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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - July 2, 2025 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters.

[Top photo: Field of Capitulation near Yorktown, Virginia]

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By somewhat popular demand:

Weekly commenter stats for week of 6-28-2025
Top 10 commenters:
1 [757 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu' [107.51 posts/day]
2 [447 comments] 'polynikes'
3 [426 comments] 'Oldcat'
4 [403 comments] '...'
5 [360 comments] 'Boss Moss'
6 [329 comments] 'toby928'
7 [319 comments] 'Warai-otoko'
8 [294 comments] 'Blonde Morticia'
9 [294 comments] 'Hadrian the Seventh '
10 [285 comments] 'Bulg'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [177 names] 'The Paolo' [25.14 unique names/day]
2 [98 names] 'Spud Webb'
3 [69 names] 'Ciampino - pray for a safe launch'
4 [68 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
5 [57 names] 'Duncanthrax'
6 [55 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
7 [47 names] 'LeenCorp LLC'
8 [44 names] 'Count de Monet'
9 [35 names] 'Moron Analyst'
10 [32 names] 'toby928'

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Time for a mid-year check of progress for those participating in the official Ace of Spades ONT 2025 Prediction Challenge. As a refresher, Morons made guesses on a range of current events and economic metrics. We'll tally the results at the end of the year and see whose crystal ball was the most clear.

But we're six months in and everyone wants to know who has the early edge, so... We have economic metrics for all the items except one (a TRex small brain glitch is going to require one of the items to be dropped).

Some event-related predictions have been determined (such as Trudeau stepping down). Some of the event-related predictions have seen change but have not fully materialized yet (a good example is NPR/PBS de-funding where there is legislation that has not passed or some Epstein files were released but no client list).

The top two Morons on the economic metrics are no one of any consequence and Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan. Their predictions are excellent with a meaningful margin to third place from predicting pookysgirl.

For predicting events, Pale Rider currently has a commanding lead with a perfect prediction record. Dr. Claw, Methos and Luca I are tied for second.

Well done! We'll see what the remainder of the year brings. Plenty of time for change.

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What could be more America than celebrating July 4th by launching cars off a cliff?

The Glacier View Fourth of July Car Launch in Alaska has become an annual tradition.

Here's what it looked like last year:

If you don't already have your tickets for this year, you're too late. SOLD OUT.

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I had thought this was a parody. It is not.

Serve up a winning combination of big crunch and bold flavor with Vlasic Pickle Balls Dill Pickle Flavored Corn Puffs. Crunch into the perfect doubles team of dill and vinegar flavor in every bite and have a pickle-ball with this gluten free pickle flavored snack that rivals all other salty snacks on the court.

Pickles and corn puffs are fine on their own. Pickles are among the few vegetables that find favor with TRex. Mixing them diminishes each. We mourn the unfortunate sacrifices made by dill pickles in the pursuit of potential pickleball playing patrons.

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Makes sense:

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Astronomy photo of the week: ISS passing in front of the sun:

Photo credit: Andrew McCarthy

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Medical knowledge:

An SPF 15 sunscreen blocks 93% of UVB radiation, and SPF 30 blocks 97%. After that, the difference in protection is small. SPF 50 blocks 98%, and SPF 100 stops 99% of UVB rays from reaching your skin.

If you pick SPF 30 and reapply at least every two hours, George says you'll be making a good choice. "A higher SPF might give you a little more wiggle room if you didn't apply enough sunscreen, or you forgot to reapply," says George. "But after a point, going higher doesn't mean you are getting dramatically more protection."

TRex has a small brain (and short arms) but this comes as news.

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This isn't the food thread, but I can't let this pass. I only recently learned about the BRL.

This is a quasi-smart military blog at times, so we should address the BRL (Barge, Refrigerated, Large). The barge was towed by the Navy in the Pacific theater of World War II to store frozen and refrigerated food. It stored tons of frozen meat, vegetables, eggs and dairy products. More importantly, it also produced ice cream in large quantities - 10 US gallons of ice cream every seven minutes.

The U.S. Navy had (in)famously outlawed alcohol aboard ships in 1914, six years before Prohibition, but it still needed to fill the gap in morale boosting power a sailors daily drink left behind. As any noncommissioned officer who has overseen junior enlisted Americans will tell you: if you don't give them something to boost their morale, they can get into anything...and you might not like what they find.

Not everyone was thrilled with ice cream's rampant popularity. At the end of the war, then-Col. Lewis "Chesty" Puller allegedly decried ice cream as "sissy food" and lobbied for beer and whiskey instead. The newly formed Department of Defense opted to stick with ice cream instead.

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History is fun:

Roland the Farter was a medieval flatulist who lived in 12th-century England. He was given Hemingstone manor in Suffolk and 30 acres of land in return for his services as a jester for King Henry II. Each year, he was obliged to perform "saltum, siffletum, pettum" (a jump, a whistle, [and] a fart that were all done at once) for the king's court at Christmas.

Valerie Allen, professor of literature at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, investigated Roland's story in her 2007 book, On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages.

Read more about professional flatulence at Atlas Obscura. Among other things, you will learn that "not all performing farters were land owners."

Hat tip: inspired by scampydog's ONT last night that referenced Operation Frequent Wind

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Sotheby's recently sold the sweater vest that Matthew Broderick wore in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

The sweater and a collection of related memorabilia with exceptional provenance sold for $279,400. Shockingly, the pre-sale estimate was $300,000 to $600,000.

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If the name Mansour Ojjeh means something to you, you will appreciate the sale of 19 McLarens from his estate. If you don't recognize the name, take my word that the person had an outsized role in automotive history.

That collection was built around a central theme, with the McLaren F1 as its "jewel in the crown." This particular F1 is a one-of-one example, finished in a unique colour named Yquem, after the esteemed and rare dessert wine. It was also the last McLaren F1 ever produced.
To reflect the significance of this vehicle, McLaren subsequently renamed the colour Mansour Orange, a custom hue used exclusively on his cars. This shade could not be specified by any other customer. Furthermore, Mansour requested the final chassis number for each model, ensuring his cars incorporated all the technical updates made during the production cycle.
The result is without equal. With the exception of the F1 (which has just 1,810 km) and the P1 GTR (used occasionally during McLaren track days), every car remains unused, in factory-delivered condition, and maintained under direct instruction by McLaren themselves - a service no other collector has ever received. Tom Hartley Jr.

Sadly, TRex has no available garage space at the moment.

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I have mixed feelings about this video, but sharing in the name of knowledge and science (although the absence of scales on the TRex head makes the results questionable):

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Who knew utensils were so complicated?

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Winning!

Egg-cellent news�as of June 2, the egg surcharge is officially off the menu. Thanks for understanding! pic.twitter.com/xXE6giZhRe
— Waffle House (@WaffleHouse) July 1, 2025

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Hat tip: Grateful

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The Pittsburgh police scanner is like a slow motion car crash. You can't bear to watch but you can't look away. Fewer entries than usual, but this is more about quality than quantity.

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John Philip Sousa for the big ONT finish (naturally):

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Comments

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1 Yay, Made in the USA Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 02, 2025 10:01 PM (lUFok)

2 Early

Posted by: Ann at July 02, 2025 10:01 PM (4neFu)

3 scampydog deserves some special mention for last night's ONT urging lurkers and rare commenters to climb out of the woodwork. Really good to have seen.

Posted by: mindful webworker - commenter ordinaire at July 02, 2025 10:02 PM (OZEHh)

4 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 02, 2025 10:02 PM (w3u3d)

5 Early...

Damned *lot* 0f content.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 10:03 PM (XeU6L)

6 In fact, everyone was Kung Fu Fighting.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 10:03 PM (XV/Pl)

7 Didja ever click on something and your computer refuses to acknowledge the click? Like, you know, "post"? Yeah.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the race is not always to the swift at July 02, 2025 10:03 PM (OZEHh)

8 Well, the ONT is not hidden like last night. 😺

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 02, 2025 10:03 PM (w3u3d)

9 Wow! Co-top moron! Dad always said I was.

I don't remember the questions nor my predicts.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 10:05 PM (QGaXH)

10 Yes, nooded!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:05 PM (SEFV4)

11 I was minding my own business in 1975, and suddenly it’s 50 years later!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:07 PM (SEFV4)

12 Serpentine fences up top.

Posted by: davidt at July 02, 2025 10:07 PM (i0F8b)

13 One of you posted a Stormtrooper Parody Fanfic. In the feed over at YouTube I found a better one. Forthe Empire Season Two is the best.

https://is.gd/6Lgpua

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 10:08 PM (WIJBc)

14 What a pretty row of fencing! Why are there two of them in parallel?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:09 PM (SEFV4)

15 14 What a pretty row of fencing! Why are there two of them in parallel?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:09 PM
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The mystery click behind the photo tells the story.

Posted by: TRex at July 02, 2025 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)

16 The ISS is going to burn 🔥 up!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:10 PM (SEFV4)

17 Jesus meme stolen and passed along.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 02, 2025 10:10 PM (lUFok)

18
Astronomy photo of the week: ISS passing in front of the sun

That made me think of The Black Hole.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2025 10:12 PM (63Dwl)

19 Wow. Tragic. Sousa died at 12?!? Still, musical genius I guess….

Posted by: Roland_DesChaines at July 02, 2025 10:12 PM (R6uXn)

20 It has been a long time since I made the lists and I made both of them. I think comment counts have fallen off generally.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 10:13 PM (jc0TO)

21 Happy Wednesday!

Posted by: Adriane the Chronological Critic . . . at July 02, 2025 10:13 PM (cfyxU)

22 Did the Bill Pass?

Posted by: illiniwek at July 02, 2025 10:14 PM (vbXSk)

23 I love Sousa and especially Stars and Stripes Forever.

Be kind to your web footed friends,
For that duck may be somebody's mother

Posted by: huerfano at July 02, 2025 10:15 PM (n2swS)

24
I think people are out enjoying summer. Gardening, sports and vacations.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 02, 2025 10:15 PM (3ek7K)

25 Did the Bill Pass?
Posted by: illiniwek

and Jump and Whistle!

Posted by: Adriane the Chronological Critic . . . at July 02, 2025 10:15 PM (cfyxU)

26

House voting on rule to open debate on BB Bill.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2025 10:15 PM (63Dwl)

27 Never heard of a spaghetti fork. But that would be helpful for sure.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:15 PM (nwGCR)

28 Sorry I'm late, my Chinese Crested was getting a perm.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 02, 2025 10:16 PM (Lxvu0)

29 . I think comment counts have fallen off generally.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 10:13 PM (jc0TO)

Well with all the millions dying from (non existent) Republican spending cuts, what did you expect?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:17 PM (nwGCR)

30 I think I could be induced to play pickle ball, but not eat one!

Oh and thanks the hint TRex: I got it as soon as the video opened! How appropriate for the upcoming celebration!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:17 PM (SEFV4)

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The T-Rex vid is 22 minutes long and I have my doubts they're going to cover the factor I want to know about: T-Rex's intelligence. Could you just hide behind a tree?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 10:18 PM (Rrsaq)

32
Amazon has spaghetti forks. I'm ordering them. It's a useful looking utensil.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 02, 2025 10:18 PM (3ek7K)

33 I'm seeing four Repub's voted no, so it does not pass.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 02, 2025 10:18 PM (vbXSk)

34 I had some dill pickle flavored potato chips recently.
I loved them.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 02, 2025 10:18 PM (Lo97M)

35 Comment counts down? What are you talking about? We’ve been hitting the high 400s on some threads!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:19 PM (SEFV4)

36 My representative is holding up the passing of the BBB. I will personally work against him for reelection! The bill is not perfect but there are many good things and no tax increase! Also he helped all these idiots win.You notice all democrats vote together.

Posted by: AnnaS at July 02, 2025 10:19 PM (FnSbk)

37 Sorry I'm later than tankdemon, but I do love Toby Keith and The Stars and Stripes.............

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at July 02, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

38 Thanks for the dandy Wednesday Night ONT, TRex!

Love the Pittsburgh scanner - always items of interest!

Your ONTs are varied and entertaining. Thank you for compiling such interesting topics!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 02, 2025 10:19 PM (kB9dk)

39 so I was looking up Youtube and one recommendation is one "Rabbi Pinchas Taylor".
For any Jews or nonJews reading this... if you want to name your kid "Phineas" or maybe "Phinehas", go for it. Biblical names are cool, especially the obscure ones.
But please do not spell it "Pinch Ass". We'll take your kid more seriously if you don't.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 10:19 PM (gKWVE)

40
I think comment counts have fallen off generally.
Posted by: toby928

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I think so, too, which is why we need to get those lurkers out and posting. I don't want to join the Powerline gang -- which now has a membership fee.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 10:20 PM (Rrsaq)

41 Lovely photo up top. I wonder why it's called "Capitulation" and not something more positive like "Victory"?

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 02, 2025 10:20 PM (kB9dk)

42 Wow, lost track of time. I saw those pickle puffs on a Walmart shelf.

Not sure I'd eat them. Also watched the T-Rex vs guns vid a few days ago. It was a hot day and the thing was made of gelatin, so can you really trust the late results?

Nice color on that guy's cars.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 10:20 PM (0eaVi)

43 There are so many times I wish I was normal. I think it would make things so much easier. Or so I've heard.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 02, 2025 10:21 PM (CHHv1)

44 12 Serpentine fences up top.

Posted by: davidt at July 02, 2025 10:07 PM

How else is the fence going to avoid being shot up?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 10:21 PM (HlyYF)

45 Sousa wrote some great marches for a barely 12 year old!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:21 PM (SEFV4)

46 Evening, TRex, and ONT Horde! Back from Wing Nite. T-storm caused about a 40 minute power outage over a wide area, including the hotel. Looks like my place got a brief but heavy rain shower. No damage to crops that I could see. Curiously, all the wind fans on the ridge north of me are stopped, despite there being a gentle breeze. And stopped dead, too. Not the usual very slow motoring (say about 1/4 RPM) typical of idle wind fans.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 10:22 PM (5j2Bo)

47 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 10:22 PM (sAmhv)

48 Today is the anniversary of the day the Continental Congress passed Richard Henry Lee's motion that "these Colonies are, and by rights ought to be, free and independsnt states." John Adams assumed that today would be the big day of celebration.The final draft of the Declaration was approved on July 4th, which is why we still have a couple of days before the fireworks and barbeques.

http://tiny.cc/ytio001

Posted by: tankdemon at July 02, 2025 10:23 PM (Lxvu0)

49 Could you just hide behind a tree?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 10:18 PM (Rrsaq)

TRexes had red eyes, so they could hide in cherry trees.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 10:24 PM (5j2Bo)

50 34 I had some dill pickle flavored potato chips recently.
I loved them.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 02, 2025 10:18 PM (Lo97M)

I like those too.

I've also had dill pickle flamin' hot cheetos recently, and they were also good.

I'm gonna keep an eye out for those vlassic corn puffs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 10:24 PM (XCUp7)

51 I believe the BBB will pass: the representatives just have to harrumph enough. Hey, I didn’t get a harrumph out of you! I’m watching you!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:24 PM (SEFV4)

52 I wonder if the farter fellow ever accidentally shat himself while doing his trick.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 02, 2025 10:24 PM (Lo97M)

53 Serpentine fences up top.

Posted by: davidt at July 02, 2025 10:07 PM

How else is the fence going to avoid being shot up?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 10:21 PM (HlyYF)

Probably won't help much against gators.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 02, 2025 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)

54 We should have a July 2-4 holiday. 3 days festival.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:25 PM (nwGCR)

55 Were there cherry trees in the time of the T.Rex?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:25 PM (SEFV4)

56 Good evening morons и спасибо Dino for a most eclectic and innovative ont

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2025 10:26 PM (RIvkX)

57 41 Lovely photo up top. I wonder why it's called "Capitulation" and not something more positive like "Victory"?

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 02, 2025 10:20 PM
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Many small canon were surrendered and some are on display near the field. All have been marked with the date and lettering that says "Surrendered by the Capitulation of Yorktown." Victory was earned on the battlefield. This was where the formal surrender (i.e., capitulation) took place.

Posted by: TRex at July 02, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

58 54 We should have a July 2-4 holiday. 3 days festival.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:25 PM (nwGCR)

Annex Canada first.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 10:26 PM (gKWVE)

59 Pickles are very good for you, very probiotic.

When I was a kid we ate a lot of pickled cabbage, tomatoes, and peppers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2025 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

60 Were there cherry trees in the time of the T.Rex?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:25 PM (SEFV4)

If TRex doesn't know, we could check with Keith Richard's. I've seen rumors that he had a T. Rex as a pet when he was a kid.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 02, 2025 10:27 PM (S/Y4j)

61 Nice color on that guy's cars.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 10:20 PM (0eaVi)

Eh, it's OK. I can appreciate a McLaren for what it is, without wanting to own one, and I sure would not want to copy a bespoke color used by a muslim.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 10:27 PM (5j2Bo)

62 Good to have the utensil chart so we know what the fork each one is for.

Sporks are the black sheep cousin once again.

I seem to recall Mad Magazine featured a spaghetti fork with scissors attached. Cannot find a reference or pic online, but there are articles about a video that went viral of a Canadian man eating spaghetti with a fork in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other. Close but not.

Posted by: mindful webworker - spooooon at July 02, 2025 10:27 PM (OZEHh)

63 55 Were there cherry trees in the time of the T.Rex?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:25 PM
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Yes, but small arms made it difficult to climb trees.

Posted by: TRex at July 02, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

64 Who knew utensils were so complicated?
___________________________

I'm marginally disappointed. Here was a perfect installment to apply the ole':

Fork Around and Find Out

Posted by: Orson at July 02, 2025 10:28 PM (dIske)

65 That's a pretty good shenanigans link. I might also recommend the Taliban Song.

https://youtu.be/NPzAds5p_nM

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 10:29 PM (1Gsou)

66 Dill Pickle Flavored Corn Puffs

NO!

Posted by: Gref at July 02, 2025 10:29 PM (aBgBM)

67 Why is the ISS passing in front of a wheat field?

Also a spaghetti fork? Where has this been all my life?

I don't give a fork about the others.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 02, 2025 10:29 PM (rvwwT)

68 Many small canon were surrendered and some are on display near the field. All have been marked with the date and lettering that says "Surrendered by the Capitulation of Yorktown." Victory was earned on the battlefield. This was where the formal surrender (i.e., capitulation) took place.
Posted by: TRex at July 02, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)
* * * *
Thanks so much for the excellent explanation and history lesson, TRex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 02, 2025 10:29 PM (kB9dk)

69 Do they still play Sousa marches at parades these days or is it all mariarchi bands, Irish steppers and whatever the rap music break dancing yutes are doing.
Don't get to many parades anymore.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 02, 2025 10:30 PM (n4GiU)

70 Fork Around and Find Out
Posted by: Orson at July 02, 2025 10:28 PM (dIske)

There was no tactical spork. I call foul.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 10:30 PM (1Gsou)

71 37 Sorry I'm later than tankdemon, but I do love Toby Keith and The Stars and Stripes.............
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at July 02, 2025 10:19 barbecues.

You specifically waited for me before posting, didn’t you?

Posted by: tankdemon at July 02, 2025 10:30 PM (Lxvu0)

72 I seem to recall Mad Magazine featured a spaghetti fork with scissors attached. Cannot find a reference or pic online, but there are articles about a video that went viral of a Canadian man eating spaghetti with a fork in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other. Close but not.
Posted by: mindful webworker - spooooon at July 02, 2025 10:27 PM (OZEHh)

The real pros eat spaghetti with a straw.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 10:30 PM (5j2Bo)

73 Kalshi has bbb passing before 7/5 at 73%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:30 PM (nwGCR)

74 I was minding my own business in 1975, and suddenly it’s 50 years later!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:07 PM (SEFV4)
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Flowing like water underground

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2025 10:31 PM (RIvkX)

75 Eh, it's OK. I can appreciate a McLaren for what it is, without wanting to own one, and I sure would not want to copy a bespoke color used by a muslim.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 10:27 PM (5j2Bo)

Excerpt says it's a shade of Orange.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 10:31 PM (0eaVi)

76 52 I wonder if the farter fellow ever accidentally shat himself while doing his trick.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 02, 2025 10:24 PM (Lo97M)

Back in DH's beer league softball days, one Sunday morning after an evening of winning the beer trophy, one of his teammates mentioned that he was not farting with any confidence.

The things that take up space in my brain.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 10:32 PM (1Gsou)

77 We should have a July 2-4 holiday. 3 days festival.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:25 PM (nwGCR)

One of the things I miss about Cody WY: the Stampede. July 2-4. Daily parades, rodeos (of course Cody has, or had, a night rodeo every day of the week in the summer). When I was a teenager my brother and I would walk up and down Sheridan Avenue ogling the cute tourist girls.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 02, 2025 10:32 PM (0aYVJ)

78 When I was 16, I knew a kid named Phineas Baxandall. Nice guy too.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 10:33 PM (KAi1n)

79 If I was a zillionaire, I would buy those McLarens and DRIVE them.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 02, 2025 10:33 PM (rvwwT)

80 Grrr!

A piece of cast iron that uses gunpowder to hurl balls at the enemy: cannon.

"All trolls are Average Joe, and Average Joe sucks cocks by choice": canon.

/pedant

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 10:33 PM (5j2Bo)

81 How in the heck did I make third in the economic predictions?! I hate economics, it's part math, path human psychology, and part coin-flipping.

Hold on, let me get a yenny to flip to solidify my lead.....

(Note, because Google sucks at finding things: A "yenny" is a 1-yen coin, similar to our penny.)

Posted by: pookysgirl has a bag of yennies at July 02, 2025 10:34 PM (Wt5PA)

82 When I was 16, I knew a kid named Phineas Baxandall. Nice guy too.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 10:33 PM (KAi1n)

Some fellow named Baxandall invented a tone control circuit for hi-fi amplifiers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 10:35 PM (5j2Bo)

83 There are so many times I wish I was normal. I think it would make things so much easier. Or so I've heard.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Normalcy, and ease, are both overrated.

At least being normal is one thing I will never have to worry about. Abnormal, maybe paranormal on a good day, but not normal-normal.

Posted by: mindful webworker - normally prenumbral at July 02, 2025 10:36 PM (OZEHh)

84 I think a fully armed A-10 could take down a T.Rex, mainly by staying out of the reach of it’s tiny little arms, but also it’s big toothy jaw!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:36 PM (SEFV4)

85 52 I wonder if the farter fellow ever accidentally shat himself while doing his trick.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 02, 2025 10:24 PM (Lo97M)

Imagine his poor wife having to put up with him practicing that for the big day!

Posted by: moki at July 02, 2025 10:37 PM (wLjpr)

86 For any Jews or nonJews reading this... if you want to name your kid "Phineas" or maybe "Phinehas", go for it.

However if you're planning on naming your kid "Ferb," please reconsider.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 10:39 PM (/y8xj)

87
A fork with three tines is actually a "Threek"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 10:39 PM (D7oie)

88 Rubber chicken doing Led Zeppelin cover

https://youtu.be/cZzdYqBf8Mc

Posted by: Halfhand at July 02, 2025 10:39 PM (24Jf8)

89 I've been urging my stepdaughter to quit doing weaves for years, because her natural hair makes Angela Davis look like Jimi Hendrix.

She finally went for the natural braids, and they look great... but she did wood and brass beads, so she kinda looks like a much prettier version of Rick James.

It's a step in the right direction, though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 10:41 PM (BI5O2)

90 I saw a d-bag kid driving a $400k Aston Martin today. Nice looking car though.

Posted by: lin-duh at July 02, 2025 10:41 PM (VCgbV)

91 A fork with three tines is actually a "Threek"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 10:39 PM (D7oie)

But if you used it to jab Hillary in the butt, it would be a bitchfork.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 10:42 PM (5j2Bo)

92 How many places have replaced fireworks with orchestrated drone displays? I know Milwaukee did this year, and I have no desire to watch it - even on TV. At least some of the shows will use real fireworks.

As I wrote that, I kinda wonder when those drones will act like they're in the Hitchcock thriller, The Birds.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 02, 2025 10:43 PM (S/Y4j)

93 Yenny at Wikipedia doesn’t mention the one yen coin. Is that an Anglicism, or do the Japanese use the term?

https://is.gd/Skzd0U

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:43 PM (SEFV4)

94 ...every car remains unused, in factory-delivered condition...

The kind of person who would buy a Monet or Van Gogh and hide it in a vault.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 10:44 PM (/y8xj)

95 90 I saw a d-bag kid driving a $400k Aston Martin today.

Posted by: lin-duh at July 02, 2025 10:41 PM

I am pretty sure those are NOT the correct lyrics to Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer"!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 10:45 PM (HlyYF)

96 I think a fully armed A-10 could take down a T.Rex, mainly by staying out of the reach of it’s tiny little arms, but also it’s big toothy jaw!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:36 PM (SEFV4)

Why else do you think they went extinct?

Posted by: Ancient Mammal A-10 Pilots at July 02, 2025 10:46 PM (r6SF4)

97 For any Jews or nonJews reading this... if you want to name your kid "Phineas" or maybe "Phinehas", go for it.

Just not Marcus Pincus, ok?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 10:46 PM (0eaVi)

98 I think I saw that shade of orange on football uniforms. Oregon State used it as an alternate uniform. They pull those out when a game is nationally televised, I think. Other teams do the same thing so not just a Beaver thing.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 10:46 PM (sAmhv)

99 Good evening, 'ettes and 'rons of the Horde!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 02, 2025 10:46 PM (v23vE)

100 100!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 02, 2025 10:47 PM (v23vE)

101 buffs fingernails after nailing comment #100

Still got it!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 02, 2025 10:47 PM (v23vE)

102 Sousa? My dad played the Sousaphone in the band at Staunton Military Academy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 10:47 PM (XeU6L)

103 Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 02, 2025 10:47 PM (v23vE)

I see Jimmy packed it in.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 10:47 PM (0eaVi)

104 >>> I think a fully armed A-10 could take down a T.Rex, mainly by staying out of the reach of it’s tiny little arms, but also it’s big toothy jaw!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Astounding Internet Trivia

Despite being designed as a tank killing monster with its 30mm cannon, the A-10 has no documented kills of a single tank.

Common off-the-shelf UAVs with barely a 2lb payload can kill an main battle tank within a 5 mile radius just by being there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

105 100 100!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 02, 2025 10:47 PM
***
Bang. Well done.

Posted by: TRex at July 02, 2025 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

106 54 We should have a July 2-4 holiday. 3 days festival.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
People in my neighborhood are already setting off fireworks.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 02, 2025 10:49 PM (0Htd1)

107
John Philip Sousa was more than just his marches. He also wrote 15 operettas and a lovely overture. He was an author. He was also among the finest trapshooters of his day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 10:49 PM (/HVsR)

108 My dad played the Sousaphone in the band at Staunton Military Academy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 10:47 PM (XeU6L)

You had to be rich to play the Sousaphone. Took a dime each time you used it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)

109 I also saw this morning that DJG is dead. Very disturbing for me, and sad. He reminded me a great deal of my own dad.

Prayers for his family. May the winds follow them, and the sun be on their faces.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 10:49 PM (BI5O2)

110 Well played Schnorflepuppy! Will note that in your very thin permanent record!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at July 02, 2025 10:50 PM (irahp)

111 Despite being designed as a tank killing monster with its 30mm cannon, the A-10 has no documented kills of a single tank.

Common off-the-shelf UAVs with barely a 2lb payload can kill an main battle tank within a 5 mile radius just by being there.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

But you should keep the A-10 around, just in case you have an infestation of rogue T-Rexes.

Posted by: Ancient Mammal A-10 Pilots at July 02, 2025 10:51 PM (r6SF4)

112 Nice top pic, TRex.

I have spent unpleasant hours in the Field of Constipation myself, FWIW.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 10:52 PM (muwun)

113 69 Do they still play Sousa marches at parades these days or is it all mariarchi bands, Irish steppers and whatever the rap music break dancing yutes are doing.
Don't get to many parades anymore.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 02, 2025 10:30 PM (n4GiU)

Trump needs to issue an Executive Order that every person in the United States and its Territories is required to listen to Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" at least once each and every day.

https://youtu.be/a-7XWhyvIpE

Posted by: Gref at July 02, 2025 10:52 PM (aBgBM)

114 Hmm..
"Vlasic Pickle Balls Dill Pickle Flavored Corn Puffs"

Yes, I'd try them.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 10:53 PM (rdVOm)

115 People in my neighborhood are already setting off fireworks.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 02, 2025 10:49 PM (0Htd1)

Festivities start June 28th ish in my area. And usually go into the 5th or even 6th.

We lurve our fireworks.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:53 PM (nwGCR)

116 Hello! Big dilemma- I am closed the 4th. Should I do Americana tomorrow or Saturday? It’s past my bedtime so I need horde advice as I am too tired to make such big decisions.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 10:53 PM (p4NUW)

117
Ha! Top 10 commenter!

*lights cigar*
*tosses match over shoulder*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 10:53 PM (/HVsR)

118 But you should keep the A-10 around, just in case you have an infestation of rogue T-Rexes.
Posted by: Ancient Mammal A-10 Pilots at July 02, 2025 10:51 PM
***
What happens if the TRexes have A-10s of their own?

Posted by: TRex at July 02, 2025 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

119 An SPF 15 sunscreen blocks 93% of UVB radiation, and SPF 30 blocks 97%. After that, the difference in protection is small. SPF 50 blocks 98%, and SPF 100 stops 99% of UVB rays from reaching your skin.

--
SPF 30 passes 3% vs SPF 15 7% 2.3x as effective
SPF 50 passes 2% vs SPF 15 7%. 3.5x as effective
SPF 100 passes 1% vs SPF 15 7%. 7x as effective

SPF 100 3x as effective as SPF 30. 3 is a small number.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 02, 2025 10:54 PM (MX0bI)

120 Sousa? My dad played the Sousaphone in the band at Staunton Military Academy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 10:47 PM (XeU6L)

Paging Mr. J.P. Sousa...

Mr. J.P. Sousa, please pick up the white courtesy sousaphone.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 10:56 PM (muwun)

121 So the BBB failed ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:56 PM (VE6XX)

122 SPF 100 3x as effective as SPF 30. 3 is a small number.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 02, 2025 10:54 PM
***
Sounds perilously close to math.

Posted by: TRex at July 02, 2025 10:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

123 Hello! Big dilemma- I am closed the 4th. Should I do Americana tomorrow or Saturday? It’s past my bedtime so I need horde advice as I am too tired to make such big decisions.
Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 10:53 PM (p4NUW)

Hoist an ISIS flag. It'll get you a whole new demographic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 10:56 PM (BI5O2)

124 "If the name Mansour Ojjeh means something to you, you will appreciate the sale of 19 McLarens from his estate. If you don't recognize the name, take my word that the person had an outsized role in automotive history."

I never heard of him, so I looked him up. You're right, he was legendary in the world of autos. And watches as well; he owned TAG-Heuer. Wow. Died surprisingly young.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 02, 2025 10:57 PM (IJqjd)

125 > 27 Never heard of a spaghetti fork. But that would be helpful for sure.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:15 PM (nwGCR)

Yes, the others mostly look like lah-di-dah bullshit, but that one actually looks useful.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 10:57 PM (qpyNK)

126 11 I was minding my own business in 1975, and suddenly it’s 50 years later!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:07 PM (SEFV4

Oh, glad you reminded me, tomorrow is the Mrs and my 50th anniversary. Always thought the day before Independent Day was a good day

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2025 10:57 PM (8I4hW)

127 I learned this today. Now you have to learn it too.

>>@Super70sSports

>>Barry Manilow wrote “Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm is There,” “I’m Stuck on Band-Aid Brand Because Band-Aid’s Stuck on Me,” and “You Deserve a Break Today at McDonald’s.”

>>I felt you should know this.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 10:58 PM (viF8m)

128 Sounds perilously close to math.

Posted by: TRex

You're right, I'm overthinking this. SPF factors are based on time-to-sunburn. The numbers mean what they frickin' mean.

Percents are just a way to get confused.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 02, 2025 10:58 PM (MX0bI)

129 Fork list is incomplete.

No "fondue" fork!

I am disappoint.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 10:58 PM (rdVOm)

130 osted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 10:58 PM (viF8m)

So. is the BBB dead ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:59 PM (VE6XX)

131 Oh, glad you reminded me, tomorrow is the Mrs and my 50th anniversary. Always thought the day before Independent Day was a good day
Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2025 10:57 PM (8I4hW)/i]

I only hope that you have an extra-powerful HEPA vacuum cleaner to present to her for the sacred occasion.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 10:59 PM (muwun)

132
Javems!!

Congratulations!!!

Posted by: four seasons at July 02, 2025 10:59 PM (3ek7K)

133 Barry Manilow wrote “Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm is There,” “I’m Stuck on Band-Aid Brand Because Band-Aid’s Stuck on Me,” and “You Deserve a Break Today at McDonald’s.”

All is forgiven, for he also left posterity with the tragic tale of Lola. She was a showgirl.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 11:00 PM (muwun)

134 A guy got shitfaced drunk and blacked out.

Woke up the next morning, couldn't remember where he'd left his car. The only thing he could remember is that the last bar had gold-plated toilets.

He started calling every bar in the book. "Nope, no gold-plated toilets here." "Nope." "Nope." "No, sorry."

Last call: the bar guy yells out "Hey Bob, it's the guy who pissed in your tuba."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 11:00 PM (qpyNK)

135 Saw a dumb click-bait thing on my startup page: MASH Guest Stars before they were famous. The picture was Ron Howard. Scuse me, he was already pretty friggin' famous. Hello! Village of the Giants, you guys!!?? Gawwwll!

Posted by: Pug Mahon Strangely Bothered By Odd Things at July 02, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)

136 Fork list is incomplete.

No "fondue" fork!

I am disappoint.
Posted by: JQ

Pitch Fork
Manure Fork

Both missing

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 11:00 PM (/lPRQ)

137 >>> 116 Hello! Big dilemma- I am closed the 4th. Should I do Americana tomorrow or Saturday? It’s past my bedtime so I need horde advice as I am too tired to make such big decisions.
Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 10:53 PM (p4NUW)

Yes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 11:01 PM (ULPxl)

138 Wow, Javems, that's awesome!

Congratulations to you both!

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm)

139 Tuning Fork

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)

140 130 osted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 10:58 PM (viF8m)

So. is the BBB dead ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:59 PM (VE6XX)

Mostly dead. Which means that it's a little bit alive.

