and we'll hear about it for the whole two weeks.
Lil Pooky needs space for his playpen. We could try putting him in a bed with Pookette, but neither one of them will sleep for at least the first three hours of that. (Actually, none of us will. There will be too much arguing and/or giggling.)

As I said, nggghhh....

Posted by: pookysgirl is unfortunately the only one who can do this at June 07, 2026 01:18 AM (Wt5PA)

423 'Sup. Have a beer. Don't cost nothin'.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian

I love it when a joke comes together

Posted by: Col. Miklos Hannibal-Smith at June 07, 2026 01:19 AM (6VErX)

424 It was funny as hell when it happened.
Grandkid had his last soccer game today. Lost 4 to 2. He tries so hard but then doesn't want to hurt anyone so he doesn't kick the ball for fear of kicking the guy getting past him.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:20 AM (ZxzYs)

425 Many Morons fell for it that day, my friends
Posted by: Miklos trying to tell the kids that at June 07, 2026 01:17 AM (6VErX)

It was fun to do the bit. Not least as she was not sure what was going on, having missed the murder of Buzzion by Fen, lo these many years ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 01:24 AM (zZu0s)

426

When I was forced to play soccer as a kid, I made a point of kicking the other kids so they would take me out and I didn't have to do that anymore.

Posted by: generally well-behaved young Miklos at June 07, 2026 01:26 AM (6VErX)

427 388 @385 There are names, there are masks. I have been in the AoS community for over 20 years. Any time I can confirm a human soul, that's a positive day. (Also, I don't feed on those souls. Ick!)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 07, 2026 12:45 AM (CHHv1)

How are you preparing them?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 07, 2026 01:29 AM (w/O5Q)

428
It was fun to do the bit. Not least as she was not sure what was going on, having missed the murder of Buzzion by Fen, lo these many years ago.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
---

People forget, that though comely, the ettes can be quite dangerous.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 01:29 AM (0kM66)

429 Once upon a time, the natives had a saying: "Don't Californicate Colorado." Well, look at your Governor.

Colorado, you've been f*cked.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 07, 2026 01:30 AM (iwl6y)

430 Colorado, you've been f*cked.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 07, 2026 01:30 AM (iwl6y)

I wonder if weed was a symptom or cause. Certainly an accelerator.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 01:32 AM (zZu0s)

431 And before advocates jump, I am not making a pro or anti devils cabbage argument per se, just that weed legalization flooded the state. Now they are a reliable dem machine. Just like California. You won't dig back out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 01:33 AM (zZu0s)

432 >>>When I was forced to play soccer as a kid, I made a point of kicking the other kids so they would take me out and I didn't have to do that anymore.

Posted by: generally well-behaved young Miklos

>When we played street soccer, everybody kicked the shit out of each other, we had no gear and after everybody was bloody, nobody wanted to play anymore.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 07, 2026 01:37 AM (x/s3z)

433 Colorado was flooded in weed long before it was legalized.
So was California.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:37 AM (ZxzYs)

434 Not to be an anal dick or anything, but it's "delurks".
Other than that I'm a sweetheart.

Posted by: wth at June 07, 2026 01:38 AM (oq9dX)

435 Legalization just shifted the money around.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:38 AM (ZxzYs)

436 @429 - that's my kitchen secret. 11 herbs and spices? HA!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 07, 2026 01:40 AM (CHHv1)

437 436 Not to be an anal dick or anything, but it's "delurks".
Other than that I'm a sweetheart.
Posted by: wth at June 07, 2026 01:38 AM (oq9dX)

Sorry. I'm new hear.
* Rulurks

Posted by: Murderorger at June 07, 2026 01:43 AM (ZxzYs)

438 AAARGH

Posted by: wth at June 07, 2026 01:44 AM (oq9dX)

439 Rulurk?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 01:45 AM (zZu0s)

440 It was a mispelling that started the whole thing.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2026 01:46 AM (ZxzYs)

441 Let's call the whole thing off!

*jazz hands*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 01:49 AM (zZu0s)

442 Should have spelled it 'jeez hands'. Would have fit the metier better.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 01:49 AM (zZu0s)

443 US soccer team had a rainbow uniform in the game vs Germany. Because of course they did.

Posted by: Heroq at June 07, 2026 01:49 AM (tNkpt)

444 It was a mispelling that started the whole thing.
Posted by: Reforger

Whoa, be careful. Mispellings can kill ya ded around here.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 01:51 AM (VHUov)

445 That does not seem to be the proper amount of Rum for that drink.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 10:48

The recipe also doesn't say whether to use sweet or dry vermouth. I'm guessing dry?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at June 07, 2026 01:51 AM (55Qr6)

446 RE: Comment of the week by AK:
I'm in Alaska for the first time in 45 years. When did Disney turn the place into a tourist trap?

Posted by: Cosda at June 07, 2026 01:52 AM (XfbQK)

447 Weirdest thing I've seen all day: take a children's story, set it to metal, and add claymation:

Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/Gtffv9bpB-U

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 01:53 AM (Sy6m/)

448 433 ...Just like California. You won't dig back out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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According to how those trenching tools are used.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 01:57 AM (0kM66)

449 Weirdest thing I've seen all day: take a children's story, set it to metal, and add claymation:

Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/Gtffv9bpB-U
Posted by: SciVo

I'm 29 enough to have seen that on MTV. Back when MTV played music videos.

The band was called Green Jellö to start with. The Jell-O people sent some lawyers.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 01:59 AM (VHUov)

450 Yeah, it was a thing.

Like Beck's Loser.

Or the Mmmmm mmmm mmmm song by Crash Test Dummies.

Or fucking Blind Melon. Fucking kid in a bumblebee costume. Dammit, now I am hearing it in my head!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 02:06 AM (zZu0s)

451 If I have to listen to it, so do you all:

https://youtu.be/3qVPNONdF58?
si=Oz5j9f2WSLhFgMZ6

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 02:10 AM (zZu0s)

452 Russians are trained in the use of entrenching tools.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 02:12 AM (0kM66)

453 My local psychic, "Madame Marie Reader and Advisor" works out of a small shack next to the liquor store (Red Dot Store in South Carolina)...
She also sells lottery tickets, but when I offer to buy one together, she says no.
Unethical, she says
Posted by: Miklos on payday at June 06, 2026 10:54

True story...
our local psychic was arrested and sent to prison for something like "financial abuse of a senior citizen".

What a lousy psychic, she didn't foresee that she would get caught.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at June 07, 2026 02:19 AM (55Qr6)

454 For once I agree with pete hegseth mormonism is not christianity ;but a racist cult. Look up zelph and what the book of mormons call black people. Filth is one of the nicer words. Jesus does not live on the planet noroni.

Posted by: raimondo at June 07, 2026 02:20 AM (Robvc)

455 Speaking of SpaceX they just signed a deal for Google to pay them $920 million per month for compute capacity in SpaceX's Colossus datacenters. (Tech Crunch)

... SpaceX already has an arrangement with AI company Anthropic, which pays SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to lease compute capacity.
_Pixy
---

Buddy, can you spare a dime?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 02:24 AM (0kM66)

456 Replace a crappy earworm with a better one!

This song's been going through my mind all week, although I wouldn't say it's a *typical* earworm:

youtu.be/FdzbPX8vrec

Love the piano work. RIP, Allen.

Posted by: JQ at June 07, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

457 Now my suggested is full of scrappy one hit wonders from the 90s.

Although I like No Doubt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 02:27 AM (zZu0s)

458 'Night, horde. Really, really feelin' 29 now, LOL!

Posted by: JQ at June 07, 2026 02:31 AM (rdVOm)

459 Now my suggested is full of scrappy one hit wonders from the 90s.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

See post #188 for the fix.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2026 02:33 AM (VHUov)

460 Russians are trained in the use of entrenching tools.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent

So are all American kids who ever built a fort in the woods and shot bottle rockets at each other despite certain admonitions

Posted by: formerly well-behaved young Miklos at June 07, 2026 02:35 AM (6VErX)

461 Although I like No Doubt.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The epistemology of their lyrics leaves certain questions

Posted by: Late Nite Philosopher Miklos (probably just the ouzo talking) at June 07, 2026 02:37 AM (6VErX)

462 Perhaps this charming ditty from 2009 will soothe your earworm angst:

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - The Golden Age (4K Official Video)
https://youtu.be/x5h-LAvQDCQ

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 02:43 AM (Sy6m/)

463 Winston Churchill has ~~left~~ been tossed out of the building:

https://tinyurl.com/4rftz2zz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 02:45 AM (ohSsM)

464 Whoops. Rainman got it wrong again. the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is included in list of religions listed by the military. They were not excluded .

https://tinyurl.com/b8fytpaw

It makes sense to just look at almost everything the media spews as biased or incorrect.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 02:46 AM (n3VHW)

465 Posted by: raimondo at June 07, 2026 02:20 AM (Robvc)

Many of my relatives on my mom's side are Mormon, or LDS (Latter Day Saints). While I'm not about to read their book or join their church, it is advisable to keep in mind Matthew 12:33, "Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit."

And they are some of the nicest, most generous, most trustworthy, and most reliable people. So the tree that they're fruit of must be pretty alright.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 02:51 AM (Sy6m/)

466 It makes sense to just look at almost everything the media spews as biased or incorrect.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
---

He always gets it wrong.
Be well, I'm going to bed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 07, 2026 02:52 AM (0kM66)

467 My guess was he was looking for us to do our 'and about those fucking Mormons...' bit. To be fair, anti-Catholic seems to be most of the flavor we get and that is usually from randos.

We need to make Coptics or Amish edgy again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 02:52 AM (zZu0s)

468 Maybe Monophysites.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 02:53 AM (zZu0s)

469 This is always good to pull an earworm:

https://youtu.be/ZuWkVqum6a8?
si=OLZiCNeQWho9q56D

Jay and the Americans

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 02:55 AM (zZu0s)

470 Maybe Monophysites.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

There are two sides

Posted by: Miklos the Bogomil at June 07, 2026 03:06 AM (6VErX)

471 3am

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 03:08 AM (Ia/+0)

472 469 My guess was he was looking for us to do our 'and about those fucking Mormons...' bit. To be fair, anti-Catholic seems to be most of the flavor we get and that is usually from randos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 07, 2026 02:52 AM (zZu0s)

I'm actually Catholic myself, so that wouldn't work. My parents are Baptist, so good luck slamming 'fundies'. And my sister I think is just a fallen-away unchurched, although we politely don't talk about it, but I wouldn't go all "oh grr those secularists grr argh" either.

Well, the secularists are all wrong, as shown by the fruit of the policies drawn from their values, but it will take time and patient persistence to deal with it. And (human nature being what it is) they'll never admit it. But there's no point in hating, that just makes people dig in and commit harder to their error.

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 03:12 AM (Sy6m/)

473 Another overreaching judge. Girl kept from church, Bible and Christian friends in a custody case by judge who considers Calvary Chapel a "cult" . No, it's not a cult. It's a conservative, evangelical church.

