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In The Kingdom Of The Blind, The ONT Is King

Happy Friday everyone! Let's take a closer look at America

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Fido Friday: Save the baby!


AI sex

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Ooops

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Painting


Commies

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Culture

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Friday cute


Shut up and take my money

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Field trip

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Remember what we've lost


Greed

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But it hurts to sit down

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Indians

Story behind this. A new airport opened in India, and the locals descended en masse and looted all the landscaping. How are we supposed to live with a culture where this is the norm? Better question: What's going to happen to our culture when we import people like this by the millions? I'm looking at you, Canada, but we're not far behind.

He's not wrong

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Did the NFA actually die in court?

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Tie down


What do you pick from each row?

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For me it's 1, 3 or 4, and 2

Islam

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Close call

1037 called "birdstrike, aborting takeoff" but they did it when the tower was talking and the tower overrides everyone else on the coms, so nobody heard. Good thing the trailing aircraft was alert.

Sinning

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by New York City:

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Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM




Comments

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1 "Affectation is the ridiculous effort of the ignorant to appear wise, the attempt of the barren soul to appear rich."

You hardly see affectation nowadays.🙄

Posted by: mindful webworker - identifies as mindful webworker at August 07, 2026 09:59 PM (62m/B)

2 Time machine activated apparently.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:59 PM (ExV1e)

3 Golly Gee

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 09:59 PM (3oLMy)

4 I used to have a different time machine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 09:59 PM (3oLMy)

5 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at August 07, 2026 10:00 PM (6/7Fs)

6 Yay, Friday ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 07, 2026 10:02 PM (+9wcF)

7 15 minutes to go on this 13h 3D print.

Having another prayerful Gimlet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 10:03 PM (XV/Pl)

8 Hmm, so I'm in the border area between the NY metro area and the Philly metro area. Probably explains why it's peaceful here. I'm in Borderlands. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 10:04 PM (S41Gd)

9 That poor Leviticus.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:04 PM (6/7Fs)

10 Gas for $1.09

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 10:04 PM (Cqx++)

11 Thank you WeirdDave!

Gutfeld: Reports are that Mandami is hyper-sensitive. I'd usually make a joke about this but I don't want him to fly a plane into my building.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 10:05 PM (Sco7b)

12 a closer look at America

We live right there in NE Okla, where the Ozarks butt up against the South Great Plains. Drive east and you get into the forests and rolling hills and lakes and streams. Drive west, actually from here you go just over the river and up the hill and you're in the prairie, then it's a long mostly-flat drive until you hit the Rockies. Kind of neat, really, to be right at that transition.

Is that TMI for OPSEC? Oh, well.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at August 07, 2026 10:05 PM (62m/B)

13 I am NA - 3 - 2.

Why not throw in some onions?

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:06 PM (Jr+re)

14 The sign outside say HATE HAS NO HOME HERE but I really hate these pop-ups.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)

15 5-2-2

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)

16 mindful, about an hour and a half into that long, mostly flat drive, you would pass my abode.

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re)

17 3, 3, 1.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 10:08 PM (w+2cP)

18 For me it's 1, 3 or 4 and 2

Your answers are correct.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 10:08 PM (ExV1e)

19 Close call link goes to same place as Tie Down link.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 10:09 PM (ExV1e)

20 It's not an ID for New York Grocery stores!

It's a Library Card!!!

That you will have to show ID to get...

Oh.... wait...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 10:10 PM (mP0Kj)

21 Like number 19 said, close call and tie down are the same video.

Thanks for the ONT though! Better than what I can do!

Posted by: SimoHayha at August 07, 2026 10:10 PM (IeYnM)

22 OK- strip club/school bus meme is a laugher

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 10:11 PM (ZxPkt)

23 14 The sign outside say HATE HAS NO HOME HERE but I really hate these pop-ups.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)

Need to put up an ad.

Room for Rent.... Hate Welcome

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 10:11 PM (mP0Kj)

24 figured this was a good night to watch Stripes again.
i want to party with you, cowboy.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 10:12 PM (88C+u)

25 4 The sign outside say HATE HAS NO HOME HERE but I really hate these pop-ups.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)

I saw one of those uptown today.

I was driving but I'm pretty sure white Christians aren't on those.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Sco7b)

26 Am I missing something in the What Instantly Ruins a Pizza deal? Should I laugh?

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)

27 Thanks for the ONT, Weird Dave!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)

28 So probably missed it and it's been discussed here at the HQ already, but Enes Freedom Kantor, a former NBA player, a 6'11'' center, just declared for the WNBA draft next season.... citing inclusion and identity. powerline has it.

Posted by: SimoHayha at August 07, 2026 10:17 PM (IeYnM)

29 For me it's 1, 3 or 4 and 2

Oh, so close. 1, 4 or 5, and 2.

Posted by: Idiot AWFLs at August 07, 2026 10:19 PM (Riz8t)

30 The Grok AI sex scenes, reads better than that Arday guy's resignation letter.

Speaking of AI, the Horror Writers Association has blacklisted one of their female writers for daring to have the opinion of saying 'stop with the witch hunts against people wanting to learn about AI.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 10:19 PM (2GVsD)

31 For me it's 1, 3 or 4 and 2

Your answers are correct.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


Agreed.

Unless it's the burnt-tasting crap from starbux, then probably 4-3-2.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov)

32 26 Am I missing something in the What Instantly Ruins a Pizza deal? Should I laugh?
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)

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Just laugh and stop asking awkward questions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:19 PM (6/7Fs)

33 The dog rescuing the baby from a knife is AI, I think.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

34 Well, I screwed that all up. Think it's fixed now.

Posted by: Weirddave at August 07, 2026 10:21 PM (q7DDe)

35 Okay, this is different. You know how the old school folks before matches were invented had to get a fire going with flint & steel? You’d shower some prepared char cloth with sparks, the char cloth basically burnt carbonized cotton or linen, which would hopefully catch the spark, and glow into a glowing coal, and build from there.

I thought this would have to be bone dry to work, right? Just makes sense to me. But a feller on YouTube made a demonstration. He claimed that carbon molecules can’t absorb water. I mean, OK if you say so. But he was able to soak this char cloth in water, and still get a coal going with flint & steel.

So keep this in the back of your mind the next time you’re out in the rain without any lighter or matches!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:22 PM (lrEMD)

36 Fido Friday, save the baby is scary. What a smart doggie.

Posted by: Joemarine at August 07, 2026 10:22 PM (y171U)

37 Friday Cute

Good thing the kid's got gymnast genes. Great balance.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)

38 Happy Friday! Thanks, WD

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

39 1, 4, 2

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 10:25 PM (0aYVJ)

40 For me it's 1, 3 or 4 and 2

For me it's zero (as in no coffee...), 3 on the toast, and I would prefer 2 on the meat, but doc makes me have 4-6...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 10:26 PM (l3cgK)

41 For those who like to play with tables and stats

from Denmark: Persons guilty in crimes aged 15-79 by country of origin and type of decision.

https://tinyurl.com/ywtcujrm

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

42 The sign outside say HATE HAS NO HOME HERE but I really hate these pop-ups.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)

Mine says Hate has no home here, but vengeance has a master suite.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 10:27 PM (S41Gd)

43 I would happily pay to "adopt an illegal for deportation" for a lot more than $19 to see them board the plane!

I read of a handful or a gang of old Karens (6), and man are they ugly, protesting deportations at the airport. Apparently they figured out certain days that the illegals are brought to a hanger and shipped out this summer by ICE.

They have signs! One old bag looked very tired as well as ugly and I want to deport her as well. She probably wants to adopt one to hang out with her feral cats.

The horror of cuffs and chains on their feet disturbs them! The illegals are treated unkindly!

One commented that "people noticed! as they were reading their signs!" Right. Right. Right.

They noticed, you nitwit, as probably they were curious as well as 90% or more wanting to cheer about the deportations.

I have no idea how many want to cheer and made up this number...however they did not mention anyone cheering for the Karens or wanting to join.

Bring back Hari Krishnas!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 10:27 PM (hzuYO)

44 Good evening morons e grazie wd

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:29 PM (JvZF+)

45 They have signs! One old bag looked very tired as well as ugly and I want to deport her as well. She probably wants to adopt one to hang out with her feral cats.

The horror of cuffs and chains on their feet disturbs them! The illegals are treated unkindly!


The bint's grandmother was onboard with FDR having "undocumented Japanese workers" shot with no trial. Something these people should be reminded of...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 10:29 PM (sKqQm)

46 So very much to comment upon. I am whelmed too overly to even know where to start.

Thanks, 'nother good'n, Weird Dave.

Weird Dave? (checks to be sure)
"Posted by: WeirdDave"

As if there was any question!

Posted by: mindful webworker - 30-second exposure at August 07, 2026 10:30 PM (62m/B)

47 The culture image is actually a really, really important point.

If you ask leftist atheists if they like Christian morality the answer will be no, its all wrong.

But ask them if they like what came before Christianity, which they are trying to return to more and the answer will be yes until you force them to acknowledge what that culture was actually like.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 10:32 PM (sKqQm)

48 Sigh, back to sleeping in the car. Good news is tonight's temps are moderate by Alabama August standards.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 07, 2026 10:32 PM (4YEhy)

49 3, 3 and 3.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 07, 2026 10:33 PM (/HDaX)

50 Maybe my statistics illiteracy will pay off tonight and I will win the lottery.

*crosses fingers*

^O_o^;

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 10:34 PM (2GVsD)

51 3, 3 and 3.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent


Consistency!

And I just realized anyone who would pick all 6's probably is the Antichrist.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)

52 mindful, about an hour and a half into that long, mostly flat drive, you would pass my abode.
Posted by: LRob in OK


I thought you didn't get to adobe until New Mexico.

Ooohhh. (Rosanne Rosannadanna voice) Never miiiind.


I meant to mention, that long, mostly flat drive from here west is actually an imperceptible gradual climb to the foothills of the Rockies.

Posted by: mindful webworker - do young folk even get the ancient SNL reference? at August 07, 2026 10:36 PM (62m/B)

53 0, 3, and 3

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 10:37 PM (kU0PQ)

54 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 07, 2026 10:37 PM (byWhc)

55 33 The dog rescuing the baby from a knife is AI, I think.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:20 PM (Riz8t)
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I wondered about that. Our dogs, even the smart one who taught herself to pee/poop outside at 9wks by hitting the front door with her paw, would not know what a knife was.

She also smiled on command which would scare people.

German Shepherd/Malamute/Husky and looked like an Akita. Saved me once from an intruder and bit his butt as I opened the door and told her to "get him." She lunged at him. Surprise! He was right at the door with his hand on the handle.

She was not trained for this but knew something was up, sensed it with me, and would have tried to kill him. We named her Gilda from SNL.

He might not have seen me reading the paper and was simply a burgler. I heard bushes rustle, reading the paper one morning, and then saw him walk through two gates of the picket fence to the back porch.

I quickly dressed and she was right there with me the entire time. He jumped a fence and she brought back his jean's pocket to me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 10:37 PM (hzuYO)

56 So probably missed it and it's been discussed here at the HQ already, but Enes Freedom Kantor, a former NBA player, a 6'11'' center, just declared for the WNBA draft next season.... citing inclusion and identity. powerline has it.
Posted by: SimoHayha at August 07, 2026 10:17 PM (IeYnM)

Oops, sorry ref. I didn't see you down there, or I wouldn't have dribbled the ball on your head.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2026 10:38 PM (qx7Zg)

57 "close call and tie down are the same video"

Yeah, I'd been hoping the 2nd one was the continuation with consequences.

Posted by: mindful webworker - inconsequentially at August 07, 2026 10:38 PM (62m/B)

58 it is a 'tikkie' for 0.50 EUR from my Dutch colleague for the morning coffee I had at his place
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Gierige bastaarden

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:39 PM (JvZF+)

59 Black coffee, medium toast, and rare steak.
It works.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 07, 2026 10:40 PM (sl73Y)

60 28 So probably missed it and it's been discussed here at the HQ already, but Enes Freedom Kantor, a former NBA player, a 6'11'' center, just declared for the WNBA draft next season.... citing inclusion and identity. powerline has it.
Posted by: SimoHayha at August 07, 2026 10:17 PM (IeYnM
SissyBall.

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 10:40 PM (LHPAg)

61 "close call and tie down are the same video"

Yeah, I'd been hoping the 2nd one was the continuation with consequences.
Posted by: mindful webworker


Maybe he's not going anywhere, but he doesn't want his stuff to blow away in the wind?

He didn't have a come-along, so he'll roll the truck forward a foot after he's done tying it.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:41 PM (VHUov)

62

So far, the Dog Days haven't been too bad. At least the first week of August not all that bad. First and third weeks of July were the worst here, looking at my weather station graphs.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 10:42 PM (w6EFb)

63 publius, it's always hot in OK this time of year, and lately we've gotten to when it "dips" down to 98 we think it's cool. It'll cool off by Halloween.

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:44 PM (Jr+re)

64 Try to Drain Lymph Fluid From Ankles and Legs? Try This At Home

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 10:44 PM (RCjYY)

65 There is a nest full of robin hatchlings who go off like 1000 tribbles ratting out a Klingon spy every time mom or dad show up with food. This has been happening about every 5 minutes since dawn.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:45 PM (JvZF+)

66 The dog rescuing the baby from a knife is AI, I think.
Posted by: Archimedes


I presumed it was.

Women painting: I sure hope that's AI.

Friday cute (balancing kid) - terrifying. With it was AI.

Tie-down: AI refuses to be that stupid.

Madmanny's 9-eleven grocery: All too real.

Posted by: mindful webworker - nothing artificial, 150% natural at August 07, 2026 10:45 PM (62m/B)

67 We should be allowed to deal with Karen's in the airport like this.

https://youtu.be/E3GGKF6CsjY

RIP Robert Stack

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)

68 Pro tip: take off your stupid earphones while supposedly watching the baby.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:46 PM (JvZF+)

69 Did an adbot take over mnw?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)

70 So far August here blows ass. It always does. July was a surprise because usually it's satan's ass crack heat wise, but it was cooler and drier. Now its hot, humid, and rains a little every day.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 10:49 PM (S41Gd)

71 The pop up says I can get gallon-size Ziploc bags of Viagra at Home Depot.

What a country!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 07, 2026 10:49 PM (hj9Cy)

72 CVS's Nightmare Come True: Men Ditching Viagra for This 87 Cents Aisle 7 Hack

You know the problem with that cut-rate Viagra knockoff, though?

It gives you a stiff neck, a stiff back...

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (RCjYY)

73 https://youtu.be/E3GGKF6CsjY

You youngsters have no idea what LAX was like in the 70s. Moonies, Krishna, Scientology, EST, TM, Ananda, the Mahavishnu John McLaughlin Orchestra,...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (JvZF+)

74 Happy Friday!

Posted by: Iris at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (286+n)

75 13 Hour 3D print complete, just a little cleanup and it will be ready to go.

Thankfully this is the longest part to print, the rest of the parts are in the half to 3hr range.

Problem is there are still a kajillion parts left.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (XV/Pl)

76 Oops, sorry ref. I didn't see you down there, or I wouldn't have dribbled the ball on your head.
****

slow golf clap 👍🏻

Posted by: clarence at August 07, 2026 10:53 PM (BJ9EB)

77 Top row: 1,1,1

Middle row: 3

Bottom row, 2

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2026 10:53 PM (OaiXh)

78 Ah, India. My favorite export from them is the mine field of turds they leave on the public beach....so frequent that Toronto had to close down the beaches...and the Canadian CBC claimed it never happened. The hell it didn't. I was laughing at the video...and a giant "catbox" is hard to forget.

It might have something to do with most of the lower class Indians are the ones migrating to Canada under the guise of fake student VISAs, and in their places of origin falls the 30% of Indians without indoor plumbing.

I went to India once. And, I vowed never to go back. However, if I'm looking for a novel form of suicide someday, Indian street food will do the trick.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 10:53 PM (dIske)

79 I'm going with 3,3,4.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 10:54 PM (S41Gd)

80
I didn't break 100F here this July, topping out for a high of 99.5F. But hell, dew point hit 82F, and on the day at some point the heat index on that day briefly hit 121F on the console, and that was during the first week in July.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 10:54 PM (w6EFb)

81 The pop up says I can get gallon-size Ziploc bags of Viagra at Home Depot.

What a country!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy


I'm okay with a half-cup or so. Not sure what I'd do with a gallon-size one, other than scare the horses.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)

82 Am I missing something in the What Instantly Ruins a Pizza deal? Should I laugh?
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)


Violent gorilla attack.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 10:55 PM (1paM0)

83 2, 5.5, and 1.5

Did not know that pure Texas essence extended this far North but I'll take it.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 07, 2026 10:55 PM (RLh3Z)

84 it is a 'tikkie' for 0.50 EUR from my Dutch colleague for the morning coffee I had at his place

I think reciprocating with a 'tikkie' for the rides would more than balance that out… and obviate a repeat.

Posted by: mindful webworker - extra charge for seatbelt use at August 07, 2026 10:56 PM (62m/B)

85 4,3,2

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 10:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

86 Evening all,

We have a launch in the morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-38
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 8, 2026 PDT
Launch Time: 7:00 a.m. PDT (1400 UTC, 16:00 CEST)

https://youtu.be/IKpbroR9kuk

Posted by: Joyenz at August 07, 2026 10:56 PM (2F0/Y)

87 The German Shepherd saving the baby video is fake.

Posted by: JuJuBee at August 07, 2026 10:57 PM (YSQQv)

88 "undocumented" Japanese shot in the US in WWII? Huh?

Only furrin spies exemecuted were the Germans deposited on LI by the U-boat, I think. Forget the process. Should know it. Vaguely recall there was a legal kerfuffle over the process. One guy was spared because he talked, as I recall.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 10:57 PM (U/Byj)

89 So much stuff is happening it's easy to miss pretty wild stuff happening. A strong Trump ally won the presidency of Colombia last night running against the cartels. This is on top of all the other wins against communists in Latin America since Trump took office this term.

Apparently, the people of Medellin are happy.

https://tinyurl.com/39c3spry

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:59 PM (viF8m)

90 …it's always hot in OK this time of year, and lately we've gotten to when it "dips" down to 98 we think it's cool…
Posted by: LRob in OK


Cool enough at night now to leave the bedroom windows open.

*blink blink*

I just realized that I had a dream that the temperature was going down to the 50s tonight. Pretty sure that was a dream.

Posted by: mindful webworker - dream on at August 07, 2026 10:59 PM (62m/B)

91 69

Yes! I can't refresh the page, or leave and return, without having to fight my way through a page of popup ads.

So, since some of them are unintentionally funny, I thought I'd share some of them with the horde.

As publius pointed out last night, the Google algorithm has figured out I must be a seasoned citizen.

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (RCjYY)

92 The heat here is one thing. The smoke is another matter. Reminds me of Fort Collins in 2012 and 2022ish. Eh. I'm old. I just know it sucked.

Right now, the sky is slate gray. My throat is feeling it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)

93 Well, I'm watching The Blob for the 4th day running.

It occurs to me that the evil scientist in this movie is Black Fauci... he developed a horrible bio weapon that came back unsummoned, and attacks a whole town, and he becomes an Ahab character who seeks to protect his ungodly creation and his own reputation by sacrificing the town to it, while demonizing everyone who tries to stop it by claiming they've been "infected" by it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (BI5O2)

94 87 The German Shepherd saving the baby video is fake.
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 07, 2026 10:57 PM (YSQQv)

_________________________________

Trying to think what my dog would do. I'm about 99% sure he'd get closer for a better view and in his little doggy brain he'd be thinking.... "Oh, this is going to be good."

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (dIske)

95 NA, 3, 2

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:01 PM (1paM0)

96 I went to India once."

So you know the smell...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 11:02 PM (XuXeR)

97 QX, 4, 7

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:03 PM (BI5O2)

98 In addition to Enes Kanter, Royce White is also declarred for the WNBA draft.

X has been hilarious today with the discourse and banter on these two declaring. I imagine Reddit has the sads.

Posted by: Ann at August 07, 2026 11:04 PM (SHHm+)

99 Cool enough at night now to leave the bedroom windows open.

*blink blink*

I just realized that I had a dream that the temperature was going down to the 50s tonight. Pretty sure that was a dream.
Posted by: mindful webworker - dream on at August 07, 2026 10:59 PM

High 97 tomorrow. But the low is 79.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 11:05 PM (ZdaMQ)

100 93 Well, I'm watching The Blob for the 4th day running.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (BI5O2)

___________________


Which one? The Steve McQueen one from the 50's. The half-assed one from the 70's. Or the one from the 80's that stars no one I recognize but was supposed to have been a very solid remake.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 11:05 PM (dIske)

101 Some of the funnies in this ONT were hit or miss for me. I watched the Indian video first, then read the explanation. Without context, it made little sense. The guy tying down something on his truck seemed inconclusive. The violent gorilla attack ruining the pizza is true, but my eyes glided over that line first time through, I think because it was above the pizza, not below.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:06 PM (1paM0)

102 96 I went to India once."

So you know the smell...
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 11:02 PM (XuXeR)
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Oh yeah. Sort of like hanging around a dumpster after that unidentifiable liquid which is oddly reflective makes little rivers across the macadam on a hot day. The depressing thing was the little kids running all over the place with no supervision (some had to be under 5 years old).

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 11:07 PM (dIske)

103 Just cross the border into Mexico and it stinks. Same with China.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:08 PM (1paM0)

104 The F.B.I. was criticized a bit, because they tried to cultivate the impression it was their top agents that caught the U-Boat spies. When what happened, they all got drunk as hell, and a couple guys surrendered right away.

But, what the government wanted to convey at the time, was that there was no chance for spies and saboteurs to succeed in fortress America. No chance they were going to report what actually happened and let it filter back. Otherwise they would have tried it again, only with more reliable personnel

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:08 PM (lrEMD)

105 I agree; comments should be posted below what they're responding to. Otherwise this happens.

The violent gorilla attack ruining the pizza is true, but my eyes glided over that line first time through, I think because it was above the pizza, not below.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:09 PM (VHUov)

106 Better than the AI dog saving the kid from the knife:

https://t.co/j37uY2iBkd

Posted by: mindful webworker - hero President at August 07, 2026 11:09 PM (62m/B)

107 In order to play back German spies that they'd turned, the British first had to give them more powerful radios. The ones the Germans provided were too weak to transmit back to the Fatherland.

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:09 PM (RCjYY)

108 The heat here is one thing. The smoke is another matter. Reminds me of Fort Collins in 2012 and 2022ish. Eh. I'm old. I just know it sucked.

Right now, the sky is slate gray. My throat is feeling it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)

Pug, as I'm sure others have told you, the "typical" Boise summer only has a couple of smoky weeks at the end of August. This has been a nasty one.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 07, 2026 11:11 PM (hj9Cy)

109 103 Just cross the border into Mexico and it stinks. Same with China.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:08 PM (1paM0)
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I went to China a couple times. I was less concerned about the smell than I was about the fact that I could actually see the air I was sort of breathing.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 11:12 PM (dIske)

110
The guy tying down something on his truck seemed inconclusive.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

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Glad I'm not the only one.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 11:13 PM (mmrXZ)

111 Ooohhh. (Rosanne Rosannadanna voice) Never miiiind.

Posted by: mindful webworker - do young folk even get the ancient SNL reference? at August 07, 2026 10:36 PM (62m/B)

Having just entered college when SNL premiered, I think never mind was Emily Latilla. Prima facie evidence that I am heretofore ancient.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 07, 2026 11:13 PM (SjAWL)

112 Incredible sunset in Sonoma tonight clouds turning orange then purple.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 11:14 PM (JvZF+)

113 Remember what we've lost

The enshittification of pretty much everything. We will be squeezed and mined to the last penny. At this rate we'll be required to buy subscription services to be allowed to buy groceries.

Posted by: You watch, they'll do it! at August 07, 2026 11:15 PM (TbWk/)

114 One of the propaganda broadcast guys was executed by the British. William Joyce iirc, aka “Lord Haw Haw”. What was kind of strange is, he wasn’t British. I guess he must have pissed off the wrong people.

The Fibbies were opening everybody’s mail that was coming from overseas during the war. Quite an operation. There was all sorts of codes and secret inks and microdots and the rest of it.

One thing about an open society, their spies only needed to go to a well stocked public Library to get all sorts of sensitive information. “Aviation Leak” they used to call it. Meanwhile, in places like the Soviet Union, you couldn’t even get a road map.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:15 PM (lrEMD)

115 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

I am at daughter's house - they sprang me early this afternoon 🎉🎉🎉

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 07, 2026 11:15 PM (S7WXb)

116 The guy tying down something on his truck seemed inconclusive.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Glad I'm not the only one.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


As I joked, it's fine if he's not going anywhere.

If he's going to drive away, tying the rope off to the spokes of his wheels isn't ideal.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)

117 What ruins a pizza for me is listening to some whiner bitching about what does or does not belong on my pizza. Go cook your own pizza and be as pure as you want. My pizza, I bought it. Piss me off and I will eat anchovies and pineapple at you. Piss me off and it will have beef and cheese on it. If I want Spam I don't bother asking permission.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 11:16 PM (rbvCR)

118
tying the rope off to the spokes of his wheels isn't ideal.
Posted by: mikeski

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I did notice those spokes, kinda wondered what he was attempting.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 11:16 PM (mmrXZ)

119 [sigh....]

Look closely where the guy has the tiedown rope looped...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 11:18 PM (XeU6L)

120 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

I am at daughter's house - they sprang me early this afternoon 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth


"Hospitals! They may take our dignity, but they'll never take our freedom!" -- things an elderly William Wallace might have said

Welcome back to vacation!

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:18 PM (VHUov)

121 Which one? The Steve McQueen one from the 50's. The half-assed one from the 70's. Or the one from the 80's that stars no one I recognize but was supposed to have been a very solid remake.

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The '88 version. My 6yo has decided it's her new favorite (instead of her previous favorite, The Car). So I get to watch it every freaking night.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)

122 Good for you TiFW!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:19 PM (1paM0)

123 The Sonoma mountains are dark and backlit by the setting sun and the clouds above it are brightly lit pink underneath it is a stark contrast

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (JvZF+)

124 Just saw a headline " Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump's Ballroom"

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)

125 The German Shepherd saving the baby video is fake.
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 07, 2026 10:57 PM (YSQQv)


This video is fake, also


Charles Curran
@charliebcurran
Aug 6
The year is 2030. Claude 9 has gone rogue and taken control of one billion Sexbots.
They call it the Goonpocalypse.

https://tinyurl.com/4wzfaw2k

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (rbvCR)

126 Evening, Weird Dave, and ONT Horde! I have a new "helper" here at Peon Manor: an old and well-used baby Kubota excavator. Managed to drive it off the trailer without it toppling over and killing me, so there's that. On loan to me for about a month.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (1z8ji)

127 Ok, now that you point it out, it’s obvious I wasn’t really looking.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:21 PM (1paM0)

128 The '88 version. My 6yo has decided it's her new favorite (instead of her previous favorite, The Car). So I get to watch it every freaking night.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)
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So much better than Mary Poppins

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 11:21 PM (JvZF+)

129 Youtube:

Watched a honey badger kill and eat a 4-foot long black mamba snake.

Snakes lose to house cats every time, because reflexes.

However, a badger can't do that. It got bit repeatedly... and kept getting back up to try again! Badgers have acquired a natural immunity to the same venom that can kill an adult lion with one bite.

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:21 PM (RCjYY)

130
At this rate we'll be required to buy subscription services to be allowed to buy groceries.
Posted by: You watch, they'll do it!


You'll need a good social credit score.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 11:21 PM (Cqx++)

131 Lord Haw Haw was born in the US.His father moved back to Ireland when he was a kid. Then he lived in Britain and was in Oswald Moseley's National Socialist party.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:22 PM (YwEeS)

132 The '88 version. My 6yo has decided it's her new favorite (instead of her previous favorite, The Car). So I get to watch it every freaking night.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)
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Ahuha,...I have an Idea. Ahuha....How does a purple dinosaur sound? Pretty tempting, no? Ahuha.

Posted by: Barney at August 07, 2026 11:22 PM (dIske)

133 But she also loves Walker, Texas Ranger. I think that's my exit ramp from The Blob. Hopefully.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:22 PM (BI5O2)

134 Just saw a headline " Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump's Ballroom"
Posted by: steevy


If it's literal, that's fine. Get the judges out there with sledgehammers.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:23 PM (VHUov)

135 I am at daughter's house - they sprang me early this afternoon 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 07, 2026 11:15 PM (S7WXb)
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Yay! Go look outside to the west!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 11:23 PM (JvZF+)

136 Just saw a headline " Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump's Ballroom"
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)


Trump will file an appeal and keep on building. He’ll finish the ballroom before the litigation is done.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:23 PM (1paM0)

137 Apparently, the people of Medellin are happy.

https://tinyurl.com/39c3spry
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:59 PM (viF8m)


I said when Petro was first a candidate, why were they so hot to kill Pablo Escobar if they are going to turn around and let a M19 leader run instead?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

138 124 Just saw a headline " Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump's Ballroom"
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)

I thought there already was some kind of ballroom. Where in the WH was that famous pic of Princess Di dancing with John Travolta taken during the Reagan years?

Posted by: TxAnn at August 07, 2026 11:24 PM (SjAWL)

139 Saw a running gag on X the other day about how people take their coffee. "My coffee is so black, it stole my bike" and "My coffee is so black, each cup has a different father". There were others, but those 2 made me laugh. Wrong, but funny.

Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 07, 2026 11:25 PM (J3Cv/)

140 It just angers me how the left fights him even over the most mundane things. They are so pleased the reflecting pool has algae in it and a saboteur was released. They were practically orgasming that Iran killed Americans a couple weeks ago and that they were able to fire some ballistic missiles at US bases.I never rooted against my country because I hated Obama or Biden.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:26 PM (YwEeS)

141 I didn't break 100F here this July, topping out for a high of 99.5F. But hell, dew point hit 82F, and on the day at some point the heat index on that day briefly hit 121F on the console, and that was during the first week in July.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 10:54 PM (w6EFb)

July was great here other than the first few days. Very high 70's to barley over 80. Dry enough where I needed a light sweatshirt on the bike, especially around the 6pm area. At night it would be really low 60's. That is not our normal July by a long shot. There was also no rain other than around the 4th at the end of the heat wave. I said we'll probably pay for it in August. So far it seems that august will break it off in our ass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 11:26 PM (S41Gd)

142 1, 3 or 4, 3 or 4.

Also, good news! Interview will be Tuesday morning. Hopefully this is it.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 11:27 PM (aJQbY)

143 Saw a running gag on X the other day about how people take their coffee. "My coffee is so black, it stole my bike" and "My coffee is so black, each cup has a different father". There were others, but those 2 made me laugh. Wrong, but funny.
Posted by: AnchorPoint


Ha!

Can the Horde beat those?

Or would we just go political?

MCISB, the judge let it off with time served.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:30 PM (VHUov)

144
good news! Interview will be Tuesday morning. Hopefully this is it.
Posted by: RandomDave

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Thank goodness! Jeez, those people have been stringing you along.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 11:30 PM (mmrXZ)

145 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

I am at daughter's house - they sprang me early this afternoon 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 07, 2026 11:15 PM (S7WXb)

Were there any little ones around to do a Snoopy dance for you? Or did you have to do it yourself?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2026 11:31 PM (qx7Zg)

146 114

Because Joyce was an Irish citizen, his lawyers argued that it was a legal impossibility for him to have committed treason against Great Britain.

However, a British court ruled that since Joyce had once traveled on a fake British passport, he was therefore subject to British treason laws. And so he was hanged.

Pretty ingenious! And unlikely to ever serve as a precedent, because the facts were so unusual.

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:32 PM (RCjYY)

147
My coffee is so black it got cast as the next James Bond.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:34 PM (YwEeS)

148 Also, good news! Interview will be Tuesday morning. Hopefully this is it.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 11:27 PM (aJQbY)

Woot! Break a leg!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:34 PM (1z8ji)

149 -6 - energy drink
-6 - toasted gluten-free bagel
-2 - blue rare

Posted by: Eric in Atlanta at August 07, 2026 11:38 PM (BTTT8)

150 A 203 on a M240B...

Okay.

Still would prefer a MK-19.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 11:40 PM (3fZgy)

151 That USA map seems to be a hodge-podge of physiographic regions and areas of human settlement.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:40 PM (1z8ji)

152 1, 4, 1. But those (non-existent) sears are fake.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 11:42 PM (iySPJ)

153 Ezra Pound was captured, and spared death for his nineteen charges of treason, on account of twisted old fruits being pitiable, or somesuch. I never understood it. It would have been an impromptu gunshot execution were I present.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:44 PM (BI5O2)

154 That USA map seems to be a hodge-podge of physiographic regions and areas of human settlement.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:40 PM (1z8ji)
___

*waves from the Ozarks*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 11:45 PM (3fZgy)

155 My coffee is so black, it got a basketball scholarship at the University of Louisville.

My coffee is so black, it got probation for Manslaughter.

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:45 PM (RCjYY)

156 I think never mind was Emily Latilla. Prima facie evidence that I am heretofore ancient.
Posted by: TxAnn


Well, I guess I'm ancienter because I can't tell Rosandana from Litilla.

Posted by: mindful webworker - so long ago and so very far away at August 07, 2026 11:46 PM (62m/B)

157 Also, good news! Interview will be Tuesday morning. Hopefully this is it.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 11:27 PM (aJQbY)

Woot! Break a leg!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:34 PM (1z8ji)
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Morons Get Results

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 11:46 PM (JvZF+)

158 >>I said when Petro was first a candidate, why were they so hot to kill Pablo Escobar if they are going to turn around and let a M19 leader run instead?

Hard to know what goes on inside puppet governments run by the intel community. But I don't think it's a coincidence that USAID money dries up to the NGO community in Latin American and the whole region moves right the same year.

I mean frigging Colombia is now at war with the cartels.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)

159 You youngsters have no idea what LAX was like in the 70s. Moonies, Krishna, Scientology, EST, TM, Ananda, the Mahavishnu John McLaughlin Orchestra,...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (JvZF+)

I remember that crap well. I don't know what they were called but there was also the weirdos on 10 speeds with the wire pyramids on their heads. My dad used them all as a don't do drugs point of order.

Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 11:47 PM (ZD542)

160 Okay.

Still would prefer a MK-19.

Posted by: SMH
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Pretty sure I recall an affection for the M249...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 11:48 PM (XeU6L)

161 153

Pound was adjudged insane.

If you ever tried to read his poetry, you can see that the argument was not without merit.

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:50 PM (RCjYY)

162 Pretty sure I recall an affection for the M249...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 11:48 PM (XeU6L)
___

I adored my SAW, don't get me wrong.
A girl can have more than one favorite machine gun.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 11:51 PM (3fZgy)

163
153 Ezra Pound was captured, and spared death for his nineteen charges of treason, on account of twisted old fruits being pitiable, or somesuch. I never understood it. It would have been an impromptu gunshot execution were I present.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:44 PM

-----------

You wanna know what I think?

Posted by: Col. "Bat" Guano at August 07, 2026 11:52 PM (azNOR)

164 Pound was also adjudged a traitor. Mental state notwithstanding - .45 to the dome for the traitor. Mercy to traitors encourages treason. Even if they happen to be elderly gays who run their poetic little dickslots on the radio.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:53 PM (BI5O2)

165 My coffee is so black, it got a basketball scholarship at the University of Louisville.

My coffee is so black, it got probation for Manslaughter.
Posted by: mnw


My La'Tay is so black, that that's the joke.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:54 PM (VHUov)

166 Pound did spend a few years in an insane asylum, IIRC.

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:54 PM (RCjYY)

167 You youngsters have no idea what LAX was like in the 70s. Moonies, Krishna, Scientology, EST, TM, Ananda, the Mahavishnu John McLaughlin Orchestra,...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (JvZF+)

I remember having literature pressed upon me by an earnest young rep of the "Fusion Energy Foundation" at LAX in maybe 1982. LaRouchites, they were.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:56 PM (1z8ji)

168 124 Just saw a headline " Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump's Ballroom"
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)

Well the DC courts are 90% fucking traitors. Fuck them.

Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 11:57 PM (ZD542)

169 Speaking of literature, I'll leave these tracts over here on the end table. Feel free.

Posted by: Jack Chick at August 07, 2026 11:59 PM (JM9I6)

170 Pound did spend a few years in an insane asylum, IIRC.
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:54 PM (RCjYY)

Poets are suspect, right from the git-go. Well, except for Robert W. Service, who was in it for the money, and who made a fine living as a popular poet. Unicorn, he was. And the Commies learned to hate him, once he wrote "The Ballad of Lenin's Tomb".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:59 PM (1z8ji)

171
It's been on the dry side this year as well. I had a pretty wet May, June was a little above normal, and July a little below. So far, I'm about 1" or so below normal this year to date. GSP itself is still way behind, maybe 5" so far. The whole damned state was in severe drought conditions or worse until about May. Not as bad now, but pretty much everybody is still behind normal for the year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:00 AM (w6EFb)

172 You youngsters have no idea what LAX was like in the 70s. Moonies, Krishna, Scientology, EST, TM, Ananda, the Mahavishnu John McLaughlin Orchestra,...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (JvZF+)
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Rex Kramer's bull rush through those types in "Airplane!" was only slightly exagerrated from real life.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2026 12:01 AM (amcLV)

173 Yeah, it's a good point. I reflexively despise poets.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:01 AM (BI5O2)

174
As my late cousin would point out, our rainfall distribution here in the upstate, GSP's forecast area, is pretty much bimodal. We have streaks of wet years and dry years, and it's usually some event that flips it from regime to the other. He said there's a pattern there, but it's really complex and I don't think they every really got it figured out completely.

Anyway, "normal rainfall" here could be seen as either a wet dry year, or a dry wet year. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:02 AM (w6EFb)

175
The White House Ballroom will be completed. It is well within the authority of the Executive Branch to do so, and the modification has been proposed for decades.

What may change, is phony baloney activist judges claiming authority they don't actually have.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2026 12:02 AM (L78T1)

176 My coffee is so black, Kamala went down on it.

Posted by: mnw at August 08, 2026 12:04 AM (RCjYY)

177 124 Just saw a headline " Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump's Ballroom"
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)

Well the DC courts are 90% fucking traitors. Fuck them.
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 11:57 PM (ZD542)

There are so many *legitimate* reasons to have a secure, defensible area for State functions with foreign dignitaries. That they currently require circus tents is ridiculous. The only fucking reason the fucking Left fucking hates this is because AAARRGGH! FUCKING TRUMP, YOU GUYS!!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 12:05 AM (0aYVJ)

178 Yeah, it's a good point. I reflexively despise poets.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


Hey, you're going to scare muldoon away.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 12:06 AM (VHUov)

179 That USA map seems to be a hodge-podge of physiographic regions and areas of human settlement.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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"Low Country/Gullah Geechee Corridor"

Makes me homesick.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 12:08 AM (XeU6L)

180 Muldoon is a doctor.

There's nothing wrong with poetry, in itself.

But once it's a job description, so is "canal digger."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:08 AM (BI5O2)

181

And the man at the back said, "Everyone attack"
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said, "Boy, I wanna warn ya
It'll turn into a ballroom blitz"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 12:09 AM (Cqx++)

182 Yeah, it's a good point. I reflexively despise poets.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:01 AM (BI5O2)

Robert Service wrote poems that were intended to appeal to common people. Dramas in verse, they were. Not unlike Homer, in that respect. He was an entertainer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:10 AM (1z8ji)

183
Another local area weather mystery my cousin and the GSP guys would note is a little "hail alley" just over to the east about 10 miles or so into Spartanburg county, running roughly N-S.

That's an area that got a lot more hail, by a long shot, than any random spot in their forecast areas. Seemed to be hail attractor of sorts. They had theories about it, but never really anything definite about why.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:11 AM (w6EFb)

184 Weatherman says we may have a cloud tomorrow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:12 AM (3oLMy)

185
What would happen if Trump just kept on building? Would the appellate court send... US marshals to block the construction workers?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 12:12 AM (mmrXZ)

186 I mean frigging Colombia is now at war with the cartels.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)


As it should be. Also Ecuador, and it looks like Fujimori fille is as well.

(and Paraguay's President Santiago Peña has told Lula to piss off over Lula's official assignment of guilt over the War of the Triple Alliance)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 12:14 AM (rbvCR)

187 Not a big fan of poetry, myself. But I do like Robert Service, JRR Tolkien, and Rudyard Kipling.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 12:15 AM (0aYVJ)

188 179 That USA map seems to be a hodge-podge of physiographic regions and areas of human settlement.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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"Low Country/Gullah Geechee Corridor"

Makes me homesick.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Little I know of other regions but it appears to be the best regional demographic on the web.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:16 AM (3oLMy)

189 That's an area that got a lot more hail, by a long shot, than any random spot in their forecast areas. Seemed to be hail attractor of sorts. They had theories about it, but never really anything definite about why.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:11 AM (w6EFb)

Probably topography. Change in elevation causes changes in lapse rate, triggers hail formation when conditions are otherwise right. I am probably not stating the correctly. Peon Manor is in a "hail/tornado alley", too, but so far this summer, it has escaped without any hail at all. One little flurry, a few dozen slushy hailstones that would bounce off Tinkerbell's gauzy wings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:16 AM (1z8ji)

190 Just saw a headline " Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump's Ballroom"
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)

Well the DC courts are 90% fucking traitors. Fuck them.
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 11:57 PM (ZD542)

That's not right. President Trump is too old to wear spandex pants with no ball room.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 12:16 AM (qx7Zg)

191 Jack Straw, did you see that Pres Milei of Argentina is proposing that all non essential governmental spending including salaries to legislators and the Executive branch be stopped if the Legislature decided to deficit spend for more than three quarters?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 12:16 AM (rbvCR)

192 Hmmm
I'm watching ABBA vids.
Damn the blonde was hawt!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2026 12:17 AM (2WIwB)

193 My coffee is so black, it robbed a 7/11.

Posted by: mnw at August 08, 2026 12:17 AM (RCjYY)

194 124 Just saw a headline " Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump's Ballroom"
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)

Well the DC courts are 90% fucking traitors. Fuck them.

Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 11:57 PM (ZD542)

Shit, at this point trump is old enough to just go Idi Amin and have them all whacked and go open warfare against the communist insurgency. By the time they catch up with him he'll be dead from old age. If it does it right there won't be anybody left to complain anyway.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2026 12:19 AM (S41Gd)

195 "Low Country/Gullah Geechee Corridor"

Makes me homesick.

Posted by: Mike Hammer,

What for you be say dat?

Posted by: Mammy Miklos from Daufuskie at August 08, 2026 12:19 AM (XOG/m)

196 Happy Friday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2026 12:19 AM (ibDUx)

197 Professional intellectuals of all varieties invite the baleful gaze of a jaundiced eye.

They're always up to no good, and a cursory glance at their personal affairs always turns up a litany of perfidies, from the bedroom to the bank.

Harumph. Double harumph.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:19 AM (BI5O2)

198 That's not right. President Trump is too old to wear spandex pants with no ball room.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 12:16 AM (qx7Zg)

Heh! I have just recently adopted the wearing of suspenders instead of a belt for my work pants/shorts. Much more comfortable, and I am not constantly hitching my pants up to keep them from falling off my ass.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:20 AM (1z8ji)

199 186 I mean frigging Colombia is now at war with the cartels.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)

As it should be. Also Ecuador, and it looks like Fujimori fille is as well.

(and Paraguay's President Santiago Peña has told Lula to piss off over Lula's official assignment of guilt over the War of the Triple Alliance)

Posted by: Kindltot
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Eight of nine countries went for Trump picks against communism.
We're going to get hemispherical unity.
Wouldn't it be a bitch to Europe and the Middle East and China for us not to be dependent on them for anything. Manufacturing, medical, food and raw materials all traded amongst each other in this hemisphere. Good news for everyone involved.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:23 AM (3oLMy)

200
at this point trump is old enough to just go Idi Amin and have them all whacked and go open warfare against the communist insurgency. By the time they catch up with him he'll be dead from old age. If it does it right there won't be anybody left to complain anyway.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

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That's why I'm asking what would happen if he just proceeded with construction. How many divisions does the appellate court have?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 12:23 AM (mmrXZ)

201 Happy Friday Horde!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz


*illuminates disco ball*

Posted by: Miklos just flipped a switch at August 08, 2026 12:24 AM (XOG/m)

202 Heh! I have just recently adopted the wearing of suspenders instead of a belt for my work pants/shorts. Much more comfortable, and I am not constantly hitching my pants up to keep them from falling off my ass.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Uncle Joe Carson wore suspenders with a belt on his entire tour on Petticoat Junction.

Posted by: Alf Monroe at August 08, 2026 12:24 AM (JM9I6)

203 Shit, at this point trump is old enough to just go Idi Amin and have them all whacked and go open warfare against the communist insurgency. By the time they catch up with him he'll be dead from old age. If it does it right there won't be anybody left to complain anyway.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2026 12:19 AM (S41Gd)

He ought to (secretly) authorize a black ops squad to make persistent Communists disappear. "Where did (insert name here) go?" "Fled the country to avoid prosecution." "Why haven't we heard from him/her?" "Because if we knew where he/her was, we'd send a team to rendition him/her."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:25 AM (1z8ji)

204 Orange ops squad.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:26 AM (BI5O2)

205 200
at this point trump is old enough to just go Idi Amin and have them all whacked and go open warfare against the communist insurgency. By the time they catch up with him he'll be dead from old age. If it does it right there won't be anybody left to complain anyway.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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It might be beautiful but Trump devoutly believes in the American system (the rule of law) which he more strictly than any other adheres to, God bless him. He is determined to make it work.
He's like George fucking Washington.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:27 AM (3oLMy)

206 "Volunteered for canal duty as patriotic duty in service to social correction and conquest of nature."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:28 AM (BI5O2)

207

Justin (Joostaan) Wilson always wore a belt and suspenders.

In a previous career he had been a Safety Engineer.

Posted by: Mikleuse ga-ron-tees at August 08, 2026 12:28 AM (XOG/m)

208 I started wearing suspenders about six months ago.
Most comfortable and convenient.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:30 AM (3oLMy)

209 I never rooted against my country because I hated Obama or Biden.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:26 PM (YwEeS)

Because you're not psycho...?

Conservatives were surely more pissed that Hillary's friend Christopher Stevens was murdered than Hillary or any other leftard faggot piece of shit.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2026 12:30 AM (vE0+H)

210 I like that regional map. I live in the DMV region and grew up where Appalachia/Great Lakes/Rust Belt all kind of bump into each other.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 12:31 AM (byWhc)

211 Emily Litella was the one who misheard or misunderstood things: why are people trying to ban violins on television? Violins are good for the children to hear… Chevy Chase would lean in and say “It’s violence on television, not violins!” To which Emily would respond “Oh! … Never mind!”

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:32 AM (1paM0)

212
What for you be say dat?
Posted by: Mammy Miklos from Daufuskie
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Heh. I can recall when there was only a single white guy on Daufuski at the time, who ran a little store, which was also the P.O. Don't believe that there were 100 people there.

Also have an epic tale about how a friend and I (both about 16) set off in a canoe to paddle across Calibogue sound and camp on Dafuski. Got caught in a nasty squall. Never made it. Ended up huddled under the upturned canoe on a shell bank overnight.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 12:34 AM (XeU6L)

213
Chevy Chase would lean in and say “It’s violence on television, not violins!” To which Emily would respond “Oh! … Never mind!”
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

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Not Chevy Chase. Jane Curtin.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 12:34 AM (mmrXZ)

214 Emily Litella was the one who misheard or misunderstood things: why are people trying to ban violins on television? Violins are good for the children to hear… Chevy Chase would lean in and say “It’s violence on television, not violins!” To which Emily would respond “Oh! … Never mind!”
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:32 AM (1paM0)

Emily Litella was a character played by the late Gilda Radner, who was taken from this world much to soon by cancer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:35 AM (1z8ji)

215 Because Joyce was an Irish citizen, his lawyers argued that it was a legal impossibility for him to have committed treason against Great Britain.

However, a British court ruled that since Joyce had once traveled on a fake British passport, he was therefore subject to British treason laws. And so he was hanged.

He should have used the Glenn Beck defense for supporting Hillary.."well, it LOOKED like they were going to win"

Posted by: Azjaeger at August 08, 2026 12:35 AM (3/XaG)

216 My belt holds up my cordless holepuncher and other accessories. My suspenders hold up my belt, which would otherwise immediately obey gravity and head towards my ankles.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2026 12:36 AM (hj9Cy)

217 Been looking at those military weight distribution or load bearing harness to hang tools from instead of using a tool belt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:36 AM (3oLMy)

218 Sorry we're late. We were out dining and had to wait while TRex tried to reach across the table for the check...

Posted by: The Usual Suspects at August 08, 2026 12:36 AM (1l4vO)

219 William Joyce:

Leo Amery was Secretary of State for India, and a member of Churchill's inner War Cabinet.

His son John Amery made broadcasts from Nazi Germany & was hanged for treason.

The British had no sense of humor at all about treason during wartime.

Posted by: mnw at August 08, 2026 12:37 AM (RCjYY)

220 I started wearing suspenders about six months ago.
Most comfortable and convenient.

Posted by: Braenyard
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I find the belt-clip type convenient.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 12:38 AM (XeU6L)

221 I started wearing suspenders about six months ago.
Most comfortable and convenient.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:30 AM (3oLMy)

I am damn close to doing the same. Lord I am getting old.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 12:39 AM (0aYVJ)

222 My prediction: Trump will keep on building the Ballroom. He’ll appeal, get a stay, and keep on building till it’s finished.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:40 AM (1paM0)

223 Never liked Chevy Chase; always thought he deserved a punch in the mouth. Maybe more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:40 AM (3oLMy)

224
I joined Club Suspenders a little over a year ago myself. I lost some weight, and a belt just wasn't cutting it. Pulling up your pants all the time gets to be a PITA.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:41 AM (w6EFb)

225 I like Holdup brand suspenders. They stay put, do their job, and come in a variety of styles and colors. They have their own patented attachment design. Check ‘em out!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:43 AM (1paM0)

226 Looking at Amazon of old style soldering iron and hopefully the little gas furnace to heat them. - They have no idea -

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:45 AM (3oLMy)

227 I never rooted against my country because I hated Obama or Biden.
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:26 PM (YwEeS)

That's because we can tell the difference between a Kenyan fruit and an imbecile (or both at the same time), and our country.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:46 AM (2nJ9I)

228 I started wearing suspenders about six months ago.
Most comfortable and convenient.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:30 AM (3oLMy)

I am damn close to doing the same. Lord I am getting old.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 12:39 AM (0aYVJ)

Since I've been watching my sugar and carb intake I started dropping weight and my belt on in the last notch. I made a joke i would need suspenders or have to poke some new holes in the belt. Mrs b says well why don't you just used the stack of new pants you didn't fit in, they'll probably fit now. I'm starting to think she's the brains of the operation. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2026 12:46 AM (S41Gd)

229 I like Holdup brand suspenders. They stay put, do their job, and come in a variety of styles and colors. They have their own patented attachment design. Check ‘em out!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:43 AM (1paM0)

The ones I am wearing right now are Dickies, bought for 6 bucks at a thrift store. Worked right out of the box, they did. I look like a Hutterite now!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:47 AM (1z8ji)

230 How nice to see the usual suspects here.

Miklos, I remember hubs reaction to Justin Wilson's recipe for potato salad which required several cups of left over French Fries. He would often stand behind the stove and declare himself the Cajun Chef, this was before he morphed into Iron Chef Chen Kenichi.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2026 12:47 AM (ibDUx)

231 I never said much about Stevens or Benghazi, because I didn't (and still don't) care very much about it.

Yes - it was a US embassy, and ambassador, and the brutal attack should have entailed brutal reprisals. But it didn't. So, that's that.

Beyond the symbolic importance of the target and ensuing capitulation, what is this?

A CIA/Clinton/Blumenthal/Drumheller op that never should have happened in the first place. An incompetent, wan hothouse flower in charge of a weapons deal. A poorly secured embassy, and a "safe" house exposed to a mob of savages. It was a perfect Obama-era fuckup, and that's about it.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:47 AM (BI5O2)

232 Headline on FOX:

"Looks Like Tony Romo May Never Return to NFL Broadcasting Because of OWI Arrest."

The NFL has quite a number of convicted FELONS playing in the League, Chiefs' Rashee Rice is one of them.

But Romo is going to have his careen ended for a misdemeanor OWI., apparently.

Posted by: mnw at August 08, 2026 12:51 AM (RCjYY)

233 Don't even ask about our Litella Combat Ships.

Posted by: Undersecretary of the Cabinet That Leads To Narnia at August 08, 2026 12:51 AM (lwAKE)

234 The one who corrected Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella character varied from time to time. It was Jane Curtin this time, Chevy Chase another time, or someone else.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:52 AM (1paM0)

235 234 The one who corrected Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella character varied from time to time. It was Jane Curtin this time, Chevy Chase another time, or someone else.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:52 AM (1paM0)

Oh, nevermind.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:53 AM (2nJ9I)

236
I loved the "Jane, you ignorant slut!" sketches.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:53 AM (w6EFb)

237 We are strictly SouthCentral, in the Great White North.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:53 AM (2nJ9I)

238
It was Jane Curtin this time, Chevy Chase another time, or someone else.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

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Oh. Never mind.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (mmrXZ)

239
tcn, great minds!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (mmrXZ)

240 A guy goes to his doctor and says his girlfriend's pregnant. He can't understand it because he uses condoms without fail, and has never had one break.

The doctor tells him a story about a lion hunter who went out without his gun. When a lion charged, all he had was an umbrella. So, out of sheer desperation, he pointed the umbrella at the lion and yelled "Bang!".

The lion keeled over dead with a big hole in it.

The patient says "That's ridiculous. Someone out of sight must have shot the lion."

Doctor: "Bingo."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (IG3/x)

241 236
I loved the "Jane, you ignorant slut!" sketches.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:53 AM (w6EFb)

The best was the opening of the Weekend Update when Jane leans into the camera and says, "I'm wearing black, lace panties. [pause] And now the news!"

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (2nJ9I)

242 > It was Jane Curtin this time, Chevy Chase another time, or someone else.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:52 AM (1paM0)

I *think* (and it's been OMG 50 years? Jesus...), so I could be wrong) that Curtin was given the Weekend Update gig after Chase left the show.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 12:56 AM (IG3/x)

243
Doctor: "Bingo."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (IG3/x)

LOL, Rodrigo!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:56 AM (1z8ji)

244 The best was the opening of the Weekend Update when Jane leans into the camera and says, "I'm wearing black, lace panties. [pause] And now the news!"
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (2nJ9I)


"that would be 'Opening lines never used for the Merv Griffin Show'"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 12:58 AM (rbvCR)

245 Litella Combat Ships: Never Mind!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 01:02 AM (1paM0)

246 > Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (2nJ9I)

You getting zoomies out your way?


There's a JBER air show tomorrow, so Air Force Raptors and Navy Blue Angel Super Hornets have been blasting around over the city at not much more than treetop height. When it first started up yesterday afternoon, my first thought was that Putin was testing to see how much of a distraction the Iran thing is. I thought a couple of them were gonna take off the roof.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:02 AM (IG3/x)

247 But Romo is going to have his careen ended for a misdemeanor OWI., apparently.
Posted by: mnw at August 08, 2026 12:51 AM (RCjYY)

There is NO worse crime! Should be death penalty!

Posted by: MADD at August 08, 2026 01:02 AM (ZD542)

248 God bless the Horde.

God bless the good ship AoS and all who sail on her.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2026 01:02 AM (CHHv1)

249 Gotta check out.🕛

I this might have been better if I could make out all the words. Maybe.

https://youtu.be/2hJiOWQ7e18


Never mind that. Try this instead:

https://youtu.be/deebKNI-dTE

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - keep us ever mindful of the needs of others at August 08, 2026 01:03 AM (62m/B)

250 Litella Combat Ships: Never Mind!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit


Never mined?

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 01:04 AM (VHUov)

251 So, I am ever-so-slowly driving the little Kubota excavator off the trailer. This is my first time in the seat of the darned thing. I extended the boom, and placed the bucket on the road, so it would not pitch forward coming off the trailer. I had backed the trailer up to the berm of the road, so I didn't have to set up the ramps.

Neighbor lady drives up in an SUV. I said, "got a new toy for my sandbox". She says, "Oh, Lord, don't let my husband see that, he will want one!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 01:05 AM (1z8ji)

252 > 233 Don't even ask about our Litella Combat Ships.
Posted by: Undersecretary of the Cabinet That Leads To Narnia at August 08, 2026 12:51 AM (lwAKE)

I thought a litella was that female organ that men are supposed to be unable to find.


(seriously... what's up with that? First, the clitoris is not at all hard to find (barring a woman who's been raised by mutilating Islamic savages), and secondly, if your man can't find it, SHOW HIM).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:06 AM (IG3/x)

253 Yeah, that’s right, Curtin took over for Chase when he left. That led to the Point/Counterpoint bits where Dan Aykroyd retorted to Jane with “Jane, you ignorant slut…”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 01:07 AM (1paM0)

254 You getting zoomies out your way?


There's a JBER air show tomorrow, so Air Force Raptors and Navy Blue Angel Super Hornets have been blasting around over the city at not much more than treetop height. When it first started up yesterday afternoon, my first thought was that Putin was testing to see how much of a distraction the Iran thing is. I thought a couple of them were gonna take off the roof.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:02 AM (IG3/x)

We drove into Anchorage today to run errands, saw the Blue Angels practicing. Had to pull over to watch, because, cool.

I think they come over our house for some of their maneuvers but we shall see tomorrow. I'm not putting up with Anchorage crowds to see Arctic Thunder, but it was fun when I was younger, certainly. Also, when I had easy base access. Being retired, I'd have to take the bus... no thanks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:07 AM (2nJ9I)

255 Neighbor lady drives up in an SUV. I said, "got a new toy for my sandbox". She says, "Oh, Lord, don't let my husband see that, he will want one!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 01:05 AM (1z8ji)

DH already said he wants one. Like we need more holes in the yard.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (2nJ9I)

256 > I'm not putting up with Anchorage crowds to see Arctic Thunder, but it was fun when I was younger, certainly.

Yeah, traffic gets pretty crazy.

I was considering it after I heard they're going to have a U-2 on display (never saw one of those in person), but nah... not worth the aggravation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (IG3/x)

257
There were also those sketches where Dan Ackroyd would play this sleazy, fly-by-night character who sold these ridiculously dangerous children's toys and Halloween costumes.

The "Johnny Human Torch" costume. Some oily rags and lighter.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (w6EFb)

258 When you put people like Valerie Jarrett and Hillary Clinton in charge of great-power foreign policy, things like Benghazi (and Libya in general) will happen.

It's the cost of doing business with greedy retards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 01:10 AM (BI5O2)

259 > The "Johnny Human Torch" costume. Some oily rags and lighter.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (w6EFb)

"Just flick your Bic and... Flame on!"

Also the "Invisible Pedestrian" costume and the "Bag-O-Glass" toy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:11 AM (IG3/x)

Another Friday Night Cafe

norwayswitchback.png
Lysebotn, Rogaland, Norway


Baby elephant plays with his "toy," which looks like a small bicycle innertube.

Where's your trunk?

Sky-puppy squeaks as he's petted.

I'll take Things Which are Orange, Trebek, and your mother's a whore.

Fawn vs. lamb.

Old but fun: A guy set up cameras to catch the groundhog eating all of his vegetables and found the groundhog was a camera-hog who was proud to be filmed stealing carrots.

AI video of a cliff city on another planet.

An albatross has her chick returned to her (after a medical check-up). I'm posting this because I didn't really know what an albatross looked like. Kinda cute. Definitely don't kill one while at sea.

Vertigo simulator.

Sibling slapfight.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:20 PM




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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Working on the Movie Vault, ran into a challenge, certain files have default audio streams that are in other languages.

The version of 52 Pick-Up I acquired has Italian as the default audio track and not English, so I have to add a stream picker and memory settings.

Do I want to do this as a JSON or a table entry?

Hmm...

Oh, I think I will ruminate on this over a nice Gimlet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 07:26 PM (XV/Pl)

3 Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:27 PM (2GVsD)

4 Porcupines are native to Eastern US, never saw one in wild

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)

5 As the Danube recedes further and further into the center of the channels, more and more history is being found. From sunken Nazi warships in Yugoslavia to unexploded ordinance near a historic bridge in Budapest.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (2GVsD)

6 Happy weekend!

Posted by: Caf at August 07, 2026 07:30 PM (q+TLe)

7 I also have to do this server side as html 5 doesn't have an audio switching function.

Bother.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 07:30 PM (XV/Pl)

8 Mucho switchbacks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (wOO3z)

9 Obey the siren song of the Gimlet.

The code will wait.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (2GVsD)

10 Slartibartfast's pride and joy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (0aYVJ)

11 As the Danube recedes further and further into the center of the channels, more and more history is being found. From sunken Nazi warships in Yugoslavia to unexploded ordinance near a historic bridge in Budapest.
Posted by: Anna Puma


Are they going to block the sites off against the return of the water and excavate them?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (vJrRc)

12 4 Porcupines are native to Eastern US, never saw one in wild
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)
____________________________

I never saw any until a knowledgable soul up in NH started pointing them out. They are, of course, nocturnal. BUT, during the day the best place to see them is very high up in the trees. They're climbers and sleep in the trees, or in rotted out logs. After that, I saw a bunch.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (dIske)

13 Porcupines are native to Eastern US, never saw one in wild
Posted by: Skip

Central PA and Western NY are full of them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:35 PM (wOO3z)

14 Vertigo simulator.

I think a creditable argument can be made that it's not a simulator.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 07, 2026 07:36 PM (/HDaX)

15 >>Definitely don't kill one while at sea.

Good tip.

Also, no bananas onboard.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 07:37 PM (viF8m)

16 That pic of the road up top...
There's either a large artifact in the digital pic,oooorrrrr,

that's one hell of a drop just before the bottom switchback.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 07:37 PM (oyafG)

17 Porcupines are native to Eastern US, never saw one in wild
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)

Have not seen many porcupines in the wild. I do recall seeing one in the Tobacco Root Mountains in Montana. Just sitting on a tree limb.

Buddy's dog got a snout full of spines from an encounter in Wyoming. Poor thing. Required a trip to the vet.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:38 PM (0aYVJ)

18 The ads just screw with my phone to much. Was better on tablet as could swat it away. On phone its hidden and until can swat it away won't let me comment.
Findind the off switch can be the major problem

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:38 PM (Ia/+0)

19 @9

>>The code will wait.

Indeed.

I am also printing a gigantic torso for a Galactus 3D print, total time is 13hrs to print this one piece, I'm under 3hrs to go.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 07:40 PM (XV/Pl)

20 I've spent loads of time watching the Porcupine from Philadelphia, Larry Fine.

Posted by: Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard at August 07, 2026 07:40 PM (JM9I6)

21 That pic of the road up top...
There's either a large artifact in the digital pic,oooorrrrr,

that's one hell of a drop just before the bottom switchback.
Posted by: buddhaha

Just a guess. That could be a maintenance road for the transmission line that goes down the mountain and feeds the town.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:41 PM (wOO3z)

22 My Mother In Law was born in 1921 in Norway, on a fjord like the one at top. She never saw a black person in her life until about age 25 when she went to the capitol, Oslo and saw an African diplomat on the street. She always thought black folk were exotic and fascinating. She lived to age 96.

Posted by: A Fine Lady at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM (JM9I6)

23 Bats! Bats!!! BATS !!!!!!! We have bats !!!!!!!!!!!!!

O frabjous day! Thank you, Ace! Have a great weekend!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1)

24 She never saw a black person in her life until about age 25 when she went to the capitol, Oslo and saw an African diplomat on the street. She always thought black folk were exotic and fascinating. She lived to age 96.
Posted by: A Fine Lady at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM (JM9I6)

In 1990 my battalion sponsored an R&R trip to Portoroz, Yugoslavia. One of my buddies was a black dude, and he was mystified, because many of the locals had never seen a black person. The kids would innocently rub his arms to see if it came off. He was cool as hell, and he became a bit of a celebrity for the short time we were there.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:49 PM (0aYVJ)

25 I would walk the Thagus trail but my shoulder would be scrapped raw from hugging the trail wall.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 07:49 PM (KC5Lt)

26 I could have been first but I was diverted by my pop up.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 07:50 PM (MWfyi)

27 Posted by: A Fine Lady at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM (JM9I6)

Did she finally see an Asian person before she passed?

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 07:51 PM (KC5Lt)

28 *pines*

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at August 07, 2026 07:53 PM (88C+u)

29
*gives all the Café dogs ear noogies*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 07:54 PM (O0L8i)

30 As the Danube recedes further and further into the center of the channels
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM


As it shrinks in danger of sliding into depression. It's already blue about it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:54 PM (0sNs1)

31 26 I could have been first but I was diverted by my pop up.
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 07:50 PM (MWfyi

A big breasted woman from a nearby city can show me how to be a millionaire!

I took Ralphy to the vet today for an allergy shot. He's still kicking.

Him and Snowflake were sleeping upstairs. Ralphy had to go out and when Snowflake is here she always follows her dog friend out.

It's really cute.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:54 PM (Sco7b)

32 It's gonna be the brown Danube.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 07:56 PM (MWfyi)

33 Penguins are invading South Africa, and the locals, who should know better, are happy about it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)

34 33 Penguins are invading South Africa, and the locals, who should know better, are happy about it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)

Wait.... Penguins are half black, half white...

So, under the new South Africa Race laws, who do they count as?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (mP0Kj)

35 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

Chloe the Bengal Kitty has really adapted well to her new home.

She's kicked Penny off the top shelf in my office.

She's found her little niche.

She also enjoys the Fancy Feast and dry kibble that I feed the other kitties rather than the expensive cat food that I was given for her.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (FZ29D)

36 I ran into porcupine on a trail near Estes Park, Co. absolutely no fear of humans, and we realized quick that he didn’t need to be scared of us , we needed to be scared of him. I, being foolishly bold for no reason, found a six foot long stick and tried to poke him with it. (To this day I don’t know why I wanted to do that). He educated me by slapping that stick out of my hands with his tail.

I got the message alright.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (6dcPw)

37 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (FZ29D

Do they shed a lot?

I'm spring cleaning the house. Wow the hair and it's just my dog and a part-time cat.

I'm combing them both now more frequently, but I don't think it'll help as much as I'd like.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:00 PM (Sco7b)

38 Watched another video series on a porcupine, the woman call him Porky. He only seemed to want apples. Brought his girl with him back to under her porch where she had hay for bedding in a snow storm.

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 08:01 PM (Ia/+0)

39 Do they shed a lot?

I'm spring cleaning the house. Wow the hair and it's just my dog and a part-time cat.

I'm combing them both now more frequently, but I don't think it'll help as much as I'd like.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:00 PM (Sco7b)
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I try not to think about it too much. Usually when I vacuum or sweep, I end up with enough fur for 1-3 more cats.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (FZ29D)

40 The late Lieut. Ruxton, R.N., speaking of the Island of Ichaboe, on the Western Coast of Africa, says, ‘Notwithstanding that the island had been occupied for nearly two years, during which time thousands upon thousands of penguins had been wantonly destroyed, on the cessation of work these birds again flocked to their old haunts, where they had again commenced laying their eggs.
The rocks round the island are literally covered with penguins, cormorants, and albatrosses. The former, wedged together in a dense phalanx, have no more dread of man than ducks in a poultry-yard, although they have met with such persecution on the island; and any number might be taken by the hand without any difficulty. The sailors eat the livers and hearts, which are exceedingly palatable, but the flesh of the body is rank and oily.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (MWfyi)

41 Lysebotn, Rogaland, Norway

I can see some idiot on a skateboard coming down that road.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (KAa/S)

42 I try not to think about it too much. Usually when I vacuum or sweep, I end up with enough fur for 1-3 more cats.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (FZ29D)

I'm glad all of you are doing well.
Everyone have a good night!

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:06 PM (Sco7b)

43 "Vertigo simulator." No effing way. Acrophobia must come with age.

Posted by: javems at August 07, 2026 08:06 PM (7EFCs)

44 Penguins are invading South Africa, and the locals, who should know better, are happy about it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
.......

At least they're not Moroccans.

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 08:07 PM (oq9dX)

45 "I can see some idiot on a skateboard coming down that road.
Posted by: t-bird "

Wearing a wingsuit so he can fly off the end of the road like Wiley Coyote.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)

46 Are the penguins setting fires and looting stores for fish?

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

47 Hi! Happy cafe!

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 08:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

48 "I can see some idiot on a skateboard coming down that road.
Posted by: t-bird "

Wearing a wingsuit so he can fly off the end of the road like Wiley Coyote.
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)
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As I recall, that didn't end well for poor Wile E....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:10 PM (FZ29D)

49 Wait.... Penguins are half black, half white...

So, under the new South Africa Race laws, who do they count as?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (mP0Kj)
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Coloured.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:10 PM (ZOv7s)

50 Some tidbits from the Spanish Civil War era that folks might not know. When the King abdicated and the Republic was created, the leftists wrote the Constitution and won control of the government. They proceeded to do Lefty stuff, ban religious education, raise taxes, secularize everything, etc.

The created total mayhem, and in the two years that followed, the center-right got organized and won a plurality of seats in the 1934. By all European parliamentary customs, their leader should have been named prime minister and formed a coalition government.

Ah, but the left always cheats. The leftist president instead picked fringe parties' leaders, who then needed the center-right to form a government. So some conservative things got done, but the coalitions kept collapsing, and so a new fringe part got to be PM. Meanwhile, the Anarchists launched an armed rebellion in Asturias which was put down with the Foreign Legion. (cont)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:15 PM (ZOv7s)

51 Norway. Sure.

*eyeroll*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 08:18 PM (u/oMr)

52 In 1936 the left learned its lesson and created the Popular Front ("No enemies to the left!") and in a campaign marred by fraud and violence, won a narrow majority. Now here's the fun part you don't know.

They immediately launched a parliamentary inquiry into "election irregularities" and concluded that all the most conservative parts of Spain had committed fraud and needed to vote again. These votes were completely rigged, and they went from a razor-thin majority to a supermajority.

And what did they do with this huge majority? They impeached the president because he wasn't radical enough! Oh, and they greanted amnesty to all the captured rebels who had tried to overthrow the government, and refused to prosecute people for killing landowners and looting businesses. One giant CHAZ.

This got the Army worries, and Emilio Mola began making a plan for a coup. Franco was noncommittal until the brutal murder of Jose Calvo Sotelo, a conservative politician who was killed by a police officer - who went unpunished. It's all there - leftists eating their own, radicals pushing aside moderates and of course tearing up the rules they wrote themselves because they got in the way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:21 PM (ZOv7s)

53 My wife talks about being able to knit a new cat from fur.
Why doesn't one want to kill an albatross? Don't recall that from the O'Brien series?

Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:28 PM (q6tQZ)

54 leftists eating their own, radicals pushing aside moderates and of course tearing up the rules they wrote themselves because they got in the way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:21 PM


Some people may have done some things.
They were done in the enthusiasm of the moment.
Old news.
What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Popular Front at August 07, 2026 08:29 PM (0sNs1)

55 "Why doesn't one want to kill an albatross? "

Bad juju. See "The Ancient Mariner".

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:31 PM (MWfyi)

56 That pic of the road up top...
There's either a large artifact in the digital pic,oooorrrrr,

that's one hell of a drop just before the bottom switchback.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 07:37 PM (oyafG)


Goes through a tunnel. Here's a video of people driving that road...

https://youtu.be/_Z0yEnm3D0s

Tunnel starts at ~8:00.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:31 PM (ExV1e)

57 My wife talks about being able to knit a new cat from fur.
Why doesn't one want to kill an albatross? Don't recall that from the O'Brien series?
Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:28 PM (q6tQZ)
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Way I remember it, an albatross was a good luck charm, until some idiot killed it.

Yes, I've read a poem.

Posted by: Mal Reynolds at August 07, 2026 08:31 PM (FZ29D)

58 Most of history is sad. Recall the Heinlein quote.
Lord save us from experiencing it in our lifetimes. (And our children's children's lifetimes).

Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:32 PM (q6tQZ)

59 Why doesn't one want to kill an albatross?

Killing an albatross is considered bad luck primarily due to the maritime superstition that these birds carry the souls of deceased sailors. Sailors believed that harming an albatross was an act of violence against a departed soul, which would invite the wrath of the sea, resulting in misfortune, storms, or shipwreck for the entire crew.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:33 PM (ExV1e)

60 That ai cliff city looks like a horrible place to live

Posted by: Accomack at August 07, 2026 08:35 PM (GbONR)

61 Bad juju. See "The Ancient Mariner".
Posted by: fd

TLR
Kidding. Isn't that the "Rime of the Ancient Marner" or some such?

Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:35 PM (q6tQZ)

62 Most of the time news from Iran is tragic, but it has moments of pure comedy. Stories are being released saying that Supreme Leader young Khomeini is in very poor condition.

Apparently someone left the cardboard figure out in the rain and the magic marker started to run.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:36 PM (6dcPw)

63 Killing an albatross is considered bad luck primarily due to the maritime superstition that these birds carry the souls of deceased sailors. Sailors believed that harming an albatross was an act of violence against a departed soul, which would invite the wrath of the sea, resulting in misfortune, storms, or shipwreck for the entire crew.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Ahhh. I see. So they don't taste good?
Cause if they were tasty, all that superstitious crap would've gone out the window.

Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:37 PM (q6tQZ)

64 I was in Norway once. Once.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 08:38 PM (u/oMr)

65 "...and your mother's a whore."

That is why I read this blog.

Posted by: Fatty McFattington at August 07, 2026 08:38 PM (uHU6e)

66 John Cleese is the only Albatross! vendor I'm aware of.

Posted by: Gullible Gus at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (JM9I6)

67 I think I'll call the rescue hare Trudy.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (PiwSw)

68 "Isn't that the "Rime of the Ancient Marner" or some such?
Posted by: MkY ''

Yep. Where we get the phrase "Water, water, everywhere".

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (MWfyi)

69 Mariners don't want to kill us either.

Posted by: The Magnificent Frigatebird at August 07, 2026 08:42 PM (JM9I6)

70 10 Slartibartfast's pride and joy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (0aYVJ)
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First time I saw Bill Nighy on the screen.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 08:42 PM (PiwSw)

71 And we certainly can't beat Mariners.

Posted by: Colorado Rockies at August 07, 2026 08:44 PM (0sNs1)

72 Mariners suck.

Beeen on a losing streak. Got beat 11-0 by the Tigers. At home.

Miserable.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 08:46 PM (0IMoU)

73 Mariners suck.

Beeen on a losing streak. Got beat 11-0 by the Tigers. At home.

Miserable.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 08:46 PM (0IMoU)

74 AI video of a cliff city on another planet.

Are you sure it's AI? It might just be Wakanda.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 08:46 PM (VHUov)

75 Seeing if different browser is bettrr

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 08:47 PM (Ia/+0)

76 Better butter

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 08:47 PM (Ia/+0)

77 "Isn't that the "Rime of the Ancient Marner" or some such?
Posted by: MkY ''

Yep. Where we get the phrase "Water, water, everywhere".
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (MWfyi
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When we read it in English class, the main takeaway was not that you shouldn't shoot the albatross, but that if anyone did the shooting, it should be you, because everyone else got killed. All you got was some haunting memories.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:48 PM (ZOv7s)

78 I would say the Movie Vault app is 99pct wife friendly.

The Roku portion is another thing all together.

Roku's language is called Brightscript which is an unholy alliance of xml markup and Visual Basicish sub routines.

The app is janky, but works, doesn't quite resemble the web frontend, but you can browse and play movies, TV shows are a whole other ball of wax as I can't quite figure out how to correctly parse the the show/season/episode file structure yet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 08:49 PM (XV/Pl)

79 Vertigo simulator.

And the top pic is the opposite, right? What's the name for "the fear of a four-ton rock falling off a mile-high cliff and crushing your house while you sleep?"

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 08:50 PM (VHUov)

80 When we read it in English class, the main takeaway was not that you shouldn't shoot the albatross, but that if anyone did the shooting, it should be you, because everyone else got killed. All you got was some haunting memories.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


The earliest incarnation of the Prisoner's Dilemma.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 08:51 PM (VHUov)

81 When we read it in English class, the main takeaway was not that you shouldn't shoot the albatross, but that if anyone did the shooting, it should be you, because everyone else got killed. All you got was some haunting memories.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:48 PM (ZOv7s)
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"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" always reminds me of the MAD Magazine parody "Rime of the Ancient Skateboarder" illustrated by Don Martin.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:51 PM (FZ29D)

82 What's the name for "the fear of a four-ton rock falling off a mile-high cliff and crushing your house while you sleep?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 08:50 PM (VHUov)

Dylanophobia.

Everybody must get stoned.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 08:52 PM (Ot/FD)

83 I can't quite figure out how to correctly parse the the show/season/episode file structure yet.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 08:49 PM


It's all in how you marshall.

Posted by: Dillon at August 07, 2026 08:53 PM (0sNs1)

84 "Don't shoot that bird."

"Why?"

"Because I said so. And because the nearest Cabela's is twenty five hundred miles back that way, so stop shooting random shit for no reason, dammit."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 08:54 PM (Ot/FD)

85 Mariners suck.

Beeen on a losing streak. Got beat 11-0 by the Tigers. At home.

Miserable.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 08:46 PM (0IMoU)

The Rockies were eliminated about halfway through spring training.

Hell, the Savannah Bananas could take most MLB teams 3 out of 5.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 08:58 PM (0aYVJ)

86 >>"Because I said so. And because the nearest Cabela's is twenty five hundred miles back that way, so stop shooting random shit for no reason, dammit."

That's probably closer to the truth and the legends came later. If you are out hunting deer and an eagle flies by do you kill it just for grins? Albatross follow fishing boats, ironically thats how many get killed but not by shooting them, they get caught in fishing gear.

But only a knucklehead would should a huge, beautiful bird like that for no reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 09:00 PM (viF8m)

87
Mileage may vary based on if you're leaving or arriving at the village.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 09:02 PM (Y8DZL)

88 The Ancient Mariner's albatross was shot with a crossbow, for which bolts may be easily manufactured while at sea.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 09:02 PM (MWfyi)

89 Dylanophobia.

Everybody must get stoned.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 08:52 PM (Ot/FD)
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Bob Dylan was the first Bob Dylan, who was billed as the next Woody Guthrie.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 09:05 PM (ZOv7s)

90 Evening, Horde!

Has this become a Coleridge thread? The perhaps some of you can put me some knowledge:

I am a great fan of Douglas Adams and think his Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is one of his best books. However, after many readings, I confess I really don't understand the ending, and how Gently's interruption of Coleridge in mid-hash debauch changed the writing of "Kubla Khan" and the alt ending of the alien space probe.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2026 09:06 PM (SgdqL)

91 Uh, oh.

Did I just kill the thread?

*sad trombone*

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2026 09:10 PM (SgdqL)

92 No, we all went to read the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 09:13 PM (q6tQZ)

93 Uh, oh.

Did I just kill the thread?

*sad trombone*
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2026 09:10 PM (SgdqL)
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Everyone went to go scrounge up their Norton Anthology of British Literature to see if "Kubla Khan" is in there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 09:14 PM (FZ29D)

94 Way padt my bedtime, not that I have to get up tomorrow for any reason.
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 09:15 PM (Ia/+0)

95 All creatures great and small is in there, too.
How fun!

Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 09:16 PM (q6tQZ)

96 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:18 PM (77rzZ)

97 It really is strange having four kitties in my office, all watching each other...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 09:18 PM (FZ29D)

98 Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
— the man from Porlock

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:20 PM (77rzZ)

99
Mariners suck.

Beeen on a losing streak. Got beat 11-0 by the Tigers. At home.

Miserable.
Posted by: nurse ratched


Somebody throw them an albatross!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 09:21 PM (Cqx++)

100 My Cat is melted, out on the deck.

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 09:23 PM (rdVOm)

101 Beeen on a losing streak. Got beat 11-0 by the Tigers. At home.

Miserable.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Could be worse {{nr}}. You could have been born a Mets fan.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 09:24 PM (vE0+H)

102 So it’s an English lit thread…

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:25 PM (77rzZ)

103 Under an hour to go for this 13 hour print.

Having a prayerful Gimlet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 09:27 PM (XV/Pl)

104 The best poets in the English language:

1. John Milton
2. William Shakespeare
3. Rudyard Kipling

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:28 PM (77rzZ)

105 So, if I'm planning a remodel, does the lanai have a pleasure dome, or does the pleasure dome have a lanai?

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at August 07, 2026 09:29 PM (r7+Q7)

106 Gaze Bo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 09:32 PM (Cqx++)

107 104 And E. A. Poe is probably fourth.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:32 PM (77rzZ)

108 Well, I guess I drove everyone off with my poetry talk.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:36 PM (77rzZ)

109 Ace checking his email:

https://shorturl.at/AJVyV

Posted by: clarence at August 07, 2026 09:37 PM (BJ9EB)

110 It really is strange having four kitties in my office, all watching each other...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 09:18 PM (FZ29D)

We no longer have any kittehs, but Mischa loved Bug, but hated Scout. Bug loved Mischa and Scout. Bug was a sweetie.

Mischa was a gray and white tabby born under a sheet of plywood leaned up against a barn. 1998

Bug was a calico from a pet store. 2001

Scout was a black kitty, part Persian, a rescue.2005

They all lived nice long lives. I miss our kittehs.

We want new pets, but we are not in the right place for that right now.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 09:38 PM (0aYVJ)

111 Ace checking his email:

https://shorturl.at/AJVyV
Posted by: clarence at August 07, 2026 09:37 PM (BJ9EB)


Why does that cat have blue claws?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 07, 2026 09:40 PM (/HDaX)

112 Gaze Bo
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 09:32 PM (Cqx++)

Dad?

Dad loved word-play like that. It was not a placebo. It was place-bow.

I do the same damn thing. Might just be a genetic disorder. On the Scottish side.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 09:41 PM (0aYVJ)

113 Why does that cat have blue claws?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 07, 2026 09:40 PM (/HDaX)
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I think they are "caps" that cover the claws so that the cat doesn't damage furniture when scratching.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 09:44 PM (FZ29D)

114 I think they are "caps" that cover the claws so that the cat doesn't damage furniture when scratching.

Cool. Beats hell out of declawing them.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 07, 2026 09:44 PM (/HDaX)

115 I’l faut s’enivrer!

- Baudelaire

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 09:44 PM (1paM0)

116 Don't get caught by flock.

Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 09:45 PM (fV9m3)

117 I’l faut s’enivrer!

- Baudelaire
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 09:44 PM (1paM0)

Gesundheit.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)

118 Losing streaks can turn around. It’s a long season.

Posted by: Accomack at August 07, 2026 09:46 PM (/Chlc)

119 Sorry, Horde. Cats stink.

They’re outdoor animals who are great at vermin control. Keep them outdoors doing vermin control. Let the dogs patrol them.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:47 PM (77rzZ)

120 Edgar Allan Poe insists on a fifth!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 09:47 PM (1paM0)

121 think they are "caps" that cover the claws so that the cat doesn't damage furniture when scratching.

Cool. Beats hell out of declawing them.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

Many vets won't do the procedure any more. A lot of shelters won't either.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 09:48 PM (zWqu+)

122 About the main picture, Norway with only five million or so population can construct roads to reach all the fjords by car is truly inspiring. But look at Africa and the Muslim world and roads don't seem that important. Not interested in their people would be my guess, it's all about the boss man.

Posted by: Decaf at August 07, 2026 09:48 PM (ZNpJk)

123 I’l -> Il

Blast autocumber!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 09:48 PM (1paM0)

124
Sorry, Horde. Cats stink.

They’re outdoor animals who are great at vermin control. Keep them outdoors doing vermin control. Let the dogs patrol them.
Posted by: Bulg

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

One-life loser.

Posted by: Cats at August 07, 2026 09:49 PM (mmrXZ)

125 Il faut s’enivrer - the original of everyone must get stoned!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 09:50 PM (1paM0)

126 Top photo is odd- seems off somehow

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 09:51 PM (ZxPkt)

127 Top photo is odd- seems off somehow
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 09:51 PM (ZxPkt)


Cuz you don't know about the tunnel.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:53 PM (ExV1e)

128 Another Friday Night 🎶and I ain't got no bunny
I got some penguins 'cause I just got…

Y'know what, never mind. ONT, please. WeirdDavely preferably.

Posted by: mindful webworker - identifies as mindful webworker at August 07, 2026 09:54 PM (62m/B)

129 ONT is here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:59 PM (ExV1e)

130 Goes through a tunnel. Here's a video of people driving that road...
https://youtu.be/_Z0yEnm3D0s
Tunnel starts at ~8:00.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Thanks. I only watched the tunnel bit, because I get motion sickness when my eyes and my inner ear don't agree. Below deck on a boat,or in an IMAX theater does me in, but those motion simulating rides, like the Pandora ride at Disney World are no problem.
The tunnel has a switchback!

Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 10:16 PM (oyafG)

Trump Offers Cities "BIDEN" Grants to Defray Costs Accrued Due to Biden's Open Borders, With One Iron Requirement: Recipients Must Comply Fully With ICE and Trump's Deportation Program

I don't expect any of the truly obnoxious blue cities will go for this, but I appreciate the troll.

The Department of Justice is now offering $3 billion in "BIDEN" grants to help local municipalities recoup their losses incurred by Joe Biden's destructive immigration policies.

The grants, being called the Bridging Immigration-related Deficits Experienced Nationwide (BIDEN) program, is one of the biggest grant programs the DOJ has ever offered and is aimed at helping cities hire more police officers, upgrade technology, and build temporary detention facilities for illegal migrants, the Washington Post reported.

But there is one provision that is non-negotiable. The municipalities that apply for the grants must pledge to work with federal immigration authorities as they carry out federal immigration policies. The jurisdictions that apply must agree to "fully participate" in the ICE 287(g) partnership that links local law enforcement to ICE and other federal immigration enforcement agencies.

"This Department of Justice is committed to ensuring Biden-era border disasters never happen again," said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward. "We are proud to once again champion law and order."

The description of the program explains that the grant dollars are intended for "locating and apprehending aliens who have committed a crime under federal, state, or local law, in addition to being unlawfully present in the United States."

The DOJ also notes that some of the money may be expected to come back to the federal government as reimbursement for "the costs associated with federal law enforcement intervention" should federal resources have to be spent "to reduce crime or public disorder" related to immigration enforcement actions.

There are no other catches other than participation in the 287(g) program, and municipalities may spend the grant money however they wish.

The DOJ reported that 181 cities have already applied for the grants.

Unrelated: Tuq'r has previously strongly hinted he believes that the US government or Israel -- and aren't they really the same thing, am i rite? -- blew up the World Trade Center.

Now, he makes it explicit, saying WTC 7 collapsed for "no explicable reason."

No, none at all. Ignore the 747s collapsing buildings all around it.


Tuq'r Qarlson also embraces the Islamic ban on lending money -- finding that the normal capitalist practice of loaning money for interest is "usury."

Weird how every one of his thoughts is pro-Muslim and anti-Jew, huh?

How long before El-Sayed is on Tuq'r's show?



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:10 PM




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1 Bridging Immigration-related Deficits Experienced Nationwide (BIDEN)

All hail the trollish mastery of the golden scalp weasel.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (VHUov)

2 Can't Republicans also just cut off highway funds to states that dont have Voter ID, sort of like they did with states that didn't raise their drinking age to 21 in the 80's?

Posted by: Leupold at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (c2j/o)

3 Mew!

Posted by: The Dog at August 07, 2026 06:12 PM (XodLO)

4 Bridging Immigration-related Deficits Experienced Nationwide (BIDEN)



LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 06:12 PM (FtULh)

5
Speaking of Bidens, is Ashley, his hot to shower with Daddy daughter, back in circulation?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:13 PM (ixS3i)

6 I though that was the general rule for Christians and Jews for a long time as well, that they weren't allowed to charge interest when lending money to their own people.

Which is why Jews became lenders for Christians - the kings especially - and then got named as public enemies committing usury when the kings decided they didn't want to pay the money back.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 07, 2026 06:14 PM (vJrRc)

7 Troll Level:Galactic

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 06:14 PM (YwEeS)

8 DSA candidates run as democrats because democrats are mostly socialists, too. Plus, money.

Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 06:15 PM (VJX5o)

9 Hassan Piker tape put on x stating….

“We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna f your sisters and then your daughters.”

“We’re here to Destroy the White Race, beeatch.”

Posted by: The Dog at August 07, 2026 06:15 PM (XodLO)

10 Weird how every one of his thoughts is pro-old greek homo and anti-Jew, huh?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 06:15 PM (F7wxO)

11
Which is why Jews became lenders for Christians - the kings especially - and then got named as public enemies committing usury when the kings decided they didn't want to pay the money back.
Posted by: FeatherBlade


Converting "us"ury to "mine"ury!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:15 PM (ixS3i)

12 Anyone who knows anything about the WTC complex knows how Building 7 could collapse the way it did.

No Thermite Paint needed.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 06:16 PM (uzmqU)

13 Meanwhile governor Ferguson in Washington state is asking Trump to come visit Spokane and view the fire damage.
Fergie wants a photo op to show how reasonable he is.
Trump could make it a political show and flip three house seats.
Hmmmm....

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:17 PM (2WIwB)

14 Bridging Immigration-related Deficits Experienced Nationwide (BIDEN)


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Fuck that shit. Stop giving them money.

There are lots of funds they can cut.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:17 PM (aDhTQ)

15
Now, he makes it explicit, saying WTC 7 collapsed for "no explicable reason."


"Sure, T'qur!"

-- gravity

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:17 PM (ixS3i)

16 The DOJ reported that 181 cities have already applied for the grants.

I've got a pretty good guess where those cities are mostly located.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:18 PM (6ydKt)

17 Carried over:

215 He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

He was born in New Jersey.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ExV1e)


Yeah, I joke sometimes about Hasan Piker being on the 2028 ticket, but he does actually meet the Constitutional requirements, IIRC. The 'joke' gets less funny every day, as it looks more and more likely that Dems would actually nominate a hostile, culturally alien Jihad Socialist. Like Obama on Captagon (jihadi meth).

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 06:18 PM (Sy6m/)

18 Converting "us"ury to "mine"ury!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot


There's no "I" in usury, but there are two "you's." So that loan is youse problem.

Posted by: its good to be the king at August 07, 2026 06:18 PM (VHUov)

19 Sweet lord.
Would someone tell Tucker to STFU and just go away.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:18 PM (2WIwB)

20 Told ya.

>>Abdul El-Sayed’s Father-in-Law Among Top Leaders of Muslim Brotherhood Org Linked to Terror Funding

https://tinyurl.com/3mft89rv

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)

21 We have a serious mental illness pandemic.

M ake
A sylums
G reat
A gain

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 06:19 PM (2Cry5)

22 The muzzies still loan money. They don't abide, they only try to keep it in the community as to loan, you have to follow their rules and have some satan worshiper approve it.

Same with their dietary rules - they are not about health or religion, it is about economic control and depriving non-muzzies of that market.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:19 PM (aDhTQ)

23 That guy interviewing Fetterman is tiny.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 06:20 PM (Cqx++)

24
You know who else had one of his names begin with an "H"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:20 PM (ixS3i)

25 Trump should—with a mountain of evidence —declare the worst of the blue shitholes(choose one —any one of them. There are plenty to choose from) to be in insurrection.
Arrest every beating heart official that has even the slightest tie to protecting illegals and promoting fraud and protecting fraudsters of Federal funds etc etc.
Go big or get defeated in the mid terms.
The MAGA base wants a kinetic kind of America First. BIGLY. Motivate your voting base POTUS. . Ahora.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 07, 2026 06:20 PM (vgBUF)

26 Well.
This is exciting.
If the pop-ups are to be believed, if I take those little blue pills and do that one thing, Mrs D will start to look like that hot babe with the sultry come hither look!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:21 PM (2WIwB)

27 It's about getting ICE easy access to deport. Much easier with cooperation and they don't get the money without cooperating.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 06:22 PM (YwEeS)

28 Hi grandma! I played baseball today!
But you have no arms and legs!
I was home plate!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 06:22 PM (QajKI)

29
Fuck that shit. Stop giving them money.

There are lots of funds they can cut.


The government has an infinite supply of money.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 06:22 PM (Cqx++)

30 Gee a Dem is willing to say Bernie is a crank. Fetterman is definitely going to be primaried

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 06:23 PM (KY+FT)

31 Tucker Carlson preaches that debt is slavery, that lending at interest is the sin of usury, and that a society organized around debt "enslaves people."

What's your alternative, Tuq'r Carlsonov?

Socialism?
Jizya tax?

Some combination of the above?


Tucker is turning into Alex Jones with less ranting & raving and gay frogs, and more Islamic proselytizing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:23 PM (6ydKt)

32 Jeez. Trutherism?

Ok.

Also, we're back to Usary and the dawned Jewish Bankers, aren't we?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, not an Eagles fan either at August 07, 2026 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

33 From the Babylon Bee:

Trump moves White House under Potomac Bridge

"Living under bridges is just what we trolls do."

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:25 PM (Av6i5)

34 Tucker is turning into Alex Jones with less ranting & raving and gay frogs, and more Islamic proselytizing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:23 PM (6ydKt)

Less Danzig covers and much less entertaining overall, I think you mean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, not an Eagles fan either at August 07, 2026 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

35 It’s particularly galling that a multi millionaire silver spoon asshole like Tucker is lecturing regular people about taking on debt.

Gosh. I couldn’t buy a house outright.
Or a car
Or finance school.

Fuck you, Tucker. Just fuck right off.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 06:26 PM (yEz+x)

36 Sock maintenance.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 06:27 PM (zZu0s)

37 Since the entire Democratic base lives off of mommy's credit card or Uncle Sam's EBT card, both of which are technically loaning/debt/usury, I'm not sure this latest Shari'a-compliant proposal will go over too well with the masses

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:27 PM (Av6i5)

38 You know who else had one of his names begin with an "H"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

General of Artillery Ernst-Eberhard Hell

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 06:29 PM (DZ9Lv)

39 What's your alternative, Tuq'r Carlsonov?

Socialism?
Jizya tax?

Some combination of the above?
Posted by: SpeakingOf

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The alternative is a sharia compliant arrangement, which is exactly the same thing, except the lender owns whatever it is you need the money for, and you pay him a rental for use of that property. You buy it off him (principal) each month and continue to pay rental (interest) on what is left. It comes out the exact same as interest, but it has to be done through their legal system, their lawyers, their accountants, and their courts if not complied with.

It is a total fucking sham, designed to introduce sharia and control the financial side of their economy.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:29 PM (aDhTQ)

40 40 Trillion in debt what's a few more billion?

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)

41 36 Sock maintenance.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone


Yeah, they do get encrusted after a while. Best to switch to a new one every now and then.

Posted by: teeaage masturbator at August 07, 2026 06:29 PM (Av6i5)

42 If the pop-ups are to be believed, if I take those little blue pills and do that one thing, Mrs D will start to look like that hot babe with the sultry come hither look!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:21 PM (2WIwB)

But will her hooterage become pronounced? That is the key...

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 06:30 PM (j10i6)

43 There's plenty of room on the ballot for Democrats, socialists, communists, greens, et al. It's actually antidemocratic to not allow them full participation. I, for one, would love to see the left spoiled for choice in the general.

Posted by: J Edward Griffin at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (2ap+5)

44 Fortune: The deportation economy is backfiring on American workers, top economist warns. As the Trump administration continues to purge hundreds of thousands of workers from the country, Americans aren’t simply taking their place. Instead, their jobs appear to be disappearing with them.

Jobs report this morning showed half a million fewer foreign workers compared to last year. But America is becoming a big beautiful white and gold country with plenty of jobs requiring a goose step.

People voted for this in exchange for having racism enacted as national policy. You got the racism you wanted now enjoy the economy.

Every time I turn on the radio it is: "Company replaces 20,000 people with AI". How much is that hurting employment on top of racist deportations?

But manufacturing is back in America, gas prices are lower and groceries are cheap now though, right? Right?!? Ah well, at least we got rid of all those pesky immigrants!

Unemployment is near all-time lows, real wages are at all time highs, consumer purchasing is at all time highs, and the market reflects that. This isn’t such bad news for anyone outside the Reddit bubble.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (ZwRB6)

45 WTF is Tucker taking?

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (Ia/+0)

46 Less Danzig covers and much less entertaining overall, I think you mean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, not an Eagles fan either at August 07, 2026 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

Tucker should just hit rewind and go back a few years to talking about UFOs and debating with the Liberal Sherpa.
He was at least watchable then.

He's gone way too far down the rabbit hole now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (6ydKt)

47 "This should be a watershed Watergate moment for the Democratic Party."

FTFY.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (Av6i5)

48 Master Presidential Troll

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 06:32 PM (JvZF+)

49 45 WTF is Tucker taking?
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (Ia/+0)

Dunno

Posted by: Qatari Rials at August 07, 2026 06:33 PM (88C+u)

50 He's gone way too far down the rabbit hole now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (6ydKt)

In a lot of ways, his progression has been a lot like Cap'n Kristol- just more extreme at both ends. Kristols is just money and going to lib parties.

Tucker is more like the zealot, it's just he converted from one religion to another. Drugs can be involved.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

51 45 WTF is Tucker taking?
Posted by: Skip

Money from foreign nationals that hate America?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 06:34 PM (ZwRB6)

52 The muzzies still loan money.
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Yes they do! And like every other topic Moslems touch, they lie lie lie in how they structure it so as pretend they aren't doing it while clearly doing it. The buyer knows it, the seller knows it, the lender knows it. Its one of the stupidest charades invented. One version of it is quite literally this:

"No, I'm not buying this house for $200,000 and borrowing money with payable interest to do so. No siree, not at all. I'm buying this house for $700,000 in monthly installments and there's no interest at all. Its completely Islamic, and Mohammed himself would approve if he weren't a fictional pedophile."

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:35 PM (TN0g+)

53
Unemployment is near all-time lows, real wages are at all time highs, consumer purchasing is at all time highs, and the market reflects that. This isn’t such bad news for anyone outside the Reddit bubble.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions


How did that guy sneak in there?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 06:35 PM (Cqx++)

54 China and Qatar are in a bidding war for airtime on Tucker's show. The guy is a genius. Must be raking it in. One day, he's pro-communist, next day he's bowing to Mecca. Back and forth, back and foth. He's in the catbird seat.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:35 PM (Av6i5)

55 Every time I turn on the radio it is: "Company replaces 20,000 people with AI". How much is that hurting employment on top of racist deportations?

Unemployment is near all-time lows, real wages are at all time highs, consumer purchasing is at all time highs, and the market reflects that. This isn’t such bad news for anyone outside the Reddit bubble.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

-----------------------

Who let these two into the bubble? Someone needs to ban then, stat.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:35 PM (aDhTQ)

56 The alternative is a sharia compliant arrangement, which is exactly the same thing, except the lender owns whatever it is you need the money for, and you pay him a rental for use of that property. You buy it off him (principal) each month and continue to pay rental (interest) on what is left. It comes out the exact same as interest, but it has to be done through their legal system, their lawyers, their accountants, and their courts if not complied with.

It is a total fucking sham, designed to introduce sharia and control the financial side of their economy.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:29 PM (aDhTQ)


It's the only thing that we've found that works halfway decently.

Capital has to be spread around.
The most efficient way is charging interest.

If government is in charge of spreading capital around then it will eventually be, sooner rather than later, corrupted by politics and depleted by theft.

Time, experience, history, and current events, have proven this again and again.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:35 PM (6ydKt)

57 Can't Republicans also just cut off highway funds to states that dont have Voter ID, sort of like they did with the 55 mph federally mandated speed limit?
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It's (D)ifferent when we do it.

They get to do what they want, even when it's illegal, nobody else gets to do what they want, even when it's lawful and required. The ratchet only turns one way.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 06:36 PM (7j7XD)

58 Listening to Tucker is like sitting on the crapper at 11:59. The clock strikes midnight and you realize it's the same shit, different day.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:37 PM (2WIwB)

59 You know who else cast out the money changers from the temple?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 06:37 PM (iySPJ)

60 I miss the days of Tucker interviewing cranks like Glenn Greenwald and Kanye West

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 06:37 PM (JvZF+)

61 Fortune: The deportation economy is backfiring on American workers, top economist warns. As the Trump administration continues to purge hundreds of thousands of workers from the country, Americans aren’t simply taking their place. Instead, their jobs appear to be disappearing with them
***
"appear to be disappearing..."

Needs an editor. And a fact-checker.

Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 06:38 PM (lCppi)

62 The Republicans cutting off funds would require the Republican Senate to work. Mustn't be hasty

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 06:39 PM (KY+FT)

63 How do you deduct your no-interest on your income tax form?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 06:39 PM (Cqx++)

64 Every time I turn on the radio it is: "Company replaces 20,000 people with AI".
----

If they really cared, they'd stop turning on the radio.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:39 PM (TN0g+)

65 like sitting on the crapper at 11:59. The clock strikes midnight and you realize it's the same shit, different day.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:37 PM (2WIwB)


I thought we had the burrito thread already.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:39 PM (88C+u)

66 So Bernie Sanders is like the mayor of a mid-sized town. Memphis or Portland.

Maybe he should be quiet

Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 06:40 PM (lCppi)

67 Every time I turn on the radio it is: "Company replaces 20,000 people with AI".

People turn on radios? In 2026?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 07, 2026 06:40 PM (o3/x/)

68 47 "This should be a watershed Watergate waterboarding moment for the Democratic Party."

FTFY.
Posted by: zombie

FIFBOY

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 07, 2026 06:40 PM (ZwRB6)

69 57 Can't Republicans also just cut off highway funds to states that dont have Voter ID, sort of like they did with the 55 mph federally mandated speed limit

Or couldn't they just keep adding the Save Act to every bill? Just tack it onto the end and let everyone discover it after it's passed.

Hundreds of thousands without water in Peurto Rico.
And Trump's Ballroom in the news. Rogue judge. Self delete.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:41 PM (Sco7b)

70 He called me an a*shole, he's called me an ogre, and that I belong on a PIKE

I mean, we said worse here, except maybe the last one.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 07, 2026 06:41 PM (9ZFZd)

71 Fortune: The deportation economy is backfiring on American workers, top economist warns. As the Trump administration continues to purge hundreds of thousands of workers from the country, Americans aren’t simply taking their place. Instead, their jobs appear to be disappearing with them.

There is no choice but to let the grass grow around my roofless house with bare stud walls.

Posted by: J Edward Griffin at August 07, 2026 06:41 PM (2ap+5)

72 To be *that* nitpicker, the September 11th attacks did not use 747s. Instead, it was 757s and 767s, two of each model.

Posted by: Nathan at August 07, 2026 06:41 PM (KMIjy)

73 Mohammed himself would approve if he weren't a fictional pedophile."
Posted by: Crusader


You've touched on a sensitive subject. We need to get our belief system straight, otherwise we're being internally inconsistent.

Only one of these can be true:

1. Mohammed is a fictional character, a totally made-up fairytale invented centuries after the fact to give a focal point to their Arabic death cult.

or

2. Mohammed was a real person -- a real schizophrenic genocidal child-molester whose personal evil and insanity is used as a template for perfection by a billion small-dicked Morlocks.

One or the other -- which is it?

Compromise theory: Mohammed is a fictional schizophrenic genocidal child-molester.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:42 PM (Av6i5)

74 POP UPS SUUUUUUUUCK

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 06:43 PM (QajKI)

75 @73 who gets used like a twink by the men of al-Zutt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 06:44 PM (KY+FT)

76 Compromise theory: Mohammed is a fictional schizophrenic genocidal child-molester.
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Yes, he's both. There is little historical evidence from his alleged "contemporaries" AND their "holy book" records that he's a pedophile.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:44 PM (TN0g+)

77 It's programs like these that make me realize: we need to enjoy every single moment Pres. Trump is in office. We'll never see the likes of him again.

Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 06:44 PM (lCppi)

78 Compromise theory: Mohammed is a fictional schizophrenic genocidal child-molester.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:42 PM (Av6i5)

If you're making up a Prophet, giving him a 6 year old wife is probably not a good move.

The 72 virgins was though.
Especially amongst guys who get excited at exposed female ankles.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:45 PM (Sco7b)

79 Now, he makes it explicit, saying WTC 7 collapsed for "no explicable reason."

No, none at all. Ignore the 747s collapsing buildings all around it.


What a cuck. I mean, look at all those buildings in Gaza and the West Bank that collapsed just like WTC7. All those buildings in Beruit that went down the same way. The constructions codes for the whole East coast were upgraded to avoid this sort of collapse, all new buildings and retrofitting in some of them to avoid this sort of problem in the future.
He is a dumbass, the facts are written in concrete.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (rbvCR)

80 Tucker Carlson preaches that debt is slavery, that lending at interest is the sin of usury, and that a society organized around debt "enslaves people."..

What an idiot. Why does he hate capitalism?

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (KC5Lt)

81 If the Jews control the world, why is there still Islam?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (CHHv1)

82 If you're making up a Prophet, giving him a 6 year old wife is probably not a good move.
----

But he could run for office in Maine as a Democrat.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (TN0g+)

83 There is an interesting debate with Raymond Ibrahim on YouTube. I lean towards Mohammed being real.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (YwEeS)

84 The Koran was read out of top hat with a seer stone!

Posted by: J Edward Griffin at August 07, 2026 06:47 PM (2ap+5)

85 ***one of the biggest grant programs the DOJ has ever offered and is aimed at helping cities hire more police officers, upgrade technology,
---

We need Flock cameras, let's do it!
_average City Council

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (xHEjv)

86 75 @73 who gets used like a twink by the men of al-Zutt
Posted by: Smell the Glove

No, no! Those are Jewish lies! The text says the men of al-Zutt rode him all night in the desert. He was obviously giving them horsey-rides, alhamdulillah, because he is all wise and most merciful.

Posted by: Embarrassed Muslim Apologists desperate for an excuse at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (ZwRB6)

87 Not a big fan of these type of political games. It reminds me of then DOT head Libby Dole forcing States to raise their drinking age to 21 or no federal highway funds. At least in that situation, Dole didn't have the authority to do so herself from the fed.

With cities getting what amounts to bribery money to behave as they are already required to behave is not a good play (and an abuse of my tax dollars).

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (dIske)

88 Oh, all the news channels have stories that the Dems are trying to patch up the roof of their great big tent.

They must be scared of losing Michigan.
Abdul at the Jewish drag queen story hours will fix everything.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (Sco7b)

89 81 If the Jews control the world, why is there still Islam?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm


Because Jews use Muslims as a weapon to destroy the West, you fool! Aren't you up on the latest self-contradicting lefto-Nazi theories??

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (Av6i5)

90 There absolutely is lending money at interest in sharia societies, they just dance around it. If you need to borrow money, some wealthy Muslim will loan it to you at no interest - but you are then expected to offer a "gift" to that person to "thank" them for helping you in your time of need, and the value of that "gift" is very finely calculated based on the length and size of the loan.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 07, 2026 06:49 PM (LgYtf)

91
Bernie is not from within; in spite of running for the demoncrat peznitcy nomination he is not of the party but independent.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 06:49 PM (Y8DZL)

92 debt is the only freedom you know. Taking out loans, even at high interest is the only way to get access to money to live the good life. If the economy goes south and you go broke, just sell everything and declare bankruptcy, it is no big deal. Your family didn't need that house and car, and your employees will eventually find jobs to pay off their debt too, if they care enough.

Yep, debt is freedom. Think of all those sharecroppers in their freedom plots in the South, and the freedom of the company town to order whatever they have in the company store available on pure credit.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 06:50 PM (rbvCR)

93 Tuck made millions from capitalism, either feels guilty or doesn't want anyone else doing it

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:50 PM (Ia/+0)

94 Only one of these can be true:

Posted by: zombie

--------------
He is a fictional character, based on historical preachers and loons and who happened to have that name.

The arabs understood that they were up against Jews and Christians, who had a mythology, a book, and important prophets and teachers.

So they created one. They cobbled together a book, seemingly based on ranting from an anti-Jewish itinerant lecturer and whatever scraps of historical stories they had laying around the tent.

They refined that book, and the man and mythology it described, over a couple centuries to make sure it included all the perversities they felt important.

Mostly though, it was a slave manual. Their goal was to conquer and convert the conquered into slaves. Slaves who are humiliated ("make sure your forehead touches the floor, and clean your feet before you enter my house, slave") and who would continue to conquer, and also give money to the leaders, mostly through the visit to temple which was how most temples and religions and governments made money in those days.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:50 PM (aDhTQ)

95 There absolutely is lending money at interest in sharia societies, they just dance around it. If you need to borrow money, some wealthy Muslim will loan it to you at no interest - but you are then expected to offer a "gift" to that person to "thank" them for helping you in your time of need, and the value of that "gift" is very finely calculated based on the length and size of the loan.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 07, 2026 06:49 PM (LgYtf)


in the Middle Ages in Europe usury was a crime, but if you borrowed money you had to pay it back and pay any "damages" for failure to pay on time. That was the way one rolled a debt over period to period.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 06:52 PM (rbvCR)

96 He didn't say that it was cruel or not but Victor Davis Hanson wrote a book about Trump pointing out that he is a revolutionary: he's fighting to undo and overthrow the left's insane change to the nation over the past 50 years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2026 06:53 PM (K32Fz)

97 I think Muhammad was an actual man.
But I also think that at this point it doesn't really matter.
He is their prophet regardless of his actual existence.

A lot of people say Jesus didn't exist and it means nothing to Christians.

At some point it just becomes academic debate.

That Muhammad was a Bedouin con-artist, brigand and warlord with delusions of grandeur (and other probable delusions) is for certain.

He invented one of the most deadly and tyrannical cults in human history. No one else has come close other than the greats like Pol Pot, Stalin, and Mao.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:53 PM (6ydKt)

98 There absolutely is lending money at interest in sharia societies, they just dance around it. If you need to borrow money, some wealthy Muslim will loan it to you at no interest - but you are then expected to offer a "gift" to that person to "thank" them for helping you in your time of need, and the value of that "gift" is very finely calculated based on the length and size of the loan.
----

The institutional version of that is laid out in post #52.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:55 PM (TN0g+)

99 Bernie's membership in the club should be yanked and Mitch is right there with him. I live almost 2/3 of the way across the country yet I have to listen to these senile cocksuckers as if they have some social and political influence over me.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 06:56 PM (iySPJ)

100 Doctor Abdul El Hamas is asshoe.

Posted by: Fact at August 07, 2026 06:56 PM (Bz1XI)

101 Not a big fan of these type of political games. It reminds me of then DOT head Libby Dole forcing States to raise their drinking age to 21 or no federal highway funds. At least in that situation, Dole didn't have the authority to do so herself from the fed.

With cities getting what amounts to bribery money to behave as they are already required to behave is not a good play (and an abuse of my tax dollars).
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (dIske)


Hamiltonian approach to government. The purpose of the government is to encourage production and well being. Hamilton looked at loans for transportation infrastructure and tariffs to exclude foreign competition.
All in all, not the worst use of tax money and regulatory power.
Look at it this way, if Trump doesn't do the grants, China will, and China will have a belt and road type agreement on paying back, just like in Canada or Mozambique, but China will look for "we place an industry to benefit us, you give us the waiver, and we pay you more than the bare lot you have made of your industrial zone can pay"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 06:56 PM (rbvCR)

102 My latest favorite is da jooz sent 60,000 Moroccans to invade Ceuta as punishment against Spain.

*golfclap*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 06:57 PM (JvZF+)

103 So they created one. They cobbled together a book, seemingly based on ranting from an anti-Jewish itinerant lecturer and whatever scraps of historical stories they had laying around the tent.
Posted by: bob


My favorite fact about eh Quran is that it is organized in the worst and most illogical way possible: Not chronological. Not by order of importance. Not even alphabetical. No, the chapters are organized by size -- IN REVERSE ORDER, WITH THE LONGEST CHAPTER FIRST, and the shortest chapter last.

Everything is jumbled up, time-wise. Important parts are buried near the end, boring tedious meaningless repetitive parts are at the beginning, etc. It's like they were ensuring that no one would ever want to read it.

It's beyond absurd. The whole "religion" is a like a satire.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (Av6i5)

104 There is an interesting debate with Raymond Ibrahim on YouTube. I lean towards Mohammed being real.
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (YwEeS)


At best a posthumously glorified war lord. There are no contemporary historical records of the man. If he did exist, surely some contemporary Byzantine writer would have mentioned him, just as Josephus mentions Jesus (probably distorted by later copyists) and Jesus’ brother James (probably undistorted).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (h86Sx)

105 If you prick us, do we not bleed?

Posted by: Some Jewish Guy at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (YcOeP)

106 All of these so-called "truthers" started their journey with the belief that a skyscraper, absent a controlled demolition, should topple like a tree.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (NYInA)

107 da jooz sent 60,000 Moroccans to invade Ceuta as punishment against Spain.


Damn straight brother.

Posted by: Tuqr Qarlson at August 07, 2026 06:59 PM (Bz1XI)

108 Jobs report this morning showed half a million fewer foreign workers compared to last year. But America is becoming a big beautiful white and gold country with plenty of jobs requiring a goose step.

Oooh~ someone doesn't like Asians~

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 07, 2026 07:00 PM (vJrRc)

109 Everything is jumbled up, time-wise. Important parts are buried near the end, boring tedious meaningless repetitive parts are at the beginning, etc. It's like they were ensuring that no one would ever want to read it.

It's beyond absurd. The whole "religion" is a like a satire.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (Av6i5)


The Bible was in a terrible mess with bad translations and political glosses and interpretations and inclusions at the end of the middle ages. One of the impulses of the Reformation was to re-interpret the Bible from source documents, and a number of talented translators were burned at the stake or worse because of their efforts.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 07:00 PM (rbvCR)

110 Have read Robert Spencer. He at least thinks it's quite possibly a made up person if I get his views right.

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:01 PM (Ia/+0)

111 It's all Abraham's fault.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 07:01 PM (3ZNGI)

112 And it's all pink on the inside!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 07:01 PM (lZcE0)

113 It's all Abraham's fault.
-----

I still blame Eve.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 07:02 PM (TN0g+)

114 Deadline mentioned this week that there will be amovie coming out with people fighting Islamic terrorists that take over a campus.

Infidel is in the title.

Progress.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:02 PM (Sco7b)

115 Of course, I did not say that right. John Wycliff was not a protestant for example, nor did he want to be. The Lollards were not protestants, nor did they want to be. They were reformers.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 07:03 PM (rbvCR)

116 The clock strikes midnight and you realize it's the same shit, different day.
Posted by: Diogenes

Only if it's Groundhog Day, then it's same shit, same day.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 07:03 PM (DZ9Lv)

117 One of the impulses of the Reformation was to re-interpret the Bible from source documents, and a number of talented translators were burned at the stake or worse because of their efforts.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 07:00 PM (rbvCR)

Dawg, Erasmus was Catholic. And remained Catholic.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 07:04 PM (88C+u)

118 You know why usuary exists? Because communism does not work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 07:04 PM (zZu0s)

119 If Teh Jooz could just up and order 60,000 rugfuckers to mobilize and move en masse, Gaza would already be the new Mecca for pastrami sandwiches and big couscous.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:05 PM (Ot/FD)

120 Muhammad was a child molesting camel fucker.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 07:05 PM (yEz+x)

121 If Teh Jooz could just up and order 60,000 rugfuckers to mobilize and move en masse, Gaza would already be the new Mecca for pastrami sandwiches and big couscous.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:05 PM (Ot/FD)

To be fair, most Muslims seem to hate the Palestinians.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

122 As a gentile, most of my fond attachments to judaism revolve around food.

I apologize for nothing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:07 PM (Ot/FD)

123 By the way, salt lightly on watermelon - great.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (Sco7b)

124 You know why usuary exists? Because communism does not work.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 07:04 PM (zZu0s)


Wrong, "opportunity costs" are real.
Communists don't recognize opportunity costs, they only recognize "the value of labor"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (rbvCR)

125 Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 06:56 PM (rbvCR)

I agree with much of what you said, but consider whom we're dealing with.

"... is aimed at helping cities hire more police officers, upgrade technology, and build temporary detention facilities for illegal migrants, the Washington Post reported."

Do you truly believe that is where the grants are going to be applied? Consider the demeanor of Mayors in deep blue cities. Consider what they always focus upon. And, consider the piss poor oversight on any grants of this nature. We may just be financing free healthcare for illegals at the end of the day...and serving as an enticement for more to show up.

It's like giving $5 to your kid for lunch money and telling him not to buy candy with it. I good son will listen. The others....well they are in charge of blue cities.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (dIske)

126 None of the other goatrapers like the Palis.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (wOO3z)

127 The Bible was in a terrible mess with bad translations and political glosses and interpretations and inclusions at the end of the middle ages. One of the impulses of the Reformation was to re-interpret the Bible from source documents, and a number of talented translators were burned at the stake or worse because of their efforts.
Posted by: Kindltot


And, if you read the history of how the Biblical canon was developed in the first place and eventually finalized, it is pretty messy and embarrassing. A lot of sacred texts existed back then, but determining which of them were inviolable and eternal and holy, and which were fake-ass garbage-writing to be excluded, was a very drawn-out and very human-influenced rumble.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 07:09 PM (Av6i5)

128 To be fair, most Muslims seem to hate the Palestinians.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Did whites and western colonialism make Muslims Islamophobic, or was it the Jews?!?!?!? I need to know who to blame!

Posted by: AWFL wearing Free Palestine shirt at August 07, 2026 07:09 PM (ZwRB6)

129 O/T but just read something that reminded me of one of the most heinous things that went on with Covid.

People were being denied Transplants due to not being vaccinated.... some of whom died.

So... as Fauci LIED about the Vaccines, which drove the Hospitals to create the policies, which killed people...

Negligent Homicide?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:11 PM (mP0Kj)

130 The others....well they are in charge of blue cities.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (dIske)

Those are the kids who take the $5 they're given, beat up nine other kids for their $5 too, then go burn $50 in the parking lot and complain about how their parents never set them up for success by giving them $10.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:12 PM (Ot/FD)

131 Who was who said Trump won't catch leakers? Got one.

>>@SeanParnellASW
·
43m
>>Effective immediately, the Department of War has REVOKED former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall’s eligibility for access to classified information and his ability to hold any sensitive position.

>>This action follows his unauthorized disclosure of classified information regarding Air Force One’s capabilities to a media outlet.

>>Safeguarding classified information is a non-negotiable duty. Those who violate that trust forfeit the privilege of access and any role requiring it

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 07:12 PM (viF8m)

132 Crowd fund a movie from Mel Gibson, about Charles Martell?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:13 PM (mP0Kj)

133 Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:11 PM (mP0Kj

I still want bloodlines eliminated for the shit that went on during that time.

If there was a way to keep the fooled and coerced around and let all the jabbers just die, that would be great.....

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:13 PM (Sco7b)

134 I love the atheists given us Bible lessons.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 07:14 PM (KC5Lt)

135
People were being denied Transplants due to not being vaccinated.... some of whom died.

So... as Fauci LIED about the Vaccines, which drove the Hospitals to create the policies, which killed people...

Negligent Homicide?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:11 PM (mP0Kj)


What's really messed up is that one of the side effects of the Covid shot was transplant rejection. The Japanese noticed this with cornea transplants which is the least likely transplant to be rejected because it's out of reach of the immune attack cells.

Posted by: Emmie at August 07, 2026 07:14 PM (OlzlW)

136 Muhammad was a child molesting camel fucker.
Young camels are the best!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 07:14 PM (W4Q3h)

137 Crowd fund a movie from Mel Gibson, about Charles Martell?
Posted by: Romeo13

Hell, I'd even go to the theater for that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:15 PM (wOO3z)

138 132 Crowd fund a movie from Mel Gibson, about Charles Martell?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:13 PM (mP0Kj)

After getting hit by lightning he wakes up, looks in the mirror, and realizes he's turned into a Saracen.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:15 PM (Ot/FD)

139 Crowd fund a movie from Mel Gibson, about Charles Martell?
Posted by: Romeo13

Vlad Teppis.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 07, 2026 07:15 PM (ZwRB6)

140 Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 07:12 PM (viF8m)

Um, if the guy is a FORMER Secretary of the Air Force... Fired in 2025...

Uh, how does he still HAVE a Security Clearance?

When I left the Military, my Clearance was immediately suspended (ie, could not use it), for a number of months (where it could be reinstated), before being totally revoked.

Why do Civilians keep theirs, when Military folks loose theirs immediately?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:16 PM (mP0Kj)

141 a movie coming out with people fighting Islamic terrorists that take over a campus.

A gladiator movie!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 07:17 PM (W4Q3h)

142 Posted by: Emmie at August 07, 2026 07:14 PM (OlzlW)

OMG! I hadn't heard about that bit. What a horrible catch-22 for patients.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 07:17 PM (lFFaq)

143 Why do Civilians keep theirs, when Military folks loose theirs immediately?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:16 PM (mP0Kj)


Depending on what they do and where the next job is, it's called Transfer in Status. As long as the background investigation is still current.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 07:18 PM (2WIwB)

144 138 132 Crowd fund a movie from Mel Gibson, about Charles Martell?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:13 PM (mP0Kj)

After getting hit by lightning he wakes up, looks in the mirror, and realizes he's turned into a Saracen.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:15 PM (Ot/FD)

Duncan McCloud goes back to Scotland, and sees it is taken over by Moslems.... gets pissed.

Hilarity ensues.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:18 PM (mP0Kj)

145 Crowd fund a movie from Mel Gibson, about Charles Martell?
Posted by: Romeo13

Vlad Teppis.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

Even better.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:19 PM (wOO3z)

146 The left was convinced Trump died last Labor Day.

They were do convinced Netanyahu was killed by an Iranian missile.

They were convinced McConnel was dead.

They’re very unserious people. But we already knew that.

Posted by: Fact at August 07, 2026 07:19 PM (Bz1XI)

147 How tall *is* Fetterman?! Is he standing on a curb and the interviewer standing at street level?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 07:19 PM (lFFaq)

148 Depending on what they do and where the next job is, it's called Transfer in Status. As long as the background investigation is still current.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 07:18 PM (2WIwB)

Would it not be... oh... sane... that when they leave a job, theirs is suspended just like Military folks?

Hell, depending on where I was working while active, my Clearance went up and down like a Yo Yo.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:20 PM (mP0Kj)

149 Fuq'r Carlson has certainly gone off the deep end.

Wasn't it only a month ago that a skyscraper in NYC had to be evactuated because the support beams themselves were buckling? The Pfizer one? And there weren't two major fireball explosions going off at the time, either.

Posted by: Another Anon at August 07, 2026 07:20 PM (4h45B)

150 Shrek Fetterman is 6'9"

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:20 PM (wOO3z)

151 And, if you read the history of how the Biblical canon was developed in the first place and eventually finalized, it is pretty messy and embarrassing. A lot of sacred texts existed back then, but determining which of them were inviolable and eternal and holy, and which were fake-ass garbage-writing to be excluded, was a very drawn-out and very human-influenced rumble.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 07:09 PM (Av6i5)

*Kicks the dirt*

Posted by: Arius at August 07, 2026 07:20 PM (9ZFZd)

152 Good question.

>>@EYakoby
·
5h
>>BREAKING: The Muslim Brotherhood’s official website is openly celebrating Abdul El-Seyed’s win.

>>How many more warning signs do voters need?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 07:21 PM (viF8m)

153 OMG! I hadn't heard about that bit. What a horrible catch-22 for patients.

And of course it wasn't because the unvaxed patients posed any additional risk, it was just another way to punish the nonbelievers.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (vTZFs)

154 Everything is jumbled up, time-wise. Important parts are buried near the end, boring tedious meaningless repetitive parts are at the beginning, etc. It's like they were ensuring that no one would ever want to read it.

It's beyond absurd. The whole "religion" is a like a satire.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (Av6i5)
----
The other fun aspect about the Koran is that parts that were later written abrogate or cancel earlier bits.

The most militant bits are the later-written Suras that encourage war and destruction against the infidel. Those take precedence over the earlier Suras when Mo was trying to convert the Jews rather than kill them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (FZ29D)

155 Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:20 PM (mP0Kj)

Totally agree. I don't like that high level military retirees get to keep their clearance as well. They claim it's so they're up to speed in case of getting recalled in an emergency, but that doesn't happen nearly as often as they go on political talk shows and tease what they may know.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (lFFaq)

156 How many more warning signs do voters need?
Posted by: JackStraw

We're not dealing with rocket surgeons here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (wOO3z)

157 Every time I think 'maybe I should finally create a YouTube channel,' something like this happens.

YouTube has placed the fox-girl VTuber Smug Alana on a Seven-Day suspension for reacting to a video in which mosquitos are killed.

According to YouTube this reaction violates their rules on graphic violence.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:24 PM (2GVsD)

158 We're not dealing with rocket surgeons here.

Not even rocket sturgeons.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:24 PM (2GVsD)

159 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:24 PM (Ia/+0)

160 Well, actually, active duty, civilians and private contractors all have security clearances. So it seems logical that retired Govt people can retain them. The use them to work as contractors or lobby the Fed'l govt.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 07, 2026 07:25 PM (rii+a)

161 >>How many more warning signs do voters need?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 07:21 PM (viF8m)

He could behead an infidel everyday on camera uluating and praising allah and probably still get 32% of the vote.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:25 PM (Sco7b)

162 *Kicks the dirt*
Posted by: Arius
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Guy deserved to be punched by Santa Claus. Didn't happen but Arian heresy is believed by serious scholars of the history of Islam to be one of the key building blocks of Islam. Iconoclasm was another.

And the whole challenge is put forth pithily by CS Lewis, either you believe what Jesus said or you don't believe in any of at because you think he was a madman. You either believe in the Resurrection or you don't. If you don't and you don't believe that Jesus was the son of the Lord, then you are not a Christian. It is binary, not a spectrum.

The Trinitarian doctrine is actually well established in Gospel but those who believe rationality is all end up becoming deniers of the whole New Testament and those prophesies of the Old that lead to it.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:26 PM (E4rtv)

163 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (FZ29D)

Seems like that would make arrangement in chronological order important. That way you'd know what you could ignore.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 07:26 PM (lFFaq)

164 According to YouTube this reaction violates their rules on graphic violence.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:24 PM (2GVsD)

Thats bizarre.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 07:27 PM (zZu0s)

165 How many more warning signs do voters need?
Posted by: JackStraw

Michigan Senator Slotkin, who is Jewish, endorsed him. So apparently a lot more warning signs are needed.

Posted by: Fact fact at August 07, 2026 07:27 PM (Bz1XI)

166 It's like giving $5 to your kid for lunch money and telling him not to buy candy with it. I good son will listen. The others....well they are in charge of blue cities.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (dIske)


Under Biden or Obama -- Even Trump 1 I would agree. This is the administration that is finding fraud and making the fraudulent agencies and people pay it back.

Let's just say I think we have a prayer this time around.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 07:28 PM (rbvCR)

167 BIDEN grants. LOL.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (l3cgK)

168 Cy Kendall was the best movie pawnbroker, played the owner of Jumbo's Pawn Shop in the Boston Blackie movies. And he wasn't even Jewish.

Posted by: "It's Always Christmas In Here at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (JM9I6)

169 OMG! I hadn't heard about that bit. What a horrible catch-22 for patients.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 07:17 PM (lFFaq)


Unfortunately, I did not make a collection of the jab adverse reaction stories and it would be difficult for me to find it. I've noticed a lot of stuff has been buried.

Posted by: Emmie at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (OlzlW)

170 151 And, if you read the history of how the Biblical canon was developed in the first place and eventually finalized, it is pretty messy and embarrassing. A lot of sacred texts existed back then, but determining which of them were inviolable and eternal and holy, and which were fake-ass garbage-writing to be excluded, was a very drawn-out and very human-influenced rumble.
Posted by: zombie

Less messy than you would suppose. It turns out that most revisionist scholarship leaks like a sieve as both recent archeology and document analysis using computers show those first Gospels were pretty much on the money in agreement, goes for Paul, Acts, and other of the current accepted books.
In contrast, most of the so called banned books were never really taken seriously by the mainstream of worship and none of them are even close to contemporary with the time of Christ. Such as the Gospels of Judas or Thomas. Both have serious problems theologically and historically and disagree not only with the New Testament but the Old as well.

Enoch is an interesting work but that was not a Christian text in the first place but Judaic wisdom scholarship prior to the events of the new Testament.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (E4rtv)

171 IMO the Biden grants are not only a clever troll with the acronym but a great way to only hand money to law abiding cities and freeze out the blue shithole 'sanctuary' cities and states.

Ask 'red' states how stingy Barky and Biden were about declaring disaster status after they had some big floods or whatever. Its refreshing to have an admin that knows both parties can play the game of making it easier for their voter base areas to get federal money.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (PV+Zw)

172 CS Lewis poisoned the well. No serious debater takes his "trilemma" seriously. Because he didn't pose the "trilemma" to serious debaters. He played to the cheap seats.
The obvious counter to Lewis is to confront him with epistemology. That is, to ask him how sure he is about the sources.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 07:36 PM (88C+u)

173 Some think the Muslim religion is recycled at a distance Nestorian Christianity: the inscription at the Dome of the Rock seems consistent with that.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 07:38 PM (h86Sx)

174 163 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (FZ29D)

Seems like that would make arrangement in chronological order important. That way you'd know what you could ignore.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

Mo was illiterate and these are alleged to be his words faithfully recorded by those around him. Due to Islamic destruction of a lot of history that disagrees with the Koran, there are at least a couple of centuries where we cannot firmly say what was in the Koran or not as existing documents prior to the Topkapi manuscript are fragmentary. This Koran has been dated to about the early to mid 8th century and is a nearly complete text of the Quran. In that respect, it is most likely the oldest near-complete Quran in existence.

Considerably different to the Old and New Testaments.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:38 PM (E4rtv)

175 The architectural design of the 'mosque' which is now the shrine of the Dome of the Rock is not actually Arabic at all but more likely a converted church.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:39 PM (E4rtv)

176 172 CS Lewis poisoned the well. No serious debater takes his "trilemma" seriously. Because he didn't pose the "trilemma" to serious debaters. He played to the cheap seats.
The obvious counter to Lewis is to confront him with epistemology. That is, to ask him how sure he is about the sources.
Posted by: 88C+u
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Nope, the problem is that if you start with rational materialism as a starting place, you have no room for beliefs in things beyond materialism in the first place. Your axioms come from a different place altogether and thus there is no discussion with you to be had.

Lots of sound and noise but at the end of the day, it is belief in rationalism as an end all be all rather than Christianity and which is akin to putting modern words in ancient mouths by somehow believing our generation is smarter than those old sods.

Those Apostles went cheerfully to their deaths over their beliefs--would you risk your material existence like they would if they believed it was all metaphysical stories.

So no, you take the text as it comes and don't get endless redoes to fit modern sensibilities.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM (E4rtv)

177 Cafe is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 07:48 PM (zZu0s)

178 Of course the Deep State blew up the World Trade Center.

They used Saudi fall guys, but it was their show.

There is almost no attack or bombing in this country not sponsored in some way by them.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 07, 2026 08:56 PM (/rJ2j)

179 Yet Tucker is targeting the only guy who ever stood up to them.

It's a deception from hell.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 07, 2026 08:58 PM (/rJ2j)

180 Hawaiian judge will nix BIDEN Grants.

Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 09:37 PM (Wt1Rs)

181 still waiting for Structural Engineer Ace to explain why building 7 collapsed. No direct hit. No jet fuel. Just pancaking all by itself.

Posted by: kitty litter box at August 07, 2026 11:44 PM (Ys9Hz)

Of Course: Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir," Which Was, Of Course, Ghostwritten by a White Woman;
Comparing His Initial Proposal and the Book Itself, The Atlantic Finds More Cases of Fabulism and Lying

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Before that: the Metropolitan Police said "oops, ooopsie" about investigating a reporter for four whole months because a black fraudster and scamster said that it was "distressing" him and harming his mental health to be questioned at all.

And I do want to emphasize that this is an "oops, oopsie" non-apology. The head of the Met is completely frivolous and unserious about his organization acting as a Gestapo for a foreign scammer:

The head of the Metropolitan Police has said his force should not have investigated a journalist who was looking into plagiarism claims about a University of Cambridge professor.

Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said officers "dropped the ball" when they looked into a complaint made against journalist Jack Grove over his attempts to contact Prof Jason Arday.

Sir Mark told broadcaster LBC the complaint should have been "screened out earlier on as not requiring investigation".

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Times Higher Education (THE) reporter Grove said he had been investigating allegations Arday had plagiarised parts of his PhD, and contacted him in 2025 to offer him the right of reply.

"In early February I received a call from a Met police officer saying that a complaint had been raised against me by someone and Professor Arday was very distressed and I shouldn't contact him again," Grove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"It was a complete shock. Apparently it was for harassment but I hadn't contacted him for four months and then maybe I think I've only sent three or four emails to him in total."

The Met closed its inquiries into the case.

Sir Mark told LBC: "We dropped the ball on that one, let's not beat around the bush.

"A report came in of harassment or some crime like that, it should have been screened out as not requiring investigation...

"We shouldn't have made that call to him [Grove] and said that."

To see how off-handed, flippant, and non-apologetic this "oops, oopsie" is, see this video.

They'll do it again tomorrow. And then they'll just say "garsh we dropped the ball on that one, boy is our face red" the next time.

For his part, Arday is blaming the university that gave him a Ph.D. for his fake and plagiarized paper, saying they hadn't given his autistic grifting ass enough "supervision."


The Telegraph published three excerpts from Arday's dissertation alongside the original sources from which he is alleged to have plagiarized. In some instances, the passages are virtually identical; in others, only minor wording changes distinguish them.

The controversy centers on allegations that, while Arday cited the original author elsewhere in his dissertation, he failed to properly attribute the passages in question. Arday has maintained that the omission was attributable to his autism.

The BBC reported last week, "Arday did not dispute the allegations of plagiarism, but defended himself by arguing that he had not received adequate supervision during his PhD given his autism and learning disabilities."

Now I know why that white girl in the last post pretends to be disabled and riddled with Tourettes: It's an amazingly lucrative grift.

So Simon & Schuster paid this "superstar" nobody $1.4 million in a fake advance. (Fake because it's not a real "advance" -- they had no hope of every recouping this from sales. They just wanted to be in the DEI Superstar Jason Arday Business.)

To get this DEI Jackpot, Arday submitted a proposal, telling Simon & Schuster the Amazing Tales they would get in exchange for their money.

The Atlantic has a copy of that proposal, as well as the book itself which will be released next week.

They find that Jason Arday further confabulated the lies already present in the proposal:

Paul Embery
@PaulEmbery

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This is wild. The Atlantic has obtained a copy of Jason Arday's book proposal. In it, he claims to have:

- Experienced 'locked-in' syndrome for several months after being hit by a car. Doctors advised his family to have the life support machine turned off, but he awakened 'miraculously'

- Been struck down by testicular cancer (though this changes in the book to brain cancer)

- Been beaten up by a group of kids and then, in court, pleaded with the judge not to jail them. Coincidentally, two of the kids later became his students, and Arday became godfather to the child of one of them

- Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

I'm thinking "Desperado."

- Been awarded several accolades - of which no proof exists online.

- Been told by a 'shaman woman' in Brazil that he would suffer greatly but also do great thing. 'Every event she described has since come to pass,' he wrote.

The book is due for publication next week by @simonschuster. Surely they have to pull it.

LOL, of course they won't. Don't be a dope.

Here are excerpts from The Atlantic, comparing the lies in the proposal to the lies in the actual book.

According to a cover letter that his agent sent to publishers at the time, Arday's book, to be titled Great and Unfortunate Things, would be "an awe-inspiring tale of near mythic proportions."

That now appears to be an understatement. Arday's story was indeed astonishing: As a toddler, he was diagnosed with autism and developmental delays; he didn't fully speak until the age of 11; he learned to read and write only as an adult. Arday's parents are Ghanaian immigrants; he grew up wearing homemade clothes and hustling for cash by playing snooker.

By the way, there's no evidence he ever played snooker for money.

Yet in spite of all these obstacles and many, many others he has recounted over the years, Arday found a way to go to university and then to graduate school. Eventually, he got his Ph.D., and then he became a star. "We are so lucky to have you," Cambridge's head of faculty for education, Hilary Cremin, told him in a clip shown on BBC shortly after his hiring was announced. "You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do."

But in the past two weeks, Arday's near-mythic (or perhaps purely mythic) tale has disintegrated. In July, a philosopher named Nathan Cofnas published a long Substack post reviewing apparent evidence of plagiarism in Arday's academic work. Cofnas posted 36 passages from Arday's 2015 dissertation, about student teaching, which reproduce or closely track text found in a 2009 dissertation from another scholar in the field, Paula Zwozdiak-Myers. Arday looks to have even copied from and rearranged Zwozdiak-Myers's title, and in doing so to have misused an apostrophe.


It's more embarrassing than that. His title uses the word "teachers," just the plural of teacher, but he puts an apostrophe after it to make it a possessive. And then he does that in the entire paper, too.

People have pointed out that is plagiarism is proven by the fact that typos and misspellings in the text he copied are perfectly reproduced in his "own" paper, which of course means he just cut and paste someone else's work.

But the "teachers'" type seems to be an Arday Original, at least.

Oh: As someone commented, just interviewing people and writing down their feelings is the "lowest-hanging fruit" of the (scam) research world. Most fake DEI papers, including "Doctor" Jill Biden's, consist of just interviewing your friends and fellow students and then "analyzing" their "lived experiences."

That's mostly what Arday's doctoral paper is -- but then he doesn't even do the lowest of low-hanging fruit of the fake research world.

He just cribs the interviews from the paper he's copying and claims he conducted the interviews himself!


Quotes from structured interviews that Arday claimed to have performed closely resembled those used by other researchers; parts of some interview responses also reappeared across different studies under Arday's name, attributed to different people. This duplication, if deliberate, would be something other than plagiarism--it would be academic fraud. (The website Retraction Watch reports that two of Arday's papers were quietly corrected.)

He's continuing to insist that all scrutiny of his lies and fraud is racist:


Arday did not respond to questions from The Atlantic, but he told The Times last week that he is not a "liar" or a "fantasist" and that he'd been given insufficient supervision as a graduate student, especially in light of his learning disabilities: "It's more likely that I've made a mistake, there's a clerical error. It's not that I've fabricated." He also seemed to address such allegations at a conference in April for the British Sociological Association, where he gave a talk about pervasive efforts to discredit Black scholars including himself. "These people are brilliant, perversely brilliant," he told his colleagues. "There are times when you look at what they're doing and you say to yourself, Well done, well played, very good. You've caught me [in] a thousand knots--how do I get myself out of this situation?"

Now, on to the comparison of Arday's claims in the proposal and the claims made in the book:


Great and Unfortunate Things, which Arday co-wrote with Eve Claxton, is still scheduled to come out next week from Simon & Schuster.

Co-wrote? You mean, she wrote it entirely, based on his verbal claims.

Aren't academics supposed to write their own books?

The story that it tells should not be taken at face value; it differs notably from other versions of his life that Arday has shared in public and in private, including in the original proposal he sent out with his agent. But the book is also, in a way, very honest and quite telling: It provides a vivid portrait of a man who was always manifestly ill-equipped for academia yet found a way to reach its upper levels. This is not someone else's cruel assessment of Arday's tragic and improbable career. It's his own.

The memoir begins with a prophecy. It's 2006, and Jason Arday, then 21 years old, is installing water pumps in the favelas of Brazil and showing children how to use them. A local aid worker--"a woman in her thirties with dark hair and eyes and a gentle, steady way about her"--touches his arm and softly tells him that he is destined to suffer in his life but also to do great things. "After the trip was over, I never saw the woman again, but her words stayed with me," Arday writes, "and, you might say, her prediction came true."

The rest of the book is an elaboration on this moment: Arday suffers; Arday overcomes. The doctors who assessed him as a toddler told his mother that "there's no one in there" and that he was "no better than a vegetable." Even his speech therapist wasn't optimistic that he'd ever learn to talk. (At one point, she also physically abused him, the memoir says.) As a boy, Arday rocked and hummed and banged his head until he bled; he slammed cupboard doors and smeared his feces on the walls. Yet still, eventually, he started to verbalize. Still, eventually, he made his way through school.

Tribulations piled up throughout his life. Arday is nearly deaf in one ear; he's dyslexic; he finds simple math befuddling; he has "marked difficulties" with memory, reading, and processing skills. As a teen, he was beaten so severely by a group of kids his age that he became an epileptic. To make his way through secondary school while--by his own account--illiterate, he needed ample help: support assistants who sat beside him in class and took notes on his behalf.

When Arday applied to university, his girlfriend, Debs--who had been teaching him to read--"wrote out" the application on his behalf, including the personal statement. In university, a friend who took the same courses sat beside him, sharing notes. (She's "the only reason I survived" university, he says.) By the time Arday started on his master's degree, he writes, he was reading at about the same level as his 3-year-old daughter. Still, he pressed onward. Still, somehow, he got a teaching job.

His obstacles were only multiplying, though. Money was tight, so after each day of teaching, Arday writes, he had to work an overnight shift in a supermarket, from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., and then a morning shift as a cleaner from 5:30 to 7:30. The only time he had left to write his dissertation was when he was commuting between London, where he lived, and Liverpool, where he taught. On those semiweekly five-hour rides, the book explains, he would open up his laptop on the plastic seat-back table and start typing out his thesis, hunt-and-peck style.

As his dissertation deadline approached, Arday started having blurry vision; medical scans revealed a brain tumor. After it was removed, he had a ministroke and lost his short-term memory.

This sounds like a collection of excuses he gave to teachers and professors to get them to give him a passing grade for failure-level work.


When you succeed against pretty much insurmountable odds," Arday writes in the book, "it weirdly makes people question your credibility." Is it weird? I don't think it's weird. When you keep succeeding against insurmountable odds, the facts of your surmounting will be bound to get a second look.


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But the most disturbing inconsistencies arise from Arday's book proposal, a copy of which was obtained by The Atlantic. That document, from 2024, cites several accolades of which no proof exists online. The proposal also lays out many of the same events as the memoir but with slightly different dates and details: The boys who beat him up were not his age but four years older; his suicide attempt happened before, not during, the pandemic. And whereas the book describes Arday as having survived two brain tumors, the proposal says he had a bout of testicular cancer. No reference to that illness appears in the memoir.

Nor does the book describe the time that Arday, then a teenager, was struck by a car and spent several months in a coma. According to the book proposal, the doctors told his parents that he would never recover, and suggested taking him off life support "as an act of mercy." Through all of this, he was aware of everything that was going on, because he had locked-in syndrome. "As I will describe to readers in the book," Arday wrote in the proposal, "these months afforded me another profoundly different way of perceiving the world."

The book doesn't describe any of this, nor that he awakened "miraculously" from the coma, nor the full year he spent "relearning everything--how to walk, to talk."

Instead, the memoir tells us only that he spent those months finishing his final year of secondary school and taking his exams. "I was relieved, beyond relieved," the memoir says, when those were done.

Then there is the prophecy--the revelation Arday was given in Brazil, that he would suffer greatly and also do great things. According to the proposal, this occurred in 2005, not 2006, and the message came not from a local aid worker in her 30s but from "an elder in the small town where I had been assigned, who was well-known in the area for predicting people's futures." (Later in the proposal, he calls this person a "shaman woman.") "Do you know the story of Spartacus, the escaped slave who led a rebellion against the Romans?" this town elder asks, before telling him his fate in minute detail. "Every event she described," Arday writes in the proposal, "has since come to pass."

Below: When asked why he told such tall tales without including any evidence to support them, he responds, "To be honest with you, I just thought you'd believe me."

Exactly.

One point I keep hearing is that people initially didn't care much about this because it's sociology and literally everyone knows sociology is entirely a bullshit field populated by dum-dums and grifters. One guy said that he checked Arday's plagiarism against the paper he plagiarized from: The plagiarized paper was also empty, stupid, banal, and worthless.

Here's evidence of that: All of these DEI "sociology" perfessers are low-IQ hustlers and bullshit artists.


This guy claims he want to school with Arday when Arday was, according to his Official Biographical Bullshit, entirely mute and non-verbal.

This guy says he was always "chatty" and running his mouth.

Very Obama-esque:



Apes eat figs in grottos.


Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke

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The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a Western system rotting under the weight of human deadwood. Not just academia, wokeness, welfare bureaucracies, "learing" centers, or the laptop manager class exposed during Covid, but an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness. The real work is left to a shrinking productive minority forced to carry everyone else.

"You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do."

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1 Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (NcvvS)

3 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (ExV1e)

4 >>- Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.


Probably Baba O'Reily

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:02 PM (uzmqU)

5 One look at Jason Arday and I'd figure he was retarded and rode the short bus.

How he fooled anyone but bleeding heart DEI's is true.

I would love to see a taped lecture of his. Love it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:03 PM (hzuYO)

6 The head of the Met is completely frivolous and unserious about his organization acting as a Gestapo for a foreign scammer

In fairness to Sir Mark Rowley, they were acting as a Gestapo for someone who is, reportedly, a black man. The fact that he's both foreign and a scammer is just a bonus.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:03 PM (ExV1e)

7 I skimmed it frankly because this is a lot more common now in DEI academia than it used to be. Worthless degrees, worthless research, and horrible people from all points of the globe out to scam and gain power by any means possible.

I am glad to be out.

Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 05:03 PM (E4rtv)

8

This whole thing was leaked on purpose.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (2jv4y)

9 This is like the time Kramer sold his Life Story to J. Peterman.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (uzmqU)

10 For his part, Arday is blaming the university that gave him a Ph.D. for his fake and plagiarized paper, saying they hadn't given his autistic grifting ass enough "supervision."

This is not a completely unreasonable take.

Sure, he could have been honest and done scholarly work but... that's hard. They're supposed to check.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (ExV1e)

11 Damn. That’s some girthy content.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (g9+4z)

12 off sock.

I would love to see a taped lecture of his. Love it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Somewhere on X, someone posted a review by a student of Arday at his first university as a lecturer. Basically thought, the gist of it was that the whole course ended up a waste of time as Arday never even taught as such, just rambled about celebrities and politics.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:05 PM (E4rtv)

13 Dammit, I at least wrote my own articles! What a piece of shit.

Posted by: Stephen Glass at August 07, 2026 05:05 PM (ZOv7s)

14 >>>Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
Probably Baba O'Reily

is this a joke I'm not getting?

Posted by: ace at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (1wjle)

15 I give that Arday fella lots of credit. Ripping off stupid white people for fame and fortune.

Why not?

Posted by: Zombie Jesse Jackson, Race Hustler and Warlord Jew Hater at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (45BvE)

16 Speaking of reading, reading challenge in the ghetto.

https://tinyurl.com/59phn7yw

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (ndZc7)

17 >>>9 This is like the time Kramer sold his Life Story to J. Peterman.

Thus ruining the very pants he was returning! You see Elaine, *that* is interesting writing!

Posted by: J. Peterman, White Warrior Poet at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (1wjle)

18 Somebody needs to make a movie about this guy.

I finally saw him in a clip doing an interview.
He talks like Michael Jackson.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

19 10 For his part, Arday is blaming the university that gave him a Ph.D. for his fake and plagiarized paper, saying they hadn't given his autistic grifting ass enough "supervision."

This is not a completely unreasonable take.

Sure, he could have been honest and done scholarly work but... that's hard. They're supposed to check.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They have no incentive to do so with a DEI 'star'. One whiff of being accused as racist would have doomed their comfortable world. I once knew a grad student, DEI of course, that bragged her major professor wrote her dissertation. Public admin. Vile person, went to a name school, did not make it past pre tenure review and became a college administrator instead.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (E4rtv)

20 His title uses the word "teachers," just the plural of teacher, but he puts an apostrophe after it to make it a possessive.

You've heard of an Oxford comma? That's just a Cambridge apostrophe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

21 Sure, he could have been honest and done scholarly work but... that's hard. They're supposed to check.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (ExV1e)
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The fact that academics tolerate this sort of thing and have for while tells you that none of them do serious work. They know it's all a put-on and admire people willing to push the envelope.

The good news is that colleges are already closing down, so we can watch all these scholars clear tables in the near future.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (ZOv7s)

22 I'm thinking "Desperado."

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Lyin' Eyes

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske)

23 >>is this a joke I'm not getting?


Probably. Yes.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (uzmqU)

24 meanwhile, the universities are facing 'cuts' and are whining about the 'cuts'. usually they get a STEM guy to do the whining.
it's hostage puppies all the way down.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (88C+u)

25 Maybe his whole research is seeing how much shit he can get away with and this has all been an op.

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (enNUy)

26 Vile person, went to a name school, did not make it past pre tenure review and became a college administrator instead.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (E4rtv)
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The University of Michigan is going to eliminate grades for the college of Literature, Science and Arts. All freshmen will get pass/fail grades for their first year so the poor dears don't stress themselves out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (ZOv7s)

27 Mark Rowley is an absolute bastard. A year or so ago, a reporter tried to ask him a basic question he didn't like, and Rowley just savagely struck the reporter's phone out of his hand and kept walking across the street without even looking back. That gesture said it all.

Posted by: Beverly at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (reMys)

28 The non verbal part always stuck out to me. A truly non verbal person does not all of a sudden turn into Chris Tucker. Christ Tucker was always Chris annoying motherfucking Tucker.

This guy reminds of of the worst of Ruby Rod. Right down to the shiny face.

Wait, isn't that how ace described garrett?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

29 Cambridge fell for this guy's scam. The left is so unbelievably gullible when it comes to their pets.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (Dv3i1)

30 I heard he was a Ghana prince that was forced to leave the country and was able to retrieve his fortune through the graciousness of an internet friend he met through an email.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (KC5Lt)

31 Does he wear eyeliner?

Posted by: beckster at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (kX27y)

32 I had obviously never heard of this guy , but when I started reading about his "disabilities ' and his athletic gears, I said "people believed this guy". You looked at it and knew he was full of shit , but the "intellectuals' believed every bit of it.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:10 PM (KY+FT)

33 I'm thinking "Desperado."

_________________

Lyin' Eyes
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske)

Why cant you see
What youre doing to me
When you don't believe
A word I say?