Posted by: Rep. M. Max at July 02, 2025 11:01 PM (IJqjd)

141 Half the crap in most sunscreens is carcinogenic. Stay outta the Sun.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 11:02 PM (KAi1n)

142 Fork list is incomplete.

No "fondue" fork!

I am disappoint.
Posted by: JQ
---
Or gey....

Posted by: lin-duh at July 02, 2025 11:02 PM (VCgbV)

143 Congrats, Javems!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 11:02 PM (qpyNK)

144 Buying cars to NOT put miles on them, to not enjoy them for what they were designed such as those McLarens and other supercars or other "collector" cars, unless that car is absolutely one of only one remaining, is just pure foolishness. No, paintjob ain't enough. Take extraordinary care of it/them, but drive the damn things.

Posted by: Mr Butterworth at July 02, 2025 11:02 PM (wDYPJ)

145 I have mixed feelings about this video, but sharing in the name of knowledge and science

I watched it and felt empathetic pain (which is more intense than pathetic pain) for your species, sir.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 02, 2025 11:03 PM (v23vE)

146 137
Yes.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Thank you for this guidance. 😂

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 11:03 PM (pZEOD)

147 Mansour Ojjeh

------

Feh. The well heeled, freewheeling son of a gun-running Arab potentate.

Good riddance.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 11:03 PM (BI5O2)

148 This is what the intertubes tell me.

The A-10's first use in conflict was during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, though A-10s did claim 900 tanks destroyed, they were actually outperformed by F-111 Aardvarks, which destroyed 1500 with their laser guided bombs.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:03 PM (VofaG)

149 >>> 141 Half the crap in most sunscreens is carcinogenic. Stay outta the Sun.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 11:02 PM (KAi1n)

Wear long-sleeved shirts and large floppy hats (but not as big as Carol Burnett's hats in Fresno).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 11:03 PM (ULPxl)

150 Oh, glad you reminded me, tomorrow is the Mrs and my 50th anniversary. Always thought the day before Independent Day was a good day
Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2025 10:57 PM (8I4hW)

Congratulations, Javems!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 11:04 PM (5j2Bo)

151 John Dean graduated from Staunton Military Academy, proof that no matter how respectable the environment there is always
A SHITWEASEL.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 11:04 PM (K91ZZ)

152 >>So. is the BBB dead ?

No. We're at the bargaining stage.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 11:05 PM (viF8m)

153 >>> 146 137
==
Thank you for this guidance. 😂
Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 11:03 PM (pZEOD)

Embrace the power of "and"!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 11:05 PM (ULPxl)

154 Olive fork. Has a plunger on the top to push said olive off of the tines. I want one for Christmas.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Strangely Bothered By Odd Things at July 02, 2025 11:05 PM (0aYVJ)

155 Half the crap in most sunscreens is carcinogenic. Stay outta the Sun.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 11:02 PM (KAi1n)

Wear long-sleeved shirts and large floppy hats (but not as big as Carol Burnett's hats in Fresno).
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Banana hammock and cocoa butter.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 11:05 PM (/lPRQ)

156 That said, if TRex the cob were to bring a 577 Tyrannosaur (one of the 24 in existence) to the TXMoMe rifle range, all might be forgiven...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 02, 2025 11:06 PM (v23vE)

157 I felt you should know this.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 10:58 PM (viF8m)

Already knew that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 11:06 PM (0eaVi)

158 Trump needs to issue an Executive Order that every person in the United States and its Territories is required to listen to Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" at least once each and every day.

https://youtu.be/a-7XWhyvIpE

Posted by: Gref

Or go see a college football game. I know our band plays it every time, and I doubt they're the only ones.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at July 02, 2025 11:07 PM (4DY5T)

159 But you should keep the A-10 around, just in case you have an infestation of rogue T-Rexes.

Posted by: Ancient Mammal A-10 Pilots at July 02, 2025 10:51 PM

I think Grateful - the range bag lady has an A-10 at the top of her "gun wishlist".

At the last TXMoMe I distinctly heard her muttering something about "a T-Rex infestation"!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 11:07 PM (HlyYF)

160 Piper
Americana on Thursday. On Saturday far too many of your students won't want any reminders of the poor decisions they made while under the influence of too many beers and burnt hotdogs.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 11:07 PM (r6SF4)

161 If I am still around in 2050, I'll be 84.

Doubt we'll have Jetson-mobiles by then.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Strangely Bothered By Odd Things at July 02, 2025 11:07 PM (0aYVJ)

162 83) mindful
At least being normal is one thing I will never have to worry about. Abnormal, maybe paranormal on a good day, but not normal-normal.

Normal is just a setting on your dryer.
Saw that somewhere years ago. So true.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 02, 2025 11:07 PM (Eo96p)

163 My kitty is demanding play time...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 11:08 PM (ULPxl)

164 One consequence of using so much sunscreen is people are not getting enough vitamin D, even in summer! You’ve got to get some sunlight, or you won’t get your vitamin D (unless you supplement!).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 11:08 PM (SEFV4)

165 A pleasant evening to all.

I enjoyed the Sousa, TRex, thanks.

Congrats, Javems!

Off to visit grandchildren 1, 2, & 5 again tomorrow. Joy!

Next month I begin babysitting grandchildren 3 & 4 full time. More joy!

My morning wake-up time, though, will be a couple hours earlier than it has been. I'm using July as the month to gradually prepare for a different sleep schedule, so that will cut the ONT out of my routine, sadly.

I hope to find some time to read and maybe comment on more of the daytime threads between my babysitting and teaching hours.

Be blessed, horde. See you around.

Posted by: Official Delurker: The Grandparenting Chronicles at July 02, 2025 11:08 PM (F73yU)

166 The best, by far, college team debater i ever saw was a guy from UCLA named John Dean. I wish there were video of his performances. You could understand every word when he gutspread and he would modulate his voice (volume and speed) to make points and for dramatic effect. Kind of like the Federal Express guy.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 11:09 PM (KAi1n)

167 161 If I am still around in 2050, I'll be 84.

--------

Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you.

Posted by: Zager & Evans at July 02, 2025 11:09 PM (JkO4W)

168 Twenty one clicks of good Aardvarks pics.

https://tinyurl.com/4h7hcffw

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 11:09 PM (K91ZZ)

169 > 151 John Dean graduated from Staunton Military Academy
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 11:04 PM (K91ZZ)

Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Lost John Dean".

Not the same one, but your post reminded me of it.

Old-timey mountain music.

https://tinyurl.com/553shrcx

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 11:09 PM (qpyNK)

170 55 Were there cherry trees in the time of the T.Rex?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:25 PM (SEFV4)

I know grass had not developed yet, which is probably for the best, as TRex would have difficulty with a lawn mower.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 02, 2025 11:10 PM (Lxvu0)

171 Banana hammock and cocoa butter.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

---

Any suggestions for a soundtrack?

Posted by: Bombadil at July 02, 2025 11:11 PM (MX0bI)

172 There was an article yesterday on not enough sun leads to all kinds of diseases and cancer too. How people in England are irradiating their blood to cleanse themselves of not getting enough sun.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 11:12 PM (K91ZZ)

173 John Dean graduated from Staunton Military Academy
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 11:04 PM (K91ZZ)

He wasn’t a Baird Man?

HooAh

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:12 PM (VofaG)

174 John Dean. One of history's prominent scumbags. He oozed sleaze.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 11:13 PM (BI5O2)

175 Marlin used to rate their big game rifles with little icons of the animals for which they were suited.

One caliber (I think the .45-70) was rated for T. Rex.

Sadly, the new owners (Sturm, Ruger) have no sense of humor and got rid of that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 11:13 PM (qpyNK)

176 >>Barry Manilow wrote “Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm is There,” “I’m Stuck on Band-Aid Brand Because Band-Aid’s Stuck on Me,” and “You Deserve a Break Today at McDonald’s.”

>>I felt you should know this.
Posted by: JackStraw
------------------

If I could only teach the world to sing...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 11:14 PM (K91ZZ)

177 looks like the Colorado Rockies are losing

Posted by: gKWVE with news you can use at July 02, 2025 11:15 PM (gKWVE)

178 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExKCcndqK5c

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 11:15 PM (KAi1n)

179 Sorry, but McLarens are crap

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 11:15 PM (TgXbf)

180 Whoops. Forgot to go to bed. Glad I remembered.

G'nite, y'all. 💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - seriousishly at July 02, 2025 11:16 PM (OZEHh)

181 you won’t get your vitamin D (unless you supplement!).
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

2,000 - 4,000 IU/day depending on how much salmon or tuna I eat.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 11:16 PM (KAi1n)

182 looks like the Colorado Rockies are losing

-----

In related news, tomorrow's sun will rise from the East.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 11:16 PM (BI5O2)

183 Well, it's only 10:15 here, but I am sleepy. Going to get an early one. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 11:17 PM (5j2Bo)

184 116 Hello! Big dilemma- I am closed the 4th. Should I do Americana tomorrow or Saturday? It’s past my bedtime so I need horde advice as I am too tired to make such big decisions.
Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 10:53 PM (p4NUW)

BOTH!

Posted by: tankdemon at July 02, 2025 11:18 PM (Lxvu0)

185 55 Were there cherry trees in the time of the T.Rex?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:25 PM

Angiosperms (flowering plants) appeared in the Late Cretaceous, fairly close to the appearance of the T-Rex.

Therefore, deciduous trees and T-Rex co-existed.

(The rise of angiosperms appears to be coeval with the rise of bees. A LOT of evolution worked that way!)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 11:18 PM (HlyYF)

186
The Stars and Stripes Forever, transcribed and performed by Vladimir Horowitz.

https://youtu.be/rAZ2I08CkP8

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 11:18 PM (/HVsR)

187 John Dean's wife was teh hawt

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2025 11:19 PM (RIvkX)

188 looks like the Colorado Rockies are losing
Posted by: gKWVE with news you can use at July 02, 2025 11:15 PM (gKWVE)

I reckon the Boise Hawks could take them 3 games out of 5. Maybe sweep.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Strangely Bothered By Odd Things at July 02, 2025 11:19 PM (0aYVJ)

189 John Dean's wife was teh hawt
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2025 11:19 PM (RIvkX)

Was that the former prostitute ?

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:20 PM (VofaG)

190 177 looks like the Colorado Rockies are losing

Posted by: gKWVE with news you can use at July 02, 2025 11:15 PM

If you had bet against the Rockies every game this season, I wonder how much money you would be up right now?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 11:20 PM (HlyYF)

191 Other fatal contretemps for a Regency novel

Annoying the guard dogs at the hermit-like neighbor's estate
Tripping over the red ball in the aftermath of a cataclysmically wild carom in a game of one cushion billiards
Getting caught with the fifth queen in a high stakes game of chemin de fer
Rotten cellar stairs
Loose cast-iron gates / Norman crenelations
Gypsies
Chance encounter with a red deer while stealing across his lordships deer park
running off with the bag of red herring as a lark during fox season
climbing seamounts to harvest Guillemont eggs
A tragic collapse of a bank of coke in the coal cellar at the malting plant
Being run down by a draft horse in broad daylight
Being imperious and rude to a charcoal burner while hiking cross-country in the greenwood
climbing a disintegrating thatch roof
Deeper experiments with Leyden jars and Galvanic forces
Auntie's henbane tea
Hot air ballooning
Falling into the pit during a particularly exciting bear-baiting
Sailing around Jersey Island single handedly on a bet

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 11:20 PM (D7oie)

192 Thanks all. We've been through some tough times and some bad times. She stuck with me through them all. I'm a lucky guy.

Posted by: javems at July 02, 2025 11:21 PM (8I4hW)

193 I'm not sure, but I think the Monfort brothers might be the very worst owners in the history of pro athletics.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 11:21 PM (BI5O2)

194 On this day in 1863:

Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Devil's Den, the Peach Orchard. Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill.

On July 3rd in 1863:

Culp's Hill again...Cemetery Ridge, and Pickett's Charge.

Posted by: Orson at July 02, 2025 11:22 PM (dIske)

195 Shall I go find a cat? Or just wait for the cat distribution system? Or perhaps a guinea pig? I know nothing of guinea pigs.

I'm allergic to dogs and don't want to pick up their poop. Also, I want a cat that doesn't poop.

Do guinea pigs poop?

Posted by: Persnickety at July 02, 2025 11:22 PM (jJdyX)

196 >>Sorry, but McLarens are crap

Saw one in town today. How are they crap?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 11:23 PM (viF8m)

197 Much of America is so far north that getting adequate vitamin D is not really possible. Blood test is the only way to be certain even supplements are sufficient. Don’t wait for Winter time to take D supplements, they are a year round regimen..

Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 11:23 PM (2OKI5)

198 Was that the former prostitute ?
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:20 PM (VofaG)
______________________________

Former? Heh.

Posted by: G. Gordon Liddy at July 02, 2025 11:24 PM (dIske)

199 19-66. that's not very good, is it?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 11:24 PM (gKWVE)

Wednesday Week Cafe

Eltz Castle, built AD 1157

Grumpy cat will not be ignored.

Mama dog is so proud.

Matching munchers.

Husky and owl have quick make-out sesh.

Horses playing some game that we humans will never understand.

The enchanted couch.

Rescuing a stray puppy wandering in the street.

Happy dog hops down the street.

A bear and tiger say Love Is Love, H8rz.

Grandma is a magician. She just conjured a divorce proceeding.

Elephant's got some shake with those fries.

Claws.

Giving a good boy his birthday pinata.

Puppy found wounded and dying in the street due to being run over by a car is nursed back to life. The first images are tough but it gets a lot better from there.

Trying to save plushie after a horrible attackpic.twitter.com/Rv6S0zNDso
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 28, 2025

Mother cat brings her kittens to the dog for babysitting when she needs a little break..🐈🐾🐶😍 pic.twitter.com/i9JZvzyUQn
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) June 26, 2025

Elephant asks for a snack

pic.twitter.com/RU3LLT8NVz
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) June 28, 2025

When dogs make babies laugh..🐕🐾👶😊❤️ pic.twitter.com/acGC9FGBWH
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) June 24, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 Cafe

Posted by: Beartooth at July 02, 2025 07:33 PM (8wKVG)

2 Eltz Castle, built AD 1157
==

I like it ! How much ??

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 07:35 PM (g47mK)

3 Old castles =/= fiber optic cables.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:35 PM (u82oZ)

4 Watching puppy recover vid. Damn onions again...

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 07:37 PM (tubbA)

5 I take it that elephants aren't keen on sharing.

Posted by: Paco at July 02, 2025 07:37 PM (mADJX)

6 I don't know that I've ever seen an elephant sashay before.

Posted by: Paco at July 02, 2025 07:39 PM (mADJX)

7 Old castles =/= fiber optic cables.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:35 PM (u82oZ)

Probably could get Starlink.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:39 PM (d8x+f)

8 The horse video. That was a dominance move. The second squeal and the body shift was " I will kick your ass"

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:42 PM (HFcKg)

9 For a subset of the Gub Thread readers, Anderson Manufacturing has closed up shop.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

10 Eltz Castle, built AD 1157
______
Looks as if it was rebuilt after 1800 or so. Those spires can't be original to the 12th C.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (od0dV)

11 We'll see how grandma likes it when she puts her false teeth in tomorrow and finds out they've been soaking over night in kerosene.

Posted by: Paco at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (mADJX)

12 are horses smart ?

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (g47mK)

13 If that guy gave the elephant his unpeeled banana then I bet the elephant wouldn't like bananas with the peels anymore.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (eb5mD)

14 Oh, and those were some really common ( ugly) headed horses.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:44 PM (HFcKg)

15 Thanks Clyde for the Twitter link in the prior thread.

I am reminded of:
"I will make justice the plumbline and righteousness the plumb-bob".

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:44 PM (d8x+f)

16
Elephant eating bananas. Labels and all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 07:44 PM (WEm1d)

17 The horse video. That was a dominance move. The second squeal and the body shift was " I will kick your ass"
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:42 PM

So, a boss move?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:45 PM (0sNs1)

18 runner, yes they are.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:45 PM (HFcKg)

19 Haha, plushie surgery. At my house, it's squeaker replacement. Sarge watches intently!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 02, 2025 07:45 PM (h7ZuX)

20 are horses smart ?
Posted by: runner

Quit yer naging.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 07:46 PM (H7X8V)

21 Duncanthrax, exactly what it was.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:46 PM (HFcKg)

22 Elephant eating bananas. Labels and all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 07:44 PM (WEm1d)

Chiquita won't mind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:46 PM (d8x+f)

23
Owl to puppy: "Comrade, please do not forget this act of friendship when you come to power."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 07:47 PM (WEm1d)

24 See, you take Circus jobs away from elephants and next thing you know, they're on the streets begging for food, soon, they're going to be knocking over Bodega's and 7/11's.

Book it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 07:47 PM (XV/Pl)

25 Baby laughs are the very best sound.

Posted by: huerfano at July 02, 2025 07:48 PM (n2swS)

26 Got to see something pretty cool this afternoon. Mrs. D was getting some dirt from the dirt pile, and exposed two very small bluish eggs. She brought them over, and I said my best guess was lizard eggs, and let's put them back.

While doing so, we found 4 more in the clutch, and two of them hatched while we watched, with two baby, still wet, lizards running off.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:48 PM (0sNs1)

27 huerfano , highly agree.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:49 PM (HFcKg)

28 When an elephant wants a snack, you best give him a snack....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 07:50 PM (IBQGV)

29 See, you take Circus jobs away from elephants and next thing you know, they're on the streets begging for food, soon, they're going to be knocking over Bodega's and 7/11's.

Book it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 07:47 PM (XV/Pl)
----
Ace did post a video of an elephant holding up a convenience store not that long ago...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 07:51 PM (IBQGV)

30 12 My wife, a fan of thoroughbred horse racing, says that the racehorses have about the intelligence of a human 5-year old.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 07:51 PM (77rzZ)

31 "Mate, yer moat's all squiffy!"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 07:51 PM (mlg/3)

32 Ace is just begging for Wesley to show up to inform us that the 'elephant with a shake' is really a loxodont, not an elephant.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:52 PM (0sNs1)

33 Old castles =/= fiber optic cables.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Orr, yer just not properly motivated to explore ye old tunnels.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 07:52 PM (mlg/3)

34 Bulg, interesting. What's the basis for that conclusion?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:53 PM (HFcKg)

35 @29

>>Ace did post a video of an elephant holding up a convenience store not that long ago...

See, it's real, you take away an elephants ability to make it in the world and they are straight up going take what they need to survive.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 07:53 PM (XV/Pl)

36 Eltz Castle, built AD 1157
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AKA - Swamp Castle #3 right before it burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 07:55 PM (IBQGV)

37 19 Haha, plushie surgery. At my house, it's squeaker replacement. Sarge watches intently!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 02, 2025 07:45 PM (h7ZuX)

The number of times I had to do surgery on my son's stuffies after the dogs got at them....

We always used novocaine. Although one time he hypnotized one of them first.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:55 PM (1Gsou)

38 >>>Wednesday Week Cafe

Wednesday week?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 02, 2025 07:55 PM (p4nXC)

39 I couldn’t listen to the babies laugh.

That song was played at a coworker’s son’s funeral. He was 17. I had my youngest son with me. I felt horribly guilty for bringing him. But, I couldn’t have been there alone.

She walked up to me and hugged me and then hugged my son and told him she loved him.

Ugh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 07:56 PM (mT+6a)

40 34 The basis is my wife. Who shall not be questioned. She’s read it somewhere, I’m sure.

Don’t get me wrong. She thinks that horses are smart enough.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 07:56 PM (77rzZ)

41 39 I’m sorry, Nurse.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 07:58 PM (77rzZ)

42 Bulg, does your wife ride?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:59 PM (HFcKg)

43 The castle pic reminds me there's a kinda fun hgtv show called Castle Impossible. A young couple on a shoestring budget restoring a rundown French Chateau that the wife inherited from her grandpa.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 02, 2025 08:00 PM (DIXP3)

44 42 She used to, as a girl.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:00 PM (77rzZ)

45 Are horses smarter than dogs? In general, I mean.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

46 fd, no.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:01 PM (HFcKg)

47 Nurse, you and I lock horns here a lot, it seems, but you do seem to have been a wonderful mother, and a kind and compassionate person overall.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:02 PM (77rzZ)

48 We always used novocaine. Although one time he hypnotized one of them first.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Cute!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 02, 2025 08:02 PM (h7ZuX)

49 >> Happy elephant

"Behaviors associated with musth include walking with a high and swinging head,..."

If you look close you can see the liquid dripping down his face as he walks past.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 02, 2025 08:02 PM (+oHZt)

50 Are horses smarter than dogs? In general, I mean.
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

I dunno. Ajax was smarter than some employees I've had.

Reef tries hard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 08:02 PM (d8x+f)

51 Ben Had once said that horses get spooked easily. Dogs are not like that.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:03 PM (g47mK)

52 Nurse, you and I lock horns here a lot, it seems, but you do seem to have been a wonderful mother, and a kind and compassionate person overall.
Posted by: Bulg

Goodness Bulg, don't suck up to her. Nurse hates that!!

LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:03 PM (H7X8V)

53 Bulg,
Just like family.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 08:03 PM (mT+6a)

54 Virginia Morons can now enjoy Buc-ees, courtesy of their latest store, located right off I-81 in Rockingham County.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:03 PM (0sNs1)

55 I knew a rider who was injured, because the horse got spooked by something. Ran into a tree.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:04 PM (g47mK)

56 Horse are a fight or flight animal choosing flight as the first option. The concept of breaking horses is long past.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:05 PM (HFcKg)

57 I don't have a lot of experience with horses. I expect they are smart at horse stuff. When I lived in the haunted farmhouse there was a horse kept in the pasture behind the house and it was smart enough to know when I was bringing a treat.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:06 PM (vFG9F)

58 For a subset of the Gub Thread readers, Anderson Manufacturing has closed up shop.

Could be mistaken but I thought I saw somewhere a couple of weeks ago that they had been acquired by somebody.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 08:06 PM (/y8xj)

59 re horses smart ?
Posted by: runner

Quit yer naging.
Posted by: Tonypete
===
But they're awful typists.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 02, 2025 08:07 PM (2yoRf)

60 Anything Eltz tonight, ace??

Posted by: andycanuck at July 02, 2025 08:07 PM (2yoRf)

61 To think that horses was all people had for transportation, until horseless carriages came along.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:08 PM (g47mK)

62
Eltz Castle seems to be a popular tourist attraction. I always feel ripped off by tours of castles, palaces, Queen Marys, etc. They're never immersive experiences, just stay behind the red velvet rope and look at our very fake bedroom tableau but don't touch. I always want to run around in every single room and jump on the beds. Lean out the turret. Lower the drawbridge. But I never get to.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 08:08 PM (WEm1d)

63 53 Just like family.

🙂

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:08 PM (77rzZ)

64 1 human year is four horse years. At 3 years old there are horse that are competing for million dollar prizes.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:09 PM (HFcKg)

65 It’s amazing how some songs can bring such emotion.

Jeepers. I wasn’t expecting that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 08:09 PM (mT+6a)

66 For a subset of the Gub Thread readers, Anderson Manufacturing has closed up shop.

Could be mistaken but I thought I saw somewhere a couple of weeks ago that they had been acquired by somebody.
Posted by: Oddbob

Sold to Sturm, Ruger & Company.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:09 PM (H7X8V)

67 61 Da Fuq?
— boats

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:09 PM (77rzZ)

68 So another day of #winning?
I'm not tired of it, we should do more #winning.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 08:10 PM (gKWVE)

69 Could be mistaken but I thought I saw somewhere a couple of weeks ago that they had been acquired by somebody.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 08:06 PM

They sold to Ruger.

From Anderson, "With the sale now complete, the Anderson brand has been discontinued, and Anderson products will no longer be offered. As a result, warranty services on Anderson firearms, parts, and accessories are no longer available."

As for Ruger, the company issued a statement clarifying that it had no intention of continuing the legacy brand or catalog from its latest acquisition. Instead, the "strategic purchase" that includes Anderson's manufacturing facility and machinery will provide Ruger "the opportunity to work with a skilled and experienced workforce, strengthening its production capabilities and expanding its product offerings."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:11 PM (0sNs1)

70 Horses? Who needs those?
— Santa

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:11 PM (77rzZ)

71 How do you know when a baby is safe with your dog? Dog lover here.

Teared up at the sight of the injured puppy.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 02, 2025 08:12 PM (scrlR)

72 Maybe the foundation of that castle dates from 1157, but no way they could build the rest of that in the 12th century.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:12 PM (TgXbf)

73 Sold to Sturm, Ruger & Company.

I wonder why. Offhand I can't think of much that Anderson would add to the portfolio except manufacturing capacity. And a cool logo I guess.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 08:13 PM (/y8xj)

74 Ears pinned back=hold on and dig in those heels

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 08:13 PM (DhyYx)

75 Horses have housed, clothed and fed me for 57 years. I owe them alot.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:13 PM (HFcKg)

76 1 human year is four horse years. At 3 years old there are horse that are competing for million dollar prizes.
Posted by: Ben Had
*******
That three year old, Secretariat, still has not been beat over 50 years later.

Posted by: Cosda at July 02, 2025 08:14 PM (EO9/2)

77 There is still time to insert something in the BBB to close the loophole that feckless and arrogant ACB left in the ruling.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:14 PM (g47mK)

78 I wonder why. Offhand I can't think of much that Anderson would add to the portfolio except manufacturing capacity. And a cool logo I guess.
Posted by: Oddbob

It's my understanding that Strum wanted the manufacturing assets only. They are retiring all Anderson product offerings.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:15 PM (H7X8V)

79 Get to it House of Representatives!!

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:15 PM (g47mK)

80 Medieval nobleman:

“I’m gonna build me castle here, or Eltz!”

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:15 PM (77rzZ)

81 For a subset of the Gub Thread readers, Anderson Manufacturing has closed up shop.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

They were bought by Ruger. My money is on Ruger will team up with Magpul and start making the RXM-15 rifle. Yes, Ruger already makes a MSR, but Ruger has always been absolutely ruthless about dropping models for more profitable ones.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 08:15 PM (r6SF4)

82 >>I knew a rider who was injured, because the horse got spooked by something. Ran into a tree.

I know someone who has been thrown off multiple horses because they knew the guy sitting on their back was a moron.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:16 PM (viF8m)

83 Goodness Bulg, don't suck up to her. Nurse hates that!!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:03 PM

You know what nurse loves? The sound of woodpeckers woodpecking.

Work on your imitation of that, and watch nurse swoon!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:17 PM (0sNs1)

84 JackStraw, you were a good son to your Mom.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:18 PM (HFcKg)

85 I would prefer, in general, to stay away from horses. Any animal that can kick me to death is to be avoided.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:19 PM (77rzZ)

86 nurse helped me out of a dilemma today and I am most grateful.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:19 PM (HFcKg)

87 " To think that horses was all people had for transportation, until horseless carriages came along.
Posted by: runner "

I have thought about that. People treated their horses like we do our cars and trucks nowadays. Some were daily drivers, some pampered sports cars, others used as tractors or to pull vans and wagons and such. Some were well treated and maintained, others not so much and even abused and neglected. And most were scrapped at the end of their run, often with little or no remorse because they were just tools that had worn out.

One thing that is different about motorized vehicles is they last longer. The way we use them is not that different though.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)

88 It is always nice to ride by the farms here and see the new Colts running and bouncing around like crazy.

They do remind you of puppies that way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 08:21 PM (zZu0s)

89 nurse helped me out of a dilemma today and I am most grateful.
Posted by: Ben Had

Do I need to bring a shovel?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:21 PM (H7X8V)

90 One day I’m gonna quit all this shit, get a nice Appaloosa and go back to riding fences or guiding.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 08:22 PM (DhyYx)

91 >>JackStraw, you were a good son to your Mom.

Still working on it, Ben Had.

But I had a big advantage over most. I have a great mom.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:22 PM (viF8m)

92 Ben Had!

❤️

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 08:22 PM (mT+6a)

93 Do I need to bring a shovel?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:21 PM (H7X8V)

Downside to horses- not hogs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

94 I wonder why. Offhand I can't think of much that Anderson would add to the portfolio except manufacturing capacity. And a cool logo I guess.
Posted by: Oddbob

It's my understanding that Strum wanted the manufacturing assets only. They are retiring all Anderson product offerings.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:15 PM (H7X8V)
——
I know nothing about this deal. But I do know about m&a. If Ruger is closing the acquired brand, then the the object for them was manufacturing, real estate/leases, licenses, IP, sales channels, etc.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:23 PM (TgXbf)

95 Good evening all!
Has the bill passed? Has PDT threatened to shoot individual Congressmen out of a cannon yet?

Posted by: Jmel at July 02, 2025 08:23 PM (bVhJi)

96 "Be a Man among Men on a Morgan."

-- Morgan Horse Breeding Association

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:23 PM (0sNs1)

97 When we were raising lots of foals, evening drink time was watching them playing in the pasture.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:23 PM (HFcKg)

98 One thing that is different about motorized vehicles is they last longer. The way we use them is not that different though.
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)

yes...but a motorized vehicle can't give birth to a motorized vehicle calf.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:24 PM (g47mK)

99 If you don't have the horse sense to know what's good for you, you'll never get the carrot.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 08:24 PM (a/G0f)

100 "-- Morgan Horse Breeding Association
Posted by: Duncanthrax "

Do Morgan horses have three legs?

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

101 As for Ruger, the company issued a statement clarifying that it had no intention of continuing the legacy brand or catalog from its latest acquisition. Instead, the "strategic purchase" that includes Anderson's manufacturing facility and machinery will provide Ruger "the opportunity to work with a skilled and experienced workforce, strengthening its production capabilities and expanding its product offerings."
Posted by: Dun

it is now having an exclusive offering of 10 round ars

Posted by: n at July 02, 2025 08:24 PM (tbTAT)

102 Mr. Ed defined what a horse could be for a generation of American youth.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:25 PM (0sNs1)

103 Has the bill passed?

==

I hope they put something in there to put a stop to the TROs and lawless wankers who are trying to prevent us from succeeding.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:25 PM (g47mK)

104 thing that is different about motorized vehicles is they last longer. The way we use them is not that different though.
Posted by: fd

is it right to suggest youve had sex, with another human, in a horse?

Posted by: n at July 02, 2025 08:26 PM (tbTAT)

105 "yes...but a motorized vehicle can't give birth to a motorized vehicle calf.
Posted by: runner"

True. We can't breed cars. I suppose that is a significant difference. To aquire an automobile requires trading your time or other assets.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:26 PM (vFG9F)

106 Do Morgan horses have three legs?
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:24 PM

They go Earp when they burp.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:26 PM (0sNs1)

107 I have no desire to ride a horse.

Yeah, I’m gonna put my life in the hands of a 2,000-lb. steppe beast. No thank you.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:27 PM (77rzZ)

108 >>Mr. Ed defined what a horse could be for a generation of American youth.

I don't know how to break this to you but that was a tv show.

Horses only talk on one night of the year.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:27 PM (viF8m)

109 "is it right to suggest youve had sex, with another human, in a horse?
Posted by: n"

Not me, but I would not be surprised if people have had sex ON a horse. Must be awkward for the horse though.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:29 PM (vFG9F)

110 I’m not a horse guy, but I can ride. Last ride was at 13,500 feet outside Quito in the Andes. It cost $5 and it included a long safety and practice session with the local wranglers. Oh wait — there was absolutely no safety or practice at all. You paid your $5, they gave you a horse. Off you go along a path that includes narrow winding between 200 foot cliff drops. Personal injury litigation ain’t a thing there.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:29 PM (TgXbf)

111 JackStraw, I don't know, these guys around here can voice their wants pretty clearly, or I have just gotten better at horse.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (HFcKg)

112 Horses are absolutely magnificent beasts. Except for the one who threw me in Cody and then tried to kick me.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (DhyYx)

113 I've heard barrel racers can stay on for a lot longer than 8 seconds, unlike bull riders.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1)

114 Yeah, I’m gonna put my life in the hands of a 2,000-lb. steppe beast. No thank you.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:27 PM (77rzZ)

It's not that bad. Beats walking. Kind of hands free driving before hands on driving was a thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (zZu0s)

115 >>>>>I knew a rider who was injured, because the horse got spooked by something. Ran into a tree.

I know someone who has been thrown off multiple horses because they knew the guy sitting on their back was a moron.

Posted by: JackStraw

>I was ejected from a horse when we crossed paths with a grizzly. The grizz bolted the other way because we were both scared shitless.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (a/G0f)

116 Cool Castle.
Internet says its been occupied by the same family since forever.

Make an interesting story how they managed the Nazi era - because they were full on members of that club or somehow remained neutral?
That and all the other turmoil of the last 800 years.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (/lPRQ)

117 My dad was kicked in the head by a horse named Xantippe. When he was three years old--my dad, not the horse. She was a nag, or so I was told.

I don't know if the horse knocked the sense into or out of my dad, to be honest.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:31 PM (1Gsou)

118 I don't know if the horse knocked the sense into or out of my dad, to be honest.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:31 PM

Possible use of and?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:32 PM (0sNs1)

119 Elric, as long you don't take your horses head out of the other horses tail.you are fine.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:32 PM (HFcKg)

120 "It's not that bad. Beats walking. Kind of hands free driving before hands on driving was a thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone"

I've been on a self driving horse. I had way more confidence in it than I would a self driving car.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)

121 Cool Castle.
Internet says its been occupied by the same family since forever.

==

No kidding! How much ???

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:33 PM (g47mK)

122 Self-driving mules will definitely keep you out of trouble.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:34 PM (0sNs1)

123 My great-uncle Bub would ride his horse into town (Laramie) and get smashed at the local watering hole, and the horse always brought him home. Cars don't perform that service.

Uncle Bub was the one who rode Steamboat, the horse shown on the Wyoming license plate. Nobody has ever said if he made 8 seconds or not, so I assume he did not. I suspect he tried more than once.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:34 PM (1Gsou)

124 👶🐶

How is dogs making babies laugh like boobs and beer?

🤔

❓

More proof that God loves us.

Posted by: mindful webworker - commenter ordinaire at July 02, 2025 08:34 PM (OZEHh)

125 107 I have no desire to ride a horse.