I would have done a tiny url, but that's not working right now. The story is on Breitbart. Co
And the girls name is Emily Bickford.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 03:28 AM (OYsYV)

474 Meant Breitbart.com

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 03:29 AM (OYsYV)

475 I wonder if weed was a symptom or cause. Certainly an accelerator.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Nonsense. Rock-ribbed conservatives failing to participate in local government beyond the occasional vote is what did it.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 03:29 AM (W5mpo)

476 Russians are trained in the use of entrenching tools.
Posted by: Braenyard

The harder they dig, the farther away the commissar is.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 03:31 AM (W5mpo)

477 Love the piano work. RIP, Allen.
Posted by: JQ

That song is gorgeous - from the keys to the vocals to the guitar solo

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 03:33 AM (W5mpo)

478 4 in a row. Dead

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 07, 2026 03:40 AM (W5mpo)

479 https://youtu.be/dSQ40d8uoOI

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2026 03:46 AM (P3X50)

480 475 Another overreaching judge. Girl kept from church, Bible and Christian friends in a custody case by judge who considers Calvary Chapel a "cult" . No, it's not a cult. It's a conservative, evangelical church.

I would have done a tiny url, but that's not working right now. The story is on Breitbart. Co
And the girls name is Emily Bickford.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 03:28 AM (OYsYV)

I got your back!

Exclusive: Girl Kept from Church, Bible, and Christian Friends by Portland Judge Awaits Appeals Court Ruling
Breitbart: https://tinyurl.com/y9ybnym2

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 03:48 AM (Sy6m/)

481 Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 03:48 AM (Sy6m

Thanks very much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2026 03:51 AM (n3VHW)

482 Dammit, I like some of their stuff, but Faith No More really tests me. In fact one of their other videos was just atrocious artsy-ness and unwatchable, where the song itself was mid to begin with it.

But this one, the song is actually good. You would want to put it on and listen to it while doing things. So why is the video so gay? I looked it up, and only their keyboardist came out as homo later. So I think I may need to trademark this:

They're either gay or pretending. And pretending to be gay is authentically queer.

Faith No More - Easy (Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/vPzDTfIb0DU

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 04:16 AM (Sy6m/)

483 Easy (Audio)
https://youtu.be/4K0mjMRTiec

Posted by: SciVo at June 07, 2026 04:20 AM (Sy6m/)

484 473 3am
Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2026 03:08 AM (Ia/+0)

Three o'clock in the morning
And it looks like it's gonna be another sleepless night

--Crystal Gayle

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 04:24 AM (6wpGE)

485 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 04:30 AM (6wpGE)

486 I have inadvertently snagged a trifecta on the tech thread.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2026 04:41 AM (6wpGE)

487 Re Californians wrecking Anchorage:
When California was enforcing its three strikes law it was common practice for Samoan gang affiliates who had two strikes to head north to Anchorage and live with family members so as to avoid accidentally winning the third strike life in prison game.

Posted by: waepnedmann at June 07, 2026 07:06 AM (Ak9Lp)

488 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KXHUb0wFRE

Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at June 07, 2026 10:07 AM (jrgJz)

The 1980s Movie [Lex]

When conceiving this post, I began broadly. I came up with a slew of titles that I believed represented “a 1980s movie.” My list included Hoosiers (1986), Mr. Mom (1983), Nine to Five (1980), Cloak and Dagger (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), Risky Business (1983), and The Karate Kid (1984).

Why these movies? I deliberately left out blockbusters from the 1980s, such as E.T., Star Wars, and any of the Indiana Jones pictures. Spectacles and blockbusters have been a given since at least the 1920s, so I didn’t feel a high budget movie qualified as representative of any particular decade. Different appetites (sword and sandal, war, sci-fi), yes, but no distinctive aspect that would tie any big-budget series of films to a decade.

I also put Academy Award-style films to the side—for the same reason. Movies seeking Oscar glory are always going to exist and don’t necessarily possess anything unique to a decade. Finally, I did not count the burgeoning independent film scene of the 1980s or foreign films.

What then, in my estimation, made the films on my list “80s” movies, other than the years in which they were produced? These mainstream domestic pictures, in my opinion, were particular to the 1980s because they were mid-budget fare, well-structured, quite clear in their dramatic purpose, and reflective of the more ordered zeitgeist of the Reagan era.

Many films will mirror the times in which they are produced, but I think there was something more distinctive to a middle grade 1980s movie than in other decades. Of course I have to check my bias. I came of age in the 1980s and am more familiar with the movies of that era, but I think I can dismiss these prejudices with a quick review of film history.

After the silent era, Hollywood entered its golden age, and the studio system, though legally dashed in the mid-1940s, managed to hang around through the 1950s and even into the 1960s. By the end of the 1960s, there were new rules, and the 1970s, many say, was the most free-handed decade for mainstream filmmakers as Hollywood reorganized itself.

By the 1980s, order took hold again and corporations edged out the latter-day studio mogul. Thus, you had a decade finally free of old studio rules but somewhat brought to heel by the new, conglomerate powers that be, as well as a Reaganesque social ethos. The result for cinema was the kind of middle tier films on my list.

Did this category of film exist in other eras? Of course, but they were more akin to b-roll or schlocky genre movies than solid, medium budget pictures with clean and compelling metaphors. To me, these are the hallmarks of a 1980s movie.
This type of movie hung around into the 1990s until the internet came along and probably destroyed quality filmmaking at the mainstream level forever.

You’ll never see a movie like Mr. Mom on 3,000 screens again. Blame it on Covid or CGI (now AI) or streaming or the unslakable thirst for prequels, sequels and origin stories, but the simple, effective, and meaningful medium-budget picture of the 1980s is likely not to be produced again—at least for broad consumption in domestic movie theaters.

Circling back, I thought I could discuss most, if not all, of the films on my list. But the more I wrote, I realized it would be too long an essay. So, I decided to dissect one movie I believe is emblematic of what I consider a 1980s movie. That film is Cloak and Dagger.

***
Cloak and Dagger is about a boy and his father (Dabney Coleman) who recently lost their mother/wife and are in the throes of grieving. The father works on an air force base and is frequently absent. The boy, Davey (Henry Thomas), is left to his own devices much of the time and often spins tales about espionage and conspiracies. He’s aided in these fantasies by the fictional character Jack Flack (also played by Coleman), who is a master spy of some kind. He eggs Davey on, much of the time to no good, until of course they stumble upon a real spy ring.

But the plot is incidental to the real power of the movie. Davey and his father are still reeling from their loss. Davey needs his father to help him get over his trauma, but the father is too busy—and too wounded himself—to give Davey the support he needs. Thus, Davey descends into the world of imaginary spies and secret missions to salve his wounds.

Jack Flack can only be seen by Davey, and the dramatic purpose of the movie is similarly shaded by the plot. Cloak and Dagger is not about a tween boy who [SPOILER ALERT] uncovers a conspiracy to encode secret military plans in a video game cassette. It’s a movie about grief and healing.

Cloak and Dagger might seem a little silly to modern eyes, but even its title is an indicator of its deftness. ‘Cloak and dagger’ of course defines the nature of the story, an adventure tale fraught with disguise and menace. At the same time, the title underscores the metaphor of the movie: Davey and his father are themselves caught in a personal caper.

Davey needs his widowered, hard-working father to be there for him. He needs his father to be his hero, and that’s why at the very end of the film [SPOLIER ALERT again] the two figures merge with the real father taking the place of the imaginary Jack Flack, and both father and son realizing they will have to behave differently to get past their grief. This movie is not about spies and secret tapes but a boy who needs his father to be his hero, not a mythical, cartoon version of one.

***
My debut essay on AoS was about the difference between clever and good screenwriting, and Cloak and Dagger epitomizes the style of good writing found in the 1980s, medium-budget range, which is almost a lost art now.

In that essay, I explained that a movie need not be a straight drama with a serious tone (from the 1980s think Ordinary People or Chariots of Fire) to be considered “good.” Offbeat films, even silly ones can fall into the good camp of screenwriting as opposed to the “clever,” which means the movie is more about its plot hook and therefore superficial.

Perhaps it’s no accident, then, that several of the movies on my list are goofy, veering towards hokey—with Cloak and Dagger the goofiest and hokiest of my choices.

Putting aside its playfulness, Cloak and Dagger is a tight, three-act movie with well-rounded characters, effective dialogue, smart pacing, and, above all, a strong dramatic purpose with which viewers can connect. The conclusion, [last SPOILER ALERT], where Jack Flack and the father merge with the father assuming the dominant role is one of the more touching final moments in a movie that I can recall.

Cloak and Dagger was a modest financial success and played on almost 1,200 screens. Had it not been up against the Summer Olympics I believe it would have gone wider and done even better business.

Much of Cloak and Dagger’s success in the 1980s and its impact since then, I believe, is due to its light touch, and, to me, a great deal of what makes an 80s movie just that is an insouciance mixed into the potage.

Saturday Night Fever is a movie that is almost inseparable from the 1970s, but it has many characteristics of an 80s movie—at least according to my definition. Yet there is one key difference which would keep it off my list.

Saturday Night Fever’s final moments leave things open-ended. As the credits roll, we don’t quite know what Tony Manero has achieved or if he has changed, but we know when Bender raises his fist at the conclusion of The Breakfast Club that something significant has shifted within him. The same can be said in the concluding frames of Cloak and Dagger, and that’s what defines an 80s movie—the cleanness and assuredness of its arc as a story.

This is the effect of Reagan’s America, a little bit square but surely a better and more self-confident era for the United States and filmmakers. There are no loose ends or dumb plot holes in my idea of a 1980s movie, and the stories are entirely believable within the context of the world they establish.

It was “morning in America again” or so Reagan said in a political ad in the 1980s. Our movies were also finding themselves again in this decade, and I’m not sure other decades can say the same.

Of course, I expect to be challenged on this theory. It is all a little speculative. Were there smaller, compact, issues-pictures in the 1950s, for example? Undoubtedly; but I’m not sure any of them could be called a “50s” movie. Were Magnificent Obsession or All That Heaven Allows or Imitation of Life (three wonderful Douglas Sirk pictures) unique to the 1950s or just produced then? I can see a case either way, and I expect my conceit to be tested.

In that spirit, what’s a “1980s movie” I’m leaving out? Or what other decade has a type of film particular to that time period? Prove me wrong, in essence, or point out that the type of movie I’m describing falls in other eras and is not unique to the 1980s.

Maybe the 80s will only be remembered for its music or big hair and shoulder pads, but I’m making a case that a certain type of film should also be indelibly written into that decade.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:30 PM

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1 *marches in*

Posted by: The Twonky at June 06, 2026 07:35 PM (vFG9F)

2
omg I not only read the content, I went back to the prior thread and read THAT content.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2026 07:39 PM (n7rxJ)

3 I am proud to announce we are having Election Day Concert in November to celebrate my victory again.

We will have Yoko Ono and Sir Mix Alot in concert to celebrate.

Hope you can join us...........

Posted by: Mayor Bass at June 06, 2026 07:39 PM (xl8DV)

4 We're off to a slow start tonight....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 07:40 PM (gnNyN)

5 I like the idea of “the 80’s movie”and think it was an era of getting back to optimism. The typical 60’s movie (not all of course) was stupid and nonsensical (which is why so many have been forgotten now) and the 70’s were marked by a dark, dystopian and often nihilistic ethos.

80’s movies went back to being fun! I’ll name one that I think of as a great 80’s movie, although a bit more quirky and less well know than those you name - Cherry 2000.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 07:40 PM (3mtTi)

6 "Obviously, he’s not Donald Trump. I mean, he is the gateway drug to Trumpism. Let’s put it this way: If he wins and [Texas Senate candidate James] Talarico loses, the cry across the land, in that Democratic consultant class, will be: ‘Find me more Platners. We need more Platners. These are the guys who know how to win.’ And where have I heard this before?" columnist David French said.