Posted by: The King at August 07, 2026 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

34 Speaking of reading, reading challenge in the ghetto.

https://tinyurl.com/59phn7yw
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (ndZc7)
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Explains a lot.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:10 PM (3fZgy)

35 The fact that academics tolerate this sort of thing and have for while tells you that none of them do serious work. They know it's all a put-on and admire people willing to push the envelope.

The good news is that colleges are already closing down, so we can watch all these scholars clear tables in the near future.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Some do but most of them have their heads down and are just trying to finish their careers in peace because any doubter in the religion of Woke means unending misery from that point onwards. Rather like late Communism in Eastern Europe--you aren't killed exactly but admin moves your office to an obcure place, you get all intro classes, no summer money for research or teaching, and your colleagues actively shun you. Then come the bad reviews using vague words like not collegial, not open to diversity initiatives, etc. Seen it happen to friends of mine.

Some of the most vile people that you will ever meet outside of a prison are in academia. The only thing is that they like to espouse violence but not actually do it. Lawful evil I would suppose.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (E4rtv)

36 Isn't Asmodeus the wielder of the Ruby Rod?
Ruby Rose is the "nonbinary" chick in John Wick (which she was actually good in)

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (88C+u)

37 I find the claim to have summited Everest 18 times hard to believe.
Would you believe-- Maxwell Smart voice.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (Dciv4)

38 Lyin' Eyes
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske)
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Hotel California

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (ZOv7s)

39 ***So Simon & Schuster paid this "superstar" nobody $1.4 million in a fake advance.
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Nobody asks; How do these book publishers obtain this massive amount of payoff money they pass out to the front guard liars?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (xHEjv)

40 This clown didn't just sparingly throw in a handful of plagiarized quotes. EVEN the NYT's said it was dozens upon dozens of pages of plagiarism (and then tried unsuccessfully to play that off as no big deal).

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:13 PM (dIske)

41 Nobody asks; How do these book publishers obtain this massive amount of payoff money they pass out to the front guard liars?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (xHEjv)


By paying authors who sell books less.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:13 PM (ExV1e)

42 Some of the most vile people that you will ever meet outside of a prison are in academia.
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Guess it's a good thing I don't associate with either for the most part.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (3fZgy)

43 The University of Michigan is going to eliminate grades for the college of Literature, Science and Arts. All freshmen will get pass/fail grades for their first year so the poor dears don't stress themselves out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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U Cal is begging for reinstatement of SAT scores for admission.

I think the charade is about over and if Trump wanted Gen Z on his side, he can take their side against the institutions that scammed them. Defund their asses and drop college prices.

Same for the grad schools, return to a bachelor of laws instead of the pretentious J.D. end the stream of foreign coolie academic labor, and so on.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)

44 Xey is a disgrace to academia.

Posted by: Beans Velocci at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (wGerL)

45 Illiterate, fake and gay is no way to go through life son.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (2Cry5)

46 Hah! Snooker for money? Is that what you kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Rest Area Glory Hole at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (JM9I6)

47 Rather like late Communism in Eastern Europe--you aren't killed exactly but admin moves your office to an obcure place, you get all intro classes, no summer money for research or teaching, and your colleagues actively shun you.
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My wife had a professor like that. Tenured, but they moved his office to the basement of a building that has since been condemned and demolished. He taught a class on "War and Revolution," and lots of people enrolled think it was something other than a washed-up Marxist who'd peaked in the 1970s and had now been put out to pasture.

The term paper was on oppression and my wife got a 4.0 by writing about how he, the professor, was oppressing her.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (ZOv7s)

48 >>Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
Probably Baba O'Reily

is this a joke I'm not getting?
Posted by: ace at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (1wjle)

I think it was meant to read , after listening to an Eagles song he was going to attempt suicide but aborted the attempt.

Posted by: Not an Eagles fan at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (KC5Lt)

49 They trusted him. I'd like to help him finish his career off with a size 11 boot.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (Q/FnY)

50 Explains a lot.
____

I didn't put this together before, but it does make sense that that billboard I pass on the way to work that says "Justice for Jveon" that his name is probably pronounced "Jay-vee-on"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (Dv3i1)

51 I think the charade is about over and if Trump wanted Gen Z on his side, he can take their side against the institutions that scammed them. Defund their asses and drop college prices.

Sue them for fraud and use the money to retire student loans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (ExV1e)

52
Honestly, I wish he'd scammed them even more brutally.

Because Fuck The Limeys.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 05:16 PM (y9nCu)

53 The amusing thing about paying Arday that amount of money for his book tells me that the powers that be had plans for him politically.

I don't see that happening now.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (dIske)

54 Same for the grad schools, return to a bachelor of laws instead of the pretentious J.D. end the stream of foreign coolie academic labor, and so on.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)
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China's locking itself down. New passport rules make it very difficult to leave, even for school. Probably because the population is collapsing and they want to keep as many rats aboard the ship as possible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ZOv7s)

55 if it was "Hotel California" he'd have likely gone through with it

Posted by: they play that shit too much at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (88C+u)

56 There was a time when universities were among our most trusted institutions. Many had within their crests “veritas” the Latin word for truth. They were revered for their honest pursuits of knowledge obtained through rigorous examination, questioning and debate. Nothing was left to chance, everything was scrutinized and the final product was a mind free of bias and schooled in a process of unbounded discovery and committed to the truthful pursuit of knowledge. That was really the basis for an education, everything else was tangential.

Then liberals and their left wing liege destroyed those institutions and wore them like a skin suit for credibility. The hollowed out the universities and used them to propagandize and build generations of brainwashed stormtroopers.

This is how you destroy a society, and they’re doing it on purpose.

There will come a time when we start piling up their corpses like cord wood, and burn them as we used to burn the semester end bonfires. Because they deserve it, and the symbolism is appropriate.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (h87v0)

57 I thought the coma part was a nice touch.

Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (VJX5o)

58 47 Rather like late Communism in Eastern Europe--you aren't killed exactly but admin moves your office to an obcure place, you get all intro classes, no summer money for research or teaching, and your colleagues actively shun you.

I didn't...I didn't get any cake.

Posted by: Milton Waddams at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (brIJB)

59 who in the UK get to appoint the heads of the Police force is it just the Prime Minister? or do the people get to elect them???

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (ubCxQ)

60 >>>I think it was meant to read , after listening to an Eagles song he was going to attempt suicide but aborted the attempt.

oh I kind of get it

or his idea of an eagles song is one plagiarized from The Who

Posted by: ace at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (1wjle)

61 OT but I want to post this before I forget it. It's kind of Twilight Zoney and Star Treky.

7 strangest objects discovered in the Universe that prove reality is weirder than fiction
These seven extraordinary objects show just how strange and wonderful the Universe can be.

https://tinyurl.com/23sd8htf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (ndZc7)

62 So the key to success in the modern world is a) be part of a privileged minority and b) lie your ass off. Wish I'd known this before working myself nearly to death.

Posted by: Hard work and integrity are for fools at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (TbWk/)

63 There will come a time when we start piling up their corpses like cord wood, and burn them as we used to burn the semester end bonfires. Because they deserve it, and the symbolism is appropriate.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (h87v0)
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Trump: American Franco.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)

64 Rather like late Communism in Eastern Europe--you aren't killed exactly but admin moves your office to an obcure place, you get all intro classes, no summer money for research or teaching, and your colleagues actively shun you.
---whig


At least I still have my stapler.

Posted by: Prof. Milton (tenured) at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (88C+u)

65 Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

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Weird, The Eagles have the opposite effect on me.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (lgGrU)

66 Next I bet you'll tell me Hunter Biden is also a fraud and can't paint worth a damn.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (aHw/h)

67 Ace
IT IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID !!!
American voters do not care about some British academic guilty of plagiarism they care about paying rent and buying food

Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (o7can)

68 Horde mind.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (88C+u)

69 The apostrophe was discovered in Africa

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (enNUy)

70 who in the UK get to appoint the heads of the Police force is it just the Prime Minister?

The head of Scotland Yard, known as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, is formally appointed by the Monarch (the British Crown). This appointment is made on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, who must also consider any recommendations from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).

Other Chief Constables are appointed by their respective Mayors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (ExV1e)

71 The book is due for publication next week by @simonschuster. Surely they have to pull it.

LOL, of course they won't. Don't be a dope.


Which section, though?
Biography or Fiction?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:21 PM (6ydKt)

72 Just a reminder to grab your copy of Long Live Death so you can see what happened the last time Antifa went after a democratic society.

Ace, my offer to send you a free copy is still open.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:21 PM (ZOv7s)

73 If I was crossing that bridge when Arday was contemplating suicide, and he was playing that Eagles song without head phones. I would have pushed the bastard.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:21 PM (dIske)

74 There are many more Jason Ardays and not just in academia.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (YwEeS)

75
So, when is Arday gonna marry the wheelchair girl from the thread below?

It's a match made in Heaven Lower Eastside West Gulpy Marsh.

I'm pretty sure that within three months of them getting hitched wheelchair girl will give birth to a full-grown Shiba Inu. For real, y'all!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (iJfKG)

76 The apostrophe was discovered in Africa
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (enNUy)
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STOLEN FROM OUR ANCESTORS CENTURIES AGO!

Posted by: Calypso Louie at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (ZOv7s)

77 >>>The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a Western system rotting under the weight of human deadwood. Not just academia, wokeness, welfare bureaucracies, "learing" centers, or the laptop manager class exposed during Covid, but an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness.

Please, Bitch.

Posted by: Government Cubical-dwelling Drone at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (rbvCR)

78 Wouldn't we be in much better stead if every Eagles fan jumped off a bridge?

Posted by: Just Axin' at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (JM9I6)

79 There are many more Jason Ardays and not just in academia.
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (YwEeS)
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Yet, for some reason, they largely avoid the trades.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (3fZgy)

80 I think it was meant to read , after listening to an Eagles song he was going to attempt suicide but aborted the attempt.
Posted by: Not an Eagles fan at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (KC5Lt)

After hearing Hotel fucking California for the 675th fucking time, he decided to look for a taller bridge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, not an Eagles fan either at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

81 Novelist C.P. Snow once remarked that academic politics were so vicious because the stakes were so small...

Posted by: Beverly at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (reMys)

82 Jason, my man, stay strong. Sure, you may have embellished a fact or two ( who among us hasn't? ) , but your heart is pure and you'll bounce back from this, stronger and wiser, just like I did.

Posted by: Brian Williams at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (brIJB)

83 I'd say the Ruskies have us beat on this but, of course, they've had a lot more practice.

https://tinyurl.com/4nfkd8b6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (ndZc7)

84 China's locking itself down. New passport rules make it very difficult to leave, even for school. Probably because the population is collapsing and they want to keep as many rats aboard the ship as possible.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ZOv7s)

Hopefully they will soon be embroiled in a civil war and return to the days of warlords, opium dens and cannibalism.

Posted by: Wo Fat at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (45BvE)

85 Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (o7can)

Sean Penn will be by any moment now to accurately describe you.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (VHUov)

86 Wouldn't we be in much better stead if every Eagles fan jumped off a bridge?

Posted by: Just Axin' at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (JM9I6)

Yes, the band and the team.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (CNl8/)

87 The lefy will probably want to rename that day between Saturday and Monday to Arday.

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (LHPAg)

88
Nobody asks; How do these book publishers obtain this massive amount of payoff money they pass out to the front guard liars?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (xHEjv)



Aside from outright pass-through bribery, they conspire with the universities. They change some of the punctuation, reprint as a new edition then mandate that students purchase the new edition at full price rather than the old edition in the used section of the student bookstore at 60% off.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (y9nCu)

89 Wait, I take it back.
The only way to truly do his story justice is with a 20 episode tv series.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

90 His title uses the word "teachers," just the plural of teacher, but he puts an apostrophe after it to make it a possessive. And then he does that in the entire paper, too.

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If you weren't so racist you would understand that in my culture teacher's is always possessive because the teacher's always possess knowledge.

Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (lgGrU)

91 Leftists are good at book money laundering
Get $1M for 5,000 books and no one reads them

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 05:26 PM (Ia/+0)

92 >> Trump: American Franco.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)

I never felt this pack of liberals and their filth who have subverted our institutions had anything but ill intent. I watched as honest people, many good intentioned, let this virus roll over them and destroy our country like a disease. It’s about time they listen to the people who said we should hang a few of them from lampposts and put a sign on them that reads “Don’t be Me”.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (h87v0)

93
Paki-Turkiyaya'-Saudi alliance!

Sunni v. Shia out on the table and official, now that Iran is a shell of its old self.

Fun to see these guys decide amongst themselves whose in charge, this looks more like a clusterfuck recipe than anything else.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (Y8DZL)

94 Off not totally true sock

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (KC5Lt)

95 The head of Scotland Yard, known as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, is formally appointed by the Monarch (the British Crown). This appointment is made on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, who must also consider any recommendations from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).

Other Chief Constables are appointed by their respective Mayors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (ExV1e)

Thanks

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (ubCxQ)

96 87 The lefy will probably want to rename that day between Saturday and Monday to Arday.
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (LHPAg

_________________________

Nope, that's a singular annual holiday...aka "Talk Like a Pirate Day." Kind of fitting.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (dIske)

97 Original Iron Maiden guitarist Denis Stratton claims he was kicked out of the band because he liked to listen to The Eagles.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (CNl8/)

98 The only way to truly do his story justice is with a 20 episode tv series.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)


We'll do it but we're going to make Arday a white, Christian, male serial killer from Alabama. -- Amazon Studios

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (ExV1e)

99 TL;DR
Fabulists are fabulous.

Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (q177U)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (odBC9)

101 Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
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He should have listened to "Wasted Time", or "Teenage Hell". Instead, he probably listened to "Take it Easy" and thus he lived on.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (TN0g+)

102 Remember though, it's not a lie...if *you* believe it.

https://tinyurl.com/5crncuph

Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (2qSHg)

103 So did he have a playlist going on his earbuds as he was prepared to jump to his death?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (XvL8K)

104 >>>But the "teachers'" type

typo

(ironically)

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (odBC9)

105 >>>Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said officers "dropped the ball" when they looked into a complaint made against journalist Jack Grove over his attempts to contact Prof Jason Arday.

WTF? You drop the ball by failing to do something, not by doing something embarrassing that you are later sheepish about.

Retards can't even CYA right.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (dK+Kv)

106 Well, if we're going to be talking old songs . . .

https://tinyurl.com/ywuvbv2h

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (ndZc7)

107 My house is so clean. I am going to ban everyone from coming back inside.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 05:29 PM (ZdaMQ)

108 >>>- Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

That's a strange combination of words right there.

Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 05:29 PM (q177U)

109 Women have ruined publishing. I left my book club because everyone was offended I called the books clit lit. Can't say chick lit anymore. Slit lit didn't fly either. So I just found something else to do. My husband hates going to B&N with me. "Clit lit clit lit clit lit"

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:29 PM (enNUy)

110 Speaking of Eagles, see nic.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (KC5Lt)

111
Original Iron Maiden guitarist Denis Stratton claims he was kicked out of the band because he liked to listen to The Eagles.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (CNl8/)



He got off light.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (y9nCu)

112 Original Iron Maiden guitarist Denis Stratton claims he was kicked out of the band because he liked to listen to The Eagles.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (CNl8/)

That's a legit reason.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (dK+Kv)

113 Knowledge is Good.

Posted by: Emil Faber at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (JM9I6)

114 >>>Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir,"

Did he get that money? Or did the publisher pledge to pay him that money upon publication (and on fulfilment of whatever other terms).

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (odBC9)

115 84 China's locking itself down. New passport rules make it very difficult to leave, even for school. Probably because the population is collapsing and they want to keep as many rats aboard the ship as possible.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ZOv7s)

Hopefully they will soon be embroiled in a civil war and return to the days of warlords, opium dens and cannibalism.
Posted by: Wo Fat at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (45BvE)

I believe in the theory that china only has about 500 million not over a billion since they are so corrupt that the regional Gov forged how large their Population really was do they could stuff their pockets with from funds meant to go to the people.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (ubCxQ)

116 Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (o7can)

There's no noodle soup for you here
youtu.be/H_r2wBb4eOo

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (88C+u)

117 And btw muslims are playing the same game they’ve seen their liberal sherpas play. And now they are about to wear them as a skin suit. They have nothing but ill intent for our nation and populace. They see it as some type of sick, twisted payback for all their alleged grievances. They are going to crawl inside our institutions and destroy them from the inside out. They’re not even hiding it much anymore. They are satans worker bees.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (h87v0)

118 We'll do it but we're going to make Arday a white, Christian, male serial killer from Alabama. -- Amazon Studios
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (ExV1e)
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Ironically, I bet they'd find a huge audience for a show about a white Southern, Christian male who lies his way to the highest levels of academia. I'd watch it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (ZOv7s)

119 I do really like Joe Walsh.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (KC5Lt)

120 103 So did he have a playlist going on his earbuds as he was prepared to jump to his death?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (XvL8K)

__________________________

Get with the program, Biff. Earbuds and earphones are racist. You have to let that drumbeat resonate in everyone's ears within a 2 mile radius to prove your blackness.

Sincerely,
CEO and Janitor of Carnival Cruise Lines

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (dIske)

121 Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
20h

The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a Western Soviet system rotting under the weight of human deadwood. Not just academia, wokeness, welfare bureaucracies, "learing" centers, or the laptop manager class exposed during Covid, but an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness. The real work is left to a shrinking productive minority forced to carry everyone else.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (JvZF+)

122 Life's Been Good is a great song.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (KC5Lt)

123 Come on, man. I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!

Posted by: The Dude at August 07, 2026 05:32 PM (45BvE)

124 The Five is talking about him right now.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 05:32 PM (Cqx++)

125 Eagle painting is nice, polynikes, have you done Ann Elk?

Posted by: Something Completely Different at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (JM9I6)

126 Summit of Everest? The Blade may be going to Bass Camp 1 on Everest in October. I’ll see if Arday is there …

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)

127 I believe in the theory that china only has about 500 million not over a billion since they are so corrupt that the regional Gov forged how large their Population really was do they could stuff their pockets with from funds meant to go to the people.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (ubCxQ)
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I saw a youtuber say that the official numbers for births and the fertility rate don't add up, and that if you go by the birth rate, there are only 1 billion.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (ZOv7s)

128 Where da white wimmins at?

Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (Av6i5)

129 Also song related.

https://tinyurl.com/awn67wrs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (ndZc7)

130 Oh, and btw, if getting 3 or 4 emails is considered harrassment....McAfee better start getting out the checkbook.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (dIske)

131 Where da white wimmins at?
Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (Av6i5)


Shouldn't that be white wimmin's?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (ExV1e)

132 Life's Been Good is a great song.
Posted by: polynikes
__________

That whole album is good, but his stuff with the James Gang is way better.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (XvL8K)

133 China is building a massive navy, and military capability. But they’re not going to have the foot soldiers, at least reliable military ones, to fill their ranks.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Fi4DJ)

134 The Five is covering this now.
Also, top article at zerohedge., I know.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)

135 The Five is covering this now.
Also, top article at zerohedge., I know.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)


Clearly demonstrating that there is nothing of consequence happening in the world.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:36 PM (ExV1e)

136 I like Joe Walsh and Don Felder. But I fucking hate the Iggles.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 05:36 PM (0aYVJ)

137 Chuck Norris is scared of this guy. That’s how amazing he is.

Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (Bz1XI)

138 Never heard of this guy till I read about him here... I consider my self lucky that I didn't

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (FtULh)

139 Jason Arday has the same look in his eyes as a retarded dude I had to ride the school bus with. He was in special ed, across the hall from our junior high classes and leered at girls as often as possible.

The only difference I see is Jason's eyes are not like Marty Feldman's when the school bus guy would try to look under our dresses.

He had to sit behind the bus driver, who once was my friend's big brother. We'd yell when he got perverted, that he was looking at us and Jimmy would tell him to turn around.

He also worked on a chicken farm near his house and often had chicken sheet on his arm because he never bathed.

You can see, easily, the trauma I endured until I could drive myself and, later, go to college. It's amazing I survived.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (hzuYO)

140 > Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
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Honestly... should have let it go through. Less painful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (2Cry5)

141 Clearly demonstrating that there is nothing of consequence happening in the world.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:36 PM (ExV1e)

Dog days of August....

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Sco7b)

142 James Gang-great!
Walsh solo-good!
Eagles-Pffffffft!

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slirrup at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (JM9I6)

143 It's got to be a pain if you are an intelligent educated person of African descent and see stupid white people fawn over fraudulent nitwits.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (KY+FT)

144 I rode through the desert on a horse with no name...and then I named it!

Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Riz8t)

145 Never heard of this guy till I read about him here... I consider my self lucky that I didn't

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (FtULh)

I hope that I never have to hear about him again after this week.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (CNl8/)

146 Dog days of August....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Sco7b)


I saw some polling that said the Democrats were gonna pick up 600 seats in the Senate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ExV1e)

147 I saw a youtuber say that the official numbers for births and the fertility rate don't add up, and that if you go by the birth rate, there are only 1 billion.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (ZOv7s)

The one I saw she said it was about 500 million and she found the numbers of how many Diapers vs Adult Diapers and how they are headed for disaster.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ubCxQ)

148 126 Summit of Everest? The Blade may be going to Bass Camp 1 on Everest in October. I’ll see if Arday is there …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)

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Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening. Read up on it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (brIJB)

149 Nobody asks; How do these book publishers obtain this massive amount of payoff money they pass out to the front guard liars?

Posted by: Braenyard

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It's a closed system. They pay according to the narrative, and then Cambridge pumps up all their books. Reviews, blurbs, etc. Like a commie central committee deciding who gets paid, and what the public gets to buy.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (aDhTQ)

150 It's the Apacolypse, you might as well have some fun.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8r7vn8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ndZc7)

151 To paraphrase Adam Carolla are his supporters liars or retards?

Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Bz1XI)

152 It's got to be a pain if you are an intelligent educated person of African descent and see stupid white people fawn over fraudulent nitwits.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (KY+FT)

Obama ain't far off from Arday.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (KC5Lt)

153 ..."an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness. The real work is left to a shrinking productive minority forced to carry everyone else."

Can we get this inscribed in marble somewhere on the Washington Mall?

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)

154 By the time Arday started on his master's degree, he writes, he was reading at about the same level as his 3-year-old daughter.

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This doesn't say much for him, but it REALLY doesn't say much for the university that gave a bachelor's to an illiterate.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (2UnvF)

155 The rhyme potential for arday is super. I’m expecting big things here.

Posted by: H at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (H1yGV)

156 From TWIW:

232 That chicken in the last video? Just call her a hysteric and lock her bony ass up in a mental institution. She'll get all the attention she craves, and we won't have to suffer through any more of her self-serving videos.

I believe she is what Paul Joseph Watson would call a "twat." [Say it with his accent. It works better that way.]
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (2nJ9I)


It was pop music that taught me that Brits rhyme 'twat' with 'that' and 'chat':

Lily Allen - Alfie (Explicit Version)
https://youtu.be/OFF7dccul7o

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Sy6m/)

157 I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese population was 800 million to on billion. The one child policy plus COVID did a lot of damage

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (KY+FT)

158 relatedly:

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
3h
Inevitable

Geiger Capital
@Geiger_Capital
4h
Absolutely incredible…

University of California professors are now asking the school to reinstate the SAT for admissions because their new students are unable to do high school-level work.

They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (odBC9)

159 Can we get this inscribed in marble somewhere on the Washington Mall?
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)


I'd rather have it tattooed, mirrored, on the forehead of every member of Congress.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (ExV1e)

160 Obligatory Eagles movie scene:

https://tinyurl.com/4s62e4xr

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (XvL8K)

161 151 To paraphrase Adam Carolla are his supporters liars or retards?

Oh come on!

Posted by: The power of and at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (Riz8t)

162 To paraphrase Adam Carolla are his supporters liars or retards?
Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Bz1XI)

I think Corolla would have used Half Tards. He's proud he coined that insult.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (KC5Lt)

163 It is fascinating how so many people take Chinese data at their word. Oh wow 9% gdp growth for 30 years in a row. Way to go guys! Communism is so fetch.

Never questioning any of it.

Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (Bz1XI)

164 T-storm heading my way

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)

165 I was watching a video on extraterrestrial life where the speaker he made the same arguments I have about the statistical improbability of life appearing anywhere considering how many things had to go just right for us to be here.

And then, interestingly he takes it a step further saying either the math is wrong or we got absurdly lucky and either answer is problematic.

I've seen a few atheist types get to this point, because this is exactly where the math of biology and astronomy takes you. And if you are a theist you have answer but if you are an atheist it leaves you in an odd spot where you have to thrash around for answers...ancient aliens planted us? our understanding of biology is completely wrong? reality isn't and we are living in a simulation?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (sKqQm)

166 133 China is building a massive navy, and military capability. But they’re not going to have the foot soldiers, at least reliable military ones, to fill their ranks.
Posted by: Vengeance


drones, ai, and bots

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (aDhTQ)

167 "defended himself by arguing that he had not received adequate supervision during his PhD given his autism and learning disabilities."

He should not have been granted a degree. That's on the university. To that extent, he's got a valid point.

Posted by: gp at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (Jr5Lq)

168 Obligatory James Gang live:

https://youtu.be/zo0vBdlWQs0

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (brIJB)

169 I saw some polling that said the Democrats were gonna pick up 600 seats in the Senate.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ExV1e)

Arday inspired me and I can now pull a Greyhound bus 50 feet using only my dong!!

I did cut up 2 watermelons for my friends. They have kids so that's not easy for them to do.

And Ralphy got an allergy shot at the vet. This lady walked out with no animal wiping her eyes. I talk with her a minute to console her. That was sad.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (Sco7b)

170 They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".

Cambridge MA recently turned off their SpotShotter system because "it was getting too many black and brown people arrested". Now...who are the most likely people to get shot in Cambridge MA? And I'll give you a hint it isn't connected Cambridge MA government officials.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (sKqQm)

171 They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".
Posted by: m

Which most students couldn't spell correctly....

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (DZ9Lv)

172 BBC

Cambridge to review process for hiring senior academics after Jason Arday resignation

Among the claims by Arday that have been viewed as outlandish is one, made in an interview with the Guardian, that he was paid "1.4 million" for his memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, due to be released next week. He did not specify the currency.

While not inconceivable, publishing insiders cast doubt on a figure such as Arday being able to attract such a large advance payment.

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (odBC9)

173 Joe Walsh is Ringo Starr's brother-in-law.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (CNl8/)

174 You have to be huffing Testor's Glue (the old kind before they detoxified it) out of a small paper sack to really enjoy the Iggles.

Posted by: Musik Kal at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (JM9I6)

175 Federal Judge Rejects SPLC's Vindictive Prosecution Claim in Blistering Order

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (Wgtgv)

176 Arday humbly omitted several of his inventions, including the snort laugh, the semi colon, and rubbing your chin when thinking.

Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (lCppi)

177 @167

True. If your PhD student fails his defense, it's the mentor who really failed.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (Riz8t)

178 I saw some polling that said the Democrats were gonna pick up 600 seats in the Senate.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

No, no, no - that poll said the 600 Dems were picking at their seats!

Completely different.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (w+2cP)

179 Hasan chop!

>>@HoffmanJess

>>BREAKING: University of Washington cancels Hasan Piker event

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)

180 Good advice.

https://tinyurl.com/u43bvjtd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (ndZc7)

181 133 China is building a massive navy,


They had two planes fall off the flight deck of their aircraft carrier this week in separate incidents.

Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (AGz65)

182 Hustling snooker is what they call it in academia when you're the towel boy at the bathhouse.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (iySPJ)

183 From X--our DEI ruling class are frauds.

Luke Rosiak@lukerosiak
The only lesson from Jason Arday can be recognition that this is going on everywhere. This is the dissertation of a University of Maryland campus president. She stole someone else's dissertation and changed the name of the field. Maryland has known this for a year.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (E4rtv)

184 >> China is building a massive navy,


out of Melamine.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (uzmqU)

185 If your PhD student fails his defense, it's the mentor who really failed.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (Riz8t)


Which is why you only have friends who don't give a shit about the value of a PhD to sit that stage. -- PhD Mentors

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (ExV1e)

186 @165

>>I've seen a few atheist types get to this point, because this is exactly where the math of biology and astronomy takes you.

Let's forget about all of the minor miracles it took for use to be here.

We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.

So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.

We know what conditions are necessary, which could conceivably be replicated on another planet.

But not the mechanism of action.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (XV/Pl)

187 All Jason Arday needs is tight deadlines, loose standards, and a warm place to copy-and-paste.

Posted by: Earl Butz at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (Av6i5)

188 It just occurred to me that when I was a student all the sheets of paper that I did my writing on was...*horrors*...white!!!!!


No wonder I'm a racist.


I guess we could in future write only on black paper. But then the ink would have to be...*horrors again!!!*...white!.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (Rl+wE)

189 Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening.
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I get Acute Mountain Sickness everytime I hear "Mississippi Queen".

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (TN0g+)

190 >>They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".


Also, to eliminate accountability in secondary education.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (uzmqU)

191 if you are an atheist it leaves you in an odd spot where you have to thrash around for answers...
Posted by: 18-1

Well, no, you just say "I don't know. I don't have enough information" and go on about your day.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (DZ9Lv)

192 Hasan chop!

>>@HoffmanJess

>>BREAKING: University of Washington cancels Hasan Piker event
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)


They found out that he'd once eaten a breakfast bagel and won't promote Zionists like that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)

193 Summit of Everest? The Blade may be going to Bass Camp 1 on Everest in October. I’ll see if Arday is there …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)
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Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening. Read up on it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (brIJB)

And absolutely, positively no Smoke on the Water.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (dK+Kv)

194 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ExV1e)

Wow. It is a slow news day.

The Five. A NZ politician was on the air in her bathroom with underwear drying.

CNN - Democrats unity rally - Tapper

MS Now -Talerico

CBC - Canadian politics

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (Sco7b)

195 "Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

I'm thinking "Desperado."

I'm thinking "Take it to the Limit"

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (lJ0H4)

196 Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (sKqQm)

Yeah the mathematical odds of a random combination of chemicals creating life is 10 to about 25 zeroes . Even with the amount of possible X planets , for it to happen more than once is astronomical ( pun intended) . For it to happen 10 to 1000 times is next to impossible.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (KC5Lt)

197 You fucked up -- you trusted me!

Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (Av6i5)

198 166 133 China is building a massive navy, and military capability. But they’re not going to have the foot soldiers, at least reliable military ones, to fill their ranks.
Posted by: Vengeance


drones, ai, and bots
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (aDhTQ)

The Problem with China's Military it's so corrupt, Their Carrier doesn't work, The Radar or it's missiles are all garbage and the US proved this with what happened in Iran and South America. I even hear that their Nukes missiles were filled with water or Cement and the Generals pocketed the money and they were later Killed, same with the guy that was in charge of the Steath fighter project he disappeared

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (ubCxQ)

199 I get Acute Mountain Sickness everytime I hear "Mississippi Queen".
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (TN0g+)

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I know what you mean.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (2UnvF)

200 200

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (odBC9)

201 BREAKING: University of Washington cancels Hasan Piker event
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)


When you'v e lost the socialist, Palestinian -loving Huskies....

Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (lCppi)

202 148 126 Summit of Everest? The Blade may be going to Bass Camp 1 on Everest in October. I’ll see if Arday is there …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)
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Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening. Read up on it.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (brIJB)
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Yea. BC1 is at 17500 feet, so it’s not that bad. I ain’t climbing there. Taking a heli. I’ve been to 14k feet or close several times before and suffered no ill effects, and even did strenuous activity at that altitude (hiking, horseback riding, skiing, etc).

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (i+vnO)

203 What some knumbnutz professor in England does is so far down my list of concerns I can't find it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (xHEjv)

204 We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

That's quite a leap in logic you got there.
"We have no idea how X process works so the idea it happens anywhere else in the Universe is silly." Ok....

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (DZ9Lv)

205 175 Federal Judge Rejects SPLC's Vindictive Prosecution Claim in Blistering Order

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (Wgtgv)

I actually saw an SPLC commercial on MS Now.
That was crazy.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (Sco7b)

206 >>They found out that he'd once eaten a breakfast bagel and won't promote Zionists like that.

If possible, he seems to be coming more unhinged since El Sayed won his primary. He's now threatening Democrats who won't vote for this Muslim POS and telling Jews they need to go back to Auschwitz.

He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

207 @196

>>Yeah the mathematical odds of a random combination of chemicals creating life is 10 to about 25 zeroes .

You can't put any odds on it because no one knows what the mechanism of action is to get organic life.

Until that is known, no one can actually say if there could potentially be organic life, let alone intelligent life.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (XV/Pl)

208 I like some of the Eagles music but not the Brillo Hair Dude Henley. Arrogant twat.

I liked Glenn Frey in his youth (Lyin' Eyes). Mostly because I liked guys of the 1970's who looked like that. No other reason at the time. Far from my favorite band.

I should go be productive as I have an 11mo old grandgirl visiting most of tomorrow. Putting her in the crib in the kid's room for her nap as she's a wild girl in her pack and play now where she used to nap by the fire.

That guest room looks like a Romanian orphanage as no one else uses it (queen bed and a twin blow up mattress plus the crib).

Thinking I have asthma/allergies from the smokey air from Oregon and WA and I am staying inside as it's HOT.

I hate this time of year! Want it to be over!!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (hzuYO)

209 University of California professors are now asking the school to reinstate the SAT for admissions because their new students are unable to do high school-level work.

If you can spell SAT correctly, I think you get in.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (KAa/S)

210 File under half full, Data is from FRED which is Fed. Reserve St. Louis.
========
Geiger Capital
@Geiger_Capital
·
7h
Holy shit.

Since Trump took office, 1.3 Million foreign-born workers (legal and illegal) have lost a job. Meanwhile, 1.7 Million native-born Americans have gained a job.

A sharp reversal of the last few years.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (E4rtv)

211 Leftists then: "We need standardized tests so that qualified minorities can prove they're equal to whites despite racist teachers giving minorities unfairly low grades!"

Leftists now: "Standardized tests are racist, because...well, just because, that's why!"

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (Av6i5)

212 What some knumbnutz professor in England does is so far down my list of concerns I can't find it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (xHEjv)


Sigh. -- Isaac Newton

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (ExV1e)

213 Charles Curran
@charliebcurran
Aug 6
The year is 2030. Claude 9 has gone rogue and taken control of one billion Sexbots.
They call it the Goonpocalypse.

https://tinyurl.com/4wzfaw2k


(ooh, Alex Jones got his hair back!)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (rbvCR)

214 Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (DZ9Lv)

I thought you said would just move on.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (KC5Lt)

215 He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)


He was born in New Jersey.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ExV1e)

216 Been struck down by testicular cancer (though this changes in the book to brain cancer)

Well, I would have assumed colon cancer, since his head's up his ....

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (kU0PQ)

217 ——

Yea. BC1 is at 17500 feet, so it’s not that bad. I ain’t climbing there. Taking a heli. I’ve been to 14k feet or close several times before and suffered no ill effects, and even did strenuous activity at that altitude (hiking, horseback riding, skiing, etc).

Posted by: Elric the Blade
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You're a lot older now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (xHEjv)

218 "You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do."

Yeah, that was an astonishingly vague and stilted thing to say.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (4NO2D)

219 He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Prison will sort him right out. Charge him as an unregistered foreign agent. Same with TuCa and others. Then you can offer them a deal, renounce US citizenship or go to jail.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv)

220 215 He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

He was born in New Jersey.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ExV1e)

Then, deported from New Jersey,

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (FtULh)

221 They found out that he'd once eaten a breakfast bagel and won't promote Zionists like that.

If possible, he seems to be coming more unhinged since El Sayed won his primary. He's now threatening Democrats who won't vote for this Muslim POS and telling Jews they need to go back to Auschwitz.

He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

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He was born here, anchor baby

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:54 PM (i+vnO)

222 Until that is known, no one can actually say if there could potentially be organic life, let alone intelligent life.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (XV/Pl)


LOL. Obviously you *can* say it. Unless morons don't count.

Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 05:54 PM (AGz65)

223 I'm not their biggest fan ever but The Eagles - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 is a damn good listen, especially on road trips.

And Hotel California is one of many of the 1970s masterpiece albums by so many great bands. I must've listened to it 100 times on CD Walkman when i was a teenager.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (6ydKt)

224 We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

It's quite simple. Lightning struck a slime pit and a slug oozed out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (ndZc7)

225 215 He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

He was born in New Jersey.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Well, a new vista will be an eventful trip for him.
Don't forget to cancel his re-entry permit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (xHEjv)

226 Leftists now: "Standardized tests are racist, because...well, just because, that's why!"

Reminds me of Bobby Finn: https://tinyurl.com/2udm4c2k

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (sKqQm)

227 Now they have no hope of recovering their advance, true.

However, if things had worked out the way they planned, then maybe this inspirational book book would have become a classic and part of the school curriculum, like Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mockingbird.

Probably some people in the US and the UK feel that it is time to clear the curriculum of the contributions of dead white authors. Also, nonfiction is better than fiction.

For controlling the school curriculum, 1.4 million is nothing.

Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (+F4bv)

228 >>He was born in New Jersey.

Ok, hang him.

He's basically a rep of the Muslim Brotherhood and so is El Sayed. At some point and it better be soon we are going to have to admit we are being invaded by Islamic terrorists and stop them.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (viF8m)

229 Speaking of reading, reading challenge in the ghetto.
https://tinyurl.com/59phn7yw
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Explains a lot.


I'll be a bit more forgiving. That sentence contained a lot of words that she had obviously never encountered (and at her age should have) but at least she gave each one a shot using English phonetic rules.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (vTZFs)

230 Then send him back to New Jersey. That is an even worse punishment.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (CNl8/)

231 Yeah the mathematical odds of a random combination of chemicals creating life is 10 to about 25 zeroes .

That's pretty exact for something we have no idea about.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (KAa/S)

232 Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (XV/Pl)

You can put odds on anything if you've have enough information on the variables. Mathematicians far better than me and I assume you are those that came up with that number based on what mathematicians do.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (KC5Lt)

233 And Hotel California is one of many of the 1970s masterpiece albums by so many great bands. I must've listened to it 100 times on CD Walkman when i was a teenager.
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I really enjoyed The Long Run. I think its one of those "put the album on and let it play" works that not many bands ever pulled off once, much less the two or three times that The Eagles did so.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)

234 Yea. BC1 is at 17500 feet, so it’s not that bad. I ain’t climbing there. Taking a heli. I’ve been to 14k feet or close several times before and suffered no ill effects, and even did strenuous activity at that altitude (hiking, horseback riding, skiing, etc).

Posted by: Elric the Blade
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You're a lot older now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (xHEjv)
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Hiked and horseback riding at 14k in the Andes two years ago! Believe it or not, my boomer mom did it with us.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:57 PM (i+vnO)

235 I thought you said would just move on.
Posted by: polynikes

I did. And then I came to Quite A Leap. It was breathtaking in its destructive simplicity. I had to comment before pondering a haiku in its honor. Or maybe a limerick.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:57 PM (DZ9Lv)

236 We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Which means it is impossible, right? Right?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:58 PM (rbvCR)

237 I had to comment before pondering a haiku in its honor. Or maybe a limerick.
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Personally I believe there are far too many limericks found at this blog and far too few haiku.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (TN0g+)

238 Simon & Shuster? Oh, I thought you meant a publisher like Random House. Eh, nobody intelligent submits books there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (5TQCN)

239 Well, no, you just say "I don't know. I don't have enough information" and go on about your day.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
_________

But to be an atheist, you've arrived at the ultimate answer: you live in a universe devoid of purpose and you will one day simply cease to exist, like a burst bubble. I don't see how any atheists who are honest with themselves can then simply go about their day. Seems to me that 99.99% instead start grasping for some purpose that they deny exists.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 06:00 PM (XvL8K)

240 The fact that you are not climbing there, and taking a helicopter, increases the risk if not mistaken.

Acclimatization takes time. Altitude sickness sucks. It's basically a continuum from feeling like shit all the way to HAPE and HACE. Just huff on some oxygen at night maybe. Sleeping problematic for most people over 10k after a while, flatlanders anyway

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 06:00 PM (7j7XD)

241 At the Ace of Spades
Far too many limericks
Far too few haiku

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

242 "We can't figure it out, therefore it must be a miracle" is the underlying basis of all religious notions.

Then someone figures it out.

The number of things that 200 years ago seemed completely inexplicable, utterly impossible or beyond imagination yet which today are commonplace, self-evident or easily grasped are almost innumerable.

I'd be willing to wager that someone makes life in a test-tube and/or we find organic life originating outside of Earth, sometime in the next few decades.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:01 PM (Av6i5)

243 Personally I believe there are far too many limericks found at this blog and far too few haiku.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (TN0g+)


Tired bikini
Boobs embrace autumn wearing
Cashmere sweater sets.

-- Elisabeth Dale

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:01 PM (ExV1e)

244 It doesn't matter where your from, start following Islam and your brainwashed,

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)

245
I really enjoyed The Long Run. I think its one of those "put the album on and let it play" works that not many bands ever pulled off once, much less the two or three times that The Eagles did so.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)

Oh yeah, a rare thing these days.

I got used to listening to entire albums starting with having a cassette Walkman. I wore that thing out. No skipping technology until later on, so you got used to listening to the entire tape.

Any Led Zeppelin album, or a few Pink Floyd albums (you know the ones), and others I can't remember right now.

Listening to an entire album would be torture for kids today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)

246 Which means it is impossible, right? Right?

Before Professor Arday showed up, yes. Yes, it was.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (KAa/S)

247 Lol...GatewayPundit

Madmani's nickname is Mayor Zoflake since he's so thin-skinned.

When the future of communism is on your shoulders....

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)

248 Obama ain't far off from Arday.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (KC5Lt)

As was noted in Ace's original post.
I'm more thinking of Van Jones. He got into the position he's at by canoodling with 9/11 troofers (which Obama didn't do, although interestingly Hillary! did). But Jones didn't touch that stuff after Obama got elected.
I suspect that Jones and Obama both are smarter than Hillary.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:04 PM (88C+u)

249 Aliens: https://youtu.be/3YIszhdByuA

Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 06:04 PM (AGz65)

250 Any Led Zeppelin album, or a few Pink Floyd albums (you know the ones), and others I can't remember right now.

Listening to an entire album would be torture for kids today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)


Just listen to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", all 26 minutes and 11 seconds of it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (ExV1e)

251 Madmani's nickname is Mayor Zoflake since he's so thin-skinned.

When the future of communism is on your shoulders....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)

I guess he believed he was the next coming.. Or the 12th Imam in his case... reality sucks ..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (FtULh)

252 Listening to an entire album would be torture for kids today.
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Agreed! And many adults have become just as bad. I recently went to a concert with 2 friends of mine. Afterwards I told my self there's going to be a "No checking your phones" rule IF we ever go to another one--they each were watching their 2-inch screen as much as they were the live bands and live crowd.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (TN0g+)

253 @236

>>Which means it is impossible, right? Right?

Yeah, pretty much.

The number of miracles required to just get to the conditions where additional miracles can happen is quite large.

A Universe From Nothing being the initial miracle.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (XV/Pl)

254 Been struck down by testicular cancer (though this changes in the book to brain cancer)

Well, I would have assumed colon cancer, since his head's up his ....
Posted by: GWB


How do you think it spread to his brain so quickly?

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (VHUov)

255 >> It doesn't matter where your from, start following Islam and your brainwashed,

Piker was born in NJ to Turkish parents. He was raised in Turkey. He didn't return to the US until he went to college. He's about as American as Ilhan Omar.

All he does all day is preach about violence against anyone who doesn't agree with a Muslim takeover of the US. I don't give a shit if he was born at Mount Vernon, he's an anti-American piece of shit and even the left is starting to realize it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (viF8m)

256 [Listening to an entire album would be torture for kids today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf


Al..bum?

Posted by: kids today at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (Av6i5)

257
Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.


That's the biggest whopper of them all. Not for nothing are Eagles' songs deemed "gateway accompaniment to slipping this mortal coil by your own hand."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (ixS3i)

258 Yeah the thing is, most of this stuff was so obviously fake and nonsense, but they didn't care. They got what they wanted with him: their virtue display. Look at how good we are, we have a swarthy young professor who writes papers by interviewing himself and having a young female student write them up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (K32Fz)

259 I don't see how any atheists who are honest with themselves can then simply go about their day. Seems to me that 99.99% instead start grasping for some purpose that they deny exists.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

There's talk that the AI bros believe that they are midwifing a new god who, unlike haShem, will exist.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (88C+u)

260 You know what's a good listen, the entire album of Edward Sharp and The Magnetic Zeros.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 06:07 PM (XV/Pl)

261 There's talk that the AI bros believe that they are midwifing a new god who, unlike haShem, will exist.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (88C+u)


If they believe that then they've been huffing their own farts for too long.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (ExV1e)

262 Personally I believe there are far too many limericks found at this blog and far too few haiku.
Posted by: Crusader

Tired bikini
Boobs embrace autumn wearing
Cashmere sweater sets.

-- Elisabeth Dale
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


+1 for the seasonal reference. That usually gets left out.

Posted by: certified haiku inspector at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (VHUov)

263
He's got the eyes of Judge Doom from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (ixS3i)

264 I tried Hungry Howies Pizza.

It's not too bad.
They have a similar menu to Marcos, but more.

They sell flatbreads (which is what I'm eating and it's not bad.
Also Deep Dish rectangles, and Detroit Deep Dish (the tomato sauce is on top of the cheese and toppings).

Also sandwiches made of folded over pizza dough, a calzonewich by the looks of it.

I'll probably order from them again and try a pizza or deep dish.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

265 Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
Probably Baba O'Reily"

Who?

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (XuXeR)

266
Well, that was predictable. Then: "Oh, no! We just oppose the Zionists." Now: "Kill the Jews!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (O0L8i)

267 Time to go drink some whiskey and make a pizza. Y'all be good to each other.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (ExV1e)

268 If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (yEz+x)

269
O, haiku, schmiku!
So you can count to seven
Syllables. Big whoop!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:10 PM (ixS3i)

270 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (brIJB)

271 NOOD BIDEN.

Only sort of about Biden.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (VHUov)

272 f you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (yEz+x)

Unfortunately these people start to actually believe their lies. That's why they continue to do it. Really mentally ill.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (KC5Lt)

273 @167

>>Time to go drink some whiskey and make a pizza. Y'all be good to each other.

I think it's, drink whiskey, smoke cigars and play with dynamite.

Or at least that's what Hunter S. Thompson would do, and who are we to argue with that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (XV/Pl)

274 I’m honestly not even mad at this guy. The people he’s grifting off are leftist shitlibs retards that deserve every bad thing that happens to them

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 07, 2026 06:13 PM (P4bJX)

275 Alien evolution.

https://youtu.be/jN7OXuTlm3k

Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 06:14 PM (AGz65)

276 What passing Buddhist pilgrims hung those prayer flags at the *very top* of Mount Everest?

Or did Arday do that too?

Posted by: Just reporting at August 07, 2026 06:16 PM (Gf5dx)

277 For his part, Arday is blaming the university that gave him a Ph.D. for his fake and plagiarized paper, saying they hadn't given his autistic grifting ass enough "supervision."

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I may be a bit late with this and someone has already noted that anti-plagiarism software has been around for a couple of decades so what was stopping Cambridge from running his thesis through it? Or was that used only for upstart white students?

Posted by: Decaf at August 07, 2026 06:17 PM (ZNpJk)

278 He just cribs the interviews from the paper he's copying and claims he conducted the interviews himself!

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Has he used his claimed autism as the excuse why he couldn't conduct the interviews himself?

Posted by: Decaf at August 07, 2026 06:20 PM (ZNpJk)

279 We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Which means it is impossible, right? Right?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:58 PM (rbvCR)

They did do an experiment in the 50s by putting a bunch of gases- CO2, Methane, some others to make an atmosphere and some spark generators for energy and quickly got a nice mix of complex molecules used in the body in a pretty short time. Sort of life, of course, but these are the building blocks of simple lifeforms.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 07:28 PM (uhVAy)

280 But to be an atheist, you've arrived at the ultimate answer: you live in a universe devoid of purpose and you will one day simply cease to exist, like a burst bubble. I don't see how any atheists who are honest with themselves can then simply go about their day. Seems to me that 99.99% instead start grasping for some purpose that they deny exists.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 06:00 PM (XvL8K)

Most atheists know what god does not exist. That's why they won't shut up about it.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)

281 He should write children's books. He thinks at their level.
"Great and Unfortunate Things" would be a bit of plagiarism of "A Series of Unfortunate Events." Thank you, I will take my professorship at Moron U for pointing this out.

Posted by: Nagasaki still gives me a glow at August 07, 2026 09:08 PM (hJ0rR)

The Week In Woke

Tuq'r Qarlson, Marjorie Trailer-Queen, and Thomas Massie keep selling their agenda of Woke for White People (TM):

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Surprise! Universities continue discriminating against white and Asian applicants despite the Supreme Court being emphatic that this is illegal racial discrimination.

The Department of Justice has concluded that Duke University School of Law intentionally discriminated against applicants based on race, finding that the school continued giving admissions preferences to black and Hispanic applicants even after the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious college admissions.

The DOJ's Civil Rights Division announced Thursday that Duke Law violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in admissions for its incoming classes of 2023, 2024 and 2025. The department said the practices also violated the Supreme Court's 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which restricted universities' use of race in admissions.

In an Aug. 6 findings letter, the DOJ said investigators reviewed Duke Law's internal documents and admissions data and determined the school continued "intentionally" granting and denying admission based on race following the Supreme Court decision.

"Duke Law School doesn't get a free pass to discriminate against white and Asian students simply because it thinks it has good intentions," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said. "Using 'diversity' essay questions to identify preferred races for admission is still illegal discrimination based on race, and this Department is committed to eliminating it everywhere we find it, including in our nation's law schools."


Sue them until they can't shit straight.


A Christian physician assistant who was fired after refusing to facilitate transgender procedures and use preferred pronouns won a $410,000 settlement from her former employers.

In May 2021, Valerie Kloosterman was a physician assistant at the University of Michigan Health-West. The hospital required Kloosterman to complete a diversity training module on LGBTQ+ issues, the Daily Signal reported.

According to Kloosterman's lawsuit, the module required her affirm statements concerning sexual orientation and gender identity that went against her Christian faith, which says God ordains a person's sex. To go against that, whether it be through surgery or the use of preferred pronouns, she believes, is going against God's will.

The lawsuit also argues that her Hippocratic oath to "do no harm" prevents her from facilitating procedures she believes do more harm than good.

In July 2021, Kloosterman met with the hospital's DEI program director, who was hostile toward her beliefs, told her she couldn't bring her religious beliefs into the workplace, and called her "evil," according to the lawsuit. He also claimed that a failure to use preferred pronouns would drive patients to commit suicide. The hospital fired her the following August.

In addition to the monetary settlement, the hospital has implemented a new policy that won't require employees to act in ways that violate their religious beliefs.

Meanwhile: a transgender "professor" says that having a normal gender/sex "isn't real" and that non-gay sex is "unnatural."

University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci published a book this year claiming "sex isn't real" and the gender "binary" is "incoherent."

Velocci is an assistant professor in history and the sociology of science who claims to be nonbinary and transgender. This identification has shaped the professor's questions and conclusions because "that is how knowledge works," Velocci wrote in the book titled "Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary."

In an interview with Duke University Press, which published the book, Velocci expressed joy that "any right wing or TERF detractor who wants to s***-talk the book is going to have to say or write the phrase 'Sex Isn't Real' in the process."

Velocci claims in the book that "cisness" is unnatural and that people fitting into their "assigned sex category" took a large amount of work to construct and maintain.

Sex science throughout the 19th and 20th centuries was a close ally to those invested in supporting white-supremacist governance and ejecting women from political life, Velocci claims.

"Science continues to be an anti-trans ally," the professor wrote, adding that sex has little to do with bodies, but is instead about categories and who controls them.

The professor also wrote that "current efforts to annihilate transness are couched in references to biology and science."

LOL. We're "couching" biology and science in "references to biology and science." How dare we.

Mother and her two trans pals arrested for murder of mentally handicapped 7-year-old boy.

Three people have been charged with the murder of a seven-year-old Ohio boy, with prosecutors saying that the young boy had suffered abuse at the hands of the defendants for months. Those arrested include the boy's mother as well as two trans-identified males.

Per WLWT5, Kaitlin Evans, 39, Nessa Keaney, 23, and Kirby Rankin, 33, were arraigned on charges of murder and child endangerment inside a Hamilton County courtroom Friday. Evans was identified as the mother of the boy, while Rankin and Keaney have been identified as being transgender.

A Portland, OR judge granted a "sweatheart deal" -- no jail time -- to a repeat antifa offender who admitted -- nay, boasted -- of punching and kicking cops and violently grabbing their genitals.


A violent Antifa-affiliated agitator has avoided jail time after admitting to assaulting several federal agents during a direct action outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon. The incident occurred on June 29, 2025.

August Dean Gordon, 32, of Beaverton, physically assaulted numerous federal officers, admitting to "kicking" and "headbutting" agents when they arrested him for damaging ICE facility property. This includes violently grabbing their genitals, according to court documents.

US District Court Judge Amy Baggio sentenced Gordon in late July to four months of home detention followed by five years of probation. The prosecutor sought a four-month prison term, while the defense asked for one year of supervised release.

The judge declined prison time, citing that it would be counterproductive for Gordon's mental health, his lack of a prior criminal history, and the lifelong burden of a felony conviction, per the Oregonian.

If I beat the shit out of an antifa thug in Portland, will I be excused jail time because it would be bad for my mental health? Or nah?

Nah, right?


Gordon, prosecutors continued, "boasted" about his "assaultive behavior," proudly declaring that he "kicked and headbutted officers," showing no "remorse" for his actions. US attorneys said that five officers were injured.

Savanah Hernandez
@Savsays

I visited Seattle's $165 million dollar downtown library and it was OVERRUN with drug addicts.

Not only is this library filled with adults who are high on drugs, but they also offer FREE fentanyl test strips, syringes and injectable narcan that anyone, including children, can access.

Visitors have complained of "foul odors", unusable restrooms and harassment by the homeless and I experienced all of this while at this location.

Seattle residents just passed a tax increase to raise $480 million dollars for libraries just like this one and this is unfortunately the state that they're in.

Another Decarceration Success Story from Charlotte, North Carolina.


Convicted Killer Allegedly Shoots Man Dead Less Than 2 Hours After Release

David Simpson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder


A man already convicted of manslaughter allegedly shot and wounded one man and killed a second in Charlotte, North Carolina less than two hours after being released last week on bond.

FOX News reported that 29-year-old David Simpson now faces charges that include first-degree murder and "possession of a firearm by a felon." He is in custody and being held without bond.

WCNC noted that Simpson "was released from Mecklenburg County jail around 12:20 a.m. on Wednesday," then allegedly carried out the fatal shooting at 1:45 p.m.
The shooting occurred at an apartment complex and is believed to have resulted from an argument over a parking space.

Simpson's girlfriend, Shakema Scott, is charged "with accessory after the fact."

It's racist for white people to expect black people to listen to their music on headphones like everyone else:

Watch this. Seriously! At first you might be underwhelmed and wonder what the big deal is, but then you will be AMAZED.

If you can't watch it now, bookmark it for later.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:40 PM




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1 Hello.

Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (fV9m3)

2 Sue them until they can't shit straight
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Too late!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at August 07, 2026 03:43 PM (6UXQp)

3 >>OMG

This is apparently a new “nonbinary” teacher at Middle Creek Elementary School in NC


NC is becoming a real shithole. Dem governor and probably Dem senator. AMF.

Posted by: That Guy at August 07, 2026 03:44 PM (c9rBD)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:44 PM (QX6xo)

5 You learn something new every day.

Paul eats hobo ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:44 PM (QX6xo)

6 New cowboy movie.

https://tinyurl.com/43f49tx7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:45 PM (ndZc7)

7 I saw Beans In Your Beef open for Beef Jerky at Fry Street Fair in '93.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:45 PM (QX6xo)

8 In what way, specifically, did the Iran conflict lead to $20 burritos in Los Angeles as delivered by DoorDash?

And, should we actually blame the importation of tens of millions of people under Biden for that instead?

Because, you know, immigration is inflationary.

https://t.co/jKx3SvcQBA

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:45 PM (bvy21)

9 Welll, I'd be very dubious about a person named " Beans Velocci" to begin with, and he's clearly full of hot air.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 03:46 PM (rHgXV)

10 University of Michigan Health - West?

So you only go there if healthy?

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 07, 2026 03:47 PM (4g5V+)

11 Wow

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 07, 2026 03:47 PM (mseD3)

12 It is quintessentially social to play music and hope your peers appreciate that music.

I wonder how many vibrant inner-city folk would appreciate this.

https://youtu.be/_uj8h4SCsnE - SFW

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:47 PM (ExV1e)

13 Another Decarceration Success Story from Charlotte, North Carolina.

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This shit is going to play against Cooper in the Senate race.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:47 PM (bvy21)

14 "non-gay sex is "unnatural."

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Just because it's dirty doesn't mean it's unnatural.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:48 PM (ndZc7)

15 University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci
......

Maybe he should have his frank and beans removed.

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:48 PM (UjdFS)

16 Me: My grocery bi...
Massie: IT'S THE JEWS!!!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 03:48 PM (Dv3i1)

17 "non-gay sex is "unnatural."
____

What is "non-gay sex"? You mean, "sex"?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 03:49 PM (Dv3i1)

18 He also claimed that a failure to use preferred pronouns would drive patients to commit suicide.


Wow. Fragile little flowers, aren't they.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:49 PM (QX6xo)

19 Brave isn't working great either for me. Constant reload. And I thought I had coupled it with ad block plus but iOS doesn't allow extensions on brave. Ad block plus with safari doesn't do shit for me. Blog traffic has to be way, way down.

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:49 PM (enNUy)

20 In what way, specifically, did the Iran conflict lead to $20 burritos in Los Angeles as delivered by DoorDash?

All tortillas are shipped via the Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ExV1e)

21 "Duke Law School doesn't get a free pass to discriminate against white and Asian students simply because it thinks it has good intentions," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said. "Using 'diversity' essay questions to identify preferred races for admission is still illegal discrimination based on race, and this Department is committed to eliminating it everywhere we find it, including in our nation's law schools."


So, what are you going to do about it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (QX6xo)

22 Burritos sound pretty good. Might have to be dinner.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

23
The password is...

Ambulatory

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (6UXQp)

24 At this point, these degenerates just need a good beating or five.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (GTqXr)

25 Professor Orla Muldoon didn't use a limerick to make her point. I'm confused.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (Dv3i1)

26 Seattle... Visitors have complained of "foul odors"

See, this is why we need access to more expensive burritos.

Posted by: 88C+u / gKWVE at August 07, 2026 03:51 PM (88C+u)

27 They're the magical fruit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 03:51 PM (wOO3z)

28 Brave isn't working great either for me. Constant reload. And I thought I had coupled it with ad block plus but iOS doesn't allow extensions on brave. Ad block plus with safari doesn't do shit for me. Blog traffic has to be way, way down.
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:49 PM (enNUy)


In the top bar, click on the lion head to bring up options. Turn off Java. Pop ups are no more. Re-enable Java, as needed, for other sites.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:51 PM (ExV1e)

29 Burritos sound pretty good.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

Maybe a few hours later

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:52 PM (6UXQp)

30 When I make burritos, I use some cooked rice as a filler

basically it's ground beef+refried beans+diced habanero peppers

diced onions
some spices

Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:52 PM (ZxPkt)

31 I like beans. Screw that leguminophobe!

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at August 07, 2026 03:52 PM (m0WlR)

32 Why is everyone talking about burritos all of a sudden?

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (CNl8/)

33 If Mr. Massie hadn’t spent years pissing off his constituents he might still have a job. But, because he is not an adult, he has to blame someone or something else, like AIPAC, Israel or the Jews in general.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (4g5V+)

34 Discrimination is not new at Duke law.

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (enNUy)

35 Why is everyone talking about burritos all of a sudden?
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (CNl8/)


Trump banned them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (ExV1e)

36 I'm glad the Israelis csre about my grocery bill

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)

37 All tortillas are shipped via the Strait of Hormuz.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ExV1e)

The Neolithic was a long, long, long time ago.

Posted by: Magan, Meluhha, and Sheba at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (88C+u)

38 If you prosecute us for murder WE WILL KILL OURSELVES!!!

Posted by: The two trannies accused of murdering a seven year old handicapped boy at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (4g5V+)

39 Why is everyone talking about burritos all of a sudden?

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (CNl8/)

Democrats need the working class back.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (6UXQp)

40 non-gay sex is "unnatural."

* looks at literally all of Nature *

I believe this fellow may be mistaken.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (VHUov)

41 Having worked with actual disabled people, I want to throw things after watching that last clip. Or ensure she's truly disabled by using a hammer.

Yeah, throwing things is probably safer for me.

Posted by: pookysgirl, finding a plushie to chuck at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (Wt5PA)

42 The Mass-hole was so popular, so beloved by his constituents that 30mil by "the Israeli lobby" was enough to primary him.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (2qSHg)

43 Seattle residents just passed a tax increase to raise $480 million dollars for libraries just like this one and this is unfortunately the state that they're in.

So at $165 million a pop, they can almost get three more libraries for drug addicts to take over.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (6ydKt)

44 32 Why is everyone talking about burritos all of a sudden?

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (CNl8/)

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It is currently the major reason that Republicans will lose in November.

This is after no immigration enforcement was going to lead to losses, after which it was overenthusiastic immigration enforcement was going to lead to losses, after which it was the killing of Goode and Pretti were going to lead to losses, after which the Iran conflict was going to lead to losses, after which it was the MOU that was going to lead to losses, after which it was the renewed conflict which was going to lead to losses, after which it is now burritos will lead to losses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (bvy21)

45 19 Brave isn't working great either for me. Constant reload. And I thought I had coupled it with ad block plus but iOS doesn't allow extensions on brave. Ad block plus with safari doesn't do shit for me. Blog traffic has to be way, way down.
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:49 PM (enNUy)

I am not having any issues on my iPad with Brave. But from the comment numbers, it does appear things are down a bit. If the goal was to increase ad revenue, it might be backfiring in less numbers and a sharp increase in ad blocker use.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

46 People, I have the solution to your AoS/popup problems

Just send $5 and a SASE to:

Don Black
c/o ACME Corp.
1 Easy Street
Fat City CO 80215

Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (ZxPkt)

47 36 I'm glad the Israelis csre about my grocery bill
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)

They got an ag sector too, you know.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (4g5V+)

48 38 If you prosecute us for murder WE WILL KILL OURSELVES!!!
Posted by: The two trannies accused of murdering a seven year old handicapped boy at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (4g5V+)

So society wins.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (N39Ws)

49 With all the deportations of Southern Americas Burritos are off the menu

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (Ia/+0)

50 Asmongold never disappoints. LOL.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (zdYK9)

51 That one dude talking about allocating proxy votes to children believes that children are "hostages" to their parents.

That's a deranged viewpoint.

I've never been a parent but I know that's wrong.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (FZ29D)

52
University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci

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Professor Beans Velocity? This has to be a joke. Innovation at the speed of methane.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (DOcg9)

53 >Why is everyone talking about burritos all of a sudden?

Posted by: Mark1971
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We've got to close the Burrito Gap

Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (ZxPkt)

54 And the "non binary" teacher is totally convincing as a woman. Totally!/ s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 03:57 PM (rHgXV)

55 Thanks, used, I do that. Also chose aggressive instead of normal for blocking pop ups on brave. Still a train wreck. And every day seems a different combo!

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:57 PM (enNUy)

56 "Requiring children and other teachers to use false titles or pronouns compels their speech to say what they know is not true."

And that's the game, getting people to knowingly lie and at least publicly acknowledge the lie as "truth".

Bonus points if you do this long enough and your subjects learn to love Big Brother...or the Big Trans teacher.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 03:57 PM (2qSHg)

57 It is quintessentially social to play music and hope your peers appreciate that music.

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Funny. I was thinking it was quintessentially social to take a baseball bat to such peers and their noise makers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:57 PM (ndZc7)

58 29 Burritos sound pretty good.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

Maybe a few hours later
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:52 PM (6UXQp)

Thanks for making me laugh out loud. I have house cleaners here and they now think I am crazy.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (ZdaMQ)

59 Ever take a crap so big your pants fit better?

Omg.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (W2Pud)

60 Beans is nuts.

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (UjdFS)

61 The weirdo who wants young people to vote for your kids thinks that those young people will vote like him.
That's all there is to this. No need for a logical discussion or presentation of arguments. "That's idiotic" is the only proper response.
The guy's convoluted logic about children being the prisoners of their parents is convoluted because the idea was mapped out, not as a genuine idea, but as a means to an end. The end being more political power for people who think like him.

This is true of all modern liberal beliefs, it just isn't usually as obvious as this one.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (0MjtC)

62 It is currently the major reason that Republicans will lose in November.

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Burrito-gate.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:59 PM (ndZc7)

63 Also chose aggressive instead of normal for blocking pop ups on brave. Still a train wreck. And every day seems a different combo!
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:57 PM (enNUy)


I don't read this place on mobile. I guess the ad people are trying to get around ad blockers again. Youtube has certainly been annoying lately.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:59 PM (ExV1e)

64 We have so many drones delivering food in our neighborhood I expect them to crash into one another at any time

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 04:00 PM (enNUy)

65 I can walk to my gas station and get a 'rito for $6.50 if I microwave it at home. If I want to cross another street it's maybe $8 and they'll cook it there. If I want to go to the grocery store I can get a big bag of 'rito and toss those in the oven and they're, what, $3 each.
Nobody is paying $20 per 'rito unless they are too lazy and fat even to walk.
I mean, yes, Ben Shapiro is a douche who isn't as smart as he thinks he is, but he's smart enough to know what a burrito costs. He at least walks past the aisle in the same kind of store I go to.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 04:00 PM (88C+u)

66


"Beans Velocci "

LOL

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 07, 2026 04:00 PM (2jv4y)

67 Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance" that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

I really am ready for the pendulum to swing back the either way. So tired of these trashy bigots thinking their hateful opinions matter. Boomers are driving a lot of it and they are on their way out. We lose more and more of them daily so I have hope. My kid is Gen alpha and they seem to be way more accepting of things naturally, so I have high hopes

Pendulums never swing the other way with fascism, they'll hold it on their side until it is forcefully taken from them and thrown back. It's called the ratchet effect.

It's already affected me. After the election, our company removed their LGBT and DEI support groups / assistance.

Get ready for "cis allies" to evaporate overnight.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 04:01 PM (ZwRB6)

68 Omg. Nurse.

And yes. Yes i have.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at August 07, 2026 04:01 PM (PgEh4)

69 I would have put her in my suitcase and stashed her in my closet.

Posted by: Zombie Ira Einhorn at August 07, 2026 04:02 PM (Wt1Rs)

70 That faggot who wants to steal votes is most likely a chomo and needs to have his cellphone and laptop thoroughly searched for kiddie pron.

Red Flags all over the place.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at August 07, 2026 04:02 PM (45BvE)

71 Ever take a crap so big your pants fit better?

Omg.
Posted by: nurse ratched.

Affirmative.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 04:02 PM (wOO3z)

72 I just realized that I knew Dana Nessel, the Attorney General of Michigan, in college.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)

73 If our nation's prestigious law schools can't discriminate against whites and oriental the law means nothing. They are fighting the good fight to promote people based upon the color of their skin. That takes a lot of character.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 07, 2026 04:03 PM (PqZlS)

74 >>>>University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci published a book this year claiming "sex isn't real" and the gender "binary" is "incoherent."
*****
So from what to what is Velocci " transing" if sex is not real?

Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2026 04:03 PM (Sf0j5)

75 67 I really am ready for the pendulum to swing back the either way. So tired of these trashy bigots thinking their hateful opinions matter. Boomers are driving a lot of it and they are on their way out. We lose more and more of them daily so I have hope. My kid is Gen alpha and they seem to be way more accepting of things naturally, so I have high hopes

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 04:01 PM (ZwRB6)

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Swing back to transgenderism?

The pendulum swing back on that culturally like 18 months ago, in terms of law it's just beginning.

The rise of transgenderism was the far end of the pendulum swing that began in the 2000s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 04:03 PM (bvy21)

76 I just realized that I knew Dana Nessel, the Attorney General of Michigan, in college.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)


In the biblical sense?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (ExV1e)

77 NcKate,

Brave is just a skin over Safari Webkit on ios. It is a skin over Chrome in Android.

Apparently the only non native Safari Webkit browser is Chrome (I have been told this and have no reason to doubt it) and perhaps Chromium which is de googled Chrome--but you would have to sideload it as I suspect Chromium/Chromite is not allowed into the Apple App.

But adblocker extension probably works better on Chrome on Apple than Brave due to webkit having some hidden sauces that Apple does not disclose publicly.


Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (E4rtv)

78 Have yet to see a drone food delivery service

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (Ia/+0)

79 It's already affected me. After the election, our company removed their LGBT and DEI support groups / assistance.
.......

GET TO WORK, weirdo.

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (UjdFS)

80 I just realized that I knew Dana Nessel, the Attorney General of Michigan, in college.
Posted by: Bulg

Was she the village bicycle on campus?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (wOO3z)

81 So wheelchair girl in the last video is a total attention whore looking for clicks, who has literally every illness & malady possible, but apparently also is a very good actress.

This is the future we weren't promised.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)

82 Science continues to be an anti-trans ally

I mean he's not wrong

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

83 70 That faggot who wants to steal votes is most likely a chomo and needs to have his cellphone and laptop thoroughly searched for kiddie pron.

Red Flags all over the place.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at August 07, 2026 04:02 PM (45BvE)

Yeah. He's really frustrated at all those dads "imprisioning" their sons so that he can't have sex with them.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 07, 2026 04:05 PM (0MjtC)

84 University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci ...

Beans Baxter >>> Beans Velocci

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:05 PM (wtvvX)

85
The rise of transgenderism was the far end of the pendulum swing that began in the 2000s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

But they said they just wanted to get married, and there was no slippery slope! They lied to me!

Also, I believe the DSA when they say they just want to give us healthcare.

Posted by: Clueless Normies at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ZwRB6)

86 In the biblical sense?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

No, but she was kinda cute, and very funny.

Now she's a lesbo.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (77rzZ)

87 Less Than 2 Hours After Release

So... where did he get a gun just 2 hours out of jail? Hmmmm? Is anyone looking into that? Or nah?

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (kU0PQ)

88 Hard to believe it was the same university that graduated Christian Laettner.

Duke University should hire that bright young academic from Cambridge, Ja-Son Arday. Not only was he the drummer for Milli Vanilli, but he also reprised Forrest Gump's run across among America, caught the world's largest marlin, and led the National League in average in 2018 (although to win that you barely have to crack .300 anymore).

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (qwx/I)

89 85
Also, I believe the DSA when they say they just want to give us healthcare.

Posted by: Clueless Normies at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ZwRB6)

=======

But they also say that they want to kill every Republican. Here's video!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (bvy21)

90 So wheelchair girl in the last video is a total attention whore looking for clicks, who has literally every illness & malady possible, but apparently also is a very good actress.

Is she? Or do we live in a time when people don't call out bullshit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ExV1e)

91 59 Ever take a crap so big your pants fit better?

Omg.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (W2Pud)

Reminds me that my colonoscopy is coming up...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (wtvvX)

92 I'm old enough to have seen 2nd and 3rd generation feminism attack the idea of strictly assigned genders.

Men can sew and be men
Women can fish and still be women

And it is true. While women are more likely to like sewing and men fishing there is nothing that requires this.

But 4th generation feminism flipped this on its head. Now if you like sewing as a guy you must actually have a feminine gender even if you've got the normal junk downstairs (until you cut if off!)

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

93 >>>Marjorie Trailer-Queen

That's just so perfect. Maybe an Aceism!

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (odBC9)

94 "Beans Velocci "

LOL

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 07, 2026 04:00 PM (2jv4y)

That's Professor Beans Velocci, Ph.D, to you, cisbigot supremacist!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt)

95 Ever take a crap so big your pants fit better?

Very comfortable, and warm.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (UjdFS)

96 Was she the village bicycle on campus?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Don't know. I only knew her for a couple of months at the end of my second senior year. (Yes, I was on the five-year plan.)

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

97 The rise of transgenderism was the far end of the pendulum swing that began in the 2000s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That was in part because Civil Rights reached a dead end on immutable natural identity like race or sex. So it began to include identities based on sexual attraction, e.g. gays, after winning that battle, the trans and other deviant identities like furries or child attracted (pedos) claimed protection under civil rights laws that say no such thing (as far as the feds go).

Immutable categories were too limited for the left and so they had to start including categories based on actions as well equating them to religion as deeply held. Problem there is Smith v. Oregon and City of Boerne v. Flores makes neutrally secular laws that coincidentally affect religion as permissable. So perverts can be locked up, children banned from groomer drag shows, etc.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:09 PM (E4rtv)

98 Reminds me that my colonoscopy is coming up...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (wtvvX)


Looks like I'll be delaying mine cuz of the radiation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:09 PM (ExV1e)

99 Bulg- Related to Michigan

Apparently Al- Sayed hates Mackinac Island, as well. Frankly "Twitchy" site:

https://tinyurl.com/y5a4ejss

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (rHgXV)

100 I have taken a piss with such velocity that my urethra burned.

If it weren't so damned narrow.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (qwx/I)

101 Is she? Or do we live in a time when people don't call out bullshit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ExV1e)

Nobody wants to be the guy being mean to the girl in the wheelchair who has epileptic seizures, Tourettes, and an English accent.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (6ydKt)

102 100

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (odBC9)

103 (or not)

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (odBC9)

104 "That's Professor Beans to you, cretin!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (JvZF+)

105 Yeah. He's really frustrated at all those dads "imprisioning" their sons so that he can't have sex with them.
Posted by: 29Victor
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There is a bullet in some father's gun just itching to give that pervert a penetration he will never forget.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (E4rtv)

106 Drone delivery would be awesome on National Forest lands and places like that. Probably never be allowed in the federal Parks, but. Getting a fresh re-supply of Sour Cream & Onion Pringles and a pack of Twizzlers would get lots of business, even if expensive.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (RqCTJ)

107 104 "That's Professor Beans to you, cretin!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (JvZF+)

========

*weird silent look*
-Mr. Beans

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (bvy21)

108 While foreign aid should be zero'd out, it and the cost of wars are NOTHING compared to social spending.

While the GOPe is poor on spending the Dems are atrocious. So if you were really concerned about government overspending and inflation you'd be helping stalwart budget hawks defeat Dems in competitive races.

Instead people like Massie just bitch about Trump.

Israel isn't making your burrito so pricey. Forty Million illegals on welfare are.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

109 If you use Apple products, install Vivaldi browser. I've had no issues with the ads and you don't need extensions to make it work.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 07, 2026 04:11 PM (bkuEU)

110 @99 Did he pronounce it Mackin-aw or Mackin-ack?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 07, 2026 04:11 PM (qwx/I)

111 No, but she was kinda cute, and very funny.

Now she's a lesbo.
Posted by: Bulg
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Ah, part of the WNBA green dildo club.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:12 PM (E4rtv)

112 Drone delivery would be awesome on National Forest lands and places like that. Probably never be allowed in the federal Parks, but. Getting a fresh re-supply of Sour Cream & Onion Pringles and a pack of Twizzlers would get lots of business, even if expensive.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (RqCTJ)


Oh, gosh, yes. Absolutely this. -- Bears

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:12 PM (ExV1e)

113 Bulg- Related to Michigan

Apparently Al- Sayed hates Mackinac Island, as well. Frankly "Twitchy" site:

https://tinyurl.com/y5a4ejss

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

OK, that's weird.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)

114 The powers that be want you to talk about burritos. Don't give them the satisfaction

Posted by: Mon Lee Chinee Take Out at August 07, 2026 04:12 PM (JM9I6)

115 @59

>>Ever take a crap so big your pants fit better?

Periodically, I take castor oil.

It will clean you out from your stomach down.

And yes, your pants will fit better.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 04:12 PM (XV/Pl)

116 Wheel Chair Broad has a lot of cats in her future.

Posted by: Cray Cray at August 07, 2026 04:13 PM (45BvE)

117 Three people have been charged with the murder of a seven-year-old Ohio boy, with prosecutors saying that the young boy had suffered abuse at the hands of the defendants for months. Those arrested include the boy's mother as well as two trans-identified males.

Imagine some MAGA mom killed her son this way with a couple of Man-o-sphere podcasters.

It would be THE news item for the next month. Instead....ZZZZ

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)

118 It's already affected me. After the election, our company removed their LGBT and DEI support groups / assistance.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 04:01 PM (ZwRB6)

How will you ever survive at a job without a support group and assistance?

Oh, the cruel cruelty in this cruel, cruel, world.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:13 PM (6ydKt)

119 Isn't there some antique medical school in Baltimore that started out fine, but 250 years later is totally surrounded by a dystopian hellscape? Trying to remember the name. Good school, but you don't go off campus without low crawling or the rest of it.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 04:13 PM (RqCTJ)

120 109 If you use Apple products, install Vivaldi browser. I've had no issues with the ads and you don't need extensions to make it work.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Interesting, could be that Vivaldi uses Chrome as its underlying code and I have been informed that Chrome is not a webkit browser skin on Apple but an actual Google code base instead.

I run linux for daily driving and I don't use Windoze unless I must but not for internet browsing.

Good to know though as looking an an Apple Cube to replace a larger Windoze 11 machine for doing taxes as that is pretty much all I do on it nowadays (at least in Windows), it has a linux dual boot for more serious stuff as a backup to this computer.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)

121 Your Ivy League gender studies professor name is your favorite side dish and your favorite foreign word for fast.

I'm Professor Fries Rapide (Xey/Xem).

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (wGerL)

122 I knew a guy that moved to Baltimore for a job.

He came back to my area to visit family and so we caught up over lunch.

I asked him how Baltimore was and his eyes got wide and he said "it is worse then you can possibly imagine"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

123 John Hopkins. Still a top med school.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)

124 Get rid of that damn ad that takes over the screen on Safari!!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (UWN7z)

125 Fun fact: Mackinac Island was the US' second national park, after Yellowstone.

When the Army moved out of Fort Mackinac in 1895, the Federal Government gave it to the state, and it became Michigan's first state park.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

126 I saw the story about the mother and two trannies beating her handicapped 7 year old to death and I thought I would kill these people if the state allowed it.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (KY+FT)

127 Throwing this on the woke pile:

@Breaking911
2h
Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom says he’s declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, adding he meets all eligibility requirements.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (i14TE)

128 122 I asked him how Baltimore was and his eyes got wide and he said "it is worse then you can possibly imagine"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

=======

Theory:

Baltimore is actually a paradise of hedonistic pleasures without consequence, and those who live there have created a fiction to keep others away.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (bvy21)

129 "I'm not ready to get mad..."


...


"I'm starting to get mad."


LOL

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (uzmqU)

130 101 Is she? Or do we live in a time when people don't call out bullshit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ExV1e)

Nobody wants to be the guy being mean to the girl in the wheelchair who has epileptic seizures, Tourettes, and an English accent.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (6ydKt)

She really could have had all those things and gotten over them. I, for instance, was once turned into a newt. But I got better.

Posted by: Guy in Holy Grail who had been turned into a newt. at August 07, 2026 04:17 PM (0MjtC)

131 Your Ivy League gender studies professor name is your favorite side dish and your favorite foreign word for fast.

I'm Professor Fries Rapide (Xey/Xem).
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (wGerL)
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Professor Kimchi Imshi was born of an unusual union.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:17 PM (amcLV)

132 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (bvy21)

You're on the mark.

Posted by: People living 100 years ago at August 07, 2026 04:18 PM (wGerL)

133 100 I have taken a piss with such velocity that my urethra burned.

If it weren't so damned narrow.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (qwx/I)

When I was a freshman in college, living in a dorm, I walked into our bathroom one day and inexplicably took a gigantic whiz that lasted a good three minutes. My roommates were stunned. It was after lunch, I hadn't been drinking booze or coffee, and I didn't feel like my bladder was going to burst. And it never happened again.

Still one of the weirdest things to ever happen to me.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:18 PM (wtvvX)

134 Hey, I don’t want to hear your noise pollution.

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (LHPAg)

135 Professor Beans is particularly unsettling, having gotten a PhD at Yale, is quoted on the Progressive Parent even about intersex animals, and appears to be teaching at Penn.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn Medicine are closely connected through deep academic, clinical, and research partnerships, even though they operate as separate legal entities and independent hospital systems. CHOP's relationship with Penn Medicine brings board-certified pediatric specialists directly to babies, children and teens in the Greater Philadelphia area.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) continues to operate its Gender and Sexuality Development Program, defending patient privacy and legal gender-affirming care against federal subpoenas and proposed funding restrictions from the Trump administration. Federal courts have repeatedly blocked the Department of Justice's attempts to seize sensitive patient medical records from CHOP. (AI Overview)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (NFX2v)

136 Baltimore is actually a paradise of hedonistic pleasures without consequence, and those who live there have created a fiction to keep others away.

I think Baltimore is more Khorne/Nurgle and less Slaanesh.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)

137 Your Ivy League gender studies professor name is your favorite side dish and your favorite foreign word for fast.

I'm Professor Fries Rapide (Xey/Xem).
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (wGerL)
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Professor Kimchi Imshi was born of an unusual union.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:17 PM (amcLV)


Peas ¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! Yee-haw!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (ExV1e)

138 John Hopkins. Still a top med school.
Posted by: whig

John Money will always be an inexpungable stain on their reputation in my book, though.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

139 Who the fuck puts beans in their beef? I usually layer my burritos, not turn it into a sloppy mess. And no green stuff. It's a conspiracy by the Jewish lobby for explosive diarrhea.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 04:20 PM (iySPJ)

140 121 Your Ivy League gender studies professor name is your favorite side dish and your favorite foreign word for fast.

I'm Professor Fries Rapide (Xey/Xem).

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (wGerL)

Grits Vámonos

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (wtvvX)

141 This shit is going to play against Cooper in the Senate race.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:47 PM (bvy21)
=====

The NC chapter of the MSM loves Roy Cooper. All the bad stuff, like early prisoner release, no bail, etc. Hey, wait a minute ... hmmmm.... who was the NC AG during Roy Cooper's reign as Governor?. Yeah, the News and Obscurer loves Josh, too.

Whatley's first batch of ads show promise, but he has to go at Cooper the way Jesse Helms went after Governor Jim Hunt. Helms went on to beat Hunt like an old mule.

Posted by: mrp at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (rj6Yv)

142 I think Baltimore is more Khorne/Nurgle and less Slaanesh.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)
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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (amcLV)

143 I have taken a piss with such velocity that my urethra burned.

If it weren't so damned narrow.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie


Hank Hill has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (77rzZ)

144 I started having issues with Brave the last round of bad ads. That's when I installed Vivaldi. I use it on the iphone and ipad. The ipad seems to have more issues thn the phone, but I have a 13mini, so not the latest.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (bkuEU)

145 I too suffer from sporadic Tourette's syndrome.

Penis

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (viF8m)

146 Who the fuck puts beans in their beef? I usually layer my burritos, not turn it into a sloppy mess. And no green stuff. It's a conspiracy by the Jewish lobby for explosive diarrhea.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 04:20 PM (iySPJ)


Sometimes the peppers are green, senor. -- Jose the Burrito Man

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (ExV1e)

147 Who the fuck puts beans in their beef? I usually layer my burritos, not turn it into a sloppy mess. And no green stuff. It's a conspiracy by the Jewish lobby for explosive diarrhea.

Reading up on Glenn Bell I think we Christians are going to have to take the L on this one

Out: Run to the border
In: Run to the john

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

148 130 101 Is she? Or do we live in a time when people don't call out bullshit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ExV1e)

Nobody wants to be the guy being mean to the girl in the wheelchair who has epileptic seizures, Tourettes, and an English accent.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (6ydKt)

She really could have had all those things and gotten over them. I, for instance, was once turned into a newt. But I got better.
Posted by: Guy in Holy Grail who had been turned into a newt. at August 07, 2026 04:17 PM
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Women love drama.
If they don't have any they'll create some.

Posted by: As it has always been at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (2Ez/1)

149 University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci published a book this year claiming "sex isn't real"...

___________________________________

Well, first off, let's take a look at what someone named "Beans" looks like:

https://tinyurl.com/ms2n8a4d

Yeah, that tracks. So, to be clear, he's guessing that sex isn't real. He doesn't and likely will never have any raw data to confirm his hypothesis.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (dIske)

150 I think Baltimore is more Khorne/Nurgle and less Slaanesh.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)

Egon Spengler quote?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)

151 Your Ivy League gender studies professor name is your favorite side dish and your favorite foreign word for fast.


Spaetzle Schnell -- obviously a professor of organic chemistry.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (qwx/I)

152 Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit!

Posted by: Gunslinger at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (D2d9O)

153 131 Your Ivy League gender studies professor name is your favorite side dish and your favorite foreign word for fast.

I'm Professor Fries Rapide (Xey/Xem).
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (wGerL)
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Professor Kimchi Imshi was born of an unusual union.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea


Professor Sweetpotato Velocemente

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

154 I think Baltimore is more Khorne/Nurgle and less Slaanesh.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)

Egon Spengler quote?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)


Not a quote. Warhammer 40k reference.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (ExV1e)

155 Professor Beans Velocity? This has to be a joke. Innovation at the speed of methane.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (DOcg9)


Every day for him is this Cyanide & Happiness strip:

explosm.net/comics/productive

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (Sy6m/)

156 143 I have taken a piss with such velocity that my urethra burned.

If it weren't so damned narrow.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie


Hank Hill has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM
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Much like the burning during urination.

Posted by: Gonorrea! at August 07, 2026 04:24 PM (2Ez/1)

157 I feel for that girl who has all those transitory disabilities.
I once spent a year dead for tax reasons.

Posted by: Hotblack Desiato at August 07, 2026 04:24 PM (0MjtC)

158 Welll, I'd be very dubious about a person named " Beans Velocci" to begin with, and he's clearly full of hot air.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 03:46 PM (rHgXV)

Back in the day he'd have been a snitch for the dashing detective, giving him background for his case. Now he's a college professor and thus useless for anything.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)

159 Who the fuck puts beans in their beef? I usually layer my burritos, not turn it into a sloppy mess. And no green stuff. It's a conspiracy by the Jewish lobby for explosive diarrhea.

Jalepenos, serranos, cilantro and guacamole are all green and all belong in a burrito.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 04:24 PM (3Ope8)

160 Speaking of Chaos...top cities for each?

Khorne - St Louis
Slaanesh - San Fran
Tzeentch - DC
Nurgle - Also San Fran

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:25 PM (sKqQm)

161 Of all the motherfuckers in the world to talk about the price of beef.

The guy who evaded the taxes on his cattle business while selling at market rates, and funneled the rakeoff into personal expenses, including payoffs to the staffers he was fucking on the side.

The sheer chutzpah is admirable, in its own way.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 04:25 PM (BI5O2)

162 Women love drama.
If they don't have any they'll create some.

Posted by: As it has always been at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (2Ez/1)

Not my wife. She's not into drama. But Lord Almighty, she can worry herself to death.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:25 PM (wtvvX)

163 lol. NC is going to vote for Cooper. They vote for Dem governors and now they will vote for Cooper the Clown. I don’t care of the entire legislature is mostly Republicans. That stat is one it’s way out. Call it all the in migration of blue staters. Call it stupid. That’s why people are passing up the state now and going to SC and Tennessee. NC sucks.

Posted by: That Guy at August 07, 2026 04:25 PM (xUr2r)

164 127 Throwing this on the woke pile:

@Breaking911
2h
Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom says he’s declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, adding he meets all eligibility requirements.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (i14TE)

I love this. If they refuse to draft him, then they are anti-trans discriminators. If they do, that's the end of the WNBA.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (2nJ9I)

165 Professor Beans has a website with a book length CV of all the peer-reviewed articles he has published, fora where he has spoken and delivered papers, and of course a pedigree of Ivy League degrees. Never question the experts, knuckle draggers.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (wGerL)

166 I once spent a year dead for tax reasons.
Posted by: Hotblack Desiato

Maybe that's Piper's ploy.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (77rzZ)

167 Jalepenos, serranos, cilantro and guacamole are all green and all belong in a burrito.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 04:24 PM (3Ope


- Cilantro is optional, depending on your genetics.
- Jalepenos are trash peppers. Serranos and poblanos are better.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (ExV1e)

168 Not a quote. Warhammer 40k reference.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (ExV1e)

Ahhhh.
I know very little about Warhammer.
Never played it.

I've picked up the basics of the story, that's it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (6ydKt)

169 Not my wife. She's not into drama. But Lord Almighty, she can worry herself to death.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Sounds like my wife. A very sensible woman, but her motto is "Fear rules my life."

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

170 Babylon Bee

The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
·
1h
Mitch McConnell's Staff Says He Was Dropped Off At A Farm In The Country Where He'll Be Happier And Have More Room To Run Around

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (E4rtv)

171
Beans Baxter >>> Beans Velocci
Posted by: Tex Lovera


G. Gordon Liddy was on an episode of that show.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0985404

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (Cqx++)

172 Women love drama.
If they don't have any they'll create some.
Posted by: As it has always been at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (2Ez/1)

You know, your are so correct. Why, I doubt there has ever been a thoughtful and level headed woman born on this earth. Ever.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:28 PM (2nJ9I)

173 I'm wondering what the percentage of Crazy/Sane is in American professors today?

Gotta be at least 50/50 these days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (6ydKt)

174 Ahhhh.
I know very little about Warhammer.
Never played it.

I've picked up the basics of the story, that's it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (6ydKt)


I've never played it. As far as I can tell, playing it involves spending the GDP of a small European nation on miniatures which you spend several years painting so that you can spend a few hours in one of the most boring activities known to man.

The lore is cool though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (ExV1e)

175 - Jalepenos are trash peppers. Serranos and poblanos are better.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (ExV1e)

Poblanos need to be stuffed with bacon, cream cheese and crab, then deep fried. Jalapenos can be stuffed the same way but are better grilled.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (3Ope8)

176 I grow serranos, poblanos, and jalepenos, along with hot banana peppers. I haven't figured out hatch peppers in the Southeast, yet... but I will.

There's no such thing as a trash pepper. They're all G-d's peppers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (BI5O2)

177 You know, your are so correct. Why, I doubt there has ever been a thoughtful and level headed woman born on this earth. Ever.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:28 PM (2nJ9I)

Now you're thinking like a man.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (6ydKt)

178 144 I started having issues with Brave the last round of bad ads. That's when I installed Vivaldi. I use it on the iphone and ipad. The ipad seems to have more issues thn the phone, but I have a 13mini, so not the latest.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Thanks for the tech report. Sorry that so many are having troubles with the website. But Brave on Linux has been rock solid except with one recent problem which comes from the kernel causing WebGL failures while they operate fine on Chrome.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (E4rtv)

179 "Shakema Scott, is charged "with accessory after the fact.""

No word yet on whether Scott's sister, Shakeweight, has been charged yet.

Posted by: gp at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (Jr5Lq)

180 Your Ivy League gender studies professor name is your favorite side dish and your favorite foreign word for fast.

Kate Upton schnell. That doesn't make much sense. Oh, side dish, not piece...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (ZwRB6)

181 Jalapenos can be stuffed the same way but are better grilled.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (3Ope
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We had delicious bacon-wrapped stuffed jalapenos at the 2020 TxMoMe.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (amcLV)

182 You know, your are so correct. Why, I doubt there has ever been a thoughtful and level headed woman born on this earth. Ever.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Agree and amplify. Nice technique.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (E4rtv)

183 For those not up on Warhammer, it is a couple of franchises one SF and one fantasy where a core element is there are 4 chaos gods

Tzeentch is the god of magic, treachery and knowledge. He'll drive you crazy or mutate you into a Lori Lightfoot

Khorne is the god of death and war. He'll turn you into a psycho killer or get you killed as "Khorne doesn't care from where the blood flows"

Nurgle is the god of life and disease. Unlike the rest of the gods he somewhat cares about his followers but not more then he cares about bacteria and virons. He'll get you infected with more diseases then a San Fran rent boy

And Slaanesh is the god of excess but with a focus really on sex. If you saw him down the street you'd think he was just another tranny though. He will eat your soul and shit you out and not necessarily in that order.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (sKqQm)

184 John Hopkins. Still a top med school.
Posted by: whig

When I still lived in PA, I trained for a few weeks in lab under a woman whose husband eventually accepted a position there (I eventually joined that lab). She and her husband eventually moved back to PA and I had the chance to dine with them after they returned. It was a real culture shock moving from suburban south-central PA to Baltimore to them, having to tightly lock up your valuables in your lab space, sometimes needing a chaperone to your car....stuff like that.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (2qSHg)

185 Yes, transsexuality is not about sex, it is all about categories and who controls them.
It is a rehearsal for pushing toward an Orwellian society, where the truth is whatever the party says it is.
Before getting there, the party first needed to show people a concrete example of how this works in practice.

Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (+F4bv)

186 85
But they said they just wanted to get married, and there was no slippery slope! They lied to me!

Also, I believe the DSA when they say they just want to give us healthcare.
Posted by: Clueless Normies at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ZwRB6)


Oh, they're telling the truth! But the 'healthcare' they want to give you is nonconsensual MAID.

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (Sy6m/)

187 Poblanos need to be stuffed with bacon, cream cheese and crab, then deep fried.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

At that point, couldn't you just drop the pepper?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 07, 2026 04:32 PM (ZwRB6)

188 Thanks for the tech report. Sorry that so many are having troubles with the website. But Brave on Linux has been rock solid except with one recent problem which comes from the kernel causing WebGL failures while they operate fine on Chrome.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (E4rtv)
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I got AdBlock when the latest round of popups started and have been blessedly ad-free here and on YouTube.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:32 PM (amcLV)

189
I've never played it. As far as I can tell, playing it involves spending the GDP of a small European nation on miniatures which you spend several years painting so that you can spend a few hours in one of the most boring activities known to man.

The lore is cool though.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (ExV1e)

I got into the lore after my sister bought me "Dawn of War" as a birthday present. Solid RTS game too, and the VAs were very good as well.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (2qSHg)

190
I had a Latin American GF that at one point after starting a pointless fight with me said she did it because she needed more drama and I was too...not drama.

Current GF isn't like that nor honestly is my mother. So pick better guys.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (sKqQm)

191 Poblanos are meant to be stuffed with sofrita seasoned beef, Oaxaca cheese, baked , then smothered in a Mexican white sauce with a pomegranate garnish.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (3ZNGI)

192 Imagine some MAGA mom killed her son this way with a couple of Man-o-sphere podcasters.

It would be THE news item for the next month. Instead....ZZZZ
Posted by: 18-1 at


To be fair that's how all news works. The unlikely and exceedingly rare gets all the attention. The common and expected doesn't.

Same reason why plane crashes get coverage and car crashed don't.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (vJrRc)

193 Yes, transsexuality is not about sex, it is all about categories and who controls them.

If you can get a person to call a man a woman you can get them to say anything.

Orwell really low balled it with counting fingers.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)

194 Dickhead!

Boner!

Motherfuckinghampsterfuckers!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (W2Pud)

195 The last video put me over the top.

For once I have no words. Ok, I have a few that I can't print, being a refined lady.

Does she wake daily and decide from a list which physical problem to have that day? Is her list multiple choice on a dart target and whatever she hits is the one? Who bought the wheelchair?

Personally I wish the covid test had gone into her brain as it might have helped a bit in the stirring of her prefrontal cortex.

Of course she's queer, too! Absurd not to think otherwise.

While she's not striking to look at she's not super ugly like Marge Taylor Greenpeace with her potato nose. So this leaves me unsure what gave her white guilt Munchausen's. Does she have an eating disorder, too, or did she miss one? Gluten intolerant? Peanut allergy?

Apparently sane intolerant.

I have never had a nanosecond of white guilt. Maybe I am the weird one.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (hzuYO)

196 Wheelchair girl is a Target eight.

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (LHPAg)

197 When The Week in Woke starts to get me down, I click on the pop up ad of the busty senior and lose myself in her crinkly cleavage.

And then I don't feeel soo baaadd...

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (bX16E)

198 >>>Jalepenos, serranos, cilantro and guacamole are all green and all belong in a burrito.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

>Not this month or next. There's too much pop in those jalepeno poppers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (iySPJ)

199 Now you're thinking like a man.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Both my mother and my wife had/have brains that are more guy brains than chick brains.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)

200 I got into the lore after my sister bought me "Dawn of War" as a birthday present. Solid RTS game too, and the VAs were very good as well.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (2qSHg)


I assume that you've seen Astartes then.

https://youtu.be/JpK4fcFNKbM

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (ExV1e)

201 Now you're thinking like a man.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (6ydKt)

Now, explain men fighting in bars. Over stupid shit.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:35 PM (2nJ9I)

202 I'm reading so much negative and disturbing stuff about the new flu shots. High % of adverse reactions, scant testing, shedding for weeks.......and now the Navy is mandating them??


Tom Renz
@RenzTom
·
1h
Just in time for the new Moderna mRNA flu “vaccine” the navy reverses course and mandates the flu vaccine for almost everyone (navy order below)!

They can’t poison our soldiers fast enough.

This shot was not properly tested - the administration gave it expedited approval - and is basically the mRNA COVID shot repackaged. They are going to construe to force mRNA on our soldiers.

Fauci’s work is carrying on despite everyone wanting accountability. This is why I keep saying that it’s not enough to go after Fauci - we have to go after the people that bought him.

Posted by: beckster at August 07, 2026 04:35 PM (kX27y)

203 "Now, explain men fighting in bars. Over stupid shit."

EtOH.

Posted by: gp at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (Jr5Lq)

204 If Enes Freedom gets in the WNBA does he have to become a lesbian?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (KY+FT)

205 191 Poblanos are meant to be stuffed with sofrita seasoned beef, Oaxaca cheese, baked , then smothered in a Mexican white sauce with a pomegranate garnish.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (3ZNGI)
Is that what you’re making now?

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (LHPAg)

206 I assume that you've seen Astartes then.

https://youtu.be/JpK4fcFNKbM


I've heard the same guy got funding to make a sequel.

If the GW folks weren't idiots they'd be rolling in $$$ right now because they have one of the hottest IPs there is.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (sKqQm)

207 Why, I doubt there has ever been a thoughtful and level headed woman born on this earth. Ever.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:28 PM (2nJ9I)

Some of them can shit their pants loose, though. So there's that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (oSeBJ)

208 199 Now you're thinking like a man.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Both my mother and my wife had/have brains that are more guy brains than chick brains.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)

I sincerely doubt any of the 'ettes think like men, but we aren't drama queens, either. We are women.

You don't have to be a man to be intelligent and thoughtful. This gets kinda old around here.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (2nJ9I)

209 I still say we should let Big Jewish cook on the whole tex mex situation. I love carnitas, I love bagels and lox. I firmly believe this is a food fusion we've all been waiting for.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (3uBP9)

210 In July 2021, Kloosterman met with the hospital's DEI program director, who was hostile toward her beliefs, told her she couldn't bring her religious beliefs into the workplace, and called her "evil," according to the lawsuit.
---
When my daughter was brainwashed to be "trans" two Karens tried to threaten me in my own kitchen, and even trotted out the "better a live son than a dead daughter!" which did not move me and as I continued to hold my ground, one burst out shouting "You're just like my mother! She never accepted I was a lesbian!"

True talent at CPS.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (ZOv7s)

211 Wheelchair girl is a Target eight.
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (LHPAg)
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She's 110 pounds of crazy in a 90 pound strait jacket. Do not want.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (amcLV)

212
Beans Velocci????

Is that xis real name or some trannie stage-name for his virtuosity in farting out the National Anthem?

.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (iJfKG)

213 I've heard the same guy got funding to make a sequel.

He did. He put up a teaser about a year ago. Amazing that it's all the work of one guy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:38 PM (ExV1e)

214 Of course she's queer, too! Absurd not to think otherwise.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (hzuYO)

She makes it a point to show her boyfriend and that she is as a woman later in the video.

Apparently she had plenty of men, and possibly women, offering to take care of her.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:38 PM (6ydKt)

215 The last loon (they're always skipping a surname when playing cutesy girl) IS on disability in Britain.

TikTok · Zara Beth
2M+ followers
Zara Beth (@zeezee25) on TikTok | 44.4M Likes. 2M Followers. disability advocate & author accessible travel chronic illness awareness

OTOH, who's to say for certain if AOC, Kamala, etc. are or aren't?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 04:38 PM (NFX2v)

216 Wheelchair video got very, very strange. Like you keep asking yourself how much stranger can it get and then...?

Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 04:38 PM (q177U)

217 Both my mother and my wife had/have brains that are more guy brains than chick brains.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)
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They constantly think about boobs?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:38 PM (ZOv7s)

218 191 Poblanos are meant to be stuffed with sofrita seasoned beef, Oaxaca cheese, baked , then smothered in a Mexican white sauce with a pomegranate garnish.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (3ZNGI)

I'll be right over.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:39 PM (2nJ9I)

219 Both my mother and my wife had/have brains that are more guy brains than chick brains.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)

I sincerely doubt any of the 'ettes think like men, but we aren't drama queens, either. We are women.

You don't have to be a man to be intelligent and thoughtful. This gets kinda old around here.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (2nJ9I)


I think the girl jut wanted attention and clicks for money.
She's gotten away with it for awhile it seems, so gotta give her credit there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)

220 Not my wife. She's not into drama. But Lord Almighty, she can worry herself to death.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Sounds like my wife. A very sensible woman, but her motto is "Fear rules my life."
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

My wife once told me she was worried because she had nothing to worry about.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (0aYVJ)

221 195 The last video put me over the top.

For once I have no words. Ok, I have a few that I can't print, being a refined lady.

Does she wake daily and decide from a list which physical problem to have that day? Is her list multiple choice on a dart target and whatever she hits is the one? Who bought the wheelchair?

Personally I wish the covid test had gone into her brain as it might have helped a bit in the stirring of her prefrontal cortex.

Of course she's queer, too! Absurd not to think otherwise.

While she's not striking to look at she's not super ugly like Marge Taylor Greenpeace with her potato nose. So this leaves me unsure what gave her white guilt Munchausen's. Does she have an eating disorder, too, or did she miss one? Gluten intolerant? Peanut allergy?

Apparently sane intolerant.

I have never had a nanosecond of white guilt. Maybe I am the weird one.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM

=========

Hot slash Crazy Matrix refers.

https://youtu.be/pInk1rV2VEg

Posted by: Bookmark it for future reference at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (2Ez/1)

222 218 191 Poblanos are meant to be stuffed with sofrita seasoned beef, Oaxaca cheese, baked , then smothered in a Mexican white sauce with a pomegranate garnish.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (3ZNGI)

I'll be right over.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:39 PM (2nJ9I)

Made me hungry.

Glad I got a pizza coming.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)

223
non-gay sex is "unnatural."

* looks at literally all of Nature *

I believe this fellow may be mistaken.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (VHUov)



Something to keep in mind. Plants are weird. They're the only living things on Earth that require a threesome to reproduce (male and female plants, plus something to do the pollination).

Even worse, they usually depend on an INTERSPECIES threesome.

Ewwww.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (y9nCu)

224 Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (3ZNGI)

Very nice! I might opt for cotija just because its salty.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (3Ope8)

225 177 You know, your are so correct. Why, I doubt there has ever been a thoughtful and level headed woman born on this earth. Ever.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:28 PM (2nJ9I)

Now you're thinking like a man.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (6ydKt)

I knew it ...

Posted by: zombie Henry Higgins at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (3sXRv)

226 She's 110 pounds of crazy in a 90 pound strait jacket. Do not want.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (amcLV)

Indeed. On the few times she'll want to do a decadent activity with said boyfriend, her Tourettes, or full-body paralysis, or fainting spells, or several of her dozens of self-diagnosed maladies will kick in and stop the "fun".

And yeah, she's completely doing it for the attention. Social media was a major mistake.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (2qSHg)

227 This gets kinda old around here.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (2nJ9I

Thanks. Yes, it does get kinda old.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (xPsv8)

228 A 6'10" 250 man will declare his eligibility for the May 2027 WNBA draft.

Oh, he played eleven seasons for the NBA, 2011 - 2022. He's going to self-identify, thus meeting the eligibility rules.

Brave new world.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 07, 2026 04:42 PM (YU46W)

229
Jalapenos are just as good as any other peppers, wholesome, delicious, a credit to any recipe, and those who say otherwise are... you know.

I am doing poppers on the grill this weekend as well as a chili loaded with jalapenos.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 04:43 PM (Y8DZL)

230 I got AdBlock when the latest round of popups started and have been blessedly ad-free here and on YouTube.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Running Windoze, android, or Apple?

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:43 PM (E4rtv)

231 A 6'10" 250 man will declare his eligibility for the May 2027 WNBA draft.

Oh, he played eleven seasons for the NBA, 2011 - 2022. He's going to self-identify, thus meeting the eligibility rules.

Brave new world.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 07, 2026 04:42 PM (YU46W)



LMMFAO!!!!!

Enes Canter Freedom declares for the WNBA draft.

Epic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 04:43 PM (2YhKe)

232 That chicken in the last video? Just call her a hysteric and lock her bony ass up in a mental institution. She'll get all the attention she craves, and we won't have to suffer through any more of her self-serving videos.

I believe she is what Paul Joseph Watson would call a "twat." [Say it with his accent. It works better that way.]

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (2nJ9I)

233 Even worse, they usually depend on an INTERSPECIES threesome.

Ewwww.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (y9nCu)


I could stand to hear a little more.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (brIJB)

234 Running Windoze, android, or Apple?
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:43 PM (E4rtv)
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Win 11. Edge browser.

*braces for incoming mockery*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (amcLV)

235 I chose to retire to SC over NC because SC has lower property taxes while NC has lower income taxes, and as a retiree I can manipulate income tax rather than property tax.

That said in either state the further inland you go the shittier it gets. Hint: Charlotte is three hours from the coast.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (bX16E)

236 I hope the Nashville Balls draft Ms. Freedom.

Epic move.

Posted by: Czech Chick at August 07, 2026 04:45 PM (dmWFD)

237 I hope the Nashville Balls draft Ms. Freedom.

Epic move.
Posted by: Czech Chick at August 07, 2026 04:45 PM (dmWFD)


I hope she shows up still sporting her beard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:47 PM (ExV1e)

238 That said in either state the further inland you go the shittier it gets. Hint: Charlotte is three hours from the coast.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM
++++++

How far is Asheville from the coast?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 07, 2026 04:47 PM (2Ez/1)

239 Women, for the most part, have much better emotional intelligence.

Men, for the most part, have much better logical reasoning.

But we both share other types of intelligence needed to survive.

In my unworthy view, it can be boiled down to things that are based on biological neccesity:
Women want to feel.
Men want to solve.

(always allowing for exceptions to the rule)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)

240 212
Beans Velocci????

Is that xis real name or some trannie stage-name for his virtuosity in farting out the National Anthem?

.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (iJfKG)

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at August 07, 2026 04:49 PM (4g5V+)

241 Win 11. Edge browser.

*braces for incoming mockery*
Posted by: Captain Obvious
======
Well, your biggest threat is Microsoft hacking your own data with that setup and not rando webscript ads. Windows 11 can work but it is more that OS has deteriorated since Windows 10 in performance, sucked up more resources like memory to run ok, and spies on you constantly unless you shut that shit off. I keep one current windows machine on for one reason--my tax program of long standing runs on it and not linux and I would have to switch to an Apple desktop to replace it. Don't care for their laptops after having one at work for a long while.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:49 PM (E4rtv)

242 University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci published a book this year claiming "sex isn't real" and the gender "binary" is "incoherent."
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"Beans?" Is that how xe "preps?"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:49 PM (ZOv7s)

243 That said in either state the further inland you go the shittier it gets. Hint: Charlotte is three hours from the coast.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Starts getting better again as you get closer to the mountains. But I'm biased (upstate SC native)

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 07, 2026 04:50 PM (hHLwK)

244 Men, for the most part, have much better logical reasoning.

As an example... I, a man, can reason that there's no profit to having this discussion and so I shall refrain from joining.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:50 PM (ExV1e)

245 238 Asheville is as far from the coast as you can get in NC, yet ravished by hurricane and overrun with hobos.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:50 PM (bX16E)

246 In my unworthy view, it can be boiled down to things that are based on biological neccesity:
Women want to feel.
Men want to solve.

(always allowing for exceptions to the rule)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
=======
I wanna blow up sheeeeeet real good!!!! Whereas do I fit in.

Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)

247 I keep one current windows machine on for one reason--my tax program of long standing runs on it and not linux and I would have to switch to an Apple desktop to replace it.

Can't run in WINE? Or online?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:51 PM (ExV1e)

248 204 If Enes Freedom gets in the WNBA does he have to become a lesbian?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (KY+FT)

He hasn’t been run out of the country yet?

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 07, 2026 04:51 PM (4g5V+)

249 That said in either state the further inland you go the shittier it gets. Hint: Charlotte is three hours from the coast.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (bX16E)

I don't know.
Some towns up towards the Piedmont and mountains aren't too bad.
Asheville being the exception.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:51 PM (6ydKt)

250 It's kind of fascinating how USAID became the new Comintern.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (ZOv7s)

251 People keep misgendering Professor Beans!! His pronouns are they/them h8rs!

https://tinyurl.com/kj9mt4wv

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (wGerL)

252 There aren't $20 burritos unless you're in Manhattan or San Fran.

You can also order 4 burrito supremes from Taco Bell for less than $20.

The Left always lie even when they don't have to.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (KC5Lt)

253 196 Wheelchair girl is a Target eight.
___

?????

Posted by: A Target six at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (Dv3i1)

254 I wanna blow up sheeeeeet real good!!!! Whereas do I fit in.

Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)

Mining, demolition.
Problem solved.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (6ydKt)

255 242 University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci published a book this year claiming "sex isn't real" and the gender "binary" is "incoherent."
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"Beans?" Is that how xe "preps?"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
========
The Lord makes those he dislikes ridiculous first before they implode.

Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (E4rtv)

256 Houston is Nurgle's land and it's not close.
I think Tzeentch owns Denver.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (88C+u)

257 There aren't $20 burritos unless you're in Manhattan or San Fran.

I can get a $20 burrito in Austin. It uses multiple tortillas an probably weighs at least 3 pounds but I can do it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e)

258 Gordon, prosecutors continued, "boasted" about his "assaultive behavior," proudly declaring that he "kicked and headbutted officers," showing no "remorse" for his actions. US attorneys said that five officers were injured.

Who would want to be law enforcement in Portland? You'd have to like pain, and liability premiums must be crazy because everybody sues the police for everything in Portland.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 07, 2026 04:53 PM (OkYzo)

259 I got AdBlock when the latest round of popups started and have been blessedly ad-free here and on YouTube.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Ad free on Safari using Adblock Plus

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 04:54 PM (lJ0H4)

260 A burrito the size of a pizza is probably worth $20.

Same as in town.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)

261 I won't get into the logic debate but I do know the following is accurate.

Men like to solve problems. Women want you to empathize with them about the problem.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:54 PM (KC5Lt)

262 Al-Jazeera, August 7, 2026

Iran war live: ‘Mecca Joint Defence Pact’ signed, as Hormuz deal ‘nears’

It begins, 'The Saudi crown prince, Turkish president and Pakistani prime minister have signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca stating that “any armed attack against any one of the three states shall be regarded as an attack against them all."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (NFX2v)

263 Mining, demolition.
Problem solved.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (6ydKt)
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I love the scene in "Justified" where a bank robber is wearing what appears to be a suicide vest, and Raylan plays along to get close enough and then kicks his ass, pointing out that only a retard would think you could get away with using road flares for dynamite in coal country.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ZOv7s)

264 He also claimed that a failure to use preferred pronouns would drive patients to commit suicide.

He said, without evidence. They've made this sick, twisted, bullshit claim out of whole cloth to emotionally strongarm parents into letting Mengele's philosophical descendants poison and mutilate their children. This is one of the most evil things I've ever seen.

Posted by: Still having to live like this at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (TbWk/)

265 Men like to solve problems. Women want you to empathize with them about the problem.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:54 PM (KC5Lt)


https://youtu.be/-4EDhdAHrOg

It's a joke, people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

266 Can't run in WINE? Or online?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

We have rentals and my wife has a consultancy so it requires a bit more bookkeeping and either payout to an accountant or diy as we have been doing.

WINE doesn't like it as I tried an install and part of it is that the tax companies come out with new editions each year so little interest by volunteers to spend the time to make an old version work and too little time to make the new one work. And you have the integrated state program as well and we have to file in two states. PITA that would cost us more in accountant fees than simply keeping one computer on Windoze for right now.

Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (E4rtv)

267 I stopped viewing this site on my phone, but that was infrequent anyway. I hate having to do anything on my phone. Heaven forbid I ever have to type anything.

My home desktop is right. Son (IT guy extraordinaire) added some kind of ad-blocker on steroids. No idea what it is, but it works like gangbusters. Even works on yewtoob.

Have not tried my iPad recently.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (0aYVJ)

268 It begins, 'The Saudi crown prince, Turkish president and Pakistani prime minister have signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca stating that “any armed attack against any one of the three states shall be regarded as an attack against them all."
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (NFX2v)
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Iran is totally winning you guys.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (ZOv7s)

269 'The Saudi crown prince, Turkish president and Pakistani prime minister have signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca stating that “any armed attack against any one of the three states shall be regarded as an attack against them all."
____

Hmm. Good or bad? And I don't mean the mis-spelling of "defense".

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (Dv3i1)

270 252 There aren't $20 burritos unless you're in Manhattan or San Fran.

You can also order 4 burrito supremes from Taco Bell for less than $20.

The Left always lie even when they don't have to.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM

Chipotle & Taco Del Mar you can easily drop $20 on a burrito. I don't eat there because I don't want Salmonella, but it's so "fresh" they don't have time to wash the sewage off the veggies.

I get the Taco Bell for $6.00, but spend $8.99 for the Imodium afterwards.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (OkYzo)

271 I can get a $20 burrito in Austin. It uses multiple tortillas an probably weighs at least 3 pounds but I can do it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e)

Yes I've eaten there before. Though I've never ordered one of those.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (KC5Lt)

272 We witnessed a real-time conversion of MTG.
Gimme some of that old time Chineseium.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 04:57 PM (xHEjv)

273 249 Asheville is a shame. A quaint college town turned into a socialist shithole -- because of the college? Maybe...

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:57 PM (bX16E)

274 FWIW, before the memory crunch hit, I was planning a new build using either VMS (and its competitors) or containers to run it. But that requires more cpu, memory, and storage right now than it would be worth it. So I just leave that machine dual boot right now.

Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:57 PM (E4rtv)

275 He also claimed that a failure to use preferred pronouns would drive patients to commit suicide.

Posted by: Still having to live like this at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (TbWk/)
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The idea that every single human being on the face of the earth has to watch what they say or these people will die and it will be EVERYONE ELSE'S false was probably the stupidest part of the whole trans thing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:57 PM (ZOv7s)

276 Hot slash Crazy Matrix refers.

https://youtu.be/pInk1rV2VEg
Posted by: Bookmark it for future reference at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (2Ez/1)
***************
Sent to sons years ago after one redhead the eldest casanova almost married left him for no reason.

She was in the danger zone and came with a family who matched this. Parents divorced when she was in HS because Daddy came out as gay. Mommy totally dependent on crazy daughters at this point, and was a liberal cat woman who wanted everything pink in her house including kitchen appliances.

I am at least an 8 in crazy and hotness (or I was) and could recognize this issue. Her family, on a horrid Thanksgiving, when the mother, daughters and an elf-like boyfriend of weird sister were in Christmas pj's and played a video game the entire day. I observed this while drinking booze as my husband claimed to have a backache and went to lie down in the guest room of son's house.

After the breakup, I, the mother of the son, came close to prison as I wanted to stalk the redhead, drive over her and back up.
I debated scalping or ripping out her hair as well as she ticked me off and did her break up on on my birthday with family visiting.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 04:58 PM (hzuYO)

277 Yes I've eaten there before. Though I've never ordered one of those.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (KC5Lt)


I've never had that size cuz I didn't want to commit to eating the same burrito for a week.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:58 PM (ExV1e)

278 Posted by: Frank Barone at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (OkYzo)

What Chipotle to you eat at? My order is never over $16 even if I get double protein.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:58 PM (KC5Lt)

279 Before the all encompassing memory chip skyrocketing price, I used to build a system every three years like clockwork to replace older systems. Now that cycle is likely to be five years.

Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:59 PM (E4rtv)

280 https://youtu.be/-4EDhdAHrOg

It's a joke, people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

Hit the nail on the head if you ask me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

281 I'll just say it Mexican food blows, with Beans Velocity

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:59 PM (bX16E)

282 Hmm. Good or bad? And I don't mean the mis-spelling of "defense".
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (Dv3i1)
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The Saudis already have a defensive alliance, and when Iran kept hitting Saudi, they told Pakistan that they would enforce the agreement or call in all the loans they gave them. I don't think the Iranians have hit them since. Pakistan could rip Iran a new one, but we'd have to keep India from taking advantage.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:59 PM (ZOv7s)

283 What Chipotle to you eat at? My order is never over $16 even if I get double protein.
____

Paging the Paolo, Mr. The Paolo to the white courtesy comment box....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (Dv3i1)

284 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (NcvvS)

285 264 He also claimed that a failure to use preferred pronouns would drive patients to commit suicide.

***********
Good! Saves them a trip to the Canadian suicide pods!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (hzuYO)

286 273 249 Asheville is a shame. A quaint college town turned into a socialist shithole -- because of the college? Maybe...
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

Yep. Higher education brings in the decay, even in solidly red areas--you can see the blue dots that are college towns.

Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (E4rtv)

287 Nood. More about that Cambridge guy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (ExV1e)

288 How much do you have to sue them?

This would be easier if we still had debtors prisons.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (zZu0s)

289 The Saudis already have a defensive alliance, and when Iran kept hitting Saudi, they told Pakistan that they would enforce the agreement or call in all the loans they gave them. I don't think the Iranians have hit them since. Pakistan could rip Iran a new one, but we'd have to keep India from taking advantage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Nah, we let the Pakis invade Iran and then let India nuke Pakistan. Multiple problems solved at once.

Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (E4rtv)

290 Professor Beans holds the endowed Swalwell Chair of Flatulence Studies at the University of Pennsylania.

Recent publications include "Cutting the Cheese: A Holistic Multidisciplinay Examination of the Intersection of Flatulence and Dairy Products", cited in The Journal of Noxious Odors, VII, p.23.

Posted by: The University of Pennsylvania Faculty FAQ at August 07, 2026 05:02 PM (brIJB)

291 Asheville also shit the bed from out of towner retirees

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:02 PM (enNUy)

292 You know, your are so correct. Why, I doubt there has ever been a thoughtful and level headed woman born on this earth. Ever.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:28 PM (2nJ9I)
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*snort*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (3fZgy)

293 164 127 Throwing this on the woke pile:

@Breaking911
2h
Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom says he’s declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, adding he meets all eligibility requirements.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (i14TE)

I love this. If they refuse to draft him, then they are anti-trans discriminators. If they do, that's the end of the WNBA.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (2nJ9I)


Another possible outcome is WNBA changes its eligibility requirements to permit only biological females to play and mandatory DNA sex-determination testing for all players. Enes Freedom's goal here may be to force the WNBA to do this. Ending its latest tranny-welcoming holier than thou PR stance.

The NBA heavily subsidizes the WNBA and I can't see NBA team owners wanting to subsidize WNBA legal fees to fight Enes Freedom's discrimination lawsuit if WNBA teams do not draft him.

Posted by: Gref at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (5rh/l)

294 Who is the lisping mincing human spirochete talking to Douthat? That is some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard and I've heard some really dumb shit.

Posted by: He sounds vaxxed and boosted too at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (TbWk/)

295 It begins, 'The Saudi crown prince, Turkish president and Pakistani prime minister have signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca stating that “any armed attack against any one of the three states shall be regarded as an attack against them all."
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (NFX2v)


Proof! PROOF that Trump is preparing to declare victory and go home! I cry hot salty tears of shame over this.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:13 PM (rbvCR)

296 I think the pronouns you/yourself would be hilarious. Wish I had thought of that when my work group used to care about those things.

"Where's Max working today?"

"You is offsite today. You can't always predict yourself."

Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (q177U)

297 https://youtu.be/-4EDhdAHrOg

It's a joke, people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)


Having lived in this situation with my half sister, no. This. Is. Not. A. Joke.
This is only funny because tragedies are too frustrating to cry about.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (rbvCR)

298 Ace of Spayed. Neocon tool.

Posted by: South and Proud!! at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (+6avD)

299 I love the scene in "Justified" where a bank robber is wearing what appears to be a suicide vest, and Raylan plays along to get close enough and then kicks his ass, pointing out that only a retard would think you could get away with using road flares for dynamite in coal country.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ZOv7s)

Great scene; Olyphant's delivery just killed:

Do you know where I'm from, assh*le?

Posted by: Nelly at August 07, 2026 06:53 PM (6+ehB)

300 Now you're thinking like a man.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (6ydKt)

Now, explain men fighting in bars. Over stupid shit.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:35 PM (2nJ9I)

Some guys like to fight.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 07:04 PM (uhVAy)

New Evidence Suggests That "The Most Secure Election in Earth History" Wasn't So Much

You mean that incompetents and hyperpartisans in position of authority over their superiors have been lying to us?

I'm gonna need a minute on this one. My programming needs a big update.

New evidence further undermines claim that 2020 election was 'most secure' in history

Declassified documents, other evidence, reveal that despite official assurances of a secure 2020 election, government agencies possessed intelligence regarding significant security vulnerabilities, foreign data breaches, and potential manipulation risks.

After several batches of documents were recently declassified and released by the White House, the American people now have more evidence than ever that while officials claimed 2020 was a historically secure election, the government had plenty of evidence of security vulnerabilities, hacks and foreign interference.

Shortly after the election, senior government officials insisted that it was the "most secure" in American history, deflecting concerns about security, including about voting systems and mail-in-ballots.

...

However, after the new batches of documents were declassified and released this summer by the White House, Americans have more evidence than ever that those same officials knew about significant breaches of election data and internally raised concerns about how foreign actors could influence the election and the vulnerability of electronic voting machines.

...

Maricopa exfiltration of voter registration data

The latest evidence released by the White House this week shows that the FBI investigated a breach of voter registration data in Arizona's largest county in the days before the 2020 election. In that incident, a self-described hacker foiled security and obtained 633,000 voter registration files, but the Biden Justice Department and local prosecutors declined to bring charges even after the FBI got the suspect to confess, Just the News reported on Thursday.

The scraping of Maricopa County's voter registration files was the most flagged security incident in a cyberintrusion log kept by U.S. spy agencies in the days surrounding the Nov. 3, 2020, election, showing that intelligence officials were monitoring the breach while voting was ongoing.

The article discusses China's hacking of the US voter databases. See the article for more on that.

This is the most alarming possibility: We know that Venezuela rigged its own elections to fake a "win" for Maduro.

And Maduro is a nasty communist enemy of the US.

Did he do the same thing to the US elections, to get a demented old socialist fool "elected"?


The declassified documents released by the White House also show that from 2004 to 2020, U.S. intelligence agencies monitored plans by the Venezuelan leadership to electronically manipulate their country's own voting machines, including the use of substituting false votes, to secure victory for the ruling socialists.

The plans raised alarm as early as 2006 among U.S. officials as a potential avenue for the Venezuelans to attempt to "undermine confidence in, or manipulate the electoral process in, the United States," according to a June 2026 CIA summary of prior intelligence reporting on Caracas' capabilities.

By 2020, the CIA had obtained reporting on Venezuelan plans to swing the country's election that year by manipulating electronic voting machines in a way that would make false votes appear legitimate and leave no trace of the changes. The intelligence raised questions about whether some U.S. voting machines could be vulnerable to similar types of manipulation, though agencies assessed that Venezuela did not have the capability to do so in the U.S.

What would we do without "agencies" to tell us that foreign threats aren't threats at all, but opportunities for us to be welcoming and open-minded.

And, of course:

Non-citizens on voter rolls

Additionally, an assessment by the Homeland Security Department found that hundreds-of-thousands of illegal aliens were on the voter rolls in four states -- and estimated the total across the whole country to be higher. A review conducted earlier this year using publicly available voter data in California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania found over 250,000 illegal voters on the rolls, Just the News reported.

Tangentially related: While Democrats whine about Trump firing disloyal subversive operatives, Hillary Clinton urges the next Democrat president, who will not be her, to fire every single Republican, no matter how minor or how far from any actual power.

She literally complains about Trump's plans to do this, while urging Democrats to do the same thing.

Talk about projection.

But think about what Clinton is saying there -- she's talking about the tactic of suborning a president's agenda by holding the civil service, in the context of accusing President Donald Trump of possibly doing it. She does not appear to be just talking about the political positions, saying a Democrat president needs to get rid of Trump people: "Get rid of all the holdovers. Do not let anybody hang around in some small office somewhere who can literally subvert your program and you don't even know the person is there." She even talks about how you can move people from political positions into the civil service to help keep them in government positions, predicting that Trump "will try to move" people to do this.
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The civil service positions aren't supposed to be political appointments. "People are going to have to be really searching," she said, " To make sure they're not going to be literally subverted from within the government."

What was that people were saying about a "deep state" and every accusation being a confession? Is this an admission about the past?

So Clinton would do a "purge" of anyone for the sin of being supportive of Trump or Trump positions. Purging opposing views sounds like a typical move from the folks who keep claiming to be the "defenders of democracy."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:40 PM




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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 02:41 PM (7Q7Ca)

2 I will lum......NOOD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 02:41 PM (7Q7Ca)

3 THe Dem and RINOs desire a country of men (and evil Hillary bots) not a country of time-proven laws and customs.

Got it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM (u82oZ)

4 Hillary Clinton a duplicitous election denier and general old hag? Say it ain't so!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM (GTqXr)

5 Again, any election process that does not feature in-person voting, same day tabulation and announcing of a winner withing 12 hours of the cessation of vote counting, is corrupt.

The concept of voting season should be abolished.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM (XV/Pl)

6 Hillary Clinton urges the next Democrat president, who will not be her, to fire every single Republican, no matter how minor or how far from any actual power.

So there IS a Deep State!?!?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (AdHga)

7 I don't know who's hotter, Kara Swisher or Hillary. Can someone help me out?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (KY+FT)

8 Not news to me

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Surely this can't be so!

- Lib media

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (mseD3)

10 Remember the old joke:

Why doesn't Trump wear glasses?

Because he's got 2020.

It was tru then, and still true.

Trump won in 2020, no question about it.

And the 55% pf the country that voted for him all know it's true.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:45 PM (Av6i5)

11 Hillary is such a fucking c***

Posted by: Doug at August 07, 2026 02:45 PM (B1+sW)

12 Declassified documents, other evidence, reveal that despite official assurances of a secure 2020 election, government agencies possessed intelligence regarding significant security vulnerabilities, foreign data breaches, and potential manipulation risks.
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Eh, well, we'll allow it.

Posted by: The Propaganda Press at August 07, 2026 02:45 PM (8zt2q)

13 So Hildabeast wants the next President to follow Bill Clinton's administration

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 02:45 PM (Ia/+0)

14 81 thousand votes.....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:46 PM (nnep/)

15 Haven't multiple court cases proven that more than a few states completely ignored their own election laws in 2020? I seem to remember michigan and wisconsin being sued for violating their election laws.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2026 02:46 PM (cpFbA)

16 But during Trump administration the Leftists are fighting tooth and nail over every Leftists getting let go

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 02:46 PM (Ia/+0)

17 I think that picture of Hillary is FABULOUS!

Posted by: Lanny Davis at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (brIJB)

18 >>though agencies assessed that Venezuela did not have the capability to do so in the U.S.

Horse poop.

I watched an election expert during a hearing in Georgia after the 2020 election use his laptop to log into and election machine and manipulate data using the internet. We were told the election machines were not connected to the internet. They lied. They can be manipulated by anyone with an internet connection, the address of the machine and the password.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (viF8m)

19 Well, most secure in the sense that it was so heavily fortified that the "right" outcome would happen ...

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (VqeLu)

20 Its my fervent hope to piss on Hillary's grave some day.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (TN0g+)

21 New evidence further undermines claim that 2020 election was 'most secure' in history

But it was! We left less evidence than we ever have!

Posted by: Democrats at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (E/qck)

22 She literally complains about Trump's plans to do this, while urging Democrats to do the same thing.

Being oblivious to her own blatant hypocrisy is standard operating procedure for Hillary.

She only gets away with it because the media have looked the other way for over three decades.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:48 PM (6ydKt)

23 The left: Trump is literally Hitler and wouldn't you do ANYTHING and I mean ANYTHING to stop Hitler?

Also the left: How dare you accuse us of election fraud...what kind of people do you think we are?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:48 PM (sKqQm)

24 I knew this. I also knew Covid was a farce, and the Russian hooker story a complete lie. Nobody ever asks me, even though I'm always right.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 02:48 PM (MWfyi)

25 If they didn't cheat all over the map in many different ways they would not win as many elections. So the juice is worth the squeeze.

Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 02:48 PM (Wt1Rs)

26 I'm still thinking Hillary is saying "the hard left crushes the establishment left and the I , Hillary! , come to the rescue" Hillary in 28

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 02:48 PM (KY+FT)

27 Can you imagine what would be happening today if Trump had taken the advice of so many and "just let 2020 go"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 02:49 PM (ExV1e)

28 Isn't firing any Republican because they are Republican illegal?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)

29 20 Its my fervent hope to piss on Hillary's grave some day.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (TN0g+)

I was thinking i'd spend a couple of days eating the bad taco bell lettuce and just bring a nice book to read at her grave; bring a nice shovel to mix it all in after i've completed my abolutions.

Posted by: Nelly at August 07, 2026 02:49 PM (6+ehB)

30 Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife will NEVER be president.

Posted by: And that's a good thing at August 07, 2026 02:50 PM (2Ez/1)

31 "By 2020, the CIA had obtained reporting on Venezuelan plans to swing the country's election that year by manipulating electronic voting machines in a way that would make false votes appear legitimate and leave no trace of the changes. The intelligence raised questions about whether some U.S. voting machines could be vulnerable to similar types of manipulation, though agencies assessed that Venezuela did not have the capability to do so in the U.S.

Brian in New Orleans

our nation turns its lonely eyes to you

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 07, 2026 02:50 PM (0CU3H)

32 Isn't firing any Republican because they are Republican illegal?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)


In a word... no.

Nor is firing them for being Democrats although judges will rule otherwise in that case.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 02:50 PM (ExV1e)

33 Hillary Clinton: ...

Really? That is the Joe Biden of Hillary Clintons, if you ask me.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 02:50 PM (i14TE)

34 Well Clinton is a Cunt.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 07, 2026 02:50 PM (xvV+O)

35 Hillary is our God

Posted by: The Propaganda Press at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (InzJs)

36 Why is ANY voting machine connected to the internet?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (2Ez/1)

37 Blaming it on China is just distracting from the domestic fraud.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (MWfyi)

38 I don't know who's hotter, Kara Swisher or Hillary. Can someone help me out?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (KY+FT)

That filter on Hillary is working 525 percent. Her hair is smudged into a blur.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (uhVAy)

39 Mira! Mira!

New 2026 Inside Elections Senate Ratings

🔴 Republicans: 52
🔵 Democrats: 47
🟡 Tossup: 1

Swing States:
Maine: 🔴 Tilt R (dems tried a neo-nazi)
Michigan: 🟡 Tossup (dems elected an islamo-nazi)
Georgia: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF G?)
North Carolina: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF NC?)
New Hampshire: 🔵 Tilt D

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)

40 The Scott Pressler stuff coming out where they took the voter roll, and put it against the folks who when called in for jury duty said they were not citizens?

Enlightening.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (mP0Kj)

41 Insty posted an article a couple hours ago about Jimmah Carter reccomendig IDs for voting back in 2005.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 02:52 PM (XvL8K)

42 [ii]sn't firing any Republican because they are Republican illegal?

No, it is the essence of bipartisanship and Saving Our Democracy™.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 02:52 PM (i14TE)

43 The left stocked the government with their creatures for many decades. No Republican besides Reagan made any effort to change it until Trump. Trump has really been doing it.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 02:53 PM (YwEeS)

44 New 2026 Inside Elections Senate Ratings

🔴 Republicans: 52
🔵 Democrats: 47
🟡 Tossup: 1

Swing States:
Maine: 🔴 Tilt R (dems tried a neo-nazi)
Michigan: 🟡 Tossup (dems elected an islamo-nazi)
Georgia: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF G?)
North Carolina: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF NC?)
New Hampshire: 🔵 Tilt D

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)

Predictions:

R - ME, MI, GA
D - NC, NH

That's 54-46.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:53 PM (AdHga)

45 As Recognized Election Expert Mary Clogginstein from the Peoples Republic of Vermont would say......

"Trump lost because his breath stinks" ....

Posted by: Jackson K. at August 07, 2026 02:53 PM (IwwZQ)

46 28: No, not under the various anti-discrimination laws. Not hiring or firing based on race,national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age (over 40) are all illegal. There is no protection for being a member of a political party.

Which means that based corporations could fire employees for being members of DSA, communist party etc. But it also means that companies can discriminate against Republicans.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2026 02:53 PM (PV+Zw)

47 Oh I remember that White House travel office scandal. The Director there was not partisan but was fired because Hillary wanted her pal to have the job.

This stuff she's saying now is just an abject lie. It's part of why we want her locked up but Trump won't do it. Even after she shared top secret information with anyone who had her openly shared password on her non government home brewed server.

The Russians and the Chinese couldn't believe their dumb luck.

Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 02:54 PM (Wt1Rs)

48 So Clinton would do a "purge" of anyone for the sin of being supportive of Trump or Trump positions. Purging opposing views sounds like a typical move from the folks who keep claiming to be the "defenders of democracy."
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It's pretty clear that progressives cannot be trusted anywhere (Not just government, but I'm watching a Clownfish video about how they screwed up character designs in the Final Fantasy 7 remake).

We need to make them unemployable.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 07, 2026 02:54 PM (vSvIl)

49 Hillary would purge until Stalin or Mao blushed.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 07, 2026 02:54 PM (wxsGM)

50 Isn't firing any Republican because they are Republican illegal?
Posted by: Oldcat

Bwahahaha

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 02:54 PM (wOO3z)

51
ctrl + f

'nothing will happen'

phrase not found

Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 02:54 PM (ZxPkt)

52 Predictions:

R - ME, MI, GA
D - NC, NH

That's 54-46.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:53 PM (AdHga)



I don't know...Whatley is not a nobody and TRUMP has 700+ BILLION to throw around.

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:55 PM (g47mK)

53 When Hillary fired people not one judge ordered her to rehire them.

Amirite?

Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 02:55 PM (Wt1Rs)

54 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: I was at the dentist at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (2Ez/1)

55 Old news

At this point, what difference does it make?

Time to move on dot org!

What the people really want is us working on the issues that matter most to them, the price of eggs burritos!

Posted by: Lizzy Clinton at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (4KUe5)

56 Michigan: 🟡 Tossup (dems elected an islamo-nazi)
Georgia: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF G?)


GA is disappointing but I don't believe Mr muslim will win MI even though our Candidate is a snooze...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (nnep/)

57 Declassified documents, other evidence, reveal that despite official assurances of a secure 2020 election, government agencies possessed intelligence regarding significant security vulnerabilities, foreign data breaches, and potential manipulation risks.

____________________________________

Hey, who recalls Mark Warner of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence falling all over himself on every media outlet bitching about Tulsi Gabbard taking a front row seat in the raid on Georgia's election documentation, and then throwing a tantrum when she refused to brief him (and the committee) personally?

That's the same Mark Warner who set private (unreported) consultations with Christopher "Pee Report" Steele.

His behavior now makes a whole lot of sense.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (dIske)

58 Okay

Just checking

Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (ZxPkt)

59 Why don't the evil die young like the good do?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (QX6xo)

60 I recall some guy on X who's video was pretty long, like an hour or so, went into great detail how the Maduro - Cartel connection was involved in rigging 2020. Other bad actors included China and... Iran.

And Dominion figured prominently too.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (2Cry5)

61 Georgia: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF G?)
North Carolina: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF NC?)
New Hampshire: 🔵 Tilt D

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)

I'm thinking these GA and NC are likely not tilting D. The polls and networks need to keep the horserace myth alive as long as they can. But the same forces that wrenched ME and MI into the R column and are sowing a crisis in the D's are gonna be going on there. The Commie wave is not going to be favored in those states, and maybe not in NH either.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (uhVAy)

62 Hey Hillary, where’s Bill? Is he pumping the maid or your hairdresser today? Maybe the neighbors cat?

BTW you will never be president, hag.

And your cankles are showing, you wrinkly asses, pasty white walking 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (UlN4g)

63 don't know...Whatley is not a nobody and TRUMP has 700+ BILLION to throwEmirates?
****
Hawaiian judge will take Trump's $:saying it was the fruits of Trump's crimes.

Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (Wt1Rs)

64 If the White House Travel Office scandal in 1993 is any indication, Hillary would, no doubt, gladly fire everybody in government… and replace them with her own cronies.

She has rooms full of FBI files that she can use for leverage if needed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (6ydKt)

65 GA is disappointing but I don't believe Mr muslim will win MI even though our Candidate is a snooze...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (nnep/)

I think there's been too much clean up in Fulton. R pickup.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (AdHga)

66 GA is disappointing

I wonder if the person who rated GA as tilt Dem has fully taken onto account that fact the feds have been crawling up Georgia's ass over election shenanigans. And I wonder how that will affect the election.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 02:58 PM (ExV1e)

67
I think there's been too much clean up in Fulton. R pickup.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (AdHga)

I was gonna ask about that and Arizona...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:58 PM (nnep/)

68 What's going on with Maduro these days? Wikipedia just says he was returned to jail after a court hearing in March. It does provide this interesting info though:

Maduro is a fan of John Lennon's music and his political activism for peace and against war. Maduro has said that he was inspired by the music and counterculture of the 1960s and 70s, mentioning Robert Plant and Led Zeppelin.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 07, 2026 02:58 PM (9ZFZd)

69 Hell, the cyber side of election security isn't even the biggest factor in the 2020 election (though it has the potential to be in future elections). The biggest factor was the outright fraud consisting of ballot harvesting, paying homeless to vote, ballot stuffing, ballot theft, non-residents voting in other districts, duplicate counts, and on and on.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 07, 2026 02:59 PM (XMwZJ)

70 Before MI started leaning , it was a blue. Then , of course, jihad invaded the Ds and took over. And now it's a tossup!

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:59 PM (g47mK)

71 Lest we forget.
Great moments in presidential history:

https://youtu.be/hhf1HGaAFfg

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (2Ez/1)

72 MI will go Rep.
Me will stay Rep
I'd like to see Georgia flip but Ossoff is a good campaignrr, and the Georgia Republicans are clueless.
NC if the Republicans can tie Cooper to the crime wave, he's toast and the Rep will win
NH, Sununu is popular but there may be too many Massholes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (KY+FT)

73 assurances of a secure 2020 election, government agencies possessed intelligence regarding significant security vulnerabilities, foreign data breaches, and potential manipulation risks.

____________________________________

Hey, who recalls Mark Warner of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence falling all over himself on every media outlet bitching about Tulsi Gabbard taking a front row seat in the raid on Georgia's election documentation, and then throwing a tantrum when she refused to brief him (and the committee) personally?

That's the same Mark Warner who set private (unreported) consultations with Christopher "Pee Report" Steele.

His behavior now makes a whole lot of sense.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:56
****
A useful fighting trick is to enter the combat with a handful of sand to toss in your opponent's face.

Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (Wt1Rs)

74 Somebody please punch Lisa Murkowski in the dick. That manly Irish wolfhound bitch is trying to single handily bring down the Republican Party.

Hey, Alaska- she your bitch.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (UlN4g)

75
I was gonna ask about that and Arizona...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:58 PM (nnep/)



I'm quite sure Katie Hobbs will make sure everything is on the up and up in AZ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (QX6xo)

76 What level of AOSHQ membership gets you those fancy-shmancy colored dots?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (SgdqL)

77 Notice how suddenly Talarico is quietly not about to take a Senate seat in TX?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (uhVAy)

78 Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (AdHga)

I was gonna ask about that and Arizona...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:58 PM (nnep/)

Weird how Maricopa ballot problem is in the news today, isn't it...

Almost like the RNC's focus has moved from GA (because they believe they're strong there) to AZ, where they can employ the same playbook...

I don't KNOW any of that, obviously - that's not what I do for a living. But I've been watching Trump's organization pick Fulton apart. Maricopa's next .

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (AdHga)

79 went into great detail how the Maduro - Cartel connection was involved in rigging 2020.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (2Cry5)
__________________________

I think Venezuela had a cut out piece of the fraud down along the souther US border. Arizona and New Mexico to be specific. One of the Judges ruling on election challenges in Arizona actually has Venezuelan illegal immigrants living at his residence. The Cartels have their teeth into law enforcement, the Judiciary, and politicians in Arizona, I'm almost certain. Katie Hobbs among them.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 03:01 PM (dIske)

80 I have no doubt that various groups and entities around the world are doing whatever they can to manipulate our elections. We are the only country which can theoretically confront evil around the world, and Evil is trying to do whatever it can to trip us up.

Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:01 PM (ZxPkt)

81 THe Dem and RINOs desire a country of men (and evil Hillary bots) not a country of time-proven laws and customs.

Got it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM (u82oZ)
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I think they'd prefer a country with no real men at all.

Just trannies pretending to be girls and soy-boys.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 03:01 PM (FZ29D)

82 Wow, a Communist dictator loves John Lenon?





Imagine that!

Posted by: Lizzy Clinton at August 07, 2026 03:02 PM (4KUe5)

83 Georgia has been seriously over polled for Democrats. They feel it will be the best voter suppression they have. It has worked before and they are trying it again.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 03:02 PM (UlN4g)

84 Why is ANY voting machine connected to the internet?
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And why would God need a starship?

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 03:02 PM (TN0g+)

85
Some people may have, allegedly, done some things.
If so, mistakes may have been made.
If so, they were made in the enthusiasm of the moment.
Old news.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Time to move on.

OrangeMan Bad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at August 07, 2026 03:03 PM (0sNs1)

86 I need some BiNO-culars to see the issue clearly.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 03:03 PM (vTZFs)

87 Why do all these Democrat candidates look like Aryan Nation goons?

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402845656112

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 07, 2026 03:03 PM (4NO2D)

88 76 What level of AOSHQ membership gets you those fancy-shmancy colored dots?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM


Embossed wax paper.

Posted by: AOSHQ Membership and Urinal Cake Committee at August 07, 2026 03:04 PM (2Ez/1)

89 The NH Senate campaign is an interesting one.

On the R side you have Sununu who is an asshole but a very successful asshole running in NH versus Scott Brown who managed to get elected in MA before fleeing to NH

The Dem will be a faceless drone named Pappas most likely.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

90 Muslim War Flag flies in America.

Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 03:04 PM (Wt1Rs)

91 Mark Warner was using encrypted messaging to communicate with a Russian oligarch about the Trump Russia collusion op leading up to the 2016 election.

This has been known for years, yet never held accountable for it.

Posted by: Lizzy Clinton at August 07, 2026 03:05 PM (4KUe5)

92 THe Dem and RINOs desire a country of men (and evil Hillary bots) not a country of time-proven laws and customs.

Got it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM


Well, a certain kind of man. A throughly Modern Masculinity Man.

Like us!

Posted by: Mr. Emhoff, Mr. Walz, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Platner, and Mr. Talarico at August 07, 2026 03:05 PM (0sNs1)

93 The lawfare never stops:

@NEWSMAX
·
3h
BREAKING NEWS: A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration ‌to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing.

Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:05 PM (ZxPkt)

94 Murkowski came from that 3 card Monte voting, thats what you get

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (Ia/+0)

95 Fox: they're removing your organs while you're still alive now.
Profits...Obamacare has made medical care more expensive than ever.

Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (Wt1Rs)

96 Could Hillary just fucking die already?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (2UnvF)

97 My uncle used to drive a Sununu back in the 70s. Great car, but a real PITA to get parts.

Posted by: Way Back When at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (2Ez/1)

98 I think there's been too much clean up in Fulton. R pickup.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (AdHga)
___________________

Unfortunately, the fraud is perpetual. They removed 471,000 ineligible voters from the GA rolls. In less than 30 days, some of the names removed were showing back up. An educated guess is that the DMV is entirely compromised, of some jackass forgot the Motor Voter application of Georgia (which I bleieve is Opt out). So, any of those 471,000 popping in to renew their license gets put right back on the voter rolls, and they likely never knew they were removed in the first place....so they will be voting again, or a surrogate will be in their place.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (dIske)

99 >>And Dominion figured prominently too.

Some things are known about the relationship between Smartmatic, which was the original Venezuelan company that rigged elections for Chavez and then established an office in Boca Raton, and Dominion but a lot is being hidden behind lawsuits.

Smartmatic sold their Sequoia voting machines division to Dominion but as far as I know it hasn't been proven that Dominion runs Smartmatic software but it seems highly likely even though they deny it.

Smartmatic is now owned by a British group, there they are again, and the guy running it is Lord Malloch Brown who was also at one time the president of George Soros' Open Society Foundation. In other, a complete leftist piece of shit who loves to cheat against conservatives.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 03:08 PM (viF8m)

100 So, any of those 471,000 popping in to renew their license gets put right back on the voter rolls, and they likely never knew they were removed in the first place....so they will be voting again, or a surrogate will be in their place.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (dIske)

I'm sure that's true.

But all 471,000 of them aren't renewing their licenses. Call it - catastrophically over-estimating - 100,000 that get added back.

That's still 371,000 ballots off the board for the Dems.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 03:09 PM (AdHga)

101 39 Georgia: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF G?)
North Carolina: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF NC?)
New Hampshire: 🔵 Tilt D

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)

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Ossoff has incumbency and GA is supposedly a swing state, so it makes sense. I hope the clean up of Fulton gives us a pleasant surprise.

Cooper in NC is effectively an incumbent, being the previous governor who just left office 2 years ago and it being an open race. The assumption is that he has that advantage, but he's polling like Cunningham did in 2020 against Tillis, and Cunningham lost, all while the registration advantage Democrats had in 2020 has completely been erased. There were 400,000 more Democrats than Republicans in 2020 in NC. Now there are 10,000 more Republicans than Democrats.

Last time Cooper won statewide election was 2020, and he won by 250,000 votes.

Anyone honest should at least call NC a tossup.

I think it's lean R, frankly. I think Cooper is the underdog, especially since his governorship actually ended pretty badly (Helene) with some bad lingering issues (prisoner releases leading to murders and soft on crime policies that led to Iryna).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:09 PM (bvy21)

102 Maduro is a fan of John Lennon's music

-
Imagine there's no narcos
It's easy if you try
No concrete slab beneath me
Above me only sky

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:10 PM (ndZc7)

103 I thought that there Nawlins fella done did tole everyone dat dat election there back yonder was straight up on the level legit like.

Domino Systems or sum thing like dat dere.

Here, sign my yearbook you sweet young thing you...

Posted by: Alabama Hayseed Voter at August 07, 2026 03:10 PM (45BvE)

104 Not secure??? I shan't believe it. I simply shan't!

Posted by: Pinky Fully Extended at August 07, 2026 03:10 PM (OTAXA)

105 Apparently, Mamdani has real thin skin. Is obsessed with who is saying what about him on line, in the papers, etc.

NY Post has started calling him Mayor Zoflake.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 03:12 PM (wOO3z)

106 each migrant has a story worthy of a Hollywood movie'.

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I agree.

I'd like to film them all in my harrowing cinéma vérité masterpiece "PANAMAX: The True Story of the World's First Excavated Transcontinental Canal."

Have their people call my people - or else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 03:13 PM (BI5O2)

107 Georgia: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF G?)
North Carolina: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF NC?)

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)

Georgia currently has 2 Dem senators. NC has a Dem governor who replaced another Dem governor last year.

It’s not the Georgia and NC of 2004. Things have changed.


Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 03:13 PM (Bz1XI)

108 Just a back of the napkin calculation shows that allegedly there was a 90+ % national turnout of registered voters.

That's impossible North Korean numbers.

The thing is that's I've never seen someone in power who was questioning the election point this out.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 03:14 PM (KC5Lt)

109 Here in the Great State of Tennessee, they junked all the Diebold-type crap. New system still has touch screens, but first you are given a (blank) paper ballot, insert it, touch screens, ballot prints, and then you can review before handing to scanner. Simple and seems to work.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 07, 2026 03:14 PM (OTAXA)

110 Non-citizens on voter rolls, Chinese 'citizens' that were born here on a vacation mom took number over 1 Million. Tell me they aren't going to be voting from mainland China when they turn 18.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 07, 2026 03:14 PM (Q/FnY)

111 Hillary just told every government employee that doing their job is grounds for dismissal.

Of course, the usual idiots will deny that's what Hillary meant but, there's no way to read it any other way.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 07, 2026 03:14 PM (eGzf1)

112 Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (2UnvF)

She probably has the best line of medical treatments including the blood of infants or something equally grotesque, so I wouldn't expect her to die anytime soon. I hope she repents and turns to Jesus, but I can't say that I will very sorry if I outlive her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 03:16 PM (xSAlF)

113 >>Mark Warner was using encrypted messaging to communicate with a Russian oligarch about the Trump Russia collusion op leading up to the 2016 election.


Not just any oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 03:16 PM (viF8m)

114 111 Hillary just told every government employee that doing their job is grounds for dismissal.

Of course, the usual idiots will deny that's what Hillary meant but, there's no way to read it any other way.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 07, 2026 03:14 PM (eGzf1)

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We have returned to the spoils system, and I am happy.

Before, we still had the spoils system, but only Democrats got the spoils. We had a perpetual Democrat state in the administrative state that could never be supplanted or reduced.

Trump changed that by firing at least 1/3 of all federal employees for whatever reason he wanted.

So, yes, Democrats will fill the administration from top to bottom with cronies. But so will Republicans when they take office.