Yeah, I’m gonna put my life in the hands of a 2,000-lb. steppe beast. No thank you.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:27 PM (77rzZ)
——

It’s fun especially among gorgeous scenery, even for an urban guy like me. It’s almost like your Jungian archetype subconscious gets flashbacks to your ancient ancestors riding horses.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:34 PM (TgXbf)

126 really cool people could sleep on a horse

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK)

127 I've been on a self driving horse. I had way more confidence in it than I would a self driving car.
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 08:36 PM (zZu0s)

128 43 I think in one of the eps (I haven't seen yet) they clean the moat either fire.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 02, 2025 08:36 PM (DIXP3)

129 97 When we were raising lots of foals, evening drink time was watching them playing in the pasture.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:23 PM (HFcKg)

I bet that was one of the best times of your day!

Posted by: moki at July 02, 2025 08:36 PM (wLjpr)

130 My dad and his younger brother drove a two-horse team to mow the hay fields starting when my dad was about eight years old. His description of accidentally mowing a skunk is... graphic. They both caught hell for that, since a direct skunk spray to a horse can kill the horse. Or so I'm told.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:36 PM (1Gsou)

131 My great-uncle Bub would ride his horse into town (Laramie) and get smashed at the local watering hole, and the horse always brought him home. Cars don't perform that service.

Uncle Bub was the one who rode Steamboat, the horse shown on the Wyoming license plate. Nobody has ever said if he made 8 seconds or not, so I assume he did not. I suspect he tried more than once.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:34 PM (1Gsou)
——-

Same logo for Jackson Hole ski resort. I know it well.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:37 PM (TgXbf)

132 There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. Or some such thing.
They still call engines having horsepower.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:37 PM (HFcKg)

133 really cool people could sleep on a horse
Posted by: runner

Only a few years before my time 'Billy', our retired draft horse, would take Great Uncle Jake down to the bar, wait for him for hours and then bring him back home after he closed the place down. Jake would be damn near unconscious but Billy knew the way.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:39 PM (H7X8V)

134 The horse that almost killed me was named Demon. I should have known better. But I figured what the hell. When I got on the saddle my friend asked if I had any last wishes.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 08:39 PM (DhyYx)

135 moki, having palpated those foals at 20 days, foaling them outand them working with them to successfull show careers is a life I would never trade.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:40 PM (HFcKg)

136 >>>JackStraw, I don't know, these guys around here can voice their wants pretty clearly, or I have just gotten better at horse.

My mom had one I nicknamed Baby Huey because he was enormous and he used to stand with his head out of the stall with his tongue hanging out of the side of his mouth. He also took great joy in destroying his stall, fences, pretty much anything that offended him.

Not mean, just a child. And a chatty boy. I liked him a lot even if he was a pain the ass to clean up after.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:42 PM (viF8m)

137 Hi, friends!

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:42 PM (p4NUW)

138 Piper, I am sure you have a horse story ot two.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:43 PM (HFcKg)

139 135 moki, having palpated those foals at 20 days, foaling them outand them working with them to successfull show careers is a life I would never trade.
Posted by: Ben Had at July

Can we fit one in the back of my car? I will put a collar on her and tell J it’s another dog. Lol.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:44 PM (p4NUW)

140 Piper, I suppose that "Belly up to the barre" is not something you'd like to hear here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:44 PM (0sNs1)

141 Finally, Piper shows up!

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:45 PM (77rzZ)

142 Piper , the day will come when I see the right horse for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:46 PM (HFcKg)

143 Dogs>>>>>horses

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:48 PM (77rzZ)

144 Castle nut: secured in place by a cotter pin to prevent the hub from falling off

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 08:48 PM (D7oie)

145 30 My dad and his younger brother drove a two-horse team to mow the hay fields starting when my dad was about eight years old. His description of accidentally mowing a skunk is... graphic. They both caught hell for that, since a direct skunk spray to a horse can kill the horse. Or so I'm told.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:36 PM (1Gsou)
Amish, eh? Bet that made them stand out.

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 08:48 PM (LHPAg)

146 Piper did a fine job of moving cattle at the last MoMe.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:49 PM (HFcKg)

147 I liked horse riding when I was younger, haven’t done it in a while.

“Same logo for Jackson Hole ski resort. I know it well.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:37 PM (TgXbf)
My parents gave me a watch with that on the face when I was 8 years old. It moved back and forth when you moved the watch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:50 PM (0DdMG)

148 14/ Sorry, Ben Had, kale-eating horses haven’t been bred yet.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:50 PM (77rzZ)

149 Castle nut: secured in place by a cotter pin to prevent the hub from falling off
Posted by: Kindltot

Depending on the application also known as the Jesus Nut.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:51 PM (H7X8V)

150 138 Piper, I am sure you have a horse story ot two.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:43 PM (HFcKg)

Oh my gosh, do I. Like the time I broke my tail bone because I was riding an Arab bareback across a bridge and a bunch of ducks flew up and spoked him, he jumped all the way over to the other side- and another bunch of ducks flew up. I stayed on for the first sideways maneuver, I did not the second one. My dad said it looked like a cartoon, i was suspended in the air like I still should have had a horse underneath me, but there was no longer a horse there! I was 13. It was painful!

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:51 PM (p4NUW)

151 Bulg, Piper stepped on a horse totally unknown to her and ride him beautifully.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:52 PM (HFcKg)

152 Horses have housed, clothed and fed me for 57 years. I owe them alot.
Posted by: Ben Had

Clothed? Really, I'd think they'd be lousy with buttons.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 02, 2025 08:52 PM (n4GiU)

153 151 Good for Piper. Some people can defy death wishes.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:53 PM (77rzZ)

154 Is anyone going to tell Ace the castle pic is fake?

Cause I'm not.

Posted by: eleven at July 02, 2025 08:53 PM (fV+MH)

155 It was painful!
Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:51 PM (p4NUW)

I bet! you are lucky it was only a tailbone!

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:54 PM (g47mK)

156 142 Piper , the day will come when I see the right horse for you.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02,

I have no doubt! I just got new pictures of Picasso, he looks so good still, his coat is all shiny. He does not look 32. It is not going to be a good day when he goes galloping off to the pasture in the sky.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:54 PM (p4NUW)

157 Hey Granny. Payback is coming.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 08:56 PM (1bdKO)

158 151 Bulg, Piper stepped on a horse totally unknown to her and ride him beautifully.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025

Thank you, but as I recall, you told me to get out of his face and let him do his job. Lol. And told me to stop letting my leg slide forward. I still blame the saddle - that is a lot of leather! 😂

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:56 PM (p4NUW)

159 I bet all the horses are nice to Piper, too, ‘cause she’s a chick.

Me? “Let’s trample the old white guy” — the horses

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:57 PM (77rzZ)

160 Bulg, you didn’t know I have a horse?

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:58 PM (p4NUW)

161 >>Dogs>>>>>horses

In some ways very similar. Probably why you often find dogs where you find people with horses.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)

162 160, Piper, no.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:59 PM (77rzZ)

163 Piper, after that session the dun mare went on to win the year end saddle.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:59 PM (HFcKg)

164 >>>>>>>>I bet! you are lucky it was only a tailbone!
Posted by: runner
************
Real lucky. A similar event happen to my brother last summer. He ended up with a broken pelvis, 3 broke ribs, and a concussion. Only he was 54 not 13.

Posted by: Cosda at July 02, 2025 09:00 PM (EO9/2)

165
Just like to remind You People we had missed the 3 year anniversary, June 18, 2022, when biden fell off his bike.

It's one of my favorite memories.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at July 02, 2025 09:02 PM (qIp2u)

166 Horses are the most beautiful and noble of all the brutes in G-D’s creation. They always make me feel better when I see them on a hillside or pasture.

They can be a bit ornery, and they are smarter than you might think. They used to cause a lot of injuries and broken bones when they were the main source of transportation.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 09:03 PM (UTyB6)

167 Horses have a peculiar sense of humor. They like to nibble on your ass and stand on your feet when you're picking their hooves.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 09:04 PM (a/G0f)

168 161 The Proto-Indo-European root for “horse,” something like *ekwo- (thus “equus”

, is actually related to that for “dog,” *kwon- (thus “canis,” “hound.”

. The elongated snout was the semantic connection.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:06 PM (77rzZ)

169 Just like to remind You People we had missed the 3 year anniversary, June 18, 2022, when biden fell off his bike.

It's one of my favorite memories.
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at July 02, 2025 09:02 PM (qIp2u)

It’s amazing how far they pushed him to try to pretend he was competent. Like complete idiots.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 09:07 PM (Lhvai)

170 Horses have played an invaluable part of history. Armies and Conquerers didn't ride Vespas.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:08 PM (HFcKg)

171 Nooded

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:09 PM (SEFV4)

172 They used to cause a lot of injuries and broken bones when they were the main source of transportation.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 09:03 PM (UTyB6)

What about when they were the main item on the menu?

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 09:09 PM (LHPAg)

173 Joking aside, Ben Had has forgotten more about horses than I will ever know and it’s an incredible thing to watch and learn from her.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:10 PM (p4NUW)

174 >>Horses have a peculiar sense of humor. They like to nibble on your ass and stand on your feet when you're picking their hooves.

The above mentioned Baby Huey liked to lean on me when I was cleaning his stall or fixing one of his "Did I do that(s)"?

He was a big clown.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 09:10 PM (viF8m)

175 Why the hell does a right parenthesis get replaced by a smiley face? Why can’t a gifted autist like “Big Balls” solve something like this before the penny-ante DOGE crap?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:11 PM (77rzZ)

176 If you use the word we have always used, it’s an easy search for it: but if you must encode it, I will let you in on it, Bletchley Park is on to you!

Nooded!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:12 PM (SEFV4)

177
Why are you guys dropping the n-word?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 09:14 PM (Rrsaq)

178
OH, wait, I see, nevermind. It's Nemo being the nood Sponge.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 09:15 PM (Rrsaq)

179 Piper, you are too kind. I thank all the people that have challenged me to be better.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:16 PM (HFcKg)

180 Those dogs were wearing their masks like most people during the shutdown.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:16 PM (VofaG)

181 ***********
Real lucky. A similar event happen to my brother last summer. He ended up with a broken pelvis, 3 broke ribs, and a concussion. Only he was 54 not 13.
Posted by: Cosda at

The first and only time I threw out my back, knock on wood, was when I got on a thoroughbred I had just gotten off the track. She bucked so hard she broke the girth and the saddle and I went flying. A nose between her front feet buck. It was possibly one of the dumbest horse things I have ever done. I had given birth 4 weeks before this, the horse hadn’t really had enough time to let down from all the track garbage, I truly don’t know what I was thinking. Pregnancy hormones? Just stupid? Both? I landed in a bush, probably the only thing that saved me.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:18 PM (p4NUW)

182 According to Sarah Hoyt, new writers trying to kill off their characters in a Regency fanfic will have them die in a “carriage accident” like it’s the equivalent of an auto accident. It just doesn’t work! However, riding a horse, as young men of property were wont to do in the early 1800s, was inherently dangerous! In my own boyhood my older brother’s best friend was dragged to death by a horse: his foot got caught in the stirrup.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:21 PM (SEFV4)

183 57 years training horses professionally and I have never been hurt. I thank G-d for his giving me quickness.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:22 PM (HFcKg)

184
Probably why you often find dogs where you find people with horses.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)

__________

One of the better Borzoi kennels has the registered name Horse and Hound.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 09:22 PM (/HVsR)

185 BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie says that he has enough votes to block President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ in the House.

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:23 PM (AOsQT)

186 I got kicked by a Shetland pony when I was a kid participating in Little Britches rodeos.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:24 PM (VofaG)

187 Fuck You, Pay Me.

Posted by: Rep. Thomas Massie at July 02, 2025 09:24 PM (i0F8b)

188 Thos. Massie is a blowhard!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:25 PM (SEFV4)

189 The first and only time I threw out my back, knock on wood, was when I got on a thoroughbred I had just gotten off the track.

My mom's and her partner's business was training horses for eventing and dressage. Her partner was an Olympic/International level rider in dressage. Many of the horses they bought, trained and sold came from the track.

There are horses you can ride on tours and then there are athletes. It's the difference between driving a Chevy and a F1 car.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 09:26 PM (viF8m)

190 Well we were almost down 1 Shiba Inu. My big black cat was being nice to him and he thought it was a good chance to nibble the cat’s tail. He just got slapped into next week across the snout. The cat didn’t put his claw out, thank goodness.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:26 PM (p4NUW)

191 Any man who calls a false nood spends a night in the box.
-AOSHQ bylaws

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 09:26 PM (zZu0s)

192 Ben Had,
You only need look at a horse and he knows who’s boss.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 09:27 PM (mT+6a)

193
I got kicked by a Shetland pony when I was a kid participating in Little Britches rodeos.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:24 PM (VofaG)

_________

A two-frame cartoon I saw had a little girl in a riding outfit sitting on a huge but placid draft horse. The second frame showed the same girl getting bucked off a little pony.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 09:27 PM (/HVsR)

194 I have a long story about an ER visit, a $ 500,000 horse and an impossible situation.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:27 PM (HFcKg)

195 Armies and Conquerers didn't ride Vespas.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:08 PM

Only because the J. Crew Messenger Bag hadn't been invented yet, and they couldn't look good doing it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 09:28 PM (0sNs1)

196 Jack straw- I wonder if I know your mom. I evented.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:28 PM (p4NUW)

197
We forget at our peril that horses have personalities.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 09:31 PM (/HVsR)

198 Federal judge Randolph Moss has ruled that President Trump's declaration of an invasion at the Southern border, which successfully reduced illegal crossings by 99.9%, was illegal and must be rescinded.

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:31 PM (AOsQT)

199 >>Jack straw- I wonder if I know your mom. I evented.

Wouldn't surprise me. As you know it isn't that big a world.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 09:32 PM (viF8m)

200 What I remember specifically when I was around the rodeo circuit was how one of our neighbors was a calf roper and how cruelly he treated his horse when he didn't do what he wanted.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:33 PM (VofaG)

201
A two-frame cartoon I saw had a little girl in a riding outfit sitting on a huge but placid draft horse. The second frame showed the same girl getting bucked off a little pony.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at

My older 2 daughters are incredible riders. My middle one in particular, even really young she had an amazing seat. When ponies are bad and you put an adult on them, they usually stop the shenanigans because they know. So we would put my daughter on them, if they were being naughty, not dangerous. She rode through some things! She was going BN cross country at 8, her pony was a saint, though.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:33 PM (p4NUW)

202 About twenty years ago horses accounted for most of fatalities in our National forests.
They can and do kill you without even trying.
One should consider ground work with a horse a martial art and always be thinking about protecting yourself. Sometimes it is safer to be closer to a horse even touching the than being in range of being struck or kicked.
Remember the hind feet maim, but the front feet kill and a horse can swap ends quicker than a person's speed of thought. Watch the ears.
Mustang are looking for an excuse to bolt.

Posted by: waepnedmann at July 02, 2025 09:33 PM (zus2x)

203 Blonde Morticia -
People are trying to be “clever” about posting notice of a new thread. You know the code word we always use. But NO, they have to say:
“There is a new thread posted above.”
Like they expect us to read English.
I won’t always be there to save the day, but when I am, you can expect a hearty, direct code word from me! (I don’t want to call it the n-word, but there you go! I will say it when it’s time - if I’m there!)

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:34 PM (SEFV4)

204
Start the countdown! Charlie Javice, the Forbes 30-under-30 who ripped off Jamie Dimon to the tune of $175mil, to be sentenced on July 26.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 09:35 PM (Rrsaq)

205 It's as if I needed another reason to never buy a new Ruger again.

Posted by: Reforger at July 02, 2025 09:35 PM (SJnNf)

206 @202,you,'ve been around a horse or two.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:37 PM (HFcKg)

207 Federal judge Randolph Moss has ruled that President Trump's declaration of an invasion at the Southern border, which successfully reduced illegal crossings by 99.9%, was illegal and must be rescinded.
Posted by: Don Black

Uh-oh. This means we have to let all the evicted invaders back in. Also any new invaders who want in. Darn.

Posted by: mindful webworker - commenter ordinaire at July 02, 2025 09:38 PM (OZEHh)

208 Palsy stroke
Surfeit of oysters
Iced milk and cherries on a sultry summer day
Savaged by a badger
Pushed off a bridge
Fish bone in the blancmange
Falling down stairs
Drowning when a punting pole broke
Blood poisoning from a gash from an axe / sword / misused hay fork
done in during an afray or brawl
Exploding Camphene lamp
uncovered drains
misjudged jocular activity on a train
Misdiagnosed ailment treated with incorrectly made mercury salves by a quack chosen more from shame than perceived ability

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 09:38 PM (D7oie)

209 Mustang are looking for an excuse to bolt.
Posted by: waepnedmann at July 02, 2025 09:33 PM (zus2x)

So are Arabs, goofy horses. Warmbloods make things up to spook at.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:40 PM (p4NUW)

210
Iced milk and cherries on a sultry summer day

_________

This is no joke.

Posted by: Zombie Zachary Taylor at July 02, 2025 09:40 PM (/HVsR)

211 Thank you for your horse stories. This is like the throwback tech thread.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:41 PM (HFcKg)

212 >>They can and do kill you without even trying.

Sometimes all they do is stop short.

Christopher Reeve, aka Superman, was thrown from his horse during the cross country part of an event in Virginia and broke his neck. He didn't die on the spot but he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair and it the damage from that fall eventually killed him.

Nice guy. Too bad.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 09:42 PM (viF8m)

213 Randolph Moss is being silly. Nobody’s going to pay any mind to his order other than a bunch of blowhard Democrats who are out of power. They’re getting desperate! We’re winning!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:43 PM (SEFV4)

214
Randolph Duke >>> Randolph Moss

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 09:44 PM (/HVsR)

215 All these horse stories make me glad cars were invented.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 09:45 PM (3wi/L)

216 Randolph Scott >>> Randolph Duke >>> Randolph Moss

Posted by: davidt at July 02, 2025 09:46 PM (i0F8b)

217
Just like to remind You People we had missed the 3 year anniversary, June 18, 2022, when biden fell off his bike.

_______

Out: George Washington Slept Here

In: Joe Biden Fell Here

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 09:46 PM (/HVsR)

218 I worked a summer on a ranch in Montana as a yout. The ranch was owned by a buddy of my Dad's who made it big and retired early.

I mostly moved irrigation pipe all day long. I had a horse assigned to that I had to use and take care of, me a known problem horse.

Day two, the horse threw me onto a fence with no warning. The lead ranch hand, Cowboy Bob, beat the shit out of that horse. I had never seen an animal abused before and was pretty shaken up.

Cowboy Bob explained to me that horses were just animals and it was his job to make the animals useful or else they would end up dead.

Posted by: pawn at July 02, 2025 09:46 PM (QB+5g)

219 My ex's favorite toast
Here's to the two things I love most, horses and pretty women
When I die may they tan my hide and make a ladies riding saddle so that I can rest between the two things I love best. Horses and pretty women.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:47 PM (HFcKg)

220 >>> 146 Piper did a fine job of moving cattle at the last MoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:49 PM (HFcKg)

Why yes, she did.

The cattle are currently enjoying the ludicrous amount of grass in my pastures.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 09:47 PM (ULPxl)

221 Burg Eltz, one of our favorite places to visit....no one has castles like Germany does...

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at July 02, 2025 09:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

222 A friend of mine was going to Vet School at TAMU in the early 80s. She was getting her usually placid mare out of a horse trailer: the mare suddenly backed up, knocking my friend’s head against a rod of the structural frame of the trailer. She had a concussion, or maybe something more: she had to drop out of vet school - she could no longer keep up, and her personality changed. She threw over her old boyfriend and wound up marrying a man who treated her like dirt. After the divorce, she got together with her old boyfriend who has been kind and loving to her. They are happily married, but she has trouble concentrating, and sometimes has irrational fears. She was not like that before.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:53 PM (SEFV4)

223 Burg Eltz, one of our favorite places to visit....no one has castles like Germany does...
Posted by: Grateful

Slovakia and Slovenia might differ
* strokes pointy beard. *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 09:53 PM (mlg/3)

224
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:53 PM (SEFV4)

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

Wow. Sad story.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 09:55 PM (Rrsaq)

225 Michael Grimm, former (R) congressman from Staten Island NY and anchor on Newsmax was thrown from his horse during a polo match last year. He's paralyzed.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 02, 2025 09:56 PM (3ImbR)

226 All the pretty horses.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 09:57 PM (viF8m)

227 A friend of mine who worked for the University back when I was a professor said one trick to taming a horse was to pick up the horse in your arms when it is still little: to make it think you are stronger than it. The idea is that they still think that when they are bigger if you make a big enough impression on them!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:57 PM (SEFV4)

228
omg rukm?

Elizabeth Holmes's husband is raising money for a new startup. He's developing a blood testing device.

I really really wish I could read Tyler Shultz's article about it, but it's behind a very expensive firewall.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 09:58 PM (Rrsaq)

229 The operation on the plushie is totally staged and totally cute!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:58 PM (SEFV4)

230 Horses: 1000 lbs. and a brain the size of a tennis ball. Just smart enough to know when they're able to mess you up. I've been on a couple that were very docile, bur I tend to distrust the species as a whole.

Posted by: PabloD at July 02, 2025 09:58 PM (TgNVd)

231 So every person on the planet is now part of a class action lawsuit?

SCOTUS has to strike that shit down asap.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:59 PM (nwGCR)

232 All these horse stories make me glad cars were invented.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

I once heard of somebody that got thrown from a car...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 09:59 PM (/lPRQ)

233 I’ve only really ridden trail horses until CowHorseQueen put me on one of hers. She told the horse, “don’t be an asshole” and looked at me and said”let’s go that way”.

So we did.

They sold the horse a few months later. I hope I didn’t ruin it being an idiot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 10:00 PM (KUush)

234 JackStraw, Run with the Horsemen, not a book about horses, has the funniest story about a kid driving a mule team and lighting one one of mule's farts. Laughed till I cried.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 10:00 PM (HFcKg)

235 The transition to horseless carriages was a welcome one for a multitude of reasons!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:00 PM (SEFV4)

236 Nood - TRex ONT!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:03 PM (SEFV4)

237 The ONT is stark raving NOOOOD

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=415485

Posted by: mindful webworker - go now you been here fo houhs at July 02, 2025 10:04 PM (OZEHh)

238 One of you posted a Stormtrooper Parody Fanfic. In the feed over at YouTube I found a better one. For Empire Season Two is the best.

https://is.gd/6Lgpua

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 10:06 PM (WIJBc)

239 >>JackStraw, Run with the Horsemen, not a book about horses, has the funniest story about a kid driving a mule team and lighting one one of mule's farts. Laughed till I cried.

When you get the time to visit make sure it is in early Fall. That way I can show you the ocean and take you to Newport Polo so you can get your horse fix.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 10:07 PM (viF8m)

240 I’ve never ridden a horse, two elephants , but no horse

My Dad rode in the army. Morgan horses he said. Second Cav.

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2025 10:21 PM (8I4hW)

Quick Hits

Trump to Hamas: I worked out a 60 day ceasefire deal for you. You'd better take it.

Israel has continued vaporizing Hamas terrorists.

Israel's military "eliminated" a founding Hamas military leader and mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attack, Tel Aviv officials said Saturday.
Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa was killed during a targeted airstrike on the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, Israel Defense Forces said.
Al-Issa was one of the final remaining founding members of the terrorist organization's military wing and played a crucial role in the Oct. 7 attack that launched the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.

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@C__Herridge
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@CBSNews
in the future
� 16 million will be allocated to PresidentTrump's future presidential library + plaintiffs' fees, costs.
� Prompt release presidential candidate interview transcripts in the future
� No apology
As the senior CBS News investigative correspondent, I insisted CBS release the fulll, unedited transcript of my 2020 interview with President Trump.
I was surprised that it was not standard practise at the network.
My training is that releasing full, unedited transcripts with a major newsmaker is about standing behind the integrity of the final edit and report.
That's what good journalism does.
Note: FCC news distortion complaint remains open

Hamas terrorist supporters like Mamdani always demand that Israel agree to a ceasefire but literally never demand that Hamas do likewise.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
A real quote from Karine Jean-Pierre on August 31st, 2023:
"The President [Biden] has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. He really has!"
Illegal crossings surged to the highest levels in recorded history 4 months later.

ABC "News" -- a Disney operation -- doesn't want to call the murderous MS-13 foreign criminal gang a foreign criminal gang, so they invent a new euphemism.

This may be better than Maryland Man:

ABC News
@ABC
The leader of an MS-13 clique in the suburbs of New York City faces sentencing Wednesday in a federal racketeering case involving eight murders, including the 2016 killings of two high school girls that focused the nation�s attention on the violent gang.

It's a clique you guys. Like in Mean Girls.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Randolph Moss, an Obama-appointed judge, just issued an order OVERTURNING Trump's declaration of invasion at the southern border.
This activist judge wants to turn the US into the Biden-era open border disaster.

Justice Alito warned that Amy Coney Barrett's weak opinion in the universal injunctions case would just send lefties scurrying to file class action lawsuits.

He was right.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
HOLY SMOKES...Justice Alito CALLED IT.
Remember the victory we had at SCOTUS over nationwide injunctions last week?
Alito wrote: "...district courts should not view today's decision as an invitation to certify nationwide classes without scrupulous adherence to the rigors of Rule 23. Otherwise, the universal injunction will return from the grave under the guise of 'nationwide class relief,' and today's decision will be of little more than minor academic interest."
JUST DAYS later, a judge grants SWEEPING class protection for asylum seekers who are trying to enter the country.
The nationwide injunction cabal lost a battle, but the war is not over.

Justice Alito proven right within days. https://t.co/aRFz0IjhGO
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 2, 2025

Gavin Newsom's dad was administrator of the Getty family trust. His father ran a senate campaign the year after he was born. His family had money. What the hell is he talking about. https://t.co/272yvUkBJL
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 1, 2025

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HOMAN: �If you're in the country illegally, you SHOULD be concerned!�

�We're looking for you!� 🔥
pic.twitter.com/JSQskz6Tjw
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 2, 2025

OUT: Democrats aren't socialists, they're just liberal

IN: Democrats aren't communist, they're just socialists

🔥@ScottJenningsKY battles Bakari Sellers who is riled up over the idea that Mamdani is being called a "communist."

Sellers: He�s a socialist.

Jennings: He�s using the language of the Bolsheviks, is he not?

Sellers: No, he�s not. He�s a socialist.

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— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 2, 2025

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— Center for American Liberty (@Liberty_Ctr) July 1, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:30 PM

Comments

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1 Hmmm

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 06:32 PM (P5BPp)

2 I hope the enemies of mankind understand what it means when Trump says, "Thank you for your attention to this matter."

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 02, 2025 06:32 PM (rF2iL)

3 Evening Ace

Do you know what is happening with the vote on the BbB.?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 02, 2025 06:33 PM (t/2Uw)

4 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

BREAKING: Randolph Moss, an Obama-appointed judge, just issued an order OVERTURNING Trump's declaration of invasion at the southern border.

This activist judge wants to turn the US into the Biden-era open border disaster.

More Libs of TikTok:

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

JUST IN: Investigation reveals that a NYC driving school was fraudulently fast-tracking driver's licenses for illegal aliens, with some not even knowing how to drive at all.

T&E Driving School reportedly took in cash to pay off employees in order to issue licenses to illegals without taking the proper tests or having any driving experience, with some skipping the road test entirely. - NYP

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 06:33 PM (P5BPp)

5 I let the otters know about this.

Posted by: Dad of Six at July 02, 2025 06:35 PM (l51ev)

6 Do you know what is happening with the vote on the BbB.?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 02, 2025 06:33 PM

Via Grok:

The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (H.R. 1) passed the Senate on July 1, 2025, with a 51-50 vote, Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaker. The bill, a 940-page Republican spending package, is now facing challenges in the House. A procedural vote to advance the Senate-passed bill is stuck at 204-212, with sixteen House Republicans opposing it, causing delays. Conservative hard-liners are demanding further negotiations, threatening the bill's progress. At least two more rounds of voting are needed: one to end debate and another for final passage. The House vote, initially expected today, remains uncertain in timing due to ongoing GOP internal conflicts.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 06:35 PM (P5BPp)

7 >> BREAKING: Randolph Moss, an Obama-appointed judge, just issued an order OVERTURNING Trump's declaration of invasion at the southern border.

Think for a second how unlawful, unconstitutional and regal that judges opinion is. He just certified every single illegal alien or person who wants to come to the US illegally as a class.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 06:36 PM (j9dG+)

8 Of course, now we know that Murrow, Cronkite, Duranty, all these titans of integrity and accuracy in newscasting were lying fucksticks in service of protecting communism. They were fucking the public trust in the ass from day 1 and could get away with it because they controlled the flow of all information to the public.

Posted by: Public trust us not to do that thing in your mouth at July 02, 2025 06:36 PM (TbWk/)

9 @3 Politico (I know, I know) actually has some good up-to-the-minute reporting on the BBB. Slanted though it is, still gives a clue as to what is going on.

Posted by: lizabth at July 02, 2025 06:37 PM (Jfw7U)

10 Last I saw it was 216-212 with 4 holdouts, all Rs. Then I saw that Davidson Ohio was going to vote he's which should have put it over the top. But no word since. Roy definitely no but two others still out.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 02, 2025 06:37 PM (t/2Uw)

11 Qatar is evil

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:37 PM (FZn/N)

12 Question for Republicans in Congress opposed to “socialized medicine”, government run healthcare and Obamacare. You just created a $50 million slush fund with federal taxpayer money for rural hospitals because they’re going to lose their illegal alien clientele. How is that different than what you allegedly oppose?

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 06:38 PM (j9dG+)

13 I've decided Grok only tells what we already know to be true and can't be trusted to tell us stuff we don't know.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 02, 2025 06:39 PM (t/2Uw)

14 Well, that "old fashioned book" , the Bible got it correct again:

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil" (1 Timothy 6:10)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:39 PM (2GCMq)

15 Think for a second how unlawful, unconstitutional and regal that judges opinion is. He just certified every single illegal alien or person who wants to come to the US illegally as a class.
Posted by: Marcus T

There the Democrats go again, doing their best to convince everyone that no foreigner should be allowed into the US ever for any reason.

They've certainly convinced me.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 02, 2025 06:39 PM (a+4eV)

16 Grok showing a bit of a bias there
'Republican spending package'

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 06:39 PM (K/v0v)

17 The so called SALT Caucus believes the answer to their states confiscatory taxation is to subsidize their coffers with federal taxpayer money. Is this now the Republican position?

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 06:40 PM (j9dG+)

18 Fucking hell NYC, just go full Cambodia. You know you want to. You might have to throw the bodies in the river, because central park would fill up fast.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

19 > Fucking hell NYC, just go full Cambodia. You know you want to. You might have to throw the bodies in the river, because central park would fill up fast.

On a good tidal day, those bodies would be washing up on the Jersey shore. Hmmmm.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 06:42 PM (j9dG+)

20 I've decided Grok only tells what we already know to be true and can't be trusted to tell us stuff we don't know.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 02, 2025 06:39 PM (t/2Uw)

As with anything, look at it critically. Just more so with 'AI'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 06:42 PM (zZu0s)

21 It's a clique you guys. Like in Mean Girls

It's not a gang. It's a club.

(Old SNL skit for you 29 year olds)

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 02, 2025 06:42 PM (FxH7T)

22 18. If they do, nobody must be allowed to leave and spread the revolution.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:42 PM (FZn/N)

23 >>Fucking hell NYC, just go full Cambodia. You know you want to. You might have to throw the bodies in the river

That worked for the NJ Nat Guard back in 68.

They were throwing the bodies of the rioters into the river off the same dock they bring sheep into the slaughterhouse.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 06:43 PM (T4A2M)

24 If they do, nobody must be allowed to leave and spread the revolution.
Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:42 PM (FZn/N)

Your terms are acceptable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 06:43 PM (zZu0s)

25 OTHOH, an Obama-selected district judge in CA ruled that California's barring of non-residents from receiving concealed-carry permits was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. Flying pigs!

Posted by: mrp at July 02, 2025 06:44 PM (rj6Yv)

26 Even today, northern Italy is significantly (if not predominantly) of fair complexion. Not everywhere on the boot is Sicily.
Posted by: imp

Hart Island in the East River is the final resting place for many hundreds of thousands of NYers, the Potters Field of NYC. Plenty of room there.

Posted by: Practical Solutions, Inc. at July 02, 2025 06:44 PM (OXFtY)

27 Things keep up, the phrase "hangin' judge" will get a whole new meaning in the 21st century.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at July 02, 2025 06:44 PM (ENA4W)

28 25 OTHOH, an Obama-selected district judge in CA ruled that California's barring of non-residents from receiving concealed-carry permits was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. Flying pigs!
Posted by: mrp at July 02, 2025 06:44 PM (rj6Yv)

Probably did it so MS13 members can carry legally.

Posted by: Overly cynical? at July 02, 2025 06:45 PM (TbWk/)

29 Via Grok:

...A procedural vote to advance the Senate-passed bill is stuck at 204-212, with sixteen House Republicans opposing it, causing delays. Conservative hard-liners are demanding further negotiations, threatening the bill's progress.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton
____

hard-liners. I doubt Grok would ever associate that term with liberals. And it's the 16 hard-liners fault, not the 212 dems uniformly opposing.

Screw Grok

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 06:45 PM (p16cu)

30 25 OTHOH, an Obama-selected district judge in CA ruled that California's barring of non-residents from receiving concealed-carry permits was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. Flying pigs!
Posted by: mrp at July 02, 2025 06:44 PM (rj6Yv)

Another seditious judge who will arm Obama's foreign legion

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:45 PM (FZn/N)

31 What’s up with this: “”New post above”?
Do they expect us to read English?!
I nooded!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:45 PM (SEFV4)

32 Massie trying to single handily stop the BBB to embarrass Trump. He’s alleging he has enough votes to stop it.

He’s the new John McCain. Pettiness over party.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 06:46 PM (j9dG+)

33 >>Not everywhere on the boot is Sicily.

Anything South of Naples is Africa.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 06:46 PM (T4A2M)

34 Seems people are trying to encode the nood message.

I have used 'ace is up' for his first post of the day- but that is pretty clear.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 06:47 PM (zZu0s)

35 Probably did it so MS13 members can carry legally.
Posted by: Overly cynical? at July 02, 2025 06:45 PM (TbWk/)

Too many illegals getting picked up for weapons? Make it legal so they can ill us.
I don't understand how people don't see this as the army Obama wanted.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:47 PM (FZn/N)

36 8 Of course, now we know that Murrow, Cronkite, Duranty, all these titans of integrity and accuracy in newscasting were lying fucksticks in service of protecting communism. They were fucking the public trust in the ass from day 1 and could get away with it because they controlled the flow of all information to the public.

