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Advertise Here! Support Contact Ace: aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com CBD: cbd at cutjibnewsletter.com Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me MisHum: petmorons at gee mail.com J.J. Sefton: sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com Syndicate this site (XML) Powered by Movable Type	California Arrests Five People in Raids on 10 Fake Hospices in Newsom's Fraud Paradise of California Just the News: Five people arrested in California crackdown on hospice fraud, with more arrests to come *According to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the scheme defrauded California of $267 million using bogus charges to the state's Medicaid program.* The California Department of Justice has arrested five people as part of a crackdown on hospice fraud in the state. The suspects were part of an alleged hospice fraud ring, CBS News reported Wednesday. ... The state Justice Department, in a joint operation with other state agencies, alleges the suspects purchased identifying information for non-California residents from the dark web and enrolled them in the state Medicaid program. Straw owners bought 14 hospice companies, then billed the state for hospice care for the stolen identities. The hospice companies were state-licensed and approved by the California Health and Human Services Agency. Note Newsom only ordered this because Mehmet Oz is investigating this fraud and he wants to prove he can be a Real President. Great job, Newsom. Give yourself another big $19 million taxpayer funded advertising campaign to show the public what a great president you'd be. 🚨 BREAKING: Five people have just been ARRESTED in California after a crackdown targeting FAKE LA hospice centers 10 PLACES were raided last night This SINGLE SCHEME resulted in $267 MILLION in bogus charges to American taxpayers KEEP ARRESTING, AND MAKE EXAMPLES OUT OF THEM pic.twitter.com/9pwPgHJUex — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 9, 2026 From April 2: CBS is the only network "news" division covering this. WATCH: CBS Evening News is the only network evening newscast to report on the early morning FBI raid in California, after the discovery of massive hospice fraud. TONY DOKOUPIL: CBS News is first to report the arrest today of a married couple in Southern California accused of… pic.twitter.com/hSAWuv14Zx — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 3, 2026 Will Chamberlain writes that David Ellison's purchase of Paramount -- CBS -- has the communist propaganda ministers terrified. Democrats are losing their grip on reality. I don't mean that they're going crazy. That ship sailed around the time they started saying "sex assigned at birth." I mean, they're literally losing the ability to shape the narratives that determine what most Americans perceive as "reality." They know it's happening, and they know exactly who to blame: a Trump-aligned billionaire named David Ellison. Last year, his film production company Skydance (which gave us the refreshingly patriotic "Top Gun: Maverick") bought Paramount, giving Ellison ownership of CBS News. A few months later, he bought news site The Free Press and installed its founder -- anti-woke, classical liberal Bari Weiss -- as CBS's editor-in-chief. The change was obvious right away. Weiss refused to allow a story about President Trump's deportation policy to run without proper context. Then, at a time when most mainstream outlets were scoffing at the administration's war on health care fraud, CBS sent a reporter to pound the pavement and discover the true extent of these scams. But Ellison wasn't done. Late last month, Ellison inked a deal to acquire Warner Bros.-Discovery and its vast stable of media assets, including CNN. This is a disaster for the Democrats. Bernie Sanders took to X to warn of a right-wing "oligarchy." Elizabeth Warren signed a letter expressing "concerns" that the deal might violate antitrust law, even though she barely objected when the reliably liberal Netflix, which raised far more antitrust red flags, was in line to buy Warner Bros. Warren, Bernie, and the rest of their tribe know that their empire of bias is beginning to collapse. It once seemed indestructible. Liberals control the entire educational establishment at every level: textbook publishers, teachers' unions, school administrators, universities, and the foundations that hand out research grants. They also control the paper of record in nearly every major city, almost all TV news, and the entire entertainment industry. And yet it turns out this entire infrastructure is so fragile that they can't let a single node be controlled by an outsider. Those who operate within this network aren't usually aware that they're engaged in information warfare against the American people. The liberal narrative relies on a subtle form of self-deception to perpetuate itself. These people spend their lives sitting in classrooms and lecture halls, streaming Netflix dramas, nodding along to New Yorker articles, and laughing at John Oliver's jokes. Everywhere they turn, it's the same message, with the occasional approved bit of heterodoxy to keep things interesting. The medium is also the message: its consistency across every prestigious institution creates the impression that everyone who's even a little bit compassionate, intelligent, or cool believes all the same things. Because Ellison also bought -- unwisely, I think -- Warner Bros., that means CNN will also be under his command when the purchase is approved by the FCC later this year. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 fist Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 05:31 PM (CWTWj) 2 clearly this kind of activity is distracting the f b aye from more important work like arresting people who were at the capitol on jan 6 Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 05:34 PM (CWTWj) 3 Is this a Real Nood, or just Phantasy? Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 05:34 PM (pDt9x) 4 FOIST Posted by: Marmaduke at April 09, 2026 05:35 PM (nvKZ7) 5 Oh, wait, you fraudsters are here illegally? Our apologies. Here's another $300 million in restitution. Posted by: California AG at April 09, 2026 05:35 PM (4useT) 6 ok i noodled Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 05:36 PM (CWTWj) 7 Citizen journalism shone a laser beam at the lies of the media. Even here. When lamestream media reported emergency rooms swamped, AoSHQers went to the local hospitals and discovered the media lied. Again. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 05:37 PM (u82oZ) 8 Please tell me the lowest-ranking four of the five suspects resisted arrest during transportation and unfortunately had to be shot repeatedly in their faces in the cruisers. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 05:37 PM (BI5O2) 9 Can someone enlighten me on why the IRS is staying out of all these fraud investigations? Surely, when you misrepresent your business, collect federal and state money not associated with the declared services, and in many case transport that "cash/revenue" outside the borders of the US as the Somalis were doing to the tune of about $18 Million each week, the IRS should be involved to some extent. Yet, whenever charges are levied, there are never any tax evasion or misrepresentation charges included. Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (dIske) 10 Yudhishthira's Dice They tripped going down stairs. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (u82oZ) 11 Great job, Newsom. Give yourself another big $19 million taxpayer funded advertising campaign to show the public what a great president you'd be. You're not far off here. There was news the other day that Newsom was spending $20 million to a consultant to study benefits fraud and how to combat it. That all came about a week or so after nick Shirley's latest video exposing the rampant fraud in the hospice industry in L.A. county. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (6ydKt) 12 5 in 10? Sparsely populated. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (zZu0s) 13 So...the State DOJ??? You can bet slime ball Newsom will take all the credit but any digging at all will likely show these dipshits were the sacrifice to protect the $20 BILLION going on elsewhere. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 05:39 PM (2WIwB) 14 OK, so this was STATE, not the Feds? Wish it had been the Feds instead, because there are State employees who are either in on this, or at the very least had ignored this for years. But a State investigation will stop at the very first level that makes the news. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 05:39 PM (mP0Kj) 15 Is this a Real Nood, or just Phantasy? Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 05:34 PM (pDt9x) Caught in a landslide... Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:40 PM (zZu0s) 16 This wasn’t the Feds. State DOJ. Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 09, 2026 05:40 PM (PudHT) 17 They tripped going down stairs. Posted by: NaCly Dog Pikers Posted by: Sleepy Joe at April 09, 2026 05:40 PM (4useT) 18 Those who operate within this network aren't usually aware that they're engaged in information warfare against the American people. The liberal narrative relies on a subtle form of self-deception to perpetuate itself. ==== That is a very charitable view. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 05:40 PM (RIvkX) 19 No escape from Reality - Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 05:41 PM (pDt9x) 20 5 people? What about the other 50,000 or more? You know what? Let California keep the money and cut them off for the next, say, 25 years. Make it last, assholes. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 05:41 PM (AkEZC) 21 So with two elderly parents with full time care that cost me $$$, I could've just signed them up with a California bunch? Boy, doesn't that just make me all warm and fuzzy... Assholes. All of them. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:41 PM (XuXeR) 22 Rob Bonta is mixed up in Oakland's Sheng Thao; David Duong corruption scheme. He's also running for governor. He also just tried to block the investigation into voter ballot fraud. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 05:42 PM (nG58E) 23 9 Can someone enlighten me on why the IRS is staying out of all these fraud investigations? Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (dIske) IRS is much too busy coming up with new and exciting ways to find ways to flag and audit middle class and upper class people for tax evasion. They have to choose their priorities and all that. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:43 PM (6ydKt) 24 I just had an argument with my boss that we need more fraud high-profile prosecutions before the midterms or many conservatives will just throw up their hands shout "I knew it!" and not bother showing up to vote. It's not the be-all end-all, but let's have some red meat heading into the fall! Posted by: 496 at April 09, 2026 05:43 PM (Vryyy) 25 So...the State DOJ??? You can bet slime ball Newsom will take all the credit but any digging at all will likely show these dipshits were the sacrifice to protect the $20 BILLION going on elsewhere. Posted by: Diogenes * tugs nervously at collar * Posted by: high-speed rail contractors at April 09, 2026 05:44 PM (VHUov) 26 Can someone enlighten me on why the IRS is staying out of all these fraud investigations?" They're reviewing your W2. Again. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:44 PM (XuXeR) 27 Good luck finfing a Judge who isn't a Cultural Marxist Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 05:44 PM (Ia/+0) 28 thanks for the correction-- I corrected. Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 05:44 PM (1wjle) 29 5 in 10? Sparsely populated. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (zZu0s) I suspect these places are like trap houses for the Big Daddy Donors - they probably have them all over, they have some dirty, hard-ridden bitch riding the desk in them at different times of day, and authorities have to bust a bunch at once to make sure they catch the boss. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 05:44 PM (BI5O2) 30 Always ot: Save the Big Booty Venezuelans. That is all. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:45 PM (zZu0s) 31 Craven Pondscum for Algae 2026! Posted by: Joe Mama at April 09, 2026 05:45 PM (TezPK) 32 Yeah, I'm just now finding out I could've been paid for the year and half of taking car of my Dad. But this is SC, not Cali, and I'm straight, white bread, and male, so I'm thinking this wouldn't have worked out as well for me. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:45 PM (6ydKt) 33 I like Will Chamberlain’s optimism that the leftwing ability to shape and control news is cracking. But let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks just yet. That’s Jennifer Newsome’s job. Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 09, 2026 05:45 PM (PudHT) 34 they have some dirty, hard-ridden bitch riding the desk" So, the previous thread? Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:46 PM (XuXeR) 35 Again, I'd love to see a law where the head of any department anywhere gets 10% of every dollar saved from fraud, useless regulations or employee deadwood. Protect them. Let them get rid of their bosses, rake in the cash bonus and retire early. Has 'Nothing will happen' guy posted his views yet. We need a website tracking things that HAVE happened. The Five, with Emily today is covering the new acronym. Done. And willowed... I'm curious when the media, specifically Hollywood, really started hating the military. I just finished 1985's Romero's 'Day of the Dead.' So that puts us at 40 years unless portraying the remaining military at a base as a bunch of insubordinate, very racist guys shrieking like white, liberal women is a compliment. I'm not a movie person but I'm guessing after Vietnam, there was a divorce. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 05:46 PM (Sco7b) 36 Two things- 1. Bonta will indict them and they'll be convicted. The local State DA running the cases will recommend probation. The judge will give them probation. Along with an apology for something. 2. Unless they are white or Asian (I'm guessing they are). Then when they are convicted, the judge will give them maximum possible sentences, because their fraud deprived black and brown POCs of desperately needed care! Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2026 05:46 PM (5rh/l) 37 Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:46 PM (zZu0s) 38 I read the content and thought: John Oliver tells jokes?? That statement is funny… heh Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 05:46 PM (cq1gA) 39 There was news the other day that Newsom was spending $20 million to a consultant to study benefits fraud and how to combat it. Absolute horseshit. There is no need to spend $20 million on a consultant for this, other than just plain graft. This is well-trod territory with a deep bench in current and former DOJ, OIG, and AUSA professionals. They don't need a "study" to investigate and prosecute this shit, the apparatus is well-established and there is a metric assload of expertise in this area throughout the country. He doesn't want to actually do anything about, just piss more money away, jerk himself off in public, and brag about how much decisive action he's taking when he's not really doing a fucking thing. Posted by: Fuckin' fake-ass Newsom and his hair gel at April 09, 2026 05:46 PM (TbWk/) 40 Yeah, I'm just now finding out I could've been paid for the year and half of taking car of my Dad." Yeah. Good luck. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:46 PM (XuXeR) 41 I read elsewhere that 640,000 people in CA are "home healthcare workers" taking care of relatives. 75% who live with them. So that's a major part of the workforce - the largest single profession - getting money to go shop for their own kids. Or their mom, who pays the rent with her SSI and SSDI. It's all a fucking scam. Fine, they arrested 5 people. Only 639,995 to go. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 05:47 PM (LAwjE) 42 My guess is the IRS is still manned up with Deep Staters. Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 05:47 PM (Ia/+0) 43 Call back to the last thread. Hey has anyone offered up a bread themed codename for Courtney yet? I propose Courtney Flatbread. Which is fitting because she might be going to PITA prison. This reminds me of a place in savannah called PITA PIT which is a daring name. Because, while it tells you what they offer food wise, it not so subtlety implies there will be some stern side S&M action. Whether you want that with your mediterranean themed sandwich, or not. I mean, if I woke up in Matt Lauer's apartment, looked up, and saw a prominent illuminated sign with PITA PIT I would feel very uncomfortable. Just sayin' Posted by: banana Dream at April 09, 2026 05:48 PM (3uBP9) 44 Rob Bonta is mixed up in Oakland's Sheng Thao; David Duong corruption scheme. He's also running for governor. He also just tried to block the investigation into voter ballot fraud. Posted by: 13times ================ And we have to rely on Katie Porter to demand why he didn't start prosecuting $100bil in fraud until Trump's administration called it out. lolol you go girl Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 05:48 PM (n7rxJ) 45 Can someone enlighten me on why the IRS is staying out of all these fraud investigations? Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (dIske) Because they're too busy fucking legitimate small business owners in the ass. Posted by: And that's a whole lotta ass-fuckin at April 09, 2026 05:49 PM (TbWk/) 46 * tugs nervously at collar * Posted by: high-speed rail contractors at April 09, 2026 05:44 PM (VHUov) Hear the latest on that one? KPMG is one of the accounting firms that has been involved with the No Speed Rail project from the beginning... Millions and millions in contracts. (I know, my older Brother worked for KPMG on this very project, and made bank). Well... KPMG CEOs Fiancée... just scored a $24 Million contract, using his connections, on that project... It was ALWAYS about funneling money. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 05:49 PM (mP0Kj) 47 The IRS since Barky days has been a Democrat stronghold, long sgo read BLM for billions taken in never filed a IRS form Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 05:50 PM (Ia/+0) 48 This is almost enough to convince me Enron and Arthur Anderson got a raw deal. Posted by: Pikers by comparison as it turns out at April 09, 2026 05:50 PM (TbWk/) 49 My guess is the IRS is still manned up with Deep Staters, Posted by: Skip with a list of those to be punished/audited once a future Dem administration provides air cover. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 05:50 PM (3kHYj) 50 Rob Bonta is the typical example of a democrat failing upwards. As a state assemblyman he made every excuse to do nothing about the homeless drug camps infesting his district. Give him credit though, he's jumping on the anti-fraud bandwagon at the early stages. Not sure if it's doable, but he could be a late entry in the Governor's race if he can hold a press conference like this every other week.. Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 09, 2026 05:50 PM (nbLIj) 51 Well... KPMG CEOs Fiancée... just scored a $24 Million contract, using his connections, on that project... It was ALWAYS about funneling money. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 05:49 PM (mP0Kj) ==== "Consulting and Leadership Training" expenses. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 05:50 PM (RIvkX) 52 Fine, they arrested 5 people. Posted by: bob ============== I wonder how Bonta picked those 5. Probably not paying their kickbacks or something. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 05:50 PM (n7rxJ) 53 I wouldn't bet on CBS upsetting the Apple cart. A week after Oracle lays off 30k employees, CBS runs a piece sympathetic to H1Bs, who incidentally, didn't lose their jobs. Posted by: Resist_we_much at April 09, 2026 05:50 PM (cpys8) 54 43: Hey has anyone offered up a bread themed codename for Courtney yet? I propose Courtney Flatbread. Yeast Buns Posted by: Joe Mama at April 09, 2026 05:51 PM (TezPK) 55 He's also running for governor. He also just tried to block the investigation into voter ballot fraud. Posted by: 13times Calif Supreme Court just ordered a Sheriff to stop enforcing the State laws on voter fraud... Even though California Law specifically says they are empowered and supposed to enforce State laws... and yes, there are Vote Fraud laws in Calif. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 05:52 PM (mP0Kj) 56 Lol MS Now with sad, near crying bitch are upset that the Pentagon talked to the Vatican over the Pope's remarks. I have more respect for the whores not on cable tv. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 05:53 PM (Sco7b) 57 I was the billing manager for a real, working hospice for five years. We had nurses, therapists, home health aides, housekeepers, a chaplain, a medical adviser, and volunteers, all of whom worked with patients, helping them and their families through a very difficult time. We got audited by CMS. Why us and not the fraudsters? Posted by: huerfano at April 09, 2026 05:53 PM (98kQX) 58 Because Ellison also bought -- unwisely, I think -- Warner Bros., that means CNN will also be under his command when the purchase is approved by the FCC later this year. ------------- Make Scott Jennings CNN's new editor-in-chief. Posted by: ShainS at April 09, 2026 05:53 PM (sdxtl) 59 >>>This is almost enough to convince me Enron and Arthur Anderson got a raw deal. that woman who got sued for saying the election was stolen, Sidney something, says the Enron guys definitely got a raw deal, and the prosecutor was, I believe, Andrew Weismann from the Russiagate investigation. Him or Jack Smith. Apparently they have a list of reliable partisan hit-men. Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 05:54 PM (1wjle) 60 There’s no way Bonta is looking out for justice here… if he prosecutes these 5 then he’s covering for bigger fish. Look at this squirrel!!! Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 05:54 PM (lvmU5) 61 57 I was the billing manager for a real, working hospice for five years. We had nurses, therapists, home health aides, housekeepers, a chaplain, a medical adviser, and volunteers, all of whom worked with patients, helping them and their families through a very difficult time. We got audited by CMS. Why us and not the fraudsters? Posted by: huerfano at April 09, 2026 05:53 PM (98kQX) Rule 1 of Hospice fraud? 10% for the Big Guy? Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 05:54 PM (mP0Kj) 62 "So, now that you've cut off that grifter money, that means there's more available for me, right?" - every other grifter in Cali Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 05:55 PM (3kHYj) 63 Lol MS Now with sad, near crying bitch are upset that the Pentagon talked to the Vatican over the Pope's remarks. I have more respect for the whores not on cable tv. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 05:53 PM (Sco7b) --------------- But enough about "The View" ... Posted by: ShainS at April 09, 2026 05:55 PM (sdxtl) 64 Yeast Buns Posted by: Joe Mama at April 09, 2026 05:51 PM (TezPK) ------- It oughtta have 'sourdough' in there somewhere Posted by: 496 at April 09, 2026 05:56 PM (sfOD1) 65 57 I was the billing manager for a real, working hospice for five years. We had nurses, therapists, home health aides, housekeepers, a chaplain, a medical adviser, and volunteers, all of whom worked with patients, helping them and their families through a very difficult time. We got audited by CMS. Why us and not the fraudsters? Posted by: huerfano at April 09, 2026 05:53 PM (98kQX) The same reason why cops spend the overwhelming majority of their time on traffic citations and why the shiftless loudmouth assholes at work get promotions instead of the hardworking and compliant. Dealing with bad guys is hard work. Pushing around people trying to do the right thing is low-hanging fruit Posted by: It's a common theme at April 09, 2026 05:56 PM (TbWk/) 66 Anyone that sanctioned this fraud needs to be jailed also. State gov employees should be scared shitless. That is for any state. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 05:57 PM (yAteE) 67 Yeah. Good luck. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:46 PM (XuXeR) too late now, he's been dead for seven months. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:58 PM (6ydKt) 68 In fairness to Newsom, $19 million in advertising using California taxpayer dollars is chump change compared to the usual in-kind contributions from media organizations to any Democratic presidential candidate. Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at April 09, 2026 05:58 PM (Q4ymK) 69 45 Can someone enlighten me on why the IRS is staying out of all these fraud investigations? Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (dIske) Because they're too busy fucking legitimate small business owners in the ass. Posted by: And that's a whole lotta ass-fuckin at April 09, 2026 05:49 PM (TbWk/) ______________________________ Look, I expected answers like this. And, sadly, I agree with you. BUT, here's the thing. While the DOJ's can proceed with criminal charges, the IRS can do so as well, AND pursue the money with an eye on recovery. The DOJ many times will take the position...."Oh well, too late now. That money's gone." The IRS is relentless, and as more parties are brought into the investigation, there is always the chance of landing the big fish and going after their fortune in that recovery. We aren't using all our tools and weapons on this. Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 05:59 PM (dIske) 70 too late now, he's been dead for seven months. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:58 PM (6ydKt) I'm sorry. And bless you. Caregiving is one of the most thankless jobs ever. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 05:59 PM (Sco7b) 71 There comes a point when it is so brazen and flagrant it's like 'we can't live with these people.' Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 06:00 PM (zZu0s) 72 These people are scum. Now I know why I'm middle class; I'm not corrupt and don't steal enough. Who says there's no evil in society? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 06:00 PM (Fbc0I) 73 that woman who got sued for saying the election was stolen, Sidney something, says the Enron guys definitely got a raw deal, and the prosecutor was, I believe, Andrew Weismann from the Russiagate investigation. Him or Jack Smith. Apparently they have a list of reliable partisan hit-men. Posted by: ace ====== Scotus said as much. Weismann has the unique rep of being slapped down by Scotus multiple times. Skilling v. US in 2010 (9-0) and as Chief of Criminal Fraud Division in Bob McDonnell in 2016 (8-0) cases. Went from that to running Mueller's evil crap investigation thanks to Sleepy Jeff. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 06:01 PM (E4rtv) 74 Lol at Conway over at Insty. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 06:03 PM (zZu0s) 75 Hey has anyone offered up a bread themed codename for Courtney yet? I propose Courtney Flatbread. Which is fitting because she might be going to PITA prison. ---------------- Courtney Toast Posted by: ShainS at April 09, 2026 06:03 PM (sdxtl) 76 Courtney Yeasty? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 06:04 PM (zZu0s) 77 too late now, he's been dead for seven months. Posted by: SpeakingOf" May his memory be a blessing. Coming up on two months for Dad's passing... Sucks. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 06:04 PM (XuXeR) 78 I'm sorry. And bless you. Caregiving is one of the most thankless jobs ever. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 05:59 PM (Sco7b) Thanks. You and I seemed to have been in the same boat the past few years with aging parents. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:04 PM (6ydKt) 79 Trump pretty much let Tucker, Candice, Megan have it in a post, I assume on his site. It was mirrored onto twitter: x.com/RapidResponse47/status/ 2042339245587833115 Posted by: banana Dream at April 09, 2026 06:04 PM (3uBP9) 80 72 These people are scum. Now I know why I'm middle class; I'm not corrupt and don't steal enough. Who says there's no evil in society? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone ---------------- This is the whole problem. The West is a trust based society, and that means people feel ownership in the health, honesty, and integrity of the society. When the average person starts to feel like a sucker for doing things right and honest, all that is lost. Then we are the 3rd world. The difference between out "magic soil" and the 3rd world is that over there, people act different - they don't care about the society because they understand no one else does. Bring them here, and we become them. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 06:05 PM (LAwjE) 81 May his memory be a blessing. Coming up on two months for Dad's passing... Sucks. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 06:04 PM (XuXeR) Thanks, too. Yeah it does suck, but it's getting easier. I actually miss arguing with him over what's for dinner now. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:06 PM (6ydKt) 82 You and I seemed to have been in the same boat the past few years with aging parents. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:04 PM (6ydKt) Fourteen. I'd do it again. After a deep breath and girding my loins. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 06:06 PM (Sco7b) 83 whig, I truly believe if Sessions had been head of DHS he would have been very effective. I read all his work on illegal immigration and it really was his niche. Making him AG was a disaster. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 06:06 PM (yAteE) 84 74 Lol at Conway over at Insty. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 06:03 PM (zZu0s) "Cry more, bitchtits" comes to mind. What a soppy wanker. Posted by: Not just an idiot, a tearful one at April 09, 2026 06:06 PM (TbWk/) 85 Lol at Conway over at Insty. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 06:03 PM (zZu0s) -------------- Breitbart News @BreitbartNews George Conway fights back tears as he recalls how he decided to give nearly $1 million to Biden's Victory Fund in 2024 — which would have otherwise gone to his children. He says he started crying and had to pull his car over. "I want my kids to inherit a democracy." ---------------- MAZE @mazemoore In 2024 George Conway said that Trump was most likely going to prison for the rest of his life. They laughed and declared that they were "taking back the red hats." Now Conway is crying that he blew a million dollars on Biden. So perfect. [videos] https://instapundit.com Posted by: ShainS at April 09, 2026 06:07 PM (sdxtl) Ex-Delta Force Support Civilian -- Who Railed About the Need for More "Diversity" in Delta Force's Support Staff -- Charged With Leaking Classified Information Of course this is what she looks like: Narcissistically posing like a super-model, despite being less than mid. Definitely we need "diversity" in the staff that supports Delta Force, not just the best, most qualified people. More diversity like this smugly beast. It's not as if the unit absolutely depends on microscopic advantages over the enemy to survive. Boy these DEI hires sure do add a lot. Note that the media is of course misrepresenting her as a "Delta Force member." She's not. She's back-office support staff. I think she's a civilian now -- she had once enlisted for some Army gig at one point, but she's now just an "Army employee," not an enilsted soldier. A former Army employee was arrested and charged with allegedly leaking classified information about a covert military force to a reporter, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. Federal prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Courtney Williams of Wagram, North Carolina, divulged classified information to an unnamed reporter between 2022 and 2024 about her time in Delta Force, a U.S. Army Special Military Unit, or SMU. According to the complaint, Williams worked for the Army between 2010 and 2016 after serving as a contractor and previously enlisting, and held a top secret security clearance. Williams left in 2016, after investigators said she had her access to classified information suspended, "based on an internal investigation" conducted in 2015 and 2016. She is charged with one count of illegally communicating or transmitting national defense information, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Court records show she was arrested Tuesday and was ordered to be temporarily detained in jail ahead of a preliminary hearing on April 13. According to an FBI affidavit included in the complaint, Williams and the reporter "discussed William's employment at the SMU and associated information" in texts and "consistent and extensive phone conversations." The affidavit also alleges that Williams "provided documents, photographs, notes, and/or other materials to the Journalist, some of which likely contained classified NDI that was subsequently published in the Article and the Book," through a removable hard drive and emails in ten document batches. What I've seen on Twitter is that she doxxed the Delta Force commander who the Maduro mission. These men's identities are kept top secret for a reason -- they and their families will be subject to violent retaliation by terrorists and drug barons if they're publicly known. Williams was featured prominently in a Politico article as an on-the-record voice in a story profiling alleged misconduct in Delta Force, a covert military unit where Delta Force is headquartered. That article, by Seth Harp, was adapted from his book, which was to be published shortly after the article. Here's the DEI bullshit: In a statement posted to social media late Wednesday, Harp described Williams as a "courageous whistleblower who exposed rampant gender discrimination and sexual harassment" in Delta Force. ... In another text message to someone else, prosecutors allege that Williams said she was "probably going to jail for life" for her alleged disclosures. . Oh, the "reporter" she leaked to, who is pushing her "gender discrimination" bullshit, is a guest of Tuq'r Qarlson's, of course. 🚨 HOLY CRAP! The FBI has arrested former US Special Operations and DELTA FORCE veteran Courtney Williams for violating the ESPIONAGE ACT DOJ says she transmitted classified national defense intel to the media and put our warfighters at risk This sends a message to leakers!… pic.twitter.com/jOPWGIwYug — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 8, 2026 People are missing the significance of this 👇 Courtney Williams leaked to Seth Harp ⬇️ Seth Harp was interviewed by Tucker Carlson about his book “The Fort Bragg Cartel, which quoted Williams extensively. ⬇️ Seth Harp was accused of "leaking classified intel" after he… pic.twitter.com/rCgu1jEZ8o — SheThinksFreely (@L0881 April 8, 2026 The leaker and her partner were demanding more diversity in Delta support staff. She knew it was classified. The question is again: 18 U.S.C. § 793 soliciting and receiving classified documents This isn’t a leak. This is conspiring and requesting classified info. pic.twitter.com/nDuJquYqbC — Eric CIAramella’s Dirty Whistle (@TheAndersPaul) April 9, 2026 Why was this narcissistic criminal bitch, whose passion is obviously feminist agitation and subversion of legitimate authority and not national security, ever hired in the first place? Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke Without diminishing the fact that this woman leaked and should be held accountable, she comes across as a woke diversity activist. That is no excuse, but the far more serious problem is the deep state syndicate that has spent the last decade strategically leaking to sabotage President Trump, or the fact that someone tipped off the Iranians that there was a missing U.S. pilot hiding in their mountains. Those people have never been caught and, in many cases, were never even investigated. They are the real prize. Yeah but they're also the ones who make sure their communist Fellow Travelers are guaranteed all the prestigious federal jobs. Kash Patel promises: More leakers are about to be arrested. DOW leaker arrested by the FBI, tremendous work… and we got more coming. https://t.co/XF3yLE7dRq — FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 9, 2026 Oh, and you knew this was inevitable: Tuq'r hosts a smug socialist who preaches the Gospel of Chavez, announcing that Christianity should have nothing to do with capitalism -- "You think?!" Tuq'r asked, indicating his very strong agreement -- and also agreed with the socialist that Christianity is compatible with socialism. Tucker Carlson Reveals He’s… a LEFTIST?! \| Ep 248 https://t.co/otl85epLbH — Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) April 7, 2026 Revival Nation News @EncounterNewsX Apr 7 Tucker Carlson's latest guest: "Capitalism shouldn't be anywhere near Christianity. Christianity is socialism at its core." Christianity has NOTHING to do with socialism. 1. God never commanded governments to forcibly redistribute wealth. 2. God commanded Christians to practice charity. 3. The early church "willingly" gave and they were "not under compulsion." As I said on X, I definitely did have this on my Bingo Card. Tuq'r Qarlson is freed of the constraints of conservative orthodoxy, just like all the Bulwark and Dispatch NeverTrumpers were, and is now intellectually free to embrace the Full and Perfect Truth of Socialism and Progressive Authoritarianism. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:32 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 what a shock Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 04:33 PM (N1DT3) 2 I think she's looks fine except the botoxed lips and snooty expression. I don't know what the rest of her looks like . Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 04:35 PM (ix8EF) 3 "We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." People like this woman have ZERO loyalty to this country. They have been immersed in a culture that laughs at virtue and honor. They are not our countrymen. They have NO feelings of connection to us. THEY ARE ENEMIES who want us dead. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 04:35 PM (N1DT3) 4 The Meagain Markle pose of basically, "LOok at me!" Get 'em, Kash! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 04:36 PM (WONhk) 5 Christianity (at least in the Catholic form) has free will as one of its top beliefs. If you are forced to do something, it's the complete anathema to that concept. Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 04:37 PM (tOcjL) 6 Wagram,NC is hideous Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 09, 2026 04:37 PM (wBaIH) 7 Screaming for Diversity is leaning to Cultural Marxism Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0) 8 It'd take at least 2 six packs to want to hit that. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 04:38 PM (AlhUl) 9 Another worthless federal employee. Sigh. Posted by: Welfare By Another Name at April 09, 2026 04:39 PM (tP7MS) 10 Women don't belong in combat. Period. And a unit like Delta force? W T F Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm) 11 Hola Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 09, 2026 04:39 PM (LdBR/) 12 Williams claimed sexual harassment in an EEO complaint. Per her comments, the settlement was large enough for her to purchase “a small house in NC.” How could she possibly have faced harassment of that magnitude to deserve that kind of monetary settlement? DOW needs better attorneys. Posted by: EveR at April 09, 2026 04:40 PM (vHMmj) 13 Point of reference - Delta Force showed up at my test site one day and they looked like a fucking biker gang. Long hair, leather vests, beards and tattoos. Then they tried to break my test rifles. They failed. Fuck those guys. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 04:40 PM (n17eQ) 14 If I'm remembering correctly, when this first came up many months ago the consensus among ex-mil types was that Seth Harp had the permanent sads because none of the big strong mens in Delta were interested in cock. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (2ocoG) 15 do they give out top secret access to coffee fetchers now?!?! Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (j+aD2) 16 1. God never commanded governments to forcibly redistribute wealth. 2. God commanded Christians to practice charity. 3. The early church "willingly" gave and they were "not under compulsion." This reminds me of the argument I had regularly when Obamacare was being proposed Lefties: HEALTHCARE IS A RIGHT! Me: Well there is nothing stopping you and everyone that agrees with you to create a healthcare collective and share costs. Lefties: But then YOU wouldn't have to pay for it. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm) 17 As I said on X, I definitely did have this on my Bingo Card. Tuq'r Qarlson is freed of the constraints of conservative orthodoxy, just like all the Bulwark and Dispatch NeverTrumpers were, and is now intellectually free to embrace the Full and Perfect Truth of Socialism and Progressive Authoritarianism. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:32 PM Just a reminder that ANYONE can be a scammer, but especially those you've never met can easily just be lying about who they are and what they believe. Now, let's take a look at the people "we" elected to congress.... Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (N1DT3) 18 I'm with Fen; need a better data base for her to be on the "can't do" list. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (Y8DZL) 19 Would a woman in that F-15E done sounds like the male did hiking up a mountain to say away fro the Iranians? Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (Ia/+0) 20 Main character syndrome. These psychopaths need to be weeded out of the Pentagon. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (Dv3i1) 21 A prima donna. She'll insist on a tailored orange jumpsuit. I hope they give her one two sizes too large. Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (5rh/l) 22 wait, spec ops vet? who, how, what? Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (diia5) 23 Mid? Nah, I’d still hit it With a 2x4 Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (REq0p) 24 twee? reliable? took money? who can she roll over on? Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 09, 2026 04:42 PM (2f1DR) 25 15 do they give out top secret access to coffee fetchers now?!?! Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (j+aD2) If they walk into the room to deliver the coffee...yes. Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 04:42 PM (tOcjL) 26 1. let chick in to male space 2. she complains about harassment, toxic, blah blah blah 3. profit? Posted by: many such cases at April 09, 2026 04:42 PM (jGJov) 27 You know what I want of Delta Force members? Not a bit of diversity at all. I want them to be solely focused on the mission in front of them, killing our enemies if need be and breaking our enemies stuff. I want them all, regardless of the fake diversity this bitch subscribes to, to be of alike mind - love the country, love the flag, love their colleagues. Let's roll. Posted by: Black JEM at April 09, 2026 04:43 PM (GZYu7) 28 Its real trouble if you get a paper jumpsuit. Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 09, 2026 04:43 PM (2f1DR) 29 I blame modern dads. they kowtow to their princesses too much. Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 04:43 PM (j+aD2) 30 6 Wagram, NC is hideous --------------- I went to college in Laurinburg and even I didn't know about Wagram. Honestly, I liked Scotland county. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 04:43 PM (n17eQ) 31 Its funny I remember when criticizing the president got one general fired in the Clinton years. Hell under Biden one Colonel was fired for just asking that someone be held accountable for the route that got a bunch of Americans killed. But leaking classified info? That's ok now... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 04:43 PM (sKqQm) 32 Women don't belong in combat. Period. And a unit like Delta force? W T F Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm) Women don't belong in the military. Yes, there are jobs women can do, but that consequently means that those easier postings are not available for men who may need a break from much harder and more dangerous jobs. But gurl power. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 04:44 PM (N1DT3) 33 3. The early church "willingly" gave and they were "not under compulsion." -- To others of the church, which these people always seem to forget. Because if you get into how they showed charity towards those not yet part of the church, the number one topic is rescuing babies from garbage heaps. Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 04:44 PM (vSvIl) 34 I would pay to slap that bitch's face into next week. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 04:44 PM (yAteE) 35 What drives me absolutely furious about this is how I spent my 20's pursuing an MA in international relations and trying to get a position that would be 1/10th of where she was at. She gets to this position, absolutely tanks it (and whatever credibility hiring-wise it had) while I get temp/gig work concurrently with the occasional Doordash. So disheartening Posted by: D-Rock at April 09, 2026 04:45 PM (FIHRg) 36 Lefties: HEALTHCARE IS A RIGHT! Me: Well there is nothing stopping you and everyone that agrees with you to create a healthcare collective and share costs. Lefties: But then YOU wouldn't have to pay for it. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm) Reminds of a meme. "Anything that requires the labor of others cannot be a personal right." Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2026 04:45 PM (5rh/l) 37 You know what I want of Delta Force members? Not a bit of diversity at all. When Europe started freaking out about Trump taking Greenland I noticed Euro-propaganda stopped being happy/gay Arab and African men with Euro women and started to be a bunch of gruff looking white guys with beards and muscles... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm) 38 Maybe she'll get her diversity in prison, if she gets a man pretending to be a woman as a cellmate. Posted by: illiniwek at April 09, 2026 04:45 PM (vbXSk) 39 I'm shocked to learn that Delta is full of toxic masculinity. Who could have seen that? Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 04:45 PM (GukFK) 40 14 If I'm remembering correctly, when this first came up many months ago the consensus among ex-mil types was that Seth Harp had the permanent sads because none of the big strong mens in Delta were interested in cock. Posted by: Ian S. ===== Saw his pic. They would be correct. Would not be surprised that he purposefully sank Courtney as a women as well for spite due sexual competition for the men. Messaging seems to indicate that Harp published a lot of 'background' information that made Courtney criminally liable. She realized it at some point. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 04:46 PM (E4rtv) 41 A just world will try for treason also the worthless "judge" who ruled keeping press from accessing every crevice of the Pentagon restricted the press' first amendment right. She knew this would happen. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 04:46 PM (Dv3i1) 42 Women don't belong in the military. ************ Women belong anywhere they can contribute in a meaningful way according to the gifts God gave them Being an echo bravo a-team delta commander super soldier is not it Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 09, 2026 04:46 PM (REq0p) 43 Nice picture there Courtney. Trust me, you won't look nearly so good when you finally get parole. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 04:47 PM (2WIwB) 44 Reminds of a meme. "Anything that requires the labor of others cannot be a personal right." I saw a lefty trying to answer this and her argument was "but then no one could get free healthcare!" Seriously that was her supposed mic drop moment. Ends justify the means and all that. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm) 45 Would a woman in that F-15E done sounds like the male did hiking up a mountain to say away fro the Iranians? Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (Ia/+0) She'd have gotten out sooner, because at least she'd have had the sense to stop and ask for directions. Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 04:47 PM (vSvIl) 46 Anoyne who thought that Tucker Carlson was anything other than a self-aggrandizing leftist probably also believed Stephen Colbert was a conservative when he was doing his show on Comedy Central Posted by: wiserbud at April 09, 2026 04:47 PM (1vvKU) 47 So is the font of all this 20th century madness women's suffrage? Wham bam, thank you maam. We need to delete the 19th as well. (The entire "progressive" amendment group has to go -- 16th -19th) Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 04:48 PM (LAwjE) 48 Well look what the cat dragged in. Howdy stranger. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 04:49 PM (GukFK) 49 Is this she a former him ? Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 09, 2026 04:49 PM (Fn30I) 50 Definitely we need "diversity" in the staff that supports Delta Force, not just the best, most qualified people. I know, right??? Courtney you ignorant fool. Nothing like sending America's best supported by America's average. Idiot. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 04:49 PM (2WIwB) 51 30 Today Scotland County is more depressing than Glasgow Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 09, 2026 04:50 PM (wBaIH) 52 Women don't belong in the military. Yes, there are jobs women can do, but that consequently means that those easier postings are not available for men who may need a break from much harder and more dangerous jobs. But gurl power. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 04:44 PM (N1DT3) We don't need to be ridiculous on this board. Women have been in theater, and are needed in theater for roles that men are either ill-suited or can't do. Should they be front-line combat? No. But they are needed in theater for city sweeps and female/child pat downs/discussions, intel gathering onsite, medical care, etc. As for embedding in a special forces unit, they can also bring the option of different approaches to a problem, always being both underestimated and overappreciated by the male sex. But usually, they are tasked to the group for a one shot, and not assigned with the group b/c their talents are not always needed. Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 04:51 PM (tOcjL) 53 Tuq'r Qarlson...if anyone ever hears what he says are his beliefs as a Christian, please clue me in.His great knowledge of the Bible that he doesn't make up to suit his needs. I don't listen to the nitwit except in memes with a goat next to him bleating and chewing cud. Then I laugh, but that's as close as I get to seeing Cucker, in a turban and beard. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 04:51 PM (WONhk) 54 Was she an actual Delta Force soldier or just in the support staff, because they keep calling her a "Delta Force veteran," and somehow, that seems misleading. When I see "Delta Force veteran," I presume the writer is speaking about a man who has served in the capacity of a Special Forces operator. Not the gal in charge of motor pool note: I have done admin support, and in no way disparage the work and need for excellent admin. But it just seems like the article is inferring that she was jumping out of perfectly good planes and storming the bastions of hell. Not with those nails. Posted by: moki at April 09, 2026 04:51 PM (wLjpr) 55 Women belong anywhere they can contribute in a meaningful way according to the gifts God gave them Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 09, 2026 04:46 PM (REq0p) ...consequences be damned. At least, that's the feminist take on this. (Minus the "God gave them", because they're all godless heathens.) Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 04:51 PM (N1DT3) 56 Oh, just who comes to mind on the self-labelled "Conservative" bloviater list? George Will David Brooks Arianna Huffington Bill Kristol Jonah Goldburg David French Megyn Kelly Candace Owens Just off the top of my head. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 04:52 PM (Y8DZL) 57 wiserbud just popping up with a banger comment! well done sir Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 04:52 PM (j+aD2) 58 We don't need to be ridiculous on this board. Women have been in theater, and are needed in theater for roles that men are either ill-suited or can't do. Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 04:51 PM (tOcjL) What roles, in the military are men ill-suited for or unable to do? I'm honestly curious. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 04:52 PM (N1DT3) 59 >>>Women don't belong in the military. camp followers Posted by: many such cases at April 09, 2026 04:52 PM (jGJov) 60 35 What drives me absolutely furious about this is how I spent my 20's pursuing an MA in international relations and trying to get a position that would be 1/10th of where she was at. She gets to this position, absolutely tanks it (and whatever credibility hiring-wise it had) while I get temp/gig work concurrently with the occasional Doordash. Posted by: D-Rock ====== Prior service has two things--A) vet preference, and B) already has a security clearance from Uncle Sam. Gives a big advantage to prior service folks for DoW contractor jobs. And, unless you have contacts and some sort of preexisting experience or skill, a MA or even a PhD in IR from anything other than a top school means being thrown into the pool competing with a vast number of graduates worldwide from such programs. Don't know your particular situation, school, or mentoring, but I was on academic hiring committees for academic and staff jobs and the competition is stiff. Probably about as bad for think tanks. Buddies of mine in Comparative or IR struggled for years to get permanent faculty jobs and many ended up doing something far different than their degree implied. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 04:52 PM (E4rtv) 61 That's an article that needs to be written: "Four Amendments that Fucked the Country" income tax, direct vote of Senators, prohibition, women's vote. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 04:52 PM (LAwjE) 62 Seth Harp is from my hometown. His father was a teacher/coach whose career crashed because he had a student girlfriend. Think he did some time for that. Destroyed his marriage, as it should have. Word was he always thought his little girlfriend would wait on him to return. Yeah, not so much. Dumbass. Posted by: Indiana Lurker at April 09, 2026 04:53 PM (3ZVqj) 63 1. let chick in to male space 2. she complains about harassment, toxic, blah blah blah 3. profit? Posted by: many such cases at April 09, 2026 04:42 PM Zeke Mowatt did nothing wrong. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 04:53 PM (2ocoG) 64 I saw a lefty trying to answer this and her argument was "but then no one could get free healthcare!" Seriously that was her supposed mic drop moment. _____ Third party paid (what passes for "free" to lower IQ people) health care didn't start until, what, the 50s with employer paid health insurance plans? History starts at birth for way too many people. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 04:53 PM (Dv3i1) 65 no women in military mayyyyyybe nurses Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 04:53 PM (j+aD2) 66 who thought that Tucker Carlson was anything other than a self-aggrandizing leftist probably also believed Stephen Colbert was a conservative when he was doing his show on Comedy Central ******** I knew a woman who legit believed Colbert was a conservative even NOW Because devout Catholic or something Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 09, 2026 04:53 PM (REq0p) 67 Women don't belong in combat. Period. Fundamentally disagree. My clerk typist was crossed trained in artillery procedures and in how to read intelligence messages. Using her skills, her brain, and her backbone she single handedly destroyed an entire Iraqi artillery battalion. That's three firing batteries and the battalion HQ. She was all of 5'2" , 105 lbs, 300 rounds and a bad attitude. I love her dearly. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 04:54 PM (2WIwB) 68 No. But they are needed in theater for city sweeps and female/child pat downs/discussions, intel gathering onsite, medical care, etc. Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 04:51 PM (tOcjL) OHH... for nation building and policing. Yes, that's the proper mission of the military. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 04:54 PM (N1DT3) 69 As for embedding in a special forces unit, they can also bring the option of different approaches to a problem, always being both underestimated and overappreciated by the male sex. But usually, they are tasked to the group for a one shot, and not assigned with the group b/c their talents are not always needed. Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 04:51 PM (tOcjL) We don't need a kindler, gentler military, NL. We've had that since the 60's, and look where that has gotten us. I want rough men kicking ass and storming the beaches, and getting the job done. The women can go in after the fact and deal with things when the hard part is over. Posted by: moki at April 09, 2026 04:54 PM (wLjpr) 70 Howdy, y'all. Broke out the laptop for the first time in a while to write a post about our dear, departed friend Rosetta at H2 and thought I'd drop in here. Damn, you all comment fast these days. Posted by: wiserbud at April 09, 2026 04:54 PM (1vvKU) 71 54 Was she an actual Delta Force soldier or just in the support staff, because they keep calling her a "Delta Force veteran," and somehow, that seems misleading. When I see "Delta Force veteran," I presume the writer is speaking about a man who has served in the capacity of a Special Forces operator. Not the gal in charge of motor pool note: I have done admin support, and in no way disparage the work and need for excellent admin. But it just seems like the article is inferring that she was jumping out of perfectly good planes and storming the bastions of hell. Not with those nails. Posted by: moki ======= She was a civilian contractor with unspecified prior service in the Army working for Delta Force in some administrative capacity. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 04:54 PM (E4rtv) 72 We need diversity in the reopened Alcatraz. She can be the first female prisoner with a floor-less room over the shark entrance. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 04:54 PM (u82oZ) 73 58 We don't need to be ridiculous on this board. Women have been in theater, and are needed in theater for roles that men are either ill-suited or can't do. Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 04:51 PM (tOcjL) What roles, in the military are men ill-suited for or unable to do? I'm honestly curious. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 04:52 PM (N1DT3) Chatting to a female Muslim in a hijab to get intel. Patting that same lady down 1st without having the Muslim males start shooting. Patting down her kids. Sometimes, you are in a city and seeking folks (like Israel is doing now in Iran). Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 04:55 PM (tOcjL) 74 Williams claimed sexual harassment in an EEO complaint. Per her comments, the settlement was large enough for her to purchase “a small house in NC.” How could she possibly have faced harassment of that magnitude to deserve that kind of monetary settlement? DOW needs better attorneys. Posted by: EveR at April 09, 2026 * If she did that prior to working for Delta Force, that office should never have hired her. That should have been an instant red flag. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 04:56 PM (wzUl9) 75 A whole lot of problems with the US military could be resolved by going back to the rules and regulations of 1945... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm) 76 She's just another bimbo looking for a payday. If you're going to betray someone, betray your spouse, not your country. Maybe it's time to varnish that pillory. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 04:56 PM (Fbc0I) 77 On the one hand, this Cover Girl seems insufferable, but on the other hand, there's been a lot of hinky shit going on in Delta over the last few years. She was a lot better looking if you look at the pictures from back in the day. I think she got punched in the nose or something Posted by: imp at April 09, 2026 04:57 PM (ppcD5) 78 {{{moki}}} Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 04:57 PM (u82oZ) 79 My favorite quote from Courtney Williams text messages: "I might actually get arrested, and I don't even get a free copy of the book." That's just hilarious. A dumbass, woke, activist falling for the BS from a woke, activist, 'journalist'. Match made in heaven. It's too bad they can't arrest the author as well. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 04:58 PM (6ydKt) 80 note: I have done admin support, and in no way disparage the work and need for excellent admin. But it just seems like the article is inferring that she was jumping out of perfectly good planes and storming the bastions of hell. Not with those nails. Posted by: moki at April 09, 2026 *** I was administrative support at a college for many years. At no point did I ever think, or imply to others, I was qualified to teach the subject of the department. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 04:58 PM (wzUl9) 81 I knew a woman who legit believed Colbert was a conservative even NOW What? When he first started as one of Jon Stewart's sidekicks the joke was always painfully explicit that he was (poorly) in character as Bill O'Reilly. It later came out that he was just being himself, and that he was pretty terrible at that too, of course. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 04:58 PM (2ocoG) 82 LOL the troll is reduced to....Melania polling Posted by: steevy at April 09, 2026 04:59 PM (YwEeS) 83 I don't know if lefties know this but Michelle Obama did a raunchy photo shoot with a female model. For some reason though its never referred to as lesbian or girl with girl... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 04:59 PM (sKqQm) 84 39 I'm shocked to learn that Delta is full of toxic masculinity. Who could have seen that? Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 04:45 PM (GukFK) .................................. And I love it! Has a woman managed to pass the SEAL Team test yet? Asking out of curiosity. I will never understand this DEI stuff. Women can be a lot of things, including flying fighter jets, surgeons, etc...but physically you can't compete. I tried to til my brothers and friends hit junior high and started beating me in swim races, etc. Because they became stronger. I quit physically fighting over the remote with my brother at this point as well. I ain't stupid. This was our only battle in life: the remote control. The day he placed my head, in a head lock, with my temple 2" from the corner of the mantel and said he could kill me was the day our lives changed. He was sort of kidding on killing me (I think), unlike Miz Newscumbag and her golf cart. I have no regrets as this prepared me for combat in HS and college and made me fearless. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 04:59 PM (WONhk) 85 Qataralson is a socialist? But he lives on Boca Grande in a $15 million house and rides around on a custom golf cart. That takes champagne socialism to a new and much level than pedestrian "champagne". Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 05:00 PM (nYwem) 86 I can't make any determination without seeing her elbows. Posted by: fd at April 09, 2026 05:00 PM (vFG9F) 87 I'll ask an obvious question I never seem to have an answer to...where will she be tried? From what jury pool? DC? Posted by: Lady in Black at April 09, 2026 05:00 PM (qBdHI) 88 Look Tucker got a better offer from various enemies of the US. He's not a socialist, he's not a Muslim jock sniffer - he's just saying what he is paid to say Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 05:01 PM (sKqQm) 89 So, has the team leads name been leaked? I may have missed that tidbit. It was leaked to Carlson but is it actually out there? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:01 PM (zZu0s) 90 12 Williams claimed sexual harassment in an EEO complaint. Per her comments, the settlement was large enough for her to purchase “a small house in NC.” How could she possibly have faced harassment of that magnitude to deserve that kind of monetary settlement? DOW needs better attorneys. Posted by: EveR ===== Special Forces get a budget that is secret and have a lot of secrets to keep including names of personnel that no commander wants spread about in an open courtroom. Cheaper to settle than risk disclosure of secret information. Same reason a lot of shithead leakers and spies/traitors often get a prison sentence rather than the government go to trial. FWIW, every now and again, a smart defense lawyer raises discovery facts on the possible civilian (and illegal from the 4th Amendment standpoint) of Stinger cell towers used to try one of their clients. Often these cases are dropped as a result to avoid disclosure of what the local popo, state fusion centers, and feds are doing in bulk interception of cellphone and internet data. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:02 PM (E4rtv) 91 I remember in the Starship Troopers movie they had a scene where the male and female troopers showered with each other. I suspect in the real world that would play out with the guys all pulling over chairs and enjoying the show... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 05:02 PM (sKqQm) 92 I'm going to need to see dat azz before I can express an opinion. Posted by: toby928(c) at April 09, 2026 05:03 PM (3lCvD) 93 90 So, has the team leads name been leaked? I may have missed that tidbit. It was leaked to Carlson but is it actually out there? Posted by: Aetius451AD ====== Was. DoW (and others) claimed she doxxed the wrong guy but the guy pointed at was still Special Forces. Not going to look it up. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:03 PM (E4rtv) 94 82 LOL the troll is reduced to....Melania polling Posted by: steevy at April 09, 2026 04:59 PM (YwEeS) Still thinks we're living in a high school popularity contest. Apparently, the more popular you are, the more right you are about everything. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt) 95 There was an obnoxious, insufferable, idiotic, bomb-throwing POS who used to call into my radio show named Paul. This can't be the same guy, can it? Posted by: wiserbud at April 09, 2026 05:03 PM (1vvKU) 96 all the Bulwark How many douche-bags can you fit on a boat? Posted by: DaveA at April 09, 2026 05:04 PM (FhXTo) 97 Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:03 PM (E4rtv) Fucking hell. Evil bitch. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:05 PM (zZu0s) 98 "Williams was featured prominently in a Politico article as an on-the-record voice in a story profiling alleged misconduct in Delta Force, a covert military unit where Delta Force is headquartered. That article, by Seth Harp, was adapted from his book, which was to be published shortly after the article." She leaked to politico of course. We need to air drop her sorry a$$ near a cartel HQ in mexico with a note pinned onto her back saying she is a dea snitch and watch what happens. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 09, 2026 05:05 PM (0N4FZ) 99 Aetius, yes his name was published and also a picture of some of the force. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 05:05 PM (yAteE) 100 85 Qataralson is a socialist? But he lives on Boca Grande in a $15 million house and rides around on a custom golf cart. That takes champagne socialism to a new and much level than pedestrian "champagne". Posted by: Huck Follywood He wants the current US to change to something else. If his brother has anything to do with it, it is rabid antisemitism. So like the left, Muzzies, or the woke right that worships Dugin, to them, anything that destroys the current Western Civilization must happen before the fight begins to see who gets the spoils. Microcosm of most Revolutions--overthrow the current government then win the battles afterward. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:05 PM (E4rtv) 101 If you read the Politico article that woman spilled a lot of beans. Not so much on sources but lots on methods. One could say people would not be surprised by the activities she describes supporting Delta Force, but that's different than actually laying it all out there. She needs prison time. I know Ace hates Seth Harp and I agree it was wrong to ID the Delta mission commander, but regarding his book on the drug dealing and murders and families ruined thereby at Fort Bragg (and Camp Lejeune) the military is not off-limits to journalism so long as classified info is not divulged. It's completely understandable how these operators begin using stimulants but the prospect for addiction especially meth and cocaine is very high. And then heroin and fentanyl just to relax. And then the dealing and the violence. I don't care how disciplined and focused and high performing you are, we all have the same brain architecture and some percentage will become addicted. IMO the fault lies with military justice and the base commander and unit commanders who tolerated it. Posted by: TITP at April 09, 2026 05:07 PM (r3hkP) 102 whig Prayers continue to ascend for your recovery. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 05:07 PM (u82oZ) 103 DELTA Force is interested in results, not how someone looks, how much melanin resides in their skin, or how nuanced they happen to be: One glance at Sergeant Major Mike Vining will tell you that. Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 05:07 PM (dIske) 104 Qataralson is a socialist? But he lives on Boca Grande in a $15 million house and rides around on a custom golf cart. That takes champagne socialism to a new and much level than pedestrian "champagne". Hasan Piker has entered the chat. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 05:08 PM (aUxYo) 105 Fucking hell. Evil bitch. Posted by: Aetius451AD Now do all the DC politicians and senior staffers that leak and leak that could get some of our guys killed. Or the traitors that take cash to tell our enemies their secrets. Bill Clinton comes to mind regarding Loral and the Chicoms for example. Quid pro quo, he allows Loral to fix Chinese ICBM tech in return for suitcases full of cash from Chicoms. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:08 PM (E4rtv) 106 How many douche-bags can you fit on a boat? Posted by: DaveA at April 09, 2026 05:04 PM (FhXTo) Supplemental question: are the douche bags full of douche? if they're empty, you would probably be able to fit more. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:08 PM (zZu0s) 107 Lowered expectations. https://is.gd/cP4jtJ Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 05:09 PM (ndZc7) 108 I don't think that chick is as bad as Ace says, but I do think it's highly likely that she does the bird hands thing. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 05:10 PM (aUxYo) 109 I'd hit it. Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 09, 2026 05:10 PM (XMwZJ) 110 103 whig Prayers continue to ascend for your recovery. Posted by: NaCly Dog ====== Will be awhile yet. Just got an insurance turn down for simple steroid shots in the lower back. Probably just requiring more paperwork but the cutoff of insurance honeypot subsidies in the BBB bill, I think has insurance companies scrambling to reup their previous profit margins. That means rejecting more and more claims to replace government subsidies from Obamacare/Covid. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:11 PM (E4rtv) 111 I don't think that chick is as bad as Ace says, but I do think it's highly likely that she does the bird hands thing. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 05:10 PM (aUxYo) Those are crazy fucking eyes. Do not engage. waves off buddy Pull up! Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:12 PM (zZu0s) 112 Now do the NY Times for publishing the previously secret CIA technique for detecting a heart rate at range. Posted by: Bouncy Castles at April 09, 2026 05:12 PM (O7YUW) 113 Off Canadian protest bouncy castle sock. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 09, 2026 05:13 PM (O7YUW) 114 Hopefully now she can experience the diversity of life behind bars. Posted by: Ordinary American at April 09, 2026 05:13 PM (b4LBp) 115 Qataralson is a socialist? But he lives on Boca Grande in a $15 million house and rides around on a custom golf cart. Hope he doesn't run over his brother. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2026 05:13 PM (Cqx++) 116 It's completely understandable how these operators begin using stimulants but the prospect for addiction especially meth and cocaine is very high. And then heroin and fentanyl just to relax. And then the dealing and the violence. I don't care how disciplined and focused and high performing you are, we all have the same brain architecture and some percentage will become addicted. IMO the fault lies with military justice and the base commander and unit commanders who tolerated it. Posted by: TITP Have you ever thought that a lot of what Harp published was bullshit? The guy lied to his own source leaving her out to dry and that record of truthiness means that the rest of his rubbish is best treated that way. Journalists in general are scum and liars. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:13 PM (E4rtv) 117 I guessed correctly before reading any names that it was a woman staff member. Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at April 09, 2026 05:13 PM (Risui) 118 Hopefully now she can experience the diversity of life behind bars. Posted by: Ordinary American at April 09, 2026 05:13 PM (b4LBp) I am betting she knows something about bars. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:14 PM (zZu0s) 119 DELTA Force is interested in results, not how someone looks, how much melanin resides in their skin, or how nuanced they happen to be: One glance at Sergeant Major Mike Vining will tell you that. Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 05:07 PM (dIske) And everyone is a member of the club and no one wants to be taken down for bad behavior just because one of the group is out committing crimes. So they circle the wagons This is also the story of prison guards, police forces, and democratic administrations. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 05:15 PM (rbvCR) 120 I hope she enjoys 25 to life cleaning tampon receptacles in fed prison. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 09, 2026 05:15 PM (abIsI) 121 87 I'll ask an obvious question I never seem to have an answer to...where will she be tried? From what jury pool? DC? Posted by: Lady in Black at April 09, 2026 05:00 PM (qBdHI) She committed the crime in NC, so she'll probably be indicted and tried there. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt) 122 >>> the media is of course misrepresenting her as a "Delta Force member." Reporting is muddy and I think they like it like that. Makes people think she was somebody. The best I could derive is that she got hired on by a contractor and got the clearance (basically no criminal record) and pushed some paper around. A lot of people claim they were "Special Forces" because they bumped into a Green Beanie at the Food Lion. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 09, 2026 05:16 PM (/lPRQ) 123 Can you imagine this dipshit woman, at the top of our top, top military units, deciding it wasn't DIVERSE enough and sabotaging the operations? Just throw her in jail. Or a mental hospital. Posted by: PJ at April 09, 2026 05:17 PM (+jscL) 124 Nothing will happen. Posted by: The person who always says that at April 09, 2026 05:17 PM (2Ez/1) 125 A lot of people claim they were "Special Forces" because they bumped into a Green Beanie at the Food Lion. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 09, 2026 05:16 PM (/lPRQ) Who are these people? I'd be fucking mortified to do something like that. You did not earn it. Fuck, it's easily verified. How fucking immoral and stupid joyous have to be? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:18 PM (zZu0s) 126 Tucker Carlson is a nut…. And an idiot. I intentionally used the conjunction AND, not OR Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 05:18 PM (CUP/i) 127 She was all of 5'2" , 105 lbs, 300 rounds and a bad attitude. I love her dearly. Posted by: Diogenes MOS 71L are some wicked bad asses. Most of them are made E4 mafia dons too. E4 is the absolute deadliest rank in the military. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 09, 2026 05:18 PM (QVmho) 128 I realize this is O/T but her plumped up lips...you can see injection scars or something on the top lip. I am dying to ask these puffer fish if they can feel them? Do you drool when you drink liquids like I do after the dentist? Why? Did you not have an upper lip to begin with? Do you admire porn stars? What happens when they deflate and you don't inject again...are you left with a wrinkled flap lip? I already know the fillers can migrate. Not that I have ever needed them, but I am sure mine would migrate to my forehead and I'd look like Prince Harry (his forehead lipoma bump bugs me). I read of one starlet (or something) getting hers unfilled/removed. Maybe she had lip implants, if they exist. Her lips looked normal vs like dessicated slugs on the sidewalk, so I am unsure, but she had something removed. At this point they might as well go full lip enlargement with the plates they wear in Africa and the golden rings around their giraffe necks. Then I move on to other things not useful in life. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 05:18 PM (WONhk) 129 PJ Send her to Canada. The Canadian medical service will know what to do. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 05:18 PM (u82oZ) 130 Joyous= do you. I got nothing on how that happened. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:18 PM (zZu0s) 131 Lips are kind of plump and juicy. Posted by: Max Power at April 09, 2026 05:19 PM (q177U) 132 Tucker Carlson is a nut…. And an idiot. I intentionally used the conjunction AND, not OR Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 05:18 PM (CUP/i) He definitely seems to have gone full retard. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:20 PM (zZu0s) 133 The best I could derive is that she got hired on by a contractor and got the clearance (basically no criminal record) and pushed some paper around. A lot of people claim they were "Special Forces" because they bumped into a Green Beanie at the Food Lion. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher ====== She was prior service in Army according to later reports and then hired as a contractor. Security clearances from the military service can carry over if recent enough which is enough to give them an advantage plus the vet preference in getting a job. And depending on specialty, it can be an exact fit for admin positions required to shuffle paperwork. Prior service have some idea about how DoW procedures work while outsiders may or may not. Fair number of people here are prior service that jump over to the civilian DoW contractor side after leaving active service. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:20 PM (E4rtv) 134 Probably just requiring more paperwork but the cutoff of insurance honeypot subsidies in the BBB bill, I think has insurance companies scrambling to reup their previous profit margins. That means rejecting more and more claims to replace government subsidies from Obamacare/Covid. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:11 PM What baffles me is that the democrats and the insurance companies gave up so easily on the subsidies. We are going on three months now with the money spigot turned off and one would think that the media and the dems would be parading hundreds of thousands of people who lost their insurance because the evil republicans refused to extend the covid emergency obama care subsidies. I haven't seen a single one. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 09, 2026 05:20 PM (0N4FZ) 135 Pope Leo XIV was half an hour late for his audience with the Italian Winter Olympic and Paralympic committees because he was meeting with David Alexrod, Obama’s chief strategist, this morning. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 05:20 PM (nG58E) 136 Did Elizabeth Warren come out in support of this woman yet? I ask that because Warren was instrumental in pushing the DEI agenda in the military. Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 05:21 PM (dIske) 137 E4 is the absolute deadliest rank in the military. Posted by: BifBewalski ==== I was one of them back in the day. Used enlisted service to pay for grad school. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv) 138 Racist sumbitch! NBC News @NBCNews Immigration arrests of people without criminal convictions have increased eightfold under President Trump, report says. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 05:21 PM (ndZc7) 139 E4 is the absolute deadliest rank in the military. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 09, 2026 05:18 PM (QVmho) I was an E4! But definitely not the deadly variety… my MOS 76V. Not lethal… I always laughed at that moment in Heartbreak Ridge where the kickass general says to the incompetent colonel: Where’d you come from. The colonel answers supply… the general: were you good at it? The colonel enthusiastically yes! The general: well you oughta go back because you’re a CF in a combat outfit Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 05:21 PM (CUP/i) 140 >>A lot of people claim they were "Special Forces" because they bumped into a Green Beanie at the Food Lion. I met a guy in PR in a bar who claimed to be special forces in Vietnam. Became acquaintances. Not friends but we got along ok. I have zero doubt he was the real deal. Spooky guy when he got a bit drunk. Wasn't so much what he said, he didn't want to talk about the war much, it was more the way he said things and carried himself. He was not a guy I wanted to piss off. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 05:22 PM (GukFK) 141 115 Hopefully now she can experience the diversity of life behind bars. Posted by: Ordinary American at April 09, 2026 05:13 PM (b4LBp) Most of the women in prison have been sexually abused, many starting in early childhood. Imagine how delighted they will be to know the new inmate got a six-figure “harassment” settlement. Posted by: EveR at April 09, 2026 05:22 PM (vHMmj) 142 She's a Fort Bragg 6. A Camp Pendleton 7. A Great Lakes 5. And a Lackland 9. Posted by: Candidus at April 09, 2026 05:22 PM (oNK4J) 143 rampant gender discrimination and sexual harassment in MY delta force? My guess is that the activity in question is probably about exactly what you'd expect to find if you put enough hyperfocused, masculine, hardass warfighters in the same room together. A lot of off-color jokes and talk about T&A. Which a fainting-couch left with an axe to grind for her grrrrlboss cred would construe as some of that. To the rest of us it's as ho-hum as Trump's "pussy" quote. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 05:22 PM (oqH4h) 144 What I find peculiar is that every time any secret squirrel shit comes up it is always "Delta Force" or "SEAL Team Six". Never a plain old Green Beanie or plain vanilla SEAL... apparently they do not even exist. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 09, 2026 05:22 PM (/lPRQ) 145 MOS 71L are some wicked bad asses. Most of them are made E4 mafia dons too. E4 is the absolute deadliest rank in the military. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 09, 2026 05:18 PM (QVmho) Truth!!! Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 05:22 PM (2WIwB) 146 NBC News @NBCNews Immigration arrests of people without criminal convictions have increased eightfold under President Trump, report says. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 05:21 PM (ndZc7) And their point is...what? Don't have to have a criminal conviction to get detained and deported, and I'm tired of this idiotic narrative that has no basis in law or reality. Posted by: Fuck these fucking fuckers at April 09, 2026 05:23 PM (TbWk/) 147 Is Tucker really that stupid??? Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 05:24 PM (2WIwB) 148 The old joke about stolen valor: There were exactly 100 Navy Seals who saw active duty in Viet Nam and I've met at least a thousand of them. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 05:24 PM (2UnvF) 149 Why would anyone care about gender discrimination in a combat unit. WHO GAF? If they’re lethal that’s all that matters…. Sheesh so much stupidity in which we swim Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 05:24 PM (CUP/i) 150 She will see prison within next 2 years, but has a chance to get a Presidential pardon with another Auto-Pen administration Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 05:24 PM (Ia/+0) 151 "Tucker Carlson is a nut…. And an idiot. I intentionally used the conjunction AND, not OR --- He definitely seems to have gone full retard." "Have you seen my clicks, and how much they pay me, and how the left loves me?" Tucker Posted by: illiniwek at April 09, 2026 05:24 PM (vbXSk) 152 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 05:18 PM (zZu0s) Sometimes you have to laugh along with rolling your eyes with the autocorrect. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:24 PM (7RYym) 153 What baffles me is that the democrats and the insurance companies gave up so easily on the subsidies. We are going on three months now with the money spigot turned off and one would think that the media and the dems would be parading hundreds of thousands of people who lost their insurance because the evil republicans refused to extend the covid emergency obama care subsidies. I haven't seen a single one. Posted by: Mister Scott ======= Because it was essentially with the Covid additions, gravy to insurance companies. The BBB did not end the Obamacare subsidies but did eliminate the enhanced premium tax credits under Covid and eliminated auto reenrollment (weeding out fraudulent applicants). Rest of enrollment was tightened up as well. Some may in fact lose coverage that were in the Obamacare markets but primarily because they valued other things more than health insurance. Plus the penalty for not having it now is also set at zero from other GOP legislation. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:25 PM (E4rtv) 154 Sounds like Williams was the 'HR Lady' for the Special Forces in NC. She had access to a lot of personnel records, etc. that she was sharing with the journalism. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:26 PM (6ydKt) 155 Yeah. She's GI Jane... Heh Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:27 PM (XuXeR) 156 Unless "less than mid" is gen-Z code for gross, you missed your mark. Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at April 09, 2026 05:27 PM (JcF+m) 157 Based on the one picture, the leaker is slightly prettie than "mid" (there's a lot of ugly out there). However her eyes and her whole demeanor scream "Stay away!". Now for the rest of the girthy content Posted by: 496 at April 09, 2026 05:27 PM (+YNUw) 158 So, Cortney has a "partner"? Just WTF does that mean? A guy or not? I ask because I have had three lesbians, and one gay guy, working for me over my career that I would go to war with at any time. Outstand soldiers, great people, and I knew they had my back. And the troops knew it as well. There were others that, had we had to deploy, would have suffered injuries preventing them from deploying. Cause...reasons. But at the end of the day, I don't give a rat's ass about her partner. Enjoy prison you worthless slag. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 05:28 PM (2WIwB) 159 I was an E4! But definitely not the deadly variety… my MOS 76V. Not lethal… Posted by: LinusVanPelt Mine was Civil Engineering. Last position was Engineering assistant. 553X0 which has been modernized. Past through another AFSC to get there as Post Gulf War chopped Civil Engineering Squadrons manning positions. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:29 PM (E4rtv) 160 I like tits. Tits don't belong within 1000 light years of delta force. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 05:29 PM (snZF9) 161 Never a plain old Green Beanie or plain vanilla SEAL... apparently they do not even exist. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 09, 2026 05:22 PM (/lPRQ) ------- You don't have to report on plain vanilla SEALs, they all write enough books you can just go read at your leisure, and you can't open YouTube without seeing one of them on some wanker's podcast. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 05:29 PM (oqH4h) 162 "British nationals" NEW: Border Patrol caught & arrested four British nationals entering the US illegally in a remote part of Maine after crossing from Canada. Their names: Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Mohammed Sultan Saleh. Posted by: Mark1971 at April 09, 2026 05:29 PM (CNl8/) 163 And a Lackland 9." A Kodiak 10. Pretty much by just breathing... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:30 PM (XuXeR) 164 The case is being investigated by the FBI’s Charlotte Field Office, with assistance from federal prosecutors in North Carolina. Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 05:30 PM (tOcjL) 165 Tucker is the kind of guy (and this is very common) who rationalizes his interests. He thinks "This is good for me, so it must be right." He sees his support of islam as good for him (who will not be subject to their depredations) so it must be good for the country. It makes him money, so it must be good. ie, no principles, and desperate to beat others. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 05:31 PM (LAwjE) 166 There were exactly 100 Navy Seals who saw active duty in Viet Nam and I've met at least a thousand of them. Posted by: Duke Lowell Similar story about JFK. From all the men I've met who were on PT-109, it must've been the size of the Queen Mary. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 05:31 PM (ndZc7) 167 And a Lackland 9." A Kodiak 10. Pretty much by just breathing... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:30 PM (XuXeR) When I was in Sinop, we'd laugh at the folks in Kodiak. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 05:32 PM (2WIwB) 168 Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Mohammed Sultan Saleh." Ah. I so enjoyed stories about when their ancestors took Agincourt... Westmoreland, Exeter, Harry the King, Ayyub and Nagi... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:33 PM (XuXeR) 169 He thinks "This is good for me, so it must be right." - Moral flexibility is a hallmark of the elite. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 05:33 PM (ndZc7) 170 OT but interesting as it touches on Iran's overseas financing - It seems Santander UK and Lloyds are laundering IRI fund: MADRID/LONDON (Reuters) -Santander and Lloyds shares fell on Monday after the Financial Times (FT) newspaper reported that Iran used accounts held at the banks in the United Kingdom to covertly move money around the world in a sanctions-evasion scheme backed by Iran's intelligence services. Lloyds and Santander UK provided accounts to British front companies allegedly secretly owned by a sanctioned Iranian petrochemicals company based in London, the FT reported citing documents the newspaper had obtained. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 05:33 PM (rbvCR) 171 I've read the book. It's absolute garbage. Tons of maybe's, might's, could be's, a hodgepodge of snippets of factual deeply embedded with fantasy. So I see why he would fit right in with Tucccah. Posted by: Sua Sponte at April 09, 2026 05:33 PM (GTw+O) 172 Oh, and you knew this was inevitable: Tuq'r hosts a smug socialist who preaches the Gospel of Chavez, announcing that Christianity should have nothing to do with capitalism -- "You think?!" Tuq'r asked, indicating his very strong agreement -- and also agreed with the socialist that Christianity is compatible with socialism. ---------------- So why isn't Tucker donating all his millions to charity? Could it be that he is just a classical dacha socialist who wants to give away everyone else's money and keep his? Posted by: Decaf at April 09, 2026 05:33 PM (Tbs6N) 173 >>>>> a lot of people claim they were "Special Forces" because they bumped into a Green Beanie at the Food Lion. People lie for no good reason. A co-worker was drinking a beer at an airport lounge and someone next to him asked him if he liked the beer? Buddy nodded yes. Guy said he was the brewmaster at the brewery. Then the "brew master" excused himself to potty. My buddy got up and left his business card on the bar top- he was the head of the bottle shop at said brewery. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 05:34 PM (nG58E) 174 When I was in Sinop, we'd laugh at the folks in Kodiak." If you're in the barrel, you can laugh at the folks in Kodiak.... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:34 PM (XuXeR) 175 "British nationals" NEW: Border Patrol caught & arrested four British nationals entering the US illegally in a remote part of Maine after crossing from Canada. Their names: Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Mohammed Sultan Saleh. Posted by: Mark1971 at April 09, 2026 05:29 PM (CNl8/) *** Oh come on, they were just salesmen for Maple Syrup. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 05:34 PM (2WIwB) 176 She was prior service in Army according to later reports and then hired as a contractor. Security clearances from the military service can carry over if recent enough which is enough to give them an advantage plus the vet preference in getting a job. And depending on specialty, it can be an exact fit for admin positions required to shuffle paperwork. Prior service have some idea about how DoW procedures work while outsiders may or may not. Fair number of people here are prior service that jump over to the civilian DoW contractor side after leaving active service. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:20 PM (E4rtv) But was also 'let go' years ago after a security investigation... Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 05:34 PM (mP0Kj) 177 I was an E4! But definitely not the deadly variety… my MOS 76V. Not lethal… Posted by: LinusVanPelt ===== Mine was Civil Engineering. Last position was Engineering assistant. 553X0 which has been modernized. Past through another AFSC to get there as Post Gulf War chopped Civil Engineering Squadrons manning positions. Posted by: whig 24U here, warhead custodian. Got poached to be the warrant for that system as a 222B, got retreaded into Patriot and became a 222C, then that got rebadged to 140E. Good career, got me the job I have today. You'll need to acces vietnam era MOS lists to get at the 24U description. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 09, 2026 05:35 PM (QVmho) 178 new thread about hospice fraud in califormica Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 05:35 PM (CWTWj) 179 I don't care anymore what happened to tucker. He made his big heel-turn and now there's nothing left but watching him talk crap on camera before the next match, where he'll get beat 95% of the time by the good guy. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:35 PM (6ydKt) 180 I liked women like Courtney Williams better when they were camp followers. They were more honest in those days. Posted by: gKWVE at April 09, 2026 05:36 PM (gKWVE) 181 Has 'Nothing will happen' guy posted his views yet. We need a website tracking things that HAVE happened. I'm curious when the media, specifically Hollywood, really started hating the military. I just finished 1985's Romero's 'Day of the Dead.' So that puts us at 40 years unless portraying the remaining military at a base as a bunch of insubordinate, very racist guys shrieking like white, liberal women is a compliment. I'm not a movie person but I'm guessing after Vietnam, there was a divorce. And the chick in the photo is alright. In real life you may need 10 beers to get her to look like that though. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 05:36 PM (Sco7b) 182 Interesting X post, ==== Brandon Zicha @ProfBZZZ A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally dangerous. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe. ===== I saw this coming before I retired. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:36 PM (E4rtv) 183 Oh come on, they were just salesmen for Maple Syrup" Hameed brand? Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 05:37 PM (XuXeR) 184 I was an E-4, and was running the battalion Aid Station alone for three weeks waiting for the 3 FNGs to show up. Was also supposed to get a sergeant to replace the one who PCS'd, but that never happened. Turns out our battalion was being folded into another. But I ETS'd not long after that. Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 09, 2026 05:37 PM (PSEDc) 185 "British nationals" NEW: Border Patrol caught & arrested four British nationals entering the US illegally in a remote part of Maine after crossing from Canada. Their names: Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Mohammed Sultan Saleh. Posted by: Mark1971 at April 09, 2026 05:29 PM (CNl8/) A pinochet helicopter, a clay pigeon launcher for heavy objects, a case of shotgun shells. Get the party started. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 05:37 PM (snZF9) 186 Thank you is not enough for all of you here that have served and are actively serving. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 05:37 PM (yAteE) 187 She's a 2:00am 7. Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (UjdFS) 188 Whig - Your MOS required more skill than mine! Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (cq1gA) 189 Not saying the EO complaint was not "legitimate", BUT, I'm also willing to bet she thought more highly of herself and her capabilities and tried to be a "girl boss" and the organization was like, nah, you're here to provide the best in support and that's it, so sit down and color. That probably didn't sit too well with her. Posted by: Sua Sponte at April 09, 2026 05:39 PM (GTw+O) 190 Looking at the camera from the corners of her eyes is a dead giveaway she is a narcissist. Smug dimwits like this traitor all adopt the same posture of speaking to people from the corners of their eyes. Posted by: Chunk at April 09, 2026 05:39 PM (9U6Wl) 191 24U here, warhead custodian. Got poached to be the warrant for that system as a 222B, got retreaded into Patriot and became a 222C, then that got rebadged to 140E. Good career, got me the job I have today. You'll need to acces vietnam era MOS lists to get at the 24U description. Posted by: BifBewalski Heh. My father was a Army Ordnance Col. Used to have his Command Staff and General College text books until Mom dumped them without me knowing. History of Warfighting circa 1970's. We spent time at ass ends of the army posts as a kid. Redstone Arsenal was luxe compared to Sill or Bliss. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:40 PM (E4rtv) 192 Lefties: HEALTHCARE IS A RIGHT! Me: Well there is nothing stopping you and everyone that agrees with you to create a healthcare collective and share costs. Lefties: But then YOU wouldn't have to pay for it. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm) Reminds of a meme. "Anything that requires the labor of others cannot be a personal right." Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2026 04:45 PM (5rh/l) --------------- It is one of those universal truths. To grant one group this right we have to trample the rights of other groups. Posted by: Decaf at April 09, 2026 05:42 PM (Tbs6N) 193 Jack Poso is being retarded on X again. He is relaying a nice leafy suburb of Tehran where all the elites live, showing a couple of nicely-dressed women without hijab, and labeling it "Tehran, Iran". Posted by: gKWVE at April 09, 2026 05:42 PM (gKWVE) 194 The road to success. Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY Anyone, no matter how fringe, will be given a magical designation of "credible" by the left as soon as they start attacking President Donald Trump. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 05:43 PM (ndZc7) 195 188 Whig - Your MOS required more skill than mine! Posted by: LinusVanPelt ========= Heh. Started out as Heavy Equipment Operator because the bonus offered by the recruiter was bigger on student loan repayment. After the Cold War ended post Desert Storm, massive overstaffing in that area ended. Our CE squadron went from 150, to 100, to 50 during that time. Back in the Cold War days, they figured a lot of the Rapid Runway Repair types would be dead from cluster and other nasty munitions so they vastly overstaffed those folks. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:45 PM (E4rtv) 196 187 She's a 2:00am 7. Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 05:38 PM (UjdFS) ----- Better get her an Uber home at 3:30 or you'll wake up without your kidneys. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 05:45 PM (oqH4h) 197 There is absolutely nothing appealing about a person willing to betray the country and those who serve it. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 05:47 PM (yAteE) 198 Anoyne who thought that Tucker Carlson was anything other than a self-aggrandizing leftist probably also believed Stephen Colbert was a conservative when he was doing his show on Comedy Central Posted by: wiserbud at April 09, 2026 04:47 PM (1vvKU) ---------------- At about the same time he claimed to be a Catholic. I thought at the time if he was then he was a seriously lapsed one. Posted by: Decaf at April 09, 2026 05:47 PM (Tbs6N) 199 197 There is absolutely nothing appealing about a person willing to betray the country and those who serve it. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 05:47 PM (yAteE) ------ This is about me, isn't it? Posted by: Jane Fonda at April 09, 2026 05:49 PM (oqH4h) 200 Jane, you skank. You should have been shot as a traitor long ago. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 05:50 PM (yAteE) 201 197 There is absolutely nothing appealing about a person willing to betray the country and those who serve it. Posted by: Ben Had ====== I agree. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 05:54 PM (E4rtv) 202 Courtney = the Barbra Streisand look. To the matter at hand, Williams was a support tech at Ft. Bragg from 2010 to 2016. So, the "Obama" years, all w/Joey B. Just some federal scandals of the time: GSA was exposed for a lavish 2010 training conference in Vegas costing taxpayers >$800,000 "Fast and Furious" Gunwalking (2011): Over a dozen of Obama's Secret Service agents & military personnel were implicated in hiring prostitutes, etc. at the Hotel Caribe, 2012. Benghazi Attack (2012) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted to using excessive scrutiny to delay tax-exempt status for conservative "Tea Party" groups, 2013 Use of Private Email by Officials (2013) The Department of Justice secretly seized two months of telephone records from Associated Press reporters and editors as part of a leak investigation, 2013. VA hospitals had long wait times for veterans, with some employees falsifying records to cover up delays in care, 2014. Obama brought Bergdahl home in a controversial prison exchange for 5 Taliban prisoners, 2014. SHE transmitted info. to a journalist, '23-'25, the POTato's (Joe B.'s) admin. & O in the background. Intentional baiting of this Trump admin. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 09, 2026 06:07 PM (NFX2v) Billy Bush: I Know For a Fact That ABC "News" Had an Entire Division of 75 People "Dedicated to Getting [Trump]" You mean George Stephanopolous continues to be a Democrat propaganda minister the same as he's been his entire life? You've been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok! Former TV host Billy Bush alleged ABC News had an entire "division" dedicated to "get" Donald Trump during the 2016 election. Remember, Bush used to work for NBC so he's not a rando. Former TV host Billy Bush alleged ABC News had an entire "division" dedicated to "get" Donald Trump during the 2016 election. "ABC News had a division. They had a division dedicated with 75 people in it -- because I knew the guy who ran the division, which was dedicated to basically getting him," Bush said on Thursday's installment of the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast. Bush, who was swept up in the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape that nearly derailed Trump's first presidential campaign, recalled the last meeting he had with then-NBC News chairman Andy Lack before Bush was ousted at the Peacock network. "I said, 'Andy, I understand what you want to do with this [the "Access Hollywood" footage] and what you want to weaponize this because there's a debate on Sunday night, the second debate with Hillary and Donald,'" Bush said. "And sure enough, it was the first question to come out of Anderson Cooper's mouth. He was the moderator." The semen-hued nepo baby used to work at ABC "News" before getting hired at CNN. He also worked for CBS on 60 Minutes. "This was it! This was -- there has always been an 'it' to get Trump, but this was definitely it at the time," he continued. ... When asked for comment, Bush declined to identify who allegedly ran the alleged anti-Trump division at ABC News but suggested the person no longer works at the network. ABC News did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. The Disney-owned network has had a long, contentious relationship with Trump. In 2017, ABC News was forced to retract a report alleging that fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn would testify that Trump had ordered him to make contact with Russians about foreign policy while Trump was still a candidate. ... In December 2024, just weeks before Trump was sworn into office for his second term, ABC News paid a $16 million settlement to Trump after he filed a defamation lawsuit earlier in the year for comments made by "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos had falsely claimed that Trump was "found liable for rape" in the E. Jean Carroll case when, in fact, a civil jury ruled he was liable for "sexual abuse." ABC News issued an apology as part of the settlement, which was reportedly approved by then-Disney CEO Bob Iger. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:29 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 Hola Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 09, 2026 03:29 PM (LdBR/) 2 First Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 03:30 PM (E6xSb) 3 Bronze Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 03:30 PM (E6xSb) 4 Nooding Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 09, 2026 03:30 PM (LdBR/) 5 How many people do they have in their news division? THATS how many they have dedicated to 'stopping' Trump. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 03:32 PM (zZu0s) 6 Everyone aside from maybe the janitors were trying to get Trump at ABC News .... and all the others. Posted by: Oldcat at April 09, 2026 03:32 PM (8avO+) 7 All of these boomer radio hosts need to fuck off with the podcasts. How many people are watching Ham and Egger Hannity on a friggin podcast? Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 03:32 PM (oqH4h) 8 And no doubt you and me paid for it. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 03:33 PM (8X0wm) 9 "How do you do, fellow kids?" Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 03:33 PM (oqH4h) 10 10TH!!!! Posted by: Denny Crane - I Told That Diseased Twat To Stay At Least ONE Continent Away From Me! Why Doesn't Mat at April 09, 2026 03:33 PM (dmDsy) 11 Trump is afraid of Epstein's videos Posted by: Paul at April 09, 2026 03:34 PM (M2qGM) 12 Stuffy alway was a Clintonesta Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 03:35 PM (Ia/+0) 13 Absolute Brazen Commies Posted by: Joe Mama at April 09, 2026 03:36 PM (TezPK) 14 I'm afraid of the Epstein videos, who wants to see Bill Clinton's rotund belly as hops on a passed out 15 year old girl. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 03:36 PM (n5tGW) 15 Ace: "...semen-hued..." Pretty sure that's the boss telling CBD what color he wants tomorrows Art Thread to be.... Posted by: Denny Crane - As Long As It Isn't A Semen-Colored Ottoman... at April 09, 2026 03:36 PM (dmDsy) 16 You know, the irony of all this is that when Trump joined the primary for the 2016 presidential run, the media was falling all over themselves to try in assist him in becoming the candidate because they thought he would be the easiest to sink in the General election. There were comparisons in media coverage among all the Republican candidates, and he was getting over 75% more free publicity over the others running. Fusion GPS was even brought in to try and show Cruz had infidelity issues. The collective media response upon seeing Trump's popularity soar thanks to their initial push is more than amusing. Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 03:36 PM (dIske) 17 Paul, you ignorant slut. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 03:37 PM (2UnvF) 18 I want someone to articulate why they hate Trump so much. Now the higher echelon completely understands its because he is (no longer) a democrat, and because he is the biggest threat to their deep state interests and plans. But will anyone actually say that? No. Once you go a few layers down, it amounts to because they heard they should hate him, but not exactly why they should. Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 03:37 PM (Wmg4n) 19 Trump can't be bothered with this now. He has his hands full of Iranian Pussies. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 03:37 PM (n17eQ) 20 Gee they were such straight-shooters. This was never totally obvious. They were always unbiased, right down the middle. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 03:37 PM (RIvkX) 21 I tell ya folks, it's harder than it looks. Posted by: alanon at April 09, 2026 03:37 PM (+uuYj) 22 One network. And every other network had/has the same. 100% negative coverage of Trump. Peat and repeat; hash and rehash--never-ending negative stories. Do you see how insane this drives them, all this relentless, overwhelming, constant attacks and ... Trump is winning? Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 03:37 PM (HXT0k) 23 I’m surprised it was only 75. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 03:38 PM (z0fc5) 24 ...The New York Times literally ran a front page story about how they were going to start directly just opposing Trump rather than trying to report news neutrally. It was sort of famous at the time. They weren't hiding this, it was right out in the face of everyone. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 03:38 PM (El6/E) 25 The troll like thinks Trump pees on people and stuff. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 03:38 PM (RIvkX) 26 Bush, who was swept up in the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape that nearly derailed Trump's first presidential campaign, ____ "They'll let you grab'em by the pussy"? That one? I think that actually helped Trump, because of the AYFKM reaction from normal people when the media and the left (BIRM) hied over to the fainting couch. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 03:40 PM (Dv3i1) 27 Joe Biden lives. Looking good for challenging Jimmy Carter for the hospice record length. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 03:40 PM (Y8DZL) 28 One of my cow workers, a rather large, angry, bald black woman has a chihuahua named Paul. That you, Paul? Posted by: nurse ratched at April 09, 2026 03:40 PM (W2Pud) 29 Once you go a few layers down, it amounts to because they heard they should hate him, but not exactly why they should. Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 03:37 PM (Wmg4n) ===== Well stated summary of the purpose behind propaganda. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 03:40 PM (RIvkX) 30 11: huh? Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 03:41 PM (E6xSb) 31 And yet, they failed. Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 09, 2026 03:41 PM (CwhoI) 32 Note they are now back on epstein. Iran has lost juju. One second ago they were calling for his execution because he said something. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s) 33 24 ...The New York Times literally ran a front page story about how they were going to start directly just opposing Trump rather than trying to report news neutrally. It was sort of famous at the time. They weren't hiding this, it was right out in the face of everyone. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor They got tired of lying to people about being communist for the last 100 years. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 03:42 PM (Y8DZL) 34 Had Judge Siddious been for real we would already been richer, progressives in jail and Epstein flipped. Instead we got Drooler McAutopen, Hunter the Petri dish and the Just The Tip 51. Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 09, 2026 03:42 PM (lpAp7) 35 Joe Biden lives. Looking good for challenging Jimmy Carter for the hospice record length. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 03:40 PM (Y8DZL) ==== He is suffering from stage IV bone cancer h8ers! Suffering! Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 03:42 PM (RIvkX) 36 Courage, conviction and honesty. They lack this in their career climb. I once gave up a good job because I was basically asked to lie on documents (I was a QI RN). I was not going to comply. Basically told by one of the managers that I was a "Joint Commissioner's Dream." Indeed. I am also no fool to lose my RN license. Honest due to upbringing. Bite me. One of the docs asked why and I told him and I could tell he was po'd. He was also shocked that I was quitting without another job, but I did not care. ALL of these nitwits in media and Hollywood give up whatever morals they might have to get ahead. Look at the Weinstein "girls." They knew dam well what they were getting into going to his hotel room. I am sure they heard rumors of this perverted toad. I had to laugh at what Miz Newscumb said about her hotel room tour with him. That entertained me yesterday. Her "fake" orgasm to be set free. BS! Had I been that stupid he would have been injured before I freed myself. Or simply said no when he opened the door. These starlets had to be stupid to think otherwise. All they had to do was leave but they all stayed, those who complained about him. Billy Bush is no different. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 03:43 PM (WONhk) 37 Oooh, nice use of hied!!! Posted by: InZona at April 09, 2026 03:43 PM (R9Du8) 38 I’ve been telling y’all this is all just a distraction from the Epstein files. I hear it daily. From people who really believe it. facepalm Posted by: nurse ratched at April 09, 2026 03:44 PM (W2Pud) 39 MSNOW: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an emergency appeal to let Samuel Ronan run in an Ohio GOP congressional primary after he was kicked off the ballot for being a secret Democrat. Ronan previously ran unsuccessfully for chair of the Democratic National Committee. Ahead of the primary for Ohio’s 15th Congressional District, Ronan declared his candidacy as a Republican, attested to his membership in that party and affirmed his intent to support and abide by that party’s principles. The Franklin County Board of Elections certified his candidacy in February. A Republican voter protested Ronan’s candidacy to the board on the grounds that he wasn’t really a Republican. The board split along party lines, and Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose broke the tie against Ronan, disqualifying him from the ballot. Wish they would do the same with fetterman, he's a Republican but you don't hear Republicans complaining about him.. Shadow docket again being used by a treasonous court who would have thought. If you have one drop of Democrat blood in your ancestry, then your a Democrat forever after, is that it, GOP? Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 03:44 PM (JCZqz) 40 I had to laugh at what Miz Newscumb said about her hotel room tour with him. That entertained me yesterday. Her "fake" orgasm to be set free. BS! Had I been that stupid he would have been injured before I freed myself. Or simply said no when he opened the door. === I have not seen this yet. No spoilers! Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 03:45 PM (RIvkX) 41 So it was a bitch eating crackers thing. Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at April 09, 2026 03:46 PM (n7rxJ) 42 Grab em by the Bush ! Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 09, 2026 03:47 PM (NtVYv) 43 I was lectured last night by a libtard that it is racist to NOT apply the one drop rule. They really are completely and utterly fucked in the head. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 03:48 PM (8X0wm) 44 When Snow was asked why no dirt came out about Trump he replied, “There isn’t any.” There isn’t any dirt on Trump. Everyone who has smeared him has committed actionable civil torts and crimes. They should pay reparations, punitive damages and suffer years of confinement if they fail to flip, make a deal and disgorge. Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 09, 2026 03:49 PM (lpAp7) 45 The entire E. Jean Carroll is pure comedy to me. That a millionaire with women, models, flinging themselves at him would "rape" a strange woman like her in a dept store dressing room! Right.Sure. All right! And that she accused other men of this is hilarious. I think she has that parasite in her brain from dirty kitty litter boxes. Delusional. Some type of opposite body dysmorphia where she sees Marilyn Monroe in the mirror instead of her true self. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 03:49 PM (WONhk) 46 If you have one drop of Democrat blood in your ancestry, then your a Democrat forever after, is that it, GOP? Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions LOL. They have no self-awareness whatsoever. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 09, 2026 03:49 PM (a+4eV) 47 I know I'm late to this, but I love how the Community Note on X destroyed that lying Rep. Salazar. A great.feature of X! Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 03:50 PM (Gh3UR) 48 Yahoo news reports that Joe Biden failed to deny he touched that young boy sexually. Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 09, 2026 03:51 PM (s1NDj) 49 And just like that, the Mainstream Media became the Fringe Media. Say isn't Disney eliminating jobs across the the board? Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 09, 2026 03:51 PM (wBaIH) 50 Wait her defense for banging weinstein is that she faked an orgasm? Thats not as sick as burn as she seems to think it is. Dude is nkt bringing pretty, unattainable women to suck his dick to get them to experience heavenly pleasure. He wants to shove his cock down their throat because he can. And then have them thank him for it because he got them a film role. The sexual revolution produced some retarded results. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 03:52 PM (zZu0s) 51 Would this be the same ABC news division that is responsible for The View? Shocking. Posted by: wiserbud at April 09, 2026 03:52 PM (1vvKU) 52 "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast. That's gotta be in the running for cringiest podcast name. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 09, 2026 03:54 PM (qivay) 53 So funny that they bring up Fetterman. Proof that all you have to do is be a little bit not retarded once or twice a month, and we're happy to be chill with you. Muh polarization. Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 09, 2026 03:54 PM (Ot/FD) 54 Biden is afraid of the Easter Bunny. Posted by: Pawl at April 09, 2026 03:54 PM (vFG9F) 55 Once you go a few layers down, it amounts to because they heard they should hate him, but not exactly why they should. Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 03:37 PM (Wmg4n) ===== Well stated summary of the purpose behind propaganda. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 03:40 PM (RIvkX) Theres lots of IRL channels who go up to people with a "horrible" Trump quote and the peeps agree...and then he tells them that these are Dem politician quotes. They always fall for it. Posted by: Oldcat at April 09, 2026 03:54 PM (8avO+) 56 Iran was totes "begging" for a ceasefire: @MOSSADil -11m 🇰🇼 NEW: Kuwait’s military says its air defenses are actively intercepting incoming drones as tensions persist despite the Iran–US ceasefire entering its second day. “The air defenses of the Armed Forces are currently facing hostile drone attacks that have penetrated the country’s airspace, targeting several vital installations.” Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 03:55 PM (vSvIl) 57 And that she accused other men of this is hilarious. She is clearly insane, has been declared that by experts, judges threw her accusations out, and I recall her hitting on the homosexual CNN anchor and talking about how rape is sexy. The shameful part isn't that crazy woman is acting crazy. The shameful part is that people who know she is crazy and making up stupid crap took her at her word and found a man guilty of something that could never have happened in reality. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 03:55 PM (El6/E) 58 Am I the only one who noticed that Trump had a brown Easter Bunny? Holdin' it down for the bunny bruthas. Respec'. Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 09, 2026 03:56 PM (Ot/FD) 59 Joey a bi-pedophile? Damn, he's going to the top of the Dem Preznit polls! Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 03:56 PM (Y8DZL) 60 My favorite kind of ceasefire - a very shooty, splodey, hot ceasefire - is getting hotter. Apparently Kuwait getting hit. Lots of UAVs reported over the usual Iranian places (Tehran, Karaj, etc). And no change in the Strait. The opening of which was the (capitalized!) explicit pre-condition for the entire "ceasefire" exercise. Won't even go into the Lebanon situation, because of what is unknown (behind the scenes US/Israeli understandings), which one can only hope negates what is a pathetic and disastrous "reported" situation. Though comedy in tough times is always welcome, and the idea of "Lebanon" negotiating with Israel, when Lebanon has long ceased to exist in the usual sense, and where the problem (Hezbollah/Iran) operate with impunity as their own state, is darkly hilarious. Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2026 03:56 PM (U/Byj) 61 So did Jennifer do Clooney before or after Weinstein? Enquiring minds want to know. Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 03:56 PM (UjdFS) 62 >>>The semen-hued nepo baby >This describes every journalist at CNN. You'll have to be more specific. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 03:57 PM (Fbc0I) 63 I had to laugh at what Miz Newscumb said about her hotel room tour with him. That entertained me yesterday. Her "fake" orgasm to be set free. BS! Had I been that stupid he would have been injured before I freed myself. Or simply said no when he opened the door. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 03:43 PM (WONhk) ___________ The texts and emails this whore sent Fat Harv should be posted on every billboard in CA. These are what killed her case against him. He maintained the sex was consensual and that it was her who chased him. The texts and emails supported this. They also showed that she continued to chase him long after the date she later claimed he raped her. The jury did not believe her. They believed Fat Harv was telling the truth that it was consensual. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/) 64 I recall her hitting on the homosexual CNN anchor and talking about how rape is sexy. I'm guessing you mean Anderson Cooper, but really, you should be a little more specific with your descriptors. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 03:58 PM (JCZqz) 65 I'm guessing you mean Anderson Cooper, but really, you should be a little more specific with your descriptors. Its true, there are so many but I could not recall which one it was at the time. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 03:58 PM (El6/E) 66 Am I the only one who noticed that Trump had a brown Easter Bunny?[/i "then he bit my ears off " By the way, the person in that bunny costume? A life-taking badass special forces type. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 04:00 PM (El6/E) 67 Fact: Not one American human citizen in 2016 was unaware that Donald Trump could grab pussy at his leisure. There have literally been entire television series devoted to informing America of this fact. Several magazines, too. Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 09, 2026 04:00 PM (Ot/FD) 68 "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast. That's gotta be in the running for cringiest podcast name. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 09, 2026 03:54 PM (qivay) He turns the chair around sits with his arms across the back and says, "let's rap, friend." Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 09, 2026 04:02 PM (PSEDc) 69 the "pussy grab" comment did not land like the left hoped, even with women, because everyone said "um yeah, we know" even if they would not have personally put it that way. We even have a name for women like that I won't share here but we all know. It was like saying "dudes like women with big tits" and expecting men to be offended. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 04:02 PM (El6/E) 70 The sexual revolution produced some retarded results. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 03:52 PM (zZu0s) ......................... That Oscar he promised was worth it, amirite Jennifer, Gwenneth and Meryl? Unless I am completely wrong, & I could be, these three Weinstein women never said a bad word against him before or after his conviction. Others did...especially those whose careers tanked because they protested (or threw up, dunno). While he shrivels and rots in prison, he knows names. He controlled votes at the "academy." He knew exactly what he was doing and so did they. I had no pity for any of them except those who refused or fought back. Hollywood is a nasty place. Of course no movies I can tell being made now, but I also am confused most of the time so there's that! Heck, any movie worth watching by title has Kidman in it and I say no to her bony self (her father was a rumored Aussie pervert, by the way). I don't know why I store this trivia vs important data in my brain. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 04:03 PM (WONhk) 71 the "pussy grab" comment did not land like the left hoped, even with women, because everyone said "um yeah, we know" even if they would not have personally put it that way. We even have a name for women like that I won't share here but we all know. It was like saying "dudes like women with big tits" and expecting men to be offended. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 04:02 PM (El6/E) *** Stephanopoulos is just pissed that no one wanted to grab his pussy. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 04:04 PM (2WIwB) 72 52 "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast. That's gotta be in the running for cringiest podcast name. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 09, 2026 03:54 PM (qivay) ___________________________ Note to self: "Don't name your podcast with a phrase that suggests indecent exposure." Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 04:04 PM (dIske) 73 Stephanopoulos is just pissed that no one wanted to grab his pussy. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 04:04 PM (2WIwB) Should we start calling him "Consuelo", or is that too far of a walk? Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 09, 2026 04:05 PM (Ot/FD) 74 >>>It was like saying "dudes like women with big tits" and expecting men to be offended. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor >In fairness, I like athletic women with firm titties too. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 04:05 PM (Fbc0I) 75 "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast. That's gotta be in the running for cringiest podcast name. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 09, 2026 03:54 PM (qivay) "The Pudcast" Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 09, 2026 04:05 PM (Ot/FD) 76 Why would Hannity podcast when he has a three hour radio show? Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 04:06 PM (nG58E) 77 We even have a name for women like that I won't share here but we all know. A proper garden implement… Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 09, 2026 04:07 PM (ODRj8) 78 Looking good for challenging Jimmy Carter for the hospice record length. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 03:40 PM (Y8DZL) Hospice? Wasn't there a story the other day the media was celebrating that this shambling bit of geriatric sht was walking through an airport? Oh, look how healthy he is; walking upright through an airport. Not like that Drumpf guy. Which causes me to ask again; i thought Joe Biden had super killer stage 10 cancer with the kung fu grip? Mothercker walks around a lot in public and goes to a lot of public events for a cancer victim. Posted by: Nelly at April 09, 2026 04:08 PM (7gpcF) 79 groupies? Posted by: wiserbud at April 09, 2026 04:08 PM (1vvKU) 80 No sale billybush. You kept your yap shut as long as the money flowed. You are a whore. Posted by: kingsman at April 09, 2026 04:08 PM (ehY6c) 81 Billy Carter > Billy Bush Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 04:09 PM (Sco7b) 82 Hannity has always been an obnoxious pud. I liked when Alan Colmes would get him all upset and sputtering. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 09, 2026 04:09 PM (W2Pud) 83 >>>Why would Hannity podcast when he has a three hour radio show? Posted by: 13times >Ambience. He's the elder statesman with a middling intellect and fuck-you money. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 04:09 PM (Fbc0I) 84 Billy Bush: I Know For a Fact That ABC "News" Had an Entire Division of 75 People "Dedicated to Getting [Trump]" And that's why everyone was fired. Incompetence. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 04:10 PM (AnEIe) 85 This is a surprise to no one here. Anyone that heard PDT'S first inaugural speech knew he was going to kick the statusquotidians in the nuts and knew he was capable of it. Scared the dems and repubs alike into attack mode. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 04:10 PM (yAteE) 86 the idea of "Lebanon" negotiating with Israel, when Lebanon has long ceased to exist in the usual sense, and where the problem (Hezbollah/Iran) operate with impunity as their own state, is darkly hilarious. From what I've seen the actual government of Lebanon is hoping to take advantage of Iran's decapitation by actually regaining control of their country with IDF assistance. I feel like if that gets close to happening some other standard-bearer for Islam will step in, like Erdogan. It's too valuable for the True Believers to have Lebanon as a permanent anti-Joooo base. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 04:10 PM (2ocoG) 87 Why would Hannity podcast when he has a three hour radio show? Posted by: 13times ....... Gotta keep those vocal cords warmed up. Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS) 88 Geez. What a day. And I still have about four hours to go. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 04:10 PM (AnEIe) 89 Stephanopoulos is just pissed that no one wanted to grab his pussy. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 04:04 PM (2WIwB) Should we start calling him "Consuelo", or is that too far of a walk? Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 09, 2026 04:05 PM (Ot/FD) He really is an obnoxious little bitch. Never could stand the guy. Self important, elitest, snob. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 04:10 PM (2WIwB) 90 I love the fact that there's not an awful lot substantially we, in general, dislike about what Hannity has to say (to the extent there ever is any substance to it), but hoo nelly do we ever still dump on that fucking blockhead anyway. Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 09, 2026 04:11 PM (Ot/FD) 91 The texts and emails supported this. They also showed that she continued to chase him long after the date she later claimed he raped her. The jury did not believe her. They believed Fat Harv was telling the truth that it was consensual. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/) .................... Wow. Did not know this! Much worse than what I thought about her sleezy insane self! I had a good career. Almost all jobs part time because that's what I wanted. My background looks schizo from adult cardiac surgery to newborn nursery for 10yrs, to jobs created, to teaching RN's for a college, to case management, QI in an ED and more. Docs created 2 jobs for me based on my ideas & knowing me. I was not sleeping with anyone but the man I married and they knew this, all of them. In the ED I saw a RN fling herself at the best looking ED doc who ignored her. She did finally land another ED doc to marry. It was obvious even to me, and I am sure he was used to it. I never flung myself at anyone and did not know how to flirt or play games (I sometimes tell my guy I wish I had but I had no time for it). I cannot imagine being this way for a job. Or to be famous.Unreal. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 04:11 PM (WONhk) 92 He's the elder statesman with a middling intellect and fuck-you money.* He's also the one guy in that situation who isn't blaming everything on Israel and Jews, to his credit. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 04:11 PM (2ocoG) 93 The drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment repeatedly explained that they were referring to exclusive-allegiance jurisdiction, not territorial jurisdiction. ... The amendment’s definition of citizenship was a response to the nation’s agonizing history of slavery and liberation. ...The amendment assured [Black Americans] of citizenship and, for this purpose, the drafters relied on the core, exclusive-allegiance understanding of jurisdiction.... Wait a minute, you may protest, the Fourteenth Amendment mentions “jurisdiction” without specifying either territorial or exclusive-allegiance jurisdiction. True enough. But that doesn’t mean the text is unrevealing. The Fourteenth Amendment speaks of persons born in the United States and (AND) subject to its jurisdiction. In other words, its territorial limitation and its jurisdictional limitation are different.>> Another good point on the anchor baby "debate". Posted by: illiniwek at April 09, 2026 04:12 PM (vbXSk) 94 The Fourteenth Amendment speaks of persons born in the United States and (AND) subject to its jurisdiction. In other words, its territorial limitation and its jurisdictional limitation are different.>> Another good point on the anchor baby "debate". Posted by: illiniwek at April 09, 2026 04:12 PM (vbXSk) Ya, buh.... Posted by: Keef Justice Affirmative Action Jackson at April 09, 2026 04:13 PM (Ot/FD) 95 Someone tried to grab Stephanopoulos's pussy but the cat managed to escape. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 04:13 PM (yAteE) 96 Fun Facts to Know and Tell: Hannity's first wife divorced him for talking in his sleep. Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 04:13 PM (UjdFS) 97 lol Ben Posted by: four seasons at April 09, 2026 04:14 PM (3ek7K) 98 77 We even have a name for women like that I won't share here but we all know. A proper garden implement… Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 09, 2026 04:07 PM (ODRj Took me a minute because I first thought "faucet." Which sort of fits? I need to go be productive in life vs hanging out with Morons and 'ettes. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 04:14 PM (WONhk) 99 Grabbing pussy is like grabbing jelly fish. Be careful. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 04:15 PM (n17eQ) 100 Everything is corrupt and full of crooks from top to bottom. Government at all levels. Big Business, including the 'news' media. 'Religious' organizations. Trump is the outsider messing up all the crooked scams and schemes. Of course they're all-in on stopping him. Posted by: davidt at April 09, 2026 04:16 PM (Q+gd/) 101 Baby Billy > Billy Buch Posted by: The Righteous Gemstones at April 09, 2026 04:17 PM (tP7MS) 102 >>>He's also the one guy in that situation who isn't blaming everything on Israel and Jews, to his credit. Posted by: Ian S. >I definitely give him credit. He's dedicated and 'worked hard' for a few decades. He's consistent. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 04:17 PM (Fbc0I) 103 A proper garden implement… Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 09, 2026 04:07 PM (ODRj Took me a minute because I first thought "faucet." Which sort of fits? I need to go be productive in life vs hanging out with Morons and 'ettes. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 04:14 PM (WONhk) A Ronco Garden Weasel? Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 04:18 PM (nG58E) 104 98 77 We even have a name for women like that I won't share here but we all know. A proper garden implement… Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 09, 2026 04:07 PM (ODRj Took me a minute because I first thought "faucet." Which sort of fits? I need to go be productive in life vs hanging out with Morons and 'ettes. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 04:14 PM (WONhk) I had no idea there was such a garden implement as a "scrunt." Posted by: tcn in AK at April 09, 2026 04:18 PM (DwqWV) 105 tcn, hahahahaha. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 04:19 PM (yAteE) 106 A Ronco Garden Weasel? ----------- Popeil Pocket Fisherman? Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 04:20 PM (n17eQ) 107 100 Everything is corrupt and full of crooks from top to bottom. Government at all levels. Big Business, including the 'news' media. 'Religious' organizations. Trump is the outsider messing up all the crooked scams and schemes. Of course they're all-in on stopping him. Posted by: davidt at April 09, 2026 04:16 PM (Q+gd/) We are all sinners of one kind or another. Pedophiles go into teaching or the ministry so they will have access. Leftist twats go into the media so they can unleash their lunacy under cover of "respectability." They think they then have "power." Psychopaths go into either serial murder or politics, and neither one is safe from predation. Those of us who go to confession regularly and try mightily to stay in a state of grace end up being tossed into a sea of anger over the behavior of those I listed above. Nothing is perfect except Our Father in Heaven and His Son. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 09, 2026 04:22 PM (DwqWV) 108 A Ronco Garden Weasel? ----------- Popeil Pocket Fisherman? Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 04:20 PM (n17eQ) --------- Help me, Mister Popeil! Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 09, 2026 04:23 PM (jwJyU) 109 Bush. Feh. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 09, 2026 04:24 PM (abIsI) 110 There's an old fashioned name for an immoral man as well-"rake" as in " The Rake's Progress". It's also the name of a garden implement as well. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 04:24 PM (ix8EF) 111 We even have a name for women like that I won't share here but we all know. A proper garden implement… Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 09, 2026 04:07 PM (ODRj Took me a minute because I first thought "faucet." Which sort of fits? I need to go be productive in life vs hanging out with Morons and 'ettes. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 04:14 PM (WONhk) I had no idea there was such a garden implement as a "scrunt." Posted by: tcn in AK But "rake" is for the men... Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 09, 2026 04:25 PM (OUMaO) 112 I think he underestimated how many people they employed to "get" Trump. I would guess more than 200 myself. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 09, 2026 04:25 PM (0N4FZ) 113 Fen beat me. I'm gettin' too old for this. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 09, 2026 04:25 PM (OUMaO) 114 A Ronco Garden Weasel? Slap chop. Posted by: Vince at April 09, 2026 04:25 PM (abIsI) 115 110 There's an old fashioned name for an immoral man as well-"rake" as in " The Rake's Progress". It's also the name of a garden implement as well. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 04:24 PM (ix8EF) ----- Shortened form of the full version, "rakehell." Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 04:26 PM (oqH4h) 116 >>>Hannity has always been an obnoxious pud. I liked when Alan Colmes would get him all upset and sputtering. Posted by: nurse ratched >I liked Colmes. He was a jackass too, but he wasn't stupid. It was an interesting program. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 04:26 PM (Fbc0I) 117 What's the difference between a rake and a cad? Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 04:26 PM (n17eQ) 118 Ya, buh.... Posted by: Keef Justice Affirmative Action Jackson Ignore her, she's an idiot, and listen to me instead. I want this to mean anyone born here is a US citizen, so that's what I'm going to rule. -Roberts Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 04:27 PM (Dv3i1) 119 Billy Bush: I Know For a Fact That ABC "News" Had an Entire Division of 75 People "Dedicated to Getting [Trump]" I always believed that the Washington Post got the 'Access Hollywood' story because Noah Oppenheim (who worked at NBC and oversaw Access Hollywood) and David Fahrenthold from the WaPo were Harvard classmates who worked at the Crimson together. Oppenheim couldn't very well leak the story to NBC because that would have been too obvious, so the next best place to do it was at the WaPo. Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 09, 2026 04:28 PM (4e+qt) 120 Bush, who was swept up in the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape that nearly derailed Trump's first presidential campaign ____________ I don't know what the pearl-clutching, fainting-couch fuss was about what Trump said. It was only the truth to anyone with a scintilla of common sense. Even I knew it. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 09, 2026 04:28 PM (tgvbd) 121 Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 09, 2026 04:25 PM (OUMaO) It's ok. We're mostly older people here. If you were to ask a 20 something "tire" what a "Rake" is ( aside from the garden implement) they'd probably look at you like your were crazy Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 04:28 PM (ix8EF) 122 Hannity is just Conservatism Lite. Low-cal, very little substance, and canned. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 04:29 PM (oqH4h) 123 117 What's the difference between a rake and a cad? Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 04:26 PM (n17eQ) ----- $20, same as in town. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 04:29 PM (oqH4h) 124 122 Hannity is just Conservatism Lite. Low-cal, very little substance, and canned. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 04:29 PM (oqH4h) Dude just can't shut the hell up. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 09, 2026 04:30 PM (DwqWV) 125 Darn auto correct . It was supposed to be 20 year old slang name for "youth" Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 04:31 PM (ix8EF) 126 I miss Rush. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 09, 2026 04:31 PM (W2Pud) 127 45 The entire E. Jean Carroll is pure comedy to me. That a millionaire with women, models, flinging themselves at him would "rape" a strange woman like her in a dept store dressing room! Right.Sure. All right! And that she accused other men of this is hilarious. I think she has that parasite in her brain from dirty kitty litter boxes. Delusional. Some type of opposite body dysmorphia where she sees Marilyn Monroe in the mirror instead of her true self. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 03:49 PM (WONhk) The man lived across the street from Bergdorf Goodman and was the most recognizable person in NY at the time. There is no way that he would walk into a ladies' dressing room, and nobody noticed he was there - especially there to molest a woman. Of course she would be able to find a jury to believe that story. "Only in NY kids, only in NY." Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 09, 2026 04:31 PM (4e+qt) 128 126 I miss Rush. ------------ I miss Joe Pine. He was a hoot. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 04:32 PM (n17eQ) 129 You act like a cad, you dress like a cad, you are a cad. ------ George V to his son, the Prince of Wales Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 09, 2026 04:32 PM (jwJyU) 130 What's the difference between a rake and a cad? Posted by: pudinhead $20, same as in town. Posted by: ballistic As expected. But I think the real difference is attractiveness. The Paolo is a rake. Harvey Weinstein is a cad. Posted by: mikeski at April 09, 2026 04:32 PM (CmuOb) 131 Don't leave ABC out of this. Susan Rice's husband was a big muckity muck at ABC. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 04:32 PM (yAteE) 132 “The air defenses of the Armed Forces are currently facing hostile drone attacks that have penetrated the country’s airspace, targeting several vital installations.” Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 03:55 PM (vSvIl) ..................... The biggest surprise for me in this mess is how Eye-ran is lobbing missiles not only at Israel but other ME countries. I think all of them except Yemen, and can't keep up with all the stans. UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi's. They were mindin' their own bidness then BOOM. I love Tousi's news, thanks to Ace. He calls them retarded or drunk frequently and I laugh. Yemen's missiles, from chy na (I guess) were pathetic. Good try! I figure either they don't know what they are doing, with ranks down to the janitorial staff, or they all have the combined inbred IQ less than Koko the gorilla's. It's working well! All is well in their path to victory! In-shallot and snack bar! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 04:33 PM (WONhk) 133 What's the difference between a rake and a cad? Posted by: pudinhead at I think cad is used for a dishonorable man in romantic relationships while a rake is used to mean a man who's supposedly immoral. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 04:33 PM (ix8EF) 134 Of course she would be able to find a jury to believe that story. I think we all know that they didn't believe a word of it, just wanted to get Trump and now was their chance!!! Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 04:34 PM (El6/E) 135 If you were to ask a 20 something "tire" what a "Rake" is ( aside from the garden implement) they'd probably look at you like your were crazy I think they'd know, actually. Stepping on a rake is a fairly consistent meme so all the kids lear it over time. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 04:35 PM (2ocoG) 136 Hannity is just Conservatism Lite. Low-cal, very little substance, and canned. Posted by: ballistic ============= I'm watching tv again and I've discovered that 95% of Fox News is anymore. The guest "experts" just spout sympathies and don't cite any new facts or provide historical contexts. I don't need a retired military officer or diplomat to tell me "America is the greatest and Iran is ruled by bullies and these Democrats are traitors." I want to hear something i don't know. Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at April 09, 2026 04:36 PM (n7rxJ) 137 Some NOOD is talking a leak. Posted by: mikeski at April 09, 2026 04:36 PM (CmuOb) 138 The entire E. Jean Carroll is pure comedy to me. That a millionaire with women, models, flinging themselves at him would "rape" a strange woman like her in a dept store dressing room! Right.Sure. All right! It's not just the swearing. Forgive me for prying, but did one of you, um, fornicate...Yes. With a heavy-set woman in the big-and-tall dressing room? Posted by: Bob Chipeska at April 09, 2026 04:36 PM (tP7MS) 139 Dude just can't shut the hell up. Posted by: tcn in AK This. A 5 minute Hannity interview is him talking for 4 minutes and 30 seconds. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 04:38 PM (Y8DZL) 140 If you were to ask a 20 something "tire" what a "Rake" is ( aside from the garden implement) they'd probably look at you like your were crazy - They might get a bit worried if you've seen one. It's apparently a bogeyman that exists because too many people are worried that it exists. Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 04:38 PM (vSvIl) 141 >>The man lived across the street from Bergdorf Goodman and was the most recognizable person in NY at the time. There is no way that he would walk into a ladies' dressing room, and nobody noticed he was there - especially there to molest a woman. Of course she would be able to find a jury to believe that story. Reid Hoffman is the guy who financed the lawsuit. He also financed the up talking fraud who tried to take Kavanaugh out. Hoffman was a very close friend of Jeffrey Epstein and visited Epstein's island and his ranch in New Mexico. But sure, Trump was tight with Epstein. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 04:39 PM (GukFK) 142 But how would stepping on a rake equate to a man of loose morals for them? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 04:43 PM (lQ+/f) Sick of High Energy Prices, the Irish People Rise Up in Protest They're blocking the streets in cities and, a little counter-productively, fuel depots. ) Protesters calling for further government help to lower the cost of fuel clogged up busy thoroughfares ‌and motorways with parked lorries and tractors across Ireland on Wednesday, disrupting commuters and public transport for a second successive day. Convoys of vehicles began converging on Dublin's city centre and other towns and cities on Tuesday, with protesters, including hauliers and farmers, complaining that a 250 million euro package to temporarily cut taxes on petrol and diesel did not go far enough to cushion the ⁠knock-on cost of the Middle East conflict. "With the price we're paying for fuel, I'm probably two months away from my business folding," said Christopher Duffy, 46, an agricultural contractor who was part of a group blocking Dublin's main thoroughfare of O'Connell Street that is calling for the price of diesel to be capped at a lower rate. "It's not a lot to ask for really... We're just backed into a corner." Ministers said they would not agree to the protesters' demands to meet with them as they did not belong to representative groups with whom the government has been engaging on supports. Organisers pledged a ‌third ⁠day of disruption on Thursday. Do you think they'd agree to meet with the protesters if they were 1, communists, 2, Islamofascists, or 3, both? Because I do. I know there's one group of people who aren't allowed to protest and whose concerns just don't matter. "We respect people's right to protest but what is not acceptable is people declaring that we will turn O'Connell Street into a car park," Prime Minister Micheal Martin told a news conference. Again, I see the Extinction Agenda doing this every day and I never see European politicians objecting. I see Islamists blocking the streets during peak traffic hours to "pray" and definitely not assert their control over swathes of England and France. But these people? They're a riotous menace that must be put down. Indeed, the "Irish" government now says it is ready to deploy the military against its citizens. The army is being called in to help remove vehicles blocking roads, with the Irish police now treating protests at fuel depots as "blockades". Travel in parts of the country is being affected for the third day in a row, with slow-moving convoys protesting against high fuel prices caused by the US and Israeli war against Iran. The Irish Minister for Justice, Jim O'Callaghan, said there would be "legal consequences" for the protests. "It might not arise today or tomorrow but people have licences to drive vehicles, those licences will be affected." O'Callaghan added that he expected insurance coverage to become "void as a result of the owner of the equipment deciding to voluntarily get involved in such illegal activity". Gardaí (Irish police) can request the assistance of the Irish army in "aid to the civil power... when required". In a statement on Thursday, a gardaí spokesperson said the force was "moving to an enforcement phase" unless those blocking access to critical infrastructure "desist and disperse". But Muslims are still allowed to occupy the streets to "pray," yeah? More threatening language against the Davos-hated normies, the one group of people you can brutalize when they annoy you: "The blocking of critical national infrastructure will not be permitted to continue and the assistance of the Defence Forces has been requested," justice minister Jim O'Callaghan said in a statement. He said large vehicles would be removed -- and warned owners to "remove them immediately" on Thursday morning, or face the possibility of them being damaged. Owners "should not complain later about any damage caused to those vehicles during removal", he said. "Denying people access to fuel and clean water is an unacceptable interference in the most basic of human rights," he added. They can bully and brutalize the normies precisely because they are law-abiding and do not blow things up when they're angry. We'll see how long that continues. Irish military involvement is now official. Several credible commentators are saying a number of Irish army officers are refusing to use force against their own citizens. Interesting times in Ireland....pic.twitter.com/7Sg9dbYYvA — Paul Weston (@PWestoff) April 9, 2026 We'll see about that. Kirby O'Donnell @KirbyODonnell22 2h She says its moving from lawful protest to criminal behaviour and calls in the army and not the police? I think this tells us two things. Police resources are inadequate and they are concerned that the farmers protest will morph into anti government protests. I cannot imagine seeing a senior soldier standing next to the Minister of Defence (clearly as a threat) in any other European context (at least at this stage). The Irish establishment are scared. Thanks to @ComradeArthur/ArthurK, some suspicious people wonder if there's a connection between Ireland seeming very keen to use the military against its own people and Ireland also fast-tracking citizenship for foreign migrants. Everything is relatedhttps://t.co/Xe55NxqzkN — Jason Budd (@budd545304) April 9, 2026 Almost as if they're beefing up the military with a foreign Replacement Population to use against the native Irish. But that's crazy, right? Right? Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:25 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 You've got some stairs to Heaven, you may be right I only know in my world, I hate the light Blade speeds at night ... and FIRST Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 02:26 PM (iFTx/) 2 Can we make this a Rubio thread? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:26 PM (n7rxJ) 3 the Irish People Rise Up Aw hell the wheelbarrow did that. Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 09, 2026 02:27 PM (Kt19C) 4 2 Can we make this a Rubio thread? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:26 PM (n7rxJ He Irish ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 02:28 PM (F1quE) 5 reminds me of what the canadian govt did to the truckers in 2020 Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 02:28 PM (CWTWj) 6 The Irish gov't should just do what all the ME countries do. Blame the Jooos. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 09, 2026 02:29 PM (qivay) 7 I would be more excited I’d they were rising up over their invasion by the people who block streets praying and don’t like herding dogs. Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 02:29 PM (OoFl2) 8 Welcome to your future Western Civilization Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 02:29 PM (LX4y3) 9 shhh Morticia! lol let's go Irish peeps! they are good at this sort of thing I recall maybe I can find ways to donate to the cause this time around! Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:29 PM (j+aD2) 10 Right. Just crazy. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (zZu0s) 11 I see civil war... Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (Q/FnY) 12 "We're just backed into a corner." ================ Sorry to ask, Paddy, but... how did you vote? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (n7rxJ) 13 >>>Can we make this a Rubio thread? i missed it, what's the rumpus with Rubio? Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (1wjle) 14 Ireland - that’s a mythical island of leprechauns and Lucky Charms, innit? Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (pDt9x) 15 4 2 Can we make this a Rubio thread? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:26 PM (n7rxJ He Irish ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 02:28 PM (F1quE) Rubi'O? Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (qivay) 16 Willowed* - Doesn't seem like the current globalist know-nothings running Ireland have the consent of the governed. I guess we'll see if having consent is important or not. it was ignored, but now is rebranded for sale on this new thread! Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (Dv3i1) 17 It's not like the Irish don't know how to make bombs. Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (DLVKS) 18 Just where does the money for bringing all the 3rd world savages into places like Ireland or minnesota come from? It's a mystery. Posted by: If you have to ask who the mark is at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (tP7MS) 19 it's like the people here who say they believe in free speech but it has to be responsible speech. i remember torricelli saying that to howard stern in maybe 1998 when torricelli was running for the senate Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (CWTWj) 20 The Irish aren't Canadians. Posted by: mrp at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (rj6Yv) 21 It's not fascism when Europeans use the military to stop citizens from protesting. But it is fascism when Trump posts mean tweets. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (HXT0k) 22 Are they redheads because I love the idea of a good Irish protesting redhead. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (8X0wm) 23 Remember when the Catholics.were the problem and Northern Ireland's response? That time has been migrated out. Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (LX4y3) 24 The military declining to enforce the government's is a huge, huge deal. This could get very interesting very quickly. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (FmapG) 25 i missed it, what's the rumpus with Rubio?* I don't know honestly I did my usual come in late and stir sht up Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (j+aD2) 26 In twenty years, it’ll be a myhtical island of Djinns and Magic Lamps. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (pDt9x) 27 I'm reminded of claims that the worst guards in Bidens gulag were African immigrants Posted by: HowardDevore at April 09, 2026 02:32 PM (H/Jxx) 28 People remembered Donde's past on immigration Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 02:32 PM (LX4y3) 29 Will. Declining to enforce the government's will... Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:32 PM (FmapG) 30 Meh. Send 'em a case of Guiness, some shepherd's pie, and a pretty young ginger line-dancer. They'll all get drunk, forget what they were there for, and go home. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 02:33 PM (iFTx/) 31 This is a slave protest, and the difference between USA and Europe -- They didn't protest this hard over immigration, the destruction of their cities, culture, race, religion.... But their slave wages are not high enough due to energy costs, so they protest. Europeans treat government differently (and more and more Americans as well) in always asking "what are you giving me." I haven't had coffee yet, so I may not be getting my point across, but there is a good one here. Posted by: bob* (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 02:33 PM (LAwjE) 32 18 USAID has entered the chat Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 02:33 PM (LX4y3) 33 i remember national lampoon decades ago running a bit about new stereotypes, "irish confetti" showed a pic of a leprechaun throwing a brick Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 02:34 PM (CWTWj) 34 Is this why Rosie O'Donnell came back? Found out grass is not greener... Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 02:34 PM (tOcjL) 35 >>>20 The Irish aren't Canadians. lately they sure have looked a lot like Canadians. Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 02:34 PM (1wjle) 36 4 2 Can we make this a Rubio thread? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:26 PM (n7rxJ He Irish ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 02:28 PM (F1quE) On St. Patrick’s Day he is! Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 02:35 PM (OoFl2) 37 They can protest all they want. That isn't going to change the economics of fuel prices. And ignorant me: is Ireland part of that stupid green EU? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:35 PM (n7rxJ) 38 Too bad Rosie isn't still there. It would be terrible if her fat ass was run over by a tractor. Posted by: four seasons at April 09, 2026 02:35 PM (3ek7K) 39 34 it's not like she has to fear the invaders not knowing rpae is wring. Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 02:35 PM (LX4y3) 40 Too bad Rosie isn't still there. It would be terrible if her fat ass was run over by a tractor. Posted by: four seasons at April 09, 2026 02:35 PM (3ek7K) Do they come that big? Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:35 PM (FmapG) 41 >He Irish ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 02:28 PM (F1quE) Cue the meme of Rubio dressed as St. Patrick. Lots of snakes to drive out of Ireland. Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 09, 2026 02:36 PM (NgqoH) 42 Pulled into driveway and napping Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 02:36 PM (Ia/+0) 43 Yahoo News has to have the most intense TDS of all sources. Wow. Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 09, 2026 02:36 PM (s1NDj) 44 LOL Posted by: four seasons at April 09, 2026 02:36 PM (3ek7K) 45 re 38: yeah, too bad for the tractor Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 02:36 PM (CWTWj) 46 >>>Is this why Rosie O'Donnell came back? She's back? Uggh. I didn't know. Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 02:36 PM (1wjle) 47 Rubi'O? Posted by: Dr. Fausti =========== Marc O'Rubio Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (n7rxJ) 48 Oh I see more poors failed to budget for inflation. If you poors weren't so stupid, you'd know to set aside money so you could afford inflation. Also, how come you are so stupid that you don't use Gas Buddy? You could easily drive an hour out of your way and save 3 cents a gallon. So it's really your fault you can't afford gas because you're too lazy and too stupid. - Things the Left Actually Said to Americans During Biden's Inflation Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (HXT0k) 49 missed it, what's the rumpus with Rubio? ------- Any honest discussion of modern GOPefucker attempts at amnesty should involve him. Especially because I'm pretty sure he aspires to greater eletoral things. It's not like he's gonna go manage a library after he's done with this gig. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (8X0wm) 50 An Irish dirty war may be on the horizon. Posted by: mr tmz at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (rJ48h) 51 They can protest all they want. That isn't going to change the economics of fuel prices. And ignorant me: is Ireland part of that stupid green EU? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:35 PM (n7rxJ) ________ Southern Ireland is an independent member of the Pee-U. Northern Ireland is technically part of the UK, so I'm not sure how it currently stands given Brexit. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (iFTx/) 52 40 The combiner goes splat splat splat Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (LX4y3) 53 46 >>>Is this why Rosie O'Donnell came back? She's back? Uggh. I didn't know. Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 02:36 PM (1wjle) Shoulda felt the tremors. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (pDt9x) 54 Rosie came back?!!? Posted by: Denny Crane - I Told That Diseased Twat To Stay At Least ONE Continent Away From Me! Why Doesn't Mat at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (dmDsy) 55 Is this why Rosie O'Donnell came back? She's back? Uggh. I didn't know. Posted by: ace =========== Briefly. She's gone back to Ireland. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:38 PM (n7rxJ) 56 if they are sick of it, why do they continue to vote in communist leaders? Posted by: Jose at April 09, 2026 02:38 PM (V6W16) 57 St. Patty need to drive out snakes and heard in dogs. Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 02:39 PM (LX4y3) 58 56 Sick. Not smart. Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 02:39 PM (LX4y3) 59 Is this why Rosie O'Donnell came back? Found out grass is not greener... Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 02:34 PM (tOcjL) Not much love for fat, smelly large mouthed, ugly mofo lesbians any where in the world, except maybe some yankee state up north where they like weirdos. Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at April 09, 2026 02:39 PM (tP7MS) 60 The only solution for Europe is repatriation of millions of invaders and removing their fraudulently elected leaders and...they aren't going to do it. Better to see your kid trooned out, your wife raped, and you living on the street apparently then being called racist... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 02:39 PM (sKqQm) 61 if they are sick of it, why do they continue to vote in communist leaders? Posted by: Jose at April 09, 2026 02:38 PM (V6W16) I'm no longer certain that they do. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:40 PM (FmapG) 62 60 The only solution for Europe is repatriation of millions of invaders and removing their fraudulently elected leaders and...they aren't going to do it. Better to see your kid trooned out, your wife raped, and you living on the street apparently then being called racist... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 02:39 PM (sKqQm) Yep. They're done. Stick a fork in 'em. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 09, 2026 02:40 PM (I/0M6) 63 Will. Declining to enforce the government's will... Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:32 PM (FmapG) ====== Eire is a full-fledged member of the EU, thanks to at least 2 elections imposed on the Irish electorate, browbeating them to accept EU domination. If the Irish political class appeals to Europe, requesting security forces to be sent to the Emerald Isle for the purpose of protecting continental interests, what would the UK's response be? Posted by: mrp at April 09, 2026 02:40 PM (rj6Yv) 64 So how many Car Bombs will this ignite throughout Ireland? Bog Stompers never learn. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 02:40 PM (n17eQ) 65 If you poors weren't so stupid, you'd know to set aside money so you could afford inflation. The GOP could win a lot of votes if they found a way to share what the left says about the working class with the working class... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 02:41 PM (sKqQm) 66 63 A boat in 6 weeks? Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 02:41 PM (LX4y3) 67 Irish Posted by: Edward the Longshanks at April 09, 2026 02:41 PM (2UnvF) 68 Almost as if they're beefing up the military with a foreign Replacement Population to use against the native Irish. ---- Isn't this process well under way in the UK? How many Muslim immigrants have joined the police force? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2026 02:41 PM (ESVrU) 69 Rosie O'Donnell's dirty vag smells like the bottom of the ocean farted Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 02:41 PM (1wjle) 70 This is all Orange Man Fuhrer's doing. Word from the street is they can smell the Leberknödel in Dublin. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 02:41 PM (Fbc0I) 71 53 46 >>>Is this why Rosie O'Donnell came back? She's back? Uggh. I didn't know. Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 02:36 PM (1wjle) Shoulda felt the tremors. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (pDt9x) Supposedly, just "visiting" again, although she's already also planning to visit all summer, so how long she's in Ireland vs here is now starting to be a question, since she admitted this week, she sees US as her home... Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 02:41 PM (tOcjL) 72 65 Yeah, but the GOPe says the same things. Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 02:42 PM (LX4y3) 73 Briefly. She's gone back to Ireland. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:38 PM (n7rxJ) Nope that was Feb - she's back again...again... Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 02:42 PM (tOcjL) 74 No Irish. It had to be said. BTW, If Iran is not of the West, Ireland certainly is not. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 02:42 PM (RIvkX) 75 The internet says that only 77% of Ireland's population now is Irish. But remember The Great Replacement is just a racist conspiracy theory Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 02:42 PM (sKqQm) 76 No normie will ever get violent. The vast majority of people are sheep and are willing to live with the boot on the neck even if that means money is taken from you to give to foreigners, your children get raped or murdered or you are thrown in jail for the same thing foreigners away with. Prove me wrong. Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 09, 2026 02:43 PM (Vh9CX) 77 If the Irish political class appeals to Europe, requesting security forces to be sent to the Emerald Isle for the purpose of protecting continental interests, what would the UK's response be? Posted by: mrp at April 09, 2026 02:40 PM (rj6Yv) Well, we learned today that Putin can sail his warships right through the English Channel, completely unopposed. I'd say Starmer would impotently stamp his wittle feeters, the Irish would tell the Brits to fuck off, and the Falklanders would start changing the colors on their flagpoles. This could spiral very quickly. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:43 PM (FmapG) 78 Yeah, but the GOPe says the same things. Well those assholes wear blue jeans Posted by: George Will at April 09, 2026 02:43 PM (sKqQm) 79 71 53 46 >>>Is this why Rosie O'Donnell came back? ----------------- There's a lot of bacon on Rosie. Smart move to leave ahead of the starving time. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 02:43 PM (n17eQ) 80 O'Zempic Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2026 02:44 PM (Cqx++) 81 They can bully and brutalize the normies precisely because they are law-abiding and do not blow things up when they're angry. We'll see how long that continues. The Troubles II: Electric Boogaloo Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 09, 2026 02:44 PM (JoTi8) 82 No normie will ever get violent. The vast majority of people are sheep and are willing to live with the boot on the neck even if that means money is taken from you to give to foreigners, your children get raped or murdered or you are thrown in jail for the same thing foreigners away with Around the western world people took poison shots to keep their jobs. Not a single bureaucrat got a Romanian surprise... Posted by: George Will at April 09, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm) 83 "We respect people's right to protest but what is not acceptable is people declaring that we will turn O'Connell Street into a car park," Prime Minister Micheal Martin told a news conference. ===== I formally recognize O'Connell Street as an independent state and call for an end to the brutal Irish occupation. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 02:45 PM (RIvkX) 84 Better to see your kid trooned out, your wife raped, and you living on the street apparently then being called racist... --- My impression of the European "right" is, they think American Democrats are too conservative. And don't hate Jews enough. We should have evacuated the Jews and let Hitler keep Europe. lol Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 02:45 PM (HXT0k) 85 75 The internet says that only 77% of Ireland's population now is Irish. But remember The Great Replacement is just a racist conspiracy theory ------------ Maybe the Irish need to move those odds in their favor somehow? Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 02:45 PM (n17eQ) 86 Better to see your kid trooned out, your wife raped, and you living on the street apparently then being called racist... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 02:39 PM (sKqQm) ===== The world is ready for a remake of a Kubrick classic, and it isn't Paths of Glory. Posted by: mrp at April 09, 2026 02:45 PM (rj6Yv) 87 >> Several credible commentators are saying a number of Irish army officers are refusing to use force against their own citizens. Interesting times in Ireland.... Once Democrats regain control you will see that same headline here. They’ve already said they will weaponize the government against anyone who disagrees with them. They did it during COVID and their last reign. Not sure why people would sit on their asses come November and not vote in the midterms. They are serious about putting the country under their boot. They have no limits. None. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 02:46 PM (ittVa) 88 Almost as if they're beefing up the military with a foreign Replacement Population to use against the native Irish. But that's crazy, right? Right? Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:25 PM It's the tactic all totalitarian regimes use. It seems that locally recruited enforcers are much less willing to kill their own people. Funny that. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 02:47 PM (N1DT3) 89 Not sure why people would sit on their asses come November and not vote in the midterms. They are serious about putting the country under their boot. They have no limits. None. Posted by: Vengeance at April Because we are going to show the GOP! It honestly stinks we get to chose crappy Republicans who can remain crappy without repercussions, or Covid World on Steroids. Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 02:48 PM (OoFl2) 90 The internet says that only 77% of Ireland's population now is Irish. — Only 60% of America’s population is American. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 02:48 PM (z0fc5) 91 The Irish have a history of rising up against authoritarians and cutting their heads off. It takes them awhile to get started. But there you have it. We’ve seen what some of them were capable of during the troubles. I don’t think they’re to be trifled with. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 02:49 PM (ittVa) 92 Not sure why people would sit on their asses come November and not vote in the midterms. They are serious about putting the country under their boot. They have no limits. None. Posted by: Vengeance at April Because it can't happen here. Right up until it can. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:49 PM (FmapG) 93 Can we make this a Rubio thread? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:26 PM (n7rxJ He Irish ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 02:28 PM (F1quE) Rubi'O? Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (qivay) Seriously people? He's Mark O'Rubio. CLEARLY Irish. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 02:49 PM (N1DT3) 94 It seems that locally recruited enforcers are much less willing to kill their own people. Funny that. ---------------- Reminds me of R.E. Lee. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (n17eQ) 95 i missed it, what's the rumpus with Rubio? Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (1wjle) Purity tests versus non-purity tests over his past amnesty support. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (dK+Kv) 96 If you don’t vote R? Dems will win and implement amnesty. Can’t let that happen. Vote R. So they can implement amnesty instead. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (z0fc5) 97 They put up Socialists then bitch what Socialists do. Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0) 98 The one thing the French do well, or at least the farmers. When they protest they spray manure. In the other blog where I mess with the lady who rakes leaves year round, there is an annoying mosquito whine about the increase in gas for their cars. Due, of course, to the war in Iran. This bores me so I don't argue with the nitwit who seems a bit low IQ (another person). I go there for my daily dose of irritation and move on. I overslept the alarm and was almost late for my hair appt for cut and highlights. Which would have been tragic as I only go every 8wks. Once I note grey roots I am fixing that. Unsure if I will be blonde forever. SIL's followed their mother's advice to cut that hair at age 30yrs. I ignored her and leave it long because it's what the man I sleep with prefers. One SIL is an actual ex-nun so I get her boyish cut. The neurotic SIL and bitter woman is a Karen with a grey bob. She wakes in the morning, inhales then is mad at everyone but her hyper dog. I try to avoid her and her daughters (one who is now a widowed atheist that she learned from her dead husband). We may have liked them better when we lived in FL, but am still glad we have mountains now. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (WONhk) 99 Not sure why people would sit on their asses come November and not vote in the midterms. They are serious about putting the country under their boot. They have no limits. None. When I talk to centrist or right leaning LIVs a lot say, "Well I voted for the GOP and they did the same things I didn't want that the Democrats did what is the point?!?" Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (sKqQm) 100 Um wait saying the Irish won't blow people up is not...um historically accurate. You might say that blowing things up is almost an Irish national sport that goes back for almost a century. Posted by: boballab at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (FvN8H) 101 >> Because it can't happen here. Fist bump. - Virginia Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (ittVa) 102 IIRC Hussein Obama claimed he was Irish too. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 02:51 PM (z0fc5) 103 "The Irish government deployed the New Caliphate Army today to suppress the uprising of the Celtic aboriginal natives of Éire" - Me. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 02:51 PM (nG58E) 104 I have wondered with the illegals and the muzzies wanting to kill off all the people who pay taxes where do they think their money will come from. Who will they steal from then? Posted by: four seasons at April 09, 2026 02:51 PM (3ek7K) 105 The problem Ireland is not the Irish, it's Rosie O'Donnell. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 02:51 PM (Fbc0I) 106 In the other blog where I mess with the lady who rakes leaves year round, there is an annoying mosquito whine about the increase in gas for their cars. Due, of course, to the war in Iran. The same set of Karens will tell us that ICE cars should be banned and then also tell us Trump ruined the economy because the cost of gas went up temporarily due to the Iran war Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 02:51 PM (sKqQm) 107 This fits well with the liberals' idea that it's fine to be racist against whites and it's fine to discriminate against whites. Posted by: Dave at April 09, 2026 02:52 PM (sbsMc) 108 100 Um wait saying the Irish won't blow people up is not...um historically accurate. You might say that blowing things up is almost an Irish national sport that goes back for almost a century. ------------ They are expert at knee capping. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 02:52 PM (n17eQ) 109 Can we make this a Rubio thread? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:26 PM (n7rxJ He Irish ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 02:28 PM (F1quE) Depends on if he needs their votes. Too soon? Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:52 PM (dK+Kv) 110 95 i missed it, what's the rumpus with Rubio? Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (1wjle) Purity tests versus non-purity tests over his past amnesty support. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (dK+Kv) True Conservatives do not believe in rehabilitation, conversion or change of heart. Simply an impossibility. Hell, even changing one’s mind is Highly Suspect. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 02:52 PM (pDt9x) 111 Ireland has the same problem as the rest of Europe. Anyone worth a shit left a long time ago. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 02:52 PM (2UnvF) 112 Better to see your kid trooned out, your wife raped, and you living on the street apparently then being called racist... Posted by: 18-1 ------------ This is related to my point above -- The Europeans go along with a lot of this stuff because they don't want trouble with their masters. Wit the boss. Go along to get along -- "OK, I guess my kid is trans now" "No more pork in the shops" "I gotta pray to the pedo..." They have a very different relationship with government because they don't see themselves as free. Except the "ruling class," who see themselves as the bosses even when they are very low level. They see the public as children who need to be told how to behave and what is best for them. The EU elite don't care about loss of culture because from where they sit, one peasant looks like another - some fuck sheep, some fuck goats. No big deal to go muzzie. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 02:53 PM (LAwjE) 113 I have wondered with the illegals and the muzzies wanting to kill off all the people who pay taxes where do they think their money will come from. Who will they steal from then? Posted by: four seasons at April 09, 2026 02:51 PM (3ek7K) That's a future-them problem. The present-them problem is that we exist, but aren't adequately funding their lives. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:53 PM (FmapG) 114 Nope that was Feb - she's back again...again... Posted by: Nova Local =========== Oh boy. I see a permanent return on the horizon. Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at April 09, 2026 02:53 PM (n7rxJ) 115 >> When I talk to centrist or right leaning LIVs a lot say, "Well I voted for the GOP and they did the same things I didn't want that the Democrats did what is the point?!?" The GOP has at least started to move in the right direction. BBB, etc. except for assholes like Lawler, Salazar and a few others we are at least headed towards the right track. Meanwhile Democrats have completely lost their minds. They’ve gone full crazy authoritarian anti constitutional tear it all down communist. If you don’t see that difference and pose as an independent you’re a dumb pussy. Current company excluded. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 02:53 PM (ittVa) 116 Meanwhile, this is happening in MPLS: Alpha News @AlphaNews · 47m 🚨 BREAKING: The Minneapolis City Council moves forward with the potential legalization of "adult bathhouses and sex venues." "The 1988 ban wasn't a neutral policy. It was written during a moral panic targeting gay men," says Council Member Jason Chavez. Do you think this is a good idea? Posted by: beckster at April 09, 2026 02:53 PM (kX27y) 117 This seems to be headed towards the same situation with the truckers up in Ottawa, Canada. Next move will be for the government to declare an emergency and start locking up bank accounts. Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 02:54 PM (dIske) 118 The EU elite don't care about loss of culture because from where they sit, one peasant looks like another - some fuck sheep, some fuck goats. No big deal to go muzzie. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 02:53 PM (LAwjE) Citizens v. Subjects. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:54 PM (FmapG) 119 I still like Sec Rubio and he knew me from emails when I lived in FL. What has he done? I'm going to vote at least twice in November, don't know about the rest of you. No idea who or why I am voting, but I will. No worries! I never worry in advance unless I have a dentist appt. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 02:54 PM (WONhk) 120 An individual voter can use whatever purity test or not that they want, and that's how it should work. But your vote will only be as pure as the candidates you can pick from- a choice of evils. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 02:54 PM (DgMqy) 121 .. You might say that blowing things up is almost an Irish national sport that goes back for almost a century. Posted by: boballab at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (FvN8H) The Irish also invented the Molotov Cocktail. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 02:54 PM (nG58E) 122 I guess if I was Charles, I would rather be king of the rape gangs than king of their victims. Who wants to be on the losing side. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 02:54 PM (LAwjE) 123 If you think Rubio would go for amnesty nowadays, punch yourself in the face. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 02:55 PM (ittVa) 124 If you don’t see that difference and pose as an independent you’re a dumb pussy. This particular argument doesn't work. At all. And this is why there are so many people that come out to vote for Trump and don't show up in the midterms... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 02:55 PM (sKqQm) 125 The Irish also invented the Molotov Cocktail. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 02:54 PM (nG58E) gets the sads Posted by: Zombie Molotov at April 09, 2026 02:55 PM (dK+Kv) 126 Stop putting women in charge. Posted by: Ok, I'll say it at April 09, 2026 02:55 PM (dsret) 127 The Irish have a history of rising up against authoritarians and cutting their heads off. It takes them awhile to get started. But there you have it. We’ve seen what some of them were capable of during the troubles. I don’t think they’re to be trifled with. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 02:49 PM (ittVa) ______ I think those Irish are long dead or dying. The new Irish are more likely to get into drunken brawls over soccer matches. They meekly complied with all the COVID hysteria and fascism. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/) 128 🚨 BREAKING: The Minneapolis City Council moves forward with the potential legalization of "adult bathhouses and sex venues." "The 1988 ban wasn't a neutral policy. It was written during a moral panic targeting gay men," says Council Member Jason Chavez. Do you think this is a good idea? --------------- Go long on Ass Lube. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 02:55 PM (n17eQ) 129 "The 1988 ban wasn't a neutral policy. It was written during a moral panic targeting gay men," says Council Member Jason Chavez. Do you think this is a good idea? Posted by: beckster at April 09, 2026 02:53 PM (kX27y) ===== Absofvckinglutely Posted by: Herr Dr. Fauci at April 09, 2026 02:55 PM (RIvkX) 130 Do you think this is a good idea? Posted by: beckster ================= I hear downtown Minneapolis is dying. Gotta revive business somehow. Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at April 09, 2026 02:56 PM (n7rxJ) 131 Do the Irish still have weapons? Posted by: four seasons at April 09, 2026 02:57 PM (3ek7K) 132 >> I think those Irish are long dead or dying. The new Irish are more likely to get into drunken brawls over soccer matches. They meekly complied with all the COVID hysteria and fascism. Nah. They’re still there. It’s in their blood. Look at those idiots in the picture. That’s fear and it’s well founded. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 02:57 PM (ittVa) 133 I think those Irish are long dead or dying. The new Irish are more likely to get into drunken brawls over soccer matches. They meekly complied with all the COVID hysteria and fascism. Posted by: Elric The Blade ============= Didn't the Irish vote themselves into this anyway? Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at April 09, 2026 02:57 PM (n7rxJ) 134 r/Ireland The Government thought negative public opinion would be enough to sway the protesters and they'd disband early on. Then they thought the overnight threat of the army would intimidate them into leaving. Neither of those things have materialised and have only strengthened the resolve and numbers of the protesters. Now the Government feel like they need to follow through on their threats or they'll lose all credibility. Loads of money for IPAS centres (immigrant housing) and the most expensive hospital in the history of the world but nahhh to lowering tax on fuel There was a literal race riot here a few years back if you remember. People just rampaged through the city and burned everything. Fuck all happened. Using the army on your own people is a good thing now? What if it's a protest you support next time? I doubt the fuel protesters would support any other group doing what they're doing All of those trucks and tractors should be impounded. Massive fines, doubled in the case of anyone who's vehicle was involved in blocking an ambulance, fuel depot, etc. Hopefully most of these cretins can't afford that and lose everything Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 02:57 PM (JCZqz) 135 I don't feel sorry for anyone in Ireland. The citizens are whining that their cradle to grave socialism isn't lowering gas prices for them. The government won't acknowledge that unfettered immigration of the unskilled drives inflation. The Muslims demand their handouts and screw everyone else. I feel no allegiance to or sympathy for my ancestors. We left for a reason. Posted by: Wally at April 09, 2026 02:57 PM (MovcY) 136 The Irish also invented the Molotov Cocktail. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 02:54 PM (nG58E) ===== This is propaganda from the capitalist camp. Posted by: Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov at April 09, 2026 02:58 PM (RIvkX) 137 110 95 i missed it, what's the rumpus with Rubio? Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (1wjle) Purity tests versus non-purity tests over his past amnesty support. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:50 PM (dK+Kv) True Conservatives do not believe in rehabilitation, conversion or change of heart. Simply an impossibility. Hell, even changing one’s mind is Highly Suspect. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 What we are going to do is grab a hose, make a puddle and ask people to walk across it. Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 02:58 PM (OoFl2) 138 48 Oh I see more poors failed to budget for inflation. If you poors weren't so stupid, you'd know to set aside money so you could afford inflation. Also, how come you are so stupid that you don't use Gas Buddy? You could easily drive an hour out of your way and save 3 cents a gallon. So it's really your fault you can't afford gas because you're too lazy and too stupid. - Things the Left Actually Said to Americans During Biden's Inflation Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (HXT0k) Wait, that's what I was saying! Posted by: Dave Ramsey, boomer meme incarnate at April 09, 2026 02:58 PM (TbWk/) 139 >"The 1988 ban wasn't a neutral policy. It was written during a moral panic targeting gay men," says Council Member Jason Chavez. According to Wikipedia, this retard was born in either 1994 or 1995, making him an expert on the AIDS epidemic. Posted by: mr tmz at April 09, 2026 02:58 PM (rJ48h) 140 Population replacement is happening to police department all over blue state America, especially NYC. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 02:58 PM (Y8DZL) 141 When the shooting starts, can I write some moe crap songs and make a shit ton of money offa retarded yanks? Posted by: Bono at April 09, 2026 02:59 PM (tP7MS) 142 >>>Using the army on your own people is a good thing now? What if it's a protest you support next time? Depends. Is it a "mostly peaceful" protest? Or one of those deadly public praying in silence protests? Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:59 PM (dK+Kv) 143 All of those trucks and tractors should be impounded. Massive fines, doubled in the case of anyone who's vehicle was involved in blocking an ambulance, fuel depot, etc. Hopefully most of these cretins can't afford that and lose everything Now ask that same person what they think of the mass rioting after the death of George Floyd and you'll get a very very different answer... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 02:59 PM (sKqQm) 144 Don’t forget a lot of the white liberal AWFLS here are of Irish heritage. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 02:59 PM (ittVa) 145 Too bad Rosie isn't still there. It would be terrible if her fat ass was run over by a tractor. Posted by: four seasons Well the tractors are stationary, which is probably still faster than she can move. Concern justified. Posted by: Clay at April 09, 2026 03:00 PM (xHVms) 146 I liked Ireland. Dubin and Cork ok. I don't think the people there liked me as much as they did in Scotland. However, outside the cities it's very pretty. Scotland has Scotch and more jolly people. I was one of them on the Highlands distillery tour our son took us on. Dublin people seemed more ornery. More liberal with tatoos and nose rings. I mostly ignored them but was jet lagged and also did not care much. I wanted to brawl with a man in the Cotswalds of the UK. We were in a pub for lunch and he noted our accents. He started mumbling about Trump and I ignored him, probably my father's age. Made a point when we left to stare at him and he looked away first from the green lasers of doom. I still got it! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 03:00 PM (WONhk) 147 Do you think this is a good idea? Posted by: beckster I think that six months after it passes, there's going to news stories about the "A mysterious rise in STIs among young men" and it'll be a crisis that requires multimillions of dollars in studies that will never, ever find that, gosh, the source of this is the gay bath-houses, and the only men who are affected are the gay ones. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 09, 2026 03:01 PM (a+4eV) 148 "The 1988 ban wasn't a neutral policy. It was written during a moral panic targeting gay men," Council Member Jason Chavez, says erotically. ===== I fixed that last part. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 03:01 PM (RIvkX) 149 In twenty years, it’ll be a myhtical island of Djinns and Magic Lamps. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM I call dips on the flying carpet concessions. Posted by: Beartooth at April 09, 2026 03:01 PM (tYGL3) 150 Cost of living doubled under Biden Trump stopped the Bidenflation but prices are still the same. Now if you want to fix that you have to SLASH government spending, not 10 years from now slightly reduce the rate of growth of some government budget or other. But the GOP does not want to talk about this. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 03:01 PM (sKqQm) 151 Hey, rat-faced Fauci can come out of retirement. Asshole Posted by: four seasons at April 09, 2026 03:01 PM (3ek7K) 152 Rumpus With Rubio was a light hearted children's musical that didn't quite strike the right chords with LGBT community and was criticized for it's lack of emphasis on transexual rights. And poor lighting. It closed after two weeks in the summer of 2023. Posted by: Snooty NYT critic at April 09, 2026 03:02 PM (dsret) 153 🚨 BREAKING: The Minneapolis City Council moves forward with the potential legalization of "adult bathhouses and sex venues." "The 1988 ban wasn't a neutral policy. It was written during a moral panic targeting gay men," says Council Member Jason Chavez. Do you think this is a good idea? --------------- Go long on Ass Lube. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 02:55 PM (n17eQ) And stock in whoever makes Truvada Posted by: Bring back anonymous buttsex! at April 09, 2026 03:02 PM (TbWk/) 154 Made a point when we left to stare at him and he looked away first from the green lasers of doom. I still got it! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 03:00 PM (WONhk) ==== turns to stone Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 03:02 PM (RIvkX) 155 I think those Irish are long dead or dying. The new Irish are more likely to get into drunken brawls over soccer matches. They meekly complied with all the COVID hysteria and fascism. Posted by: Elric The Blade ============= Didn't the Irish vote themselves into this anyway? Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at April 09, 2026 02:57 PM (n7rxJ) ______ Voting, doing nothing in the face of massive voter fraud, and just general complacency. The Irish are now a weak people -- like almost all of Europe -- in addition to being politically and culturally fractured. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/) 156 Regarding bath houses, etc, in Minnie...they already seemed doomed. Might as well start a new STD while they are at it. Maybe bring over a koala to make a stronger STD with an Aussie accent. I think I used to want to go see parts of MN. I no longer think that is a Pretti Good idea. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 03:03 PM (WONhk) 157 Is this an Irish Spring? Posted by: fd at April 09, 2026 03:03 PM (vFG9F) 158 Nah. They’re still there. It’s in their blood. Look at those idiots in the picture. That’s fear and it’s well founded. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 02:57 PM (ittVa) Damn right. If they're willing to fight over sportball, imagine them fighting over silly things like religion and Muslim colonization. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 03:04 PM (nG58E) 159 turns to stone Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 03:02 PM (RIvkX) Budgie - I Turned to Stone https://youtu.be/Ua2wFKlDv2U Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 03:04 PM (dK+Kv) 160 Having lived in South Boston in my formative years, Ive learned the Irish way of protesting is three stages: a. Do nothing b. Get drunk and slap your wife around and c. Leave without saying good bye. Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 09, 2026 03:04 PM (wBaIH) 161 They're magically delicious! Posted by: Lucky Charms at April 09, 2026 03:05 PM (dsret) 162 Population replacement is happening to police department all over blue state America, especially NYC. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 02:58 PM (Y8DZL) Not just there. I believe Dearborn has a stated goal of making their PD 40% Arabic, if it isn't already. They have Arabic script on their department patches too. If that isn't colonization, well, I don't know what is. Posted by: Sharia is here and it's not fabulous at April 09, 2026 03:05 PM (TbWk/) 163 Voting. That's cute. Posted by: Dominion Systems at April 09, 2026 03:06 PM (dsret) 164 and the only men who are affected are the gay ones. And then the gays will start dying of disease in batch lots again, and the Leftists who encourage them to do things that will slowly kill them will wring their hangs and say "Oh how terrible, it must be the fault of those icky republo-nazis and their institutionalized homophobia!" Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 09, 2026 03:06 PM (a+4eV) 165 I think I used to want to go see parts of MN. I no longer think that is a Pretti Good idea. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat Mom and Dad were from Minnesota. Spent a lot of time there, including college. Hadn't been there in close to 35 years. Always wanted to go back someday...not anymore. Even if I never see my family that's still there again. I really hate what this century's done. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 09, 2026 03:07 PM (OUMaO) 166 150 Cost of living doubled under Biden Trump stopped the Bidenflation but prices are still the same. Now if you want to fix that you have to SLASH government spending, not 10 years from now slightly reduce the rate of growth of some government budget or other. But the GOP does not want to talk about this. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 03:01 PM (sKqQm) Stupid lazy people need to get third, fourth and fifth jobs! If they have more than one job from home that's stealing, they're thieves! Beans and rice, buy my book! waves gun around Posted by: Dave Ramsey, boomer meme incarnate at April 09, 2026 03:07 PM (TbWk/) 167 I don't think Irish made up Molotov fird bombs, they would have named it after a Irishman Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 03:08 PM (Ia/+0) 168 I think the goal in Minneapolis is to find a safe place where the Somalis won't beat the gays. Posted by: Wally at April 09, 2026 03:09 PM (MovcY) 169 And then the gays will start dying of disease in batch lots again, and the Leftists who encourage them to do things that will slowly kill them will wring their hangs and say "Oh how terrible, it must be the fault of those icky republo-nazis and their institutionalized homophobia!" Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 09, 2026 03:06 PM (a+4eV) Getting assfucked by 30 random guys every weekend has absolutely nothing to do with it whatsoever. Posted by: It's Reagan's magic HIV-rays at April 09, 2026 03:10 PM (TbWk/) 170 Stupid lazy people need to get third, fourth and fifth jobs! If they have more than one job from home that's stealing, they're thieves! Beans and rice, buy my book! waves gun around Posted by: Dave Ramsey, boomer meme incarnate at April 09, 2026 03:07 +++ LOL. Posted by: Sell the car! Sell the car! at April 09, 2026 03:10 PM (dsret) 171 Voting, doing nothing in the face of massive voter fraud, and just general complacency. The Irish are now a weak people -- like almost all of Europe -- in addition to being politically and culturally fractured. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/) You've just described America and Americans. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 03:10 PM (nG58E) 172 I think the goal in Minneapolis is to find a safe place where the Somalis won't beat the gays. Posted by: Wally at April 09, 2026 03:09 PM (MovcY) OTOH, they are proposing to put them all in one place a 'gay ghetto' if you will so all the Somalian can find flaming gay men in one place. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 03:11 PM (zZu0s) 173 Its definitely more than just prices, that's just the trigger. Matter of time before the same thing happens here. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 03:11 PM (El6/E) 174 Why the heck did Melania do a video statement on Epstein? Posted by: Joemarine at April 09, 2026 03:11 PM (y171U) 175 168 I think the goal in Minneapolis is to find a safe place where the Somalis won't beat the gays. Posted by: Wally An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last. Posted by: Winston Churchill at April 09, 2026 03:11 PM (JCZqz) 176 The name's origin came from the propaganda Molotov produced during the Winter War, mainly his [ Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov'] declaration on Soviet state radio that incendiary bombing missions over Finland were actually "airborne humanitarian food deliveries" for their "starving" neighbors. As a result, the Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet incendiary cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" (Finnish: Molotovin leipäkori) in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. - Wikipedia Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 03:12 PM (dK+Kv) 177 These people really are stupid. And when someone firebombed the bath house it will be called a 'nughtclub' and we'll be told it's the fault of straight white men. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 03:12 PM (zZu0s) 178 I have always had this inkling that the reason the Dems made and continue to make J6 "the worst thing evah" was to condition the public that shooting into conservative protests as a-ok. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 03:12 PM (n5tGW) 179 >>>Ive learned the Irish way of protesting is three stages: a. Do nothing b. Get drunk and slap your wife around and c. Leave without saying good bye. Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov >Do they throw potatoes at the authorities? I wonder which kind is the best, most flavorful. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 03:12 PM (Fbc0I) 180 These people really are stupid. And when someone firebombed the bath house it will be called a 'nughtclub' and we'll be told it's the fault of straight white men. Just like what happened in FL... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm) 181 O-Drill baby O-Drill Posted by: DaveA at April 09, 2026 03:13 PM (FhXTo) 182 >>>This seems to be headed towards the same situation with the truckers up in Ottawa, Canada. Next move will be for the government to declare an emergency and start locking up bank accounts. Yes, and yet the Canadians voted for more of the same in the last election. So will it go in Ireland sadly, especially since there's no part of their electorate that any of us would recognize as conservative or even pro free market. It's autocratic socialism, all the way down. Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 09, 2026 03:13 PM (CwhoI) 183 was to condition the public that shooting into conservative protests as a-ok. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 03:12 PM (n5tGW) They were trying like the dickens to turn J6 into a bloodbath, but most of our guys did not go heeled. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 03:13 PM (zZu0s) 184 By the way... the Trump administration made a statement categorically denying the asinine op being done by enemies of the USA claiming Trump attacked a Papal ambassador. https://x.com/BrianBurchUSA/ status/2042307511504519366 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 03:13 PM (El6/E) 185 and the only men who are affected are the gay ones. And the dogs and the adopted male children of gay couples. The media dropped monkeypox like a hot potato when that started happening. Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 09, 2026 03:14 PM (n1OCj) 186 Mom and Dad were from Minnesota. Spent a lot of time there, including college. Hadn't been there in close to 35 years. Always wanted to go back someday...not anymore. Even if I never see my family that's still there again. I really hate what this century's done. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 09, 2026 03:07 PM (OUMaO -------------------- Grew up in MPLS, also had a cabin up near Fargo. I'm never going back there again, sadly. Posted by: beckster at April 09, 2026 03:14 PM (kX27y) 187 Funny how the Irish, a neutral EU nation with no external beefs with anyone is suddenly REAL interested in having a large army manned by quickly raised foreign immigrants because of how dangerous the world is all the sudden. Posted by: Oldcat at April 09, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+) 188 I don't think Irish made up Molotov fird bombs, they would have named it after a Irishman Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 03:08 PM (Ia/+0) This is when you prove me wrong by doing your homework. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 03:14 PM (nG58E) 189 If you haven't at least contracted monkeypox once from anal sex, are you really a man? Posted by: Bathhouse Barry at April 09, 2026 03:14 PM (JCZqz) 190 Are Shamrock gas stations still a thing? Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 03:15 PM (qgHp7) 191 >Do they throw potatoes at the authorities? I wonder which kind is the best, most flavorful. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 03:12 PM (Fbc0I) Russet Burbanks have the most heft. Posted by: Best shot out of a cannon at April 09, 2026 03:15 PM (TbWk/) 192 Grew up in MPLS, also had a cabin up near Fargo. I'm never going back there again, sadly. ------------ Avoiding the woodchipper is a smart move. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 03:15 PM (n17eQ) 193 Russet Burbanks have the most heft. Posted by: Best shot out of a cannon at April 09, 2026 03:15 PM (TbWk/) Baby reds fit better in their little leprechaun hands. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 03:16 PM (dK+Kv) 194 Democrat senatorial candidate. Noah Taylor @noahforkansas When my son's lips turned blue, my wife and I had to pause and ask ourselves: can we afford the ambulance? No Kansas family should ever have that conversation. - Ambulance, new car? Decisions, decisions. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 03:17 PM (ndZc7) 195 I don't think Irish made up Molotov fird bombs, they would have named it after a Irishman ******** I believe that is Molly O'Tov Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 03:18 PM (qgHp7) 196 187 Funny how the Irish, a neutral EU nation with no external beefs with anyone is suddenly REAL interested in having a large army manned by quickly raised foreign immigrants because of how dangerous the world is all the sudden. Posted by: Oldcat at April 09, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+) Interesting indeed. This is also the plan for the EU and an "EU army". Oh, the bien peasants in France are revolting, no problem, send in "new Germans" to put them down. Posted by: Thrawn at April 09, 2026 03:18 PM (9Ovst) 197 turns to stone Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 03:02 PM (RIvkX) I have a pleasant face but never lose a staring contest. I wanted this man to KNOW I'd heard his insults to the USA but ignored them through lunch. He got the message that I don't back down. Say it to my face if you don't like America. Granted, our son and DIL were with us as well and I am polite, so no danger to the coward verbally or physically. I was hoping my look said: "We saved you from the Germans, so shut up." Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 03:18 PM (WONhk) 198 Just passing through. Peaceful protests are always so cute. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 03:18 PM (Sco7b) 199 Maybe the Paddies need a new "Come out ye black and tans" revolt song? Posted by: Thrawn at April 09, 2026 03:19 PM (9Ovst) 200 I believe that is Molly O'Tov Then they wrote a song all about it and how miserable life is and molly ends up as a ghost at the end, haunting a bottle factory Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 03:19 PM (El6/E) 201 Noah Taylor @noahforkansas When my son's lips turned blue, my wife and I had to pause and ask ourselves: can we afford the ambulance? No Kansas family should ever have that conversation. ---------------- He's either lying or a shitty parent. Wait, behold the power of and. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 03:19 PM (2UnvF) 202 The EU elite don't care about loss of culture because from where they sit, one peasant looks like another - some fuck sheep, some fuck goats. No big deal to go muzzie. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 02:53 PM (LAwjE) Citizens v. Subjects. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:54 PM (FmapG) I believe there was at least 1 rejection of EU membership by the Irish. Then they had the patented revote over and over until they got a result they wanted and all voting on the subject was over. Posted by: Oldcat at April 09, 2026 03:19 PM (8avO+) 203 First, get a stick of butter. Posted by: Paula Deen at April 09, 2026 03:19 PM (dsret) 204 Stupid lazy people need to get third, fourth and fifth jobs! If they have more than one job from home that's stealing, they're thieves! Beans and rice, buy my book! waves gun around Posted by: Dave Ramsey, boomer meme incarnate at April 09, 2026 03:07 PM (TbWk/) Hey mon! Only one job? Dat's worse than my lazy boi son who only haf tree of dem! Posted by: Mr. Hedley (7 jobs) at April 09, 2026 03:20 PM (qivay) 205 Sorry; I have an emergency prayer request I friend of mine has an adult daughter named K who has major psych problems. She was convinced people were outside last night trying to harm she and her parents. Now she hasn't come back from an appointment from a counseling season and her parents are very worried. She's not returning phone calls or texts. Please pray for her safe return soon. Thanks very much! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 03:20 PM (PFs9e) 206 In twenty years, it’ll be a myhtical island of Djinns and Magic Lamps. Will Lucky Charms get rebranded with marshmallow goat, sheep, and camel vaginas and a djinn instead of a leprechaun? Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 03:20 PM (2ocoG) 207 Voting, doing nothing in the face of massive voter fraud, and just general complacency. The Irish are now a weak people -- like almost all of Europe -- in addition to being politically and culturally fractured. Posted by: Elric The Blade ============= And no doubt that's where the "leaders" are coming from. No one to tell all those special interest groups to stfd and get some coherent, comprehensive economic policies established. Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at April 09, 2026 03:21 PM (n7rxJ) 208 Funny how the Irish, a neutral EU nation with no external beefs with anyone is suddenly REAL interested in having a large army manned by quickly raised foreign immigrants because of how dangerous the world is all the sudden. Posted by: Oldcat at April 09, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+) Irishmen might hesitate to pull the trigger on fellow Irishmen. Third-world Muslim savages will have no such qualms. Posted by: Like Janissaries but in reverse at April 09, 2026 03:21 PM (TbWk/) 209 This is also the plan for the EU and an "EU army". Oh, the bien peasants in France are revolting, no problem, send in "new Germans" to put them down. Posted by: Thrawn at April 09, 2026 03:18 PM (9Ovst) I have Ukraine's army as the leading candidate for that role once Russia dismembers the country as they like. Posted by: Oldcat at April 09, 2026 03:21 PM (8avO+) 210 136 The Irish also invented the Molotov Cocktail. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 02:54 PM (nG58E) ===== This is propaganda from the capitalist camp. Posted by: Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov at April 09, 2026 02:58 PM (RIvkX) ===== Well I tried. Posted by: Tired old Leninist at April 09, 2026 03:21 PM (RIvkX) 211 Eat the rich! Oli London @OliLondonTV Billionaire Bruce Springsteen blasts rich men in America. “The richest men in America have abandoned the world’s poorest children to death and disease.” The singer is worth $1.2 Billion. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 03:22 PM (ndZc7) 212 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 03:20 PM (PFs9e) Of course. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 09, 2026 03:23 PM (zZu0s) 213 It seems totally reasonable for the Irish govt to temporarily reduce gas tax and a f'ing CARBON TAX for a short bit. But nah, they can't give relief to the tax paying plebes because they have muzzies to feed. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 03:23 PM (n5tGW) 214 goat, sheep, and camel vaginas No love for the butt? Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 09, 2026 03:23 PM (Kt19C) 215 The Boundary Waters is a beautiful part of Minnesota but somehow always votes Democrat. There are a lot of overwhelmingly white areas in northern states that are radical left. Even counting Hibernians, who aren't widely considered white. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 03:24 PM (Y8DZL) 216 213 It seems totally reasonable for the Irish govt to temporarily reduce gas tax and a f'ing CARBON TAX for a short bit. But nah, they can't give relief to the tax paying plebes because they have muzzies to feed. --------------------- Yep. Open Borders Suck Out Loud everywhere. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 03:24 PM (n17eQ) 217 Eat the rich! Oli London @OliLondonTV Billionaire Bruce Springsteen blasts rich men in America. “The richest men in America have abandoned the world’s poorest children to death and disease.” The singer is worth $1.2 Billion. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 03:22 PM (ndZc7) wonder if Brucie has paid anything to charities his accountant doesn't order him to do. Posted by: Oldcat at April 09, 2026 03:24 PM (8avO+) 218 “The richest men in America have abandoned the world’s poorest children to death and disease.” The singer is worth $1.2 Billion. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 03:22 PM (ndZc7) That dopehead raspy "man of the people" act was always about as believable as Ted Bundy as your Lyft driver. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 03:24 PM (8X0wm) 219 I have Ukraine's army as the leading candidate for that role once Russia dismembers the country as they like. Ukraine barely has an army now, or at least one made of military-age native men. So yeah, their army is definitely going to trend towards being what the WEF wants. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 03:25 PM (2ocoG) 220 That dopehead raspy "man of the people" act was always about as believable as Ted Bundy as your Lyft driver. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 03:24 PM (8X0wm) But he said such nice things that I wanted to hear. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 03:25 PM (dK+Kv) 221 The Irish, like the Poor, will always be with us. ( From Some Things Jesus mighta said). Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 03:25 PM (VnvFG) 222 Noah Taylor @noahforkansas When my son's lips turned blue, my wife and I had to pause and ask ourselves: can we afford the ambulance? No Kansas family should ever have that conversation. ---------------- He's either lying or a shitty parent. Wait, behold the power of and. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 03:19 PM (2UnvF) It's total bullshit. If your kid's cyanotic you're calling the goddamn ambulance without hesitation unless you're a complete piece of shit. This guy is scum either way. Posted by: Noah way his story's true at April 09, 2026 03:25 PM (TbWk/) 223 The Irish were using petrol bombs long before the Finns coined the name during Winter War. And do know you how they used them? Throwing them at the air intakes of the Russian tanks. Now guess what happened? Does Wikipedia describe it? Wikipedia! Well, that settles that! You are now a +3 WikiExpert! Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 03:25 PM (nG58E) 224 She's not returning phone calls or texts. Please pray for her safe return soon. I will remember her in my prayers, or at least the global "God you know all the people I care for but cannot recall every instance" prayers I have to do that more these days than in days past Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 03:26 PM (El6/E) 225 211 Eat the rich! Oli London @OliLondonTV Billionaire Bruce Springsteen blasts rich men in America. “The richest men in America have abandoned the world’s poorest children to death and disease.” The singer is worth $1.2 Billion. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 03:22 PM (ndZc7) _________________________________ FACTS: Warren Buffett, MacKenzie Scott, Melinda French Gates, and George Soros, who have donated hundreds of millions to organizations like Planned Parenthood. (this is called dark humor) Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske) 226 She's not returning phone calls or texts. Please pray for her safe return soon. Thanks very much! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 03:20 PM (PFs9e) Prayers she will be ok. Did she make the appt? Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 03:26 PM (WONhk) 227 I was hoping my look said: "We saved you from the Germans, so shut up." Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat ----------- Weren't the Irish on the German side? Oh, OK "neutral" and kinda an ally but not sure they would feel grateful. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 03:26 PM (LAwjE) 228 Wikipedia! Well, that settles that! You are now a +3 WikiExpert! Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 03:25 PM (nG58E) Lighten up, Francis. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 03:26 PM (dK+Kv) 229 162 Population replacement is happening to police department all over blue state America, especially NYC. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 02:58 PM (Y8DZL) Not just there. I believe Dearborn has a stated goal of making their PD 40% Arabic, if it isn't already. They have Arabic script on their department patches too. If that isn't colonization, well, I don't know what is. Posted by: Sharia is here and it's not fabulous at April 09, 2026 03:05 PM (TbWk/) There its been happening for a LONG time. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 03:27 PM (TcMLU) 230 Weren't the Irish on the German side? Oh, OK "neutral" and kinda an ally but not sure they would feel grateful. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 09, 2026 03:26 PM (LAwjE) This was in the Cotswalds and this man was old enough to remember WWII. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 03:27 PM (WONhk) 231 I, for one, can't wait to hear another one of Springsteen's folksy and totes blue collar depictions of a gritty life in a steel mill or whatever that broke-dick old faggot sings about. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 03:27 PM (oqH4h) 232 I believe that is Molly O'Tov Posted by: muldoon Do they have to shout that when the bottle breaks? Posted by: mikeski at April 09, 2026 03:28 PM (CmuOb) 233 Geez! Have you never heard of decorum? Pentagon removes Navy photo after people noticed sailor's arm patch said "SAVE THE BIG BOOTY VENEZUELANS" https://is.gd/PJOiFf Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 03:28 PM (ndZc7) 234 **Almost as if they're beefing up the military with a foreign Replacement Population to use against the native Irish. But that's crazy, right? Right? --- I feel a revolution coming on. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 03:29 PM (ZwdAr) 235 206 In twenty years, it’ll be a myhtical island of Djinns and Magic Lamps. Will Lucky Charms get rebranded with marshmallow goat, sheep, and camel vaginas and a djinn instead of a leprechaun? they're halal-ly delicioius! Posted by: anachronda at April 09, 2026 03:29 PM (oY6Yp) 236 But he said such nice things that I wanted to hear. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 03:25 PM (dK+Kv) Well when you put it like that... Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 03:30 PM (8X0wm) 237 Do you think they'd agree to meet with the protesters if they were 1, communists, 2, Islamofascists, or 3, both?* The DNC this morning posted a photo of their new all-40 something-Karen majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. A lot of people were not-joking that crime will now be totally legal there if you're not a white male. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 03:30 PM (2ocoG) 238 Nood Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 09, 2026 03:30 PM (LdBR/) 239 Irish government has always been some level of fucktard. The Irish fought for independence from Britain, and now welcome hoards of foreign inbred criminals to be their new overlords. Amazing... Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 09, 2026 03:30 PM (XMwZJ) 240 Then there's the P.J. O'Roarke story of the Irishman who got so drunk he kissed his wife and hit the Pope's foot with a coal shovel. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 03:31 PM (Y8DZL) 241 Catholic fought the Protestants to the last man. As I understand it the British are keeping their hands off. It's surprising the Irish have tolerated it this long. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 03:31 PM (ZwdAr) 242 Speaking of saving a buck . . . Indiana released this transgender baby killer 30 YEARS EARLY after the state was ordered to fund his sex-change surgery. No one knew he was free. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 03:31 PM (ndZc7) 243 now that's funny Posted by: Admiral Winchester at April 09, 2026 03:32 PM (jrgJz) 244 Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 03:27 PM (oqH4h) That guy wouldn't know a coal mine from Enemy Mine, the middling Louis Gossett Jr. star vehicle from 1985. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 03:32 PM (8X0wm) 245 Pentagon removes Navy photo after people noticed sailor's arm patch said "SAVE THE BIG BOOTY VENEZUELANS" I mean, who would object to that statement besides ugly liberal Democrat women? I didn't know the Pentagon cared what they think now. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 03:32 PM (2ocoG) 246 He's either lying or a shitty parent. Wait, behold the power of and. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 03:19 PM (2UnvF) It's total bullshit. If your kid's cyanotic you're calling the goddamn ambulance without hesitation unless you're a complete piece of shit. This guy is scum either way. Posted by: Noah way his story's true at April 09, 2026 03:25 PM (TbWk/) Communist agitprop by a Senatorial candidate that wants to pamper and baby everyone with a “free” doctor. That it doesn’t work in countries that pamper and baby their citizens with a “free” doctor, of course Mr. Taylor says nothing. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 03:33 PM (E6xSb) 247 See: Somali Police recruits in Minneapolis for a preview of the future. Kill native citizens without remorse or consequences while wearing a badge. Posted by: Joe Mama at April 09, 2026 03:34 PM (TezPK) 248 Lighten up, Francis. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 03:26 PM (dK+Kv) Take the loss like a man, Betty. Posted by: 13times at April 09, 2026 03:35 PM (nG58E) 249 Weren't the Irish on the German side? Oh, OK "neutral" and kinda an ally but not sure they would feel grateful. The Irish sided with everyone who was against England, no matter who they were. Didn't stop them from serving faithfully and loyally in the English armed forces, though. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 03:36 PM (El6/E) 250 I have Ukraine's army as the leading candidate for that role once Russia dismembers the country as they like. Posted by: Oldcat at April 09, 2026 03:21 PM (8avO+) Historically speaking, you could tell who just lost a major war by noting the languages spoken by new recruits to the French Foreign Legion. Even if the loser wasn't immediately obvious, the languages in the Legion would be an indicator. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 09, 2026 03:38 PM (JoTi8) 251 Can we make this a Rubio thread? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:26 PM (n7rxJ) Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, Viceroy of Venezuela, Shah of Iran, Generalissamo of Cuba, Keeper of me Lucky Charms Posted by: That guy who announces names at state dinners at April 09, 2026 03:43 PM (Qu2JD) 252 "Almost as if they're beefing up the military with a foreign Replacement Population to use against the native Irish. But that's crazy, right?" If you haven't put away a pile of food, sorted out your water situation, acquired stuff like drones and secure comms.... what are you even doing? This shit is farther along in parts of the US than most realize Posted by: heya at April 09, 2026 04:11 PM (VczSh) 253 Put us in coach, we're ready to play! Posted by: Bouncy Castles at April 09, 2026 05:10 PM (O7YUW) 254 Y'all are a riot! 👍 The Irish have one refinery and are largely dependent on imports, leaving them vulnerable to short supply. 6 The Irish gov't should just do what all the ME countries do. Blame the Jooos. Posted by: Dr. Fausti Surely, they do! NPR, 'Why Ireland is one of the most pro-Palestinian nations in the world' March 14, 2024 They love the drama; their tales, songs, poems of Kings, battles for freedom and self-determination. They'd love to be The Mouse That Roared. They wallow in victim hood. They're not siding against Iran. They simply want oil & gas for transportation & heating. Yeah, I'm Irish. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 09, 2026 05:20 PM (NFX2v) You're Not Going to Believe This, But Leftwing "Republicans" Are Pitching, Get This, Comprehensive Amensty Reform Yet Again, This Time With a Hot New Name Designed to Appeal to Your Psychology: "The DIGNITY Act" Well who could possibly be against Dignity? You're not against la dignidad, are you, Racist? This bill is cosponsored by 20 "bipartisan" Democrats and Democrats who run as Republicans because the rubes they're conning lean right. It is pushed by long, long time Amnesty Whore Maria Elvira Salazar. Bonchie @bonchieredstate 23h It's literally no deportations, work permits, and a pathway to citizenship. What exactly do you think the word amnesty means? Rep. María Elvira Salazar @RepMariaSalazar Apr 7 READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH. Calling the DIGNITY Act "amnesty" isn't just wrong. It's a deliberate distortion and it exposes just how little you know about the bill. This is enforcement first: zero tolerance for criminals, permanent border security, and hard, earned requirements to step forward and face the law, so American workers are protected, not undercut. Amnesty is the chaos you've defended, millions in the shadows, no control, no accountability, and a system that stopped working a long time ago. No shortcuts. No giveaways. No blanket forgiveness. That's law and order. That's DIGNITY. Does that sound like a lie to you? Because it is: Community Note Currently rated helpful 21h Directly addresses the post's claim · Provides important context It grants amnesty: permanent residency (Dream Act), deferred action & legal status (Dignity Program), and halts deportations. Wipes 3/10 year bans, creates inspected and admitted loophole, grants AG power to terminate deportation for family "hardship" Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol 21h Replying to @RepMariaSalazar So, I did exactly what you asked and I sat down and read ALL 261 pages of your bill. It does support mass amnesty and I'll tell you exactly where: Pages 162-170... The Dream Act: You grant conditional lawful permanent resident status to ILLEGAL ALIENS who: >Have been continuously present in the U.S. since January 1, 2021 >Entered before age 18 >Meet education, employment, or military service requirements >Pass criminal background checks On top of this, in Sec. 2102(b)(3)(B), DACA recipients get fast-tracked to conditional green card status. ...which is literally mass amnesty BUT THE BILL GOES EVEN FURTHER!!! On pages 204-217, you present the Dignity Program: This is a separate track for illegal aliens who don't qualify for the Dream Act. If you are an illegal aliens who: > Was continuously present since December 31, 2020 >Pay a $1,000 upfront "restitution" fee >Submit biometrics, pass a background check >No felony convictions You get work authorization + travel authorization + deferred removal for 7 years After completing the 7-year program (paying $7,000 total in fees, staying employed, obeying laws, paying back taxes): We grant you: > "Dignity Status" which is essentially a lawful nonimmigrant status, which is renewable any number of times >Work and travel authorization But the most important bit that you're hiding here is that it totally suspends deportation of anyone who qualifies for this. This would effective end ALL MASS DEPORTATIONS in the United States immediately. You are a liar, you are a fraud, everything you stand for is fake... did YOU read your own bill? Because I just did, and you are a damned LIAR!!!!! It's not just that, either. The bill specifically forbids the use of court records to establish someone is a gang member. It pretends that gang members aren't eligible -- but then forbids the government from using court evidence to show someone is a gang member. Now I have a feeling I know the lie she'll offer: Well, if someone is convicted of being a gang member, then they would be barred from amnesty. But hang on: Who is ever "convicted of being a gang member"? There is no crime of being a gang member. Gang members are frequently jailed -- but for things like extortion, murder, rape, arson, theft, selling stolen goods, importing and selling drugs, etc. You might get a sentence lengthened if the prosecutor, during the sentencing phase, then presents additional evidence that in addition to the crimes you've been convicted of committing, you're also a gang member. A judge might make it a condition of someone's parole that he no longer participate in gang activities -- and a prosecutor or parole officer might present to the court that the criminal has violated that condition. But this isn't "conviction for being a gang member." It's intelligence and evidence presented to a judge in a post-sentencing hearing, not presented to a jury to determine if someone is factually a gang member or not. But this is exactly the kind of evidence this nasty lying whore forbids the government from using to prove that someone is a gang member. So there is literally no evidence that the government can ever present to prove someone is a gang member and hence not eligible for Salazar's Mass Amnesty. So all gang members will be granted amnesty, because the government is absolutely forbidden to open its records to show someone is a gang member. But she'll lie to you and say that proven gang members aren't eligible. Asterisk: There is no evidence permitted to be introduced to prove someone is a gang member. But this isn't amnesty, Bigots. READ. THE BILL. BEFORE. YOU OPEN. YOUR MOUTHS. RACISTS. DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican Hello Representative Salazar, You probably don't even know this... but he word "dignity" in your bill's title carries decades of political science literature behind it. Dignity shifted from something that originates within the individual to something engineered from above by institutions. When the UN, NGOs, and multilateral bodies invoke dignity, they mean the replacement of organic, inherited civic bonds with managed, contractual ones administered by a professional class. That is the tradition your bill's language is drawing from, whether you intend it or not. On the substance: the DIGNITY Act is amnesty. Symbolic barriers to permanent residency do not change that the bill provides a path to legal status for tens of millions of people who entered the country unlawfully. Others have dissected the policy details thoroughly, so I won't repeat their work here. But I want to press a different question. Why the insistence that this isn't amnesty? The most straightforward explanation is that you know your constituents oppose it. They voted for enforcement, in the most demographically diverse Republican coalition in modern history. That coalition didn't ask for managed integration. It asked for sovereignty. The Founding Fathers built a republic from the bottom up, starting with human nature as it actually is: rooted in specific communities. The rules-based international order builds from the top down, starting with an abstract ideal and engineering populations to match it. Your bill, whatever its intentions, belongs to the second tradition, the one that is non-American. It assumes that cohesion can be manufactured through NGO programs... public schools, civic integration, managed assimilation... rather than protected through enforcement of the boundaries that a self-governing people chose to establish. That is not a conservative position. It is not a republican position in any meaningful sense. And your constituents can see it. We see you. You are a fraud, Representative Salazar. The "DIGNIDAD" Amnesty act will create up to THREE processing centers in Central and South America that will be used to pre-screen foreign nationals for "family reunification". In other words, our tax dollars will fund and expedite chain migration. https://t.co/tnionKcLyy pic.twitter.com/X4WmAQgvEF — Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) April 8, 2026 Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:00 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 FIRST!!!!! Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (PQb8B) 2 What is happening? Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (PQb8B) 3 Had some difficulty getting through to the server there for a few minutes. Did the front fall off? Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (O7YUW) 4 Things are acting weird around here......... Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (PQb8B) 5 Now everything works again. Incredibly odd...... Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:02 PM (PQb8B) 6 RINOs gonna RINO. This is not surprising at all. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 09, 2026 01:02 PM (3Ope8) 7 3 I've been getting occasional server disconnects on this site, and only on this site, for the past couple of days. I'm not using a VPN. FWIW. Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:03 PM (N8ZBc) 8 Look its simple. I want every single illegal gone. I don't care if they've been here a while. I don't care if they have family here I don't care if the only crime they committed is crossing the border (but all of them are on welfare fraudulently anyway) SEND THEM ALL HOME Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm) 9 No Amnesty of ANY kind. Never, ever again. Reagan fell for that shit. We should never forget that the Dems fucked us back then. Posted by: garrett at April 09, 2026 01:04 PM (TLp3A) 10 Imagine where we would be right now without Trump. Imagine. But he did say doody, so trying to save the country from the commie abyss out of nowhere for no apparent reason doesn't count. Still waiting for his first "recess appointment". Who says the Republican GOPefuckers never fight?? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:05 PM (8X0wm) 11 Amazing that the SAVE Act is dying on the Senate Parliamentarian's desk, everyone's fucked off to Disney World, but good little corporate doggies like Salazar have the time and energy to dump this turd on us. Posted by: gKWVE at April 09, 2026 01:05 PM (gKWVE) 12 Uniparty. You're soaking in it. Posted by: Madge at April 09, 2026 01:05 PM (anL5R) 13 >>I've been getting occasional server disconnects on this site, and only on this site, for the past couple of days. I'm not using a VPN. For about 6-8 months, anytime someone is in what I assume is the Live Editor, the site fails to load. Posted by: garrett at April 09, 2026 01:05 PM (TLp3A) 14 I like this instant pushback-- not finding out 18 months later that we were tricked. We live in a minute-by-minute world. The debunking and pushback must happen immeidately -- which in this case, thankfully, it did. Posted by: zombie at April 09, 2026 01:05 PM (Av6i5) 15 Whenever the site goes down, I know how Linus felt when Lucy took his blanket away. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 01:05 PM (2UnvF) 16 Another point - setting up facilities outside the US to process asylum requests perverts the whole system. If you are a refugee you are supposed to stop in the first safe country you enter - for example Mexico* Yeah, I know, still safer that Detroit Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:06 PM (sKqQm) 17 "DIGNIDAD" por quien? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:06 PM (n7rxJ) 18 You are a liar, you are a fraud, everything you stand for is fake... did YOU read your own bill? Because I just did, and you are a damned LIAR!!!!! How do you know a Democrat is lying........ Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:06 PM (PQb8B) 19 >>SEND THEM ALL HOME Send them anywhere but here. If home won't take them, send them as far away from here as possible. Posted by: garrett at April 09, 2026 01:06 PM (TLp3A) 20 The midterms are already shaping up to be hard for the GOP. Why are they shafting the base? Posted by: gKWVE at April 09, 2026 01:06 PM (gKWVE) 21 I'll open my mouth however and whenever I fucking wish, bitch. I'll pay the consequences and so should fucking you. Sidenote: I hate the speech policing, fencing rules or whatever that is used in place of discussion these days. Qualify all you want, but actually argue the point instead of ducking behind the rules of debate because someone caught you out in a falsehood. Bitch. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 01:06 PM (bss/y) 22 >>>I've been getting occasional server disconnects on this site, and only on this site, for the past couple of days. I'm not using a VPN. i'll send an email to pixy. Not much I can do except ask him what's going on. thanks for letting me know. Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 01:07 PM (1wjle) 23 How do we get rid of this commie bitch? Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 01:07 PM (AlhUl) 24 Immigrants: America is an idea, not a race! Also immigrants: LOL your idea sucks, I'ma carry on being a Muslim and supporting shari'a. Posted by: gKWVE at April 09, 2026 01:07 PM (gKWVE) 25 "anytime someone is in what I assume is the Live Editor, the site fails to load." Time to fallback to the Undead Editor. Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:08 PM (N8ZBc) 26 DONATE TODAY Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:08 PM (8X0wm) 27 >>>How do you know a Democrat is lying........ This is a " " " Republican " " " Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 01:08 PM (1wjle) 28 Primary the R mofos who dare put their name to this. Rep. Chavez-DeRemer, Lori [R-OR-5] Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17] Rep. Duarte, John S. [R-CA-13] Rep. Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-26] Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-22] Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] congress.gov https://tinyurl.com/4jrtznfs Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:08 PM (dK+Kv) 29 Come Hell or high water, the Democrats are going to get The Maryland Dad in this country to stay. Holy fck. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:08 PM (PQb8B) 30 Man, the US economy will be booming. Home security systems, caskets, guns and ammo, hospital ER rooms, jewelers that cater to gangs,. Good times. 184 1pm before movies... FoxNews - Israel will start peace negotiations with Lebanon. Good luck with that.1 And from the hourly 2 minutes of hate CBC - a conservative changes to the liberals CNN - vessels passing through the Strait. Israel and Lebanon. Again, good luck. Coming up - gas prices rising. Not as high as Biden's $5.02 a gallon but that won't be mentioned. MS Now - Trump disappointed in Nato. Their military analyst was concerned. Dude knows what happens when you break a truce in 'Risk.' Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 01:04 PM (Sco7b) Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 01:08 PM (Sco7b) 31 Luckily, this shit bill is being presented at a time when there is zero doubt our president will veto it... I'm just a tad worried that if, God forbid, there's a D in the WH in 2029, that they resurrect this fucking travesty.... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 01:08 PM (dmDsy) 32 Had some difficulty getting through to the server there for a few minutes. Did the front fall off? Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (O7YUW) So, it wasn't just me? Huh. Cool, I guess. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:09 PM (PQb8B) 33 Just e-mailed my Rep on this nonsense. WHY is people’s first instinct with lawbreakers is to help them instead of punish them? Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 01:09 PM (E6xSb) 34 I tried and tried to find out where this bitch provides the rationale for this, and if you scour around you find her at some press conference saying the old "We need them for the economy because everything will collapse if they leave." That's the TOOTHPICK on which this whole edifice of amnesty for gang members, criminals, non-English-speakers and their diabetic grandmas, entitled over-stayers, and welfare recipients rests. If you keep out the gang members, our restaurants will close! We'll starve!! Crops will go unpicked without these felons! And we'll be homeless without illegal construction labor. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:09 PM (n7rxJ) 35 >>I've been getting occasional server disconnects on this site, and only on this site, for the past couple of days. I'm not using a VPN. For about 6-8 months, anytime someone is in what I assume is the Live Editor, the site fails to load. Posted by: garrett at April 09, 2026 01:05 PM (TLp3A) Interesting observation. I got the same at the end of the last thread, when I presume Ace was cooking this thread. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:09 PM (dK+Kv) 36 We need them for the economy because everything will collapse if they leave."* Roughly 10% of illegals work. And 100% are on welfare. The math doesn't math Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:10 PM (sKqQm) 37 >>Interesting observation. It is my first clue that a Nood is brewing. Posted by: garrett at April 09, 2026 01:10 PM (TLp3A) 38 OT: pope Leo XIV just gave an audience to David "Axelturfer" Axelrod this morning. Posted by: gKWVE at April 09, 2026 01:10 PM (gKWVE) 39 I'm curious... would President Marco Rubio support this bill? He supported something this bad in the past. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:11 PM (n7rxJ) 40 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:08 PM (dK+Kv) The 2 from CA are gonna be gerrymandered out of their seats I presume so they have nothing to lose... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 01:11 PM (F1quE) 41 22 >>>I've been getting occasional server disconnects on this site, and only on this site, for the past couple of days. I'm not using a VPN. i'll send an email to pixy. Not much I can do except ask him what's going on. thanks for letting me know. Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 01:07 PM (1wjle) So, my random "Am I in a Fugue State"? posts weren't enough to tell you something was wrong? Big Laughing Smiley Emoji Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 01:11 PM (dmDsy) 42 Putting on my tinfoil hat, this news came out right after the favorable GOP polling came out. Vichy Pubs can't have that!!! Remember during the midterms last time, when Miss Lindsay suddenly started pushing a total abortion ban? Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at April 09, 2026 01:11 PM (AFztM) 43 @20 >> The midterms are already shaping up to be hard for the GOP. Why are they shafting the base? Because the base are not the GOPs constituents, their constituents are their paymasters. This is what the GOP does with their power. It looks like the Donks are going to reclaim the house next year so there will be nothing but gridlock and impeachment hearings until after the 28 election. Look for more give aways from these f*s going forward till then. Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2026 01:11 PM (j9Lo5) 44 Luckily, this shit bill is being presented at a time when there is zero doubt our president will veto it... I'm just a tad worried that if, God forbid, there's a D in the WH in 2029, that they resurrect this fucking travesty.... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) ....... It's only a matter of time. Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 01:12 PM (UjdFS) 45 44 Luckily, this shit bill is being presented at a time when there is zero doubt our president will veto it... I'm just a tad worried that if, God forbid, there's a D in the WH in 2029, that they resurrect this fucking travesty.... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) If there's a D in the WH in 29 it will be much worse than this stinker of a bill.. ....... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 01:13 PM (F1quE) 46 DONATE TODAY Posted by: ... ....... THE CHECKS IN THE MAIL Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 01:13 PM (UjdFS) 47 I think a lot of those R mofos waited until deep into the primary season before springing this on their voters. This was planned. If they haven't had their primaries already they have token opposition at most - like, the usual dogcatchers occasionally signing up for a lark, and to show The Process Works. Posted by: gKWVE at April 09, 2026 01:13 PM (gKWVE) 48 So many are beholden to the chamber of commerce. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 09, 2026 01:14 PM (Vb5Ek) 49 SPONGE!!! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 09, 2026 01:14 PM (kgE5c) 50 Not happening as long as Stephen Miller controls the levers of immigration policy. Also, I don't see it gettnig 60 votes in the Senate. Anything less than citizenship is crumbs. Trash, basically. This sounds like indentured servitude. Americans need to drop the racism and accept we overwhelmingly benefit from immigration. It should be easy to understand given our ancestors were trafficked here or they just showed up. Immigration reform is just never going to get done I guess. Republicans are incentivized to keep the problem bad so they can campaign on it. Exactly. They don't want a bill - they just want the issue.** The gullibility of the US voter is bottomless. GOP knows they can scream about the illegals and the gays every 2 years and be reelected - all the while making the country less prosperous, less healthy, less free. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 01:14 PM (JCZqz) 51 Put in 1000 hours on the Dignity Canal and we'll talk about it. Posted by: fd at April 09, 2026 01:14 PM (vFG9F) 52 Exactly. They don't want a bill - they just want the issue. The gullibility of the US voter is bottomless. GOP knows they can scream about the illegals and the gays every 2 years and be reelected - all the while making the country less prosperous, less healthy, less free. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 01:14 PM (JCZqz) Oh boy... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 01:15 PM (F1quE) 53 "thanks for letting me know." You're welcome! When I work VHF phone, I'm reluctant to give signal reports, because so many people get their backs up when they get a bad one. For my part, I welcome all signal reports: bad, good, true, false, funny, sad. It's all good. Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:16 PM (N8ZBc) 54 Dignidad is one of those terms used by migrant and hispanic advocates that basically means "some animals have more rights than others, and it is our clients' turn now" Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 01:16 PM (rbvCR) 55 This is enforcement first: zero tolerance for criminals, ------- Good so we're sending any illegal who broke the law home? Perfect. That should take care of the first 100%. But what to do about the other 0? I say let em stay. I'm one of them bleeding hearts. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:16 PM (8X0wm) 56 votes and fraud. Posted by: four seasons at April 09, 2026 01:17 PM (3ek7K) 57 I can tell you where this nonsense comes from: the chamber of commerce wants cheap labor, and the retired class wants social security to be solvent. Those two groups command a lot of lobbying power. Nobody thinks about the fat that the cheap labor created unemployment and does nothing to shore up SS. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 09, 2026 01:17 PM (Vb5Ek) 58 Amnesty and a sandbox war in the same month???? It's like neocon Christmas!!!! Posted by: Lindsey Graham at April 09, 2026 01:17 PM (jGJov) 59 >>>Not happening as long as Stephen Miller controls the levers of immigration policy. Also, I don't see it gettnig 60 votes in the Senate. Anything less than citizenship is crumbs. Trash, basically. Perhaps they should GTFO and get better treatment in their home country? Since we're so racist and all. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:17 PM (dK+Kv) 60 i'll send an email to pixy. Not much I can do except ask him what's going on. thanks for letting me know. Posted by: ace at April 09, 2026 01:07 PM (1wjle) So, my random "Am I in a Fugue State"? posts weren't enough to tell you something was wrong? Big Laughing Smiley Emoji Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 01:11 PM (dmDsy) It happened again when I tried to post the above comment... it's not me, is it? Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 01:17 PM (dmDsy) 61 SPONGE!!! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 09, 2026 01:14 PM (kgE5c) fistbump I appear to be having some issues posting today, so I'll be more scatterbrained than normal, it seems. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:17 PM (PQb8B) 62 Ahhh.... remembering the halcyon days when the dems said you would need impossible legislation to close the border... except not... so now let's legislate amnesty! Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 01:18 PM (n5tGW) 63 Dignitx Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 01:18 PM (UjdFS) 64 Dignimom > Dignidad Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:18 PM (N8ZBc) 65 How about respecting the dignity of the citizen taxpayers you jerks? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 09, 2026 01:18 PM (F0j7f) 66 all the while making the country less prosperous, less healthy, less free.* Lefties have this interesting argument they'll make about how everything is worse then it used to be but its not because America has gone hard left its because America hasn't gone far enough left. Which...makes no sense. I saw Jason Pargin try to convince other lefties things are in fact better from their perspective and...nope they weren't having it. But he's relatively smart and willing to go off the narrative road occasionally so... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm) 67 You're not against la dignidad, are you, Racist? will no one think of the dignimoms? Posted by: anachronda at April 09, 2026 01:18 PM (oY6Yp) 68 >> The midterms are already shaping up to be hard for the GOP. Why are they shafting the base? ---------- You answered your own question. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:18 PM (8X0wm) 69 OH, and did you see the part where the bill TRAINS AMNESTY LAWYERS ON THE TAXPAYER'S DIME? YES, lawyers working at her "humanitarian campuses" for four years can receive 75% forgiveness on law school student loans. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:18 PM (n7rxJ) 70 All I can think about with trying to sell amnesty repackaged as "dignidad" (seems a bit exclusionary toward our refugee saint brethren and sistren from Africa and Asia, but whatever) is the scene in Saving Private Ryan when Steamboat Willie tries to jolly Upham into letting it slide right after he shot Tom Hanks. Note to Congress: be Upham, and shoot the bill down. Posted by: barbarausa at April 09, 2026 01:19 PM (enw9G) 71 If there's a D in the WH in 29 it will be much worse than this stinker of a bill.. ....... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 01:13 PM (F1quE) They will abolish ICE AND CBP and possibly USBP. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 01:19 PM (E6xSb) 72 I say let em stay. I'm one of them bleeding hearts. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:16 PM (8X0wm) I say...let them crash. Posted by: The Talk Show Guy From AIRPLANE! at April 09, 2026 01:19 PM (dmDsy) 73 >>>>> The midterms are already shaping up to be hard for the GOP. Why are they shafting the base? MAGA delenda est Posted by: GOPe at April 09, 2026 01:19 PM (jGJov) 74 Perhaps they should GTFO and get better treatment in their home country? Since we're so racist and all. The left: America is a horribly racist country where police literally hunt down and kill brown people for sport. Also the left: We need to bring in millions of brown immigrants from third world countries so they can clean our toilets and nanny our kids Also, also the left: Why do you right wingers hate brown people so much you won't let them come in? Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:20 PM (sKqQm) 75 So long as the first two letters of DIGNITY stand for Deport Illegals I will hear them out. Posted by: bskb at April 09, 2026 01:20 PM (ttBfM) 76 Dignimom > Dignidad Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:18 PM (N8ZBc) Dignimilf > Dignimom > Dignidad Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:20 PM (dK+Kv) 77 TESTING. Can you hear me now? Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 09, 2026 01:20 PM (5xuJ/) 78 1. I doubt this makes it through Congress. 2. If it does, President Trump's veto pen is a-vibratin' in its stand. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 01:20 PM (utfVc) 79 To quote Amelia, "don't let them weaponise your charity." Posted by: Anna Puma at April 09, 2026 01:21 PM (F0j7f) 80 Parts that make this bill super awesome--if you seek the destruction of the United States: - It defines excluded criminals as only those convicted of felonies. - It allows any who have been deported to come back and claim amnesty - It removes direct and extended family members from the visa cap counts; nuclear-powered chain migration - AND it increases the visa caps What do Americans get out of this deal? Well, we get $1000 per amnesty granted. Lemme see, since pretty much everyone in the world will now qualify for this amnesty: $1,000 X 8 billion on Earth = $8 trillion ... not even 1/4 of the national debt. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 01:21 PM (HXT0k) 81 pope Leo XIV just gave an audience to David "Axelturfer" Axelrod this morning. Posted by: gKWVE at April 09, 2026 01:10 PM (gKWVE) Apparently Pope Bob got a lecture on the Avignon Papacy after he got worked up and vocal about the safety and security of the Islamic Regime of Iran, so he is responding by pretending to be concerned about more things other than the Vatican Bank default. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 01:21 PM (rbvCR) 82 I have a wild and crazy idea. It's a revanchist idea, from the wild and crazy bigoted past. But... hear me out. What if Americans, with American names, living in American towns, attending American churches, and speaking to one another in American English on a daily basis, were the driving force in American institutions, because those institutions served Americans, and were answerable to them? I know. It's sounds crazy. But maybe the foreigners shouldn't be our priority. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 01:21 PM (BI5O2) 83 YES, lawyers working at her "humanitarian campuses" for four years can receive 75% forgiveness on law school student loans. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:18 PM (n7rxJ) So it's Reparations and Free College for All in one. That's our GOP!! Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:21 PM (8X0wm) 84 but who's gonna mow pelosi's lawn? Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 01:22 PM (CWTWj) 85 Perhaps they should GTFO and get better treatment in their home country? Since we're so racist and all. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:17 PM (dK+Kv) America should be honored to be the first choice of so many. The Swedes and British turn a blind eye to the rape of their daughters. The french let them have no go zones, car-b-ques and cheese. All of us give them free room, board, apologise profusely and yet so many still choose America. That's patriotism.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 01:22 PM (Sco7b) 86 Uh oh, Dems are so unpopular that the Repubs are starting to look popular by comparison. It must be time to demoralize the voters! (It's their core competency after all) Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 01:22 PM (Dv3i1) 87 34 I tried and tried to find out where this bitch provides the rationale for this, and if you scour around you find her at some press conference saying the old "We need them for the economy because everything will collapse if they leave." OK, so why not abolish CBP and be done with it? Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 01:22 PM (E6xSb) 88 If it's the DIGNITY act, what's that acronym for, exactly? When they use 'cute' acronyms, it ties to the title of the bill that LIES about what the bill is. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:22 PM (PQb8B) 89 There is dignity in doing things legally. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 01:22 PM (LzLR8) 90 Trump has endorsed Salazar. slams head against wall* Posted by: Bob from NSA at April 09, 2026 01:23 PM (abIsI) 91 To quote Amelia, "don't let them weaponise your charity." Posted by: Anna Puma at April 09, 2026 01:21 PM (F0j7f) Some things that cry in the dark are lost children, and some things that cry in the dark are monsters luring the compassionate from safety. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 01:23 PM (rbvCR) 92 What if Americans, with American names, living in American towns, attending American churches, and speaking to one another in American English on a daily basis, were the driving force in American institutions, because those institutions served Americans, and were answerable to them? But then who would fund my Learing center and pay my two wives to provide pre-school services to my kids? Posted by: Mohammd El Mohammed of Somalia at April 09, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm) 93 Chain migration has got to be outlawed. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 01:23 PM (yAteE) 94 omg this came into my X timeline at the perfect moment. https://x.com/MatrixMysteries/ status/2042071752029958562 Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:23 PM (n7rxJ) 95 Dignimilf > Dignimom > Dignidad Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:20 PM (dK+Kv) Digniwatching > Digniblackguy > Digniwife Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:24 PM (8X0wm) 96 93 Chain migration has got to be outlawed. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 01:23 PM (yAteE) Chain invasion you mean... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 01:24 PM (F1quE) 97 >>>pope Leo XIV just gave an audience to David "Axelturfer" Axelrod this morning. it's the Chicago way; it seems even the Vatican isn't immune to choosing its leaders based on"Orange Man Bad" Posted by: brak at April 09, 2026 01:24 PM (jGJov) 98 maybe we'd have been better if hillary won in 2016 and we had the national collapse so we could try to start and rebuild. i fear it's gonna happen sooner or later Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 01:25 PM (CWTWj) 99 Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty. We could cut healthcare bills substantially by having an ICE officer on duty at every urban hospital. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm) 100 Ha ha ha you ever "forget" to put a sock on Digniwatching > Digniblackguy > Digniwife Posted by: David French at April 09, 2026 01:24 PM (8X0wm) Talk about a Freudian sock off. My God..... Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:25 PM (8X0wm) 101 "what's that acronym for, exactly?" Did I Get Nuked In The Yabbos? Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:25 PM (N8ZBc) 102 If you are an illegal aliens who: >Pay a $1,000 upfront "restitution" fee _____ No doubt these fees will be covered by the many NGO pass-throughs of funds provided by the US TAXPAYERS Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 01:25 PM (Dv3i1) 103 Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:23 PM Boo frickety hoo, kid. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 09, 2026 01:25 PM (kgE5c) 104 All day on X yesterday, this bint was basically screaming, "It's not amnesty because the title of the bill doesn't say THIS BILL IS AMNESTY!!!" But, a fun part was where AtC was like, in response to her, "this fixes a system that has been broken for 40 years" with: [goose meme] What happened 40 years ago? What happened?! Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 01:26 PM (HXT0k) 105 OK, so why not abolish CBP and be done with it? Posted by: Cow Demon =============== I think that's effectively in the bill. Lack of scrutiny for certain people? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:26 PM (n7rxJ) 106 Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:23 PM (n7rxJ My German mother was put in US public schools not knowing English. My grandmother and the school’s attitude towards my mom: “Tough shit. Welcome to America. You are in America and you will speak English.” She has zero patience for this bullshit, as I do. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 01:26 PM (E6xSb) 107 Salazar is too ignorant to know she's using the same word games that failed the last time they tried to pull this crap. "it's not amnesty, they have to pay a fine!" "it's not amnesty, they have to go to the back of the line!" Gang of 8 was using the exact same lines. Posted by: Jose at April 09, 2026 01:26 PM (V6W16) 108 it's no fun when the loyal opposition is supposed to be on your side Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 01:26 PM (CWTWj) 109 Ellipsis do you have something to share with the rest of the group? NO.... WHY Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:26 PM (8X0wm) 110 >Did the front fall off? ace towed it beyond the environment. Posted by: mea culpa at April 09, 2026 01:27 PM (IPiNh) 111 Gang of 8 was using the exact same lines. Points the stink eye in Rubio's general direction. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 09, 2026 01:27 PM (abIsI) 112 We could cut healthcare bills substantially by having an ICE officer on duty at every urban hospital. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm And by saying “you cannot enter the hospital unless you are healthy.” Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 01:27 PM (E6xSb) 113 Salazar district office number 305- 668- 2285 Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 01:27 PM (yAteE) 114 Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty. ____ This hispanic girl was conveniently located right next to her parents and the doctors asked her to translate. Such Indignity! Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 01:27 PM (Dv3i1) 115 It's Midterm swamp fever. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 09, 2026 01:27 PM (IifOV) 116 I speak Spanish and many other languages with my phone translator. It's a little funky but all the info get translated and understood. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 01:27 PM (n5tGW) 117 Do It Gently Not Intensely To Yourself. Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:28 PM (N8ZBc) 118 A Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) ranted: When the budget was released, I was shocked to find out that Prime Minister Carney is cutting $7 billion between Indigenous Services Canada and Crown Indigenous Relations. They provided zero dollars to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+. ... we don't want the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ coming here Posted by: SMOD at April 09, 2026 01:28 PM (RHGPo) 119 Points the stink eye in Rubio's general direction. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 09, 2026 01:27 PM (abIsI) Yeah, hopefully people temper their enthusiasm. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:28 PM (dK+Kv) 120 In Other News they just dropped a new update to the Alphabet Mafia's preferred acronym: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ https://tinyurl.com/53t2d6zx Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 09, 2026 01:28 PM (V362x) 121 Meanwhile CNN is covering another missing white woman. I've never seen a minority covered. Oprah and Beyonce could go missing but would be shot out of luck. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 01:28 PM (Sco7b) 122 e 106: one of my grandmas came from hungary and we still have the certificate she got for attending night school to learn english Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 09, 2026 01:28 PM (CWTWj) 123 Never trust immigration legislation written by a person with a Spanish name. Posted by: weew at April 09, 2026 01:28 PM (drQqH) 124 >>>Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty. We had a cleaning service come to our house yesterday. The Hispanic they sent spoke zero English, brought her teenage daughter to translate for her, and said she preferred payment in cash, of course. we're finding a different service Posted by: brak at April 09, 2026 01:29 PM (jGJov) 125 Same GOP wouldn't fund the wall and wouldn't end ObamaCare. And yet by 2030 they will STILL be promising not to do that thing in your mouth if ONLY you give them the presidency, both houses, the SC, academia, Hollywood, NASA, the 57 Muslim States...... And we will still have people here lecturing to vote harderer. This is it peeps. This is the very best the GOPefuckers have. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:29 PM (8X0wm) 126 One of the many things that pisses me off about amnesties and the Donk commie cocksuckers is that when they have held control of Congress and the White House during Biden's first two years, they could have cut the illegal alien Gordian Knot by passing legislation raising the number of LEGAL immigrants to an insane number. But legal immigration isn't the point. The Donks want these people to be illegal, because they're more useful. They can more easily be enslaved if illegal, they can be used as a cudgel to pummel those heartless conservatives, they can be used to grift tax dollars into NGOs and they bring their shit-hole cultures into the US to turn us into a shit-hole country to advance the Donks' ultimate goal of the destruction of Western Civilization. I'm missing a few other reasons, but you get the idea. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 09, 2026 01:29 PM (JoTi8) 127 I bet hispanic girl's parents wouldn't need a translator in their country of legal origin. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 09, 2026 01:29 PM (Vb5Ek) 128 I have three full Spanish language courses sitting on the shelf, and I'll get around to them any decade now. Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:29 PM (N8ZBc) 129 Is this better or worse than Senator Lindsey vowing to ban abortion at juuuuuust the right moment? Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:29 PM (FmapG) 130 I keep getting site disconnects here, sometimes with notice that server is not responding, sometimes with a warning that this site is not secure ("does not support https"). Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 09, 2026 01:29 PM (iAx/G) 131 Would love to be in the room to see who/how this bill was written. Posted by: Jose at April 09, 2026 01:29 PM (V6W16) 132 Gov. Abigail 'Spooky' Spanberger on Wednesday pushed back against criticism from some fellow Democrats who say she has not done enough publicly to rally support for Virginia’s April 21 redistricting referendum. Spanberger argued that she has been clear in her support while prioritizing governing in the early months of her administration. “I have made it very clear that I support a yes vote, and I think Virginians should vote ‘yes,’” she told reporters outside the Executive Mansion in Richmond. But, she added, “my priority and my responsibility is on governance.” Posted by: SMOD at April 09, 2026 01:30 PM (RHGPo) 133 I know. It's sounds crazy. But maybe the foreigners shouldn't be our priority. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 01:21 PM (BI5O2) But they need people who will vote for them! Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 01:30 PM (E6xSb) 134 In Other News they just dropped a new update to the Alphabet Mafia's preferred acronym: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ https://tinyurl.com/53t2d6zx Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 09, 2026 01:28 PM (V362x) Good. Good. Pretty soon they'll be back in the closet. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:30 PM (dK+Kv) 135 Maria is a very unconvincing liar. I watched a video of her yesterday lying unconvincingly. Arms waving, calling people who want to do construction white guys, saying if illegal aliens can't get a job, they have to go home and will never, ever, under any circumstances get government money, and then avoiding the question about who pays for ER treatment. Posted by: huerfano at April 09, 2026 01:30 PM (98kQX) 136 Apparently there is no dignity living south of the border. Cue Genesis' "Illegal Alien". Posted by: Darth Randall at April 09, 2026 01:30 PM (cjcWA) 137 I'm curious... would President Marco Rubio support this bill? He supported something this bad in the past. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:11 PM (n7rxJ) He supported something this bad more than 10 years ago when he was a baby Senator and being guided by McCain. Rubio's arc is exactly why I don't do purity tests anymore. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:31 PM (FmapG) 138 When they use 'cute' acronyms, it ties to the title of the bill that LIES about what the bill is. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer ============== I think it's even cuter than that -- the bill is called DIGNIGAD, which of course is espanol for "dignity." And I keep asking, dignidad for whom? And why? Isn't there any dignity in living in your home country and working to improve it? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:31 PM (n7rxJ) 139 I'm sure Tia Maria Elvira Lunita Poquita Salazar is going to win a lot of hearts and minds by screeching like an emotionally incontinent 16 year old girl typing a text message about that bitch Becky over there eating crackers. THIS. IS. NOT. AN. EFFECTIVE. PERSUASIVE. TECHNIQUE. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 01:31 PM (oqH4h) 140 Canadian groups are already on this. What I Iike most about the newest acronym is how easily it melodically flows off the tongue. MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan Regional Engagement on the Development of the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan In May and June 2021, the BCAFN and the AFN Women’s Council co-hosted a series of virtual engagement sessions on the development of the National Action Plan on MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+. A “What We Heard” report based on these sessions and the written, audio, and video submissions that were received, has been prepared Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 01:31 PM (Sco7b) 141 Remigration is a gift. It returns people to the societies they were raised to appreciate. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 01:32 PM (rbvCR) 142 So, moar free stuff for invaders. Way To Go Team Pubbie. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 01:32 PM (n17eQ) 143 What is to be done about these fake conservatives? Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 09, 2026 01:32 PM (iAx/G) 144 "Trump literally said I will get shot for this and then get up and continue to fight and probably get shot again* just to do half the shit you've been promising your gullible dumbfuck voters for half a century...." And the GOP said "yeah? nah bro we good". Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:32 PM (8X0wm) 145 Also, "immigrants are a net positive" And "it's the Boomers' fault I can't afford a home" Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 09, 2026 01:32 PM (gQ15S) 146 Do I Get No Icelanders This Year? Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (N8ZBc) 147 142 So, moar free stuff for invaders. Way To Go Team Pubbie. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 01:32 PM (n17eQ) One of the reasons I changed my registration to Independent... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (F1quE) 148 Rubio's arc is exactly why I don't do purity tests anymore. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:31 PM (FmapG) He's a politician. Fool me once, shame on him. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (dK+Kv) 149 Rubio's arc is exactly why I don't do purity tests anymore. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:31 PM (FmapG) Keep digging, he probably has said something objectionable about some podcaster too. That is an instant cancellation you know. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (rbvCR) 150 JUST IN: CNN removes the gas price graphic from their home page as gas prices fall. Posted by: SMOD at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (RHGPo) 151 What's especially infuriating is how fiercely that perrita is fighting for this bill on X. Go there and she's posting madly, defending it like it was her firstborn and a pack of cannibals are closing in. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (n7rxJ) 152 Rubio's arc is exactly why I don't do purity tests anymore. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:31 PM (FmapG) Rubio's arc hasn't concluded. Spoiler alert..... Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (8X0wm) 153 More reason to forget about Schmolls: The other day Axios ran a piece that cited “findings” that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. Turns out, those “findings” were completely fabricated by a company called Aaru – using AI Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (n5tGW) 154 No. Hell no. Is it dignified to be an amnesty 304, Rep. Salazar? Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (KEVmI) 155 The Donks want these people to be illegal, because they're more useful. They can more easily be enslaved if illegal, they can be used as a cudgel to pummel those heartless conservatives, they can be used to grift tax dollars into NGOs and they bring their shit-hole cultures into the US to turn us into a shit-hole country to advance the Donks' ultimate goal of the destruction of Western Civilization. I'm missing a few other reasons, but you get the idea. Posted by: IllTemperedCur They want representation without taxation. They are creating rotten boroughs like in England. They get a house seat where only a fraction of the population can vote. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (Vb5Ek) 156 What's especially infuriating is how fiercely that perrita is fighting for this bill on X. Go there and she's posting madly, defending it like it was her firstborn and a pack of cannibals are closing in. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (n7rxJ) I suspect the best name for her is "Conchita" Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (rbvCR) 157 You went to the American medical facility because you wanted good medicine. It's not a learing center. Count yourself lucky they treated you instead of turning you out - as would happen to a wounded American in a Mexican hospital. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (BI5O2) 158 NYC is sending a cop to prison for stopping a drug dealer that was escaping after selling cocaine to an under cover cop. The dealer was on a motorcycle and the convicted cop threw and hit him with a cooler resulting in the criminal's death. No bonus points No pay bonus No freedom He's going to prison. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (b4dih) 159 How about we conquer Mexico and turn it into America's waiting room? Yes, we will provide magazines. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (n17eQ) 160 Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty. Posted by: Blonde Morticia ...... Doctora me duele el trasero Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (UjdFS) 161 American voters: I want a lower cost of living - lower rent, lower healthcare costs, lower taxes. Oh and get rid of all those non-English speaking illegals. The GOPe: Best I can do is higher rents, higher healthcare costs, higher taxes, but cheaper nannies for your wealthier neighbors in the town next door Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm) 162 Nobody in an LA hospital speaks Spanish? I live in backwoods,pa. My gp was an Indian/American , my surgeon was a Brazilian/American; the woman who "shaved" me was Hispanic/Latina...no one in an LA hospital speaks Spanish? Posted by: pahound at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (HJCDN) 163 Rubio's arc is exactly why I don't do purity tests anymore. He's done a good job of cleaning himself of the McCain taint. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (abIsI) 164 I like the way they used the spanish name for it just to rub it in to our faces. Also, It is not amnesty, AMNESTY you mouth breathing knuckle draggers. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 09, 2026 01:35 PM (xvV+O) 165 immigrants are a net positive and lerning centers prove that in spades! Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 09, 2026 01:35 PM (KEVmI) 166 He's going to prison. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (b4dih) Why won't men on the subway intervene to save that woman from that violent attacker? - Leftist women everywhere Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:36 PM (FmapG) 167 Three biggest lies people tell: The check is in the mail. I won't do that thing in your mouth. This bill isn't amnesty. Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at April 09, 2026 01:36 PM (Swr8B) 168 Speaking of the dogshit GOP, South Dakota has voted in the SAVE act at the state level. John Thune's state. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 09, 2026 01:36 PM (abIsI) 169 How about we conquer Mexico and turn it into America's waiting room? Yes, we will provide magazines. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 01:34 PM (n17eQ) Been saying that for years. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:36 PM (dK+Kv) 170 >>>immigrants are a net positive That is because we don't do those tests anymore. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 01:36 PM (rbvCR) 171 We'll offer you the dignity to return to your country of origin and come back through the proper channels. To get in by any other way brings shame upon you, a proud people. Be better! Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 09, 2026 01:36 PM (KEVmI) 172 [io]Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty. I wonder if they do not in fact speak Spanish but some native or hybrid language as in the case in some of the poorer parts of central America Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:36 PM (sKqQm) 173 immigrants are a net positive Herpes enhances my personality! Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (Sco7b) 174 "what's that acronym for, exactly?" Did I Get Nuked In The Yabbos? Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:25 PM (N8ZBc) I'm assuming AI until further notice Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (8X0wm) 175 He supported something this bad more than 10 years ago when he was a baby Senator and being guided by McCain. Rubio's arc is exactly why I don't do purity tests anymore. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung ============== I can't remember how much "guidance" he took and how much he was fighting on his own. But the bill he was defending was fucking indefensible. Chain migration, no language proficiency, rubber-stamping approvals -- those are the things I remember, but there was much more. There was a cool animation from the Center for something-sensible that I'll never be able to find, but it was mind-boggling. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (n7rxJ) 176 Rubio's arc hasn't concluded. Spoiler alert..... Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:33 PM (8X0wm) On a leash Rubio is great. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (dK+Kv) 177 There's another yuge problem and boondoggle in this abomination of a mutation of a diseased leper of a bill: Section 438 ("Loan Forgiveness For Legal Service Providers at Humanitarian Campuses") sets up an entire new infrastructure to provide free legal representation to illegals. It would create at least three new "humanitarian campus" locations at high-traffic illegal areas, to be staffed by lawyers. The section forgives student loans for lawyers who agree to provide this representation. The entire idea is to create an army of young, idealistic commie lawyers eager to fight for open borders. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/) 178 "READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH." _______________________________ Did I just get scolded by a professional politician? Next thing you know she's going to be telling me "we must pass the bill to see what's IN the bill." Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (dIske) 179 Why won't men on the subway intervene to save that woman from that violent attacker? - Leftist women everywhere Yep. The same people that tell you men are violent psychopathic rapists, "ALL MEN" will then complain that in her day men would actually help women in trouble. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:38 PM (sKqQm) 180 8 Look its simple. I want every single illegal gone. I don't care if they've been here a while. I don't care if they have family here I don't care if the only crime they committed is crossing the border (but all of them are on welfare fraudulently anyway) SEND THEM ALL HOME Posted by: 18-1 --- ^^^^^^^THIS TIMES 1,000,000^^^^^^^ Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 09, 2026 01:38 PM (xvV+O) 181 I wonder if they do not in fact speak Spanish but some native or hybrid language as in the case in some of the poorer parts of central America Posted by: 18-1 ============== No, take a look. Girl says that with Spanish being the #2 language in LA and the city being so "diverse," the hospital has an obligation to provide services in Spanish. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:38 PM (n7rxJ) 182 Fakes like Salazar are getting something out of it. Go after that. I keep coming back to the defeat of invading Muslim armies when the loot they had pillaged was threatened. The men broke and ran back to their camp to try to protect their stuff. Result: rout. Set fire to her loot. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 09, 2026 01:38 PM (QXqDl) 183 SEND THEM ALL HOME Posted by: 18-1 THIS!!!! Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 09, 2026 01:39 PM (Q/FnY) 184 Lefties have this interesting argument they'll make about how everything is worse then it used to be but its not because America has gone hard left its because America hasn't gone far enough left. Which...makes no sense. You're missing the part where true Lefties say the mainstream Democratic Party is actually corporatist Republican-lite, would be the conservative resistance in a sensible (European) country, and therefore it's conservatism that's being tried and failing. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 01:39 PM (JCZqz) 185 I like the way they used the spanish name for it just to rub it in to our faces. --------- I'm sure black people are loving being reminded by Democrats that islamists and illegal hispanics are back above them like they were 60 years ago. Oh but don't worry it's almost election time when blacks will temporarily begin Mattering again. Hot sauce! Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:39 PM (8X0wm) 186 So glad Salazar got a richly deserved ass-whoopin on social media. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 09, 2026 01:39 PM (aGctO) 187 Something's changed... The DOW is back up... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 01:39 PM (F1quE) 188 The Uniparty strikes again. Posted by: Halfhand at April 09, 2026 01:39 PM (Ysav4) 189 ^^^^^^^THIS TIMES 1,000,000^^^^^^^ Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 09, 2026 01:38 PM (xvV+O) The only amnesty is amnesty from a labor camp before deportation. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:39 PM (dK+Kv) 190 Broader question no one wants to even ask. Why are we allowing dual citizenship? Until 1967, Dual Citizenship was outlawed by Congress... in fact the ONLY dual citizen before the Supreme Court over ruled the Laws written by Congress... was a specific law passed by Congress to make General Lafeyette a dual French American Citizen... to try to save him during the French Revolution. All of our laws said you had to choose ONE citizenship or the other... and... it worked pretty damn well. If a Baby is born on US soil, then at 18 MAKE them choose one citizenship or the other. Period. Or... hmmm... a Law that all dual Citizens, upon their 18th Birthday, are DRAFTED into the US Army.... to prove their Loyalty to the US. If they refuse? stripped of citizenship. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 01:40 PM (mP0Kj) 191 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (n7rxJ) Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (dK+Kv) If we can convince the wrong person to do the right things for the wrong reasons, that person is still doing the right things. I don't care what he does to talk himself into my position, but I will vote for the politician who most closely aligns with my belief system. I'm not willing to throw Rubio on the fire because 10 years ago he was an idiot. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:40 PM (FmapG) 192 >>>immigrants are a net positive on what, ER wait times? traffic accidents? rape? Posted by: brak at April 09, 2026 01:40 PM (jGJov) 193 Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty. Posted by: Blonde Morticia ....... Doctora tengo hinchazón entre mi ano y genitales. Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 01:40 PM (UjdFS) 194 Rubio's arc is exactly why I don't do purity tests anymore. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:31 PM (FmapG) I think that's a great comment. Posted by: Denny Crane - Come To My Balcony, Let's Have a Scotch And a Cigar! at April 09, 2026 01:40 PM (dmDsy) 195 Something's changed... The DOW is back up... Lefties last week: The DOW is down, Trump has destroyed the economy! Lefties today: The DOW has nothing to do with the real state of the economy Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm) 196 Hey Lady, Shut. Your. Own. Mouth. This. Is. NOT. The. Way. To. Persuade. People. Posted by: LASue at April 09, 2026 01:41 PM (lCppi) 197 [io]Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty Who will pay that salary while the illegal ignores the hospital bill? Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2026 01:41 PM (So85e) 198 193 Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty. Posted by: Blonde Morticia Should have called ICE in to translate Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 01:41 PM (F1quE) 199 181 I wonder if they do not in fact speak Spanish but some native or hybrid language as in the case in some of the poorer parts of central America Posted by: 18-1 ============== No, take a look. Girl says that with Spanish being the #2 language in LA and the city being so "diverse," the hospital has an obligation to provide services in Spanish. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 01:38 PM (n7rxJ) I'm sure the girl has an Obamaphone. Just hold it up and let Google translate out loud. No one really needs translators anymore for most tasks. Posted by: Nova Local at April 09, 2026 01:41 PM (tOcjL) 200 Yep. The same people that tell you men are violent psychopathic rapists, "ALL MEN" will then complain that in her day men would actually help women in trouble. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:38 PM (sKqQm) And who conveniently don't "understand" why some people don't want literal ms13 and I love allah rape gangs cruising the suburbs. Everything they say is horseshit. Everything. Even when they admit everything they say is horseshit it's horseshit. That's how practiced they are at lying. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:41 PM (8X0wm) 201 READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH Just not before it passes though. Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at April 09, 2026 01:41 PM (Ysav4) 202 immigrants are a net positive That is because we don't do those tests anymore. Posted by: Kindltot --- THIS IS UNTRUE. WHITE IMMIGRANTS ARE A NET POSITIVE. All others are a net negative on average totally more than $400,000 to the national treasury. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 09, 2026 01:41 PM (xvV+O) 203 The entire idea is to create an army of young, idealistic commie lawyers eager to fight for open borders. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/) Their paid protesters are aging out... they need new fresh blood for their marches. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 01:42 PM (mP0Kj) 204 >Have been continuously present in the U.S. since January 1, 2021 >Entered before age 18 >Meet education, employment, or military service requirements >Pass criminal background checks On top of this, in Sec. 2102(b)(3)(B), DACA recipients get fast-tracked to conditional green card status. ...which is literally mass amnesty BUT THE BILL GOES EVEN FURTHER!!! On pages 204-217, you present the Dignity Program: This is a separate track for illegal aliens who don't qualify for the Dream Act. If you are an illegal aliens who: > Was continuously present since December 31, 2020 >Pay a $1,000 upfront "restitution" fee >Submit biometrics, pass a background check >No felony convictions ========= Any border-jumper who can't get fake utility bills or fake whatever documentation is needed to 'prove' continuous residency since whenever, and a $1k handout from NGOs, is too stupid to have jumped the border to begin with. As far as other screening criteria, under a Dem POTUS and Administration, the applicants will be hand-waved through and the right boxes checked-off in the DHS system. I expect illegal-friendly loopholes would be added at the last minute before any floor votes. Kill it. Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2026 01:42 PM (5rh/l) 205 The GOPe is desperate to get back to losing elections. Winning requires work. It's exhausting. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 01:42 PM (UZ/FC) 206 8 SEND THEM ALL HOME Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm) big booty latina 10s can stay though Posted by: Jose at April 09, 2026 01:42 PM (V6W16) 207 That is because we don't do those serology tests anymore. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 01:43 PM (rbvCR) 208 I'm sure someone has said this, but this is clearly engineered to depress the base so the Democrats can block Trump for the rest of his Presidency and the quisling GOP can say "Oh, well, we tried" and get rid of their most hated enemy, Trump. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 01:43 PM (N1DT3) 209 Ask 1986 Ronald Reagan how Amnesty deals work out. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 09, 2026 01:43 PM (IifOV) 210 I will make one exception for the Mexican Weather Girls but that's it. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:43 PM (8X0wm) 211 I'm not willing to throw Rubio on the fire because 10 years ago he was an idiot. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:40 PM (FmapG) That was Rubio off a leash. Has he changed position? Has he evolved to a more accountable public servant? Is the issue too dire to extend trust, based on actions taken while closely monitored and guided by Trump? I'd trust Miller over Rubio, without question, based on proven behavior. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:43 PM (dK+Kv) 212 173 immigrants are a net positive Herpes enhances my personality! Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (Sco7b) Syphilis makes me think clearer! Posted by: Al Capone at April 09, 2026 01:43 PM (dmDsy) 213 Ask 1986 Ronald Reagan how Amnesty deals work out. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 09, 2026 01:43 PM (IifOV) It's also how a great many of us learned to never, ever trust a leftist. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:44 PM (FmapG) 214 209 Ask 1986 Ronald Reagan how Amnesty deals work out. --------------- Yep. Kind of like negotiating with Muzzies. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 01:44 PM (n17eQ) 215 This is why I'm not sold on Donde for president. I remember the gang of 8. Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 01:44 PM (LX4y3) 216 The entire idea is to create an army of young, idealistic commie lawyers eager to fight for open borders. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/) Their paid protesters are aging out... they need new fresh blood for their marches. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 01:42 PM (mP0Kj) _________ Get 'em young, idealistic, and desperate. This kind of loan forgiveness will be like crack to the bottom-tier DEI retards clogging up law schools. They won't be hired by a reputable firm. They won't be hired for any real job. This kind of bullshit legal work is perfect for them. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 01:44 PM (iFTx/) 217 They actually believe that amnesty is going to save social security. Amazingly stupid. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 09, 2026 01:44 PM (Vb5Ek) 218 You're missing the part where true Lefties say the mainstream Democratic Party is actually corporatist Republican-lite, would be the conservative resistance in a sensible (European) country, and therefore it's conservatism that's being tried and failing. They certainly do say that, but that doesn't answer the question. There is no serious argument but America is way to the left of where it used to be and yet the left generally argues America is worse now then it used to be. So either going left made things worse, or going left made things better in general, if not perfect - those are the only two logical answers. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm) 219 197 [io]Hispanic girl is pissed that her non-English-speaking "migrant parents" had to go to the hospital in LA and there was no translator on duty Who will pay that salary while the illegal ignores the hospital bill? Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2026 01:41 PM (So85e) Sorry, but that is a flat out cur dog lie. I live in Clownifornia... Central Valley. It is almost impossible to GET a job in Dental or Health care unless you are bilingual. Hell, almost every Grocery store clerk also speak Spanish. I often hear more Spanish spoken in public than English. So the idea there was NO ONE THERE who spoke Spanish? Flat out lie. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 01:44 PM (mP0Kj) 220 Hopefully, the twenty Republicans who voted for thus will be treated like the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. Eight of the Traitorous Ten were not in the next Congress. Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 09, 2026 01:44 PM (n1OCj) 221 This Salazar POS is getting totally hammered on X. Nobody is buying her lies. Nobody. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 09, 2026 01:45 PM (qBdHI) 222 MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ Password Strength [x] Strong [ ] Weak Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 01:45 PM (Dv3i1) 223 213 should have learned never trust any of them Posted by: Bete at April 09, 2026 01:45 PM (LX4y3) 224 The original DREAM act introduction dates back to 2001. Obummers DACA executive order was issued in 2012. Those proposals had significant support, at least in concept, and by some polls, a majority. Note the critical dates on this bill: 2020 and 2021. Hmmm, what happened on those dates? Could it be, first the.promise, and then the action, of removing all enforcement of US borders? This bill is another slight of hand, bait and switch conflation, designed to convince the great unwashed, with the help of the left wing MSM that the support that the old DACA proposal had should transfer to here and hand amnesty to the millions that flooded our country later. Posted by: buddhaha at April 09, 2026 01:45 PM (RVkHv) 225 Neal Dunn, my Congress rep in the bright-red FL panhandle, supports this. Not running for re-election, seriously ill (to point that it was questionable he could serve until November.) I truly hope this was his staff’s work, not his informed choice. Posted by: EveR at April 09, 2026 01:46 PM (vHMmj) 226 I often hear more Spanish spoken in public than English. So the idea there was NO ONE THERE who spoke Spanish? Flat out lie. Yeah, I'm sure that there isn't a single employee in an LA hospital who is bilingual. /s Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 09, 2026 01:46 PM (n1OCj) 227 big booty latina 10s can stay though I would be amused if Trump proposed immigration reform that allowed unmarried, childless women from 18-28 to get citizenship. Because the responses would be hilarious... Remember the same AWFLs that endlessly talk about the wonders of immigration HATE passport bros... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:46 PM (sKqQm) 228 Trump has endorsed Salazar. slams head against wall Posted by: Bob from NSA I believe Trump endorsed Valadao, and after winning the seat from T.J. Cox, Valadao voted to impeach Trump. Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 09, 2026 01:46 PM (9d+81) 229 That was Rubio off a leash. Has he changed position? Has he evolved to a more accountable public servant? Is the issue too dire to extend trust, based on actions taken while closely monitored and guided by Trump? I'd trust Miller over Rubio, without question, based on proven behavior. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:43 PM (dK+Kv) The question becomes, when do we, as people who don't know these politicians on a personal level, begin to trust that they've "changed", or at least, have seen the light? Tough call. I'm going with Rubio. Posted by: Denny Crane - I Cover All My Bases. at April 09, 2026 01:46 PM (dmDsy) 230 MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ Password Strength [x] Strong [ ] Weak Posted by: Chuck Martel ....... Sorry. Needs at least one lower case letter. Posted by: wth at April 09, 2026 01:47 PM (UjdFS) 231 I'd trust Miller over Rubio, without question, based on proven behavior. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:43 PM (dK+Kv) I was more envisioning a world in which Rubio is running for the Big Chair, but I hear you. The idea that a person can't ever, ever make a mistake, recognize that mistake, and then change is a very, very leftist position. I do not subscribe to the idea that older me is bound to the positions and thoughts espoused by younger me. I don't even have to say aloud 'I disavow that position,' for it to be true that I've disavowed it. That part is different for publicly visible politicians, but the theory holds for all of us. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:47 PM (FmapG) 232 Who are the R traitors who cosponsored this? Posted by: Lady in Black at April 09, 2026 01:47 PM (qBdHI) 233 Don't only hammer her on X. Call her local office and melt the phone lines. The more fronts you fight on the better 305-668-2285 Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 01:48 PM (yAteE) 234 Can we just throw these "liberal" Republicans down a well in Iran where they can join the 12th Iman and play pinochle, instead of trying to destroy Trump and America? Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 01:48 PM (iJfKG) 235 Rubio didn't just make one mistake, he lied to gain our trust and then pissed all over us. More than once. 2016-2020 there were a lot of people here who wouldn't hear a bad word said about Haley and Pence, who both seemed good soldiers and who had each left similar if less glaring clues than Rubio. It is easy to be a yes man. That's how people like Rubio get ahead. They say yes until they don't need you anymore. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:48 PM (8X0wm) 236 Ireland is rising up Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 01:48 PM (j+aD2) 237 202 immigrants are a net positive That is because we don't do those tests anymore. Posted by: Kindltot --- THIS IS UNTRUE. WHITE IMMIGRANTS ARE A NET POSITIVE. All others are a net negative on average totally more than $400,000 to the national treasury. whoosh! Posted by: the guy who says whoosh! at April 09, 2026 01:48 PM (oY6Yp) 238 That was Rubio off a leash. Has he changed position? Has he evolved to a more accountable public servant? Is the issue too dire to extend trust, based on actions taken while closely monitored and guided by Trump? I'd trust Miller over Rubio, without question, based on proven behavior. Posted by: Comrade Flounder Concur. Sadly, good politicians are basically good actors. You never know if what they're saying is what they actually believe, or what they've been told to say. I like how Rubio has been acting recently, but it could just be he has to play along with Trump now to help his future political ambitions. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 01:49 PM (JCZqz) 239 232 Who are the R traitors who cosponsored this? three R reps from PA including one I personally have met and like a lot so I'm very very salty IDIOTS Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 01:49 PM (j+aD2) 240 Almost seems timed SPECIFICALLY to demoralize us and hand Congress back to the D's. Non? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:49 PM (8X0wm) 241 227 big booty latina 10s can stay though I would be amused if Trump proposed immigration reform that allowed unmarried, childless women from 18-28 to get citizenship. Because the responses would be hilarious... Remember the same AWFLs that endlessly talk about the wonders of immigration HATE passport bros... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:46 PM (sKqQm) Hmmm... we need a... Panel of Judges to ensure that only Fit Young Womenz are allowed into this great Nation under this program. Yep, don't want to import them if they are overweight and thus would be a net negative to our Health care system! We could call it... Yeah... that's the ticket... the Miss USA Contest! Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 01:49 PM (mP0Kj) 242 230 MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ Password Strength [x] Strong [ ] Weak Posted by: Chuck Martel ....... Sorry. Needs at least one lower case letter. that's casist! Posted by: anachronda at April 09, 2026 01:50 PM (oY6Yp) 243 Sorry. Needs at least one lower case letter. Posted by: wth NO QUEER COMMUNITY PART IS LESSER THAN THE OTHERS!!!! Posted by: Gaystapo at April 09, 2026 01:50 PM (JCZqz) 244 Send them all home. Keep the families together by shipping them ALL OUT. Then, put a chip in the brains of the criminals who should never return. It explodes if they come within ten miles of any US border. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 09, 2026 01:50 PM (W2Pud) 245 James Carville has gone literally insane... https://tinyurl.com/47rvrvtv Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 01:50 PM (dmDsy) 246 wrt: persons in the US illegally - BIG. OR. SMALL. DEPORT. THEM. ALL. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 01:50 PM (Dv3i1) 247 I like how Rubio has been acting recently, but it could just be he has to play along with Trump now to help his future political ambitions. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 01:49 PM (JCZqz) That's ENTIRELY possible. But like I said earlier, so what? Maybe he's doing what we want him to do without sincerely believing it's the right thing to do - he's only doing it because the voters will punish him for NOT doing it. So what? He's still doing what we want. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:51 PM (FmapG) 248 240 Almost seems timed SPECIFICALLY to demoralize us and hand Congress back to the D's. Non? absotively and it was timed to hit when they thought the Iran war was going to cause a lot of chaos to this was a force multiplier on our FUD Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 01:51 PM (j+aD2) 249 Maybe Salazar didn't read the bill... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 01:51 PM (F1quE) 250 Open borders and Amnesty is basically importing generational welfare recipients. Minnesota Somalis are just the bit we see. It's much worse and probably past the point of fixing. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 09, 2026 01:51 PM (IifOV) 251 I do not subscribe to the idea that older me is bound to the positions and thoughts espoused by younger me. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:47 PM (FmapG) ------ Younger me held some damn stupid beliefs Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 01:51 PM (oqH4h) 252 I would be amused if Trump proposed immigration reform that allowed unmarried, childless women from 18-28 to get citizenship. Because the responses would be hilarious... Remember the same AWFLs that endlessly talk about the wonders of immigration HATE passport bros... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:46 PM (sKqQm Don't forget the weight limits based on height. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 01:52 PM (Sco7b) 253 the other timing thing is most primaries are over now, so HA HA look at US being all OPEN MINDED !!! thanks Lloyd. sure now the blue hairs in Lancaster will vote for your dumb ass Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 01:52 PM (j+aD2) 254 I've seen a few breakdowns of how much immigrants are worth based on country of origin based on tax dollars paid versus government services consumed. As you might expect the more first world a country is the more its immigrants are worth. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:52 PM (sKqQm) 255 Giving free stuff/money to people who will not work is not dignity! It de-incentivizes personal motivation to get a job and become productive, again creating a feeling of self-worth and dignity. Therefore, the 'The Dignity Act' bill must include elimination of all government/NGO subsidies, handouts, and free-stuff. Otherwise it is not 'Dignified'! Without that, 'The Dignity Act' is a farse! Posted by: John at April 09, 2026 01:52 PM (0DsdP) 256 No immigrant is a net gain. Whites are among the worst immigrants we've been blessed with. Americans only. Fuck the foreigners. Begone with you all. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 01:52 PM (BI5O2) 257 So what? He's still doing what we want. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:51 PM (FmapG) Until the moment we give him the power not to. See: practically every elected Republican in the last 40 years. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:52 PM (8X0wm) 258 Yes, Rubio was part of the gang of 8. People are capable of changing. Hell, I not only voted for W, McCain, and Romney, I volunteered for their campaigns. I am much different now that I was then. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 01:53 PM (2UnvF) 259 that's casist! Posted by: anachronda at April 09, 2026 01:50 PM (oY6Yp) ------ golf clap (it is Masters week after all) Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 01:53 PM (oqH4h) 260 Saturday will be first mowing day of this year. Grass is growing so fast that I can hear it sundering the sod. Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:53 PM (N8ZBc) 261 I doubt any of the sponsors of this abomination read the bill. I don't think anyone actually drafted it either. The bill reads like AI slop frankensteined together from the last 10 public discussions -- and leftwing talking points -- about DACA. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 01:53 PM (iFTx/) 262 The origin of the word dignity refers to being elevated to nobility. Food for thought. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:54 PM (8X0wm) 263 The idea that a person can't ever, ever make a mistake, recognize that mistake, and then change is a very, very leftist position. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:47 PM (FmapG) No. It is a very student of human nature position, especially when dealing with politicians, who, as a group, act, almost to a man, in their own self-interest, especially when it comes to lying to your face and telling you what exactly they think you want to hear. If there is nothing that the age of Trump has taught us, it is that actions should be the predominant indicator of a politician's trustworthiness. And Rubio's actions ON AMNESTY, to date, indicate a negative outcome, when he is trusted to make his own judgement, when he is relatively insulated from public scorn as a Senator. There have been no actions to date ON AMNESTY that are worthy of granting any benefit of any doubt on this issue. That is discounting nothing Rubio has done as Secretary of State while under the explicit direction and control of Trump. But how much of those action bear in the slightest ON AMNESTY. To my mind, nothing. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:54 PM (dK+Kv) 264 Is Maria up for election? Does she have a primary opponent? Where does one send money? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 01:54 PM (b4dih) 265 "Get This" ace is some of the best ace. Posted by: Get This fan at April 09, 2026 01:54 PM (dsret) 266 Lankford must be happy to have a POC to fall back on and in betraying the country. Posted by: Unkaren at April 09, 2026 01:55 PM (OTOad) 267 Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 01:53 PM (2UnvF) You are a regular person. He is a politician. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:55 PM (8X0wm) 268 264 Is Maria up for election? Does she have a primary opponent? Where does one send money? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 01:54 PM (b4dih) Yes... All of congress is up Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 01:55 PM (F1quE) 269 Until the moment we give him the power not to. See: practically every elected Republican in the last 40 years. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:52 PM (8X0wm) I am going to have to borrow the brain this weekend, mmmkay? Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:56 PM (dK+Kv) 270 257 So what? He's still doing what we want. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:51 PM (FmapG) Until the moment we give him the power not to. See: practically every elected Republican in the last 40 years. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:52 PM (8X0wm) Dude, I think the problem with that logic is, we can't believe in anybody, so what's the point? I personally don't feel that way. I'm willing to go out on a limb for someone I believe is trying to do the right thing.... Risky? Fuck yeah. But I think it's going to be necessary in the days ahead. Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 01:56 PM (dmDsy) 271 Yes... All of congress is up yep but this was shat out after the primaries were over Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 01:56 PM (j+aD2) 272 Just got this from Bank of America: "The agreement to arbitrate requires (with limited exception) that all disputes between you and us be resolved by binding arbitration whenever either party chooses to submit a dispute to arbitration or either party refers a lawsuit filed by the other to arbitration. Additionally, (1) you'll only be permitted to pursue claims on an individual basis, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative action or proceeding, and (2) you may not be able to have any claims you have against us resolved by a jury or in a court of law. Consumers (not a small business) have a right to opt out of this arbitration provision: Consumers must contact us within sixty (60) days of the date of this notice. Consumers can opt out at bankofamerica.com/arbitration-optout or by calling us at xxxxxxxxx. Posted by: pawn at April 09, 2026 01:56 PM (jstR0) 273 My YT test again. Here's 11 seconds of my 14 year old dog Ralphy 1 week after falling off the bed. Bask in cuteness. https://tinyurl.com/ms2pnp59 Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 01:57 PM (Sco7b) 274 >>>The bill reads like AI slop frankensteined together from the last 10 public discussions -- and leftwing talking points -- about DACA. Posted by: Elric The Blade --- Or Sugardaddy. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 01:57 PM (b4dih) 275 Would be nice to have functional and functioning RNC to help organize an actual MAGA GOP platform. LOL. YEAH RIGHT. They've been silent since the election. Would have loved Elon still in and make good on his threats to start a RHINO hunting org to primary these traitors. Posted by: GigantorX at April 09, 2026 01:57 PM (aXZAp) 276 Until the moment we give him the power not to. See: practically every elected Republican in the last 40 years. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 01:52 PM (8X0wm) Then you're back to purity tests and the idea that a 10 year-old blazing fuckup is enough to disqualify everyone from everything. None of us - not a single one - could pass that kind of test but we demand it of our politicians in a way the left just doesn't. And then we lament that good conservatives don't want to run for high office. Of course not - we'd find something they did/said/advanced years ago and destroy their career for it. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:57 PM (FmapG) 277 Deport this Salazar cvnt and any others like her, who want to provide legal cover for the decades-long invasion of the US. Posted by: a modest proposal at April 09, 2026 01:57 PM (9vFyc) 278 256 No immigrant is a net gain. Whites are among the worst immigrants we've been blessed with. Americans only. Fuck the foreigners. Begone with you all. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 01:52 PM (BI5O2) My mother pissed you off how? Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 01:57 PM (TcMLU) 279 If all these illegals are so wonderful and such great economic engines, why are their home countries shitholes? Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 01:58 PM (HXT0k) 280 meh I like Rubio but I'm hearing three dots here we have other options so hell why not use them instead but Mario is maybe ok but he did go very far into the DigniDAD thing too Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 01:58 PM (j+aD2) 281 279 If all these illegals are so wonderful and such great economic engines, why are their home countries shitholes? don't have magic dirt like we do PHV! Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 01:59 PM (j+aD2) 282 >>>Consumers can opt out at bankofamerica.com/arbitration-optout or by calling us at xxxxxxxxx. Posted by: pawn --- Banks have a basic rule. They win you lose. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 01:59 PM (b4dih) 283 Another stellar Trump endorsement. Many such cases! Posted by: UA113 at April 09, 2026 01:59 PM (cz34i) 284 Has Trump remarked on this ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 02:00 PM (F1quE) 285 That's ENTIRELY possible. But like I said earlier, so what? Maybe he's doing what we want him to do without sincerely believing it's the right thing to do - he's only doing it because the voters will punish him for NOT doing it. That's great until he's president, or a senator in a very red state, where he doesn't have to worry about votes anymore. Posted by: Gaystapo at April 09, 2026 02:00 PM (JCZqz) 286 I can't believe Smucker signed on to this tho what a maroon Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:00 PM (j+aD2) 287 The idea that a person can't ever, ever make a mistake, recognize that mistake, and then change is a very, very leftist position. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:47 PM (FmapG) The idea that someone should be forgiven for a mistake when they are not even contrite about it is an even more leftist position. By the way leftist or libtard is like the biggest insult there is in my house. It's basically the n-word. Me and Brit Lass don't call each other that even in jest unless we are very salty. BTW in Rubio's "apology" about the Gang of 8, made when he was planning to run for president, he still backed amnesty but only with, GET THIS, the promise that future illegal immigration will be controlled. So what did he learn? And what was he sorry for? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:00 PM (8X0wm) 288 Has Trump remarked on this ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 02:00 PM (F1quE) I'd rather hear Miller shred it. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:00 PM (dK+Kv) 289 I see the cartels have bought them some new Senators. Nuestro dinero se ha gastado bien en estos politicos estadounidenses. Posted by: Cheri at April 09, 2026 02:00 PM (oiNtH) 290 Coulter is pretty good on the anchor baby subject ... this is part of her X post on the subject. "The legendary “130 years of case law” said to establish the citizenship of anchor babies refers to an 1898 case, U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, that took the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship to freed slaves and gave it to a child of legal immigrants. Manifestly, the opinion in Wong had nothing to do with illegal immigrants. Otherwise, Brennan wouldn’t have had to announce his personal opinion in 1982 that children born to illegals should be treated as citizens. It would already have been the law." https://tinyurl.com/5n67m733 Posted by: illiniwek at April 09, 2026 02:01 PM (vbXSk) 291 If anyone is of the position that nobody can ever change after having held certain political beliefs to ones that are more compatible with ours, then you have no business being a Donald Trump supporter. Period. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:01 PM (oqH4h) 292 Miller has already gone off on this stupid bill btw introduced in the house not the senate Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:01 PM (j+aD2) 293 So what did he learn? And what was he sorry for? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:00 PM (8X0wm) He learned to triangulate more studiously. He was sorry it damaged his political aspirations. That's OUR read. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:02 PM (dK+Kv) 294 Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 01:57 PM (FmapG) I'm not arguing for a purity test of any kind. I am saying at most what the beautiful intelligent Orchid is saying. There should be HUNDREDS of other options. By promising us the world and then turning around and sticking it in, he took himself out of the running for highest office on earth. Thems the breaks. Also he was still for amnesty as of the last time he was asked. Just with the promise that the border would be closed. Which we did already. Which means at best he's fucking stupid. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:03 PM (8X0wm) 295 Period. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:01 PM (oqH4h) If this is a defense of Rubio, name an amnesty-related action that we can observe that should change our opinion of his position. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:03 PM (dK+Kv) 296 The idea that someone should be forgiven for a mistake when they are not even contrite about it is an even more leftist position. -------------- This. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 02:03 PM (n17eQ) 297 Ireland is rising up Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) We have seen this movie before. Cabal stirs up a protest, media casts it as evil, state kills, oh well, bad men bad things. Now here's another wubbie from the state you can have. All of europe is destined for CCP ownership. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2026 02:04 PM (diia5) 298 He learned to triangulate more studiously. He was sorry it damaged his political aspirations. That's OUR read. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:02 PM (dK+Kv) "OUR"??? Posted by: Denny Crane - You Have a Mouse In Your Pocket? at April 09, 2026 02:04 PM (dmDsy) 299 If this is a defense of Rubio, name an amnesty-related action that we can observe that should change our opinion of his position. seems fair I won't be holding my breath Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:04 PM (j+aD2) 300 The idea that someone should be forgiven for a mistake when they are not even contrite about it is an even more leftist position. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:00 PM (8X0wm) I don't think any of us are in any position to know what Rubio is or isn't contrite about. I'm not saying you're dumb or foolish for holding your position. I'm saying I don't agree that every Republican in elected office will always vote the way they did in the past. This obviously cuts both ways (eyepatch, I'm looking at you), but this purity test stuff is self-defeating. It will always be self-defeating. It can never be anything but. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:04 PM (FmapG) 301 >Here's 11 seconds of my 14 year old dog Ralphy... Who's a good Ralphy? Yes. You are! You're the BEST Ralphy! Posted by: Anyone who's ever met Ralphy at April 09, 2026 02:04 PM (dsret) 302 We have seen this movie before. Cabal stirs up a protest, media casts it as evil, state kills, oh well, bad men bad things. Now here's another wubbie from the state you can have. All of europe is destined for CCP ownership. you can say that but if there's a people that can toss a wrench in that plan, it's the Irish Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:05 PM (j+aD2) 303 Before entering politics, Salazar worked for the Spanish-language network Telemundo for three decades after serving as a news anchor for Miami-based WSBS TV. She has also worked for CNN Español and Univision. --- She stepped out of her lane. She's a shill for a shadow political group. Communists? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 02:05 PM (b4dih) 304 "OUR"??? Posted by: Denny Crane - You Have a Mouse In Your Pocket? at April 09, 2026 02:04 PM (dmDsy) Me and . . . . Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:05 PM (dK+Kv) 305 If this is a defense of Rubio, name an amnesty-related action that we can observe that should change our opinion of his position. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:03 PM (dK+Kv) ----- What Rubio did 10 years ago was dumb and indefensible. I don't KNOW what his current position is, but it is entirely possible that his position has changed in a decade. If you don't believe that people's political beliefs can evolve, then like someone upthread said, go party with the left because that's what they believe. It's purity first, last, and always, and if you step out of line your ass is grass. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:06 PM (oqH4h) 306 somebody had Maria on a news show and peppered her with questions re this bill and she of course clearly had zero idea what was in it she's also dim Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:06 PM (j+aD2) 307 seems fair I won't be holding my breath Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:04 PM (j+aD2) Let's see him out-Miller Miller on this one bill. That would give me reason to hear him further on the issue of Amnesty. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:06 PM (dK+Kv) 308 Here's 11 seconds of my 14 year old dog Ralphy 1 week after falling off the bed. Bask in cuteness. https://tinyurl.com/ms2pnp59 Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. Ralphy is adorable! I miss not having a dog so much. Need to move to have a proper yard for one. I have two rescue cats for now that I love but dogs bring a whole different energy. Thanks for sharing! Posted by: Cheri at April 09, 2026 02:06 PM (oiNtH) 309 Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:05 PM (j+aD2) What are the Irish doing? I can't find anything on it except for protests against high fuel prices. Thanks. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 02:07 PM (rZCVI) 310 While running for president, Rubio said his "lesson" from failed amnesty was that Republican voters want amnesty in exchange for a closed border. No we fucking dont because a closed border is a bullshit lie and we are no longer fucking blithering retards waiting for someone to sing the first few notes of Freebird in exchange for our vote. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:07 PM (8X0wm) 311 I don't KNOW what his current position is . . . . Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:06 PM (oqH4h) Full-stop. End of conversation. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:07 PM (dK+Kv) 312 Who's a good Ralphy? Yes. You are! You're the BEST Ralphy! Posted by: Anyone who's ever met Ralphy at April 09, 2026 02:04 PM (dsret I always tell him "Ralphy. No Kill! NO KILL!!" Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 02:07 PM (Sco7b) 313 Out of curiosity, how are we feeling about Reagan? Purity tests get us exactly nowhere. The harsh reality is we are dealing with people, and people are not perfect. Not you, not me, not Trump, not Rubio. Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 02:07 PM (Wmg4n) 314 South of Darien Province in Panama. This is the Gap, a chokepoint land transport north has to switch get on boats. Staging area for criminals and terrorists headed El orte. Posted by: Operator Error at April 09, 2026 02:07 PM (wsxbk) 315 The Royal our Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:07 PM (8X0wm) 316 Me and . . . . Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:05 PM (dK+Kv) Welllll... we're waiting! Posted by: Judge Smails at April 09, 2026 02:07 PM (dmDsy) 317 Let's see him out-Miller Miller on this one bill. That would give me reason to hear him further on the issue of Amnesty. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:06 PM (dK+Kv) This is precisely my point. He doesn't NEED to out-Miller Miller. He just needs to not interfere with Miller doing Miller things. All he has to do is nothing. Let Miller keep on schwacking illegals. That's it. But you're putting down the marker that even that isn't enough. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:08 PM (FmapG) 318 right Fen it's a fuel-prices protest but it's gotten bigger they've blocked roads and blockaded fueling stations the Irish prez made a very lame statement that caused MORE people to take the to the streets then the govt ordered the military out to stop the protests and a lot of the brass just said NOPE towing companies were ordered to remove blockading trucks and they also said no it's going .. pretty interestingly Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:08 PM (j+aD2) 319 Full-stop. End of conversation. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:07 PM (dK+Kv) ---- Yeah, it is the end of the conversation because you obviously already know what's in a man's heart and I'm not going to sit here and try to brow-beat you into changing your bull-headed mind about it. Have a good one. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:09 PM (oqH4h) 320 Rep Salazar is essentially calling people stupid for not understanding her bill. Unbelievable. She is demonstrating that not only should immigrants hold office, but neither should anchor babies. FFS, GOP, rein in this fool now. Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 02:09 PM (4KUe5) 321 I don't KNOW what his current position is . . . . Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:06 PM (oqH4h) Full-stop. End of conversation. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:07 PM (dK+Kv) Then why are you talking like you DO know what his current position is? Why don't you get the 'Full-stop. End of conversation.' requirement? Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:09 PM (FmapG) 322 The Irish occasionally set fire to one of the places housing "immigrants" Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 09, 2026 02:09 PM (gQ15S) 323 Ralphy is adorable! I miss not having a dog so much. Need to move to have a proper yard for one. I have two rescue cats for now that I love but dogs bring a whole different energy. Thanks for sharing! Posted by: Cheri at April 09, 2026 02:06 PM (oiNtH) Hey, cats are great too! But yeah, dog's are amaz___. Later on, Snowflake. And thank you. Ralphy is well known at Arby's the next town over and the local Tim's. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 02:10 PM (Sco7b) 324 it's going .. pretty interestingly ------------ Sound similar to the Dutch response to attacks on their farming. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 02:10 PM (n17eQ) 325 Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:08 PM (j+aD2) Thanks. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 02:10 PM (rZCVI) 326 This is precisely my point. He doesn't NEED to out-Miller Miller. He just needs to not interfere with Miller doing Miller things. All he has to do is nothing. Let Miller keep on schwacking illegals. That's it. But you're putting down the marker that even that isn't enough. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:08 PM (FmapG) He does need to, if he is at all interested in convincing folks like myself that his past positions were mistaken. That he doesn't REFELXIVELY gives me pause. Meanwhile, we got people on our own side calling such pause purity tests and demeaning each other as leftists, because we don't support their latest shiny. No wonder we lose. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:11 PM (dK+Kv) 327 it's going .. pretty interestingly Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) Doesn't seem like the current globalist know-nothings running Ireland have the consent of the governed. I guess we'll see if having consent is important or not. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 02:11 PM (Dv3i1) 328 Real AMNESTY Act - get the fvck out and we will let you go (that is what amnesty is), dont leave ans we catch you here it will be ten years hard labor on.the first offense. Second offemse you get sold to haitian food service companies. Posted by: Operator Error at April 09, 2026 02:11 PM (wsxbk) 329 If a politician has ever espoused a belief with which I disagree, that politician is all but dead to me. Also, I am a staunch Donald Trump supporter! hurr durr Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:12 PM (oqH4h) 330 271 Yes... All of congress is up yep but this was shat out after the primaries were over Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) ===== This was the 2026 version of Lindsay Graham's ban all abortions at the federal level bill. Designed in this case to demoralize base voters, particularly those needed to turn out at a high level aka poor white trash in country club RINO terms. Bill itself is not going anywhere and probably written by Chamber of Commerce geeks. None of the Congress critters sponsoring it seem to know what is in it when questioned. Since staffs on the Hill are now merely constituent services or Congress critter accessories, that leaves outside interest groups. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 02:12 PM (E4rtv) 331 Hey...so about those snacks you promised... Posted by: Ralphy at April 09, 2026 02:13 PM (dsret) 332 Then why are you talking like you DO know what his current position is? Why don't you get the 'Full-stop. End of conversation.' requirement? Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:09 PM (FmapG) I am not the one leading the Rubio parade saying he's changed or should be trusted that he could, might possibly have changed, without him giving us one shred of an inkling of an iota of any indication that he has. I am merely pointing out the aforementioned and being called a leftist purity tester for my troubles. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:13 PM (dK+Kv) 333 correct whig as I say, it's more FUD it's FUD FUD FUD from now to the midterms Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:13 PM (j+aD2) 334 290 Coulter is pretty good on the anchor baby subject ... this is part of her X post on the subject. Manifestly, the opinion in Wong had nothing to do with illegal immigrants. https://tinyurl.com/5n67m733 Posted by: illiniwek at April 09, 2026 02:01 PM (vbXSk) ======= I have always been a fan, but just cannot help noticing that Ann Coulter prefers to take the most extreme(ly correct) position right up to the point she wins the argument. Then she starts complaining and losing interest. Posted by: Oglebay at April 09, 2026 02:13 PM (2ap+5) 335 It's a little early to pick 2028 candidates. Vance is still the nice boy, no matter his CV. Mario has baggage. Most Republicans testicles have not descended. Quien sabe. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 02:14 PM (b4dih) 336 Also, is Rubio even interested in running? I think that is the time he explains current or nuanced positions. Right now he is rocking his current role. Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 02:14 PM (Wmg4n) 337 Rubio is a cracker-eating bitch. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 09, 2026 02:14 PM (I/0M6) 338 I love how "immigration reform" means just one thing to lefties: amnesty. Real immigration reform would be returning to the status-quo-ante the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act), but with even more and harsher enforcement mechanisms. I personally favor a free-fire kill-zone along the border. YMMV. Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 09, 2026 02:14 PM (cWffP) 339 He does need to, if he is at all interested in convincing folks like myself that his past positions were mistaken. That he doesn't REFELXIVELY gives me pause. No wonder we lose. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:11 PM (dK+Kv) As s soon as you list all of your previous wrong-think from the past, I'll take your opinions more seriously. Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 02:15 PM (dmDsy) 340 If you don't want to hear Rubio's current position you are not listening. Rubio has said exactly what he "learned". If you want me to assume he has now seen the light and with no evidence to back it up and secretly turned into an "immigration hardliner" at a time when we know everyone's opinion on literally everything, that's a bit much, sorry. If he hasn't updated his position software there is a REASON. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:15 PM (8X0wm) 341 somebody had Maria on a news show and peppered her with questions re this bill and she of course clearly had zero idea what was in it she's also dim Posted by: BlackOrchid It was written by lobbyists and she was told to submit it. That's how it works. Written months ago and timed for this week. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 09, 2026 02:15 PM (RsR8X) 342 I am not the one leading the Rubio parade saying he's changed or should be trusted that he could, might possibly have changed, without him giving us one shred of an inkling of an iota of any indication that he has. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:13 PM (dK+Kv) This requires you to not just ignore but actively reject as lies everything he's said and done in this administration. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:15 PM (FmapG) 343 I am merely pointing out the aforementioned and being called a leftist purity tester for my troubles. lol let's wear it as a badge of honor again I know Lloyd Smucker and that idiot just sponsored a terrible pro-amnesty bill I don't trust ANY of these people. I got a reminder trust if you must, but VERIFY and of course it's all proportional. If we didn't have great proven options like JD or (really) Ron D, then ok welp ... but we do have other options and I do like Mario. but I like Lloyd! they're all in a different place than us. they don't really care in an existential sense. Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:15 PM (j+aD2) 344 And fwiw, too many people are falling for ops rather than simply waiting. Johnson in particular is unlikely to let it get a fast train and I think wider dissemination of the shit in the bill is going to cause several of the GOP sponsors to suddenly drop their names from it if they have a strong Dem opponent. Those idiot Congress critters probably thought they would get donor boost by putting it out under the cover of Iran ops but now they are in the broad light with nothing on. As DataRepublican says, we see you. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 02:15 PM (E4rtv) 345 How did this become a Rubio post ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 02:16 PM (F1quE) 346 Cuban migration is a different matter once Cuba is a US territory. Posted by: Oglebay at April 09, 2026 02:16 PM (2ap+5) 347 As s soon as you list all of your previous wrong-think from the past, I'll take your opinions more seriously. Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 02:15 PM (dmDsy) I've got plenty of current wrong-think to be worried about before getting to that, apparently. But I am not running to represent you, so it's kind of nunya. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:16 PM (dK+Kv) 348 somebody had Maria on a news show and peppered her with questions re this bill and she of course clearly had zero idea what was in it she's also dim Posted by: BlackOrchid It was written by lobbyists and she was told to submit it. That's how it works. Written months ago and timed for this week. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 09, 2026 02:15 PM (RsR8X) _________ See my comment above. It's AI slop written by retards. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/) 349 As s soon as you list all of your previous wrong-think from the past, I'll take your opinions more seriously. Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 02:15 PM (dmDsy) I'm not always right. Just most of the time. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:17 PM (8X0wm) 350 "Purity tests get us exactly nowhere. The harsh reality is we are dealing with people, and people are not perfect. Not you, not me, not Trump, not Rubio." This is correct. Hypothetically, Big R "could" have a purity test to weed out ...the weeds... for us, the Voters. But they and we certainly don't have that now, if they and we ever did to begin with. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 02:17 PM (DgMqy) 351 Ace: "On pages 204-217, you present the Dignity Program: This is a separate track for illegal aliens who don't qualify for the Dream Act. If you are an illegal aliens who: > Was continuously present since December 31, 2020 >Pay a $1,000 upfront "restitution" fee >Submit biometrics, pass a background check >No felony convictions" ====== Any bill that's over 200 pages long should be automatically classified as "bullshit". The listed qualifications can be, and will be, ignored, waived with a sneer, or are subject to be overruled by the authority of the Supreme Auto-Pen. Posted by: mrp at April 09, 2026 02:17 PM (rj6Yv) 352 This requires you to not just ignore but actively reject as lies everything he's said and done in this administration. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:15 PM (FmapG) About AMNESTY? Or matters of State, for which he is Trump's dog on a leash? Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:17 PM (dK+Kv) 353 Ann Coulter wrote a book about illegal immigration in the 2010’s. She used three methods to estimate the true number of illegals and it was 40+ million. This is before Biden’s efforts to fly in as many as possible. Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 02:17 PM (4KUe5) 354 That motherf’r Mike Lawler has undermined the party every chance he gets. He tried to kill the BBB and robbed the federal taxpayers for more NY handouts. F that guy. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 02:18 PM (+5DDj) 355 "READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH." -- The "Dignity Act" 304 "OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH. OR. IT. WILL. BE. ALL. OVER. YOUR. BLUE. DRESS." -- Bill "Professor Spooge" Clinton, Preznint Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 09, 2026 02:18 PM (KEVmI) 356 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:13 PM (dK+Kv) I always had you pegged as a secret libtard, sorry Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:18 PM (8X0wm) 357 SEND THEM ALL HOME Posted by: 18-1 ================= And Salazar has no idea that this is where she's pushing all of us. Dangle amnesty, and watch me call for zero tolerance. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:19 PM (n7rxJ) 358 "Ann Coulter wrote a book..." 30 yrs ago, I was a big fan. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 02:19 PM (DgMqy) 359 I always had you pegged as a secret libtard, sorry Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:18 PM (8X0wm) You always hurt the ones you love. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:19 PM (dK+Kv) 360 345 How did this become a Rubio post ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 It’s best when we fight over ghosts and shadows! Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 02:19 PM (OoFl2) 361 Imagine if we had purity tests then 20 people who represent "us" wouldn't trot out retarded anti-American bills we hate to demoralize us during election season. Second look at purity tests?? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:20 PM (8X0wm) 362 Our shadows are far too sparsely populated. Posted by: Oglebay at April 09, 2026 02:20 PM (2ap+5) 363 Oh no wait I get it. If I don't vote for the secret liberals then the open liberals will be in charge. So communism is somehow my fault. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:20 PM (8X0wm) 364 Imagine if we had purity tests then 20 people who represent "us" wouldn't trot out retarded anti-American bills we hate to demoralize us during election season. Second look at purity tests?? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:20 PM (8X0wm) No, we'd rather fight amongst ourselves and get boofed "unexpectedly" all the time. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:21 PM (dK+Kv) 365 361 Imagine if we had purity tests then 20 people who represent "us" wouldn't trot out retarded anti-American bills we hate to demoralize us during election season. Second look at purity tests?? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:20 PM Who do you think is pure? Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 02:21 PM (OoFl2) 366 About AMNESTY? Or matters of State, for which he is Trump's dog on a leash? Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:17 PM (dK+Kv) Nevermind the expulsions he's ordered as State. Just focus on the full-throated defense of Trump's immigration policies and actions. Saying things like "we want them as far from America as possible," and "I won't apologize for that," sounds a bit more hardline than he sounded with the Gang of 8. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:21 PM (FmapG) 367 Saying things like "we want them as far from America as possible," and "I won't apologize for that," sounds a bit more hardline than he sounded with the Gang of 8. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:21 PM (FmapG) ----- No, no you see anything good he does is him being dog-walked by DJT. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:22 PM (oqH4h) 368 If you don't want to hear Rubio's current position you are not listening. Rubio has said exactly what he "learned". =============== What did he learn? That voters don't want it? Or that it's fucking WRONG? Why would he have to "learn" the latter? The bill he was supporting dripped with poison and lies. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:22 PM (n7rxJ) 369 I've got plenty of current wrong-think to be worried about before getting to that, apparently. But I am not running to represent you, so it's kind of nunya. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:16 PM (dK+Kv) But none of it yours, I take it? You are perfect just the way you are! And please, when exactly did Rubio announce his candidacy for... wait, which office, again? Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 02:22 PM (dmDsy) 370 I’ve noticed Rep Salazar is not that concerned about the dignity of those who oppose her bill. It’s an obvious point, but it matters. Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 02:23 PM (4KUe5) 371 I wouldn't say that demanding clarity and certainty on immigration is a purity test. Big Don is the only one who's really had the gonads to make this a real position, all the way back when he defeated The Beast. He stood out from everyone for this. No one who doesn't very explicitly take this same position is to be trusted. This is an 80/20 issue. It should be hard to come out as an immigration hawk. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 09, 2026 02:23 PM (I/0M6) 372 I have always been a fan, but just cannot help noticing that Ann Coulter prefers to take the most extreme(ly correct) position right up to the point she wins the argument. Then she starts complaining and losing interest. Posted by: Oglebay ====== I have never been a fan. And people like her are exactly one of the issues with the GOP. Ann is an outrage merchant that uses outrage to sell her books and to sell her lectures. The real Ann Coulter dated Bill Maher, had a political crush on Chris Christie, and whose actual political work was in the 90's. Stephen Miller is the real thing, Ann is an earlier version of the influencer model of GOP and more akin to Tucker, etc. It is a lot harder to actually craft legislation and pass it than write a book or give speeches/talks/post a column. Even harder to work in an GOP administration and change regulations, enforcement, and deal with saboteurs from within from leftist Civil Service and your own RINO colleagues that go native. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 02:24 PM (E4rtv) 373 Saying things . . . than he sounded with the Gang of 8. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:21 PM (FmapG) Apples and oranges. First is words, which are cheap to ladder-climbing pols, especially when they've achieved a position such as Senator which has relatively little accountability to voters. Second is actions. Thanks for making my point more clearly. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:24 PM (dK+Kv) 374 yeah this is getting silly the important point is, we have a lot of turncoat Rs out there three from PA (except two didn't surprise me one bit). 17 others. they need to get a big smackdown it's the only way they learn! Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:24 PM (j+aD2) 375 Who do you think is pure? Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 02:21 PM (OoFl2) Brit Lass and a few others. Being totally straight with you Pipes, the "purity test" accusation is designed as a shutdown. A no way out situation for the person on the receiving end. Kind of like being called a racist, there is no defense for it that doesn't involve copping to it. My position remains - and I know this is extreme - I do not vote for people who buried a knife in my back, when there should theoretically be many other people who at least haven't done it yet. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:25 PM (8X0wm) 376 Second is actions. Thanks for making my point more clearly. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:24 PM (dK+Kv) You've already stated that none of his actions count because he's only SecState, and therefore only taking the Boss's position. . Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:25 PM (FmapG) 377 I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you, I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you. Won't you please, Won't you please, Please won't you be my neighbor? Posted by: Amnesty Bill at April 09, 2026 02:25 PM (Dv3i1) 378 If there's a Z in your last name, you better be Polish before I trust you. Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 09, 2026 02:25 PM (gm9Sb) 379 I’m with you, BlackOrchid! Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 02:25 PM (4KUe5) 380 How did this become a Rubio post ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 ============ He won't be out of American politics when his term as SecState ends. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:25 PM (n7rxJ) 381 Gotta say, this is depressing and infuriating. Going to read LOTR for the next few days and clear my heart. Posted by: Inspector Cussword at April 09, 2026 02:26 PM (lFFaq) 382 378 If there's a Z in your last name, you better be Polish before I trust you. not a bad policy but maybe include Hungarian Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:26 PM (j+aD2) 383 My position remains - and I know this is extreme - I do not vote for people who buried a knife in my back, when there should theoretically be many other people who at least haven't done it yet. the confounding data here is how stone cold dumb our congress is Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:27 PM (j+aD2) 384 But none of it yours, I take it? You are perfect just the way you are! Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 02:22 PM (dmDsy) Thanks for noticing. I could stand to get a few more firsts, probably. And please, when exactly did Rubio announce his candidacy for... wait, which office, again? Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 02:22 PM (dmDsy) So, only the people who support a candidate for higher office are aloud to talk about their opinions of the candidate? Who makes these silly rules. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:27 PM (dK+Kv) 385 What did he learn? That voters don't want it? Or that it's fucking WRONG? Why would he have to "learn" the latter? The bill he was supporting dripped with poison and lies. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 02:22 PM (n7rxJ) He said he learned that amnesty must come with the promise of a closed border and that was his "mistake". I am not making that up. It is about as disingenuous as a person can be and he was running for president so that was his best shot. FFS I cast glaring suspicion on Vivek (remember him?) and took a ton of abuse when I pointed out that he lectured Trump on a 2021 book that the 2020 election was on the up and up to get over it. He too said he "learned". I was told no purity tests. Who won? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:28 PM (8X0wm) 386 So, only the people who support a candidate for higher office are aloud to talk about their opinions of the candidate? Who makes these silly rules. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:27 PM (dK+Kv) The people against purity testing of any kind. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:29 PM (8X0wm) 387 Who do you think is pure? Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2026 02:21 PM (OoFl2) Nadine. Posted by: Randall Flagg at April 09, 2026 02:29 PM (TcMLU) 388 Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 09, 2026 02:27 PM (j+aD2) Unfortunately. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:29 PM (8X0wm) 389 You've already stated that none of his actions count because he's only SecState, and therefore only taking the Boss's position. . Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 02:25 PM (FmapG) So, he's come out and trashed this bill full-throated then? No? I'll wait. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (dK+Kv) 390 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:54 PM (dK+Kv) _________________________ I don't trust Rubio. I never will. Ignoring his actions when in the Florida legislature directly associated with refusing to bring tougher immigration laws to the floor, I am always reminded that he sat prominently on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence which was instrumental in promoting, propigating, and pushing the Russia Hoax. There is no coming back from that. Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (dIske) 391 How about: you don’t have to be pure, but you sure as heck shouldn’t be working hard to undermine your own party’s POTUS, particularly on his signature (and most popular) issue. Is that asking too much? Democrats are almost always 100% behind their POTUS’s agenda. They stay in line and focused. Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (4KUe5) 392 FFS I cast glaring suspicion on Vivek (remember him?) and took a ton of abuse when I pointed out that he lectured Trump on a 2021 book that the 2020 election was on the up and up to get over it. He too said he "learned". I was told no purity tests. Who won? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:28 PM (8X0wm) lol Vivek. There was another shiny swarthy that got people with his words. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (dK+Kv) 393 CONTEXT: Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 02:22 PM (dmDsy) So, only the people who support a candidate for higher office are aloud to talk about their opinions of the candidate? Who makes these silly rules. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:27 PM (dK+Kv) >>>"But I am not running to represent you, so it's kind of nunya." Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:16 PM (dK+Kv) You clearly implied above that Rubio was "running to represent you"...and my question remains... what is he running for? You kind of stink at this, no offense. Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (dmDsy) 394 I am always reminded that he sat prominently on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence which was instrumental in promoting, propigating, and pushing the Russia Hoax. There is no coming back from that. Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 02:30 PM (dIske) Thanks. I had forgotten about that. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:32 PM (dK+Kv) 395 Shsss! We're getting the vibes from the people. Arkansas Senators on the phone with Tyson Foods Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 09, 2026 02:32 PM (gm9Sb) 396 Good call on Vivek, … ! Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 02:32 PM (4KUe5) 397 Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 02:32 PM (4KUe5) thank you Lizzy means a lot coming from you 😊 Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:33 PM (8X0wm) 398 You clearly implied above that Rubio was "running to represent you"...and my question remains... what is he running for? You kind of stink at this, no offense. Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (dmDsy) We were speaking hypothetically. Speaking of stinking, don't get so emotional over a stupid pol preference. It makes your positions less persuasive. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:33 PM (dK+Kv) 399 the confounding data here is how stone cold dumb our congress is Posted by: BlackOrchid I am of mixed feeling about Sundance but he got this one dead on. Congress critters are essentially marketing operations for bills cooked up by a) leadership, b) outside interest groups that fund their campaigns. The Congress critters spend their days raising money for the next election, ensuring their soundbites and folksy bullshit media activities go without a hitch, and making their families generationally wealthy. There was serious doubt that Congress could even do regular order after well over a decade of simply passing continuing resolutions, and even those Congress often relied on omnibus bullshit bills rather than the older regular order of committee, appropriations, then conference. There is a reason that legislatures are finding their powers usurped by the judiciary on one hand and the executive on the other. Their members simply do not do the hard work of legislating, oversight, and budgets anymore. They vote on them but spend the rest of their time doing their top three activities--making bank, selling their image, and selling their ass to special interest donor groups. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 02:33 PM (E4rtv) 400 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (dK+Kv) Conservatives are such easy sales. I swear they see us coming Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:34 PM (8X0wm) 401 Is that asking too much? Democrats are almost always 100% behind their POTUS’s agenda. They stay in line and focused. Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 02:31 PM (4KUe5) ------ Realistically, yeah it is too much to ask. The left is a death cult that will march off of a cliff like lemmings no matter how stupid it is. Those of us nominally on the right are always going to have a bigger independent streak than the collectivist left. It's unfortunate in our two-party system that it creates a disadvantage for us as it gets us people that have to "buck the system" for whatever reason, and the left marches in lockstep. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:35 PM (oqH4h) 402 Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 02:34 PM (8X0wm) types deletes Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:36 PM (dK+Kv) 403 It's unfortunate in our two-party system that it creates a disadvantage for us as it gets us people that have to "buck the system" for whatever reason, and the left marches in lockstep. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:35 PM (oqH4h) Agreed. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:36 PM (dK+Kv) 404 "MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+" -------- Why, oh why, must they overcomplicate it? How's this: EESW. Short, but accurate: Everyone Except Straight Whites Posted by: JQ at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (rdVOm) 405 There is a reason that legislatures are finding their powers usurped by the judiciary on one hand and the executive on the other. Their members simply do not do the hard work of legislating, oversight, and budgets anymore. They vote on them but spend the rest of their time doing their top three activities--making bank, selling their image, and selling their ass to special interest donor groups. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 02:33 PM (E4rtv) ----- Spot on. Add to that they're just a generally intellectually unimpressive group of people who are also bone lazy. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 02:37 PM (oqH4h) 406 Nood, btw. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 02:38 PM (dK+Kv) 407 I don’t want the GOP to be just like Dems, but they actively thwart their party’s own president. They have kneecapped Trump since the first day he announced his first presidential run. It is insane that they plan to do this until he’s gone. Not just a few randos, McConnell and Thune and Ryan. It is not asking too much to freaking work with Trump and stop plagames like no Senate recess while slow-walking his nominees. Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 02:39 PM (4KUe5) 408 NO Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 09, 2026 02:39 PM (WONhk) 409 381 Gotta say, this is depressing and infuriating. Going to read LOTR for the next few days and clear my heart. Posted by: Inspector Cussword ======== Don't be. It is a fake and gay op bill never intended to pass but to raise money for the RINOs from corporate interests wanting open borders. Dems joined in because why in the hell wouldn't they? This was specifically designed to drive down turnout on the right in House elections. The way to actually win is to ignore the bullshit and hysteria today and aim at consequences for those members. If not now, next two years. More so if you are in those districts. Primary each of these bastards. Remember what Dave Brat did to Eric Cantor over this issue. That killed the 2014 Grand Amnesty bullshit. That anger is what needs to be channeled into productive activity instead of less useful activities. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 02:41 PM (E4rtv) 410 Spot on. Add to that they're just a generally intellectually unimpressive group of people who are also bone lazy. Posted by: ballistic ======== Well, they do work, just not doing the people's business. Personally, I could not stomach to be a politician from the slimy interest group reps, to smiling at uninformed idiots and malicious hecklers, and dealing with people that want something for nothing every damn day. I've seen it up close and personal enough to drive me out of working in politics back in the 90's other than at the local level or state level 2A advocacy. So it almost requires being a sociopath to some extent to even want the job. Posted by: whig at April 09, 2026 02:44 PM (E4rtv) 411 Still going to re-read LOTR. It's good to see good vs evil and see evil sputter and fail. Posted by: Inspector Cussword at April 09, 2026 02:51 PM (lFFaq) 412 one hand washes the other, I guess... @BIZPACReview 1h Stormy Daniels’ disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti is out of jail already Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2026 02:52 PM (diia5) 413 Laura Ingraham had Rep. Mike Lawler on her show last night, and she really took him to task over this bill. As she told him about some of the negative points of the bill, he kept denying that it would do what she said it would. As I was watching it, I suspected that he did not have a background in the law (Laura does, and clerked for Clarence Thomas). I checked Lawler's resume, and while he's a reasonably smart guy with a degree in Finance and Accounting, he doesn't have a JD. With her legal background, she was able to see things in the law that Lawler couldn't. Hopefully, he'll see articles like this and withdraw his support. Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at April 09, 2026 03:03 PM (XTURA) 414 It claims it has all these checks for "felonies" in the process. Isn't any illegal who is here illegally guilty of a felony ipso facto? Posted by: Oldcat at April 09, 2026 03:05 PM (8avO+) 415 This has been making the rounds for MONTHs. There is another GOP rep from NY pushing it as well Posted by: deadrody at April 09, 2026 04:24 PM (vgB0v) Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals: Pornographers Have No "Right" to Sell Their Pornography to Taxpayer Funded School Libraries So That Children Have Access to Their Porn Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals announces stunning legal conclusion: Schools do not "owe" pornographers the "right" to have taxpayer-funded schools purchase their pornography to make it available to children in school libraries. This is where we are: This was actually a live debate in the courts. Authors of pornographic books do not have an inalienable right to sell their goods to school libraries, a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday. A coalition of LGBT groups, free-speech organizations, authors, and publishers is challenging an Iowa law requiring schools to ensure that books are "age-appropriate." Senate File 496 explicitly refers to books with "descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act" and says school libraries cannot hand them out to kids. This upset Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, and HarperCollins, who all really want to place pornographic books in front of kids. However, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction against the law, holding that schools have a "legitimate pedagogical" interest in which books are accessible to kids during the day. ... The court further ruled that children do not have a right to read certain books in schools, and this does not amount to a book ban. "The First Amendment does not guarantee students the right to access books of their choosing at taxpayer expense," the ruling stated, citing case precedents. Hello! Happy Thursday, one of the best days of the week! Just a quick slumpbuster if you would, or even if you wouldn't. Here's a little news on me: I got almost eight hours of uninterrupted sleep last night and my energy levels are yuge. I've gotten a huge amount done this morning. Went after it hard twenty minutes after getting up. Unfortunately I've been working on a bunch of things to the exclusion of the first post of the day, which is why I'm posting this quickie. (Oh, varnishing done, but there is a little left in the can so I'm going to slop on one more coat on to the top.) Man, do you people routinely get a full night of sleep and have this much energy? If so, I feel really cheated. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:15 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 First Posted by: NALNAMSAM at April 09, 2026 12:16 PM (VkY89) 2 Nooded, and good afternoon, Ace. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:16 PM (NcvvS) 3 Off to Blade the others. Posted by: NALNAMSAM at April 09, 2026 12:17 PM (VkY89) 4 I've gotten a huge amount done this morning. Went after it hard twenty minutes after getting up. Wait, has M. Pete hijacked the site? Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t) 5 M. Pete just had to leave the library, disappointed. Posted by: gKWVE at April 09, 2026 12:18 PM (gKWVE) 6 "This upset Penguin Random House" Is anyone surprised? Posted by: Penguin Facts at April 09, 2026 12:18 PM (vFG9F) 7 The students can use National Geographic like we did! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:19 PM (ndZc7) 8 Libraries are practically the only purchasers of many left wing trash books I suspect. Posted by: steevy at April 09, 2026 12:19 PM (YwEeS) 9 It a quickie grandma not quiche. Posted by: NALNAMSAM at April 09, 2026 12:19 PM (VkY89) 10 The court further ruled that children do not have a right to read certain books in schools, and this does not amount to a book ban. Correct. "You can't read it at school on the taxpayer's dime" is not the same as "you can't read it." Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 12:19 PM (FmapG) 11 "I got almost eight hours of uninterrupted sleep last night and my energy levels are yuge." Well, the fat bump of yayo helped too .... Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/) 12 Ace, pre-varnishing: Man, do you people routinely get a full night of sleep and have this much energy? If so, I feel really cheated. Ace, post-varnishing: ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t) 13 I wish I could get a full 8 hours sleep. Haven't for more than 2 decades. I've tried every recommended thing ever for insomnia. My body just doesn't want to do it. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 12:20 PM (n5tGW) 14 Man, do you people routinely get a full night of sleep and have this much energy? If so, I feel really cheated. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:15 PM I woke up at 4 am this morning. I did not want to wake up at 4 am this morning. So, no. Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 09, 2026 12:20 PM (wtvvX) 15 "This violates the Free Leech clause of the First Amendment. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" Posted by: ShainS at April 09, 2026 12:20 PM (sZLk3) 16 What is a child? Posted by: Ketanji Action Jackson at April 09, 2026 12:20 PM (affD0) 17 Damn, 8 hours in a row??? My 29 year-old bladder just laughs at that suggestion..... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (dmDsy) 18 I need about 11 hours in bed to get 8 hours of sleep. Posted by: steevy at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (YwEeS) 19 Note that this is the 8th Circuit. If it's appealed to SCOTUS, I can't wait to hear KBJ's rationale for why schoolkids SHOULD be exposed to porn. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (Riz8t) 20 When you get a bit past 29, you'll find that your bladder almost never allows you eight consecutive hours of sleep. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (AlhUl) 21 >>Man, do you people routinely get a full night of sleep and have this much energy? If so, I feel really cheated. Need only about 6 1/2 hours of sleep. Usually wake up to turn over once, then out until the alarm. Honestly, have to be sick to get 8 hours. Causes a little tension because wife truly needs about 9 hours and the almost 1-year-old pup can be a little dynamic at bedtime. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (NcvvS) 22 coalition of LGBT groups, free-speech organizations, authors, and publishers is challenging an Iowa law requiring schools to ensure that books are "age-appropriate." "Free speech organizations"? Sure. Pull the other one, ok? Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (XuXeR) 23 "Went after it hard twenty minutes after getting up." [Perks up] -- That Gay Masturbating Guy Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (iFTx/) 24 Ever since my knee replacement in January I suck at sleep. It's worrying me. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (4tMC7) 25 Varnish Fumes are a great for deep sleep. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 12:22 PM (n17eQ) 26 (Oh, varnishing done, but there is a little left in the can so I'm going to slop on one more coat on to the top.) ================ Fabulous! Nothing like a sense of accomplishment and an actual physical thing to confirm it. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 12:22 PM (n7rxJ) 27 Good afternoon Ace and everyone Dirty job today Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 12:22 PM (HUH8y) 28 The great thing about this decision is they didn't chump out, they extended it to all books so schools can clear out a bunch of crap without facing lawsuits. Good schools anyway. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 12:22 PM (n5tGW) 29 I can't wait to hear KBJ's rationale for why schoolkids SHOULD be exposed to porn. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (Riz8t) ----- I'd honestly rather read the musings of Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro VT than try to make heads or tails of any "opinion" that abject retard "writes." Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 12:23 PM (oqH4h) 30 Does anyone think Jennifer Newsom is allowed to drive golf carts still? It's been on my mind. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 12:23 PM (4tMC7) 31 My state has initiated age verification for access to adult websites. I am in favor of this, and still mindful of the First Amendment issues involved. Would be interesting to see any stats the state has on adult site access before and after the new requirement. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 12:23 PM (pDt9x) 32 Eight hours? I’m lucky if I get four. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 09, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud) 33 Breathing varnish fumes could promote good sleep, more after the click! Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 09, 2026 12:23 PM (cWLG3) 34 28 The great thing about this decision is they didn't chump out, they extended it to all books so schools can clear out a bunch of crap without facing lawsuits. Good schools anyway. Bring that gay porn back and put it at the front of the library! Posted by: Judge Boasberg at April 09, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t) 35 20 When you get a bit past 29, you'll find that your bladder almost never allows you eight consecutive hours of sleep. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (AlhUl) I didn't start having that issue until I was twice that age. Which was "a few" years ago now... Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 09, 2026 12:23 PM (wtvvX) 36 Most lieberries today are run by liberal whacko women who love spending the tax dollars on "Heater's Little Man And His Canoe" or "My Two Dads Love Me Too" or "The Penis: A Horror Story" while collecting cats at home and voting democrat. Posted by: Zombie Melvil Dewey, Sex Pervert at April 09, 2026 12:23 PM (/1l9x) 37 Ace should try sniffing glue. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 12:24 PM (n17eQ) 38 "This upset Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, and HarperCollins, who all really want to place pornographic books in front of kids." Pretty sure what they care about most is a steady revenue stream from libraries forced to carry their smut. Follow. The. Money. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/) 39 A coalition of LGBT groups,... is challenging an Iowa law requiring schools to ensure that books are "age-appropriate. So LGBT groups, among others want pornography for kids. Fine. This is the kind of stance that makes me lose the very last bit of understanding or sympathy I might have for these abnormal freaks. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 09, 2026 12:24 PM (z4+bR) 40 This was a better country when porn wasn't available in children's libraries and people quietly "varnished" behind closed doors and didn't discuss it in mixed company. Posted by: Sandy Britches at April 09, 2026 12:24 PM (oftw2) 41 Ear plugs can help. Doggo The Additional is more prone to night time roaming than Doggo The Original, and I was waking up repeatedly. With the plugs, I don't hear the clicking of paws. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 12:24 PM (LzLR8) 42 I go through cycles where 5-6 hours of sleep is good enough and I have great energy upon waking. I also go through periods where 9 hours doesn't seem like enough and I'm a slug all day. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 12:25 PM (oqH4h) 43 I regularly sleep until 7am... unfortunately, I urinate at 5am Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 09, 2026 12:25 PM (affD0) 44 >>My 29 year-old bladder just laughs at that suggestion..... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (dmDsy) Works for me: a lot of fluid intake in the morning, but after lunch, closely restricted, then a half-liter of sparkling water (usually spiked) at bedtime. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:25 PM (NcvvS) 45 I can't wait to hear KBJ's rationale for why schoolkids SHOULD be exposed to porn. Posted by: Archimedes It should be delivered free of charge to their house. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2026 12:25 PM (Cqx++) 46 37 Ace should try sniffing glue. I hear you can get a good night's sleep by washing out a ship's solvent storage tanks without a mask. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t) 47 Read the links.... it was pretty much Big Penguin. / Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 12:26 PM (XuXeR) 48 Back in the 70s and early 80s, it is worth noting that all of the public schools which i attended from k-12 pulled the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue from the shelves and would not allow any of the students to read that issue. Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 09, 2026 12:26 PM (+9q9x) 49 Old & Busted: Hot glasses wearing librarians. New Hotness: Cat enthusiast multicolored hair lesbian librarians. OK not "HOT" but all you will get now. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 09, 2026 12:26 PM (xvV+O) 50 I regularly sleep until 7am... unfortunately, I urinate at 5am That is why we invented binder clips. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t) 51 My state has initiated age verification for access to adult websites. I am in favor of this, and still mindful of the First Amendment issues involved. Posted by: tubal I always liked the idea of giving porn sites their own top-level domain and creating a "digital red-light area" that would be easy to block at, say, work or schools. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 09, 2026 12:26 PM (a+4eV) 52 Ace: "Went after it hard twenty minutes after getting up." ********** Did you film it and try to sell it to the local school district? Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 12:26 PM (qgHp7) 53 Man, do you people routinely get a full night of sleep and have this much energy? If so, I feel really cheated. =============== Never. No matter how many times I swear to myself I WILL brush my teeth, pop in my retainer, get out of my tight clothes, turn off the lights, and get into bed, I just keep collapsing on the couch with all kinds of sleep-inhibiting things in my environment and toss around all night in a low-level state of conscious disturbance that I really should get up and go to bed. Then it's wakeup later than I wanted because I didn't sleep enough and drag around all day until "bed" time. I know people who are completely disciplined about this, and I envy the heck out of them. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 12:27 PM (n7rxJ) 54 The more I sleep the more tired I am. Apparently its a thing and it's not sleep apnea. I feel amazing on about 6 hours. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:27 PM (8X0wm) 55 So LGBT groups, among others want pornography for kids. But only homosexual pornography. Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 09, 2026 12:27 PM (n1OCj) 56 >>My 29 year-old bladder just laughs at that suggestion..... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (dmDsy) Works for me: a lot of fluid intake in the morning, but after lunch, closely restricted, then a half-liter of sparkling water (usually spiked) at bedtime. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:25 PM (NcvvS) Interesting, thanks! Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 12:27 PM (dmDsy) 57 I know what you mean ace about what it’s like when you get a full nights sleep and are operating at 100% capacity. It’s a little like the Limitless drug, except I have a sense after so many 29th birthdays that it’s just a rare glimpse of what used to be “normal.” And it is rare. I’m not sure if it tracks exactly and only with good sleep or more likely other factors, but it is a magical experience that only happens a handful of times…in a year. So like you I try to absolutely make hay on everything when I wake up like that. I would do anything to replicate that every day. Posted by: Mad Max in VA at April 09, 2026 12:27 PM (udRx+) 58 allow any of the students to read that issue." "Read"? Cheryl Tiegs in that fishnet suit.... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (XuXeR) 59 In reality though, it's not the books in the library. It's the assigned reading, only about 10% of kids voluntarily read. Colleges don't even assign full books anymore. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (n5tGW) 60 I always liked the idea of giving porn sites their own top-level domain and creating a "digital red-light area" that would be easy to block at, say, work or schools. Posted by: FeatherBlade ===== The Little Monsters always figure out a workaround. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (LzLR8) 61 >>>So LGBT groups, among others want pornography for kids. But only homosexual pornography. Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 09, 2026 12:27 PM (n1OCj) Gotta support the team. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (dK+Kv) 62 Never. No matter how many times I swear to myself I WILL brush my teeth, pop in my retainer, get out of my tight clothes, turn off the lights, and get into bed, I just keep collapsing on the couch..... Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 12:27 PM (n7rxJ) You know the rule. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (8X0wm) 63 The crazy years continue. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (BI5O2) 64 Court ruled it was a Mute Point, as all the pages were stuck together anywho. Posted by: Uncle Pervy at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (oftw2) 65 Ace, did you do something specific to achieve a good night's sleep? Because if you found something helpful, I might want to try it. Posted by: Statue of Libertine at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (FMtrg) 66 45 I can't wait to hear KBJ's rationale for why schoolkids SHOULD be exposed to porn. Posted by: Archimedes It should be delivered free of charge to their house. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2026 12:25 PM (Cqx++) -- My 13-yr old self supports this. Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (0bjKf) 67 50 I regularly sleep until 7am... unfortunately, I urinate at 5am That is why we invented binder clips. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t) Or boners. Posted by: Denny Crane - Many A Time I Got Hard To Avoid Wetting The Bed, Among Other Reasons... at April 09, 2026 12:30 PM (dmDsy) 68 The JC Penney Catalog always worked for me... but then again, so did a stiff breeze Posted by: 13 Year Old Boy What Has Pimples on His Bak at April 09, 2026 12:30 PM (affD0) 69 ...I know people who are completely disciplined about this, and I envy the heck out of them. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 12:27 PM (n7rxJ) You could like...join the Army? In Basic Training they say "Lights out!" and it's Lights out! That might help. Just sayin'. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 09, 2026 12:31 PM (z4+bR) 70 >>The more I sleep the more tired I am. Apparently its a thing and it's not sleep apnea. I feel amazing on about 6 hours. There's a notion about 'sleep-poisoning' (ignore the online bullshit) that sleeping more than you need damages you. This enrages my wife, but it's real for me if going more than 7 hours asleep. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:31 PM (NcvvS) 71 The more I sleep the more tired I am. Apparently its a thing and it's not sleep apnea. I feel amazing on about 6 hours. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:27 PM (8X0wm) That's always been the case with me, except when I have a stint of broken, 3-4 hours sleep nights. Then I can go for an 8+ hour night to recharge. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 12:31 PM (dK+Kv) 72 24 Ever since my knee replacement in January I suck at sleep. It's worrying me. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (4tMC7) Seeing as a total knee is stalking me: How's the rehab? Do you have full extension / retraction yet? Posted by: browndog says woof at April 09, 2026 12:31 PM (3sXRv) 73 While checking for deposit bottles, I found a box of Penthouse magazines in fifth grade. I had my own library where I charged 10 cents for 24 hours of a Penthouse. Luckily never got caught. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 09, 2026 12:31 PM (xvV+O) 74 Because if you found something helpful, I might want to try it. Varnish fumes. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 12:31 PM (n5tGW) 75 The "Periodicals" room of my hometown library used to be a fantastic source of information, but, sadly, did not carry Hustler or Penthouse. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 12:32 PM (Y8DZL) 76 I can't wait to hear KBJ's rationale for why schoolkids SHOULD be exposed to porn. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (Riz8t) ----- I'd honestly rather read the musings of Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro VT than try to make heads or tails of any "opinion" that abject retard "writes." Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 12:23 PM (oqH4h) Right? When a retarded sock on a website makes more sense and is more interesting to read than that dipshit it makes you just want to baseball bat every republican that confirmed her. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:32 PM (snZF9) 77 What does say about the poofters on the school boards? They need to be prosecuted. Posted by: TJ jackson at April 09, 2026 12:32 PM (bXvrr) 78 coalition of LGBT groups, free-speech organizations, authors, and publishers is challenging an Iowa law requiring schools to ensure that books are "age-appropriate." --- "Republicans just want to ban books like 'Heather Has Two Mommies' and force everyone to read the Bible!!" - AWFLs who just know all the facts 'cause they watch both CNN and MSNBC. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 12:32 PM (HXT0k) 79 this does not amount to a book ban ================ It's funny how they decide which books are "banned" and which just aren't in the tiny little school library, which can never hold the 25 million volumes catalogued in the Library of Congress. The Cat in the Hat isn't in there. So there's no room; it just isn't in there. Heather Has Two Mommies isn't in there? BANNED! BURNED!! Nazis!!!!! Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 12:33 PM (n7rxJ) 80 >>Interesting, thanks! Hope it helps. Think my bladder has awakened me about 4 times in the last year, and only because of rule-breaking. Good luck! Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:33 PM (NcvvS) 81 60 I always liked the idea of giving porn sites their own top-level domain and creating a "digital red-light area" that would be easy to block at, say, work or schools. Posted by: FeatherBlade ===== The Little Monsters always figure out a workaround. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (LzLR I was curious about how efficient the verification is in practice. Pretty good for the US based and affiliated sites - the ones that most users are familiar with, but non existent coverage for foreign based sites. The kids and the adults who want their content will figure that out quickly, if not already. Incidentally Reddit, which is lousy with the most scurrilous porn imaginable is not considered a porn site. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 12:33 PM (pDt9x) 82 Unfortunately I've been working on a bunch of things to the exclusion of the first post of the day, which is why I'm posting this quickie. Who told you that you could shag off? Teh Horde demands content. Dance, Ewok. Dance. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 09, 2026 12:33 PM (JoTi8) 83 I've been taking Gaba from Amazon. It's a natural thing that promotes relaxation. Damn am I sleeping well. Better than zzzQuil, booze and edibles. GREAT NEWS! Kate at smalldeadanimals tangentially related to this. We have new letters!! MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan Regional Engagement on the Development of the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan. She also had another link to a real pronoun hottie I could eat all day. It would be more because of width, heft and effort than actual desire though. And I'm testing YouTube. Here's an 11 second video to my 14 year old dog a week after he almost died falling off my bed. https://tinyurl.com/ms2pnp59 Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 12:33 PM (Sco7b) 84 in the past, one might have expected that the publishers' rationale for pursuing this suit would have been strictly mercantile in nature. given the average personnel profile of modern publishing outfits, i'm afraid something far more nefarious has motivated this legal action. Posted by: pH at April 09, 2026 12:33 PM (0xdAI) 85 2029: Chief Justice Affirmative Action Jackson and her Eight New DEI Monster Associate Justices: "Tranny Porn for Kids Required by Constitution." Posted by: Won the battle (Iran), lost the war (US) at April 09, 2026 12:34 PM (qUkBO) 86 Ace, no, I do not get a full eight hours of interrupted sleep. Seven has been as close as I come for a long time. Either the cat wakes me, or I wake up on my own, usually at about six hours to six and a half. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 12:34 PM (wzUl9) 87 80 >>Interesting, thanks! Hope it helps. Think my bladder has awakened me about 4 times in the last year, and only because of rule-breaking. Good luck! Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:33 PM (NcvvS) thumbs up emoji Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 12:34 PM (dmDsy) 88 If you start varnishing the floor within ah hour of waking you'll probably hit the wall by noon. (wait for it...) Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 12:34 PM (qgHp7) 89 I wish I could get a full 8 hours sleep. Haven't for more than 2 decades. I've tried every recommended thing ever for insomnia. My body just doesn't want to do it. -- fist bump All I ever hear is how important quality sleep is, and do this, don't do that to insure you get your 8 solid hours. My body refuses to sleep like that. I'm lucky if I can sleep 5 hours a night. Six is a miracle. And maybe once every few years, I can sleep all night without waking up a dozen times. Insomnia blows. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 09, 2026 12:34 PM (qBdHI) 90 got almost eight hours of uninterrupted sleep last night and my energy levels are yuge. I've gotten a huge amount done this morning. Went after it hard twenty minutes after getting up. U ------ You should have taken up huffing varnish years ago! Posted by: Bugs at April 09, 2026 12:35 PM (j2/6g) 91 When you get a bit past 29, you'll find that your bladder almost never allows you eight consecutive hours of sleep. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (AlhUl) I didn't start having that issue until I was twice that age. Which was "a few" years ago now... Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 09, 2026 12:23 PM (wtvvX) I only have that problem if I drink coffee around midnight. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:35 PM (snZF9) 92 That's always been the case with me, except when I have a stint of broken, 3-4 hours sleep nights. Then I can go for an 8+ hour night to recharge. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 12:31 PM (dK+Kv) Yup. I've always said you were me. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:36 PM (8X0wm) 93 People over 29 years old tend to wake up early because they want to get up and see if they are in the Obituaries. Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 12:37 PM (qgHp7) 94 Nothing I didn't know, but this is a good reminder of the costs of ignoring the Constitution and the wisdom and courage of SOME of our ancestors. The Guns Fell Silent at Appomattox, and the Reconciliation Began https://is.gd/3g9vKp Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t) 95 You could like...join the Army? In Basic Training they say "Lights out!" and it's Lights out! That might help. Just sayin'. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! ================ Just a thought, but I bet the Army -- or the Marines, or the Navy, or whoever -- could make a little extra money if they put some routines like that on an app or a website. BRUSH YOUR TEETH NOW! Get your face over that sink! PUT DOWN THAT COFFEE CUP. Lights out! (Taps) Same thing in the morning (Reveille) and late afternoon (Retreat). Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 12:37 PM (n7rxJ) 96 Wanted to do a Ben Rothliesburger post for Muldoon's post but I'm too lazy. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 12:37 PM (n5tGW) 97 This thread is making me sleepy. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 09, 2026 12:37 PM (z4+bR) 98 I read some thing - may have been total bs - that people used to sleep in 2 stages? Like 5 hours, then awake for 2, then another 2 or 3 hours? I didn't verify because I didn't care enough to do. But that happens to me if I go to sleep too early. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:38 PM (8X0wm) 99 What was really interesting at the library were local newspapers on microfiche from the 30's and 40's. People in that era were much better informed about local going-ons than today. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 12:38 PM (Y8DZL) 100 A coalition of LGBT groups,... is challenging an Iowa law requiring schools to ensure that books are "age-appropriate. - Dude, please. MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ groups. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:38 PM (ndZc7) 101 Random House was started by Bennett Cerf. The children's division was run by Phyllis Fraser, Cerf's wife and cousin of Ginger Rogers. One of the first authors signed was Ted Geisel, Dr. Seuss. Posted by: Ah Cain't Reed Gud! at April 09, 2026 12:38 PM (oftw2) 102 Porn in the library? Kids today are so spoiled. In the olden days, we had forest porn, the trick was in finding a hiding place that would keep it intact through any weather. Not to mention, dodging the dinosaurs in the forest to read about how the centerfold chick is working towards world peace while using the money from modeling for Penthouse to attend medical school. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 09, 2026 12:40 PM (JoTi8) 103 Kind of a rare day when we don't hear from Sponge, innit? Or TJM, for that matter..... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 12:40 PM (dmDsy) 104 I'm surprised my LOLGBTQ never really caught on Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:40 PM (8X0wm) 105 >>People over 29 years old tend to wake up early because they want to get up and see if they are in the Obituaries. Parents' home parish used to (may still, don't know) publish around All Souls' day a list of parishioners who passed in the preceding year. Dad had passed in June. Mom showed me the list in November - and it was my name instead of his. Could say my obit has been published. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:40 PM (NcvvS) 106 >>>Two women brawl over coffin at Mexican funeral after discovering they were both dating the dead guy. Ladies, please have some decency at my funeral. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 12:41 PM (dK+Kv) 107 Adderall during the day, Xanax to sleep is the new American norm. Posted by: Muh Brain Hurts! at April 09, 2026 12:41 PM (oftw2) 108 Sleep is good. I've heard... Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y) 109 >>The more I sleep the more tired I am. Apparently its a thing and it's not sleep apnea. I feel amazing on about 6 hours. There's a notion about 'sleep-poisoning' (ignore the online bullshit) that sleeping more than you need damages you. This enrages my wife, but it's real for me if going more than 7 hours asleep. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:31 PM (NcvvS) yeah, its real. I was always 6 hours and done. I had surgery 2 years ago and decided to sleep longer in the name of healing. Before I knew it I was sleeping 8, 10, 12 hours, then passing out early. I could not stay awake past midnight for the first time in 40 years. I had to force myself back into my nightwalker routine. I'm back to 6 hours of sleep and everything went back to normal. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:42 PM (snZF9) 110 >>>Two women brawl over coffin at Mexican funeral after discovering they were both dating the dead guy. ---------- Ladies - don't take it out on each other. Settle it like mature women and defile his corpse Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:42 PM (8X0wm) 111 Oh sweet. A really pretty asian lady just won $10,000 on "Let's Make a Deal" which is on for background noise. Good for her. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 12:43 PM (Sco7b) 112 Ladies - don't take it out on each other. Settle it like mature women and defile his corpse === They arent fighting over him, they are fighting over his estate. Posted by: Bugs at April 09, 2026 12:43 PM (j2/6g) 113 107 Adderall during the day, Xanax to sleep is the new American norm. Posted by: Muh Brain Hurts! at April 09, 2026 12:41 PM (oftw2) Sign me up! Where do I go for that? Posted by: Denny Crane - Sometimes Scotch Just Doesn't Cut It... at April 09, 2026 12:43 PM (dmDsy) 114 "Republicans just want to ban books like 'Heather Has Two Mommies' and force everyone to read the Bible!!" - AWFLs who just know all the facts 'cause they watch both CNN and MSNBC. - Meanwhile, in Canada . . . Canada Proposes Law Classifying Bible Quotes As Hate Speech Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:43 PM (ndZc7) 115 Must be something REALLY good in that varnish... Posted by: Shepherd Lover at April 09, 2026 12:44 PM (5CBGh) 116 Meanwhile, in Canada . . . Canada Proposes Law Classifying Bible Quotes As Hate Speech Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:43 PM (ndZc7) LOL. Ah Canadia. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 12:44 PM (bss/y) 117 "I got almost eight hours of uninterrupted sleep" I'd buy that for a dollar! Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 12:44 PM (N8ZBc) 118 I'm tired Tired of being admired Tired of love uninspired Let's face it I'm pooped Posted by: Field Marshal Von Stupp at April 09, 2026 12:44 PM (wBaIH) 119 Canada . . . Canada Proposes Law Classifying Bible Quotes As Hate Speech === What would Satan do if he were in charge of Canada???? Posted by: Bugs at April 09, 2026 12:45 PM (j2/6g) 120 >>Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:42 PM (snZF9) Absolutely. Used to be fine on 6 hours, but now it's 6 1/2. Thing was, always thought sleep was a waste of time! Time that could have been spent of reading! Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:45 PM (NcvvS) 121 115 Must be something REALLY good in that varnish... Posted by: Shepherd Lover at April 09, 2026 12:44 PM (5CBGh) ace is crafting something. Spending his effort and energy into making something beautiful, yet keeping on flaw, because perfection is the realm of God. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y) 122 Canada Proposes Law Classifying Bible Quotes As Hate Speech Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:43 PM (ndZc7) Yet another thing uptight backwards conspiracy minded hick Christianists totally did not see coming the day they invented "hate speech". Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:45 PM (8X0wm) 123 The left: You know if kids can't read gay or tranny porn they won't even know they should be gay or a tranny. And nothing brings us more joy then opening children's minds by reading it with them Also the left: Why do you reichwingers all think we are pedos? You shouldn't just call people you don't like pedos for no reason Also, also the left: You know Donald Trump is a pedo. Seriously. He like, uh, well you know, is a pedo. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:46 PM (sKqQm) 124 "Pretty sure what they care about most is a steady revenue stream from libraries forced to carry their smut. Follow. The. Money." True--both public libraries and school systems. I have a niece who was a journalist (not a reporter. Facts aren't nearly as important as how big feels can be in a situation), who wrote a book with a very dramatic title, on her feelings at being embedded in A-stan for a major paper. While it got tepid reviews, she still had plenty of tours, signings and income from...her book being assigned at the high school level in several state school systems. If every kid in the junior class of an entire state needs a copy of your book, well... There is a "journalism" tie in too. Posted by: barbarausa at April 09, 2026 12:47 PM (enw9G) 125 Canada Proposes Law Classifying Bible Quotes As Hate Speech How it starts: Why can't you just give a little respect and understanding to people not like you?!? How it ends: Of course you belong in prison you don't think like we do! Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:47 PM (sKqQm) 126 Appomattox Courthouse is a wonderful, serene place to visit. And a short drive from Farmville, where a furniture store has conquered and still occupies the entire town. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 12:47 PM (Y8DZL) 127 I'm proposing banning Prometheus from libraries nationwide. Posted by: Weed Out The Filth at April 09, 2026 12:47 PM (oftw2) 128 When you get a bit past 29, you'll find that your bladder almost never allows you eight consecutive hours of sleep. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (AlhUl) Heh...my insomnia is not caused by my bladder, but I will get up to take a leak just because I am bored with trying to get back to sleep. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 12:47 PM (n9ltV) 129 MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan I like how kidnapped female Indians are now part of Greater Gayness, but kidnapped males are not. (MMIWG is "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls"). Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 12:47 PM (2ocoG) 130 Hmmm, think I am going to give up on baking bacon. This batch was much better, but still too crispy. Frying takes less time. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y) 131 I always liked the idea of giving porn sites their own top-level domain and creating a "digital red-light area" that would be easy to block at, say, work or schools. Posted by: FeatherBlade Change all porn sites to use the new top level domain .cum that defaults to off and has to be unlocked for a user account from their ISP. Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 09, 2026 12:48 PM (9d+81) 132 The Left: Donald Trump fucks children Also the Left: We're coming to fuck your children Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:48 PM (8X0wm) 133 Two women brawl over coffin at Mexican funeral after discovering they were both dating the dead guy. Every now and then on the Whatever podcast they'll discover that several of the female guests are all dating the same guy without knowing it... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm) 134 I'm proposing banning Prometheus from libraries nationwide. Posted by: Weed Out The Filth at April 09, 2026 12:47 PM (oftw2) Can we ban "A Confederacy of Dunces" as well? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 12:48 PM (n9ltV) 135 Sleep is highly over rated. Naps OTOH are the best! Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 09, 2026 12:49 PM (Q/FnY) 136 When you get a bit past 29, you'll find that your bladder almost never allows you eight consecutive hours of sleep. My favorite is when it wakes me up 30m before I have to get up and tells me very clearly waiting 30m is not an option. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:49 PM (sKqQm) 137 Meh after alien earth its a masterpiece Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 09, 2026 12:49 PM (bXbFr) 138 Many states have had a log in feature put in for at least US based porn sites. If their goal was to block, search engines can take you to outside US porn. Easily. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 12:49 PM (bss/y) 139 Two women brawl over coffin at Mexican funeral after discovering they were both dating the dead guy. Their first clue should have been that he went by "El Paolo". Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 12:50 PM (2ocoG) 140 Pornhole Professionals hardest hit. Posted by: Joe Mama at April 09, 2026 12:50 PM (TezPK) 141 BTW, it seems conspiracy theories are more spoilers then anything else in the modern world... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:50 PM (sKqQm) 142 As long as the schoolkids have access to all the porn they want on their smartphones, they probably won't sweat the new library rules too much. Parents: you must spy on what your kids are doing online. The responsibility is mostly yours. Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 12:51 PM (N8ZBc) 143 >>When you get a bit past 29, you'll find that your bladder almost never allows you eight consecutive hours of sleep. Glycine shortly before bed (3-4g, I think is the dose) will fix that. Posted by: garrett at April 09, 2026 12:51 PM (TLp3A) 144 "Two women brawl over coffin at Mexican funeral after discovering they were both dating the dead guy. Every now and then on the Whatever podcast they'll discover that several of the female guests are all dating the same guy without knowing it..." When my daughter worked at GW hospital in DC, "Code Strong" was the emergency call for security. Most often heard in re labor and delivery, when two or more different baby daddies showed up for the same mama in labor. Posted by: barbarausa at April 09, 2026 12:51 PM (enw9G) 145 Meanwhile, in California . . . California Supreme Court Orders Sheriff to Pause Probe Into Election Fraud Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:52 PM (ndZc7) 146 Two women brawl over coffin at Mexican funeral after discovering they were both dating the dead guy. The mortician had a devil of a time closing that lid. Posted by: gKWVE at April 09, 2026 12:52 PM (gKWVE) 147 Now we need to ask the question about why it's so desperately important for these cretins to give porn to kids. Preferably while the offenders are crippled from the beatings we give them. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 12:52 PM (OPGS/) 148 No problem sleeping. Red wine before bedtime. It’s a given already that I’ll have to pee, so might as well enjoy it. Posted by: RI Red at April 09, 2026 12:52 PM (LMRVO) 149 BTW, it seems conspiracy theories are more spoilers then anything else in the modern world... Yeah. The obvious exception is conspiracy theories about Israel, even if the Space Lasers are mostly real. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 12:53 PM (2ocoG) 150 145 Meanwhile, in California . . . California Supreme Court Orders Sheriff to Pause Probe Into Election Fraud Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:52 PM (ndZc7) I can't imagine why... Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 12:53 PM (bss/y) 151 I have found that AG1 in the AM, 30 minutes or more prior to the first cup of coffee gives me more energy throughout the day than 2-3 Cups of coffee without it. Something that you might want to look into Ace. Not the cheapest supplement package...but damn effective. Posted by: garrett at April 09, 2026 12:53 PM (TLp3A) 152 It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. Man, I hate that shit. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 09, 2026 12:54 PM (3FwFr) 153 Most often heard in re labor and delivery, when two or more different baby daddies showed up for the same mama in labor. I saw an Am I the Asshole thread a while back. The woman writing it had recently given birth. She had been dating two guys when she conceived, but was pretty sure it was the poorer guy she was seeing at the time based on when she had sex with each of them. But she claimed it was the wealthier guy to get more child support, and hence her asking if she was the asshole just because she was "trying to get more money for my baby" Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:54 PM (sKqQm) 154 Hmmm, think I am going to give up on baking bacon. This batch was much better, but still too crispy. Frying takes less time. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y) Power through. At my elevation, I start at 400 F for about 15 minutes, then tweak until you get the uniform tiny bubbles across the strips, typically about 20-22 minutes total, for non-thick bacon. The thick stuff usually takes about 5 minutes longer. The problem comes when the strips are not uniform thickness, and you have to evacuate the soldiers in waves. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 12:54 PM (dK+Kv) 155 I wake up a couple times a night, always from Dream Failure... I always try to lucid dream, and even when I don't achieve that, something in the dream will just stop it... usually someone I am talking to just stops...everything. So my mind yells "Cut!", and I'm awake... Then I have to piss! Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 12:54 PM (dmDsy) 156 134 I'm proposing banning Prometheus from libraries nationwide. Posted by: Weed Out The Filth at April 09, 2026 12:47 PM (oftw2) After female Doctor Who, woke Star Trek Discovery, feminist Star Wars, gay, black Doctor Who and Starfleet Academy, why would we ban the classics? It was like Shakespeare. Except without guns because you don't want those on scientific missions exploring a strange world. It hurts the SCIENCE'S feelings. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 12:54 PM (Sco7b) 157 FIRST!!!!! Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 12:54 PM (CfKHZ) 158 Ladies - don't take it out on each other. Settle it like mature women and defile his corpse Posted by: ... Somewhere, Bernie Lomax nods and smiles knowingly.* Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 09, 2026 12:54 PM (9d+81) 159 asking if she was the asshole just because she was "trying to get more money for my baby" Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:54 PM (sKqQm) Dare I ask what the consensus was? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:55 PM (8X0wm) 160 Oh, also, 30mg of melatonin and 2-3 benedryls really enhances the dream states.... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 12:56 PM (dmDsy) 161 18-1, it seems most of these young women had multiple guys convinced it was theirs, and was milking every single one of them for bennies. The fights could get pretty epic Posted by: barbarausa at April 09, 2026 12:56 PM (enw9G) 162 I think a couple of sleep interruptions are OK, provided the individual segments are long enough; 3 hours or so. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 09, 2026 12:56 PM (QOQ9u) 163 California Supreme Court Orders Sheriff to Pause Probe Into Election Fraud In some states most of the people elected aren't actually elected. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 12:56 PM (n5tGW) 164 151 I have found that AG1 in the AM, 30 minutes or more prior to the first cup of coffee gives me more energy throughout the day than 2-3 Cups of coffee without it. Something that you might want to look into Ace. Not the cheapest supplement package...but damn effective. Posted by: garrett at April 09, 2026 12:53 PM (TLp3A) looks up Huh. Athletic Greens. Might look into it. I have been trying some Matcha powder in with the creatine in the morning. Cannot really make any claims one way or another on the Matcha yet. Makes the milk green. Creatine definitely does something. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 12:56 PM (bss/y) 165 All of my life I have had an odd sleep pattern. I fall asleep quickly, and soundly for about 2 or 3 hours, then the rest of the night I merely doze, waking up three or four times before getting up in the morning. And yet, I almost never feel sleep deprived. the only time I slept straight through was in basic training, where I would basically pass out for four hours. Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 09, 2026 12:57 PM (PSEDc) 166 Oh, and Prometheus had working toilets! See, classic science fiction! Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 12:57 PM (Sco7b) 167 Now we need to ask the question about why it's so desperately important for these cretins to give porn to kids. Preferably while the offenders are crippled from the beatings we give them. I remember a "very special" episode of Different Strokes. There was a new bicycle shop that Arnold Jackson and a friend were very fond of and the adult owner of the shop was very friendly with them. The owner started giving Arnold's friend alcohol and showing him porn because he wanted to molest him. Its the same thing here. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm) 168 Dare I ask what the consensus was? 50-50 she was the asshole. The pro side pointed out she was lying and taking advantage of the guy The anti side argued he was having sex with her so he could have been the father so it wasn't a big deal to punish him anyway. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:59 PM (sKqQm) 169 But she claimed it was the wealthier guy to get more child support, and hence her asking if she was the asshole just because she was "trying to get more money for my baby" Slut Shaming needs to be a thing again. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 12:59 PM (OPGS/) 170 18-1, it seems most of these young women had multiple guys convinced it was theirs, and was milking every single one of them for bennies. The fights could get pretty epic Banning paternity tests is becoming a big thing in Europe because too many guys are finding out their kids and not in fact their kids... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 01:00 PM (sKqQm) 171 The owner started giving Arnold's friend alcohol and showing him porn because he wanted to molest him. I remember that episode. Gordon Jump was the actor in question. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 01:00 PM (OPGS/) 172 Most often heard in re labor and delivery, when two or more different baby daddies showed up for the same mama in labor. I saw an Am I the Asshole thread a while back. The woman writing it had recently given birth. She had been dating two guys when she conceived, but was pretty sure it was the poorer guy she was seeing at the time based on when she had sex with each of them. But she claimed it was the wealthier guy to get more child support, and hence her asking if she was the asshole just because she was "trying to get more money for my baby" Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:54 PM (sKqQm) Saw some story yesterday about some lady who had sex with two guys in one day, and she had twins. Two eggs, two swimmers, two twin babies, two different baby daddies. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:00 PM (dK+Kv) 173 David Axelrod apparently had a private audience with Pope Leo yesterday. He wanted Obama to sue the Little Sisters of the Poor for not providing abortions back in the day. Wonder what they had to talk about. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 01:00 PM (Y8DZL) 174 >>No problem sleeping. Red wine before bedtime. It’s a given already that I’ll have to pee, so might as well enjoy it. Restrict fluids after lunch. Half-liter sparkling water w/ shot of VSOP at bedtime. Sleep to the alarm, but do not hit snooze. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (NcvvS) 175 Huh. Posted from the work VPN, then it blocked. Guess they updated something really quick and the blog is now blocked. Wonderful. The host wifi is banned as well. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (0fM+0) 176 Glad that part of job is over Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (HUH8y) 177 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh · BREAKING: House Democrats just started YELLING on the floor after the GOP presiding officer BLOCKED their War Powers resolution to stop President Trump's Operation Epic Fury He slammed the gavel, and Democrats raged: "SHAME!" Hey Democrats — we're already in ceasefire mode Pathetic GAMES! https://tinyurl.com/2vhspmmx Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (NpAcC) 178 NOODlum. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:02 PM (PQb8B) 179 The anti side argued he was having sex with her so he could have been the father so it wasn't a big deal to punish him anyway. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:59 PM (sKqQm) Same chicks who wonder where all the good guys are. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 09, 2026 01:02 PM (dK+Kv) 180 The students can use National Geographic like we did! RIP, Sears catalog lingerie section. Posted by: Oddbob at April 09, 2026 01:02 PM (vTZFs) 181 175 I've been getting occasional server disconnects on this site, and only on this site, for the past couple of days. I'm not using a VPN. FWIW. Posted by: gp at April 09, 2026 01:02 PM (N8ZBc) 182 Oh, if you dream of peeing, GET UP IMMEDIATELY AND HIT THE HEAD! Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 01:02 PM (NcvvS) 183 **Man, do you people routinely get a full night of sleep --- Ha. Glad you got some sleep. Can't remember when I got eight. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 01:03 PM (b4dih) 184 1pm before movies... FoxNews - Israel will start peace negotiations with Lebanon. Good luck with that.1 And from the hourly 2 minutes of hate CBC - a conservative changes to the liberals CNN - vessels passing through the Strait. Israel and Lebanon. Again, good luck. MS Now - Trump disappointed in Nato. Their military analyst was concerned. Dude knows what happens when you break a truce in 'Risk.' Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 01:04 PM (Sco7b) 185 Can we ban "A Confederacy of Dunces" as well? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 12:48 PM All* the teachers? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 09, 2026 01:04 PM (kgE5c) 186 Don't worry, lads. I always poo before I get up. Posted by: Vyv ate the Telly at April 09, 2026 01:05 PM (7Q0e+) 187 >>Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 09, 2026 12:57 PM (PSEDc) Sleep cycles are about 90-100 minutes. For me, first cycle? Don't even think about trying to wake me. Each is a little shallower after that, but generally don't notice the transitions unless turning over. Only going from cycle 3 to 4 does it get to the surface. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 01:06 PM (NcvvS) 188 Huh. Posted from the work VPN, then it blocked. Guess they updated something really quick and the blog is now blocked. Wonderful. The host wifi is banned as well. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (0fM+0) You were by-catch in a troll hunt, Sponge. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 01:08 PM (utfVc) 189 153 I saw an Am I the Asshole thread a while back. The woman writing it had recently given birth. She had been dating two guys when she conceived, but was pretty sure it was the poorer guy she was seeing at the time based on when she had sex with each of them. But she claimed it was the wealthier guy to get more child support, and hence her asking if she was the asshole just because she was "trying to get more money for my baby" Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 12:54 PM ------- Yes, she's a raging asshole. She'll raise that kid to be a psychopath like her. She did manage to marry Gavin Newsom, however. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 09, 2026 01:09 PM (YWeo8) 190 119 Canada . . . Canada Proposes Law Classifying Bible Quotes As Hate Speech === What would Satan do if he were in charge of Canada???? Posted by: Bugs at April 09, 2026 12:45 PM -- Something more subtle. Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 09, 2026 01:09 PM (NYInA) 191 I always liked the idea of giving porn sites their own top-level domain and creating a "digital red-light area" that would be easy to block at, say, work or schools. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 09, 2026 12:26 PM (a+4eV) That already exists, .xxx and such, but you can't force those sites to use those domains. Most will just remain on .com. Posted by: farquad at April 09, 2026 01:29 PM (CFMhl) 192 I think every school library should carry the Bible, Bible commentaries, Aquinas and if you are a trouble make, City of God and nothing else in detention. Can you imagine the left screaming how illegal that would be? But porn for kids is another hill they defend. Sick perverts. Posted by: Conan the Meme Destroyer at April 09, 2026 02:34 PM (VZ8Zc) 193 Amazing blog! Do you have any suggestions for aspiring writers? I'm planning to start my own blog soon but I'm a little lost on everything. Would you propose starting with a free platform like Wordpress or go for a paid option? There are so many choices out there that I'm totally confused .. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot! Posted by: 888vnd at April 09, 2026 02:35 PM (Cx53s) The Morning Rant: Iran Is Not Of The West The gulf between East and West is massive, and the best way to see it is to negotiate. Westerners, animated by 2,500 years of Western culture -- based on empiricism and truth and morality -- make implicit assumptions about the motives of the people across the table: that they are motivated by the same goals...an honest and fair agreement that recognizes the needs of both parties. And those are laughable from the perspective of the rest of the world. Lying, cheating, outright stealing is part of the game, and they simply take advantage of the morality of Western culture to get what they want, and be damned with the other parties to the agreement. Iran has never and will never negotiate in good faith. Their goals will never change, and until those goals are seen as 100% unobtainable, they will continue along the same path. And what are those goals? Regional hegemony. A nuclear arsenal. The destruction of Israel. The destruction of America. How can honest negotiation proceed if those goals are immutable? Vance says "ceasefires are always messy" and U.S. "never indicated" Lebanon would be included in deal with Iran The U.S. never promised Lebanon would be included in the ceasefire agreement, Vance said, despite Iran's claims it was, chalking that up to a "reasonable misunderstanding" between the parties. Vance said he's not confident in how well Ghalibaf understands English, "because there are things that he said, frankly, that didn't make sense in the context of negotiations that we've had." On Wednesday, the Iranian Parliament speaker claimed the U.S. is violating three parts of a ceasefire deal, citing continued fire in Lebanon, a drone allegedly entering Iranian airspace and a "denial of Iran's right to enrich uranium." Vance said that if Ghalibaf only has three points of disagreement, there must be quite a lot of agreement. It's cute that the Vice President is scrambling around for excuses for the Iranian negotiator. He's a commercial pilot, and the universal language of flying is English. But even if his command of the language is shaky, the difference between including Lebanon and not including Lebanon in the ceasefire is clear and unambiguous. What is actually going on is murky, but it is entirely possible that Ghalibaf does not have overall authority, or he is simply lying and Iran had no intention of opening Hormuz. Or both. And the IRGC and the Iranian government are not one and the same, unlike Western countries with militaries that answer to civilian leadership. That is why the only clear path to a peaceful Iran is the total destruction of their military capacity, and the decapitation of the IRGC down to the squad level. Negotiation will never change the savage focus of the Mullahs and the IRGC, and to assume that there are "moderate" factions within Iran that can take control is just silly. Absent a successful revolution and the ascension of Pahlavi or another anti-Mullah figure to a position of authority, Iran will not change. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated! Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 Not the Blade Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 11:01 AM (2UnvF) 2 Called em Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 11:01 AM (2UnvF) 3 Don't hesitate, Mr. Trump. "You broke the ceasefire. Here's what I promised." BOOM!!! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 11:02 AM (wzUl9) 4 his command of the language is shaky Yknow who else was shaky? Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 09, 2026 11:02 AM (Kt19C) 5 One week being smoke free and I haven't climbed the clock tower with a deer rifle. Yet. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 11:03 AM (2UnvF) 6 We're fed. Posted by: Won the battle (Iran), lost the war (US) at April 09, 2026 11:03 AM (qUkBO) 7 Iran has never and will never negotiate in good faith. Their goals will never change, and until those goals are seen as 100% unobtainable, they will continue along the same path. And what are those goals? Regional hegemony. A nuclear arsenal. The destruction of Israel. The destruction of America.** How can honest negotiation proceed if those goals are immutable? I'm no quite as gloomy as all this. I think young Iranians have had more than enough of this nonsense, possibly excepting regional hegemony. The mullahs can't fill the mosques, while the young'uns want to have a taste of the good life they see all the time on the Intertubes. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t) 8 I don't disagree - and when Iran fails to live up to the ceasefire - we will have gleaned additional intelligence to go in and do more damage. The best thing about this? It has shown the TDS cadre is completely nuts, essentially eliminating anyone to take anything they say about Iran seriously. Posted by: Black JEM at April 09, 2026 11:03 AM (GZYu7) 9 It's cute that the Vice President is scrambling around for excuses for the Iranian negotiator. Reportedly, the Pakistanis screwed up (or altered) a proposal exchange so that the US accepted something which the Iranians never proposed. Reportedly. It may be that the VP is looking for a way to not say that the Pakistanis are either incompetent (probably), dishonest (almost certainly), or both. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:04 AM (ExV1e) 10 And what are those goals? Regional hegemony. A nuclear arsenal. The destruction of Israel. The destruction of America. Starting a nuclear holocaust so the Twelfth Iman will come back. Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 09, 2026 11:04 AM (n1OCj) 11 We're negotiating with the remnants of the IRGC. Not with the turban and robed wearing mullahs. The IRGC has no interest with any sort of ceasefire, let along peace. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 11:04 AM (AkEZC) 12 I'm no quite as gloomy as all this. I think young Iranians have had more than enough of this nonsense, possibly excepting regional hegemony. The mullahs can't fill the mosques, while the young'uns want to have a taste of the good life they see all the time on the Intertubes. 50 years of tyranny by a bunch of homicidal lunatics is not an easy sell. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:04 AM (Riz8t) 13 Iran Is Not Of The West Thinking Izlam should be not of this earth. Posted by: mindful webworker - Leaving some wrigley room at April 09, 2026 11:04 AM (C2uPD) 14 In fact, I am not sure the ceasefire isn't being done explicitly to start to rip apart the fault lines developing in Iran. Posted by: Black JEM at April 09, 2026 11:05 AM (GZYu7) 15 Westerners, animated by 2,500 years of Western culture -- based on empiricism and truth and morality -- make implicit assumptions about the motives of the people across the table: that they are motivated by the same goals...an honest and fair agreement that recognizes the needs of both parties. Is this true in 2026? Consider our interactions with Europe, or blue states, before you answer. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:05 AM (ExV1e) 16 Which side of the toggle switch is the left on today? - TACO Trump must nuke Iran! - Madman Trump is going to start a nuclear war! Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 11:05 AM (HXT0k) 17 I would have hoped Trump would know better than to believe anything Iran says. Maybe he understands. Maybe this ceasefire is for show. Who knows? Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (z0fc5) 18 Negotiation will never change the savage focus of the Mullahs and the IRGC, and to assume that there are "moderate" factions within Iran that can take control is just silly. Absent a successful revolution and the ascension of Pahlavi or another anti-Mullah figure to a position of authority, Iran will not change. ============== Nobody expects them to change. No one thinks "moderates" exists. And their military capacity has been destroyed about down to the squad level, if Raisin' Caine can be believed. Where did you get all this stuff about moderates, and negotiation expected to change the savage focus of the mullahs? If someone in the administration used those words, they are retards. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (YKKru) 19 The IRGC has no interest with any sort of ceasefire, let along peace. The IRGC is interested in power and money. They aren't the same loons as the mullahs and their wells. If they think they're going to lose that money and power, they'll become more pliable. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t) 20 I just got an email saying that I'm the new Supreme Leader of Iran. Could this be a scam? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (+HNx/) 21 I'm still waiting on someone to tell me what Iran is using to "close" the strait of Hormuz and if they're using the threat of shore-based attacks, why we didn't delete those from existence three weeks ago. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (oqH4h) 22 It can be lunch time Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (HUH8y) 23 5 One week being smoke free and I haven't climbed the clock tower with a deer rifle. Yet. --------------- Can you drink a cup of coffee and not jones for a cigarette yet? Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 11:07 AM (n17eQ) 24 On Wednesday, the Iranian Parliament speaker claimed the U.S. is violating three parts of a ceasefire deal, citing continued fire in Lebanon, a drone allegedly entering Iranian airspace and a "denial of Iran's right to enrich uranium." Time to open some canned sunshine. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 11:07 AM (AnEIe) 25 In fact, I am not sure the ceasefire isn't being done explicitly to start to rip apart the fault lines developing in Iran. Posted by: Black JEM at April 09, 2026 11:05 AM (GZYu7) Tousi seems to think it is doing so, intentionally or not. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:08 AM (ExV1e) 26 Won't someone get me out of this well? Posted by: Imam The Twelth at April 09, 2026 11:08 AM (oftw2) 27 "In fact, I am not sure the ceasefire isn't being done explicitly to start to rip apart the fault lines developing in Iran." - Black JEM Could definitely be one of the motivations. "Calming the markets" is one reasonable and sensible bit of speculation as well. Problem there is that the ceasefire's most serious element - opening the Strait essentially a pre-condition to everything else - has already shown that Iran is not engaging seriously. Even if they have stopped rocket fire towards Israel. Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2026 11:08 AM (U/Byj) 28 The most ineresting part of Iran claiming bombing Hezbollah is a violation of the ceasefire between the US/Israel and Iran is that Iran is implicitly admitting that Hezbollah is Iran. No more evasion and lies. Hezbollah isn't a proxy of Iran, it's just another division of Iran's Islamist army. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 11:09 AM (P8t+z) 29 I would have hoped Trump would know better than to believe anything Iran says. Maybe he understands. Maybe this ceasefire is for show. Who knows? I'm going to go out on a limb, and suggest that naivete and a belief in the inherent selflessness of one's fellow man are not characteristics of a successful NYC builder. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t) 30 what are those goals? Regional hegemony. A nuclear arsenal. The destruction of Israel. The destruction of America. Carrots in chili. Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 09, 2026 11:09 AM (Kt19C) 31 I want to see Persian cleavage making a comeback. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 11:09 AM (g8Ew8) 32 17 I would have hoped Trump would know better than to believe anything Iran says. Maybe he understands. Maybe this ceasefire is for show. Who knows? ----------------- Trump knows. Shoosh. He had to deal with the Manhattans for how long? Manhattans are as nasty and two-faced as the Mullahs. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 11:09 AM (n17eQ) 33 I'm still waiting on someone to tell me what Iran is using to "close" the strait of Hormuz and if they're using the threat of shore-based attacks, why we didn't delete those from existence three weeks ago. Posted by: ballistic Shipping companies are extremely risk adverse. No one wants a sunk & leaking oil tanker in the Strait. All it takes is one rocket. So while one IRGC member still breathes, they have the upper hand. Simple solution is to end all of them. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 11:10 AM (AnEIe) 34 I'm still waiting on someone to tell me what Iran is using to "close" the strait of Hormuz and if they're using the threat of shore-based attacks, why we didn't delete those from existence three weeks ago. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (oqH4h) Most phoned in bomb threats are hoaxes. And they still accomplish the disruption sought. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:10 AM (ExV1e) 35 I just got an email saying that I'm the new Supreme Leader of Iran. Could this be a scam? It's a scam. I accepted the position yesterday. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t) 36 The mullahs can't fill the mosques, while the young'uns want to have a taste of the good life they see all the time on the Intertubes. — Other than drinking( legally) there’s plenty of good life. It’s not USSR in 1952. Take a perusal on YouTube for “life on the street” videos of Iran. It’s a modern country with all the shit we have here. And the majority of women don’t wear hijabs despite what we’ve been led to believe. I’m not supporting the mullahs or anything. But at the same time the image a lot of people have of Iran right now is really out of date. If there a 25 year old I do t know if you’re going to risk your life or your economic future to revolt just so you can watch porn and drink without hiding it. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 11:10 AM (z0fc5) 37 I just got an email saying that I'm the new Supreme Leader of Iran. Could this be a scam? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 09, 2026 *** Not exactly a safe sort of job right now. Don't tell anybody else just yet. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 11:11 AM (wzUl9) 38 11am ish CNN - Israel orders evacuations for areas in Southern Beirut. Lol. OH NOES!! Israel is facing international criticism INCLUDING MACRON! MS Now - Trump - 'Nato was not there.' Their 'military analyst' is concerned!! CBC - 200 dead in Israel strikes FoxNews - 8 vessels have crossed Strait since ceasefire. 6 Bulk Carriers. 2 Oil Tankers. From GatewayPundit yesterday BOMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy – While Others Rewarded Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 11:11 AM (Sco7b) 39 I am hoping Israel has a few more surprises for the Mullahs that will help Trump bring them to ruin. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 09, 2026 11:11 AM (IifOV) 40 "Calming the markets" is one reasonable and sensible bit of speculation as well. Problem there is that the ceasefire's most serious element - opening the Strait essentially a pre-condition to everything else - has already shown that Iran is not engaging seriously. Even if they have stopped rocket fire towards Israel. ------------------ You give them a Time Out just to see where they move things. This is how you play Whack a Mole. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 11:11 AM (n17eQ) 41 I just got an email saying that I'm the new Supreme Leader of Iran. Could this be a scam? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (+HNx/) Absolutely not. Go get 'em, Tiger! Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 11:12 AM (g8Ew8) 42 Worst thing about the current situation is that this is going on before the midterms. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 11:12 AM (pDt9x) 43 If someone in the administration used those words, they are retards. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (YKKru) They have talked about the emergence of moderates. I think Rubio was the last person I noticed... Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 11:13 AM (n9ltV) 44 On Wednesday, the Iranian Parliament speaker claimed the U.S. is violating three parts of a ceasefire deal, citing continued fire in Lebanon, a drone allegedly entering Iranian airspace and a "denial of Iran's right to enrich uranium." Time to open some canned sunshine. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 11:07 AM (AnEIe) No shit man. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 11:13 AM (snZF9) 45 entirely possible that Ghalibaf does not have overall authority" Possible? You misspelled "obviously" Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:13 AM (XuXeR) 46 While the left is obsessed with finding new ways to hate Trump, and will only describe every event in Iran as a failure, the reality is much different. Each of the on-again, off-again threats and retractions are carefully mapping out the real power in Iran. 1- Kill the leaders. 2- Find out who's willing to talk 3- force them to act and prove it 4- if no power/proof, return to 1 We have proven that the last 20 years of negotiations with Iran have not been with those actually with the power. This is like a geopolitical version of Mel Gibson in "Payback." We're going to keep killing until we get to the person who can make the decisions. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 11:13 AM (HXT0k) 47 BOMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy – While Others Rewarded Unfortunately, the Russkis would still have to go through the countries where our troops are redeployed to get to old Europe, so it won't really change much. I suppose the Poles would like to have them, but the way things are going, they might be able to kick Russia's ass all by themselves. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t) 48 You don't play at war. I would be unambiguously surprised and disappointed if Trump has made the mistake of doing so. That said I have been clear all along that we must wait until ALL the smoke clears before knowing for sure what has happened. That timeframe is in May because it doesn't make sense to me that he would want this dragging on into the 250 which would become very subdued indeed. If you watch Trump long enough you know that he plays possum and dead better than anyone you have ever seen. The moment you think they "got him" is when he suddenly teleports and reappears behind them like nothing happened. They got his ass over a loaded barrel on an uneven playing field with covid but this one is his doing. That said I still question whether Trump got verifiable wind that Iran was planning something of an op with their friends in the Uniparty (as China did with covid) and he decided to fuck it and flip the game board over. That is still a possibility to me but we will really have to wait and see. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:13 AM (8X0wm) 49 For all I know, I think President Trump gets Iran and Islam will never compromise their agenda. They might give up a little until they are back in charge. Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (HUH8y) 50 The Iranians know that all they have to do is get another Democrat elected President in 2028 and in the meantime turn the House and Senate Democrat. They are working and spending money feverishly to see that this happens. They calculate that they can outlast any Republican administration in the process. Posted by: JTSmith at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (YYotJ) 51 I'M THE NEW SUPREME LEADER OF IRAN! I'M THE NEW SUPREME LEADER OF IRAN! I'M THE NEW SU Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (AnEIe) 52 I confess my ignorance up front on this... We've been told Iran has no remaining navy. Why doesn't the US line the strait with US warships and fck up anyone who tries to stop any ship? There must be reasons why we're not doing this, right? Posted by: 496 at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (WeJ8p) 53 On Wednesday, the Iranian Parliament speaker claimed the U.S. is violating three parts of a ceasefire deal, citing continued fire in Lebanon, a drone allegedly entering Iranian airspace and a "denial of Iran's right to enrich uranium." Time to open some canned sunshine. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 ** Aka fusion fire! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (wzUl9) 54 > I'm still waiting on someone to tell me what Iran is using to "close" the strait of Hormuz and if they're using the threat of shore-based attacks, why we didn't delete those from existence three weeks ago. -------- Threats and fear, mostly. Crews made up of young men from the Pacific Rim and some other 3rd world shit holes are afraid. They refuse to board, and operate ships in the area. No crew, no shipping. Insurance premiums are through the roof. Regardless what Trump has promised, shipping companies aren't going to take the risk of losing a billion dollar ship. The IRGC has boats, drones and anti-ship missiles staged in and around Hormuz. They've mined at least some of the area too. Again... risks the shipping companies won't take and neither will the crews. The Hormuz Strait isn't "closed." It's a contested war zone that some shippers, crews and insurances companies would rather not deal with. Despite what Iran or the US says. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (AkEZC) 55 Sooner or later, the world will understand that it is Islam that is our biggest problem... Before global communication, it was easy for islam to hide in the shadows, but now they are being seen as the non-religious, controlling cult that they are. Oh, and Fuck mohammad! Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (dmDsy) 56 They have talked about the emergence of moderates. I think Rubio was the last person I noticed... The MFM is pushing the story that Vance was not onboard with this war. I'm sure they have no ulterior motive. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t) 57 Speaking of people who see no fault in themselves.... Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:15 AM (8X0wm) 58 The Daily Beast: Trump Makes Unhinged War Threat in Wild Midnight Meltdown. In an incendiary Truth Social post published just before midnight on Wednesday, Trump began by announcing that all U.S. service members currently in the Middle East will remain there until a “real agreement” with Iran is reached. *"...for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy.* It is exhausting to constantly have to deal with a person who cannot say or write a single thing without declaring their greatness or that they've already won. "We must destroy them.. but just so you know we've already mostly destroyed them!" Sundowning combined with Israel not letting Trump off the hook. They’ll keep pushing for war, as it’s what that want. “It was agreed, a long time ago, and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary - NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS The only reason we're talking about this is because YOU said you were going to nuke Iran with a B52 and now the media and public need to discern what that means. Complaining about a 'REAL AGREEMENT' when Iran wasn't the one that violated it lol. What a joke. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 11:15 AM (JCZqz) 59 close" the strait of Hormuz" No offense, but that's getting tiresome. It's a bit of red herring, used to generate headlines and click bait. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:15 AM (XuXeR) 60 BOMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy No Crusades 2.0 when the goatfuckers start stretching. Fight them on your own. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 11:16 AM (AnEIe) 61 If you watch Trump long enough you know that he plays possum and dead better than anyone you have ever seen. The moment you think they "got him" is when he suddenly teleports and reappears behind them like nothing happened. . . . Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 *** Trump as an X-Man. "BAMF!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (wzUl9) 62 The IRGC has boats, drones and anti-ship missiles staged in and around Hormuz. They've mined at least some of the area too. Again... risks the shipping companies won't take and neither will the crews. The Hormuz Strait isn't "closed." It's a contested war zone that some shippers, crews and insurances companies would rather not deal with. Despite what Iran or the US says. I really don't understand why, when Iran threatens to close the Strait, we don't just say "fine with us". We don't need the oil, and the people who do have been anything but helpful. Screw 'em. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t) 63 There must be reasons why we're not doing this, right?" Yep. It's choking China. $100 bbl makes Xi a very sad boy Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (XuXeR) 64 Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (AkEZC) Excellent synopsis. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (n9ltV) 65 50 For all I know, I think President Trump gets Iran and Islam will never compromise their agenda. They might give up a little until they are back in charge. -------------- You're missing that Trump has united the Arabs. This is a real Arab uprising/no vote for Persia. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (n17eQ) 66 Newsom’s Wife: San Quentin Convicts’ Crimes Were ‘Probably Accidents’ - Yeah, Charlie Manson was just a butterfingers. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:18 AM (ndZc7) 67 Shipping companies are extremely risk adverse. No one wants a sunk & leaking oil tanker in the Strait. All it takes is one rocket. So while one IRGC member still breathes, they have the upper hand. Simple solution is to end all of them. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 11:10 AM (AnEIe) ----- I can tell the world that I'm currently banging Sydney Sweeney like a screen door in a hurricane but that doesn't make it true or even remotely plausible. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:18 AM (oqH4h) 68 That is why the only clear path to a peaceful Iran is the total destruction of their military capacity, and the decapitation of the IRGC down to the squad level. Negotiation will never change the savage focus of the Mullahs and the IRGC, and to assume that there are "moderate" factions within Iran that can take control is just silly. Absent a successful revolution and the ascension of Pahlavi or another anti-Mullah figure to a position of authority, Iran will not change. ===== It may yet come to be that they are destroyed utterly. I suspect that there is a loss of control, and the "leaders" are Larping. If that is the case, it is probably likely that oil can move, although at risk initially. It will be a job of locating and destroying the local capability to launch. Trump doesn't want to be the one doing that. He wants Europe to take some viagra and get to work securing its own future. Europe doesn't want to do that and thinks that if it waits long enough the US will do it, because US politics will motivate Trump to act sooner or later. I think the broken ceasefire gives Trump more room to move militarily, but he'd rather not. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 11:18 AM (anL5R) 69 IRGC has boats, drones and anti-ship missiles staged in and around Hormuz. " An interesting assertion. Evidence? Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:18 AM (XuXeR) 70 You're missing that Trump has united the Arabs. This is a real Arab uprising/no vote for Persia. Ah, Donald of Arabia! Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t) 71 Pot, meet kettle. New York Post @nypost Former top Biden aide urges Va. Gov. Abigail Spanberger to stop using his playbook: 'Come out of her Biden bunker' [and debate her horrific redistricting scheme]. - Biden can always serve as a bad example. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:18 AM (ndZc7) 72 Trump as an X-Man. "BAMF!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (wzUl9) I was thinking Raiden. The X-Men are a stand-in for homosexuality. NTTAWWT Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:19 AM (8X0wm) 73 Knowing that the Iran regime isn't planning to abandon any of it's goals, I can only hope that this ceasefire was set up only to give the US a chance to replenish combat capability and move some additional units into or around the theater. Over one month of sustained combat ops puts a strain on aircraft, ships, and men, so a respite may have been needed. We don't have the resources we had during Vietnam when carriers spent about 30 days on the line before heading to the Philippines for massive drinking..... I mean, replenishment. I imagine the Air Force has similar strain generating missions for several weeks. But if the administration is expecting the Iranians to negotiate then Heaven help us. Posted by: George V at April 09, 2026 11:19 AM (HUbHH) 74 Bullshit. People might press on details, and a few scattered shots will always be fired. But from the beginning of the enlightenment until the last fifty years, ceasefires meant firing ceased, once everyone got the news. Because that's how ceasefires work. It's right in the name. It's not messy. It's simple and straightforward. Except if you're working with Muslims. And then it's meaningless, because they're pre-enlightenment. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 11:19 AM (BI5O2) 75 If you watch Trump long enough you know that he plays possum and dead better than anyone you have ever seen. The moment you think they "got him" is when he suddenly teleports and reappears behind them like nothing happened. . . . Omae wa mou shindeiru Press Retard: Nani!?!? Posted by: Donaldu Trumpu at April 09, 2026 11:20 AM (JCZqz) 76 They're going to have to put it to a tune if we're to remember MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+. You know, like the ABC song. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:20 AM (ndZc7) 77 > Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (AkEZC) Excellent synopsis. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (n9ltV) ---------- 👍 Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 11:20 AM (AkEZC) 78 59 The Daily Beast: Trump Makes Unhinged War Threat in Wild Midnight Meltdown. In an incendiary Truth Social post published just before midnight on Wednesday, Trump began by announcing that all U.S. service members currently in the Middle East will remain there until a “real agreement” with Iran is reached And that is unhinged how ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 11:21 AM (FtULh) 79 They have talked about the emergence of moderates. I think Rubio was the last person I noticed... Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 11:13 AM (n9ltV) =============== I'll take your word, but I am surprised. From what I heard yesterday they are eyes-wide-open on this thing, with the only caveat being "what we hear privately from the Iranian side is very different from what they tell the media publicly". Vance may not be trustworthy but he quotes Trump repeatedly saying "this is fragile", "we will see", and "the target list hasn't gone anywhere". Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 11:21 AM (4tMC7) 80 I really don't understand why, when Iran threatens to close the Strait, we don't just say "fine with us". We don't need the oil, and the people who do have been anything but helpful. Screw 'em. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t) == I think we have pretty much already said that. Posted by: Black JEM at April 09, 2026 11:21 AM (GZYu7) 81 Omae wa mou shindeiru Owa Tagu Siam Posted by: Boy Scout camp at April 09, 2026 11:21 AM (Riz8t) 82 FWIW, it will take time to return ships to those routes. There aren't hundreds of empty ships riding at anchor... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:22 AM (XuXeR) 83 Trump as an X-Man. "BAMF!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 * I was thinking Raiden. The X-Men are a stand-in for homosexuality. NTTAWWT Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 *** When did this idea start? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 11:22 AM (wzUl9) 84 We've been through this ceasefire/negotiate routine before. Didn't work, nor will it this time I'm afraid. Just a way to give up. Posted by: javems at April 09, 2026 11:22 AM (zFsEm) 85 I really don't understand why, when Iran threatens to close the Strait, we don't just say "fine with us". We don't need the oil, and the people who do have been anything but helpful. Screw 'em. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t) == I think we have pretty much already said that. Then we should stop trying to fix the problem and basing our negotiations on doing so. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t) 86 The IRGC has boats, drones and anti-ship missiles staged in and around Hormuz. They've mined at least some of the area too. Again... risks the shipping companies won't take and neither will the crews. ------ If that is in fact true, that brings us to the second part of my question that is still unanswered. If these capabilities still exist, why didn't we turn them into dust in one of the 17,000 bombing sorties we flew over the last month? We surely knew that the strait has always been a critical point of contention, and surely we are aware of the IRGC's capabilities in this regard. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:23 AM (oqH4h) 87 Owa Tagu Siam" Bang tim ow? Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:23 AM (XuXeR) 88 Newsom’s Wife: San Quentin Convicts’ Crimes Were ‘Probably Accidents’ - Yeah, Charlie Manson was just a butterfingers. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Yeah! I'm an innocent victim of circumstance! Nyuk nyuk nyuk. Posted by: Scott "Curly" Peterson at April 09, 2026 11:23 AM (JCZqz) 89 And that is unhinged how ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 11:21 AM (FtULh) They use unhinged and meltdown for anything they don't want their sheep to accidentally read. Not just Trump but anyone. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:23 AM (8X0wm) 90 > IRGC has boats, drones and anti-ship missiles staged in and around Hormuz. " An interesting assertion. Evidence? Posted by: man ---------- 3 Mar, 2026 - 2:59 Defense News Army 2026 Iran has built a layered anti-access strategy centered on mines, submarines, anti-ship missiles, swarm craft, and air defenses to complicate any U.S. campaign in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters. The design is less about decisive victory and more about stretching U.S. missile defenses, logistics, and political tolerance long enough to shape escalation on Tehran’s terms. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 11:23 AM (AkEZC) 91 If that is in fact true" Shh. Just trust the news. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:24 AM (XuXeR) 92 It's cute that the Vice President is scrambling around for excuses for the Iranian negotiator. Reportedly, the Pakistanis screwed up (or altered) a proposal exchange so that the US accepted something which the Iranians never proposed. Reportedly. It may be that the VP is looking for a way to not say that the Pakistanis are either incompetent (probably), dishonest (almost certainly), or both. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:04 AM (ExV1e) Pakistan is the most radical (major) islamic nation outside of Iran. Maybe even more so in some ways. They are kinda sorta held in check by India and China(differently and for different reasons). The Pakis may not be nutty apocalypse fans like the Ickis(hey, it fits!), but - to expect them to be good faith go-betweens or negotiators is stupid. Islam and moslems come first and foremost. Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 11:24 AM (iJfKG) 93 If that is in fact true, that brings us to the second part of my question that is still unanswered. If these capabilities still exist, why didn't we turn them into dust in one of the 17,000 bombing sorties we flew over the last month? We surely knew that the strait has always been a critical point of contention, and surely we are aware of the IRGC's capabilities in this regard. Because they don't necessarily put all their assets in big open yards, with signs saying "Bomb here". Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t) 94 KTLA @KTLA In a 60 Minutes report, officials said they now believe the rail line linking L.A. and San Francisco could ultimately cost about $126 billion, more than triple the original price tag approved by voters. - In fairness, Newsom's position has always been fck the voters. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:24 AM (ndZc7) 95 Matserbatin Peety seems to be a masterbatin retard. Posted by: GigantorX at April 09, 2026 11:24 AM (b6zgo) 96 You surely don't realize this, but in the context of war, you don't want to play Whack a Mole. That's the whole point of the analogy: it's a game that gets you nowhere. It's used to describe a situation where no matter what you do, there's always going to be another mole popping up Ironically, you're describing why the U.S. will not achieve a total victory in this war. --------------- We were never interested in occupying Iran. Thus, we are shaping a battlefield of public opinion (both Iran and World) while gut punching China. Its all about taking Chy Na money out of American politics. See the gimps of California, Illinois and NYC. He's already done this in Venezuela and Cuber. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 11:25 AM (n17eQ) 97 Everything here that we are saying is conditioned by the Media bullshit we are fed. Lies upon lies and obfuscation. We think we know what is going on but don’t, really. Add to that our personal biases and pet prejudices to the mess and we get speculation and subjective points of view from all corners. We are not the players in this affair, we are exactly like the people in the stands in CBD’s Art Thread offering this morning. Shadowy figures, mouths open wide. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 11:25 AM (pDt9x) 98 We have absolutely zero fucking idea exactly what is happening with the leadership vacuum in Iran. Our military has a bit more knowledge but even for them it is a bit foggy. But anyone suggesting Iran is in a good spot is just saying shit for sport. Leadership vacuums are never a good thing, and they can become lethal. Anything we do to stress the system is to our advantage. Posted by: Black JEM at April 09, 2026 11:25 AM (GZYu7) 99 I'll take your word, but I am surprised. From what I heard yesterday they are eyes-wide-open on this thing, with the only caveat being "what we hear privately from the Iranian side is very different from what they tell the media publicly". Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 11:21 AM (4tMC7)* Check the quotation from Trump. https://is.gd/1ejpqT Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 11:26 AM (n9ltV) 100 It's cute that the Vice President is scrambling around for excuses for the Iranian negotiator. He's definitely not. He said yesterday that the list of demands sent over by Iran appears to have been written by ChatGPT. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 11:26 AM (2ocoG) 101 Iran has built a layered anti-access strategy centered on mines, submarines, anti-ship missiles, swarm craft, and air defenses to complicate any U.S. campaign in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters. The design is less about decisive victory and more about stretching U.S. missile defenses, logistics, and political tolerance long enough to shape escalation on Tehran’s terms. == If you told me, two weeks from now that the US has brought in a bunch of mine sweepers and anti sub surface ships along with HK subs in the area, I'd not be surprised. Not a bit. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 11:26 AM (anL5R) 102 When did this idea start? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 11:22 AM (wzUl9) I think the beginning. Not kidding. And in one of the movies I think they even had a kid "coming out" as a "mutant" to his parents. In case you didn't "get it". Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:26 AM (8X0wm) 103 Reports are that the 3 subs were sunk. The "minelaying" boats are AI generated garbage. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:26 AM (XuXeR) 104 We've been told Iran has no remaining navy. Why doesn't the US line the strait with US warships and fck up anyone who tries to stop any ship? There must be reasons why we're not doing this, right? Posted by: 496 at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (WeJ8p) Assume that Iran possesses the ability to perform a mass launch of missiles/drones into the area of the Strait. Why would the US put its ships/sailors in harm's way for the benefit of other countries? Particularly when those other countries are unwilling to do ANYTHING to help out. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:27 AM (ExV1e) 105 89 And that is unhinged how ? Posted by: It's me donna They use unhinged and meltdown for anything they don't want their sheep to accidentally read. Not just Trump but anyone. Posted by: ... There really wasn't much...the article basically chopped up his post and repeated it with minimal analysis. One line seemed like it SHOULD have upset the Left more, but they didn't really comment on it: “In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest.”* Lol. Make Imperialism Great Again. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 11:27 AM (JCZqz) 106 I really don't understand why, when Iran threatens to close the Strait, we don't just say "fine with us". We don't need the oil, and the people who do have been anything but helpful. Screw 'em. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t) To be honest, I don't think Trump gives a damn about the Hormuz. And I think he realizes that the problem is islam. Perhaps he and Israel are waiting for a gathering of mullahs and military leaders to execute another cluster kill. Let them relax a little. They'll start making mistakes like this again. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 11:27 AM (g8Ew8) 107 I think someone is socking Pud-Pullin' Pete... I just can't tell if its supposed to ironic or a legitimate troll attempt.... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 11:27 AM (dmDsy) 108 NEW: Putin has sent a warship to escort sanctioned Russian vessels through the English Channel after Keir Starmer threatened to seize them England is a wet paper tiger with no teeth. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 09, 2026 11:27 AM (IifOV) 109 Newsom’s Wife: San Quentin Convicts’ Crimes Were ‘Probably Accidents’ - Yeah, Charlie Manson was just a butterfingers. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Yeah! I'm an innocent victim of circumstance! Nyuk nyuk nyuk. Posted by: Scott "Curly" Peterson at April 09, 2026 11:23 AM (JCZqz) We should send Newsom's Wife in a golf cart to Iran to negotiate with any remaining Iranians big wigs. Half an hour later she'll have murdered them all by accident. Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 11:27 AM (iJfKG) 110 We've never had so much free Press. Hope this goes on for years! Posted by: The Straights of Hormuz!! at April 09, 2026 11:28 AM (oftw2) 111 He's definitely not. He said yesterday that the list of demands sent over by Iran appears to have been written by ChatGPT. Posted by: Ian S. Artificial Intelligence > Inbred Mullah Natural Intelligence Posted by: Military Moron at April 09, 2026 11:28 AM (JCZqz) 112 And what naval based air defenses? That's funny right there Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:28 AM (XuXeR) 113 Because they don't necessarily put all their assets in big open yards, with signs saying "Bomb here". Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t) ---- If only the United States military had access to high-tech ISR assets and human intelligence to locate said assets.... If only. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:28 AM (oqH4h) 114 IRGC are not warriors who rose through the ranks. They are bought and paid for regime nepos. All of them must answer for Iran's 50 year crime spree. Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 09, 2026 11:29 AM (wBaIH) 115 The IRGC has boats, drones and anti-ship missiles staged in and around Hormuz. They've mined at least some of the area too. ============================== This is all news to me. Last I heard, their boats are all sunk, their drones and anti-ship missiles are moved well inland or have been destroyed, and no mines have thus-far been found. Skipping over that sentence, if your point is that shippers are worried about these things because, as you say, Hormuz is an active war zone, then I agree with that much, and I believe Trump's primary goal in negotiating is to take that risk off the table. He wants oil shipped through the straits. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 11:29 AM (jeqkR) 116 I was thinking Raiden. The X-Men are a stand-in for homosexuality. NTTAWWT Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:19 AM (8X0wm) Except Wolverine. He's Canadian. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 11:29 AM (Sco7b) 117 I really don't understand why, when Iran threatens to close the Strait, we don't just say "fine with us". We don't need the oil, and the people who do have been anything but helpful. Screw 'em. The one and only reason we haven't done this (yet?) is because oil is globally priced. So oil that's pumped out of a well in Texas, refined in Louisiana, and sold in Iowa has the same price as oil that goes through the Gay of Hormuz. I understand why this is done, but I still think it's retarded. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 11:29 AM (2ocoG) 118 >>If that is in fact true, that brings us to the second part of my question that is still unanswered. If these capabilities still exist, why didn't we turn them into dust in one of the 17,000 bombing sorties we flew over the last month? We surely knew that the strait has always been a critical point of contention, and surely we are aware of the IRGC's capabilities in this regard. Do you remember what happened in Iraq after Saddam was taken down? We proceeded to gut the entire government, military and related institutions of all regime supporters. And got ISIS. Look at what Trump did in Venezuela after taking out Maduro. He didn't take down the administration, he kept them in charge and under our thumb. And now we control their oil. And they are barely in the news. Trump can level Iran at any time he chooses. The question is then what? Because if anyone thinks we can just level the place and walk away with zero blowback they are delusional. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 11:30 AM (P8t+z) 119 I read that the problem with the Straight of Hormuz is the land on the shore, filled with mountains and caves, so there's no telling where the Iranian Idiots have military instillations... Posted by: Denny Crane - I DO Actually Read, Sometimes. at April 09, 2026 11:30 AM (dmDsy) 120 Worst thing about the current situation is that this is going on before the midterms. Posted by: tubal at April 09, 2026 11:12 AM (pDt9x) This is kind of like not feeding a Gremlin after midnight. It's ALWAYS before an election cycle. One of the things I like the most about Trump is that he doesn't have 'political fallout' at the top of his People Priority List. I'm sure he considers it - he'd be remiss not to - but I don't believe it's his primary driver. I think he's sincerely trying to do what's best for America, letting the chips fall where they will. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 11:30 AM (FmapG) 121 Put more simply: ceasefire is pointless. Just leave them a list of demands and a promise to return in a few years for more target practice unless they're met. Come home, open up oil wells and gas lines, and leave the rest of the gay world to figure out their energy needs - we're gonna be ok over here. Peace ON our time. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 11:30 AM (BI5O2) 122 Why would the US put its ships/sailors in harm's way for the benefit of other countries? " This. Why help China? If threats keep China paying $100 bbl, then...let it go. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:30 AM (XuXeR) 123 By the numbers. Comparing Artemis II to Going Nowhere Fast. https://is.gd/JQbarg Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:30 AM (ndZc7) 124 The only reason we're talking about this is because YOU said you were going to nuke Iran with a B52 and now the media and public need to discern what that means. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 11:15 AM (JCZqz) ------ These nutbars are literally hallucinating things Trump "did." Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:30 AM (oqH4h) 125 108 NEW: Putin has sent a warship to escort sanctioned Russian vessels through the English Channel after Keir Starmer threatened to seize them England is a wet paper tiger with no teeth. _____ Any chance the Russian warship can stop the rubber boats loaded with 3rd world invading troops from crossing the Channel? Asking for a friend. Posted by: Indigenous People of Great Britain at April 09, 2026 11:30 AM (Dv3i1) 126 NEW: Putin has sent a warship to escort sanctioned Russian vessels through the English Channel after Keir Starmer threatened to seize them England is a wet paper tiger with no teeth. When you're unable to put even ONE warship to sea for any period, you are no longer a serious player. GB has been punching above it's weight since WWII, but that's coming to an end. I'm wondering if removal from the UN Security Council is next. It gives me no pleasure to say this. The Humiliation of Great Britain Is Complete A few weeks back, the Financial Times declared that Britain is no longer a global power. It's hard to dispute that statement. In fact, the FT was only saying aloud what everybody around the world has been thinking for quite a while. https://is.gd/Ll4PSO Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t) 127 The money we've wasted bombing Iran could've been spent for a better cause, like helping starving Somali families in Minneapolis. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 11:31 AM (Y8DZL) 128 So oil that's pumped out of a well in Texas" Is not the same as Venezuela. Or Alberta. Now the finished products... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:32 AM (XuXeR) 129 Its all about taking Chy Na money out of American politics. See the gimps of California, Illinois and NYC. He's already done this in Venezuela and Cuber. == But also, doing Venezuela first, adds to our domestic oil supply and makes it easier to got for the Iran thing, knowing that it is going to squeeze global supply. We are getting half a million barrels a day now from Venezuela. This is a multi stage planned op. Like I said yesterday, he's fighting WWIII now. Defeat the proxies, consolidate base of power, WWIII doesn't happen in our lifetime. China is depopulating as we speak. Vlad is aging out and has his hands full for the rest of his unnatural life. Islam, taking over Europe and being our NATO allies is the long term problem. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 11:32 AM (anL5R) 130 When I was a kid back in the '80s, my mom's cousin was a Republican Congressman. He told of how the Middle Eastern ambassadors would just shriek during negotiations, shouting down any attempt to come to agreement until they got their way. It sounds like the same thing here. The Iranian government is on its last legs, maybe, but still they shriek, and demand, and refuse to give an inch. You'd think the Mullahs would be a bit conciliatory, but it seems like it's bred in the bone. Posted by: Gorthanc at April 09, 2026 11:32 AM (8Q86n) 131 Good... Pete go bye, bye Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 11:32 AM (FtULh) 132 Do you remember what happened in Iraq after Saddam was taken down? We proceeded to gut the entire government, military and related institutions of all regime supporters. And got ISIS. Look at what Trump did in Venezuela after taking out Maduro. He didn't take down the administration, he kept them in charge and under our thumb. And now we control their oil. And they are barely in the news. Trump can level Iran at any time he chooses. The question is then what? Because if anyone thinks we can just level the place and walk away with zero blowback they are delusional. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 11:30 AM (P8t+z) ----- Did you quote the wrong guy? I'm not talking about "leveling Iran" and then just walking away or about conducting regime change like Iraq. I'm asking why we didn't do more to take out whatever resources Iran could possibly use to try to control traffic in the strait. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:33 AM (oqH4h) 133 England is a wet paper tiger with no teeth. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 09, 2026 11:27 AM (IifOV) The UK can't even defend the English Channel from illegals. Their destroyer fleet is currently broken. Seriously. They have nothing with which to project naval force. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 11:33 AM (n9ltV) 134 113 Because they don't necessarily put all their assets in big open yards, with signs saying "Bomb here". Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t) ---- If only the United States military had access to high-tech ISR assets and human intelligence to locate said assets.... If only. Posted by: ballistic What we have done so far is nigh on miraculous, but I guess unless we hit every single asset, we've failed utterly. Right? Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t) 135 We should send Newsom's Wife in a golf cart to Iran to negotiate with any remaining Iranians big wigs. Half an hour later she'll have murdered them all by accident. Posted by: naturalfake Whatever you do, don't give her an IDF Caterpillar D9!!!! Posted by: Zombie Rachel Corrie at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (JCZqz) 136 Newsom’s Wife: San Quentin Convicts’ Crimes Were ‘Probably Accidents’ - Yeah, Charlie Manson was just a butterfingers. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Yeah! I'm an innocent victim of circumstance! Nyuk nyuk nyuk. Posted by: Scott "Curly" Peterson at April 09, 2026 11:23 AM (JCZqz) We should send Newsom's Wife in a golf cart to Iran to negotiate with any remaining Iranians big wigs. Half an hour later she'll have murdered them all by accident. Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 11:27 AM (iJfKG) _________ Or sucked their dicks for career advantage ... Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (iFTx/) 137 If only the United States military had access to high-tech ISR assets and human intelligence to locate said assets.... If only. -------------- Snort. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (n17eQ) 138 NEW: Putin has sent a warship to escort sanctioned Russian vessels through the English Channel after Keir Starmer threatened to seize them England is a wet paper tiger with no teeth. Posted by: Frank Barone Old and busted: English bulldog New and cool: Taco Bell chihuahua Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (ndZc7) 139 Most Muslims are peaceful and are abiding by the "treaty" (that doesn't exist). It is just a few bad apples that are firing missiles and drones, and that are blocking the strait from free passage. Same in the US, most are not stealing billions, it is just a few bad apples, in every state, that steal tens of billions and send it back to Somalia and points unknown. Or so the "Give Peace a(nother 40 years of) Chance" crowd would have us believe. Posted by: illiniwek at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (vbXSk) 140 I think Pete got whacked... Posted by: Denny Crane - But, Not In The Good Way. at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (dmDsy) 141 It's hard to dispute that statement. In fact, the FT was only saying aloud what everybody around the world has been thinking for quite a while. == For Pete's sake they fought a peer to peer battle against a second world country during THATCHER'S time and its been all downhill since. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (anL5R) 142 Putin has sent a warship to escort sanctioned Russian vessels through the English Channel after Keir Starmer threatened to seize them" Really? Wow. That's newsworthy. Very newsworthy. Our greatest allied power is ... (OK, quit laughing) Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (XuXeR) 143 I'm sure he considers it - he'd be remiss not to - but I don't believe it's his primary driver. I think he's sincerely trying to do what's best for America, letting the chips fall where they will. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 11:30 AM (FmapG) We are a world so capsized in a sea of phony paper pushing bureaucrat limpdick anemometers, that we hardly recognize real leadership when it is blaring in our face. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (8X0wm) 144 It sounds like the same thing here. The Iranian government is on its last legs, maybe, but still they shriek, and demand, and refuse to give an inch. You'd think the Mullahs would be a bit conciliatory, but it seems like it's bred in the bone. _____ Allah is going to come through for us any minute now....yep, any minute....taps watch...now would be a good time.... ok how about now?.... Posted by: IRGC at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (Dv3i1) 145 133 England is a wet paper tiger with no teeth. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 09, 2026 11:27 AM (IifOV) The UK can't even defend the English Channel from illegals. Their destroyer fleet is currently broken. Seriously. They have nothing with which to project naval force. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 11:33 AM (n9ltV) And they just angered the one person who could save their butts... Smart move Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 11:35 AM (FtULh) 146 Now is the time pump in arms to the Iranian people. Let them take back their country. And find that enriched uranium and haul it out. Posted by: The Man from Athens at April 09, 2026 11:35 AM (ReKWQ) 147 I think Pete got whacked... == TBF, its not like that was unexpected. I mean its titular with him, isn't it. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 11:35 AM (anL5R) 148 New and cool: Taco Bell chihuahua -------------- Chihuahuas scare the shit out of me. Nasty little shits. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 11:36 AM (n17eQ) 149 Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 11:29 AM (2ocoG) ------- I've been assuming this as well. We don't need the oil, but expensive gas at the pumps means Trump cares about the price of oil Posted by: 496 at April 09, 2026 11:36 AM (hdZBB) 150 NEW: Putin has sent a warship to escort sanctioned Russian vessels through the English Channel after Keir Starmer threatened to seize them England is a wet paper tiger with no teeth. When you're unable to put even ONE warship to sea for any period, you are no longer a serious player. GB has been punching above it's weight since WWII, but that's coming to an end. I'm wondering if removal from the UN Security Council is next. It gives me no pleasure to say this. The Humiliation of Great Britain Is Complete A few weeks back, the Financial Times declared that Britain is no longer a global power. It's hard to dispute that statement. In fact, the FT was only saying aloud what everybody around the world has been thinking for quite a while. https://is.gd/Ll4PSO Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t) The Limeys have been hard at work for the last 70 years or so to turn Old Blighty into this. Ashamed of their history, their country, and themselves, they voted for it every chance they got. Good job, a-holes! you turned your children and grandchildren into poverty stricken sex slaves and catamites. Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 11:36 AM (iJfKG) 151 >>Did you quote the wrong guy? I'm not talking about "leveling Iran" and then just walking away or about conducting regime change like Iraq. I'm asking why we didn't do more to take out whatever resources Iran could possibly use to try to control traffic in the strait. Probably not possible without boots on the ground and obviously Trump doesn't want to do that. We have air superiorority over Iran but they still managed to take down one of our fighters with a shoulder fired missile. Could probably do similar attack on a ship. The threat of an attack is enough to spook the market. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 11:37 AM (P8t+z) 152 I'm asking why we didn't do more to take out whatever resources Iran could possibly use to try to control traffic in the strait." I believe that we did. Everything in the news since is BS. Like it usually is. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:37 AM (XuXeR) 153 Just leave them a list of demands and a promise to return in a few years for more target practice unless they're met. That is exactly what the Iranians want because they know that the chances that the President in a few years will be named Newsom, or some other Democrat, and that'll have free rein to do as they please. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:37 AM (ExV1e) 154 A new video is circulating amongst the Iranian mullahs. https://tinyurl.com/58m8nc3t Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 09, 2026 11:37 AM (abIsI) 155 For Pete's sake they fought a peer to peer battle against a second world country during THATCHER'S time and its been all downhill since. Not to detract in any way from the Brits who won that war, but I think it's pretty well accepted that GB couldn't have retaken the Falklands without substantial American assistance. It's only gotten worse since then. Much worse. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t) 156 The Persians have been "the Other" to Western Civilization going back to Xerxes and Darius trying to conquer the Greek city states around 400BC. History may not repeat, but often rhymes. Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at April 09, 2026 11:37 AM (MNCvZ) 157 Old and busted: English bulldog New and cool: Taco Bell chihuahua Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Yo quiro Taco Bell! Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 11:37 AM (AnEIe) 158 And they just angered the one person who could save their butts... Smart move ____ They did it on purpose, they think they can isolate the US until a Dem steals the executive branch in the next election who will restore the status quo of the entire world sucking the US economy into oblivion. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 09, 2026 11:38 AM (Dv3i1) 159 Posted by: The Straights of Hormuz!! at April 09, 2026 11:28 AM (oftw2) Strait (singular) Posted by: one hour sober at April 09, 2026 11:38 AM (Y1sOo) 160 Meanwhile, with bluster on Truth Social about the ME, PDT slips an entire Marine Division into Oriente Province, Cuba, seizes Havana, and forgoes the usual stuff with a couple FBI agents and Marshals. "Cuban People, here you have them, the Castros and their allies. Have your way with them". Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 09, 2026 11:38 AM (gm9Sb) 161 I loved how Herr Starmer went to SA to say how "we" got a cease-fire... Who the...what the... just who in the hell are* you??? Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 11:38 AM (dmDsy) 162 but expensive gas at the pumps" We've forgotten 2022? 2023? Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:38 AM (XuXeR) 163 We are a world so capsized in a sea of phony paper pushing bureaucrat limpdick anemometers, that we hardly recognize real leadership when it is blaring in our face. ---------------- Gavin Newsome will bravely expand High Speed Train another mile or two. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 11:38 AM (n17eQ) 164 What we have done so far is nigh on miraculous, but I guess unless we hit every single asset, we've failed utterly. Right? Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t) ---- No, but if we did all that we did and somehow just forgot to utterly demolish their capability to exert control over the strait I would say that would be a foolish oversight. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:38 AM (oqH4h) 165 And this is the entire point of us consolidating control of access to foreign petrochemicals, drastically expanding access and refining capacity for our own, and rapidly building our nuclear power infrastructure - as we have been doing in spite of Democrats for a decade now. Yes - there will be medium term shocks in domestic markets if Hormuz were to be actually (not fakely, as now) closed. Those shocks will not be devastating, they will be obviated, and that puts us in the catbird seat, as the only non-Muslim power with adequate access to energy. It's not that a chokepoint on Middle East oil helps us - it doesn't. It's that it cripples everyone else. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 11:39 AM (BI5O2) 166 You'd think the Mullahs would be a bit conciliatory, but it seems like it's bred in the bone. Posted by: Gorthanc at April 09, 2026 11:32 AM (8Q86n) What event, over the course of the majority of their lives, would lead them to believe that they needed to be conciliatory? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:39 AM (ExV1e) 167 The Iran situation reminds me of the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese kicked the Ruskie's ass in the war, to the point where the rest of the world was stunned that an Asian country could so dominate a powerful western country. But the Russkies were impossible to deal with in terms of negotiating a treaty. They kept insisting they won, and refused to give an inch. Eventually, they had no choice, but for a completely defeated enemy they were impossible to deal with. This is why this reminds me of Iran. Plus, so long as Iran knows it can merely say the words "close the Strait" and the rest of the world runs to their fainting couches, it knows it will always have a very powerful bargaining chip. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/) 168 It's not that a chokepoint on Middle East oil helps us - it doesn't. It's that it cripples everyone else." This. X 10,000. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:40 AM (XuXeR) 169 NEW: Putin has sent a warship to escort sanctioned Russian vessels through the English Channel after Keir Starmer threatened to seize them England is a wet paper tiger with no teeth. Posted by: Frank Barone No one expects the Spanish Armada! Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2026 11:40 AM (Cqx++) 170 The UK can't even defend the English Channel from illegals. Can't? Or chooses not to? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:40 AM (ExV1e) 171 NEW: Putin has sent a warship to escort sanctioned Russian vessels through the English Channel after Keir Starmer threatened to seize them England is a wet paper tiger with no teeth. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 09, 2026 11:27 AM (IifOV) ======================= Grok says Britain has only 5-7 frigates plus destroyers available for active seas duty at the present time capable of taking on the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich. The dynamic has changed since Jack Aubrey's time. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 11:40 AM (B+gJG) 172 BREAKING: Hackers have stolen 10 petabytes of data from China’s largest state-run supercomputing facility in Tianjin The hackers were inside the system for months & stole: - Missile and bomb schematics - Aerospace and aviation research - Bioinformatics & fusion simulation data - I don't know what a petabyte is but it sounds bad. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (ndZc7) 173 171 The UK can't even defend the English Channel from illegals. Can't? Or chooses not to? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:40 AM (ExV1e) Yeah... I think that's more of a won't... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (FtULh) 174 It's not that a chokepoint on Middle East oil helps us - it doesn't. It's that it cripples everyone else. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 11:39 AM (BI5O2) I have a rl friend (really!) whose theory since about 17 days ago is that this is what Trump is up to. You may have already said it too. Seems to be a very logical path that cuts through a lot but not all the bs Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (8X0wm) 175 I really don't understand why, when Iran threatens to close the Strait, we don't just say "fine with us". We don't need the oil, and the people who do have been anything but helpful. Screw 'em. — The price of oil is global. We may not need the oil but we’re still paying the price for the lost supply. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (z0fc5) 176 What event, over the course of the majority of their lives, would lead them to believe that they needed to be conciliatory?" Entebbe? That's all I got Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (XuXeR) 177 Trump can level Iran at any time he chooses. The question is then what? Because if anyone thinks we can just level the place and walk away with zero blowback they are delusional. === I think there is reason to believe he may have already done that. Maybe not, but I think the cease fire is in part an effort to reconn whether the leadership can actually lead the armed forces in Iran that are still coherent. If they promise a ceasefire and can't deliver, they are larpers. Also, confounding the analysis is the fact that the average Iranian leader, is bugfuck crazy. Which was the argument for killing them all in the first place. Mind you, the US wasn't killing the leadership. That was the Israelis . . . we focused on the military targets, the ballistic missile capability, uranium enrichment, anti air, launchers etc. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (anL5R) 178 Old and busted: English bulldog New and cool: Taco Bell chihuahua Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (ndZc7) Nah. Chihuahuas will come at you with a switchblade and fuck shit up. And you know the Taco Bell chihuahua has got the runs so he's leaving a trail of crap behind him as he's doing it. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:42 AM (ExV1e) 179 I'm asking why we didn't do more to take out whatever resources Iran could possibly use to try to control traffic in the strait. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:33 AM (oqH4h) Because Iran isn't controlling traffic in the strait with tactical or strategic forces. Iran is making shipping companies (and their insurers) afraid to navigate the strait at all by threatening to damage them. This they could do with single fishing boats, individuals with RPGs, kamikazi drones, et al. Without seizing and holding both banks in perpetuity, we can not guarantee with 100% confidence that all of those threats are mitigated. Because it's not a tactical problem - it's a mindset problem, and the Euros are pussies. We can solve tactical problems. We can't make men of the Euros. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 11:42 AM (FmapG) 180 I'm asking why we didn't do more to take out whatever resources Iran could possibly use to try to control traffic in the strait. There appears to be no organized Iranian capability to control the strait. Roughly 10-12 ships a day have been going through with no incidents. There is probably some disorganized capability that's completely divorced from any central command & control, and that's what everyone's scared of even though it hasn't actually shown up. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 11:43 AM (2ocoG) 181 Trump fell into the same trap Putin did thinking a war would be over in a few weeks. Turns out it’s not that easy. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 11:43 AM (z0fc5) 182 156 The Persians have been "the Other" to Western Civilization going back to Xerxes and Darius trying to conquer the Greek city states around 400BC. History may not repeat, but often rhymes. I just finished an interesting book. Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry by Adrian Goldworthy. They were two massive empires, and reasonably closely matched. Spoiler alert: Rome did not win every battle. In fact, the Sasanians almost took Constantinople in 626. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t) 183 Bit Byte Kilobyte Megabyte Gigabyte Terabyte Petabyte Exabyte Zetabyte Yottabyte Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:43 AM (8X0wm) 184 The hackers were inside the system for months & stole: - Missile and bomb schematics - Aerospace and aviation research - Bioinformatics & fusion simulation data I don't know what a petabyte is but it sounds bad. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (ndZc7) ----- So they stole all the shit that Chy-nah stole from the US over the years. Got it. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:44 AM (oqH4h) 185 I really don't understand why, when Iran threatens to close the Strait, we don't just say "fine with us". We don't need the oil, and the people who do have been anything but helpful. Screw 'em. " If we built more refining capacity* retail fuel prices would be better insulated from wholesale costs.. I know, I know... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:44 AM (XuXeR) 186 Last night Keith Kellogg compared the Iran situation to the Punic Wars last night, and said at some point Trump is going full Third Punic on Iran, and the IRGC people still alive know it. He thinks that's why the administration has some hope this negotiation might bring about something good. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 11:44 AM (B+gJG) 187 >>I think there is reason to believe he may have already done that. Maybe not, but I think the cease fire is in part an effort to reconn whether the leadership can actually lead the armed forces in Iran that are still coherent. If they promise a ceasefire and can't deliver, they are larpers. Also, confounding the analysis is the fact that the average Iranian leader, is bugfuck crazy. Which was the argument for killing them all in the first place. Mind you, the US wasn't killing the leadership. That was the Israelis . . . we focused on the military targets, the ballistic missile capability, uranium enrichment, anti air, launchers etc. I tend to agree. This ceasefire is an opportunity to see if the current leadership can actually run the country under the terms we agree with. Somebody has got to be left in charge or we get chaos and chaos in the Middle East always leads to bad outcomes. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 11:44 AM (P8t+z) 188 Most Muslims are peaceful and are abiding by the "treaty" (that doesn't exist). It is just a few bad apples that are firing missiles and drones, and that are blocking the strait from free passage. Same in the US, most are not stealing billions, it is just a few bad apples, in every state, that steal tens of billions and send it back to Somalia and points unknown. Or so the "Give Peace a(nother 40 years of) Chance" crowd would have us believe. Posted by: illiniwek at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (vbXSk) Iran is not universally muslim. Further, some of the muslim groups do not support the mullahs/IRCG. Admittedly, it's likely this is the case because they're on the outside and not part of the power structure but it's still true. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:44 AM (ExV1e) 189 Quoting banned posters is an excellent* way to get banned yourself, especially on a CBD thread. Because people seem to need that reminder. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 11:45 AM (2ocoG) 190 The ceasefire is good for rest and refit, resupply and retargeting. Allows new Supreme Leader Mullahs to emerge and for the media and other emptyheaded persons to spout off about that which they know nothing about. The bombing will resume when we say so with new targets. Posted by: Bombs Away at April 09, 2026 11:45 AM (3LMJN) 191 I think Pete got whacked... Posted by: Denny Crane - But, Not In The Good Way. at April 09, 2026 11:34 AM (dmDsy) He's got a VPN, he'll be back and more VPN endpoints will be blocked. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:45 AM (ExV1e) 192 Petabyte? It's the most popular name for Pit Bulls. Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 11:45 AM (iJfKG) 193 Trump fell into the same trap Putin did thinking a war would be over in a few weeks. Turns out it’s not that easy. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 11:43 AM (z0fc5) ================= and you have come to this grand conclusion based on what evidence? Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 11:45 AM (B+gJG) 194 The price of oil is global" Not this "all oil is the same" stuff again... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:46 AM (XuXeR) 195 megabytes \| gigabytes \| terabytes \| petabytes \| exabytes \| brontobytes Posted by: megabytes for sale at April 09, 2026 11:46 AM (8X0wm) 196 184 Trump fell into the same trap Putin did thinking a war would be over in a few weeks. Turns out it’s not that easy. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 11:43 AM (z0fc5) Really??? Four weeks to destroy a terrorist nation is considered "not that easy?" Odd way to phrase that. Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 11:46 AM (dmDsy) 197 Anything moving out of an Iranian port capable of carrying a mine gets zapped. Arm the merchantmen, very light artillery and a few M2s. If needed, because of lawyers, arm them while underway by helicopter. Shoot anything that threatens the ship.Problem solved. Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 09, 2026 11:46 AM (gm9Sb) 198 Did you quote the wrong guy? I'm not talking about "leveling Iran" and then just walking away or about conducting regime change like Iraq. I'm asking why we didn't do more to take out whatever resources Iran could possibly use to try to control traffic in the strait. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:33 AM (oqH4h) ________ There's probably 100s of miles of Iranian coastline on the north of the Strait. Very difficult to weed out installations there capable of hitting sea traffic. Plus, as I noted above, it's more a perception than an actual military threat: all Iran has to do it utter the words "close the Strait" and the rest of the world pees its pants. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/) 199 And those are laughable from the perspective of the rest of the world. Lying, cheating, outright stealing is part of the game, and they simply take advantage of the morality of Western culture to get what they want, and be damned with the other parties to the agreement. I must comment this is true of many illegals in the US. Job prices change, work is left undone, and they need another week. Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 11:47 AM (/+uur) 200 all Iran has to do it utter the words "close the Strait" and the rest of the world pees its pants." Truth. JIT inventory is stupid... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:48 AM (XuXeR) 201 What is interesting to me is that in 1970, ALL of the middle east (hyperbole) wanted to be "of the West". Because the West was the strong horse then. Thanks to subversion from within (and help from the USSR), we now look like a very weak-willed horse. And honestly, look at our media- who would CHOOSE to look like the freaks our media glorify? Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 09, 2026 11:48 AM (N1DT3) 202 One thing AoS is well known for is it's purity tests in favor of supporting Donald Trump. Oh and Israel. Come on let's talk about Israel. You know you want to.... Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:48 AM (8X0wm) 203 Yknow who else was shaky? ********** Michael J. Fox? Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 11:48 AM (qgHp7) 204 We've forgotten 2022? 2023? Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:38 AM (XuXeR) We're a TikTok generation now. We've forgotten February. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:48 AM (ExV1e) 205 Pre-order now! Kneeling specialist Colin Kaepernick has written a memoir that will be released on the ten-year anniversary of his first kneel - Introduction by Kamala? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:49 AM (ndZc7) 206 JIT inventory is stupid... It is and it isn't. Kimberly-Clarke just unwillingly demonstrated the downside of piling stuff up in a warehouse in advance. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 11:49 AM (2ocoG) 207 Pre-order now! Kneeling specialist Colin Kaepernick has written a memoir that will be released on the ten-year anniversary of his first kneel - Introduction by Kamala? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:49 AM (ndZc7) ________ Jennifer Newsome! Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 11:49 AM (iFTx/) 208 Lying, cheating, outright stealing is part of the game" Indeed. Remember the "anti bribery" legislation/ publicity years ago? It hamstrung US companies.... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:49 AM (XuXeR) 209 I really don't understand why, when Iran threatens to close the Strait, we don't just say "fine with us". We don't need the oil, and the people who do have been anything but helpful. Screw 'em. — The price of oil is global. We may not need the oil but we’re still paying the price for the lost supply. I'd bet that price is low compared to the cost of a war. Plus, our "allies" and the heathen Chinee really REALLY need a lesson in consequences. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t) 210 I don't know what a petabyte is but it sounds bad. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (ndZc7) A petabyte is larger than a shit-ton. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 11:50 AM (g8Ew8) 211 We're a TikTok generation now. We've forgotten February." Snort. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:50 AM (XuXeR) 212 Yknow who else was shaky? * Pope John Paul II? Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 09, 2026 11:51 AM (affD0) 213 The last time the Persians called a truce was when ghengis khan sacked and obliterated the Persian empire Posted by: Matthew at April 09, 2026 11:51 AM (OdsgZ) 214 petabyte is larger than a shit-ton" Metric or imperial? Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:51 AM (XuXeR) 215 Without seizing and holding both banks in perpetuity, we can not guarantee with 100% confidence that all of those threats are mitigated. Because it's not a tactical problem - it's a mindset problem, and the Euros are pussies. We can solve tactical problems. We can't make men of the Euros. === the strait is actually a mexican standoff between trump and the Euros. The Euros are the ones with a need for an open strait. Trump literally told them to take it last week. He does not want to be the one covering their ass in perpetuity. He is going to squeeze them into acting in their own interest for once. However, the Euros, believe that the US political environment will force trump to act to open the strait. Its a waiting game. Who can take the pain longer. Ultimately, Trump may show up in the strait with mine sweepers and HK subs in two weeks and open it up for a couple of months - providing US backed insurance to shippers. Breaking Lloyds of london's ass while he is at it. I don't see the US putting permanent bases in the area, they may let an Arab Coalition take over Karg though. I think that's actually likely The Iranians really pissed off the neighbors Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 11:51 AM (anL5R) 216 I tend to agree. This ceasefire is an opportunity to see if the current leadership can actually run the country under the terms we agree with. Somebody has got to be left in charge or we get chaos and chaos in the Middle East always leads to bad outcomes. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 11:44 AM (P8t+z) I agree. I would only add that the new "regime" in Iran NOT** be a crazy fucking islamic caliphate douchebag gang of repressed fucking homos, like they've had the last 47 years.... I've seen the pictures! Iranian chicks had great legs back in the 70's! Make Iranian Chicks Great Again!!!! Posted by: Denny Crane - Oh, Those Persian Women, They'll Be The Death Of Me! at April 09, 2026 11:51 AM (dmDsy) 217 I don't know what a petabyte is but it sounds bad. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (ndZc7) ______ [Grins] -- Cenobites Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 11:51 AM (iFTx/) 218 Don't worry about chasing this guy around. The VPN pop ins will mysteriously stop as soon as Iran is done and the country is back on solid ground. The ultimate in fair weather fandom. Needing things to "look" a certain way for your opinion to even matter? Yikes. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:51 AM (8X0wm) 219 It's not "Iranians" that are the problem. It's the mooselamic occupiers.. Need to quit assuming they are one and the same. Posted by: Will Robinson at April 09, 2026 11:52 AM (cO6oP) 220 No one expects the Spanish Armada! Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2026 11:40 AM (Cqx++) In 2026, the Spanish Navy has 78 'active' naval vessels. Not sure that they accomplish anything with them, but they have them. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e) 221 Zionism ----- There it is. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:52 AM (8X0wm) 222 211 Pre-order now! Kneeling specialist Colin Kaepernick has written a memoir that will be released on the ten-year anniversary of his first kneel - Introduction by Kamala? ---------- Double Snort. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 11:52 AM (n17eQ) 223 I'm constantly fascinated by these ex-morons who are banned, yet keep coming back to be annoyances. Weird...I mean if they were in someone's house and the owner kicked them out and said "never come back". Would they keep randomly breaking into the house or stand outside yelling their "brilliant" conversational points at those inside or just stand there ringing the doorbell? If so, they'd be committed to the nearest loony bin. Seriously, loony, y'all. Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 11:53 AM (iJfKG) 224 A petabyte is 1024 terabytes. New consumer-level computers come with a solid-state disk sized in the 0.5 to 4 terabyte range. So a petabyte is a metric fuck ton. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 11:53 AM (2ocoG) 225 208 Yknow who else was shaky? Susan Collins? Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 09, 2026 11:53 AM (abIsI) 226 I wasn’t thrilled with this at first but then though ok if we get rid of the assholes in Iran, sure why not. But now we’re not getting rid of the assholes. We’re “negotiating” with them. So what was the point of it? Just back where we started. It’s like every war since WW2. We never finish the job. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 11:53 AM (z0fc5) 227 A new video is circulating amongst the Iranian mullahs. https://tinyurl.com/58m8nc3t Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 09, 2026 11:37 AM (abIsI) ===================== That blonde is pretty outstanding. The video should focus on her and forget all the rest. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 11:53 AM (8S0LS) 228 Obviously President Trump's destroy civilization lines were directed toward the 'leaders' for negotiations and the retarded TDS crowd simply ran with it because they do... I'm kind of thinking all this ceasefire talk is also just an act to cool things down for a bit. When this is over the US and Israel can just go in and take out a bridge here, a power plant there. Nice slow. Boil the frog. Western concentration isn't that .....hey, there's a squirrel in my backyard. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 11:53 AM (Sco7b) 229 Well, he's in Heaven now. British police charge charismatic pastor with manslaughter after Jamaican grandfather with Parkinson's drowns in kiddie-pool baptism Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:53 AM (ndZc7) 230 it's disheartening to realize how much the blog endorses Zionism. == Okay- define what you mean by Zionism. then show how this "blog" endorses what you defined. Or make sense in some other way, rather than just buzz wording your feelings, concern troll. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 11:54 AM (anL5R) 231 In 2026, the Spanish Navy has 78 'active' naval vessels." At some point, someone (Argentina? Spain? Who knows) is going to say "f it, we're taking....." It'll be interesting Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:54 AM (XuXeR) 232 British police charge charismatic pastor with manslaughter after Jamaican grandfather with Parkinson's drowns in kiddie-pool baptism Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:53 AM Dafuq? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 09, 2026 11:54 AM (Wnv9h) 233 In 2026, the Spanish Navy has 78 'active' naval vessels. Not sure that they accomplish anything with them, but they have them. As of early 2026, the British Royal Navy operates approximately 62 to 63 commissioned ships in active service, though the number of actively deployed warships is significantly lower due to maintenance. The fleet includes two aircraft carriers, six Type 45 destroyers, seven Type 23 frigates, and ten nuclear-powered submarines, plus Royal Fleet Auxiliary support vessels At last, our time has come! Posted by: The Spanish at April 09, 2026 11:54 AM (Riz8t) 234 OK, I don't agree that AoS is a Trump Church, but suppose you do. I'll grant that it is, for the purpose of reasoning. I'm a Jew. I don't go sit in the pews at the Baptist church up the block and demand they renounce Christ. That would be insane. If I did, they'd kick me out. If I then returned in a mask and demanded it, I'd be completely insane. They'd call all the men in white coats. You're losing your mind. Go camping. By yourself. For awhile. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 11:55 AM (BI5O2) 235 That blonde is pretty outstanding. The video should focus on her and forget all the rest. == Hmm, now that video seems relevant to my interests . . . Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 11:55 AM (anL5R) 236 I don't know what a petabyte is but it sounds bad. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (ndZc7) 1 petabyte == 1000 terabytes. 1 Terabyte == 1000 gigabytes. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:55 AM (ExV1e) 237 It's acceptable to have a nuanced opinion and be against extremist Islam and Zionism. Define "Zionism". Because I've heard some really loopy claims lately, including that the war in Iran is for "Israeli expansionism". Israel most definitely is not interested in expansion. Otherwise they wouldn't have offered Arafat everything he claimed he wanted back in the 1990s (Arafat rejected it, of course, because what he actually wanted was dead Jews, same as about 90% of the current Palestinian population). Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 11:55 AM (2ocoG) 238 Yesterday CNN had "remembering Michael J Fox" on the bottom of their screen, forcing Michael J Fox to issue a statement: "I'm still alive". CNN is such a failure. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 09, 2026 11:56 AM (IifOV) 239 I don't know what a petabyte is but it sounds bad. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks --------- Depends on whether or not you have been innoculated. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 09, 2026 11:56 AM (XeU6L) 240 I just got an email saying that I'm the new Supreme Leader of Iran. ======= Before you accept, consider the pros and cons: Cons - No more pork or alcoholic beverages. You must kill all pet dogs you have and cannot ever have pet dogs. Must wear crazy clothing and headwear. Must eat goat meat and goat milk cheese and yogurt. Must pray for at least 30 minutes five times a day. Pros: As many wives as you want. Divorce any of them anytime you want. Kill an infidel by suicide attack, scoring you 72 virgins in the afterlife. (Warning: Allah may select virgins not to your liking) Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2026 11:56 AM (5rh/l) 241 antisemites gathering in aisle 222 Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 11:56 AM (8S0LS) 242 So a petabyte is a metric f** ton.* Please convert to Imperial units. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:56 AM (Riz8t) 243 Would they keep randomly breaking into the house or stand outside yelling their "brilliant" conversational points at those inside or just stand there ringing the doorbell? If so, they'd be committed to the nearest loony bin. Seriously, loony, y'all. Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 11:53 AM (iJfKG) If you're talking about "pete", I will just say he ain't the same pillow-biter from past iterations... he's yet another limp-wristed beta fag that just signed up to be the next troll here.... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 11:56 AM (dmDsy) 244 At last, our time has come! Posted by: The Spanish" Hold our beer! /Cajun Navy, invading....margaritaville. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:56 AM (XuXeR) 245 Thought experiment: Is it even possible to conduct a war of global conquest? And succeed? Wars require technological prowess and the willpower to do everything necessary to use it to its fullest extent. What nation (or group of nations) possess both qualities in full? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2026 11:57 AM (ESVrU) 246 Don't cut and paste the trolls, and that includes the jerk-off. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 11:57 AM (n9ltV) 247 Hmm, now that video seems relevant to my interests . . ." Don't take the bait .. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 11:57 AM (XuXeR) 248 I don't know what a petabyte is but it sounds bad. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks *** I think I had a petabyte in my teens and it was fixed with Orthodontia Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 09, 2026 11:58 AM (affD0) 249 238 I don't know what a petabyte is but it sounds bad. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:41 AM (ndZc7) 1 petabyte == 1000 terabytes. 1 Terabyte == 1000 gigabytes. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 11:55 AM (ExV1e That's a lifetime of pron. Of course lately for the Iranians, a 2 month Hustler video subscription is also a lifetime of pron. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 11:58 AM (Sco7b) 250 Do my eyes deceive me? Disney just ditched "gender-neutral" greetings for the classic "ladies and gentlemen." Here's why that's big news, even if you don't care about Disney anymore. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:58 AM (ndZc7) 251 But now we’re not getting rid of the assholes. We’re “negotiating” with them. You saw what happened in Venezuela, right? We left the assholes in power to prevent a power vacuum, while also making it clear that one wrong move and they'll be dead. And that's worked well. Iran currently consists of killing layers of leadership until we drill down to someone who doesn't actually want to die on behalf of the imam trapped in the well without Lassie to tell anyone. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 11:59 AM (2ocoG) 252 I think I had a petabyte in my teens and it was fixed with Orthodontia Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 09, 2026 11:58 AM (affD0) Or the shot of penicillin. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 11:59 AM (n9ltV) 253 The geography of the strait definitely favors Iran. Mountainous regions with lots of cliffs and caves for overwatch of the passage. And yes they have plenty of drones and anti-ship missiles, you don't have to look to hard for the evidence. Pretty much a carpet bombing situation to clear it out, which means slow moving planes. The islands they have there have much of the same, but those are much more easily taken out. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 11:59 AM (n5tGW) 254 so capsized in a sea of phony paper pushing bureaucrat limpdick anemometers Saw Limpdick Anemometers open for Shyster at the Suckamore Grave down by Unluckey, right after the hostages were taken. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 09, 2026 12:00 PM (zdLoL) 255 "Absent a successful revolution and the ascension of Pahlavi or another anti-Mullah figure to a position of authority, Iran will not change." Nailed it. And I don't see this failed ceasefire as a failure. It's a great success in proving that the mullahcracy has to be exterminated, to the last man. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:00 PM (utfVc) 256 So they stole all the shit that Chy-nah stole from the US over the years. Got it. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:44 AM (oqH4h) Would have been better if they'd replaced them with lolcat memes. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 12:00 PM (ExV1e) 257 How about that. >>@BarakRavid · 25m >>🚨🚨 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: In light of Lebanon’s repeated requests to open direct negotiations with Israel, I instructed yesterday to begin direct negotiations with Lebanon as soon as possible. The negotiations will focus on disarming Hezbollah and establishing peaceful relations between Israel and Lebanon. Israel appreciates the Lebanese prime minister’s call today to demilitarize Beirut Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 12:02 PM (P8t+z) 258 I think this ceasefire will end once those other 2 carrier groups show up though which neatly arrive at the new moon and the end of the 2 weeks. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 12:03 PM (n5tGW) 259 Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 12:02 PM (P8t+z) It's a start Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 12:03 PM (F1quE) 260 I already said above Trump may have made a tremendous mistake. Even used that word. And explained how but also explained why time (a particular time) will tell the story. Because I'm not a fucktard with an axe to grind. Well I kind of am - but that's different and they tolerate me because I love Israel and they know I'm secretly Mossad. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:03 PM (8X0wm) 261 "Iran is not universally muslim. Further, some of the muslim groups do not support the mullahs/IRCG." Posted by: I used to have a different nic Last I heard, Iran is like 65% non-Muslim (Persian?), which makes it crazy that the terrorist "few" run the country (still). The US is also not Muslim (yet), but they punch above their weight when it comes to the massive frauds, since their "morals" apparently include deceiving and stealing from the "Great Satan" in order to advance their Muslim cause (of conquering the world). Posted by: illiniwek at April 09, 2026 12:03 PM (vbXSk) 262 Great, Wankin' Willie shows up again and the site goes wonky. F'in awesome. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 09, 2026 12:03 PM (OUMaO) 263 The insightful logical argumentation of the chronic masturbater is certainly going to change minds and influence people. Seriously, it you have decided to do the bitch over there eating crackers thing, you might want to get your mental health checked. There is something more going on with you than just a political disagreement. You may be a paid dissenter, or you may be motivated by irrational fear/hatred. Either way, its not going to gather much support. Why not find something to do that relaxes you, rather than aggravates you. I suspect you have a special past time that seems to provide comfort? Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 12:03 PM (anL5R) 264 And I don't see this failed ceasefire as a failure. It's a great success in proving that the mullahcracy has to be exterminated, to the last man. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:00 PM (utfVc) This. It's one more arrow in the quiver of 'we tried everything, but these fuckers just insisted we kill them all.' Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 12:03 PM (FmapG) 265 Yesterday CNN had "remembering Michael J Fox" on the bottom of their screen, forcing Michael J Fox to issue a statement: "I'm still alive". - You're not fooling anybody! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:04 PM (ndZc7) 266 Iran has never and will never negotiate in good faith. *********** They are actually Strait shooters. Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 12:04 PM (qgHp7) 267 Yesterday CNN had "remembering Michael J Fox" on the bottom of their screen My 'local' newspaper celebrated Tom Lehrer's 98th birthday today. Tom Lehrer died last July. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 09, 2026 12:04 PM (zdLoL) 268 Not to detract in any way from the Brits who won that war, but I think it's pretty well accepted that GB couldn't have retaken the Falklands without substantial American assistance. It's only gotten worse since then. Much worse. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t) Milei recently stated that the position of the Argentine government has been and continues to be that the Falklands/Malvinas are Argentine. The Brits may be able to send assets to defend it by commercial carrier, or by DHL. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 12:04 PM (rbvCR) 269 Did I just live through a 4 minute delusion? Posted by: Denny Crane - Oh, Those Illicit Drugs! at April 09, 2026 12:04 PM (dmDsy) 270 Last I heard, Iran is like 65% non-Muslim (Persian?), which makes it crazy that the terrorist "few" run the country (still). Unarmed Citizenry Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 12:04 PM (F1quE) 271 "Zionism" is a nice way of saying "doesn't agree that every last Jew should be exterminated". Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:05 PM (8X0wm) 272 Not “West-adjacent”? Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 12:06 PM (E6xSb) 273 My 'local' newspaper celebrated Tom Lehrer's 98th birthday today. Tom Lehrer died last July. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 09, 2026 12:04 PM (zdLoL) Forget it they're rolling Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:07 PM (8X0wm) 274 I'm starting to think this Iran op will consume Trump's entire term. IMO I could be wrong. Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 12:07 PM (ZxPkt) 275 "Absent a successful revolution and the ascension of Pahlavi or another anti-Mullah figure to a position of authority, Iran will not change." Nailed it. And I don't see this failed ceasefire as a failure. It's a great success in proving that the mullahcracy has to be exterminated, to the last man. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:00 PM (utfVc) That was always my attitude. Completely wiped from the face of the earth has a nice ring to it. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:07 PM (snZF9) 276 Yesterday CNN had "remembering Michael J Fox" on the bottom of their screen, forcing Michael J Fox to issue a statement: "I'm still alive". I mean, you can remember people who are still alive. Posted by: Josephistan at April 09, 2026 12:07 PM (y9ksN) 277 I'm starting to think this Iran op will consume Trump's entire term. IMO I could be wrong. Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 12:07 PM (ZxPkt) It won't. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 12:07 PM (8X0wm) 278 Last I heard, Iran is like 65% non-Muslim (Persian?), which makes it crazy that the terrorist "few" run the country (still). Unarmed Citizenry Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 12:04 PM (F1quE) That's why I keep saying the one thing we really need to do in Iran is get rid of islam from their government... Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 12:07 PM (dmDsy) 279 Why not find something to do that relaxes you, rather than aggravates you. I suspect you have a special past time that seems to provide comfort? I think you're overlooking the impact of severe chapping due to overuse. The struggle is real. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:08 PM (Riz8t) 280 "Zionism" is a nice way of saying "doesn't agree that every last Jew should be exterminated". == Yeah. That's why when two different people asked for the definition and got - crickets. Its the new RAYCISS. Its a buzzword. A label. It is supposed to suggest something dirty or bad. They can't define it, because they don't know what it is either. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 12:08 PM (anL5R) 281 Some good news HERO!!! This is Pauls Valley High School (Oklahoma) Principal Kirk Moore. Yesterday, he tackled a would-be school shooter and was shot. Because of Principal Moore, no one else was hurt. He is recovering in the hospital. The suspect is in jail. https://is.gd/7QmS8O Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:09 PM (ndZc7) 282 Why not find something to do that relaxes you, rather than aggravates you. I suspect you have a special past time that seems to provide comfort? I think you're overlooking the impact of severe chapping due to overuse. The struggle is real. === Jergins is real. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 12:09 PM (anL5R) 283 Last I heard, Iran is like 65% non-Muslim (Persian?), which makes it crazy that the terrorist "few" run the country (still). Posted by: illiniwek at April 09, 2026 12:03 PM (vbXSk) ------ For the same reason that roughly 65% of the United States aren't wackjob leftoid retards, but that 35% wants power and is willing to do anything to obtain it, just like the fascist Islamists in Iran, and we get ruled by a leftoid retard about half the time. The only reason they haven't done it here is that we have guns. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 12:10 PM (oqH4h) 284 "anti-ship missiles are moved well inland or have been destroyed" As a thought experiment, describe the type of missle thst can damage/sink an unarmed and unarmored oil tanker versus one designed to damage/sink a warship. Looking at Google maps, the strait is roughly 50km wide. A single BM-21 could take out a tanker Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 12:10 PM (DLVKS) 285 Why not find something to do that relaxes you, rather than aggravates you. I suspect you have a special past time that seems to provide comfort? I think you're overlooking the impact of severe chapping due to overuse. The struggle is real. === Jergins is real. --------- The Harry formerly known as Prince could offer some options. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 09, 2026 12:11 PM (jwJyU) 286 Some good news HERO!!! This is Pauls Valley High School (Oklahoma) Principal Kirk Moore. Yesterday, he tackled a would-be school shooter and was shot. Because of Principal Moore, no one else was hurt. He is recovering in the hospital. The suspect is in jail. https://is.gd/7QmS8O Looks like the Pillsbury Dough Boy. It's a good disguise for a Mega Chad. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:11 PM (Riz8t) 287 This new Pete is fucking boring. Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 09, 2026 12:11 PM (dmDsy) 288 Also- the Irish government has called out the army to put down protests Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 12:11 PM (ZxPkt) 289 My 'local' newspaper celebrated Tom Lehrer's 98th birthday today. Tom Lehrer died last July. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver ------- Recently here, there was passing mention of 'The Merry Minuet', for which I will always appreciate Leher. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 09, 2026 12:12 PM (XeU6L) 290 Some Irish army officers are refusing Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 12:12 PM (ZxPkt) 291 Oh man, I reading a story about some illegal scum killing a convenience store worker with a hammer thinking they would fuzz out the attack on the video. They didn't. Just brutal. This is who the Dems protect. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 12:12 PM (n5tGW) 292 Would be nice if we still had battleships capable of real naval bombardment of the Iranian coastline. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 12:12 PM (oqH4h) 293 This new Pete is fucking boring. He's a bog-standard Chinabot. Like Swalwell, but self-servicing instead of having to curse some poor Chinese girl to a lifetime of brain bleach. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 12:13 PM (2ocoG) 294 "Iran Is Not Of The West" True. But I'm not the the West is of the West any more ... Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 12:13 PM (iFTx/) 295 Heh, I used to listen to the Tom Lehrer record as a kid. I always laughed hardest at the nuclear war and racism songs. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 12:13 PM (BI5O2) 296 "Iran Is Not Of The West" True. But I'm not sure the West is of the West any more ... Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 09, 2026 12:13 PM (iFTx/) 297 Recently here, there was passing mention of 'The Merry Minuet', for which I will always appreciate Leher. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 09, 2026 12:12 PM (XeU6L) --------- The Merry Minuet was written by Sheldon Harnick and popularized by the Kingston Trio. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 09, 2026 12:14 PM (jwJyU) 298 Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:11 PM (Riz8t) Whatever he looks like, he managed to tackle the shooter and that is a good thing. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 12:14 PM (IeCgc) 299 Looks like the Pillsbury Dough Boy. - Hey! I resemble that remark! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:14 PM (ndZc7) 300 Would be nice if we still had battleships capable of real naval bombardment of the Iranian coastline. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 12:12 PM (oqH4h) Yeah I would think 16" guns are pretty cost effective in the grand scheme. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:14 PM (snZF9) 301 Yesterday CNN had "remembering Michael J Fox" on the bottom of their screen, forcing Michael J Fox to issue a statement: "I'm still alive". I mean, you can remember people who are still alive. Posted by: Josephistan at April 09, 2026 12:07 PM (y9ksN) Maybe he can take a hint... Posted by: Death at April 09, 2026 12:14 PM (/1l9x) 302 Oh man, I reading a story about some illegal scum killing a convenience store worker with a hammer thinking they would fuzz out the attack on the video. They didn't. Just brutal. This is who the Dems protect. The DNC posted this morning bragging about their new all-40-year-old-white-women Supreme Court in Wisconsin. If I were JJ I'd be getting the fuck out of that state. Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 12:14 PM (2ocoG) 303 I'm starting to think this Iran op will consume Trump's entire term. IMO I could be wrong. === I don't think so. I think he already has what he needed, destruction of ballistic missile capacity, uranium enrichment and stocks, decapitation of major assholes. He wants Europe to get off their assess and help themselves with the strait. If they won't, then he will eventually open it up for a while and then he is going to walk away from it. I think the neighborhood has had enough of Iran, and they are going to be eating shit for a decade because of what they did to their neighbors. They arent the bully on the block anymore. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 12:14 PM (anL5R) 304 My 'local' newspaper celebrated Tom Lehrer's 98th birthday today. Tom Lehrer died last July. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver Listened to all 3 CDs within the last month. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 12:14 PM (Sco7b) 305 Also- the Irish government has called out the army to put down protests Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 12:11 PM (ZxPkt) Do they really want Provos? Because that is how you get Provos. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 12:15 PM (rbvCR) 306 > This new Pete is fucking boring. Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) ---- it's all the masturbating, isn't it Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 12:15 PM (ZxPkt) 307 I'm starting to think this Iran op will consume Trump's entire term. IMO I could be wrong. Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 12:07 PM (ZxPkt) You're wrong. Impeachments will consume his entire term. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 12:15 PM (FmapG) 308 New one: Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals: Pornographers Have No "Right" to Sell Their Pornography to Taxpayer Funded School Libraries So That Children Have Access to Their Porn Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t) 309 The Merry Minuet was written by Sheldon Harnick and popularized by the Kingston Trio. Posted by: Captain Obvious ----- What?! All of these years I've thought it was Lehrer. sigh Thanks for the correction. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 09, 2026 12:16 PM (XeU6L) 310 Ace is up. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 12:16 PM (NcvvS) 311 ? JD Vance Takes Center Stage in Peace Negotiations With Iran Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 12:16 PM (ndZc7) 312 I would not mess with the Irish right now they have burned some immigrant housing to the ground recently Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 12:17 PM (ZxPkt) 313 "Absent a successful revolution and the ascension of Pahlavi or another anti-Mullah figure to a position of authority, Iran will not change." Nailed it. And I don't see this failed ceasefire as a failure. It's a great success in proving that the mullahcracy has to be exterminated, to the last man. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:00 PM (utfVc) That was always my attitude. Completely wiped from the face of the earth has a nice ring to it. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:07 PM (snZF9) Yeah, the whole of the history of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been a constant contest about- Who can be the biggest islamic ratfucker responsible for killing Jews and Americans? Anyone not on board with this radical agenda was not going to make it and not advance and probably was killed as a traitor. So, probably it's going to require a lot more killing to plow through this pile of psychos until we're dealing with someone halfway sane and moral in the Western sense. Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 12:17 PM (iJfKG) 314 We don't need the oil, and the people who do have been anything but helpful. Screw 'em. Posted by: Archimedes at April 09, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t) Apparently we DO need the oil. I paid $6.19 for diesel on Tuesday. I'm just driving to and from the gym every day. Unfortunately, the guys that truck your food to the store are using the same sht I am... and if you don't think that isn't going to cause prices of everything to go up, I donno what to tell you. Diesel is the lifeblood of the economy. Literally nothing happens in our society without it. The higher it goes, the more expensive sht is going to cost. I still don't know how and why diesel became so much more expensive than regular. They used to be on par with one another. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 12:17 PM (WYStd) 315 Some Irish army officers are refusing" Well, they're Irish, so...revolting? Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 12:17 PM (XuXeR) 316 No Blade porn nood Posted by: NALNAMSAM at April 09, 2026 12:17 PM (VkY89) 317 They have talked about the emergence of moderates. I think Rubio was the last person I noticed... Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 11:13 AM (n9ltV) ==================== Thank heavens, it wasn't Rubio talking like this. https://tinyurl.com/3tykp359 Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 12:17 PM (4tMC7) 318 My 'local' newspaper celebrated Tom Lehrer's 98th birthday today. Tom Lehrer died last July. ****** Dibs on his unopened gifts... ...and the first piece of cake. Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 12:18 PM (qgHp7) 319 275 I'm starting to think this Iran op will consume Trump's entire term. IMO I could be wrong. --------------- Trump is pretty good at changing the channels. Let the Dems circle the wagons for their cohorts in Iran and then change the channel to something else. What is interesting is how small and impotent the Left is these days. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 12:18 PM (n17eQ) 320 Now that I think about it, the years 1954-2008 were just National Brotherhood Week. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 12:18 PM (BI5O2) 321 paid $6.19 for diesel on Tuesday. " Why is that about $2 more than here? Doesn't cost that much to transport. . Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 12:19 PM (XuXeR) 322 Looking at Google maps, the strait is roughly 50km wide. A single BM-21 could take out a tanker ======== Modern frigates typically provide local area defense out to 30–120+ km (using medium-to-long-range missiles) and point defense within a 1–10 km radius (using CIWS and short-range missiles) An the Europeans can't scrounge up 4 frigates to post up in the strait, supported by a Saudi Awacs? Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 12:20 PM (anL5R) 323 Last I heard, Iran is like 65% non-Muslim (Persian?), which makes it crazy that the terrorist "few" run the country (still). Posted by: illiniwek ================ How many people were card-carrying communists in the USSR? It's only about 5% in the PRC. And how many are card-carrying fanatics even in places like Saudi Arabia? Shockingly few. Observe them once they escape Saudi airspace. And look at our own ELECTED elites, refusing to do the will of 70-80% of Americans on issues like illegal migration and secure voting. I know I've read up on how this happens, but I can't remember right now. But it's a universal thing, and "only" 35% Muslims in Iran with some handful being turbaned dictators seems nigh-insurmountable to me. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (n7rxJ) 324 Neocons? Ha ha ha. You just blew your cover dumbass. Nobody uses 'neocon" anymore. Not even "neocons". "Neocon" was always a libtard boogyman. You're reading from the wrong playbook. Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 12:21 PM (iJfKG) 325 Did you quote the wrong guy? I'm not talking about "leveling Iran" and then just walking away or about conducting regime change like Iraq. I'm asking why we didn't do more to take out whatever resources Iran could possibly use to try to control traffic in the strait. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 11:33 AM (oqH4h) Iran has long-range missiles that can hit Israel. Those same missiles could be fired from any site in Iran, and hit a vessel in the Strait. Or miss it, and blow up harmlessly. But as long as they have the capability, insurers won't insure. Regime change is the only way to ensure the Strait reopens. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:22 PM (utfVc) 326 Nobody uses 'neocon" anymore. Not even "neocons". "Neocon" was always a libtard boogyman. You're reading from the wrong playbook. == Yeah, this doesn't sound like the old masturbatin pete at all. Frankly, the old boulder terlit hobo didn't sound like his old self either. The new versions of those nick's sound identical to each other. I wonder if some assmunch decided to mine old nicks and appearing in "drag" so he can act like a dope. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 12:25 PM (anL5R) 327 ran has long-range missiles that can hit Israel. Those same missiles could be fired from any site in Iran, and hit a vessel in the Strait. Or miss it, and blow up harmlessly. But as long as they have the capability, insurers won't insure. Regime change is the only way to ensure the Strait reopens. == We sweep mines and kill subs for a week. Euros post up 4 frigates, Saudi Awacs rolls top down eyes. Strait open without our involvement. two: US provides insurance to strait passage that Lloyds won't. These problems aren't really that hard to solve. It just takes a few weeks to get people to come around. Posted by: European Limpdicks are not reliable allies at April 09, 2026 12:28 PM (anL5R) 328 Trump is you Mahdi. Posted by: ObsidianKnife at April 09, 2026 12:42 PM (6SjEW) 329 Apparently we DO need the oil. Posted by: Defenestratus ------ No, we don't. But, unless and until the government decides that it's time for us to quit being Mr Nice Guy and act like every other selfish bastard country out there and prohibit oil and fuel exports to them. The reason you're paying so much is that those other countries, who can no longer get mid-east oil, are willing to pay more than you did. You're in an auction for US oil, and you're being outbid. Posted by: buddhaha at April 09, 2026 01:01 PM (RVkHv) 330 Trump is you Mahdi. Posted by: ObsidianKnife at April 09, 2026 12:42 PM (6SjEW) He was riding on a bike and got hit in the head with a rock leading to having visions that led him to set nations aflame? Woa. I didn't even know Trump knew how to ride a bike. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 01:06 PM (rbvCR) Mid-Morning Art Thread The Dugout** Norman Rockwell Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 Sponge! Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:31 AM (AnEIe) 2 Good morning good people. Posted by: Tonypete at April 09, 2026 09:31 AM (cYBz/) 3 yow! Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 09:31 AM (R11M+) 4 Man, hitting F5 like a minkey on crack! Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:31 AM (AnEIe) 5 I take it the game is going well. Posted by: t-bird at April 09, 2026 09:32 AM (ittVa) 6 Cubs lose again? Posted by: dantesed at April 09, 2026 09:32 AM (Oy/m2) 7 Who the player manspreading!! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Posted by: Tonypete at April 09, 2026 09:32 AM (cYBz/) 8 I think this needs to be a little more "dugout" to keep us safe. Posted by: 3rd String Ayatollah at April 09, 2026 09:33 AM (JCZqz) 9 This is fine art. Needs a dog, though. Posted by: Inspector Cussword at April 09, 2026 09:33 AM (lFFaq) 10 I'd jeer Chicago too... Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 09:33 AM (AkEZC) 11 Those blokes look bored. Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 09, 2026 09:33 AM (WKdEz) 12 The manager was angry that day, my friends. Posted by: George Costanza at April 09, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1) 13 Cute and seasonality appropriate. Posted by: Tuna at April 09, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4) 14 is that skippy jacobson? Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 09:34 AM (R11M+) 15 You're not cheating hard enough. Posted by: Houston Astros at April 09, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1) 16 grammiewinger will spend all day smiling at this, I hope Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 09:34 AM (+zKoH) 17 It's a hot and muggy July afternoon, and we're already out of the pennant race . . . Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 09:34 AM (LzLR8) 18 9 is goat now. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 09:34 AM (R11M+) 19 Oh, put me in coach, I'm ready to play today Put me in, coach, I'm ready to play today Look at me, I can be centerfield Posted by: John Fogerty Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:34 AM (AnEIe) 20 Shouldn't that batboy be in school, absorbing transgender ideology? Posted by: The Teechers Union at April 09, 2026 09:34 AM (oftw2) 21 Two fags evaluate boy's ass Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 09, 2026 09:35 AM (Kt19C) 22 There's no crying in baseball! Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 09:35 AM (XuXeR) 23 I like Rockwell. Knowing that he used his friends and neighbors as models, I wonder if the dejected young player was someone he knew. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 09, 2026 09:36 AM (ufSfZ) 24 Give dat bum the raspberry!!!! Giv'em da razzberry! Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 09:36 AM (iJfKG) 25 "Swing and a miss! …and that one was juuuust a bit outside." Posted by: Zombie Bob Uecker at April 09, 2026 09:36 AM (cYBz/) 26 Shouldn't that batboy be in school, absorbing transgender ideology? He was promoted. The Cubs just ran out of relievers. Posted by: t-bird at April 09, 2026 09:37 AM (ittVa) 27 Where are all the players, fans, and children of coler? Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein Of Brattleboro, VT at April 09, 2026 09:37 AM (oftw2) 28 Love it. And would be appropriate for the Man Cave. I'm always attracted by baseball nostalgia. I'm not a collector or anything, just a lighthearted fan. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 09:37 AM (DgMqy) 29 Thanks for the Rockwell, CBD! Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 09, 2026 09:37 AM (7skvk) 30 Baseball team names Id like to see: The Louisville Sluggards The Winslow Homers The Homburg Sliders ????? Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 09:38 AM (qgHp7) 31 Cute and seasonality appropriate. Posted by: Tuna at April 09, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4) *** Was expecting this ⛳️, but got this ⚾️ It's all good. Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 09:38 AM (NpAcC) 32 This is over. Put the kid in. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 09:38 AM (bss/y) 33 Interesting backstory to this painting: https://tinyurl.com/5aubdjrx Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 09, 2026 09:38 AM (jB7fc) 34 Baseball team names Id like to see: The Louisville Sluggards The Winslow Homers The Homburg Sliders ????? Posted by: muldoon How do you feel about the Lansing Lugnuts? Posted by: Zombie Bob Uecker at April 09, 2026 09:39 AM (cYBz/) 35 This is that Japanese game. I think they call it (phonetic spelling) bay-su-bo-ru. Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 09, 2026 09:39 AM (BHrzb) 36 30 Baseball team names Id like to see: The Louisville Sluggards The Winslow Homers The Homburg Sliders ????? Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 09:38 AM (qgHp7) Louisville is actually the 'River Bats.' It's wierd. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2026 09:39 AM (bss/y) 37 That's a beautiful painting. Thanks. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 09:39 AM (Sco7b) 38 Looks like they are losing, 9 -0 Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 09:39 AM (EZIW5) 39 I'll bet a beer didn't cost $18.50 in those days. Posted by: Get Your Scorecard Here! at April 09, 2026 09:39 AM (oftw2) 40 23 I like Rockwell. Knowing that he used his friends and neighbors as models, I wonder if the dejected young player was someone he knew. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 09, 2026 09:36 AM (ufSfZ) —— See my link above. It’s the actual batboy from the other team …. Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 09, 2026 09:39 AM (jB7fc) 41 Classic! Love how his painting tell a story, or really, set up a story that you get to fill in because it's sparked your imagination. There's a reason why two of the biggest collectors of Rockwell are Spielberg and Lucas. Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 09:40 AM (Suwql) 42 Sitting right here, boss. Posted by: The Savannah Bananas at April 09, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1) 43 Baseball team names Id like to see: The Louisville Sluggards The Winslow Homers The Homburg Sliders ????? Posted by: muldoon Mudville Nine Toledo Mud Hens Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:40 AM (AnEIe) 44 Wakes up Scratches Looks around Dang. Can't go wrong with a Rockwell. Goes looking for coffee. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 09:41 AM (2WIwB) 45 Bull Durham, just a great movie . . ‘Show us that million-dollar arm, because I got a good idea about that five-cent head of yours.’ Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 09:41 AM (LzLR8) 46 Is this the final sketch? Because when I saw the Post magazine cover, it was much more detailed, IIRC. Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 09, 2026 09:41 AM (BHrzb) 47 17 cubs mathematically eliminated from playoffs in april. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 09:41 AM (R11M+) 48 [sorry, but not everything is gay [CBD] Posted by: the sassiest batboy in chicago at April 09, 2026 09:41 AM (ZHv3n) 49 Baseball team names Id like to see: The Louisville Sluggards The Winslow Homers The Homburg Sliders ????? Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 09:38 AM (qgHp7) The Kissimmee Astros. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 09:41 AM (2WIwB) 50 The Gotham City Batboys Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 09:42 AM (qgHp7) 51 The Florence Y'alls Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 09:42 AM (DgMqy) 52 This painting brings me to the conclusion that baseball fans are assholes. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 09:42 AM (ExV1e) 53 The Kissimmee Astros. Posted by: Diogenes ****** Snort! Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 09:42 AM (qgHp7) 54 Lollygaggers! Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 09:42 AM (LzLR8) 55 I dunno much about baseball, but it doesn't look they are the winning team at the moment. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2026 09:43 AM (ESVrU) 56 The Tampa Dispensers Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 09:43 AM (qgHp7) 57 The Tahlequah, Oklahoma Redskins. Sorry, I had to. . . . Posted by: Tonypete at April 09, 2026 09:43 AM (cYBz/) 58 The Tampa Dispensers Posted by: muldoon ISWYDT Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:43 AM (AnEIe) 59 The Gotham City Batboys Posted by: muldoon Sounds more like a union than a team. The Gotham City Batboys Local 590. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:45 AM (AnEIe) 60 The Mobile Agile Hostiles Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 09:45 AM (qgHp7) 61 Amazing that chewing gum could fund a real estate and business empire. The Wrigleys also owned Catalina Island. Posted by: Had Their Own DC-3 at April 09, 2026 09:45 AM (oftw2) 62 It was 1948, so just 3 years after the last Cubs' pennant before the Chicago Ice Age. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 09:46 AM (AlhUl) 63 100 comment rule. [CBD] Posted by: cry more at April 09, 2026 09:46 AM (9vFyc) 64 62 that is a great andre williams song. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 09:46 AM (R11M+) 65 Was expecting this ⛳️, but got this ⚾️ It's all good. Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 09:38 AM (NpAcC) Woohoo! It's not baseball, but today is an extra edition of Geezer Golf! Great weather and no wind. (Notice how I included baseball so as to stay within the 100 comment rule?) Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 09:46 AM (2WIwB) 66 I love this... The Bat Boy's face says it all... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 09:47 AM (F1quE) 67 100 comment rule. [CBD] Posted by: Zombie Jeffrey Epstien at April 09, 2026 09:47 AM (cYBz/) 68 'Murrica fvck yeah! Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 09:48 AM (RIvkX) 69 And, oh yeah, they were playing the Braves (still Boston then) who went to the WS that year. Lost to Cleveland. It was the last year for quite a while that neither team in the WS was from NY. Even more if you count former NY teams (Dodgers and Giants in CA.) Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 09:48 AM (AlhUl) 70 If you paint it, they will come. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 09:49 AM (AkEZC) 71 the el ride was a quarter both ways, a bleacher seat was a buck fifty, as was a frosty malt. day games only, ditch school if you could scrounge up five bucks. and we didn't have to deal with ronnie wicker woo woo. yet. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 09:49 AM (R11M+) 72 The Bad News Bears Go To Stockbridge. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 09, 2026 09:50 AM (kgE5c) 73 The Whiz Kids had won it Bobby Thomson had done it And Yogi read the comics all the while Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 09:50 AM (DgMqy) 74 Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet! 🎶 Well. Three outta four is ok. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 09:51 AM (2WIwB) 75 Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 09, 2026 09:35 AM (Kt19C) Compensating much? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 09:51 AM (n9ltV) 76 A Rockwell, huh? Well, it's no Rockwell Retro Encabulator... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 09:51 AM (XuXeR) 77 Baseball team names Id like to see: The Louisville Sluggards The Winslow Homers The Homburg Sliders ????? Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 09:38 AM (qgHp7) The Base Desires The Glove Boats Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 09:51 AM (iJfKG) 78 From Art Institute of Chicago On May 23, 1948, Norman Rockwell went to Braves Field in Boston for a doubleheader where the Boston Braves swept the Chicago Cubs. The renowned artist had received a baseball-related commission from the Saturday Evening Post and ultimately focused his attention on the contrast between the losing and dejected Cubs players and the elated Braves fans behind the dugout. The result was The Dugout, which has become an iconic portrayal of the 1948 Chicago Cubs. This painting, a large, early oil study for The Dugout, was recently given to the Art Institute of Chicago. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 09:52 AM (Sco7b) 79 rounda bouts bleacher seats were three bucks, and we did have to tolerate ronnie woo woo, i ate a batch of hash cookies and spilled my beer on the guy seated in front of me three times. he was not happy, but i kept nodding off. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 09:52 AM (R11M+) 80 Never had an interest in baseball. Don't know why. Just didn't. Maybe it's because it's fucking boring. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 09:52 AM (g8Ew8) 81 Baseball team names Id like to see: .... ????? Posted by: muldoon The Pittsburgh Butt Pirates? Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 09, 2026 09:53 AM (JCZqz) 82 The Homburg Sliders ????? Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 09:38 AM (qgHp7) The Eaton Beavers Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 09, 2026 09:53 AM (PSEDc) 83 The minor league team here in Jacksonville used to be called the Suns but now it's the Jumbo Shrimp. Posted by: dantesed at April 09, 2026 09:53 AM (Oy/m2) 84 82 Never had an interest in baseball. Don't know why. Just didn't. Maybe it's because it's fucking boring. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons I believe South Park, The Simpsons and Futurama all have episodes suggesting boredom of baseball is a sign you aren't drinking enough. Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 09, 2026 09:54 AM (JCZqz) 85 the el ride was a quarter both ways, a bleacher seat was a buck fifty, as was a frosty malt. day games only, ditch school if you could scrounge up five bucks. and we didn't have to deal with ronnie wicker woo woo. yet. And we wore an onion on our belt, which was the style at the time. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 09, 2026 09:55 AM (ufSfZ) 86 The Dugout (Bottom of the Ninth) by Norman Rockwell measures 29.00 × 23.00 inches He has the sad confused look of someone paid a visit by a time traveller telling him in the future the Cubs would play a team in Montreal. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 09:56 AM (Sco7b) 87 Howdy, dudes and dudettes. It is Another Day in the Life. At first glance at today's art, my immediate thought was, this looks very Rockwellian. Turns out, there's a reason for that. This calls for some good old late great Steve Goodman. https://youtu.be/7xBxZGQ1dJk Posted by: mindful webworker - Leaving some wrigley room at April 09, 2026 09:56 AM (C2uPD) 88 82 Never had an interest in baseball. Don't know why. Just didn't. Maybe it's because it's fucking boring. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons Never had you pegged as a Communist. Looks can be deceiving. Posted by: Faithful Follower Of Brother John Birch at April 09, 2026 09:56 AM (oftw2) 89 It's the expressions and postures that make this sort of funny and ironic. The crowd cheering (or jeering) loudly while the older players are just quiet, dealing with losing the game. The disappointment on the bat boy's face and his slumped stance is such a contrast to the guys in the dugout and the noise from the stands. The more I look at the scene the more complex it seems. The reaction of the boy makes it rather touching, not just funny. Posted by: JTB at April 09, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw) 90 I believe South Park, The Simpsons and Futurama all have episodes suggesting boredom of baseball is a sign you aren't drinking enough. Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 09, 2026 09:54 AM (JCZqz) One of my favorite South Park episodes was when the kids were in Little League and kept trying to lose on purpose so they could avoid the playoffs and enjoy their summer. And all the other teams were trying the same thing. Very funny. Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 09, 2026 09:57 AM (PSEDc) 91 Yeah, for baseball, you need to slow down your internal clock, have a cold beer, and enjoy the sunshine. Like fishing. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 09:57 AM (DgMqy) 92 Interesting backstory to this painting: https://tinyurl.com/5aubdjrx Just plain wholesome. The art world must have been aghast. Posted by: t-bird at April 09, 2026 09:57 AM (ittVa) 93 85 ha, more like chukka boots. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 09:58 AM (R11M+) 94 >>we didn't have to deal with ronnie wicker woo woo. yet. Wicker started his shtick at Comiskey Park, thinking late '70s when the Sox had some good years. He moved to Wrigley Field in '84. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 09:58 AM (NcvvS) 95 I believe South Park, The Simpsons and Futurama all have episodes suggesting boredom of baseball is a sign you aren't drinking enough. Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 09, 2026 09:54 AM (JCZqz) When I was still drinking, I went to a few games. Still boring. I correlate it to watching soccer. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 09:59 AM (g8Ew8) 96 I believe South Park, The Simpsons and Futurama all have episodes suggesting boredom of baseball is a sign you aren't drinking enough. Posted by: Moron Analyst Mmmmmmm. Muff beer. Posted by: Homer Simpson. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:59 AM (AnEIe) 97 When I was still drinking, I went to a few games. Still boring. I correlate it to watching soccer. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 09:59 AM (g8Ew May I suggest curling? Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:00 AM (Sco7b) 98 The End of an Error - a limerick If the Cubs win this game they'll advance And finally make the Big Dance There's a grounder on the way! Can they turn the double play? Tinker...to Evers...no Chance! Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 10:00 AM (qgHp7) 99 94 that sounds exact. mom took me to wrigley. papa miliato to comiskey... Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:00 AM (R11M+) 100 Nearly 100 and no Meatloaf/baseball? Sad. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 10:00 AM (XuXeR) 101 When I realized it was the Cubs my first thought was of Grammy Winger, our resident Cubs fan. Posted by: JTB at April 09, 2026 10:01 AM (yTvNw) 102 Ok, 100 it is, then. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 10:01 AM (XuXeR) 103 We need a pitcher, not a belly itcher. But I'd settle for a richer witcher. Posted by: Geralt of Rivia at April 09, 2026 10:01 AM (5LMbM) 104 Looks very different from the usual Rockwell. Still darn good. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 10:01 AM (wzUl9) 105 98 and watch keith moreland drop a routine fly Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:01 AM (R11M+) 106 May I suggest curling? Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:00 AM (Sco7b) LOL Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 10:01 AM (g8Ew8) 107 23 I like Rockwell. Knowing that he used his friends and neighbors as models, I wonder if the dejected young player was someone he knew. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 09, 2026 09:36 AM (ufSfZ) Family lore has it my Mom's cousin did some modeling for one of Rockwell's paintings. He grew up with and was school friends with Rockwell's kid(s). Apparently Rockwell had a big trunk with costumes and he would let the kids borrow stuff for Halloween. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 09, 2026 10:02 AM (w/O5Q) 108 I like this. It beats the Holdout (not pictured) and the Lockout. Posted by: Rex B at April 09, 2026 10:02 AM (DqQS/) 109 Never had an interest in baseball. Don't know why. Just didn't. Maybe it's because it's fucking boring. Baseball is speed cricket. Posted by: t-bird at April 09, 2026 10:03 AM (ittVa) 110 Random thought, but it seems there were many more redheads around when I was growing up than there are now. Posted by: LASue at April 09, 2026 10:03 AM (lCppi) 111 Yeah, "Rockwell's just an illustrator" said the people splashing paint on canvas. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 10:04 AM (Y8DZL) 112 >>that sounds exact. mom took me to wrigley. papa miliato to comiskey. Started paying attention to baseball in the mid-60s when the Sox had God's own starting rotation and the Cubs were horrible. Family of 6, we didn't go to many games, and Dad was a Cubs fan, so it was Wrigley when we went. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 10:04 AM (NcvvS) 113 Mmmmmmm. Muff beer. Posted by: Homer Simpson. Posted by: rickb223 Muff beer?!?!?! I've seen creepy, hippie Lefty girls make sourdough bread with, uh, their "personal yeast", but never beer!!! Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 09, 2026 10:05 AM (JCZqz) 114 I was at the Reds game when Sweet Lou got triggered and pulled first base out of the ground and threw it. Then fans started throwing garbage on the field. Priceless. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 10:05 AM (DgMqy) 115 Over 100 - news feed item (usual doom) featuring France buying (and this is an exact quote) "newer higher quality gold" That's some weapons grade stupidity right there.. The newz is gone. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 10:05 AM (XuXeR) 116 Never had an interest in baseball. Don't know why. Just didn't. Maybe it's because it's fucking boring. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 09:52 AM (g8Ew I'm told, by people who enjoy baseball, that if you understand more about the game then it's more exciting. Of course, people who like soccer say the same thing so it's suspect reasoning. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 10:06 AM (ExV1e) 117 The Conquered Grapes Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 10:06 AM (qgHp7) 118 Family of 6, we didn't go to many games, and Dad was a Cubs fan, so it was Wrigley when we went. My sports fandom is definitely on the decline. Seems to be the same for those around me. Posted by: Yep at April 09, 2026 10:07 AM (SD7rz) 119 The New Hampshire Hampsters Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 10:07 AM (qgHp7) 120 LMAO CBD Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 10:07 AM (8X0wm) 121 Random thought, but it seems there were many more redheads around when I was growing up than there are now. Posted by: LASue at April 09, 2026 *** Real redheads, I can believe it. The ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 was one. We have plenty of what she used to call "bottle-baby" redheads now, though. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 10:07 AM (wzUl9) 122 The Tennessee Williams Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 10:08 AM (qgHp7) 123 Since we're past 100, Kate at small dead animals posted a link to this. I like to think their just trying to push the limits of human memory... MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan Regional Engagement on the Development of the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan In May and June 2021, the BCAFN and the AFN Women’s Council co-hosted a series of virtual engagement sessions on the development of the National Action Plan on MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+. A “What We Heard” report based on these sessions and the written, audio, and video submissions that were received, has been prepared. This report will be integrated into the AFN Women’s Council’s contribution to the National Action Plan, “Breathing Life into the Calls for Justice”. It will also serve as a foundation for BCAFN’s advocacy at the provincial and federal levels Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:08 AM (Sco7b) 124 The Lansing Boils Posted by: Rex B at April 09, 2026 10:09 AM (DqQS/) 125 Over 100 - news feed item (usual doom) featuring France buying (and this is an exact quote) "newer higher quality gold" That's some weapons grade stupidity right there.. The newz is gone. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 10:05 AM (XuXeR) None of that 99.999 fine crap for us. -- France Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 10:09 AM (ExV1e) 126 The Conquered Grapes" The lake Erie crushers.. (A real team) Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 10:09 AM (XuXeR) 127 >>My sports fandom is definitely on the decline. Seems to be the same for those around me. Agreed. Haven't watched a whole game in more than ten years. When a game was finished in less than two hours, it was a lot more interesting. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 10:09 AM (NcvvS) 128 The Fargo Woodchippers are coming this season (special jerseys for 5 games during the season, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the movie). Posted by: Vendette at April 09, 2026 10:09 AM (PrsTH) 129 I'm told, by people who enjoy baseball, that if you understand more about the game then it's more exciting. Of course, people who like soccer say the same thing so it's suspect reasoning. Same for modern art. Ballet. The WNBA. And on and on. I'm just not going to work that hard to like something that I don't naturally like. Posted by: Yep at April 09, 2026 10:09 AM (SD7rz) 130 The painting reminds me of Grammie Winger. Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 09, 2026 10:10 AM (8z5RA) 131 MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ " I have the same password! Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 10:10 AM (XuXeR) 132 They're....Sorry Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:10 AM (Sco7b) 133 Rockwell had a real gift for faces and character Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 09, 2026 10:11 AM (xcxpd) 134 I was at the Reds game when Sweet Lou got triggered and pulled first base out of the ground and threw it. Then fans started throwing garbage on the field. Priceless. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 10:05 AM (DgMqy) ===================== Piniella is the sort of manager you never see any more, for whatever reason, and he was entertaining. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 10:11 AM (NGWiW) 135 130 The painting reminds me of Grammie Winger. Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 09, 2026 10:10 AM (8z5RA) How is she doing? Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 09, 2026 10:11 AM (xcxpd) 136 I'm told, by people who enjoy baseball, that if you understand more about the game then it's more exciting. Maybe that's why the Cubs look so bored! Just kidding. And golf is probably the same. Posted by: t-bird at April 09, 2026 10:11 AM (ittVa) 137 Saw Roger Clemens pitch once. Sox had 5 errors. Lost of course. Clemens pitched well. Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 09, 2026 10:12 AM (KAi1n) 138 What paint brand was Johnny Bench pitching (SWIDT?) with the "No runs, no drips, no errors:" tagline? Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 10:13 AM (qgHp7) 139 110 Random thought, but it seems there were many more redheads around when I was growing up than there are now. Posted by: LASue at April 09, 2026 10:03 AM (lCppi) ________ More souls to feed on, I guess. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 10:14 AM (AlhUl) 140 Piniella is the sort of manager you never see any more, for whatever reason, and he was entertaining. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 10:11 AM (NGWiW) Loved him in Seattle. The look on his face when Junior and the others put a cow in his office. Priceless! Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2026 10:15 AM (2WIwB) 141 A young Harry Caray in above in the booth, shitfaced from pounding Falstaff's all game long. Posted by: one hour sober at April 09, 2026 10:15 AM (Y1sOo) 142 Didn't even have to read the artists name to know that was a Rockwell... Posted by: Denny Crane - Man, I've Got Great Taste In Art. at April 09, 2026 10:16 AM (dmDsy) 143 The Lansing Boils Posted by: Rex ********** Nicely done! Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 10:16 AM (qgHp7) 144 I'm told, by people who enjoy baseball, that if you understand more about the game then it's more exciting. Of course, people who like soccer say the same thing so it's suspect reasoning. ------- The key isn't "understanding it" which is kind of a high and mighty concept, so much as having a stake in it. If you care about the outcome of a baseball game, and it's a good one, there is likely no better game on earth. That said I stopped giving a fuck about baseball around 2008. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 10:16 AM (8X0wm) 145 136 I'm told, by people who enjoy baseball, that if you understand more about the game then it's more exciting. Maybe that's why the Cubs look so bored! Just kidding. And golf is probably the same. Posted by: t-bird at April 09, 2026 10:11 AM (ittVa It's fast, but car and horse racing probably fall into that category too. Unless you're betting... And darts. Football is a lot of waiting around. Basketball up and down a court. Tennis? A lot of sports are pretty boring without pretty women in lingerie playing. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:17 AM (Sco7b) 146 127 >>My sports fandom is definitely on the decline. Seems to be the same for those around me. Agreed. Haven't watched a whole game in more than ten years. When a game was finished in less than two hours, it was a lot more interesting. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 10:09 AM (NcvvS) __________ Mine isn't on the decline. It's dead. And I used to be a big fan of college basketball and the MLB. A friend says that the people who run sports today are trying to increase sales by getting rid of everything hard core fans love, to appeal to "modern audiences". Sounds plausible. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 10:17 AM (AlhUl) 147 The Poughkeepsie Cutie Pies Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 10:17 AM (qgHp7) 148 No bat dog. Not art. https://youtube.com/shorts/LZQbYbagKBc Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 09, 2026 10:17 AM (VRx6o) 149 The Boise Gulls Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 10:17 AM (qgHp7) 150 Anything by Norm is cool. Posted by: Weasel at April 09, 2026 10:17 AM (qdktZ) 151 My grandfather gave a framed copy of this to my mother one Christmas in the early 90s. On the matting, he hand wrote "Forgive me for making you a Cubs fan." It made her cry when she opened it. Both have passed on and I've got it hanging in my house now. Good painting, for a Cubs fan at least... Posted by: bearski at April 09, 2026 10:18 AM (Bhsk7) 152 Piniella is the sort of manager you never see any more, for whatever reason, and he was entertaining. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 10:11 AM (NGWiW) Mister, we could use a man like Billy Martin again. . . Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 09, 2026 10:18 AM (ufSfZ) 153 As a lifelong Cubs fan, I'd hang it. Posted by: Roy at April 09, 2026 10:18 AM (1Cncb) 154 A lot of sports are pretty boring without pretty women in lingerie playing" Thus the beach volleyball conundrum... how to watch without....watching. Esp with the spousal unit nearby... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 10:18 AM (XuXeR) 155 The Denver Piles Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 10:19 AM (qgHp7) 156 A young Harry Caray in above in the booth, shitfaced from pounding Falstaff's all game long. Posted by: one hour sober at April 09, 2026 10:15 AM (Y1sOo) ___________ "I never raped anyone." - Caray after getting fired by the Cards for banging Gussie Busch's daughter-in-law Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 09, 2026 10:19 AM (VRx6o) 157 Mine isn't on the decline. It's dead. And I used to be a big fan of college basketball and the MLB." It's the sports betting... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 10:20 AM (XuXeR) 158 MLB is uniformly awful now and so is the NFL. These were once excellent institutions taken down by the usual human failings of greed and stupidity. And that is beyond the abject cuckery I mean. Bud Selig is probably the worst thing to happen to a modern sport. That fool should have stuck to selling used cars. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 10:20 AM (8X0wm) 159 Joke used to be that a White Sox fan's second favourite team was whoever was playing the Cubs. When interleague play started and the Cubs played the Yankees, that was, um, complicated. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 10:20 AM (NcvvS) 160 113 you can control inffections by microwaving your panties. if it's too late, you get one fek of a croissant. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:20 AM (R11M+) 161 152 Piniella is the sort of manager you never see any more, for whatever reason, and he was entertaining. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 10:11 AM (NGWiW) Mister, we could use a man like Billy Martin again. . . Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 09, 2026 10:18 AM (ufSfZ) _______ Pinella played for Martin. Martin for Stengel. Stengel for McGraw. That's to the Victorian age. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 10:21 AM (AlhUl) 162 'm told, by people who enjoy baseball, that if you understand more about the game then it's more exciting. Of course, people who like soccer say the same thing so it's suspect reasoning. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 10:06 AM (ExV1e) ------ People who like soccer are people who are willing to spend time and money to watch a sporting event where it's entirely possible that nothing happens. Also the concept of a stopwatch is anathema to them. You should ignore these people. I would rather be duct-taped to a bleacher seat for ten straight baseball games than I would be forced to pick up my remote to turn a single soccer game on my TV. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 10:21 AM (oqH4h) 163 The Frankfort Wieners. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 10:21 AM (NcvvS) 164 116 "game of inches" Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:22 AM (R11M+) 165 I loathe Commie Kickball, in case I wasn't clear. lol Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 10:22 AM (oqH4h) 166 154 A lot of sports are pretty boring without pretty women in lingerie playing" Thus the beach volleyball conundrum... how to watch without....watching. Esp with the spousal unit nearby... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 10:18 AM (XuXeR) _______ Why God invented sunglasses. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 10:22 AM (AlhUl) 167 A friend says that the people who run sports today are trying to increase sales by getting rid of everything hard core fans love, to appeal to "modern audiences". Sounds plausible. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 10:17 AM (AlhUl It's worked wonders for Hollywood. It's heartwarming to see inner city youth taking advantage of the occasional riots to run away with armloads of comic books and Star Trek and Star Wars memorabilia... Don't really watch baseball but I do go to the site and see how Ohtani and Judge are doing. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:22 AM (Sco7b) 168 Take out gambling and nobody really cares about sports anymore. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:23 AM (z0fc5) 169 Never forget soccer was invented because British aristocrats thought Rugby was too violent for the proles. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 10:23 AM (AlhUl) 170 127 they went to great pains to shorten the games. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:24 AM (R11M+) 171 Baseball is a good sport. The MLB is an abomination. Pitch clocks and ABS are garbage. Nobody needs to play a game 161 times to see who is good enough to go to the playoffs. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 10:25 AM (oqH4h) 172 138 krylon Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:25 AM (R11M+) 173 It's a great day for baseball. Let's play two! Posted by: zombie Ernie Banks at April 09, 2026 10:25 AM (ufFY8) 174 Cheapest World Cup tickets for the 3 US games are $1500 on secondary markets. Thats for nose bleeds. Decent seats are $2500 and up. There’s definitely a demand for those tickets. Helps that they put those games in Seattle and LA where there’s a lot of tech bro money available to buy them. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:26 AM (z0fc5) 175 Bezeball been bery bery good, to me. - Chico Escuela Posted by: Mr Wolf at April 09, 2026 10:26 AM (kUtz9) 176 Joke used to be that a White Sox fan's second favourite team was whoever was playing the Cubs. Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 10:20 AM (NcvvS) Mine was whoever was playing the Red Sox, but the Houston Astros have supplanted the Red Sox as my most hated team! When the Sox and the Astros play, I cheer for lightning strikes. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 10:27 AM (n9ltV) 177 Shouldn't we have a golf picture for first day of the Masters? Are there any "fine art" golf pictures? Posted by: From about That Time at April 09, 2026 10:28 AM (sl73Y) 178 166 polaroid "girl watchers" Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:29 AM (R11M+) 179 >>When the Sox and the Astros play, I cheer for lightning strikes. LOL, CBD! Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 10:29 AM (NcvvS) 180 Thus the beach volleyball conundrum... how to watch without....watching. Esp with the spousal unit nearby... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 10:18 AM (XuXeR) Start the match by saying, "Look at those asses! But can they play." It'll signal to the wife that you're watching for the game. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 10:30 AM (ExV1e) 181 The Baton Rouge Redsticks Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 10:30 AM (n5tGW) 182 We played, or were forced to play, softball so often when I was in school -- along with volleyball -- that I really have no interest in the game. But I could watch a baseball game much more easily than I could a basketball or football game. Soccer is probably more fun to play than to watch; I had a gym teacher in ninth grade who had us work out in soccer games, and they were kinda fun. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 10:30 AM (wzUl9) 183 Toronto banned the unjabbed from the stadium. Not enough bad things can happen to the teaml, fans or country. That sounded angry and bitter. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:30 AM (Sco7b) 184 Mmmmmmm. Muff beer. Posted by: Homer Simpson. Posted by: rickb223 Muff beer?!?!?! I've seen creepy, hippie Lefty girls make sourdough bread with, uh, their "personal yeast", but never beer!!! Posted by: Admiral Ackbar Groening really missed poking a finger in the eye. He could have called it Muff Beer or Milf Beer. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 10:30 AM (AnEIe) 185 Mine was whoever was playing the Red Sox, but the Houston Astros have supplanted the Red Sox as my most hated team! When the Sox and the Astros play, I cheer for lightning strikes. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 10:27 AM (n9ltV) Sinkhole of Biblical proportions? A Sharknado? IRS audits for everyone on each team? Posted by: Vendette at April 09, 2026 10:31 AM (PrsTH) 186 171 Baseball is a good sport. The MLB is an abomination. Pitch clocks and ABS are garbage. Nobody needs to play a game 161 times to see who is good enough to go to the playoffs. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 10:25 AM (oqH4h) Yep. MLB has gotten in bed with the sports betting vermin, and that has ruined baseball. But so has NFL, NBA, NHL, and every other sport. The gambling industry has taken over, and society is much the worse for it. Daughter said she watched a couple of boys in one of her college classes making bets during a lecture. Posted by: moki at April 09, 2026 10:31 AM (wLjpr) 187 Shouldn't we have a golf picture for first day of the Masters? Are there any "fine art" golf pictures? Posted by: From about That Time at April 09, 2026 10:28 AM (sl73Y) I have a pic of my uncles 2-iron wrapped around a sapling tree. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 10:31 AM (g8Ew8) 188 Sports worked in a world where there wasn’t much else competing for people’s attention. Today there are endless ways for people to waste time online. No need to go to a sports stadium to do it. Only thing keeping it going is gambling. Nobody really cares who wins or loses just the spread and individual player stats. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:31 AM (z0fc5) 189 Baseball is dead. But this painting is, IMHO, very in-Norman Rockwell like. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 10:31 AM (E6xSb) 190 173 he used to be a greeter at a bank across from the sear roebuck on lawrence. momasked if i wanted to meet him. i couldn't believe she made that happen. his son attended a kegger party my friend was throwing. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:32 AM (R11M+) 191 >Shouldn't we have a golf picture for first day of the Masters? Are there any "fine art" golf pictures? Posted by: From about That Time at April 09, 2026 10:28 AM (sl73Y) Funny you should ask. Posted by: leroy neiman at April 09, 2026 10:32 AM (rJ48h) 192 After the Nats won the World Series in their Cinderella season in 2019 the MLB went full woke. That was my last link to team sports. (Just as well. The Nats have been terrible since then.) NBA, NFL, MLB, etc., gone. More time for worthwhile hobbies. I approached baseball the same way I still watch a few golf tournaments. Each swing of the bat or golf club can mean something significant, good or bad, to the outcome. That attitude brings some drama to the event. And for the Masters, which starts today, you can see some gorgeous grounds. Posted by: JTB at April 09, 2026 10:32 AM (yTvNw) 193 19 Oh, put me in coach, I'm ready to play today Put me in, coach, I'm ready to play today Look at me, I can be centerfield Posted by: John Fogerty Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:34 AM (AnEIe) Ah, I used to play that when going to Houston to watch the Astros play. Back when there was a sport called baseball and they were in the National League. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 10:33 AM (E6xSb) 194 Nobody really cares who wins or loses just the spread and individual player stats. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:31 AM (z0fc5) Sadly, this holds for most of the players as well. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 10:34 AM (ExV1e) 195 Daughter said she watched a couple of boys in one of her college classes making bets during a lecture. Gen Z is obsessed with online gambling. And not just on sports. Posted by: Yep at April 09, 2026 10:34 AM (SD7rz) 196 Shouldn't we have a golf picture for first day of the Masters? Are there any "fine art" golf pictures? Posted by: From about That Time at April 09, 2026 * I have a pic of my uncles 2-iron wrapped around a sapling tree. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 *** That would have made a great Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 10:35 AM (wzUl9) 197 Tiger Woods! Tiger Woods! Tiger Woods! Let's check the leaderboard.... Tiger Woods! Tiger Woods! Tiger Woods! Posted by: NBC Sports at April 09, 2026 10:35 AM (3LMJN) 198 No evidence yet that wars in the middle east all stem from the designated hitter rule, but historians believe it to be the case. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 09, 2026 10:35 AM (n5tGW) 199 Baseball is a good sport. The MLB is an abomination. Pitch clocks and ABS are garbage. Nobody needs to play a game 161 times to see who is good enough to go to the playoffs. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 10:25 AM (oqH4h) Baseball WAS a good sport. Analytics / Moneyball changed it (killed it, IMHO). The strike zone is way too low and every game is overmanaged. Posted by: Doof at April 09, 2026 10:36 AM (LVvlK) 200 Nobody really cares who wins or loses just the spread and individual player stats. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:31 AM (z0fc5) Sadly, this holds for most of the players as well. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 10:34 AM (ExV1e) The "free agent" concept has ruined all professional sports, including college ball. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 10:37 AM (g8Ew8) 201 >>I have a pic of my uncles 2-iron wrapped around a sapling tree. 'Whoever thinks a Vulcan has no emotions has never golfed with one.' Posted by: Nazdar at April 09, 2026 10:38 AM (NcvvS) 202 And darts. Football is a lot of waiting around. Basketball up and down a court. Tennis? ---------------- Men's Tennis is who has the biggest serve. Woman's Tennis is who has the nicest ass while volleying. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 10:38 AM (n17eQ) 203 192 After the Nats won the World Series in their Cinderella season in 2019 the MLB went full woke. That was my last link to team sports. (Just as well. The Nats have been terrible since then.) NBA, NFL, MLB, etc., gone. More time for worthwhile hobbies. I miss following my Spurs, Broncos, Astros…but the NFL made lots of stupid changes and embraced being political, which killed the escapism element. The NBA just went full political, which again killed the escapism element. I stopped following baseball after 2012 which was the last season the Astros were in the NL. I guess I could have adopted my father’s team, the Cardinals, but especially after the stupid rule changes, baseball is dead to me. When the hockey teams punked Canada out of gold medals that was the most fun I had with sports in years. Yeah, I know, it’s the Olympics which are deeply unpopular here, but that was a feel good moment. Especially hearing Jack Hughes saying in the post game interview “I love the USA”. Good stuff. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 10:38 AM (E6xSb) 204 The first baseball game was the double header between the Bethlehem Braves and the Jerusalem Giants. Harry Carey did his first play by play Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at April 09, 2026 10:38 AM (LOZbR) 205 Woman's Tennis is who has the nicest ass while volleying. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 10:38 AM (n17eQ) I had a huge thing for Maria Sharapova. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 10:38 AM (E6xSb) 206 Daughter said she watched a couple of boys in one of her college classes making bets during a lecture. Posted by: moki at April 09, 2026 10:31 AM (wLjpr Hopefully it was during a class of advanced statistics. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:39 AM (Sco7b) 207 My BIL took me and The Missus to a Cubs game at Wrigley last summer. A former GF back in the day took me to Fenway to see the Red Sox. Me and the guys saw the Royals at Kaufman Stadium on a road trip. We used to go to Omaha for the CBWS too. All wonderful memories. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 10:39 AM (DgMqy) 208 When the hockey teams punked Canada out of gold medals that was the most fun I had with sports in years. Yeah, I know, it’s the Olympics which are deeply unpopular here, but that was a feel good moment. Especially hearing Jack Hughes saying in the post game interview “I love the USA”. Good stuff. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 10:38 AM (E6xSb) The Olympics had a few woke asswipes who got all the media attention. They were a small minority. And of course that traitorous cunt Eileen Gu. But overall it wasn’t the woke fest people made it out to be. As hard as it may be to believe things were exaggerated online. Lol. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:41 AM (z0fc5) 209 as a kid, clark and addisson was very much a skid row. now, it's an embarrassment of riches attended by throngs of naperville nudnicks. in between it was really cool... but that's all gone. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:41 AM (R11M+) 210 Hockey is basically the last bastion of professional sports being fun to watch. I never really cared a lot about the NFL. Stopped caring about the MLB after being a Braves fan during the Glavine/Smoltz/Avery/Maddux years. Goes without saying that the NBA has been a hot pile of steaming crap for decades. I stil try to root for my alma mater in college football, but NIL and the system of free agency it created have all but ruined it. Posted by: ballistic at April 09, 2026 10:42 AM (oqH4h) 211 My first baseball game: July 1985, my father found an opportunity to see the Cardinals play the Giants at Busch Stadium. So naturally I went. Good times. Years later I returned the favor by taking him to his first NBA game. The Spurs, of course, versus the Los Angeles Fakers. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 10:42 AM (E6xSb) 212 Tiger Woods! Tiger Woods! Tiger Woods! Let's check the leaderboard... holds envelope to forehead "Who has the most DUI's while headed to the Masters" Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 10:42 AM (AnEIe) 213 Pawtucket Red Sox, triple A feeder for Boston. Great games, great seats, inexpensive. See folks going up and down the Sox roster. Posted by: RI Red at April 09, 2026 10:43 AM (o19x0) 214 202 if i ever see chris evert i'm going to smile at her and i'll bet she winks back. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:43 AM (R11M+) 215 It's now happening to college sports, sadly, but for a long time now, pro sports have been geared toward businessman and bookies rather than the fan base. And that's without getting into all the weird political shit that spoiled the pros. Whatever. If you want to suck the fun out of everything, I can always watch high school ball. I'm not a degenerate gambler, and I'm not rich enough to wear $10k suits and bizarre haircuts, so why should I watch the games? shrugs Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 10:43 AM (BI5O2) 216 I just bet Football. Have no idea about basketball or base ball. I keep it simple - I look for the worst and best teams and bet big on the best beating the worst. You can make some serious money this way. First rule - don't root for any team just focus on who is the Godzilla and who ain't. BTW - I made a shit ton of money shorting UNC last year. They qualified as the worst. Belichick was too busy fucking his 25 year old girl friend then to be bothered coaching a team. Way to go Tarheels. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 10:43 AM (n17eQ) 217 205 you don't have it anymore? Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:44 AM (R11M+) 218 Who was it that said it’s hard to live on a $100M contract recently? I want to say Odell Beckham. Shit like that doesn’t help attracting fans back either. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:44 AM (z0fc5) 219 Shouldn't we have a golf picture for first day of the Masters? Are there any "fine art" golf pictures? Posted by: From about That Time at April 09, 2026 10:28 AM (sl73Y) A great photo, called The Home of Golf II, Scotland by David Yarrow - features Gary Player as a 1920s Scottish golfer. Pretty neat. Posted by: LASue at April 09, 2026 10:44 AM (lCppi) 220 My first baseball game: July 1985, my father found an opportunity to see the Cardinals play the Giants at Busch Stadium. So naturally I went. Good times. Years later I returned the favor by taking him to his first NBA game. The Spurs, of course, versus the Los Angeles Fakers. Posted by: Cow Demon My first would have been in 1967 or '68 at Busch Stadium. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 10:45 AM (AnEIe) 221 The Olympics had a few woke asswipes who got all the media attention. They were a small minority. And of course that traitorous cunt Eileen Gu. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:41 AM (z0fc5) Absolutely. During the Tokyo Olympics I found myself rooting AGAINST Team USA women’s soccer because of that bitch Megan Rapinoe. They were beaten by Canada and denied medal contention. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 10:45 AM (E6xSb) 222 Like the painting, but those in the chairs... bring out the lions! Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 09, 2026 10:45 AM (ZRzmB) 223 211 odd that you said "favor." Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:45 AM (R11M+) 224 Priceless. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 10:05 AM (DgMqy) ===================== Piniella is the sort of manager you never see any more, for whatever reason, and he was entertaining. Posted by: Huck Follywood == Lou was . . . well . . . hmm. I can't say anything bad about him. Except, he was the only manager in the history of the game that I know of that got into a shoving match with one of his own players on camera in the locker room. Its probably happened before. But Lou did it on camera, knowing the camera was right there . . . interesting guy. Posted by: grew up watching the big red machine at April 09, 2026 10:46 AM (anL5R) 225 Detroit Tigers' left fielder Willie Horton throwing Lou Brock out at the plate (which was expertly blocked by catcher Bill Freehan) during the '68 World Series is my fondest MLB memory from childhood. Posted by: one hour sober at April 09, 2026 10:46 AM (Y1sOo) 226 212 "it's a letter." Posted by: peter boyle at April 09, 2026 10:46 AM (R11M+) 227 As a yuute I went to a lot of baseball games. Bleacher seats were $4 for kids. My friends and I would go often, take the bus/subway to the stadium. That was a lot of fun. Today those seats are probably $40 and the bus/subway is full of homeless and illegals. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:47 AM (z0fc5) 228 If you want to suck the fun out of everything, I can always watch high school ball. Back in the day, I followed the Cowboys. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Then they took a knee and I stopped. And I discovered that I'd been paying attention out of habit rather than interest. I still enjoy watching clips of someone doing something awesome - which doesn't include some professional basketball player doing a layup - but that happens rarely. Mostly I just ignore it all and waste my time on other pursuits. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 10:48 AM (ExV1e) 229 Shouldn't we have a golf picture for first day of the Masters? Are there any "fine art" golf pictures? Posted by: From about That Time at April 09, 2026 10:28 AM (sl73Y) https://is.gd/8NcyTV Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 10:49 AM (n9ltV) 230 The Masters is an oasis, surrounded by hopeless ghetto all 'round. Sad. Posted by: Darktown Is A Mindset And Way Of Life at April 09, 2026 10:49 AM (oftw2) 231 I haven’t really watched The Mets in the 2 years I’ve been in Pa, tuned into a game the other day. Did not recognize anyone. Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2026 10:50 AM (swX25) 232 https://is.gd/8NcyTV Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 09, 2026 10:49 AM (n9ltV) Appealing to the "but she has big tits" crowd, I see. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 10:50 AM (ExV1e) 233 if you've never seen/ heard it, search up the lee elia rant about cubs fans. priceless, continues for an impressive while. nsfw. Posted by: peter boyle at April 09, 2026 10:50 AM (R11M+) 234 I remember going to a Seattle Pilots game at Sick's Stadium with my family. Before that, we went to minor league games . I don't remember the name of the team, but they always had fireworks and the peanuts in the shell. Beautiful Seattle summer nights, back when it was sane and lovely. Good times Posted by: LASue at April 09, 2026 10:50 AM (lCppi) 235 Spahn and Sain, and pray for rain. Posted by: Ancient Braves Fan at April 09, 2026 10:51 AM (oftw2) 236 The NFL is a reality TV show starring 32 quarterbacks and 32 head coaches. Posted by: And it has been that way for a long time at April 09, 2026 10:51 AM (dsret) 237 Posted by: Doof at April 09, 2026 10:36 AM (LVvlK) My theory on baseball managers was always this - 90% of managers could be at least "good" simply by doing normal expected things and getting out of the way. The other 10% were hopeless cases. In reality about third of the 90% ALWAYS had to stick their nose in and make their mark and they were idiots who had no business managing a baseball game. Those along with the other 10% were your "bad" managers, some select ones worse than others. Then you had your roughly top 4 or 5%, the Bobby Cox's (piss be upon him) that knew enough about what they were doing to actually make a positive difference and be a GREAT manager. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 10:52 AM (8X0wm) 238 225 Detroit Tigers' left fielder Willie Horton throwing Lou Brock out at the plate (which was expertly blocked by catcher Bill Freehan) during the '68 World Series is my fondest MLB memory from childhood. ------------- Denny McClain was the last 31 - 6 winning pitcher to exceed 30 wins in 31 starts. I was living in Detroit then. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 10:52 AM (n17eQ) 239 The lesson there is unless you bring something to the table stay out of the way and you can keep your managerial job for 6 or 7 years. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 10:52 AM (8X0wm) 240 if we flipped the seats up the grounds crew would give us tix for the next game. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:53 AM (R11M+) 241 I'd think the minor league games would be kind of fun. Maybe that's from movies. I always thought they did things to get people in the stands. Now I'm in the mood for hot dogs. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:53 AM (Sco7b) 242 The NFL is a reality TV show starring 32 quarterbacks and 32 head coaches. == Huh. Here I thought it wasn't possible to make it more unappealing than it actually is. Kudos. Posted by: No I'm not going to spend 3.5 hours on that thanks at April 09, 2026 10:53 AM (anL5R) 243 Correction 31 wins in 37 starts. I don't think pitchers do that anymore. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 10:53 AM (n17eQ) 244 241 I'd think the minor league games would be kind of fun. Maybe that's from movies. I always thought they did things to get people in the stands. Now I'm in the mood for hot dogs. ----------------- The seats are cheaper as is the beer. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 10:54 AM (n17eQ) 245 I don't bet at all anymore - my risk tolerance is too low because I have kids now. I used to bet politics occasionally, but never sports. I think if I did bet sports, I'd basically go at it by dividing the given league in two just prior to the beginning of the regular season - "doomed" and "possibly could do something, even if it takes a miracle." Then, I'd divide my gambling budget between the crappiest two teams in group #2, and bet them to hit various milestones through the season, but before it begins, when the odds against are highest. That how I won money on Trump, and others. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 09, 2026 10:54 AM (BI5O2) 246 I have the door open to let in fairly pleasant air. Unfortunately the sun has come out and my neighbor's big white Hyundai Equus is parked right in front -- so I get glare from the paint and the chrome. I'll probably shut the door when my movie comes on. (The Letter w/ Bette Davis, if if matters.) Big black Stirling has emerged from whatever cave he was in to stare out through the door. If there's a wasp out there -- or, God help me, in here -- he'll spot it. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 10:54 AM (wzUl9) 247 Good God. Do House Republicans like Salazar and the at idiot Lawler really believe at this pint wha the voters want is an amnesty bill? This is their priority. We can read the bill. It’s amnesty and even for criminal illegal aliens in certain categories, or admissible under discretion ? Really? This is why people hate Republicans and we always lose. It’s feckless, pretend Republicans like these idiots who keep undermining the party. You have to believe at this point it’s on purpose. You all suck. Every last one of you. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 10:54 AM (vhFJq) 248 If I told you what my first baseball game was no one would believe me. And they should not. But it's true. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 10:54 AM (8X0wm) 249 Masters is an oasis, surrounded by hopeless ghetto all 'round. Posted by: Darktown Is A Mindset And Way Of Life at April 09, 2026 10:49 AM (oftw2) So like University of Chicago. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:54 AM (z0fc5) 250 Denny McClain was the last 31 - 6 winning pitcher to exceed 30 wins in 31 starts. I was living in Detroit then. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 10:52 AM (n17eQ) My late father, hard of hearing, were on the computer following MLB Gameday as Cabrera won the Triple Crown. Sparky Anderson was a fun manager. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:54 AM (Sco7b) 251 I'd think the minor league games would be kind of fun. Maybe that's from movies. I've been to a few minor league games. The stadium is filled with things to do so that you can forget tat you're at a baseball game. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 10:55 AM (ExV1e) 252 I know, Sparky wasn't there at the time in 2012. That was a second disjointed thought. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 09, 2026 10:55 AM (Sco7b) 253 >>Denny McClain was the last 31 - 6 winning pitcher to exceed 30 wins in 31 starts. I was living in Detroit then. I wore number 17 on my uniform when I pitched in Little League because of him. Posted by: one hour sober at April 09, 2026 10:55 AM (Y1sOo) 254 This is why people hate Republicans and we always lose. It’s feckless, pretend Republicans like these idiots who keep undermining the party. You have to believe at this point it’s on purpose. == Uniparty. Its real, and its odious. Posted by: Welcome to the party pal at April 09, 2026 10:56 AM (anL5R) 255 Oh yeah... I was at Reds vs. Dodgers, Riverfront Stadium the game someone hung a LASORDA IS A FAT TUB OF GOO sign. lol Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 10:57 AM (DgMqy) 256 How are Trump's recess appointments going? Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 10:57 AM (8X0wm) 257 LASORDA IS A FAT TUB OF GOO sign. lol Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 10:57 AM (DgMqy) The truth is a defense for libel Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 10:58 AM (8X0wm) 258 You have to believe at this point it’s on purpose. They don't represent you. They represent who pays them. And they don't count their salary. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 10:58 AM (ExV1e) 259 Any word on the "ceasefire" ? ... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 10:58 AM (FtULh) 260 We have defacto amnesty and have had it for 20 years. I don’t get upset by “amnesty bills” anymore. It’s like a bill saying the sun will rise in the east. OK great. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:58 AM (z0fc5) 261 259 mostly peaceful, i'm told. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 10:58 AM (R11M+) 262 ny word on the "ceasefire" ? ... Posted by: It's me donna at April 09, 2026 10:58 AM (FtULh) Yes and that word is apparently "kaboom" Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 10:59 AM (8X0wm) 263 253 >>Denny McClain was the last 31 - 6 winning pitcher to exceed 30 wins in 31 starts. I was living in Detroit then. I wore number 17 on my uniform when I pitched in Little League because of him. -------------- Denny ending up playing for the Senators. He also had some jail time for being tied in to the mob. He's from Chicago. He played a mean Organ and Sang, too. Two Albums. Renaissance Guy. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 10:59 AM (n17eQ) 264 I'd think the minor league games would be kind of fun. Maybe that's from movies. _________ More fun and less predictable because the quality of players isn't as good. You don't know if the pitcher will walk five guys in a row or there will be a little-league home run. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 09, 2026 11:00 AM (VRx6o) 265 Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 10:58 AM (z0fc5) Sure but should it really be their focus after voters elected them to essentially specifically NOT do that? There is doing nothing and then there is slapping your constituents in the face with a wet mackerel and laughing all the way to the bank. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:00 AM (8X0wm) 266 If I told you what my first baseball game was no one would believe me. And they should not. But it's true. == I have two notable games. Pete Rose bumping the ump at Riverfront. Damn Riot broke out. People were going to the condiment stations getting the giant tubs of ketchup and mustard and throwing it on the field. Lot of garbage to clean up. Major game delay. Cleveland - when jose knocked the lights out on Tim Anderson. That wasnt a riot, it was over pretty quickly. But in a way, there are tons of games that I have been to where is leave saying . . . I've never seen that before. Its not for everyone. Which makes it even better. Posted by: Welcome to the party pal at April 09, 2026 11:01 AM (anL5R) 267 Nood munkey Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 09, 2026 11:01 AM (2UnvF) 268 '05 sox. done. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 11:01 AM (R11M+) 269 Sure but should it really be their focus after voters elected them to essentially specifically NOT do that? There is doing nothing and then there is slapping your constituents in the face with a wet mackerel and laughing all the way to the bank. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:00 AM (8X0wm) They know the voters will still vote team red no matter what. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 11:01 AM (z0fc5) 270 Are there any "fine art" golf pictures? Posted by: From about That Time at April 09, 2026 10:28 AM (sl73Y) https://is.gd/8NcyTV Ok, fine part covered. Posted by: From about That Time at April 09, 2026 11:01 AM (sl73Y) 271 Oh yeah... I was at Reds vs. Dodgers, Riverfront Stadium the game someone hung a LASORDA IS A FAT TUB OF GOO sign. == baseball in Cincinnati is a blood sport. Posted by: Welcome to the party pal at April 09, 2026 11:03 AM (anL5R) 272 what i like about baseball is that something happens everyyear that never happened before. they will never stop writing the rule book. Posted by: cmeat at April 09, 2026 11:03 AM (R11M+) 273 Posted by: Welcome to the party pal at April 09, 2026 11:01 AM (anL5R) Game 6 1986. I had a freezing cold hot pretzel in about the 7th. It was very cold. The people next to us left in the 10th. The people behind us left in the 10th. Relatives of mine who lived in somewhat the vicinity said the ground shook that night. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:04 AM (8X0wm) 274 Demolition Disco Night at Comiskey Park. Legend. Posted by: one hour sober at April 09, 2026 11:04 AM (Y1sOo) 275 And a guy parachuted into the stadium. I took that game as a sign that God wanted me to be a baseball fan and so I was, for a time. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:05 AM (8X0wm) 276 They know the voters will still vote team red no matter what. Posted by: Heroq at April 09, 2026 11:01 AM (z0fc5) 2006 and 2008 said otherwise! And we all pay the price. Posted by: ... at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (8X0wm) 277 Game 6 1986. I had a freezing cold hot pretzel in about the 7th. It was very cold. The people next to us left in the 10th. The people behind us left in the 10th. === Ouch. Posted by: Bill Buckner at April 09, 2026 11:07 AM (anL5R) 278 Newsom’s Wife: San Quentin Convicts’ Crimes Were ‘Probably Accidents’ - Yeah, Charlie Manson was just a butterfingers. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:08 AM (ndZc7) 279 I don't see a lot of people of color, or indigenous MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ people in many of Rockwell's paintings. Posted by: Lib mania at April 09, 2026 11:09 AM (IifOV) 280 Pot, meet kettle. New York Post @nypost Former top Biden aide urges Va. Gov. Abigail Spanberger to stop using his playbook: 'Come out of her Biden bunker' [and debate her horrific redistricting scheme]. - Biden can always serve as a bad example. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:14 AM (ndZc7) 281 They're going to have to put it to a tune if we're to remember MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+. You know, like the ABC song. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 09, 2026 11:16 AM (ndZc7) 282 Yeah, I get the Lansing Boils gag, but in real life it's the Lugnuts. Stadium a couple of blocks from the state capitol, you should hear the jokes. Posted by: Auspex at April 09, 2026 11:16 AM (Y8DZL) 283 If some one wants to be updated with hottest technologies then he must be pay a quick visit this web page and be up to date daily. Posted by: w 88 at April 09, 2026 12:05 PM (ZSfHA) The Morning Report — 4/9 /26 Good morning kids. The situation with Iran and the ceasefire remains at the forefront of the news. And as the ceasefire begins, friend and friend of the blog, Middle East and Islam expert par excellence Robert Spencer declares, with tongue planted firmly in cheek: Oh, Great, Peace in the Middle East Again — Hey, I’m as happy as everyone else, but I can’t help but notice those missiles raining down on Israel. . . . . . A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else! The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just “hangin’ around” in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will. Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP The Islamic Republic of Iran was likewise in a celebratory mood, and in its joyful exuberance, fired off a round or two of celebratory missiles and drones into Israel and the Sunni states that it has targeted since the beginning of this conflict. Fox News’ Trey Yingst reported that on “Ceasefire day 1,” Israel “took multiple waves of Iranian missile fire after the ceasefire was announced. WELL, not to doubt our friend but Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has declared: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed Wednesday that Iran is under a new regime with a “new calculus” about negotiating with the United States, just a day after President Donald Trump threatened total destruction over the nation’s intractability. That seals the deal for me, and yet we have all these doubting thomases. When President Trump first struck Iran over a month ago, I took a “wait and see” approach. I wasn’t supportive of the foreign intervention, as it seemed unwise and reckless. But there was a possibility the blowback could be minimal. Trump had previously killed Qasem Soleimani and bombed Iran with hardly any consequences. History could repeat itself once again with the Khamenei assassination. It’s clear now that this war was a grievous mistake. We did not achieve regime change, nor did we even get a more amenable leader to deal with Iran. The Islamic Republic isn’t going to give up its missiles or nuclear program. While Iran has lost many of its leaders and military installations, it’s still able to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and strike critical infrastructure throughout the Middle East. With these advantages, the Islamic Republic has upended the global economy and world oil supply. It’s more likely America and its allies will make serious concessions to open the strait than it is for Iran to meet Trump’s initial demands. In all seriousness for the past 47 years, the regime in Iran has spilled oceans of innocent blood in its eternal jihad and quest to conquer the world in the cause of Islam. The fecklessness, acquiescence and surrender of prior American and western nations to Iran in not defending Western Civilization from this threat to the advancement of humanity and civilization is why we are facing an existential threat. In that regard, the attempt to take Iran down had to be done sooner or later. Trump bucked the tide of prior administrations that were at best indifferent/ineffective (Reagan, Busshes)at worst collaborationist and) (Carter, Clinton, Obama/Biden). At this point it certainly looks as if President Trump has painted himself into a corner. The world breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night on news of a cease-fire in the Iran war, but this is certainly no time for President Donald Trump to go wobbly. If he can’t work out a comprehensive deal to end the Iran threat for good, he needs to get the jets back in the air over Iran pronto — and let the bombs drop. If not, he does risk that TACO label. Trump saw enough hope for a peace deal — and an “immediate” opening of the Strait of Hormuz — to hold off, for now, on the enormous additional devastation he threatened to inflict on the Iranian regime. Fine.But it’s far from clear what, exactly, the Iranian leaders he’s dealing with (whoever they are) will ultimately agree to. And stick to. That’s why any deal to be worked out over the next weeks must be absolutely air-tight. It must cover all the bases, paving the way for a future Iran that can’t continue to threaten the world and wreak havoc, whether through actual violence or economic terrorism. . .Nor can Iran’s negotiators be allowed to drag out the talks indefinitely, spared of fresh airstrikes from the United States or Israel. Trump must be prepared to resume bombing, including of infrastructure used by Iran’s military, if — as he would put it — he smells BS. Indeed, he should warn publicly (and not just threaten but mean it) that he’s ready to restart the attacks, and even ratchet them up, if Iran refuses to meet his conditions. Let’s face it: This is the world’s one chance to end the 47-year Iran nightmare once and for all — or at least to set conditions that can lead to its end. It’s Trump’s chance to make good on his promise that Iran will never have nuclear weapons. Not in a year. Not in 10 years. Remember, it took 47 years for any US president to confront the ayatollahs the way Trump has. No other leader will have the guts to do it again. Look at North Korea’s nukes if you doubt it. Yet Trump himself may be less willing to prolong the war now: Oil prices fell the minute he announced the cease-fire. The markets shot up. . Back here at home there are other things happening. On a related note we have a point counterpoint to contemplate: POINT: The Fall of Islam It will start here in Texas, and inspire others in America to stand. To Colonel Allen West I would say "Unless and until Islam falls in Mecca and way too much of the rest of the western world and in the hearts nd minds of all its billion and a half adherents, we're merely trying to hold back the tide." Counterpoint: with backstabbing blithering fools like this, we're going under. Texas AG Candidate Tried To Force Towns To Greenlight Development Of Muslim ‘Sharia Cities’ Elsewhere we have madness from the courtrooms to contend with: In an apparent effort to delay and thus perhaps permanently undermine justice for Iryna Zarutska's killer, prosecutors have accepted the assessment from Central Regional Hospital, leaving a judge to decide whether to reject the assessment and proceed with the April 30 hearing to delay 180 days as the hospital and prosecutors recommend. The new claim that Decarlos Brown is "incapable to proceed" on state murder charges became public in a motion filed April 7, according to the New York Post. Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. already had 14 arrests on his record when he boarded a Charlottesubway train in August 2025 with violence on his mind. Brown did not know Iryna, who was also riding the subway and quietly minding her own business. But Brown suddenly and randomly approached Iryna and stabbed the young woman to death while most of the other passengers looked another way, refusing to intervene. Just before he got off the train, video of Brown shows him gloating to himself, "Got that white girl." Thankfully Gavin Newsom's concubine has words of wisdom to calm us down. In a video clip resurfacing on social media, Gavin Newsom’s activist wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom is heard describing how she told a group of convicts in San Quentin about the childhood incident in which she killed her own sister with a golf cart — something she was never punished for because it was accidental. “Yours were probably accidents too…” she told the prisoners. What an utterly evil filthy diseased pudenda! Makes Michelle Obama look like Dolly Madison by comparison. Or not. Have a great day! And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s critics cry “war crimes” while ignoring decades of U.S. precedent—revealing less a legal argument than a reflexive, and deeply selective, political outrage. By All Means, Let the War Crimes Trials Begin! Critics argue the bill weakens freedom of expression and religion by removing the ‘good faith’ defense for religious texts. Canada Pushes Law That Would Classify Bible Quotes as Hate Speech. AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN! A ceasefire hailed as victory masks deep uncertainty—fragmented leadership, conflicting terms, and Iran’s track record all suggest the pause may only delay the next escalation. Four Major Reasons to Doubt the U.S.–Iran Ceasefire Robert Spencer:Hey, I’m as happy as everyone else, but I can’t help but notice those missiles raining down on Israel. Oh, Great, Peace in the Middle East Again Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, said on Wednesday morning that Lebanon was never part of the ceasefire arrangement. President Donald Trump also said on Wednesday that Lebanon was “not included in the deal” because of the “separate skirmish” between Israel and Hezbollah. Reports: Iran Blocks Traffic in Strait of Hormuz over Israeli Strikes in Lebanon And I totally understand his disappointment about that. But it is, therefore, a nuanced picture. It is not just saying it is black or white.” NATO Sec’y General: ‘Some’ in NATO Failed During Iran War, ‘Large Majority’ of Europe Didn’t Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday evening, just before the deadline for Iran to agree to terms was set to expire. In a subsequent Truth Social post, Trump stated that Iran has “gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change,” and will now be working closely with the United States. At a Wednesday press briefing, Hegseth was asked about the comments and whether the current Iranian leadership is actually a “new” and different regime than what was in place before Operation Epic Fury. (RELATED: Trump Showed Iran ‘Mercy’ In ‘Devastating Military Defeat,’ Hegseth Says) Hegseth Claims Iran’s ‘Regime Has Been Changed’ Amid Shaky Ceasefire The world breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night on news of a cease-fire in the Iran war, but this is certainly no time for President Donald Trump to go wobbly. If he can’t work out a comprehensive deal to end the Iran threat for good, he needs to get the jets back in the air over Iran pronto — and let the bombs drop. Trump's legacy is on the line with new Iran cease-fire — what the deal must guarantee now and forever * * * * * No matter how the conflict ends, it will not have served America well. The Iran War Was a Mistake President Donald Trump did something Tuesday that he has done repeatedly over the course of his political career: He issued a dramatic warning ahead of negotiations. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump said Tuesday morning on Truth Social regarding Iran. Note Who Predicted Nuclear Genocide In Iran Last Night And Stop Taking Them Seriously If this isn’t evil, what is? The Underreporting of the Iranian Regime’s Crimes CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION Millions aren't just moving out of blue states, but are moving out of blue counties within states. 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A Woke City Pretends to be Patriotic “That fatalism has become a hallmark of our politics...The public is overcome with a sense of alienation and powerlessness.” How Political Violence Failed in the 1990s "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY “Fundamental to this case—and indeed to our constitutional system—is the principle that the will of the President does not supersede that of Congress,” U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said. “Presidential whims do not and cannot supplant agencies’ statutory obligations.” Judge Blocks Trump Administration from Ending ‘Temporary’ Amnesty for Ethiopian Nationals America is either a nation with defined borders and laws, or it’s not. There is no in-between. 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Mid-Air Birth Flies Home How Stupid Birthright Citizenship Is DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE California’s In-Home Supportive Services Program is ripe for scams, experts say. Gavin Newsom’s $30 Billion Fraud Magnet Residents of the Marylander Condominiums could be evicted any day after a federal judge rebuffed a last-ditch effort to halt the proceedings, putting the future of the condo in jeopardy as a nearby homeless encampment is allowed to stand. Federal Judge Authorizes Evictions at Condominium Besieged by Sprawling Homeless Encampment WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM Col. Allen West: It will start here in Texas, and inspire others in America to stand. The Fall of Islam( Unless nd until Islam falls in Mecca and too much of the rest of the western world and in the hearts nd minds of all its billion and a half adherents, we';re merely trying to hold back the tide.- jja) They won't pay - but it's still a moral victory.(Honestly, I'm sick to death of "moral" victories considering the blood of innocents hasn't stopped flowing for decades and the lack of morality of the perpetrators and their cheerleaders in the res of the so-called civilized world- jja) 'Palestinian' Authority and PLO Ordered to Pay $655 Million to Terror Victims OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED, AND OTHER ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY The left-wing Senate candidate held events on Michigan and Michigan State's campuses with Piker and members of the 'Squad' Michigan's El-Sayed, Campaigning Alongside Anti-American Streamer Hasan Piker, Suggests US Lawmakers Only Support 'Genocidal' Iran War Because of AIPAC FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH ...an ongoing campaign to convince voters that Trump and his supporters are a threat to the normal rule of law — when it was Democrats and the dying media who cheered on the prosecution of the former president and his supporters for political disagreement... That the people who perpetuated that obscenity — Letitia James, Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, and on and on — might face their own form of legal harassment isn’t a matter of “weaponizing” the Justice Department. It’s a matter of ensuring it stops being weaponized. Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Painting DOJ Abusers As Trump’s ‘Political Foes’ A critique from a partisan hack. Jim Acosta Whines Trump is ‘Winning’ His War on the Press Photos document how Iranians in affluent enclaves of northern Tehran are seeking 'respite from the daily terror wrought by airstrikes' As Regime Executions Mount, NYT Laments Trump’s War Is Preventing Iranians From Cherishing Nature Your average left-of-center boomer probably reads The New York Times (NYT), CNN, NPR. Your average social-media savvy left-of-left-of-center boomer is probably on Bluesky, essentially a leftist alternative to X. A Strait Jacket And Soundproof Room: Left-Wing Loony Bin Shows No Outside Noise Can Get In THE ECONOMY, STUPID America’s economic strength depends on regulators who understand that markets, not bureaucratic delay, are the primary drivers of growth. Momentum is key for the Union Pacific - Norfolk Southern Merger CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY He had been asked to leave the church two months prior to the incident, after handing out “concerning” flyers. On March 15 he came back to the church wearing a backpack and was seen allegedly going into a bathroom, walking out, then going back in several times. Armed Man with 100 Rounds of Ammo Tackled in Texas Church A US Marine was fatally stabbed during a massive North Carolina brawl — and disturbing video that captured him bleeding out on the side of the road has placed responding officers under heavy scrutiny. 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How Gavin Newsom’s Entire Political Career Is About To Be Destroyed — By His Wife They fight and fight, but their real problem is named Jim Desmond. Bad news for Campa-Najjar: Democrats fight like dogs for the congressional seat he's angling for, and a strong Republican emerges MADURO TAKEN DOWN According to recent reports, Venezuela’s monthly crude oil exports have once again surpassed one million barrels per day. Andy Walz – president of downstream, midstream, and chemicals at Chevron – confirmed to the BBC that the company is importing the equivalent a quarter of a million barrels of Venezuelan oil per day. The BBC detailed that the crude oil tanker Minerva Gloria recently docked at a wharf in the Mississippi sound, carrying 400,000 barrels of crude oil — an amount that, six months ago, would have been “impossible” to bring to the United States. 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Without that, there’s no purpose for us to do what we’re doing.” Nuns Caring for Terminally Ill Sue New York Over Transgender Mandate The philanthropy giant is pouring millions into “black trans pleasure” and “trans liberation in an age of fascism.” How the Mellon Foundation Funds Trans Ideology CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE Christian Toto: Far-Left filmmaker ignores slaughtered innocents to attack Trump, America SICK: Michael Moore (Tubby Riefenstahl) Praises Iran, Trashes U.S. The campaign was announced in a memo to employees by Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Ravi Ahuja. Hollywood Decline: Sony Pictures Set to Lay Off Hundreds ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day. And. . . PODCASTING NEWS: the Podcast feeds have been fixed so you can now listen to them on the RSS feed as well as Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and of course directly at the CutJibNewsletter site. We also post a version on our Rumble channel within 12-24 hours of going live at the above. Also, do follow us on X (Twitter): @CutJibNews And my X (Twitter) account at: @therealJJSefton and on Instagram: @Cutjibnewsletter TIP JAR : Your support helps keep the lights on and is truly appreciated. Note: We are on Stripe, not PayPal. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:38 AM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 The Do 335A has been ordered. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 VICTORY!!!! Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 07:38 AM (FmapG) 2 Happy Thursday Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 07:38 AM (/+uur) 3 Good morning! Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ) 4 Nooded. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ) 5 Good morning horde! Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 07:40 AM (ExV1e) 6 Hi, everyone! Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 07:40 AM (OPGS/) 7 G'mornin' everyone! Thanks, JJ! the remainder of my remarks (types, deletes) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 09, 2026 07:40 AM (MIIRH) 8 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX) 9 They're mostly peaceful missiles. Posted by: The media we all ignore at April 09, 2026 07:41 AM (2Ez/1) 10 Heart tugging Lego video: https://t.co/90kDp2Xlz1 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ) 11 At this point it certainly looks as if President Trump has painted himself into a corner. I sincerely don't understand why people keep saying this. President Trump has never - on foreign affairs - ended up in a corner he didn't intend to appear to be in. He's completely rebuilt the post-war order in what basically amounts to his first year of this term. I'm astounded that people continue to act like he's a complete retard. "Hope he's not trusting Iran too much, that would be a mistake!" He's never given ANY indication he trusts them. Even if he intends this to be exclusively an air campaign, he still sent the MEU. There are no eventualities he has not considered or been informed of by his military leadership. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 07:42 AM (FmapG) 12 Not much ceasing in this ceasefire. Posted by: Have ya noticed? at April 09, 2026 07:43 AM (2Ez/1) 13 A US Marine was fatally stabbed during a massive North Carolina brawl As a former Marine, I hope that young man's brothers pay that back to the point that FEMA will have to get called in to rebuild some structures. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 07:43 AM (OPGS/) 14 Also with good stuff: https://midwestchick.com/2026/04/09/ thursday-meme-drop-160/ Mind the gap. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ) 15 Yonder Horde Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 07:43 AM (AkEZC) 16 Some clown named Zul Mohammed is running for Carrollton, TX mayor. Cue the shrieking about how TX will be forced into the dar al-Islam thanks to the evil Abbott. (This idiot IIRC is under indictment for mail ballot fraud anyway.) Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 07:43 AM (E6xSb) 17 JJ, bad link for "Counterpoint: with backstabbing blithering fools like this, we're going under." Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 07:43 AM (ExV1e) 18 g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at April 09, 2026 07:44 AM (2/MrR) 19 Disheartening: Iryna Zarutska’s Killer Found Incompetent to Stand Trial I'm going to go out on a limb and say that were this bastard white, he absolutely would be going to trial. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 09, 2026 07:45 AM (ufSfZ) 20 What an utterly evil filthy diseased pudenda! Makes Michelle Obama look like Dolly Madison by comparison. Or not. - Not. https://tinyurl.com/f49hrpuh Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 09, 2026 07:45 AM (5UTWB) 21 Allen West has written a lot of checks over the years. So far as I know, not very many have cashed. Which is to say, I really don't like him attaching himself to any movement against islam. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 07:45 AM (HXT0k) 22 I'm going to go out on a limb and say that were this bastard white, he absolutely would be going to trial. Not going out on a limb at all. And it's going to get to the point a lot of normal people are going to start asking why let the cops handle things? Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 07:47 AM (OPGS/) 23 So now Iran is in the position of blocking traffic through Hormuz to protect Hezbollah in Lebanon? Doesn't seem a long-term sustainable position before the Arab states decide that if their oil flow is going to be blocked, so is Iran's. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 09, 2026 07:48 AM (okun6) 24 Whether or not the war was a mistake will not be determined for some time. Things are not proceeding as I would have hoped. Anyone who says this is a win for Iran is just revealing themselves as an America-hater. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX) 25 NATO Sec’y General: ‘Some’ in NATO Failed During Iran War, ‘Large Majority’ of Europe Didn’t Even if we were to assume that this was an accurate assessment, even if we were to assume that more countries in NATO wouldn't have failed had they been in a geographic position to matter, even if we were to assume that all the other countries in Europe were chomping at the bit for the opportunity to help, the fact that the countries we asked, for for assistance but just overflight or refueling, refused, points out the folly in multi-national treaty organizations, the uselessness of NATO to the US, and the fecklessness of Europe generally. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 07:50 AM (ExV1e) 26 Red Turban Someguy Give the pilots a weekend off. Let the maintainers rest for a day. Then back at it tomorrow. Hopefully we find a planning meeting of the IRGC, and start with a Mk-84 to vaporize the keynote speaker. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ) 27 Again: I believe nothing that is being said about Trump and Iran because the media stacks their own lies on top of the lies spread by the Iranian propagandists who are repeating lies spread by the Iranian mullahs. I don't know what is going on but I do know that the entire 3 terms of Obama's foreign policy was to ensure Iran dominated the Middle East. The entire media are obsessed with making sure that survives. Or: The same people that have covered for Iran murdering 40,000 of their own people this year alone are not going to tell any sort of truth about Iran now. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 07:52 AM (HXT0k) 28 And it's going to get to the point a lot of normal people are going to start asking why let the cops handle things? Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 07:47 AM (OPGS/) I've said for years now that I don't want (and am more than a little afraid of) vigilante justice. But I understand how we're going to end up there and am doing my best to get myself and my kiddos ready for it. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 07:53 AM (FmapG) 29 I wish I could post the NATO flag to signal the beginning of the Two Minutes Hate. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 07:53 AM (E6xSb) 30 "Deal making," or the presumption of its primacy across all circumstances and cultures, may prove Trump's fatal flaw. That is to say, Islam is not in the deal-making business. Moreover, Trump is not in the civilization-destroying business, nor does he have the mindset to take on its ugly absolutism. There in lies the rub, or as was stated above, the corner into which he painted himself. Can he pull a Truman and drop the figurative bomb, that is, the literal actual bombs required to truly wipe out the Islamic regime and clear the way for a real new regime? Posted by: Ordinary American at April 09, 2026 07:53 AM (INQN/) 31 He's never given ANY indication he trusts them." Oh noes. What will we do? Never forget - the real key is China... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 07:55 AM (XuXeR) 32 Lots of error 404's in the commentary links. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 09, 2026 07:55 AM (5xuJ/) 33 Didn't Iryna's murderer have a rap sheet a mile long and kept getting released for his violent previous crimes? And yet no psych evaluation was ever ordered by the judge? I propose the judge who let him out last, knowing full well how dangerous he was, do his prison sentence for him. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 09, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI) 34 So, the guy is bugnuts crazy. What was he doing walking around in public? There’s been this weird dichotomy in modern society the notion that nothing can be done about lunatics unless and until they kill somebody, maybe. Now that’s crazy. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 07:57 AM (UWyNf) 35 Satan is just playing around with Canada at this point, what with MAID, making Bible passages illegal, seizing guns, and politicians like Chrystia Freeland and her acolytes in the Libtard Party. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 07:57 AM (LzbT+) 36 Re: Newsom's wife. I wouldn't go golfing with her if I were him. Reminds me of Adams' Family 2 What about Debbie! If he runs for president the Golf Cart memes will be epic. Posted by: Smellslikevictory at April 09, 2026 07:57 AM (jPdyB) 37 The same people that have covered for Iran murdering 40,000 of their own people this year alone are not going to tell any sort of truth about Iran now." This. It's funny... and sad, really. We're supposed to be charged up over reports from... those who have proven to be idiots. Pitchfork status: Unlit. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 07:57 AM (XuXeR) 38 Anyway. . . Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 31 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, and there's frost on the lawn. Where's that global warming when you want it? Had a chat with my writing friend yesterday. She helped me break a bit of a jam I was in, so today - if I can - I'm going to do some editing and then knock off a full chapter. Hope you all have a lovely day. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 09, 2026 07:58 AM (ufSfZ) 39 There’s been this weird dichotomy in modern society the notion that nothing can be done about lunatics unless and until they kill somebody, maybe. Now that’s crazy." We're all the same. Just like cultures. /wineboxers Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 07:59 AM (XuXeR) 40 The war was not a mistake. Iran had to be dealt with. However…. It has to be ended the right way. Iran in charge of the strait is not a satisfactory conclusion Speaking of the strait, it occurred to me I have a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation. Iran has no navy left to speak of… or air force. So how do they still control the strait (as they apparently do)?? Are drones and a few random missiles here and there enough to prevent ships from passage? If so, why? Is it not a military problem but one of insurance… are ship owners not attempting passage because their insurance carriers are saying, in effect, you’re not covered unless you have Iranian permission? This situation puzzles me… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 07:59 AM (gZZCh) 41 Morning all Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 07:59 AM (AnEIe) 42 Satan is just playing around with Canada at this point, what with MAID, making Bible passages illegal, seizing guns, and politicians like Chrystia Freeland and her acolytes in the Libtard Party. -- I won't be holding my breath for them to make Koran passages, such as kill all infidels, "hate speech." Posted by: Lady in Black at April 09, 2026 07:59 AM (qBdHI) 43 They’ve emboldened Iran by ceding they can control the strait. Iran immediately exercised that new found power by “closing” it contrary to the agreement. They are being advised by Russia and China to take that posture. They’re betting Trump wants this to end, and won’t attack again As a response we should begin flattening every target on the list, including more personnel. Hard to say if CiNC will make that call. Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 07:59 AM (Bq6MR) 44 "...Iran murdering 40,000 of their own people this year alone..." Where does that number come from? Posted by: I gotta ask at April 09, 2026 08:00 AM (2Ez/1) 45 The new claim that Decarlos Brown is "incapable to proceed" on state murder charges became public in a motion filed April 7, according to the New York Post. ======================== Then imprison him until he can proceed. Or, execute the MF. I don't much care which. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 08:00 AM (LzbT+) 46 Good morning Horde thx JJ, hoping you are well. I had thought that fat bastard Moore was dead. Go on over to Iran Mikey and see if they go all Deliverance on you Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 09, 2026 08:00 AM (19SAM) 47 Worst Thing GOP Could Do For Midterms Is Embrace Amnesty, So Of Course They’re Doing That -- The GOP is never, ever, ever, ever going to change. Like a dog to its vomit, they will keep going back and pressing for amnesty. They make me sick. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 09, 2026 08:02 AM (qBdHI) 48 I agree with OA at 30…. How can you make a deal with a fanatical lunatic? Reagan’s trust but verify is NA…. Maybe bomb and verify? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 08:02 AM (gZZCh) 49 Losers: UN NATO China Russia EU Iran (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis) That is a huge win for the United States. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX) 50 So how do they still control the strait" They really don't. It's insurance related. The margins on transport are miniscule, so owners/operators run scared... generally. Quite a few are running w/o transponders (they show up after a few hours). Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:03 AM (XuXeR) 51 40 The war was not a mistake. Iran had to be dealt with. However…. It has to be ended the right way. Iran in charge of the strait is not a satisfactory conclusion Speaking of the strait, it occurred to me I have a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation. Iran has no navy left to speak of… or air force. So how do they still control the strait (as they apparently do)?? Are drones and a few random missiles here and there enough to prevent ships from passage? If so, why? Is it not a military problem but one of insurance… are ship owners not attempting passage because their insurance carriers are saying, in effect, you’re not covered unless you have Iranian permission? This situation puzzles me… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 07:59 AM (gZZCh) Yeah it's drones and a few random missiles. In that sense there's a number of other countries in the region who also have a similar option to close the straits. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 09, 2026 08:03 AM (okun6) 52 the University of California, San Diego, California State University, Sacramento, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, University of California, Irvine, and University of Southern California (USC) as all set to host some form of “UndocuGraduation.” WTFO Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 08:05 AM (/+uur) 53 I think we're really fighting the IRGC at this point. I've no clue who Trump's administration is talking to... referring to them as a "stable regime" or whatever. I doubt it's the IRGC leadership they're negotiating with. Off the cuff, it doesn't sound promising. I guess we'll find out soon enough. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 08:05 AM (AkEZC) 54 I know how to end a war. Just leave. Posted by: Creepy Joe at April 09, 2026 08:05 AM (2Ez/1) 55 This situation puzzles me…" Do not forget - we now can influence how traffic moves thru the Strait - and that's 1/3 or more of China's oil... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:06 AM (XuXeR) 56 I suppose the GOPe's are going to defend NATO's continued existence, as their new article of faith. Wouldn't it be cheaper just to annex Greenland and let Spain, France and all the muslim nations of Europe find their own way? ============= Rutte answered, “Some of them, yes, but a large majority of European countr[ies] — and that’s what we discussed today — have done what they promised before in a case like this, because they know that, when it comes to NATO, it’s there to protect the United States, because the U.S. needs a secure Atlantic and a secure Arctic and a secure Europe to stay safe here in the U.S. mainland. But it is also there to make sure that, of course, Europe is safe, and to be this platform of power projection for the United States. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 08:06 AM (coFoR) 57 If it wasn't so dangerous, it would be amusing, watching that dumb bint from FL argue her amnesty bill isn't amnesty. Her argument, such as it is after the screeching and yelling, is "it doesn't say, 'THIS BILL IS AMNESTY' in the title, so it's not amnesty!" She lies "criminals are deported" but criminals are defined only as convicted felons. She makes up some number how it will generate like $70 billion a year. Why not say $700 billion, as long as you're lying? Not only does everyone get amnesty, it allows those deported a right to return to get amnesty. But the best one was her shrieking, "it fixes a system that's been broken for 40 years." And AtC was asking, "what happened 40 years ago?! What happened?!" Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 08:07 AM (HXT0k) 58 Rutte answered," What an idiot. Really. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:07 AM (XuXeR) 59 Creepy Joe Joe Biden failed. You can not be interested in war, but a war can still be interested in you. Like a rapist. You gave billions to Islamic barbarians. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 08:08 AM (u82oZ) 60 Good morning, J.J. Good morning, Horde. Posted by: Inogame at April 09, 2026 08:08 AM (53oGX) 61 I've said for years now that I don't want (and am more than a little afraid of) vigilante justice. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung Agreed. But if the cops can't stop things, the judges side with rabid animals and criminals are constantly viewed as the victims who need to be coddled, vigilantism is going to be seen as the only option. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 08:09 AM (OPGS/) 62 But the best one was her shrieking, "it fixes a system that's been broken for 40 years." -- As the huge elephant in the room said, "that's because the system hasn't been enforced." Posted by: Lady in Black at April 09, 2026 08:09 AM (qBdHI) 63 ~~Iran~~ Muslims in charge of ~~the strait~~ anything is not a satisfactory conclusion. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 07:59 AM (gZZCh) - FIFY Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 09, 2026 08:09 AM (5UTWB) 64 If it wasn't so dangerous, it would be amusing, watching that dumb bint from FL argue her amnesty bill isn't amnesty She was getting dragged mercilessly over that comment. Folks like her forget that normal people can go online and do research. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 08:10 AM (OPGS/) 65 Then back at it tomorrow. Hopefully we find a planning meeting of the IRGC, and start with a Mk-84 to vaporize the keynote speaker. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ) Start by blowing the bridges and power plants which, presumably, do not currently have human shields. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e) 66 If you are a John Lee Hooker fan, I happened upon a youtube gem earlier this morning and I've been listening to it for the last half hour, so I'll pass it on the any hordian Hooker-ites. https://tinyurl.com/57fvtwfz Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 08:11 AM (coFoR) 67 The Masters starts today. It’s always one of my favorite sporting events to watch. Actually being on the grounds at Augusta National would be on my bucket list but it’s one of the hardest tickets in sports so I’ll probably have to be satisfied with television viewing. The course looks absolutely beautiful Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 08:13 AM (d9SZG) 68 I've said for years now that I don't want (and am more than a little afraid of) vigilante justice. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung Agreed. But if the cops can't stop things, the judges side with rabid animals and criminals are constantly viewed as the victims who need to be coddled, vigilantism is going to be seen as the only option. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 08:09 AM (OPGS/) ============== It's a wonder the justice system participants don't see the dangerous conditions they are creating. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 08:13 AM (coFoR) 69 I wish I could post the NATO flag to signal the beginning of the Two Minutes Hate. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 07:53 AM (E6xSb) I'm unclear on your point. Are you suggesting that we should embrace the continuation of NATO? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:13 AM (ExV1e) 70 Speaking of the strait, it occurred to me I have a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation. Iran has no navy left to speak of… or air force. So how do they still control the strait (as they apparently do)?? Are drones and a few random missiles here and there enough to prevent ships from passage? If so, why? Is it not a military problem but one of insurance… are ship owners not attempting passage because their insurance carriers are saying, in effect, you’re not covered unless you have Iranian permission? This situation puzzles me… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 07:59 AM (gZZCh) Drones and shore to ship missiles; for the last few years we ignored the fact that Iran has dig in literally hundreds of these installations near the straits; and only a handful of them needed to survive to threaten shipping. To stop the threat we either need to end the regime completely, or have ground troops occupy a 20 - 30 mile strip on the Iranian side of the straits. We’ve hit the limit on what can be done by air power alone. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 08:13 AM (UA2di) 71 The new claim that Decarlos Brown is "incapable to proceed" on state murder charges became public in a motion filed April 7, according to the New York Post The left: We can't put someone in jail even if they are violent if they are mentally ill Also the left: We can't force someone into a mental health institution anyway Also, also the left: And remember you proles don't need cars. You can take the subway and get to experience all the joy and diversity of people like Decarlos Brown Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 08:14 AM (sKqQm) 72 Lots of error 404's in the commentary links. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 09, 2026 07:55 AM (5xuJ/) Assuming you're reading things on a PC, just remove the "" from the end of the URL and you're golden. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e) 73 ============== It's a wonder the justice system participants don't see the dangerous conditions they are creating. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 08:13 AM (coFoR) When there is no public justice, there WILL be private justice. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 08:15 AM (UA2di) 74 Sigh. Remove the angle bracket br space forward slash angle bracket. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e) 75 Remember how George Floyd was THE news item because the police didn't give him aid and he therefore died from his drug overdose. Here the government is letting Iryna's killer go for LULZ. And not the FNM will not be talking about it. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 08:16 AM (sKqQm) 76 67. I agree Linus. Masters with Jim Nance on Sat and Sun afternoons, nothing better Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:16 AM (YCxFk) 77 It's a wonder the justice system participants don't see the dangerous conditions they are creating. Its intentional. They want street thugs terrorizing normies. Because then the normies will vote to give that same governing class more money and power. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 08:17 AM (sKqQm) 78 >>I sincerely don't understand why people keep saying this. President Trump has never - on foreign affairs - ended up in a corner he didn't intend to appear to be in. He's completely rebuilt the post-war order in what basically amounts to his first year of this term. Trump has spent the last year reordering the world and putting the US in the dominant position. Strengthening the US internally by sealing the borders and deporting illegals and then using tariffs and other trade tactics to balance what has been an unfair trade arrangement for decades. Then it was stopping drug trafficking boats which ultimately helped China, they taking down Maduro and returning the Panama Canal to western control and again damaging China. Now it's the other leg of China's energy supply in Iran. China is attempting to help mediate the Iran situation for grins, they need that oil more than anyone. And NATO has been exposed as dead weight. China's economy is slowing down. We are controlling the oil they used to get direct from Venezuela. I think Trump is enjoying the hell out of this. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 08:17 AM (GukFK) 79 Someone should tell canada that fat, drunk and stupid is no way to be a country. Posted by: Dean Wormer at April 09, 2026 08:17 AM (3LMJN) 80 Middleton running for AG in Texas is scum, but he has a lot of money. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 09, 2026 08:17 AM (t9gHm) 81 Roy cooper is part of this awful NC left wing machine, responsible for these insane judges over there. But he is teflon Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:18 AM (YCxFk) 82 What an idiot. Really. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:07 AM (XuXeR) =========== I don't think I can agree (yet). He seems to be more on our side of these questions than the Euro-weenies side, so far anyway, once you discount what's being said as Diplo-Speak. Essentially, I think he concedes Trump's point (that European countries have failed America as poor allies), but he holds out hope he can save NATO and motivate the loser countries to participate. I think he's wrong, at least on Spain, but I can respect the effort. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 08:18 AM (coFoR) 83 To stop the threat we either need to end the regime completely, or glassify a 20 - 30 mile strip on the Iranian side of the straits. Posted by: Another alternative at April 09, 2026 08:18 AM (vFG9F) 84 “I think the most important thing is that we are adamant in keeping our Catholic identity. Without that, there’s no purpose for us to do what we’re doing.” Nuns Caring for Terminally Ill Sue New York Over Transgender Mandate ________ What the government wants is to close them down. This will achieve two things: 1. People will have to rely entirely on the government, and on no one else. 2. They can euthanize the patients quickly. How about MAID for politicians, judges, and bureaucrats? Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 08:18 AM (AlhUl) 85 I've said for years now that I don't want (and am more than a little afraid of) vigilante justice. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung People in Hell don't want to sweat. Posted by: Yep at April 09, 2026 08:18 AM (SD7rz) 86 I've said for years now that I don't want (and am more than a little afraid of) vigilante justice. The same justice system that will solve less then 10% of the murders in their area and way less of other crimes will solve 100% of the acts of vigilante justice that occur. Because remember the problem isn't that they can't solve regular crimes...it is that they don't want to. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 08:19 AM (sKqQm) 87 It's a wonder the justice system participants don't see the dangerous conditions they are creating. Posted by: Huck Follywood They have never been held accountable and are certain that they are immune to consequences. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 08:19 AM (OPGS/) 88 Is it not a military problem but one of insurance… are ship owners not attempting passage because their insurance carriers are saying, in effect, you’re not covered unless you have Iranian permission? This situation puzzles me… Posted by: LinusVanPelt That is correct. Lloyds of London is afraid of the mohammedans. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 09, 2026 08:19 AM (t9gHm) 89 I was thinking about the current unpleasantness in Iran, and I recalled something from The Untouchables https://youtu.be/xPZ6eaL3S2E?t=20 Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 08:19 AM (ZxPkt) 90 Bad news for Campa-Najjar: Democrats fight like dogs for the congressional seat he's angling for, and a strong Republican emerges _______ 404 Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (AlhUl) 91 ... to be this platform of power projection for the United States. Unless, you know, the United States wants to project power somewhere we don't like, in which case, we refuse to support the system. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (ExV1e) 92 To stop the threat we either need to end the regime completely, or glassify a 20 - 30 mile strip on the Iranian side of the straits. I think its much easier then anyone wants to admit. Iran fires a missile? We level bomb one town/district/villa belonging to the mullah class. Wash, rinse, repeat. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (sKqQm) 93 Can't watch Bartiromo's show because the rehab place doesn't have Fox Business, so regular Fox. Pence is on next. Spit Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (19SAM) 94 Joshua Hall @JoshHall2024 🚨BREAKING: 🚨 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has reportedly uncovered a DEEP STATE COUP PLOT to remove President Trump from office by SABOTAGING his war effort in Iran in order to turn the American people and the US military against him. Gabbard is also said to have discovered communications between former HIGH-RANKING MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS from the first Trump administration and the Biden administration and active members of the military involved in this war in which they are being told to DISOBEY AND REFUSE TO CARRY OUT ORDERS made by President Trump. The Deep State within our government is alive and well... THE ENEMY WITHIN is the greatest existential threat that our nation faces today. Posted by: SMOD at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (RHGPo) 95 Does anyone remember in the early stages of the Invasion of Iraq a lot of people wondering wtf we were doing rather than invading it instead of Iran? “USA out of Iraq and into Iran!” There was even shirts made by a place called Right Wing Stuff.com. I remember. In the scheme of things I guess we were painted into a corner years ago. When the first bomb flew a month ago I don’t see how we weren’t committed to putting boots on the ground in some form be it Qeshm Island and Kharg or going in and grabbing their uranium. A “peaceful” resolution with these Islamic asshole nutjobs still at the helm? (facepalm) I love Trump…….i hope he’s got a plan . Posted by: JROD at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (PLgLU) 96 > Speaking of the strait, it occurred to me I have a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation. Iran has no navy left to speak of… or air force. So how do they still control the strait (as they apparently do)?? --------- The IRGC still has a number of small boats they arm with RPGs or machine guns. They swarm ships in the Hormuz. There are still land based anti-ship missiles around. They're highly mobile and easily hidden. And then there's all the mines Iran has laid in the shipping channels. De-mining the Hormuz Strait is going to be a big deal. It can't be done until Iran/IRGC commits to a ceasefire or we literally take control of the Iranian coast in that area. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (AkEZC) 97 We’ve hit the limit on what can be done by air power alone. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 08:13 AM (UA2di) Those drone and shore to ship missile installations can’t be bombed and destroyed from the air? Even if hundreds we could still do it in time, right? Or are they mobile installations that are hard/impossible to find and target? It still seems we could do this with air power… if we can blow up nuke sites deep underground we could get these… what am I missing? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (yz/88) 98 They have never been held accountable and are certain that they are immune to consequences. It is settled law the police are under no requirement to protect anyone... Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 08:21 AM (sKqQm) 99 Today Is National Winston Churchill Day. Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 08:21 AM (NpAcC) 100 Jill Biden should be arrested for elder abuse. Joe has bone cancer now, but she dragged him out to Santa Monica this week to schmooze donors for $$ Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:21 AM (YCxFk) 101 His concubine is a bigger fake than Gavin himself. I have to wonder how much money those two and TBD backers paid and continue to pay tutors and acting coaches that created those two public personas, and adjust the shapes as dictated by focus groups and polling of important Leftist base blocs. Several million dollars to-date, I'll bet. Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2026 08:22 AM (5rh/l) 102 97 We’ve hit the limit on what can be done by air power alone. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 08:13 AM (UA2di) Those drone and shore to ship missile installations can’t be bombed and destroyed from the air? Even if hundreds we could still do it in time, right? Or are they mobile installations that are hard/impossible to find and target? It still seems we could do this with air power… if we can blow up nuke sites deep underground we could get these… what am I missing? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (yz/8 It takes minimal resources to attack tankers from the shore and there's plenty of mobile options to do so. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 09, 2026 08:22 AM (okun6) 103 99. Great man, last one in Britain Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:22 AM (YCxFk) 104 You are never alone. He is always with you. Rebuild anew on the ashes of your life. “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. Luke 15:21-23 Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 08:22 AM (pkv3v) 105 FFS F&F interviewing Mike Pence. Why? Why give this guy air? Is he some military expert or something. click Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX) 106 Jill Biden should be arrested for elder abuse. Joe has bone cancer now, but she dragged him out to Santa Monica this week to schmooze donors for $$ You mean the nice old lady that bought me ice cream and let me sit down with some really nice girls? And wow did their hair smell good...they wouldn't touch my leg hair for some reason though. But I had two scoops of butter pecan it was great! Posted by: Joe Biden at April 09, 2026 08:23 AM (sKqQm) 107 89 I was thinking about the current unpleasantness in Iran, and I recalled something from The Untouchables https://youtu.be/xPZ6eaL3S2E?t=20 Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 08:19 AM (ZxPkt) Yup. It's the only way with these people. Posted by: Ordinary American at April 09, 2026 08:23 AM (INQN/) 108 Regular Fox is awful. Have not watched since Election night 2020 Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:23 AM (YCxFk) 109 If I were to imagine what Rosanne Barr's naked keister looks like, I see Michael Moore's face. And her ass probably voices a better message. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 08:23 AM (Fbc0I) 110 Cut the cable cord 5 years ago Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:23 AM (YCxFk) 111 ... he holds out hope he can save NATO and motivate the loser countries to participate. He's the head of NATO. Of course he holds out hope he can save NATO. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:24 AM (ExV1e) 112 FFS F&F interviewing Mike Pence. Why? Why give this guy air? Is he some military expert or something. He was at the forefront of paying personal bills with campaign funds back in the 80s. Posted by: Yep at April 09, 2026 08:24 AM (SD7rz) 113 Another Leftist Wins, But The Rule Of Law Prevails In Wisconsin ________ I am not exactly filled with hope that our country will pull out of the nosedive. Nice try, Donnie, but it was a ten foot jump over a twelve foot ditch. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 08:24 AM (AlhUl) 114 It's a wonder the justice system participants don't see the dangerous conditions they are creating. -- Some don't, because they are so blinded by the imaginary majesty of their marble hallways, they believe the system is as permanent as that stone. Others do, but think their personal philosophy overrides the law; just this time can't hurt. But, there is a big chuck that do but also squeal in glee as the idea of not just inflicting more violence on the lesser people but also spasm in ecstasy believing that vigilantism will grant them further powers to punish the lessers. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 08:25 AM (HXT0k) 115 at this point, Pence has no more cred than Dan Quayle. So sad, loved the guy in 2016 Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:25 AM (YCxFk) 116 Lots of error 404's in the commentary links. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 09, 2026 07:55 AM (5xuJ/) Assuming you're reading things on a PC, just remove the "" from the end of the URL and you're golden. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e) After coffee, I did that and was fine. Coffee. What can't it do? LOL!! Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 09, 2026 08:25 AM (5xuJ/) 117 108 Regular Fox is awful. Have not watched since Election night 2020 -------------- Same here. Burn me once is enough information for me to avoid returning. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 08:26 AM (n17eQ) 118 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 08:25 AM (HXT0k) Good analysis. Posted by: Ordinary American at April 09, 2026 08:26 AM (INQN/) 119 i live close to Wisconsin. Many friends in Kenosha, who are Trumpers, but do not vote in small elections. Having Supreme court elections during spring break is pathetic Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:27 AM (YCxFk) 120 Let me take a wild guess that the "hate speech" bill in Canada did not target people of any other faith but people who use the Bible? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 08:27 AM (PFs9e) 121 That is correct. Lloyds of London is afraid of the mohammedans. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 09, 2026 08:19 AM (t9gHm) The question is: Is it fear of economic loss, or is it collusion with the forces arrayed against Trump? Iran 'closes' the Strait because the economic effects put pressure on Trump. Lloyds assists in keeping the Strait closed. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:27 AM (ExV1e) 122 THE ENEMY WITHIN is the greatest existential threat that our nation faces today. Posted by: SMOD at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (RHGPo) ================= Well, duh. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 08:27 AM (+UMhJ) 123 It takes minimal resources to attack tankers from the shore" Tankers are tough targets (they have to be - they can take a beating w/o falling apart or losing cargo). This "close" chatter is just that... chatter. And the "speedboat" thing is funny. I recall a pic (even here) of a "speedboat" manned by two guys w/4 or 5 "mines" on the foredeck.... at planing speed. That was funny. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:28 AM (XuXeR) 124 At one point one of the courts in Seattle was closed because the neighborhood they were located in was too dangerous even during the day for employees to come out. And...nothing really changed, Seattle still has the same insane local government Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 08:28 AM (sKqQm) 125 Cable "news." LOL. Posted by: Most people at April 09, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1) 126 What an idiot. Really. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:07 AM (XuXeR) =========== I don't think I can agree (yet). He seems to be more on our side of these questions than the Euro-weenies side, so far anyway, once you discount what's being said as Diplo-Speak. Essentially, I think he concedes Trump's point (that European countries have failed America as poor allies), but he holds out hope he can save NATO and motivate the loser countries to participate. I think he's wrong, at least on Spain, but I can respect the effort. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 08:18 AM (coFoR) ===== NATO is hand-in-glove with the EU-WEF globohomo bureaucracy of which Mark Rutte is an examplar par excellence. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX) 127 It's also, National Unicorn Day. 🦄 Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 08:28 AM (NpAcC) 128 Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Painting DOJ Abusers As Trump’s ‘Political Foes’ _______ Circular link. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 08:29 AM (AlhUl) 129 People's Hippo Voice It's a convoy attack analysis issue. Do you take out the escorts first - police, bailiffs? This is the Left's plan. Or do you go for the high value targets like specific Judges and Soros DAs first? This has not been tried. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 08:29 AM (u82oZ) 130 Bad news for Campa-Najjar: Democrats fight like dogs for the congressional seat he's angling for, and a strong Republican emerges _______ 404 Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 08:20 AM (AlhUl) https://tinyurl.com/2s96y2yn Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:29 AM (ExV1e) 131 It's a wonder the justice system participants don't see the dangerous conditions they are creating. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 08:13 AM (coFoR) It's called The Big Payback. Hey! Get ready, that's a fact Get ready you mother for the big payback (The big payback) Hey, I'm a man, I'm a man... Posted by: White liberals and black militants at April 09, 2026 08:29 AM (3LMJN) 132 Or are they mobile installations that are hard/impossible to find and target? It still seems we could do this with air power… if we can blow up nuke sites deep underground we could get these… what am I missing?” Yes, many are mobile. Drones can be launched from a flat bed cargo truck, and they don’t need sophisticated targeting; just go out there and run into any ship they spot. The US spent a couple weeks trying to find any fixed missile installations, but many are dug deep into the rocky hills on the Iranian side with their entrances disguised. I don’t mean to oversell Iran’s capabilities, but we must admit that they’ve been building and planning for this war for 40 years. And even if we take out 90% of their capabilities, it’s not enough. It’s got to be 100%. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 08:29 AM (UA2di) 133 We stand ready to insure the safe passage of oil through the strait. No paperwork, just a handshake and a pile of cash is all we need. Posted by: Lloyd's of Lubbock at April 09, 2026 08:29 AM (oftw2) 134 Also... marine traffic shows quite a bit of traffic. My $.02 is that trusting news sources is.... well, you get the idea. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:30 AM (XuXeR) 135 Democrats are over performing in every special election. Their engagement is off the charts. But I’m told by all the “experts” that meaningless in the midterms. Which seems counter factual and sophistic. Posted by: Vengeance at April 09, 2026 08:30 AM (MKu/Q) 136 FFS F&F interviewing Mike Pence. Why? Why give this guy air? Is he some military expert or something. click Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX) ****** They brought him in today only because he was being very complimentary to Trump. Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 08:31 AM (NpAcC) 137 Federal Appeals Court Allows Pentagon To Designate Anthropic As A Supply-Chain Risk The Trump administration previously said the AI company was attempting to dictate military policy. Posted by: SMOD at April 09, 2026 08:31 AM (RHGPo) 138 >BREAKING: 🚨 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has reportedly uncovered a .... ----- reportedly Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 08:31 AM (ZxPkt) 139 Jill Biden should be arrested for elder abuse. Joe has bone cancer now, but she dragged him out to Santa Monica this week to schmooze donors for $$ Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:21 AM (YCxFk) Is he throwing his hat in the ring for '28? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:31 AM (ExV1e) 140 Jonah - I switched to YouTube TV… it’s cheap, has all the sports I wanna watch and best of all a record option so I can watch stuff on my own schedule… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 08:31 AM (yz/88) 141 Drones can be launched from a flat bed cargo truck," You aren't driving anything along great sections of that area... without leaving a big trail. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:31 AM (XuXeR) 142 I could listen to Maria Bartiromo and Charles Payne all day becaws dey tawk reel gud jus like me. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX) 143 Is he some military expert or something. He stabbed Trump, and the American people, in the back while it was unguarded. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:32 AM (ExV1e) 144 Posted by: Lloyd's of Lubbock " Ok, that's funny right there. I like it.... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:32 AM (XuXeR) 145 Also Thomas Sowell. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX) 146 Democrats are over performing in every special election. Their engagement is off the charts. But I’m told by all the “experts” that meaningless in the midterms. Which seems counter factual and sophistic. Its fraud. In your face, blatant fraud. But until someone actually starts arresting people for it, it doesn't matter if it is fraud or not. Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2026 08:33 AM (sKqQm) 147 Worst Thing GOP Could Do For Midterms Is Embrace Amnesty, So Of Course They’re Doing That _______ It baffles me that the GOPe learnt nothing from the fate of the British Tories. Starmer did not increase his support significantly in the last election. The Tory vote just didn't show up. And it's no puzzle why, after repeated betrayals by Sunak. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 08:34 AM (AlhUl) 148 Posted by: Lloyd's of Lubbock " Ok, that's funny right there. I like it.... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:32 AM (XuXeR) Lloyd’s of Lubbock funded a pretty darn good Texas Tech football team last year… and will again this year I’d bet Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 08:35 AM (yz/88) 149 It is funny, tho - people who call every handgun a "glock" are now suddenly "people who can't be questioned" on Global Maritime Traffic? Heh. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:35 AM (XuXeR) 150 > Disheartening: Iryna Zarutska’s Killer Found Incompetent to Stand Trial ---- guess they gotta let him go whaddya gonna do Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 08:35 AM (ZxPkt) 151 So what happens to Lloyd's of London going forward? Next will be Arabs moving their money somewhere else. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 08:35 AM (n17eQ) 152 As an aside to the issues with de-conflicting the Hormuz, the two Marine MEU's on their way to the theater have all the kit necessary to remove those mines. But, as I said, it's very dangerous work and needs to be done while Iranian/IRGC threats are nullified. And it's tedious as shit. It'll take months. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 08:35 AM (AkEZC) 153 Lloyd’s of Lubbock funded a pretty darn good Texas Tech football team last year… and will again this year I’d bet. You're right. The amount of $$$$ they brought to the field was... whew. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:36 AM (XuXeR) 154 So what happens to Lloyd's of London going forward?" They, like the rest of the formerly great Britian, will slide into history... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:37 AM (XuXeR) 155 "over performing." What does that even mean? Posted by: I gotta ask at April 09, 2026 08:37 AM (2Ez/1) 156 You aren't driving anything along great sections of that area... without leaving a big trail. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:31 AM (XuXeR) Yes, but - Ukraine lately has been demonstrating that they can hit targets a thousand miles deep in Russia with drones. The Russians were certain they didn’t have the range, but the Ukes found ways to do it. My own preference is that the US use the marines to seize control of the 4 small islands in the straits that Iran uses as observation posts/firing platforms. My guess is that Trump wanted a last minute chance to avoid deploying ground troops; because we’re at the point where they’re required. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 08:37 AM (UA2di) 157 Just a random thought… wouldn’t the Saudis, amongst all countries, be very motivated to have the strait open and not under the thumb of Iran? Doesn’t most of their oil go through the strait? They’re not friendly at all with Iran. Why can’t they send in “boots on the ground” and control that 30 mile stretch of coastline? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 08:38 AM (yz/88) 158 It is settled law the police are under no requirement to protect anyone... —— They aren’t required to protect individuals. I don’t get a police escort when my crazy ex-wife threatens to kill me. They do have a recognized duty and obligation to keep the peace. Put down riots. But politicians are too often both corrupt AND incompetent, so our cities don’t even enjoy that. “They just need room to destroy” we’re told, about looters and rioting mobs. Failed state stuff. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 08:38 AM (UWyNf) 159 157 Just a random thought… wouldn’t the Saudis, amongst all countries, be very motivated to have the strait open and not under the thumb of Iran? Doesn’t most of their oil go through the strait? They’re not friendly at all with Iran. Why can’t they send in “boots on the ground” and control that 30 mile stretch of coastline? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 08:38 AM (yz/8 Some of the Arab states have been considering this, the UAE most publicly, but haven't fully convinced themselves of the necessity yet. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 09, 2026 08:39 AM (okun6) 160 Why can’t they send in “boots on the ground” and control that 30 mile stretch of coastline? ---------------- Most of their boots are Pakistanis. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 08:40 AM (n17eQ) 161 "A former Fort Bragg employee with top-secret clearance is accused of leaking classified military tactics to a journalist, then admitting to her mother that she could be arrested for exposing sensitive operations, according to a federal complaint. Courtney P. Williams, 40, an Army veteran assigned to a Special Military Unit (SMU) at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday and charged with unlawfully transmitting national defense information, including classified tactics used in covert missions, to an investigative reporter over a period spanning several years, federal prosecutors allege. According to the complaint, Williams held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance and had direct access to highly sensitive operational details, including tactics, techniques and procedures — commonly known as TTPs — used by elite military units...investigators allege that between 2022 and 2025, Williams communicated extensively with a journalist, including phone calls lasting hundreds of minutes and roughly 180 text messages, while also sending documents and materials that were later published in an article and and book identifying her.. Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 08:40 AM (GD0B3) 162 We just need some high heels on the ground. Posted by: Sam Brinton at April 09, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1) 163 Roy cooper is part of this awful NC left wing machine, responsible for these insane judges over there. But he is teflon Posted by: Jonah ...and will likely be our next Senator sigh Posted by: Oedipus at April 09, 2026 08:41 AM (Z6vKV) 164 "over performing." What does that even mean? Posted by: I gotta ask at April 09, 2026 08:37 AM (2Ez/1) The Paolo gets told this all the time. Yes, please to explain for understandings. Posted by: The Paolo at April 09, 2026 08:41 AM (wVcYX) 165 Gabbard is also said to have discovered communications between former HIGH-RANKING MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS from the first Trump administration and the Biden administration and active members of the military involved in this war in which they are being told to DISOBEY AND REFUSE TO CARRY OUT ORDERS made by President Trump. Name names, slap them in cuffs and execute them in public. Or just flap your mouth, huff and puff and do nothing. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 09, 2026 08:41 AM (ufSfZ) 166 The US has not had a draft since the Vietnam War, but the Iran conflict has fueled concerns that one could take place. Victor Nava Mr Nava I think we all lost 10 IQ points with your stupid last line comment. Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 08:42 AM (/+uur) 167 Worst Thing GOP Could Do For Midterms Is Embrace Amnesty, So Of Course They’re Doing That _______ It baffles me that the GOPe learnt nothing from the fate of the British Tories. Starmer did not increase his support significantly in the last election. The Tory vote just didn't show up. And it's no puzzle why, after repeated betrayals by Sunak. Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2026 08:34 AM (AlhUl) ******* It's the same crap that Maria Salazar has been pushing for years. Laura Ingraham ripped Mike Lawler over it last night. It's going nowhere. Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 08:42 AM (NpAcC) 168 wouldn’t the Saudis, amongst all countries, be very motivated" No, not really. They're not motivated to do much at all. They sit and get wealthy, then demand to control more... Which then falls into poor conditions, the West comes in to fix, repair, whatever, gets oil, then... rinse, repeat. It's Africa with oil. (not my line, but it's 100% accurate) Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:42 AM (XuXeR) 169 LinusVanPelt The Saudi Army failed against the Houthis in Yemen. They are not the forces you need. Their best forces are the palace guard, selected for loyalty to the Sheiks. They do not go anywhere. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 08:42 AM (u82oZ) 170 Williams communicated extensively with a journalist, including phone calls lasting hundreds of minutes and roughly 180 text messages, while also sending documents and materials that were later published in an article and and book identifying her.. Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 08:40 AM (GD0B3) No cig or blindfold Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 08:43 AM (/+uur) 171 Why can’t they send in “boots on the ground” and control that 30 mile stretch of coastline? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 08:38 AM (yz/8 The Saudi Air Force is small, but decent. The Saudi army itself, like all Arab armies, is pretty pathetic. Remember not long ago they tried to take over Yemen and got their asses kicked by a pack of goat herders on camels. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 08:43 AM (UA2di) 172 "A former Fort Bragg employee with top-secret clearance is accused of leaking classified military tactics to a journalist, then admitting to her mother that she could be arrested for exposing sensitive operations, according to a federal complaint. Posted by: runner We still execute people for that, don't we? Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 08:43 AM (AnEIe) 173 Dan Quayle was a standup guy and conservative. You fell for the media hit. The potato flash card thing shows the power the “media” had in those days to effect character assassination. You only think you know what happened. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 08:43 AM (UWyNf) 174 Their best forces are the palace guard, selected for loyalty to the Sheiks" That is my understanding as well. Not surprisingly, there seems to be little easily available info on their forces... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:44 AM (XuXeR) 175 Prosecutors also point to a text message they say Williams sent that reads, "I might actually get arrested for disclosing classified information." Easley said that message could become a key piece of evidence. ------------ No shit Sherlock. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 08:45 AM (n17eQ) 176 “We found one hotel that had 129 rooms, and every one of them was a durable medical equipment company,” Kennedy revealed. “There are two times the number of durable medical equipment companies in South Florida as there are McDonald’s,” he continued.” Most of them don’t sell anything, they’re just there to steal from the federal government.” Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 08:45 AM (/+uur) 177 The Saudi Army failed against the Houthis in Yemen. They are not the forces you need. Their best forces are the palace guard, selected for loyalty to the Sheiks. They do not go anywhere. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 08:42 AM (u82oZ) Correct...Real killers huh? I'd trade the bunch of 'em for a couple of Campfire Girls. Posted by: Sgt. Warden at April 09, 2026 08:46 AM (3LMJN) 178 "The Saudi army itself, like all Arab armies, is pretty pathetic. Remember not long ago they tried to take over Yemen and got their asses kicked by a pack of goat herders on camels." +++ They just need to arm themselves with small red pocket knives. Posted by: The Swiss at April 09, 2026 08:46 AM (2Ez/1) 179 Here is the link to the full story: https://tinyurl.com/3xhtw5p2 what a dummy, WTH did she think she was doing? Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 08:46 AM (GD0B3) 180 We still execute people for that, don't we? —— Who is “we” Kemosabe? Somebody sold the manual to the KH-11 spy satellite to the Soviets for $3500 back in the day. Sentenced to 40 years, have to read up on him and see if he’s out now. Some TRW guys did something similar. No. The answer is “No”. Sadly. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 08:46 AM (UWyNf) 181 It's pretty clear by now that the IRGC are just a bunch of cunts like Hezbollah, the PLO, Hamas, Fatah, etc. etc. (tribal savages) If they want to get aggressive again, during the cease-fire, reset the war powers resolution and exterminate them. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 08:46 AM (Fbc0I) 182 We still execute people for that, don't we? Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 08:43 AM (AnEIe) Fuck, man, we don't even execute people for personally killing 13 soldiers, and wounding 32 others, on an Army base in Texas. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:47 AM (ExV1e) 183 The ISSA-J1 mission will inspect two retired Japanese satellites launched in the early 2000s. By approaching them in orbit, ISSA-J1 will observe their current condition more than 20 years after launch, including their attitude, rotation behavior and signs of degradation. The mission will conduct close‑range observations of multiple objects, closer than traditional monitoring methods, demonstrating new possibilities for on‑orbit inspection services. And bloe da fuck outta dem Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur) 184 FAME! Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 08:47 AM (GD0B3) 185 Or just flap your mouth, huff and puff and do nothing. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 09, 2026 08:41 AM (ufSfZ) I recall her appearance months ago alongside Leavitt at a press briefing disclosing bombshell evidence of Obama's direct involvement even choreography of the Russia hoax. Zero since then. Posted by: Ordinary American at April 09, 2026 08:47 AM (INQN/) 186 They do have a recognized duty and obligation to keep the peace. Put down riots. But politicians are too often both corrupt AND incompetent, so our cities don’t even enjoy that. “They just need room to destroy” we’re told, about looters and rioting mobs. Failed state stuff. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 08:38 AM (UWyNf) And cops “just follow orders”. It sucks. The biggest ballache I have is that I want to like them. But their behavior and that of the people who run them will always make cops suspect. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 08:47 AM (E6xSb) 187 There are two times the number of durable medical equipment companies in South Florida as there are McDonald’s,” he continued.” Most of them don’t sell anything, they’re just there to steal from the federal government" Having both parents go from requiring 24/7 medical attention to now hospice, the offers from companies is... staggering. Unimaginable levels (at least to me) for ... stuff... all paid for by various programs (taxpayers). Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:48 AM (XuXeR) 188 Remember not long ago they tried to take over Yemen and got their asses kicked by a pack of goat herders on camels. Posted by: Tom Servo Ardeth Bay and the Medjai were pretty tough. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 08:48 AM (AnEIe) 189 Who is “we” Kemosabe? Somebody sold the manual to the KH-11 spy satellite to the Soviets for $3500 back in the day. Sentenced to 40 years, have to read up on him and see if he’s out now. Some TRW guys did something similar. No. The answer is “No”. Sadly. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 08:46 AM (UWyNf) The Clintons sold an entire nuke sub prop making system the the Chinks. Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 08:48 AM (/+uur) 190 > A former Fort Bragg employee with top-secret clearance is accused of leaking classified military tactics to a journalist, then admitting to her mother that she could be arrested for exposing sensitive operations, according to a federal complaint. ---------- Trump alluded to a "journalist" getting, then repeating information about "Dude 44-B" (the WSO rescued) at the newser the other day. Claimed they were "in trouble." Any ideas who this was and who spilled the beans? Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 08:48 AM (AkEZC) 191 That is my understanding as well. Not surprisingly, there seems to be little easily available info on their forces... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 08:44 AM (XuXeR) The only countries in the Middle East with serious military forces today - forces with serious capabilities - are Israel, Turkey, Egypt, and Iran. Luckily Egypt is too far away from the action, and we stay engaged with Erdogan to make sure he sits this one out. No one else over there has any serious military capabilities, which is why Iran was sure they could dominate the region. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 08:49 AM (UA2di) 192 Correct...Real killers huh? I'd trade the bunch of 'em for a couple of Campfire Girls. Posted by: Sgt. Warden What fun to...Sing around the Campfire, Meet the Moon above. Sing Wo-He-Lo, Sing Wo-He-Lo, Work, Health, Love. Posted by: Patrice Munsel at April 09, 2026 08:49 AM (oftw2) 193 I'm unclear on your point. Are you suggesting that we should embrace the continuation of NATO? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:13 AM (ExV1e) In a much different and reformed way, yes. I want it changed. But people here want it destroyed because reasons. I’ll be ostracized for it but so what. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 08:50 AM (E6xSb) 194 Has Artemis dropped out of the news? They’re still not back…. I noticed they got that cool image of the dark side of the moon…. Who’d have believed that dark side has a likeness of The Donald when viewed from above! Coincidence? I think not… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 08:50 AM (+gA9j) 195 Paul the troll is not even making any sense at this point. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 08:50 AM (Nx5jP) 196 what a dummy, WTH did she think she was doing? Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 08:46 AM (GD0B3) Given that she started in '22, I assume she was trying to set herself up as a respected source in the run-up to the war between Russia and the US which, thankfully, never officially materialized. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:50 AM (ExV1e) 197 Over performing is when you win special elections for Congressional seats. Dems have not picked up when of those in 25-26 cycle. Think GOP has help 8 of them. During Bush years , Dems were winning special House seats in Deep red states in the South Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:50 AM (YCxFk) 198 140. Thanks Linus Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:50 AM (YCxFk) 199 Ardeth Bay and the Medjai were pretty tough. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 08:48 AM (AnEIe) LOL had to look that up! Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 08:51 AM (UA2di) 200 "To stop the threat we either need to end the regime completely, or glassify a 20 - 30 mile strip on the Iranian side of the straits." A case for the return of the new Jersey to the ME? Posted by: pawn at April 09, 2026 08:51 AM (jstR0) 201 Dems flipped two SC races in Wisconsin in 23-24, and media thought was proof Kamala was going to win Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:52 AM (YCxFk) 202 I recall her appearance months ago alongside Leavitt at a press briefing disclosing bombshell evidence of Obama's direct involvement even choreography of the Russia hoax. Zero since then. Posted by: Ordinary American at April 09, 2026 08:47 AM (INQN/) Man, if the DNI isn't prosecuting things, what is the world coming to? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:52 AM (ExV1e) 203 Courtney P. Williams, 40, an Army veteran assigned to a Special Military Unit (SMU) at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday and charged with unlawfully transmitting national defense information, including classified tactics used in covert missions, to an investigative reporter over a period spanning several years, federal prosecutors allege. PT her miserable fat ass until she dies!! Posted by: Ghost of Gunny Sgt. Hartman at April 09, 2026 08:53 AM (wVcYX) 204 Meh. We've been living with an "Iranian threat" for the last 47 years in addition to many instances of their terrorism. What's another 2-6 months (hopefully) of wiping these bastards away? Except for the Houthis - and why haven't we wiped this shitstain off - the entire M.E. is against Iran. People say Trump caused mask to fall. This is certainly correct here. This action squeezes China and Russia ( high oil prices not withstanding). The lo ger outlook is much more favorable if this successful. Yet TBD. But look where we were 24 months ago. Patience people. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 09, 2026 08:53 AM (Fn30I) 205 Ro Khanna reveals his strategy to end the conflict with Iran 1. "Immediate ceasefire" 2. Give Iran an "ironclad guarantee" that the U.S. & Israel will not attack again and "involve China & Russia in that" 3. "Look at some of the sanctions and have a diplomatic solution" "That’s the only way, in my view, that we get the Strait of Hormuz open. If we don’t give Iran a guarantee that they’re going to be safe, they’re going to think, well, Israel is saying they want to mow the lawn." Anderson Cooper follows up: “Is it acceptable to you if Iran remains in control of the Strait of Hormuz?” Khanna says "No," and does not elaborate on how he will take away the Islamist nation's control of the Strait. ... simple .. Ro Ro Ro your boat Posted by: SMOD at April 09, 2026 08:53 AM (RHGPo) 206 Way back in the day, under the CORONA program, they would use satellites to take high res film pictures of the Soviet Union, and parachute the film packs back earth over Hawaii, to be plucked out of the air by an Air Force plane. They had a lot of problems with this program, often the film packs would get boosted into a higher orbit, instead of returning to earth. I wonder if any of those have been, or could be recovered, with more modern tech? Cold War (which was pretty fucking hot) artifacts! Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 08:53 AM (X7kHo) 207 Spade’s co-host, Dana Carvey, agreed that the “Hollywood studio system is dying” and said that something needs to be done to save it. cig and a blindfold? Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur) 208 194 Has Artemis dropped out of the news?” It’s that part of the car vacation where you’ve seen everything you wanted to see and all you’ve got left is that long interstate drive home. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 08:53 AM (UA2di) 209 Artemis returns tomorrow unless I'm wrong Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 08:53 AM (ZxPkt) 210 :El Salvador President Nayib Bukele had called on America to "Impeach the corrupt judges" after the killer of Iryna Zarutska was found too incompetent to stand trial for murder. Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC) 211 In a much different and reformed way, yes. I want it changed. And I want a pony. NATO can not be changed because Europe can not be changed. NATO is an expression of Socialist Europe. Posted by: Yep at April 09, 2026 08:54 AM (SD7rz) 212 I guess Courtney thought she was Speaking Truth To Power™ and standing up as a defiant rebel voice against the dark tide of fascism that is drowning Our Sacred Democracy™ Or she's an idiot and the reporter was feeding her ego. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 08:54 AM (OPGS/) 213 "Has Artemis dropped out of the news? They’re still not back…. I noticed they got that cool image of the dark side of the moon…. Who’d have believed that dark side has a likeness of The Donald when viewed from above! Coincidence? I think not…" Actually, the scariest part of the mission isn't until the end, on Friday Night, REENTRY! Posted by: pawn at April 09, 2026 08:54 AM (jstR0) 214 pawn Nay, bro. Tomahawks are cheap compared with the cost of getting an Iowa class Bb ready for combat. We have air power, and lots of bombs. Use them until the IRCG survivors surrender. Meanwhile, use STOL aircraft to arm the rural areas, and guide them to a cleansing victory. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ) 215 "over performing." What does that even mean? Posted by: I gotta ask at April 09, 2026 08:37 AM (2Ez/1) That their numbers are better than history suggests they should be. If the 2024 election in that district was Trump +11 and the Republican won with +1, then the Democrats are performing 10 points better than expected. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 08:55 AM (FmapG) 216 People say Trump caused mask to fall. This is certainly correct here. This action squeezes China and Russia ( high oil prices not withstanding). The lo ger outlook is much more favorable if this successful. Yet TBD. But look where we were 24 months ago. Patience people. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 09, 2026 08:53 AM (Fn30I) China was barely surviving with $45 oil. Now $100 oil will kill their economy even more. Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur) 217 Artemis returns tomorrow unless I'm wrong Posted by: Don Black Supposed to. Unless they make a detour and stop by the ISS and get stuck. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 08:55 AM (AnEIe) 218 30,000 Miles To The Cleanest Bathrooms! You Can Hold It. Posted by: Buc-ee's Space Billboard at April 09, 2026 08:56 AM (wVcYX) 219 In a much different and reformed way, yes. I want it changed. But people here want it destroyed because reasons. I’ll be ostracized for it but so what. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 08:50 AM (E6xSb) And how would you change it? And why would the EU countries agree to that change, assuming it actually required anything of them? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 08:56 AM (ExV1e) 220 > The only countries in the Middle East with serious military forces today - forces with serious capabilities - are Israel, Turkey, Egypt, and Iran. -------- On paper, the Saudis have an impressive military. They don't do shit with it, but it's impressive. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 08:56 AM (AkEZC) 221 Come to- Discount Treason Warehouse!!! Where you can find traitors willing to betray their country for pennies on the dollar! Did I say pennies?!?! No way!!! Here at Discount Treason Warehouse, we'll commit treason, sedition, and violent insurrection for tenths of pennies on the dollar! That's Discount Treason Warehouse! Just look for the sign with the Braying Jackass in central Washington DC. Discount Treason Warehouse!!!! Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 08:57 AM (iJfKG) 222 >Use them until the IRCG survivors surrender. --- they're not going to surrender- they are fanatics, on a mission from allah Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 08:57 AM (ZxPkt) 223 rickb223 ISS has working toilets. But their return velocity is too high. They need to land in the Pacific Ocean. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 08:57 AM (u82oZ) 224 The US has not had a draft since the Vietnam War, but the Iran conflict has fueled concerns that one could take place. Victor Nava Oh yeah? Which position will Congress take? 1) Men and women are identical. Therefore, women will also be drafted. 2) Men and women are not identical. Therefore women will not be drafted. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 08:57 AM (FmapG) 225 De-mining the Hormuz Strait is going to be a big deal. It can't be done until Iran/IRGC commits to a ceasefire or we literally take control of the Iranian coast in that area. Posted by: Martini Farmer Yes. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 09, 2026 08:58 AM (Fn30I) 226 207 Spade’s co-host, Dana Carvey, agreed that the “Hollywood studio system is dying” and said that something needs to be done to save it. ---------------- High Speed Train will save us all! Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 08:58 AM (n17eQ) 227 Supposed to. Unless they make a detour and stop by the ISS and get stuck. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 08:55 AM (AnEIe) Hun, have you checked our shitter? Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 08:58 AM (/+uur) 228 Ro Khanna is the biggest inside trader in Congress. He's in it for the money. And a Party soldier in every way. Like most of his ilk his prescription for Iran is "wave a magic wand and speak a magic incantation." Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 08:58 AM (RIvkX) 229 William Shatner did a goodly amount of over-performing in his day. Posted by: Chewing The Scenery at April 09, 2026 08:58 AM (oftw2) 230 201 Dems flipped two SC races in Wisconsin in 23-24, and media thought was proof Kamala was going to win Posted by: Jonah at April 09, 2026 08:52 AM (YCxFk) WI statewide races are obviously compromised. For the GOP to continuously be shut out over and over, yet hold majorities in state gov't tells me something stinks. Now the SC elections of course aren't held on days of other elections, which is an old shady trick to keep votes low, but it's something else too.. Posted by: Inogame at April 09, 2026 08:59 AM (53oGX) 231 Don Black Then the solution is obvious. It is within the power of the US and Israel to accomplish that goal. Make a desert, and call it peace. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ) 232 229 William Shatner did a goodly amount of over-performing in his day. Posted by: Chewing The Scenery at April 09, 2026 08:58 AM (oftw2) Youre over-acting Jim Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 08:59 AM (/+uur) 233 Anyone who thinks Pres. Trump does anything because he's afraid of critics calling him weak or stupid or Taco (whatever that means) has not been paying attention for the last eight plus years. Posted by: LASue at April 09, 2026 09:00 AM (lCppi) 234 China was barely surviving with $45 oil. Now $100 oil will kill their economy even more. ------------- I find it odd that our esteemed Journalists are unable to report on China. Its a mystery, it is. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 09:01 AM (n17eQ) 235 All of the bleeding hearts weeping about war crimes and genocide, - try to think of it more like jackpot bowling; you keep racking them up and we'll keep throwing strikes. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 09:01 AM (Fbc0I) 236 "...and all you’ve got left is that long interstate drive home." ---- Is there at least a Buc-ee's along the way? Posted by: The kids in the back seat at April 09, 2026 09:01 AM (2Ez/1) 237 Anyone who thinks Pres. Trump does anything because he's afraid of critics calling him weak or stupid or Taco (whatever that means) has not been paying attention for the last eight plus years. Posted by: LASue at April 09, 2026 09:00 AM (lCppi) Longer than that. Trump's held exactly the same position vis a vis Iran since he was 30 years old. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 09:02 AM (FmapG) 238 The Methodist Church is not for anyone who takes faith seriously -- We’re excited to invite you to a special Messy Church service on Sunday, April 19 at 9:30am! Messy Church is a fun, intergenerational worship experience designed for all ages. It’s a chance to experience faith in a hands-on, creative, and joyful way. Instead of a traditional service, we gather around interactive stations where we explore the story of Jesus through crafts, activities, conversation, and play. We’ll wrap up our time together with a shared meal and worship. This is church—but a little more playful, a little more hands-on, and a lot more “come as you are.” Posted by: Oglebay at April 09, 2026 09:02 AM (2ap+5) 239 The US has not had a draft since the Vietnam War, but the Iran conflict has fueled concerns that one could take place. I perused reddit during Trump's first term. The idiots over there were in a panic - weekly - that Trump was going to institute a draft AND that the military would want their useless asses. Leftist fuckwards always have concerns over the draft when a Republican is in the WH, and scream for war with (insert name of target country here) when a Democrat is there. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 09:02 AM (ExV1e) 240 Dear Trump supporters: How much more are you willing to ignore?: What more are you willing to “compartmentalize” while you tell yourself this is all an acceptable bargain to get judges and tax cuts? Does he need to nuke a nation to lose your trust and respect? By S.E. Cupp The irony is that the author thinks they're staging an intervention, but they're actually just yelling into a void. These dummies don't even know how to read, let alone parse any rules. They are willing to keep going cause quite frankly they are living in another world. Their world is being controlled by the conservative propaganda machine. If we ever get into power, we need to find ways to shut it down or label it in a way to get people out of it. If my Trump supporting relatives are any indication, the Christian supporters have probably moved on to cheering on Trump as he brings about the End Times so they can all go to Heaven. I recently watched the movie Downfall (2004) which details the last 10 days of WWII from Hitler’s bunker. So many of his people were true believers to the very end, while bombs were blowing up everything around them. It reminded me of today. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 09:04 AM (JCZqz) 241 De-mining the Hormuz Strait " There isn't much evidence that ether lane has been heavily mined... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 09:04 AM (XuXeR) 242 The Methodist Church is not for anyone who takes faith seriously -- We’re excited to invite you to a special Messy Church service on Sunday, April 19 at 9:30am! Messy Church is a fun, intergenerational worship experience designed for all ages. It’s a chance to experience faith in a hands-on, creative, and joyful way. Instead of a traditional service, we gather around interactive stations where we explore the story of Jesus through crafts, activities, conversation, and play. We’ll wrap up our time together with a shared meal and worship. This is church—but a little more playful, a little more hands-on, and a lot more “come as you are.” Posted by: Oglebay at April 09, 2026 09:02 AM (2ap+5) Is this the same as the Methodists' "Wet T-Shirt Service"? Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 09:04 AM (iJfKG) 243 Catturd ™ @catturd2 "How can we 25th amendment his ass?" - Alex Jones, talking about Trump. NEVER FORGET !!! Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 09:04 AM (NpAcC) 244 Interesting to see Iran violating the ceasefire because Israel is shelling Hezbollah which was never part of any ceasefire agreement. It's almost like Hezbollah is just another name for Iran. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 09:05 AM (P8t+z) 245 This is church—but a little more playful, a little more hands-on, and a lot more “come as you are.” +++ In other words, we need to get more women and children in here. Posted by: The church treasurer, studying the recent receipts at April 09, 2026 09:05 AM (2Ez/1) 246 Dan Quayle was a standup guy and conservative. You fell for the media hit. The potato flash card thing shows the power the “media” had in those days to effect character assassination. You only think you know what happened. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 08:43 AM (UWyNf) Well said. Quayle really was solid. The "e" thing and the Murphy Brown thing didn't help. Posted by: Doof at April 09, 2026 09:05 AM (LVvlK) 247 An S.E. Cupp quote? wow, reddit is scraping the bowl... Posted by: Inogame at April 09, 2026 09:05 AM (53oGX) 248 This is church—but a little more playful, a little more hands-on, and a lot more “come as you are.” Posted by: Oglebay at April 09, 2026 09:02 AM (2ap+5) Don't tell me no lies and keep your hands to yourself. Posted by: Georgia Satellites at April 09, 2026 09:05 AM (wVcYX) 249 30,000 Miles To The Cleanest Bathrooms! You Can Hold It. Posted by: Buc-ee's Space Billboard at April 09, 2026 08:56 AM (wVcYX) Are we there yet? Posted by: LASue at April 09, 2026 09:05 AM (lCppi) 250 I find it odd that our esteemed Journalists are unable to report on China. Its a mystery, it is." Wrapped in an enigma. Then deep fried. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 09:06 AM (XuXeR) 251 Wrapped in an enigma. Then deep fried. ...in chocolate sauce Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 09:06 AM (DgMqy) 252 we gather around interactive stations where we explore the story of Jesus through crafts, activities, conversation, and play. We’ll wrap up our time together with a shared meal and worship." Say, any giant paper mache heads? Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 09:07 AM (XuXeR) 253 Wrapped in an enigma. Then deep fried. ...in chocolate sauce . . . on a stick! Posted by: State Fair Food Vendor at April 09, 2026 09:08 AM (wVcYX) 254 The irony is that the author thinks they're staging an intervention, but they're actually just yelling into a void. These dummies don't even know how to read, let alone parse any rules. PROGRESSIVES Always Yapping About Their Superior Brain Power That's Never In Evidence! Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 09:08 AM (iJfKG) 255 Artemis returns tomorrow unless I'm wrong Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 08:53 AM (ZxPkt) ---- It's gonna need to pick up the pace a bit. Still 154,000 miles out... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2026 09:08 AM (ESVrU) 256 30,000 Miles To The Cleanest Bathrooms! You Can Hold It. Posted by: Buc-ee's Space Billboard snort. IYKYK Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:08 AM (AnEIe) 257 Well said. Quayle really was solid. The "e" thing and the Murphy Brown thing didn't help. Posted by: Doof at April 09, 2026 09:05 AM (LVvlK) He was right about Murphy Brown and the 'e' thing was how the teacher had spelled it. You don't hate the media enough. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 09:09 AM (ExV1e) 258 Use them until the IRCG survivors surrender. --- they're not going to surrender- they are fanatics, on a mission from allah Posted by: Don Black More to the point, they're universally hated. Surrender is suicide. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 09, 2026 09:09 AM (OUMaO) 259 #238 I would say that individual Methodist churches depend very heavily on the pastor who probably ignores what their hierarchy says and isn't doing nutty things. This guy is still UM because the denomination has become irrelevant. From "Christian Post": https://tinyurl.com/43m3345m Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 09:10 AM (PFs9e) 260 Dear Trump supporters: How much more are you willing to ignore?: What more are you willing to “compartmentalize” while you tell yourself this is all an acceptable bargain to get judges and tax cuts? Does he need to nuke a nation to lose your trust and respect?* By S.E. Cupp Actually, that'd make my dick do hard, it'd cut diamonds. Because I can think of a few that need it. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:10 AM (AnEIe) 261 in chocolate sauce . . . on a stick! Posted by: State Fair Food Vendor" With butter. /Texas State Fair Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 09:10 AM (XuXeR) 262 214 pawn Nay, bro. Tomahawks are cheap compared with the cost of getting an Iowa class Bb ready for combat. We have air power, and lots of bombs. Use them until the IRCG survivors surrender. Meanwhile, use STOL aircraft to arm the rural areas, and guide them to a cleansing victory. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ) Now, any dumb Mk80-series bomb (500-, 1000-, 2000-pounders can become a GPS-guided bomb for less than $40K. Using a field/carrier-installed kit. Maximum error radius is said to be less than 6-feet. Stand-off drop range from high-altitude is claimed to be 15-miles. Dropping a 2000-pound bomb within six-feet of almost anything above ground will destroy it. An air-strike game-changer that we and the Israelis have in abundance. Yay! Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2026 09:10 AM (5rh/l) 263 247 An S.E. Cupp quote? wow, reddit is scraping the bowl... Posted by: Inogame She's a hard-core conservative turning on Trump!!!! The midterms are going to be a bloodbath for Republicans, because all their thought-leaders are turning against them!!! Posted by: Reddit Leftists at April 09, 2026 09:10 AM (JCZqz) 264 202 I recall her appearance months ago alongside ...of Obama's direct involvement even choreography of the Russia hoax. Zero since then. ... Man, if the DNI isn't prosecuting things, what is the world coming to? A: Not the World Safe for Socialism -- that can be debugged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV_IPiVDdLc Much WORSE, a World Safe for Brennan and his Dancing Undead who care more about their 50 careers than the fate of the nation -- let alone Ordinary Americans We can`t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans -- Bill Clinton'93 These are the very people who are pitting Man against other men until we exist no more, and they're very good at it. Release, indeed, FREE AND SPONSOR! the HUNTER BIDEN's, the NICK REINER's, the ever now, and future present Epstein's, Clinton's, Soros', the John Walker/American Taliban's, the James Fergie Chambers (Cox Heir and professional revolutionaries) who will proudly do unto their own people PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries. https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-futPrezGabbardStepsUp TRUMPs will to live IS strong. Her WILL to sacrifice 1000 for our way of life has to be strong too.... Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 09, 2026 09:11 AM (u9Ovp) 265 This is church—but a little more playful, a little more hands-on, and a lot more “come as you are.” +++ In other words, we need to get more women and children in here. Posted by: The church treasurer, studying the recent receipts UMC or GMC? Differences... Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 09, 2026 09:11 AM (OUMaO) 266 hm, this will make the mullahs big mad! and they will huff and they will puff, and.. "Israel Hayom reports Israel is gearing up for renewed military operations in Gaza as Hamas’s deadline to meet U.S. disarmament demands expires Thursday." Is today Thursday ?? I think it is! Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 09:11 AM (GD0B3) 267 >>>An S.E. Cupp quote? wow, reddit is scraping the bowl... >I get it. The two P's are a subtle, subconscious reminder of her lactation devices. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 09:12 AM (Fbc0I) 268 Oh yeah? Which position will Congress take? 1) Men and women are identical. Therefore, women will also be drafted. 2) Men and women are not identical. Therefore women will not be drafted. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 08:57 AM (FmapG) Bring back the draft but draft only college students and the people who "teach" at these places. Posted by: Zombie Abbie Hoffman at April 09, 2026 09:12 AM (3LMJN) 269 > De-mining the Hormuz Strait " There isn't much evidence that ether lane has been heavily mined... Posted by: man ---------- Few commercial vessels are transiting Hormuz. Fear of mines is one reason. The others are attacks from IRGC boats, potential boardings, land based anti-ship missiles or drones. "Heavily" mined or not... it's an issue that the shipping companies and insurance outfits want resolved. ASAP. And many of the mines Iran employs are "bottom fixed." Not the cartoonish floating ones depicted by the media. It's one reason traffic is light. Not the only one. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 09:12 AM (AkEZC) 270 The army. >>@disclosetv · 1h >>NOW - Ireland's government deploys the Army to remove protesters' vehicles, as Deputy Commissioner Shawna Coxon warns truckers, farmers, and business owners protesting fuel prices and taxes, that they must "immediately cease blockades... or face the full rigors of the law." Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 09:13 AM (P8t+z) 271 261 in chocolate sauce . . . on a stick! Posted by: State Fair Food Vendor" With butter. Then sprinkled (doused) with powdered sugar. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 09, 2026 09:13 AM (DgMqy) 272 "Israel Hayom reports Israel is gearing up for renewed military operations in Gaza as Hamas’s deadline to meet U.S. disarmament demands expires Thursday." Oh no. AOC and Zoran Mahmdani hit hardest (aside from all the Hamas guys about to be exploded, of course). Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 09, 2026 09:13 AM (JCZqz) 273 Posted by: runner Let the will of Allah be done, in a hail of fragments that shed all of Hamas. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 09:13 AM (u82oZ) 274 After Israel trashed hezbos, there was an urgent negotiated agreement to disarm Hezbos and move them beyond Litani. That did not happen, and they broke it massively on March 3, joined I-ran. Same with hamastanians. Which they kept violating. How many agreements do we need ?? Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 09:14 AM (GD0B3) 275 Few commercial vessels are transiting Hormuz." Ima going out on a limb and say that far more are than the average journalist would say. .. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 09:14 AM (XuXeR) 276 ...Iran employs are "bottom fixed."... Oh, my!!! Posted by: George Takei Doesn't Read the Whole Comment at April 09, 2026 09:15 AM (iJfKG) 277 The US has not had a draft since the Vietnam War, but the Iran conflict has fueled concerns that one could take place. Victor Nava Oh yeah? Which position will Congress take? 1) Men and women are identical. Therefore, women will also be drafted. 2) Men and women are not identical. Therefore women will not be drafted. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 09, 2026 08:57 AM (FmapG) 3) Men and women are not identical. Therefore, men will not be drafted. Women are superior. The Girl Power™ movies prove that fact. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 09, 2026 09:15 AM (5xuJ/) 278 He was right about Murphy Brown and the 'e' thing was how the teacher had spelled it. You don't hate the media enough. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 09:09 AM (ExV1e) I agree that he was right about it. But it was twisted and spun to make him look bad. Similar to how the Bush 41 checkout scanner thing was twisted and spun. Posted by: Doof at April 09, 2026 09:16 AM (LVvlK) 279 There is already an agreement in place with Hezbolah ,there are UN resolutions about hezbolla'hs disarmament that go back years. Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 09:16 AM (GD0B3) 280 Dear Trump supporters: How much more are you willing to ignore?: What more are you willing to “compartmentalize” while you tell yourself this is all an acceptable bargain to get judges and tax cuts? Does he need to nuke a nation to lose your trust and respect? By S.E. Cupp --- You know what I like best about this? How every single line is a confession of just how little the author knows of or about actual conservatives. She is sparing with a Paper Doll Conservative she cut out and pasted together from various far-left newspapers. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 09, 2026 09:16 AM (HXT0k) 281 When was the last time S.E. Cupp was a conservative? Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 09:16 AM (NpAcC) 282 redridinghood 9 years old. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 09:18 AM (u82oZ) 283 Is Lebanon's Ministry of Health the same as Hamas' Ministry of Health?? Both seem to count quickly the number of casualties. Posted by: dantesed at April 09, 2026 09:19 AM (Oy/m2) 284 Do you know about Cupp sizes? Posted by: Frank Costanza at April 09, 2026 09:19 AM (Q+gd/) 285 Happy Wednesday! Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 09:19 AM (Suwql) 286 Catturd ™ @catturd2 I fought tooth and nail to get Trump elected, and I'm going to enjoy the heII out of these 4 years. The Doomers and their "the sky is falling" Jedi mind tricks and constant blackpilling doesn't work on me. Their 24/7 negative feedback loop is for pessimistic losers. I'm having a blast and loving every minute of of it. Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 09:19 AM (NpAcC) 287 When was the last time S.E. Cupp ~~was a conservative?~~ could be considered attractive? Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2026 09:16 AM (NpAcC) FIFY Posted by: naturalfake at April 09, 2026 09:20 AM (iJfKG) 288 241 De-mining the Hormuz Strait " There isn't much evidence that ether lane has been heavily mined... ------------------ This seems to be true. I would opine that they didn't do this cuz its their bread and butter. Lose that and they are left with the Pistachio and rug business to float their boat. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 09:20 AM (n17eQ) 289 Apparently the entire EU signed a letter that said that Hezbollah's existence must be a condition of the cease fire. Not to sound like a Panican, but I legitimately worry that we're on a road to complete isolation on the world stage. The tariffs really pissed off our "allies" and they're taking every opportunity to undermine us. I realize its like ants braying their rage against the lions, but when even people like Meloni sign onto their Hezbollah mercy letter, you know its not going well. I still can't figure out why the machinations that allow the IRGC to keep the Strait closed weren't destroyed on day 1 of Epic Fury. It's not like the munitions that can sink a tanker are small enough to fit into a pickup truck like a MANPAD. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 09:20 AM (WYStd) 290 > Few commercial vessels are transiting Hormuz." Ima going out on a limb and say that far more are than the average journalist would say. .. -------- I'd agree. Yet, the crews and insurance companies that enable those tankers and cargo vessels to operate are skittish about anything in the Hormuz that would affect "safe" transits. Whether that be mines, IRGC yahoos in boats with RPGs, on the coast lobbing drones or missiles or whatever. Take a look at... https://tinyurl.com/3p34ne5a Hormuz is nowhere near "busy." Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 09:21 AM (AkEZC) 291 For those still worried about MTG's old seat being won by only 52-48, those were not the final numbers. The final numbers were +12... the screenshot was just made at the point of absolutely no hope for the Dem. Posted by: American Hawkman at April 09, 2026 09:21 AM (6so3e) 292 Bring back the draft but draft only college students and the people who "teach" at these places. Posted by: Zombie Abbie Hoffman at April 09, 2026 09:12 AM (3LMJN) They should announce a draft and say that they're only taking illegals. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 09:22 AM (ExV1e) 293 >>Well said. Quayle really was solid. The "e" thing and the Murphy Brown thing didn't help. Even Candace Bergen eventually admitted Quayle was right. He correctly identified they were intentionally glorifying single motherhood, deceptively using a character with a successful career who could easily afford it, etc.. Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 09:22 AM (Suwql) 294 I am a simple person who just wants to attend a peaceful service at Notre Dame Paris and listen to toccata and fugue in d minor with the organ volume set at 11. Posted by: Oglebay at April 09, 2026 09:22 AM (2ap+5) 295 Ima going out on a limb and say that far more are than the average journalist would say. .. Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 09:14 AM (XuXeR) Fox News says that only 4 vessels crossed the Strait yesterday. "It appears that the Strait is closed." Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 09:22 AM (WYStd) 296 281 When was the last time S.E. Cupp was a ~~conservative~~ hot? Posted by: redridinghood Here's a picture of her from an event in April 2025...she's not giving off hot-milf vibes anymore. https://tinyurl.com/6bkhkzb5 Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 09, 2026 09:22 AM (JCZqz) 297 I read this morning that the UK and Australia are now rushing to INCLUDE Lebanon in this fake Iran ceasefire. You can't make this shit up ! Bunch of useless, cowardly jagoffs. How about you tell your hezbo brothers in Lebanon to respect the terms of the last ceasefire and the terms of UN (that you loe so much) resolution 1701..from 20 years ago, that was never implemented. Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 09:23 AM (GD0B3) 298 NATO is hand-in-glove with the EU-WEF globohomo bureaucracy of which Mark Rutte is an examplar par excellence. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX) ================== Well, it's 2-1 against. The resolution fails, and Rutte goes down in flames. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 09:23 AM (XM6on) 299 Defenestratus It's a process. We are doing a great job. All the naval threats are gone or easily countered. US reinsurance can kneecap the UK by making Lloyds irrelevant. I ignore the ignorant media reports. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 09:23 AM (u82oZ) 300 Not to sound like a Panican, but I legitimately worry that we're on a road to complete isolation on the world stage. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 09:20 AM (WYStd) The Middle East has swung hard in our direction after Iran attacked everyone. And they're vastly more important than Europe. Asia isn't showing any cracks, and again more important than Europe. South America seems to be tilting our way, also more important than Europe. Europe is the distant continent without natural resources, low innovation relative to US and Asia, and low military capability. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 09, 2026 09:23 AM (okun6) 301 Church shouldn’t be “playful”… it’s for worship It’s painful to read things sometimes Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 09:23 AM (yz/88) 302 The tariffs really pissed off our "allies" and they're taking every opportunity to undermine us. I realize its like ants braying their rage against the lions, but when even people like Meloni sign onto their Hezbollah mercy letter, you know its not going well. ---------------- The EU is a nursing home staffed with Muzzie Caretakers. This explains everything European. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 09:24 AM (n17eQ) 303 Smashing terrorists ? "NO, NO, NO". Propping up terrorist regimes ? "YES!YES!YES!" useless cvnts Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 09:24 AM (GD0B3) 304 Happy Wednesday! Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 09:19 AM (Suwql) I hope you had a happy Wednesday, but today is Thursday. I hope it is happy for you as well. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 09:25 AM (lQ+/f) 305 Canada just dropped a new alphabet acronym: “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+”. Seriously. Answer key: MMIWG = Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls The rest = 2-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual + Posted by: Ian S. at April 09, 2026 09:25 AM (QZThv) 306 Of course this action was necesary but does increase anxiety. For me, the question is, why do we care so much about Hormuz? Didn't Rubio explain that we don't get anything from Hormuz? Where are the people for whom it really matters? It's also true that Iran will continue to enrich uranium and Dem Pres Newsome will send them money to do so after being fellated by Obama's handler (Valerie Jarret). Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 09, 2026 09:25 AM (s1NDj) 307 It's a process. We are doing a great job. All the naval threats are gone or easily countered. US reinsurance can kneecap the UK by making Lloyds irrelevant. I ignore the ignorant media reports. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 09:23 AM (u82oZ) Trump announced the insurance coverage at the beginning of the conflict. It doesn't appear to have made a difference. With the Iranian navy at the bottom of the sea, what is left that is causing the insurance issuers to refuse the vessels transit of the strait? Mines? Missiles? Artillery? Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 09:25 AM (WYStd) 308 That photo of SE Cupp… yikes! Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 09, 2026 09:26 AM (yz/88) 309 China lost 10 TB os secrets to hackers. Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 09, 2026 09:26 AM (/+uur) 310 Not to sound like a Panican, but I legitimately worry that we're on a road to complete isolation on the world stage. Posted by: Defenestratus If push came to shove during Biden’s time, would Europe really have our back and go to total war for us against China? Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 09, 2026 09:26 AM (JCZqz) 311 The symposium offers a snapshot of how a massive charitable foundation, hand-in-hand with a nationwide network of scholars, has worked to elevate “transgender studies” to the status of a legitimate academic field. ********* To think, I could have majored inn Lunatic Fringe Studies as an undergrad. Posted by: muldoon at April 09, 2026 09:27 AM (qgHp7) 312 Apparently the entire EU signed a letter that said that Hezbollah's existence must be a condition of the cease fire. Not to sound like a Panican, but I legitimately worry that we're on a road to complete isolation on the world stage. The tariffs really pissed off our "allies" and they're taking every opportunity to undermine us. I realize its like ants braying their rage against the lions, but when even people like Meloni sign onto their Hezbollah mercy letter, you know its not going well. Japan loves us. A growing segment of SA loves us. The Philippians like us. Europe wants to rule us. Fuck Europe. Korea has been co-opted by the North. Fuck Korea. Everyone, everywhere, wants us to bend over and take it in the ass so they can do a little less and have a little more. Isolate away, bitches. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 09, 2026 09:27 AM (ExV1e) 313 306 Of course this action was necesary but does increase anxiety. For me, the question is, why do we care so much about Hormuz? Didn't Rubio explain that we don't get anything from Hormuz? Where are the people for whom it really matters? It's also true that Iran will continue to enrich uranium and Dem Pres Newsome will send them money to do so after being fellated by Obama's handler (Valerie Jarret). Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 09, 2026 09:25 AM (s1NDj) It matters a great deal for Europe and Asia. The more Hormuz is used as a point of leverage and the more hostile the Arab states are to Iran, the more future pipeline capacity will be built to avoid it though. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 09, 2026 09:27 AM (okun6) 314 With the Iranian navy at the bottom of the sea, what is left that is causing the insurance issuers to refuse the vessels transit of the strait? Mines? Missiles? Artillery? Cui bono? Certainly not Iran. Posted by: t-bird at April 09, 2026 09:28 AM (ittVa) 315 266 hm, this will make the mullahs big mad! and they will huff and they will puff, and.. ... "Israel Hayom reports Israel is gearing up for renewed military operations in Gaza as Hamas’s deadline to meet U.S. disarmament demands expires Thursday." ... Is today Thursday ?? I think it is! The operative principle here, explained -- Open Ended Compromise to an Evil which knows none. https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience This "spell" is part of a dynamic that operates when the evil being confronted is brazen and relentless, https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RemainKLINGON Senior Hamas Official Vows Terror Group Will Never Disarm https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell Klingon Ambassador -- LIB'ing out: There will be no Peace as long as (Charlie) Kirk lives LET'S GO BRANDON! https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 09, 2026 09:28 AM (g+8Rg) 316 If push came to shove during Biden’s time, would Europe really have our back and go to total war for us against China? ----------------- China has no history of conquest. The Mongols do. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 09:28 AM (n17eQ) 317 Canada just dropped a new alphabet acronym: “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+”. Seriously. I liked the term "alphabet people" for them, but the newer term "wifi password people" is growing on me, and seems more accurate. Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 09, 2026 09:28 AM (JCZqz) 318 when you have leftover spaghetti and meatballs for breakfast, you just know it's gonna be a great day Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 09:28 AM (ZxPkt) 319 Of course this action was necesary but does increase anxiety. For me, the question is, why do we care so much about Hormuz == Global Corporatists. They are very worried. They are publishing stories in the Financial Times and the like. It is not just oil, it's good and stuff. Being the one with the real Financial Markets and real economy we are kind of in the middle of it. Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 09:28 AM (GD0B3) 320 >>Dear Trump supporters: How much more are you willing to ignore?: What more are you willing to “compartmentalize” while you tell yourself this is all an acceptable bargain to get judges and tax cuts? Does he need to nuke a nation to lose your trust and respect? By S.E. Cupp --- MSM cannot die soon enough. What value has S.E. Cupp contributed to, well, anything? Any memorable column, insight, gutsy call/stand. . . anything? Journalism seems like a club that requires certain gestures and pronouncement be made to signal you're still part of the team, but otherwise, once you're in you can just . . . coast. . . along. . . never writing anything of value, nor ever returning to a past work and sizing up what you got right vs. wrong in retrospect. S.E. Cupp, like most of her colleagues, is just a bland, predictable - yet- forgettable entity. I could not care less about anything she thinks or writes. She doesn't interest enough to offend or merit a reply. OK, now for some coffee!! Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 09:28 AM (Suwql) 321 Take a look at... https://tinyurl.com/3p34ne5a Hormuz is nowhere near "busy." Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2026 09:21 AM (AkEZC) BLOCKED!! (probably the tinyurl) Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 09, 2026 09:28 AM (5xuJ/) 322 It’s painful to read things sometimes Posted by: LinusVanPelt I get a lot of satisfaction from the number of things which I don't read on the internet. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 09:28 AM (lQ+/f) 323 I recently watched the movie Downfall (2004) which details the last 10 days of WWII from Hitler’s bunker. So many of his people were true believers to the very end, while bombs were blowing up everything around them. It reminded me of today. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 09, 2026 09:04 AM (JCZqz) ================ Crazy shit! Posted by: Joe Biden, family guy at April 09, 2026 09:29 AM (+zKoH) 324 Not to sound like a Panican, but I legitimately worry that we're on a road to complete isolation on the world stage. The tariffs really pissed off our "allies" and they're taking every opportunity to undermine us. Posted by: Defenestratus Our "allies" might want to take a deep fucking breath and think long and hard about that. Because when the goatfuckers think their numbers are large enough, we won't be there for Crusades 2.0. Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:29 AM (AnEIe) 325 Senior Hamas Official Vows Terror Group Will Never Disarm == Where does he live? Does he own a phone...or a car?? lol Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 09:29 AM (GD0B3) 326 Not to sound like a Panican, but I legitimately worry that we're on a road to complete isolation on the world stage. ------------ Where is this World Stage? Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 09:29 AM (n17eQ) 327 With the Iranian navy at the bottom of the sea, what is left that is causing the insurance issuers to refuse the vessels transit of the strait? Mines? Missiles? Artillery? Posted by: Defenestratus Fear. The regime in Iran (whoever it is at this stage) took their measure long ago. They only need to do a few token actions to "close" the Straits; the insurers and weak states will do the rest by overreacting. If anyone's wondering how a military bombed into near inconsequence is throttling traffic there...that's how. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 09, 2026 09:30 AM (OUMaO) 328 Fox News says that only 4 vessels crossed the Strait yesterday." "Crossed"? And yes, I see the maritime map. Mrs has a paid subscription to their services (she still consults on maritime scheduling). Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 09:30 AM (XuXeR) 329 >>NOW - Ireland's government deploys the Army to remove protesters' vehicles, as Deputy Commissioner Shawna Coxon warns truckers, farmers, and business owners protesting fuel prices and taxes, that they must "immediately cease blockades... or face the full rigors of the law." Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 09:13 AM (P8t+z) ================== Seize their tractors! Seize their bank accounts! Posted by: Justin Castreaux and Chrystia Freeland at April 09, 2026 09:31 AM (+zKoH) 330 Where is this World Stage? Posted by: pudinhead All the world's a stage! Posted by: Will Shakespeare at April 09, 2026 09:31 AM (JCZqz) 331 I've been reading about these "4 vessels" for 2 days now. Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 09:31 AM (GD0B3) 332 Defenestratus The truth is the UK and most of UK elites are on the side of Islam, and want the US to fail. Lloyds is a subset of this decision. The UK is becoming a great friend of our enemies. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 09:31 AM (u82oZ) 333 Great stuff this morning J.J. Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 09, 2026 09:32 AM (ZRzmB) 334 318 when you have leftover spaghetti and meatballs for breakfast, you just know it's gonna be a great day ------------- Most available meatballs are hideous. The only good meatballs are Sbarro's. Posted by: pudinhead at April 09, 2026 09:32 AM (n17eQ) 335 Art up Posted by: rickb223 at April 09, 2026 09:32 AM (AnEIe) 336 Canada just dropped a new alphabet acronym: “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+”. Seriously. Fuck Canada. I am sick of having that racist-fascist government right on our border. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 09, 2026 09:32 AM (OUMaO) 337 what is left that is causing the insurance issuers to refuse the vessels transit of the strait" Trump. And US. We're not the ones doing the isolating... Posted by: man at April 09, 2026 09:32 AM (XuXeR) 338 >>I recently watched the movie Downfall (2004) which details the last 10 days of WWII from Hitler’s bunker. Heh, I've only seen the one scene! The actor who plays Hitler has played such memorable roles in movies I've enjoyed, "Bread and Tulips" and "Vitus," that it's hard to imagine him being evil. Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 09:32 AM (Suwql) 339 immediately cease blockades... or face the full rigors of the ~~law~~state Posted by: Oglebay at April 09, 2026 09:33 AM (2ap+5) 340 The actor who plays Hitler has played such memorable roles in movies I've enjoyed, "Bread and Tulips" and "Vitus," that it's hard to imagine him being evil. Posted by: Lizzy Well, if you look at it from a certain perspective.... Posted by: Kanye West at April 09, 2026 09:34 AM (JCZqz) 341 >>Well, if you look at it from a certain perspective.... Posted by: Kanye West LOL, no. Posted by: Lizzy at April 09, 2026 09:35 AM (Suwql) 342 326 Not to sound like a Panican, but I legitimately worry that we're on a road to complete isolation on the world stage. ------------ Where is this World Stage? That was Epstein's Island before Trump turn'd on him, and them. and why Brennan and his dancing undead went silent on the credible and imminent assassination plans against a sitting president -- all true, this is PRECISELY the line they crossed, and why they must not be allowed to be a part of America250. LET'S GO BRANDON! https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-DawnOfTheIceKING https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-ShadowOfTheIceKING https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-PrezLibraryCameo Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 09, 2026 09:38 AM (NPrDi) 343 Inexplicably, Gabbard also had to fight with the CIA bureaucracy to release information that showed the agency in a bad light under Biden, including its failure to vet 18,000 known or suspected terrorists who were allowed to enter the US in the frenzy after Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Behind the scenes, tensions are worse, with White House officials reportedly called in to adjudicate at times. No doubt the leaks to the media come from disgruntled institutionalists who don’t want Trump to discover what they’ve been up to. ======================= Fire them. Fire all those little shits. https://tinyurl.com/MirandaDevine Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 09:45 AM (nYwem) 344 I'm old enough to remember when expressing anything other than complete optimism for this war and total faith in Trump's negotiation prowess got you called vile names and banned. Now these are acceptable opinions. (I am one week old) Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete 2: Still Strokin' at April 09, 2026 09:48 AM (5hENs) 345 Great stuff this morning J.J. Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 09, 2026 09:32 AM (ZRzmB) ==================== Good to see you Wyatt. Pro-tip: Stay out of the Great Northeast. It looks like frickin Haiti. Hope all is well with you and yours, and Larry Krasner is soon gone. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 09:48 AM (nYwem) 346 343 Inexplicably, Gabbard also had to fight with ... Behind the scenes, tensions are worse, with White House officials reportedly called in to adjudicate at times. ... No doubt the leaks to the media come from disgruntled institutionalists who don’t want Trump to discover what they’ve been up to. ... Fire them. Fire all those little shits. https://tinyurl.com/MirandaDevine Actually no, good people are hard to find. Corrupt Agency Heads need to be made an example of. A: Indict Brennan. If Brennan didn't know, utilize, and exploit Epstein, he wouldn't be very intelligent would he? should we expect the MI6, FSB, PLA, Saudi, UAE to be any less? Why the dalliance? https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-futPrezGabbardStepsUp TRUMPs will to live IS very strong. Her WILL to sacrifice 1000 for our way of life has to be strong too.... LETS GO BRANDON Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 09, 2026 09:53 AM (vehhK) 347 307 With the Iranian navy at the bottom of the sea, what is left that is causing the insurance issuers to refuse the vessels transit of the strait? Mines? Missiles? Artillery? Posted by: Defenestratus _______ Because the strait wasn't closed by cruisers and battleships. It was closed by speedboats and drones. When I said that the U.S. had no plan to keep the strait open, I meant that the U.S. had no ability, short of an invasion, to get to the forces harassing shipping. Sinking that big boat in the Indian Ocean made for a great visual but accomplished nothing towards keeping drones out of the strait. Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete 2: Still Strokin' at April 09, 2026 09:57 AM (5hENs) 348 (I am one week old) Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete 2: Still Strokin' at April 09, 2026 09:48 AM (5hENs) Emotionally, mentally... that was never in doubt. My questions shouldn't be taken as critique. Merely curiosity. This war was inevitable since the day that France flew the Ayatollah into Iran and facilitated this batshit crazy ruling regime. Leaving them to their own devices, placating them, appeasing them, begging them not to be meanies to us was never, ever going to work and you're a full on retard to think it would have. I am critical of Trump's seemingly never-ending quest to be the peacemaker, the deal maker. I don't believe you can make peace with 7th century goatfucking pedophiles who think that they're 12th Imam is going to miraculously appear out of the sky to save them. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 10:03 AM (WYStd) 349 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J. Great article and links. Courtney Williams, age 40, predictable. Of the Walz, Kelly, Kent ilk, imo. Hand picked? Politico, in part, "Harp said Williams endured years of “vicious harassment” of a sexual nature while working to provide special operations troops with passports, drivers licenses and credit cards that allowed them to deploy abroad while avoiding detection. She eventually filed a formal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and reached a settlement, according to the author." ... "Harp, however, said the case required little sleuthing on the FBI’s part. Williams is mentioned by name throughout the book and the POLITICO article, which included four photos of her. “We never made any attempt to hide that or disguise her identity,” he said." Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 09, 2026 10:05 AM (NFX2v) 350 I seriously doubt the ability of a Shaheed drone to: 1) hit a moving target 2) cause enough damage to a tanker or cargo ship to do anything other than damage it. It doesn't have the precision to hit a something moving at 15-25 knots - especially at the waterline where it would need to hit a vessel in order to seriously endanger its ability to stay afloat. Speedboats are easily dispatchable as well... thats what the A-10s have been up to. I don't believe the speedboat swarms present a problem on the scale to cause the strait to be un-navigable. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 10:06 AM (WYStd) 351 348... I am critical of Trump's seemingly never-ending quest to be the peacemaker, Forgive him the fact of being a business-oriented politico, motivated by the belief that: A Free and Productive people have Absolutely Nothing to gain from War, and, in fact, a great deal to lose. This was the central belief that a negotiated peace should be possible, beyond which a wealth beyond their dreams of avarice should be possible: America250. But there IS profit to be made at War, but only at a distance, and this IS the sole motivating principle behind the war capitalists (of which DIMON, and others, are ranked near the top). Peace is the last thing they want. Why? because they'd have to earn it, and many ways be responsible for preserving it -- in many ways they are worse than LIBs, and are the source of their Strategic Insanity, best imagined as the Winged Huma acceding to the Soros fortune to create a World Safe for Socialism (which needs a thorough debugging). It is TRUE, Trump's will to live is great. Tulsi's will to sacrifice 1000 for our way of life has to be great too. We have to help. Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 09, 2026 10:13 AM (j34i5) 352 Kennedy’s confirmation of a Cuban regime racket operation in South Florida comes days after Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz detailed to Fox News that his office believes that foreign national networks, including those from Russia and China, may be tied to U.S. hospice fraud. “We believe that many of them are created by the Russian mafia. In fact, when you try to bust these folks, sometimes foreign nationals run back to their own country,” Oz said. “In Flushing, [New York], I just mentioned we think the Chinese government might be involved. In southern Florida, where you have twice as many durable medical equipment suppliers as McDonald’s, we think the Cuban government’s involved,” he continued at another part of the interview. =============== Incredible article about fraud in Florida, and elsewhere Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 10:23 AM (0PaK9) 353 Yes, by all means, let's bow to the #NeverTrump losers on the NY Post editorial board. Good fucking christ. Posted by: deadrody at April 09, 2026 11:06 AM (qf6NU) 354 Critics argue the bill weakens freedom of expression and religion by removing the ‘good faith’ defense for religious texts. Canada Pushes Law That Would Classify Bible Quotes as Hate Speech. But I'm sure they won't do the same to the Koran's call to kill Jews... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 09, 2026 11:32 AM (ynpvh) 355 Newsom’s Wife: San Quentin Convicts’ Crimes Were ‘Probably Accidents’ There was a sitcom where one of the main characters ends up in jail. He's talking to the other guy in the cell, as the guy explained how his Dad was abusive, and one day, while washing the butcher knife, his Dad came at him angrily. "I tried to tell him, 'Watch out, I just waxed the floor', but he didnlt listen and charged at me, slipped, and fell on the knife...17 times." Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 09, 2026 11:43 AM (ynpvh) Daily Tech News 9 April 2026 Top Story Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to a MacOS time bomb. (Notebook Check) Not just MacBooks. Anything running MacOS: This bug means that after exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds from the moment a Mac is switched on, network connections are no longer terminated correctly. This initially leads to an increase in CPU utilization, because after some time hundreds or even thousands of connections are managed that should actually have been terminated. As soon as the available ports, usually 16,384 in number, are used up, no more new connections can be established. 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47.296 seconds? That number might ring a bell for the 29 year olds in the audience, because the same bug caused Windows 95 and 98 to crash outright when they were running for just shy of 50 days: It's a 32-bit unsigned integer counting milliseconds. Of course Windows 95 and 98 had the saving grace that they would usually crash for some other reason well before that time ran out. Tech News Amazon is ending support for older Kindles. (The Verge) Where by "older" when mean 2012 and earlier. The devices will continue to work, but you won't be able to load new content onto them from the Amazon store. Iran is demanding payment in Bitcoin or iTunes gift cards for ships that want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. (CoinDesk) Do not redeem! The CIA used long-range quantum magnetometry to find the lost airman during the rescue mission in Iran. (NYPost) Cool story, bro. Apple's MacBook Neo is made using defective A18 chips that would otherwise be discarded. Problem: It's selling so well that Apple is running out of defective chips. (MacRumors) The solution in these cases is to use working chips, so it's not likely that the Neo is going to disappear. AMD's Ryzen 9950X3D2 has a price tag: $899. (Tom's Hardware) Expensive, but it is a workstation chip, not a gaming chip. And it's cheaper than the RAM you'll want to attach to it. Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy. (The Verge) No, dear, you were always crazy. The 2026 Moto G Stylus has a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 processor, 8GB of memory, a 6.7" 2712x1220 120Hz OLED display, and a stylus. (Liliputing) $499. The stylus includes touch sensitivity and tilt detection and lasts for 4 hours of writing or 100 hours on standby. A bit of an advance over my Palm Tungsten T3. The Oppo Pad Mini has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor, an 8.8" 2880x1920 144Hz OLED display, and up to 16GB of RAM. (Notebook Check) And weighs in at a svelte 279 grams. Svelte for a tablet of that size, anyway. It would be on the chonky side for a phone. Musical Interlude Disclaimer: Found it! Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 G'morning Pixy and Horde. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 09, 2026 04:30 AM (O7YUW) 2 G'Day everyone Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:30 AM (Ia/+0) 3 w00t Posted by: m at April 09, 2026 04:31 AM (fNISR) 4 Thank you, Pixy! Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:32 AM (iMotb) 5 It's bad when one's brain pulls a Biden's Dog, and goes SPROING! at 0300. All on it's own. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:34 AM (iMotb) 6 Morning all! Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 09, 2026 04:34 AM (BLOW1) 7 from the MacOS timebomb article: A restart resets this countdown and thus fixes the problem for exactly 49 days until it occurs again. yay Posted by: m at April 09, 2026 04:37 AM (fNISR) 8 As said downstairs, its below freezing and not getting to 60 degrees. Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0) 9 So my Volvo dealership has evaluated the right axle that was replaced under warranty about 55k miles ago, and the replacement is indeed failing. And under Volvo's repair warranty program, Volvo gets to pay for the repair. At 286,000 miles on the odometer. And their head technician is a Volvo Motörhead, so we spent about 45 minutes just talking about the Prancing Moose, and various need things that one can do to a P-2 chassis Volvo. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:38 AM (iMotb) 10 brazil told china to stick the BYDs up their ass Posted by: Admiral Winchester at April 09, 2026 04:39 AM (jrgJz) 11 Mornin' 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47.296 seconds? I just bought an Apple MacBook Sky a couple of weeks ago. Is this a 'HAIR ON FIRE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE' concern or is it a 'this is mildly annoying but I'll live' concern? Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 04:40 AM (sAmhv) 12 On the downside.... the turbo that I replaced about 14 months ago does indeed have a failing intake side oil seal. So that turbo replacement kit arrives tomorrow. And I get to swap turbos....again. At least that's a warranty item as well. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:41 AM (iMotb) 13 NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) https://youtu.be/m3kR2KK8TEs Posted by: m at April 09, 2026 04:41 AM (fNISR) 14 11 I just bought an Apple MacBook Sky a couple of weeks ago. Is this a 'HAIR ON FIRE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE' concern or is it a 'this is mildly annoying but I'll live' concern? Posted by: Puddleglum Reboot once every seven weeks and you'll never notice. Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 09, 2026 04:42 AM (BLOW1) 15 Left unsaid is whether Apple plans to fix the OS issue. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 09, 2026 04:42 AM (/HDaX) 16 A restart resets this countdown and thus fixes the problem for exactly 49 days until it occurs again. Ok, read the article. It's an annoying concern but I'm not worried about it. I shut it down when I'm finished using for the day anyway. I don't just leave it on indefinitely. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 04:43 AM (sAmhv) 17 >>>49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47.296 seconds? That number might ring a bell for the 29 year olds in the audience, because the same bug caused Windows 95 and 98 to crash outright when they were running for just shy of 50 days: It's a 32-bit unsigned integer counting milliseconds. Of course Windows 95 and 98 had the saving grace that they would usually crash for some other reason well before that time ran out. >This is some Y2K shit here. Remediation: Reboot. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 04:46 AM (Fbc0I) 18 Belated BOING! Wow! The Seekers! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 09, 2026 04:47 AM (5UTWB) 19 "Is this a 'HAIR ON FIRE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE' concern or is it a 'this is mildly annoying but I'll live' concern?" Probable more of a 'Smoldering hair' kinda thing. I went back to Pixy's link and there is another link in that article to a fuller report that caused the writing of the article that Pixy linked to. It doesn't say anything about my MacBook Air, but I assume those also have the issue. So, reboot your MacBook on the first of every month, and it should be fine. I think. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:47 AM (iMotb) 20 Amazon is asshoe. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 09, 2026 04:48 AM (O7YUW) 21 Amazon is ending support for older Kindles. (The Verge) Where by "older" when mean 2012 and earlier. The devices will continue to work, but you won't be able to load new content onto them from the Amazon store. I have to imagine a 14 year old Kindle is going to be running like crap anyhow. If it even works it's gotta be hovering close to 50% battery health at any rate. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 04:50 AM (6ydKt) 22 Guten morgen 🏴‍☠️! Posted by: clarence at April 09, 2026 04:52 AM (lRNKn) 23 It's bad when one's brain pulls a Biden's Dog, and goes SPROING! at 0300. All on it's own. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:34 AM (iMotb) - SPROING??? A dab of WD-40 should fix that. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 09, 2026 04:52 AM (5UTWB) 24 The OTHER articled, that Pixy's original article links to. https://tinyurl.com/5c9yja7t Way down in the article it does say that most consumer Macs are un effected because system updates cause a reboot more often than the time required to cause the problem. And rebooting sets everything back to zero again. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:53 AM (iMotb) 25 I am not sure how old my Samsung tablet even is. Is there a way to know date of one? Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:53 AM (Ia/+0) 26 "SPROING???" It's the redneck way of spelling it. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:55 AM (iMotb) 27 How is a defective chip useful? It’s not a towel or sauté pan. Posted by: Accomack at April 09, 2026 04:55 AM (aAIuN) 28 Can't say know much about The Seekers, guess its late 60s? Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:56 AM (Ia/+0) 29 "Of course Windows 95 and 98 had the saving grace that they would usually crash for some other reason well before that time ran out." True. So true. These were PCs, not designed to be servers. Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 09, 2026 04:57 AM (qFwJc) 30 28 Can't say know much about The Seekers, guess its late 60s? Posted by: Skip They were active from 1962 until 2022, which is a pretty solid career. Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 09, 2026 05:02 AM (BLOW1) 31 >>>How is a defective chip useful? It’s not a towel or sauté pan. Posted by: Accomack >If it was manufactured in China, they downgrade the speed, bandwidth, and capacity and market it at a cheaper price in an inferior product. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 05:02 AM (Fbc0I) 32 IIRC, Windows NT was what you needed for a small server. Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 09, 2026 05:03 AM (qFwJc) 33 Instead, I ended up spending over a year testing the devices, reading up on studies, speaking with researchers, and falling down rabbit holes. I bounced from doctor to doctor trying to figure out if there was actually something wrong with me — or the devices I was using. By the end of the article this chick is measuring out on a gram scale how much cream cheese she puts on her bagel so she can get her scores down. Turns out she just had a fatty liver and a severe case of perfectionist psychosis. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:05 AM (6ydKt) 34 Can't say know much about The Seekers, guess its late 60s? Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:56 AM (Ia/+0) - Not even this one, Skip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsIbfYEizLk Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 09, 2026 05:08 AM (5UTWB) 35 30 28 Can't say know much about The Seekers, guess its late 60s? Posted by: Skip They were active from 1962 until 2022, which is a pretty solid career. Posted by: Pixy Misa Judith Durham died a few years ago. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 05:09 AM (sAmhv) 36 So I guess in the tech thread we can discuss tech topics. And spinning the wheel....we come up with, E-Bikes. Those almost silent transportation devices that someone thought would make great toys for kids. Our community has been being plagued with a small pack of juvenile miscreants bombardeering through the neighborhood streets at breakneck speeds lately. Until three of the little rolling menaces came flying down the street in front of our house. And one of the kids swerved suddenly, causing one of the other kids to veer to the left, lose control and smack right into the front of a parked car at what EMS estimates to be right at 30mph. Over the car hood, and helmeted head first right into the base of the windshield of the car. Fortunately, he was wearing a helmet, that almost certainly saved his life. One of our front security cameras caught the entire sequence of events, in 2k HD. Which the local Sherrif's Department was thankful to get a copy of. Perhaps the message will get out about these things in our community. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:09 AM (iMotb) 37 I leave my iMac on for long periods of time. This one has an old Intel 4-core laptop chip in it, so the thing just sips power when the screen is off. I don't know if I've left it on without restarting it for 50 days but it does start acting slow and wonky when it's been on for a month or more. It used to just turn the WiFi off out of the blue when it had been on awhile. That was fixed with an update at some point and hasn't done it since. Now I just restart it every few weeks to get the kinks out, when I remember. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:10 AM (6ydKt) 38 27 How is a defective chip useful? It’s not a towel or sauté pan. Posted by: Accomack at April 09, 2026 04:55 AM (aAIuN) In this case the A18 Pro chip used in the iPhone 16 has 6 GPU cores. But if one of those GPU cores is defective after coming off the production line, they just bin it down to 5 GPU cores and put in the Macbook Neo. They are running out of the binned chips, apparently. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:13 AM (6ydKt) 39 So if one is using a Mac Mini for a media server, would this potentially cause issues with hitting the 47 day wall? Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:14 AM (iMotb) 40 So two DUI's in two days. Kill a man. Sentence reduced from nine to three years. Probably get out in one year. https://tinyurl.com/2xf4sjya Doesn't end, does it. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:20 AM (iMotb) 41 Happy Thursday one and all. I followed Village Idiot's Apprentice's link yesterday when I got home about Maryland trying to out-stupid California. The last sentence stuck out to me. Paraphrasing, someone complaining about the fees to renew a registration were getting so high it was as if the state was trying to stop people from driving. Yeah...I am pretty sure that is the whole point. I have got to get out of here. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:23 AM (OPGS/) 42 39 So if one is using a Mac Mini for a media server, would this potentially cause issues with hitting the 47 day wall? Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:14 AM (iMotb) Nah, the article says the 47 day countdown restarts every time you turn off/reboot the Mac. So just make sure you do that at least once a month and it should be fine. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:24 AM (6ydKt) 43 >>>Paraphrasing, someone complaining about the fees to renew a registration were getting so high it was as if the state was trying to stop people from driving. >What's considered high? I paid $60. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 05:26 AM (Fbc0I) 44 "Now I just restart it every few weeks to get the kinks out, when I remember." Set up a cron job to reboot once a month at a time when you probably aren't going to be using it. Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 05:27 AM (DLVKS) 45 "it was as if the state was trying to stop people from driving. Yeah...I am pretty sure that is the whole point. " I suspect that is a not-small part of the reasoning behind it. Look at the redesigning of some of the major streets in downtown Baltimore, with the insistence of having bike lanes and taking away one of two vehicular travel lanes for 'street calming'. It's not an accident that the costs are going up, and automobile travel is becoming more difficult, by design. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:28 AM (iMotb) 46 "What's considered high? I paid $60." I want to think along the line of $180.00 or so. The cost more than doubled. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:30 AM (iMotb) 47 Been wearing a continuous glucose monitor system for ... ohhh... 8 years? Dexcom. Love it, of course I actually need one because I'm a.... you know.... type 1 diabetic. People that don't have my disease but choose to use a cgm are weirdos imo. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 05:31 AM (WYStd) 48 Comedian explains peoples' reactions when he says he doesn't drink: https://tinyurl.com/msd8uh7d Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:32 AM (PFs9e) 49 Evening and morning, all! It's Thor's Day again, innit? I'm up a little earlier than I planned, though Stirling had nothing to do with it. In a vivid dream, apparently I was part of a writing critique group again, and we were meeting out in the yard of a member's house. One lady -- she looked like a dark chestnut-haired version of Jan Smithers -- was obviously flirting with me. Finally we took the opportunity to talk in private in the house. I asked her to have dinner with me. "Okay, but we have to meet across the street at the Tenneco gas station." I was immediately suspicious. The Tenneco (which no longer exist around here in reality) was on a dark street corner. "Why not at the restaurant?" I said, and she was giving me some kooky/charming double-talk answer as I woke up. Still, it was kinda charming. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9) 50 Standard passenger vehicle starts at $125.00 for two years, plus additional fees. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:34 AM (iMotb) 51 I hate those e-bikes. They zip down the road and in our area they seem to be driven by what are probably mostly illegal aliens off to work. You don't need a license. They are a menace. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:35 AM (PFs9e) 52 Now I just restart it every few weeks to get the kinks out, when I remember. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 *** I began doing the same with my iMac. I'd better do the same with this MacBook Air -- though it soldiers on without issue even without restarting. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9) 53 One of our front security cameras caught the entire sequence of events, in 2k HD. Hopefully you can post it sometime with a cheerful soundtrack in the background. -:-) Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:37 AM (OPGS/) 54 G'mornin' everyone! interesting how the glucose snapcase ties the whole thing into MAHA; nothing, absolutely nothing can happen that doesn't expose the evil stupidity of non-communists. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 09, 2026 05:37 AM (MIIRH) 55 This was my "God incident" yesterday. I was driving to the church and saw at the farm ( the house must date from the middle 1800's) a little baby lamb with its mother. It must have been only a few weeks old. So cute! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:38 AM (PFs9e) 56 Set up a cron job to reboot once a month at a time when you probably aren't going to be using it. Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 05:27 AM (DLVKS) It's not my main computer. It's mostly just a file server now and an extra screen. It also comes in handy if you're doing anything with an Apple product that requires a second Apple product to verify/setup. So I'm not that worried about it, and just restart when I remember or it starts getting slow. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:41 AM (6ydKt) 57 >What's considered high? I paid $60. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone To my way of thinking, anything over $20/year. That being said, I paid about $320 for my wife's car but that was for three years. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:41 AM (OPGS/) 58 My 14 year old Kindle no longer accepts webpage certificates so most websites don't load properly. I can still obtain books from other sources and convert to "mobi" using Calibre. And I can play music and some videos that I download or stream from my home server, but otherwise it's kind of useless now. Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 09, 2026 05:41 AM (s1NDj) 59 Kis on e-bikes . . . There was an item on the local news lately about kids playing a real-life game called "Senior Assassin," at night, with water pistols (that in dim light look pretty real). This was in a nice, middle-class neighborhood in a suburban city. No word on the, uh, ethnicity of the kids in question. One homeowner, worried about a potential hom invasion, went out with his real handgun and fired a round into the ground to scare them off. (Hey, it's better than firing into the air.) Local officials were quoted as saying the game is dangerous and a tragedy waiting to happen. No kidding. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 05:42 AM (wzUl9) 60 Adams was cracking down on e-bike trouble. The new guy is reversing course. E-bikes are motorcycles and to be regulated the same way. The problem is the cost of owning a motor vehicle in this country. The commies just exempt their preferred class from the paying. Posted by: Accomack at April 09, 2026 05:42 AM (7l8iM) 61 "Hopefully you can post it sometime with a cheerful soundtrack in the background. -:-)" I might be able to send the file to one of the COB's, and let them play with it. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:45 AM (iMotb) 62 "A stranger's blessing" . Woman gets comfort from a stranger praying with her at a difficult time. "Upper Room" devotional: https://tinyurl.com/5d8kzp3a Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:48 AM (Nx5jP) 63 I began doing the same with my iMac. I'd better do the same with this MacBook Air -- though it soldiers on without issue even without restarting. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9) I will always give Apple credit for building machines and an OS that is reliable and mostly trouble-free. I'd never leave this Windows PC on for weeks. I turn it off twice a day when not using it. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:48 AM (6ydKt) 64 49:Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere Your dreams are morphing into David Lynch plots. You didn't watch a Lynch film recently? Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 05:48 AM (sAmhv) 65 Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:37 AM (OPGS/) LOL. Good idea. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:49 AM (Nx5jP) 66 58 My 14 year old Kindle no longer accepts webpage certificates so most websites don't load properly. I can still obtain books from other sources and convert to "mobi" using Calibre. And I can play music and some videos that I download or stream from my home server, but otherwise it's kind of useless now. Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 09, 2026 05:41 AM (s1NDj) What's the battery life like on it? I'm imagining the thing won't run for longer than a few hours without needing to be recharged. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:51 AM (6ydKt) 67 Good morning, Fen! How did your son's interview go? Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:51 AM (OPGS/) 68 Good morning. For those inclined, please send a prayer for my nephew Brady. I am sitting on the tarmac at GSO waiting to fly to PVD because a nephew (25) had a headache and went to the Doctor yesterday. It was bad. Emergency brain surgery scheduled overnight. Should be done by now, but I don't know. My sister already lost one son to tragedy, I don't think she can handle another. Posted by: Lincolntf at April 09, 2026 05:53 AM (rTUTX) 69 Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:51 AM (OPGS/) How kind of you to ask. He felt it went well.. I don't know how they felt He said it lasted an hour and a half, but he hasn't heard anything yet. I didn't know this, but it seemed to be going through a recruiter and she has to get back to him. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:55 AM (Nx5jP) 70 "Hopefully you can post it sometime with a cheerful soundtrack in the background. -:-)" Yakity Sax. Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 09, 2026 05:55 AM (qFwJc) 71 on the way, Lincolntf! Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 09, 2026 05:55 AM (MIIRH) 72 Prayers sent. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:58 AM (iMotb) 73 Posted by: Lincolntf at April 09, 2026 05:53 AM How very scary! I will pray for Brady right now. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:58 AM (Nx5jP) 74 My cat knocked my Kindle off a table and cracked the screen. The cost of getting it replaced was about the cost of a new one. The delay in getting the replacement was 2 months. Forget it. Bought new one and all the e-books I bought before were available to download from the cloud for free. I am a happy guy. Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 09, 2026 05:58 AM (qFwJc) 75 What's the battery life like on it? Days. Multiple days. Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 09, 2026 05:59 AM (qFwJc) 76 “ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14 Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:00 AM (mr1OZ) 77 Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 Very lovely and important passage. Thanks! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 06:01 AM (Nx5jP) 78 >> Posted by: Lincolntf at April 09, 2026 05:53 AM (rTUTX) He is with you. Prayers are coming your way. Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:01 AM (mr1OZ) 79 >> Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 06:01 AM (Nx5jP) Amen ma’am. Drink the water of life my friends. Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:02 AM (mr1OZ) 80 Marcus T, thank you. Watching "The Chosen " and seeing that particular passage so well done . Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 06:04 AM (yAteE) 81 Amen Ben Had. Indeed. Hoping all is well, and Gods blessings are upon you. Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:05 AM (mr1OZ) 82 Morning, Horde....How goes it? Looks like my wireless router has given up the ghost for good this morning. I guess I shall be getting a new one and see if I can get it to work... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2026 06:07 AM (ESVrU) 83 The only thing I didn't like about the Kindle Fire(s) I bought for my Mom was that Amazon has locked them down so hard. It's all Android based but Amazon has their own version on it, their own App Store, their own browser (Silk, which was slow AF), basically their own everything. The first one she had you couldn't even download an actual YouTube app because it wasn't available unless you jailbreak it and get it off the Google Play Store. I don't know how they are now (they added a lot more apps by the time I got her a second one) but that's the only thing holding back the Kindles as full-strength tablets. Amazon has basically made them for selling e-books and making it as easy as possible to shop on Amazon itself (there's a searchbar on it that's always on and will send you straight to their store). Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:08 AM (6ydKt) 84 Your dreams are morphing into David Lynch plots. You didn't watch a Lynch film recently? Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 *** Nope. A Western last night called The Violent Men, with Glenn Ford, and the original True Grit before that. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 06:09 AM (wzUl9) 85 Ugh. I like to have a Details view for my Music Videos folder, adding the Frame Height, Frame Width, Frame Rate, and Bit Rate (for the audio quality) to the default columns, with everything arranged just so. Windows Explorer wasn't remembering it automatically the way it normally does -- probably because I'm on a borrowed laptop and using an external drive for videos -- so I wanted to force save it. But in Windows, the way to save a folder view is for the folder type, and there are only five. So to get it to remember my preferred Details for that one specific folder, I had to set it for all Videos type folders. Tech, man! Posted by: SciVo at April 09, 2026 06:10 AM (Sy6m/) 86 I guess I shall be getting a new one and see if I can get it to work... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2026 06:07 AM (ESVrU) I'd recommend a TP-Link router, which was easy-peasy to setup here, but with all the FCC bans and everything going on with that, I'm hesitant to recommend any not knowing what the future holds. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt) 87 Some Brandon Lake worship music for your morning. https://tinyurl.com/yy52jzv8 Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:11 AM (mr1OZ) 88 Just checked my banking statement. I paid $399 for a three year registration renewal. I'm so done with the GPROMD. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 06:11 AM (OPGS/) 89 Get your gender equity card here! https://youtube.com/shorts/822htg9cqzI?si=ume3QGaRx694TTIN Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at April 09, 2026 06:13 AM (LOZbR) 90 Just now I restarted the MacBook Air. Swift, and no problems. The Memory Clean app says there seems to be a little more RAM available than before. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9) 91 MarcusT, all is well and I strive to be worthy of the many blessings I receive. Your faith is beautiful. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 06:13 AM (yAteE) 92 As big as a fanboy I am of Apple, they cannot be trusted on the server or enterprise end. They will let this bug languish because their user base is not enterprise or corporate in the main. Having said that, they still make the best general purpose OS and have for the last 40 years. Which is serious uptime in that department. Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2026 06:14 AM (oMjnD) 93 67 F. here, high humidity, a bit of wind (12 mph). Going to be 77 today. I'll nip out to Walmart when they open, then be settled on my couch for the movie The Letter on Movies! at 10:40. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9) 94 89 Get your gender equity card here! Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe At least the stupid things I did when I was younger aren't online anywhere. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 06:17 AM (OPGS/) 95 Moto G stylus also comes with crappy default software. I still miss my 12 yr old Samsung. Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at April 09, 2026 06:19 AM (RWdGz) 96 Wow, talk about computer game pre-history. Someone posted a month ago on YouTube a 2-hour TLR video of Battlecruiser 3000. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 09, 2026 06:19 AM (2GVsD) 97 If you are interested to see a list of your uptimes and average uptime, open a terminal and enter: last reboot \| awk '/reboot/ {print $5" "$6" "$7}' \| while read line; do echo "$(date -jf "%b %d %H:%M" "$line" +%s)"; done Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2026 06:21 AM (0FcHQ) 98 Morning Tech Horde, Maybe I’m missing something here but why would you leave an unattended PC running for days on end? Seems like a waste of power. I get the special circumstances of a media server as an exception. Posted by: Pete Bog at April 09, 2026 06:22 AM (NNaIW) 99 Pete Bog. Good morning. Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 06:26 AM (yAteE) 100 @98 >> Seems like a waste of power. If you are running a service that requires extended uptime, Apache web server, backup server, news server, development server, then you will have to automate reboots, which typically isn’t a big deal but it will come at the cost of downtime. Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2026 06:27 AM (QxzI5) 101 Maybe I’m missing something here but why would you leave an unattended PC running for days on end? There are people who think that it's better to do that instead of constantly powering a machine off at the end of the day. Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 06:28 AM (OPGS/) 102 I'd recommend a TP-Link router, which was easy-peasy to setup here, but with all the FCC bans and everything going on with that, I'm hesitant to recommend any not knowing what the future holds. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt) Nooooo. TP-Link routers were the ones that were recently discovered by the fbi to be compromised by Russian Intelligence so that they were sending all your traffic to Ivan. Surprised Pixy hasn't run a story about it actually. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 06:28 AM (WYStd) 103 Maybe I’m missing something here but why would you leave an unattended PC running for days on end? Seems like a waste of power. I get the special circumstances of a media server as an exception. Posted by: Pete Bog at April 09, 2026 *** In the early days of PCs, the argument was that letting them run would make them last longer -- that the surge of electricity as you turned them back on over and over again was damaging over the long run. No idea if that's still true, or for Macs. My work PCs weren't unattended during the work week, but I let them run and go to sleep overnight and on the weekends. They seemed to last fine. Same for the 2014-era iMac and MacBook Air I have now; they go to sleep when not being used, but I usually don't turn them off. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 06:28 AM (wzUl9) 104 mornin yall "Maybe I’m missing something here but why would you leave an unattended PC running for days on end? " Security camera monitoring. Mine run for many months without rebooting. Posted by: fd at April 09, 2026 06:29 AM (vFG9F) 105 Birdbath status? Posted by: Just Wondering at April 09, 2026 06:30 AM (2Ez/1) 106 Thank you Ben Had. It’s been a long journey but He’s been with me all along. I know that now. Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:32 AM (mr1OZ) 107 Nobody is really running Macs as servers any longer since they exited the enterprise space. So this bug is really no big deal for the average user. I checked the uptime log, longest uptime was 8 days. I ran an Origin Onyx 2 at a post house that posted an uptime of 2 years. Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2026 06:34 AM (0+eWy) 108 Nooooo. TP-Link routers were the ones that were recently discovered by the fbi to be compromised by Russian Intelligence so that they were sending all your traffic to Ivan. Surprised Pixy hasn't run a story about it actually. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 06:28 AM (WYStd) I think that was what the recent FCC bans were about. Problem is every consumer grade router sold in the U.S. is manufactured in Mexico, Taiwan, or China. They could all be compromised if you get right down to it. Even the Mexican versions are just importing the parts from Asia, assembling it, and then installing the firmware, made in Asia. Supposedly TP-Link sent out firmware updates to fix the problems but unless you're a programmer/IT wiz who knows what's going on under the hood? I'm not worried about being spied on, but the router could be turned into a bot relay by the hackers if they found a way in, I suppose. I paid like $150 for this set of WiFi 6E mesh routers last year, so I'm not planning on throwing them away anytime soon. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:37 AM (6ydKt) 109 Thanks for those responses. Interesting number of applications requiring long duration uptime I hadn’t thought about. That’s why I read the tech thread. With regard to the it will last longer argument that’s applying the logic of old filament light bulbs to what I presume would be a buffered power supply when converted from AC to DC. I could be wrong on that assumption. Posted by: Pete Bog at April 09, 2026 06:38 AM (NNaIW) 110 Sorry for the run on sentence. Commas and quotation marks are a great invention. Posted by: Pete Bog at April 09, 2026 06:41 AM (NNaIW) 111 This guy ( Doug Ross) has a whole set of illustrated ( I guess by AI?) "You are there" bits of important American history . I have been enjoying it: https://tinyurl.com/5ba4hud7 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 06:42 AM (7RYym) 112 I am not sure how old my Samsung tablet even is. Is there a way to know date of one? Posted by: Skip There's gotta be a model number on the backside... Ok, nevermind. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2026 06:46 AM (diia5) 113 Good morning morons After my mom and did Marriage Encounter (you youngsters won't know what that is) that Seekers song got a lot of play in our house. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 06:46 AM (RIvkX) 114 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes. Posted by: olddog in mo at April 09, 2026 06:47 AM (bQ4nt) 115 IIRC in the copies of Upgrading and Repairing Computers I had, they would recommend leaving PCs on to reduce the stress on the physical parts with every power up and power down. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 09, 2026 06:47 AM (2GVsD) 116 Iran is demanding payment in Bitcoin or iTunes gift cards for ships that want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Will they take President Donald J. Trump Iran Asskicking commemorative coins? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 09, 2026 06:47 AM (tgvbd) 117 Butt seriously, most tablet/phones can be id'd by swiping down, find Settings, find About, and the model number should be listed in there. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2026 06:49 AM (diia5) 118 Good morning. For those inclined, please send a prayer for my nephew Brady. I am sitting on the tarmac at GSO waiting to fly to PVD because a nephew (25) had a headache and went to the Doctor yesterday. It was bad. Emergency brain surgery scheduled overnight. Should be done by now, but I don't know. My sister already lost one son to tragedy, I don't think she can handle another. Posted by: Lincolntf at April 09, 2026 05:53 AM (rTUTX) ==== Prayer for complete and immediate healing. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 06:51 AM (RIvkX) 119 Time to shave and shower, I guess. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 06:51 AM (wzUl9) 120 There used to be a thing called "Stiction" that prevented hard drives from spinning up when powered on. A good rap on top of the drive would sometimes get it going. Posted by: fd at April 09, 2026 06:51 AM (vFG9F) 121 Good morning! What fresh hell this day? Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 06:51 AM (ZxPkt) 122 The biggest wear and tear from leaving a PC on all the time is to the case or CPU cooler fans. A cheap fan will start squealing at you after a year or so. They sell 'Continuous Operation' fans that are supposed to take care of that problem, though. The other problem would be electricity bills, which newer x86 CPUs and modern GPUs will certainly suck down some juice if running hard. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:53 AM (6ydKt) 123 I used to leave my PC on for months at a time (running windows even) but then I moved to New England and my electricity rates forced me to shutdown every night. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 07:04 AM (WYStd) 124 Someone posted a month ago on YouTube a 2-hour TLR video of Battlecruiser 3000 Derek Smart is an on-going joke in gaming. Posted by: Halfhand at April 09, 2026 07:05 AM (Ysav4) 125 Good morning! Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:07 AM (u82oZ) 126 >>>Maybe I’m missing something here but why would you leave an unattended PC running for days on end? >Hysteresis. Not so much now with solid state drives. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 07:09 AM (Fbc0I) 127 Heart tugging Lego video: https://t.co/90kDp2Xlz1 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:10 AM (u82oZ) 128 In my experience, most of my computer crashes have occurred booting up so i'll pay the extra power charge. Posted by: Dark L at April 09, 2026 07:10 AM (KAi1n) 129 I had a pone with a stylus. I got it because I thought that was cool. And I never used the stylus. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 09, 2026 07:14 AM (CHHv1) 130 hic Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 09, 2026 07:15 AM (DDJSl) 131 Village Idiot's Apprentice Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor. Hope that was a neighbor's car, and not your precious Miata. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ) 132 Heart tugging Lego video: https://t.co/90kDp2Xlz1 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:10 AM (u82oZ) - Yah know, Lego and Hollywood are going to have to compete much harder to make another Lego movie in the future. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 09, 2026 07:21 AM (5UTWB) 133 Salty! No, not the Miata. Neighbor's parked car. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 07:22 AM (iMotb) 134 Hillary Clinton Letting Web Hubble father your child shows how ambitious you were. And you still failed. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ) 135 Right eye cataract surgery this morning. Posted by: Eromero at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM (LHPAg) 136 It's not my main computer. It's mostly just a file server now and an extra screen. It also comes in handy if you're doing anything with an Apple product that requires a second Apple product to verify/setup. So I'm not that worried about it, and just restart when I remember or it starts getting slow. All the more reason to set up a cron job to reboot the damned thing once a month. Hell, you can comment the crontab file to say WHY you're doing the reboot. Of course, Apple being Apple, they have their own special way to schedule jobs that you can also use, details of which I do not remember (feeding "macos job scheduler" into a Google search box should give you those details). (I only know anything about Apple products due to my company's issuing of MacBooks to their software weasels versus the relatively-recently acquiring company's reliance upon .NET which results in the parent company's software weasels getting Windows based laptops.) Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 07:24 AM (DLVKS) 137 Right eye cataract surgery this morning. Posted by: Eromero at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM (LHPAg) Hope everything goes smoothly. I had corrective surgery done and it went off fine. Her Majesty had corrective surgery and even after three tries her vision is off. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 09, 2026 07:26 AM (tgvbd) 138 "...comment the crontab file..." Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays? Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at April 09, 2026 07:28 AM (2Ez/1) 139 My parents had a couple of Seekers records! I well remember those great songs. Thanks Pixy. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 07:28 AM (c2WlD) 140 Hillary Clinton Letting Web Hubble father your child shows how ambitious you were. And you still failed. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ) I knocked the bottom out of that I did. Posted by: Webb Hubble, Stud Muffin at April 09, 2026 07:28 AM (3LMJN) 141 $20. Same as in Little Rock. Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at April 09, 2026 07:30 AM (2Ez/1) 142 I'll admit that I find it odd that an O-5/O-6 (AKA LTC/COL) was a WSO on an F-15. I'd expect an O-3/O-4 (AKA CPT/MAJ); if getting a flying near people who can shoot at you and maybe hit you medal (if once such thing exists) provides promotion points then I might find it less odd. Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 07:31 AM (DLVKS) 143 Right eye cataract surgery this morning. Posted by: Eromero at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM (LHPAg) ===== Prayer for a complete and speedy recovery. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX) 144 "Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?" That's what the kids were calling it back in the 1970s when Unix was born, Grampa Simpson. Like you (and me), it's still around. Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 07:34 AM (DLVKS) 145 Isn't an F-15 like 50 year old technology? Do they even train these young whippersnappers on obsolete birds anymore? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 07:35 AM (Fbc0I) 146 Thank you all very much.I am in Philly now waiting for my connection. The surgery is over. I don't know much more than that. Posted by: Lincolntf at April 09, 2026 07:37 AM (NwfKM) 147 Off my lawn moment . . . I remember seeing an F-15 mockup at cedar point amusement park, back in the late 70s. Air Force was apparently doing some sort of publicity tour for their new toy. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 07:38 AM (gpQ8/) 148 "Do they even train these young whippersnappers on obsolete birds anymore?" ____ They probably don't even know how to comment the crontab file. Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at April 09, 2026 07:38 AM (2Ez/1) 149 J.J. Runway 090. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ) 150 @127 Who expected that kind of support from the Danes? Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 09, 2026 07:40 AM (zdLoL) 151 Famous people get some weird fans, as Judith Durham experienced. She was the female voice in the Seekers. According to Wiki, In the late 1990s, Durham was stalked by a former president of a Judith Durham fan club,[38] a woman who sent her over 40 doormats as an admonishment for perceived ingratitude. She also sent Durham numerous abusive faxes, one threatening another doormat delivery worth over $45,000.[39] The woman was subsequently prosecuted,[39] and she was later imprisoned for other serial crimes Doormats? Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 07:41 AM (NGWiW) 152 I still have some McDonnell Douglas swag from a few years back. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 07:47 AM (Fbc0I) 153 145 Isn't an F-15 like 50 year old technology? Do they even train these young whippersnappers on obsolete birds anymore? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 07:35 AM (Fbc0I) My buddy is an F-15C pilot in the MA air nat guard. Well he was up until about 2 years ago when they basically said that they had to get recertified in the F-35. Which would require him to renew his commitment which he didn't want to do. He went to go train new pilots down south for the past couple years - and I believe next year he retires from the military and will go into the airlines. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 07:59 AM (WYStd) 154 Posted by: Eromero at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM Prayers for your surgeon, your medical team and for you for a successful surgery and complete and smooth recovery. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 08:16 AM (ix8EF) 155 The method used to find the airman is SECRET: "The source ... told The Post that Ghost Murmur was developed by Skunk Works, the aerospace giant’s secretive advanced development division. The company declined to comment." WAS secret. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 08:54 AM (Vczv0) 156 I remember an airshow where the F-15 pilot had to stand next to his plane for hours in the hot sun and answer the same old questions from visitors. His face brightened a little when I told him I was GA pilot, which is no comparison Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 09:09 AM (sKA/4) 157 I know a lot of people look down on the Macbook Neo, but I swear if my 2020 Mabcbook Pro (M1) dies today, instead of getting a new MBP, I would probably get a Neo and a Mac Mini, letting the Mini do all of the heavy computational work and remote into it with my Neo if I'm not at my desk to manage it. My "carry computer" doesn't have to be super powerful, especially if I can remote into a beefier unit when I need it. I'd also wind up spending less for the same overall computational power (or get more power for the same price by upgrading the Mini). Of course, should such a tragic loss of my MBP occur, I'd prefer it wait until the update the Mini with the M5 processor. Posted by: can of spam at April 09, 2026 09:11 AM (14gFN) 158 So I guess in the tech thread we can discuss tech topics. And spinning the wheel....we come up with, E-Bikes. Those almost silent transportation devices that someone thought would make great toys for kids. ... Perhaps the message will get out about these things in our community. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:09 AM (iMotb) ---- A couple times I drove down a street at night and came across a kid riding a two wheeled electric scooter; no lights, dark clothes. After two times I stopped going down the street. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 09:20 AM (sKA/4) 159 I read a review of the Mac.Neo. said it was good display, fast enough for her work,and only five hundred dollars when she used a student discount. But she thought eight gigabytes might not be enough.If the MacOS grows with time. Also, no backlighted keyboard. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 09:24 AM (sKA/4) 160 48 Comedian explains peoples' reactions when he says he doesn't drink: https://tinyurl.com/msd8uh7d Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:32 AM (PFs9e) -‐--- My college friends kept going to bars. As a non-drinker, I didn't. I lost touch with them Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 09:33 AM (zfW44) 161 Restarted! Before restarting, I had taken a screenshot of the Activity Monitor in the category of "Memory" instead of "CPU" so I can't say if the state of the CPU is better now than before, but "restart" probably can't hurt ...? Posted by: m at April 09, 2026 09:57 AM (fNISR) 162 I only buy routers I can put OpenWRT's firmware on. They don't keep their stock firmware longer than I can mindwipe and flash their eeproms. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 09, 2026 10:13 AM (O7YUW) 163 Dead thread, I know, but if you don’t know how long your macOS computer has been running, open the Terminal and type “uptime”. In a single line with other information will be a snippet that looks like: up 47 days, 18:39, My server has been up 47 days, 18 hours, and 39 minutes, which means that in about two days I’ll find out if this problem affects my server. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 09, 2026 10:55 AM (EXyHK) 164 163 if you don’t know how long your macOS computer has been running, open the Terminal and type “uptime”. In a single line with other information will be a snippet that looks like: up 47 days, 18:39, My server has been up 47 days, 18 hours, and 39 minutes Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 09, 2026 10:55 AM (EXyHK) cool Posted by: m at April 09, 2026 11:35 AM (fNISR) Wednesday Night ONT - April 8, 2026 [TRex] Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace and Megyn free zone. Please. [Top photo: Peek a boo. NASA Artemis II mission] ***** Does anyone follow the prediction markets? Event contracts are simple - you put money on a bet with a binary outcome. If a designated event happens, you get paid out. If not, you lose your money. Such bets used to mostly pop up once a year with Super Bowl bets about the length of the national anthem. Yes, big casinos or your local bookie might quote odds but now prediction markets have gone online with platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi. These platforms make participation very easy. There are no odds, but the higher probability of an event, the more expensive the contract. The lower the probability, the cheaper the contract. There is a wisdom of crowds element to all of this. Because people are putting their money, arguably the prediction market is more credible than polls. Insider trading is prohibited (in theory). What events? Obvious candidates like sporting events and political elections, but also financial indices, commodity prices, and geopolitical developments. Cultural bets are fair game like celebrity marriage or divorce. Distasteful or illegal bets are not allowed on Polymarket and Kalshi. The legal eagles among the Horde will appreciate the regulatory gymnastics around federal versus state law and drawing lines between gambling and investing. That debate and argument is very active and the resolution will set precedent for decades. What is the legal difference between a prediction market event contract on the S&P 500 and an S&P 500 option or future contract? The other interesting angle is clarity around the language of the bet. For example, an event contract for "boots on the ground" presumably contemplated offensive kinetic action, but what about a rescue mission for a downed aviator? Assassination bets are not permitted, but what about a change of Iranian leader by bombing? The bigger money involved, the more people care about the outcome. Here are a handful of contracts from Polymarket and Kalshi for giggles (current as of Monday PM). Remember - these are predictions for what people think will happen, not necessarily wishes for what will or should happen (although both may be true in some cases). *** *** Lancaster County Wendy's manager allegedly made fake employee, collected pay An audit of a Lancaster County Wendy's found that a former general manager allegedly stole almost $20,000 from the eatery by creating a fake employee. According to the charging documents, Linda Johnson allegedly clocked in and out as a "ghost employee" at the Manheim Township Wendy's from July 2021 to April 2022 and then had the paychecks go to her bank account. Paychecks from the fake employee showed police that $19,898.15 was allegedly stolen by Johnson, who also created 128 shifts for the "worker." Detectives learned later that Johnson would be the only one who could create the shifts, police said. When other managers were questioned about the "worker," police said some could not remember working with them, while one reported that they met him once and that Johnson did provide a timecard for the employee but never worked with him. Shocked. No, not really. *** Pigs in Space: *** Mom gives birth to twins with different dads after sex with 2 men on same day This new mom had a "one-in-a-million" conception: Her babies may be twins - but they have different bio-dads. A 19-year-old Brazilian woman gave birth to twins nine months after having sex with two men on the same day. As their first birthdays loomed, she began having doubts over who their father was, so she decided to take a paternity test to confirm her suspicions, local news outlet news outlet Globo reported. The anonymous woman originally suspected only one of the two men to be the father of the twins, so she collected his DNA - but it only turned up positive for one child. "I remembered that I had had sex with another man and called him to take the test, which was positive," the new mom, who asked not to be identified, told the outlet. "I was surprised by the results. I didn't know this could happen. They are very similar." Heteropaternal superfecundation "is an extremely rare phenomenon that occurs when a second ova released during the same menstrual cycle is additionally fertilized by the sperm cells of a different man in separate sexual intercourse," according to the journal Biomedica. Even my small dino brain can think of another obvious reason this is a rare phenomenon. Maybe she needs a hobby. I mean a different hobby. *** This winter train ride on the Bernina railway in Switzerland from St. Moritz is a nice way to travel. The ride in the summer is pretty nice too. *** With all the moon excitement, it seems like a good time to use this photo that has been sitting in my files waiting for an opportunity. I have no idea where it came from or why it exists but this seems like an opportunity. Sometimes, you just have to go with it... If one of you sent it, thank you. You're lovely and twisted. *** Mandatory reading in case you missed it: NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they… — John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 6, 2026 Was this written with help from AI? Dunno, but it hits the mark. We don't usually do geopolitical content on the Wednesday ONT. Welcome to the random. *** The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh! *** A little upbeat fiddle and banjo music for the big ONT finish: *** Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com*. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter. Beware - reading ONT content may result in being whelmed. Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 Good evening good people. Posted by: Tonypete at April 08, 2026 10:01 PM (cYBz/) 2 Who built the moon. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:01 PM (snZF9) 3 So soon the moon he did croon Posted by: mindful webworker - deliver the letter the sooner the better at April 08, 2026 10:01 PM (C2uPD) 4 Everyone's gone to the moon. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 08, 2026 10:01 PM (EZPSB) 5 So you're mooning us? Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 08, 2026 10:02 PM (1Ff7Z) 6 T Rex You got that image from my Tensor account nyah. And the pendant have been pointing out that image from Artemis II is an Earth Set and not an Earth Rise like Bill Anders snapped during Apollo 8. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:02 PM (2GVsD) 7 The Moon's Tycho City and New Berlin will be heavily colonized in the 21st century. Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 08, 2026 10:03 PM (nDXEV) 8 That 🌚 pic is very cool. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:03 PM (FrGmf) 9 Okay, I have had the Horde on tenterhooks for several days about this. The Do 335A has been ordered. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:03 PM (2GVsD) 10 Kansas has a life expectancy of 76 and something, while Lousy-ana has only 73? I'll take those three years and grab for more. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 10:04 PM (wzUl9) 11 I'm putting a marker on Gabbard heading out. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 10:04 PM (gKWVE) 12 Who built the moon.* Ancient aliens of course. Now make way for the hyperspace bypass. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:04 PM (2GVsD) 13 6 You got that image from my Tensor account nyah. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:02 PM * Thank you! Posted by: TRex - moonwalk dino at April 08, 2026 10:05 PM (IQ6Gq) 14 For the moon is hollow and I have reached the sky... Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 08, 2026 10:05 PM (nDXEV) 15 Hot new trend: No-Mooners That mf'er is NOT REAL! Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:05 PM (gtcuf) 16 Oh my goodness! It's dinosaur night already 🦖! Hello Mr Rex! I'm heading back up to content. But honey. It's best about you....rahhhhh! Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 08, 2026 10:06 PM (qox2u) 17 Pittsburgh is a hidden treasure of snark and humor. Posted by: LASue at April 08, 2026 10:06 PM (lCppi) 18 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️ That picture is this generation's "Earthrise". I still remember when the original astronauts took their first picture of that. My dad was an engineer for NASA in Houston - you couldn't go ANYWHERE without seeing a stack of copies of that picture on basically every flat surface for anyone to retake home. It was a very exciting time. Cool to see people getting excited about the space program again. Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 08, 2026 10:06 PM (SRRAx) 19 The Do 335A has been ordered." Saints be praised... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 10:06 PM (XuXeR) 20 Loooong ONT, TRex. Thanks! Posted by: LRob in OK at April 08, 2026 10:06 PM (7D3Aa) 21 I'm not betting against "aliens" because that is vague enough to include signs of nonsentient life. That remains a high probability with JWST / Gaea tech. Approaching 1 in our lifetimes. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 10:07 PM (gKWVE) 22 Okay, I have had the Horde on tenterhooks for several days about this. The Do 335A has been ordered. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 * A hyper-complex airplane model kit, I'd guess? A "Dornier" something or other? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 10:07 PM (wzUl9) 23 Pittsburgh is a hidden treasure of snark and humor" Rolling Rock, Iron City, and Genesee Cream Ale... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 10:07 PM (XuXeR) 24 Heteropaternal superfecundation Was that a song on Mary Poppins? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 10:07 PM (Cqx++) 25 The Polymarket bets are current as of Monday p.m. and they've got Kristi Noem departing the Trump administration at 60%? Some real foresight there. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 10:07 PM (n7rxJ) 26 Who built the moon. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:01 PM (snZF9) The moon does not exist. It's a mobile placed on the crystal dome over the flat Earth. It gets slowly moved by an army of microscopic 'birds' - you know birds aren't real, right? When it reaches the Antarctic Ice Wall, the mobile is replaced by the next, slightly changed, phase moon. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 10:08 PM (ExV1e) 27 I'm amazed how every crater on the moon appears to be the same depth. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:08 PM (snZF9) 28 16 Oh my goodness! It's dinosaur night already 🦖! Hello Mr Rex! Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 08, 2026 10:06 PM *** Rawr! Howdy! Posted by: TRex - zero gravity dino at April 08, 2026 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq) 29 Apparently those were supposed to be identical twins. Fraternal twins are conceived up to a week apart and they say that 30% of them have different fathers - which is an... interesting statistic. Posted by: KCSteve at April 08, 2026 10:09 PM (2+WvJ) 30 The top photo is "Earthset". For some reason, they've been publicizing those more than the Earthrise shot they got here: https://is.gd/FVqODM NASA rotated that one 90 degrees to match the Bill Anders Apollo 8 orientation. Don Pettit first posted here, in this orientation, which was how the actually saw it from their attitude: https://is.gd/SykrFF Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:09 PM (w6EFb) 31 Some real foresight there. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 10:07 PM (n7rxJ) LOL good catch. I predict the Texans won't win the '25/26 super bowl! Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 10:09 PM (gKWVE) 32 24 Heteropaternal superfecundation Was that a song on Mary Poppins? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 Heteropaternal superfecundation expealidocious Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious… Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 10:10 PM (Wmg4n) 33 Kansas has a life expectancy of 76 and something, while Lousy-ana has only 73? I'll take those three years and grab for more. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 10:04 PM (wzUl9) I assume that Louisiana has a higher percentage of death by kinetics than Kansas. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 10:10 PM (ExV1e) 34 That mf'er is NOT REAL! Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:05 PM (gtcuf) Well, it's obviously a vacant Dyson sphere... Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 10:10 PM (zZu0s) 35 23 Pittsburgh is a hidden treasure of snark and humor" Rolling Rock, Iron City, and Genesee Cream Ale... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 10:07 PM (XuXeR) The current state of the Steelers certainly invites snark and humor, but where is that, huh? Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 08, 2026 10:10 PM (nDXEV) 36 20 Loooong ONT, TRex. Thanks! Posted by: LRob in OK at April 08, 2026 10:06 PM *** You're welcome. Prediction markets take up a lot of space! Posted by: TRex - crystal ball dino at April 08, 2026 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq) 37 Evenin' Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 08, 2026 10:10 PM (sAmhv) 38 ... actually I could probably be safe betting against the Texas doing jack shit this year too. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 10:11 PM (gKWVE) 39 I predict the odds that the movie "The Last Starfighter" is a documentary at 0.125%. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 08, 2026 10:11 PM (S/Y4j) 40 Apparently those were supposed to be identical twins. Fraternal twins are conceived up to a week apart and they say that 30% of them have different fathers - which is an... interesting statistic. Posted by: KCSteve at April 08, 2026 10:09 PM (2+WvJ) That is a shocking amount of false paternity in a really small group... Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 10:11 PM (zZu0s) 41 I rate this ONT as "read the whole thing" goodness. Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at April 08, 2026 10:11 PM (nJw4Z) 42 Who built the moon. Ancient aliens of course. Now make way for the hyperspace bypass. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 * One of the young Larry Niven's first short story sales, "Wrong Way Street," involves a long-abandoned alien base discovered on the Moon. His lead character is trying with his team to figure out what things did and what the original builders had looked like. He discovers they had a time travel device . . . and things develop from there with the iron and terrifying logic of a nightmare. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 10:12 PM (wzUl9) 43 Gavin Newson 29% I think it's going to be him. Of course, being a cis white male, he'll have to pick a running mate that checks multiple DEI boxes, like Ol' Joe did. AOC? Newsom has the big money donors, which of course is extra important in the party of superdelegates. And make no mistake, while we see through it, he's a very good, slick liar who can fool a lot of rubes into believing he's a moderate. The Dems think he's the next Bill Clinton/Barack Obama in that regard. Luckily for us, his batshit crazy wife will give us loads of ammo against that. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:12 PM (gtcuf) 44 According to that state longevity chart, I'm about 4 years "in the red"!! Hmmmm. Posted by: LRob in OK at April 08, 2026 10:12 PM (7D3Aa) 45 The Dornier 335 Pfeil was going to be another German wunderwaffen that could be fighter, bomber destroyer, and night fighter. In the end, only a handful were built before the war ended and only 102, which is on display with the NASM, is the only survivor. Employed the classic Dornier engineering of a pusher/puller design. This time of two DB 603 engines to push a plane to an estimated 750KPH. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:13 PM (2GVsD) 46 The fiddle player in the last video has a nice...acoustic chamber. Posted by: Maria at April 08, 2026 10:13 PM (Riz8t) 47 The Polymarket bets are current as of Monday p.m. and they've got Kristi Noem departing the Trump administration at 60%? Some real foresight there. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 10:07 PM (n7rxJ) While she is no longer the Secretary of DHS, I believe that she is still considered to be part of the Administration. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 10:13 PM (ExV1e) 48 Why is life expectancy so high for Hawaii? Bunches of little old Asian women. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 10:13 PM (/lPRQ) 49 I assume that Louisiana has a higher percentage of death by kinetics than Kansas. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 * Sudden lead poisoning Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 10:13 PM (wzUl9) 50 Bill Anders did see it from that orientation, with the lunar horizon vertical. However, the standard orientation of that iconic "Earthrise" is rotated so the lunar horizon is horizontal, as if you were standing on the surface. On the real Moon, since it's tidally locked, you'd never see an earthrise or set, the Earth pretty much stays in the same point in the lunar sky. It actually does a little figure-8 dance, due to eccentricity and nodal precession. A rise and set would be possible at spots on the edge of the near side. There, the earth would always be close to the horizon, but the libration wobble would allow for a rise and set. It would just bounce above and below the horizon. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:14 PM (w6EFb) 51 I wonder if the correlation between longevity and residing in a blue collar state is because those states won't let you die for tax purposes, or it's skewed by the dead voting from the grave. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 08, 2026 10:14 PM (S/Y4j) 52 A most hearty ONT, Trex. Skipped most of the gambling stuff. Learned from my brother all I needed to know about gambling. He cheated. "Don't gamble. It isn't right to take the other fellow's money, and it's sure not right for him to take yours." -my Grandfather's book of wisdom I have exceeded the Oklahoma life expectancy. A little. Posted by: mindful webworker - deliver the letter the sooner the better at April 08, 2026 10:14 PM (C2uPD) 53 TX has a life expectancy of 77. Hm. My hope is that I die before Mr Scary. His shop is full of crap. Not just tools. A lot of junk and clutter. I don't want to sort through that crap. He can find some young chippies to clean the garage out. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:14 PM (FrGmf) 54 The moon has a pretty bad case of acne. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 10:15 PM (BT3km) 55 TX has a life expectancy of 77. Hm. My hope is that I die before Mr Scary. His shop is full of crap. Not just tools. A lot of junk and clutter. I don't want to sort through that crap. He can find some young chippies to clean the garage out. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:14 PM (FrGmf) If'n my missus dies before me, I'm bringing in some junk movers, saying keep this, this, and this. Everything else goes. May let the kids come grab whatever they want first. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 10:16 PM (ExV1e) 56 "That is a shocking amount of false paternity in a really small group..." I know! Makes you wonder if there's a genetic component to the... amount of choice that corresponds to the tendency for multiple egg release. That would kind of make sense. Posted by: KCSteve at April 08, 2026 10:16 PM (2+WvJ) 57 That John Konrad tweet is worth a read. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 10:16 PM (Cqx++) 58 "Who built the moon?" A comet or something similar smacked the Earth and tore a chunk off, which became the moon. Posted by: davidt at April 08, 2026 10:16 PM (Q+gd/) 59 Thanks for another swell ONT, T Rex! Great shot of the moon and earth up top. Fascinating. Thank you people of Pittsburgh! Especially the Carrick area, for such entertaining and enlightening emergency calls. shakes head Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 08, 2026 10:17 PM (vrNzf) 60 I expected Alaska's life expectancy to be even lower than it is. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 08, 2026 10:17 PM (3+ug0) 61 39 I predict the odds that the movie "The Last Starfighter" is a documentary at 0.125%. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf Movie pitch: some guy in a trailer park plays a space game and is really really... bad at it. Like he klutzes up every run he makes at the game. But he's pretty good at his day job maintaining the trailers. He's taken up to the space fleet... to keep the ships running. Like Miles O'Brien in DS9. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 10:17 PM (gKWVE) 62 41 I rate this ONT as "read the whole thing" goodness. Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at April 08, 2026 10:11 PM * Thanks. I think. Posted by: TRex - celestial dino at April 08, 2026 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq) 63 That big long tweet makes a pretty good point. We could have appropriated the artists and other cultural shit from Europe, but instead we appropriated the rocket scientists from Germany and built a shield of ICBMs that kept everyone at bay for 80 years. I mean I don't hate it but yipes I never thought about it that way. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 10:17 PM (oqH4h) 64 58 "Who built the moon?" A comet or something similar smacked the Earth and tore a chunk off, which became the moon. Posted by: davidt at April 08, 2026 10:16 PM (Q+ ----- Stolen land. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 08, 2026 10:18 PM (3+ug0) 65 TX has a life expectancy of 77. Hm. My hope is that I die before Mr Scary. His shop is full of crap. Not just tools. A lot of junk and clutter. I don't want to sort through that crap. He can find some young chippies to clean the garage out. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:14 PM (FrGmf) You would have a coronary here. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:18 PM (snZF9) 66 Why is life expectancy so high for Hawaii? Bunches of little old Asian women. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher ....... Who eat poi. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 10:18 PM (BT3km) 67 Ok. I hope Alberta leaves Canada. But probably not. Invading Cuba... nope. Aliens nope. All those folks cuttin' and runnin' on Trump...only if he kicks their sorry asses out (Noem, Bondi). Jesus returning...gosh, I surely hope so. THAT would be the best of all of these goofy questions 💕🙂 Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 08, 2026 10:18 PM (qox2u) 68 "That is a shocking amount of false paternity in a really small group..." I know! Makes you wonder if there's a genetic component to the... amount of choice that corresponds to the tendency for multiple egg release. That would kind of make sense. Posted by: KCSteve at April 08, 2026 10:16 PM (2+WvJ) Throughout human history, a significantly lower percentage of men have fathered children compared to women who have given birth. While modern U.S. data shows about 76% of men age 40–49 have fathered a child, historical DNA studies suggest only about 40% of men reproduced, with some periods showing up to 17 women reproducing for every one man. -- according to AI summary Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 10:18 PM (ExV1e) 69 Evening. Wasn't it Rickl who was big on space stuff? He'd fucking love that pic up top. Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2026 10:19 PM (+O+FV) 70 59 Thanks for another swell ONT, T Rex! Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 08, 2026 10:17 PM * You're welcome. Thanks for your patronage! Posted by: TRex - astronomy or astrology dino? at April 08, 2026 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq) 71 waves to Robert Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:19 PM (2GVsD) 72 Nice version of Cotton Eyed Joe, Dino. Thanks for the ONT. Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 10:20 PM (41CYW) 73 You would have a coronary here. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:18 PM (snZF9) Our house is pretty tidy. Not obsessively so. But that shop looks like an episode of Hoarders. I itch just walking near it. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:21 PM (FrGmf) 74 Sorry I'm late, it turns out that what I was tip-toeing through weren't tulips. Posted by: tankdemon at April 08, 2026 10:21 PM (5GCm3) 75 He'd fucking love that pic up top. Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2026 10:19 PM (+O+FV) Yeah, he'd be loving all this shit. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 10:21 PM (zZu0s) 76 Why is life expectancy so high for Hawaii? Bunches of little old Asian women. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 10:13 PM (/lPRQ) If you lived in a tropical island paradise with beautiful women all around and spent your days sipping colorful tiki drinks would you be in a rush to die? Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2026 10:21 PM (+O+FV) 77 Did I say thanks for the ONT? Cause thanks for the ONT. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s) 78 23 Pittsburgh is a hidden treasure of snark and humor" Rolling Rock, Iron City, and Genesee Cream Ale... Posted by: man Iron City is still in Western PA, though I think they moved operations to Latrobe. Rolling Rock is made in St. Louis now. Genesee is brewed up in Rochester, NY (well, somewhere in NY). Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM (sAmhv) 79 66 Why is life expectancy so high for Hawaii? Bunches of little old Asian women. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher ....... Who eat poi. Maybe SPAM has something to do with it. Hawaii is the #1 SPAM-consuming state per capita. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM (gtcuf) 80 If you lived in a tropical island paradise with beautiful women all around and spent your days sipping colorful tiki drinks would you be in a rush to die? Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2026 10:21 PM (+O+FV) I'm guessing you've never been to Hawaii. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM (ExV1e) 81 The Polymarket bets are current as of Monday p.m. and they've got Kristi Noem departing the Trump administration at 60%? Some real foresight there. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 10:07 PM (n7rxJ) While she is no longer the Secretary of DHS, I believe that she is still considered to be part of the Administration. Posted by: I used to have a different nic ============== And... likelihood of departure before 2027 is 60%? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM (n7rxJ) 82 Switerland is one of the few places in Europe I have any interest in seeing again and pretty much the only place in western Europe. And even that interest is pretty meh. Konrad is right about Europe. They have no idea what's coming. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM (GukFK) 83 Fraternal twins are conceived up to a week apart and they say that 30% of them have different fathers - which is an... interesting statistic. Posted by: KCSteve TIL half-twins exist, and they're actually kind of common. Posted by: mikeski at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov) 84 Waves back at Anna Waves harder Turns waving into some weird super aggro competition Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2026 10:23 PM (+O+FV) 85 72 Nice version of Cotton Eyed Joe, Dino. Thanks for the ONT. Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 10:20 PM * Doggo! Posted by: TRex - orbiting dino at April 08, 2026 10:23 PM (IQ6Gq) 86 Luckily for us, his batshit crazy wife will give us loads of ammo against that. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:12 PM (gtcuf) ------ Yet, Normies look at his record and say, RUFK me? No, they are not. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 08, 2026 10:23 PM (PIc5V) 87 We had fraternal twins. I had MiladyJo chained up in the bedroom during the crucial time, with no visitors. So I'm pretty sure they're both mine. Even though they're about as different as two brothers (of the same parents) could be. Posted by: mindful webworker - family matters at April 08, 2026 10:23 PM (C2uPD) 88 And... likelihood of departure before 2027 is 60%? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM (n7rxJ) She's in a fairly stress-free position which gets almost no attention. She's getting a paycheck. Why leave? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 10:23 PM (ExV1e) 89 77 Did I say thanks for the ONT? Cause thanks for the ONT. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM * You're welcome! Thanks for being here. Posted by: TRex - low earth orbit dino at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq) 90 The formation of the Moon has always been a head scratcher. It's a big-ass moon. We're almost, but not quite a binary planet (definition is the center of mass of the system is outside any body -- with the earth-Moon system, the center of mass does stay inside the earth). And the Moon's orbit is not equatorial, but maintains a fixed (but precessing) inclination with the ecliptic. There have been many theories. Currently, the best one, which while it still has problems, explains the most, is the giant impact theory. It goes like this. In the very early, primordial solar system, we had a proto-earth, much smaller than now, in roughly the current orbit. There was another planet, about Mars-sized, dubbed "Theia", that had formed at the L4 or L5 points around the Sun. Venus mainly perturbed it, and it collided with earth. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (w6EFb) 91 Just remember to walk without rhythm while waving Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD) 92 Anyone got a link that explains the relationship between the "Hold My Beer" moments and the life expectancy numbers? Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (41CYW) 93 PSA : "Ethical hacker Ryan Montgomery says that people can watch your private cameras and post it online if left with default settings. He said that there are active communities on Reddit and Discords with more than 2000 members sharing these live feeds. In his video, he shows a quick example. Searching "controllable webcams reddit" brings up recent posts with links to unsecured cameras, like one at a water park in Czechia that anyone can pan, tilt, and view without a password. This is what he suggests: "Google the model of your cameras in your house and make sure they are not exposed to the internet publicly. Stay safe." Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (GD0B3) 94 Konrad is right about Europe. They have no idea what's coming. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM (GukFK) I'd like to go to Rome again. Just have no desire to go through a fucking airport. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (zZu0s) 95 Why is life expectancy so high for Hawaii? Bunches of little old Asian women. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher Maybe SPAM has something to do with it. Hawaii is the #1 SPAM-consuming state per capita. Posted by: Delurker What's the #1 Twinkie-consuming state, and is their life expectancy also high? Eat preservatives; get preserved? Posted by: mikeski hangs around at April 08, 2026 10:25 PM (VHUov) 96 That John Konrad tweet is worth a read. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. =========== Intresting theory. I do wonder whether we're going to wind up sending troops to save Europe's ass before the end of this century. Also, I'll place a bet that William, the current Prince of Wales, will be the last king of England. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 10:25 PM (n7rxJ) 97 Odd dune joke. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 10:25 PM (zZu0s) 98 63 That big long tweet makes a pretty good point. We could have appropriated the artists and other cultural shit from Europe, but instead we appropriated the rocket scientists from Germany and built a shield of ICBMs that kept everyone at bay for 80 years. I mean I don't hate it but yipes I never thought about it that way. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 10:17 PM (oqH4h) I have a picture from Dad's stuff of him back when he was a baby engineer shaking Werner von Braun's hand, receiving an award from him. It's pretty cool! We still have the paper award signed by WvB, too. That was back when WvB was a bigwig at NASA/Goddard. Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 08, 2026 10:26 PM (SRRAx) 99 The Polymarket stuff is kind of interesting. Gives a glimpse into what I suspect is a younger crowd. Likely online a lot and engaged in current events. Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 10:27 PM (41CYW) 100 Our house is pretty tidy. Not obsessively so. But that shop looks like an episode of Hoarders. I itch just walking near it. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:21 PM (FrGmf) Oh its tidy here, especially the house, but there's just a shit ton of stuff in the garage and basement shop. Poor Mrs B would have her work cut out for her. Tools, music stuff, harley stuff, yeah she's screwed. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:27 PM (snZF9) 101 Okay explain please I can understand L4 and L5 when it comes to say the Earth. But the Sun? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:27 PM (2GVsD) 102 Switerland is one of the few places in Europe I have any interest in seeing again and pretty much the only place in western Europe. And even that interest is pretty meh. Konrad is right about Europe. They have no idea what's coming. Posted by: JackStraw ************* I love Switzerland, each and every time we go. And yes, Konrad is right, and it's very sad they don't see it.... Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at April 08, 2026 10:27 PM (IQ6Gq) 103 Konrad is right about Europe. They have no idea what's coming. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 10:22 PM (GukFK) I would have liked to have seen Europe. Have convinced Hubby Japsn is a better option for a 30th anniversary trip. But honestly, I'd be happy hiking in Utah. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:27 PM (FrGmf) 104 The Polymarket stuff is kind of interesting. Gives a glimpse into what I suspect is a younger crowd. Likely online a lot and engaged in current events. Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 10:27 PM (41CYW) I think a lot of it is wishcasting or like any polls today, trying to influence people's opinion instead of chronicle it. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 10:28 PM (zZu0s) 105 She's in a fairly stress-free position which gets almost no attention. She's getting a paycheck. Why leave? Posted by: I used to have a different nic ============ Heh, maybe she'll make like that Wendy's ghost employee and keep clocking in even after she's replaced. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 10:28 PM (n7rxJ) 106 Venus mainly perturbed it, and it collided with earth. --------- Venus just wanted to see what would happen. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 10:28 PM (nWPIJ) 107 Evening, TRex and ONT Horde! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 10:28 PM (utfVc) 108 Polymarket Is testing Robert Heinlein's theory on large numbers of people knowing more than they consciously are aware. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 08, 2026 10:29 PM (So85e) 109 Now, the angular momentum of that proto-Earth/Theia collision is very critical and that L4/L5 thing is part of how that could be. IOW, Theia had to hit the proto-earth at just the right angle and the result sum had to have an angular momentum just right as well. That collision created something they've dubbed a "synestia". A big, rotating blob of molten lava, basically. Some of that was beyond the co-rotating limit. That blob formed the Moon. The rest fell down and formed the current Earth. Everything had to be just so with this. They've run all sorts of supercomputer simulations of such an impact, and initial conditions have to be pretty constrained to get the right Earth-Moon system outcome. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:29 PM (w6EFb) 110 Throughout human history, a significantly lower percentage of men have fathered children compared to women who have given birth. While modern U.S. data shows about 76% of men age 40–49 have fathered a child, historical DNA studies suggest only about 40% of men reproduced, with some periods showing up to 17 women reproducing for every one man. -- according to AI summary Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 10:18 PM (ExV1e) So they've been cucking their mates for a long long time. Posted by: Hardly shocking when you think about it at April 08, 2026 10:29 PM (TbWk/) 111 91 Just remember to walk without rhythm while waving Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD) Waves while spazzing out Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2026 10:29 PM (+O+FV) 112 I have a picture from Dad's stuff of him back when he was a baby engineer shaking Werner von Braun's hand, receiving an award from him. It's pretty cool! We still have the paper award signed by WvB, too. That was back when WvB was a bigwig at NASA/Goddard. Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, ******** That is absolutely awesome. He is still a bigwig in this household. Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at April 08, 2026 10:30 PM (IQ6Gq) 113 My youngest brother and his family are going to Italy for 10 days this summer. I'm jealous. My Italian is pretty decent and his is non-existant so I've been teaching him some basics. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:30 PM (gtcuf) 114 Venus mainly perturbed it, and it collided with earth. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (w6EFb) Fucking Venus, maaaaaan... Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2026 10:30 PM (+O+FV) 115 The Do 335A has been ordered. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:03 PM (2GVsD) Aha! The Pushmi-Pullyu of airplanes. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 10:31 PM (utfVc) 116 Luckily for us, his batshit crazy wife will give us loads of ammo against that. Posted by: Delurker Batshit will be on the cover of every magazine and MFM will fawn over her. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 10:31 PM (/lPRQ) 117 Intresting theory. I do wonder whether we're going to wind up sending troops to save Europe's ass before the end of this century. Also, I'll place a bet that William, the current Prince of Wales, will be the last king of England. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 10:25 PM (n7rxJ ------- Leaders who don't care for the interests of their citizens: they're not limited to Europe. America has plenty of cities making the same mistake and need fixin'. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 08, 2026 10:31 PM (L0Egz) 118 Not only is Polymarket a bunch of kids, they are foreign kids - Polymarket blocks US users! And if you try to go around with a VPN , you are looking at illegality and a service violation! they will take your money and stuff Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 10:31 PM (GD0B3) 119 Just remember to walk without rhythm while waving Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD) /doesn't notice anything Posted by: The Worm at April 08, 2026 10:31 PM (Q+gd/) 120 107 Evening, TRex and ONT Horde! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 10:28 PM * AOP! Started organizing Alberta's withdrawal from Canada, yet? Posted by: TRex - karman line dino at April 08, 2026 10:31 PM (IQ6Gq) 121 Florida has a surprisingly high life expectancy. Must be all the advances in geriatric medicine developed there. Posted by: They're all old people down there at April 08, 2026 10:31 PM (TbWk/) 122 >> I can understand L4 and L5 when it comes to say the Earth. But the Sun? By that I mean the L4 and L5 points of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, as opposed to the say the Earth-Moon Lagrange points. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:32 PM (w6EFb) 123 New Hampshire has no.life expectancy at all. Has anybody mentioned this to RI Red? Posted by: From about That Time at April 08, 2026 10:32 PM (sl73Y) 124 Have convinced Hubby Japsn is a better option for a 30th anniversary trip. But honestly, I'd be happy hiking in Utah. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary ----------- Japan has been on my travel radar for a while. Looking at 2027 or 2028. Assuming the life expectancy visual is accurate, we have a bit of time. Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 10:32 PM (41CYW) 125 I can understand L4 and L5 when it comes to say the Earth. But the Sun? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:27 PM (2GVsD) I don't get it either. I have been told however, that I'm an L7. Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 08, 2026 10:32 PM (1Ff7Z) 126 How to have fun teaching Italian and not being around when they mess it up. Quarter kilo in Italian always tripped me up and I would almost order four kilos. Naturally I stuck to ordering half kilos after that. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:33 PM (2GVsD) 127 I'm amazed how every crater on the moon appears to be the same depth. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:08 PM (snZF9) There's armor plate under all that dust. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 10:33 PM (utfVc) 128 Oops, so it does, 78.3. Don't know how I missed it. Posted by: From about That Time at April 08, 2026 10:33 PM (sl73Y) 129 Leaders who don't care for the interests of their citizens: they're not limited to Europe. America has plenty of cities making the same mistake and need fixin'. Posted by: JM in Illinois ============= Fo sho. I see no end to it until leftism is defeated. Leftism being the doctrine that you're not entitled to the fruits of your own labor, investing wisdom, or luck. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 10:33 PM (n7rxJ) 130 91 Just remember to walk without rhythm while waving Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD) The fuck...? Some kind of weird-ass shuffling up there... Posted by: Shai-hulud at April 08, 2026 10:34 PM (TbWk/) 131 My Italian is pretty decent and his is non-existant so I've been teaching him some basics. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:30 PM (gtcuf) Make sure he knows, "fammi vedere le tette!" Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2026 10:34 PM (+O+FV) 132 Throughout human history, a significantly lower percentage of men have fathered children compared to women who have given birth. While modern U.S. data shows about 76% of men age 40–49 have fathered a child, historical DNA studies suggest only about 40% of men reproduced, with some periods showing up to 17 women reproducing for every one man. -- according to AI summary Posted by: I used to have a different nic So they've been cucking their mates for a long long time. Posted by: Hardly shocking when you think about it I mean, it used to be a legal requirement. That's Onan's actual sin: not spanking the monkey, but refusing to give his brother's widow an heir according to the law at the time. Posted by: mikeski at April 08, 2026 10:34 PM (VHUov) 133 Thanks for the clarification, so the Earth Trojan points. The Lagrange points are totes important in understanding Mobile Suit Gundam and the location of Sides. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:34 PM (2GVsD) 134 New Hampshire needs a week to count their presidential ballots, in a tiny state with a tiny population and with no major metro areas. Reporting life expectancy stats? They'll get back to you when they get back to you. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:34 PM (gtcuf) 135 The Winter train trip through Switzerland is very popular. The snow covers all the litter, old tires, and graffiti. Posted by: Rick Steves at April 08, 2026 10:35 PM (oftw2) 136 98 I have a picture from Dad's stuff of him back when he was a baby engineer shaking Werner von Braun's hand, receiving an award from him. It's pretty cool! We still have the paper award signed by WvB, too. Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 08, 2026 10:26 PM * Wow. He's buried in an Alexandria Virginia cemetery, close to DC. Very plain grave. You would never know if you didn't know... Posted by: TRex - apogee dino at April 08, 2026 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq) 137 Japan has been on my travel radar for a while. Looking at 2027 or 2028. Assuming the life expectancy visual is accurate, we have a bit of time. Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 10:32 PM (41CYW) Scampy, we are looking to go next year. That would be our 30th. Lots of research and budgeting to do. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:35 PM (FrGmf) 138 123 New Hampshire has no.life expectancy at all. Has anybody mentioned this to RI Red? Posted by: From about That Time at April 08, 2026 10:32 PM (sl73Y) New Hampshire isn't real. Like Rhode Island and Delaware. Posted by: Potemkin states at April 08, 2026 10:35 PM (TbWk/) 139 65 scary TX has a life expectancy of 77. Hm. My hope is that I die before Mr Scary. His shop is full of crap. Not just tools. A lot of junk and clutter. I don't want to sort through that crap. He can find some young chippies to clean the garage out. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:14 PM (FrGmf) Good grief! I live that whole crazy place. My guy friend kinda took over my shop. What a GD mess...yep I give up.some youngster can take over...🤪 Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 08, 2026 10:36 PM (qox2u) 140 There have been many theories. Currently, the best one, which while it still has problems, explains the most, is the giant impact theory. It goes like this. In the very early, primordial solar system, we had a proto-earth, much smaller than now, in roughly the current orbit. There was another planet, about Mars-sized, dubbed "Theia", that had formed at the L4 or L5 points around the Sun. Venus mainly perturbed it, and it collided with earth. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:24 PM (w6EFb) The Sumerians of all people had recorded something similar if..if the translations are correct. They recorded that earth was in between mars and jupiter in the early days of the solar system, and something whacked it and pushed it to where it is now, and the chunk that got blown off the earth created the asteroid field where earth originally was. They called it the hammered bracelet. How a 5000 year old civilization even knew this is screwed up, but as they say... it is written. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:36 PM (snZF9) 141 I have a picture from Dad's stuff of him back when he was a baby engineer shaking Werner von Braun's hand, receiving an award from him. It's pretty cool! We still have the paper award signed by WvB, too. That was back when WvB was a bigwig at NASA/Goddard. Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 08, 2026 * For a time in the early '60s, my father worked as a bookkeeper at the NASA Michoud facility way out in New Orleans East as it was developing into the next big suburb. (A destiny which was knocked flat by Hurricane Betsy, when everybody suddenly rediscovered that NOE floods like a sumbitch. Anyway.) All I can recall is him complaining about the commute, which was out along a four-lane avenue that becomes a US highway. This was before the I-10 was complete. He made it sound like the arduous trek from St. Joseph, MO, across the Rockies and out to Californy. I've driven it. Not that long a trip. So much for my family's connection to the space program. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 10:36 PM (wzUl9) 142 A paisi unni chi vai, comu vidi fari fai. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 10:36 PM (GD0B3) 143 Scampy, we are looking to go next year. That would be our 30th. Lots of research and budgeting to do. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary -------- Happy early 30th! 28th this year here. If you make it prior to our travels, I'll be hitting you up for insider info. Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 10:36 PM (41CYW) 144 >>I would have liked to have seen Europe. Have convinced Hubby Japsn is a better option for a 30th anniversary trip. But honestly, I'd be happy hiking in Utah. I hope Trump is successful in his attempt to make the western hemisphere more important in our future. There are a lot of places in South America that are far more welcoming and interesting to me. And all of my ancestors are from Europe incluing Switzerland. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 10:37 PM (GukFK) 145 that I'm an L7. Come and learn to dance - wooly bully, wooly bully Posted by: LRob in OK at April 08, 2026 10:37 PM (7D3Aa) 146 124 Japan has been on my travel radar for a while. Looking at 2027 or 2028. Assuming the life expectancy visual is accurate, we have a bit of time. Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 10:32 PM * Unless Jesus returns before then. 4% chance. Posted by: TRex - konnichiwa dino at April 08, 2026 10:37 PM (IQ6Gq) 147 I will always go back to Italy, but I have no desire to go back to France again, which is sad since I still have family there. I won’t go back to England, I love the Cotswolds, but I have never liked London. Germany is pretty, but I lived there and have been there enough, Belgium is pretty, Brussels is scary. Slovakia still looks like a hard, communist state, Prague is an amazing city. Switzerland looks like a postcard. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 10:37 PM (OoFl2) 148 131 Make sure he knows, "fammi vedere le tette!" He's going to have his teenage daughters with him-I don't want them to see their father get slapped in the face LOL I did tell him to be very careful if he orders figs. One slip of the vowel and you're ordering some nice, fresh mish! Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:38 PM (gtcuf) 149 Make sure he knows, "fammi vedere le tette!" Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2026 * "Show me your . . ."? Never mind, I can guess the rest. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 10:38 PM (wzUl9) 150 Who eat poi. Posted by: wth Green and ripe papaya. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 10:38 PM (/lPRQ) 151 Everything had to be just so with this. They've run all sorts of supercomputer simulations of such an impact, and initial conditions have to be pretty constrained to get the right Earth-Moon system outcome. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:29 PM (w6EFb) Very confusing to a scientific illiterate like me. I find it easier to use the Omar explanation for the moon. "Somebody did something." Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 08, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z) 152 The Sumerians of all people had recorded something similar if..if the translations are correct. They recorded that earth was in between mars and jupiter in the early days of the solar system, and something whacked it and pushed it to where it is now, and the chunk that got blown off the earth created the asteroid field where earth originally was. They called it the hammered bracelet. How a 5000 year old civilization even knew this is screwed up, but as they say... it is written. And Velikovsky in his book Worlds in Collision ran with it. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD) 153 The Sumerians stole that astronomical theory from the Akkadians. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 10:38 PM (nWPIJ) 154 Florida has a surprisingly high life expectancy. Must be all the advances in geriatric medicine developed there. Posted by: They're all old people down there Is it the life expectancy of people born there, or people who die there? Being a retirement destination would raise your "life expectancy" if it's the latter, since the folks who died early didn't move there in their dotage, and lowered the number in the state they died in. Posted by: mikeski at April 08, 2026 10:39 PM (VHUov) 155 Don't know if that's a banjo. Looks more like a mandolin and ... another mandolin? But certainly Buck Throckmorton approved with the guy playing a mean stand-up bass. Posted by: GWB at April 08, 2026 10:39 PM (wm3Sw) 156 Good grief! I live that whole crazy place. My guy friend kinda took over my shop. What a GD mess...yep I give up.some youngster can take over...🤪 Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 08, 2026 10:36 PM (qox2u) We have a young neighbor who is a nice guy. Mr Scary says to let him come pick through the shop. After that, I'd see if the local fire department wanted to do a controlled burn, 😆 Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:39 PM (FrGmf) 157 The woman with twins from 2 baby daddy's sounds like a female canine. I won't say that word because I gave up cussin'We had a red setter growing up (my father always had hunting dogs but rarely hunted) who had many puppies of different fathers. I would feel mortified, not that I ever did anything like that. Then have to tell the kids they have 2 daddy's would be traumatic for them. Literally barking mad and trashy. I wish I had learned the violin & be Alison Krauss. My aunt's best friend was a concert violinist who taught. I said no & played the piano instead. As an adult I wished I had learned violin & cello. Then I wanted a Celtic harp (which I still want). I apparently want a lot of things but have all I can handle and am blessed. Therefore I will spare you all my goofy brain threads & tangents, probably from a parasite I am blissfully unaware of. Early hair appt tomorrow to whack off 2" and get highlights.A big day! I guess the grand & fake cease fire meeting with the barbarians is off for Friday. I was hoping the cardboard eye-a-tolla would show up with his floral turban. Tousi says the crazies are infighting, who's on first. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 10:40 PM (WONhk) 158 A paisi unni chi vai, comu vidi fari fai. Leave the gun, take the cannoli. Posted by: Roy at April 08, 2026 10:40 PM (1Cncb) 159 2 Who built the moon. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:01 PM (snZF9) I've heard one really interesting Theia-ry. Posted by: tankdemon at April 08, 2026 10:40 PM (5GCm3) 160 113 My youngest brother and his family are going to Italy for 10 days this summer. I'm jealous. My Italian is pretty decent and his is non-existant so I've been teaching him some basics. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:30 PM Going with someone who speaks Italian makes it easier, but there is a lot of English speakers. J is fluent, so I get left out of conversations a lot. I should break out a Rosetta Stone lesson, lol. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 10:42 PM (OoFl2) 161 Sorry I'm late, it turns out that what I was tip-toeing through weren't tulips. Posted by: tankdemon That's why we have the bootscraper outside the door. Posted by: mindful webworker - you're stepping in it at April 08, 2026 10:43 PM (C2uPD) 162 Piper, just move your hands a lot and wave your arms. They will understand! Posted by: LRob in OK at April 08, 2026 10:43 PM (7D3Aa) 163 Leda bore four children from two males at the same time, and one of the males was a swan. Top that. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 10:43 PM (nWPIJ) 164 I'm betting I will not drink any Tequila tomorrow. Now this is not a strong bet, it's possible, but not likely. Probably. Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2026 10:43 PM (XV/Pl) 165 I did tell him to be very careful if he orders figs. One slip of the vowel and you're ordering some nice, fresh mish! Posted by: Delurker That happens in Japanese, too. One letter off to go from a fruit to a..... mango = mango manko = c*** .....maybe not that bad, but it's a very rude word for ladyparts. Posted by: mikeski at April 08, 2026 10:43 PM (VHUov) 166 I think a lot of it is wishcasting or like any polls today, trying to influence people's opinion instead of chronicle it. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 10:28 PM (zZu0s) Would not surprise me to learn that Team Globohomo is buying heavily on the "Alberta won't leave" bet. Trying to push it down. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 10:44 PM (utfVc) 167 Italy has a proud tradition of acting and the thespian arts, spanning centuries into the past. So why are the Italian soccer playings so poor at faking their injuries? Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 08, 2026 10:44 PM (nDXEV) 168 I hope Trump is successful in his attempt to make the western hemisphere more important in our future. There are a lot of places in South America that are far more welcoming and interesting to me. And all of my ancestors are from Europe incluing Switzerland. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 10:37 PM (GukFK) The only ancestor in my family tree that we've officially traced is a German who fought for the upstarts in the American Revolution. I don't feel too tied to the Old World. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 10:44 PM (FrGmf) 169 I did tell him to be very careful if he orders figs. One slip of the vowel and you're ordering some nice, fresh mish! Posted by: Delurker at April With a Tuscan accent, that word is exactly the same. On that note, I need to go to bed. Cardio at 6am. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 10:44 PM (OoFl2) 170 Robert The new Spring animes are dropping on Crunchyroll. Isekai of this 16 yr old who's skill is appraisal. One of the world's gods sends a female elf to assist him. She's a walking trope factory and when she gets excited, buttons pop from her blouse at alarming speed. Second season of Arthur and Tessia has started. Another reincarnation isekai starts off with loser guy being tricked into wearing a dog costume to meet some hot girl named Moe. He survives Truck-Kun only to be killed by a meteor. And now he has become the reincarnation plaything to a goddess with a smart mouth. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:45 PM (2GVsD) 171 An inadvertent addition of a vowel sound will change your Japanese beer request into a building request. Posted by: LRob in OK at April 08, 2026 10:45 PM (7D3Aa) 172 The Sumerians of all people had recorded something similar if..if the translations are correct. They recorded that earth was in between mars and jupiter in the early days of the solar system, and something whacked it and pushed it to where it is now, and the chunk that got blown off the earth created the asteroid field where earth originally was. They called it the hammered bracelet. How a 5000 year old civilization even knew this is screwed up, but as they say... it is written. This and other weird ancient shit that keeps turning up makes me think the human race was more technologically advanced during certain periods than previously thought, then went through a period of degeneracy, then advancement again. Posted by: Probably wrong but interesting to consider at April 08, 2026 10:45 PM (TbWk/) 173 Would not surprise me to learn that Team Globohomo is buying heavily on the "Alberta won't leave" bet. Trying to push it down. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ------------ I looked at the odds on the "Alberta won't leave" bet and tilted my head - seems very low. But as Aetius mentioned, perhaps I am wishcasting - biased. Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 10:45 PM (41CYW) 174 Maybe I'll sleep late tomorrow. If the big black Stirling cat doesn't wake me earlier than usual. I might take it easy, or might do a light workout if I feel up to it. The Letter, the 1940s William Wyler film with Bette Davis based on a Maugham short story, is on Movies! at 10:40 am Central. I intend to be ensconced on my couch for that. In the meantime, I'm off to bed. See some of you on the Tech Thread in the morning. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 10:45 PM (wzUl9) 175 The Italian speakers in my family when I was young, and which filtered down to us, was a mish-mash of Apuglian and Calabrese dialects. And then my mom's sister married a Sicilian with lots of Sicilian speakers in his family, so that got mixed in. To us kids it was all Italian. When I finally learned proper Italian in my thirties it was like learning a completely new language. In a lot of cases I was like, oh, I've been using the Sicilian word for that all these years. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:46 PM (gtcuf) 176 Who built the moon. Posted by: Berserker I dunno, but maybe this guy was involved? Related field, and all..... https://youtu.be/OTBdO18zmxQ Posted by: mikeski at April 08, 2026 10:47 PM (VHUov) 177 142 A paisi unni chi vai, comu vidi fari fai. That's exactly what I, or someone else, might say!🤠 Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 08, 2026 10:47 PM (qox2u) 178 Leda bore four children from two males at the same time, and one of the males was a swan. Top that. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 *** Well, the swan was a god in disguise, but good point. Who were the kids again? Helen, Castor, Pollux, and I don't recall the fourth. Two of them were Zeus's, two from Helen's mortal husband, right? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 10:48 PM (wzUl9) 179 >> The Sumerians of all people had recorded something similar if..if the translations are correct. I'm somewhat familiar with that. Sitchin and the Anunaki. In his translation I think "Tiamat" was the name of the planet that whacked earth. IIRC, a lot of them dispute Sitchin's translations, saying no, it really doesn't say that, he's just sort of doing some wishful interpretations. And also, the formation of the asteroid belt doesn't fit any collision theory, I don't think. That is, the orbits and physics just can't work out. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:48 PM (w6EFb) 180 Did a search on that foreign phrase and the Wiki response was IN that language! A little farther down the page was the English version. Posted by: LRob in OK at April 08, 2026 10:49 PM (7D3Aa) 181 But I think Witch Hat Atelier is going to be the season stand out. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:50 PM (2GVsD) 182 Florida has a surprisingly high life expectancy. Must be all the advances in geriatric medicine developed there. Posted by: They're all old people down there God's Waiting Room. A lot liquidate their holdings up north, move there, and spend every last dime clinging to life for just a little while longer... the state likes this and tries to take care of them. Unlike certain states that sent COVID patients into the old folks homes knowing it would put them at very high risk of catching the disease and dying. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 10:50 PM (/lPRQ) 183 The current model is the asteroid belt was just a planet that never formed. It's mass is low, only 4% of the Moon. The idea is that Jupiter's perturbations just prevented that material from accreting. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:51 PM (w6EFb) 184 Tiamet is the dragon Marduk fights, that I think is a wee bit later than the Sumerians. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:51 PM (2GVsD) 185 >>The only ancestor in my family tree that we've officially traced is a German who fought for the upstarts in the American Revolution. I don't feel too tied to the Old World. If you do visit I bet you will understand why he left. Over generalizing of course, but it does get tiresome hearing about how stupid and vulgar Americans are from people who have survived and built there new existence thanks to the continued sacrifices of people they look down on. But then I think Colonel Jessup is the good guy so opinions vary. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 10:52 PM (GukFK) 186 Yeah, I think it's time we abandon West Europe for countries in East Europe. For me, it's not just West Europe backing away from the Iranian situation, it's also the West European attitude since the end of the Cold War -- and even some time before that. For some reason or another, West Europe seems to believe the American taxpayer owes them. As crass, barbaric, and venal as the American taxpayer is, they should donate all of their money aside from a bare substinance to our betters in West Europe. Plus, at the rate West Europe is going, they will be upstanding members of the "ummah" in the not too distant future. NATO is a joke -- A sad, pathetic joke. It's time to move all of our military out of West Europe. Maybe station some in various East European countries or bring them and our materiel home. Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at April 08, 2026 10:52 PM (DK5Sh) 187 Gravitational stresses and not enough mass, so no Minerva between Mars and Jupiter. Or an alien species used their weapons to smash the planet. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:52 PM (2GVsD) 188 And that idea of "Nibiru", a large planet on a highly elliptical orbit with a 3600 year period that whips inside the inner solar system also does not work. That wouldn't be stable, and would utterly destabilize the inner solar system. So the fact we're here and stable precludes such a thing. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:53 PM (w6EFb) 189 Clytemnestra. Agamemnon's wife. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 10:53 PM (nWPIJ) 190 I wonder if the correlation between longevity and residing in a blue ~~collar~~ state is because those states won't let you die for tax purposes, or it's skewed by the dead voting from the grave. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf If you abort more of the low-life-expectancy types, life expectancy looks better for the rest. Posted by: Margaret Sanger at April 08, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov) 191 I'm amazed how every crater on the moon appears to be the same depth. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:08 PM (snZF9) There's armor plate under all that dust. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 10:33 PM (utfVc) David Weber's book Mutineer's Moon is historical? (The moon is the original regolith surrounding a very old interstellar warship named Dayak.) Good reading, if you like his books. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 08, 2026 10:53 PM (S/Y4j) 192 Piper, thank you again for your fashion review of “Charade”. Here is another 1960’s show whose fashions you might find interesting. if you have not seen “Department S”, the combination of exotic locations and late 60’s English fashion is quite enjoyable. Peter Wyngarde chews up the scenery, as usual; but Rosemary Nicols steals the show as the brilliant, and cute, coworker. Has the quirkiness of “the Avengers” with the stylish locales of “The Baron” https://youtu.be/-mAI9q-WHyk This is a link to the entire first season, 1969. Truly astonishing what England was 55 years ago, vs today…for all the other Morons, if you like The Avengers, you will probably like this, too Posted by: Slash Buzz at April 08, 2026 10:54 PM (FstDi) 193 Clytemnestra. Agamemnon's wife. She really axed him some questions. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:54 PM (2GVsD) 194 There is no “wisdom of crowds”. Crowds are blind emotional beasts that rush one way when they are spooked and then rush the other. Prediction market numbers have no bearing at all on what is actually likely to happen; all that they measure is the amount of public hype going on at the time. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 08, 2026 10:54 PM (UA2di) 195 L4, anchor mass, and satellite mass form an equilateral (60-degree) triangle. Same w/ L5. So Sun / Earth has a L4 focus 60 degrees ahead of Earth orbit, and a L5 focus 60 degrees behind. One astronomical unit as communications work. Smaller satellites can orbit L4 or L5. L4/L5 are big plot points in George O Smith's Venus Equilateral stories (obviously based on Venus' points, not Earth's), also Mack Reynolds wrote a story about a station in Earth L5. Gundam is noted. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 10:54 PM (gKWVE) 196 My youngest brother and his family are going to Italy for 10 days this summer. I'm jealous. My Italian is pretty decent and his is non-existant so I've been teaching him some basics. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 10:30 PM Going with someone who speaks Italian makes it easier, but there is a lot of English speakers. J is fluent, so I get left out of conversations a lot. I should break out a Rosetta Stone lesson, lol. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 10:42 PM (OoFl2) Not even sure if it matters. So many of them know english, and depending on the dialect you might not understand half of what they say anyway. My father is completely fluent, but with a Naples dialect, and he was having a little bit of a rough time understanding the Italians in Rome. It was a riot really, because my father was born here, has no italian accent at all. If he started talking to them in italian right out of the gate they were like eh napoletano, knowing immediately he was from naples. If he started in english which immediately fingered him as american, and then switched to italian they were confused and would say very curious, you sound like you're from naples. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 10:54 PM (snZF9) 197 So the fact we're here and stable precludes such a thing. Posted by: publius * looks at the average American * Who you callin' "stable?" Posted by: mikeski at April 08, 2026 10:54 PM (VHUov) 198 Imperial Planetoid Dahak Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:54 PM (2GVsD) 199 23 - man - You forgot Old Frothingslosh Stale Pale Ale with the head on the bottom. Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at April 08, 2026 10:55 PM (DK5Sh) 200 193 Clytemnestra. Agamemnon's wife. She really axed him some questions. ---------- The Iphigenia caper went down hard. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 10:56 PM (nWPIJ) 201 The new Spring animes are dropping on Crunchyroll. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:45 PM (2GVsD) Sigh I finally did it. I canceled my Crunchyroll subscription. It's been ages since I last watched it and I was just letting myself get nickel and dimed. And then they announced a price hike. So I canceled. No more Crunchyroll or Hidive. Might dump Netflix, too. Almost everything I watch is YouBoob. Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2026 10:56 PM (Hh8uf) 202 Mikeski What is your opinion on the new anime series on Crunchyroll? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:56 PM (2GVsD) 203 The Iphigenia caper went down hard. That was a real hot mess. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:57 PM (2GVsD) 204 There is no “wisdom of crowds”. Crowds are blind emotional beasts that rush one way when they are spooked and then rush the other. Prediction market numbers have no bearing at all on what is actually likely to happen; all that they measure is the amount of public hype going on at the time. Posted by: Tom Servo "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow." Posted by: Tommy Lee Jones at April 08, 2026 10:57 PM (VHUov) 205 23 Pittsburgh is a hidden treasure of snark and humor" Rolling Rock, Iron City, and Genesee Cream Ale... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 10:07 PM (XuXeR) *spock eyebrow* Vitamin I, and Latrobe's Best I can see the Pittsburg association But Genny ... sorry that's WNY ( and yes Rochester is WNY ) Posted by: browndog says woof at April 08, 2026 10:58 PM (3sXRv) 206 According to the charging documents, Linda Johnson allegedly clocked in and out as a "ghost employee" at the Manheim Township Wendy's from July 2021 to April 2022 and then had the paychecks go to her bank account. Paychecks from the fake employee showed police that $19,898.15 was allegedly stolen by Johnson, who also created 128 shifts for the "worker." Detectives learned later that Johnson would be the only one who could create the shifts, police said.“ Penny ante stuff. After Katrina, when it was thought that N.O. had 1200 policemen but no one could ever find more than 900, it was discovered that the Mayor, the DA, and the Chief of Police had created 300 fake PD employees and applied for federal grants to pay them. Then the three of them created the needed fake files and split the money. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 08, 2026 10:58 PM (UA2di) 207 Crunchyroll is my only subscription. And everyone went into panic mode because their foreign call center got hacked. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:58 PM (2GVsD) 208 There was much interservice rivalry and jockeying over rocketry, satellites, and Space. The von Braun team - basically a reconstituted Peenemunde group of rocket scientists worked strictly for the Army, who had been cut out of the deal by regulations specifying only intermediate range missiles for the Army. The Navy and the Air Force were fighting over the prize with competing systems. But once Sputnik embarrassed the Eisenhower administration they finally cut Wehrner loose and let him do his thing. One thing I found interesting is there was much publicity about “Man in Space” in the mid 1950s - articles, in Time, Life, Look, Collier’s - and even Walt Disney got in the act with full color presentations by Willy Ley and von Braun explaining how they were going to the Moon. I don’t think that was entirely an organic thing, there had to be some level of coordination involved for that to happen. Posted by: Common Tater at April 08, 2026 10:59 PM (wHaGM) 209 Imperial Planetoid Dahak Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 10:54 PM (2GVsD) I should have guessed that you'd know that. (Grin). Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 08, 2026 10:59 PM (S/Y4j) 210 And that idea of "Nibiru", a large planet on a highly elliptical orbit with a 3600 year period that whips inside the inner solar system also does not work. That wouldn't be stable, and would utterly destabilize the inner solar system. So the fact we're here and stable precludes such a thing. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 10:53 PM (w6EFb) Is there an upper limit for the period of comet orbits, assuming a closed orbit? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 10:59 PM (utfVc) 211 Thanks for the ONT, T-Rex. Love the Pittsburgh scanner! My favorite city in all of Europe is Salzburg. Probably invaded now and ruined. Never got to see Prague. Wanted to see Italy. Also Poland. Have no desire, ever, for Germany or Spain. Loved France and the UK but never again. We saw a lot, before the first grandbaby seven years ago. I doubt we'll go again. They are on a cruise now in the Caribbean and we don't feel we are cruise people somehow and don't join them. St. Lucia tomorrow (I get random texts of beaches that are beautiful but look the same with grands swimming). Norweigian ship vs the cruise of brawls. I'm always glad when they return. I'm supposed to be going to bed vs jabbering. Only came back to thank T Rex. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 10:59 PM (WONhk) 212 BSM ~We have a young neighbor who is a nice guy. Mr Scary says to let him come pick through the shop. After that, I'd see if the local fire department wanted to do a controlled burn~ 😆 My frustration is getting my guy to let go of anything.... But I kinda like that controlled burn idea🤪 Gonna have to think about it...but, you totally can't take those tools away from a guy... 😕 oh no...!!! Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 08, 2026 11:00 PM (qox2u) 213 If you do visit I bet you will understand why he left. Over generalizing of course, but it does get tiresome hearing about how stupid and vulgar Americans are from people who have survived and built there new existence thanks to the continued sacrifices of people they look down on. But then I think Colonel Jessup is the good guy so opinions vary. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 10:52 PM (GukFK) Hubby lived in Germany for a while years ago. He thinks I would love it. And Austria. Nein. If i want to see mountainous places with people that hate me, I'll go to Canada. It's closer. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:01 PM (FrGmf) 214 Heh. Walking on. Walking on the moon. Someday. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 11:03 PM (A5RD0) 215 I'm supposed to be going to bed vs jabbering. Only came back to thank T Rex. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 10:59 PM *** You're welcome! By the way, we love Salzburg too! Posted by: TRex - anyone have triscuits? at April 08, 2026 11:03 PM (IQ6Gq) 216 Mikeski What is your opinion on the new anime series on Crunchyroll? Posted by: Anna Puma I haven't caught them all yet..... Ribdiculous is just that. Second-cutest girl, Kanan, and Gal/Otaku: oh my god, it's full of tropes. Kirio: same, but turned Yuri in the last two seconds? Slime: why is it always staff meetings in this show? Needy Girl Overdose is trying way to hard to be Serial Experiments Lain. Garden of the gods is trying successfully to be Natsume's Book Of Friends. Bookworm, Vending Machine: continuing as they were, which is good. Provisional Appraiser: I like light, fluffy isekai shows. Witch Hat Atelier: Little Witch Academia, but serious? I'm in. Posted by: mikeski at April 08, 2026 11:05 PM (VHUov) 217 Salzburg is one of the places Mr Scary wants to see again.. I feel.like a poopyhead for not wanting to go. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:05 PM (FrGmf) 218 Stationed in the UK (early 90s). Midlands region. Kind of half way between London and Birmingham. I traveled A LOT. You could get anywhere by train or bus. I did. My work schedule gave me lots of days off (3 on, 3 off, 12 hour mids). Loved my time over there and had lots of fun. Sad what has happened to it. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 08, 2026 11:05 PM (sAmhv) 219 217 Salzburg is one of the places Mr Scary wants to see again.. I feel.like a poopyhead for not wanting to go. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:05 PM (FrGmf) --------- You've seen Mozart's geburtshaus once, and you've seen it. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 11:07 PM (nWPIJ) 220 Huh Comet MAPS, a Kreutz sungrazer, disintegrated as it approached the Sun on April 4th. It might have been in a 1,690 +/- year orbit. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 11:09 PM (2GVsD) 221 217 Salzburg is one of the places Mr Scary wants to see again.. I feel.like a poopyhead for not wanting to go. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary --- Don't forget to see that saddle maker and get that bull hide collar with a shoulderback bib. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 11:09 PM (xOYmg) 222 121 Florida has a surprisingly high life expectancy. Must be all the advances in geriatric medicine developed there. Posted by: They're all old people down there The old folks live longer down there because they don't fall on the ice and break their hips. Posted by: nerdygirl at April 08, 2026 11:09 PM (0Htd1) 223 The Egyptian stuff is a bit strange in the sense that there isn’t a super long demonstrated period of primitive structures increasing over time in complexity. Some, but in a lot of ways it just sort of popped on the scene, seemingly fully formed and at the peak of sophistication in terms of architecture and construction. They had to have had a long learning curve prior. Where is it? Then it went downhill after that. A similar thing is seen with the amazing architecture in Peru. The best stuff is at the bottom, and more primitive construction laid over the top. So some archaeologists believe there was some sort of “pre flood” civilization, some sort of world wide catastrophe that knocked humanity back quite a bit, maybe more than once. Posted by: Common Tater at April 08, 2026 11:11 PM (wHaGM) 224 >>Hubby lived in Germany for a while years ago. He thinks I would love it. And Austria. Nein. If i want to see mountainous places with people that hate me, I'll go to Canada. It's closer. And that's the shame of it. Some of the places in Europe are stunning. Hard to stand at the top of the Swiss Alps and look out over the scenery and not be blown away. But you always visit the Andes in Chile or Peru and see similar views and meet nicer people, spend less money and not get jet lagged. And the Pisco Sours are addictive. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 11:12 PM (GukFK) 225 Prediction market betting, huh? Has anyone read John Brunner's Shockwave Rider? (1975) He had that concept in there, although he called it the Delphi Pool. In the book, government paid attention to it, as they used it to manipulate social mollification for keeping people from rioting. The government also manipulated the odds in the pool, attempting to 'nudge' social themes into directions of which it approved. Just sayin.... Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 08, 2026 11:12 PM (bufu1) 226 Florida has a surprisingly high life expectancy. Must be all the advances in geriatric medicine developed there. Posted by: They're all old people down there The old folks live longer down there because they don't fall on the ice and break their hips. Posted by: nerdygirl at April 08, 2026 11:09 PM (0Htd1) That is true. There is a lot to do there for older people to stay active and engaged. And I'm not talking about the Villages, you perverts. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:13 PM (FrGmf) 227 >> Is there an upper limit for the period of comet orbits, assuming a closed orbit? There is a practical limit and I had to look that up. It's somewhere in the range of 1 - 10 million years. Anything with a period greater than that would be too far out, and likely perturbed away by nearby stars and the ambient Galactic gravitational field. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 11:13 PM (w6EFb) 228 223 The Egyptian stuff is a bit strange in the sense that there isn’t a super long demonstrated period of primitive structures increasing over time in complexity --------- You can trace pyramid development quite well, starting with mastabas, the Stepped Pyramid, the Bent Pyramid (some architect probably lost his life for that screw-up) through the final form of the Giza pyramids. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 11:14 PM (nWPIJ) 229 Averaging national life expectancy includes Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago and other such places. Take those places out of the mix and the average goes up. Areas with quality medical care and the average goes higher. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 11:14 PM (xOYmg) 230 Garden of the Gods looks to be good. Apparently, he was blessed as a child by a kami. But lets see how it goes now the exorcists know he exists. There was only one Serial Experient Lane. I think with the Great Rimuru the pace will pick up, opener was just to get the tourists' feet wet. I wish someone had brought to the US Wagaya no Oinari-sama. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 11:14 PM (2GVsD) 231 Well ok pals. Thanks T, and lovely to see Scampy sightings...I love youz all morons... "Going offline… unless I dream about memes again.” Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 08, 2026 11:14 PM (qox2u) 232 Schauflle is a great value bet this weekend. Just throwing it out there for those that like to dabble in those things. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:15 PM (YZ0Fo) 233 Mr Straw, I appreciate your travel advice. I'm guessing South America will be the new Europe for gringos. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:16 PM (FrGmf) 234 New Hampshire has no.life expectancy at all. Has anybody mentioned this to RI Red? Posted by: From about That Time at April 08, 2026 10:32 PM (sl73Y) That’s because I, just like RI, do not really exist. Posted by: RI Red at April 08, 2026 11:16 PM (boJCl) 235 Memes? Have one of Enki's nam-shubs. Heck, take two. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD) 236 If interested, look up the Outer Oort Cloud. That's a funny one. It's never been directly observed, no proof whatsoever it exists, but yet it has to, to explain the long period comets. Anyway, that's a roughly spherical cloud out there of debris in orbits of willy-nilly inclinations that make a spherical cloud. Perturbations kick them in occasionally and that's the long period comets. The structure of all the "particle cloud" of the solar system is interesting. Close-in, it's planar. A disc, roughly the eccliptic. But as you go out, that disc gets thicker and transitions to a sphere. They recently discovered via simulations, that that the structure would get a wave to it due to the Galactic tidal field. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb) 237 That’s because I, just like RI, do not really exist. Posted by: RI Red at April 08, 2026 11:16 PM (boJCl) You are somebody. I read your blog. Hold your head proud, air. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:18 PM (FrGmf) 238 That’s because I, just like RI, do not really exist. Posted by: RI Red I've met you. Your state just isn't real. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:19 PM (YZ0Fo) 239 The fiddle player in the blue top has a lovely collarbone. Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at April 08, 2026 11:19 PM (Risui) 240 They had to have had a long learning curve prior. Where is it? Sumer. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 11:22 PM (gKWVE) 241 Also, on Witch Hat Atelier: I'm not sure how the deep, dark secret of magic is "they're pens, not wands, and the magic is in the writing." And none of the muggles can figure it out. Despite all the magical things in the world being covered in similar-looking doodles. The average IQ on that planet is a bit lower than here. Posted by: mikeski at April 08, 2026 11:23 PM (VHUov) 242 That video reminds me in these days of autofocus that phones often just want to split the difference and focus on nothing. This might also be a camera that someone does not know how to work the lens. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 11:23 PM (bss/y) 243 You've seen Mozart's geburtshaus once, and you've seen it. Posted by: Cicero Gheyburts- whatty? Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2026 11:23 PM (diia5) 244 David Weber's book Mutineer's Moon is historical? (The moon is the original regolith surrounding a very old interstellar warship named Dayak.) Good reading, if you like his books. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 08, 2026 10:53 PM (S/Y4j) Concur on Weber's books. If you're a Horatio Hornblower fan, you'll love the Honor Harrington series. Posted by: GWB at April 08, 2026 11:23 PM (wm3Sw) 245 That Galactic tide will also vary as the Sun bobs up and down through the disc (z-axis motion) as it circles around the center of the Galaxy. That could cause cyclic cycles that sends bursts of comets into the solar system. There have been interesting correlations of long term climate cycles with the solar system's motion through the galaxy. They appear to be there, then they disappear with better measurements, then come back again. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 11:23 PM (w6EFb) 246 Polymarket Is testing Robert Heinlein's theory on large numbers of people knowing more than they consciously are aware. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 08, 2026 10:29 PM (So85e) Is this the "If you have 100 people guess the weight of a steer, the average of the guesses will be the correct answer"? Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 11:24 PM (rbvCR) 247 So, she had sex with two guys that day and then later on remembered that she had sex with a third guy. Guess that's what they mean by casual sex. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 11:25 PM (xOYmg) 248 The structure of all the "particle cloud" of the solar system is interesting. Close-in, it's planar. A disc, roughly the eccliptic. But as you go out, that disc gets thicker and transitions to a sphere. They recently discovered via simulations, that that the structure would get a wave to it due to the Galactic tidal field. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb) Is it asymmetrical with more stuff distributed towards the opposite direction of solar movement? Perhaps convex, in a bulge towards the place the sun is going? What color cheese it made of? Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 08, 2026 11:26 PM (w/O5Q) 249 You can trace pyramid development quite well…. ——- Sure, but there is much much more to Egypt than just the pyramids. They had achieved a level of construction that had rarely been equaled in some ways, until very recently. This isn’t some nutbar theory, it has been remarked upon by Egyptologists and everyone else for centuries. Even the great pyramid, now that you mention it, was the tallest man made structure for thousands of years, until the Eiffel tower. Posted by: Common Tater at April 08, 2026 11:27 PM (wHaGM) 250 So, she had sex with two guys that day and then later on remembered that she had sex with a third guy. Guess that's what they mean by casual sex. Posted by: Braenyard Double-entry bookkeeping isn't taught at Ho Academy. Posted by: other double entries are, though at April 08, 2026 11:27 PM (VHUov) 251 Poly market is easily influenced by small amounts of money. They had Kamala beating Trump. Just because "real money" is involved does not make it predicative. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:27 PM (YZ0Fo) 252 247 So, she had sex with two guys that day and then later on remembered that she had sex with a third guy. Guess that's what they mean by casual sex. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 11:25 PM (xOYmg) If you ever see any of the MRA and 'women are evil' vids on ewetub, they'd have you believe that all women are only slightly less promiscuous than Messalina. Or Julia the Younger. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 11:27 PM (bss/y) 253 If you ever see any of the MRA and 'women are evil' vids on ewetub, they'd have you believe that all women are only slightly less promiscuous than Messalina. Or Julia the Younger. Posted by: Aetius451AD Have you tried dating in the last 15 years? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:28 PM (YZ0Fo) 254 >> What color cheese it made of https://is.gd/V0XJNT Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 11:29 PM (w6EFb) 255 I may or may not exist, but I enjoy sleepy time. Good night, all! Posted by: RI Red at April 08, 2026 11:29 PM (h87eb) 256 VDH interviewed by GB News on Iran. https://tinyurl.com/5n73fe5j In the middle of watching but it is good. VDH, if you are lurking, I love you in a nonsexual way and wish you good heslth. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:32 PM (FrGmf) 257 VDH interviewed by GB News on Iran. https://tinyurl.com/5n73fe5j In the middle of watching but it is good. VDH, if you are lurking, I love you in a nonsexual way and wish you good heslth. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Did you see when they tried to honey pot him? And he was like ya I'm not an idiot. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:33 PM (YZ0Fo) 258 223 The Egyptian stuff is a bit strange in the sense that there isn’t a super long demonstrated period of primitive structures increasing over time in complexity -------- Ever been in the Hypostyle Hall at Luxor? It's a massive space, but since the Egyptians never figured out the self-supporting arch, it's a literal forest of monstrous thick columns with hardly any clear floor space. The Egyptians get credit for doing brute strength feats of construction on impressive scales, but it only takes one trip to the magnificent Pantheon in Rome to appreciate their technological limitations. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 11:33 PM (nWPIJ) 259 They had achieved a level of construction that had rarely been equaled in some ways, until very recently. This isn’t some nutbar theory, it has been remarked upon by Egyptologists and everyone else for centuries. Even the great pyramid, now that you mention it, was the tallest man made structure for thousands of years, until the Eiffel tower. Posted by: Common Tater at April 08, 2026 11:27 PM (wHaGM) Pyramids are really nothing more than big piles of rock, though. Nicely-fitted rock, but held together only by gravity. Possibly some were simple shells, filled with rubble. I don't recall the Egyptians having invented the arch. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 11:33 PM (utfVc) 260 The moon looks like such an awful place, just dusty and pocked and nothing else except an occasional meteor you cannot rely on burning up. Dana Gould was right, the moon just sucks Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 08, 2026 11:34 PM (El6/E) 261 247 So, she had sex with two guys that day and then later on remembered that she had sex with a third guy. Guess that's what they mean by casual sex. ------ The girl should really keep a log. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 11:34 PM (nWPIJ) 262 The Egyptian stuff is a bit strange in the sense that there isn’t a super long demonstrated period of primitive structures increasing over time in complexity. Some, but in a lot of ways it just sort of popped on the scene, seemingly fully formed and at the peak of sophistication in terms of architecture and construction. They had to have had a long learning curve prior. Where is it? Then it went downhill after that. A similar thing is seen with the amazing architecture in Peru. The best stuff is at the bottom, and more primitive construction laid over the top. So some archaeologists believe there was some sort of “pre flood” civilization, some sort of world wide catastrophe that knocked humanity back quite a bit, maybe more than once. Posted by: Common Tater at April 08, 2026 11:11 PM (wHaGM) It didn't help that pyramid building in Egypt stopped pretty early. By the time Tut was alive they hadn't build pyramids in almost 1000 years. Who knows what they would have evolved into had they kept doing it. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 11:35 PM (snZF9) 263 >>The girl should really keep a log. Sounds like she did. At least a couple. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 11:35 PM (GukFK) 264 Sounds like she did. At least a couple. I'd say she's keeping too many logs at this point Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 08, 2026 11:36 PM (El6/E) 265 Did you see when they tried to honey pot him? And he was like ya I'm not an idiot. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:33 PM (YZ0Fo) Fang Fang. Lol. Our Victor said hell to the naw naw. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:36 PM (FrGmf) 266 It didn't help that pyramid building in Egypt stopped pretty early. By the time Tut was alive they hadn't build pyramids in almost 1000 years. Who knows what they would have evolved into had they kept doing it. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division To be some what fair when the child king Tut came along they were dealing with a lot of other stuff. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:37 PM (YZ0Fo) 267 Fang Fang. Lol. Our Victor said hell to the naw naw. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Yup hilarious! Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:38 PM (YZ0Fo) 268 Willy Ley and von Braun explaining how they were going to the Moon. I don’t think that was entirely an organic thing, there had to be some level of coordination involved for that to happen. Posted by: Common Tater at April 08, 2026 10:59 PM (wHaGM) Willy and Werner were both members of the AfD in Berlin before the war, they knew each other, and they knew Oberth and all the others. Where von Braun got involved with the German rocket program, Ley moved to America. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 11:40 PM (rbvCR) 269 By the way the stuff coming out right now, rumors about Trump administration, are April Fools Day-worthy stupidity. Literally they reported that the draft is going to be implemented in November, and that Trump forced the Pope's representative to the Pentagon (??) and warned him to be nice or they'd invade the Vatican. I kinda suspect this is stuff they had planned for October, and pulled the trigger now, but its just moronically bad. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 08, 2026 11:40 PM (El6/E) 270 Willy Ley could write, von Braun was not so good at writing, though he was good in German I suspect. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 11:41 PM (rbvCR) 271 " But more interestingly, it has two spiral arms that almost make it look like a galaxy." At the galactic level, a black hole on a comet like path might create the space between spiral arms in its wake. I'm chewing on a solar system model where the solar disc is basically surfing the leading part of a delensing area of space, like dust on the leading part of an extrusion. And blue, the cheese is blue. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 08, 2026 11:42 PM (w/O5Q) 272 172, yep, many examples in Hindu mythology... Posted by: RandomDave at April 08, 2026 11:42 PM (aJQbY) 273 272 Willy Ley could write, von Braun was not so good at writing, though he was good in German I suspect. -------- Wasn't there a movie about Braun in the 50s called I Aim for the Stars? Or was that his book? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 08, 2026 11:43 PM (nWPIJ) 274 If the moon was made of cheese the French woulda landed on it. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:43 PM (YZ0Fo) 275 Pakistan as some mediary looks like a fool in this ceasefire that is not. They were running about like a bunch of little girls trying to get a ceasefire. Not that I believe that Trump would trust a bunch of goat fucking trolls as an actual intermediary. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:47 PM (FrGmf) 276 So some archaeologists believe there was some sort of “pre flood” civilization, some sort of world wide catastrophe that knocked humanity back quite a bit, maybe more than once. Posted by: Common Tater Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships To all corners of the Earth On board were the twelve The Poet, the Physician, the Farmer The Scientist, the Magician And the other so-called Gods of our legends Though Gods they were And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind Let us rejoice and let us sing And dance and ring in the new Hail, Atlantis! Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 11:47 PM (Cqx++) 277 If the moon was made of cheese the French woulda landed on it. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:43 PM (YZ0Fo) Only if it had oceans of wine. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 08, 2026 11:48 PM (S/Y4j) 278 That Sad troll is probably a worthless Paki. Which is a redundancy, of course. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 11:48 PM (utfVc) 279 Pakistan as some mediary looks like a fool in this ceasefire that is not. They were running about like a bunch of little girls trying to get a ceasefire. Not that I believe that Trump would trust a bunch of goat fucking trolls as an actual intermediary. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Agree. Plus they are currently in a fight with the taliban in Afghanistan. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:48 PM (YZ0Fo) 280 the moon was made of cheese the French woulda landed on it. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:43 PM (YZ0Fo) Only if it had oceans of wine. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf It's underneath the craters. DUH. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:49 PM (YZ0Fo) 281 If the moon was made of cheese the French woulda landed on it. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:43 PM (YZ0Fo) And then surrendered to it. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 11:51 PM (snZF9) 282 willy Ley wrote a lot of books about zoology (his degree was in zoology) and space, and he had a monthly column in Analog magazine for years, and he enlarged those for other books. He was quite good at explaining things. His books can be found, but they are really out of print. I didn't realize a few of the books of his that I had gotten were as old as 1947 Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 11:51 PM (rbvCR) 283 Oh that reminds me. Some new studies now think there is less water ice at the Moon's South Pole than previously thought. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 11:52 PM (w6EFb) 284 Pakistan is the public face of the mediation. China is also part of the mediation team, they just keep a lower profile. For some unknown reason. I just wish Trump knew. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 11:52 PM (GukFK) 285 the moon was made of cheese the French woulda landed on it. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:43 PM (YZ0Fo) And then surrendered to it. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads The first time an asteroid flew by. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:52 PM (YZ0Fo) 286 If the moon were made of wine and cheese, I'd not be opposed to a visit. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:53 PM (FrGmf) 287 Not that I believe that Trump would trust a bunch of goat fucking trolls as an actual intermediary. The Pakistanis are claiming that Lebanon was part of the cease fire. US and Israel say it was not. Guess who everyone on the left believes? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 08, 2026 11:53 PM (El6/E) 288 the moon were made of wine and cheese, I'd not be opposed to a visit. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary That's the real reason for a base there. Doncha know. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:54 PM (YZ0Fo) 289 Cheese on the light side, wine on the dark side. This is a fact. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 11:54 PM (n5tGW) 290 Pakistan as some mediary looks like a fool in this ceasefire that is not. They were running about like a bunch of little girls trying to get a ceasefire. Not that I believe that Trump would trust a bunch of goat fucking trolls as an actual intermediary. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Agree. Plus they are currently in a fight with the taliban in Afghanistan. Posted by: BruceWayne Kind of funny given that the Taliban was supposed to be a child of Paki intel services. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 11:55 PM (/lPRQ) 291 Troll is doing the Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 08, 2026 11:55 PM (sAmhv) 292 The Pakistanis are claiming that Lebanon was part of the cease fire. US and Israel say it was not. Guess who everyone on the left believes? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor If that was true why did hezzbollah (Lebanon) unleash a volley of strikes into Israel after the cease fire? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:56 PM (YZ0Fo) 293 I guess the moon mission is kind of cool..but didnt we do all of this 50+ years ago? Posted by: a dude in MI at April 08, 2026 11:56 PM (+I6Y/) 294 The Pakistanis are claiming that Lebanon was part of the cease fire. US and Israel say it was not. Guess who everyone on the left believes? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 08, 2026 11:53 PM (El6/E) The Paki goat fuckers, of course. I hate those guys in particular. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:56 PM (FrGmf) 295 If the moon were made of wine and cheese, I'd not be opposed to a visit. I’d bring crackers. Saltines and Ritz. And maybe even a Triscuit. Posted by: George Enoch Jetson at April 08, 2026 11:56 PM (EXyHK) 296 Agree. Plus they are currently in a fight with the taliban in Afghanistan. Posted by: BruceWayne Kind of funny given that the Taliban was supposed to be a child of Paki intel services. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher It's almost like you can't trust Muslims. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:58 PM (YZ0Fo) 297 If the moon were made of wine and cheese, I'd not be opposed to a visit. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 11:53 PM (FrGmf) this is, of course, the plot of the first Wallace and Gromit movie, A Grand Day Out. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 11:58 PM (rbvCR) 298 If that was true why did hezzbollah (Lebanon) unleash a volley of strikes into Israel after the cease fire? Supposedly, Iran claims that because communications are so bad, they could not get word to the boys in time to stop the attack. Its plausible? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 08, 2026 11:58 PM (El6/E) 299 If the moon were made of wine and cheese, I'd not be opposed to a visit. I’d bring crackers. Saltines and Ritz. And maybe even a Triscuit. Posted by: George Enoch Jetson at April 08, 2026 11:56 PM (EXyHK) It's made of that Sardinian maggot cheese. The craters are where the maggots pop their heads out to breathe. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 11:58 PM (utfVc) 300 That Sad troll is probably a worthless Paki. Which is a redundancy, of course. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ----------- Trolls just aren't what they used to be. Was expecting better - like a Ted Talk. Sad! Posted by: scampydog at April 08, 2026 11:59 PM (41CYW) 301 Mike Collins to Neil Armstrong, when they were chatting about what Neil should say when he stepped onto the Moon's surface: "If you had any balls, you'd say "Oh, my God, what is that thing?" then scream and cut your mike." Posted by: Beverly at April 08, 2026 11:59 PM (reMys) 302 Randall Carlson on Atlantis (long playlist -- if interested in all this, give it a listen when you have the time): https://is.gd/OH2Zob He thinks Atlantis was in the Azores. And that a large landmass there did subside under the ocean. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 11:59 PM (w6EFb) 303 Pakistan is the public face of the mediation. China is also part of the mediation team, they just keep a lower profile. For some unknown reason. I just wish Trump knew. - The whole thing is still kind of WTF?!? Continuing to lob missiles at Israel over alleged ceasefire violations is one thing, but also doing it to Kuwait and (I think) UAE, is not really behavior that suggests Iran is worried about the ceasefire holding. Maybe it's face-saving bullshit and I'm reading too much into it. It seems like we're rewarding their attacks on ships in the strait with the ceasefire, so they're incentivized to do it again the next time we feel a need to bomb them. But then I guess they would anyway, since it's their only card. Presumably, at some point, the President will be able to show some concessions for the time and effort that's been spent. Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 12:01 AM (vSvIl) 304 Supposedly, Iran claims that because communications are so bad, they could not get word to the boys in time to stop the attack. Its plausible? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor As Secretary of war Hegseth said "get the carrier pigeons out" Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:01 AM (YZ0Fo) 305 So Europe had zero defense budgets for 80 years? Got it. The Bundeswehr that I saw in West Germany were figments of my imagination. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 12:01 AM (hJH5n) 306 Supposedly, Iran claims that because communications are so bad, they could not get word to the boys in time to stop the attack. Its plausible? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 08, 2026 11:58 PM (El6/E) Yes, but more likely covering the fact that the IRI has little control over Hezbollah or any of their terror groups atthis point Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 12:01 AM (rbvCR) 307 this is, of course, the plot of the first Wallace and Gromit movie, A Grand Day Out. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 11:58 PM (rbvCR) And I have that on DVD. Will rewatch. We've been watching Ben-Hur. I fell asleep before the intermission, but love the movie. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 09, 2026 12:02 AM (FrGmf) 308 Trolls just aren't what they used to be. Was expecting better - like a Ted Talk. Sad! Posted by: scampydog I'm worried they'll replace the trolls with AI, and then they'll be worth engaging in conversation. Posted by: mikeski at April 09, 2026 12:02 AM (VHUov) 309 Hello everyone. Live from the Domain of Robert the Cat (TM). Currently he is sulking. Unsure why, I'm certain he has thousands of potential reasons. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 09, 2026 12:02 AM (CHHv1) 310 It’s technically true the great pyramid is just a “pile of rock”, but it is the remainder that was never intended to be seen, the outer limestone was destroyed by earthquakes and hauled away for construction projects. And again - the tallest man made structure for thousands of years, even if “just a pile of rocks”, until 1886. That’s pretty crazy. Their ability to work large stones - single piece granite in particular, is nothing less than astonishing. The Obelisks are engineering feats in themselves. Single piece. Nobody has done it since. Maybe they could, but they sure as hell don’t. Neither did the Romans. Their ability to achieve plate surface levels of precision with granite is of particular interest. One thing about construction techniques, then as now, if you don’t need to work a surface to .00005” across large areas in 90 ton chunks of granite, you probably won’t. Why would they do that? I’ve no idea, I don’t believe it was an ancient power plant, but I don’t believe it was merely intended as a tomb for a bull, either. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:03 AM (wHaGM) 311 Hey, I have a moon question: Sand and dust on the earth at the microscopic level is essentially very tiny smooth, round pieces of material and relatively harmless due to wind and water gradually causing that formation over eons. However, I wasn't aware that they ever found water on the moon, and there certainly isn't wind. So, the only way for the moon dust/sand to form is from many many many asteroid collisions. So my question: Wouldn't the particulate matter on the moon be, essentially, jagged cutting pieces of matter instead of rounded over time? And, isn't that a hinderance to setting up a base there, since it would wear down protective gear and machinery infinitely more quickly? Or am I still retarded, and my facts are jumbled? Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 12:03 AM (dIske) 312 In the end, Trump killed the supreme leader. Killed...the...supreme...leader. Thats some system lord level shit. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:03 AM (snZF9) 313 Very enjoyable ONT rex! I don't think I would bet on the return of Jesus because if you bet He returns and He does, I don't think you're getting paid. Perhaps being right is it's own reward. The Pittsburgh Scanner 🤣 "Repopulating the elevator" - sounds like the work of ai and robots. I'm actually glad to hear that there are still people running around with swords. Not very responsible to leave it laying around though. Exercising demons with holy water. Hail hydra. Made me laugh out loud. Good evening all you lovely Morons. Just a drive by post from me. Peace Posted by: AmericanKestrel at April 09, 2026 12:04 AM (RkOfE) 314 Guys did you hear the troll? Israel is now owned by Iran and America is next! Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:04 AM (YZ0Fo) 315 He thinks Atlantis was in the Azores. And that a large landmass there did subside under the ocean. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 11:59 PM (w6EFb) How does that scenario comport with plate tectonics? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:05 AM (utfVc) 316 the end, Trump killed the supreme leader. Killed...the...supreme...leader. Thats some system lord level shit. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division They admitted that the gag motjaba is in compacted too Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:05 AM (YZ0Fo) 317 thinks Atlantis was in the Azores. And that a large landmass there did subside under the ocean. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 11:59 PM (w6EFb) How does that scenario comport with plate tectonics? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon And the millions of divers that have never found it... Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:07 AM (YZ0Fo) 318 All Pakis can do is rape little British girls. They can't beat even India. They troll the web for dollars a day. What a bunch of sad retards. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 09, 2026 12:07 AM (FrGmf) 319 I'm worried they'll replace the trolls with AI, and then they'll be worth engaging in conversation. Posted by: mikeski at April 09, 2026 12:02 AM (VHUov) The View should schedule two different AIs as guests, at the same time. I don't think it would be noticeably dumber, but it might be interesting - like a collision between two trains hawking jet fuel. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 09, 2026 12:08 AM (S/Y4j) 320 "Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 @DanScavino 1h There are many dedicated people in government who could leave TOMORROW and earn tens—if not hundreds—of thousands of dollars a MONTH as so-called “influencers” on social media, but they chose to serve the AMERICAN PEOPLE instead, all while the so-called “influencers” talk shit all day long and get paid BIG MONEY for clicks and impressions. We see you 👀!" Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 12:08 AM (GD0B3) 321 The Bundeswehr that I saw in West Germany were figments of my imagination. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 12:01 AM (hJH5n) Weren't they just training with broomsticks instead of rifles a couple years ago? Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 09, 2026 12:08 AM (1Ff7Z) 322 The View should schedule two different AIs as guests, at the same time. I don't think it would be noticeably dumber, but it might be interesting - like a collision between two trains hawking jet fuel. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at Isn't that just joy and Whoopi? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:09 AM (YZ0Fo) 323 The Pakistanis are claiming that Lebanon was part of the cease fire. US and Israel say it was not. Guess who everyone on the left believes? - Why do people have such trouble understanding the term "ceasefire"? All it means is that we agree to not shoot each other for the time being. Given Iran's total inability to engage with us militarily, all it means is that the US decided to 1)stop bombing them, and 2)talk Israel into doing the same. The Iranians have literally nothing to contribute to that conversation. Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 12:09 AM (vSvIl) 324 Trump said that there are phony documents and quotes, that the only valid document is the one from the White House. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 12:09 AM (xOYmg) 325 How does that scenario comport with plate tectonics? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:05 AM (utfVc) I think it has more to do with the ocean level rise during the Younger Dryas, the meltwater pulse. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 12:09 AM (rbvCR) 326 youtu.be/ZmInkxbvlCs Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 12:09 AM (sAmhv) 327 I sort of like like the idea that what is now the Mediterranean was mostly or partially dry land, inhabited of course. What is now the strait of Gibralter was the point breached by the ocean, turned into a giant waterfall and flooded everybody out, maybe in a matter of days Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:09 AM (wHaGM) 328 Wouldn't the particulate matter on the moon be, essentially, jagged cutting pieces of matter instead of rounded over time? And, isn't that a hinderance to setting up a base there, since it would wear down protective gear and machinery infinitely more quickly? Or am I still retarded, and my facts are jumbled? Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 12:03 AM (dIske) I believe that is the case, and it could present a real problem. But I am sure that ways will be found to mitigate the problem. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:10 AM (utfVc) 329 AAAAHHHH!!! I hate autocucumber! Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 09, 2026 12:10 AM (S/Y4j) 330 Yes, but more likely covering the fact that the IRI has little control over Hezbollah or any of their terror groups at this point Probably the most plausible reason, yeah. Which is why Lebanon should be left out of any kind of negotiations. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 09, 2026 12:10 AM (El6/E) 331 Pakis can do is rape little British girls. They can't beat even India. They troll the web for dollars a day. What a bunch of sad retards. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Hey their child slaves make like 4$ a day clicking on qatarlson and nostrils and grandma groyper Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:10 AM (YZ0Fo) 332 Isn't that just joy and Whoopi? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:09 AM (YZ0Fo) Those are AS's: Artificial Stupidites. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 09, 2026 12:12 AM (S/Y4j) 333 >> Or am I still retarded, and my facts are jumbled? Just the opposite, you're dead-on the money. Add solar to wind the "weathering" process. Moon dust is a bitch. Very sticky and abrasive. Will be a royal bitch for dealing with on a Moon base. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 12:12 AM (w6EFb) 334 >>Presumably, at some point, the President will be able to show some concessions for the time and effort that's been spent. According to Tousi and others there is a lot of factional infighting going on in Iran. Whomever Trump is speaking with is not really speaking with the concensus of even the hardliners trying to hang on. Might explain some of the random missile fire. I think this is a lot more accurate than the mass media reports. Does anyone even know who Trump is actually speaking with cause he's never named them. Hell, he even admits communications with them is messenger level. If that's true then how would anyone in Tehran be speaking with their own troops? I think that as usual what we are seeing and hearing in the media is not what is really going on. Trump thrives in confusion. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 12:12 AM (GukFK) 335 I sort of like like the idea that what is now the Mediterranean was mostly or partially dry land, inhabited of course. What is now the strait of Gibralter was the point breached by the ocean, turned into a giant waterfall and flooded everybody out, maybe in a matter of days Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:09 AM (wHaGM) That is much older, though, during the late Miocene, 6 million years ago. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 12:13 AM (rbvCR) 336 @316 - there's a YouTube video of Richard Feynman saying that's why a mission to Mars would NOT include a return trip. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 09, 2026 12:13 AM (CHHv1) 337 2)talk Israel into doing the same. ... Posted by: Methos --- Not aware of that. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 12:14 AM (xOYmg) 338 I think that as usual what we are seeing and hearing in the media is not what is really going on. Trump thrives in confusion. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 12:12 AM (GukFK) I trust Tousi and Greg the Goat more than our trolls. I don't with other news. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 09, 2026 12:15 AM (FrGmf) 339 Isn't that just joy and Whoopi? Posted by: BruceWayne Those are AS's: Artificial Stupidites. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf They come by it as naturally as Sad. Posted by: mikeski at April 09, 2026 12:15 AM (VHUov) 340 >> I think it has more to do with the ocean level rise during the Younger Dryas, the meltwater pulse. And post-glacial rebound. As the ice melts, land rises underneath. The idea is there was a weak spot where the Azores was at that triple plate junction, which subsided quickly to balance out the isostatic rebound elsewhere on the planet. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 12:15 AM (w6EFb) 341 316 - there's a YouTube video of Richard Feynman saying that's why a mission to Mars would NOT include a return trip. Posted by: BeckoningChasm Not without a moon base. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:15 AM (YZ0Fo) 342 Their ability to achieve plate surface levels of precision with granite is of particular interest. One thing about construction techniques, then as now, if you don’t need to work a surface to .00005” across large areas in 90 ton chunks of granite, you probably won’t. Why would they do that? I’ve no idea, I don’t believe it was an ancient power plant, but I don’t believe it was merely intended as a tomb for a bull, either. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:03 AM (wHaGM) I don't think it was a tomb at all. I know one thing, there was nothing like it before or after, and thats pretty strange. We're supposed to believe they started with little shit, then the step pyramid of Djoser, and eventually up to the giza pyramid, and then all of a sudden they forgot how to build them after that and for some reason every pyramid that came after is now a ruined rubble mound of crap. Something isn't adding up. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:16 AM (snZF9) 343 Isn't that just joy and Whoopi? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:09 AM (YZ0Fo) Those are AS's: Artificial Stupidites. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf ---------- Adjacent... SAD. Stubbornly Autistic Dumbbot. Posted by: scampydog at April 09, 2026 12:16 AM (41CYW) 344 They come by it as naturally as Sad. Posted by: mikeski I miss our good trolls. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:17 AM (YZ0Fo) 345 That is much older, though, during the late Miocene, 6 million years ago. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 12:13 AM (rbvCR) I think there have been more than one open/close cycles at the Pillars of Hercules, with the more recent one possibly being the Genesis Flood. There are flooded villages on the sea floor south of France. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:18 AM (utfVc) 346 Space, has an odor. A burnt smell. This was remarked upon by all the astronauts. The moondust is notorious for sticking to everything, very abrasive. Worked its way into everything causing trouble with precision fasteners, seals, helmet locks and wrist locks. Moon dust Smells like burnt gunpowder. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:18 AM (wHaGM) 347 Moon dust Smells like burnt gunpowder. == maybe...it is gunpowder! Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 12:19 AM (GD0B3) 348 The weather looks fantastic for The Masters. Warm and sunny! Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 12:20 AM (sAmhv) 349 There's a theory going around that the the rescue of the airmen was really part of a botched uranium grab. It is strange that the WSO was a colonel and that they didn't use Para Rescue (PJs) whose mission is to rescue down pilots. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 12:20 AM (EZPSB) 350 Not that it maters, my headphones are receiving static/ interference for the past 10 minutes. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2026 12:20 AM (diia5) 351 >>>I think that as usual what we are seeing and hearing in the media is not what is really going on. Trump thrives in confusion. Posted by: JackStraw --- "I am the storm" _PDJT The center of a hurricane is quite calm and pleasant while on all sides is chaos. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 12:20 AM (xOYmg) 352 That glacial isostasy thing is a complex business. What blew my mind was this. Naively, with a glacial period, you'd think that would transport mass (water) from the equator toward the poles, lowering the moment of inertia. The earth should speed up. Without ice sheets, more mass around the equator, more inertia. It works just the opposite. Glacial earth is more oblate than ice-free earth. And then reason is that isostasy thing. When ice build up at the poles the weight makes makes mantle material distibute and pooch up the equator more. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 12:20 AM (w6EFb) 353 don't think it was a tomb at all. I know one thing, there was nothing like it before or after, and thats pretty strange. We're supposed to believe they started with little shit, then the step pyramid of Djoser, and eventually up to the giza pyramid, and then all of a sudden they forgot how to build them after that and for some reason every pyramid that came after is now a ruined rubble mound of crap. Something isn't adding up. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division I'll just say, they still teach structure in architecture classes from the pyramids. They lost their early builds from weather and life. And they "Egyptian" monarchy lost their slaves. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:21 AM (YZ0Fo) 354 The Bundeswehr that I saw in West Germany were figments of my imagination. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 09, 2026 12:01 AM (hJH5n) Weren't they just training with broomsticks instead of rifles a couple years ago? Posted by: OrangeEnt When I was active duty we had to use supply our own coins for the "dime-washer" exercise. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 09, 2026 12:21 AM (/lPRQ) 355 weather looks fantastic for The Masters. Warm and sunny! Posted by: Puddleglum Xander for the win Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:21 AM (YZ0Fo) 356 I think that as usual what we are seeing and hearing in the media is not what is really going on. Trump thrives in confusion. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 12:12 AM (GukFK) Best guess is that the faction wanting a cease fire is the civilian government, including Speaker Ghalibaf and President Pezeshkian. They appear, however, to have lost any control over the IRGC, and it’s likely that the IRGC wants no part of this deal, and would like to see it fail. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 12:22 AM (UA2di) 357 We're supposed to believe they started with little shit, then the step pyramid of Djoser, and eventually up to the giza pyramid, and then all of a sudden they forgot how to build them after that and for some reason every pyramid that came after is now a ruined rubble mound of crap. Something isn't adding up. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:16 AM (snZF9) Maybe they had some mystical reason for building the Pyramids, with the expectation that a properly-built Pyramid would usher in a permanent Golden Age. They kept building bigger and better ones, and when the Great Pyramid failed to bring on the magic, maybe they got disillusioned and quit. Pyramids like Communism; next time is the charm! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:23 AM (utfVc) 358 343 @316 - there's a YouTube video of Richard Feynman saying that's why a mission to Mars would NOT include a return trip. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 09, 2026 12:13 AM (CHHv1) ----- Not taking anything away from the validity of the point you're making, but I noticed there are a lot of AI Generated videos for Feynman, Musk, Peterson and others Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 12:23 AM (EZPSB) 359 I think this is a lot more accurate than the mass media reports. Does anyone even know who Trump is actually speaking with cause he's never named them. Hell, he even admits communications with them is messenger level. If that's true then how would anyone in Tehran be speaking with their own troops? - I thought someone had said it was the head of their parliament? I don't recall the sourcing on that, though. Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 12:23 AM (vSvIl) 360 There's a theory going around that the the rescue of the airmen was really part of a botched uranium grab. It is strange that the WSO was a colonel and that they didn't use Para Rescue (PJs) whose mission is to rescue down pilots. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 12:20 AM (EZPSB) yep, "grab" 900lbs of uranium, sitting under tons and tons of rock, put it in your pocket, climb in anF15 and fly away at high speeds! Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 12:24 AM (GD0B3) 361 Turd interviewer just referred to Makeupme Kelly and Stucker Carlson conservatives. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 12:25 AM (xOYmg) 362 319 Guys did you hear the troll? Israel is now owned by Iran and America is next! Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:04 AM (YZ0Fo) Now we sell them the extended warrantee Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 09, 2026 12:26 AM (w/O5Q) 363 No, the Pyramids were built in a cemetery. They were tombs. That was the whole point. The kings got smarter and later tried to hide their bodies in the Valley of the Kings, which worked … not so well either. Generations of grave robbers lived in the area. Digging here, digging there… What’s wild is Tut was a minor obscure king who only reigned for a short while, they tried to erase his dad from the record, because he was so controversial. Monotheism. All those treasures found by Carter in 1922 were probably chicken feed compared to the stuff in the other tombs from earlier kings. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:26 AM (wHaGM) 364 There's a theory going around that the the rescue of the airmen was really part of a botched uranium grab. It is strange that the WSO was a colonel and that they didn't use Para Rescue (PJs) whose mission is to rescue down pilots. Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 12:20 AM (EZPSB) Some soyboy in Mom's basement: "Hey, the place where they rescued the WSO and the site of the uranium stash are only 1/8" apart on this map!" Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:27 AM (utfVc) 365 Not that it maters, my headphones are receiving static/ interference for the past 10 minutes. Posted by: weft cut-loop ---------- Damned moon dust. Posted by: scampydog at April 09, 2026 12:27 AM (41CYW) 366 and if anyone bothered to listen to the Pentagon briefing they would know that Para Rescue, and hundreds of other military (and CIA) were involved in the rescue mission Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 12:27 AM (GD0B3) 367 Maybe they had some mystical reason for building the Pyramids, with the expectation that a properly-built Pyramid would usher in a permanent Golden Age. They kept building bigger and better ones, and when the Great Pyramid failed to bring on the magic, maybe they got disillusioned and quit. Pyramids like Communism; next time is the charm! - They rush built it one turn before their rivals just to troll everyone. Then went back to putting their shields in chariots. Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 12:27 AM (vSvIl) 368 362 weather looks fantastic for The Masters. Warm and sunny! Posted by: Puddleglum Xander for the win Posted by: BruceWayne ............................................ It's pretty wide open this year. I'd like to see Woodland win a second major. JJ Spaun has a good shot at major #2. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 12:27 AM (sAmhv) 369 Grocery shopping today 13 oz Spanish peanuts for $2. I love Spanish peanuts. Great anticipation opening the tub... they are not salted. How on earth can that be? youtube.com/watch?v=y6N8eL-cuEU You will notice that this video was made during the time of the great segregation, there are no white or alternate race or sex persons allowed. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 12:27 AM (xOYmg) 370 Xander for the win Posted by: BruceWayne ---------- Blind draw pools I ended up with Ben Griffin and Min Woo Lee. Damnit. Posted by: scampydog at April 09, 2026 12:28 AM (41CYW) 371 if anyone bothered to listen to the Pentagon briefing they would know that Para Rescue, and hundreds of other military (and CIA) were involved in the rescue mission Posted by: runner at and the seals Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:28 AM (YZ0Fo) 372 Blind draw pools I ended up with Ben Griffin and Min Woo Lee. Damnit. Posted by: scampydog Oh man that's a BAD draw. Lee Prly makes the cut griffin doesn't. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:29 AM (YZ0Fo) 373 yep, "grab" 900lbs of uranium, sitting under tons and tons of rock, put it in your pocket, climb in anF15 and fly away at high speeds! Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 12:24 AM (GD0B3) ----- PJs use Blackhawks to get in and get out. Not C-130s, little birds, and B-1 bombers Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 12:30 AM (EZPSB) 374 Braeyard, do you like Virginia peanuts? I find those on sale at Hone Goods and TJ Maxx. They are big, salty and good. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 09, 2026 12:30 AM (FrGmf) 375 DUDE 44 , hows that uranium ? Sir, it's right here under my seat, all good, over Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 12:31 AM (GD0B3) 376 >>>they would know that Para Rescue, and hundreds of other military (and CIA) were involved in the rescue mission Posted by: runner --- You know, sometimes factual analysis is bridge too far. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 12:31 AM (xOYmg) 377 What I was getting at, were those large granite boxes in the Serapeum. There are dozens underground, and there is some question how they were moved there. They are single piece granite, 50 or 100 tons, with 90 degree inside angle cuts with plate surface precision, and lids to match. It makes no sense to work granite to that level of precision. It’s just weird. We’re told they were intended to bury bulls. I mean, OK. The sarcophagus in the great pyramid is actually a little rough. You can still see where they drilled on it and such. If there was a lid it’s long gone. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:31 AM (wHaGM) 378 Blind draw pools I ended up with Ben Griffin and Min Woo Lee. Damnit. Posted by: scampydog at April 09, 2026 12:28 AM (41CYW) Hattie told Mattie, 'bout a thing she saw, Big long horns, and a Woo Lee jaw. Woo Lee bully, Woo Lee bully! Right on! Right on! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:31 AM (utfVc) 379 DUDE 44 , hows that uranium ? Sir, it's right here under my seat, all good, over Posted by: runner at Got it in my pocket. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:32 AM (YZ0Fo) 380 The center of a hurricane is quite calm and pleasant while on all sides is chaos. Posted by: Braenyard A pleasant hurricane: https://youtu.be/mLqiF1wZic0 More pleasant than a real one, anyway. Posted by: mikeski at April 09, 2026 12:32 AM (VHUov) 381 PJs use Blackhawks to get in and get out. Not C-130s, little birds, and B-1 bombers Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 09, 2026 12:30 AM (EZPSB) did you listen to the Pentagon briefing after the rescue mission ? Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 12:32 AM (GD0B3) 382 It works just the opposite. Glacial earth is more oblate than ice-free earth. And then reason is that isostasy thing. When ice build up at the poles the weight makes makes mantle material distibute and pooch up the equator more. Posted by: publius I'm crushing your head! Posted by: adolescent glaciers at April 09, 2026 12:33 AM (VHUov) 383 go ahead, JM in Illinois, it will clear everything up ! Posted by: runner at April 09, 2026 12:33 AM (GD0B3) 384 What I was getting at, were those large granite boxes in the Serapeum. There are dozens underground, and there is some question how they were moved there. They are single piece granite, 50 or 100 tons, with 90 degree inside angle cuts with plate surface precision, and lids to match. It makes no sense to work granite to that level of precision. It’s just weird. We’re told they were intended to bury bulls. I mean, OK. The sarcophagus in the great pyramid is actually a little rough. You can still see where they drilled on it and such. If there was a lid it’s long gone. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:31 AM (wHaGM) Easy answer is that the big shit was put in place as the pyramids were built. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:35 AM (utfVc) 385 yep, "grab" 900lbs of uranium, sitting under tons and tons of rock, put it in your pocket, climb in anF15 and fly away at high speeds! - If only Chuck Norris was still with us... Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 12:35 AM (vSvIl) 386 works just the opposite. Glacial earth is more oblate than ice-free earth. And then reason is that isostasy thing. When ice build up at the poles the weight makes makes mantle material distibute and pooch up the equator more. Posted by: publius Was in a "discussion" today with a dude that said earth is a "dead planet". I was like then why do we keep producing oil and ice. He told me to go fuck myself. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:35 AM (YZ0Fo) 387 >>Best guess is that the faction wanting a cease fire is the civilian government, including Speaker Ghalibaf and President Pezeshkian. They appear, however, to have lost any control over the IRGC, and it’s likely that the IRGC wants no part of this deal, and would like to see it fail. Sounds right. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 12:36 AM (GukFK) 388 Virginia Peanuts and baked chicken was may main fare while dieting. It'll be a while before I want more. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 12:39 AM (xOYmg) 389 DUDE 44 , hows that uranium ? Sir, it's right here under my seat, all good, over Posted by: runner at Got it in my pocket. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:32 AM (YZ0Fo) It's powering the flux capacitor. Here we come, 1979! Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 09, 2026 12:42 AM (S/Y4j) 390 It's powering the flux capacitor. Here we come, 1979! Posted by: Hour of the Wolf Yall aren't ready for Chuck berry. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:43 AM (YZ0Fo) 391 366 I think this is a lot more accurate than the mass media reports. Does anyone even know who Trump is actually speaking with cause he's never named them. Hell, he even admits communications with them is messenger level. If that's true then how would anyone in Tehran be speaking with their own troops? - I thought someone had said it was the head of their parliament? I don't recall the sourcing on that, though. Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 12:23 AM (vSvIl) _______________________________ A number of times they mentioned communication with an Iranian embassy official located in Cairo, Egypt, and that the Pakistanis were serving as an intermediary. Posted by: Orson at April 09, 2026 12:43 AM (dIske) 392 I got interested. Is Erf the only planet with plate tectonics? Yes, well earth-like tectonics. :-) Venus is still "alive" geologically, but no tectonics. You need water to lubricate the crust. I did not know that. Europa has an icy version of tectonics, they think, as well as Enceladus. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 12:46 AM (w6EFb) 393 In the case of the Serapeum, they didn’t build up, these monster granite boxes were rough hewn and then installed underground in hollowed out chambers in the rock. And then precision finished underground. I think the “alien power plants” and all that stuff is nonsense. But again, they are precision flat surfaces, 3 angle 90 degree cuts single piece. But just the stuff that we can see, and measure, is crazy. Their ability to work and move large stones, hard stones like granite, diorite, andesite, and drill, and cut, and work, and polish is quite remarkable and only recently been able to be duplicated. Lost technology? I doubt this, but … where are the tools? They had a level of sophistication that modern archeologists categorically deny, because they can’t explain it, doesn’t fit in, so they ignore it. Petrie noted this over a hundred years ago, he was an engineer and they hadn’t achieved the ability to work granite the way they did at that point in his own time. He estimated a cutting or feed rate of 1 in 60 on some tube drill cores he found, or about a tenth of an inch cut per revolution of the drill. That’s insane. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:50 AM (wHaGM) 394 Venus is still "alive" geologically, but no tectonics. You need water to lubricate the crust. I did not know that. Europa has an icy version of tectonics, they think, as well as Enceladus. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 12:46 AM (w6EFb) I wonder about Mercury. Do we have enough imagery of its surface to know if volcanoes exist? There must be some pretty fierce tidal forces at work there. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:50 AM (utfVc) 395 Oh man that's a BAD draw. Lee Prly makes the cut griffin doesn't. Posted by: BruceWayne -------- My Masters blind draw = NCAA bracket. Money goes in, never comes out. Inexpensive financial black hole - friends adding commentary for free. Posted by: scampydog at April 09, 2026 12:50 AM (41CYW) 396 Oh man that's a BAD draw. Lee Prly makes the cut griffin doesn't. Posted by: BruceWayne -------- My Masters blind draw = NCAA bracket. Money goes in, never comes out. Inexpensive financial black hole - friends adding commentary for free. Posted by: scampydog Hahah I stopped doing brackets years ago. I might lay like 5$ on majors. MAYBE Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:52 AM (YZ0Fo) 397 What I was getting at, were those large granite boxes in the Serapeum. There are dozens underground, and there is some question how they were moved there. They are single piece granite, 50 or 100 tons, with 90 degree inside angle cuts with plate surface precision, and lids to match. It makes no sense to work granite to that level of precision. It’s just weird. We’re told they were intended to bury bulls. I mean, OK. The sarcophagus in the great pyramid is actually a little rough. You can still see where they drilled on it and such. If there was a lid it’s long gone. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:31 AM (wHaGM) The ancients did a shit ton of crazy shit that nobody can explain, thats the fucked up part. Moving 90 ton blocks of granite is baby shit compared to what they did in other areas. Look at the trilithon in baalbek lebanon at the old roman temple of Jupiter. 1000 ton stones. 1000 frigging tons. Thats just insane, and there's stones laying in the quarry that they didn't move that are 12-1500 tons. Who the hell does that? Its not just there, they did crazy shit in S. America half a world away. You have to wonder wtf these ancients were thinking and why. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 12:53 AM (snZF9) 398 Petrie noted this over a hundred years ago, he was an engineer and they hadn’t achieved the ability to work granite the way they did at that point in his own time. He estimated a cutting or feed rate of 1 in 60 on some tube drill cores he found, or about a tenth of an inch cut per revolution of the drill. That’s insane. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:50 AM (wHaGM) Are there any good detailed photographs to be found online that show this sort of perfection in surfaces and corners? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:53 AM (utfVc) 399 Lehman’s, the Amish colony in Penn. sells cayenne spicy peanuts that are really good. They are so good, it’s sort of problematic. They are slightly too hot, but at the same time you can’t stop eating them. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 12:54 AM (wHaGM) 400 Mercury was long considered to be dead geologically, but the recent probes have show evidence of activity. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 12:54 AM (w6EFb) 401 The ancients did a shit ton of crazy shit that nobody can explain, thats the fucked up part. Moving 90 ton blocks of granite is baby shit compared to what they did in other areas. Look at the trilithon in baalbek lebanon at the old roman temple of Jupiter. 1000 ton stones. 1000 frigging tons. Thats just insane, and there's stones laying in the quarry that they didn't move that are 12-1500 tons. Who the hell does that? Its not just there, they did crazy shit in S. America half a world away. You have to wonder wtf these ancients were thinking and why. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division They had thousands of slaves to build their temples to sacrifice Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:55 AM (YZ0Fo) 402 >>A number of times they mentioned communication with an Iranian embassy official located in Cairo, Egypt, and that the Pakistanis were serving as an intermediary. Yea. And China is also working with Pakistan but staying in the background. China. But who are they speaking with in Iran? We usually know the name of the guy in charge of the country we at war with. And yet nobody knows. We just know some Pakistanis and Chinese know a guy. Seems kinda odd. Posted by: JackStraw at April 09, 2026 12:58 AM (GukFK) 403 Are there any good detailed photographs to be found online that show this sort of perfection in surfaces and corners? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 12:53 AM (utfVc) Uncharted X on Youtube talks about this, the tube drills and the old Kingdom stone vases the channel is run by Ben van Kerkwyk Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 12:58 AM (rbvCR) 404 Mercury was long considered to be dead geologically, but the recent probes have show evidence of activity. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 12:54 AM (w6EFb) Space work that needs to be done, no particular order: Mercury orbiter. Map the surface, look for mascons, anything else remotely interesting. Thorough mapping of Venus; drop landers in interesting sites. Jupiter lander. Make like a hardened dirigible, so it would be buoyant in Jupiter's atmosphere, let it gradually sink, acquiring and transmitting data as long as is possible. Landers on selected moons of Jupiter and Saturn, too. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 01:01 AM (utfVc) 405 "All U.S. Ships, Aircraft, and Military Personnel, with additional Ammunition, Weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy, will remain in place in, and around, Iran, until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the “Shootin’ Starts,” bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before. It was agreed, a long time ago, and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary - NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS and, the Strait of Hormuz WILL BE OPEN & SAFE. In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest. AMERICA IS BACK!" Posted by: Guess Who at April 09, 2026 01:02 AM (U/Byj) 406 They had thousands of slaves to build their temples to sacrifice Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:55 AM (YZ0Fo) You really don't move anything that large that far with slaves. The Bronze Horseman of Peter the Great in Petersburg has as a base the Thunder Stone, which was moved by ship and lots and lots of workers. It is the largest stone ever moved in the modern era. It started out at around 1500 tons but was carved down. There are videos online about it and how it was moved. Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2026 01:03 AM (rbvCR) 407 Mercury also is in a 3:2 tidal "lock" with the Sun, rather than the familiar 1:1 like the Moon with Earth. The math gets complex, but this is caused by Mercury's large eccentricity. I've seen it, but can't remember the details, but you can construct a energy function(total orbital plus spin energy). When the eccentricity gets high enough, that puts a local minimum at the 3:2 point. 1:1 would be lower, but to get over the hump, you'd have to add energy to Mercury a bit to get it out and then let it fall into 1:1. Rather fascinating. 5:2 is possible with very high eccentricity. And 2:1 and 3:1 are possible, but they would be rare, and involve some more complex internal structure dynamics. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 01:04 AM (w6EFb) 408 Jupiter lander. Make like a hardened dirigible, so it would be buoyant in Jupiter's atmosphere, let it gradually sink, acquiring and transmitting data as long as is possible. Landers on selected moons of Jupiter and Saturn, too. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon a I don't see any value in "landing" on gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn. But the moons are interesting. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:05 AM (YZ0Fo) 409 I don't see any value in "landing" on gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn. But the moons are interesting. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:05 AM (YZ0Fo) It would be interesting to learn if either planet has a solid or liquid core under all that gas. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 01:08 AM (utfVc) 410 Never knew that about the Peter statue base, Kindltot. Interesting. Not sure that's part of the reason the statue was heavily sandbagged and protected during the siege in WWII, as opposed to moved, as most precious art was. That statue was a rendezvous point for some us in Leningrad on days we were out exploring things. Posted by: Guess Who at April 09, 2026 01:09 AM (U/Byj) 411 They had thousands of slaves to build their temples to sacrifice Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 12:55 AM (YZ0Fo) Not always, especially in Giza. The workmen's cemeteries in giza were discovered that showed they were skilled, paid, well fed and honored. Not slaves. No pharaoh would ever allow slaves to be buried within eye shot of his pyramid. They were structured burials with personal artifacts and sometimes with food and beer for the afterlife. The slave theory died a miserable death. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 01:09 AM (snZF9) 412 Seems like we oughta land on Europa, just out of principle. Posted by: Guess Who at April 09, 2026 01:10 AM (U/Byj) 413 as a base the Thunder Stone, which was moved by ship and lots and lots of workers. It is the largest stone ever moved in the modern era. It started out at around 1500 tons but was carved down. There are videos online about it and how it was moved. Posted by: Kindltot at Kinda my point. None of it is weird. Its slaves over the different controlling groups. Machu pichu was built by slaves. It's not some weird thing. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:10 AM (YZ0Fo) 414 A well written post in X maintains that Trump brought about this ceasefire in order to put all the competing factions inside the Iranian government at each others throats. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 01:10 AM (UA2di) 415 Why do orbits of spacecraft or satellites have this sinusoidal thing going on when plotted on the map of the earth? Of course the earth rotates underneath during each pass, so I get that part. By my peabrain can’t grok why the path looks wavy. I would throw it would look like a spring pattern. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 01:11 AM (wHaGM) 416 Bepi-Columbo is a Mercury orbiter that will answer a lot of those questions. It was supposed to enter orbit in Dec, but it lost its main thrusters, and the workaround will get into orbit by Nov 2026. NASA has a Mercury lander on its drawing board somewhere. Might launch in the mid-2030s. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 01:12 AM (w6EFb) 417 Mercury was long considered dead geologically, but recent probes have show evidence of activity.- publicus I read an article that said ice was found on Mercury. It is in craters on the planet that never gets rays from the sun. I thought that was wild, the closest planet to the sun has ice on it. Posted by: Case at April 09, 2026 01:12 AM (pvf3X) 418 Not always, especially in Giza. The workmen's cemeteries in giza were discovered that showed they were skilled, paid, well fed and honored. Not slaves. No pharaoh would ever allow slaves to be buried within eye shot of his pyramid. They were structured burials with personal artifacts and sometimes with food and beer for the afterlife. The slave theory died a miserable death. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division So because a group of people took care of themselves in the ancient world. We have to act like slave construction isn't a thing? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:13 AM (YZ0Fo) 419 Uncharted X on Youtube talks about this, the tube drills and the old Kingdom stone vases the channel is run by Ben van Kerkwyk Posted by: Kindltot -- Thanks, I found one, but it's one of those clickbait repetitions. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 01:14 AM (xOYmg) 420 It would be interesting to learn if either planet has a solid or liquid core under all that gas. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at It's interesting. For sure. But what's the point? It doesn't help us be a multi planetary species. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:15 AM (YZ0Fo) 421 So because a group of people took care of themselves in the ancient world. We have to act like slave construction isn't a thing? Posted by: BruceWayne at Or does it show that a group can be successful outside of that? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:17 AM (YZ0Fo) 422 >> Why do orbits of spacecraft or satellites have this sinusoidal thing going on when plotted on the map of the earth? Orbital inclination, the angle of the orbital plane with the Earth's equator. A 0 inclination would just map to a straight line over the equator on the flat map projections. But, with non-zero inclination it goes up and down as it moves across the earth. The earth's rotation adds a complication to that. Those sine wave tracks don't line up each loop, but shift westward as the earth rotates under them. For the 0 inclination orbit, it would still be a straight line cover the equator, it just wouldn't be moving eastward as fast. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 01:18 AM (w6EFb) 423 This and other weird ancient shit that keeps turning up makes me think the human race was more technologically advanced during certain periods than previously thought, then went through a period of degeneracy, then advancement again. Posted by: Probably wrong but interesting to consider at April 08, 2026 10:45 PM (TbWk/) Just imagine how badly the fallout from ancient nuclear wars has messed up our carbon dating! Posted by: SciVo at April 09, 2026 01:23 AM (Sy6m/) 424 You could start with primary sources. William “Flinders” Petrie wrote quite a few books, they are now public domain, or at least scanned and downloaded for free anyway. His survey of the great pyramid was so accurate the figures are still used today. Chris Dunn is a complete lunatic, as far as the “Giza power plant” and all that stuff. I think he just wants to sell books. One interesting theory I have read, Howard Carter actually discovered King Tut’s tomb years before 1922, and looted quite a lot of stuff. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 01:23 AM (wHaGM) 425 It's interesting. For sure. But what's the point? It doesn't help us be a multi planetary species. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:15 AM (YZ0Fo) Knowledge for knowledge's sake is always useful. Maybe liquid hydrogen could be "mined" on Jupiter, for example. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 01:24 AM (utfVc) 426 So because a group of people took care of themselves in the ancient world. We have to act like slave construction isn't a thing? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:13 AM (YZ0Fo) Its the fact that they were allowed to take care of themselves in the first place. Slaves aren't allowed to do that. Slaves don't get to have personal mastabas, or small family tombs. I'm not saying slaves didn't exist, but not every place in the ancient world was built by slaves. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 01:25 AM (snZF9) 427 Knowledge for knowledge's sake is always useful. Maybe liquid hydrogen could be "mined" on Jupiter, for example. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon What if we are spending cash and time sending a probe into Jupiter and we miss out on mining on comets that we know are solid and valuable? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:27 AM (YZ0Fo) 428 Well, I am getting sleepy. Time to call it night. Good night, Horde. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2026 01:27 AM (utfVc) 429 One interesting theory I have read, Howard Carter actually discovered King Tut’s tomb years before 1922, and looted quite a lot of stuff. Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2026 01:23 AM (wHaGM) Wasn't there was some shit about a hole he tried to cover up because it would have shown he was in there before people actually thought he was in there? Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 01:28 AM (snZF9) 430 What if we are spending cash and time sending a probe into Jupiter and we miss out on mining on comets that we know are solid and valuable? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:27 AM (YZ0Fo) Yeah some of those asteroids are filthy rich in minerals. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 01:30 AM (snZF9) 431 Its the fact that they were allowed to take care of themselves in the first place. Slaves aren't allowed to do that. Slaves don't get to have personal mastabas, or small family tombs. I'm not saying slaves didn't exist, but not every place in the ancient world was built by slaves. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division Of course. And those groups should get more attention. No argument here Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:30 AM (YZ0Fo) 432 What if we are spending cash and time sending a probe into Jupiter and we miss out on mining on comets that we know are solid and valuable? Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:27 AM (YZ0Fo) Yeah some of those asteroids are filthy rich in minerals. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division Armageddon was a documentary! Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:32 AM (YZ0Fo) 433 Best guess is that the workers for the Pyramids, and most of the great monuments, were more like skilled union members, organized into work gangs. The society certainly had slaves, but they would have been relegated to low skill work such as working the fields and taking care of any livestock. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 09, 2026 01:34 AM (UA2di) 434 Interesting definition of "open" @MOSSADil Iran demands cryptocurrency “tolls” for Strait of Hormuz transit According to the Financial Times, Iran is requiring oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz to pay tolls in cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, Tether (USDT), and the Trump family’s USD1 token. Vessels are reportedly instructed to email Iranian authorities with cargo details prior to transit. Authorities then respond with a quote for passage, reportedly $1 per barrel of oil, payable in digital currency. Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 01:36 AM (vSvIl) 435 Evening. I got to see the whole KingTut exibit in San Francisco in 1980 or so. It was incredible. I'd be willing to bet there was more. My next experience with Egypt was being in a holding pattern over the giza plateau and the city of the dead for hours when I was sent home frome Somalia. A 747 with maybe 100 people on it. I spent the whole time in awe. Then we landed and went to the ass end of the airport and were let out into the desert heat to hopefully not be shot at. Posted by: Reforger at April 09, 2026 01:40 AM (ZhdAT) 436 According to the Financial Times, Iran is requiring oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz to pay tolls in cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, Tether (USDT), and the Trump family’s USD1 token. Vessels are reportedly instructed to email Iranian authorities with cargo details prior to transit. Authorities then respond with a quote for passage, reportedly $1 per barrel of oil, payable in digital currency. Posted by: Methos at April 09, 2026 01:36 AM (vSvIl) Yuge mistake if we let this happen. You can only make ships pay a toll if you OWN the Waters... but the Straights are International Waters. If we let the tolls go forward, we are admitting they own the waters... Posted by: Romeo13 at April 09, 2026 01:43 AM (mP0Kj) 437 Yuge mistake if we let this happen. You can only make ships pay a toll if you OWN the Waters... but the Straights are International Waters. If we let the tolls go forward, we are admitting they own the waters... Posted by: Romeo13 Bombs must rain Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:45 AM (YZ0Fo) 438 Boo-yah! Child support from two baby daddies. That's like hitting the lottery with your vagina. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 01:49 AM (Fbc0I) 439 Poly market is easily influenced by small amounts of money. They had Kamala beating Trump. Just because "real money" is involved does not make it predicative. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 08, 2026 11:27 PM (YZ0Fo) It's unregulated gambling at its core. The "predictive" element is reliant on insiders cleaning out the chumps. Posted by: Sjg at April 09, 2026 01:50 AM (aqZN1) 440 I've got a solution. Eliminate the Houthis, and all Muslim radicals tell the rest to behave or we'll be back for them. Step two is send all Muslims in America back home. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 01:51 AM (xOYmg) 441 It's unregulated gambling at its core. The "predictive" element is reliant on insiders cleaning out the chumps. Posted by: Sjg at It's basically "vegas" but unregulated. And "people" pump money into it to to swing the bets. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:52 AM (YZ0Fo) 442 I've got a solution. Eliminate the Houthis, and all Muslim radicals tell the rest to behave or we'll be back for them. Step two is send all Muslims in America back home. Posted by: Braenyard - I've got a solution too. How bout we Pinochet all Muslims... Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 01:53 AM (YZ0Fo) 443 This stupid bit is where we gave up watching the new Doctor Who. For all the silly things they had done, this is where the show utterly jumped the shark, ran off the rails, and cratered. Even before Mrs Who came in. https://youtu.be/pHOnGSFzd3Y Posted by: mindful webworker - moon unit zapped at April 09, 2026 01:55 AM (C2uPD) 444 Evening. I got to see the whole KingTut exibit in San Francisco in 1980 or so. It was incredible. I'd be willing to bet there was more. My next experience with Egypt was being in a holding pattern over the giza plateau and the city of the dead for hours when I was sent home frome Somalia. A 747 with maybe 100 people on it. I spent the whole time in awe. Then we landed and went to the ass end of the airport and were let out into the desert heat to hopefully not be shot at. Posted by: Reforger at April 09, 2026 01:40 AM (ZhdAT) yeah I was fascinated by ancient egypt. I spent years reading a shit ton of books on it. I even learned to read the hieroglyphs good enough to make my way through a museum and identify what artifacts belonged to what pharaoh. It came in handy a few times. Then.....9/11 happened and my attitude was fuck the ME and everything in it. I'll never go there, or to egypt, or anything arab unless I was in a fucking death star. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 01:57 AM (snZF9) 445 I think I may have watched Dr. Who twice. They had the red phone booth thing and some weird sort of robot. I was more of a Benny Hill guy. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 02:01 AM (Fbc0I) 446 My thumbs aren't working right tonigjt. Posted by: Reforger at April 09, 2026 02:02 AM (ZhdAT) 447 I was a Young Ones kid. Posted by: Reforger at April 09, 2026 02:05 AM (ZhdAT) 448 think I may have watched Dr. Who twice. They had the red phone booth thing and some weird sort of robot. I was more of a Benny Hill guy. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone I'm a total sci fi dude and people kept telling we I needed to watch doctor who. I couldn't get through the Christopher Ecclelstein. And thank god it saved me a lot of heartbreak Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 02:05 AM (YZ0Fo) 449 I could never really watch Dr. Who after an older neighbor kid got ahold of a Flesh Gordon tape. Posted by: Reforger at April 09, 2026 02:11 AM (ZhdAT) 450 Hanson corrects Turd Edginton for mis-quoting PDJT. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 09, 2026 02:12 AM (xOYmg) 451 I'm a total sci fi dude and people kept telling we I needed to watch doctor who. I couldn't get through the Christopher Ecclelstein. And thank god it saved me a lot of heartbreak Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 02:05 AM (YZ0Fo) I watched it all the way through from ecclelstein and through David Tennant. I lost interest a little after that when he transformed yet again, but I watched a few with the new dude because Karen Gillan. Then they brought in some older dude and I was done. I have no clue what happened after. It was pretty cool while it lasted. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 02:15 AM (snZF9) 452 watched it all the way through from ecclelstein and through David Tennant. I lost interest a little after that when he transformed yet again, but I watched a few with the new dude because Karen Gillan. Then they brought in some older dude and I was done. I have no clue what happened after. It was pretty cool while it lasted. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 09, 2026 02:15 AM (snZF9) I did opt in again for Karen Gillian. .. Posted by: BruceWayne at April 09, 2026 02:24 AM (YZ0Fo) 453 If Tater is still here, here's a neat little visualization of the ISS orbit: https://is.gd/W2IkfB Note how each sine-wave (like) track moves westward with each orbit. Now, look at the globe view on the right. That's showing the orbit fixed relative to a non-rotating frame, with the globe rotating underneath. There's a slow complication I won't get into that makes that orbital plane precess in the inertial frame, which is due to the oblateness of the earth. It has a period of about 60 days or so. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 02:27 AM (w6EFb) 454 That precession for earth orbits is known as the precession of the right ascension of the ascending node. I love that phrase, it sounds sort of ancient astronomer-priest sounding. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 02:31 AM (w6EFb) 455 I learn a thing or two on here now and then. Like, daily. Gotta disconnect sometime, though. Now is that time. This song … could be better, but it has its moments. 🚀🥲 https://youtu.be/Y4gFPJsX8pQ G'nite, y'all. Posted by: mindful webworker - America, y'all! at April 09, 2026 02:47 AM (C2uPD) 456 I love that phrase, it sounds sort of ancient astronomer-priest sounding. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 09, 2026 02:31 AM (w6EFb) Just as chemistry was born of alchemy, and physics was born of apple-picking, astronomy was sired by astrology. Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 09, 2026 03:08 AM (Ot/FD) 457 1/2 hour early again Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 03:14 AM (Ia/+0) 458 I saw the King Tut exhibition in the Field Museum in Chicago in '77. I was in town to work in an interface circuit into the GTD5 at Automatic Electric in Northlake. The only times available to us on the prototype system was midnight to 6AM - low man on the totem pole - so Bob and I had day time open. You had to get to the museum early and sign up.for a ticket (like $20 extra) for a specific time. It was arranged like Ikea, or a Disney ride, back and forth in a separate area of the museum. We had about a 3 HR wait, which wasn't much of an imposition. The Field is a great place. Two years later, it shows up in SF, so I took the wife and kids. Posted by: buddhaha at April 09, 2026 03:32 AM (0r3iH) 459 As young teenager we went on a bus trip to see King Tut in DC Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 03:34 AM (Ia/+0) 460 Below freezing again as well, not getting to 60 degrees Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 03:56 AM (Ia/+0) 461 Nazi's on the moon....One of my favorite movies to just watch. Their is another name for the movie, the name of the company that made it. Very well done movie, with good graphics. So looking at the picture of the backside of the moon, where is their camp? Posted by: Colin at April 09, 2026 04:11 AM (e8qy3) 462 I firmly believe the lowered expectation of reaching old age in AK is because: bears. Must be that. Couldn't be the long winters, bad driving, and too much drinking. Or the backcountry skiing in avalanche areas, or the four-wheelin' along the highway when drunk, or.... Posted by: tcn in AK at April 09, 2026 04:12 AM (DwqWV) 463 I didn't actually listen to this woman's screed ( I kept it on mute). I just read about what she said about the rescued airman. Why do people make these Tik Tok videos with their own name and think that someone wouldn't object to them? What a narcissist! https://tinyurl.com/5538thbn Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 04:24 AM (ix8EF) 464 . NOOD Pixy's here with the Daily Tech News NOOD! Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 09, 2026 04:30 AM (O7YUW) 465 Pixy's up! Posted by: m at April 09, 2026 04:31 AM (fNISR) Givers, Takers, and Fakers Cafe The Chosen Fawn Kristin Mae Photography "Mummy said that monsters aren't real. But they are real." Hypersocial pittie. Humpdays. Border collie keeping a balloon aloft. These dogs are so happy just to touch grass. Cute: Helping a lost dog find his way home in an apartment building. Flat-Earthers cope and seethe over the Artemis II launch. They'll be on Tuq'r Qarlson next week. A white otter. Baby sea otter. The moment baby koala reunited with its mom after being treated for paw injuries..🐨🥺❤️ pic.twitter.com/A1d7fpygY9 — 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) April 8, 2026 I linked this Faker before: Meet Tom, the horse who plays dead whenever someone wants to ride him..🐎😅 pic.twitter.com/DBlkJ3u5RM — 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) April 8, 2026 Taker: 😼: hands off, they’re all mine!pic.twitter.com/KkXOKc8akM — Kitty Cat Empire (@KittyCatEmpire) March 4, 2026 Finally: The Givers. Mom, this ball thrower is broken..🐕🐾😅 📹ashley_plantingdreamhomes pic.twitter.com/CQJRIAIDab — 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) April 8, 2026 This post got ruined since I drafted it. "Takers" was supposed to be a hilarious video of a girl's shepherd which keeps stealing every single toy she picks up. It runs over and takes it out of her hands and hoards it on his dog bed. It does this for like 20 toys in a row and the girl just sits there looking at the camera like "Do you believe this?" But that video got deleted in the past hour for some reason. So I quickly found some random dog "taking" video to replace it. Oh well. I kinda liked the theme before that. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 Yo Posted by: Accomack at April 08, 2026 07:31 PM (8jVAy) 2 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0) 3 Dull blade Posted by: Accomack at April 08, 2026 07:33 PM (8jVAy) 4 This is my signal to get ready for bed. But watching a Ukraine vs Russia movie. Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 07:33 PM (Ia/+0) 5 The guys doing the floor here are from Newark, De. They spend the night on island. Posted by: Accomack at April 08, 2026 07:34 PM (8jVAy) 6 I'm OK with seizing and pouncing. But not prancercising. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2026 07:34 PM (u82oZ) 7 Seizing: C. Pouncing: A+. Can't get that one to play. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:35 PM (gtcuf) 8 I'm more interested in watching the Apollo deniers who claim the Van Allen Belts prevent exit from LEO. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 07:35 PM (gKWVE) 9 Meet Tom, the horse who plays dead whenever someone wants to ride him.. __________________________________ Women pull this scam all the time. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 07:35 PM (dIske) 10 Animals are always good. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 07:35 PM (zZu0s) 11 Another day without a sea otter. kicks rock I could use one today. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 07:36 PM (SIPhV) 12 So.... Ceasefire... Iran shoots missiles and closes the Straights? Uh... Posted by: Romeo13 at April 08, 2026 07:37 PM (mP0Kj) 13 Send him yo the glue factory Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 07:38 PM (Ia/+0) 14 Flat-Earthers cope and seethe over the Artemis II launch. I can't tell if those retards are actually that severely retarded, or just really, really committed to the bit. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:38 PM (gtcuf) 15 I'm more interested in watching the Apollo deniers who claim the Van Allen Belts prevent exit from LEO. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 07:35 PM (gKWVE) I am reading Mike Collins' Carrying the Fire, and just read the part when he was on Gemini 10, and folks were worried about that, and the readings were largely negligible. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 07:39 PM (0aYVJ) 16 All hail the AoSHQ Café Cleaning Crew, for without their massive, sustained, and heroic efforts, this place would smell even worse after one of those unfortunate penguin invasions, such as we suffered last night! Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 07:39 PM (0sNs1) 17 Flat-Earthers cope and seethe over the Artemis II launch. I can't tell if those retards are actually that severely retarded, or just really, really committed to the bit. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:38 PM (gtcuf) There is a very strong tongue-in-cheek vibe with these people. Eh. Who knows? Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 07:40 PM (0aYVJ) 18 We use baby mammoths as vacuum cleaners, and toads to lick clean the floor. Got great subcontractors. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2026 07:43 PM (u82oZ) 19 >>>Can't get that one to play. so we're back to the bad old days when these videos would be up for an hour and then were taken down by the time I post them. These guys all steal from each other and have to take down their videos when they're caught. For a while they had a system where you could steal a video but the original poster would get some of the money for it, but I guess this account is back to just stealing. so he ruined my post. This is why I had switched to instagram and youtube for a while -- the videos I got from twitter would be taken down by the time I posted the cafe. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 07:43 PM (1wjle) 20 OT - You have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about you loser. Go back to whatever hole you crawled out of because you clearly can’t read - White House Communications Director Steven Cheung This is regarding a claim that Trump accepted Iran's 10-point plan. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:44 PM (/lPRQ) 21 Her Majesty made the mistake of letting Diana out to chase a squirrel. She just missed getting it but strained something and came into the house yelping. Meds and rest. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 07:44 PM (tgvbd) 22 These guys all steal from each other and have to take down their videos when they're caught. Is that why that happens? That makes more sense. It's part of the reason I don't do reaction vids. It's lazy and stupid. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 07:46 PM (a+4eV) 23 A few seconds after liftoff: "The height is all wrong." OK, rocket scientist. And, of course, the usual "The curvature of the horizon is not real!" Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:46 PM (gtcuf) 24 I could use one today. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 07:36 PM Best I can do is some hugs. {{{{{{{{{{ hugs }}}}}}}}}} Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 07:46 PM (0sNs1) 25 Hadrian the Seventh Did Her Majesty say it was her mistake? If so, progress. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2026 07:47 PM (u82oZ) 26 That's not a Fawn. That's a Doe. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 07:48 PM (TLp3A) 27 {{{nurse ratched}}} Here is a life-affirming hug, with proper hand placement. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2026 07:48 PM (u82oZ) 28 This is regarding a claim that Trump accepted Iran's 10-point plan. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:44 PM (/lPRQ) "Chad does Communications Duty" Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 07:48 PM (rbvCR) 29 I think the horse is hilarious. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 07:49 PM (3ek7K) 30 i added some otters, nurse. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 07:50 PM (1wjle) 31 so that account is dead to me. This used to make me so pissed off, putting together a Cafe only to find that one quarter of the links were dead by the time I posted it because the a-hole had stolen it and had it taken down. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 07:51 PM (1wjle) 32 Did Her Majesty say it was her mistake? If so, progress. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2026 07:47 PM (u82oZ) _____________ She did! A woman admits she was wrong. Fancy that! Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 07:51 PM (tgvbd) 33 26 That's not a Fawn. That's a Doe. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 07:48 PM (TLp3A) __________________________ You are correct, sir. Not sure if it's a yearling, or just under-nourished, though. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 07:51 PM (dIske) 34 26 That's not a Fawn. That's a Doe. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 07:48 PM (TLp3A) Is this where Ace goes.. 'DOH'... Posted by: Romeo13 at April 08, 2026 07:51 PM (mP0Kj) 35 >>so that account is dead to me. This used to make me so pissed off, putting together a Cafe only to find that one quarter of the links were dead by the time I posted it because the a-hole had stolen it and had it taken down. A real man takes responsibility for his failures, Ace. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 07:52 PM (TLp3A) 36 The Straights are dire. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 07:52 PM (Cqx++) 37 well I didn't know a fawn could not be female. also I was trying to do a "Chosen One" pun. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 07:52 PM (1wjle) 38 Doe, a deer, a female deer, BLAM! ten pounds of ven-i-son. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:52 PM (gtcuf) 39 Hadrian the Seventh You married a keeper, for sure. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2026 07:53 PM (u82oZ) 40 A real man takes responsibility for his failures, Ace. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 07:52 PM (TLp3A) ____________ A poor workman blames his tools. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 07:53 PM (tgvbd) 41 >>You are correct, sir. Not sure if it's a yearling, or just under-nourished, though. She looks fine. They tend to look a bit gaunt after they drop their winter coat. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 07:53 PM (TLp3A) 42 11 Another day without a sea otter. kicks rock I could use one today. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 07:36 PM (SIPhV) OUCH! Posted by: Kid Rock at April 08, 2026 07:53 PM (mP0Kj) 43 >> I didn't know a fawn could not be female. also I was trying to do a "Chosen One" pun. Fawn is either sex... but it would be spotted for the majority of the time it is considered a fawn. After that, it's just another Deer. Also, I assumed that was the title the Photographer gave it. Not an Editorial Choice. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 07:55 PM (TLp3A) 44 fawn is like foal or calf ace. Refers to the baby deer of either sex. Chosen fawn looks like a full grown doe. Posted by: PaleRider at April 08, 2026 07:56 PM (Bu2hG) 45 >>>"Mummy said that monsters aren't real. But they are real." I couldn't remember where that quote came from, so I did a search. But, the HQ was the one and only result. Quote was Briticised! Mummy replaced Mommy. Came from Aliens. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 08, 2026 07:57 PM (syz1S) 46 I forgive you for everything. Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 08, 2026 07:57 PM (r0dOk) 47 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons! Back from beer and chicken wings at Elnora. Life is good. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 07:57 PM (utfVc) 48 >>> That's not a Fawn. That's a Doe. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 07:48 PM (TLp3A) Well there was a fawn but they had to replace it after it was killed in a tragic and messy kiln explosion. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 07:59 PM (3uBP9) 49 I watched SciManDan's Flat Earther reaction video linked above. He just shakes his head in bemusement at the absolute credulity of the Flat Earthers who simply refuse to believe in anything other than their delusions. Artemis II mission is the modern day "fake Moon landing." When we build a Moonbase, they still won't believe it. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 07:59 PM (ESVrU) 50 Nurse! Caught your earlier message. A lot of people were blessed you were there today. Take care of yourself now. I'm watching 1978's 'Dawn of the Dead' when a pregnant woman could light up and smoke a cigarette without everyone freaking out. In her defense, there is a zombie apocalypse going on.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 07:59 PM (Sco7b) 51 fawn is like foal or calf ace. Refers to the baby deer of either sex. Chosen fawn looks like a full grown doe. Posted by: PaleRider at April 08, 2026 07:56 PM (Bu2hG) Doe nuts. Things that do not exist. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 07:59 PM (utfVc) 52 >>Well there was a fawn but they had to replace it after it was killed in a tragic and messy kiln explosion. I kept looking for it...but it wasn't there. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 08:00 PM (TLp3A) 53 Those flat-earthers are real -- they truly believe this stuff. Now, some are just grifting, getting "engagement" hits and all that, and some are just yanking chains, but on the whole, they are real. When you first see their lunacy, it's so crazy and stupid you can't believe anyone could really believe that. They do. I first got to looking at this stuff about year ago, after I saw a comment on one of Don Pettit's X posts of some video he took on the ISS of star trails (check his feed out, he posts fantastic pics and videos). Some idiot called him filth liar and devil worshipper. I was like, WTF? What's that guy's problem. He was flat-earther. Bottom line is these guys are mostly for real. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 08:00 PM (w6EFb) 54 But that video got deleted in the past hour for some reason. So I quickly found some random dog "taking" video to replace it. ----------------- It was probably a Somali Shepherd. Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 08:00 PM (PHATe) 55 Evening, Ace and Co.! That thick-furred cat with the Snickers bars needs to be removed to another room. Or house. No cat of mine is going to keep me from eating my own food! On the other hand, he is cute. (Yes, I indulge and spoil my feline thugs much more than I should. Your point?) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 08:01 PM (wzUl9) 56 My advice to that fawn is to stay away from kilns. Posted by: Eromero at April 08, 2026 08:01 PM (LHPAg) 57 I can always tell when there are fawn trapsing around in my back field. Those little bastards are noisy screechers. As they get older they learn to keep it quiet and usually just provide an occasional snort. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 08:01 PM (dIske) 58 It still actually pisses me off that they killed off the kid from aliens as the backstory to one of the subsequent iterations. Well that's crap. I understand it's all supposed to be dark and gritty. Sure. sure... Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 08:02 PM (3uBP9) 59 Flat Earthers: The curvature of the horizon is all done with fish-eye lenses! Normies: Really? Every picture ever taken in the history of photography of the curvature of the horizon was done with fish-eye lenses? Flat Earthers: FISH-EYE LENS! Normies: How about when you're on a plane and see it with your own eyes? Flat Earthers: FISH-EYE LENS! Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 08:02 PM (gtcuf) 60 That thick-furred cat with the Snickers bars needs to be removed to another room. Or house. No cat of mine is going to keep me from eating my own food! On the other hand, he is cute. (Yes, I indulge and spoil my feline thugs much more than I should. Your point?) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 08:01 PM (wzUl9) ---- How do we know he wasn't protecting his human from the evil chocolate, which is bad for kitties? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 08:03 PM (ESVrU) 61 >>>56 My advice to that fawn is to stay away from kilns. shelley dubowski is the hottest girl I ever saw as a kid. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 08:04 PM (1wjle) 62 Those flat-earthers are real ... -------------- Have a friend who is one -- the Moon Landing was fake, and of course he's been part of the Q Anon Deep State PsyOp from the get-go. If you ever flown some distance on an aircraft -- you can clearly see the curvature of the Earth on the horizon. The best one was a video I think Ace posted here once: some guy hooked up a bunch of balloons to his lawn chair or something, and filmed his ascent -- and even in that video you could see the curvature of the Earth in the distance. Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 08:05 PM (PHATe) 63 Some idiot called him filth liar and devil worshipper. "Devil worshipper" and "demonic" seem to be go-to comments when a contrary fact bubbles up. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 08:05 PM (gKWVE) 64 We get the occasional deer here. Sometimes a whole herd will come traipsing through the neighborhood during the day. But what we got a whole lot of this year are foxes. I've noticed a huge amount this spring. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 08:05 PM (3uBP9) 65 Evening, Ace and Co.! That thick-furred cat with the Snickers bars needs to be removed to another room. Or house. No cat of mine is going to keep me from eating my own food! On the other hand, he is cute. (Yes, I indulge and spoil my feline thugs much more than I should. Your point?) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 08:01 PM (wzUl9) Cat is just boxing, he don't care about the candy, Just pull the bowl away and don't get into his space. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 08:06 PM (8avO+) 66 ace was thinking of Fawn Liebowitz. 29. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 08:07 PM (zZu0s) 67 No cat of mine is going to keep me from eating my own food! On the other hand, he is cute. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 08:01 PM (wzUl9) I solve that problem by having the dog eat better than I do. And the cat eats at her house.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 08:07 PM (Sco7b) 68 Have a friend who is one -- the Moon Landing was fake, and of course he's been part of the Q Anon Deep State PsyOp from the get-go. === what do people get out of believing stuff like that ? Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 08:07 PM (GD0B3) 69 shelley dubowski is the hottest girl I ever saw as a kid. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 08:04 PM (1wjle) -------------- Of the Big Dubowskis? / Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 08:07 PM (PHATe) 70 Doe, a deer, a female deer, BLAM! ten pounds of ven-i-son. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 *** I wish I'd heard that when we used to sing that song in grammar school. I'll use it from now on! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 08:08 PM (wzUl9) 71 helley dubowski is the hottest girl I ever saw as a kid. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 08:04 PM (1wjle) Fawn Leibowitz. We have a date tonight. Posted by: Eromero at April 08, 2026 08:08 PM (LHPAg) 72 >>Cat is just boxing, he don't care about the candy, Just pull the bowl away and don't get into his space. Cat is on the Counter. Put on the Welding glove and fill a bucket with cold water. Time to teach him a lesson. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 08:08 PM (TLp3A) 73 But what we got a whole lot of this year are foxes. I've noticed a huge amount this spring. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 08:05 PM (3uBP9) __________________________ We switch off here. One year, foxes everywhere. The next year coyotes everywhere. Which I guess makes sense since coyotes hunt foxes. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 08:08 PM (dIske) 74 I can't believe people think the earth is flat Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 08:09 PM (Ia/+0) 75 We let old Mama Dot wander around the house this afternoon. She is, if anything, worse than her niece Diana. She won't leave unless you pet her. But if you pet her she won't leave. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 08:10 PM (tgvbd) 76 68 what do people get out of believing stuff like that ? My guess, they have deep-seated need to "know something that no one else knows" so they can feel superior. Rooted in a lack of self-esteem. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 08:10 PM (gtcuf) 77 >>We switch off here. One year, foxes everywhere. The next year coyotes everywhere. Which I guess makes sense since coyotes hunt foxes. They generally cycle to high populations following the year their food choice does the same. Here it is field mice. But, rabbits and squirrels go through boom cycles, too and their predators follow. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 08:10 PM (TLp3A) 78 We have a lot of foxes. They enjoy eating the bird seed that collects beneath the feeders. One morning, I looked out and saw a fox splooted underneath the feeders. All sprawled out eating bird seed. They are fun to watch. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 08:10 PM (FrGmf) 79 Fawn Leibowitz. We have a date tonight. Posted by: Eromero at April 08, 2026 08:08 PM (LHPAg) Dont think she is going to make it. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 08:10 PM (zZu0s) 80 Oh wow, ace. Thank you! It was a tough day mentally. I didn’t expect it, and it was pretty hard. Thanks to all y’all. You’re the best folks on the planet. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 08:11 PM (hryr8) 81 My guess, they have deep-seated need to "know something that no one else knows" so they can feel superior. Rooted in a lack of self-esteem. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 08:10 PM (gtcuf) ok, that is plausible. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 08:11 PM (GD0B3) 82 I can't believe people think the earth is flat Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 08:09 PM (Ia/+0) ---- Would the Men in Black lie to me? Posted by: Conspiracy Theorist at April 08, 2026 08:11 PM (ESVrU) 83 Evenin’, All. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 08:11 PM (77rzZ) 84 what do people get out of believing stuff like that ? My guess, they have deep-seated need to "know something that no one else knows" so they can feel superior. Rooted in a lack of self-esteem. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 08:10 PM (gtcuf) Gnostics. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 08:11 PM (zZu0s) 85 unfortunate penguin invasions, such as we suffered last night! Posted by: Duncanthrax We are not party to the ceasefire, and reserve the right to retaliate in advance to all perceived threats and slurs. Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front, Eastern Division at April 08, 2026 08:11 PM (oftw2) 86 I can't believe people think the earth is flat It's gotta be some kind of genetic anomaly or defect. Yikes. Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 08, 2026 08:11 PM (ceJ0R) 87 Tired of your empty life? The internet, the news, the daily strife? Fill yourself with the water of truth, and see the light Answer the call. He’s waiting to give you eternal life. He is here now, by your side where He’s always been Jesus will never leave you. Never fail you. Never stop loving you. Come back to Him Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 08:12 PM (XFXIk) 88 >>They are fun to watch. They are. I have some Red Fox here that are fun to watch through the year. Every once in a while I catch a nice Silver out in the field...but I don't think he has a mate nearby. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 08:12 PM (TLp3A) 89 Hypersocial pittie. How could you ever be afraid of that guy? It's not like he's an otter... Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 08:13 PM (iF8Pa) 90 I can't believe people think the earth is flat It's gotta be some kind of genetic anomaly or defect. Yikes. Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 08, 2026 08:11 PM (ceJ0R) The flat earthers are part of the conspiracy. It is really a CUBE. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 08:13 PM (8avO+) 91 I can't believe people think the earth is flat It's gotta be some kind of genetic anomaly or defect. Yikes. Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 08, 2026 08:11 PM (ceJ0R) _____________ Look at all the people who KNOW socialism will work the next time it's tried. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 08:13 PM (tgvbd) 92 Happy cafe! Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 08:15 PM (Wmg4n) 93 >>Here it is field mice. But, rabbits and squirrels go through boom cycles, too and their predators follow. Last year we had rabbits everywhere. Coyotes followed. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 08:16 PM (GukFK) 94 Its obvious cubes are not circling the square sun Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 08:16 PM (Ia/+0) 95 There is an arrogance to the conspiracy theorists. Their favorite word is "sheeple." Just to let you know youre a stupid follower, while they are just too smart to believe conventional wisdom. Posted by: Wally at April 08, 2026 08:16 PM (m2bnY) 96 74 I can't believe people think the earth is flat Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 08:09 PM (Ia/+0) Look how many believe you can play Mr. Potatohead with their genitals and a man becomes a woman and vice versa. When I'm finally done caregiving giving the dog a nice long life, I'm going to take a shot with the Ontario health care system and try to become a minotaur! Later. I'm going to see if this is one of those zombie horror movies with a happy ending. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 08:17 PM (Sco7b) 97 It's gotta be some kind of genetic anomaly or defect. Yikes. Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 08, 2026 _____________ Look at all the people who KNOW socialism will work the next time it's tried. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 * It'd be interesting to see how much overlap there is between flat-Earthers and socialists. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 08:17 PM (wzUl9) 98 shelley dubowski is the hottest girl I ever saw as a kid. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 08:04 PM (1wjle) ________________________ Ok, this went right over my pointy little head, and I had to look it up. Shelley Dubinsky (Animal House). Played by Lisa Baur. Who, unfortunately, never played another role. Maybe she got hit by a bus or something. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 08:17 PM (dIske) 99 You'll see people try to seriously engage these flat-earthers and point out why their "models" are just wrong -- they fail against observation. It doesn't work. There is no benefit in engaging with them, it doesn't work. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 08:17 PM (w6EFb) 100 94 Its obvious cubes are not circling the square sun Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 08:16 PM (Ia/+0) Promising. Needs some development. Posted by: Eromero at April 08, 2026 08:18 PM (LHPAg) 101 There is an arrogance to the conspiracy theorists. Their favorite word is "sheeple." Just to let you know youre a stupid follower, while they are just too smart to believe conventional wisdom. Posted by: Wally at April 08, 2026 08:16 PM (m2bnY) I think the commenter that said it was a way for them to cope with own inadequacies, lack of self-esteem, was spot on. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 08:18 PM (GD0B3) 102 >>Last year we had rabbits everywhere. Coyotes followed. Out here, the coyotes boom and then they get mange and die back. Or, the wolves kill them. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 08:18 PM (TLp3A) 103 Its obvious cubes are not circling the square sun Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 * I seem to recall the Bizarro World was depicted as a cube. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 08:19 PM (wzUl9) 104 When I'm finally done caregiving giving the dog a nice long life, I'm going to take a shot with the Ontario health care system and try to become a minotaur! Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 08:17 PM (Sco7b) I understand minotaurs get all the hot babes, so go for it, man. YOLO Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 08, 2026 08:19 PM (zYpTz) 105 Its obvious cubes are not circling the square sun Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 08:16 PM (Ia/+0) duh the orbit is a square too Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 08:20 PM (8avO+) 106 They get all their news. All their information from the internet. They repeat the lies because they believe it to be the truth. They never verify. Never apply logic, or intellectually examine what’s stated to ferret out the truth. It’s why they are genuinely surprised when their arguments fail, their expectations crash and their desired outcome never materializes. What you’re up against are not only radicals and enemies who want us to be destroyed. You are up against indifferent blithe and ignorance. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 08:20 PM (XFXIk) 107 speaking of inadequacies... "awn Ryan @ShawnRyan762 2h Ceasefire's barely 24 hours old, and Israel (our greatest ally) is already blowing it up, literally. Largest coordinated strike on Lebanon since the war began. But sure, another masterclass in negotiation from the guy who threatened to wipe out an entire civilization the day before. Stable genius stuff." The grifter class strikes again. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 08:20 PM (GD0B3) 108 Mr Scary works among nerds. He's witnessed the moon landing deniers challenging the guys that worked at NASA during Apollo. Weird folks. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 08:20 PM (FrGmf) 109 Its obvious cubes are not circling the square sun Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 * duh the orbit is a square too Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 *** And seasons change when the cube planet screeches around a right-angle corner! Obvious! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 08:21 PM (wzUl9) 110 Have a good night everyone Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 08:21 PM (Ia/+0) 111 I gave Marine a Flat Earth Society t-shirt as a gift several years ago. He had joked about it for a while, so I got him a shirt as a joke. Every time he wore it, people would stop him and ask him serious questions about “his theories.” Holy crap, he met some whackadoodles. Of course, he’d go with the flow of the conversation and ask them about their facts. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 08:22 PM (A5RD0) 112 Shelley Dubinsky (Animal House). Played by Lisa Baur. Who, unfortunately, never played another role. Maybe she got hit by a bus or something. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 08:17 PM (dIske) or, maybe, she realized that Hollywood can and does ruin people on a regular basis. And got out early. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 08:22 PM (0aYVJ) 113 A couple of my favorite flat-earth "arguments". Airplanes don't dip their nose to follow the curve. If the earth were round, pilots would have to be pushing the stick down to follow the curve. And then, "pressure requires a container". The earth could have an atmosphere exposed to vacuum without a barrier to keep in from being sucked out into space. And similar, how can water stick to a spinning ball? And they demand pictures of people in Australia being "upside down". This stuff is child-like, and they think they're really debunking a spherical earth. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 08:22 PM (w6EFb) 114 Lebanon was not part of any deal. CiNC said it himself today. If people were honest, not evil, ignorant malefactors they would know that and say it. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 08:22 PM (XFXIk) 115 I can't believe people think the earth is flat It has to creep them out, though, that all the math and all the pictures make so much more sense if the world were round. And everyone just makes all these observations in coordination to make it seem round! It always checks out! Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 08:23 PM (iF8Pa) 116 80 Thank you! It was a tough day mentally. I didn’t expect it, and it was pretty hard. Thanks to all y’all. You’re the best folks on the planet. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 Hey friend! I am sorry your day was rough. Huge hugs and as much positivity as possible floating your way. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 08:23 PM (Wmg4n) 117 >>Ceasefire's barely 24 hours old, and Israel (our greatest ally) is already blowing it up, literally. Largest coordinated strike on Lebanon since the war began. But sure, another masterclass in negotiation from the guy who threatened to wipe out an entire civilization the day before. This guy is such a CIA Cuck. Once a Fed, always a Fed. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 08:25 PM (TLp3A) 118 Ace, I’m gonna get you to pick up that Bible. Don’t make me send you harassing emails. Lol. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 08:25 PM (XFXIk) 119 And then, "pressure requires a container". The earth could have an atmosphere exposed to vacuum without a barrier to keep in from being sucked out into space. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 08:22 PM (w6EFb) So what is the barrier on a flat earth? why doesn't the atmosphere fall off the edge or drift off higher? Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 08:26 PM (8avO+) 120 >> Lebanon was not part of any deal. CiNC said it himself today. If people were honest, not evil, ignorant malefactors they would know that and say it. Since when is a US v Iran negotiation applicable to Israel v Lebanon action? Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 08:26 PM (TLp3A) 121 Fawn look pregnant. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 08:27 PM (xOYmg) 122 Is Hump Day really almost over? I'm on my own tonight. Miss Linda has gone to Movie Night with some girlfriends from church (though I suspect none of them are ofan age to be called "girls" any more). She trusts them to pick a good movie; I hope it won't be something terribly dull. I finally talked to the investment company that has been holding that long-forgotten pension payout for me. It looks, they say, as if everything is go. Maybe I'll finally see this money by mid-June, only some seven months after they first wrote me. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 08:27 PM (wzUl9) 123 >>>Flat Earthers: FISH-EYE LENS! Normies: How about when you're on a plane and see it with your own eyes? Flat Earthers: FISH-EYE LENS! Posted by: Delurker Those idiots were claiming the rocket launch itself was fake. They kept counting the "edits" suggesting that it was a special effects fake. Their manner of thinking suggests that they themselves never go outside. Everything they see is on screen -- tv, computer, phone. It never occurred to them that there were 1000+ witnesses physically present at the launch who saw it without "edits" on a screen. This didn't occur to them because they themselves seen nothing except through a screen. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 08:27 PM (1wjle) 124 Its obvious cubes are not circling the square sun Posted by: Skip What about Bizarro world? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 08:28 PM (Cqx++) 125 So what is the barrier on a flat earth? why doesn't the atmosphere fall off the edge or drift off higher? "The Ice Wall" of Antarctica that surrounds us. At least, acc. to the only guy I've followed who says he's a Flat-Earther. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 08:28 PM (iF8Pa) 126 >>Since when is a US v Iran negotiation applicable to Israel v Lebanon action? Never. Some haji from the IRGC put it out there as the reason for the strait threats. CiNC set him straight and let them know patience is running out. The VP also just said the same thing. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 08:29 PM (XFXIk) 127 I have always assumed the majority of flat earthers are simply contrarians who like to be edgy (haha, see what I did?) mixed with others who are easily persuaded. Those persuadable ones are more prevalent than I originally imagined, but you see it in action when the dem party big whigs flip on a dime, and the crowd just follows beeping behind. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 08:29 PM (OoFl2) 128 Out in the country they had a coyote bounty month each year. It was also a contest. First place was usually some type of varmint rifle. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 08:29 PM (xOYmg) 129 A poor workman blames his tools. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 07:53 PM (tgvbd) A good carpenter always leaves with more tools than he arrived with. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 08:29 PM (DwqWV) 130 >> Their manner of thinking suggests that they themselves never go outside. Everything they see is on screen -- tv, computer, phone. As one of my brothers always says, there’s nothing like a punch in the face to give you perspective. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 08:30 PM (XFXIk) 131 >> So what is the barrier on a flat earth? The Firmament. A big ol' dome. They take the azimuthal equidistant projection of the earth as reality. That maps the south pole to a circle (distance from the center, the north pole, is the actual meridional geodesic distance). They think Antarctica is a big "ice wall" that surrounds the whole thing. The base of the firmament is down there at the edge of the ice wall. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 08:30 PM (w6EFb) 132 >>I have always assumed the majority of flat earthers are simply contrarians who like to be edgy (haha, see what I did?) mixed with others who are easily persuaded. Those persuadable ones are more prevalent than I originally imagined, but you see it in action when the dem party big whigs flip on a dime, and the crowd just follows beeping behind. This. It's just RageBait. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 08:31 PM (TLp3A) 133 We don't see many coyotes anymore. Once in a while you hear them. Used to see them in the field. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 08:31 PM (FrGmf) 134 I think of you believe the earth is flat your life might be more meaningful if you were a traffic cone. Maybe a boat bumper. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 08:31 PM (XFXIk) 135 127 So what is the barrier on a flat earth? why doesn't the atmosphere fall off the edge or drift off higher? "The Ice Wall" of Antarctica that surrounds us. At least, acc. to the only guy I've followed who says he's a Flat-Earther. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 08:28 PM (iF8Pa) What does this Flat Earth sit on? I mean, how is it suspended? Or is it? Turtles all the way down? Really, these fools are... fools. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 08:32 PM (DwqWV) 136 This didn't occur to them because they themselves seen nothing except through a screen. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 08:27 PM (1wjle) Everyone at those launches is in on it. Have to sign an NDA. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 08:32 PM (zZu0s) 137 Did you see the video of one the Daily Wire guys at the launch? He saw a comment that it was all green screen cgi, so he got up, unplugged his mic and ear pieces and went out in the grass, pulled up clumps and then did jumping jacks. "See, I'm really here!". Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 08:32 PM (w6EFb) 138 129 >>Since when is a US v Iran negotiation applicable to Israel v Lebanon action? --- I pray, literally, for Trump and this mess. Personally, we're (the civilized part of the world) never going to be at peace till they are all dead. We've got a lot of debts to settle and they must pay them. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 08:33 PM (xOYmg) 139 U.S. Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) is facing intense criticism from President Donald Trump’s base over the most recent push to pass her “DIGNIDAD Act,” a de factor amnesty bill. Trump should remove his endorsement. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 08:33 PM (abIsI) 140 108 speaking of inadequacies... "awn Ryan @ShawnRyan762 2h Ceasefire's barely 24 hours old, and Israel (our greatest ally) is already blowing it up, literally. Largest coordinated strike on Lebanon since the war began. But sure, another masterclass in negotiation from the guy who threatened to wipe out an entire civilization the day before. Stable genius stuff." The grifter class strikes again. Posted by: runner ------ I blocked his shit on X because I got tired of seeing it. An admitted former CIA ops guy that sold drugs on the side to American ex pats and tourists in Latin America to support his massive drug habit. And from everything that I've read on both the FBI and the CIA assets and informants along with agents, it is like the Mafia, once you are in, then you are in for life. Even 'out', they turn you on and off again like a water tap whenever needed for the organizational interests. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 08:34 PM (E4rtv) 141 no worries, the Strait is wide open and traffic is flowing like [insert tastefull metaphor here] about 51m ago "No oil or gas tankers have transited the Strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire was struck yesterday, the four vessels that transited were carrying dry cargo - Kpler" Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 08:34 PM (GD0B3) 142 We have had the strangest winter here in SW Wyoming. No snow. Usually the wildlife move to town about October but not this year. The past week we've seen some in our yard. Very strange. The ranchers haven't moved the cattle up to the mountains yet which is strange. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 08:35 PM (3ek7K) 143 A thing that is ridiculous about the the flat earthers is that they don't ever posit that there is this unique distinction about flatearth that would not hold for any modern astronomical model and when you test this distinction it proves their model. Because of course they wouldn't. Their model is unfalsifiable. And furthermore they explain every observable fact that is clearly indicative of a non-flat astronomical model by creating behaviors and altering their flat earth model to abide those observations. So, in the end, they have recreated the entire non-flat model but simply transferred onto the set of rules of their flat model. They've actually done nothing but re-expressed our standard modern understanding of cosmology just in a different, complicated, weird system. Or said in another way, f'em. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 08:36 PM (3uBP9) 144 And then, "pressure requires a container". Like this orb. Exerts. 14.7 PSI upon us all. The difference between PSIG and PSIA. Yet, you go through to space ? A true vacuum. Posted by: Yep ... also uses a VPN at April 08, 2026 08:37 PM (O8fts) 145 Our Littlejohn bottlebrushes and jasmine are blooming out and the bees are going crazy for them. We're the It place in the area. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 08:37 PM (tgvbd) 146 139 U.S. Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) is facing intense criticism from President Donald Trump’s base over the most recent push to pass her “DIGNIDAD Act,” a de factor amnesty bill. Trump should remove his endorsement. Posted by: Maj. Healey ======== And the bill will go nowhere. This is the RINO House version of Lindsay Graham pushing an all out version abortion ban. Meant to demoralize the base so that House will flip to the Dems. Read the list and it is a line of liberal GOP types like Lawler in NY, Fitzgerald in PA, etc. and the two delegates from Guam and one other territory. I suspect that when the provisions are fully read out, some of those cosponsors are going to be dropping their names from the bill. Interest groups from Chamber of Commerce probably wrote it for them as Salazar was too stupid to even know provisions of what was in it. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv) 147 This didn't occur to them because they themselves seen nothing except through a screen. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 08:27 PM (1wjle) Everyone at those launches is in on it. Have to sign an NDA. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 08:32 PM (zZu0s) My grandpa worked for NASA in the Apollo years. I doubt he would have been in on it. At worst he would have been a dupe doing engineering for no real reason. But, naw. It's FAR more plausible that men went to the moon than the level of trickery needed to fabricate a big giant lie. Buzz was right punching that fucking hippie years ago. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 08:37 PM (0aYVJ) 148 Is JackStraw around? Posted by: Lincolntf at April 08, 2026 08:37 PM (vV6n9) 149 My daughter just did squats from the family room all the way into the kitchen to get ice cream. I am laughing so hard right now. It was ridiculous looking. 🤣 Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 08:37 PM (OoFl2) 150 Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 08:34 PM (E4rtv) oh, yeah. they never leave leave. all ICs all over the world are like that , from MI6 to FSB. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 08:38 PM (GD0B3) 151 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 08:00 PM (w6EFb) How many do you talk to in real life? There are crazies of all kinds and AFAIC they're just another kind of conspiracy nut. That said there is so much fakery and fuckery on the internet (and in real life) you can't even trust that half the ones you know are real are real. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 08:39 PM (Zr19V) 152 >>Buzz was right punching that fucking hippie years ago. Always the right choice when dealing with Hippies. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 08:39 PM (TLp3A) 153 Isn't Al Gore a flat earther? How else are those sea levels going to rise? Does carbon convert to sea water in the sunlight? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 08:39 PM (Fbc0I) 154 What does this Flat Earth sit on? I mean, how is it suspended? Or is it? Magic? The only other thing I know they say is that the Sun is 6000 miles away. At this point it's imperative they not trust anyone else on the phone with "hey, where is the sun for you right now?" because that person- like all people on Earth- is going to cleverly lie in such a way to make it seem like the Earth is round. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 08:39 PM (iF8Pa) 155 I think it is hatred of Israel pure and simple. I see it more and more since they retaliated after Oct 7. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 08:40 PM (YwEeS) 156 148 Is JackStraw around? Posted by: Lincolntf at April 08, 2026 08:37 PM (vV6n9) He's most likely watching the Rangers playing the Sabres at the moment ... Not many games left for the Rags this year. Posted by: browndog says woof at April 08, 2026 08:40 PM (3sXRv) 157 But, naw. It's FAR more plausible that men went to the moon than the level of trickery needed to fabricate a big giant lie. Buzz was right punching that fucking hippie years ago. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 08:37 PM (0aYVJ It would be EASIER to go to the moon than perpetuate the hoax... Well, covid. Global warming. Communism. Touche, God. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 08:41 PM (zZu0s) 158 >>Since when is a US v Iran negotiation applicable to Israel v Lebanon action? A much more interesting question, which is why our dim media never asks it, is what is China doing right now. It wasn't just Pakistan acting as a mediator between the US and Iran, China was the other partner. China has already lost their relationship with Venezuela and its oil, then the Panama Canal, no country stands to lose more if Trump blows up Iran than China. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 08:41 PM (GukFK) 159 If someone can believe a man can be a woman then heck yeah someone can believe the Earth is flat. Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 08:41 PM (vFG9F) 160 I guess they were just supposed to "absorb it" like Obama said. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 08:41 PM (YwEeS) 161 I guess they were just supposed to "absorb it" like Obama said. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 08:41 PM (YwEeS) 162 >>Isn't Al Gore a flat earther? How else are those sea levels going to rise? Does carbon convert to sea water in the sunlight? You see, when the Ice Melts, it is no longer pushing down on the Oceans and they have no choice but to rise. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 08:41 PM (TLp3A) 163 148 Is JackStraw around? Posted by: Lincolntf Attending a refresher course at Langley? Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 08:42 PM (abIsI) 164 Also you have to remember that Satan has cast the earth under a veil of lies - so anyone who thinks they have the "key" to a particular big lie is easy to convince that lie explains it all. Because it feels like something must. All humans want deep down and in the end is an intellectual explanation for our fucked up world. Something like flat earth does that for some, especially when combined with "other" theories. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 08:42 PM (Zr19V) 165 I pray, literally, for Trump and this mess. Personally, we're (the civilized part of the world) never going to be at peace till they are all dead. We've got a lot of debts to settle and they must pay them. Posted by: Braenyard ====== If you notice, the carrier USS HW George Bush is heading to the Middle East to replace the USS Ford. Will take up station off the Lebanese and Israeli coast. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 08:42 PM (E4rtv) 166 Our daffodils came up. The apple tree is blooming. Weird winter, we're supposed to get snow this weekend so there goes the apple tree. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 08:42 PM (3ek7K) 167 That was weird the blog wasn't responding then it double posted what I wrote. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 08:42 PM (YwEeS) 168 149 My daughter just did squats from the family room all the way into the kitchen to get ice cream. I am laughing so hard right now. It was ridiculous looking. 🤣 Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 08:37 PM (OoFl2) Good on her! I try to remember to lunge all the way to the kitchen every time I need to refill my water or get a snack. Every little bit helps! Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 08, 2026 08:43 PM (zYpTz) 169 My daughter just did squats from the family room all the way into the kitchen to get ice cream. I am laughing so hard right now. It was ridiculous looking. 🤣 Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 08:37 PM (OoFl2) I used to duck-walk back and forth to build up thigh muscle. It starts to hurt quickly Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 08:43 PM (rbvCR) 170 Shift change. Posted by: The hampsters at April 08, 2026 08:43 PM (vFG9F) 171 Also you have to remember that Satan has cast the earth under a veil of lies - so anyone who thinks they have the "key" to a particular big lie is easy to convince that lie explains it all. This comes up here constantly. I'm not convinced there isn't a Satan. But I'm positive, if true, he gets way too much credit. People just suck. Posted by: Yep ... also uses a VPN at April 08, 2026 08:43 PM (O8fts) 172 >>Not many games left for the Rags this year. Harsh. But true. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 08:43 PM (GukFK) 173 I will walk on my hands for brownies. Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 08:44 PM (vFG9F) 174 Ari Fleischer had a brilliant observation on with Laura this evening about Trump saying he would end a civilization. He said it was language which is imperfect in English but in Persian they understand that type of rhertoric completely. It is how they think, speak. In their culture it was expressed perfectly. Posted by: SMOD at April 08, 2026 08:45 PM (O7XEN) 175 167 That was weird the blog wasn't responding then it double posted what I wrote. Posted by: steevy That wasn't supposed to happen. Posted by: Bob from NSA at April 08, 2026 08:45 PM (abIsI) 176 China has already lost their relationship with Venezuela and its oil, then the Panama Canal, no country stands to lose more if Trump blows up Iran than China. Posted by: JackStraw --- They are working like the dickens on that pipeline to Russia. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 08:45 PM (xOYmg) 177 So Capricorn One wasn't real? Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 08, 2026 08:46 PM (nDXEV) 178 172 >>Not many games left for the Rags this year. Harsh. But true. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 08:43 PM (GukFK) And we're playing giveaway at the moment ... Sometimes the defense reverts to "evil spock". Posted by: browndog says woof at April 08, 2026 08:46 PM (3sXRv) 179 Work got us sandwiches for something or other so I broke keto. Then I figured, if I am having a cheat day. Reeses cups. Its a marathon, not a sprint. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s) 180 That was weird the blog wasn't responding then it double posted what I wrote. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 08:42 PM (YwEeS) We are in a vanishing Madison Cornbread post timeline. Nothing will make sense here. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 08:48 PM (FrGmf) 181 Davey Lopes passed away at 80. I was never a big baseball guy, casual fan at best, but he was one I liked. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 08:49 PM (0aYVJ) 182 oh, yeah. they never leave leave. all ICs all over the world are like that , from MI6 to FSB. Posted by: runner ======== In reading documents from the massive RFK and JFK assassination dumps, Howard Hunt popped up repeatedly despite the fact he had been retired from OPs and the CIA. In fact, right after Watergate, Hunt was pursuing a claim from the CIA about some money the agency owed him (1972). And later in a document (I think 74-75 era) he and his lawyer were cozily discussing Howard's book after his Watergate conviction about how the CIA should make like CIA was hostile to Hunt's book being published to increase the sales. Currently reading William Colby's biography and I see the same crap as our current CIA color revolutions are doing except in the 1950's and early 1960's. I can see why Mike Pompeo did not want those JFK and RFK documents releases as they paint a mosaic of handlers paying money to all sorts of CIA retirees to do odd jobs, ditto for former assets even in the US. Mentioned one asset was a editor for a regional press conglomerate (probably AP or UPI), and so on. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 08:50 PM (E4rtv) 183 Oh, yeah, that's another good one. "Local sun" (and local Moon, and maybe even local Polaris and stars). You ought to see their day/night "models". The sun is like a little flashlight circling overheard over that disc flat earth. None of that works. The geometry is all wrong. See the variation of the altitude of Polaris vs latitude. If Polaris were as far away as it is, everybody would see it as directly overhead. Now, bring it closer, much closer, like a point on the dome. Now, it the altitude would vary with latitude, but no in the same way. It would still be visible in the southern hemisphere. It's stuff like that that just blows me away, Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 08:50 PM (w6EFb) 184 I used to duck-walk back and forth to build up thigh muscle. It starts to hurt quickly Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 08:43 PM (rbvCR) Good on her! I try to remember to lunge all the way to the kitchen every time I need to refill my water or get a snack. Every little bit helps! Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 08 ——— I taught 4 classes today, I think I will skip the duck walk or lunge walks. Though my quads and hamstrings are fine, my obliques are sore. Not sure what I did to earn that! Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 08:50 PM (OoFl2) 185 Good on her! I try to remember to lunge all the way to the kitchen every time I need to refill my water or get a snack. Every little bit helps! Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! --- You girls should be aware that humongous butts will be out of style in the not too distant future. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 08:50 PM (xOYmg) 186 I try to remember to lunge all the way to the kitchen every time I need to refill my water or get a snack. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Rapier or Épée? Posted by: mikeski at April 08, 2026 08:50 PM (VHUov) 187 Shift change. Posted by: The hampsters at April 08, 2026 08:43 PM (vFG9F) G'night Sam. G'night Ralph. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 08:50 PM (0aYVJ) 188 OT Rant All I want is a fucking estimate of expected social security benefit, as I'm prepping for a meeting with our financial planner. The website requires i create an online verification. So far so good. Pictures of ID uploaded and accepted, soc number verified. Then they want a phone number. The phone number WHERE I RECEIVED THE FUCKING SIGN IN CODE comes back as "we can't associate this number with you." In the time it took to type this rant, Somali pirates have downloaded 87.6 zillion dollars, but I can't even get an estimate. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 08, 2026 08:51 PM (gpQ8/) 189 "This comes up here constantly. I'm not convinced there isn't a Satan. But I'm positive, if true, he gets way too much credit. People just suck. Posted by: Yep" Is there evil in the world? Is there good? Who decides which is which? Can you have dark without light? Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 08:51 PM (vFG9F) 190 >>> That was weird the blog wasn't responding then it double posted what I wrote. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 08:42 PM (YwEeS) Ace got too much varnish on the blog and gummed up the works. He sanded it back down and it's better now. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 08:51 PM (3uBP9) 191 This comes up here constantly. I'm not convinced there isn't a Satan. But I'm positive, if true, he gets way too much credit. People just suck. Posted by: Yep ... also uses a VPN at April 08, 2026 08:43 PM (O8fts Damn I thought I was more original than that. But then again I definitely didn't invent it. I'm pretty sure it was printed even before ace got a blog. People suck in many ways. I'm explaining one particular way and why. I even backed it up with surprisingly coherent logic. So if you're going to argue then don't argue against what I said with what a bunch of other people have said. There's a scientific term for that kind of argument but I can't think. Oh yeah... horseshit. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 08:52 PM (Zr19V) 192 Though my quads and hamstrings are fine, my obliques are sore. Not sure what I did to earn that! Posted by: Piper --- Chubby Checker records at the work out? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 08:52 PM (xOYmg) 193 Appeal to authority. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 08:54 PM (zZu0s) 194 You girls should be aware that humongous butts will be out of style in the not too distant future. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others These all target far more than glutes. But strong glutes are key not just for aesthetics, they help with stability, posture and low back strain, movement, etc. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 08:55 PM (OoFl2) 195 >>>So Capricorn One wasn't real? Posted by: Dr. Varno >Oh, it was real bitches. I'm still looking for the killer on Mars. Posted by: OJ Simpson at April 08, 2026 08:55 PM (Fbc0I) 196 Hmmm, might try deviled eggs after making real mayo. Dont think I can do anything about the mustard, though. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 08:56 PM (zZu0s) 197 but I can't even get an estimate. Posted by: 2009Refugee --- Your financial planner should be able to give you an estimate in a second. Have you tried calling SS. Or better go into their local office instead of putting your info all over the net. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 08:56 PM (xOYmg) 198 >>And we're playing giveaway at the moment ... >>Sometimes the defense reverts to "evil spock". These young guys are playing some of the best Ranger hockey this year. Go figure. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 08:57 PM (GukFK) 199 I do squats with a kettle bell every evening as part of a "simple six" program: 1. kettle bell shoulder presses 2. kettle bell two-handed swings 3. kettle bell squats 4. push ups 5. pull ups 6. walking/running ie. cardio I think it has helped. I was losing weight a bit too fast and probably lost some muscle mass so I'm trying to ease into maintaining some strength with simple body weight exercises. I got skinny but ended up with noodle arms. It was sad, but I'm betting better. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 08:57 PM (3uBP9) 200 You girls should be aware that humongous butts will be out of style in the not too distant future. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others Sir Mix a Lot assured me this was not so. Was he wrong? Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 08:57 PM (FrGmf) 201 I love the horse named Tom! He's great! I wonder if he used to watch Mr. Ed to learn these skills? Also, loved the baby koala. Y'all know I'm still worried about koala's having chlamydia. I think it started with gay Aussie men. However, my concern now is why a vet would check a koala for a STD. Do vets check all animals now for STD's due to gay furries? Please tell your cat and dogs (and goats, Tucker...as they probably need it).Or don't tell them as it's probably stressful enough vs worrying if they have STD's. Son has a business trip to Australia this summer and I am going to tell him about this concern of mine (he's not gay, nor Australian, by the way). Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 08:58 PM (WONhk) 202 Jack LaLanne over here. Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 08, 2026 08:58 PM (nDXEV) 203 I got skinny but ended up with noodle arms. It was sad, but I'm betting better. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 08:57 PM (3uBP9) You know what helps with getting roo skinny? Reese's Peanut Butter cups. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 08:59 PM (zZu0s) 204 Is there evil in the world? Is there good? Who decides which is which? Can you have dark without light? Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 08:51 PM (vFG9F) People decide. There is no lack of people telling you what is good and bad. That's most of what passes for political debate now. A straight rush to some bullshit about how everything is true good or true evil. This constant effort by some to exert will over others. All self-justified. All self-righteous. We don't need angels and demons. We are the angels and demons and everything in between. The angels and demons among us are the worst. Posted by: Yep ... also uses a VPN at April 08, 2026 08:59 PM (O8fts) 205 192 Though my quads and hamstrings are fine, my obliques are sore. Not sure what I did to earn that! Posted by: Piper --- Chubby Checker records at the work out? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal The twist is fun! But no…wait, we did do Russian Twists today. Nothing a hot shower won’t cure. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 08:59 PM (OoFl2) 206 The flat earthers are part of the conspiracy. It is really a CUBE. Posted by: Oldcat I seem to recall the Bizarro World was depicted as a cube. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius What about Bizarro world? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. Hey! I've mentioned this several times in the past few days. The world is flat, on all six sides. Once more: here is the photograph of the world, taken years ago by Voyager 1 on its way through the solar system: https://bit.ly/bizarro-world Posted by: mindful webworker - five foot eleven and seven eights at April 08, 2026 08:59 PM (C2uPD) 207 You girls should be aware that humongous butts will be out of style in the not too distant future. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 08:50 PM (xOYmg) Oh, I'm in no danger of that. I have Brie Larson syndrome. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 08, 2026 08:59 PM (zYpTz) 208 >>Davey Lopes passed away at 80. I was never a big baseball guy, casual fan at best, but he was one I liked. Oh, man. That one hurts. Davey was a gem of a guy. I got into it with The Ricky Henderson, on the Third Base Line at Yankee Stadium. He was famous for not signing anything for fans. I was like 14 years old and just ragging the fuck out of Ricky for being a bitch. Dave Winfield and and Willie Randolph were laughing their asses off and then Davey Lopes came over and gave me his glove and a ball. Spent like 20 minutes signing shit for the fans, too. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 09:00 PM (TLp3A) 209 Guys, hold on to your hats! you will not believe this ! "Joe Rogan claimed on the Wednesday episode of his top-ranked podcast that President Donald Trump launched the war in Iran to distract Americans from the files released on dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein." Today is Wednesday, right ? Can regular Joe Rogan listeners confirm whether this is true or not ?? Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:00 PM (GD0B3) 210 the fact that he said it, not the Epstein idiocy Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:01 PM (GD0B3) 211 >>>I got skinny but ended up with noodle arms. It was sad, but I'm betting better. Posted by: banana Dream >Careful. Or you'll end up like one of the Ozbournes. Posted by: OJ Simpson at April 08, 2026 09:01 PM (Fbc0I) 212 I seem to recall the Bizarro World was depicted as a cube. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius IIRC, "semi-infinite half-space" would be the perfect model for the flat earth. Because it is just that. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 09:03 PM (/lPRQ) 213 Ari Fleischer had a brilliant observation on with Laura this evening about Trump saying he would end a civilization. He said it was language which is imperfect in English but in Persian they understand that type of rhertoric completely. It is how they think, speak. In their culture it was expressed perfectly. Posted by: SMOD at April 08, 2026 08:45 PM (O7XEN) Avery valid point. When I was living in the Middle East, it occurred to me daily that not only was I not in the USofA, but that I was in a very alien culture. Sure, humans have ma y common likes and dislikes, but the cultural association to them is waaayyyy different. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 09:03 PM (2WIwB) 214 These all target far more than glutes. But strong glutes are key not just for aesthetics, they help with stability, posture and low back strain, movement, etc. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 08:55 PM (OoFl2) I read an article a while back that claimed that leg strength is associated with resistance to Alzheimer's. Stay strong! Remember stuff! Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 08, 2026 09:04 PM (zYpTz) 215 Hey, Piper! Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 09:04 PM (77rzZ) 216 The phone number WHERE I RECEIVED THE FUCKING SIGN IN CODE comes back as "we can't associate this number with you." Posted by: 2009Refugee =============== That one's a classic. Seen people ranting about it. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 09:05 PM (n7rxJ) 217 Davey Lopes came over and gave me his glove and a ball. Spent like 20 minutes signing shit for the fans, too. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 09:00 PM (TLp3A) Class act. Good man. rest in Peace. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 09:05 PM (0aYVJ) 218 I read an article a while back that claimed that leg strength is associated with resistance to Alzheimer's. Stay strong! Remember stuff! Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 08, 2026 09:04 PM (zYpTz) I miss workouts. Been dealing with back issues...Being middle aged sucks. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:05 PM (FrGmf) 219 Avery valid point. When I was living in the Middle East, it occurred to me daily that not only was I not in the USofA, but that I was in a very alien culture. Sure, humans have ma y common likes and dislikes, but the cultural association to them is waaayyyy different. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 09:03 PM (2WIwB) Yup... people who have not spent time in the Mid East have no idea. They can be smiling at you, treating you as a friend... then... one innocent comment later, the culture shift happens and you are an enemy. And it can be something as simple as saying how WE treat our women... Posted by: Kid Rock at April 08, 2026 09:06 PM (mP0Kj) 220 Doing lunges makes your legs feel twenty years younger. It wears off after a few hours but it's cool while it lasts. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:07 PM (gtcuf) 221 For my new tutoring job, I have to go in tomorrow and retake the verbal portion of the SAT. Hope I pass! Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 09:08 PM (77rzZ) 222 I think it has helped. I was losing weight a bit too fast and probably lost some muscle mass so I'm trying to ease into maintaining some strength with simple body weight exercises. I got skinny but ended up with noodle arms. It was sad, but I'm betting better. Posted by: banana Dream Really watch your swings- if you have a mirror, use it. The shoulder joint is one of the most flexible on your body, but swings can be stressful if you are using your shoulders more than glutes. Ski swings (I prefer weights to kettles) should be all glutes and arms as a by product, but never go higher that your shoulders. My arms (and shoulders) are probably more muscular than many morons would appreciate in a female. I am not heading into body builder territory or anything, but I have muscles. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:08 PM (OoFl2) 223 For my new tutoring job, I have to go in tomorrow and retake the verbal portion of the SAT. == Good luck. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:09 PM (GD0B3) 224 It never occurred to them that there were 1000+ witnesses physically present at the launch who saw it without "edits" on a screen. This didn't occur to them because they themselves seen nothing except through a screen. Posted by: ace I think there were a couple hundred thousand in town for the launch. Wifey got a reserved spot on the NASA causeway (the one that crosses from Kennedy to CCSFS). I just walked to the end of the driveway. Good enough for me. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 09:09 PM (/lPRQ) 225 >>Class act. Good man. rest in Peace. I bought a Davey Lopes endorsed Glove that season and stuck with it until it went out of production. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 09:09 PM (TLp3A) 226 Good luck, Bulg. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:09 PM (FrGmf) 227 I like good glutes And junk in the boot That thing that goes toot Will make my missile shoot Posted by: Sir Exercise-A-Lot at April 08, 2026 09:10 PM (vFG9F) 228 223 Thanks, Runner. I’m not particularly worried. But who knows? Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 09:10 PM (77rzZ) 229 Brie Larson syndrome isn't that she has a small ass, it's that what should be her ass is transferred onto her shoulders Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 09:11 PM (gKWVE) 230 A good carpenter always leaves with more tools than he arrived with. Posted by: tcn in AK I try to grab a 10mm anytime I see one. Wrench, sockets, they're all good. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 09:11 PM (/lPRQ) 231 It never occurred to them that there were 1000+ witnesses physically present at the launch who saw it without "edits" on a screen. This didn't occur to them because they themselves seen nothing except through a screen. Posted by: ace I think there were a couple hundred thousand in town for the launch. Wifey got a reserved spot on the NASA causeway (the one that crosses from Kennedy to CCSFS). I just walked to the end of the driveway. Good enough for me. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 09:09 PM (/lPRQ) Be ready for the giant neuralizer. Wear shades at all times. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 09:11 PM (0aYVJ) 232 Bulg, study just in case! Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:12 PM (GD0B3) 233 226 Thanks, Mary. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 09:12 PM (77rzZ) 234 The awesome young, Latina independent right-wing influencer and journalist Angela Rose did a podcast from the launch. I suppose all those throngs of onlookers were in on the conspiracy too. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:13 PM (gtcuf) 235 My arms (and shoulders) are probably more muscular than many morons would appreciate in a female. I am not heading into body builder territory or anything, but I have muscles. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:08 PM (OoFl2) I wish I still had arm/shoulder muscles. In FL I swam every day. Moving to the Intermountain West with no pool, and disliking indoor pools, bleah. Loss of muscle. I need to get it together, Piper. Wish you lived closer as I'd pay you to kick myself back into shape. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 09:13 PM (WONhk) 236 When I was living in the Middle East, it occurred to me daily that not only was I not in the USofA, but that I was in a very alien culture" But all cultures are equal! I stayed at a Marriott in.... /wine boxer Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 09:14 PM (XuXeR) 237 A good carpenter always leaves with more tools than he arrived with. Posted by: tcn in AK ---- ...and hopefully doesn't leave any fingers or toes behind... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 09:15 PM (ESVrU) 238 OK, we need to get a workout video of Piper v. ChristyBlinky. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 09:15 PM (77rzZ) 239 Bulg, study. Just in case! Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:16 PM (GD0B3) 240 I wish I still had arm/shoulder muscles. In FL I swam every day. Moving to the Intermountain West with no pool, and disliking indoor pools, bleah. Loss of muscle. I need to get it together, Piper. Wish you lived closer as I'd pay you to kick myself back into shape. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April Is there a Pure Barre near you? Go take classes! I am telling you, you will not regret it. It won’t be overnight, but you will end up with the best core you have ever had, plus it’s fun, it changes every day so you don’t get bored. It’s a very easy sell for me because of the changes I have personally experienced. The physical changes are great, I am not going to discount that. But the mental change has been even better. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:17 PM (OoFl2) 241 double post! i thought the first one was lost Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:17 PM (GD0B3) 242 The White Otter is sacred to my people. Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 08, 2026 09:18 PM (Q+gd/) 243 Hi Bulg! Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:18 PM (OoFl2) 244 If I lived near Pipers studio, I would go. I am unmotivated and aggravated. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:19 PM (FrGmf) 245 Yup... people who have not spent time in the Mid East have no idea. They can be smiling at you, treating you as a friend... then... one innocent comment later, the culture shift happens and you are an enemy. And it can be something as simple as saying how WE treat our women... Posted by: Kid Rock --- Secret: You were always the enemy you crossed the line of tolerance. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 09:19 PM (xOYmg) 246 And all airline pilots are in on the conspiracy too. Look up some of their shit about airline routes and all that. Every pilot knows the earth is really flat, you see, and they're all in on the Satanic Deception of the Globe. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 09:20 PM (w6EFb) 247 For my new tutoring job, I have to go in tomorrow and retake the verbal portion of the SAT. You are write guud! Speak gude engrish two! Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 09:22 PM (2WIwB) 248 Barely Scary Mary - I have a lot of people with fused discs, etc. I help them modify, and modifying is absolutely fine. Do what you can and build, a strong core helps alleviate back issues, it’s your best defense. I would not go ham on deadlifts or anything until you have someone with you or you can tell you are staying out of your lower back, but walking, crunches (use a ball behind your lower back, light grip under your thighs, all things you can do to help your back), wall push ups are another great option as you build strength and protect your back. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:22 PM (OoFl2) 249 When you fly somewhere, you can fly in a straight line to get there. You can't do that if the Earth was round. Posted by: Sir Exercise-A-Lot at April 08, 2026 09:22 PM (vFG9F) 250 My in laws watched the Artemis launch. It was visible from their front yard. I have shaky cam cell phone video from FiL. Guess he is on the government payroll. Who knew? Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:22 PM (FrGmf) 251 Apropos of nothing, we got texts this week telling us that Samsung messages will be discontinued on July 6, and we should switch to Googly Messages "to keep chatting with powerful features." Also a text from AT&T that they will be "shutting down the AT&T Advanced Messaging" on July 6 and we need to switch to Googly. Ugh. I have avoided almost all things Googly for so long! So I've begun the tedious task of researching messaging apps. So irritating. Who did what or got paid what to force this on us? Any suggestions, anyone? I'd ask on the tech thread, but it goes by while I'm snoozing. Posted by: mindful webworker - Googly be evil at April 08, 2026 09:23 PM (C2uPD) 252 The people of Pellucidar thought the world was flat. Posted by: davidt at April 08, 2026 09:23 PM (Q+gd/) 253 The White Otter is sacred to my people. Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 08, 2026 09:18 PM (Q+gd/) But not as much as the White Otter Casino. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 09:23 PM (2WIwB) 254 I wish all y’all were closer too, that would be the most fun class ever. I would love it. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:23 PM (OoFl2) 255 Another hilarious flat earth thing was something dubbed "The Final Experiment". It went like this. They got the flat-earth leading lights to agree that a 24 hour sun in Antarctica would be impossible on their silly pie under the dome with local sun "model". And there's a giant conspiracy to keep everyone away from Antarctica. "Men with guns" will shoot you if you get too close to the Ice Wall. So, somebody offered to fly them down to some spot there, open during the summer, where they could see the 24-hr sun circling the horizon. Some of them chickened out and wouldn't go, but some did. And yep, they saw the 24-hr sun circling the horizon. "Where are the men with guns?!", one of them asked his buddies back home. All the rest of the flat earthers claimed that was all green-screen CGI, and the ones who went sold out to the conspiracy. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 09:24 PM (w6EFb) 256 254 I wish all y’all were closer too, that would be the most fun class ever. I would love it. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:23 PM (OoFl2) A barre class full of 'ettes would be the best. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 08, 2026 09:25 PM (zYpTz) 257 Piper, thanks. I used to have a better than average degree of fitness. Now I feel like a slug. Trying to work back up to things. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:25 PM (FrGmf) 258 Any suggestions, anyone? I'd ask on the tech thread, but it goes by while I'm snoozing. Posted by: mindful webworker - Already switched to Signal, for now. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 08, 2026 09:26 PM (QVmho) 259 OK, we need to get a workout video of Piper v. ChristyBlinky. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 09:15 PM (77rzZ) Will a pit of jello be included? Asking for a friend. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 09:26 PM (2WIwB) 260 "Any suggestions, anyone? I'd ask on the tech thread, but it goes by while I'm snoozing. Posted by: mindful webworker What's a messaging app? Is that for those new fangled text thingys? Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 09:26 PM (vFG9F) 261 The physical changes are great, I am not going to discount that. But the mental change has been even better. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:17 PM (OoFl2) Will look into it! Thanks! I have done Pilates in the past and can do that at home. It's the motivation part where I absolutely stink. I used to workout plus swim 90min a day until a decade ago. UGH. I do believe in muscle memory and was a swimmer most of my life. There's a fine thread of hope sometimes and I need to do something and swim again this summer. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 09:26 PM (WONhk) 262 When you fly somewhere, you can fly in a straight line to get there. You can't do that if the Earth was round. Posted by: Sir Exercise-A-Lot at April 08, 2026 09:22 PM (vFG9F) https://youtu.be/4UF3AhSEtP8 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 09:27 PM (ExV1e) 263 I'm afraid to ask, but how do the Flat-Earthers explain the oceans not spilling over the sides? Or is that part of that ice wall thing. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:28 PM (gtcuf) 264 Posted by: mindful webworker - Googly be evil at April 08, 2026 09:23 PM (C2uPD)* Yup...I'm in the same boat. Samsung is dumping its users on Google, which makes me want to puke, but according to the cursory search I have done...we are stuck. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 09:28 PM (n9ltV) 265 A barre class full of 'ettes would be the best. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 08, 2026 09:25 PM (zYpTz) I wish we could have one at an undisclosed location near TXMOME. It would be fun. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:28 PM (FrGmf) 266 Any suggestions, anyone? I'd ask on the tech thread, but it goes by while I'm snoozing. Posted by: mindful webworker ===== From Brave AI but good summary, Google Messages is widely considered the best default texting app for Android, offering RCS support, a clean interface, and free web integration, while Apple Messages remains the top choice for iPhone users with its iMessage capabilities. For users seeking free alternative phone numbers, TextNow and TextFree provide unlimited texting and calling over Wi-Fi without a carrier plan, making them ideal for temporary or second-line use. If privacy is the primary concern, Signal stands out as the most secure option with end-to-end encryption by default, whereas apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger are better suited for general social communication and group chats. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 09:28 PM (E4rtv) 267 Meal Team Six has a new ride! https://youtube.com/shorts/uCBlWHfJdPs Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 08, 2026 09:29 PM (S/Y4j) 268 Now I feel like a slug. Trying to work back up to things. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:25 PM (FrGmf) Good bourbon is probably the best path toward real fitness. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 09:29 PM (n9ltV) 269 I wish all y’all were closer too, that would be the most fun class ever. I would love it. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:23 PM (OoFl2) Hmmmm. Keep the defibrillator handy. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 09:29 PM (2WIwB) 270 I suppose all those throngs of onlookers were in on the conspiracy too. Posted by: Delurker I guess you don't realize how realistic AI-generated people look now.🚀 Posted by: mindful webworker - astroturfical intelligence at April 08, 2026 09:29 PM (C2uPD) 271 It would actually be cool to see the sun roll around the horizon. The cold would suck ass though. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 09:30 PM (zZu0s) 272 Good bourbon is probably the best path toward real fitness. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 09:29 PM (n9ltV) LOL. Cheers, CBD Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:30 PM (FrGmf) 273 270 I guess you don't realize how realistic AI-generated people look now. All the people in the video had the right number of fingers though Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:30 PM (gtcuf) 274 What's a messaging app? Is that for those new fangled text thingys? Posted by: fd Your phoneputer, uses it to let Biberty order lazagna & canoolies. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 08, 2026 09:31 PM (QVmho) 275 Now I feel like a slug. Trying to work back up to things. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:25 PM (FrGmf) Good bourbon is probably the best path toward real fitness. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 09:29 PM (n9ltV) This is good advice! Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 09:31 PM (2WIwB) 276 bangs head into keyboard I am finally listening to Gavin's wife where she talks about killing her sister. She managed to turn something about prison inmates into being all about her. And girl, what is with that midnight blue velvet jumpsuit? Really? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 09:31 PM (2GVsD) 277 Now I feel like a slug. Trying to work back up to things. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:25 PM (FrGmf) Avoid salty foods. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 09:31 PM (ExV1e) 278 I'm afraid to ask, but how do the Flat-Earthers explain the oceans not spilling over the sides? Or is that part of that ice wall thing. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:28 PM (gtcuf) If the earth was flat then the cats would have pushed everything off the edge. Thus, not a flat earth. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 09:31 PM (0aYVJ) 279 Do what you can and build, a strong core helps alleviate back issues, it’s your best defense. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:22 PM (OoFl2) I would add daily stretching. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 09:32 PM (n9ltV) 280 The phone number WHERE I RECEIVED THE FUCKING SIGN IN CODE comes back as "we can't associate this number with you." Posted by: 2009Refugee =============== That one's a classic. Seen people ranting about it. Posted by: Blonde Morticia ====== I think they just started a new system to log people in and set up accounts. Very buggy it is. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 09:32 PM (/lPRQ) 281 Yup...I'm in the same boat. Samsung is dumping its users on Google, which makes me want to puke, but according to the cursory search I have done...we are stuck. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 09:28 PM (n9ltV) Is this SMS texting? That goes via the phone network? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 09:32 PM (utfVc) 282 Avoid salty foods. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 09:31 PM (ExV1e) But.... bacon. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 09:33 PM (zZu0s) 283 But.... bacon. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 09:33 PM (zZu0s) Pretty unhealthy for slugs. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 09:34 PM (ExV1e) 284 It's occurred to me that, if I'd studied computer programming in college in the early '70s, I might well have had the chance to be recruited by the Feds. Maybe even the CIA. For a long-time Man From U.N.C.L.E. fan, that would have seemed a dream come true, even if I sat in an office and analyzed stuff. I have, and had, no illusions I could have been an Enforcement agent, but being one of the guys who devised the missions, or invented the disinformation to be passed to the Soviets back then -- that would have been right up my alley. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 09:34 PM (wzUl9) 285 Today President Joe Biden was attacked by a Giant Clam while sleeping on Rehobeth Beach. Curved on the Clam was the words "86 46". CNN believes that Trump did this and refers to President Joe Biden. Hakeen Jefferies called for the impeachment of President Trump based the information given to him by CNN. Posted by: CNN Breaking News at April 08, 2026 09:35 PM (tNUCp) 286 Pretty unhealthy for slugs. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 09:34 PM (ExV1e) If they can't eat bacon, they probably don't want to extend their misery any longer than necessary. Poor little bastards. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 09:35 PM (zZu0s) 287 Avoid salty foods. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 09:31 PM (ExV1e) Just finished eating leftover BBQ from Lockhart. Not a normal meal, but it was delicious. bows head in shame Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:35 PM (FrGmf) 288 Is this SMS texting? That goes via the phone network? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Yeah. I went to Signal for the sheer pissyness of encryption, just to peeve the turds that wanna censor us and put us on lists and in camps. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 08, 2026 09:35 PM (QVmho) 289 Daily stretching is so important, the older you get, the moreso. I still do a lot of hiking and biking at 60, but I sure wouldn't be if I didn't do my morning stretches. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:36 PM (gtcuf) 290 It would actually be cool to see the sun roll around the horizon. The cold would suck ass though. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 09:30 PM (zZu0s) Have not been to Antarctica. Have been to Yellowknife in June, where you can play midnight golf in full sunshine. It's not cold then; a sweater or light jacket might be nice, mostly to reduce the acreage of skin exposed to the insects. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 09:37 PM (utfVc) 291 Daily stretching is so important, the older you get, the moreso. I still do a lot of hiking and biking at 60, but I sure wouldn't be if I didn't do my morning stretches. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:36 PM (gtcuf) I do a lot of foam roller work. That hurts so good. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:37 PM (FrGmf) 292 I feel sorry for the clam. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 09:37 PM (2GVsD) 293 Giant Clam I think we found our nic for Traitor Barbie, Courtney Williams. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:37 PM (gtcuf) 294 Seen on Insty: Denmark is running commercials where experts tell everyone that white women having kids with other whites is incest, and so white women should only bang black dudes. Once again the Bee finds itself outmatched by real life. Posted by: Ian S. at April 08, 2026 09:38 PM (vve+V) 295 Is this SMS texting? That goes via the phone network? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ====== RCS is the newer standard on most smart phone messaging apps on Android but if not all parties are using RCS (which is encrypted end to end) then you default to SMS which means one or both of the texts are unecrypted back and forth. Apple's iMessage is end to end encrypted. Signal, WhatsApp, and others are NOT SMS protocol and don't have to even be sent to or from a phone (computers, tablets, etc. can do it). Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 09:39 PM (E4rtv) 296 294 Seen on Insty: Denmark is running commercials where experts tell everyone that white women having kids with other whites is incest, and so white women should only bang black dudes. So, are they colonizing Greenland? Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:39 PM (FrGmf) 297 Dawn of the Dead from 1978 was a really good movie. The pregnant woman in the film smoked and was drinking booze!! Apparently recommended by 9 out of 10 doctors back in the day. How'd we all survive childbirth? Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 09:40 PM (Sco7b) 298 Moroccans in Greenland? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 09:40 PM (2GVsD) 299 Yeah. I went to Signal for the sheer pissyness of encryption, just to peeve the turds that wanna censor us and put us on lists and in camps. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 08, 2026 09:35 PM (QVmho) My phone is on Rogers network here in Canuckistan, and Ting in the USA. To send a text, all I do is hit the text icon on the screen, and read incoming and type in outgoing. Pretty sure it's not going via Googoyle, as I have nuked most of the Googoyle .apc's on my phone. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 09:40 PM (utfVc) 300 That "Final Experiment" was at Union Glacier Camp, I see. It's just a smidge above 80S. In Dec. 2021 I see they had a total solar eclipse visible there. Now that would be cool indeed. The circling sun being eclipsed by the Moon... Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 08, 2026 09:40 PM (w6EFb) 301 Have been to Yellowknife in June, where you can play midnight golf in full sunshine. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 09:37 PM (utfVc) I had a lot of business in Yellowknife at one job, but never was able to finagle a trip there. I regret that. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 09:41 PM (n9ltV) 302 I think somewhere along the way Greenland will be ours! Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:42 PM (GD0B3) 303 1 Daily stretching is so important, the older you get, the moreso. I still do a lot of hiking and biking at 60, but I sure wouldn't be if I didn't do my morning stretches. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 *** I don't bike and have no place to hike here that isn't overgrown with weeds or isn't a swamp, so I walk/trot, about 50/50, for a couple of miles in my neighborhood 3-4 times a week. Sometimes a half mile more. Careful stretching before and after. And I do those stretches on the days off, too. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 09:42 PM (wzUl9) 304 Crazy game Jack ... Posted by: browndog says woof at April 08, 2026 09:42 PM (3sXRv) 305 One leaker down - @sentdefender . 2h Courtney Williams, a U.S. Army veteran and former U.S. government civilian employee working with the U.S. Army's 'Delta Force' under U.S. Special Operations Command, was arrested and charged with 1 count of "communicating and transmitting information related to the national defense classified as SECRET//NOFORN [No Foreign Dissemination]" to journalist Seth Harp from 2022 to 2025. The information Williams provided was used by Harp in an article and subsequent book Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 09:42 PM (xOYmg) 306 Signal, WhatsApp, and others are NOT SMS protocol and don't have to even be sent to or from a phone (computers, tablets, etc. can do it). Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 09:39 PM (E4rtv) OK, my phone is SMS, then. Works fine for me. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 09:42 PM (utfVc) 307 Have been to Yellowknife in June, where you can play midnight golf in full sunshine. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 09:37 PM (utfVc) perks up Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 09:42 PM (2WIwB) 308 Yeah. I went to Signal for the sheer pissyness of encryption, just to peeve the turds that wanna censor us and put us on lists and in camps. Posted by: BifBewalski ====== Bif, Google's Messaging now uses Signal's encryption protocol for RCS texting. Look for the lock in the text indicating end to end encryption. iMessaging is also end to end by default from Apple. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 09:43 PM (E4rtv) 309 >>Crazy game Jack ... We're outclassed. But at least the young guys are playing hard. Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 09:44 PM (GukFK) 310 Dawn of the Dead from 1978 was a really good movie. The pregnant woman in the film smoked and was drinking booze!! Apparently recommended by 9 out of 10 doctors back in the day. How'd we all survive childbirth? Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 *** Is that the one where the lead characters take over a shopping mall, kill the zombies within, and make a fortress out of it? For some reason I never see that one mentioned in lists of zombie movies. The original Night of the Living Dead, and Day of, but never Dawn. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 09:44 PM (wzUl9) 311 n a now deleted post..., a Sailor ..., deployed onboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-7, can be seen wearing a morale patch which says: Join the U.S. Navy Save the Big Booty Venezuelans! Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 09:46 PM (xOYmg) 312 Piper, If you're still here, I thought that as our official fashion maven you should know that Ferragamo now makes sneakers. Seriously. They are listed on eBay. Posted by: Wenda at April 08, 2026 09:46 PM (JhlRS) 313 iMessaging is also end to end by default from Apple. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 09:43 PM (E4rtv) Only within the Apple world. It is not encrypted to other systems. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 09:46 PM (n9ltV) 314 I've always been fascinated by really remote but inhabited places, like Greenland, and Yellowknife. There's a town in Alaska called Whittier where the entire population lives in one big building with a school, store, church, USPS, and everything it takes to live under one roof. Must be kind of like what the first Mars base will be like. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:46 PM (gtcuf) 315 279 Do what you can and build, a strong core helps alleviate back issues, it’s your best defense. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:22 PM (OoFl2) I would add daily stretching. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 My stretch and restore class is always wait listed. I do balance work on the front end, and restorative stretching on the back end of class. I have recorded my classes and tried to take them myself, but I am always hyper focused on my voice (do I really sound like that?) or when I mess up chore, even if I am the only one who knows, lol. I have finally talked another on my staff to teach it, but it’s a night class. I need to just keep my tail there and take it anyway. We do stretch in every class, but it’s not the same as this. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:46 PM (Wmg4n) 316 OK, my phone is SMS, then. Works fine for me. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ==== You can look in Message app settings and if you see a slide bar to turn on RCS, then you can turn on encryption for those using RCS to receive your texts. I suggest doing so. Sending texts back between Google and Apple does not ironically have end to end encryption due to tech company rivalry buggering the customers. Outside the civilized world, you may or may not have a way to use end to end encryption and there are a variety of ways to do so with apps via the web rather than telcoms. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 09:47 PM (E4rtv) 317 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held a meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia today. -- Did Starmer run a train? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 09:47 PM (xOYmg) 318 Only within the Apple world. It is not encrypted to other systems. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo ====== Already mentioned that above. Wife and I have a mixed household. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 09:47 PM (E4rtv) 319 osted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 09:44 PM Yeah. That was the one. A very good movie. Fun. A bit touching. A few tactical errors. I had to watch it on the web. It's nice here tonight. Snowflake is outside. My heart breaks but you reminded me of the 3am wakeup calls as she'd climb on me. That and she's not my cat.... Have a great night everyone. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 09:48 PM (Sco7b) 320 Thanks for the replies on messaging apps. Posted by: mindful webworker - deliver the letter the sooner the better at April 08, 2026 09:49 PM (C2uPD) 321 312 Piper, If you're still here, I thought that as our official fashion maven you should know that Ferragamo now makes sneakers. Seriously. They are listed on eBay. Posted by: Wenda at April 08, 2026 Yes! J has some. Seriously, the only people who rival my shoe collection are Tammy al Thor and J. 🤣. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:50 PM (Wmg4n) 322 Dawn of the Dead had two different soundtracks, one for the US market and a different one for the international market. The international version was done by the legendary Italian prog-rockers and horror-movie soundtrackists GOBLIN, who also did the music for Susperia and Profondo Rosso, among many others. It's far superior to the US version. Really killer soundtrack, pun intended! Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:50 PM (gtcuf) 323 Join the U.S. Navy Save the Big Booty Venezuelans! Someone on board prefers tighter booty? Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 09:50 PM (gKWVE) 324 Stateless, I've said this before but I'll repeat myself: Snowflake may not be your cat, but you are definitely HER HUMAN!! Surrender. Posted by: Wenda at April 08, 2026 09:50 PM (JhlRS) 325 FWIW, in the mixed household situation (aka Google and IPhones in a family or friends, etc., Signal app usage, if you can get your friends, etc. to use it, is probably superior. But WhatsApp (which claims security but Fakebook can and has viewed the metadata of these messages. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 09:51 PM (E4rtv) 326 Let her in, Stateless! 😊 Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:51 PM (Wmg4n) 327 112 Shelley Dubinsky (Animal House). Played by Lisa Baur. Who, unfortunately, never played another role. Maybe she got hit by a bus or something. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 08:17 PM (dIske) or, maybe, she realized that Hollywood can and does ruin people on a regular basis. And got out early. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 08:22 PM (0aYVJ) _______________ The internet is invasive. I shouldn't be able to find this out.....BUT.... (Lisa Baur, best known as Shelly Dubinsky in National Lampoon's Animal House (197, stepped away from acting shortly after her brief 1970s screen career. As of 2020, she lived in New Zealand, where she owned a candle shop, Living Light Candles) Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 09:51 PM (dIske) 328 more slop.. "Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 4h Did Israel LIE to Trump to get the U.S. into the war with Iran? The White House is reportedly FURIOUS" JD Vance is hanging around Johnson, giving him exclusives, now that Cucker is out of the picture. Johnson claims to know stuff that is only known to people in the situation room. Who is feeding him this BS ? I listened to Pentagon briefings. It's all nonsense and primitive babble. WTF is going on ? Johnson had IDS for a long time, I get it. But who is leaking garbage to him ? Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:51 PM (GD0B3) 329 Stateless, you are out voted. You have a kitteh. You must meet her demands. You will or will not regret it. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:53 PM (FrGmf) 330 The briefings are not babble, Johnson's idiotic claims are. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:53 PM (GD0B3) 331 Keep the defibrillator handy. Posted by: Diogenes This is why I walk with women older than me. Unlike 20something bimbos, these women can recognize the signs of a stroke, and can call for help. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2026 09:54 PM (u82oZ) 332 Dawn of the Dead had two different soundtracks, one for the US market and a different one for the international market. The international version was done by the legendary Italian prog-rockers and horror-movie soundtrackists GOBLIN, who also did the music for Susperia and Profondo Rosso, among many others. It's far superior to the US version. Really killer soundtrack, pun intended! Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 * Who was the actor who played the helicopter pilot? The one of the four (?) leads who wore a bomber jacket in a lot of scenes? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 09:54 PM (wzUl9) 333 Salty! I am dying. 🤣 Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 09:55 PM (Wmg4n) 334 Sounds like I need some of Piper's classes. Piper, do you put any of them up on Youtube? Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 09:55 PM (gtcuf) 335 320 Thanks for the replies on messaging apps. Posted by: mindful webworker FWIW, like between Apple and Google, Samsung messaging app was not encrypting end to end messaging with either of Apple or Google. Signal is free with a few steps on install and run by a non profit. WhatsApp is easy to install, less secure than Signal. There are some others that are web only using VOIP numbers as identifiers for sending texts back and forth. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 09:56 PM (E4rtv) 336 He is claiming to know the conversations people had about intel related to Iran. Really? Who told him? Who is his source? That is high level stuff. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:56 PM (GD0B3) 337 This is why I walk with women older than me. Unlike 20something bimbos, these women can recognize the signs of a stroke, and can call for help. Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2026 09:54 PM (u82oZ) They must love having a young'un to walk with. 😃 Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 09:56 PM (FrGmf) 338 Good bourbon is probably the best path toward real fitness. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 09:29 PM (n9ltV) This is good advice! Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 09:31 PM (2WIwB) I do one shot per night. I'll let you know. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 08, 2026 09:56 PM (snZF9) 339 Stateless, I've said this before but I'll repeat myself: Snowflake may not be your cat, but you are definitely HER HUMAN!! Surrender. Posted by: Wenda at April 08, 2026 * I dreamed this afternoon that my late cat Chekov was still alive, and had wound up in a tree on a lawn in front of a college library. I stood and called him. He sprang down, ran to me, and leaped into my arms -- something he never did when he was alive. Miss Linda has said for years he adored me. What he adored, I replied, was nipping me when I didn't expect it. I might not have been his favorite human -- but he was my cat. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 09:57 PM (wzUl9) 340 These people leak like sieves just for likes. By this time, everything they are being fed is 100% garbage. But salacious garbage to affirms their ideas. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 09:58 PM (2GVsD) 341 I think he is relying on something in the NYT.... Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 09:58 PM (GD0B3) 342 'White Otter' is actually a 'brand' of black market iocaine in southern Europe. Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 08, 2026 09:59 PM (nDXEV) 343 Almost nood time. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 09:59 PM (wzUl9) 344 Okay, I have had the Horde on tenterhooks for several days about this. The Do 335A has been ordered. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 09:59 PM (2GVsD) 345 Might want to hold off on Anthropic, ===== Acting AG Todd Blanche @DAGToddBlanche · 3h Today’s D.C. Circuit stay allowing the government to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk is a resounding victory for military readiness. Our position has been clear from the start — our military needs full access to Anthropic’s models if its technology is integrated into our sensitive systems. Military authority and operational control belong to the Commander-in-Chief and Department of War, not a tech company. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 10:01 PM (E4rtv) 346 @344 the full size one??! Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 10:01 PM (GD0B3) 347 Nood ONT Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 10:01 PM (wzUl9) 348 There's a town in Alaska called Whittier" And you share a tunnel with train tracks to get there! It's pretty neat. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 10:02 PM (XuXeR) 349 You can look in Message app settings and if you see a slide bar to turn on RCS, then you can turn on encryption for those using RCS to receive your texts. I suggest doing so. Sending texts back between Google and Apple does not ironically have end to end encryption due to tech company rivalry buggering the customers. Outside the civilized world, you may or may not have a way to use end to end encryption and there are a variety of ways to do so with apps via the web rather than telcoms. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 09:47 PM (E4rtv) My phone does not have that on it, as far as I know. I don't use text for anything of a sensitive nature. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 10:21 PM (utfVc) 350 Grocery shopping today 13 oz Spanish peanuts for $2. I love Spanish peanuts. Great anticipation opening the tub... they are not salted. How on earth can that be? youtube.com/watch?v=y6N8eL-cuEU You will notice that this video was made during the time of the great segregation, there are no white or alternate race or sex persons allowed. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 10:43 PM (xOYmg) 351 Shelley Dubinsky (Animal House). Played by Lisa Baur. Who, unfortunately, never played another role. Maybe she got hit by a bus or something. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 08:17 PM (dIske) Or maybe she turned into a fat drunk. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 09, 2026 12:07 AM (g8Ew8) Christopher Rufo Uncovers a New California "Fraud Magnet," Costing Us $30 Billion Per Year You know how Somali Pirates claim to be "day care providers" for each other's kids? And get paid $150,000 per year for sitting on their asses at home? Well here's another grift: "In-Home Support Care." Does your Uncle Mohammad need "in-home support"? Is he willing to claim he does? Well, here's $100,000 to provide that service. We promise -- we won't check up with you and won't even balk at your claiming to provide federally-compensated "in-home supportive services" to your spouse. California Governor Gavin Newsom is embroiled in a national fraud scandal. Thus far, much of the coverage has focused on alleged schemes related to unemployment insurance, hospice care, and food stamps. In this exclusive investigation, we shine a light on one of California's largest initiatives: the In-Home Supportive Services Program, or IHSS, which pays family members and other individuals to provide home-based care for the elderly and disabled--at a cost of nearly $30 billion per year. On the surface, IHSS presents itself as an instrument of compassion, directing billions to caregivers who help with cooking, personal care, laundry, and other daily needs inside recipients' homes. But a growing number of experts and critics argue that the program is rife with fraud, losing roughly an estimated $6 billion to $12 billion yearly to scammers. Meantime, the state's powerful home-care unions collect more than $149 million in membership dues, funneling money into the political network supporting Newsom and California Democrats. This is the story of a government that has allowed compassion to become a mask for fraud, creating a self-reinforcing system that keeps the Democratic establishment in power. In 1973, California created what became the IHSS program to provide in-home care to the elderly and disabled. The IHSS caseload exploded in the 1980s, prompting the state to impose hour caps on care providers. California offers the program through Medi-Cal, its version of Medicaid, and pays providers with a combination of federal, state, and county funds. IHSS has long been considered a magnet for fraud. In 2009, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger estimated that up to 25 percent of IHSS claims were fraudulent. A Sacramento grand jury report that year found that providers had "no meaningful oversight, no assessment of skills to meet client needs, no monitoring of the validity of service hours, and no background checks." After growth of the program's rolls exploded in the early 2000s, Schwarzenegger signed legislation aimed at curbing abuse, requiring IHSS providers to undergo criminal background checks and introducing random claim reviews. But soon after the law's passage, a state workgroup, teaming with representatives from "labor organizations," introduced a key loophole. Citing concerns about disruptions for "vulnerable members of the IHSS community," the task force barred regulators from conducting fully randomized, unannounced home visits, leaving the program more exposed to scammers. Yes, they do this on purpose. Minnesota stopped all auditing and verification precisely to allow Democratic Somali Pirate voters to use Minnesota paperwork to defraud the taxpayers from other states. They approve of this because they see it as Back-Door Reparations. Evil White Racists won't agree to provide reparations to Somalis -- a people we have virtually no historic connection to, for good or for ill, and so owe absolutely nothing to them -- so they deliberately blind the government to fraud. Let the Somalis pick whatever level of Unofficial Back-Door Reparations they think they're "owed." It's barely even fraud -- it's the politicians like Ellison and Walz who are the criminals. They're the embezzlers. Since then, the program has expanded dramatically again. "IHSS provider" has become the largest low-wage occupation statewide, with more than 800,000 taxpayer-funded caregivers offering everything from grocery shopping to personal care. ... The system operates largely on trust. Providers self-report their timecards and check-in records. In roughly 60 percent of cases, providers and beneficiaries live together, delivering care in private homes--typically without the threat of random, unannounced visits. Just sign up for to provide "in-home supportive services" to your own f*ing spouse. California will pay you do to so, taking money from the federal government for the payments. ... California, in other words, is sending billions of dollars per year to a program that is easy to exploit, difficult to administer, and almost impossible to supervise. In 2024, the federal government began a series of enforcement actions. As part of a nationwide crackdown on health-care-related crimes, the United States Department of Justice announced prosecutions for alleged IHSS fraud in California. In one case, the DOJ alleged that San Dimas resident Giacomo Lorenzo Garbarino billed the state for more than $170,000 in fraudulent IHSS and Medi-Cal services over a five-year period. The patient in his care was reportedly hospitalized or living in a facility at the time and thus ineligible for IHSS reimbursement. In another case, Joseph Depiazza allegedly billed the state for more than $50,000 in fraudulent IHSS services. According to prosecutors, he kept submitting claims after the patient entered the hospital--and even after she had died. Last year, federal officials announced another round of IHSS fraud prosecutions. In one case, prosecutors alleged that Maryam Erambakhsh falsely claimed payments for caring for her parents while they were outside the United States. In another, Cindy Lynn Fromm allegedly billed the program for more than a year of services while the recipient was incarcerated. These cases may be the tip of the iceberg. Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions for Government and a nationally recognized fraud expert, estimates that annual IHSS fraud could amount to 20 percent to 40 percent of total program spending. Applied to projected IHSS outlays for fiscal year 2025--26, that suggests roughly $6 billion to $12 billion in losses. Multiple senior officials at the Department of Health and Human Services have described a similar pattern, estimating that about 25 percent of the Medi-Cal budget is lost to fraud. The share is likely higher for IHSS, given the program's structure and its susceptibility to abuse. Earlier this year, Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, set off a firestorm of controversy with the claim that criminal networks, including the "Russian Armenian mafia," were running massive hospice and home care scams in Los Angeles. He suggested that Armenians in Los Angeles were disproportionately represented among the leaders of hospice fraud rings. Read the whole thing, after you've taken your blood pressure medicine. Even CBS is covering Democrat fraud. A CBS News Investigation found one Los Angeles County hospice physician's name, Dr. Rajiv Bhuva, on Medicare claims for nearly 2,800 patients** across 126 California hospices in 2024, according to the last full year of available data. In one year, mind you. Even if she saw each patient just once and worked seven days a week, she'd have to see about 8 patients per day to rack up 2,800 patient visits. Update: I made an error. I said she would have to see 40 patients a day. No doctor in California is connected to more hospices than Dr. Rajiv Bhuva. In 2024, his name appeared on Medicare claims across 126 hospice companies in California -- 115 of them in Los Angeles County alone. In 2024, Medicare paid out tens of millions in taxpayer dollars for care attributed to Dr. Bhuva -- a figure that surpassed nearly every other hospice physician in the state. The average California hospice doctor cares for about 140 patients a year. In 2024, claims with Bhuva's name were submitted for 2,791 terminally ill patients. Only one hospice doctor in California was identified as receiving more Medicare reimbursement than Bhuva in recent years: Dr. Domingo Barrientos. His reimbursements totalled $90.3 million. He is currently in federal prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. ... Dr. Kristina Newport, chief medical officer at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, said the kind of numbers linked to Bhuva and other highly prolific medical providers in the industry raise an array of questions. "They would have a superhuman schedule to do that in a meaningful way," Newport believes. In a brief interview at the front door of his mid-century stucco home in a mountainside suburb of Los Angeles, Bhuva told CBS News he doubted the figures and said there was no statutory limit to the number of hospices any one physician can staff. But after a brief exchange, he declined to speak further. ... The data shows Bhuva's national identifier was tied to the one of the largest volumes of Medicare hospice reimbursements in California in 2024. The data does not establish whether Bhuva personally authorized the claims, whether his credentials were used without his consent, or whether there is another explanation. CBS News found Bhuva's name among the physicians billing Medicare at several hospices that lost their Medicare certification for what regulators called an "abuse of billing" -- a pattern of submitting improper claims. Those hospices were banned from Medicare for a 10-year period. California state auditors say that anytime records show a doctor working for more than three hospice providers at one time, it could be a hallmark of fraud and prompts reasonable questions about "whether they are actually participating in the operations of those hospices." More than 600 doctors exceed that threshold in California, according to Medicare data obtained and analyzed by CBS News. On paper, those 600 doctors appear to be both incredibly busy -- and profitable to the businesses they serve. While they accounted for roughly 7% of California's hospice physicians, they generated more than half of the state's $4.2 billion in Medicare hospice reimbursements in 2024, the last full year of data available. In state and federal records, certain names stand out. The ten busiest hospice doctors -- those whose names are linked to the most operators in California -- generated more in Medicare reimbursements than 90% of their peers in 2024. The Democrats are not "asleep at the wheel" -- they are active co-conspirators in the greatest mass-looting in the history of the Earth. The Party of Third-World Looters: So a group of zero white people held a press conference to tell you that white people will be systemically discriminated against. https://t.co/Zs8iLI0bSC — okoy (@Y0K0S0N) April 6, 2026 Third World Colonizers come into the country and after five years start deciding how to start splitting up American property and treasure between them. Related: ICE shot a wanted man who attempted to run them down with his vehicle. Expect riots to follow. PATTERSON, Cali. (TNND) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot a wanted man in California on Tuesday after he allegedly "weaponized his vehicle" and attempted to run an officer over, according to the agency's acting director. ICE agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Patterson to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, an alleged member of the 18th Street Gang who is wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection with a murder, authorities said. "As officers approached the car, the wanted gang member used his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over," Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said in a statement.". Joachin is charged with homicide without premeditation and criminal mischief. Well that's the "non-violent" form of homicide, doncha know. Thanks to L, no nic, another fine day. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:29 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 BOOM! Posted by: Max Power at April 08, 2026 06:29 PM (q177U) 2 In one case, the DOJ alleged that San Dimas resident Giacomo Lorenzo Garbarino billed the state for more than $170,000 in fraudulent IHSS and Medi-Cal services over a five-year period. -- Giacomo's defense should be "San Dimas High School Football rules!" Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at April 08, 2026 06:31 PM (uWSSQ) 3 So exactly who is trying to derail newsome's bid for president in 2028 by "finding" all of this stuff? Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 06:31 PM (0N4FZ) 4 The Democrat fraud machine. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 06:32 PM (YwEeS) 5 So exactly who is trying to derail newsome's bid for president in 2028 by "finding" all of this stuff? Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 06:31 PM (0N4FZ) My guess would be the guys controlling Obama. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 06:33 PM (zZu0s) 6 The liberals bitch about money for the war. It could go to this. And that. But don't look at fraud or take money from illegals. Nightly news .... all Iran and Hormuz. And a serial killer on one of the networks. A white guy who killed 8 women. Miraculously, he's not as much a misogynist as President Trump. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 06:34 PM (Sco7b) 7 Perp walks? Plea deals? Public funds recovered? Release the CPA's? Hundreds of months of Federal time? Popcorn futures? Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 08, 2026 06:34 PM (r0dOk) 8 So exactly who is trying to derail newsome's bid for president in 2028 by "finding" all of this stuff? Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS His wife is certainly doing her part to derail him. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 06:34 PM (pZEOD) 9 CA is one of the states the new "Fraud Commission" is looked at aggressively. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 06:35 PM (GD0B3) 10 looking at... Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 06:35 PM (GD0B3) 11 FCC defending public interest in broadcast media? Senator Joe McCarthy reputation rehabilitated? Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 08, 2026 06:36 PM (r0dOk) 12 It's a write off, Jerry. Posted by: Max Power at April 08, 2026 06:36 PM (q177U) 13 Meh, read content ... again. Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 06:36 PM (Q/FnY) 14 Just wait till we get "single payer" nationwide. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 06:36 PM (Cqx++) 15 Uh...Ace, Your math is wrong. 2,800 patient visits/365 days is 7.67 visits/day. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 06:37 PM (n9ltV) 16 Biden did say the Democrats had the greatest fraud machine in the world. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 06:38 PM (cWLG3) 17 I really am surprised some of these folks haven't been found floating face down in a pond somewhere. This level of corruption is enough to cheat daily life for regular citizens. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 06:38 PM (2WIwB) 18 So a group of zero white people held a press conference to tell you that white people will be systemically discriminated against. Western Lensman When that racist sub-human piece of shit Coleman Young was running Detroit, it led to a gorgeous white flight from the shithole city. Including my Mom's family. Actually Detroit was less a craphole then in the 80's but devil's night was a big thing. And I believe it was Murder City USA for awhile. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 06:38 PM (Sco7b) 19 I assume that all the terms, "upper-facing surfaces", "two coats", "undersides and legs", "6:30", "desk", "quick and sloppy sanding", and the entire phrase, "dump the rest of the varnish on the underside" are all codewords for various sex acts. Some more obvious than others. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 06:38 PM (3uBP9) 20 A Sacramento grand jury report that year found that providers had "no meaningful oversight, no assessment of skills to meet client needs, no monitoring of the validity of service hours, and no background checks." Do they have to show an I.D. ? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 06:39 PM (Cqx++) 21 It's almost as if eliminating the fraud would put the budget in the black (that's a good thing to all you racists out there). Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 06:39 PM (/lPRQ) 22 >>>2,800 patient visits/365 days is 7.67 visits/day. aw dang. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 06:39 PM (1wjle) 23 CA is one of the states the new "Fraud Commission" is looked at aggressively. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 06:35 PM (GD0B3) WA needs to be next. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 06:39 PM (2WIwB) 24 22 >>>2,800 patient visits/365 days is 7.67 visits/day. aw dang. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 06:39 PM (1wjle) Math is racist. Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2026 06:39 PM (Ot/FD) 25 Bonk bonk on tha head Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 08, 2026 06:39 PM (nDXEV) 26 ace, I believe whatever you say. You are the boss, lol. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:40 PM (3ek7K) 27 The Democrats are not "asleep at the wheel" -- they are active co-conspirators in the greatest mass-looting in the history of the Earth.* Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh, your opinion, man. Posted by: The (D)ude at April 08, 2026 06:40 PM (0sNs1) 28 Hahahaha...good! I love it that californians are sticking it to The Man and stealing all his stash! Just don't mess with my medicare greed haul or there will be trouble and I mean big trouble! Posted by: Free Shit King Boomer at April 08, 2026 06:40 PM (QCEpb) 29 I always make some trivial error like putting the decimal in the wrong place...! Posted by: Michael Bolton (not the singer) at April 08, 2026 06:40 PM (1wjle) 30 Think of that sweet, sweet Keynesian multiplier, tho. Seriously, all that money, just flowing right into the economy. A few more years of this and we'll all be rich! Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2026 06:41 PM (Ot/FD) 31 Stuff happens. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:41 PM (3ek7K) 32 It's almost as if eliminating the fraud would put the budget in the black (that's a good thing to all you racists out there). Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 06:39 PM Pretty sure if we eliminated most of the fraud the federal government would have a surplus every year and be able to actually pay off the national debt. We are fast approaching 20-25% of the budget gone in fraud alone. If we include other bull$hit pork barrel stuff in there we are at about one third of the federal budget wasted. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 06:42 PM (0N4FZ) 33 Only one hospice doctor in California was identified as receiving more Medicare reimbursement than Bhuva in recent years: Dr. Domingo Barrientos. His reimbursements totalled $90.3 million. The system worked as designed! The only people serving time should be the government workers that set it up and administered it. Don't even care about the inevitable kickbacks. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 06:42 PM (Bq1P8) 34 2,800 patient visits/365 days is 7.67 visits/day. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 06:37 PM On average, a Terran solar year is 365.25 days long. Therefore, a more precise statement would be 2,800/365.25, which is 7.6659822 visits/Terran day. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2026 06:43 PM (0sNs1) 35 It's not as bad as Vindaloo Weekend in Buckhead back in the 80's. Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 08, 2026 06:43 PM (nDXEV) 36 You bet in-home IHSS program is rife with fraud. SEIU fought long and hard to force them into the union--and most workers don't want to be there. https://tinyurl.com/ye3t6dt6 So what, it profits the unions and/or commie leaders? Posted by: PJ at April 08, 2026 06:43 PM (+jscL) 37 Math is hard. Posted by: Talking Barbie Doll at April 08, 2026 06:43 PM (/lPRQ) 38 The great and powerful Oz needs to liquidate these fraudsters. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 06:44 PM (Cqx++) 39 Shit. When I moved into my mom's place to help take care of my stepdad when he had lung cancer (even though he didn't smoke), you're telling me that I could have filed a couple of forms and made 6 figures during that time? Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 06:44 PM (y9nCu) 40 That's why there is no math on the blog Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 08, 2026 06:44 PM (gQ15S) 41 One sweet little irony is that, even though the economy itself isn't doing too shabby in spite of all this, the media is dishonor-bound to crow about how shit the economy is. And nobody is particularly keen on hearing stories about rampant fraud when they think the economy is in the dumps. Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2026 06:44 PM (Ot/FD) 42 Basically all of carpentry sounds naughty. Butt joint? Lap joint?? Box joint???? Bridle joint !!?? Tongue and groove ??????? I mean common man!!!! ...and that's just joints. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 06:45 PM (3uBP9) 43 This kind of fraud on a federal level needs to be stopped. If corrupt states are willing to screw their own local citizens, then I have no say, but when the states are screwing taxpayers on a federal level they need to be condemned. Lock them up. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 06:45 PM (Fbc0I) 44 "Joachin is charged with homicide without premeditation and criminal mischief." Who is Joachin? Is this from a different story? Posted by: Dread at April 08, 2026 06:46 PM (tirVu) 45 The only people who get locked up are MAGA people. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:47 PM (3ek7K) 46 If corrupt states are willing to screw their own local citizens, then I have no say, but when the states are screwing taxpayers on a federal level they need to be condemned. Lock them up. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 06:45 PM (Fbc0I) Wishbone 2028: -= Go Screw Yourselves =- Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2026 06:47 PM (Ot/FD) 47 Democrats play this game where they dismiss billions in fraud because well, that's only .01% of the budget, so it's meaningless. And the media is always certain it's being over exagerrated by "right wing media". Posted by: Leupold at April 08, 2026 06:47 PM (eIzlH) 48 "This is the story of a government that has allowed compassion to become a mask for fraud, ..." Gee, maybe the government shouldn't be in the compassion business in the first place. Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 08, 2026 06:48 PM (WKdEz) 49 Nowadays compassion means give me your money stupid people. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:49 PM (3ek7K) 50 In defense of all these child care and elderly care fraudsters, they just can't steal THAT much money from families and churches. 39 Shit. When I moved into my mom's place to help take care of my stepdad when he had lung cancer (even though he didn't smoke), you're telling me that I could have filed a couple of forms and made 6 figures during that time? Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 06:44 PM (y9nCu) Bless you. And your family. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 06:49 PM (Sco7b) 51 2,800 patient visits/365 days is 7.67 visits/day. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 06:37 PM (n9ltV) Math? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s) 52 All the people who come here to our country come here to steal taxpayers money. If they were good people they would stay in their countries and work towards making their country better. Naw, we will go to America where we can steal money and still be assholes. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:51 PM (3ek7K) 53 Gee, maybe the government shouldn't be in the compassion business in the first place. Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 08, 2026 06:48 PM I will have to check to make sure but I am fairly certain that the word compassion does not appear in the US constitution. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 06:51 PM (0N4FZ) 54 >>>Tongue and groove ??????? I mean common man!!!! >That's one of my favorites! Let's not forget the biscuit joint. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 06:51 PM (Fbc0I) 55 2,800 patient visits/365 days is 7.67 visits/day. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 06:37 PM (n9ltV) Math? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s) --- ace forgot to carry the 2.... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM (ESVrU) 56 No normal person would ever be allowed to horn in on this kind of racket. You even find a number to call to try to apply because you actually fit the stated purpose of the program, they'll be up your ass auditing everything you got, and then find some way of saying you don't "qualify". They're not sharing a dime of their loot. Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM (Ot/FD) 57 51 2,800 patient visits/365 days is 7.67 visits/day. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 06:37 PM (n9ltV So it none of pur business? Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM (r0dOk) 58 Earlier this year, Mehmet Oz... suggested that Armenians in Los Angeles were disproportionately represented among the leaders of hospice fraud rings. ----- Whaddya know. The Turk has the knives out for the Armenians. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM (BI5O2) 59 I will have to check to make sure but I am fairly certain that the word compassion does not appear in the US constitution. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 06:51 PM (0N4FZ) It's spelled "compaffion", duh. Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM (Ot/FD) 60 I thought "no math" was the rule here, right? Posted by: turambar at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM (Q0yOR) 61 That's one of my favorites! Let's not forget the biscuit joint. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone Nobody forgets the biscuit joint. Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM (WKdEz) 62 Patterson! That’s exciting! I can go observe if I wasn’t so lazy! Posted by: Doctor Mew at April 08, 2026 06:53 PM (XodLO) 63 They come here to steal. Dang straight, nothing to steal in Somalia. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 06:53 PM (yAteE) 64 For those that missed it from GatewayPundit. BOMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy – While Others Rewarded In the ga,eshow I have on. One of the teams of 4 gets together every week to play Dungeons and Dragons. And ONE'S A WOMAN! Better looking than you'd think.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 06:53 PM (Sco7b) 65 Ace is just hopped up on varnish fumes. Give him a day or so and his math powers will return. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 06:53 PM (3uBP9) 66 I prefer the biscuit and gravy joint. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 06:54 PM (gtcuf) 67 Shit. When I moved into my mom's place to help take care of my stepdad when he had lung cancer (even though he didn't smoke), you're telling me that I could have filed a couple of forms and made 6 figures during that time? Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 06:44 PM (y9nCu) yes...in california I think you still can. No one is checking up on you or them or anything. Hell, they won't even deport me and I'm not a real doctor. Posted by: Dr. Rajiv Bhuva, I should be deported but oh well at April 08, 2026 06:54 PM (QCEpb) 68 Don't ya'll love working your asses off to support your family? Now we're supporting illegal assholes whichever flavor they are. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:54 PM (3ek7K) 69 $30,000,000,000.00? A mere rounding error. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 06:54 PM (tgvbd) 70 I thought "no math" was the rule here, right? Posted by: turambar And now you know why. Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 08, 2026 06:54 PM (WKdEz) 71 OT - The FBI arrested Courtney Williams, 40, of Wagram, North Carolina yesterday and a federal grand jury indicted her today in connection with her alleged transmission of classified national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, including a journalist (the Journalist). She actually had to go out of her way to leak bone fide secrets. A regular Swalwell. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 06:54 PM (/lPRQ) 72 We are fast approaching 20-25% of the budget gone in fraud alone. If we include other bull$hit pork barrel stuff in there we are at about one third of the federal budget wasted. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 06:42 PM (0N4FZ) ________________________________ Don't you pukes touch my airport. I'm still getting $3 Million a year in Federal funds, and I deserve it because....well, because I'm John Murtha, and you're not. Posted by: John Murtha's Revenue generating corpse at April 08, 2026 06:55 PM (dIske) 73 The Democrats are not "asleep at the wheel" -- they are active co-conspirators in the greatest mass-looting in the history of the Earth. This is a critical point. Imagine that the left is honest and they really believe the government is dramatically underfunding healthcare, education, etc and that this is literally causing masses of people to de. Then they would be MORE furious then we are when this sort of fraud was uncovered, more interested in punishing the guilty, and more interested in enacting anti-fraud measures. But every time this happens they deny it, minimize it, and impede any effort to stop it. The only rational explanation is that they are in on it. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 06:55 PM (sKqQm) 74 Dove tail ! Posted by: Hare lip at April 08, 2026 06:55 PM (Cqx++) 75 Face nail End nail Posted by: Accomack at April 08, 2026 06:55 PM (T8bqm) 76 Willow'd: 75 re 72: can't do that, it might taint the jury taint. giggle giggle Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 06:02 PM (CWTWj) You can tell a lot just by looking at someone, especially if you know how white is "white as a debutante's taint." [Verse 1] When I met you in the restaurant You could tell I was no debutante I said don't you know it ain't Polite to inspect a stranger's taint? So have a drink and tell me of your [Chorus] Dreaming, dreaming is free Dreaming, dreaming is free Posted by: SciVo at April 08, 2026 06:55 PM (Sy6m/) 77 Whaddya know. The Turk has the knives out for the Armenians. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM (BI5O2) ==== It is well known the Armenian mafia is all over this in L.A. county. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2026 06:57 PM (RIvkX) 78 34 2,800 patient visits/365 days is 7.67 visits/day. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 06:37 PM On average, a Terran solar year is 365.25 days long. Therefore, a more precise statement would be 2,800/365.25, which is 7.6659822 visits/Terran day. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2026 06:43 PM (0sNs1) Shutup, Wesley! Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 06:57 PM (cWLG3) 79 Mortise and tenon! Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 06:57 PM (zZu0s) 80 We are fast approaching 20-25% of the budget gone in fraud alone. If we include other bull$hit pork barrel stuff in there we are at about one third of the federal budget wasted. Biden doubled the federal budget. ALL of that was fraud on top of the base level of fraud whatever it might be The Biden clique was stealing trillions per year Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 06:57 PM (sKqQm) 81 physicians work approximately 50 hours/week, or 2500 hours/year. that translates to a little over 1 patient per hour. Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at April 08, 2026 06:57 PM (XgXz0) 82 My wife's in-home support was hospice care, and the f'n State of California would not pay me from funds taken from my paychecks for years for the time I took off from work to take care of her for her last weeks. I appealed, but got no response. The same CA Gov't organization also told us to be careful giving our information out, then would call me and ask for that information. Um, guys, you just told me to be careful doing that! Don't you know Caller ID can be spoofed? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 06:57 PM (ynpvh) 83 Ace, this is O/T of Cucker with a goat. Saw it last night on Tousi and loved it... https://tinyurl.com/36ve34tw Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 06:58 PM (WONhk) 84 Where's that space ship? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 06:58 PM (Cqx++) 85 35 It's not as bad as Vindaloo Weekend in Buckhead back in the 80's. Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 08, 2026 06:43 PM (nDXEV) --- It's like you're caught in a time... vindaloop. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 06:58 PM (cWLG3) 86 Face nail End nail Posted by: Accomack Mayor Pete's favorites. nods sagaciously Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 08, 2026 06:58 PM (WKdEz) 87 To each his need, tax the rich and give to the criminals Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 06:59 PM (Ia/+0) 88 Mortise and tenon! Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 06:57 PM (zZu0s) Ah. I love British humor duos. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 07:00 PM (0aYVJ) 89 If you think the various governments of the US don’t know who is stealing the money, you’re not paying attention. Posted by: Accomack at April 08, 2026 07:00 PM (T8bqm) 90 Anybody got a picture of this Courtney Williams bint? All I can find is some sportsball player with the same name. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:00 PM (gtcuf) 91 To each his need, tax the rich and give to the criminals Every time the left gets the opportunity to "tax the rich" they end up taxing everyone legitimately earning money... Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 07:00 PM (sKqQm) 92 I thought "no math" was the rule here, right? Posted by: turambar at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM It's more of a guideline, actually. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1) 93 >>> We are fast approaching 20-25% of the budget gone in fraud alone. If we include other bull$hit pork barrel stuff in there we are at about one third of the federal budget wasted. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 06:42 PM (0N4FZ) Start cutting off some of our NATO enemies and we could probably fund gov through tariffs. If we were a serious country with a constitutional republican government and not a shitty marxist-leninist communist centralized system run by our black-robed politburo. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 07:01 PM (3uBP9) 94 93 I thought "no math" was the rule here, right? Posted by: turambar at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM It's more of a guideline, actually. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1) They let that rule slide... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 07:01 PM (ynpvh) 95 There are No Kings protests in our country. Howz about we have No Thieve Protests? Oh we would be arrested. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 07:01 PM (3ek7K) 96 74 sums it up well. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 08, 2026 07:02 PM (MIIRH) 97 95 93 I thought "no math" was the rule here, right? Posted by: turambar at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM It's more of a guideline, actually. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1) They let that rule slide... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 07:01 PM (ynpvh) --- Ba dum tish Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 07:02 PM (cWLG3) 98 94 >>> We are fast approaching 20-25% of the budget gone in fraud alone. If we include other bull$hit pork barrel stuff in there we are at about one third of the federal budget wasted. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 06:42 PM (0N4FZ) Start cutting off some of our NATO enemies and we could probably fund gov through tariffs. If we were a serious country with a constitutional republican government and not a shitty marxist-leninist communist centralized system run by our black-robed politburo. Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2026 07:01 PM (3uBP9) The bigger the sum of Gov't monies, the more fraud there'll be... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 07:02 PM (ynpvh) 99 Anybody got a picture of this Courtney Williams bint? All I can find is some sportsball player with the same name. Posted by: Delurker Look again. Morons would say she is a 1. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:02 PM (/lPRQ) 100 Earlier this year, Mehmet Oz... suggested that Armenians in Los Angeles were disproportionately represented among the leaders of hospice fraud rings. ----- Whaddya know. The Turk has the knives out for the Armenians. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM (BI5O2) Doesn't mean he's wrong. Ask the Armenians where the Turks steal. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 07:02 PM (8avO+) 101 93, even Wesley gets it right once in a while Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 08, 2026 07:03 PM (MIIRH) 102 I thought "no math" was the rule here, right? Posted by: turambar at April 08, 2026 06:52 PM It's more of a guideline, actually. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2026 07:00 PM They let that rule slide... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 07:01 PM It does seem to be the sum of all fears around here. Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 07:03 PM (0sNs1) 103 100 Anybody got a picture of this Courtney Williams bint? All I can find is some sportsball player with the same name. Posted by: Delurker Look again. Morons would say she is a 1. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:02 PM (/lPRQ) ________________________________ Survey says........ Lesbian https://tinyurl.com/42fvm2hj Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 07:04 PM (dIske) 104 There are No Kings protests in our country. Howz about we have No Thieve Protests? Oh we would be arrested. In Iran when people protest they get shot. In the US the "No Kings" protestors get...paid. By our government. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 07:04 PM (sKqQm) 105 Found some pics of the traitor Courtney Williams here: https://tinyurl.com/mwkfsj4x Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:05 PM (gtcuf) 106 Calling all Groypers: c'mon down to Granny Me-Again's back yard this evening for a bonfire and s'mores! Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 08, 2026 07:06 PM (xG4kz) 107 The same CA Gov't organization also told us to be careful giving our information out, then would call me and ask for that information. Um, guys, you just told me to be careful doing that! Don't you know Caller ID can be spoofed? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 06:57 PM Some scammer spoofed my credit union phone number. They called me one day to say that my credit card was compromised and used to buy $400 of stuff in cleveland and they asked if I authorized that purchase. I said nope and they said OK we need you to identify your self by verifying the credit card number with the expiration date and the 3 digit ID code on the back. I said nope I will give you the last 4 numbers and that's it. They said that won't work and if I didn't positively identify myself with the card details they could not turn off the fraud. I said do whatever you need to do this sounds exactly like what a scammer would ask me to do. I hung up and called the credit union and reported the call. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 07:06 PM (0N4FZ) 108 I'd like to see a rule where gov't employees, no matter what level, get 10% for eliminating waste and fraud. Fire 10 of the useless deadbeats in your department, start a nice retirement account. Rat out your scuzzy Dem boss, get gov't support in getting the asshole out of government and get his job. Televise it... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 07:06 PM (Sco7b) 109 104 100 Anybody got a picture of this Courtney Williams bint? All I can find is some sportsball player with the same name. Posted by: Delurker Look again. Morons would say she is a 1. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:02 PM (/lPRQ) ________________________________ Survey says........ Lesbian https://tinyurl.com/42fvm2hj Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 07:04 PM (dIske) --- Based on what? That she plays soccer? I thought Courtney meant "short nose" -- she doesn't have a short nose, so she's a phony from birth. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 07:06 PM (cWLG3) 110 Survey says........ Lesbian Same goes for the unrelated sportsball player! Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:07 PM (gtcuf) 111 Survey says........ Lesbian https://tinyurl.com/42fvm2hj Posted by: Orson Forward leaning rest position. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:07 PM (/lPRQ) 112 I have had guys apply for work and explain they can only work part time because they "take care of their grandma" Now I understand. They are getting this deal. Posted by: Harun at April 08, 2026 07:07 PM (IuIym) 113 There are millions and millions of Rajiv Bhuvas waiting to come here. Hopefully there will still be a kitty in the till to steal when they arrive. Posted by: Curry Gives Me Gas at April 08, 2026 07:07 PM (QCEpb) 114 My friend has a paralyzed uncle. The state of IL pays the uncle's wife to care for him at home because it is cheaper than putting him in a state nursing home. If done right with random checks it is a great program. Posted by: anon2020 at April 08, 2026 07:08 PM (RqMDa) 115 They let that rule slide... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)" That's a calculated insult... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 07:09 PM (XuXeR) 116 Some scammer spoofed my credit union phone number. They called me one day to say that my credit card was compromised and used to buy $400 of stuff in cleveland and they asked if I authorized that purchase. I said nope and they said OK we need you to identify your self by verifying the credit card number with the expiration date and the 3 digit ID code on the back. I said nope I will give you the last 4 numbers and that's it. They said that won't work and if I didn't positively identify myself with the card details they could not turn off the fraud. I said do whatever you need to do this sounds exactly like what a scammer would ask me to do. I hung up and called the credit union and reported the call. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 07:06 PM (0N4FZ) Your credit card probably has a phone number on the back to call for cases of suspected fraud... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 07:09 PM (ynpvh) 117 118 I'd like to see a rule where gov't employees, no matter what level, get 10% for eliminating waste and fraud. I'd like to see where nobody that draws a Federal check gets to vote where Federal money goes. Because they're just voting themselves to their neighbors money. Posted by: Yep at April 08, 2026 07:09 PM (RNZa0) Same for property tax... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 07:10 PM (ynpvh) 118 1. Speedy trials 2. Hangman's Gallows. 3. Justice 4. Next! Posted by: Case at April 08, 2026 07:10 PM (pvf3X) 119 119 118 I'd like to see a rule where gov't employees, no matter what level, get 10% for eliminating waste and fraud. I'd like to see where nobody that draws a Federal check gets to vote where Federal money goes. Because they're just voting themselves to their neighbors money. Posted by: Yep at April 08, 2026 07:09 PM (RNZa0) Same for property tax... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 07:10 PM (ynpvh) That's why originally only property owners could be voters. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 07:10 PM (ynpvh) 120 112 Survey says........ Lesbian https://tinyurl.com/42fvm2hj Posted by: Orson Forward leaning rest position. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:07 PM (/lPRQ) ________________________________ According to the Politico article...she appears to be an A #1 First class "KAREN." She didn't like her performance review so she filed a discrimination complaint. She took off to care for her daughter (so ok, maybe not a lesbian...but there's still the possibility)....and got an AWOL. She's a real treat, considering she's posting photos of herself throughout the elistment process etc. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 07:10 PM (dIske) 121 > 63 They come here to steal. Dang straight, nothing to steal in Somalia. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 06:53 PM (yAteE) Not true. My neighbor, Husayn Mhammbed Husayn, used to steal my camel dung all the time. That bastard also stole all my best rocks and sticks. Posted by: Mhammbed Husayn Mhammbed at April 08, 2026 07:12 PM (pSzdp) 122 Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 07:10 PM (dIske) In some of those pics she's actually...kinda hot. The pushups pic seems to be an outlier. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:12 PM (gtcuf) 123 She's a real treat, considering she's posting photos of herself throughout the elistment process etc." Private Benjamin? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 07:12 PM (XuXeR) 124 122 112 Survey says........ Lesbian https://tinyurl.com/42fvm2hj Posted by: Orson Forward leaning rest position. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:07 PM (/lPRQ) ________________________________ According to the Politico article...she appears to be an A #1 First class "KAREN." She didn't like her performance review so she filed a discrimination complaint. She took off to care for her daughter (so ok, maybe not a lesbian...but there's still the possibility)....and got an AWOL. She's a real treat, considering she's posting photos of herself throughout the elistment process etc. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 07:10 PM (dIske) --- She had to document being FIRST. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 07:12 PM (cWLG3) 125 California already had full socialism. And, like all true socialism, someone else is paying for it: You Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 08, 2026 07:13 PM (HXT0k) 126 Hope she gets burned Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 07:14 PM (Ia/+0) 127 Does a pause in posting happen when a n-o-o-d occurs? I can never time those alerts. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM (cWLG3) 128 At GB News: "India is believed to be drawing up plans to release venomous snakes and crocodiles into its border with Bangladesh in a bid to tackle the country's migrant crisis." Posted by: gp at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM (N8ZBc) 129 Found some pics of the traitor Courtney Williams here: https://tinyurl.com/mwkfsj4x Posted by: Delurker LOL, the aerial photo barracks complex. It's the 82nd's First Brigade complex. End of Butner near Long Street. Nothing to do with spec ops anything. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM (/lPRQ) 130 We need a Madison Cornbread-esque nicname for the traitorous bint. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM (gtcuf) 131 A woman playing soccer does not mean she's a lesbian "Between 2022 and 2025, investigators claim Williams had significant contact with journalist Seth Harp. They communicated for over ten hours on the phone and exchanged more than 180 messages" Sounds more likely she was having an affair with the journalist. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM (IEV/x) 132 A woman playing soccer does not mean she's a lesbian A woman playing softball, however... Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:16 PM (gtcuf) 133 133 A woman playing soccer does not mean she's a lesbian "Between 2022 and 2025, investigators claim Williams had significant contact with journalist Seth Harp. They communicated for over ten hours on the phone and exchanged more than 180 messages" Sounds more likely she was having an affair with the journalist. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM (IEV/x) --- I hear the secrets that you keep, ba dum ba dum when you're talking in your sleep. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 07:17 PM (cWLG3) 134 130 At GB News: "India is believed to be drawing up plans to release venomous snakes and crocodiles into its border with Bangladesh in a bid to tackle the country's migrant crisis." Posted by: gp at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM Of course. Walls don't work. And it's not like they'd have anyone to defend the walls. It's India... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 07:17 PM (Sco7b) 135 You know how all the leftist love to endlessly repeat the bullshit "blue states pay more than they receive?" Well, here you see the outlines of how that's clearly a lie. A lie because those "studies" cannot count Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid-- with all this fraud-- to reach that result. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 08, 2026 07:17 PM (HXT0k) 136 When I moved into my mom's place to help take care of my stepdad when he had lung cancer (even though he didn't smoke), Posted by: IllTemperedCur Yeah, C Everett Coop did such a good job of associating lung cancer with smoking that nobody who doesn't smoke ever thinks to check for it. My Dad's only symptom was a cough that never went away. They were testing him for exotic foreign fungi (he didn't travel) before anyone ever though to test for lung cancer, because he never smoked. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 07:17 PM (a+4eV) 137 >>>Found some pics of the traitor Courtney Williams here: https://tinyurl.com/mwkfsj4x Posted by: Delurker >She looks horribly abused. Some folks pay extra for a leaker. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 07:17 PM (Fbc0I) 138 We need a Madison Cornbread-esque nicname for the traitorous bint. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM (gtcuf) Treasonous Bitch does not count? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 07:18 PM (zZu0s) 139 130 At GB News: "India is believed to be drawing up plans to release venomous snakes and crocodiles into its border with Bangladesh in a bid to tackle the country's migrant crisis." Posted by: gp at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM (N8ZBc) --- No way a plan like that would backfire, nuh uh. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 07:18 PM (cWLG3) 140 137 130 At GB News: "India is believed to be drawing up plans to release venomous snakes and crocodiles into its border with Bangladesh in a bid to tackle the country's migrant crisis." Posted by: gp at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM Of course. Walls don't work. And it's not like they'd have anyone to defend the walls. It's India... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 07:17 PM (Sco7b) You'd think rivers over there, like the Ganges, would be polluted enough to keep people away, but they bathe in the Ganges, so no... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 07:19 PM (ynpvh) 141 141 We need a Madison Cornbread-esque nicname for the traitorous bint. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:15 PM (gtcuf) Treasonous Bitch does not count? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 07:18 PM (zZu0s) Deep Throat has already been used... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 07:19 PM (ynpvh) 142 Yeah, C Everett Coop did such a good job of associating lung cancer with smoking that nobody who doesn't smoke ever thinks to check for it." This. More stupidity from FedGov Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 07:22 PM (XuXeR) 143 I said nope I will give you the last 4 numbers and that's it. They said that won't work and if I didn't positively identify myself with the card details they could not turn off the fraud. I said do whatever you need to do this sounds exactly like what a scammer would ask me to do. I hung up and called the credit union and reported the call. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 07:06 PM (0N4FZ) Your credit card probably has a phone number on the back to call for cases of suspected fraud... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) I have had fraudulent charges. The bank would call to confirm the charge, yeah or nay. If nay, they block the charge and cancel the card. No identity confirmation needed by myself. They know my number. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:23 PM (/lPRQ) 144 Women in the military have no business being in a combat MOS. Posted by: Archer at April 08, 2026 07:23 PM (wvc0i) 145 Remember: All these states currently encouraging this fraud are suing Trump because the DOGE boys might have had access to Social Security numbers and could have misused that information Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 08, 2026 07:23 PM (HXT0k) 146 Sep 2026: "After upgrading their diet from pebbles and mud to snake and crocodile meat, Bangladeshi forces overrun Indian borders." Posted by: gp at April 08, 2026 07:23 PM (N8ZBc) 147 It is almost National Riot Month. Or June. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 07:24 PM (WONhk) 148 I love it when Democrats declare that race relations are hopelessly awful in places that have been run by Democrats for decades. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 07:24 PM (n7rxJ) 149 Did someone skull fuck the blog again? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 07:24 PM (zZu0s) 150 Women in the military have no business being in a combat MOS. Posted by: Archer at April 08, 2026 07:23 PM (wvc0i) Yes. And my wife, whom I met in the Army, wholeheartedly agrees. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 08, 2026 07:25 PM (0aYVJ) 151 It is almost National Riot Month. Or June." Can't wait! Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 07:25 PM (XuXeR) 152 places that have been run by Democrats for decades. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 07:24 PM Yeah thats what they do Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 07:26 PM (Ia/+0) 153 Women in the military have no business being in a combat MOS. Posted by: Archer Article is misleading. She appears to have been contractor staff. For all we really know she may have just worked travel orders (which are classified). Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 07:27 PM (/lPRQ) 154 >>A woman playing soccer does not mean she's a lesbian Unless she is the Goalie. Same applies for Lacrosse and Field Hockey. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 07:27 PM (TLp3A) 155 And I'm happy that when I was in, women were not allowed to have a combat MOS. Posted by: Archer at April 08, 2026 07:29 PM (wvc0i) 156 It's almost like they just randomly give security clearances out like door prizes. You get a security clearance, and YOU get a security clearance, and YOU get a security clearance... Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:29 PM (gtcuf) 157 Article is misleading." Article is a hopeless bundle of crap. So, AI? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 07:30 PM (XuXeR) 158 My favorite Indian snake lady: https://tinyurl.com/2erk8shn RIP Sridevi. Posted by: gp at April 08, 2026 07:30 PM (N8ZBc) 159 nood Posted by: gp at April 08, 2026 07:32 PM (N8ZBc) 160 NOODY CAFE Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0) 161 Indians are getting pebbles and mud? When I was a kid we only got the pebbles. And we liked it. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 07:32 PM (gtcuf) 162 pet rage of mine. these government paid care programs were set up initially on the guise of "taking care of people who have no family to step in". Then expanded with the "it will be cheaper for the state to pay someone in a family that can't afford for anyone to quit their regular job to care for mom,dad, grandpa etc. Most elderly or disabled people should have some family that could provide basic care for them w/o needing the government to throw money at the situation. But tragedy of the commons. "why should I do this for free while the government pays the neighbors to take care of their relatives" and then the parasites join in and claim that free government money fraudulently. Posted by: PaleRider at April 08, 2026 07:33 PM (Bu2hG) 163 Look ... the rest of us pay for the West Coast and NorthEast. Just a fact. ____ Just wait until Chief Justice Affirmative Action Jackson and her eight new Associate Justice DEI Monsters rubber stamp El Presidente's Bailouts for Blue Cities Bill. Posted by: Earth: The Final Season at April 08, 2026 07:34 PM (qUkBO) 164 115 My friend has a paralyzed uncle. The state of IL pays the uncle's wife to care for him at home because it is cheaper than putting him in a state nursing home. If done right with random checks it is a great program. random cheques are best cheques Posted by: anachronda at April 08, 2026 07:40 PM (oY6Yp) 165 Why am I sending a check to the IRS in a week? Posted by: RI Red at April 08, 2026 07:50 PM (h87eb) 166 Well, the Somalis refuse to learn English, so I can forgive them for saying “day care provider”. If you speak English fluently, nah. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 08:41 PM (E6xSb) 167 I worked as a speech therapist with developmentally delayed infants and toddlers through my state's Early Intervention program. We had to keep meticulous notes of our sessions and billing, whether through the state or insurance. Once a year, every therapist was audited. The state randomly selected 3-5, or more, kids and we had to send them copies of everything requested to prove we had actually provided the correct services. If even one thing was not provable or incorrectly documented--a date, a time, incomplete notes, etc., we had to pay back money and were put on a remediation plan and potentially accused of fraud. We were questioned about excessive time used to write a report, as if we were criminals. Everyone was scared going through this process and dreaded it. If you messed up, say you wrote one date on your notes but billed for the day after by accident, the next year they would audit even more files. I live in a blue hive state in the midwest. So how come these schmucks get a free pass? Oh right...they're immigrants. Posted by: Annie Rose at April 08, 2026 09:32 PM (MQoxb) 168 Family in-home care services were some of my most enjoyable investigations. From late night stakeouts watching a disabled on a paper route to pole cams watching a disabled put Xmas lights on the roof. Even had one who was paid to take care of herself under an alias via forged birth cert. Posted by: Fish at April 08, 2026 09:52 PM (FmCHY) 169 How do I sign up for this free money? I wanna retire and the government owes it to me Posted by: Matthew at April 08, 2026 11:02 PM (OdsgZ) DeCarlos Brown, the Racist Killer Who Slit Iryna Zarutska's Throat for No Reason Other Than Her Race, Found by Psychiatrists to be Too Mentally Incompetent to be Tried for Murder The judge will now decide whether to accept this report. If she does accept -- I assume it's a she because that's how these things I always go -- at some point, we're just going to "bypass" the judges and juries. This will not be allowed to go on forever. Justice will be done. Whether in an orderly way or a disorderly way -- justice will be done. The deranged homeless man accused of savagely butchering Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, on a Charlotte light rail train has been found "incapable to proceed" on state murder charges. According to a motion filed April 7, Decarlos Brown Jr. was evaluated Dec. 29 at Central Regional Hospital, and the subsequent report determined he was not competent to stand trial, according to WBTV. This article is written vaguely, so I'm forced to guess at the procedural aspects here. What I'm guessing is that a defense "expert" found he was incapable of standing trial, just as the client, the defense, wanted. I'm not sure though. This whole report is sketchy and, frankly, amateurish. The results were previously sealed in state court, and were only revealed as the motion was filed. A judge must now determine whether to accept the report's findings, and the case against him will likely be delayed until his capacity is determined to be "restored" by the court, the station reported. In the motion filed by Brown's public defender, he claimed the court-required capacity hearing cannot take place with the accused killer in federal custody, and that the court also can't order to have his capacity restored. Brown has been in federal custody in Chicago since a grand jury indicted him on Oct. 22 for violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system causing death. He's been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation pursuant to his federal case, but court filings viewed by the outlet last month show it hasn't been completed and that the evaluation period has been extended. See? There the article says the evaluation hasn't been completed, but it also claims some report -- maybe this one, maybe another one -- was completed and found him too incapable to be tried. This is why I'm forced to guess that there are two separate reports, the official one which is incomplete, and one performed by a psychiatrist hired by the defense, which, of course, found him incompetent. The outlet reports that restoring competency can take a long time in North Carolina because of limited space in state psychiatric facilities, and said it's not uncommon for defendants to wait a year or more for a bed to open up. Brown, 35, whose mother told The Post is schizophrenic, was arrested at least 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault and firearms possession to felony robbery dating back to 2007. At the time of the senseless attack in late August, he was free on cashless bail after a magistrate released him with a "written promise" to show up for court after placing a bogus 911 call. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:40 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 st Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 05:40 PM (K3f7J) 2 top 5! Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 05:40 PM (GD0B3) 3 Did anyone here expect anything different? I know I didn't. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 05:40 PM (0N4FZ) 4 Judge: Well, release him onto the streets then. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:40 PM (ExV1e) 5 It's Charlotte. I'm surprised the lefttards there haven't given him a parade. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 05:41 PM (3q1Kc) 6 war of the "experts" Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 08, 2026 05:42 PM (MIIRH) 7 Disorderly justice is better than orderly corruption Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 05:42 PM (xcxpd) 8 Shorter: people suck- especially commies. And are evil. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 05:42 PM (zZu0s) 9 I think most psychiatrists are more fucked up than their "patients." Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:42 PM (3ek7K) 10 No two cases. One federal one state. The state one says he isn't competent. The federal one hasn't happened yet. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (anL5R) 11 I hope prison justice treats him brutally. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (Sco7b) 12 This is in a major paper. Why can't these idiots write a coherent story? Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (K3f7J) 13 The Rorschach Doctrine: "Men get arrested, dogs get put down" Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (gKWVE) 14 Lobotomy. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (UjdFS) 15 Death Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:44 PM (3ek7K) 16 12 This is in a major paper. Why can't these idiots write a coherent story? Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (K3f7J) Might as well ask why eunuchs don't father more children. They're both incapable. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 05:44 PM (xcxpd) 17 wasn't this caught on camera? so what's his defense, he's crazy? Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 05:44 PM (CWTWj) 18 When is Judge Boasberg expected to rule on this? Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 05:44 PM (Dv3i1) 19 13 The Rorschach Doctrine: "Men get arrested, dogs get put down" Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (gKWVE) Dogs > Men Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 05:44 PM (xcxpd) 20 this is terrible. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 05:44 PM (GD0B3) 21 Is the murderer still in jail or free to walk the streets? Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:45 PM (3ek7K) 22 This is in a major paper. Why can't these idiots write a coherent story? Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (K3f7J) Might as well ask why eunuchs don't father more children. They're both incapable. === Well if it was in a Major Paper, its probably AI. Reporters are the laziest human beings on earth. Even if a live person, they probably just asked Grok. Seriously. I wouldn't doubt it. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:45 PM (anL5R) 23 Other than being a murdering black SOB, isn't he also illegal? Or are all the illegal murders blurring in memory. What really ticked me off were the people cowering and not helping her. Granted, I'd rather be shot than a knife wound, but I'd still help her when he went by me. UGH. That poor sweet girl. It breaks my heart that she was killed for being white and blonde. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 05:45 PM (WONhk) 24 He should have been dead a week after he was arrested. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 05:46 PM (yAteE) 25 Justice will be done. Whether in an orderly way or a disorderly way -- justice will be done. I'd reaaly like for that racisit pieceof shit to feel what he made the itty bitty girl feel in her last moments of life. Scared. Hurt. Alone. Helpless. Three or four rednecks, speaking with heavy redneck acents, dressed to the 9s in kkk uniforms beating his ass, thencutt___ his throat would go a long way towards justice for that non-craycray asshole. Yes. That may sound racist, but it also equates to what that jackass made that little girl feel. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 08, 2026 05:46 PM (QVmho) 26 12 This is in a major paper. Why can't these idiots write a coherent story? Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (K3f7J) AI is taking the basic jobs. Eventually when the higher level jobs that AI can't do need to be filled after attrition, few will have been trained to do those jobs. Fortunately, western journalism sucks so much we'll barely notice. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 05:46 PM (Sco7b) 27 Maybe someone in gen pop will kill him. I always have that hope. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 05:46 PM (WONhk) 28 Take all these lunatics and drop them off on Alcatraz. Arrange for food drops once a month. Done. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 05:46 PM (W2Pud) 29 The people who let him back out would do it again. Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 05:46 PM (vFG9F) 30 I assume he'll be kept at some mental health facility until the trial, whenever that is. At least he's off the streets. It'd be better if it was Death Row, but you take what you can get in Democrat-controlled cities these days. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 08, 2026 05:47 PM (6ydKt) 31 Judge: Well, release him onto the streets then. Fine. Bitch. He has to bunk at your house, in your daughter's bedroom. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 08, 2026 05:47 PM (QVmho) 32 We're on our own out in society. People would rather take a video of someone getting murdered rather than helping. Our society is sick. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:48 PM (3ek7K) 33 In his 'defense', hadn't his parents tried to get him committed prior to the murder? But the State chose to not commit him and, so, I am left with the wisdom of Robert Heinlein (summarized)... If Dillinger understood what he was doing, he deserved to die. If he had been so crazy that he didn’t understand his actions, then he still deserved to die, because people shoot mad dogs. Even if insanity is an illness, Johnnie still only sees two possibilities: Dillinger couldn’t be cured and he was better off dead for everyone’s safety; or he could be cured but understanding what he’d done would have driven him to suicide. Regardless of how he approached it, Johnnie always arrived at the same result: Dillinger’s death. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:48 PM (ExV1e) 34 my proposal: release him no cash bail in kyev. Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 05:48 PM (CWTWj) 35 According to AI - Witness accounts vary. Multiple news reports summarize them as follows: Several witnesses said he repeatedly said things like “I got her” or “I got one” after the attack. Some witnesses reported hearing him say words interpreted as racial — phrased in reports as “I got that white girl” or “I got a white girl” — but these are reported as witness perceptions, not confirmed audio. Others described him yelling nonspecific statements and laughing; some witnesses emphasized he appeared agitated and shouting but couldn’t recall exact phrasing. Police and prosecutors have not released verified audio of any specific racial slur; available CCTV footage is silent. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 05:49 PM (Dv3i1) 36 The world needs a real-life Rorschach. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with ME! Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 05:49 PM (gtcuf) 37 A woman was killed in a violent hammer attack at a gas station in Fort Myers, Florida, on April 2, 2026, leading to the arrest of 40-year-old Haitian national Rolbert Joachin. The victim, who was working as a clerk at the store, approached the suspect, who then attacked her with the hammer. Reports indicate she was struck multiple times in the head. Joachin is charged with homicide without premeditation and criminal mischief. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 05:49 PM (NFX2v) 38 12 This is in a major paper. Why can't these idiots write a coherent story? Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (K3f7J) Maybe on purpose, to cloud the issue. Posted by: davidt at April 08, 2026 05:49 PM (Q+gd/) 39 23 Other than being a murdering black SOB, isn't he also illegal? Or are all the illegal murders blurring in memory. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 05:45 PM (WONhk) I believe he is a natural born citizen. The problem with this guy is that he's got a huge rap sheet and had just been released from jail after a previous assault when he killed Iryna. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 08, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydKt) 40 Question: if the NFA is constitutional, could the congress also create the National Slavery Act? $10,000 tax stamp, registration, and fingerprinting. carry your tax stamp at all times or any government official can claim you as their personal slave. How is that any different in principle from the NFA? The second says "shall not be infringed" while the 13th has an exception for punishment for a crime, not carrying your NSA tax stamp is the crime. They could even assign it to the ATF for enforcement: which would make it the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, Congressionally Enabled Slavery or BATFECES, which strikes me as an appropriate name. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 08, 2026 05:49 PM (Da7Vv) 41 CNY Central, PATTERSON, Cali. (TNND) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot a wanted man in California on Tuesday after he allegedly "weaponized his vehicle" and attempted to run an officer over, according to the agency’s acting director. ICE agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Patterson to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, an alleged member of the 18th Street Gang who is wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection with a murder, authorities said. “As officers approached the car, the wanted gang member used his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said in a statement.". More. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 05:51 PM (NFX2v) 42 Considering their flat out refusal to hold the dangerously mentally ill accountable, or even safely locked away for the benefit of society, you'd think the left would have more sympathy for the supposedly mad Trump. Kinda wondering now if Trump is deliberately trying to out-crazy the mad mullahs and the blue hairs. The Creeper to their Joker if you will. Posted by: ObsidianKnife at April 08, 2026 05:52 PM (QodO9) 43 Joachin is charged with homicide without premeditation and criminal mischief. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 05:49 PM (NFX2v) I made the mistake of watching the video of that a little while ago. They blurred out the worst parts but man that was a tough one. At least the lady was probably knocked out cold and didn't feel a thing when he went feral on her at the end. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 08, 2026 05:52 PM (6ydKt) 44 So, you video someone being murdered. Sure you can sell the video to the ucking media and make some money. Do you keep the video on your phone so you can look at it later? What the fuck is wrong with people??? Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:52 PM (3ek7K) 45 Psychiatrist should be given the chance to stand behind their assessment: IF we set this guy free, YOU share his ultimate fate. Still stand behind that assessment? OK. The Court will consider it. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 05:53 PM (TLp3A) 46 Joachin is charged with homicide without premeditation and criminal mischief. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 05:49 PM Without premeditation? How is that possible when the guy walks into a gas station carrying a hammer and kills the clerk? Did he walk in carrying the hammer thinking he would apply for a carpenters job? Sometimes these criminal codes seem to be written to actually help the criminals who break the law. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 05:53 PM (0N4FZ) 47 >>Joachin is charged with homicide without premeditation and criminal mischief. No premeditation to picking up the hammer? Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 05:53 PM (TLp3A) 48 Is the idiot who made this determination that gay mayor in Rhode Island? That guy seems to have it in for the murdered girl… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 05:54 PM (+gA9j) 49 Well if it was in a Major Paper, its probably AI. Reporters are the laziest human beings on earth. Even if a live person, they probably just asked Grok. Seriously. I wouldn't doubt it. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:45 PM (anL5R) Grok usually does better since it is just splicing together Google search results. And it knows grammar. It might miss the point but for vapid, drifting prose you gotta go with a j-school product rotting away in a media corporation trying not to get fired. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 05:54 PM (8avO+) 50 >>A woman was killed in a violent hammer attack at a gas station in Fort Myers, Florida, on April 2, 2026, leading to the arrest of 40-year-old Haitian national Rolbert Joachin The Video to this is brutal, even with the giant black bar blocking out the business. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 05:54 PM (TLp3A) 51 Why would he be in Chicago? Posted by: huerfano at April 08, 2026 05:55 PM (98kQX) 52 Without premeditation? How is that possible when the guy walks into a gas station carrying a hammer and kills the clerk? Did he walk in carrying the hammer thinking he would apply for a carpenters job? Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 05:53 PM (0N4FZ) I don't think he ever went in the store. The surveillance video that's out there shows him using the hammer to smash the windows and beat a SUV parked outside. The clerk goes out to tell him to stop and he turns the hammer on her immediately. It seems he's another schizo killing another innocent person. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 08, 2026 05:55 PM (6ydKt) 53 This man will have a bright political future in the Democratic Party. Posted by: Case at April 08, 2026 05:56 PM (pvf3X) 54 A problem I've had with this,too, is that it was in North Carolina. Granted, with the invasion of Dims since covid, it should not surprise me. One of my best friends from FL moved to the mountains of West NC and her daughter, whom I have known since she was a little girl, lives in Charlotte and has 3 daughters HS and college age. UGH Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 05:56 PM (WONhk) 55 38 12 This is in a major paper. Why can't these idiots write a coherent story? Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (K3f7J) Maybe on purpose, to cloud* the issue. it's funny, because ai is in the cloud Posted by: anachronda at April 08, 2026 05:57 PM (oY6Yp) 56 The hammer killer was hammering on a car or something when the clerk walked out and probably told him to stop. This killing and the Zarutska killing were both filmed on surveillance cameras. There is another one in Wilmington NC where a young man is seen standing and hunched over, blood pooling at his feet and some useless cops milling about. Another young man runs up, sits the bleeding man down, and takes off his own shirt to use to compress the wound. This was filmed on a phone. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 05:57 PM (Dv3i1) 57 Reminder to the good people on here: Stay strapped. Keep your tools on you to the greatest extent possible. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:57 PM (oqH4h) 58 Christy, Nowhere is safe anymore. Head on a swivel no matter where you are. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:57 PM (3ek7K) 59 One of my best friends from FL moved to the mountains of West NC Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 05:56 PM (WONhk) ------ My old stomping grounds. Where abouts? Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:58 PM (oqH4h) 60 In no surprise news, Joe Rogan confirms he is a retard. I did accept his help electing Trump but I had no illusions about his intellectual ability. He supported Bernie Sanders for dog's sake. Anyway just another Internet personality whose opinion is given far too much weight. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 05:58 PM (V4IXI) 61 I heard the description of the weapon as a 'blue handled hatchet type object'. It was likely a Estwing 22oz hammer. Posted by: DanMan at April 08, 2026 05:58 PM (8uzBS) 62 14 Lobotomy. Posted by: wth 15 Death Posted by: four seasons ...... You win. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 05:59 PM (UjdFS) 63 35 According to AI - Witness accounts vary. Multiple news reports summarize them as follows: Several witnesses said he repeatedly said things like “I got her” or “I got one” after the attack. Some witnesses reported hearing him say words interpreted as racial — phrased in reports as “I got that white girl” or “I got a white girl” — but these are reported as witness perceptions, not confirmed audio. Others described him yelling nonspecific statements and laughing; some witnesses emphasized he appeared agitated and shouting but couldn’t recall exact phrasing. Police and prosecutors have not released verified audio of any specific racial slur; available CCTV footage is silent. Posted by: Chuck Martel What complicates matters is that most of these street assholes 'medicate' themselves into insanity via whatever shit they can pickup on the street. As a matter of law, if you take drugs/alcohol before doing some heinous act, you are still culpable. Being a drug/alcohol abusing piece of shit is a mitigation for sentencing, not for whether you can be declared insane. Insanity defense is in most states a variant of M'Naughton's rule and mere mental illness is not sufficient. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 05:59 PM (E4rtv) 64 Justice will be done. Whether in an orderly way or a disorderly way -- justice will be done. ----------- Those who make criminal justice impossible will make vigilante justice inevitable. Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 05:59 PM (TbhYO) 65 >>There is another one in Wilmington NC where a young man is seen standing and hunched over, blood pooling at his feet and some useless cops milling about. Another young man runs up, sits the bleeding man down, and takes off his own shirt to use to compress the wound. This was filmed on a phone. That dude was leaking like a bad hydraulic line. Did he survive? Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 05:59 PM (TLp3A) 66 I wonder how the woman in Savannah is doing. It happened a few months ago. She was out for a walk on the beach and some asshole threw acid on her. Her life is ruined. I bet the asshole is still free. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:59 PM (3ek7K) 67 Here in Coloradoifornia we had some cultural enricher sucker punch knock a dude out, then beat his unconscious victim within an inch of his life (skull fracture and multiple brain bleeds). This was shortly after being arrested for entering a home wearing a ski mask and brandishing a pistol. Arrested and charged with attempted 2nd-degree murder for the assault, the freak was released because of a new Colorado law that requires the immediate release of people too mentally ill to stand trial. Said freak was subsequently arrested after being found on the local college campus with a rifle. Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at April 08, 2026 06:00 PM (AkKZw) 68 There is another one in Wilmington NC where a young man is seen standing and hunched over, blood pooling at his feet and some useless cops milling about. Another young man runs up, sits the bleeding man down, and takes off his own shirt to use to compress the wound. This was filmed on a phone. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 05:57 PM (Dv3i1) Police have no duty to be useful to you, citizen. -- SCOTUS Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e) 69 reddit: His name was on a list of people who were released early during COVID. And? Just last year he was clearly mentally unstable and went to the hospital complaining about needing them to remove things in his body that were controlling him. The hospital did not help him and sent him away without connecting him to mental health services. Then he called the police for help, and they also failed to connect him to mental health services - instead they arrested him for misusing 911. What if someone had...connected him to mental health services? Was he on no one's radar at all? Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 06:00 PM (CWTWj) 70 Why can't these idiots write a coherent story? Because news "journalists" are, for the most, incompetent, poorly educated, nitwits who couldn't get a real job. They're the sad product of modern university "journalism," "psychology," "women's studies," etc., programs. Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 08, 2026 06:00 PM (XMwZJ) 71 They need to cure his mental illness so they can execute him with a clear conscience. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 08, 2026 06:01 PM (IifOV) 72 The jury needs to see the video so they can easily sentence him to death. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 06:01 PM (V4IXI) 73 reddit - one response: I feel bad for him. He’s a victim too and idk why his mom didn’t do more. Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 06:01 PM (CWTWj) 74 Funny how he wasn't found mentally challenged to be released countless times free from bail to terrorize the community. But now it's an issue. Posted by: saar at April 08, 2026 06:02 PM (lexfv) 75 re 72: can't do that, it might taint the jury taint. giggle giggle Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 06:02 PM (CWTWj) 76 Maybe his mom should have kept her legs together and he wouldn't have been born to create havoc. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:02 PM (3ek7K) 77 6WJAC Crack pipe, marijuana found in car of driver charged with killing PA firefighters: docs CBS, Driver who fatally struck 2 Pennsylvania fire chiefs was swerving before the crash occurred, DA says The vehicle wasn't his; he had no license; he and a woman in the car ran and didn't render help. Drugs in the vehicle. Drugs in the driver. Allegedly, a Bronx resident. His immigration status has yet to be reported. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 06:03 PM (NFX2v) 78 >>They need to cure his mental illness so they can execute him with a clear conscience. We all saw the Video. Just put a bullet in him and throw him in a ditch. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 06:03 PM (TLp3A) 79 OK, I understand not putting mental incompetents on trial for their lives. My question is, how does society protect ordinary citizens from being slaughtered by mental incompetents? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 06:03 PM (tgvbd) 80 I could have sworn there was something shady about the last "judge/magistrate" that let him out previously. I thought I read that she held a financial interest in a "rehabilitation" facility that she used to make a condition of release. She was using her position to funnel defendants to her side hustle. I don't know if this is true or not. It could have been your usual internet noise. But, maybe not. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 06:03 PM (dIske) 81 Does this article state whether or not SC has held a Blair Hearing for the pos? One good thing: SC does not automatically release or dismissal the case if the bad guy is found mentally incompetent to stand trial. Posted by: Tonypete at April 08, 2026 06:04 PM (cYBz/) 82 >>> If she does accept -- I assume it's a she because that's how these things I always go -- at some point, we're just going to "bypass" the judges and juries. This is why I thought the killing of Iryna was so significant. In fact, we appeared to be an RCH of Vigilance Committees from taking care of this problem - it's the Judge's, Bob. But then (adjusts tinfoil hat) CK was assassinated which took The Judge Problem off the front pages. Suddenly CK was damn near universally known and hated neo-nazi... a one-off, really.... blah, blah, blah. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 06:04 PM (/lPRQ) 83 So, all you have to do is act crazy as shit for a psych eval, and you're good to go for a much mayhem and murder as you like. Good to know. Or steal millions in medicare/medicaid fraud, get a couple of months in jail, pay a relatively small fine, and then live like a king thereafter. I for one look forward to the marauding bands of vigilantes that will eventually have to be formed to take care of this shit. Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 08, 2026 06:04 PM (XMwZJ) 84 L, That is such a tragic story. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:05 PM (3ek7K) 85 hmmm.. "FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash 32m 🚨🚨 FBI and our partners have arrested a former SOCOM employee, who supported our top-level military warfighters, for allegedly transmitting classified information to a member of the media. Outstanding work by @FBICharlotte and the FBI Counterintelligence & Espionage Division - as well as our @TheJusticeDept partners. Let this serve as a message to any would-be leakers: we’re working these cases, and we’re making arrests. This FBI will not tolerate those who seek to betray our country and put Americans in harm’s way." Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 06:05 PM (GD0B3) 86 This might be it - WILMINGTON, N.C. (WBTV) - A United States marine was stabbed to death during a large fight in North Carolina on Easter Sunday. The stabbing happened on North Front Street in downtown Wilmington, shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday, April 5. Wilmington police said they were called to a large fight that left two men with stab wounds, and then got word of another unrelated fight just a couple minutes after. Both men involved in the first fight were taken to a local hospital with serious injuries. One of them, 21-year-old Daniel Montano, did not survive. Sister-station WITN reported Montano served in the U.S. Marines and was stationed at Camp Lejeune. Two days after the deadly stabbing, Wilmington police released pictures of someone they called a “person of interest” in the case. That person appeared to be a man with dreadlocks, and was wearing a denim jacket with denim jeans, a pink t-shirt, and white shoes with blue and red accents. .... WITN reported Montano was an inventory management specialist at Camp Lejeune, and that he was from San Bernardino, Calif. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 06:06 PM (Dv3i1) 87 Haven't there been cases where killers were confined to mental institutions, then they petitioned for release on the grounds they were cured? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 06:06 PM (tgvbd) 88 Are you tired of looking within? The stress, anxiety and sin? Look for Him Jesus Christ is waiting where He has always been Right by your side Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 06:06 PM (c9rBD) 89 wonders if that's the Aljazeera leak that cam out... Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 06:06 PM (GD0B3) 90 [O/T -- leaker arrested, but no name given:] FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash 🚨🚨 FBI and our partners have arrested a former SOCOM employee, who supported our top-level military warfighters, for allegedly transmitting classified information to a member of the media. Outstanding work by @FBICharlotte and the FBI Counterintelligence & Espionage Division - as well as our @TheJusticeDept partners. Let this serve as a message to any would-be leakers: we’re working these cases, and we’re making arrests. This FBI will not tolerate those who seek to betray our country and put Americans in harm’s way. https://is.gd/Ugyiaa Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM (0XUP8) 91 Unfortunately we don't have mental institutions anymore where the crazed assholes could be locked up for life. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM (3ek7K) 92 It seems he's another schizo killing another innocent person. Posted by: SpeakingOf ======= More like a drug abusing piece of shit. The street pieces of shit floating around 'self medicate' with all sorts of crap that causes behavior like this including high potency marijuana or the synthetic THC crap sold in many gas stations. So you get a chicken and egg situation--do mental patients make themselves insane by taking high potency drugs (appears yes in some cases) or do mental patients self medicate existing mental breakdowns with illegal drugs (again appears yes in some cases). Recently the causal arrow though has been increasingly pointing illegal drug use raises the likelihood of mental illness in a at least a majority of the cases. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM (E4rtv) 93 Besides supporting Sanders , Rogan just declared Bill Clinton one of our greatest Presidents. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM (V4IXI) 94 See at Revolver News that Illegals lured a white American 15yp boy to his murder with a girl date. Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM (Ia/+0) 95 OK, I understand not putting mental incompetents on trial for their lives. My question is, how does society protect ordinary citizens from being slaughtered by mental incompetents? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh Civil Involuntary Commitment is available in SC. If the defendant is unfit and not likely to become fit, the criminal charges are not automatically dismissed. The Solicitor initiates commitment proceedings in Probate Court. Probate Court holds a hearing to determine if the person is mentally ill and meets civil commitment criteria. If criteria are met, the defendant is involuntarily committed to a DMH facility for treatment. Posted by: Tonypete at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM (cYBz/) 96 re 81: n carolina. they did pass a law about no cash bail named after the victim wikipedia via goggle: Iryna’s Law (NC House Bill 307), passed in October 2025 following the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail, tightens criminal justice laws in North Carolina. It eliminates cashless bail for certain violent offenses, mandates mental health evaluations for defendants, and streamlines death penalty appeals. Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM (CWTWj) 97 If they're that mentally incompetent the death penalty is doing everyone a favor. Posted by: brak at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM (DGlG8) 98 OK, I understand not putting mental incompetents on trial for their lives. My question is, how does society protect ordinary citizens from being slaughtered by mental incompetents? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 06:03 PM (tgvbd) I don't care if the dude can't understand the trial. The judge is the only one who needs to comprehend it, if the guy is too dangerous and has been killed he needs to be dealt with. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM (8avO+) 99 ranging from assault and firearms possession to felony robbery But not firearms possession-firearms possession. Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM (Kt19C) 100 >>So you get a chicken and egg situation--do mental patients make themselves insane by taking high potency drugs (appears yes in some cases) or do mental patients self medicate existing mental breakdowns with illegal drugs (again appears yes in some cases). Recently the causal arrow though has been increasingly pointing illegal drug use raises the likelihood of mental illness in a at least a majority of the cases. I honestly don't care. If you did the killing, you should hang. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 06:08 PM (TLp3A) 101 Shain, Shain, Shain... Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 06:08 PM (GD0B3) 102 The street pieces of shit floating around 'self medicate' with all sorts of crap that causes behavior like this including high potency marijuana or the synthetic THC crap sold in many gas stations.* No, no, no!!! Pot has no adverse effects at all. Sovereign cure for all that ails. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 06:08 PM (tgvbd) 103 Great. He'll get out of the nut house, 'cured', according to the State. He'll run for mayor of Charlotte on the 'white bitch had it comin' platform. He'll win, because everything is broken. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 08, 2026 06:08 PM (sAmhv) 104 Are you tired of looking within? The stress, anxiety and sin? Look for Him Jesus Christ is waiting where He has always been Right by your side Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 06:06 PM (c9rB Peter 3:15 Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 06:09 PM (V4IXI) 105 Being a drug/alcohol abusing piece of shit is a mitigation for sentencing, I don't see why. If you've deliberately and willfully impaired your ability to think clearly and make good decisions, that should be an enhancement to the sentence, not a mitigating factor. Sure, your judgement was impaired, but the impairment was deliberate and self-inflicted, meaning whatever you do with your impaired judgement is doubly your fault Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 06:09 PM (a+4eV) 106 >>>Those who make criminal justice impossible will make vigilante justice inevitable. Posted by: ShainS >And save the taxpayers a lot of money. I don't care about the legalities of competency. What about rehabilitation? The gallows are always looking for fresh meat. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 06:09 PM (Fbc0I) 107 Backlash, where are ye? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 06:09 PM (Cqx++) 108 Oh well, I guess this is best we can do in a blue state like [checks notes] North Carolina. Posted by: Earth: The Final Season at April 08, 2026 06:10 PM (qUkBO) 109 Mentally incompetent. Found to be too batshit crazy to be responsible for the murder he committed, or for the future ones he'll commit after they release him again. They should hang him, but with no hard feelings. And get other mental incompetents to carve up the assholes who keep releasing him. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 08, 2026 06:10 PM (JZKGj) 110 What I'm guessing is that a defense "expert" found he was incapable of standing trial, just as the client, the defense, wanted. ----------- The defense held a séance and used a Ouija board to get testimony from "expert" witness Zombie Jeffrey Dahmer. Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 06:10 PM (TbhYO) 111 Video evidence of a murder being committed, you're dead tomorrow. No appeal. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 06:11 PM (yAteE) 112 AI results on the Judge that let Decarlos free to kill - Search results show multiple news reports stating Teresa Stokes has ties to recovery/behavioral‑health ventures (e.g., co‑founder or leadership roles with Pinnacle Recovery Services and reported association with Second Chance Services). Some outlets cite filings and LinkedIn/profile listings tying her to those organizations; others note some listings have been removed or remain unverified. No authoritative source in the searches shows a formal judicial‑ethics finding or official determination that those ties constituted an actual conflict in Brown’s case — critics and lawmakers have called for review and removal, but I did not find a public ethics ruling or court order confirming a conflict. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 06:11 PM (Dv3i1) 113 Never mind what I said - I had South Carolina in mind. Posted by: Tonypete at April 08, 2026 06:11 PM (cYBz/) 114 This was shortly after being arrested for entering a home wearing a ski mask and brandishing a pistol. Said freak was subsequently arrested after being found on the local college campus with a rifle. Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at April 08, 2026 06:00 PM (AkKZw) Truly, a Red Flag Law success story. Posted by: pookysgirl, clearly sarcastic at April 08, 2026 06:11 PM (Wt5PA) 115 He should have been dead a week after he was arrested. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 05:46 PM (yAteE) Correction: He should have been dead before he got off the train. Posted by: Paul Kersey at April 08, 2026 06:11 PM (5xuJ/) 116 Never forget most therapists have their own therapist. And this is not a surprise, but it is a terrible decision. This animal should be put down. Posted by: turambar at April 08, 2026 06:11 PM (Q0yOR) 117 They should hang him, but with no hard feelings. A box of chocolates and a bouquet beforehand. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 06:11 PM (tgvbd) 118 All the vigilantes now-a-days seem to be on the left. Posted by: Earth: The Final Season at April 08, 2026 06:12 PM (qUkBO) 119 There is a new drug now that is 40 times more potent than fentanyl. The drug craze is going to get worse. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:12 PM (3ek7K) 120 Seems to be a plague of these decisions being delegated to "magistrates" with no legal degrees (do they even need to pass the Bar?) They are all, almost to a person, leftists. Don't have to worry about being dis-barred for judicial misconduct I guess? Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 06:12 PM (cWLG3) 121 The day before he called 911 report there were machines under his skin that were taking control of his body Lucky he did not have a semi automatic gun Posted by: Paul at April 08, 2026 06:12 PM (sDvuB) 122 Our justice system is fcked, the Marxist judges are looking out for the criminals and screw the victims. Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 06:12 PM (Ia/+0) 123 Never forget most therapists have their own therapist. Posted by: turambar That was true for my late wife. Kept an army of them in business. Posted by: Tonypete at April 08, 2026 06:13 PM (cYBz/) 124 There is a new drug now that is 40 times more potent than fentanyl. The drug craze is going to get worse. Posted by: four seasons Not if you don't give them narcan. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 06:13 PM (a+4eV) 125 Only mental defense to me is if the killer actually thought the person he or she killed was evil and trying to kill others or would kill others. Unfortunately a lot of mothers kill their children because they think they are possessed . They still should be locked up for life. The others are just violent lunatics that should be put down like any rabid dog. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 06:13 PM (V4IXI) 126 Iryna Zarutska's memorial / murals have been vandalized. Often with direct support by local progtard politicians. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 06:13 PM (/lPRQ) 127 Trump made an issue of this case in his SotU. Of course the state Court wants to score a virtue point here. Now for the federal case. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 06:13 PM (BI5O2) 128 GatewayPundit...some good news. Include Germany... BOMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy – While Others Rewarded Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 06:13 PM (Sco7b) 129 119 There is a new drug now that is 40 times more potent than fentanyl. The drug craze is going to get worse. hmmm.... just as ai is set to take everybody's job, increasing the population of useless eaters... Posted by: anachronda needs a tinfoil hat at April 08, 2026 06:14 PM (oY6Yp) 130 79 OK, I understand not putting mental incompetents on trial for their lives. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh -------------- Why not? It seems being incapable of rational thought -- and a killer -- makes someone more dangerous to society. That should be more reason for death penalty. We jail (+) people for lots of reasons - punishment, retribution, establish sense of justice, make society more safe, deterrence,... OK, so it is inhuman to punish someone who "does not understand difference between right and wrong" But what about the other reasons. They seem to be more important if the guy is nuts. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 06:14 PM (zAO6l) 131 This FBI will not tolerate those who seek to betray our country and put Americans in harm’s way. ___ Betray? Sounds like treason. Will leaker face the death penalty for putting US military at risk? That would send a message. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 06:14 PM (Dv3i1) 132 Whether in an orderly way or a disorderly way" Never forget - the police are here to protect the accused... "Backlash, where are ye?" Soon. / the Gods of the Copybook Headings Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 06:14 PM (XuXeR) 133 "Uhhh, yeah your honor. I'm like, mentally ill and totally not responsible. Plus, that's not me on that camera footage, and she deserved it anyway." Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 06:14 PM (y9nCu) 134 At a certain point, don't you have a strong enough high? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 06:15 PM (zZu0s) 135 More powerful than fentanyl. Great and I hope narcan doesn't work. Party hard. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 06:15 PM (yAteE) 136 Well, by all means put him back out on the street. Can't be incarcerating mindless murderers. Posted by: Chicago Vota at April 08, 2026 06:15 PM (baPXJ) 137 Video evidence of a murder being committed, you're dead tomorrow. No appeal. Posted by: Ben Had What if it's an AI video? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 06:15 PM (Cqx++) 138 Either the Pickens SC sheriff department or the police department published the warning about the new drug. Apparently it's already in South Carolina. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:15 PM (3ek7K) 139 125 Only mental defense to me is if the killer actually thought the person he or she killed was evil indeed. Posted by: lori daybell at April 08, 2026 06:16 PM (oY6Yp) 140 What if it's an AI video?" Ah, shoot Bill Gates? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 06:16 PM (XuXeR) 141 119 There is a new drug now that is 40 times more potent than fentanyl. The drug craze is going to get worse. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:12 PM (3ek7K) --- PARTY ON DUDE!!! (sounds like FUD) Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 06:16 PM (cWLG3) 142 In a totalitarian society, the only crimes are political crimes. Gird your loins. Posted by: Earth: The Final Season at April 08, 2026 06:17 PM (qUkBO) 143 Besides supporting Sanders , Rogan just declared Bill Clinton one of our greatest Presidents. typical Austin influence, fits right in Posted by: DanMan at April 08, 2026 06:17 PM (8uzBS) 144 BOMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy – While Others Rewarded Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 06:13 PM (Sco7b) I want Spain to be treated like Cuba was. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 06:17 PM (V4IXI) 145 My understanding is in NC if you are found incompetent to stand trial, you are just sent home. You are held and you get treatment with the goal of getting you competent to actually stand trial. If that never happens, you can be held indefinitely in a mental institution, but charges aren’t dropped. There is an option for charges to be dismissed, but I am hopeful this is rare and in the case of someone who is incapacitated to the point of not being a risk any longer. Lawyers can weigh in here. Again, I know we want a justice system, but what we have is a legal system. That legal system seems to be fraying a bit around the edges, though, but I am not sure this guy really is capable of understanding right from wrong. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 06:17 PM (pZEOD) 146 Bertram Cabot, AI isn't going to have a dead body to pick up. There will probably be a market for AI snuff films but a dead body is the difference. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 06:18 PM (yAteE) 147 [Leaker is Courtney Williams:] "Former Army Employee and Top Secret Clearance Holder Arrested and Charged with Leaking Classified National Defense Information" https://is.gd/IoFRP1 Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 06:18 PM (6CyTj) 148 Nothing will happen. Posted by: The person who always says that at April 08, 2026 06:18 PM (2Ez/1) 149 Unfortunately we don't have mental institutions anymore where the crazed assholes could be locked up for life. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:07 PM Yep and hospitals that do have facilities to lock these guys up only have a few beds and they can't keep anyone longer than 24 hours without a judge stepping in to order a longer psych hold. Plus there is a negative financial incentive for the hospital to hold these guys because the vast majority do not have any insurance and they rely upon the state to reimburse them for any care they give. Reimbursement does not always happen. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 06:18 PM (0N4FZ) 150 Sure, sure, defendant may or may not be "competent to stand trial". That's cool. So what do we do about all the judges and prosecutors who ain't competent, either? Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2026 06:18 PM (Ot/FD) 151 145 That was are NOT just sent home. A key point. I need a person edit button, @Ace. lol. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 06:18 PM (pZEOD) 152 fraying a bit around the edges? It's all fucked up. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:18 PM (3ek7K) 153 129 119 There is a new drug now that is 40 times more potent than fentanyl On the plus side, it's probably not habit-forming. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 06:19 PM (Sco7b) 154 130 79 OK, I understand not putting mental incompetents on trial for their lives. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh -------------- Why not? It seems being incapable of rational thought -- and a killer -- makes someone more dangerous to society. That should be more reason for death penalty. We jail (+) people for lots of reasons - punishment, retribution, establish sense of justice, make society more safe, deterrence,... OK, so it is inhuman to punish someone who "does not understand difference between right and wrong" But what about the other reasons. They seem to be more important if the guy is nuts. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 06:14 PM (zAO6l) ---- Exactly. If someone doesn't know what they did (MURDER) was wrong, they are 100% likely to try to do it again if the circumstances allow it. A malicious threat of a threat who can't help themselves, what difference does it make if you want to protect innocent members of your society from being MURDERED? Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 06:19 PM (cWLG3) 155 150 Sure, sure, defendant may or may not be "competent to stand trial". That's cool. So what do we do about all the judges and prosecutors who ain't competent, either? re-elect them, mostly Posted by: anachronda at April 08, 2026 06:19 PM (oY6Yp) 156 indeed. Posted by: lori daybell at April 08, 2026 06:16 PM (oY6Yp) Nice try . Fail Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 06:20 PM (V4IXI) 157 new drug now that is 40 times " IIRC, it's an opioid developed in the 50s. Never marketed because it has respiratory side effects (you stop breathing).. If that's the one... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 06:20 PM (XuXeR) 158 "A malicious threat OR a threat who can't help themselves" Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 06:20 PM (cWLG3) 159 It's all fucked up. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:18 PM (3ek7K) It's a skein of 100% superwash merino DK that got tossed into a crate full of kittens. Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2026 06:20 PM (Ot/FD) 160 More powerful than fentanyl. Great and I hope narcan doesn't work. Party hard. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 06:15 PM (yAteE) the problem with fentanyl is that it is slipped into everything illicit, and it is impossible to tell with street drugs. This will just be worse. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 06:20 PM (rbvCR) 161 Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 06:19 PM (cWLG3) Even the craziest person knows murder is wrong. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 06:21 PM (V4IXI) 162 re-elect them, mostly Posted by: anachronda at April 08, 2026 06:19 PM (oY6Yp) rimshot Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2026 06:21 PM (Ot/FD) 163 So what do we do about all the judges and prosecutors who ain't competent, either?" What do you call a "D" student from law school? Your Honor... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 06:21 PM (XuXeR) 164 Kindltot, That is what is happening with the new drug. Apparently it takes several doses of Narcan to avert death. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:22 PM (3ek7K) 165 153 129 119 There is a new drug now that is 40 times more potent than fentanyl On the plus side, it's probably not habit-forming. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 06:19 PM (Sco7b) Symptoms include death... and dry mouth. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 06:22 PM (zZu0s) 166 Now do the two New York Post ~~"Sources"~~ Leakers (unless it was sanctioned by Fed.Gov -- which would be a mistake in my opinion, unless it's a Disinformation Op) of the "Ghost Murmur" technology. Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 06:22 PM (6CyTj) 167 and it is impossible to tell with street drugs. This will just be worse." I suspect the regular tests won't pick it up... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 06:22 PM (XuXeR) 168 Do we have any ships very close to catastrophe sitting in a Spanish harbor maybe? Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 06:22 PM (Ia/+0) 169 >>>Besides supporting Sanders , Rogan just declared Bill Clinton one of our greatest Presidents. >Didn't Rogan host a show where the guests were forced to eat insects and shit? He's like Jimmy Kimmel from the Man Show. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 06:23 PM (Fbc0I) 170 It seems being incapable of rational thought -- and a killer -- makes someone more dangerous to society. That should be more reason for death penalty. We jail (+) people for lots of reasons - punishment, retribution, establish sense of justice, make society more safe, deterrence,... OK, so it is inhuman to punish someone who "does not understand difference between right and wrong" But what about the other reasons. They seem to be more important if the guy is nuts. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 06:14 PM (zAO6l) One thing that pisses me off is that we evaluate for mental incapacity before the trial/conviction/sentencing takes place. I don't have a problem with doing the evaluation after sentencing to figure out where the sentence should be carried out. But they still committed the crime, so it's a matter of deciding whether they spend 30 years in a mental institution or a prison. They still need to serve their 30 years. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 06:23 PM (y9nCu) 171 Apparently it takes several doses of Narcan to avert death" Awwwww gee. We only have 2 doses... EMT Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 06:23 PM (XuXeR) 172 BOMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy – While Others Rewarded == Interesting. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 06:24 PM (GD0B3) 173 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 06:23 PM (y9nCu) That's a very good point. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 06:24 PM (V4IXI) 174 >>Besides supporting Sanders , Rogan just declared Bill Clinton one of our greatest Presidents. I have repeatedly told you all that Joe Rogan is no smarter than the average Parrot. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 06:24 PM (TLp3A) 175 Do we have any ships very close to catastrophe sitting in a Spanish harbor maybe?" New Hampshire? Vermont? Already used "Maine " Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 06:25 PM (XuXeR) 176 This will not be allowed to go on forever. ----- Lol, nobody is going to do jack shit. Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 08, 2026 06:25 PM (Vh9CX) 177 >Didn't Rogan host a show where the guests were forced to eat insects and shit? He's like Jimmy Kimmel from the Man Show. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 06:23 PM (Fbc0I) He's a bit loopy, but on the other hand millions of people watch/listen to his show. He does a good interview. Let's people talk eith occasionally prompting to keep them going. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 06:25 PM (zZu0s) 178 new drug now that is 40 times " IIRC, it's an opioid developed in the 50s. Never marketed because it has respiratory side effects (you stop breathing).. If that's the one... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 06:20 PM (XuXeR) --------------- Are you ready for 100,000 more George Floyd's annually? /only half-joking Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 06:25 PM (6CyTj) 179 @170 Good point. I think the defense would argue they can't even speak in their own defense, in which case, they should just be quiet. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 06:25 PM (cWLG3) 180 Didn't Rogan host a show where the guests were forced to eat insects and shit? He's like Jimmy Kimmel from the Man Show. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 06:23 PM (Fbc0I) Not forced, they were rewarded But good job at hitting that "conservatives have disgust" button. It is sure to get a crusade started against Rogan too. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 06:25 PM (rbvCR) 181 OK, so it is inhuman to punish someone who "does not understand difference between right and wrong" But what about the other reasons. They seem to be more important if the guy is nuts. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) The vast majority of criminals do not understand difference between right and wrong. I'd rather have a cold blooded calculated premeditated murderer go free than some guy that just pops off and kills someone due to be 'dissed or whatever. The guy popping off will still pop off. The calculated murderer probably won't have another one worth the risk. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 06:25 PM (/lPRQ) 182 Are you ready for 100,000 more George Floyd's annually?" That's a lot of protest marches... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 06:26 PM (XuXeR) 183 BOMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy – While Others Rewarded Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 06:13 PM (Sco7b) I want Spain to be treated like Cuba was. Trump is clearly briar-patching Europe at this point. I had one Euro online warn me his crazy behavior was going to get us kicked out and I replied "Thank God". He's trying to make their anger overcome their laziness to keep sucking at our defense tit. Posted by: ObsidianKnife at April 08, 2026 06:26 PM (k7lc2) 184 Maybe his parents shouldn't have named him DeCarlos...maybe it's like naming your boy Sioux, thinking it's cool, but everybody calls your kid Sue... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 06:27 PM (ynpvh) 185 I am probably the last Ace fan on earth to read John Carreyrou's story about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoin designer). It's an exciting story. Carreyrou is the reporter who wrote Bad Blood about the Theranos scandal. Hunter Thompson's description of journalism is accurate, but this guy seems to be the exception. https://archive.is/mTw1Q Posted by: Oglebay at April 08, 2026 06:27 PM (GPa4z) 186 Spanish bases might be moved to Portugal. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 06:27 PM (GD0B3) 187 How about pulling everything out of Europe completely unlike the Auto-Pen administration just walking out of Afghanistan without even a bullet? Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 06:27 PM (Ia/+0) 188 Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 06:25 PM (rbvCR) I liked the show. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 06:27 PM (V4IXI) 189 He's trying to make their anger overcome their laziness to keep sucking at our defense tit. Posted by: ObsidianKnife at April 08, 2026 06:26 PM (k7lc2) I cannot see them dissolving NATO, they have NO option. Of course, that has never stopped anyone on a range of emotional situations before. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 06:28 PM (zZu0s) 190 OT - Arson Suspect Chamel Abdulkarim Arrested After 6-Alarm Fire Engulfs 1 Million Square-Foot Warehouse in Southern California Cali does not require wet pipe sprinklers or were they just out of fire water (again)? Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 06:28 PM (/lPRQ) 191 187 How about pulling everything out of Europe completely unlike the Auto-Pen administration just walking out of Afghanistan without even a bullet? Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 06:27 PM (Ia/+0) --- Then we can find out if Russia (or China) think there's anything worth taking in western Europe. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 06:29 PM (cWLG3) 192 190 OT - Arson Suspect Chamel Abdulkarim Arrested After 6-Alarm Fire Engulfs 1 Million Square-Foot Warehouse in Southern California Cali does not require wet pipe sprinklers or were they just out of fire water (again)? Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 06:28 PM (/lPRQ) Firewater is an accelerant, no? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 06:29 PM (ynpvh) 193 >>>But good job at hitting that "conservatives have disgust" button. It is sure to get a crusade started against Rogan too. Posted by: Kindltot >I didn't start any crusade, I just think he's another loudmouthed clown and he should stick to MMA. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 06:29 PM (Fbc0I) 194 There is nothing in the Constitution that says insane people can't stand trial and be executed. Completely judge made law. Justice and fairness does not require they understand the charges against them. Or that they committed a crime. That's a goofy, retarded outgrowth of pretending punishment is about rehabilitation of the criminal. Soft on crime, lefty academic ivory tower law school bullshit. Which removes the victim as irrelevant. And society. Or: Mercy to the criminal is cruelty to the victims. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 08, 2026 06:29 PM (HXT0k) 195 NOOD ALERT!!! Posted by: Max Power at April 08, 2026 06:30 PM (q177U) 196 Posted by: ObsidianKnife at April 08, 2026 06:26 PM (k7lc2) Admittedly I dislike Spain like a lot of people dislike France. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 06:30 PM (V4IXI) 197 One thing that pisses me off is that we evaluate for mental incapacity before the trial/conviction/sentencing takes place. Posted by: IllTemperedCur ----------- In the 70s, we have been through all this crap. The legal argument (as I recall,...) was that if they are nuts they can not properly defend themselves. Fuck them. Try them "in absentia" then. I don't see why their problems make it a bigger problem for society. Suicidal empathy. marxism. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 06:30 PM (zAO6l) 198 He's trying to make their anger overcome their laziness to keep sucking at our defense tit. Posted by: ObsidianKnife at April 08, 2026 06:26 PM (k7lc2) Weaning groups away from the tits is almost impossible. Quebec will never leave Canada. And our natives make American blacks look reasonable in their constant demands. And no politician tells them to pound sand. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 06:30 PM (Sco7b) 199 Hungary to get a base? Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 06:31 PM (yAteE) 200 Okay, we've all been young and kinda stupid when out partying. You have a "friend" who says "hey pop this pill and you'll feel great." The problem, besides being stupid to take some pill is so much stuff is laced with fentanyl or the new drug. We need to educate our children to be smart and not take any kind of pill that is offered to them. Besides trying to educate our kids I don't know what else to do. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 06:32 PM (3ek7K) 201 Is there any credible evidence that Rogan helped Trump win ? Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 06:32 PM (GD0B3) 202 Nood. NYC and CA are terrible. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 06:32 PM (pZEOD) 203 That is the claim that shows up once in a while, but Trump was already leading by the time he did the Rogan interview. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 06:32 PM (GD0B3) 204 Read this morning of the woman bludgeoned to death in Ft. Meyers FL at a gas station while working as a store clerk. She was killed by a Haitian illegal with a hammer who just out of the blue decided that she had to die. Of course he entered under the Biden great flood into the US and a Federal Judge issued a final removal order in 2022 but was later granted temporary protected status which expired in 2024. She leaves two teenage daughters. They caught him. After his sentence here he'll finally be deported back to Haiti. I would like that to be in an urn. But remember, ICE and the GOP are the monsters. Posted by: Cheri at April 08, 2026 06:33 PM (oiNtH) 205 OMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy – While Others Rewarded ==== Every country should have sent escorts for their tankers, or tankers carrying their crude. Mentioned before, if I was Chyna I'd have some ships there the day it started - protect their crude and observe military capabilities. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 06:33 PM (/lPRQ) 206 \There is a new drug now that is 40 times more potent than fentanyl Which means that drug cartels only have to smuggle in 1 lb of the new shit to give dope fiends the same 40 lbs of fentanyl high (which is about 30-50 times as potent as old-school uncut heroin). Greatly simplifies your smuggling operation, once you take into account the effects after stepping on it for retail sale. When you do the math, I believe that it means that 1 lb of the new stuff is equal around 1600 lbs of raw heroin. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 06:34 PM (y9nCu) 207 Lol, nobody is going to do jack shit. Posted by: MAGA_Ken Well, Iryna family does not live here, but if they did they would find it a target rich environment for people who did similar bad things. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 06:35 PM (/lPRQ) 208 We could start by passing three strikes laws again. Remeber how they complained that those restricted what judges could do? There was a reason for that. Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 08, 2026 06:37 PM (gQ15S) 209 "Admittedly I dislike Spain like a lot of people dislike France" Well I'm Mexican so disliking Spain is practically a requirement, them and there weird, lispy gay-sounding Spanish. Posted by: ObsidianKnife at April 08, 2026 06:37 PM (jcYoI) 210 Something that always pisses me off. Leftoids whine about all the time about the plight of the poor. But they don't really care about the poor. Wanna know how? It's possible to climb out of poverty. But every single break has to go your way. It takes self-discipline. Screw up and you're back where you started. So what do Leftoids do? From their towers in academia, espouse policies and positions that almost guarantee life-long and generational poverty for those with little to begin with and no margin for error. No-fault divorce. Sexual license. Single parenthood. Drug legalization. Crappy educational standards. A constant sense of grievance and never taking responsibility. Encouraging bad behavior and impulses. And denouncing ordinary virtues as repression. But poor people are lucrative for the Leftoids. All that welfare and assistance money blowing around. Just hold up a basket and you can collect tons of it. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 06:38 PM (tgvbd) 211 210-Leftists love the poor more than you ever will, that's why they try to make as many of them as possible. Posted by: ObsidianKnife at April 08, 2026 06:41 PM (FkiGB) 212 194 There is nothing in the Constitution that says insane people can't stand trial and be executed. Completely judge made law. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice ======= M'Naughton's rule dates from the 1840's after the assassination (only successful one) of a British Prime Minister. Adopted by most states in the US shortly after. Some countries and states have guilty but insane and require for a heinous murder that the person serve their sentence out in a state mental hospital rather than prison gen pop. It is actually a lot tougher standard than most people figure and the burden of proof flips to the defendant and requires the defendant to admit guilt to apply the justification defense that they were mentally ill. Plus, state gets their forensic psychologist/psychiatrist to evaluate the patient because the patient is 'evidence'. That abrogates the 5th amendment as the defendant must answer questions as they have already had to admit guilt to claim insanity in the first place. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 06:44 PM (E4rtv) 213 Hi there! I just wanted to ask if you ever have any trouble with hackers? My last blog (wordpress) was hacked and I ended up losing many months of hard work due to no data backup. Do you have any solutions to stop hackers? Posted by: SITUS BOKEP at April 08, 2026 08:27 PM (tnVte) 214 There's 2 reports because he's charged in state and in federal court. Posted by: GWB at April 08, 2026 08:42 PM (wm3Sw) Trump to Megyn Kelly: "May She Rest in Peace" I didn't even hear she was sick. Does she have blood coming out of her... whatever? Megyn Kelly, the Norma Desmond of Podcasters, is raging about... Trump's tweets. Yes, everything is 2015 again. But let's face it -- this was Megyn Kelly's real position all along. She just goes to where she thinks the traffic is. From 2023 to 2025, the clicks were in pretending to be More MAGA Than Trump. And now? The clicks from Pakistan are in attacking Trump as a madman and not a "normal person" and sucking up to Cavernous Nostrils and her army of lunatics spreading lies about Erika Kirk being a lesbian child sex trafficker and a murderess. Megyn Kelly TORE into President Trump over his "completely irresponsible and disgusting" social media posts on Tuesday: "I don't know about you, but I am sick of this sht! I'm just-- I'm sick of it. Can't he just behave like a normal human? I mean, honestly, like the president--'3D chess'--just shut up! Fcking shut up about that sht! You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We're talking about civilians, just casually in a social media post." "I am the first to try to understand Trump and his strategy and not freak out over his weird social media posts and language that is loose and incendiary. Truly, I've lived with it for ten plus years. I learned it the hard way, when I was on the receiving end of it for nine months, and truly I think that was a gift to me in many ways because it helped me really come to understand what he does with his social media. But this is completely irresponsible and disgusting. This is wrong. It's wrong. He should not be doing it." "I don't care that it's a--his negotiation tactic is to kill an entire country full of civilians--men, women, and children-- an American president, so that the Strait of Hormuz will be opened? It's just wrong. It's not hard to say it, it's not hard to recognize it. I wish he would stop doing this. Like, he can't negotiate without doing this? What does that say about him?" "What does that say about the position that our country is in right now in these negotiations? He's got to say this? He can't be a dignified, strong leader without threatening a bunch of war crimes? Like what is he, Genghis Khan? Like, what is he trying to do and why can't he do it with strength -- threats, sure, go for it -- that don't diminish and demean the United States of America in this way?" Megyn Kelly TORE into President Trump over his “completely irresponsible and disgusting” social media posts on Tuesday: “I don’t know about you, but I am sick of this sht! I’m just– I’m sick of it. Can’t he just behave like a normal human? I mean, honestly, like the… pic.twitter.com/7IbgxTpUaY — RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 8, 2026 Megyn Kelly speaks out of both sides of her mouth about President Trump and Iran, yet again- with Glenn Greenwald of all people. 🙄 Megyn Kelly 2025: President Trump had actually had the balls to do what other presidents wouldn’t do. Megyn Kelly 2026: Netanyahu and President… pic.twitter.com/d70kCgBVex — Ally (@AllyJKiss) April 8, 2026 Bonchie @bonchieredstate She went from an anti-Trump, pro-transing the kids mainstream press star to "MAGA" the moment she needed to keep the money flowing. It's so transparent. And now she's back into NBC Morning Show for AWFULs mode. Oh boy, I can't even imagine the gasket this bleach-blonde NPC AWFUL will blow over Trump saying "May she rest in peace." President Trump: “Megyn Kelly, may she rest in peace. She’s sorta made a career by pretending she likes me…”https://t.co/Fu7j3S3aLi https://t.co/ZSBwEVJLsO pic.twitter.com/04WNDoeLYE — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) April 8, 2026 Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:39 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 1st Posted by: GF at April 08, 2026 04:40 PM (orrlH) 2 Probably not first. I nooded. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:40 PM (77rzZ) 3 LOL Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:40 PM (YwEeS) 4 Don't listen to her so don't really care. Posted by: WisRich at April 08, 2026 04:40 PM (mMoRd) 5 Blue Sky is too small for Megyn? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 04:41 PM (2GVsD) 6 It's penguins all the way down. Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 04:41 PM (0sNs1) 7 And these 'people' vote? The Blue Sky terminal online used to describe the demons in Frieren as allegories for minorities. Now they have flipped to a new page of programming, the demons are now white people. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 04:41 PM (2GVsD) 8 I wish I could remember to check the gray boxes first! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 08, 2026 04:41 PM (So85e) 9 When the Cornbread thread vanished, I briefly thought the penguins might have shellacked Ace. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 04:42 PM (2GVsD) 10 And I don't like her cracker-eating. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 08, 2026 04:42 PM (gpQ8/) 11 Would someone please tell me what to think and feel. I am lost without knowing how I must react to everything that happens. PLEASE GOD SEND ME AN INFLUENCER Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 04:42 PM (vE0+H) 12 Calm your tits there Sunshine! Posted by: President Trump to that whore Meagin Kelly at April 08, 2026 04:42 PM (/1l9x) 13 >>>I don't know about you, but I am sick of this sht! I'm just-- I'm sick of it. Can't he just behave like a normal human? And leftist "news" outlets are framing such unhinged ranting as "Influential Conservative Voices." GFY, retarded scrunt. Posted by: The Mullahs at April 08, 2026 04:43 PM (dK+Kv) 14 It's the sterling content that confuses me! Really Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 08, 2026 04:43 PM (So85e) 15 As a reminder for certain members of The Horde (and you know who you are), Megyn revealed on the Howard Stern show that she's a B-cup, and she and her husband referred to them as the "Killer B-s". You're welcome, Bulg. Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 04:43 PM (0sNs1) 16 This is like going to a Monkees reunion tour concert. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 04:43 PM (n17eQ) 17 I just saw a clip of Alex Jones and Robert Barns talking about "tackling" Trump and 25 amendmenting him somehow. Man, a lot of people getting acute TDS. Posted by: bob* (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 04:43 PM (zAO6l) 18 Oh. For a second I thought Me-Again was really . . . you know, gone. A tragic accident on Sixth Avenue or something. Anyway . . . Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 04:43 PM (wzUl9) 19 BTW, what does Howard Stern do these days? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 04:44 PM (n17eQ) 20 What is the income stream for MeAgain compared to Tucker or Candace? They must be doing OK, till the Devil demands their soul in payment for their fame. Posted by: illiniwek at April 08, 2026 04:44 PM (vbXSk) 21 At some point it all becomes - boring. She may have become boring. Her options then is to amp it up to Owens level, or, tack with the wind like she did a few years back. Kind of a sad clown now. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 04:44 PM (pDt9x) 22 Take a pill, Megyn. Posted by: Case at April 08, 2026 04:44 PM (pvf3X) 23 Does Megyn eat crackers in bed? Asking for the Empress. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 04:44 PM (2GVsD) 24 >>>15 As a reminder for certain members of The Horde (and you know who you are), Megyn revealed on the Howard Stern show that she's a B-cup, and she and her husband referred to them as the "Killer B-s". the only thing B about meghan is a cluster personality type Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:44 PM (1wjle) 25 The original and only real True Grit is on Movies! right now. A Western for people who hate Westerns! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 04:44 PM (wzUl9) 26 She looks ill. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 04:45 PM (abIsI) 27 Would someone please tell me what to think and feel. I am lost without knowing how I must react to everything that happens. PLEASE GOD SEND ME AN INFLUENCER Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 04:42 PM (vE0+H) I still remember her smirk as she prepared to be the one that was going to take down Trump at the debates. Fuck that grifting bitch to hell. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 04:45 PM (dK+Kv) 28 BTW, what does Howard Stern do these days? Anyone check the tunnels in Central Park? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 04:45 PM (2GVsD) 29 And yet there are Morons here that want to hit it, and not with their fists or maybe they do. The perverts. Posted by: Beartooth at April 08, 2026 04:46 PM (tYGL3) 30 Calm your tits there Sunshine! Posted by: President Trump to that whore Meagin Kelly at April 08, 2026 04:42 PM (/1l9x) =============== She has tits? Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 04:46 PM (+TlVp) 31 You're welcome, Bulg. Posted by: Duncanthrax LOL. Thanks, Duncan Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:46 PM (77rzZ) 32 Why did Michael Nesmith always wear a hat? Mike Nesmith wore his signature green wool hat (or "wool cap") to his 1965 Monkees audition to keep his hair out of his eyes, having ridden his motorcycle to the studio. Producers liked the look, which helped him stand out as the "Wool Hat" character, leading to it becoming his trademark look early in the show. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 04:47 PM (n17eQ) 33 What all of this has taught me is how essentially naive I am. I thought I had a decent read on Tucker, Me-Again, and others, but I guess I wasn't really paying close enough attention - probably because they were mostly saying things I agreed with - at least when I was paying attention. Sooner or later, I suppose, the mask always slips and true colors are revealed. Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 08, 2026 04:47 PM (bNf8H) 34 There was blood coming out her whatever. Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 04:47 PM (vFG9F) 35 It's penguins all the way down. Posted by: Duncanthrax ...... Thought I smelled something funny. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 04:47 PM (UjdFS) 36 I literally wrote Meagain's trajectory back in 2016 and if I ever find it I will repost it because literally nobody but me cares - but it basically went "she will go running to be a darling of the Left with some bs talk show, they will reject her completely because no one trusts a traitor, and she will come running back to us pretending to be contrite and that she "learned". It might not have been that exactly fine grained - or maybe it was moreso - but it was close and I award myself one million internet points for seeing through one of the most transparent sows on earth. Anyone who would let themselves be used the way FNC did with her at that debate, like some kind of Truth Barbie fronting for some Rich Mainstream Pseudo-Republican Liberal Fag of the Hour, was always going to go this way. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 04:47 PM (vE0+H) 37 >>>9 When the Cornbread thread vanished, I briefly thought the penguins might have shellacked Ace. oh it did? Sometimes I accidentally delete threads. What happens is... I post the thread from my phone. (I was out varnishing.) But on my computer it's still in "draft." So I go to my computer to make a correction and hit save. But now I'm saving it to draft! I keep doing that. I didn't realize I did it again. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:47 PM (1wjle) 38 I have always thought she looks skanky. For goodness sake, eat a sandwich you bony wench. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 04:48 PM (3ek7K) 39 Megyn Always Changes Opinions She's a MACO. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 04:48 PM (2WIwB) 40 It would be impossible for me to listen to Megyn Kelly less than I already do because any amount of time is bigger than zero… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 04:48 PM (+gA9j) 41 Next time His Trumpiness gives a speech I want him to take off a shoe, pound it on the podium while screaming "WE WILL BURY YOU!!!" just so I can hear heads going off like popcorn. Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 08, 2026 04:48 PM (V362x) 42 Megan Kelly says Trump was a gift to her because he made her relevant and she got the big NBC money on the morning show and she's hoping Trump will notice her again so she can dine out on that for the next 10 years. She's really transparent. I wish he'd ignore her and not make her relevant. Posted by: CaliGirl at April 08, 2026 04:48 PM (CgGlp) 43 I can't even imagine the gasket this bleach-blonde NPC AWFUL will blow over Trump saying "May she rest in peace." ==== He really got her with "have blood coming out of her... whatever.." But this? Even better. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 04:48 PM (GD0B3) 44 Just - boring, she is. I glanced at the post, got the gist and moved on to the comments. She has nothing to say anymore of merit. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 04:49 PM (pDt9x) 45 yeah, I added a video to Madison Cornbread, hit "save" and accidentally saved to draft. I gotta learn to stop doing that. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:49 PM (1wjle) 46 Trump says the darndest things! Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 04:49 PM (UjdFS) 47 as someone who is not really in audience of the right-wing ecosystem, i found myself drawn to megyn's podcast during trump's 2024 reelection campaign, as i felt she was articulating a mainstream take on what my i considered my political position: trump is kind of a moron and would benefit from a modicum of introspection, but he's far less dangerous than whatever the hell the democrats have become. last year, during the early stages of candace owens' "just asking questions" about erika kirk, megyn apparently received a lot of criticism for her equivocation between owens' and erika kirk's respective positions on charlie's assassination, and began a podcast with some rant like "fuck you, turn me off then." i've never deleted a podcast feed from my app so quickly. i actually don't have a problem with criticism of trump's tendency to rehearse the first thought that comes into his mind. joint hormuz tools with iran a "beautiful thing" ? come the fuck on, mr president. but it's sad to see how easily i had been fooled by this narcissistic grifter. Posted by: pH at April 08, 2026 04:49 PM (BklYW) 48 Mark Steyn has a pic on his website of Giorgia Meloni giving side eye to some tall (well, taller than her, anyway), fat guy. The look on her face is something like "WTF, Dude?" It's pretty funny. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:49 PM (77rzZ) 49 I’d still hit that, though…. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 04:50 PM (+gA9j) 50 Unfortunately it did happen Ace But all is good, you are still with us. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 04:50 PM (2GVsD) 51 Is she still claiming the Covid shots messed her up? Because she might be right. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 04:50 PM (abIsI) 52 I just figured the post accidentally had busty girl on girl links, and some cob found out and hastily messaged to take it down You know, like what happened to Josh Marshall, some totally different blogger Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 04:50 PM (gKWVE) 53 Megyn Kelly, the Norma Desmond of Podcasters Precise and brutal. Chef's kiss Posted by: weew at April 08, 2026 04:50 PM (S4IL1) 54 OK, which one of the cobs gave Ace permission to neglect the blog and go out varnishing? Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:51 PM (77rzZ) 55 49 I’d still hit that, though…. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 04:50 PM (+gA9j) If you want a bag of antlers, great. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 04:51 PM (pDt9x) 56 May she rest in peace. He's freaking awesome. she's of course going to claim its a death threat. He's going to tool on how she's dead for a week. She'll freak out. watch. Posted by: its not an accident he's done it like a million times now at April 08, 2026 04:51 PM (anL5R) 57 I never wanna miss any of your Madison Cornbread posts, Ace…. They’re can’t miss reading…. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 04:51 PM (+gA9j) 58 Now I want to see who else was posting in the phantom Cornbread thread. Besides me that is. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 04:51 PM (2GVsD) 59 Poop mouth! She has poop in her mouth! How can she say poop with her mouth! Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 04:52 PM (ZxPkt) 60 She deserves a good spanking. Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 04:52 PM (MmH/W) 61 Megyn Kelly, the Norma Desmond of Podcasters Precise and brutal. Chef's kiss Posted by: weew Is Tucker her Holden? Or is he her Max? Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:52 PM (77rzZ) 62 For goodness sake, eat a sandwich you bony wench. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 04:48 PM (3ek7K) Lol. I've always heard it phrased that " at some point you choose between your ass or your face." Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 04:52 PM (3q1Kc) 63 And yet there are Morons here that want to hit it, and not with their fists or maybe they do. The perverts. Unlike some women mentioned here at the HQ in a hitting context, she doesn't make me immediately go for Ace's classic "are you in prison that you're that desperate?" But definitely still some perversion involved. Posted by: Ian S. at April 08, 2026 04:52 PM (2ocoG) 64 The Case of the Missing Cornbread. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (pDt9x) 65 I gotta learn to stop doing that. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:49 PM (1wjle) This place wouldn't be this place if you did. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e) 66 What all of this has taught me is how essentially naive I am. I thought I had a decent read on Tucker, Me-Again, and others, but I guess I wasn't really paying close enough attention Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 08, 2026 04:47 PM (bNf8H) Conservatives in the main are easy sales. We spread our legs for anyone who for five seconds doesn't sound like a communist freak America hating retardation filled illegal and now islamist loving and Jew-hating jibber jabberer. I am here to give anyone who wants one a way to short circuit some of this in the future: Do not trust Rubio, nor DeSantis - and Vance is unfortunately owned. I still have some degree of hope that Vance will at least stave off the commies in favor of some of the Big Fag Republicanism we were accustomed to before Trump, but wearing a slightly more scary-conservative mask, but it's quite faint. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (vE0+H) 67 I keep doing that. I didn't realize I did it again. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:47 PM (1wjle) It's back, but now the last half of it is one big link. Posted by: No Name Today at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (8mulE) 68 e's freaking awesome. she's of course going to claim its a death threat. == um...I think she will respond with "I am younger and he will go first.." or something similar. She is a be-yatch after all. We shall see!! Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (GD0B3) 69 >>>but it's sad to see how easily i had been fooled by this narcissistic grifter. as I said, I listened to her for two reasons: To hear a proxy for liberal feminist AWFULs, which Me-Again is and always has been and always will be. She went to Fox, for example, not because she was conservative, but because she is an opportunist enough to know that Fox hired pretty blonde women for practically no better reason than that they are pretty and blonde. Kelly claimed her AWFUL friends were turning to Trump in 2020. Of course they didn't. (Or maybe they did -- maybe the election was stolen.) Either way, she provided no real insight into AWFUL voting patterns. I kept checking in using her as a proxy for liberal women who might possibly pretend to vote for Republicans, but then she became a deranged and bitter ideologue and had no further use for me as a proxy. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (1wjle) 70 I saw a story on Daily Mail yesterday. I think it was about her. Is she married to some guy, Counselo? Anyways the way she lets her husband know she's not servicing him when they go to bed she puts in her retainer. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (3ek7K) 71 She was in love with Trump for the longest time- what happened Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (ZxPkt) 72 Megyn should declare a hunger strike until Trump takes it back. I reckon she's good for an hour or two before she keels over. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t) 73 She has whatever, coming out of wherever Shut yur MegJina Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (NtVYv) 74 at some point you choose between your ass or your face." Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 04:52 PM (3q1Kc) And for some that's one and the same! Posted by: Lena Dunham at April 08, 2026 04:54 PM (vE0+H) 75 60 She deserves a good spanking. Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 04:52 PM (MmH/W) First the oral sex ... Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 04:54 PM (kvcnI) 76 the other reason I occasionally checked in was to hear some really frivolous bitchy gossipy stuff, because I don't read that stuff, but occasionally like to put that trash up on the blog as a change of pace. I'm not gay so I'm not allowed to watch TMZ. And Me-Again is like 50% frivolous bitchy gossipy Queen Bee bullshit. But fuck this bitch. And not just for eating crackers. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:54 PM (1wjle) 77 She was in love with Trump for the longest time- what happened Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 04:53 PM (ZxPkt) The whore's name is whatever you want it to be. Or so I've heard. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 04:54 PM (vE0+H) 78 And yet there are Morons here that want to hit it, and not with their fists or maybe they do. The perverts. Unlike some women mentioned here at the HQ in a hitting context, she doesn't make me immediately go for Ace's classic "are you in prison that you're that desperate?" But definitely still some perversion involved. She's the hottest thing in Flatland. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 04:55 PM (Riz8t) 79 Potty mouth Kelly should talk less and suck more. Another big-time influencer. Social media is for cracking jokes and drama and trolling the media. And cat videos. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 04:55 PM (Fbc0I) 80 She was in love with Trump for the longest time- what happened Posted by: Don Black Failed affair between them, according to my wife. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:55 PM (77rzZ) 81 The whore's name is whatever you want it to be. Or so I've heard. “Of course you are.” Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 04:55 PM (EXyHK) 82 I so prefer a president who whispers "gibberish"; then wanders off into a jungle... Posted by: pahound at April 08, 2026 04:55 PM (HJCDN) 83 Blue Sky is too small for Megyn? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 04:41 PM (2GVsD) They probably would hate her there. She's turned coat too many times. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 04:55 PM (zZu0s) 84 Then I want it to be Vivien Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 04:56 PM (ZxPkt) 85 at some point you choose between your ass or your face." Why choose? Posted by: Maria "Skeletor" Shriver. at April 08, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t) 86 I just love that Trump gives them something to hyperventilate over every day.Let's face it he doesn't even have to try. He could say something anodyne like " the sun sets in the West" and they would shit themselves trying to contradict him. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:56 PM (YwEeS) 87 yeah, I added a video to Madison Cornbread, hit "save" and accidentally saved to draft. I gotta learn to stop doing that. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:49 PM (1wjle) Could be worse Posted by: Self Banning and Busty Lesbians at April 08, 2026 04:57 PM (vE0+H) 88 They probably would hate her there. She's turned coat too many times. It’s not like they’re not familiar with turning their political “opinions” on a dime. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 04:57 PM (EXyHK) 89 “Of course you are.” Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 04:55 PM (EXyHK) Goldmines? Or Rising Sun? Both Sean Connery. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 04:57 PM (zZu0s) 90 Tucker has been a bigger disappointment for me… he had more influence and made some intelligent points about covid Nazis and free speech… then lost his mind… he had me fooled. Kelly I always kept at arms length… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 04:57 PM (+gA9j) 91 The Art of the Deal? Lie and steal amd cheat like golf Posted by: Paul at April 08, 2026 04:57 PM (hYedo) 92 >>>There was blood coming out her whatever. Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 04:47 PM (vFG9F) Prince Charles has entered the chat... Posted by: Max Power at April 08, 2026 04:57 PM (q177U) 93 Highlander (not Sean Connery, Clancy Brown) Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:57 PM (1wjle) 94 We lost a Madison Cornbread thread? Tragic. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:58 PM (YwEeS) 95 Hooker: "I'm Candy." The Kurgan: "Of course you are." Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:58 PM (1wjle) 96 It’s not like they’re not familiar with turning their political “opinions” on a dime. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 04:57 PM (EXyHK) Yeah, but she was on Foxnews. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 04:58 PM (zZu0s) 97 Goldmines? Or Rising Sun? Both Sean Connery. The Highlander. As delivered by Clancy Brown to “Candy”. So there is a Connery Connection. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 04:58 PM (EXyHK) 98 93 So disappointed to see Bautista as The Kurgan in the Henry Cavill remake. He is no Clancy Brown. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:58 PM (YwEeS) 99 They are all actors playing a role. And like all actors they change roles for a new movie. Sometimes they’re the good guy sometimes the bad guy. Whatever gets eyeballs . Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 04:58 PM (MmH/W) 100 I'm highly skeptical of the notion that these nutcases are actually getting all that much out of their insanity. Especially Kelly. Sometimes a loony is just a loony. Posted by: Eeyore at April 08, 2026 04:59 PM (AlhUl) 101 Yes, ace beat me to it. That is probably not the correct phrasing. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 04:59 PM (EXyHK) 102 Heroq, You are exactly right!! Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 04:59 PM (3ek7K) 103 James Bond does an "Of course you are" too, I think, but I can't think of it. All I can think of is: (Hugely breasted woman): "I'm Plenty. Plenty O'Toole." Bond: "Named for your father, I expect?" Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:59 PM (1wjle) 104 She deserves a good spanking. Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 04:52 PM (MmH/W) First the oral sex ... Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 04:54 PM (kvcnI) Ackshully... he was required to tie her down on a bed and give her a good spanking, and possibly spank several others, then he could do with her as he liked. And after the spanking, the oral sex. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 04:59 PM (ExV1e) 105 Poor Megyn probability stopped taking her meds again Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 05:00 PM (Ia/+0) 106 Oh, shit. The threads back. https://acecomments.mu.nu/? post=419247 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 05:00 PM (zZu0s) 107 having dealt with more than a few boney blonde lawyerettes over the years. No. Absolutely fucking not. Believe me when I tell you, the amount of unhappiness that is radiated from that incredibly insecure and yet narcissistic blonde hole is outweighed by a fantastical margin, any fleeting false joy you may experience moments before you think you are going to bang it, only to be told, "no, I changed my mind." Count your blessings and move on. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:00 PM (anL5R) 108 Nope I was right, the Plenty O'Toole seen goes: "Hi, I'm Plenty." "But of course you are." "Plenty O'Toole." "Named after your father, I expect?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CElBVpRFk4Q Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 05:01 PM (1wjle) 109 You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We're talking about civilians I agree with her on this. Make all the threats you want against the kooky Mahdist cult regime controlling Iran. But don't threaten the Iranian nation, that just tends to drive them to identify with the government. The Iranian people are not the enemy. Trump often does a poor job of differentiating the regime from the nation. He is ultra realpolitik, Trump deals with Kim Jong Un, Putin, Lukashenko, Xi, and so on with little thought for their legitimacy. At one level that's fine, he's not prone to going around the world tilting at windmills seeking regime change everywhere, which is generally a good thing. On the other hand, in Iraq his policy is not going to work beyond the very short term without regime change. He should not allow himself to get sucked into the Israeli mindset of tribalism where they are enemies because they are Arab or Persian or Egyptian and these enemy tribes are Amalek who should be killed man, woman and child and their animals too. Tribalism may be the organizing principle of Israel but it is not our organizing principle. Posted by: TITP at April 08, 2026 05:01 PM (r3hkP) 110 Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:59 PM (1wjle) What's your name? Pussy Galore. Dammit, that is 'I must be dreaming.' So it is rising sun. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 05:01 PM (zZu0s) 111 Tell me why I should give a shit about Kelly or any other retard pundit. I guess you could say they influence other retards but someone always will. These days just because you have a soapbox doesn't mean you're important or insightful. And finally, bitch eat a sandwich. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 05:01 PM (V4IXI) 112 Wonder what these former pro Trumpsters are doing? Dropping acid? Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 05:02 PM (Ia/+0) 113 I can’t remember the name but there was a chick who was on cnbc then went to fox business. At cnbc she was ho hum , here is what stocks are doing today. The second she got to fox biz she turned all super duper right wing talking about how Obama is TOTALLY killing the economy. Weird how that works huh? They’re all actors paid to read lines from a teleprompter. Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 05:02 PM (MmH/W) 114 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 04:59 PM (ExV1e) tq for the correction ... couldn't be bothered to check yt Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 05:03 PM (kvcnI) 115 Clancy Brown is one of those guys I wish made more movies. Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 08, 2026 05:03 PM (PSEDc) 116 Is the 'g' in "Megyn" pronounced like the "g" in "Magyar"? Posted by: mrp at April 08, 2026 05:03 PM (rj6Yv) 117 If it wasn't for the internet we would know nothing about most of the assholes. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:03 PM (3ek7K) 118 "He should not allow himself to get sucked into the Israeli mindset of tribalism where they are enemies because they are Arab or Persian or Egyptian and these enemy tribes are Amalek who should be killed" The problem is Islamists of all varieties. Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 05:03 PM (vFG9F) 119 TOUSI finally done ... ceasefire ended first though ... Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 05:04 PM (kvcnI) 120 Posted by: TITP at April 08, 2026 05:01 PM (r3hkP) My position is that we've spoken and negotiated with diplomatic courtesy for over a half a century and we have not really advanced in solving the problem . Time to try a new diplomacy tactic. What will it hurt? Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 05:05 PM (V4IXI) 121 We need to enact a good Samaritan law. I can think of nothing better than to have Trump removed from society for one year so he can contemplate the manner in which he's been conducting himself.... I know I will. Posted by: Judge Arthur Vandelay at April 08, 2026 05:05 PM (DqQS/) 122 clancy brown was the voice of Lex Luthor in the DCAU Superman/Justice League cartoons. My favorite incarnation of Luthor. Very Satanic in vibe. (Not actually Satanic. Just very opposed to Superman just because he is Superman and is so good.) Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 05:05 PM (1wjle) 123 Am I crazy or did people used to read commentary to figure out what to think - and now they read it to figure out what to feel. The Left shifted all commentary to pure emotional manipulation around 2002. Right? But maybe it always was? I don't think so though. At some point I feel like they had to appeal to the "thought" part of people's brains. I'm not saying they did that but there was at least a pretense of it. Like "All Things Considered" which is actually "Only Communism Considered" - but it had a ring like people were thinking and not just crying every three seconds about the next hair on fire episode. They even had a word for it when it seemed to benefit Republicans in the 90's. "OUTRAGE" Can you imagine them still making fun of us for OUTRAGE when it's literally been their one product since August 2016? Just kidding they do. They still pretend that OUTRAGE is the sole propriety of the Right. And you also wouldn't believe we used to wake up daily to a Left that would make fun of religious types for their moralizing. Does the Left do a SINGLE THING other than constant 100% phony moralizing? They are so weird. Like demons except less interesting and more evil. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 05:05 PM (vE0+H) 124 I agree with her on this. Nope. 1. We pretty much ended the German and Japanese civilizations. We were, in fact, preparing to kill ALL the Japanese. 2. Sparing civilians makes war last longer, thereby further harming civilians. 3. In spite of all that... the US and Israel have scrupulously avoided harming civilians. If we can't talk shit, about a country we're bombing, we may as well curl up and die. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:05 PM (ExV1e) 125 You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. The month is young, Megyn. Give him a little time! Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 05:06 PM (9MWCZ) 126 Still a one. Would require headphones though. Posted by: Joe Mama at April 08, 2026 05:06 PM (TezPK) 127 tq for the correction ... couldn't be bothered to check yt Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 05:03 PM (kvcnI) You're quite welcome. Sometimes it's handy to have more in common with elephants than my physique. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e) 128 If we can't talk shit, about a country we're bombing, we may as well curl up and die. Well, that is sort of the European model: fund war against a country and expect cordial non-shitty trade relations at the same time. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 05:07 PM (EXyHK) 129 Sony Pictures Entertainment is reportedly set to lay off hundreds of employees across its TV, film, and corporate offices as Hollywood continues to contract. Learn to clean toilets Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 05:07 PM (abIsI) 130 Can we all agree that Trump's rantings on social media do get a a little fucking ridiculous sometimes, or if I do that am I allying myself with MeAgain and Cavernous Nostrils? I'm all for what Trump's doing and I also am intelligent enough to understand what his negotiation style is because I'm not a sub-midwit like some of these broke-dick podcast whores. However, can we have Trump turn it back down to 11 from 12.5 with regard to the shit he posts? Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:07 PM (oqH4h) 131 clancy brown was the voice of Lex Luthor in the DCAU Superman/Justice League cartoons. My favorite incarnation of Luthor. Very Satanic in vibe. (Not actually Satanic. Just very opposed to Superman just because he is Superman and is so good.) Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 05:05 PM (1wj He was a good villain in Bad Boys. ( the Sean Penn movie) Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 05:07 PM (V4IXI) 132 >>>Believe me when I tell you, the amount of unhappiness that is radiated from that incredibly insecure and yet narcissistic blonde hole is outweighed by a fantastical margin, any fleeting false joy you may experience moments before you think you are going to bang it, only to be told, "no, I changed my mind." Count your blessings and move on. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment >The way to a woman's heart is to give her a sammich. These bitches are starving and their brain switches into a carnivorous killer mode. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 05:08 PM (Fbc0I) 133 I agree with her on this. Nope. 1. We pretty much ended the German and Japanese civilizations. We were, in fact, preparing to kill ALL the Japanese. 2. Sparing civilians makes war last longer, thereby further harming civilians. 3. In spite of all that... the US and Israel have scrupulously avoided harming civilians. If we can't talk shit, about a country we're bombing, we may as well curl up and die. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:05 PM (ExV1e) ===== Oh, yeah. We ended Japanese civilization all right. About the first thing MacArthur did as the new constitution was being written was to include womens' suffrage. Posted by: mrp at April 08, 2026 05:08 PM (rj6Yv) 134 No, Trump always has a purpose for his shit posting. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:08 PM (3ek7K) 135 Megyn Kelly TORE into President Trump over his ... social media posts on Tuesday "Oh, no! Anyways..." Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 05:08 PM (9MWCZ) 136 Clancy Brown is one of those guys I wish made more movies. Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 08, 2026 05:03 PM (PSEDc) He actually did voice work in Mass Effect: Andromeda as a hero. Really good. But they killed him off (spoilers for a 10 year old game.) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 05:08 PM (zZu0s) 137 “Can’t he just behave like a normal human being” Normal Like who Megyn? Obama? He was pretty normal and F’d this country up big time. You cheered him along too. We remember. ------------ "Miss Me Yet, Me-Again?" /Let's Poop Brandon! Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 05:08 PM (TbhYO) 138 1. We pretty much ended the German and Japanese civilizations. We were, in fact, preparing to kill ALL the Japanese. Posted by: I used to have a different nic Only if the definition describes a governmental regime. Which may be an expanded def, but I don't care. We know how Trump speaks and if pressed on it at a different time he might have clarified, but again ( points to the don't care button ) Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2026 05:08 PM (diia5) 139 I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers, or so the saying goes. Posted by: Easy the Elder at April 08, 2026 05:08 PM (pHTNC) 140 I realize that the counterpoint to my previous post is "The left is going to light their pubes on fire and run around the room no matter what Trump does or what he posts, so fuck 'em." And that's a valid counterpoint. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:09 PM (oqH4h) 141 I agree with her on this. == No. The country is in a bad place, and needs fixin' World also. But you silly bitches get all caught up in "process crimes". Fck that. Results. I don't really care if it looks pretty or not. The time for ribbon curls on a nicely wrapped present is long over. Wake up. This isn't a movie. There isn't a script. You aren't going to impress people that machine gun their own population with your decorum. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:09 PM (anL5R) 142 You might kick her out of bed when you are tired of being stabbed by her bones. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:09 PM (3ek7K) 143 To all the idiots talking about war crimes and ending civilizations…. Have they ever complained about William Tecumseh Sherman’s march to the sea?? War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 05:10 PM (+gA9j) 144 Normal like Biden and stay quite in his Wilmington home? Let the Deep State run the County? Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 05:10 PM (Ia/+0) 145 Well, that is sort of the European model: fund war against a country and expect cordial non-shitty trade relations at the same time. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 05:07 PM (EXyHK) My ancestors left Europe for a reason. I'm totally cool with making nice with former adversaries AFTER the fight... I love Japan... but, during the fight? You're either crying uncle or joining the dodos. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:10 PM (ExV1e) 146 I'm watching Romero's 1978 "Dawn of the Dead" and come to a Megyn post who also keeps coming back 5pm MS Now - Democrats see signs of momentum ahead of midterms. Trump doesn't seem to knkw what he thinks day to day...lol CNN - Trump trashes ceasefire media coverage. Tapper needs space diapers. The Five on FoxNews. Jessica bitch is there. No Emily. #sad CBC - a fifth 'conservative' mp defects to the Liberals. Cunning stunt... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 05:11 PM (Sco7b) 147 Not long ago the Left was saying what Trump was saying only it was about Russia and Putin. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 05:11 PM (V4IXI) 148 However, can we have Trump turn it back down to 11 from 12.5 with regard to the shit he posts? Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:07 PM (oqH4h) Trump wouldn't be president if he wasn't Trump. Yes he should maybe "tone it down" because he's president but he's not going to because that's not what Trump would do. Besides, something he does must work on some level, he has a planet aligned against him, and us, and he seems to be able to wake up each day and enforce his will anyway. As I have said here many times, everyone on our side wants someone who will upset the status quo and start breaking shit until someone starts upsetting the status quo and breaking shit and then suddenly it's like "oh no!! but what about the RULES"!!!!! Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 05:12 PM (vE0+H) 149 Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment >The way to a woman's heart is to give her a sammich. These bitches are starving and their brain switches into a carnivorous killer mode. === they refuse to eat. they don't get that boney look because they are underserved. Don't fuckn mess with them. Joyless is an understatement. Just move on. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:12 PM (anL5R) 150 Have they ever complained about William Tecumseh Sherman’s march to the sea?? I don’t know if it’s the same posters and don’t care enough to look it up, but yes, I have seen complaints about this in the comments. Complaints about Lincoln prosecuting the war, too. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 05:12 PM (EXyHK) 151 To all the idiots talking about war crimes and ending civilizations…. Have they ever complained about William Tecumseh Sherman’s march to the sea?? War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 05:10 PM (+gA9j) He may have been Yankee scum but he wasn't wrong. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:12 PM (ExV1e) 152 having dealt with more than a few boney blonde lawyerettes over the years. No. Absolutely fucking not. ____________ So Ann Coulter is right out? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 05:14 PM (tgvbd) 153 >> 81 The whore's name is whatever you want it to be. Or so I've heard. “Of course you are.” Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 04:55 PM (EXyHK) https://clip.cafe/highlander-1986/of-course-are/ Posted by: SciVo at April 08, 2026 05:14 PM (Sy6m/) 154 what she really wants is your disappointment Are we talking about Pam Bondi now? Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (abIsI) 155 As I have said here many times, everyone on our side wants someone who will upset the status quo and start breaking shit until someone starts upsetting the status quo and breaking shit and then suddenly it's like "oh no!! but what about the RULES"!!!!! Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 05:12 PM (vE0+H) ----- The actions I'm more than fine with. I'm just saying that the dude might try the old *Types* *Deletes* thing a lot of us around here do, every once in a while. That's all. He hands the left ammunition to run to the TV cameras and screech and there are a LOT of dumb people in this country that vote based on Muh Optics. I don't like it any more than you do but that's what it is. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (oqH4h) 156 Trump likes to get letters. Send him a letter with your ideas and I'm sure he will give his attention to the matter. Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (vFG9F) 157 Ace was complaining about Trump's (completely justified) tweet about Rob Reiner what, last month? lol look in the mirror. Posted by: The Obvious, Plain Truth at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (Qx+VI) 158 having dealt with more than a few boney blonde lawyerettes over the years. No. Absolutely fucking not. ____________ So Ann Coulter is right out? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 05:14 PM (tgvbd) ==== Ann who? Posted by: mrp at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (rj6Yv) 159 all the idiots talking about war crimes and ending civilizations…. Have they ever complained about William Tecumseh Sherman’s march to the sea?? War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 05:10 PM (+gA9j) He may have been Yankee scum but he wasn't wrong. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:12 PM (ExV1e) He's the answer to another of my favorite trivia questions. Who was the first school president of LSU? Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (V4IXI) 160 having dealt with more than a few boney blonde lawyerettes over the years. No. Absolutely fucking not. ____________ So Ann Coulter is right out? == Seriously? Does she look like fun to you? Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (anL5R) 161 I would live to see a drone drop on the burqha babes that are driving around Tehran in jeeps with 50 cals. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (yAteE) 162 We pretty much ended the German and Japanese civilizations. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:05 PM (ExV1e) I would argue we ended Nazism and the cult of the Emperor but not German and Japanese civilization. And we are now on friendly terms with the Japanese nation and more or less with the Germans as well. The biggest blow to German civilization has not been from us but from the likes of crypto-Marxists like Frau Merkel and their mass immigration of third worlders and muslims. Smartly, the Japanese have avoided this. Posted by: TITP at April 08, 2026 05:16 PM (r3hkP) 163 ballistic, Trump gets people talking. That is his goal. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:16 PM (3ek7K) 164 Besides, something he does must work on some level, he has a planet aligned against him, and us, and he seems to be able to wake up each day and enforce his will anyway. On thing that he never gets credit for... Trump has more of the world actually aligned with the US than has been the case since, at least, 1945. Not "I'll gladly let you give my money while I sneer about how backward you are and work counter to your country's needs" aligned. Actually, for real, pulling the rope in the same direction aligned. And that's because there is Iron in the words of Orange Man for all to see. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:16 PM (ExV1e) 165 Getting nearly cut open by a woman's hip bones is not a fun time. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:16 PM (oqH4h) 166 139 I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers, or so the saying goes. Posted by: Easy the Elder at April 08, 2026 05:08 PM (pHTNC) What gives you the impression that this bag of bones is eating crackers (or anything else)? It'd be like banging a pile of deer antlers held together by rubber bands. In the face, she looks like a well put together tranny who is aging decently. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 05:16 PM (K3f7J) 167 So Ann Coulter is right out? == Seriously? Does she look like fun to you? Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (anL5R) She's a little long in the tooth. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 05:16 PM (V4IXI) 168 Bitch can't eat crackers for shit... Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 08, 2026 05:16 PM (XMwZJ) 169 https://youtu.be/-eH0xZvGtyA Tom Luongo explains ... Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 05:16 PM (kvcnI) 170 However, can we have Trump turn it back down to 11 from 12.5 with regard to the shit he posts? Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:07 PM (oqH4h) Trump will be 80 in June. I am pretty sure he’s not going to change at this point. He is a big talker and has always been a big talker. This time he got a ceasefire deal out of his latest social media threat. The only way Trump stops talking shit on social media is if there is no social media to do it on. He says things I’d never say, but I’m not Trump. So let Trump be Trump and watch him get things done the Trump way. The man has less than three years left and is facing impeachment, again, if the Dems win so he is getting all the dirty work done, and settling as much American family business as he can before then. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 08, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt) 171 President Trump's tough talk of threatening to wipe out an entire civilization was what was needed to cause the Iranian regime to capitulate. Whatever softer talk that a Megyn Kelly, or any Democrat, would have said to them would have failed. Posted by: Wofus at April 08, 2026 05:17 PM (CNa+A) 172 I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers, or so the saying goes. Posted by: Easy the Elder Look at that fucking bitch. Sitting there eating crackers. Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 08, 2026 05:17 PM (QVmho) 173 Hmm, Megs looks llike a white Candy O. Posted by: kingsman at April 08, 2026 05:17 PM (ehY6c) 174 I roll my eyes at a lot of that Trump says or posts. After 10 years though, it’s obvious he doesn’t mean half what he says. He’s al about bluster and being a showman. It’s crazy that people still don’t get it and run for the fainting couches. Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 05:17 PM (MmH/W) 175 No, Trump always has a purpose for his shit posting. I certainly don't know why it all has to be so cartoonish, but I cannot argue with the man's results! Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 05:17 PM (9MWCZ) 176 Sean Connery Montage https://youtu.be/1lw2DdPPmPI? si=1Nc9lSpa1cH4etmK Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 05:17 PM (zZu0s) 177 SpeakingOf, Amen!!! Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:18 PM (3ek7K) 178 Posted by: TITP at April 08, 2026 05:16 PM (r3hkP) We ended the Japanese Shogun mentality civilization. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 08, 2026 05:18 PM (V4IXI) 179 War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 05:10 PM (+gA9j) __________ "The humanising of war? You might as well talk about the humanizing of Hell! The essence of war is violence! Moderation in war is imbecility!" - Admiral Jackie Fisher Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 05:18 PM (tgvbd) 180 Really, really willowed: Diogenes' No-good, Rotten Horrible Geezer Golf Day - a limerick Diogenes liked to have fun He kept those old geezers on the run 'Til his lucky socks let him down He told his wife with a frown, "Darn it, Hon! I got a hole in one!" Posted by: muldoon at April 08, 2026 10:46 AM (qgHp7) *** Even on my worst round of golf I wouldn't let Megyn touch my balls. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 05:18 PM (2WIwB) 181 Damn. Megyn is one dishonest right-wing grifter. Posted by: Ben Shapiro at April 08, 2026 05:18 PM (ycI94) 182 Megyn lost me when she started defending Candace Owen and her anti-Erika Kirk attacks. Posted by: Decaf at April 08, 2026 05:18 PM (Tbs6N) 183 Sean Connery Montage I need to see more of those movies. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 05:19 PM (EXyHK) 184 I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers, or so the saying goes. I would. I gave her a perfectly good cheeseburger! Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 05:19 PM (9MWCZ) 185 Damn. Megyn is one dishonest right-wing grifter. Posted by: Ben Shapiro at April 08, 2026 05:18 PM (ycI94) Right? Posted by: Candy Owens at April 08, 2026 05:19 PM (MmH/W) 186 I'm starting to think Trump might be better than Kissinger at international relations. And he does it by being himself or by presenting an image of himself that others believe. Fun stuff. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 05:20 PM (xcxpd) 187 I'm just saying that the dude might try the old *Types* *Deletes* thing a lot of us around here do, every once in a while. That's all. He hands the left ammunition to run to the TV cameras and screech and there are a LOT of dumb people in this country that vote based on Muh Optics. I don't like it any more than you do but that's what it is. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (oqH4h) Goebbels (and the like) said good propaganda can make the people believe Hell is Heaven and Heaven is Hell. Trump could cure cancer, end homelessness and achieve world peace while singing like Pavarotti and triple lindying into a quadruple axel and the Left would still run to the cameras and make him into evil, unhinged monster. As Brit Lass says "hung for a sheep as a lamb". He has earned the right to tweet and say whatever the fuck he wants. I will never ever give a shit about anything a leftist says or does - or can say or do - ever again. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 05:20 PM (vE0+H) 188 He should not allow himself to get sucked into the Israeli mindset of tribalism where they are enemies because they are Arab or Persian or Egyptian and these enemy tribes are Amalek who should be killed man, woman and child and their animals too. Tribalism may be the organizing principle of Israel but it is not our organizing principle. Posted by: TITP at April 08, 2026 05:01 PM (r3hkP) ==== Fascinating. Tell us more about the Israeli mindset and tribalism. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2026 05:20 PM (RIvkX) 189 We be herds that Iran place only exceptered the deel is becruase they said Presdent Ovamar gave the thrumds up on the deel . We loves Presdint Obana and mist him. Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 08, 2026 05:20 PM (B1QDm) 190 I certainly don't know why it all has to be so cartoonish, but I cannot argue with the man's results! ++ My theory has long been that Trump's Superpower. The thing that makes him Trump, is that the somehow forces his adversaries to say and do the things that they must not say or do. He baits them. The destroy civilization thing, was not just a message to the Iranian idiots. It was designed to trigger the never trump/libs. Their over reaction gave him space to do what he did later, which is cease-fire. Its not dumb luck. He can pull strings like nobody I've seen. Puppet Master. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:21 PM (anL5R) 191 Right on, Mary! Obama’s deal, which Trump scrapped, was far stronger: the strait was open and free, uranium enrichment was limited, Iran agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons, and inspectors ensured compliance. Posted by: Pawl at April 08, 2026 05:21 PM (vFG9F) 192 Hi, I'm Plenty." "But of course you are." "Plenty O'Toole." "Named after your father, I expect?" == Holy Cow! I thought I knew all the Bonds, but seeing it in writing, now I get the second part ! lol Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 05:21 PM (GD0B3) 193 Smart women recognize when other women are full of shit. I've never trusted Kelly. She has a look to me that says I'm full of shit. I've never liked her. You can see what she is in her eyes. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:22 PM (3ek7K) 194 Whenever I had the time and inclination to grill or smoke spare ribs, I would always grab a couple more racks and then invite my nieces and their young friends over for a dinner. Those young ladies would destroy that shit, - bones everywhere and bbq sauce all over their faces. Always brought a smile to my face. Kelly looks like she's missing a spare rib. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 05:22 PM (Fbc0I) 195 154 what she really wants is your disappointment Are we talking about Pam Bondi now? Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 05:15 PM (abIsI) Perks up Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 05:22 PM (xcxpd) 196 "Do not trust Rubio, nor DeSantis - and Vance is unfortunately owned." Just curious, who is Vance "owned" by, and if you have time, where does that conclusion come from? Posted by: RM at April 08, 2026 05:23 PM (n/1Oj) 197 >>You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. he isn't talking to you. Or the media, or the Dems, or anyone except the Iranian regime, and maybe the citizens who need a push to rise up. They think they can wait him out -- he is telling them that Donnie DGAF and will go medieval on their asses. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 05:23 PM (zAO6l) 198 Megyn sort of looks like a white Candace sitting there with that do, save for the nostrils. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 05:23 PM (cWLG3) 199 He should not allow himself to get sucked into the Israeli mindset of tribalism where they are enemies because they are Arab or Persian or Egyptian and these enemy tribes are Amalek who should be killed man, woman and child and their animals too. === If I wanted to listen to Cucker Tarlson's crack rants, I would watch his "Network". No need to repost it here. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 05:24 PM (GD0B3) 200 >You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization Apparently, you can just do things. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 05:24 PM (TLp3A) 201 Megyn needs a Snickers Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 08, 2026 05:24 PM (Fn30I) 202 I haven't given Kelly or the others 1 second of thought. Better dicourse happens right here. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 05:24 PM (yAteE) 203 The Five...Libs and Taco. Nothing says taco like bombing the shit out of Iran and it's leaders for 5 weeks. Crap like this makes me kind of wish Iran would take out Paris or London. Or Trump goes in Civilization destroying mode. But they'd forget everything tomorrow. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 05:24 PM (Sco7b) 204 Clancy Brown sells Krabby Patties. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 05:24 PM (Cqx++) 205 200 >You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization Apparently, you can just do things. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 05:24 PM (TLp3A) And it apparently works Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 05:26 PM (xcxpd) 206 in his first term he told putin it would be a shame to see all those beautiful golden onion domes in Moscow red square melted down because they got nuked. You send a message. You aren't dealing with the status quo. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:26 PM (anL5R) 207 Cucker needs to sober up. Cocaine is not the answer. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 05:26 PM (GD0B3) 208 Its not dumb luck. He can pull strings like nobody I've seen. Puppet Master. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:21 PM (anL5R) Spot on! He is laser focused on what is best for America. He absolutely uses the full power of his office to achieve his goals. He plays the media like a pro and half of them don't even realize it and the other half can't help themselves. It's beautiful to behold. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 05:26 PM (2WIwB) 209 I said not to trust Megyn when she 'changed' and jumped on the MAGA Wagon. I knew she would revert to form and so she has. Just like Carlson being the loon he always was. The question is, who will be the next false idol raised up? Posted by: Sam at April 08, 2026 05:27 PM (7jMef) 210 Megyn sort of looks like a white Candace sitting there with that do, save for the nostrils. == Give the cocaine some time to do its work . . . Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:27 PM (anL5R) 211 "Apparently, you can just do things." Trumpy can! Posted by: Tommy at April 08, 2026 05:28 PM (vFG9F) 212 It's beautiful to behold. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 05:26 PM (2WIwB) Yup ... done for today. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 05:28 PM (kvcnI) 213 As Brit Lass says "hung for a sheep as a lamb". He has earned the right to tweet and say whatever the fuck he wants. I will never ever give a shit about anything a leftist says or does - or can say or do - ever again. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 05:20 PM (vE0+H) This. Why on earth would we care what the left thinks of us? Heck, we already know: they hate us and think life would be perfect if we were to suddenly disappear one day. Some of the are trying to help that along. Posted by: moki at April 08, 2026 05:28 PM (wLjpr) 214 How did we end up where 500,000,000 tons of HE is OK, but a hyperbolic tweet is "just not done?" I read the tweet, I understand who it is meant for, and how he is trying to "concentrate their minds" and I think good. He wants them to know that they are fighting to preserve an empty husk because if they don't stop fighting Iran will be unrecognizable. No, not the people or even the buildings, but the islamofascist civilization. The old guys with sticks beating women for showing their hair and everything they thought they were building. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 05:28 PM (zAO6l) 215 I'm starting to think Trump might be better than Kissinger at international relations. refresh my memory, what did Henry do that advanced the US position? Posted by: DanMan at April 08, 2026 05:29 PM (8uzBS) 216 The Five...Libs and Taco. Nothing says taco like bombing the shit out of Iran and it's leaders for 5 weeks. Crap like this makes me kind of wish Iran would take out Paris or London. Or Trump goes in Civilization destroying mode. But they'd forget everything tomorrow. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 05:24 PM (Sco7b) Their one animating principle, the figurine at the center of their shrine, is that Trump is wrong. Always. Regardless. That it is impossible for him to be right. This is vitally important for the left and the 'right' because if Trump is correct, then they've been wrong... forever. And that cannot be because they care so very, very, much. About something. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:29 PM (ExV1e) 217 You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization === I listened some of Karoline's WH presser. 10 times she was told that verbatim. *THE MEMO WENT OUT! Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 05:29 PM (GD0B3) 218 Just curious, who is Vance "owned" by, and if you have time, where does that conclusion come from? Posted by: RM at April 08, 2026 05:23 PM (n/1Oj) Them. And just me baby. Just me. (that's Ellipsis speak for I don't have to justify myself to you, enjoy) Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 05:29 PM (vE0+H) 219 They said Eisenhower was stupid. They said Reagan was stupid. They're saying Trump is stupid. They're stupid. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 05:29 PM (tgvbd) 220 Look at me, I'm so cute or pretty. Because of that I know you will listen to what I have to say and agree because you have dreams of ucking me. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:30 PM (3ek7K) 221 >>>Just curious, who is Vance "owned" by, and if you have time, where does that conclusion come from? the Greys just like everyone else Posted by: brak at April 08, 2026 05:31 PM (jGJov) 222 217 You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization === I listened some of Karoline's WH presser. 10 times she was told that verbatim. *THE MEMO WENT OUT! Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 05:29 PM (GD0B3) --- No way even she believed he was talking about nuking the women and children. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 05:31 PM (cWLG3) 223 How did we end up where 500,000,000 tons of HE is OK, but a hyperbolic tweet is "just not done?" Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 05:28 PM (zAO6l) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 05:31 PM (zZu0s) 224 Clancy Brown's father and grandfather were US representatives from Ohio. Blanchester area. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 05:31 PM (tgvbd) 225 Remember all the nice ways tried by people who just wanted to make America great again before Trump came along? TEA party? Romney economic plan? Paul Ryan's budget discipline? They all failed miserably. Then we get Trump. Who is not always nice and says things that cause our gentlemanly spirits to cringe, and has been this way for decades and is not going to change now that he's nearly 80 year old. But he gets things done that voters want done, finally. He causes people and institutions to show who they really are now that they've grown corrupt and despotic. He really does want America to be Great Again and has shown that our decline is a choice and it can be reversed. To quote Lincoln when asked about the unloved and drunk Gen. Grant - "I can't spare this man, he fights" Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 05:31 PM (Dv3i1) 226 Because of that I know you will listen to what I have to say and agree because you have dreams of ucking me. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:30 PM (3ek7K) ------- Karoline Leavitt, is that you? Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:31 PM (oqH4h) 227 How did we end up where 500,000,000 tons of HE is OK, but a hyperbolic tweet is "just not done?" Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 05:28 PM (zAO6l) Because people are retarded- including me for fucking up this comment the first time. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 05:32 PM (zZu0s) 228 He wants them to know that they are fighting to preserve an empty husk because if they don't stop fighting Iran will be unrecognizable. No, not the people or even the buildings, but the islamofascist civilization. The old guys with sticks beating women for showing their hair and everything they thought they were building. == Yes. They are already screwed. He was telling them, if you don't stop. You won't be able to rebuild. I'll take away your ability to be anything in the future. You'll be thunderdome. With no way to repair, rebuild or even function as a anything more than a middle ages society that would soon be cut up into fiefdoms of some other regional powers. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:32 PM (anL5R) 229 226 Because of that I know you will listen to what I have to say and agree because you have dreams of ucking me. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:30 PM (3ek7K) ------- Karoline Leavitt, is that you? Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:31 PM (oqH4h) -- She's taken brah! Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 05:32 PM (cWLG3) 230 " Just curious, who is Vance "owned" by, and if you have time, where does that conclusion come from? flaps flippers* Posted by: Big Penguin at April 08, 2026 05:32 PM (vFG9F) 231 >>You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. Sure you can. He said it. He got everyone's attention. The mullahs know he means it. Bully pulpit! Makes ya wonder how many lives will be saved??? Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 05:32 PM (2WIwB) 232 Megyn Kelly was talking about HRT recently, so the need for this may explain some of the insanity. Trying times, friends. It is trying times. But it also means blood is no longer…. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 05:32 PM (Wmg4n) 233 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 05:29 PM (tgvbd) For as long as I can remember as a voting Demographic these were the descriptions of Republicans: stupid, evil or both 40 plus years of this . There was never any critique of their ideas or plans. It found it redundant then. Now I find it both redundant and boring and untrue. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 05:33 PM (lQ+/f) 234 Apologies for the mind-twister question, but.... we're not gonna pretend that Republicans, who never saw a Democrat they couldn't capitulate to and then claim "oh well we tried boys", didn't suddenly have it in them to fight Trump like a retard tooth and fucking nail for 10 straight years against all the things they promised for the previous 40 years that they would do for us, are we? They won't even RECESS. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 05:33 PM (vE0+H) 235 She's taken brah! Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 05:32 PM (cWLG3) ------- Me too and happily but I dreams are dreams lol Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:33 PM (oqH4h) 236 The Five...Libs and Taco. Nothing says taco like bombing the shit out of Iran and it's leaders for 5 weeks. Crap like this makes me kind of wish Iran would take out Paris or London. Or Trump goes in Civilization destroying mode. But they'd forget everything tomorrow. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 05:24 PM (Sco7b) ===== People who use "TACO" and "Trump" are desperate, soulless ghouls who aren't worth a second of one's time. I have the coffee cup and the t-shirt to remind me of his courage and patriotism. What I hear is the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the creeps beating at the door. Posted by: mrp at April 08, 2026 05:34 PM (rj6Yv) 237 Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 05:32 PM (Wmg4n) Just curious, what's your stance on hrt, o lady of the leggings? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 05:34 PM (zZu0s) 238 Meant "voting Democrat". Stupid autocorrect. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 05:34 PM (lQ+/f) 239 She will talk about anything that gets to people to pay attention to her. How do we know if it's true about the HRT? We don't, but it gets some people talking about it. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:34 PM (3ek7K) 240 Meant "voting Democrat". Stupid autocorrect. I thought the autocorrect was more pithy this time. “For as long as I can remember as a voting Demographic” is a nice turn of phrase. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 05:35 PM (EXyHK) 241 She said she's in menopause and taking something spectacular. I did not bother to read what it was. She wears training bras and needs a new haircut. Why should I believe anything she says? I haven't liked her since 2016. Prior to that debate I did. I have given her the side eye since. Not quite as crazy as Candace Popeye, but close.Same squad. Cucker wants to belong but they told him know. He was also rejected by the Lincoln Project gang. Which is why he has his furrowed brow. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 05:35 PM (WONhk) 242 For as long as I can remember as a voting Demographic these were the descriptions of Republicans: stupid, evil or both 40 plus years of this . There was never any critique of their ideas or plans. It found it redundant then. Now I find it both redundant and boring and untrue. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 05:33 PM (lQ+/f) _____________ Read any US history book or biography of a Democrat. Republicans are portrayed as almost subhuman when they're not evil and heartless. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 05:36 PM (tgvbd) 243 What is HRT?? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 05:36 PM (+gA9j) 244 "you don't just threaten an entire civilization," say assholes who've done nothing but talk about and work toward ending western civilization for 50 years or more sod off, already Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 05:36 PM (K3f7J) 245 ChristyBlinky, You Rock!! Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:36 PM (3ek7K) 246 You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization === I listened some of Karoline's WH presser. 10 times she was told that verbatim. *THE MEMO WENT OUT! == I can't imagine a more ahistorical position for the media to take. Not only has that threat literally never left human relations even in the 21st century. Our country has actually fucking wiped out another country's civilization. Idiots. Think they got a degree in Journo lie some and they can just re-write history to their own liking. Posted by: what she really wants is your disappointment at April 08, 2026 05:36 PM (anL5R) 247 He was also rejected by the Lincoln Project gang. Which is why he has his furrowed brow. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 05:35 PM (WONhk) ------ And windsocked asshole Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 05:36 PM (oqH4h) 248 What is HRT?? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 05:36 PM (+gA9j) Hormone replacement therapy. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:37 PM (ExV1e) 249 Posted by: TITP at April 08, 2026 05:01 PM (r3hkP)* Up to the last paragraph you almost had me convinced you weren't a crackpot. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 05:37 PM (gKWVE) 250 She needs to get Fat Replacement Therapy. She looks like a scarecrow. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:38 PM (3ek7K) 251 (that's Ellipsis speak for I don't have to justify myself to you, enjoy) When you make a sweeping statement like that about someone (Vance) who seems solidly on point and on our side, it's sometimes good to perhaps elaborate just a bit. Not asking for you to "justify myself", but never mind. You enjoy too. Posted by: RM at April 08, 2026 05:38 PM (n/1Oj) 252 What on earth do you replace hormones with? Horscreams? Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 05:39 PM (UjdFS) 253 I keep reading that headline. Super troll, man. In one sentence he said she is old and over the hill, and that she is irrelevant. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 05:39 PM (GD0B3) 254 >>> You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. I thought he was talking about Terrorist Theocrats. Is dumb TV person siding with them? Yes. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 05:40 PM (/lPRQ) 255 Read any US history book or biography of a Democrat. Republicans are portrayed as almost subhuman when they're not evil and heartless. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh ====== Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson is famous for skewering that piece of shit to the degree that Johnson's family declared him persona non grata for the Univ of Texas LBJ collection. Well worth reading albeit depressing that pos was ever in the White House except as a visitor. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 05:40 PM (E4rtv) 256 I dunno, maybe I'm just dumb, I just assumed when Trump said that he was going to end civilization in Iran that he was talking about- ending governance by islam and the islamic government. Because, yes, that would be an end of a civilization(for some values of civilization) esp. if the Shah comes back and the Iraqis return to their roots in Zoroastrianism. Posted by: naturalfake at April 08, 2026 05:40 PM (iJfKG) 257 What is HRT?? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 05:36 PM (+gA9j) Hormone replacement therapy. Like testosterone for TRT. Is estrogen the hormone they shoot the ladies up with? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 05:40 PM (zZu0s) 258 What is HRT?? Posted by: LinusVanPelt Hillary Rodham Thrombosis (of the labia). Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 08, 2026 05:40 PM (QVmho) 259 NOOD, you fatherless savages Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 05:40 PM (K3f7J) 260 And that cannot be because they care so very, very, much. About something. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 05:29 PM (ExV1e) They care about looking like intelligent, competent, leaders. The sad part is, they are none of those things. And when you are none of those things but pretend otherwise the worst thing that can happen to you is to be made to look the fool. Trump has been making them all look like fools for over a decade now. It's driven them all even more insane, and foolish. Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 08, 2026 05:42 PM (6ydKt) 261 Tucker has been a bigger disappointment for me… he had more influence and made some intelligent points about covid Nazis and free speech… then lost his mind… he had me fooled. Kelly I always kept at arms length… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 08, 2026 04:57 PM (+gA9j) ....but apparently Tucker was the one who got Trump to lock down, wasn't he. Sounds like revsionism Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 05:42 PM (8avO+) 262 245 ChristyBlinky, You Rock!! Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 05:36 PM (3ek7K) ...................... Thank you! I don't know why, but thanks! I should blow this up as a poster for my dude. He's very patient that I've been about as wimpy as Tucker fo r a month. The first two weeks a man cold. The second two weeks whining about being tired. I'm so tarred. He puts up with a LOT. Granted, I keep him entertained for 49yrs (47 married). And I don't have to wear a bag on my head in public (yet). So there's that. I just spent 2hrs in the kitchen making dinner and deserve a medal. Instead I am having red wine. In nursing school we were all thrilled to read that red wine fights viruses!!! I think good for iron, too, or I made that up. hic! I don't drink it often. Probably that's what's wrong with me Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 05:43 PM (WONhk) 263 28 BTW, what does Howard Stern do these days? ===== Getting sued by a household employee, she refused to sign NDA upon termination. Lots of dirt incoming on that piece of shit from depositions. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 05:45 PM (E4rtv) 264 When you make a sweeping statement like that about someone (Vance) who seems solidly on point and on our side, it's sometimes good to perhaps elaborate just a bit. Not asking for you to "justify myself", but never mind. You enjoy too. Posted by: RM at April 08, 2026 05:38 PM (n/1Oj) Just wait and see. I'm not going to persuade you and found that clear so why waste keystrokes. Hell there was a time people would simply not believe (or stand for) this sort of thing about Ryan, Rubio (Part 1), Cryin' Boehner, Haley, Pence, Barr, Kelly, Carlson, Owens, the list really goes on and on and on. Doesn't matter if you think in retrospect all these people belong in one boat. It doesn't. Paul Ryan was a fucking True Conservative Infallible Hero for a long time because of the noises that emanated from his mouth-sphincter. Just the way it is. And btw I really wanted to like Vance. Still do. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 05:45 PM (vE0+H) 265 The Five...Libs and Taco. Nothing says taco like bombing the shit out of Iran and it's leaders for 5 weeks. Crap like this makes me kind of wish Iran would take out Paris or London. Or Trump goes in Civilization destroying mode. But they'd forget everything tomorrow. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 05:24 PM (Sco7b) Muslims, or Commies burnt out Notre Dame in the center of Paris. Not a moment of outrage in France. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 05:46 PM (8avO+) 266 261 Tucker has been a bigger disappointment for me… he had more influence and made some intelligent points about covid Nazis and free speech… then lost his mind… he had me fooled. Kelly I always kept at arms length… Posted by: LinusVanPelt ======== Tucker was always fake and gay going back to bowties and CNN Crossfire days. A lot of that preppy non conformist Reagan years conservatives were just class snobs instead of actual conservatives. Also see George Will. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 05:47 PM (E4rtv) 267 I'll admit that some of the stuff makes me uncomfortable even though I know he doesn't mean it. But as has been said he isn't gonna change now, and you just kinda need to ride the rollercoaster. Wasn't it Reagan who said something to the effect of he was going to nuke the Soviets and everyone ran for their fainting couches? Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 08, 2026 05:47 PM (qivay) 268 I'll admit that some of the stuff makes me uncomfortable even though I know he doesn't mean it. But as has been said he isn't gonna change now, and you just kinda need to ride the rollercoaster. Wasn't it Reagan who said something to the effect of he was going to nuke the Soviets and everyone ran for their fainting couches? Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 08, 2026 05:47 PM (qivay) "The bombs start in three minutes" as a mic check before some presser IIRC Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 05:48 PM (8avO+) 269 Very sad. Apparently MeAgain does not have a family that can get her the help she needs. Posted by: Going deep. Out. at April 08, 2026 05:48 PM (9X60i) 270 Hell there was a time people would simply not believe (or stand for) this sort of thing about Ryan, Rubio (Part 1), Cryin' Boehner, Haley, Pence, Barr, Kelly, Carlson, Owens, the list really goes on and on and on. Doesn't matter if you think in retrospect all these people belong in one boat. It doesn't. Paul Ryan was a fucking True Conservative Infallible Hero for a long time because of the noises that emanated from his mouth-sphincter. Just the way it is. Posted by: ... ======= The world of the cloud people are filled with ne'er do wells that simply float from expedient position to position depending on what their fellow inhabitants in cloud land think, feel, and fund. Those folks on the ground, they could not give one thin damn about. There is no noblisse or oblige in our ruling class. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 05:50 PM (E4rtv) 271 269 Very sad. Apparently MeAgain does not have a family that can get her the help she needs. Posted by: Going deep. She is perfectly content to be evil, she ain't insane. Same as Tucker. Track record of both is damning. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 05:51 PM (E4rtv) 272 Megyn, Candace Popeye and Tucker Goat Herder are all click ho's. I have been SO good about not cussing since Lent. Outloud, anyway. Which was typically only done in private or with my dude. I nevah cuss in front of my sweet grandchildren. Unlike certain in-laws I avoid like the plague. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 05:52 PM (WONhk) 273 "The bombs start in three minutes" as a mic check before some presser IIRC Posted by: Oldcat ======= Yep. Prior to Reykjavik meeting with Gorbachev. I haven't given one thin damn about the vapors of the ruling class in decades as most of them are mealy mouthed pieces of shit that revel in their treachery in destroying America. Posted by: whig at April 08, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv) 274 In this world there are 2 destroyers of civilizations, communism/socialism and Islam. Together they have destroyed more civilizations than any other forces in history. Posted by: geoffb at April 08, 2026 06:17 PM (OtD+j) 275 Ironically, I just started reading Scott Adams' "Bigly" today, about Trump and the era of persuasion. That tweet and the subsequent fallout was classic Trump He put out something outrageous, EVERYONE on Earth was talking about the alleged "genocide in Iran" and lo and behold, by the end of the day, they had a ceasefire agreement. Coincidence ? Not a chance. Posted by: deadrody at April 08, 2026 06:23 PM (vgB0v) 276 How do so many people not get Trump's style of negotiation 10 years after he first became president? Willful ignorance? Incompetence? Figure it out, dipshits. Posted by: Tommy Shanks at April 09, 2026 01:46 AM (KDpmu) Republican Clayton Fuller Wins Marjorie Taylor Greene's Old Stank-Ass Seat in Rome, Georgia This is technically a pick-up. Because Marjorie Taylor Greene quit mid-term in January-- on the exact date that her five-year congressional pension kicked in -- Rome, Georgia has been without a Representative for three months, and the GOP has been down a seat in Congress. So yes, this is a win of a seat we had already won, but that seat was abandoned and has been unfilled for an entire season. But now we've taken it back. Our slim congressional majority holds (shakily). If you're sports nerd, we gained a half game in the playoff race. The highlight from the left and the Woke Reich -- which is now just straight-up a Democrat voting block, like the NeverTrunpers before them -- is that the seat was won by only 12 points instead of 30 points as in 2024, so it's all because we won't agree to the left's and Islam's demands to just let them have Israel, serious you guys that's all we want, just Israel, you gotta believe me bro, we just want Israel and that's it, we don't want to force traffic to a standstill as we ostentatiously and conquerishly pray in the streets during rush hour, we do not want to raid your treasuries like the Barbary Pirates, we just want Israel, why won't you believe us bro? I wouldn't call the change in margin of victory pure spin. Yes, the Woke Reich and their fellow travelers of the Islamocommunist Left are spinning the fact, but it is a fact, and a worrisome one. But then -- it's also the case that the former winner of the seat has been running against the party she formerly belonged here. That has to have an impact on party cohesion. Clayton Fuller won a Georgia special election to replace retired Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday night, growing the House Republican majority by one. However, Republicans won by a slimmer margin than in years past, an ominous sign with just over half a year to go until the midterm elections. Fuller, a District Attorney, defeated Shawn Harris, a Democrat whose website describes him as a "retired Brigadier General" and "cattle producer," by a 55.9 to 44.1% margin, with 99% of votes counted by 9:30 AM Wednesday. The election's results mark a double-digit shift in favor of Democrats, as Greene won in 2024 by an almost 30-point margin. Greene, once a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, retired in January after a falling out with the president, who called her a "traitor" for standing against him on foreign policy and economic issues. The president had indicated his intention to support a primary challenger against Greene before her surprise retirement. What a great trade! Congratulations to Clayton Fuller! https://t.co/iGmysqrB7q — Tom Young (@brui4ns1) April 8, 2026 Correct. We went from a trashy, flaky, embarrassing bimbo (but unattractive) with the IQ of a cooked potato to a normal guy who doesn't have blood coming out of his... whatever, a district attorney and lieutenant colonel in the Air Force reserve. And he doesn't believe that Jews control the weather with Space Lasers or pal around with terrorists like Code Pink. We don't have to hold our breaths in suspense when he speaks. His sentences will not be like Marjorie Taylor Greene's, tragicomic misadventures and verbal bus accidents. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:34 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 foist again? Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (CWTWj) 2 Hola Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (LdBR/) 3 Screw her. Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (B7Gl8) 4 Dude looks a bit like Travolta. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at April 08, 2026 03:35 PM (hzEuy) 5 i noodleded Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 03:35 PM (CWTWj) 6 Are we here? Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (FrGmf) 7 At least didn't give it up to the Marxists Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0) 8 I guess we broke the Madison Cornbread thread. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (2GVsD) 9 His name sounds like Republican Mad Libs Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (JrZbt) 10 Clayton appears to be the kinda guy who takes 'looksmaxing' WAY too seriously. I'll bet he has some skeletons in his closet, hint hint. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd) 11 Fuller needs to burn anything that skank sat in. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (3ek7K) 12 Cornbread? Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:37 PM (XQJDW) 13 Welcome back, Ace. What happened? Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 03:37 PM (77rzZ) 14 Screw her. Only with Chuck Schumer's. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:37 PM (2GVsD) 15 No more cat fights with Jazzy and Nancy Mace ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 03:37 PM (FtULh) 16 I posted the entire meaning of life on the cornbread thread. It was like a religious experience just hit me and I posted everything for all of you. The keys to happiness on this planet. Then everything became fuzzy and I remember nothing. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:37 PM (Sco7b) 17 He's back! Ace is ok! I can exhale! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:37 PM (WONhk) 18 >>>4 Dude looks a bit like Travolta. I just re-watched Blow Out and it totally holds up. I was surprised that Travolta's character was such a hero. The movie kind of puts a sleazy gloss on him, as he works as a sound designer on sleazy cheapo horror movies, but pretty much everything he does is on the side of right. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (1wjle) 19 isn't a cattle producer just a cow? Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (8avO+) 20 Definite win. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (GD0B3) 21 a win win Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (GD0B3) 22 California faces the TPocalypse. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (XQJDW) 23 -- on the exact date that her five-year congressional pension kicked in -- Good work and the best retirement plan if you can get it. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (/lPRQ) 24 i worked with a guy named clayton long ago. i hope this one isn't a shit like the one i worked with Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (CWTWj) 25 18 >>>4 Dude looks a bit like Travolta. I just re-watched Blow Out and it totally holds up. I was surprised that Travolta's character was such a hero. The movie kind of puts a sleazy gloss on him, as he works as a sound designer on sleazy cheapo horror movies, but pretty much everything he does is on the side of right. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (1wjle) Travolta can act, for sure Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (xcxpd) 26 i think it's on HBO. It's also available free on YouTube, maybe, but that was some kind of TV edit where they took out the opening sequence of the cheapo slasher movie and who knows what else they cut later on. The villain is a real gem. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (1wjle) 27 Bulg, Don't ask the boss what happened. It's way more fun for us to make upshit. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (3ek7K) 28 Don't call me Georgia. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (UjdFS) 29 **Georgia has been without a Representative for three months, and the GOP has been down a seat in Congress. --- And (bitching) she wasn't all that helpful when she was there, Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (m24qK) 30 Clayton is a bunch of steps up to look at than potato nose trashy skank. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:39 PM (WONhk) 31 I posted the entire meaning of life on the cornbread thread. It was like a religious experience just hit me and I posted everything for all of you. The keys to happiness on this planet. Then everything became fuzzy and I remember nothing. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:37 PM (Sco7b) Before post 100? Shocking!! Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:39 PM (8avO+) 32 We lost the Jewish Weather Machine? That's gotta hurt. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:39 PM (DwqWV) 33 1.2 million sq. foot tp warehouse. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:39 PM (XQJDW) 34 >>.The keys to happiness on this planet. I know it has something to do with people wearing more hats. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:39 PM (1wjle) 35 Pretty good celebratory essay. So, to be clear, Ace does not like MTG. Got it. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (RIvkX) 36 MTG, Tucker, Candace. People who were, at least, not unreasonable suddenly become Mayor of Nut City. Why? Maybe they had no principles in the first place. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (tgvbd) 37 Thanks for bailing us out of that last thread! I was beginning to run out of insightful comments. Posted by: Navin Johnson at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (cWLG3) 38 I read that as "trigonometric misadventures". I wonder about my brain sometimes. Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (w9Wax) 39 10 Clayton appears to be the kinda guy who takes 'looksmaxing' WAY too seriously. I'll bet he has some skeletons in his closet, hint hint. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd) He kinda looks like he could star in American Psycho 2. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (qivay) 40 And I knew it Promising to buy that model kit conjured up a new thread. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (2GVsD) 41 So, to be clear, Ace does not like MTG. Got it. Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (RIvkX) He's not into skanks... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (FtULh) 42 /sock Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (cWLG3) 43 28 Don't call me Georgia. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (UjdFS) Not a fan of Boz Scaggs? Or Allie McBeal? Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (xcxpd) 44 A one vote win would be a win, all his votes in congress will count, gotta take it one day at a time. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (n5tGW) 45 I know this makes me some kind of film heathen but I didn't get Blow Out. I like De Palma and all but it was just kind of meh to me. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (JrZbt) 46 Fuller looks odd. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (3ek7K) 47 Fuller looks totally sketchy, won’t last 4 terms Posted by: Accomack at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (77Bgk) 48 And he doesn't believe that Jews control the weather with Space Lasers...* Open your eyes, sheeple!!! Posted by: Candace Owens at April 08, 2026 03:41 PM (JCZqz) 49 >>>He kinda looks like he could star in American Psycho 2. they already made that. With Mila Kunis. there's a reason you haven't heard of it Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:41 PM (1wjle) 50 This post is missing something. No non-excuse! Posted by: No Name Today at April 08, 2026 03:41 PM (8mulE) 51 The dems will ask her back for their next impeachment try. Posted by: From the 70s at April 08, 2026 03:41 PM (NFX2v) 52 Travolta as Michael the archangel is a favorite. Posted by: kingsman at April 08, 2026 03:41 PM (ehY6c) 53 to make upshit. Posted by: fourseasons I prefer downshit to upshit. You don't want that stuff floating in the air like on the Artemis capsule. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 03:41 PM (77rzZ) 54 the guy has cheekbones. that doesn't make him gay. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:41 PM (1wjle) 55 Lol Bulg Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:41 PM (3ek7K) 56 So are we just gonna not talk about that missing thread? This is just like those two weeks when my mom moved out, and then one morning there she was baking cookies. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (zAO6l) 57 24 i worked with a guy named clayton long ago. i hope this one isn't a shit like the one i worked with Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (CWTWj) The Clayton I worked with was a lefty greenie twat. He wasn't above lying to clients in order to push his nonsense agenda. Something of a crybully. And certainly a beta. Let's hope this fellow rises above his name. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (DwqWV) 58 Not into dudes, but if I were, I'd let him drink from my hose. He could saddle me up and ride me like a bronco. But I'm not into dudes. Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (qwx/I) 59 Why are we already hating on Fuller? A prosecutor and military guy probably means at least he believes in law and order, and that's a step up from half the party... Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (tOcjL) 60 Isn't 'Blow Out' a remake or homage of 'The Conversation'? Or am I confusing it with 'Blow Up'? Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (xcxpd) 61 1.2 million sq. foot tp warehouse. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:39 PM (XQJDW) No shit? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (utfVc) 62 Apparently the Madison Cornbread thread did not age well. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (2GVsD) 63 Completely shallow I admit, but wow has that guy got some cheekbones. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (lFFaq) 64 59 Why are we already hating on Fuller? A prosecutor and military guy probably means at least he believes in law and order, and that's a step up from half the party... Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (tOcjL) he just looks weird, kinda sus to me. I'm shallow. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:43 PM (xcxpd) 65 Ace was doing yoga and enjoying the varnish fumes. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 03:43 PM (n17eQ) 66 There's also the WI supreme court race, the left is really crowing about that one. IDK, special elections are stupid and about as predictive as trial by combat. However, I do think Republicans really need a better message other than "I support Trump" to counter the Dems message of "I hate Trump." And no, the evergreen prescriptions of the GOPe of "what the Dems want, just a little slower" is not the answer. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 08, 2026 03:43 PM (HXT0k) 67 We elected the Fuller brush salesman to Congress? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:43 PM (2GVsD) 68 He looks like he is into granny porn. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:43 PM (JrZbt) 69 >>>MTG, Tucker, Candace. People who were, at least, not unreasonable suddenly become Mayor of Nut City. Why? Maybe they had no principles in the first place. I believe they are just attention-seekers and provocateurs. They say provocative things for the attention and rewards. It was provocative to support Trump. Now it's provocative to say that Hitler was the hero of WWII and that Trump is the antichrist. No, they don't have principles. They're psychopaths. They're just looking for the next person to manipulate. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:43 PM (1wjle) 70 He must be Indian. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (XQJDW) 71 36 MTG, Tucker, Candace. People who were, at least, not unreasonable suddenly become Mayor of Nut City. Why? Maybe they had no principles in the first place. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 03:40 PM (tgvbd) People who thought they were smarter than they really are, and crave attention like a crack whore craves her next hit. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (DwqWV) 72 61 1.2 million sq. foot tp warehouse. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:39 PM (XQJDW) ------------ How high can you stack shit paper? Cubic Feet for the win. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (n17eQ) 73 I went to school with a Clayton. He was a high-functioning brutish retard who accidentally shot a fellow student a year or so before I got there. Everyone called him "Clint Clayton" and would make "Pyaaung!" sounds when his back was turned. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (gKWVE) 74 I think Clayton looks fine. I am the final judge of these issues, by the way. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (WONhk) 75 he just looks weird, kinda sus to me. I'm shallow. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards His picture above gives off "Blue Steel" vibes lol Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (JCZqz) 76 His website has better pics... https://clayfullerforgeorgia.com/ Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (tOcjL) 77 Completely shallow I admit, but wow has that guy got some cheekbones. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette I bet his crab chowder recipe is to die for. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (77rzZ) 78 Ace is correct, again. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (3ek7K) 79 Does this mean MTG will go away and live her skanky life off screen? Please! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (WONhk) 80 Marjorie Taylor Greene looks like an MMA fighter with an 0-10 record. Too many superman punches to the brain. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (Fbc0I) 81 He looks like Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (IifOV) 82 >> 10 Clayton appears to be the kinda guy who takes 'looksmaxing' WAY too seriously. I'll bet he has some skeletons in his closet, hint hint. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd) Fight the Gay Race Communist Hollywood demoralization. Sometimes normal-looking is normal-being, and in fact it's a lot more likely than weird-looking hiding a clean and vanilla life. The needs of dramatic storytelling dovetail with the needs of communist propaganda, so they really can't help it. But we can choose to see their incentives and question their habits of mind. Posted by: SciVo at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (Sy6m/) 83 74 I think Clayton looks fine. I am the final judge of these issues, by the way. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (WONhk) I don't see anything weird either... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (FtULh) 84 Looking at it, he's definitely better with a slight to full side view on his face... Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (tOcjL) 85 and what a jawline! Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (UjdFS) 86 email, mayor pete with the guy who lost to clayton: In Georgia, I drove out to Rome in the northwest corner of the state to support Shawn Harris - and what stood out was the sense of momentum in a place many would overlook. Shawn is a veteran and a cattle producer who came home to serve his community, and what I saw on the ground was a coalition coming together around service-oriented leadership - people willing to engage, commit, and build something that doesn’t always fit neatly into the usual political categories. Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (CWTWj) 87 Clayton is a bunch of steps up to look at than potato nose trashy skank. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat He wears the 'roids better. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (/lPRQ) 88 Ace I think you got it right. They get high off a hit of the happy brain chemicals when they are noticed. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (2GVsD) 89 67 We elected the Fuller brush salesman to Congress? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:43 PM (2GVsD) --- I don't see the resemblance yo Red Skelton. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (cWLG3) 90 >>>60 Isn't 'Blow Out' a remake or homage of 'The Conversation'? Or am I confusing it with 'Blow Up'? not a remake of either, but it is inspired a bit by both. I never saw Blow Up but I assume it's about a piece of media -- a photograph? -- that turns out to have sinister implications, right? Blow Out is about this audio recording a movie sound designer makes when he's out collecting natural sounds for a film. He witnesses a car blow out and subsequent death of its driver, a presidential candidate, and reviews the tape and hears a gunshot preceding the blow out. So it is like those other movies in that a piece of media keeps being revisited for clues. But it's not very close to the Conversation at all. Maybe the nihilistic tone but that was common in that era. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (1wjle) 91 The Democrats will narrow their margin of defeat across the nation, dealing a worrying blow to the newly elected Republicans. Posted by: Oglebay at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (GPa4z) 92 I lived in a town named Clayton. Everyone looked like him, lol. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (3ek7K) 93 Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (tOcjL) You were just doing research. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (JrZbt) 94 MTG is a bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (IifOV) 95 Conspiracy Theory time: I still think MTG was compromised by blackmail. Just before she announced her departure, she was giving a press conference down in Georgia, and she started it by saying something like, "If they say my death was suicide, it wasn't suicide." A total non-sequitur that she didn't elaborate on, and had nothing to do with the press conference. Epstein was not the topic of that particular press conference. It had something to do with Georgia. She announced her departure weeks later. I think someone had something really compromising on her, and rather than stay in congress responding to her puppetmasters, she just waited out her benefit deadline and left. That's not to say she isn't a self-serving, self-important idiot. I just think there is a hell of a lot of this blackmail stuff going on in all facets of Washingtong, including the Supreme Court (especially there). Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (dIske) 96 Well. He has quite the jawline. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (Wmg4n) 97 he just looks weird, kinda sus to me. I'm shallow. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards His picture above gives off "Blue Steel" vibes lol Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (JCZqz) ==== That sounds like the kind of sht girls say to each other during lunch at high school. Posted by: mrp at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (rj6Yv) 98 I am the final judge of these issues, by the way. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (WONhk) Everyone is entitled to my opinion. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (DwqWV) 99 Mazola. Corn Goodness. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (XQJDW) 100 19 isn't a cattle producer just a cow? Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM Yes and a person that raises cattle is called a cattleman. Posted by: CaliGirl at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (CgGlp) 101 Clayton appears to be the kinda guy who takes 'looksmaxing' WAY too seriously. I'll bet he has some skeletons in his closet, hint hint. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd) He was a JAG, of course he has skeletons in his closet, hint hint. Whether the pol is on the right or the left, I'm not big on putting reservist JAGs in elected office. Being an active duty JAG is bad enough, but at least they sacrificed a few years out of their life to active duty. Reservists in other MOSs where you actually have to get your hands dirty are okay, but when combined with being a JAG? Ugh. Fucking ticket-punchers Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (y9nCu) 102 I'm just sayin'....David French was a JAG guy too. We'll see, I could be way off and he'll be a shining star. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (xcxpd) 103 I've looked at a few of these special elections and in each case the dems are getting close to the normal year election results. Its fraud. Straight up in your face fraud. But since the GOPe isn't doing anything about it I expect we are going to see a high fake Dem turn out in the main elections this year as well. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm) 104 Geodesic domes for all! Posted by: Rep. Fuller at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (WbWbV) 105 87 Clayton is a bunch of steps up to look at than potato nose trashy skank. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat He wears the 'roids better. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (/lPRQ) --- He doesn't need custom frames for his glasses so he can see through them either. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (cWLG3) 106 Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (1wjle) Ah nihilistic with a political angle, no wonder it didn't grab me Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (JrZbt) 107 https://youtu.be/-eH0xZvGtyA Tom Luongo trying to make sense of Iran. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (kvcnI) 108 Isn't 'Blow Out' a remake or homage of 'The Conversation'? Or am I confusing it with 'Blow Up'? -- No offense to anyone who liked it, but as highly rated as The Conversation is, I thought it was extremely* boring. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (qBdHI) 109 36 MTG, Tucker, Candace. People who were, at least, not unreasonable suddenly become Mayor of Nut City. Why? Maybe they had no principles in the first place. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh Correct. But they stepped up when no one else did, for the most part. "Whatever port in the storm," same as the Democrats. We let it bother us. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 03:48 PM (NFX2v) 110 I just think there is a hell of a lot of this blackmail stuff going on in all facets of Washingtong, including the Supreme Court (especially there). Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (dIske) I suspect that Congresscritters have many, many skeletons. The people that go through getting elected are that type. Not all, but so many it's hard to separate them. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:48 PM (DwqWV) 111 From May to November 2024, Clay was deployed as the legal advisor to the Combined Air Operations Center at Shaw Air Force Base and Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar supporting U.S. Central Command operations in the Middle East and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal. Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 03:48 PM (tOcjL) 112 Does this mean MTG will go away and live her skanky life off screen? Please! She'll be the next token "conservative" on The View. Posted by: Oddbob at April 08, 2026 03:48 PM (vTZFs) 113 I see I am not the first to notice. How old is he before this feels weird? Lol. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 03:48 PM (Wmg4n) 114 Cheekbones? I have cheekbones. It's because of my Native American heritage. I bet the newly elected congressman is too. Posted by: Faucahontus Warren at April 08, 2026 03:48 PM (ZhdAT) 115 Ugh. Fucking ticket-punchers Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (y9nCu) ___________ Hey! Posted by: LBJ's Silver Star at April 08, 2026 03:48 PM (tgvbd) 116 >>Ah nihilistic with a political angle, no wonder it didn't grab me nihilistic but the hero himself is on the side of right. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (1wjle) 117 ITCur, wasn't a prominent and excellent governor a reservist JAG? Posted by: rhomboid at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (U/Byj) 118 90 >>>60 Isn't 'Blow Out' a remake or homage of 'The Conversation'? Or am I confusing it with 'Blow Up'? not a remake of either, but it is inspired a bit by both. I never saw Blow Up but I assume it's about a piece of media -- a photograph? -- that turns out to have sinister implications, right? Blow Out is about this audio recording a movie sound designer makes when he's out collecting natural sounds for a film. He witnesses a car blow out and subsequent death of its driver, a presidential candidate, and reviews the tape and hears a gunshot preceding the blow out. So it is like those other movies in that a piece of media keeps being revisited for clues. But it's not very close to the Conversation at all. Maybe the nihilistic tone but that was common in that era. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (1wjle) Thanks. Those all jumble together in my head. I know The Conversation has Gene Hackman and I know Depalma did Blow Out but after that....it gets fuzzy. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (xcxpd) 119 The GOP has a never ending stream of turncoats and full-on traitors to the party. Why does it seem the Democrats don't have to deal with that? Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (qBdHI) 120 Nova, Excellent Maybe his look is determination. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (3ek7K) 121 82 Fight the Gay Race Communist Hollywood demoralization. Sometimes normal-looking is normal-being, and in fact it's a lot more likely than weird-looking hiding a clean and vanilla life. The needs of dramatic storytelling dovetail with the needs of communist propaganda, so they really can't help it. But we can choose to see their incentives and question their habits of mind. Posted by: SciVo at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (Sy6m/) "Looksmaxxers" are generally neither Smart nor Military, and therefore would not be Horde-approved. Posted by: XTC at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (uEmCf) 122 I am wary of Georgia Republicans. Hope this guy produces. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (IifOV) 123 guardians hammering the royals grand slam Posted by: go tribe at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (anL5R) 124 Clayton has the jaw line of Skeletor - and his poop is used as currency in certain GA counties... Posted by: Boswell at April 08, 2026 03:50 PM (V7158) 125 What job does MTG currently have? Is she employed anywhere? Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 03:50 PM (GD0B3) 126 14 Screw her. Only with Chuck Schumer's. Posted by: Anna Puma ---------- It'd be like screwing an animatron. Chicks that get high on uppers aren't worth the trouble. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 03:50 PM (m24qK) 127 Is Blow Out the new Riptide? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:50 PM (zZu0s) 128 I am wary of Georgia Republicans. Hope this guy produces. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (IifOV) At least he looks like he can do some fist fighting, which is an improvement on most congressmen. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:50 PM (8avO+) 129 104 Geodesic domes for all! Posted by: Rep. Fuller at April 08, 2026 03:47 PM (WbWbV) Cute! I had Bucky's partner, James Fitzgibbon, for a professor during my grad school days. He had the most amazingly huge rendering of a city under a geodesic that I had ever seen, plastered on the wall of his office, which had 14 foot ceilings, so the drawing would fit. He was also a great deal of fun and I learned more from him that the rest of the school combined. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:50 PM (DwqWV) 130 Some kind of baseball fight Braves Angels. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:51 PM (XQJDW) 131 re 90: 'blow out' was basically a version of 'blow up'. i saw 'the conversation' and maybe wasn't paying attention because i didn't get it. the thing about 'blow up' is you're not sure what he did see under a bush in a park Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 03:51 PM (CWTWj) 132 126 14 Screw her. Only with Chuck Schumer's. Posted by: Anna Puma ---------- It'd be like screwing an animatron. Chicks that get high on uppers aren't worth the trouble. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 03:50 PM (m24qK) Oh...they can be memorable. Like fucking a wet, hot jackhammer. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:51 PM (xcxpd) 133 122 I am wary of Georgia Republicans. Hope this guy produces. Posted by: Frank Barone When Kemp got re-elected I assumed inbreeding is still is a thing there. Note: I lived in rural GA for 12 years. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 03:51 PM (abIsI) 134 looks like he is into granny porn. Irene Ryan before Hillbillies? Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 08, 2026 03:51 PM (Kt19C) 135 123 guardians hammering the royals grand slam Posted by: go tribe at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (anL5R) _______________________ Guardians? What's they're real name? Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 03:52 PM (dIske) 136 “doesn’t have blood coming out of his……” Oh I know! Out of his eyes like a horned toad! (isn’t it horned toads or as I preferred to call them as a kid “horny toads” didn’t they bleed out of their eyes? Posted by: JROD at April 08, 2026 03:52 PM (PLgLU) 137 This district was never in play for Dems, but if the results at 92% stand, this went from a +30R to only a +15R district in under 2 years. That's at least something. A +15 point gain with Democrats doing absolutely no campaigning at the national level. What would the results have been if Democrats actually campaigned like Republicans do? Who is still voting Republican? Our country is doomed. I know this district is a GOP stronghold, but still. Rural areas are told democrats want everyone to be lgbtq+. They’re told they want all their kids to be trans. They’re told they’re going to take their guns. Conservative news still pretends democrats only care about billionaires and republicans love small business and working class. They’re told democrats want to raise their taxes. They’re told democrats want to outlaw Christianity. The republicans propaganda machine is very effective. The death of Rush has been a HUGE WIN for the country. It’s definitely not perfect, but as these wackos like Rush and Kirk are no longer being heard, more people are waking up daily. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 08, 2026 03:52 PM (JCZqz) 138 At least he looks like he can do some fist fighting, which is an improvement on most congressmen. Posted by: Oldcat Been keeping up with the DIGNIDAD Act? Our Republican representatives are sure giving us the fisting. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 03:52 PM (gKWVE) 139 Clayton has the jaw line of Skeletor - and his poop is used as currency in certain GA counties... I...have no response to that. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 03:52 PM (Riz8t) 140 No offense to anyone who liked it, but as highly rated as The Conversation is, I thought it was extremely boring. Posted by: Lady in Black Is that the one with Hackman? It was tedious. They seem to have tried to build tension, but failed. There is no emotional tie to the characters and I feel like they needed 20 minutes more run time and found it on the cutting room floor. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 03:52 PM (zAO6l) 141 125 What job does MTG currently have? Is she employed anywhere? Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 03:50 PM She doesn’t need one. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 03:52 PM (Wmg4n) 142 Who would hurt you more with a leg lock, MTG or Lauren Boebert? Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 03:52 PM (abIsI) 143 "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" is sorta similar in that it's a memory of a witnessed murder that keeps being revisited. Not media but a memory .Dario Argento. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:53 PM (1wjle) 144 Guardians? What's they're real name? ------------- The Indians. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 03:53 PM (n17eQ) 145 Gotta say that so far, the current "ceasefire" is MY kinda ceasefire. The kind with lots and lots of bombing and attacks, confusion, acrimonious exchanges, etc. In an epochal development, looks like at least one Gulf Arab state has finally started ordering from the adult menu. UAE bombing Iranian oil facilities (after the ceasefire went into effect). Iran and Iz'rl hit each other after the ceasefire began. We whacked some IRGC proxy militia dipshits in Baghdad. They in turn launched a Grad rocket at our airport facilities, and par for the course the thing fell short and killed some locals. Iz'rl hit 100 targets in 10 minutes in Lebanon, looks like intended to be a serious decapitation strike on remaining Hezbollah leadership. Biggest such thing since Grip Beeper. Tehran writhes and rages about it, helplessly. Posted by: rhomboid at April 08, 2026 03:53 PM (U/Byj) 146 John Cazale's (Fredo) feature film bio is one of the most incredible things ever. Literally: The Godfather The Conversation The Godfather Part II Dog Day Afternoon The Deer Hunter And that's it. Regardless of what you think of those movies individually, that is some ledger. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:53 PM (JrZbt) 147 75 he just looks weird, kinda sus to me. I'm shallow. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards I think it's the slight head tilt to my left. And the comb lines through the hair. Oh CNN - "Trump may discuss US exit from Nato as he talks with its' chief." Are they trying to get me excited. And everyone seems subdued today. They need more Trump threats to jazz them up. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:53 PM (Sco7b) 148 I'll think kindly of MTG if she gets ass cancer and can't collect on that pension. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 03:53 PM (yAteE) 149 >>>No offense to anyone who liked it, but as highly rated as The Conversation is, I thought it was extremely boring. Posted by: Lady in Black Is that the one with Hackman? It was tedious. They seem to have tried to build tension, but failed. There is no emotional tie to the characters and I feel like they needed 20 minutes more run time and found it on the cutting room floor. ... gotta agree but I did like how the conversation shape-shifted twice as you heard more and more. The new context completely changed all the words you previously heard. but... pretty damn boring and drab. Deliberately drab. But still drab. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (1wjle) 150 At least he looks like he can do some fist fighting, which is an improvement on most congressmen. Posted by: Oldcat I dunno. Marine > Army > Navy > Air Force > Space Force Posted by: Military Moron at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (JCZqz) 151 123 guardians hammering the royals grand slam Posted by: go tribe at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (anL5R) _______________________ Guardians? What's they're real name? Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 03:52 PM (dIske) Indians Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (8avO+) 152 Checkbones are teh awesome! Posted by: Big Buccal Fat Removal at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (eOFY+) 153 ITCur, wasn't a prominent and excellent governor a reservist JAG? Posted by: rhomboid at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (U/Byj) I'll concede the fact that there can be the exception that proves the rule. Dog moves in mysterious ways. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (y9nCu) 154 Irene Ryan wasn't bad looking when she was young. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ) 155 Up until last week I was reading multiple articles claiming that her seat would flip blue by double digits because Trump was so unpopular. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (0N4FZ) 156 But it's not very close to the Conversation at all. Maybe the nihilistic tone but that was common in that era. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (1wjle) Thanks. Those all jumble together in my head. I know The Conversation has Gene Hackman and I know Depalma did Blow Out but after that....it gets fuzzy. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (xcxpd) ======= I haven't seen "Blowout" but I have watched "Enemy of the State". Similar plot? Posted by: mrp at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (rj6Yv) 157 I dunno. Marine > Army > Navy > Air Force > Space Force Posted by: Military Moron at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (JCZqz) Space Force holds the high ground. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (8avO+) 158 Well. He has quite the jawline. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (Wmg4n) Definitely! I'd considered mentioning that in my post as well. When Son was a bit younger his cheekbones were so high and prominent that he looked Slavic, so I notice such things. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (lFFaq) 159 His picture above gives off "Blue Steel" vibes lol Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 08, 2026 03:44 PM (JCZqz) Blue Steel? Nice callback. Jamie Lee Curtis is an absolute left wing nut now but Ron Silver was a great villain in that movie. Saw that one in the theaters. After Trading Places, i always went to see her movies back then. Posted by: Nelly at April 08, 2026 03:55 PM (7gpcF) 160 >>>I haven't seen "Blowout" but I have watched "Enemy of the State". Similar plot? not really, except for the theme of paranoia and sinister forces being abroad in the world Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:55 PM (1wjle) 161 I'll just sit over here with Sidney, Jugdish, and Clayton. Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos at April 08, 2026 03:55 PM (MABMQ) 162 The Conversation is indeed rather boring. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 03:55 PM (YwEeS) 163 143 "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" is sorta similar in that it's a memory of a witnessed murder that keeps being revisited. Not media but a memory .Dario Argento. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:53 PM (1wjle) Dario Argento movies are usually worth seeing, not always good but usually entertaining. Like Mario Bava....hat tip to TJM for featuring him this year. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:55 PM (xcxpd) 164 Cheekbones? Might be Hungarian too. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 03:55 PM (tgvbd) 165 1.2 million sq. foot tp warehouse. Posted by: Boss Moss First thought on the TP warehouse fire - They ran out of water again. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 03:55 PM (/lPRQ) 166 FWIW, my favorite Travolta was Broken Arrow. I think that was his first Baddie role? Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at April 08, 2026 03:55 PM (hzEuy) 167 We need another Skank a thon. There seems to be a pretty good lineup. Clayton, make sure you burn the toilet seats and chairs. Posted by: Vengeance at April 08, 2026 03:56 PM (u/66v) 168 guardians hammering the royals grand slam Posted by: go tribe at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (anL5R) _______________________ Guardians? What's they're real name? --- Central Division Winners. Posted by: Heh at April 08, 2026 03:56 PM (anL5R) 169 "They’re told they want all their kids to be trans. They’re told they’re going to take their guns. Conservative news still pretends democrats only care about billionaires and republicans love small business and working class. They’re told democrats want to raise their taxes. They’re told democrats want to outlaw Christianity." Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 08, 2026 03:52 PM (JCZqz) ----- Not sure what they've "been told" yhat isn't correct, except for the outlawing of Christianity bit. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:56 PM (cWLG3) 170 Marine > Army > Navy > Air Force > Space Force Posted by: Military Moron ....... Space Force might do better if their toilets worked. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:56 PM (UjdFS) 171 Cheekbones? Might be Hungarian too. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh I can tell that he was born...HUNGARIAN! Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 03:56 PM (77rzZ) 172 Oh CNN - "Trump may discuss US exit from Nato as he talks with its' chief." Are they trying to get me excited. And everyone seems subdued today. They need more Trump threats to jazz them up. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:53 PM (Sco7b) I doubt Trump will exit NATO, we need to watch those idiots and keep them out of trouble. I can see him cutting funding to match the feckless Euros. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:56 PM (8avO+) 173 damn it, now I wanna watch Blow Out, Blow Up and The Conversation...and I have enough on my plate as it is! Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 03:57 PM (xcxpd) 174 159 Funnily enough, Ron Silver was a left wing nut who flipped to our side. RIP Ron Silver Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 03:57 PM (YwEeS) 175 Can't figure out why Georgia Republicans are Rinos, hope this guy is MAGA Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 03:57 PM (Ia/+0) 176 travolta did this movie in the 90s with... Arye Gross? I think it was called The Americans. Travolta and gross are hip nightclub consultants who are brought to a tiny midwestern town to give it a more modern feeling for tourists. Twist: They were secretly taken to a Potemkin Village in Russia used to train Russian agents to be spies in America. They're really being asked to modernize the town so that the spies will blend in better in the real america. I remember it being pretty decent! Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 03:57 PM (1wjle) 177 I felt that whole genre was a bad attempt at getting the vibe from Three Days of the Condor -- the hidden world revealed accidentally to protagonist, and revealed to viewer as it goes along. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 03:58 PM (zAO6l) 178 Not sure what they've "been told" yhat isn't correct, except for the outlawing of Christianity bit. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:56 PM (cWLG3) well they just want to kill Christians. It's kinda covered under that. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:58 PM (8avO+) 179 I doubt Trump will exit NATO, we need to watch those idiots and keep them out of trouble. I can see him cutting funding to match the feckless Euros. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:56 PM (8avO+) ___________ Send all the gays, trannies and Obama generals there. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 03:59 PM (tgvbd) 180 Travolta. Swordfish and Michael Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 03:59 PM (yAteE) 181 Can't have Indians, but Braves are fine. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:59 PM (XQJDW) 182 176 There is a great Mission Impossible episode set in such a town( the Soviets apparently really did this). It is a season 1 episode which tv execs kept out of reruns for years because everyone knew Peter Graves and forgot the first guy. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 03:59 PM (YwEeS) 183 I especially enjoyed Travolta's sensitive and nuanced performance in Battlefield Earth. Posted by: Somebody, somewhere in a basement at April 08, 2026 03:59 PM (eOFY+) 184 Read any DemSoc post. Those people are absolutely bloodthirsty. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (tgvbd) 185 I met Travolta. He’s an extremely gracious and nice person. Unfortunately it was in Texas when his wife was going for treatment. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (d9i2R) 186 Isn't Ontario in Canada? Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (XQJDW) 187 >>>There is a great Mission Impossible episode set in such a town( the Soviets apparently really did this). It is a season 1 episode which tv execs kept out of reruns for years because everyone knew Peter Graves and forgot the first guy. I must have seen that. I forget the details> I haven't seen season one in a while (because I prefer Graves)> Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (1wjle) 188 Send all the gays, trannies and Obama generals there. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 03:59 PM (tgvbd) Better to send Marine drill instructors to scare the REMFs there to death. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (8avO+) 189 TOUSI is up . Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (kvcnI) 190 I actually read Battlefield Earth( it was not good either) long before the movie came out. Never bothered to watch the movie. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (YwEeS) 191 181 Can't have Indians, but Braves are fine. ---------------- The Braves moved out of Atlanta so they can have free speech. The Indians got scalped by the Black Lesbian Mayors as did the Redskins. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (n17eQ) 192 175 Can't figure out why Georgia Republicans are Rinos, hope this guy is MAGA Posted by: Skip It's amazing how a free tin of Skoal and few jugs will influence the rural peoples. Also, fiery speeches with lots of arm movement at the local VFW. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 04:01 PM (abIsI) 193 187 I prefer Graves too but there are a few bangers in season 1. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:01 PM (YwEeS) 194 193 I know season one has that episode with the seance where the show kind of accepts that the supernatural is real in the universe the show is set in. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (1wjle) 195 Tousi is on Goldies Rumble for background play. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (XQJDW) 196 Not sure what they've "been told" yhat isn't correct, except for the outlawing of Christianity bit. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:56 PM (cWLG3) only the Christianity that believes in Christ. All the others get a free pass. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (rbvCR) 197 I actually read Battlefield Earth( it was not good either) long before the movie came out. Never bothered to watch the movie. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (YwEeS) It is actually pretty funny if you have a taste for horrible acting and plenty of scenery chewing. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (8avO+) 198 No love for Battlefield Earth? Posted by: Fat Travolta at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (UjdFS) 199 The Poison Rose. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (d9i2R) 200 175 Can't figure out why Georgia Republicans are Rinos, hope this guy is MAGA Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 03:57 PM (Ia/+0) It’s an interesting area with a lot of old money and people who like to say they are Southern Democrats, but I am not entirely convinced all who say that know what they are really saying. I actually love Alpharetta, it’s a very cute area, but it’s Fulton County and while not Atlanta blue, it’s pretty purple. I am going to be a little sad when we sell the Alpharetta house. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (Wmg4n) 201 Indians Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (8avO+) _______________________ Good grief. How is that offensive? If anything, it is honorific. It's a good thing I don't have $Billions sitting around. I'd buy a sports team and name it the most offensive double entendre thing I could think of. Cleveland Steamers (because of, you know, steam engines.. wink wink) Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (dIske) 202 I actually read Battlefield Earth( it was not good either) long before the movie came out. Never bothered to watch the movie. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (YwEeS) ---- I went to see the movie out of morbid curiosity about how bad it was going to be. The reality was far, far worse than any expectation. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (ESVrU) 203 Isn't Ontario in Canada? Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (XQJDW) There is one in Oregon, too. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 04:03 PM (rbvCR) 204 He only won by 28 points !!!!!!!!!! BLUE WAVE COMING IN NOVEMBER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT ................... Posted by: Jackson K. at April 08, 2026 04:03 PM (T6FAi) 205 >>>I went to see the movie out of morbid curiosity about how bad it was going to be. hashtag #MeToo. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:03 PM (1wjle) 206 I especially enjoyed Travolta's sensitive and nuanced performance in Battlefield Earth. Posted by: Somebody, somewhere in a basement ....... I loved what he did with his hair. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 04:03 PM (UjdFS) 207 Horshack was my favorite sweathog. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ) 208 197 Iirc they use it to manipulate abad guy who is a believer but I could be wrong. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:03 PM (YwEeS) 209 The best part of "Blow Up" is the Yardbirds playing live in a nightclub. It was that brief period when both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were in the band. Great performance. Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (0bjKf) 210 They’re told they want all their kids to be trans. They’re told they’re going to take their guns ----------------------- Canada has started confiscating guns. https://is.gd/AcArnY Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (gwIrw) 211 Peckeronie, the San Francisco treat. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (m24qK) 212 197 I actually read Battlefield Earth( it was not good either) long before the movie came out. Never bothered to watch the movie. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (YwEeS) It is actually pretty funny if you have a taste for horrible acting and plenty of scenery chewing. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (8avO+) --- Space Ice did a great review of it on his youtube channel. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (cWLG3) 213 I know season one has that episode with the seance where the show kind of accepts that the supernatural is real in the universe the show is set in. == Much like the real CIA. Posted by: remote viewer # 227 at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (anL5R) 214 Cheekbones? Might be Hungarian too. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh I can tell that he was born...HUNGARIAN! Posted by: Bulg It's the faint aroma of paprika and palinka Posted by: Miklos, a mere Magyar at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (MABMQ) 215 >>>I went to see the movie out of morbid curiosity about how bad it was going to be. hashtag #MeToo. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:03 PM (1wjle) ---- It's the same morbid curiosity that drove me to see The Rise of Skywalker in the theater. It's a tossup between which movie is worse. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (ESVrU) 216 Iran is attacking a bunch of neighboring countries. Never would have seen that coming. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 04:05 PM (/lPRQ) 217 119 The GOP has a never ending stream of turncoats and full-on traitors to the party. Why does it seem the Democrats don't have to deal with that? Because the Democraps have already been processed by The Machine upon arrival. Some independent thinkers arrive in DC unprocessed and then The Machine sayeth "We do this the easy way or we do this the hard way." Rush used to talk about this. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 08, 2026 04:05 PM (DgMqy) 218 IRGC have "closed" strait of hormuz Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 04:05 PM (kvcnI) 219 You know, I'm not so bad. Just don't stick your willy in me until I cool down a bit. Posted by: Cooked Potato at April 08, 2026 04:05 PM (/1l9x) 220 I saw Stank-Ass Seat open for Toxic Bloody Bone Flux at The Forge last year. Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (TbhYO) 221 "five-year congressional pension " What the literal FUCK?? Posted by: Max Power at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (q177U) 222 It's the faint aroma of paprika and palinka Posted by: Miklos, a mere Magyar at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (MABMQ) I love Palinka music! It is like Cumbia found a second home in Central Europe Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (rbvCR) 223 Indians Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:54 PM (8avO+) _______________________ Good grief. How is that offensive? If anything, it is honorific. It's a good thing I don't have $Billions sitting around. I'd buy a sports team and name it the most offensive double entendre thing I could think of. Cleveland Steamers (because of, you know, steam engines.. wink wink) Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 04:02 PM (dIske) It was actually renamed for a well known Cleveland player who had recently died of Tuberculosis, Lou Sockalexis. The previous team nickname was the Naps, after Nap Lajoie, a star player. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (8avO+) 224 I actually read Battlefield Earth( it was not good either) long before the movie came out. Never bothered to watch the movie. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:00 PM (YwEeS) ---- I went to see the movie out of morbid curiosity about how bad it was going to be. The reality was far, far worse than any expectation. --- It wasn't Howard the Duck bad, but it was not good at all. It was almost as good as Prometheus. Posted by: Instigator at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (anL5R) 225 The death of Rush has been a HUGE WIN for the country. It’s definitely not perfect, but as these wackos like Rush and Kirk are no longer being heard, more people are waking up daily. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions ------------ No comments on this? What a bunch of ghouls. Imagine a world view based on how great it is that people who talk and debate on the other side are the problem. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (zAO6l) 226 That dude is gay by the way. Posted by: Max Power at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (q177U) 227 Max, They are special. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (3ek7K) 228 218 IRGC have "closed" strait of hormuz Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April Wait, the leaders of Iran lied to buy time? Shocked. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (Wmg4n) 229 221 Amazing what you can vote for yourself when you have control of the budget... Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (YwEeS) 230 It was actually renamed for a well known Cleveland player who had recently died of Tuberculosis, Lou Sockalexis. The previous team nickname was the Naps, after Nap Lajoie, a star player. ----------- Naps sounds racist. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 04:07 PM (n17eQ) 231 Cooked potatoes properly mashed can be an effective communication tool in a troubled marriage. Posted by: Katie Porter at April 08, 2026 04:07 PM (eOFY+) 232 I met Travolta. He’s an extremely gracious and nice person. Unfortunately it was in Texas when his wife was going for treatment. == I always got the impression that if I were to meet him, he would be exactly as you describe. He just seems like a nice guy, and not in a fake way. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 04:07 PM (qBdHI) 233 210 They’re told they want all their kids to be trans. They’re told they’re going to take their guns ----------------------- Canada has started confiscating guns. https://is.gd/AcArnY Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (gwIrw) I believe that's called a declaration of war Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 04:07 PM (xcxpd) 234 Weird. I’m looking at the real time map. It doesn’t look closed. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 04:07 PM (d9i2R) 235 205 >>>I went to see the movie out of morbid curiosity about how bad it was going to be. hashtag #MeToo. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 04:03 PM (1wjle) ________________________ There's a comedy coming out in November that I'm looking forward to. Sam Rockwell, John Malcovich, and Steve Buscemi.... The movie is "Wild Horse Nine". Directed by the same guy that did In Bruges, and Three Billboards (both of which I enjoyed). Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 04:07 PM (dIske) 236 Straits are closed, Moose out front should have told you. Iran Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:08 PM (YwEeS) 237 It was actually renamed for a well known Cleveland player who had recently died of Tuberculosis, Lou Sockalexis. The previous team nickname was the Naps, after Nap Lajoie, a star player. ----------- Naps sounds racist. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 04:07 PM (n17eQ) Toddlers would agree with that. Fight the mama tyranny! Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:09 PM (8avO+) 238 "I doubt Trump will exit NATO..." I think we should exit NATO. It was originally to protect European countries from the USSR. Now, the USSR is gone and there is no reason to protect Islamic countries. Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at April 08, 2026 04:09 PM (Vpqw1) 239 I love Palinka music! It is like Cumbia found a second home in Central Europe Posted by: Kindltot Accordion- What does not kill me makes me stronger Posted by: Miklos, a musical Magyar at April 08, 2026 04:09 PM (MABMQ) 240 Do they use orange buouies to close a strait? Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 04:09 PM (XQJDW) 241 There's a comedy coming out in November that I'm looking forward to. Sam Rockwell, John Malcovich, and Steve Buscemi.... The movie is "Wild Horse Nine". Directed by the same guy that did In Bruges, and Three Billboards (both of which I enjoyed). Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 04:07 PM (dIske) Neato. I really like all three of those guys. i'll keep my eyes peeled. Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 08, 2026 04:09 PM (PSEDc) 242 RGC have "closed" strait of hormuz Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April Wait, the leaders of Iran lied to buy time? Shocked. === Naw. Prolly just means there aren't any leaders of Iran. Part of the reason you do this, is to see if they can lead. If they can't, you already have toppled the govt. Its just some dude's LARPing as leaders now. Posted by: reconnaissance by cease fire at April 08, 2026 04:09 PM (anL5R) 243 >> I always got the impression that if I were to meet him, he would be exactly as you describe. He just seems like a nice guy, and not in a fake way. Then you wouldn’t be disappointed. He wasn’t fake at all in the worst of circumstances. We talked a little bit about Jersey and some pedestrian subjects. Just a regular dude. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 04:09 PM (d9i2R) 244 Special elections are different. MTG won three elections while backing DJT. Dems didn't bother funding their candidate in 2024. The special election in GA House District 14 in 2026 was an open seat. The Dems had plenty of money to spend for advertising against a new-guy Republican. Plus 2024 was a presidential election year and GA was, according to the Dems, up for grabs, so MTG's numbers were inflated compared to the hard-core GOP turnout in the 2026 special election. Posted by: mrp at April 08, 2026 04:10 PM (rj6Yv) 245 IRGC have "closed" strait of hormuz Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April Wait, the leaders of Iran lied to buy time? Shocked. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (Wmg4n) buying 6 hours seems less than smart. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:10 PM (8avO+) 246 IRGC have "closed" strait of hormuz Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April Wait, the leaders of Iran lied to buy time? Shocked. Posted by: Piper ...... FedEx tracking says the nukes from N. Korea out for delivery. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS) 247 Can't figure out why Georgia Republicans are Rinos -------- $$$ Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 04:10 PM (JrZbt) 248 I doubt Trump will exit NATO, we need to watch those idiots and keep them out of trouble. I can see him cutting funding to match the feckless Euros. Posted by: Oldcat Hope he pulls a Trump.. Get them screaming mad and then unfund them. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 08, 2026 04:10 PM (So85e) 249 228 218 IRGC have "closed" strait of hormuz Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April Wait, the leaders of Iran lied to buy time? Shocked. Posted by: Piper I can't imagine buying a day or two is worth losing so much in the global propaganda war by being the one to break the terms of the ceasefire. Posted by: Military Moron at April 08, 2026 04:10 PM (JCZqz) 250 I had a crush on a girl in 8th grade, and she had a crush on Travolta -- the Vinnie Barbarino and SNF Travolta. Years later I drove past her house and saw a divorce yard sale. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 04:10 PM (zAO6l) 251 Naps sounds racist. Posted by: pudinhead siestas then Posted by: Miklos, just resting his eyes at April 08, 2026 04:11 PM (MABMQ) 252 I wonder if you could build a supertanker submarine. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 04:11 PM (XQJDW) 253 Accordion- What does not kill me makes me stronger Posted by: Miklos, a musical Magyar at April 08, 2026 04:09 PM (MABMQ) Eh, Vallenato, Cumbia, they have tended to blend together. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 04:11 PM (rbvCR) 254 Posted by: Miklos, a mere Magyar at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (MABMQ) Miklos, is it true that the "g" in "Magyar" is pronounced like a "d," so that the word is actually pronounced "Madyar?" It's spelled with a (Cyrillic) "d" in Russian, so I assume that reflects Hungarian pronunciation, but I'd like confirmation. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ) 255 Travolta like Tom Cruise seems like a good guy( although both are closeted gay) but the whole Scientology thing turns me off. And he was a very early member of that dubious "church". Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:11 PM (YwEeS) 256 Part of the reason you do this, is to see if they can lead. If they can't, you already have toppled the govt. Its just some dude's LARPing as leaders now. ---------------- Bingo. And you get a new target list. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 04:11 PM (n17eQ) 257 119 The GOP has a never ending stream of turncoats and full-on traitors to the party. Why does it seem the Democrats don't have to deal with that? The GOP has had weak and ineffective leadership for as long as I can remember. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 04:11 PM (abIsI) 258 255 Travolta like Tom Cruise seems like a good guy( although both are closeted gay) but the whole Scientology thing turns me off. And he was a very early member of that dubious "church". ----------- They must make real shitty closets in California. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 04:12 PM (n17eQ) 259 The Experts (1989 film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /The_Experts_(1989_film) Travolta / Arye Gross flic. Posted by: No Name Today at April 08, 2026 04:12 PM (8mulE) 260 I doubt Trump will exit NATO, we need to watch those idiots and keep them out of trouble. I can see him cutting funding to match the feckless Euros. Posted by: Oldcat Hope he pulls a Trump.. Get them screaming mad and then unfund them. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 08, 2026 04:10 PM (So85e) Just unfund them and send plenty of people who can be just as scathing in their comments about European fecklessness as Trump to do press conferences. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:12 PM (8avO+) 261 I can't imagine buying a day or two is worth losing so much in the global propaganda war by being the one to break the terms of the ceasefire. Posted by: Military Moron at April 08, 2026 04:10 PM (JCZqz) If the stakes are high enough and you drew a pair of threes to go along with the 10-J-K you pretty much have to bluff or fold. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 04:12 PM (rbvCR) 262 The death of Rush has been a HUGE WIN for the country. It’s definitely not perfect, but as these wackos like Rush and Kirk are no longer being heard, more people are waking up daily. -- Uh-huh. Rush has been dead for years before Trump was reelected (for the 3rd time, might I add). But if that makes these cretins feel better.... Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 04:12 PM (qBdHI) 263 Canada has started confiscating guns. https://is.gd/AcArnY Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 08, 2026 04:04 PM (gwIrw) OK, guys, put on your bibs. Our buffet awaits. -- Canadian polar bears. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:13 PM (77rzZ) 264 Democrat Shawn Harris was on Clay and Bucks show, and of course, of course, acted like he was gonna work with both sides, owned by no one...but, a few questions showed, he would still be the dems bitch Posted by: zigggggy at April 08, 2026 04:13 PM (EDeJ/) 265 Trump rolling out fresh tariff threats. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 04:13 PM (kvcnI) 266 WTF is Looksmaxxing? Is that some sort of Homo Mafia code? Garrett please chime in. Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 08, 2026 04:13 PM (wBaIH) 267 Oh I know The Experts because that hottie Travolta married gets naked in it iirc( the one who sadly died young) Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 04:13 PM (YwEeS) 268 Miklos, is it true that the "g" in "Magyar" is pronounced like a "d," so that the word is actually pronounced "Madyar?" It's spelled with a (Cyrillic) "d" in Russian, so I assume that reflects Hungarian pronunciation, but I'd like confirmation. Posted by: Bulg The "gy" is pronounced like "g" in George Posted by: Miklos, mudjar at April 08, 2026 04:13 PM (MABMQ) 269 I wonder if you could build a supertanker submarine. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 04:11 PM (XQJDW) Oil is kinda floaty. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:13 PM (8avO+) 270 IRGC have "closed" strait of hormuz Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April Wait, the leaders of Iran lied to buy time? Shocked. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (Wmg4n) Trump did say the only thing they were good at is negotiating, and bullshitted the world (and other presidents) for 47 years. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 04:14 PM (GD0B3) 271 Boasberg will overule. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 04:14 PM (XQJDW) 272 IRGC on IRGC violence starting up ... Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 04:14 PM (kvcnI) 273 Seven Psychopaths was good too Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 04:14 PM (JrZbt) 274 263 Canada has started confiscating guns. https://is.gd/AcArnY Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo Damn straight. Posted by: Jeanine Pirro at April 08, 2026 04:16 PM (abIsI) 275 The death of Rush has been a HUGE WIN for the country. It’s definitely not perfect, but as these wackos like Rush and Kirk are no longer being heard, more people are waking up daily. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions ------------ No comments on this? What a bunch of ghouls. Imagine a world view based on how great it is that people who talk and debate on the other side are the problem. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 04:06 PM (zAO6l) ===== Okay, here's my comment: Rush is in Heaven, LOLing his ass off that years after his departure from this world, his name and reputation still strike fear in the dark hearts of his opponents. Posted by: mrp at April 08, 2026 04:16 PM (rj6Yv) 276 Ace about covered this, writing brilliantly. MTG can now move on to her second career of appearing on The View and calling for a 25th Amendment removal of PDJT. Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 04:16 PM (d5KoL) 277 Eh, Vallenato, Cumbia, they have tended to blend together. Posted by: Kindltot checks current hash" the hips begin to sway* Posted by: Miklos, trying to dance while playing accordion at April 08, 2026 04:16 PM (MABMQ) 278 Hope he pulls a Trump.. Get them screaming mad and then unfund them. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 08, 2026 04:10 PM (So85e) Just unfund them and send plenty of people who can be just as scathing in their comments about European fecklessness as Trump to do press conferences. Posted by: Oldcat That's actually an interesting bit of Euro slight-of-hand they do. Some money goes directly to NATO HQ and administrative funding, while other money is spent on their actual, domestic militaries. Most European countries count the money that goes directly to NATO as part of their military spending to meet their national NATO defense spending goals. Posted by: Military Moron at April 08, 2026 04:16 PM (JCZqz) 279 >> WTF is Looksmaxxing? It involves hitting your face with a hammer to micro-fracture your cheek and jaw bones. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 04:16 PM (TLp3A) 280 The "gy" is pronounced like "g" in George Posted by: Miklos OK, that makes sense. In Russian, the "d" is followed by the letter representing the "zh" sound (the second "g" in "garage") and those two sounds together make a "J" or "soft g" sound phonetically. Thanks for clarifying. I wouldn't mind learning Hungarian sometime. The Uralic languages fascinate me, with all their cases. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:17 PM (77rzZ) 281 210 They’re told they want all their kids to be trans. They’re told they’re going to take their guns ----------------------- Canada has started confiscating guns. https://is.gd/AcArnY Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo ---- The whole world is going mad, it's infectious. Some like who have been exposed and survived without damage are resistant. Here, other parts of the US, parts of S. America, eastern Europe, Israel, Japan, parts of the Philippine area and possibly Russia are the remnant. We must resist and help those who are undamaged. The plague thus far is unthwarted. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 04:17 PM (m24qK) 282 >>Canada has started confiscating guns. I hope the barrels are hot when they finally get their hands on them. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 04:18 PM (TLp3A) 283 >> WTF is Looksmaxxing? Sounds gay. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 04:18 PM (abIsI) 284 He should never breathe free air again. That of in an 8 x 6 box. Update on the stabbing death of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska: A judge has ruled Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. “incapable to proceed” on the state first-degree murder for killing Iryna Zarutska. Judge has now ruled based on a capacity evaluation report from Central Regional Hospital. His public defender, Daniel Roberts, filed a motion in Mecklenburg Superior Court requesting to delay further proceedings including the Rule 24 hearing on seeking the death penalty for up to 180 days. Brown has a documented history of schizophrenia, refused medication, and at least 14 prior arrests including armed robbery for which he served prison time. He remains in federal custody. He faces a separate federal charge of committing an act of violence causing death on a mass transportation system, which carries a possible death penalty. Judge’s name has not yet been released. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 04:18 PM (hCUcO) 285 involves hitting your face with a hammer to micro-fracture your cheek and jaw bones. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 04:16 PM (TLp3A) Of course some people take it a little too far. Posted by: Joy Behar at April 08, 2026 04:18 PM (JrZbt) 286 we are steps toward the outlawing of Christianity, but they can't quite do it yet because they need all the kids raised on social media who attend church because that's what Good People do to fully embrace that the REAL Christian thing is to hate anyone who isn't a Democrat, and work mightily to ensure D ascendancy. Leftists have huge contempt for Christians, but they need their votes, and have a lot of them convinced that Jesus wants them to hate Trump. I think what started a lot of prep for that was the complete homogenization of "christian", with catholics and mormons and presbyterians and baptists and anglicans and so on all lumped together in a generic category. And the social media christians are fine with that, because the cool kids smile when they agree. Posted by: barbarausa at April 08, 2026 04:19 PM (enw9G) 287 In Bruges, and Three Billboards (both of which I enjoyed). Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 04:07 PM (dIske) I like your taste in movies. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2026 04:19 PM (n9ltV) 288 Okay, here's my comment: Rush is in Heaven, LOLing his ass off that years after his departure from this world, his name and reputation still strike fear in the dark hearts of his opponents. Posted by: mrp That's a good point. Everyone dies, but to have such a lasting legacy, and still drive the Left insane from the grave, is quite a rare feat. Only Reagan, and Trump in the future, will join him in really pulling it off. Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 08, 2026 04:19 PM (JCZqz) 289 Any man what dances while playing the accordion spends a night in the box. Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at April 08, 2026 04:19 PM (eOFY+) 290 I wouldn't mind learning Hungarian sometime. The Uralic languages fascinate me, with all their cases. Posted by: Bulg It is different. "Russian", for example, is "orosz" Posted by: Miklosov, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist at April 08, 2026 04:19 PM (MABMQ) 291 Ace about covered this, writing brilliantly. MTG can now move on to her second career of appearing on The View and calling for a 25th Amendment removal of PDJT. I was thinking more like low end porn and snuff films with lots of DP and air locks. Posted by: Ron Jeremy, The Hedgehog at April 08, 2026 04:19 PM (/1l9x) 292 Deport Brown to Ukraine and let them end him. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 04:20 PM (3ek7K) 293 Pakistani negotiators messed up a little ... Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 04:20 PM (kvcnI) 294 "It involves hitting your face with a hammer to micro-fracture your cheek and jaw bones. Posted by: garrett" I've done that by accident. I don't think it helped much though. Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 04:20 PM (vFG9F) 295 The whole world is going mad, it's infectious. Some like who have been exposed and survived without damage are resistant. Here, other parts of the US, parts of S. America, eastern Europe, Israel, Japan, parts of the Philippine area and possibly Russia are the remnant. We must resist and help those who are undamaged. The plague thus far is unthwarted. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 04:17 PM (m24qK) Russia is plenty nuts, but it is the paranoia that everyone is trying to invade them....which historically has turned out to be true. Sweden, Japan, Germany, France, Turks, Mongolia... Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+) 296 Opening the strait, even just for a bit, is a big loss for Iran as they relieve the pressure (which takes time to build up) of shortages, and they show that it is them and not Trump closing it. Closing it again is also a loss, as (I believe) Trump will use that to move the Overton window into international control of the strait, or better -- USA control. We just take the f-ing island and charge a toll (hey, Iran claims it is worth $2m per ship, but for Iran it is ransom. For the USA it is just a security fee.) We don't do it for the money, but to prevent China from using the strait as a weapon in a future war. That is what this is all about. Look at Russia -- they are doing badly in Ukraine, but would have been much worse if they didn't have half the region by the balls on energy. CHina wants the same leverage and was establishing it with Iran and others. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 04:20 PM (zAO6l) 297 I read most of Hubbard's science fiction. Not bad. Better than the one cult book I read. Weird dude. Never saw the movie(s). Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 04:21 PM (Fbc0I) 298 It was a razor-thin 11 point margin. Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 08, 2026 04:21 PM (0U5gm) 299 Just seize all the tankers that load up in Iran. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 04:22 PM (XQJDW) 300 Glad MTG is gone. I could tell she was crazy from the word go. As much as I hate being a doomer, I can't pretend that a Democrat outperforming by 18 points vs last term is nothing we should be scared about. I get that it's off year, but its a bad omen. Posted by: Leupold at April 08, 2026 04:22 PM (eIzlH) 301 "Russian", for example, is "orosz" Posted by: Miklosov, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist Were you born in Hungary when it was still Communist? Were you required to learn Russian in school? Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ) 302 Glad MTG is gone. I could tell she was crazy from the word go. As much as I hate being a doomer, I can't pretend that a Democrat outperforming by 18 points vs last term is nothing we should be scared about. I get that it's off year, but its a bad omen. Posted by: Leupold at April 08, 2026 04:22 PM (eIzlH) Funny how Dems polling lower than leprosy is not considered a bad omen. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:24 PM (8avO+) 303 I'm an idea man, Chuck. Flying oil tankers... ~ Bill Blazejowski Posted by: one hour sober at April 08, 2026 04:25 PM (Y1sOo) 304 It was a razor-thin 11 point margin." FWIW, when the nutterrer ran, her opponent dropped out. Hardly a competitive race... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 04:25 PM (XuXeR) 305 As much as I hate being a doomer, I can't pretend that a Democrat outperforming by 18 points vs last term is nothing we should be scared about. I get that it's off year, but its a bad omen. Posted by: Leupold It's not good, but it's not necessarily a harbinger of doom, either. Especially in a deep red district in an off cycle election, many Republican voters aren't going to bother voting, assuming (correctly), the election results are a foregone conclusion. Insane, motivated, hate-filled Lefties will turn out in droves, pumped up with their No Kings 3.0 delusions. I don't think those trends will be the same in 7 months. Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 08, 2026 04:25 PM (JCZqz) 306 As much as I hate being a doomer, I can't pretend that a Democrat outperforming by 18 points vs last term is nothing we should be scared about. I get that it's off year, but its a bad omen. Posted by: Leupold at April 08, 2026 04:22 PM (eIzlH) ----- Off year, special election, newcomer to the scene, and no power of incumbency. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 04:26 PM (oqH4h) 307 Arson Suspect Chamel Abdulkarim Arrested After 6-Alarm Fire Engulfs 1 Million Square-Foot Warehouse in Southern California points and mocks the liberals in CA Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 04:26 PM (abIsI) 308 MTG's departure was devastating for the Bulwark Party. She was the intellectual star of that party Posted by: Wally at April 08, 2026 04:26 PM (zG4BR) 309 e don't do it for the money, but to prevent China from using the strait as a weapon in a future war. That is what this is all about. == Trump is fighting World War III already. Supreme victory is winning the war without having to fight it. Venezuela, Iran, Cuba. Defeat displace the proxies. Consolidate base of power. War never comes. Sun Tzu. But he's just shooting from the lip. Stupid low class, bronx real estate hustler with a Wharton MBA. Posted by: reconnaissance by cease fire at April 08, 2026 04:26 PM (anL5R) 310 Funny how Dems polling lower than leprosy is not considered a bad omen. Posted by: Oldcat == Because it's a "feelings" type poll that measures emotional sentiment vs actual results at the ballot box. Just like most people here "hate" Republicans because we feel they are sell out quislings, that doesn't mean we don't still reliably vote Republican. I'm guessing a lot of the "low polling" of Dems is from Dems being mad the Dem is too "establishment" and not fighting Trump hard enough. Posted by: Leupold at April 08, 2026 04:27 PM (eIzlH) 311 Trump considering closing one military base in Europe; either Spain or Germany (TOUSI). Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 04:27 PM (kvcnI) 312 Never thought I'd type the sentence "Garrett please chime in." Now I remember why. Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 08, 2026 04:27 PM (wBaIH) 313 MTG's departure was devastating for the Bulwark Party. She was the intellectual star of that party == Yes. And I gotta also say, she wielded a mean strap on. Posted by: Bill Kristol at April 08, 2026 04:28 PM (anL5R) 314 Opening the strait, even just for a bit, is a big loss for Iran as they relieve the pressure (which takes time to build up) of shortages, and they show that it is them and not Trump closing it. Closing it again is also a loss, as (I believe) Trump will use that to move the Overton window into international control of the strait, or better -- USA control. We just take the f-ing island and charge a toll (hey, Iran claims it is worth $2m per ship, but for Iran it is ransom. For the USA it is just a security fee.) We don't do it for the money, but to prevent China from using the strait as a weapon in a future war. That is what this is all about. Look at Russia -- they are doing badly in Ukraine, but would have been much worse if they didn't have half the region by the balls on energy. CHina wants the same leverage and was establishing it with Iran and others. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 04:20 PM Or they could just build the pipeline that avoids having to ship oil through the straits like they have been talking about for the past 50 years. Problem with that is there are dozens of countries that are heavily invested in fleets of super tankers. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 04:28 PM (0N4FZ) 315 311 Trump considering closing one military base in Europe; either Spain or Germany (TOUSI). Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know Why choose, when you can have both? Posted by: Military Moron at April 08, 2026 04:29 PM (JCZqz) 316 guardians hammering the royals grand slam Posted by: go tribe at April 08, 2026 03:49 PM (anL5R) _______________________ Guardians? What's they're real name? --- Central Division Winners. Posted by: Heh at April 08, 2026 03:56 PM (anL5R ================= threadwinner nominee Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 04:29 PM (4sUNT) 317 I know this might make me unpopular, but I don't think MTG is unattractive visually. I mean she's crazy as a Shithouse rat, but not unpleasing to the eye. Posted by: Inogame at April 08, 2026 04:29 PM (53oGX) 318 Trump considering closing one military base in Europe; either Spain or Germany (TOUSI). Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 04:27 PM (kvcnI) I can't decide, so close them both. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:29 PM (8avO+) 319 Were you born in Hungary when it was still Communist? Were you required to learn Russian in school? Posted by: Bulg I was in Hungary under the commies, but it was pretty slack commieism by the 80s. Russian was required in school in Hungary until 1989, but I actually studied it in the US. Posted by: Miklosov, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist says YES at April 08, 2026 04:29 PM (MABMQ) 320 Motorcycle crash of the day. https://is.gd/6BEoL1 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 08, 2026 04:29 PM (ndZc7) 321 Problem with that is there are dozens of countries that are heavily invested in fleets of super tankers. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 04:28 PM (0N4FZ) not my problem. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 04:29 PM (8avO+) 322 25 What job does MTG currently have? Is she employed anywhere? Posted by: runner Owner of a construction business Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 04:30 PM (NFX2v) 323 I mean she's crazy as a Shithouse rat, but not unpleasing to the eye. Posted by: Inogame at April 08, 2026 04:29 PM (53oGX) =================== and people say day-drinking has gone out of style... Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 04:30 PM (4sUNT) 324 Off year, special election, newcomer to the scene, and no power of incumbency. Posted by: ballistic == Trump won that district 68 to 31 in 2024. So Dems outperform by like 20 points? I have to think "generic Republican with incredible jawline" does better than radioactive MTG and her craziness. Posted by: Leupold at April 08, 2026 04:30 PM (eIzlH) 325 311 Trump considering closing one military base in Europe; either Spain or Germany (TOUSI). Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know Close Ramstein. The Krauts would shit themselves although, they might like that. The shitting that is. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 04:30 PM (abIsI) 326 I just checked his IMDB page - boy, Travolta has been in a lot of bad movies. Almost his entire career. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 04:31 PM (zAO6l) 327 One reason Georgia's Republicoes suck so hard is because (1) it is full of corp HQ's and (2) it has a lot of black people who can be mobilized for pickets. One foot wrong, and some HQ now has over a hundred photogenic black people marching around and chanting against it. You are - technically - allowed to be a Republican in an Atlanta suburb. But it doesn't do to be too Trumpy. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 04:31 PM (gKWVE) 328 311 Trump considering closing one military base in Europe; either Spain or Germany (TOUSI). Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know ================== the power of "and" applies here Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 04:31 PM (JcF8R) 329 >>Never thought I'd type the sentence "Garrett please chime in." Well, your wife finds it hard to concentrate when you keep talking, in the corner. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 04:32 PM (TLp3A) 330 I just checked his IMDB page - boy, Travolta has been in a lot of bad movies. Almost his entire career. == I think he may be in some kind of contest with Nicholas Cage. Posted by: not joe bob briggs at April 08, 2026 04:32 PM (anL5R) 331 I know this might make me unpopular, but I don't think MTG is unattractive visually. She's no Sarah Huckabee Sanders. * rolls eyes Posted by: Yep at April 08, 2026 04:32 PM (SD7rz) 332 Close Ramstein. The Krauts would shit themselves although, they might like that. The shitting that is. Posted by: Maj. Healey From a security perspective, that is a big deal. I don't know how much money we pump into their economy from there, though. Kaiserslautern is the regional logistics and contracting hub, and probably pumps a LOT of money into German firms. Posted by: Military Moron at April 08, 2026 04:32 PM (JCZqz) 333 Posted by: Miklosov, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist says YES at April 08, 2026 04:29 PM (MABMQ) You are one of my favorite commenters here. I hope that you and yours are well. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:33 PM (77rzZ) 334 320 Motorcycle crash of the day. https://is.gd/6BEoL1 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! Wow. Aren't you supposed to roll on the ground and not run when you are on fire? Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 04:33 PM (abIsI) 335 Pulp Fiction saved Travolta's career. Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 08, 2026 04:33 PM (wBaIH) 336 I just checked his IMDB page - boy, Travolta has been in a lot of bad movies. Almost his entire career. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) Michael Caine was asked about one particularly bad movie he was in. "I haven't seen it. Paid for a lovely house" Posted by: Movietone Miklos at April 08, 2026 04:33 PM (MABMQ) 337 322 25 What job does MTG currently have? Is she employed anywhere? Posted by: runner Owner of a construction business Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 04:30 PM (NFX2v) She looks like a bricklayer, or an oil field roughneck. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 04:33 PM (pDt9x) 338 Travolta has also been in some excellent movies, and some movies that might have been mediocre but Travolta's sheer chops saved the movie. Thinking mainly of "Primary Colors" here, maybe even "Saturday Night Fever". He certainly made "Look Who's Talking" better than it would have been. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 04:33 PM (gKWVE) 339 Yes. And I gotta also say, she wielded a mean strap on. Posted by: Bill Kristol at April 08, 2026 04:28 PM (anL5R) ====================== Bill Kristol's personalized license plate should read "Lube Me" Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 04:33 PM (JcF8R) 340 but I don't think MTG is unattractive visually. I mean she's crazy as a Shithouse rat" Part of the appeal, ya know... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 04:33 PM (XuXeR) 341 331 I know this might make me unpopular, but I don't think MTG is unattractive visually. She's no Sarah Huckabee Sanders. * rolls eyes Posted by: Yep at April 08, 2026 Looks are what they are, some people are more blessed than others. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 04:33 PM (OoFl2) 342 Or they could just build the pipeline that avoids having to ship oil through the straits like they have been talking about for the past 50 years. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) ---------- But that is the point -- Trump woke up the world about how vulnerable they are by not having a military, not having ships, having Iran with so much power, relying on net zero, coddling China,..... Maybe now they will change a bit. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 04:34 PM (zAO6l) 343 I hope that you and yours are well. Posted by: Bulg Same to you and yourn' Posted by: Copascetic Miklos at April 08, 2026 04:34 PM (MABMQ) 344 By remaining in office until January 5, 2026, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) secured a federal pension by surpassing the required five-year minimum service threshold. She is expected to receive approximately $8,700 to $8,717 per year ($725 per month), starting at age 62, totaling over $260,000 in lifetime benefits. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 04:34 PM (NFX2v) 345 317 I know this might make me unpopular, but I don't think MTG is unattractive visually. I mean she's crazy as a Shithouse rat, but not unpleasing to the eye. Posted by: Inogame at April 08, 2026 04:29 PM I think she's an almost butter face but there's a lid for every pot. Posted by: CaliGirl at April 08, 2026 04:34 PM (CgGlp) 346 What job does MTG currently have? Is she employed anywhere? Posted by: runner Owner of a construction business Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 04:30 PM (NFX2v) She looks like a bricklayer, or an oil field roughneck. === Pretty sure I saw her wearing and orange vest and directing traffic on a road crew last time I drove through Ga. Posted by: not joe bob briggs at April 08, 2026 04:35 PM (anL5R) 347 Thinking mainly of "Primary Colors" here, maybe even "Saturday Night Fever". He certainly made "Look Who's Talking" better than it would have been. Posted by: gKWVE ------ Yes, that is why I was surprised at so many bad ones. (I also disagreed with many of the ratings.) Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 04:35 PM (zAO6l) 348 Now MTG can get jackhammered with a real one. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 04:35 PM (3ek7K) 349 MTG looks like she would rough you up. Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 04:36 PM (vFG9F) 350 Ceasefire is a complete sht show ... no doubt Trump expected this. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 04:36 PM (kvcnI) 351 Rush is still living rent free in these evil cocksuckers heads? I find that comforting. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 04:36 PM (zZu0s) 352 It is funny, but the average low info voter is totally okay with Iran closing the Straits of Hormuz, as if they are completely justified, but Trump is the one that has the explaining to do for $5 gas. And Trump is also simulatenously at fault for demanding the Straits reopen to ease energy prices. Posted by: Leupold at April 08, 2026 04:36 PM (eIzlH) 353 MTG looks like she would rough you up." Could be fun. Or not. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 04:37 PM (XuXeR) 354 There are two columns, one is labeled L the other is labeled W. Georgia is in the W column. That's the important thing. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 04:37 PM (m24qK) 355 They can’t cease firing - that’s all they know how to do. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 04:37 PM (pDt9x) 356 I was in Hungary under the commies, but it was pretty slack commieism by the 80s* I was around there in the late 1980s, and Hungary was already giving major headaches to the East Germans. Sometime around 1988 Hungary just decided the Iron Curtain was for funzies. They let anyone from Germany or Czechoslovakia pop over for a "visit" and then, oopsie, didn't monitor the western border. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 04:38 PM (gKWVE) 357 "MTG looks like she would rough you up." Could be fun. Or not. Posted by: man" It starts out fun. Posted by: fd at April 08, 2026 04:38 PM (vFG9F) 358 MTG looks like she would rough you up." I would watch her and Mace in a jello match. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 04:38 PM (abIsI) 359 $3.99 per gallon today in my PA region. Coming down already, and this state has an outrageous gas tax. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 04:39 PM (NFX2v) 360 It is funny, but the average low info voter is totally okay with Iran closing the Straits of Hormuz, as if they are completely justified, but Trump is the one that has the explaining to do for $5 gas. And Trump is also simulatenously at fault for demanding the Straits reopen to ease energy prices. == Honestly, that meme Ace showed earlier today explains everything. "That bitch over there eating crackers." Once you hate someone, you hate everything they do. It's a perfectly juvenile, mean girl rationale, and so it fits perfectly the Nevertrumpers and Liberals. Posted by: not joe bob briggs at April 08, 2026 04:39 PM (anL5R) 361 Wow. Aren't you supposed to roll on the ground and not run when you are on fire? -------------- Not when the ground you're on is in flames. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 04:39 PM (n17eQ) 362 3.99 per gallon today in my PA region. Coming down already, and this state has an outrageous gas tax." This cannot be allowed! Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 04:39 PM (XuXeR) 363 NOOD Megyn Kelly Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 04:40 PM (77rzZ) 364 And these 'people' vote? The Blue Sky terminal online used to describe the demons in Frieren as allegories for minorities. Now they have flipped to a new page of programming, the demons are now white people. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 04:40 PM (2GVsD) 365 Ace thinks MTG is unattractive? I told you all that when she first came on the scene and some Morons were slobbering over her. 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Coming down already, and this state has an outrageous gas tax. Yeah well, you suck. Regular here in WWA is 4.79 and Diesel is 6.45. On the reservation. Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 08, 2026 04:40 PM (abIsI) 369 We talk about these female pols concerning their looks, but honestly take away their entourage and put themin regular clothes and they would not get a second glance for the most part. It’s all just something to snark about. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 04:41 PM (pDt9x) 370 359 $3.99 per gallon today in my PA region. Coming down already, and this state has an outrageous gas tax. --------------- Unfortunately, I filled up my car last night. Fuck me. This (>< close. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 04:41 PM (n17eQ) 371 I think she's unattractive, obviously I've seen worse, but it's almost like she's related to Hulk Hogan. Posted by: Leupold at April 08, 2026 04:41 PM (eIzlH) 372 "MTG looks like she would rough you up." I saw a woman at Johnny B's Front Porch in Lillian, AL last week that you would've sworn was her. And that place has a history of being kind of a rough place at times, so it would check. Posted by: one hour sober at April 08, 2026 04:41 PM (Y1sOo) 373 Travolta was in "Swordfish", a movie famous because Halle Berry was also in it. https://tinyurl.com/y5vevw5p Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 04:42 PM (+TlVp) 374 The Conversation was one of several flicks late '60s-mid '70s that did 'government listening in illegally'. Almost completely forgotten: The Anderson Tapes; once cult classic, now getting strange new respect: The President's Analyst - Godfrey Cambridge made that one, another guy lost way too young. Posted by: Nazdar at April 08, 2026 04:43 PM (NcvvS) 375 355 They can’t cease firing - that’s all they know how to do. Posted by: tubal ------ That's why their reproduction rate is the highest in the world. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 04:48 PM (m24qK) 376 So no boobs for me.. thanks Anyways we really need to get the bisshes out of politics completely. Sorry ladies but the track record speaks for itself We have y'all a chance and it turned into cat fight Posted by: melodicmetal at April 08, 2026 04:59 PM (XLfSN) 377 I don't get too bent out of shape about these kinds of special elections where turnout is not the same as generals, or even primaries. Yes, R's won by double digits. They knew it was safe so a lot of right-leaning voters may not have shown up. And maybe this was a stronger opponent than in the last general election. Optics be damned. R's won by double digits. Posted by: Bruce at April 08, 2026 05:55 PM (21nJ/) DOJ Civil Rights Division Opens Investigation of Madison Cornbread for Perjury The criminal airhead Madison Cornbread -- street name, "Cassidy Hutchinson" -- lied under oath and as you know, No one is above the law. The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has opened a probe into former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, according to a news report Tuesday. Hutchinson testified in 2022 before a special House committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot that implicated President Trump. The DOJ is looking into whether Hutchinson committed perjury during her testimony, unnamed sources told The New York Times, which is reporting the story. The department assigning the case to the division appears unusual considering it focuses on potential civil rights violations -- not allegations of crime, which would include lying to Congress. ... A probe regarding perjury before Congress would typically be handled by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., which is run by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. However, she has also experienced several setbacks in her attempts to pursue criminal cases in federal court against Trump's political opponents. DOJ leaders didn't offer Pirro the opportunity to open the probe into Hutchinson, instead giving it directly to Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon, the anonymous sources also said. Off to do the final (?) coat of varnish. Update: Done. At least the upper-facing surfaces are. I only did two coats on the undersides and legs so at 6:30 I'll flip the desk over, give it a quick and sloppy sanding, and dump the rest of the varnish on the underside. The DOJ opened an investigation into Cassidy Hutchinson. Jack Smith used this hearsay to go after POTUS Trump! Cassidy claims she heard Trump grabbed the steering wheel of the beast in rage. We have texts of her and Liz Cheney plotting. Lock them up! pic.twitter.com/3rC9oLUcwj — C3 (@C_3C_3) April 8, 2026 Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 1s Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 02:32 PM (CWTWj) 2 serves her right, let her beg trump for a pardon Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 02:33 PM (CWTWj) 3 bleeding edge commentary Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 08, 2026 02:33 PM (j+aD2) 4 do i need to noodle? Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 02:33 PM (CWTWj) 5 So. Much. Link. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (bFu5X) 6 Link? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (zZu0s) 7 Red red varnish? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (2GVsD) 8 Off to do the final (?) coat of varnish. I don't wanna know... Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (Cuw0G) 9 Hola Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (LdBR/) 10 It was getting interesting on the last thread... Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:35 PM (VCgbV) 11 Madison Cornbread, no relation to Corn Pop? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:35 PM (2GVsD) 12 FIRST!!!!! Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:35 PM (PpBto) 13 Varnishing the old desk, eh? Say no more, say no more! Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 08, 2026 02:35 PM (2UnvF) 14 All your link are belong to Ace. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:35 PM (PpBto) 15 I think this is an important possible prosecution. Too many for too long lie under oath and seem smug about it. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:36 PM (aZm/F) 16 Does the NY Times have any sources that aren't "unnamed?" Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 02:36 PM (dIske) 17 Off to do the final (?) coat of varnish. I don't wanna know... Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM How do you think Ewok pelts stay so waterproof? Fur Oil? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:36 PM (bFu5X) 18 Fry the bish. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:36 PM (PpBto) 19 Trump fired Bondi last week, reportedly in part due to her failure to prosecute his political opponents.* "Just the News"? That sounds more "editorial" than "news", to me. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 02:36 PM (a+4eV) 20 It's full of link. But Ace already Varnished into thin air... Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:36 PM (TLp3A) 21 Wait, Detroit's black mayor thug served prison time. Obviously in a case of judicial racial prejudice. Have ANY of these other 'people' ever served time or is Nothing Ever Happens guy correct? And willowed... Oh crap. The good times are over. I just read that Jimmy Kimmel was maling fun of President Trump. Jimmy, Trump is against breathing dude Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:36 PM (Sco7b) 22 It was getting interesting on the last thread" I know. Kate Upton in near zero G.... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (XuXeR) 23 Has the New York Times given up Duranty's Pulitzer yet? No? So still commies. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (2GVsD) 24 "Anonymous sources." Yeah, I won't believe a damn bit of this until something ACTUALLY happens. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (PpBto) 25 Sorry. On a scale of 1 to 100 this bitch doesn't even move the needle on importance. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (yAteE) 26 Does the NY Times have any sources that aren't "unnamed?" Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 02:36 PM (dIske) "Confidential source" is much more persuasive than "guy at the next desk". Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (utfVc) 27 ...let her beg trump for a pardon...* But first, you will... Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (/jglT) 28 FIRST!!!! Posted by: Denny Crane - MOON That Spells GOODBYE! at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (dmDsy) 29 Oh no....... Ace happened again....... Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (PpBto) 30 Like tears in the rain, the post vanishes. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (2GVsD) 31 What just happened? Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (/jglT) 32 I sense a great disturbance in the force. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (2UnvF) 33 FIRST DAMMIT!!!! Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (dmDsy) 34 It was getting interesting on the last thread... Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:35 PM (VCgbV) Short people, Iran, and boobs. Posted by: Always fascinating subjects at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (TbWk/) 35 Pie are round. Cornbread are square. Posted by: Just the Punchline's Understudy at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (c2wDO) 36 I'm in The Twilight Zone!!!! Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (dmDsy) 37 And Melania should personally sue the dickens out of her for the FBI raid with the touching (and, likely, sniffing) of her most personal garments. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (NFX2v) 38 Snarky ace is some of the best ace. Posted by: Get This at April 08, 2026 02:39 PM (850T+) 39 "Off to do the final (?) coat of varnish." So now we don't have to be on our best behavior! Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:39 PM (NpAcC) 40 You have to wonder at what point do the natives start burning down the corrupt DC court system and liberal subversives posing as a jury of peers. Justice isn’t blind anymore. She’s ripped the mask off. Posted by: That Guy at April 08, 2026 02:39 PM (JW6Az) 41 First Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 08, 2026 02:42 PM (jFCkp) 42 oopsie-daisy... Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 02:42 PM (Cuw0G) 43 There's a 98 (almost 99) year old blues singer known as Cornbread Harris. He and his band were playing at Hell's Kitchen when we went for my wife's birthday lunch a while back. Dude was frail, but still put on a great show. Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 08, 2026 02:42 PM (OGOaV) 44 It disappeared. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 02:44 PM (Fbc0I) 45 Hmmm, so i can type anything and it will show up when the post comes back? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 02:50 PM (zZu0s) 46 I once knew a gal with a quite bountiful rack. She called them 'my titties'. I found that quite endearing. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (zZu0s) 47 I wonder if ace will scotch this one completely. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (zZu0s) 48 Mmmm. Scotch. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (zZu0s) 49 Will the new Supergirl* movie bomb harder than ...? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (2GVsD) 50 Actually, I prefer good rum to whiskey. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (zZu0s) 51 If P then Q. If not P then not Q. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (zZu0s) 52 I was born a small, black child... Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (zZu0s) 53 I fear we shall never see the like of this thread again... Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s) 54 Remember yahoo groups? You'd have a group for something and people should chat and comment. Not unlike here (this was 26 years ago. You'd be able to have a profile Pic. I wonder what everyone's would be. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (zZu0s) 55 42 Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (2GVsD) 56 So, in the garret ace relationship, which one is Gilligan and which the Skipper (did he have a name?) For myself, I'd say ace is Maynard G Krebs and garret rides around with a navy cap on. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (XMJOM) 57 Didn't it used to be: 'I wouldnt kick them out of bed for eating crackers'? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 04:40 PM (zZu0s) 58 He ain't dead- just restin'! Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 04:59 PM (zZu0s) 59 "If P then Q. If not P then not Q." If P then Q is logically equivalent to If not Q then not P. or P -> Q ~Q -> ~P to use the symbols that I hope I remember correctly from a boolean algebra book from 50 years ago. (If there's weird shit in square brackets, it's because I didn't remember how to correctly insert html crap in the comments.) Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 05:09 AM (DLVKS) 60 Oh yay. square brackets "[]" versus the angled ones "" for the win. Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 05:10 AM (DLVKS) 61 Maybe happy accident the square brackets work at all. Angled brackets should be > and < Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 05:13 AM (DLVKS) 62 Fick mich. A literal < was processed as the beginning of an html tag. "or P -> Q <-> ~Q -> ~P to use the symbols that I hope I remember correctly from a boolean algebra book from 50 years ago. (If there's weird shit in square brackets, it's because I didn't remember how to correctly insert html crap in the comments.)" Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 05:16 AM (DLVKS) Communist Dingbats Yesterday Until 7pm: Trump Is a Madman! He Will Nuke the World! Communist Dingbats at 7:01pm: TACO! Trump Is a Huge Pussy Too Afraid to Do What Is Needed and LET THE NUCLEAR BIRDS FLY!!!! Remember, the "smart people" are also the "thoughtful" and "responsible" people. They have all the answers, they'll tell you. They definitely do not simply spam out random disingenuous claims completely incompatible with each other as the day's news cycle might require. David Strom wrote about this. I've seen it all over myself. The "nuke" thing was absurd. Trump threatened to use a top-secret conventional weapon the world had never seen before. What was it? I dunno. Maybe some kind of non-nuclear EMP to take out the power plants without harming the child human shields Iran stuffed them with? At no point did he threaten or imply a threat to use a nuke. Now I might think "Trump is making up some secret uber-weapon," but then again, Delta Force does seem to have unleashed absolute top-secret Sci-Fi weaponry in the Venezuela Snatch-and-Stash operation. But he never hinted at a nuke. But the "reasonable," "responsible," "thoughtful" people -- you know, the really "smart" people you can rely upon for their intelligence and probity and smooth emotional restraint -- all just went on twitter and did what they usually do, shriek lies that no one including themselves believes. Are you ready to abase yourself now that Trump has negotiated a ceasefire rather than nuking Iran? Trump was NEVER going to nuke Iran. Any serious person knew that. It is shameful that you participated in this ridiculous charade. — David Strom (@DavidStrom) April 7, 2026 “Trump is a madman who will nuke everyone and must be removed from office!” “Also, he’s a big chicken for not nuking everyone like I said he would!” If you actually believed the first thing with any seriousness, you’d never say the second thing. https://t.co/2V4X0YLpNu — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 7, 2026 Some of the ones I saw: As I said, they never actually cared about Iranian civilians or nukes or whatever else they were ranting about. It was always just a game to them, and the moment their hysterical predictions didn’t come true, they were ready to pivot. Like predicting the sun will rise. pic.twitter.com/hDxEuKQVpr — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 7, 2026 Saagar Enjeti this morning: “Trump is a madman, everyone in his administration must resign.” Saagar Enjeti now: “Trump TACO!” Do you see the game yet? pic.twitter.com/33liE8vV1D — Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 7, 2026 This isn't exactly the same, but CNN's DEI Hausfrau veers from claiming: 1, that Iran is nowhere close to building a bomb when Trump says he will wipe out their nuke-production plants, 2, that Iran is now closer than ever to building a bomb after Trump wipes out their nuke production plants, and then back to 3, Iran was never at any time close to building a bomb, when Trump launches Operation Epic Fury. It's really disgraceful. As they say: They know they're lying, they know their audience knows they're lying, they know their enemies know they're lying, but they lie anyway because it's what their Satanic Cult demands of them. Lying, and abortion of course, and transing children are their sacraments. Now you know that *of course* Noted Thoughtful and Responsible Smart Guy Commentator Bill Kristol had to be part of the Satanic Lie Offensive: These two tweets are 8 hours apart. This morning, he wanted generals to make advance promises to disobey civilian leadership. Now he complains that Trump chickened out. https://t.co/bEjF5y7SWX pic.twitter.com/ORtDJClB1e — Bluesky Libs (@BlueskyLibs) April 8, 2026 Hello everyone! Sorry for the lateness. I wish I had a good excuse but I don't. Update: Kindletot said this is all what AlextheChick calls a "bitch eating crackers rant." I asked commenters what this means. I asked Alex the Chick, too, and she sent this meme: Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:30 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 I ... I ... I ... I am ... I am stronger than the wind I am sin I am stronger without you I am ... FIRST Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/) 2 FIRST!!!!! Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (PpBto) 3 It's my birthday! Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Q/FnY) 4 But the "reasonable," "responsible," "thoughtful" people -- you know, the really "smart" people you can rely upon for their intelligence and probity and smooth emotional restraint Those guys are fags! Posted by: To be read in Jeff Spicoli's voice at April 08, 2026 01:32 PM (TbWk/) 5 Fuck, I made the rookie mistake of reading the content. Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 01:32 PM (Q/FnY) 6 happy birthday Gmac! Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:32 PM (1wjle) 7 The Left loves power sexually, they want to molest it. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:33 PM (2GVsD) 8 3 It's my birthday! Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Q/FnY) Happy Birthday Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 01:33 PM (FtULh) 9 So they closed the Strait already Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 01:33 PM (FtULh) 10 It's my birthday! Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Q/FnY) Happy B-Day. Yet another in a long list of those that celebrate their birthday with JJ. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:34 PM (PpBto) 11 Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Q/FnY) Congratulations? Can you drink legally now?😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 01:34 PM (+hwtP) 12 Leavitt White House briefing on FoxNews and CNN now. Taking questions. Iran's 10 negotiation points were literally tossed in the garbage. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:34 PM (Sco7b) 13 The Left loves power sexually, they want to molest it. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:33 PM (2GVsD) Now you're talkin,' fat! Posted by: Joe Biden at April 08, 2026 01:34 PM (PpBto) 14 Hello everyone! Sorry for the lateness. I wish I had a good excuse but I don't. Hope you have plenty of ventilation while applying coats of varnish. Those fumes will fuck you up. Posted by: Cause brain damage and mange at April 08, 2026 01:34 PM (TbWk/) 15 The Left want Trump to kill millions of Iranians so they can take back the House and impeach him. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:34 PM (JrZbt) 16 >>>9 So they closed the Strait already yeah I don't expect this fake ceasefire to hold and if Trump insists that Iran is complying just to save face, it will be an epic political failure that would exceed any political fallout from continuing the war. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:35 PM (1wjle) 17 Let me dust off this old comment from ... this morning - 177 I will wait patiently while the Iran and Cuba stories unfold organically. Trump has made more progress on both fronts in a few short weeks then Newsom has made on the California "Speed" train in years. Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Dv3i1) 18 Elon Musk needs to turn off X for a day or two. A lot of useless people would MAID themselves. Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 08, 2026 01:35 PM (c2wDO) 19 GMAC Happy Birthday. Oh to be 29.13753 again. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Sco7b) 20 Hello everyone! Sorry for the lateness. I wish I had a good excuse but I don't. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:30 PM You could have just said that you stopped to talk to Huckleberry Finn. Then you could have gotten to sit with the 'ettes. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 01:35 PM (bFu5X) 21 kristol is a twat Posted by: doug at April 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Hy+R4) 22 Gee! You noticed that too? Orange Man Bad will nuke the world! Orange Man Bad is pussy who lost the war! I need to hear from Tucker. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Fbc0I) 23 adds Bill Kirstol to list of losers that should travel to Tehran to act as human shields Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (2GVsD) 24 It's my birthday! Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Q/FnY) Happy birthday! Posted by: Guy who says happy birthday at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (TbWk/) 25 Ace has no excuse? I shall cut him some slack, as I too have no excuse. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (pohLc) 26 Bill Kristol talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (PpBto) 27 >>>Hope you have plenty of ventilation while applying coats of varnish. Those fumes will fuck you up. i took better precautions today. one thing I learned is that I can just spill out varnish on to the desk and then paint it rather than having to go over to the can every thirty seconds to dip the brush in. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (1wjle) 28 To paraphrase AtC, it is once again "bitch eating crackers" rants, and they get boring Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (rbvCR) 29 I wish I had a good excuse but I don't. "Fuck you, I'm the boss and I'm sleeping in" That usually works. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (y9nCu) 30 Hello everyone! Sorry for the lateness. I wish I had a good excuse but I don't. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:30 PM "......you should see the other guy......" Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (PpBto) 31 I'm completely out of dental floss. Posted by: And Bananas at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM (oftw2) 32 >>>To paraphrase AtC, it is once again "bitch eating crackers" rants, and they get boring what does this term mean? Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM (1wjle) 33 Trump could say that he is having sushi for dinner and the compulsively-online left would immediately start screeching about how he's murdering the world's tuna for his own mad pleasure, then call him a pussy when they realize he had salmon. It's all really tiresome. I can ignore the media but there are a shocking number of people I have to interact with on a daily basis that lap this stupidity up like mothers' milk. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM (oqH4h) 34 Happy birthday, Gmac! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM (bFu5X) 35 The Iranians are charging a dime per ship? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM (2GVsD) 36 Mew! Posted by: Doctor Mew at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM (XodLO) 37 I saw Kristol is a Twat open for Pussy Riot at The Kremlin in 2020. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM (PpBto) 38 OrangeMan Bad!!!!!!!!! Posted by: NPC_00101110 at April 08, 2026 01:38 PM (0sNs1) 39 Wait, what? CNN's DEI hausfrau says "the Trump administration is lying because what they say contradicts what CNN says." Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 01:38 PM (n7rxJ) 40 In response to people calling Trump a TACO, Griff Jenkins on FNC called Trump a NACHO. Never Avoids Confronting Hard Obstacles! Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 01:38 PM (NpAcC) 41 what does this term mean? Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM (1wjle) It's AtC. You're too tall to understand. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:38 PM (PpBto) 42 I am going to repost something : From inside Iran: "Let me tell you from inside Iran, Aside from bootlicking reformists, no one has bought into this ceasefire. Neither the opposition nor even the hardliners. The hardliners are all cursing Ghalibaf's mother left and right. Of course, we're joining them on this one.." Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:38 PM (GD0B3) 43 26 Bill Kristol talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded. ____ What about me? -Nicholas Kristof Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 01:38 PM (Dv3i1) 44 Someone please tell me how to feel. What will happen if no one tells me what to think or feel. THEN WHAT Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:38 PM (JrZbt) 45 Here is what should concern everyone. The theme from Democrats is essentially retribution. That they will (again) weaponize the government, courts and justice system against those who oppose their views. It isn’t grounded in any plausible, mainstream or justifiable action under the law. It’s based on power and politics. That anyone would vote for a Democrat in any elected office is disconcerting. It’s a move towards the authoritarianism they claim is coming from Republicans. The fact is nothing could be further from the truth and every single court judgement, no matter how ridiculous, has been complied with. They want to move towards a post constitutional republic, and putting them in office gives license for them to move forward Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (sYFXJ) 46 Trump is such a total simp for not doing what 15 minutes ago I screeched would be an insane Hitlerish war crime! Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/) 47 They are terrified that Trump will actually be successful in Iran. They want Vietnam II - a parade of planes headed for Dover AFB loaded with flag-draped coffins, just in time for the midterms. Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (n1OCj) 48 >>>To paraphrase AtC, it is once again "bitch eating crackers" rants, and they get boring what does this term mean? Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM Beats my pair of jacks. I mean, the "dicks and donuts" rant I remember, but crackers? Not so much. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (bFu5X) 49 Saagar Enjeti = another worthless RINO cuck. And a Bushie. F him. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (gtcuf) 50 The Iranians are charging a dime per ship? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM (2GVsD) Someone's gonna have to go back and get a shitload of dimes! Posted by: Commodore Taggart, merchant marine at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (TbWk/) 51 Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 01:38 PM (NpAcC) That's pretty clever! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (+hwtP) 52 It is known There was a brief window when he seemed sane Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (bXbFr) 53 It's AtC. You're too tall to understand. Opens FedEx link A nice 'raptor surprise for Sponge. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (2GVsD) 54 Ghlibaf, so it was him negotiating while he was denying it. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:40 PM (GD0B3) 55 Too bad Trump is a stupid doodyhead and has no clue what he's doing. 25th or bust. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:40 PM (PpBto) 56 "Bitch eating crackers" rants are entertaining for the first dozen iterations, but few people can bring enough imagination to the process to go more than five or rounds. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR) 57 I look at a ceasefire the same way I look at an upgrade. The ups never grade and the ceases never fire. They both need to be renamed. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:40 PM (JrZbt) 58 "C'mon, Be Hitler!" "No." "COWARD SHIT." Posted by: XTC at April 08, 2026 01:40 PM (iXqHn) 59 He was hanging around krystsl ball too long (ejeti) Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 08, 2026 01:41 PM (bXbFr) 60 Someone please tell me how to feel. What will happen if no one tells me what to think or feel. THEN WHAT Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:38 PM (JrZbt) The whacker will come by and tell you, for sure. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:41 PM (PpBto) 61 There was a brief window when he seemed sane Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (bXbFr) Ace? When?? Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:41 PM (JrZbt) 62 To paraphrase AtC, it is once again "bitch eating crackers" rants, and they get boring what does this term mean? Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM (1wjle) ___________ Basically TDS but directed at anyone. When you so irrationally despise someone that no matter what they do, even something as normal as eating crackers, you can't help but hate on them. "Look at that fucking bitch eating crackers!" Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:41 PM (iFTx/) 63 That's pretty clever! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (+hwtP) ****** And accurate. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 01:41 PM (NpAcC) 64 47 They are terrified that Trump will actually be successful in Iran. They want Vietnam II - a parade of planes headed for Dover AFB loaded with flag-draped coffins, just in time for the midterms. Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (n1OCj) They'll settle for 70s oil shock stagflation as a 2nd place... Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (tOcjL) 65 I don't expect this fake ceasefire to hold and if Trump insists that Iran is complying just to save face, it will be an epic political failure that would exceed any political fallout from continuing the war. Posted by: ace =============== Same. One can only hope this was his "I gave you every opportunity" before doing the deed. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (n7rxJ) 66 >>>Basically TDS but directed at anyone. When you so irrationally despise someone that no matter what they do, even something as normal as eating crackers, you can't help but hate on them. "Look at that fucking bitch eating crackers!" lol that's hilarious Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (1wjle) 67 47 They are terrified that Trump will actually be successful in Iran. They want Vietnam II - a parade of planes headed for Dover AFB loaded with flag-draped coffins, just in time for the midterms. Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM (n1OCj) Why would Dems need that when they could just rely on their highly compelling policy platform? Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (Dv3i1) 68 Kristof has never in his life been right about anything. Posted by: huerfano at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (98kQX) 69 62 To paraphrase AtC, it is once again "bitch eating crackers" rants, and they get boring Trump broke them.... He broke them all.... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (FtULh) 70 Sorry for the lateness. Read that as Sorry for the latrines. Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (HTa/G) 71 I tire mightily of the presstitutes yammering on and on. How I wish for a format like "show the text of the ignorant question long enough for me to read it fully, followed by full sound and video of the press secretary ripping them a new one". Posted by: RandomDave at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (aJQbY) 72 They want to move towards a post constitutional republic, and putting them in office gives license for them to move forward On Bluesky, from a guy who works at the "Center for International Policy": The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction. They're planning a repeat of the process that started on January 30, 1933 if they regain power. Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (n1OCj) 73 "see that bitch over there? She is there eating crackers like a f___ human being. HOW DARE SHE DO THAT SHE KNOWS IT PISSES ME OFF!" The problem does not reside in the bitch or the crackers Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (rbvCR) 74 The left hates Trump because he gets things done. They, on the other hand, waste money, talk shit, and suck donkey dicks. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (pohLc) 75 Simply put - The Left wants to be proven right, no matter the real consequences. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (2GVsD) 76 But the "reasonable," "responsible," "thoughtful" people -- you know, the really "smart" people you can rely upon for their intelligence and probity and smooth emotional restraint -- all just went on twitter and did what they usually do, shriek lies that no one including themselves believes. ------------ ... and smooth brains, but mostly smooth brains. Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:43 PM (TbhYO) 77 Is Trump the biggest pussy to ever slaughter millions of people? That's pretty much the impression I get from the Bandar Log. Posted by: Eeyore at April 08, 2026 01:43 PM (AlhUl) 78 Now I want crackers. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:43 PM (PpBto) 79 What does Tucker have to say about the Jew puppet, Trump? Let the EU, NATO, Israel and the Middle Eastern States hash it out for a spell. Iran will not cooperate. When they show any signs of aggression, hit them with both barrels. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 01:43 PM (Fbc0I) 80 Well, we're not gonna suck ourselves. Posted by: Donkey dicks at April 08, 2026 01:43 PM (g9Uf+) 81 Gotta just ignore these bad faith arguments. Posted by: mr tmz at April 08, 2026 01:44 PM (rJ48h) 82 Happy birthday, Gmac. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 01:44 PM (W2Pud) 83 At one time the worst thing the Left could find about Trump to shriek about was Trump Steaks. Think about that. I mean actually consider it. That was all they had. I remember, I was there. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:44 PM (JrZbt) 84 3 It's my birthday! Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Q/FnY) Warm wishes for a Happy Birthday and for many more despite your recent health concerns. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 08, 2026 01:44 PM (QGaXH) 85 Saagar Enjeti = another worthless RINO cuck. And a Bushie. F him. Posted by: Delurker at April 08, 2026 01:39 PM So...not a Tanzanian national park? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 01:44 PM (bFu5X) 86 There are several options for "soft kills" of electrical grids/generation, none of them would put anyone at risk, certainly not "human shields" 100s of yds from the facilities. We haven't done "hard" kills of power for a long time, AFAIK. "Semi" hard kills in Gulf War I, hitting control rooms. Bridges/transportation even easier to avoid civilian harm, in general. Trump's "civilization" fulmination was perhaps his most histrionic yet, of course was completely unserious, but might be better suited for the strange ears of the turbans. Iran regime has to sit there and writhe and bitch about the IDF's massive offensive against Hezbollah, which will not be ended or modified. Posted by: rhomboid at April 08, 2026 01:44 PM (U/Byj) 87 Well, we're not gonna suck ourselves. Posted by: Donkey dicks at April 08, 2026 01:43 PM (g9Uf+) Gosh.....you guys. I swear...... Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 08, 2026 01:44 PM (PpBto) 88 yo Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 01:44 PM (TLp3A) 89 Great news! The press wants the US to win wars while keeping the moral high ground, not killing anyone and hugs. Lots of hugs. If the Dems get back in power, I'm still going to try to sell them on moving away from penis shaped missiles of destruction and move to my vagina 'bombs' developed to simply envelop the enemy until we're friends. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:44 PM (Sco7b) 90 They sound like Brezhnev era apparatchiks giving the party line. Posted by: Lord Hannan at April 08, 2026 01:45 PM (m2XKJ) 91 And the double fed koi tank Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 08, 2026 01:45 PM (bXbFr) 92 Many happy returns, Gmac. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 01:45 PM (ExV1e) 93 Why would Dems need that when they could just rely on their highly compelling policy platform?* That's why the Democrats are talking about running a white guy in 2028 - they have no intention of modifying their policy positions, so they want to run a figurehead like "Joe From Scranton" who can pretend to be moderate and bamboozle enough white voters to win. Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (n1OCj) 94 Attack. Attack. Attack. That is the left's only strategy. Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (FK7YC) 95 Basically TDS but directed at anyone. When you so irrationally despise someone that no matter what they do, even something as normal as eating crackers, you can't help but hate on them. "Look at that fucking bitch eating crackers!" Posted by: Elric this makes sense. i'm this way towards a couple people across my lifespan. Posted by: BifBewalski at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (PnEh/) 96 >>At one time the worst thing the Left could find about Trump to shriek about was Trump Steaks. Trump University! Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (TLp3A) 97 So they closed the Strait already Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 01:33 PM (FtULh) -------------- Unexpectedly! Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (TbhYO) 98 >>>73 "see that bitch over there? She is there eating crackers like a f___ human being. HOW DARE SHE DO THAT SHE KNOWS IT PISSES ME OFF!" thanks. alex the chick sent me the meme the expression comes from. I added it to the end of the post. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (1wjle) 99 There is a very organized, across the board approach to subvert the US government. It includes an unholy alliance of Democrats, communists, anarchists and other liberal groups. It’s largely being funded by foreign governments hostile to the United States. These people are at war with the constitutional republic and very few people recognize it. There is a color revolution on steroids being attempted and it undermines everything from the voting system, to the courts, our congress and various law enforcement institutions. There isn’t an aspect they have ignored, and people should really start to understand what’s at stake come November. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (sYFXJ) 100 The Left wants to be proven right, no matter the real consequences. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM (2GVsD) All they want is to win the news cycle. They can't ever actually be proven right because as soon as you prove them wrong they contradict themselves. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (JrZbt) 101 1. Is that "secret" weapon mentioned above the special bomb we developed to take out power stations? It releases metal streamers to short everything out -- it uses the energy of the wires to melt stuff and do the damage without destroying the buildings or equipment? (I don't know, I am not following this story.) 2. The Left that Ace is describing reminds me of the monkeys in the lower post - they use words the way monkeys steal glasses - just because it works. The monkeys only get away with this because humans allow it (instead of using nightsicks) and the Left gets away with it because so many people react to them. The only proper reaction is "LOL - shut up moron." Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 01:47 PM (zAO6l) 102 So yesterday was TACO Tuesday? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 01:47 PM (ynpvh) 103 Now I want crackers. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:43 PM (PpBto) And a bitch. A bad one, more specifically. Posted by: For medicinal purposes at April 08, 2026 01:47 PM (TbWk/) 104 >>Trump broke them.... He broke them all.... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 01:42 PM They were already cracked. Posted by: huerfano at April 08, 2026 01:47 PM (98kQX) 105 The left doesn't bitch about Trump wine. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 01:47 PM (yAteE) 106 The press keeps demanding that Trump explain why he threatened to wipe out the entire Iran civilization. How he can claim the high moral ground when he planned to wipe out the entire Iranian civilization. Posted by: Jen the original at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (YdKYA) 107 waves to the Empress* Polly misses you! So do I. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (2GVsD) 108 kristol is a twat Posted by: doug at April 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Hy+R4) Twats have a purpose and are beloved by men the world over. Kristol is not a twat. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (ExV1e) 109 Hello everyone! Sorry for the lateness. I wish I had a good excuse but I don't. _______ Then face the ultimate punishment. 24 hours of continuous screenings of The View, Kimmel, and Colbert. Followed by a striptease by Hillary Clinton. (Your eyes will be kept open, as Alex's were in Clockwork Orange.) Posted by: Eeyore at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (AlhUl) 110 Thank you for content Ace. You don't need no stinkin' excuses..... Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (QGaXH) 111 Birthday wishes, Gmac! Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (NpAcC) 112 >>At one time the worst thing the Left could find about Trump to shriek about was Trump Steaks. Trump University! Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (TLp3A) --------------- "He said 'pussy!' REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" /Oh, oh -- so did Ace in this post headline ... Stone Him! Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (TbhYO) 113 Well, we're not gonna suck ourselves. Posted by: Donkey dicks at April 08, 2026 01:43 PM Modern U.S. nuclear submarines have not one, but two of you aboard. Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (0sNs1) 114 Here is what should concern everyone. The theme from Democrats is essentially retribution. That they will (again) weaponize the government, courts and justice system against those who oppose their views. It isn’t grounded in any plausible, mainstream or justifiable action under the law. It’s based on power and politics. -- It's deeply concerning. All one has to do is listen to the plain language they are saying. It's exactly what they have planned, and those that are not paying attention better fasten their seatbelts because they mean business. They will go mad once they gain power back. They're already foaming from their rabies mouths. And they aren't joking. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 01:49 PM (qBdHI) 115 kristol is a twat Posted by: doug at April 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Hy+R4) Twats have a purpose and are beloved by men the world over. Kristol is not a twat. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (ExV1e) _________ "Nuh-uh!" -- Don LeMon Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:49 PM (iFTx/) 116 >>> It releases metal streamers to short everything out -- it uses the energy of the wires to melt stuff and do the damage without destroying the buildings or equipment? (I don't know, I am not following this story.) no that's a known weapon. Graphite shards or something. Graphite something. I think we've already used them to take out electrical stations. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:49 PM (1wjle) 117 Happy Birthday! Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 01:49 PM (2WIwB) 118 Gmac, Happy Birthday! Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 01:49 PM (yAteE) 119 If you wanted to take a naive view you could watch Trump engage in hard negotiations with Iran and the left/GOPe not understanding it as just not getting how negotiations work. And you could point out traditionally the GOPe would negotiate with the left by giving them everything they wanted out of the gate while only ask for their minimum want in return. But...that's because the two groups are on the SAME side and it is neither Trump's nor the American people's side... Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm) 120 They are nothing if not predictable. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 08, 2026 01:49 PM (2UnvF) 121 The Times, 'Trump’s profanity still has the power to shock Swearing has become normalised, but from the president this lack of restraint is cause for alarm,' Apr. 6 2026 Screwed up. 😞 386 Reminder - Harris drops "F-bomb" while encouraging Asian Americans to break down barriers, May 13, 2024, CBS/AP In part, "Harris gave a lengthy response in which she told the young people to not let others define them and their dreams based on limited views. That's something Harris said her own mother told her. "We have to know that sometimes, people will open the door for you and leave it open, sometimes they won't. And then you need to kick that f*ing door down," Harris said to cheers and applause from the audience. She laughed, adding, "Excuse my language." "We gotta make T-shirts!" Yang joked. Public profanity in politics is not particularly unusual. When Joe Biden was vice president, he was overheard telling President Barack Obama that newly passed health care legislation was a "big fing deal. The Democratic Party even sold T-shirts based on the now-president's comment." Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 01:49 PM (NFX2v) 122 That vienna geneva ans some third convention to be named late4 Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 08, 2026 01:49 PM (bXbFr) 123 So yesterday was TACO Tuesday? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 01:47 PM (ynpvh) Beats the other thing Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:50 PM (JrZbt) 124 In the US Army many radio antennas are called Donkey Dicks. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:50 PM (2GVsD) 125 I expect nothing less from a media class that lost its mind over a scoop of ice-cream. Posted by: Halfhand at April 08, 2026 01:50 PM (Ysav4) 126 Ace has a back channel to AtC. Be afraid. Be very* afraid. Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 01:51 PM (0sNs1) 127 There is a Persian tweet linked on Larry Correia's X account that (In Persian and I had to use Deepl.com to translate) talks about just how pushed in Iran is at the moment. It mostly recounts all the leaders killed, the infrastructure destroyed, and the IRI being forced into a position similar to the end of the Iran Iraq war, which was essentially a defeat, losing the IRI massive amounts of respect and support in the Gulf Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:51 PM (rbvCR) 128 Saber-Rattling is a prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition. Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 08, 2026 01:51 PM (DgMqy) 129 >> It's deeply concerning. All one has to do is listen to the plain language they are saying. It's exactly what they have planned, and those that are not paying attention better fasten their seatbelts because they mean business. They will go mad once they gain power back. They're already foaming from their rabies mouths. And they aren't joking. I try to tell people that come Election Day, you should worry about Muffy’s dance practice or Johnie’s soccer game. You should worry about voting, because if you don’t none of that matters. Look at Virginia for what apathy, corrupt voting and laziness buys you. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 01:51 PM (sYFXJ) 130 Is anyone else rolling their eyes as we keep hearing about 'peace in the region?' Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:51 PM (Sco7b) 131 If the Dems get back in power, I'm still going to try to sell them on moving away from penis shaped missiles of destruction and move to my vagina 'bombs' developed to simply envelop the enemy until we're friends. I have some thoughts. Call me! Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina-scented candle bombs at April 08, 2026 01:51 PM (Riz8t) 132 Twats have a purpose and are beloved by men the world over. Kristol is not a twat. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (ExV1e) _________ "Nuh-uh!" -- Don LeMon Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:49 PM He said "men," you little bitch. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X) 133 Ace is working on a desk now, not the rocker. None of us have any idea what is going on with Iran. Which is good. I know that the Dims, liberals, Rinos and the UK and EU all hope he fails to win. I know the crazy barbarians in Iran want to win and think they are winning (because they are crazy). I still don't know what TACO means and don't care! Have read that this has been a "pause" in planning. We'll see eventually. We were so used to Geraldo giving away troop movements in Iraq that we expect instant news. I don't know where Geraldo is and I'm glad (probably taking photos of himself in the bathroom again...that was nauseating). Jennifer Griffiths/Griffin? is rumored to be the leak of the wizzo pilot. I read that the other day. To think I once prayed for her and she went TDS and loco. I also prayed for Bret Baier's son before Bret had Botox. And Catherine Herridge's son and her when she gave part of her liver to her baby boy (I still like and admire her). This concludes my FOX report who I haven't watched for a decade. I accidently saw O'Reilly last night after Tousi's live report. Man, he looks rough. Is he sick or just old? I'm older but, wow. Maybe that last divorce? Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 01:52 PM (WONhk) 134 I saw a directional EMP kill a cell phone about 10 yards away. I think an EMP that could fit on a half ton truck could blast out all the PLCs that control a plant. Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 08, 2026 01:52 PM (/+uur) 135 We have to know that sometimes, people will open the door for you and leave it open, sometimes they won't. And then you need to kick that f*ing door down," --------- After they opened it for you? Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:52 PM (JrZbt) 136 Mayor Pete would be all over a Vienna Sausage convention. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:52 PM (2GVsD) 137 127 There is a Persian tweet linked on Larry Correia's X account that (In Persian and I had to use Deepl.com to translate) talks about just how pushed in Iran is at the moment. It mostly recounts all the leaders killed, the infrastructure destroyed, and the IRI being forced into a position similar to the end of the Iran Iraq war, which was essentially a defeat, losing the IRI massive amounts of respect and support in the Gulf Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:51 PM (rbvCR) And yet, that could be as much propaganda as Iran's state media, just from the other side. Likely everything is in the murky middle, with hopefully that post being more on point... Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (tOcjL) 138 To paraphrase AtC, it is once again "bitch eating crackers" rants, and they get boring what does this term mean? Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:37 PM If I remember correctly, it's when someone hates another person so much that the second person could be minding their own business while eating crackers and the first person would rant that the cracker eating was being done wrong. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (lFFaq) 139 Ace, a reminder to use a mask or respirator if you are still doing varnishing. Posted by: Joemarine at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (y171U) 140 The press keeps demanding that Trump explain why he threatened to wipe out the entire Iran civilization. How he can claim the high moral ground when he planned to wipe out the entire Iranian civilization. Posted by: Jen the original at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (YdKYA) ----------- I believe it was Selena Zito who first observed back in 2016: "The press takes Donald Trump literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally."** And here we are 10 years later and it's only gotten worse by an order of magnitude or two ... Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (TbhYO) 141 I be done tole y'all when Trump got elected- this was his last ride- he can't run again, he's pushing eighty... he can be a loose cannon- he can be the bull in the china shop of world affairs so tighten your chinstraps, we have 2 more years of this Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (ZxPkt) 142 I still don't know what TACO means and don't care! (Trump Always Chickens Out) Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (tOcjL) 143 alex the chick sent me the meme the expression comes from. I added it to the end of the post. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (1wjle) I adore her, but my wife is shorter than she is. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (rbvCR) 144 i took better precautions today. one thing I learned is that I can just spill out varnish on to the desk and then paint it rather than having to go over to the can every thirty seconds to dip the brush in. Posted by: ace at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (1wjle) also as a middle ground, the can is portable and could be moved closer to the desk so you don't have to "go over to the can". sorry, but the visual made me chuckle. It must be some second-hand fumes Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (zafwz) 145 ... and smooth brains, but mostly smooth brains. Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:43 PM (TbhYO) That's where I assumed he was going when I caught the word "smooth" before actually reading the sentence. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2026 01:54 PM (lFFaq) 146 I try to tell people that come Election Day, you should worry about Muffy’s dance practice or Johnie’s soccer game. You should worry about voting, because if you don’t none of that matters. Look at Virginia for what apathy, corrupt voting and laziness buys you. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 01:51 PM (sYFXJ) There was no apathy on one side last time...there was about the most motivated an electorate has ever been in history... Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 01:55 PM (tOcjL) 147 "Look at this bitch eating those crackers like she owns the place." I'm gonna need a clarification. Whose bed are we in? Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 08, 2026 01:55 PM (w/O5Q) 148 Ace, a reminder to use a mask or respirator if you are still doing varnishing. Posted by: Joemarine at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (y171U) Ace should probably wear a mask even when he's not varnishing. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:55 PM (JrZbt) 149 I always say that Starmer has the expression of a man surprised by a colonoscopy in an elevator, frozen in horror. Bill Kristol, with that same stale photo of his attempt to look intelligent and erudite, looks like he enjoyed the surprise elevator colonoscopy and asked for another. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 01:55 PM (WONhk) 150 Birthday wishes, Gmac! Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 01:48 PM (NpAcC) Likewise from me. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:56 PM (utfVc) 151 124 In the US Army many radio antennas are called Donkey Dicks. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:50 PM (2GVsD) ----- Also a filling spout for a jerry can/gas jug. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 01:56 PM (oqH4h) 152 I wonder if their incredibly high rates of mental illness are somehow correlated with the constant cognitive dissonance, or maybe vice versa? Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 08, 2026 01:56 PM (rcyPU) 153 126 Ace has a back channel to AtC. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 01:51 PM (0sNs1) Has anybody ever seen the two of them in the same room at the same time? Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 08, 2026 01:56 PM (QGaXH) 154 And yet, that could be as much propaganda as Iran's state media, just from the other side. --------------- And by "Iran's state media," you are of course referring to the U.S. Fifth Column Islamunist MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia Death Cult. /only half-joking Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (TbhYO) 155 Hello fellow young people. What’s popping? Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (SoBkx) 156 >>Ace, a reminder to use a mask or respirator if you are still doing varnishing. Completely unnecessary outdoors. Barely necessary indoors. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (TLp3A) 157 How do some of you guys know how tall some of you are? Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/) 158 People should back up and look at the whole chalkboard. 1.) 3yrs ago, Iran was in the catbird seat in the ME, riding high on their alliance with China and their numerous international militias, and the weakness of American foreign policy. 2.) Many things happened, to include a couple of blitzkrieg operations and a bunch of highly successful targeted ones. 3.) Today, they're devastated. The nuke program was probably trashed during the 12-days war, but it definitely is now. Wave goodbye to that trump card. The international terror organizations were severely degraded by the Gaza war, and they're not in better shape now. The leadership is in disarray, and the country has been placed under the control of regional warlords. Their sea and air capabilities are erased. Their oil export facilities are ruined. They face a possible threat of revolution. This is not a good three year plan for Iran. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (BI5O2) 159 RE: “the thoughtful people”. Edgar Rice Burroughs had them as a class of people in The Moon Maid. They were “Thinkers, who did more talking than thinking.” Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (EXyHK) 160 Has anybody ever seen the two of them in the same room at the same time? Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 08, 2026 01:56 PM (QGaXH) I saw a pic of them once, and they did indeed fit in one room. Barely. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (dK+Kv) 161 40 In response to people calling Trump a TACO, Griff Jenkins on FNC called Trump a NACHO. Never Avoids Confronting Hard Obstacles! Posted by: redridinghood Trump can't be the Nacho President. Because Hillary is Nacho President. And never will be. Posted by: mikeski at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (CmuOb) 162 As I noted above yes we have various "soft kill" options for power generation and distribution. Nothing new. Trump is very good at creating leverage for himself out of thin air. Often, just with words and threats. And I haven't noticed one "outburst" or histrionic post yet - on any topic of real importance - that wasn't connected to strategery of some kind. Exactly what the real purpose of the current "ceasefire" is - and especially the comical fiction that there's a "new regime" in Tehran - haven't the foggiest. But we may see before long. Posted by: rhomboid at April 08, 2026 01:58 PM (U/Byj) 163 If I remember correctly, it's when someone hates another person so much that the second person could be minding their own business while eating crackers and the first person would rant that the cracker eating was being done wrong. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (lFFaq) I just had some crackers. No one was here to guide me. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 01:58 PM (WONhk) 164 We have to know that sometimes, people will open the door for you and leave it open, sometimes they won't. And then you need to kick that f**ing door down," Harris said to cheers and applause from the audience. And then Biden doddered up and said, "You take your shotgun and give two blasts through the door." Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 01:58 PM (ExV1e) 165 I wonder if their incredibly high rates of mental illness are somehow correlated with the constant cognitive dissonance, or maybe vice versa? Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 08, 2026 01:56 PM (rcyPU) ------------------ Power of AND. Psychopathy is not just a river in Egypt ... Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:58 PM (TbhYO) 166 47 They are terrified that Trump will actually be successful in Iran. Posted by: The ARC of History! --------------------- Look what he has already accomplished 1. Payback for 47 years of intransigence. 2. Showed Europe is unable to secure a vital shipping lane 3. Showed NATO budget requirements are vital and EU is a worthless without USA 4. Showed that Iran is a knife at our throats (the GCC for revenue, the rest of world for energy) that can not be tolerated. 5. Showed China is not on Europe's side, and is unable to really do much of anything except bullshit and bribe. 6. Showed the USA is back. We are not to be trifled with. 7. Restored pride in armed forces 8. Showed net zero as a dangerous farce 9. Introduced the idea that when you go to war, you take things, like oil. and don't leave a revenue source so they can buy off your institutions the way the GCC has or fund terrorist the way Iran has. .. and set back Iran in their regional domination scheme to have nukes and control the world's energy supply. The only topper is if he manages to get USA in control of those key islands and the strait. With revenue. Posted by: bob* (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 01:58 PM (zAO6l) 167 The mossad is crafting an updated list of targets right now. We'll handle the infrastructure. Phase Three coming up. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 01:59 PM (Fbc0I) 168 Regarding the “ceasefire “ deadline has passed. Human shields deactivated- prolly not gonna be a warning before next time expensive nigh-irreplaceable things go boom. Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 08, 2026 01:59 PM (rcyPU) 169 I accidently saw O'Reilly last night after Tousi's live report. Man, he looks rough. Is he sick or just old? I'm older but, wow. Maybe that last divorce? Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 01:52 PM (WONhk I thinl just old but yeah, he's been again like every US President. Trump is immu e and just gets stronger. Where's this Tousi thing? Is it a channel, website. Sorry, I'd usually look it up, but Generac is here for yearly maintenance ($260 Can), dog is going nuts, but I'm squeezing in a minite break. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:59 PM (Sco7b) 170 Ace, a reminder to use a mask or respirator if you are still doing varnishing. Posted by: Joemarine at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (y171U) Wasn't there a movie about that? Varnishing Point? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:59 PM (utfVc) 171 How do some of you guys know how tall some of you are? Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM Some of us have actually met each other. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 01:59 PM (bFu5X) 172 3 It's my birthday! Posted by: Gmac-WTF Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy birthday, dear Gmac..... STOP, STOP IT THIS INSTANT!!!! You will hear from our attorneys. Posted by: Warner Chappell Music, copyright owners of "Happy Birthday to You" at April 08, 2026 01:59 PM (w9Wax) 173 What does "TACO" stand for? Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:00 PM (VCgbV) 174 157 How do some of you guys know how tall some of you are? Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/) Measuring tapes, mostly. Posted by: And the height thing on the doctor's office scale at April 08, 2026 02:00 PM (TbWk/) 175 Mark Levin is on Fox News crashing out voice shaking and on the verge of tears about Trump’s surrender to Iran Fox News' societal damage is GLOBAL. Cry bitch. "Everything Trump touches, dies." -Rick Wilson Iran has more power and influence today than just a short 6 weeks ago. Trump must be so proud Sorry folks, there's no going back. America's status on the world stage, particularly for Western civilization, isn't coming back after a short period of good behavior. Trump proved we're broken and untrustworthy. I can't understand why Fox News is even legal. Democrats are such cowards. There is a foreign owned network that produces 24/7 propaganda which is legal. Yet, Trump has no issue trying to clamp down on news networks that report the truth I hadn't even thought through how this would effect all the hawks. I bet this sticks a nice knife in Rubio, too. Poor guy could lose like six or seven of his jobs over this Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 08, 2026 02:00 PM (JCZqz) 176 I just had some crackers. No one was here to guide me. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 01:58 PM (WONhk) I know, right? Later though, when the bruises healed, I went out and got TRISKITS Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (rbvCR) 177 Where's this Tousi thing? Is it a channel, website. Sorry, I'd usually look it up, but Generac is here for yearly maintenance ($260 Can), dog is going nuts, but I'm squeezing in a minite break. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:59 PM You can find his channel, TousiTV on EweToob. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (bFu5X) 178 "Ace, a reminder to use a mask or respirator if you are still doing varnishing." This is why we don't win wars anymore. My WW2 grandpa just opened the windows. Posted by: connected and litigious at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (cS1cw) 179 Squirrel panel discussion summary: Israel will continue to attack Hezbollah, justifiably so. Iran will use this as justification for violating the CF, proving to the world that they don't respect sovereignty (Lebanon's). Trump and the boys will wait until Friday evening before unleashing hell. The world will color Trump as the evil one. Conclusion: the world can F-caw-FF. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (0CEhJ) 180 How do some of you guys know how tall some of you are? Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM Some of us have actually met each other. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 01:59 PM (bFu5X) _______ How do some of you guys know how tall some of you are? Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM Some of us have actually met each other. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 01:59 PM (bFu5X) ________ Crossed the streams??? That I know, but AtC? I have no idea how tall (or short) she is. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/) 181 Triskits were vile. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (XQJDW) 182 As others pointed out, turns out Iran did have "sleeper cells" in the US. And they revealed themselves to be faking as conservatives for years, some for decades--NeverTrump have said far nastier things about Trump than they'd ever say about Iran. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (HXT0k) 183 Where's this Tousi thing? Is it a channel, website. Sorry, I'd usually look it up, but Generac is here for yearly maintenance ($260 Can), dog is going nuts, but I'm squeezing in a minite break. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:59 PM (Sco7b) Just google or whatever you do up there and he's easy to find and free. I like him. He may turn out to be someone I should not like. I also like looking at him, his accent and wit. So until he ticks me off he's got me. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (WONhk) 184 I always say that Starmer has the expression of a man surprised by a colonoscopy in an elevator, frozen in horror. He has a wifi controlled buttplug and someone linked the password. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 02:02 PM (ExV1e) 185 >>How do some of you guys know how tall some of you are? That info is in the APB. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:02 PM (TLp3A) 186 All the left does is regurgitate whatever one or two word of the moment. These aren't serious people. I'm pretty certain the dead mullahs in Iran doesn't think Trump was a chicken. But that's what life consists of when you're a rabid leftist. Posted by: melodicmetal at April 08, 2026 02:02 PM (61TgR) 187 I doubt Ace is shooting the Varnish on. You have more to fear from the sanding than the varnishing. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:02 PM (TLp3A) 188 What does "TACO" stand for? Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:00 PM (VCgbV) Trump Always Chickens Out. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:03 PM (PpBto) 189 "The press takes Donald Trump literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally." And here we are 10 years later and it's only gotten worse by an order of magnitude or two ... Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:53 PM (TbhYO) -------- So no one read Trump's book, where he said: show them you're willing to do what's necessary, make impossible demands, then get most of what you want? Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:03 PM (aZm/F) 190 AtC and I are the same height... make of that what you will. Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:03 PM (VCgbV) 191 How do some of you guys know how tall some of you are? Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/) I measure myself in Smoots I am 1.057 Smoots in height, and I weigh approximately one late model Kenmore dryer Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 02:03 PM (rbvCR) 192 Thanks sponge. Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:03 PM (VCgbV) 193 Sad observation: Almost instantaneous communications has resulted in the expectation of similar instantaneous solutions. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:04 PM (2GVsD) 194 You know you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself. You know you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:04 PM (PpBto) 195 That I know, but AtC? I have no idea how tall (or short) she is. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM I'm reliably informed by people who have met AtC that she's fairly short. Not like Lollipop Guild short, but kinda petite, height wise. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:04 PM (bFu5X) 196 You can find his channel, TousiTV on EweToob. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (bFu5X) Thank you! 'News' shouldn't have to be a freaking puzzle activity where you go to 10 different sources, sort through, pick out the truth kernels lodged in the crap and try to form some semblance of the true story. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:04 PM (Sco7b) 197 Iranian FM demanding end of Israeli offensive against Hezbollah. Surely the issue was addressed in the "talks" via Pakistan. Bibi and WH have both confirmed Lebanon not part of the deal. Diminutive FM says US must choose between ceasefire and "continued war via Israel". Delicious. Actually, the little fella has it backwards. Posted by: rhomboid at April 08, 2026 02:05 PM (U/Byj) 198 Indiana Gov. Mike Braun is suspending the state's sales tax on gas as prices continue to climb in the wake of the Iran conflict. Braun announced a 30-day holiday on the state's sales tax on gasoline. He said it is effective immediately. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 02:05 PM (Cqx++) 199 What does "TACO" stand for? Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:00 PM (VC ***** Trump Always Chickens Out Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:05 PM (NpAcC) 200 "Almost instantaneous communications has resulted in the expectation of similar instantaneous solutions." Cop shows, mystery shows, etc. Posted by: connected and litigious at April 08, 2026 02:05 PM (cS1cw) 201 174 157 How do some of you guys know how tall some of you are? Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/) Measuring tapes, mostly. Posted by: And the height thing on the doctor's office scale at April 08, 2026 02:00 PM (TbWk/) Imperial units only Posted by: browndog says woof at April 08, 2026 02:05 PM (3sXRv) 202 Starmer's password was 123456 Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:05 PM (2GVsD) 203 Diminutive FM says US must choose between ceasefire and "continued war via Israel" That's an easy one.... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 02:05 PM (FtULh) 204 Mercy! There are various kinds of varnish. Sometimes cross ventilation (crack windows open, fans), closing doors leading to other interior rooms, and not varnishing inside a room used for sleep will do it. Nitrile gloves & some eye protection are often more important for 'health & safety." Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (NFX2v) 205 waves at everyone That I know, but AtC? I have no idea how tall (or short) she is. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/) I am five foot tall. I AM TOO A WHOLE SIXTY INCHES TALL. Ahem. There is an entire subset of the Twitters dedicated to mocking me for being so short. Posted by: Alexthechick at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (X5Sen) 206 So until he ticks me off he's got me. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (WONhk Thank you. A good policy. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (Sco7b) 207 AtC and I are the same height... make of that what you will. Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:03 PM Having met you and not AtC, I'll make a comparison of it. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (bFu5X) 208 From the conference, Fake News used the Fake 10 point plan as real. The Hormuz is supposed to be totally free to transit without limitations. Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire. Fake News reporting that Iran shut down Hormuz because of Lebanon bombings. So beats me. shoulder shrug Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 02:07 PM (n5tGW) 209 >>I AM TOO A WHOLE SIXTY INCHES TALL. How's the weather down there? Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:07 PM (TLp3A) 210 Hello everyone! Sorry for the lateness. I wish I had a good excuse but I don't. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:30 PM ____________ Talk to tankdemon. He can supply any number of perfectly plausible excuses. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:07 PM (tgvbd) 211 Posted by: Alexthechick at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM I feel tall now. Comparatively. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:07 PM (bFu5X) 212 Mayor Pete would be all over a Vienna Sausage convention. Posted by: Anna Puma We have a restraining order. Posted by: Vienna Boys Choir at April 08, 2026 02:07 PM (yFLFB) 213 Bill Kristol is ridiculous and impossible to take seriously, and he's happy to show it, often. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (aZm/F) 214 Sad observation: Almost instantaneous communications has resulted in the expectation of similar instantaneous solutions. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:04 PM (2GVsD) I think this has been the case in the working world with the advent of telephone and e-mail communication for some time, and spread to the broader culture through social media. Because the means of communication is instantaneous it is expected that the person of whom an action, response, or solution to a problem is requested must produce same instantaneously. Expectations have been grossly skewed across many different parts of society and it's causing a lot of problems. Posted by: Anna Puma Johnson is right at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (TbWk/) 215 Empress!! How many apples tall is that? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (2GVsD) 216 'News' shouldn't have to be a freaking puzzle activity where you go to 10 different sources, sort through, pick out the truth kernels lodged in the crap and try to form some semblance of the true story. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:04 PM (Sco7b) ---- I let J.J. Sefton do that work for me every weekday morning...And I really do appreciate all the hard work that goes into compiling those links every day. It ain't easy. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (ESVrU) 217 What does "TACO" stand for? Trump Always Catapults Otters. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (EXyHK) 218 I’ve become the “bitch eating crackers” to someone, it’s basically irrational hatred coupled with a persecution complex. In their mind, everything you do is an affront and a personal targeting of them. Objective reality has no bearing. On a personal level your best bet is to just go dead to them, complete detachment/avoidance (although they will stalk you, especially on social media). At the Trump level that’s not an option. You know Acosta, Harwood, et al have convinced themselves it’s all about them. Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (rcyPU) 219 Some of these sleeper cells are enjoying American life in western civilization so much, they abandon the mission. We can still round them up for questioning. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (Fbc0I) 220 Starmer's password was 123456 Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:05 PM Change the password on my luggage! Posted by: President Skroob at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (bFu5X) 221 Trump will ultimately reduce the Persians to tents and camel level of existence. It is the only way. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 02:09 PM (pohLc) 222 I am five foot tall. I AM TOO A WHOLE SIXTY INCHES TALL. Ahem. There is an entire subset of the Twitters dedicated to mocking me for being so short. Posted by: Alexthechick at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (X5Sen) But you are not sixty inches wide, so you are hawt. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 02:09 PM (utfVc) 223 Tyrants Are Catching Ordnance ? 💥 Posted by: Rex B at April 08, 2026 02:09 PM (BYqnY) 224 Delicious. Actually, the little fella has it backwards. Posted by: rhomboid at April 08, 2026 02:05 PM (U/Byj) Memories of Baghdad Bob saying they were winning as smoke rose behind him. I really should go do something useful. Vs waiting for something BIG to happen, eh? I threw in that Canada word at the very end. Oui, amigos? "How you say cucumber?" Mrs. Alec Baldwin,fake Spanish spawn factory. hic Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:09 PM (WONhk) 225 There is an entire subset of the Twitters dedicated to mocking me for being so short. Posted by: Alexthechick at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (X5Sen) You can reach things off the top shelf for my wife, then. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 02:09 PM (rbvCR) 226 I let J.J. Sefton do that work for me every weekday morning...And I really do appreciate all the hard work that goes into compiling those links every day. It ain't easy. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (ESVrU) Absolutely.. My go to every AM Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 02:09 PM (FtULh) 227 AtC and I are the same height... make of that what you will. Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:03 PM (VCgbV) Which is right around the same as the First Lady. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:09 PM (PpBto) 228 I am 0.00921715 furlongs tall. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:09 PM (tgvbd) 229 glares at garrett* It's fine. Also fingereyes Sponge Anyway, one of the most annoying bits about the whole bitch eating crackers with Trump is that there is always room for criticism but noooo can't have that. Posted by: Alexthechick at April 08, 2026 02:10 PM (X5Sen) 230 The use of "taco" is another projection. Projection truly is something the Dems do better than anyone. Remember when the freaks were trying to convince us JD Vance was "weird?" Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:10 PM (aZm/F) 231 waves at everyone That I know, but AtC? I have no idea how tall (or short) she is. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/) I am five foot tall. I AM TOO A WHOLE SIXTY INCHES TALL. Ahem. There is an entire subset of the Twitters dedicated to mocking me for being so short. Posted by: Alexthechick at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (X5Sen) __________ "5 Feet?? You are positively Amazonian!" -- Robert Reich Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 02:10 PM (iFTx/) 232 That I know, but AtC? I have no idea how tall (or short) she is. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/) AtC is famously short. She has described it herself. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 02:10 PM (ExV1e) 233 >>AtC and I are the same height... make of that what you will. Standing or Supine? Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:10 PM (TLp3A) 234 I am 0.00921715 furlongs tall. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:09 PM (tgvbd) --------------- "Furlong, when Hadrian's Wall fell." Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:10 PM (TbhYO) 235 I am 0.00921715 furlongs tall. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:09 PM (tgvbd) --- What's the parsec conversion ratio for that? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (ESVrU) 236 This is all just a distraction from the Epstein files. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (W2Pud) 237 Which is right around the same as the First Lady. Posted by: Sponge ----- We are the perfect height!!!🤗😁 Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (VCgbV) 238 I am 7 feet tall and shoot lightening bolts out my arse. I am William Wallace! Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (P8t+z) 239 I have mental mages of all you all, and I would be afraid to go to a meetup as it would surely ruin it. In my mind, you are all either like those precocious toddlers in the AI videos, or really old and grumpy. I leave it to the reader to figure out which one you are individually. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (zAO6l) 240 I measure myself in Smoots I am 1.057 Smoots in height, and I weigh approximately one late model Kenmore dryer Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 02:03 PM I am 1.015 Smoots tall. Posted by: President Skroob at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (bFu5X) 241 Empress #53 Like that you mean? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (2GVsD) 242 Scored two tickets on the next Cuckshed Cruise. Beverage plan, too! Posted by: Don't Be Jealous at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (oftw2) 243 ----- We are the perfect height!!!🤗😁 Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (VCgbV) She and a friend of hers dubbed it "Fun Size." Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:12 PM (PpBto) 244 Standing or Supine? Posted by: garrett --- YES!! Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:12 PM (VCgbV) 245 @RNCResearch Democrat Rep. Al Green calls for a "Secretary of Reconciliation" to implement reparations. GREEN: “We need a Secretary of Reconciliation…that would include reparations. Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from.” https://tinyurl.com/mr32a8ky Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:12 PM (NpAcC) 246 " I am five foot tall." Five feel to fury. Posted by: bob* (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 02:12 PM (zAO6l) 247 feet Posted by: bob* (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 02:12 PM (zAO6l) 248 Sorry folks, there's no going back. America's status on the world stage, particularly for Western civilization, isn't coming back after a short period of good behavior. Isn't this what the Dems have always wanted? An America that no one respects and that has no power? I don't know why they're complaining Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 02:13 PM (a+4eV) 249 Damn it! Off, Spaceball sock! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:13 PM (bFu5X) 250 Ugh. I always feel like I need a shower after reading Intercepted Reddit Transmissions. Or at least a palate-refreshing Mannix babe. Posted by: mindful webworker - garling with Listerine at April 08, 2026 02:13 PM (C2uPD) 251 I AM TOO A WHOLE SIXTY INCHES TALL. Ahem. There is an entire subset of the Twitters dedicated to mocking me for being so short. Posted by: Alexthechick at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (X5Sen) For all the mocking that's not even that short. I guess a little gentle ribbing turned you into a mini-meme. Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 02:13 PM (zafwz) 252 Her Majesty married me because I'm 6'1" and she's 4'11". It sure wasn't for my looks, brains or personality. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:13 PM (tgvbd) 253 GREEN: “We need a Secretary of Reconciliation…that would include reparations. Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from.” https://tinyurl.com/mr32a8ky Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:12 PM (NpAcC) Your reparations were gained after the Civil War, asshole. You're not in Africa with a bone through your nose and a plate in your lip. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:13 PM (PpBto) 254 That I know, but AtC? I have no idea how tall (or short) she is. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/) Well she has a lawsuit against the city for building the sidewalks too close to her ass Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 08, 2026 02:13 PM (P4Pk9) 255 I wonder if any of these troglodytes ever to about 20 minutes and read Trump's breakdown of the importance of LEVERAGE in "The Art of the Deal." He's pretty clear. You don't negotiate unless you first acquire, and then USE leverage. He goes into detail about how, sometimes, you have to generate the leverage yourself. He states that this requires creativity and salesmanship. The fact that his opposition is bouncing back and forth on positions in an effort to show Trump's "incompetence" indicates that they missed that chapter, or didn't comprehend that it was the most important part of the book. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 02:13 PM (dIske) 256 It's 9:43pm in Tehran. Do you know where your mullah is? Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 02:14 PM (hCUcO) 257 Democrat Rep. Al Green calls for a "Secretary of Reconciliation" to implement reparations. GREEN: “We need a Secretary of Reconciliation…that would include reparations. Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from.” https://tinyurl.com/mr32a8ky Posted by: redridinghood Send him back to Africa. It'll be like his ancestors never left. No, I don't care what his actual race is. If he's not black, it'll just be more distant ancestors Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 02:14 PM (a+4eV) 258 TACO: Trump Always Controls Obtuse Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:14 PM (WONhk) 259 bob apparently I am Talia Shire I made the kids watch The Godfather a bit ago and they were going nuts so there you go, picture me as Talia Shire, albeit older now, hair still (naturally I swear) dark tho I didn't see it til they said it and at easter everyone agreed Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 08, 2026 02:15 PM (j+aD2) 260 It's 2:14am in Peking. You're the guy in the charge of the CCP's Middle East policy. Are you sleeping right now? Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 02:15 PM (BI5O2) 261 If her height were a dog, it would be a Corgi. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:15 PM (PpBto) 262 >>I AM TOO A WHOLE SIXTY INCHES TALL. I've seen pics. No way you are over 59 1/2" tall. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:15 PM (TLp3A) 263 It's the Brits, French, Spanish and Dutch who should be paying reparations. Slavery is part of the Poisonous Legacy of Colonialism. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:15 PM (tgvbd) 264 GREEN: “We need a Secretary of Reconciliation…that would include reparations. Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from.” expatriate and don't return and you'll get that check my good sir Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 08, 2026 02:15 PM (j+aD2) 265 How many apples tall is that? Posted by: Anna Puma i use corgis as length, and cheese burgers as width. now adding apples as height. Posted by: BifBewalski at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (PnEh/) 266 Expectations have been grossly skewed across many different parts of society and it's causing a lot of problems. Posted by: Anna Puma ----- I think smart phones and video has made a lot of the world envy (hate) us. I think what Elon is doing with the translations could be very dangerous. Humans are happy when they are doing "ok" relative to others around them. Integration is very very bad for happiness. Instant communication is a form of integration and will lead to problems. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (zAO6l) 267 I've only seen the Victory Cleavage pics. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (PpBto) 268 Her Majesty married me because I'm 6'1" and she's 4'11". It sure wasn't for my looks, brains or personality. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:13 PM (tgvbd) _____________________ She needed someone who could reach the top shelf. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (dIske) 269 I have mental mages of all you all, and I would be afraid to go to a meetup as it would surely ruin it.* In my mind, you are all either like those precocious toddlers in the AI videos, or really old and grumpy. I leave it to the reader to figure out which one you are individually. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (zAO6l) ----------------- I had expressed the same reservations for a decade -- except in my case I imagine everybody as a Randian AND Greek God Hero. To which someone here replied "You know, it's not like we're all 29 anymore." Anyway, after attending last year's TX MoMe: I highly encourage you to attend a MoMe if you can. Incredible individuals and memories ... Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (TbhYO) 270 @RNCResearch Democrat Rep. Al Green calls for a "Secretary of Reconciliation" to implement reparations. GREEN: “We need a Secretary of Reconciliation…that would include reparations. Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from.” https://tinyurl.com/mr32a8ky Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:12 PM (NpAcC) Free shit! Free shit! Vote fo us and we be givin you free shit! Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (ExV1e) 271 Drachinfel just posted a 34 minute video on how Jackie Fisher prevented a world war in 1905. Trump comes off sounding much like Jackie Fisher. Sound like the unhinged lunatic on the world stage that no one wants to mess with. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (2GVsD) 272 I let J.J. Sefton do that work for me every weekday morning...And I really do appreciate all the hard work that goes into compiling those links every day. It ain't easy. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (ESVrU Me also. Thanks J.J. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:17 PM (Sco7b) 273 I've only seen the Victory Cleavage pics. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (PpBto) ---------------- Wasn't 60 inches ALSO their circumference? / Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (TbhYO) 274 23 mins. ago, Al Jazerra Iran’s foreign minister says US must choose ceasefire or war via Israel The US must choose between continued war via Israel or a ceasefire, Iran’s top diplomat says. “The conditions for a ceasefire between Iran and the United States are clear and explicit: America must choose either a ceasefire or the continuation of war through Israel; both cannot coexist,” Araghchi wrote on Telegram. “The world is witnessing the killings in Lebanon. Now the ball is in America’s court, and global public opinion is watching to see whether this country will fulfill its commitments or not.” --- BUT the really BIG story is 'Israel kills Al Jazeera Journalist named Mohammed Wishah in Gaza' They're just incorrigible since Oct. 7th. (A White woman from NY discusses on video.) AND, 21 minutes ago, 'Hamas condemns Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza' The Palestinian group has condemned the killing of Mohammed Wishah as the latest in “a long list of crimes targeting journalists in the Gaza Strip”. Hamas. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (NFX2v) 275 Send him back to Africa. It'll be like his ancestors never left.* As I understand it, actual Africans loathe visiting blacks. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (ExV1e) 276 I'm taller than the late Robert Redford tall. He claimed to be 5'10" and he wasn't, nor was I when I met him in college. So there! Off to conquer things here with the attitude of a Special Ops hero! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (WONhk) 277 >>>I am 7 feet tall and shoot lightening bolts out my arse. I am William Wallace! Posted by: JackStraw >I always feel relieved when I shoot a lightening bolt. I become more limber and spry, - it's like yoga for the lower back. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (Fbc0I) 278 Trump raped me in the men's room stall at Mohammed's Big & Tall Mullah Shop And Accessories. Posted by: Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (/1l9x) 279 Why is the girl in the "bitch eating crackers" meme eating a sandwich? Posted by: Joemarine at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (y171U) 280 I love watching short women run around on their little, tiny legs. Kinda like dachshunds. Posted by: Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? at April 08, 2026 02:19 PM (oftw2) 281 The comedian Brad Williams, who is a dwarf (for real) has a bit where he talks about a female dwarf friend who is like 3'8" tall, and she married a 6'5" black guy. The joke is that everyone in the audience is currently thinking what anyone who reads this is also currently thinking. Lol. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 02:19 PM (oqH4h) 282 No reparations. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:19 PM (XQJDW) 283 I have mental mages of all you all, and I would be afraid to go to a meetup as it would surely ruin it. In my mind, you are all either like those precocious toddlers in the AI videos, or really old and grumpy. I leave it to the reader to figure out which one you are individually. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM Anyway, after attending last year's TX MoMe: I highly encourage you to attend a MoMe if you can. Incredible individuals and memories ... Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM ^^^ This. Get yourself to a MoMe. The Horde is the best. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:19 PM (bFu5X) 284 Anyway, after attending last year's TX MoMe: I highly encourage you to attend a MoMe if you can. Incredible individuals and memories ... Posted by: ShainS Seconded! Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 02:19 PM (hCUcO) 285 Speed dial? WTAF is speed dial? Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 08, 2026 02:20 PM (NYInA) 286 It's the Brits, French, Spanish and Dutch who should be paying reparations. Slavery is part of the Poisonous Legacy of Colonialism. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:15 PM (tgvbd) _______________________ The Brits will get right on that after the Itialians pay up for the slavery induced by the Roman Empire on the Britons in 43 AD. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 02:20 PM (dIske) 287 239 I have mental mages* of all you all, and I would be afraid to go to a meetup as it would surely ruin it.* for the record, i prefer to play rogues. Posted by: anachronda at April 08, 2026 02:20 PM (oY6Yp) 288 It's the Brits, French, Spanish and Dutch who should be paying reparations. Slavery is part of the Poisonous Legacy of Colonialism. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:15 PM (tgvbd) The Arabs. They infected Africa with islam, and it was muslim tribes that sold captives to the slave traders. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (utfVc) 289 Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from.” Also, which 240 years is he talking about? the country's only 250 years old and "free labor" (excuse you, people had to pay for those slaves, they didn't go out in the wild and catch them themselves) was banned for all non-judicial purposes 160 years ago. He wants 240 years of reparations he's going to have to hit Britain up for all but 90 for them Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (a+4eV) 290 How many apples tall is that? Posted by: Anna Puma I can rest now. My work here is done. Posted by: Measuring Man at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (yFLFB) 291 Trump comes off sounding much like Jackie Fisher. Sound like the unhinged lunatic on the world stage that no one wants to mess with. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (2GVsD) __________ "If you rub it in both at home and abroad that you are ready for instant war and intend to be first in and hit your enemy in the belly and kick him when he is down and boil your prisoners in oil (if you take any), and torture his women and children, then people will keep clear of you." Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (tgvbd) 292 Why is the girl in the "bitch eating crackers" meme eating a sandwich? Posted by: Joemarine at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (y171U) Cuz she's not the one eating crackers. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (ExV1e) 293 4 Standing or Supine? Posted by: garrett --- YES!! Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:12 PM (VCgbV) Lin-duh, you dirty dog Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (JrZbt) 294 Let's face it everyone made slaves of everyone else if they could Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (2GVsD) 295 I'm 6'5". Ask me how the weather is up here. I dare you. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (dIske) 296 280 I love watching short women run around on their little, tiny legs. Kinda like dachshunds. hmmm.... now i have a mental mage of a dachshund centaur Posted by: anachronda at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (oY6Yp) 297 GREEN: “We need a Secretary of Reconciliation…that would include reparations. Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from.” --- Why should I pay a slaver for the people he sold into slavery? Oh? You want to pretend your people weren't the ones selling slaves? The first coins for every slave sold out of Africa fell into a black hand, not a white hand. And you need to settle your debt with Jesus before you come looking to man for more silver. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (HXT0k) 298 I am five foot tall. I AM TOO A WHOLE SIXTY INCHES TALL. Ahem. There is an entire subset of the Twitters dedicated to mocking me for being so short. Posted by: Alexthechick Heighth is mostly irrelevant. It's the strength of the foundation you stand upon. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (0CEhJ) 299 11 Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Q/FnY) Congratulations? Can you drink legally now?😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke My doctor said no, but my bottle of Drambuie says, 'Your secret is safe with me.' My bottle of Crown wants me to pour a double on the rocks so no regrets! Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 02:22 PM (Q/FnY) 300 >>Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from. If we subtracted the cost of Welfare Programs and the Prison System, they'd owe us a LOT of money. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:22 PM (TLp3A) 301 Wasn't 60 inches ALSO their circumference? / Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (TbhYO) Only a view of the topside, but they were large, for sure. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:22 PM (PpBto) 302 I am a not tall man, and thus of no worth, value, purpose or point according to the current cultural consensus. I should, according to the present spirit of the age, therefore relegate myself to the trash heap or get a MAID visa to Canada. Posted by: Not sure when that happened but it did! at April 08, 2026 02:22 PM (TbWk/) 303 Exactly what the real purpose of the current "ceasefire" is - and especially the comical fiction that there's a "new regime" in Tehran - haven't the foggiest. But we may see before long. Posted by: rhomboid ====== Anything that helps in getting them to turn on each other, is worth a shot. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 08, 2026 02:22 PM (f5L5X) 304 I let J.J. Sefton do that work for me every weekday morning...And I really do appreciate all the hard work that goes into compiling those links every day. It ain't easy. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (ESVrU Me also. Thanks J.J. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:17 PM (Sco7b) ----------------- Ditto -- don't know how he does it, let alone remain sane (or is that up for debate?). ;-) "America's Blog of Record." Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:22 PM (TbhYO) 305 >I have mental mages of all you all, and I would be afraid to go to a meetup as it would surely ruin it. --- imagine a bunch of curmudgeons who meet at McDonald's every morning for coffee and bull sessions Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 02:23 PM (ZxPkt) 306 I have mental mages of all you all, and I would be afraid to go to a meetup as it would surely ruin it. In my mind, you are all either like those precocious toddlers in the AI videos, or really old and grumpy. I leave it to the reader to figure out which one you are individually. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (zAO6l) _____ The Blade could be: 1. Tall, studly, lives in a penthouse, and drives an exotic car; or 2. Short, dumpy, unemployed, and lives in his mom's basement; or 3. A chick pretending to be a guy (a new theory from TJM yesterday). Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 02:23 PM (iFTx/) 307 Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 02:13 PM (dIske) ---- I said this less eloquently upthread. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:23 PM (aZm/F) 308 Until Drachinifel's video I really had no clear understanding of all the complicated little treaties that were floating around the world in 1905. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:23 PM (2GVsD) 309 Heighth is mostly irrelevant. It's the strength of the foundation you stand upon. Posted by: Sock Monkey considering the imponderables at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (0CEhJ) And the structural integrity of the stepstool. Posted by: How else to reach countertops? at April 08, 2026 02:23 PM (TbWk/) 310 245 @RNCResearch Democrat Rep. Al Green calls for a "Secretary of Reconciliation" to implement reparations. GREEN: “We need a Secretary of Reconciliation…that would include reparations. Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from.” https://tinyurl.com/mr32a8ky Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:12 PM (NpAcC) I am disappoint. He'd get more traction with a more conciliatory approach. Perhaps something like, "Let's stay together." Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 08, 2026 02:23 PM (w/O5Q) 311 291 Trump comes off sounding much like Jackie Fisher. Sound like the unhinged lunatic on the world stage that no one wants to mess with. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (2GVsD) __________ "If you rub it in both at home and abroad that you are ready for instant war and intend to be first in and hit your enemy in the belly and kick him when he is down and boil your prisoners in oil (if you take any), and torture his women and children, then people will keep clear of you." hmmm... maybe i should cozy up to some ai. i could use a version of that far side "how nature says do not touch" strip with trump as the guy in the bottom right... Posted by: anachronda at April 08, 2026 02:23 PM (oY6Yp) 312 279 Why is the girl in the "bitch eating crackers" meme eating a sandwich? True LIB Wisdom: LET THEM HAVE CRACKER BARREL. Proud (and SOLE) Hater of LIBs long before anyone really noticed, or cared. "I am not a great man, I am a failure – and you have made me one." -- Clinton'01, to this day still deserving of the eternal urinal for standing there at the pinnacle of our civilization, to PISS IT ALL AWAY. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: LETS GO BRANDON Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 08, 2026 02:24 PM (h4n6w) 313 250 Ugh. I always feel like I need a shower after reading Intercepted Reddit Transmissions. Or at least a palate-refreshing Mannix babe. Posted by: mindful webworker I can help with that! https://tinyurl.com/2y2nak94 It's also in honor of our astronauts! Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 08, 2026 02:24 PM (JCZqz) 314 @RNCResearch Democrat Rep. Al Green calls for a "Secretary of Reconciliation" to implement reparations. GREEN: “We need a Secretary of Reconciliation…that would include reparations. Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from.” https://tinyurl.com/mr32a8ky Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:12 PM (NpAcC) We need a secretary of retardation whose job it is to whack these retards in their retarded faces. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 02:24 PM (dK+Kv) 315 Iran’s foreign minister says US must choose ceasefire or war via Israel The US must choose between continued war via Israel or a ceasefire, Iran’s top diplomat says. - They sure don't sound like they understand they've been defeated. And they must have been defeated since people insist that the ceasefire agreement which has/has not opened the Strait was a victory. Posted by: Methos at April 08, 2026 02:25 PM (vSvIl) 316 I'm 6'5". Ask me how the weather is up here. I dare you. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 02:21 PM (dIske) You'll spit and tell us it's raining....... Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:25 PM (PpBto) 317 I accidently saw O'Reilly last night after Tousi's live report. Man, he looks rough. Is he sick or just old? I'm older but, wow. Maybe that last divorce? Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 01:52 PM (WONhk) I think part of it is he no longer has the makeup artists do is face before every show. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 02:25 PM (8avO+) 318 Never before seen footage of the other side of the moon. https://tinyurl.com/4pr9uxsm X link Posted by: illiniwek at April 08, 2026 02:25 PM (vbXSk) 319 ...imagine a bunch of curmudgeons who meet at McDonald's every morning for coffee and bull sessions Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 02:23 PM (ZxPkt) We meet at Timmy's up here on the border ... Posted by: browndog says woof at April 08, 2026 02:25 PM (3sXRv) 320 There is an entire subset of the Twitters dedicated to mocking me for being so short. Posted by: Alexthechick at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (X5Sen) =============== You're big where it counts, Empress Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 02:26 PM (C/GFS) 321 Free shit! Free shit! Vote fo us and we be givin you free shit! Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 02:16 PM (ExV1e) ******** I can see the Democrats creating a Secretary of Reconciliation or a Reparations Czar if they win in 2028. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:26 PM (NpAcC) 322 279 Why is the girl in the "bitch eating crackers" meme eating a sandwich? Posted by: Joemarine If you hate her enough, it doesn't matter. Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 08, 2026 02:26 PM (JCZqz) 323 We need a Secretary of Reconciliation…that would include reparations. Reparations for the 240 years of free labor that people still benefit today from. ------ Certainly. I can send my Venmo, and you can get started. Let's call it 1%, over the next 240 years or so. You're kids and grandkids can finish the balance. And it's even at a discount - because I'm not asking for the blood to be repaid. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 02:26 PM (BI5O2) 324 If we subtracted the cost of Welfare Programs and the Prison System, they'd owe us a LOT of money. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:22 PM (TLp3A) That having been said, there are a good number of people who'd be willing to front a pretty sizable payment if it came in return for irrevocable renunciation of citizenship and a one-way flight to somewhere else. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (ExV1e) 325 Hasn't Al Green stolen enough from the US tax payer? Posted by: DOGE at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (/1l9x) 326 Iran’s foreign minister says US must choose ceasefire or war via Israel The US must choose between continued war via Israel or a ceasefire, Iran’s top diplomat says. - They sure don't sound like they understand they've been defeated. And they must have been defeated since people insist that the ceasefire agreement which has/has not opened the Strait was a victory. Posted by: Methos at April 08, 2026 02:25 PM (vSvIl) seems like a huge downgrade from the previous promises of rains of missiles destroying the US fleet. it's almost like a love letter. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (8avO+) 327 If Al Green's ancestors weren't slaves, then he wouldn't have anything and certainly wouldn't be a congressman. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (aZm/F) 328 I am a not tall man, and thus of no worth, value, purpose or point according to the current cultural consensus. I should, according to the present spirit of the age, therefore relegate myself to the trash heap or get a MAID visa to Canada. Posted by: Not sure when that happened but it did! Don't sell yourself short, you'll fit more easily into a crawl-space (Have you ever watched a tall guy trying to fold himself up into one of those?) and you can change a car's oil without putting it on a lift. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (a+4eV) 329 I’m 5’10” which means, as a man I’m supposed to say I’m 6’ so women will know I’m actually 5’10” and not 5’8” which is the opposite of what a 5’10” woman is supposed to say. It’s all so confusing. Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (rcyPU) 330 I can help with that! https://tinyurl.com/2y2nak94 It's also in honor of our astronauts!" You are a great American! Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (XuXeR) 331 You're big where it counts, Empress Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 02:26 PM (C/GFS) That is so, so sweet Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (JrZbt) 332 We meet at Timmy's up here on the border ... Posted by: browndog says woof at April 08, 2026 02:25 PM (3sXRv) TIMMAH!!! Posted by: TIMMAH!!! at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (TbWk/) 333 LOL. Picture on Fb of a salty old marine. Chest full of medals. Five slashes on his sleeve. PFC. LOL. I'll be he cleared out more than a few bars in Da Nang. Commenters all saying he had to be fun to hang with. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (hCUcO) 334 ATC!!!!!!! I am so happy you did a drive by, on my birthday no less! You are fun size, especially for my 5' 5" body. Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (Q/FnY) 335 Stateless, Tousi is a guy with a YouTube channel, an an X account. https://m.youtube.com/@TousiTV Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (Vvh2V) 336 I said this less eloquently upthread. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:23 PM (aZm/F) _________________ Missed it. Great minds run on the same track. I was, at one time, skeptical that Trump had a ghost writer and didn't write that book. But, time and time again, you can see his outlined philosophy in just about every important decision. I wonder how the foreign intelligence agencies regard that book. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (dIske) 337 Until Drachinifel's video I really had no clear understanding of all the complicated little treaties that were floating around the world in 1905. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:23 PM Have you read Christopher Clark's "The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914"? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:28 PM (bFu5X) 338 What if I told you that there is still human slavery and trafficking (including children and sex) and that The AutoPen Empire enabled, facilitated, encouraged, and profited from it between 2021 and 2025 more than any other slavers in history? Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:28 PM (TbhYO) 339 I always wanted to be with a chick who was much taller than me just to see what it's like. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 02:29 PM (JrZbt) 340 RMBS I knew pre 1914 there was a web of treaty tripwires, I just never knew how many and how twitchy they were because all these empires were trying to control each other. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:29 PM (2GVsD) 341 There is an entire subset of the Twitters dedicated to mocking me for being so short. Posted by: Alexthechick at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (X5Sen) How much does it cost to mail a box of angry emu, anyway? Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at April 08, 2026 02:30 PM (4g8dN) 342 There is an entire subset of the Twitters dedicated to mocking me for being so short. Posted by: Alexthechick at April 08, 2026 02:06 PM (X5Sen) =============== You're big where it counts, Empress Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 02:26 PM So you've seen the Victory Tits pic? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:30 PM (bFu5X) 343 What if I told you that there is still human slavery and trafficking (including children and sex) and that The AutoPen Empire enabled, facilitated, encouraged, and profited from it between 2021 and 2025 more than any other slavers in history? Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:28 PM (TbhYO) I believe it, I believe it... Posted by: Triz Trzcinski at April 08, 2026 02:30 PM (/1l9x) 344 And now for something completely different ... Once again, ESPN has found a way to fuq up a nice sporting experience. They're butchering the Par 3 presentation Posted by: browndog says woof at April 08, 2026 02:31 PM (3sXRv) 345 I always wanted to be with a chick who was much taller than me just to see what it's like. I've observed that if the man is at eye level with the woman's boobs, the man's IQ drops by at least 20. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:31 PM (2GVsD) 346 I'm taller than the late Robert Redford tall. He claimed to be 5'10" and he wasn't, nor was I when I met him in college. So there! Off to conquer things here with the attitude of a Special Ops hero! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (WONhk) Hollywood loves short actors with large heads. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 02:31 PM (8avO+) 347 I can help with that! https://tinyurl.com/2y2nak94 It's also in honor of our astronauts! Posted by: Admiral Ackbar Nope, nope, nope. Don't think so, Admiral. Been fooled too often. Even if you did link to a beauty once. Once. Posted by: mindful webworker - won't get fooled again at April 08, 2026 02:31 PM (C2uPD) 348 I always wanted to be with a chick who was much taller than me just to see what it's like" Dated once. Basketball player, she was 6'2"... Nice girl. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:31 PM (XuXeR) 349 338 What if I told you that there is still human slavery and trafficking (including children and sex) and that The AutoPen Empire enabled, facilitated, encouraged, and profited from it between 2021 and 2025 more than any other slavers in history? Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:28 PM (TbhYO) ---- I'd say there are at least two of us here who know it. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:31 PM (aZm/F) 350 I knew pre 1914 there was a web of treaty tripwires, I just never knew how many and how twitchy they were because all these empires were trying to control each other. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:29 PM The Sleepwalkers is a practically hour-by-hour look at the decision making at the time because of the web of treaties. Fascinating reading. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:31 PM (bFu5X) 351 >>I always wanted to be with a chick who was much taller than me just to see what it's like. "I usually only date tall chicks...but, you'll do." Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:32 PM (TLp3A) 352 Don't sell yourself short, you'll fit more easily into a crawl-space (Have you ever watched a tall guy trying to fold himself up into one of those?) and you can change a car's oil without putting it on a lift. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 02:27 PM (a+4eV) And they won't have to use as much phenobarbital to put me down compared to others. Savings! Posted by: Always a silver lining at April 08, 2026 02:32 PM (TbWk/) 353 I've observed that if the man is at eye level with the woman's boobs, the man's IQ drops by at least 20. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:31 PM (2GVsD) That's how I am with legs but they don't make 'em that tall Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 02:32 PM (JrZbt) 354 I always wanted to be with a chick who was much taller than me just to see what it's like. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 02:29 PM (JrZbt) ________ [makes "call me" gesture] -- Brittney Griner Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 02:32 PM (iFTx/) 355 I just never knew how many and how twitchy they were because all these empires were trying to control each other. Posted by: Anna Puma ====== "If the Germans mobilize, it's game-on" seemed to be the driver. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 08, 2026 02:32 PM (f5L5X) 356 I've seen pics. No way you are over 59 1/2" tall. Posted by: garrett --- Are you talking about her victory boobs? Posted by: lin-duh at April 08, 2026 02:32 PM (VCgbV) 357 Nood. Cornbread. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 02:33 PM (zZu0s) 358 Oh crap. The good times are over. I just read that Jimmy Kimmel was maling fun of President Trump. Jimmy, Trump is against breathing dude! Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:33 PM (Sco7b) 359 It's also in honor of our astronauts! Posted by: Admiral Ackbar Okay, I clicked anyway. Glad I did.😁 Posted by: mindful webworker - weightless boobies ftw at April 08, 2026 02:33 PM (C2uPD) 360 My DIL is 5 ft. tall.. Big boobs too... Looks like she will tip over. Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 02:33 PM (FtULh) 361 292 Why is the girl in the "bitch eating crackers" meme eating a sandwich? Posted by: Joemarine at April 08, 2026 02:18 PM (y171U) Cuz she's not the one eating crackers. ---------- This is so confusing. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 02:33 PM (n17eQ) 362 They sure don't sound like they understand they've been defeated. Posted by: Methos I think it's a cultural thing. You can't admit that you were ever wrong because it destroys everyone's respect for you forever. The only thing you an admit to are glorious victories closer and closer to home. Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 02:33 PM (a+4eV) 363 Anyone who mentioned nukes is Sub100 IQ. Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (MmH/W) 364 I knew pre 1914 there was a web of treaty tripwires" Foreign entanglements were commonplace, and had been for many, many years. Thus the founder's admonitions against. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (XuXeR) 365 nood madison cornbread Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (CWTWj) 366 I've observed that if the man is at eye level with the woman's boobs, the man's IQ drops by at least 20. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:31 PM (2GVsD) It's like those distraction devices they force intelligent people to use in Harrison Bergeron. Posted by: Therefore, I conclude that BOOBS at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (TbWk/) 367 360 My DIL is 5 ft. tall.. Big boobs too... Looks like she will tip over. -------------------- Sweet. How many teefs does she have? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (n17eQ) 368 A demand for reparations is an admission that slaves were--and remain--legal property. That their decedents own the slaves and their labor and must be paid. If you don't own your ancestors and their labor, then you are not entitled to any compensation. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (HXT0k) 369 315. They sure don't sound like they understand they've been defeated. Posted by: Methos Iran's foreign minister -“The world is witnessing the killings in Lebanon. Now the ball is in America’s court, and global public opinion is watching to see whether this country will fulfill its commitments or not.” On April 8, 2026, Israel launched its largest air attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon, hitting over 100 targets in Beirut and southern Lebanon, resulting in high casualties and panic, following a breakdown in a temporary ceasefire. The strikes aimed to eliminate Hezbollah's military infrastructure and stop rocket fire into Israel. (AI Overview and BBC, NPR, Washington Post, Haaretz references.) Israel has the right to defend itself. Why would the Iranian-US agreement cover Hezbollah in Lebanon? Why does Iran move the goal posts to include other terrorist networks? Let the world of critics answer that. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 02:34 PM (NFX2v) 370 So it's a boob thread? Posted by: Just got here at April 08, 2026 02:35 PM (850T+) 371 If you need a mental image of me, I’m 5’10”, 190 lbs (172 of which is muscle) ripped like Conan, abs like Brad Pitt, look like George Clooney (black and silver hair, dark complexion.) Drive a two- door jeep (stick shift/ olive green). Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 08, 2026 02:35 PM (rcyPU) 372 Has anybody ever seen the two of them in the same room at the same time? Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 08, 2026 01:56 PM (QGaXH) Yes. At a NoVaMoMee. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 08, 2026 02:35 PM (FmapG) 373 What if I told you that there is still human slavery and trafficking (including children and sex) and that The AutoPen Empire enabled, facilitated, encouraged, and profited from it between 2021 and 2025 more than any other slavers in history? Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:28 PM (TbhYO) ---- I'd say there are at least two of us here who know it. Posted by: Seems Legit Three. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 02:35 PM (hCUcO) 374 If you need a mental image of me, I’m 5’10”, 190 lbs (172 of which is muscle) ripped like Conan, abs like Brad Pitt, look like George Clooney (black and silver hair, dark complexion.) Drive a two- door jeep (stick shift/ olive green). Posted by: Farmer Bob I'm 6'00" with a face for radio and a voice for print. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 02:36 PM (hCUcO) 375 Uh oh...... Ace happened again....... Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (PpBto) 376 Nood. Posted by: I really haven't settled on a nic at April 08, 2026 02:37 PM (ONprm) 377 Like tears in the rain, the new post vanishes. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (2GVsD) 378 Wait...there was a nood. Now there is no nood. I'm confused. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (bFu5X) 379 Ok, where did nood go? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (XuXeR) 380 nood died Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (n5tGW) 381 Fake nooders spend a night in the barrel! Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (hCUcO) 382 Cornbread went back in the oven. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (utfVc) 383 Un-NOODlum. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (PpBto) 384 Once there was a new blog and then there is no blog and then there is. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (n17eQ) 385 Like tears in the rain, the new post vanishes. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM Like varnish on the desk, it has become invisible. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:39 PM (bFu5X) 386 I WAS FIRST!!!!!! Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 08, 2026 02:39 PM (dmDsy) 387 The varnish fumes have gotten to ace. He nuked the blog. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 02:39 PM (yAteE) 388 There was a nood. It was all link. Ace must be troubleshooting. Chuy. It's up to you. You're our only hope. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 02:39 PM (PpBto) 389 The AutoPen Empire enabled, facilitated, encouraged, and profited from it between 2021 and 2025 more than any other slavers in history? Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:28 PM (TbhYO) ====================== I'd love to see that link Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 02:39 PM (Uxbm6) 390 Like varnish on the desk, it has become invisible." Unless he shook it first. Nooooo Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:39 PM (XuXeR) 391 It slid off an uneven shelf Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 02:40 PM (n5tGW) 392 He was warned about the fumes Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 08, 2026 02:40 PM (f5L5X) 393 Corgis rush over to new newd. First third try rushing back when there is no new newd. Two thirds of the remaining corgis trample them trying to stop. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 02:40 PM (hCUcO) 394 LAST!! Posted by: javems at April 08, 2026 02:40 PM (Sepje) 395 Blog be broke. Posted by: Get This at April 08, 2026 02:40 PM (850T+) 396 Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not a blogger! Posted by: Dr. Leonard McCoy at April 08, 2026 02:40 PM (c2wDO) 397 Who gave Zathras keys to the blog? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:40 PM (2GVsD) 398 It's our fault. Posted by: Shelves and varnish at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (850T+) 399 Loonies on DM believe that Germany pays more than the US for NATO. Trump needs to withdraw everything from the eurotrash Posted by: night lifted at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (kJmLc) 400 392 He was warned about the fumes Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 08, 2026 02:40 PM (f5L5X) ------- Can confirm. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (aZm/F) 401 Corgis rush over to new newd. First third try rushing back when there is no new newd. Two thirds of the remaining corgis trample them trying to stop." STAMPEDE!!! Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (XuXeR) 402 Reverse willows are the bomb! Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (Sco7b) 403 Ok, where did nood go? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (XuXeR) Decided to give up being an artists model and to enter a Carmelite religious order instead? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (rZCVI) 404 The nood ... like Oakland: There is no there there ... Posted by: zombie Gertrude Stein at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (3sXRv) 405 I've observed that if the man is at eye level with the woman's boobs, the man's IQ drops by at least 20. Posted by: Anna Puma So, what men have you run into who are 5'3"? [ducks, runs to falsely-called nood] Posted by: mindful webworker - five foot eleven and seven eights at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (C2uPD) 406 All the firsters are hitting refresh like mad. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (n5tGW) 407 There is a very organized, across the board approach to subvert the US government. It includes an unholy alliance of Democrats, communists, anarchists and other liberal groups. It’s largely being funded by foreign governments hostile to the United States. These people are at war with the constitutional republic and very few people recognize it. There is a color revolution on steroids being attempted and it undermines everything from the voting system, to the courts, our congress and various law enforcement institutions. There isn’t an aspect they have ignored, and people should really start to understand what’s at stake come November. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 01:46 PM (sYFXJ) You are hitting the nail on the head Marcus T! This is the real threat to America - the Communist/Democrat Party. And they are inside the wire. Jesse Kelly speaks of the same on his radio show. America needs to wake the fuck up and realize that voting for a Democrat is voting for the end of your country. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (4ItEf) 408 No cornbread for you! Posted by: Madison at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (850T+) 409 Secretary of Jive Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 02:42 PM (Cqx++) 410 Ok, where did nood go? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (XuXeR) Decided to give up being an artists model and to enter a Carmelite religious order instead? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM golf clap* Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:42 PM (bFu5X) 411 >>Are you talking about her victory boobs? No. Most chicks I have known ALWAYS insist on the 1/2" on their height. I just assume it's important to them. So, I make a point of taking 1/2" off their claimed height. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:43 PM (TLp3A) 412 No newd. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:43 PM (XQJDW) 413 Comrades, noods don't just disappear. It is physically impossible! Posted by: Anatoly Dyatlov at April 08, 2026 02:43 PM (Ysav4) 414 >>> 217 What does "TACO" stand for? Trump Always Catapults Otters. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (EXyHK) The nasty river otters, right? Not the cute and spunky surfboard stealing sea otters! Posted by: the Horde needs to know at April 08, 2026 02:43 PM (9vFyc) 415 puts a note into Mindful Webworker's permanent record Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:43 PM (2GVsD) 416 Once there was a new blog and then there is no blog and then there is. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 02:38 PM (n17eQ) Sounds like something Donovan wrote in 1966. Posted by: Old Hippie Who Smells Bad at April 08, 2026 02:43 PM (/1l9x) 417 Decided to give up being an artists model and to enter a Carmelite religious order instead?" Aren't they the shoeless ones? Or misremembering? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:43 PM (XuXeR) 418 Its almost as if Trump knew his tweet was going to cause an over reaction by the usual idiots in the media, and that when he eventually did what he did, he could use it against the TACO counter narrative that arose after the cease-fire. Gee, its almost as if the guy doesn't shoot from the lip. Its like he baits his enemies into overreacting to something that he isn't going to do, to give him room to do what he wants to do. Heh. I'm not Tucker carlson or anything but that does some to be some seriously higher level operating. Posted by: Does he have a six six six birthmark????!!?!?! at April 08, 2026 02:43 PM (anL5R) 419 America needs to wake the fuck up and realize that voting for a Democrat is voting for the end of your country. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 08, 2026 02:41 PM (4ItEf) And voting Republican is voting for Republicans to get rich while still letting Democrats end the country Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 02:44 PM (JrZbt) 420 Odds Ace knock the varnish can over? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 02:44 PM (n17eQ) 421 After getting nood blue balled by Ace, I've got all sorts of noods I could share! Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 08, 2026 02:44 PM (JCZqz) 422 Well, you may as well all go and try to win tickets to the grand opening of obama's library of doom. Coming soon in June, 2026! The wait is over. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:45 PM (Sco7b) 423 Mother Superior, we've discovered a case of Chlamydia in the convent. Oh, thank heavens! I've gotten so TIRED of Chardonnay. Posted by: Speaking of the nunnery at April 08, 2026 02:45 PM (850T+) 424 make a point of taking 1/2" off their claimed height." The Paolo, he shortens nothing Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:45 PM (XuXeR) 425 Let's hope Ace didn't spill the varnish on himself. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:45 PM (2GVsD) 426 So, what men have you run into who are 5'3"? FKK ... 4'3" I meant. Posted by: mindful webworker - five foot eleven and seven eights at April 08, 2026 02:45 PM (C2uPD) 427 We've been denooded? Posted by: Doof at April 08, 2026 02:45 PM (LVvlK) 428 Aren't they the shoeless ones? Or misremembering? === the Discalced Carmelites are a Roman Catholic mendicant order, founded in 1562 by St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, focusing on contemplation, prayer, and apostolic ministry. "Discalced" (meaning "shoeless") signifies a reform toward greater poverty, simplicity, and a return to the original, stricter Carmelite Posted by: discalced Joe Jackson at April 08, 2026 02:45 PM (anL5R) 429 ACE DON'T GO INTO THE LIGHT Posted by: Weird little spirit medium from that one movie at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (TbWk/) 430 What's the likelihood that ace is glued to his furniture and flailing to escape? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (Fbc0I) 431 For the guys... https://youtu.be/Uf1imKzv5j8?t=106 LC Sign video. The whole thing is good but this is the part you care about. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (ExV1e) 432 We've been denooded?" Enclothed.. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (XuXeR) 433 My Uber driver yesterday morning was all nervous about this and worried that Trump was actually going to bomb the entirety of Iran and kill the entire country and maybe more in the region. I actually laughed at him (we've known each other for quite some time) and then explained to him: 1) Trump is not a politician - he is a businessman who has been in the game of high stakes negotiations for decades with billions of dollars and people's lives on the line. 2) There is always a message behind the messages that Trump puts out to the world. If you just take his primary messages at face value - you are making a mistake. You need to read what is behind the primary communications, but to do that, you have to understand the man. 3) He fights the fires that the Mullahs light with 1000 flame throwers and has zero f's to give what the global elitist think in their comfortable salons or DC cocktail parties. He is truly America first and that is almost unheard of in the last 50 years. Posted by: Cheri at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (oiNtH) 434 ace passed out from the fumes and is now stuck to his project. His hand slid of the post button. Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (yAteE) 435 I hope they got a good DEI architect for Gaylord's multi-story air freshener. Be a real shame if they got the sums for the foundation wrong and it started to tilt right. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (2GVsD) 436 You'll need proof of citizenship to win tickets for obama's library by the way. It's not like voting. It's much more important. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:47 PM (Sco7b) 437 Looks like the Madison thread is still MIA Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:48 PM (2GVsD) 438 What's the likelihood that ace is glued to his furniture and flailing to escape? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (Fbc0I) are you thinking that ace got shellacked? Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 02:48 PM (rbvCR) 439 discalced Joe Jackson" Say it ain't so Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:48 PM (XuXeR) 440 I want to be Nude! Stop teasing me! Posted by: Denny Crane - Well, I AM Already Nude, So Eat Me! at April 08, 2026 02:48 PM (dmDsy) 441 What is Madison cornbread? Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:49 PM (XQJDW) 442 My doctor said no, but my bottle of Drambuie says, 'Your secret is safe with me.' -- My mind always conjures up scenes with mid-century furniture and starburst clocks whenever I see the word Drambuie. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 02:49 PM (qBdHI) 443 Ah, that's better. The coffee. This is still farked Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:49 PM (XuXeR) 444 We need reparations here. All this free commenting is hard work. It's a lot of work saying stupid shit, fast and full of errors. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:49 PM (aZm/F) 445 435 I hope they got a good DEI architect for Gaylord's multi-story air freshener. Be a real shame if they got the sums for the foundation wrong and it started to tilt right. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (2GVsD Heh. I'd hope for constant toilet and sewage issues. That could take care of the foundation too... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:49 PM (Sco7b) 446 Uh Oh. I had a feeling bad things were going to happen. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:49 PM (NpAcC) 447 On a scale of importance Cornbread didn't rate a thread anyway Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 02:50 PM (yAteE) 448 Did the new thread get shelved? Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:50 PM (XQJDW) 449 Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 02:28 PM (TbhYO) When Obama started the "unaccompanied minor" program I stated that the US had become the largest child trafficking operation in the world. Autopen built on that. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2026 02:50 PM (lFFaq) 450 441 What is Madison cornbread? Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:49 PM (XQJDW) Beautiful, and delicious! Posted by: Denny Crane - I've Had Her Many Times. at April 08, 2026 02:50 PM (dmDsy) 451 Drambuie. Where the Girl Scouts get into a bar fight. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:50 PM (2GVsD) 452 My Uber driver yesterday morning was all nervous about this and worried that Trump was actually going to bomb the entirety of Iran and kill the entire country and maybe more in the region. Posted by: Cheri at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (oiNtH) It is also very hard to kill everybody in target zone when bombing or shelling. They tried for years in WWI on just a small area of trenches they knew the exact location of and still couldn't wipe out defenders. Ditto for strategic bombing, the nukes used in Japan, the firebombing in Japan, and the war in Ukraine. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 02:51 PM (8avO+) 453 At this rate, the new thread is going to go stale. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:51 PM (2GVsD) 454 What is Madison cornbread? Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:49 PM (XQJDW) ***** Where is Madison Cornbread? Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:51 PM (NpAcC) 455 Drambuie. Where the Girl Scouts get into a bar fight" Off the Barbary Coast? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:51 PM (XuXeR) 456 441- new here? She’s the one- armed chick who insisted Trump tried to commandeer the beast. Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 08, 2026 02:51 PM (rcyPU) 457 Ace and the Nood got taken up in The Rapture. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 02:51 PM (tgvbd) 458 They are calling Epic Furry over. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:52 PM (XQJDW) 459 Uh Oh. I had a feeling bad things were going to happen. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 02:49 PM You didn't listen, did you, kid? Posted by: Han Solo at April 08, 2026 02:52 PM (bFu5X) 460 They are calling Epic Furry over. Is that Ace's OnlyFans name? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (2GVsD) 461 I hope they got a good DEI architect for Gaylord's multi-story air freshener. Be a real shame if they got the sums for the foundation wrong and it started to tilt right. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM (2GVsD Heh. I'd hope for constant toilet and sewage issues. That could take care of the foundation too... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:49 PM (Sco7b) It's in the South Side of Chicago. Nobody will want to go there, even Obama. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (8avO+) 462 Was there boobs and I missed it?! Posted by: melodicmetal at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (61TgR) 463 She’s the one- armed chick who insisted Trump tried to commandeer the beast. Posted by: Farmer Bob ===== Point of order She's the chick who, in exchange for payment, insisted . . Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (f5L5X) 464 I see a thread about the dangers of varnish in our futures. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (Sco7b) 465 Varnish and hamsters are never a good combo. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (hzEuy) 466 Chrissy Houlahan (D, PA) @Rep Houlahan On the same day that our nation's brave and patriotic astronauts stare down on our tender and fragile Earth, the President of the United States just unleashed a vile and hateful threat to wipe the ancient civilization of Iran from it. In the strongest terms possible, I condemn these despicable words. Commanding our military to annihilate the entire country of Iran would be the epitome of an illegal order and a betrayal of 249 year of American excellence, diplomacy and alliance. You will see many strongly worded statements today, mostly from my Democratic colleagues, but let's be 100% clear: this horror rests with the Republican Party. It is well past time for them to stand for the United States of America and immediately, publicly, and finally condemn this statement and the U.S. President's behavior." Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (NFX2v) 467 While we are waiting, how about some Madison Blues? https://youtu.be/nufP9ILsGnc Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (utfVc) 468 He is truly America first and that is almost unheard of in the last 50 years. Posted by: Cheri at April 08, 2026 02:46 PM The last president that I recall that put America first was eisenhower. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (0N4FZ) 469 Drambuie. Where the Girl Scouts get into a bar fight" Off the Barbary Coast? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:51 PM That place is worse than Detroit. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (bFu5X) 470 I called it last night when everyone was spooging all over the place that the agreement wouldn't make it till Friday. These guys are a head of schedule. This whole thing has become amateurishly absurd, like a Monty Python skit. Posted by: pawn at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (jstR0) 471 They are calling Epic Furry over. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:52 PM (XQJDW) Which resets the 30 day timer... Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 02:54 PM (8avO+) 472 It's in the South Side of Chicago. Nobody will want to go there, even Obama. ------------- This makes me laugh. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 02:54 PM (n17eQ) 473 It's in the South Side of Chicago" Leroy Brown territory? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:54 PM (XuXeR) 474 423 Mother Superior, we've discovered a case of Chlamydia in the convent. Oh, thank heavens! I've gotten so TIRED of Chardonnay. Posted by: Speaking of the nunnery at April 08, 2026 02:45 PM (850T+) ................................ The koalas with chlamydia are everywhere! I still don't know why gay men had to do this to the poor koalas. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:55 PM (WONhk) 475 469 Drambuie. Where the Girl Scouts get into a bar fight" Off the Barbary Coast? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:51 PM That place is worse than Detroit. --------------- Are talking about Camp Fire Girls? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 02:55 PM (n17eQ) 476 What happened to the other thread? I am positive there was one... Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:55 PM (WONhk) 477 Was old King Kong ever in Chicago? Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:55 PM (XQJDW) 478 Embryo implantation is done, everything looked "perfect," now to crash from the Valium and stress, but officially from the Valium. Posted by: pookysgirl, waiting literally #twoweeks at April 08, 2026 02:56 PM (Wt5PA) 479 476 What happened to the other thread? I am positive there was one... Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:55 PM (WONhk) Madison is not that interesting, and GP has some story about the pseudo investigation Posted by: night lifted at April 08, 2026 02:56 PM (kJmLc) 480 Wow Pooky's Girl Best wishes Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 02:57 PM (2GVsD) 481 Was there boobs and I missed it?! Posted by: melodicmetal at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM And they were real and spectacular. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:57 PM (bFu5X) 482 Speaking of Chicago, that POS Bill Ayers is still alive. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 02:57 PM (aZm/F) 483 Guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing varnish... Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 02:57 PM (Cuw0G) 484 I have mental mages of all you all, and I would be afraid to go to a meetup as it would surely ruin it. In my mind, you are all either like those precocious toddlers in the AI videos, or really old and grumpy. I leave it to the reader to figure out which one you are individually. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 08, 2026 02:11 PM (zAO6l) I went to the TXMOME a couple of years ago. Admittedly, my mental images of everyone were more fun than the reality. No one had a tail or walked around with a marmoset on their shoulder or even was riding a tapir. sigh Posted by: naturalfake at April 08, 2026 02:57 PM (iJfKG) 485 That place is worse than Detroit." Don't go there unless you know how to use your fists.... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:57 PM (XuXeR) 486 While I wait for the AtC boobs link I speculate that Trump is repeating his"they stopped killing civilians" (when we knew they hadn't) to see where they regroup and then let slip the dogs of war... Again Posted by: melodicmetal at April 08, 2026 02:58 PM (61TgR) 487 And voting Republican is voting for Republicans to get rich while still letting Democrats end the country Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 02:44 PM (JrZbt) To change Senate rules, it only takes a Majority vote... and cannot be filibustered. Now, change the Filibuster rule back to its original format, where to filibuster you must sit up there and speak for the entire time... WITH a Quorum of the Seante physically there, in session. Problem... solved. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 08, 2026 02:58 PM (mP0Kj) 488 Any stranger visiting our gray box community who doesn't know us is literally trying to figure out what the heck is going on around here.. I love this place. Posted by: NALNAMSAM at April 08, 2026 02:58 PM (VkY89) 489 482 Speaking of Chicago, that POS Bill Ayers is still alive. ---------------- Author of The Gay Hawaiian Oreo Cookie's first Autobiography. He's lettered. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 02:59 PM (n17eQ) 490 I went to the TXMOME a couple of years ago. Admittedly, my mental images of everyone were more fun than the reality. No one had a tail or walked around with a marmoset on their shoulder or even was riding a tapir. sigh Posted by: naturalfake at April 08, 2026 02:57 PM Berserker is the only one who seems to have fit everyone's mental image. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 02:59 PM (bFu5X) 491 485 That place is worse than Detroit." Don't go there unless you know how to use your fists.... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:57 PM (XuXeR) My man ... Posted by: Tommy Hearns at April 08, 2026 02:59 PM (3sXRv) 492 >>Are you talking about her victory boobs? No. Most chicks I have known ALWAYS insist on the 1/2" on their height. I just assume it's important to them. So, I make a point of taking 1/2" off their claimed height. Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 02:43 PM (TLp3A) I've been occasionally watching some streamer girls for a while and it is constantly funny how they line up and try and figure out which of them is the tallest when none of them are above 5' 5" in heels Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 02:59 PM (8avO+) 493 She's the chick who, in exchange for payment, insisted . . Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 08, 2026 02:53 PM (f5L5X) And was coached by Liz Cheney, who I'd love to see go to prison Posted by: night lifted at April 08, 2026 02:59 PM (kJmLc) 494 I am positive Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:55 PM (WONhk) They have a pill for that now. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 02:59 PM (JrZbt) 495 478 Embryo implantation is done, everything looked "perfect," now to crash from the Valium and stress, but officially from the Valium. Posted by: pookysgirl, waiting literally #twoweeks at April 08, 2026 02:56 PM (Wt5PA) I pray everything goes really well for you both. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:00 PM (WONhk) 496 They called it Operation Epic Furry because it was during Passover, and Trump has to signal his loyalty to Netanyahu's plan to use my rival to assassinate my boyfriend during their Hebraic blood-bread bacchanal. It all makes sense in my dreams. Spiritually. For Jesus. Posted by: Candy O at April 08, 2026 03:00 PM (BI5O2) 497 Financial Times, Iran demands crypto fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire Country’s oil exporters’ union says toll to be paid in cryptocurrency and vessels monitored for weapons THERE'S A UNION INVOLVED! In part, "Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, as it seeks to retain control over passage through the key waterway during the two-week ceasefire. Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, told the FT on Wednesday that Iran wanted to collect tolling fees from any tanker passing and to assess each ship. “Iran needs to monitor what goes in and out of the strait to ensure these two weeks aren’t used for transferring weapons,” said Hosseini, whose industry association works closely with the state. “Everything can pass through, but the procedure will take time for each vessel, and Iran is not in a rush,” he added. It's funny and it's not. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 03:00 PM (NFX2v) 498 My man ..." Pinch me... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:00 PM (XuXeR) 499 TJM is one of those odd internet cases where he somehow looks exactly like I thought he did. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:00 PM (JrZbt) 500 Well, that's shocking. Apparently, I know someone shorter than AtC! I refuse to believe this is true. The AtC of my cerebral cortex shall always be knee-high to a grasshopper. Or maybe a Barbie Doll with boots and a riding crop. Posted by: naturalfake at April 08, 2026 03:00 PM (iJfKG) 501 471 They are calling Epic Furry over. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 02:52 PM (XQJDW) Which resets the 30 day timer... Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 02:54 PM (8avO+) Planning is now in process for Epicer Fury, the Sequel. Different Op, so different under the War Powers Act. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 08, 2026 03:00 PM (mP0Kj) 502 Any stranger visiting our gray box community who doesn't know us is literally trying to figure out what the heck is going on around here.. I love this place. Posted by: NALNAMSAM at April 08, 2026 02:58 PM More or less how El Rushbo (pbhu) described listening to his show. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 03:00 PM (bFu5X) 503 Cornbread is best with butter and honey, and sometimes even with milk. Like cereal. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 03:01 PM (Fbc0I) 504 this horror rests with the Republican Party. It is well past time for them to stand for the United States of America and immediately, publicly, and finally condemn this statement and the U.S. President's behavior." Oh, don't worry- they will. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 03:01 PM (Cuw0G) 505 488 Any stranger visiting our gray box community who doesn't know us is literally trying to figure out what the heck is going on around here.. I love this place. Posted by: NALNAMSAM at April 08, 2026 02:58 PM (VkY89) Inshallaalaoopsie Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:01 PM (WONhk) 506 Damn, 500? Posted by: Denny Crane - What A Stinky Ol' Thread! at April 08, 2026 03:01 PM (dmDsy) 507 In part, "Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, as it seeks to retain control over passage through the key waterway during the two-week ceasefire. ------ If Trump doesn't say "fuck off" to this crap, he's not the guy I thought he was. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 03:01 PM (aZm/F) 508 That place is worse than Detroit." Don't go there unless you know how to use your fists.... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 02:57 PM The most underrated joke in Team America is that Chris is "the best martial artist Detroit has to offer". Posted by: Ian S. at April 08, 2026 03:01 PM (2ocoG) 509 Boston Market had good cornbread. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:01 PM (XQJDW) 510 There is a new isekai anime on Crunchyroll. 16yr old. Fantasy world. And a god sends an elf woman to look after him. She is taller than him and every time she gets excited, people can get maimed from the buttons popping off her blouse. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:02 PM (2GVsD) 511 Epic Fury II Electric Plant Boogaloo Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 08, 2026 03:02 PM (rcyPU) 512 Epic Fury II: Electric Bombaloo Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 03:02 PM (oqH4h) 513 Boston Market had good cornbread." Very very true. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:03 PM (XuXeR) 514 “Everything can pass through, but the procedure will take time for each vessel, and Iran is not in a rush,” he added. It will take time because they have to swim out to each ship. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 03:03 PM (Cuw0G) 515 email from aoc today describing either trump or biden: The world should not be waiting with baited breath to see whether or not a deranged, 80-year old unstable madman who can barely walk in a straight line or sputter a complete sentence will plunge the world into a global nuclear war unprompted. Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 03:03 PM (CWTWj) 516 Damn, 500? Posted by: Denny Crane Wait until we hit 1300. Everyone gets a puppy then. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 03:03 PM (hCUcO) 517 The AtC of my cerebral cortex shall always be knee-high to a grasshopper. Or maybe a Barbie Doll with boots and a riding crop. Posted by: naturalfake at April 08, 2026 03:00 PM (iJfKG) I always picture her as having Chibi proportions which makes her short. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:04 PM (8avO+) 518 At least they are not asking for the toll in dimes. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:04 PM (XQJDW) 519 and Iran is not in a rush" Rush? I thought they needed a drummer... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:04 PM (XuXeR) 520 So Iran is demanding their dime per ship. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:04 PM (2GVsD) 521 John Harwood @JohnJHarwood Pete Hegseth is the quintessential ugly American - Dude, have you even seen Whoopi? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 08, 2026 03:04 PM (ndZc7) 522 Pookyg I am praying Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:04 PM (JrZbt) 523 Yeah sure, pay Iran in Hawk Tuah coins Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 03:05 PM (YwEeS) 524 Hello everyone! Sorry for the lateness. I wish I had a good excuse but I don't. ...... Juist be sure to charge your time to PTO. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:05 PM (UjdFS) 525 Next Up, Operation: Well, We Tried... Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2026 03:05 PM (TLp3A) 526 513 Boston Market had good cornbread." Very very true. --------------- Boston Market is dead, rite? I liked their meatloaf. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 03:05 PM (n17eQ) 527 478 Embryo implantation is done, everything looked "perfect," now to crash from the Valium and stress, but officially from the Valium. Posted by: pookysgirl, waiting literally #twoweeks at April 08, 2026 02:56 PM (Wt5PA) ****** I'm sure you must be so excited! Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 03:05 PM (NpAcC) 528 414 >>> 217 What does "TACO" stand for? Trump Always Catapults Otters. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 08, 2026 02:08 PM (EXyHK) The nasty river otters, right? Not the cute and spunky surfboard stealing sea otters! Posted by: the Horde needs to know at April 08, 2026 02:43 PM (9vFyc) I hate spunk. Posted by: Lou Grant at April 08, 2026 03:05 PM (0CU3H) 529 Madison thread is still the Schrodinger cat of threads. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:05 PM (2GVsD) 530 520 So Iran is demanding their dime per ship. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:04 PM (2GVsD) The Straights are international Waters, allowing them to charge a toll for passage says that we recognize their claim to those waters. Bad... bad... move. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 08, 2026 03:05 PM (mP0Kj) 531 Damn, 500? Posted by: Denny Crane - What A Stinky Ol' Thread! at April 08, 2026 03:01 PM (dmDsy) I'd say back in the day, our average was probably 6-700. Few reasons: -seemed like ace left posts longer -the ban hammer did not swing quite as free. You had a lot more conflict which leads to higher comments as people go 'you suck!' 'Nuh-uh' and so forth. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:06 PM (zZu0s) 532 It will take time because they have to swim out to each ship. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 03:03 PM (Cuw0G) ----- BWAHAHAHAHA Yes. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 03:06 PM (aZm/F) 533 The world should not be waiting with baited breath to see whether or not a deranged, 80-year old unstable madman" Xi is only 72. So there Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:06 PM (XuXeR) 534 I have mental mages of all you all, and I would be afraid to go to a meetup as it would surely ruin it. -- I once told Vic I pictured him as the Marlboro Man. He said I was waaay off. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 03:06 PM (qBdHI) 535 478 Embryo implantation is done, everything looked "perfect," now to crash from the Valium and stress, but officially from the Valium. Posted by: pookysgirl, waiting literally #twoweeks at April 08, 2026 02:56 PM (Wt5PA) 🙏🤗 Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 03:06 PM (NFX2v) 536 Offer payment in Donald Trump Iran Asskicking commemorative coins. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 03:06 PM (tgvbd) 537 I like jalapeño cornbread. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 03:06 PM (NpAcC) 538 people go 'you suck!' 'Nuh-uh' and so forth." Uh huh. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:07 PM (XuXeR) 539 re me at 515: oops, dems in general, not just aoc Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 03:07 PM (CWTWj) 540 521 John Harwood @JohnJHarwood Pete Hegseth is the quintessential ugly American ------ OFFS Harwood, fuck off. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 03:07 PM (aZm/F) 541 Only 20 to 30 Boston Markets remain. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:07 PM (XQJDW) 542 Bated breath. Fucking commie cunt Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:07 PM (JrZbt) 543 Cornbread is best with butter and honey, and sometimes even with milk. Like cereal. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone Poor Madison Cornbread! Peter Baker @peterbakernyt Trump's campaign of "retribution" continues as Justice Department assigns its civil rights division to investigate Cassidy Hutchinson, who outraged Trump four years ago after her congressional testimony implicated him in Jan. 6. @alanfeuer @nytmike - The NYT was just kidding with that nobody is above the law stuff. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 08, 2026 03:07 PM (ndZc7) 544 Iran on all the news channels. CNN...what happens with the enriched uranium? Broken up into small pieces, encased in gold, made into necklaces and given as anonymous gifts to all Dems and their major supporters? Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:08 PM (Sco7b) 545 514. It will take time because they have to swim out to each ship. Posted by: t-bird 😄 You need to run for office. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 03:08 PM (NFX2v) 546 Uh huh. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:07 PM (XuXeR) That is pretty much my encapsulation of every argument. Verbosity and word choice vary. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:08 PM (zZu0s) 547 The trick with varnish is to let it dry before you sit on it. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:09 PM (UjdFS) 548 I only said Iran is demanding. All it takes is someone to simply keep sailing. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:09 PM (2GVsD) 549 Only 20 to 30 Boston Markets remain." Shame. Used to stop in at the one 50 in Centreville ... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:09 PM (XuXeR) 550 Now I have to cook dinner for the man I live with. To prove my worth (also because I said I would). I have been worthless since the baby virus hit a month ago (RSV). Now all better but lack the sparkling energy I am known for. I need a V8 or lunch. Maybe a B complex vitamin? Meth? Maybe this is like the ONT but it is the ODT? I sort of like it and it gives Ace a break and lets him varnish apparently every piece of furniture he owns. Bless him. I hope it's lovely. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:10 PM (WONhk) 551 Why would Ace sit on a desk? Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 03:10 PM (NFX2v) 552 Nood still in the aether. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:10 PM (zZu0s) 553 The NYT was just kidding with that nobody is above the law stuff. == Totes. The law doesn't apply to us, or anyone who is on our side. We'd hoped that you would accept this long ago and stop struggling by now. Just lay back and let us firmly press this pillow onto your face . . . Posted by: NYT at April 08, 2026 03:10 PM (anL5R) 554 That is pretty much my encapsulation of every argument. Verbosity and word choice vary." Well, there was that Memorial Day Weekend thread... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (XuXeR) 555 548 I only said Iran is demanding. All it takes is someone to simply keep sailing. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:09 PM (2GVsD) Shit in one hand and demand with the other ... see which one fills up first Posted by: Shit Thomas Jeffersoon said at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (3sXRv) 556 Still not bought the 1/32 Do 335A Pfeil. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (2GVsD) 557 >>>The AtC of my cerebral cortex shall always be knee-high to a grasshopper. Or maybe a Barbie Doll with boots and a riding crop. Posted by: naturalfake at April 08, 2026 03:00 PM (iJfKG) I always picture her as having Chibi proportions which makes her short. Posted by: Oldcat >I believe I saw her victory cans posted once, but the perspective needed more detail. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (Fbc0I) 558 521 John Harwood @JohnJHarwood Pete Hegseth is the quintessential ugly American ------ OFFS Harwood, fuck off. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 03:07 PM (aZm/F) I doubt this idiot even knows what the Ugly American stereotype is. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (8avO+) 559 I picture nearly every ette with a tobacco pipe. That's how all of you seem. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (JrZbt) 560 552 Nood still in the aether. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:10 PM (zZu0s) ----- Wafting away like so many varnish fumes. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (oqH4h) 561 Nood still in the aether." Pull the aether one... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (XuXeR) 562 Boston Market made the best creamed spinach, used to get a gallon of it with a half a chicken and corn on the cob. Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (XV/Pl) 563 What does "TACO" stand for? Take A Crap Outside Posted by: Mission Control at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (iHitY) 564 Huh. Our local Boston Market seems to have turned into a Z Burger without my noticing. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at April 08, 2026 03:12 PM (hzEuy) 565 552 Nood still in the aether. Posted by: Aetius451AD On to 600! Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 03:12 PM (hCUcO) 566 All it takes is someone to simply keep sailing. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:09 PM (2GVsD) Counter-offer: iran gets one megaton, delivered, for every ship attacked in the Strait. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 03:12 PM (utfVc) 567 1/32 Do 335A" DO IT. DO IT NOW! Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:12 PM (XuXeR) 568 @TMZ Avenatti was convicted of various crimes -- including a $20 million extortion scheme against Nike and stealing $300,000 from Stormy -- and sentenced to 11 years 3 months. He served around 4 years and was released Tuesday. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 03:12 PM (NpAcC) 569 AABOW, people!!! AABOW!!!* Ace Always Blows Off Wednesdays Posted by: naturalfake at April 08, 2026 03:12 PM (iJfKG) 570 I have been worthless since the baby virus hit a month ago (RSV). Now all better but lack the sparkling energy I am known for. I need a V8 or lunch. Maybe a B complex vitamin? Meth? Maybe this is like the ONT but it is the ODT? I sort of like it and it gives Ace a break and lets him varnish apparently every piece of furniture he owns. Bless him. I hope it's lovely. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:10 PM (WONhk) Used to like V8, haven't had one in a long time. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:12 PM (8avO+) 571 I am thinking of things to comment in the ethereal thread. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:13 PM (zZu0s) 572 There is a story about that Trump was negotiating with two officers of the IRGC. Israel supposedly had, for whatever reason, planned to take out both of these IRGC guys. Pakistan got wind of it and notified Trump, who warned off the Israelis. The story then goes that the Israelis bombed the building next to the Pakistani embassy in Tehran to show displeasure. Posted by: SMOD at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (RHGPo) 573 I picture nearly every ette with a tobacco pipe. That's how all of you seem. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM Some of them have been known to join us in the smoke pit for a good cigar. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (bFu5X) 574 He served around 4 years and was released Tuesday." Wasn't he going to be president'n or something? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (XuXeR) 575 I have still never seen an answer to the question of exactly what Iran is using to "close the strait" other than dick-beating braggadocio being used to cow Lloyd's of London into not insuring any vessel transiting the strait. Seems like we'd have the ability to employ counterbattery fires against any shore-based weapon they decided to employ. And we'd keep it "proportional." IYKYK Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (oqH4h) 576 503 Cornbread is best with butter and honey, and sometimes even with milk. Like cereal. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 03:01 PM (Fbc0I) --- Back to New England or Canada or whatever area far away from the Southern US you hail from. It's best with butter only! Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (cWLG3) 577 Used to like V8, haven't had one in a long time. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:12 PM At today's gas prices? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (bFu5X) 578 Ace is basically Linda Richman. "Talk amongst yourselves, I'll give you a topic....." Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (JrZbt) 579 Used to like V8, haven't had one in a long time. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:12 PM (8avO+ For some reason, I haven't seen Clamato in a while. Clams and tomato juice. Better than it sounds. It would pretty much have to be. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (Sco7b) 580 American nuisance streamers in Japan = ugly Americans. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (2GVsD) 581 “We are living in the ethereal world, and I am an Ethereal Girl.” - Bearded Sock Universe Madonna Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (hzEuy) 582 Why would Ace sit on a desk? Posted by: L - No nic.... ...... He just finished varnishing the chair. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (UjdFS) 583 Blaming the Muslims dreams onto President Trump Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (Ia/+0) 584 Cornbread is best with butter and honey, and sometimes even with milk. Like cereal. -- My mom used to put cornbread in a tall glass with milk, then eat it with a spoon. A cornbread float! Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (qBdHI) 585 78 Now I want crackers. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:43 PM (PpBto) ------- I just came home for lunch, served up some cheese and crackers and then opened AoSHQ to read what was going on while I ate. I did not know my lunch carried such baggage. Posted by: 496 at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (h4xMu) 586 Used to like V8, haven't had one in a long time" Kid has an F150 V8. Nice ride Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (XuXeR) 587 Still not bought the 1/32 Do 335A Pfeil. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (2GVsD) Saw this airplane last week, Anna: https://tinyurl.com/3pcwddhh Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (utfVc) 588 Cesar>>>>Bloody Mary Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (W2Pud) 589 He served around 4 years and was released Tuesday." Wasn't he going to be president'n or something? --- He'd be lucky to get a pay per view MMA fight against Tucker Carlson. Man would I pay to see that . . . Posted by: seriously at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (anL5R) 590 Toilet paper terrorism. Cops say man named Abdulkarim filmed himself burning down California toilet paper warehouse https://is.gd/cH3sgQ Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (ndZc7) 591 Avenatti had a big mouth and a bigger ego, but didn't have the goods. He was worth a laugh or two. I'm assuming he lost his law license. I wonder what he will do for a living? Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (aZm/F) 592 SPOCK, dammit!! Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (hzEuy) 593 There is a story about that Trump was negotiating with two officers of the IRGC. Israel supposedly had, for whatever reason, planned to take out both of these IRGC guys. Pakistan got wind of it and notified Trump, who warned off the Israelis. The story then goes that the Israelis bombed the building next to the Pakistani embassy in Tehran to show displeasure. Posted by: SMOD at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (RHGPo) That reminds me of the Sam Kinneson bit about the US bombing of the French Embassy in Libya after they refused us overflight. "THANKS FOR THE EXTRA 800 AIR MILES YOU F*KS!!!" Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (8avO+) 594 haven't seen Clamato in a while" Never tried it. Any good? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:17 PM (XuXeR) 595 T. Mk. 9 Vampire I would guess AoP. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:17 PM (2GVsD) 596 Cops say man named Abdulkarim filmed himself burning down California toilet paper warehouse https://is.gd/cH3sgQ Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (ndZc7) I hope he used a good 80's style catchphrase. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:17 PM (JrZbt) 597 Tjat thteat from the other day was huge. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:17 PM (XQJDW) 598 American nuisance streamers in Japan = ugly Americans. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (2GVsD) Did that one annoying asshole actually go to prison? Was that South Korea? Thailand? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:18 PM (zZu0s) 599 "Wipe this." Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:18 PM (JrZbt) 600 Toilet paper terrorism.* Another run on toilet paper? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:18 PM (2GVsD) 601 I am thinking of things to comment in the ethereal thread. Posted by: Aetius451AD You misspelled eternal. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 08, 2026 03:18 PM (So85e) 602 Back to New England or Canada or whatever area far away from the Southern US you hail from. It's best with butter only! Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (cWLG3) Now a float in melted butter.... Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:18 PM (8avO+) 603 CNN is talking Bondi. Did all of you know she was fired??? Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (Sco7b) 604 Somebody et my cornbread! Posted by: Marmaduke at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (nvKZ7) 605 Tousi will be llve shortly. 3pm Central Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (FrGmf) 606 The muzzies won't have a problem without the tp. Nasty mfrs. . Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (3ek7K) 607 South Korea is still finding Johnny Somali guilty. Pretty soon it will be for merely breathing. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (2GVsD) 608 Johnny Somali, locked up in Korea I think? Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (YwEeS) 609 574 He served around 4 years and was released Tuesday." Wasn't he going to be president'n or something? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:14 PM (XuXeR) ****** Yes, he was encouraged to run as a Democrat. Anna Navarro from The View compared him to the Holy Spirit. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (NpAcC) 610 American nuisance streamers in Japan = ugly Americans. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (2GVsD) Did that one annoying asshole actually go to prison? Was that South Korea? Thailand? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:18 PM (zZu0s) Johnny Somali. Yeah they are toting up his prison terms in South Korea even as we speak. They are guessing 7ish years, maybe out in 4 or so. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (8avO+) 611 That TP on fire is my brand. Scott. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (XQJDW) 612 T. Mk. 9 Vampire I would guess AoP." Y'all ever see the wicked red Gulfstream with crowned lion on the trail? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (XuXeR) 613 >I believe I saw her victory cans posted once, but the perspective needed more detail. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 03:11 PM (Fbc0I) We've also seen her queenly stepstool of awesomeness, with her queenly toes atop. Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (FMtrg) 614 the Farsi language 10 pt agreement included the phrase "acceptance of enrichment...." somehow? got lost in the English translation. Probably unimportant. Posted by: alias at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (IqaN9) 615 TACO Trump Always Constipates Orifices Liberals with hemorrhoids and plague fleas, screaming like Bruce Springsteen. Trump daily drives them more insane! I LOVE IT! Speaking of Bruce,why does he wear that scarf thing in photos? Not that I care because the only person I knew who liked him over 40yrs ago was tone deaf. His scarf almost looks like a neck brace or something wacky. Well...off to cook! And do some chores I have neglected in my pitiful state. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (WONhk) 616 606 The muzzies won't have a problem without the tp. Nasty mfrs. . Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (3ek7K) --- "Smell my finger!" Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (cWLG3) 617 Anna Navarro from The View compared him to the Holy Spirit. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (NpAcC) Dear Lord Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (JrZbt) 618 And sure looks like the Marxists are on the Muslims side Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0) 619 594 haven't seen Clamato in a while" Never tried it. Any good? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:17 An acquired taste but not bad. Woooo MS Now - Nato Sec General to meet with Trump. Oh to be a fly on the wall then. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:21 PM (Sco7b) 620 Tjat thteat from the other day was huge. Posted by: Boss Moss Thure was. Posted by: Mike Tyson at April 08, 2026 03:21 PM (UjdFS) 621 Tail. Not trail Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:21 PM (XuXeR) 622 Boss Moss, Our brand too. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:21 PM (3ek7K) 623 The world is not going to be safe Iran is not going to be free until mullah world is history. _Rein Hell Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 03:21 PM (m24qK) 624 Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (FMtrg) Emmie dear I hope you are well Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:21 PM (JrZbt) 625 >>>Back to New England or Canada or whatever area far away from the Southern US you hail from. It's best with butter only! Posted by: Chairman LMAO >Yeah, I picked up that odd witches brew from an ex-girlfriend from Pennsylvania. Not too bad if you're in the mood for her. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 03:21 PM (Fbc0I) 626 Glass of milk and a handful of jellybeans. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 03:21 PM (NFX2v) 627 4 years cut off from social media is a lifetime sentence to obscurity. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:21 PM (2GVsD) 628 American nuisance streamers in Japan = ugly Americans. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (2GVsD) Did that one annoying asshole actually go to prison? Was that South Korea? Thailand? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:18 PM (zZu0s) The funny part was before his trials when every time he started streaming some Korean streamers would see where he was and go beat the hell out of him and his cameraman. As they have all had to do military service it wasn't a fair fight. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:22 PM (8avO+) 629 muzzies won't have a problem without the tp." Never shake the left hand... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR) 630 605 Tousi will be llve shortly. 3pm Central Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (FrGmf) He's mighty fine to look at, Mary. I married a blonde but am fine to look at a Persian who seems normal. The only news we have at this point. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:22 PM (WONhk) 631 Did we lose ace to a tragic varnish accident? Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 03:23 PM (P8t+z) 632 of course we all knew that Trump wasn't really going to nuke Iran. We all know that he rarely speaks the truth about anything. Right? Posted by: alias at April 08, 2026 03:23 PM (IqaN9) 633 And sure looks like the Marxists are on the Muslims side Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0) one death cult to another. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:23 PM (8avO+) 634 Why is there no news today ? At least TOUSi is going to start at 4pm but that is still very late. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 03:23 PM (kvcnI) 635 591 Avenatti had a big mouth and a bigger ego, but didn't have the goods. He was worth a laugh or two. I'm assuming he lost his law license. I wonder what he will do for a living? Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 03:16 PM (aZm/F) ------ Hopefully it involves hobo dicks, a bridge, and wooden nickels. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 03:23 PM (oqH4h) 636 Ok, gotta go. Y'all get to 1000, ok? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 03:23 PM (XuXeR) 637 Can we get to 666? And if so, who gets the dubious honor? Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 08, 2026 03:24 PM (OUMaO) 638 Another run on toilet paper? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:18 PM (2GVsD) Anybody who doesn't have a 2 week supply on hand deserves the butt rash. Posted by: Reforger at April 08, 2026 03:24 PM (ZhdAT) 639 of course we all knew that Trump wasn't really going to nuke Iran. We all know that he rarely speaks the truth about anything. Right? Posted by: alias at April 08, 2026 03:23 PM (IqaN9) he never even implied nuking Iran, you'd have to be an idiot to even think so. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:24 PM (8avO+) 640 He's mighty fine to look at, Mary. I married a blonde but am fine to look at a Persian who seems normal. The only news we have at this point. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:22 PM (WONhk) His hair is fabulous. And he's funny. I like Greg the Goat. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 03:25 PM (FrGmf) 641 562 Boston Market made the best creamed spinach, used to get a gallon of it with a half a chicken and corn on the cob. -------------- Yep. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 03:25 PM (n17eQ) 642 631 Did we lose ace to a tragic varnish accident? Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 03:23 PM (P8t+z) --- Whatever hair style he had yesterday is now permanent. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:25 PM (cWLG3) 643 Speaking of Bruce,why does he wear that scarf thing in photos? Not that I care because the only person I knew who liked him over 40yrs ago was tone deaf. His scarf almost looks like a neck brace or something wacky. ...... It hides the turkey neck. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:25 PM (UjdFS) 644 Muzzies. Taking out one tp warehouse at a time. WAR! Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:25 PM (3ek7K) 645 Anna Navarro from The View compared him to the Holy Spirit. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 03:19 PM (NpAcC) Dear Lord Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:20 PM (JrZbt) Yes, that's what the Hebrews thought. Posted by: slightly confused zombie Marcus Brody at April 08, 2026 03:25 PM (vSvIl) 646 I hope he burned the toilet paper brand that has those stupid bear commercials. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 03:25 PM (77rzZ) 647 631 Did we lose ace to a tragic varnish accident? Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2026 03:23 PM (P8t+z) WAIT! was he varnishing a SHELF? oh, the horror... Posted by: Romeo13 at April 08, 2026 03:26 PM (mP0Kj) 648 Joseph Campbell in his four volume work Masks of Immortality compared Communism to Islam. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:26 PM (2GVsD) 649 Strait was never opened. Moose out front could've told you. Posted by: kingsman at April 08, 2026 03:26 PM (ehY6c) 650 Both VDH and Jacob Reese Mogg are positive on Trump's handling of Iran. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 03:26 PM (kvcnI) 651 From the 'in a pinch" dept. Sprayed the sidewall on a tire with flex seal to see if would stop the leak. It worked! Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 03:26 PM (yAteE) 652 Dude didn't sound muslimp. He narrates part of the video. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:26 PM (XQJDW) 653 Cops say man named Abdulkarim filmed himself burning down California toilet paper warehouse Why was he here? Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 03:26 PM (gKWVE) 654 638 Another run on toilet paper? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:18 PM (2GVsD) Anybody who doesn't have a 2 week supply on hand deserves the butt rash. Posted by: Reforger at April 08, 2026 03:24 PM (ZhdAT) ---- If you're referring to the Kimberly-Clarke warehouse facility that burned down, I expect that will hit California hardest. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (cWLG3) 655 Clams and tomato juice. Better than it sounds. It would pretty much have to be. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:15 PM (Sco7b) I laughed. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (qivay) 656 Anybody who doesn't have a 2 week supply on hand deserves the butt rash. Posted by: Reforger at April 08, 2026 03:24 PM (ZhdAT) Dam straight. I haven't had the opportunity to say this in a long time. I am still putting off being productive and it's the fault of you people. Plus I don't have a V8. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (WONhk) 657 637 Can we get to 666? And if so, who gets the dubious honor? Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 08, 2026 03:24 PM (OUMaO) That'll be me. I've been watching the horror movies. And MS Now and CNN. And I live in canada in a place NOT called Alberta! Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (Sco7b) 658 He needs to change his name then. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (3ek7K) 659 NPR, Elections Democrats keep doing better in elections since Trump returned to office Cute. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (NFX2v) 660 653 Cops say man named Abdulkarim filmed himself burning down California toilet paper warehouse Why was he here? Posted by: gKWVE No one is illegal on stolen land? He's as American as anybody? Diversity is our strength? Posted by: Moron at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (JCZqz) 661 Scrapple. Why? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (n17eQ) 662 His scarf almost looks like a neck brace or something wacky. ...... It hides the turkey neck. Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:25 PM (UjdFS) Syphilis scars. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (DwqWV) 663 Nyah Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (2GVsD) 664 646 I hope he burned the toilet paper brand that has those stupid bear commercials. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 03:25 PM (77rzZ) Nothing says "good parenting" like checking your kid for dingleberries when they arrive home from school. Bonus points if you do it in front of their friends. Posted by: Reforger at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (ZhdAT) 665 https://youtu.be/sA82tOwpwJ8 Former CENTCOM Commander's Deep Intel on Ending the Iran War ( Ward Carroll ) I watched this earlier. It was really good. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (kvcnI) 666 A roll of Scott 1000 lasts me a month. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (XQJDW) 667 660 653 Cops say man named Abdulkarim filmed himself burning down California toilet paper warehouse Why was he here? Posted by: gKWVE No one is illegal on stolen land? He's as American as anybody? Diversity is our strength? Posted by: Moron at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (JCZqz) Dude is left handed. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (DwqWV) 668 😈 AVENGE ME 😈 Posted by: The Hag at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (JrZbt) 669 Come on, Ace!! Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (aZm/F) 670 Still no new thread. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (2GVsD) 671 Abdul burned the toilet building; what a left handed ass wipe he is. Posted by: kingsman at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (ehY6c) 672 The Comment of the Beast Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (tgvbd) 673 We don't think Ace was varnishing and day drinking, do we? It was a bit early when he checked in. Maybe he was not through with the six pack and then needed a nap. Hopefully not on the desk. I hope he is ok. Maybe he'll return soon if I leave and do chores. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:29 PM (WONhk) 674 Ward 'Mooch' Carroll is hit or miss. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:29 PM (2GVsD) 675 My brother, Florida man, really liked Springsteen. He didn't understand the words. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 03:29 PM (NFX2v) 676 Mentally Ill Homeless Repeat Offender DeCarlos Brown Jr. Ruled ‘Incompetent to Stand Trial’ for Brutal Stabbing of Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska He should have been taken out back and shot in the groin with a 12 gauge. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 03:29 PM (/lPRQ) 677 So now it's a dingleberry thread? Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 03:29 PM (FrGmf) 678 My throwback to the ONT's of Yore failed miserably Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:29 PM (JrZbt) 679 I got em. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:30 PM (XQJDW) 680 646 I hope he burned the toilet paper brand that has those stupid bear commercials. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 03:25 P I think it's impossible to be in a Trivago commercial withput coming across as a huge douchebag. Obama and Trudeau in man-buns may as well be their spokes....ugh...spokespersons. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:30 PM (Sco7b) 681 Scrapple. Why? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (n17eQ) Cause you didn't have the money to toss out stuff that could be et. if mixed in with other stuff. Tons of cuisine is just stretching out the good stuff to feed a family, or to make it to next week. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:30 PM (8avO+) 682 Is ace, sick? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 03:30 PM (m24qK) 683 Abdulkarim, when they ship him back, should be locked in the ship's bilge tank and not the brig. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 03:30 PM (gKWVE) 684 So they are going to let DeCarlos Brown out again? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:30 PM (2GVsD) 685 The mullahs got Ace! Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 03:30 PM (dK+Kv) 686 So, we all know that someone locked himself out of his own blog, right? Posted by: Denny Crane - Can't Blame Him! at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (dmDsy) 687 Tripe. Why? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (zZu0s) 688 I think Ace pushed the button for the thread, tripped over some power cord, and the thread stopped. Obviously, I know nothing about IT stuff. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (NFX2v) 689 674 Ward 'Mooch' Carroll is hit or miss. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:29 PM (2GVsD) He's improved recently. His guest ( link above ) was awesome. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (kvcnI) 690 Hi- just got in. Things seem to be a bit wonky everywhere right now. Posted by: Piper at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (OoFl2) 691 @680 I think the main Trivago guy is trawling for young studs. That's why he's staying at all these hotels. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (cWLG3) 692 So now it's a dingleberry thread? Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Too bad the shit pebbles troll isn't here. He'll be sorry he missed it. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (77rzZ) 693 Anna, Probably. He has more infidels to murder. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (3ek7K) 694 666 A roll of Scott 1000 lasts me a month. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:28 PM (XQJDW) DCLXVI Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (E6xSb) 695 >> Update: Kindletot said this is all what AlextheChick calls a "bitch eating crackers rant." I asked commenters what this means. I asked Alex the Chick, too, and she sent this meme: bitcheatingcrackersmeme.jpg Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:30 PM Look at this guy, humblebragging his verified X account, namedropping the Internet Famous like being able to find their handles and DM them makes him some kind of big shot. "Look at me, I got this bespoke artisanal meme personally handcrafted from Alex the Chick!" Whoa. I was just trying out the "bitch eating crackers" style as a goof, but that's actually kind of a rush. The human mind is a dark place, my friends. I think it could even be addictive, which helps explain all the people leaping to make fools of themselves. Posted by: SciVo at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (Sy6m/) 696 >>>We all know that he rarely speaks the truth about anything. Right? Posted by: alias >Stop being silly. Must I tell you the truth if I shit my pants? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (Fbc0I) 697 Sunny and 54 in Seattle. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (W2Pud) 698 What do you call the moolah's followers? Posted by: Boss Moss at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (XQJDW) 699 I left with a cornbread thread and come back to the previous thread ? Was Ace overcome by varnish fumes ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (FtULh) 700 The mullahs got Ace! Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 03:30 PM (dK+Kv) The smell eeeet burnsss Posted by: The Mullahs at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (JrZbt) 701 Tripe. Why? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (zZu0s) When you don't want to make a bagpipe out of a stomach. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (8avO+) 702 A roll of Scott 1000 lasts me a month. Posted by: Boss Moss Make it 3 months, then call me. Posted by: Sheryl "Dingleberries" Crow at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (UjdFS) 703 Ace is having problems with his TurboTax '25 program. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (IifOV) 704 Obviously, I know nothing about IT stuff. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (NFX2v) Turn it off. Turn it on again. There. You now know 80% of what is needed to be an expert in IT. Posted by: Reforger at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (ZhdAT) 705 Hey, if Ace is stuck to his deck at least the weather is nice. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (3ek7K) 706 677 So now it's a dingleberry thread? Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 03:29 PM (FrGmf) It is always a tits thread, but sometimes other things crop up with varying degrees of success. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:33 PM (DwqWV) 707 Mentally Ill Homeless Repeat Offender DeCarlos Brown Jr. Ruled ‘Incompetent to Stand Trial’ for Brutal Stabbing of Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska Mentally Ill, Repeat Offender, knife murderer... oh, there's plenty of people who need to stand trial. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 03:33 PM (kACBq) 708 The fops that did the Taco Face foo foo'd Trump's image; shaved on his eyebrows and over all prettyed him up. hahahahah Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 03:33 PM (m24qK) 709 681 Scrapple. Why? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 03:27 PM (n17eQ) Cause you didn't have the money to toss out stuff that could be et. if mixed in with other stuff. Tons of cuisine is just stretching out the good stuff to feed a family, or to make it to next week. ------------------- It tastes like shit. Eat acorns or something. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 03:33 PM (n17eQ) 710 Cops say man named Abdulkarim filmed himself burning down California toilet paper warehouse He did WHAT to the Charmin!?!?!? Posted by: Mr. Whipple at April 08, 2026 03:33 PM (JCZqz) 711 Onto 1K Marxists must be plotting a Coup, a few articles they want to impeach President Trump for the 3rd time Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 03:33 PM (Ia/+0) 712 Now if this isn't true loyalty... Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (NFX2v) 713 As I mentioned yesterday, NPR took a break from "Trump is a madman" to run a special on how "Hegseth is a religious madman almost exactly like Ayatollah Khomeini". After the proposal by the guy from Pakistan, before the cease-fire announcement. Posted by: KT at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (7vIsy) 714 Mentally Ill, Repeat Offender, knife murderer... oh, there's plenty of people who need to stand trial. Posted by: t-bird a --- One of these days people are going take problems in hand. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (m24qK) 715 Communist Dingbats stole the blog from Ace of Shelving and Refinishing! Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (HXT0k) 716 IF we hit 800 before a new thread appears, will buy that 1/32 Do 335A Pfeil. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (2GVsD) 717 677 So now it's a dingleberry thread? Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 08, 2026 03:29 PM (FrGmf) Hang in there. A new fresh thread is only moments away. Or hours, I forgot to read the news letter. I don't even know why I subscribe. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (w/O5Q) 718 691 @680 I think the main Trivago guy is trawling for young studs. That's why he's staying at all these hotels. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 08, 2026 03:31 PM (cWLG3 As good a guess as any. However, I'd think to impress them, he'd pay full price. Unless he just visits really poor countries... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (Sco7b) 719 Scrapple is goooodddd. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (3ek7K) 720 697 Sunny and 54 in Seattle. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (W2Pud) 43 and mostly cloudy, but the snow is melting. Happy happy. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (DwqWV) 721 710 Cops say man named Abdulkarim filmed himself burning down California toilet paper warehouse He did WHAT to the Charmin!?!?!? Posted by: Mr. Whipple at April 08, 2026 03:33 PM (JCZqz) --- He hates the toilet paper! Stay away from the toilet paper! Posted by: Navin Johnson at April 08, 2026 03:35 PM (cWLG3) 722 LAST ! Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:35 PM (UjdFS) 723 As I mentioned yesterday, NPR took a break from "Trump is a madman" to run a special on how "Hegseth is a religious madman almost exactly like Ayatollah Khomeini". After the proposal by the guy from Pakistan, before the cease-fire announcement. Posted by: KT at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (7vIsy) Odd. They approve of the Mullahs so why compare Hegseth to them? Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:35 PM (8avO+) 724 707 Mentally Ill Homeless Repeat Offender DeCarlos Brown Jr. Ruled ‘Incompetent to Stand Trial’ for Brutal Stabbing of Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska Mentally Ill, Repeat Offender, knife murderer... oh, there's plenty of people who need to stand trial. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 03:33 PM (kACBq) Well, they're all incompetent too, so... Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 08, 2026 03:35 PM (qivay) 725 We replaced ace's varnish with industrial grade lye. Let's see if he notices! Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:35 PM (JrZbt) 726 The mullahs got Ace! Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 03:30 PM (dK+Kv) The smell eeeet burnsss Posted by: The Mullahs at April 08, 2026 03:32 PM (JrZbt) All your shelves are belong to us! Posted by: The Mullahs at April 08, 2026 03:35 PM (dK+Kv) 727 new thread again about a skanky seat Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 03:35 PM (CWTWj) 728 crap Posted by: wth at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (UjdFS) 729 77 and partially cloudy with a light breeze. A true spring day Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (yAteE) 730 nood election thread Posted by: Methos at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (vSvIl) 731 ! Posted by: Anna needs a model at April 08, 2026 03:36 PM (ZhdAT) 732 I see that none of you have explained to me why koalas now have chlamydia. I blame homos, as it's the only logical reason. Then I wonder why anyone would check a koala for a STD and thoughts get unraveled and I need to cook. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 03:37 PM (WONhk) 733 Ace most definitely should have opened a window... Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 03:37 PM (/lPRQ) 734 714. One of these days people are going take problems in hand. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others C'mon. It takes two hands to handle a whopper. Posted by: From the 70s at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (NFX2v) 735 Yeah, Nood. Bit are you people going to fall for that? Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (Sco7b) 736 Emmie dear I hope you are well Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 03:21 PM (JrZbt) Thank you, dear Ellipses; I'm glorying in God's gift of Spring. Hope you are well, as well. Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at April 08, 2026 03:38 PM (FMtrg) 737 43 and mostly cloudy, but the snow is melting. Happy happy. Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2026 03:34 PM (DwqWV) 36 and sunny here. Snow is slowly melting. And no wind. Might go out and burn some weeds. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 03:39 PM (utfVc) 738 Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:35 PM Actually, NPR did mention some unfortunate social developments under the Ayatollahs, like murders and the sudden appearance of headscarves on all women. They did some PR for their podcasts on religious extremism in Iran (on the 6th) and in America (yesterday). Pretty much exactly the same! Except for the accompanying death of democracy in America! Posted by: KT at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (7vIsy) 739 I am still posting comments in the ethereal thread. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 03:42 PM (XMJOM) 740 Used to like V8, haven't had one in a long time. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 03:12 I used to like Snappy Tom. Do they still make that? Back when I was a sailor, Back in the day when I was a sailor, it was great for a hangover with a shot of vodka Posted by: Cheri at April 08, 2026 03:45 PM (oiNtH) 741 Geeez, that post was like I was drunk.... Posted by: Cheri at April 08, 2026 03:46 PM (oiNtH) 742 Late to the thread, but, there was something we had to study back in the day, regarding the American diplomacy prior to the first Gulf War. Iraq was quite clear about their intentions of invading Kuwait, and the American negotiator very calmly and clearly told them what America would do to the Iraqi army if they crossed into Kuwait. Iraq did not beleive them and invaded Kuwait a few days later. They were utterly shocked when the "schwacking" of the Iraqi Army commenced. Why? One of the Iraqi negotiators was quoted saying somethingalong the lines of, " The American threats were delivered in an utterly calm voice, and without emotion. We understood that to mean they actually wouldn't be angry enough to do anything if we invaded Kuwait" In the middle east, true threats are delivered with much table pounding, anger, flying flecks of spittle, and at high volume. Long story short, Trump is making sure his message gets across loud and clear. Posted by: Taft at April 08, 2026 05:35 PM (2iTQF) Monkeyshines Open Thread I need a little more time. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 OK. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM (bss/y) 2 Just clicking the refresh, boss. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y) 3 Ace, take your time. We are great at entertaining ourselves. Posted by: four seasons at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (3ek7K) 4 Ace is becoming a slacker. CBD may launch his coup! Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (n17eQ) 5 Nyah Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (2GVsD) 6 Playing for time ? Aren't we all.... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:15 PM (FtULh) 7 Mew! Posted by: The Dog at April 08, 2026 12:15 PM (XodLO) 8 SPONGE! Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 12:15 PM (xcxpd) 9 Afternoon, Ace. Monkeys. Why'd it have to be monkeys? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 12:16 PM (bFu5X) 10 also no monkeyfuckers, please. Leave that deer alone. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 12:16 PM (xcxpd) 11 Ace, take your time. We are great at entertaining ourselves. Posted by: four seasons You'll go blind if you keep doing that. Can I do it until I need glasses? Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:17 PM (hCUcO) 12 180 CNN - Iran halts shipping in Hormuz after Israel attacks Lebanon. Israel - Lebanon not part of the peace deal. This is going as well as we all expected.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM (Sco7b Willowed Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:17 PM (Sco7b) 13 Hey, this thread is lacking a certain type of monkey, but I'm a daydream believer and I think you can fix it! Posted by: Davy Jones at April 08, 2026 12:18 PM (sKqQm) 14 No problem, Ace. Happy you did not varnish yourself into a coma. This rocking chair...now I suspect a baby and that's the hurry? A baby Ace. I like that! I need to go be productive, but please ask him about the cease fire and Iran still lobbing missiles like drunk barbarians last night. With the worthless MSM not mentioning this at all. People said Sec Hegseth mentioned that communication is so poor that they may resort to carrier pidgeons. That may explain their bombardments to Israel, the UAE, Saudi and even Iraq? Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 12:18 PM (WONhk) 15 12 180 CNN - Iran halts shipping in Hormuz after Israel attacks Lebanon. Israel - Lebanon not part of the peace deal. This is going as well as we all expected.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM (Sco7b Willowed Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:17 That was quick Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:18 PM (FtULh) 16 you have no chance to survive make your time Posted by: CATS at April 08, 2026 12:18 PM (K0+7y) 17 GatewayPundit President Trump: The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust.” It is now, and has been, under very exacting Satellite Surveillance (Space Force!). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:19 PM (Sco7b) 18 Which one is Big Mike as a wee lad? Posted by: The Man In The Yellow Hat at April 08, 2026 12:19 PM (mnV3I) 19 I saw a video from Johnny Harris explaining why the western world economy exploded and China's froze and even regressed starting in the 1800s. And the first half was ok - he pointed out it was capitalism. And then he even got into Deng Xiao Ping and how his experiments with capitalism made China the power it is today. Oh, did I mention Mr Harris is one of those voxplainer guys? Yes so the second half covers why capitalism is bad. Did you know not everyone's wealth increased at the same rate? And have you heard of GLOBAL WARMING?!? Why its going to kill us all! We have only 12 years left to save the planet! Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:19 PM (sKqQm) 20 need a little more time. You were in the pool? Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 08, 2026 12:19 PM (Kt19C) 21 Ace, take your time. We are great at entertaining ourselves. Posted by: four seasons You'll go blind if you keep doing that. Can I do it until I need glasses? Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:17 PM (hCUcO) *** Self Amusement or Self Abusement... Discuss. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 12:19 PM (2WIwB) 22 Once I'm done with my current book, I'll be reading a book about primates discovered on an island off the coast of Madagascar that have a frightening level of intelligence. And blue eyes. It's a Michael Crichtonesque thriller of sorts... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 12:19 PM (ESVrU) 23 This is going as well as we all expected.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM (Sco7b Indeed. Inbred barbarian terrorists are not easily led to the table of peace. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 12:20 PM (WONhk) 24 You'll go blind if you keep doing that. Can I do it until I need glasses? Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:17 PM Don't discounting increased follicular development on your palms. Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 12:20 PM (0sNs1) 25 Monkeys shit down the neck of your shirt. No thanks. Posted by: Nasty Little Guys at April 08, 2026 12:20 PM (oftw2) 26 Donna, at the very worst, I think the US is going to inherit the shipping insurance business, since the USN can actually ensure safe passage. That is a good chunk of change, and it is steady and regular. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 12:20 PM (rbvCR) 27 "Let's give them a little more time". Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 08, 2026 12:20 PM (5yDGQ) 28 Cute animal videos the algorithm regularly gives me: dogs, cats, foxes, squirrels No monkeys for some I do occasionally for some reason get AoS favorite bats. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:20 PM (sKqQm) 29 27 Donna, at the very worst, I think the US is going to inherit the shipping insurance business, since the USN can actually ensure safe passage. That is a good chunk of change, and it is steady and regular. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 12:20 PM (rbvCR) I'm hoping for something like that Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:21 PM (FtULh) 30 Monkeys are assho. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2026 12:21 PM (diia5) 31 So speaking of monkeys /zipping sound Ok let's get this zoom call started Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at April 08, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm) 32 whiny voice "I need more tiiiiiiiime!" For what? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 12:21 PM (jGKgp) 33 Don't discounting increased follicular development on your palms. Posted by: Duncanthrax At least I'll have some somewhere finally. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:21 PM (hCUcO) 34 Ace, take your time. We are great at entertaining ourselves. Posted by: four seasons You'll go blind if you keep doing that. Can I do it until I need glasses? Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:17 PM (hCUcO) *** Spank dat monkey!!! Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 12:22 PM (2WIwB) 35 You'll go blind if you keep doing that. Can I do it until I need glasses? Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:17 PM (hCUcO) If you went blind from jacking off, I'd be Daredevil. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y) 36 >>>I need a little more time. The mullahs got to Ace. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 12:22 PM (dK+Kv) 37 33 whiny voice "I need more tiiiiiiiime!" For what? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 12:21 PM (jGKgp) He needs to calm his monkey. Posted by: No Name Today at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (8mulE) 38 Monkies are stupid, amoral and violent. Like proto-Democrats. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (jGKgp) 39 I need a little more time. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM Bob Dole can help with that. Posted by: Bob Dole at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (bFu5X) 40 The mullahs got to Ace. They offered him 4 goats of unusual beauty and 3 kilos of man-perfume. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (sKqQm) 41 We starred in a TV series in the early 60s. Peggy Cass was our "Mom". Posted by: The Mrquis Chimps at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (oftw2) 42 Ugh Day three covering in breast surgery. I didn’t think it would mess with my head this much, having had breast cancer myself. Surgeon is a sweetheart and the folks are nice enough. But this is messing with my head just being here. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud) 43 People said Sec Hegseth mentioned that communication is so poor that they may resort to carrier pidgeons. That may explain their bombardments to Israel, the UAE, Saudi and even Iraq? Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 12:18 PM (WONhk) As a parallel, when Emperor Hirohito decided to surrender to the US, his junior officers objected and went as far as to try a coup to prevent it. Many of the field commanders also vowed to ignore any calls for surrender and fight on. It might take a bit to get everyone on all sides to get faced in the same direction here. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (rbvCR) 44 found this while rummaging through old emails: talcum x last dec 8: War as Fraud: How Ukrainian Leaders Used American Tax Dollars as Get Rich Quick Scheme A new NYT investigation exposes what we already knew -- our tax dollars didn't just buy weapons. They bought mansions, bribes, and corruption at the highest levels Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (CWTWj) 45 I have a solution for the robbing/ransoming monkeys but I suspect that the "victims" are in on the game. Posted by: Oddbob at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (vTZFs) 46 32 So speaking of monkeys /zipping sound Ok let's get this zoom call started Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at April 08, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm) ------ Been busting my ass all morning at work, stressed out, open Ace, see this. Now I'm horse-laughing. Thanks for this lol Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 12:24 PM (oqH4h) 47 Ahhh! Aaaggghhhh! Aaaaaaaaggggghhhhh! One of you mentioned it above. I had to look. Michelle Obama - 57.8 million on Instagram. But then I clicked to see the pictures. Ewww. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b) 48 Legendary entertainer, two-time Grammy Award winner, and Country Music Hall of Fame member Ray Stevens is recovering after a fall on Sunday, March 29 that resulted in a broken neck. He was briefly hospitalized in the Nashville area and is now recovering at home. Doctors have advised Stevens to wear a neck brace for approximately four weeks. Despite the injury, he remains fully mobile and in good spirits as he continues his recovery. Stevens’ upcoming album Favorites Old & New remains on schedule to release this Friday, April 10, via Curb Records. 😳😳😳 Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:24 PM (hCUcO) 49 Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Ted Lieu, Assistant Democratic Leader Joe Neguse and DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene released the following statement: Donald Trump is completely unhinged. His statement threatening to eradicate an entire civilization shocks the conscience and requires a decisive congressional response. The House must come back into session immediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III. For years, Republicans have enabled and excused Donald Trump’s deeply dangerous and extreme behavior. Enough is enough. Our brave men and women in uniform have been put into harm’s way in the Middle East. Over a dozen have already been killed and hundreds injured. Gas prices are skyrocketing, the cost of living in America is out of control and billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a reckless war of choice. It’s time for House Republicans to put patriotic duty over party loyalty and join Democrats in stopping this madness. Posted by: The DU Voice of Sanity at April 08, 2026 12:24 PM (0sNs1) 50 Trump was right the first time. The complete eradication of the mullahs is the only answer. We're in a war or we're not. Posted by: Ordinary American at April 08, 2026 12:24 PM (b4LBp) 51 War as Fraud: How Ukrainian Leaders Used American Tax Dollars as Get Rich Quick Scheme So I guess this means Talcum X wasn't getting BidenBux through Ukraine. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:24 PM (sKqQm) 52 There are some cabinet doors and face frames that could stand a light sanding followed by some new poly. I've pretty much decided to get the Fuji Semi-PRO 2 Gravity System. Also on tap, grinding and sealing the concrete floor in the tiny basement bathroom, but have not decided what extravagant tools will be needed for that job. Posted by: Oglebay at April 08, 2026 12:24 PM (GPa4z) 53 I signed on to a TV series-Me and the Chimp. Not my best career move. Posted by: Ted Bessell at April 08, 2026 12:25 PM (oftw2) 54 President Trump: The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust.” It is now, and has been, under very exacting Satellite Surveillance (Space Force!). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:19 PM (Sco7b) Willowed: They can't cover everything in human shields. They cover power generation, take out distribution or cooling water. There are smart ways around giving the regime the dead bodies they desire. That we haven't is evidence to me that there is real movement toward a negotiated end to this. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 12:25 PM (dK+Kv) 55 Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (n5tGW) 56 Ok, sure. This time we'll agree because we have forgot how batshit crazy and power mad (and let's not forget fascistic) you cocksuckers are. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y) 57 People said Sec Hegseth mentioned that communication is so poor that they may resort to carrier pidgeons. That may explain their bombardments to Israel, the UAE, Saudi and even Iraq? Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 12:18 PM (WONhk) As a parallel, when Emperor Hirohito decided to surrender to the US, his junior officers objected and went as far as to try a coup to prevent it. Many of the field commanders also vowed to ignore any calls for surrender and fight on. It might take a bit to get everyone on all sides to get faced in the same direction here. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (rbvCR) * This, bigly. There is a huge communications problem in Iran right now. I suspect the only ones getting through are those we want to get through. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (2WIwB) 58 It’s time for House Republicans to put patriotic duty over party loyalty and join Democrats in stopping this madness. Posted by: The DU Voice of Sanity at April 08, 2026 12:24 PM (0sNs1) Seriously ? Talk about crazy... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (FtULh) 59 Gotta give credit to Ray Stevens for his dedication. Not everyone would be willing to break their neck to promote their new album. Posted by: No Name Today at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (8mulE) 60 But this is messing with my head just being here. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud) Take care nurse. They're all blessed you're there. You got this. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b) 61 Nobody prefers choking us? Posted by: The Chickens at April 08, 2026 12:27 PM (0sNs1) 62 60 But this is messing with my head just being here. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud) That's tough... I'll say a little prayer for you Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:27 PM (FtULh) 63 Having these cute critter threads early in the day detracts from the Cafe Thread. I'm agin' it! Posted by: Tradition Is Important at April 08, 2026 12:28 PM (oftw2) 64 But this is messing with my head just being here. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud) Take care nurse. They're all blessed you're there. You got this. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b) Concur. There are patients that are looking to you, and you never know who's life you will change just by being there for them. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 12:29 PM (2WIwB) 65 Trump needs to stop fucking around and finish off the mullahs, then promptly turn Iraq over to the Kurds and declare it Kurdistan. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:29 PM (pohLc) 66 Yes so the second half covers why capitalism is bad. Did you know not everyone's wealth increased at the same rate? And have you heard of GLOBAL WARMING?!? Why its going to kill us all! We have only 12 years left to save the planet! Posted by: 18-1 Reminds me a of a book I read about 20 yrs ago that presages our current civilizational problems by examining why we had/have endemic incompetence. The author's mostly anecdotal book ends, not with a call to insist on higher standards and accountability, but with a call for … gun control. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2026 12:29 PM (diia5) 67 42 Ugh Day three covering in breast surgery. I didn’t think it would mess with my head this much, having had breast cancer myself. Surgeon is a sweetheart and the folks are nice enough. But this is messing with my head just being here. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud) ***** Will be adding you to my prayers. 🙏 Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 12:30 PM (NpAcC) 68 I hope Ace has a license for these filthy monkeys. Posted by: Inspector Clouseau at April 08, 2026 12:30 PM (wBRco) 69 Saw a funny twitter post: 8 AM: We must impeach Trump for making threats! 6 PM: We must impeach Trump for not following up on those threats! Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:31 PM (sKqQm) 70 Day three covering in breast surgery. I didn’t think it would mess with my head this much, having had breast cancer myself. Surgeon is a sweetheart and the folks are nice enough. But this is messing with my head just being here. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud) You are a strong person, Nurse. You can power through this. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 12:31 PM (utfVc) 71 Having a monkey living in my house would give me the creeps, and I don't think that's an irrational fear. I sooner ask a juvenile panda to keep an eye on my Glass Figurine shop while I go for coffee. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 12:31 PM (dIske) 72 Day three covering in breast surgery. I didn’t think it would mess with my head this much, having had breast cancer myself. Surgeon is a sweetheart and the folks are nice enough. But this is messing with my head just being here. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud) Nurse, you know what those ladies are going through, so God put you there to hold their hand and show them how to kick butt through this. There is nothing, other than the Lord Himself, that helps healing more than the nurses who show they care about their patients. God bless and keep you ad give you the strength you and your patients need. Posted by: moki at April 08, 2026 12:31 PM (wLjpr) 73 "Why would they trade their best player in franchise history?" Shaq on Angel Reese trade Just lost all respect for Shaq if he thinks that. 2024 Season Caitlyn Clark - Guard 769 points Angel Reese - Forward 462 points When a guard scores more than a forward... Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:32 PM (hCUcO) 74 Day three covering in breast surgery. I didn’t think it would mess with my head this much, having had breast cancer myself. Surgeon is a sweetheart and the folks are nice enough. But this is messing with my head just being here. Posted by: nurse ratched at April 08, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud) Nurse, you know what those ladies are going through, so God put you there to hold their hand and show them how to kick butt through this. There is nothing, other than the Lord Himself, that helps healing more than the nurses who show they care about their patients. God bless and keep you ad give you the strength you and your patients need. Posted by: moki Amen. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:32 PM (hCUcO) 75 Ok, sure. This time we'll agree because we have forgot how batshit crazy and power mad (and let's not forget fascistic) you cocksuckers are. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y) So vague you could be referring to just about anyone not us. You gots to be mo pacific Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (zafwz) 76 but with a call for … gun control. Gun control is one of the dumber issues if you really do look into it. Ok, America has "gun violence". Almost all of it by a small group of people engaged in all sorts of criminality. So the answer is...throw people that commit existing crimes in jail for a long time or execute them right? No...the answer is let those people out on the streets and put the people who aren't committing crimes with their guns in jail for having them. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (sKqQm) 77 Lol. Snowflake is at my patio window. She was in and out several times this morning. Time for her afternoon nap. Okay, she's in. Ralphy was happy his friend is visiting. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (Sco7b) 78 >>>I need a little more time. Time, time, time Is on your side. Yes, it is! Posted by: m at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (fNISR) 79 Macaques be getting their version of Dane geld... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (ynpvh) 80 Having these cute critter threads early in the day detracts from the Cafe Thread. I'm agin' it! Posted by: Tradition Is Important at April 08, 2026 12:28 PM On the other hand, it does help us relax during the crazy news cycle. Posted by: Tevye at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (bFu5X) 81 Having a jackass as the mascot of the Democrats is a dirty, nasty insult to a useful animal with a purpose. The Democrat mascot should be a lice bitten and nearly hairless monkey poised to heroically launch a handful of shit with its left hand while fingering it's crotch with the other. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (pohLc) 82 You can shine my monkey... it's RIGHT HEAH!!! Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 12:34 PM (BI5O2) 83 Maybe Angel Reese was their best player and that team really really really sucks. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 12:34 PM (n5tGW) 84 I got some snow yesterday. Really wish all those global warming predictions had actually been accurate... Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:34 PM (sKqQm) 85 Communications is a problem with Iran?? What are they using? Soup cans attached with strings? Posted by: dantesed at April 08, 2026 12:34 PM (Oy/m2) 86 Shite, I need all day to get ready. And by then it’s too late to do anything. Posted by: Henry at April 08, 2026 12:34 PM (tWkg3) 87 It’s time for House Republicans to put patriotic duty over party loyalty and join Democrats in stopping this madness. Posted by: The DU Voice of Sanity at April 08, 2026 12:24 PM (0sNs1) Seriously ? Talk about crazy... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (FtULh) ********* The Democrats including Nick Fuentes and Bill Kristol are calling Trump a TACO. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 12:34 PM (NpAcC) 88 When a guard scores more than a forward... Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:32 PM (hCUcO) He said franchise history, not league history. Says a lot about the value of that franchise though. Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 12:34 PM (zafwz) 89 76 but with a call for … gun control. Gun control is one of the dumber issues if you really do look into it. Ok, America has "gun violence". Almost all of it by a small group of people engaged in all sorts of criminality. So the answer is...throw people that commit existing crimes in jail for a long time or execute them right? No...the answer is let those people out on the streets and put the people who aren't committing crimes with their guns in jail for having them. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (sKqQm) And then go one step further: prosecute those who use guns for self defense. Shoot a criminal trying to kill you go to jail. In reality, all those criminals need to be paying the politicians and judges that want them out a late night visit... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 12:35 PM (ynpvh) 90 76 but with a call for … gun control. Gun control is one of the dumber issues if you really do look into it. Ok, America has "gun violence". Almost all of it by a small group of people engaged in all sorts of criminality. So the answer is...throw people that commit existing crimes in jail for a long time or execute them right? No...the answer is let those people out on the streets and put the people who aren't committing crimes with their guns in jail for having them. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (sKqQm) It's not about logic, it's about control. They want the State, in their hands, to have an absolute monopoly on violence. Once they have that, they can do what they want. (See also: German, France, England) They fear an armed populace will rise against THEM. Remove THEM from power. Sadly, 2020 proved that will never happen. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 12:35 PM (xcxpd) 91 Communications is a problem with Iran?? What are they using? Goats. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 12:35 PM (n5tGW) 92 82 You can shine my monkey... it's RIGHT HEAH!!! ------------- Snort. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 12:35 PM (n17eQ) 93 So vague you could be referring to just about anyone not us. You gots to be mo pacific Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (zafwz) Did not want to pull the troll nic or words. t makes CBD anxious and we need to keep his anxiety levels down. Deep, calming breaths. Think of broiling beef. Don't think about unapproved toppings on french toast, just rich, warm butter... Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 12:36 PM (bss/y) 94 85 Communications is a problem with Iran?? What are they using? Soup cans attached with strings? Posted by: dantesed at April 08, 2026 12:34 PM (Oy/m2) Their Mahdi fell down a well, and because they killed Lassie, they don't know where he is... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 12:36 PM (ynpvh) 95 helps healing more than the nurses who show they care about their patients ^ Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 08, 2026 12:36 PM (Kt19C) 96 No...the answer is let those people out on the streets and put the people who aren't committing crimes with their guns in jail for having them. Posted by: 18-1 That's the thing though; the book was discussing incompetence, not crime directly. The gun-control jag just got dropped into the last chapter as if the author had to unleash his favorite wubby. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2026 12:36 PM (diia5) 97 Trump needs to stop fucking around and finish off the mullahs, then promptly turn Iraq over to the Kurds and declare it Kurdistan. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:29 PM (pohLc) Naw, the Kurds are muzzies, too, and a miserable people because of it. Let Iran be run by its hereditary rulers, the Zoroastrians, in a coalition with Christians and Jews, and other minorities. Reduce the muzzies to serf status, with no political rights whatsoever. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 12:36 PM (utfVc) 98 Having a jackass as the mascot of the Democrats is a dirty, nasty insult to a useful animal with a purpose. The Democrat mascot should be a lice bitten and nearly hairless monkey poised to heroically launch a handful of shit with its left hand while fingering it's crotch with the other. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM (pohLc) Hilarious mental image and entirely accurate. I second the motion Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 12:36 PM (zafwz) 99 Communications is a problem with Iran?? What are they using? Goats. Posted by: Guy Mohawk That was baaaaad. I'm here all week, folks. Don't forget to give your waitress the tip. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:37 PM (hCUcO) 100 They fear an armed populace will rise against THEM. Remove THEM from power. Sadly, 2020 proved that will never happen. You are 100% right. But just analyzing the issue even on their own terms. Send the cops into urban areas, arrest everyone with an outstanding warrant and give them a LONG prison term/execution and the problem goes away. This is something the GOPe will occasionally talk about but not consisently enough Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm) 101 97 Trump needs to stop fucking around and finish off the mullahs, then promptly turn Iraq over to the Kurds and declare it Kurdistan. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:29 PM (pohLc) Naw, the Kurds are muzzies, too, and a miserable people because of it. Let Iran be run by its hereditary rulers, the Zoroastrians, in a coalition with Christians and Jews, and other minorities. Reduce the muzzies to serf status, with no political rights whatsoever. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 12:36 PM (utfVc) Haha, I mentioned in jest having the Zoastrians run things a few months ago... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 12:37 PM (ynpvh) 102 That was baaaaad. I'm here all week, folks. Don't forget to give your waitress the tip. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:37 PM (hCUcO) Sheep go Baaaaa, Goats go Maaaa Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:38 PM (FtULh) 103 99 Communications is a problem with Iran?? What are they using? Goats. Posted by: Guy Mohawk That was baaaaad. I'm here all week, folks. Don't forget to give your waitress the tip. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:37 PM (hCUcO) tip like a cow? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 12:38 PM (ynpvh) 104 The one in the middle is definitely Willie Nelson Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 08, 2026 12:38 PM (Kt19C) 105 That's the thing though; the book was discussing incompetence, not crime directly. The gun-control jag just got dropped into the last chapter as if the author had to unleash his favorite wubby. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2026 12:36 PM Let me guess...because of systemic incompetence, we can't have even the most common sense of all things, gun control. What do I win? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 12:38 PM (bFu5X) 106 85 Communications is a problem with Iran?? What are they using? Soup cans attached with strings? Posted by: dantesed at April 08, 2026 12:34 PM (Oy/m2) ________________________ Well, you had to laugh at their negotiating process. They are relying on Pakistan to notify the US that Iran has something to say, and then the Iranian mouthpiece ends up being some mid-level embassy functionary stationed in Cairo, Egypt. IOW, I'm not sticking my head up. They'lll shoot me. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 12:38 PM (dIske) 107 100 They fear an armed populace will rise against THEM. Remove THEM from power. Sadly, 2020 proved that will never happen. You are 100% right. But just analyzing the issue even on their own terms. Send the cops into urban areas, arrest everyone with an outstanding warrant and give them a LONG prison term/execution and the problem goes away. This is something the GOPe will occasionally talk about but not consisently enough Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm) Well, not as long as they keep importing criminals from other countries... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 12:38 PM (ynpvh) 108 Well, not as long as they keep importing criminals from other countries... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 12:38 PM (ynpvh) Doing the killing Americans won't do... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:39 PM (FtULh) 109 Haha, I mentioned in jest having the Zoastrians run things a few months ago... ------------------ Zoroastrians were the first guilt people. You may have noticed that most of the Mid East is run by the shameless. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 12:40 PM (n17eQ) 110 Crazy is giving billions of dollars to the largest state sponsor of terrorism while they are actively killing your soldiers on the battlefield. Crazy is giving green cards and visas to the family of people leading the killing of Americans. Crazy is knowing a country is both directly and indirectly undermining the United States and doing zero about it. BTW. Does anybody know where Obama is so we can get him into a mental hospital? I’ll settle for prison of ones not available. Posted by: Vengeance at April 08, 2026 12:40 PM (04KGT) 111 35 You'll go blind if you keep doing that. Can I do it until I need glasses? Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:17 PM (hCUcO) If you went blind from jacking off, I'd be Daredevil. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y) If you go deaf listening to dirty jokes, would folks here go Helen Keller? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 12:40 PM (ynpvh) 112 Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 12:40 PM (Cqx++) 113 76 but with a call for … gun control. Gun control is one of the dumber issues if you really do look into it. Ok, America has "gun violence". Almost all of it by a small group of people engaged in all sorts of criminality. So the answer is...throw people that commit existing crimes in jail for a long time or execute them right? No...the answer is let those people out on the streets and put the people who aren't committing crimes with their guns in jail for having them. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:33 PM If they can’t release the criminals, who’s going to kill the normal law abiding citizens for the left? Posted by: Eromero at April 08, 2026 12:40 PM (rR03l) 114 What if… and I know this is crazy talk, the “people of Iran” are fine with things as they are? We have this assumption that everyone is breathlessly waiting for the regime to fall. Appears more and more like that’s been propaganda. If there was truly so much hatred of the regime the people would have done something about it over the past 6 weeks. Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 12:40 PM (MmH/W) 115 114 What if… and I know this is crazy talk, the “people of Iran” are fine with things as they are? We have this assumption that everyone is breathlessly waiting for the regime to fall. Appears more and more like that’s been propaganda. If there was truly so much hatred of the regime the people would have done something about it over the past 6 weeks. Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 12:40 PM (MmH/W) We know that some are not...but what percentage they are of the entire populace, I don't know... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 12:41 PM (ynpvh) 116 If there was truly so much hatred of the regime the people would have done something about it over the past 6 weeks. Last time they did that about 42 thousand were killed... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:41 PM (FtULh) 117 114 What if… and I know this is crazy talk, the “people of Iran” are fine with things as they are? We have this assumption that everyone is breathlessly waiting for the regime to fall. Appears more and more like that’s been propaganda. If there was truly so much hatred of the regime the people would have done something about it over the past 6 weeks. Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 12:40 PM (MmH/W) This occurs to me also. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:42 PM (pohLc) 118 100 They fear an armed populace will rise against THEM. Remove THEM from power. Sadly, 2020 proved that will never happen. You are 100% right. But just analyzing the issue even on their own terms. Send the cops into urban areas, arrest everyone with an outstanding warrant and give them a LONG prison term/execution and the problem goes away. This is something the GOPe will occasionally talk about but not consisently enough Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm) I've watched enough Code Blue Cam to know it's not just "Urbans" who have outstanding warrants. Posted by: XTC at April 08, 2026 12:42 PM (uEmCf) 119 If you go deaf listening to dirty jokes, would folks here go Helen Keller? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) If you handcuffed Helen Keller you violated her 1st Amendment rights. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:43 PM (hCUcO) 120 Last time they did that about 42 thousand were killed... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:41 PM (FtULh) Conditions have changed markedly since then. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:43 PM (pohLc) 121 If you went blind from jacking off, I'd be Daredevil. Think of the kittens. Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 08, 2026 12:43 PM (Kt19C) 122 >> Appears more and more like that’s been propaganda. Yeah. Just ignore the enormous size of the protests, first hand accounts, and reporting from independent sources. They want the mullahs. lol. Do you people ever grow a brain Posted by: Vengeance at April 08, 2026 12:43 PM (04KGT) 123 If there was truly so much hatred of the regime the people would have done something about it over the past 6 weeks. Posted by: Heroq at April 08, 2026 12:40 PM (MmH/W) Trump has been warning the resistance to hold off acting until the time is right. I expect he has a pretty good idea of when they should strike. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 12:43 PM (utfVc) 124 Let me guess...because of systemic incompetence, we can't have even the most common sense of all things, gun control. What do I win? Posted by: RedMindBlueState Pretty much, and you can have this expired coupon for a $5 footlong sub. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2026 12:43 PM (diia5) 125 I've watched enough Code Blue Cam to know it's not just "Urbans" who have outstanding warrants. Most, but not all, crime in America comes from the big blue shitties. Clean them up even ignoring everything else and we have the best crime rates in the western world... Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm) 126 120 Last time they did that about 42 thousand were killed... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:41 PM (FtULh) Conditions have changed markedly since then. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:43 PM (pohLc) They were told to stay inside from what I heard... There were and probably still are IRGC armed waiting to pick them off... Of course I'm not there so I don't know Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:45 PM (FtULh) 127 >>Doctors have advised Stevens to wear a neck brace for approximately four weeks. Despite the injury, he remains fully mobile and in good spirits as he continues his recovery. . . . last seen jogging around the hospital floor after shedding his hospital attire. Lookatthat, lookatthat! "He likes to show off his physique (boogity, boogity) If there's an audience to be found, he'll be streakin' around . . ." Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2026 12:45 PM (Suwql) 128 No one ever has the stones to call "Last!" Posted by: Max Power at April 08, 2026 12:45 PM (q177U) 129 Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. I have nothing to hide. Everything I needed to hide, has been. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:45 PM (hCUcO) 130 Imma thinking of taking the wife to CostCo for dinner. Do you think she'll like it? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 12:45 PM (n17eQ) 131 If you go deaf listening to dirty jokes, would folks here go Helen Keller? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) If you handcuffed Helen Keller you violated her 1st Amendment rights. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:43 PM (hCUcO) what was helen keller's favorite color? corduroy... Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 08, 2026 12:45 PM (578V/) 132 Pretty much, and you can have this expired coupon for a $5 footlong sub. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2026 12:43 PM sigh I really should upgrade from my cardboard membership status. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 12:45 PM (bFu5X) 133 Naw, the Kurds are muzzies, too, and a miserable people because of it. Let Iran be run by its hereditary rulers, the Zoroastrians, in a coalition with Christians and Jews, and other minorities. Reduce the muzzies to serf status, with no political rights whatsoever. Whatever happens, it's a given that (formerly) Great Britain will be of no use whatsoever. Seriously, read this. The Royal Navy is no longer fit for service in NATO. https://is.gd/s73i7W Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t) 134 Oh please just fucking stop already. It’s embarrassing. Posted by: Vengeance at April 08, 2026 12:46 PM (04KGT) 135 Having a jackass as the mascot of the Democrats is a dirty, nasty insult to a useful animal with a purpose. The Democrat mascot should be a lice bitten and nearly hairless monkey poised to heroically launch a handful of shit with its left hand while fingering it's crotch with the other. Posted by: Xipe Totec A tick or a bedbug. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 08, 2026 12:46 PM (OUMaO) 136 The Royal Navy is no longer fit for service in NATO. https://is.gd/s73i7W Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 12:46 PM NATO is no longer fit for anything. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 12:47 PM (bFu5X) 137 And then there's this. “To our Israeli allies, thank you for being a brave, capable, and willing ally on this battlefield. The rest of the world and the rest of our so-called allies saw what real capabilities look like. They should take some notes.” https://is.gd/4mj0dJ Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t) 138 I am not starting my day until someone tells me how I must feel about whatever the latest news is. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 12:47 PM (JrZbt) 139 Democrats mascot should be a bag of dicks. Very small, infertile, flaccid dicks. Posted by: Vengeance at April 08, 2026 12:47 PM (04KGT) 140 there is a certain logic in calling for gun control. deny the 2nd amendment means what it says while twisting the laws to let criminals run loose, sooner or later the modern liberal fascists will expect people to let the courts and pols twist the bill of rights to regulate speech and the media, throw opponents in jail for hate speech and spreading misinformation, allow cops to come into you home without a warrant, etc. Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 12:47 PM (CWTWj) 141 >>No one ever has the stones to call "Last!" I miss willow. . . That is "last!" - it's "willowed!" Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2026 12:47 PM (Suwql) 142 Imma thinking of taking the wife to CostCo for dinner. Do you think she'll like it? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 12:45 PM (n17eQ) Not if taht's all you're thinking. But, if you let her do a little shopping in a store the size of a jumbo jet hangar, she'll get her steps in, get a little sumpin for the house and not feel like fixing dinner. Now a hot dog and soda's looking pretty tasty. Throw in a $3 sundae and you might even get some lovin' Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 12:48 PM (zafwz) 143 >>I am not starting my day until someone tells me how I must feel about whatever the latest news is. You must be angry and blackpilled about. . something Trump did, how he's disappointed you! Yeah, that's it!! /sarc Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2026 12:49 PM (Suwql) 144 Vengeance, Dude, chill out. You don’t know any more about the situation on the ground in Iran than the rest of us do. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 12:49 PM (sAYK5) 145 Shock the 🐒. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 12:49 PM (NFX2v) 146 Wow. NATO really worked out for us. Dirtbags like France actually negotiated to get their ships through. What a bunch of real friends. Posted by: Vengeance at April 08, 2026 12:49 PM (04KGT) 147 38 Monkies are stupid, amoral and violent. Like proto-Democrats. but we're still cool, right? Posted by: the monkees at April 08, 2026 12:49 PM (oY6Yp) 148 You can't call last because some smartass always comes along and think they're being funny.... Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 12:49 PM (JrZbt) 149 That said I 100% agree with comment 164 Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 12:49 PM (JrZbt) 150 Now a hot dog and soda's looking pretty tasty. Throw in a $3 sundae and you might even get some lovin' ---------------- That was my plan. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 12:50 PM (n17eQ) 151 you see, ace? like i've said before, give us a thread if yo need a break and we can make our own fun. Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 08, 2026 12:50 PM (CWTWj) 152 Middle! Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 12:50 PM (sAYK5) 153 As much as I love Trump, and unless he's playing 11-dimensional chess using disinformation ops, I wish he'd keep his mouth shut about what should be clearly classified technologies and actions. To wit, it was only because he announced ahead of time (which he's criticized past idiot POTUSes like W, DogEater, and F. Joe AutoPen for doing) that we were going to take out all of Iran's power plants and bridges that they were able to mobilize human shields -- giving their allies and our Treasonous Fifth Column Left all of their "War Crimes" and "Impeachment" talking points, and likely forcing Trump to back down. [Again, this may have been intentional and perhaps he was actually going to target different infrastructures, so that could have been a deceptive head fake. I wasn't happy about him revealing the "Discombobulator" technology -- nor now the "Ghost Murmur" technology that somebody (CIA, DOD, or Lockheed Martin "sources") leaked to the New York Post. [Again, the caveat here is that these were intentional leaks and in some manner disinformation to accomplish some goals unstated.] /end rant Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 12:50 PM (TbhYO) 154 With respect to the monkeys, I'm a believer. Posted by: dantesed at April 08, 2026 12:51 PM (Oy/m2) 155 At least the Democrats fight. They're fighting against the SAVE Act as hard as they fought against the Civil Rights act! Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 12:51 PM (0sNs1) 156 Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t) Even in WW2 the Brits had to abandon the Pacific as they could not stop the Japanese and mostly just ran from them. Churchill realized their Pacific holdings depended completely on the US Navy. They could not even take Germany on their own, much less the Japanese. They weren't strong then, and are markedly weaker now. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:51 PM (pohLc) 157 I was at a gas station yesterday and saw a woman who I would pursue if I were: 25 years younger, richer, single, and slimmer. She wore a camo t-shirt, drove a flatbed truck, and was open carrying. That's some serious wife material right there. Posted by: windbag at April 08, 2026 12:52 PM (0M0Qq) 158 I thought that Stacey Abrams was the Demoncrat Mascot. Posted by: XTC at April 08, 2026 12:52 PM (uEmCf) 159 The thing about unorganized uprisings is that nobody wants to be first only to find out they are only. Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at April 08, 2026 12:52 PM (EcHpA) 160 Even in WW2 the Brits had to abandon the Pacific as they could not stop the Japanese and mostly just ran from them. Churchill realized their Pacific holdings depended completely on the US Navy. They could not even take Germany on their own, much less the Japanese. They weren't strong then, and are markedly weaker now. I wouldn't call them weaker. I'd call them fictional. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 12:52 PM (Riz8t) 161 Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson Vice President JD Vance DISAVOWS ‘Blackpilling’, warns that is how you “give power to the forces that are trying to destroy what our ancestors built”. If you see something you disagree with, you should get more involved and push things in the direction you want them to go in. “We need to take power BACK from those people and build the kind of institutions that can actually save our societies.” “It WILL happen so long as we keep our faith in God and we work hard to achieve it.” https://tinyurl.com/53rkw56m Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 12:52 PM (NpAcC) 162 That said I 100% agree with comment 164 Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 12:49 PM Impressive. Most impressive! Posted by: Darth Penguin at April 08, 2026 12:53 PM (0sNs1) 163 That was my plan. Posted by: pudinhead (the frugal playah) at April 08, 2026 12:50 PM (n17eQ) fify Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 12:53 PM (zafwz) 164 Naw, the Kurds are muzzies, too, and a miserable people because of it. Let Iran be run by its hereditary rulers, the Zoroastrians, in a coalition with Christians and Jews, and other minorities. Reduce the muzzies to serf status, with no political rights whatsoever. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 12:36 PM (utfVc Hi AOP. And on that note, there was something on the CBC about the natives suing to prevent a referendum or separation or whatever. I tune them out. Their always bitching to extract cash. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:53 PM (Sco7b) 165 Throw in a $3 sundae and you might even get some lovin' Stop being a dick and raising expectations for the rest of us. Posted by: Yep at April 08, 2026 12:53 PM (SD7rz) 166 Really? How do you know what I know Bulg? It’s funny. You know some of the coordination that happens here sometimes. I mean, it’s very easy to figure out where most of the population stands on the mullahs. Notwithstanding what we’ve seen in actual real video of protests across various cities. Not to mention verified accounts of jailing, murder and what not. I am not saying that as a call for action by us. But it’s actual facts. Then you have the trolls coming in, thinking people can’t figure out who they are, and making unsubstantiated claims. Weird. Posted by: Vengeance at April 08, 2026 12:53 PM (04KGT) 167 I was at a gas station yesterday and saw a woman who I would pursue if I were: 25 years younger, richer, single, and slimmer. She wore a camo t-shirt, drove a flatbed truck, and was open carrying. That's some serious wife material right there. Posted by: windbag at April 08, 2026 12:52 PM (0M0Qq) ==== Were any sammiches in evidence? Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2026 12:53 PM (RIvkX) 168 Imma thinking of taking the wife to CostCo for dinner. Do you think she'll like it?" Used to call it our "date night"... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 12:53 PM (XuXeR) 169 157 But how was her rack? Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 12:53 PM (sAYK5) 170 155 At least the Democrats fight. They're fighting against the SAVE Act as hard as they fought against the Civil Rights act! Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2026 12:51 PM (0sNs1) And at a minimum of 80%, Republicans just want to fundraise while the Democrats take power and do anything they want. Posted by: XTC at April 08, 2026 12:54 PM (uEmCf) 171 My time, not YOUR time! You NEVER have time! Posted by: Suicidal Tendencies at April 08, 2026 12:54 PM (m2XKJ) 172 Even in WW2 the Brits had to abandon the Pacific as they could not stop the Japanese and mostly just ran from them. Churchill realized their Pacific holdings depended completely on the US Navy. They could not even take Germany on their own, much less the Japanese. They weren't strong then, and are markedly weaker now. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:51 PM (pohLc) They were powerful- as long as they could concentrate force. Their holdings were so far flung that the two front (Japan and Germany) exposed the weakness there. They could not divert forces from Europe because they feared invasion. Meanwhile we did not depend on colonial holdings for resources and men. So, we could sit here in Fortress North America and project power without having to draw it in. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 12:54 PM (bss/y) 173 149 That said I 100% agree with comment 164 That's a risky assertion. Posted by: Methos at April 08, 2026 12:54 PM (vSvIl) 174 She wore a camo t-shirt, drove a flatbed truck, " Flat bed Ford? You in Winslow Arizona? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 12:55 PM (XuXeR) 175 Throw in a $3 sundae and you might even get some lovin' Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 12:48 PM Short time or long time? Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at April 08, 2026 12:55 PM (0sNs1) 176 But how was her rack? Posted by: Bulg Racktacular. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:55 PM (hCUcO) 177 more time for what Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 12:55 PM (ZxPkt) 178 157 But how was her rack?" Yeah. Press check or ?? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (XuXeR) 179 They're The idiot on the vaunted 164 made a boneheas error. That's me btw.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (Sco7b) 180 JD Vance found himself a new conduit, now that Cucker is completely soiled ? OKAY. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (GD0B3) 181 Throw in a $3 sundae and you might even get some lovin'" A spoonful? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (XuXeR) 182 MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell ripped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his “old school” mentality after Hegseth declared “we leave no man behind.” O’Donnell implied the expression was sexist because it failed to acknowledge it could have been a female soldier rescued last weekend in Iran. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (Cqx++) 183 "If you see something you disagree with, you should get more involved and push things in the direction you want them to go in. " Yeah so that is highly suspicious. Definitely what "they" want you to believe. "If you don't like something go out and CHANGE it." Ok Gandhi we'll get right on that. I think I'll make Congress better by devoting my life to public service and being a decent human that gives a shit about those he serves. Works every time. There is optimism and then there is delusion. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (JrZbt) 184 was at a gas station yesterday and saw a woman who I would pursue if I were: 25 years younger, richer, single, and slimmer. She wore a camo t-shirt, drove a flatbed truck, and was open carrying. That's some serious wife material right there. Posted by: windbag at April 08, 2026 12:52 PM (0M0Qq) ___________ Or the start of a horror movie .... Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 12:57 PM (iFTx/) 185 My time, not YOUR time! You NEVER have time! Posted by: Suicidal Tendencies at April 08, 2026 12:54 PM (m2XKJ) all i wanted was a pepsi... Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 08, 2026 12:57 PM (578V/) 186 22 Once I'm done with my current book, I'll be reading a book about primates discovered on an island off the coast of Madagascar that have a frightening level of intelligence. And blue eyes. It's a Michael Crichtonesque thriller of sorts... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2026 12:19 PM (ESVrU) You should totally watch Congo before you read that and hear Tim Curry talk about The Myth of the Keeler Aaaape (spelled like he prounounced it with poor Romanian accent) Posted by: Nelly at April 08, 2026 12:57 PM (7gpcF) 187 But how was her rack? Posted by: Bulg Racktacular. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:55 PM There are other, more impressive assets, you know. Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at April 08, 2026 12:57 PM (0sNs1) 188 Can someone tell me how many levels of Iranian leadership we've "moved on from?" Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 12:57 PM (aZm/F) 189 O’Donnell implied the expression was sexist because it failed to acknowledge it could have been a female soldier rescued last weekend in Iran. Show me a woman that could stay quiet for two days waiting for rescue. Posted by: Yep at April 08, 2026 12:57 PM (SD7rz) 190 And on that note, there was something on the CBC about the natives suing to prevent a referendum or separation or whatever. I tune them out. Their always bitching to extract cash. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:53 PM (Sco7b) I never watch or listen to CBC. All lies, all the time. When Alberta achieves independence, the Indians will be treated fairly. They're going to hate that. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 12:57 PM (utfVc) 191 ace is polishing his...furniture! Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 12:57 PM (GD0B3) 192 To wit, it was only because he announced ahead of time (which he's criticized past idiot POTUSes like W, DogEater, and F. Joe AutoPen for doing) that we were going to take out all of Iran's power plants and bridges that they were able to mobilize human shields - I think he already had the ceasefire agreement plotted out before he made that announcement. Try reading it as directed at the rest of us-we'll see one of two things happening-rather than directed at Iran, who he doesn't need social media to contact, and it's a bit clearer. Posted by: Methos at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (vSvIl) 193 JD Vance found himself a new conduit, now that Cucker is completely soiled ? OKAY. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (GD0B3) You forgot to call him a faggot, too. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (rbvCR) 194 168 Imma thinking of taking the wife to CostCo for dinner. Do you think she'll like it?" Used to call it our "date night"... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 12:53 PM (XuXeR Smart plan until you 'pick up a few things while we're here' and spend $1550. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (Sco7b) 195 Show me a woman that could stay quiet for two days waiting for rescue" grabs popcorn Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (XuXeR) 196 Trump has been warning the resistance to hold off acting until the time is right. I expect he has a pretty good idea of when they should strike. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 12:43 PM (utfVc) ______________________ Early on, the US bombed a few of the Iranian checkpoints. The purpose of those checkpoints was to keep protestors and disidents from grouping up and overwhelming defenses in any given "urban" areas. Then the US stopped abruptly. My guess is that they saw the wisdom of arming the disidents first, and then coordinating it so it is more effective when the time comes. Haven't heard much about Mossad lately, but it's a good bet they are in the area of some of those key checkpoints waiting. Posted by: Orson at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (dIske) 197 Going to Costco for dinner could be one of the costliest dinners you could have... I never get out of Costco for under 100 dollars... That $1.50 hot dog doesn't seem so cheap Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (FtULh) 198 You know who else had intelligence and frightening blue eyes? Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 12:59 PM (JrZbt) 199 O’Donnell implied the expression was sexist because it failed to acknowledge it could have been a female soldier rescued last weekend in Iran. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (Cqx++) Another example of the shit throwing monkey. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 12:59 PM (pohLc) 200 O’Donnell implied the expression was sexist because it failed to acknowledge it could have been a female soldier rescued last weekend in Iran. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (Cqx++) ------ This level of stupidity enrages me. Posted by: Seems Legit at April 08, 2026 12:59 PM (aZm/F) 201 The Royal Navy is no longer fit for service in NATO. https://is.gd/s73i7W Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t) Holy shit. That was an understatement!!! Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 08, 2026 12:59 PM (wtvvX) 202 Note that ace did not specify what little means.. could be 24 hours...#twoweeks Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 12:59 PM (GD0B3) 203 Throw in a $3 sundae and you might even get some lovin' Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 12:48 PM Short time or long time? Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at April 08, 2026 12:55 PM (0sNs1) I'm no mathemagician, but I figure whatever $20 will get you in town, you'd get $3 worth Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 12:59 PM (zafwz) 204 Smart plan until you 'pick up a few things while we're here' and spend $1550." Yeah, well... looks around at house full of stuff Sonofabitch... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:00 PM (XuXeR) 205 I never watch or listen to CBC. All lies, all the time. When Alberta achieves independence, the Indians will be treated fairly. They're going to hate that. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 12:57 PM (utfVc) Lol. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:00 PM (Sco7b) 206 But how was her rack? Posted by: Bulg She had a Mesa Boogie preamp and Macintosh amps all the way down! Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 08, 2026 01:00 PM (w9Wax) 207 181 Throw in a $3 sundae and you might even get some lovin'" A spoonful? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (XuXeR) For cat ladies, a spoon in a gallon of ice cream is all the spooning they get... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 01:00 PM (ynpvh) 208 You forgot to call him a faggot, too. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (rbvCR) Keep it up coward, cannot attack ace so you attack me. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:00 PM (GD0B3) 209 "I'm here to rescue you" Female: "I'm not going with you!" "Why not?" Female: "If you don't already know I'm not going to tell you." Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:00 PM (JrZbt) 210 From 1939 to 1941, the Royal Navy pulled most of their Pacific units closer to the ongoing conflict, for example keeping the Mediterranean at least not wholly an Italian lake and thus the Axis could more easily threaten British control of Egypt and the Suez Canal. Then the balloon went up in the Pacific. And what was left of the Royal Navy, such as HMS Exeter and hero of the Battle of the River Platte, were quickly swept aside or sunk with their American and Dutch allies in the Dutch East Indies. December 26th, 1941 would see HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse be sunk while returning to port by Japanese airpower. Then the British would lose an aircraft carrier, HMS Hermes, and several other ships when Nagumo's carrier force struck Ceylon. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:00 PM (2GVsD) 211 97 Naw, the Kurds are muzzies, too, and a miserable people because of it. Let Iran be run by its hereditary rulers, the Zoroastrians, in a coalition with Christians and Jews, and other minorities. Reduce the muzzies to serf status, with no political rights whatsoever. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon I concur with AOP, make the muzzies powerless. Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 01:01 PM (Q/FnY) 212 Going to Costco for dinner could be one of the costliest dinners you could have... I never get out of Costco for under 100 dollars... That $1.50 hot dog doesn't seem so cheap Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (FtULh) That's because you're not shopping with a wife that tells you NO! Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 01:01 PM (zafwz) 213 I'm no mathemagician, but I figure whatever $20 will get you in town, you'd get $3 worth Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 12:59 PM So, 15%? Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2026 01:01 PM (0sNs1) 214 Top of the hour news... All three US stations. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. White House briefing soon. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:02 PM (Sco7b) 215 Who says you can't attack ace? What is he, some precious flower? The only rule ace has is don't bitch too much about the content and don't look at him sideways on the wrong day (roughly one week each lunar cycle). That's it. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:02 PM (JrZbt) 216 "Mark Levin1!1" "NEOCONS11!" Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:03 PM (GD0B3) 217 Today's word is "Cock-a-Hoop": feeling inordinately happy and boastful about something. I love it. It sounds like something Mr. Burns would say. "Smithers, I'm positively cock-a-hoop over my team of Boston Dynamics hounds capturing that escaped power plant waif!" Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 08, 2026 01:03 PM (kpS4V) 218 The Royal Navy is no longer fit for service in NATO." The Cajun Navy >>> the royal navy Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:03 PM (XuXeR) 219 Top of the hour news... All three US stations. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. White House briefing soon. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:02 PM (Sco7b) Wait does this mean I have to react another different way now? Waiting for my orders. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:03 PM (JrZbt) 220 So the monkeys steal your shit then make you give them more shit to get your original shit back. How very governmental of them. Posted by: These monkeys have a future in politics at April 08, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/) 221 208 You forgot to call him a faggot, too. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (rbvCR) Keep it up coward, cannot attack ace so you attack me. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:00 PM (GD0B3) Jeez, dude. We get it- you don't like Vance and think he's a heretic. You do not need to sell us. Constantly. And the endless purity spirals distract me from thinking about boobs. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:04 PM (bss/y) 222 215 Who says you can't attack ace? What is he, some precious flower? The only rule ace has is don't bitch too much about the content and don't look at him sideways on the wrong day (roughly one week each lunar cycle). That's it. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:02 PM (JrZbt) I sometimes shelve the commentary here...but not in the same way the Boss does... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 08, 2026 01:04 PM (ynpvh) 223 Had a friend in Nigeria who had a mixed breed dog, 1/2 Boxer and 1/2 German Shepard. Most laid back and friendliest dog I've ever seen. Good thing too, as any time he was standing a monkey was attached a rear leg. They looked like some strange mutation. Monkey was not human friendly, not to me anyway. Posted by: javems at April 08, 2026 01:04 PM (Sepje) 224 "I'm here to rescue you" Female: "I'm not going with you!" "Why not?" Female: "If you don't already know I'm not going to tell you." Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:00 PM (JrZbt) ---- "Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?" Posted by: Princess Leia Organa at April 08, 2026 01:04 PM (ESVrU) 225 December 26th, 1941 would see HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse be sunk while returning to port by Japanese airpower." And General Whimpers surrendered Singapore. . Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:04 PM (XuXeR) 226 206 But how was her rack? Posted by: Bulg She had a Mesa Boogie preamp and Macintosh amps all the way down! Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks My favorite is a paired Macintosh DC150 amp & preamp, they are beauties. Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 01:05 PM (Q/FnY) 227 The "cease fire" has been a "pause." To set up for the staging and finale. I didn't think the simian barbarians could be believed or that President Trump would fall for their bs. Hold! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 01:05 PM (WONhk) 228 Wait does this mean I have to react another different way now? Waiting for my orders. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:03 PM You and me both, bro. Posted by: NPC_11111001 at April 08, 2026 01:05 PM (0sNs1) 229 Not even 24 hours. Bomb them. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 01:05 PM (3ek7K) 230 215 Who says you can't attack ace? What is he, some precious flower? The only rule ace has is don't bitch too much about the content and don't look at him sideways on the wrong day (roughly one week each lunar cycle). That's it. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:02 PM (JrZbt) I would suggest some formulation of 'ace is gay because X'. X being equal to whatever random modifier you choose. I might suggest trying different things such as clothing, furniture, vehicles, shoe choice, friends, etc. But have fun with it. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:05 PM (bss/y) 231 The thing about unorganized uprisings is that nobody wants to be first only to find out they are only. Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at April 08, 2026 12:52 PM (EcHpA) As one internet wag put it, if you're outraged, then you should grab your rifle and run out onto your porch to be ready for the revolution. If you're the only one on your street standing on your porch while armed, then you know that things haven't really gotten that bad yet. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 01:06 PM (y9nCu) 232 Don't remember Kindltot being mouthy when ace trashes his heroes, Cucker Tarlson, Megyn Kelly or when he criticizes JD Vance. Because ace can ban his ass. But commenter, like me, are safe. Go ahead , Kindltot, tell us something about Mark Levin. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:06 PM (GD0B3) 233 Female: "I'm not going with you!" "Why not?"" You left out the part where she's facetiming her contact list... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:06 PM (XuXeR) 234 The "cease fire" has been a "pause." To set up for the staging and finale. I didn't think the simian barbarians could be believed or that President Trump would fall for their bs. If they refuse to (or can't) live up to their commitments, Trump can now say "I gave them a chance. It's on now." Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 01:06 PM (Riz8t) 235 So, AOP, I should not pay attention when CBC refers to certain Albertans as “separatists” and “traitors”? (Of course, when QC tried to secede via referendum the CBC among others had a big love-fest trying to keep QC in Canada. AB tries to secede, and out comes the vitriol.). Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:07 PM (E6xSb) 236 So I guess Tehran has once again proven Trump is the reasonable one in the conversation? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:07 PM (2GVsD) 237 If they refuse to (or can't) live up to their commitments, Trump can now say "I gave them a chance. It's on now." Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 01:06 PM But they weren't really commitment commitments. Posted by: Whoopi at April 08, 2026 01:07 PM (0sNs1) 238 Bomb them. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 01:05 PM (3ek7K) Time to drop a little nuke down that friggin' well in Qom. Turn it into a fountain of radioactive shit. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:08 PM (utfVc) 239 My favorite is a paired Macintosh DC150 amp & preamp, they are beauties" They are. Still roll with "vintage" Fenders, tho. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:08 PM (XuXeR) 240 Funny about the Monkee's Daydream Believer. Every other group rejected it. Davey didn't like it either -- didn't understand the American lyrics. Label required the word funky be changed to happy. Was the last Monkee #1 hit Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 08, 2026 01:08 PM (wBaIH) 241 197 Going to Costco for dinner could be one of the costliest dinners you could have... I never get out of Costco for under 100 dollars... That $1.50 hot dog doesn't seem so cheap Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (FtULh) The secret is to walk directly to the food court and not look at anything. A slice of pizza and a hot dog is $3.60...can't get a meal anywhere near that cheap anywhere else. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 01:09 PM (xcxpd) 242 Heh, troops didn't even get time to take a dump. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 01:09 PM (pohLc) 243 $4.44/gal for 87 gas today I blame the governor, who spends all his time getting dorked up the squeakhole by men Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 01:09 PM (ZxPkt) 244 Keep it up coward, cannot attack ace so you attack me. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:00 PM (GD0B3) Lighten up, Francis. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 01:09 PM (dK+Kv) 245 So I guess Tehran has once again proven Trump is the reasonable one in the conversation? I think the likeliest explanation is that Tehran has lost control and the war is now in the hands of a bunch of warlords, some or most of whom are idiots and will toss off missiles just to prevent any kind of surrender. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 01:09 PM (Riz8t) 246 Don't remember Kindltot being mouthy when ace trashes his heroes, Cucker Tarlson, Megyn Kelly or when he criticizes JD Vance. Because ace can ban his ass. But commenter, like me, are safe. Go ahead , Kindltot, tell us something about Mark Levin. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:06 PM (GD0B3) Thank you for asking ace to ban me. You forgot to call me a faggot, too. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:10 PM (rbvCR) 247 232 Don't remember Kindltot being mouthy when ace trashes his heroes, Cucker Tarlson, Megyn Kelly or when he criticizes JD Vance. Because ace can ban his ass. But commenter, like me, are safe. Go ahead , Kindltot, tell us something about Mark Levin. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:06 PM (GD0B3) From what I have seen, Kindltot does not endorse anything those mentioned have said, but doesn't like the reflexive desire to 'silence' them and purge them. We agree on that. Tucker- so far off his nut I do not see how he gets back, if he even wants to. Meagain? She's just darling. Vance, I dunno yet. My mind is open because it does not seem to be anything he specifically has said, just against the people he has associated with in the past. I am not willing to go full Stalinist on him yet. We'll see. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:10 PM (bss/y) 248 MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell ripped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his “old school” mentality after Hegseth declared “we leave no man behind.” O’Donnell implied the expression was sexist because it failed to acknowledge it could have been a female soldier rescued last weekend in Iran. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2026 12:56 PM (Cqx++) O’Donnell is an admitted Socialist. He chucked silly impediments to his thinking like “respect for human life” out the window long ago. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:10 PM (E6xSb) 249 4 Ace is becoming a slacker. CBD may launch his coup! Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (n17eQ) Instead of AOSHQ, House of Flying Pontificating Dildos? Pass. Posted by: All threads will be sous vide threads at April 08, 2026 01:10 PM (TbWk/) 250 The secret is to walk directly to the food court and not look at anything. A slice of pizza and a hot dog is $3.60...can't get a meal anywhere near that cheap anywhere else. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 01:09 PM (xcxpd) Dinner for family of four for $14 (pizza plus four sodas) and two rotisserie chickens for protein for the better part of the week for another $10. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 01:10 PM (dK+Kv) 251 WTOP.com headline... "BREAKING NEWS: Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Iranian state media reports. Close alert." So, Iran is blaming Israel for violating the ceasefire...and round and round we go. Only 3 ways this ends - we take all the economic assets (hello oil), the people rise up and overthrow, or we quit with whatever kicking of the can we did... #2 seems very iffy right now...so we're down to #1 and #3... Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 01:10 PM (tOcjL) 252 FIRST!!!!! Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:10 PM (PpBto) 253 So, AOP, I should not pay attention when CBC refers to certain Albertans as “separatists” and “traitors”? (Of course, when QC tried to secede via referendum the CBC among others had a big love-fest trying to keep QC in Canada. AB tries to secede, and out comes the vitriol.). Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:07 PM (E6xSb) CBC = Commie Broadcasting Commune. I saw a report that maybe only 3% of Canadians tune in regularly. Shitmaggot Marx Carnage is the best salesman ever for Alberta Sovereignty. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:11 PM (utfVc) 254 Jeez, dude. We get it- you don't like Vance and think he's a heretic. You do not need to sell us. Constantly. And the endless purity spirals distract me from thinking about boobs. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:04 PM (bss/y) I did not say I don't like him. His speech in Europe was very good. But then I don't think he is an anointed one. Like you and the others. Which obviously offends some. I do not speak to you personally , I post what I think is relevant to what is being discussed. "Purity Spiral" is something Kindltot and others on his ... wavelength demand. Not happening. I call it as I see it. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:11 PM (GD0B3) 255 Once you realize the Persians are as fanatical as the Japs were in WW2, they become rather predictable. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 01:11 PM (pohLc) 256 Thanks to those that have reached out about the Pampered Chef stuff. First Lady will be happy, so I appreciate you very much. email in link if you're interested. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:11 PM (PpBto) 257 243 $4.44/gal for 87 gas today I blame the governor, who spends all his time getting dorked up the squeakhole by men Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 01:09 PM (ZxPkt) CO then? Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:11 PM (E6xSb) 258 FIRST!!!!!" Well done. No, really. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:12 PM (XuXeR) 259 Once you realize the Persians are as fanatical as the Japs were in WW2, they become rather predictable. So you're saying the Philippine jungles are full of Persians? Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 01:13 PM (Riz8t) 260 Thank you for asking ace to ban me. You forgot to call me a faggot, too. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:10 PM (rbvCR) Your non sequiturs, and strawmaning is musing, please continue. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:13 PM (GD0B3) 261 Runner, go drink some water. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:13 PM (rbvCR) 262 Well done. No, really. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:12 PM (XuXeR) #Winning Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:13 PM (PpBto) 263 The Monkees made many commercials for Kool-Aid. In one, in exchange for sending in empty packets, they would send you a joy buzzer and a snake in a can. A very good deal. Posted by: Here For The Freebies at April 08, 2026 01:13 PM (oftw2) 264 CBC = Commie Broadcasting Commune. I saw a report that maybe only 3% of Canadians tune in regularly. Shitmaggot Marx Carnage is the best salesman ever for Alberta Sovereignty. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:11 PM (utfV Who cares? Posted by: PM Mark Carney at April 08, 2026 01:13 PM (E6xSb) 265 BREAKING NEWS: Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Iranian state media reports." Ahem. Who reports? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:13 PM (XuXeR) 266 The secret is to walk directly to the food court and not look at anything. A slice of pizza and a hot dog is $3.60...can't get a meal anywhere near that cheap anywhere else. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 01:09 PM (xcxpd) Get the hot dog...get the hot dog...focus on the hot dog...be the hot dog...just the hot OH MY GOD AN 86 INCH FLATSCREEN!!! Posted by: So close. So very close. at April 08, 2026 01:13 PM (TbWk/) 267 "Purity Spiral" is something Kindltot and others on his ... wavelength demand. Not happening. I call it as I see it. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:11 PM (GD0B3) Riiiiight. Mmmkay. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (bss/y) 268 Get the hot dog...get the hot dog...focus on the hot dog...be the hot dog...just the hot OH MY GOD AN 86 INCH FLATSCREEN!!!* OMG!!! A 50 gallon drum of mayonnaise! Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (Riz8t) 269 By 1944, the Royal Navy and the situation in Europe had changed. Admiral Cunningham in the Indian Ocean thus began assembling a force that would become the Pacific Fleet built along the lines of the American carrier task force model. The Royal Navy would also have to create from scratch another US Navy invention - the fleet train of supply ships and oilers. So, in the closing days of the Pacific theater, the Royal Navy would be operating with the US Pacific Fleet in attacking the Japanese Home Islands. The last Victoria Cross would be awarded in August 1945 to a Royal Navy Corsair pilot, posthumously. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (2GVsD) 270 I usually refrain from some commentary (go figure) but I will say this probably not more than a few times ever - I like Vance on the surface and "get" why Trump picked him - but unfortunately he is owned lock stock. He has "the look". Lot of it going around. Nothing we can do. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (JrZbt) 271 Time to drop a little nuke down that friggin' well in Qom. Turn it into a fountain of radioactive shit. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:08 PM (utfVc) I tried to and that asshole Ryan stopped me! Posted by: President Fowler at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (E6xSb) 272 How has Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz? Just because they say so? Posted by: davidt at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (Q+gd/) 273 Thank you for asking ace to ban me. You forgot to call me a faggot, too. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:10 PM (rbvCR) ------ Uh oh Kindltot, did you make the cardinal mistake of criticizing Mark Levin? runner will ride you like Secretariat until he moves on to his next autistic fixation. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (oqH4h) 274 OMG!!! A 50 gallon drum of mayonnaise! Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (Riz8t) A Canadian’s dream come true. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (E6xSb) 275 Get the hot dog...get the hot dog...focus on the hot dog...be the hot dog...just the hot OH MY GOD AN 86 INCH FLATSCREEN!!!" You left out the pile of clothes in the middle of the store. That's good for an hour, at least. If they added dressing rooms... shudders Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (XuXeR) 276 Once you realize the Persians are as fanatical as the Japs were in WW2, they become rather predictable. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 01:11 PM (pohLc) That's a massive assumption that I don't think is true. But if it is you'll notice that boots on the ground were a no-go for mainland Japan and we had to imagine other ways to convince them to give up. Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (zafwz) 277 >> BREAKING NEWS: Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Iranian state media reports. CiNC already said the Lebanon wasn’t part of any deal. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (sYFXJ) 278 By 1944, the Royal Navy and the situation in Europe had changed. Admiral Cunningham in the Indian Ocean thus began assembling a force that would become the Pacific Fleet built along the lines of the American carrier task force model. The Royal Navy would also have to create from scratch another US Navy invention - the fleet train of supply ships and oilers. TBF, though, the Brits did have some worthwhile innovations, e.g. armored carrier decks. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (Riz8t) 279 265 BREAKING NEWS: Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Iranian state media reports." Ahem. Who reports? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:13 PM (XuXeR) On this, it's the excuse making...but there is no doubt if the state media is saying Hormuz is closed, they are the mouthpiece for Iran saying they'll try to lob missiles that way if they can...and ceasefire be damned... Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (tOcjL) 280 I usually refrain from some commentary (go figure) but I will say this probably not more than a few times ever - I like Vance on the surface and "get" why Trump picked him - but unfortunately he is owned lock stock. He has "the look". Lot of it going around. Nothing we can do. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (JrZbt) Name one who's not? Being as Abbott down here in Texas is selling the state out to India and Pakistan, I don't think there's one true clean politician in the fcking country. Not. One. They're ALL bought. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (PpBto) 281 The Royal Navy is no longer fit for service in NATO. -- Maybe they can be converted into cruise ships. Sightseeing tours for all their conquered lands. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (qBdHI) 282 Uh oh Kindltot, did you make the cardinal mistake of criticizing Mark Levin? runner will ride you like Secretariat until he moves on to his next autistic fixation. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (oqH4h) at least Mark Levin will never interview anyone over UFOs and be a perverted loser because of it. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (rbvCR) 283 they would send you a joy buzzer and a snake in a can. A very good deal. Posted by: Here For The Freebies at April 08, 2026 01:13 PM It's how The (very young) Paolo got his start, although his snake is, how you say, no longer confined to a can. The joy buzzer still works! Posted by: Paolo at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (0sNs1) 284 Mark Levin I cannot listen to just because of his voice. Fuck. If that voice came out of Sydney Sweeney it would be a deal breaker... After a while. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (bss/y) 285 "BREAKING NEWS: Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Iranian state media reports. Close alert." So, Iran is blaming Israel for violating the ceasefire...and round and round we go. - I checked X earlier and apparently Iran also hit UAE and Kuwait. a couple of hours ago. So apparently we have a ceasefire in which we're the only ones not shooting, but our friends in the region are still getting shot at. Posted by: Methos at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (vSvIl) 286 272 How has Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz? Just because they say so? Posted by: davidt at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (Q+gd/) Is that any different than last week? Threat of lobbing random stuff and saying you'll do it seems to get it done for now. Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (tOcjL) 287 241 197 Going to Costco for dinner could be one of the costliest dinners you could have... I never get out of Costco for under 100 dollars... That $1.50 hot dog doesn't seem so cheap Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:58 PM (FtULh) The secret is to walk directly to the food court and not look at anything. A slice of pizza and a hot dog is $3.60...can't get a meal anywhere near that cheap anywhere else. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 08, 2026 01:09 PM (xcxpd) I want to know WTF Costco is doing with half the world’s supply of cashews. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (E6xSb) 288 255 Once you realize the Persians are as fanatical as the Japs were in WW2, they become rather predictable. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 01:11 PM (pohLc So a few well placed nukes and we get hot Iranian women in schoolgirl uniforms videos. I see almost no problems with this. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (Sco7b) 289 272 How has Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz? Just because they say so? Posted by: davidt at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (Q+gd/) Just firing at ships passing by. Other countries in the region could also "close" the Strait of Hormuz in the same fashion. Or the US. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (okun6) 290 Thruways closed too, Man! Posted by: Arlo Guthrie at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (oftw2) 291 Uh oh Kindltot, did you make the cardinal mistake of criticizing Mark Levin? runner will ride you like Secretariat until he moves on to his next autistic fixation. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (oqH4h) I don't know you, but if you want to join Kindltot in his Purity Spiral , go ahead. I'll watch. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (GD0B3) 292 How has Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz? Just because they say so? Posted by: davidt at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (Q+gd/) If they say they are willing to attack any vessel that tries to transit the Strait, the vessel owners will not be able to get insurance, or will be charged ruinous prices if they can get it at all. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (utfVc) 293 Maybe they can be converted into cruise ships" Carnival Cruise Lines >> the royal navy Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (XuXeR) 294 Fuck. If that voice came out of Sydney Sweeney it would be a deal breaker... After a while. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (bss/y) This is about me, isn't it....... Posted by: Fran Drescher - Acting at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (PpBto) 295 Get the hot dog...get the hot dog...focus on the hot dog...be the hot dog...just the hot OH MY GOD AN 86 INCH FLATSCREEN!!!" You left out the pile of clothes in the middle of the store. That's good for an hour, at least. If they added dressing rooms... shudders Posted by: If they added dressing rooms, you could drop her off and go play a round of golf. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (hCUcO) 296 That's a massive assumption that I don't think is true. But if it is you'll notice that boots on the ground were a no-go for mainland Japan and we had to imagine other ways to convince them to give up. Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (zafwz) If not for the bomb, we WOULD have invaded japan. Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (pohLc) 297 So a few well placed nukes and we get hot Iranian women in schoolgirl uniforms videos. I see almost no problems with this. Persian camel spider pr0n? Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (2GVsD) 298 Gas here is still holding between $3.55 to $3.75. The Exxon convenience store I usually go to had E10 87 for $3.69 just now . . . and their ethanol-free regular for the same price. I grabbed that; it's gonna go up any day now, even if the E10 comes down. Premium (93 octane, but E10) at that station was $4.49. Seeing that, I'm glad I don't have the BMW any more. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (wzUl9) 299 Being as Abbott down here in Texas is selling the state out to India and Pakistan, I don't think there's one true clean politician in the fcking country. Not. One. They're ALL bought. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (PpBto) Curious as to how a governor can do that. The United States has a federal government after all. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (E6xSb) 300 I see some bisexual Dem pol just got hit with 8 charges of sex with a child - his name is Cecil Brockman But...Love is Love right? Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm) 301 Fuck. If that voice came out of Sydney Sweeney it would be a deal breaker... After a while. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (bss/y) This is about me, isn't it....... Posted by: Fran Drescher No. You'd be immediate. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 01:19 PM (hCUcO) 302 This is about me, isn't it....... Posted by: Fran Drescher - Acting at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (PpBto) She has a smoking voice that matches the looks. Watch Spinal Tap. That dress... Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:19 PM (bss/y) 303 I want to know WTF Costco is doing with half the world’s supply of cashews" That's a lot of cashews... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:19 PM (XuXeR) 304 lol. So the WSJ is pushing “we didn’t tell Israel about Lebanon”. But the truth is, as CiNC said, Lebanon isnt part of any deal, and is a separate issue. Trying to stir the pot. Jackasses. Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 01:19 PM (sYFXJ) 305 Don't remember Kindltot being mouthy when ace trashes his heroes, Cucker Tarlson, Megyn Kelly or when he criticizes JD Vance. Because ace can ban his ass. But commenter, like me, are safe. Go ahead , Kindltot, tell us something about Mark Levin. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:06 PM (GD0B3) Calm down. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (BI5O2) 306 Maybe they can be converted into cruise ships. Sightseeing tours for all their conquered lands. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (qBdHI) Install glass bottoms, so the tourists can see the rest of the Royal Navy. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (utfVc) 307 303 I want to know WTF Costco is doing with half the world’s supply of cashews" That's a lot of cashews... Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:19 PM (XuXeR) Mmmm. Cashews. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (bss/y) 308 I saw Purity Spiral open for Public Image Limited back in 89 Posted by: Josephistan at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (y9ksN) 309 If they added dressing rooms, you could drop her off and go play a round of golf." And then for the other 2 or 3 hours? Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (XuXeR) 310 Curious as to how a governor can do that. The United States has a federal government after all. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (E6xSb) They're building mosques all over DFW and the Indian communities are popping up Temples everywhere. They don't assimilate, they attempt to dominate. The only one that's currently protecting us from islham is Paxton who's investigating and finding how corrupt and illegal they are in their 'housing community' plans. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (PpBto) 311 I usually refrain from some commentary (go figure) but I will say this probably not more than a few times ever - I like Vance on the surface and "get" why Trump picked him - but unfortunately he is owned lock stock. He has "the look". -- I'm still cautiously optimistic about Vance. I read his book, Hillbilly Elegy. He grew up just a few miles from where I'm from and I know the area he lived (Middletown, OH). His book gave me insight into his unprivileged childhood and his knowledge of the problems of blue collar people comes firsthand. He mentions the "big 4" plant employers to people in the area. His grandparents worked in one. My grandfather worked in the other. I always held a belief that he's a good guy and has his head on straight. I've been fooled before, but again, I'll reserve judgement until I see otherwise. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (qBdHI) 312 This monkey shines thread is not living up to its expectations! Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (GD0B3) 313 I don't mind giving our flyboys a break, although they may still by flying around, I don't know. WH is adamant that Lebanon is not part of the deal. I don't have access to a free live shipping map to see if anything is moving in Hormuz. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 01:21 PM (n5tGW) 314 300 I see some bisexual Dem pol just got hit with 8 charges of sex with a child - his name is Cecil Brockman But...Love is Love right? Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm) There's a reason the Dems are so adamant about pushing queer theory on elementary school kids. Posted by: Want a bigger dating pool at April 08, 2026 01:21 PM (TbWk/) 315 Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (PpBto) Trump isn't. There might have been a few others down the years. Palin probably wasn't. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:21 PM (JrZbt) 316 Kyle Dunnigan just posted a hilarious short with Tucker Carlson. Nails Carlson's speech pattern, right down to the Pennywise laugh. Posted by: Steve the Pirate at April 08, 2026 01:21 PM (v4MEp) 317 I don't know you, but if you want to join Kindltot in his Purity Spiral , go ahead. I'll watch. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (GD0B3) Rando posters on a blog conspire to betray you. Maybe they will understand your point of view, your very valid and reasoned out point of view, if you call them names? Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 01:21 PM (rbvCR) 318 Install glass bottoms, so the tourists can see the rest of the Royal Navy. -- LOL! Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 01:21 PM (qBdHI) 319 I saw diesel for over $5.50 on the way to work this morning. That truck is just going to sit in the driveway........ Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:21 PM (PpBto) 320 We catch a lot of crap here from the Press because we are rock-ribbed types, not influenced by Globohomo activists. Posted by: The Straights of Hormuz! at April 08, 2026 01:21 PM (oftw2) 321 Calm down. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (BI5O2) [smiley face] Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:21 PM (GD0B3) 322 >runner will ride you like Secretariat until he moves on to his next autistic fixation. alina habba Posted by: cherries in season at April 08, 2026 01:22 PM (43wzR) 323 Dan patrick maybd The leg is pretty useless Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 08, 2026 01:22 PM (bXbFr) 324 Work. Don't impale each other on spikes. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 01:22 PM (bss/y) 325 Trump confirmed that the Lebanon situation is not in any "Ceasefire Agreement". What is Iran talking about ?? Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (GD0B3) 326 This is about me, isn't it....... Posted by: Fran Drescher - Acting at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (PpBto) She has a smoking voice that matches the looks. Watch Spinal Tap. That dress... Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 ** Fran just "does" the annoying Brooklyn or Bronx voice. She's perfectly capable of speaking standard American, and does in interviews. There's a scene in The Nanny where Fran, her character, eats some wasabi, not knowing what it is. Her facial reaction is classic Lucy Ricardo -- and then, when she speaks, her voice is not nasal at all! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (wzUl9) 327 I saw diesel for over $5.50 on the way to work this morning. $7.25 here in NorCal Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (FtULh) 328 yep Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (ZxPkt) 329 Being as Abbott down here in Texas is selling the state out to India and Pakistan, I don't think there's one true clean politician in the fcking country. Not. One. They're ALL bought. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:16 PM (PpBto) Curious as to how a governor can do that. The United States has a federal government after all. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (E6xSb) _____ Abbott is a mixed bag on this. On the one hand, he's restricting state agencies from hiring H1Bs, to focus on USA citizens. On the other, he's trying to lure tech and other companies to TX, and that means bringing H1Bs with them. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (iFTx/) 330 I saw diesel for over $5.50 on the way to work this morning. That truck is just going to sit in the driveway........ Posted by: Sponge yep, Smash acused me this morning of taking advantage of diesel prices to ride the motorcycle more. i agreed that i was shamelessly doing so. Posted by: BifBewalski at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (PnEh/) 331 Hiroshima was the Japanese army headquarters for the expected American invasion. Hiroshima as a viable port is about as far south you can get on the Home Islands to support an invasion. Which is why it was a US invasion objective before landing further north in 1946 near Tokyo. Many of the suicide boats gathered in Hiroshima for the invasion after the bomb drop would be pressed into service to carry bodies of the dead. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (2GVsD) 332 TBF, though, the Brits did have some worthwhile innovations, e.g. armored carrier decks. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 01:15 PM (Riz8t) The Limeys are a bunch of poofter boy-buggerers, but we should recognize that they pretty much invented carrier-based naval warfare. All of the innovations of the Japanese and American carrier forces were based on the foundation of Limey naval philosophy. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (y9nCu) 333 Except for trump and the huntress that they drove out of public life Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (bXbFr) 334 Whoremuse is Iran's only leverage, that's why they are playing that card. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 01:24 PM (n5tGW) 335 Trump isn't. There might have been a few others down the years. Palin probably wasn't. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:21 PM (JrZbt) Palin likely wasn't, yet. But, they ran her ass out on a rail and destroyed her family. Trump.......he's the wild card. Not sure he's bought, especially since he's a billionaire and really can't be bought with money. I've got a dillhole at work that keeps posting things in our Teams group about Trump being Netanyahu's bitch........ Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:24 PM (PpBto) 336 They're building mosques all over DFW and the Indian communities are popping up Temples everywhere. They don't assimilate, they attempt to dominate. The only one that's currently protecting us from islham is Paxton who's investigating and finding how corrupt and illegal they are in their 'housing community' plans. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (PpBto) That explains why I am being marched to the county courthouse at the point of a gun to recite the Shehada on Friday. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:24 PM (E6xSb) 337 I don't know you, but if you want to join Kindltot in his Purity Spiral , go ahead. I'll watch. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (GD0B3) ------- How many bong rips are you up to today? Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 01:24 PM (oqH4h) 338 Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (qBdHI) It's fair. He has a real chance to follow Trump and help save us from the commies. And he makes a lot of the really right noises. But my radar for this stuff doesn't ping unless there's a signal. That said it's fine to wait in hope. Posted by: ... at April 08, 2026 01:24 PM (JrZbt) 339 I see some bisexual Dem pol just got hit with 8 charges of sex with a child - his name is Cecil Brockman But...Love is Love right? Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm) Yes it is...and I just luuv me some pedos https://www.morbark.com/ Posted by: Morbark at April 08, 2026 01:24 PM (zafwz) 340 Iran put a moose out front in the strait of Hormuz that tells you it is closed. Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2026 01:24 PM (YwEeS) 341 Mmmm. Cashews. Posted by: Aetius451AD Gesundheit! Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 08, 2026 01:24 PM (w9Wax) 342 OMG!!! A 50 gallon drum of mayonnaise! Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 01:14 PM (Riz8t) A Canadian’s dream come true. Posted by: Cow Demon --- That's not mayonnaise. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 08, 2026 01:25 PM (xvV+O) 343 Gesundheit! Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 08, 2026 01:24 PM (w9Wax) I miss JT. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:25 PM (PpBto) 344 We have a presser! FoxNews Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:26 PM (Sco7b) 345 They're building mosques all over DFW and the Indian communities are popping up Temples everywhere. They don't assimilate, they attempt to dominate. The only one that's currently protecting us from islham is Paxton who's investigating and finding how corrupt and illegal they are in their 'housing community' plans. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (PpBto) Saw a vid about Frisco TX the other night that's basically being taken over by Indians, and reporting on T-mobile and other companies purging white IT workers for replacement by H1Bs. Posted by: The replacement is real at April 08, 2026 01:26 PM (TbWk/) 346 I saw diesel for over $5.50 on the way to work this morning. $7.25 here in NorCal Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (FtULh) Gas here is around $1.69 but that is Loonies per liter. Equates to about $4.72 USD per gallon. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:26 PM (utfVc) 347 331 Hiroshima was the Japanese army headquarters for the expected American invasion. Hiroshima as a viable port is about as far south you can get on the Home Islands to support an invasion. Which is why it was a US invasion objective before landing further north in 1946 near Tokyo. Many of the suicide boats gathered in Hiroshima for the invasion after the bomb drop would be pressed into service to carry bodies of the dead. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:23 PM (2GVsD) Hiroshima was to Japan what San Antonio is to the United States. San Antonio is the birthplace of military aviation and has long been a training center for aviation, as well as the home of the combat medic. Hiroshima was not just an army HQ but also has considerable naval assets as well. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:27 PM (E6xSb) 348 Cashew leaves and shells contain large amounts of urushiol, the chemical that makes poison ivy such a plague. The nut meat has it too, but it's mitigated by boiling, roasting, or even par-boiling. Posted by: Cashew Fax and Figgers at April 08, 2026 01:27 PM (oftw2) 349 Saw a vid about Frisco TX the other night that's basically being taken over by Indians, and reporting on T-mobile and other companies purging white IT workers for replacement by H1Bs. Posted by: The replacement is real at April 08, 2026 01:26 PM (TbWk/) Yeah. They're building some massive temple in my town that will have flying donkeys or some shit on the roof. I can't wait to get out of here. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:27 PM (PpBto) 350 OK, here is something from inside Iran: "Let me tell you from inside Iran, Aside from bootlicking reformists, no one has bought into this ceasefire. Neither the opposition nor even the hardliners. The hardliners are all cursing Ghalibaf's mother left and right. Of course, we're joining them on this one.." Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:27 PM (GD0B3) 351 nobody is buying this ceasefire for some reason... Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:27 PM (GD0B3) 352 My favorite is a paired Macintosh DC150 amp & preamp, they are beauties. Posted by: Gmac ------- MR77 tuner. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 08, 2026 01:27 PM (XeU6L) 353 That's not mayonnaise. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 08, 2026 01:25 PM (xvV+O) This is about me, isn't it...... Posted by: Rod Stewart at April 08, 2026 01:27 PM (PpBto) 354 Gas here is around $1.69 but that is Loonies per liter. Equates to about $4.72 USD per gallon. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:26 PM (utfVc) Yeah. It sucks that neither AB nor Canada has any oil available to drill and refine. Wait a minute… Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:27 PM (E6xSb) 355 We have a presser! FoxNews == from whom? link ?? Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:28 PM (GD0B3) 356 The Par 3 contest from Augusta is currently live on Masters.com. There have been two holes-in-one so far. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 01:28 PM (oqH4h) 357 Presser is on CNN too for the masochists out there. Lol CNN has their usual 20 second delay in case great truths start to be spoken. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:28 PM (Sco7b) 358 Saw a vid about Frisco TX the other night that's basically being taken over by Indians, and reporting on T-mobile and other companies purging white IT workers for replacement by H1Bs. ____ Dammit! I thought Trump raised the H1B fee paid by the employer from $1k to $100k per application? Is this not true? Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 01:28 PM (Dv3i1) 359 Karoline just giving war statistics at the current moment. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 01:29 PM (n5tGW) 360 That's not mayonnaise. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 08, 2026 01:25 PM (xvV+O) And I am swept back to eighth grade… : ) Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:29 PM (E6xSb) 361 Dammit! I thought Trump raised the H1B fee paid by the employer from $1k to $100k per application? Is this not true? Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 01:28 PM (Dv3i1) I'm betting that doesn't apply to those already here, so they're moving and migrating and taking over areas like ant colonies do. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:29 PM (PpBto) 362 So if they broke the ceasefire we can take out the power plants.. No human shields now Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 01:29 PM (FtULh) 363 Make that 3 holes-in-one. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 01:29 PM (oqH4h) 364 I've learned from this smart military blog that there is still a one-year slave labor loophole for the H1B kinda stuff. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:29 PM (2GVsD) 365 355 We have a presser! FoxNews == from whom? link ?? Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:28 PM (GD0B3 Leavitt. No link. I'm doind stuff around the house. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b) 366 When you're putting another coat of varnish on the furniture, there's a recovery time before the next coat. Cleanup can be exhausting, moisturize and stay hydrated. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Fbc0I) 367 Dammit! I thought Trump raised the H1B fee paid by the employer from $1k to $100k per application? Is this not true? Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 01:28 PM (Dv3i1) Yeah but think of all the H1Bs already here. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (E6xSb) 368 "Give Me Just A Little More Time" was a hit song by Chairmen of the Board. Posted by: The Brill Building at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (oftw2) 369 351 nobody is buying this ceasefire for some reason... Posted by: runner Other than a cheap men's button down shirt, would you buy anything make in Pakistan? Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Dv3i1) 370 @365, OK, thanks, I see it now. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (GD0B3) 371 I've got a dillhole at work that keeps posting things in our Teams group about Trump being Netanyahu's bitch........ Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:24 PM (PpBto) ********* And is everyone in the Teams group letting him get away with with posting that? Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (NpAcC) 372 what's with all the sniping in here? it's masters week, we should all be on our best behavior, and whispering sshhh golf church in session Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 01:31 PM (ZxPkt) 373 NOODlum. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:31 PM (PpBto) 374 Yeah. It sucks that neither AB nor Canada has any oil available to drill and refine. Wait a minute… Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:27 PM (E6xSb) I knew I was back in Alberta, when I drove East on Hwy 533, and saw a pumpjack on the skyline, working. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:31 PM (utfVc) 375 If they say they are willing to attack any vessel that tries to transit the Strait, the vessel owners will not be able to get insurance, or will be charged ruinous prices if they can get it at all. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:17 PM (utfVc) Grandpa? What did you do during the Great Maritime Insurance War I? Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 01:32 PM (y9nCu) 376 Nood. Posted by: Nazdar at April 08, 2026 01:32 PM (NcvvS) 377 They don't assimilate, they attempt to dominate. The only one that's currently protecting us from islham is Paxton who's investigating and finding how corrupt and illegal they are in their 'housing community' plans. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:20 PM (PpBto) One big problem is that we make it super easy now for immigrants to NOT assimilate into society. That’s why I am running into increasing numbers of people at the store who insist I know Spanish and are shocked and offended that I do not. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 01:32 PM (E6xSb) 378 And is everyone in the Teams group letting him get away with with posting that? Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (NpAcC) I've pushed back multiple times, but the boss is biding his time to retirement and doesn't really want to rock the boat. I get that, but that guy is really starting to get on my nerves. Fcking Danes. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:32 PM (PpBto) 379 Fun fact: the cashew is not a nut Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 01:33 PM (ZxPkt) 380 I saw Loonies Per Liter open for Martha and the Muffins at Toad's Place in '83. Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:33 PM (TbhYO) 381 Other than a cheap men's button down shirt, would you buy anything make in Pakistan? Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Dv3i1) That trendy pink "Himalayan" salt all comes form one mine in Pakistan, which is in the Salt Mountains, not the Himalayas. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2026 01:33 PM (utfVc) 382 I've pushed back multiple times, but the boss is biding his time to retirement and doesn't really want to rock the boat. I get that, but that guy is really starting to get on my nerves. Fcking Danes. Posted by: Sponge - Fck Cancer at April 08, 2026 01:32 PM (PpBto) ***** Glad you're not a coward, but I knew that. Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2026 01:34 PM (NpAcC) 383 Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen for reasons. Hiroshima for better than Nagasaki. But none of it matters. Every target was legitimate, and in Stimson's fancy ruling class shoes, I'd have greenlit Kyoto like I'd greenlight Qom today. Enough couch-fainting by perfumed fairies 80 years down the pike. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 01:34 PM (BI5O2) 384 Neu! Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2026 01:34 PM (2GVsD) 385 Fun fact: the cashew is not a nut Posted by: Don Black at April 08, 2026 01:33 PM (ZxPkt) ---------------- "Cashews are not technically nuts; they are botanically classified as drupe seeds, which are the edible seeds of a fruit called a drupe that grows at the base of the 'cashew apple.' While they are culinary grouped with tree nuts due to similar nutritional profiles and uses, they belong to the same family as mangoes and poison ivy rather than the true nut family." The stuff I learn here ... Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (TbhYO) 386 Reminder - Harris drops "F-bomb" while encouraging Asian Americans to break down barriers May 13, 2024, CBS/AP In part, "Harris gave a lengthy response in which she told the young people to not let others define them and their dreams based on limited views. That's something Harris said her own mother told her. "We have to know that sometimes, people will open the door for you and leave it open, sometimes they won't. And then you need to kick that fing door down," Harris said to cheers and applause from the audience. She laughed, adding, "Excuse my language." "We gotta make T-shirts!" Yang joked. Public profanity in politics is not particularly unusual. When Joe Biden was vice president, he was overheard telling President Barack Obama that newly passed health care legislation was a "big fing deal. The Democratic Party even sold T-shirts based on the now-president's comment." Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 01:44 PM (NFX2v) 387 Trunk Monkey to the rescue! Posted by: p-squared at April 08, 2026 01:50 PM (0prFs) 388 The best Trunk Monkey ad was the one where it racked the shotgun when the owner's daughter was on a date in the family car, causing the boyfriend to book. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 08, 2026 01:55 PM (xG4kz) 389 "Why would they trade their best player in franchise history?" Shaq on Angel Reese trade Just lost all respect for Shaq if he thinks that. 2024 Season Caitlyn Clark - Guard 769 points Angel Reese - Forward 462 points When a guard scores more than a forward... Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:32 PM (hCUcO) To be fair to Shaq, Reese was not on the same franchise as Clark. To be unfair to Shaq, Reese seems to suck as a player and person. I would be surprised if the Chicago franchise has not had a better person on the team. Posted by: Oldcat at April 08, 2026 01:57 PM (8avO+) 390 The stuff I learn here ... Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 01:36 PM (TbhYO) While I love cashews, I have read they can give you kidney stones. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 02:00 PM (WONhk) Wednesday Morning Rant Sadly Typical** With Trump's fairly blunt threat to start aggressively targeting Iranian power and transit infrastructure (at the time of writing, anyway - by the time this goes live, it might have started or been obviated with a "deal" of some kind), Iran is doing everything in its power to try to make Trump and Hegseth blink. As Ace covered and various Hordelings expanded yesterday, Iran appears to be leaning heavily on it's fifth column in this country. Such strikes would be evil, or war crimes, or inappropriate, or whatever else. These fifth columnists are always happy to help, but they - much to the chagrin of their masters - appear to have relatively little real influence at the moment. But Iran is not resting on its laurels and putting all of its chips on its fifth column in isolation. They apparently hope to significantly amplify its Stateside allies and deal a PR blow to the Trump administration in the same way that Islamists always do: by putting people in harm's way. Unable to defend against the American-Israeli attacks due to the latter's air superiority, they will settle for making infrastructure attacks as bloody and graphic as possible. Islamists love human shields because the enemy is usually squeamish about slaughtering civilians, and various sources are awash with claims that Iran is gearing up to burn through a lot of them. India Today: Iranian citizens gathered on the White Bridge in Ahvaz, forming a human chain to protect key infrastructure amid US-Israel threats, stressing that attacks on civilian facilities are widely regarded as violations of international law. A video shared by the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mumbai highlighted the civilian-led effort, underscoring that ordinary Iranians do not want to see their country’s infrastructure damaged in the escalating conflict. Civilian-led? Place your bets. The Hill: Iranian officials on Tuesday urged their people to form human chains around power plants as the country faces a deadline set by President Trump to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or risk major strikes on civilian and energy infrastructure. The regime called on "all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors" to protect power plants threatened by Trump, according to The Associated Press. "Power plants that are our national assets and capital," Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state television as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, reportedly said in a video statement. Go collect your winnings. I guess the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents isn't the IRGC and so is "civilian" but this ain't exactly the grassroots movement that Consulate General implied. That video, assuming it's real, is available on X. This is an altogether typical play by what's left of the Iranian government to slaughter young people in order to then cry crocodile tears in the "international community" while their fifth column calls Trump and our soldiers, sailors and airmen a bunch of diabolical baby-killers. They always do this. That isn't all Iran is threatening and staging. Per the Jerusalem Post, Iran is also threatening retaliation: Iran has also signaled that any attack on its energy network could trigger retaliation against civilian infrastructure elsewhere in the region. Previous reports said Iranian and IRGC officials had warned that if Iran’s fuel and energy facilities were hit, Tehran could target Israeli power plants, gas rigs, desalination systems, and other strategic civilian sites. They will surely try, though Iran's recent efficacy has not been particularly great and hopefully will remain that way. But that is beside the point. Even if Iran has the capability to effectively retaliate, the state-sponsored sacrifice of Iranians would still happen. This is what Islamists do. They do it by choice even in the face of alternatives. It is the preferred tactic, not a desperation move. There is a reason they store and manufacture arms in hospitals and mosques and schools, and use the same as operational bases. They love ensuring that their own will die during their glorious jihad. There is much in it for them, after all. Dead kids rile people up and so long as they can successfully blame the enemy for the death and deflect away from their own culpability, it's a powerful tool on the homefront. It also, crucially, is a powerful tool for their fifth columns to use. You can be sure the pre-printed signs about Trump and Hegseth's war crimes for targeting civilians are already staged and ready to go, and countless column-inches about their evil are already written. It's as predictable as the sunrise. The blame for the coming civilian casualties will almost entirely rest with the regime, just as it does for Hamas and Hezbollah and the Taliban and all the rest - but the propaganda blitz to come will likely be a thing to behold. It's the real point. It's why, despicable and cynical as it is, the Islamists' love of human shields is entirely predictable and wholly typical. Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM Comments (Jump to bottom of comments) 1 Munkey! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 11:00 AM (bFu5X) 2 MONKEY! Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 08, 2026 11:01 AM (XHO5P) 3 blade nailing a FIRST early in the morning Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 11:01 AM (iFTx/) 4 The Others have been summoned. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 11:02 AM (bFu5X) 5 IMHO, Trump was never going to attack civilians. Making the enemy think he might, however, is "The Art of the Deal." Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 08, 2026 11:02 AM (qFwJc) 6 Blade, like SMOD, always disappoints. Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 08, 2026 11:02 AM (qFwJc) 7 Somebody blinked .. Not sure which one yet... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:02 AM (FtULh) 8 The regime called on "all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors" to protect power plants threatened by Trump, according to The Associated Press. This is odd. Why not just issue a blanket invitation (or more likely, order) for EVERYONE to come on down! I mean, it's true that some in America might welcome selective extermination of the professorial class, but I don't know if Iran's professors are as obtuse and corrupt as ours. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t) 9 Repeat after me - we have not lost, we have not lost, we have not lost. Sheesh! Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 11:05 AM (pDt9x) 10 Trump did not want to destroy iran he simply ran out of options to force them into negotiations. Would he have carried through on his threats if they did not come to the table, I suspect he would have. And I am willing to bet that all of our forces in that area had the strike packages loaded and ready to go. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 11:05 AM (0N4FZ) 11 3 blade nailing a FIRST early in the morning Blade discovers that his first is a ladyboy. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 11:06 AM (ExV1e) 12 Somebody blinked .. Not sure which one yet... We don't know, and anyone who says they do is selling something. However, based only on their respective track records, I'd say it wasn't Trump who blinked. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t) 13 Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban and IRGC all have the same "tell" when it comes to asymmetrical warfare tactics. I wonder how that came to be and also to be so pervasive? Hmm. * strokes beard thoughtfully * Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 08, 2026 11:07 AM (q/Jc0) 14 We don't know, and anyone who says they do is selling something. However, based only on their respective track records, I'd say it wasn't Trump who blinked. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t) I'd like to think so Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:07 AM (FtULh) 15 What to do? Our dead children or their dead children? Posted by: kingsman at April 08, 2026 11:07 AM (ehY6c) 16 It’s a tough world. Posted by: Eromero at April 08, 2026 11:07 AM (rR03l) 17 Trump did not want to destroy iran he simply ran out of options to force them into negotiations. Would he have carried through on his threats if they did not come to the table, I suspect he would have. And I am willing to bet that all of our forces in that area had the strike packages loaded and ready to go. I don't understand your comment. You say he ran out of options, and then list the options he was preparing to employ. Nobody really thought he was going to end the Persian civilization, but taking out things like power plants is an ahem power move. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t) 18 Somebody blinked .. Not sure which one yet... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:02 AM Ditto. Posted by: toby928(c) at April 08, 2026 11:08 AM (4NO2D) 19 Joe, Ace, someone!!! Help me understand what I was watching last night, live, on Tousi TV. Iran was sending missiles and cluster bombs to Israel. Sirens blaring in Tel Aviv and other areas. After patience for a few hours, Israel sent in air strikes to Tehran and other parts of Iran. Iran also sent gifts of missiles to Saudi, UAE and, oddly, Iraq (near the US Embassy). Yemen tried to join Iran and sent some duds to Israel. Yet NO mention of this I can find in the MSM this morning, and I thought there would be. I reckon the USA has cease firings but Israel has not...and I don't blame them. I hope they flatten Iran. Is the idea, now, to let the ME finish the job? I am so confused but won't lose any sleep over it. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 11:08 AM (WONhk) 20 I think we're in a "tactical pause" right now. Several thousand Marines are still on their way to the Middle East on two MEU's. If Iran (the IRGC in reality) fucks around, they're going to find out in a hurry that was a huge mistake. They'll be able to secure both the Hormuz and, if directed, take Kharg Island. The "whack-a-mole" horseshit with the IRGC will end up being the bigger issue to resolve... IMO. But, yes, if the IRGC is as recalcitrant as I think they are, there will be American Soldiers on the ground in Iran. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 08, 2026 11:08 AM (AkEZC) 21 We don't know, and anyone who says they do is selling something. However, based only on their respective track records, I'd say it wasn't Trump who blinked. Agreed. Either whoever thinks they're in charge now blinked or it's taquiyya, although I'm not sure what good that will do them. Basically nothing's getting into Iran without CENTCOM or IDF seeing it. Posted by: Ian S. at April 08, 2026 11:08 AM (2ocoG) 22 We tore up all their stuff with a handful of KIA. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 11:08 AM (pDt9x) 23 Good, I was wondering how Mannix was. I was ticked about the ceasefire too. But news and commentators have pointed out enough potential upsides that I'm hope and believing this is Trump playing 5 -D chess. Oil is down as ace pointed out Time for ME countries to protect infrastructure Who knows about revolution actions Someone else here pointed out we can see if anyone in Iran is in charge. Countries can up oil production for round 2. We get a chance to get more weapons to the area. We can see if the Europeans actually do something to protect the strait or see if they are completely useless. We'll see. I'll save the chocolate. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 11:08 AM (Sco7b) 24 I'm so sick and tired of hearing about Iranian "civilians" and the Gaza "civilians" before them. Fuck them. Do I wish their governments weren't repressive bestiality fetishists? Yes. I do. I also wish I had a pet dragon. The USA owes these people nothing. Nada. Zilch. Dick. Whatever relationship they have with their own government, that's on them. Not my circus, not my monkeys. Yet we carry on endlessly about these people. We better hope we never go to war against a pier military (assuming there is any left). Our squeamish simping over enemy "civilians" will be our undoing. We might have all the military superiority in the world, but we seem to care more about foreign enemy "civilians" than we do our own troops. We will never win a pier war like that. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 11:09 AM (iFTx/) 25 Trump can certainly spell and sell deception plan. Posted by: DaveA at April 08, 2026 11:09 AM (FhXTo) 26 Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban and IRGC all have the same "tell" when it comes to asymmetrical warfare tactics. I wonder how that came to be and also to be so pervasive? Hmm. * strokes beard thoughtfully * Their tell is that the worse their situation, the more lurid the rhetoric. Or, as Humphrey Bogart once said, "the cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t) 27 Yet NO mention of this I can find in the MSM this morning, and I thought there would be. I reckon the USA has cease firings but Israel has not...and I don't blame them. I hope they flatten Iran. As I said 4 times on the previous thread, Hegseth and Cain were asked about this by MSM this morning. They said Iran's communications systems have been obliterated and they have to tell the missile crews to stand down "by carrier pigeon", to quote Hegseth. Posted by: Ian S. at April 08, 2026 11:10 AM (2ocoG) 28 Is the idea, now, to let the ME finish the job? I am so confused but won't lose any sleep over it. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat The MSM are not honest brokers of the news, or anything else. Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 08, 2026 11:10 AM (q/Jc0) 29 When did Barnes go around the bend... and start talking to Alex Jones? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 11:11 AM (XMJOM) 30 Thx Joe. All of the Iranian negotiations are simply another extension of war by the Iranians. They may to something but they ain't following through Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 08, 2026 11:11 AM (19SAM) 31 As I said 4 times on the previous thread, Hegseth and Cain were asked about this by MSM this morning. They said Iran's communications systems have been obliterated and they have to tell the missile crews to stand down "by carrier pigeon", to quote Hegseth. Posted by: Ian S. at April 08, 2026 11:10 AM (2ocoG) How long ae they gonna give them... Two weeks ? Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:11 AM (FtULh) 32 We better hope we never go to war against a pier military (assuming there is any left). Why, will they dock our pay? Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t) 33 I'm sure that the protests to protect the bridges was done out of love for the mullahs and no coercion was involved-why are you people laughing? Posted by: NR Pax at April 08, 2026 11:12 AM (BpO1e) 34 We better hope we never go to war against a pier military (assuming there is any left). Why, will they dock our pay? I'd hate to think we have a mole. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t) 35 Why, will they dock our pay? Now you're piling on. Posted by: Oh, no... at April 08, 2026 11:13 AM (2Ez/1) 36 Trump did not want to destroy iran he simply ran out of options to force them into negotiations. Trump's biggest issue is that the government consists of Democrats, who're his enemy, Republicans, who're are - at best - weak sisters looking for an opportunity to piss away an opportunity, and members of both groups being paid to support Iran. Time was his enemy and Iran knew that. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2026 11:13 AM (ExV1e) 37 repressive bestiality fetishists? ------------ This sounds like something Pete and Barry would like. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 11:13 AM (n17eQ) 38 How long ae they gonna give them... Two weeks ? No idea, but it's worth noting that past Iranian cease fires when their government was still in existence still took around 24 hours to propagate down the chain of command. Posted by: Ian S. at April 08, 2026 11:13 AM (2ocoG) 39 They said Iran's communications systems have been obliterated and they have to tell the missile crews to stand down "by carrier pigeon", to quote Hegseth. Posted by: Ian S. at April 08, 2026 11:10 AM (2ocoG) So the crazy Iranians firing missiles are similar to the Japanese guy found hiding in a cave decades after WWII ended? Wild. When Iraq was hit and burning, and with the excited jibber jabber, it seemed a big surprise. Saudi is po'd along with the UAE. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 11:14 AM (WONhk) 40 Wild. When Iraq was hit and burning, and with the excited jibber jabber, it seemed a big surprise. Saudi is po'd along with the UAE. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 11:14 AM (WONhk) Good.... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:15 AM (FtULh) 41 Two weeks to flatten their nerve. Posted by: Oh, wait... at April 08, 2026 11:15 AM (2Ez/1) 42 Watching Hubbymayhem play with our grandson is just cool. I have a strong belief that a man is most attractive when he wears a wedding band and gets on the floor to play with his kids or grandkids. Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 08, 2026 11:16 AM (2J/Lj) 43 MONKEY IS ALL IN Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 11:16 AM (y9nCu) 44 As long as Islam exists we will have mortal enemies, and nascent mortal enemies, and, get this, Islam ain’t going away. We will always have to fight against them. Or convert. Or be enslaved. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 11:17 AM (pDt9x) 45 When and if the US bombs Iranian infrastructure, the Iranian government will have stopped forcing civilians to shield it. They'll just have moved on and forgotten. Also, are a number of ways to render power plants and bridges unusable without destroying them. I'm not sure if the infrastructure threat should be taken at face value anyway. It's about manipulation -- both the Iranian government and our so-called allies. Whatever Trump is up to, I wouldn't bet that the plan includes leaving the IRGC in power. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 08, 2026 11:17 AM (UgPks) 46 Unable to defend against the American-Israeli attacks due to the latter's air superiority, they will settle for making infrastructure attacks as bloody and graphic as possible Cui bono? It's definitely not Iran. Neither the people, the country, nor the installed regime. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 11:17 AM (04KGT) 47 I was assured by some people here that the mullahs days were numbered and the Iranian people were simply waiting on the Bat Signal to lock n load and start stacking bodies. Well, I'm waiting. Posted by: Judge Smails at April 08, 2026 11:18 AM (3h6KV) 48 @42...this was part of the reason I thought my crazy bf was husband/father material. I was holding a baby girl (I was a RN in a hospital) and he gave that baby a lot of attention. I melted. He's been the best father and grandfather, ever, with our grandson and two granddaughters and counting. I still melt. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 11:18 AM (WONhk) 49 The man knows diminishing returns and when to get out of a position when he has milked all of its profit. Whatever happens from here, it happens with them knowing that they better not try much while he is still POTUS. That said, I don't expect things will magically improve, but I also don't see them nuking anyone for the next 10 years or so. I think that Iran is going to fragment. So the local situation is going to be bad. I don't think as a Country they will have an effective means to bankroll a Manhattan project, or export/support as much terror. The control of, or loss of control of, Karg island is going to have a lot of swing weight. Posted by: its a bold plan cotton at April 08, 2026 11:18 AM (anL5R) 50 I know we're not supposed to care about the protestors, but a couple weeks ago during one of the DOW news conferences Caine told them to stay inside that they will get the signal when to strike.. I was surprised as it was the same message from the Shah in waiting.. I wonder if that has changed... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:19 AM (FtULh) 51 33 I'm sure that the protests to protect the bridges was done out of love for the mullahs and no coercion was involved. Posted by: NR Pax at April 08, 2026 11:12 AM (BpO1e) Those bridges and power plants are some of the holiest sites in all of Islam. And as to the uranium? The muslims love their rocks. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 11:19 AM (Sco7b) 52 I don't like the idea of a ceasefire. I'm of the mind we need wars to go back to ending on unconditional surrender. But, I also know that whatever the media is saying, everything the media is saying about this deal, is a lie. Because they hate Trump so much. And love Iran so much more than even their boyfriend Obama. So I really can't say if it's good or bad. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 08, 2026 11:20 AM (HXT0k) 53 9 The man knows diminishing returns and when to get out of a position when he has milked all of its profit. Whatever happens from here, it happens with them knowing that they better not try much while he is still POTUS. That said, I don't expect things will magically improve, but I also don't see them nuking anyone for the next 10 years or so. I think that Iran is going to fragment. So the local situation is going to be bad. I don't think as a Country they will have an effective means to bankroll a Manhattan project, or export/support as much terror. The control of, or loss of control of, Karg island is going to have a lot of swing weight. Posted by: its a bold plan cotton at April 08, 2026 11:18 AM (anL5R) A more optimistic take than I see. Sure hope it turns out well and good. But your first point : POTUS has gotten or will get the profit out of this deal IF there is any profit to be had-- true. In a perfect world wished that if this Iran excursion had to happen it would have been after the midterms. Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at April 08, 2026 11:23 AM (ACNv3) 54 Kamala could have been C-i-C, think on that. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 11:23 AM (pDt9x) 55 This isn't a tie. Trump holds all the cards except for the Hormuz bullshit. And our supposed allies who screwed us by not having our backs will rue the day. Of course the dems are going to run on trying to get the NATO circle jerk back in order, with Europe working overtime propping up the dem nominee to ensure the gravy train of security for them is kept. Posted by: Frank Barone at April 08, 2026 11:24 AM (IifOV) 56 Is there a country on the planet which has both a sizable Muslim population, but a non- Muslim dominated government? On this Smart Military Blog, I think I've seen it mentioned that once you go past 10-15%, your country becomes either Muslim- dominated, or unsettled, and trending that way. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 08, 2026 11:24 AM (f5L5X) 57 I guess all their sleeper cells in the U.S. are missing the alarm clock. Posted by: Auspex at April 08, 2026 11:24 AM (Y8DZL) 58 Why, will they dock our pay? Now you're piling on. Posted by: Oh, no... at April 08, 2026 11:13 AM (2Ez/1) ---------- Well, it could be a quay issue. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 08, 2026 11:24 AM (A0wCN) 59 Our squeamish simping over enemy "civilians" will be our undoing. We might have all the military superiority in the world, but we seem to care more about foreign enemy "civilians" than we do our own troops. We will never win a pier war like that. +++ Seriously bro. Its like, who are you people? What did you do with the people who dropped the sun on us. Twice. Posted by: The Japanese at April 08, 2026 11:25 AM (anL5R) 60 When did Barnes go around the bend... and start talking to Alex Jones? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 11:11 AM (XMJOM) Arrogant know it all, who is like the toad that tried to swell up to intimidate the bull and wound up popping himself. Good insight into what things have been, and I understand he is a good organizer and decent trial lawyer, but he has too much involved with the status quo ante to act against what he had figured out. He considers the forever wars to be the greatest weapon against personal liberty, and I agree with him. However he also can't imagine that the world may have changed, at least for a moment under Trump. Also I suspect he has a gambling habit and equivalent bad debt. Alex Jones is not a crazy, he just has no filters between the likely and the unlikely. It is like between 60-80% of what he knows is valid, but it is mixed in with the bad suppositions and gotcha soundbites. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 11:25 AM (rbvCR) 61 Is there a country on the planet which has both a sizable Muslim population, but a non- Muslim dominated government? If I had to guess, I'd say Singapore and/or Indonesia, but I don't really know. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t) 62 To be fair either somebody should not have been making a big stink about attacking power plants and bridges, or that was merely a distraction to keep the real targets in the clear. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 08, 2026 11:27 AM (/lPRQ) 63 Alex Jones is not a crazy, he just has no filters between the likely and the unlikely. It is like between 60-80% of what he knows is valid, but it is mixed in with the bad suppositions and gotcha soundbites. If Jones were leftwing with his same style and flair he'd have a low rated TV show and be considered a normal leftwing political pundit. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:28 AM (sKqQm) 64 Do the Saudis even have a military to speak of? Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 11:28 AM (pDt9x) 65 Do the Saudis even have a military to speak of? They have a lot of expensive equipment. Whether their soldiers know how to use it and the courage to fight are different questions. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t) 66 I need an explainer on how Iran can still control passage through Hormuz after we bombed them to the stone age. Posted by: Jose at April 08, 2026 11:29 AM (V6W16) 67 The former Soviet Republics in Central Asia are mostly Muslim, but with pretty sane governments. Posted by: Bulg at April 08, 2026 11:29 AM (77rzZ) 68 Kamala could have been C-i-C, think on that. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 11:23 AM (pDt9x) So, Venn diagrams at the Pentagon? Posted by: dantesed at April 08, 2026 11:29 AM (Oy/m2) 69 To be fair either somebody should not have been making a big stink about attacking power plants and bridges, or that was merely a distraction to keep the real targets in the clear. == we did hit Karg island again yesterday before the deadline. The israeli's also did some things before the deadline. Posted by: The Japanese at April 08, 2026 11:30 AM (anL5R) 70 Regardless of whether the US or the IRGC blinked, we're likely at the point where the real bloodletting is gonna start. But we won't need to lift a finger, it'll all be internal purges and massacres of a passive population or outright civil war. The rest of the world is probably going to get a breather for a couple of years as the internal power struggle in Persia sorts itself out. Even if the IRGC wants to throw cash at fellow savages like Hamas or Hezbollah, they only have so much $ available, and what financial resources they DO have will need to be spent on internal fighting. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 11:30 AM (y9nCu) 71 The Dow is up 2.3% this morning. I can't imagine why. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t) 72 So one disappointment I have with Trump is that he isn't pushing for a major tax overhaul. Ideally there would be only one tax at the federal level and so therefore federal spending and how it impacts you personally would be pretty clear. But there are smaller reforms - for example make the IRS "do your taxes" and send you the bill instead of requiring individuals to do them. Don't like their results? Then you can still do them yourself. But for most people the government already has all the information it needs - it is just making people do math with the fun risk of fines and jail time if you screw up. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:30 AM (sKqQm) 73 > Is there a country on the planet which has both a sizable Muslim population, but a non- Muslim dominated government? ---------- Might be a couple in Africa. Honestly don't know. The muzzies seem to take over when they're even remotely close to a particular percentage of the general population. They apparently own Minnesota. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 08, 2026 11:30 AM (AkEZC) 74 64 Do the Saudis even have a military to speak of? Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 11:28 AM (pDt9x) Supposedly around 300 thousand strong with 25 thousand para-military Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:30 AM (FtULh) 75 As others have said, we've probably run out of pure military targets and don't want to inflict pain and suffering on the general populace who have no way of effecting regime change. As usual, the ME is our never-ending quagmire, it seems. Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2026 11:31 AM (XV/Pl) 76 There was a persian guy on 11pm FoxNews pointing out that President Trump had plenty of experience negotiating with persians. What seemed insane to the rest of the world clutching their pearls was simply Trump negotiating successfully. Oh, good, this lady on 'The Price is Right' just won 20 grand. Good for her. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 11:31 AM (Sco7b) 77 We need to send in the Social Workers! Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 11:31 AM (n17eQ) 78 70 Regardless of whether the US or the IRGC blinked, we're likely at the point where the real bloodletting is gonna start. But we won't need to lift a finger, it'll all be internal purges and massacres of a passive population or outright civil war. The rest of the world is probably going to get a breather for a couple of years as the internal power struggle in Persia sorts itself out. Even if the IRGC wants to throw cash at fellow savages like Hamas or Hezbollah, they only have so much $ available, and what financial resources they DO have will need to be spent on internal fighting. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 11:30 AM (y9nCu) I saw where the potential Shah put out a message to the regular Army in Iran to rise up and take over... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:32 AM (FtULh) 79 The muzzies seem to take over when they're even remotely close to a particular percentage of the general population. They apparently own Minnesota. It is interesting how good the left has been at organizing various minority groups. If we could ever get say taxpayers or Christians to organize the same way the Democrat party would end... Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:32 AM (sKqQm) 80 Oh, good, this lady on 'The Price is Right' just won 20 grand. Good for her. ------------------ Did she say 'Wow!' like they do on Antique Roadshow? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 11:32 AM (n17eQ) 81 74 64 Do the Saudis even have a military to speak of? Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 11:28 AM (pDt9x) Supposedly around 300 thousand strong with 25 thousand para-military Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:30 AM (FtULh) Thanks. Never hear about them doing any military type stuff. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 11:33 AM (pDt9x) 82 @73 >>Honestly don't know. The muzzies seem to take over when they're even remotely close to a particular percentage of the general population. They apparently own Minnesota. islam is a political system more than a religious doctrine. There is no render unto Caesar in islam. islam is Ceaser. Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2026 11:33 AM (XV/Pl) 83 The muzzies seem to take over when they're even remotely close to a particular percentage of the general population. They apparently own Minnesota. -- They sure seem to own a whole lot of stupid leftist politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Posted by: Lady in Black at April 08, 2026 11:34 AM (qBdHI) 84 And now the little fella is crashed out lying on grandpa in the recliner. Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 08, 2026 11:34 AM (2J/Lj) 85 The rest of the world is probably going to get a breather for a couple of years as the internal power struggle in Persia sorts itself out. Even if the IRGC wants to throw cash at fellow savages like Hamas or Hezbollah, they only have so much $ available, and what financial resources they DO have will need to be spent on internal fighting. == Agree. at minimum, they have a lot to pay attention to inside their own borders, and sword of Damocles hanging above if they push their luck. Whatever they do, it is going to be orders of magnitude reduced for a long time. They need to get themselves sorted and they know it. It was literally never going to happen if he cut their power and bridges. It would have devolved in to Haiti/thunderdome. Hell, it still might if somebody does something really stupid. Posted by: Adm'l Painter at April 08, 2026 11:34 AM (anL5R) 86 Do the Saudis even have a military to speak of? They have a lot of expensive equipment. Whether their soldiers know how to use it and the courage to fight are different questions. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t) They know how to shoot the guns.... maintaining them is something else again. Saudis don't turn wrenches, they hire out for maintenance to Filipinos, Indonesians, and other, lesser mohammedan populations. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2026 11:35 AM (y9nCu) 87 84 And now the little fella is crashed out lying on grandpa in the recliner. Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 08, 2026 11:34 AM (2J/Lj) Aren't Grandkids great.. You can have them over play with them, enjoy them.... Then send them home... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:35 AM (FtULh) 88 They sure seem to own a whole lot of stupid leftist politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Remember when we found out it only took $10K to buy Bolton? I suspect Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood didn't have to spend much to collect most of our leftwing pols. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:35 AM (sKqQm) 89 Supposedly around 300 thousand strong with 25 thousand para-military Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:30 AM (FtULh) ---------------- Are they receiving pay or promises of pay? We could reroute the Obama $58B to bring them into in and slaughter the crazies. Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 11:36 AM (n17eQ) 90 80 Oh, good, this lady on 'The Price is Right' just won 20 grand. Good for her. ------------------ Did she say 'Wow!' like they do on Antique Roadshow? Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 11:32 AM Way more than that. It's background noise but she was thrilled. There was a guy on "Let's Make a Deal" - meh - that won $2300. He said earlier in the show that two thousand dollars would change his life. That put things into perspective. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 11:36 AM (Sco7b) 91 But there are smaller reforms - for example make the IRS "do your taxes" and send you the bill instead of requiring individuals to do them. Don't like their results? Then you can still do them yourself. But for most people the government already has all the information it needs - it is just making people do math with the fun risk of fines and jail time if you screw up. Posted by: 18-1 What, you don't think it's a good idea to check the government's work? Your tax return might be the first indication you have that some illegal alien is using your SSN The taxes do need to be simplified though. And specific use taxes, like fuel tax, which is assessed for road maintenance, need to go directly to the agency that oversees the purpose for which that tax is charged: do not pass Congress, do not skim off 50% for progtard projects Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 08, 2026 11:37 AM (a+4eV) 92 84 And now the little fella is crashed out lying on grandpa in the recliner. -------------- Good Times. Been there - its great! Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 11:37 AM (n17eQ) 93 Sexist sumbitch! Townhall.com @townhallcom Lawrence O'Donnell is breathlessly offended that Pete Hegseth's statement that "we leave no man behind" is offensive to women. "That could have been a woman they were trying to rescue." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 08, 2026 11:38 AM (ndZc7) 94 Aren't Grandkids great.. You can have them over play with them, enjoy them.... Then send them home... Posted by: It's me donna ===== and assess the damage/casualties, and then have a drink or five. But I wouldn't have it any other way. Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 08, 2026 11:38 AM (f5L5X) 95 There was a guy on "Let's Make a Deal" - meh - that won $2300. He said earlier in the show that two thousand dollars would change his life. That put things into perspective. Posted by: Stateless Good for him. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 11:38 AM (hCUcO) 96 Ideally there would be only one tax at the federal level and so therefore federal spending and how it impacts you personally would be pretty clear. I think you're only off by one! You can say I'm a dreamer... Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 11:38 AM (04KGT) 97 All this Sturm und Drang can be laid at the feet of the galumphing goober farmer who refused to rise up to the needs of the occasion and administer a fierce and bloody pounding to the faces and lives of those in Iran who had committed an act of war by violating the sovereignty of our embassy in Tehran and taking the staff hostage. The butcher's bill and its accrued interest that he gifted to this country as a result has been most costly and the price to close out the account is what faces us now. But let's not fool ourselves. Back in 1979 Mister Carter had plenty of fellow travelers who supported our government, our society and not a small part of our people sitting on our hands with our thumbs up our asses all these forty-seven years. It has been yet another triumph for the Best and Brightest among us. Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 08, 2026 11:38 AM (q/Jc0) 98 Aren't Grandkids great.. You can have them over play with them, enjoy them.... Then send them home... Posted by: It's me donna Fill 'em full of sugar and send them home. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 11:39 AM (hCUcO) 99 I thought Barnes was doing okay but then I scrolled back and he was relaying Joe Kent. Sigh. Can't trust anybody Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 11:39 AM (tL5sl) 100 But for most people the government already has all the information it needs - it is just making people do math with the fun risk of fines and jail time if you screw up. --------------- Social Security just sent me a check for $3,600 explaining they underpaid me for a year. Mo Money! Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 11:39 AM (n17eQ) 101 Now Hubbymayhem is racked out too! The cat is snoring. Someone is mowing their lawn. The wind chimes sound pretty today. My world is full of comfortable sounds. Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 08, 2026 11:40 AM (2J/Lj) 102 Lawrence O'Donnell won't leave any man's behind. Posted by: gKWVE at April 08, 2026 11:40 AM (tL5sl) 103 From a Brit journalist: Trump continues to be brilliant! He now controls Venezuelan oil. He now controls the Straights of Hormuz (Iran will cede this soon enough) where China gets 45% of it's oil. China is currently in tariff negotiations with the US...now who has the upper hand? Europe is becoming hugely, bigly even, dependent on the US for energy. The Russian sources are suspect , and the lefty net-zero bullshit is killing them. Trump is creating Greater North America, Greenland to Panama. Entirely self-sufficient. And he has shown Britain that they are absolutely fuked. They've imported millions of Islamists, they import 60% of their food, no major industry, and a military that is on it's ass. Bad days ahead for them. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 11:40 AM (2WIwB) 104 Fill 'em full of sugar and send them home. --------------- Buy them a drum set! Posted by: pudinhead at April 08, 2026 11:40 AM (n17eQ) 105 Squealing: "Won't somebody pleeease think of the children!" [Nuke drops] Howdy, fellow warmongering MAGAs. Cool and sunny here in NE Land of the Red Man today. Hope y'all are as well as can be expected. Blade, a tip from one with many ONT First trophies on my mantle: If you don't brag about "Firts," you don't look foolish when you don't get Frits. Not as foolish, anyway….😏 Posted by: mindful webworker - playing the fool at April 08, 2026 11:41 AM (C2uPD) 106 What, you don't think it's a good idea to check the government's work? Your tax return might be the first indication you have that some illegal alien is using your SSN* In this scenario you'd still have the option to do them yourself. But most people hire someone else to do them anyway. Simplification would be great, like I said I'd like their to be only one tax (and ideally a simple head tax because that is the fairest system) but this would be something way easier to do. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:41 AM (sKqQm) 107 Sexist sumbitch! Townhall.com @townhallcom Lawrence O'Donnell is breathlessly offended that Pete Hegseth's statement that "we leave no man behind" is offensive to women. "That could have been a woman they were trying to rescue." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 08, 2026 11:38 AM boot to the head Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 11:41 AM (bFu5X) 108 Supposedly around 300 thousand strong with 25 thousand para-military Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:30 AM (FtULh) The projected population of Saudi Arabia in 2025 is approximately 34.57 million to 37.99 million, depending on the source, with a median age of around 30.6 years. The population is highly urbanized (approx. 92%) and consists of roughly 20.55 million Saudi nationals and 16.41 million non-Saudis. Thus, if they really have 375k in uniform, that's almost 2% of the entire Saudi population. Color me skeptical. By comparison, the US: As of 2025, the total U.S. military population includes approximately 1.32 to 1.34 million active-duty service members, with a total force strength—including Reserve and National Guard personnel—exceeding 2.1 million. The total military community, including civilians, reaches about 2.81 million people. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t) 109 Fill 'em full of sugar and send them home. --------------- Buy them a drum set! Posted by: pudinhead Depending on how bad your kids were growing up, fill up the grands with sugar and send them home with a puppy. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 11:41 AM (hCUcO) 110 From someone I know who visited, the Saudi and Gulf States Arabs have absolute contempt for their co-religion "guest workers" who are seen as slaves, but are very friendly to Americans. Posted by: Auspex at April 08, 2026 11:42 AM (Y8DZL) 111 Aren't Grandkids great.. You can have them over play with them, enjoy them.... Then send them home... Posted by: It's me donna Fill 'em full of sugar and send them home. Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 11:39 AM (hCUcO) *** sniff Then before you know it, the l'il bastards are off to kollege. sniff wipes tear Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 11:42 AM (2WIwB) 112 Lawrence O'Donnell is breathlessly offended that Pete Hegseth's statement that "we leave no man behind" is offensive to women. "That could have been a woman they were trying to rescue." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 08, 2026 11:38 AM (ndZc7) O'Donnell is a complete douchebag. Completely ignoring the Agender, Androgyne, Bigender, Butch, Cisgender, Demiboy, Demigirl, Gender Expansive, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, Intersex, Maverique, Non-binary, Pangender, Transgender peoples of the world. What a MAGA bastard. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 11:42 AM (Sco7b) 113 92 84 And now the little fella is crashed out lying on grandpa in the recliner. -------------- Good Times. Been there - its great! ********** One of my favorite things! Posted by: Cosda at April 08, 2026 11:42 AM (7XApM) 114 I think you're only off by one! You can say I'm a dreamer... I would like to see a locality implement a no tax system, let people donate what they think is fair. The argument is no one one pay anything. Well, maybe. But it is worth as much of a try as all the UBI "experiments" the government does. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:42 AM (sKqQm) 115 84 And now the little fella is crashed out lying on grandpa in the recliner. Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 08, 2026 11:34 AM (2J/Lj) I miss those days. Mine are 9 and 5 now. It goes by quick. Posted by: Reforger at April 08, 2026 11:43 AM (ZhdAT) 116 I suspect Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood didn't have to spend much to collect most of our leftwing pols. Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:35 AM (sKqQm) ------ They're not gay but $20 is $20. Posted by: ballistic at April 08, 2026 11:43 AM (oqH4h) 117 All this Sturm und Drang can be laid at the feet of the galumphing goober farmer who refused to rise up to the needs of the occasion and administer a fierce and bloody pounding to the faces and lives of those in Iran who had committed an act of war by violating the sovereignty of our embassy in Tehran and taking the staff hostage. I'm the last person who would defend that idiot, but the reality is that we were deep in the post-Vietnam malaise at that time. The support for another overseas military adventure just wasn't there. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t) 118 Lawrence O'Donnell is breathlessly offended that Pete Hegseth's statement that "we leave no man behind" is offensive to women. Kind of funny when they forget about all of their make-believe genders. Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2026 11:43 AM (XD+PD) 119 Lawrence O'Donnell is breathlessly offended that Pete Hegseth's statement that "we leave no man behind" is offensive to women. No doubt someone in the press with even a smidgen of gumption and curiosity could do a little digging into Mr. O'Donnell's background and find dribs and drabs of behaviors that were "offensive to women" on his part. And probably of greater consequence in the bargain, too. Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 08, 2026 11:43 AM (q/Jc0) 120 Now Hubbymayhem is racked out too! The cat is snoring. Someone is mowing their lawn. The wind chimes sound pretty today. My world is full of comfortable sounds. Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 08, 2026 11:40 AM Sometimes, life is just good. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 11:43 AM (bFu5X) 121 IIRC the Saudis are in line to get F-35's. They've got a lot of our top tier military kit; M-1 Abrams tanks, E-3 AWACS planes, F-15's and soon, their own version of the LCS (little crappy ship). On paper, they look pretty stout. In reality I don't think they've sortied any planes or moved any soldiers around. Even the missiles and drones fired at them have been intercepted (mostly) by US manned Patriot and THAAD systems. Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 08, 2026 11:44 AM (AkEZC) 122 I love having my 6 year old grandnephew over in part because he and our hyperactive 1 year old dog wear each other out. My dog is so happy to have a kid to run around in the yard with rather than 2 old ladies whose running days are over. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at April 08, 2026 11:44 AM (Ecjv8) 123 Lawrence O'Donnell is breathlessly offended that Pete Hegseth's statement that "we leave no man behind" is offensive to women. And you think the phrase "no woman behind" is not offensive?! Posted by: Brie Larson at April 08, 2026 11:45 AM (XD+PD) 124 From someone I know who visited, the Saudi and Gulf States Arabs have absolute contempt for their co-religion "guest workers" who are seen as slaves, but are very friendly to Americans. Posted by: Auspex at April 08, 2026 11:42 AM (Y8DZL) ________ My brother has visited UAE several times. It's a class thing. If you are western and have a nice fat wallet, then you are worthy of respect and hospitality. If you are poor or desperate -- no matter your religion or culture or country -- you are filthy peons who need to stay out of the fucking way. Also: they do not want freedom. They like living under a monarchy that tells them what to do. It's easier, there are no political battles like we have, and so long as you follow the rules you will be fine. That's their mindset. Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 08, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/) 125 And you think the phrase "no woman behind" is not offensive?! Posted by: Brie Larson === Eat a sammich, and do some squats. Its really not difficult to improve that pancake butt at your age. Posted by: It is a low effort fix at April 08, 2026 11:47 AM (anL5R) 126 Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t) I thought maybe conscription, but no... The perks for joining the military are substantial with high pay... Men and women can enlist... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 11:47 AM (FtULh) 127 I'm the last person who would defend that idiot, but the reality is that we were deep in the post-Vietnam malaise at that time. The support for another overseas military adventure just wasn't there. Posted by: Archimedes A -- I was aware of that and knew that it imposed huge restraints on Jimmuh's options. But the only brush that I used was a broad one, as Bob Ross had absconded with my smaller ones and then he screwed me over by passing away before telling me where he had hid them. Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 08, 2026 11:47 AM (q/Jc0) 128 I was just over at Insty, and there's a post up this morning linking to an X post video clip of Alex Jones and ROBERT BARNES discussing a 25th Amendment coup necessity. Jeepers, when did Barnes, someone I thought was rather based, go nuts? Posted by: mrp at April 08, 2026 11:47 AM (rj6Yv) 129 Lawrence O'Donnell is breathlessly offended that Pete Hegseth's statement that "we leave no man behind" is offensive to women. Does he even know the difference? Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 11:47 AM (2WIwB) 130 Lawrence O'Donnell is a souless moron in need of more hammer. Posted by: kingsman at April 08, 2026 11:47 AM (ehY6c) 131 Our dogs and grandchildren have a great time together. Bonus is dogs are worn out and so are the kids. Everyone sleeps well, lol. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 11:48 AM (3ek7K) 132 Jeepers, when did Barnes, someone I thought was rather based, go nuts? Posted by: mrp He has been tossing out snide remarks about Trump for some time now to the point where I figured that he was lukewarm, at best, about the guy. Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 08, 2026 11:51 AM (q/Jc0) 133 Its interesting, I noticed the stock market generally went down with the Iran conflict and the FNM talked about it a lot. But now? Crickets... Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:51 AM (sKqQm) 134 They like living under a monarchy that tells them what to do. It's easier, there are no political battles like we have, and so long as you follow the rules you will be fine. That's their mindset. == Different mindset for sure. Baseline is whatever happens is the will of Allah and submit to it. Maintenance? Why, if Allah wills my tank to work it will work. That's a bit of an exaggeration for the sake of weak comedy, but there is some truth to it. Isreal is still there isn't it? Posted by: It is a low effort fix at April 08, 2026 11:52 AM (anL5R) 135 Thus, if they really have 375k in uniform, that's almost 2% of the entire Saudi population. Color me skeptical. Actually, that sounds about right. When you consider the balance between the Services (Army, Navy, Air Force and SpecOps) and throw in the support tail for each, that number is good. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 11:52 AM (2WIwB) 136 @103...he saw the spider web of connections and blew a hole through it. The UK and Europe will someday, probably soon, see the error of their ways. In not giving support...or at the very least...allowing our planes to land: screwed. They better be polishing their begging cups. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 11:52 AM (WONhk) 137 It is amazing, get a Republican president that actually does conservative things and finally the GOPe and its pundits have a Republican president that want to remove... Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:52 AM (sKqQm) 138 There was the expectation that Israel would be destroyed early on - after all those Arab armies had british training and a population way higher. Funny how that actually played out though.... Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:53 AM (sKqQm) 139 We don't have a dog. Just our daughter's cat. The cat hates everyone except the girl spawn. She tolerates me and Hubbymayhem because... Food. She will not tolerate the little fella. He doesn't understand that he can't play with Pax the Cat like he plays with his cat Moose. Moose has made himself untouchable. The fella loves him and he was the only one of those three cats that caught a mouse. The other two cats and a yappy dog are on borrowed time in that house. Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 08, 2026 11:54 AM (2J/Lj) 140 Is Ace late to clock in, or am I just an early bird? I hope he did not inhale too much varnish fumes. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 11:54 AM (WONhk) 141 Maria Salazar is fighting like a puta for her DIGNIDAD Act (yes, it's named in Spanish), which is amnesty on steroids. She should be primaried out. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 11:54 AM (n7rxJ) 142 Conservatives need to get the hell out of blue states ASAP. What is coming will be unbearable. Red states will suffer too, but it will be easier to fight back -- and survive -- amongst like-minded folk. You've been warned. Repeatedly, in fact. Posted by: It Will Happen at April 08, 2026 11:54 AM (qUkBO) 143 Such a sad story about the little girl in Texas who was abducted by a FedEx driver in Texas. The POS pled guilty. Now he needs to be killed by firing squad. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 11:54 AM (3ek7K) 144 I'm the last person who would defend that idiot, but the reality is that we were deep in the post-Vietnam malaise at that time. The support for another overseas military adventure just wasn't there. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t) Says who? Most people that I knew wanted us to blow their shit to a deserved hell. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 08, 2026 11:54 AM (g8Ew8) 145 Such a sad story about the little girl in Texas who was abducted by a FedEx driver in Texas. The POS pled guilty. Now he needs to be killed by firing squad. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 11:54 AM And he waited until the actual trial date to plead guilty. He could have done that last year and given closure to the family but the little $hit dragged it out as long as he could and at the very last minute plead guilty. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 11:56 AM (0N4FZ) 146 There was the expectation that Israel would be destroyed early on - after all those Arab armies had british training and a population way higher. Funny how that actually played out though.... Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:53 AM (sKqQm) In the Game of Want Vs Necessity, Necessity is the greater motivation and will usually win. Posted by: naturalfake at April 08, 2026 11:56 AM (iJfKG) 147 I have seen and heard a dozen or so podcasts or talk shows where someone familiar with the I'slamites related that Arab Muslims are fiercely contemptuous of professed Muslims who hail from anywhere else in the world. Mid- and South Asians (e.g., Pakistanis) and Africans they regard with contempt in particular. It's another caste system all but in name. Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 08, 2026 11:57 AM (q/Jc0) 148 Iran was sending missiles and cluster bombs to Israel. Sirens blaring in Tel Aviv and other areas. After patience for a few hours, Israel sent in air strikes to Tehran and other parts of Iran" Turns out those reports were..questionable. Posted by: man at April 08, 2026 11:57 AM (XuXeR) 149 The POS pled guilty. Now he needs to be killed by firing squad. oh I have some better ideas Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 08, 2026 11:58 AM (j+aD2) 150 I know that Epic Fury was an overwhelming military success. But literally everything I hear in pop culture is about how we got our asses kicked by a bunch of goat fucking suicide vest fashion show attendees. It's so damn depressing. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 08, 2026 11:58 AM (WYStd) 151 I'm the last person who would defend that idiot, but the reality is that we were deep in the post-Vietnam malaise at that time. The support for another overseas military adventure just wasn't there. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t) Says who? Most people that I knew wanted us to blow their shit to a deserved hell. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 08, 2026 11:54 AM (g8Ew *** I remember those days well. The real malaise existed between the earlobes of the peanut farmer. America then (as now) would have responded to real leadership. The Iranians did as we saw when Reagan was elected. And, back then, the media was no friend to America. Hell, people thought Water Cronkite was actually telling them the truth. Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2026 11:58 AM (2WIwB) 152 So, are we securing shipping in the Strait of Hormuz for the euroweenies after all? They can all sail home while we continue to bear the responsibility? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 11:58 AM (n7rxJ) 153 The picture of the darling in the FedEx truck is heartbreaking. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 11:59 AM (3ek7K) 154 The failure of the hostage rescue operation under Carter laid bare a bigger reason that a military response wasn't really a viable option in 1980 - the US military was in terrible shape, after a decade of budget cuts and malaise, and 4 years of gross mismanagement by Carter and his people. It took 8 years of intensive rebuilding by Reagan and then Bush 1 (yes, he did do good things with the military) to get the US military back to where it could mount a credible overseas operation. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 08, 2026 11:59 AM (/QdgR) 155 150 I know that Epic Fury was an overwhelming military success. But literally everything I hear in pop culture is about how we got our asses kicked by a bunch of goat fucking suicide vest fashion show attendees. It's so damn depressing. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 08, 2026 11:58 AM (WYStd) They control Information for the most part. A huge perennial problem. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 12:00 PM (pDt9x) 156 So, are we securing shipping in the Strait of Hormuz for the euroweenies after all? They can all sail home while we continue to bear the responsibility? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 11:58 AM (n7rxJ) Well, we did get to blow up a bunch of stuff and send a shit load of Ayatollah's to their 72 virgin goats.... Win, win... Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:00 PM (FtULh) 157 Sigh, can't always get what you want I guess, but I was hoping we would finally get the terror funding bastards out of power in Iran. Hormuz also now seems totally under control of Iran too. They are being allowed to charge, deny and delay traffic at their whim. But the nuke situation seems taken care of for now. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 12:01 PM (n5tGW) 158 There was the expectation that Israel would be destroyed early on - after all those Arab armies had british training and a population way higher. Funny how that actually played out though.... Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2026 11:53 AM (sKqQm) ==== When the Arab Legion defied UN orders to remain in the Transjordan, the UK government ordered all British officers to return to the Transjordan. They did so, but every single one of those Brits, including "Glubb Pasha", snuck back over the river and defiantly returned to their posts. To my knowledge, not a single one of them was arrested for doing so. Posted by: mrp at April 08, 2026 12:01 PM (rj6Yv) 159 Eradicate their breeding population for the good of the planet Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 08, 2026 12:01 PM (wBaIH) 160 But literally everything I hear in pop culture is about how we got our asses kicked by a bunch of goat fucking suicide vest fashion show attendees. It's so damn depressing. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 08, 2026 11:58 AM (WYStd) it lays bare how degraded and corrupt our "pop" culture is currently. It's trash, and we need to work on doing what we can to repair that regardless of what happens in any war. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 08, 2026 12:01 PM (/QdgR) 161 141 Maria Salazar is fighting like a puta for her DIGNIDAD Act (yes, it's named in Spanish), which is amnesty on steroids. She should be primaried out. what about the dignimoms? Posted by: anachronda at April 08, 2026 12:02 PM (oY6Yp) 162 That they believed their Muslim brothers from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, TransJordan and Iraq and lit out from the territory that became Israel ahead of the 1948 War because said brothers assured them, "We've got this!" spoke volumes about the Palis ability to read a room. "You fooked up -- you trusted us!" Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 08, 2026 12:02 PM (q/Jc0) 163 I remember those days well. The real malaise existed between the earlobes of the peanut farmer. America then (as now) would have responded to real leadership. The Iranians did as we saw when Reagan was elected. I think your timing is a bit off. America probably needed to be humiliated in the way we were under Carter for us to get serious again under Reagan. The military in the 70s was a shambles, and it was almost reflexive that we didn't want to be in any more foreign wars. I'm not defending that attitude, it's just the way I remember it was. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t) 164 I have seen and heard a dozen or so podcasts or talk shows where someone familiar with the I'slamites related that Arab Muslims are fiercely contemptuous of professed Muslims who hail from anywhere else in the world. Mid- and South Asians (e.g., Pakistanis) and Africans they regard with contempt in particular. It's another caste system all but in name. Posted by: Krebs ================ It's mutual and universal. The desert Muslims claim to have "the real Islam." The Asians claim that it's a practical religion and the Saudis are nuts for wrapping women like mummies. The Levantine Muslims (Syria, Iraq) claim that no no no, THEY'RE the ones who are doing it right. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 12:02 PM (n7rxJ) 165 yappy dog are on borrowed time in that house. Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 08, 2026 11:54 AM (2J/Lj) ....... I'm not fond of yappy dogs. We had a husky/Malamute/German Shepherd girl for our first baby. When #1 son was born she was nervous. If he cried she wanted out. She got more used to him but never warmed to him (unlike the Goldens in our grand's lives). I'd just had our 2nd boy and my husband, 2yr old toddler and dog were outside mowing. Son had his play mower and tripped and fell on dog. Granted, instinct if something falls on their abdomen (she was 5yrs), but she lunged to bite his head. Then stopped. My husband said he did not know if our boy would have half his face missing or be blind. He had a puncture from a canine tooth an inch from his eye. The dog was adopted by a lady with a ranch and we told her that small children made her nervous (otherwise she was a great dog, but had gotten fierce and attacked a small dog a few months prior to this and hated strangers). Watch that yappy dog, Grandma. The Goldens in our grandbabies lives act like they babysat all their lives. I was amazed at how quickly they loved their new siblings and how gentle they are. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 12:02 PM (WONhk) 166 29 When did Barnes go around the bend... and start talking to Alex Jones? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 08, 2026 11:11 AM (XMJOM) Barnes, Baris (who recently compared Israel to Nazi Germany) and those type of fellas and chicks started to go nuts after Bondis Epstein Binder to Influencer Bitch (ooooof) and made the crazy turn around the bend after Midnight Hammer last summer over Iran. They now Epstein it up while at the same time sit around and oil up Steve Bannon. They've chosen their lot now. No coming back. Posted by: GigantorX at April 08, 2026 12:02 PM (JrZbt) 167 He has been tossing out snide remarks about Trump for some time now to the point where I figured that he was lukewarm, at best, about the guy. Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 08, 2026 11:51 AM (q/Jc0) Trump refuses to take Barnes advice. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 12:04 PM (rbvCR) 168 155 150 I know that Epic Fury was an overwhelming military success. ... It's so damn depressing. ... They control Information for the most part. A huge perennial problem. It comes down to one thing, can Pavlavi flip the unspillable DQ Shake? Is Trump really willing to indict Brennen? Only this will set the fire that really needs to be set. Only after this will America250 really be able to move-on into the future, rather than forever forWARd. And Trump be added to the list of the who to remember because of it -- you've seen this by now... Clinton: To leave now. Obama: To abandon this area IceKingJOE: What is the national security interest? Those who Disgraced their office and Betrayed us ALL! LET'S GO BRANDON! https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-DawnOfTheIceKING https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-ShadowOfTheIceKING https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-PrezLibraryCameo Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 08, 2026 12:06 PM (h4n6w) 169 what about the dignimoms? Posted by: anachronda ============= If those are mamas del vino, I'm sure they're all in. If they're moms whose kids have been murdered by people who perhaps made one mistake but who basically just want their fair and universally deserved chance at the American dream, I think NOT. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 12:06 PM (n7rxJ) 170 The military in the 70s was a shambles, and it was almost reflexive that we didn't want to be in any more foreign wars. I'm not defending that attitude, it's just the way I remember it was. Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t) I remember some nasty humor in Nat Lampoon back in the late 70's - there's a longstanding recruiting theme for the Marines called "The Few - The Proud - The Marines." Nat Lampoon ran a parody ad saying "The Poor - The Black - The Marines" and in the late 70's, it was mostly true. Under Carter, we had a ghetto army. Posted by: Tom Servo at April 08, 2026 12:06 PM (/QdgR) 171 153 The picture of the darling in the FedEx truck is heartbreaking. Posted by: fourseasons at April 08, 2026 11:59 AM (3ek7K) There are many things I can't read or learn about, and this is one. She's lovely, as are my granddaughters. I became a kidnap freak out Mom when #1 son was a toddler and a weirdo was kidnapping blonde boys. I don't think I have ever gotten over that and watch like a hawk. And pray a lot. That poor sweet girl. I can't and won't try to think of the grief. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 12:07 PM (WONhk) 172 Maria Salazar is fighting like a puta for her DIGNIDAD Act (yes, it's named in Spanish), which is amnesty on steroids. She should be primaried out. what about the dignimoms? Posted by: anachronda at April 08, 2026 12:02 PM Excuse you?! Posted by: Dignitroons at April 08, 2026 12:08 PM (bFu5X) 173 An important thing to come out of the Carter debacle was the creation of CENTCOM. Unified command. Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 08, 2026 12:09 PM (qFwJc) 174 169 what about the dignimoms? ... If they're moms whose kids have been murdered by people who perhaps made one mistake but who basically just want their fair and universally deserved chance at the American dream, I think NOT. https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WotHapToAmericanDream What ever Happened to the American Dream? It Came TRUE -- you're lookin' at it. LIBs pitting Man against other men until we exist no more; up down left right, the profit-motive of the forWARd capitalists is undeniably in evidence. LIB cooperation, is appreciated, AND EXPECTED. Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 08, 2026 12:10 PM (h4n6w) 175 This action was never a war per se, but a punitive exercise to chastise an enemy. Regime change, all verbiage aside, would have only been an unlikely consequence. Others may not be satisfied but I am very pleased with the outcome. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 12:11 PM (pDt9x) 176 175 This action was never a war per se, but a punitive exercise to chastise an enemy. Regime change, all verbiage aside, would have only been an unlikely consequence. Others may not be satisfied but I am very pleased with the outcome. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 12:11 PM (pDt9x) Yes, but I would have liked a cut from the oil, or control of the Strait Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:12 PM (FtULh) 177 Truth Social: Numerous Agreements, Lists, and Letters are being sent out by people that have absolutely nothing to do with the U.S.A. / Iran Negotiation, in many cases, they are total Fraudsters, Charlatans, and WORSE. They will be rapidly exposed after our Federal Investigation is completed. There is only one group of meaningful “POINTS” that are acceptable to the United States, and we will be discussing them behind closed doors during these Negotiations. These are the POINTS that are the basis on which we agreed to a CEASEFIRE. It is something that is reasonable, and can easily be dispensed with. It’s very much like Fake News CNN last night, headlining a “source” that had no power or authority to write a Letter claiming great authority. President DONALD J. TRUMP Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2026 12:12 PM (hCUcO) 178 Maria Salazar is fighting like a puta for her DIGNIDAD Act (yes, it's named in Spanish), which is amnesty on steroids. She should be ~~primaried out~~ fired into the Sun. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 08, 2026 11:54 AM FIFY. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM (bFu5X) 179 176 Yes, but I would have liked a cut from the oil, or control of the Strait Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:12 PM (FtULh) It might not be over. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM (pDt9x) 180 CNN - Iran halts shipping in Hormuz after Israel attacks Lebanon. Israel - Lebanon not part of the peace deal. This is going as well as we all expected.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM (Sco7b) 181 Sigh, can't always get what you want I guess, but I was hoping we would finally get the terror funding bastards out of power in Iran. Hormuz also now seems totally under control of Iran too. They are being allowed to charge, deny and delay traffic at their whim. But the nuke situation seems taken care of for now. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 08, 2026 12:01 PM Trump's primary goal from day one was that iran can't be allowed to have a nuke. He has reiterated that many times. As far as the straits go, I don't think there is a workable solution short of sending troops in to seize the islands and that would mean a permanent presence there and constant warfare with iran for the foreseeable future. We could do it but the cost would fare outweigh the benefit and that is not a permanent solution. Maybe this will get the region to finally construct the pipelines that they should have built the first time iran closed the straits back in the 70s. They have the plans and it is a straightforward construction project and all of the players have agreed in principle that they need to be built but they have been dithering for almost 50 years. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM (0N4FZ) 182 Europe is in such a hole because they decided to financialize EVERYTHING. Production is not important, where it is possible to invest in someone else producing and then rake off most of the profit. So food production goes somewhere else, as does manufacturing and energy. Spain had the same problem in the 1600s when they gold and silver from the Indies came in, and it was more profitable to deal in banking and loans than to actually make something. The US has a similar problem with the USD being the main currency for international trade, but most of that trade does seem to go through London and European banks. Tariffs are bringing manufacturing home to us, but Europe doesn't have anything like that to fall back on. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM (rbvCR) 183 It might not be over. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM (pDt9x) I'm hoping so... Trump is a good business man Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (FtULh) 184 Nood. Playing for time. Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y) 185 Others may not be satisfied but I am very pleased with the outcome. Posted by: tubal at April 08, 2026 12:11 PM (pDt9x) I'm pleased but want more. I'm patient as I may get more in time. None of us have a clue what is going on, nor does Iran. Trump is no Carter or Bush (who is that Manfred above?) Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (WONhk) 186 I want to mention one thing, I will never agree to play poker with President Trump. Posted by: runner at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (GD0B3) 187 CNN - Iran halts shipping in Hormuz after Israel attacks Lebanon. Israel - Lebanon not part of the peace deal. This is going as well as we all expected.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 08, 2026 12:13 PM Fine. The bombings will continue until freedom improves. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (bFu5X) 188 127 A -- I was aware of that and knew that it imposed huge restraints on Jimmuh's options. But the only brush that I used was a broad one, as Bob Ross had absconded with my smaller ones and then he screwed me over by passing away before telling me where he had hid them. at least you can still paint broads. Posted by: anachronda at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (oY6Yp) 189 Retirement gives one the opportunity to learn new skills. Today, it's how the parchment paper decurling panel works. Posted by: Oglebay at April 08, 2026 12:15 PM (GPa4z) 190 Trump is no Carter or Bush (who is that Manfred above?) Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 08, 2026 12:14 PM (WONhk) If he doesn't have an Earth Band, I don't care who he is. Posted by: Josephistan at April 08, 2026 12:16 PM (y9ksN) 191 And he waited until the actual trial date to plead guilty. He could have done that last year and given closure to the family but the little $hit dragged it out as long as he could and at the very last minute plead guilty. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 08, 2026 11:56 AM (0N4FZ) I got selected for jury duty on a case where a man was accused of raping his former lover with a soda bottle in the "wrong hole". He copped a plea bargain the moment we were seated. The only reason being apparently there were only 3 men on the jury and the lawyer didn't like the odds. Posted by: Defenestratus at April 08, 2026 12:16 PM (WYStd) 192 Yes, but I would have liked a cut from the oil, or control of the Strait Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2026 12:12 PM (FtULh) Donna, we are probably going to get the insurance and re-insurance line since, unlike the Royal Navy and GB, we can assure free passage. That ain't peanuts. Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2026 12:16 PM (rbvCR) 193 They can't cover everything in human shields. They cover power generation, take out distribution or cooling water. There are smart ways around giving the regime the dead bodies they desire. That we haven't is evidence to me that there is real movement toward a negotiated end to this. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 08, 2026 12:21 PM (dK+Kv) 194 Trump did not want to destroy iran he simply ran out of options to force them into negotiations..... He didn't try this low-cost option: why the fuck aren't we dropping 10's of thousands of ak47s and grenades into various cities? Litter the entire cities with small parachutes of individual Ak's and grenades and let these "freedom lovers" collect them from the streets and rooftops and see what kind of revolution they are prepared to do. Checkpoints of IRGC thugs will disappear if grenade and rifle fire is coming in from multiple directions. Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (2Nfh9) 195 None of this passes the smell test Posted by: melodicmetal at April 08, 2026 12:29 PM (61TgR) 196 why the fuck aren't we dropping 10's of thousands of ak47s and grenades into various cities? Litter the entire cities with small parachutes of individual Ak's and grenades and let these "freedom lovers" collect them from the streets and rooftops and see what kind of revolution they are prepared to do. Checkpoints of IRGC thugs will disappear if grenade and rifle fire is coming in from multiple directions. Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at April 08, 2026 12:26 PM (2Nfh9) Because you don’t want the guns to wind up with the enemy. Praise Schlurpo many of you are not remotely involved in logistics. Posted by: Cow Demon at April 08, 2026 12:38 PM (m2XKJ) 197 Had to go out. Mea culpa. Circling an alleged operational power plant were primarily older women in burkas representing one part of the "human chain" and men fearful of the IRGC or those not yet "made. Bomb their wealth, bomb Kush Island. Or watch & wait for the US "peacekeepers" to realize they're dealing with a different world too late. " Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 12:46 PM (NFX2v) 198 "Because you don’t want the guns to wind up with the enemy." There are 100+million AK47's in the hands of people. Our enemies have all the AK47's they want or need. In this conflict, enemy small arms is essentially of no concern, and any arms dropped in matters not. However the supposed Iranian street folks have nothing. Anything reaching them is potentially meaningful. Yes, some of these small arms will be swept up by IRGC but a lot will be picked up or channelled to people who may be willing to cause a revolt. That's why you parachute them in all at one time. The IRGC can't be everywhere. "Praise Schlurpo many of you are not remotely involved in logistics." Pfft. As demonstrated above, you have no imagination and haven't thought things through. Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at April 08, 2026 12:50 PM (2Nfh9) 199 194. Checkpoints of IRGC thugs will disappear if grenade and rifle fire is coming in from multiple directions. Posted by: hate_the_deepstate And they are the ilk who use their people as shields. And if opposed to cluster bombs (& trip bombs, IEDs) and their damage (as I am), grenades seem no better. Dropping weapons and ammo into anything but a controlled zone is insane, and we all know that gunwalking is not controllable. Material suitable for nuclear weapons must be located and confiscated. A circular shootout could go on and on. Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 08, 2026 01:25 PM (NFX2v) 200 Says who? Most people that I knew wanted us to blow their shit to a deserved hell. 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