Getting what we want from government when Republicans are in power is a massive shift in our favor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:16 PM (bvy21)

115 Damn. I was scrolling down and got the "before you go" ad and suddenly, the stench of Gin, Ben Gay, and stale Pall Malls hit me. Hilz is back with more evil wisdom.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 07, 2026 03:17 PM (gm9Sb)

116 https://x.com/PatrickRuffini/status/
2085736243992690960

A wonderful graph that shows that summer polls are really bullshit and you should just stop believing them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:17 PM (bvy21)

117 Hillary is still pissed she was upstaged by Obama in 2008.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 03:17 PM (W2Pud)

118 Ask your dermatologist if Deripaska is right for you.

Posted by: Big Farma at August 07, 2026 03:17 PM (2Ez/1)

119 Those "noncitizens on the voter rolls" are actually mostly dead people. The people using those identities are very much alive, almost all of them illegal aliens who are using a stolen dead person's identity. They can do this because the Social Security Administration recycles SSNs. Using a dead person's SSN apparently does not flag the system for that reason, so Julio Gonzales becomes Henry Schulz, elderly citizen, and he can work. The employer, if ever questioned about hiring an illegal alien, says, "Well, Henry had a valid SSN, so what am I supposed to do?" But of course the employer is never questioned, because everyone liked the system just as it was designed.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 07, 2026 03:18 PM (eStot)

120 Stand back! She's gonna blow!

https://tinyurl.com/ydba6eas

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:19 PM (ndZc7)

121 81 trillion votes!

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:19 PM (UjdFS)

122 Most polling is trash you can wipe your backside with until after Labor Day where registered voter screens or all person suddenly become likely voters. Usually GOP bounce in national voting percent is +3 to +4 percent.

Instead of relying on polling per se on the horse race, instead of incumbents or near incumbents like Cooper in NC below 50 percent of the vote. Those are the vulnerable ones where spending on turnout contacts and ads can make a difference.

In Collins' case, she polls poorly in every election and yet wins with the D overstatement in double digits in polling. Depending on which poll you believe, tOssof is below 50 btw in some, not all.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:20 PM (E4rtv)

123 Will Dave in NOLA be making a statement?

Maybe that's a bit unfair.

Posted by: Turn 2 at August 07, 2026 03:21 PM (QFchU)

124 120 Stand back! She's gonna blow!

https://tinyurl.com/ydba6eas
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:19 PM
#####

Fauci looks grouchy.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 03:21 PM (2Ez/1)

125 122 In Collins' case, she polls poorly in every election and yet wins with the D overstatement in double digits in polling. Depending on which poll you believe, tOssof is below 50 btw in some, not all.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:20 PM (E4rtv)

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In 2014, she was leading every poll by double digits.

And they were still wrong.

She won by 40. They assumed an average of her winning by 30.

That's outside the margin of error, meaning that the polls, while directionally correct, were actually wrong.

It's like looking at the MI Democrat primary polling and saying that sure, they got the number wrong (assuming El-Sayed winning by 15) but they got the direction right (El-Sayed won by 1). No, the polls were just wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:21 PM (bvy21)

126 Stand back! She's gonna blow!

https://tinyurl.com/ydba6eas
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:19 PM (ndZc7)


That face in the left photo is not that of a man who believes she will.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:22 PM (ExV1e)

127 So, yes, Democrats will fill the administration from top to bottom with cronies. But so will Republicans when they take office.

Getting what we want from government when Republicans are in power is a massive shift in our favor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

How about less and less federal employees and more of the functions and money being returned to states. Let Wyoming, for example, manage Wyoming federal lands.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)

128 Hillary is still pissed she was upstaged by Obama in 2008.

And then to rub salt in her wounds, he made her the hired help.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 03:22 PM (i14TE)

129 Trump changed that by firing at least 1/3 of all federal employees for whatever reason he wanted.

So, yes, Democrats will fill the administration from top to bottom with cronies. But so will Republicans when they take office.

Getting what we want from government when Republicans are in power is a massive shift in our favor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:16 PM (bvy21)
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Hmm, you know, that's a good point. Going back to a spoils system does put a good size dent in the permanent bureaucracy.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (eGzf1)

130 The lawfare never stops:

@NEWSMAX
·
3h
BREAKING NEWS: A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration ‌to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing.

Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:05 PM (ZxPkt)

What the heck is he supposed to do with the site now?! Completely rebuild the East Wing?

Posted by: pookysgirl can actually think ahead at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (Wt5PA)

131 Obama and Biden essentially already did this, the commies just are objecting to turnabout.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (zZu0s)

132 127
How about less and less federal employees and more of the functions and money being returned to states. Let Wyoming, for example, manage Wyoming federal lands.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)

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Well, Trump has fired a full third of all federal employees, so it's a start.

But Congress would probably need to start pulling back on statutory powers at some point to get really to the bone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (bvy21)

133 >>Could Hillary just fucking die already?
Posted by: Duke Lowel
********
The Devil won't let her. She will turn hell into a real Hell.

Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (Sf0j5)

134 Cooper was a pretty popular governor (outside of the Western part of the state post-Helene). They are trying to tie him to the crime wave, but I think that will be a tough sell.

If it's true that he's polling like Cunningham in 2020, then he's in good shape. Cunningham would have won that race except for the fact that he got caught boinking his secretary (or some random woman) a few weeks before election day.

I'm not sure how to read the registration numbers. Independents now outnumber both Rs and Ds in NC. No idea how they lean.

Posted by: Henry O at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (B8/Wv)

135 So, yes, Democrats will fill the administration from top to bottom with cronies. But so will Republicans when they take office.

Getting what we want from government when Republicans are in power is a massive shift in our favor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:16 PM (bvy21)
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I have a feeling that if and when the Dems seize the White House again, they will make it their MISSION to destroy any Republicans in government.

There is no way they will ever relinquish that power again unless forced to at the barrel of a gun.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 03:24 PM (FZ29D)

136 81M, and got more AA votes than BO, sure, sure...

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 03:25 PM (g47mK)

137 Stand up chuck! Let 'em see ya!

Posted by: Bite Me at August 07, 2026 03:25 PM (wGerL)

138 Soon, Hillary, soon.

Posted by: Grim Reaper and Spirits of Vodka at August 07, 2026 03:25 PM (Dv3i1)

139 134 I'm not sure how to read the registration numbers. Independents now outnumber both Rs and Ds in NC. No idea how they lean.

Posted by: Henry O at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (B8/Wv)

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Registered independents in NC lean heavily Republican and have for decades.

Cooper is genuinely the underdog, and NC summer polling showing him ahead tells us nothing because NC summer polling is garbage.

In addition, when governors of the "wrong party" go for Senate races, their whole "good guy from the other party who isn't so bad" aura falls apart. Voters are a bit less partisan on statewide-state level races, but they trend towards hard partisanship on federal statewide races.

Just ask Larry Hogan who went from popular Republican governor of Maryland to losing by about 25 points in the Senate race.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:26 PM (bvy21)

140 I'd love for Republicans to rig elections left and right in areas where the Dems cheat.

Imagine a massive Red wave completely running through all of New York and California. Sure, the voter turnout of 250% might seem suspicious but no more than 120%

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 03:26 PM (Sco7b)

141 Well, Trump has fired a full third of all federal employees, so it's a start.


Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM
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Where does that number come from?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 07, 2026 03:27 PM (2Ez/1)

142 How about less and less federal employees and more of the functions and money being returned to states. Let Wyoming, for example, manage Wyoming federal lands. Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)

I've been predicting this for years, including in these here little boxes. The easiest thing in the world would be to hand over programs that are already being administered by the states, like Medicaid, housing, and SNAP. The federal government could give the states a declining block grant and let the states either tighten up eligibility (and purge fraud) as the federal money winds down, or replace the declining federal money with their own taxpayers' money (further fueling the exodus of productive citizens and businesses to the red states).

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 07, 2026 03:27 PM (eStot)

143 A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration ‌to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing.
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There is no rule of law in the USA. It is rule by left-wing, foreign-born judges.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 03:27 PM (Dv3i1)

144 >>>"Do not let anybody hang around in some small office somewhere."


for the greater good -- maybe we should round them all up, just to be sure, and relocate them somewhere, some sort of camp, where we could . . . concentrate them

Posted by: DNC platform committee at August 07, 2026 03:28 PM (sCxmP)

145 It's like looking at the MI Democrat primary polling and saying that sure, they got the number wrong (assuming El-Sayed winning by 15) but they got the direction right (El-Sayed won by 1). No, the polls were just wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

State polling sucks for the most part because it is as expensive as national polling for a representative sample and a helluva lot more difficult in weighting because of rural/urban/suburban respondents non response and then the problem with accurately sampling minorities.

Add in the problem with area codes no longer corresponding with actual addresses and lying about actually voting in past elections (NES--National Election Survey UMich, got absurdly high responses about voting in past elections; when they actually checked who did vote, over time, the divergence between who voted and who lied about voting became a 20-30 point liars gap making the data useless.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)

146 >>>There is no rule of law in the USA. It is rule by left-wing, foreign-born judges.

don't forget us Senators -- want to gavel in the next "pro-forma" session?

Posted by: John Thune at August 07, 2026 03:28 PM (sCxmP)

147 Nope, this thread is making me too murdery.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)

148 It is my assumption that not only are polls used to drive the desired reo(e.g. your person is so far behind don’t bother voting) as well as set the expectation to match the planned fraudulent outcome. If Hillary is projected to win every toss-up sta, then it’s no breaking news when found ballots and same-day registration ballots push her into the lead. If she were not projected to we, then her upset win would warrant scrutiny.

This is why I have not taken polls seriously for a long time. It’s the narrative masquerading as a scientific poll assessing the probable outcome.

Posted by: Lizzy Clinton at August 07, 2026 03:29 PM (4KUe5)

149 Stand back! She's gonna blow!

https://tinyurl.com/ydba6eas
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me!
......

She's just pissed that the Tappers cancelled dinner.

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:29 PM (UjdFS)

150 BREAKING NEWS: A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration ‌to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing.

'Ordered'?! How? The Judicial Branch judiciates. (if that's a word, I'm buying a lottery ticket).

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 03:29 PM (i14TE)

151 I'll be shocked if cooper loses. Happy, but shocked. But honestly after Tillis, having Cooper won't be crazily different. The dems will still get the vote. Just like with Thom.

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:30 PM (enNUy)

152
Hillary Clinton: Raging psychotic lesbian forges ahead to see how far she can go and how much damage she can do. Her bottomless anger and entitlement energize her and drive her forward. I'm not religious, but demonic possession is not a bad model for what's going on here. Perhaps a secular demon is a possible model to describe it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 03:31 PM (DOcg9)

153 Tie Dominion and China up in a bow.

Posted by: braenyard at August 07, 2026 03:32 PM (ABcHy)

154 BREAKING NEWS: A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration ‌to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing.

They upheld an injunction but delayed the order for 14 days for an appeal to SCOTUS. They also did not halt the below ground work.

They're hoping that they can delay it all until they can steal the WH again and some Dem can claim credit for the upgrade.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:32 PM (ExV1e)

155 Had a nap

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:33 PM (Ia/+0)

156 But Congress would probably need to start pulling back on statutory powers at some point to get really to the bone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Not really, you simply do things via state agencies but retain the statutory authority to act and order states to act in compliance with the federal law. We already do this for example with food inspection, environmental compliance, etc. etc. Then there is moving duplicative parts of agencies to one agency--like the DoE moving its authority (and its attorney jobs going away) to the DoJ on civil rights issues. The statutes often don't specify which Fedgov department does the task but simply some department does.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:33 PM (E4rtv)

157 Well, Trump has fired a full third of all federal employees, so it's a start.

And yet the essential function of government -- pissing away money like a sailor on leave -- is unaffected.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 03:33 PM (vTZFs)

158 What the heck is he supposed to do with the site now?! Completely rebuild the East Wing?
Posted by: pookysgirl can actually think ahead at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (Wt5PA)

Why should they care? They don't create or build, they destroy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 03:33 PM (2nJ9I)

159 I need some BiNO-culars to see the issue clearly.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 03:03 PM (vTZFs)



Heh.

Well played, sir. Well played.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:34 PM (QX6xo)

160 Nope, this thread is making me too murdery.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)
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You know who else was murdery?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 03:34 PM (amcLV)

161 hILLRY o O needs another face lift.

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:34 PM (UjdFS)

162
What the heck is he supposed to do with the site now?! Completely rebuild the East Wing?
Posted by: pookysgirl can actually think ahead at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (Wt5PA)



He should just continue building. F*ck them. They have no say........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (QX6xo)

163 >>>They're hoping that they can delay it all until they can steal the WH again and some Dem can claim credit for the upgrade.

don't forget tripling the cost and laundering it all through our preferred "contractors"

plus the environmental study, tribal grounds study, climate change impact study, the land acknowledgment, and the DEI focused redesign

Posted by: DNC at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (sCxmP)

164 Lawfare won't stop with the Marxists until they take over

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (Ia/+0)

165 What the heck is he supposed to do with the site now?! Completely rebuild the East Wing?
Posted by: pookysgirl can actually think ahead at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (Wt5PA)


Invite all the federal judges to an event at the WH and say that he sure hopes that no one gets it in their head to kill a bunch of folks since there's no protection there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (ExV1e)

166 This is why I have not taken polls seriously for a long time. It’s the narrative masquerading as a scientific poll assessing the probable outcome.
Posted by: Lizzy Clinton
====
And prediction markets are an even more abstracted version of popular wisdom which comes in a large dose from polling.

You can get reliable polling but it costs a bunch of money because you triangulate data sources--including rando geographic block surveys to check your suppositions as to the population being surveyed.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (E4rtv)

167 > judiciates. (if that's a word, I'm buying a lottery ticket).
----

adjudicate

yeah, today's courts exist solely to fuck with Trump

Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (ZxPkt)

168 157 Well, Trump has fired a full third of all federal employees, so it's a start.

And yet the essential function of government -- pissing away money like a sailor on leave -- is unaffected.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 03:33 PM (vTZFs)

As one who took Elon's buyout, I'd say a great many of those who left were the thinkers and movers, not the fools that apparently remain. The ones who know they are unemployable in the private sector held onto those government jobs like they were life itself.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (2nJ9I)

169 Hillary Clinton: A Democrat president must "get rid of all" Trump admin people so they don't subvert the Democrat administration.
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This is talking past the sale and that's all it is.

WHAT "Democrat president"?

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (6UXQp)

170 hILLRY o O needs another face lift.
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:34 PM (UjdFS)
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Another face lift and she'll have a goatee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (amcLV)

171 We had a little thunderstorm and the powers out here in rural northeast PA. Its at least the third time in the last month. I had to dump the contents of our freezer the last time because we weren't home at the time. We are tuning into a third world power grid, with it dropping out every time the wind blows.

Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (Sf0j5)

172 Anyone taking bets the Commissar Judge is born out of US?
Appointed by Clinton, Barky or Auto-Pen?

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)

173 Elissa Slotkin, the Jewish Dem senator from Michigan endorsed Mamdani on X.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 03:37 PM (Bz1XI)

174 ---------
Another face lift and she'll have a goatee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (amcLV)



Hillary......your beard is weird......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:37 PM (QX6xo)

175 Trump still has more than half his time left and Republicans still (for now) have the electoral and cultural advantage.

Hillary's scripted viral quote is meant to get everyone thinking "past Trump". Already.

They are trying to clear the board.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:38 PM (6UXQp)

176
Note: The new pop-up ad window continues to make this site difficult to use. The window is still there, but not visible, even after it appears to spontaneously close -- the site is unusable until the ad window is explicitly closed. Tapping anywhere on the page opens an ad web site until this is done. I don't think anybody is looking at the new ads, instead they just try to get rid of them.

I think this is doing real damage to this site -- fewer people looking at it. I hope this can be purged.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (DOcg9)

177 Good afternoon, friends. Shocker on the election.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

178 Cosda,
Stuff in your freezer is fine for a day, maybe longer if you just leave it alone and don’t open it.

Go to 7-11 and grab ice and toss stuff into a cooler if you’re desperate.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (W2Pud)

179 Brave

Posted by: Doug at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (B1+sW)

180 Anyone taking bets the Commissar Judge is born out of US?
Appointed by Clinton, Barky or Auto-Pen?
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)


The original order was a W judge. The appeals decision was 2-1. An Obama judge, a Biden judge, and a Trump judge.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (ExV1e)

181 Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (Sf0j5

Sorry to hear about the troubles. Hope that power is restored soon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (rHgXV)

182 I think this is doing real damage to this site -- fewer people looking at it. I hope this can be purged.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (DOcg9)
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AdBlock Plus.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (amcLV)

183 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (YT4ZZ)

184 Shocker on the election.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

You know else has a shocker of an election?

Posted by: Bob Dole at August 07, 2026 03:41 PM (6UXQp)

185 Barky and Auto-Pen appointments
East Wing was some cultural landmark or something

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:41 PM (Ia/+0)

186 Nood. Woke.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:41 PM (ExV1e)

187 I think this is doing real damage to this site -- fewer people looking at it. I hope this can be purged.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07

Yes, we are aware. We have switched over to Brave or put ad blockers on. I hate it, because that is how Ace makes revenue, so I suffered through th front page ads. But the pop ups because untenable so I switched to Brave.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

188 I'm quite sure Katie Hobbs will make sure everything is on the up and up in AZ.

Last time she was officially in charge of monitoring her own election for governor. And refused any debates with her opponent. How can you be in charge of monitoring your own election? And she's already stating she won't debate her challenger this time either. Her usual excuse is that they are "election deniers". You know, the elections she supposedly oversaw.

Posted by: Azjaeger at August 07, 2026 03:42 PM (3/XaG)

189 Good afternoon, friends. Shocker on the election.
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (ZdaMQ)



Did you just Jim Nantz us?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:42 PM (QX6xo)

190 Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (YT4ZZ)

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Population declined. 292,000 removed from the workforce, all from 16-59 age group.

Meaning deportations.

Our population is declining (2025 saw the first overall population decline since the 60s because of deportations).

Do you expect 150,000 jobs per month on average when population is declining?

Also, most of the jobs decline was because of decreased public sector employment. Manufacturing was up 50,000.

Also, go eat some hobo ass.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:43 PM (bvy21)

191 New cowboy movie.

https://tinyurl.com/43f49tx7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:43 PM (ndZc7)

192 178 Cosda,
Stuff in your freezer is fine for a day, maybe longer if you just leave it alone and don’t open it.

Go to 7-11 and grab ice and toss stuff into a cooler if you’re desperate.
Posted by: nurse ratched
*********
I actually have a good sized generator but it's not set up for auto transfer. Last month we were on a trip and didn't know the power was out for four days despite being signed up for notifications from PPL Electric.

Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2026 03:45 PM (Sf0j5)

193 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:46 PM (QX6xo)

194 I think this is doing real damage to this site -- fewer people looking at it. I hope this can be purged.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Turn off javascript for this site. Sonobi was that sort of persistent ad.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (E4rtv)

195 For security reasons, few if any sites that you visit where you do not have some commercial relationship with like banks, etc. should have javascript shut off or pick a browser like Brave that does that sort of thing automatically and updates itself to do that.

A big no no is using web email on a Windoze computer where javascript is allowed to run scripts from your web email page. Allows malicious scripts to run which depending on which Java flaw it exploits, might escape the sandbox and damage your system.

A lot of beginning hackers are called script kiddies for a reason.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (E4rtv)

196 I think Asmongold got cancelled again, apparently for opposing the invasion of Spain.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (sKqQm)

197 Where did everyone go?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

198 1

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (c35xG)

Red Cross Animated Propaganda Feature Lauds Sharif for His Brave (Illegal) Journey to Greece to Culturally Enrich That Nation, Then Deletes the Cartoon After Sharif Cultural-Enrichment-Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase

The Red Cross should be prosecuted as a terrorist-adjacent organization.


The Red Cross has deleted a film tracking the journey of an Afghan migrant who is now accused of killing a British woman and hiding her body in a suitcase in Greece.

Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, was arrested on Monday over the murder of Scottish Christian Elisabeth-Jane Ross, in Athens.

Ahmadzai, a professional boxer who arrived in Greece on a small boat in 2016, is accused of killing Ms Ross before stuffing her body into a suitcase and ditching it in a derelict building.

The 38-year-old's body was found by a homeless man on July 18, three days after she is believed to have been killed.

It has now emerged the Afghan-national collaborated with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and a London artist to create a film following how he escaped Afghanistan and reached the Greek island of Lesbos aged 15.

The four-minute animated film, named Game of Life: The Story of Sharif, was first shown on YouTube in December 2016, and includes a narration of his six-week migrant crossing.

The sympathetic video follows how his father, who was a military commander, was killed in an ambush and his mother and siblings were killed by a suicide bomb attack in Kabul.

Ahmadzai, accompanied by friends, was then smuggled out of Afghanistan's capital and journeyed through Iran and Turkey, before he reached a refugee camp on Lesbos, named Moria.

The interview was conducted in Moria, and took place after Ahmadzai had been in the camp for six months.

The video opens with, 'each migrant has a story worthy of a Hollywood movie'.

Ahmadzai's journey from Afghanistan to Greece is said to have taken one-and-a-half months, with the smuggler quoted as calling it a 'game'.

During which time, Ahmadzai was arrested in Istanbul after his first attempt to cross into Greece, the video described, and was held in prison for three days.

The video also reveals Ahmadzai intended to reach the UK, where he claimed he had family who would look after him should he successfully cross from Greece.

Voiced by an actor, he says: 'She told me: "I can take full responsibility of you, if someone helps get you to the UK." But, if I can't get there, I don't know what will happen to me.'

Scott Craig, a spokesman for the charity, told the Daily Mail: 'Our thoughts remain with the family and friends of Elisabeth-Jane Ross at this extremely difficult time.

'The video is no longer publicly accessible. We took this decision out of consideration for Elisabeth's family while the legal proceedings continue.

'We cannot comment further while legal proceedings are ongoing.'

Oh you deleted the evidence out of respect for the victim's family, huh?

Fucking liars. The right must totally boycott this corrupt organization. Another charity, one that doesn't eagerly propagandize for terrorists or conspire with illegals to pass borders, will rise to replace it.

The Killer Migrant claims he discovered her dead and, "in a panic," decided it would be a good idea to stuff her body into a suitcase and hide it in an abandoned building.

"As you do," as people say online.

Just never-ending cultural enrichment:


We cannot welcome into our countries foreign pirates and barbaric predators who view us as an alien and despised prey species.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM




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1 BOLD SPONGE!

Posted by: Inogame at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (53oGX)

2 Stupid person died doing what they loved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (ExV1e)

3 >>>Sharif Cultural-Enrichment-Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase

That is suboptimal.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (lAE5c)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (2YhKe)

5 A bold statement, ace!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (aJQbY)

6 HTML Tags........


How do dey werk?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (2YhKe)

7 My sympathies for some of the proponents of this so-called "cultural enrichment" are pretty much pegged at zero.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 01:22 PM (2Cry5)

8 Sharif likes it...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:22 PM (XuXeR)

9 I heard some very nasty stories about the Red Cross during a local disaster 20 years ago. They're bastards. It's much more widely known now but back then no.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:22 PM (6UXQp)

10 NEWS: Migrants in the UK are staging fake crashes to commit insurance fraud pic.twitter.com/PK8zeNEuxR

I have to admit that this looks like normal footage from any time I drive in Boston

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)

11 Mexicans used to do the car crash thing in California in the 80s and 90s. Maybe they still do.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (Bz1XI)

12 *stuffs story in suitcase*

Posted by: The Media at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (MWfyi)

13 The Red Cross is an international commie organization.

Should be renamed The Red Star.

Posted by: The Salvation Red Army at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (45BvE)

14 I liked The Bold Ones on TV. Didn't last long, though.

Posted by: TV Hall of Fame at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (JM9I6)

15 These refugees are just murdering the British women that native Europeans won't, really it is an act of love

Posted by: Jeb Bush at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)

16 I'm wondering how big the suitcase and the lady was.

Or was there a need for, um, processing.
Because that would be a lot of work.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 01:24 PM (Sco7b)

17 Never give money to red cross. Always was a money scam. Collected coffee money from WWII soldiers too.

Posted by: little people at August 07, 2026 01:24 PM (ehY6c)

18
The sympathetic video follows how his father, who was a military commander, was killed in an ambush and his mother and siblings were killed by a suicide bomb attack in Kabul.

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Bullshit.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 01:25 PM (kf4RM)

19 The Red Cross should be prosecuted as a terrorist-adjacent organization.***
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Red Cross is an arm of the Administrative State.

Posted by: braenyard at August 07, 2026 01:25 PM (IpPh0)

20 I'm reminded of the "refugee" that died in a shoot out with the cops in VA in 2025.

The cops pulled him over for expired tags and asked to see his license, which he refused to do and after the cops spent a ton of time trying to talk sense into him the refugee pulled out a gun and got himself shot.

But while he was talking to the cops he blamed them and the west as a whole for all of his problems because back in Afghanistan he didn't have to register a car, show up to work on time, fill out his taxes and on and on.

There is no place for Muslims in the west - send them home where they can live by their own ways.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm)

21 Speaking of the Red Cross, they are in Ceuta (Spanish Enclave) feeding the illegal migrants making it easier to stay where they are, instead of the lack of food and resources forcing them to return to where they came from. They claim it is to help limit the crime that resulted from the illegal migrants stealing and looting to exist. That tells you all about the priorities of all parties involved.

I'd say that makes them complicit in the illegal mass migration event.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:27 PM (dIske)

22 Oh, some guy named Sharif.

Not Omar Sharif.

"Sharif don't like it..."

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 07, 2026 01:27 PM (gHSfI)

23 I just can't get upset about this.

She wasn't a random victim like Laken Riley was. She actively pursued this outcome. She voted for representation who actively pursued this outcome. She condemned as racist and bigoted anyone who didn't want this outcome.

Fine.

She was savagely and horribly murdered. At least it wasn't someone random. She actively and deliberately participated in her own death.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 01:27 PM (AdHga)

24 Ok so a few women get butchered. Small price to pay for all the exquisite ethic restaurants we have.
- European Elites

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:28 PM (Bz1XI)

25
I'd say that makes them complicit in the illegal mass migration event


Muslims believe Christians can...AND WILL...give them jizya. And you know...they are write.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:28 PM (sKqQm)

26 The only thing that will set me off like the Jehovah's Witnesses is the Red Cross. What. A. Farce.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 01:28 PM (JvZF+)

27 stuffs story in suitcase"

There's more to the story, too... seems his wife and the victim are/ were members of migrant assistance groups...

White women.

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:28 PM (XuXeR)

28 We cannot welcome into our countries foreign pirates and barbaric predators who view us as an alien and despised prey species.

Or CAN'T we?

Posted by: Idiot AWFLs at August 07, 2026 01:28 PM (Riz8t)

29 Number of visits by Red Cross to hostages in Gaza: zero point zero.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 01:29 PM (JvZF+)

30 So BOTH sides participate in the crash scam? Doesn't that screw up their insurance?

Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:29 PM (q177U)

31 Ok so a few women get butchered. Small price to pay for all the exquisite ethic restaurants we have.
- European Elites
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker

Except if I'm going for doner kebob, I refuse to eat at any restaurant that advertises itself as "halal."

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (77rzZ)

32 Do ethic restaurants lecture you on the morality of what you're eating?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (amcLV)

33 Sharif Cultural-Enrichment-Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase

That is suboptimal.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (lAE5c)

Getting it zipped completely around that last leg is always a bitch

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (6UXQp)

34 >>a refugee camp on Lesbos
__
I see a problem here.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (bNf8H)

35 I've argued for a while that Trump should build all of the invader holding facilities in upper class leftists areas.

The fun of making them deal with the protesters and the occasional escapee/person released would be hillarious

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

36 My insurance company (USAA) used to send out stickers to put on your car. I never did that. It's like saying "Hit me first!"

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (2WIwB)

37 Mexicans used to do the car crash thing in California in the 80s and 90s"

Became an epidemic in the early 2000s. Sold a lot of dashcams...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (XuXeR)

38 I think the pop-up Samsonite ad in the comments is a little tasteless

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (6UXQp)

39 Fine.

She was savagely and horribly murdered. At least it wasn't someone random. She actively and deliberately participated in her own death.


A part of me wishes that I didn't feel this way but I do. It's like what I said the other day about New York and California, just on a much smaller scale.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (vTZFs)

40 BOTH sides participate in the crash scam? Doesn't that screw up their insurance?
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:29 PM (q177U)

The invaders don’t have insurance. Probably no license either.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (Bz1XI)

41 Fraud, you say? Like in California, where 62% of people signed up for Medicaid apparently don't qualify but the state admits them to the program anyway?

"It's just cruel!" to kick them out, say advocates, regardless of the law, including foreigners who travel to California just to get medical care under the program.

https://tinyurl.com/4mamenzk

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:31 PM (ty63H)

42 I knew a guy from Lesbos. And its funny because its just another greek island (and kind of a poor one), but we all associated it with the WNBA all because a female Greek poet 3K years ago wrote a love poem about a woman.

Because, you know, writers never ever write a story that isn't actually centered on them and things they've personally done.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

43 @20

>>There is no place for Muslims in the west - send them home where they can live by their own ways.

What the world needs is Reform Islam. who is Islam's Martin Luther?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (XV/Pl)

44 >>a refugee camp on Lesbos
__
I see a problem here.


It's probably not nearly as interesting as all the documentaries make it out to be.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (vTZFs)

45
Tales from the old guys in the service in the 50's always involved what assholes the Red Cross were to service members and how good the Salvation Army was.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (Y8DZL)

46 Honestly, we need MORE of this. Let the people doing it directly face the consequences of what they are doing.

Eventually some will learn.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (sKqQm)

47 38 I think the pop-up Samsonite ad in the comments is a little tasteless
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (6UXQp)


Next thing will be some gorilla throwing the case around.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (2WIwB)

48 The invaders don’t have insurance. Probably no license either"

"Here, have a driving license. Free. With a real id star."

/ your state DMV

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:33 PM (XuXeR)

49 Ok so a few women get butchered. Small price to pay for all the exquisite ethic restaurants we have.
- European Elites
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker
==========================
Hey, look buster, someone has to fan me! We don't have air conditioning, you brute.

Posted by: Mrs. Macron at August 07, 2026 01:33 PM (ty63H)

50
What the world needs is Reform Islam. who is Islam's Martin Luther?


They had one. Sayyid Qutb and I say bring back the earlier lazy and corrupt from of islam.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:33 PM (sKqQm)

51 I still believe there's about 30% of the Western population, the strong part that just wants to be left alone, which will at some point go apeshit and clean house.

Fully clean house.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 01:34 PM (Sco7b)

52 What the world needs is Reform Islam. who is Islam's Martin Luther?"

Nailed it...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:34 PM (XuXeR)

53 What the world needs is Reform Islam. who is Islam's Martin Luther?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (XV/Pl)



Enola Gay.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:34 PM (2YhKe)

54 It's probably not nearly as interesting as all the documentaries make it out to be.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (vTZFs)
====================
Pornhub reference!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, wondering when Ace next posts lesbian pron at August 07, 2026 01:34 PM (ty63H)

55 The Red Cross caused the Bolshevik Revolution

Posted by: J Edward Griffin at August 07, 2026 01:34 PM (2ap+5)

56 Tales from the old guys in the service in the 50's always involved what assholes the Red Cross were to service members and how good the Salvation Army was.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (Y8DZL)


My experiences were few but positive. (80's and 90's).
But yeah, eventually everything the left touches they fu*k it up.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 01:35 PM (2WIwB)

57 It was "pack your bag" not "pack your hag".

He's probably not real fluent in Spanish or whatever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 01:35 PM (2Cry5)

58 As someone on the twitter once said:

We should not be accepting male refugees from Afghanistan. What are you fleeing from, oppressing women?

Posted by: Cave Johnson at August 07, 2026 01:36 PM (lgGrU)

59 He's probably not real fluent in Spanish or whatever."

It's Greek to me...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:36 PM (XuXeR)

60 What the world needs is Reform Islam. who is Islam's Martin Luther?

Not possible.

Anyone deviating from or attempting to leave Islam gets killed.

Questioning is a capital crime in Islam.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 01:36 PM (AdHga)

61
I'm having trouble with the timeline.

He's 26 now, he arrived in Greece as a professional boxer in 2016?

Well, okay, pro boxer at the age of 16, then did what for 10 years? Where?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (mmrXZ)

62 On my local farcebook feed I have people saying you shouldn't feed birds or squirrels because they'll lose the ability to feed themselves, meanwhile the same people tell me Trump killed a brazillian people by ending USAID

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

63 It was "pack your bag" not "pack your hag".

He's probably not real fluent in Spanish or whatever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 01:35 PM (2Cry5)



Take my wife.......PLEASE!

Posted by: Henny Youngman at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (2YhKe)

64 From the article:
Ahmadzai converted to Christianity and married US-born Christian Alaina Hall in 2023 before they set up a ministry helping refugees in Athens.

The couple are believed to have known Ms Ross, who was also a Christian volunteer, through their work.


Odds that either a) he was having an affair with Ms. Ross and she wasn't going to keep quiet about it or b) he wanted to and she didn't?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (9ZFZd)

65 The Red Cross was always a terrible "charity". Never give them another dime.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (V362x)

66 Happy Guadalcanal Day to all the First Division Marines and Navy folks here today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (ty63H)

67 We should not be accepting male refugees from Afghanistan. What are you fleeing from, oppressing women?"

Pissed off sheep. And goats.

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (XuXeR)

68 What the world needs is Reform Islam. who is Islam's Martin Luther?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (XV/Pl)

Baked into Islam is the idea that Mo is the "final" prophet and the Koran is the ultimate last word on Allah and no new divine messages will follow.

It's almost like they thought of everything...

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (6UXQp)

69 Speaking of real id

I flew recent and forgot to take my passport with me. I don’t and never will get the real id bullshit. Anyway tsa was like oh scan this code on your phone, pay $45 and your regular license is fine.

Do you all feel so much safer now? Lol. 20 years implementing real ID and all along it was just a giant federal govt money grab having nothing to do with sAfeTy.
Shocking.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Bz1XI)

70 NEWS: Migrants in the UK are staging fake crashes to commit insurance fraud

Lol. Why wreck your stolen car for money, when you can just scam the government? That's where the real money is anyway.

Posted by: Minnesota Somalis at August 07, 2026 01:38 PM (ZwRB6)

71 The problem with this culture is that women aren't allowed any back-sass or to be resistant. Women need to be more compliant like the goats.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 01:39 PM (iySPJ)

72 The Red Cross was always a terrible "charity". Never give them another dime.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (V362x)



I remember my grandfather not having anything nice to say about Unicef back in the day. Don't know why, tho.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:39 PM (2YhKe)

73 NEWS: Migrants in the UK are staging fake crashes to commit insurance fraud

Lol. Why wreck your stolen car for money, when you can just scam the government? That's where the real money is anyway.
Posted by: Minnesota Somalis at August 07, 2026 01:38 PM (ZwRB6)




Those fools have some serious learing to do.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:39 PM (2YhKe)

74 Baked into Islam is the idea that Mo is the "final" prophet and the Koran is the ultimate last word on Allah and no new divine messages will follow"

That works as we're all born Muslim.

Don't you feel better already?

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (XuXeR)

75 I wonder when we get a beautiful love story created by AI about the most amazing love story in human history - Mo and Aisha.

Distribution might be an issue.
But if the West burns afterwards....meh.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (Sco7b)

76
Odds that either a) he was having an affair with Ms. Ross and she wasn't going to keep quiet about it or b) he wanted to and she didn't?
Posted by: Dr. Fausti

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

I read the story somewhere. It was strictly for money -- not even much of it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (mmrXZ)

77 Well, when the UK only gives you 20 weeks in jail, I'm sure these criminals feel the benefits outweigh the risks.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (NpAcC)

78 I flew recent and forgot to take my passport with me. I don’t and never will get the real id bullshit. Anyway tsa was like oh scan this code on your phone, pay $45 and your regular license is fine.

Do you all feel so much safer now? Lol. 20 years implementing real ID and all along it was just a giant federal govt money grab having nothing to do with sAfeTy.
Shocking.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Bz1XI)
=======================
When I fly now they don't check my ID at all. I signed up for "Touchless ID", and they use my photo from when I signed up for TSA Pre. I stand for a second in front of a camera and walk through.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (ty63H)

79 >>> Baked into Islam is the idea that Mo is the "final" prophet and the Koran is the ultimate last word on Allah and no new divine messages will follow.

It's almost like they thought of everything...
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (6UXQp)


triple stamp, no take backsies, touch blue to make it true

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 01:41 PM (3uBP9)

80 I don't need the luggage anymore so why not stuff the body into my suitcase.

Posted by: Illegal Immigrant at August 07, 2026 01:41 PM (Wt1Rs)

81 Your average leftist white woman would say "they immigrant helpers just aren't doing it right".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 01:41 PM (KY+FT)

82 Tell me again all about settler-colonialism.

Because what is happening around me must be something else.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 01:41 PM (JvZF+)

83
Do you all feel so much safer now? Lol. 20 years implementing real ID and all along it was just a giant federal govt money grab having nothing to do with sAfeTy.
Shocking.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Bz1XI)


Getting Real ID in Washington State is a supreme pain in the ass.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 01:42 PM (2WIwB)

84 The Red Cross has been a filthy scam for decades. Just another one-legit organization that's been corrupted by commie pigs and America-haters.

I knew for sure when RC was soliciting donations after 9-11. The implication was clearly that the donations would be used to help 9-11 victims and their families.

The RC was raking in piles of donations from 9-11, more money than it ever had before. 9-11 was a generational event, and lots of people wanted to help out.

Then the truth came out: RC was using donations solicited for 9-11 as any old general donations for general projects.

That meant the money people donated to help American victims of foreign terrorism was in large part going to ... foreign countries including Islamic ones.

It was a low-down dirty rotten scam. So fuck RC.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)

85 The Red Cross was always a terrible "charity". Never give them another dime.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (V362x)
====================
I think the International Red Cross and the American Red Cross are totally different organizations. I sort of recall a friend involved with the American Red Cross earnestly telling me they are different and please don't stop giving to the good guys. Or something.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (ty63H)

86 Sidebar -
Bro spent four years/4000 hours painting an eleven-foot long cutaway-view layout of the USS Enterprise
____
All that time spent and no cutaway of crew quarters and Lieutenant Mira Romaine showering? Disappointing.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (Dv3i1)

87 >>a refugee camp on Lesbos
__
I see a problem here.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM


*nods*

It should be Lesvos.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (Wnv9h)

88 Real mass illegal migration has never been tried.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (6UXQp)

89 When I fly now they don't check my ID at all. I signed up for "Touchless ID", and they use my photo from when I signed up for TSA Pre. I stand for a second in front of a camera and walk through.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Not every airport has that yet. I have clear and that’s basically toucess ID as well. But it’s only available at large airports for the most part. Flying out of secondary airports you still need a physical ID by and large.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (Bz1XI)

90
"...Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase."

Was that wrong?
Should I not have done that?

Posted by: The Costanza Defense at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (2Ez/1)

91 When I fly now they don't check my ID at all. I signed up for "Touchless ID", and they use my photo from when I signed up for TSA Pre. I stand for a second in front of a camera and walk through.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (ty63H)
=====

We know who you are.

Posted by: NSA Bob at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (JvZF+)

92 The civilization destroying damage that the collusion between these "feel-good", humanitarian charitable organizations and the collaborationist media is prophetically described in The Camp of the Saints. Written in 1973 and it's as if the author Jean Raspail foresaw what's happening today. Of course it was happening then too.


I'm re-reading it just now and am astounded at its prescience.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (Rl+wE)

93 What the world needs is Reform Islam. who is Islam's Martin Luther?
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Baha'ism came out of Islam, and it's pacifist, so it's kind of like a reformed Islam.

Of course, the muzzies don't consider it a form of Islam at all.

And the world headquarters of Baha'ism is...in Israel!

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (77rzZ)

94 Huck @66, beat you to it with Guadalcanal Day - 84 years ago.

Fellow volunteer at a military museum (on a Marine base) was a Canal vet (aviation ground crew). When he asked the sentry at the gate one Aug. 7 why today was an important Marine anniversary, the kid knew! We were very surprised and impressed.

My friend *volunteered* to go to the Canal after the Night of the Battleships attack had inflicted many casualties. You see, his buddy from boot camp was with a squadron there. 18-yr old thinking.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (U/Byj)

95 The luggage leaked Holly all over the closet floor and into the apartment downstairs and led to my incarceration.
Do not use luggage to hide your bodies.

Posted by: Zombie Ira Einhorn at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (Wt1Rs)

96 Mexicans were doing the insurance crash thing in CA ~40 years ago

Posted by: barbarausa at August 07, 2026 01:45 PM (enw9G)

97 > I flew recent and forgot to take my passport with me. I don’t and never will get the real id bullshit.

What?

Typically, people object to real id because they say it's a de-facto national ID system that enables surveillance. That there are privacy risks. That it's federal overreach.

But if you're using a passport, you've basically given up ground on every one of those topics. You've got a national ID that enables surveillance and obviates privacy. I'm confused.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 01:45 PM (mkw2N)

98 Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase."
---------

I guess he knows about the cup sizes.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:46 PM (6UXQp)

99 98 Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase."
---------

I guess he knows about the cup sizes.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:46 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: Frank Costanza at August 07, 2026 01:47 PM (2Ez/1)

100 It should be Lesvos.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Have you ever been there?

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:47 PM (77rzZ)

101 Huck @66, beat you to it with Guadalcanal Day - 84 years ago.

Fellow volunteer at a military museum (on a Marine base) was a Canal vet (aviation ground crew). When he asked the sentry at the gate one Aug. 7 why today was an important Marine anniversary, the kid knew! We were very surprised and impressed.

My friend *volunteered* to go to the Canal after the Night of the Battleships attack had inflicted many casualties. You see, his buddy from boot camp was with a squadron there. 18-yr old thinking.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (U/Byj)
==================
The only reason I know, being honesst about it, is that my old man is reading "Guadalcanal Diary" right now and he greeted me at lunch with the news.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:48 PM (ty63H)

102 I'm begining to think there are a lot of crazy people among us.
But it helps to know I own a gun and it's loaded and if crazy gets anywhere near me I am ready.

Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 01:48 PM (fV9m3)

103 Baha'ism came out of Islam, and it's pacifist, so it's kind of like a reformed Islam.

I had a discussion with a guy claiming that Islam worshiped the same God as Christianity and I pointed out that Bahai claims the same things about Islam that Islam claims about Christianity so if Islam denies Bahai because their Holy Book says it is not the same religion, aren't Christians also correct in denying Islam as the Bible clearly says it is not the same God?

And while I didn't get him to agree it did cause him some significant cognitive dissonance so I think the Bahai example is a good one people should bring up more.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:48 PM (sKqQm)

104 Getting Real ID in Washington State is a supreme pain in the ass.
Posted by: Diogenes

I had no problems at all.
- Juan Delgado-Lopez, Washington “resident”

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:48 PM (Bz1XI)

105 I can tell you the standard process they use on the auto insurance fraud. They rarely use personal vehicles. Instead, with a drivers license they will rent both vehicles and opt in for the insurance coverage (minimal fee). Then they will stage the accident. In urban areas they stay in the vehicle and due a simple rearender. In rural areas they will actually vacate the vehicle in front and really ram it.

The second vehicle doing the damage is, ideally, a U-Hall truck, for more drama. Then, they report it, and usually falls under the self-insured retention of the rental company, which means half ass claims guys with little experience get hoodwinked into paying out Bodily injury on the occupants.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:48 PM (dIske)

106 The Red Cross has a useful component acting as an intermediary between family and the government - military, in the event of an emergency, sickness or illness. Contact the Red Cross. These messages get through red tape quickly and they help getting the service member home quickly when time is important. Tickets, lodging, etc.

My brain dead progressive sister in law didn’t do any of this when my father had a fall and was in serious condition. I was on a field problem overseas. She sent an email to a throwaway Hotmail account. Stupid

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 01:49 PM (dE511)

107 It's like a nude beach. Sounds good until you get there.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at August 07, 2026 01:49 PM (2Ez/1)

108 Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase."
---------
Wait, isn't that what Earf Day guy also did?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:49 PM (ty63H)

109 Our Earth Day founder!

Time Magazine, Behind the Photo That Made People Think Earth Day Was Founded by a Convicted Killer

I was at the 1st celebration. He was, eventually, a convicted killer after girlfriend was found stuffed in a suitcase.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 01:49 PM (NFX2v)

110 But if you're using a passport, you've basically given up ground on every one of those topics. You've got a national ID that enables surveillance and obviates privacy. I'm confused.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 01:45 PM (mkw2N)

We’ve had passports for centuries.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:49 PM (Bz1XI)

111 I accidentally wandered onto Jamaica's nude beach once and it was mostly old naked French guys.

But the day was saved by a couple of young Canuck women doing a photo shoot of each other...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:51 PM (sKqQm)

112 "...which means half ass claims guys with little experience get hoodwinked into paying out Bodily injury on the occupants."
+++++

It's a write off, Jerry.

Posted by: Kramer at August 07, 2026 01:51 PM (2Ez/1)

113 On Red Crosses, there's the American, the International Federation of, and the International Committee of.

The 2nd one is the body that links all the national red crosses (and red crescents). The 3rd is the Swiss-based one that mainly attempts to monitor compliance with the Geneva Conventions.

Extensive direct experience (all international, overseas activities) with the Federation was pretty positive. They were helping organize/develop organizations in young/war-torn countries and helping with refugee stuff.

The Committee was very impressive, they do humanitarian aid where for various reasons others can't really do it. They helped me squelch a proposed US aid activity that was not needed and would have bad diplomatic fall-out. Thus my disgust when, after 9/11, their lawyers absurdly claimed the Conventions covered the new non-state actor battlefield.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 01:52 PM (U/Byj)

114 Snort

@libsoftiktok 49s
Former NBA player Enes Freedom declares he is signing up for the WNBA

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 01:52 PM (diia5)

115
The popular fake crash set-up here is when you're about to pull out of a parking lot onto a street,

the approaching car will signal like their going to turn into the parking lot and drive their car as if they're about to turn,

then if you start into the road, assuming the turn, they'll gun the engine, straighten, and hit you.

And..bingo bango!...You caused a car accident!

Sudden stops like in that video are popular too.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 01:53 PM (iJfKG)

116 Are any of these places actually beneficent?

Posted by: Unkaren at August 07, 2026 01:53 PM (ccX9M)

117 There's a new documentary out with al-Sayed saying how much he hates Mackinac.
Also Bernie isn't endorsing Hung in Wisconsin.
Just keep letting the crazies be crazies, make sure the Republicans show up and the Republicans keep both houses

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (KY+FT)

118 To the prayer warriors among us...

If you would please launch some prayers for my son. Spawn of Mayhem is having tests at the VA hospital for breathing issues. There are heart problems in the family and his biological father died at the age of 30 from a very aggressive lung cancer. I need my boy to be healthy for his wife and son.

Thank you.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (CdaaV)

119 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (CdaaV)

Prayers for your son...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 01:55 PM (FtULh)

120
Tales from the old guys in the service in the 50's always involved what assholes the Red Cross were to service members and how good the Salvation Army was.
Posted by: Auspex


Up until the Salvation Army went woke.

https://tinyurl.com/2p34afse

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 01:55 PM (Cqx++)

121 There's a new documentary out with al-Sayed saying how much he hates Mackinac.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

The bridge, the straits, the island, or the county?

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:56 PM (77rzZ)

122 If you liked Camp of the Saints you will like 1985 by Anthony Burgess.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 01:56 PM (JvZF+)

123 121 There's a new documentary out with al-Sayed saying how much he hates Mackinac.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

They have great fudge

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 01:57 PM (FtULh)

124 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (CdaaV)

Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:57 PM (77rzZ)

125 Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

Prayers going uppity!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 01:57 PM (2WIwB)

126 Prayers up, Madammayhem

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 01:58 PM (aJQbY)

127 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (CdaaV)

Madame am praying hard, been wondering bout you

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:58 PM (6UXQp)

128 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (CdaaV)


Done Madamemayhem!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 07, 2026 01:59 PM (Rl+wE)

129 Look out! Racist David Axelrod made Hong angry!

https://tinyurl.com/5n6d27e2

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 01:59 PM (ndZc7)

130 Boy spawn says that hospital looks, sounds, and feels like the movie Article 99.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:59 PM (CdaaV)

131 Prayers Madmayhem. Good luck and God bless

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 02:00 PM (KY+FT)

132 If you are waiting for government to solve this, take a number.

Your Number is: 8975309.

Now Serving: Number 2 !

Please be patient!

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2026 02:00 PM (TezPK)

133 "One can only hope that he raped her first, Anderson. Because Rape is Sexxy."

Posted by: E Jean Carrol at August 07, 2026 02:00 PM (uzmqU)

134 Thank you all. I haven't been here as much lately because summer life, and I'm getting full page ads that I can't get rid of. It's frustrating.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (CdaaV)

135 Oh, and used the Salvation Army for some projects too. Amazing crew. Their budgets were laughably (wonderfully) small, as their expat staff got paid pennies. They covered a unique but (temporarily) important area that we were anxious to address.

Having worked with so many organizations years ago, and seeing how impressive they were, it's been beyond shocking to see what they've become (partially, or largely, depending). People hearing of these outfits for the first time (my impression, most people) because of their distortion and enlistment in the recent vile disastrous project to flood the US with migrants, really can't appreciate just how outrageous the change has been.

Generational/standards decline, and the Obama years, wrought havoc far beyond what most people understand.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (U/Byj)

136 "Also Bernie isn't endorsing Hung in Wisconsin."

Hung is the Navy Secretary of the Navy, Hong is the Cray-Cray Secretary.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (DZ9Lv)

137 There's a new documentary out with al-Sayed saying how much he hates Mackinac
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He hates islands? Bicycles? Ice cream shops?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (tAI1y)

138 It does amuse me how a rando Rep congress candidate got cancelled and was THE issue of the election season for saying women are less likely to get pregnant if raped but E Jean Carroll's argument that rape is sexy is just ignored...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

139 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (CdaaV)
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Prayers up Madamemayhem!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 02:04 PM (tAI1y)

140 "Francesca" is such a lovely name. Too bad the lady is nuts.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

141 My mother never liked the Red Cross. She worked at a hospital's blood bank for over 30 years and she never had a kind word to say about them.

I'll be bringing this up when I talk with her again *very* soon just so she can say "I was right about those bastards!" yet again.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 02:05 PM (2qSHg)

142 My paternal grandmother (of blessed memory) was born in January of 1900, started volunteering for the Red Cross in 1917, founded the Grey Lady program there, and finally retired on her birthday in 2000 at the tender age of 100. 83 years of service. The organization is not the same now as it was.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 07, 2026 02:05 PM (JNTt1)

143 I watched that propaganda cartoon when this story first broke a couple days ago. You have to remember this important detail: Back in 2016, there was the very first pre-arranged "wave" of migrants coming into the EU from Muslims lands--and it was a mass crossing of Middle-Easterners who had gotten int Turkey and then taken small boats just a few miles across the Aegean to the island of Lesbos, which is right ff the coast of Turkey but part of Greece. The International left-- wh had probably arranged the entire invasion --wernt into OVERDRIVE in Europe with massive wall-to-wall propaganda in favor of the migrants -- sob stories, sympathy ploys on and on and on fior weeks on end. This cartoon was part of that propaganda push.

What happened in 2016 in Lesbos was very similar to what happened in Ceuta last week, but back then it was portrayed as a wonderful thing. Ten years later no one is fooled anymore, and now we it it as the enemy invasion that it is.

THe Red Cross are agents of the enemy army.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:05 PM (Av6i5)

144 -------
This tweet is a perfect example of why the consultant class keeps losing elections. They're totally clueless, and they're hellbent on keeping working-class people out of politics.
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The WWF DSA op continues apace.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:06 PM (6UXQp)

145 Court rules Trump can't build White House ballroom

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It's in the freedom from ballroom clause.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 02:06 PM (ndZc7)

146 It does amuse me how a rando Rep congress candidate got cancelled and was THE issue of the election season for saying women are less likely to get pregnant if raped...
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Still, he's too stupid for public office if he doesn't know better than saying things like that. That's "Guam might tip over" level of stupidity.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:07 PM (TN0g+)

147 "When Sharif got there he MURDERED a British Woman and stuffed her body into a suitcase"

I.....should not have done this? In my country this is considered carry on bag to bring woman on plane.

Posted by: Sharif Ahmadzai at August 07, 2026 02:09 PM (OkYzo)

148 Still, he's too stupid for public office if he doesn't know better than saying things like that. That's "Guam might tip over" level of stupidity.

My point is the contrast between the two. Akin didn't even reach Hank Johnson levels of dumb and E Jean Carroll is saying stuff the Tate brothers would consider too controversial.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:10 PM (sKqQm)

149 136 "Also Bernie isn't endorsing Hung in Wisconsin."

Hung is the Navy Secretary of the Navy, Hong is the Cray-Cray Secretary.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (DZ9Lv)

I'm sure Bernie isn't supporting Hung either

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:11 PM (FtULh)

150 Don't overpack. You'll want room for souvenirs.

Posted by: Rick Steves at August 07, 2026 02:11 PM (wGerL)

151 I.....should not have done this? In my country this is considered carry on bag to bring woman on plane.
Posted by: Sharif Ahmadzai at August 07, 2026 02:09 PM (OkYzo)

Do you see a sign saying "Dead Chick Storage" here?

Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 02:12 PM (2qSHg)

152
He read "The Ira Einhorn Guide to Relationships".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 02:12 PM (O0L8i)

153 each migrant has a story worthy of a Hollywood movie

Yeah. Birth of a Nation. Or Psycho.

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 02:12 PM (kU0PQ)

154 Our jeans have lots of ballroom.

Posted by: Duluth Trading at August 07, 2026 02:12 PM (2Ez/1)

155 150 Don't overpack. You'll want room for souvenirs.
Posted by: Rick Steves at August 07, 2026 02:11 PM (wGerL)

And let the locals steal your stuff.. You're rich.. You can afford it.... Regards, Rick

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:13 PM (FtULh)

156 Let those of us who have not stuffed a corpse into a suitcase cast the first stone.

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 02:14 PM (UjdFS)

157 Also Bernie isn't endorsing Hung in Wisconsin."

Hung is the Navy Secretary of the Navy, Hong is the Cray-Cray Secretary.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (DZ9Lv)

I'm sure Bernie isn't supporting Hung either
Posted by: It's me donna

I am!

Posted by: Pete DeMayo at August 07, 2026 02:14 PM (TezPK)

158 We cannot welcome into our countries foreign pirates and barbaric predators who view us as an alien and despised prey species.

There's an important moment in evolutionary history called "Great American Interchange," when Nrth America and South America, which used to be separated, finally bumped into each other and connected via the isthmus of Panama. When happened was: Felines (saber-tooth cats, panthers, lions, etc.) which had been romaing around North American eating things for millions of years, first were able to cross over into South America. What a feast awaited them there! An entire continent of juicy prey mammals, just waiting to be hunted to extinction. None f the animals in South American had ever encountered a large predator before, so they had not evolved to be fearful, and thus were easily hunted.

Some species went extinct. Others evolved tobe fearful, and survived, but now as a more parsanpid/skittish species.

That's the dilemma now facing the west. Facing an invasion of predators, o we stay naive and go extinct, or evolve self-protective behavior?

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:15 PM (Av6i5)

159 Today's New York Times has a friendly portrayal of Michigan candidate Abdul Rachman Al-Qaeda out today and the main thing the Times wants you to know is he has a mom.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 02:16 PM (6CYck)

160 The other hope against Hong in Wisconsin is David Crowley, an African American who had dropped out of the race and got back in. He said being called the "establishment candidate" , wait for it, ... racist.
The entire party is becoming profoundly silly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 02:17 PM (KY+FT)

161 That's the dilemma now facing the west. Facing an invasion of predators, o we stay naive and go extinct, or evolve self-protective behavior?
Posted by: zombie

Choose wisely!

Posted by: Zombie Knight at August 07, 2026 02:17 PM (TezPK)

162 >> Let those of us who have not stuffed a corpse into a suitcase cast the first stone.


I'm Out!

Posted by: Sarah Boone at August 07, 2026 02:18 PM (uzmqU)

163 The Red Cross that carried hamas terrorists around in their ambulances? That Red Cross or the one that collected all the Katrina funds and kept them?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 02:19 PM (3ZNGI)

164 9 I heard some very nasty stories about the Red Cross during a local disaster 20 years ago. They're bastards. It's much more widely known now but back then no.
Posted by: ...

Been true for decades, they fundraise off of current disasters and hold back a large portion of the donated money. Been scamming over blood donations for decades, and pay their executives well above average salaries while line workers get crap pay and benefits. Nasty vile organization that should be defunded and shut down.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 02:19 PM (E4rtv)

165 Regarding Akin and whether or not he is stupid --
It was a stupid thing to say but not because it is false. A woman's arousal secretions actually help transport sperm to where it needs to go and helps preserve its viability. Women usually are not aroused when they are r@ped. So the conception rate is somewhat lower than in consensual circumstances.

I think his overall point was that pregnancy from r@pe is not as common as the abortion proponents like to pretend in order to play on our sympathies.

Posted by: Emmie at August 07, 2026 02:19 PM (OlzlW)

166 Todays Free Press says book publishing has fallen to the barbarians:

If you think it’s overstating it to say that American publishing is governed by an insidious double standard, consider recent events at one of America’s biggest publishers. Last week, Simon & Schuster doubled down on its relationship with Palestinian American novelist Susan Abulhawa, despite her praise for a terrorist, her revival of Nazi-era antisemitic tropes, and her dark characterization of Jews as “ghouls,” “cockroaches,” and “demons.” At the same time, Jewish writers such as Alyssa Rosenheck and Meg Keene say they’ve had their events canceled, faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity, and had to deal with a publishing industry increasingly unwilling to stand behind them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 02:21 PM (6CYck)

167 That's the dilemma now facing the west. Facing an invasion of predators, o we stay naive and go extinct, or evolve self-protective behavior?
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:15 PM (Av6i5)

It will be like the Second Great American Interchange that started around 1492, and ended with most natives sick, enslaved, assimilated, and dead.

The Indians didn’t have border control, either.

This will be the Third Great American Interchange and I hope lessons have been learned.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

168 163 The Red Cross that carried hamas terrorists around in their ambulances? That Red Cross or the one that collected all the Katrina funds and kept them?
Posted by: Ben Had


No, it was the Red Cross that towed a rusty old ambulance out of a Beirut junkyard, stood on the roof and hacked a hole in it with an axe, then invited credulous journalists to photograph the shocking aftermath of an "Israeli missile strike on an ambulance." That Red Cross.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:22 PM (Av6i5)

169 Posted by: Emmie at August 07, 2026 02:19 PM (OlzlW)

I love that there is an interpretation for this but holy shit there's a thing called situational awareness and a month before a big national election is not the time to (for example) be shouting "rape is God's plan!" even if murdering ANY baby is legitimately the wrong thing to do. Not when the party has zero apparatus to do any "explaining". And you don't want to be explaining anyway.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:22 PM (6UXQp)

170

They say the fittest shall survive
Yet the unfit may live
Let 'em wear gaudy colors or avoid display
Hey it don't matter, it's all the same

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 02:22 PM (Cqx++)

171 I heard some very nasty stories about the Red Cross during a local disaster 20 years ago.

When the Blue Helmets or Red Cross are around, hide your children.

Posted by: Haiti at August 07, 2026 02:23 PM (E/qck)

172 One of the interesting aspects of the abortion debate is the obvious play for pro-lifers is to oppose elective abortion and leave rape/incest/health of the mother alone.

The problem with that though is the left will then just claim every abortion is rape/incest/health of the mother and on that latter point they'll claimed that being stopped from getting an abortion when you want one is psychologically damaging and therefore grounds for an abortion on a health exemption

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:23 PM (sKqQm)

173 Red Cross Animated Propaganda Feature Lauds Sharif for His Brave (Illegal) Journey to Greece to Culturally Enrich That Nation, Then Deletes the Cartoon
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Well, Sharif don't like it.

Posted by: The Clash at August 07, 2026 02:23 PM (YyTAm)

174 Commies love their borders once in power.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:23 PM (6UXQp)

175 156 Let those of us who have not stuffed a corpse into a suitcase cast the first stone.
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 02:14 PM (UjdFS)
_______________________________

I have a tough time stomaching the bigotry within the suitcase industry. Or maybe their marketing department is tone deaf. Most women are overweight these days, and it's hard to find a suitcase to accomodate the increased girth. They cater towards short, thin women, totally fat shaming to Bertha's and Gertrude's out there coming in about 5'10 200 to 300 lbs. AND, even if you find a suitcase big enough, the stupid thing doesn't have wheels on it. It's a good way to injure your back.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:25 PM (dIske)

176
I love that there is an interpretation for this but holy shit there's a thing called situational awareness and a month before a big national election is not the time to (for example) be shouting "rape is God's plan!"


This is true but this is also a problem in that R candidates have to say and act perfectly throughout the election cycle while D candidates can say anything.

This benefits Democrats, obviously, but also means you get fewer grass roots/normal people running as a Rep and more Mitt Romneys because unless you've trained yourself it is easy to make a gaff that will be used against you and the whole party.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:25 PM (sKqQm)

177 Last week, Simon & Schuster doubled down on its relationship with Palestinian American novelist Susan Abulhawa, despite her praise for a terrorist, her revival of Nazi-era antisemitic tropes, and her dark characterization of Jews as “ghouls,” “cockroaches,” and “demons.”
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The University of Pennsylvania thinks she's swell.
/texted this to friends just a few days ago when this came up

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 02:27 PM (JvZF+)

178
I have a tough time stomaching the bigotry within the suitcase industry.

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Have you seen our Plus Size suitcases? Perfect for transporting your murdered land whale, no matter how porkulent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 02:27 PM (O0L8i)

179 Commies love their borders once in power.
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The Vatican loves their borders. I'd be surprised if even ONE Senator or House Rep lives in an un-gated community.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:27 PM (TN0g+)

180 Retard Bernie Sanders stuck his foot in his mouth again.

Sanders was asked about El-Sayed’s embrace of Piker, who has previously stated that “America deserved 9/11,” admitted he supports Hamas terrorists, and has openly encouraged and endorsed the killing of the political opposition.

Incredibly, while Sanders said he didn’t agree with the 9/11 comments, he boiled them down to Piker saying something “dumb” because he’s streaming long hours on social media every day. Plus, haven’t we all said something dumb like that that we’ve later regretted?

Sanders also used the moment to condemn “cancel culture,” saying that Piker needed to be heard and respected

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 02:28 PM (YyTAm)

181 Have you thought much about luggage, Mr. Banks?

https://youtu.be/sLdvOjUgBYQ

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:28 PM (6ydKt)

182 It should be Lesvos.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Have you ever been there?
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:47 PM


Back in May. The RMBS Mom's side of the family comes from there.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 02:29 PM (Wnv9h)

183 Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:25 PM (sKqQm)

Trump did prove that of you stand behind your subject and not wilt and it sets you in much better stead. Sometimes you downplay but others you amplify or at least show you have a spine. When Mittens got caught with 47% he needed to stand firm. But he is a jellyfish so forget it.

That all said election season is no time to get "scientific" on the electorate. Let alone in matters of rape. It's as tone deaf as any corporate raider.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:29 PM (6UXQp)

184 I always thought the Red Cross and the Red Crescent were separate entities and unaffiliated. Turns out they are definitely affiliated financially....and via management.

So, we can gripe about the Red Cross highlighting murders as their primary success...or we can turn to the Red Crescent and note the efficiency in which they transport terrorists around Gaza, hide weapons caches, and particpate in staged events.

It's a target rich environment.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:29 PM (dIske)

185 I have a tough time stomaching the bigotry within the suitcase industry. Or maybe their marketing department is tone deaf. Most women are overweight these days, and it's hard to find a suitcase to accomodate the increased girth. They cater towards short, thin women, totally fat shaming to Bertha's and Gertrude's out there coming in about 5'10 200 to 300 lbs. AND, even if you find a suitcase big enough, the stupid thing doesn't have wheels on it. It's a good way to injure your back.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:25 PM


Steamer trunks ftw!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 02:30 PM (Wnv9h)

186 ....because unless you've trained yourself it is easy to make a gaff that will be used against you and the whole party...

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I understand why you're making your point, but Republicans should stop running candidates who feel like there's no danger in making off-the-cuff remarks about how rape isn't always as bad as it could be. That guy is an imbecile. We already have enough imbecilic Republicans.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:30 PM (TN0g+)

187 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 02:30 PM (Ia/+0)

188 We already have enough imbecilic Republicans.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:30 PM (TN0g+)

omg lawdy preach

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (6UXQp)

189 Trollolio

>>@jackunheard
·
13m
>>HOLY CRAP

>>Former NBA star Enes Freedom just announced he is signing up for the WNBA in the midst of coaches wanting trans people in the league.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (viF8m)

190 When you go down to adopt at the animal shelter, make sure you specify you want a 4-legged animal.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (iySPJ)

191 Oh, I thought that worthless waste of space murdered the poor Scottish woman within weeks of getting to Greece. I did not know he had been there for 10 years. If he was prone to murder tourists I wonder how many disappeared over the years and were never found.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2026 02:32 PM (PV+Zw)

192 When you go down to adopt at the animal shelter, make sure you specify you want a 4-legged animal.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (iySPJ)
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Because four legs good, two legs bad?

Posted by: Snowball the Pig at August 07, 2026 02:33 PM (YyTAm)

193 Some animals are more equal than others.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:34 PM (6ydKt)

194 156 Let those of us who have not stuffed a corpse into a suitcase cast the first stone.
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 02:14 PM
++++++++++

You want one big enough to use as a raft in the case the boat sunk:

https://youtu.be/FqKAcoYQhuE

Posted by: Jimmy Stewart at August 07, 2026 02:34 PM (2Ez/1)

195 192 When you go down to adopt at the animal shelter, make sure you specify you want a 4-legged animal.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (iySP

My husband works at an animal rescue and they have a couple 3 legged dogs....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:35 PM (nnep/)

196 Oh and he was a 'professional boxer' whatever that means in Greece; but I'd guess it means he was not living rough on the streets and simply knocked her out too hard mugging her.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2026 02:35 PM (PV+Zw)

197 The Marxists ard in bed wigh Islam

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 02:38 PM (Ia/+0)

198 >>Former NBA star Enes Freedom just announced he is signing up for the WNBA in the midst of coaches wanting trans people in the league.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (viF8m)
__________________

I'd watch that. Kanter (Enes) Freedom is 6'10" 260 lbs. And, a good egg. I'd wager he's pretty conservative based on the comments attributed to him.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:39 PM (dIske)

199 I haven't donated to the Red Cross in decades. I see them as only a fundraising organization with a strong PR wing

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 07, 2026 02:39 PM (VW/nr)

200 118 To the prayer warriors among us...

If you would please launch some prayers for my son. Spawn of Mayhem is having tests at the VA hospital for breathing issues. There are heart problems in the family and his biological father died at the age of 30 from a very aggressive lung cancer. I need my boy to be healthy for his wife and son.

Thank you.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (CdaaV)

I'm praying right now.

Posted by: Rhett Butt-ler at August 07, 2026 02:39 PM (0CU3H)

201 We already have enough imbecilic Republicans.

Posted by: Crusader

Slogan for the GOPe: Embrace the Suck!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 02:39 PM (ndZc7)

202 6'10 would make Freedom the 3rd tallest player in the WNBA and he's beefy until the others

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:40 PM (sKqQm)

203 The dude legally changed his last name to "Freedom" I think he's pretty based

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 02:40 PM (JvZF+)

204 I'm not sure is this important detail was even mentioned in the articles Ace links to, BUT in case you missed it:

The murdered Scottish woman was pretty much exactly like the American woman wh went o Ireland to hook up with Palestinian wife-beater who then murdered her: She has a "jungle fever" sex fetish for Muslim Bad Boys. The victim in this instance in Greece was basically the same--she had spend years "helping" virile migrant dudes in Southern Europe, "visiting them in the homes" and "disappearing" for days at a time with them, then reappearing with a big smile on her face. She knew this guy, had spend time with him on previous visit to Greece. But this time, something went wrong.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:40 PM (Av6i5)

205 Come Go With Me:

https://youtu.be/vLoTJaUDAug

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:41 PM (6ydKt)

206 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (7Q7Ca)

207 She knew this guy, had spend time with him on previous visit to Greece. But this time, something went wrong.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:40 PM (Av6i5)

Yeah. She let slip that she was a Christian.

You know how that angers the poor dears. Look what she made him do!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (AdHga)

208 And you don't want to be explaining anyway.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:22 PM (6UXQp)


This is why I stated that it was a stupid thing to say, because it requires explanation and that opportunity wasn't there.

But I do bristle at the suggestion that abortion is a boon to r@pe victims. It does not erase anything for the woman beyond shortening her pregnancy and adds the moral/emotional burden of being partner to the death of an innocent person.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (OlzlW)

209 Nood ballots.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (AdHga)

210 Nice Jewish Boys > Muslim Bad Boys

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (JvZF+)

211 I'd watch that. Kanter (Enes) Freedom is 6'10" 260 lbs. And, a good egg. I'd wager he's pretty conservative based on the comments attributed to him.

Yea, I've heard him do a few interviews and I don't know if he's 100% our team but he hates leftists and China with a passion. He pretty much torched his career by being so against China.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (viF8m)

212 >> Let those of us who have not stuffed a corpse into a suitcase cast the first stone.


I'm Out!
Posted by: Sarah Boone

We need common sense luggage control!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM (ndZc7)

213 199 I haven't donated to the Red Cross in decades. I see them as only a fundraising organization with a strong PR wing
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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I had dealings with them from local disaster relief efforts and on their blood donation locally in the 90's and it didn't help that they were paying Liddy Dole a million bucks salary back then.

They used to be the preferred ngo that the military dealt with and by the time I left, their rep was not that good there either.

The problem with any organization is that they become leftist and self dealing over time unless those people are purged from the organization from the get go. As our ruling class became globo homo, the organizations that were founded by a better class of ruling elites have went sour across the board and been infiltrated by nasty leftists.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:04 PM (E4rtv)

214 Sorry not sorry about that female NGO worker killer in Greece. As I said in a previous thread, I am totally okay with these AWFLs getting karmically enriched. No sympathy for those who are actively destroying our civilization.

Posted by: Butch at August 07, 2026 04:25 PM (98xTj)

215 not sure where the red cross is at.
pops worked for them for over fifty years (small craft, first aid, water safety, lifesaving).
one of my brothers almost sixty years (blood bank, blood drive, wrote alot of the safety instruction manuals).
moms and all of my other siblings did volunteer work, while my sisters husband was the tri- state midwest disaster relief director.
of course i never did anything with them. but they sure did some good.
too bad, feck 'em then.

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Bep7s)

Liberal White Women Are Among the Most Fanatical Supporters of "Decarceration" and Also, Its Most Imperiled Victims

North Carolina again.

Supposedly a red state. (Blue city of course -- Charlotte, where Iryna was butchered on video by a skel with a long list of previous arrests and indulgences.)


North Carolina career criminal arrested after attacking, chasing women in terrifying social media videos

By Nicholas McEntyre


A North Carolina career criminal is accused of randomly punching and hospitalizing a woman while chasing down another victim in a separate attack as he posted the disturbing footage across social media.

Di-Quan Schafar Hunt was arrested Thursday for committing the alleged assault in a residential neighborhood on the 400 block of East Boulevard in Charlotte, NC, on July 30, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said.

Police busted Hunt, 32, when the department was presented with several videos on his social media page, where the brute posted about his physical confrontations.


Hunt was recording himself talking about a "real issue" that happened on July 21st when he crossed paths with the unidentified woman holding a get-well balloon.


"Nah, don't wave to me," Hunt yelled at the defenseless woman, sending him into a fiery rage and punching his victim to the ground.

The 5-foot-9, 220-pound brute hovered over the motionless woman and screamed racial slurs at her as she lay on the pavement.

It's critical that all white people avoid racial slurs.

But all minorities can use them as they please, while beating innocent strangers into the pavement. Just some good ol' Street Reparations.


"You still talking? You still talking?" Hunt yelled. "July 21st. Say Elijah. Elijah my son, Motherf--ker you playing."

Hunt ripped the broken frames from the woman's sunglasses, kicked the balloon from the woman's hand and ran off.

In a separate, undated video, Hunt -- as he was ranting about McDonald's -- charged at another woman as she was walking on the sidewalk before chasing her around a car.

"You wanna run bitch, you wanna run motherf--ker, huh? I betcha run again motherf--ker," he yells in the video.

On Thursday morning, officers responded to an "attempt to locate" call in the heart of Charlotte, where they were shown the disturbing videos posted by Hunt.

Hunt was taken into custody on an arrest warrant at around 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

He immediately began spamming out excuses and complaints of "you're hurting me" (or the like) so they brought him to a medical center.

After his release from the center, he will be transported to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office and charged with Assault with a Deadly Weapon.

Hunt, a well-known vagrant in the city, has been arrested at least nine times over the last 34 months in Mecklenburg County, according to jail records viewed by The Post.

Those cases include simple assault, assault on a female, assault with a deadly weapon, trespassing, domestic violence protective order violation and probation violation.

Between December 2012 and June 2019, he was arrested three times for assault on a female, three times for domestic violence protective order violation, and once for discharging a firearm in the city and injury to personal property, according to WCNC.

All those cases had been dismissed.

Matt Van Swol
@mattvanswol


🚨#BREAKING: I can confirm that the man arrested this week for violent street attacks on a woman in Charlotte was FREE BECAUSE OF A PLEA DEAL IN MARCH.

Diquan Shafar Hunt was arrested in December 2025 for Assault with a Deadly Weapon and three other charges.

On March 18, 2026, he took a plea from Judge Joseph Setzer Jr.

Guilty to two charges.

Two dismissed.

Sentence: just 89 days in prison

He walked out that same day.

Just 4 months later, he begins filming himself beating women on the streets of Charlotte NC.

Diquan had been arrested 14 previous times including for multiple assault on women charges, domestic violence charges, breaking and entering, and resisting arrest.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM




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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

2 And SPONGE!!

Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

3 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 12:12 PM (IFsWJ)

4 Jackals go after the weakest in the herd.

Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (VJX5o)

5 What a mess.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)

6 Di-Quan Schafar Hunt "

Let me guess. Related to the Main Line Hunts?
Amish?
Mennonites?

Hmmm

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (XuXeR)

7 Animals. Put them down and be done with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (2Cry5)

8 4 Jackals go after the weakest in the herd.
Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (VJX5o)

Especially when they are encouraged to do so.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)

9 Di-Quan Schafar Hunt sounds like a perfect candidate for a Cambridge professorship.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

10 And none of these judges ever suffer any consequences for their malpractice.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 12:14 PM (NcvvS)

11 Animals. Put them down and be done with it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Yeah. Fuck due process for these savages.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

12 North Carolina career criminal arrested after attacking, chasing women
====

If this wasn't state policy how would the state act differently?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 12:14 PM (JvZF+)

13 Another Setzer.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 12:15 PM (Cqx++)

14 Take a CCW class, get trained, get armed, and if this happens, defend yourself.

Posted by: Advice to young women at August 07, 2026 12:15 PM (XE5AP)

15 Women are in danger due to all men and not, specifically, the men who've previously shown a willingness to harm women or the ones whose culture says that women are mobile furniture. Mostly white, Christian, men. They're the ones who we want the government to deal with. Unless they're tall, good looking, and rich. Those guys are okay. -- AWFLs

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:15 PM (ExV1e)

16
Fuck due process for these savages.

He's had plenty of due process.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 12:16 PM (Cqx++)

17 He seems nice...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 12:16 PM (XeU6L)

18 Noticing they always attack women and girls is sexist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 12:16 PM (JvZF+)

19 A North Carolina career criminal...

You can't have a criminal career without a supportive and nurturing government behind you.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 12:16 PM (E/qck)

20 It turns out that Rand Paul has a sense of humor. Who knew?

https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2085512709622178273

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

21 Black on White crimes are getting worse probably from Cultural Marxist Propaganda. Preaching about white supremacists

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (IFsWJ)

22 He's an aspiring rapper turning his life around. Case dismissed.

Posted by: Honorable Judge Dequeefus at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (V362x)

23 We do kinda have to live like this. Because the left demands that we do, and not enough people, anywhere, in sufficient number, just publicly tells them "No, GFY."

So thems the rules.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (3uBP9)

24 My little Ruger holds eight bullets. Di-Quan is welcome to them.

Posted by: Good Marksman Here at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (JM9I6)

25 this wouldn't happen under socialism. this guy could have been a productive member of society, achieving all he could be, instead of a victim of society

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (CWTWj)

26 WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!

May I speak to you of the wisdom of Nayib Bukele?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:18 PM (ExV1e)

27
The prosecutor and judge are accessories.

Removal at least, jail time if justice is served.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 12:19 PM (Y8DZL)

28 Your white privilege is preventing you from appreciating his efforts at outreach.

He is expressing a desire to rebalance the relationship between oppressed black males and privileged white females who look good in spandex.

Posted by: CNN Presenter at August 07, 2026 12:19 PM (anL5R)

29 26 WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!

May I speak to you of the wisdom of Nayib Bukele?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:18 PM (ExV1e)

Yes... We have a s**t load of judges who need the Bukele treatment...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 12:19 PM (FtULh)

30 Not beating women but...

... man charged with 6th indecent exposure case

... sentenced to probation on four previous indecent exposure cases after pleading guilty last year is back in court again on similar offenses.

“The victim stated that while working in the garden section of the (Home Depot) store, she noticed the defendant because although he would not approach her directly, he appeared to be lingering near her as she moved about the garden section,” according to the affidavit. “While the defendant was standing in the plant food section, she made eye contact with the defendant and immediately observed that he had his penis exposed in his hand. She also observed that the defendant was actively masturbating and subsequently ejaculated in his hand as well as on a bag of plant food. At that point, she quickly walked away to locate a supervisor.”

He's young. That, at the minimum, can go on for years.

Not a lot of heavy duty jailing going on since C19.

c'est la vie

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 12:19 PM (NFX2v)

31 WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!

If we implemented the policies that were known to work, this problem would be solved in a week and we'd be more of a high trust society than Japan.

But we can't because we're better than this.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (lXoJ5)

32 Hunt is a real Diq.

Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (80oeU)

33 15...

True

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (XuXeR)

34 Saying N***R repeatedly is itself a jailable offense, and fireable offense, according to recent decisions.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (vbXSk)

35 Di-Quan Schafar Hunt was arrested Thursday...

Damn. I hope this doesn't delay the cure for cancer he's working on.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (E/qck)

36 Judge Joseph Setzer Jr. ought to land in prison…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 12:21 PM (ugElV)

37 Afternoon Ace.
The NC Republicans should do everything they can to tie this to Cooper. Given the number of murderers he let out during COVID it should be a winning issue

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 12:21 PM (KY+FT)

38 It's funny how these "crazy" people always seem to understand who's going to be an easy victim and who's going to beat their ass.

Like the picture of the homeless crazy woman sitting peacefully near all of the Patriot Front feds.

tHEy're IN cRISiS. thEY Don't kNow whAt they'rE DOInG.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 12:21 PM (mkw2N)

39 Really like the pop ups

Posted by: MAC V SOG at August 07, 2026 12:21 PM (P4Pk9)

40 The people will eventually have justice whether or not they get it from the state.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 12:21 PM (JvZF+)

41 On March 18, 2026, he took a plea from Judge Joseph Setzer Jr.

So, Setzer orchestrated this.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (VHUov)

42 The 'encouragement' is the passive, decarceration part. They are lovingly cultivating racial outbursts by black people. They are farming them like cattle.

You are telling a portion of the population all the horrible things that have been done to 'them' (really just people of the same skin color- which is insulting as fuck) and letting them act on the shit that you stirred up and then when they 'act out' you excuse and mostly legitimize it.

So, you get more of what you subsidize, except in this case they are openly encouraging it. You are creating the monsters that retarded racists back in the day only IMAGINED existed.

Fucking hell. What a world.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (Y/06r)

43 14 Take a CCW class, get trained, get armed, and if this happens, defend yourself.
Posted by: Advice to young women at August 07, 2026 12:15 PM (XE5AP)

In a city on a racial justice kick, the kind of city letting the Di-Quans of the world go wilding? May as well use the gun to shoot yourself, because the city isn't going to have you executing members of its negro militia. Unlike, Di-Quan, you will go to prison for an extended stay.

Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (4I0qm)

44 It is time to end the assault with deadly weapon charges as a misnomer.

The charges for such should be called attempted murder and punished accordingly.

And every state should adopt three strikes mandatory sentencing for violent criminals including behavior as juveniles. And install formal sentencing guidelines that punish judges for sentencing outside those prescribed legislative limits on judicial autonomy.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)

45 > The prosecutor and judge are accessories.

Removal at least, jail time if justice is served.
-----------
Prison. With this animal as cellmate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (2Cry5)

46 At one time, long ago I was puzzled a bit by the old ways.

Not anymore

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (dE511)

47 WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!"

Samuel Colt agreed...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 12:23 PM (XuXeR)

48 Shafer, the one woman to beat
When you're beating more than one

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 07, 2026 12:23 PM (onZb0)

49
Just 4 months later, he begins filming himself beating women on the streets of Charlotte NC.



"BUT IT'S JUST A PRANK! YOU CAN'T ARREST ME FOR A PRANK!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 12:24 PM (y9nCu)

50 In a city on a racial justice kick, the kind of city letting the Di-Quans of the world go wilding? May as well use the gun to shoot yourself, because the city isn't going to have you executing members of its negro militia. Unlike, Di-Quan, you will go to prison for an extended stay.
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (4I0qm)


Better to be judged by 12 that buried by 6.

Posted by: Advice to young women at August 07, 2026 12:24 PM (XE5AP)

51 46 At one time, long ago I was puzzled a bit by the old ways.

Not anymore
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (dE511)

47 WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!"

Samuel Colt agreed...
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 12:23 PM (XuXeR)

Chesterton's Fence!*

I am just trolling to see if the guy who had a beef with Chesterton's Fence is still around.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:24 PM (Y/06r)

52 So, Setzer orchestrated this.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM


ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (Wnv9h)

53 >>> If we implemented the policies that were known to work, this problem would be solved in a week and we'd be more of a high trust society than Japan.

But we can't because we're better than this.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (lXoJ5)


It sounds like Japan pols were recently importing a bunch of foreign elements and they are about to get this sort of thing all up in their business hard and fast. I would like to think Japan's natural xenophobia along with the past year's election results would mean that's nipped in the bud. I don't know. Good luck though. I hope someone figures this all out.

Posted by: banana Dream - hee hee I said nip at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (3uBP9)

54 Fucking hell. What a world.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

World has nothing to do with it. Specific malicious individuals are doing this shit and it is high time that they be defunded, driven out of society on a rail, and put adrift in a lifeboat in the Artic during winter.

No more tolerance for the individuals driving society to destruction because they have good intentions or some other clap trap.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (E4rtv)

55 Jesse Waters yesterday had a segment showing a white 'guy' kissing some black guys feet. Seriously.

Between crime, riots, welfare and money to raise their bastard kids, white America should start demanding reparations from the black community.

Add in 25% for the general whining and constant cries of racism.

Time for my coffee. With milk. I hate my coffee black.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (Sco7b)

56 I read stuff like this and my first thought is "what a pity one of the women was not armed and shot him dead". Then I feel bad for wishing death on anyone and the legal nightmare aftermath for the woman who defended herself. But the legal system is failing to safeguard the weak and defenseless. At some point people will be forced to turn to other means to defend against the feral thugs that the leftists create with their horrible policies of paying women to not marry when they get pregnant, giving them bonus booty if the kid has mental issues, etc etc.

And bad enough the commiecrats have created these thugs, now they refuse to put them in prison until they seriously hurt or kill someone.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (PV+Zw)

57 The 5-foot-9, 220-pound brute hovered...

I actually know a DiQuan who is far, far bigger. And he's the nicest kid who wouldn't harm a fly.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 12:26 PM (E/qck)

58 y'all mofos step off. I'mma rebalance the relationship between oppressed black men like me and fine ass white ho's like dis un in the spandex. Its gonna go a long way toward harmony if she'd just stop running away.

Posted by: D'Quan - race mediator and facilitator of harmony at August 07, 2026 12:26 PM (anL5R)

59 Saying N***R repeatedly is itself a jailable offense, and fireable offense, according to recent decisions.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (vbXSk)


Only for the slave races.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:26 PM (ExV1e)

60 I hate my coffee black.
Posted by: Stateless


RAYCISSS!!!!!

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

61 As always, I do want to know how these ladies voted, because this may well be chickens coming home to roost.

Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 12:27 PM (4I0qm)

62 It sounds like Japan pols were recently importing a bunch of foreign elements and they are about to get this sort of thing all up in their business hard and fast. I would like to think Japan's natural xenophobia along with the past year's election results would mean that's nipped in the bud. I don't know. Good luck though. I hope someone figures this all out.
Posted by: banana Dream

The insatiable demands for cheap labor always lead to destruction of society. And it is always the upper class and wealthy that want cheap labor.

My hope is that robots advance fast enough that a surly class of assholes brought in because they are cheap are no longer desirable but then again, the ruling class will prefer to simply get rid of the middle class instead of mechanizing.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:27 PM (E4rtv)

63
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!

Sure you do. We're not accountable to you. We can just manufacture ballots and stay in business as long as we want. And what are you going to do about it? If you think the courts are going to come to your rescue, you got another think coming.

By the way, are you paying your fair share of taxes?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (O0L8i)

64 Di-Quan is a fat flabby blob of carrion. You can hear him getting winded after running about 15 feet. I would have liked to see him pick on an MMA lady and get his face torn off.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

65 The was a shooting in NC that resulted in 3 dead. The shooter was a neighbor described as a "ticking time bomb".
Half the comments were some variant of "we need better mental health services". No we just need to throw criminals in jail and confirm the mentally ill to secure mental facilities

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (KY+FT)

66 As always, I do want to know how these ladies voted, because this may well be chickens coming home to roost.
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200


I always hear the phrase "chickens coming home to roost" in Jeremiah Wright's voice now.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (77rzZ)

67 Neighbors say he was just turning his life around and recently began attending a bible study.

Posted by: Local media at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (2Ez/1)

68 I would like to think Japan's natural xenophobia along with the past year's election results would mean that's nipped in the bud. I don't know.
Posted by: banana Dream - hee hee I said nip at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (3uBP9)

ISWYDT ?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 07, 2026 12:29 PM (9ZFZd)

69 This is part of the kink. This demoralization is like sex for some of these people.

Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 12:29 PM (q177U)

70
As always, I do want to know how these ladies voted, because this may well be chickens coming home to roost.
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200


Some fraction live in gated communities with private security.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 12:29 PM (O0L8i)

71 These women have absolutely nothing going on in their lives --- meaningless jobs that make them feel important, but which they are aware on some level are just make-work. And cats.
They would be happy to sacrifice for the cause. They dream of being raped by an illegal immigrant. Murder is optional.

Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 12:30 PM (+F4bv)

72 It sounds like Japan pols were recently importing a bunch of foreign elements and they are about to get this sort of thing all up in their business hard and fast. I would like to think Japan's natural xenophobia along with the past year's election results would mean that's nipped in the bud. I don't know. Good luck though. I hope someone figures this all out.
Posted by: banana Dream - hee hee I said nip at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (3uBP9)


The current PM pretty much ran on stopping and reversing that policy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:30 PM (ExV1e)

73 69 This is part of the kink. This demoralization is like sex for some of these people.
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 12:29 PM (q177U)

Yeah, that is a large component too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:30 PM (Y/06r)

74 Di-Quan is a fat flabby blob of carrion. You can hear him getting winded after running about 15 feet. I would have liked to see him pick on an MMA lady and get his face torn off.
==
Yo privilege is talkin' now white boy - Imma mind get up on you and show you who boss man now. I know you white boys all sissies. Harmony time!

Posted by: D'Quan - race mediator and facilitator of harmony at August 07, 2026 12:31 PM (anL5R)

75 I find it curious that these poor stricken mentally unwell people only seem to attack women. You never hear “career criminal randomly attacks Army Ranger and gets his goddamn throat ripped out”

Posted by: UGAdawg at August 07, 2026 12:32 PM (mj/G1)

76 always carry or get used to kneeling

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 07, 2026 12:32 PM (xcxpd)

77 Next he will probably be declared mentally unfit for trial and sent to a loony bin like the guy who killed Iryna.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 12:32 PM (6ydKt)

78 Have to admit, I would expect minority women, especially black and hispanic, to be in the most danger from decarceration. Which would make the AWFLs evil, not stupid, for putting them in that situation.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (lFFaq)

79 I'd say get a rope and find a tall tree, but that's probably not a good thing to say.

Posted by: Duesexmachina at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (cmlrb)

80 Diquan Shafar Hunt
--------

We may never know the racial makeup

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (6UXQp)

81 >>> My hope is that robots advance fast enough that a surly class of assholes brought in because they are cheap are no longer desirable but then again, the ruling class will prefer to simply get rid of the middle class instead of mechanizing.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:27 PM (E4rtv)


Yeah, you'd think if anyone could solve a problem with cool robots it would be Japan. I am afraid that they might be devoting a good 60-80 % of R&D in to making the robots hot and cute in cat ears and not enough into industrial fabrication. As one does.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (3uBP9)

82 Di-Quan Schafar Hunt looks like such a neighborly well-adjusted brute.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (iySPJ)

83 Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 12:30 PM (+

Which women are you talking about?. Nobody wants to be raped or murdered.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 12:34 PM (rHgXV)

84 The real danger here is a backlash against crazed street people of color.

Posted by: Ripley at August 07, 2026 12:34 PM (GUOwU)

85 North Carolina sucks because it's being invaded by NoVa idiots too poor to live in Va. There are still some reasonably okay places, e.g., Blowing Rock, but the state has terminal leftist cancer.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (2ap+5)

86 I encourage black and brown homeless psychopaths beating liberal white woman when they find them in the streets. May be give them an extra SNAP payment for each one beaten as long as they video it. It is the least my sex can do to make up for our racist past and being a burden to the innocent black and brown males out there.

After all, black lives matter and no justice, no peace!

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (45BvE)

87 Hour and half until quitting time

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (L8DX7)

88 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Sonobi at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (R0XxO)

89 The was a shooting in NC that resulted in 3 dead. The shooter was a neighbor described as a "ticking time bomb".
Half the comments were some variant of "we need better mental health services". No we just need to throw criminals in jail and confirm the mentally ill to secure mental facilities
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (KY+FT)


Responsibility? That's just someone else's problem. Where my welfare?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (ExV1e)

90 As if on cue from GatewayPundit.
Everyone in the story is EXACTLY as you picture them.

The son of the judge set to preside over one of the men accused in the horrific gang rape of Louisiana State University student Madison Brooks is a convicted serial rapist, and the judge herself once represented him in court, the New York Post reported.

The trial for Desmond Carter, 21, one of the three men charged with raping Brooks inside a vehicle before her death, is scheduled to begin August 17 before Judge Gail Horne Ray of the 19th Judicial District Court, according to WBRZ.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 12:36 PM (Sco7b)

91 85 Blowing Rock?

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:36 PM (77rzZ)

92 AWFLs don't want to be lowly "bitter clingers" or "deplorables," dirt beneath their feet. Period.

Those were the nuances (?) in language that began dividing the country, not democrat or republican, Black or White, etc.

And from there, the divisions continued, so that you're either with them or against them.

All, imho.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (NFX2v)

93 85 North Carolina sucks because it's being invaded by NoVa idiots too poor to live in Va. There are still some reasonably okay places, e.g., Blowing Rock, but the state has terminal leftist cancer.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (2ap+5)

100% agree. In the 1990s, I lived northwest of Charlotte - Hickory. Was a nice area, but towards 1997-1998, I could see changes were coming and they weren't good ones. Gone back to visit, been through Charlotte numerous times. Absolutely would not move back.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (N39Ws)

94 Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 12:30 PM (+

Which women are you talking about?. Nobody wants to be raped or murdered.
==
Well, its not like a normal person would. And yet, serial killers get fan mail from women all the time. I can't explain the popularity of 50 shades of gray. Nobody can explain the AWFL mind using logic, because it doesn't use logic.

Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (anL5R)

95 Hour and half until quitting time
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (L8DX7)


Laughs in retired.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (ExV1e)

96 Maybe, but they want other people to be raped and murdered. They have a kind of death wish.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (dE511)

97 75 I find it curious that these poor stricken mentally unwell people only seem to attack women. You never hear “career criminal randomly attacks Army Ranger and gets his goddamn throat ripped out”
Posted by: UGAdawg
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Predators go for easy prey and that includes old frail men or kids/young men that that are disabled as well. Just not as publicized.

Go armed and if in a blue area, you best have a legal plan for after a shooting as to a defense lawyer, self defense insurance, and the wherewithal to move later if necessary.

There are two kinds of criminal law attorneys, those that will get you the best plea deal, and those that will fight their damndest to keep you outta jail. You want the second type and even there--you want one that defends cops for example when they shoot a protected critter because a) those are used to public pressure and the vile press, b) they have a network of expensive expert witnesses to buttress your case at trial.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)

98 88 Miss me yet?
Posted by: Sonobi at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (R0XxO)

I knew Sonobi would never last. Like lace wigs, turn, turn, turn.

So I printed them out and framed them. So I can love Sonobi a little longer.

Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 12:38 PM (4I0qm)

99 Have to admit, I would expect minority women, especially black and hispanic, to be in the most danger from decarceration. Which would make the AWFLs evil, not stupid, for putting them in that situation.
___

I live in a 99%+ white, very rural AO in the Ozarks, and I have zero concern about any danger from the DiQuans of the world.

Plus, I have no qualms about plugging said DiQuan with a lead injection.

As far as AWFLs go, embrace the power of 'and'.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 12:38 PM (3fZgy)

100 91 85 Blowing Rock?
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:36 PM (77rzZ)

=======

The "I *heart* Blowing Rock" tee shirts don't sell that well, I'll admit.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 12:39 PM (2ap+5)

101 "Which women are you talking about?. Nobody wants to be raped or murdered."
There was a famous case in Germany:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/686192/selin- goren-arabic-men-rape-quiet-encourage-racism
(delete the space)
I vaguely remember there are more such cases.

Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 12:39 PM (+F4bv)

102 Speaking of the Carolinas, there's a big brouhaha going on right now with the Miss USA pageant.

The winner from SC was recently cancelled because she supposedly made "racist" social media posts under an alias years ago.

Supposedly, she said "nigga" a few times, although the posts themselves aren't shown, so it's unclear what the context is.

Oh, and although her name is the very white-sounding "Brittany Boltinhouse," she is actually Honduran and Mexican, and looks it.

So if she, as a latina girl, was saying on social media "you go, my nigga" or "sista be a bad-ass nigga" then she would only be doing what literally every other latina of her age does. Very odd that I can't find the actual social media posts anywhere.

This looks like a hit by supporters of the runner-up (a black girl) to get the title, which she did.


https://tinyurl.com/4bdcp2ee

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

103
The Gulag Archipelago has a chapter in it about criminals in the Soviet Union. They were a protected class, and allowed to prey on ordinary citizens. Part of keeping everybody intimidated and afraid.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (DOcg9)

104 Saying N***R repeatedly is itself a jailable offense, and fireable offense, according to recent decisions.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (vbXSk)


Not if you’re black. And that is the problem. There is no justification for jailing someone on the basis of skin color, but these rulings say yes, there is. Black man can say it all day long, no problem. White woman can’t even quote the word back at him, or she’s liable to go to jail.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (sGgMH)

105 It sounds like Japan pols were recently importing a bunch of foreign elements and they are about to get this sort of thing all up in their business hard and fast.

Which puzzles the hell out of me because Japan is not a "Yay Multiculturalism!" kind of place. Unless the pols are 100% certain that they will never deal with the consequences.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (lXoJ5)

106 Prosecutors and judges were too lenient is how this happens.
The pendulum swung from inappropriately harsh penalties on black people, to inappropriately lenient penalties on them.

If a prosecutor has charged a domestic-related offense and then later dismisses it, probably 99% of the time it’s because the victim isn’t cooperating and they have no choice *but* to dismiss it, as the victim’s testimony would be necessary for trial.
Same reason you also see what people think are “lenient” deals for very serious allegations. The prosecutor almost certainly made the calculation that an outright loss at trial is likely for whatever possible reason, and therefore a “lenient” deal is preferable to literally nothing.

Sometimes a defendant who has so many priors is just walking around like everyone else because prior victims refused to play ball with the system and testify.

And there’s no way to hold someone because they’re a danger to the public, except as a psych hold, which is a very different standard. The justice system confines people for their crimes. If a crime can’t be proven they can’t be held.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (ZwRB6)

107 > Nobody wants to be raped

What?

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at August 07, 2026 12:41 PM (mkw2N)

108 91 85 Blowing Rock?
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:36 PM (77rzZ)

I stopped that once we married.

Posted by: Lauren Hashian at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (J4Dwc)

109 Every crap regime needs street enforcers.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (6UXQp)

110 Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

I heard that Miss Boltinhouse was also MAGA, so maybe that was the reason they yeeted her.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (77rzZ)

111 85 North Carolina sucks because it's being invaded by NoVa idiots too poor to live in Va. There are still some reasonably okay places, e.g., Blowing Rock, but the state has terminal leftist cancer.
Posted by: Oglebay

State is actually drifting right just like Georgia is drifting left politically. The problem with judges is that the whole profession has moved to the left and judge are simply reflecting what law school is teaching.

That means that state legislatures are going to have to eliminate a lot of trial judge discretion for charges and sentencing. That is where the three strikes law in California came about as the left coast was an early warning sign that leftist lawyers on the bench or as district attorneys are destroying the cities and suburbs by coddling violent and insane criminals.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (E4rtv)

112 Hang the bad judges.

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 12:44 PM (Sy6m/)

113 Every crap regime needs street enforcers.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (6UXQp)
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Yep.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 12:44 PM (3fZgy)

114 My Chinese friend reminded me that if you're tired of hearing from these communists, there's good news. Once communism gets implemented proper, you never know who the true party loyals are. You just have to assume everyone is one. Because if you say the wrong word to one you just disappear.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:44 PM (6UXQp)

115 >>> Well, its not like a normal person would. And yet, serial killers get fan mail from women all the time. I can't explain the popularity of 50 shades of gray. Nobody can explain the AWFL mind using logic, because it doesn't use logic.
Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (anL5R)

Don't try to discern the motivations of a rational mind by comparing the venn diagram of the

"set of people who would very clearly not want X to happen to them"
and the
"set of people who have very clearly chosen to vote for X to happen to them"

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:45 PM (3uBP9)

116 105 It sounds like Japan pols were recently importing a bunch of foreign elements and they are about to get this sort of thing all up in their business hard and fast.

Which puzzles the hell out of me because Japan is not a "Yay Multiculturalism!" kind of place. Unless the pols are 100% certain that they will never deal with the consequences.
Posted by: NR Pax

Japan had its cheap labor force which were ethnic Koreans for a long time, when they were integrated more or less into non pariah status, the search for people to do shitty jobs meant bringing in Muslims and Africans as low cost temporary labor. And now the Muslims are burning historic Shinto temples in the countryside like they burn historic churches in the West. Time to sent all Mo lovers back to Dar Islam.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:45 PM (E4rtv)

117 He had to bring up Donald Trump, of course.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 07, 2026 12:45 PM (no1VZ)

118 Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

I heard that Miss Boltinhouse was also MAGA, so maybe that was the reason they yeeted her.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (77rzZ)
_____

Maybe. I think if that was true, though, she never woulda won the title in the first place. Maybe they learned about that after. But either way, this smells like a hit job based on made-up bullshit.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:45 PM (iFTx/)

119 I wouldn't mind if only the AWFLs were getting culturally enriched as a result of their desired policies. In fact I would point and laugh. Yes, I am not a nice person; I have no sympathy for those who are destroying our civilization.

Posted by: Butch at August 07, 2026 12:45 PM (98xTj)

120 Men grow lazy and stupid without women. Women go bat shit insane without men.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 12:46 PM (diia5)

121 Nobody wants to be raped or murdered.
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Does death by Snudney Snueney count? AFAF

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:46 PM (6UXQp)

122 North Carolina - Those big cities and big schools

👉Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapters in North Carolina actively organize around local labor rights, municipal elections, housing, and mutual aid. Prominent local groups include the NC Triangle DSA (covering Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill), Charlotte Metro DSA, Asheville DSA, and Wilmington DSA.

👉Durham Dispatch, April 2026, The Triangle Left and Allam’s Second Run

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (NFX2v)

123 Carry a knife. Open the orc up like a watermelon.

Posted by: front toward enemy at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (TIizU)

124 When the time is right, the Party and the police will distribute gubs and badges to these people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (JvZF+)

125 Men grow lazy and stupid without women. Women go bat shit insane without men.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Well said.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

126 I got this pullup bar frame stand delivered and just finished lugging it up a few flights of stairs. Great workout. I think I'll just carry it up and down every day. Don't even need to unbox it.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (3uBP9)

127 109 Every crap regime needs street enforcers.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (6UXQp)

It's not really 'street enforcers' per se. This guy is not screaming at these women about the wonders of abortion or open borders. Rather, it is... agents of chaos. It creates as certain atmosphere where people generally feel unsafe and suspicious of their neighbors (Are they a psycho? better not make eye contact and hurry past.) Because what does that result in? A need to feel safe and when you cannot trust your neighbor and you have disregarded the idea that you should take your own defense personally, that means the government. THEY will protect you. THEY will give you what you need (order.)

The thing is, for these women, the government is what is making them feel unsafe. This dude would have been shot for some other crime long before this. Same with the retard who killed the gal on the subway. The government/police protect criminals from summary justice at the hands of the people. They have just taken it way too fucking far.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (Y/06r)

128 @111 whig, I read somewhere them at NC over the last couple of years has seen a surge in Republican registration. Whether that will translate to votes is a question

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 12:48 PM (KY+FT)

129 Maybe. I think if that was true, though, she never woulda won the title in the first place. Maybe they learned about that after. But either way, this smells like a hit job based on made-up bullshit.
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its probably social media postings when she was a teenager or something. And I wouldn't be that surprised if the runner up hired somebody to do a dive on her social media to see if she could get upgraded...
its about as cutthroat as women's figure skating . . .

Posted by: Nancy Kerrigan's limp at August 07, 2026 12:48 PM (anL5R)

130
It's not really 'street enforcers' per se. This guy is not screaming at these women about the wonders of abortion or open borders.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (Y/06r)

I never said street enforcers are there to enforce *opinions*. They have the media, the socials, and your job for that.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:49 PM (6UXQp)

131
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapters in North Carolina actively organize around local labor rights...

Mmmmm, let me guess. "Public service" unions. Standing up for the drones.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 12:49 PM (O0L8i)

132 Raleigh used to be nice, Chapel Hill was fun in the summer. Durham has always been crap. The Dems have ruined it though. Heading south from Cleveland, I tack hard West once I hit Wytheville, VA.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (2ap+5)

133 86 I encourage black and brown homeless psychopaths beating liberal white woman when they find them in the streets. May be give them an extra SNAP payment for each one beaten as long as they video it. It is the least my sex can do to make up for our racist past and being a burden to the innocent black and brown males out there.

After all, black lives matter and no justice, no peace!
Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM
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You forgot the land acknowledgement.

Posted by: Karen McWinemom at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (2Ez/1)

134 Welcome to Charlotte, we hope you don't die.

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (enNUy)

135 Blowing Rock was going to be the title of my book, which I never got around to writing.

Posted by: zombie Lee Garlington at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (J4Dwc)

136 Yesterday was my 16th wedding anniversary. I bought a nice lemon cake from a fancy bakery in Houston that arrived by mail. It's very nice. Tonight we're going to Daniel's Broiler for dinner.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (mkw2N)

137 It's not really 'street enforcers' per se. This guy is not screaming at these women about the wonders of abortion or open borders. Rather, it is... agents of chaos. It creates as certain atmosphere where people generally feel unsafe and suspicious of their neighbors (Are they a psycho? better not make eye contact and hurry past.) Because what does that result in? A need to feel safe and when you cannot trust your neighbor and you have disregarded the idea that you should take your own defense personally, that means the government.
==
Power of "and". If they need a riot, guys like this will join the crowd and be the ones to escalate as they use the crowd for cover. So they are street enforcers if needed, and also agents of chaos, to keep the population afraid.

Posted by: Its not like am an expert or anything at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (anL5R)

138 Say Elijah. Elijah my son, Motherf--ker you playing.

----

"Sorry. We just quit playing. And Elijah is a mere prophet. I just called on Gabriel for you. But maybe Elijah can stop by for a glass of wine, if he wants to see the proceedings."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (BI5O2)

139 DOX the judges.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (NnhvP)

140 The belief in "toxic masculinity" has added the brains of the liberal white women.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (rkWBz)

141 WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!

1% of the people commit most of the violent crime. Imprison them and crime drops dramatically, but in the last few years we've been imprisoning them less.

This was the idea behind 3 strikes laws back in the 90s...I suspect those mostly ended due to various leftwing initiatives.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)

142 135 Blowing Rock was going to be the title of my book, which I never got around to writing.
Posted by: zombie Lee Garlington at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (J4Dwc)

I had to look that one up. Wiki is not a help. I am assuming it involves blowjobs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (Y/06r)

143 The "I *heart* Blowing Rock" tee shirts don't sell that well, I'll admit.

Yeah. (*sigh*)

Posted by: Dwayne J. at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (vTZFs)

144 “Rape” is just a silly artificial human construct anyhow. Probably “white supremacy” too. Give it up for the Revolution!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:53 PM (dE511)

145 Power of "and". If they need a riot, guys like this will join the crowd and be the ones to escalate as they use the crowd for cover. So they are street enforcers if needed, and also agents of chaos, to keep the population afraid.
Posted by: Its not like am an expert or anything at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (anL5R)

Valid point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:53 PM (Y/06r)

146 Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapters in North Carolina actively organize around local labor rights...


"labor" like being a government bureaucrat.

The most anti-socialist people I know are plumbers, carpenters, HVAC guys etc...the group you would more tradtionally call "worker"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:54 PM (sKqQm)

147 139 DOX the judges.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (NnhvP)

Judge Joseph Setzer Jr.
Joseph E Setzer JR worked as an Emergency Judge for the State of North Carolina and in 2025 had a reported pay of $50 according to public records.

WTF is an emergency judge?

Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 12:54 PM (Q8JBQ)

148 The Trump DOJ announced today they are going after Duke Law School for anti-white admission practices.

Should be fun.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 12:54 PM (viF8m)

149 I can't explain the popularity of 50 shades of gray.
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Come on now. I can't explain why I like legs so much, but women wanting to be "taken" by some mysterious rich dude is not a difficult fantasy to parse.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:55 PM (6UXQp)

150 WTF is an emergency judge?
Posted by: Reforger

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:55 PM (77rzZ)

151 144 “Rape” is just a silly artificial human construct anyhow. Probably “white supremacy” too. Give it up for the Revolution!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:53 PM (dE511)

Seriously. seize the means of reproduction already.

Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 12:55 PM (4I0qm)

152 >>> So if she, as a latina girl, was saying on social media "you go, my nigga" or "sista be a bad-ass nigga" then she would only be doing what literally every other latina of her age does. Very odd that I can't find the actual social media posts anywhere.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (iFTx/)


I have spent a lot of time looking into this matter, I will probably still need a good bit of time to reach a one hundred percent understanding of all the concerns, but I can now confidently say that Boltinhouse is innocent of all charges and is the winner of the pageant, and our hearts.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:55 PM (3uBP9)

153 >>>Diquan Shafar Hunt was arrested in December 2025 for Assault with a Deadly Weapon and three other charges.

>>>On March 18, 2026, he took a plea from Judge Joseph Setzer Jr.

You want vigilantes? Because that is how you get vigilantes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 12:56 PM (lAE5c)

154 131. Mmmmm, let me guess. "Public service" unions. Standing up for the drones.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapters in North Carolina actively partner with and support a variety of independent, sector-specific, and rank-and-file labor unions. These collaborations typically center on strike solidarity, contract campaigns, and workplace organizing

Key Union Partners and Alliances -

Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW)
UE Local 150 (North Carolina Public Service Workers Union)
Durham Association of Educators (DAE)
Duke Graduate Students Union (DGSU / SEIU Southern Region)
CAUSE (Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment)
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 12:56 PM (NFX2v)

155 Insert Orwell's "It was always the women" quote.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 07, 2026 12:56 PM (JayIZ)

156 Where is Sheriff Tayler when you need him?

Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (fV9m3)

157 Yesterday was my 16th wedding anniversary. I bought a nice lemon cake from a fancy bakery in Houston that arrived by mail. It's very nice. Tonight we're going to Daniel's Broiler for dinner.
Posted by: bonhomme

Congrats. My 16th anniversary. is in 2 weeks

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (Cifda)

158 Posted by: Its not like am an expert or anything at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (anL5R)

Also true but I'm thinking of like Mexico where people just live under the constant threat of the drug lords who are working with and for la policia.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (6UXQp)

159 Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (mkw2N

Congratulations and God bless both of you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (rHgXV)

160 Oh my goodness. That gentleman said the "N" word numerous times.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (dIske)

161 Well, its not like a normal person would. And yet, serial killers get fan mail from women all the time. I can't explain the popularity of 50 shades of gray.

Christian Gray is a rich, attractive man lavishing all his attention on some normal young woman and giving her passionate (if weird) sex that she enjoys. That's the appeal as far as I can tell.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

162 Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment

"Carolina Amazonians?" WTF?

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

163 The belief in "toxic masculinity" has added the brains of the liberal white women.
==
they are afraid. they subconsciously recognize the thing they fear can't be controlled. So they focus on something that obeys the rules and won't likely retaliate with violence, successful conservative white men. Its safe to harass them. It gives them an outlet for their fear, a safe target to focus on, and satisfying feedback when it is echo'd by their peers and in the media. Sure its dick in the peanut butter crazy, but that's the lot of them. they've been running a fear op on the country non stop since 2001.

Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 07, 2026 12:58 PM (anL5R)

164 WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!

1% of the people commit most of the violent crime. Imprison them and crime drops dramatically, but in the last few years we've been imprisoning them less.

This was the idea behind 3 strikes laws back in the 90s...I suspect those mostly ended due to various leftwing initiatives.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)
_______

Three-strikes laws were too successful at getting criminals off the streets, so of course they had to go.

What was most surprising about those laws was that criminals are such feral, unreformable, and un-fixable scumbags that they would light up the three strikes one after the other.

They would have two strikes already, knew the next was was "see ya," but would still do the crime. Incredible. These people are dangerous animals who must not be allowed anywhere near a civilized society.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

165
Seriously. seize the means of reproduction already.


If you read incel stuff this is exactly their line of thinking. They agree with standard leftwing socialists that the government should seize everything and then dole it out to people...they just include sex as well

And, this isn't oddball thinking for socialists, various communes tried it...which worked about as well as you might expect.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (sKqQm)

166 Women just want to date him.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (W2Pud)

167 Liberal White Women Are Among the Most Fanatical Supporters of "Decarceration" and Also, Its Most Imperiled Victims



Sooooooooooooo.... Getting what they said they wanted, yes?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (AdHga)

168 I think a long "rap sheet" has a different meaning these days. Something sweet, like Barry Manilow lyrics.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (R0wwO)

169 I had to look that one up. Wiki is not a help. I am assuming it involves blowjobs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (Y/06r)

https://tinyurl.com/4j2bdud2

Posted by: zombie Lee Garlington at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (J4Dwc)

170
I am afraid that they might be devoting a good 60-80 % of R&D in to making the robots hot and cute in cat ears and not enough into industrial fabrication. As one does.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (3uBP9)



These robotics executives learned from Sony and Betamax. Betamax was supposedly the superior videotape format to VHS in every way, except for licensing. Story was that Sony refused to license Betamax to the porn companies. So Betamax dried up and died like an unwatered tomato plant in the middle of Death Valley.

I don't know how true the story was, but it makes sense.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (y9nCu)

171 Who names their kid Di-Quan?

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (UjdFS)

172 Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment
"Carolina Amazonians?" WTF?
Posted by: Bulg


Delivery drivers, archers, lesbians, or all three.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (VHUov)

173 The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 7, 2026
ICE arrests surge at Philly airport, including those of a babysitter and a senior citizen
The Department of Homeland Security said President Trump is reversing policies that let undocumented immigrants "jet around our country."

In part, "A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said airport arrests are occurring because the Trump administration “reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country.

“Under President Trump, DHS will no longer tolerate this. This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport.”

The department said “being in detention is a choice,” and the federal government is offering people who are here without permission a $2,600 payment and a free flight home.

Self-deportation can preserve the right to later come back to the U.S., absent the penalties that accompany a government deportation."

More.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (NFX2v)

174 157 Yesterday was my 16th wedding anniversary. I bought a nice lemon cake from a fancy bakery in Houston that arrived by mail. It's very nice. Tonight we're going to Daniel's Broiler for dinner.
Posted by: bonhomme

Congrats. My 16th anniversary. is in 2 weeks
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (Cifda)

Congrats Youngins' Both my Son and Daughter and Spouses will be celebrating their 25th this year.. Yeah.. I'm old LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (FtULh)

175 Blowing Rock?
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:36 PM (77rzZ)

Got a problem with that?

Posted by: Rock at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (nPp6w)

176 Hi, Fen. I found out this morning that the minister of the Presbyterian Church that I grew up in has died. He was 97.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (77rzZ)

177
Between the land acknowledgement for property I didn't own and slave reparations for people I didn't enslave I don't know how I'm going to make ends meet.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (Y8DZL)

178 WTF is an emergency judge?

--

If you have a judicial emergency, press 1. For all others, remain on the line for the next available judge.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2026 01:01 PM (qBdHI)

179 (if weird) sex that she enjoys.
--
I haven't read it, but my impression was that what she purportedly "enjoys" is degrading and painful

which was, I guess, the point I was failing to make. Its not logical. This is an example of a broken impulse driven by something that is not in any sense positive.

Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 07, 2026 01:01 PM (anL5R)

180 Scott Adams warned everyone.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2026 01:01 PM (TezPK)

181
They would have two strikes already, knew the next was was "see ya," but would still do the crime. Incredible. These people are dangerous animals who must not be allowed anywhere near a civilized society.


Little to no impulse control which is why they turned to crime to begin with.

I remember an old Buffy the Vampire Slayer were one of the morally grey characters invites Buffy to steal with a mantra of "Want Take Have" which is the mindset of these people.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

182 128 @111 whig, I read somewhere them at NC over the last couple of years has seen a surge in Republican registration. Whether that will translate to votes is a question
Posted by: Smell the Glove

It has and the result is a GOP veto proof legislature and a majority on the NC Supreme Court and two GOP senators (well Tillis is a RINO at least) and a majority of the House seats. Go back even twenty years and the Dems had a lock on all of it.

Thanks to organizing in Pennsylvania, the gap between GOP and Dem is now slight on registrations. Florida, no contest.

In part, it is because what appeals to urbanized leftist college overeducated whites and their urban client welfare class appalls voters outside those rotten boroughs who increasingly see Democrat cities as dirty, nasty, and full of rando violent assholes whether mentally ill or not which they are.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (E4rtv)

183 >>Don't try to discern the motivations of a rational mind by comparing the venn diagram of the

"set of people who would very clearly not want X to happen to them"
and the
"set of people who have very clearly chosen to vote for X to happen to them"


'I think 'X' is Sexxy, Anderson!'

Posted by: E Jean Carrol at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (uzmqU)

184 "You got your dick in my peanut butter!"

"No, your peanut butter on my dick!"

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (Cifda)

185
Are the plea deals that turn felonies into misdemeanors a way of circumventing three strikes laws?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (kf4RM)

186 He's oddly familiar looking.

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (UjdFS)

187 165
Seriously. seize the means of reproduction already.

If you read incel stuff this is exactly their line of thinking. They agree with standard leftwing socialists that the government should seize everything and then dole it out to people...they just include sex as well

And, this isn't oddball thinking for socialists, various communes tried it...which worked about as well as you might expect.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (sKqQm)

Turns out women like to be able to choose who they have sex with. So fussy!

Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 01:03 PM (4I0qm)

188 So they focus on something that obeys the rules and won't likely retaliate with violence, successful conservative white men. Its safe to harass them.

I blame Oprah Winfrey for not doing a good job as Mammy to all these white ladies.

Posted by: Zombie Hattie McDaniel, America's Mammy at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (45BvE)

189
If you read incel stuff this is exactly their line of thinking. They agree with standard leftwing socialists that the government should seize everything and then dole it out to people...they just include sex as well

==
So it's the left that is trying to make Handmaid's Tale come true?

Posted by: So that's what the deal is now? at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (anL5R)

190 Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (77rzZ

Did you like him? He was probably one of the old time Presbyterian ministers . Even ones I know who retired twenty or so years ago were fed up with the leftward lurch of the denomination.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (rHgXV)

191 Derbyshire was right

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (enNUy)

192 171 Who names their kid Di-Quan?
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (UjdFS)
___________________________

I've got a better one. A friend from college...(black girl, grew up in Philly Westside) but you'd never know it but for her real name, which she avoided like the plague (and eventually legally changed after school).

Nyquilla.

Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (dIske)

193 Me Tarzan. You Jane. Motherfucker.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (QaH55)

194 148 The Trump DOJ announced today they are going after Duke Law School for anti-white admission practices.
Posted by: JackStraw

Did the Lacrosse team ever make bank from the people that called them rapists?

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (Y8DZL)

195 "You got your dick in my peanut butter!"

"No, your peanut butter on my dick!"
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (Cifda)





Mmmmmmmmm.........

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (2YhKe)

196 I haven't read it, but my impression was that what she purportedly "enjoys" is degrading and painful

I only saw the first movie and didn't read the books, but I do remember a scene where the lead makes him negotiate what is ok for him to do to her and what is not which I took as a standard line in female romance books of the protagonist taming the savage man.

But the movie at least was really odd in that while it had plenty of sex it wasn't very sexy...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

197 Fucking judge makes less in year than a lawyer would cost for 10 minutes.

Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (Q8JBQ)

198 Be aware. Anticipate. Fight back.

Posted by: front toward enemy at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (TIizU)

199 Well, its not like a normal person would. And yet, serial killers get fan mail from women all the time. I can't explain the popularity of 50 shades of gray.

Christian Gray is a rich, attractive man lavishing all his attention on some normal young woman and giving her passionate (if weird) sex that she enjoys. That's the appeal as far as I can tell.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)
______

Yea. If "Cletus Dungherder" in the trailer park in Buttlick, MS, tried the exact same shit that Christian Gray did, he'd be on a episode of Worst Sex Offenders Ever.

Remember the Golden Rules for men:

Rule 1: Be attractive

Rule 2: Don't be unattractive

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (iFTx/)

200
The "I *heart* Blowing Rock" tee shirts don't sell that well, I'll admit.

Does it have a picture of Jim Nabors.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (Cqx++)

201 parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Nosmo King

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (A1Xjk)

202 Thanks, y'all.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 01:06 PM (mkw2N)

203 Did you like him? He was probably one of the old time Presbyterian ministers. Even ones I know who retired twenty or so years ago were fed up with the leftward lurch of the denomination.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Yes, I did. He was liberal, I think, but he didn't display it in the pulpit.

His son and I were best friends for a while, until we fell out over a girl.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:06 PM (77rzZ)

204
I've got a better one. A friend from college...(black girl, grew up in Philly Westside) but you'd never know it but for her real name, which she avoided like the plague (and eventually legally changed after school).


I remember a black football player named Achilles...and I thought that was kind of cool.

But many urban names are stupid and not helping the people the names were given to

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

205 Little to no impulse control which is why they turned to crime to begin with.

I remember an old Buffy the Vampire Slayer were one of the morally grey characters invites Buffy to steal with a mantra of "Want Take Have" which is the mindset of these people.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

Do not forget most criminals justify their crimes to themselves and others. They don't "just" take. They take because they are owed.

Hence all the constant talk and threat and reminders of reparations.

The idea is create more thieves, more criminals, more angry people who tell themselves that their victims "deserve" to have their money, health, lives, taken away.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:07 PM (6UXQp)

206 Wait, sorry Aeneas not Achilles I hope that confusion doesn't provoke the wrath of Ellen Page...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

207 Nyquilla.

Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM


*facepalm*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (Wnv9h)

208 197 Fucking judge makes less in year than a lawyer would cost for 10 minutes.
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (Q8JBQ)

=======

Yeah, not many Jones Day partners are interested in becoming judges.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (2ap+5)

209 From the stupid names department:

Charia - Pronounced 'sharia.' Because naming your kid after a barbaric cult set of rules is a great idea.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (2YhKe)

210
Well, its not like a normal person would. And yet, serial killers get fan mail from women all the time. I can't explain the popularity of 50 shades of gray. Nobody can explain the AWFL mind using logic, because it doesn't use logic.
Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (anL5R)



I've mentioned this before, but my dad was a corrections officer (double-dipping along with his Navy pension) out at Corcoran in the SHU where Charlie Manson was locked up. Spent years having to deal with Charlie every work day.

Among other things (he HATED to be called "Chuck", so the COs would take advantage of that when he'd misbehave), Pop told me that Charlie ALWAYS had visitors on visiting day. Lawyers and writers for legit visits, the rest of the visits were women who gamed the system to meet Charlie and swoon over the bastard.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (y9nCu)

211 File this under funny as hell,

THAT WAS DELIGHTFUL:

Senator Klobuchar says she is strong on US border security

The crowd laughs out loud in her face pic.twitter.com/czfKrelI7M

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 6, 2026


Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv)

212 I remember an old Buffy the Vampire Slayer were one of the morally grey characters invites Buffy to steal with a mantra of "Want Take Have" which is the mindset of these people.
Posted by: 18-1


That was Faith, the anti-hero backup Vampire Slayer.

"Of course I can just take this crossbow and this knife, because I'm using them to slaughter the literal demons who would happily eat the crossbow's owner alive. No fava beans or chianti required."

These thugs just "want take have" because they want. No higher moral calling, twisted or otherwise.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (VHUov)

213 Nyquilla.

Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (dIske)
___

I would have changed it, no doubt.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (3fZgy)

214 I've got a better one. A friend from college...(black girl, grew up in Philly Westside) but you'd never know it but for her real name, which she avoided like the plague (and eventually legally changed after school).

Nyquilla.

Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (dIske)


La'Trinè.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

215
"Female" and "Placenta" were both encountered by my wife when she worked pediatrics.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (Y8DZL)

216 Who names their kid Di-Quan?
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (UjdFS)


Black people.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (eGn4U)

217 136 Yesterday was my 16th wedding anniversary. I bought a nice lemon cake from a fancy bakery in Houston that arrived by mail. It's very nice. Tonight we're going to Daniel's Broiler for dinner.
Posted by: bonhomme

Daniel's Broiler sounds better than Stanley's Steamer.

Posted by: Congrats All Around! at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (JM9I6)

218 ___

I would have changed it, no doubt.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (3fZgy)



"Mom? How high were you when you named me?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (2YhKe)

219 Carolina Amazonians?"

Mineola alcoholics

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (2jHX6)

220 The left wing Democrat former governor is going to be easily elected Senator in November. The current governor is a left wing Dem as well. NC also voted for Obama in 2008.

It’s by no means a red state. Purple at best.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (Bz1XI)

221 Yesterday was my 16th wedding anniversary. I bought a nice lemon cake from a fancy bakery in Houston that arrived by mail. It's very nice. Tonight we're going to Daniel's Broiler for dinner.
Posted by: bonhomme



Congrats!!!! Happy Anniversary!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (2YhKe)

222 There was a young multi ethnic guy as a checkout guy at the local convenience store yesterday and he was named "Tristan". Intld him I liked his name.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (rHgXV)

223 Nyquilla.

Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.


Makes sense. Name your kid after something you love. I've read speculation that Lebron James was supposed to be Lebaron, as in Chrysler but either his mother or her nurse misspelled it.

Posted by: Dwayne J. at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (vTZFs)

224 These people simply need to be exiled or executed. They provide nothing of value to the country and present a neverending drain on public assistance and civic services. They're loud, entitled, ignorant, and stupid, and worst of all, ostentatiously proud of it.

I'm talking about AWFLs. Criminals at least can be put on chain gangs.

Posted by: mea culpa at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (Y5bHi)

225 ATC has a good twitter poast about GenZ:

x.com/alexthechick/status/
2085774408581267908

Maybe not new info to many but also not often talked about.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (3uBP9)

226
DOX the judges.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

And the prosecutor and the damned perp's lawyer too. All of these motherfuckers need to live in fear.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (25wiQ)

227 /15-minutes is up sock

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (vTZFs)

228 More interesting stuff on x

HE’S BEEN DEAD SINCE MARCH…:

The leader of Iran Mojtaba Khamenei is reportedly in critical condition and close to passing away-Iran Wire

Wow…

— WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) August 7, 2026


Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)

229 I remember a black football player named Achilles...and I thought that was kind of cool.
Posted by: 18-1


Had all the sportscasters begging for a shoestring tackle.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (VHUov)

230 There was a young multi ethnic guy as a checkout guy at the local convenience store yesterday and he was named "Tristan". Intld him I liked his name.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I have a grandnephew with that name.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

231 I knew woman named Propecia. Yes, like the hair loss drug.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (Bz1XI)

232 >>I remember a black football player named Achilles...and I thought that was kind of cool.

pffft....

Posted by: Napoleon Outlaw, Michigan State Football '92-'95 at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (J4Dwc)

233 I remember a black football player named Achilles...and I thought that was kind of cool.

But many urban names are stupid and not helping the people the names were given to
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

_____________________

Have you ever seen the Key and Peele skit where they recreate one of those pre-game shows for college football. The players come on and tell their names and school. It's hilarious.

https://tinyurl.com/52vwa2p5

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (dIske)

234 172 Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment
"Carolina Amazonians?" WTF?
Posted by: Bulg

Delivery drivers, archers, lesbians, or all three.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (VHUov)


Also partial mastectomy survivors (overlaps with archers).

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (Sy6m/)

235 Pronounced femolly. The hospital named her

Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (z6ONu)

236 "Mom? How high were you when you named me?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (2YhKe)

My mom only chugged the safe stuff while she was pregnant with me.

Posted by: Dayquilla at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (Q8JBQ)

237 The problem with these judges is the same thing I've been hammering on...incentives.

If they make a name for themselves in implementing the latest leftwing narrative items they get promoted the next time we have a Dem president. If they adjudicate rationally they don't.

And if the scum they let out murder, rape, kill well, who cares? They have protection and generally live in fancy gated communities so the risk to them is very, very low.

Change those incentives and the rulings will change.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)

238 "Di-Quan"

Mom is a Lady Di fan?

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 01:12 PM (MWfyi)

239 I've got a better one. A friend from college...(black girl, grew up in Philly Westside) but you'd never know it but for her real name, which she avoided like the plague (and eventually legally changed after school).

Nyquilla.

Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (dIske)

Sorry. I have you all beat.

I present, ironically named, I'munique.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 01:12 PM (lAE5c)

240 A kid across the river was named , pronounced with a soft th, Shitthead.
Any wonder why the yutes are so angry?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (KY+FT)

241 Is it a coincidence that most witches that were burned at the stake were white women?

Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (q177U)

242 Have you ever seen the Key and Peele skit where they recreate one of those pre-game shows for college football. The players come on and tell their names and school. It's hilarious.

https://tinyurl.com/52vwa2p5
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM


I love those. "Dan Smith! Brigham Young."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (Wnv9h)

243 "Mom? How high were you when you named me?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (2YhKe)
___

Obviously, very high off the stuff.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 01:14 PM (3fZgy)

244 I remember a black football player named Achilles...and I thought that was kind of cool.
Posted by: 18-1
--

Perfect name for a pro wrestling good guy who then does a, wait for it, HEEL turn.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 07, 2026 01:14 PM (0bjKf)

245 There used to be a website called "Stupid Kid Names" that had some amazingly bad names on it.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:14 PM (77rzZ)

246 I saw one the other day"Special Uniqua Gibson". Link in nic.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (MWfyi)

247 Is it a coincidence that most witches that were burned at the stake were white women?
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (q177U)


How many non-whites lived in areas where we have records of witches being burned?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (ExV1e)

248 I love those. "Dan Smith! Brigham Young."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (Wnv9h)
_______________________

Davoin Shower-Handel

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (dIske)

249 My sister worked collections for a while and ran across a deadbeat named Crystal Shanda Lear.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (2ap+5)

250 169 I had to look that one up. Wiki is not a help. I am assuming it involves blowjobs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (Y/06r)

https://tinyurl.com/4j2bdud2
Posted by: zombie Lee Garlington at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (J4Dwc)

LOL. Went the other way. Result that I pulled up was an actress for Seinfeld and I was like... ?que?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (Y/06r)

251 Is it a coincidence that most witches that were burned at the stake were white women?
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (q177U)

How many non-whites lived in areas where we have records of witches being burned?


People still kill "witches" to this day in Africa. Hell, its a problem among the "refugees" Europe keeps taking in.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)

252 I grew up with a Nosmo King.

His mom named him after a sign she saw in the hospital.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (6UXQp)

253 Am I the only one who loves those intrusive pop-up ads ? They generate money for the site? correct ?

Posted by: alpine_beer at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (van9r)

254 fixed the link

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (MWfyi)

255 Peerless Price was a good football player.

Posted by: Think He Was Home-Schooled at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (JM9I6)

256 Have you ever seen the Key and Peele skit where they recreate one of those pre-game shows for college football. The players come on and tell their names and school. It's hilarious.

Best one is "Substitute Teacher".

Baalaakay! Baalaakay!

Do you mean Blake?

Posted by: A A Ron at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (45BvE)

257 WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!

And yet we continue having to live like this.

Posted by: Crowd tested, AWFL approved at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (TbWk/)

258 Peerless Price was a good football player.
Posted by: Think He Was Home-Schooled at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (JM9I6)



D'Brickashaw.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (2YhKe)

259 One of my HS classmates is named Wash Junior White.

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (2CeDH)

260 Special Uniqua Gibson was arrested for terroristic threats.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (MWfyi)

261 Is it a coincidence that most witches that were burned at the stake were white women?
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (q177U)

How many non-whites lived in areas where we have records of witches being burned?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

In Salem, the first person to be accused was the slave woman Tituba. She was imprisoned, but never tried, and survived the witch hysteria.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (77rzZ)

262 Good afternoon!

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

Internet went down over a strong squall line moving through. Been a saga to get it back up.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (u82oZ)

263 This is the best Key and Peele skit: https://tinyurl.com/3jpefha8

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm)

264
Best one is "Substitute Teacher".

Baalaakay! Baalaakay!

Do you mean Blake?
Posted by: A A Ron at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (45BvE)



D-Nice.

https://youtu.be/bbWnRyPzce4

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (2YhKe)

265 There was a white version of this as well with spelling. Like Kaylaigh or Addisyn, etc.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (Bz1XI)

266 Davoin Shower-Handel
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM


You have to watch all of them. There are some great names.

And the "When Your Friend Goes Steampunk" sketch.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (Wnv9h)

267 The money dried up from his D-Kwon Dance moves tape so he had to hit the streets and record some new videos.

Posted by: DBCooper at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (1nSzr)

268 Peerless Price was a good football player.
Posted by: Think He Was Home-Schooled


Named after two different bathroom fixtures?

And he should have hooked up with Farrah Fawcett.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (VHUov)

269 The best name from my HS class is Barb White.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (2ap+5)

270 People still kill "witches" to this day in Africa. Hell, its a problem among the "refugees" Europe keeps taking in.
Posted by: 18-1 at
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Tie their hands together and throw them overboard.

Posted by: braenyard at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (IpPh0)

271 Ah Ayron

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (Bz1XI)

272 This is the best Key and Peele skit: https://tinyurl.com/3jpefha8
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM


And let us not forget If Hogwarts Was an Inner City School.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (Wnv9h)

273 My aunt told of a girl in her school named Abcde, pronounced Ab-seh-dee. That had to have been at least 30 years ago.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (vTZFs)

274 Nood Red Cross

Posted by: Inogame at August 07, 2026 01:20 PM (53oGX)

275 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:20 PM (77rzZ)

276 You have to watch all of them. There are some great names.

And the "When Your Friend Goes Steampunk" sketch.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (Wnv9h)
_____________________________________

There was one I can't find any more. They did a skit about the special ed class at the X-Man Academy....and these kids kept trying to run through walls...unsuccessfully. I couldn't stop laughing.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:20 PM (dIske)

277
Are the plea deals that turn felonies into misdemeanors a way of circumventing three strikes laws?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (kf4RM)





Juking the felony stats for reporting, like on The Wire.

"Why no, in this city of 300,000 people, we've only had 32 felony crimes this year! Newark, New Jersey is awesome!"

Either that, or the crime rate in Sandford, Gloucestershire (let's not look at the accident rate though).

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (y9nCu)

278 Wosrt name I have ever come across. Anai. That poor girl.

Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (Q8JBQ)

279 And this,


Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD
@TonerousHyus
·
3h
U.S. unexpectedly loses 23k jobs in July but unemployment rate drops. How? It appears the entire labor force shift including the job loss was due to TPS ending and deportations.

Labor force shrank by 257k in a single month

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 01:22 PM (E4rtv)

280 The problem with these judges is the same thing I've been hammering on...incentives.
-----

Once upon a time the "community" would provide other forms of "incentives" to judges who forgot what their job was.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 01:26 PM (TN0g+)

281 I've got a better one. A friend from college...(black girl, grew up in Philly Westside) but you'd never know it but for her real name, which she avoided like the plague (and eventually legally changed after school).

Nyquilla.

Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (dIske)


I can see it now: every time her parents would call her name, they would remember how they were so dopey, between the cold and the cold medicine, they forgot the prophylactic. Haha! Nyquilla! Good times, good times.

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 01:27 PM (Sy6m/)

282 More on jobs report analysis for July.

Kentucky Girl@Kentuckygirl1
Jobs report isn't bad news.

Lost government jobs - 53,000 (that's good).

Lost hospitality jobs - 40,000 (mostly illegals, that's good).

Gained manufacturing jobs +5,000 obviously good, (would hope for more gains, but all of the 5000 gained were Americans).

Gained construction jobs +22,000 very good, considering they had to lose thousands of jobs because of deportations, too.

Gained private ed & health services +25,000 that's good.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 01:27 PM (E4rtv)

283 In November, my lovely Mrs. and I will celebrate our 32nd wedding anniversary. We married 4 months after our first date.
/Made her like it :>)

Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (JNTt1)

284 Guilty to two charges.
Two dismissed.


IMPORTANT question here: WHICH two were dismissed?

Because there are four charges mentioned, but only one is named (assault with a deadly weapon). Was that one dropped? What were the ones he pled guilty to?

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 02:00 PM (kU0PQ)

285 Jackals go after the weakest in the herd.
Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (VJX5o)

And this is NC, not NY or California. Those women should be carrying and should have stopped this fool cold. Don't outsource your safety to feelings of security, ladies. Make it real with a warm barrel.

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 02:03 PM (kU0PQ)

286 They're always so so mentally impaired, so crazy, so insane that they can't be held liable for their actions, but somehow they're always smart enough to pick on defenseless (white) women instead of a bertha, a dyke or a man who'd be able to fight back.

Funny thing that

Posted by: Trumpy at August 07, 2026 02:04 PM (wtTZq)

287 Yes... We have a s**t load of judges who need the Bukele treatment...
Posted by: It's me donna

Soros with him millions has infiltrated our legal system with DAs and Judges who laugh at these criminals and put them through a revolving door to prey on our citizens. Larry Krasner of Philadelphia is just one example of a shit-bag that should never have held the position he has along with a lot of Judges throughout the country who never have to live with the consequences of their horrible decisions.

Posted by: Cheri at August 07, 2026 02:11 PM (oiNtH)

288 Citizen vigilantes wanted.

Posted by: Cynical Stoic at August 07, 2026 02:27 PM (2r+jB)

289 The judges, prosecutors, and in many cases, shrinks, who enable this shit do it on purpose and are every bit at fault as the subhumans they are freeing to assault us.

Posted by: heya at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (he7fo)

290 Since normal men have stopped dating these whore, they need to find someone to fuck.

Posted by: Rotkappchen at August 07, 2026 02:37 PM (j3Fsw)

291 All it takes is one vigilantly....

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 07, 2026 03:09 PM (Q/FnY)

292 The mayor of Charlotte resigned recently, an african american woman, the african american community publicly demanded that only an african american could be appointed the interim mayor, and that was the outcome.

Posted by: EzE at August 07, 2026 03:11 PM (pxzPN)

293 We shouldn't judge people by their worst days.

Posted by: Road Warrior at August 07, 2026 03:32 PM (wHUXH)

294 Give him a tiny house near the judge's home.

Posted by: Nagasaki still gives me a glow at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (hJ0rR)

295 OMG!!!!! Enes Kantor Freedom just declared for the 2027 WNBA Draft. OHHH F*CK is the WNBA screwed?!?! They can 1)draft him and make mockery of the W in WNBA, 2) NOT draft him, whereupon he SUES, or 3) come to their senses and change their eligibility rules,...and piss off the trans supporters!

THIS is pure GOLD, even better than Clay Travis $10M bet.

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at August 07, 2026 04:45 PM (7kJyR)

THE MORNING RANT: PepsiCo (Frito Lay) Snack Sales Decline as SNAP Restrictions Kick In

SNAP Lays Potato Chips.png

Thanks to President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., states have been empowered to restrict SNAP benefits (formerly known as “food stamps” such that the benefits cannot be used to purchase junk food and sodas. As SNAP restrictions have rolled out, it has been a sucker-punch to the manufacturers of low-nutrition products.

PepsiCo has been hit especially hard, as its revenue is more reliant on snack products than is the case with Coca-Cola, which is weighted more toward beverage sales.

“PepsiCo’s Turnaround Stutters as Americans Rethink Snacking” [Reuters – 7/14/2026]

Sales in the Frito-Lay and Pepsi soda maker's North American food business slipped 2%, while volume was flat in the second quarter ended June 13, even after earlier price cuts of up to 15% on some of its biggest products including Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos and Tostitos.

For PepsiCo, whose food brands including Ruffles and PopCorners generate about 58% of its annual revenue, the shift threatens one of the key engines that has driven growth for decades.

Articles such as this Reuters piece linked above talk about diet drugs and shifts in consumer food choices as being primary reasons for the decline in snack food sales, but it doesn’t mention that the goal of making SNAP benefits be spent on healthier food is having an impact. Successfully weaning welfare recipients off of taxpayer-subsidized junk food is not a success story to Reuters and the left.

But that is what’s happening.

“SNAP restrictions could change what shoppers buy — and food giants are watching” [CNBC – 6/20/2026]

SNAP purchase restrictions are now approved in 23 states, affecting about one-third of recipients and potentially reducing food and beverage sales by up to $830 million this year.

That misleading statement from CNBC makes it sound like SNAP spending is being reduced by $830 million. That is not the case. There is a potential $830 million that won’t be flowing to PepsiCo and Coca Cola.

Companies including Hershey, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz are closely monitoring shopper behavior as limits on soda and candy purchases expand.

PepsiCo has already had to respond once to the SNAP changes by cutting prices. When low-income consumers were forced to start using their own money to buy potato chips, rather than taxpayer money, many stopped buying premium-priced Frito-Lay products.

I’ll take this opportunity to restate what I previously wrote about the market distortion of taxpayer-subsidized junk food, from a piece from last February titled, “Following SNAP Restrictions on Junk Food, Pepsico Cuts Prices Due to Softening Consumer Demand.”

Some basic economic truths are playing out in the junk food market – the market where Pepsico engages in commerce. Much of its revenue has been in the form of redistributed taxpayer money, which passes through government to the recipients of what was once called “food stamps.” The recipients of SNAP benefits (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) have historically spent considerable amounts of their federal food assistance on Doritos, Mountain Dew, and other low-nutrition foods sold by Pepsico.

It didn’t take long for Pepsico to feel the pinch. By early February, the company was finding itself needing to cut prices in response to slowing sales.

But a few months earlier when SNAP recipients were still spending government money, Pepsico was able to steadily increase prices. Now that those same consumers are forced to buy Fritos and Cheetos using their own money, they have suddenly become price conscious.

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When corporations and their executives made a hard-left political turn in the early 21st century it puzzled me, because the Democrats they allied with were not the party of free enterprise. But I’ve since come to realize that much of corporate America now rejects free enterprise too, and instead wants government to act on its behalf in redistributing money from taxpayers to corporations.

Be it SNAP benefits for junk food or EV credits for auto manufacturers, the Trump administration is putting an end to the corporatist business model and its parasitic attachment to taxpayer wallets.

With “affordability” such a visible political issue, and with the Pepsico case-study showing how consumer prices can be reduced, Republicans need to aggressively focus on cutting the government subsidies that result in higher consumer prices.

*****

Other Stuff I’m Writing About

My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “Natural Gas, AI, and the Industrial Boom Nobody Wants to Talk About” discusses the massive, ongoing industrial buildout going on in this country, focusing especially on the record orders and backlog for electricity-producing, natural gas turbines, and how this boom is cascading through the economy, resulting in an expansion of American manufacturing.

A subject I feel is important to keep covering, despite the puzzling disinterest of the political and media class, is the extraordinary industrial growth that is occurring in the United States. There is effectively a massive “stimulus package” of spending going on, and best of all, it is being privately funded. For once, taxpayers are benefiting from this vast “shovel-ready” stimulus, unlike recent government stimulus spending endeavors, in which money was simply redistributed from taxpayers to favored recipients.

This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM




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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (sTU8y)

2 The only way to measure a program's success is if spending goes up.

Otherwise people are starving and dying.

You don't want people to starve and die, do you?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (bvy21)

3 Investing in anything subsidized by the government is a bad investment.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:02 AM (2Cry5)

4 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:03 AM (sTU8y)

5 The only way to measure a program's success is if spending goes up.

Otherwise people are starving and dying.

You don't want people to starve and die, do you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


You want an honest answer?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:04 AM (sTU8y)

6 So if you want chips, or "crisps", or whatever fried potato product you will have to buy... a potato. And cut it up and fry it yourself.
I can't see that being hard and it would save taxpayers some money.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 11:04 AM (88C+u)

7 5

You want an honest answer?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:04 AM (sTU8y)

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No.

I want you to kneel and submit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM (bvy21)

8 You don't want people to starve and die, do you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (bvy21)

Depends on the people

Posted by: MAC V SOG at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM (P4Pk9)

9 No.

I want you to kneel and submit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I thought it was "like and subscribe."

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

10 You don't want people to starve and die, do you?

I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific.

(Yeah, I'm in one of "those" moods today.)

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 11:06 AM (vTZFs)

11
9 No.

I want you to kneel and submit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I thought it was "like and subscribe."

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

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What's the difference?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:06 AM (bvy21)

12 I think people on SNAP should have all the free kale they want!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 11:07 AM (n9eFH)

13 Old and Busted: Do it for the kicks!
New Hotness: Do it for the clicks!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 11:07 AM (n9eFH)

14 I want you to kneel and submit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM (bvy21)

Come over here and say that.

Posted by: Graham Platner, Jarl of the Maine fjords at August 07, 2026 11:07 AM (88C+u)

15 Posted by: Buck
Thanks Buck, I enjoy your insights.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 07, 2026 11:07 AM (NnhvP)

16 No.

I want you to kneel and submit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I thought it was "like and subscribe."
Posted by: Bulg


Already have. He cleans up pretty good.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:08 AM (sTU8y)

17 The fact that it took until now to ban the purchase of junk food with taxpayer money is just astonishing, and tells you everything you need to know about the people we're up against.

Make a case for taxpayer-funded junk food. Go ahead. I'm waiting.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

18 Well, my guy for governor list the Republican primary, as expected. But, he definitely outperformed any expectations for him. Much better than everyone thought, including me. He even won in a bunch of counties near me.

Dude is BASED AF, which is what got me to vote for him. Hopefully these Republican queens take notice.

LOL, I keed, I keed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:08 AM (BI5O2)

19
I still think the gov't should go with some kind of nutrient loaf or snacker that contains all the necessary vitamins, protein and fiber people need to live instead of SNAP or food stamp or whatever.

Cheaper and if people want better chow they'd go to work.

Buuuuut, that'll never happen, so restrict what can be bought, make sure grifters can't get cards and make them non-sellable. Maybe by using a bar code which can't work unless the proper ID or fingerprint reader gives the okay.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 11:08 AM (iJfKG)

20 You get what you pay people for using other people's money.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 11:08 AM (aJQbY)

21 I wonder sometimes - the average price of groceries, must almost certainly be significantly higher due to the federal “Snap” and “EBT” confetti-buck cannon firing dollars far and wide. How much? 5%? 10%?

No question corn chips, cookies, potato chips, pricessed frozen snack food meals and the rest of it are marked up very high. A large bag of Doritos is $6 to $8 bucks, and not all that large any longer. I bet there’s probably forty cents worth of product in a ten cent bag, maybe a dollar in transport and handling?

You’ll hear experts decry the rise in metabolic syndrome, obesity, and type II diabetes and blame it on “cheap carbs” and junk foods. This is a bit of a myth, the carbohydrate laden snack foods are the most expensive stuff you can buy.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:09 AM (dE511)

22 Thx Buck.
Here in NY our brilliant governor Hochul has put a moratorium on data centers. That's while the government is funding solar arrays in upstate lands and trying to put battery power storage facilities everywhere.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 11:10 AM (KY+FT)

23 I think people on SNAP should have all the free kale they want!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes


I think they should be allowed to have all the junk food they can buy with their own money.

But if they can afford junk food, they don't need SNAP or WIC.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:10 AM (sTU8y)

24 No. You're not going to do it. You're not going to make me like bureaucracy.

People Are Being Driven Away From Food Stamps — By “Paperwork”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7)

25 naturalfake, that reminds me of John Ringo's Last Centurion. The nutrition bars from hell that made people want to find work so they could stop eating them.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (aJQbY)

26 Depend on it, when a welfare leech knows their SNAP benefits are going to be cut, their wallet tightens accordingly.

- Shit Samuel Johnson Said, vol. III

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (qRla/)

27 Damn, now I want chips.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

28 I'm fine with this. Start encouraging people to cook better food instead of relying on junk.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (lXoJ5)

29 From the AI link:

While analyzing the stock market is not something I would attempt to do, it is setting new records, and it bemuses me that the coverage of the current bull market seems to completely ignore the impact of the massive industrial buildout that is underway in this country.

We are experiencing what will likely be looked back on as the greatest industrial expansion since World War II. It far exceeds what any government-funded stimulus package could do. Prosperous economic times lie ahead with the USA becoming an industrial powerhouse again.


I have a lot of problems with Peter Zeihan's predictions, many of which have turned out to be completely wrong, but on this one he's been ahead of the curve. He predicted a huge rebirth of American manufacturing years ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

30 I am 53 years old so I am delighted to see the popup ads showing 3 old men with big smiles on their faces with a dopeboy baggie of blue pills, a bosomy GILF with promises to have hours of sex and incontinence underwear. This gives me great hope for the Villages years!

Posted by: paulnjax at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (PPnyU)

31 I still think the gov't should go with some kind of nutrient loaf or snacker that contains all the necessary vitamins, protein and fiber people need to live instead of SNAP or food stamp or whatever.

Cheaper and if people want better chow they'd go to work.

Buuuuut, that'll never happen, so restrict what can be bought, make sure grifters can't get cards and make them non-sellable. Maybe by using a bar code which can't work unless the proper ID or fingerprint reader gives the okay.
Posted by: naturalfake


Should go back to the way it was. You went and picked up the government food.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:12 AM (sTU8y)

32 You don't want people to starve and die, do you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

We are all dying but some of us are dying faster--too much food of the wrong kind or the lack thereof can speed that process.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:12 AM (E4rtv)

33 The question that people should be starting to ask is, can this re-industrialization be sustained beyond Trump's term?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 11:12 AM (g8Ew8)

34 You have to be retarded to support solar arrays in the northeast (or, worse, northwest).
Arizona, New Mex, parts of Colorado, I get it. Maybe east Oregon. But it gets cloudy and cold NE.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 07, 2026 11:12 AM (88C+u)

35 31 I still think the gov't should go with some kind of nutrient loaf or snacker that contains all the necessary vitamins, protein and fiber people need to live instead of SNAP or food stamp or whatever.

Cheaper and if people want better chow they'd go to work.

Buuuuut, that'll never happen, so restrict what can be bought, make sure grifters can't get cards and make them non-sellable. Maybe by using a bar code which can't work unless the proper ID or fingerprint reader gives the okay.
Posted by: naturalfake


Should go back to the way it was. You went and picked up the government food.
Posted by: rickb223
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Purina Human Chow. Comes in 50 lb sacks.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:12 AM (E4rtv)

36 I want you to kneel and submit.


Come over here and say that.
Posted by: Graham Platner, Jarl of the Maine fjords


You really, REALLY don't want to be on the ground around that guy. He has...ideas.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

37 So if you want chips, or "crisps", or whatever fried potato product you will have to buy... a potato. And cut it up and fry it yourself.
I can't see that being hard and it would save taxpayers some money.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 11:04 AM (88C+u)

Naw, you can buy the store brand at Wally World.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:13 AM (1z8ji)

38 33 The question that people should be starting to ask is, can this re-industrialization be sustained beyond Trump's term?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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With tariffs and a GOP president following Trumpism, yes. Same with restoring the border and kicking out illegals improving society.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:13 AM (E4rtv)

39 Buuuuut, that'll never happen, so restrict what can be bought, make sure grifters can't get cards and make them non-sellable. Maybe by using a bar code which can't work unless the proper ID or fingerprint reader gives the okay.
Posted by: naturalfake


It can be done, but the will is not there.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

40 I'm having lunch today at a place that serves Pepsi products.

However, I'll order a Dr. Pepper just for spite.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 11:15 AM (FZ29D)

41 Buuuuut, that'll never happen, so restrict what can be bought, make sure grifters can't get cards and make them non-sellable. Maybe by using a bar code which can't work unless the proper ID or fingerprint reader gives the okay.
Posted by: naturalfake

It can be done, but the will is not there.
Posted by: Archimedes


This.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:15 AM (sTU8y)

42 34 You have to be retarded to support solar arrays in the northeast (or, worse, northwest).
Arizona, New Mex, parts of Colorado, I get it. Maybe east Oregon. But it gets cloudy and cold NE.
Posted by: gKWVE
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Subsidies means doing shit is that is stupid economically. Like federal and states subsidizing fake majors in college with cheap loans and grants.