Posted by: Public trust us not to do that thing in your mouth at July 02, 2025 06:36 PM (TbWk/)

spot-on!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 02, 2025 06:47 PM (Z5NUn)

37 Vedi Napoli e poi mori.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 06:47 PM (j9dG+)

38 Does the MS-13 clique wear pink on Wednesdays too?

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 06:47 PM (MGB5H)

39 The Gavin remarks are just gob-smacking. These need to be pounded and mocked and pounded and mocked and pounded until an apology is given. And since that won't ever happen, the cycle of pounding and mocking should continue endlessly.

Posted by: Crusader at July 02, 2025 06:47 PM (TN0g+)

40 Clique is a ghey ass word even for mean girls.

Posted by: eleven at July 02, 2025 06:47 PM (fV+MH)

41 OUT: Democrats aren't socialists, they're just liberal

IN: Democrats aren't communist, they're just socialists

------------------

NEW IN: Democrats aren't communist, they're just fascist.

Posted by: Decaf at July 02, 2025 06:48 PM (unUNN)

42 >>Clique is a ghey ass word even for mean girls.

It's the sound a Gay Camera's shutter makes.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 06:48 PM (T4A2M)

43
All I wanted to see was "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

And I got it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 06:49 PM (WsoXF)

44 Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy

A family member of mine is a nurse in Canada. They performed several assisted dying procedures at the care home they worked at, before refusing to continue.

In one case, the family of a mentally disabled man decided they wanted him to be euthanised.

He didn’t want to die. But my family member was legally forced to end his life.

They held his hand while he told them “I’m hungry” and “I’m thirsty”.

That poor man didn’t understand what was happening to him as he was pumped full of medication that would end his life, and my family member wept for the soul that was being lost unnecessarily.

He wasn’t terminally ill. He wasn’t particularly old. He wasn’t dying. He didn’t want to die. But he didn’t have a choice.

Because his life was deemed dispensable by his family, and the Government gave them the power to end his life regardless of his needs or wishes.

https://bit.ly/3TlK1xu

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 06:49 PM (P5BPp)

45 ABC News@ABC: "The leader of an MS-13 clique..."

Wow. Just, wow. Even George Orwell marvels at the spin.

Posted by: AnonybotymousDrivel at July 02, 2025 06:50 PM (gLikB)

46 A month or two ago, I started getting ewetub suggestions for some movie whatshername from mean girls was in with William H Macy's skeletal wife. Georgia Rules or some such.

Casual knob shines and abuse seemed to be the gist from the synopsis I read.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 06:51 PM (zZu0s)

47 Some people here like to tar the boomers, and in the case of communist utopia dreams it is somewhat true. The older boomers and the remaining "silents" that wanted communism see this as their last big chance. They will persist.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:51 PM (FZn/N)

48 OT- Good for granny! 82 year old woman wins suit against The YWCA for allowing a man in the woman's dressing room. I had to laugh at what she said to the weirdo. From the "Legal Insurrection" website:

https://tinyurl.com/bdz73adx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:52 PM (2GCMq)

49 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 06:49 PM (P5BPp)

Kind of reminds you of the Racial Hygeine bullshit of the early 20th century, doesn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

50 They will persist.
Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:51 PM (FZn/N)

Mom and Dad are both Boomers. Neither are commies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

51 Some people here like to tar the boomers, and in the case of communist utopia dreams it is somewhat true. The older boomers and the remaining "silents" that wanted communism see this as their last big chance. They will persist.
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I liked how the news-bimbos in that clip have such confidence that the viewers should just blindly trust that THEY of all people could/would accurately assert the difference between socialism and communism.

Posted by: Crusader at July 02, 2025 06:53 PM (TN0g+)

52 Sorry, but it’s well past time for this administration to initiate the “Pinochet treatment” for the illegals that have been rounded up. The hell with the alligator facility or whatever it’s called in FL. If the illegals, Haitians, etc undertake the FL300 free fall, sans parachute, clowns like Boasberg cannot “mandate” their return. I’m sick of the pussyfooting around by Roberts.

Posted by: dhmosquito at July 02, 2025 06:54 PM (JVbei)

53 The passive aggressive, "Thank you for your attention in this matter," has become a staple in Trump correspondence. It's professional, non-emotional, a bit condescending, and most importantly, it belittles the issue and removes it to a task suggesting organizing as opposed to the end all be all of importance.

Very purposeful, IMO. Genius one might say. It's like a mother cat swatting a kitten to get them to behave while focusing on something else entirely.

Posted by: Orson at July 02, 2025 06:55 PM (dIske)

54 "A breach of the public trust Murrow, Cronkite, Hewitt and thousands of us worked decades to build."

Oh give me a break. Those people were simply more careful, less audacious liars and servants of their liberal idols.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 02, 2025 06:55 PM (WHfpM)

55 I'm a FREE man. I am the only free man in New York City! (rattles his chain marking him as slave labor)

The rest of you are CATTLE!

Posted by: Kostoyed Amourski at July 02, 2025 06:55 PM (R/m4+)

56 FWIW, "clique" is a term of art in law enforcement for sub-groups of large gangs. ABC did actually use it correctly. The Empress already apologized on Twitter after an LEO explained it to her.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 06:56 PM (ciXcx)

57 "Seizing the means of production"? It's the most Communist statement known. No, that is not "Socialism". It's the equivalent of the fist that's holding the sickle.

Posted by: AnonybotymousDrivel at July 02, 2025 06:57 PM (gLikB)

58 OK, let’s try again:

FAFO

https://is.gd/yA6TYv

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:57 PM (SEFV4)

59 50. But plenty of people my age are. And they were enthusiastic about bringing it about. I was dragged off to some party over the weekend and at 70, I was one of the youngest. People were talking about how if Obama had worked faster, we'd already be there but he was "too moderate"

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:58 PM (FZn/N)

60 Let's see how the Supreme Court deals with the Obama judge. The more out of control and power hungry they get the more the SC will slap them down. Alito called it let's see if the other five are pissed off at the judge ignoring what defines a class

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 06:58 PM (eBgDF)

61 Do you know what is happening with the vote on the BbB.?

I'm pretty sure none of our elected congress critters know what is happening or what is in the B³

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 06:59 PM (a4flb)

62 >>"Seizing the means of production"?

Seizing.

Because they can't create anything useful on their own, they despise the notion of competition.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 06:59 PM (T4A2M)

63 Socialist, communist. What's the difference? They don't even know. The end game is the same: disempowerment of the citizenry, social destabilization and division, more power and control aggregated in the State.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 02, 2025 06:59 PM (WHfpM)

64 Thank you for your attention to this matter = FAFO:

https://is.gd/yA6TYv

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 07:00 PM (SEFV4)

65 Seizing the means of production

If Republicans do it, is it pouncing and seizing the means?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 07:00 PM (ciXcx)

66 >>But plenty of people my age are.

Typically, those exposed the longest to the Education System were Pink Pilled.

This has nothing to do with their generation.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 07:00 PM (T4A2M)

67 FWIW, "clique" is a term of art in law enforcement for sub-groups of large gangs.

Just like "white Hispanic" when referring to George Zimmerman.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 07:01 PM (a4flb)

68 Pfffft. MS-13 may have cliques, *we* have claques!

Ginger people: Claque.
Crossbow people: Claque

Carrots in Chili people: We don't even recognize *them*.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:01 PM (0sNs1)

69 Have all these shows gone woke because they have no talent or do they have no talent because they are woke?

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 07:01 PM (E0p3T)

70 I don't have any idea how there can be a hudna with Gaza . The hamassholes demands have gotten more unrealistic.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:01 PM (HFcKg)

71 as for the tranny pervs, if you listened to Mike Benz' interview with Tucker, you would know that USAID funded all the tranny/gay shit abroad to destabilize the nation and change their direction. This is part of Obama's "color revolution" here. When the "investigation" is complete we will probably find Epps was CIA , as that's who ran this stuff,

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 07:02 PM (FZn/N)

72 Just like "white Hispanic" when referring to George Zimmerman.

Not at all like it. My understanding is that the humiliation of making tough gang members sound like tween girls is strictly intentional.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 07:02 PM (ciXcx)

73 Socialism is just communism with a smiley face!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 07:03 PM (SEFV4)

74
The Gavin remarks are just gob-smacking. These need to be pounded and mocked and pounded and mocked and pounded until an apology is given. And since that won't ever happen, the cycle of pounding and mocking should continue endlessly.
Posted by: Crusader

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

I can't wait to see just how dirty the Democrat 2028 prezzy primary gets. All the candidates are walking bullseyes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 07:03 PM (WEm1d)

75 >>I don't have any idea how there can be a hudna with Gaza . The hamassholes demands have gotten more unrealistic.

The problem for a successful hudna right now is that Iran is not really in position to re-arm Hamas.

There are factions in Egypt that are trying...but they don't have the facility that the Iranians did.

And, honestly...it's not just Hamas. It's the Gazans that need to be eliminated. Hamas or no. They are a plague.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 07:03 PM (T4A2M)

76 ♪ Whatever happened to Randolph Moss
Makin' the laws alone
Whatever happened to Randolph Moss
Did he have an illegal at home? ♪

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 07:03 PM (144I4)

77 as for the tranny pervs, if you listened to Mike Benz' interview with Tucker, you would know that USAID funded all the tranny/gay shit abroad to destabilize the nation and change their direction.

I caught the same thing in Benz's two interviews with Joe Rogan. They also funded shitty left-wing music in a bunch of countries to destabilize their governments. Which makes you wonder why we haven't locked up Rage On Behalf of the Machine yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 07:04 PM (ciXcx)

78 FWIW, "clique" is a term of art in law enforcement for sub-groups of large gangs.
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But it's not being used because it's correct - it's being used to manipulate the public who have otherwise never heard it.

How do we know? Because they never care about being correct and only care about manipulating the public. Should that twain e'er meet, then bully for them, but it's purely coincidental.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 07:05 PM (E0p3T)

79 $65K, those are rookie numbers!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 07:05 PM (SEFV4)

80 Massie trying to single handily stop the BBB to embarrass Trump. He’s alleging he has enough votes to stop it.

I'm sick and tired of the pieces of shit the Kentucky hill scoggin keeps sending to Babylon DC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 07:05 PM (a4flb)

81 Clique bait headlines, ace??

Posted by: andycanuck at July 02, 2025 07:05 PM (2yoRf)

82 70 I don't have any idea how there can be a hudna with Gaza . The hamassholes demands have gotten more unrealistic.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:01 PM (HFcKg)

__________________________________

Pretty simple, actually. We dig this massive hole, cover it with a tarp, then put a big pile of sugar bags on the other side. Apparently, we did a small prototype test the other day and we got about 10 to 15 of them. We need a bigger hole.

Posted by: Wile E. Coyote at July 02, 2025 07:05 PM (dIske)

83 You got your jihad in my communism! You got your communism in my jihad!!

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 07:06 PM (E0p3T)

84 Generational age differences give older people more desperation to see communism reach fruition, and gives them plenty of time and a lot of money to spend on their dream.
Students in Social Science and Liberal arts used to sit around plotting how to help. Those were boomers, some of the lefty radicals like Ayers are more "silents", but were very dedicated and still are. Ugly dream don't always die with age

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 07:06 PM (FZn/N)

85 Scott Jennings: "President Trump said 2+2 = 4"

Random CNN mouthpiece: "2+2 is not 4. Orangemanbad is wrong. See, says so right here in this AP report. 2+2 is not 4!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 07:06 PM (tT6L1)

86 garrett, I would send them all to their false prophet.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:06 PM (HFcKg)

87 Gavin Newsom, poor little rich boy!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 07:07 PM (SEFV4)

88 But it's not being used because it's correct - it's being used to manipulate the public who have otherwise never heard it.

Right, it's the same thing as when "bomb cyclone" (which is a perfectly cromulent meteorological term) suddenly was in constant use on TV.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 07:07 PM (ciXcx)

89 Think for a second how unlawful, unconstitutional and regal that judges opinion is. He just certified every single illegal alien or person who wants to come to the US illegally as a class.
Posted by: Marcus T

The President is exceeding his legal authority, says a judge who is exceeding his legal authority. That's rich.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 07:07 PM (144I4)

90 Got yur clique right here assholes.

Posted by: Sharks and Jets at July 02, 2025 07:07 PM (1bdKO)

91 Right, it's the same thing as when "bomb cyclone" (which is a perfectly cromulent meteorological term) suddenly was in constant use on TV.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 07:07 PM (ciXcx)

Polar vortex!

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 07:08 PM (E0p3T)

92
The President is exceeding his legal authority, says a judge who is exceeding his legal authority. That's rich.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 07:07 PM (144I4)

These judges who support the illegal army must be arrested. It's time.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 07:08 PM (FZn/N)

93 I don't have any idea how there can be a hudna with Gaza . The hamassholes demands have gotten more unrealistic.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:01 PM (HFcKg)

__________________________________

Pretty simple, actually. We dig this massive hole, cover it with a tarp, then put a big pile of sugar bags on the other side. Apparently, we did a small prototype test the other day and we got about 10 to 15 of them. We need a bigger hole.
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My sources tell me that dropping anvils from great distance is effective as well.

Posted by: Crusader at July 02, 2025 07:08 PM (TN0g+)

94 Oh God, I'm suffering a severe PTSD flashback to high school!

The cliques...the cliques...

Posted by: Bombadil at July 02, 2025 07:08 PM (MX0bI)

95 >>I would send them all to their false prophet.

'How to Make Martyrs and Influence People' - Ben Had (2025)

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 07:08 PM (T4A2M)

96
Seizing.

Because they can't create anything useful on their own, they despise the notion of competition.
Posted by: garrett

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Come to think of it, I've never heard of commies "building the means of production."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 07:09 PM (WEm1d)

97 Ian S.: "Which makes you wonder why we haven't locked up Rage On Behalf of the Machine yet."

Because "Puppetshow" now brings in more crowds.

Posted by: AnonybotymousDrivel at July 02, 2025 07:09 PM (gLikB)

98 62 ... Seizing.

Because they can't create anything useful on their own, they despise the notion of competition.
Posted by: garrett

Will they pounce first?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (h7ZuX)

99 62 >>"Seizing the means of production"?

Seizing.

Because they can't create anything useful on their own, they despise the notion of competition.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 06:59 PM (T4A2M)

Never forget workers are part of the means of production and become property of the state.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (pIfcn)

100 Not at all like it. My understanding is that the humiliation of making tough gang members sound like tween girls is strictly intentional.

They should borrow pages from Sheriff Joe Arpaio's book where in his outdoor Arizona Tent City, the inmates were dressed in pink underwear and clothing as part of their jail uniforms

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (a4flb)

101 48 OT- Good for granny! 82 year old woman wins suit against The YWCA for allowing a man in the woman's dressing room. I had to laugh at what she said to the weirdo. From the "Legal Insurrection" website:

https://tinyurl.com/bdz73adx
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:52 PM (2GCMq)

The perverts always talk about being respected. They have none. My take is, yes we respect your choices, but the locker room is a penis-free zone. You are welcome to come in, but please leave your penis at the door.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (1Gsou)

102 Pretty simple, actually. We dig this massive hole, cover it with a tarp, then put a big pile of sugar bags on the other side. Apparently, we did a small prototype test the other day and we got about 10 to 15 of them. We need a bigger hole.

The Gaza Health Ministry reports just sound like good ideas to me. Like earlier today when some idiot was screeching that we were loading up cargo planes full of illegals and dumping them out into the ocean. Air Pinochet on steroids. I approve.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (ciXcx)

103 86 garrett, I would send them all to their false prophet.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:06 PM (HFcKg)

When I first started luring here, I recall some guy saying his grandmother believed that the ant-Christ was born in Hawaii in 1961. Maybe he was on to something.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (FZn/N)

104 The perverts always talk about being respected. They have none. My take is, yes we respect your choices, but the locker room is a penis-free zone. You are welcome to come in, but please leave your penis at the door.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (1Gsou)
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Maybe station someone with a meat cleaver at the entrance?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 07:11 PM (tT6L1)

105 You know what God said to do with the other peoples inhabiting the land that he was giving the Hebrews, you know, that thing they didn’t do? He called for those people to be utterly destroyed. But they didn’t do that, and the other peoples have been a thorn in their side ever since!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 07:11 PM (SEFV4)

106 I would send them all to their false prophet.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:06 PM

False? You mean those virgins really aren't intactae?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:12 PM (0sNs1)

107 Come to think of it, I've never heard of commies "building the means of production."

They have a lot in common with Zimbabwe and South Africa that way.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 07:12 PM (ciXcx)

108 When I first started luring here, I recall some guy saying his grandmother believed that the ant-Christ was born in Hawaii in 1961. Maybe he was on to something.
Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (FZn/N)

Not quite. Kenya.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 07:12 PM (E0p3T)

109 Hair status:

Not on fire.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 07:12 PM (mT+6a)

110 Some people here like to tar the boomers, and in the case of communist utopia dreams it is somewhat true. The older boomers and the remaining "silents" that wanted communism see this as their last big chance. They will persist.
Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:51 PM (FZn/N)

Let them persist. Been fighting communism all my life. Not stopping now. Older, younger, don't matter to me. Bring it beyotches!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 07:12 PM (1bdKO)

111 The perverts always talk about being respected. They have none. My take is, yes we respect your choices, but the locker room is a penis-free zone. You are welcome to come in, but please leave your penis at the door.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (1Gsou)

Then someone will lose it.

Posted by: King Missile at July 02, 2025 07:12 PM (i24o9)

112 Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (1Gsou

" Leave your penis at the door." Thanks; I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 07:12 PM (2GCMq)

113 Note they never specify the age of these "virgins".

{{shudder}}

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 07:13 PM (E0p3T)

114
Think for a second how unlawful, unconstitutional and regal that judges opinion is. He just certified every single illegal alien or person who wants to come to the US illegally as a class.
Posted by: Marcus T

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What's next, anyway? Trump appeals, some court stays the illegal idiot judge, and back we go to the Supremes?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 07:13 PM (WEm1d)

115 Duncanthrax, false like they are gonna be so fucking surprised that there is no there there.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:14 PM (HFcKg)

116 87 Gavin Newsom, poor little rich boy!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 07:07 PM (SEFV4)

Next we will be hearing how he grew up poor in the Bronx.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:14 PM (1Gsou)

117 94 Oh God, I'm suffering a severe PTSD flashback to high school!

The cliques...the cliques...
Posted by: Bombadil at July 02, 2025 07:08 PM (MX0bI)

That was a girly thing, so if you went to a boys Catholic Prep school, it was just something that your sisters gabbed about

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 07:14 PM (FZn/N)

118 Note they never specify the age of these "virgins".

There was a running joke on the HQ many years back that the virgins were all Helen Thomas.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 07:14 PM (ciXcx)

119 You are welcome to come in, but please leave your penis at the door.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM

But I'm its life-support system!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:14 PM (0sNs1)

120 What was the old song... Little Man you've had a busy day? 20s or 30s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

121 86 garrett, I would send them all to their false prophet.
Posted by: Ben Had

How about we build a giant wooden badger?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 07:15 PM (mT+6a)

122 Socialism is a gateway drug to communism.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:16 PM (vFG9F)

123 But I'm its life-support system!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:14 PM (0sNs1)

Looks like you need to feed that thing.

Posted by: 80 Year Old YMCA Honeys at July 02, 2025 07:16 PM (i24o9)

124 116 87 Gavin Newsom, poor little rich boy!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 07:07 PM (SEFV4)

Next we will be hearing how he grew up poor in the Bronx.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:14 PM (1Gsou)

I was born a poor black child

Posted by: Navin Newsom at July 02, 2025 07:16 PM (pIfcn)

125 I saw MS-13 Cloacas open for Brutal Sphincter at the Felsenkeller in ‘23.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 02, 2025 07:16 PM (cduTK)

126 But tcn, how am I going to write my 'Dear Penthouse...' letter?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:17 PM (zZu0s)

127 I'm thinking Gavin Newsom is Hunter Biden with a sexier Supercut.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 07:18 PM (a/G0f)

128 126 But tcn, how am I going to write my 'Dear Penthouse...' letter?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:17 PM (zZu0s)

Probably should sign up for band camp, sport.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:18 PM (1Gsou)

129 What is needed in Gaza is free food and medical supplies from the USA and Israel to free the people there from the yoke of Hamas. Once this is done, the muslim people who live there will rise up and throw Hamas out of power and peace and prosperity will rule the day!

Like Christmas In Gaza!

Posted by: Fractured Fairy Tales at July 02, 2025 07:18 PM (R/m4+)

130 The perverts always talk about being respected. They have none. My take is, yes we respect your choices, but the locker room is a penis-free zone. You are welcome to come in, but please leave your penis at the door.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:10 PM (1Gsou)

Those poor staff persons at the hat check / coat check / penis check room.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2025 07:19 PM (q2NNn)

131 Socialism is the spit on the head of the communist rape dock.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 07:20 PM (BkIPu)

132 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 06:49 PM (P5BPp)

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Jesus, that is unspeakable evil.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 07:20 PM (qBdHI)

133 CNN is still reporting that "at least 14 million" will die because of USAID shutting down.

Ya know, they really fell on hard times after it shut down too, just like the DNC. I wonder...

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 07:20 PM (ciXcx)

134 I don't ask for much but grant me one pervert to rendition.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:20 PM (HFcKg)

135 newscasting were lying fucksticks"

All newz has always been so. Just the early 20th century mass media painted itself as "impartial" or "truthy" , and now we're all supposed to be surprised?

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 07:21 PM (tubbA)

136 Dear Penthouse,
This one time at the YMCA...

Posted by: My 12 yo self at July 02, 2025 07:21 PM (XQo4F)

137 Dock = dick, autofuckingcucumber.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 07:21 PM (BkIPu)

138 Probably should sign up for band camp, sport.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:18 PM (1Gsou)

Heh. I was going for a more Porkys direction, but ok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:21 PM (zZu0s)

139 14
Think for a second how unlawful, unconstitutional and regal that judges opinion is. He just certified every single illegal alien or person who wants to come to the US illegally as a class.
Posted by: Marcus T

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What's next, anyway? Trump appeals, some court stays the illegal idiot judge, and back we go to the Supremes?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 07:13 PM (WEm1d)

***

Where Trump wins again. Dems/commies are going to slow roll every thing.
We're gonna need more gators.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 07:21 PM (1bdKO)

140 Diogenes, they will. Boasberg, Obama, and Hillary, Brennan are still boomers and trying to bring about their revolution. As for silents, Maxine Waters, Durbin (maybe in league with the would be assassin), Pelosi, Hoyer...all still pushing for destruction.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 07:22 PM (FZn/N)

141 Like Christmas In Gaza!
Posted by: Fractured Fairy Tales at July 02, 2025 07:18 PM (R/m4+)

You've been in the liquor cabinet again, haven't you?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:22 PM (1Gsou)

142 It's a clique you guys. Like in Mean Girls.

OK I am going to reluctantly defend ABC here. Yes its a stupid word, and they shouldn't have used it. But, I don't think its so much bias or malice. Later in the same paragraph they say "violent gang" so they not only are aware but admit their nature.

I call this incompetence and poor editing. The writer wanted to be clever and not use the word "gang" twice in the same sentence so they used their phone to find a synonym and used the first one on the list.

Editorial is supposed to catch crap like this and did not because while they have paid positions I question whether any news agency actually has editors any longer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 07:22 PM (dfIr7)

143 Jesus, that is unspeakable evil.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 07:20 PM (qBdHI)

Remember Terri Schivao(sp?)

I remember Derbyshire writing that she should die (be allowed to.) And that was pretty much the end of my reading Derbyshire. It is a weird litmus test or dividing line with people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:23 PM (zZu0s)

144 What's with the gators? Piranhas are the way to go.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:23 PM (HFcKg)

145 Gavin was born a poor black child. His original name was Navin.

Posted by: fly gal at July 02, 2025 07:24 PM (6CtMt)

146 CNN is still reporting that "at least 14 million" will die because of USAID shutting down.

That's all? I was hoping for a good 50-60 million but what ya gonna do?

Posted by: Don't Breed Em If You Can't Feed Em at July 02, 2025 07:24 PM (R/m4+)

147 "Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."

Posted by: Mark Twain at July 02, 2025 07:25 PM (XQo4F)

148 That's all? I was hoping for a good 50-60 million but what ya gonna do?
Posted by: Don't Breed Em If You Can't Feed Em at July 02, 2025 07:24 PM (R/m4+)

They don't want to diminish Mao's record.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:25 PM (zZu0s)

149 Clique Bait

Posted by: jsg at July 02, 2025 07:25 PM (1l+t9)

150 14 million? Pikers. Go for 20.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:25 PM (HFcKg)

151 What's with the gators? Piranhas are the way to go.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:23 PM (HFcKg)

Flesh eating beetles.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:26 PM (zZu0s)

152
Are there still hostages in Gaza?

Posted by: fourseasons at July 02, 2025 07:27 PM (3ek7K)

153 A clique? Why not a klatch? Or maybe a club?

Posted by: Paco at July 02, 2025 07:27 PM (mADJX)

154 Dear Playgirl,
This one time in the locker room...

Posted by: Tim Walz, Asst Coach and Shower Inspector at July 02, 2025 07:27 PM (qUkBO)

155 four seasons , yes but very few live ones.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:28 PM (HFcKg)

156 What's with the gators? Piranhas are the way to go.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:23 PM (HFcKg)

Flesh eating beetles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:26 PM (zZu0s)

Scarabs. Someone's been watching The Mummy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2025 07:28 PM (q2NNn)

157 Why not a klatch?"

Mmm. Kolaches...

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 07:29 PM (tubbA)

158 "Editorial is supposed to catch crap like this and did not because while they have paid positions I question whether any news agency actually has editors any longer.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor "

The AI editor was not able to detect the sarcastic vein.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:29 PM (vFG9F)

159 60 days? How about a week?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 02, 2025 07:29 PM (8hxDK)

160 Gavin just channelled Steve Martin: "I was born a poor black child."

Posted by: Crusader at July 02, 2025 07:29 PM (TN0g+)

161 156 What's with the gators? Piranhas are the way to go.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:23 PM (HFcKg)

Flesh eating beetles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:26 PM (zZu0s)

Scarabs. Someone's been watching The Mummy.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Sharks with friggin laser beams.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 07:30 PM (mT+6a)

162 CNN is still reporting that "at least 14 million" will die because of USAID shutting down.

CNN can't find its own ass with both hands. Absolutely zero empirical evidence for this.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 07:30 PM (1bdKO)

163 The deal is for 8 live hostages and then 2 live 50 days later. Ten dead bodies but numbers after that.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:30 PM (HFcKg)

164 Thanks Ben.

I was wanting to bomb the shit out of Gaza.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 02, 2025 07:30 PM (3ek7K)

165 Marxist lingo doctrine, diabolical all the way down.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 07:30 PM (QSrLX)

166 JUdge Moss' greatest (political) hit: On March 1, 2020, Moss ruled that President Donald Trump unlawfully installed Ken Cuccinelli as acting Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and that therefore, certain directives related to removal of undocumented immigrants seeking asylum he implemented “must be set aside.”[18]

If Mayorkas unlawfully threw the border open, clearly Moss should STFU or be charged

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 07:30 PM (FZn/N)

167 So the YMCA went from a Christian male organization, to a gay-friendly place, to a group that dropped the word Christian from their name, to a place that welcomes dicks in the women's locker room.

But the Slippery Slope is a fallacy!

Posted by: Wally at July 02, 2025 07:31 PM (DEw/K)

168 Is Gavin Newsom suffering from the delusion that he was a cast member on Good Times or The Jeffersons?

Posted by: Paco at July 02, 2025 07:32 PM (mADJX)

169 23
'That worked for the NJ Nat Guard back in 68.

They were throwing the bodies of the rioters into the river off the same dock they bring sheep into the slaughterhouse.'

What happened to those golden days?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 07:32 PM (3wi/L)

170 four seasons, hamas is killing their own for getting to the food distribution centers so that is a net gain.
I have no care for the mother with her infant dressed in jihadi headband and hamas garb. I hope you both starve.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:35 PM (HFcKg)

171 "The President [Biden] has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. He really has!"

Illegal crossings surged to the highest levels in recorded history 4 months later.
-----

Once again, triggers recollection of Jim Acosta doing 'on the scene' reporting, standing in front of a walled section, intoning, 'We see no evidence of illegal entry'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 07:35 PM (XeU6L)

172 @142

>>I call this incompetence and poor editing. The writer wanted to be clever and not use the word "gang" twice in the same sentence so they used their phone to find a synonym and used the first one on the list.

The correct context for hispanic/sa gangs would be the word set.

Clique is an old french word and has no business being used in this instance.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 07:35 PM (XV/Pl)

173 CNN is still reporting that "at least 14 million" will die because of USAID shutting down.

Actually the report is that 14 million "could" die according to some UN "expert." Again, X could happen if Y are not news stories, they are opinion delivered with a thin veneer of respectability.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 07:36 PM (dfIr7)

174 Are there still hostages in Gaza?

Right? WTF are we talking about? If there’s still hostages, there’s still a war-PRRIOD!

Posted by: Unkaren at July 02, 2025 07:36 PM (J4BK5)

175 Because his life was deemed dispensable by his family, and the Government gave them the power to end his life regardless of his needs or wishes.

https://bit.ly/3TlK1xu
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 06:49 PM (P5BPp)

This is the exact same thing as abortion on demand. We are not dogs that need to put down. Not even when we are only a few cells old. The evil that thinks this is acceptable will speak in all sorts of fulsome language, all of it a lie, to continue to be able to murder at will.

After all, I'm just a clump of cells, right?

It is nearly impossible to adopt a baby in this country. "Unwanted" babies are nearly always murdered. It is appalling.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:36 PM (1Gsou)

176 Cafe Food

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:38 PM (u82oZ)

177 I have no care for the mother with her infant dressed in jihadi headband and hamas garb. I hope you both starve.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:35 PM (HFcKg)

That photo of those women holding up their babies... horrid.

"You know, they blow up so fast." /spit

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:38 PM (1Gsou)

178
I don't have any hope Gaza will be cleaned up.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 02, 2025 07:41 PM (3ek7K)

179 In MAID, in abortion, they are being made to “pass through the fire” to Moloch.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 07:59 PM (SEFV4)

180 I don't have any hope Gaza will be cleaned up.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 02, 2025 07:41 PM (3ek7K)

Although I’ve supported Israel as much as anyone has in this, I can’t deny that Bibi and the IDF keep dicking around and refusing to go for the final blow that would end this. They prefer to act like it is all some glorified West Bank bug hunt.
I mean it’s great to keep taking out leaders you hate, but at some point you gotta get down and dirty and take out their fighters, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:00 PM (Lhvai)

181 Disney revenue up 7% to 23 billion.
200 million loss on a picture is less than 1%
It is a rounding off amount

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 02, 2025 08:08 PM (ZjVFW)

182 "Trump to Hamas: I worked out a 60 day ceasefire deal for you. You'd better take it."

You don't want to find out what happens on Day 61. How deep are your tunnels again?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 02, 2025 08:13 PM (PQOq3)

183 Easy next step for the Supreme court - declare that ANY ruling by ANY judge without scrupulous adherence to the rigors of Rule 23 is null and void a priori.

Basically, says no judge can make this ruling without adherence to Rule 23. That rule says a class can be certified only if it represents a large group of people with similar or the same injuries or damages, or typical defenses resulting from an action by the defendant. It also requires that counsel for the class be able to fairly and adequately protect and represent the interests of the class.

That requires individual direct notice to class members where the class members can be identified through reasonable means. If they cannot be easily identified, you need to advertise. You've seen the commercial "If you've been a victim in an accident due to faulty ketchup bottles, you me be eligible for compensation...."

Obviously, this has not been done, hence this is a rule 23 violation. I'm not sure illegal immigrants could ever be classified as a class, simple because they are not citizens.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 08:25 PM (gDhA9)

184 To finish my thought - the courts have ruled that mass deportations of asylum seekers is illegal - each asylum seeker is entitled to an individualized process before a judge. You can't, then, make a case they are a generalized class that requires collective relief.

besides, generally courts frown on class action lawsuits brought by non-U.S. citizens. The two-fold reason for this is related to the rules American courts must follow when weighing which consumers can and should be covered by a class action and the uncertainty as to whether a foreign court will uphold a U.S. court’s judgment or settlement terms. In this case, they provide injunctive relief for asylum seekers from Costa Rica, but Costa Rica says "hey, we want our guy back anyhow."

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (gDhA9)

185 They MIGHT be able to pass Rule 23 muster in regard to birthright citizenship, given the Dreamers are identified, and constitute a class.

But for asylum seekers? Nope. It'll never work.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 08:35 PM (gDhA9)

186
Just like to remind You People we had missed the 3 year anniversary, June 18, 2022, when biden fell off his bike.

It's one of my favorite memories.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at July 02, 2025 08:58 PM (qIp2u)

187 Quit using an Enigma machine! Just say
Nood!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:06 PM (SEFV4)

The CIA Covered Up Their Role in the RussiaGate Coup, Says a New Report

Jake Tapper is writing Original Sin 2: CIA Boogaloo. He'll be telling us what we already knew in 2030.

Miranda Divine:

A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama administration's spy agencies' assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were "excessively involved" in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a "chaotic," "atypical" and "markedly unconventional" process that raised questions of a "potential political motive."
Further, Brennan's decision to include the discredited Steele dossier, over the objections of the CIA's most senior Russia experts, "undermined the credibility" of the assessment.
The "Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Election Interference" was conducted by career professionals at the CIA's Directorate of Analysis and was commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May.
The "lessons-learned review" found that, on December 6, 2016, six weeks before his presidency ended, Barack Obama ordered the assessment, which concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin "aspired" to help Trump win the election.
The review identified "multiple procedural anomalies" that undermined the credibility of the ICA, including "a highly compressed production timeline, stringent compartmentation, and excessive involvement of agency heads."
It also questioned the exclusion of key intelligence agencies and said media leaks may have influenced analysts to conform to a false narrative of Trump-Russia collusion.
"The rushed timeline to publish both classified and unclassified versions before the presidential transition raised questions about a potential political motive behind the White House tasking and timeline."
The review found that Brennan directed the compilation of the ICA, and that his, Comey's and Clapper's "direct engagement in the ICA's development was highly unusual in both scope and intensity" and "risked stifling analytic debate."
Brennan handpicked the CIA analysts to compile the ICA and involved only the ODNI, CIA, FBI and NSA, excluding 13 of the then-17 intelligence agencies.
He sidelined the National Intelligence Council and forced the inclusion of the discredited Steele dossier despite objections of the authors and senior CIA Russia experts, so as to push a false narrative that Russia secured Trump's 2016 victory.
"This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding 'We're going to screw Trump,'" said Ratcliffe in an exclusive interview.
"It was, 'We're going to create this and put the imprimatur of an IC assessment in a way that nobody can question it.' They stamped it as Russian collusion and then classified it so nobody could see it.