They really believe that fake rape is real rape.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 07:41 PM (/+uur)

7 On a similar theme, were there "representative" Sixties movies and ones for the Seventies? Leaving out the '70s blockbusters like Jaws, Star Wars, and Close Encounters just as TJM leaves aside the blockbusters of the '80s. And please, pretty please, leaving Easy Rider out of the Sixties.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 07:41 PM (wzUl9)

8 I think Breakfast Club is the most overrated film in history. I hate it more as I get older. Its right up there with any of the 70s nihilistic bullshit in this aspect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 07:41 PM (zZu0s)

9 I never saw Cloak & Daggrr

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 06, 2026 07:42 PM (fE6HJ)

10 Heathers. I think that was still in the 80s.

I tended to see the indie movies at the indie theaters. I keep thinking lately of Paris, Texas. I don't remember what it was about, so I don't know why it keeps popping into my head.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 07:43 PM (h7ZuX)

11 I could never buy Dabney Coleman in any role, he always felt like a guy who wandered onto the set and was just reading lines.

I think Breakfast Club is the most overrated film in history. I hate it more as I get older.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is that way to me. Its just awful and the main character is utterly despicable

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 06, 2026 07:43 PM (UZCuZ)

12 4 We're off to a slow start tonight....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 07:40 PM (gnNyN)

We were all trying to remember what movies we saw 40 years ago. It's rough, because we're only 29.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 07:45 PM (h7ZuX)

13 80’s movies went back to being fun! I’ll name one that I think of as a great 80’s movie, although a bit more quirky and less well know than those you name - Cherry 2000.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026

***
Gotcha! from the '80s, with Anthony Edwards as a college student who is a strategic expert and winner at a paintball-like game -- and finds himself caught up in spy intrigues in what was still Communist East Germany. A fun film for sure; and you get Linda Fiorentino (Men in Black) as a sloe-eyed secret agent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 07:45 PM (wzUl9)

14 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Red Dawn ... 1984

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 07:45 PM (EFkNq)

16 Caddy shack was 4 hours 4 minutes of Harold Ramos in the first cut.
Where are the cut 3 or so hours.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 07:46 PM (/+uur)

17 I could never buy Dabney Coleman in any role, he always felt like a guy who wandered onto the set and was just reading lines.

***
I have trouble seeing him as a hero, for sure. He has always played the rat and chiseler to perfection.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 07:46 PM (wzUl9)

18 Back to the Future 1985

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2026 07:46 PM (lJ0H4)

19 I have never seen Last Picture Show but love the 3 books.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 07:47 PM (/+uur)

20 11...Coleman, I think, was the only actor in both films on my list. He was the boss in Nine to Five. I also liked him in Tootsie. I don't think he had much range but was good at what he was given and knew not to stretch himself too much.

Posted by: Lex at June 06, 2026 07:47 PM (y4H1r)

21 I’d pick Soylent Green as a typical 70’s movie.

And “The Party” as a typical 60’s movie. If you’re not familiar with “The Party” it’s where a bunch of bored rich people wander around some wealthy persons house drinking and having bland and meaningless conversations for 90 minutes. At some point an elephant shows up. The End.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 07:47 PM (3mtTi)

22 Watched last couple days
They Were Expendable with John Wayne
Ike, Countdown to D-Day with Tom Selleck

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)

23 I just looked through my collection of 300 movies and realized that maybe 10% at most come from the 1980s.

Everything else is from 1990s onwards (with a few from the late 1960s and 1970s).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 07:47 PM (gnNyN)

24 French no more believes this crap than really enjoys watching his wife get plowed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 07:48 PM (zZu0s)

25 Caddy shack was 4 hours 4 minutes of Harold Ramos in the first cut.

Apparently it was just random crap they filmed because they thought it was funny, and someone had to try to make it into a movie. Whoever it was, did heroic work to create a sort of narrative and make it actually a story

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 06, 2026 07:48 PM (UZCuZ)

26 Watched Red Dawn today as well

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)

27 Short Circuit and Flight of the Navigator may not make your 'quintessential 80s movie' list, but they were great as an 80s kid, and they did have that 'there's a story, and a moral, and the plot hook doesn't overwhelm them'... IMO. Although Flight of the Navigator rides the edge on that.

Posted by: RandomDave at June 06, 2026 07:48 PM (aJQbY)

28 Repo Man. Liquid Sky. Eating Raoul. Das Boot. My Dinner with Andre*

*I'll never get those two hours or so back. What a bore.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 07:49 PM (h7ZuX)

29 Late 70s had lots of apocalyptic movies

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 07:49 PM (Ia/+0)

30 I'm currently watching Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

The pod race is about to begin!

Start your engines!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 07:49 PM (gnNyN)

31 Apparently it was just random crap they filmed because they thought it was funny, and someone had to try to make it into a movie. Whoever it was, did heroic work to create a sort of narrative and make it actually a story
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 06, 2026 07:48 PM (UZCuZ)

I would love the see that rap

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 07:50 PM (/+uur)

32 Ferris Bueller's Day Off is that way to me. Its just awful and the main character is utterly despicable
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 06, 2026 07:43 PM (UZCuZ)

Agreed. Although not as bad as Breajfast club and rhe rest of Hughes' oeuvre. I do not like any of the characters. Why root for Ferris? He's a shithead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 07:51 PM (zZu0s)

33 Just watched Jaws for the time in 20 years or so. On Starz. Meh. I knew when every good line would come up. Still fun I guess. I'm sorry it started Spielberg's career.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 07:51 PM (l26NL)

34 Interesting choice of movie, Lex. _Cloak and Dagger_ is one of those movies that sort of brushes the edge of memory but is never quite fully recalled. I remember liking it but only saw it at home on either HBO or Cinemax, not in the theater; it was not a cinematic experience for me.

Speaking of '80s movies, I just watched _The Last Starfighter_ this morning. It was another attempt to capitalize on the popularity of _Star Wars_ using the hero's journey in space, except the mentor doesn't exactly die and Catherine Mary Stuart seemed much more approachable (and taller) than Carrie Fisher.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at June 06, 2026 07:51 PM (FDHJL)

35 Late 70s had lots of apocalyptic movies
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 07:49 PM (Ia/+0)

Omega Man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 07:51 PM (zZu0s)

36 27. Yes! Those two could easily be on the list as well. I also was thinking of adding YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES, TIME BANDITS and THE LAST STARFIGHTER, but they were a little too genrish

Posted by: Lex at June 06, 2026 07:52 PM (y4H1r)

37 I guess not an eighties film but I've been meaning to watch Ferris Bullers Day Of again.

Posted by: Max Power at June 06, 2026 07:52 PM (ZaXN4)

38 Last Starfighter
Explorers

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 07:53 PM (zZu0s)

39 I tended to see the indie movies at the indie theaters. I keep thinking lately of Paris, Texas. I don't remember what it was about, so I don't know why it keeps popping into my head.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 07:43 PM (h7ZuX)

I remember that movie; rated it as “almost good”. There were parts, including the characters, that were very touching and well written. At the same time there were some huge plot holes that annoyed the heck out of me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 07:53 PM (3mtTi)

40 Raiders of the Lost Ark was a game changer.

Also a lot of great comedies released to start off the decade in 1980.

Caddy Shack and Hollywood Knights.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 07:53 PM (GseMx)

41 70s was the home of the weedy, pathetic leading "man" like Richard Benjamin and Dustin Hoffman. They were tired of those big manly heroic men, and wanted some metrosexual chinless sunken chests, for once!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 06, 2026 07:53 PM (UZCuZ)

42 Yesterday was some big anniversary for Ferris Bueller and the Cubs game did not disappoint. Many Ferris and Cameron sightings. Even one Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 07:53 PM (l26NL)

43 The pod race is about to begin!

Start your engines!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 07:49 PM (gnNyN)

Saw it in the theater. It was one of the 'wtf, contrived as hell toy inserts'- and that was after having to endure the interminable gungan section.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 07:54 PM (zZu0s)

44 A better "80s" movie with Matthew Broderick was WAR GAMES. That could have made the list too, but it was a little too on the nose for my taste

Posted by: Lex at June 06, 2026 07:55 PM (y4H1r)

45 A Sure Thing was great.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 07:55 PM (GseMx)

46 Just in the 1980s: The Blues Brothers

Good music, guns, cars, and crashes.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 07:55 PM (qx7Zg)

47 I like the idea of “the 80’s movie”and think it was an era of getting back to optimism.

I remain convinced the 80s were like beer. Perceived differently by everyone according to individual pallet. Sudden Impact and The Dead Pool were made in the 80s. So was The Presidio. Not "feel good flicks". I could go on and on.

I'm not sure experiences across the spectrum were more divergent than the 80s.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 07:55 PM (EFkNq)

48 Her Alibi (1989) was a lot of fun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

49 Top Secret!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

50 The best movie to come out of the 80s was "UHF"

Posted by: The Twonky at June 06, 2026 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

51 And Uncle Buck was 1989.

My most watched movie. I think it should have won an Oscar.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 07:57 PM (GseMx)

52 C'mon. First Blood. Plus you have Brian Dennehy who wants to kick the drifter's ass.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 06, 2026 07:57 PM (x/s3z)

53 The best movie to come out of the 80s was "UHF"
Posted by: The Twonky

I can't really argue with that.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 07:58 PM (l26NL)

54 Saw it in the theater. It was one of the 'wtf, contrived as hell toy inserts'- and that was after having to endure the interminable gungan section.

That and the factory sequence where it is revealed that R2D2 can fly (???). Felt so much like a video game level it was painful

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 06, 2026 07:58 PM (UZCuZ)

55 Top Secret!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

I'd add Spies Like Us, with Donna Dixon and two male comedians.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 07:59 PM (qx7Zg)

56 Seems like Chuck Norris movies were getting big in the 80s.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 07:59 PM (h7ZuX)

57 Apparently it was just random crap they filmed because they thought it was funny, and someone had to try to make it into a movie. Whoever it was, did heroic work to create a sort of narrative and make it actually a story
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 06, 2026 07:48 PM (UZCuZ)

If I remember the stories about the making of, they looked at the first cut and realized it was a steaming pile of crap. Chevy Chase was supposed to be the comic lead, and he just stood around like a wooden cigar store Indian. The stuff about the caddy’s (much more in the first version) was boring and no one cared.

So the genius move was to bring in Dangerfield and Bill Murray and tell them to ad lib their way through a new set of scenes. And of course, they turned a disaster into a triumph.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 07:59 PM (3mtTi)

58 Amadeus was released in I think 1984. Prime has a new multi episode treatment of it and it's pretty good. Salieri is far more dark. I thought both Mozart and Constanze were miscast. But that's just me. No one can beat F Murray Abraham. Too many notes.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 08:00 PM (l26NL)

59 Ghostbusters, Labyrinth, Wargames, The Neverending Story, The Goonies, The Last Starfighter, Big Trouble In Little China, Weird Science, Tron..... it was a good decade to be a kid/teen who liked sci-fi and fantasy stuff.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 08:00 PM (VHUov)

60 Oh man. Been watching a few movies lately. All of them horror of various kinds.

"Backrooms", "Obsession", "It Follows", and presently "Barbarian" which is kind of two half-movies. Also "Island of Lost Souls" which remains the best of the "Moreau" movies (not that this is high praise).
Of these "Obsession" is the best. It's nuts. I'm half obsessed with this myself.
"It Follows" has some pacing issues, seems more of a mood piece about decaying suburbs of Detroit ("Barbarian" also has this).
"Backrooms" is an existential horror.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:01 PM (gKWVE)

61 So the genius move was to bring in Dangerfield and Bill Murray and tell them to ad lib their way through a new set of scenes. And of course, they turned a disaster into a triumph.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 07:59 PM (3mtTi)

The Murray's were crucial because they had actual caddy experience .