The administrators end up the ones that benefit as even the faculty teaching the crap can be hired on the cheap as adjuncts.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:15 AM (E4rtv)

43 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: La'Shondra at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (2Ez/1)

44 Drink water. It’s good for you!

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (LHPAg)

45 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (2YhKe)

46 You have to be retarded to support solar arrays in the northeast (or, worse, northwest).
Arizona, New Mex, parts of Colorado, I get it. Maybe east Oregon. But it gets cloudy and cold NE.
Posted by: gKWVE
======
Subsidies means doing shit is that is stupid economically. Like federal and states subsidizing fake majors in college with cheap loans and grants.

The administrators end up the ones that benefit as even the faculty teaching the crap can be hired on the cheap as adjuncts.

Posted by: whig


It's never about what's being subsidized. It's always about WHO is being subsidized.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (OUMaO)

47 When I was going thru school, I worked at a grocery store and you would frequently see folks in the parking lot selling their $1.00 food stamps in exchange for $0.80 cash so they could go in and buy cigarettes and liquor. Nothing will change, just methods.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (iySPJ)

48 I've observed that the demographics at the local grocery stores has indeed, shifted a bit. Apparently not having lots of extra cash (welfare) is making individuals a bit more circumspect with what money they do have.

Which is as it should be.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (2Cry5)

49 Lays makes grilled cheese and tomato soup flavored potato chips. They should get credit for that, at least.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (J4Dwc)

50 Be it SNAP benefits for junk food or EV credits for auto manufacturers, the Trump administration is putting an end to the corporatist business model and its parasitic attachment to taxpayer wallets.


He's stopping the governmental money laundering......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (2YhKe)

51 22 Thx Buck.
Here in NY our brilliant governor Hochul has put a moratorium on data centers. That's while the government is funding solar arrays in upstate lands and trying to put battery power storage facilities everywhere.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Holchul is playing footsie with the Chicoms is why. And the fake left is Chinese subsidized to want what the Chicoms want.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (E4rtv)

52 Drink water. It’s good for you!

Posted by: Eromero


You crazy? Look at what fish do in water...

Posted by: Alcoholic Beverage Purveyors of America at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (OUMaO)

53 The Clinton years. Congress did away with much of the surplus farm commodity price supports, which is what people wanted, I guess.

USDA “food stamps” were rife with fraud. Get maybe 20 cents cash or whatever to the dollar. Everyone had all the rice and beans and peanut butter they needed. Need money for beer and ciggies and the rest of it.

And everyone was admonished that it was “unfair” to have the poor folk singled out like that. Just give them a card loaded with credits.

I watched someone roll up in one of those humongous shopping carts FULL of meat, beef, steaks, chops, chicken, everything. Looked like more animal protein than I’d bought in the last ten years. Must have cost a fortune. Not for her.

“Would you like some help getting that out to your car?” the checker helpfully inquired. I think the cow declined, because her Escalade was parked right at the door, in the Handicapped spot, you see.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (dE511)

54 Corn chips are a little trickier to make at home than potato chips are. I don't even want to consider Cheez-Its or Cheetohs. Imagine the quality of computer dust from homemade versions.

Megacorps with massive production facilities killed off all the local potato chip shops that used to be a neighborhood feature. I think we had three just on our side of the river, until the late 60's. They were loveable but low-margin. If Pepsi et al cut back, there may be an opening for small 'gourmet' snack foods again.

We get pretty haughty around here defining what "junk food" is for others. Obviously, if somebody we don't approve of is eating it, it's poison. Remember that when you are in the cross hairs next time, and I do mean bacon.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 07, 2026 11:18 AM (zdLoL)

55 The administrators end up the ones that benefit as even the faculty teaching the crap can be hired on the cheap as adjuncts.

But they NEED that Office of Diversity Enforcement in Offices of Diversity Enforcement. Otherwise, who will watch the watchers?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)

56 Lays makes grilled cheese and tomato soup flavored potato chips. They should get credit for that, at least.
Posted by: one hour sober


Wow, I gotta get me some of those.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

57 It's never about what's being subsidized. It's always about WHO is being subsidized.
Posted by: Brother Tim
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Depends on whether the argument is political or economic.

There are always political cases to be made for various subsidies. Not so using economics despite a lot of cheap date economists shills for specific interests.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:19 AM (E4rtv)

58 Yeah, I lost my old hash. Switched to another internet provider which includes my phone.
Sadly the hash is still uncool. ("Yyrog" is kinda cool but I have to pick that up at the coffee hovel.)

Posted by: 88C+u / gKWVE at August 07, 2026 11:19 AM (88C+u)

59 But they NEED that Office of Diversity Enforcement in Offices of Diversity Enforcement. Otherwise, who will watch the watchers?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)


Tanned, rested, and ready!

Posted by: Jason Arday, PhD at August 07, 2026 11:20 AM (n9eFH)

60 I've been amazed how chip prices have been jumping all over the place during the last few years. It seems they used to be far more stable. Also, chips used to be cheap and when the prices jump, they are ridiculous. I love the Ruffles Sea Salt and regularly bought them for $3-3.50 per bag. Smaller bags are over $5 this week.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 07, 2026 11:20 AM (OlzlW)

61 We get pretty haughty around here defining what "junk food" is for others. Obviously, if somebody we don't approve of is eating it, it's poison. Remember that when you are in the cross hairs next time, and I do mean bacon.

Yeah, well, when I'm paying for it, I get to be haughty.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

62
Buuuuut, that'll never happen, so restrict what can be bought, make sure grifters can't get cards and make them non-sellable. Maybe by using a bar code which can't work unless the proper ID or fingerprint reader gives the okay.
Posted by: naturalfake


A mark on the hand or forehead.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 11:20 AM (Cqx++)

63 Some basic economic truths are playing out in the junk food market

I like that. I'd like that to be the editorial standard: For PepsiCo, whose junk food brands including Ruffles and PopCorners generate about 58% of its annual revenue...

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 11:21 AM (rxwdW)

64 Drink water. It’s good for you!

Posted by: Eromero

You crazy? Look at what fish do in water...
Posted by: Alcoholic Beverage Purveyors of America at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (OUMaO)
No fish in my well.

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 11:21 AM (LHPAg)

65 I wonder sometimes - the average price of groceries, must almost certainly be significantly higher due to the federal “Snap” and “EBT” confetti-buck cannon firing dollars far and wide. How much? 5%? 10%?

No question corn chips, cookies, potato chips, pricessed frozen snack food meals and the rest of it are marked up very high. A large bag of Doritos is $6 to $8 bucks, and not all that large any longer. I bet there’s probably forty cents worth of product in a ten cent bag, maybe a dollar in transport and handling?

You’ll hear experts decry the rise in metabolic syndrome, obesity, and type II diabetes and blame it on “cheap carbs” and junk foods. This is a bit of a myth, the carbohydrate laden snack foods are the most expensive stuff you can buy.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:09 AM


I don't know about that but I watched a woman checking out at walmart using her snap benefits the other day. She had a cart full of pretty much nothing but carbs. Her two kids were extremely fat. The younger one was about 11-12 and he looked like he weighed over 200 pounds.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2026 11:21 AM (cpFbA)

66 The SNAP changes should be a helpful tool in cutting fraud as well--gas stations that only sell pop and snacks and buy SNAP cards at pennies on the dollar will no longer be able to put fraudulent purchases for pop and snacks through for payment. A wise program auditor would look to pre and post changes in purchases to identify potential fraud hotspots.

Posted by: MsT at August 07, 2026 11:22 AM (mtNmY)

67 Should go back to the way it was. You went and picked up the government food.

Bring back shame. When I was a child, people were ashamed to have others see that they were on food stamps.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 11:22 AM (qRla/)

68 Purina Human Chow sounds a lot like prison punishment loaf and would be just as popular, and this with a non-captive population. Going back to handing out sacks of groceries sounds better.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:22 AM (sGgMH)

69 Now you know at least partially why Pepsi tried to adopt the Obongo logo back when

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 11:22 AM (6UXQp)

70 Where my EBT card at?
Posted by: La'Shondra at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (2Ez/1)

Annnnd, my standard reply, as usual, is, "If it was up your ass you'd know".

Posted by: Wise Ass at August 07, 2026 11:22 AM (hmYU4)

71 There are always political cases to be made for various subsidies. Not so using economics despite a lot of cheap date economists shills for specific interests.

Posted by: whig


The moment government starts slinging money around, it's political by definition.

While I get and appreciate the economic arguments, "homo economicus" is a fable. If the lens of human nature isn't in play you'll never understand the results.

Posted by: Alcoholic Beverage Purveyors of America at August 07, 2026 11:23 AM (OUMaO)

72 I think kicking out a lot of illegals also cut into sales of junk-food garbage. I'm sure those leeches were big consumers of junk food and soda.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:23 AM (iFTx/)

73 The SNAP changes should be a helpful tool in cutting fraud as well--gas stations that only sell pop and snacks and buy SNAP cards at pennies on the dollar will no longer be able to put fraudulent purchases for pop and snacks through for payment. A wise program auditor would look to pre and post changes in purchases to identify potential fraud hotspots.

As I said earlier, this isn't an impossible problem to solve. The people running the scams are not galactic brains - they're largely morons. The problem is a government that doesn't WANT to stop it.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

74 Strangely enough calorie restriction has long been known to show a life extension characteristic. You never see really obese elderly people out and about, they always die early. Those people that make it to 102 usually look pretty spry.

It’s one reason paying people not to work and fattening them up on corn is awfully silly. Because they need all sorts of “health care” soon enough.

Weigh-ins and morning PT for the fatties is probably asking a bit much. Worked for the Army, though.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:24 AM (dE511)

75 OT -why would someone want to order Coke with personalized saying on the can.?

Article over brouhaha over it:

https://tinyurl.com/mu49ahdy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 11:24 AM (vxQju)

76 I don't know about that but I watched a woman checking out at walmart using her snap benefits the other day. She had a cart full of pretty much nothing but carbs. Her two kids were extremely fat. The younger one was about 11-12 and he looked like he weighed over 200 pounds.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2026 11:21 AM (cpFbA)

Being fat and bloated is the mark of a successful tick.

Parasites.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:26 AM (1z8ji)

77 But they NEED that Office of Diversity Enforcement in Offices of Diversity Enforcement. Otherwise, who will watch the watchers?
Posted by: Archimedes

Roughly about 2008-9, a majority of college salary expenditures went to staff rather than teaching faculty and since then, it has widened. Basically the coolie adjunct labor force of PhDs teaching for cheap means shrinkage in the number of tenured faculty and those expensive faculty are increasingly not teaching but rather trying to get research grants so admin can get its fat rakeoff.

And the students get the shaft at many colleges because of that but willingly accept that as they only want a credential in many cases.

Administrators pretend education is going on, professors including adjuncts pretend they are teaching, and students in turn pretend to learn and use AI/cut and paste, and other means to dispose of assignments quickly so socializing can be done.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv)

78 It was hilarious when lobbyists testified at public hearings justifying junk food stampz

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 11:26 AM (bX16E)

79 56 Lays makes grilled cheese and tomato soup flavored potato chips. They should get credit for that, at least.
Posted by: one hour sober


Wow, I gotta get me some of those.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

They also make a mac and cheese flavor that is nowhere near as good as it sounds. Disappointing even.

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 07, 2026 11:26 AM (CTEU+)

80 I think the modern obsession with "snacking" -- endless snacks, all day long, especially for kids -- should be completely rethought and abandoned.

It's expensive, it's unhealthy, and it's creating entire generations of overweight kids that grow into layabout obese farm animals.

I'm not sure when it started. When I was a kid -- not that long ago, I'm Gen X -- there was no such thing as "snacking." We had breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That was it. There wasn't those meals plus three bags of doritos.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

81 31 I still think the gov't should go with some kind of nutrient loaf or snacker that contains all the necessary vitamins, protein and fiber people need to live instead of SNAP or food stamp or whatever.
++++
I recall one of the DC snipers complaining about prison food that was a food loaf:

"Sniper suspect and vegetarian John Lee Malvo says he is getting sick from eating the jail's meatless loaf, which is usually served to inmates for disciplinary reasons.
For the past two weeks, the Fairfax County jail has been serving the 17-year-old Malvo 'the loaf,' a hodgepodge of flour, raisins, carrots, potatoes and other ingredients baked into brown cakes.

Loaves have become an increasingly popular form of discipline in jails and prisons across the country, and have prompted some lawsuits. In Pennsylvania prisons, a breakfast loaf contains prunes, eggs, toast, hash browns, bacon and orange juice. Texas calls its version food loaf, a breadlike substance made up of the previous day's leftovers."

https://tinyurl.com/3bhutukj

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 11:28 AM (2Ez/1)

82 When I was a child, people were ashamed to have others see that they were on food stamps.
——

And the “experts” admonished everyone how wrong that was. They had to take shame out of the equation, and turn it into a violent entitlement mentality.

“They just need room to destroy” is the result. See how that works?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:28 AM (dE511)

83 So if you want chips, or "crisps", or whatever fried potato product you will have to buy... a potato. And cut it up and fry it yourself.
I can't see that being hard and it would save taxpayers some money.


Here's the problem with that- I can find potatoes, tallow, and salt. Where am I, as a mere consumer, going to find the Natural Beef Flavor, Hydrolyzed Wheat, Hydrolyzed Milk, Citric Acid, Dimethylpolysiloxane, Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, and "TBHQ" (?!) I need to make a proper McDonald's french fry?

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 11:28 AM (rxwdW)

84 It was hilarious when lobbyists testified at public hearings justifying junk food stampz
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov


When she was working in public accounting, my wife had to do an audit at the National Potato-Chip and Snakc-Food Association. She said there were packages of junk food lying around everywhere, free for the taking.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

85 Funyons are neither.

Posted by: Just for the record at August 07, 2026 11:29 AM (2Ez/1)

86 NSFA! (Not safe for anyone.)

Debbie Dingell has the best Hasan [Piker] take to date: I don’t get it. I don’t agree with him. I’m not defending what he’s said. But he’s popular, especially with young people, and he’s hot. So it is what it is. C’est la vie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (ndZc7)

87 Years ago, buying produce at a farmers market meant better quality produce at better prices than the grocery stores.

Now, the produce at the farmers market is nearly double the price compared to the grocery store. I wonder, could this be due to the fact that SNAP benefits are DOUBLED at the farmers market?

I appreciate the intention behind incentivizing the purchase of fresh produce with SNAP, but the real-world result is prices raised for everyone except SNAP users.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (OlzlW)

88 The same people that tell me the government should ban junk food for everyone tell me it is rayciss and mean to not allow EBT to be used on junk food.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (sKqQm)

89 Hawaiian Judge will rule there is no such thing as junk food and Pepsi is nutritious. That will end the Trump starvation campaign.

Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (Wt1Rs)

90 While I get and appreciate the economic arguments, "homo economicus" is a fable. If the lens of human nature isn't in play you'll never understand the results.
Posted by: Alcoholic Beverage Purveyors of America
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Economics realized that by the sixties with behavioral sciences being imported into the field. And the old rational man thesis of classic economics has been overstated to the point of being a strawman. It is simply some subsidies can be helpful instead of harmful because ceteras paribus never is reality.

That is the point that classic libertarianism fails to understand. Not all tariffs are bad, not all subsidies are bad per se, it depends on how they are used.

An economist would simply recognize these are all incentives and some work better than others at specific successful policy outcomes.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (E4rtv)

91 School started here this week. Most kids eat breakfast and lunch at school if it's subsidized. (it is)

The typical summer junk food fare they'd be eating all day long is now priced to sell as there's less of it flying off the shelves. Same for soft drinks.

Not a lot less money, but a little bit. And stuff's lingering on the shelves longer too. I see a lot more yellow tags (which means it a reduced price and very near or at it's "sell by" date.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (2Cry5)

92 ...and now for some Classical Gas.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 11:31 AM (diia5)

93 Drink water. It’s good for you!

You never know!

Posted by: Flint, MI at August 07, 2026 11:31 AM (rxwdW)

94 ...and now for some Classical Gas.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 11:31 AM (diia5)



Beethoven's Farth Symphony.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:32 AM (2YhKe)

95 I don't know about that but I watched a woman checking out at walmart using her snap benefits the other day. She had a cart full of pretty much nothing but carbs. Her two kids were extremely fat. The younger one was about 11-12 and he looked like he weighed over 200 pounds.

If you go back to pictures from the 80s there are occasional fat people but no fat kids. Why? Less exercise and more shitty carb laden food now.

We had shitty carb laden food in the 80s of course but for various cultural reasons people bought less of it.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (sKqQm)

96 I adjusted my own spending and habits considerably some years ago when I decided being a fatty was a bad idea. You can spend a LOT less, or spend it on better quality food and ingredients.

If overnight, everybody started eating sensibly, cut out the shit in their life, it would probably be an extinction level event for many corporations and fast food chains.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (dE511)

97 Publicly subsidized services should be limited to medical care, long term care, schooling, legal services, and shipping-and-transportation, with contextually large subsidies in re the first three and contextually circumscribed ones in re the last two.
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Subsidizing people's groceries, housing, and utility bills is bad business. All three commodities are frequently replenished; you don't have the unpredictable spikes you do with demand for medical care and l/t care and you do not have the sort of information deficits you do with regard to pondering medical care or educational choices. All three are also in their consumption sensitive to considerations of amenity. In regard to groceries in particular, the ratio of grocery expenditures to personal income has declined from 16% in 1965 to 7.4% today while mean body mass index continues to climb. Concern about malnutrition was retro in 1965 and an indicator of the degree to which LBJ was influenced by the conditions prevailing when he was a New Deal official. It is bizarre in our own time, when, with very few exceptions, people suffering from malnutrition are vagrants and drug addicts.

Posted by: Art Deco at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (pawNB)

98 Two DC Circuit judges, one an Obama non-partisan and the other a Biden non-partisan (nod to Chief Justice John "Dummy" Roberts), just ruled the President can't finish his WH ballroom construction project without express permission from the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (zG53D)

99 92 ...and now for some Classical Gas.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 11:31 AM (diia5)


You got it!

https://youtu.be/0vXtywOlayc

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (n9eFH)

100 Posted by: paulnjax at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (PPnyU)

Wah......

Posted by: Will Robinson at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (SExz7)

101 Two DC Circuit judges, one an Obama non-partisan and the other a Biden non-partisan (nod to Chief Justice John "Dummy" Roberts), just ruled the President can't finish his WH ballroom construction project without express permission from the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (zG53D)



F*ck that. He should just finish it. It's a privately funded project.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (2YhKe)

102 Lays makes grilled cheese and tomato soup flavored potato chips. They should get credit for that, at least.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (J4Dwc)

They should start making chips that taste like saltine crackers and government cheese.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew8)

103 >>As SNAP restrictions have rolled out, it has been a sucker-punch to the manufacturers of low-nutrition products.


At some point all of the other benefits SNAP enables needs to be evaluated.

For example, SNAP recipients are given free scooter rental in major cities, as well as reduced entry to institutions such as museums and botanic gardens.
It's become an all-purpose ID for getting all kinds of other free or greatly reduced cost stuff. This is how you get two Americas, one paying full price, the other getting a completely different fare/cost structure via a SNAP card.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (X8xt3)

104 In light of this decline do investors hang on to their Pepsi stocks?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 11:35 AM (3ZNGI)

105 Hawaiian Judge will rule there is no such thing as junk food and Pepsi is nutritious. That will end the Trump starvation campaign.

I saw a congress critter asking some federal bureaucrat if Pepsi was nutritious and she kept deflecting arguing that she while she was a trained and experienced expert on nutrition she would need to read an analyze the ingredients before answering the question

But remember...trust the experts.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:35 AM (sKqQm)

106 Yeah, Frito Lay has jumped their prices up. Not paying $5.00 a bag for chips. Switched to Golden Flakes, still $3.00 a bag.
And by the looks of things I'm not the only one. I've noticed many other items people have stopped buying. People are trying to stick to their grocery budgets.

Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 11:35 AM (fV9m3)

107 An economist would simply recognize these are all incentives and some work better than others at specific successful policy outcomes.

Posted by: whig


Oh, I get all that. It's a tool in the toolbox, used sparingly can yield helpful results. But it has to be watched and limited.

Posted by: Alcoholic Beverage Purveyors of America at August 07, 2026 11:36 AM (OUMaO)

108 For example, SNAP recipients are given free scooter rental in major cities, as well as reduced entry to institutions such as museums and botanic gardens.

I have to say as a taxpayer I get pissed off when I have to pay to go to a state park or a state/federal museum.

What the hell are my taxes paying for exactly?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)

109 > Years ago, buying produce at a farmers market meant better quality produce at better prices than the grocery stores.

Now, the produce at the farmers market is nearly double the price compared to the grocery store. I wonder, could this be due to the fact that SNAP benefits are DOUBLED at the farmers market?
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"Farmer's Market"

More and more it's someone who's been to the produce wholesaler and bought a bunch of stuff to resell (at a profit) which implies a higher price than normal. Claiming it's all from "their farm" or it's "organic."

Some don't even remove the wholesaler's stickers they put on certain produce. And you can see the crates or boxes laying around with the store's logo on them.

We've called out a couple people who do this at the local "farmer's market" and they inevitably leave.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (2Cry5)

110 NSFA! (Not safe for anyone.)

Debbie Dingell has the best Hasan [Piker] take to date: I don’t get it. I don’t agree with him. I’m not defending what he’s said. But he’s popular, especially with young people, and he’s hot. So it is what it is. C’est la vie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (ndZc7)
___________

Dingell is a miserable old crone who married a rich, politically powerful guy old enough to be her father. It was clearly a transactional marriage. By her standards, the hobo drunk stumbling around Detroit is "hot."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

111
What the hell are my taxes paying for exactly?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)



Cocaine and blowjobs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (2YhKe)

112 91 And stuff's lingering on the shelves longer too. I see a lot more yellow tags (which means it a reduced price and very near or at it's "sell by" date.)

doubtless the reason california has decided to ban "sell by" dates.

Posted by: anachronda at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (QfB85)

113 "Sniper suspect and vegetarian John Lee Malvo says he is getting sick from eating the jail's meatless loaf, which is usually served to inmates for disciplinary reasons.
For the past two weeks, the Fairfax County jail has been serving the 17-year-old Malvo 'the loaf,' a hodgepodge of flour, raisins, carrots, potatoes and other ingredients baked into brown cakes.


Malvo was the DC sniper's accomplice. Note that the article is from 2002. I guess we should check in on him and see if he's dead from "the loaf" yet. If not, his ration needs to be doubled. Or halved. One of those.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

114 That is the dirty secret of SNAP and other giveaway federal programs. The money goes to the layabouts who then give it back to The Man via Wally World, Hyundai and the local drug dealer who then make profits while our national debt soars on the backs of people's grandchirrun's future.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Posted by: Gimme Gimme Gimme at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (45BvE)

115 >>Debbie Dingell has the best Hasan [Piker] take to date: I don’t get it. I don’t agree with him. I’m not defending what he’s said. But he’s popular, especially with young people, and he’s hot. So it is what it is. C’est la vie.


Gosh, that Commie Islamist who thinks I should die in a fire for being an infidel sure is hot! So, he's all good with me!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (X8xt3)

116 Cocaine and blowjobs.

That explains Sen Coke Bear and former VP Kamala but what about the rest of it?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:38 AM (sKqQm)

117 Malvo was the DC sniper's accomplice. Note that the article is from 2002. I guess we should check in on him and see if he's dead from "the loaf" yet. If not, his ration needs to be doubled. Or halved. One of those.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

Didn't he get scragged?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:39 AM (1z8ji)

118 3 hours into a 13 hour 3D print, and I am on pins and needles.

It's also lunchtime and I have the rest of the day off, so Gimlet's it is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 11:39 AM (XV/Pl)

119 So who's building the turbines? I know up to 5-6 years ago, GE (market leader?) couldn't get out of the traditional big power turbine fast enough and just make more windmills... Or turbine systems for windmills, anyway... Haven't followed it much since though

Posted by: bearski at August 07, 2026 11:39 AM (Bhsk7)

120 Two DC Circuit judges, one an Obama non-partisan and the other a Biden non-partisan (nod to Chief Justice John "Dummy" Roberts), just ruled the President can't finish his WH ballroom construction project without express permission from the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (zG53D)


F*ck that. He should just finish it. It's a privately funded project.


I say just leave it as a construction site. Then, when people demand to know why the WH looks like crap, just say "talk to the Dems".

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

121
Gosh, that Commie Islamist who thinks I should die in a fire for being an infidel sure is hot! So, he's all good with me!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (X8xt3)



They glorified the Boston Marathon bomber.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (2YhKe)

122 Private charities which operate soup kitchens and community food cupboards can address spot problems with nutrition among the impecunious in this country.
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As for housing, the thing to do is scour the regulator codes for measures which unduly inhibit the production of housing types best suited for the impecunious - emergency shelters, flop houses, SRO hotels, halfway houses, group homes, boarding houses, and apartments with shared kitchens and / or shared baths. You need the stock of available housing to have more bite sized portions. Also, you might remove low priority items in building codes &c in regard to residences in the most impecunious areas of town. Also, tax preferences in poor areas of town would be desirable, with some census block groups facing a 0% rate on assessed valuation and others a rate one half the standard rate. If you lower the tax burden in poor neighborhoods, you reduce incentives to abandon property. Another thing you can do is allow all landlords plenary discretion over to whom they rent and provide for rapid execution of eviction orders.

Posted by: Art Deco at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (pawNB)

123 >>Malvo was the DC sniper's accomplice. Note that the article is from 2002. I guess we should check in on him and see if he's dead from "the loaf" yet. If not, his ration needs to be doubled. Or halved. One of those.


First he demanded vegetarian meals.
Virginia responded by serving him the veggie loaf - hey, it's what *he* wanted. Then he complained.

IIRC, Malvo has been playing the reformed kid who just needs another chance, and was getting interviewed by sympathetic Lefty reporters.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (X8xt3)

124 98 Two DC Circuit judges, one an Obama non-partisan and the other a Biden non-partisan (nod to Chief Justice John "Dummy" Roberts), just ruled the President can't finish his WH ballroom construction project without express permission from the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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And they will end up losing at Scotus because one of Robert's favorite moves is that the appellant lacks standing. And in this case, he would be correct. This is essentially a taxpayer lawsuitm which is barred by Frothingham v. Mellon (1923). They cannot show direct economic or Bill of Rights violations but rather only esthetics.

Congress has grounds to bar it and sue if the President does not comply but they have not done so. Individuals don't. See Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992) as individuals cannot show concrete, particularized, and imminent individual injury from the President renovating the White House. Disagreement about esthetics doesn't meet that high standard for standing.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (E4rtv)

125 Years ago, buying produce at a farmers market meant better quality produce at better prices than the grocery stores.

Now, the produce at the farmers market is nearly double the price compared to the grocery store. I wonder, could this be due to the fact that SNAP benefits are DOUBLED at the farmers market?
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I think most iof these "farmers markets" are scams. It's just the same food bought from major wholesalers as every other grocer has. It's a marketing scam to charge higher prices for the same shit.

Ditto the "organic" scam.

Now, there are some markets where they do sell truly farm-fresh products. But those are the exception rather than the rule.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

126 It rained and my butt is all wet

Posted by: The Ballots at August 07, 2026 11:41 AM (LOZbR)

127 Malvo was the DC sniper's accomplice. Note that the article is from 2002. I guess we should check in on him and see if he's dead from "the loaf" yet. If not, his ration needs to be doubled. Or halved. One of those.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

Didn't he get scragged?


You're thinking of John Allen Muhammad, who got the needle in 2009.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

128 Malvo has been playing the reformed kid who just needs another chance

Yeah, no. He can rot.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 11:41 AM (lXoJ5)

129 Dingell is a miserable old crone who married a rich, politically powerful guy old enough to be her father. It was clearly a transactional marriage. By her standards, the hobo drunk stumbling around Detroit is "hot."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (iFTx/)


A member of the Dingell family has held that House seat since 1933.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 11:42 AM (n9eFH)

130 Lays makes grilled cheese and tomato soup flavored potato chips. They should get credit for that, at least.

Posted by: one hour sober
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Sour cream and onion was the pinnacle, and shall never be surpassed.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 11:42 AM (XvL8K)

131 What SNAP Can Buy

Fruits and vegetables. Meat, poultry, and fish. Dairy products. Breads and cereals. Seeds and plants to grow food.

Note: Benefits cannot be used for alcohol, tobacco, hot prepared foods, or non-food items like pet food or household supplies.

Yeah, there's a lot of fraud, too, but the Food and Nutrition Administration encourages reporting. Some group always finds a way around specific rules.

Locally, there are some non-profit businesses that have set up exchanges of hot foods for those purchased by SNAP recipients and, reportedly, requiring heating or cooking.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 11:42 AM (NFX2v)

132 When I get potato chips, I almost never buy the national brands. I'll buy Tim's chips out of Oregon/Washington (something that hasn't yet been ruined by the woke, thankfully) and I'll buy Utz's/Zapp's chips/ (Is this company now considered to be as big as Lay's? I hope not).

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at August 07, 2026 11:43 AM (kfDTc)

133 They glorified the Boston Marathon bomber.........
Posted by: Sponge

Don't forget "Luigi, the Musical."

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

134 126 It rained and my butt is all wet
Posted by: The Ballots at August 07, 2026 11:41 AM (LOZbR


Sounds like you need it to be wiped.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (OlzlW)

135 Oh, ffs. GOOOOO!!!!!! and let us have done with you.

Sen. Mitch McConnell discharged from rehab center following hospitalization in mid-June
The Republican senator said he would continue to work from home and didn’t provide a timeline for his Senate return.


https://tinyurl.com/3bk788tn

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

136 Now, there are some markets where they do sell truly farm-fresh products. But those are the exception rather than the rule.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Urbanized areas are ripe for this kind of manipulation because the truth is that a lot of the best varieties for flavor don't transport well.

And consumers rarely have the ability to tell when generic mega farm produce is substituted for the good stuff from an actual family truck farm, orchard, or even livestock farm. Same as wine.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv)

137 You're thinking of John Allen Muhammad, who got the needle in 2009.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

Should have been a double execution. So Malvo was a juvenile? Tough shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (1z8ji)

138 GE (market leader?) couldn't get out of the traditional big power turbine fast enough and just make more windmills

Small turbines that spin the windmill and produce excess power are the way to go.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 11:45 AM (E/qck)

139 I've never seen Debbie Dingell and Dr Jill together. Coincidence, I think not

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 11:45 AM (KY+FT)

140 51 22 Thx Buck.
Here in NY our brilliant governor Hochul has put a moratorium on data centers. That's while the government is funding solar arrays in upstate lands and trying to put battery power storage facilities everywhere.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Holchul is playing footsie with the Chicoms is why. And the fake left is Chinese subsidized to want what the Chicoms want.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (E4rtv)

Data centers are quickly becoming a NIMBY 80-20 issue...they got rich and took a lot of benefits without taking on any of the infrastructure costs...and are now getting called on it...

We have to be careful on it...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 07, 2026 11:45 AM (tOcjL)

141 Seriously ? They stopped the Ballroom again ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 11:45 AM (FtULh)

142 129 Dingell is a miserable old crone who married a rich, politically powerful guy old enough to be her father. It was clearly a transactional marriage. By her standards, the hobo drunk stumbling around Detroit is "hot."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

A member of the Dingell family has held that House seat since 1933.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
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Dingleberries > the Dingell family

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (E4rtv)

143 Should have been a double execution. So Malvo was a juvenile? Tough shit.

Concur. I don't want to support this insect for the rest of his life, and you know there will eventually be some lefty judge who lets him out.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

144 John Allen Muhammad ... I always considered that guy a Muslim terrorist and those were terrorist murders. And that kid Malvo was his catamite.

But he was portrayed in the media as a somewhat sympathetic "serial killer" and not a gay Muslim terrorist. Shocker, I know.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

145 "Malvo is serving multiple life sentences at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Virginia."

Posted by: Wikipedia at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)

146 > Two DC Circuit judges, one an Obama non-partisan and the other a Biden non-partisan (nod to Chief Justice John "Dummy" Roberts), just ruled the President can't finish his WH ballroom construction project without express permission from the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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More evidence the judiciary is squarely aligned with the left. This is a problem.

Rather than litigate this, which is what they'll do, the administration should string up those two on the White House grounds, near the site where the ballroom's being built.

At put a webcam on them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (2Cry5)

147 135 Oh, ffs. GOOOOO!!!!!! and let us have done with you.

Sen. Mitch McConnell discharged from rehab center following hospitalization in mid-June
The Republican senator said he would continue to work from home and didn’t provide a timeline for his Senate return.

https://tinyurl.com/3bk788tn
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

Still just statements...this one timed 1 day before he'd have to be replaced to have an election?

Posted by: Nova Local at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (tOcjL)

148 141 Seriously ? They stopped the Ballroom again ?
Posted by: It's me donna
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More bullshit but in this case, I think Scotus will quash the injunction pretty quick due to misapplication of standing by the lower courts.

Dred Justice Roberts has a tic about standing.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)

149 3 hours into a 13 hour 3D print, and I am on pins and needles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 11:39 AM (XV/Pl)
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Might I suggest waiting on a comfy chair instead?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (FZ29D)

150 Drink water. It’s good for you!
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (LHPAg)


Don't sock Piper.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

151 Data centers are quickly becoming a NIMBY 80-20 issue...they got rich and took a lot of benefits without taking on any of the infrastructure costs...and are now getting called on it...

We have to be careful on it...


We do, but the "water use" thing is BS. Look at the numbers for water consumption by DCs vs lawn care, or especially for agriculture. It's orders of magnitude higher. We have to eat, but DCs aren't going to make the difference.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

152 "Malvo is serving multiple life sentences at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Virginia."
Posted by: Wikipedia at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)

Would have been much cheaper to give him multiple death sentences.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (1z8ji)

153 Rather than litigate this, which is what they'll do, the administration should string up those two on the White House grounds, near the site where the ballroom's being built.

At put a webcam on them.


I'll bet Ace knows where we can find some crows to scavenge the carcasses

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

154 152 "Malvo is serving multiple life sentences at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Virginia."
Posted by: Wikipedia at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)

Would have been much cheaper to give him multiple death sentences.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (1z8ji)

Like he gave his victims

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (FtULh)

155 @149

>>Might I suggest waiting on a comfy chair instead?

I'm in my office/den sitting in my comfy reading chair, kicking back and goofing off.

So, comfy chair check.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 11:50 AM (XV/Pl)

156 Another thing you can do is allow all landlords plenary discretion over to whom they rent and provide for rapid execution of eviction orders.
Posted by: Art Deco at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (pawNB)

As a former proud Slum Lord, I always provided the bare minimum for my shithole rentals to the savages who occupied them. Most were used to living behind bars so they didn't deserve any better and would just destroy anything nice so nice they didn't get. Like that scene in Coming To America.

"We seek meager accommodations"

Posted by: Retired Slum Lord at August 07, 2026 11:50 AM (45BvE)

157 Data centers are quickly becoming a NIMBY 80-20 issue...they got rich and took a lot of benefits without taking on any of the infrastructure costs...and are now getting called on it...

We have to be careful on it...

We do, but the "water use" thing is BS. Look at the numbers for water consumption by DCs vs lawn care, or especially for agriculture. It's orders of magnitude higher. We have to eat, but DCs aren't going to make the difference.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

I personally think the “uproar” over data centers is like the manufactured uproar over the Epstein files. I don’t know anyone that’s exercised about data centers

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 11:50 AM (qpCPq)

158 One of Malvo's hit jobs was not from where my parents used to live. Gas station IIRC. Used to gas up there myself from time to time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:51 AM (2Cry5)

159 Still just statements...this one timed 1 day before he'd have to be replaced to have an election?
Posted by: Nova Local
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That was supposedly August 3rd. If McConnell is announced dead, then my guess is Ky governor Beshear will appoint a Dem regardless of the state law leaving the seat empty until a new Congress in Jan 2027.

That would leave the US Senate itself trying to determine whether to seat him (constitutionally they get the last say regardless of KY courts, etc.).

My guess is McConnell is a human vegetable and been sent home to die via hospice but other than a small group of insiders--who actually knows the Weekend at Mitch's narrative.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:52 AM (E4rtv)

160 We do, but the "water use" thing is BS. Look at the numbers for water consumption by DCs vs lawn care, or especially for agriculture. It's orders of magnitude higher. We have to eat, but DCs aren't going to make the difference.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)


The real big issue with data centers is this: what is their intended use? If it is to advance the surveillance State, then no way. And I would include AI in that rejection.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:52 AM (1z8ji)

161 151 Data centers are quickly becoming a NIMBY 80-20 issue...they got rich and took a lot of benefits without taking on any of the infrastructure costs...and are now getting called on it...

We have to be careful on it...

We do, but the "water use" thing is BS. Look at the numbers for water consumption by DCs vs lawn care, or especially for agriculture. It's orders of magnitude higher. We have to eat, but DCs aren't going to make the difference.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

Water is the distraction - energy is the huge problem...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 07, 2026 11:52 AM (tOcjL)

162 More bullshit but in this case, I think Scotus will quash the injunction pretty quick due to misapplication of standing by the lower courts.

Dred Justice Roberts has a tic about standing.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)

You think so ? I don't know how to read SCOTUS anymore

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 11:53 AM (FtULh)

163 Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Ranch Doritos at August 07, 2026 11:53 AM (2Ez/1)

164 o if you want chips, or "crisps", or whatever fried potato product you will have to buy... a potato. And cut it up and fry it yourself.
I can't see that being hard and it would save taxpayers some money.
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So I 'm not on snap or anything but, bought a fry cutter. You put a medium sized peeled potato in, push the lever down and it squeezes out french fries. They get a bit of oil and into the air fryer. Viola - fresh fries by the time the grill is finished with the meat.

No need to buy frozen french fries and bake em.

Posted by: home economics is not taught and it should be at August 07, 2026 11:53 AM (anL5R)

165 I just hate data centers because they're so damn ugly. And they are EVERYWHERE here in NoVa. The ugly is everywhere.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

166 Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: Ranch Doritos at August 07, 2026 11:53 AM (2Ez/1)

Free range Doritos are leaner.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:54 AM (1z8ji)

167 I live in a comparatively poor section of Appalachia. Most of our gas stations and general stores carry an inordinate amount of pop. I mean huge quantities - up to half of the store in some cases.

On the day SNAP/EBT benefits are credited, some buy large quantities of pop/soda, 30–40 cases at stores that accept EBT.

The cases are then resold, at a huge discount. This converts the non-cash benefits into usable cash for cigs, booze, weed and meth.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 11:56 AM (w+2cP)

168 Murkowski has joined Collins in saying no to Blanche. With McConnell in a vegitative state, Vance looks like he'll be the tie breaker. That assumes Cassidy doesn't decide to say no

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 11:56 AM (KY+FT)

169 Rather than litigate this, which is what they'll do, the administration should string up those two on the White House grounds, near the site where the ballroom's being built.

At put a webcam on them.

I'll bet Ace knows where we can find some crows to scavenge the carcasses
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

To hell with crows. I want to watch the flys and maggots do their magic.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)

170 The real big issue with data centers is this: what is their intended use? If it is to advance the surveillance State, then no way. And I would include AI in that rejection.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yep, this too.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

171 Dred Justice Roberts has a tic about standing.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)

The judges that do these things obviously know all this...they do what they do for political reasons and not because they are ignorant of standing or the imminent squashing their ruling is about to receive.

What they unwittily do however is provide the proof to Congress that it has to dissolve the DC district court. Its pretty obvious at this point that it will always be a political institution and not a judicial one.

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 11:57 AM (j10i6)

172 What is the exact problem with Blanche and these GOPe a**clowns?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 11:57 AM (XV/Pl)

173 Iranian supreme leader reportedly on death's door. Alternatively, they've decided to retire the fiction/propaganda theme that he's been alive for months.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 11:57 AM (U/Byj)

174 I'm not sure when it started. When I was a kid -- not that long ago, I'm Gen X -- there was no such thing as "snacking." We had breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That was it. There wasn't those meals plus three bags of doritos.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:27 AM (iFTx/)


What about second breakfast?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:57 AM (sGgMH)

175 Sen. Amy Klobuchar gets called on her immigration BS, and she is irritated that the peasants are so disrespectful.

https://tinyurl.com/2xn6hnmu

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

176 136 Now, there are some markets where they do sell truly farm-fresh products. But those are the exception rather than the rule.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Urbanized areas are ripe for this kind of manipulation because the truth is that a lot of the best varieties for flavor don't transport well.

And consumers rarely have the ability to tell when generic mega farm produce is substituted for the good stuff from an actual family truck farm, orchard, or even livestock farm. Same as wine.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv)

Yeah, I don't do farmer's markets anymore. I'm priced out b/c I don't have SNAP to cover the cost, nor do I have the ability to just buy 1-2 of items with the kids here. I'm a 40-60lb/week of produce buyer...and I might be underselling that number, so farmer's market prices would bankrupt me faster than high end beef right now...

I used to shop them 10-15 years ago before the SNAP change...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 07, 2026 11:58 AM (tOcjL)

177 >>That assumes Cassidy doesn't decide to say no

Cassidy is a yes.

My gut is that Collins was allowed to vote no to help her in the election in Maine once they knew they had the votes.

Murkowski is just an asshole and always has been.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (viF8m)

178 Water is the distraction - energy is the huge problem...
Posted by: Nova Local


Agreed.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

179 172 What is the exact problem with Blanche and these GOPe a**clowns?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 11:57 AM (XV/Pl)


TDS

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (FtULh)

180 You think so ? I don't know how to read SCOTUS anymore
Posted by: It's me donna

Yes, the administration has been very successful to the point that lawfare leftist judges and the vile ngos financing the lawfare are complaining about Scotus setting aside lower court injunctions and prohibitions not based on law. So called shadow docket. Basically Scotus in many cases is simply setting aside the temporary injunctions and requiring district courts to go through the lengthy and time consuming litigation with a track record and both sides represented in a trial. And like in this case, it is readily apparent that the district court is ignoring Scotus rulings on standing and applying a group of litigants complaining about a) the destruction of the historical East Wing (that is now moot as it is gone), and b) we don't like the design and an advisory group says that OrangeMan Bad's ballroom is an atrocity. But, in standing, individuals and even groups have to show direct injury themselves and aesthetics is not one that the courts recognize.

Standing bars taxpayers from filing lawsuits about everything under the sun that they don't like about government operations as sore losers.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)

181 I pass a large, very nice church now primarily used for community classes for addicts.

Behind the church sits a parking lot and shelving where boxes of fruits and vegetables are routinely stacked, available for the taking in the urban area.

I've driven by a few times this week and boxes of oranges, cabbages, celery remain on the shelves in the intense heat. This is nothing new or extraordinary.

They'll be there until they're removed from rotting, and then replaced with the next new boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables.

The swarms at the food pantries go for proteins, milk and bread, rice, stuffing mixes, baby food, diapers. (Some will be exchanged or sold on black markets.)

Narcan (Naloxone) nasal spray; tampons and sanitary pads; Fentanyl and xylazine test strips; COVID-19, flu, RSV, and STI test kits, and condoms and first aid kits are available for free through the county's automated Test & Go kiosks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (NFX2v)

182 Wine is also a yuge scam. Many of the "vineyards" really aren't vineyards at all. They buy their grapes from mega vineyards and just put the shit in bottles.

Almost every "celebrity" promoted wine is like this. Same as most "celebrity" booze of any kind. They just buy the shit wholesale, slap a label on it, and smile for the cameras holding a bottle.

There are entire industries out there who's sole business model is fooling (mostly affluent) buyers into thinking they're getting something that they're not.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

183 I'll bet Ace knows where we can find some crows to scavenge the carcasses
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

To hell with crows. I want to watch the flys and maggots do their magic.


Embrace the healing power of "and".

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

184 Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: Ranch Doritos
_________

Those are good, but in terms of eating way more of the deluxe bag than intended, I'd go with:

1. Lays sour cream and onion chips
2. Cheetos
3. Fritos

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (XvL8K)

185 > The real big issue with data centers is this: what is their intended use? If it is to advance the surveillance State, then no way. And I would include AI in that rejection.
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Petabytes of surveillance data needs somewhere to sit so it can be leveraged. Multiple copies. Of course it's one reason datacenters are "hot."

And the water usage depends on whether it's a closed or open system. Bigger issue is the electrical grid. Does it need upgrading? By how much? Who's paying for all that?

And, in a couple years, it'll be obsolete. What then?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 12:00 PM (2Cry5)

186 What is with the pop up ads on this site now? Never used to see them.

Posted by: Archer at August 07, 2026 12:00 PM (wvc0i)

187 Happy Guadalcanal Day to those who celebrate. Landing was 84 years ago today.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 12:00 PM (U/Byj)

188 I’m not defending what he’s said. But he’s popular, especially with young people
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I predicted this as the exact next line from the media and "establishment" after the fake shock "these people are extreme". Boy do these psy ops move fucking fast.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:00 PM (6UXQp)

189 *I'm a 40-60lb/week of produce buyer...and I might be underselling that number, so farmer's market prices would bankrupt me faster than high end beef right now...*
++++

Come see me.

Posted by: Costco at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (2Ez/1)

190 What they unwittily do however is provide the proof to Congress that it has to dissolve the DC district court. Its pretty obvious at this point that it will always be a political institution and not a judicial one.
Posted by: Boswell
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Democrats won't and the GOP refuses to end the filibuster to fix the federal district. So we are stuck.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (E4rtv)

191 I feel happy! I feel happy!

Posted by: Mitch McConnell, warming up for his daily Crossfit session at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (XE5AP)

192 More bullshit but in this case, I think Scotus will quash the injunction pretty quick due to misapplication of standing by the lower courts.

Dred Justice Roberts has a tic about standing.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)

You think so ? I don't know how to read SCOTUS anymore
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 11:53 AM (FtULh)
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Reading Whig's analysis up thread makes me feel pretty good about the case, but I'm with Donna. Who can tell when Roberts will decide he and Barrett should cave on something...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (YJPnY)

193 Snap should be for eggs, milk, ground beef, vegetables and rice.

You want anything else? Pay for it yourselves fucking leeches.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (Bz1XI)

194 I found parboiling potato spears for a few minutes - cut into about 5 pieces, and then dredging in olive oil or bacon drippings, plus your favorite spices are really great. Salt, onion/garlic powder, cayenne, sprinkle with parmesan liberally. Bake. Super tasty.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (dE511)

195 There are entire industries out there who's sole business model is fooling (mostly affluent) buyers into thinking they're getting something that they're not.

Aviation gin says what?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

196 >>And, in a couple years, it'll be obsolete. What then?

Nuclear. Kind of flying below the radar is the recent advances being made in small, modular reactors.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (viF8m)

197 I like your AS article. I read the article looking at the title guessing you'd mention, Boom Aerospace. Boom Aerospace is one of the many companies that popped up in the 2010s and started peeling engineering talent away from the big corporations using mountains of investor capital that was searching for the next big thing. Well AI became the next big thing and not SST and the money drained out. Those companies, well not all, but a lot went bust.

But Boom Aerospace didn't. They even have a new flagship aircraft you can buy. It's top speed an impressive 0 knots, it has a pretty great max take-off weight of over 500,000 pounds and cruises at a maximum altitude of 0 feet.

That's right, they're making gas turbine generators now to power AI.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:02 PM (3uBP9)

198 @177 JackStraw, hadn't heard that about Cassidy. You're right about Collins, and spot on about Murkowski. Murkowski voted for Garland, but Blanche is a no. SMH

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 12:02 PM (KY+FT)

199 There are entire industries out there who's sole business model is fooling (mostly affluent) buyers into thinking they're getting something that they're not.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)


This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the Lightbringer at August 07, 2026 12:02 PM (XE5AP)

200 I feel happy! I feel happy!
Posted by: Mitch McConnell, warming up for his daily Crossfit session


You aren't fooling anyone, you know.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

201 Two DC Circuit judges, one an Obama non-partisan and the other a Biden non-partisan (nod to Chief Justice John "Dummy" Roberts), just ruled the President can't finish his WH ballroom construction project without express permission from the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (zG53D)

F*ck that. He should just finish it. It's a privately funded project.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (2YhKe)

Dear Hacks In Black, you can both FOAD.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: D.J. Trump at August 07, 2026 12:03 PM (hmYU4)

202 That misleading statement from CNBC...

Aren't they all?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 12:03 PM (2WIwB)

203 Here was my predicted progression for the WWF battle Democrats "vs" the DSA. From (checks watch) last week....

---------
Right now Democrats are simply calling them extreme.

Check back a little later when it's "they might be extreme but they have a message and are getting traction, we would be crazy to ignore them"

Then "what might seem extreme to us is not extreme to people who have grown up very unhappy in capitalism. They have only seen inequality and they want better things for all."

Then - "you know, at one time, the dominant parties thought Civil Rights was extreme. Maybe it's just a matter of perspective."

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:03 PM (6UXQp)

204 >>JackStraw, hadn't heard that about Cassidy.

Yea, he just announced on the Senate floor.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 12:03 PM (viF8m)

205 Murkowski is just an asshole and always has been.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (viF8m)
=====================
And entitled beyond belief.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 12:04 PM (YJPnY)

206 189 *I'm a 40-60lb/week of produce buyer...and I might be underselling that number, so farmer's market prices would bankrupt me faster than high end beef right now...*
++++

Come see me.
Posted by: Costco at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (2Ez/1)

See, you're not close by...and other places are. I'll pick up produce almost every day on my walks and do a stock up on weekends. B/c things like berries and greens don't keep for a week...but we eat a lot of them (bananas are better, but kids inhale them, but also don't eat them once they have a single brown dot...they like them only green to yellow)...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 07, 2026 12:04 PM (tOcjL)

207 Electrical grid has been an issue for decades, naturally almost nothing has been done. Power generation is the purest example of Taliban-like idiocy ("environmental" and of course "climate") impoverishing and damaging our society, but it's decades in the making. Data center issue just brings both long-standing disasters to a head.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 12:04 PM (U/Byj)

208 205 Murkowski is just an asshole and always has been.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (viF8m)
=====================
And entitled beyond belief.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 12:04 PM (YJPnY)

Isn't it time to put her on an ice floe for the polar bears ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 12:05 PM (FtULh)

209 Small modular reactors are the energy source of the future.

Posted by: And always will be at August 07, 2026 12:05 PM (2Ez/1)

210 Petabytes of surveillance data needs somewhere to sit so it can be leveraged. Multiple copies. Of course it's one reason datacenters are "hot."

And the water usage depends on whether it's a closed or open system. Bigger issue is the electrical grid. Does it need upgrading? By how much? Who's paying for all that?

And, in a couple years, it'll be obsolete. What then?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Most of the competition is because all the big investors are trying to create frontier models because 2nd, 3rd, 4th, place is not good enough if you believe network effects that there can only be one.

So Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and to some extent Grok are all competing to be the bestest frontier model and that requires training from scratch each time to create a newer version of a working model while the older models generate the profits.

Frontier models are what demand exponentially faster and larger new datacenters so they can compete with others. The surge will end with the investor class/market crowns one as champ and the other models have a collapse in market value.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)

211 Isn't it time to put her on an ice floe for the polar bears ?

Lotta room UNDER the ice floe. I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

212 Isn't it time to put her on an ice floe for the polar bears ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 12:05 PM (FtULh)
=================
She does often claim to care a lot about indigenous culture, and I think that's in the style book up there, so probably right.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 12:07 PM (YJPnY)

213 Good article, Buck.

It all depends on the data center expansion, I think. We've seen bubbles in PA where gas is prominent.

AI Overview - While diesel offers instant load response for emergencies, natural gas and hybrid battery systems are increasingly adopted to handle heavy continuous power needs and lower emissions.

Industry Trends and Alternatives
AI Demands: High-density AI workloads are driving massive power requirements, prompting some massive campuses to pair fast-response gas turbines or generators with battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Regulatory Scrutiny: Environmental regulators face growing pressure regarding fast-tracked emissions permits for large fleets of gas and diesel generators clustered near communities.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 12:07 PM (NFX2v)

214 The Ballroom came up for a vote a while back and six Republicans voted against it with the Dems...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 12:07 PM (FtULh)

215 >>WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday that four American nuclear energy startups have successfully proven their technologies as part of an Energy Department pilot project that began last year.

>>At an Oval Office event, the president said the country had exceeded its goal of three cutting-edge reactors starting up safely by the Fourth of July.

https://tinyurl.com/pexk39kb

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 12:07 PM (viF8m)

216 As SNAP restrictions have rolled out, it has been a sucker-punch to the manufacturers of low-nutrition products"

Pop up bodegas hardest hit...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 12:08 PM (XuXeR)

217 As SNAP restrictions have rolled out, it has been a sucker-punch to the manufacturers of low-nutrition products"

Pop up bodegas hardest hit...


Not for long.

Posted by: Mamdani taxpayer-subsidized "grocery stores" at August 07, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

218 I'm really cottoning to that brunette by the pool. I think she digs me.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:09 PM (77rzZ)

219 Not that it’s important but I still have to delete a popup ad after every page refresh or posting of a comment… sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 12:10 PM (nkHgN)

220
Nuclear. Kind of flying below the radar is the recent advances being made in small, modular reactors.
==
Mr. Fusion FTW.

Posted by: Doc Brown at August 07, 2026 12:10 PM (anL5R)

221 I'm really cottoning to that brunette by the pool. I think she digs me.

The one with the SpongeBob floaties? Yeah, she's hot.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 07, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

222 Nood Ace.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 12:10 PM (NcvvS)

223 207 Electrical grid has been an issue for decades, naturally almost nothing has been done. Power generation is the purest example of Taliban-like idiocy ("environmental" and of course "climate") impoverishing and damaging our society, but it's decades in the making. Data center issue just brings both long-standing disasters to a head.

Posted by: rhomboid
=======
I think the datacenter issue will end up fixing the grid issue as government barriers tumble when the big money stampedes toward something. We have movement finally towards nuclear which should have already been de facto how we get grid power but stymied since 3 Mile Island safetyism.

Often these AI datacenters are coming with their own generating power due to their sensitivity to powerline sags etc. They have to have dependable power that the grid cannot offer. After the competitors are winnowed down, we will still have the infrastructure of power and computing facilities left. Same thing happened with fiber optics overinvestment. Dark optic cables for a long while which are now being lit up due to demand.

Only government 'investment' usually burns resources leaving nothing after the crash.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:10 PM (E4rtv)

224 219 Not that it’s important but I still have to delete a popup ad after every page refresh or posting of a comment… sigh

Use Brave. Problem solved.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 07, 2026 12:11 PM (Riz8t)

225 It is funny watching Dems, whose non-governmental theft aside were largely funded by tech bros (and foreigners) these last many elections, now suddenly becoming pro-nuclear energy with the explosive need for energy to feed AI, or at least not against it. Not a peep of complaint is being heard against Trump building reactors on federal land and military bases.

Even when these companies build gas turbines, you aren't hearing complaints.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 12:11 PM (YJPnY)

226 The cost-effective mix for power generation will vary a bit by location and other circumstances ("renewables" are not a significant part of it, period), but cost-effective (i.e. logical and obvious) solutions may continue to face the scientifically illiterate religious fanaticism of not just "climate" nonsense, but nuke infatuation and other emotional garbage. Coal and gas have no serious competition (for most situations) if analysis is based on facts and not religion.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 12:11 PM (U/Byj)

227 nood



lum

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:12 PM (3uBP9)

228 214 The Ballroom came up for a vote a while back and six Republicans voted against it with the Dems...
Posted by: It's me donna

But it isn't Congress that is the litigant. Congress probably has standing, rando individuals upset do not. Google Frothingham v. Mellon or Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife for what standing is. The only exception was one for Bill of Rights violations where one person can sue (like violations of the Establishment clause) without demonstrating the rigorous standing limits on taxpayer lawsuits.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)

229 They will pry my pork rinds from my cold, dead hands!

Posted by: Junk Food Jerry at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (JM9I6)

230 If you're ever driving on I-81 in Virginia this place is a fun visit.
Plus they give free samples of many varieties of potato chips.
It's near Mount Jackson.

https://www.rt11.com/

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 12:15 PM (2Ez/1)

231 So who's building the turbines? I know up to 5-6 years ago, GE (market leader?) couldn't get out of the traditional big power turbine fast enough and just make more windmills... Or turbine systems for windmills, anyway... Haven't followed it much since though
Posted by: bearski at August 07, 2026 11:39 AM (Bhsk7)

In the USA, top three are GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi, none of which are actually American today.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (sGgMH)

232 Thank goodness for cancellation codes in my sig!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 12:18 PM (sGgMH)

233 Nothing like a big hearty lunch of a glass of water and a big bowl of kale. Yeah that's the ticket.

I think for now I will stick to my grilled cheese sandwich and potato chips and iced tea. I have seen SNAP signs in stores but never knew what they were for until someone told me it was a government program. Oh, another government handout with our tax dollars? That's just great and then the cussing in my head started.

Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 12:19 PM (fV9m3)

234 Anyone notice the Boss is up?
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420879

Posted by: mindful webworker - Ace of Hordes at August 07, 2026 12:27 PM (62m/B)

235 The South Beach Diet pretty much killed my snacking.
I sorta don't miss it.
Sorta.

I do miss cookies. But not chips and misc crap I used to eat.

I'm happy with dried meat and peanuts for snacks, or celery and peanut butter.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 07, 2026 12:30 PM (xcxpd)

236 I have to say that Pop Corners are fabulous and I don't allow myself to buy them anymore. I could eat an entire bag in an evening. No mas.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 07, 2026 12:41 PM (w6EFb)

237 still think the gov't should go with some kind of nutrient loaf or snacker that contains all the necessary vitamins, protein and fiber people need to live instead of SNAP or food stamp or whatever.
++++
I recall one of the DC snipers complaining about prison food that was a food loaf:
****
I'll take Soylent Green for a thousand, Alex.

Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (Wt1Rs)

238 "PepsiCo has been hit especially hard."

Good. Their leftwing bullshit goes back at least 25 years.

Changing their logo in 2008 to synch up with Obama was just the icing on the cake.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (pE12i)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Gollings Cowboy.jpg

Untitled (Cowboy On Horseback)
Elling William Gollings

Who becomes famous and who toils in obscurity -- and why -- is the question that most artists must ask themselves.

I had never heard of William Gollings until I had the opportunity to visit a lovely museum in Big Horn Wyoming (near Sheridan) called The Brinton Museum. And by "lovely," I don't mean just the collection. It is architecturally beautiful, and the setting is difficult to beat, with the Big Horn Mountains in the near distance.

There are several Western artists who are far more famous: Russell and Remington and Bierstadt come to mind, but even relatively obscure artists such as Gollings have gems scattered in their work that are rarely seen, and wonderful when discovered!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:30 AM (Bep7s)

2 No boobs.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (a7N4U)

3 Wonderful portrait.

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)

4 Grandpappy of Sam Elliott

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (S0M0K)

5 Rawhide

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (2Cry5)

6 a. onassis

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)

7 Horses and cattle are dog adjacent so art?

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)

8 dogeys

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)

9
No dog, but horse. Therefore, art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 09:32 AM (O0L8i)

10 Even cowboy wishes there was tits

Posted by: Otto Penn at August 07, 2026 09:32 AM (JHVDg)

11 I like it

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 09:33 AM (E0tL2)

12 Festus… is that you?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 09:34 AM (ugElV)

13 No boobs.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (a7N4U)


Check the background! Lots of teats!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 07, 2026 09:34 AM (l4RKn)

14
I reckon so.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 09:34 AM (Y8DZL)

15 Cowboy Kent Rollins - the early years

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:34 AM (wVcYX)

16 would hang

Posted by: Gref at August 07, 2026 09:34 AM (5rh/l)

17 The cowboy was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at August 07, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

18 13 stinky wizzleteats

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:34 AM (Bep7s)

19
Gittin' 'bout time for some beans and biscuits.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 09:35 AM (O0L8i)

20 Artists toil? Hardly. Try being hundreds of feet down in a coal or silver mine ten hours a day. Working in a slaughterhouse, or digging a Dignity Canal. That's toil!

Posted by: Songs Of The Scottish Miners at August 07, 2026 09:35 AM (JM9I6)

21 "We've been trying to reach you about your horse's extended warranty."

Posted by: Smoke signals in the distance at August 07, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

22 It's a good thing the horse knows where he's going.

Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 09:35 AM (VJX5o)

23 Gittin' 'bout time for some beans and biscuits.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 09:35 AM (O0L8i)

I'd say you fellas have had enough beans! [fans the air with his hat]

Posted by: Taggart at August 07, 2026 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

24 just out of view: cookie and the chuck wagon

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:36 AM (Bep7s)

25 This looks like a Pure Prairie League album cover.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 09:36 AM (+iIn9)

26 That old cowboy is probably as bowlegged as a Kansas City whore.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 09:36 AM (g8Ew8)

27 18 13 stinky wizzleteats
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:34 AM (Bep7s)

This is a song about a whale NO! This is a song about being happy!

Posted by: Happy happy joy joy at August 07, 2026 09:36 AM (TbWk/)

28 Very cool.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 09:36 AM (yEz+x)

29 Hat? Check.
Cattle? Check.

Good to go.

Posted by: Texas Art Critic at August 07, 2026 09:37 AM (B0NCh)

30 I guessed this was a Remington.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 09:37 AM (JvZF+)

31 This one is interesting in that some areas seem a bit out of focus or hazy and others sharp and defined with intricate bush details. It makes you look around at different features.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:37 AM (3uBP9)

32 'Cause this ain't gonna be the first time
This old cowboy
Spent the night alone

Posted by: Marshall Tucker at August 07, 2026 09:37 AM (wVcYX)

33 The proportions between the horse and rider seem "off."

It's like he's too big for the horse he's riding.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 09:37 AM (FZ29D)

34 Nice job CBD.

There’s hope for you yet.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 07, 2026 09:38 AM (DomC6)

35 Thinking about women and glasses of beer...

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 07, 2026 09:39 AM (IhL8c)

36 He's waiting for his buddy to return with a shit-load of dimes.

Posted by: The new sheriff is a... at August 07, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

37 Sheridan Wyoming! Home to the HF Bar Ranch, a fine spot.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 09:39 AM (mE4sR)

38 *sings*

Got a gun in my holster
Got a horse between my knees
And I'm goin' to Arizona
Pardon me, boys, if you please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1zJp_XFJJU

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:40 AM (iJfKG)

39 33 nah, he's just shifted everything to the right.

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:40 AM (Bep7s)

40 I would have this painting at my hot waitress themed tex-mex restaurant chain I'll name Chimichangas!

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:41 AM (3uBP9)

41 Not gonna reference that Eagles song. You know the one.
Ain't gonna do it.
Thought about doing it but decided against it.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX)

42 41 don't do it

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:42 AM (Bep7s)

43 He's thinking of the kittens.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 09:42 AM (a7N4U)

44 Nice painting.

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 09:42 AM (Oy/m2)

45 He'd give his hat for a beef and bean burrito.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:42 AM (2Cry5)

46 Mayor of Quahog, RI named Wild West

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:42 AM (J4Dwc)

47
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you (Let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you before it's too late

Posted by: Linda Maria Ronstadt at August 07, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

48 Not gonna reference that Eagles song. You know the one.
Ain't gonna do it.
Thought about doing it but decided against it.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX)
=====

A Horse With No Name?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 09:43 AM (JvZF+)

49 40 I would have this painting at my hot waitress themed tex-mex restaurant chain I'll name Chimichangas!
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:41 AM (3uBP9

Chimichangas? I'm there!

Posted by: Deadpool at August 07, 2026 09:43 AM (TbWk/)

50 I would have this painting at my hot waitress themed tex-mex restaurant chain I'll name Chimichangas!
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:41 AM (3uBP9)

Muy caliente!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:43 AM (wVcYX)

51 Grok tells me Gollings paintings sell at auction for prices ranging from $50K to $300,000so he may be unknown to me but apparently not to the western art fans.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 09:43 AM (cSU1R)

52 This is an ad for the Suzy Sirloin Meatball and Meatloaf Mix. CBD may be getting a stipend from her.

Posted by: High Plains Grifter at August 07, 2026 09:43 AM (JM9I6)

53 48 'murica!

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:43 AM (Bep7s)

54 41 Not gonna reference that Eagles song. You know the one.
Ain't gonna do it.
Thought about doing it but decided against it.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX)

Hotel California?

Posted by: Seven Bridges Road? at August 07, 2026 09:43 AM (TbWk/)

55 This is really good art. I like it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 07, 2026 09:44 AM (xcxpd)

56 >>> The proportions between the horse and rider seem "off."

It's like he's too big for the horse he's riding.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 09:37 AM (FZ29D)


There are all different sizes. Now that I spend more time around horses I see a lot of the small painted ones that the kids ride and I look pretty huge on top of those horses. And you see them walking by a draft horse and they look like doggies.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:44 AM (3uBP9)

57
It Sure Beats Punching 'em- a limerick

There once was a cowboy named Rouse
Who didn't have no girlfriend, no hows
"It gets lonely on the range
And though some might think it strange
I've been thinkin' 'bout poking me some cows!"

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 09:44 AM (I0N4X)

58 The cowboy is bigger than his horse.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 09:44 AM (2ap+5)

59 The cowboy done ran out of Preparation H, dad gubit.
Would hang
Thx CBD, have a great weekend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 09:44 AM (KY+FT)

60 >> It's a good thing the horse knows where he's going.


All pictured creatures know the drill and are executing it with grace and a relaxed manner.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:45 AM (X8xt3)

61 Alternate title:

"Tiny Bill Waltrop, All of 4'11", Rode the Smallest Horse He Could Find, So's He Could All Big and Tough Like the Other Cowpunchers"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:45 AM (iJfKG)

62 That boy could use some coffee.

arbucklecoffee.com

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 09:45 AM (qRla/)

63 It Sure Beats Punching 'em- a limerick

There once was a cowboy named Rouse
Who didn't have no girlfriend, no hows
"It gets lonely on the range
And though some might think it strange
I've been thinkin' 'bout poking me some cows!"
Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 09:44 AM (I0N4X)

Going in raw...hide.

Posted by: Ride 'em in rawhide! at August 07, 2026 09:45 AM (TbWk/)

64 Looks like it sold for $180,000 at the Jackson Hole Art Auction 2022 oil on board.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2026 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

65 There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range
His horse and his cattle are his only companions

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 09:46 AM (ndZc7)

66
Through rain and wind and weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishing my girl was by my side
All the things I'm missin', good vittles, love and kissin'
Are waitin' at the end of my ride

Posted by: Frankie Laine at August 07, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

67 @13

Udderly ridiculous comment

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:46 AM (J4Dwc)

68 A Horse With No Name?

Randy Newman quipped that the song was about "a kid who thinks he's taken acid."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 09:46 AM (qRla/)

69 There’s hope for you yet.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 07, 2026 09:38 AM (DomC6)


Let's not get too excited!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 07, 2026 09:47 AM (l4RKn)

70 Michael Martin Murphy has made some great cowboy music.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 09:47 AM (2ap+5)

71 Miss Kitty just out of frame.

Posted by: Hubba hubba at August 07, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

72 The cowboy in the picture seems pensive, as if he's questioning his life choices brought about by his devotion to a patriarchial cisheteronormative worldview. The horse, obviously uncomfortable in xer role ( we wouldn't want to assume gender here, obviously ) , seems to be straining against the hooman's dominance. The cattle in the background wander aimlessly, rebelling against the cowboy's authoritarian attempt to herd them.

Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher at August 07, 2026 09:48 AM (B0NCh)

73 Hope for CBD?

I wouldn’t go that far.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 09:49 AM (aVbgC)

74 Why is this called "the Range" and my stove/oven over here is also "the Range". I drive a Ranger and my microwave is a....

Posted by: ...Radarange at August 07, 2026 09:49 AM (JM9I6)

75 hyaahh!

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s)

76 Lonesome Dove was the best tv adaptation of any book. Everything about it, cast, acting, filming was fantastic. I could watch that over and over.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 09:49 AM (viF8m)

77 This is really good art. I like it.

Nonsense! You can tell that it's a picture of a horse and a man. It looks like something. What kind of art is that?

Posted by: Jackson Pollack at August 07, 2026 09:50 AM (Riz8t)

78 Checked out the Brinton Museum website. It is indeed a beautiful setting. Love how the architecture of the museum does not intrude on the setting. BTW, there's a William Gollings exhibition scheduled there from mid August til the end of December.

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 09:50 AM (lJ0H4)

79 72 The cowboy in the picture seems pensive, as if he's questioning his life choices brought about by his devotion to a patriarchial cisheteronormative worldview. The horse, obviously uncomfortable in xer role ( we wouldn't want to assume gender here, obviously ) , seems to be straining against the hooman's dominance. The cattle in the background wander aimlessly, rebelling against the cowboy's authoritarian attempt to herd them.
Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher at August 07, 2026 09:48 AM
+++

Point of order: failure to cite any phallic symbols.

Posted by: The judges at August 07, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

80 That poor horse.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (u/oMr)

81 >>The cowboy in the picture seems pensive, as if he's questioning his life choices. . .

Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher


It's funny because the dude looks as content as heck.
In all likelihood preferred being out there alone over having to deal with silly or bothersome people.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (X8xt3)

82 The cowboy and his horse are distinct, everything else just frames them and establishes the milieu. What stands out for me is the pose of the rider on his horse. It could be a sculpture for the old laconic cowboy. Remington could have done it.

I don't know the process but the painting seems to lend itself to printing as a book illustration.

Anybody else think of Sam Eliot when looking at the cowboy?

Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (yTvNw)

83 The National Museum of Wildlife Art, also in Wyoming (Jackson Hole), is also definitely worth seeing if youre in the area.

Wildlife art was very popular in the time before photography became commonplace. It was the only way for most people to ever ‘see’ certain animals.

Also, some of the most famous and influential artists of the American west and Rockies at the time were … foreigners. That was when we got the cream of the foreign crop. Not the fecal ooze at the bottom of the septic tank.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (yTXpW)

84 The cowboy in the picture seems pensive, as if he's questioning his life choices brought about by his devotion to a patriarchial cisheteronormative worldview.

Did...did you just ASSUME xer's gender?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (Riz8t)

85 Why is this called "the Range" and my stove/oven over here is also "the Range". I drive a Ranger and my microwave is a....
Posted by: ...Radarange

It is the physical range (distance) where livestock can graze. A guess. I stayed at Holiday Inn Express last night.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 09:52 AM (wOO3z)

86 The definitions applied to the word are wide ranging.

Posted by: Word nerd at August 07, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

87
FUN FACT:

Elliot Page Modeled as the Cowboy in this Painting.


Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:52 AM (iJfKG)

88
It's funny because the dude looks as content as heck.
In all likelihood preferred being out there alone over having to deal with silly or bothersome people.


He's thinking "Curly Joe was a real jerk, and probably light in his boots".

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 09:52 AM (Riz8t)

89 Grandpappy of Sam Elliott
Posted by: Doof

That 'stash has that family resemblance.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 09:53 AM (w+2cP)

90 It really is a nice painting. I like it a lot. Great pick CBD.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:53 AM (3uBP9)

91 ‘ Untitled (Cowboy On Horseback)’

‘Untitled? Bullshit This is a white man. He’s ENtitled!’

— DSA Chungus HR Lady

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 09:53 AM (yTXpW)

92 I love Western art, but have never heard of Rollings. Thanks for featuring him, CBD.

This particular painting is fantastic - he's been in that saddle for a while and is stretching while keeping an eye on the herd. Must be rustlers or varmints lurking.

Posted by: moki at August 07, 2026 09:53 AM (wLjpr)

93 4 Grandpappy of Sam Elliott
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (S0M0K)

He raised them right.

Posted by: Roy at August 07, 2026 09:54 AM (qwype)

94 >>The cowboy in the picture seems pensive, as if he's questioning his life choices. . .

Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher


It's funny because the dude looks as content as heck.
In all likelihood preferred being out there alone over having to deal with silly or bothersome people.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (X8xt3)

He has a Peaceful, Easy Feeling.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:54 AM (wVcYX)

95 One of my favorite Michael Martin Murphy cowboy songs:


https://tinyurl.com/yc2hdjmn

Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 09:54 AM (2ap+5)

96 82 yes, momentarily.

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (Bep7s)

97 What exactly is the cowboy doing here? The cows can graze just fine without being watched. He's like teats on a bull.

Posted by: Superfluous at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (JM9I6)

98 Cowboy is waiting for the end of the cattle drive so he can get paid. Then, he will spend it all on beer and women until the next cattle drive starts up.

I envy him.

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (Oy/m2)

99
And now I'm going to sing-

"Home on the Range"

or

"Hopalong Burned His Britches"

Posted by: I think this was a Soupy Sales Joke at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

100 It's funny because the dude looks as content as heck.
In all likelihood preferred being out there alone over having to deal with silly or bothersome people.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM
+++++

Also known as:
I'd rather sit in my boat thinking about God than sit in church thinking about fishing.

Posted by: As any honest guy will tell you at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

101 Why is this called "the Range" and my stove/oven over here is also "the Range". I drive a Ranger and my microwave is a....
Posted by: ...Radarange

"Ohm, ohm on the range. . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 09:56 AM (w+2cP)

102 CBD, it’s good to see you hanging out in real America instead of Frogland or Limeystan. You gonna make it to Yellowstone?

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

103 97 What exactly is the cowboy doing here? The cows can graze just fine without being watched. He's like teats on a bull.
Posted by: Superfluous at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (JM9I6)

Do you seriously need an explanation of what a cowboy's job is?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 07, 2026 09:57 AM (xcxpd)

104 He's got her in reverse, backin' up. beeep beeep beeep

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:57 AM (3uBP9)

105 Anybody else think of Sam Eliot when looking at the cowboy?
Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (yTvNw)

If any of you sons of bitches calls me grandpa, I'll kill you.

Posted by: Sam Elliott at August 07, 2026 09:57 AM (wVcYX)

106 he just heard a discouraging word.

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:57 AM (Bep7s)

107 When Will The Climate Liars Stop Lying?

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The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 09:58 AM (ndZc7)

108 "Then, he will spend it all on beer and women..."

And probably waste the rest.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

109
Anybody else think of Sam Eliot when looking at the cowboy?
Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (yTvNw)


Nope. Face and mustache are wrong.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:58 AM (iJfKG)

110 Miss USA Strips Title from NC Pageant Winner Brittany Boltinhouse, Vows Not to ‘Tolerate Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia’

-
Conspicuous by their absence from this article are what the horrible, awful, no good, very bad tweets were.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (ndZc7)

111 Not an accurate portrayal. As a former family ranch hand, I never managed a herd without a saddle gun. Lever action preferred.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (TezPK)

112 Did cowboys wear six-shooters while on cattle drives?

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (J4Dwc)

113 He's humming "Bobbie McGee" to the cows, keeping them quiet with a little song.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (9FgyL)

114 Ben Rhodes straightens Ted Cruz out.

Cruz: But I'm not celebrating lunatics taking over… And eventually the Democrats are going to be back in power. It is not good for America if actual communists end up being in charge.

Ben Rhodes
@brhodes
The fact that we have media in this country (not just Fox) that treats @AbdulElSayed as a lunatic and Cruz as something else is one reason we live under fascism.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)

115 -
Conspicuous by their absence from this article are what the horrible, awful, no good, very bad tweets were.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me

Never saw any yesterday. In multiple articles.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (wOO3z)

116 111 he has a concealed scabbard.

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (Bep7s)

117 95 ... "One of my favorite Michael Martin Murphy cowboy songs:

https://tinyurl.com/yc2hdjmn"

Oglebay,

Thanks for the link. That's a great video and song. I have all of the Michael Martin Murphy cowboy song CDs. Love the traditional songs and his own new ones.

Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (yTvNw)

118 Who names their kid Elling?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

119 112 open gate, load one, skip one, load four, drop hammer.

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (Bep7s)

120 He loves the smell of cow farts in the morning.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

121 Cowboy's had a rough life. Older brothers locked him up in the bunkhouse when they went into town. Ain't never seen a woman in the flesh.

Posted by: Lone On The Range at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (JM9I6)

122 Affixes the official Ben Had seal of approval on this art choice.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (3ZNGI)

123 I love art where you can see the hand of the artist.

Would hang.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (XV/Pl)

124 114 Ben Rhodes
@brhodes
The fact that we have media in this country (not just Fox) that treats @AbdulElSayed as a lunatic and Cruz as something else is one reason we live under fascism.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)

=======

We do live under fascism. And oligarchy. And totalitarianism. And capitalism.

Current Day America makes Germany in 1933 look like the Garden of Eden.

All progressives should flee for their very lives are at stake. Come back after MAGA has been defeated, and not before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (bvy21)

125 Did cowboys wear six-shooters while on cattle drives?
Posted by: one hour sober

Brooks and Dunn did.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (wOO3z)

126 Cattle were much too valuable for feeding cowboys on the trail on a cattle drive, Cookie would follow along with the Chuckwagon and serve lots of biscuits and beans for Mr. Taggart. Cowboys tended to be pretty lean fellers, Hollywood has skewed perceptions quite a lot, of course. Out west things rust but slowly, the old line camps, their garbage dumps show they must have lived on Coffee and tobacco and not much else.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (dE511)

127 >>> Miss USA Strips Title from NC Pageant Winner Brittany Boltinhouse, Vows Not to ‘Tolerate Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia’

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Conspicuous by their absence from this article are what the horrible, awful, no good, very bad tweets were.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (ndZc7)


When she was a kid/teenager she used a bad n word. She is latina, a vocal trump supporter, and is very very very hot.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:03 AM (3uBP9)

128 Title checks out.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at August 07, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

129 This painting coincides with TJM reviewing Sergio Leone (link in sidebar). Whoever linked it (TJM? CBD?) refers to his review of "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly", which starts at 3:58.

He doesn't like it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (9FgyL)

130 127
When she was a kid/teenager she used a bad n word. She is latina, a vocal trump supporter, and is very very very hot.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:03 AM (3uBP9)

=======

"Why can't the hot latinas realize that they're brown just like black people but are subservient to black people and need to bend the knee just like white people? They're oppressed by the white man who won't let them be equals, don't they know that?!"
-AWFL McKaren

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (bvy21)

131 Current Day America makes Germany in 1933 look like the Garden of Eden.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (bvy21)


And the trains ran on time!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...DSA at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (l4RKn)

132 129 This painting coincides with TJM reviewing Sergio Leone (link in sidebar). Whoever linked it (TJM? CBD?) refers to his review of "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly", which starts at 3:58.

He doesn't like it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (9FgyL)

========

I think it's okay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:05 AM (bvy21)

133 I'd rather sit in my boat thinking about God than sit in church thinking about fishing.
Posted by: As any honest guy will tell you at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

Heh. Good one.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:05 AM (g8Ew8)

134 131 Current Day America makes Germany in 1933 look like the Garden of Eden.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (bvy21)

And the trains ran on time!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...DSA at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (l4RKn)

========

"WE DON'T EVEN HAVE TRAINS!"
-Joe Biden, weeping

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:05 AM (bvy21)

135 The quality of mercy is not strain'd.

Sarah Fields
@SarahisCensored
This is absolutely shocking.
Jesse Butler - The Oklahoma teen who violently r*ped and strangled a high school girl so badly she needed neck surgery and was seconds from dying - just had his entire case dismissed.
He was looking at 78 years.
He pleaded to the charges.
He completed a “youthful offender” rehab plan… and walked free with zero prison time.
His dad is a former Oklahoma State football director.
The new DA said the defense claimed the *perpetrator* suffered more than the victims and called it an “affront.” He’s referring the case to federal prosecutors.

-
From the affront, from the arrear . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (ndZc7)

136 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)

137 If Rancher Bob had a mustache.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)

138 Commies, amIrite?

>>@hernandezforny

>Reports out today allege that Mayor @ZohranKMamdani’s own City Hall is running a secret bot farm on X to fake public support for him.

>>Here’s what that means in plain terms: instead of real New Yorkers liking and sharing his posts, cyber experts say a network of automated accounts, have been mass-liking, replying, and boosting his content. Which makes it look far more popular than it actually is, tricking the platform’s algorithm into showing it to millions more people.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (viF8m)

139 And a black horse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)

140 >Reports out today allege that Mayor @ZohranKMamdani’s own City Hall is running a secret bot farm on X to fake public support for him.



What does this gain? Is the public going to look at his X feed and suddenly think he's doing a GREAT job and everyone needs to vote for islhamic communists?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:07 AM (2YhKe)

141 A smoking hot Latina that is conservative with a soapbox needs to be cancelled pronto. She could do real damage.

They nipped it in the bud.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:07 AM (wOO3z)

142 And the trains ran on time!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...DSA

Not in California they don't!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)

143 You see I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name; you know, it’s good to be out of the rain….

La la la la la la la la la….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (ugElV)

144 Current Day America makes Germany in 1933 look like the Garden of Eden.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (bvy21)

And the trains ran on time!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...DSA at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (l4RKn)



That must be why the trains all ran(!) and ran on time(!!!) when we were in Old Blighty a few weeks ago.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (iJfKG)

145 en Rhodes
@brhodes
The fact that we have media in this country (not just Fox) that treats @AbdulElSayed as a lunatic and Cruz as something else is one reason we live under fascism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)
====================
This you Ben?

“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing,”

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (9FgyL)

146 "Starin' at the south end of north bound cattle
Slavin' in the saddle all day
You've got to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to live your life this way
Well it can't be the cooking, it sure ain't the money
The devil made the horse that I ride
The days are too long and the nights are too short
And the boss ain't never satisfied

So what am I doing here Lord, what am I doing here
There's got to be something better up there
So what am I doing here

Sometimes I wonder in the lightning and the thunder
If a cowboy's even got a prayer
And why'd you have to make it so hard down here
When things are so much better up there"

Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (2ap+5)

147
Not in California they don't!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)



But there's only 50 feet of track.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (2YhKe)

148 When she was a kid/teenager she used a bad n word. She is latina, a vocal trump supporter, and is very very very hot.
Posted by: banana Dream

Why didn't she simply claim to be black? She could pull it off.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (w+2cP)

149 Not an accurate portrayal. As a former family ranch hand, I never managed a herd without a saddle gun. Lever action preferred.
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (TezPK)

Inspector worked as a ranch hand as a teen. Not a riding hand though used his pickup for checking fences and such, although there was always a gun in the vehicle. Also had the dubious honor of gelding 2 year old steers to make oxen.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 10:09 AM (lFFaq)

150 The early cartridge revolvers went a step backwards in safety, resting the hammer over a cylinder turned out to be not a good idea. The more primitive cap & ball revolvers had a notched hammer and pins to rest the hammer between cylinders and didn’t suffer this problem.

Cowboys on ranches and cattle drives probably didn’t have six shooters. Most period accounts say they had rifles or shotguns available. For one thing a Colt was fairly expensive, cowboys weren’t paid much.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:09 AM (dE511)

151 Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (viF8m)

Mamdani got booed off the stage a few days ago at an NYPD event.

NYC is realizing what it voted for.

Probably too little and too late, but...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 07, 2026 10:09 AM (l4RKn)

152 Catching up on Another Movie Channel

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 10:09 AM (L8DX7)

153 Fitting the subject

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 10:10 AM (L8DX7)

154
What does this gain? Is the public going to look at his X feed and suddenly think he's doing a GREAT job and everyone needs to vote for islhamic communists?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

it helps cover for the vote fraud. 200,000+. Or so they say.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:10 AM (wOO3z)

155 Sarah Fields
@SarahisCensored
This is absolutely shocking.
Jesse Butler - The Oklahoma teen who violently r*ped and strangled a high school girl so badly she needed neck surgery and was seconds from dying - just had his entire case dismissed.
He was looking at 78 years.
He pleaded to the charges.
He completed a “youthful offender” rehab plan… and walked free with zero prison time.
His dad is a former Oklahoma State football director.
The new DA said the defense claimed the *perpetrator* suffered more than the victims and called it an “affront.” He’s referring the case to federal prosecutors.

-
From the affront, from the arrear . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (ndZc7)

I refer you to the movie "Citizen Vigilante". THAT was the entire point of the movie.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 07, 2026 10:10 AM (hmYU4)

156 Today's job report is Patient Zero of what I said would happen a while back.

With mass deportations, top line numbers are going to be funky.

-23,000 jobs. Sounds awful.

But, labor participation rate actually improved.

Why? Because TPS ended for 230,000 people. So, deportations decreased the population of the country by a rather large amount in one month.

What would the "normal" number of newly created jobs be for a nation that is losing population? Should it be 150,000 new jobs?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:10 AM (bvy21)

157 Did cowboys wear six-shooters while on cattle drives?
Posted by: one hour sober

Probably 90+% of them did. If not a pistola, then a shotgun slung somewhere on the saddle.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (g8Ew8)

158 Also had the dubious honor of gelding 2 year old steers to make oxen.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

Doesn't that hurt?


Not if you keep your thumbs out of the way.

Posted by: Just the punchline at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (w+2cP)

159 If we don't get a hurricane in the Atlantic basin soon, I may have to seek counseling.



Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)

160 @brhodes
The fact that we have media in this country (not just Fox) that treats @AbdulElSayed as a lunatic and Cruz as something else is one reason we live under fascism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)



Define fascism. Get back to me when you have an understanding why what you just said is buttf*ck ignorant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (2YhKe)

161 Dang! Now I want to get out my Riders in the Sky CDs.

Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (yTvNw)

162 Like it. Would hang. Reminds me of Texas.

Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (fV9m3)

163
Probably 90+% of them did. If not a pistola, then a shotgun slung somewhere on the saddle.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM



Remington repeaters FTW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (2YhKe)

164 160 Define fascism. Get back to me when you have an understanding why what you just said is buttf*ck ignorant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (2YhKe)

=======

Fascism is Republicans in power and sending illegal aliens back to their home countries.

It's a hellscape.

Rhodes should flee America and take his whole family and circle of friends with him to save himself because MAGA is gonna make America so much worse!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (bvy21)

165 One of the great things about Sergio Leone movies, other than Clint, is Ennio Morricone.

https://tinyurl.com/56xcu8yj

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (9FgyL)

166 Who becomes famous and who toils in obscurity -- and why -- is the question that most artists must ask themselves.


Not just artists. And not just painters. I've always wondered about that when it comes to singers.

What makes someone "just a singer" vs someone who's career is incandescent when they are just as good.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (sTU8y)

167 >>Mamdani got booed off the stage a few days ago at an NYPD event.

>>NYC is realizing what it voted for.

>>Probably too little and too late, but...

Whoever on his staff thought it was a good idea for Mamdani to give a speech at an NYPD event must secretly be working on our behalf.

What did they think was going to happen?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (viF8m)

168 Ain't this the poor cowboy what saw the ghostriders in the sky?

Posted by: The Ballots at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (LOZbR)

169 The painting was signed in 1913 - Fed spending (in today's $'s) - $34 billion. Today - $7.5 trillion a 22,000% increase!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 10:13 AM (Dv3i1)

170 165 One of the great things about Sergio Leone movies, other than Clint, is Ennio Morricone.

https://tinyurl.com/56xcu8yj

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (9FgyL)

=======

Aye-yay-ya!!!!

Wa..wa.waaaaaaaa.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:13 AM (bvy21)

171 126 chili was whatever was growin' mixed with the dried goods in the pantry. no salt cod. maybe hare, coyote or roadrunner.

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:13 AM (Bep7s)

172 NYC is realizing what it voted for.

Probably too little and too late, but...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 07, 2026 10:09 AM (l4RKn)



If only we had over a decade of prime example that elections have consequences in the recent past..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:14 AM (2YhKe)

173 167 >>Mamdani got booed off the stage a few days ago at an NYPD event.

>>NYC is realizing what it voted for.
____

22% of total eligible NY voters put him in office. I'm pretty sure most of these voters want him to destroy their city.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 10:14 AM (Dv3i1)

174 >>Probably 90+% of them did

Seems like it would get quite uncomfortable on a long cattle drive. A rifle in a scabbard seems more likely.

Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (J4Dwc)

175 El-Sayed's base.

>>@Not_the_Bee
·
8m
>>University of Michigan to hide some first-semester transcripts to “curb the mental health crisis”

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (viF8m)

176 In L'Amour books, most cowboys carried Remington rifles, but I notice Elmore Leonard's preference runs to Sharps.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (9FgyL)

177 >>Here’s what that means in plain terms: instead of real New Yorkers liking and sharing his posts, cyber experts say a network of automated accounts, have been mass-liking, replying, and boosting his content. Which makes it look far more popular than it actually is, tricking the platform’s algorithm into showing it to millions more people.
Posted by: JackStraw
=========
X is useful if you curate your timeline to only reliable sources, the likes and comments, generally not on any controversial topic.

Comments are bot driven garbage and I am including human bots from abroad in troll mills. Likes are simply social virtue signalling.

And whatever tweaking of the algorithm, the fake bot community will adjust to try to sway public opinion in their favor.

Hard as it might seem, simply reject most of what is online other than commenters of proven veracity as fake and gay whether it appeals to you or not.

Same with polling this early.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (E4rtv)

178 If we don't get a hurricane in the Atlantic basin soon, I may have to seek counseling.

Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM


*tunes out Dick*

*changes channel to Yanet Garcia*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (kgE5c)

179 Rhodes should flee America and take his whole family and circle of friends with him to save himself because MAGA is gonna make America so much worse!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (bvy21)



Rhodes should follow the Hale-Bopp comet group and gather his flock for mass MAID.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (2YhKe)

180 His hearing aid batteries probably ran out.

Jon Favreau: Some DSA candidates today who've also talked about abolishing prisons, defunding or even abolishing the police...

Bernie Sanders: No serious person that I know who is running for office believes in defunding the police.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:16 AM (ndZc7)

181 Cowboy is waiting for the end of the cattle drive so he can get paid. Then, he will spend it all on beer and women until the next cattle drive starts up.

I envy him.


He's thinking "just 27 years to go on that mortgage".

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

182 One of the great things about Sergio Leone movies, other than Clint, is Ennio Morricone.

https://tinyurl.com/56xcu8yj
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (9FgyL)



Yeah, I'm inclined to give Ennio Morricone credit for about 50% of the greatness for any Sergio Leone movies considered great.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 10:16 AM (iJfKG)

183 I saw Tunes Out Dick open for Tool at Lalapalooza in '94.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:16 AM (2YhKe)

184 Perception hacking. I am growing fond of that term.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (3ZNGI)

185 My favorite art is from Vermeer, Manet, Goya and similar artists.
Lately, however, I’m enjoying analysis of the impotence ads.
I’m glad you guys are getting those pop-up ads too; I was afraid that I was getting data-mined and particularly targeted.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (1FEc1)

186 With mass deportations, top line numbers are going to be funky.

Political games like that have been played so long I'd be shocked if there are a half dozen people on the planet with a properly accurate idea of the state of our nation right now. The numbers are all distorted or outright fabricated.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (OUMaO)

187 Current Day America makes Germany in 1933 look like the Garden of Eden.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (bvy21)

And the trains ran on time!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...DSA at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (l4RKn)


Have you ever taken Amtrak?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (qRla/)

188 139 ...you rode in on.

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:18 AM (Bep7s)

189 >>University of Michigan to hide some first-semester transcripts to “curb the mental health crisis”
Posted by: JackStraw

The truly astounding part of that announcement is that they actually used those words and think that it's a positive action.

The dumbest a-holes I've ever met were/are university admins.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 10:18 AM (w+2cP)

190 There’s a great period 1920s magazine advertisement showing cowboys dispatching cattle rustlers with a Thompson submachine gun, Every ranch needs one, marketing at its finest

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:18 AM (dE511)

191 If we don't get a hurricane in the Atlantic basin soon, I may have to seek counseling.

Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)
======================
It ought to be required of developers who build tall condo buildings in Miami or Coconut Grove that they paint a big target on the building side facing Biscayne Bay.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (9FgyL)

192 That poor horse.
Posted by: Cicero


************

That's No Poor Horse, He's Secretariat's Boy - a limerick

A trust funder horsey from Sedalia
Out LARPing in his Western regalia
He's taking a gap year
And I'd guess, from what I hear
Next week going bungee jumping in Australia

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (I0N4X)

193 Cowboy is waiting for the end of the cattle drive so he can get paid. Then, he will spend it all on beer and women until the next cattle drive starts up.

I envy him.


You're not the only one. To be younger, less broken down, and not so encumbered, in a time and place where I could follow my fortune...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (OUMaO)

194 176 In L'Amour books, most cowboys carried Remington rifles, but I notice Elmore Leonard's preference runs to Sharps.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Sharps were kings of long distance shots but Remingtons were the bread and butter and that is why Sharps went bankrupt and Remington stayed in business plus Remington did the razor and razorblade solution making bank from ammunition for its firearms. Winchester though was probably the most sold for long arms with its 1873 lever action and derivative models for it. Colt with its Single Action Army and later the Colt Lightning double action were the most popular handguns. Remington and Sharps were bit players compared to Winchester and Colt.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (E4rtv)

195 I saw Tunes Out Dick open for Tool Indigo Girls at Lalapalooza in '94.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:16 AM


FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (kgE5c)

196 Morn' all.. I really like this one...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 10:20 AM (FtULh)

197 149 texas rancher bragged of how it took him four days just to inspect the fence around his property.
vermont rancher said, "i had a truck like that once."

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:21 AM (Bep7s)

198 186 With mass deportations, top line numbers are going to be funky.

Political games like that have been played so long I'd be shocked if there are a half dozen people on the planet with a properly accurate idea of the state of our nation right now. The numbers are all distorted or outright fabricated.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (OUMaO)

========

What matters for voting is local perceptions of the economy.

If you live in a town with one industry, and that industry gets decimated while the rest of the country is thriving, you think the economy in general is terrible. (This explains why DC's perception is usually at odds with the rest of the nation, especially right now.)

The GDP numbers are things that get used to try to feed overall narratives and prompting for soft-partisans to either engage or disengage, depending on who is doing the telling.

Still, we talk about the numbers, so might as well try and make sense of them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:21 AM (bvy21)

199 There’s a great period 1920s magazine advertisement showing cowboys dispatching cattle rustlers with a Thompson submachine gun, Every ranch needs one, marketing at its finest
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:18 AM (dE511)




https://youtu.be/FqF3VFIhf-8

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:21 AM (2YhKe)

200 >>> Lately, however, I’m enjoying analysis of the impotence ads.
I’m glad you guys are getting those pop-up ads too; I was afraid that I was getting data-mined and particularly targeted.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (1FEc1)


I wonder sometimes if the boner pill ads are somehow related to the gutter clearing ads and if the result of the former is meant to provide a solution to the latter. I am simultaneously intrigued and horrified.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM (3uBP9)

201 Did cowboys wear six-shooters while on cattle drives?
Posted by: one hour sober

Yes, according to every TV Westerns.

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM (Oy/m2)

202 The painting was signed in 1913 - Fed spending (in today's $'s) - $34 billion. Today - $7.5 trillion a 22,000% increase!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 10:13 AM (Dv3i1)
===================
So what? Good Senators are expensive.

Posted by: Lizzie Warren, Squaw-Chef To The Stars at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM (dtxyT)

203 FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (kgE5c)



I wouldn't go to that show.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM (2YhKe)

204 Pony! Yay! I have never had a black horse. I would love a true black with all the chrome. In case someone was thinking about holiday gifts. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 10:23 AM (ZdaMQ)

205 190 There’s a great period 1920s magazine advertisement showing cowboys dispatching cattle rustlers with a Thompson submachine gun, Every ranch needs one, marketing at its finest
Posted by: Common Tater

1890's to 1930's, it was common for people to have handguns--pocket pistols, bicycle guns, and so forth. Historically, crime was not as horrible due to the widespread application of the death penalty removing the worst of scoundrels but it was unsettled times due in part, to immigration and industrialization, so people wanted to be safe.

You also see discrete pistols being marketed to women for carry at the turn of the century.

Before penicillin and sulfa, being gut shot even with a puny cartridge like a 25 ACP or a 32 ACP/32 S&W Short or Long, would often cause sepsis and death.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:23 AM (E4rtv)

206 Damn Jews and their burritos!

Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

207 Wow!

Just walked by a dude cleaning a 19 1/2# silver salmon on the dock. Beautiful bright fatty.

Someone is going to eat good tonight!

I’d make salmon ceviche with serranos and mango and lime. Nom nom nom.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (CzhWp)

208 191 If we don't get a hurricane in the Atlantic basin soon, I may have to seek counseling.

Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)
======================
It ought to be required of developers who build tall condo buildings in Miami or Coconut Grove that they paint a big target on the building side facing Biscayne Bay.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (9FgyL)


Simple way to tell. If you see Jim Cantore in your AO, then you know.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (B0NCh)

209 206 Damn Jews and their burritos!

Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

=======

The biggest cause of inflation over the past few years has been immigration.

Massie voted against increased immigration enforcement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:25 AM (bvy21)

210 @RepThomasMassie
While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)



Tell me you're a f*cking retard without telling me you're a f*cking retard.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:25 AM (2YhKe)

211 Have you ever taken Amtrak?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (qRla/)
------------------------
Don't take Amtrak if you're allergic to Amtrak.

Posted by: Lizzie Warren, Squaw-Chef To The Stars at August 07, 2026 10:25 AM (dtxyT)

212 Pony! Yay! I have never had a black horse. I would love a true black with all the chrome. In case someone was thinking about holiday gifts. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 10:23 AM (ZdaMQ)



If you wanna ride.....then ride the WHITE horse........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:26 AM (2YhKe)

213 Last black horse we raised was sold to Vincente Fox when he was President of Mexico.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 10:26 AM (3ZNGI)

214 @RepThomasMassie
While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)


Tell me you're a f*cking retard without telling me you're a f*cking retard.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:25 AM (2YhKe)
=========================
I think we found Sid.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:26 AM (dtxyT)

215 201 Did cowboys wear six-shooters while on cattle drives?
Posted by: one hour sober

They always downloaded as Single Action Army were not drop safe. So 5 with one empty chamber which the firearm was carried with. Drop Safe did not become a thing until the 1890s with hammer blocks and transfer bars being introduced for revolvers, took a bit longer for semi autos to have drop safety mechanisms added to them.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:26 AM (E4rtv)

216 The biggest cause of inflation over the past few years has been immigration.

Massie voted against increased immigration enforcement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
====
He and the whole Tuca crew of shit posters are just evil grifters now doing malicious shit for foreign actors whether being paid or out of sheer spite for losing all political power under Trump.

Supporting Fishback for governor of Florida for example.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:28 AM (E4rtv)

217 I wouldn't go to that show.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM


Didn't think so, but I thought it worked better with Tunes Out Dick.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:29 AM (kgE5c)

218 Sharps were kings of long distance shots but Remingtons were the bread and butter and that is why Sharps went bankrupt and Remington stayed in business plus Remington did the razor and razorblade solution making bank from ammunition for its firearms. Winchester though was probably the most sold for long arms with its 1873 lever action and derivative models for it. Colt with its Single Action Army and later the Colt Lightning double action were the most popular handguns. Remington and Sharps were bit players compared to Winchester and Colt.
Posted by: whig



*Henry has entered the chat

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:29 AM (sTU8y)

219
Totally off topic....

I read about Elon Musk's new gig "X Money".

Sounds interesting if you have X Premium+ then you can get up to 6% APY on your money deposited within.

There are rules, of course, and it's new so the smart move here is to see how it all shakes out in reality, or deposit a small portion.

Anywho, any morons/ettes with mind thoughts about this?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 10:29 AM (iJfKG)

220 Wow!

Just walked by a dude cleaning a 19 1/2# silver salmon on the dock. Beautiful bright fatty.

Someone is going to eat good tonight!

I’d make salmon ceviche with serranos and mango and lime. Nom nom nom.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM


Om, nom, nom!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:29 AM (kgE5c)

221 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
MI Dem House candidate Will Lawrence says he's no longer in the DSA as he enters the general election:
“In the last month I let my membership lapse.”

-
Oh. Well, OK then.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (ndZc7)

222 >>Last black horse we raised was sold to Vincente Fox when he was President of Mexico.

My mom's business partner had a black dressage horse. Beautiful horse.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (viF8m)

223 201 Did cowboys wear six-shooters while on cattle drives?
Posted by: one hour sober

Yes, according to every TV Westerns.

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM (Oy/m2)

Yeah, that seems to be the majority internet consensus -- Hollywood myth-making.

Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (J4Dwc)

224 Abdul like Hong, could just be being used as testers to see what they as a party can get away with, like how Trump when he burst on the scene introduced "extreme" ideas like punishment for abortion and muslim bans and then backed away.

It's possible the islamist will make a big splash and lose, and that could bolster the central party's moderation and rejection of certain "crazies".

I made no absolute guarantees of the election outcome, unlike what a particular smartmouth implied yesterday, but at the moment I strongly lean victory in MI for the terrorist.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (6UXQp)

225 I’d make salmon ceviche with serranos and mango and lime. Nom nom nom.
Posted by: nurse ratched

That sounds fantastic. Shall I come over at 6? I'll bring the wine.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

226 205 velodog!

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:31 AM (Bep7s)

227
Didn't think so, but I thought it worked better with Tunes Out Dick.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:29 AM (kgE5c)



I should've gone with either The Cranberries or 4 Non Blondes, but I just couldn't make myself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:31 AM (2YhKe)

228 I’ve surmised that cap & ball revolvers and similar probably hung around longer than might be expected. Of course if you could afford the latest and greatest modern cartridge firearms they were the way to go. But shipping costs (railroad) were very high and if you lived in Nevada or Utah or far off the path ammo was expensive. Being able to use black powder in myriad guns, melt down lead and cast bullets over a campfire had a certain utility. Save the good stuff for more critical social work in any case.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:32 AM (dE511)

229 @WesternLensman
MI Dem House candidate Will Lawrence says he's no longer in the DSA as he enters the general election:
“In the last month I let my membership lapse.”

-
Oh. Well, OK then.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (ndZc7)



THAT changes EVERYTHING!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:32 AM (2YhKe)

230
Yeah, that seems to be the majority internet consensus -- Hollywood myth-making.
Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (J4Dwc)



Well, they weren't carrying Glocks.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:33 AM (2YhKe)

231 Amazing. The most "educated" populace is duped so easily.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:33 AM (wOO3z)

232 MI Dem House candidate Will Lawrence says he's no longer in the DSA as he enters the general election:
“In the last month I let my membership lapse.”


That sounds so brave!

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 10:34 AM (rxwdW)

233 Amazing. The most "educated" populace is duped so easily.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:33 AM (wOO3z)



Because they've spent their entire adult life being indoctrinated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:34 AM (2YhKe)

234
What matters for voting is local perceptions of the economy.

If you live in a town with one industry, and that industry gets decimated while the rest of the country is thriving, you think the economy in general is terrible. (This explains why DC's perception is usually at odds with the rest of the nation, especially right now.)

The GDP numbers are things that get used to try to feed overall narratives and prompting for soft-partisans to either engage or disengage, depending on who is doing the telling.

Still, we talk about the numbers, so might as well try and make sense of them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I did a paper once upon a time using REIS local economic data and a governor's reelection bid--turns out that state economic figures did not matter, national did but the strongest effect was local economy. Regular folks perceive their economy by looking out the window, elites often being okay at home, focus more on the national figures (probably due to investments, markets, etc. exposure). Few care about overall state figures.

Problem with using it for predictions is local figures are slower than national to be released.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:34 AM (E4rtv)

235 215 my s'blackhawk does not have transfer bar. manufactured 1970. (ruger will install one at no cost, but you won't get your white box back...).

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:35 AM (Bep7s)

236 Deep bench.

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
On the left is David Crowley who thinks calling him "establishment" is a racist slur.
On the right is Francesca Hong who thinks her son creates "proximity to whiteness."
These are the choices the Democrat party is offering up to the state of Wisconsin for governor in 2026.

https://tinyurl.com/3nuz4krz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:35 AM (ndZc7)

237
Wow!

Just walked by a dude cleaning a 19 1/2# silver salmon on the dock. Beautiful bright fatty.

Someone is going to eat good tonight!

I’d make salmon ceviche with serranos and mango and lime. Nom nom nom.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM


Yay! Dinner for everyone!


Posted by: Salmon Parasites at August 07, 2026 10:35 AM (iJfKG)

238 This looks like a Pure Prairie League album cover.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 09:36 AM (+iIn9)
==================
It does indeed!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:35 AM (UnTkV)

239 @WesternLensman
On the left is David Crowley who thinks calling him "establishment" is a racist slur.
On the right is Francesca Hong who thinks her son creates "proximity to whiteness."
These are the choices the Democrat party is offering up to the state of Wisconsin for governor in 2026.

https://tinyurl.com/3nuz4krz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:35 AM (ndZc7)



Either one will win.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (2YhKe)

240 Looks kind of Impressionistic to me. Nice enough, but not up to the standard of Russell or Remington.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (1z8ji)

241 I always wanted a Winchester .32-20. Well not always, but as soon as I could.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (dE511)

242 233 Amazing. The most "educated" populace is duped so easily.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:33 AM (wOO3z)


Because they've spent their entire adult life being indoctrinated.
Posted by: Sponge
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And the penalty is strongest for deviation from the herd for the ruling class. They have reputation, money, careers, etc. to be lost if they don't go along with the herd.

People with nothing left to lose, fearing of losing what little they have, or those who are so rich that societal rules don't apply to them like Trump, are more likely to be change agents.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (E4rtv)

243 Looks kind of Impressionistic to me. Nice enough, but not up to the standard of Russell or Remington.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (1z8ji)



Winchester hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (2YhKe)

244 That poor horse.
Posted by: Cicero

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That horse was probably more coddled and loved than many give to their spouses.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (g8Ew8)

245 225 oncor

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (Bep7s)

246 Untitled (Cowboy On Horseback)
Elling William Gollings

Have never heard of him, but that's not unusual. What a nice body of work!! I would hang today's art selection.

Montana Trail Galleries: William Gollings [1878-1932]

Bill Gollings (Elling William) did paintings known for their accurate accountings of the Old West. Gollings drew upon his own personal experiences as a cowboy, and was also known to have studied and admired the drawings of Frederic Remington, which often appeared in 'Harper's Weekly' magazine.

Bill Gollings was born in 1878 in Pierce City, Idaho. As a boy, he spent much of his time was in New York, Idaho and Michigan. When he was twelve, he and his family moved to Chicago. At age nineteen, Gollings traveled to small mining and cattle towns in South Dakota and Nebraska where he spent most of his time as a sheepherder and cowboy. Despite his ranching activities, he had always possessed an interest in art.

His first exposure to paints was at about age twenty-five when he began working with a set of mail-order paints. After selling several paintings, he was admitted to the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts on a scholarship. (More.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (NFX2v)

247 Being able to use black powder in myriad guns, melt down lead and cast bullets over a campfire had a certain utility. Save the good stuff for more critical social work in any case.
Posted by: Common Tater


Callahan Bag Molds still makes the round ball mold in the 1800's style - scissors type making one ball at a time.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (sTU8y)

248 >>Amazing. The most "educated" populace is duped so easily.

Long ago when I attended a one room schoolhouse that was uphill both ways, they taught us first how to think critically. Many schools don't do that anymore.

They just pour their own ideas and opinions into kids heads as facts they must obey. And they do. And many of them go through life believing whatever bullshit the voice of authority tells them to believe.

That's how we end up with half the country believing Trump paid Russian hookers to pee on his bed.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (viF8m)

249 Since I live in a hurricane zone, I watch 'Weather Unfiltered' on Weather Channel every evening while eating dinner. It's been hilarious this year watching Rick Knabb try to hide his disappointment that NWS repeatedly shows no probability of tropical cyclone development 10 days out.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 10:38 AM (J4Dwc)

250 making one ball at a time.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (sTU8y)



That's hot.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 07, 2026 10:38 AM (2YhKe)

251 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Nice art. Cowboy Art. I bet that's his name too.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (2WIwB)

252 How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)

253 That's how we end up with half the country believing Trump paid Russian hookers to pee on his bed.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (viF8m)



But it was a bet that Owebama supposedly slept in, so it HAS to be true, right? Because Trump would do such a thing......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (2YhKe)

254 This is a great, classic piece of Western art. Thanks, CBD.

I'd swear I recognize that old cowboy. I sure feel his age and weariness.

Posted by: mindful webworker - prairie dog at August 07, 2026 10:40 AM (62m/B)

255 How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks



Georgia State Police don't play around.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:40 AM (sTU8y)

256 making one ball at a time.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (sTU8y)


That's hot.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 07, 2026 10:38 AM (2YhKe)

Thank you.

Posted by: Adolfo at August 07, 2026 10:40 AM (6UXQp)

257 I'm listening to "Build Me A Cabin In The Corner Of Glory Land" right now, courtesy of my father's favorite playlist. Good stuff, and perfect for today's art work.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:41 AM (sWibC)

258 Abdul like Hong, could just be being used as testers to see what they as a party can get away with

I think their job to tug so hard on the Overton Window that everyone gets a clear, unfiltered look at the enemy. Full sunlight on those critters.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 10:41 AM (rxwdW)

259 Amazing. The most "educated" populace is duped so easily.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:33 AM (wOO3z)

They've been educated to react in fear.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)

260 How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)



YOU COUGHT!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:41 AM (2YhKe)

261 241 I always wanted a Winchester .32-20. Well not always, but as soon as I could.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Expensive and at times unavailable ammunition. Same for the 38-40 and 44-40. Even the mighty 45 Colt at times literally dries up. These are handloading cartridges if you want to shoot them and handloading is a pita because of the thin and elongated necks on these cartridges. Can crumple in the reloading process.

There is also the problem that the 32-20 came in two different loads--one hotter one for lever action rifles, the weaker one for revolvers.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:42 AM (E4rtv)

262 How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck


Play time is over, punk.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:42 AM (Riz8t)

263 >>> How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks



Georgia State Police don't play around.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:40 AM (sTU8y)


Nice of the kid for donating his ride to the state police. I'm sure they'll enjoy selling it off.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:44 AM (3uBP9)

264 How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)


YOU COUGHT!!!!!!


Like a motherf***er, baby!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:45 AM (Riz8t)

265 The cowboy in the picture seems pensive, as if he's questioning his life choices

What about the poor horse? Fifteen hours a day watching the grass grow with that great lummox in the saddle.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 10:45 AM (rxwdW)

266 Long ago when I attended a one room schoolhouse that was uphill both ways, they taught us first how to think critically. Many schools don't do that anymore.

They just pour their own ideas and opinions into kids heads as facts they must obey. And they do. And many of them go through life believing whatever bullshit the voice of authority tells them to believe.

That's how we end up with half the country believing Trump paid Russian hookers to pee on his bed.
Posted by: JackStraw

Much of education's deterioration is that a) you have different careers for women that want to work outside of the home---used to be only being a nurse or a teacher were suitable employment for women so those attracted the best and brightest.

And then you now have the miserable colleges of education who rival only journalism/communications for their students having the lowest academic performance at universities. Incompetent teachers, no discipline due to fears of racial unrest and lawsuits, and a population that values education as a credential, not as a means of self improvement.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (E4rtv)

267 How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

Oh, how I would love to be a fly on the wall when his Dad gets THAT call.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (Riz8t)

268 African champion
@membunnamdi1
Two men, James Gay (35) and Everette Krichbabum (52) have been arrested after a machete fight in the parking lot of a Panama City, Florida Publix parking lot.

In an absolutely insane plot twist - both men are reportedly tied to the Florida based "Vampire Cult" and Mr. Gay previously spent 12 years in prison for a Vampire Cult related murder in 2011.

https://tinyurl.com/y5e7ec6t

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The VADL (Vampire Anti-Defamation League will hear of this!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (ndZc7)

269 205 You also see discrete pistols being marketed to women for carry at the turn of the century.

carry a hidden digital pistol and you'll be discrete and discreet.

Posted by: anachronda at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (QfB85)

270 It Sure Beats Punching 'em- a limerick…
Posted by: muldoon


Ugh. Now I'll never think of 'cowpoke' the same again. Thanks a lot, muldoon!🤠

Posted by: mindful webworker - prairie dog at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (62m/B)

271 How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)


YOU COUGHT!!!!!!

Like a motherf***er, baby!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:45 AM (Riz8t)
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FAFO Hall of Fame nominee video

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:47 AM (sWibC)

272 118 Who names their kid Elling?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

And all three of his names have an LLI in the middle! Maybe they were going for some kind of poetry.

Elling
William
Gollings

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 10:47 AM (odBC9)

273 267 How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

Oh, how I would love to be a fly on the wall when his Dad gets THAT call.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (Riz8t)

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When we lived in Charleston, some kid who was attending the Citadel and lived in our neighborhood came tearing down the street and the tight curve outside our house.

Crashed the car into the ditch outside our house. I go to the window and see the doors open, a bunch of pot smoke, and about 6 college aged kids bolt.

The driver starts to go, but he sticks around.

It was his father's car. His father came to the scene about half an hour later when word got to him. Nice white BMW. He was pissed.

I think the kid got kicked out of The Citadel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:48 AM (bvy21)

274 How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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You're NICKED, Chummy!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 10:49 AM (FZ29D)

275 253 That's how we end up with half the country believing Trump paid Russian hookers to pee on his bed.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (viF8m)


But it was a bet that Owebama supposedly slept in, so it HAS to be true, right? Because Trump would do such a thing......


once again, it comes down to blackjack and hookers.

Posted by: anachronda at August 07, 2026 10:49 AM (QfB85)

276 269 205 You also see discrete pistols being marketed to women for carry at the turn of the century.

carry a hidden digital pistol and you'll be discrete and discreet.
Posted by: anachronda
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You got me, didn't proofread and probably my fault instead of autocucumber. Slow this morning.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:49 AM (E4rtv)

277 Crashed the car into the ditch outside our house. I go to the window and see the doors open, a bunch of pot smoke, and about 6 college aged kids bolt.

The driver starts to go, but he sticks around.

It was his father's car. His father came to the scene about half an hour later when word got to him. Nice white BMW. He was pissed.

I think the kid got kicked out of The Citadel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:48 AM (bvy21)
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Shades of Nancy Mace

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:50 AM (dtxyT)

278 >>In an absolutely insane plot twist - both men are reportedly tied to the Florida based "Vampire Cult" and Mr. Gay previously spent 12 years in prison for a Vampire Cult related murder in 2011.

Oddly, I can't muster up any surprise or clever quip.
Like, the internet has made all fetishes mainstream and weird violence happens daily.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 10:50 AM (X8xt3)

279 That cowpoke has two ribeyes under the saddle in sealed bags.

The original version of sous vide.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 10:51 AM (iySPJ)

280 Shades of Nancy Mace
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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She came?

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:51 AM (E4rtv)

281 Damn ICE!

75-year-old Trump voter "betrayed" after ICE arrested his 45-year-old Venezuelan fiancée for expired visa

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)

282 281 Damn ICE!

75-year-old Trump voter "betrayed" after ICE arrested his 45-year-old Venezuelan fiancée for expired visa

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)

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This is like MTG complaining about mass deportations once she saw that she'd have to pay more for labor at her construction company.

"The US government takes visa status seriously," is a good lesson to teach people, and hard learning requires hard lessons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:53 AM (bvy21)

283 Shades of Nancy Mace
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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She came?
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:51 AM (E4rtv)
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Enthusiastically, no doubt.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:53 AM (dtxyT)

284 75-year-old Trump voter "betrayed" after ICE arrested his 45-year-old Venezuelan fiancée for expired visa
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)

Life's a bitch.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:53 AM (g8Ew8)

285 Cattle should be taught to drive themselves. Cut down on labor costs.

Posted by: Cut-Rate Cattlemen Inc at August 07, 2026 10:54 AM (JM9I6)

286 Big revolvers were ill suited to horseback use. To be safe (and not get the pistol lost in action), the holster had to be a lot different from the gunslinger style in films. Some of the design criteria for the .45 semi-auto pistol were dictated by cavalry use: improved drop safety, the grip safety, ability to carry safely with round in chamber. Cavalry was just about over with by the time the 1911 was adopted, but those who were left reaped the rewards of some quality research.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 07, 2026 10:54 AM (zdLoL)

287 Oddly, I can't muster up any surprise or clever quip.
Like, the internet has made all fetishes mainstream and weird violence happens daily.
Posted by: Lizzy

Postal inspectors had just about licked the child pornography problem in the US with a long line of successful prosecutions for sending the vile stuff through the mail.

Then came the internet and the international market for child pron perverts. Same with trannyism, foot fetishes, etc. People now had a 'community' that supported them, fed their unhealthy and evil appetites, and made them more resistant to being forced to change.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:54 AM (E4rtv)

288 I always wanted a Winchester .32-20. Well not always, but as soon as I could.

I want the Winchester Mystery House.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (qRla/)

289 >> People now had a 'community' that supported them, fed their unhealthy and evil appetites, and made them more resistant to being forced to change.

This too, is the story of AOSHQ.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (viF8m)

290 Oddly, I can't muster up any surprise or clever quip.
Like, the internet has made all fetishes mainstream and weird violence happens daily.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 10:50 AM (X8xt3)

I was friendly with this dude when I was 20 and he turned out to be a super lib, even started an anti war blog etc and was like taking to Stephen Colbert before there was such a thing. At the time it wasn't a big deal to be friends with leftards but you slowly realized they didn't want to be friends with you - even if you weren't explicitly right. Just not being a leftard annoyed them a lot.

My point is one day he came to me with a link to a web 1.0 forum he'd been reading where everyone there wanted to be a vampire.

We joked about a lot of stuff so I thought it was a joke but the place was truly bugfuck insane. Won't even go into it, it's exactly what you think and probably worse. And I don't think he was kidding.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (6UXQp)

291 285 Cattle should be taught to drive themselves. Cut down on labor costs.
Posted by: Cut-Rate Cattlemen Inc

S'okay, robot cowboys are coming soon along with robot border collies and Australian shepherd dogs.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (E4rtv)

292 I am not a fan of cows, particularly calves. They get themselves into trouble and think someone, usually a poorly paid, hot and tired someone, will come along and get them unstuck from whatever trouble they got themselves into.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:56 AM (dtxyT)

293 The VADL (Vampire Anti-Defamation League will hear of this!

I prefer the
Vampire
League
Against
Defamation

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (qRla/)

294 This too, is the story of AOSHQ.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Are you saying focusing on boobs, guns, arguments, and art is not healthy?

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (E4rtv)

295 I want the Winchester Mystery House.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

One of my biggest regrets was not visiting that house when I was stationed in California. I made it to Hearst Castle, but never to the Winchester House.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

296 I want the Winchester Mystery House.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (qRla/)

It's haunted by demons. The internet said so.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (g8Ew8)

297 >>> The VADL (Vampire Anti-Defamation League will hear of this!

I prefer the
Vampire
League
Against
Defamation
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (qRla/)


Splitters!

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (3uBP9)

298 That one cow I done counted her twicest. Won't stand still for nothin,.

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (LHPAg)

299 292 I am not a fan of cows, particularly calves. They get themselves into trouble and think someone, usually a poorly paid, hot and tired someone, will come along and get them unstuck from whatever trouble they got themselves into.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

BIL has a small herd of Black Angus and he is his own cowboy.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (E4rtv)

300 I realize there's awful stuff on the Internet all over the place, but isn't "Tik Tok" originally a Chinese ap? Why can't we get rid of it?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (3OyJk)

301 Looks like Blanche has got the votes. Barely.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:59 AM (viF8m)

302 252 How they deal with street takeovers in Georgia. NSFW because of some salty language.

https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Looks like my area in 2020, but the black trucks that hassled the unpermitted, street blocking protestors were the ones the politicians and police were especially interested in.

In fact, the protestors were allowed to have a redo weeks later, and the black trucks and local residents closely watched (including drones) to see if one unpleasant, possibly "stress-inducing" word was directed towards the protestors.
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Just returned from Georgia. Teaching in the K-12 schools is much better than locally in my state, but DEI remains a thing and huge, fabulous mosques are rising, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 10:59 AM (NFX2v)

303
BIL has a small herd of Black Angus and he is his own cowboy.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (E4rtv)
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at least he eats well

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (dtxyT)

304 296 I want the Winchester Mystery House.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (qRla/)

It's haunted by demons. The internet said so.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (g8Ew
Winchester never had 'satan is king' on their products.

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (LHPAg)

305 Why can't we get rid of it?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (3OyJk)

IIRC we tried, but various Republican politicians and podcasters said ohhh nooo our precious freedoms.
Then they all went out for free Chinese buffet.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (88C+u)

306 It's haunted by demons. The internet said so.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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IRRC, In Search Of series got there first in the 70's. No less than Spock with raised eyebrows commenting.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (E4rtv)

307 301 Looks like Blanche has got the votes. Barely.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:59 AM (viF8m)

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Once the committee voted in favor, it meant the votes were there.

Once Collins announced she wouldn't vote for him, the whipping was done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (bvy21)

308 75-year-old Trump voter "betrayed" after ICE arrested his 45-year-old Venezuelan fiancée for expired visa
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)

Life's a bitch.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:53 AM (g8Ew

Trump saved him from being cleaned out by the bitch.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (S41Gd)

309 Who names their kid Elling?

That would be Effing William Gollings, Sr., but some scribe in the hostpital made a mistake.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (rxwdW)

310 at least he eats well
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Yep. All his neighbors have relatively small herds of cattle too. Ozarks.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (E4rtv)

311 Rant up!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (sTU8y)

312
75-year-old Trump voter "betrayed" after ICE arrested his 45-year-old Venezuelan fiancée for expired visa
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)



FASCISM!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (2YhKe)

313 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

314 308 75-year-old Trump voter "betrayed" after ICE arrested his 45-year-old Venezuelan fiancée for expired visa
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)

Life's a bitch.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:53 AM (g8Ew

Trump saved him from being cleaned out by the bitch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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His kids from a previous relationship probably called ICE to protect their inheritance.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:02 AM (E4rtv)

315 Once Collins announced she wouldn't vote for him, the whipping was done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I personally approve of whipping Congress critters at every turn. Devo's "Whip It" song should be playing while doing it.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:03 AM (E4rtv)

316 Nice of the kid for donating his ride to the state police. I'm sure they'll enjoy selling it off.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:44 AM (3uBP9)

I assume the bank owns 95% of that truck. What happens when it is (rightfully in this instance) seized by the cops? Is the puke kid still on the hook for the debt?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM (1z8ji)

317 I assume the bank owns 95% of that truck. What happens when it is (rightfully in this instance) seized by the cops? Is the puke kid still on the hook for the debt?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)

318 I assume the bank owns 95% of that truck. What happens when it is (rightfully in this instance) seized by the cops? Is the puke kid still on the hook for the debt?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM (1z8ji)
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Good question. When the police sell the truck, I'd imagine the lien gets satisfied either from auction proceeds or the kid, so I'd guess the kid had to pray it sold for more than the loan payoff value.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:18 AM (bx2ki)

319 Surprisingly, up the road from the Brinton, there's a local history museum with a Charles Russell painting on the wall.

Posted by: STW at August 07, 2026 02:25 PM (vB4Cb)

The Morning Report — 8/ 7 /26

Hongphoowy.jpg

The former premier of the Soviet Union once stated "I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you."

And so here we are almost 70 years on and although the Soviet Union is also now the former Soviet Union, existing as it once did as Russia. regardless of the thuggery and corruption of its current leader Vladimir Putin, the question is, was Nikita Khrushchev right, or is the jury still out on his prediction.

Let's take a gander at a few things that might shed some light on the situation. First up, we have the Dairy State, to which I escaped from NYC merely 5 short years ago.

Francesca Hong is running to be the next governor of Wisconsin, but she can’t decide if she wants to be the Grinch who stole Thanksgiving, too. Thanksgiving? We’re talking about Thanksgiving in August? In 2020, she tweeted that we should stick a carving knife in the national holiday of gratitude because it was “celebrating colonialism.”

From that flaming pile of excrement we go south to Texas where you'd think, saner heads would for sure be prevailing. You'd think, until . . .

James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers' The Pride Month event also featured a drag queen with the provocative name 'Sedonya Face'

Of course, these are merely candidates for governor and senator. But would the party run them if they didn't think they had a shot at rallying their troops. And speaking of which, first up we have...

About a mile and a half from where Luigi Mangione (allegedly) murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and a schlep from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where the (alleged) assassin is being held as he awaits state and federal trials, Luigi: The Musical finished its six-night New York City run at The Green Room 42 in the YOTEL New York Times Square.

Springtime for Hitler was merely Mel Brooks being funny. At the time some thought even he went a bit too far with The Prodcuers but sadly it seems as if he was actually being prescient. Just as the late great Paddy Chayefsky was with Network

And here we have another one who will bury, er that is BURN us.

An upcoming criminal trial may reshape public opinion about the main cause of the 2025 Palisades Fire in Southern California, redefining it as a consequence not of climate change but of class warfare.

While all of the previous maniacs were all born and raised here, we still have Michiganistan and Islam to contend with...

The financial and ideological ties between El-Sayed and CAIR raise questions about his candidacy, given CAIR’s controversial history and alleged links to terrorist organizations. This could become a focal point in the Michigan Senate race as voters scrutinize the influence of such organizations on political candidates.

Well, it's nice to believe as some do that Mike Rogers will beat this fiend. But please remember that beyond the base, Michigan's elections are run by Governor Wretched Whitler and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson who were both, especially the latter, instrumental in the thievery that stole the state from Trump and gave it to Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden in 2020 in the middle of the night in Wayne County where election observers were ejected, the windows covered and 18-wheelers full of ballots hauled in.

So, as we close out the week, let's try to end on a much happier note:

Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House and especially since Trump’s Liberation Day tariff announcement, the economic press has reported that American manufacturing is struggling under President Trump’s tariffs. Even worse: stories have frequently claimed that manufacturing is struggling because of the tariffs. The Wall Street Journal declared manufacturing “in retreat.” The Associated Press said tariffs were “hurting American manufacturers instead of helping them.” Reuters reported that import duties had undercut manufacturing.
There’s just one problem: none of that is happening. If tariffs are hurting American manufacturing, someone forgot to tell the factories.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that manufacturing output rose at a 4.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter. Hours worked increased 2.6 percent. Productivity, which measures output per hour, rose 1.9 percent.

And on top of that, we have this bit of orgasmatronia!

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that end birth tourism and expand the definition of who does not qualify for birthright citizenship. . . The first Executive Order non-exhaustively identifies certain categories of children of aliens who are not entitled to birthright citizenship consistent with historical exceptions to birthright citizenship recognized by the Supreme Court in Barbara. The second Executive Order delegates presidential authorities to the Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security and directs them to halt the practice of birth tourism.

Well, I'm sure the lawsuits will start flying and the usual crackpot nutters will threaten SCOTUS justices and their families but who knows? If Roe v. Wade could be nixed, perhaps there's hope that the 14th Amendment could actually be read and upheld as written and intended. My concern isn't necessarily with the Leftists it's mostly the RINOs who will stab us in the back.

So we're in the mass grave or marching to it, but perhaps the first shovel-full of dirt has yet to be dropped on us?

How's that for optimism?! And with that I bid you all


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1 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (2Cry5)

2 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

3 Thank you JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (VyBeY)

4 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (cpFbA)

5 Is this the right place?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (U+tJ3)

6 Good morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 07:34 AM (lXoJ5)

7 Good morning morons.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 07, 2026 07:34 AM (Q/FnY)

8 Coca Cola can go fuck itself. Don't drink that poison.

It's a great way to dissolve rust, though. I used it once to clean some tore bolts I was having trouble loosening.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:35 AM (U+tJ3)

9 Luigi: The Musical

Yeah, I remember how health care policy changed after...what? Nothing changed? Even after the exec's death? Almost as if what Luigi did was pointless.

I don't think the Left really wants us thinking that putting bullets in the brainpans of people we view as a threat is a cool idea.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 07:37 AM (lXoJ5)

10 Migrants Invaded Ceuta Because A Court Encouraged Them. SCOTUS Just Did The Same Here

As Nayib Bukele, Prophet of Sanity, once said, "If a country does not remove corrupt judges, it cannot fix its systemic issues."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

11 8 Coca Cola can go fuck itself. Don't drink that poison.

It's a great way to dissolve rust, though. I used it once to clean some tore bolts I was having trouble loosening.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:35 AM (U+tJ3)


Buy the supermarket brand cola so long as you see Phosphoric Acid as an ingredient.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2026 07:37 AM (x0n13)

12 Willowed: I commented last thread that the Dog Days of August are so nasty here that I call them the Jackal Days or the Hyena Days. Dogs are good-looking; those two species are not.

Come to think of it, hyenas look like the first, unfinished draft of the dog. Just as opossums look like the first draft of the cat. I imagine God saying, "Come *on*, you can do better than *that* --!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:38 AM (wzUl9)

13 Hong doesn't like colonialism, but embraces immigration? Huh?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 07:38 AM (wVCl1)

14 In before the popup ads with copious cleavage...

Too late.

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 07:39 AM (j10i6)

15 I, for one, am in favor of celebrities offing themselves.

Posted by: fd! at August 07, 2026 07:39 AM (MWfyi)

16 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 07:40 AM (sTU8y)

17 James Talarico headlined a drag show? Yeah, Texas will definitely vote for that queen.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:41 AM (yeRBj)

18 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:43 AM (JvZF+)

19 Trump Signs Orders That End Birth Tourism, Limit Birthright Citizenship

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No, I didn't read the article yet. But this begs the instantaneous question of how long it will be before a judge immediately stops it? And how can this be done if SCOTUS has already said birthright citizenship is a-ok from a constitutional position (as laughable as it is)?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2026 07:45 AM (qBdHI)

20 Francesca Hong says she wants to "cancel" Thanksgiving?

How does one go about that? Forbid the sale of turkeys, yams, pumpkin pie?

Such a stupid and unserious, yet highly demented person. The country has collectively lost it's mind if we're seriously going to elect someone who has certainly lost theirs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 07:46 AM (2Cry5)

21 Trump Gives Iran One Last Chance. Tehran Is the One Running Out of Time

This last chance number what? 20?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:46 AM (l3cgK)

22 9 Luigi: The Musical

Yeah, I remember how health care policy changed after...what? Nothing changed? Even after the exec's death? Almost as if what Luigi did was pointless.

I don't think the Left really wants us thinking that putting bullets in the brainpans of people we view as a threat is a cool idea.
Posted by: NR Pax

You do realize that year-1 Kirkaversary is less than one month away...
https://www.tinyurl.com/forWARd-WhenLIBsDisarm

To be presided over by the Smirking Madmani standing next to the Pyschodancin' AOC in exctacy of all the money she can seize and people to burn....

remember who did this:

it would be wrong to cut off contact with the terror group just because they may have killed people "in a way that we hate." -- Bill Clinton'06 near the height of his association with Epstein

Palestinians elected Hamas because they promised to make the buses run on time -- Bill Clinton'06


I tried to represent a better America when I was president. But now I don't have to...- Bill Clinton'06

--- He was on a roll that year, because he didn't have to go to Epstien's island, it came to him, that was AVILOOP was/is...

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 07, 2026 07:46 AM (eS+Uj)

23 "I can certainly understand the American people are maybe looking at this, and they say, well, it seems like we’re making progress, and then it seems like we’re not."

I worked on a very expensive home one time, 10 million or so, and when the owner complained to the foreman about progress, he said "Some things show, and some things don't".

Posted by: fd! at August 07, 2026 07:47 AM (MWfyi)

24 I offer Mrs. Fauci a return of the Fauci salute. In addition, I routinely fart in the general direction of D.C., and I will dedicate the next one to her.
The only form of justice that I predict for that couple, is that they will need to reside in D.C. for several more years to make court appearances, and they won’t be able to retire full time to a luxurious resort town.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 07:47 AM (1FEc1)

25 No, I didn't read the article yet. But this begs the instantaneous question of how long it will be before a judge immediately stops it? And how can this be done if SCOTUS has already said birthright citizenship is a-ok from a constitutional position (as laughable as it is)?
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2026 07:45 AM (qBdHI)


Tougher to kill this one, I think. The EO basically says that if you're in the US just long enough to give birth and then immediately take the child back to whatever country you're visiting from then you obviously aren't under the jurisdiction of the US so not a citizen.

The courts could shit on him again but at some point they make it plain to even the dimmest of bulbs that they're not trying to uphold the Constitution, they're trying to destroy the country.

Trump is the unmasker.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

26 Read Rush Limbaugh's "The True Story of Thanksgiving." It is anti-Communist, anti-Socialist.

The Pilgrims land off-course after months at sea, hitting the Americas right as winter was starting. Many died, more would have if the natives didn't spare food.

They also went Communist before Communism - everyone would work, their produce would go into a central bank. That bank was to pay off the loan that paid for the journey to the new world. But everyone, man, woman, and child, also got one share of everything produced. Each according to their ability, each according to their need.

The journal of the leader showed this was a crap idea even then. It did not work, and it was turning godly people (they left Europe because of religion!) into hating their neighbors. So they scrapped the whole commune deal. Somewhat quickly, because these weren't over-educated retards like from today's "higher" learning. Every family was given a plot of land. They could sell what they grew and made.

First winter - pity food from the natives. Next winter - abundance because you worked to eat. Apparently, they paid off that loan pretty quickly too afterwards.

Posted by: Another Anon at August 07, 2026 07:48 AM (4h45B)

27 "How does one go about that? Forbid the sale of turkeys, yams, pumpkin pie?"

L Tryptophan is the silent killer...ban it!

And just like that - turkey is no longer an endangered species come November

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 07:48 AM (j10i6)

28 Unfortunately the message of Network is sorely needed by Gen. Y and Millenials who are completely deaf to it.

The media hate you. Their practitioners are liars and scum.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:49 AM (JvZF+)

29 I can certainly understand the American people are maybe looking at gladiator movies

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 07:50 AM (77Xnc)

30 Your Trump Daily Ultimatum:

>Trump Gives Iran One Last Chance. Tehran Is the One Running Out of Time

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 07:50 AM (ZxPkt)

31 Morning, Horde. Off to do my morning walk and then I'll read the content and a few links.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 07:52 AM (aJQbY)

32 These 19 Angelenos are frustrated with their leaders—but few are ready to vote Republican.

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As the apt saying goes, "you can't fix stupid." SMH

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2026 07:52 AM (qBdHI)

33 Back in my banker days I remember a veteran telling me real estate developers always finished their projects by suing each other.

It was normal to sue over the punch list, then sue partners, and then sue anyone else involved. Trump is at that stage with Iran. Just pay no attention while he does the statecraft equivalent of suing them, as he finishes off whatever the hell he is doing over there. As long as none of our guys have to land on the beach I guess I'm ok with target practice.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:52 AM (gd9nb)

34 21 Trump Gives Iran One Last Chance. Tehran Is the One Running Out of Time

This last chance number what? 20?
Posted by: jim

I want to believe there's more going on here than meets the eye, but I have my doubts, missy.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 07:53 AM (Y8DZL)

35 34 21 Trump Gives Iran One Last Chance. Tehran Is the One Running Out of Time

This last chance number what? 20?
Posted by: jim

I want to believe there's more going on here than meets the eye, but I have my doubts, missy.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 07:53 AM (Y8DZL)

Don't call me Shirley Missy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:54 AM (l3cgK)

36 I'm proud to report if you ask Girl F. "What is the number one rule of TV?" she will rotely repeat "Everything on TV is a lie." because I've drilled this since she was a child.

She also says she no longer reads The Economist but she might be shining me on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:54 AM (JvZF+)

37 Read Rush Limbaugh's "The True Story of Thanksgiving." It is anti-Communist, anti-Socialist.
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Excellent point.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:55 AM (gd9nb)

38 Election Integrity Is Not Voter Suppression

Indeed; it's ILLEGAL VOTE Suppression.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:56 AM (l3cgK)

39 Scientists: New Horizons’ images of Pluto suggest liquid nitrogen flows in the cracks

Cold flow in the crack...Brrrr!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (l3cgK)

40 21 Trump Gives Iran One Last Chance. Tehran Is the One Running Out of Time

Give us just a one more last chance
Before you say we're through
We know we drive you crazy, Trumpy
It's the best that we can do
We're just some good ol' IRGC boys a-makin' noise
We ain't runnin' around on you
Give us just one more last chance
Before you say we're through

https://youtu.be/aGfgIQfpbWI

Posted by: Not Vince Gill at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (wVcYX)

41 So I guess that Hong now backtracked on cancelling Thanksgiving?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (xSAlF)

42 John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
If you're wondering about the mood at Cambridge, here's one professors verdict after the Arday affair: "It's disastrous for Cambridge, and it's disastrous for higher education."
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3:19 PM · Aug 5, 2026
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Everyone involved in this debacle contributed to perpetuating a fraud, advancing racism, and corrupting Western civilization. Triple play.

Bravo "smart people!"

Where is the Nothing Will Happen guy?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (JvZF+)

43 Coca-Cola Said No To Jesus But Yes To Satan

Why am I not surprised?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK)

44 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:00 AM (77rzZ)

45 43 Coca-Cola Said No To Jesus But Yes To Satan

Why am I not surprised?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK)

Can I get a bottle that says "Coca Cola is Crap"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:01 AM (l3cgK)

46 TGIF all

We’re in a weird spot right now. Depending on the day of the week or hour of the day, I alternate between thinking we’re on the cusp of disaster to believing a sweeping series of victories are on the threshold. From Iran is disastrous politically to a belief that Iran is slowly crumbling; from a feeling Dems will sweep the midterms to optimism the GOP keeps both chambers. I can’t make up my mind, which is unusual… strange

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:01 AM (ugElV)

47 I'm proud to report if you ask Girl F. "What is the number one rule of TV?" she will rotely repeat "Everything on TV is a lie." because I've drilled this since she was a child.

That right there is exceptional parenting.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 08:01 AM (lXoJ5)

48 41 So I guess that Hong now backtracked on cancelling Thanksgiving?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (xSAlF)
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Only to get elected. Don't believe a word; she hates Thanksgiving, Christmas, July 4th, 9/11 Anniversary, DDay, whatever. She hates America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:02 AM (yeRBj)

49 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 07, 2026 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)

50 The website cited restrictions on religious figures for why it wouldn’t create the can with Jesus’ name on it. It did, however, allow users to generate the messages “Jesus is bad” and “Jesus is evil.”

I went to school with quite a few Jesúses...They're being racist against a perfectly good Hispanic name...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:02 AM (l3cgK)

51 Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:02 AM (yeRBj)

I don't believe her. I was noticing the political backtracking.

Besides, you think someone who was a chef would celebrate Thanksgiving. Lots of people do go out on that holiday.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 08:03 AM (W90Ou)

52
“At the end of the day, we need to elect JD,” the president reportedly stated.
Report — Trump Tells Donors He Wants Vice President Vance to Win in 2028: ‘We Need to Elect JD’

The counter to this story is that someone yesterday asked Trump about this on camera, and. Trump replied “no, I think it’s way too early for anyone to start worrying about 2028.”

Seems to be a window on how many stories are just made up these days. And I think Trump is exactly right here - it’s way too early to be worrying about that. At the very least get through the ‘26 elections first!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:04 AM (+iIn9)

53 The website cited restrictions on religious figures for why it wouldn’t create the can with Jesus’ name on it.

But didn't explain why that prohibition didn't work for Allah or S'tan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

54 Vanderbilt Trustees passed a resolution affirming the administration's right to terminate antisemites and other faculty and staff using their jobs to promote communism instead of education.

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, an industry rag, is melting down.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:05 AM (yeRBj)

55 Thank you JJ.

Taking care of Ralphy. So need coffee. Dude made it through another week.

Today's lies and misinformation

CBC - Thailand gunman kills 7 at school. He was 14. Wildfires. US Border Patrol. Meta fined - yeah that money won't be stolen and misused.

CNN - Blanche - Murkowski isn't supporting. Dumb bitch. Mitch won't vote.

MS Now - Iran. US squandered strategic advantage.

Fox - Sanders won't endorse Hong. Not crazy enough? Doesn't have enough houses or money? Don't know.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:06 AM (Sco7b)

56 No Yellow!

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Sex Pest at August 07, 2026 08:06 AM (45BvE)

57 James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers'

Child abuse. Straight to jail.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (O7YUW)

58 Yale Law faculty and the New York Times, a toxic combination:

Boomers are reluctant to relinquish control — from political offices to corner offices — to the detriment of their juniors. In a society where the elderly hold so much power, should younger generations revolt?

My guest today is Samuel Moyn, a professor at Yale Law School, and he argues that American democracy is distorted by the power of the old. We discuss how seniors have hoarded wealth and influence and how Americans can renew an intergenerational compact.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (XuKj1)

59 The War On Terror failed. There's still plenty of terror.

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)

60 @47/NR Pax: "That right there is exceptional parenting."

Yup. I taught my kids that when the phone rights, what is our first thought? "It's a scam."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 08:09 AM (O7YUW)

61 57 James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers'

Child abuse. Straight to jail.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (O7YUW)


Straight to HELL...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2026 08:09 AM (x0n13)

62 Re 60: When the phone RINGS

FFS caffeine, do your job.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 08:09 AM (O7YUW)

63 The website cited restrictions on religious figures for why it wouldn’t create the can with Jesus’ name on it.


Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans named Haysuess are pissed.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 08:10 AM (sTU8y)

64 >>>Vance: Resolving Iran Situation ‘Going to Be Messy and It’s Going to Take Some Time’

Some people get it. Some people want their pony, NOW.

The progress of the conflict from the U.S. perspective is leaps and bounds better than even the highest successes of GWOT, IMO.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 08:10 AM (dK+Kv)

65 Boomers are reluctant to relinquish control — from political offices to corner offices — to the detriment of their juniors.

Millennials and GenZ languish in poverty and despair because this one old fart elected in a state in which they don't live, or this CEO in some company at which they don't work, won't just die already and leave me the money.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

66 > The War On Terror failed. There's still plenty of terror.
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It was never about defeating terror.

It was about making certain people rich. Instituting measures to control the public here at home. Create a rationale for doing things abroad that otherwise might be questioned.

It was, by most measures, successful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (2Cry5)

67 Bravo "smart people!"

Where is the Nothing Will Happen guy?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (JvZF+)

To me one of the funniest lies was that he told everyone that he was a runner, and he once ran 30 marathons in 33 days. And they all just said “ooh that’s really good” without thinking that there’s only a handful of elite runners in the world who could maybe do that.

This guy was much like the old pathological liar character that Jon Lovitz played on SNL, iirc. He just made up increasingly wild claims and probably laughed himself to sleep every night at what he could say and get away with.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (+iIn9)

68 The War On Terror failed. There's still plenty of terror.
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)

That's because it is the wrong war. What is needed is a War Against Islam.

Posted by: The War To End All Wars at August 07, 2026 08:12 AM (45BvE)

69 It was never about defeating terror.

It was about making certain people rich. Instituting measures to control the public here at home. Create a rationale for doing things abroad that otherwise might be questioned.

It was, by most measures, successful.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (2Cry5)


I rate this as... correct.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

70 Only to get elected. Don't believe a word; she hates Thanksgiving, Christmas, July 4th, 9/11 Anniversary, DDay, whatever. She hates America.

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You don't say the deeply anti-American things she says and then "backtrack." What she expressed shows her deeply held beliefs. To believe otherwise is foolish.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

71 >That's because it is the wrong war. What is needed is a War Against Islam.

Posted by: The War To End All Wars
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I do believe there will be a war of civilizations in the future.

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:14 AM (ZxPkt)

72 The War On Terror failed. There's still plenty of terror.
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)

That's because it is the wrong war. What is needed is a War Against Islam.
Posted by: The War To End All Wars at August 07, 2026 08:12 AM (45BvE)


A war against Islam would not accomplish the goals of the architects of the WoT.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

73 Good morning brothers and sisters. I am still here, and slowly getting better. Thanks for prayers!

Posted by: Buck at August 07, 2026 08:14 AM (z6ONu)

74 Is there ANY Dem candidate out there who’s not an off-the-charts weirdo?

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:15 AM (77rzZ)

75 Hey, Buck! Good to hear!

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:16 AM (77rzZ)

76 61 57 James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers'

Child abuse. Straight to jail.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (O7YUW)

No kidding.

That should also extend to Hollywood shows where anyone under 18 is portrayed as gay or trans. Or submitted to that crap. There was a kids show 'Popularity Papers' where one of the main characters had two gay Dads - one a drag queen.

They actually had a kid dress in drag for a PRIDE WEEK thing. It was pretty disgusting.

And then the was Fay and Fluffy which was aimed at 6 year olds.

Fortunately, most of Canada's kids networks went off the air.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:16 AM (Sco7b)

77 That is good, Buck. Nice to see you pop in!

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 08:17 AM (2UJ+q)

78 My guest today is Samuel Moyn, a professor at Yale Law School, and he argues that American democracy is distorted by the power of the old. We discuss how seniors have hoarded wealth and influence and how Americans can renew an intergenerational compact.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (XuKj1)
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The face of evil a pernicious insidious diabolical evil.

This person would probably say something that would make them unsafe in my presence, he certainly did in that interview.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:18 AM (JvZF+)

79 Governor Wretched Whitler and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson who were both, especially the latter, instrumental in the thievery that stole the state from Trump and gave it to Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden in 2020 in the middle of the night in Wayne County where election observers were ejected, the windows covered and 18-wheelers full of ballots hauled in.

==


Who won Michigan in 2024 ?

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:18 AM (g47mK)

80 Bulg, Piper!! Thanks.

Posted by: Buck at August 07, 2026 08:18 AM (z6ONu)

81 Good morning Hordelings!

Seen any good intrusive ads lately?

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 08:19 AM (S0M0K)

82 Good morning Hordelings!

Seen any good intrusive ads lately?
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 08:19 AM (S0M0K)

Depends.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 08:20 AM (wVcYX)

83 We discuss how seniors have hoarded wealth and influence and how Americans can renew an intergenerational compact.

While it's not an incorrect observation, I am betting the solution offered is not a very pleasant one.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 08:20 AM (lXoJ5)

84 Vanderbilt Trustees passed a resolution affirming the administration's right to terminate antisemites and other faculty and staff using their jobs to promote communism instead of education.

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, an industry rag, is melting down.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:05 AM (yeRBj)
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Lemme guess...

The faculty are ranting about the administration infringing on "muh academic freedoom!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:21 AM (FZ29D)

85 Did the cancelled Miss North Carolina Brittany Boltinghouse have an African American boyfriend at the time she used forbidden rapper vocabulary, apparently as a term of endearment?
Both Ms. Boltinghouse and the successor Miss North Carolina have darker complexion than Northern Europeans. Who is entitled to use rapper vocabulary without sanction?
I warned my older daughter, who was a rap fan as a teenager, NEVER to use rapper language. I refer to “Mark Fuhrman Syndrome” as use of language that can someday be used against you years later.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 08:21 AM (1FEc1)

86 It was about making certain people rich. Instituting measures to control the public here at home. Create a rationale for doing things abroad that otherwise might be questioned.

It was, by most measures, successful.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (2Cry5)

Wait a minute - are you saying that it was just like the War on Poverty, and the War on Drugs?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:22 AM (+iIn9)

87 > The War On Terror failed. There's still plenty of terror.
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It was never about defeating terror.

It was about making certain people rich. Instituting measures to control the public here at home. Create a rationale for doing things abroad that otherwise might be questioned.

It was, by most measures, successful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (2Cry5)

In retrospect, the "War on . . ." construct should have been a dead giveaway that success and achieving the stated objective was never going to be the goal. The lack of clearly defined objectives or strategic outcomes should have been another clue.

F W to hell.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 08:22 AM (dK+Kv)

88 Wait a minute - are you saying that it was just like the War on Poverty, and the War on Drugs?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:22 AM (+iIn9)

Thanks for the TL;DR of my concurrent thought.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 08:22 AM (dK+Kv)

89 Seen any good intrusive ads lately?
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 08:19 AM (S0M0K)

Only older ladies with copious cleavage offering up their late-stage genocidal booberage for optimal viewing...other than that, no.

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:23 AM (j10i6)

90 74 Is there ANY Dem candidate out there who’s not an off-the-charts weirdo?
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:15 AM (77rzZ)


Joe Crowley, the old Irish guy who Titty-Caca AOC ousted. He was just a corrupt machine pol in the Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall vein. Crooks but not crazy anti-Americans.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2026 08:23 AM (x0n13)

91 I saw Boomer Boobs open for Whitesnake back in the 80s. It was awesome.

Posted by: fd! at August 07, 2026 08:24 AM (MWfyi)

92 "Trump believes in American negotiation, which sees both sides winning a lot and losing a little; the mullahs believe in our complete destruction."

Here's a thought: How about we start believing in their total destruction?

As a side note, I find it interesting that the elites never bring up Daniel Pearl, the WSJ reporter beheaded by an Islamic.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2026 08:25 AM (7s9Qe)

93 I do believe there will be a war of civilizations in the future.
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:14 AM (ZxPkt)

Yeah, I read a book about that. It was called Revelations.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:26 AM (+iIn9)

94 This guy was much like the old pathological liar character that Jon Lovitz played on SNL, iirc. He just made up increasingly wild claims and probably laughed himself to sleep every night at what he could say and get away with.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (+iIn9)
=====

The psychology of everyone involved in this farce is utterly fascinating.

Every photo I have seen of this guy his skin shines likes its been buffed and he is wearing eye-liner.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:26 AM (JvZF+)

95 "I find it interesting that the elites never bring up Daniel Pearl, the WSJ reporter beheaded by an Islamic."

I believe the term is "Horsemaned".

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (MWfyi)

96 Speaking of boomeranged, whatever happened to an ‘Ette named Bebe’s boobs destroy?

Posted by: Buck at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (z6ONu)

97 91 I saw Boomer Boobs open for Whitesnake back in the 80s. It was awesome.