Here's what the evidence showed happened here. If any of the co-conspirators want to correct this and tell us how the paperclipped dossier made it to CNN airwaves in mere days, please contact me and I'll correct.

But this is what the evidence shows:

Comey and Brennan were trying to get the press to report on the "dossier." But even CNN wouldn't report on it, because nothing in it was verified. Comey himself said -- I think in a 60 Minutes interview -- that CNN told him they couldn't report it without a "news hook."

What's a news hook? It's a dishonest pretext for publishing false information that you want to smear someone with. For example, you might not be able to report a slander, but you can report that "DC insiders are buzzing" about the contents of the slander. That way you avoid saying if the slander is true or false, and you avoid a lawsuit, while still pumping that information out into the world.

The New York Times used this backdoor defamation when they reported not that John McCain was having an affair with a lobbyist, but merely that "insiders" were "concerned" about the excessive time and attention he was giving this woman. Hint, hint. See, they can't say he's having an affair, because they don't have confirmation, so they'll just talk about his "insiders" worrying he's having an affair.

Now I totally believe he was having an affair -- he is and always was trash -- but "reporters" aren't supposed to report claims they can't verify.

The "news hook" approach lets them get around that impediment.

Now, when CNN told Comey that they needed a "news hook" to report on the "dossier," he got together with Brennan and Clapper to paper-clip the dossier to one of Trump's intelligence briefings. They told Trump not to even worry about it, because it was all unverified "scurrilous" gossip, so he didn't.

But then they immediately leaked the fact that it had been paperclipped to the intelligence briefing to CNN, providing CNN with its "news hook" for reporting Hillary Clinton campaign oppo nonsense with no verification. CNN didn't report the contents of the dossier, which was unverified and WITHOUT EVIDENCE as Jake Tapper's snarky chyrons like to say, but they could not report that Trump was briefed about its contents.

This achieved just what the conspirators Brennan, Clapper, Comey, as well as Tapper, Perez, Bernstein, and Sciutto wanted -- they legitimized the dossier by having the highly-partisan "intelligence" heads recognize it as worth briefing to the president, which made it worth Tapper telling his seventeen viewers about.

From the start, the paperclipping of the dossier wasn't intended to inform the president, it was to create a pretextual "news hook" for Hillary Clinton's oppo dump lies that were otherwise unreportable.

"This led to Mueller [special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry, which concluded after two years that there was no Trump-Russia collusion]. It put the seal of approval of the intelligence community that Russia was helping Trump and that the Steele dossier was the scandal of our lifetime. It ate up the first two years of his [Trump's first] presidency.
"You see how Brennan and Clapper and Comey manipulated [and] silenced all the career professionals and railroaded the process."
The CIA review notes that, before work even began on the ICA, "media leaks suggesting that the Intelligence Community had already reached definitive conclusions risked creating an anchoring." The term "anchoring" refers to a cognitive bias in psychology and suggests that the media leaks may have influenced the analysts working on the ICA to shape their findings to conform with the leaked narrative rather than conducting an objective analysis.
On December 9, 2016, both the Washington Post and New York Times reported the IC had "concluded with high confidence that Russia had intervened specifically to help Trump win the election."
The Post cited an unnamed US official describing this as the IC's "consensus view."
The "highly compressed timeline was atypical for a formal IC assessment which ordinarily can take months to prepare, especially for assessments of such length, complexity, and political sensitivity," the review found. "CIA's primary authors had less than a week to draft the assessment and less than two days to formally coordinate it with IC peers before it entered the formal review process at CIA on December 20."
...
The review criticizes the ICA for including the Steele dossier, a salacious and discredited opposition-research product written by former British spy Christopher Steele, who was working for the Hillary Clinton campaign, which claimed Russia possessed sexually compromising blackmail material on Trump.
Despite the fact that "the ICA authors and multiple senior CIA managers -- including the two senior leaders of the CIA mission center responsible for Russia -- strongly opposed including the Dossier, asserting that it did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards," Brennan insisted it be included.
"CIA's Deputy Director for Analysis (DDA) warned in an email to Brennan on December 29 that including it in any form risked 'the credibility of the entire paper.'"
But Brennan responded that "my bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report."
Brennan showed "a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness," said the review.

No, he included the dossier just so he could then phone Tapper and say, "It's done, we paperclipped it to Trump's report, you can report on the dossier now, we made your 'news hook' for you."

None of this caused Tapper, Perez, Sciutto, or Bernstein any consternation, and none of them admitted that their sources were so riven by partisan political animus that they tricked Trump into accepting a "briefing" just so that briefing could be reported within days on CNN.

Read all of Miranda Divine's report. It's good.

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: The highly classified version of the Obama-ordered CIA report on Russian 2016 interference includes in main body a reference to the debunked Steele dossier "as the 4th supporting bullet for the judgment Putin 'aspired' to help Trump win," new after-action review reveals
HUGE: Just-released CIA after-action review of Obama/Brennan's 2017 ICA re Russia-Trump shoots down media narrative ICA didnt rely on Hillary dossier. IT DID. The dossier not only was summarized and attached as an annex but referred to in "the main body" of the classified version
BREAKING: In a Dec. 29, 2016 email, the CIA's deputy director for analysis warned director Brennan that inclg the debunked Steele dossier in the classified ICA risked "the credibility of the entire paper," but Brennan insisted: "The information warrants inclusion in the report."
BREAKING: On Dec. 18, 2016--before the ICA was finalized--Brennan sent a pressure note to CIA officials and analysts that he'd met with Comey and Clapper and that "there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature and INTENT of Russian interference in our recent election."
BREAKING: In crafting the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on "Russian interference," Brennan shut out not only DIA and DOS' Bureau of Intelligence and Research but also the National Intelligence Council, which w/ NSA might have added dissent re his Putin-Trump conclusions.
REAKING: Brennan withheld the fact he was including the Hillary dossier from key CIA analysts authoring the ICA until Dec. 20, 2016, when the first ICA draft was entering the review process. When CIA officials confronted Brennan with flaws in the dossier, Brennan overruled them.

Meanwhile: Christopher Wray blocked a report about China interfering in our politics on Biden's behalf because he had previously falsely declared there was no such interference.

So he ordered the Albany FBI office to withdraw their report so as not to discredit his perjurious congressional testimony.

Catherine Herridge
@C__Herridge
NEW: Heavily redacted @FBI emails released via @ChuckGrassley @FBIDirectorKash

* FBI HQ interfered with Albany NY investigation into alleged Chinese 2020 Election Interference
* Designed to shield then FBI Director Wray from political blowback over his Congressional testimony
* Emails suggest FBI HQ was focused on optics, not fact finding two months before the election
AMONG KEY EMAILS: pg. 23
"A new 1023 will be needed, that will have updated date of acquisition and contact, with an updated source context statement. AND it will have to run the gamut at HQ for review/approval.
Again, the reporting will contradict Director Wray�s testimony."
NOTE: FD-1023 is used to record information from
confidential human sources

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Internal FBI emails released by Senate Judiciary reveal the FBI suppressed intelligence of alleged pro-Biden Chinese interference in the 2020 election to insulate then-director Wray from criticism, after Wray provided "inaccurate and contradictory testimony" to Congress
BREAKING: A declassified Sept 2020 intel report from an FBI CHS warning a Chinese plot to use data from U.S. TikTok accounts to create "tens of thousands" of fake Chinese student mail-in votes for Biden was recalled by FBI HQ "for a political reason," FBI intel analyst complained

Grassley's report:

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released internal Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) emails revealing the FBI suppressed intelligence of alleged Chinese interference in the 2020 election to insulate then-FBI Director Christopher Wray from criticism, after Wray provided inaccurate and contradictory testimony to Congress.
The FBI declassified and provided the requested records to Grassley, along with an accompanying cover letter, after Grassley initially received some information from whistleblower disclosures. The FBI emails offer an inside look at the Bureau's decision to recall and suppress an Intelligence Information Report (IIR) from the FBI's Albany Field Office on September 25, 2020. The IIR contained information from an FBI Confidential Human Source (CHS) alleging the Chinese government was producing "tens of thousands" of fraudulent drivers' licenses to manufacture mail-in votes for then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
According to the FBI, these allegations, despite showing initial signs of credibility, were allegedly never fully investigated due to the FBI's sudden and "abnormal" decision to halt the investigation and bury the IIR's existence, preventing any additional FBI field offices, as well as other Intelligence Community elements, from accessing or studying the document. The FBI's stated reason for doing so was because "the reporting will contradict Director Wray's testimony."
"These records smack of political decision-making and prove the Wray-led FBI to be a deeply broken institution. Ahead of a high-stakes election happening amid an unprecedented global pandemic, the FBI turned its back on its national security mission," Grassley said. "One way or the other, intelligence must be fully investigated to determine whether it's true, or if it's just smoke and mirrors. Chris Wray's FBI wasn't looking out for the American people -- it was looking to save its own image. Now's the time to rebuild the FBI's trust. Director Patel's willingness to work with me to establish renewed transparency and accountability is a critical part of that process, and I applaud him for his efforts."
Political Reasoning
Following the IIR's recall, an FBI Albany intelligence analyst summarized the concerning series of events that led to the suppression:
"Most concerning to me, is stating the reporting would contradict with Director Wray's testimony. I found this troubling because it implied to me that one of the reasons we aren't putting this out is for a political reason, which goes directly against our organization's mission to remain apolitical and simply state what we know. Likewise, at the field operational level, I do not feel it is our job to assess whether or not our intelligence aligns with the Director.... My concern is that I think it gets dangerous if we cite potential political implications as reasons for not putting out our information."
Source Credibility
An FBI Albany official noted "the IIR was coordinated and disseminated in textbook fashion." Further, a re-interview of the FBI CHS yielded additional context that supported the initial IIR's findings. An FBI Albany official described the CHS as "competent" and "authentic in his/her reporting." The CHS described the confidence in his/her sub-sourcing as a "9-10 range. [V]ery, very confident."
Decision for Recall
According to an Assistant Section Chief in the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, the IIR immediately generated "a lot of attention from all [Headquarter] divisions."
Upon receiving the IIR, an FBI Albany official stated, "We have no reason to recall at this point." Minutes later, the Albany Field Office was commanded to recall the IIR at the direct request of officials at FBI Headquarters, including Nikki Floris, then-Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. Months before dismissing the IIR, Floris provided an unnecessary briefing to Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) regarding their investigation into the Biden family. The briefing -- though classified -- was later leaked to the press in an effort to falsely smear the senators' investigation as Russian disinformation.
Following the IIR's recall, FBI Headquarters informed field offices that "all raw reporting concerning the election will now require [Headquarters] coordination," which had not been previously required.

In other words: The political commissars at the FBI get to scrub any reports vindicating Trump or proving that the Chinese rigged the election to Biden.

Was Wray pardoned? I don't think he was.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

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1
Good Afternoon

Posted by: four seasons at July 02, 2025 05:30 PM (3ek7K)

2
Hello

Posted by: four seasons at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM (3ek7K)

3 How many of these got autopardons?

And what are the odds of us actually invalidating them?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM (od0dV)

4 The CIA is the Marvel of intelligence agencies.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM (2UnvF)

5 I wonder what our Top Men plan to do with this treasonous evidence now?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 05:32 PM (/U5Yz)

6 In the previous thread it was argued that dropping Hollywood on Iran would be a terrible war crime.

But can we still drop the Vindmans on KEEEV?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:33 PM (ULPxl)

7 also, can piranha survive in the Everglades?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 05:34 PM (/U5Yz)

8 Was Wray pardoned? I don't think he was.

Oh no!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:34 PM (ULPxl)

9 This is great coverage, Ace.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 05:34 PM (PMtkd)

10 Question: Should I invest in helicopters, or rope?

Posted by: zombie at July 02, 2025 05:35 PM (pMi6S)

11 4 The CIA is the Marvel of intelligence agencies.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM

Will the role of Ironheart be played by John Brennan?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 05:35 PM (HlyYF)

12 Shouldn't it say the Chinese ligged the erection?

Posted by: Wally at July 02, 2025 05:36 PM (TFgMp)

13 >>> 10 Question: Should I invest in helicopters, or rope?
Posted by: zombie at July 02, 2025 05:35 PM (pMi6S)

Yes.

Maybe also extra-large wooden stakes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:36 PM (ULPxl)

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 05:36 PM (/U5Yz)

15 !

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:36 PM (ULPxl)

16 "The CIA Covered Up Their Role in the RussiaGate Coup"

Naaaah!

Posted by: Forged in Farce at July 02, 2025 05:37 PM (vFG9F)

17 6 In the previous thread it was argued that dropping Hollywood on Iran would be a terrible war crime.

But can we still drop the Vindmans on KEEEV?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:33 PM

I believe that only the U.S. military has bombers with the payload capacity to simultaneously deliver TWO Vindmans on target.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 05:37 PM (HlyYF)

18 Does this mean something is going to happen?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 05:37 PM (Dv3i1)

19 "A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama administration's spy agencies' assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were "excessively involved" in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a "chaotic," "atypical" and "markedly unconventional" process that raised questions of a "potential political motive." "

How do I do an emoji saying "this is my shocked face" on here?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 02, 2025 05:37 PM (e5NfL)

20 The traitor John Brennan is a traitor who deserves a traitors fate.

I utterly loath that creature.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 05:37 PM (sAmhv)

21 The CIA is up to shenanigans?

I can't believe it, I shan't believe it.

Why, my whole world has been shaken.

Ooh, fresh donuts.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 02, 2025 05:37 PM (dGCAG)

22 Pillage Idiot please report to the piranha barrel.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 05:37 PM (/U5Yz)

23
Can we haz hangings?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 05:38 PM (/HVsR)

24 But but obviously Pooooootin wanted Trump. Because in an historic example of 374-dimensional chess, he wanted his national economy and budget to take an enormous hit through the lowered energy prices Trump helped create. Or something.

The massacre of dozens of Russian kontraktniye in Syria was just a bonus.

(narrator: forget the ridiculous specifics of "dossier" and "ICA" - anyone with the slightest understanding of the world or Russia did nothing but chortle at the absurd "RUSSIA!" crap from the outset, then got the Nth confirmation that America had become a thoroughly unserious country and wrote the place off even more)

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 05:38 PM (1m82a)

25 Not saying there should be Star Chambers but you're eventually going to get them if people like this always go unpunished.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:38 PM (VofaG)

26 Thanks be to the italics fixers.

(My tremor is bad today and my keyboard "notices".)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 05:38 PM (HlyYF)

27 I heard Tapper's next book would be a tell all about the numerous affairs of JFK

Posted by: AndrewsDad at July 02, 2025 05:39 PM (WX3pP)

28 Wake me up when they start getting helicopter rides.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 05:39 PM (B9Prs)

29 It really is hard to believe this sh*t started a decade ago.

And really, nobody has paid a substantive price for this treason and treachery.

The Woodchipper of Justices thirst remains unslaked.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (niAIB)

30 There's a scene in Princess Mononoke where the heroine cuts the head of the stag that represents Nature. From the neck of the stage gushes an endless stream of lifeforce that fills the whole world.

Trump winning is like that scene, but with the morality reversed and the death force instead of the life force. The stag is the embodiment of the Left's history of evil and corruption, and Trump lopped its head off, and now the evidence is exploding out of the neck in an unstoppable stream that will nearly drown everyone.

OK, it's not the best metaphor, but you can't fault me for trying.

Posted by: zombie at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (pMi6S)

31 The Puzzle Palace lied? I shan't believe it.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (jc0TO)

32 So all the newspapers and stations are merely TMZ with a classier byline.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (jPh2t)

33 Can we haz hangings?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 05:38 PM (/HVsR)

No. These men will die peacefully in their beds. Surrounded by their money.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)

34 I was going to start singing showtunes but the somebody nooded.

Probably for the best.

Posted by: eleven at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (fV+MH)

35 22 Pillage Idiot please report to the piranha barrel.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 05:37 PM

Conditional upon the barrel being moved to Florida, AND piranhas cannot survive in Florida?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (HlyYF)

36 Types. Deletes.

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 05:41 PM (jgmnb)

37 No!!!!

I shan't believe it! I shannot!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 05:41 PM (d8x+f)

38
When I read a column, or post, or Substack and the author mentions Russian collusion or "fine people on both sides" I stop reading immediately. Nothing past that point is worth it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 05:41 PM (/HVsR)

39 Every leftist will say this was a lie produced by the Trump administration and his flunky Ratcliffe. Either that or they'll say old news. Indict a couple of the mid level guys and see what rock they're willing to turn over to avoid prison

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 05:42 PM (eBgDF)

40 Note that in both cases, at the career level there was serious objection to what the bosses were up to. But unfortunately nobody wanted to jump on the grenade for the country (there was no way a leak in those two cases would not be readily ID'd). Part of that might be that righteous leaks for essential good causes - in today's America - are met with total malign fury by The State.

Idiots "leaking" crap that usually doesn't even imply what it claims to (see Joe Wilson farce) results in hosannas, hero-worship, fame, sometimes fortune and certainly universal support in "elite" circles.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 05:42 PM (1m82a)

41 So all the newspapers and stations are merely TMZ with a classier byline.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM

They print what they are paid to print. That's the lesson of the last decade.

*looks sideways at Ace*

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 05:42 PM (jc0TO)

42 "This is great coverage, Ace.
Posted by: Seems Legit"

He explains it so even I can understand.

Much appreciated.

Posted by: eleven at July 02, 2025 05:42 PM (fV+MH)

43 Not saying there should be Star Chambers but you're eventually going to get them if people like this always go unpunished.
Posted by: polynikes

Star chamber was a secret court. Not the thing we need. Fewer protected people and more exposure is needed. Broadcasted trials in absentia on the other hand...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 05:42 PM (mlg/3)

44 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.

Posted by: Lord Comey at July 02, 2025 05:42 PM (a/G0f)

45 >>Christopher Wray blocked a report about China interfering in our politics on Biden's behalf because ~~he had previously falsely declared there was no such interference.~~

He was a commie traitor paid by the Chinese to run cover for them while destroying the country.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 02, 2025 05:43 PM (+oHZt)

46 Bring on the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. I almost don't care if these people get what they deserve as long as the truth comes out.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 05:44 PM (jc0TO)

47 Brennan, Clapper AND Comey should swing for their actions.

Wray should swing for entirely different actions.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 05:44 PM (T4A2M)

48 Willpower.

I just saw "Jurassic Whatever".

-
I see there's a "Digital 3D" version available. What is that. Do you need glasses?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 05:45 PM (L/fGl)

49 I have a hard time understanding how Comey, Clapper and Brennan are still alive. In a more civilized time they would have been gone a long time ago.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 05:45 PM (Vh9CX)

50 38
When I read a column, or post, or Substack and the author mentions Russian collusion or "fine people on both sides" I stop reading immediately. Nothing past that point is worth it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'm lke that, but with Climate Change. The moment that word appears, I close the page, stop the video, cease all perception of the media. Even if I was enjoying it up to that point. Crops up more often than you might realize, everywhere.

"The beautiful migration of the Sandhill Cranes is one of nature's greatest spectacles -- but due to Climate Ch--"

Click.

Posted by: zombie at July 02, 2025 05:45 PM (pMi6S)

51
Taking the more fun discussion from the previous thread because it's better for my blood pressure:

he's not the focus, the way that his soul is redeemed and transformed is the focus. The fact that his soul is changed is what allows him to finally have a healthy relationship with another human being, for probably the first time in his existence.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (uWKK

Groundhog Day is about virtue ethics.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 05:46 PM (B9Prs)

52 In the previous thread it was argued that dropping Hollywood on Iran would be a terrible war crime.

But can we still drop the Vindmans on KEEEV?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:33 PM (ULPxl)

I'll allow it. Ukraine needs troops, and they might land in the Dnepr River.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:46 PM (8avO+)

53
Bring on the Truth and ~~Reconciliation~~ RetributionCommittee.

Better

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 05:46 PM (/HVsR)

54 What does the CIA do exactly?

I mean do FOR us?

There's got to be something.

Posted by: eleven at July 02, 2025 05:46 PM (fV+MH)

55
"The beautiful migration of the Sandhill Cranes is one of nature's greatest spectacles -- but due to Climate Ch--"

Click.
Posted by: zombie at July 02, 2025 05:45 PM

Same zombie, I'd add my truth to the phrase that makes me stop.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (jPh2t)

56 And everyone of the cocksuckers has ben autopen pardened, right?

Bring them all in and shine krieg lights up their assholes on discovery of whom else knew about it, then slam those motherfuckers into the basement of Angola with the water mocosins as an example of when to be a whistle blower to the rest of the balls deep state.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (QcUc+)

57 Idiots "leaking" crap that usually doesn't even imply what it claims to (see Joe Wilson farce) results in hosannas, hero-worship, fame, sometimes fortune and certainly universal support in "elite" circles.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 05:42 PM (1m82a)
Joe Wilson will always be a Hero to me for those two words to ubama. ‘YOU LIE!’.

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (jgmnb)

58 54 What does the CIA do exactly?

I mean do FOR us?

There's got to be something.
Posted by: eleven at July 02, 2025 05:46 PM (fV+MH)

Keeps a bunch of pizza shops around DC afloat?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (B9Prs)

59 >>I have a hard time understanding how Comey, Clapper and Brennan are still alive. In a more civilized time they would have been gone a long time ago.

At the very least in hiding and living on the dime of some tinpot 3rd World Dictator.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (T4A2M)

60 Star chamber was a secret court. Not the thing we need. Fewer protected people and more exposure is needed. Broadcasted trials in absentia on the other hand...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 05:42 PM (ml

No Star Chambers are private vigilante groups .

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (VofaG)

61 I think we need both.

Public executions with tumbrels rolling through the streets to the guillotines, and snipers reserved for special cases.

Ah, who am I kidding, we need a BBB and more of the Great Renaming of all the bad things into new names and new programs so it looks like the problem is solved but in reality it is just hidden deeper.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (+oHZt)

62 Was Wray pardoned? I don't think he was.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

Thank you, Chris Christie, for laying Wray on Trump like the Native Americans laid syphilis on the Europeans.

The gift that kept on giving...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (0CU3H)

63 I'll allow it. Ukraine needs troops, and they might land in the Dnepr River.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:46 PM (8avO+)

I would say it needs statesmen, in which case you DON'T want the Vindaloos anywhere near the place. They have enough nazzies.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (dGCAG)

64 Bondi is suing Minnesota and Kentucky for giving resident tuition rates to illegal aliens, while charging a higher non-resident rate for legal residents of other states.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 05:48 PM (qpyNK)

65 Wonder how the 'good apples' at the DOJ will screw this one up.

@MattFinnFNC 33m
BREAKING: Federal grand jury indicts LA man who went viral for dropping off truck-load of face shields on Live TV for protestors to use in demonstrations against law enforcement amid LA riots/protests.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 05:48 PM (mlg/3)

66 >>> The CIA Covered Up Their Role in the RussiaGate Coup, Says a New Report

Some people do not grok "covert".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 05:48 PM (/lPRQ)

67 There's got to be something.
Posted by: eleven at July 02, 2025 05:46 PM (fV+MH)

No. There really isn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 02, 2025 05:49 PM (dGCAG)

68 All pardons not verified to be an original signature from Biden should be null and void.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 05:49 PM (aXWdL)

69 > Thank you, Chris Christie

What's Fat Fatty been up to these days? I haven't heard much about him lately.

It's be interesting to see him and Pritzker in one of those "competitive eating" contests.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 05:49 PM (qpyNK)

70 How about drum head trials?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 05:49 PM (d8x+f)

71 An illegal shouldn't be able to get into any school at any price.

Posted by: Forged in Farce at July 02, 2025 05:49 PM (vFG9F)

72
What's Fat Fatty been up to these days? I haven't heard much about him lately.

_________

Laying waste to every Golden Corral in the NE.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 05:50 PM (/HVsR)

73 'm lke that, but with Climate Change. The moment that word appears, I close the page, stop the video, cease all perception of the media. Even if I was enjoying it up to that point. Crops up more often than you might realize, everywhere.

"The beautiful migration of the Sandhill Cranes is one of nature's greatest spectacles -- but due to Climate Ch--"

Click.
Posted by: zombie at July 02, 2025 05:45 PM (pMi6S)

Books are infiltrated and documentaries too. I was listening to one and the had to use Climate Change tag whenever a continent collided with another and a sea dried up.

But my topper is the book on the relations between Parthia and Rome in 150 BC or so that somehow was the fault of the United States and the Gulf wars.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:50 PM (8avO+)

74 > 71 An illegal shouldn't be able to get into any school at any price.
Posted by: Forged in Farce at July 02, 2025 05:49 PM (vFG9F)

Certainly not a taxpayer-funded school.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 05:50 PM (qpyNK)

75 Want to know why I don't care about any of this? And I should.

Because absolutely nothing will happen to anybody for what they did.

Posted by: The Volleyball from Top Gun at July 02, 2025 05:50 PM (eYAt4)

76 >>> 68 All pardons not verified to be an original signature from Biden should be null and void.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 05:49 PM (aXWdL)

I'll see your autopen and raise 'everything from the fake ass Brandon admin resulting from a stolen election' should be null and void.

(No, I am not holding my breath.)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:50 PM (ULPxl)

77 53
Bring on the Truth and ~~Reconciliation~~ ~~Retribution~~ RECKONING Committee.

Better
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh a
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Best

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 02, 2025 05:51 PM (+oHZt)

78 A Chinese deluge of mail in votes doesn't materialize unless there is an internal party willing to run interference on those votes.

Does James Clyburn have a presidential pardon? Why no, I don't believe he does. Although, he indirectly lobbied for one pretty hard by convincing Biden to pardon Hunter and various other parties. But, he fell short of getting one himself. Just saying.

Posted by: Orson at July 02, 2025 05:51 PM (dIske)

79 Well, I guess that's good.

@JackPosobiec 9m
Diddy's bail DENIED as supporters spray themselves with baby oil outside courtroom to celebrate not guilty verdicts

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 05:51 PM (mlg/3)

80 BREAKING: Federal grand jury indicts LA man who went viral for dropping off truck-load of face shields on Live TV for protestors to use in demonstrations against law enforcement amid LA riots/protests.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 05:48 PM (mlg/3)

oh come on who doesn't have a truck load of face shields with them?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:51 PM (8avO+)

81 The Truth and Dissolving Our Enemies in Acid Committee.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 05:52 PM (jc0TO)

82 62 Was Wray pardoned? I don't think he was.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

Thank you, Chris Christie, for laying Wray on Trump like the Native Americans laid syphilis on the Europeans.

The gift that kept on giving...
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (0CU3H)

Like Mitt Wombly, there's a guy who we don't hear from anymore. I assume he's in some sex dungeon being force fed Krispy Kremes through a gloryhole.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 05:52 PM (mFz+I)

83 /off sock

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 02, 2025 05:52 PM (eYAt4)

84 Arrest them all using full SWAT teams, have them tried in red jurisdictions for treason, hang them high for all to see, confiscate all their assets.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 02, 2025 05:52 PM (ynpvh)

85 >>> 71 An illegal shouldn't be able to get into any school at any price.
Posted by: Forged in Farce at July 02, 2025 05:49 PM (vFG9F)

Thank whatever members of SCOTUS in the majority opinion from Tyler (TX) vs somebody-or-other, which asserted that not only did we have to allow it but we had to *pay* for it.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:52 PM (ULPxl)

86 Harry Potter and the Cromulent Commie WoodChipper

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 05:53 PM (d8x+f)

87 Seems to be a thing now

@Breaking911 12m
BREAKING: Injuries reported after huge firework explosion at golf course in Mashpee, Mass.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 05:53 PM (mlg/3)

88 Just simple mistakes. All in one direction, every time.

Posted by: Pious Agnostic at July 02, 2025 05:53 PM (BFEJQ)

89 The CIA Covered Up Their Role in the RussiaGate Coup

-----

LOL. Just how did they "cover up" their role, exactly?

It's common knowledge among people who follow news that the CIA used a 5 eyes asset (Steele) to pass it to a ConInc media worm (Continetti), who passed it to another, more "reputable" left wing media corporation (CNN), who briefed a ConInc Senator (McCain) on the "story" so he could include it an intelligence (CIA) briefing for the President, and then "leak" it as a newsworthy item.

But, even if you weren't following that story so closely, by the time the embarrassing Mueller investigation wrapped up, you knew it was a political hit by the IC. Unless you were straight up retarded.

This story is very, very stale. Every voter knew this shit by 2024.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 05:53 PM (BI5O2)

90 So, vote harder?

Yawn.

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 05:54 PM (CZEZE)

91 Arrest them all using full SWAT teams, have them tried in red jurisdictions for treason, hang them high for all to see, confiscate all their assets.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 02, 2025 05:52 PM (ynpvh)

Sulla's Proscriptions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 05:54 PM (d8x+f)

92 Ace, should I read your post, or just dive into commenting????

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 05:54 PM (PCK5/)

93 The phrase that is making me bail nowadays is "Anglo-zionist"

Nothing associated with that phrase is coherent with common sense

Posted by: Kindltot--It's not a mask, it's a spit hoodk at July 02, 2025 05:55 PM (D7oie)

94 I see there's a "Digital 3D" version available. What is that. Do you need glasses?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 05:45 PM (L/fGl)

You always need something to get a different image into each eye.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:55 PM (8avO+)

95 force fed Krispy Kremes through a gloryhole.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 05:52 PM

I guffawed.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 05:55 PM (jPh2t)

96 Obviously, this is all a partisan witch hunt, Magats!

DU, most likely.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 05:56 PM (tT6L1)

97

Click.
Posted by: zombie

------------

I keep reading, but with the understanding that it is propaganda. (Always pays to know what the enemy is saying.)

What bothers me though is that so much benign information is infiltrated with three lines of bullshit
- climate change
- china
- islam.

Pick any random article in wikipedia, and they will have a mention of all three. All of human history actually came from china and islam (two vile cultures that spent most of their time stealing and killing among themselves,) and everything will result in climate change.

This is cultural genocide against whites, Europeans, Christianity, free markets, and freedoms.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 02, 2025 05:56 PM (+oHZt)

98 I insist that there MUST be months and months of investigations and hearings and commissions and committees and Fact Finding Missions and subpoenas and testimonies and reports and by golly a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER or two!! And then surely we'll get a Special Prosecutor to dick around for a couple years to find that Procedures Were Not Followed in a Withering Report.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at July 02, 2025 05:56 PM (V362x)

99 >>>> Thank you, Chris Christie

What's Fat Fatty been up to these days? I haven't heard much about him lately.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

>Those annual hotdog eating contests just aren't as exciting without a heel to scorn.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 05:56 PM (a/G0f)

100 Maybe it's just because I'm excessively tired, but I'm not going to fret myself because of evil doers like Comey and Wray and Clapper. They have no effect on my life at the moment and the Bible says not to fret in a number of places including psalm 37. They will go before God and so will I but I doubt they have any God but themselves.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:57 PM (2GCMq)

101 Seems to be a thing now

@Breaking911 12m
BREAKING: Injuries reported after huge firework explosion at golf course in Mashpee, Mass.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 05:53 PM (mlg/3)

Everyone knows you use an M-80 to dig a new cup for the ball in that situation.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:57 PM (8avO+)

102 They are all in cover up mode. This was an Op from the beginning. They are trying to blame the political appointees but lets not forget that literally everyone in the FBI and intel agencies not only went along with this but they all leaked to the media and went on the tv shows to reinforce the narrative.

I dont think we should just move on and way "well mistakes were made"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 05:57 PM (XQCHO)

103 All pardons not verified to be an original signature from Biden should be null and void.
Posted by: nurse ratched

You'd think that falsifying POTUS signature on 'official' documents would be a crime right up there with just about any federal capital offenses.
Nope. Barely raises any interest at all.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 05:57 PM (/lPRQ)

104
BREAKING: Injuries reported after huge firework explosion at golf course in Mashpee, Mass.

________

Carl Spackler named as "person of interest".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 05:59 PM (/HVsR)

105 No Star Chambers are private vigilante groups .
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (VofaG)

The Star Chamber was a Court under the English Monarchy that acted at the prerogative of the Monarch, and could override all other courts. It reached it's peak under Henry VIII, Elizabeth 1, and Charles 1. Interesting history - originally it was set up because local lords and gentry were generally too powerful for any of the local courts to act against them; but it became a court where the King's Advisor's and Ministers could proclaim torture and even death for anyone who irritated them too much, no matter how high a rank they held. Meetings and Records were always completely secret.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 05:59 PM (uWKK8)

106 >>> 103
==
You'd think that falsifying POTUS signature on 'official' documents would be a crime right up there with just about any federal capital offenses.
Nope. Barely raises any interest at all.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 05:57 PM (/lPRQ)

I read somewhere that they're *supposed* to have something like FIVE different key cabinet / admin types approve use of the autopen each and every time.

You'll never guess what really happened!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:59 PM (ULPxl)

107
>>I have a hard time understanding how Comey, Clapper and Brennan are still alive. In a more civilized time they would have been gone a long time ago.