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:01 PM (GseMx)

62 Fatal Attraction - 1987.

A real knee slapper.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 08:01 PM (EFkNq)

63 Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:01 PM (gKWVE

Haven't seen it but sounds similar to the Cube movies.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:02 PM (GseMx)

64 I'd add Spies Like Us, with Donna Dixon and two male comedians.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 07:59 PM (qx7Zg)

And Vanessa Angel's breasts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:03 PM (zZu0s)

65 I watched a really bad movie last weekend. Sure, I watched it with RiffTrax commentary, so it being bad was sort of a given, but this wad in a very special way...

The movie was 'In Pursuit,' and it starred Billy Baldwin as a lawyer of dubious ability. The movie begins with Baldwin being arrested for the murder of some rich jerk. Baldwin was full of righteous indignation at this; he is clearly being framed! The corrupt prosecutor has it out for him! Everything is so unfair, and he has no choice but to break the law to clear his name! ...But, then it was revealed that Baldwin was not only banging the dead guy's wife, but was also in the process of blackmailing the guy for 10 million dollars. Not exactly murder, but it's hard to feel sorry for a crook like Baldwin being blamed for other crimes...The movie then tried to justify Baldwin's actions but...eh. The movie tried to more big twists and reveals, but after that first one flopped, the rest just felt like cheap manipulation...

Posted by: Castle Guy at June 06, 2026 08:04 PM (3v7ra)

66 I like any movie Clint Eastwood was the main character....

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 06, 2026 08:04 PM (FrBdv)

67 The pod race is about to begin!
Start your engines!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Saw it in the theater. It was one of the 'wtf, contrived as hell toy inserts'- and that was after having to endure the interminable gungan section.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

After they made bank on a video game of the original Death Star trench run, every SW movie had to have an "and this part will be the multi-million-dollar video game" sequence.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 08:04 PM (VHUov)

68 John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever was HUGE in the whole disco phenomenon, and then did Urban Cowboy, and C&W bars with mechanical bulls bloomed across the land.
Weird that he was so instrumental in two massive musical, societal trends.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at June 06, 2026 08:04 PM (MNCvZ)

69 I'd add Spies Like Us, with Donna Dixon and two male comedians.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 07:59 PM (qx7Zg)

And Vanessa Angel's breasts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:03 PM (zZu0s)

In their breakout role.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 08:06 PM (qx7Zg)

70 After they made bank on a video game of the original Death Star trench run, every SW movie had to have an "and this part will be the multi-million-dollar video game" sequence.
Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 08:04 PM (VHUov)
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Part of the genius of George Lucas was to cash in on all the tie-in merchandise.

Then Disney came along and destroyed it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 08:06 PM (gnNyN)

71 There was a lot of cool sci-fi movies made in the 80's. I think 80's movies were pretty black and white, no middle ground. There were heroes, and scumbags, and the scumbags got ruthlessly crushed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:07 PM (snZF9)

72 Gotcha! from the '80s, with Anthony Edwards as a college student who is a strategic expert and winner at a paintball-like game -- and finds himself caught up in spy intrigues in what was still Communist East Germany. A fun film for sure; and you get Linda Fiorentino (Men in Black) as a sloe-eyed secret agent.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 06, 2026 07:45 PM (wzUl9)

A fun movie, made better by the fact that when I saw it, I had been to West/East Berlin the year before.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 06, 2026 08:07 PM (T6aVk)

73 Looks like it's going to be all John Wick, all night, at my house. I can watch one, but not all four in the same night. I'll go to bed and read.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 08:07 PM (h7ZuX)

74 Ghostbusters, Labyrinth, Wargames, The Neverending Story, The Goonies, The Last Starfighter, Big Trouble In Little China, Weird Science, Tron..... it was a good decade to be a kid/teen who liked sci-fi and fantasy stuff.

Posted by: mikeski at June 06, 2026 08:00 PM (VHUov)

Absolutely.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:08 PM (snZF9)

75 Backrooms" is an existential horror.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:01 PM (gKWVE)

I have not seen it (not my type of film) but my 13 year old grandson and his social group swear it’s the best movie they’ve ever seen and are all playing online video game expansions of it.

This doesn’t mean it’s “good”, but it’s definitely going to make a lot of money and be a model for Indy films in the future.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 08:09 PM (3mtTi)

76 Heathers was the anti-80s movie. It was a takedown of Hughes' stuff. A "deconstruction" as the 1990s would call it.
GenX was somewhat primed for this. "Return To Oz" took down the 1939 classic.
"The Wounded Land" trashes the Thomas Covenant series; and if you actually read the whole "Neverending Story" then... yeah. And then there was this music video, sucks for you if you liked the video it closes out.
youtu.be/a3ir9HC9vYg

Posted by: gKWVE's childhood was about watching childhoods be ruined at June 06, 2026 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

77 Looks like it's going to be all John Wick, all night, at my house. I can watch one, but not all four in the same night. I'll go to bed and read.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 08:07 PM (h7ZuX)
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Consider it as prepping for tomorrow's Sunday Morning Book Thread.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 08:09 PM (gnNyN)

78 -
The typical 60’s movie (not all of course) was stupid and nonsensical (which is why so many have been forgotten now) and the 70’s were marked by a dark, dystopian and often nihilistic ethos.
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I really HATED most big movies in the 70's. Depressing CRAP. But they paved the way for Star Wars, which was the opposite.

Posted by: irright at June 06, 2026 08:10 PM (0jU3V)

79 Craig Wasson was asked to house sit for a friend. He watched a woman writhe through a telescope. It was all a set up. Body Double, I think. Weird, but good for the 80's.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 08:10 PM (l26NL)

80 27 Short Circuit and Flight of the Navigator may not make your 'quintessential 80s movie' list, but they were great as an 80s kid, and they did have that 'there's a story, and a moral, and the plot hook doesn't overwhelm them'... IMO. Although Flight of the Navigator rides the edge on that.
Posted by: RandomDave at June 06, 2026 07:48 PM (aJQbY)

I watched Flight of the Navigator a couple times as a kid. It was right at the edge of 'disturbing.'

So was Secret of NIMH, for that matter. Didn't have detailed memories of that one until I re-discovered it in the late 90s....but the slightly-unnerving feel of mouse-inventor's-working from the opening of the movie...that mood really stuck with me.

Posted by: Castle Guy at June 06, 2026 08:10 PM (3v7ra)

81 Amusingly enough, the wife and I watched Dreamscape. The story is good but I'll concede my wife's point that the acting is a bit wooden.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 06, 2026 08:11 PM (/k3in)

82 John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever was HUGE in the whole disco phenomenon, and then did Urban Cowboy, and C&W bars with mechanical bulls bloomed across the land.
Weird that he was so instrumental in two massive musical, societal trends.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at June 06, 2026 08:04 PM (MNCvZ)

Prior to the movie, a high school buddy and I drove to Pasadena when we were 16 and attempted to get into Gilley's. I'm glad they turned us away because we were out of our league. I'm just glad we got out of the parking lot.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:11 PM (GseMx)

83 The historian in me believes to an extent that if western civilization continues on a good trajectory that 500 years from now the 1980s and 1990s will have been pivotal; American cultural confidence really seized hold of the globe at this point and the mass culture produced better-than-average artifacts across the board. The sporting '80s started with the Miracle on Ice, the world became accustomed to seeing musical artists perform their work without having to attend a concert (MTV), ample decent-quality movies abounded, pro-Western techno-thriller literature was popular, etc.

If western civilization declines, the 1980s might have been the last of the golden ages for a millennium or two.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at June 06, 2026 08:12 PM (FDHJL)

84 Amusingly enough, the wife and I watched Dreamscape. The story is good but I'll concede my wife's point that the acting is a bit wooden.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 06, 2026 08:11 PM (/k3in)

I remember liking it a lot. I think the girl was wooden. The villain psychic was good.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:13 PM (GseMx)

85 68...I hope Travolta didn't make heroin cool after Pulp Fiction

And since I've brought up Tarantino, I re-watched True Romance for the first time in a long, long time. It had some isolated, tense scenes (much like Inglorious Basterds) and the style was no holds barred, but I thought it was mainly stupid, writing-wise.

Posted by: Lex at June 06, 2026 08:13 PM (y4H1r)

86 I almost forgot Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. Shatner and Montalban were incredible in that movie. I also enjoyed Kirk's explanation of his solution to the Kobayashi Maru.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 08:14 PM (qx7Zg)

87 Looks like it's going to be all John Wick, all night, at my house. I can watch one, but not all four in the same night. I'll go to bed and read.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 08:07 PM (h7ZuX)

Mix in Black 47 for an 1847 Irish John Wick.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:15 PM (GseMx)

88 I watched Flight of the Navigator a couple times as a kid. It was right at the edge of 'disturbing.'

That was nothing to The Explorers. Prepubescent body gets molested by an alien. WTF?

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:15 PM (gKWVE)

89 Now the sequel staying alive was cringe even with finola hughes

In part because badham went over to political thrillers like blue thunder and wargames

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:16 PM (bXbFr)

90 Flashdance
Purple Rain
Buckaroo Banzai

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 08:16 PM (xX2oA)

91 I almost forgot Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. Shatner and Montalban were incredible in that movie. I also enjoyed Kirk's explanation of his solution to the Kobayashi Maru.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 08:14 PM (qx7Zg)

Yup, and uh...Kirsty Alley was nice to watch.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:17 PM (snZF9)

92
I think Eastwood films have mostly aged badly, especially since the Mandalorian films have ripped off his voice for Pedro Pascal.

Posted by: Auspex at June 06, 2026 08:17 PM (Y8DZL)

93 Chariots of Fire may be the most boring movie I ever watched part of. I also hated the music. It's overblown and mawkish, thus, perfect for the movie.

Posted by: huerfano at June 06, 2026 08:17 PM (VJX5o)

94 I don't know that Wrath Of Khan counts as an 80s movie unless you count the Botany Bay crew's ridiculous hairmetal 'dos.
BALLS TO THE WALL YOUTU.BE/B_3TlrZLpQ0

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:17 PM (gKWVE)

95 Don't forget 80s fantasies. Like The Breastmaster. Princess Bride. Conan movies. A whole lot. I think fantasy kind of peaked for number and quality in the 80s. There must be something about the genre that captured the decade.

I was going to add Big Trouble in Little China in the general category but I don't know if it was an 80s movie, I think it is kind of timeless.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 08:17 PM (3uBP9)

96 Rocky Horror Picture Show
Lost Boys

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 08:18 PM (xX2oA)

97 I almost forgot Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. Shatner and Montalban were incredible in that movie. I also enjoyed Kirk's explanation of his solution to the Kobayashi Maru.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 08:14 PM (qx7Zg)

Yup, and uh...Kirsty Alley was nice to watch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:17 PM (snZF9)

I had to see if Bulg was around.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 08:18 PM (qx7Zg)

98 Yss wrath of khan was first rate

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:18 PM (bXbFr)

99 Innerspace is one i liked. Might be early 90s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:18 PM (zZu0s)

100 Judson scott off thar cult series the phoenix

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:19 PM (bXbFr)

101 There was is also a stark qualitative difference between now and the 80's, 90s and early aughts.

Pick any year and there will be at least 2 dozen eminently good films in any given year.