Posted by: fd! at August 07, 2026 08:24 AM (MWfyi)

Yeah, but their sales started to sag after the 80's...right into the basement.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (l3cgK)

98 I saw Boomer Boobs open for Whitesnake back in the 80s.

They certainly were featured a lot in their videos.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (lXoJ5)

99 91 I saw Boomer Boobs open for Whitesnake back in the 80s. It was awesome.
Posted by: fd! at August 07, 2026 08:24 AM (MWfyi)

I went to see Pronounced Hooterage instead. Not bad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (ALKK0)

100 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: I was making the coffee at August 07, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)

101 Booberage ! Darn autocorrect to heck

Posted by: Buck at August 07, 2026 08:28 AM (z6ONu)

102 Thomas Massie is on the twitters talking about burritos, because that's been the main point of political discussion there for days. Because the right always latches onto the stupid traps that the left throws out.

Anyway, he has an interesting theory on why burritos might be more expensive and it involves a very specific foreign interest, but you'll never guess who, literally impossible to predict the shocking revelation he makes, no not in a million years could you guess, don't even try bro.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (3uBP9)

103 Seen any good intrusive ads lately?
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 08:19 AM (S0M0K)

Only older ladies with copious cleavage offering up their late-stage genocidal booberage for optimal viewing...other than that, no.
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:23 AM (j10i6)


The brunette in the floral tank top near the pool is my favorite. I'm almost tempted to try to learn her weird trick.

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (S0M0K)

104 I went to see Pronounced Hooterage instead. Not bad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (ALKK0)


Interestingly, I'm told that "Pronounced Hooterage" means Big Nose.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

105 I still get the popup ad… once per refresh. But easy to delete… a continued minor annoyance

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (ALKK0)

106 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)

107 I think whenever the government proclaims it's going to
"put an end" (go to war) over anything it's gibberish. In today's world it's just a way to obfuscate their real intentions by making something sound so dire that extreme measures need to be taken.

It's an excuse to do things the public probably wouldn't approve of.

Covid was a prime example of a mild situation that was leveraged to run a massive compliance op on the general public. It got the majority of the public to abide some of the most asinine mandates known to man.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:30 AM (2Cry5)

108 >In retrospect, the "War on . . ." construct should have been a dead giveaway that success and achieving the stated objective was never going to be the goal. The lack of clearly defined objectives or strategic outcomes should have been another clue.

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a lot of what government does is about politicians protecting their phony baloney jobs

'We have to be seen as Doing Something'

IMO YMMV

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:30 AM (ZxPkt)

109 Bolshevik AOC got in by winning a low turnout primary against Menshevik Joe Crowley who was #3 in the D House hierarchy.

She won a literal beauty contest run by the DSA to be their representative. She was at peak pulchritude with ripe but still firm melons.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (dtajH)

110 The faculty are ranting about the administration infringing on "muh academic freedoom!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:21 AM (FZ29D)
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Ding! Ding! Ding!

Got it in one.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (lIvnD)

111 GatewayPundit. Another immigrant success story.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is pulling a film that presents the harrowing journey of an Afghan teenager to Europe after the man featured in it was accused of the killing of a Scottish aid worker whose body was found inside a suitcase.

Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, was ordered jailed pending trial by a Greek court on Thursday in the death of Elisabeth-Jane Ross, a 38-year-old psychotherapist and volunteer aid worker from Scotland



Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (Sco7b)

112 108 >In retrospect, the "War on . . ." construct should have been a dead giveaway that success and achieving the stated objective was never going to be the goal. The lack of clearly defined objectives or strategic outcomes should have been another clue.

-----

a lot of what government does is about politicians protecting their phony baloney jobs

'We have to be seen as Doing Something'

IMO YMMV

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:30 AM (ZxPkt)

Gov't breaks something, then says they'll fix it, then spends lots of our tax dollars to not fix the thing they broke. Repeat and rinse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (l3cgK)

113 Late-stage genocidal booberage?
What is it?

Posted by: Victor Vector at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

114 You know about the cup sizes?
Posted by: Frank Costanza at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)


Espresso, cappuccino, latte, Joe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

115 Late-stage genocidal booberage?
What is it?
Posted by: Victor Vector at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

Beats genocidal Thanksgiving any day...

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (j10i6)