At the very least in hiding and living on the dime of some tinpot 3rd World Dictator.
Posted by: garrett

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

I saw Brennan flapping his jaws with impunity on MSNBC not too long ago.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 06:00 PM (QNdZb)

108 Fuck trials.

They're domestic enemies of the Constitution of the United States, and are therefore unlawful combatants who aren't entitled to a trial.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 06:01 PM (qpyNK)

109 I don't think Obama was pardoned either, and if former Pres Trump could be prosecuted...

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:01 PM (FZn/N)

110
You'd think that falsifying POTUS signature on 'official' documents would be a crime right up there with just about any federal capital offenses.
Nope. Barely raises any interest at all.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

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

You'd think submitting documents to the autopen without airtight verification that Biden had approved them would be a massive if not criminal procedural snafu.
Nope. Neera Tanden sailed out of that hearing with a smirk and a flourish.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 06:02 PM (QNdZb)

111 100 Maybe it's just because I'm excessively tired, but I'm not going to fret myself because of evil doers like Comey and Wray and Clapper. They have no effect on my life at the moment and the Bible says not to fret in a number of places including psalm 37. They will go before God and so will I but I doubt they have any God but themselves.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:57 PM (2GCMq)

Another version is that I really can’t do anything about any of this so why get all worked up about it…. yet I find myself here, frequently, getting - all worked up. In my case though I can’t hold the upset even for a whole thread, and lapse in to talking about innocuous stuff… sometimes to myself. In print.

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 06:02 PM (PCK5/)

112 Of course! Why is so much “News” just confirmation of things we’ve long suspected and certainly believed? You shouldn’t call them conspiracy theories! You should call the spoiler alerts!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:02 PM (SEFV4)

113 You'd think submitting documents to the autopen without airtight verification that Biden had approved them would be a massive if not criminal procedural snafu.
Nope. Neera Tanden sailed out of that hearing with a smirk and a flourish.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
========
It wasn't a grand jury but congressional inquiry.

We shall see what Ed Martin and Jeannie Pirro do with that information.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 06:03 PM (ctrM5)

114 I used to laugh at ConInc media for stating an obvious truth 2-3 years after the fact. But we're working on an 8-10 year latency with dross like this.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 06:03 PM (BI5O2)

115 I read somewhere that they're *supposed* to have something like FIVE different key cabinet / admin types approve use of the autopen each and every time.

You'll never guess what really happened!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Not by law though, by standard executive process that any competent and honest executive would establish.

It is crazy that the "most powerful man in the free world" just handed is power over to ... to who? a secretary? or to obama I wonder.

Makes you realize that the whole point of Biden was someone so corrupt, compromised, and incompetent that he would hand his powers over to some hidden group who only want to destroy the country. That was his role. That was to be kamalala's role.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 02, 2025 06:03 PM (+oHZt)

116 The picture really enforces the message

@jihadwatchRS 2m
Germany: Government issues warning against German women groping immigrant men in pools -

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 06:03 PM (mlg/3)

117

Maybe it's just because I'm excessively tired, but I'm not going to fret myself because of evil doers like Comey and Wray and Clapper. They have no effect on my life at the moment and the Bible says not to fret in a number of places including psalm 37. They will go before God and so will I but I doubt they have any God but themselves.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:57 PM (2GCMq)

Comey's my fave. Doing these dreamy and cryptic posts every other year or so just to feel important and be persecuted and he hardly strikes a ripple even among us that hate him.. Must drive him nuts.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 06:03 PM (8avO+)

118
And then surely we'll get a Special Prosecutor to dick around for a couple years to find that Procedures Were Not Followed in a Withering Report.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese

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The coda: Somehow during all this time, the statute of limitations lapsed. Woops! Woopsie!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 06:04 PM (QNdZb)

119 "No. These men will die peacefully in their beds. Surrounded by ~~their~~ our money.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 02, 2025 06:05 PM (Z5NUn)

120 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released internal Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) emails revealing the FBI suppressed intelligence of alleged Chinese interference in the 2020 election to insulate then-FBI Director Christopher Wray from criticism, after Wray provided inaccurate and contradictory testimony to Congress.

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Let's restate the above to reflect the truth:

FBI chief Christopher Wray ordered the FBI to hide evidence that he lied to Congress.

Why isn't he arrested or at least charged? The old excuse no longer works that if Republicans do it to Dems the same will be done to them when out of power, it has already been done to them at great length. Get to it.

Posted by: Decaf at July 02, 2025 06:05 PM (unUNN)

121 Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 06:03 PM (8avO+)

They all sound like narcissists, but Comey is a weird man-yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:06 PM (2GCMq)

122 STatute of limitations on Treason?

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:06 PM (FZn/N)

123 Star Chambers: so-called because the ceiling was painted to resemble the night sky - dark blue with a lot of gold stars.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:06 PM (SEFV4)

124 Nope, that's wrong. I don't care if we have to string up a 90 year old Comey and Clapper when they're bags of cancer-ridden old bones kept alive by the monumental efforts of deep state doctors - justice is justice.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 06:07 PM (BI5O2)

125 122. there is none

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:07 PM (FZn/N)

126 The original Star Chamber was painted this way: later ones were not!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:07 PM (SEFV4)

127 Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 06:03 PM (8avO+)

They all sound like narcissists, but Comey is a weird man-yes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:06 PM (2GCMq)

We are going to have to retire that word, like racist. Every guy who dumps a gal and nearly everyone in entertainment, politics, and sports are tagged with one label.

we need more varied terms of abuse!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 06:09 PM (8avO+)

128 I really am on Team Heads-On-Pikes, but we’ll never see true justice in this world!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:09 PM (SEFV4)

129 "No. These men will die peacefully in their beds. Surrounded by our money.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 02, 2025 06:05 PM (Z5NUn)

Yeah, I suppose.

But it's like coming home from a business trip, finding a stranger in bed with your bride, and saying "Hey, what are you doing with my wife?"

Well... in a very real sense, she's not your wife.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 02, 2025 06:10 PM (dGCAG)

130 I really am on Team Heads-On-Pikes, but we’ll never see true justice in this world!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:09 PM (SEFV4)

Would help the currently-languishing pike industry too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 06:10 PM (8avO+)

131 I'm with Rodrigo @ 108
enemy combatants, out of uniform, with all that entails

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 02, 2025 06:10 PM (Z5NUn)

132 124 Nope, that's wrong. I don't care if we have to string up a 90 year old Comey and Clapper when they're bags of cancer-ridden old bones kept alive by the monumental efforts of deep state doctors - justice is justice.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 06:07 PM (BI5O2)

100%.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:10 PM (FZn/N)

133 The FBI and the people in it are, were and always will be a large, steaming pile of bum gravy.

It is truly sad that the FBI cannot be abolished.

Posted by: Zombie Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Not A Homosexual at July 02, 2025 06:11 PM (R/m4+)

134 Not saying there should be Star Chambers but you're eventually going to get them if people like this always go unpunished.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:38 PM (VofaG)

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There must be repercussions severe enough to teach the left that what goes around comes around. Letting them off in the interest of peace just convinces them that they were right and ensures they will do it again.

Posted by: Decaf at July 02, 2025 06:11 PM (unUNN)

135 111- It's very easy to get worked up. I understand that and can get worked up as well . I just try to spend a little less time here on some days ( It helps) and also spend time with God. I know you do that as well. I also think of "The Serenity Prayer) which was written by a Christian pastor but it usually get truncated for 12 Step programs:

The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:11 PM (2GCMq)

136 I'm tanned, rested, and ready.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler at July 02, 2025 06:11 PM (aBgBM)

137 I am a narcissist. I love me some paper-whites, but to be honest, I also like Jonquils too.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 06:12 PM (D7oie)

138 And while we're handing out sentences. Mayorkas deliberately flooded the country with illegals, to harm citizens, raid the treasury and cause harm. TREASON.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:12 PM (FZn/N)

139 I'd favor Wray being fed into a wood chipper.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 02, 2025 06:13 PM (kTd/k)

140 134 Not saying there should be Star Chambers but you're eventually going to get them if people like this always go unpunished.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:38 PM (VofaG)

What Obama, Comey, Clapper, and Brennan did *was* a Star Chamber. They secretly declared Trump to be guilty, and then they used the power of Government to punish him without ever openly revealing that they were the ones doing it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 06:14 PM (uWKK8)

141 There must be repercussions severe enough to teach the left that what goes around comes around. Letting them off in the interest of peace just convinces them that they were right and ensures they will do it again.
Posted by: Decaf at July 02, 2025 06:11 PM (unUNN)

They all deserve severe consequences, and if I read this all correctly Obama was in on it, just as he was in on re-approving gain of function at the very end of his terrible presidency.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:15 PM (FZn/N)

142 Hey, what are you doing with my wife?"

Everything I can!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 06:15 PM (M4r8b)

143 Fat Christie was at a Springsteen concert in Germany last week Doing a fat boy dance

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 06:15 PM (eBgDF)

144 Hopefully something will be done about this.. On another note, I see the Judge denied Diddy bail and his sentencing will be in October....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 06:15 PM (VE6XX)

145 with all that entails"

Hmm. Read "entrails"...

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 06:16 PM (CZEZE)

146 speaking of bullshit judges and their pronouncements...are there any Texans on board that remember LBJ's epic pick of East District of Texas chief judge William Wayne Justice?

that guy was on a mission to turn Texas blue all by himself. UT Law degenerate

Posted by: DanMan at July 02, 2025 06:16 PM (8uzBS)

147 I think I can speak for most of us when I say "no fucking DUH"

Posted by: We've been on to these assholes from the beginning at July 02, 2025 06:16 PM (TbWk/)

148 143 Fat Christie was at a Springsteen concert in Germany last week Doing a fat boy dance
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 06:15 PM (eBgDF)

I'm having a vision of Christie, Pritzker, and Stacy Abrams having a dance-off... what would that measure on the Richter Scale?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 06:16 PM (uWKK8)

149
I just wanna live in a country where the rule of law prevails and applies equally to everyone!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 06:17 PM (QNdZb)

150 Traitors will die comfortably in their beds?

Where is Walter White when we need him and his stash of ricin?

Posted by: Gref at July 02, 2025 06:17 PM (aBgBM)

151 Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?

These men will die peacefully in their beds…

But what then, what judgment awaits them in the undisccovere’d country? God’s judgment awaits them, and His judgment is final!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:17 PM (SEFV4)

152 "This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding 'We're going to screw Trump,'" said Ratcliffe in an exclusive interview.

This is a bunker buster with multiples coming in daily. Both Brennan and Clapper are straight out of central casting as political villains with Comey and Wray as their slimy comrades in arms. I won't write what I think should happen.

Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 06:19 PM (oiNtH)

153 But what then, what judgment awaits them in the undisccovere’d country? God’s judgment awaits them, and His judgment is final!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:17 PM (SEFV4)

True, but God will not get the satisfaction we will, and the supporters of evil will never find out and proceed apace.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:19 PM (FZn/N)

154
The picture really enforces the message

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It looks like she's midwifing a gerbil.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 06:19 PM (QNdZb)

155 chief judge William Wayne Justice?"
Any relationship to Buford T.?

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 06:19 PM (CZEZE)

156
But what then, what judgment awaits them in the undisccovere’d country? God’s judgment awaits them, and His judgment is final!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:17 PM (SEFV4)

Democrats believe they're more righteous than God.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 02, 2025 06:19 PM (kTd/k)

157 111- It's very easy to get worked up. I understand that and can get worked up as well . I just try to spend a little less time here on some days ( It helps) and also spend time with God. I know you do that as well. I also think of "The Serenity Prayer) which was written by a Christian pastor but it usually get truncated for 12 Step programs:

The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:11 PM (2GCMq)

The reminds me of a short fantasyish story where a woman who writes these sort of 'God grant me' poems and God gives her whatever she writes in there. So she was writing 'God grant me a child' and poof there's a baby there. She's at a bar telling the patrons and at the end she says 'God give me strength' and she crushes the edge of the bar.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 06:20 PM (8avO+)

158 146 speaking of bullshit judges and their pronouncements...are there any Texans on board that remember LBJ's epic pick of East District of Texas chief judge William Wayne Justice?

that guy was on a mission to turn Texas blue all by himself. UT Law degenerate
Posted by: DanMan at July 02, 2025 06:16 PM (8uzBS)

I actually met him once, he was around until 2009. His house was about 5 blocks from where I live now, but while he was there it had screens and fences all around it, because he was scared of someone taking a shot at him. He declared himself the sole master of the entire Texas Prison System.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 06:20 PM (uWKK8)

159 John Brennan is another gift from G.W. Bush.

Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 06:20 PM (oiNtH)

160 >>But what then, what judgment awaits them in the undisccovere’d country? God’s judgment awaits them, and His judgment is final!

God can wait for his turn:

Arrest them.
Try them.
Execute them.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 06:20 PM (T4A2M)

161 arrest? indictments? nothing, if they release this and do nothing, the whole thing is useless

Posted by: kilroy at July 02, 2025 06:21 PM (tLwGQ)

162 161 arrest? indictments? nothing, if they release this and do nothing, the whole thing is useless
Posted by: kilroy at July 02, 2025 06:21 PM (tLwGQ)

Especially since the "media" will ignore it..

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 06:22 PM (VE6XX)

163 arrest? indictments? nothing, if they release this and do nothing, the whole thing is useless
Posted by: kilroy at July 02, 2025 06:21 PM (tLwGQ)

That goes to DOJ, they get to issue warrants.

Hope to see them run off to Guinea Bissau or the Congo.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 06:22 PM (D7oie)

164 The national security agencies, particularly those affiliated with the "Five Eyes" countries, are the muscle for the Imperial pollical class. Or, call them the Transnational Political Elite. The Political Elite select each agency's leadership, they assign the mission objectives, they curate intelligence gathering, and fund them with taxpayer funds -- present generation and generations (hopefully) to come.

Their preferred weapons are discord and intranational conflict for the divde-and-conquer doctrine. All the Dems have left is hate for Donald Trump? Mission accomplished, with more to come.

Posted by: mrp at July 02, 2025 06:22 PM (rj6Yv)

165 159 John Brennan is another gift from G.W. Bush.
Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 06:20 PM (oiNtH)

The family that declared illegal migration to be "an act of love"

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:22 PM (FZn/N)

166 The FBI and the people in it are, were and always will be a large, steaming pile of bum gravy.

It is truly sad that the FBI cannot be abolished.
Posted by: Zombie Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Not A Homosexual at July 02, 2025 06:11 PM (R/m4+)

It doesn't say it has to be staffed, however.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 06:22 PM (8avO+)

167 And while we're handing out sentences. Mayorkas deliberately flooded the country with illegals, to harm citizens, raid the treasury and cause harm. TREASON.
Posted by: night lifted

Annnnd bold faced lied about it to Congress. No consequences.

Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 06:23 PM (oiNtH)

168
This is a bunker buster with multiples coming in daily. Both Brennan and Clapper are straight out of central casting as political villains with Comey and Wray as their slimy comrades in arms. I won't write what I think should happen.
Posted by: Cheri

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But seriously, how does the "nothing will happen" happen? Are reports like this passed onto agencies responsible for taking action, where they are weighed, discussed, and set aside for reasons we all hate? Such as the unlikelihood of success, the lack of desire to rock the boat, professional courtesy, or "better things to do"?

Or is nothing even weighed and discussed? Just a glance at the cover and a shrug?

WHAT HAPPENS? How do we law-abiding suckers keep getting screwed?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 06:24 PM (QNdZb)

169 Their preferred weapons are discord and intranational conflict for the divde-and-conquer doctrine. All the Dems have left is hate for Donald Trump? Mission accomplished, with more to come.
Posted by: mrp at July 02, 2025 06:22 PM (rj6Yv

And they carefully sent a violent young proletariat to the US and much of Europe to bolster their chances of conquering.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:24 PM (FZn/N)

170 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Change my mind at July 02, 2025 06:25 PM (XQo4F)

171 Annnnd bold faced lied about it to Congress. No consequences.
Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 06:23 PM (oiNtH)

Allowing a huge number of army aged males in is Mayorkas participating in an act of war against us.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:28 PM (FZn/N)

172 Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 06:20 PM (8avO+

It sounds like an interesting, creepy concept for a short story but quite different than what I think is intended by the prayer from Neibuhr. God isn't going to give us exactly what we want all the time . He's not like the big gumball machine in the sky . We put in our nickel and turn the prayer machine and get our gum ball. If that were the case everybody would have faith in God to get just want they want.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:28 PM (2GCMq)

173 >>>Jake Tapper is writing Original Sin 2: CIA Boogaloo. He'll be telling us what we already knew in 2030.

Ace letting slip the existence of the time machine.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 06:29 PM (i24o9)

174 The difference between malice and incompetence doesn’t matter at this level of power, professionalism, and global consequence.

Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 02, 2025 06:30 PM (jYRYu)

175 And they carefully sent a violent young proletariat to the US and much of Europe to bolster their chances of conquering.
Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:24 PM (FZn/N)

Angelo Codevilla spelt it all out in his seminal work: The American Ruling Class and the perils of Revolution - published by the American Spectator in 2010:

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/5t3u5f6h

Posted by: mrp at July 02, 2025 06:30 PM (rj6Yv)

176 WHAT HAPPENS? How do we law-abiding suckers keep getting screwed?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The takers, users, liars, and grifters from all socio-economic backgrounds seem to get off if they play the game right.

The producers, hard workers, law abiding citizens don't play this game at all and end up getting screwed.

I pray to God every night for justice to prevail and for the wicked & evil to be dispatched at God's will. I also give thanks that PDT is back in the WH.

Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 06:30 PM (oiNtH)

177 . If that were the case everybody would have faith in God to get just want they want.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:28 PM (2GCMq)

Too many wished conflict with other people's wishes. That bastard in NYC wants a communist US (Like Obama) and most of us do not. Everyone cannot get what they want.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:30 PM (FZn/N)

178 A private who loses a rifle gets in more trouble than a general who loses a war.

Posted by: And we all know it at July 02, 2025 06:31 PM (XQo4F)

179 Ace, Ace, Ace. How dare you impugn the integrity of the selfless patriots of the Intelligence Community with these debunked conspiracy theories? Whom should I believe? Some blogger who can't even reliably match up HTML tags or the dedicated professional journalists of CNN? Hmphff. To ask is to answer. Good day, sir.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 06:32 PM (/y8xj)

180 Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 06:30 PM (oiNtH)

Sounds like positive prayers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:32 PM (2GCMq)

181 I pray to God every night for justice to prevail and for the wicked & evil to be dispatched at God's will. I also give thanks that PDT is back in the WH.
Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 06:30 PM (oiNtH)

I do too. And my prayers around the destruction of children through abortion, abuse, and mutilation have some semblance of being answered.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 06:32 PM (FZn/N)

182 The preacher explained to us last Sunday that what Haman in the Book of Esther had prepared for Mordechai, what is translated as a gallows in the KJV and was 50 cubits high (75 feet!) was not, in fact, a gallows but a sharpened spike that Haman intended to use on Mordechai, Vlad the Impaler style. Apparently the height was chosen such that Haman could see his victim by looking up from the King’s courtyard. So when the Bible says they hanged Haman on his own gallows, you can say that Haman got his just deserts. (There’s hanging, and then there’s hanging, you see!)

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:33 PM (SEFV4)

183 An American Political Class so powerful that James Comey could dismiss the possibility of charges against Hillary Clinton for obstruction of justice with a press conference and the wave of his Druidic staff.

Not even J. Edgar Hoover would have attempted that.

Posted by: mrp at July 02, 2025 06:33 PM (rj6Yv)

184
You know, Chris Wray was one of several on the shortlist to succeed Comey. I wonder what the others are/were like. Honest, or Wray-plicates?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 06:34 PM (QNdZb)

185 New post above.

Posted by: Dad of Six at July 02, 2025 06:35 PM (l51ev)

186
There must be repercussions severe enough to teach the left that what goes around comes around. Letting them off in the interest of peace just convinces them that they were right and ensures they will do it again.

Posted by: Decaf

^^^^this^^^^

The only thing a bully will ever understand is the fact that he (they in this case) will get the shit stomped out of them should they contimie be___ a bully.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 02, 2025 06:37 PM (QcUc+)

187 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Romans 12:19

From Deuteronomy 32:35

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:38 PM (SEFV4)

188 Nood

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:40 PM (SEFV4)

189 All of this sounds like the definition of sedition and treason to me. If it is not, I don't know what is. Will Trump punish these people or will the swamp defend them? If the swamp wins then this country is doomed.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at July 02, 2025 10:28 PM (bXvrr)

190 Weird because putin said during the election he preferred Hillary over Trump

Posted by: Jupiter no rings mofo at July 02, 2025 10:42 PM (olllz)

Disney Pixar's Latest Bomb Elio Was Filled With Gay Themes and Messaging Before Executives Ordered Them Excised
Plus: Marvel's New "Superheo" is a Black Teen Genius Girlboss and Sociopathic Criminal Who Literally Sells Her Soul to the Devil

Hire gay activists who are only interested in gay activism and this is what you get, every time.

BTW, the Hollywood Reporter's spin is that the movie wouldn't have bombed, and would have been a hit, if only the children's cartoon had released still containingall the in-your-face gay propaganda that its gay propaganda "creatives" had stuffed into it.

Because yes, you know that what the American public is clamoring for is "more gay propaganda for our too-young-to-know-what-sex-even-is children. Especially now. Especially when even "nice" normies have had so much of this crap they're now rudely saying ENOUGH.

Inside 'Elio's' "Catastrophic" Path: America Ferrera's Exit, Director Change and Erasure of Queer Themes
Creatives at Pixar who saw the original director's previous cut of 'Elio' tell THR about the movie's challenging production process: "'Elio' just [became] about totally nothing."

If a movie isn't about gay propaganda then it's "totally about nothing."

Got it.

Doesn't that mean the film, as originally made, had nothing in it except for gay propaganda But no, they're saying that the original movie was nothing but the gay propaganda, so that the removal of that gay propaganda resulted in a film "totally about nothing."

Those who worked at Pixar while its latest film release, Elio, was in production were delighted by footage they saw roughly two years ago.

Oh that's right -- this stinker was in the can for years. Disney executives were probably just delaying because they didn't want to release yet another gay propaganda bomb, but also didn't want the PR headache from their gay "creatives" boohoo whinin' and cryin' to the leftwing media.

Among the moments cited as favorites by those at the animation studio at the time included a sequence in which the titular boy collected trash on the beach and turned it into homemade apparel that included a pink tank top; the movie's team would refer to Elio showing this off to a hermit crab as his "trash-ion show."

Is this Ru Paul for Kidz?

But if you bought a ticket to Elio and don't remember seeing this, it's not just that you chose the wrong time to refill your soda. According to multiple insiders who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, Elio was initially portrayed as a queer-coded character, reflecting original director Adrian Molina's identity as an openly gay filmmaker. Other sources say that Molina did not intend the film to be a coming out story, as the character is 11. But either way, this characterization gradually faded away throughout the production process as Elio became more masculine following feedback from leadership. Gone were not only such direct examples of his passion for environmentalism and fashion, but also a scene in Elio's bedroom with pictures suggesting a male crush. Hints at the trash fashion remain in the released film, with the boy wearing a cape decorated with discarded cutlery and soda can tabs, although without any explanation for the unusual attire.
Elio's turbulent ride began well before its calamitous nosedive at the box office durin the June 20-22 corridor. Indeed, the summer of 2023 became a fateful one for the animated film about a lonely boy beamed into outer space by an intergalactic organization after being misidentified as the leader of Earth. The writing was first on the wall for the troubled production when the film from Molina, known as the co-director of Pixar's Oscar-winning 2017 hit Coco, conducted an early test screening in Arizona. Although viewers expressed how much they enjoyed the movie, they were also asked how many of them would see it in a theater, and not a single hand was raised, according to a source with knowledge of the event. This sounded alarm bells for studio brass.

It was around this same time that Molina screened his latest cut of the film to Pixar leadership. There are differing accounts of the exact feedback that the director received from Pixar boss Pete Docter when the lights went up, with rumors circulating in some of the studio's circles that Molina was hurt by the conversation. The part that is clear is that Molina exited the project soon after, and much of Elio was reworked under new co-directors Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi.

Remember when adults of both sexes were expected to act professionally if they were members of a profession? Remember how they used to be expected to take criticism and direction gracefully?

No more. Now it's nothing but hysteria and tantrums at the lack of required Affirmation.

After a yearlong delay, the film arrived in theaters June 22 and bombed with just $20.8 million domestically, the lowest opening frame at the box office in Pixar's history.
"I was deeply saddened and aggrieved by the changes that were made," says former Pixar assistant editor Sarah Ligatich, who provided feedback during Elio production as a member of the company's internal LGBTQ group PixPRIDE. Although she praises Sharafian and Shi as filmmakers, Ligatich notes that a number of creatives working on the film stepped down after the directors shared their first cut of the movie. "The exodus of talent after that cut was really indicative of how unhappy a lot of people were that they had changed and destroyed this beautiful work." Another Pixar source disputes that people stepped down in response to Molina's departure.

Nobody cares about your endless f*cking Teen Goth Girl feelings, you f*cking basket-cases.

The changes to Elio were clear to one former Pixar artist who worked on the film and asked to remain anonymous: "It was pretty clear through the production of the first version of the film that [studio leaders] were constantly sanding down these moments in the film that alluded to Elio's sexuality of being queer."
...
"Suddenly, you remove this big, key piece, which is all about identity, and Elio just becomes about totally nothing," says the former Pixar artist.
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Media reports have cited its production budget as $150 million, but former Pixar employees tell THR that the film cost far more than that. The artist who worked on the movie was not privy to the specific figure but estimates it was well north of $200 million, given that Molina's version was nearly complete, which she says makes the "catastrophic box office" feel worse....
The Elio production resulted in fraught feelings for those with ties to Pixar who have come to question whether the company intends to prioritize diversity. Docter sparked debate when he noted in a 2024 interview that the studio should make the "most relatable films" possible, which was perceived as advocating for a shift away from underrepresented characters and voices.
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In the meantime, the pain of the Elio process still stings for the creatives who saw the movie's trajectory become something of a cautionary tale. "I'd love to ask Pete and the other Disney executives whether or not they thought the rewrite was worth it," says the artist. "Would they have lost this much money if they simply let Adrian tell his story?"

When you're spending over $200 million of other people's money, you don't get to tell "your story," especially if your story is all about niche themes that resonate only with 3% of the audience plus their "allies."

Again: Where did professionalism go? That is a huge topic that people need to discuss. Gone are the days where a professional could be expected to put aside his personal bullshit and dispassionately deliver services to a client. Now it's all about "bringing your whole self to work," and demanding that a mere job provide you with the personal satisfaction and fulfillment that only family, friends, and church can provide.

Unprofessional "professionals" are all bleating, Why doesn't the public trust us any longer?

Well, it's because you exclusively serve yourselves.

Meanwhile, Disney's other bomb factory Marvel has produced what sounds like the most morally repugnant kid's show in history, one in which the supposed "superhero" main character goes on a crime spree of armed theft and extorting millionaires into signing over their companies to the crime ring. In one case, her fellow criminals shoot and murder mere security guards.

Under the law, this makes her guilty of felony murder. When you and a group all go out to commit a crime, each member of the gang is legally responsible for any of the murders which ensue, given that everyone knows that a crime may result in killing people.

But this "superhero," "Riri" Williams, remains absolutely certain in her own entitlement and her unshakable belief that the world owes her fame and wealth and she is justified in committing any crime necessary to achieve these selfish goals.

ThatParkPlace.com on the first half of the six-episode "season:"

There really isn't a way to review Ironheart outside of just calling it what it is: bad.
It's a bad show. It's bad on every level. From the lazy bad cinematography to the lackluster bad graphics, bad wooden performances, and bad writing, Ironheart is the culmination of everything that's gone wrong with Marvel television. It's not just a misfire--it's a final nail.

If Echo was lifeless and Secret Invasion was dull, Ironheart is downright insufferable.
The show feels like the endgame of the M-SHE-U, where every creative decision revolves around identity first, and storytelling last--if at all. There's no subtlety, no nuance, no curiosity about heroism or conflict. Instead, what we get is a self-righteous character surrounded by a parade of unlikable people delivering one smug lecture after another.
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Riri Williams is not just unrelatable--she's unlikable. She's arrogant, cold, and completely lacking in empathy. She constantly reminds the audience that she doesn't want to be a hero, has no moral obligation to anyone, and is building her suits and AI "because I can."
That's not strength--that's narcissism. Her every action is self-serving, yet the show insists we root for her because of her identity and not her choices. They try to dress it up in a narrative about her dead stepfather but it just rings hollow.
By the end of episode three, Riri commits a stone cold murder.
There's no ambiguity.
She has the ability to save someone--easily--and instead she watches him die and then agonizes over that and the fact that she left a crucial piece of tech behind at a crime scene.
This is our protagonist...

Well, not just the protagonists. Lots of movies have criminal protagonists (but usually those criminal heroes show much more regard for human life than this entitled sociopath does).

She's supposed to be a hero.

And not just a hero, a superhero.

Some thought that Riri Williams might learn from her cold-bloodedly murderous ways and go through some kind of growth and personal redemption in the second half.

Nope!

Riri's criminal "friends" turn on her--and we're supposed to feel bad. But this is just karma on a platter. She lied, manipulated, used people, and now the consequences have arrived. Characters tell her flat-out that she's selfish and wrong, but Riri never truly owns it. She doesn't evolve. She doesn't reflect. She simply powers through with the same arrogant attitude, insisting she's in the right.
Then comes a baffling action sequence where these gang members--who previously took down grown men with ease--get beaten by Riri without her armor. Not only does she magically win, but she scores multiple kill shots... and no one dies or even gets hurt. Slug, one of the thugs, literally survives a vehicle crash that should have turned anyone into pavement paste. But Slug just climbs out without a scratch, shrugs it off, and walks away. Real stakes? Real danger? Forget it.

How can they up the stakes after Riri has already committed a felony crime spree and actually murdered an innocent guard?

Would you believe... Marvel's version of the devil, Mephisto, appears and offers to buy Riri's soul?

And she... accepts Satan's bargain?

And then... the grand finale of this Ironheart finale review. Mephisto appears. Yes, Sacha Baron Cohen makes his long-awaited debut as the literal devil. And what does Riri do? Does she fight him? Does she rise up to battle the ultimate evil and finally become a hero?
Nah.
She sells her soul to him. Seriously.

No big battle. No showdown. Just a straight-up soul trade to bring back her dead best friend, Natalie.
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And that's how it ends. No resolution. No meaning. No point.

I think there is a point, but not one the "creatives" here would admit to.

So that's how the show ends. It's supposed to be a cliffhanger. It's not, because they'll never make another Ironheart episode. She ends the show as a murderer damned to hell not just by her callous murder but by literally selling her soul to the devil.

Yay, minority and female empowerment...?

This is another piece of "entertainment" that Disney has had in the can for years but has been waiting for the right moment to release it. Like when you hold in a fart in church until they come by with the donations plate and you let it out then to blame it on the altar boy.

I heard someone remark that this show is like what a racist KKK grand cyclops would create to attack black people. It thinks it's "empowering" black youth. How? By telling them to be criminals and to murder people without a second thought?

Oh, and of course the show stars a transgender.

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM

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1 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 02, 2025 04:20 PM (rbKZ6)

2 Again: Where did professionalism go? That is a huge topic that people need to discuss. Gone are the days where a professional could be expected to put aside his personal bullshit and dispassionately deliver services to a client. Now it's all about "bringing your whole self to work," and demanding that a mere job provide you with the personal satisfaction and fulfillment that only family, friends, and church can provide.

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Where did professionalism go?

To Skydance. That's where John Lasseter went.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

3 Acme Polling, Inc.: Everybody's gay now!

Hollyweird: Why is nobody going to see our Big Gay movies?!?!?!?

Posted by: Lies, Damned Lies, and Polls at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (qUkBO)

4 Oh snap! TJM and The Blade were just talking about Disney in the last post.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

5 Riri Williams is not just unrelatable--she's unlikable. She's arrogant, cold, and completely lacking in empathy. She constantly reminds the audience that she doesn't want to be a hero, has no moral obligation to anyone, and is building her suits and AI "because I can."

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I'm reminded of There Will Be Blood, a film about an unlikeable, arrogant, cold, and completely lacking in empathy main character.

Daniel Plainview wasn't viewed as a hero, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

6 At what point does Disney run out of money to produce these bombs?

Posted by: Ann at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (4neFu)

7 I don't know anything about making movies but I do have/had kids. Make movies like Monsters, Inc which are free of messaging and fun for kids and adults.

It's not such a hard concept.

Posted by: Ripley at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (GUOwU)

8 Bold Disney thread, I have missed you.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (jc0TO)

9 "I was deeply saddened and aggrieved by the changes that were made," says former Pixar assistant editor Sarah Ligatich

Awww, what a tough day for you.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (Oy/m2)

10 I can't wait to not see these.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (i24o9)

11 Disney still makes movies?

Fortunately, I haven't seen one in decades.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (H7X8V)

12 I feel *bold* like the new strong, black, independent wyman character Ironheart.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (9Ovst)

13 "You mean your sold your everlasting soul to the Devil?"

"Well, I wasn't usin' it."

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (77rzZ)

14 4 Oh snap! TJM and The Blade were just talking about Disney in the last post.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

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Speaking of The Blade...

Word came last week that they'd FINALLY cracked the Blade movie.

Not written a script, just finally cracked the concept.

6 years after it was announced.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

15 6 At what point does Disney run out of money to produce these bombs?
Posted by: Ann at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (4neFu)

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When Inside Out 2, Moana 2, and Deadpool v Wolverine stop making billions of dollars in 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

16 Bugs Bunny was about nothing. Boy did that suck.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 02, 2025 04:26 PM (wBaIH)

17 At what point does Disney run out of money to produce these bombs?
Posted by: Ann

Never. Have you heard the amount of fortunes they shake out of the fools that visit their theme parks?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 04:26 PM (H7X8V)

18 Nobody cares about your endless f*cking Teen Goth Girl feelings, you f*cking basket-cases.

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This used to be relegated to poetry classes in mid-tier creative writing MFA programs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

19 I hated the sad spectacle of Robert Downey Jr being trotted out by Disney to promote the execrable Ironheart.

Posted by: Open Channel D at July 02, 2025 04:27 PM (gYnrv)

20 But no, they're saying that the original movie was nothing but the gay propaganda, so that the removal of that gay propaganda resulted in a film "totally about nothing."

Yeah, and?

Posted by: Seinfeld at July 02, 2025 04:27 PM (1tFD7)

21 ReRe is the polite term for retarded.

That, and Effins.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:27 PM (jc0TO)

22 19 I hated the sad spectacle of Robert Downey Jr being trotted out by Disney to promote the execrable Ironheart.
Posted by: Open Channel D at July 02, 2025 04:27 PM (gYnrv)

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They're paying him just...so much money to be in the next Avengers movie.