I was scrounging around to liberate some new films to watch and I came up with 5 from 2025 and 3 from 2026.

That's 8 films across 1.5 years that are worth a view.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:19 PM (XV/Pl)

102 Mad Max 2 and 3- or Beyond Thunderdome.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:19 PM (zZu0s)

103 Posted by: Lex at June 06, 2026 08:13 PM (y4H1r)

What did you think was stupid? It's my favorite Tarantino written movie. It's not that I would disagree but just can't think of anything that made me think that's just too stupid. Lot of suspensions of disbelief which is normal in movies but nothing that took me out of it.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:19 PM (GseMx)

104 Real Genius (1985) was the first film I saw Val Kilmer in.

The popcorn is unforgettable

Posted by: SMOD at June 06, 2026 08:19 PM (O7XEN)

105 >59 ..... it was a good decade to be a kid/teen who liked sci-fi and fantasy stuff.

>71 I think 80's movies were pretty black and white, no middle ground.

Amen to those comments, mikeski, and Berserker.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at June 06, 2026 08:19 PM (FDHJL)

106 Thx Lex.
Two movies from 1984 : Night of the Comet and Repo Man. Small fun movies that showed interesting sides of the eighties

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 06, 2026 08:20 PM (5y7pw)

107 96 Rocky Horror Picture Show
Lost Boys
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 08:18 PM (xX2oA)

Rocky Horror was 1975.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 06, 2026 08:20 PM (T6aVk)

108 Metal Storm-The destruction of Jared-Syn
Cherry 2000
Galaxina

All somewhat cheesy, but sooo 1980s.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:20 PM (snZF9)

109 You can pretty much pick any year of the 80s and come up with a dozen films.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:21 PM (XV/Pl)

110 I have fond memories of Night Shift, (1982--Shelley Long, Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton).

Posted by: irright at June 06, 2026 08:22 PM (0jU3V)

111 That was nothing to The Explorers. Prepubescent body gets molested by an alien. WTF?
Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:15 PM (gKWVE)

As a kid I liked it for the part before they actually went exploring. When it was about making a spacecraft out of garbage cans. It was captivating for 8-10 year old me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

112 So many good movies from the 1980s I don’t know where to begin.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 06, 2026 08:22 PM (T6aVk)

113 have fond memories of Night Shift, (1982--Shelley Long, Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton).
Posted by: irright at June 06, 2026 08:22 PM (0jU3V)

Another great comedy of the 80's.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:22 PM (GseMx)

114 Eastwood films have mostly aged badly

You don't have to worry, Kid. I ain't gonna kill you.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:23 PM (gKWVE)

115 Never got the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2026 08:23 PM (4ZxBh)

116 The best Christmas film EVAH … Die Hard

Posted by: SMOD at June 06, 2026 08:23 PM (O7XEN)

117 Random film from January of 1987, Alan Quartermain and the lost city of gold.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:24 PM (XV/Pl)

118 Enemy Mine, Space hunter, Ice Pirates, Krull, My step mother is an alien, E.T., My science project, etc etc.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:24 PM (snZF9)

119 Considering uma thurman got the overdose who knows

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:24 PM (bXbFr)

120 >106 Night of the Comet

Another movie featuring Catherine Mary Stuart (IIRC).

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at June 06, 2026 08:24 PM (FDHJL)

121 Berserker did you like Spinal Tap?

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:24 PM (GseMx)

122
Is this the prelude to an Andy Sidaris retrospective?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (O0L8i)

123 Tony Montana: Say hello to my little friend!

Scarface

Posted by: SMOD at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (O7XEN)

124 Berserker did you like Spinal Tap?

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:24 PM (GseMx)

Yup. Seeing I lived 75% of the shit that went on in that movie, I can relate.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (snZF9)

125 I saw athertons firsr role in hindenberg hes been insufferable for nearly 50 years

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (bXbFr)

126 Eastwood films have mostly aged badly..

I'm not understanding this comment at all.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (GseMx)

127 Rocky Horror was 1975.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Sorry. I didn’t discover it until college in 1986. And it played every Friday night at The Neptune.

It was fun. And odd.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 08:26 PM (xX2oA)

128 Random film from February of 1987, The Quick and the dead.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:26 PM (XV/Pl)

129 @120 yup, an extremely cute Canuck

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 06, 2026 08:26 PM (5y7pw)

130 80s?

Saw Cloak & Dagger and liked it well enough, but not enough to buy a dvd and probably won't revisit. (Early Dabney Coleman? - a third season, I think, episode of the Fugitive called "Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet" which was stolen by Pat Hingle, and you almost don't recognized Coleman without the mustache). Probably won't revisit any of the John Hughes stuff either.

Carpenter's The Thing. Aliens. The Princess Bride (though I prefer Goldman's book to the movie). The Color of Money. Kubrick's The Shining (though I preferred King's book to the flick). Stand by Me. Deathtrap. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Movie viewing this week? Battleground & The Young Lions on Memorial Day. Saved The Longest Day for this afternoon. Revisited The Haunting (1963 of course), The Time Machine (1960), the original Thing, and It! The Terror from Beyond Space.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 06, 2026 08:26 PM (q3u5l)

131 103...comic store clerk becomes fearless drug dealer who never stumbles on a word. Leave it to QT to write a scene so he can have a white actor say the N-word. James Gandolfini throws Arquette around a motel room and she'd be dead ten times over but somehow finds the power to get through it and kill him. I found none of it believable. It's obviously supposed to be over the top, but I didn't buy in at the beginning and when you can't get a reader/viewer to buy in early on you'll likely never get them.

Posted by: Lex at June 06, 2026 08:26 PM (y4H1r)

132 Random film from January of 1987, Alan Quartermain and the lost city of gold.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:24 PM (XV/Pl)
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Not a good movie.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 08:27 PM (gnNyN)

133 Random Film from October of 87, The Princess Bride.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:27 PM (XV/Pl)

134 I was pleasantly surprised by Cherry 2000. A 1987 cashin of the Mad Max / Road Warrior phenom that turned out maybe 6/10.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:27 PM (gKWVE)

135 William Atherton was in the Godfather II. It's uncredited but he plays an army officer who's putting Frankie Pentangeli into the car. He gives this weird look into the camera as if it's a real dramatic moment for him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 06, 2026 08:29 PM (5y7pw)

136 Dont get me started on scarface

It is disrespectful to my people not only with murray abrahams robert loggia and oacinos terrible accent oliver stones screenwriting and the overall depiction of miami

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:29 PM (bXbFr)

137 Random Film from October of 87, The Princess Bride.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:27 PM (XV/Pl)
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OK. That one's a classic.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 08:29 PM (gnNyN)

138 @132

>>Not a good movie.

What are you taking about, good movie?

It's good b movie starring Richard Chamberland and Kate Capshaw.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:29 PM (XV/Pl)

139 One obscure 1980s SF/horror (that I found too late) was "The Stuff".

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:29 PM (gKWVE)

140 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2026 08:29 PM (4ZxBh)

141 I stand corrected he was also in centennial

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:30 PM (bXbFr)

142 An American Werewolf in London.

I saw that in the theater. Scared the crap out of me.

Snuck into Purple Rain because. Rated R. Not old enough.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 08:30 PM (xX2oA)

143 I would put Blade Runner on the list of 80's movie, and I don't think it fails any of your extra rules. Was not a block buster. Not Academy bait. Not big budget.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 06, 2026 08:30 PM (syz1S)

144 Its very cringey with aharon stone cringing up a storm john rhys davis as the worse villain evarr

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:31 PM (bXbFr)

145 Random movie from November of 87, The Running Man.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:31 PM (XV/Pl)

146 @142 Griffin Dunne falling apart piecemeal in An American Werewolf in London is hysterical

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 06, 2026 08:31 PM (5y7pw)

147 I think Dudes is one of the forgetten gems from the 80's.

Posted by: Reforger at June 06, 2026 08:32 PM (ZxzYs)

148 I think the movie _The Right Stuff_ was released in the 1980s.

Obviously the book was a decade or so earlier, and the historical material was from the late 1950s and early 1960s. It did well setting the cultural ground for the sense of expectation of American technological superiority versus the rest of the world.

I was mostly satisfied with the adaptation, although on rewatch a decade or so ago I felt compelled to find the imagery inserted during the breaking of the sound barrier to be completely hokey.

To be fair, the first time I watched it I hadn't flown past Mach 1 yet.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at June 06, 2026 08:32 PM (FDHJL)

149 Another random film from November of 87, Planes Trains and Automobiles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:32 PM (XV/Pl)

150 A lot of boobies in 80s movies.

Posted by: davidt at June 06, 2026 08:32 PM (Q+gd/)

151 Night of the Comet is worth a watch just for the closing scene. See what happens if you cross against the lights?

Saw Return of the Jedi in the theater and almost fell asleep.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 06, 2026 08:32 PM (q3u5l)

152 Snuck into Purple Rain because. Rated R. Not old enough.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Did that for Raw.
The good old emergency door trick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2026 08:33 PM (4ZxBh)

153 Also the howling on a double bill

With some comedy twists

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:33 PM (bXbFr)

154 Two random films from December of 87, Wall Street and Moonstruck.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:33 PM (XV/Pl)

155 Posted by: Lex at June 06, 2026 08:26 PM (y4H1r)

None of that was any different than any other Tarantino movie or most any other action movie imo. But I understand there are somethings in movies that can take someone completely out of it while others can just overlook it as a one off possibility.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:34 PM (GseMx)

156 150 A lot of boobies in 80s movies.
Posted by: davidt at June 06, 2026 08:32 PM (Q+gd/)

"Just One Of The Guys" was good.

Posted by: how could she ever have passed for male at June 06, 2026 08:34 PM (gKWVE)

157 I just looked through 87 and counted 32 A and B movies worth watching.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:35 PM (XV/Pl)

158 Phillip ksuffman did a decent rendition of wolfes work

He couldnt full capture the first chapter

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:35 PM (bXbFr)

159 lot of boobies in 80s movies.
Posted by: davidt at June 06, 2026 08:32 PM (Q+gd/)

Best boobs reveal

Just One of the Guys.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:36 PM (GseMx)

160 Berserker did you like Spinal Tap?

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:24 PM (GseMx)

Yup. Seeing I lived 75% of the shit that went on in that movie, I can relate.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (snZF9)

Heh. Alice Cooper quipped that he swears the writers followed his tour., taking notes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 08:36 PM (0aYVJ)

161 Although the imagery is a little jarring

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:36 PM (bXbFr)

162 157 I just looked through 87 and counted 32 A and B movies worth watching.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:35 PM (XV/Pl)

It's crazy, isn't it? I'm not aware of a single movie I've wanted to see in the last several years. I was always going to the movies in the 80s.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 08:37 PM (h7ZuX)

163 Just One Of The Guys" was good.
Posted by: how could she ever have passed for male at June 06, 2026 08:34 PM (gKWVE)

Holy crap. Best horde mind ever.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:37 PM (GseMx)

164 "Just One Of The Guys" was good.
Posted by: how could she ever have passed for male at June 06, 2026 08:34 PM (gKWVE)

One of the best surprise nudity and 'where the hell was she hiding those?!' Ever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:38 PM (zZu0s)

165 Just One Of The Guys should have been 3D.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:38 PM (gKWVE)

166 The villain psychic was good.
Posted by: polynikes

Between Dreamscape, The Warriors and The Crow, that man played a really good villain.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 06, 2026 08:39 PM (/k3in)

167 Yup. Seeing I lived 75% of the shit that went on in that movie, I can relate.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (snZF9)

Elploding drummers?