116 >>>Report: Iran’s President Only Allowed to Speak to Missing ‘Supreme Leader’ in Dark Car Meeting
~~~~~

So, like Mitch McConnell?

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (3ImbR)

117 I’m still mesmerized by the idea of a boob-climbing wall from last night’s ONT.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)

118 If creeps like El-Sayed or Talarico actually win in November then yes the world is coming to an end

I just saw the city council in McKinney, TX voted 7-0 to allow construction of a new mosque and Islamic center there. McKinney is deep red… WTF!!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (ALKK0)

119 "The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is pulling a film that presents the harrowing journey of an Afghan teenager to Europe after the man featured in it was accused of the killing of a Scottish aid worker whose body was found inside a suitcase."

Are they criticizing his culture? That sound like they are criticizing his culture.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (MWfyi)

120 I’m still mesmerized by the idea of a boob-climbing wall from last night’s ONT.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)

Pretty slippery when wet one would suppose...

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (j10i6)

121 117 I’m still mesmerized by the idea of a boob-climbing wall from last night’s ONT.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)

Ya gotta get the texture just right...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (l3cgK)

122 Everyone's talking about burritos. I have no idea why. I'm ok with that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (JvZF+)

123 I’m still mesmerized by the idea of a boob-climbing wall from last night’s ONT.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)

You'll put your eye out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (dK+Kv)

124 Pack of wild coyotes takes over abandoned condo complex in West Hollywood . If you scroll down in the article, former Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt has some darkly amusing comments on it. From "Legal Insurrection" site:

https://tinyurl.com/4vfkpk7h

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (rHgXV)

125 I just saw the city council in McKinney, TX voted 7-0 to allow construction of a new mosque and Islamic center there. McKinney is deep red… WTF!!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (ALKK0)


My guess is that the muslims paid the council enough that they're set even if they're voted out of office at the next opportunity. Given the fact that hundreds of people showed up to speak against it, that's a real possibility. Still... damage done.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

126 Abdul el Sayed tells Rogers ... "You are not going to have safe quarter from people holding you accountable."
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Do you see the masculine Democrat toughguy rebrand yet? They are copying what Trump did, but from the Left and as a "movement" instead of a single person. Soon the picture of Democrats - sneaky establishment power stepping on the common man, and the feminine gay and trans identity bud light driven horseshit party that Trump worked so hard to fight and expose - will be a memory.

The new energetic party has a message - they are the party of the working man again. And strong. It's about branding, not reality. They're starting extreme to get attention and then the Party can slowly modulate the message, depending on how things are received. Trump did this too by opening with crazy extreme ideas (a muslim ban, punishment for abortions) and then paring back.

Calling him scary did not work and Democrats know why. And he lurched the country Right despite having just his voice - and so with practically 100% media control, they're giving it a shot. And they get to do it the Democrat Way. At arm's length in case it doesn't quite work out. But heavily coordinated.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 08:35 AM (6UXQp)

127
Why do they all look like this...world-wide even?

https://instapundit.com/815203/


Massively confident in their ignorance and destructive stupidity.

Fortunately, the warning signs are there.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 08:36 AM (iJfKG)

128 Joe Crowley, the old Irish guy who Titty-Caca AOC ousted. He was just a corrupt machine pol in the Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall vein. Crooks but not crazy anti-Americans.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2026 08:23 AM (x0n13)
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An old friend of mine, a Democrat politician years ago, has a beach house in NJ ("down the shore") where he is surrounded by houses owned by old time corrupt Democrats. I sort of miss those guys; they are pro-America and just trying to steal a little money, not your life and liberty!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:36 AM (xEtsj)

129 "... a film that presents the harrowing journey of an Afghan teenager to Europe after the man featured in it was accused of the killing of a Scottish aid worker whose body was found inside a suitcase."
......

It's a long way from Milan to Minsk.

Posted by: Rochelle at August 07, 2026 08:36 AM (2Ez/1)

130 I refer to “Mark Fuhrman Syndrome” as use of language that can someday be used against you years later.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 08:21 AM (1FEc1)

See also: Paula Dean (even though it was describing a robber who held a gun to her head)

Posted by: TxAnn at August 07, 2026 08:36 AM (SjAWL)

131 Everyone's talking about burritos. I have no idea why. I'm ok with that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (JvZF+)


They're expensive in some places, probably LA and the like. Places where lots of people feel the need to share on social media. AFAIK, no one has correlated the places where burritos are expensive to places where the minimum wage has been jacked way up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

132 I just saw the city council in McKinney, TX voted 7-0 to allow construction of a new mosque and Islamic center there. McKinney is deep red… WTF!!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (ALKK0)

I live in an allegedly "deep red" state in the process of selling its soul. The natives seem asleep, and the liberal emigres, having escaped their blue enclaves of shit-hole government and punitive taxation, are all harrumphing about cold-hearted conservatism and venting their TDS spleen. Stupid and sickening.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2026 08:37 AM (7s9Qe)

133 "The new energetic party has a message - they are the party of the working man again. And strong. "

One punch and down!

Posted by: That guy in Hawaii at August 07, 2026 08:38 AM (MWfyi)

134 Joe Crowley, the old Irish guy who Titty-Caca AOC ousted. He was just a corrupt machine pol in the Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall vein. Crooks but not crazy anti-Americans.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2026 08:23 AM (x0n13)

What happened to the old school Democrat party is not complicated at all - it was based on nothing but thievery and racial grievances, but had managed to gain control of a lot of electoral systems. It had nothing left at all to offer younger voters who it was not serving in any way - but the things it controlled made it a ripe candidate for a takeover.

And that, obviously, is what is happening. I believe a big story in the future will be the revelation that the DSA is almost completely funded and led by the CCP, through intermediaries like Neville Singh. There’s a LOT of dark money behind them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:38 AM (+iIn9)

135 Woke up this morning to Lil Pooky humming and beating out the finale of The Overture of 1812 with his heels against the crib. Someone get this boy a conductor's baton!

Posted by: pookysgirl's house is filled with music at August 07, 2026 08:39 AM (Wt5PA)

136 "Do you see the masculine Democrat toughguy rebrand yet?"

Yeah, lots of sweaty gym photos showing dem dudes all in muscle shirts...pretend men in other words.

Don't think it works...but we'll see

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:40 AM (j10i6)

137 hmmm

"Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in extremely critical condition and could pass away at any moment, two sources close to the Pezeshkian administration told IranWire."

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:40 AM (g47mK)

138 that is from 3 hours ago..

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:41 AM (g47mK)

139 137 hmmm

"Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in extremely critical condition and could pass away at any moment, two sources close to the Pezeshkian administration told IranWire."

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:40 AM (g47mK)

Toss him down a well! Stat!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:41 AM (l3cgK)

140 > I just saw the city council in McKinney, TX voted 7-0 to allow construction of a new mosque and Islamic center there. McKinney is deep red… WTF!!!
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Burn it down.

The old ways are sometimes necessary.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:41 AM (2Cry5)

141 Everyone's talking about burritos. I have no idea why. I'm ok with that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (JvZF+)

I saw a retarded article yesterday in Unherd IIRC… the gist was that a lot of anti-MAGA faux conservatives (like Massie) are talking about the price of burritos as a proxy for bashing the Iran war… because of course it’s the Iran war has caused gas prices to skyrocket and along with that many other price increases. Parenthetical: Gas prices really aren’t up all that much…. These nuts are very creative in finding ways to bash Israel

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:41 AM (TqDYN)

142 >>> I’m still mesmerized by the idea of a boob-climbing wall from last night’s ONT.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)

Pretty slippery when wet one would suppose...
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (j10i6)


I have never clicked over to a past ONT so fast in my life. I assumed there was a video of this boob climbing wall. Teams of happy joyful people ascending this pillowy rampart. I, so much wanted to behold this beautiful sight and share in their joy.

Posted by: banana Dream - Imagine my disappointment at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (3uBP9)

143 not that he was alive, but now they are ready to announce it to the fanatics

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (g47mK)

144 When is the last time someone has posted video of Mitch?

Posted by: Mildly curious at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

145 The company has made changes to its website following online backlash.
Coca-Cola Said No To Jesus But Yes To Satan

Oh, for goodness sakes.

Time for a cold RC?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (1Ff7Z)

146 When is the last time someone has posted video of Mitch?
Posted by: Mildly curious at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

I don't care if he's mouldering in the grave. The Ds hide their dead, we can do the same until the threat of a D replacement for Mitch is gone.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:43 AM (1Ff7Z)

147 Pack of wild coyotes takes over abandoned condo complex in West Hollywood . If you scroll down in the article, former Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt has some darkly amusing comments on it. From "Legal Insurrection" site:

https://tinyurl.com/4vfkpk7h
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (rHgXV)
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Great story

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:44 AM (lIvnD)

148 I have never clicked over to a past ONT so fast in my life. I assumed there was a video of this boob climbing wall. Teams of happy joyful people ascending this pillowy rampart. I, so much wanted to behold this beautiful sight and share in their joy.
Posted by: banana Dream - Imagine my disappointment at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM
++++

And post a pithy "Thanks for the mammaries."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)

149 I have never clicked over to a past ONT so fast in my life. I assumed there was a video of this boob climbing wall. Teams of happy joyful people ascending this pillowy rampart. I, so much wanted to behold this beautiful sight and share in their joy.
Posted by: banana Dream - Imagine my disappointment at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (3uBP9)

You get over the top? Get rewarded with the back door bun slide!

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (j10i6)

150 Someone get this boy a conductor's baton!
Posted by: pookysgirl's house is filled with music at August 07, 2026 08:39 AM (Wt5PA)

Play Symphony No. 4 , 1st movement

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (Oy/m2)

151 >>> These nuts are very creative in finding ways to bash Israel
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:41 AM (TqDYN)

The thing is, I'd be stoked if it were real. Just look at what they've done for weather control and space lasers. You get them focused on Tex-mex, who knows what they'd come up with. I guarantee you it would be delicious.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (3uBP9)

152 Hong could well be in a Nuthouse before November. If elected, will she be able to serve from a Rubber Room?

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (JM9I6)

153 Republicans must get serious about countering the leftists’ siren-song promises of free stuff to a generation that’s genuinely hurting.

I'm sure that every media outlet will be breaking land speed records to get their mics recording Republicans doing just this.

And they must take the time to explain how the previous round of free stuff is what got us into this expensive mess in the first place.

Which will be ignored because the spin will be that we don't want young people having free stuff because we're heartless and want grandma to die.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (lXoJ5)

154 147 Pack of wild coyotes takes over abandoned condo complex in West Hollywood . If you scroll down in the article, former Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt has some darkly amusing comments on it. From "Legal Insurrection" site:

https://tinyurl.com/4vfkpk7h
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (rHgXV)
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Great story

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:44 AM (lIvnD)

The new tenants in a socialist/communist paradise...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (l3cgK)

155
It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (cpFbA)


Stop trying to make "Flapjack Friday" happen!

...

But, Flapjack Saturday or Flapjack Sunday...now those might happen.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (iJfKG)

156 150 Someone get this boy a conductor's baton!
Posted by: pookysgirl's house is filled with music at August 07, 2026 08:39 AM (Wt5PA)

Play Symphony No. 4 , 1st movement

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (Oy/m2)

My kids were very good with their movements...so many diapers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (l3cgK)

157 >>> I’m still mesmerized by the idea of a boob-climbing wall from last night’s ONT.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)

Pretty slippery when wet one would suppose...
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (j10i6)


I have never clicked over to a past ONT so fast in my life. I assumed there was a video of this boob climbing wall. Teams of happy joyful people ascending this pillowy rampart. I, so much wanted to behold this beautiful sight and share in their joy.
Posted by: banana Dream - Imagine my disappointment at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (3uBP9)

Time for a creative remake of The Eiger Sanction?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (wVcYX)

158 Good morning Horde thx JJ, happy Friday.
My favorite story of the week continues to be the saga of Prof Scott Galloway, a complete leftist, being shocked that he was "doxxed" by Mamdani's publishing second homeowners for the pied-a-terre tax. Galloway supports the tax but can't believe that the Mamdani administration "put a target on his back" .
The people who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces party are shocked that that leopards are eating their faces

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (KY+FT)

159 I'm disappointed that Rand Paul didn't move to have the full Senate censor Fauci, to put the D senators on record. Would have been useful in the run-up to November.

Why? Comity among the Senate brotherhood?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (dtajH)

160 Hong could well be in a Nuthouse before November. If elected, will she be able to serve from a Rubber Room?
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (JM9I6)

They'll all gather with her and bounce ideas off the wall to see what sticks.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (1Ff7Z)

161 Which will be ignored because the spin will be that we don't want young people having free stuff because we're heartless and want grandma to die.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (lXoJ5)

I had a great T-shirt years ago that read in bold, black lettering: "Heartless Conservative." I need to replace it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (7s9Qe)

162 I can’t make up my mind, which is unusual… strange

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:01 AM (ugElV)

Here's what I think is most likely but subject to change. R's keep both houses (undeservedly because they're assholes who hate us) but the Democrat "strength" and "energy" is shown by a number of unexpected victories from their loudest contingent.

The story ends up being "yes these people are extreme but the average person is worried and scared about the future and the Democrat Party must start listening to them to win and to make a difference".

This paves the way for (possibly) a bridge candidate who can marry the old establishment'a moderation and money and sense (ha ha) with the open communism, "working person values" and "finger on the pulse" of the new breed.

It *could* be someone totally associated with DSA but I'm not certain of that at all.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (6UXQp)

163 Everyone's talking about burritos. I have no idea why. I'm ok with that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (JvZF+)

It started with some entitled Z complaining to Kolvet (TPUSA guy) about the price of his burrito; turns out he pays $20. which is of course hand delivered to him in his house by a delivery service. So normal people pointed out that they fed their family of 6 (or with burritos for the same price. and it went on from there - two sides, one bitching about the "affordability crisis" the other is like, dude get out of the house.

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (g47mK)

164
125 I just saw the city council in McKinney, TX voted 7-0 to allow construction of a new mosque and Islamic center there. McKinney is deep red… WTF!!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (ALKK0)

Although i certainly don’t like the idea, i have to sympathize with the city councilman. Given that all levels of government are subject to the 1st Amendment, on what legal grounds could they vote to deny?

I think they voted against volunteering for a large and expensive lawsuit they were guaranteed to lose. From a local report on the matter: “The site was already zoned for a place of worship and the plans did not ask for any exemptions from city rules. City staff also noted that it was fully compliant with established city requirements.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (+iIn9)

165 I saw a coyote mom in a local park where I live...she was out in the daytime, trotting down the street after leaving the park...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (l3cgK)

166 Time for a creative remake of The Eiger Sanction?
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (wVcYX)

The Eager Sanction.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:48 AM (1Ff7Z)

167 Rand Paul is the poster boy for old-school, grandiloquent, Senatorial futility.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2026 08:48 AM (7s9Qe)

168 145 The company has made changes to its website following online backlash.
Coca-Cola Said No To Jesus But Yes To Satan

Oh, for goodness sakes.

Time for a cold RC?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (1Ff7Z)

Time for the Bud Light treatment.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (N39Ws)

169 I'm 70 years old and have never eaten a burrito.

Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)

170 Sooo da jooz are conspiring with Big Burrito to raise prices and with Big Morocco to invade Spain? Do I have that right?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (JvZF+)

171 The Eager Sanction.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:48 AM (1Ff7Z)

Where Beavers Dare

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (j10i6)

172 169 I'm 70 years old and have never eaten a burrito.

Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)

You don't know what you've missed then.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (l3cgK)

173 165 I saw a coyote mom in a local park where I live...she was out in the daytime, trotting down the street after leaving the park...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM
++++
She was on the way to the bar to meet me for Ladies Night.

Posted by: Cougar mom at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)

174 I'm 70 years old and have never eaten a burrito.
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)

How about a taco?

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (Oy/m2)

175 144 When is the last time someone has posted video of Mitch?

Posted by: Mildly curious at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/

GatewayPundit had an article yesterday. Apparently being released but still 'under the weather.'

Blanche could use his vote according to CNN. Murkowski, hold onto your seats, is a no.

In so many ways, she's just a NO!

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:51 AM (Sco7b)

176 Lots of coyotes in Westchester NY. They live on deer who have no other natural predator.

They even had a pod in The Bronx and would sometimes follow the railroad tracks into Manahattan, which was always good for a story in the NY Post.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 07, 2026 08:52 AM (dtajH)

177 174 I'm 70 years old and have never eaten a burrito.
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)

How about a taco?
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM

They're great for breakfast!

Posted by: Jill Not A Doctor Biden at August 07, 2026 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)

178 What's brown and sits on a piano stool?

Posted by: Beethoven's Last Movement at August 07, 2026 08:52 AM (JM9I6)

179 Down with Arbor Day!
— Francesca Hong

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

180 If you pay $20 for a burrito you are a rich dummy with poor taste.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:53 AM (JvZF+)

181 I'm 70 years old and have never eaten a burrito.
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)

How about a taco?
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (Oy/m2)

I eat a burrito most days. They’re less than $10 where I go. That mythical $20 burrito I hope it was monstrous and delicious… with guac!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:53 AM (ALKK0)

182 Democrats now have a habit of moving a lot faster than I expect.

Where I used to routinely see (and narrate) things 5 or 10 years in advance, sometimes these days it's only six months. Or less. And very often I actually undershoot what is going on and they surprise me. But still in the direction I could see.

For example 18 months ago I was telling everyone to forget about trannies (they were the hot flavor and it's practically all we were talking about) and get ready to watch Democrats kiss up to and usher in their new friends, radical Islam. I didn't say trannies were going away, just that they would fall as the permanent going concern.

I didn't save the comments - and saying it now, it probably doesn't seem like I was seeing or saying much, but I was. And always sounding about as crazy as I do now.

It had been bubbling under the surface and I could see it ready to burst through. Our reality is frighteningly planned. Trump was not part of those plans. Which means God can and does step in any time no matter what I think I "see".

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 08:53 AM (6UXQp)

183 >They live on deer who have no other natural predator.
###

Oh, yeah?

Posted by: Automotive front bumpers everywhere at August 07, 2026 08:54 AM (2Ez/1)

184 What's brown and sits on a piano stool?
Posted by: Beethoven's Last Movement at August 07, 2026 08:52 AM (JM9I6)

Yeah, yeah, you're here 'til Thursday, try the veal, best in the city...I get it.

Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:54 AM (j10i6)

185 > Although i certainly don’t like the idea, i have to sympathize with the city councilman. Given that all levels of government are subject to the 1st Amendment, on what legal grounds could they vote to deny?
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They could have denied the mosque on zoning requirements, easement offsets, whatever bullshit reason they make up. It's done frequently enough with other things a local government doesn't want.

Apparently they wanted this. Or were paid to want it.

I still contend the locals should burn it to the ground at the first chance. That sends a message to the city council too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:54 AM (2Cry5)

186 I'm 70 years old and have never eaten a burrito.

That's a damn shame. A carnitas burrito with peppers and onions and a little guacamole and a spritz if lime is a might fine lunch. But for me at least, a nap is usually required afterwards.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (3Ope8)

187 >>> I'm 70 years old and have never eaten a burrito.
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)

No way! Tacos? Any Mexican food? Tex-mex?

I just don't see how anyone could at least have a few burritos accidently shoved in them. I eat so fast I'd wager approximately 1%-2% of my food intake comes from accidental ingestion. Like those blue whales that mistakenly slurp up a kayaker. "Ope! Sorry bro! BURRRP". That's basically me eating.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (3uBP9)

188 A $10 burrito, but the there is $15 additional, for DoorDash fees and tips. And there is your $20+. Because some people don't know that meals do not really come from DoorDash.

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (g47mK)

189 Damn, now I want a burrito.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

190 Today Is National Sea Serpent Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

191 180 If you pay $20 for a burrito you are a rich dummy with poor taste.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:53 AM (JvZF+)

It also depends how big the burrito is...the large ones are sometimes called by some Burros...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:57 AM (l3cgK)

192 Today Is National Sea Serpent Day.

==


Those are extinct!

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:57 AM (g47mK)

193 I still contend the locals should burn it to the ground at the first chance. That sends a message to the city council too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:54 AM (2Cry5)

This one feels personal to me because I used to live in McKinney… less than 2 miles from the planned site. Not in a million years would I have thought it’d get council approval… no one there wants it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:58 AM (fK0vc)

194 188 A $10 burrito, but the there is $15 additional, for DoorDash fees and tips. And there is your $20+. Because some people don't know that meals do not really come from DoorDash.

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (g47mK)

Sounds like the woman who chided hunters, saying "Why do you have to kill animals? There's meat in the local grocery store!"...completely unaware where meat comes from...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)

195 >>> I'm 70 years old and have never eaten a burrito.
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)

No way! Tacos? Any Mexican food? Tex-mex?

I just don't see how anyone could at least have a few burritos accidently shoved in them. I eat so fast I'd wager approximately 1%-2% of my food intake comes from accidental ingestion. Like those blue whales that mistakenly slurp up a kayaker. "Ope! Sorry bro! BURRRP". That's basically me eating.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (3uBP9)

No, it's okay, just keep your hands and feet away from his mouth.

Posted by: Brother Otter at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (wVcYX)

196
I keep expecting to read the headline:

Candidate for Governor Murders He Entire Family For Whiteness

Claims: "I just couldn't stand to be adjacent to all that Whiteness and Half-Whiteness."


By the way, what's the polite term for a Half-White Person?

Whitelato?

I'm going with that even though it sounds like a Coffee at Starbucks.


Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (iJfKG)

197 193 I still contend the locals should burn it to the ground at the first chance. That sends a message to the city council too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:54 AM (2Cry5)

This one feels personal to me because I used to live in McKinney… less than 2 miles from the planned site. Not in a million years would I have thought it’d get council approval… no one there wants it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:58 AM (fK0vc)

Obviously SOMEONE

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)

198 On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Morning in America,” Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer (D) stated that we should “dissolve ICE.” And we shouldn’t “villainize our immigrant communities and blame them for problems that are problems of our economy, of public safety that have nothing to do with them. They are victims of an immigration system that’s been wrong for decades,”
______

You know, there is a solution, you don't have to be victims anymore. Go HOME!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Dv3i1)

199 Isn't fajitas basically a burrito?

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)

200 Matt Walsh is one of the online “conservatives” who’s shrieking about the price of food and saying that Mamdani and the DSA are right. The biggest problem is that he doesn’t understand at all why inflation has been so bad the last 4 years; neither does he understand that while the war against Iran has caused oils prices to seesaw, general inflation was baked in during Biden’s term. Credit mass gas giveaways and destruction of supply chains by bad COVID regulations for that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (+iIn9)

201 Who needs gas I RIDE THE BUS

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 09:00 AM (6UXQp)

202 196
I keep expecting to read the headline:

Candidate for Governor Murders He Entire Family For Whiteness

Claims: "I just couldn't stand to be adjacent to all that Whiteness and Half-Whiteness."


By the way, what's the polite term for a Half-White Person?

Whitelato?

I'm going with that even though it sounds like a Coffee at Starbucks.


Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (iJfKG)

Beige?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (l3cgK)

203 The best burritos come from those little mom and pop Mexican joints that have about 6 things on the menu.

One of those is beer. Another one is chips and salsa.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (2Cry5)

204 199 Isn't fajitas basically a burrito?

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)

IKEA burrito

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (l3cgK)

205 Sounds like the woman who chided hunters, saying "Why do you have to kill animals? There's meat in the local grocery store!"...completely unaware where meat comes from...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)


Right, and then when people offered solution...well the response from some was "NOOOO! I want to have my cake, and eat it too!! whaaaaa!!"

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (g47mK)

206 Mornin Ace!
I dont know how to stop it, but the ads are making it very difficult to navigate the site these days....don't know how to defeat it...shit pops up, then I can't scroll ....nothing...is there a way around this
Thanks

Posted by: MO at August 07, 2026 09:02 AM (5fDr5)

207 203 The best burritos come from those little mom and pop Mexican joints that have about 6 things on the menu.

One of those is beer. Another one is chips and salsa.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (2Cry5)

There is truth there. I know a place in Mexico that's a hole-in-a-wall, only open at night (to avoid the tax collectors). Makes the best tacos. His cleaver is so used, that it's no longer a cleaver...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:02 AM (l3cgK)

208 190 Today Is National Sea Serpent Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Do I count? Though I'm not in the sea, but trapped in this Loch.

Posted by: Nessie at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)

209 Isn't fajitas basically a burrito?
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)

Enchilada variant. All part of the Order Taco under the Tex-Mex Kingdom.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (wVcYX)

210 205 Sounds like the woman who chided hunters, saying "Why do you have to kill animals? There's meat in the local grocery store!"...completely unaware where meat comes from...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)


Right, and then when people offered solution...well the response from some was "NOOOO! I want to have my cake, and eat it too!! whaaaaa!!"

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (g47mK)

Only works if you have at least two cakes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (l3cgK)

211
Isn't fajitas basically a burrito?

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)


Nah, it's a do it yourself soft taco.

Before the whole fajita thing became popular, you could basically order them as -

"Tacos al Carbone"

here in the great state of Texas.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (iJfKG)

212 Do I count? Though I'm not in the sea, but trapped in this Loch.
Posted by: Nessie at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)
******
Yeah, you're good.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

213 208 190 Today Is National Sea Serpent Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Do I count? Though I'm not in the sea, but trapped in this Loch.

Posted by: Nessie at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)

If Nessie were real, she'd be Loched in place...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (l3cgK)

214 Matt van Swol asks:

Why does everything feel fake?

We have a Congress that won't pass something 83% people want.

We have courts that release criminals faster than police can arrest them.

We have schools that graduate kids who can’t read.


And its a fair question but also one we already know and right leaning people have to ram this idea into their heads. It is all about incentives.

Many current congresscriters will lose their seats if only citizens vote. Others would get re-elected but lose out on graft as congress took a significantly more right leaning budgetary approach. And those that voted for it would not get hand out from the oligarchs.

And you see this up and down our government and culture, the incentives are bad. Yes the people are bad too but a well designed society incentivizes bad people to do good things.

So want to start fixing things? Fix the incentives

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 09:05 AM (sKqQm)

215 Pro Tip: La Corneta on Mission St

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 09:05 AM (JvZF+)

216 211
Isn't fajitas basically a burrito?

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)

Nah, it's a do it yourself soft taco.

Before the whole fajita thing became popular, you could basically order them as -

"Tacos al Carbone"

here in the great state of Texas.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (iJfKG)

With a large enough flour tortilla, you can turn the fajitas into a burrito...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:05 AM (l3cgK)

217 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at August 07, 2026 09:06 AM (53oGX)

218 Come visit me in Lake Champlain!

Posted by: Champ at August 07, 2026 09:06 AM (JM9I6)

219 The best burritos come from those little mom and pop Mexican joints that have about 6 things on the menu.

One of those is beer. Another one is chips and salsa.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (2Cry5)

There’s a little hole in the wall mom and pop on Main Street El Segundo, CA (or there used to be when I lived there)…. Massive, delicious burrito for $8… my mouth waters just thinking about it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 09:06 AM (TqDYN)

220 208 190 Today Is National Sea Serpent Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Do I count? Though I'm not in the sea, but trapped in this Loch.

Posted by: Nessie at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)

Hiya cousin. Beany says we should come visit since you're loch-bound.

Posted by: Cecil at August 07, 2026 09:07 AM (wVcYX)

221
They could have denied the mosque on zoning requirements, easement offsets, whatever bullshit reason they make up. It's done frequently enough with other things a local government doesn't want.”

No - against a group with financial backing, you’re not only going to lose in court, you’re going to end up paying a multimillion dollar settlement to them. It’s explicitly stated that the zoning had long approved of such a use for that site.

The legal issue is the same as if in a dominantly Baptist town, can the locals ban the construction of a Mormon church? Or s Jewish synagogue? It’s easy to say “well they’re different “, but under the law, they’re not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 09:07 AM (+iIn9)

222 People can make those at home, right? Like everything Tex-Mex, it is a cornflour tortilla wrapped around some gruel.

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:08 AM (g47mK)

223 211
Isn't fajitas basically a burrito?

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)

Nah, it's a do it yourself soft taco.

Before the whole fajita thing became popular, you could basically order them as -

"Tacos al Carbone"

here in the great state of Texas.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (iJfKG)

With a large enough flour tortilla, you can turn the fajitas into a burrito...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:05 AM (l3cgK)

Then deep fry it. Chimichanga!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:08 AM (wVcYX)

224 Do I count? Though I'm not in the sea, but trapped in this Loch.

Posted by: Nessie at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)

Funny that no one sees you anymore.

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)

225 While I’m a little unclear on the differences between a Burrito and Tortilla, the soft flour Tortilla have a lot of things going for them. Chicken & Rice, Chili, Eggs & taters, etc, it’s not required to maintain some sort of messy can authenticity,

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 09:09 AM (dE511)

226 Just checked my go-to Mexican joint -- $9.25 for a burrito at Taqueria El Asador.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:09 AM (J4Dwc)

227 Would be a shame if spontaneous combustion hit the mosque as it neared completion.

Posted by: Jewish Lightning, FTW! at August 07, 2026 09:09 AM (JM9I6)

228 By the way, what's the polite term for a Half-White Person?

Whitelato?

I'm going with that even though it sounds like a Coffee at Starbucks.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (iJfKG)

I thought it was Barack.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 09:11 AM (+iIn9)

229
West Michigan Wet Burrito for the win.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 09:12 AM (Y8DZL)

230 So want to start fixing things? Fix the incentives
Posted by: 18-1

Fed Govt annual expenditures - $7.5 trillion
Fed Govt annual expenditures in 2020 - $3.5 trillion

Cut spending by at least $4 trillion and it would be a good start.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 09:12 AM (Dv3i1)

231 So it's a food thread?

Posted by: Just got here at August 07, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)

232 Ralphy needs an allergy shot today.

I'll get Arby's. They give him a cup of meat which is cool. And the local Tims gives him free timbits.

Smart business moves.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 09:13 AM (Sco7b)

233 Just checked the price of a Burrito at a fancy Mex sit down place, fancy burrito, with tons of stuff and protein, includes sides - Mexican slaw (whatever that is), red rice and Chips. $10.79

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:13 AM (g47mK)

234 When I was living in Mountain View, CA the guys would go to this little Mexican cantina off the beaten path.

Sometimes the food was highly spiced, hot. One of the guys who knew the couple would opine; "Mamma was really mad this morning" (so she added lots of jalapeno's to the mix.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (2Cry5)

235 Mulatto, Quadroon and Octaroon are perfectly fine terms that people understand. Why change them?

Posted by: Mutt Rombley at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (JM9I6)

236 Should Ben Shapiro have to stay in a lead lined room at all times. Proximity to him seems to eventually degrade others into Jew hating, loony toon lefties.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (igCg8)

237 TGIF, all!!

>> In 2020, she tweeted that we should stick a carving knife in the national holiday of gratitude because it was “celebrating colonialism.”

Honestly, you're a fool if you think a 1st generation American on 2026 will respect our holidays and traditions.

We've had decades of media/school encouragement to celebrate their parents' homeland's culture and traditions for diversity's sake! She's behaving as programmed.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (X8xt3)

238 226 Just checked my go-to Mexican joint -- $9.25 for a burrito at Taqueria El Asador.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:09 AM (J4Dwc)

Taqueria El Asador...at least it only has one "s"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (l3cgK)

239 Why does everything feel fake?
——
Ultimately laws are of no help if they are not enforced. Is there any limit on the amount of “money” the government can borrow? That’s fake too. Doesn’t appear to be, that’s the crux of the issue.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (dE511)

240 229
West Michigan Wet Burrito for the win.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 09:12 AM (Y8DZL)

Flint Burrito, extra Lead...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (l3cgK)

241
So it's a food thread?

Posted by: Just got here at August 07, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)


Wait! Wait just a second...

*clears throat*

Didn't they eat burritos in that great movie, "The Way of the Gun", where Sarah Silverman gets a punch to the chops?



Okay, now we're covered.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (iJfKG)

242 A $10 burrito, but the there is $15 additional, for DoorDash fees and tips. And there is your $20+. Because some people don't know that meals do not really come from DoorDash.

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (g47mK)


Okay, if I were to order a Freebird's Super Monster burrito, with steak and guac, it would come in at $20.25. Of course, that's two meals, maybe three, but it can be done.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (ExV1e)

243 >>Isn't fajitas basically a burrito?


The same way cheese fodue is the same as a grilled cheese!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:16 AM (X8xt3)

244 Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (igCg

what do you think of Tucker Carlson ?

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:16 AM (g47mK)

245 >>Why does everything feel fake?


Because it is?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:17 AM (X8xt3)

246 Didn't they eat burritos in that great movie, "The Way of the Gun", where Sarah Silverman gets a punch to the chops?



Okay, now we're covered.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (iJfKG)

Not yet. Boobs? Dogs?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2026 09:17 AM (N39Ws)

247 Okay, if I were to order a Freebird's Super Monster burrito, with steak and guac, it would come in at $20.25. Of course, that's two meals, maybe three, but it can be done.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (ExV1e)

You should haggle.. tell them you will pay $15.99 and not a dollar more!

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (g47mK)

248 I was gonna try and make flour Tortilla, how tough can it be? Mooshed dough is what they look like. Turns out they need about as much prep and work as regular bread dough, and I shelved the idea.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (dE511)

249 244 Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (igCg

what do you think of Tucker Carlson ?
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:16 AM (g47mK)

I had to scrape him off the bottom of my shoe after walking the dog and misstepping.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (N39Ws)

250 My home-made beef-and-cheese burritoes are about... $8 for three of 'em. And that's with the price of beef these days. Not my cheapest meal option but good to make once a week.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (aJQbY)

251 Yes, well, a burrito thread. Apparently burritos are of political importance.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (JvZF+)

252 235 Mulatto, Quadroon and Octaroon are perfectly fine terms that people understand. Why change them?

Posted by: Mutt Rombley at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (JM9I6)

in Mexico, they came up with a fairly large set of names for various combinations...

I've read through quite a few baptismal, marriage, and death records from the states of Jalisco and Aguas Calientes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:19 AM (l3cgK)

253 251 Yes, well, a burrito thread. Apparently burritos are of political importance.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (JvZF+)

Ever tried a Burrito de Buche?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:19 AM (l3cgK)

254 246 We have covered boobs in this thread. As long as I and Linus Van Pelt are around, there will be boob talk on the Blog.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

255 >>> Okay, if I were to order a Freebird's Super Monster burrito, with steak and guac, it would come in at $20.25. Of course, that's two meals, maybe three, but it can be done.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (ExV1e)


Never eat anything larger than your own head, I always say.

"Never Eat Anything Larger Than Your Own Head" - The banana Dream Story*



* As told to his publisher.**

Posted by: banana Dream - ** And by his publisher, he means his dog at August 07, 2026 09:19 AM (3uBP9)

256 >>By the way, what's the polite term for a Half-White Person?


I'm old enough to remember when we didn't need a word for this in polite conversation, because it wasn't important to everyday life - people were individuals, not a 23andMe mosaic that needed to be validated in every interaction.


I know, I know, according to the new AntiRacism rules, that makes me the bigest racist of them all!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:20 AM (X8xt3)

257 You should haggle.. tell them you will pay $15.99 and not a dollar more!
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (g47mK)


It'd have to be either 15.75 or 16.00. All Freebirds prices, with tax, end in some multiple of $.25.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:20 AM (ExV1e)

258 Of course, one has to consider the Chinese egg roll, and the Louisiana Po Boy as related to this food discussion, which , as we all know, are all exotic forms of the classic American hot dog.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:20 AM (wVcYX)

259 I saw something of X about "I spend $420 per week to feed my family." and "I cook at home and guess how much it costs to feed a family of 8."

While putting a big Stoffers Lasagna in the oven is "cooking at home," making it from scratch is cheaper and the food is better.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (wVCl1)

260 A German judicial panel in Munich issued a life prison sentence Thursday to an Afghan citizen responsible for a vehicle-ramming rampage during a demonstration last year that claimed the lives of a toddler and her mother while leaving scores wounded, AFP reported. The regional court found the 25-year-old defendant, named under local privacy guidelines as Farhad N., guilty on two counts of murder, 23 counts of attempted murder, and 22 counts of causing bodily harm, 19 of which were categorized as serious. Magistrates determined that the offender's actions bore a "particular gravity of guilt"

.. "... named under local privacy guidelines as ..."
The guy gets his name burred out while being a convicted enemy of society

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

261 Cyclospora Lettuce is a mainstay of Mexican "cuisine". I'll pass.

Posted by: Food Safety Dance at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (JM9I6)

262 Of course, one has to consider the Chinese egg roll, and the Louisiana Po Boy as related to this food discussion, which , as we all know, are all exotic forms of the classic American hot dog.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:20 AM (wVcYX)


Careful, you're edging towards Jonah Goldberg territory there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

263 Mulatto

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (wVCl1)

264 248 I shelved the idea


Uh oh. Don’t let Ace hear about that.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)

265 A college kid says a burrito costs $20. College kids are inexperienced nitwits. The left listens to them and it ends up in death. Republicans knock it off

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (KY+FT)

266 Costco all beef hot dog is still under 2 bucks. And they are delicious!

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (g47mK)

267 262 Of course, one has to consider the Chinese egg roll, and the Louisiana Po Boy as related to this food discussion, which , as we all know, are all exotic forms of the classic American hot dog.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:20 AM (wVcYX)

Careful, you're edging towards Jonah Goldberg territory there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

Why would anyone want to edge Jonah Goldberg...eww...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (l3cgK)

268 235 Mulatto, Quadroon and Octaroon are perfectly fine terms that people understand. Why change them?
Posted by: Mutt Rombley at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (JM9I6)

Those last two are my favorite Girl Scout cookies.

Posted by: Roy at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (qwype)

269 When looking at a menu, one might see "wraps" and also "burritos". Are they different? Is one a subset of the other? Are they the same?

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (S0M0K)

270 266 Costco all beef hot dog is still under 2 bucks. And they are delicious!

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (g47mK)

Yes, loss-leader. Head of Costco has gone through great efforts to not change to price of their hot dogs (which is why they got rid of the polish sausage dogs they used to have at their food courts, although I couldn't taste the difference).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (l3cgK)

271 >>Taqueria El Asador...at least it only has one "s"...

Unfortunate name, but I checked. El Asador translates to "the grill."

Anyway, it's a semi-permanent food truck and the food is amazing, iffin' you're ever in the area.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (J4Dwc)

272 Am I the only one who finds the latest burrito debate on the right stupid and gay?

Didn't we do the same thing maybe 6 mos ago, but instead it was about the advice that unemployed white boys should aspire to be Panda Express managers?

Things are completely different for Gen Z than they were for Gen X and Boomers. Arguing over this like it's fresh and new, and as if one side could be "right" and the other side is "clueless" is a distraction.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (X8xt3)

273 Flour tortillas? Too much work. Buy them at Aldi's.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (wVCl1)

274 .. "... named under local privacy guidelines as ..."
The guy gets his name burred out while being a convicted enemy of society
Posted by: SMOD

This is to maintain privacy for the gentleman for when he gets out in 5 years after serving his "life" sentence.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (Dv3i1)

275 Freebird!

*holds up lighter*

Posted by: Lynyrd Skynyrd fan who just woke up at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (B0NCh)

276 269 When looking at a menu, one might see "wraps" and also "burritos". Are they different? Is one a subset of the other? Are they the same?

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (S0M0K)

What kinda raps you want?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK)

277 You never hear boobs referred to as burritos, or really any other tex mex dish. Maybe a nice pair of chimichangas on a rare occasion. But baked goods work great, muffins, tarts, etc...

Posted by: banana Dream - some deep thoughts at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (3uBP9)

278 CAIR is a terrorist organization, pretty obvious. Shut them down, hard.

You have to choke off the Muslim threat, Visa's, money, NGO's, "outreach centers" all of it.

Shut down the fucking mattress stores while you're at it.

Posted by: GigantorX at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (srDQS)

279 Costco's slice of pizza is 1.99. Not saying you should eat that every day. But you will not starve in America!

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (g47mK)

280 273 Flour tortillas? Too much work. Buy them at Aldi's.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (wVCl1)

When I was on dialysis, I used to make my own...I added NO salt (see how much salt per flour tortilla you buy)...I'd add herbs to it to give it some flavor.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:25 AM (l3cgK)

281 >>Yes, loss-leader. Head of Costco has gone through great efforts to not change to price of their hot dogs (which is why they got rid of the polish sausage dogs they used to have at their food courts, although I couldn't taste the difference).


Exactly.
Same for their supercheap rotisserie chicken.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:25 AM (X8xt3)

282 Careful, you're edging towards Jonah Goldberg territory there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

And we all know if you edge too close to Jonah he’ll eat you!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 09:25 AM (26GAh)

283 Another perfected variant is the breakfast taco.

Then there's the sausage, egg, & cheese biscuit. Especially a Hardee's / Carl's Jr. offering.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Salivating at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (wVcYX)

284 269 When looking at a menu, one might see "wraps" and also "burritos". Are they different? Is one a subset of the other? Are they the same?
Posted by: Doof

They are all sandwiches, as are hamburgers and hot dogs.

Posted by: Loafer In A Bakery at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (JM9I6)

285 279 Costco's slice of pizza is 1.99. Not saying you should eat that every day. But you will not starve in America!

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (g47mK)

The whole damn pizza is $9.99 before tax. I buy a pepperoni one, take it home, add extra toppings and extra cheese, pop it in the oven for a bit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (l3cgK)

286 We did fajitas the other night. Cast iron skillet on the grill... hot. Beef, peppers, onions. Hot wraps for them too. Sour cream, guac, salsa and cheese.

And Tequila and beers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (2Cry5)

287 The food trucks over on a particular boulevard on the southside are always open. You don't even need to speak spanish. If you spent $10, you'd have food for a couple of meals.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (3Ope8)

288 Hey, I'm just pizza broken down into it's component parts.

Posted by: Grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup at August 07, 2026 09:27 AM (2Ez/1)

289 When looking at a menu, one might see "wraps" and also "burritos". Are they different? Is one a subset of the other? Are they the same?
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (S0M0K)


At a guess, burritos assume a certain subset of ingredients whereas wraps are a free-for-all. Otherwise, essentially the same.

I guess you could have a wrap and feel noble that you weren't appropriating Mexican culture.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

290 284 269 When looking at a menu, one might see "wraps" and also "burritos". Are they different? Is one a subset of the other? Are they the same?
Posted by: Doof

They are all sandwiches, as are hamburgers and hot dogs.

Posted by: Loafer In A Bakery at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (JM9I6)

I can see a burrito and a calzone being similar (all stuffing held inside on all sides)...sanwich has top and bottom stuffing holders, taco and hot dog bun cover the stuffing on the bottom and two sides...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:27 AM (l3cgK)

291 Hey, I'm just pizza broken down into it's component parts.
Posted by: Grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup

yeah, maybe in Texas...

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:27 AM (g47mK)

292 We did fajitas the other night. Cast iron skillet on the grill... hot. Beef, peppers, onions. Hot wraps for them too. Sour cream, guac, salsa and cheese.

And Tequila and beers.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (2Cry5)


Tequila? Surrender your Kentucky citizenship immediately!

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:28 AM (S0M0K)

293 I remember when pizza was $.15 a slice.
i remember when cigs were a quarter a pack.

Posted by: Old Yeller at August 07, 2026 09:28 AM (JM9I6)

294 A Costco just opened in my locale. Thinking about getting a membership, just for the hot dogs and pizza. And maybe a case of toilet paper.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:28 AM (J4Dwc)

295 Egg rolls and spring rolls are basically wraps with the ends closed.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:29 AM (77rzZ)

296 290 284 269 When looking at a menu, one might see "wraps" and also "burritos". Are they different? Is one a subset of the other? Are they the same?
Posted by: Doof

They are all sandwiches, as are hamburgers and hot dogs.

Posted by: Loafer In A Bakery at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (JM9I6)

I can see a burrito and a calzone being similar (all stuffing held inside on all sides)...sanwich has top and bottom stuffing holders, taco and hot dog bun cover the stuffing on the bottom and two sides...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:27 AM (l3cgK)

Oh, and pupusas and tostadas only cover the bottom...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:29 AM (l3cgK)

297 You never hear boobs referred to as burritos, or really any other tex mex dish. Maybe a nice pair of chimichangas on a rare occasion. But baked goods work great, muffins, tarts, etc...
Posted by: banana Dream - some deep thoughts at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (3uBP9)

As Bo Carter sings about it -
Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me
https://youtu.be/J6eBNlLvD-M

Bo Knows!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:29 AM (wVcYX)

298 I eat burritos at home for lunch frequently. Stuff in some leftover protein, beef or chicken, some brown rice and guac, a little salsa and maybe some lettuce, and its a mighty fine lunch.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 09:30 AM (idPbW)

299 294 A Costco just opened in my locale. Thinking about getting a membership, just for the hot dogs and pizza. And maybe a case of toilet paper.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:28 AM (J4Dwc)

Their gas prices are usually the lowest in an area

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:30 AM (l3cgK)

300 >>> Things are completely different for Gen Z than they were for Gen X and Boomers. Arguing over this like it's fresh and new, and as if one side could be "right" and the other side is "clueless" is a distraction.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (X8xt3)


Things are always different for everyone everywhere throughout time and space. But leveraging that by saying, "it's harder for YOU now because THEY are hording it all and if you make US your masters we will FIX EVERYTHING" is older than dirt.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:30 AM (3uBP9)

301 Good Morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Nice weekend lead-in.

From above, 'Retrial of accused arsonist is set for October
Palisades Fire Was Sparked By Anti-Capitalist Motivated By Hate of Rich, Prosecutors Say'

He's not being worshipped by the DSA?! Oh, got it. His parents were Baptist missionaries, first in the US and then in Europe (to which they've returned). That misses the cut.

Fran Hong looks like she has about the same potential spark, but her family are academics from Korea. That makes the DSA difference, it seems.

Have a nice weekend. 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (NFX2v)

302 Pork ribs in the pot with cumin, chili powder and a couple of heads of garlic. Cover with water, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to just barley a simmer until the water is gone. Pull the bones out, shred the meat and scape some of the stuff on the bottom of the pan into a hot skillet to get the shreds crisp.

Roll the shredded pork along with what you want into a flour tortilla and top it with the fried stuff. ...Buuurp...enjoy.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (3Ope8)

303 We have ART!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

304 G'day, JJ & all the Morons at sea.

"How's that for optimism?!" Pretty good for an old curmudgeon like you, JJ.😉

I am old enough to realize the nation, and the world, could get better or worse, no guarantees. I will continue to enjoy the blessings of liberty, pursue such happiness as I can, continue to pledge allegiance to the republic of whichistans, vote as if it mattered, and pray for that stamping out the vintage grapes of wrath. And share memes.
https://bit.ly/cert-of-survival

Not much I can do outside of that.

Have a day!

Posted by: mindful webworker - American by birth and choice at August 07, 2026 09:35 AM (62m/B)

305 Aaaaand, willowed again, of course.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420853

Posted by: mindful webworker - of course at August 07, 2026 09:36 AM (62m/B)

306 Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan Sign Islamic NATO-Style Defense Pact Amid Iran War

Armed attack on any of the countries will be treated as an attack against them all.

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 09:49 AM (RHGPo)

307 IRGC Strikes 'Hostile Targets' In Hormuz As Iran Declares Oman Deal Bans US Vessels From Strait

Very Tehran-favorable conditions emerge in 'draft deal'...

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (RHGPo)

308 Mosque imams in Dearborn, Michigan: “Oh Allah, kill every Jew, Christian, and American.”

Dearborn, home to the largest Arab-American community in the United States, was one of the strongest bases of support for Abdul El-Sayed, the newly elected Democratic nominee for Michigan's

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 09:52 AM (RHGPo)

309 I dont know how to stop it, but the ads are making it very difficult to navigate the site these days....don't know how to defeat it...shit pops up, then I can't scroll ....nothing...is there a way around this
Thanks
Posted by: MO at August 07, 2026 09:02 AM (5fDr5)

Many ways have been described by commenters over the past few days. AdBlock Plus, Brave, etc. If using Chrome, AdBlock plus is a useful add-on. Brave has ad blockers built-in. I use Chrome on a Toshiba laptop, Windows 8.1 with AdBlock plus. No ads, no pop-ups. Site loads very fast.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 07, 2026 09:57 AM (hmYU4)

310 Morning JJ and the Horde. What are the reasons for Andy Ogles losing his House primary in Tenn? Seemed like a good conservative

Posted by: Jonah at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (gwrBY)

311 could become a focal point in the Michigan Senate race as voters scrutinize the influence of such organizations on political candidates.

Ja, bullshit. Maybe a few voters do that, but mostly it's whether there's a "D" or an "R" after the candidates' names, and you know it. Step One is to penetrate the media ramparts built up around these candidates so that the story of CAIR could actually be heard. Maybe then there might be some scrutiny. But until that time, I stand by my original assessment: Ja, bullshit.

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:36 AM (odBC9)

2 G'day everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Greetings

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 07, 2026 04:36 AM (ussCl)

4 Poof!

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 07, 2026 04:38 AM (ussCl)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 07, 2026 04:38 AM (pLaQB)

6 And we are back, in my alternate reality

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 07, 2026 04:38 AM (ussCl)

7 The ad was really fine with me last night and this morning.
Refresh and it pops up for a second then disappears. Yet can't comment until I get it back, it's not visible, swat it away then could comment. Finding the invisible ad was near impossible.

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 04:38 AM (Ia/+0)

8 >>>A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $942 million

It's the top news story on BBC.
Accompanied by a photo, [accompanied by a photo blurb].

[Zuckerberg, wearing black sunglasses and a dark polo shirt, outisde with a green background]

Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant

The ruling is in addition to $375m in fines Meta was already ordered to pay in the case, for a total of $942m.

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

9
Skip, if you're running chrome, I have a recipe for you.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 04:43 AM (mmrXZ)

10 what they meant was

[evil Zuckerberg, wearing evil black sunglasses and an evil dark polo shirt, outisde with an evil green background]

I ain't fixin' their typo.

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:44 AM (odBC9)

11 Yeah phone has chrome

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 04:44 AM (Ia/+0)

12
That Kim Carnes had quite a voice.

Might have a nice voorwerp as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 04:46 AM (w6EFb)

13 >>>China has invented a new self-repairing dress made of living fungus.

Like Chia pets!

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:53 AM (odBC9)

14
Kim Carnes is 81 now. Damn, I'm getting old.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 05:00 AM (w6EFb)

15 A beloved town Santa in Virginia gives his kidney to someone in need:

https://tinyurl.com/mwd62hj9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 05:05 AM (xPsv8)

16 - It pops up again, I'm gone for the day again.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 07, 2026 05:06 AM (pkz2K)

17
Damin Toell
@damintoell
14h
Omfg

Sholto David
@addictedtoigno1
20h
A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this.

To judge protein-inferred oxidative damage, a soil test was administered. A phosphate safeguard answer was used to regulate the pH to 7.8, influencing the total response book to 30 mL. The backlash combination was able by joining 1.75 mL of Triton, 1.5 mL of methionine, and 1 mL of NBT.

Subsequently, 1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min.

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9)

18 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 07, 2026 05:07 AM (V0/Sp)

19 Scripture passages when we're feeling worried:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8x6hdj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 05:08 AM (xPsv8)

20 and followup

Sholto David
@addictedtoigno1
6h
The whole paper is ridiculous. Nothing to do with translation software which would not make this mistake. This is one of a category of papers cynically manipulated to beat plagiarism detection tools. Just search "tortured phrases" for more information or read the PubPeer link.

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:09 AM (odBC9)

21
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 07, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)

22 - buh-bye

Posted by: TeeJ at August 07, 2026 05:10 AM (pkz2K)

23 Nrg.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 05:11 AM (O7YUW)

24 16 - It pops up again, I'm gone for the day again.
Posted by: TeeJ



Its going to pop up. Either get an ad blocker, turn Java off in the browser, or just deal with it. I'm at work and can't do much about it. The overlords don't like the minions to adjust settings on there toys. (shrugs)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 07, 2026 05:12 AM (pLaQB)

25 The real damage done to New Mexican children is done by the State of New Mexico itself with the prime example being the incredibly dysfunctional public school system here that has ranked worst in the country for decades. Close behind was the Communist, nominally Democrat, governor shutting down the schools for over a year during covid and forcing kids to spend their School days unsupervised in front of computer screens where they got an even worse "public school education."

This whole Meta lawsuit has exactly nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with bagging a scalp so the extreme left-wing state government political hacks can go to useless conferences can brag, collect an awards, and get hammered on martinis. In a matter of couple years this settlement money will have disappeared into being allocated for salaries and pensions for the government peeps and the kids will be right back to doing what they're doing today.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 07, 2026 05:13 AM (KcT4I)

26 from a commenter @addictedtoigno1

"Tortured phrases" found in computer-science papers

big data-->colossal information
artificial intelligence-->counterfeit consciousness
deep neural network-->profound neural organization
remaining energy-->leftover vitality
cloud computing-->haze figuring
signal to noise-->flag to commotion
random value-->irregular esteem

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:16 AM (odBC9)

27 Greetings and good morning one and all. Now that all the appointments for the week are done, I can focus on work and bracing for the MRI next Thursday.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 05:16 AM (lXoJ5)

28 If you remember yesterday's "Apache" video, I ended up spending an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what one of the guitars even was. Come to find that the tall in the cowboy hat was Nokie Edwards (1935-201, and the guitar was custom-made for him by Tony Hunt.

I don't know what [features scrubbed because they apparently look like spam] are, but it has them. You can see and hear it clearly here:

The Ventures - Tequila (Japan 1984)
https://youtu.be/JGgDDiCfXDk

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 05:16 AM (Sy6m/)

29 Man writes on 1st Peter 5:6-11 and "God is greater":

https://tinyurl.com/3uwbt8wu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 05:17 AM (xPsv8)

30 Oh, and it's my brother's birthday and this is his week off. Things are going well.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 05:18 AM (lXoJ5)

31 Let's see if this feature gets past the filter:

"Bigsby palm pedals on 2nd and 3rd strings"

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 05:18 AM (Sy6m/)

32 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at August 07, 2026 05:18 AM (PzBTm)

33 Okay, so there's one other feature on Nokie's custom guitar that triggers the "looks like spam" reaction. It probably isn't important, but let's see if I break it up...

Scruggs
tuning peg
on low E

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 05:20 AM (Sy6m/)

34 32 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at August 07, 2026 05:18 AM (PzBTm)

Yay!

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:21 AM (odBC9)

35 "Oh, and it's my brother's birthday..."


Mine too. Another tear gone and I'm still here.

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 05:23 AM (lJ0H4)

36 Tear=year. Stupid auto cucumber.

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 05:25 AM (lJ0H4)

37 Nonidea what I am going to do when I have to leave well before 5am

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 05:28 AM (Ia/+0)

38 I just woke up from a nightmare. I accidentally toggled some button combination on my iPhone that converted the camera to “Taser” mode and I couldn’t get out of it.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 05:29 AM (1FEc1)

39 Happy birthday, Tuna! God bless you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 05:31 AM (gsYaF)

40 Thanks Fen.

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 05:31 AM (lJ0H4)

41 Fix your he pop up he’ll Pixy please! It’s 10 times worse this week than it ever had been - had to clear pop ups twice just to make a single post.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 05:32 AM (pfrqN)

42 Don't think of it as getting older, Tuna. Think of it as "I have survived everything life has thrown at me again!"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 05:35 AM (lXoJ5)

43 38 I just woke up from a nightmare. I accidentally toggled some button combination on my iPhone that converted the camera to “Taser” mode and I couldn’t get out of it.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 05:29 AM (1FEc1)


I have a new impossible desire

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 05:35 AM (Sy6m/)

44 BBC has changed their front-page Zuckerberg photo, and is now featuring

[Zuckerberg looks directly at the camera while wearing a blue suit and tie while descending the steps of the Superior Court in Los Angeles in February, surrounded by his legal team also wearing suits.]

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:37 AM (odBC9)

45 38 I just woke up from a nightmare. I accidentally toggled some button combination on my iPhone that converted the camera to “Taser” mode and I couldn’t get out of it.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 05:29 AM (1FEc1)

Imagine a weapon you could point straight at someone and say "Hold still", and they would, while smiling at you.

Life's dream.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 05:37 AM (Ot/FD)

46 Although i have often said that if you duct taped a taser to a cell phone you'd basically have a tricorder.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 05:38 AM (Ot/FD)

47 Perhaps a sticky could be added to the top of the comment section explaining how to turn off JavaScript in edge and the proper means for disabling in other browser's. For android phone, I'm using "Free Adblocker Browser" from the appstore. I don't love it, but it's free and it works, so I load it before coming here. There may be other, better options but having simple instructions might help those even less confident than me.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at August 07, 2026 05:38 AM (igCg8)

48 45 38 Imagine a weapon you could point straight at someone and say "Hold still", and they would, while smiling at you.

Life's dream.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 05:37 AM (Ot/FD)

relatedly:

'Put your phone down': K-pop band weighs in on concert etiquette
Cortis's plea has drawn mixed reactions in a fandom that's obsessed with capturing every moment.

--BBC

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:40 AM (odBC9)

49 China has invented a new self-repairing dress made of living fungus.
----
I've read this book. It doesn't end well for humanity.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 05:42 AM (FZ29D)

50 I woke up because of a bad cramp in my calf.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 05:42 AM (pfrqN)

51 My actual problems with changed iPad defaults include getting out of the “live” photo setting that makes a short video, and getting back to jpeg (“format” from a screen shot. My son-in-law has to help me with these issues. I still haven’t found out how to get the jpeg size down to email and print from an ancient desktop and (wired) printer.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 05:46 AM (1FEc1)

52 I'm using "Free Adblocker Browser" from the appstore. I don't love it, but it's free and it works, so I load it before coming here. There may be other, better options but having simple instructions might help those even less confident than me.
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey

Adblock Plus app is what I'm using. It's free.

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 05:49 AM (lJ0H4)

53 China has invented a new self-repairing dress made of living fungus. (Dezeen)

No.


You're gonna love your shiitake underwear.

Posted by: The Sentient Shroom at August 07, 2026 05:55 AM (IfMHM)

54 Evening and morning, satellites and satraps of the vast AoSHQ Empire! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished. I'm up with my coffee, trying to decide if I'm going to work out -- the eternal struggle against laziness, of course. The furry thugs are here; Stirling slept with me part of the night, but Dagny was out on the couch when I got up.

What's going on in your corner?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 05:58 AM (wzUl9)

55 Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant

But no fines on anyone for grooming or trans'ing children. The entire education cartel is one large active danger zone for children.

Narrator: It was never about the children; its always about the money.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 07, 2026 06:00 AM (9s47C)

56 China has invented a new self-repairing dress made of living fungus.

We should have no opinion until Piper weighs in.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 07, 2026 06:02 AM (xE0sV)

57 51 My actual problems with changed iPad defaults include getting out of the “live” photo setting that makes a short video, and getting back to jpeg (“format” from a screen shot. My son-in-law has to help me with these issues. I still haven’t found out how to get the jpeg size down to email and print from an ancient desktop and (wired) printer.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 05:46 AM (1FEc1)


I may be misunderstanding the issue. Assuming you can connect the phone to the desktop and transfer the file, and are looking for a photo editing program that will run on an old computer, I use this for things like cropping and resizing, where even Photoshop Elements would be overkill:

https://www.irfanview.com/

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 06:03 AM (Sy6m/)

58 The real damage done to New Mexican children is done by the State of New Mexico itself with the prime example being the incredibly dysfunctional public school system here that has ranked worst in the country for decades. . . .

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 07, 2026


***
Hold our beers, Hurricanes, and drive-through daiquiris!

Posted by: Gnaw-luns Public Schools at August 07, 2026 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

59 So now I'm watching videos of perps getting tased.

Most hilarious subtitle so far:

{ Screaming in regret }

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 06:04 AM (O7YUW)

60
AI image (mis)labelling
August 2, 2026 @ 2:23 pm · Filed by Mark Liberman under Artificial languages

The singularity may have arrived, but AI systems still can't label diagrams

https://tinyurl.com/9y257nmv

(Language Log)

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 06:04 AM (odBC9)

61 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 07, 2026 06:07 AM (Hbeqj)

62
Rise and shine, Hordians!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 06:08 AM (O0L8i)

63 Finally sleepy! Good night.

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 06:08 AM (Sy6m/)

64 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: One can never have too many computers.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 06:08 AM (amcLV)

65 @50/Tom Servo: "I woke up because of a bad cramp in my calf."

This is my nightmare some nights, and I end up participating in the ONT around 2 to 3 am when that happens.

This is what my pharmacist recommended to help stop the leg cramps: Magnesium Oxide pills (the ones I buy are 420mg.) They're cheap, and they work.

One a day, except in the summer when I'm drinking a lot more water, then I take two, one at dinner time and one just before bed. Other times of the year, I just take the one at dinner time.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 06:09 AM (O7YUW)

66 Easier job today than so far that I have been on this job

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:13 AM (L8DX7)

67 We watched a lesser-known Bogart movie last night, Knock on Any Door. He plays an attorney who goes to bat for a juvenile delinquent accused of murder, played by John Derek. Actually Derek's character graduated from juvenile delinquent status a while ago; his record includes shoplifting, auto theft, and robbery/burglary. Well, this time his luck has really run out and he's charged with shooting a cop during a robbery.

The story of the trial is intercut with flashbacks of Derek's life growing up, his marriage to a good girl, his fruitless attempts to go straight, and her suicide when he goes back to crime. Affecting stuff, if loaded with the 1949 version of "Isn't society really to blame for this?" Bogart turns in his usual fine performance, and Derek is darned good too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 06:14 AM (wzUl9)

68 Perp: Tase me!
Perp: { screaming in instant regret }

Narrator: What are you crying for? You asked for it! Let's see it again:

Perp: { screaming in instant regret }
Perp: { screaming in regret continues }

https://youtu.be/hsOdMdNXj6c?t=611

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

69 This is what my pharmacist recommended to help stop the leg cramps: Magnesium Oxide pills (the ones I buy are 420mg.) They're cheap, and they work.

One a day, except in the summer when I'm drinking a lot more water, then I take two, one at dinner time and one just before bed. Other times of the year, I just take the one at dinner time.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026


***
I've been taking them for a while. Only one cramp in recent years, and I think that was because I stretched the wrong way in bed before getting up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

70 I may be misunderstanding the issue. Assuming you can connect the phone to the desktop and transfer the file, and are looking for a photo editing program that will run on an old computer, I use this for things like cropping and resizing, where even Photoshop Elements would be overkill:

https://www.irfanview.com/
Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026


***
Irfanview is great. As I understand it, however, there is no version for Macs yet. They have a built-in app called Preview that does some of the same things, or all of them but less intuitively.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

71 The worst thing about those pop-up impotency ads is this: they feature very pretty forty-ish ladies displaying nice cleavage. I suspect their posing is not designed to inspire their first (or second ) husband.
They look like big red flags to me.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 06:17 AM (1FEc1)

72 Rise and shine, Hordians!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026


***
"Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Rawhide!
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Rawhide!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

73 Or as Billy Crystal put it in City Slickers:

"Move 'em on!
Get 'em up, get 'em washed, get 'em shaved --
Rawhide!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 06:21 AM (wzUl9)

74
They look like big red flags to me.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 06:17 AM (1FEc1)


Everything in my FB feed is women saying that men are a menace and that all women are strong, smart and self-sufficient. They're happier by themselves. So have nothing to do with them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 06:22 AM (O0L8i)

75 @71/Fenderbender: "They look like big red flags to me."

Sunburned flags to commotion. (Harkening back to m's comment #26)

To be fair, millions upon millions of men men have been stirred to commotion by nice cleavage.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 06:25 AM (O7YUW)

76 "men men" = "men". Time for another coffee, the last one's worn off!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 06:30 AM (O7YUW)

77 Everything in my FB feed is women saying that men are a menace and that all women are strong, smart and self-sufficient.

Until there is a spider in the shower


(or the lights or HVAC go out, or the car makes a strange sound, or the plumbing is backed up, or something heavy needs to be lifted, or food needs to be grown and harvested, ...)

Posted by: Community Notes at August 07, 2026 06:30 AM (9s47C)

78 "men men" = "men".

I read that as Whoopie Goldberg classifies levels of rape.

"men" could be anything sporting a Y chromosome, "men men" are the dudes that get shit done.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 07, 2026 06:32 AM (BvPIe)

79
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
10h
Easy to tell who the bad guys are by looking at who has to build a wall to keep people from escaping!

Rothmus
@Rothmus
18h
Every gun, mine, and guard tower on the Berlin Wall was pointed at East Germans.

In 1957, the communist regime in East Germany made unauthorized emigration treason after an estimated 2.5 million people voted with their feet, fleeing the communist East towards the West.

So in 1961, the authorities closed the border, called the wall “the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart”, and gave border guards shoot to kill orders.

People only ever risked their lives escaping in one direction.

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 06:34 AM (odBC9)

80 76 "men men" = "men".
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 06:30 AM (O7YUW)

"men men" ≠ James Talarico

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 06:35 AM (odBC9)

81 "Men, men, men, men,
Manly men, men, men . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 06:38 AM (wzUl9)

82 This is what my pharmacist recommended to help stop the leg cramps: Magnesium Oxide pills (the ones I buy are 420mg.) They're cheap, and they work.

Even without the cramps, MgO is a sleep aid for many.

Actually, its the tetrad: Na, K, Mg and Ca that needs to stay in balance. Some add Cl to that list.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 07, 2026 06:39 AM (BvPIe)

83 { screaming in regret continues }

That was wonderful!

A few years back, I was watching a protest video. One guy, a HUGE black guy was towering over the cop. The conversation went like this.

"RANT!RANT!RANT!"
"Sir, that's fine. But I have to ask you to move over there."
"RANT!RANT!RANT!"
"Sir, I'm not saying that you can't protest but you have to move over there."
"RANT!RANT!RANT!"
"Sir, if you don't move over there right now, I am going to taze you."
"Oh, I'm sorry officer. I'll move over there right now."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 06:39 AM (lXoJ5)

84 Also from that video:
"What did I do wrong?"
"We'll start with the way your parents raised you."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 06:41 AM (lXoJ5)

85 I've decided that washing the car later this morning qualifies as a workout (in this heat and humidity it really does). So, breakfast first! A chicken pot pie, perhaps a slice of toast, and coffee.

Linda says we've accumulated "points" enough for a free coffee at a certain local chain. She likes going there. I find it okay, but priced a bit higher than some others. And the one near our local suburban library hires far too many hijab wearers. I call it "Mecca on the Mississippi."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)

86 @84/NR Pax: If you watch the whole video, the first perp doesn't get tased, but there's a line where the guy wants some cop, any cop, to yank down those ridiculous 2nd pair of pants (where the waist is half-way between the actual waist and the knees) down so that they're a "cotton pair of cuffs" and then push the guy over. *snorts*

I may end up watching more of this guy's "Taser Tuesday" videos. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 06:45 AM (O7YUW)

87 @85/Wolfus: Chicken pot pie for breakfast... I'm officially envious. That sounds WONDERFUL.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 06:47 AM (O7YUW)

88 "Affecting stuff, if loaded with the 1949 version of "Isn't society really to blame for this?"

I Accuse My Parents.

Posted by: Jan In The Pan at August 07, 2026 06:47 AM (MWfyi)

89 86 @84/NR Pax: If you watch the whole video, the first perp doesn't get tased, but there's a line where the guy wants some cop, any cop, to yank down those ridiculous 2nd pair of pants (where the waist is half-way between the actual waist and the knees) down so that they're a "cotton pair of cuffs" and then push the guy over. *snorts*

I may end up watching more of this guy's "Taser Tuesday" videos. :-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 06:45 AM (O7YUW)

At his site, one of the videos is titled "Handcuffed Suspect Makes a Run for It." Yikes.

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 06:50 AM (odBC9)

90 Good morning morons under a star filled sky

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 06:52 AM (JvZF+)

91 The mystery classic from 1974, The Last of Sheila, is on Movies! tonight at 7 Central. Ace, I think, commented on it some years ago. It remains the most Ellery Queen-like film ever made, in its focus on the puzzle for its own sake, the sheer ingenuity of that puzzle, the thunderbolt ending, and a false solution before the true one.

Written by Stephen Sondheim (yes, that guy) and actor Anthony Perkins. Apparently their circle used to host puzzle mystery parties, and SS and AP were inspired to write this. You get not only the dazzle I mentioned above, but an all-star cast (as they do with the endless Agatha Christie adaptations): Richard Benjamin, Joan Hackett, James Mason, James Coburn, Raquel Welch, and Dyan Cannon. Brilliant job.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9)

92 At his site, one of the videos is titled "Handcuffed Suspect Makes a Run for It." Yikes.
Posted by: m


I'm reminded of a friend who was handcuffed (We were a bit of a rowdy bunch back then). He'd had polio when he was a kid so he was in leg braces. He looked at the cop and said "What am I going to do? Run away?"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 06:55 AM (lXoJ5)

93 @85/Wolfus: Chicken pot pie for breakfast... I'm officially envious. That sounds WONDERFUL.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026


***
Full disclosure, it's a frozen Banquet one. But I sprinkle some shredded cheese on it or in it for extra flavor.

Aldi sells its own, Bremer brand, about the same size and price. Neither can approach the Marie Callender versions, which are 2.5x the price but larger and with a bottom crust that can be devoured as well as the rest of the pie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 06:56 AM (wzUl9)

94 From the site "Faith and Freedom"

Planned Parenthood has expanded services to include gender-affirming care, marking a strategic shift in its organizational focus.

So if they can't kill kids, they'll sterilize them. Salt, Earth, some assembly required.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 06:57 AM (lXoJ5)

95 There's a misty ring around the Moon this morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 06:57 AM (JvZF+)

96

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 07, 2026 07:00 AM (AHxhK)

97 >> Good morning morons under a star filled sky

And a few Voorwerpen.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 07:00 AM (w6EFb)

98 G'mornin' everyone!

yay Friday!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 07, 2026 07:01 AM (VyBeY)

99 mornin yall. Two firefighters in Washington state were injured after a Tesla exploded inside a garage on Wednesday. It's unclear what caused the vehicle to explode.

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

100 @93/Wolfus: "Full disclosure, it's a frozen Banquet one."

I get the ones from Costco. Those are really tasty. If you have a Costco nearby, I can highly recommend them.

We found 53 minutes at the recommended oven temperature ends up with those turning out perfectly.

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

101 Little boy gets cries with joy after receiving a gift of a new puppy:

https://tinyurl.com/2ru93xs8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 07:02 AM (yl+Aq)

102 Holy moly, Kim Carnes is over 80 and has been married for nearly 60 years to her husband. Rock star life!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:03 AM (2x8fi)

103 @89/m: { At his site, one of the videos is titled "Handcuffed Suspect Makes a Run for It." Yikes. }

Watching that now. "Because you're wearing one of those 'murses' that always has a gun in it!" *bwahaha*

Yup. I'm watching this guy's videos regularly from now on, he tickles my sense of "ha-ha" like "The Fat Electrician" does.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 07:05 AM (O7YUW)

104 (@67)
" Affecting stuff, if loaded with the 1949 version of "Isn't society really to blame for this?" "

which we now can recognize as the early wedge of commie (or "progressive") infiltration / undermining of society and culture.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 07, 2026 07:06 AM (VyBeY)

105 No popups here as I use Brave as my browser, but I wanted to see what the hubbub was so I loaded the site in MS Edge and still no popups. I feel cheated!

Posted by: Halfhand at August 07, 2026 07:08 AM (H5Io+)

106 The Last of Sheila was part of a wave of murder mystery movies around 1974. Wasn't that the year of Murder on the Orient Express with Albert Finney as Poirot? And while Sheila is set in the modern day, it was part of a trend of movies set in the '30s like Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown, and The Grissom Gang (though that was 1920s, I think). There was even a short-lived TV series with Robert Forster as private eye Banyon set in '30s LA.

The trend was brief. About '74 we got Happy Days, and suddenly all the nostalgia became about the Nifty Fifties.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9)

107 @89/m: The addition of the William Tell Overture when the handcuffed suspect takes off running is perfect!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 07:10 AM (O7YUW)

108 Meanwhile OpenAI has fired back at Apple saying that if they were able to steal all of Apple's trade secrets then they weren't all that secret, were they?

How very...Chinese.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:11 AM (l3cgK)

109 103 @89/m: { At his site, one of the videos is titled "Handcuffed Suspect Makes a Run for It." Yikes. }

Watching that now. "Because you're wearing one of those 'murses' that always has a gun in it!" *bwahaha*

Yup. I'm watching this guy's videos regularly from now on, he tickles my sense of "ha-ha" like "The Fat Electrician" does.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 07:05 AM (O7YUW)

And I've been watching "Routine Traffic Stop Leads to Major Trafficking Bust." This is addictive.

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 07:11 AM (odBC9)

110 You know who hates Flock cameras?

Pedos.

I expect no privacy when I am in public.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 07:13 AM (wVCl1)

111 @93/Wolfus: "Full disclosure, it's a frozen Banquet one."

I get the ones from Costco. Those are really tasty. If you have a Costco nearby, I can highly recommend them.

We found 53 minutes at the recommended oven temperature ends up with those turning out perfectly.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026


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These Banquet/Bremer ones can be done up in the oven, but I microwave them. Five minutes in the MW and then three more sitting in there according to the instructions.

There's a Costco here -- in fact it used to be right on my route to work. But I've never been inside and have little interest in gigantic portions of everything. The cheaper gas I guess might be enough to pay for the membership.

Years ago my employer the private university had an agreement with Sam's Club; employees got a free membership. I shopped there, but the bricks of cheese were as big as a gold bar and I could never finish them before they developed mold.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:14 AM (wzUl9)

112 110 You know who hates Flock cameras?

Pedos.

I expect no privacy when I am in public.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 07:13 AM (wVCl1)

It's not the legitimate purposes I worry about...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:16 AM (l3cgK)

113 publius, what planets are out this morning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:18 AM (JvZF+)

114 Speaking of food bargains, the food bank/thrift store yesterday offered loaves of Dave's Killer Bread, free, two per person. I grabbed a loaf of their sliced bread and a bag of hot dog buns.

The buns turned out to have mold already on the bottom halves. I sliced them in half, kept the tops, and toasted two with cheese and spaghetti sauce for lunch. The bread slices looked okay. Even if they have mold before I get to them, hey, they were free.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:19 AM (wzUl9)

115 The trend was brief. About '74 we got Happy Days, and suddenly all the nostalgia became about the Nifty Fifties.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9)
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My mom and dad never stopped listening to do-wop. When that 50s trend happened it was my worst nightmare.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:20 AM (JvZF+)

116 Dave's bread is good. 350 calories per slice

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:21 AM (JvZF+)

117 >> publius, what planets are out this morning?

Mars and Saturn will be quite visible. Mercury is low on the morning side, and Jupiter will just start peeking up on the sunrise side as well, just coming off solar conjunction, but it will be a few days before you can really see it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 07:22 AM (w6EFb)

118
Uranus and Neptune will be up there as well, but they aren't nekkid eye visible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 07:23 AM (w6EFb)

119 116 Dave's bread is good. 350 calories per slice

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:21 AM (JvZF+)

Yeah, those calories are hefty per slice...then again, I don't count calories. (GAIZZ! up 30 lbs since December!...oh, not the purpose of GAINZ...)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:23 AM (l3cgK)

120 118
Uranus and Neptune will be up there as well, but they aren't nekkid eye visible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 07:23 AM (w6EFb)

Uranus is normally not visible...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:24 AM (l3cgK)

121 My mom and dad never stopped listening to do-wop. When that 50s trend happened it was my worst nightmare.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026


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My parents were older than that. Glenn Miller was more their speed. To be fair, I love a lot of GM tunes, but many of them sound alike to me. Still, the crashing climax of "In the Mood" -- damn, it must have been exciting to hear that in person the very first time!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:24 AM (wzUl9)

122 "Uranus is normally not visible...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

That's no moon.

Posted by: Stacy Abrams at August 07, 2026 07:25 AM (MWfyi)

123 Dave's bread is good. 350 calories per slice
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026


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Good thing each slice is small and thin.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:25 AM (wzUl9)

124
Oh, and for me around 35N, this is just the heliacal rising of Sirius. This heralds the Dog Days of Summer.

And Jupiter just peeking up will its heliacal rising. That will be just about the 12th, maybe a little later for 35N.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 07:25 AM (w6EFb)

125 121 My mom and dad never stopped listening to do-wop. When that 50s trend happened it was my worst nightmare.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026

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My parents were older than that. Glenn Miller was more their speed. To be fair, I love a lot of GM tunes, but many of them sound alike to me. Still, the crashing climax of "In the Mood" -- damn, it must have been exciting to hear that in person the very first time!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:24 AM (wzUl9)

My Dad listened to Herb Alpert...had a bunch of his records. "Whipped Cream" was my favorite album cover to...look at...as a kid...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:25 AM (l3cgK)

126 Gotta love the sidebar story of Ireland's presidential jet that can only fly in sunny weather, thanks to a deliberate decision not to buy any equipment made by Jews. Mad Magazine leadership.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:26 AM (U+tJ3)

127 122 "Uranus is normally not visible...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

That's no moon.

Posted by: Stacy Abrams at August 07, 2026 07:25 AM (MWfyi)

But there are rings around Uranus. Also, the gas there smells like rotten eggs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:27 AM (l3cgK)

128 126 Gotta love the sidebar story of Ireland's presidential jet that can only fly in sunny weather, thanks to a deliberate decision not to buy any equipment made by Jews. Mad Magazine leadership.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:26 AM (U+tJ3)

So if it crashes it's still the fault of teh Joos!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:27 AM (l3cgK)

129
The ancient Egyptians were really big on the heliacal rising of Sirius, as that heralded the flooding of the Nile.

The ancient Greek homos and then the Romans believed that Sirius added its heat to the Sun at this heliacal rising, which is what made summer so hot then. Sirius is the Dog Star, hence Dog Days.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 07:29 AM (w6EFb)

130 Mars and Saturn will be quite visible. Mercury is low on the morning side, and Jupiter will just start peeking up on the sunrise side as well, just coming off solar conjunction, but it will be a few days before you can really see it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 07:22 AM (w6EFb)
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Thanks! Will go check

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:30 AM (JvZF+)

131 Good morning morons, it's a new day and I'm still stealing oxygen.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 07, 2026 07:30 AM (Q/FnY)

132 I need to get cleaned up before I head out. Car wash and a visit to Walmart for pizza and a few other things. Maybe I'll stop for a coffee and a reading break in the A/C.

The Buick is due for its six-month oil change this month. Though, since I run synthetic oil and a long-interval filter, and I have only 5200 miles on this fill, maybe I can push it back to Sept. Seven years I have with this car as of tomorrow, and I still smile when I walk up to it and when I run it at speed on a smooth road.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:30 AM (wzUl9)

133 Dave Dahl's biography, including starting Dave's Killer Bread and selling the company, is almost unbelievable.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:30 AM (U+tJ3)

134 heliacal? I see this word in the almanac, but I have never looked up the meaning ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 07, 2026 07:30 AM (VyBeY)

135 The ancient Greek homos and then the Romans believed that Sirius added its heat to the Sun at this heliacal rising, which is what made summer so hot then. Sirius is the Dog Star, hence Dog Days.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026


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Around here I call them the Jackal Days or the Hyena Days. Dogs are good- looking; those two species are not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:31 AM (wzUl9)

136 lol, Wolfus

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (VyBeY)

137 Mr. Sefton has arrived...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (2Cry5)

138 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 07, 2026 07:33 AM (VyBeY)

139 Come to think of it, hyenas look like the first, unfinished draft of the dog. Just as opossums look like the first draft of the cat. I imagine God saying, "Come *on*, you can do better than *that* --!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:33 AM (wzUl9)

140 Found Mars but Saturn is too low and obscured by some clouds

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:42 AM (JvZF+)

141 Fix your he pop up he’ll Pixy please! It’s 10 times worse this week than it ever had been - had to clear pop ups twice just to make a single post.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 05:32 AM (pfrqN)

Why aren't people using AdBlock Plus or Brave?? Most of us aren't having a problem with popups.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 07, 2026 07:42 AM (hmYU4)

142 Dave Dahl's biography, including starting Dave's Killer Bread and selling the company, is almost unbelievable.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:30 AM (U+tJ3)

Somebody says it is killer bread and to stay away from it. Too many chemicals or something. Best just to eat sourdough.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 07:42 AM (1Ff7Z)

143 >> heliacal?

Not to be confused with "helical", "heliacal" means related to or with the sun.

The heliacal rising of a star (or anything) is when it just becomes visible at sunrise.

The heliacal setting is when it disappears into the sunset with the sun.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 07:43 AM (w6EFb)

144 >>>TSMC is sitting on a billion dollars worth of Apple A20 CPUs waiting for DRAM chips to pair them with.

>>>Might want to take a seat. You could be here a while.

A billion dollars? What is that like 5 or 6 flagship Apple desktop models?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 07:49 AM (dK+Kv)

145 >>>China has invented a new self-repairing dress made of living fungus. (Dezeen)
No.

You're saying that men won't be lining up to embrace a woman draped in fungus?

Posted by: No Name Today at August 07, 2026 09:16 AM (8mulE)

146 Cybersecurity company VulnCheck said on Aug. 5 that it has found that more than 20 models of a Chinese-made wireless router sold worldwide contain a hidden backdoor that could allow unauthorized access to devices connected to the network.

The finding adds to growing Western concerns about cybersecurity risks posed by Chinese-made networking equipment. ​Western governments have warned for years about hackers exploiting such devices, and U.S. regulators moved this ​year to restrict imports of foreign-made routers.

Jacob Baines, chief technology officer at VulnCheck, who ​found the backdoor, said in a blog post that the vulnerability, dubbed “Endlessdoors,” affects routers manufactured by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics Co. and sold under the Zbtlink and Wiflyer brand names.

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 09:58 AM (Wgtgv)

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 6, 2026 [Doof]

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Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

[Top photo: Loch Leven - Highlands of Scotland]

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Feel good story

‘It just makes sense!’: 13-year old builds 3D printed wheelchair for 21-month-old girl

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While some 13-year-old boys spend their summer playing sports or swimming at pools, Zac Waters spent his time designing a 3D printed custom wheelchair for a 21-month old girl.

After watching a YouTube channel about 3D printing, Waters felt inspired to make a difference using his passion of 3D printing. He discovered MakeGood, a nonprofit organization that 3D prints assistive devices for people with disabilities around the world, and knew he needed to get involved.

Waters dedicated his summer to designing, 3D printing, testing, and assembling a custom wheelchair for a young girl. His favorite part of 3D printing is putting the pieces together, and this chair was no exception. The project took roughly 300 hours.

Waters is thrilled to be part of the 3D printing community that helped bring the wheelchair design to life. He hopes to continue developing his skills and one day reach the level of expertise demonstrated by the MakeGood team that designed the wheelchair he assembled.

The wheelchair has unique features in addition to its pink accents, the young girl’s favorite color. It has a removable cupholder and tray table, and the back of the chair has a space designed for heavier medical equipment. The adjustable straps are made with soft and bendable material for comfort. The footrest and headrest are adjustable for when the child gets older.

Check out the whole thing. Such an awesome idea and great execution!


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Dude has a smooth voice!

Radio play by play is awesome. He did a great job!


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Update your records

World’s third-smallest country changes its name

Nauru, a Pacific Island country, has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language.

According to The Associated Press, the country’s international code will change from NRU to NRO and its people will be known as dei-Naoero instead of Nauruan. Commonly known abroad by the pronunciation of Now-roo, the new name is pronounced as Now-ero.

The article is paywalled, but I told you everything you need to know.

What other name changes have occurred recently? Glad you asked!

According to Google AI:

Recent Country Name Changes
Nauru to Naoero (2026): Restored the traditional local spelling for the Pacific island.

Turkey to Türkiye (2022): Formally requested the United Nations use the Turkish spelling internationally.

North Macedonia (2019): Changed from Macedonia to resolve a long-standing political naming dispute with Greece.

Swaziland to Eswatini (2018 ): Reverted to its pre-independence Swazi name to mark 50 years of independence.

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Not gonna lie - I kinda want one!

Man who built $20,724 solar-powered yacht that can run forever passes 3,000 nautical miles having used zero fuel

A man who built a $20,724 solar-powered yacht that can run forever has now passed an incredible 3,000 nautical miles while using exactly zero fuel.

The DIY vessel has spent months cruising across Europe powered entirely by sunlight collected through standard rooftop solar panels.

After building the boat himself on a budget, Lukas Sjoman says it has completely changed the way he thinks about long-distance travel.

Now, after thousands of miles at sea, he believes solar-powered cruising could be the future for many boat owners.

More at the link, which includes this video


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Did your city make the list?

Mapped: U.S. Cities With the Most Educated Residents (2026)

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This graphic ranks the most educated U.S. cities in 2026, highlighting metropolitan areas with high levels of educational attainment and strong local education systems.

The data for this visualization comes from WalletHub. Cities were ranked using a weighted composite score based on educational attainment (80%) and education quality and equality (20%).

Go ahead and read it if you want. Let me know if you find it as useless as I did.

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Here's tonight's Flock segment - will likely be a regular feature



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Here's a cool X account to follow - NOBUNAGA
"A samurai in the America he always dreamed of.
Bigger than the books said. Braver than the movies. Kinder than I dreamed.
Still bowing. Still learning."

Here is one of his posts where he learns the value of knowing a guy with a truck

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having...

Definitely check out the whole thing!


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DJ Doof - Blue Edition


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OK for this next "blue" song, please tell us who you think did it better

The original from Icehouse

Or this version from The Killers

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1 Life is like a bowl of jellyfish

Posted by: mindful webworker - putting the fun in fundamental at August 06, 2026 10:04 PM (62m/B)

2 Yo Doof!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 06, 2026 10:04 PM (jhi3T)

3 Deep dish

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 10:04 PM (6T7Go)

4 Evening Doof!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 06, 2026 10:04 PM (NnhvP)

5 forth

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 06, 2026 10:04 PM (2n5IR)

6 Ah, there it is.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2026 10:05 PM (O7YUW)

7 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 10:05 PM (w+2cP)

8 Top 10ish?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 06, 2026 10:05 PM (2Ez/1)

9 Chloe the Bengal Kitty has moved on from conquering the bookshelves in my office to invading my desk. She's plopped herself down in front of my monitors and refuses to move.

She's also mastered the game of knocking things off my desk.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 10:05 PM (FZ29D)

10 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 06, 2026 10:06 PM (w3u3d)

11
*peppy music*

It's the Doof Show! And here's our star of the show, Doof!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:07 PM (O0L8i)

12 Nobunaga is great.

He recognizes American Exceptionalism! Sort of a modern-day Alexis de Tocqueville with epicanthic folds.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 06, 2026 10:07 PM (l4RKn)

13 Hi buddies. Howdy Doof💕

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 06, 2026 10:08 PM (348x5)

14 It's a mixed bag alright...

Posted by: Trying To Take It All IN at August 06, 2026 10:10 PM (JM9I6)

15 Eddie, the 3/4 Maine Coon, can not only open doors, he apparently knows how to play music on the home pods.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 06, 2026 10:10 PM (VCgbV)

16 Did anyone else notice that the 'most educated cities' tracks pretty closely with the preponderance of emotionally damaged, blue-haired, facially pierced, simian-like intellectuals with BO and no grasp of history denizens.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 10:11 PM (w+2cP)

17 Ladies don’t take massive dumps. It’s just not done. Right? Lie to me if you must

Posted by: No no no no at August 06, 2026 10:11 PM (Ahu4D)

18 Isn’t Nauru where the .nu domain originated? I use past tense because I think the domain name has been stolen from its original owners.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 06, 2026 10:11 PM (sGgMH)

19 Well, that was some content. I loved hearing the guy call the baseball game. I once thought of trying to get into sports broadcasting, but never really pursued it.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 06, 2026 10:11 PM (2n5IR)

20 Yo Doof!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 06, 2026 10:04 PM (jhi3T)

Evening Doof!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 06, 2026 10:04 PM (NnhvP)


Howdy to you both!

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)

21 We don't have Buc-ees here in the East, but we do have WaWa and Sheetz. They do nicely.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 06, 2026 10:12 PM (QaH55)

22 Looks like the Highlands are flooded up top.

Posted by: Little Giant Pumps, Inc. at August 06, 2026 10:12 PM (JM9I6)

23 Here is one of his posts where he learns the value of knowing a guy with a truck
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One of the great things about living in a semi-rural town is you always know a guy who has a truck.

(In fact, I know a guy that runs the biggest truck dealership in town...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 10:12 PM (FZ29D)

24 Buc Ees has the best, cleanest, biggest bathrooms I've ever seen. Totally worthy of a massive dump.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 10:12 PM (2WIwB)

25 Hey Professor, she is a bengal. She needs attention. Knocking things around is saying “entertain me.”

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 06, 2026 10:13 PM (w3u3d)

26 *peppy music*

It's the Doof Show! And here's our star of the show, Doof!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:07 PM (O0L8i)


Please tell me the peppy music is similar to the bouncy piano music they play on the train at the Denver airport

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf)

27 Thanks for the ONT! Howdy Horde!

Posted by: Iris at August 06, 2026 10:13 PM (286+n)

28 Hi buddies. Howdy Doof💕

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 06, 2026 10:08 PM (348x5)


Howdy COMM!

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:14 PM (QMAsf)

29 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 10:14 PM (77rzZ)

30 Please tell me Buc-ees actually sells that Buc-ees bathroom t-shirt.

Lie to me if you have to.


Posted by: a.moron at August 06, 2026 10:14 PM (X5Jzz)

31 16 Did anyone else notice that the 'most educated cities' tracks pretty closely with the preponderance of emotionally damaged, blue-haired, facially pierced, simian-like intellectuals with BO and no grasp of history denizens.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 10:11 PM (w+2cP)


Ya don't say ! ! !

Posted by: a.moron at August 06, 2026 10:15 PM (X5Jzz)

32 ARI 20, CAR 17 begin 4th Q

Posted by: Don Black at August 06, 2026 10:16 PM (ZxPkt)

33 We don't have Buc-ees here in the East, but we do have WaWa and Sheetz. They do nicely.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 06, 2026 10:12 PM (QaH55)


There are approximately 5 Wawa locations withing a 5ish mile radius of my house. Sheetz is around here too. While they are both really good at what they do - they don't come anywhere close to doing what Buc-ees does!

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

34 The DC-haters will note that DC is the most educated city of size that isn't either a university town or Si Valley, behind only Ann Arbor, Durham, and San Jose. For those who wonder why it's so expensive here, that's why. Yes, it's the seat of government, but most of those people are highly educated.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 10:16 PM (Riz8t)

35 Step.One: identify the cameras
Step.Two: identify who, on the city/county council approved the cameras
Step.Three: Vote their sorry asses out.
Step Three A: until the election, send teams to the council members homes and video them. Be obvious about it.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 10:16 PM (2WIwB)

36 It's rather small to be called a yacht.
It's rather, you'll never get a claustrophobe on board.
I'll have to look further into it but the tern 'at sea' has certain connotations that that boat doesn't look worthy of. Weather is another term that boat doesn't look worthy of.
But I like the idea.
Wish I'd learned to sail.
Withholds thoughts of pissing on straws leg.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 10:17 PM (6T7Go)

37 ARI 20, CAR 17 begin 4th Q
Posted by: Don Black at August 06, 2026 10:16 PM (ZxPkt)


Yawn -- wake me up when it's hockey season

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:17 PM (QMAsf)

38 Anaconda dropped 12 years ago today and we haven’t looked at booties the same way again. I am surprised the video was not included today to meet the historical significance.

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

39 Loch Leven? Aye, it's a pleasant enough seat, but Loch Awe. So much more awesome.

Posted by: Clan Campbell at August 06, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

40 Yawn -- wake me up when it's hockey season
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:17 PM (QMAsf)

WORD

Posted by: browndog shoots, he scores at August 06, 2026 10:18 PM (3sXRv)

41 ARI 20, CAR 17 begin 4th Q
Posted by: Don Black at August 06, 2026 10:16 PM (ZxPkt)


Who is QB for Arizona? I had head Carr was going to do the game. Has my man Minshew had any snaps?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (2WIwB)

42 That first Flock video reminded me of Silvia (YT handle @ailaughatmyownjokes ). I keep telling Pooky that she's found a way to monetize her insanity with her humor. I've lost count how many of her video shorts end with me crying from laughter.

https://youtube.com/shorts/p0GlVbuq6fc

"I DON'T REMEMBER MAKING THAT!"

Posted by: pookysgirl is used to wackiness at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (Wt5PA)

43 Anaconda dropped 12 years ago today and we haven’t looked at booties the same way again. I am surprised the video was not included today to meet the historical significance.
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)


I honestly have zero clue what that is

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

44 Oh and Doofster,

Enjoy having Tuchy on your squad

He'll be missed here

Posted by: browndog shoots, he scores at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (3sXRv)

45 The DIY vessel has spent months cruising across Europe powered entirely by sunlight collected through standard rooftop solar panels.

He cruised around Europe? Up and down the coasts, or as a land yacht?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (NnhvP)

46

The Naoero Story

https://archive.li/cC36K

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (Cqx++)

47 Such an awesome idea and great execution!

Sure, if you think helping only one person is better than transforming America into a socialist country to help all people!

Posted by: DSA at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

48 Solar-powered catamarans have been around for years. They have lots of flat surfaces that are ideal for solar panels.

The downside is you don't get much speed out of them but you can effectively cruise forever.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 10:20 PM (FZ29D)

49 ARI 20, CAR 17 begin 4th Q
Posted by: Don Black at August 06, 2026 10:16 PM (ZxPkt)

What even is this? Clearly not SEC schools b🤣

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

50 Ann Arbor could also come in Number 1 for coed boob size.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

51
Loch Leven >>> Loch Jaw

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:20 PM (O0L8i)

52 >>>A man who built a $20,724 solar-powered yacht that can run forever has now passed an incredible 3,000 nautical miles while using exactly zero fuel.

You know what has cruised countless nautical miles while using exactly zero fuel?

Sailboats.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 10:20 PM (dK+Kv)

53 Good old Loch Leven!

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 10:20 PM (g47mK)

54 The solar boat will not be powered forever by its solar cells. They usually last 20-30 years, presumably less at sea.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

55 What other name changes have occurred recently? Glad you asked!

Istanbul will always be Constantinopol to me

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 10:21 PM (lCppi)

56 >>> but most of those people are highly educated.

Posted by: Archimedes
---

Right.
That's why they manage their responsibilities so abely.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 10:21 PM (6T7Go)

57 We don't have Buc-ees here in the East, but we do have WaWa and Sheetz. They do nicely.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

Honestly, they are not comparable. It like comparing a slingshot vs. the 88mm Flak 36.

I'm mentioned this previously - the local Buc-ees sells approximately 50,000 gal of fuel every day.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 10:21 PM (w+2cP)

58 43 Anaconda dropped 12 years ago today and we haven’t looked at booties the same way again. I am surprised the video was not included today to meet the historical significance.
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

I honestly have zero clue what that is
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

Yes, you do. Nikki Minaj. My anaconda don’t want none unless she’s got buns, hun.

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

59 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 06, 2026 10:21 PM (pLaQB)

60 Oh and Doofster,

Enjoy having Tuchy on your squad

He'll be missed here
Posted by: browndog shoots, he scores at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (3sXRv)


Caps made some strong moves. Tuch should fit nicely. Gotta see Ovi hoist that Cup one more time!

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)

61 I noticed a disproportionately large share of the most educated cities are... college towns. Same people who gave the world al-Sayed Tuesday night, AND that kray kray running for Gov of WI.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 10:22 PM (RCjYY)

62 Republic of Naoero


Eromero should be informed.

Posted by: Miklos Molnar, Esq. at August 06, 2026 10:22 PM (XOG/m)

63 the new name is pronounced as Now-ero.

* giggles *

Posted by: every Japanese middle-schooler at August 06, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

64 Ann Arbor could also come in Number 1 for coed boob size.
Posted by: Bulg

The SEC would like a word. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 10:22 PM (w+2cP)

65 >Who is QB for Arizona? I had head Carr was going to do the game. Has my man Minshew had any snaps?

Posted by: Diogenes
---

Carson Beck played the 1st half and looked really sharp

Posted by: Don Black at August 06, 2026 10:22 PM (ZxPkt)

66 Here's tonight's Flock segment

Pinal count's sheriff told the county they would not renew the flock contract due to possible 4th amendment concerns!

YEA!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (NnhvP)

67 56 >>> but most of those people are highly educated.

Posted by: Archimedes
---
Right.
That's why they manage their responsibilities so abely.


Well, at least most of them can spell.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (Riz8t)

68 Citizens lying to the government to protect a patriot. Brings a tear to my eye.

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (lCppi)

69 What other name changes have occurred recently? Glad you asked!

Istanbul will always be Constantinopol to me

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 10:21 PM (lCppi)

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (dK+Kv)

70 I ran away from a seagull of Flocks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (Cqx++)

71 I honestly have zero clue what that is
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

Yes, you do. Nikki Minaj. My anaconda don’t want none unless she’s got buns, hun.
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:21 PM (ZdaMQ)


That last sentence is from Sir Mix-a-Lot. Did she steal it and make a "song" about it?

When I say I have zero clue, I am not exaggerating.

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (QMAsf)

72
We had thunderstorms this afternoon. Diana gets upset at thunder. I volunteered to take a nap so she could curl up next to me on the bed. I deserve the Good Daddy Medal for my sacrifice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:24 PM (O0L8i)

73 21 We don't have Buc-ees here in the East, but we do have WaWa and Sheetz. They do nicely.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 06, 2026 10:12 PM (QaH55)

-------

So you dump your massive Sheetz in the WaWa?

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 06, 2026 10:24 PM (jhi3T)

74 My favorite Buc-ees billboard said “ONLY 12 MORE MILES - YOUR THRONE AWAITS!!!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 06, 2026 10:24 PM (pfrqN)

75 The Türkiye thing is BS. We don’t do umlauts. Suck it, Erdogan, you jive turkey.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 10:24 PM (77rzZ)

76 Nauru, a Pacific Island country, has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language.

I was worried I was going to have to change my bookmark.

But .nu is Niue, not Nauru Naoero.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)

77
Citizens lying to the government to protect a patriot. Brings a tear to my eye.

I'm Spartacus!

Posted by: A guy who is really not Spartacus at August 06, 2026 10:25 PM (Cqx++)

78 I want that Buc-ees shirt.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2026 10:25 PM (S41Gd)

79 A yacht powered by an outboard motor.
No A/C on that baby.
Going to watch the video and see if it shows the interior.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 10:25 PM (6T7Go)

80 45 The DIY vessel has spent months cruising across Europe powered entirely by sunlight collected through standard rooftop solar panels.

He cruised around Europe? Up and down the coasts, or as a land yacht?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (NnhvP)


Actually you can cover a lot of Europe in a boat moving along the rivers and canals.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 10:25 PM (2WIwB)

81 My favorite Buc-ees billboard said “ONLY 12 MORE MILES - YOUR THRONE AWAITS!!!”
Posted by: Tom Servo

Whippersapperos

Posted by: Pedro Sez at August 06, 2026 10:25 PM (XOG/m)

82 When I lived in Colorado, a Buc-ees opened in Johnstown. We moved to Idaho. Meridian is getting a Buc-ees. So, cool.

It's a fun place to go, but one must wait until the hub-bub dies down a bit.

First Buc-ees we visited was in New Braunfels, after the TXMOME in 2022.

Posted by: Jan in the Pan, from The Brain That Wouln'dt Die at August 06, 2026 10:25 PM (0aYVJ)

83 Honestly, they are not comparable. It like comparing a slingshot vs. the 88mm Flak 36.

I'm mentioned this previously - the local Buc-ees sells approximately 50,000 gal of fuel every day.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 10:21 PM (w+2cP)

I think the topic at hand is a good place to take a dump. I plan trips around the locations of WaWa and/or Sheetz, for that reason. If Buc-ees shows up around here and where I'm going, I'll put them in the rotation.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 06, 2026 10:26 PM (QaH55)

84 One of the things that is amazing to me while I'm beefing up my movie collection are being suprised at the year some films came out, for some reason I thought The Gauntlet came out in 1980 or 1981, it came out in 1977.

Probably confusing it with Any Which Way you can which came out in 1980, but for some reason, I thought Any Which Way You can came out later, say 83 or 84.


Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2026 10:26 PM (XV/Pl)

85

When I say I have zero clue, I am not exaggerating.
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (QMAsf)



https://vimeo.com/252389978

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

86 Thursday Overnight Open Thread

Wait a minute. This isn't an ONT, it's an ONOT.

This Doof, if that's his real name, has transgressed the mos maiorum. Where do I apply for a refund?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2026 10:26 PM (K3f7J)

87 Stoopid sock.

Posted by: Dammit at August 06, 2026 10:26 PM (0aYVJ)

88 52 >>>A man who built a $20,724 solar-powered yacht that can run forever has now passed an incredible 3,000 nautical miles while using exactly zero fuel.

You know what has cruised countless nautical miles while using exactly zero fuel?

Sailboats.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 10:20 PM (dK+Kv)


That was my thought, also. I suppose you might stretch and consider a sailboat to be "solar powered", since solar energy drives the wind. And stretch slightly further and call a fossil fuel boat "solar powered", just by sunlight that fell a really long time ago.

Posted by: a.moron at August 06, 2026 10:27 PM (X5Jzz)

89 The Türkiye thing is BS. We don’t do umlauts. Suck it, Erdogan, you jive turkey.
Posted by: Bulg

Basz meg, mussulmanok

Posted by: Magyarorszag at August 06, 2026 10:27 PM (XOG/m)

90 I am channeling Sponge with the sock fails.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 06, 2026 10:27 PM (0aYVJ)

91 At least it isn't Loch Leavenworth. Of course, if Doof was there, it would explain the Blue music choices.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2026 10:27 PM (qx7Zg)

92 Carson Beck played the 1st half and looked really sharp
Posted by: Don Black at August 06, 2026 10:22 PM (ZxPkt)


Thanxs.
I'll check the box score later.
Beck is the future. Minshew will be a great mentor.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 10:28 PM (2WIwB)

93 When I say I have zero clue, I am not exaggerating.
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (QMAsf)



https://vimeo.com/252389978
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:26 PM (ZdaMQ)


Nope - you can't make me!

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:28 PM (QMAsf)

94 The Türkiye thing is BS. We don’t do umlauts.

When I was in Turkey recently, many places were named after German General Otto Liman von Sanders, who helped modernize their military in WWI. He was in large part responsible for the Turkish victory at Gallipoli.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 10:28 PM (Riz8t)

95 Buc-ee's seems to be gathering some poor PR lately for suing a bunch of small gas stations/c-stores for having a name that ends with long-e-apostrophe-s and a cartoon animal logo for trademark infringement. On the one hand, I understand the legal need to protect a trademark aggressively or risk losing it but on the other hand, it looks like another of those "Giant Corporations Stomps On Little Guy" stories that the press love so much. I wonder if a possible solution would be for Buc-ee's to go to each one and say "OK, we know you're probably not intentionally trying to trade on our image but we gotta do something. How about we sign a agreement to license your own name to you for a dollar a year and we'll go away forever."

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 10:28 PM (vTZFs)

96 Eveing, Doof, and ONT Horde! Tired puppy today.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)

97 You picked the appropriate song for the picture above, Doof.

The Waterboys - This Is The Sea;

I can listen too on a loop. Beautiful song!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 06, 2026 10:28 PM (pLaQB)

98 Lovely photo up top, Doof. It looks like it should be a place in one of Tolkien's books.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 06, 2026 10:28 PM (0Htd1)

99 I needed to move a sofa.

This story also riffs on his “I have a guy for that” story, which is also a must read.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 06, 2026 10:28 PM (kYmoU)

100 85

That video was so scandalous at the time!

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:29 PM (ZdaMQ)

101 "Thursday Overnight Open Thread"

Wait a minute. This isn't an ONT, it's an ONOT.

This Doof, if that's his real name, has transgressed the mos maiorum. Where do I apply for a refund?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2026 10:26 PM (K3f7J)


Actually, it's an OOT. or a TOOT.

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:29 PM (QMAsf)

102

We have a Wally's now.
There are only three of them.

https://www.wallys.com

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 10:30 PM (Cqx++)

103 >>You know what has cruised countless nautical miles while using exactly zero fuel?

>>Sailboats.

I had Yanmar diesel on my favorite sailboat. My goal was to use it as little as possible. I think I put diesel in the tank 4 or 5 times in 15 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 10:30 PM (viF8m)

104 Eveing, Doof, and ONT Horde! Tired puppy today.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

My doggie pooped too

Posted by: mere Miklos at August 06, 2026 10:30 PM (XOG/m)

105 Anaconda came out 29 years ago, and yes, J-Lo's booty changed everything.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2026 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)

106 That was my thought, also. I suppose you might stretch and consider a sailboat to be "solar powered", since solar energy drives the wind. And stretch slightly further and call a fossil fuel boat "solar powered", just by sunlight that fell a really long time ago.

Posted by: a.moron at August 06, 2026 10:27 PM (X5Jzz)

That and they are far more seaworthy than that floating beer can. To each his own. But I would not want to take that out on anything other than glass calm waters.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 10:31 PM (dK+Kv)

107 I love 'Electric Blue', both versions

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 06, 2026 10:31 PM (xcxpd)

108 73 21 We don't have Buc-ees here in the East, but we do have WaWa and Sheetz. They do nicely.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 06, 2026 10:12 PM (QaH55)

-------

So you dump your massive Sheetz in the WaWa?
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 06, 2026 10:24 PM (jhi3T)

***

I'm surprised it took over fifty comments for someone to nail that hanging curve.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 10:31 PM (2WIwB)

109 You know what has cruised countless nautical miles while using exactly zero fuel?

Sailboats.


See also, RAMMING SPEED!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 10:31 PM (Riz8t)

110 @ACTBrigitte
Aug 5
This is what a citizen journalist just exposed in the Bronx.

A neighborhood called Little Yemen. A man with a Hamas tattoo who says he “loves Hamas” and wants them running America. On welfare.

Hamas has murdered Americans. We’re paying for him.

An imam mocks Christianity, then leads prayer in Times Square declaring “We are taking over New York City.” Another man: “Inshallah, Islam will take over the West.”
-------

"This city is a broke ass basic-bitch version of its former self, and you have to pay a million dollars for a goddamned hovel, and you'll have to run an obstacle course of psycho-killer vagrants and khat-crazed Houthi goatfuckers on your 2-hour commute to your abysmal grind at your 'creative' marketing job... but it's worth it, even with the obscene, barbaric taxes.

BECAUSE IT'S DUH GREATEST CITY IN DUH WORRRRLD!!!

If you repeat that often enough, it'll be true, I promise."

----- Every New York City resident who got there from Ontario or wherever two months ago

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 06, 2026 10:31 PM (BI5O2)

111 Turkey is a third world, corrupt shithole run by a moooslim dictator. It occupies prime real estate, is fond of genocide and should be kicked out of NATO. Hope that helps with you future travel plans.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 10:31 PM (g47mK)

112 Fuck all this spelling country name "correctly." Nobody bitches about Germany not being called Deutschland.

Or Ireland being Eire.

Or Wales being Wyllvwwxx.

*double middle finger salute*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 06, 2026 10:31 PM (0aYVJ)

113 I think the topic at hand is a good place to take a dump. I plan trips around the locations of WaWa and/or Sheetz, for that reason. If Buc-ees shows up around here and where I'm going, I'll put them in the rotation.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

You won't be disappointed. They have full, private stalls with full doors on them - each one a separate room if you will. In order to keep the shitees moving (swidt?), each room has a indicator signal above it - green for ready to accept a shit, and red - currently receiving a shit.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 10:32 PM (w+2cP)

114 CBD - epicanthic? I had to look that one up. Good job!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 06, 2026 10:32 PM (Jr+re)

115 64 Sorry, I’ll put U. of Michigan’s boobage in the mid-late 80s up against any other coeducational institution .

Damn, those sorority girls had it going on.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 10:32 PM (77rzZ)

116 I've got four kitties in my office engaged in some sort of Mexican kitty standoff...They are all watching each other.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 10:32 PM (FZ29D)

117 Actually, it's an OOT. or a TOOT.

Posted by: Doof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q41U5z9iSSU

Posted by: Zydeco Mikleuse at August 06, 2026 10:32 PM (XOG/m)

118 Westerners take a cruise, get off at Kusadasi for 4 hours and think they visited Turkey.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 10:33 PM (g47mK)

119 Well, that was some content. I loved hearing the guy call the baseball game. I once thought of trying to get into sports broadcasting, but never really pursued it.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 06, 2026 10:11 PM (2n5IR)

I thought about radio, as well in JC. Unfortunately, I have the face for radio, but a voice for silent movies.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 06, 2026 10:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

120 It's rather small to be called a yacht.
It's rather, you'll never get a claustrophobe on board.
I'll have to look further into it but the tern 'at sea' has certain connotations that that boat doesn't look worthy of. Weather is another term that boat doesn't look worthy of.
But I like the idea.
Wish I'd learned to sail.
Withholds thoughts of pissing on straws leg.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 10:17 PM (6T7Go)

Looks like an (intermittently) self-propelled barge.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 10:33 PM (1z8ji)

121 7 Times stronger than Viagra! Sold in [name of my hometown] Pharmacy!

Jump back, Jack! You don't know me.

I plan to share some of the pop-ups that interrupt my ONT reading.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 10:34 PM (RCjYY)

122 115 64 Sorry, I’ll put U. of Michigan’s boobage in the mid-late 80s up against any other coeducational institution .

Damn, those sorority girls had it going on.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 10:32 PM (77rzZ

Have you ever been to an SEC campus? You should see our rush weeks. Insane. Look it up and get back to me. 😉

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

123 they don't come anywhere close to doing what Buc-ees does!

The only station I’ve seen that matches Buc-ees is the Wally’s just west of St. Louis. It isn’t a copy, though. It has its own style, which I appreciate. The fresh potato chips are amazing.

As, of course, are the bathrooms. Honestly, gas stations along the highway have two jobs. Gas, and bathrooms. If you won’t do those two things, don’t advertise.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 06, 2026 10:35 PM (kYmoU)

124 >>It's rather small to be called a yacht.

If it's someone else's its a boat.

If it's yours, its a yacht.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 10:35 PM (viF8m)

125 By the way, I hope Beck is more consistent than he was at UGA. When he was good, though, he was very good.

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

126 Damn, those sorority girls had it going on.
Posted by: Bulg

And he's got the panties to prove it

Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos at August 06, 2026 10:36 PM (XOG/m)

127 Miklos is back, I think. Hey, Miklos!

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 10:36 PM (77rzZ)

128 >>You know what has cruised countless nautical miles while using exactly zero fuel?

>>Sailboats.

I had Yanmar diesel on my favorite sailboat. My goal was to use it as little as possible. I think I put diesel in the tank 4 or 5 times in 15 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 10:30 PM (viF8m)

There was some youtube channel a while back where a bunch of hippies bought a beater sailboat, engine seized, and I am sure the owner was glad to be rid of it.

They sailed to the Caribbean, I think it was, old school, all sail powered. Arriving, mooring, and leaving port, the works. That was hardcore sailing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 10:36 PM (dK+Kv)

129 Actually, it's an OOT. or a TOOT.

Posted by: Doof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q41U5z9iSSU
Posted by: Zydeco Mikleuse at August 06, 2026 10:32 PM (XOG/m)


Now I want a frozen daiquiri and some beignets!

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:36 PM (QMAsf)

130 Ann Arbor MI, highest educated. Inshallah.

It rhymes with that chart of best cities to live;
the bluer the better.

I need a drink





Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 10:36 PM (6T7Go)

131 So I noticed an interesting trend comparing left and rightwing discussions on affordability

And most on the right get into explaining MMT, inflation, government debt and so on giving a detailed explanation.

And then on the left they instead blame it on...Trump. Note, not any action Trump has taken. Or the Republican congress. Just...Trump's existence.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 10:36 PM (sKqQm)

132 I don't know many people except old ladies who don't have a truck. Whoever heard of such?

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (Jr+re)

133 I'm going to my first Buc-ees next week while in Ohio. I can hardly wait. They don't have them in the PNW, so this seems like a big deal.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (tEQWR)

134 >>Wish I'd learned to sail.
Withholds thoughts of pissing on straws leg.

It's never too late. Go for it.

Fair warning, if it turns out you like it you will never get it out of your blood.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (viF8m)

135 Pinal count's sheriff told the county they would not renew the flock contract due to possible 4th amendment concerns!

YEA!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (NnhvP)

Some wisdom and common sense in Pinal County! Good on ya, Sheriff!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (1z8ji)

136
Honestly, gas stations along the highway have two jobs. Gas, and bathrooms. If you won’t do those two things, don’t advertise.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 06, 2026 10:35 PM (kYmoU)

____________

Gas
Bathrooms
Coffee

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (O0L8i)

137 The local Smallville City Council will soon decide about the current Flock flood.

"I think the Police Department is going to recommend that we continue the contract with Flock for eight of the cameras that we have. Right now we have a ten total. They propose to create a contract with Axos for the other two cameras to try them out for a while."

Yup, that's how it's going. Land of the free.

Posted by: mindful webworker - got my eye on you, babe at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (62m/B)

138 Modern colleges mostly teach DEI and socialism.

This is inverse education.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 10:38 PM (sKqQm)

139 Posted by: Miklos Molnar, Esq. at August 06, 2026 10:22 PM (XOG/m)

An egg. An egg. An egg. An egg....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 06, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z)

140 I read ole Charlie Duke, the astronaut, and Dottie used to live in New Braunfels. They had a house overlooking the 1st Tee at the golf course. That would have been sweet, just pop on the course whenever you feel like it. I think he moved back to North Carolina to work on his accent, probably

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 10:38 PM (BlF7w)

141 boat moving along the rivers and canals.
Posted by: Diogenes

Canal boats, 8ft wide 70ft long. Lots of fun.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 06, 2026 10:38 PM (NnhvP)

142 Are we renaming ONT’s Toots? It’s fun to say. And funny. And fits the sense of humor around here.

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

143 I ran away from a seagull of Flocks.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (Cqx++)

There is a brand of outboard motor called the British Seagull. Looks like the design crystallized in the 1920's. Very popular with sailboat sailors.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 10:39 PM (1z8ji)

144 So, Ann Arbor, a smallish city with a gigantic, big ten conference, university in it, has a high proportion of educated people. There's a shocker. I wonder how many of those other cities are university towns.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 06, 2026 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

145 Honestly, gas stations along the highway have two jobs. Gas, and bathrooms. If you won’t do those two things, don’t advertise.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 06, 2026 10:35 PM (kYmoU)


Buc-ees does both of those things quite well. They do the other stuff to make EVERYBODY in the vehicle want to choose them over everywhere else.

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:40 PM (QMAsf)

146 I hate having to use the head at any C-store, but some are better than others. Maverik stores are usually pretty dependable.

It's always a concern for me on road trips. Fortunately I have a pretty good Gi tract.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 06, 2026 10:40 PM (0aYVJ)

147 I brought up the ONT/OOT dilemna about 20 years ago and was told to shut up. I did.

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 06, 2026 10:40 PM (Jr+re)

148 Hey, Miklos!
Posted by: Bulg

Got the birfday card late.

*blames it on the Post Office*

Yer fine.

Posted by: Bishop Ralph of Miklosbury at August 06, 2026 10:40 PM (XOG/m)

149 It was *definitely* worth it for all those kids from red states to fight a generational war in the most godforsaken armpits of this cursed Earth to avenge the honor of NYC, so it could grace us with neighborhoods like Little Yemen and politicians like AOC and Zohran Mamdani.

Deal of the fuckin' century.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 06, 2026 10:41 PM (BI5O2)

150 Contrast and compare any liberal know-nothing progressive with the conservative Idaho chick doing the Flock Camera humor.

She's funny. She's attractive. She's informed. And, she's motivated.

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 10:41 PM (dIske)

151 But .nu is Niue, not Nauru Naoero.
Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)

That's good gnus!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 10:41 PM (1z8ji)

152 The local Smallville City Council will soon decide about the current Flock flood.

"I think the Police Department is going to recommend that we continue the contract with Flock for eight of the cameras that we have. Right now we have a ten total. They propose to create a contract with Axos for the other two cameras to try them out for a while."

Yup, that's how it's going. Land of the free.
Posted by: mindful webworker - got my eye on you, babe at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM

Smallville needs a visit from Superman (Truth, Justice, and the American Way), who places the cameras on Mercury for safekeeping.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2026 10:41 PM (qx7Zg)

153 highlighting metropolitan areas

Ah, so that's why all sorts of "cities" are missing. Of course, they don't also say that it's only certain "metropolitan areas." Useless as tits on a boar hog.

Posted by: GWB at August 06, 2026 10:42 PM (kU0PQ)

154 Are we renaming ONT’s Toots? It’s fun to say. And funny. And fits the sense of humor around here.
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)


It only works for Tuesdays and Thursdays. Talk to the person who does those nights. I hear he's very reasonable.

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:42 PM (QMAsf)

155 And he's got the panties to prove it
Posted by: My Delta name

Your gals had panties?

We used to dream of panties. We’d sit in the freezing lecture halls with nothing but a stiff breeze and misplaced hope to keep us modest. And you try telling the young people of today that, and they won’t believe you. “Panties?” they’d say. “You had actual fabric covering the essentials while pursuing higher education?” Luxury!! Absolute luxury!! We were lucky if we had a single strategic leaf and a stern warning from the dean.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 10:42 PM (w+2cP)

156 I ran across a New Yorker arguing every Muslim in NY should have to pay reparations to non-New Yorkers...and it actually makes a ton more sense then Mamdani taking money from white NYers.

Those Muslims in NYC cheered on 9/11 and are reaping the rewards right now with Bomb Daddy giving them $$$

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 10:42 PM (sKqQm)

157 An egg. An egg. An egg. An egg....
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I beg your pardon?

Posted by: Ann Elk at August 06, 2026 10:42 PM (XOG/m)

158 You can count on finding a good bathroom at a Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 06, 2026 10:42 PM (2Ez/1)

159 I don’t think there are too many gas stations left. They were combination “service stations” with a couple bays. They didn’t sell food, just a couple vending machines. Get yourself one of those plastic combo beef stick & cheese packs, they would absorb the 90 weight gear oil whang, and a cold Mt. Dew. Good for another couple hundred miles. Avoid the Sushi, and Do Not go in the bathroom unless there’s no choice

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 10:43 PM (BlF7w)

160 109 You know what has cruised countless nautical miles while using exactly zero fuel?

Sailboats.

See also, RAMMING SPEED!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 10:31 PM (Riz8t)

Ben Hur is unavailable for comment...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 06, 2026 10:43 PM (mP0Kj)

161 It only works for Tuesdays and Thursdays. Talk to the person who does those nights. I hear he's very reasonable.
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:42 PM (QMAsf)

True. We could have a woot. And a foot. But soots and moot aren’t very funny.

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

162 That business with flock cameras really snuck up on me. I don't even know if we have them in my community.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 06, 2026 10:44 PM (0Htd1)

163 Are we renaming ONT’s Toots? It’s fun to say. And funny. And fits the sense of humor around here.
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

It only works for Tuesdays and Thursdays. Talk to the person who does those nights. I hear he's very reasonable.
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:42 PM (QMAsf)

Saturdays and Sunday would be dirty, from the SOOTs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2026 10:44 PM (qx7Zg)

164 Abdul el Sayed tells Rogers ... "You are not going to have safe quarter from people holding you accountable."
----------------

Do you see the masculine Democrat toughguy rebrand yet? They are copying what Trump did, but from the Left and as a "movement" instead of a single person. Soon the picture of Democrats - sneaky establishment power stepping on the common man, and the feminine gay and trans identity bud light driven horseshit party that Trump worked so hard to fight and expose - will be a memory.

The new energetic party has a message - they are the party of the working man again. And strong. It's about branding, not reality. They're starting extreme to get attention and then the Party can slowly modulate the message, depending on how things are received. Trump did this too by opening with crazy extreme ideas (a muslim ban, punishment for abortions) and then paring back.

Calling him scary did not work and Democrats know why. And he lurched the country Right despite having just his voice - and so with practically 100% media control, they're giving it a shot. And they get to do it the Democrat Way. At arm's length in case it doesn't quite work out. But heavily coordinated.

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 10:44 PM (vE0+H)

165 I beg your pardon?
Posted by: Ann Elk

Ann, what is your theory of Brontosauruses?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 10:44 PM (w+2cP)

166 The One Vitamin Your Skin May Be Missing If You Have Wrinkles

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 10:44 PM (RCjYY)

167 "Go ahead and read it if you want. Let me know if you find it as useless as I did."

Bridgeport, CT at #14 - higher than Minneapolis, San Diego, Charleston and NYC? Yes, it has less than 150K people in it (in fact, no town in CT has more than 150K people in it), but I still don't believe that stat. At all.

Useless.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 10:44 PM (0CU3H)

168
Charlie Duke's voice was just perfect, especially as Capcom. He left a family portrait on the surface of the Moon, with the caption, "This is the family of Charlie Duke from planet Earth, who landed on the Moon on Apr 20, 1972"

David Scott left a Bible on the control panel of the lunar rover.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 10:45 PM (w6EFb)

169
First came the churches.
Then came the schools.
Then came the Flock cameras.
Then came the rules.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 06, 2026 10:45 PM (2Ez/1)

170 Contrast and compare any liberal know-nothing progressive with the conservative Idaho chick doing the Flock Camera humor.

She's funny. She's attractive. She's informed. And, she's motivated.

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 10:41 PM (dIske)

I.e., she wants something.

Posted by: Ellis at August 06, 2026 10:45 PM (dK+Kv)

171 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Getting released from the hospital tomorrow! 🎉🎉🎉

Will at least have a couple of days to spend with the grandsons before we go back home 🛫✈🛩

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 06, 2026 10:45 PM (XPqtf)

172 Buc-ee's seems to be gathering some poor PR lately for suing a bunch of small gas stations/c-stores for having a name that ends with long-e-apostrophe-s and a cartoon animal logo for trademark infringement. On the one hand, I understand the legal need to protect a trademark aggressively or risk losing it but on the other hand, it looks like another of those "Giant Corporations Stomps On Little Guy" stories that the press love so much. I wonder if a possible solution would be for Buc-ee's to go to each one and say "OK, we know you're probably not intentionally trying to trade on our image but we gotta do something. How about we sign a agreement to license your own name to you for a dollar a year and we'll go away forever."
Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 10:28 PM (vTZFs)

You are talking about people who are deliberately skirting copyright infringement for possible commercial gain in a competing business. Not like a whorehouse calling itself "Fuc-ees".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 10:45 PM (1z8ji)

173 See also, RAMMING SPEED!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 10:31 PM (Riz8t)

Ben Hur is unavailable for comment...
Posted by: Romeo13

Comment well and LIVE

Posted by: the CoBs at August 06, 2026 10:46 PM (XOG/m)

174 The One Vitamin Your Skin May Be Missing If You Have Wrinkles
Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 10:44 PM (RCjYY)

I thought that was caused by an excess of Vitamin W.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)

175 Those Muslims in NYC cheered on 9/11 and are reaping the rewards right now with Bomb Daddy giving them $$$
Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 10:42 PM (sKqQm)

___________________

No no no....that never happened. The Media told me as much. I'm sort of torn on the issue. I mean, I recorded television that whole day and have News coverage of a bunch of Muslims sitting on rooftops in lawn chairs cheering the view across the river from New Jersey. But, it must be an early version of AI, because that never happened.

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 10:46 PM (dIske)

176 Saturdays and Sunday would be dirty, from the SOOTs.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2026 10:44 PM (qx7Zg)


Saturday is the Club. As long as it remains open, it shall not be renamed COOT.

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (QMAsf)

177 Bed time. Be good!

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

178 >>So, Ann Arbor, a smallish city with a gigantic, big ten conference, university in it, has a high proportion of educated people. There's a shocker. I wonder how many of those other cities are university towns.

If you look where the DSA candidates are winning and where their votes are coming from it is almost universally from college towns. El Sayed got his votes from Dearborn, which has a huge muslim population and in areas with colleges like Ann Arbor. Hong in Wisconsin is from Madison, the birthplace of liberalism in the US and the U of Wisconsin. AOC, NYC. Mamdani, NYC. Mayor of Boston, biggest college city in the country.

Our public schools and universities have been breeding communists for years. Chickens are roosting.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (viF8m)

179 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Getting released from the hospital tomorrow! 🎉🎉🎉

Will at least have a couple of days to spend with the grandsons before we go back home 🛫✈🛩
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 06, 2026 10:45 PM (XPqtf)

Hip, hip, hooray!!!!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)

180 Not like a whorehouse calling itself "Fuc-ees".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

My client, Dr. Fauci, is intrigued.

Posted by: Miklos Molnar, Esq. at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (XOG/m)

181 Evening all. No progress on the job. If I don't hear anything by noon tomorrow I'll poke 'em again but the update yesterday is that they were still trying to schedule with the client for the interview. God I pray this doesn't crash and burn due to the client deciding they can do without or something.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (aJQbY)

182 My college had a presentation of Noises Off.

The woman that played Brooke Ashton had a class with me before practice and she showed up in her costume a couple of times.

And then apparently they got to the scene were Brooke ends up in her skivvies and...while my class mate had a slightly more modest costume, more like a baby doll, I noticed the professor stammered through the lecture and made a measured effort to focus on the chalkboard and not look at the class...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (sKqQm)

183 Ann, what is your theory of Brontosauruses?

Passable chick authors.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (Riz8t)

184 I don't know many people except old ladies who don't have a truck. Whoever heard of such?
Posted by: LRob in OK


I'm a middle-aged dude with no truck. Just a sedan.

If I need a truck, I can rent one, because this is America.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (VHUov)

185 Awesome news, Teresa!

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

186 133 I'm going to my first Buc-ees next week while in Ohio. I can hardly wait. They don't have them in the PNW, so this seems like a big deal.
Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (tEQWR)

Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a s#!t.

Posted by: Rhett Butt-ler at August 06, 2026 10:48 PM (0CU3H)

187 122 Tessa Fowler? OK, I concede.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 10:48 PM (77rzZ)

188
Dr. Charles Berry (yep, Chuck Berry), head MD at Johnson during Apollo, also had a voice like butter. I mean, right of central casting for the part.

That voice of his could talk me through and into anything. Alright, you're having heart attack, but everything's gonna be fine if you just keep your head and do what I tell you... I would be calm.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 10:48 PM (w6EFb)

189 Swaziland to Eswatini

Shaken, not stirred.

Posted by: James Bond, colonizer at August 06, 2026 10:49 PM (TbWk/)

190 Bed time. Be good!
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

Why?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2026 10:49 PM (qx7Zg)

191 I'm a middle-aged dude with no truck. Just a sedan.

mikeski, I meant in my "real" life, not my horde life.

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 06, 2026 10:49 PM (Jr+re)

192 Gas
Bathrooms
Coffee
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (O0L8i)

Eat
Propane
Ice

Posted by: That's what the sign said, anyway at August 06, 2026 10:49 PM (1Ff7Z)

193 34: Yes, it's the seat of government, but most of those people are highly educated.


Credentialed. Educated may be a stretch.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 06, 2026 10:50 PM (pLaQB)

194
If you look where the DSA candidates are winning and where their votes are coming from it is almost universally from college towns


I've come to believe the argument this is a sign of colleges over producing people with degrees the private sector doesn't want as the most strident socialists in America are people with a fancy degree not making much money and the most anti-socialist people are those without an advanced degree making a good salary.

These DSA voters believe even if they don't get full on socialism they'll get the government looting the workers in full force again to finance more do nothing NGO jobs.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 10:50 PM (sKqQm)

195 Currently vacationing in a very expensive neighborhood where 5 houses in a row were flying their Amercan flags upside down.... fucking disgraceful losers.

If an election doesn't go their way it's not a democracy anymore

I bet none of these rich assholes ever held a real job

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 06, 2026 10:50 PM (bLE/b)

196 Yes, it's the seat of government, but most of those people are highly educated.

Credentialed. Educated may be a stretch.



Fair.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 10:50 PM (Riz8t)

197 You rarely see "Eswatini" in a limerick.

Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 06, 2026 10:50 PM (2Ez/1)

198 TiFW

Good for you.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 10:51 PM (RCjYY)

199 Burma is Burma. Accept no substitutes!

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 10:51 PM (g47mK)

200 I don't know many people except old ladies who don't have a truck. Whoever heard of such?
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (Jr+re)

I am the guy with the truck. But so many people in rural Alberta own trucks (and nothing else!) that I never get calls to help people move, or borrow my truck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 10:51 PM (1z8ji)

201 Not like a whorehouse calling itself "Fuc-ees".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

My client, Dr. Fauci, is intrigued.

Posted by: Miklos Molnar, Esq. at August 06, 2026 10:47 PM (XOG/m)

This is funny to me, because I pronounce that soulless demon's name Fucky all the time. I am not even quite certain of the proper pronunciation.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 06, 2026 10:51 PM (0aYVJ)

202
Berry's voice and manner of speaking was such it sounded like some good ol' boy you've known all your life, yet with high authority.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 10:51 PM (w6EFb)

203 Eat
Gas
Now

Always seemed to make little sense.

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 06, 2026 10:51 PM (Jr+re)

204 Thursday Overnight Open Thread

Wait a minute. This isn't an ONT, it's an ONOT.

This Doof, if that's his real name, has transgressed the mos maiorum. Where do I apply for a refund?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls


I just assumed the "open" was silent.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 10:52 PM (VHUov)

205 Ann, what is your theory of Brontosauruses?


They require rather large bonnets

Posted by: Ann Elk at August 06, 2026 10:52 PM (XOG/m)

206 Gynecologists Explain Why Women With Incontinence Should Try This Instead of Pads

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 10:53 PM (RCjYY)

207 There are Wawa stations everywhere around here, like everywhere. When we head out to ride some of the roads in the pine barrens heading down to the shore area I think we can hit 5 of them in a 36 mile stretch, and a 6th one is maybe another 10 miles. 2 of them seem to be a big stop for motorcycles. You'll see an easy 30-40 bikes gassing up, getting drinks/snacks, and taking a break. They are always busy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2026 10:53 PM (S41Gd)

208 >>These DSA voters believe even if they don't get full on socialism they'll get the government looting the workers in full force again to finance more do nothing NGO jobs.

Remember the riots a couple years ago at schools like Columbia (Obama's alma mater), UCLA, etc.? Mostly wealthy kids from places like the Hamptons cosplaying as militants wearing keffiyehs, threatening Jewish students and breaking shit for grins?

That is the DSA base. Over educated idiots who don't know shit.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 10:54 PM (viF8m)

209 I was in an amateur production of Noises Off. What a fun play.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 10:54 PM (77rzZ)

210 I could certainly be wrong, but I think Buc-ee's is a private company and from the number of stores they own, not all that big. Should they sue? Yes.

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 06, 2026 10:55 PM (Jr+re)

211 "Well, that's what we tell ourselves, isn't it, Boomhauer."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 06, 2026 10:55 PM (CHHv1)

212 The sportscaster was awesome! Somebody has watched a LOT of baseball...
My late FIL was a sportscaster for CBS for decades- used to do the color commentary for the old (the REAL) Southwest Conference. Had a gorgeous voice, a smooth baritone.
Little did I know, as a young girl vaguely listening to the UT game that my brothers had on, that I would grow up to marry that guy's son.

Posted by: sal at August 06, 2026 10:56 PM (f+FmA)

213 Honestly, gas stations along the highway have two jobs. Gas, and bathrooms. If you won’t do those two things, don’t advertise.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 06, 2026 10:35 PM (kYmoU)

____________

Gas
Bathrooms
Coffee
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (O0L8i)

***

Don't forget the sushi.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 10:56 PM (2WIwB)

214 So DC is number 4 in education, yet as of 2007 1/3 of the population was illiterate. Must have made up for it with the butt fucking 20% shit.

Posted by: Reforger at August 06, 2026 10:56 PM (st6oP)

215 197 You rarely see "Eswatini" in a limerick.
Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 06, 2026 10:50 PM (2Ez/1)
______________________________________

An Eswatini, is the preferred drink of organized hookers in the European Union. It's a Martini, of course. And, is generally served in redlight districts througout the EU. ESWA stands for:

European Sex Workers Rights Alliance: A coalition working to protect and recognize the labor, health, and human rights of sex workers across Europe.

An Eswatini is usual made with cheap gin pretending to be high quality. It's usually way overpriced. And, leaves a fishy aftertaste.

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 10:56 PM (dIske)

216 Burma is Burma. Accept no substitutes!
Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 10:51 PM (g47mK)

Myanamar Shave! Oh, fuck that!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 10:57 PM (1z8ji)

217 Honestly, gas stations along the highway have two jobs. Gas, and bathrooms. If you won’t do those two things, don’t advertise.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 06, 2026 10:35 PM (kYmoU)

____________

Gas
Bathrooms
Coffee
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (O0L8i)

Fireworks

Posted by: Pedro Says @ SOTB at August 06, 2026 10:57 PM (wVcYX)

218 Phil Edwards did a great video on Buc-ee's.

https://youtu.be/aax5JI9qQgo

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 06, 2026 10:58 PM (2Ez/1)

219 the preferred drink of organized hookers

And, leaves a fishy aftertaste.


Low hanging curve, but I pass.

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 06, 2026 10:58 PM (Jr+re)

220 Dr. Berry wasn’t well liked necessarily, from what I’ve read. Pilots have a love/hate relationship with flight docs, because there are only two possibilities with an encounter. Good to go, or grounded.

But I read he was a little bit of a publicity hound, and tended to blab publicly about things he should not have. I didn’t know the guy, this is just hearsay.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 10:58 PM (BlF7w)

221 DJ Doof - Blue Edition

Bonus tracks!

iamthemorning - Blue Sea
https://youtu.be/bSLhDQfxLHE

Yoko Kanno - Blue
https://youtu.be/Xjzb_-26m2o

echolyn - Heavy Blue Miles
https://youtu.be/_e5LQAxP_Ds

Aythis - Into The Blue
https://youtu.be/PzM7IiPj3OQ

and now with twice the blue:
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Through Sky Blue Rooms
https://youtu.be/nAHhvAXfEQE

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 10:58 PM (VHUov)

222 It'll always be Burma to me...

https://youtu.be/vAlinvw2Rb0

Posted by: J. Peterman at August 06, 2026 11:00 PM (2Ez/1)

223 Honestly, gas stations along the highway have two jobs. Gas, and bathrooms. If you won’t do those two things, don’t advertise.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 06, 2026 10:35 PM (kYmoU)

____________

Gas
Bathrooms
Coffee
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (O0L8i)

Fireworks


And an almost fantatical devotion to the Pope.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 11:00 PM (Riz8t)

224 I beg your pardon?
Posted by: Ann Elk at August 06, 2026 10:42 PM (XOG/m)

https://tinyurl.com/yrvrsh2n

Posted by: That's what the sign said, anyway at August 06, 2026 11:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

225 An Eswatini is usual made with cheap gin pretending to be high quality. It's usually way overpriced. And, leaves a fishy aftertaste.
Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 10:56 PM (dIske)

I am drinking a Caesar, made with TRex brand vodka, made in St. Albert, Alberta (a bedroom community to Edmonton, now). Kind of tasteless, but I guess that's the reason for vodka, anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 11:01 PM (1z8ji)

226 Bonus tracks!

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 10:58 PM (VHUov)

Suite Madame Blue

https://youtu.be/CkkQPxoxJJY

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 11:01 PM (dK+Kv)

227 And an almost fantatical devotion to the Pope Poop.
Posted by: Archimedes


FIFBuc-ees.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 11:02 PM (VHUov)

228 Posted by: mikeski

You and Doof forgot the greatest of them all-

Blue Horizon by Sidney Bechet

Posted by: New Orleans influenced Miklos at August 06, 2026 11:02 PM (XOG/m)

229 It'll always be Burma to me...

https://youtu.be/vAlinvw2Rb0
Posted by: J. Peterman


HAHAHAH!!

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 11:02 PM (g47mK)

230 212 Voices are an underrated human quality.

Karen Carpenter was not classically beautiful, but, damn, her voice was gorgeous.

Karen’s voice was to her what Jayne Mansfield’s boobs were to her.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:02 PM (77rzZ)

231 16 Did anyone else notice that the 'most educated cities' tracks pretty closely with the preponderance of emotionally damaged, blue-haired, facially pierced, simian-like intellectuals with BO and no grasp of history denizens.

Posted by: Tonypete
----

Yes, it calls into question the word, educated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 11:03 PM (6T7Go)

232 I would add a corollary to the many descriptions of the typical DSA voter profile:

Many are women without children, who know they won't be having any.

That gives these people a very relaxed attitude about the future. No skin in the game.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 11:03 PM (RCjYY)

233 Posted by: That's what the sign said, anyway

Actual video is rare, but it exists

Posted by: Chef Miklos at August 06, 2026 11:04 PM (XOG/m)

234 That business with flock cameras really snuck up on me. I don't even know if we have them in my community.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Here you go:

https://maps.deflock.org/

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 11:04 PM (w+2cP)

235 Blue Rondo a la Turk:

https://youtu.be/FqPC-BkylxA

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 11:04 PM (1z8ji)

236 For context in 2016 I was one of the very few voices here who said Trump was gonna win - and what's more I said he would make it look easy. I was called a lot of names for it.

I'm just trying to tell you what's going on. It's not doom or conspiracy, it's just that I see shit.

Cannot tell you how this particular psy op is gonna work out because I'm not a prognosticators and the wildcard is still Trump. If I can see what they're doing, he definitely knows, and probably looooong before I did. He will have an idea how to fight it, but it's been designed to be very difficult to combat or stop.

That's why they're currently utilizing a diffuse "extreme" movement, keeping it apart from the larger party that's actually in control, and not holding it within a single crazy person (yet).

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 11:04 PM (vE0+H)

237 Good evening morons und danke Disko

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 11:05 PM (JvZF+)

238 Did anyone else notice that the 'most educated cities' tracks pretty closely with

==

Islamonazis? YES!

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 11:05 PM (g47mK)

239 So DC is number 4 in education, yet as of 2007 1/3 of the population was illiterate. Must have made up for it with the butt fucking 20% shit.
Posted by: Reforger at August 06, 2026 10:56 PM (st6oP)

A lot of them are in the "I must be edumacated. Dat dere high school gave me a piece of paper and said I don't come here no more."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2026 11:05 PM (qx7Zg)

240 Those buc-ees bathrooms are nicer than I saw on some cruise ships. Even the frigging tile work is amazing. Its some of the most perfectly laid tile and perfect grout lines I ever saw in a commercial setting. Yeah, I notice that shit. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2026 11:05 PM (S41Gd)

241 Honestly, gas stations along the highway have two jobs. Gas, and bathrooms. If you won’t do those two things, don’t advertise.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 06, 2026 10:35 PM (kYmoU)

____________

Gas
Bathrooms
Coffee
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (O0L8i)

Three guys playing loud, an attendant, an old man proprietor, and leggy customers . . .
https://youtu.be/Ae829mFAGGE

That's all you need.

Posted by: Gimme All Your Lovin' at August 06, 2026 11:06 PM (wVcYX)

242 Good evening morons und danke Disko
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 11:05 PM (JvZF+)


Howdy SF

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 11:06 PM (QMAsf)

243 237 Hey, SanF.! Hope you are well.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:06 PM (77rzZ)

244 Howdy, horde!

Thanks for the TOOT, Doof!

Posted by: JQ at August 06, 2026 11:06 PM (rdVOm)

245

EATS

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 11:07 PM (Cqx++)

246 Karen’s voice was to her what Jayne Mansfield’s boobs were to her.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:02 PM (77rzZ)

Some people have a rock climbing wall. You need a fucking boob climbing wall. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2026 11:08 PM (S41Gd)

247 >>Those buc-ees bathrooms are nicer than I saw on some cruise ships. Even the frigging tile work is amazing. Its some of the most perfectly laid tile and perfect grout lines I ever saw in a commercial setting. Yeah, I notice that shit. lol

During the World Cup when foreigners were posting videos about their trip to the US, I saw a French guy's post that was pretty funny. He said something like as a Frenchman he shouldn't admit it but he loved the US and one the highlights for him was Buc ess and particularly the bathrooms. Said they were nicer than his apartment. Not the bathroom in his apartment, his apartment.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 11:09 PM (viF8m)

248 Use This Product to Tighten Crepe Skin (Not a Moisturizer)

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 11:09 PM (RCjYY)

249 134 >>Wish I'd learned to sail.
Withholds thoughts of pissing on straws leg.

It's never too late. Go for it.

Fair warning, if it turns out you like it you will never get it out of your blood.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (viF8m)


Ummm....get which one out of your blood?

Asking for a friend....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 06, 2026 11:10 PM (XPqtf)

250 Hot & smoky here. Ugh. Also for the next few days.

"Fire Weather Watch" in effect until tomorrow night. Hot, extremely dry, and gusty winds... No doubt that some jerk tossing a cigarette out their vehicle's window will burn hundreds, if not thousands, of acres.

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: JQ at August 06, 2026 11:11 PM (rdVOm)

251 Good night, horde. Thanks for a great ONT, again!

(Or is that OOT?)

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 06, 2026 11:11 PM (Jr+re)

252 Actual video is rare, but it exists
Posted by: Chef Miklos at August 06, 2026 11:04 PM (XOG/m)

Couldn't find the one where he followed the record and it kept skipping back to "an egg."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 06, 2026 11:11 PM (1Ff7Z)

253 Those buc-ees bathrooms are nicer than I saw on some cruise ships. Even the frigging tile work is amazing. Its some of the most perfectly laid tile and perfect grout lines I ever saw in a commercial setting. Yeah, I notice that shit. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

And - with the full walls between each urinal, the preferred and inviolate rules of urinal selection seem to be slipping.

Strange new world I tell you!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 11:11 PM (w+2cP)

254 I would add a corollary to the many descriptions of the typical DSA voter profile:

Many are women without children, who know they won't be having any.

That gives these people a very relaxed attitude about the future. No skin in the game.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 11:03 PM (RCjYY)

Also not a mother looking to expend motherly energy on something, e.g., karens.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 11:12 PM (dK+Kv)

255 >>Ummm....get which one out of your blood?

Sailing. It can become an addiction.

Glad to hear you are feeling better.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 11:12 PM (viF8m)

256 That gives these people a very relaxed attitude about the future. No skin in the game.
Posted by: mnw


On government debt-


"In the long run, we're all dead"

Posted by: childless homosexual economist John Maynard Keynes at August 06, 2026 11:12 PM (XOG/m)

257 Credentialed is the issue. Getting into College used to be pretty tough, it wasn’t enough to have the scratch to pay for tuition, you had to be admitted. Near as I can tell they’ll take anybody that can fog a mirror now. Of course, this all ends very badly at some point, perhaps a lot sooner than we think.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 11:12 PM (BlF7w)

258 Urologists Reveal Why Seniors Lose Leg Power-- and the Simple Fix

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 11:12 PM (RCjYY)

259 The DC-haters
_-_
Hey! Over here! I earned it, though. Lived there in th 90's for a bit. Got my fill really quick (also educated). Lots of very interesting people there, all right...just waaay too many.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 06, 2026 11:13 PM (48SW1)

260 Great news {TiFW} should be pretty good weather

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 11:13 PM (JvZF+)

261 Yeah, I know, really quickly (educated he says...hmph.)

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 06, 2026 11:14 PM (48SW1)

262 246 Climbing boobs while listening to Karen Carpenter singing.

*swoons*

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:14 PM (77rzZ)

263 Love Is Blue:

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

Posted by: goozer at August 06, 2026 11:14 PM (eTh1u)

264 Sailing. It can become an addiction.



Marleen and Charleen say I should stick with motorboating

I think they's right

Posted by: Miklos in the privacy of his own home at August 06, 2026 11:15 PM (XOG/m)

265 Sitting under a beautiful Sonoma sunset.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 11:15 PM (JvZF+)

266 Urologists Reveal Why Seniors Lose Leg Power-- and the Simple Fix
Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 11:12 PM (RCjYY)

"You, too can climb ladders like a pro with the K-Tel prehensile dick. Order now!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)

267 If you really want to point a camera at lawmakers who vote for Flock cameras, you might try a Fairchild K-17. During WWII, the USAAF used them for high altitude aerial reconnaissance.

https://tinyurl.com/3a3zjn88+

At this point, a realistic shell might be sufficient.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2026 11:16 PM (qx7Zg)

268 The most educated map proves formal education doesn't necessarily less ignorance.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 11:16 PM (KC5Lt)

269 Those buc-ees bathrooms are nicer than I saw on some cruise ships.

Said they were nicer than his apartment. Not the bathroom in his apartment, his apartment.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 11:09 PM (viF8m)

Our toilets are nicer than most peoples' homes.

Posted by: Engulf and Devour at August 06, 2026 11:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

270 Sitting under a beautiful Sonoma sunset.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 11:15 PM (JvZF+)

If it was a Williams Sonoma sunset, it would cost you $849.00

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 11:17 PM (1z8ji)

271 Loch Leven is nice, but what about Loch Twelve?

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 11:18 PM (oq9dX)

272 formal education doesn't necessarily [indicate] less ignorance.
_-_
...and there is no fool like an educated fool. I should know.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 06, 2026 11:18 PM (48SW1)

273 To the gal with the Buc-ee's shirt...please put it back.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 06, 2026 11:19 PM (48SW1)

274 Loch Leven is nice, but what about Loch Twelve?

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 11:18 PM (oq9dX)

Loched in a tie.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 11:19 PM (dK+Kv)

275 "You, too can climb ladders like a pro with the K-Tel prehensile dick. Order now!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That was actually a Ronco product

Posted by: Miklos waits, because there's more at August 06, 2026 11:19 PM (XOG/m)

276
I can conclude that the Gurgle ad serving algorithm has determined that we're a little on the old side, here.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 11:20 PM (w6EFb)

277 formal education doesn't necessarily [indicate] less ignorance.
_-_
...and there is no fool like an educated fool. I should know.
Posted by: Don in SoCo


Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 11:20 PM (VHUov)

278 Transfer Station Blue:

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

Posted by: goozer at August 06, 2026 11:21 PM (eTh1u)

279 Glad you're on the mend, TiFW!

Posted by: JQ at August 06, 2026 11:21 PM (rdVOm)

280 The DC-haters

AC wouldn't be the same without 'em.

Heck's Bell or some such. Not good.

Posted by: Sticking to the Right at August 06, 2026 11:21 PM (DBT/q)

281 Sailing. It can become an addiction.



Marleen and Charleen say I should stick with motorboating

I think they's right
Posted by: Miklos in the privacy of his own home at August 06, 2026 11:15 PM (XOG/m)

Every man's got to have a hobby he enjoys.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 06, 2026 11:21 PM (wVcYX)

282 On the bonny, bonny bank of Loch Lomond

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:21 PM (77rzZ)

283 Those buc-ees bathrooms are nicer than I saw on some cruise ships.


Racism and bigotry

Posted by: the Turkish Toilet Association of America at August 06, 2026 11:21 PM (XOG/m)

284 The military taught me that stereotypes are just that, city dwellers are not necessarily urbane sophisticates, nor are hick rubes dumber than a post. There are all sorts of permutations and combinations thereof. Officers can be dense, and some of them brilliant. Etc. Now there are idiot hillbillies and DANs and all the rest of it too, but you learn to put those preconceptions aside. You might be surprised, nobody else likes to be pre-judged any more than you.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 11:21 PM (BlF7w)

285 I don't necessarily support the flock cameras but I wish the critics would make it clear they don't agree specifically with the government doing surveillance since private surveillance is likely 100x more.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 11:22 PM (KC5Lt)

286 Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them.
_-_
mikeski speaks a great truth.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 06, 2026 11:22 PM (48SW1)

287 I want that Buc-ees shirt.
Posted by: Berserker


You might have to print it yourself.

The text is as squared up as this comment block, so either she's a robot or it's a photoshop.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 11:23 PM (VHUov)

288 On the bonny, bonny bank of Loch Lomond
Posted by: Bulg

You take the High Road
And I'll take the Low Road

The Low Road is more my style

Posted by: High-living lowlife Miklos McMiklos at August 06, 2026 11:23 PM (XOG/m)

289 Karen’s voice was to her what Jayne Mansfield’s boobs were to her.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:02 PM (77rzZ)

Some people have a rock climbing wall. You need a fucking boob climbing wall. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2026 11:08 PM (S41Gd)

***

Wall...
Boobs...
?????
Profit!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 11:24 PM (2WIwB)

290 If it was a Williams Sonoma sunset, it would cost you $849.00
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 11:17 PM (1z8ji)

====

You forgot 10.25% sales tax. Not kidding.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 11:24 PM (JvZF+)

291 I don't necessarily support the flock cameras but I wish the critics would make it clear they don't agree specifically with the government doing surveillance since private surveillance is likely 100x more.

I suspect if the Dems win in '28 the left will flip back to "if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear from surveillance "

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 11:24 PM (sKqQm)

292 On the bonny, bonny bank of Loch Lomond
Posted by: Bulg

You take the High Road
And I'll take the Low Road

The Low Road is more my style
Posted by: High-living lowlife Miklos McMiklos at August 06, 2026 11:23 PM (XOG/m)

There's plenty of friends there . . .

Posted by: Garth Brooks at August 06, 2026 11:24 PM (wVcYX)

293 Damned wasps! Got stung on a finger while turning off the water outside.

But I *win* because the b@star@d lost its stinger. Hah!
Die, wasp, die!!!

Posted by: JQ at August 06, 2026 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

294 287 I want that Buc-ees shirt.
Posted by: Berserker

$25:

https://tinyurl.com/yzc5azfj

Posted by: I'm the internet; I'm here to help at August 06, 2026 11:25 PM (2Ez/1)

295 Some people have a rock climbing wall. You need a fucking boob climbing wall. lol
Posted by: Berserker


Rock-climbing wall: hand/footholds are color-coded for difficulty.

Boob-climbing wall: DDs are easiest, As are hardest.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 11:25 PM (VHUov)

296 288 Miklos, you crack me up.

I hope you are well.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:26 PM (77rzZ)

297 14 Chronic Snorers Tested 31 Products for 5 Months-- Only One Worked for Everyone

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 11:27 PM (RCjYY)

298 Posted by: Garth Brooks at August 06, 2026 11:24 PM (wVcY

Never understood your popularity.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 11:27 PM (KC5Lt)

299 I don't agree specifically with the government doing surveillance since private surveillance is likely 100x more AND I also won't go into Lowes or Home Depot or Wallyworld for the same reason, and I have been yelling about this crap for decades.

Your point is correct, of course. And the correlation of data on the backend of all of these systems (since the data, BOTH private and public, gets thrown into the same bucket(s) on the backend) is where this really goes bad.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 06, 2026 11:27 PM (48SW1)

300 Denny's is a good place to take a shit.

Posted by: Captain Splatter at August 06, 2026 11:28 PM (oq9dX)

301 Howdy SF
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 11:06 PM (QMAsf)

243 237 Hey, SanF.! Hope you are well.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:06 PM (77rzZ)
====

Hello gents. Could be better could be worse.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 11:28 PM (JvZF+)

302 To the gal with the Buc-ee's shirt...please put it back.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 06, 2026 11:19 PM (48SW1)
-

Glad I'm not the only one. Sickening. Still hoping it's AI.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 06, 2026 11:28 PM (LgsNJ)

303 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at August 06, 2026 11:29 PM (2Ez/1)

304 There's a really good band playing tonight in the town square. Lots of 80s pop.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 11:29 PM (JvZF+)

305 The boob-climbing wall. What do you land on if you fall off?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 11:30 PM (1z8ji)

306 298 Posted by: Garth Brooks at August 06, 2026 11:24 PM (wVcY

Never understood your popularity.
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 11:27 PM (KC5Lt)

He's no Chris Gaines.

Posted by: can you believe that shit? at August 06, 2026 11:30 PM (nt2TN)

307 But, seriously, Karen Carpenter’s voice was damned sexy.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:30 PM (77rzZ)

308 I hope you are well.
Posted by: Bulg

If I fall down a well, I have a girl dog, so she is a Lassie

Posted by: Save him, Dixie! at August 06, 2026 11:31 PM (XOG/m)

309 Denny's is a good place to take a shit.
Posted by: Captain Splatter at August 06, 2026 11:28 PM (oq9dX)


Be careful. Tacoma drivers just roll right into the parking lot without looking.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 11:31 PM (2WIwB)

310 I suspect if the Dems win in '28 the left will flip back to "if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear from surveillance "
_-_
That seems likely. The party in power spends like crazy and increases surveillance while the party out of power complains about both and reverses course when in power.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 06, 2026 11:31 PM (48SW1)

311 The Buc-ees shirt doesn't make sense on her because women don't poop.

That's my position and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 11:32 PM (KC5Lt)

312 There is Celine Dion and then there is nothing.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 11:32 PM (RCjYY)

313 Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me
Bo Carter
https://youtu.be/J6eBNlLvD-M


Bo knows.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 06, 2026 11:33 PM (wVcYX)

314 Hello gents. Could be better could be worse.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 11:28 PM (JvZF+)


Sounds whelming

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 11:33 PM (QMAsf)

315
Speaking of Charles Berry, there was a incident with Jim Irwin on Apollo 15. Both he and Scott got dehydrated and overheated during their EVAs, Irwin worse than Scott. There was a problem with the water dispensing system in the suits. Apollo 15 was the first J-mission, longer duration stays, and much more science work. Each EVA lasted about 7 hours on average.

Upon take-off from the surface, Irwin started experiencing a serious arrhythmia. Berry later said that if Irwin were back on earth, he would sent him to the ICU right then and there, and told Chris Kraft and Gene Kranz so.

We don't know who really made the call, but they didn't tell the crew about it. Berry probably thought that might make it worse. The EKG went back to normal, but they watched it like a hawk all the way back.

And Irwin did have a heart attack 2 years later, and another two after that, dying during the third one. He was the first of the Moonwalkers to pass away.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 11:33 PM (w6EFb)

316 Blue Light Gaze:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj26um4z-Xc

Posted by: goozer at August 06, 2026 11:34 PM (eTh1u)

317 311 Wut?
— Amber Heard

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:34 PM (77rzZ)

318 I used to say that Phil Collins is the epitome of mediocrity.

But then I found out about his interest in and involvement with the Alamo.

Righteous dude.

Posted by: Miklos stands corrected at August 06, 2026 11:36 PM (XOG/m)

319 After watching this, MiladyJo says, "I have so many questions!" Indeed.

Petula's coat - I think we have a beach bag that looks like that. And, of course, it's all lip-synched to the radio recording. But, OMG, the set and the dancers, some kind of mix of hippie and ghey and I don't know. This is what the producers of the Ed Sullivan Show thought was Hip and Cool and Groovy in 1968. It was a sign of the times.

Linked for historical analysis porpoises only.

https://youtu.be/rhKTqdSwx2I

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - vaguely exact at August 06, 2026 11:36 PM (62m/B)

320 >>That seems likely. The party in power spends like crazy and increases surveillance while the party out of power complains about both and reverses course when in power.

I hate the idea of Flock cameras. My town actually has none but we're an anomaly. For now anyway.

But the idea of anonymity in the digital age is whistling past the graveyard. Unless you are living off the grid with no internet, no cell phone, ATM card or credit card, you are not anonymous.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 11:37 PM (viF8m)

321 311 Wut?
— Amber Heard
......

You're one of a kind, honey.

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 11:37 PM (oq9dX)

322 The Buc-ees shirt doesn't make sense on her because women don't poop.

That's my position and I'm sticking to it.
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 11:32 PM (KC5Lt)

***
You've never used the rest room after Mrs D's been in there after a dinner of chili dogs.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 11:38 PM (2WIwB)

323 Sounds whelming
Posted by: Doof

Whelm-ish

Posted by: the Oxford Miklos Dictionary at August 06, 2026 11:38 PM (XOG/m)

324 If interested, this is my favorite painting technically wise. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 11:39 PM (KC5Lt)

325 >>this is my favorite painting technically wise

Niiiice!

You're very talented!

Posted by: JQ at August 06, 2026 11:40 PM (rdVOm)

326
Now there are idiot hillbillies and DANs

DANs ?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 11:41 PM (Cqx++)

327 >>You've never used the rest room after Mrs D's been in there after a dinner of chili dogs.

Can I have your stuff?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 11:41 PM (viF8m)

328 I hate the idea of Flock cameras. My town actually has none but we're an anomaly. For now anyway.

But the idea of anonymity in the digital age is whistling past the graveyard. Unless you are living off the grid with no internet, no cell phone, ATM card or credit card, you are not anonymous.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 11:37 PM (viF8m)


True enough, but I still flip them off when I drive past.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 11:42 PM (2WIwB)

329 Can I have your stuff?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 11:41 PM (viF8m)

lol

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 11:42 PM (KC5Lt)

330 Blue Light Boogie:

https://youtu.be/SvlR5I-zOr4

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2026 11:42 PM (1z8ji)

331 If interested, this is my favorite painting technically wise. See nic.
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 11:39 PM (KC5Lt)


Wow! Well done!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 11:43 PM (2WIwB)

332 "Flock Off!" Would be a great name for an organized movement. Just sayin'

Posted by: JQ at August 06, 2026 11:44 PM (rdVOm)

333 But the idea of anonymity in the digital age is whistling past the graveyard. Unless you are living off the grid with no internet, no cell phone, ATM card or credit card, you are not anonymous.
Posted by: JackStraw


And so few people do that, that your lifestyle identifies you just as well as if you were living underneath a Flock camera.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 11:44 PM (VHUov)

334 Pubs, Somebody pointed out at the time there wasn’t much better than they could do for him on Earth, he was in a weightless environment, and on 100% O2.

Pete Conrad went next, I think. he crashed his motorcycle, nothing seemingly too serious, but apparently sustained internal injuries and he died on the table. Maybe if they had taken him to a larger or better equipped hospital they could have saved him.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 11:45 PM (d20MQ)

335 307 But, seriously, Karen Carpenter’s voice was damned sexy.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 11:30 PM (77rzZ)


That's a natural fact. And on the other end of the sexy spectrum I submit to you Olivia Newton John.

Posted by: goozer at August 06, 2026 11:46 PM (eTh1u)

336 During the World Cup when foreigners were posting videos about their trip to the US, I saw a French guy's post that was pretty funny. He said something like as a Frenchman he shouldn't admit it but he loved the US and one the highlights for him was Buc ess and particularly the bathrooms. Said they were nicer than his apartment. Not the bathroom in his apartment, his apartment.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 11:09 PM (viF8m)

Was that the dude who said he would give his left croissant for a texas brisket? That dude was a riot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2026 11:46 PM (S41Gd)

337 DANs ?
_-_
Pretty sure that is an acronym that can only be spoken if you are not white. If you are white, to speak it is a crime...which means the actual crime is being white?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 06, 2026 11:47 PM (48SW1)

338 The Carpenters were produced well, lots of double-tracked vocals and lush harmonies, it was a little over the top & saccharine sweet. Just what everyone needed to come down after the 60s, I expect.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 11:50 PM (d20MQ)

339 DANs ?
_-_
Pretty sure that is an acronym that can only be spoken if you are not white. If you are white, to speak it is a crime...which means the actual crime is being white?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 06, 2026 11:47 PM (48SW1)

Dirty Ace of spades Non-nooders?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 11:51 PM (dK+Kv)

340 Not even midnight yet?

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 11:52 PM (Ia/+0)

341 >> could do for him on Earth, he was in a weightless environment, and on 100% O2.

That's exactly what Berry told Kraft and Kranz. While the total cabin pressure was "only" 5 psi, that was pure O2 and thus was well higher than sea level O2 partial pressure of about 3 psia. During the EVAs, the suit pressure was lowered to about 3.75 psi, still higher than sea level.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 11:53 PM (w6EFb)

342 That dude was a riot.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Careful

Parisians are sensitive about this term

Posted by: Mikleuse recalls French Halal Car-B-Ques at August 06, 2026 11:53 PM (XOG/m)

343 I used to say that Phil Collins is the epitome of mediocrity.

But then I found out about his interest in and involvement with the Alamo.
Posted by: Miklos stands corrected

One of the few men that knows how to get to the bowling alley in the basement.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 11:54 PM (w+2cP)

344 Love your stuff Polynikes! What people think is “best” is always a matter of taste; Algiers Point is technically perfect! But I know what I like to look at would be Color of Fall and Cruz Bay. Both of those are just really appealing!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 06, 2026 11:54 PM (pfrqN)

345 >>And so few people do that, that your lifestyle identifies you just as well as if you were living underneath a Flock camera.

Earlier in my career I worked on the transition from arpanet to the internet including things like network colocation and peering. The NSA was never far away. And they never left.

Hell, the CIA was one of the first seed investors in Google. The CIA created Google Earth. It's a great story that Bezos just got an idea to sell books on this new thing called the internet and started a business in his parents garage. Better story is his grandfather was one of the founders of ARPA now DARPA.

One ring to bind them.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 11:54 PM (viF8m)

346 Not even midnight yet?
Posted by: Skip

Back to School soon, young Skipper

Posted by: Kindly but strict Aunt Miklos at August 06, 2026 11:55 PM (XOG/m)

347 Anybody looking for a few words of wisdom?

Posted by: muldoon at August 06, 2026 11:56 PM (I0N4X)

348
On paper, the cardiovascular mortality rate of the Apollo astronauts who went to the Moon (Moonwalkers plus the CM pilots, and the the others who didn't land) is much higher than the population of LEO astronauts.

And animal studies have confirmed that cosmic rays and the others are indeed a cardiovascular risk. It basically causes hardening of the arteries, you might call it.

But, that said, the vast majority made it to their '80s, and the 4 living Moonwalkers are well in their 90s.

The four Artemis crew are 4 more data points for this, of course.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 11:57 PM (w6EFb)

349 So, Ann Arbor, a smallish city with a gigantic, big ten conference, university in it, has a high proportion of educated people. There's a shocker. I wonder how many of those other cities are university towns.
Posted by: nerdygirl
------
It can't be surprising that places where a large part of the local "GDP" rotates around the edumacatin' industry has a large number of edumacated idiots people.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 06, 2026 11:57 PM (oyafG)

350 Anybody looking for a few words of wisdom?
Posted by: muldoon


pls

asking for a friend

if I, um he can use them

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Jason Arday at August 06, 2026 11:59 PM (XOG/m)

351 341 >> could do for him on Earth, he was in a weightless environment, and on 100% O2.

That's exactly what Berry told Kraft and Kranz. While the total cabin pressure was "only" 5 psi, that was pure O2 and thus was well higher than sea level O2 partial pressure of about 3 psia. During the EVAs, the suit pressure was lowered to about 3.75 psi, still higher than sea level.
_-_
But, professor....isn't sea level closer to 14.something psi? Student is confused. Is that air in-generalncersus O2 specifically?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 07, 2026 12:00 AM (48SW1)

352 On paper, the cardiovascular mortality rate of the Apollo astronauts who went to the Moon (Moonwalkers plus the CM pilots, and the the others who didn't land) is much higher than the population of LEO astronauts.

And animal studies have confirmed that cosmic rays and the others are indeed a cardiovascular risk. It basically causes hardening of the arteries, you might call it.

But, that said, the vast majority made it to their '80s, and the 4 living Moonwalkers are well in their 90s.

The four Artemis crew are 4 more data points for this, of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 11:57 PM (w6EFb)

Well, (very) small sample size, for one. And I expect the Moon travelers to be drawn from a cohort of Type A personalities, too. Driven people.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 12:00 AM (1z8ji)

353 Anybody looking for a few words of wisdom?

Posted by: muldoon at August 06, 2026 11:56 PM (I0N4X)

Other than how to stop these ass sucking popups and violently hunt down and dispose of the asshole responsible ...not really.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 12:00 AM (S41Gd)

354 347 Anybody looking for a few words of wisdom?
Posted by: muldoon at August 06, 2026 11:56 PM

******

There was a request for "Eswatini" in a limerick.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 12:00 AM (2Ez/1)

355 Tangled Up In Blue

https://tinyurl.com/rmua2bes

Nite all.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 12:01 AM (viF8m)

356 Muldoon, while absorbing and using it is another matter, always ready to hear some wisdom.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 12:01 AM (U/Byj)

357 SEAMUS MULDOOOOON!!!

This boy has been up to no good.

Anything good we would have heard about

Posted by: Miklos rapidly assesses at August 07, 2026 12:01 AM (XOG/m)

358 As always thanks for the positive comments.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 12:01 AM (KC5Lt)

359 On paper, the cardiovascular mortality rate of the Apollo astronauts who went to the Moon (Moonwalkers plus the CM pilots, and the the others who didn't land) is much higher than the population of LEO astronauts.

And animal studies have confirmed that cosmic rays and the others are indeed a cardiovascular risk. It basically causes hardening of the arteries, you might call it.
-
Well, shit.

Posted by: Ben Grimm at August 07, 2026 12:03 AM (vSvIl)

360 There was a request for "Eswatini" in a limerick.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

I tried, but spilled my martini on the linguini.

Ruined both my drink AND dinner

Posted by: Miklos has days like that most days at August 07, 2026 12:03 AM (XOG/m)

361 >> But, professor....isn't sea level closer to 14.something psi? Student is confused. Is that air in-generalncersus O2 specifically?

See the difference between partial pressure and total pressure. When you have a mix of (otherwise non-interacting) gases, you can treat the pressure of each separately, and is proportional to its molar fraction.

What matters for getting O2 in your blood via your lungs is the partial pressure of O2.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)

362
Anybody looking for a few words of wisdom?
Posted by: muldoon


Let it be

Posted by: THE BEATLES! at August 07, 2026 12:04 AM (Cqx++)

363 treat the pressure of each separately, and is proportional to its molar fraction.
_-_
Got it. Thanks.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 07, 2026 12:05 AM (48SW1)

364 But, professor....isn't sea level closer to 14.something psi? Student is confused. Is that air in-generalncersus O2 specifically?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 07, 2026 12:00 AM (48SW1)

Partial pressure in gases is akin to concentration in liquids. Air is 21% oxygen. At 14 psi absolute, the partial pressure of oxygen is 14 X 0.21 = 2.94 psi.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 12:05 AM (1z8ji)

365 336 During the World Cup when foreigners were posting videos about their trip to the US, I saw a French guy's post that was pretty funny. He said something like as a Frenchman he shouldn't admit it but he loved the US and one the highlights for him was Buc ess and particularly the bathrooms. Said they were nicer than his apartment. Not the bathroom in his apartment, his apartment.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 11:09 PM (viF8m)
========
Freddy from Germany called Taco Bell...
"Holy Land."


https://tinyurl.com/ma8h3kzu

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 12:06 AM (2Ez/1)

366
And what matters for fire risk includes O2 partial pressure, but far more than that. It depends on the other gases mixed it.

5 psia pure O2 is no greater a fire risk than sea level air.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:06 AM (w6EFb)

367 Anybody looking for a few words of wisdom?
Posted by: muldoon

Let it be
Posted by: THE BEATLES!

And thanks for the Cadillacs

Remain Blessed

Posted by: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at August 07, 2026 12:07 AM (XOG/m)

368 The Unabomber lived off the grid, quite successfully.

One of his relatives (SIL?) recognized the rhetorical idiosyncrasies in his manifestos & dropped a dime on him.

The FBI has the Unabomber's cabin in its museum.

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 12:07 AM (RCjYY)

369 I wonder are the moon walkers also monitored more then other astronauts? Could it be more monitoring = more diagnosis?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:07 AM (sKqQm)

370 I wonder how many of those other cities are university towns.
Posted by: nerdygirl
--------

Durham, #2, Dook U.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 12:08 AM (XeU6L)

371 192 Gas
Bathrooms
Coffee
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 10:37 PM (O0L8i)

Eat
Propane
Ice
Posted by: That's what the sign said, anyway

Bloodworms
Cigarettes.

Posted by: Convenience Store at August 07, 2026 12:08 AM (JM9I6)

372 >> Could it be more monitoring = more diagnosis?

All the astronauts are monitored like crazy. That comparison is those who left earth orbit, outside the magnetosphere, vs the rest of the astronaut population.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:10 AM (w6EFb)

373
If you sign up to be an astronaut, you sign up to be basically a lab specimen all your life. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:10 AM (w6EFb)

374 Suite Madame Blue

https://youtu.be/CkkQPxoxJJY
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 11:01 PM (dK+Kv)

I’ve always thought that was the best track Styx ever did. The way it kicks into gear halfway always gets me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 12:11 AM (pfrqN)

375 Durham, #2, Dook U.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-77m3LqX2g

Posted by: Miklos, Dookie once removed at August 07, 2026 12:11 AM (XOG/m)

376 mmm, okay.

Well this week I got into an animated e-mail exchange with the president of our HOA Board over some middling county rule. H sent a rambling diatribe about how I was blah, blah, blah.. The time stamp on his message was 3:39 a.m.

The next day I mailed him my response:

"Tim,

My mother taught me two things when I was a lad.
1. Always wear clean underwear in case you are in an accident.
2. Nohing good ever comes from posting angry e-mails at 3:39 in the morning.

I talked with him a couple days later and he told me he does not p[lan to serve out the remaining 18 months of his term of office. I think my indirect response short circuited his brain. Thanks Mom!

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:12 AM (I0N4X)

377 Boston, biggest college city in the country.
Posted by: JackStraw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=asAlBgHoqjI

Posted by: Zombie Ian Faith at August 07, 2026 12:12 AM (DZ9Lv)

378 If you sign up to be an astronaut, you sign up to be basically a lab specimen all your life. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

That way too

Posted by: LabCorp at August 07, 2026 12:12 AM (XOG/m)

379 I had a dream back in 2003 that I was on a website where you could buy literally anything you needed. In the dream I was looking for some old VHS tape and purchased it. It wasn't ebay. You could buy any food product you could really think of and pretty much anything else, and it would arrive.

It was a black web page though - I still remember what it looked like. Very web 1.0 of course.

I remember waking up and thinking it was probably totally unrealistic. Which is funny if you know me.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:13 AM (vE0+H)

380 This Odd Trick Will Give You An E******n at Any Age. Try it!

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 12:14 AM (RCjYY)

381 Stopped off for a few beers in Ann Arbor one evening , while making a solo motorcycle ride back from Thunder Bay to Atlanta. Can't recall the name...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 12:14 AM (XeU6L)

382 Our latest retarded and or crazy ass black criminal arrested for attacking white women in Charlotte may hit the news tomorrow. He videoed himself doing it. It'll be interesting to see what PR the city puts out. Welcome to Charlotte we hope you don't die.

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 12:15 AM (enNUy)

383 Thanks Mom!

Posted by: muldoon

You mooks didn't know that Muldoon's mom invented e-mail protocol while she was Chief Research Scientist at CERN, didja? (I won't mention the NSA part)

Posted by: Miklos had heard rumours at August 07, 2026 12:16 AM (XOG/m)

384 Remain Blessed
Posted by: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

**********

Can't we just let Bhagwans be Bhagwans?

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:16 AM (I0N4X)

385 I teach in Durham. I don't feel any smarter.

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 12:16 AM (enNUy)

386 Anybody looking for a few words of wisdom?
Posted by: muldoon

Let it be
Posted by: THE BEATLES!

And thanks for the Cadillacs

Remain Blessed
Posted by: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at August 07, 2026 12:07 AM (XOG/m)


Avoid the clap.

Posted by: Jimmy Dugan at August 07, 2026 12:17 AM (2WIwB)

387
_-_
But, professor....isn't sea level closer to 14.something psi? Student is confused. Is that air in-generalncersus O2 specifically?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 07, 2026 12:00 AM (48SW1)

Oxygen makes up about 21% of the atmosphere, so partial pressure of O2 at sea level is 21% of 14 something.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 12:18 AM (pfrqN)

388 Stopped off for a few beers in Ann Arbor one evening , while making a solo motorcycle ride back from Thunder Bay to Atlanta. Can't recall the name...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc

Darleen?

I think Darleen was in Ann Arbor once

Posted by: Miklos tries to forget what he thinks he remembers at August 07, 2026 12:18 AM (XOG/m)

389 The first group of prospective astronauts were culled from military records, in secret. At first, there was some talk of using race car drivers, mountain climbers, submariners, all sorts of crazy ideas like that. And poets! Gotta have somebody along that can describe the wonders of outer space.

Eisenhower cut through all that. For one, they needed people who had background checks and clearances, and their medical background was already documented. He decided military pilots with test flight backgrounds.

Gordon Cooper said he didn’t even know there was a space program. He got orders to report to Washington. “What’s this about?” he was asked, and of course he didn’t know either. He was a test pilot at Edwards. Told to check in at the Dolly Madison hotel under an assumed name.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:19 AM (dE511)

390 Side Sleepers With Neck Pain: Try the Butterfly Method Tonight

Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 12:19 AM (RCjYY)

391
Another way to see partial pressure. Imagine you take each gas separately, and then isothermally compress it to the total pressure of the mix. The volume fraction of each to the total will then be the same as the molar fraction.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:19 AM (w6EFb)

392 Side Sleepers With Neck Pain: Try the Butterfly Method Tonight
Posted by: mnw


Wrap yourself up like a cocoon?

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 12:22 AM (VHUov)

393 Principles of resuscitation:

1. Air goes in and out
2. Blood goes 'round and 'round
3. Oxygen is good

/Tulane Univ School of Medicine

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:23 AM (I0N4X)

394 Thanks Mom!

Posted by: muldoon

You mooks didn't know that Muldoon's mom invented e-mail protocol while she was Chief Research Scientist at CERN, didja? (I won't mention the NSA part)
Posted by: Miklos had heard rumours at August 07, 2026 12:16 AM (XOG/m)


Was her work at CERN before or after she got the Hubble telescope running right?

Posted by: Jimmy Dugan at August 07, 2026 12:23 AM (2WIwB)

395 I teach in Durham. I don't feel any smarter.
Posted by: nckate
-------

Lived there for a year or so while attending UNC. Lived the worst dump you can imagine. There was a common mail box for the 10-20 residents. Most of the mail was from parole officers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 12:23 AM (XeU6L)

396 There is a very thin line between wise and wise ass

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:24 AM (I0N4X)

397 Damn it!
Off League of Their Own sock!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 12:24 AM (2WIwB)

398 Pure O2 is pretty good for hangovers. Bed rest is recommended anyway, it will kill the headache. But it returns as soon as you go back to breathing air.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:24 AM (dE511)

399 I can't tell if the mystery click was an official music video, or one that George K put together, or one that someone else made and he liked it so he put it on his own channel too.

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 12:24 AM (Sy6m/)

400 1. Air goes in and out
2. Blood goes 'round and 'round
3. Oxygen is good

/Tulane Univ School of Medicine
Posted by: muldoon

That easy huh

I guess all the gunshot cases went to Charity

Posted by: Miklos survived, but Uptown at August 07, 2026 12:25 AM (XOG/m)

401 Muldoon's mom invented e-mail protocol while she was Chief Research Scientist at CERN, didja?

************

She was also a Cub Scout den leader and could feed a husband and seven boys 15 different types of one-pot meals.

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:26 AM (I0N4X)

402 There is a very thin line between wise and wise ass
Posted by: muldoon

the Crack of a Posteriori

Posted by: Miklos is mentally much younger than 29 at August 07, 2026 12:28 AM (XOG/m)

403 I guess all the gunshot cases went to Charity

*************

You misspelled 'Chatty'

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:28 AM (I0N4X)

404
Too high a partial pressure of O2 is bad as well. 0.5 atm is about the limit for prolonged breathing. 1.4 - 1.6 (briefly) is the limit. Above that and seizures and other damage can occur.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:28 AM (w6EFb)

405 There was a young man from Eswatini,
who kept all his cash in his beanie.
When robbed of his purse,
he stomped and he cursed,
but the thief he didn't get eeny.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 07, 2026 12:28 AM (48SW1)

406 She was also a Cub Scout den leader and could feed a husband and seven boys 15 different types of one-pot meals.
Posted by: muldoon

The rich kid families had two pots. But we had one, made of scrounged cardboard and tar scraped from the road, and we were grateful!

Posted by: Miklos from York, SC at August 07, 2026 12:31 AM (XOG/m)

407 Posted by: Don in SoCo

Three thumbs up!

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:31 AM (I0N4X)

408 Posted by: Don in SoCo

*Bushwood Golf Clap*

Posted by: Judge Miklos Smailes at August 07, 2026 12:32 AM (XOG/m)

409
Wrap yourself up like a cocoon?

Posted by: mikeski
---

Wrap your head between baby's legs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 12:33 AM (6T7Go)

410 Hammer, my kid went to duke law which is a nice area in a sea of crap.

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 12:33 AM (enNUy)

411 But I *win* because the b@star@d lost its stinger. Hah!
Die, wasp, die!!!
Posted by: JQ
-----
If it lost it stinger, as in "dragged its guts out getting away" it was a bee. Wasps, hornets, Queen bees and bumblebees don't have barbed stingers. Their stinger slides in, squeezes out its shot of forming acid and other wonderful organic compounds, necrotizing enzymes, and slides right out, ready to sting you again.
I once caught a yellowjacket in my old open face Bell helmet, and by the time I got it off and released the damned thing, it had stung me 6 times (I counted the lumps in the mirror later) around the temple. I'm sure it was amusing watching me pull off the side of the road, drop the bike on its side, engine still running, rear wheel spinning and me frantically trying to release the D ring strap.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 12:35 AM (oyafG)

412 Eswatini?
Four and I'm under my host!

Posted by: D. Parker at August 07, 2026 12:37 AM (2Ez/1)

413 You misspelled 'Chatty'
Posted by: muldoon

dat waz oughtta respec fo da Sistahs

Posted by: Miklos can still do a pretty good Ernie K-Doe at August 07, 2026 12:38 AM (XOG/m)

414 Red wasps love to get down, once is never enough.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 12:40 AM (6T7Go)

415 Eswatini?
Four and I'm under my host!
Posted by: D. Parker

Which one?

It's a Roundtable just for you, Dorothy

Posted by: Algonquin Miklos at August 07, 2026 12:40 AM (XOG/m)

416 I’ve been watching KeroNgb on the Tube of Ewes. His basic format is to ask easy questions of young people, typically on college campuses. Example: how many minutes in a quarter of an hour? Commonest answer? 25 minutes because that is a quarter. Even when they know there are 60 minutes in an hour, they cannot divide 60 by 4 and get 15. Part of it is that they do not use analog watches. But these college students don’t even know their times tables, or how many oceans are there, nor are they able to name three countries outside the US. It’s depressing!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 12:41 AM (sGgMH)

417 Hammer, my kid went to duke law which is a nice area in a sea of crap.
Posted by: nckate
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The campus is quite pleasant, especially the Duke Chapel, but, as a Tarheel, it is incumbant upon me to cast slurs when possible.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 12:41 AM (XeU6L)

418
Speaking of the Artemis astronauts, I just saw that Christina Koch was awarded the "Princesa de Asturias de la Concordia" award for 2026. That's a Spain thing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:41 AM (w6EFb)

419 More words of wisdom. We saw a clickbait item today that said experts say that cognitive decline begins when you forget the names of common household items.

Wring. Cognitive decline begins when yo forget to put your penis back in your pants after using the bathroom at a neighborhood party.

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:42 AM (I0N4X)

420 incumbant

Also to misspell words...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 12:42 AM (XeU6L)

421 Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 12:35 AM

Oh, darn it. Now I feel bad about the poor bee dying. Might have been a neighbor's honeybee!

But it stung me, so... 'bye!

Bit the end off one of hubby's cigs, chewed it a little & pressed it on the sting then wrapped with a bandaid. Pain went away quickly. No swelling.

Hmm. Yeah, I usually have worse reaction with wasp and hornet stings.

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)

422 The campus is quite pleasant, especially the Duke Chapel, but, as a Tarheel, it is incumbant upon me to cast slurs when possible.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Let us join hands and rebuke the infamy of the Wolfpack

Posted by: Ecumenical quasi-Dukie Miklos at August 07, 2026 12:43 AM (XOG/m)

423 >> cognitive decline begins when you forget the names of common household items.


What if you kinda never got them all straight to being with? I mean, I used thing, doohickey, the thing that does the thing all the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:44 AM (w6EFb)

424

Stupid words for stuff. I think visually, really. My mind's eye sees what I'm talking about, and I've got to retrieve the damned word for it. Waste of time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:45 AM (w6EFb)

425 Cognitive decline begins when yo forget to put your penis back in your pants after using the bathroom at a neighborhood party.
Posted by: muldoon

pants?

Posted by: Miklos is rather popular among the ladies of The Villages at August 07, 2026 12:45 AM (XOG/m)

426 >>>they cannot divide 60 by 4 and get 15. Part of it is that they do not use analog watches. But these college students don’t even know their times tables, or how many oceans are there, nor are they able to name three countries outside the US. It’s depressing!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Eighth grade math; times tables, add and subtraction, division.
It was a drum beat. And those quizzes; if a train is going to Memphis at 60 mph... and oh, no, please.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 12:46 AM (6T7Go)

427 What if you kinda never got them all straight to being with? I mean, I used thing, doohickey, the thing that does the thing all the time.
Posted by: publius

*********

I suggested that cognitive decline began when you forgot where you'd left your whatchmadoozy...

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:46 AM (I0N4X)

428 Let us join hands and rebuke the infamy of the Wolfpack
Posted by: Ecumenical quasi-Dukie Miklos
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Weirdly, I've never known an NC State grad.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 12:47 AM (XeU6L)

429 What if you kinda never got them all straight to being with? I mean, I used thing, doohickey, the thing that does the thing all the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

There are things in my kitchen drawers that I have no idea what they do or once did, much less what they are called.

Posted by: Miklos inherited some, probably also bought some at August 07, 2026 12:47 AM (XOG/m)

430 Cognitive decline begins when you forget to put your penis back in your pants after using the bathroom at a neighborhood party.
Posted by: muldoon


Introvert's reading: "Avoiding neighborhood parties prevents dementia."

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 12:47 AM (VHUov)

431 Weirdly, I've never known an NC State grad.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

See?

Posted by: Miklos knows that the Research Triangle is a secret UFO base at August 07, 2026 12:49 AM (XOG/m)

432 "Avoiding neighborhood parties prevents dementia."
Posted by: mikeski

*********

Awesome take. I may borrow this...

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:49 AM (I0N4X)

433 Doo-hickey, thingamajig, whatchamacallit... LOL.

When my trainees couldn't remember the names of our equipment and needed a mechanic, but were too embarrassed about not knowing the correct term-- I told them to refer to it (thing in question) as "this apparatus" or "this piece of equipment" or "that machine" &etc. Helped them overcome their Noob Insecurity.

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 12:50 AM (rdVOm)

434 There are things in my kitchen drawers that I have no idea what they do or once did, much less what they are called.
Posted by: Miklos
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Or where they came from.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 12:50 AM (XeU6L)

435 Honey Bee sting is an old home remedy for stiff or painful joints. Put the bee at bad joint and let it sting you. Sometimes several.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 12:50 AM (6T7Go)

436 I used to work with a guy who was a math major from NC A&T.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 12:50 AM (2Ez/1)

437 I suggested that cognitive decline began when you forgot where you'd left your whatchmadoozy...
Posted by: muldoon

Medicare will pay for a home Thingamajiggit Organizer if you have a prescription.

Posted by: Miklos gets those and back braces weekly at August 07, 2026 12:51 AM (XOG/m)

438 There are things in my kitchen drawers that I have no idea what they do or once did, much less what they are called.
Posted by: Miklos

**********

There is one at our house that I am convinced is for castrating rutabagas...

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:52 AM (I0N4X)

439 Did your city make the list?

Yes, yes it did...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 12:53 AM (l3cgK)

440 Or where they came from.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,

My parents

I got that part

The stores themselves are probably long since extinct

Posted by: Miklos is an inadvertent collector at August 07, 2026 12:53 AM (XOG/m)

441 439 Did your city make the list?

Yes, yes it did...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 12:53 AM (l3cgK)

The place where I was born, on the other hand, had and has some of the worst unemployment in the entire country, so no, didn't make the list.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 12:54 AM (l3cgK)

442 Did your city make the list?

Yes, yes it did...
Posted by: jim
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As did mine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 12:55 AM (XeU6L)

443 All right you reprobates. I'm done. Thanks for letting me play.

Have fun storming the castle.

Endeavor to Persevere.

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:55 AM (I0N4X)

444 There is one at our house that I am convinced is for castrating rutabagas...
Posted by: muldoon

How dare you assume our gender!

Also we might pay

Posted by: the Rutabagas at August 07, 2026 12:56 AM (XOG/m)

445
Speaking of oxygen (oxy-gun as some rednecks around here pronounce it): Mama is home. She's pretty weak, but in high spirits now she's home.

She called out that it was hard to breathe. Checked her O2 sat. 94% and dropping. They say that's not too bad, just worry if it gets below 88%, but with her, if it gets below 95%, she doesn't like it.

So, I got to checking flow, then got worried there was a leak. Scrambled around for a bit, then noticed the canula was out of her nose. She had to blow her nose and forgot to put it back in.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:56 AM (w6EFb)

446
She's so weak, well it's bedside commode operations. Not pretty. But a son's got do what a son's gotta do. Also daughter-in-law.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:58 AM (w6EFb)

447 Honey Bee sting is an old home remedy for stiff or painful joints. Put the bee at bad joint and let it sting you. Sometimes several.
Posted by: Braenyard

Yikes! Um, no-- I'll take my arthritis as-is, thankyouverymuch.

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)

448 I just want to know the name if that Fuckenthang that keeps preventing the drawer form opening.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 07, 2026 12:58 AM (48SW1)

449 I can think of quite a few "Blue" songs. Okay, not that kind of blue (although there's quite the catalog of those too)...

"Blue" --Leeann Rimes
"Jackie Blue"--Ozark Mountain Daredevils
"Blue Velvet"--Bobby Vinton
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 12:58 AM (l3cgK)

450 There is one at our house that I am convinced is for castrating rutabagas...
Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 12:52 AM (I0N4X)


How can you tell a male rutabaga from a female rutabaga?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 12:58 AM (sGgMH)

451
A fellow around here used to shock himself with his electric fence all the time. Said that helped the arthritis in his hands.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 12:59 AM (w6EFb)

452 448 I just want to know the name if that Fuckenthang that keeps preventing the drawer form opening.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 07, 2026 12:58 AM (48SW1)

potato peeler? Spatula?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 01:00 AM (l3cgK)

453 So, I got to checking flow, then got worried there was a leak. Scrambled around for a bit, then noticed the canula was out of her nose. She had to blow her nose and forgot to put it back in.
Posted by: publius
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In for my last previous surgery, during the prep I noticed that my oxygenation was at 99%! I was astounded, and queried the nurse. She reached over and tapped the canula. Oh.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 01:02 AM (XeU6L)

454 potato peeler? Spatula?
Posted by: jim
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Apple corer? Nut cracker? Jar opener? Can opener?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 01:03 AM (XeU6L)

455 I just want to know the name if that Fuckenthang that keeps preventing the drawer form opening.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 07, 2026 12:58 AM (48SW1)


My shop has many of those. Card file drawer full of ignition switches, one rolls over, and terminal studs snag in the overhead bars of the cabinet. Grrr!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 01:04 AM (1z8ji)

456 How can you tell a male rutabaga from a female rutabaga?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

The punchline to that was lost when Katz's in the Catskills burned in 1977.

Posted by: and Miklos never got a chance to try the veal at August 07, 2026 01:05 AM (XOG/m)

457
Sometimes, too high an O2 saturation can be bad. With COPD, it can cause blood CO2 to get too high. There's a lot of nuance and complicated stuff, so they sometimes say keep it at no more than 92%.

Mama's blood CO2 runs on the higher side, but the MDs who are supposed to know what they're talking about told me too high O2 is not a problem for her, so crank it up to whatever she likes. No higher try not to, but don't worry about the high O2 levels.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 01:05 AM (w6EFb)

458 "Blue" --Leeann Rimes
"Jackie Blue"--Ozark Mountain Daredevils
"Blue Velvet"--Bobby Vinton
...
Posted by: jim
----

Joni Mitchell

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 01:06 AM (XeU6L)

459 But a son's got do what a son's gotta do. Also daughter-in-law.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Prayers for you all.

Posted by: Miklos at August 07, 2026 01:07 AM (XOG/m)

460 Scrambled around for a bit, then noticed the canula...
_-_,
Good on you for that. Been in your territory there...sorta ages a fella.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 07, 2026 01:08 AM (48SW1)

461 71 I honestly have zero clue what that is
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

Yes, you do. Nikki Minaj. My anaconda don’t want none unless she’s got buns, hun.
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 10:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

That last sentence is from Sir Mix-a-Lot. Did she steal it and make a "song" about it?

When I say I have zero clue, I am not exaggerating.
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 10:23 PM (QMAsf)


You say 'steal', multi-millionaires say 'sample'. And I just now found out, the line is delivered by Sir Mix-a-Lot in both songs, since it's an actual sample and not just a sound-alike.

Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back (Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/X53ZSxkQ3Ho

Nicki Minaj - Anaconda
https://youtu.be/LDZX4ooRsWs

Oh, I hear a sample in "Baby Got Back" from "Me So Horny" by... {looks it up}... 2 Live Crew, who themselves sampled it from Full Metal Jacket. So it's a chain of people who can't complain about getting sampled, since they did the same. I feel like I used to know these things and simply forgot, since they had no import in my life.

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 01:09 AM (Sy6m/)

462 But a son's got do what a son's gotta do. Also daughter-in-law.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Prayers for you all.
Posted by: Miklos
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Yes. Thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 01:10 AM (XeU6L)

463 How can you tell a male rutabaga from a female rutabaga?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit


Grab it by the root, and see if there's a bag a'there.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:10 AM (VHUov)

464 .....that could have used a Crocodile Dundee sock, maybe.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:11 AM (VHUov)

465 Thanks, we can use all that y'all can spare.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 01:12 AM (w6EFb)

466 But a son's got do what a son's gotta do. Also daughter-in-law.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Bless you. Prayers for all of you!

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 01:12 AM (rdVOm)

467 Late here, g'night all

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 01:14 AM (XeU6L)

468 Night, Mike.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 01:18 AM (1z8ji)

469 Bit the end off one of hubby's cigs, chewed it a little & pressed it on the sting then wrapped with a bandaid. Pain went away quickly. No swelling.

Hmm. Yeah, I usually have worse reaction with wasp and hornet stings.
Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)


The other sure-fire thing is to smear the goo from the Benedryl gel-caps on the sting. That reduces the swelling and pain, and prevents the itching.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 01:18 AM (rbvCR)

470 From Terry Pratchett:

Anoia is the Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers, a minor goddess on the Discworld. When someone rattles a drawer and cries "How can it close on the damned thing but not open with it? Who bought this? Do we ever use it?", even though the person might be genuinely irritated or even exasperated, it is as praise unto Anoia. Faithful Anoians (worshippers of Anoia) purposefully rattle their drawers and complain every day. Anoia also finds objects that roll under other objects and things stuck in sofa cushions, and is considering handling stuck zippers. She eats corkscrews. Her name is clearly derived from "annoy".

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 01:21 AM (rbvCR)

471 Kindltot-- I don't have any Benadryl in the house atm. Guess I'd better fix that!

Tobacco works well, if applied right away. I took it off after about an hour & so far, so good. Not painful, swollen or itchy now.

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 01:21 AM (rdVOm)

472 True story about 'thingamabob'/'watchamacallit' type words:

Once upon a time, there was someone from the Netherlands helping with an astronomical survey of galaxies. They sent other people in the project a photograph with a glowing green thing circled and a note 'What's this voorwerp?' ("voorwerp" being a Dutch version of 'whatchamacallit' - a placeholder name). They didn't know, either, but as the picture got circulated around astronomers - and some more similar glowing green things were found with people saying 'found another voorwerp' - it ended up adopted as the term for that class of objects.

(If you're wondering, a voorwerp seems to occur when a quasar nukes the hell out of a huge cloud of gas, leaving an intensely glowing galaxy-sized mess behind).

Posted by: Locarno at August 07, 2026 01:22 AM (wiYsG)

473 Late here, g'night all
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

Hammer DOWN

Posted by: Miklos is similarly inclined to recline at August 07, 2026 01:22 AM (XOG/m)

474 Baby Blue - Badfinger

youtu.be/33oAuvbRg-c

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 07, 2026 01:23 AM (pLaQB)

475 No need to mutilate a Benadryl. They sell diphenhydramine as a cream for bug bites/stings that you can apply directly.

Posted by: Locarno at August 07, 2026 01:23 AM (wiYsG)

476
"Hanny's voorwerp". Interesting, reading about that now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 01:24 AM (w6EFb)

477 I was at the county fair today, it opened for the weekend.
How does one tactfully tell the political people that all we really want is a candidate who, when elected, will at minimum screw us over 10% less than the violent communist who is in office today?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 01:24 AM (rbvCR)

478
This is Hanny:
https://t.ly/2XlBh

This is her Voorwerp:
https://t.ly/KRjPh

There are stars forming in her Voorwerp.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 01:29 AM (w6EFb)

479 I was at the county fair today, it opened for the weekend.
How does one tactfully tell the political people that all we really want is a candidate who, when elected, will at minimum screw us over 10% less than the violent communist who is in office today?
Posted by: Kindltot

All I know is, if you run over an old lady at the County Fair, it helps if Dad's the mayor

Posted by: Miklos and the Bitchin' Camaros 80s tribute band at August 07, 2026 01:31 AM (XOG/m)

480
Another picture of Hanny:
https://t.ly/rohm5

Yep, I imagine quite a few fellers would love to get all up in her Voorwerp, there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 01:32 AM (w6EFb)

481 And the sign said:

Red Wigglers
French Ticklers

Posted by: Billy Bob's Bait and Tickle at August 07, 2026 01:33 AM (r7+Q7)

482 I was at the county fair today, it opened for the weekend.
How does one tactfully tell the political people that all we really want is a candidate who, when elected, will at minimum screw us over 10% less than the violent communist who is in office today?
Posted by: Kindltot

Sorry, IDK.

Pity that "truth in advertising" laws don't apply to political campaigns.

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 01:33 AM (rdVOm)

483 There are stars forming in her Voorwerp.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

At the moment of insemination, a spark of light is emitted

Posted by: Miklos thinks cosmic, man at August 07, 2026 01:33 AM (XOG/m)

484 There are things in my kitchen drawers that I have no idea what they do or once did, much less what they are called.
Posted by: Miklos

They are probably a penis and balls but why do you change your drawers depending on the room you're in?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 01:35 AM (DZ9Lv)

485 Creeps in for a night cap.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2026 01:39 AM (ibDUx)

486
Hanny's Voorwerp is 650 million lightyears away, or about 200 megaparsecs.

Not even The Paolo could reach that, I don't think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 01:40 AM (w6EFb)

487 They are probably a penis and balls


They are rather shriveled, but maybe

You want them back?

Posted by: His Mom left some stuff here at August 07, 2026 01:40 AM (XOG/m)

488 Too high a partial pressure of O2 is bad as well. 0.5 atm is about the limit for prolonged breathing. 1.4 - 1.6 (briefly) is the limit. Above that and seizures and other damage can occur.
Posted by: publius,
----
Yeah. Got that lecture from my son, the 3 gas diver.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 01:43 AM (oyafG)

489 Creeps in for a night cap.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

At Roadside Miklos' Almost All-Nite No-Name Establishment, all late arrivals are given quarters for the jukebox and every nite is Ladies' Nite

*note-our very Private VIP golf cart parking is now OPEN*

Posted by: Miklos, your genial mixologist at August 07, 2026 01:44 AM (XOG/m)

490 Hi, Debby!

*pours nightcaps for both of us*

Cheers!

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 01:45 AM (rdVOm)

491 Guy gets into a fender bender, his fault.

He gets out of his vehicle. Other guy does too.

Other guy is a dwarf and he is royally pissed. He emits some choice invective, closing with "and I'm not happy".

First guy: "Well, which one are you, then?"

And that's when the fight started.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 07, 2026 01:47 AM (IG3/x)

492 482 I was at the county fair today, it opened for the weekend.
How does one tactfully tell the political people that all we really want is a candidate who, when elected, will at minimum screw us over 10% less than the violent communist who is in office today?
Posted by: Kindltot

Sorry, IDK.

Pity that "truth in advertising" laws don't apply to political campaigns.
Posted by: JQ

Actually it does, when you're BrandEvil making Rubio the Pragmatic Choice which keeps them in power, one has to hope Rubio will save himself and become ViceRoy of freeCUBA rather than part of the machine.
-- viz, Susan Rice posing asLa Liberté guidant le peuple hunting down everyone who thwarted them.

The other choice is JD, or third party behind which is cTHIEL, cthKARP, cthLUCKEY brought to you by cthANDURIL an accelerationist dream where once and for all there be one cTHECNOLOGY to rule them all -- and they are the ones in control -- until their not.

Truely, this is JD's race to lose, to stand and fight, or bow to the will of a fearsome enemy before their third party candidacy brings the technological apocalypse they so lust for.

Dance like Marionettes
-- swaying to the Symphony of Destruction!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 07, 2026 01:48 AM (eS+Uj)

493 ibid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDEyL_sS0eY&t=89s
Don't forget to Vote


The only REAL weakness is the NEED for a Leader to follow.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 07, 2026 01:49 AM (eS+Uj)

494 How they think Hanny's Voorwerp was formed. This is Science, y'all. Science I can get behind.

A another galaxy passes close to the main galaxy, IC2497 here, so close that the big galaxy pulls a long, spiral tidal tail out of the passing galaxy.

The close of that tail engorges the central black hole, turning it on into an AGN (something like a quasar). Powerful radiation erupts from that engorged black hole in a cone from its poles. That ionizes the gas in the far tidal tail. And a little later powerful spurts of slower gas comes out of the engorged, turned-on black hole, and the shock triggers star formation.

The black hole then goes down, and turns off. And we're left with a pregnant Voorwerp.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 01:49 AM (w6EFb)

495 And that's when the fight started.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

It was not easy, but I managed to save both the Bourbon And the monitor

Just barely

Posted by: Miklos, you owe me nothing at August 07, 2026 01:50 AM (XOG/m)

496 Cheers JQ and Miklos.

publius, I am happy that your Mama is back at home.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2026 01:51 AM (ibDUx)

497 The black hole then goes down, and turns off. And we're left with a pregnant Voorwerp.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 01:49 AM (w6EFb)

I guess you'd have to be a Star Voortrekker to go look at it up close.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 01:52 AM (1z8ji)

498 Creeps in for a night cap.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2026 01:39 AM (ibDUx)

I can't wear one of those

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:53 AM (vE0+H)

499 Manfred, I’m impressed! That was almost coherent, I actually think I understood the point you were trying to make. Good job,keep improving!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 01:55 AM (pfrqN)

500
She's very happy herself. And I think that's gonna perk her up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 01:55 AM (w6EFb)

501
The story gets even better. Astrophysicist Dr. Sir Brian May, also picks a bit of the guitar was promoting this thing called Galaxy Zoo, trying to get "crowd sourcing" in helping identify galaxies.

Hanny above was a big fan, and that's how she got into it.

Voorwerp girls, you make them quasars spin round.... I think we can improve on that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 02:02 AM (w6EFb)

502 She's very happy herself. And I think that's gonna perk her up.
Posted by: publius

I think that's true. There really IS no place like *home* and being near people you love!

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)

503 I am trying to plan out the wiring for the overhead lights in my shop. I figure 18 more or less evenly spaced sockets filled with those LED "high bay" lamps ought to do it. But I want them on 2 circuits: middle row of 6 lamps to be on a 3-way loop, with a switch at each man door.. The two outer rows of 6 lamps to be on another circuit controlled by a switch at the #1 man door, near the panel. Since it is going to be all surface-mount, the wire has to be in conduit (EMT tubing). I figure 110 feet of half-inch, and maybe 75 of 3/4 inch. The "backbone" of the grid will be 3/4" conduit, carrying both circuits; the ribs will be 1/2", carrying only one circuit. Going to see if Habitat Re-Store has conduit. Pricey at Home Despot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 02:04 AM (1z8ji)

504 501
The story gets even better. Astrophysicist Dr. Sir Brian May, also picks a bit of the guitar was promoting this thing called Galaxy Zoo, trying to get "crowd sourcing" in helping identify galaxies.

Hanny above was a big fan, and that's how she got into it.

Voorwerp girls, you make them quasars spin round.... I think we can improve on that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Historical Fact/What-if:
If Brian May was not able to help hire Jimi Hendix to play at his gig -- there would never have been QUEEN.

And the world would be less WEIRD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KYo_89lgf0

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 07, 2026 02:12 AM (eS+Uj)

505 18 more or less evenly spaced sockets filled with those LED "high bay" lamps ought to do it
_-_
Did something like that for my shop a couple years back. Money well spent. It's bright like Walmart inside there now! I put in a transfer switch in case one of my heirs or those to whom they sell the place goes nuts and connects all this to the grid. Really nice in the winter when it is already dark when I get done with the day job.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 07, 2026 02:13 AM (48SW1)

506 AGN = Active Galactic Nucleus

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 02:18 AM (sGgMH)

507
Brian May has done of lot of work with NASA. He collaborated on the OSRIS-REx mission and New Horizons. He is quite an expert on stereoscopy, making detailed 3D models of 2D images. He's also works on various NEO (SMOD candidates) protection stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 02:20 AM (w6EFb)

508 If you want to have fun with that AOP, try to minimize the wire length for the 3-way loops. With EMT you can do a little more tricks than with Romex, where you're limited in the number of conductors with the cable. You can do some clever tricks sometimes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 02:22 AM (w6EFb)

509 My Dad broke his pelvis in two places. he was 84 and he slipped on some ice while chasing after his hat which had blown off of his head. He checked himself out of rehab and came home. He actually healed at home, it was a long process but he lived to 91 and he walked right up to the end.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2026 02:23 AM (ibDUx)

510 "lived to 91 and he walked right up to the end."

What did he do when he got there?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 02:27 AM (DZ9Lv)

511 There are things in my kitchen drawers that I have no idea what they do or once did, much less what they are called.
Posted by: Miklos


That sounds like the plot point of a Miyazaki anime.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 02:28 AM (diia5)

512 If you want to have fun with that AOP, try to minimize the wire length for the 3-way loops. With EMT you can do a little more tricks than with Romex, where you're limited in the number of conductors with the cable. You can do some clever tricks sometimes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 02:22 AM (w6EFb)

I will have enough actual wire. I have been stripping out some old coils of BX (armored cable), both 12/3 and 12/2. Should have more than enough for the backbone, and #12 is massive overkill for the current needed. For the branches, a friend has offered me a large spool of 14/2 Romex; just take what I need off it. But I have a metric fuckton of old cabtire cord and extension cords; I might just use that for the branches. It's all going to be in metal tubing; which will be attached to to a metal ceiling; and it's never going to be inspected. Nothing there to burn, and it will be protected by a 15 amp breaker anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 02:32 AM (1z8ji)

513
The fact that the author of "Fat Bottomed Girls" is also the author of "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud" is just satisfying to me somehow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 02:35 AM (w6EFb)

514 There are things in my kitchen drawers that I have no idea what they do or once did, much less what they are called.
Posted by: Miklos

That sounds like the plot point of a Miyazaki anime.
Posted by: weft cut-loop


Spiralized Away.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 02:35 AM (VHUov)

515 For the 3-way, I see a neutral, two travellers, and a switch leg as running the full length of the layout. Well, the travellers have to run from switch to switch; that's the longest path. Neutral runs from master switch to the last lamp; and switch leg runs from the remote switch to the first lamp.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 02:36 AM (1z8ji)

516 I found a wholesaler in Edmonton who has 3/4" EMT for $1.08 per foot; less than half what Home Depot wants. But I will also check Habitat ReStore.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 02:38 AM (1z8ji)

517 I am starting to doze off right here in the chair. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 02:49 AM (1z8ji)

518 Night AOP. I hope that you will bring some pictures of your shop to the MoMe.

Dark, he found his forever home and stopped walking in this life.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2026 02:55 AM (ibDUx)

519 Well, I just went down a rabbit hole. This morning on the tech thread, Pixy's musical interlude was an old recording of The Ventures playing "Apache":

https://youtu.be/W-Hc5abSVHA

What I wanted to know was, what was the weird guitar played by the tall dark-haired guy on the left, with the cowboy hat and mustache? It has a Fender-style headstock, and everyone else on stage is rocking Fender guitars; but the body shape is unique, vaguely Mosrite but of no specific type. The answer is that the player is Nokie Edwards, and the guitar is the one of two custom-made for him by Tony Hunt out of Arkansas, who'd worked at Mosrite with Semie Moseley.

Mosrite Forum, scroll down to Tony Hunt Guitars:
https://tinyurl.com/35z3p28a

Getty Images, second photo:
https://tinyurl.com/2fypuzk4

Nokie passed March 12, 2018, at the age of 82. RIP.

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 03:00 AM (Sy6m/)

520 Sweet dreams Horde, I am off to sleep.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2026 03:06 AM (ibDUx)

521 Spent the afternoon with lil bro & his son (and dog).

Worried about the dog! It's an old (14? 16? y.o.), little dog-- not sure of breed-- and just walked in circles all the time. Something's wrong with it, but bro isn't concerned. He seems oblivious to certain facts, perhaps unable to bring himself to put the poor thing down. Ugh. Poor doggeh!

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 03:06 AM (rdVOm)

522 'Night, Debby!

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 03:06 AM (rdVOm)

523 Barely more than a nap time to go.

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:22 AM (Ia/+0)

524
Since Hanny first exposed her Voorwerp there, a few more have been discovered. Some of them are smaller, and are known as voorwerpjes, little voorwerps.

These are formed by basically the same mechanism, but by a less powerful black hole. Just doesn't get so big when engorged or something.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 03:24 AM (w6EFb)

525 I think its raining still, had a T-storm after dark again last night

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:39 AM (Ia/+0)

526 The ad if fkin with me again

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:45 AM (Ia/+0)

527 Good night, horde. Sleeepy time...

Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 03:57 AM (rdVOm)

528 People have the oddest things on tee shirts sometimes. Why would you want to have "I took the biiggest shit in a Bucccees bathroom."? Are people supposed to be impressed by that? I understand Bucceees has nice bathrooms as well lots of goods ( I may have been there once) but I'm not a proctologist or a gastroenterologist or on the cleaning staff at a Buccees.. I don't need to know that.

Several weeks ago a woman on at the store had on a tee shirt which had "Eff this" for about 50 different things. I could only read "F taxis" because the writing was too smal, I didn't want to stare at her chest and I had to go someplace else.

On the other hand, someone had on a tee shirt at the store the other day"Jesus saves" which I thought was a nice saying.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 04:11 AM (JrHfD)

529
People have the oddest things on tee shirts sometimes. Why would you want to have "I took the biiggest shit in a Bucccees bathroom."? Are people supposed to be impressed by that?

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

Repulsive.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 04:15 AM (mmrXZ)

530 Beautiful picture up top of Scotland.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 04:16 AM (JrHfD)

531 And I did see someone wearing a tee shirt with a picture of a sunrise and it said " I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future" which was an uplifting saying.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 04:23 AM (JrHfD)

532 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 04:35 AM (Ia/+0)

533 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

534 My generation would update their Facebook page regarding their BUC-EES experience. So, TikTok video or I don’t believe her!
I’d be surprised if urban dictionary didn’t have a term for photographic proof of an unflushed BM. Probably logging.

Posted by: Unkaren at August 07, 2026 04:54 AM (ccX9M)

535 I am 53 years old so I am delighted to see the popup ads showing 3 old men with big smiles on their faces with a dopeboy baggie of blue pills, a bosomy GILF with promises to have hours of sex and incontinence underwear. This gives me great hope for the Villages years!

Posted by: paulnjax at August 07, 2026 07:12 AM (PPnyU)

536 287 I want that Buc-ees shirt.
Posted by: Berserker

You might have to print it yourself.

The text is as squared up as this comment block, so either she's a robot or it's a photoshop.
Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 11:23 PM (VHUov)

294 287 I want that Buc-ees shirt.
Posted by: Berserker

$25:

https://tinyurl.com/yzc5azfj
Posted by: I'm the internet; I'm here to help at August 06, 2026 11:25 PM (2Ez/1)

I was guessing that mikeski was right!

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 07:53 AM (odBC9)

537 Very late to the party but know this, all of those who have attacked Flock cameras…and maybe they should tell the cops this. (Sadly, they do not do what is morally right - They Just Follow Orders.)

The right of trial by jury is that palladium of civil liberty and the only safe guarantee of the life, liberty and property of the citizen (h/t, TX Declaration of Independence, 1836).

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 07, 2026 08:20 AM (4g5V+)

538 On the other hand, someone had on a tee shirt at the store the other day"Jesus saves" which I thought was a nice saying.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 04:11 AM (JrHfD)

It could be a Slayer shirt.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 07, 2026 08:21 AM (4g5V+)

Fish-Herding Cafe

horsemanning.jpg


Historic Vids
@historyinmemes

To appear headless while taking a photo, known as "horsemaning", was a popular way to pose in the 1920's.

Horsemaning, also known as "headless posing," is a photographic technique where the subject creates the illusion of being beheaded, with their head placed on the ground or another surface. This unique form of posing gained popularity during the 1920s and was considered a photography trend at the time.

To achieve the desired effect, two individuals are required for this pose. One person positions themselves with their head hidden or tilted backward, while the other conceals their body, revealing only their head in the photograph. The term "Horsemaning" originated from the Headless Horseman, a malevolent character depicted in Washington Irving's 1820 short story titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

In 2011, Horsemaning experienced a resurgence on Facebook, and numerous photos attempting to recreate the original trend started circulating on platforms like Buzzfeed. This revitalization brought renewed attention to the peculiar and imaginative art of Horsemaning.


ICYMI: Police cat.

The mountains of Pluto.

Stage V Clinger.

Baby goat wants to cuddle.

Duckling defiant disorder.

Puppy wants to help with engine repair.

Kids adopt a tick-ridden puppy off the street.

Puppy goes HAM on his new favorite duck-toy.

Tiger cub goes crazy on her toys.

Baby elephant makes a leaf "wig."




Feline Disrespect Simulator:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM




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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Had to beg the ad to let me call Nood

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)

3
Horsemaning? You mean... you mean, WE didn't invent memes?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 07:34 PM (mmrXZ)

4 Evenin’, All. Happy Friday Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 07:34 PM (77rzZ)

5 Jaysus, something may be happening here in Alaska.

F-22s zooming back and forth over the city at extremely low altitude.

They usually do their exercises well to the north over sparsely populated areas (it's not like we don't have plenty of those).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 07:34 PM (IG3/x)

6 Didn't show the collie taking the ball back upstream to let it float downstream again.

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 07:36 PM (Ia/+0)

7 Horsemaning? You mean... you mean, WE didn't invent memes?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Nope. It's memes all the way down.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 07:36 PM (VHUov)

8 Maybe Chinese are playing with their balloons again

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 07:36 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Plutonian mountains are cool. Make Pluto a Planet Again!

Posted by: Delurker at August 06, 2026 07:37 PM (2Drhq)

10 Ace, you are awesome. Thank you so much for this site. It’s the greatest site.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 07:37 PM (77rzZ)

11 I suppose it's better than planking.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2026 07:38 PM (/k3in)

12 As the immortal Emily Littella said, never mind.

I forgot there's going to be an air show this weekend. No doubt they're practicing for that.

Durrrrrr...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 07:38 PM (IG3/x)

13 10 Ace, you are awesome. Thank you so much for this site. It’s the greatest site.
Posted by: Bulg

Nobody likes a Brown-Noser!

Posted by: Teacher's Pet at August 06, 2026 07:39 PM (JM9I6)

14 Guy in the last video is straight-up torturing that cat. I hope kittycat got its revenge with a 5-clawed death slap.

Posted by: Delurker at August 06, 2026 07:39 PM (2Drhq)

15 And shouldn't it be "horsemanning?"

"Horsemaning" looks like it should be horse + mane + ing. Like you're describing a mohawk-mullet combo.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2026 07:39 PM (VHUov)

16
Owners found their missing husky hanging out with bears during a drone search..


Husky: Hey! Hey, guys! You wanna go eat my humans. It's mean I get the baby but you can have all the others.

Hey, c'mon! It'll be fun. I mean, they deserve it anyhow. Those bastards won't let me drink outta the toilet!

C'mon guys! let's do it. Pleeeeeeeeease!
...
...
...

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 07:42 PM (iJfKG)

17
It took New Horizons over 15 months to send the data back to earth using the Deep Space Network big dish receivers. Download speed was 1 -2 kbps.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 07:43 PM (w6EFb)

18 13. Ace’s gotta loan the Vespa to me somehow.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 07:44 PM (77rzZ)

19 "To achieve the desired effect, two individuals are required for this pose"

Well, not necessarily...

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 07:45 PM (Uf/zI)

20
Due to all the mountains,

the Plutonians are great yodelers.

Better than the Swisss.


Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 07:45 PM (iJfKG)

21 Horsemaning? You mean... you mean, WE didn't invent memes?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 07:34 PM (mmrXZ)

It's an older meme but it checks out.

Posted by: Reforger at August 06, 2026 07:45 PM (st6oP)

22
Guy in the last video is straight-up torturing that cat. I hope kittycat got its revenge with a 5-clawed death slap.
Posted by: Delurker

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

I agree! Fake playmates is no fair.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 07:46 PM (mmrXZ)

23 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 07:43 PM (w6EFb)

Amazing! We may not have gotten flying cars and vacations on the moon, but we got to live through some cool science.

Posted by: Delurker at August 06, 2026 07:47 PM (2Drhq)

24 > 19 "To achieve the desired effect, two individuals are required for this pose"

Well, not necessarily...
Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 07:45 PM (Uf/zI)

Ask me how that works.

Posted by: Maximilien Robespierre at August 06, 2026 07:47 PM (IG3/x)

25 Retired about 4 times
But I do my little remodeling Project Mgr for a friend
Keeps me getting up
Keeps me out there
I have 1 more biz idea but cannot pull the trigger

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 06, 2026 07:48 PM (/+uur)

26 The ad if fkkn with me too muvh
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)

27
Some astronomers managed to actually image the dust cloud kicked up by the Falcon 9 2nd stage the other day. This is some damned impressive imaging:

https://t.ly/yY8rS

The poster there is the head of the MIDAS group at the IAA-CSIC group based in Spain. MIDAS stands for Moon Impact Detection and Analysis System. This is their specialty, observing lunar meteor strikes, and if anyone could've done this, it was them.

They have the Midas touch, you might say.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 07:48 PM (w6EFb)

28 I'm busting out of the hospital tomorrow - 🎉🎉🎉

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 06, 2026 07:49 PM (XPqtf)

29 Plutonian mountains are cool. Make Pluto a Planet Again!
Posted by: Delurker at August 06, 2026 07:37 PM (2Drhq)

A bunch of drunk astronomers at a convention have no power to demote Pluto from planet status. Screw them.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 07:49 PM (uhVAy)

30 > I forgot there's going to be an air show this weekend. No doubt they're practicing for that.

Heard from a family member that they've got Blue Angel Super Hornets doing zoomies over their part of town.

That definitely explains it.

If you think the Air Force is going to let the Navy zoom around over their city without a response, well...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 07:50 PM (IG3/x)

31 28 I'm busting out of the hospital tomorrow
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 06, 2026 07:49 PM (XPqtf)

Yesss!!! Double high-five!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 06, 2026 07:50 PM (zYpTz)

32 > 28 I'm busting out of the hospital tomorrow - 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 06, 2026 07:49 PM (XPqtf)

Excellent news!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 07:50 PM (IG3/x)

33
The New Horizons transmitter is X-band, at just 12W power. Detecting that signal from earth has been compared to seeing a flashlight from across the width of the US, 3000 miles distance.

The reason for this amazing sensitivity is the bands chosen for space communication have extremely low natural background noise.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 07:51 PM (w6EFb)

34 I'm busting out of the hospital tomorrow - 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 06, 2026 07:49 PM (XPqtf)
---
Is the Moron Horde on standby to provide lookouts, distractions, and a getaway driver?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 07:52 PM (FZ29D)

35 Guy in the last video is straight-up torturing that cat. I hope kittycat got its revenge with a 5-clawed death slap.
Posted by: Delurker

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

I agree! Fake playmates is no fair.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 07:46 PM (mmrXZ)

I have a cat that will swat at the tails of cats on YT videos on a TV hooked to the internet. She has brothers to mess with if she wants real tussles.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 07:52 PM (uhVAy)

36 5 Jaysus, something may be happening here in Alaska.

F-22s zooming back and forth over the city at extremely low altitude.

They usually do their exercises well to the north over sparsely populated areas (it's not like we don't have plenty of those).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia



Awiens.....

Posted by: Cute Fuzzy Kittuh at August 06, 2026 07:52 PM (pLaQB)

37 Horsemaning? You mean... you mean, WE didn't invent memes?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 07:34 PM (mmrXZ)

It's an older meme but it checks out.
Posted by: Reforger at August 06, 2026 07:45 PM (st6oP)

Cheezburger cat meme photos were started back in the early 1900s

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 07:54 PM (uhVAy)

38
THe South Korena Dunari lunar orbiter also got some before and after shots of the impact:

https://t.ly/ZyrtD

LRO's position wasn't favorable, but it will be taking some images when it flies over in a few days.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 07:54 PM (w6EFb)

39
*runs finger over Café table top*
*shakes head in disgust*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 07:54 PM (O0L8i)

40
I'm busting out of the hospital tomorrow - 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

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

FAHBulous.

I once literally busted out of a hospital. I was in a foreign country and I'd had it. I called two friends for help. "I'm leaving!" I yelled at the nurse. She literally shook a needle at me and yelled back, "The doctor's going to be mad about this!" Doctor shrugged. Okay. Craziest thing ever, I was on crutches, had to go down a flight of broken concrete steps with an ice-covered puddle at the bottom and get a cab outta there. And that was the OUTSIDE of the hospital. The inside, don't get me started...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 07:54 PM (mmrXZ)

41

Police Cat
🚨IN COLOR🚨

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 07:57 PM (Cqx++)

42 AI still gives you data and not information
Illegals cost about $400 B
ok what does that mean
Ok it is Costco or Cat or Oracle Market Cap
So now what do I know?
I know a lot of people work for them and feed and house their families
But what if it is a sucking sound of people that demand you feed and house their families.
What if the people SUCK $400 B out of your life?
Do you have $1500 buck to spend on other people that do not want to join your system?
Why cant Republican leadership point out the COST?

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 06, 2026 07:57 PM (/+uur)

43 I'm busting out of the hospital tomorrow - 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 06, 2026 07:49 PM (XPqtf)
---
Is the Moron Horde on standby to provide lookouts, distractions, and a getaway driver?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 07:52 PM (FZ29D)

Tosses flash bangs, pops smoke for helo extraction.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 06, 2026 07:59 PM (0aYVJ)

44 There are police dogs and police horses, but not police cats or police sheep.

Weird, huh?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 08:00 PM (IG3/x)

45 And now I'm wondering if Batman ever had a Bat Sheep.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 08:00 PM (IG3/x)

46
I'm busting out of the hospital tomorrow - 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

___________

Got your dummy to leave in your bed?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 08:01 PM (O0L8i)

47 There are police dogs and police horses, but not police cats or police sheep.

Weird, huh?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 08:00 PM (IG3/x)
---
Actually, I think there are police cats in a few localities.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 08:02 PM (FZ29D)

48
And now I'm wondering if Batman ever had a Bat Sheep.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 08:00 PM (IG3/x)


He did in case he ever had to take it on the lamb.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 08:02 PM (iJfKG)

49 >>> Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

=====

Skip is first? That has got to be a first.

Posted by: Turn 2 at August 06, 2026 08:03 PM (QFchU)

50 The reason we need more data centers has never been more vividly demonstrated than by that cat video.

Posted by: fd at August 06, 2026 08:03 PM (MWfyi)

51
There are police dogs and police horses, but not police cats or police sheep.

___________

But there are ship's cats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_cat

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 08:03 PM (O0L8i)

52 The mountains of Pluto.

"It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot."

-------------

Flat Plutonians hardest hit.

Posted by: ShainS at August 06, 2026 08:03 PM (+n6Zq)

53 48
And now I'm wondering if Batman ever had a Bat Sheep.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 08:00 PM (IG3/x)

He did in case he ever had to take it on the lamb.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 08:02 PM (iJfKG)


Ewe guys.... 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 06, 2026 08:04 PM (XPqtf)

54 I could see police goats. But, police sheep?

Derp derp derp derp derp...

Stinkin' woolies are dumb. and stinky. And dumb.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 06, 2026 08:05 PM (0aYVJ)

55
*receives DM from insurance*

"Are there tripping hazards in your house?"

*looks at The Big Dummy sleeping*

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

56
Pluto's mountains are water ice. At those temperatures ice is like rock.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 08:07 PM (w6EFb)

57 Cats are not reliably trainable for police work. Unless tripping people as they go down stairs or something like that.

Good mousers

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 08:07 PM (Y+6my)

58 So what happened today?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 08:08 PM (2GVsD)

59 Police Sheep.

He's a Baaaaa-d mutha (shut yo mouth!)

Posted by: Delurker at August 06, 2026 08:08 PM (2Drhq)

60
So what happened today?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 08:08 PM (2GVsD)

____________

Got the back acreage mowed. Finished just before it started raining.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 08:09 PM (O0L8i)

61 Finalized the flooring order, replacing all of the carpet in the house with wide oak plank flooring, which is most of the house.

It cost a lot but it's well worth it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2026 08:09 PM (XV/Pl)

62 Are we dreaming of electric sheep now?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 08:10 PM (2GVsD)

63 Police cats work mice.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 08:11 PM (KC5Lt)

64
But there are ship's cats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_cat
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Lucifer, go to sea
Be a hip cat, be a ship's cat
Somewhere, anywhere

That cat's something I can't explain

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 08:11 PM (Cqx++)

65 The poster there is the head of the MIDAS group at the IAA-CSIC group based in Spain. MIDAS stands for Moon Impact Detection and Analysis System. This is their specialty, observing lunar meteor strikes, and if anyone could've done this, it was them.

They have the Midas touch, you might say.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 07:48 PM (w6EFb)
=====

Yeah that job is already taken

Posted by: Space Intruder Detector at August 06, 2026 08:12 PM (JvZF+)

66 Hmm.. "Headless Body on Topless Garden Bench" just doesn't have the same ring to me.

Evening, Horde! Again, I won't make the ONT but maybe I can stay awake a bit to dally in this thread.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 06, 2026 08:12 PM (SgdqL)

67 Did You Know?

Famed automobile designer Raymond Loewy was brought in to help design human factors on Skylab

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 08:12 PM (Y+6my)

68 Wait?

Maine has passed three laws to interfere with ICE activities.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 08:14 PM (2GVsD)

69 Got your dummy to leave in your bed?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 08:01 PM (O0L8i)
=====

She's going to knock out a candy-striper with an ether-soaked rag.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 08:15 PM (JvZF+)

70
Got the back acreage mowed. Finished just before it started raining.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

*tosses beer*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 08:15 PM (wOO3z)

71 Hadrian

Good for you. Take a long break.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 08:16 PM (2GVsD)

72 Police cats are good for mildly disappointed stares.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 08:16 PM (JvZF+)

73 "Horsemaning" looks like it should be horse + mane + ing. Like you're describing a mohawk-mullet combo.

Me, too. I was reading the article trying to see where the horse mane came in.

Posted by: t-bird at August 06, 2026 08:17 PM (wn0/z)

74 Maine's ICE out of Home Law seeks to prevent landlords from sharing information with ICE on suspect tenants.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 08:17 PM (2GVsD)

75
I had friends while I was mowing. Cattle egrets were following me around and martins were booming and zooming having lunch on the wing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 08:18 PM (O0L8i)

76 Lots of anonymous tips In Maine

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 08:19 PM (wOO3z)

77 There are police dogs and police horses, but not police cats or police sheep.

Weird, huh?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 08:00 PM (IG3/x)
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In an effort to seem less evil and brutal, the Chinese police have been pushing photos (AI of course) of cats in police vests. They are strays, you see, but the police take them in and train them to help the glorious Peoples Republic!

Is there nothing Xi Jinping Thought can't do?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 06, 2026 08:20 PM (ZOv7s)

78 Maine has passed three laws to interfere with ICE activities.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 08:14 PM (2GVsD)
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It's FAFO time!

Posted by: That guy who always things it's a time at August 06, 2026 08:22 PM (ZOv7s)

79 75
I had friends while I was mowing. Cattle egrets were following me around and martins were booming and zooming having lunch on the wing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 08:18 PM (O0L8i)

I don't get anything like that! Instead, I get displaced and angry swarms of gnats.

To paraphrase Sam Gamee, what do they eat when they can't get Robbos?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 06, 2026 08:22 PM (SgdqL)

80 In an effort to seem less evil and brutal, the Chinese police have been pushing photos (AI of course) of cats in police vests. They are strays, you see, but the police take them in and train them to help the glorious Peoples Republic!

"Black cat or white cat?" Deng Xioping.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 08:22 PM (2GVsD)

81 They are strays, you see, but the police take them in and eat them.

Posted by: The Real Story at August 06, 2026 08:23 PM (MWfyi)

82 >>>Horsemaning

If it's about a Horseman, shouldn't it be spelled horsemanning? As opposed to horsemaning, which would seem to be something about a horse's mane.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 06, 2026 08:23 PM (syz1S)

83 Remember when they got so mad every day about the crumbling state of "our democracy" because some people did something at the capitol and it was all "OMG insurrection" and the "darkest day in history"?

And now they're just running 50 *candidates* that are like "yeah, down with the fucking USA and every greedy capitalist pig scum inside it, eliminate Congress and the Jews, empty the prisons, and fuck yourself and die America".

And the DNC is whistling pretending they've got nothing to do with it. But they're not exactly flipping out - are they. Fuckin' scumbag commie left.

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 08:23 PM (vE0+H)

84 To paraphrase Sam Gamee, what do they eat when they can't get Robbos?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 06, 2026 08:22 PM (SgdqL)

Hobos.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 08:24 PM (wOO3z)

85 "Black cat or white cat?" Deng Xioping.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 08:22 PM (2GVsD)
---
Speaking of China, I've just posted Part 3 of my series on a PLA invasion of Taiwan - The Chicoms Are Not The Soviets. It's a discussion of the significant differences in military and culture.

Link in nic. No idea how many parts there will be, I'm just thinking on the page. You might enjoy it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 06, 2026 08:25 PM (ZOv7s)

86 Oh kami-sama

The Maine Commies are wrapping the Castle Doctrine around their twisted evil idea of protecting illegal aliens renting.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 08:26 PM (2GVsD)

87 Remember when they got so mad every day about the crumbling state of "our democracy" because some people did something at the capitol and it was all "OMG insurrection" and the "darkest day in history"?

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 08:23 PM (vE0+H)
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And lame duck GOP senators get their nuts tied in a knot over those non-violent people getting compensation while the Maoists are taking pot shots at ICE.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 06, 2026 08:26 PM (ZOv7s)

88 "If it's about a Horseman, shouldn't it be spelled horsemanning? As opposed to horsemaning, which would seem to be something about a horse's mane.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous "

I think, that if you had a time machine, and went back into time, and made sure the word "horsemaning" was spelled with two 'n's from the very first, and then did nothing else and came right back, the course of history would not be altered.

Posted by: fd at August 06, 2026 08:28 PM (MWfyi)

89 84 To paraphrase Sam Gamee, what do they eat when they can't get Robbos?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 06, 2026 08:22 PM (SgdqL)

Hobos.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 08:24 PM (wOO3z)

What?? In MY privileged corner of NOVA?? Harumph, harumph, harumph!! (Deh hobos may assemble out in Prince William County, Darlink!)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 06, 2026 08:29 PM (SgdqL)

90 2 Fun Ice Facts:

1) The guy installing our pool is having a tough time getting his workers to show up because they're worried of getting picked up. Woot!!

2). The illegals are now trading in their work trucks for suburbans to avoid ICE attention. Woot Woot!

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 08:29 PM (lCppi)

91 > 19 "To achieve the desired effect, two individuals are required for this pose"

Well, not necessarily...
Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 07:45 PM (Uf/zI)

Ask me how that works.

Posted by: Maximilien Robespierre at August 06, 2026 07:47 PM (IG3/x)

What he said.

Posted by: Nicole Brown Simpson at August 06, 2026 08:31 PM (wVcYX)

92 I think Chloe the Bengal Kitty has consolidated her new empire.

She's surveying her domain from on top of my bookshelves in my office.

Poor Penny has been relegated to a lower position on top of the cat tree next to my window.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 08:33 PM (FZ29D)

93
1) The guy installing our pool is having a tough time getting his workers to show up because they're worried of getting picked up. Woot!!

2). The illegals are now trading in their work trucks for suburbans to avoid ICE attention. Woot Woot!
Posted by: LASue

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

Well well. Is pool contractor looking for any legal locals to employ?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 08:34 PM (mmrXZ)

94 So I guess Abigail Shapiro's ugly brother decided to lump Franco in with communists and the wise residents of X wouldn't have it.

It is of course absurd. The man was a hero, and a very reluctant dictator. In an alternate universe, he'd have retired on a pension and no one would know who he was, but of course the Spanish left had to do its thing, killing clergy, assassinating center-right politicians and so he was forced to act.

There's a good book on the topic, btw.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 06, 2026 08:34 PM (ZOv7s)

95
AS you know, Donna Mills started and OnlyFans at age 85. She just revealed she got a request to see her feet, and stomping grapes at that.

She's going to do it, she says. I'm sure the sick fuck is going to pay.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 08:34 PM (w6EFb)

96 Poor Penny has been relegated to a lower position on top of the cat tree next to my window.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 08:33 PM (FZ29D)
---
Since I started giving Mittens more canned tuna, her sense of pride and wrath against the usurper Dakota has revived, and rather than meekly surrender her food, she's issuing sharp physical rebukes.

She's also showing her displeasure with the state of the family room by marking the carpet like Bomber Command.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 06, 2026 08:36 PM (ZOv7s)

97
Imagine WWII where Mussolini was as shrewd as Franco, making nice noises toward Hitler but keeping out of the whole thing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2026 08:37 PM (O0L8i)

98 Thunder & lightning

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 06, 2026 08:42 PM (Ydd86)

99 V95
AS y8u know, Donna Mills started and OnlyFans at age 85. She just revealed she got a request to see her feet, and stomping grapes at that.

She's going to do it, she says. I'm sure the sick fuck is going to pay.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 08:34 PM (w6EFb)

"Revies online evidence"

Hrrm, homm. Let's not be hasty here!

Posted by: Treebeard at August 06, 2026 08:42 PM (SgdqL)

100 It is of course absurd. The man was a hero, and a very reluctant dictator. In an alternate universe, he'd have retired on a pension and no one would know who he was, but of course the Spanish left had to do its thing, killing clergy, assassinating center-right politicians and so he was forced to act.

There's a good book on the topic, btw.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

They teach that in school now. Seriously.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 08:43 PM (wOO3z)

101 "To achieve the desired effect, two individuals are required for this pose"

Well, not necessarily...
Posted by: Common Tater

Ask me how that works.
Posted by: Maximilien Robespierre

What he said.
Posted by: Nicole Brown Simpson


Everybody's gotta Instagram their dinner these days.....

Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer at August 06, 2026 08:44 PM (VHUov)

102 98 Thunder & lightning
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 06, 2026 08:42 PM (Ydd86)

Very, very frightening.

Latest wave blew through here about an hour ago.

Posted by: Treebeard at August 06, 2026 08:45 PM (SgdqL)

103 Hello, cafe friends! My work day is finally over.

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 08:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

104 They could do double exposures a hundred years ago.
Or behead a criminal and dress them up and slump them over.
I would have done the David holding Goliath's head up. If I could find a criminal or annoying neighbor with a big enough head. But I repeat myself.

Posted by: Nagasaki still gives me a glow at August 06, 2026 08:46 PM (983Km)

105 Horsemaning, also known as "headless posing," is a photographic technique where the subject creates the illusion of being beheaded, with their head placed on the ground or another surface.

Probably not a big hit in France.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 08:47 PM (w+2cP)

106 Dang, there's that sock thig again!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 06, 2026 08:48 PM (SgdqL)

107 The guy installing our pool is having a tough time getting his workers to show up because they're worried of getting picked up. Woot!!


Most of the Mexican restaurants and food trucks around here display their citizenship or green card documents prominently at their place of business.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 08:50 PM (w+2cP)

108
"To achieve the desired effect, two individuals are required for this pose"

Well, not necessarily...
Posted by: Common Tater

Ask me how that works.
Posted by: Maximilien Robespierre

What he said.
Posted by: Nicole Brown Simpson

Everybody's gotta Instagram their dinner these days.....
Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer

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

Beep.

Posted by: Captain Pike at August 06, 2026 08:50 PM (mmrXZ)

109
Elon is now talking mass drivers on the Moon as part of the "Path to Petawatts" plan. Heinlein stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 08:51 PM (w6EFb)

110 I'm surprised the head puns have not come to a head.

Posted by: fd at August 06, 2026 08:52 PM (MWfyi)

111 Probably headed that way now though.

Posted by: fd at August 06, 2026 08:54 PM (MWfyi)

112 BREAKING:
RED CROSS DELETES VIDEO AFTER MIGRANT MURDERS BRITISH WOMAN

The Red Cross made a sympathetic cartoon video showing the journey of Sharif, an Afghan travelling to Europe

When Sharif got there he MURDERED a British Woman and stuffed her body into a suitcase

They wanted you to feel sorry for him but he killed a young woman like the savage that he is

The Red Cross must be held to account for the blood they have on their hands
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Red Cross is an arm of the Administrative State.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 08:54 PM (6T7Go)

113 111 Probably headed that way now though.
Posted by: fd at August 06, 2026 08:54 PM (MWfyi)

We could about face now and avoid it.

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 08:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

114 hmmm

>>@hey_itsmyturn
·
4m
>>Loud explosions heard in Marib.
#Yemen 🇾🇪

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 08:55 PM (viF8m)

115 Pluto would make a good Fortress of Solitude.

Everyone already knows where that one in the Arctic is, plus the Chinamen have already tainted the Far North with their expanding geo-political influence which is hastened by Canada's fellatal obeisance. It certainly isn't winning them fans.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 06, 2026 08:57 PM (nDXEV)

116 Elon is now talking mass drivers on the Moon as part of the "Path to Petawatts" plan. Heinlein stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 08:51 PM (w6EFb)


Two of the biggest issues with extended human spaceflight is radiation and pressure changes. If that .2 millibar change makes the old breaks hurt, think what happens when compartment 6 starts leaking. Thicker pressure hulls will help for both of them. It is hard to get mass out of Earth's gravity well, but much easier from the moon, even if it is just gypsum or regolith to epoxy into plates.

The third, the problem with zero-g is going to be harder of course.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 08:57 PM (rbvCR)

117 "We could about face now and avoid it.
Posted by: Piper"

Noggin a do it.

Posted by: fd at August 06, 2026 08:57 PM (MWfyi)

118 JackStraw

About time.

Since the North Yemen ports are crushed, now is the time of the water purification plant destruction, and passing out typhus infected blankets from LA.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 06, 2026 08:58 PM (u82oZ)

119 Wondering who did it, Salty. The Saudis really hate the Houthis and for good reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 09:01 PM (viF8m)

120 Elon is now talking mass drivers on the Moon as part of the "Path to Petawatts" plan. Heinlein stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 08:51 PM (w6EFb)

Sam Rockwell heaves a heavy sigh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 06, 2026 09:02 PM (0aYVJ)

121 The people who shelter and protect illegals really, sincerely believe THEY are the good guys.

What a topsy-turvy place America has turned into.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2026 09:02 PM (RCjYY)

122 LASue,
Your pool guy is using the proper ash(?) to avoid "concrete cancer", right?

Posted by: lin-duh at August 06, 2026 09:05 PM (VCgbV)

123 Added Director stats for the Movie Vault app, top 5 directors.

Ridley Scott, Spielberg, Hayao Miyazaki, Kurosawa and Zemeckis.

Next up, thinking about pulling movie financials from the API, but I really don't know if I want to wast cycles on that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2026 09:06 PM (XV/Pl)

124 "To achieve the desired effect, two individuals are required for this pose"

Well, not necessarily...
Posted by: Common Tater

Ask me how that works.
Posted by: Maximilien Robespierre

What he said.
Posted by: Nicole Brown Simpson

Everybody's gotta Instagram their dinner these days.....
Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer

Beep.
Posted by: Captain Pike at August 06, 2026 08:50 PM (mmrXZ)

Dr. Herbert West showed me some positive and delightful aspects to being a head in a pan.

Posted by: Dr. Carl Hill at August 06, 2026 09:06 PM (wVcYX)

125 El Sayed Backs Chris Van Hollen to Replace Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 09:08 PM (6T7Go)

126 Fly ash

Posted by: lin-duh at August 06, 2026 09:08 PM (VCgbV)

127 Dr. Herbert West showed me some positive and delightful aspects to being a head in a pan.
Posted by: Dr. Carl Hill at August 06, 2026 09:06 PM (wVcYX)
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Don't get me started.

Posted by: Jan in the Pan, from The Brain That Wouln'dt Die at August 06, 2026 09:09 PM (0aYVJ)

128 "Dr. Herbert West showed me some positive and delightful aspects to being a head in a pan.
Posted by: Dr. Carl Hill"

I thought it sucked.

Posted by: Jan In A Pan at August 06, 2026 09:09 PM (MWfyi)

129 Have a great night, everyone.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 06, 2026 09:09 PM (u82oZ)

130 We only use smart ash.

Posted by: Smart Ash Pool Guy at August 06, 2026 09:10 PM (MWfyi)

131 @ByronYork
Aug 5
Abdul el Sayed speaks. Long riff attacking Mike Rogers. Tells Rogers to stay in his Florida house, because in Michigan, "You are not going to have safe quarter from people holding you accountable."
---

More harmful threats.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 09:10 PM (6T7Go)

132 "I spent years hunting terrorists and bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. Never in a million years did I think that I would be running against someone who believes America deserved 9/11."
_Mike Rogers

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 09:11 PM (6T7Go)

133 Hey Jan in a Pan. How you doing?

Posted by: Dr. Carl Hill at August 06, 2026 09:14 PM (wVcYX)

134 Night, Salty!

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 09:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

135 - Yemeni army soldiers are seen assaulting Houthi positions.
_live fire

https://tinyurl.com/yv3kxh77

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 09:22 PM (6T7Go)

136 @IAPolls2022
·
Aug 4
🚨 RACE CALL: Rep. John James — former Apache helicopter pilot — wins Michigan GOP primary for governor.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 09:23 PM (viF8m)

137 "Hey Jan in a Pan. How you doing?
Posted by: Dr. Carl Hill"

Kinda down. I ain't got no body.

Posted by: Jan In A Pan at August 06, 2026 09:28 PM (MWfyi)

138 Congratulations Teresa!

You may want to watch 'Terminator 2' for a few extra escape tricks.

Ralphy is upstairs. I checked to make sure he was breathing. Snowflake is outside by my porch and not ready to come in tonight.

I fully cleaned my room. I combed them both yesterday, but still. A lot of hair.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 09:29 PM (Sco7b)

139 Horsemaning, also known as "headless posing," is a photographic technique where the subject creates the illusion of being beheaded, with their head placed on the ground or another surface.

Probably not a big hit in France.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2026 08:47 PM (w+2cP)


Yeah. Screw it up and you'd be beside yourself with anger.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 09:33 PM (2WIwB)

140 Tripping over the sites it appears that many use Yemenis and Houthis interchangeably or in such a manner as to confuse who is who.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 09:35 PM (6T7Go)

141 Abdul el Sayed speaks. Long riff attacking Mike Rogers. Tells Rogers to stay in his Florida house, because in Michigan, "You are not going to have safe quarter from people holding you accountable."


Hey there Ab-dull.
Come try that shit in my town. Let's just see how badass you really are.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2026 09:35 PM (2WIwB)

142 My daughter's new favorite movie is the 1988 version of The Blob.

I've watched it a few nights in a row, and it strikes me that this movie is basically Young Scogg and Young Piper vs. Middle-Aged Jerry Nadler.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 06, 2026 09:38 PM (BI5O2)

143 The third, the problem with zero-g is going to be harder of course.

Couldn't the ship be bagel shaped and slowly rotating?

Posted by: Community Notes at August 06, 2026 09:39 PM (a3CJ+)

144 >>Hey there Ab-dull.
Come try that shit in my town. Let's just see how badass you really are.

Never thought I'd say this but I'm enjoying watching Fetterman go after him.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 09:40 PM (viF8m)

145
If the Houthis are neutralized, the shipping path through the Red Sea will be open. The Saudi oil pipeline across to the Red Sea will be able to load the largest tankers.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 06, 2026 09:40 PM (krI25)

146 I wanted Star Trek to be put on hiatus to blow off the stink of Nu Trek. But a proposed series about an older Jonathan Archer and the establishment of the UFP does have me intrigued:

https://tinyurl.com/4ce94hpf

Plus we'd finally get into the Earth-Romulus war.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 06, 2026 09:40 PM (kpS4V)

147 "You are not going to have safe quarter from people holding you accountable."

(sigh) really not trying to break that violent terrorist stereotype

Posted by: Community Notes at August 06, 2026 09:41 PM (a3CJ+)

148 Never thought I'd say this but I'm enjoying watching Fetterman go after him.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 09:40 PM (viF8m)
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Puttin' on the Ritz!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 06, 2026 09:41 PM (kpS4V)

149
131 @ByronYork
Aug 5
Abdul el Sayed speaks. Long riff attacking Mike Rogers. Tells Rogers to stay in his Florida house, because in Michigan, "You are not going to have safe quarter from people holding you accountable."

--------

Neither will you, numb nuts.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 06, 2026 09:43 PM (krI25)

150 El Sayed Backs Chris Van Hollen to Replace Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 09:08 PM (6T7Go)


1st Problem: Chuckie isn’t the Senate Majority Leader.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 06, 2026 09:45 PM (zeRnp)

151 And now I'm wondering if Batman ever had a Bat Sheep.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 08:00 PM (IG3/x)


That’s Baaaaaaaaaaht Sheep!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 06, 2026 09:46 PM (zeRnp)

152 26 09:08 PM (6T7Go)

1st Problem: Chuckie isn’t the Senate Majority Leader.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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They call him a dreamer, he's going for the gold.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 09:47 PM (6T7Go)

153 The part where The Blib swallows up an entire phone booth, waitress and all, outside a greasy spoon diner makes me think Nadler might actually *be the actor* playing The Blob.

Prove me wrong. You can't see the face of The Blob in the movie, but the physique and the insatiable, aggressive hunger are very suggestive of the Congressman.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 06, 2026 09:48 PM (BI5O2)

154 >>Puttin' on the Ritz!

Uper Duper!

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 09:48 PM (viF8m)

155 We're going to have a lot of fun with El Sayed over this campaign.

I hope trannies show up and speak with him at his rallies.
And a makeshift 'Jews for Abdul' group.
And dog-owners.

What else would cause him to blow his calm exterior?

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 09:48 PM (Sco7b)

156 @146

>>Plus we'd finally get into the Earth-Romulus war.

But you know that vandals and monster babies will be the show runners and writers, it's going to be crap.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2026 09:49 PM (XV/Pl)

157 You are not going to have safe quarter from people holding you accountable."

(sigh) really not trying to break that violent terrorist stereotype
Posted by: Community Notes at August 06, 2026 09:41 PM (a3CJ+)

That joke about the scorpion comes to mind

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 09:51 PM (lCppi)

158 Enterprise was a very entertaining show.
And Strange New Worlds has been pretty good.

It's hard to squeeze a lot of woke crap when you only have 10 episodes a season.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 09:53 PM (Sco7b)

159 Our town is a very very very nice town
with six or eight gun stores,
and bestest neighbors next doors,
and everything is better cause of pewpew.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2026 09:53 PM (LHPAg)

160 It's hard to squeeze a lot of woke crap when you only have 10 episodes a season.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 09:53 PM (Sco7b)
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We can do it in EIGHT episodes!

Posted by: Amazon's Rangz of Powah! at August 06, 2026 09:55 PM (FZ29D)

161 Well well. Is pool contractor looking for any legal locals to employ?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 08:34 PM (mmrXZ)

Thats my advice Hire legal citizens He's smart- i think it will happen pretty quick

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 09:55 PM (lCppi)

162 That joke about the scorpion comes to mind
Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 09:51 PM (lCppi)


Not a joke, a fable, with a moral: things (and people) can’t escape their true nature.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 06, 2026 09:57 PM (zeRnp)

163 >>El Sayed Backs Chris Van Hollen to Replace Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader

Fun time for Chuck. Does he give money to El Sayed knowing he wants him gone?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 09:58 PM (viF8m)

164 @ACTBrigitte
Aug 5
This is what a citizen journalist just exposed in the Bronx.

A neighborhood called Little Yemen. A man with a Hamas tattoo who says he “loves Hamas” and wants them running America. On welfare.

Hamas has murdered Americans. We’re paying for him.

An imam mocks Christianity, then leads prayer in Times Square declaring “We are taking over New York City.” Another man: “Inshallah, Islam will take over the West.”

This is the Islamic takeover, now impossible to ignore, and more Americans are finally waking up.
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Really?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 09:58 PM (6T7Go)

165 Every time I refresh, I see that image at the top, and it becomes by repetition, disturbing.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 06, 2026 09:58 PM (zeRnp)

166 Yep, you're right A fable-frog snd scorpion

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 09:59 PM (lCppi)

167 Tala - a 'clap, tapping one's hand on one's arm

Rico - Rich or wealthy

Talarico = stiff-armed robbery

You can believe it because I just made it up on the Infratoobs.

Posted by: mindful webworker - putting the fun in fundamental at August 06, 2026 10:00 PM (62m/B)

168 ONT is late.

"Push the button, Stamper!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2026 10:03 PM (O7YUW)

169 Turn it off, then back on.

Posted by: Hints From Heloise at August 06, 2026 10:04 PM (JM9I6)

170 NOOT OND

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420872

Posted by: mindful webworker - git goin at August 06, 2026 10:04 PM (62m/B)

171 The Star Trek reboot I want is a weekly series with various characters, alien and human, have about 48 minutes with Deanna Troi on the Holodeck.
I have a few in my head right now.
They are real and they are indeed spectacular.

Posted by: Nagasaki still gives me a glow at August 06, 2026 10:26 PM (jrlbR)

172 The opening picture and explanation 👌🏼

Thanks for keeping it interesting. 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 02:25 AM (NFX2v)

Quick Hits

James Talarico is so normal and masculine!


James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers'

The Pride Month event also featured a drag queen with the provocative name 'Sedonya Face'

Sit-on-your-face, GET IT??!!! I love all of drag queens' joke (singular).


James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate from Texas, headlined an LGBTQ festival that featured "the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers," an 11-year-old boy "drag queen" who goes by the stage name Kween Kee Kee.

Taylor PRIDE, a group in the town of Taylor, Texas, held the June 26, 2021, event to raise money to help "rural LGBTQ communities." The Pride Month festivities included a series of pro-LGBTQ speakers, live music, a "drag story hour," and adult drag performers such as Brianna Brinxx and the provocatively named Sedonya Face.

Talarico and Kween Kee Kee, a local preteen named Keegan, were the biggest attraction for Taylor PRIDE organizers. "[Taylor PRIDE] will be hosting numerous speakers such as State Rep. James Talarico, talented musical guests such as Venus Loves Mars, the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers Kween Kee Kee," the group wrote in promotional materials.

"Not only ... will this amazing pre-teen be performing a number at Texas Beer Company but they will also host Kee Kee Storytime ... where children will find lots of PRIDE inspired craft activities," Taylor PRIDE wrote of Kween Kee Kee in a post publicizing the event.

Talarico, running against Texas attorney general Ken Paxton (R.), is seen in photos speaking to the audience and posing with attendees at Texas Beer Company, which hosted the festival. Kween Kee Kee, sporting a shimmery blue dress, heavy eye makeup, and a platinum blonde wig, performed a drag routine as part of the group's "Youth Drag Show," event photos show.


Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." CNN's Abby Phillip corrected a guest: "I will say El-Sayed didn't -- does not support defunding the police." When she was confronted by CNN's own reporting that he called for defunding the police, Phillip offered a curious response...


..."I think the question that I'm fundamentally asking is, by dredging up the sort of wedge issues of 2020, are you missing the point?" Well, the point is that he called for defunding the police. It may be a wedge issue when a candidate wants to return to the state of nature...

...This is the same reporter who "dredged up" an attack line against Bernie Sanders in the presidential debates and made Sanders repeat his outright denial of the allegation by Elizabeth Warren that he told her that no woman could be president.

Migrant NGOs are handing out leaflets instructing illegal aliens how to illegally cross the Channel from France to UK and how to call for the British navy to save you when you want to be brought ashore.

The Critical Drinker
@TheCriticalDri2

7h

Walking down the average UK high street now is one of the most blackpilling experiences imaginable. Barely any local businesses left, just endless vape shops, tacky nail salons, dodgy phone retailers and the obligatory Turkish barbers, most of which never see a single customer and barely even bother to maintain the pretence of being legit anymore.

A palpable atmosphere of quiet despair and resignation amongst the trickle of shoppers wandering aimlessly around. Its like living in a country that just lost a war without firing a single shot. Never seen anything like it in my lifetime.

The hero who knocked out the Democrat congressional candidate weakling says "I didn't even know who he was." Of course you didn't. He's another nobody soyboy who thinks he can bully the world into saying he's special.

Hasan Piker is proof that we must not only end birthright citizenship but end it retroactively.

Trump must have seen this Terror Cuck's ugly mug and decided to act.

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that attempt to restrict birthright citizenship and end the practice of "birth tourism," in hopes of circumventing a recent Supreme Court decision.

...

The order restricting birthright citizenship expands the definition of what children born in the United States would be ineligible for automatic citizenship, including children of "alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments."

The other order directs the State Department to issue rules and guidance to stop birth tourism, according to Axios, even as U.S. law already bans tourists from obtaining visas "for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States."

Francesca Hong won't have any of that awful "proximity to whiteness" when we deport her.

Megan Basham
@megbasham

Aug 5

I've said this before. Francesca Hong was born to non-citizen immigrants. In other words, she has citizenship in the U.S. because she was born here when her parents were on student visas.

Birthright citizenship candidates like her are FAR more likely to be extreme leftwing than to be the kind of pro American patriot that we are promised when we grant this kind of citizenship.

And now she is running as a socialist in order to dismantle the American way of life.

Tell me more about how this isn't a problem.

In case you missed it: evil America-hating anchor baby Francesca Hong got a call from her pollster and discovered she actually loves Thanksgiving, rather than hating it as "painful" for foreigners like herself.


Unfunnyman Stephen Colbert warned his audience of brain-damaged clapping seals to not take a vaccine created by Big Pharma... when Trump was president.

Then Biden was fake-elected, and you know what happened next.


Stephen Colbert's nepo baby daughter works at, get this, 60 Minutes.

Or at least she did. She's resigned as CBS gets ready to purge its " " " news talent. " " "

Stephen Colbert's daughter has resigned from "60 Minutes," becoming the latest behind-the-scenes producer to leave the venerable newsmagazine as it grapples with a talent exodus, a reportedly unaired Jeffrey Epstein investigation and mounting scrutiny of its future ownership.

Madeleine Carlisle, a well-regarded associate producer who joined "60 Minutes" after reporting stints at Time and The Atlantic, resigned from the broadcast in recent days, according to Status.

The exit creates an awkward family bookend for CBS.

Carlisle left just months after the network pulled the plug on her father's top-rated "Late Show," ending Stephen Colbert's 11-season run on May 21 after CBS called the cancellation a "purely financial decision."


David Strom reckons this might be the worst AWFL monologue in a while.

I don't know it it's the worst. Everything these batty female cucks say is heinous and retarded.

Like this:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:32 PM




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1 Uno

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 06:32 PM (g47mK)

2 Yay!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:33 PM (ExV1e)

3 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:34 PM (ExV1e)

4 CNN's Abby Phillip
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I think I see the problem.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 06:37 PM (JvZF+)

5
Well, Madam MP, I do hope people in the future realize just what rubbish of a politician you and your ilk are.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 06:39 PM (w6EFb)

6 Stephen Colbert's daughter has resigned from "60 Minutes," becoming the latest behind-the-scenes producer to leave the venerable newsmagazine as it grapples with a talent exodus, a reportedly unaired Jeffrey Epstein investigation and mounting scrutiny of its future ownership.

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Venerable? Yeah...big, fat no on that description.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 06, 2026 06:40 PM (qBdHI)

7 There's no way that Talarico is gonna win. Right?


Right?

Posted by: Mr. Wawa at August 06, 2026 06:40 PM (TDkIk)

8 People with funny-sounding names shouldn't be allowed to run for or hold any public office in America.

Posted by: Don Black at August 06, 2026 06:41 PM (ZxPkt)

9 Tucker’s new party platform: we hate Jews and we want to ban alcohol and no longer allow lending.

Did he convert to Islam? Lol

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 06, 2026 06:41 PM (Bz1XI)

10 Has Mamdani ever been to Staten Island before? Have any of his advisors?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 06:42 PM (JvZF+)

11 Colberts Been Sacked

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 06:42 PM (viF8m)

12 Venerable? Yeah...big, fat no on that description.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 06, 2026 06:40 PM (qBdHI)


Venerable: Commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position.

60 Minutes is old. There are very old people who still respect it, because it's old. Also, it's old.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:42 PM (ExV1e)

13
I think we've reached the part of the movie where Chuck Heston rides off with the silent but hot Linda Harrison, sees what's left of the Statue of Liberty, and yells "Damn you all to Hell!"

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 06:42 PM (Y8DZL)

14 >Walking down the average UK high street now is one of the most blackpilling experiences imaginable.
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I always wanted to visit the ancestral home in the UK

but that UK is long gone
very sad
and not a shot fired

Posted by: Don Black at August 06, 2026 06:44 PM (ZxPkt)

15 Stephen Colbert's daughter has resigned from "60 Minutes,"
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Why would anyone care? Is it a surprise she had a nepot-job?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 06:44 PM (JvZF+)

16 The only people who watch 60 Minutes are too drunk to change the channel after an afternoon of football.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 06, 2026 06:45 PM (bX16E)

17 Thune is a worthless piece of shit.. he can't even get Blanche through... And I thought McConnell was bad... And Talefreako earned his "freako."

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

18 I'm sensing a disturbing proximity to whiteness every morning when I shave.

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 06:46 PM (UjdFS)

19 I think Trump is getting a bit carried away with the scalp weasel.

https://tinyurl.com/23bbfrxr

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 06:46 PM (viF8m)

20 I watched Darryl Cooper's very interesting discussion with Tucker on how da jooz magickally manipsomated Americans into hatin' on dem islamz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 06:47 PM (JvZF+)

21 13

the silent but hot Linda Harrison,

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 06:42 PM (Y8DZL)

So, at the end, he did find the perfect Woman?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 06, 2026 06:47 PM (mP0Kj)

22 Anybody besides me remember when the progs used "self-hating" as a negative?

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2026 06:47 PM (SLpkL)

23 "silent but hot Linda Harrison"


I don't think "but" means what you think it means.

Posted by: Wally at August 06, 2026 06:48 PM (avzFa)

24 Talarico is really a depraved human being. He really believes the pure evil that he shovels out of his mouth. Utterly disgusting and vile doesn't even come near what he really is. Clicking on that Free Beacon link and looking at that poor little child whose life will be nothing but horror because of what those responsible for his life have done to him. They all need to be fed to the sharks. Such evil.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 06, 2026 06:48 PM (qBdHI)

25 I always wanted to visit the ancestral home in the UK

but that UK is long gone
very sad
and not a shot fired
Posted by: Don Black at August 06, 2026 06:44 PM (ZxPkt)

My Forefathers got kicked out of the Bordeaux region in the 1650s...

I got to go there in 1981 and had a good time... have no desire to go back now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 06, 2026 06:49 PM (mP0Kj)

26 Abby Phillips must be the only news/opinion host who regularly gets made to look like an idiot on her own show.

She routinely screws up and has to come up with some lefty B.S. to maneuver her way out of some corner she’s painted herself in.

Scott Jennings spanks her live on TV a couple of times a week.

The sad thing for her is that I only know all of this from seeing clips on X. I, and billions of other people, have never once watched her show.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2026 06:49 PM (6ydKt)

27 Section 1

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

said this before, if a woman from another country comes here 8 & 1/2 months pregnant, gives birth and leaves for home shortly afterwards that kid is not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" and should not be considered a citizen

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 06, 2026 06:50 PM (CWTWj)

28 Scottish mum needs closed captioning, but I got the gist and am with her 100%.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 06, 2026 06:50 PM (NYInA)

29 I'm getting worried Hong Kong Phooey is going to collapse before the primary.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 06, 2026 06:51 PM (wGerL)

30
The Enga-land black pill observation is relevant, but many of the midwest small towns where I called on small businesses 40 years ago are in a similar condition today.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 06:51 PM (Y8DZL)

31 Talarico is genuinely the perfect candidate…



…for a city council seat in San Francisco.

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

32

Tucker Carlson used a highly promoted livestream Wednesday to unveil a 10-point vision for America — defining the worldview of a breakaway MAGA faction increasingly at odds with President Trump.

https://t.ly/daelg

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 06:51 PM (Cqx++)

33 It will be terrifying if these DSA candidates win their elections - unless we think it is still fraud. I just can't believe how they are saying the crazy parts out loud and getting support from anyone beyond the 10% TDS sufferers.

Posted by: Iris at August 06, 2026 06:52 PM (286+n)

34 Carried over:

11 I get the feeling these people would sell out America at a price far less than we would believe.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)


Yes, not even pennies on the dollar. I would expect no more than a thousandth of the value to us, and for some, maybe only a nominal consideration.

That's the pattern I've seen in news reports of official corruption. Whether it was a property manager steering maintenance contracts for public housing, or a sweetheart deal for a no-bid contract to be a pointless middleman doubling the price of Covid tests, the kickback was relatively trivial, at least three figures less than the value of the deal.

That's probably because what the corruptocrat was selling wasn't his, so it was no cost to him, and also he couldn't put it up on eBay for a bidding war. It was either take the pittance on offer or get nothing for it.

I'm curious to learn if this is a general principle that applies to other things, like fencing stolen art and jewelry. I would bet it does.

Posted by: SciVo at August 06, 2026 06:53 PM (Sy6m/)

35 Do these super Christian politicians ever talk about Christ?

Am I missing something, they seem to be always talking about people who suck cock.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 06:53 PM (ppr2L)

36 Talarico is genuinely the perfect candidate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2026 06:51 PM (6ydKt)
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To poop on.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2026 06:53 PM (SLpkL)

37 33 It will be terrifying if these DSA candidates win their elections - unless we think it is still fraud. I just can't believe how they are saying the crazy parts out loud and getting support from anyone beyond the 10% TDS sufferers.
Posted by: Iris at August 06, 2026 06:52 PM (286+n)

You will have a Pro Islam Mayor of New York City, on the 25th anniversary of 9-11.

I don't know what to think about this country anymore.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 06, 2026 06:54 PM (mP0Kj)

38
Tucker Carlson used a highly promoted livestream Wednesday to unveil a 10-point vision for America — defining the worldview of a breakaway MAGA faction increasingly at odds with President Trump.

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That is certainly one take. Here is a more accurate one:

"Joel Berry
@JoelWBerry
9h
Tucker found a bunch of motivational cat posters and compiled them into a schizo manifesto."

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 06:54 PM (g47mK)

39 Brave is the only browser i can use for this site on my phone.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2026 06:54 PM (SLpkL)

40 Concern about foreigners who have acquired American citizenship such as Mamdani, Piker, Hong is well-placed but late.

These people have already been well-seeded in the government. Valerie Jarrett was born in Shiraz and speaks Farsi. Remember her?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 06:56 PM (JvZF+)

41 I think we've reached the part of the movie where Chuck Heston rides off with the silent but hot Linda Harrison, sees what's left of the Statue of Liberty, and yells "Damn you all to Hell!"
Posted by: Auspex
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I would prefer the 'True Grit' scene where Wayne takes the reins in his teeth, Winchester in one hand, Colt in the other, shouts 'Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch' and charges Ned Pepper.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 06:56 PM (XeU6L)

42 If nothing changes in England, at least someday we will get to watch when Achmed and Co. reach critical mass and all the effete Upper Class Twits get their ancestral estates seized, their inherited riches taken, some beheaded and the rest tossed out of the country.

Posted by: Azjaeger at August 06, 2026 06:57 PM (3/XaG)

43 30 The Enga-land black pill observation is relevant, but many of the midwest small towns where I called on small businesses 40 years ago are in a similar condition today.
Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 06:51 PM (Y8DZL)

In England it’s probably worse.
These vape shops, mobile phone shops, American candy shops, and barbers and nail salons galore are mostly fronts for drug dealers, organized crime, and a way to bring in their 50 cousins on work visas.

We got hit by off-shoring, which killed a lot of towns, and then Walmart and Amazon and Home Depot came along and devastated retail.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2026 06:58 PM (6ydKt)

44 Brave with ad block plus works on iPhone until it locks up and shuts down

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 06:59 PM (enNUy)

45 These people have already been well-seeded in the government. Valerie Jarrett was born in Shiraz and speaks Farsi. Remember her?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 06:56 PM (JvZF+)

Wasn’t she the chick ape in the Donnie Wahlberg ‘Planet of the Apes’?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2026 07:00 PM (6ydKt)

46 I would prefer the 'True Grit' scene where Wayne takes the reins in his teeth, Winchester in one hand, Colt in the other, shouts 'Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch' and charges Ned Pepper.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Good point, Duvall's gang did fill many of the diversity aspects of Democrats.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 07:00 PM (Y8DZL)

47 Brave with ad block plus works on iPhone until it locks up and shuts down

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 06:59 PM (enNUy)
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Upward and onward at the HQ!

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2026 07:00 PM (SLpkL)

48 In my experience with anchor babies, they don't identify as Americans at all. They are just visitors who happen to have US passport. They all still have the passport from their parent's country and so they are either of that country, or internationalists. They see USA as a resource.

One of the biggest rules in sales is that people don't value anything they can get cheap. Give a customer a sample and they will piss on it. Make them beg and pay, and they will treat it like gold.

Same with women.

Same with citizenship. It should be harder to get than any other country in the world. It should require relinquishing any other passport, and meeting strict qualifications.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 07:01 PM (ppr2L)

49 >>>Sit-on-your-face, GET IT??!!! I love all of drag queens' joke (singular).

I don't know if I am more off-put by Ace's assumption that we can't read or that we can't comprehend the intended joke.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 07:02 PM (dK+Kv)

50
James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian...


I don't know that Talarico is a seminarian, but-

I'm pretty sure that he's a sementarian.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 07:02 PM (iJfKG)

51 El- Sayed won't defund police until he is in office

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 07:03 PM (Ia/+0)

52 >>It will be terrifying if these DSA candidates win their elections - unless we think it is still fraud. I just can't believe how they are saying the crazy parts out loud and getting support from anyone beyond the 10% TDS sufferers.

What we are seeing is the result of decades of leftists infiltrating or education system. This is what they've taught from elementary school through college.

Look at their supporters. Look at the anti-semitic riots on college campuses. Look where El-Sayed got his votes in Michigan.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 07:04 PM (viF8m)

53 In my experience with anchor babies, they don't identify as Americans at all. They are just visitors who happen to have US passport. They all still have the passport from their parent's country and so they are either of that country, or internationalists. They see USA as a resource.

One of the biggest rules in sales is that people don't value anything they can get cheap. Give a customer a sample and they will piss on it. Make them beg and pay, and they will treat it like gold.

Same with women.

Same with citizenship. It should be harder to get than any other country in the world. It should require relinquishing any other passport, and meeting strict qualifications.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 07:01 PM (ppr2L)
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Our incompetent Supreme Court has addressed the long pending question on whether the Constitution is a suicide pact, and answered it in the affirmative.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2026 07:04 PM (SLpkL)

54 Between the non-citizens and the retired generals on the CCP payroll (article on Insty), we really are dangerously close to losing our country. And the Libtards are totally oblivious.

Posted by: Iris at August 06, 2026 07:07 PM (286+n)

55 Between the non-citizens and the retired generals on the CCP payroll (article on Insty), we really are dangerously close to losing our country. And the Libtards are totally oblivious.

Posted by: Iris at August 06, 2026 07:07 PM (286+n)

Wolverines!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 07:07 PM (dK+Kv)

56 Carlisle left just months after the network pulled the plug on her father's top-rated "Late Show," ending Stephen Colbert's 11-season run on May 21 after CBS called the cancellation a "purely financial decision."

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Top-rated? Ha! If it was it wouldn't have been cancelled.

Posted by: Decaf at August 06, 2026 07:08 PM (ZNpJk)

57 I'm getting worried Hong Kong Phooey is going to collapse before the primary.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

#1 super guy! Quicker than the human eye.

Posted by: Zombie Scatman Crothers at August 06, 2026 07:10 PM (DZ9Lv)

58 You might remember, or tried to forget, how my wife had mentioned the idea of doing an at-home colonoscopy on me, to save money and all. Well, today I get a letter from BCBS where they excitedly reveal that their is a do-it-yourself screening and they're sending me a kit!

I'm guessing the kit has a series of tubes, a bicycle pump, and one of those big drilling/reaming contraptions you see mounted on tripods in bank heist movies. The big drill is usually operated by a guy named Jimmie who is the kid brother of the gang leader who let little bro in on one last big deal. The gang leader loves his little brother and promised his mom he'd always take care of him.

Jimmie dies, horribly, all captured in slow motion, during a shootout after the botched colon job which sets up a cycle of violent revenge between the gang and the protagonist.

I'm excited to see how it all turns out.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2026 07:10 PM (3uBP9)

59
What Al-Sayed isn't what Al-Doing.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 07:10 PM (Y8DZL)

60
In my experience with anchor babies, they don't identify as Americans at all. They are just visitors who happen to have US passport. They all still have the passport from their parent's country and so they are either of that country, or internationalists. They see USA as a resource.
...
Same with women.

Posted by: bob

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

Same with men.

I agree about the anchor babies. I can't believe how primitive the thinking of some ultra-specialized MD or Electrical Engineer is when it comes to tribal loyalty.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 07:11 PM (mmrXZ)

61
Critical Drinker's read on London is spot on.

We were in London a few weeks ago and our hotel was in South Kensington near what used to be a nice major street now mostly fronted by crap shops, hookah dumps and garbage on the street every morning.

Once upon a time, early in the morning, you'd see shopkeepers sweeping and cleaning up the front of their stores and shops, but-

Nope.

Just garbage dumped on the curb from the night before.

It wasn't like that everywhere, but it was surprising how much was exactly like that.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 07:12 PM (iJfKG)

62 >>>Same with men.

It wouldn't be that way if you didn't have all the boobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 07:12 PM (dK+Kv)

63
Traitors need to visit Iran attached to a bomb.

Posted by: four seasons at August 06, 2026 07:12 PM (/QHx4)

64 Wasn’t she the chick ape in the Donnie Wahlberg ‘Planet of the Apes’?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2026 07:00 PM (6ydKt)
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Is that you Roseanne?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 07:13 PM (JvZF+)

65 60 Minutes is old. There are very old people who still respect it, because it's old. Also, it's old.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:42 PM


You mean like ... over-29 old?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 06, 2026 07:13 PM (0sNs1)

66 ..."top-rated 'Late Show,'"

Top.
Rated.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 06, 2026 07:13 PM (pE12i)

67 > "the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers," an 11-year-old boy "drag queen" who goes by the stage name Kween Kee Kee.

This should be prima facie evidence for fast-track termination of parental rights.

> It should require relinquishing any other passport, and meeting strict qualifications.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 07:01 PM (ppr2L)


The U.S Oath of Citizenship still begins:

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen..."


How this is compatible with "dual citizenship" I cannot understand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 07:13 PM (IG3/x)

68 Flip wilson performed his last televised show in drag as Geraldine in 1983.

Ace is still traumatized

Posted by: Paul at August 06, 2026 07:14 PM (pqVDs)

69 54 Between the non-citizens and the retired generals on the CCP payroll (article on Insty), we really are dangerously close to losing our country. And the Libtards are totally oblivious.
Posted by: Iris at August 06, 2026 07:07 PM (286+n)

Nooooo ... objection, assumes facts not in evidence

They're all in favor of this.

Posted by: browndog says woof at August 06, 2026 07:14 PM (3sXRv)

70 I'm excited to see how it all turns out.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2026 07:10 PM (3uBP9)
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Bet you're fun at a circumcision

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 07:15 PM (JvZF+)

71 England used to be super clean. Nary a cigarette butt. What a shame.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 07:16 PM (xxBSa)

72 Shut up Sucker!

Posted by: Geraldine Jones at August 06, 2026 07:16 PM (JvZF+)

73 19 I think Trump is getting a bit carried away with the scalp weasel.
https://tinyurl.com/23bbfrxr
Posted by: JackStraw
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And walks away with a sack of Big Macs and fries in hand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 07:16 PM (nqf1u)

74 I'm excited to see how it all turns out.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2026 07:10 PM (3uBP9)
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Bet you're fun at a circumcision

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 07:15 PM (JvZF+)

Bring little foreskin-sized rubber bands and shoot them at people?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 07:16 PM (dK+Kv)

75 Browndog - true they love their stunning and brave utopia but they are oblivious to reality.

Posted by: Iris at August 06, 2026 07:16 PM (286+n)

76 I see that the previous post featured the lovely Natalie Winters. Hubba hubba hubba. Sorry I missed it. I bet there was a plethora of comments about her prominent hooterage.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 07:17 PM (77rzZ)

77 71 England used to be super clean. Nary a cigarette butt. What a shame.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 07:16 PM (xxBSa)

You mean a fag end g'vnor ...

Posted by: Bill Sykes at August 06, 2026 07:17 PM (3sXRv)

78 An actual UK MP, lounging in her bikini in a Mediterranean garden, telling British survivors that they’re arseholes for wanting single sex support services, rapists should be in women’s prisons and that your daughter should get changed in front of men. Mad

Hey Bucky. Interesting teefs.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2026 07:17 PM (LHPAg)

79 Bet you're fun at a circumcision
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 07:15 PM


I always get complements on my Texas-style bris kit.

Posted by: The Mohel at August 06, 2026 07:17 PM (0sNs1)

80 Opps.

>>@EricLDaugh

>>🚨 BREAKING: In a bombshell drop, declassified files show that 633,000 THOUSAND Maricopa County AZ voter files were hacked and stolen on the EVE of the 2020 election...and the Biden DOJ REFUSED to do anything about it after a months-long investigation — Just the News

>>This is MADNESS!

>>What did the hackers DO with that intel?! The suspect even CONFESSED to it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 07:18 PM (viF8m)

81 > Well, today I get a letter from BCBS where they excitedly reveal that their is a do-it-yourself screening and they're sending me a kit!
Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2026 07:10 PM (3uBP9)

Don't get too excited. It's just a small bottle brush-like dingus that you stick into your poop at multiple locations, then seal into a vial for return.

If anything weird shows up on that, you'll still have to go in for the full Black and Decker Snake Light up the ass treatment.

Pro tip: the paper sheet they give you to catch your poop is 100% useless. Don't even attempt it.

Instead, get one of those disposable aluminum pie plates and put that in the toilet. Get your sample, dump the turd off into the toilet, and throw the pie plate away.

I believe it was AoP who gave me this tip. Works great.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 07:18 PM (IG3/x)

82 Somebody on youtube said Francesca Hong looks like a grey alien wearing an Asian skin-mask, and now I can't unsee it.

Posted by: Delurker at August 06, 2026 07:18 PM (2Drhq)

83 81 billion votes !

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 07:19 PM (UjdFS)

84
England used to be super clean. Nary a cigarette butt. What a shame.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 07:16 PM (xxBSa)


Yeah, that was another surprising thing...cigarette butts everywhere.

But, hey mate it's some other oik's job to clean up. Might as well take a shit on the street while you're here.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 07:19 PM (iJfKG)

85 I would like to see this MP, blue hair? Tats? Pierckngs or way older than that?

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 07:19 PM (Ia/+0)

86 Why would anyone care? Is it a surprise she had a nepot-job?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 06:44 PM (JvZF+)

Her d*ckhead father got a gimme job writing a new LoTR movie. Motherf*cker couldn't write his own jokes for a sh*tty comedy show he hosted.

Posted by: Nelly at August 06, 2026 07:21 PM (6+ehB)

87 "Walking down the average UK high street now is one of the most blackpilling experiences imaginable. Barely any local businesses left, just endless vape shops, tacky nail salons, dodgy phone retailers and the obligatory Turkish barbers, most of which never see a single customer and barely even bother to maintain the pretence of being legit anymore.

A palpable atmosphere of quiet despair and resignation amongst the trickle of shoppers wandering aimlessly around. Its like living in a country that just lost a war without firing a single shot. Never seen anything like it in my lifetime."

That's funny. In Z.H. Beddoes' Economist interview with Elon Musk last week, she insisted that Europe - and especially the UK - was as sound as a pound, completely safe and vibrant. She was highly offended that Musk's X was depicting the UK as a hellscape ready to break out in civil war if things didn't change.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 07:22 PM (0CU3H)

88 "Walking down the average UK high street now is one of the most blackpilling experiences imaginable. Barely any local businesses left, just endless vape shops, tacky nail salons, dodgy phone retailers and the obligatory Turkish barbers, most of which never see a single customer and barely even bother to maintain the pretence of being legit anymore.

A palpable atmosphere of quiet despair and resignation amongst the trickle of shoppers wandering aimlessly around. Its like living in a country that just lost a war without firing a single shot. Never seen anything like it in my lifetime."

That's funny. In Z.H. Beddoes' Economist interview with Elon Musk last week, she insisted that Europe - and especially the UK - was as sound as a pound, completely safe and vibrant. She was highly offended that Musk's X was depicting the UK as a hellscape ready to break out in civil war if things didn't change.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 07:22 PM (0CU3H)

89 Do Texan mohels yell “yee-HAW” at the successful conclusion of the procedure?

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 07:22 PM (77rzZ)

90 Tucker Carlson used a highly promoted livestream Wednesday to unveil a 10-point vision for America — defining the worldview of a breakaway MAGA faction increasingly at odds with President Trump.

https://t.ly/daelg
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 06:51 PM (Cqx++)

If Tucker is now a faction me and my cats are another faction.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 07:22 PM (uhVAy)

91 Tucker Carlson used a highly promoted livestream Wednesday to unveil a 10-point vision for America —

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 06:51 PM (Cqx++)

Nice try, Herr Carlson, but you need about 15 more points.



Posted by: Failed Uniball Artist at August 06, 2026 07:23 PM (IG3/x)

92 If everyone is a faction, then no one is a faction.

Posted by: I gotta say at August 06, 2026 07:23 PM (2Ez/1)

93 68 Flip wilson performed his last televised show in drag as Geraldine in 1983.

Ace is still traumatized

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Dumbass. Flip Wilson was performing comedy, back when we were still allowed to laugh, and did not ever present himself as Actually Female.

Do better.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 06, 2026 07:24 PM (zYpTz)

94 Well, today I get a letter from BCBS where they excitedly reveal that their is a do-it-yourself screening and they're sending me a kit!

I'm excited to see how it all turns out.
Posted by: banana Dream


My primary care physician said that if you use one of those and it returns positive for problems (you can get false positives if you have hemorrhoids) and you have to have a real colonoscopy, the real colonoscopy will be billed as a follow up procedure instead of a diagnostic procedure.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 06, 2026 07:24 PM (vJrRc)

95 84
England used to be super clean. Nary a cigarette butt. What a shame.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 07:16 PM (xxBSa)

Yeah, that was another surprising thing...cigarette butts everywhere.

But, hey mate it's some other oik's job to clean up. Might as well take a shit on the street while you're here.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 07:19 PM (iJfKG)
I was in London in 69. Could have gone barefoot.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2026 07:24 PM (LHPAg)

96
We got hit by off-shoring, which killed a lot of towns, and then Walmart and Amazon and Home Depot came along and devastated retail.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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On a motorcycle/camping trip up through the Appalachians, stopped at a traffic light in an E. Tennesse town with boarded-up storefronts. My buddy flipped up his face shield and loudly said 'I wonder where the Walmart is'? A guy on the sidewalk pointed and said, 'It's a miled down that way'.

Towns all up through Appalachia are heartbreaking.

Iris DeMent,'Our Town'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c-HUmUGERg

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 07:25 PM (XeU6L)

97 Belinda Carlisle >>>>>Madeleine Carlisle

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 07:25 PM (0CU3H)

98 > 89 Do Texan mohels yell “yee-HAW” at the successful conclusion of the procedure?
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 07:22 PM (77rzZ)

Some of them have gone native and "slap hot iron to it" using a branding iron. You can tell which region of Texas the mohel comes from by looking at which ranch's brand he uses.




Posted by: Failed Uniball Artist at August 06, 2026 07:25 PM (IG3/x)

99 I'm still in shock over the earlier news about Roland Martin. A man can't even go out on his boat with the fishin' dog without getting in trouble. Damn the news...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 06, 2026 07:25 PM (QaH55)

100

Senator Mitch McConnell was discharged from the rehab center and said he will continue his recovery at home.

“Earlier today, I was discharged from the rehabilitation center to continue my recovery at home. Elaine and I are grateful for the many well wishes and support from friends, colleagues, and Kentuckians, and for the attentive care I’ve received from excellent doctors, nurses, therapists, and hospital staff,” McConnell said in a statement.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 07:26 PM (Cqx++)

101 Freakin' Ace is doing it again. He's messing with my blood pressure.

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 07:26 PM (dIske)

102 Beware the Bulg Faction. It involves Russian, the Byzantine Empire, and boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 07:26 PM (77rzZ)

103 I just realized Talafreako is the 'New Age Girl' from that song cover by Dead-eye Dick.

He doesn't eat meat but he sure likes the bone.

G*d, that song was catchy as f*ck.

Posted by: Nelly at August 06, 2026 07:27 PM (6+ehB)

104 92 If everyone is a faction, then no one is a faction.
Posted by: I gotta say at August 06, 2026 07:23 PM (2Ez/1)
I can't get no faction.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2026 07:27 PM (LHPAg)

105 Is it me or have people gone more insane this summer? Is it due to climate change and the heat? I vote for aerosoled xanax spray when the fire planes are no longer putting out fires that are manmade. Of course this would invade the UK airspace, and that would take diplomacy I don't have for those wakers and their trans crap. The MP has sun damage to her face, which she should be more worried about than the mental trans.

All the xanax could be used up over MN alone! That freak with the mask, hat and gloves is such a coward he can't show himself. They should not allow him to speak due to who the hell is he? Probably fugly and appears to have a honker nose. Right. Come and take my property and you'll have more than a big nose to deal with.

Until now I did not know there were 11yr old drag queens. Parents must be so proud and CPS should take this child from them. I need xanax now.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 06, 2026 07:27 PM (hzuYO)

106 Do Texan mohels yell “yee-HAW” at the successful conclusion of the procedure?
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 07:22 PM


Of all mohels, the Texan ones have it the easiest, because everything's bigger in Texas.

Posted by: New York Mohel at August 06, 2026 07:27 PM (0sNs1)

107
Flip Wilson > Rue Paul

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 07:27 PM (OkYzo)

108 The devil made him buy that dress.

Posted by: Don Black at August 06, 2026 07:29 PM (ZxPkt)

109 Carlson's manifesto is pretty much what I expected: some good ideas and a lot of retardation, with a side order of The Joooos..

"Government officials should be punished for lying to citizens." Really, Tuck? And who exactly gets to decide what are "lies."

Posted by: Delurker at August 06, 2026 07:29 PM (2Drhq)

110 10-punkte-Programm

Posted by: Geraldine Jones at August 06, 2026 07:31 PM (JvZF+)

111
Too many out of staters are in Texas now. They brought their liberal ideals while escaping their liberal states. Will it be enough to turn it blue? Maybe not but it's a lot more purple than it is Red like it used to be.

Now these transplants in Texas will help prop up Talarico to "fix" the backwards Red state.

It's what happened in Oregon. Flooded with Californians and other lib state transplants for Nike & Tech jobs.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 07:31 PM (OkYzo)

112 I reckon we gonna put off that visit to Castle Clampett over in England. Granny might not take too kindly to some of them folks.

Posted by: Jed, Earl of Clampett at August 06, 2026 07:31 PM (XOG/m)

113 /Flip Wilson sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 07:32 PM (JvZF+)

114 The F-22 Raptors out of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson are more than usually zoomy today. I thought that last one was gonna take the roof off. They don't usually make passes that low over the city.

I wonder if Pooty-Poot is getting froggy again, thinking that all of our military attention is focused on Iran.

If so, he's clearly wrong.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 07:32 PM (IG3/x)

115 Somehow got first
Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

116 Flip Wilson > Rue Paul
Posted by: Frank Barone

The Devil made him do it!

Posted by: Geraldine at August 06, 2026 07:33 PM (XOG/m)

117 Yall remember Charlie Crist? He’s the ex governor of Florida who went full rino then became a Democrat. Lost re election as governor. Then won a house seat. Then lost it. Now he’s running for mayor of St Pete. He’s 70 years old.

These cucks can never let go of politics. Even if it’s a demotion down to local office. They’re so power hungry they’ll take anything. Like alcoholics drinking vanilla extract. Pathetic.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 06, 2026 07:34 PM (Bz1XI)

118 New York mohels:

https://youtu.be/bDABzGe94GU

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 06, 2026 07:34 PM (2Ez/1)

119 The NJ mohel with Parkinson's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 07:35 PM (nqf1u)

120
Tucker must've taken the pledge lately, the kids saw him a some fancy dinner joint south of Tampa a couple years ago and said he was shit-faced.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 07:36 PM (Y8DZL)

121 117 Yall remember Charlie Crist? Now he’s running for mayor of St Pete. He’s 70 years old.
Posted by: Being Honest

Just a kid by today's standards.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 07:38 PM (Y8DZL)

122 Now he’s running for mayor of St Pete. He’s 70 years old.

These cucks can never let go of politics. Even if it’s a demotion down to local office. They’re so power hungry they’ll take anything. Like alcoholics drinking vanilla extract. Pathetic.

Posted by: Being Honest
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No other job pays more money for less work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 07:39 PM (nqf1u)

123 Maybe not but it's a lot more purple than it is Red like it used to be.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 07:31 PM (OkYzo)
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Stop. Just... no.

Texas was a (D) state for pretty much its entire history until W Bush came around. It was never blood red, I'm from here, live here, and where we are right now, or at least in 2024, is as red as it's ever been. the Dallas mayor changed from a (D) to a (R) not long ago, Trump turned over the RGV - Reagan and W never did that.

Stop believing the bullshit, yes, a shit load of people have moved here, not all of them are leftists. I know blue people who have left precisely because they don't want to live in red Texas.

Texas is not purple, it is not blood red. It's not the next Colorado. There are too many urban fuckups, yeah, but the rest of the state is bigger than any other in the lower 48 and has a shitload of normal people in it and will for a very long time.

Posted by: Johnny Texas at August 06, 2026 07:39 PM (0OHKH)

124 Cafe is open, link to comment section here:

https://tinyurl.com/yrpxhr4c

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 06, 2026 07:40 PM (zYpTz)

125 > The F-22 Raptors out of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson are more than usually zoomy today. I thought that last one was gonna take the roof off. They don't usually make passes that low over the city.

In case anyone comes in late:

My bad. I forgot there's gonna be an air show this weekend. No doubt they're practicing for that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 07:44 PM (IG3/x)

126 Tucker must've taken the pledge lately, the kids saw him a some fancy dinner joint south of Tampa a couple years ago and said he was shit-faced.
Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 07:36 PM (Y8DZL)

Rules are for other people. I'm sure he takes his 27 medicinal tots per week as normal.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 07:45 PM (uhVAy)

127 "rural LGBTQ communities."

There are no rural queer communities. There are rural communities into which queer people move in an attempt to make them into a "bedroom community." But communities don't thrive if the vast majority of people in them are homosexual. They only last one generation.

Posted by: GWB at August 06, 2026 08:46 PM (kU0PQ)

128 how to call for the British navy to save you when you want to be brought ashore.

The proper British Navy would ensure they never reached shore. With prejudice.

Of course, when they had a proper British Navy... the British Army would then invade your country and rule it for several generations until it was a decent place to be from. Or, at least conquer part of France and give it back in 100 years or so.

Posted by: GWB at August 06, 2026 08:49 PM (kU0PQ)

129 "for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States."

It NEEDS to not even allow it for secondary purposes of giving birth. In fact, it needs to prevent all pregnant women on temporary visas within 3 months of giving birth to enter the United States (tourist visas are 3 months, IIRC). And if you lie about the timing, and your kid happens to be born here, you need to be sent home and your child automatically de-naturalized for the mom providing false information.

Posted by: GWB at August 06, 2026 08:53 PM (kU0PQ)

Natalie Winters: Top American Generals and Democrat Politicians (Including Hillary Clinton) Joined Chinese Intelllgence's Backchannel Efforts to Distort American Policy

Rich Higgins, RIP, told me long ago that generals and admirals are frequently recruited as agents of influence for foreign powers.

The usual scam is that a foreign government hires them, post-retirement, for "security consulting." For a couple of weeks' "work," they get a million dollars.

But the scam is, they're not being paid for their "security consulting." They're being paid to have a friendly relationship with that foreign government. So that when the foreign power needs a favor, they can ask their Pet General to contact high-ranking politicians or current Pentagon staffers and pitch them the foreign power's agenda.

Democrats have had a long history of treasonous liaisons with China. You all remember Red China pouring money into the Clinton re-election campaign through Chinese "nuns" who deposited Chinese money on behalf of the Chinese government.

Chinese "nuns" who'd taken a vow of poverty poured tens of thousands into the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, and Al Gore and Hillary and Bill Clinton said "Yes please and thank you, no further questions. We await your orders, Comrades."

Natalie Winters says it's only gotten worse.

REVEALED: Top American Generals Joined a CCP Spy Front's Backchannel Pushing China's Military Agenda in Washington. Some Ended Up on China's Payroll.


From Hillary Clinton to former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it's treason at the highest levels.

Aug 04, 2026

For more than a decade, former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, combatant commanders, Cabinet officials and members of Congress participated in a military dialogue organized with a Chinese group identified by congressional investigators as a front engaged in "intelligence collection" and "propaganda and perception management." Some ended up on China's payroll shortly after.

The Chinese Communist Party did not need to penetrate the Pentagon to gain access to America's military leadership.

It built a private network around it.

For more than a decade, some of the most powerful retired officers in the United States participated in closed-door meetings with senior Chinese military leaders. The discussions covered Taiwan, the South China Sea, missile defense, cybersecurity and the future of relations between the two militaries.

The American participants included:

Gen. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Adm. William "Bill" Owens, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of U.S. Central Command

Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Army Chief of Staff

Adm. Jonathan Greenert, former Chief of Naval Operations

Adm. Timothy Keating, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command

Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Air Force Chief of Staff

Gen. Dennis Reimer, former Army Chief of Staff

Adm. Joseph Prueher, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command

Gen. John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army

Gen. Walter Sharp, former commander of U.S. Forces Korea

Gen. Charles Jacoby, former commander of U.S. Northern Command

Gen. Charles Wilhelm, former commander of U.S. Southern Command

The program was called the Sanya Initiative.

Its glossy brochures framed it as a peaceful exchange between retired American and Chinese generals. Photographs showed senior officers chatting in Hawaiian shirts, touring military institutions and sitting across from Chinese commanders in ornate meeting rooms.

But the initiative was not organized with an ordinary veterans' association.

It was funded by the China-United States Exchange Foundation, or CUSEF, and conducted with the China Association for International Friendly Contact, or CAIFC.

Congressional investigators have described CAIFC as "a front organization" for the People's Liberation Army's former General Political Department.

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission found that the group performed the dual roles of "intelligence collection" and "conducting propaganda and perception management campaigns."

The commission specifically cited CAIFC's work through the Sanya Initiative.

Put simply -- America's most senior former military leaders spent years collaborating through a program organized with a Chinese military front that U.S. government investigators linked to intelligence gathering and foreign influence operations.

...

The CPPCC is a central part of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front system.

U.S. government reports describe the United Front as an influence apparatus designed to build relationships with foreign elites, suppress opposition to Beijing and induce influential outsiders to advance Chinese Communist Party objectives.

One congressional report described its mission as seeking to:

"Co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition."

CUSEF heavily relies on the foreign influence tactic of "pay-for-play" trips, including paying and subsidizing journalists to travel to China in exchange for "favorable coverage."

From Retired Generals To The State Department

The first Sanya Initiative gathering took place in China in 2008.

...

The following year, the initiative moved beyond meetings among retired officers.

CUSEF brought the combined American and Chinese delegations through Hawaii, Washington, D.C., and New York.

According to the foundation's own brochure, they met:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen

Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell

Rep. Rick Larsen

Rep. Mark Kirk

Adm. Timothy Keating

Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle

China #hacked our elections and all of these people need to be investigated for years and years by the FBI, NSA, and CIA.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM




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1 Treasonous scum.

Posted by: huerfano at August 06, 2026 05:31 PM (VJX5o)

2 this would explain a lot.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 06, 2026 05:31 PM (CWTWj)

3 So if anyone of these guys did this with Russian military figures it would be called treason right?

Why is this any (D)ifferent?

Posted by: The left at August 06, 2026 05:32 PM (sKqQm)

4 Stupid lefty sock

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 05:32 PM (sKqQm)

5 Natalie Winters. The Blade, he would. He usually goes for more exotic girls, but he … would.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 06, 2026 05:33 PM (yTXpW)

6 can't mueller and comey look into this?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 06, 2026 05:33 PM (CWTWj)

7 First to say Hubba, Hubba!

Posted by: Can Pick'em at August 06, 2026 05:33 PM (JM9I6)

8 And now we know how Fauci was able to send bioweapons technical knowledge and funding to the CCP.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 05:34 PM (viF8m)

9
How are they not in detention?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 05:34 PM (mmrXZ)

10 Did bi dung have a hot line to Chairman Xi?

Posted by: torabora at August 06, 2026 05:34 PM (Wt1Rs)

11 I get the feeling these people would sell out America at a price far less than we would believe.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)

12 This and releasing covid into the world seem like acts of war.

Posted by: huerfano at August 06, 2026 05:34 PM (VJX5o)

13
The Clinton Foundation.
The rot is deep.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 05:36 PM (OkYzo)

14 Start small, and build up the charges. Every single one of these folks are in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. That's a good start to get the ball rolling.

Keep adding charges and make the rest of their lives a financial, emotional, and time consuming escapade.

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 05:36 PM (dIske)

15 What difference, at this point, what difference does it make?

Posted by: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chink Spy Master at August 06, 2026 05:36 PM (F1rMs)

16 At this point it's assumed the Joint Chiefs have General Tso on speed dial.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 06, 2026 05:36 PM (nDXEV)

17 12 This and releasing covid into the world seem like acts of war.
Posted by: huerfano

---------------
The question remains, how do you go to war with the country that controls 70% of the world's manufacturing capacity?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 05:37 PM (ppr2L)

18 It goes back a lot farther than Clinton era. The State department and foreign service is why China went communist in the 1940s, they couldn't have done it without a lot of help. The John Birch society had all this stuff pegged. A lot of the stalwart 'conservative' Democrats like Scoop Jackson and Stu Symington who seem to be revered today by Republicans did not comport themselves well at all during the Truman years.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 05:37 PM (xW0Xo)

19 >>The Clinton Foundation.
The rot is deep.

Hillary also had control of USAID when she was SOS. USAID helped fund EcoHealth Alliance in Wuhan along with Fauci.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 05:38 PM (viF8m)

20 Has anyone mentioned that Natalie Winters pretty hot and therefore what she says gets a +3 to her truthiness roll?

Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2026 05:38 PM (3uBP9)

21 China #hacked our elections and all of these people need to be investigated for years and years by the FBI, NSA, and CIA.
----
That's a funny way of spelling "tried and convicted for treason against the United States of America."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 05:38 PM (FZ29D)

22 Some big names on that list.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 05:39 PM (g47mK)

23 The question remains, how do you go to war with the country that controls 70% of the world's manufacturing capacity?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

And almost all sticky rice.

Posted by: And MSG! at August 06, 2026 05:39 PM (JM9I6)

24 all of these people need to be investigated for years and years by the FBI, NSA, and CIA.
......

Would you settle for senate hearings?

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 05:39 PM (UjdFS)

25 Hillary also had control of USAID when she was SOS. USAID helped fund EcoHealth Alliance in Wuhan along with Fauci.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 05:38 PM

Dear God. Its like a string on a sweater. Pull on it and it just keeps unraveling. There is no end.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 05:39 PM (OkYzo)

26 According to the foundation's own brochure, they met:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton


If this happened while she was secretary of state there is nothing that can be done to her except try to shame her which has never worked in the past.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 06, 2026 05:40 PM (cpFbA)

27 Firing squads. Now.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 06, 2026 05:40 PM (OUMaO)

28 20 Has anyone mentioned that Natalie Winters pretty hot and therefore what she says gets a +3 to her truthiness roll?
Posted by: banana Dream

Pretty much goes without saying.

Posted by: I AGREE! at August 06, 2026 05:40 PM (JM9I6)

29 Gen. John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army

Is that the Gen Keane that's always on TV giving his "analysis"?

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 05:40 PM (OkYzo)

30 "Friendly Contact." Nudge nudge wink wink say no more.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 05:41 PM (Cqx++)

31 We need a fucking military purge.

Now.

And followed by a political purge. It doesn't have to be Soviet style either. Or, maybe it does?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2026 05:41 PM (2Cry5)

32 >> Is that the Gen Keane that's always on TV giving his "analysis"?

That's the one, Gen. "Jack" Keane.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 05:42 PM (w6EFb)

33 >>Dear God. Its like a string on a sweater. Pull on it and it just keeps unraveling. There is no end.

They ran a similar game with AIDS.

Clinton Health Access. Still doing it actually.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 05:42 PM (viF8m)

34 Dear God. Its like a string on a sweater. Pull on it and it just keeps unraveling. There is no end.
Posted by: Frank Barone


You'll be hearing from our lawyer!

Posted by: Weezer at August 06, 2026 05:43 PM (KOXQP)

35 Adm. Timothy Keating, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command

Old n' Busted: the Keating Five
The New Hotness: the Keating Five Dozen

Posted by: 88C+u at August 06, 2026 05:43 PM (88C+u)

36 I just checked, and China is 29% of worldwide manufacturing. USA 18%, and Japan 5%. Those are top three.

But that USA 17% and everyone else depend heavily on Chinese components. China has inserted itself into just about every market. The US may still make steel, and be able to erect a building or build a ship, but every step from mining to final fabrication is going to require dealing with a supply chain that leads to China. It is madness.

Musk seems to be the only one serious about fixing this.And Trump. But Musk wants to make everything he needs under his control. Smart.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 05:44 PM (ppr2L)

37
Pete Hegseth is doing Gods Work.

Posted by: Richard Head at August 06, 2026 05:44 PM (70cb5)

38 Ok big guys, if you accept foreign money you forfeit your pension. Deal?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 05:44 PM (KY+FT)

39 25 Hillary also had control of USAID when she was SOS. USAID helped fund EcoHealth Alliance in Wuhan along with Fauci.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 05:38 PM
_____________________________

I recall a number of years ago a whistleblower from the State Dept. stating that when SoS, Clinton had 86 personal meetings that had nothing to do with State Department business, but over 90% became contributors to the Clinton Foundation following those meetings.

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 05:44 PM (dIske)

40 >>>China #hacked our elections and all of these people need to be investigated for years and years by the FBI, NSA, and CIA.

I have a suggestion.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 05:45 PM (dK+Kv)

41

Come in, Booji Boy, you're late
Have you got the papers the Chinaman gave you?

Posted by: General Boy at August 06, 2026 05:45 PM (Cqx++)

42
I'm surprised that backstabbing, insubordinate, blowhard cocksucker Mattis isn't on the list. That asshole spends too much time sucking his own dick to be a proper flag officer.

Look harder. I'm sure you'll find Chinee dirt on that homo.

No, I don't care for him. The Marine Corps deserves better.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 05:46 PM (y9nCu)

43 38 Ok big guys, if you accept foreign money you forfeit your pension. Deal?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 05:44 PM (KY+FT)

Should forfeit citizenship too at the very least.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 06, 2026 05:46 PM (88C+u)

44 Jack Keane is with the Institute for the Study of War. Set up by the Kagans, neocons to the end. Victoria Nuland is married to one of them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 05:47 PM (KY+FT)

45 Come in, Booji Boy, you're late
Have you got the papers the Chinaman gave you?
Posted by: General Boy at August 06, 2026 05:45 PM (Cqx++)

Oh Dad! we're all Devo!

Posted by: Booji Boy at August 06, 2026 05:48 PM (F1rMs)

46 From wikipedia.

I had to double-check

The U.S.–China Relations Act of 2000 is an act of the United States Congress that granted People's Republic of China permanent normal trade relations (NTR) status (previously called most favoured nation (MFN)) when China becomes a full member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), ending annual review and approval of NTR. It was signed into law on October 10, 2000, by United States President Bill Clinton. The Act also establishes a Congressional-Executive Commission to ensure that China complies with internationally recognized human rights laws, meets labor standards and allows religious freedom, and establishes a task force to prohibit the importation of Chinese products that were made in forced labor camps or prisons.[1] 

The Act also includes so-called "anti-dumping" measures designed to prevent an influx of inexpensive Chinese goods into the United States that might hurt American industries making the same goods. It allows new duties and restrictions on Chinese imports that "threaten to cause market disruption to the U.S. producers of a like or directly competitive product."[2

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 05:48 PM (Sco7b)

47 I mean, a guy's gotta eat.

Posted by: Gen. Consensus, retd. at August 06, 2026 05:48 PM (wGerL)

48 "For more than a decade, some of the most powerful retired officers in the United States participated in closed-door meetings with senior Chinese military leaders. The discussions covered Taiwan, the South China Sea, missile defense, cybersecurity and the future of relations between the two militaries."

Question: how can RETIRED officers of the US Military have any input on FUTURE relations between the CCP and USA militaries?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 05:49 PM (0CU3H)

49 >>I recall a number of years ago a whistleblower from the State Dept. stating that when SoS, Clinton had 86 personal meetings that had nothing to do with State Department business, but over 90% became contributors to the Clinton Foundation following those meetings.

Look at the dates they got money.

>>USAspending.gov records show that, from fiscal year 2008 through 2024, USAID awarded federal funding to a single Clinton‑affiliated organization: the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), which received a roughly $7.49 million award used from 2019–2021

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 05:49 PM (viF8m)

50 HANG THEM ALL …

Posted by: browndog hates traitors at August 06, 2026 05:49 PM (liNTB)

51 Natalie Winters. The Blade, he would. He usually goes for more exotic girls, but he … would.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 06, 2026 05:33 PM (yTXpW)

I love the way she's described on Wiki as a "right wing political commentator". Why aren't leftists described as "left wing commie bastards"? Yeah, no bias there.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 06, 2026 05:50 PM (hmYU4)

52 Do they still have their clearances? Maybe we should stop allowing retirees to keep their clearances.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 06, 2026 05:50 PM (KOXQP)

53 Have you got the papers the Chinaman gave you?
Posted by: General Boy at August 06, 2026 05:45 PM (Cqx++)

Be like your ancestors or be different.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 06, 2026 05:50 PM (nDXEV)

54 Not surprised msny Democrats are in bed with Chinese

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 05:50 PM (Ia/+0)

55 Question: how can RETIRED officers of the US Military have any input on FUTURE relations between the CCP and USA militaries?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 05:49 PM (0CU3H)


They know people. They helped the careers of like-minded people still in uniform. Bad money drives out good money.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 05:51 PM (ExV1e)

56 Hang them all high

Traitors of the highest order

Posted by: Gonzotx at August 06, 2026 05:51 PM (nGraA)

57
Firing squads. Now.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 06, 2026 05:40 PM (OUMaO)



Fuck no. Firing squads are for military folks who commit honorable crimes. Like murder, and bestiality.

A hemp necktie is what's needed for these cocksuckers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 05:52 PM (y9nCu)

58 I get the feeling these people would sell out America at a price far less than we would believe.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)

------------

John Bolton did it for $10k.

Posted by: Decaf at August 06, 2026 05:53 PM (JTCB1)

59 A hemp necktie is what's needed for these cocksuckers.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur


After a ceremony where their medals are removed and the uniform stripped from them.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2026 05:54 PM (/k3in)

60 Agricultural sales to the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Communism as a system couldn't feed itself. I'm reasonably certain plenty of Republicans voted for that.

I doubt anyone really believed the ChiComs were eligible for "most favored trading status" or whatever it was called. From out here in the cheap seats, it looks like a long train of abuses, mostly by selling the US out for decades, hollowing out our industries, and importing a class of relative slave laborers driving down wages for decades and buggering everything up but good.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 05:54 PM (xW0Xo)

61 The US will merge with China in the next few years. We'll begin adopting a Chinese model of governance in 2028, which will be beneficial to the world.

Posted by: Sid at August 06, 2026 05:55 PM (qrEkX)

62 These pop up ads are killing me.

Posted by: RNUT at August 06, 2026 05:56 PM (c7ZZc)

63 Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Army Chief of Staff
___

My former CG (4th ID), 2003, Iraq

Even after all these years, betrayal still burns.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 06, 2026 05:56 PM (3fZgy)

64 Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart


From what I recall, Bush gave them temporary MFN, renewable every year but only if they met certain conditions. It was a carrot.

It was very controversial at the time, and Clinton criticized it during the campaign. Bush was former ambassador, so he had ideas about China. I thought he was a fool.

Clinton gave them permanent MFN. Carrot gone. Now they could do as they pleased. The act only made it legislatively approved and added some other conditions. Also the switchover to WTO, which was a treaty and needed approval. But the damage was done by Clinton.

Just like that idiot Nixon said there were "two Chinas," recognizing Peking, and then that traitor Carter gave the UN seat to the wrong China. -- an R does something foolish but meaningless to be clever, and then a D gives away the shop.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 05:57 PM (ppr2L)

65 This is why they hate hegseth. He isnt dirty or connected to the dirty general officer class.

Posted by: Honey trap vs money trap at August 06, 2026 05:57 PM (YrUlT)

66 Amusing anecdote in the lying, plagarizing Cambridge professor saga.

Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism now under suspicion of using AI to write resignation letter

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 05:57 PM (ndZc7)

67 55 Question: how can RETIRED officers of the US Military have any input on FUTURE relations between the CCP and USA militaries?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 05:49 PM (0CU3H)

They know people. They helped the careers of like-minded people still in uniform. Bad money drives out good money.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 05:51 PM (ExV1e)
——

And while this reporting focuses on retired military rats, I’ll bet a lot of current active ones are on the take too. The retired ones help identify the active ones and set up the intros.

It’s all filthy treasonous commie cocksuckers, all the way down.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 06, 2026 05:57 PM (yTXpW)

68 John Bolton did it for $10k.

Posted by: Decaf at August 06, 2026 05:53 PM (JTCB1)

Insane.

For Hillary, maybe she considered them ideological equals with the same goals. I'm sure many Canadian pols are in that group.

Or the Chinese had a hell of a honeypot sex video of her.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 05:58 PM (Sco7b)

69 Money changes everything.

Posted by: Cindi Lupaer at August 06, 2026 05:58 PM (2Cry5)

70

What the actual fuck ?

This is worse than the news that Roland Martin's butt is being exploited

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 06, 2026 05:58 PM (NtVYv)

71 >>They know people. They helped the careers of like-minded people still in uniform. Bad money drives out good money.

You know who else they know? People who make weapons.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 05:59 PM (viF8m)

72 I'm beat. Can't stay for the cafe thread, so I'll post a story about kindly people- these folks from Rhode Island -who replaced a woman's farm stand after it was stolen: Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/33ubvk34

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 05:59 PM (W90Ou)

73
Do they still have their clearances? Maybe we should stop allowing retirees to keep their clearances.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 06, 2026 05:50 PM (KOXQP)



I've been saying that for years. Even if everyone involved was acting honorably (they're not), post-retirement retention of security clearances are nothing more than subsidies for defense contractors.

If they go to a contractor after retirement, then I don't see a problem with having that contractor pay for a new clearance.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 06:00 PM (y9nCu)

74 Winters works for Bannon. Maybe she should do a deep dive on Bannon. This story seems like a lot of noise and accusations, without actual evidence pointing to wrongdoing.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 06:00 PM (g47mK)

75 They all need an invasive investigation.

Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2026 06:00 PM (YwEeS)

76 Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 05:57 PM (ppr2L)

Thank you. I thought Clinton had something to do with it.

Huge betrayal by Clinton. But as you pointed out, Bush started the ball rolling.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 06:00 PM (Sco7b)

77 Jesus had some thoughts on money changers in the temple.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 06:02 PM (ndZc7)

78 Sid-

They wouldn't even want your diseased organs. They'd shoot you and let the buzzards feed.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 06:02 PM (xxBSa)

79
Ugh.

Traitors all.

Hang'em all.

Hang'em high.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 06:02 PM (iJfKG)

80 You know who else they know? People who make weapons.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 05:59 PM (viF8m)


This is true. I would be unsurprised to discover that there are any number of back doors or fatal flaws in major defense systems which could be accessed at need because someone wanted a 2nd yacht, or a 3rd mistress.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:02 PM (ExV1e)

81 Look at Walz, a few dozen times Chinese visitor, dragging kids to China to get brainwashed

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)

82 The only thing I see is that they participated in meetings. OK. Do we a transcript ? Maybe they told the Chicoms to stay the fuck away from Taiwan? Could have happened.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 06:02 PM (g47mK)

83 Damn. I'm just imagining the intelligence a true "Renegade" could have collected. Nobody would see it coming.

At least now we know why we need 7000 generals.

Posted by: t-bird at August 06, 2026 06:02 PM (wn0/z)

84 And while this reporting focuses on retired military rats, I’ll bet a lot of current active ones are on the take too. The retired ones help identify the active ones and set up the intros.

It’s all filthy treasonous commie cocksuckers, all the way down.
Posted by: Elric the Blade

-----------------
Don't they all work as "consultants" at 5x the salary?
And isn't that why they all retain clearance.

IOW, aren't they all sucking each other's dicks figuring out how to channel cash into their pockets. Either taxpayer or foreign enemies. And it is justified by people in charge saying the US really needs their "expertise"

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 06:03 PM (ppr2L)

85 Dems love to quote Eisenhower about the risks of the "military industrial complex" and how retired generals become consultants for Raytheon et al. and this is a problem people. I bet no Democrat will condemn ex generals working for the CCP.

I take that back, possibly Fetterman, who seems to be okay with the strong odds of being a 1 term senator will make a statement that ex generals lobbying on behalf of the CCP is a bad thing. But he won't be joined by other Dems or by the FNM commiecrat mouthpieces.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 06, 2026 06:03 PM (PV+Zw)

86 Have a good night Fen

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 06:03 PM (Ia/+0)

87 They all need an invasive investigation.
Posted by: steevy
-------

Nothing will happen

Posted by: Mike Hammer, usurping 'Nothing will happen' guy at August 06, 2026 06:03 PM (XeU6L)

88 Could have happened.

Anything is possible. Maybe Big Mike really is a woman.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:04 PM (ExV1e)

89 Don't they all work as "consultants" at 5x the salary?

My BIL, not a general, went from career Army to consultant. Went from consultant to different consultant. Always raking in that sweet taxpayer money. Loathes Trump.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:06 PM (ExV1e)

90 I'm beat. Can't stay for the cafe thread, so I'll post a story about kindly people- these folks from Rhode Island -who replaced a woman's farm stand after it was stolen: Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/33ubvk34
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 05:59 PM (W90Ou)

What a beautiful story!! Thanks, Fen. Got a little dusty in here.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 06, 2026 06:06 PM (hmYU4)

91 When the Democrat-Communists get around to the killing Americans phase, they will bring in Chinese mercenaries to do it.

Like Iran is doing with Iraq militias.

Posted by: Herpes Rodham Clinton, Our National STD at August 06, 2026 06:06 PM (qUkBO)

92
We're gonna' need a bigger wall.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 06:06 PM (nqf1u)

93 4D chess, boys. It's all 4D chess, used by our fearless leaders on the godless Chinese. Or Judo, although I think we reserved that for the Japanese.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 06, 2026 06:06 PM (QaH55)

94 Honorable military men commited Hari Kari over less.

Posted by: Admiral Nagumo at August 06, 2026 06:07 PM (bX16E)

95 > This is true. I would be unsurprised to discover that there are any number of back doors or fatal flaws in major defense systems which could be accessed at need because someone wanted a 2nd yacht, or a 3rd mistress.
-----------
Wanna bet there's "backdoors" to everything MIC related?

Not that we have that elsewhere... like Chine, Russia, India, etc.

But still. If we know, reliably, who's fucking us over, shoot them.

Now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2026 06:07 PM (2Cry5)

96 74 Winters works for Bannon. Maybe she should do a deep dive on Bannon. This story seems like a lot of noise and accusations, without actual evidence pointing to wrongdoing.
Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 06:00 PM (g47mK)
——-

‘Res ipsa loquitur’ is a Latin phrase used in law, meaning "the thing speaks for itself.” In other words, it’s something so suspicious, so unexplainable in any other way, that the mere existence is the proof.

Why else would the CCP be funding lavish junkets and fake jobs to exotic locations for high-ranking retired military? Do they do this for retired privates?

The only reason the CCP would do this is to buy intel and influence. There is no other conceivable reason.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 06, 2026 06:07 PM (yTXpW)

97 Leading confidential informant of the seventies Deep Throat told leading journalists Woodstein and Burnward “Follow the money.”

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 06, 2026 06:07 PM (wxsGM)

98 Honorable military men commited Hari Kari over less.
Posted by: Admiral Nagumo at August 06, 2026 06:07 PM (bX16E)


Honorable military men rarely pin on stars.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:08 PM (ExV1e)

99 Anything is possible. Maybe Big Mike really is a woman.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:04 PM (ExV1e)

Now that's just crazy talk.

However, I'm sure zero's Presidential Center of Doom has an entire section with AI pictures of Mooch as a young girl, as well as the conception and birth videos of their spawn.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 06:09 PM (Sco7b)

100
New wrinkles on Hillary's "we'll all hang" keep rolling in...

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2026 06:09 PM (SLpkL)

101 Or the Chinese had a hell of a honeypot sex video of her.

Pardon me. I'll be grabbing two bottles of whiskey to get that image out of my head.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2026 06:09 PM (/k3in)

102 Some of them , like Owens, did do suspicions things, but there are a lot of names on that list. It is easy to malign people. I remember when Ivanka's daughter sang a song in Chinese to Xi during his WH visit. Maybe Winters wants to investigate Ivanka and her daughter ?

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 06:10 PM (g47mK)

103 Well, if we're going all cafe, like Marlon Brando in The Wild One . . .

https://tinyurl.com/ybshnu4k

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 06:10 PM (ndZc7)

104 But the scam is, they're not being paid for their "security consulting." They're being paid to have a friendly relationship with that foreign government. So that when the foreign power needs a favor, they can ask their Pet General to contact high-ranking politicians or current Pentagon staffers and pitch them the foreign power's agenda.

Automatically taking away the security clearances of retired military would probably reduce this

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 06, 2026 06:10 PM (vJrRc)

105 Many Military brass lost their moral character in last couple decades

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 06:10 PM (Ia/+0)

106 >>This is true. I would be unsurprised to discover that there are any number of back doors or fatal flaws in major defense systems which could be accessed at need because someone wanted a 2nd yacht, or a 3rd mistress.

I've been saying this for years but in the days after 9/11 and then the anthrax attacks, Dick Cheney reorganized our bioweapons and bioweapons defense organizations into one organization. The person put in charge of the effort was Anthony Fauci.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)

107 54 Not surprised msny Democrats are in bed with Chinese
Posted by: Skip
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GOP too. And CEOs of our corporations,heads of NGO's, and more besides.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:12 PM (E4rtv)

108 90 There are some decent people in RI, despite all outward appearances

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at August 06, 2026 06:12 PM (bX16E)

109 Second chance for SCOTUS to fix things (as it will definitelyget Hawaiian judged in the interim)?

Trump orders limits on birthright citizenship, targets ‘birth tourism’ President Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders again aimed at restricting birthright citizenship, an apparent attempt to circumvent a recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the constitutional protection.

One of the president’s orders expands the definition of who would be ineligible for automatic citizenship, including “alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments,” according to officials.

The second executive order seeks to ban the practice of “birth tourism,” which involves traveling to another country for the primary purpose of giving birth on its soil so that the child automatically has citizenship. The practice, which constitutes a form of obtaining a visa on fraudulent grounds, is already illegal but has become a target of the right.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 06, 2026 06:13 PM (/y3Vc)

110 104 But the scam is, they're not being paid for their "security consulting." They're being paid to have a friendly relationship with that foreign government. So that when the foreign power needs a favor, they can ask their Pet General to contact high-ranking politicians or current Pentagon staffers and pitch them the foreign power's agenda.

Automatically taking away the security clearances of retired military would probably reduce this
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Recalling them to active duty and court martialing them would do even more.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:13 PM (E4rtv)

111 The person put in charge of the effort was Anthony Fauci.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Now need a drink.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 06:13 PM (XeU6L)

112 OK, over 100 so O/T

Question for the Legal types. Can you plead the 5th Amendment on questions you have already answered?

Internet says no... which seeing as how the Science Gnome had already testified to Congress, answering questions on those subject... why can't Congress then ask those same questions again?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 06, 2026 06:14 PM (mP0Kj)

113 These pop up ads are killing me.

Posted by: RNUT at August 06, 2026 05:56 PM (c7ZZc)
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They need to put a radius on that edge. Somebody's going to lose a finger.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2026 06:14 PM (SLpkL)

114
A hemp necktie is what's needed for these cocksuckers.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

After a ceremony where their medals are removed and the uniform stripped from them.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2026 05:54 PM (/k3in)



A ceremony made famous when the unwashed Frogs railroaded a decent but fairly ordinary artillery officer for being a German spy, simply because he was a Jew. And who doubled-down when another shitbag officer was identified as the actual spy, because they didn't want to admit that they'd made a mistake. Ironic, because the shitbag was well-known as one of the biggest shitbags in the Frog army, and didn't even have any real allies on the General Staff.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 06:14 PM (y9nCu)

115 *The first Sanya Initiative gathering took place in China in 2008.
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Good way to help a po boy keep up with inflation and portfolio loss.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 06:15 PM (nqf1u)

116 I guess most of these people couldn't write, or find a ghost writer, since book deals are the preferred method of payoffs and bribes.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 06, 2026 06:15 PM (QaH55)

117 ‘Res ipsa loquitur’ is a Latin phrase used in law, meaning "the thing speaks for itself.” In other words, it’s something so suspicious, so unexplainable in any other way, that the mere existence is the proof.

Why else would the CCP be funding lavish junkets and fake jobs to exotic locations for high-ranking retired military? Do they do this for retired privates?

The only reason the CCP would do this is to buy intel and influence. There is no other conceivable reason.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 06, 2026 06:07 PM (yTXpW)

That particular phrase is misplaced. Yes, Chicoms, Turks, Qataris (nice plane we got there) all are deep into influence operations. But Winters is throwing a lot of accusations around. And none "speak to anything", just malicious noise. Kinda like Trump kollusion hoax. Maybe she means well, but she needs to do her homework, and do a little more than repackage publicly available information. And not be National Inquirer.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 06:15 PM (g47mK)

118
So a lot of high level US military officers are not patriotic or even pro-American. They are amoral, and above all, they want their place at the trough

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 06, 2026 06:15 PM (HLgI3)

119 All I see in this article is a list of people who need to be marched out, put up against a bullet riddled brick wall and executed for treason!
Would ANYONE who took an oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States please consider this course of action? ANYONE?!?

Posted by: Tracy at August 06, 2026 06:15 PM (7K4RG)

120 105 Many Military brass lost their moral character in last couple decades
Posted by: Skip

Because our ruling class is a bunch of globalist traitors that believe in shit like One World. Generals come from that class because you get there in peacetime by being a friggin politician and playing the game with like minded bureaucrats and Congress critters.

And any flag officer promoted during a dem administration to general rank has already been prescreened to be commie sympathetic. They got rid of the others at the O-6 level.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:16 PM (E4rtv)

121 Automatically taking away the security clearances of retired military would probably reduce this
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 06, 2026 06:10 PM (vJrRc)


It would do nothing. Having a security clearance does not equal having access to classified material, it just means that they could, if needed, be granted access to material at a given level.

When I left the Navy, I was given a list of 40-50 countries that I could not visit without prior permission from the DOD. It seems to me that General Officers, or even better - anyone with a TS clearance, may not meet with non-allied government personnel without prior approval. Not that they wouldn't get the approval.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:16 PM (ExV1e)

122 How funny would it be if China had video evidence of Hillary paying hookers to pee on a bed?

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2026 06:16 PM (SLpkL)

123
Many Military brass lost their moral character in last couple decades
Posted by: Skip

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I read that Obama purged the officer corps of conservatives.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 06:17 PM (mmrXZ)

124 118
So a lot of high level US military officers are not patriotic or even pro-American. They are amoral, and above all, they want their place at the trough
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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They have a lot in common with Chicom generals because they both like to live high on the hog from defense spending and they think they are above elected leaders.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:17 PM (E4rtv)

125 The second executive order seeks to ban the practice of “birth tourism,” which involves traveling to another country for the primary purpose of giving birth on its soil so that the child automatically has citizenship. The practice, which constitutes a form of obtaining a visa on fraudulent grounds, is already illegal but has become a target of the right.

Oh hey, it's another one of those "already illegal therefore no one is doing it and getting the benefit they shouldn't get but somehow are" things

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 06, 2026 06:17 PM (vJrRc)

126 A hemp necktie is what's needed for these cocksuckers.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

After a ceremony where their medals are removed and the uniform stripped from them.
Posted by: NR Pax
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"I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition." - Samuel Pepys

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 06:18 PM (XeU6L)

127 That particular phrase is misplaced. Yes, Chicoms, Turks, Qataris (nice plane we got there) all are deep into influence operations. But Winters is throwing a lot of accusations around. And none "speak to anything", just malicious noise. Kinda like Trump kollusion hoax. Maybe she means well, but she needs to do her homework, and do a little more than repackage publicly available information. And not be National Inquirer.
Posted by: runner
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Your attitude is we should ignore what we see right in front of our noses. I decline. Or are you worried about other shoes getting ready to drop.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:19 PM (E4rtv)

128 They have a lot in common with Chicom generals because they both like to live high on the hog from defense spending and they think they are above elected leaders.
Posted by: whig

Of course, ChiCom (and North Korean) generals do face significant punishments sometimes, if they fail too much, get caught grafting too much, embarrass the government, etc. Severe punishment...

Posted by: Military Moron at August 06, 2026 06:19 PM (/y3Vc)

129 She is basically saying that Abizaid and Odierno work for the Chinese. Really ? Do you guys believe that ? Do you even know who they are ?

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 06:20 PM (g47mK)

130
I remember when Ivanka's daughter sang a song in Chinese to Xi during his WH visit.
Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 06:10 PM (g47mK)




I understand where you're coming from, but remind me if Ivanka's daughter has a TS clearance?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 06:20 PM (y9nCu)

131 It would do nothing. Having a security clearance does not equal having access to classified material, it just means that they could, if needed, be granted access to material at a given level.
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I.E., 'Need to know' trumps Clearance

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 06:20 PM (XeU6L)

132 105 Many Military brass lost their moral character in last couple decades
Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 06:10 PM (Ia/+0)

Started in the late 80's with the Elder Bush as Prezzy.

He HATED the real military... and military traditions... those things that set them apart. He was the one who politicized the Officer class, and started the real social engineering experiments on the military.

From blatant Sex and Race quotas... To Women on Combat ships... to using Civilian Management (Total Quality Leadership?)...

Navy? No more tacking on crows? No more good command parties (used tailhook as the excuse)? REALLY watered down Shellback...

And worse, made any dissent to equal opportunity a career killer... thus creating the Wishy Washy General and Admirals we now see.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 06, 2026 06:20 PM (mP0Kj)

133 Of course, ChiCom (and North Korean) generals do face significant punishments sometimes, if they fail too much, get caught grafting too much, embarrass the government, etc. Severe punishment...
Posted by: Military Moron at August 06, 2026 06:19 PM (/y3Vc)


Gotta love the NK Wheel of Absurd Mechanisms for Execution.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:20 PM (ExV1e)

134 Trading partners or not, they were and are ChiComs and potential enemies. I'd recall every one of these officers and initiate Article 32 proceedings - preliminary hearings pursuant to Courts Martial. Grill them and prosecute - if warranted, which the hearings should help determine.


Either way, make them fucking squirm.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 06, 2026 06:21 PM (Kakst)

135
Nobody met with the CCP

Ok, some did.

Well, more than some did and that's a good thing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 06:21 PM (xxBSa)

136 124 118
So a lot of high level US military officers are not patriotic or even pro-American. They are amoral, and above all, they want their place at the trough
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Didn't get much play but basically a bunch of officers in the Far East got entangled with a Chicom asset-Fat Leonard,

"Scope: The investigation scrutinized over 440 people, including 60 admirals, with more than 30 individuals facing criminal charges.

Modus Operandi: Francis overcharged the Navy by at least $35 million for services while receiving classified ship movement data to position his vessels for profit. "


Now you can see why Milley and Mattis not to mention Esper thought they were the commanders in chief, not the President.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:22 PM (E4rtv)

137 129 Yes and yes. Or shall I say Oh hell YES.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 06, 2026 06:22 PM (bX16E)

138 I.E., 'Need to know' trumps Clearance
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 06:20 PM (XeU6L)


In theory. In practice I suspect that a retired general could get access to shit that they have no need to know. Ditto civilians in Congress.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:22 PM (ExV1e)

139
@100, allow me the opportunity to give you the Genesis of that Hilary quote and, by the by, the reason for the Trump Is Russian Asset op.
Just find a Wash Post news article circa late 2012 early 2013 about how the Obama administration and its CIA Head Brennan were trying to find the hole in security that was responsible for dozens, if not hundreds, of US foreign intel assets disappearing or turning up dead. Keep in mind, this was 2 or 3 years before we were ever told of an unsecured closet serer.

Posted by: Richard Head at August 06, 2026 06:22 PM (70cb5)

140 You’ll be lucky to get senate hearings. And a stiffly worded letter.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 06, 2026 06:22 PM (ZVgZ4)

141 Of course, ChiCom (and North Korean) generals do face significant punishments sometimes, if they fail too much, get caught grafting too much, embarrass the government, etc. Severe punishment...
Posted by: Military Moron at August 06, 2026 06:19 PM (/y3Vc)

Wasn't there a Purge of the ChiCom Generals just a few months ago.... lots of sudden 'retirements' and a few disappearances?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 06, 2026 06:22 PM (mP0Kj)

142 Nothing will happen

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 06, 2026 06:23 PM (W2Pud)

143 As with the Joe and Hunter Biden trips to China, we can be damned sure these guys got served up some very pretty Chinese girls, all on video, as young as each would accept.

The majority of them have to be fully owned.

Posted by: Alec Rawls at August 06, 2026 06:23 PM (YwWCT)

144 Whatever happened to the code of honor. Wasn't it C.S. Lewis who said something about 'hollowed out chests' and all that?


That hollowing out has been going on ever since the dirty, smelly, hippie draft dodgers got pardoned by Jimmy Fucking Carter and started infesting our universities and poisoning everything.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 06, 2026 06:24 PM (Kakst)

145 Would ANYONE who took an oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States please consider this course of action? ANYONE

There is no one. This is the looting phase of the American republic. Enjoy the ride down.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 06, 2026 06:24 PM (H5Io+)

146 Death by a thousand cuts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 06:25 PM (xxBSa)

147 >> guys got served up some very pretty Chinese girls, all on video,

I wonder if any of the Rear Admirals got Roland Martined as part of the package.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 06:25 PM (w6EFb)

148 What would Stormin- Norman have to say about this?

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2026 06:25 PM (LHPAg)

149 129 She is basically saying that Abizaid and Odierno work for the Chinese. Really ? Do you guys believe that ? Do you even know who they are ?
Posted by: runner

What she is saying is that both of them participated in these romps with their Chicom counterparts--the problem with having discussions on matters like Taiwan, etc. is a) it can be considered a signal by the US government on policy which is beyond assholes like them, b) often the slightest dribs and drabs of information from informal meetings like this can be used to confirm intel intercepts and to provide avenues to probe for more information or even flipping.

We have already caught a former US pilot and the UK has several that have trained Chicom military pilots on such matters as teh F-35. And this kind of friendly shit is exactly what encourages the lessers if they see the flag rank engaging in this shit as retired.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:26 PM (E4rtv)

150 Dittos nurse.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 06, 2026 06:26 PM (Kakst)

151 Would ANYONE who took an oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States please consider this course of action?

People take an oath to stay married until death. I'm not bitching about anyone who got divorced but an oath is just words. If you're gonna be willing to give defense information to a 'potential' enemy, spoken words aren't gonna stop you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:26 PM (ExV1e)

152 Is there any bureaucrat in government that isn’t corrupt?

Posted by: Unkaren at August 06, 2026 06:26 PM (ccX9M)

153 Wasn't there a Purge of the ChiCom Generals just a few months ago.... lots of sudden 'retirements' and a few disappearances?
Posted by: Romeo13 a

Xi is aging, making errors, and trying to stay in power until he dies, and his greatest threat is being replaced by whoever controls the PL Army. And corruption is endemic in the Chicom forces at the top level which is something they have in common with a lot of our ruling class.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:27 PM (E4rtv)

154 A normal journalist would contact all these people for comment, after all she is making a lot of her accusations. But this is not journalism, this is Bannon.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 06:28 PM (g47mK)

155 142 Nothing will happen
Posted by: nurse ratched

Hey! Don't step on the Nothingwillhappenguy / Let'smoveonguy death match coming up!

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 06:28 PM (Y8DZL)

156 152 Is there any bureaucrat in government that isn’t corrupt?
Posted by: Unkaren

Present!

Posted by: Big Balls at August 06, 2026 06:28 PM (/y3Vc)

157 Investigate Aid-to-the-enemy Milley on this.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2026 06:29 PM (SLpkL)

158 Nothing to see here.

>>As the military dialogue expanded, Owens was simultaneously building commercial ties with China.

>>In 2009, Owens became a consultant to Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications company that was already facing scrutiny in Washington over national security concerns. He later founded Amerilink Telecom Corp., a Virginia-based company created to market Huawei equipment in the United States. According to the Financial Times, Huawei was Amerilink’s first customer, and Owens acknowledged he began consulting for the company before launching the venture.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)

159 I recall Al Gore defending himself against the accusations that the Chinese monks at a Buddhist temple in California were giving him money for the campaigns.

I believe that’s when the phrase “no controlling legal authority” came out of Gore’s mouth to explain how what he did wasn’t technically illegal.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2026 06:30 PM (6ydKt)

160 Is there any bureaucrat in government that isn’t corrupt?
Posted by: Unkaren at August 06, 2026 06:26 PM (ccX9M)


- Are there any who're not actively corrupt? Almost certainly, probably a goodly number.
- Are there any of those who're blind to the corruption happening around them? Probably, but fewer.

Most of the 'bad' bureaucrats are just lazy, not actively corrupt. And the system is set up to protect the corrupt and lazy so anyone with honor either slowly strangles it, or leaves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:30 PM (ExV1e)

161 Hillary will never have to own her traitorous behavior. She should be in an orange jumpsuit serving a life sentence in fed penitentiary with a tranny for a roommate.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 06, 2026 06:30 PM (W2Pud)

162 People take an oath to stay married until death. I'm not bitching about anyone who got divorced but an oath is just words. If you're gonna be willing to give defense information to a 'potential' enemy, spoken words aren't gonna stop you.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Problem is that ANY slip by participants, witting or not, can end up confirming information or deprecating it. And they were discussing sensitive subjects like Taiwan.

It was April Glaspie, a diplomat that unwitting gave what Saddam thought was an okay to roll into Kuwait over slanted drilling from them.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:31 PM (E4rtv)

163 "I had to betray the country in order to save it" is a weird flex.

Posted by: Steely Dan at August 06, 2026 06:31 PM (avzFa)

164 I recall Al Gore defending himself against the accusations that the Chinese monks at a Buddhist temple in California were giving him money for the campaigns.

I believe that’s when the phrase “no controlling legal authority” came out of Gore’s mouth to explain how what he did wasn’t technically illegal.



That's also when Loral and Hughes were teaching the Chinese how to keep their ICBM's from blowing up right after launch. Thanks to 'Rhodes Scholar' Billy Jeff.


Makes my blood boil.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 06, 2026 06:32 PM (Kakst)

165
Most of the 'bad' bureaucrats are just lazy, not actively corrupt. And the system is set up to protect the corrupt and lazy so anyone with honor either slowly strangles it, or leaves.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Nice job of putting it .

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:32 PM (E4rtv)

166 164 I recall Al Gore defending himself against the accusations that the Chinese monks at a Buddhist temple in California were giving him money for the campaigns.

I believe that’s when the phrase “no controlling legal authority” came out of Gore’s mouth to explain how what he did wasn’t technically illegal.


That's also when Loral and Hughes were teaching the Chinese how to keep their ICBM's from blowing up right after launch. Thanks to 'Rhodes Scholar' Billy Jeff.


Makes my blood boil.
Posted by: Chairborne!
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Yep. All so Bill could win reelection over Bob Dole.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:33 PM (E4rtv)

167 Nood. Quickies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 06:33 PM (ExV1e)

168 DC has been a self-licking ice cream cone forever. Asking generals to stop the self serving status quo is like asking the politicians to stop the congress to lobbying pipeline.

Posted by: mc at August 06, 2026 06:34 PM (C3K2d)

169 ===============

I read that Obama purged the officer corps of conservatives.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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He purged hundreds, maybe thousands of experienced military.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 06:35 PM (nqf1u)

170 That hollowing out has been going on ever since the dirty, smelly, hippie draft dodgers got pardoned by Jimmy Fucking Carter and started infesting our universities and poisoning everything.
Posted by: Chairborne!
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I long for the release of names...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 06:36 PM (XeU6L)

171 After a ceremony where their medals are removed and the uniform stripped from them.
Posted by: NR Pax

That happened to Chuck Conners but it turned out he was a Army Secret Agent just pretending to be marked with a coward's shame.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 06:36 PM (Y8DZL)

172 >>In 2009, Owens became a consultant to Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications company that was already facing scrutiny in Washington over national security concerns. He later founded Amerilink Telecom Corp., a Virginia-based company created to market Huawei equipment in the United States. According to the Financial Times, Huawei was Amerilink’s first customer, and Owens acknowledged he began consulting for the company before launching the venture.
Posted by: JackStraw
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And an underreported story of Salt Typhoon
Salt Typhoon was an unprecedented hacking of the US telecom industry and believed to be linked to Huawei and other equipment such as routers, etc.

That is why it is now banned in the US for these Huawei and other Chicom telecom and computer networking companies to be acquired by US telecoms and even consumer grade routers and modems are due to be removed if they come from Chinese origins.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:37 PM (E4rtv)

173 Hillary will never have to own her traitorous behavior. She should be in an orange jumpsuit serving a life sentence in fed penitentiary with a tranny for a roommate.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 06, 2026 06:30 PM (W2Pud)

I try like hell to maintain a sense of optimism, but shit, it is a trial. I waffle about severing ties altogether. But then, I do not. I need to know what the enemy's next move might be. Sitting in a corner with my eyes shut, fingers in my ears, is not a good idea.

AoSHQ is my go-to news aggregator. I never, ever watch any TV news. Plus, Ace says silly things like "flaming clown-boners." Comedy lightens the burden.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 06, 2026 06:37 PM (0aYVJ)

174 >>>I read that Obama purged the officer corps of conservatives.


Well, to be fair he thought it was the officer corpse and figured since they're dead, he might as well get rid of them.


*I know that was a stretch*

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 06, 2026 06:38 PM (Kakst)

175
They have a lot in common with Chicom generals because they both like to live high on the hog from defense spending and they think they are above elected leaders.
Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 06:17 PM (E4rtv)



Frankly, American flag officers have a deplorable history of insubordination against higher ups in the chain of command. Goes back at least as far as the Civil War with Gen Ripley at the Ordnance Dept who flat-out refused Lincoln's command to adopt the Spenser Rifle, or McClellan's consistent insubordination. All the way through MacArthur's bullshit in Korea, and that fat ass Gen Milley.

I even put McCrystal's disrespect and insubordination WHILE HE WAS STILL IN UNIFORM against Obama in the same box. Obama was an incompetent asshole, but he was the elected President of the United States. Either obey his orders or resign in protest.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 06:39 PM (y9nCu)

176
Well, to be fair he thought it was the officer corpse and figured since they're dead, he might as well get rid of them.


*I know that was a stretch*
Posted by: Chairborne!

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Stretched all the way to my funnybone!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 06:42 PM (mmrXZ)

177 Nothing will happen to them BUT plenty will happen to youse and mesa. Oh, I stopped drinking alcohol but did not empty the liquor cabinet. Future contingincies and all that jazz.

Posted by: little people at August 06, 2026 06:43 PM (ehY6c)

178 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 06:42 PM (mmrXZ)


Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 06, 2026 06:45 PM (Kakst)

179 Wonder how much a ad makes for a website as might be up to 75 times today swatting it away

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 06:52 PM (Ia/+0)

180 Investigated by the CIA and FBI? LOL. We need a PRO American department we can trust.

Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at August 06, 2026 06:59 PM (dFG8E)

181 Death penalty for treason, IMO.

Posted by: OnPoint at August 06, 2026 07:38 PM (RK/h9)

Outrageous! Dwarfish Democrat Troll Roland Martin Says That People Are Circulating Rumors About Him Being Videotaped In "Compromising Positions" and Threatens to Sue Anyone Publishing The Videos

Boy this is a day of Internet Pests come to grief.

Roland Martin, if you've forgotten, is a racial supremacist. His race is Troll. He is a literal troll-man. He's got the body of a potato and a head of a potato, but a different potato.*

This Troll pretends to be black and attacks white people and Republicans incessantly.

He was involved in that matter of giving Hillary Clinton the questions before her fake CNN "debate" with Bernie Sanders.

And now some people are making claims of a sexual nature about him. Roland Martin says these claims are part of an "extortion" plot and is suing anyone who posts images or the video.

Because he's threatening to sue everyone, I'll say that I totally believe him and I believe that he will be vindicated in court in his battle with these internet smear-merchants and blackmailers.

Google AI:

Social media and gossip commentators, including Tasha K and Wack 100, circulated unverified rumors and claims regarding alleged leaked compromising photos and private footage involving journalist Roland Martin.

Martin and his team characterized the online claims as an extortion and blackmail plot, addressing the rumors through legal threats against the distribution of such material.

Background and Context

Gossip platforms and digital creators spread rumors claiming that compromising media involving Martin had been obtained.

Online commentators alleged an extortion or blackmail attempt tied to the unverified materials.Martin's side and related digital reports noted threats of legal action against individuals attempting to distribute or monetize the purported content.

Black Conservative Perspective is forced to mention this but wants it to be known that he has no opinion on these completely-fake allegations at all, which by the way he mentions might involve the prostitute vigorously penetrating him.

Allegedly -- and remember, these false rumors are being pushed by blackmailers and smear merchants. Do not be misled, these are all LIES which you must disbelieve!

Again, I'm aghast at these lies being spread about Roland Martin. To accuse a respectable man of being pegged by a prostitute is egregious.

May his legal victories be swift and plentiful, and this stain upon his reputation unbesmirched.

Courage.

* Lightly cribbed from Woody Allen but f*** that guy.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:27 PM




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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 06, 2026 04:27 PM (cpFbA)

2 THE BLADE STRIKES AGAIN?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 04:27 PM (iFTx/)

3 "Outrageous! Dwarfish Democrat Troll Roland Martin Says That People Are Circulating Rumors About Him Being Videotaped In "Compromising Positions" and Threatens to Sue Anyone Publishing The Videos"


Looking at this guys video compromising positions can mean only one thing, someone had him bent over and rogering his fart clam.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 06, 2026 04:28 PM (cpFbA)

4 I warned the previous thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:29 PM (ExV1e)

5 THE BLADE STRIKES AGAIN?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 04:27 PM (iFTx/)

strikes out?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:30 PM (uhVAy)

6 I think I can reuse my comment from earlier:

"The world is full of broken people. Most of them end up on the left."

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 04:30 PM (N1DT3)

7 Yuck...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2026 04:30 PM (FtULh)

8 "Outrageous! Dwarfish Democrat Troll Roland Martin Says That People Are Circulating Rumors About Him Being Videotaped In "Compromising Positions" and Threatens to Sue Anyone Publishing The Videos"


Looking at this guys video compromising positions can mean only one thing, someone had him bent over and rogering his fart clam.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 06, 2026 04:28 PM (cpFbA)

Seems like some of these factions in the oppo party are getting sporty.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:31 PM (uhVAy)

9 taters eh....?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2026 04:31 PM (xcxpd)

10 I think I can reuse my comment from earlier:

"The world is full of broken people. Most of them end up on the left."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 04:30 PM (N1DT3)

They attract them, and break them more.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:31 PM (uhVAy)

11 Everybody is losing their shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 04:31 PM (wOO3z)

12 Roland Sweet Cheeks Martin.

Sounds like he is butthurt

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 06, 2026 04:32 PM (NtVYv)

13 THE BLADE STRIKES AGAIN?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 04:27 PM (iFTx/)

strikes out?
Posted by: Oldcat

The Blade is the Mighty Casey at the Bat?

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

14
Wait... Roland Martin race swapped and gave up fishing?

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 04:32 PM (Y8DZL)

15 Rowan and Martin >>>>>Roland Martin

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 04:32 PM (KC5Lt)

16 Roland Martin looks like an older version of that deformed black imp who was on the Howard Stern show.

The guy is so ugly and creepy I can't believe he would ever appear on camera.

These are the mutants who purport to speak for Democraps and blacks?

Holy. Shit. Fuck. Me.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 04:32 PM (iFTx/)

17 Roland Martin is just another in a long line of... individuals, let's say... who I could happily go the rest of my life without hearing about again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

18 "Black Conservative Perspective is forced to mention this but wants it to be known that he has no opinion on these completely-fake allegations at all, which by the way he mentions might involve the prostitute vigorously penetrating him."

There is an obvious explanation for this. Obviously said Lady-of-the-Night is in medical school and is engaging in sechs/seggs work (which is real work, you guize!) on the side to help pay for it. Martin looks old and probably needs a colonoscopy, so this stronk, independent, intelligent woman obliged him. Not only for the money, but for practice, you see?

Posted by: Thrawn at August 06, 2026 04:33 PM (2qSHg)

19 THE BLADE STRIKES AGAIN?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 04:27 PM (iFTx/)

strikes out?
Posted by: Oldcat

The Blade is the Mighty Casey at the Bat?
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:32 PM (77rzZ)
______

Woulda been three in a row, but it was not meant to be. Too slow on the draw this time.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 04:33 PM (iFTx/)

20 I liked Roland Martin's Laugh-In.

Shame what's happened to him since.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

21 Never heard of this tard before. Should I have?

Posted by: Will Robinson at August 06, 2026 04:33 PM (SExz7)

22 Dang.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:33 PM (0PCyC)

23 Woulda been three in a row, but it was not meant to be. Too slow on the draw this time.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 04:33 PM (iFTx/)

woulda coulda shoulda

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:34 PM (uhVAy)

24 That's not my butthole !

Posted by: Rloand Sweet Cheecks Mratin at August 06, 2026 04:34 PM (NtVYv)

25
Bitch set me up !

Posted by: Rloand Sweet Cheecks Mratin at August 06, 2026 04:34 PM (NtVYv)

26 This Troll pretends to be black and attacks white people and Republicans incessantly.

Hey man, leave me out of this.

Posted by: Talcum X at August 06, 2026 04:34 PM (9ZFZd)

27
The obviously untrue rumor has it that the potato troll is penetrated by a rutabaga wielding an underage carrot!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 04:35 PM (iJfKG)

28 Our national security is in the best of hands!

"REVEALED: Top American Generals Joined a CCP Spy Front's Backchannel Pushing China’s Military Agenda in Washington. Some Ended Up on China’s Payroll."

https://tinyurl.com/5n7xa636

Gen. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm. William “Bill” Owens, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of U.S. Central Command
Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, former Chief of Naval Operations
Adm. Timothy Keating, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. Dennis Reimer, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Joseph Prueher, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
Gen. Walter Sharp, former commander of U.S. Forces Korea
Gen. Charles Jacoby, former commander of U.S. Northern Command
Gen. Charles Wilhelm, former commander of U.S. Southern Command

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 06, 2026 04:35 PM (kpS4V)

29 Never heard of this tard before. Should I have?
Posted by: Will Robinson at August 06, 2026 04:33 PM (SExz7)

No. But if in the past he was trusted in a big Dem op and now is free to be chewed up...well well well.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:35 PM (uhVAy)

30 Roland, Roland, Roland,
Though the streams are swollen,
Keep them doggies rollin',
Rawhide

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 06, 2026 04:35 PM (bNf8H)

31 He acting like dem Greek homos!

Posted by: Al Sharpton at August 06, 2026 04:35 PM (wOO3z)

32 That's one mighty big, fat dwarf. Chubby even. And soft.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2026 04:36 PM (2Cry5)

33 So this is right up there with rosie odonnell herpes lip.

The blog is trolling us.

Posted by: Where is the punching down guy when you need him at August 06, 2026 04:36 PM (CXjxF)

34 He would fit right in at Shawshank

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 06, 2026 04:36 PM (jrgJz)

35 This saying sex and this guy is gag producing...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2026 04:36 PM (FtULh)

36 I guess it's a slow news day.

Posted by: Hormuz Chili at August 06, 2026 04:36 PM (qUkBO)

37 Gen. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm. William “Bill” Owens, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of U.S. Central Command
Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, former Chief of Naval Operations
Adm. Timothy Keating, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. Dennis Reimer, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Joseph Prueher, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
Gen. Walter Sharp, former commander of U.S. Forces Korea
Gen. Charles Jacoby, former commander of U.S. Northern Command
Gen. Charles Wilhelm, former commander of U.S. Southern Command
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 06, 2026 04:35 PM (kpS4V)

Sounds like the perfect crew for the North Slope Ice Patrol cutter. Recall em to active duty.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:36 PM (uhVAy)

38 >>>* Lightly cribbed from Woody Allen but f*** that guy.

lol
That's one way to give credit.

Posted by: No Name Today at August 06, 2026 04:37 PM (8mulE)

39 So troll porn is real?

Posted by: torabora at August 06, 2026 04:37 PM (Wt1Rs)

40 "REVEALED: Top American Generals Joined a CCP Spy Front's Backchannel Pushing China’s Military Agenda in Washington. Some Ended Up on China’s Payroll."

https://tinyurl.com/5n7xa636

Gen. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm. William “Bill” Owens, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of U.S. Central Command
Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, former Chief of Naval Operations
Adm. Timothy Keating, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. Dennis Reimer, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Joseph Prueher, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
Gen. Walter Sharp, former commander of U.S. Forces Korea
Gen. Charles Jacoby, former commander of U.S. Northern Command
Gen. Charles Wilhelm, former commander of U.S. Southern Command
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Wood chipper.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 04:37 PM (wOO3z)

41 I am extremely proud to admit that I have no idea who any of these people are. Wack 100, indeed. :eyeroll emoji:

Posted by: Mr. Wawa at August 06, 2026 04:37 PM (TDkIk)

42 Yeah, bend me, shape me, any way you want me
Long as you peg me, it's all right
Bend me, shape me, any way you want me
You got the power to turn on the light

Posted by: Not Roland Martin at August 06, 2026 04:38 PM (wVcYX)

43 This post is an amazing appetite suppressant.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:38 PM (0PCyC)

44 I liked Roland Martin's Laugh-In.

Wasn't there a dude with a Saturday morning fishing show named Roland Martin? Or at least Roland [ Something ], I'm sure about that part.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 04:38 PM (vTZFs)

45 If the British journo Richard 'dick' Quest can survive being arrested high as fuck at 3 am in Central Park with a string tied around his crank and attached to a dildo in his shoe, I think this guy will survive. That's my all time favorite journalist story.

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 04:38 PM (enNUy)

46 What is it with the holier than thou leftist asswipes who constantly claim moral superiority and are "secretly" a bunch of horndog cretins who get off on all sorts of nasty perversions?

Honestly.

It is exhausting.

Repeat after me: I am a sinner in need of redemption....

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 04:39 PM (hfIju)

47 B-ass Masters with Roland Martin

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:39 PM (0PCyC)

48 This troll stuff is really about me, isn't it.

Posted by: Science at August 06, 2026 04:39 PM (Wt1Rs)

49 Threatens to Sue Anyone Publishing The Videos

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That totally don't exist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 04:40 PM (ndZc7)

50 If the British journo Richard 'dick' Quest can survive being arrested high as fuck at 3 am in Central Park with a string tied around his crank and attached to a dildo in his shoe, I think this guy will survive. That's my all time favorite journalist story.
Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 04:38 PM (enNUy)

Well, British. Stiff upper something.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:40 PM (uhVAy)

51 Sounds like the perfect crew for the North Slope Ice Patrol cutter. Recall em to active duty.
Posted by: Oldcat

Send 'em to Kerguelen to study the parasites they are required to pick by hand off penguins.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:40 PM (77rzZ)

52 Just another fat black nasty sodomite who likes having things shoved up his rectum while having a micro penis.

Yawn.

Posted by: Mike Obama at August 06, 2026 04:40 PM (F1rMs)

53
Never heard of this tard before. Should I have?

He used to be on CNN.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 04:40 PM (Cqx++)

54 Didn't he use to host Laugh-In?

Posted by: Back in the day at August 06, 2026 04:40 PM (2Ez/1)

55 Martin was the guy who while at CNN gave questions for the debate in 2016 to Donna Brazile
I hope the vid shows Martin getting pegged by Whoopi Goldberg. At least that's what I hear. Maybe I made it up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 04:40 PM (KY+FT)

56 I feel a Disney thread coming up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 04:40 PM (JvZF+)

57 Sounds like the perfect crew for the North Slope Ice Patrol cutter. Recall em to active duty.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:36 PM (uhVAy)

Could you quit sending that garbage up here? Please? What did we do to deserve this?

Okay, I will grant you Murkowski, but that bitch won't live forever.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 04:41 PM (hfIju)

58
I liked Roland Martin on Laugh-In.

Sock it to me.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 04:41 PM (OkYzo)

59 Laugh Way Way In

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:41 PM (0PCyC)

60
If these videos featured Sybil Danning and Pam Grier I still wouldn't watch.

Well, maybe a edited version.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 04:42 PM (Y8DZL)

61 58
I liked Roland Martin on Laugh-In.

Sock it to me.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 04:41 PM (OkYzo)

Plastic hippies have no bippies.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 04:42 PM (hfIju)

62 >>Roland Martin


Say goodnight dick.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 04:42 PM (ppr2L)

63 Sounds like the perfect crew for the North Slope Ice Patrol cutter. Recall em to active duty.
Posted by: Oldcat

Send 'em to Kerguelen to study the parasites they are required to pick by hand off penguins.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:40 PM (77rzZ)

Might be considered a provocation by France, who might shoot.

Sounds good.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy)

64 That ain't my butthole, I'm just holding it for a friend..

Posted by: Rollie Martin at August 06, 2026 04:42 PM (eIAFE)

65
Isn't he a Solarian from Doctor Who?

The dumb, potato people

Posted by: The Coyotes at August 06, 2026 04:42 PM (q83gU)

66

www.fishingwithrolandmartin.com

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 04:43 PM (Cqx++)

67 This is your big debut!
It's like a dream come true!
So won't you smile for the camera?
I know you're gonna love it, Peg.
Allegedly!

Posted by: Steely Dan at August 06, 2026 04:43 PM (avzFa)

68 >>>REVEALED: Top American Generals Joined a CCP Spy Front's Backchannel . . .

Shoot, looks like they got the whole set.

Has anyone suggested that they emulate Colonel Redl as a post career move, after copying Kim Philby for their careers?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 04:43 PM (rbvCR)

69 28 Our national security is in the best of hands!

"REVEALED: Top American Generals Joined a CCP Spy Front's Backchannel Pushing China’s Military Agenda in Washington. Some Ended Up on China’s Payroll."

https://tinyurl.com/5n7xa636

Gen. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm. William “Bill” Owens, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of U.S. Central Command
Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, former Chief of Naval Operations
Adm. Timothy Keating, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. Dennis Reimer, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Joseph Prueher, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
Gen. Walter Sharp, former commander of U.S. Forces Korea
Gen. Charles Jacoby, former commander of U.S. Northern Command
Gen. Charles Wilhelm, former commander of U.S. Southern Command
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 06, 2026 04:35 PM (kpS4V)

You gotta suck Chinese cock to get promoted above O6

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2026 04:43 PM (xcxpd)

70 My first thought was Antarctica, but why dirty up the pristine polar regions?

North Sentinel Island.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 06, 2026 04:44 PM (kpS4V)

71 Okay, I will grant you Murkowski, but that bitch won't live forever.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 04:41 PM (hfIju)

you have all those mooses and polar bears and Murky still walks the snows of AK?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:44 PM (uhVAy)

72 One Roland Martin likes eating bass, the other one likes eating ass.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 06, 2026 04:44 PM (CNl8/)

73 roland martin... that show with ruth buzzi?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 06, 2026 04:44 PM (CWTWj)

74
Never heard of this tard before. Should I have?
Posted by: Will Robinson

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

I had to look him up, but I recognized him when I saw the vid -- probably saw him in other Libs of TikTok kind of videos, never in original context.

Something like Joy Reid, that whole gang of fakesters who wander between junk MSM and podcasting. He was on CNN way back when and then moved to something called TV One. Now he's "an influential Black podcaster."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 04:44 PM (mmrXZ)

75
Isn't he a Solarian from Doctor Who?

More like a Pakled.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 04:44 PM (Cqx++)

76 Wasn't there a dude with a Saturday morning fishing show named Roland Martin? Or at least Roland [ Something ], I'm sure about that part.
Posted by: Oddbob

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Wasn't there a moron who used the nic, Roland the headless Thompson gunner? Years ago.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 04:44 PM (ppr2L)

77 Rost Martin > Roland Martin

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2026 04:44 PM (xcxpd)

78 Bill Dance.

Or Zona's fishing show. Better

Posted by: Where is the punching down guy when you need him at August 06, 2026 04:44 PM (CXjxF)

79 www.fishingwithrolandmartin.com
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 04:43 PM (Cqx++)

Is that a bass in my ass ?

Posted by: Rloand Sweet Cheecks Mratin at August 06, 2026 04:45 PM (NtVYv)

80
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 06, 2026 04:35 PM (kpS4V)

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

How are these people at large?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 04:45 PM (mmrXZ)

81
This Troll pretends to be black and attacks white people and Republicans incessantly.

------

He looks black to me. He pretends to not be a pervert.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 06, 2026 04:45 PM (VWtfl)

82 Possession of more than 1oz of Roland Martin pegging videos is punishable by employment at MS NOW.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:45 PM (0PCyC)

83 72 One Roland Martin likes eating bass, the other one likes eating ass.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 06, 2026 04:44 PM (CNl8/)

Roland Martin...kicking names and taking (up the) ass*.

*So I've heard, anyway.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 06, 2026 04:45 PM (2qSHg)

84 You gotta suck Chinese cock to get promoted above O6
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

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I am so confused. Isn't this treason?
Why are heads still attached to bodies?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 04:45 PM (ppr2L)

85 Might be considered a provocation by France, who might shoot.

Sounds good.
Posted by: Oldcat

I'd fear the Kerguelen penguins more than the French military.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

86 Again, I'm aghast at these lies being spread about Roland Martin. To accuse a respectable man of being pegged by a prostitute is egregious.

I'm getting flashbacks to a couple days ago. I don't want to put on my Intrepid Liaison hat and go back to that Reddit Cis Het Men getting pegged" thread again...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 06, 2026 04:46 PM (/y3Vc)

87 www.fishingwithrolandmartin.com

Holy smokes, he's still alive? I watched him on Saturdays after American Sportsman and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 04:46 PM (vTZFs)

88 84.

If Axis Sally was alive today, Dems would elect her to Congress.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:47 PM (0PCyC)

89 It's funny 'cause it's true!

Senate Joins Rest Of Nation In Holding Fauci In Contempt

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 04:47 PM (ndZc7)

90 i guess i wasn't paying attention

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 06, 2026 04:47 PM (CWTWj)

91 Leave Roland Martin alone!

Posted by: Jack Murphy, The Liminal Order at August 06, 2026 04:47 PM (wVcYX)

92 I've literally never heard of, nor seen, this particular asshole before.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 06, 2026 04:47 PM (XMwZJ)

93 I'd fear the Kerguelen penguins more than the French military.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

Even the French Foreign Legion (Pingouin) ?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

94 Just another fat black nasty sodomite who likes having things shoved up his rectum while having a micro penis.

Yawn.
Posted by: Mike Obama at August 06, 2026 04:40 PM
———-
Rectum? Damn near killed em.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 06, 2026 04:48 PM (b2n1e)

95 There's a whole awful part of the world out there that I'm grateful I know nothing about.

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 04:49 PM (lCppi)

96 @40 -- Vlad the Impaler had the perfect punishment for this shit...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 06, 2026 04:49 PM (XMwZJ)

97 Posted by: Jack Murphy, The Liminal Order at August 06, 2026 04:47 PM (wVcYX)

Whatever happened to this guy? Did he shave the beard and change his name?

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 06, 2026 04:49 PM (CNl8/)

98 Roland the Dickless Johnson Hunter? I love that Warren Zevon song!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 06, 2026 04:49 PM (bX16E)

99 84 You gotta suck Chinese cock to get promoted above O6
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

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I am so confused. Isn't this treason?
Why are heads still attached to bodies?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 04:45 PM (ppr2L)

Because we are a weak nation in love with comfort

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2026 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

100 Even in 2026, "turnabout is fair play" should have limits.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:49 PM (0PCyC)

101 88 84.

If Axis Sally was alive today, Dems would elect her to Congress.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:47 PM (0PCyC)

Too huwhite.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 06, 2026 04:49 PM (2qSHg)

102 There's a whole awful part of the world out there that I'm grateful I know nothing about.
Posted by: LASue

Well, come sit here by me, and I'll enlighten you.
-- Perez Hilton

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

103 Our three main weapons are fear, surprise, flattery, and yellow poon.

FOUR main weapons!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 06, 2026 04:50 PM (kpS4V)

104 Roland done changed from when he fished with Bill Dance.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2026 04:50 PM (c/Is2)

105 I've literally never heard of, nor seen, this particular asshole before.

--

Ditto. I kinda thought I was vaguely familiar with the name, but then I thought I was just thinking of Rowan and Martin and that's why it seems like I've heard of him. So...I'm ultimately going with never heard of the guy.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 06, 2026 04:50 PM (qBdHI)

106 Wasn't there a moron who used the nic, Roland the headless Thompson gunner? Years ago.

Yeah. I assume that's some pop culture reference that I'm not familiar with.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 04:50 PM (vTZFs)

107
You bet your Funk & Wagnall

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 04:50 PM (OkYzo)

108 I am so confused. Isn't this treason?

The fact that Milli and Hasan still draw breath is all you need to know.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 06, 2026 04:51 PM (3Ope8)

109 I always thought Rolland Martin's Laugh-In was rather silly to the point of not being funny. Cringe inducing, actually.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 06, 2026 04:51 PM (47/pr)

110 109.

Vintage Goldie Hawn was pretty good stuff.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:52 PM (0PCyC)

111 Hey, give Roland some credit, at least he fought the muzzies in the Pyrenees.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:52 PM (77rzZ)

112
Sock it , to me????

Posted by: Richard Nixon at August 06, 2026 04:52 PM (OkYzo)

113 Sock it , to me????
Posted by: Richard Nixon

On it!
-- W. Mark Felt

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

114 Roland did it to help the Congolese.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:53 PM (0PCyC)

115 Can't wait for Roland to call the cyber (and state) police to back trace where these "false" claims of pegging and other stuff are coming from.

Consequences will never be the same!

Posted by: Thrawn at August 06, 2026 04:54 PM (2qSHg)

116 Wait... Roland Martin race swapped and gave up fishing?

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 04:32 PM (Y8DZL)

It was all part of the Southern Strategy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 04:54 PM (dK+Kv)

117 Hey, give Roland some credit, at least he fought the muzzies in the Pyrenees.

Oh, is this the same guy who went to Ukraine and posted selfies of himself wearing a too-small flak jacket and then scrammed out when the first rocket fell?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 04:54 PM (vTZFs)

118
Roland's OnlyFan's page is a no go.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 04:55 PM (OkYzo)

119 Roland the Neckless Thompson Pegger

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:55 PM (0PCyC)

120 Vintage Goldie Hawn was pretty good stuff.
Posted by: sifty boones

Too flat-chested. As is her daughter.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

121 So, whoever this guy is, I guess he's gay.

Posted by: Ralph at August 06, 2026 04:55 PM (8WZD4)

122 Isn't this treason?

Based on what's been reported so far, no. Treason has a very specific meaning and it's defined in the Constitution so, unless the Administration wants to claim that China is an enemy and that their actions were aid and comfort, then it isn't treason.

I'm reasonably certain, though, that just having back-channel discussions with members of a foreign military with whom we are not allied, violates any number of UCMJ regulations so they should all be returned to active duty, court martialed, and either imprisoned or demoted - a lot - as the evidence warrants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

123 "You gotta jump back and push in his ass."

Posted by: Not Roland Martin at August 06, 2026 04:55 PM (wVcYX)

124 So admirals are top generals?

Posted by: This military shit is confusing at August 06, 2026 04:56 PM (2Ez/1)

125 >>>Roland Martin, if you've forgotten, is a racial supremacist.

Thanks for the reminder.

He's also the Ukraine army larper clown, too, yes? No?

Eh, all trolls look alike to me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 04:56 PM (dK+Kv)

126
What's next? A Brian Stelter sex tape with a potato masher and a Nutribullet?

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 04:56 PM (OkYzo)

127 Hey, give Roland some credit, at least he fought the muzzies in the Pyrenees."

A last stand, that was...

Posted by: man at August 06, 2026 04:57 PM (XuXeR)

128 “I've got a little list — I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!”

Hat tip to Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 06, 2026 04:57 PM (zeRnp)

129 Can't wait for Roland to call the cyber (and state) police to back trace where these "false" claims of pegging and other stuff are coming from.

The DMs.. are coming... from inside... the house!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 06, 2026 04:57 PM (aJQbY)

130 Wasn't there a moron who used the nic, Roland the headless Thompson gunner? Years ago.

Yeah. I assume that's some pop culture reference that I'm not familiar with.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 04:50 PM (vTZFs)


It's a song by Warren Zevon.

https://youtu.be/CfLfbpkFoKE

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

131 Never heard of Roland Martin. I've heard of Rowan & Martin, however. And, it sounds like the Roland Martin also applied the "Sock it to me" approach to entertainment.

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 04:57 PM (dIske)

132 Hey, give Roland some credit, at least he fought the muzzies in the Pyrenees."

A last stand, that was...
Posted by: man

Thus, yesterday's Custer art.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:58 PM (77rzZ)

133 So admirals are top generals?
Posted by: This military shit is confusing at August 06, 2026 04:56 PM (2Ez/1)


An admiral is a general in either the Navy or Coast Guard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:58 PM (ExV1e)

134 When a spud goes bad, he goes full Roland.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2026 04:59 PM (2GVsD)

135 120 Vintage Goldie Hawn was pretty good stuff.

Too flat-chested. As is her daughter.
Posted by: Bulg

But a great ass, per Kurt Russell.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 04:59 PM (Y8DZL)

136 *And, it sounds like the Roland Martin also applied the "Sock it to me" approach to entertainment.*


Velllly interesting...

Posted by: Short guy in a kraut helmet at August 06, 2026 04:59 PM (2Ez/1)

137
Holy smokes, he's still alive? I watched him on Saturdays after American Sportsman and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Posted by: Oddbob


But Gadabout Gaddis is dead.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2026 05:00 PM (Cqx++)

138 An admiral is a general in either the Navy or Coast Guard.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

*Ahem*
-- Admiral Rachel Levine

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 05:01 PM (77rzZ)

139 But a great ass, per Kurt Russell.
Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 04:59 PM (Y8DZL)

But poo-poo comes out of those!

Also, some people put items that don't belong up those...obviously Roland doesn't (and any allegations that he does are libelous lies and he'll sue you if you say them!), but *some* people do. Just nobody named "Roland Martin".

Posted by: Thrawn at August 06, 2026 05:01 PM (2qSHg)

140 *Ahem*
-- Admiral Rachel Levine
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 05:01 PM (77rzZ)


That nonsense is just silly and I refuse to acknowledge it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 05:02 PM (ExV1e)

141 Sounds like he is trying to get out in front of these allegations...

Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2026 05:04 PM (YwEeS)

142 re:138
Or USPHS

Posted by: epador at August 06, 2026 05:05 PM (TRnzq)

143 Goldie Hawn in the bikini in Overboard.(see also Goldie Hawn in a bikini on Laugh sun)

Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2026 05:06 PM (YwEeS)

144 Our three main weapons are fear, surprise, flattery, and yellow poon.

FOUR main weapons!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 06, 2026 04:50 PM


How many times do I have to tell you, NO YELLOW! ????

I've tried cranking up the pop ups on your phones. You won't like what comes next.

Posted by: Hunter B. at August 06, 2026 05:06 PM (0sNs1)

145 Sounds like he is trying to get out in front of these allegations...
Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2026 05:04 PM (YwEeS)

. . . and then power through . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 06, 2026 05:07 PM (wVcYX)

146 May his legal victories be swift and plentiful, and this stain upon his reputation unbesmirched.

But mostly let's hope he can remove that stain of astroglide, doodoo, and rectal mucus.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 06, 2026 05:07 PM (88C+u)

147 {Democrat Troll Roland Martin Says That People Are Circulating Rumors About Him Being Videotaped In "Compromising Positions" and Threatens to Sue Anyone Publishing The Videos}

Sue? Well, that's your legal right, as is the next phase known as "Discovery" where most, if not all of your dirty little secrets regarding this matter get aired, and become part of the court record if you proceed to trial.

In other words, this might not go like you think it's gonna go, Scooter.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2026 05:08 PM (O7YUW)

148 I saw Astroglide, Doodoo, and Rectal Mucus open for...

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 05:08 PM (77rzZ)

149 Don't publish your sexpectades or do it in public and it won't ve a problem down the road

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 05:09 PM (Ia/+0)

150 17 Roland Martin is just another in a long line of... individuals, let's say... who I could happily go the rest of my life without hearing about again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
---

But only to read of them being imprisoned.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 05:09 PM (nqf1u)

151 Male TDS is 100% akways gay.

Posted by: dagny at August 06, 2026 05:10 PM (chM/Q)

152 There was a bitch by a rando on Twitter about how in 1964 his grandpa bought a $3,000 Impala.
The measured response was that those were silver dollars back in 1966, valued at $1 = 0.77344 oz.

At today’s market price, that silver dollar would be worth about $48 in purchasing power with today’s dollar.

That new Chevy Impala actually cost your grandpa ~3,000 oz of silver … $186K at today’s exchange rate.


Which makes me ask, how come so many people were able to buy the equivalent cost of a Porsche 911 60 years ago? Was that more or fewer than can afford one today, who would think it is a good investment?
That is two new Range Rover GTs.

Why is this considered a valid counter argument?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 05:10 PM (rbvCR)

153 138 An admiral is a general in either the Navy or Coast Guard.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

*Ahem*
-- Admiral Rachel Levine
Posted by: Bulg

That nonsense is just silly and I refuse to acknowledge it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The trans part- yes

The Non-Military Uniformed Services? It at least has some history and an explanation, despite seeming incredibly weird in the surface.

Posted by: Military Moron at August 06, 2026 05:12 PM (/y3Vc)

154 How many times do I have to tell you, NO YELLOW! ????

I've tried cranking up the pop ups on your phones. You won't like what comes next.

Posted by: Hunter B.
---

Don't call him mellow yellow
quite frankly
Don't call him mellow yellow
Just give him the money, fellow
quite frankly

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 05:12 PM (nqf1u)

155 Jason Arday als threatened s=t sue and imprison anyone who repearted the "slanders" that he is a plagiarist.

48 hours later he was forced to prompt ChatGPT to write a resignation letter.

Let's see hw long Martin lasts.

Posted by: zombie at August 06, 2026 05:12 PM (Av6i5)

156 I would think the surgeon General could set his own uniform specs.
I would suggest the Plague Doctor's mask and Dealy-bobbers.

And Adidas, of course

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 05:13 PM (rbvCR)

157 I asked Brave AI: "Yes, Roland Martin's wife, Dr. Jacquie Hood Martin, is an ordained minister. She is also an author, motivational speaker, and the creator of the children’s book series Hannah’s Heart. The couple has been married since 2001"

8^x

Posted by: 88C+u at August 06, 2026 05:14 PM (88C+u)

158 151 Male TDS is 100% akways gay.
Posted by: dagny

I remember Vance was a little TDS for a while...called Trump a Nazi, as I recall? Maybe he was just bi-curious. Or maybe conversion therapy works!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 06, 2026 05:14 PM (/y3Vc)

159 He didn't pay $3k for an Impala.

My mom bought a new 1975 Cadillac El Dorodo fir $5k.

She has no idea what he paid. Something far less.

Posted by: dagny at August 06, 2026 05:14 PM (chM/Q)

160 Hunter didn't want any yellow because Xi's, yellow honey pot took advantage of him and screwed him over good.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 05:14 PM (nqf1u)

161 "Potato" is mentioned twice in the second paragraph, and yet Brian Stelter isn't mention until Comment #126.

Who are you people? Do I even know you anymore?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 06, 2026 05:15 PM (0sNs1)

162 Stage 1: Pretend the rumors don't exist.
Stage 2: Deny the rumors.
Stage 3: Threaten to sue anyone who publishes the rumors (
Stage 4: Cry racism
Stage 5: Cry racism some more.
Stage 6: Resign in shame.
Stage 7. Cut yourself on livestream "for the children."

Posted by: zombie at August 06, 2026 05:16 PM (Av6i5)

163 At least Roland isn’t banging Stacy Abrams.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 06, 2026 05:17 PM (W2Pud)

164 Male TDS is 100% akways gay.
Posted by: dagny

I remember Vance was a little TDS for a while...called Trump a Nazi, as I recall? Maybe he was just bi-curious. Or maybe conversion therapy works!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 06, 2026 05:14 PM (/y3Vc)

That was then, i didn't think he could beat Hillary. I now know only Trump could beat Hillary. His new yorkness bothered me too. I was wrong. Maybe Vance thought the same. Idk where anybody got nazi from. Seems they need to read more history.

Posted by: dagny at August 06, 2026 05:17 PM (chM/Q)

165 Oh, Roland;
I'm sorry you got a head like a potato.
I really am.

Posted by: Napolean Murphy Brock, on his lunchhour at August 06, 2026 05:18 PM (YVxq2)

166 He didn't pay $3k for an Impala.

My mom bought a new 1975 Cadillac El Dorodo fir $5k.

She has no idea what he paid. Something far less.
Posted by: dagny at August 06, 2026 05:14 PM (chM/Q)


Nah, there was a receipt posted with it too. But there, 5K in 1975 was still around 200K in today's money. You can buy a lot of Cadillac to day for that price. And a lot of people bought Cadillacs in 1975. How could they afford it if there is no change in absolute earnings between then and now?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 05:18 PM (rbvCR)

167 At least Roland isn’t banging Stacy Abrams.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 06, 2026 05:17 PM (W2Pud)


Obviously not, it would have been the other way round.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 05:18 PM (ExV1e)

168 Who are you people? Do I even know you anymore?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Calm down. We're too busy talking about boobs to pay any attention to Stelter.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 05:18 PM (77rzZ)

169 Have you guys covered this:

I'm reading that Madeleine Carlisle, asst. producer is leaving "60 Minutes".

Who is Carlisle you might ask.

Stephen Colbert’s daughter. Just wow. No bias there.

Bari Weiss has her hands full. In addition to asking any employee "Now what exactly do you do here?", she needs to ask " Now exactly who are you related to?"

Posted by: WisRich at August 06, 2026 05:19 PM (G0vdT)

170 oh great, black conservative perspective is now discussing that Roland Martin's schlong is more like a schmeckel

Posted by: 88C+u at August 06, 2026 05:19 PM (88C+u)

171 Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner is a song by Warren Zevon, released in 1978 on the album Excitable Boy. it was also the last song he played live before an audience on the David Letterman Show not long before his death.

https://sniplinks.in/k4W1Q1

I think most Morons would like the line about Patty Hearst.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 06, 2026 05:20 PM (zeRnp)

172 Nah, there was a receipt posted with it too. But there, 5K in 1975 was still around 200K in today's money. You can buy a lot of Cadillac to day for that price. And a lot of people bought Cadillacs in 1975. How could they afford it if there is no change in absolute earnings between then and now?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 05:18 PM (rbvCR)


$5,000 in 1972 is equivalent to approximately $39,423 – $39,499 in 2026 based on the standard Consumer Price Index (CPI). This represents a cumulative price increase of roughly 689.98% over the 54-year period, with an average annual inflation rate of about 3.90%.

-----------

Most people didn't keep their money in silver dollars and count on metal valuations increasing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 05:21 PM (ExV1e)

173 Nah, there was a receipt posted with it too. But there, 5K in 1975 was still around 200K in today's money. You can buy a lot of Cadillac to day for that price. And a lot of people bought Cadillacs in 1975. How could they afford it if there is no change in absolute earnings between then and now?


Idk, she flipped houses. You could assume mortages back then. She'd buy a neighbor's house, paint it, clean it, redo the landscaping all herself, and make $5k in 2 months.

Posted by: dagny at August 06, 2026 05:22 PM (chM/Q)

174 Ugly people need sex, too.

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 05:22 PM (UjdFS)

175 156 I would think the surgeon General could set his own uniform specs.
I would suggest the Plague Doctor's mask and Dealy-bobbers.

And Adidas, of course
Posted by: Kindltot

I believe Army General Officers are specifically exempt from Army uniform regulations.

Posted by: Military Moron at August 06, 2026 05:22 PM (/y3Vc)

176 Speaking of Tank, she’s considering another run for Georgia Governor.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 06, 2026 05:23 PM (W2Pud)

177 May his legal victories be swift and plentiful, and this stain upon his reputation unbesmirched.

But mostly let's hope he can remove that stain of astroglide, doodoo, and rectal mucus.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 06, 2026 05:07 PM
*****
This is about me, isn't it.

Posted by: Ashley Webb at August 06, 2026 05:23 PM (Wt1Rs)

178 So an impala was the equivalent of a slightly used lexus 350. Tons of those on the roads.

Posted by: dagny at August 06, 2026 05:24 PM (chM/Q)

179 @174/wth: "Ugly people need sex, too."

Beer goggles!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2026 05:24 PM (O7YUW)

180 Speaking of Tank, she’s considering another run for Georgia Governor.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 06, 2026 05:23 PM


Well that grift ain't gonna run itself, now, is it?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 06, 2026 05:24 PM (kgE5c)

181 Most people didn't keep their money in silver dollars and count on metal valuations increasing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 05:21 PM (ExV1e)


hururur

And they don't make Impalas anymore so my argument is invalid. Yeah, valid point.

It is the price of a Lamborqhini Ursus, it is the value of a Nissan-Rogue-short of a Aston Martin. And they sold thousands of Impalas that year. How could that many people afford that size of a cost in 1964 if there has been no shrinkage of purchasing power?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 05:25 PM (rbvCR)

182 Oklahoma teen accused of raping two girls walks free.

Unfucking believable
https://tinyurl.com/3bnvn442

Posted by: sidney at August 06, 2026 05:25 PM (Uy/WF)

183 Yet another person about whom I have no idea who they are.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 05:25 PM (xPsv8)

184 174 Ugly people need sex, too.
Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 05:22 PM (UjdFS)

Pron on the interwebs is cheap and plentiful.

Nobody needs an amateur colonoscopy.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 06, 2026 05:25 PM (2qSHg)

185 $5k in 1975 is $32k today.

Posted by: dagny at August 06, 2026 05:26 PM (chM/Q)

186 2026 Lexus LC: $101,700 MSRP

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 05:26 PM (rbvCR)

187 Belinda Carlisle >> Madeleine Carlisle

Posted by: 88C+u at August 06, 2026 05:26 PM (88C+u)

188 183 Yet another person about whom I have no idea who they are.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
========
Peace comes from that fact because ignorance is bliss.

I feel sorry for the Lord in that he is aware of all the worst of what humanity does all the time.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 05:28 PM (E4rtv)

189 Thankful I have no idea who this freak is!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 06, 2026 05:28 PM (hzuYO)

190 174 Ugly people need sex, too.
Posted by: wth


That's why God made ugly people -- so that ugly people can have sex with the other ugly people. A self-sufficient ecosystem.

Posted by: zombie at August 06, 2026 05:28 PM (Av6i5)

191 $3k in 66 is $30,921 today.

Posted by: dagny at August 06, 2026 05:29 PM (chM/Q)

192 176 Speaking of Tank, she’s considering another run for Georgia Governor.
=======
That would be in 2030. I think she is still hoping to get her 2 billion buck payout from Biden which has been cancelled.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 05:29 PM (E4rtv)

193 I think I can reuse my comment from earlier:

"The world is full of broken people. Most of them end up on the left."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 04:30 PM (N1DT3)

--------------

I think they get broken when they go left.

Posted by: Decaf at August 06, 2026 05:29 PM (JTCB1)

194 hururur

And they don't make Impalas anymore so my argument is invalid. Yeah, valid point.

It is the price of a Lamborqhini Ursus, it is the value of a Nissan-Rogue-short of a Aston Martin. And they sold thousands of Impalas that year. How could that many people afford that size of a cost in 1964 if there has been no shrinkage of purchasing power?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 05:25 PM (rbvCR)


Why not convert the price to diamonds? Or NYC penthouses?

The cumulative monetary increase from 1972 until 2026 was roughly 689.98%. Further, cars cost more today because they have more shit in them than was the case in 1972 - you are free to argue that this is a bad idea and I won't dispute that - but saying that an Impala in 1972 is roughly the equivalent of a small home today is ludicrous.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 05:29 PM (ExV1e)

195 Posted by: Duncanthrax

===

Calm down.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 05:18 PM


Well, he's not an 'ette, so the probability of that advice being executed upon is high.

Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at August 06, 2026 05:30 PM (BOgTB)

196 Dan Rowan>Dick Martin >>> Roland Martin

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 06, 2026 05:30 PM (wGerL)

197 Ugly people need sex, too.
Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 05:22 PM (UjdFS)

Thank you. Beer helps.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 06, 2026 05:30 PM (wVcYX)

198 That video with the black chick yelling was unbearable.

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 05:31 PM (UjdFS)

199 15 Rowan and Martin >>>>>Roland Martin

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 04:32 PM (KC5Lt)

Oof da. Should have read the comments.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 06, 2026 05:31 PM (wGerL)

200 Nood. China and the Generals.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 05:32 PM (ExV1e)

201 To accuse a respectable man of being pegged by a prostitute is egregious.

OK, but what about when he isn't honorable?

Posted by: GWB at August 06, 2026 05:32 PM (kU0PQ)

202 176 Speaking of Tank, she’s considering another run for Georgia Governor.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Quite a step down from United Federation of Planets Chieftess.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 05:32 PM (Y8DZL)

203 A 1966 Impala SS396 convertible probably was north of $3k new.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 06, 2026 05:33 PM (sl73Y)

204 5k in 1975 is $32k today.
Posted by: dagny at August 06, 2026 05:26 PM (chM/Q)


Silver was ~$4.40 so it was 1,136, so it was $54K in todays value of silver

So 2026 CT5, but I am talking about 1965, before the oil squeeze and Carter's Malaise that we inflated out of

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 05:33 PM (rbvCR)

205
Oklahoma teen accused of raping two girls walks free.

Unfucking believable
https://tinyurl.com/3bnvn442
Posted by: sidney

=========

wtf?

"prosecutors announced they would not seek to transfer him into the custody or supervision of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections."

WHY?

P.S., I get strong Damien Echols vibes from that guy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 05:33 PM (mmrXZ)

206 Uh! Uh! Uh
Isn't that cute an extra belly button
You need to put your pants back on honey
Don't don't don't don't don't don't
Don't don't don't don't don't don't
Don't want no don't want no don't want no
Don't want don't want don't want don't want
Don't want no short dick man

Posted by: Gillette at August 06, 2026 05:33 PM (F1rMs)

207 Is this the no-neck Roland Martin of the ascot? Cast him on a remake show with Will Smith and call it the Fresh, Fresh Prince.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 06, 2026 05:35 PM (iySPJ)

208 84 You gotta suck Chinese cock to get promoted above O6
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

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I am so confused. Isn't this treason?
Why are heads still attached to bodies?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)
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Because bureaucrats recognize and share more values with each other despite whatever nation they work for than do other people. Every government lasting for awhile eventually ends up in a bureacratic trap that destroys it.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 05:37 PM (E4rtv)

209 Headline at the US version of DailyMail.com:

"Taylor Swift's cruelest act yet against her closest friend is final proof of what she's become. The stench is
unmistakable"

Savvy AoSHQ readers know what this protends:

Taylor Swift has become a penguin.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at August 06, 2026 05:37 PM (0sNs1)

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at August 06, 2026 05:38 PM (0sNs1)

211 No idea what Taylor did

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 05:44 PM (Ia/+0)

212 In the age of AI, the validity of any image or video is questionable. In the age of TikTok and social media, however, the likelihood of someone taking photos and video has been made more likely.

Posting the images and videos is probably a bad idea - see the Hulk Hogan lawsuit a decade ago that killed Gawker. But on the other hand, threatening lawsuits is only going to invoke the Streisand Effect, ensuring it gets out and remains in the news. It also lends credence to the content being real.

Posted by: Another Anon at August 06, 2026 06:12 PM (4h45B)

213 I saw a McClaren in the wild this eve, it sounded expensive as it disappeared

My manhood shrank 3 sizes

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 06, 2026 07:42 PM (jrgJz)

The Budget Is 90% Fraud by Foreign Pirates: A Continuing Series

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

Aug 3

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Jaw-dropping fraud report just found that 9.2 million people -- including ILLEGAL ALIENS -- do NOT meet the federal requirements to qualify for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion program...that's nearly HALF of those enrolled

50% FRAUD 🤯

The problems are the worst in CA and NY. IMAGINE THAT.

"The study says New York and California have some of the biggest problems, finding up to 62% of people enrolled in California are not eligible. And the states might not even be incentivized to fix the issue."

"This study says some of those people actually make too much money to qualify for this Medicaid expansion program and others are getting these benefits, even though they're here in the country illegally!"

The entire system has to be gutted! Purge the rolls!


Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

4h

🚨 WOW! JD Vance just confirmed it with Stephen Miller at his side: "We have been able to identify $230 BILLION DOLLARS of fraud just since the fraud task force was set up!"

"And that's frankly by conservatively estimating it!" 🤯

"We've been able to stop $56 BILLION in fraudulent payments that would have otherwise gone to fraudsters rather than to the people who need them."

Plus: They're banning H-1B fraudsters:

Partially related: As Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood, and CAIR buy elections in the US, AOC announces that American Jews have no right to participate in Democrat primaries.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:20 PM




Comments

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1 Surprising no one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 03:21 PM (ExV1e)

2 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at August 06, 2026 03:22 PM (pzTLM)

3 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 03:22 PM (ExV1e)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (2YhKe)

5 The combination of the Vance Task Fraud group, deportations, and DOJ action against both voter rolls and all manner of fraud is going to change the landscape of America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (sZHUV)

6 Eh. That's just a rounding error.

Posted by: Reforger at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (st6oP)

7 The left: No illegals get welfare, its impossible and we don't allow it

Also the left: If you require proof of citizenship for welfare millions of people will literally starve

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 03:24 PM (sKqQm)

8 My only question is how many times have they done this before?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:21 PM (viF8m)

Mine is when do they plan to do it again

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 03:25 PM (fsIaS)

9 Donkey Chompers eeeyaws. Film at never. Glad I missed her show in Tijuana.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:25 PM (9c9us)

10 but if we keep one child from going hungry isn't it worth it?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 06, 2026 03:25 PM (CWTWj)

11 The Republicans in the Senate were giving in to the parliamentarian who said there weren't enough offsets in the budget. Well folks just zero out all the believed fraud and there's your offset

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 03:25 PM (KY+FT)

12 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I appreciate AIPAC proving it doesn’t belong in the Dem Party and especially our primaries.


I appreciate you proving once again that there is a zero sum competition between bewbs and brains.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 03:25 PM (Riz8t)

13 I know a certain riverine company that should be looked closely at for H1Being crooked.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:26 PM (9c9us)

14 "We've been able to stop $56 BILLION in fraudulent payments that would have otherwise gone to fraudsters rather than to the people who need them."

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This money creates an ecosystem of patronage.

It funds lifestyles.

Those lifestyles then fund supporting systems.

Those supporting systems fund political parties and political action groups both formal and informal (like smaller media outlets).

Combine this with USAID, and you've got the equivalent of about 13 Hollywoods (roughly $8 billion a year in box office receipts) suddenly wiped off the map of American politics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:26 PM (sZHUV)

15 re 7: no human is illegal. so there

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 06, 2026 03:26 PM (CWTWj)

16 Now check into gov backed mortgages for illegals and h1bs.

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 03:26 PM (enNUy)

17 AOC is a whore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:27 PM (2YhKe)

18 Ay yi yi. This is the stuff that makes me insane. If you or I didn’t pay $5 in taxes, they would find us.

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 03:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

19 Can't we deport Dems and the media (BIRP) too?

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 06, 2026 03:27 PM (TezPK)

20 The difference between a slut and a whore is whores get paid.

AOC has been paid quite handsomely for her whoring.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:27 PM (2YhKe)

21 OK. Have we stopped payments until we can verify the funding is legitimate or are we just pointing at the clean end of the turd on the table?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 06, 2026 03:27 PM (3Ope8)

22 The national debt finally makes sense since Nick Shirley and Doge.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 06, 2026 03:28 PM (hzuYO)

23 17

Agreed, but not a good one. A good one gives value for the money.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:28 PM (KspkQ)

24 "Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered "Fraud!"
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again.
-- "Casey at the Bat," by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

25 Say, how about us with chronically ill and infirm elderly parents and/or spouses with terminal illnesses? Among those retired military and career workers...
Can we get a few bucks to assist?

Huh. Guess not. Boy, did I get played for a sucker.
Tell me again why I should pay taxes, bills, etc.?

Feh

Posted by: man at August 06, 2026 03:29 PM (XuXeR)

26
When do the savings start trickling down into the national debt? And I do mean trickle. $230 billion doesn't shock me anymore.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 03:29 PM (mmrXZ)

27
Agreed, but not a good one. A good one gives value for the money.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:28 PM (KspkQ)



I disagree. She's part of the reason the DSA has grown as quickly has it has. I'm sure they're quite fond of her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:29 PM (2YhKe)

28 re 21: obama judge says you can't, even if the supreme court says you can

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 06, 2026 03:29 PM (CWTWj)

29 I try to figure out why it is so hard for the Trump administration to stop funding these programs wrought of fraud.

I end up unconscious with an aneurism and in a pool of my own waste.

Posted by: Cray Cray at August 06, 2026 03:30 PM (XdJ05)

30 Medicare For All!

Posted by: Abdul El-Sayed, mohammedan grifter at August 06, 2026 03:30 PM (F1rMs)

31 30 Medicare For All!

Posted by: Abdul El-Sayed, mohammedan grifter at August 06, 2026 03:30 PM (F1rMs)

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"We'll take the frumpy weird chick instead, thanks foreigner."
-white rural Democrats and black urban Democrats, in unison

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:31 PM (sZHUV)

32 Neville Singham and Alex Soros can transfer billions of dollars to every commie whore in the USA but AIPAC is the problem?

These people won't like where this goes from here.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:31 PM (KspkQ)

33 >The combination of the Vance Task Fraud group, deportations, and DOJ action against both voter rolls and all manner of fraud is going to change the landscape of America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Okay but not too much
many parts are quite picturesque

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 03:31 PM (ZxPkt)

34 We need to bring back public hangings.

Preferably mutiples at once.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 03:31 PM (N1DT3)

35 Another interesting point, even with the subsidies, Obamacare is garbage insurance. The deductibles are crazy, the coverage is hot garbage. It’s a true disaster. Thanks, Roberts and McCain!

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 03:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

36 33 Okay but not too much
many parts are quite picturesque

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 03:31 PM (ZxPkt)

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MOUNTAINS SHALL BECOME VALLEYS!

VALLEYS SHALL BECOME DESERTS!

DESERTS SHALL BECOME DAIRY QUEENS!

NEW YORK SHALL BECOME TUSCON!

THERE IS NO STOPPING IT!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:32 PM (sZHUV)

37 In other news, over 100 people went before the City Council to stop a mosque being built in the city of McKinney, TX.

The council sat quietly and listened to several citizens of the community express their displeasure on the spread of sharia in the US and Texas.

The council represented in kind and voted unanimously to approve the mosque project to proceed.


Elections have consequences.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:32 PM (2YhKe)

38 For all the fraud: I blame Congress.

They are contemptible. They know where the money went.

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 03:32 PM (ZxPkt)

39 Wake me when somebody gets arrested. When somebody goes to Jail.

If you rob the 7-11 and get away with $700 they go after you hard in most places, steal billions and you get …. Promoted?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 03:32 PM (/wHvr)

40 11 The Republicans in the Senate were giving in to the parliamentarian who said there weren't enough offsets in the budget. Well folks just zero out all the believed fraud and there's your offset
Posted by: Smell the Glove

They can start by reducing her salary to zero. Senate did just fine without a Parliamentarian for over half of its existence. Thomas Jefferson wrote the basic rulebook, there is no need for a parliamentarian and in fact, the office if given powers like in reconciliation is an affront to the US Constitution. --See Bowsher v. Synar.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 03:33 PM (E4rtv)

41 38 For all the fraud: I blame Congress.

They are contemptible. They know where the money went.

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 03:32 PM (ZxPkt)

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Congress doesn't know shit.

They gave up real oversight decades ago.

We've had the imperial presidency unchecked for a very long time.

This is why the only true prize in American politics anymore is the presidency itself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:33 PM (sZHUV)

42 Neville Singham and Alex Soros can transfer billions of dollars to every commie whore in the USA but AIPAC is the problem?

These people won't like where this goes from here.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:31 PM (KspkQ)



If only there was a political party in the US that would fight as hard to stop them as the Dems fight to keep them funneling money illegally into political coffers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:33 PM (2YhKe)

43 27.

I can't help but feel that if my Dad was a better shot with his M14 in Vietnam, some of this would have been nipped in the bud.

Probably best not to dwell on it.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:33 PM (KspkQ)

44 These people won't like where this goes from here"

I've run into a number of folks also asking why we played by the rules...

Posted by: man at August 06, 2026 03:34 PM (XuXeR)

45
The combination of the Vance Task Fraud group, deportations, and DOJ action against both voter rolls and all manner of fraud is going to change the landscape of America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Just give us 2026...

Posted by: Fingers crossed at August 06, 2026 03:35 PM (mmrXZ)

46 45
The combination of the Vance Task Fraud group, deportations, and DOJ action against both voter rolls and all manner of fraud is going to change the landscape of America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Just give us 2026...

Posted by: Fingers crossed at August 06, 2026 03:35 PM (mmrXZ)

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Quite literally none of that will stop if Democrats take the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (sZHUV)

47 You know, for all the things that are the fault of THE JOOOOOOOS!!!![1], I notice none of these fraud schemes are run by TEH JOOOS!

Funny that.


[1] Floods, wildfires, low wages, space lasers, hair loss, low birthrate, Woody Allen, etc....

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (N1DT3)

48 $38T in debt = $38T in fraud. Taxpayer funded.

I want my fucking money back.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (2Cry5)

49
The council represented in kind and voted unanimously to approve the mosque project to proceed.


If they voted against it they'd be cancelled or worse.

If they vote for it they'll still get re-elected and nothing bad will happen to them personally.

People respond to incentives.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

50 This is what happens when you spend 50 years importing barbarian cultures from all over the globe.

They come here and they collaborate with Democrats to steal everything they can get their hands on.

Jesse Kelley

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The Barbarian culture was already here and was progressive politicians. On their own the immigrants would be selling gimcrack items or pickpocketing.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (uhVAy)

51 Tits for brains is a nasty antisemite.

Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (YwEeS)

52 47 You know, for all the things that are the fault of THE JOOOOOOOS!!!![1], I notice none of these fraud schemes are run by TEH JOOOS!

Funny that.


[1] Floods, wildfires, low wages, space lasers, hair loss, low birthrate, Woody Allen, etc....

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (N1DT3)

=====

What about Morbius?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (sZHUV)

53 We're ripping off the taxpayer left and right, but look at this mom over here who has been taking an extra $24 a month for 8 months. SHE MUST PAY IT BACK IMMEDIATELY PLUS PENALTIES !

The amount of fraud from Medicaid pales in comparison to the amount of grift by the current US president and his family.

everyone should be letting our local reps know that it is time for America to catch up to other countries and implement universal healthcare. No one should have to go into debt and be forced to file bankruptcy over medical debt

WTF even if Medicaid recipient fraud? Someone's doctor said they need health care and they got health care? Oh, the horror! So, let's make people who are unwell jump through hoops instead. How is that any better?

ANYTHING to distract from the Epstein files.

I'd rather pay an extra 20$ in tax a month for everyone to universally get health care then 300$ amonth for private health care that forces me to pay 6,000$ first before they even help

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (/y3Vc)

54 44.

We bulldozed a lot of commies into pits overseas so we wouldn't have to do it here. Now it seems like we should have kept our Grandads here at home.



Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:37 PM (KspkQ)

55 I'm getting spam calls almost every hour during the day. They've ramped up to spoofing legitimate business numbers, including my local BBQ joint. The one time I did accept the call (but didn't answer), there was a spiel about how records (whose?) show that I'm not enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid. That is patently untrue, so I hung up. That was two months ago, and I've gone from one call a day to suddenly 5-6 calls a day in the past week. Maybe certain populations are panicking that H1B visas are about to be cut off?

Posted by: pookysgirl is getting annoyed at August 06, 2026 03:37 PM (Wt5PA)

56 I appreciate you proving once again that there is a zero sum competition between bewbs and brains.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 03:25 PM (Riz8t)

I don't know. Dolly Parton seems to be pretty bright.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 03:37 PM (N1DT3)

57 These people won't like where this goes from here"

I've run into a number of folks also asking why we played by the rules...
Posted by: man at August 06, 2026 03:34 PM (XuXeR)

The GOPe didn't play by the rules either, they just are worse at corruption.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:37 PM (uhVAy)

58 We should have a two year moratorium on federal income taxes.

FedGov doesn't need my money.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 03:38 PM (rNQnT)

59
I don't know. Dolly Parton seems to be pretty bright.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 03:37 PM (N1DT3)



Jenna Jameson is quite the entrepreneur.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:38 PM (2YhKe)

60 53 WTF even if Medicaid recipient fraud? Someone's doctor said they need health care and they got health care? Oh, the horror! So, let's make people who are unwell jump through hoops instead. How is that any better?


Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (/y3Vc)

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"It is literally impossible to lie to Medicaid. You try to form the words, 'I want this money for nothing,' but the words catch in your throat because once you try to take money from the government, you become moral. Except for Trump, he takes money with lies to government."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:38 PM (sZHUV)

61 "HOLY SMOKES. Jaw-dropping fraud report just found that 9.2 million people -- including ILLEGAL ALIENS -- do NOT meet the federal requirements to qualify for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion program...that's nearly HALF of those enrolled"


You can safely double this number and still be short of the actual number of people committing fraud under the expansion of medicaid from obamacare.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 06, 2026 03:38 PM (cpFbA)

62 44.

We bulldozed a lot of commies into pits overseas so we wouldn't have to do it here. Now it seems like we should have kept our Grandads here at home.



Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:37 PM (KspkQ)

should have shifted to the universities here instead.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:38 PM (uhVAy)

63 I appreciate you proving once again that there is a zero sum competition between bewbs and brains.
Posted by: Archimedes

I once had a coworker who had huge knockers and was the sexiest woman I've ever known in person besides my wife. She was also very bright.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:39 PM (77rzZ)

64 *cuts self with sharp corners of pop up ads*

I'M DOING THIS FOR MY CHILDREN!

Posted by: washed up commenter at August 06, 2026 03:40 PM (3U3sD)

65 What about Morbius?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (sZHUV)

isn't that the horrible movie Hollywood was tricked into releasing twice? They so crafty.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:40 PM (uhVAy)

66 Jenna Jameson is quite the entrepreneur.
Posted by: Sponge

Ditto Cathy Ireland.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

67 If conservative estimate is $200B the real number is $500B.

Posted by: Uhmmm at August 06, 2026 03:41 PM (Bz1XI)

68 It’s no surprise that our debt is $40 trillion. If it wasn’t for fraud and war what would our debt be?

Posted by: Unkaren at August 06, 2026 03:41 PM (ccX9M)

69 66.

Wish I could.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:41 PM (KspkQ)

70 I'm getting spam calls almost every hour during the day. They've ramped up to spoofing legitimate business numbers, including my local BBQ joint. The one time I did accept the call (but didn't answer), there was a spiel about how records (whose?) show that I'm not enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid. That is patently untrue, so I hung up. That was two months ago, and I've gone from one call a day to suddenly 5-6 calls a day in the past week. Maybe certain populations are panicking that H1B visas are about to be cut off?
Posted by: pookysgirl is getting annoyed at August 06, 2026 03:37 PM (Wt5PA)

Ask them to hold, then walk off.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:41 PM (uhVAy)

71 We bulldozed a lot of commies into pits overseas so we wouldn't have to do it here. Now it seems like we should have kept our Grandads here at home
——-

That was my conclusion decades ago. They should have invaded Berkley and Madison and Ann Arbor and Columbia U. etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 03:42 PM (/wHvr)

72
In other news, over 100 people went before the City Council to stop a mosque being built in the city of McKinney, TX.

The council sat quietly and listened to several citizens of the community express their displeasure on the spread of sharia in the US and Texas.

The council represented in kind and voted unanimously to approve the mosque project to proceed.


Elections have consequences.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:32 PM (2YhKe)



Geez. I almost moved to McKinney before getting laid off in the personal catastrophe that forced me to move back to CA just before the China Lung Rot lockdowns.

Missed signing my McKinney apartment lease by 2 days. Boy, did I dodge a bullet or what?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 03:42 PM (y9nCu)

73 "I don't know. I've only killed communists."

Posted by: Quotes From History at August 06, 2026 03:43 PM (2YhKe)

74 Without illegal immigration, fraud, and communism our national debt would be $37.50 in nickels from an old Yuban can.

I worked it out.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:43 PM (KspkQ)

75 They can start by reducing her salary to zero. Senate did just fine without a Parliamentarian for over half of its existence. Thomas Jefferson wrote the basic rulebook, there is no need for a parliamentarian and in fact, the office if given powers like in reconciliation is an affront to the US Constitution. --See Bowsher v. Synar.
Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 03:33 PM (E4rtv)

First of all it should be named "Congressitarian". We don't have a damned Parliament.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:43 PM (uhVAy)

76 One of the problems with Medicare is that you're automatically enrolled at 65. Not that you're a citizen. Not that you are legally able to draw it. Just that you're 65. Whatever "safeguards" are in place, obviously do not work as intended.

There are plenty of illegals who claim to be 65.

Welfare is in worse shape. Obamacare's not far behind.

Pretending to help the downtrodden is costing us our future.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2026 03:44 PM (2Cry5)

77 This is one way to get the blood boiling on a Thursday afternoon...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 03:44 PM (FZ29D)

78 A lot time ago: We can balance the budget by cutting fraud and graft

A little while ago: There is literally no fraud whatsoever in federal spending, well, except the DoD.

Current: WTF even if Medicaid recipient fraud? Someone's doctor said they need health care and they got health care? Oh, the horror! So, let's make people who are unwell jump through hoops instead. How is that any better?

Posted by: The left at August 06, 2026 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

79 Without illegal immigration, fraud, and communism our national debt would be $37.50 in nickels from an old Yuban can.

I worked it out.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:43 PM (KspkQ)

I checked with an independent source 'Sifty Boones' who confirmed this analysis.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:44 PM (uhVAy)

80 White law abiding tax payer citizens might as well tattoo the word sucker on their foreheads.

Posted by: Uhmmm at August 06, 2026 03:44 PM (Bz1XI)

81
Pretending to help the downtrodden is costing us our future.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

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

It's not exactly helping the downtrodden either.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 03:45 PM (mmrXZ)

82 Infuriating.

I have other things also making me angry. Not directly related so I'll withhold for now.

Our birthright was stolen from us.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 06, 2026 03:45 PM (OUMaO)

83 It's another Trumpmas miracle!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 03:45 PM (dK+Kv)

84 The H1B scam has been running since inception. The game was for employers to post job ads with impossible qualifications and then say, "See? No qualified Americans" and then hire the first Patel with a heartbeat.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 06, 2026 03:45 PM (H5Io+)

85 "WOW! JD Vance just confirmed it with Stephen Miller at his side: "We have been able to identify $230 BILLION DOLLARS of fraud just since the fraud task force was set up!""

What annoys me about this report is that Elon Musk had already set something up over a year ago with DOGE. If there had been more support for that from the Executive Office, we would have probably known about a lot of this stuff even sooner than we did.

Musk thought he could shave 1-2 TRILLION USD from the Federal budget if the fraud was taken out. Turns out he was right.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 03:46 PM (0CU3H)

86 I was rewatching the Milius series Rome last night.
Forgot all the freaky sex scenes. Makes watching the movie F1 different.

Anywho... the Senate scenes remind me of how fake things are today.
Theater for ugly antiques.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:46 PM (KspkQ)

87 I'm still processing the fact that Democrats for the past decade have called anybody to the right of Stalin 'NAZI!' and now they're campaigning by counting on the "Hate Jews" vote.

They talk about right-wing dog whistles and now I keep hearing words like "Zionist" and "AIPAC" every day of the week.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2026 03:47 PM (6ydKt)

88 White law abiding tax payer citizens might as well tattoo the word sucker on their foreheads.

There are law abiding tax paying suckers of all races. Some of them even comment here.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 06, 2026 03:47 PM (2ocoG)

89 AOC is a toxic retard

I care nothing for her pronounced hooterage

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2026 03:47 PM (yz/88)

90 85 What annoys me about this report is that Elon Musk had already set something up over a year ago with DOGE. If there had been more support for that from the Executive Office, we would have probably known about a lot of this stuff even sooner than we did.

Musk thought he could shave 1-2 TRILLION USD from the Federal budget if the fraud was taken out. Turns out he was right.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 03:46 PM (0CU3H)

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DOGE personnel got absorbed into other departments to continue the work (Big Balls went to work for SSA, for instance).

The OBBB included over 30 rescission clauses to cut off previously authorized but unspent funding.

GDP has had a drag on it over the past few quarters because government spending is actually negative compared to previous quarters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:48 PM (sZHUV)

91 It is rumored that the Oregon Department of Forestry and the state emergency agency will not be getting money for this year's fire fighting season because the state is not able to account for the money given out for the last 4 years.
Apparently the state has been getting grants which may or may not have been going to fire fighting and risk mitigation.

Speaking of graft

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 03:48 PM (rbvCR)

92
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 06, 2026 03:45 PM (OUMaO)

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

Some days are worse than others. Today's headlines do boil the blood.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 03:49 PM (mmrXZ)

93 40 11 The Republicans in the Senate were giving in to the parliamentarian who said there weren't enough offsets in the budget. Well folks just zero out all the believed fraud and there's your offset
Posted by: Smell the Glove

They can start by reducing her salary to zero. Senate did just fine without a Parliamentarian for over half of its existence. Thomas Jefferson wrote the basic rulebook, there is no need for a parliamentarian and in fact, the office if given powers like in reconciliation is an affront to the US Constitution. --See Bowsher v. Synar.
Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 03:33 PM (E4rtv)

Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate Parliamentarian, was appointed by HARRY REID in 2012. 'Nuff said.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 03:49 PM (0CU3H)

94 36 MOUNTAINS SHALL BECOME VALLEYS!

VALLEYS SHALL BECOME DESERTS!

DESERTS SHALL BECOME DAIRY QUEENS!

NEW YORK SHALL BECOME TUSCON!

THERE IS NO STOPPING IT!


what is, was.
what was, will be.
what will be was, but will be again.

Posted by: the eternal wisdom of arnold horshack at August 06, 2026 03:49 PM (nEXG7)

95 AOC is a toxic retard

I care nothing for her pronounced hooterage


Her gigantic teeth make her an "absolutely not" regardless of the rest of her.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 06, 2026 03:49 PM (2ocoG)

96 "WOW! JD Vance just confirmed it with Stephen Miller at his side: "We have been able to identify $230 BILLION DOLLARS of fraud just since the fraud task force was set up!""

What annoys me about this report is that Elon Musk had already set something up over a year ago with DOGE. If there had been more support for that from the Executive Office, we would have probably known about a lot of this stuff even sooner than we did.

Musk thought he could shave 1-2 TRILLION USD from the Federal budget if the fraud was taken out. Turns out he was right.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 03:46 PM (0CU3H)

I think the wheels of DOGEs past have been working under other guises. It takes time to grind through all the information and start making even preliminary cases. Taking away the public focus Elon has let them go undercover. I do find it interesting how the main mechanics of leftist misrule are being strangled out. Even the courts have been forced to back standards that let the executive work more freely.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:49 PM (uhVAy)

97 71 We bulldozed a lot of commies into pits overseas so we wouldn't have to do it here. Now it seems like we should have kept our Grandads here at home
——-
That was my conclusion decades ago. They should have invaded Berkley and Madison and Ann Arbor and Columbia U. etc.
Posted by: Common Tater

They did come home, and raised their kids to be so soft that they let Leftist culture rot their grandkids' minds and import limitless millions of foreign commie invades into the nation to fundamentally change it as punishment for some perceived original sin.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 06, 2026 03:49 PM (/y3Vc)

98 The H1B thing is bullshit. Ok you banned a few companies. Guess what they’ll do? Close up shop and open up under a different name. Just like trucking companies run by foreigners do when they accrue too many violations.

Posted by: Uhmmm at August 06, 2026 03:49 PM (Bz1XI)

99
(sigh) Yet another form of pop-up on exit.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Miss Pixy, phone Commander Bond and have him report immediately.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (Y8DZL)

100 AOC is a toxic retard

I care nothing for her pronounced hooterage
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2026 03:47 PM



I will look at them, should they ever free themselves from the confines of her bra. Other than that, life isn't altering from its current trajectory regardless......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (2YhKe)

101 98 The H1B thing is bullshit. Ok you banned a few companies. Guess what they’ll do? Close up shop and open up under a different name. Just like trucking companies run by foreigners do when they accrue too many violations.

Posted by: Uhmmm at August 06, 2026 03:49 PM (Bz1XI)

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New H1-B issuances are down like 80% since Trump took office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (sZHUV)

102 40 million illegal criminal invaders are a huge part of our national debt.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (xvV+O)

103 I care nothing for her pronounced hooterage
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2026 03:47 PM (yz/8

That would make two of us.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (xPsv8)

104 All these illegal aliens (aka foreign nationals) can get their free healthcare, they just need to go back home to the countries where they are citizens, to soak in the warmth of their socialism. We even offer to pay their way home, and give them a cash bonus.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (vbXSk)

105 102 40 million illegal criminal invaders are a huge part of our national debt.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (xvV+O)

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And inflation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (sZHUV)

106 GDP has had a drag on it over the past few quarters because government spending is actually negative compared to previous quarters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:48 PM (sZHUV)

Government spending should never be called a plus in GDP, unless it blow up a furrin place when needed.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:51 PM (uhVAy)

107 I battled Apple from "updating" my iPhone for eight months by refusing to agree to their Terms of Service. They finally froze my screen until I hit Continue and now I have all these amazing new features to delete.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 06, 2026 03:51 PM (bX16E)

108 I try to figure out why it is so hard for the Trump administration to stop funding these programs wrought of fraud.

Because Congress funded them.

Every single time you ask the question, "Why hasn't Trump stopped X?" The answer is because Congress set it up that way and funded it. Every single time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 03:51 PM (ExV1e)

109 Kathy Ireland never did nude photos, which makes her quite different than Jenna Jameson.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 03:51 PM (xPsv8)

110 Partially related: As Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood, and CAIR buy elections in the US, AOC announces that American Jews have no right to participate in Democrat primaries.



We’ll still vote overwhelmingly Democrat though. Cuz Republicans want to create a Christian theocracy and kill gays. NYT says so and they’d never lie.

Posted by: Jewish Voters at August 06, 2026 03:51 PM (Bz1XI)

111 "🚨 WOW! JD Vance just confirmed it with Stephen Miller at his side: "We have been able to identify $230 BILLION DOLLARS of fraud just since the fraud task force was set up!""

Deficit money, so it don't count.

Posted by: Sadonicus at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (zFsEm)

112 106 GDP has had a drag on it over the past few quarters because government spending is actually negative compared to previous quarters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:48 PM (sZHUV)

Government spending should never be called a plus in GDP, unless it blow up a furrin place when needed.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:51 PM (uhVAy)

====

I agree completely.

But, it is a thing anyway despite our erudite objections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (sZHUV)

113
It’s no surprise that our debt is $40 trillion. If it wasn’t for fraud and war what would our debt be?
Posted by: Unkaren at August 06, 2026 03:41 PM (ccX9M)



At least war is an enumerated and prescribed Constitutional function of our form of government.

Sure, there's a shit-ton of waste and fraud in our weapons procurement. But if you've ever seen an A-10 go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRT! the proper reaction is to exclaim "THIS is how you waste taxpayer dollars!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (y9nCu)

114 I will look at them, should they ever free themselves from the confines of her bra. Other than that, life isn't altering from its current trajectory regardless......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (2YhKe)

What’re the chances she’s on onlyfans eventually?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (yz/88)

115 >>>Now check into gov backed mortgages for illegals and h1bs.
~~~~~