He's a corporate stooge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

23 Where did professionalism go?

Jesus I ask this every day

no offense but Millies halfway get "professionalism" but...not really. they are big on work-life over every other concern

and younger? forget it. not even the slightest effort

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 04:28 PM (Pv3Rg)

24 Ace writes, "But this 'superhero,' 'Riri' Williams, remains absolutely certain in her own entitlement and her unshakable belief that the world owes her fame and wealth and she is justified in committing any crime necessary to achieve these selfish goals."

That's a villain's story arc, not that of a hero. And later in his post Ace points out that she does *not* repent and try to make amends, a la Xena the Warrior Princess or Angel the vampire. Nope!

Passsssss

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:28 PM (omVj0)

25 also while I'm being offensive, what is the deal with all the gay / femme latin men? what happens there? is the moms?

it's weird

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 04:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

26 The Nerdrotic review had me rolling

Posted by: steevy at July 02, 2025 04:29 PM (YwEeS)

27 What's really awful about Ironheart? Even the trailers can't hide how bad the series, film, whatever, is.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:29 PM (tT6L1)

28 They backed a dump truck full of money up to my house.

I'm not made of stone!

Posted by: Robert Downey Jr at July 02, 2025 04:29 PM (jc0TO)

29 Elio was initially portrayed as a queer-coded character, reflecting original director Adrian Molina's identity as an openly gay filmmaker

This is another one of those Chesteron fences.

In the old days we didn't allow openly gay film directors. And the argument was that is was pure bigotry.

Now that we not only have openly gay film directors but celebrate them the truth comes out that of course a gay director will sexualize a children's movie...because that's what a gay director does.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:29 PM (t0Rmr)

30 the new season of Tires is pretty good

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 04:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

31 29 In the old days we didn't allow openly gay film directors. And the argument was that is was pure bigotry.

Now that we not only have openly gay film directors but celebrate them the truth comes out that of course a gay director will sexualize a children's movie...because that's what a gay director does.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:29 PM (t0Rmr)

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"Oh, honey."
-James Whale, the Queen of Hollywood

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

32 Gay man tries to "queer code" children's movie. I'm pleased this movie bombed.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 04:30 PM (lIio7)

33 DeadPool vs. Wolverine and Moana 2 both made over a billion. It keeps the beast fed unfortunately.

"When Inside Out 2, Moana 2, and Deadpool v Wolverine stop making billions of dollars in 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)"

Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at July 02, 2025 04:30 PM (U/7CP)

34 I know Downey Jr. is a kept man by Disney.

Oh and fuck Disney for what they are doing to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s greatest creations, the Fantastic Four.

Posted by: Open Channel D at July 02, 2025 04:30 PM (gYnrv)

35 "You mean your sold your everlasting soul to the Devil?"

"Well, I wasn't usin' it."
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025

***
Satan: "You want to sell me your immortal soul? Oh, don't worry, we've had that for decades."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:30 PM (omVj0)

36 I'm so glad the only movies I watch anymore are on TCM and Svengoolie.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:30 PM (77rzZ)

37 Now that we not only have openly gay film directors but celebrate them the truth comes out that of course a gay director will sexualize a children's movie...because that's what a gay director does.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:29 PM (t0Rmr)
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The guy who made "Powder" was of that ilk.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:31 PM (tT6L1)

38 Where did professionalism go?

no offense but Millies halfway get "professionalism" but... .
and younger? forget it. not even the slightest effort
Posted by: Black Orchid

Clearly, I'm a boomer - my best developer by far (30 year old) insisted he didn't have to show up on time for anything. Our SVP disagreed and fired his sorry ass as she felt he was a negative example for the rest of the group. heh

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 04:31 PM (H7X8V)

39 24 Ace writes, "But this 'superhero,' 'Riri' Williams, remains absolutely certain in her own entitlement and her unshakable belief that the world owes her fame and wealth and she is justified in committing any crime necessary to achieve these selfish goals."
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I think it is entirely possible the writers think this is normally how one goes through life, and then you die, followed by nothingness. Psychos.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 04:31 PM (Dv3i1)

40 Riri Williams - "Tony Stark was only successful because of his billions."

Jebadiah Stone - "Tony Stark build his suit in a cave! WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS!"

Posted by: Thrawn at July 02, 2025 04:31 PM (9Ovst)

41 She constantly reminds the audience that she doesn't want to be a hero, has no moral obligation to anyone, and is building her suits and AI "because I can."

It was a pretty constant staple of classic science fiction that ego maniacs creating things not because they will help mankind but just because they could was a bad thing.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:31 PM (t0Rmr)

42 The Mrs convinced me to watch Kpop Demon Hunters with her last weekend.

It was exactly as advertised. An absolutely ridiculous premise that was executed visually very well, follows the plot that you could pretty much predict from the first 5 minutes, and doesn't drag on longer than it can entertain. Not the worst way to spend 90 min.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (B9Prs)

43 Clearly, I'm a boomer - my best developer by far (30 year old) insisted he didn't have to show up on time for anything. Our SVP disagreed and fired his sorry ass as she felt he was a negative example for the rest of the group. heh

that story makes me smile!

just frustrated with the state of the working world lately

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (Pv3Rg)

44
Now that we not only have openly gay film directors but celebrate them the truth comes out that of course a gay director will sexualize a children's movie...because that's what a gay director does.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025

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"Oh, honey."
-James Whale, the Queen of Hollywood
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025

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But Whale produced top-notch entertainment -- classics like The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (omVj0)

45 Ironheart is not bad because its woke or has a fruity drag queen. Its not even bad because it is racist as hell against white people.

Its bad because its so horribly written and directed. The main character is utterly without any redeeming or likable qualities. She literally does nothing heroic in the entire show, and does every single thing simply to enrich and benefit herself. She is a literal criminal using her special abilities to steal and extort. She leaves a man to die on purpose. She watches multiple security guards horribly wounded and killed and cares nothing. She literally sells her soul LITERALLY (as in signs a contract) to marvel's version of the devil.

Its not impossible that the writers intended for her to realize her plight and have a redemption arc in the second season of the show but... there won't be another season, that is not how you write a show (the entire season she's evil, not just mistaken, confused, mislead but DELIBERATELY EVIL), and there's no arc here. Its a flat downward ramp to worse and worse.

oh... and it gets worse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (dfIr7)

46 But this 'superhero,' 'Riri' Williams, remains absolutely certain in her own entitlement and her unshakable belief that the world owes her fame and wealth and she is justified in committing any crime necessary to achieve these selfish goals.

Are we talking about the character or the writers now?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (jc0TO)

47 The Disney business model is ridiculous. Who are they appealing to? The evidence over the last few years show that people are sick of "the message", yet Disney keeps humping away. They had a hit last year when the distributed Deadpool and Wolverine but the rest was crap. The Disney shareholders are getting hosed and must be brain dead

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (eBgDF)

48 So that's how the show ends. It's supposed to be a cliffhanger. It's not, because they'll never make another Ironheart episode. She ends the show as a murderer damned to hell not just by her callous murder but by literally selling her soul to the devil.

Honestly, it sounds like they have made her the next Thanos...I might watch it if I knew they had relegated her to that supervillain role. Selling her soul to the devil sounds like exactly where she will belong, and what a supervillain would do so he/she could stay on top of their villainy for just that much longer...since they have no faith and no desire to ever repent...

If they really embraced that - "she's an evil b&tch and this was her path to true and utter villainy/depravery" - that's kinda interesting tv, the way that the Joker movie was (and no, I haven't watched Joker 2 where they tried to erase that)...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (tOcjL)

49 Die Mouse die

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (VE6XX)

50 44 But Whale produced top-notch entertainment -- classics like The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (omVj0)

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He was also pushed out of the system by the 40s despite living until the 60s because of his gayness, so he's not the greatest of examples anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

51 It was a pretty constant staple of classic science fiction that ego maniacs creating things not because they will help mankind but just because they could was a bad thing.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:31 PM (t0Rmr)

Yeah, and those 'classic science fiction' were written all by straight white men so what do they know

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 04:33 PM (B9Prs)

52 Who Literally Sells Her Soul to the Devil
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I would advise against this.

Posted by: Faust at July 02, 2025 04:33 PM (XeU6L)

53 Elio was initially portrayed as a queer-coded character, reflecting original director Adrian Molina's identity as an openly gay filmmaker

What exactly is the difference between queer and queer-coded? It has about as much utility as the difference between price and price point.

It doesn't make you sound smarter.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 04:33 PM (Riz8t)

54 for other projects, El Eternauta, an adaptation of the Argentine graphic novel of the same name, is on Netflix.

it is about the invasion of Earth which is centered in Argentina. From what I have seen, it is pretty nicely done for an adaptation. It was written during the 50's in the lead up to the violence in the 60's and is considered one of the classic fiction series in Argentina

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 04:33 PM (D7oie)

55 Wow; I saw the trailer for Elio. I wouldn’t go see it because I don’t have young kids, but the trailer didnt look that bad.

As far as “Iron heart” I don’t know who that actress is but she’s unattractive, Sacha Baron Cohen has been a leftist bore for years and if I wanted to see something about someone selling their soul to the devil I’d go see “ Dr. Faustus”.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 04:33 PM (2GCMq)

56 Elio bombed during Pride Month????

I shan't believe it. I simply shan't.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 04:33 PM (0sNs1)

57 I would advise against this.
Posted by: Faust
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Yeah. It's a bad idea.

Posted by: Judas Iscariot at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (XeU6L)

58 I'm so glad the only movies I watch anymore are on TCM and Svengoolie.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:30 PM (77rzZ)

Same here except I don't have TCM but a channel that shows old b&w movies.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (Oy/m2)

59 Who Literally Sells Her Soul to the Devil .

Really what's the worst that could happen?

Posted by: Some Serpent at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (t0Rmr)

60 "Plus: Marvel's New "Superheo" is a Black Teen Genius Girlboss and Sociopathic Criminal Who Literally Sells Her Soul to the Devil"

What's next for disney, human sacrifice?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (e5NfL)

61 oh... and it gets worse.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (dfIr7)

You mentioned writing up a treatment for making it a good story, are you still playing with that?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (D7oie)

62 People sell their souls to Big Penguin all the time.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (0sNs1)

63 I'm so over Disney's stuff now that I don't even bother watching Critical Drinker's review videos about them any more.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (B9Prs)

64 tomorrow the last sad remnant of the Sandman Netflix series gets released

Neil you idiot perv

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (Pv3Rg)

65 Yeah. It's a bad idea.
Posted by: Judas Iscariot at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM

It's a fee, nothing more.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (jc0TO)

66 60
What's next for disney, human sacrifice?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (e5NfL)

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Mel Gibson's gonna make a Marvel movie?!

(no, he's not, just playin' on how he made Apocalypto which has human sacrifice)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

67 "You mean your sold your everlasting soul to the Devil?"

"Well, I wasn't usin' it."

There's a surprisingly good Simpson's episode where Bart sells his soul, thinking he's getting money for nothing. But slowly events around him convince Bart he's lost something valuable. When he goes to buy it back, he finds the piece of paper representing his soul has been badly mistreated by its new owner who also finds little to no value in it. In the end he gets his soul back, and Lisa points out that by fighting for his soul, he earned it.

I'm going by memory and it's been a long time, so I may have some details wrong.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (lIio7)

68 Didn't Harley Quin (as embodied by Margot Robbie) show at least a shred or two of compassion for somebody -- even if it was only for her fellow "Suicide Squad" members?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (omVj0)

69 Never. Have you heard the amount of fortunes they shake out of the fools that visit their theme parks?
Posted by: Tonypete

Even the theme parks are in trouble. From what I've read, Universal Orlando routinely outdraws EPCOT/Disneyworld, and there are increasing numbers of 'Ghost Town' days at Disneyland. Disney is building a new park in the UAE, but are having to borrow a shit ton of money to do it. The Pirates of the Persian Gulf ride will be lit.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (1tFD7)

70 For every Disney/Pixar bomb like "Turning Red", a kids movie literally about young women's menses (ugh), they just need one mega hit like Deadpool 3 to keep them in the game. Alas.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (9Ovst)

71 this 'superhero,' 'Riri' Williams
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I hear 'Riri' in the Kim Jong-Il voice in Team America, when say 'really?'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)

72 Did she steal Ironman's suit or plans? Nevermind I'm never going to watch it . I just saw the previews,

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (VofaG)

73 "Plus: Marvel's New "Superheo" is a Black Teen Genius Girlboss and Sociopathic Criminal Who Literally Sells Her Soul to the Devil"

What's next for disney, human sacrifice?

Pfffffft. That's yesterday's news. We're now into autocannibalism.

Posted by: Disney at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

74 What's next for disney, human sacrifice?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (e5NfL)
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Considering how many Disney girls have come out of the studio psychologically wrecked, I'd say they already engage in such sacrifice.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (tT6L1)

75 So it's a movie thread now.

Has anyone else been watching the series MurderBot?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:36 PM (jc0TO)

76 Riri Williams, Ironheart, constantly bitches about how she's being held down and needs money. But she's been handed everything her entire life and upheld and promoted and praised by literally everyone. Tony Stark personally gave her (not MIT, for some reason) a grant to work on tech and she spent the whole time grifting to make money.

She invents several items just out of the blue casually that would be worth hundreds of billions of dollars like a holographic fully aware AI and a force field generator, and doesn't try to sell or market them or present them to any company. She is irrational, contradictory, and the plot makes no sense.

The entire storyline is about this dude who is fixated with getting people to sign contracts, leading a criminal group of odd looking non white folx to extort the rich, forcing them to sign a contract to put them all on the payroll. Putting aside how this would not stand a millisecond in court (coercion negates any contract), how are they gonna pay our criminals WITHOUT HAVING ALL THEIR BANKING AND PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:36 PM (dfIr7)

77 Isn’t interesting that whatever country makes the movie, or writes the book the movie is based on, that the alien invaders always land in that country first?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:36 PM (SEFV4)

78 >>Again: Where did professionalism go? That is a huge topic that people need to discuss.

I think that a lot of this forms in children. In the past, most kids were a small part of a large family. More siblings and also more cousins, etc. They learned that the world is not all about them.

When families got smaller, the kids became the focus and so they started growing up thinking the world was there to serve them. This also explains why many adults see kids as an accoutrement to their lives and many don't even have kids.

That is one problem, but in concert there is the government stepping in and trying to compensate people for God's choices -- everyone is now a "victim" who needs to be treated special instead a small cog in something much greater than themselves and if htey have a disability or bad luck, well that is their problem.
(I am not saying this too clearly, but there is truth in these words.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 02, 2025 04:36 PM (+oHZt)

79 77 Isn’t interesting that whatever country makes the movie, or writes the book the movie is based on, that the alien invaders always land in that country first?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:36 PM (SEFV4)

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"That small island nation next to Korea. We must go there."
-The Futurians

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

80 I'm going by memory and it's been a long time, so I may have some details wrong.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 04:35 PM (lIio7)
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That was a pretty good episode. I believe Lisa returned Bart's soul.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:37 PM (tT6L1)

81 77 Isn’t interesting that whatever country makes the movie, or writes the book the movie is based on, that the alien invaders always land in that country first?

I think Signs wasn't like that

and The Thing, it landed way up in Antarctica

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 04:37 PM (Pv3Rg)

82 I'm so glad the only movies I watch anymore are on TCM and Svengoolie.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025
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Same here except I don't have TCM but a channel that shows old b&w movies.
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025

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In my case the channels are Grit (Westerns) and Heroes & Icons (Westerns and the Trek iterations). And old B & W films on YooToob.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:37 PM (omVj0)

83 Why is "she" called IronHeart? Because "she" has no heart at all? Is it bound with iron? What?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:38 PM (PMtkd)

84 Comic books are inherently goofy in a lot of ways, and MCU often has dumb stuff but this is like an infinitely large black hole of stupid that gets logarithmically dumber the deeper you go. Its an onion with unending layers of stupider. Ironheart is absolutely idiotic.

And to make matters worse, everyone is unattractive in the show. Like, deliberately so. Riri was at least cute in the comics even as she was a reprehensible person but this actress is a Waffle House 5. She looks even uglier in the suit, it emphasizes all her worst features making her look 25 years older. Its like they went out of their way to find every possible way to make this thing suck as hard as possible.

No wonder they sat on it for years and tried to slip it out unnoticed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:38 PM (dfIr7)

85 Grooming Didley can't DEI fast enough for me. Hopefully you got their classics on DVD.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 02, 2025 04:38 PM (17s+e)

86 Isn’t interesting that whatever country makes the movie, or writes the book the movie is based on, that the alien invaders always land in that country first?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025

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We see nothing odd about that.

Posted by: Zombie John Christopher & John Wyndham at July 02, 2025 04:38 PM (omVj0)

87 what I wonder is, how do you spent $200 million making a fucking cartoon that should cost about $20k max?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 04:39 PM (uWKK8)

88 Isn’t interesting that whatever country makes the movie, or writes the book the movie is based on, that the alien invaders always land in that country first?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:36 PM

Contra evidence, Tomorrow War and Edge of Tomorrow.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

89 >>77 Isn’t interesting that whatever country makes the movie, or writes the book the movie is based on, that the alien invaders always land in that country first?

Eat it world. They came here first.

Posted by: Grover's Mill, NJ at July 02, 2025 04:39 PM (+oHZt)

90
Disney needs to remake Flight of the Navigator and not ruin it. But they'll fuck it up. You just know they will.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 02, 2025 04:39 PM (IifOV)

91 And at the Pixar website, they have a whole page listing all their "diverse" suppliers, those certified by several activist groups. So they are being torn in many different directions. None of them include good storytelling though.

Posted by: PJ at July 02, 2025 04:40 PM (RRCAT)

92
Same here except I don't have TCM but a channel that shows old b&w movies.
Posted by: dantesed

What channel is that?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2025 04:40 PM (63Dwl)

93 tomorrow the last sad remnant of the Sandman Netflix series gets released

Neil you idiot perv

I remember watching American Gods and liking it because Ian McShane is great in this kind of role but then Gaiman had a surprising gay genie sex scene.

I left the room for 10 minutes and they were still going at it.

WTF. One of the characters is a goddess of love and her sex scenes were less explicit and shorter.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:40 PM (t0Rmr)

94 I can't wait to not see these.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (i24o9)

Boy have I got some recommendations for you.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 04:40 PM (VPwHp)

95 Riri, huh? I thought we weren't allowed to use that word any more? Isn't it differently abled now?

Posted by: Loudon Wainwright IV at July 02, 2025 04:40 PM (ZiUoO)

96 New! From Walt Disney Pictures, a story so shocking, so brave, so stunning!

"Assholio...The Saga Begins" starring some unknown colored sexual pervert or another with powers of ass.

You know you want to watch it. Go ahead. You know you wanna.

Posted by: Hollis P. Wood at July 02, 2025 04:40 PM (Mf1Jc)

97 The Last Starfighter could do with a reboot.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:40 PM (jc0TO)

98 DIESney groomers really want to die on that hill, don't they.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 04:40 PM (ULPxl)

99 Skip Elio - even though they took the gay coding out, it's still there, just less prominent (and makes the kid even weirder, childish, and less likeable for his age).

I bought Superman tickets, so I'm hoping WB can redeem superheroes...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 04:41 PM (tOcjL)

100 Here's a crazy idea. Why don't they make a movie based on a original story?

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 04:41 PM (Oy/m2)

101 I think that "fuck a duck" is going to be my new go-to swear phrase.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

102 97 The Last Starfighter could do with a reboot.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:40 PM (jc0TO)

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False.

It is perfect as it is and requires no update. Not even to its special effects.

An update would turn it into a 10 episode miniseries that would be deathly boring and full of long speeches about privilege or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

103 When I hear the word "diversity" regarding anything I now think, oh, shit, it's going to be terrible.

You know where I really hate hearing about diversity?
Pilots on my plane.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM (PMtkd)

104 Is there anyone who works at Disney who is not gay, “transgender” or an LGBT ally?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM (2GCMq)

105 Sacha Baron Cohen has been a leftist bore for years and if I wanted to see something about someone selling their soul to the devil I’d go see “ Dr. Faustus”.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025

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Or the original version of Bedazzled.

As for Cohen, I don't think I've ever seen any of his vehicles. The only reason I might is if his wife, Isla Fisher, was featured in it.

Posted by: Zombie John Christopher & John Wyndham at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM (omVj0)

106 You mentioned writing up a treatment for making it a good story, are you still playing with that?

Oh, I had a story worked up but what's the damned point? There is a lot they could have done with this concept and they just balled it up and used it for a tampon. I can't even explain how disgusted and frustrated I am with the whole thing.

I grew up loving superheroes and comic books, I collected them, I had posters, I wrote and drew my own, I played and ran Champions games, hell I still write supplements for it.

Its like watching your child beat mocked and beaten and tortured without being able to lift a finger. I mean, what the hell, its like they personally hate me and everyone like me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM (dfIr7)

107 100 Here's a crazy idea. Why don't they make a movie based on a original story?
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 04:41 PM (Oy/m2)

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That's Elio.

In fact, Pixar is taking the loss so badly, that they went to Instagram to say, "If you want original stories, show up for 'em."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

108 What channel is that?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2025 04:40 PM (63Dwl)

Movies! or something like that.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 04:43 PM (Oy/m2)

109 100 Here's a crazy idea. Why don't they make a movie based on a original story?

that's what Elio was

and in fact, Disney employees are on tiktok ripping the audience for not liking it, because "they did what we asked for"

derp

well we meant "a GOOD original story, dumbass solipsistic pervs!"

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 04:43 PM (Pv3Rg)

110 I think that "fuck a duck" is going to be my new go-to swear phrase.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025

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Apropos of nothing, what did Raymond Chandler mean when he had Philip Marlowe say that his "bank balance was still trying to crawl under a duck"?

Posted by: Zombie John Christopher & John Wyndham at July 02, 2025 04:43 PM (omVj0)

111
Posted by: Zombie John Christopher

I'd like a complete Tripods, sir.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2025 04:44 PM (63Dwl)

112 how do you spent $200 million making a fucking cartoon that should cost about $20k max?

Well redoing a good 60% of it probably doesn't help. Apparently telling a computer to make ugly bean-mouthed crap is expensive these days

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:44 PM (dfIr7)

113 Ironheart looks worse than watching a half hour of MTV.

Posted by: wth at July 02, 2025 04:44 PM (UjdFS)

114 >>>Isn’t interesting that whatever country makes the movie, or writes the book the movie is based on, that the alien invaders always land in that country first?

If aliens came to Earth, they would probably land in China, as that is the most populous country.

The Chinese would then eat the aliens, and make poorly-replicated copies of the alien technology which would then be sold by bot accounts on Amazon within weeks.

Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 04:44 PM (jGJov)

115 Its like watching your child beat mocked and beaten and tortured without being able to lift a finger. I mean, what the hell, its like they personally hate me and everyone like me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM (dfIr7)
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Yeah, no, it's not like they hate you, they literally do hate you.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:44 PM (tT6L1)

116 Remember, Ironheart was made by Hollywood liberals. This is what they think heroism looks like for blacks.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 02, 2025 04:44 PM (4+fJ0)

117 104 Is there anyone who works at Disney who is not gay, “transgender” or an LGBT ally?

nope bc you can't get an art degree anymore and stay a straight person

it's not allowed I don't think

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 04:44 PM (Pv3Rg)

118 I just watched Taken for the second time after only watching it when it came out. I must have been drunk the first time I saw it and really enjoyed it (except for the gravel pit car chase) because it was really stupid on the second go around.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 04:44 PM (VofaG)

119 If Pixar hadn't made Elio twice over, the $20 million box office opening weekend wouldn't have been as much of a disaster.

But Pete Docter is a terrible executive and let his director waste $150 million on one version of the film that he then completely scrapped.

He's like Kathleen Kennedy, but a dude.

Which is a massive disappointment because he made Monster's Inc., Up, and Inside Out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

120
Watchers in the Woods was the most terrifying Disney Movie I ever saw as a kid. Bette Davis was terrifying.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 02, 2025 04:45 PM (IifOV)

121 what did Raymond Chandler mean when he had Philip Marlowe say that his "bank balance was still trying to crawl under a duck"?

Its very low.

One of the toughest things to do as an author is to try to say something in an interesting way, hopefully something fresh and memorable. Sometimes it works better than others.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:45 PM (dfIr7)

122 If aliens came to Earth, they would probably land in China, as that is the most populous country.

The Chinese would then eat the aliens, and make poorly-replicated copies of the alien technology which would then be sold by bot accounts on Amazon within weeks.

That would make a great movie not gonna lie.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:45 PM (t0Rmr)

123 She ends the show as a murderer damned to hell not just by her callous murder but by literally selling her soul to the devil.

Yay, minority and female empowerment...?

istr a recent (comic?) storyline in which Harley Quinn showed what a stronk, independent whammen she was by torturing a young boy to death to impress the Joker.

These retards may be unpleasantly surprised...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 04:45 PM (ULPxl)

124 Or the original version of Bedazzled.

As for Cohen, I don't think I've ever seen any of his vehicles. The only reason I might is if his wife, Isla Fisher, was featured in it.
Posted by: Zombie John Christopher & John Wyndham at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM (omVj0)

The original version of Bedazzled is fantastic, much better than you'd think if you've never seen it.

The only Cohen movie I think is worthwhile is Talledega Nights, and that's because Ricky Bobby is just a real guilty pleasure of mine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 04:45 PM (uWKK8)

125
well we meant "a GOOD original story, dumbass solipsistic pervs!"
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 04:43 PM

They're taking the feminist phrase the personal is political to its logical end. Everything is political and to push the favored narrative and how dare you guys make fun of it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 04:45 PM (BvTfc)

126 Don't worry we will get quality entertainment when Skynet AI takes over

https://youtu.be/5Uf2ERoRB9w?si=1KH2om2HH7LFVwRA

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 04:45 PM (Vh9CX)

127 Apropos of nothing, what did Raymond Chandler mean when he had Philip Marlowe say that his "bank balance was still trying to crawl under a duck"?
Posted by: Zombie John Christopher & John Wyndham at July 02, 2025 04:43 PM (omVj0)
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I wanna say there was a saying which referenced being "lower than a duck" back when. But, hazy memory of a time I only know through film and reading.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (tT6L1)

128 124 The original version of Bedazzled is fantastic, much better than you'd think if you've never seen it.

The only Cohen movie I think is worthwhile is Talledega Nights, and that's because Ricky Bobby is just a real guilty pleasure of mine.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 04:45 PM (uWKK

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He's more interesting as a supporting performer than a star.

His turn in Sweeney Todd is quite good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (GBKbO)

129 In the first Thing movie, the UFO crashed in the arctic! But yes, that’s a variation where the invasion is isolated, and maybe you can contain it! It worked in the first Thing movie, but failed in the second. I think the second Thing movie was closer to John W. Campbell’s original short story from 1938!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (SEFV4)

130 I think that "fuck a duck" is going to be my new go-to swear phrase.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM

You have my full support.

Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (0sNs1)

131 Remember, Ironheart was made by Hollywood liberals. This is what they think heroism looks like for blacks.

Every single person involved in making this show is black. They aren't just making something for blacks that is horribly stereotypical, it IS by blacks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (dfIr7)

132 Bette Davis was terrifying.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 02, 2025 04:45 PM (IifOV)

Well, her eyes are terrifying.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (Oy/m2)

133 >>>What exactly is the difference between queer and queer-coded? It has about as much utility as the difference between price and price point.

queer-coded means "gay, but not flaming gay enough to tip off parents that maybe this gay propaganda isn't appropriate for their children"

it's been a thing in kids entertainment for awhile unfortunately

Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (jGJov)

134 Posted by: Zombie John Christopher
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I'd like a complete Tripods, sir.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2025

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Triffids? That was that Wyndham chap, I'm afraid. Nothing to do with me. So sorry.

Posted by: Zombie John Christopher at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (omVj0)

135 The best alien invasion movie I've seen is Captive State with John Goodman. Really good plot.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (VofaG)

136 Ironheart is yet one more example (as if we needed one) that the writers in Hollywood have no clue what true heroism means.

They are so insulated in their bubble of narcissistic assholes that they think anyone who is especially strong in that area is a hero worthy of admiration and respect.

They don't get it. They never will.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (7fElN)

137 Apropos of nothing, what did Raymond Chandler mean when he had Philip Marlowe say that his "bank balance was still trying to crawl under a duck"?
Posted by: Zombie John Christopher & John Wyndham

According to my wife the uber-Chandler fan, it's means that the balance is getting really low.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

138 Minor complaint but I was disappointed by woke Nautilus which I was hoping would be just a fun steampunk fantasy adventure. Then I saw there is a new The Mysterious Island and it's much the same.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (L/fGl)

139 82 I'm so glad the only movies I watch anymore are on TCM and Svengoolie.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025
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Same here except I don't have TCM but a channel that shows old b&w movies.
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025

***
In my case the channels are Grit (Westerns) and Heroes & Icons (Westerns and the Trek iterations). And old B & W films on YooToob.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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Also Internet Archive has a vast selection.
--

Moving on - looking at a different abode and all the troubles associated w/moving.
However, trusted radio source said that if Trump's plan continues this time next year (can't quote) the housing market shall have doubled. Doubled, Wolfus. And every thing else in concert.
- said it with the sounds of 'everything's coming up roses' playing in his ear.
That's all I got. Tried to find it on the podcast for complete but couldn't.
Trump is turning the country around so where's the reason to deny his statements?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (K91ZZ)

140
Is there anyone who works at Disney who is not gay, “transgender” or an LGBT ally?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Not for long.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2025 04:47 PM (63Dwl)

141 Skyline was not a great SF movie, but the FX were fine and it cost $10-20M to make.

Now with Bidenflation is would be something like 2X that, but there is no reason that making even an SF blockbuster should cost more then $50M.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:47 PM (t0Rmr)

142 Harley Quinn showed what a stronk, independent whammen she was by torturing a young boy to death to impress the Joker.

Her most recent special is all about her having gas and farting. I am not making this up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:47 PM (dfIr7)

143
The only Cohen movie I think is worthwhile is Talledega Nights, and that's because Ricky Bobby is just a real guilty pleasure of mine.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 04:45 PM

If we wanted us some wussies we would have named them Dr Quinn Medicine Woman.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 04:47 PM (BvTfc)

144 alien invasion stories are more about how the locals respond, more than how the aliens act.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 04:48 PM (D7oie)

145 In the first Thing movie, the UFO crashed in the arctic! But yes, that’s a variation where the invasion is isolated, and maybe you can contain it! It worked in the first Thing movie, but failed in the second. I think the second Thing movie was closer to John W. Campbell’s original short story from 1938!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025

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The second film closely followed the "Who Goes There?" novella. The first featured an intelligent vegetable from Outer Space.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:48 PM (omVj0)

146 132 Bette Davis was terrifying.
Posted by: Frank Barone
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Never liked her. Knew she was butch before I knew what butch was.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 04:48 PM (K91ZZ)

147 I hope in the future, when the character is completely discredited that Marvel sells off the rights to the Ironheart character cheap, just so someone can have step out onto the road in the first 30 seconds and get run over by a semi.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK8)

148
When you're spending over $200 million of other people's money, you don't get to tell "your story,"

There's a bunch of internet stories trending about how Gen Z is resisting "stupid" work policies, like dressing professionally, being at the office on time, etc. Basically it comes down to Gen Z thinking that getting a degree means that they're in charge, and Boomers/Gen X needs to just shut up and obey.

Pink slips given out for cause should be pretty funny.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 04:48 PM (y9nCu)

149 What exactly is the difference between queer and queer-coded? It has about as much utility as the difference between price and price point.

queer-coded means "gay, but not flaming gay enough to tip off parents that maybe this gay propaganda isn't appropriate for their children"

it's been a thing in kids entertainment for awhile unfortunately
Posted by: brak

Which one described Mr. Humphreys in Are You Being Served?"

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

150 > I think that "fuck a duck" is going to be my new go-to swear phrase.

George Kennedy appreciates your devotion to the phrase.
https://youtu.be/UjIDrWn0DQ4

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (lIio7)

151 Don't worry we will get quality entertainment when Skynet AI takes over

The bad news is we are clearly getting skynet.

The goodish news is rather then exterminating mankind it will force us to watch AI generated pharma ads of fat, black, and gay people dancing all day.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (t0Rmr)

152 Apropos of nothing, what did Raymond Chandler mean when he had Philip Marlowe say that his "bank balance was still trying to crawl under a duck"?
Posted by: Zombie John Christopher & John Wyndham at July 02, 2025 04:43 PM (omVj0)

duck egg = zero

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (D7oie)

153 "gay coded" is also a way for terminally online gays to try to "claim" pop culture characters for themselves

"Velma" was gay coded in Scooby Doo for example because she looked vaguely lesbian, so lesbians like Scooby Doo

Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (jGJov)

154 Which one described Mr. Humphreys in Are You Being Served?"
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:48 PM

Flaming.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (jc0TO)

155 101 I think that "fuck a duck" is going to be my new go-to swear phrase.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

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You're welcome.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

156 Remember when Kathleen Kennedy was wearing that stupid shirt, "The future is female?"

What a gross expression.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (PMtkd)

157
How was this garbage allowed into the pipeline even three years ago? It was evident then that audiences were rejecting it.

I wonder what's entering the pipeline now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (egH3D)

158 The Disneyland ride will be lit!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (exwDm)

159 142 Harley Quinn showed what a stronk, independent whammen she was by torturing a young boy to death to impress the Joker.

Her most recent special is all about her having gas and farting. I am not making this up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Why do yall watch that trash?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (K91ZZ)

160 Apropos of nothing, what did Raymond Chandler mean when he had Philip Marlowe say that his "bank balance was still trying to crawl under a duck"?
Posted by: Zombie John Christopher & John Wyndham
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According to my wife the uber-Chandler fan, it's means that the balance is getting really low.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025

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Yes, but it's an odd (though funny) image. Maybe Chandler had some idea of likening Marlowe's bank account to a "nest egg."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (omVj0)

161
duck egg = zero
Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (D7oie)
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Perchance might you be thinking of the "goose egg?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (tT6L1)

162 Pluto TV has a lot of movies available for free.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (Oy/m2)

163
Remember when Kathleen Kennedy was wearing that stupid shirt, "The future is female?"

What a gross expression.

Posted by: Seems Legit

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I think it was "The Force is female," but same point.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (egH3D)

164 None of the Donk stunts are working.

Andi Shae Napier@AndiNapier
The Democratic Doctors Caucus is holding a press gaggle in front of Speaker Johnson’s office, calling on fellow members to show “John McCain level courage” and vote against the budget bill

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This is what indifference looks like.

https://is.gd/W311Co

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (L/fGl)

165 157
How was this garbage allowed into the pipeline even three years ago? It was evident then that audiences were rejecting it.