Posted by: Reforger at June 06, 2026 08:40 PM (ZxzYs)

168 Heh. Alice Cooper quipped that he swears the writers followed his tour., taking notes.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian

I've heard that a few bands found it more a documentary than a comedy.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 06, 2026 08:40 PM (/k3in)

169 I don't visit the movie thread often but tonight I'm seeing mentions of the 80s and boobies - both of which are among my favorite things. Looks like I picked the right night to be here!

Posted by: Doof at June 06, 2026 08:41 PM (QMAsf)

170 I watch more rifftrax than I do recent movies.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 08:41 PM (3uBP9)

171 Predator. 1987. $15 million Budget. Two future governors.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 06, 2026 08:41 PM (TR4+2)

172 Better of Dead and Real Genius. Very 80s.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 06, 2026 08:42 PM (mseD3)

173 Crushed by stone henge

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:42 PM (bXbFr)

174 115 Never got the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2026 08:23 PM (4ZxBh)

I got dragged to a midnight showing in a good old fashioned theater way back when and it was a hoot. Most of the audience was in on the show, so it made it fun.

Years later, I tried to watch it on home video. Waste of time. Without the antics of the audience, there isn't much to the movie.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 06, 2026 08:43 PM (syz1S)

175 >>> I don't visit the movie thread often but tonight I'm seeing mentions of the 80s and boobies - both of which are among my favorite things. Looks like I picked the right night to be here!
Posted by: Doof at June 06, 2026 08:41 PM (QMAsf)

Well, you can't have 80085 with out 80.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 08:43 PM (3uBP9)

176 155...the kids who stole Marcellus Wallace's briefcase in Pulp Fiction, who have no idea what they are doing and get lit up easily, they are the heroes of True Romance and thus totally non believable for me.

QT always has stylized dialogue, I'll give you that, but the gangsters of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs were very good and experienced at what they did. I didn't believe Cristian Slater for one second

Posted by: Lex at June 06, 2026 08:43 PM (y4H1r)

177 A lot of boobies in 80s movies.

Posted by: davidt at June 06, 2026 08:32 PM (Q+gd/)

Yup, the invention of the tank top titties. For it is written- All sci-fi space movies will have bra-less chicks in tank tops.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:43 PM (snZF9)

178 Shane blsck was oart of the cast

He forgot everything he knew for the predator

Thats true of ridley scott as well

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:44 PM (bXbFr)

179 This far, and no one's mentioned Clue?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 08:44 PM (qx7Zg)

180 The House movies were very 80s. The second is my favorite.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 08:46 PM (3uBP9)

181 I am apparently the only person alive who has never seen Pulp Fiction. I am very happy about this, and have no intention of changing. My loathing for Hollywood has had me deliberately avoiding their shit products for a long, long time.

I also despise Quentin Tarantino, and will not watch anything he's directed.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 08:47 PM (X+xvk)

182 Ok, a 'star' of the 80's i never got: Audrey Moore. Liza Manelli. Wtf?

I guess I was too young to get the 'he's drunk all the time' bit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:47 PM (DR/Xu)

183 Yup, the invention of the tank top titties. For it is written- All sci-fi space movies will have bra-less chicks in tank tops.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:43 PM (snZF9)

According to Carrie Fisher, George Lucas explained to her that there are no bras in space.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 06, 2026 08:47 PM (syz1S)

184 The House movies were very 80s. The second is my favorite.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 08:46 PM (3uBP9)

Was the William Katz and the guy from Night Court?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:47 PM (DR/Xu)

185 Dudley Moore?

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 08:48 PM (X+xvk)

186 Dudley Moore?
Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 08:48 PM (X+xvk)

My phone evidently did not like him either. Not even going to bother to add his name.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:49 PM (DR/Xu)

187 John Carpenter had a pretty good run in the 80s, I thought. Ditto David Cronenberg.

And if you want a nice little 1980s horror movie B picture, Night of the Creeps is worth a look.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 06, 2026 08:49 PM (q3u5l)

188 >>> The House movies were very 80s. The second is my favorite.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 08:46 PM (3uBP9)

Was the William Katz and the guy from Night Court?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:47 PM (DR/Xu)

The first one yes. And the movies have had multiple Cheers cast members too.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 08:50 PM (3uBP9)

189 22 Watched last couple days
They Were Expendable with John Wayne
Ike, Countdown to D-Day with Tom Selleck
Posted by: Skip
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John Wayne jumps in the jeep, 'ye haw!'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 08:50 PM (0kM66)

190 Liza Minnelli is easy to explain. Nepo baby. Judy Garland's daughter, so she was in.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 06, 2026 08:51 PM (syz1S)

191 167 Yup. Seeing I lived 75% of the shit that went on in that movie, I can relate.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (snZF9)

It’s a movie like Slap Shot - every minor league hockey player said that was the most true to life hockey movie ever made.
I think my favorite scene was the fight breaking out during the national anthem. (Yeah, 70’s movie)

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 08:51 PM (3mtTi)

192 I am apparently the only person alive who has never seen Pulp Fiction. I am very happy about this, and have no intention of changing. My loathing for Hollywood has had me deliberately avoiding their shit products for a long, long time.

I also despise Quentin Tarantino, and will not watch anything he's directed.
Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 08:47 PM (X+xvk)

You aren't alone. I haven't seen it either.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 08:52 PM (qx7Zg)

193 Those chesticles are going to be mighty distracting for a fella in microgravity.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 08:52 PM (gKWVE)

194 I hate Pulp Fiction. Hated Resevoir Dogs. Like Jackie Brown and the first Kill Bill (parts of it.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:53 PM (DR/Xu)

195 Yup. Seeing I lived 75% of the shit that went on in that movie, I can relate.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (snZF9)

Elploding drummers?

Posted by: Reforger at June 06, 2026 08:40 PM (ZxzYs)

In our case it was a vanishing drummer. Poof, without a trace, as if he was never on earth, gone, never heard from again, or found. Other similarities-
Primitive wireless systems. We didn't pickup air traffic though, instead we got frigging truck drivers on CB Radios
Getting lost back stage in the theater. Yes and no. It was an ancient theater, we decided to do some back hallway and stairs exploring. We got a little turned around, opened a door and found ou selves on a catwalk waaaay up above the stage. We also pulled too much power with the amps and PA, a fire started in the wall and kinda burned down the attached building next to it. Ooops
The controlling girlfriend who couldn't shut her frigging mouth and thought her opinion was worth a shit.
Nigel- My brother from a different mother. Frigging goofball, but was serious as a heart attack when it came to the shows. We both have rooms of guitars, some unplayed. He hated the girlfriend too.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:53 PM (snZF9)

196 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 08:51 PM (3mt

Wool by the pool.

That said I think I liked Goon better.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:53 PM (GseMx)

197 Clues grown on me, its kinds silly

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:53 PM (bXbFr)

198 CLUE is awesome. Tim Curry at his best.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:55 PM (DR/Xu)

199 The House movies were very 80s. The second is my favorite.
Posted by: banana Dream

The first was hilarious. It was a kind of teen horror that only took off with VHS sales.

I'd say much of the phenomenon of the '80s movies was because the middle-brow, middle budget movies soared because of the VHS rental era. Those films stuck only on people showing up at Wherehouse/Blockbuster on Friday and saying,"Ok, just get something so we can eat dinner."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2026 08:55 PM (diia5)

200 Little Shop of Horrors, 1986

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 08:55 PM (0kM66)

201 Random film from February of 83, The King of Comedy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:55 PM (XV/Pl)

202 Clues grown on me, its kinds silly
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:53 PM (bXbFr)

That's why I like it. I watch it when I need silly.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 06, 2026 08:56 PM (qx7Zg)

203 Ladyhawke. Loved that movie. And bunch of other Rutger Hauer movies.

Posted by: farquad at June 06, 2026 08:56 PM (CFMhl)

204 CLUE is awesome. Tim Curry at his best.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 08:55 PM (DR/Xu)
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If we're going with Tim Curry movies of the 1980s, then we have to include Legend on that list...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 08:56 PM (gnNyN)

205 Thats why she had the slave girl outfit in jabbas palace

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:56 PM (bXbFr)

206 Random film from April of 83, Lone Wolf McQuade.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:56 PM (XV/Pl)

207 David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
Ian Faith: I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it.
Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 08:56 PM (3mtTi)

208 Surprised no comments about The Lost Boys.

Awesome soundtrack. Good story. An iconic line.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 08:57 PM (3bWKb)

209 The four different endings

Yes but you couldnt recognize him in legend

Genuinely creepy dude

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:57 PM (bXbFr)

210 Slap Shot was easily the best hockey movie ever. And I like hockey movies.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 08:58 PM (0aYVJ)

211 201 Little Shop of Horrors, 1986

Posted by: Braenyard

Omg. Rick Moranis and Steve Martin. Hilarious.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 08:58 PM (3bWKb)

212 Random film from February of 83, The King of Comedy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:55 PM (XV/Pl)

De Niro's best acting role .

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:58 PM (GseMx)

213 Random film from November of 83, A Christmas Story.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 08:58 PM (XV/Pl)

214 Ladyhawke. Loved that movie. And bunch of other Rutger Hauer movies.

Posted by: farquad at June 06, 2026 08:56 PM (CFMhl)

The Hitcher.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 06, 2026 08:58 PM (dK+Kv)

215 Was that shearer or reiners writing

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 08:59 PM (bXbFr)

216 Yup. Seeing I lived 75% of the shit that went on in that movie, I can relate.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (snZF9)

It’s a movie like Slap Shot - every minor league hockey player said that was the most true to life hockey movie ever made.
I think my favorite scene was the fight breaking out during the national anthem. (Yeah, 70’s movie)

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 08:51 PM (3mtTi)

Yeah I was pretty convinced they interviewed a shit ton of musicians and took notes, and then used the most common of the screw ups. My list is long.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 08:59 PM (snZF9)

217 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 08:58 PM (0aYVJ)

Goon has to be your second favorite right?

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:59 PM (GseMx)

218 Some oddball movies like Timebandits, Buckaroo Banzai, Brazil, I think they were to weird to escape the 80s.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 09:00 PM (3uBP9)

219
Steve Martin is only palatable in small doses. Which is still better than Chevy Chase, who's not palatable at all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 09:00 PM (O0L8i)

220 213. King of Comedy...yes. Great call!

Posted by: Lex at June 06, 2026 09:00 PM (y4H1r)

221 The Three Amigos

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 09:00 PM (3bWKb)

222
I don't get the Ferris Bueller's Day Off hate.

But, y'all do y'all.