Bank of America (ironic, no?) started giving mortgages and other loans to illegals years ago.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (3ImbR)

116 Current: WTF even if Medicaid recipient fraud? Someone's doctor said they need health care and they got health care? Oh, the horror! So, let's make people who are unwell jump through hoops instead. How is that any better?
Posted by: The left at August 06, 2026 03:44 PM (sKqQm)


Honest people have to jump through ridiculous hoops to access government assistance. In fact, it's looking like it's easier to obtain assistance if you are defrauding the system and far more difficult if you have a legitimate claim.

Posted by: Emmie at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (OlzlW)

117 I can barely remember it but I do recall a 6oz bottle of coke cost five cents. What has happened to our country besides handing out free money to bums?

Posted by: Case at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (fV9m3)

118 The H1B thing is bullshit. Ok you banned a few companies. Guess what they’ll do? Close up shop and open up under a different name. Just like trucking companies run by foreigners do when they accrue too many violations.

Posted by: Uhmmm at August 06, 2026 03:49 PM (Bz1XI)

the huge tech companies can't just rename themselves, LOL. They are the big offenders.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (uhVAy)

119 The one time I did accept the call (but didn't answer), there was a spiel about how records (whose?) show that I'm not enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid. That is patently untrue, so I hung up. That was two months ago, and I've gone from one call a day to suddenly 5-6 calls a day in the past week. Maybe certain populations are panicking that H1B visas are about to be cut off?
Posted by: pookysgirl is getting annoyed at August 06, 2026 03:37 PM (Wt5PA)
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Yeah, that's really ramped up this year thanks to AI-bots calling me.

I have my phone set to always silent. Any legitimate callers can leave a voicemail. Everyone else gets deleted and marked as spam.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (FZ29D)

120 What was the line from the architect of Obamacare? "We're relying on the ignorance of the American public to not notice the math doesn't add up."

Something like that. Very brazen. Entirely cynical and arrogant. And -- sadly -- right.

Posted by: red speck at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (Ve/HL)

121 AOC is a toxic retard

I care nothing for her pronounced hooterage

Her gigantic teeth make her an "absolutely not" regardless of the rest of her.
Posted by: Ian S.

She's got great dimples, though, when she chooses to smile.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:53 PM (77rzZ)

122 The RINOs know that there is this level of fraud. But they could GAF, because it is not their money, and they just might be able to get in on the grift.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 03:53 PM (dK+Kv)

123 120 What was the line from the architect of Obamacare? "We're relying on the ignorance of the American public to not notice the math doesn't add up."

Something like that. Very brazen. Entirely cynical and arrogant. And -- sadly -- right.

Posted by: red speck at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (Ve/HL)

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And shortly after the ACA passed, Democrats fully abandoned the idea of secure borders.

Complete coincidence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:53 PM (sZHUV)

124 I would really like to know how it is that virtually every single gas station and convenience store is owned by Indians and middle easterners. Every single one.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 06, 2026 03:53 PM (3ImbR)

125 By conservative estimate, I’ve killed 100 plus popup ads today. Doing yeoman’s work!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2026 03:53 PM (yz/88)

126 Illegals are getting a free ride thanks to the Marxists

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)

127 105 102 40 million illegal criminal invaders are a huge part of our national debt.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (xvV+O)

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And inflation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films


And housing. And medical availability. And employment. And...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 06, 2026 03:54 PM (OUMaO)

128 >>AOC is a toxic retard

>>I care nothing for her pronounced hooterage

She's one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress now. That's not an exaggeration. All of the energy on the left is with the socialists.

She's dumber than hammered dog shit but she's seriously being talked about as a possible contender for the Dem nomination in 2028.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:54 PM (viF8m)

129
What’re the chances she’s on onlyfans eventually?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM



With commies on the rise, I'm afraid she'll never resort to that.

I'm still waiting for SE Cupp's career to spiral as she's become completely useless, but alas, they never seem to go broke.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:54 PM (2YhKe)

130 Ay yi yi. This is the stuff that makes me insane. If you or I didn’t pay $5 in taxes, they would find us.
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 03:27 PM (ZdaMQ)


The cut-off for the Oregon Department of Revenue is $25 but I don't know what it is for the IRS.
The Oregon Department of Revenue won't pay out less than $25 either, so if you overpay, try to do it for at least $50

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 03:55 PM (rbvCR)

131
She's got great dimples, though, when she chooses to smile.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:53 PM (77rzZ)



can't get past the donkey chompers......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:55 PM (2YhKe)

132 She's dumber than hammered dog shit but she's seriously being talked about as a possible contender for the Dem nomination in 2028.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:54 PM (viF8m)

Just in time to hit the wall. LOL.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:55 PM (uhVAy)

133 127 And housing. And medical availability. And employment. And...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 06, 2026 03:54 PM (OUMaO)

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If the deportation machine can keep going (bare minimum 1.5 million forced deportations and likely at least 4.5 million self-deportations), the housing shorting is going to become such a housing glut that the newest issue of the day is going to be a bailout for homeowners because they'll have lost so much paper value.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:55 PM (sZHUV)

134 One of the problems with Medicare is that you're automatically enrolled at 65.

You are only automatically enrolled if you are taking social security. Otherwise you have to enroll yourself.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 03:55 PM (ExV1e)

135 I'm still waiting for SE Cupp's career to spiral as she's become completely useless, but alas, they never seem to go broke.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:54 PM (2YhKe)

The Cupp sizes? Hehe

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2026 03:55 PM (yz/88)

136 That was two months ago, and I've gone from one call a day to suddenly 5-6 calls a day in the past week.

The scammers rotate through lists of numbers to autodial. I was getting the 5+/days calls a couple of months ago and then it tapered off. I just don't answer any call if it's not from someone in my contacts list. Blocking the calling number is useless because it's fake. If the call is real and important (spoiler: it never is) they can leave a message.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 03:56 PM (vTZFs)

137 I got insurance on the private market for many years. I foolishly was honest when asked if I qualify for Obamacare subsidies. Because it’s a yes/no question basically. There’s no verification no documentation needed. Much like asking if you’re a citizen to register to vote. Honor system. I also foolishly assumed that there.would be some audit of sorts.

God what a fucking idiot I was.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 06, 2026 03:56 PM (Bz1XI)

138 I'm still waiting for SE Cupp's career to spiral as she's become completely useless, but alas, they never seem to go broke.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:54 PM (2YhKe)

She has a career?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:56 PM (uhVAy)

139 I never thought I'd accept the day when being a honest man is, not only, the exception to the rule, but a badge of naivety.

This is patently ridiculous.

I see the comments on this site which convince me that I am not the only one feeling this way. It's nice to know that there are still people out there that understand the concept of integrity. "Integrity", however, is not supposed to kick you in the teeth.

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 03:56 PM (dIske)

140 She's dumber than hammered dog shit but she's seriously being talked about as a possible contender for the Dem nomination in 2028.
Posted by: JackStraw
___________

The wingnuts have passed her by. Way too moderate in their opinion.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 06, 2026 03:56 PM (XvL8K)

141 Kathy Ireland never did nude photos, which makes her quite different than Jenna Jameson.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

And much better. Plus, she has been married to the same man for a long time, has children, and is very pro-life, having (unsuccessfully, unfortunately) led a fight against pro-abortion laws in California.

She is living proof that a beautiful woman can also be intelligent and morally upright.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:56 PM (77rzZ)

142 She's dumber than hammered dog shit but she's seriously being talked about as a possible contender for the Dem nomination in 2028.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:54 PM (viF8m)

Hammered dog shit? And we know this... how?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (hfIju)

143 >108 I try to figure out why it is so hard for the Trump administration to stop funding these programs wrought of fraud.

>>Because Congress funded them.

>>Every single time you ask the question, "Why hasn't Trump stopped X?" The answer is because Congress set it up that way and funded it. Every single time.

I recall there is also the issue that when Trump defunds a program, the courts rule that funding be restored. It seems that has happened with NPR funding and PP funding. I do not know how those situations shook out.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 03:51 PM (ExV1e)

Posted by: Emmie at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (OlzlW)

144 If the deportation machine can keep going (bare minimum 1.5 million forced deportations and likely at least 4.5 million self-deportations), the housing shorting is going to become such a housing glut that the newest issue of the day is going to be a bailout for homeowners because they'll have lost so much paper value.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films


And they can get fucked, because "number-go-up-ism" is one of the base corruptions that turned this nation into a toxic sludge of bullshit.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (OUMaO)

145
She has a career?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:56 PM (uhVAy)



CNN still puts her on TV and pays her, so yeah.......ish.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (2YhKe)

146 >>>hammered dog shit
~~~~~

Seems very unusual and oddly specific.

Must be a RI thing. Like coffee milk.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (3ImbR)

147 89 AOC is a toxic retard

I care nothing for her pronounced hooterage
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

We'll always have Paris Boston, and her epic college video dancing on a rooftop, jiggling, and most importantly, not speaking at all. https://tinyurl.com/3xvd3x4j

This video has JUST the AOC dancing parts...and different music to avoid copyright (and be more epic)

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (/y3Vc)

148 without all this fraud, how the hell am i supposed to by diesel fuel?

Posted by: african ambulance driver #1411411 at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (SExz7)

149 140 She's dumber than hammered dog shit but she's seriously being talked about as a possible contender for the Dem nomination in 2028.
Posted by: JackStraw
___________

The wingnuts have passed her by. Way too moderate in their opinion.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 06, 2026 03:56 PM (XvL8K)

====

She is the only progressive politician with a national profile who's not Bernie. For 2028, she is the progressive candidate.

However, she has to balance a sure loss against Kamala in the presidential primary with a potential win against Schumer in the senate primary where she can become Senate important instead of House important. Hell, it might improve her chances of running for president in 2032 if she does it from a Senate seat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:58 PM (sZHUV)

150
Hammered dog shit? And we know this... how?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (hfIju)




Tis an expression that transcends generations, that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:58 PM (2YhKe)

151 Another interesting point, even with the subsidies, Obamacare is garbage insurance. The deductibles are crazy, the coverage is hot garbage. It’s a true disaster. Thanks, Roberts and McCain!

I remember when the media would trot out some old fart who was dying of whatever and they would scream and cry about being bankrupted from being sick and the government should do something damn HMO blah blah blah.

So now they will still die broke and bankrupt and owing money to Obongo Care

Posted by: Free! It's Free at August 06, 2026 03:58 PM (F1rMs)

152 >>Must be a RI thing. Like coffee milk.

You're just jealous of our yummy coffee milk ice cream.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:58 PM (viF8m)

153 She has a career?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:56 PM (uhVAy)


CNN still puts her on TV and pays her, so yeah.......ish.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (2YhKe)

This comment section probably has more views than CNN.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:58 PM (uhVAy)

154 144 And they can get fucked, because "number-go-up-ism" is one of the base corruptions that turned this nation into a toxic sludge of bullshit.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (OUMaO)

========

I'd gladly watch my house value plummet if it meant the country's future was secured.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:59 PM (sZHUV)

155 Yeah but I'm dyslexic.

Posted by: Nav Gewsom at August 06, 2026 03:59 PM (UjdFS)

156 Hammered dog shit? And we know this... how?
Posted by: tcn in AK

Are you implying the existence of intelligent hammered dog shit? It’s not that smart when it’s sober.

Posted by: Kratwurst at August 06, 2026 03:59 PM (36bTp)

157 We'll always have Paris Boston, and her epic college video dancing on a rooftop, jiggling, and most importantly, not speaking at all. https://tinyurl.com/3xvd3x4j

This video has JUST the AOC dancing parts...and different music to avoid copyright (and be more epic)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (/y3Vc)



That settles it. She's as fake as those tits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:59 PM (2YhKe)

158 The cut-off for the Oregon Department of Revenue is $25 but I don't know what it is for the IRS.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 03:55 PM (rbvCR)

They started sending me increasingly harshly-worded letters over $48 once, so presumably less than that.

I still don't think I owed it, but I paid it when the threats lreached the "we will seize your property" level.

It would have cost more than $48 to fight it, even if I did all the work myself, so...

I'm still pissed about it, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 03:59 PM (IG3/x)

159 The H1B thing is bullshit. Ok you banned a few companies. Guess what they’ll do? Close up shop and open up under a different name. Just like trucking companies run by foreigners do when they accrue too many violations.

Posted by: Uhmmm at August 06, 2026 03:49 PM (Bz1XI)

Our system is not made for 15 people of the same name living at the same address.

"Oh, so you're Carlos Gomez, but your father was also Carlos Gomez, as was your grandfather. And you all live at 123 Main St?"

"Si."

Posted by: pookysgirl, one hundred percent American at August 06, 2026 03:59 PM (Wt5PA)

160 I'm still processing the fact that Democrats for the past decade have called anybody to the right of Stalin 'NAZI!' and now they're campaigning by counting on the "Hate Jews" vote.

They talk about right-wing dog whistles and now I keep hearing words like "Zionist" and "AIPAC" every day of the week.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2026 03:47 PM (6ydKt)

The left doesn't care about logic or consitency.

You're a Nazi for wanting Israel to be able to prevent its own demise.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 04:00 PM (N1DT3)

161
I will look at them, should they ever free themselves from the confines of her bra. Other than that, life isn't altering from its current trajectory regardless......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:50 PM (2YhKe)

What’re the chances she’s on onlyfans eventually?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (yz/8



She used to be a New Yawk bartender.... OF COURSE she made freaky sex tapes. I'm just surprised that someone hasn't leaked their copy of the video of her slurping up a couple of guys' horse cocks.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 04:00 PM (y9nCu)

162 95 AOC is a toxic retard

I care nothing for her pronounced hooterage


Her gigantic teeth make her an "absolutely not" regardless of the rest of her.
Posted by: Ian S.

So...you're saying she's a two-holer?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 06, 2026 04:00 PM (/y3Vc)

163 States love it when Feds are frauded for in state spending. Helps the economy...yo!

Posted by: torabora at August 06, 2026 04:00 PM (Wt1Rs)

164 We have homegrown pirates:
---------------------------

A Los Angeles homeless nonprofit CEO earned more than $1.6 million in salary, bonuses and vacation payouts — despite living thousands of miles away in Hawaii.

Carol Adelkoff, from 1736 Family Crisis Center, was the highest paid homeless executive in Los Angeles after earning the whopping figure over the last two years.

She collected $907,923 in 2023 and another $742,181 in 2024, compensation that dwarfed the pay of leaders running much larger homeless service organizations across LA County, the LA Times reports.

Posted by: beckster at August 06, 2026 04:01 PM (kX27y)

165
She used to be a New Yawk bartender.... OF COURSE she made freaky sex tapes. I'm just surprised that someone hasn't leaked their copy of the video of her slurping up a couple of guys' horse cocks.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 04:00 PM (y9nCu)



It has been reported here and pummeled into my brain that she was NOT a bartender, only a cocktail waitress.......FWIW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 04:01 PM (2YhKe)

166
She's got great dimples, though, when she chooses to smile.
Posted by: Bulg

In my case, there is absolutely no defense against that super power.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 04:01 PM (Y8DZL)

167 Thanks B.O. !

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 04:01 PM (UjdFS)

168 > That settles it. She's as fake as those tits.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:59 PM (2YhKe)

She's starting to get the abuela look to her, as well.

IMO, she'll be kinda scary in ten years. Maybe five.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 04:01 PM (IG3/x)

169 SE Cupp singlehandedly keeps an entire makeup warehouse in business and still manages to make my johnson sad.

I have no idea what anyone sees in that sack of crazy.


Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:02 PM (0PCyC)

170 The Budget Is 90% Fraud by Foreign Pirates: A Continuing Series

It's only 90% because you gotta leave 10% for the Big Guy.

Posted by: t-bird at August 06, 2026 04:02 PM (e1mwr)

171 11 The Republicans in the Senate were giving in to the parliamentarian who said there weren't enough offsets in the budget. Well folks just zero out all the believed fraud and there's your offset
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 03:25 PM (KY+FT)


Stop giving money to the states, and they won't be able to maladminister it.

Don't replace block grants with Federally administered programs; we've already been there and done that, and know FedGov is terrible at doing things. That's why the block grants were put in place, but now we know that many states are as bad or worse.

Just zero them out. Let the states fund their own social welfare fraud programs, if they want them, and leave the residents of other states in peace.

Posted by: SciVo at August 06, 2026 04:03 PM (Sy6m/)

172 >>> Ditto Cathy Ireland.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

======

That's "Kathy"! Thank you very much.

Please do not besmirch the honor my college girlfriend by misspelling her name. Her along with Elle and Rachel!

Posted by: In my dreams at August 06, 2026 04:03 PM (QFchU)

173 151 Another interesting point, even with the subsidies, Obamacare is garbage insurance. The deductibles are crazy, the coverage is hot garbage. It’s a true disaster. Thanks, Roberts and McCain!



The subsides also cover deductibles and copays. It’s essentially welfare disguised as “insurance”.

The coverage is no worse with the subsidies vs paying full freight. All Obamacare does is pay a portion of the cost for for “the poor”. But whether you pay $50 or $1000 a month the policy is the same and covers the same thing. Those polices are pretty much the same thing you get with an employer.

I went in and out of self employment. My insurance was more or less the same when I had it via an employer or bought myself. The only difference was price and who paid for it.

Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 06, 2026 04:03 PM (Bz1XI)

174 Are you implying the existence of intelligent hammered dog shit? It’s not that smart when it’s sober.
Posted by: Kratwurst at August 06, 2026 03:59 PM (36bTp)
~~~~~

I was thinking more of JackStraw smashing a pile of dog shit with a hammer and screaming, "You think you're so smart!"

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 06, 2026 04:03 PM (3ImbR)

175 (Overheard from Jack Straw's neighbors)

"What's he doing?"

"Not sure. I think he has a hammer, and he's standing behind his dog. He's not going to hit his dog, is he?"

"Keep watching, and get my I-Phone. We need to record this. I like that dog."

"What the hell?"

"Is he..."

"Yeah, looks like it. Brutus took a dump, and he's hitting it with a hammer. That seems kind of...."

"Dumb."

(we now return to our regularly scheduled programming)

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 04:03 PM (dIske)

176 A Los Angeles homeless nonprofit CEO earned more than $1.6 million in salary, bonuses and vacation payouts — despite living thousands of miles away in Hawaii.

Carol Adelkoff, from 1736 Family Crisis Center, was the highest paid homeless executive in Los Angeles after earning the whopping figure over the last two years.

She collected $907,923 in 2023 and another $742,181 in 2024, compensation that dwarfed the pay of leaders running much larger homeless service organizations across LA County, the LA Times reports.

Posted by: beckster at August 06, 2026 04:01 PM (kX27y)


No one in government cares. It isn't their money being given away and it's their job to send the money to whoever fills out the form. So they do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:03 PM (ExV1e)

177 In 20 years, AOC will be grinding corn on a flat rock while her spawn sell Chicklets next to the pedestrian bridge.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:04 PM (0PCyC)

178 SE Cupp. Kat Timpf. Steel cage.

Some assembly required.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)

179 "HOLY SMOKES. Jaw-dropping fraud report just found that 9.2 million people — including ILLEGAL ALIENS — do NOT meet the federal requirements to qualify for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion program...that's nearly HALF of those enrolled"

9.2 million people. The whole state of Colorado has only 6.1 million people. Something tells me that this is only the tip of the iceberg. I am going into the camp of a moratorium of on all immigration for a period of time until this can be sorted out.

Posted by: Cheri at August 06, 2026 04:04 PM (oiNtH)

180 Just wait until never when The Department of War gets audited for fraud.

Posted by: torabora at August 06, 2026 04:04 PM (Wt1Rs)

181 This video has JUST the AOC dancing parts...and different music to avoid copyright (and be more epic)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 06, 2026 03:57 PM (/y3Vc)

I've seen the clips but you can toss a plushie at random at any university even these days and boink a coed on the noggin that is prettier. Back in time that proportion was even larger. Heck even 2 of my sisters are prettier.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:05 PM (uhVAy)

182 I might be at 50 ads swatted, 1 for every comment

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 04:05 PM (Ia/+0)

183
I'm still waiting for SE Cupp's career to spiral as she's become completely useless, but alas, they never seem to go broke.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:54 PM (2YhKe)



With her chin being larger than her ginormous gazongas, it's gonna be awhile.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 04:05 PM (y9nCu)

184 Please do not besmirch the honor my college girlfriend by misspelling her name. Her along with Elle and Rachel!

I see that you recall that Paulina was mine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:05 PM (ExV1e)

185 No one in government cares. It isn't their money being given away and it's their job to send the money to whoever fills out the form. So they do.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:03 PM (ExV1e)

They care, since they get a cut.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:05 PM (uhVAy)

186 >>> SE Cupp. Kat Timpf. Steel cage.

Some assembly required.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)

=====

Oversize fashion glasses or no?

Posted by: Turn 2 at August 06, 2026 04:06 PM (QFchU)

187 She's going to have to get busy if she wants to have ANY spawn.

She's 36 and even Latin genes will only take you so far down that road.


She'll have to dump that pudgy, Birkenstock-wearing manlet she claims to be her boyfriend, though. That guy looks like he has more estrogen than she does.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 04:07 PM (IG3/x)

188 Newsom once read Tolkien. He thought he was reading the Odyssey.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 06, 2026 04:07 PM (iySPJ)

189 You were working as a waitress in a cocktail
When I met you

Posted by: Saikat Chakrabarti at August 06, 2026 04:07 PM (viF8m)

190 > Oversize fashion glasses or no?
Posted by: Turn 2 at August 06, 2026 04:06 PM (QFchU)

And nothing else.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 04:07 PM (IG3/x)

191 Just wait until never when The Department of War gets audited for fraud.
Posted by: torabora at August 06, 2026 04:04 PM (Wt1Rs)

its traditional to just find a fort and have the fraudsters attack it, bravely, and get a posthumous medal.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:07 PM (uhVAy)

192
I would really like to know how it is that virtually every single gas station and convenience store is owned by Indians and middle easterners. Every single one.
Posted by: IrishEi?!


No joke!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 06, 2026 04:07 PM (Cqx++)

193 169 SE Cupp singlehandedly keeps an entire makeup warehouse in business and still manages to make my johnson sad.

I have no idea what anyone sees in that sack of crazy.

Posted by: sifty boones

That reminds me: I was looking at the Facebook events calendar of upcoming local events, and there's some speaking think with Kat Timpf coming up here in Hawaii. Talk about past your prime, makeup, and who would go to that?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 06, 2026 04:07 PM (/y3Vc)

194 Newsom once read Tolkien. He thought he was reading the Odyssey.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 06, 2026 04:07 PM (iySPJ)

Both have some boats.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:08 PM (uhVAy)

195 Hahahaha! Walked right into that one, Straw. This will take many, many moons to overcome!

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 06, 2026 04:08 PM (3ImbR)

196 >It has been reported here and pummeled into my brain that she was NOT a bartender, only a cocktail waitress.......FWIW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 04:01 PM (2YhKe)

It's clear she's not bright enough to make change on a ten dollar cocktail from twenty dollar bill.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 06, 2026 04:08 PM (GTqXr)

197 187. Reminds me of an old joke.

What do you call a 19yo Mexican girl without kids?

Barren.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:08 PM (0PCyC)

198 SE Cupp singlehandedly keeps an entire makeup warehouse in business and still manages to make my johnson sad.

I have no idea what anyone sees in that sack of crazy.

Posted by: sifty boones

Bad tranny job. Trust your gaydar, young man.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 04:08 PM (dK+Kv)

199 Honest people have to jump through ridiculous hoops to access government assistance. In fact, it's looking like it's easier to obtain assistance if you are defrauding the system and far more difficult if you have a legitimate claim.
Posted by: Emmie at August 06, 2026 03:52 PM (OlzlW)


It is easier if you know what forms to fill out how, and of course there is also that element of kick-backs easing the process.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 04:09 PM (rbvCR)

200 Please do not besmirch the honor my college girlfriend by misspelling her name. Her along with Elle and Rachel!
Posted by: In my dreams

Yeah, Roxanne, Destiny, and Fever are all getting steamed up in Canada about all the disrespect!

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 04:09 PM (Y8DZL)

201 "During the state work period" - ????
--------------------------------
Senator Mitch McConnell, 84, has returned home since he was hospitalized after a bad fall over 50 days ago.

McConnell wrote in a statement that he was 'discharged' from his rehabilitation center today to 'continue my recovery at home.'

He thanked his wife, Elaine, and the 'excellent' doctors, nurses and therapists who helped him at the hospital.

'On the advice of my doctors, I'll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period,' he added.

Posted by: beckster at August 06, 2026 04:09 PM (kX27y)

202 I would really like to know how it is that virtually every single gas station and convenience store is owned by Indians and middle easterners. Every single one.
Posted by: IrishEi?!

No joke!
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 06, 2026 04:07 PM (Cqx++)

If they could sell shots of whiskey, they'd all be Irish.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:09 PM (uhVAy)

203 >>> Please do not besmirch the honor my college girlfriend by misspelling her name. Her along with Elle and Rachel!

I see that you recall that Paulina was mine.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:05 PM (ExV1e)

=====

If Ric can nab her, than anyone can, right?

Posted by: Turn 2 at August 06, 2026 04:09 PM (QFchU)

204 > Saikat Chakrabarti

Chak Chak

Chak Chack Chak

Chakrabarti!

Posted by: KC and the Sunshine band at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (IG3/x)

205 193. Kit Mercer > Kat Timpf.

One has higher mileage but you know what you're getting.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (0PCyC)

206 Newsom once read Tolkien. He thought he was reading the Odyssey.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
......

Gav can read? He said he didn't do well in school.

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS)

207 "During the state work period" - ????

The August recess... when he's supposed to be in Kentucky.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (ExV1e)

208
she has to balance a sure loss against Kamala in the presidential primary with a potential win against Schumer in the senate primary

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Have you seen Evan Barker talking about AOC? She says AOC is actually cautious in her views and her career and probably won't challenge Schumer.

I get this sense that 2028 is a now-or-never year for AOC. If she doesn't run for something bigger in 2028, she'll get stuck where she is forever.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (mmrXZ)

209 >187 She's going to have to get busy if she wants to have ANY spawn.

She's 36 and even Latin genes will only take you so far down that road.
--

Come to me.

Posted by: The Wall at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (GTqXr)

210 'On the advice of my doctors, I'll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period,' he added.
Posted by: beckster at August 06, 2026 04:09 PM (kX27y)

OK, which one of you is this guy's doctor?

Intensive physical therapy after a 50 day hospital stay. Gonna kill him.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (uhVAy)

211 > 'On the advice of my doctors, I'll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period,' he added.
Posted by: beckster at August 06, 2026 04:09 PM (kX27y)

Just don't borrow Harry Reid's old gym equipment.

Posted by: KC and the Sunshine band at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (IG3/x)

212 Have you seen Evan Barker talking about AOC? She says AOC is actually cautious in her views and her career and probably won't challenge Schumer.

I get this sense that 2028 is a now-or-never year for AOC. If she doesn't run for something bigger in 2028, she'll get stuck where she is forever.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (mmrXZ)

Not a bad gig if you can get it. Look at Maxene Waters, she's been running that scam for 120 years now.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:12 PM (uhVAy)

213 Tis an expression that transcends generations, that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I think Shakespeare coined the phrase in Hamlet. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be if to avoid being dumb as hammered dog shit ye be."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 04:12 PM (ndZc7)

214 Surprised some years ago even in middle of nowhere iupstate Pa Dunkin Donuts had Indians working.

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 04:12 PM (Ia/+0)

215 ...you can toss a plushie at random at any university even these days and boink a coed on the noggin that is prettier. Back in time that proportion was even larger. Heck even 2 of my sisters are prettier.
Posted by: Oldcat

Important caveat: Boinking random college thots on the head can get you in legal hot water.

Also...either of your hot sisters available? Pics?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 06, 2026 04:12 PM (/y3Vc)

216 >>>I would really like to know how it is that virtually every single gas station and convenience store is owned by Indians and middle easterners. Every single one.
Posted by: IrishEi?!

>They're oily and greasy and haven't bathed for two weeks. It just works for them.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 06, 2026 04:12 PM (iySPJ)

217 You're just jealous of our yummy coffee milk ice cream.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:58 PM (viF8m)


Is coffee milk coffee with milk in it, or is it coffee with steamed milk in it?

Alternately is it Nescafe stirred into boiled milk? Because that is how I learned to drink coffee

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 04:13 PM (rbvCR)

218 Newsom once read Tolkien. He thought he was reading the Odyssey.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
......

Gav can read? He said he didn't do well in school.
Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS)

He read Lotniek. Dyslexia. Or is he the stutterer?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:13 PM (uhVAy)

219 191 Just wait until never when The Department of War gets audited for fraud.
Posted by: torabora at August 06, 2026 04:04 PM (Wt1Rs)

its traditional to just find a fort and have the fraudsters attack it, bravely, and get a posthumous medal.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:07 PM (uhVAy)

I was a new LT...I had done a summer of auditing with PWC, so I got sent to audit the shutdown of a contract b/c a MAJOR defense contractor wanted money we didn't have for the shutdown. I walked into the meeting with a contract officer (civilian) where they were gonna explain why they needed the money. I asked one question on the 2nd slide. They were speechless and couldn't answer. They shut the meeting down and said they'd resend their contract close request. I saved a couple million dollars of the American taxpayer that day in 5 minutes. All b/c I asked the question - I see the money there, but what did you spend it on b/c that doesn't say you spent it on anything...turns out, they didn't spend it...or weren't willing to say where it was spent...I was onsite less than one hour, and then not brought it again...or I probably could have saved a whole lot more money...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 06, 2026 04:13 PM (tOcjL)

220
Not a bad gig if you can get it. Look at Maxene Waters, she's been running that scam for 120 years now.
Posted by: Oldcat

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

I've often compared her to Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangel, a few of them. That's how I picture her career.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 04:14 PM (mmrXZ)

221 McConnell wrote in a statement that he was 'discharged' from his rehabilitation center today to 'continue my recovery at home.'

Lol

Posted by: Joe Biden's autopen at August 06, 2026 04:14 PM (/y3Vc)

222 Waters is the only known woman in history who is uglier than Helen Thomas.

Helen Thomas was like the anti-Helen of Troy. You'd scuttle a thousand ships just to avoid contact with her.

Posted by: KC and the Sunshine band at August 06, 2026 04:14 PM (IG3/x)

223 208 Have you seen Evan Barker talking about AOC? She says AOC is actually cautious in her views and her career and probably won't challenge Schumer.

I get this sense that 2028 is a now-or-never year for AOC. If she doesn't run for something bigger in 2028, she'll get stuck where she is forever.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (mmrXZ)

========

Well, what does she do after she loses to Kamala in the presidential primary? Go back to her House seat and wait some more?

Her only hope would be Kamala picking her for VP, which is possible but I wouldn't count on it. Kamala will either go black girl magic with Crockett or try to "balance the ticket" with someone like Kelly from AZ.

If Kamala wins in 2028, AOC could hope for an AG spot or something, but that's putting her future in someone else's hands.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 04:14 PM (YuLJ9)

224
I at least think Mitch aught to show up in a Captain Pike "beep" chair with the yes/no/maybe lights wired up.

Posted by: Auspex at August 06, 2026 04:14 PM (Y8DZL)

225 OK, which one of you is this guy's doctor?

Intensive physical therapy after a 50 day hospital stay. Gonna kill him.
Posted by: Oldcat

It worked for me!

Posted by: Zombie RBG at August 06, 2026 04:15 PM (/y3Vc)

226 Also...either of your hot sisters available? Pics?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 06, 2026 04:12 PM (/y3Vc)

One has passed, used to be the spitting image of Susan Dey from the Partridge Family. My mom looked just like Queen Elizabeth when she was young.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:15 PM (uhVAy)

227 224.

The McConnell and the Hare is my favorite fable.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:15 PM (0PCyC)

228 Have you seen Evan Barker talking about AOC? She says AOC is actually cautious in her views and her career and probably won't challenge Schumer.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (mmrXZ)

Is that dude high? Green nude eel, OG Squadscrunt, DSA?

Might not challenge Schumer, but she is out front of the leftist march.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 04:15 PM (dK+Kv)

229 Is Mitch going home to Kentucky or Taiwan?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 04:16 PM (KY+FT)

230 "I don't know. I've only killed communists."
Posted by: Quotes From History
-------------

Time to roll out the 'One Lonely Night' quote (again, I haven't done it in months) ;

“I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs into the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I’ve ever been and happy too. They were Commies, Lee. They were red sons-of-bitches who should have died long ago.”

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 04:16 PM (XeU6L)

231 everyone should be letting our local reps know that it is time for America to catch up to other countries and implement universal healthcare. No one should have to go into debt and be forced to file bankruptcy over medical debt

At least they can file bankruptcy. If the feds managed our healthcare it'd be like student loans - you accrue debt and you can't bankrupt it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 06, 2026 04:16 PM (vJrRc)

232 >>> didn't spend it...or weren't willing to say where it was spent...I was onsite less than one hour, and then not brought it again...or I probably could have saved a whole lot more money...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 06, 2026 04:13 PM (tOcjL)

======

Yep. You were obviously doing it wrong. /s

Posted by: Turn 2 at August 06, 2026 04:16 PM (QFchU)

233 >>Hahahaha! Walked right into that one, Straw. This will take many, many moons to overcome!

I had a coach in high school that had a lengthy list of ways of calling us stupid when we made a mistake. He was a motivational genius.

Dumber than hammered dog shit was one that made me laugh out loud. I ran a lot of laps.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 04:16 PM (viF8m)

234 223 208 Have you seen Evan Barker talking about AOC? She says AOC is actually cautious in her views and her career and probably won't challenge Schumer.


She was sure quick to endorse our new muslim overlords for office...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2026 04:16 PM (FtULh)

235 228 Is that dude high? Green nude eel, OG Squadscrunt, DSA?

Might not challenge Schumer, but she is out front of the leftist march.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 04:15 PM (dK+Kv)

=======

She's a tool of the establishment.

She says stupid shit for fundraising and then votes as told. She drives nothing herself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 04:16 PM (sZHUV)

236 You lie indeed

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 04:16 PM (fsIaS)

237 I still don't think I owed it, but I paid it when the threats lreached the "we will seize your property" level.

It would have cost more than $48 to fight it, even if I did all the work myself, so...

I'm still pissed about it, though.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 03:59 PM (IG3/x)


For 48 bucks they will put a lien on your property, and garnish it out of your wages, bank account or stock accounts, and charge you fees and interest until it is paid in full. They can also nab it out of your state refund.

At least that was the protocol 6 years ago when I was in tune with that part of the world.
The IRS has lots of paperwork they have to go through to seize property

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 04:17 PM (rbvCR)

238 And hospitals offer no interest payment plans, so it's not like anyone is being driven into the arms of loansharks and procurers to pay.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 06, 2026 04:17 PM (vJrRc)

239 McConnell wrote in a statement that he was 'discharged' from his rehabilitation center today to 'continue my recovery at home.'
......

Does his home have a stair lift and 4-inch foam floors?

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 04:17 PM (UjdFS)

240 Any of you other 29-year-olds remember Usenet?

I recall there was a newsgroup named alt.great.ass.paulina

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 04:18 PM (IG3/x)

241 'Twas Gravity killed the turtle.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:18 PM (0PCyC)

242 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at August 06, 2026 04:18 PM (T7fic)

243 Might not challenge Schumer, but she is out front of the leftist march.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 04:15 PM (dK+Kv)

So is the big red flag but it doesn't decide anything.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:18 PM (uhVAy)

244 hobo ass is the best tasting ass
Posted by: Paul at August 06, 2026 04:18 PM (T7fic)


Gonna have to report you for wrongthink.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:19 PM (uhVAy)

245 As soon as I'm up and about, I'll go get some workouts in with the Ranger guys at Fort Moore, GA.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at August 06, 2026 04:19 PM (wVcYX)

246 Only other time I heard the expression "hammered dog shit" was in welding class, which is why I was made a pipefitter instead. Alas.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 06, 2026 04:20 PM (3ImbR)

247 Any of you other 29-year-olds remember Usenet?

I recall there was a newsgroup named alt.great.ass.paulina
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 04:18 PM (IG3/x)

my fave was alt.westley-crusher.kill.kill.kill.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:20 PM (uhVAy)

248 207 "During the state work period" - ????

The August recess... when he's supposed to be in Kentucky.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:10 PM (ExV1e)
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I bet he stays in DC.

Posted by: beckster at August 06, 2026 04:20 PM (kX27y)

249 I get this sense that 2028 is a now-or-never year for AOC. If she doesn't run for something bigger in 2028, she'll get stuck where she is forever.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I mostly agree, although she could run for governor at some point. That could help build towards later runs for Senate and the Presidency, although it raises a whole different layer of issues with timing and performance.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 06, 2026 04:20 PM (/y3Vc)

250 340.

had a lifesize poster of Paulina P in a black one-piece bathing suit tacked on the back of my bedroom door when I was a senior in High School. You know the one.

Chicks were chicks, music was good, and hangovers were all I had to fear.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 04:20 PM (0PCyC)

251 232 >>> didn't spend it...or weren't willing to say where it was spent...I was onsite less than one hour, and then not brought it again...or I probably could have saved a whole lot more money...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 06, 2026 04:13 PM (tOcjL)

======

Yep. You were obviously doing it wrong. /s
Posted by: Turn 2 at August 06, 2026 04:16 PM (QFchU)

Probably...but I did get thanked by the Colonel b/c they had just enough money to pay the resubmitted request (which should have been left unpaid, which I also mentioned, b/c you can't fraudulently/incorrectly send the government a request for money at contract close and then get paid when you rescind the fraud/error part...but did I say MAJOR defense contractor).

I mean, it was nice to save a couple million dollars...and see how messed up that world was...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 06, 2026 04:21 PM (tOcjL)

252 She collected $907,923 in 2023 and another $742,181 in 2024, compensation that dwarfed the pay of leaders running much larger homeless service organizations across LA County, the LA Times reports.

Posted by: beckster at August 06, 2026 04:01 PM (kX27y)

No one in government cares. It isn't their money being given away and it's their job to send the money to whoever fills out the form. So they do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic


Given the phone calls I had this afternoon, it tracks. It's not about helping people, it's about grifting a paycheck.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 06, 2026 04:21 PM (OUMaO)

253 I always believe everything I want to believe
Do you?

Posted by: Paul at August 06, 2026 04:22 PM (qr9oS)

254 I bet he stays in DC.

Presumably, that's what he meant by "I'll continue my rehab at home."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:22 PM (ExV1e)

255 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I appreciate AIPAC proving it doesn’t belong in the Dem Party and especially our primaries.


I appreciate you proving once again that there is a zero sum competition between bewbs and brains.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 03:25 PM (Riz8t)
==
I know we all know this - but the democrats are continuing down the path of eliminating certain demographic groups as they work to find more victims. And then alienate everybody else.

They have lost blue collar white and hispanic men voters. They are about to lose hispanic women voters. They are starting to lose the jewish vote, but more importantly, the money they bring. They have black women, unmarried college educated white women, and persons with advanced degrees.

Married women vote GOP.

The DSA types are going to scare away even more cohorts. If we get a fair count, I like our chances. The math no longer works for the left.

Posted by: Black JEM at August 06, 2026 04:22 PM (7/DDO)

256 This seems serious. That means there will be consequences, right?

Right?

Posted by: blaster at August 06, 2026 04:22 PM (xhfG9)

257 One has passed, used to be the spitting image of Susan Dey from the Partridge Family.
Posted by: Oldcat

Partridge Family Susan Dey did things to young Bulg. Especially the ep where she and Shirley Jones were trying on hotpants.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

258 Paul-

I believe you're a fucking retard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 04:23 PM (wOO3z)

259 More taxpayer piracy:

Alpha News
@AlphaNews
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32m
EXCLUSIVE: Convicted male murderer gets ‘bottom surgery’ while housed in Minnesota women’s prison, sources says

A statement from the Minnesota Department of Corrections seems to suggest that taxpayers covered the cost.