I thought the movie was hilarious and a great time at the flex.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 09:01 PM (iJfKG)

223 Random movie from April 1984

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 09:01 PM (h7ZuX)

224 Banxai initially a flop waa just a year before back to the future

But the screenwriter wd richter was weird

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:02 PM (bXbFr)

225 Welp. Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace is over.

Time to move on to the next phase of this project...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2026 09:02 PM (gnNyN)

226 I thought the movie was hilarious and a great time at the flex.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 09:01 PM (iJfKG)

It hit with a particular demo. High school kids.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 06, 2026 09:02 PM (dK+Kv)

227 Random Film from February of 89, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 09:02 PM (XV/Pl)

228 224 Random movie from April 1984

The Gods Must Be Crazy
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June

Oh yes! That was a great low budget movie. I wonder how it holds up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 09:02 PM (3bWKb)

229 Random movie from April 1984

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 09:01 PM (h7ZuX)

That movie was frigging great.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 09:03 PM (snZF9)

230 And from 1981 -- Nighthawks. Rutger Hauer a terrific bad guy, and I don't think Stallone's ever been better than in this one.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 06, 2026 09:03 PM (q3u5l)

231 Random Film from September of 89, Black Rain.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 09:03 PM (XV/Pl)

232 Steve Martin is only palatable in small doses. Which is still better than Chevy Chase, who's not palatable at all.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 09:00 PM (O0L8i)

Roxanne

Oddest cyrano de Bergerac interpretation ever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 09:03 PM (zZu0s)

233 Then theres another rutger hauer film

Wanted dead or alive with gene simmons as the villain, around the same time as runaway

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:04 PM (bXbFr)

234 Beverly Hills Cop. That franchise made bank.

Notable mention; To Live and Die in L.A.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 06, 2026 09:04 PM (x/s3z)

235 Big Trouble in Little China.

Romancing the Stone.

The Thing.

They Live.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 09:04 PM (X+xvk)

236 Ok, here is a quintessential 80s movie Electric Dreams.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 09:04 PM (3uBP9)

237 Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 09:04 PM (X+xvk)

238 Then theres another rutger hauer film

Wanted dead or alive with gene simmons as the villain, around the same time as runaway

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:04 PM (bXbFr)

Fuck the bonus. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 09:04 PM (snZF9)

239 Random film from December of 89, Tango and Cash.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 09:05 PM (XV/Pl)

240 Escape from New york!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 09:05 PM (snZF9)

241 I need to rewatch Tango and Cash.

Runaway was disappointing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 09:05 PM (zZu0s)

242 @238

>>Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

That came out in 77.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 09:06 PM (XV/Pl)

243 I wonder how it holds up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 09:02 PM (3bWKb)

Probably not well. LOL

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 09:06 PM (h7ZuX)

244 Notable mention; To Live and Die in L.A.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 06, 2026 09:04 PM (x/s3

I don't like shitty endings. I don't need edgy.

Otherwise a good movie.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 09:06 PM (GseMx)

245 Hmm, anybody mention Terminator?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 09:06 PM (snZF9)

246 Overboard.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 09:06 PM (X+xvk)

247 William Defoe is one weird looking guy.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 09:06 PM (GseMx)

248 I wonder how it holds up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 09:02 PM (3bWKb)

Probably not well. LOL

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 09:06 PM (h7ZuX)

I saw it not long ago. Yeah its still funny as all hell.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 09:07 PM (snZF9)

249 The gimmick was interesting (a programmablr bullet) but the execution was muddled

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:07 PM (bXbFr)

250 Netflix has all the Rocky movies streaming currently.

Saw the original and Rocky 2 over the last couple of nights.

"Rocky" is a stone-cold classic. Very well-written, well-acted, great directing, clean linear story, and probably it didn't cost all that much to make.

In that way, I was sort of reminded of "Obsession" not that they're similar but they both have a very clean understanding of plot and movie making.

"Rocky II" is a slight step down in quality because you can see the wheels turning and little personal sidetracks the characters take to keep the length of the movie movie-length.

It doesn't have the clean, organic, feel of "Rocky".
That said. It's great fun and a very good movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 09:07 PM (iJfKG)

251 Stripes.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 09:08 PM (X+xvk)

252 @246

>>Hmm, anybody mention Terminator?

The Terminator came out in October of 1984, and wasn't even in the top 20 of films that came out that year.

1984 is the greatest year in the movies, it's the greatest year in music and might be the greatest year across all of the cultural zeitgeist.

Regan won a landslide in 84.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 09:09 PM (XV/Pl)

253 The gimmick was interesting (a programmablr bullet) but the execution was muddled
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:07 PM (bXbFr)

The tech and effects just weren't where they needed to be.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 09:10 PM (zZu0s)

254 Ladyhawke, I mostly remember Michelle Pfeiffer.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 09:10 PM (bfy6w)

255 Repo Man. Liquid Sky. Eating Raoul. Das Boot. My Dinner with Andre*

*I'll never get those two hours or so back. What a bore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 07:49 PM (h7ZuX)
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Exactly! These are the kind of 80's movies I enjoy (yes, even "My Dinner With Andre").

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 09:11 PM (kpS4V)

256
Rocky (con't)

Just finished seeing "Rocky 3".

My opinion of that movie went up after this watching.

The plotting was clean and psychologically on point. Good acting. Good Directing. Good script.

I was surprised by it's quality because it hadn't thought so much of it when it first saw it decades ago.

Anyway as a movie, I think I'd now rank it above Rocky 2.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 09:12 PM (iJfKG)

257 Regan won a landslide in 84.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 09:09 PM (XV/Pl)

One of the last times they used blue for GOP?

Also Dennis Miller's line:

'Walter Mondale, huh? What an ass kicking that was. All I know is when I went to bed motherfucker only had three more electoral votes than I had- and I didnt even run!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 09:12 PM (zZu0s)

258 Hmm, anybody mention Terminator?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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I went to the theater back-to-back nights to see that film.

Posted by: scampydog at June 06, 2026 09:12 PM (41CYW)

259 The Revenge of the Nerds movie. It is very 80s.

Also Porky's but just barely, and seems out of place in the 80s.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 09:12 PM (3uBP9)

260 Michele Pfeiffer? The Fabulous Baker Boys from 1989.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 06, 2026 09:12 PM (q3u5l)

261 Oh michelle pfeiffers performance in scarface was also terrible

Brian de palma didnt really consult anyone in our community and it shows

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:13 PM (bXbFr)

262 The Natural is one of my most watched movies.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 09:13 PM (GseMx)

263 Heavy Metal! Came out in '81, I think. An animated music video full of short stories. Also some prime nudity, but it was drawn so it's art. Probably. An absolute banger of a soundtrack!

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 09:13 PM (bfy6w)

264 Do we wanna mention Basic Instinct or Fatal Attraction?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 09:14 PM (zZu0s)

265 You picked one of my favorite minor treasures. This movie and The Last Starfighter are two my kids loved nearly as much as I did.
Sometimes, you just want to be entertained with a story that might be absurd, but the characters are not. If they are real, I can really get lost in a film. Adventures in Babysitting is another one. Don't tell my wife about my crush on Elizabeth Shue.

Posted by: Manitoba and Gobi at June 06, 2026 09:14 PM (o3x7F)

266 Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 09:12 PM (iJfKG

Balboa was a great wrap up of the series

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 09:14 PM (GseMx)

267
Currently, watching "Wild at Heart'

It's streaming on Criterion.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 09:15 PM (iJfKG)

268 Don't tell my wife about my crush on Elizabeth Shue.
Posted by: Manitoba and Gobi at June 06, 2026 09:14 PM (o3x7F)

She can play a babysitter or a call girl.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 09:18 PM (GseMx)

269 Youre not the only one but it goes back to karate kid

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:19 PM (bXbFr)

270 The original rocky was more an 80s film it was a heroes journey when much of the 70 was all about failure and loss

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:21 PM (bXbFr)

271 Don't tell my wife about my crush on Elizabeth Shue.
Posted by: Manitoba and Gobi at June 06, 2026 09:14 PM (o3x7F)

She can play a babysitter or a call girl.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 09:18 PM (GseMx)

She got-em some a nice-a gagas.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 09:22 PM (snZF9)

272 >>> Heavy Metal! Came out in '81, I think. An animated music video full of short stories. Also some prime nudity, but it was drawn so it's art. Probably. An absolute banger of a soundtrack!
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 09:13 PM (bfy6w)

A good bit of the Taarna used rotoscoping so there were some boobs there in some form and then drawn over.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 09:22 PM (3uBP9)

273 If blue thunder had been done in the 70s macdowell would have killed scheider in the last act

Kind of hackmans downer ending in the conversation

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:24 PM (bXbFr)

274 She can play a babysitter or a call girl.
Posted by: polynikes

Or a sheriff during a piranha outbreak in an American lakeside town. Either way, hubba hubba.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 09:25 PM (l26NL)

275 The Bakshi LotR.

Oh, hell. I almost forgot the traumatizing event for all boys of a certain age: The Transformers Movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 09:26 PM (zZu0s)

276 Ghostbusters!
When Harry Met Sally

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 09:29 PM (jAs5p)

277 She was even in a sèries of episodes on csi classic

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:29 PM (bXbFr)

278 What is interesting about Lucas is that he had been a young experimental director who chafed against cookie-cutter narratives and studio control, but "Star Wars" was one of the movies that brought back solid storytelling and brisk pacing.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 09:29 PM (kpS4V)

279 "First Blood." A country coming to grips with how it treated Vietnam Vets and embracing them in the Reagan years.

Posted by: JHP2 at June 06, 2026 09:29 PM (UIvnv)

280 Robocop

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 09:30 PM (jAs5p)

281 Found a list of 500 80s movies.
On page two...

"The Big Red One"
"The Big Chill"
"The Big Easy"
"The Big Trouble in Little China"

I may have tweaked the name of the last.

Further down...

"Blue Out"
"Blue Iguana"
"Blue Lagoon"
"Blue Brothers"
"Blue Velvet"

I may have tweaked a or two.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 06, 2026 09:31 PM (/lPRQ)

282 Everybody loved "Out of Africa", right?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 06, 2026 09:32 PM (5P5DO)

283 First date movie: Footloose.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 06, 2026 09:32 PM (dK+Kv)

284 Robocop
Posted by: nurse ratched

I wanna say I say Robocop and Full Metal Jacket within a week. Maybe I misremember. What is my major malfunction!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 09:32 PM (l26NL)

285 I “get” First Blood now. I did not when it came out.

Not at all.

I do now.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 09:33 PM (rQIkv)

286 Currently, watching "Wild at Heart'

It's streaming on Criterion.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 09:15 PM (iJfKG)
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Possibly my least favorite Lynch after the "slow Dougie" segments of the new Twin Peaks series.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 09:33 PM (kpS4V)

287 284 First date movie: Footloose.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 06, 2026

Such a fun soundtrack!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 09:34 PM (rQIkv)

288 The polidouros score really sold it

And it was pretty graphic for its day

The sequels were progressively worse

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:35 PM (bXbFr)

289 Another Peter Weller that doesn't get much notice - Of Unknown Origin from 1983. Nice little horror flick, and Weller's terrific in it.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 06, 2026 09:35 PM (q3u5l)

290 Soylent Green
Rollerball
Saturn 3
Logan's Run

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 09:35 PM (RIvkX)

291 Notable mention; To Live and Die in L.A.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 06, 2026 09:04 PM (x/s3z)

Falcon and the Snowman: Penn "plays" a whiny weasel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 06, 2026 09:36 PM (dK+Kv)

292 Because deer hunter coming home even black sunday did vietnam vets dirty

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:36 PM (bXbFr)

293 Oddest date movie: saw Ralph Bakshi's "Wizards" At a drive-in.

Eh, we still made out.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 09:36 PM (kpS4V)

294 So penn plays himself

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:37 PM (bXbFr)

295 Lots of talk about FRIST BLOOD. I never read the novel until recently. A much different vibe than the movie. The sheriff is not a dick for no reason like he is in the movie.