Posted by: beckster at August 06, 2026 04:24 PM (kX27y)

260 258 Paul-

I believe you're a fucking retard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 04:23 PM (wOO3z)

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It's all that hobo ass he keeps eating. Don't know why he keeps wanting us to know about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 04:24 PM (sZHUV)

261 This may sound like a stupid question, but what's up with all the recent hate for AIPAC? I've always viewed them as just another mildly annoying but innocuous group of lobbying grifters trying to suckle on Uncle Sam's massive teats, but recently I've heard quite a few 20-something kids who aren't commies or leftists hating on AIPAC.

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 06, 2026 04:24 PM (4ECV2)

262 261 This may sound like a stupid question, but what's up with all the recent hate for AIPAC? I've always viewed them as just another mildly annoying but innocuous group of lobbying grifters trying to suckle on Uncle Sam's massive teats, but recently I've heard quite a few 20-something kids who aren't commies or leftists hating on AIPAC.

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 06, 2026 04:24 PM (4ECV2)

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American Jews are not allowed to collect money together to advocate for political action because all Jews are loyal to the Israeli state and dual citizens who want Bibi to be the real shadow president, therefore AIPAC must be attacked at all times.

But it has nothing to do with Jew Hatred, you Nazi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 04:25 PM (sZHUV)

263
She was sure quick to endorse our new muslim overlords for office...
Posted by: It's me donna

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

She's more of a follower, according to the ex-DSA whistleblower.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 04:25 PM (mmrXZ)

264 This may sound like a stupid question, but what's up with all the recent hate for AIPAC? I've always viewed them as just another mildly annoying but innocuous group of lobbying grifters trying to suckle on Uncle Sam's massive teats, but recently I've heard quite a few 20-something kids who aren't commies or leftists hating on AIPAC.
Posted by: Polka will never die at August 06, 2026 04:24 PM (4ECV2)

They lobby for that one foreign place everyone cares about.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:25 PM (uhVAy)

265 EXCLUSIVE: Convicted male murderer gets ‘bottom surgery’ while housed in Minnesota women’s prison, sources says
......

next time on Botched....

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 04:26 PM (UjdFS)

266 Posted by: Polka will never die at August 06, 2026 04:24 PM (4ECV2

Are you serious?

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 04:26 PM (KC5Lt)

267 She was sure quick to endorse our new muslim overlords for office...
Posted by: It's me donna

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

She's more of a follower, according to the ex-DSA whistleblower.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 04:25 PM (mmrXZ)

She was the front chix in the op that knocked out that idiot #3 dude in the primary. Soon after, all the brains behind her were pensioned off and she started telling us about garbage disposals.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:27 PM (uhVAy)

268 EXCLUSIVE: Convicted male murderer gets ‘bottom surgery’ while housed in Minnesota women’s prison, sources says
......

next time on Botched....
Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 04:26 PM (UjdFS)

I wonder if he asked for it, or they just did it one afternoon.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 04:28 PM (uhVAy)

269 Mitch must think he's going to get a McCain style funeral, but will wind up with a Graham.

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 04:28 PM (UjdFS)

270 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at August 06, 2026 04:28 PM (fuzX3)

271 Nood. Not sure you really want to go there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 04:28 PM (ExV1e)

272 Pure Cloward-Piven via Obamunist bullshit

Posted by: night lifted at August 06, 2026 04:28 PM (kJmLc)

273 I mean, it was nice to save a couple million dollars...and see how messed up that world was...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 06, 2026 04:21 PM (tOcjL)

In a similar vein albeit a smaller scale in a previous life, I pointed out to the operator of a joint venture gas production platform out in the Gulf of (then) Mexico, that I didn't think JV partners should have to share the cost of a John Deere Riding Lawnmower that the Chief Tool Pusher had ordered and charged to the offshore platform.

I did mention a few times the Gulf of Mexico location of said offshore platform.

Allocated costs recovered!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 06, 2026 04:28 PM (wVcYX)

274
Is that dude high? Green nude eel, OG Squadscrunt, DSA?

Might not challenge Schumer, but she is out front of the leftist march.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder

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

She was a creature of Justice Democrats. She didn't conceive the Green Nude Eel herself, and she tittered away from from it when people started asking questions. "I didn't mean LITERALLY twelve years, you guys, it's like YOU GUYS, you don't even understand when someone is saying a thing and the thing is actually something else."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 04:30 PM (mmrXZ)

275 "Is that dude high?"

Evan Barker is a woman, who's rather attractive, who's had a kid.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 06, 2026 04:31 PM (DZ9Lv)

276 Given the phone calls I had this afternoon, it tracks. It's not about helping people, it's about grifting a paycheck.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 06, 2026 04:21 PM (OUMaO)


Every time you end a call like that, before ringing off, ask, "you are the expert here, is there anything else I need to know, or be prepared to do to make this go easier?"

You will probably get a surprised cubical rat telling you about the next step, and other interesting thing you need to be aware of that your questions did not touch during the call.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 04:33 PM (rbvCR)

277 Obama care sucks. But all the dope thugs in South Chicago who get themselves shot up every night by gang violence need to be taken care of by hospitals and that takes money.
Lots of money. So insurance prices went through the roof. It's all bullshit. It always comes down to working people to pay for this shit. I don't think the DC crowd pays a dime of it.

Posted by: Case at August 06, 2026 04:34 PM (fV9m3)

278 Are you serious?
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 04:26 PM (KC5Lt)

I think I answered my real question by asking. I guess I'm just surprised to hear the bilge spread by far-left loons coming out of the mouths of young folks who are otherwise sane, responsible, and on the right politically.

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 06, 2026 04:37 PM (4ECV2)

279 Yeah, bend me, shape me, any way you want me
Long as you peg me, it's all right
Bend me, shape me, any way you want me
You got the power to turn on the light

Posted by: Not Roland Martin at August 06, 2026 04:37 PM (wVcYX)

280 Can't wait for the coming Entitlement Thunderdome when the "Medicare for All" crew goes up against retirees depending on SS to live.

Posted by: Octochicken at August 06, 2026 04:38 PM (oCS0o)

281 Mitch doesn't seem to be gathering his bearings at any appreciable rate. I expect him to ride in on a Valkyrie and hammer thru some legislation.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 06, 2026 04:42 PM (iySPJ)

282 The freebooters on Healthcare have to be the biggest price hikes, and fraud as well.

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)

283 Spider solitaire is evil btw

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)

284 Deport them to a deserted island and then test one of our nukes to make sure they can still work.
Let's make America a true nuclear power again. One that is willing to blow lawbreakers to a better place, not here.

Happy Enola Gay Pride Day!

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at August 06, 2026 08:38 PM (983Km)

285 To those living in NY and CA: If you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Posted by: Tommy Shanks at August 06, 2026 09:37 PM (EUKgp)

Senate Panel Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt, as Democrats Attempt to Stop The Vote Through Endless Delay

Fox:

Senate Republicans moved to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress in their pursuit of forcing the former architect of the nation's COVID-19 response to go on record about his actions leading up to and during the pandemic.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted on sharp party lines to charge Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the president, with contempt after he refused to answer questions from both sides of the aisle over fear of self-incrimination.

The move follows Fauci's decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights more than 100 times during his hearing last week, which prompted the panel's chair, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to vow that he would face "repercussions" for not testifying, or at least how Paul envisioned.

Fox is implying that Fauci did testify, just "not as Paul envisioned."

Fox News is as liberal as CNN. I despise them.


Typically, once a contempt resolution passes by committee, it heads to the Senate floor for a full vote. However, Paul's resolution allows that step to be skipped altogether and allows him to send the referral directly to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

But Paul wants the Department of Justice (DOJ) involved as soon as possible. There's also the question whether Fauci's pardon from former President Joe Biden protected him during the hearing, which Paul hopes to find answers to.

"It's a good legal discussion, and we will make those legal points to DOJ in sending the referral over," Paul told Fox News Digital ahead of the hearing.

...

Meanwhile, across the marble expanse of the Capitol, Republican investigators in the House are cooking up their own probe into Fauci.


...

After the longtime public health official pleaded the Fifth Amendment during his Senate hearing, Comer questioned the validity of his preemptive pardon granted by President Joe Biden. He also said his committee would be questioning Fauci further, though he did not elaborate.

"If former President Biden's blanket autopen pardon is valid, then Dr. Fauci has no right to refuse to answer questions," Comer said, noting his committee had done extensive work probing the autopen pardons. "Based on the release of Dr. Fauci's diary, which should have been provided to the House Oversight Committee last Congress...we'll be asking Dr. Fauci whether he stands by his previous testimony to our Committee."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:20 PM




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1 A SECOND FIRST FOR THE BLADIEST OF BLADES?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

2 Well, it's something.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (N1DT3)

3 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Oh no... not contempt of Congress.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (ExV1e)

5 Think I could have been firsrt, didn't expect it this time of day

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (Ia/+0)

6 They put Bannon in jail for this stuff. Time for Fauci to get to review how the glory hole situation is in his location prison...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:22 PM (sKqQm)

7 Fauci… the topic always guaranteed to spike my BP

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2026 02:22 PM (d9SZG)

8 Ans swatted away a ad every comment I see

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 02:23 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Fox is so gay.

"SHARP" party lines. Hysterical bitches.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 02:23 PM (EIBfx)

10 I would hold Fauci upside down for a day

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 02:23 PM (Ia/+0)

11 This is no where near the reckoning this evil gnome deserves.

In another age, an official who ignored laws, sponsored banned activities, which were released and caused the deaths of MILLIONS would at least be publicly hanged.

This wretched gollum-like troll will likely not even spend a day in jail.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 02:24 PM (N1DT3)

12 They put Bannon in jail for this stuff. Time for Fauci to get to review how the glory hole situation is in his location prison...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:22 PM (sKqQm)

The Supremes vacated Bannon's conviction.

Given that precedent, there's no way Fauci is prosecuted at all.

But releasing stuff from his personal cell phone is going to be wild.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 06, 2026 02:24 PM (AdHga)

13 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul...who likes the flavor of his dog's excrement at August 06, 2026 02:25 PM (T7fic)

14 Rat bastard murdered million to get President Trump out of office

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 02:25 PM (Ia/+0)

15 The 'rats come to Fauci's defense! Guess rats do what rats do.

Posted by: Case at August 06, 2026 02:25 PM (fV9m3)

16 Ace,

I'm not sure that Fox is quite as bad as CNN, but they certainly have morphed into a squishy left-of-center news outlet.

I wonder whether that is because they are trying to draw an even larger audience, assuming that conservatives have nowhere else to go, and won't leave.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 06, 2026 02:25 PM (l4RKn)

17 Paul, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 06, 2026 02:25 PM (2UnvF)

18 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:25 PM (2YhKe)

19 Posted by: Paul at August 06, 2026 02:25 PM (T7fic)

You spell like Cloggenstein.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 06, 2026 02:26 PM (AdHga)

20 Paul-

You are a fucking retard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 02:26 PM (wOO3z)

21 The 'rats come to Fauci's defense! Guess rats do what rats do.
Posted by: Case

Spread typhus.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

22 Will anything happen?

Who knows?

But the GOP is at least keeping the heat on this micro-demon and calling even more attention to his crimes and the whole fetid swampy covid episode.

This can only help us in November. People need to remember what these people did to us.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

23 Since Fauci says that telling the truth would incriminate him, and he is SCIENCE itself it is scientifically proven he's a criminal.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:27 PM (uhVAy)

24 They put Bannon in jail for this stuff. Time for Fauci to get to review how the glory hole situation is in his location prison...
Posted by: 18-1


That's not who we are.
Posted by: GOPe

Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 02:27 PM (rNQnT)

25 It's a start. This may be as far as it goes but it's a start.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2026 02:27 PM (/k3in)

26 Posted by: Paul at August 06, 2026 02:25 PM (T7fic)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 06, 2026 02:28 PM (2YhKe)

27 Take him to.......

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 02:28 PM (fsIaS)

28 Will anything happen?

Who knows?

But the GOP is at least keeping the heat on this micro-demon and calling even more attention to his crimes and the whole fetid swampy covid episode.

This can only help us in November. People need to remember what these people did to us.
Posted by: Elric The Blade


Where is Nothing Will Happen guy?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 02:28 PM (rNQnT)

29 and he is SCIENCE itself
Posted by: Oldcat

Pfft. Cheap imposter.
-- Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:28 PM (77rzZ)

30 Benedict Arnold received some awards before he shit the bed too.
Fauci is an evil mofo that will be judged by a sterner judge than I.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 02:28 PM (EIBfx)

31 Where is Nothing Will Happen guy?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 02:28 PM (rNQnT)

Currently being held in contempt of Congress it looks like.

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 02:29 PM (fsIaS)

32 So, in before the "nothing will happen" guy, or no?

Posted by: Turn 2 at August 06, 2026 02:29 PM (QFchU)

33 Paul-

You are a fucking retard.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 02:26 PM (wOO3z)



Men should not ingest man juice, orally OR anally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:29 PM (2YhKe)

34 Good!

I saw that 3 states have subpoenas against Fauci today. For profiting during the pandemic and his decisions impacting their state businesses and consumers.

Florida, West Virginia and Louisiana.

I could be wrong, but I think I read his pardon was only at the federal,not state, level?

May he go bankrupt and end his days in misery with his ugly wife (if prison is not in his future).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 06, 2026 02:29 PM (hzuYO)

35 "Fox is implying that Fauci did testify, just 'not as Paul envisioned.'"

Well, I asked all the Playboy cover girls for 2026 over to my apartment for an orgy.

Their response was "not what I envisioned."

Hate it when that happens.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

36 33 Paul-

You are a fucking retard.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 02:26 PM (wOO3z)


Men should not ingest man juice, orally OR anally.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:29 PM (2YhKe)

"This is about me, isn't it?"
--Peter Bootyjuice.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 06, 2026 02:30 PM (N39Ws)

37 There's this little fucking elf, a mass murderer, Dobby, from the Harry Potter universe, and he's kicking ass in Congress.

Keep fucking that chicken.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 06, 2026 02:30 PM (iySPJ)

38 About paul: I'm sure that all meant something before translation from mandarin

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 06, 2026 02:30 PM (jrgJz)

39 Fauci's got a lot of money.

Bleed him dry. One of the things he'll have to ditch will be his round-the-clock security detail.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2026 02:31 PM (2Cry5)

40
Will this do anything?

Michael Scott: "I HOLD YOU... IN CONTEMPT!"

If you've never watched The Office, sorry for the obscure reference.

If you have watched The Office, I'm funny, aren't I?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 02:31 PM (mmrXZ)

41 I think it is time to get Deborah Birx queued up for prosecution. She doesn't have one of those magical autopen pardons.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 06, 2026 02:31 PM (N39Ws)

42 I ran across an argument that the rise of the DSA is really just a direct by product of the overproduction of people with degrees the market does not want.

And the data backs this up - the strongest supporters of socialism are highly degreed people making little money and the biggest opponents aren't the rich as a whole, but people without an advanced degree making good money...

Interestingly the answer to that, which few in the GOP are talking about, would be to force colleges to lower costs and point kids to useful degrees...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:32 PM (sKqQm)

43

He needs to be sodomized by a pack of rabid hyenas, while kneeling in a burning dumpster full of broken glass and hydrofluoric acid.

Then, he can be punished...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at August 06, 2026 02:33 PM (i9ubo)

44 12 They put Bannon in jail for this stuff. Time for Fauci to get to review how the glory hole situation is in his location prison...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:22 PM (sKqQm)

The Supremes vacated Bannon's conviction.

Given that precedent, there's no way Fauci is prosecuted at all.

But releasing stuff from his personal cell phone is going to be wild.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider:
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Not the same, Fauci cannot claim executive privilege and did not. Bannon did and the case was whether executive privilege could be asserted even from a past presidency, Biden could have waived it but didn't.

Fauci's problem was analyzed and it started with his opening statement--depending on whether courts find Congressional hearings analogous to court trials, once you open your mouth on the stand to make a statement then you waived your 5th Amendment right. The second is that he was pardoned for likely testimony--again, depends on how it is treated by courts as to whether that pardon made his testimony compellable.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:33 PM (E4rtv)

45
I'm with Fauci

Congress IS contemptible

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 02:33 PM (ZxPkt)

46 Benedict Arnold received some awards before he shit the bed too.
Fauci is an evil mofo that will be judged by a sterner judge than I.
Posted by: Sifty boones

Arnold at least was a brave and effective commander before his treason. Fauci's never done anything praiseworthy in his entire miserable life.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

47 I throw up in my mouth every time a journalouse makes me read "long-time public servant" about Fauci.

My cousin Tammy the Lot Lizard is a long-time public servant as well. But she has only killed like 4-6 men, tops.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 02:34 PM (EIBfx)

48 41 I think it is time to get Deborah Birx queued up for prosecution. She doesn't have one of those magical autopen pardons.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Fauci's right hand aide has been indicted and has every reason to throw the other assholes to the wolves to lighten his sentence.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:34 PM (E4rtv)

49 Interestingly the answer to that, which few in the GOP are talking about, would be to force colleges to lower costs and point kids to useful degrees...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:32 PM (sKqQm)

College costs what it does because the federal government began backing student loans.

There's every incentive in the world to raise your rates when FedGov is backing the loan notes.

That's step one.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 06, 2026 02:35 PM (AdHga)

50 "I'm not sure that Fox is quite as bad as CNN, but they certainly have morphed into a squishy left-of-center news outlet. -- assuming that conservatives have nowhere else to go, and won't leave." Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

In a sense, that is what makes FOX worse than CNN, because low info conservatives still assume FOX is giving the "Conservative Viewpoint". They are like a spy inside the tent, pretending to be good guys.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 06, 2026 02:35 PM (vbXSk)

51 Hopefully, Fauci will go to prison and get raped the first night.

Posted by: Anally and Orally at August 06, 2026 02:35 PM (F1rMs)

52 we'll be asking Dr. Fauci whether he watches gladiator movies or Tarzan movies, the ones with boy in them"

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 06, 2026 02:35 PM (NKszP)

53 I think it is time to get Deborah Birx queued up for prosecution. She doesn't have one of those magical autopen pardons.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed



She did NOT get a pardon, at least that was announced. She wrote a BOOK about how she and her team LIED to the PRESIDENT to get him to do what they WANTED him to do.

Hang that bitch as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:36 PM (2YhKe)

54
Defend the "Science"!!

Unless the science hurts your feelings or makes you feel uncomfortable.

(gender affirming mutilation, endless vaccines that do nothing)

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 02:36 PM (OkYzo)

55 Hopefully, Fauci will go to prison and get raped the first night.

Well, he did tell us its safe as long as both people mask.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:36 PM (sKqQm)

56 He got a pardon for federal stuff. The state stuff is out there and active. He can take the fifth for that.

Its theatre. Useful theatre politically speaking. If he sees justice before he dies, it will be in some red state court, or Lord willing, in multiple different red state courts . . .

Posted by: but he'll face justice eventually one way or another, hoping for and at August 06, 2026 02:36 PM (anL5R)

57 But, as we have seen, Fauci is invulnerable.

He's the Roadrunner, Rand Paul is the coyote.

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 02:36 PM (ZxPkt)

58 Benedict Arnold received some awards before he shit the bed too.

The Amber Heard gambit.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 06, 2026 02:37 PM (NKszP)

59
They blinded me with Science!!

Posted by: Thomas Dolby at August 06, 2026 02:37 PM (OkYzo)

60 "I'm not sure that Fox is quite as bad as CNN, but they certainly have morphed into a squishy left-of-center news outlet. -- assuming that conservatives have nowhere else to go, and won't leave." Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

In a sense, that is what makes FOX worse than CNN, because low info conservatives still assume FOX is giving the "Conservative Viewpoint". They are like a spy inside the tent, pretending to be good guys.


People hate a traitor and a spy more than than they hate an out and out enemy. See Benedict Arnold.

Fox - you aren't fooling anyone. Just own it.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 02:38 PM (Riz8t)

61
I'm with Fauci

I'm with Stupid.

Posted by: Guy with a t-shirt at August 06, 2026 02:38 PM (Cqx++)

62 Fauci also got hos minions lots of paychecks

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 02:39 PM (Ia/+0)

63 Benedict Arnold received some awards before he shit the bed too.
Fauci is an evil mofo that will be judged by a sterner judge than I.
Posted by: Sifty boones

Arnold at least was a brave and effective commander before his treason. Fauci's never done anything praiseworthy in his entire miserable life.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:33 PM (77rzZ)
______

This. And, what should come as no surprise, there was a lady involved in Arnold's treason ....

Arnold was one of George Washington's few bad judgments.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

64 The GOPe votes to hold Fauci...gently in their arms in a spooning position until Fauci drifts peacefully off to sleep on a huge pile of cash.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 02:39 PM (EIBfx)

65 Fauci is rubber, Rand Paul is glue

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 02:39 PM (ZxPkt)

66 They blinded me with Science!!

Posted by: Thomas Dolby at August 06, 2026 02:37 PM (OkYzo)

She baffled me with bed shit!!

Posted by: Johnny Depp at August 06, 2026 02:40 PM (AdHga)

67
I wonder if the GOPe thinks that going after Fauci is a good midterm consolation prize for them not passing the SAVE act?

They can do both. Idiots.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 02:40 PM (OkYzo)

68 And definitely time to get Doc Birxs on tje stand to her here pled the 5th.
Then others below them
A nd below those.

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 02:40 PM (Ia/+0)

69 People hate a traitor and a spy more than they hate an out and out enemy. See Benedict Arnold.
Posted by: Archimedes

That goes for both sides. The British never really trusted Arnold, either.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:40 PM (77rzZ)

70 63.
BA was a quick example of a traitor. Didn't have time for a deep cut. Went with the Greatest Hits album.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 02:40 PM (EIBfx)

71 I wonder if the GOPe thinks that going after Fauci is a good midterm consolation prize for them not passing the SAVE act?

They can do both. Idiots.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 02:40 PM (OkYzo)



But they will shock the world and do neither.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:41 PM (2YhKe)

72 IIRC the science that Thomas Dolby was actually blinded by was a hot woman in a tight dress.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:41 PM (sKqQm)

73 Arnold was one of George Washington's few bad judgments.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

Yes, but the greatest HR failure in human history was Whitehall deciding not to permit Washington to be commissioned as a British officer.

It's literally all he wanted.

They called him a provincial militiaman, and that was that.

Worst personnel decision ever.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 06, 2026 02:41 PM (AdHga)

74 34 Good!

I saw that 3 states have subpoenas against Fauci today. For profiting during the pandemic and his decisions impacting their state businesses and consumers.

Florida, West Virginia and Louisiana.

I could be wrong, but I think I read his pardon was only at the federal,not state, level?

May he go bankrupt and end his days in misery with his ugly wife (if prison is not in his future).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 06, 2026 02:29 PM (hzuYO)

POTUS can only issue a pardon or commutation for Federal crimes, not for state crimes. Fauci better get his squeekhole shored up for the state level charges.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at August 06, 2026 02:41 PM (k1E2D)

75 >IIRC the science that Thomas Dolby was actually blinded by was a hot woman in a tight dress.

Posted by: 18-1
----

His lab assistant, Miss Akimoto

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 02:42 PM (ZxPkt)

76 This. And, what should come as no surprise, there was a lady involved in Arnold's treason ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Yep. His second wife. Who was somehow also connected to Aaron Burr.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

77 As is expected, the Dems side with the architect of

1) the illegal gain-of-function experiments that
2) were performed in what is for all purposes the enemy country of China that
3) led to the deaths of millions of people and
4) unnecessarily crashed economies around the world.

I did NotSee that coming.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:43 PM (l3cgK)

78
Yep. His second wife. Who was somehow also connected to Aaron Burr.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:42 PM (77rzZ)



Make Duals Great Again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:43 PM (2YhKe)

79 Maybe the other Keebler Elves will step in and discipline Fauci.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 02:44 PM (EIBfx)

80 73 Arnold was one of George Washington's few bad judgments.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

Yes, but the greatest HR failure in human history was Whitehall deciding not to permit Washington to be commissioned as a British officer.

It's literally all he wanted.

They called him a provincial militiaman, and that was that.

Worst personnel decision ever.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 06, 2026 02:41 PM (AdHga)

Some would argue that was Divine Providence.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 06, 2026 02:44 PM (N39Ws)

81 >>TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday that his office, alongside two other red states, issued a subpoena to former Covid czar Anthony Fauci for records tied to grant money, awards and book deals, among other areas of investigation.

https://tinyurl.com/4xfxrb4x

Otto Pen won't save Fauci from state level charges.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 02:44 PM (viF8m)

82 I won't be able to formulate an opinion on this issue until Lindsey Graham weighs in.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 06, 2026 02:44 PM (iySPJ)

83 The thing that pisses me off the most about the blanket pardon of Fauci is that it covers EVERY federal crime.

Fauci could have laundered money, cheated on his taxes, engaged in terrorism, put gasoline in a glass container, burned tires on his property, engaged in espionage, given national security secrets to anybody, trafficked children, guns and drugs across borders, copulate with a bald eagle, and carry fully automatic suppressed SBRs without a background check or license.

There is not a single federal crime that he could have committed boldly and proudly and not face any threat of prosecution.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 06, 2026 02:44 PM (xE0sV)

84 Hold him in contempt
No
Suspend him from a noose

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 02:44 PM (51ygH)

85 Yes, but the greatest HR failure in human history was Whitehall deciding not to permit Washington to be commissioned as a British officer.

It's literally all he wanted.

They called him a provincial militiaman, and that was that.

Worst personnel decision ever.
==
Good Lord man, its not like he attended Eton! I mean, jolly self educated bumpkin is no better than an elisted man. Officer? Posh!

Posted by: Whitehall at August 06, 2026 02:45 PM (anL5R)

86 IIRC the science that Thomas Dolby was actually blinded by was a hot woman in a tight dress.

Posted by: 18-1
----

His lab assistant, Miss Akimoto
Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 02:42 PM (ZxPkt)



A little known fact:

The 'science' was the doctor's creating Viagra. His hardon made him see her as beautiful suddenly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:45 PM (2YhKe)

87 IIRC the science that Thomas Dolby was actually blinded by was a hot woman in a tight dress.

Needs more research.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 02:45 PM (vTZFs)

88 Arnold was one of George Washington's few bad judgments.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

Yes, but the greatest HR failure in human history was Whitehall deciding not to permit Washington to be commissioned as a British officer.

It's literally all he wanted.

They called him a provincial militiaman, and that was that.

Worst personnel decision ever.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 06, 2026 02:41 PM (AdHga)
_______

Snooty British pomposts looked down their noses at a local militia guy? Shocking, I know!

One of the all-time classic "what if" scenarios ...

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:45 PM (iFTx/)

89 Yes, but the greatest HR failure in human history was Whitehall deciding not to permit Washington to be commissioned as a British officer.

It's literally all he wanted.

They called him a provincial militiaman, and that was that.

Worst personnel decision ever.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider


The Brits were so colossally, stupidly arrogant. Like when they called Ben Franklin in and berated him over the Boston Tea Party. Turned Franklin into a Brit-hater with that one weird trick.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:45 PM (77rzZ)

90
https://tinyurl.com/4xfxrb4x

Otto Pen won't save Fauci from state level charges.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 02:44 PM (viF8m)



OVERRULED!!!!

Posted by: Lord God King Boasberg at August 06, 2026 02:46 PM (2YhKe)

91 and he is SCIENCE itself
Posted by: Oldcat

Pfft. Cheap imposter.
-- Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Posted by: Bulg
-------

Look, Degrassy, I collected millions of dollars, you got a job in the planitarium gift shop. Loser.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 02:46 PM (XeU6L)

92 Any countries with an extradition treaty with us have a bone to pick with Fauci?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 06, 2026 02:46 PM (tnIxC)

93 His lab assistant, Miss Akimoto
Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 02:42 PM

Hmm. I think I'm turning Japanese, was a song about face you make at orgasm. A song tie in?

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 02:47 PM (OkYzo)

94 Benedict Arnold received some awards before he shit the bed too.
Fauci is an evil mofo that will be judged by a sterner judge than I.
Posted by: Sifty boones

Arnold at least was a brave and effective commander before his treason. Fauci's never done anything praiseworthy in his entire miserable life.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

Saved the day a few times at the battle of Saratoga that ended with the surrender of an entire Brit Army. Haven't read up in detail but it appears the settling down of the war into relative inactivity after that didn't enhance his career development. They should have tried invading Canada again or something.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:47 PM (uhVAy)

95 I'd be willing to stand in for Nothing Will Happen Guy, if asked.

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 02:47 PM (ZxPkt)

96 Yes, but the greatest HR failure in human history was Whitehall deciding not to permit Washington to be commissioned as a British officer.

It's literally all he wanted.

They called him a provincial militiaman, and that was that.

Worst personnel decision ever.


*cough*

Posted by: Judas Iscariot at August 06, 2026 02:47 PM (Riz8t)

97 78
Yep. His second wife. Who was somehow also connected to Aaron Burr.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:42 PM (77rzZ)


Make Duals Great Again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:43 PM (2YhKe)

https://youtu.be/i5vfw5f1CZo&t=30s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:47 PM (l3cgK)

98 Any countries with an extradition treaty with us have a bone to pick with Fauci?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 06, 2026 02:46 PM (tnIxC)



One would think, all of them, but they're mostly run by libtard assholes, so........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:47 PM (2YhKe)

99 I could be wrong, but I think I read his pardon was only at the federal,not state, level?

==
Presidential pardons are ONLY federal. Ever. To get a state pardon you need a Governor of the state to sign off. Not gonna happen in a red state.

Posted by: so there's that at August 06, 2026 02:47 PM (anL5R)

100 I'm not sure going after Brix achieves much. The media retards have painted Rand Paul as off the rails with his intent to hold Fauci in contempt. The Democrats did their typical stunts to derail that.

Brix is (arguably) a more sympathetic target. Whatever she might divulge isn't going to put Fauci any closer to prison. And putting her in jail might backfire.

I've said this before; there are a lot of people, from Congress who authorized the bullshit Fauci recommended, down to the governors and mayors who implemented the lockdowns, to law enforcement, judges, store owners, medical professionals, etc. who are all equally guilty of many different abuses.

Where are the criminal referrals for them?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2026 02:48 PM (2Cry5)

101 I just read on the Internet that Fauci's wife is a bioethicist. I rolled my eyes quite a bit over that bit of news.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 02:48 PM (6jy2V)

102 “Chief medical advisor to the president”

I thought was the Surgeon General? Sure is a lot of parallel duplication. Bureacratic bullshit.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 02:48 PM (/wHvr)

103 No, Miss Akimoto is mentioned in "Blinded By Science"


"Good Heavens, Miss Akimoto- you're beautiful!"

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 02:49 PM (ZxPkt)

104 Yes, but the greatest HR failure in human history was Whitehall deciding not to permit Washington to be commissioned as a British officer.

It's literally all he wanted.

They called him a provincial militiaman, and that was that.

Worst personnel decision ever.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider


The Brits were so colossally, stupidly arrogant. Like when they called Ben Franklin in and berated him over the Boston Tea Party. Turned Franklin into a Brit-hater with that one weird trick.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:45 PM (77rzZ)

They were like this with a good chunk of actual Brits who didn't go to the right school. Being a colonial was even worse.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)

105 Blumenthal being a scumbag. I shan't believe it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 02:49 PM (KY+FT)

106 Worst personnel decision ever.

*cough*

Posted by: Judas Iscariot at August 06, 2026 02:47 PM (Riz8t)

Disagree.

Jesus didn't make mistakes. He voluntarily put into place all the necessary pieces required to save us all.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 06, 2026 02:49 PM (AdHga)

107 Someone here pointed out on another Fauci thread that his wife Christine Grady who was the Chief of Bioethical health at the NIH should be gone after. I agree with this. Hurt Fauci from all sides.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 06, 2026 02:49 PM (OkYzo)

108 @40. If you've ever watched the Office.....

I had to watch the office once when all the office people were sick and had to leave. Bored to death. All I done was answer the phone and take messages. Thought the day would never end. When I left to go home the phone was still ringing.

Posted by: Case at August 06, 2026 02:49 PM (fV9m3)

109 Fox News was all in on the 2020 election steal.I will never forget.

Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (YwEeS)

110 I just read on the Internet that Fauci's wife is a bioethicist. I rolled my eyes quite a bit over that bit of news.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 02:48 PM (6jy2V)

i can hear her scolding the cat for catching a mouse and bringing it back.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (uhVAy)

111 >>I just read on the Internet that Fauci's wife is a bioethicist. I rolled my eyes quite a bit over that bit of news.

You missed the best part. She was her husband's ethics official. She was in charge of making sure he and his office acted ethically.

The swamp is very deep.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (viF8m)

112 Saved the day a few times at the battle of Saratoga that ended with the surrender of an entire Brit Army. Haven't read up in detail but it appears the settling down of the war into relative inactivity after that didn't enhance his career development. They should have tried invading Canada again or something.

He was angry because General Horatio Gates claimed the victory at Saratoga, when it was really Arnold's courage that won it - and cost him severe wounds. He was later accused of corruption and war profiteering. There's plenty of blame to go around.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (Riz8t)

113 People in government should not be allowed to plead the 5th

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (/wHvr)

114 I just read on the Internet that Fauci's wife is a bioethicist. I rolled my eyes quite a bit over that bit of news.
==
She's actually the bioethicist who is supposed to be making sure he isn't doing shady shit.

Posted by: so there's that at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (anL5R)

115 Blumenthal being a scumbag. I shan't believe it

Especially shocking coming from a war hero.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (vTZFs)

116 Fox News was all in on the 2020 election steal.I will never forget.
Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (YwEeS)

their polling department is even worse than the liberal media's most of the time.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (uhVAy)

117 Yep.
----------------------------
Valerie Anne Smith
@ValerieAnne1970
·
5h
Secretly recorded PFIZER SCIENTISTS exposed the truth they NEVER wanted you to hear.

Nick Karl (Pfizer scientist): Natural immunity from actual COVID gives *better* and more complete antibodies than their vaccine — because the jab only targets the outside protein while the real virus trains your body against the whole thing.

Chris Croce (Senior Pfizer Scientist): You’re protected with natural immunity, not the vaccine… and then drops this: “I work for an evil corporation.”

They signed NDAs to keep quiet.
They knew.
They still pushed mass vaccination on every single person.
Coercion. Mandates. Injuries.

This was never about science.

Posted by: beckster at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (kX27y)

118 110 I just read on the Internet that Fauci's wife is a bioethicist. I rolled my eyes quite a bit over that bit of news.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 02:48 PM (6jy2V)

i can hear her scolding the cat for catching a mouse and bringing it back.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (uhVAy)

There was some "ethicist" that said it was ethical to kill children before the age of two...I forget his excuse. Sounds NotSee to me.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:51 PM (l3cgK)

119 Anyone who lies about military service is not worthy to hold any office.

Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2026 02:51 PM (YwEeS)

120 Yes, but the greatest HR failure in human history was Whitehall deciding not to permit Washington to be commissioned as a British officer.
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[whew!]

Posted by: Guy who hired Kim Philby at August 06, 2026 02:51 PM (XeU6L)

121 Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 02:50

I hadn't read that . Thanks. Just awful people.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 02:52 PM (6jy2V)

122 SCIENCE!

Posted by: Don Black, in contempt of Congress at August 06, 2026 02:52 PM (ZxPkt)

123 Mitch McConnell out until (another) fall.

Posted by: old chick at August 06, 2026 02:53 PM (F3Dlr)

124 112 Yeah, Horatio Gates was no prize, either. Thought he should've been commander of the Continental Army instead of Washington.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

125 119 Anyone who lies about military service is not worthy to hold any office.
Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2026 02:51 PM (YwEeS)


DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM??!???

Posted by: John F. Kerry at August 06, 2026 02:53 PM (PiwSw)

126 Fauci's pRdon was at the Auto-Pen level, any state AG can go after his millions

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 02:53 PM (Ia/+0)

127 Anyone who lies about military service is not worthy to hold any office.
Posted by: steevy
------
This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Richard Blumenthal (D) at August 06, 2026 02:53 PM (XeU6L)

128 Chris Croce (Senior Pfizer Scientist): You’re protected with natural immunity, not the vaccine… and then drops this: “I work for an evil corporation.”

They signed NDAs to keep quiet.
They knew.
They still pushed mass vaccination on every single person.
Coercion. Mandates. Injuries.

This was never about science.
Posted by: beckster at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (kX27y)




Someone, anyone, involved in this that signed an NDA needs to show that NDA to Musk. He's likely the ONLY one on earth that might be willing to cover the costs of an NDA to release the TRUTH about the bullshit that we've had done to us by the evils that roam and are supposedly our 'betters.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:53 PM (2YhKe)

129 They're not done with Covid 'vaccinations.' And they're certainly not done with power/control. (It's getting worse by the day in some places, like PA). The 3.5 percent is feeling it!

He's their god, their reason and excuse. And, indirectly, also got for them and their followers more money to play with than can ever be properly tracked.

No accountability, a good god.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 02:54 PM (NFX2v)

130 Worst HR failure in history was the NY Jets drafting Zach Wilson despite his smoking hot mom.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 02:54 PM (viF8m)

131 He was angry because General Horatio Gates claimed the victory at Saratoga, when it was really Arnold's courage that won it - and cost him severe wounds. He was later accused of corruption and war profiteering. There's plenty of blame to go around.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 02:50 PM (Riz8t)

Well all that and trying to betray West Point to the Brits.

The titular general in charge getting credit is to be expected. Arnold also tended to get a lot of wounds - I think he got shot in his Canada invasion too. I think he's just the type of loose cannon they should have shipped to an active zone and let go nuts, like Patton in WWII.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:54 PM (uhVAy)

132 Is it too late for Fauci to do a Halloween podcast.

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 02:54 PM (fsIaS)

133 In other news, I'm 3D printing a giant Galactus model, a part from his chest is going to take 11hrs.

Going to take a month to build this thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2026 02:54 PM (XV/Pl)

134 Little black hearted wop dago cockasucka give Italian Americans a bad name. Stupid little goombah whacked more people than John Gotti (PBUH). Little cockasucka deserves to have the alley rats a pissing on him behind the Olive Garden.

Sister Maria Genovese, ODC

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2026 02:54 PM (gm9Sb)

135 I think he got shot in his Canada invasion too.
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Aka the rectum

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 02:54 PM (fsIaS)

136 After a comment the ad pops up, mostly goes away yet my comment block won't work for a bit

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 02:55 PM (Ia/+0)

137 DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM??!???
Posted by: John F. Kerry
------

The guy wearing the bandaid?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 02:55 PM (XeU6L)

138 Make Duals Great Again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:43 PM


We'll allow it.

Posted by: Car & Driver at August 06, 2026 02:55 PM (bFu5X)

139 Worst HR failure in history was the NY Jets drafting Zach Wilson despite his smoking hot mom.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 02:54 PM (viF8m)

The Jets just need to let some other team do the drafting for them.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:55 PM (uhVAy)

140 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:53 PM (2YhKe)

NDAs don't give immunity from illegal activities. GoF is illegal.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:55 PM (l3cgK)

141 Naturally conferred immunity from COVID gives better and more complete antibodies than the vaccine
——

That’s when bizarre went into turbo mode. Naturally conferred immunity is always going to be superior unless we’re talking about something like Polio. But all the “experts” acted like they’d never heard of such a thing.

I caught it in March of 2020, long before any vaxx was a gleam in Pfauzi’s eye. After that, no way was I going to take a vaccine, experimental or not.

“It’s twice as good! Double plus good!”

Sure, Jan

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 02:56 PM (/wHvr)

142 There was some "ethicist" that said it was ethical to kill children before the age of two...I forget his excuse. Sounds NotSee to me.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:51 PM (l3cgK)

Eugenics certainly. 'Racial Hygiene' is what the Germans called it iirc. That is pretty much all abortion on demand is.

Selfish too. 'The life of this child is worth less to me than my life as it is without them.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 06, 2026 02:56 PM (zZu0s)

143 In other news, I'm 3D printing a giant Galactus model, a part from his chest is going to take 11hrs.

Going to take a month to build this thing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2026 02:54 PM (XV/Pl)

Sounds like you'd complain if you were being hung by a golden rope.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:56 PM (uhVAy)

144 Actually, *I* invented the vaccine and saved all those people!

Posted by: Jason Arday, Ph.D at August 06, 2026 02:56 PM (PiwSw)

145 mRNA was NOT created to be a vaccine in any way, shape or form.

They're MURDERING us and they know it.

And nothing will happen to them, ever. Just like China.......

EVERY deadly 'flu' over the last 50 years has come from China. SARS, bird flu, swine flu, covid......ALL of them. Created in a lab in China and distributed around the world.

No accountability.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:56 PM (2YhKe)

146 Well all that and trying to betray West Point to the Brits.

The point is that he wouldn't have considered doing what he did until he was made bitter and angry by his treatment and lack of recognition for his manifold contributions to the war. I'm not excusing it, but sheesh, would it have killed them to recognize what he had accomplished?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 02:56 PM (Riz8t)

147 >>The Jets just need to let some other team do the drafting for them.

It's incredible. They actually do draft some good player at other positions, they just can't draft a good QB.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 02:57 PM (viF8m)

148 141 Naturally conferred immunity from COVID gives better and more complete antibodies than the vaccine
——

That’s when bizarre went into turbo mode. Naturally conferred immunity is always going to be superior unless we’re talking about something like Polio. But all the “experts” acted like they’d never heard of such a thing.

I caught it in March of 2020, long before any vaxx was a gleam in Pfauzi’s eye. After that, no way was I going to take a vaccine, experimental or not.

“It’s twice as good! Double plus good!”

Sure, Jan

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 02:56 PM (/wHvr)

The VAXX IS TWICE AS GOOD. You just need to define what it's good at, which in this case is causing strokes, heart attacks, and other side effects.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:57 PM (l3cgK)

149 Skip, my brave browser and ad block plus on iPhone doesn't work well either. My phone gets so hot and then freezes up and shuts down. Safari will not work at all.

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 02:57 PM (enNUy)

150
NDAs don't give immunity from illegal activities. GoF is illegal.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:55 PM (l3cgK)



In the US, sure. Not in Ukraine, China....and Pfizer is from Canada.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:57 PM (2YhKe)

151 Arnold also tended to get a lot of wounds - I think he got shot in his Canada invasion too.

Yeah, that's going to happen when you're out in front, leading the men, as was expected.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 02:57 PM (Riz8t)

152 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:53 PM (2YhKe)

NDAs don't give immunity from illegal activities. GoF is illegal.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:55 PM (l3cgK)

Fauci had a written exception in the law that he could authorize it personally.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:58 PM (uhVAy)

153 133 In other news, I'm 3D printing a giant Galactus model, a part from his chest is going to take 11hrs.

Going to take a month to build this thing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2026 02:54 PM (XV/Pl)

*thinks about a giant USS Cygnus model*

*shakes head*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 06, 2026 02:58 PM (zZu0s)

154 There was some "ethicist" that said it was ethical to kill children before the age of two...I forget his excuse. Sounds NotSee to me.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:51 PM (l3cgK)
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I think that was Peter Singer and I think the age might have been up to four years old.

His excuse was that children haven't formed their identity by that point and therefore do not contribute to society. As a result, it should be permissible to eliminate them.

He makes the worst things I find in my cats' litter boxes look good by comparison.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 02:58 PM (FZ29D)

155 142 There was some "ethicist" that said it was ethical to kill children before the age of two...I forget his excuse. Sounds NotSee to me.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:51 PM (l3cgK)

Eugenics certainly. 'Racial Hygiene' is what the Germans called it iirc. That is pretty much all abortion on demand is.

Selfish too. 'The life of this child is worth less to me than my life as it is without them.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 06, 2026 02:56 PM (zZu0s)


Peter Singer, Emeritus Professor of Bioethics at Princeton.

Posted by: Jason Arday, Ph.D at August 06, 2026 02:59 PM (PiwSw)

156 Fauci has always been contemptible, but now at least it is on paper.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 02:59 PM (hfIju)

157 I just read on the Internet that Fauci's wife is a bioethicist. I rolled my eyes quite a bit over that bit of news.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It's worse than that, much worse. She's the former head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 02:59 PM (XeU6L)

158 "Fox is implying that Fauci did testify, just "not as Paul envisioned."

Fox News is as liberal as CNN. I despise them."

FOX News is based in NYC. NYC is one of the most liberal cities on earth. There are not enough rock-ribbed conservatives there to staff to the levels which conserve conservatism. When I lived in NYC, I knew several people who worked behind the camera there - they were all liberal. They liked FOX because they were steady payers that weren't going under anytime soon.

I haven't sought out FOX in over twenty years - ever since O'Reilly choked with that Super Bowl Halftime Obama interview. I don't miss them at all.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 02:59 PM (0CU3H)

159 Cambridge Jussie Smollett sock off

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 06, 2026 02:59 PM (PiwSw)

160 Yall hear about the $20 burrito thing?

TLDR: some leftist said $20 burritos are Trump’s fault. Ben Shapiro said stop eating $20 burritos there are cheaper alternatives, or cook at home The entire left went all “no way bro $20 burrito is what it costs and it’s our constitutional right to eat out every meal”.

The people who whine about things being too expensive spend $100 a day on DoorDash. Then blame Trump that they’re broke. And DSA will fix it all by taxing Elon and making the $20 burrito free.

Posted by: Van Halen at August 06, 2026 02:59 PM (Bz1XI)

161 Fauci is going to need to Botox his asshole before taking up residency in the gray bar hotel.

Hopefully Botox with MRNA poison that fucks him up just as it did to way too many others.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 06, 2026 02:59 PM (FCPbW)

162 43

He needs to be sodomized by a pack of rabid hyenas, while kneeling in a burning dumpster full of broken glass and hydrofluoric acid.

Then, he can be punished...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at August 06, 2026 02:33 PM (i9ubo)

Are any of those famous Israeli rape dogs beagles per chance?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 06, 2026 03:00 PM (9ZFZd)

163 Fauci should be placed nude in a chamber filled with sand fleas. Leave his vocal chords in place so that we may revel in his anguish.

/I don't much care for the guy.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 06, 2026 03:00 PM (JNTt1)

164 EVERY deadly 'flu' over the last 50 years has come from China. SARS, bird flu, swine flu, covid......ALL of them. Created in a lab in China and distributed around the world.

No accountability.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:56 PM (2YhKe)

Deadly flus can occur without Chinese involvement. The Spanish flu of 1918 killed FAR more people than any flu within the past 50 years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 06, 2026 03:00 PM (zZu0s)

165 158 "Fox is implying that Fauci did testify, just "not as Paul envisioned."

Fox News is as liberal as CNN. I despise them."

FOX News is based in NYC. NYC is one of the most liberal cities on earth. There are not enough rock-ribbed conservatives there to staff to the levels which conserve conservatism. When I lived in NYC, I knew several people who worked behind the camera there - they were all liberal. They liked FOX because they were steady payers that weren't going under anytime soon.

I haven't sought out FOX in over twenty years - ever since O'Reilly choked with that Super Bowl Halftime Obama interview. I don't miss them at all.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 06, 2026 02:59 PM (0CU3H)

=====

If one were to equate Fox News to a senator, it's at best a Susan Collins and more like a Lisa Murkowski when she feels like she actually has to campaign to win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:00 PM (sZHUV)

166
Yep. His second wife. Who was somehow also connected to Aaron Burr

He was under her saddle blanket if you know what I'm sayin

Posted by: Randy (tunin' sum bitch) at August 06, 2026 03:00 PM (HcoTw)

167 145 mRNA was NOT created to be a vaccine in any way, shape or form.

They're MURDERING us and they know it.

And nothing will happen to them, ever. Just like China.......

EVERY deadly 'flu' over the last 50 years has come from China. SARS, bird flu, swine flu, covid......ALL of them. Created in a lab in China and distributed around the world.

No accountability.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:56 PM (2YhKe)

Spanish flu probably came from China, like the Plague in the Middle Ages. There must be just the right mix of bats, birds, pigs, and other animal virii and bacteria that just makes China such a breeding ground...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:00 PM (l3cgK)

168 Horatio Gates was the general who fled the field at Camden.

Gates's principal accomplishment in the unsuccessful campaign was to cover 170 miles (270 km) in three days on horseback, heading north in retreat.

One good thing came from that debacle, which was that Nathaniel Greene replaced Gates.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 03:00 PM (Riz8t)

169 My phone gets so hot and then freezes up and shuts down.

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 02:57 PM (enNUy)

Can you blame me?

Posted by: nckates phone at August 06, 2026 03:00 PM (fsIaS)

170 That’s when bizarre went into turbo mode. Naturally conferred immunity is always going to be superior unless we’re talking about something like Polio. But all the “experts” acted like they’d never heard of such a thing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:57 PM (l3cgK)

Polio vaxx is still natural immunity, they just needed to mess with it to avoid killing a lot of people with actual polio in the process.

But yeah, the 'elites' forgetting how science works from day one was a real tell.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:01 PM (uhVAy)

171 FOX is just being "fair and balanced". For every normal Liberty take on news, they balance it with the Communist propaganda side of "The News". But they don't tell the viewer which side they are presenting.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 06, 2026 03:01 PM (vbXSk)

172 POTUS can only issue a pardon or commutation for Federal crimes, not for state crimes. Fauci better get his squeekhole shored up for the state level charges.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at August 06, 2026 02:41 PM (k1E2D)


You can bet that Cali or NY - again - will use that reasoning to go after Trump after he's out of office.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 03:01 PM (ExV1e)

173 Again by "official" numbers the Chinese vaccine was 30x more effective then the clot shot...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 03:01 PM (sKqQm)

174
Yes, it was Fauci's wife who signed off on stuff he was doing as "ethical". She was his ethics police.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 03:01 PM (w6EFb)

175 You can bet that Cali or NY - again - will use that reasoning to go after Trump after he's out of office.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 03:01 PM (ExV1e)

GA and NY already have.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 03:02 PM (KC5Lt)

176 150
NDAs don't give immunity from illegal activities. GoF is illegal.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:55 PM (l3cgK)


In the US, sure. Not in Ukraine, China....and Pfizer is from Canada.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:57 PM (2YhKe)

Back during Bush II, it was determined that if you went overseas and conducted yourself in activities illegal in the US (even if legal in said other country), you were prosecutable once you returned to the US...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:02 PM (l3cgK)

177 His excuse was that children haven't formed their identity by that point
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Which is nonsense. Four-year-old Bulg had plenty of personality.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:02 PM (77rzZ)

178 I haven't sought out FOX in over twenty years - ever since O'Reilly choked with that Super Bowl Halftime Obama interview. I don't miss them at all.

Posted by: Darrell Harris


I quit Fox election night of 2020, and have never looked back.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 03:02 PM (Riz8t)

179
Deadly flus can occur without Chinese involvement. The Spanish flu of 1918 killed FAR more people than any flu within the past 50 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 06, 2026 03:00 PM (zZu0s)



Wasn't that irradicated? Plus, the human condition was just soooo much worse back then. Health overall was a LOT lower than the average human is now.

Would that flu be as deadly today as it was back then?

I have no idea. I just envision they've been trying to recreate something to match it, then enhance it to be even more deadly......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:02 PM (2YhKe)

180 Senate Panel Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt, as Democrats Attempt to Stop The Vote Through Endless Delay

I'd be pissed if they delayed my vote, because an In Contempt of Congress certificate would look great on my wall.

Posted by: t-bird at August 06, 2026 03:02 PM (e1mwr)

181 His excuse was that children haven't formed their identity by that point and therefore do not contribute to society. As a result, it should be permissible to eliminate them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 02:58 PM (FZ29

What does that mean for people who reject their own identity? 🤔

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 03:03 PM (fsIaS)

182 @141

>>Sure, Jan

All medicine is, is telling your body to turn something on, turn something off or do nothing.

Medicines are not super soldier serums, they are a magic trick to get your body to, do the thing the body can or should naturally do.

If you survive polio, you will have lifetime immunity from polio.

The reason why a polio vaccine is preferrable is because polio is life-time debilitating.

A flu, not so much.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2026 03:03 PM (XV/Pl)

183 The VAXX IS TWICE AS GOOD. You just need to define what it's good at, which in this case is causing strokes, heart attacks, and other side effects.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 02:57 PM (l3cgK)

Well, also recouping the development costs of the mRNA drug, don't forget (that was a failure due to the side effects observed- the same side effects as were observed when it was used for Chinese Lung AIDS...)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 06, 2026 03:03 PM (zZu0s)

184 I have yet to read a single article on anything Fauci was ever competent to do. I think he was a faker the entirety of his miserable career. He seems like the over educated low level functionary that was politically astute enough to cover for his failures and lacunae and move up the power structure to make more money and fame, without ever actually accomplishing anything.

My boss at USACE was exactly this sort. Managed to squeak by on other, more competent workers' accomplishments and get himself into a management position that could cover for his inability to actually do the technical work. Then used that position to smack down anyone who might show him up.

Government hierarchies are made for that kind of crap-weaseling.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:03 PM (hfIju)

185 RFK claims that both Lyme Disease and RSV originated from gain of function research.

Naturally, the self-appointed fact checkers claim there is no evidence this is true. Because the government always tells the truth.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:03 PM (viF8m)

186
Back during Bush II, it was determined that if you went overseas and conducted yourself in activities illegal in the US (even if legal in said other country), you were prosecutable once you returned to the US...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:02 PM (l3cgK)



Fauci only sent money....he didn't go over there and actually perform any experiments of GoF directly, did he?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:03 PM (2YhKe)

187 Deadly flus can occur without Chinese involvement. The Spanish flu of 1918 killed FAR more people than any flu within the past 50 years.

That might have come from China as well as the Chinese records have a major flu in 1917 AND the Great War caused a labor shortage which led to, I think France, bringing in Chinese workers...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

188 I would put money the Marxists go after President Trump after office

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 03:04 PM (Ia/+0)

189 01 I just read on the Internet that Fauci's wife is a bioethicist. I rolled my eyes quite a bit over that bit of news.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

A HUGE deal in the Federal government, now @ Georgetown with him, I think. Yes,

Christine Grady is a distinguished bioethicist who formerly headed the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center and later (2026) moved to Georgetown University. They married in 1985.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 03:04 PM (NFX2v)

190 would put money the Marxists go after President Trump after office
Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 03:04 PM (Ia/+0)

Before during and after.

Posted by: Uhmmm at August 06, 2026 03:04 PM (Bz1XI)

191 RFK claims that both Lyme Disease and RSV originated from gain of function research.

Naturally, the self-appointed fact checkers claim there is no evidence this is true. Because the government always tells the truth.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:03 PM (viF8m)



GoF is still HUGE. Lime disease, that new meat allergy.....all man made.

The fact that NO ONE has investigated the Bill and Melinda foundation, much less shut that bitch down and burn all it's data relating to what they've 'created' over the last 30 years.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:05 PM (2YhKe)

192 His excuse was that children haven't formed their identity by that point and therefore do not contribute to society. As a result, it should be permissible to eliminate them.
——-

He had to go to school a long time to get that stupid

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 03:05 PM (/wHvr)

193 188 I would put money the Marxists go after President Trump after office

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 03:04 PM (Ia/+0)

======

Of course, but SCOTUS killed anything going after him for official duties years ago.

Lots of lawsuits, lots of dismissals. And he'll avoid setting foot in places like New York. Holding court in Mar-a-Lago until he passes off this mortal coil.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:05 PM (sZHUV)

194 THE SCIENCE: FAUCI DIARY ENTRY (Jan 2021): "It looks like the vaccine might be compromised"

January 2021 world-renowned HIV virus researcher Dr. David Ho shares immediate concerns about the COVID shot’s performance according to Fauci’s diary:

“David Ho is doing tests on convalescent sera and sera of people who were vaccinated and is finding disturbing data in both the UK and worse in the RSA mutants. It looks like the vaccine might be compromised.”

“Had regular every 2 weeks call with Bill Gates – Bill and Trevor Mundel know about the issue with the mutations that David Ho is working on.”

FULL STORY HERE: https://x.com/JeffereyJaxen/status/
2085035602458866007

Posted by: KT at August 06, 2026 03:05 PM (rdeQO)

195 Ouch. That's gotta hurt.

Bernie Sanders shuts down endorsing Francesca Hong.

On Pod Save America, asked if he’d jump into the Wisconsin governor’s race:

"I don’t think so. I met Francesca a couple of years ago… she seems very, very nice. But this is a race I’m just not that familiar with"


https://x.com/IAPolls2022/status/2085152267737411618

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 03:05 PM (Riz8t)

196 Deadly flus can occur without Chinese involvement. The Spanish flu of 1918 killed FAR more people than any flu within the past 50 years.
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Have I got news for you....

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 03:05 PM (fsIaS)

197 Christine Grady is a distinguished bioethicist who formerly headed the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center and later (2026) moved to Georgetown University. They married in 1985.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 03:04 PM (NFX2v)



At the PEAK of the spread of AIDS, no?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (2YhKe)

198 Re Lyme disease. There was some stuff about bioweapons research in using ticks as vectors to spread disease.

RFKJr should be in a better position to look into that. If true, I'm sure the Deep State is hiding it well, but he ought to be able to start investigating.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (w6EFb)

199 A HUGE deal in the Federal government, now @ Georgetown with him, I think. Yes,

Christine Grady is a distinguished bioethicist who formerly headed the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center and later (2026) moved to Georgetown University. They married in 1985.
Posted by: L - No nic

She is there because Trump transferred her to Alaska. She declined.

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

200 Would that flu be as deadly today as it was back then?

I have no idea. I just envision they've been trying to recreate something to match it, then enhance it to be even more deadly......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:02 PM (2YhKe)

Eh, probably just as deadly if not worse (because of increased population and density.) The Spanish flu was scary in that the reason it worked like it did is that it set off an overreaction in the immune system of healthy people (cytokine storm.) So it was far more deadly to say a 21 year old dude or gal, than a person whose immune system was already compromised, because their immune response to it was less.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (zZu0s)

201 If (doubtful) Fauci does any time it will be in a geriatric unit at a Fed prison where Sal and Tony stab him to death with spokes from their wheelchair wheels. Sal lost Aunt Angela in a NY nursing home from Covid and Tony was just sick and tired of listening to the little fuck run his mouth. Shoulda kept quiet and just played pinochle Anthony.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (gm9Sb)

202 Deadly flus can occur without Chinese involvement. The Spanish flu of 1918 killed FAR more people than any flu within the past 50 years.

That might have come from China as well as the Chinese records have a major flu in 1917 AND the Great War caused a labor shortage which led to, I think France, bringing in Chinese workers...
Posted by: 18-1

From what I've read, it started here in the states, at some Army camp that was training recruits for the war, before any of them had set foot in Europe.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (77rzZ)

203 What did Ms North Carolina say to take her crown away?

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (KC5Lt)

204 His excuse was that children haven't formed their identity by that point and therefore do not contribute to society. As a result, it should be permissible to eliminate them.

He makes the worst things I find in my cats' litter boxes look good by comparison.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 02:58 PM (FZ29D)

My unscientific study of toddlers at dinner with the free cracker ration in family restaurants comes to the opposite conclusion. They have formed a complete identity as loud messy nuisances who can spackle a booth with uncleanable chewed cracker and run about like idiots and have to be chased down.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (uhVAy)

205 12 They put Bannon in jail for this stuff. Time for Fauci to get to review how the glory hole situation is in his location prison...

Posted by: 18-1

-------------------
They put Bannon in jail (prison?) for asserting that his testimony was covered by Trump's Executive Privilege, but (And this part I really did not understand) Biden refused to reaffirm it so somehow it was invalid.


Either way, it was very different. They put Bannon in prison because they are commie scum. Fauci is protected because they are commie scum. OK, maybe not so different.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 03:07 PM (ppr2L)

206 177 His excuse was that children haven't formed their identity by that point
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Which is nonsense. Four-year-old Bulg had plenty of personality.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:02 PM (77rzZ)

indeed. I wasn't yet five when the bus I was on was pulled over by cops. They came on the bus and asked for me by name, and I was scared to answer, as from the TV shows Mom and Dad watched, the cops only asked for guilty people...I eventually stood up and said it was me, but said, "I didn't do anything!"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:07 PM (l3cgK)

207 203 What did Ms North Carolina say to take her crown away?

"I love pop up ads"

Posted by: Randy (tunin' sum bitch) at August 06, 2026 03:08 PM (HcoTw)

208 Ouch. That's gotta hurt.

Bernie Sanders shuts down endorsing Francesca Hong.

On Pod Save America, asked if he’d jump into the Wisconsin governor’s race:

"I don’t think so. I met Francesca a couple of years ago… she seems very, very nice. But this is a race I’m just not that familiar with"

https://x.com/IAPolls2022/status/2085152267737411618
Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2026 03:05 PM (Riz8t)

What race, chinese or alien?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:08 PM (uhVAy)

209 Fox News is as liberal as CNN. I despise them

Yeah, when I see "The far right only listens to Fox News and does exactly what they tell them!" I snort. Conservatives don't watch Fox News the way they used to. My parents (Boomers) used to love turning on Fox News at night to watch their primetime lineup. Before Tucker left, though, they'd cut the cable and went to streaming only.

Look how many people actually *actively* watch Fox News. It's what, 5 million? In a country of over 300 million. that's not much.

Posted by: pookysgirl, doing the math at August 06, 2026 03:08 PM (Wt5PA)

210 Sweet racket if you can get it.

Being a mad scientist married to the broad who is in charge of saying whether or not you are a mad scientist.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:09 PM (9c9us)

211 186
Back during Bush II, it was determined that if you went overseas and conducted yourself in activities illegal in the US (even if legal in said other country), you were prosecutable once you returned to the US...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:02 PM (l3cgK)


Fauci only sent money....he didn't go over there and actually perform any experiments of GoF directly, did he?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:03 PM (2YhKe)

And the getaway driver didn't rob the bank...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:09 PM (l3cgK)

212 211 And the getaway driver didn't rob the bank...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:09 PM (l3cgK)

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"Exactly!"
-NY police commissioners

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:09 PM (sZHUV)

213 Miss NC said the n word ten years ago on Twitter. She is Mexican.

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 03:09 PM (enNUy)

214 199. She is there because Trump transferred her to Alaska. She declined.
Posted by: Piper

That's just the way it's usually done. You leave 'on your own decision.' Our Regional administrator got D.C. or out. He was a lucky one.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 03:09 PM (NFX2v)

215 Fauci only sent money....he didn't go over there and actually perform any experiments of GoF directly, did he?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 03:03 PM (2YhKe)

He authorized it, he had to by the law.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:10 PM (uhVAy)

216 That might have come from China as well as the Chinese records have a major flu in 1917 AND the Great War caused a labor shortage which led to, I think France, bringing in Chinese workers...
Posted by: 18-1

From what I've read, it started here in the states, at some Army camp that was training recruits for the war, before any of them had set foot in Europe.
Posted by: Bulg

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It came from China. That was widely accepted before the Wuhan flu and the propaganda campaign to exonerate China.

Things don't start in military camps with lots of young healthy men. They start in filthy china with their proto-commie pigs and ducks and humans all living in the same hovel.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 03:10 PM (ppr2L)

217 203:

"Excuse me while I whip this out..."

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:10 PM (9c9us)

218
The counter to the Lyme disease in ticks as bioweapon vector is the claim that the bacteria have existed in ticks long before Plum Island research.

This is supposedly proven, but I don't enough to be sure myself.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 03:10 PM (w6EFb)

219 RFK claims that both Lyme Disease and RSV originated from gain of function research.

Plum Island. Gosh darn it, they never could get the cure, though.

Posted by: t-bird at August 06, 2026 03:10 PM (e1mwr)

220 Back during Bush II, it was determined that if you went overseas and conducted yourself in activities illegal in the US (even if legal in said other country), you were prosecutable once you returned to the US...
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Ostensibly to prosecute kiddie fvckers who tour places in Thailand or wherever. How many have been prosecuted? Never heard any in the news.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, they are grooming toddlers in Kindergarten and Public Libraries

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 03:10 PM (/wHvr)

221 192 His excuse was that children haven't formed their identity by that point and therefore do not contribute to society. As a result, it should be permissible to eliminate them.
——-

He had to go to school a long time to get that stupid
Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2026 03:05 PM (/wHvr)

Clearly this idiot never raised a kid to four years old. Hell, they have personalities by the time they get pushed out of the womb.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:11 PM (hfIju)

222 She is there because Trump transferred her to Alaska. She declined.
Posted by: Piper

That's just the way it's usually done. You leave 'on your own decision.' Our Regional administrator got D.C. or out. He was a lucky one.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 03:09 PM (NFX2v)

We need a special station that we can send anyone we want to quit to so they can refuse and get fired.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:11 PM (uhVAy)

223 >>RFKJr should be in a better position to look into that. If true, I'm sure the Deep State is hiding it well, but he ought to be able to start investigating.

Lyme Disease is big topic around here because Lyme, CT is not far away. This entire region is constantly being told to keep an eye out for ticks that can spread it.

Some of us crazy conspiracy theorists have been saying for years that Plum Island is the logical place for it to have escaped. Maybe we can finally get someone like RFK to look into it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:11 PM (viF8m)

224 Clearly this idiot never raised a kid to four years old. Hell, they have personalities by the time they get pushed out of the womb.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:11 PM (hfIju)

From the somewhat biased testimony of moms, even before in some cases.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:12 PM (uhVAy)

225 197. At the PEAK of the spread of AIDS, no?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Yes. She did a tremendous amount of work regarding ARC and AIDs. He somehow became the hero after a time.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 03:12 PM (NFX2v)

226 TJM the Marxists don't care about existing laws, they have Commissar Judges to make up their own rules

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 03:12 PM (Ia/+0)

227 Yes, it was Fauci's wife who signed off on stuff he was doing as "ethical". She was his ethics police.
Posted by: publius
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Fox/henhouse

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (XeU6L)

228 Bioethics is a rather self important position. I remember seeing some guy years ago who was the first bioethicist to appear on tv , and I thought " that guy made up his own "expertise "". What makes there system of beliefs better than anyone elses?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (KY+FT)

229 Clearly this idiot never raised a kid to four years old. Hell, they have personalities by the time they get pushed out of the womb.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Our son had a personality even in utero, not dissimilar to the personality he had as a child and has even now, as a 24-year-old adult.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

230 Some of us crazy conspiracy theorists have been saying for years that Plum Island is the logical place for it to have escaped. Maybe we can finally get someone like RFK to look into it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:11 PM (viF8

RFK Jr was probably part of the same people who started the conspiracy theory years ago with you.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (KC5Lt)

231 She is there because Trump transferred her to Alaska. She declined.
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

When are people gonna quit trying to send us their old trash?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (hfIju)

232 226 TJM the Marxists don't care about existing laws, they have Commissar Judges to make up their own rules

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2026 03:12 PM (Ia/+0)

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Well, then I guess all the appeals courts that have reversed lower court judges over the past couple of years just stopped existing, then.

As I said, a lot of lawsuits, and a lot of dismissals. District courts will play. The appeals courts will end them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (sZHUV)

233 6 months ago, Rand Paul was the official AOS public enemy #1 because he didn't want to confirm MarkWayne Mullin, the guy who joked about Paul being brutally beaten.

Now MarkWayne Mullin is talking about a kinder, gentler, DHS and Rand Paul is at least doing a job.

It's almost like ace makes the dumbest choice every time he's presented with one.

Posted by: Spinning like a Dervish to keep up with Ace's new political convictions. at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (TH4O4)

234 Why did Fauci have a regularly-scheduled call with Bill Gates every 2 weeks? Did he really entertain the possibility that the vaccine was compromised in Jan. of 2021, just after its first emergency roll-out?

Posted by: KT at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (rdeQO)

235 Fox/henhouse
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (XeU6L)

More like old hag, not really a fox.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (hfIju)

236 Let's all pray that Lyme Disease and Coconut Disease never mutate together.

The jingle for the vaccine would kill us all.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (9c9us)

237 Why did Fauci have a regularly-scheduled call with Bill Gates every 2 weeks? Did he really entertain the possibility that the vaccine was compromised in Jan. of 2021, just after its first emergency roll-out?
Posted by: KT at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (rdeQO)

Star hunting or money hunting probably.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (uhVAy)

238 233 Now MarkWayne Mullin is talking about a kinder, gentler, DHS and Rand Paul is at least doing a job.

It's almost like ace makes the dumbest choice every time he's presented with one.

Posted by: Spinning like a Dervish to keep up with Ace's new political convictions. at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (TH4O4)

========

Mullin has supercharged immigration enforcement since he took over. June set a record for arrests and deportations. July broke that record.

Mullin's comments to the state governors were about trying to get them to work with DHS like Texas and Florida do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:15 PM (sZHUV)

239 236 Let's all pray that Lyme Disease and Coconut Disease never mutate together.

The jingle for the vaccine would kill us all.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (9c9us)

Only GoF can put the Lyme in the Coconut...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:15 PM (l3cgK)

240
And remember, Rand Paul just found out that Bill Gates had DOE Q level security clearance. And that means he could've been "read in" into all sorts of shit they were doing.

For his own profit, too.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 03:15 PM (w6EFb)

241 Let's all pray that Lyme Disease and Coconut Disease never mutate together.

The jingle for the vaccine would kill us all.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (9c9us)

That would be a good thing, as the mixture is touted to make you 'feel better'

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:15 PM (uhVAy)

242
We need a special station that we can send anyone we want to quit to so they can refuse and get fired.
Posted by: Oldcat

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

Dark comedy idea:

But what if they DON'T quit?

DISTRICT OF THE DAMNED -- The worst bureaucrats in the nation are sent to run an obscure desert town.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 03:16 PM (mmrXZ)

243 >>At the PEAK of the spread of AIDS, no?

You know who else made bank off AIDS? The Clinton Foundation.

When Hillary was SOS she was also in charge of USAID. That would be the same USAID that also gave a grant to the EcoHealth Alliance for gain of function research in Wuhan.

And that's why Fauci is being protected.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:16 PM (viF8m)

244 191 RFK claims that both Lyme Disease and RSV originated from gain of function research.

Naturally, the self-appointed fact checkers claim there is no evidence this is true. Because the government always tells the truth.

Posted by: JackStraw

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On the face, it would really be a stretch.

They do GoF two ways -- gene insertion, and serial passage. Lyme was before we had the tech for gene insertion, and even serial passage requires gene insertion into whatever media you are using as host. For example, they make mice with human genes to give them the right receptors to be relevant, and then they do serial passage using generations of mice. All that was not possible when Lyme was first found.

So, not saying impossible, but he has to provide extraordinary evidence for it to be believable.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 03:16 PM (ppr2L)

245 So the NC beauty queen is a "white Hispanic". Tough to keep the scorecard these days

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 03:16 PM (KY+FT)

246 Posted by: KT at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (rdeQO)

Because money talks.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 03:17 PM (KC5Lt)

247 The jingle for the vaccine would kill us all.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (9c9us)

"1-877-Shotz-For Tots
1-877-Shotz-For Tots"

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:17 PM (77rzZ)

248 243 >>At the PEAK of the spread of AIDS, no?

You know who else made bank off AIDS? The Clinton Foundation.

When Hillary was SOS she was also in charge of USAID. That would be the same USAID that also gave a grant to the EcoHealth Alliance for gain of function research in Wuhan.

And that's why Fauci is being protected.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:16 PM (viF8m)

So could you say that Fauci has information that could lead to the arrest and prosecution of Hillary?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (9ZFZd)

249 A $20 burrito?
Did they put caviar and Wagyu steak in it?

I can buy a perfectly good burrito from the store at about $2.50.

If I really want to get crazy I can buy all the ingredients and make it myself and get 10 burritos for $20.

Too lazy, or too ignorant, to cook?
Then don’t complain about the price if takeout delivered by DoorDash.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (6ydKt)

250 Aren't Fox News pollsters former DNC and Hillary pollsters? Would explain a lot.
Still watch Fox Business

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (KY+FT)

251 Sounds like we're bombing Qeshm Island.

https://x.com/RealestMercury/status/
2085438698993184778

But, remember, Trump will never actually hurt Iran because he's so desperate for a deal and will accept literally anything to get Iran to reaccept the Obama-Iran deal that he himself tore up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (sZHUV)

252 222. We need a special station that we can send anyone we want to quit to so they can refuse and get fired.
Posted by: Oldcat

Technically, it was part of being a manager. Refuse & one was supposed to be unloaded. But...

Now lower graded, they pushed someone until they could claim insubordination or potential threats of violence. A very nasty game, largely union backed too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (NFX2v)

253 247.

Ouch my brain

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (9c9us)

254 Pete singer is an atheist who grew up in a non religious family. Obviously not all atheists feel this way about it being ok to kill kids before they've reached four , but his attitude doesn't surprise me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (rHgXV)

255 I wonder whether that is because they are trying to draw an even larger audience, assuming that conservatives have nowhere else to go, and won't leave.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


The only reason Fox was ever considered conservative is their news room was only 65% Democrat, not 99%.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (vJrRc)

256
They put Bannon in jail (prison?) for asserting that his testimony was covered by Trump's Executive Privilege, but (And this part I really did not understand) Biden refused to reaffirm it so somehow it was invalid.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 03:07 PM (ppr2L)



Yeah, that's totally not going to turn around and bite the Biden Cabal in the ass...

*looks at Congressional GOPe*

Oh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (y9nCu)

257 She is there because Trump transferred her to Alaska. She declined.
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

When are people gonna quit trying to send us their old trash?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (hfIju)

Its cold and far off. New Jersey is too close to nicer spots, even if worse than AK. Pray for Alberta to join the US, and some swamp in Alberta might become the crap posting of choice and save you the trouble.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (uhVAy)

258
Just some brief looking into this. Supposedly the Lyme disease bacteria goes back 60,000 years in NA. And supposedly that "Ice Man" mummy they discovered showed evidence of that bacteria in his system.

Note that none of that would preclude GoFing or similar of that bacteria if say you were trying to weaponize ticks using some existing bacteria already adapted to ticks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (w6EFb)

259 Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 03:16 PM (ppr2L)

The wind wake you up again ? 😃

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 03:19 PM (KC5Lt)

260 245 So the NC beauty queen is a "white Hispanic". Tough to keep the scorecard these days

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 03:16 PM (KY+FT)

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Remember, most Hispanics consider themselves white because there are social pressures to identify with Hispanic/Iberian roots in Latin America and the fact that there is a very large percentage of actually Spanish decent in the region.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:19 PM (sZHUV)

261 The fifth new reactor design under the Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot and Nuclear Energy Launch Pad program has started making neutrons.

Five new technologies designed, built and operating. More than we've had in the last fifty years.

No, I am not tired of winning yet.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 03:19 PM (IG3/x)

262
And the other counterargument to that is that ticks would be a piss-poor bioweapon vector. Too slow.

But I don't know about that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 03:19 PM (w6EFb)

263 250 Aren't Fox News pollsters former DNC and Hillary pollsters? Would explain a lot.
Still watch Fox Business

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (KY+FT)

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Yeah.

Fox has one of the most Democrat-leaning pollsters out of all media pollsters. It's kind of a funny irony when you think about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:19 PM (sZHUV)

264 254. At what age is it acceptable to kill Peter Singer then?

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:19 PM (9c9us)

265 231 She is there because Trump transferred her to Alaska. She declined.
Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

When are people gonna quit trying to send us their old trash?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (hfIju)

Right? I can’t remember where, but if I recall, it was a very, very remote lab site. This is by memory and a lot has happened since then, lol.

Posted by: Piper at August 06, 2026 03:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

266 There is a real, serious, and decades long propaganda campaign to blame the US gov. for everything.

Russia had big investment in blaming US for creating AIDS because they understood it would cleave off blacks (who don't trust gov and were one of the big early victims) and make them become marxist. China does the same, and ramped it up after Wuhan flu to throw mud in the air.

So a lot of this anti-US stuff is just propaganda. Not saying all of it is false, but be very very skeptical.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 03:20 PM (ppr2L)

267 260 245 So the NC beauty queen is a "white Hispanic". Tough to keep the scorecard these days

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 03:16 PM (KY+FT)

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Remember, most Hispanics consider themselves white because there are social pressures to identify with Hispanic/Iberian roots in Latin America and the fact that there is a very large percentage of actually Spanish decent in the region.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:19 PM (sZHUV)

Hispanics are so racist...they look down on the darker shades. My Mexican ancestry has White Spaniards, Black Slaves, and Mexican Indians in it, so it doesn't matter much to me...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:20 PM (l3cgK)

268 And probably nobody will read this, but I found it quite interesting: "How Peter Singer and Oxford drove me from atheism to Jesus":

https://tinyurl.com/4uyzm9d2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 03:20 PM (rHgXV)

269 @260 TJM, yup I knew a Mexican girl who was a natural blonde and could have passed for Nordic. She told me the less Indian blood you had in Mexico the higher up you were

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 03:21 PM (KY+FT)

270 >>So, not saying impossible, but he has to provide extraordinary evidence for it to be believable.

I don't think RFK is pulling stuff out of his ass. He has all the data at his disposal now and he said it again last Sunday.

Seriously, knowing that they lied and literally shut down the entire world over an "impossible" virus we know have proof they created would anyone be surprised if they did it before?

My only question is how many times have they done this before?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:21 PM (viF8m)

271 264 254. At what age is it acceptable to kill Peter Singer then?

Posted by: sifty boones at August 06, 2026 03:19 PM (9c9us)

Can he be shipped to Canada? They like youth in Asia there...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:21 PM (l3cgK)

272 I like District Taco, would happily spend $20 there

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 06, 2026 03:21 PM (oSxZ7)

273 269 @260 TJM, yup I knew a Mexican girl who was a natural blonde and could have passed for Nordic. She told me the less Indian blood you had in Mexico the higher up you were

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 03:21 PM (KY+FT)

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Charlton Heston played a completely believable Mexican in Touch of Evil.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:22 PM (sZHUV)

274 Nood. Budget fraud.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 03:22 PM (ExV1e)

275 The wind wake you up again ? 😃
Posted by: polynikes

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ha, now my schedule has shifted. I will have to be sleep deprived for a week to fix it.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 03:22 PM (ppr2L)

276 Pete Seeger > Pete Singer

Posted by: Both Assholes at August 06, 2026 03:22 PM (F1rMs)

277 we're bombing Qeshm Island.
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Having some trouble here with pronunciation. I wonder how the newsheads are doing it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 03:22 PM (XeU6L)

278 The Fox News site is very conservative relatively speaking. They will always run stories that contradict the left's narrative.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 03:22 PM (KC5Lt)

279 When are people gonna quit trying to send us their old trash?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (hfIju)

Fun fact: The Army officer who was sent to Alaska in 1867 to take possession of it from the Russians was named Jefferson Davis. He had served at Ft. Sumter when it was fired on, and later murdered another Union officer, but was kept on because the Union Army was so short of competent officers at the time.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

280
I watch Fox for the jokes. Gutfeld and Watters.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (mmrXZ)

281 Former Miss nc is from Mexico Ecuador. She's racist. New miss nc is black. No white chicks involved. Yet.

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (enNUy)

282 Dark comedy idea:

But what if they DON'T quit?

DISTRICT OF THE DAMNED -- The worst bureaucrats in the nation are sent to run an obscure desert town.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 03:16 PM (mmrXZ)

That's why its in AK. On the tundra, cable to the rest of the world is only for official messages, manual typewriters with carbon paper, and lots of requests for reports of 500 pages or more. Lots of loaded revolvers stashed about in case they get the urge. We could move them to an Antarctic station when summer in AK starts.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (uhVAy)

283 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 03:16 PM (mmrXZ)

Btw... I had to look up retinue.

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (fsIaS)

284 > When are people gonna quit trying to send us their old trash?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2026 03:13 PM (hfIju)

Indeed. At the very least they could assign them to Adak, where they wouldn't bother anyone else.

Or maybe one of those uninhabited Cold War Air Force startions that get visited maybe once a year to service the radar and repair the runway (I think the Air Force made a wise decision there, by the way... keeping the runways maintained means they could have a base back up and running pretty damned quick, should it become necessary).




Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (IG3/x)

285 > That's why its in AK. On the tundra, cable to the rest of the world is only for official messages, manual typewriters with carbon paper, and lots of requests for reports of 500 pages or more.

(looks at calendar.... yep, still 2026)

Allow me to gently suggest that your idea of conditions in Alaska might be a bit... outdated.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 03:25 PM (IG3/x)

286 281 Former Miss nc is from Mexico Ecuador. She's racist. New miss nc is black. No white chicks involved. Yet.

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (enNUy)

According to AI, Idaho had a black as their state Miss back in 1964...so she was a black that wore the sash that said "Miss Idaho"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:26 PM (l3cgK)

287 Or maybe one of those uninhabited Cold War Air Force startions that get visited maybe once a year to service the radar and repair the runway (I think the Air Force made a wise decision there, by the way... keeping the runways maintained means they could have a base back up and running pretty damned quick, should it become necessary).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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BIL served at a radar site up there. Bonus for me when he retired, he gave me some of his cold weather gear.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 03:27 PM (XeU6L)

288 From what I've read, it started here in the states, at some Army camp that was training recruits for the war, before any of them had set foot in Europe.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:06 PM (77rzZ)


Several years prior to the Spanish Flu there was a great outbreak of Polio in New York City, in the area that the Rockefeller Institute was working with serial passage of Polio to monkeys to try and find the causative agent that was reliably infectious, so they could try to find a cure or a preventative.
Knowing this, I wonder if the Rockefeller institute or some US Army spawned copy of it was trying to work with something like this at Fort Riley.
It was speculated during the war, prior to the US entry, that the Germans were working on "germ warfare" and it was a serious concern to the Brits. It would have been absolutely stupid for Wilson to sign off on something insanely dangerous like this, and Wilson really thought he was hot shit that could only succeed if he did insanely dangerous shit like this

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 03:28 PM (rbvCR)

289 Hispanics are so racist...they look down on the darker shades. My Mexican ancestry has White Spaniards, Black Slaves, and Mexican Indians in it, so it doesn't matter much to me...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2026 03:20 PM (l3cgK)

It's not really racist, its classist. The Upper class mixes less with natives and goes home to Spain, the middle and lower have less clout. Brazil is the same way, with the addition of black genes from slaves to the mix.

That's also why the rape crimes against the lower class white girls in England get so little play there. The upper and middle classes aren't gonna sweat abuse of the lower classes, even if genetically there is no difference.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:28 PM (uhVAy)

290 251 Sounds like we're bombing Qeshm Island

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Interesting, thought a non-touchable.

The largest island in the Gulf and sits in the Strait of Hormuz, separated from the Iranian mainland by the Clarence Strait. It functions as a major free trade zone and boasts the Hara mangrove forests, salt caves, and a history shaped by Portuguese and Persian rule.



Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 03:29 PM (NFX2v)

291 > Fun fact: The Army officer who was sent to Alaska in 1867 to take possession of it from the Russians was named Jefferson Davis
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

Another fun fact: when the transfer became official on October 18, 1867, the chattel slaves held by the Tlingit (and some other tribes) were automatically emancipated, making them the last slaves to be freed what is now the territory of the United States.

The Indians were pissed off about it, too.

"Juneteenth" my ass.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 03:29 PM (IG3/x)

292 Or maybe one of those uninhabited Cold War Air Force startions that get visited maybe once a year to service the radar and repair the runway (I think the Air Force made a wise decision there, by the way... keeping the runways maintained means they could have a base back up and running pretty damned quick, should it become necessary).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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BIL served at a radar site up there. Bonus for me when he retired, he gave me some of his cold weather gear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 03:27 PM (XeU6L)

Another use for a US Greenland Territory.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:29 PM (uhVAy)

293 Interesting, thought a non-touchable.

The largest island in the Gulf and sits in the Strait of Hormuz, separated from the Iranian mainland by the Clarence Strait. It functions as a major free trade zone and boasts the Hara mangrove forests, salt caves, and a history shaped by Portuguese and Persian rule.



Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 03:29 PM (NFX2v)

no reason for any geographic feature to be untouchable with our tech to drop a strike on an open window should we care to do so.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:31 PM (uhVAy)

294 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2026 03:27 PM (XeU6L)

I was born at Ellsworth AFB and my father served temp assignments at Minot. After he retired and we moved to Louisiana, all of his AF winter apparel became overkill. The gloves were awesome though.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 03:32 PM (KC5Lt)

295 hat's why its in AK. On the tundra, cable to the rest of the world is only for official messages, manual typewriters with carbon paper, and lots of requests for reports of 500 pages or more.

(looks at calendar.... yep, still 2026)

Allow me to gently suggest that your idea of conditions in Alaska might be a bit... outdated.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 03:25 PM (IG3/x)

it won't be outdated when I intentionally set up such conditions. Hardship with a capital H and A

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:32 PM (uhVAy)

296
Indeed. At the very least they could assign them to Adak, where they wouldn't bother anyone else.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 03:23 PM (IG3/x)




We could easily sell them on the idea, the island is an outdoor enthusiast's paradise. I mean, Adak even has it's own National Forest.

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

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 03:34 PM (y9nCu)

297 > I was born at Ellsworth AFB and my father served temp assignments at Minot.

IMO, Minot is far more bleak than any major base in Alaska. Maybe some of the mothballed stations in the high Arctic that I mentioned above would be comparable, but certainly not JBER or even Eielson.

For one thing, Eielson has trees.





Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 03:36 PM (IG3/x)

298 But, remember, Trump will never actually hurt Iran because he's so desperate for a deal and will accept literally anything to get Iran to reaccept the Obama-Iran deal that he himself tore up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 06, 2026 03:18 PM (sZHUV)


I know, it makes me cry salty tears of shame out of the humiliation Trump's inability to come to a decision gives me

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2026 03:39 PM (rbvCR)

299 Adak does have some excellent hunting. The caribou herd has expanded a lot since the Navy base shut down.

It's a spendy trip, but apparently worth it to some.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 03:43 PM (IG3/x)

300 They start in filthy china with their proto-commie pigs and ducks and humans all living in the same hovel.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 06, 2026 03:10 PM (ppr2L)
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Pigs, ducks, chickens, and people all eating and shitting in the same place with no sanitation - what could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 06, 2026 03:56 PM (JNTt1)

301 223 >>RFKJr should be in a better position to look into that. If true, I'm sure the Deep State is hiding it well, but he ought to be able to start investigating.

Lyme Disease is big topic around here because Lyme, CT is not far away. This entire region is constantly being told to keep an eye out for ticks that can spread it.

Some of us crazy conspiracy theorists have been saying for years that Plum Island is the logical place for it to have escaped. Maybe we can finally get someone like RFK to look into it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2026 03:11 PM (viF8m)
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They should attack the ticks/Lyme Disease like they attacked the New World Screw Worm: breed a shitload of sterile males to mate with the females which will then produce no offspring. Wipe out all the ticks. This would greatly impact the only marsupial native to North America - the opossum, a voracious tick eater.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 06, 2026 04:00 PM (JNTt1)

302 237 Why did Fauci have a regularly-scheduled call with Bill Gates every 2 weeks? Did he really entertain the possibility that the vaccine was compromised in Jan. of 2021, just after its first emergency roll-out?
Posted by: KT at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (rdeQO)

Star hunting or money hunting probably.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 03:14 PM (uhVAy)
=======
Isn't Bill Gates on record as stating that 90% of the humans on the planet need to die to save the earth? My gut tells me this was his first attempt.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 06, 2026 04:04 PM (JNTt1)

Former Internet Celebrity Perez Hilton Hospitalized After Repeatedly Cutting Himself During a Livestream, Screaming "I'm Doing This for My Children!"

You probably have cleared your organic hard-drive of this nasty buffoon. He's the guy who ruined Miss America aspirant's chances by demanding she say that transgenders should be allowed to compete in Miss America. When she -- rather stunned by the question -- babbled out a careful answer that ultimately ended in "no," Hilton declared her answer "ugly."

His whole career, if you can call it that, consisted of spreading gossip and attacking people posting pictures of his enemies after having crudely drawn semen on their faces.

He then paid a surrogate to give him a couple of Fashion Accessory Children and disappeared into a well-earned obscurity.

Apparently he's not handling that obscurity well.



Perez Hilton Is Hospitalized After Appearing to Harm Himself on Livestream

Law enforcement and emergency workers responded to Mr. Hilton's house after he appeared to hurt himself on a TikTok stream Tuesday.


Perez Hilton, the celebrity blogger, was hospitalized after he appeared to harm himself on camera during a TikTok livestream on Tuesday, the authorities said.

The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office said Wednesday morning that Mr. Hilton had been transported from his home in Miami to a hospital, where he was receiving medical attention after "livestreaming acts of self-harm on social media."

Video clips and screenshots from the livestream circulated widely online, appearing to show Mr. Hilton, 48, in distress and injuring himself on camera.

Cutting himself with a kitchen knife, they mean.

A representative for Mr. Hilton, Dante Rusciolelli, wrote in an email on Wednesday that he had no additional information on Mr. Hilton's condition. "Our focus remains on Perez's health, recovery, and the privacy of both him and his family during this incredibly difficult time," he said.

Later on Wednesday, a statement on Mr. Hilton's website said, "We can confirm that Perez is receiving medical care, and our family's focus right now is on his well-being."

"Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.

There is a disturbing clip of his Tik Tok Cutting Sesh on X. I wouldn't watch it. It shows him covered in his own blood screaming "I'm doing this for my children!"

Video here.

What he can do for his children is not contest Florida's likely move to take his children away and place them in the home of a non-lunatic.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM




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1 Open channel D

Posted by: Open Channel D at August 06, 2026 01:22 PM (qkj0f)

2 Is he running for Senate or something?

Posted by: t-bird at August 06, 2026 01:22 PM (KsZMV)

3 Channel D is open

Posted by: Open Channel D at August 06, 2026 01:22 PM (qkj0f)

4 yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 01:23 PM (wOO3z)

5 "Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.

ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 06, 2026 01:23 PM (bFu5X)

6 Well, I mean, sure, the kids would have benefited from the life insurance payout maybe....

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 06, 2026 01:24 PM (aJQbY)

7 Anyway....

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 01:25 PM (wOO3z)

8 What he can do for his children is not contest Florida's likely move to take his children away and place them in the home of a non-lunatic.

Beats other parts of the country taking people's children away for not letting teachers sexually mutilate them

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm)

9 What will happen to his purchased children?

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 01:25 PM (enNUy)

10 What will happen to his purchased children?
Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 01:25 PM


Repossessed?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 06, 2026 01:26 PM (bFu5X)

11 Oh no!

Anyway...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 06, 2026 01:26 PM (2UnvF)

12 The world is full of broken people.

I'd say most of them end up on the left, but there are broken people everywhere.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 01:26 PM (N1DT3)

13 This asshole mental defective shouldn't be anywhere near kids.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 01:27 PM (wOO3z)

14 Delete yourself. For your children.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 06, 2026 01:27 PM (dK+Kv)

15 Perez Hilton, the celebrity blogger
......

He's no Ace.

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 01:27 PM (UjdFS)

16 He has kids??

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 01:27 PM (Sco7b)

17 Willowed: ok this is too funny. Schumer endorsed al-Sayed. al-Sayed then said he favored Chris Van Hollen to replace Schumer
Endorsing muzzies won't make them like Jews, Chuckie

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 01:27 PM (KY+FT)

18 But he seemed so normal.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2026 01:28 PM (/k3in)

19 Apparently TikTok let this freak stream his separation with reality for nearly 30 minutes before taking it down.

There are a whole lot of sickos out there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2026 01:28 PM (2Cry5)

20 "Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.
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I was just about to skim right past this post

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 01:29 PM (JvZF+)

21 Didn't Carrie Prejean, the contestant that he ruined, recently go on a rant about Israel and the JOOS, or something?

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:29 PM (77rzZ)

22 Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.
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Jesus.

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 01:30 PM (fsIaS)

23 So the gay drugs really, really don't let you feel anything.

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 01:30 PM (enNUy)

24 His whole career, if you can call it that, consisted of spreading gossip and attacking people posting pictures of his enemies after having crudely drawn semen on their faces.

-
Well, at least he's classy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 01:30 PM (ndZc7)

25 Wait. Stop. Ace, stop it. Stop your bullshit and fake news.

You mean to tell me that this creepy mentally-ill leeching weirdo is a creepy mentally-ill leeching weirdo?

I shan't believe it. I just shan't!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

26 >>"Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike


Ace really doesn't give himself enough credit.

He's way out in front of Perez Hilton in my book of Important Gay Bloggers.

Posted by: garrett at August 06, 2026 01:32 PM (uzmqU)

27 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:32 PM (2YhKe)

28
Didn't Carrie Prejean, the contestant that he ruined, recently go on a rant about Israel and the JOOS, or something?
Posted by: Bulg

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

She revealed herself as a kook some time ago.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 01:32 PM (mmrXZ)

29 Elric -

Style Guide says the second 'shan't' should be 'shannot'. Moose out front should have told ya.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 06, 2026 01:32 PM (aJQbY)

30 Didn't Carrie Prejean, the contestant that he ruined, recently go on a rant about Israel and the JOOS, or something?
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:29 PM (77rzZ)
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Yeah, she's a Tuqr-Candace-style joosdidit chick.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 01:33 PM (JvZF+)

31 Just another example of how men aren't supposed to swallow man juice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:33 PM (2YhKe)

32


I am strangely turgid...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at August 06, 2026 01:33 PM (i9ubo)

33
Are we sure the Perez Hilton video wasn't

a campaign ad?

Cuz based on his argument, Ol' Perri would make as good a Senator for Florida as Talarico would for Texas.

He's got my vote!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 01:33 PM (iJfKG)

34 What kind of children name their father "Perez"?

Posted by: t-bird at August 06, 2026 01:33 PM (KsZMV)

35 "Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.
________

Bro's got this?

https://tinyurl.com/y6phk3fk

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

36 I keep getting emails from GoFundMe about how Washington state "needs my help".

Washington ranks 45th in tax competitiveness according to the Tax Foundation, and has elected actual communists to Congress.

Washington can go fuck itself.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 01:34 PM (IG3/x)

37 Washington can go fuck itself.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Is Spokane still burning?

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

38 Well, bye.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 06, 2026 01:35 PM (iySPJ)

39 Kids need a mom and a dad. I'm really not sure what the answer to gay adoption and surrogacy is other than banning it.

Posted by: pookysgirl, doing her best to give her kids a normal life at August 06, 2026 01:36 PM (Wt5PA)

40 I never liked the term "self harm." Sounds like a vague euphemism for what it really is.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

41 "Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.


Sick.

Burn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:36 PM (2YhKe)

42 That mountain bike so fvcking ghey.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 01:36 PM (JvZF+)

43 He has kids??

For some meaning of "has," undoubtedly.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 01:36 PM (vTZFs)

44 Better him then me

Posted by: Doug at August 06, 2026 01:36 PM (B1+sW)

45 I had no idea there were gay neanderthals.

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 01:36 PM (UjdFS)

46 Ick, at least the authorities realized they needed to pull him out of the house before he decided he needed to knife the kids too.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 06, 2026 01:36 PM (PV+Zw)

47
Former Internet Celebrity Perez Hilton Hospitalized After Repeatedly Cutting Himself During a Livestream, Screaming "I'm Doing This for My Children!"
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When the thing you do is bad enough that no clickbait headline could make it sound any more interesting, that's how you know it's bad.

"Perez Hilton Made One Mistake - Then Everything Changed"

"The Surprising Side of Perez Hilton No One Talks About"

"You Won't Believe What Perez Hilton Has Been Up To!"

"The Real Reason Perez Hilton Was Hospitalized"

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 01:37 PM (fsIaS)

48
The world is full of broken people.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

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

Add money/power and stir. Yields one serving of personal disaster.

Seems like this has been a toxic combo going back to ancient history. Not much we can do about it except keep exhorting people to raise and educate their kids well.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 01:37 PM (mmrXZ)

49 Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.

***

Thanks for my laugh for the day.

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 01:37 PM (lCppi)

50 Long time attention seeker seeks yet more attention.

Posted by: No Name Today at August 06, 2026 01:37 PM (8mulE)

51 Is Spokane still burning?
Posted by: Bulg


Looks like so. The whole state and OR have dozens of fires. But this is called summer.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 06, 2026 01:38 PM (diia5)

52
I never liked the term "self harm." Sounds like a vague euphemism for what it really is.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)


Well, to be fair..."Sloppy Masturbation with a Knife" doesn't just roll off the tongue.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 01:38 PM (iJfKG)

53 Long time attention seeker seeks yet more attention.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 06, 2026 01:37 PM (8mulE)



What broken, drugged up, mentally insane lunatics won't do for attention these days.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:38 PM (2YhKe)

54 Is Spokane still burning?
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah, more dry weather is causing them to flare up again, from what I'm seeing.

But the solution isn't begging for money from out of state.

The solution is pitchforks and torches in Olympia.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 01:38 PM (IG3/x)

55 Perez Hilton. No, I've never heard of her. Does she post here?
Bet she ain't no Piper!

Posted by: Case at August 06, 2026 01:38 PM (fV9m3)

56 I'm getting the same GoFundMe emails about Washington State. LULZ. Get Bent.

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 06, 2026 01:38 PM (2CeDH)

57 "I'm Doing This for My Children!"

Well, he was right about this. His "children" are certainly much better off without their dangerous, lunatic "father" around.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

58 There but for the Grace of God....

Interestingly, Deadline didn't cover this. I was surprised. However, since it's a Hollywood thread, they did have this about a movie I'm amazed is being made.


EXCLUSIVE: Here is your first full trailer for Jonathan Majors‘ comeback movie, Run Hide Fight: Infidels, a sequel of sorts to The Daily Wire‘s 2020 movie Run Hide Fight.

The film sparked a level of controversy online five weeks ago when its provocative logline was revealed as follows:

“When radical Islamic terrorists hijack a liberal college’s pro-Palestine encampment to enforce barbaric Sharia law on students and execute infidels in a makeshift caliphate, a ragtag band of red-blooded students, a security guard tired of ‘Uncle Tom’ smears, and a Delta Force vet must arm up to save their clueless peers and keep America from surrendering to the enemy on its own soil.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 01:39 PM (Sco7b)

59 Who raises 'his' kids? I'm quite sure it's not him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:39 PM (2YhKe)

60 I have no idea who this is , but I hope he receives some mental and spiritual help.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (6jy2V)

61 >>Yeah, more dry weather is causing them to flare up again, from what I'm seeing.


The weather and the arsonists, yes.

Posted by: garrett at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (uzmqU)

62 Bet she ain't no Piper!
Posted by: Case

No one can replace Piper. I miss her.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (77rzZ)

63 I have no idea who this is , but I hope he receives some mental and spiritual help.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (6jy2V)



His chosen spirit has long since taken over, it seems.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (2YhKe)

64 "Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.
___

*wipes screen*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (3fZgy)

65
The world is full of broken people.

I'd say most of them end up on the left, but there are broken people everywhere.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 06, 2026 01:26 PM (N1DT3)




I wouldn't go so far as to say that all commies are broken, kookoo bananas nut cases. But I WILL say that all broken, kookoo bananas nut cases turn out to be commies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (y9nCu)

66 Perez Hilton is a multimillionaire!

Posted by: Paul at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (T7fic)

67 I have no idea who this is , but I hope he receives some mental and spiritual help.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
.......

A lobotomy and an exorcism?

Posted by: wth at August 06, 2026 01:41 PM (UjdFS)

68
No one can replace Piper. I miss her.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (77rzZ)



Damn pet caused tumors........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:41 PM (2YhKe)

69 So how much tik tok money does he get from all the clicks?

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 01:41 PM (enNUy)

70 Posted by: Paul at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (T7fic)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 06, 2026 01:41 PM (2YhKe)

71 >>No one can replace Piper. I miss her.


She was too young.

*Pours out Kale Juice*

Posted by: garrett at August 06, 2026 01:41 PM (uzmqU)

72 The video has been taken down. But I'll bet any amount of money this dude was pumped so full of illegal drugs he didn't know what planet he was on.

Mental illness + heavy drugs = very very bad

Gay men are usually heavy into meth. That's one of the worst drugs out there. Run away.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)

73
If you want to see a cool, non-self harm video, some astronomers did indeed manage to image the dust cloud caused by that Falcon 9 2nd stage impact on the Moon the other night:

https://t.ly/9GYMo

That's some pretty damned impressive imaging. Note how the disc of the Moon is blacked out. To actually see the dust, it had to be so overexposed that the Moon itself would be saturated whiteout. I don't know how they managed this, but it's quite impressive.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (w6EFb)

74 I for one was shocked to learn that Perez Hilton has mental stability problems.


(closed captioning for the sarcasm-impaired: not really)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (IG3/x)

75 Did he intentionally name himself "Perez Hilton" because it sounds like "Paris Hilton?"

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (77rzZ)

76 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (wOO3z)

77 If this fucktard retains custody of "his children" there's no hope. Dude belongs in an asylum, in a rubber room.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2026 01:43 PM (2Cry5)

78 He's way out in front of Perez Hilton in my book of Important Gay Bloggers.
Posted by: garrett at August 06, 2026 01:32 PM (uzmqU)
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The sad thing is the Book of Important Gay Bloggers has sold more copies than the Hitchhikers' Guide the Galaxy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 01:43 PM (FZ29D)

79 Who smells the self-punishment due to guilt on this one? And, "doing it for my kids" doesn't convince me otherwise. Quite the opposite.

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 01:43 PM (dIske)

80
Gay men are usually heavy into meth. That's one of the worst drugs out there. Run away.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)



I'm betting he was on a serious regimen of anti-depressants, pain killers and ketamine.

Do a tox. I bet he's a smorgasbord of pharmaceuticals.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:43 PM (2YhKe)

81 I wouldn't go so far as to say that all commies are broken, kookoo bananas nut cases.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2026 01:40 PM (y9nCu)

True enough. Some of them are murderous sociopathic nut cases.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 01:44 PM (IG3/x)

82 76 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (wOO3z

Thank you. I didn't want to bring it up, but if that ever happened to me, I want to slice too.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 01:44 PM (Sco7b)

83 I for one was shocked to learn that Perez Hilton has mental stability problems.


(closed captioning for the sarcasm-impaired: not really)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (IG3/x)

A 50 year old on Tik Tok is even more surprising. Look, as a parent you need to leave something for your kids to rebel against you about.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 01:44 PM (uhVAy)

84 Speaking of the Jews . . .

Schumer endorses Abdul El-Sayed then, within hours . . .

Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
El Sayed Backs Chris Van Hollen to Replace Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader

-
Lie down with dogs, Chuckie, get up with fleas.

P.S. I'm not sure I should thank Jesus for this.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 01:44 PM (ndZc7)

85 Did he intentionally name himself "Perez Hilton" because it sounds like "Paris Hilton?"

Real name (per Bing) is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 01:44 PM (vTZFs)

86 Perez Hilton is a multimillionaire!


And yet, the left can't stop shitting on capitalism and all the benefits it grants to even the most worthless, talent free jackwagons........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:45 PM (2YhKe)

87 > 75 Did he intentionally name himself "Perez Hilton" because it sounds like "Paris Hilton?"
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (77rzZ)

Yep. He came on the blogging scene when Paris was the It Girl du jour.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 01:45 PM (IG3/x)

88 In retrospect "Perez Hilton" is probably less gay sounding.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 01:45 PM (vTZFs)

89 Did he intentionally name himself "Perez Hilton" because it sounds like "Paris Hilton?"


Yes. Quite the limelight he chose to sunbathe in........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:45 PM (2YhKe)

90 I'm betting he was on a serious regimen of anti-depressants, pain killers and ketamine.

Do a tox. I bet he's a smorgasbord of pharmaceuticals.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:43 PM (2YhKe)

That's why drug users should be poor. That way you can only afford so much crap to pour into your body.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 01:45 PM (uhVAy)

91 Lie down with dogs, Chuckie, get up with fleas.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Fortunately, sous-videing kills all the fleas.
-- B. Hussein Obama

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

92
Real name (per Bing) is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 01:44 PM (vTZFs)



Shouldn't be be mowing Elizabeth Warren's lawn?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:46 PM (2YhKe)

93 > 75 Did he intentionally name himself "Perez Hilton" because it sounds like "Paris Hilton?"
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (77rzZ)

Yep. He came on the blogging scene when Paris was the It Girl du jour.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 01:45 PM (IG3/x)
----
I vaguely remembering him being the center of some celebrity scandal a couple of decades ago. Don't think he was the cause so much as the dude who brought it to light.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 01:46 PM (FZ29D)

94 "Perez Hilton" - reminds me of "Alpa Chino" from Tropic Thunder.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 06, 2026 01:47 PM (H5Io+)

95 > He then paid a surrogate to give him a couple of Fashion Accessory Children and disappeared into a well-earned obscurity.

I am really concerned by this trend of buying children this way. I honestly have no idea what, if anything, can be done. Surrogacy can be very helpful to loving couples who would be great parents. But it's also being used by awful people who shouldn't be around children at all.

I suppose this is true of most things. Evil people can extort just about anything. But I don't see much difference between rich people buying children from desperate families and rich people paying a surrogate to give birth to a child. Most western people would see the issue with the first.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 06, 2026 01:47 PM (mkw2N)

96 Did he intentionally name himself "Perez Hilton" because it sounds like "Paris Hilton?"

Real name (per Bing) is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 01:44 PM (vTZFs)

Being named Mario should have been a far more popular tik tok name than Perez Hilton.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 01:47 PM (uhVAy)

97 I've been hitting myself with a hammer over on TikTok and I'm normal in every way.

Posted by: The Fugitive From Board of Mental Health at August 06, 2026 01:47 PM (JM9I6)

98 I have no idea who this is , but I hope he receives some mental and spiritual help.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I'm more a may he feel the fires of Hell kind of guy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 01:47 PM (ndZc7)

99
Yep. He came on the blogging scene when Paris was the It Girl du jour.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 01:45 PM (IG3/x)



I guess I missed my opportunity to blog stupid gossip shit after Kim Kardashian's porno came out.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:48 PM (2YhKe)

100 Notice to Side Sleepers: Try the Butterfly Method Tonight!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 01:48 PM (wOO3z)

101 Real name (per Bing) is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.
Posted by: Oddbob

Looks Portuguese.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:48 PM (77rzZ)

102 Gay Icon and depraved raving lunatic have long been interchangeable descriptors.



Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 01:48 PM (7vHVU)

103 The video has been taken down. But I'll bet any amount of money this dude was pumped so full of illegal drugs he didn't know what planet he was on.

Mental illness + heavy drugs = very very bad

Gay men are usually heavy into meth. That's one of the worst drugs out there. Run away.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)

I knew that lithium can be bad for your kidneys, and that's why Pooky had metabolic panels done biannually, but I didn't know about lithium intoxication until his kidneys were trying to shut down. He was convinced he was in a space station, fighting off aliens (the nurses) and a witch (me). Don't worry, he's since apologized.

Posted by: pookysgirl has had a rocky year at August 06, 2026 01:48 PM (Wt5PA)

104 Hey P Rez 72hr involuntary committ., a syringe loaded with sodium amytal injected into you and 24 hr round the clock monitoring by the goon squad. Repeat. No contact with children ever again.

Posted by: little people at August 06, 2026 01:48 PM (ehY6c)

105 I'm going to see Bryan Adams on Sunday night. Maybe he'll dedicate "Cuts Like a Knife" to Perez?

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 01:48 PM (S0M0K)

106 Darn! The video is no longer available.
I wanted to watch it. It can't stand him.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2026 01:48 PM (NpAcC)

107
Nice reply to muslim whining by a Japanese woman:

https://instapundit.com/815074/


Should pretty much be the standard American reply as well.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2026 01:49 PM (iJfKG)

108 He then paid a surrogate to give him a couple of Fashion Accessory Children
-

So, Hilton was never Marriot?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 06, 2026 01:49 PM (ohSsM)

109 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 01:44 PM (ndZc7)

Schumer endorsed El Sayed ???

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 01:49 PM (g47mK)

110 Why does Paul think I should care that Perez Hilton is a multimillionaire? . It doesn't seem to have helped him avoid major mental health problems and possible drug abuse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2026 01:49 PM (xPsv8)

111 I guess he finally had too much anal nitrate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:49 PM (2YhKe)

112 I always thought self-immolation was a better option for internet attention whores.

Posted by: Roy at August 06, 2026 01:50 PM (qwype)

113 I'm watching RFK cut up Dana Bash again. Much better.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 01:50 PM (JvZF+)

114 "CNN: Dems' chances in the Michigan Senate race are down dramatically following El-Sayed primary win"

what does that mean??

"DDHQ Michigan senate ratings change following Abdul El-Sayed primary win

🔵 Lean D -> 🟡 Toss-up


Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 01:50 PM (g47mK)

115 I feel sorry for the poor EMTs who had to respond. Hope they tripled the PPE.

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 01:50 PM (enNUy)

116 Those kids need to be taken away from him forever.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2026 01:50 PM (NpAcC)

117 Psychotic break or demonic possession? Potato, potaw-toh. He needs spiritual cleansing and a whole lot of healing. I truly hope his parents are around for the kids.

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 01:51 PM (lCppi)

118 This event validates that we not only allow the truly insane to walk the streets but we give them a platform to spread same.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 01:51 PM (51ygH)

119
I have no idea who this is , but I hope he receives some mental and spiritual help.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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

In all seriousness, "Perez Hilton," as he billed himself, was a HUGE internet star until TMZ caught him and celebrities took to Instagram and started breaking their own news and releasing their own sex tapes. At times, I confess, I found him catchy and funny. I remember a picture of Lindsey Lohan he posted stumbling out of some club leaning on someone in her retinue and Hilton captioned it "Lindsey Lohan exits club with seeing eye friend."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 01:51 PM (mmrXZ)

120 I suppose this is true of most things. Evil people can extort just about anything. But I don't see much difference between rich people buying children from desperate families and rich people paying a surrogate to give birth to a child. Most western people would see the issue with the first.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 06, 2026 01:47 PM (mkw2N)

Well off folks in the past often helped raise poorer folks' kids if they showed promise. William Tecumseh Sherman was 'part adopted' by the rich Senator in town, he had to add William to his name to have a Christian name for the new family. His mom lived nearby with IIRC his other siblings.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 01:51 PM (uhVAy)

121 Did he intentionally name himself "Perez Hilton" because it sounds like "Paris Hilton?"

Real name (per Bing) is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 01:44 PM (vTZFs)

Should have gone with Rico Suave Lorenzo Llamas.

Posted by: It's All Make Believe at August 06, 2026 01:52 PM (wVcYX)

122 I'm going to see Bryan Adams on Sunday night. Maybe he'll dedicate "Cuts Like a Knife" to Perez?

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 01:48 PM (S0M0K)



Did you loose your ballsack in a poker game?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:52 PM (2YhKe)

123 I'm watching RFK cut up Dana Bash again. Much better.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 01:50 PM (JvZF+)

I'm starting to think she likes that treatment...

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 01:52 PM (lCppi)

124 *lose

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:52 PM (2YhKe)

125 Well off folks in the past often helped raise poorer folks' kids if they showed promise. William Tecumseh Sherman was 'part adopted' by the rich Senator in town, he had to add William to his name to have a Christian name for the new family. His mom lived nearby with IIRC his other siblings.
Posted by: Oldcat

The guy who adopted Sherman was the first Secretary of the Interior. Sherman married his daughter.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:52 PM (77rzZ)

126 Your self-harming attention whore name is your favorite Spanish surname and your favorite hotel chain.

I'm Lopez Sheraton.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (wGerL)

127 CNN: Dems' chances in the Michigan Senate race are down dramatically following El-Sayed primary win"

🔵 Lean D -> 🟡 Toss-up


Isn't that the least "dramatic" change possible?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (vTZFs)

128 If this fucktard retains custody of "his children" there's no hope. Dude belongs in an asylum, in a rubber room.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2026 01:43 PM (2Cry5)
====

Who are you to break up this family!!
-the child welfare

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (JvZF+)

129 Psychotic break or demonic possession? Potato, potaw-toh. He needs spiritual cleansing and a whole lot of healing. I truly hope his parents are around for the kids.
Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 01:51 PM (lCppi)

I don't think you need invoke Satan for the motivation of an influencer on the downside of their career deciding to do something big to gain one more viral splash.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (uhVAy)

130
Former Internet Celebrity Perez Hilton Hospitalized After Repeatedly Cutting Himself During a Livestream

--------

A good start.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (lsrsS)

131 center of some celebrity scandal a couple of decades ago"

Leave Brittany alone!

(Yeah, different idiot...)

Posted by: man at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (XuXeR)

132 Doof-

Don't get all weepy when performs that gay ass Robin Hood song.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 01:54 PM (wOO3z)

133 "CNN: Dems' chances in the Michigan Senate race are down dramatically following El-Sayed primary win"

what does that mean??

"DDHQ Michigan senate ratings change following Abdul El-Sayed primary win

🔵 Lean D -> 🟡 Toss-up


Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 01:50 PM (g47mK)

The circular firing squad is going to be absolutely epic. The Dems believe Michican and Texas are both winnable. Michigan actually IS winnable for them.

They're going to lose them both.

And black Dems are going to scream and rage that they WOULD HAVE WON both seats if they had only listened to what black Dems said they wanted.

Just in time for Kamala's primary race to begin.

Absolutely *chefs kiss*

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 06, 2026 01:54 PM (AdHga)

134 OK, I can't help it !

"
@jarvis_best
3h
What each political faction is doing to lower the cost of burritos:

- Libertarian: import 40 million immigrants from burrito making countries, destroy country but hey things are cheap

- MAGA: Tweet about it. Do nothing.

- Liberal: Vow to form a Congressional Burrito Cost Study Committee, which will recommend the creation of a United States Burrito Agency. The USBA will have the authority to review and approve of burrito prices after all stakeholders have been consulted. Burrito NGOs are expected to make billions from government grants.

Trad con: Point out that burritos are cheaper if you fill them with dirt instead of meat.

DSA: Run for office on a platform of beheading the fat cats at Big Burrito. Win in a landslide. Have the lawyers release a statement that as it turns out you aren’t ALLOWED to behead people for burrito crimes. Time magazine names you Person of the Year anyway"

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 01:54 PM (g47mK)

135 The guy who adopted Sherman was the first Secretary of the Interior. Sherman married his daughter.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 01:52 PM (77rzZ)

also US Senator from Ohio by the time of the ACW.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 01:54 PM (uhVAy)

136 Psychotic break or demonic possession? Potato, potaw-toh. He needs spiritual cleansing and a whole lot of healing. I truly hope his parents are around for the kids.
Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2026 01:51 PM (lCppi)



I think you misspelled 'exorcism.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:54 PM (2YhKe)

137 Your self-harming attention whore name is your favorite Spanish surname and your favorite hotel chain.

I'm Lopez Sheraton.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (wGerL)
---------
*sadz*

Posted by: Santa Ana Ramada Inn at August 06, 2026 01:54 PM (amcLV)

138 Abdul durka durka jihad jihad ElShitthebed seems a little crazy even for a commie.

I love seeing the geriatric Dems tie themselves to him and Piker.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 01:55 PM (7vHVU)

139 Former Internet Celebrity Perez Hilton Hospitalized After Repeatedly Cutting Himself During a Livestream

--------

A good start.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (lsrsS)

I don't see why we are complaining about a good job of editing.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 01:55 PM (uhVAy)

140 Ace hates people "gossiping" he is strictly paid for disinformation.

Posted by: Paul at August 06, 2026 01:55 PM (T7fic)

141 Doof-

Don't get all weepy when performs that gay ass Robin Hood song.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 01:54 PM (wOO3z)


That's the beer break signal

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 01:55 PM (S0M0K)

142 Your self-harming attention whore name is your favorite Spanish surname and your favorite hotel chain.

I'm Lopez Sheraton.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson


Jesus Red Roof Inn

Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 01:55 PM (rNQnT)

143 I guess he finally had too much anal nitrate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:49 PM


Dude...that's not how you're supposed to do whippets.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 06, 2026 01:56 PM (bFu5X)

144 Manuel Radisson.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 01:56 PM (wOO3z)

145 Schumer endorsed El Sayed ???
Posted by: runner

https://tinyurl.com/yc4a297d

You know, like cockroaches endorsing Raid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 01:56 PM (ndZc7)

146 Not watching a video of the fag.

I did see a photo of him yesterday, lying in a hospital bed. Unsure when it was taken as maybe he's had a dramatic turn in the past.

He had a nasogastric tube & I wondered why. Not enough to read the article or his past medical history, however. I am not interested in this gossip fag.

Incredibly sad that surrogates or adoption agencies give babies & children to homos and lesbos. They then corrupt their minds & are later proud to be the parents of transoids.

The bs of love is love & Chad has two mommies is evil. Nothing good can come of brainwashing these kids from an early age. Look at Rosie's daughter who's now in prison.

Children need a mother & father in their lives. Preferably in marriage, unless one is abusive & divorce follows. The divorce curve has not changed much since we got married 47yrs ago...it was 50/50 then to not divorce and peaked in 1981. Now 41% because I looked it up. Possibly less weddings since the '80's?

While I know I am blessed.. was I just lucky or did I go into it knowing he would not change, loved him as he is, and we were fine with neither changing?

Marry your best friend.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 06, 2026 01:56 PM (hzuYO)

147 *lose
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:52 PM (2YhKe)


"loose" made the comment even funnier!

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 01:56 PM (S0M0K)

148 Your self-harming attention whore name is your favorite Spanish surname and your favorite hotel chain.

I'm Lopez Sheraton.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (wGerL)

Paco Bell Resort Motel.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 06, 2026 01:57 PM (AdHga)

149 Number 1, top drawer item on my news feed today is, 'LAX workers make absolutely disgusting discovery inside airline food catering company'. Glad Brave has it's priorities in order.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 01:57 PM (51ygH)

150 who?

Posted by: Esperman at August 06, 2026 01:57 PM (lXuCG)

151 So the odds of his psychotic break being related to him being a "former" internet celebrity are?

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2026 01:57 PM (/k3in)

152 Tulsa Travelodge.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 01:57 PM (ndZc7)

153 I'm going to see Bryan Adams on Sunday night. Maybe he'll dedicate "Cuts Like a Knife" to Perez?

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 01:48 PM (S0M0K)


Did you loose your ballsack in a poker game?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:52 PM


I once saw Bryan Adams open for Def Leppard. It was a pretty good show.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 06, 2026 01:57 PM (bFu5X)

154 137 Your self-harming attention whore name is your favorite Spanish surname and your favorite hotel chain.

I'm Lopez Sheraton.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (wGerL)
---------
*sadz*
Posted by: Santa Ana Ramada Inn at August 06, 2026 01:54 PM (amcLV)

Castilla Motel 6? uhhh...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 06, 2026 01:57 PM (mP0Kj)

155 osted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 01:56 PM (ndZc7)

he must be on drugs

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 01:58 PM (g47mK)

156 - MAGA: Tweet about it. Do nothing.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 01:54 PM (g47mK)

MAGA: Use special forces to topple a leftist regime in a key burrito making nation. More burritos in that country, no difference in burritos in the US.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 01:58 PM (uhVAy)

157 Perez Hilton Is Hospitalized After Appearing to watch gladiator movies on Livestream

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 06, 2026 01:59 PM (txoHD)

158
He's way out in front of Perez Hilton in my book of Important Gay Bloggers.
Posted by: garrett
==
Literally no one at AOS HQ raises an eyebrow over the fact that Garrett has his very own book of Important Gay Bloggers. Because of course he does.

Posted by: Crocs say it in a special way at August 06, 2026 01:59 PM (anL5R)

159 Soto Venetian actually sounds pretty cool.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 01:59 PM (7vHVU)

160 You know who else is a former celebrity?

Posted by: Chuy at August 06, 2026 01:59 PM (0sNs1)

161 Did somebody not tell this trainwreck that the cartels and chinese giving away fentanyl practically for free?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 06, 2026 01:59 PM (iySPJ)

162
"loose" made the comment even funnier!
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 01:56 PM (S0M0K)



So, you're admitting it? You've changed, man.......

You really need to separate yourself from the fashion part of the ONT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:59 PM (2YhKe)

163 Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 01:58 PM (uhVAy)

you can put it on your X feed, like the other guy

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 01:59 PM (g47mK)

164 he must be on drugs
Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 01:58 PM (g47mK)

leftist. Of course he is on drugs, they all are. Or 'self care' as they call it.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 01:59 PM (uhVAy)

165 I once saw Bryan Adams open for Def Leppard. It was a pretty good show.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

You can actually say you saw someone open for someone else and have it be a joke?

Does the Style Guide know this?

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:00 PM (77rzZ)

166 Knife's Inn.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 06, 2026 02:00 PM (2Ez/1)

167 Burritos?

Chipotle Takes Jalapeños Off The Menu After New Diarrhea Scare

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 02:00 PM (ndZc7)

168
I once saw Bryan Adams open for Def Leppard. It was a pretty good show.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 06, 2026 01:57 PM (bFu5X)



That was before Bryan Adams traded his nuts in for an extension of his career by writing songs with his vagina.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM (2YhKe)

169 Someone on X commented that Hilton's stream was live for over 30 minutes before anyone stepped in. Wut?

Posted by: Octochicken at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM (oCS0o)

170 Shot: I'm going to see Bryan Adams on Sunday night.

Chaser: https://youtu.be/ME9G-pfZk80

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM (/k3in)

171
I suppose this is true of most things. Evil people can extort just about anything. But I don't see much difference between rich people buying children from desperate families and rich people paying a surrogate to give birth to a child. Most western people would see the issue with the first.
Posted by: bonhomme
======
Some things are above commerce and should not be bought or sold. The values of the marketplace always end up in the gutter of humanity.

Like it appears true that Carthaginian families bought kids so that when the time came to sacrifice a kid to Molech, they put forward the adoptee. For a long time modern asshole historians argued that was just a myth--it wasn't--that whole rancid Phoenician culture practiced child sacrifice and they spread it to their colonies like Carthage. Archealogical evidence is on the Roman historian's side there.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM (E4rtv)

172 All Ds supporting Al-Jihad are disgusting trash, and are no better than the commies who united with Aytollah and brought him to power. Fuck them.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM (g47mK)

173 Knife's Inn.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Stolen. You don't see many of those around anymore.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM (wOO3z)

174 Let's try this again:

You can actually say you saw someone open for someone else and have it NOT be a joke?

Does the Style Guide know this?
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM (77rzZ)

175 Schumer is my Senator and I can't stand him, but there's a certain pathos watching him stumble into retirement. Nah, fuck him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM (KY+FT)

176 Someone on X commented that Hilton's stream was live for over 30 minutes before anyone stepped in. Wut?
Posted by: Octochicken at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM (oCS0o)



All four people watching thought it was a Halloween gag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:02 PM (2YhKe)

177 You don't have to invoke satan, he's here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 02:02 PM (51ygH)

178 it was 50/50 then to not divorce and peaked in 1981. Now 41% because I looked it up. Possibly less weddings since the '80's?

While I know I am blessed.. was I just lucky or did I go into it knowing he would not change, loved him as he is, and we were fine with neither changing?

Marry your best friend.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 06, 2026 01:56 PM (hzuYO)

M-M marriages/relationships have about half the breakup rate of M-F. F-F have about double. So the M-M marriages might be bringing down the average.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:02 PM (uhVAy)

179 @167 as opposed to what , the old Chipotle diarrhea scare?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2026 02:03 PM (KY+FT)

180 169 Someone on X commented that Hilton's stream was live for over 30 minutes before anyone stepped in. Wut?
Posted by: Octochicken

Nowadays if someone shoot you in the street, you get a bunch of people around your dying body taking selfies and video to put on the internet. So I can see why it took 30 minutes before someone made a call.

Plus so much of the shit on the internet is fake and gay anyway so they might have thought it was a stunt.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:03 PM (E4rtv)

181 MAGA: Tweet about it. Do nothing.

-
GOPe battlecry: Wouldn't Be Prudent!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 06, 2026 02:03 PM (ndZc7)

182 At the absolute peak of the blogging boom in the late 2000s, Hilton's blog was an advertising powerhouse.

Also, according to reports by The New York Times, Hilton brought in about $3,000 monthly directly from TikTok's Creator Fund before losing his original footprint on the app.

Hilton has faced a highly turbulent relationship with TikTok. He was permanently banned from his initial account (which had 1.6 million followers) in December 2020 for violating community guidelines regarding harassment and bullying.

"Perez Hilton Is Hospitalized After APPEARING to Harm Himself on Livestream." And then TikTok shutdown Perez' newest account.

5051, for starters. He was due that so long ago. His family and team confirmed he is safe and communicating.

BTW, he was born Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. and chose his pseudonym as a play on Paris Hilton. He's 48 and has three kids, roughly 9 to 13. He used different gestational surrogates for each pregnancy, but all three children share the same anonymous egg donor. Hopefully, none of his genes were involved.

Loser. Taxpayers will be keeping him and his kids, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 02:03 PM (NFX2v)

183 Your self-harming attention whore name is your favorite Spanish surname and your favorite hotel chain.

I'm Lopez Sheraton.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 06, 2026 01:53 PM (wGerL)
---------
*sadz*
Posted by: Santa Ana Ramada Inn at August 06, 2026 01:54 PM (amcLV)

Hola!

Posted by: Gonzalez Super 8 at August 06, 2026 02:03 PM (wVcYX)

184 Iranians watching the goings on in the US , the steep rise of the red-green alliance, are pulling their hair out, trying to warn us of the impending doom.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 02:03 PM (g47mK)

185 I heard they're making Garrett's Book of Important Gay Bloggers into a movie.

Posted by: Wally at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (avzFa)

186 Hayward-Thomas-Baldwin Titty Twister.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (0sNs1)

187 Face it, you're getting the squirts any which way going to Chipotle.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (wOO3z)

188 Someone on X commented that Hilton's stream was live for over 30 minutes before anyone stepped in. Wut?
Posted by: Octochicken at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM (oCS0o)


All four people watching thought it was a Halloween gag.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:02 PM (2YhKe)
______

There are still some people claiming it was fake and staged for attention. I didn't see the vid, so I can't opine on that. But since they hauled his ass away to the looney bin, I assume he was legit cutting himself.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

189
5051, for starters. He was due that so long ago. His family and team confirmed he is safe and communicating.



I think you mean 5150......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (2YhKe)

190 I saw the dBs open for REM at the UMass Fine Arts Center in 1984. REM blew chunks.

Posted by: Radio Free at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (qUkBO)

191 175 Schumer is my Senator and I can't stand him, but there's a certain pathos watching him stumble into retirement. Nah, fuck him

Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Don't know what pathos means but he's always been a jack ass and seeing those he shepherded for so many years turn on him is pleasing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 02:05 PM (51ygH)

192 M-M marriages/relationships have about half the breakup rate of M-F. F-F have about double. So the M-M marriages might be bringing down the average.
Posted by: Oldcat
=======
Because the secret sauce is unfaithfullness is baked into the M-M relationship--the number of partners of gays of a typical male gay makes even leaves Bonnie Blue in awe.

But both M-M and F-F have high rates of domestic violence compared with M-F with lesbians ahead of every grouping except bisexual women.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:05 PM (E4rtv)

193 So, you're admitting it? You've changed, man.......

You really need to separate yourself from the fashion part of the ONT.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:59 PM (2YhKe)


Yeah, I'm going. He's a great performer from what I've seen in vids. Never saw him live so kind of a check the box thing. Pat Benatar is the opening act. Going with my sister. Should be a good time.

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 02:06 PM (S0M0K)

194
But both M-M and F-F have high rates of domestic violence compared with M-F with lesbians ahead of every grouping except bisexual women.
Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:05 PM (E4rtv)



Although the F-F couple and their adopted black daughter have calmed, or just kept it indoors, over the last couple years, all the did was yell at each other.....and the kid. I never heard them talk, only yelling all the time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:06 PM (2YhKe)

195 Don't marry your best friend. Because it promotes your second best friend to a status they didn't earn.

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 02:06 PM (fsIaS)

196 There are still some people claiming it was fake and staged for attention. I didn't see the vid, so I can't opine on that. But since they hauled his ass away to the looney bin, I assume he was legit cutting himself.

Posted by: Elric The Blade
---

He looked like bloody meat loaf.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 02:06 PM (51ygH)

197 5051, for starters. He was due that so long ago. His family and team confirmed he is safe and communicating.


I think you mean 5150......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (2YhKe)
-------
5051 is where thy hospitalize you for no reason at all.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (amcLV)

198 Who is Perez Hilton?

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (W2Pud)

199 I always thought Pat Benatar was kinda hot.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (77rzZ)

200 There are still some people claiming it was fake and staged for attention. I didn't see the vid, so I can't opine on that. But since they hauled his ass away to the looney bin, I assume he was legit cutting himself.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

To quote Jimmy Durante singing "Make Someone Happy"

Fame, if you win it,
Comes and goes in a minute,
Where's the real stuff in life, to cling to?
Love is the answer
Someone to love is the answer
Once you've found her
Build your world around her

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (E4rtv)

201 He looked like bloody meat loaf.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 02:06 PM (51ygH)

Most recipes suggest ketchup for meatloaf

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (uhVAy)

202
Yeah, I'm going. He's a great performer from what I've seen in vids. Never saw him live so kind of a check the box thing. Pat Benatar is the opening act. Going with my sister. Should be a good time.
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 02:06 PM (S0M0K)



Well, hopefully Benatar has gotten better over the years. SpongeBro saw her headline at Six Flags once. Huey Lewis opened for her. Her show was so boring, they brought Lewis back out to 'assist.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:08 PM (2YhKe)

203 90% of money raised for tragedies never gets to people affected by the tragedy.

Posted by: Charity Realities at August 06, 2026 02:08 PM (Bz1XI)

204 20 "Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.
=====

I was just about to skim right past this post
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 01:29 PM (JvZF+)

The genius of Ace. Skip past this otherwise uninteresting post when that grenade was thrown into it?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 06, 2026 02:08 PM (9ZFZd)

205
Trump to Iran: We will destroy you!

Iran to Trump: We will do nothing and you will destroy yourselves!

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 02:08 PM (fsIaS)

206 "Lavandeira" sounds like the name of a Brazilian bathhouse.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 06, 2026 02:08 PM (88C+u)

207 2:05

CNN - sen Paul to give Fauci prosecution to DOJ

MS Now z- Katy Tur - not topless yet - majority of Americans give Trump failing grade on economy

FoxNews - Madmani and communism bad

CBC - Trump tariffs on Canada

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 02:08 PM (Sco7b)

208 "5051, for starters. He was due that so long ago. His family and team confirmed he is safe and communicating."


I think you mean 5150......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (2YhKe)


5051 / 5150 - whatever it takes

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 02:09 PM (S0M0K)

209 -------
5051 is where thy hospitalize you for no reason at all.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (amcLV)



A 5150 hold is California's 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:09 PM (2YhKe)

210 I once saw Bryan Adams open for Def Leppard. It was a pretty good show.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 06, 2026 01:57 PM (bFu5X)


That was before Bryan Adams traded his nuts in for an extension of his career by writing songs with his vagina.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:01 PM


Yeah...to be fair this was about 20 years ago.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 06, 2026 02:09 PM (bFu5X)

211 197. I think you mean 5150......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (2YhKe)

👍 5150 mental health hold law

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 02:09 PM (NFX2v)

212 Who is Perez Hilton?

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (W2Pud)

The next Democrat Senator from somewhere

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM (fsIaS)

213 Javier La Quinta

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM (iySPJ)

214 Cenobites got to him early I see

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM (xcxpd)

215 You can actually say you saw someone open for someone else and have it be a joke?

Does the Style Guide know this?
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:00 PM


It can happen.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM (bFu5X)

216 How I will remember today in my head:
At AoSHQ today I heard that a gay Chipotle burrito got diarrhea from mountain biking during a livestream at a motel.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM (EIBfx)

217 That was before Bryan Adams traded his nuts in for an extension of his career by writing songs with his vagina.
Posted by: Sponge
======
I guess his song "Cuts like a Knife" was self wish prophesy.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)

218 Was anything cut off and set on fire? It's not a party until there is a flaming apendage

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM (jrgJz)

219 Lavanderia- Laundromat

This is fitting. He gets loads dropped in him all day long.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM (wOO3z)

220 CBC - Trump tariffs on Canada
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 02:08 PM (Sco7b)

They never mention the 300 percent Canadian Tariffs on Dairy and Milk, which means Canadians spend way too much on their bags of milk.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM (uhVAy)

221 Latest leftist scare tactic I see, asking the question: "Would you vote differently in 2026 if you knew in 2028 you had to show your ID to an ICE agent to vote?"

Now if you break it down...I have to show my ID to get in a government building, drive, get on a plane, get into a Mamdani government store and on and on. Why? Well because they need to see proof you are who you claim you are.

Now the ICE agent part is a nice touch because this is the left trying to scare its people into voting as they've present ICE as a modern incarnation of the SS.

I would assume any national ID requirement would have election workers reviewing your ID just like they currently cross your name off the "voted" list when giving you a ballot just now they'd see some proof you are who you claim you are before letting you vote

But why would any citizen fear ICE?

And this is the other part this is a message to illegals that they better vote now or they won't get to in 2 years...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:11 PM (sKqQm)

222 There are still some people claiming it was fake and staged for attention. I didn't see the vid, so I can't opine on that. But since they hauled his ass away to the looney bin, I assume he was legit cutting himself.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

I saw the photos, not the video. I wondered if he was doing the old big time wrassler's trick - a bunch of small cuts across the forehead and face draws a huge amount of blood and looks gruesome, but it's not life threatening.

Of course you've got to be insane to think it's worth doing that just to get people to look at you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 06, 2026 02:11 PM (edUvp)

223 "Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.

-LOL Ace. So cruel

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2026 02:11 PM (xcxpd)

224 They're committing Van Halen to the hospital?

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 02:11 PM (KC5Lt)

225 216 How I will remember today in my head:
At AoSHQ today I heard that a gay Chipotle burrito got diarrhea from mountain biking during a livestream at a motel.
Posted by: Sifty boones
======
I almost understood that but drew back from the abyss just in the nick of time.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:11 PM (E4rtv)

226 How I will remember today in my head:
At AoSHQ today I heard that a gay Chipotle burrito got diarrhea from mountain biking during a livestream at a motel.
Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM


I see you know this grapevine.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 06, 2026 02:11 PM (bFu5X)

227 5150 was one of our shittier albums but sold exceptionally well.

Posted by: Van Halen at August 06, 2026 02:11 PM (Bz1XI)

228 Just another drama queen.
Don't know. Don't care.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 06, 2026 02:12 PM (TezPK)

229 I always thought Pat Benatar was kinda hot.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (77rzZ)
____

Don't know about "hot" but she was kinda sexy in her younger years. And that voice. Wow. Much better than all the supposed "great voice" THOTs out there now, and there was no autotune back then.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

230 They never mention the 300 percent Canadian Tariffs on Dairy and Milk, which means Canadians spend way too much on their bags of milk.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM (uhVAy)

President Trump is right, we're horrible trade partners.

4 Liters of milk in three bags is about $6 to $7.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 06, 2026 02:12 PM (Sco7b)

231 Of course you've got to be insane to think it's worth doing that just to get people to look at you.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Fame leads people to do all sorts of stupid things and I suspect the withdrawal of fame for some is the equivalent of being dead.

Sunset Blvd won an Oscar for that sort of depressing story.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:13 PM (E4rtv)

232 I once got a cut on my head falling playing b-ball. My friends were freaking out but I knew they were squeamish so it didn't bother me.

Since this was in college they called the campus cops to come help me and when one of them showed up and turned white I got worried.

As Tom Servo noted even minor head cuts bleed like crazy so I was actually fine but I guess I didn't look that way...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:13 PM (sKqQm)

233 205
Trump to Iran: We will destroy you!

Iran to Trump: We will do nothing and you will destroy yourselves!
Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 02:08 PM (fsIaS)

I'm pretty sure terrorism and lobbing missiles counts as 'doing'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2026 02:13 PM (xcxpd)

234 Was anything cut off and set on fire? It's not a party until there is a flaming apendage
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 06, 2026 02:10 PM


I know, right?

Posted by: Flaming Clown Boners at August 06, 2026 02:13 PM (bFu5X)

235 There are still some people claiming it was fake and staged for attention. I didn't see the vid, so I can't opine on that. But since they hauled his ass away to the looney bin, I assume he was legit cutting himself.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

I saw the photos, not the video. I wondered if he was doing the old big time wrassler's trick - a bunch of small cuts across the forehead and face draws a huge amount of blood and looks gruesome, but it's not life threatening.

Of course you've got to be insane to think it's worth doing that just to get people to look at you.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 06, 2026 02:11 PM (edUvp)
______

Yea, the old WWF trick: small cuts across the forehead that create a lot of blood.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

236 I had to beg Boy F. to turn off Bryan Adams this morning, one hour is enough.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2026 02:14 PM (JvZF+)

237 I did see a photo of him yesterday, lying in a hospital bed. Unsure when it was taken as maybe he's had a dramatic turn in the past.



It was taken in the past. OR, He didn't cut himself and he's hospitalized for the psychotic break.

Because from what I saw of him supposedly cutting himself, blood should have been pouring from him and his skin should be hanging in shreds.
It looked like he was using one of those knives they use to slice brisket or prime rib.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 02:14 PM (rNQnT)

238 Bryan Adams is Canadian so of course he has a vagina

Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 02:14 PM (enNUy)

239 Shouldn't be be mowing Elizabeth Warren's lawn?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 01:46 PM (2YhKe)

He was. She hired a younger guy who does pools as well. Caused him to go off the deep end. Absolute truth.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 06, 2026 02:14 PM (hmYU4)

240 I saw the photos, not the video. I wondered if he was doing the old big time wrassler's trick - a bunch of small cuts across the forehead and face draws a huge amount of blood and looks gruesome, but it's not life threatening.

Of course you've got to be insane to think it's worth doing that just to get people to look at you.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 06, 2026 02:11 PM (edUvp)

its an old gladiator trick from Rome. They'd eat lots of barley to get a layer of chub so they could give each other light wounds without risking life. This was especially true in the later Empire when the supply of war prisoners dried up and you had to conserve your fighters.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)

241
California: Often referred to as a 5150 hold, under the Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act, allowing for 72-hour involuntary detention.

Pennsylvania uses a 302 commitment, which similarly allows for emergency evaluation.

Washington State utilizes the Involuntary Treatment Act.

All 50 states have similar involuntary civil commitment laws for mental health crises, often referred to as "emergency holds" or "temporary detention."

Had a close relative committed under the Baker Act, specific to Florida (Florida Mental Health Act), many years ago.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2026 02:14 PM (NFX2v)

242 Although the F-F couple and their adopted black daughter have calmed, or just kept it indoors, over the last couple years, all the did was yell at each other.....and the kid. I never heard them talk, only yelling all the time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:06 PM (2YhKe)


Did it ever occur to you that they were both hard of hearing and didn't have hearing aids because your taxes are too low?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 02:15 PM (ExV1e)

243 The only sad thing here is he failed....

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2026 02:15 PM (Int1s)

244 229 I always thought Pat Benatar was kinda hot.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (77rzZ)
____

Don't know about "hot" but she was kinda sexy in her younger years. And that voice. Wow. Much better than all the supposed "great voice" THOTs out there now, and there was no autotune back then.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Agree. She married her band's guitarist and they have been married since Pat broke it big in the early 80's.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:15 PM (E4rtv)

245 229 I always thought Pat Benatar was kinda hot.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (77rzZ)

_________________________

With an overbite like that, who wouldn't pay to see her eat corn on the cob?

Posted by: Orson at August 06, 2026 02:15 PM (dIske)

246 Repetition is tiresome, it's time for a new thread.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 02:15 PM (51ygH)

247
M-M marriages/relationships have about half the breakup rate of M-F. F-F have about double. So the M-M marriages might be bringing down the average.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:02 PM (uhVAy)
*********
I will never recognize the MM or FF unions as anything but a civil union. So they can have a special little ceremony and feel like they conquered the norm. I always crack up seeing two brides, as that's even weirder!

I lived with bf/husband for one year. I felt this was needed at the time for us, and I was a bit more liberal. Rationalizing that our first year dating was rocky due to his breaking up with me seasonally. Either due to him being 22yrs old and a casanova or immaturity. I was more liberal then as well, and did not accept his first proposal due to his tardation. I made him wait 8mo before I agreed to marry, and we were engaged for the year we lived together. I ain't no saint.

We knew what we were getting into and I didn't trumpet this to our sons. One did it right with his HS sweetheart. One lived with his future wife and we were not hypocrites as we did not advise him not to.

Neither still know we lived together or much of our wild college times.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 06, 2026 02:15 PM (hzuYO)

248 Because from what I saw of him supposedly cutting himself, blood should have been pouring from him and his skin should be hanging in shreds.
It looked like he was using one of those knives they use to slice brisket or prime rib.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 02:14 PM (rNQnT)

Maybe he's like me and can't sharpen knives.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:15 PM (uhVAy)

249 Iranians watching the goings on in the US , the steep rise of the red-green alliance, are pulling their hair out, trying to warn us of the impending doom.
Posted by: runner at August 06, 2026 02:03 PM (g47mK)
----
They are just jealous because the US has more Important Gay Bloggers than they do.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2026 02:15 PM (FZ29D)

250 Bryan Adams is Canadian so of course he has a vagina
Posted by: nckate at August 06, 2026 02:14 PM


We have apologised for Bryan Adams many times!

Posted by: Canadians at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (bFu5X)

251 Who is Perez Hilton?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (W2Pud)


If you honestly don't know it shows that the Lord has been looking out for you. Your best bet is to remain ignorant on the subject.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (ExV1e)

252 They're committing Van Halen to the hospital?
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2026 02:11 PM (KC5Lt)



Can't. They don't exist anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (2YhKe)

253 Your self-harming attention whore name is your favorite Spanish surname and your favorite hotel chain.

I'm Lopez Sheraton.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

Sanchez Motel Six

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (TezPK)

254 There are still some people claiming it was fake and staged for attention. I didn't see the vid, so I can't opine on that. But since they hauled his ass away to the looney bin, I assume he was legit cutting himself.
Posted by: Elric The Blade


I think it was fake. From what I saw, blood should have been pouring from him and his skin should be hanging in shreds. Face included.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (rNQnT)

255 Sunset Blvd won an Oscar for that sort of depressing story.
Posted by: whig

Gloria Swanson was robbed by not winning the Best Actress Oscar.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (77rzZ)

256 "Bryan Adams is Canadian so of course he has a vagina."


We can take care of that for him.

Posted by: MAID at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (avzFa)

257 Isn't he in Florida?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (51ygH)

258 Repetition is tiresome. Time for a new thread.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (fsIaS)

259 I once got a cut on my head falling playing b-ball. My friends were freaking out but I knew they were squeamish so it didn't bother me.

Since this was in college they called the campus cops to come help me and when one of them showed up and turned white I got worried.

As Tom Servo noted even minor head cuts bleed like crazy so I was actually fine but I guess I didn't look that way...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:13 PM (sKqQm)
_______

I got hit on the nose playing basketball one day back in the day. Started bleeding but I didn't think much of it. Kept playing. Then all of a sudden the players stopped and stared at me like "wtffffff?"

I looked down. I was covered in blood and it was dripping onto the court. From a nose bleed. When I got home my mom saw the blood and almost fainted. She thought I took a shotgun blast to the chest.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:17 PM (iFTx/)

260 I will never recognize the MM or FF unions as anything but a civil union. So they can have a special little ceremony and feel like they conquered the norm. I always crack up seeing two brides, as that's even weirder!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 06, 2026 02:15 PM (hzuYO)

Imagine the struggle over who takes out the garbage.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:17 PM (uhVAy)

261 251 Who is Perez Hilton?
Posted by: nurse ratched.

Celeb gossipist

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:17 PM (E4rtv)

262
Latest leftist scare tactic I see, asking the question: "Would you vote differently in 2026 if you knew in 2028 you had to show your ID to an ICE agent to vote?"

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

Grooaannnn. And I suppose they show some jackbooted thug in camo and a mask, bristling with firearms, standing in front of the nice lady with the register at the table?

They'll probably expand that to "registering your 5-year-old for kindergarten," "calling 911 when your baby stops breathing," etc.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2026 02:17 PM (mmrXZ)

263 Did it ever occur to you that they were both hard of hearing and didn't have hearing aids because your taxes are too low?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 02:15 PM (ExV1e)



Yeah, I live here....I know them....and I know my taxes.

This is CLEARLY not the case.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2026 02:18 PM (2YhKe)

264 Latest leftist scare tactic I see, asking the question: "Would you vote differently in 2026 if you knew in 2028 you had to show your ID to an ICE agent to vote?"

I live in Texas. I already show my ID to vote. I don't care what the person running the check-in counter does for their day job.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 02:19 PM (ExV1e)

265 Sunset Blvd won an Oscar for that sort of depressing story.
Posted by: whig

Gloria Swanson was robbed by not winning the Best Actress Oscar.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (77rzZ)

They gave it to Carol Burnett's parody instead.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:19 PM (uhVAy)

266 Repetition is tiresome. Time for a new thread.
Posted by: Amy Schumer




Repetition is tiresome. Time for a new thread.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 06, 2026 02:19 PM (rNQnT)

267 Gloria Swanson was robbed by not winning the Best Actress Oscar.
Posted by: Bulg
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Oscars have been fake and gay plus political in Hollyweird even back then.

No one except TJM remembers the winner Judy Holliday that year and I had to look it up.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (E4rtv)

268 199 I always thought Pat Benatar was kinda hot.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:07 PM (77rzZ)


Still falls into the "would" category for me.

https://tinyurl.com/4arfar8y

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (IG3/x)

269 Is this yoyo any relation to Paris Hilton?

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (yRCXf)

270 I got a concussion square dancing in HS. I knocked heads with one of the girls in our square because one of us was doing the dance wrong. She was fine, but I got the concussion.

Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

271 MM marriages - no one has a headache and if they do you can always go hit the clubs for a one night stand

FF marriages - neither partner initiates so they never, uh, release stress together which leaves antiquing, Sunday brunch and throwing plates at each other

In all seriousness oxytocin is pretty much designed to make you like the person you have regular sex with more.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (sKqQm)

272 Perez Hilton is like dog mess in your living room.

No one wants that.

Posted by: Wise Sayings at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (F1rMs)

273 Latest leftist scare tactic I see, asking the question: "Would you vote differently in 2026 if you knew in 2028 you had to show your ID to an ICE agent to vote?"



Yes. A resounding YES.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (rNQnT)

274 269 Is this yoyo any relation to Paris Hilton?
Posted by: Weak Geek

No, fake name and I think his real Hispanic name is upthread.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (E4rtv)

275 the winner Judy Holliday that year and I had to look it up.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (E4rtv)

Born Yesterday? She was pretty fucking amazing in that

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (fsIaS)

276 270 I got a concussion square dancing in HS. I knocked heads with one of the girls in our square because one of us was doing the dance wrong. She was fine, but I got the concussion.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

Maybe the chick was related to Daisy Ridley?

Posted by: Thrawn at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (2qSHg)

277 Nude garden gnome monster demon

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

278 Has anyone asked Steve Hilton about this?

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (EIBfx)

279 Sanchez Motel Six
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (TezPK)


I hear they're notoriously dirty

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (S0M0K)

280 Latest leftist scare tactic I see, asking the question: "Would you vote differently in 2026 if you knew in 2028 you had to show your ID to an ICE agent to vote?"

I live in Texas. I already show my ID to vote. I don't care what the person running the check-in counter does for their day job.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2026 02:19 PM (ExV1e)

I live in CA in a GOP area. Showing an ID is like showing a cross to a Vampire. I just wish the people creating fake votes had to show an ID to ICE agents instead.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (uhVAy)

281 Is this yoyo any relation to Paris Hilton?
Posted by: Weak Geek


No. Not even close.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 02:22 PM (rNQnT)

282 271...FF marriages - neither partner initiates so they never, uh, release stress together which leaves antiquing, Sunday brunch and throwing plates at each other...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2026 02:20 PM (sKqQm)

Lesbian bed death is a noted thing.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 06, 2026 02:22 PM (2qSHg)

283 Sanchez Motel Six
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (TezPK)

I hear they're notoriously dirty
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (S0M0K)

depends on the location but if it bothers you upscale your choice a tad.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:23 PM (uhVAy)

284 > Gloria Swanson was robbed by not winning the Best Actress Oscar.
Posted by: Bulg at August 06, 2026 02:16 PM (77rzZ)

She was awesome in that.

Not to mention being brave enough to take the part in the first place.

Mae West, Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, and Mary Pickford all reportedly turned it down.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2026 02:23 PM (IG3/x)

285 Born Yesterday? She was pretty fucking amazing in that
Posted by: ...
========
Eh, forgettable movie compared to Sunset Strip.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2026 02:23 PM (E4rtv)

286 Latest leftist scare tactic I see, asking the question: "Would you vote differently in 2026 if you knew in 2028 you had to show your ID to an ICE agent to vote?"



Yes. A resounding YES.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2026 02:21 PM (rNQnT)

i'd prefer it being a special forces soldier with a LMG.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 06, 2026 02:25 PM (uhVAy)

287 Number 2 in Brave's news feed - These are the important things

Miss North Carolina USA addresses taking crown from dethroned winner— but stays mum on alleged racism scandal
Boltinhouse, a business owner in Wilmington, is accused of writing a slew of social media posts containing a racial slur under an alias.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2026 02:27 PM (51ygH)

288 Eddie VanHalen is a tad overdone for hospitalization

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 06, 2026 02:33 PM (jrgJz)

289 206 "Lavandeira" sounds like the name of a Brazilian bathhouse.
****
It's damn close to 'laundromat' in Spanish.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 06, 2026 02:41 PM (EJE3y)

290 If I'd known he was planning to harm himself I'd have loaned him my chainsaw.

Posted by: Dagwood at August 06, 2026 04:34 PM (CC0N1)

291 At a shooting match a few years back, was shooting a plate rack at the end of a u-shaped berm, range officer of course on my shoulder. Rest of squad well back. Felt a fragment (probably jacket) of the 3rd shot hit left side of nose, felt blood running down (not a lot, but could feel it). Finished the rack, did the show clear/slide forward/hammer down thing with the RO, then turned around.

Wasn't disappointed. Gasps and "OMGs!" from a few in the squad, though just briefly when I smiled and laughed. Don't even a bandaid was required, just held if closed for a few minutes.

In water polo, as goalie, you get hit in the face fairly often. Usually the ball (especially skip or hole shots). Bloody noses. Blood in the water is dramatic, but back then the show just rolled on.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 10:53 PM (U/Byj)

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