Posted by: Lex at June 06, 2026 09:37 PM (y4H1r)

296 Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
Dog Day Afternoon
Freebie and the Bean
Serpico

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 09:37 PM (RIvkX)

297 Oh, 80s movies? Not my decade.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 09:38 PM (RIvkX)

298 280 "First Blood." A country coming to grips with how it treated Vietnam Vets and embracing them in the Reagan years.
Posted by: JHP2
................................
Magnum PI helped in that. Three of the main characters were Vietnam vets and they were just normal, messy, human beings.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 09:38 PM (bfy6w)

299 I saw Blue Velvet at the Waverly and get there late so the only seats left were in the very front row.

The rotting ear was 3 stories tall.

Also, I was on acid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 09:40 PM (RIvkX)

300 t "Star Wars" was one of the movies that brought back solid storytelling and brisk pacing.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 09:29 PM (kpS4V)

Why thank you!

Posted by: Zombie Marcia Lucas at June 06, 2026 09:40 PM (gKWVE)

301 Much like the firsr films related to the iraq war until american snioer

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:40 PM (bXbFr)

302 You’ll never see a movie like Mr. Mom on 3,000 screens again.

3,000 theaters.
I haven't been to a movie in over a year and every time I drive by the one remaining theater in my town, it is never busy. I wonder how it stays open. Is it like this everywhere?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 09:41 PM (2WIwB)

303 Currently, watching "Wild at Heart'

It's streaming on Criterion.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 09:15 PM (iJfKG)
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Possibly my least favorite Lynch after the "slow Dougie" segments of the new Twin Peaks series.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 09:33 PM (kpS4V)

Yeah, I agree.

I didn't think much of it when I saw it originally, buuuut I thought I'd give it a second chance.

So far, it isn't giving me any reason to change my mind.

I may give up on it if things don't hurry up and improve.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 09:41 PM (iJfKG)

304 Yes george cant write characters to save his life

Oh how can i forget the blues brothers it opened the decade

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:42 PM (bXbFr)

305 Magnum PI helped in that. Three of the main characters were Vietnam vets and they were just normal, messy, human beings.
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 06, 2026 09:38 PM (bfy6w)

I recall one episode with Wings Hauser as a messed up vet living on the beach. A very sympathetic character. I remember my Grandpa pointing at the TV and saying, now there's a good actor.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 09:43 PM (0aYVJ)

306 Art director Sally Choi got all buttmad on X because she was paid a $7000 fee to do an indie movie and the indie movie turned out to be Obsession.
The idea of just quietly (or loudly) saying she was the art director for an awesome movie on her resume, seems not to have occurred to this [expletive deleted].
She'll probably call in lawyers :^/

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 09:44 PM (gKWVE)

307 This is why people use AI.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 09:44 PM (gKWVE)

308 Other movies that I would’ve chosen to be of a representative group: War games, Silverado, out of Africa, Repoman, Arthur, Witness

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat bastards at June 06, 2026 09:44 PM (HeR4S)

309
on the upside....lots of bare breasts for a David Lynch movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 09:47 PM (iJfKG)

310 Repoman...

Such an awesome, 80's, punk rock movie.

Posted by: EFG at June 06, 2026 09:47 PM (0XzvB)

311 Another nice 80s flick - Murphy's Romance. Sally Field may have had top billing, but it's James Garner's picture whenever he's on screen.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 06, 2026 09:48 PM (q3u5l)

312 Bellisario knew a lot of marines who didnt fit the ticking time bomb hollywood had presented

This carried over to showd like quantum leap and jag

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 06, 2026 09:48 PM (bXbFr)

313 Possibly my least favorite Lynch after the "slow Dougie" segments of the new Twin Peaks series.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2026 09:33 PM (kpS4V)

I am one of maybe a dozen people who liked it. Weird? Yes. Lynch? Yes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 09:49 PM (0aYVJ)

314 She'll probably call in lawyers :^/
Posted by: gKWVE at June 06, 2026 09:44 PM (gKWVE)

You're only worth what you negotiate. At least in film. She would be able to parlay this into future gigs if she hadn't set it on fire by running her mouth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 09:49 PM (zZu0s)

315 Eastwood films have mostly aged badly..

I'm not understanding this comment at all.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2026 08:25 PM (GseMx)

High Plains Drifter: Dude strolls into town, rapes some chicks sane, kills some dudes, then burns the place down and kills some more dudes.

Perfectly cromulent in today's society.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 06, 2026 09:49 PM (dK+Kv)

316 Speaking of, was Mark Frost the guy who kept Lynch from going full-on cinema psycho?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 09:50 PM (0aYVJ)

317 Having skimmed that list of 500 80s movies.
Sturgeon's Law holds true.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 06, 2026 09:50 PM (/lPRQ)

318 228 Random Film from February of 89, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 09:02 PM (XV/Pl)

Whoa! I keep forgetting it came out in the '80s. I think it's because I didn't see it until years later.

Posted by: farquad at June 06, 2026 09:50 PM (CFMhl)

319 You're only worth what you negotiate. At least in film. She would be able to parlay this into future gigs if she hadn't set it on fire by running her mouth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 09:49 PM (zZu0s)

When little auditioned for a feature film, pay was to be about $5K/week. For a major 1/3 character. Non-union.

It's same as with every other performance profession, sports, acting, OnlyFans. Only a very few make insane money.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 06, 2026 09:51 PM (dK+Kv)

320 Silverado kind of falls apart the older I get. Scott Glenn is good. Kevin Costners character? Kevin Kline? Danny Glover? Brian Dennehey? Jeff Goldblum?

I did like John Cleese in it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 06, 2026 09:55 PM (zZu0s)

321 Speaking of Keanu: River's Edge.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 09:56 PM (0aYVJ)

322 High Plains Drifter: Dude strolls into town, rapes some chicks sane, kills some dudes, then burns the place down and kills some more dudes.

Perfectly cromulent in today's society.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 06, 2026 09:49 PM (dK+Kv)

Don’t forget that he’s an Avenging Angel.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 09:56 PM (3mtTi)

323 Earth Girls are Easy. Geena Davis was kinda purty.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 09:57 PM (0aYVJ)

324 And outta here for the evening.

Thanks for the thread, Lex.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 06, 2026 09:58 PM (q3u5l)

325 Is it intermission yet?

https://youtu.be/Mw91RJ_m_7g

Posted by: mindful webworker - essential non-entity at June 06, 2026 09:58 PM (dn9xm)

326 Repoman...

Such an awesome, 80's, punk rock movie.
Posted by: EFG at June 06, 2026 09:47 PM (0XzvB)

I thought it was filmed in black and white, but got the DVD some years ago, and it's in color. Someone asked if I had seen it on a b&w TV.

Yup. When I lived in Alaska it was all I could afford.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 10:00 PM (0aYVJ)

327 Back to School. I miss Rodney.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 06, 2026 10:00 PM (x/s3z)

328 Continental Divide.

Taps.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 06, 2026 10:01 PM (X+xvk)

329 One movie everyone has missed that hit the screens in 1987 was a little horror science-fiction film called Nightflyers.

Original story by George R.R. Martin. $3 million budget and did $1.149 million at the box office. Catherine Mary Stewart starred in it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2026 10:01 PM (2GVsD)

330 Back to School. I miss Rodney.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 06, 2026 10:00 PM (x/s3z)

Agree. A really fun flick.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 10:01 PM (0aYVJ)

331 Fess up - everyone is hitting refresh so they can shout FIRST!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 10:02 PM (3mtTi)

332 Don't look now, but there's a NOOD ONT
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=419988

Posted by: mindful webworker - okay, go ahead and look at June 06, 2026 10:02 PM (dn9xm)

333 LAST!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 06, 2026 10:03 PM (0aYVJ)

334 >>> Don’t forget that he’s an Avenging Angel.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 09:56 PM (3mtTi)

He's a ghost.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2026 10:04 PM (3uBP9)

335 **Ferris Bueller's Day Off is that way to me. Its just awful and the main character is utterly despicable
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor**

YES! This! Exactly! Dear Lord, I hate this movie!

Posted by: SuperCountyJudgeCandidate SuperRonNirenberg-Buff Political Hack, Buff Beyond Buff at June 06, 2026 10:12 PM (Wuf2K)

336 336 **Ferris Bueller's Day Off is that way to me. Its just awful and the main character is utterly despicable
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor**

YES! This! Exactly! Dear Lord, I hate this movie!

Posted by: SuperCountyJudgeCandidateSuperRonNirenberg-Buff Political Hack, Buff Beyond Buff at June 06, 2026 10:12 PM (Wuf2K)

I’d be willing to bet y’all saw it as an adult.

I was 14 when I saw it. And I am of the 180 degree opposite opinion. I loved it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 07, 2026 01:17 AM (gfO9L)

337 I’ve always felt that ‘90s films had less of a noticeable “feel” than ‘70s or ‘80s movies but I hadn’t thought to attribute that to the advent of the internet.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at June 07, 2026 01:27 AM (tRYqg)

338 TerrorVision (1986) has everything 80's

Posted by: OldManMike at June 07, 2026 11:42 AM (rZ4qs)

339 @17 "I have trouble seeing him as a hero, for sure. He has always played the rat and chiseler to perfection."

I think that was the genius of the casting choice. He wasn't meant to be a hero. An action star like Ford or Schwarzenegger would have absolutely ruined the movie. He was meant to be a working dad with a non-glamorous military job (Chair Force, not Air Force) who finally steps up. Coleman was perfect in the role.

Posted by: HavaTequila at June 07, 2026 10:20 PM (0FBkb)

340 1) "Fletch" & "Fletch Lives": No love for Chevy Chase in this thread, I see, but they were both decent. The National Lampoon movies were, as well.

2) No mention whatsoever of the 80s ninja craze: "Return of the Ninja" & "Ninja III: The Domination" with a luscious Lucinda Dickey, who is possessed by the spirit of a dead ninja. Dickey was also in both of the "Breakin'" movies. All of those movies were by Cannon films. To a certain extent, Cannon films defined a good portion of the 80s, as much craptcular fun as they were.

3) "Space Camp": it was dumb and silly, but it did have Lea Thompson.

4) "The Last Starfighter": I'll second every recommendation for it. It was a good movie with a great moral and some memorable actors. Good soundtrack, too.

5) "Big": Perhaps Tom Hanks's true breakout role.

6) "Gremlins": Haven't seen this one in forever, but a solid crowdpleaser.

7) "Poltergeist"

"V: The Miniseries" & "V: The Final Battle": these were on the teevee, but they could have and should have been on the big screen.

9) "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels": Michael Caine & Steve Martin at their finest.

Posted by: HavaTequila at June 07, 2026 10:36 PM (0FBkb)

341 And finally:

10) "Teen Wolf": One of the definitive 80s teen fantasy movies. Michael J Fox plays a high school kid and basketball team bench warmer who discovers he's a werewolf. He wants the hot girl (Lorie Griffin) all the while NEVER REALIZING that the girl next door (the immensely charming Susan Ursitti) WAS THE ONE FOR HIM ALL ALONG, with a well-meaning father played by James Hampton. It's silly, but a perfectly enjoyable way to waste 90 minutes.

Posted by: HavaTequila at June 07, 2026 10:45 PM (0FBkb)

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