I wonder what's entering the pipeline now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (egH3D)

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Pete Docter was promoted to Chief Creative Officer because he's a pushover who will do whatever his underlings demand of him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

166
Isn't Disney going to build a new park in the US?

I think I read that, but I could possibly have been drunk, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (3ek7K)

167 Bette Davis was terrifying.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Bette Davis was terrifying.
Posted by: Frank Barone
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Never liked her. Knew she was butch before I knew what butch was.

Posted by: Braenyard

Really? She had a bunch of husbands, one of which she may have murdered.

I always thought it was Joan Crawford who was the lesbian.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

168 I think that "fuck a duck" is going to be my new go-to swear phrase.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:42 PM

Hah. Long ago I was in a grocery store when I came upon a father and is 5 year old or so son telling his father that his sister Sally said a very bad thing . The father looked at I assume about 3 year old Sally and asked her what she said and with the biggest smile on her face said ' Fuck a Duck' .

I couldn't help but laugh and the father did a good job of not laughing as he scolded her not to say that again.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (VofaG)

169 Word came last week that they'd FINALLY cracked the Blade movie.

Not written a script, just finally cracked the concept.

6 years after it was announced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM
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Does it involve Blade killing vampires in entertaining action scenes?

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (4+fJ0)

170
queer-coded means "gay, but not flaming gay enough to tip off parents that maybe this gay propaganda isn't appropriate for their children"

it's been a thing in kids entertainment for awhile unfortunately
Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (jGJov)

It also serves to break down healthy male friendships by asserting that all affection is proper to the realm of romance by labelling examples of such as "queer coded."

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (B9Prs)

171 Ironheart is yet one more example (as if we needed one) that the writers in Hollywood have no clue what true heroism means.

In this case I don't think they even put a single brain cell toward heroism or not heroism, they just sat around and thought "what would I do if I was like really smart and could make a suit of armor? YASSS SLAY KWEEN!!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (dfIr7)

172 166
Isn't Disney going to build a new park in the US?

I think I read that, but I could possibly have been drunk, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (3ek7K)

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They're revamping part of Magic Kingdom in Orlando to try and counter Epic Universe, Universal's new park.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

173 >>> 142
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Her most recent special is all about her having gas and farting. I am not making this up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:47 PM (dfIr7)

*facepalm*

Nothing says GRRRL POWER like farts.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (ULPxl)

174 157
How was this garbage allowed into the pipeline even three years ago? It was evident then that audiences were rejecting it.

I wonder what's entering the pipeline now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Only reason to know is to keep the kids from it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (K91ZZ)

175 I agree about the original Bedazzled, but Raquel Welch’s role was just typecasting!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (SEFV4)

176 Elio loves elotes, and eggplant

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (NtVYv)

177 There's a bunch of internet stories trending about how Gen Z is resisting "stupid" work policies, like dressing professionally, being at the office on time, etc. Basically it comes down to Gen Z thinking that getting a degree means that they're in charge, and Boomers/Gen X needs to just shut up and obey.

Pink slips given out for cause should be pretty funny.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 04:48 PM (y9nCu)

Wrong Gen...Gen Z is actually trying to return to being a pro if anyone will hire them after the millenials...gen z is 13-27 right now...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (tOcjL)

178 169 Word came last week that they'd FINALLY cracked the Blade movie.

Not written a script, just finally cracked the concept.

6 years after it was announced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM
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Does it involve Blade killing vampires in entertaining action scenes?
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (4+fJ0)

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Probably not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

179 156 Remember when Kathleen Kennedy was wearing that stupid shirt, "The future is female?"

What a gross expression.

Posted by: Seems Legit
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And her future is being known as a hack who killed Star Wars AND Indiana Jones franchises because of her internal loathing for males.

Disney should claw back every single penny they paid to that sour old bitch for doing that. She cost them billions.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 04:52 PM (ctrM5)

180 Speaking of vile idiocy

@GeekTyrant 7h
Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 04:52 PM (mlg/3)

181 This is what indifference looks like.

https://is.gd/W311Co
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (L/fGl)
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Appears a few people have figured out "white coat /= doctor."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:52 PM (tT6L1)

182 "The future is female?"

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Irrational, excitable, and emotional? And scary.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)

183 I always thought it was Joan Crawford who was the lesbian.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM

NO WIRE HANGARS!!!

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 02, 2025 04:52 PM (IifOV)

184 Elio is worse than the gay stuff anyway. Having listened to a discussion about it on Critical Drinker's Open Bar last week (with Chris Gore, among others), Elio is mistaken for Earth's leader and is taken by them to the "Commieverse", where everyone shares everything. I don't remember if the exact name was "Commieverse" or "Commiesphere" or whatever, but the name made it clear that this was Zohran Mamdani propaganda.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 02, 2025 04:52 PM (+b4rY)

185 As far as I can tell from watching Disparu's scathing commentary on the first three episodes of Ironheart, her "plan" is to 1) steal a bunch of money so that she can finish her suit and 2) show the world that she's a better engineer than Tony Stark.

Neither of those two motivations come anywhere near to heroism.

In fact, they are textbook motivations for supervillains. The irony is lost on the creators of this dreck.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (7fElN)

186 180 Speaking of vile idiocy

@GeekTyrant 7h
Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 04:52 PM (mlg/3)

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From what I've read, it's a quiet effort that's several years in the future from production.

They're trying to create space with Dial of Destiny before they do the reboot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

187 Does it involve Blade killing vampires in entertaining action scenes?
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (4+fJ0)

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Probably not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Joining Abe Lincoln via time machine to do a little vampire hunting?

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (ctrM5)

188 Does it involve Blade killing vampires in entertaining action scenes?

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (4+fJ0)

No. Of course not. It will be nothing like the immensely amusing originals, and will fail without a trace.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (L5An7)

189 Does it involve Blade killing vampires in entertaining action scenes?

"What? OK you lost me, what? That's too confusing and difficult to work out. How can we make a movie about that??"
--Disney

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (dfIr7)

190 I love the scene of a tiny black woman hammering a high tech plate of metal. That's fucking genius, yo!

Cinema's finest!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (a/G0f)

191 I suppose if you had the story you could find an illustrator and put out your own. You would have to find a new metal or vital organ to name it after of course, but I think there may be enough need for a decent story in the world to make a go of it.

(Copper liver is probably out, as is Titanium Spleen. I hold a hope that Invar Isles of Langerham could be worked into something useful)

Actually, Invar Soul would be a decent concept name.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (D7oie)

192 I wonder what's entering the pipeline now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (egH3D)

Phrasing ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (NtVYv)

193 So that's how the show ends. It's supposed to be a cliffhanger. It's not, because they'll never make another Ironheart episode. She ends the show as a murderer damned to hell not just by her callous murder but by literally selling her soul to the devil.

Yay, minority and female empowerment...?
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Meh...don't care anymore....makes sure there are cold beers in the fridge and goes to find hiking stuff.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (QGaXH)

194 188 Does it involve Blade killing vampires in entertaining action scenes?

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (4+fJ0)

No. Of course not. It will be nothing like the immensely amusing originals, and will fail without a trace.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (L5An7)

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"Shut up, Blade! I need to tell you about your privilege!"
-skinny white girl

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

195 Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise

Let me guess its going to be female, gay, and lame.

You could sort of do a movie series around someone like Rachel Weisz's character from The Mummy, but you'd have to have her have a male associate to handle combat and the like...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:54 PM (t0Rmr)

196 If done faithfully, I'd love a live-action version of The Black Cauldron. Of course the whole book series would be great (barring the studio interference that doomed The Hobbit), since The Black Cauldron was the second book in a five book series.

Of course, Hollywood never finished the live action Chronicles of Narnia because the bad guys in later novels resembled Muslims.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 02, 2025 04:54 PM (1tFD7)

197 Really? She had a bunch of husbands, one of which she may have murdered.

I always thought it was Joan Crawford who was the lesbian.

Posted by: Bulg
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Couldn't stand her either. Knew she was butch before I knew what butch was. Both of them make my skin crawl. Just the thought.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 04:54 PM (K91ZZ)

198 I remember watching American Gods and liking it because Ian McShane is great in this kind of role but then Gaiman had a surprising gay genie sex scene.

I left the room for 10 minutes and they were still going at it.

WTF. One of the characters is a goddess of love and her sex scenes were less explicit and shorter.
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Love is Love, but is isn't quite Gay Genie Love

Posted by: The Message at July 02, 2025 04:54 PM (Dv3i1)

199 I always thought it was Joan Crawford who was the lesbian.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM

Joan Crawford is famous for the Joan Crawford stare.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 04:54 PM (Oy/m2)

200 Bette Davis used to take the soldiers, sailors and marines home from the USO cantina she worked at every night (not all at once!). She was verifiably heterosexual and a cougar!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (SEFV4)

201 In this case I don't think they even put a single brain cell toward heroism or not heroism, they just sat around and thought "what would I do if I was like really smart and could make a suit of armor? YASSS SLAY KWEEN!!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (dfIr7)
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Yep. Not one of those writers has ever read heroic fantasy or science fiction. Every single element of that show is a plot point to advance their agenda.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (7fElN)

202 I love the scene of a tiny black woman hammering a high tech plate of metal. That's fucking genius, yo!

Cinema's finest!

Steel isn't strong, boy. Flesh is stronger.

Posted by: Words of wisdom from Thulsa Doom at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (t0Rmr)

203 I love the scene of a tiny black woman hammering a high tech plate of metal. That's fucking genius, yo!

Cinema's finest!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (a/G0f)

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Yer saying hammering on the equivalent of Iconel might not deform quite as shown on the big screen?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (tT6L1)

204 In case you think I am exaggerating or kidding about Harley (SFW, on Amazon)

https://tinyurl.com/fartacular

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (dfIr7)

205 This is what Gen Z is like at the office:

https://tinyurl.com/32t59zuk

Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (jGJov)

206 In the Deadpool and Wolverine movie, they find Blade in "The Void", the place at the end of time where all of the forgotten heroes and elements of forgotten timelines are sent to die.

As they enter, one of the first things they see is a big, half buried, 20th Century Fox logo.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (uWKK8)

207 You're welcome.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Please thank Dolley for me. Tell her the old, weird guy appreciates the addition to his vocabulary.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

208 Speaking of The Blade...

Word came last week that they'd FINALLY cracked the Blade movie.

Not written a script, just finally cracked the concept.

6 years after it was announced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

Blade's a Vampire Killer, right? We have that plot already since Mary Shelly.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (8avO+)

209 Doctor Octopus is more of a hero that Iron Heart. At least he started out wanting to do good.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (jc0TO)

210 > I don't remember if the exact name was "Commieverse" or "Commiesphere" or whatever, but the name made it clear that this was Zohran Mamdani propaganda.

I believe it's "Communiverse." But yeah, basically Commieverse.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (lIio7)

211 Coogler that was the EP for the marvel bomb is a notorious, white hating racist

Posted by: Maroon at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (v95o2)

212 Deisney went down the shitter about 40 years ago.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (l9cXI)

213 They bashed Jerry Farwell when he pointed out the Teletubbies.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (VofaG)

214 One thing you have to realize about Chandler was that he was very tied into then-current language and tropes. It was something that worked very good in the pulps to give more gritty reality to it, and it was also something that Hammett did.

The downside is that the past is a different language today. A lot of what was taken as current then is impenetrable now, without enough understanding of the time.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (D7oie)

215 135 The best alien invasion movie I've seen is Captive State with John Goodman. Really good plot.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (VofaG)

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I just watched the trailer. I had never heard of it, but it looks good.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (PMtkd)

216

Bette Davis used to take the soldiers, sailors and marines home from the USO cantina she worked at every night (not all at once!). She was verifiably heterosexual and a cougar!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (SEFV4)

She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on a throne
She got Bette Davis eyes
She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue
She's got Bette Davis eyes

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (NtVYv)

217 Just tie Blade into the inevitable "Twilight" reboot

$$$$

Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 04:57 PM (jGJov)

218 "Shut up, Blade! I need to tell you about your privilege!"
-skinny white girl
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)
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If Blade listens for 10 seconds then takes her head off, I predict cinematic gold.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:57 PM (tT6L1)

219 218 "Shut up, Blade! I need to tell you about your privilege!"
-skinny white girl
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)
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If Blade listens for 10 seconds then takes her head off, I predict cinematic gold.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:57 PM (tT6L1)

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"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say."
-Blade

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

220 Just tie Blade into the inevitable "Twilight" reboot

In the comics does he kill werewolves as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:57 PM (t0Rmr)

221 >>> 217 Just tie Blade into the inevitable "Twilight" reboot

$$$$
Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 04:57 PM (jGJov)

LOL

"... and then Buffy staked Edward. The End."

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 04:57 PM (ULPxl)

222 In the Deadpool and Wolverine movie, they find Blade in "The Void", the place at the end of time where all of the forgotten heroes and elements of forgotten timelines are sent to die.

The scene where he walks out, every single theater I saw footage of utterly erupted in cheering and joy.

"There's only one Blade. There's only ever going to BE one Blade."

Wesley Snipes is cooler blowing his nose than any star in the last 30 years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:58 PM (dfIr7)

223 Spending $200 million on a bomb that could have been made for $20k means that Disney's "talent" got paid, but investors, cinemas and audiences lost.

Well, it's a write off. They just write it off, Jerry.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 02, 2025 04:58 PM (wBaIH)

224 Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Indiana Jones, Xe Xir, and the Rainbow of Enlightenment?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 04:58 PM (L/fGl)

225 Remember when the left used to have creativity?

Like, was that ever really them, or was it just them coasting off of, as they would call them, "old white men" who were the actual creative genius behind the scenes?

They used to have juice, punch, pizzazz, pop culture relevance.

Now?

They're dropping f-bombs to fake authenticity and coining lame-ass come-backs like "Big Ugly Bill."

Sick burn, fag. Your mom probably wrote that for you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 04:58 PM (CBWwv)

226
Wrong Gen...Gen Z is actually trying to return to being a pro if anyone will hire them after the millenials...gen z is 13-27 right now...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (tOcjL)

Gen Whatever. That whole Gen system is homo anyway.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 04:58 PM (y9nCu)

227 222 The scene where he walks out, every single theater I saw footage of utterly erupted in cheering and joy.

"There's only one Blade. There's only ever going to BE one Blade."

Wesley Snipes is cooler blowing his nose than any star in the last 30 years.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:58 PM (dfIr7)

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"Yay! I know that thing! I know that thing! Yay!"
-modern entertainment

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:58 PM (GBKbO)

228 "I love the scene of a tiny black woman hammering a high tech plate of metal. That's fucking genius, yo!

Cinema's finest!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (a/G0f)

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Yer saying hammering on the equivalent of Iconel might not deform quite as shown on the big screen?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing"

You gotta get it to an orange heat.

Posted by: Forged in Farce at July 02, 2025 04:58 PM (vFG9F)

229 172 166
Isn't Disney going to build a new park in the US?

I think I read that, but I could possibly have been drunk, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (3ek7K)

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They're revamping part of Magic Kingdom in Orlando to try and counter Epic Universe, Universal's new park.
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Iger is running out of runway and Disney's P/E ratio is still too high for a mature infotainment conglomerate beginning to show signs of severe wear at 25 or so. The downside is more likely than upside for Disney until they disaggregate.

Conglomerates always suck in the long run for shareholders and end up have to spin off dying properties sooner or later to slim down. Iger delaying that means that when the divestiture occurs, billions more by stockholders will be lost.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 04:58 PM (ctrM5)

230 Ghost Rider sold his soul to the devil to try and save his father's life. People have sold their sole to the devil for what they thought was altruism.

Posted by: anonymouse at July 02, 2025 04:59 PM (RqMDa)

231 210 > I don't remember if the exact name was "Commieverse" or "Commiesphere" or whatever, but the name made it clear that this was Zohran Mamdani propaganda.

I believe it's "Communiverse." But yeah, basically Commieverse.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (lIio7)

They put some commie village in The Last of Us TV show IIRC that wasn't in the game.

I really hated Amazon's butchering of their Fallout TV show. They couldn't have the Chinese nuking the world for obvious reasons, so instead, it was a bunch of business moguls (including Mr. House, which made no fucking sense) nuking the world because apparently that's the best way to get profit. Off a ruined world where nobody has disposable income, time, or resources anymore, *sigh*.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 02, 2025 04:59 PM (9Ovst)

232 It also serves to break down healthy male friendships by asserting that all affection is proper to the realm of romance by labelling examples of such as "queer coded."
Posted by: joe, living dangerously

Remember that I had a girl back home and we got married and had many kids. Just sayin'

Posted by: Sam Gamgee at July 02, 2025 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

233 Couldn't stand her either. Knew she was butch before I knew what butch was. Both of them make my skin crawl. Just the thought.
Posted by: Braenyard

Betty Davis actually had a decent figure. When she could get those bugeyes under control, she was actually quite attractive.

Joan Crawford was only moderately good-looking in her very early days, like in the silent she made with Lon Chaney, and in Grand Hotel. Later on, she went full Gorgon.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)

234 Well, it's a write off. They just write it off, Jerry.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Until the doors close and the lights go out.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 04:59 PM (ctrM5)

235 The downside is that the past is a different language today. A lot of what was taken as current then is impenetrable now, without enough understanding of the time.

Yeah, it was really tough reading for me as a teenager, but I could tell it was cool as hell, if only I could figure it out. "I got into my heap and headed to Smith Street" what the heck is a heap? Eventually you figure it out from context.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:00 PM (dfIr7)

236 199 I always thought it was Joan Crawford who was the lesbian.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM

Joan Crawford is famous for the Joan Crawford stare.
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 04:54 PM (Oy/m)

I understood a lot more about Crawford, and honestly felt pity for her, when I found out that she openly told people that the first time she had sex was when she was 11 years old and her stepfather would come into her room almost every night. Rather than fight him, she learned that sex was just a way to get money and favors from men, and it was never anything else to her.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 05:00 PM (uWKK8)

237 Speaking of Buffy, that show was kind of a benchmark for when the entertainment industry went bonkers.

It fit in with the late 90s/early 00s more reserved liberalism but then in season 6 they literally went gay and it was just dumber and dumber after that.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 05:00 PM (t0Rmr)

238 "There's only one Blade. There's only ever going to BE one Blade."

He's the Bladiest.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:00 PM (77rzZ)

239 Out of morbid curiosity, I caught a matinee sowing of "Elio" last week.

It's not that bad. It's actually a very sweet story of an orphaned boy who's hurt and shutting himself off from people. I read that galactic association of aliens as him finding a community, not a commune, and reconnecting when he makes a friend there.

I smiled at the voiceover from Carl Sagan in one scene. Yeah, he was a liberal squish, but his show was a fond memory of my youth.

There's no gayfabulousness in it as far as I can see.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 02, 2025 05:00 PM (kpS4V)

240 Ghost Rider sold his soul to the devil to try and save his father's life. People have sold their sole to the devil for what they thought was altruism.

I suspect the Christian answer to this is you can't really sell your soul. But the devil would try to make you do bad things under the belief you have and can no longer be saved...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 05:01 PM (t0Rmr)

241 Perchance might you be thinking of the "goose egg?"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (tT6L1)

I think it is a cricket term.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 05:01 PM (D7oie)

242 Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (jGJov)

Fortunately I have a son who doesn’t wear skirts and doesn’t sing about Gen Z. He also doesn’t work on an office. He’d probably be the guy narrating the video and talking about Gen Z hell.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:01 PM (2GCMq)

243 Perfect opportunity for Marvel to call the audible and have Iron Tart be the actual villain in the series.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 02, 2025 05:02 PM (EES2L)

244 People have sold their sole to the devil for what they thought was altruism.

Not Ironheart. Nothing about it was altruism. It was lust for power and money.

"Yay! I know that thing! I know that thing! Yay!"
-modern entertainment

Yeah sadly that's all Marvel has now. Although it was at least well done in Deadpool. Look at their big hits last year:

Deadpool and Wolverine, Spiderman No Way Home both total nostalgia bait: remember when we were good?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:02 PM (dfIr7)

245 205 This is what Gen Z is like at the office:

https://tinyurl.com/32t59zuk
Posted by: brak
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What dumbass hired them in the first place?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 05:02 PM (K91ZZ)

246 Superhero needs a r.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 05:02 PM (WIJBc)

247 The best alien invasion movie I've seen is Captive State with John Goodman. Really good plot.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (VofaG)

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I just watched the trailer. I had never heard of it, but it looks good.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:56 PM (PMtkd)

Anyone else see it to back me up ?

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:02 PM (VofaG)

248 Speaking of Buffy, that show was kind of a benchmark for when the entertainment industry went bonkers.

It fit in with the late 90s/early 00s more reserved liberalism but then in season 6 they literally went gay and it was just dumber and dumber after that.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 05:00 PM (t0Rmr)

Butt, there was Charisma Carpenter !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 05:03 PM (NtVYv)

249 Elio is about a lonely boy who meets aliens. Yawn...

The new Lilo and Stitch live action film is about a lonely girl that meets aliens. Did we need a live action remake of it? No. But the remake is doing gangbusters.

Why? No woke, while being a surprisingly realistic, warts and all look at broken families and a non-stereotypical look at Hawaii. And a super cute and funny alien.

Parents and kids love stories like ET and Lilo and Stitch. Part of that is no one is grooming their kids during those films.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 05:03 PM (Eng1Z)

250 Wow; I saw the trailer for Elio. I wouldn’t go see it because I don’t have young kids, but the trailer didnt look that bad.

As far as “Iron heart” I don’t know who that actress is but she’s unattractive, Sacha Baron Cohen has been a leftist bore for years and if I wanted to see something about someone selling their soul to the devil I’d go see “ Dr. Faustus”.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 04:33 PM (2GCMq)

I've been getting ads for Elio and was repelled without knowing why, then on one of the review shows someone mentioned 'bean mouth'. Could not unsee it, absolutely killed it for me, just totally lazy animation even in abstract animation.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:03 PM (8avO+)

251 Deadpool and wolverine just left me kind of cold.

But Wesley Snipes as Blade was cool.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 05:03 PM (zZu0s)

252 People have sold their sole to the devil for what they thought was altruism.
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"Should've read the contract."
[hands Satan an old shoe]

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 05:03 PM (CBWwv)

253
Skyline was not a great SF movie, but the FX were fine and it cost $10-20M to make.

Now with Bidenflation is would be something like 2X that, but there is no reason that making even an SF blockbuster should cost more then $50M.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 04:47 PM (t0Rmr)

It's easy to make a sci-fi film for $10-20M or so when you're using the same FX firm as a big Hollywood production and you charge a big chunk of your FX to the studio film. At least, if you believe Sony's allegations.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 05:03 PM (y9nCu)

254 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 02, 2025 05:00 PM (kpS4V

That’s good to know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:03 PM (2GCMq)

255 There's no gayfabulousness in it as far as I can see.

Supposedly they cut all that out because, as ACE noted, while the test screen audience claimed they liked the movie not a single one said that they'd go see it in the theater.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:03 PM (dfIr7)

256 There's no gayfabulousness in it as far as I can see.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 02, 2025 05:00 PM (kpS4V)

Uh oh!

Reality intrudes!

But...how dare you go see it instead of reading the impressions of internet reviewers who haven't seen it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 05:04 PM (L5An7)

257 Microsoft fires 9000 while applying for 7000 h1b slave permits.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 05:04 PM (WIJBc)

258 Betty Davis actually had a decent figure. When she could get those bugeyes under control, she was actually quite attractive.

Joan Crawford was only moderately good-looking in her very early days, like in the silent she made with Lon Chaney, and in Grand Hotel. Later on, she went full Gorgon.
Posted by: Bulg
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She had a gorgeous body. Never saw her in the buff but did see a statue.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 05:04 PM (K91ZZ)

259 Guardians of the Galaxy was good but they lost me on the 3rd film.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:04 PM (VofaG)

260 Butt, there was Charisma Carpenter !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

Phrasing?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:05 PM (77rzZ)

261 The Disneyland ride will be lit!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

I went on the new Elio ride at Disneyland the other day. Instead of 3-D glasses, I was given a -blank-.

Posted by: Zombie Gene Rayburn in Match Game '25 at July 02, 2025 05:05 PM (1tFD7)

262 Deadpool and wolverine just left me kind of cold.

Its dumb as hell and I hated the two main songs long before they were overplayed in the movie. Deadpool is a horrible, horrible person and deserved being chopped to bits by Wolverine. What they did to Johnny Storm was awful and stupid.

But Blade was cool as hell.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:05 PM (dfIr7)

263 She had a gorgeous body. Never saw her in the buff but did see a statue.
Posted by: Braenyard

Davis or Crawford?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:05 PM (77rzZ)

264 Guardians of the Galaxy was good but they lost me on the 3rd film.

The think that impressed me most about that is Karen Gillian made herself completely unrecognizable.

For the Jennifer Connelly types, this is one way to show people you can act without just getting roles via your looks...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 05:06 PM (t0Rmr)

265 Davis.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 05:07 PM (K91ZZ)

266 Iran closes airspace in the west and south until Friday.

Uke intel bumps off Russki Black Sea Fleet commander.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 05:07 PM (1m82a)

267 Does it involve Blade killing vampires in entertaining action scenes?

Posted by: Darth Randall

Blade taking a stand against zombie-phobia and beheading MAGA?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 05:07 PM (L/fGl)

268
If The Rat was smart, they'd expand the Stormtrooper vlog thing into a full-length, R-rated comedy film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wal35YpLB8M

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 05:07 PM (y9nCu)

269 Deadpool and Wolverine, Spiderman No Way Home both total nostalgia bait: remember when we were good?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:02 PM (dfIr7)

And at least the first, and maybe both were movies wrenched out of the corporates hands and some person's sole vision. Also Barbie, and also the first Joker.

It isn't Disney making these popular movies, its when when people escape Disney that it might work.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:07 PM (8avO+)

270 BtVS had prime Charisma Carpenter and SMG and Alyson Hannigan and they'd bring in some other beauty in almost every episode as villain or victim of the week.

Joss Whedon is an asshole but you can't argue with his casting choices...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 05:07 PM (t0Rmr)

271 I went on the new Elio ride at Disneyland the other day. Instead of 3-D glasses, I was given a -blank-.

I'm gonna go with "eyepatch"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:07 PM (dfIr7)

272 There are pics of a young Crawford on the net.
Not bad not bad at all. Hateful woman though.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 05:08 PM (K91ZZ)

273 I went on the new Elio ride at Disneyland the other day. Instead of 3-D glasses, I was given a -blank-.
Posted by: Zombie Gene Rayburn in Match Game '25 at July 02, 2025 05:05 PM (1tFD7)

live boy

Posted by: Charles Nelson Riley at July 02, 2025 05:08 PM (VofaG)

274 >>> Wrong Gen...Gen Z is actually trying to return to being a pro if anyone will hire them after the millenials...gen z is 13-27 right now... Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 04:51 PM (tOcjL)
Gen Whatever. That whole Gen system is homo anyway.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 04:58 PM (y9nCu)

Apparently gen z employees are asking permission to have rooms in their workplaces to shack up, and for in-office sex to be allowed. Because of course they are.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91350604/
gen-z-wants-office-hook-up-spaces

No janitor in their right mind would enter that room. It'll look like a jackson pollock painting.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 05:08 PM (Eng1Z)

275 I've been watching clips of House of David on YouTube. It appears Amazon Prime has resisted the temptation to turn David and Jonathan into sodomite lovers.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 02, 2025 05:08 PM (kTd/k)

276 "Elio" ranks as one of the lesser Pixars because it doesn't work on many levels like most of their movies, like for example "The Incredibles", where adults can identify with the weary wage slave parents and kids have the youngsters trying to fit in with the normies at school. "Elio" is more oriented to a younger audience.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 02, 2025 05:08 PM (kpS4V)

277 If The Rat was smart, they'd expand the Stormtrooper vlog thing into a full-length, R-rated comedy film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wal35YpLB8M
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 05:07 PM (y9nCu)

They'd only ruin it. Didn't one of them have a Star Trek cartoon version that was supposed to be edgy?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:08 PM (8avO+)

278 Butt, there was Charisma Carpenter !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

Phrasing?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:05 PM (77rzZ)

Ass me about it

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 05:09 PM (NtVYv)

279 WTAF is a "creative"?

Pull that bus over to the side of the Pretentiousness Turnpike!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 05:09 PM (Wnv9h)

280 Did you know there's a category on YouTube where you can watch the plot of cutscenes from video games?

WarHammer has almost 2 hours.

How many hundreds of hours of entertainment do you get for that $60?

yeah, movies at theaters are dead. Sad.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 05:09 PM (CBWwv)

281 >>> 274
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Apparently gen z employees are asking permission to have rooms in their workplaces to shack up, and for in-office sex to be allowed. Because of course they are.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91350604/
gen-z-wants-office-hook-up-spaces

No janitor in their right mind would enter that room. It'll look like a jackson pollock painting.
Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 05:08 PM (Eng1Z)

Have these idiots not heard that USAID is kaput?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:09 PM (ULPxl)

282 In case you think I am exaggerating or kidding about Harley (SFW, on Amazon)

https://tinyurl.com/fartacular

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:55 PM (dfIr7)

For a minute there I got worried you were talking about Harley Davidson. I was thinking oh boy, what did the chuckle heads do now.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 02, 2025 05:09 PM (snZF9)

283 Listen, I just want a film where DDL tosses a midget into a tractor trailer, is that too much to ask?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 05:09 PM (XV/Pl)

284 And at least the first, and maybe both were movies wrenched out of the corporates hands and some person's sole vision. Also Barbie, and also the first Joker.

Right, I pointed this out a while back and was mocked for it, but... while Deadpool and Wolverine was technically released by Disney, they had very little control over what went INTO the movie. Basically they let Ryan Reynolds do his mojo with almost not interference if any.

So while it was a Disney movie? It wasn't a Disney movie. They didn't get their MCU stank all over it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:09 PM (dfIr7)

285 But...how dare you go see it instead of reading the impressions of internet reviewers who haven't seen it!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 05:04 PM (L5An7)
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I girlbossed it!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 02, 2025 05:09 PM (kpS4V)

286 > Microsoft fires 9000 while applying for 7000 h1b slave permits.

This idiotic talking point has been all over X for the past several hours and it's driving me nuts. First, it's around 4,000 H1B visas, not 7,000. Second, MSFT is laying off sales and advertising people. That's not who they're hiring through H1Bs. They use H1B to get developers and product owners.

It's valid to argue MSFT should be hiring local developers, but juxtaposing 9K sales and advertising layoffs with 4K developer new hires is stupid.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 05:10 PM (lIio7)

287 Bolt is my favorite Disney animation movie.

Posted by: Charles Nelson Riley at July 02, 2025 05:10 PM (VofaG)

288 101 I think that "fuck a duck" is going to be my new go-to swear phrase.

….

Call me.

Posted by: Howard at July 02, 2025 05:10 PM (54hvx)

289 Does it involve Blade killing vampires in entertaining action scenes?

Posted by: Darth Randall

Blade taking a stand against zombie-phobia and beheading MAGA?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 05:07 PM (L/fGl)

The ZOMBIES are the real victims here

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:10 PM (8avO+)

290 Would they have lost this much money if they simply let Adrian tell his story?

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Perfectly reasonable question.

It's a Disney movie. If the producer tells the director "look, ya gotta cut the fag shit, you queer," then they've dropped the sucker back from 90 minutes to 15 minutes. That's a lot of film on the cutting room floor, a complete re-write and a million hours of rendering time to recreate your homosexual romp through children's psychosocial development as something only slightly less Satanic.

You're better off just serving up the original infernal product The massive additional capital outlay only regains the nine viewers who don't already know about your Rodent King's not-so-secret gay agenda.

Or, you can just run a much smaller loss by attracting the worst element of American society - the "adult" Disney fan - to sit through your 90 minute, antiseptically corporate celebration of pederasty, so they can experience their only ersatz emotion til the next slop sluices through the trough.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 05:10 PM (BI5O2)

291 Perchance might you be thinking of the "goose egg?"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:50 PM (tT6L1)

I think it is a cricket term.
Posted by: Kindltot

Tennis is oeuf.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 05:10 PM (L/fGl)

292 Oh, and I just saw "Jurassic Whatever". Some good thrills, but not something I'd see ever again, unlike the first in the series.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 02, 2025 05:11 PM (kpS4V)

293 >>> Posted by: Charles Nelson Riley at July 02, 2025 05:10 PM (VofaG)

Heh.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:11 PM (ULPxl)

294 Apparently gen z employees are asking permission to have rooms in their workplaces to shack up, and for in-office sex to be allowed. Because of course they are.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91350604/
gen-z-wants-office-hook-up-spaces

No janitor in their right mind would enter that room. It'll look like a jackson pollock painting.
Posted by: LizLem

No company would allow sexual harassment in the workplace either. That's just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 05:11 PM (Ul4ZN)

295 Ok, novella, not short story! I’m just glad that I can remember it, I read it so long ago. And, yes, the original Thing movie was nominally based on the Campbell story, but Hollywood!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 05:11 PM (SEFV4)

296 WarHammer has almost 2 hours.

How many hundreds of hours of entertainment do you get for that $60?

World of Warcraft has at least that much. All of it until very recently was awfully cool. Lately its... its very regretful.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:11 PM (dfIr7)

297 The ZOMBIES are the real victims here
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:10 PM (8avO+)

Yes, and of course, all zombie apocalypse movies and TV shows are really about how bad the surviving humans are. Especially if they voted anything right of Karl Marx pre-apocalypse.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 02, 2025 05:11 PM (9Ovst)

298
Riri Williams is not just unrelatable--she's unlikable. She's arrogant, cold, and completely lacking in empathy. She constantly reminds the audience that she doesn't want to be a hero, has no moral obligation to anyone, and is building her suits and AI "because I can."

That's not strength--that's narcissism. Her every action is self-serving, yet the show insists we root for her because of her identity and not her choices. They try to dress it up in a narrative about her dead stepfather but it just rings hollow.

By the end of episode three, Riri commits a stone cold murder.

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Apparently there are a lot of people like this in our country, in real life. The high school punk murderer in Texas, his enthusiastically grifting family and hangers-on, any POS that donated money, etc. etc.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 02, 2025 05:11 PM (kf4RM)

299 Off sock

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:11 PM (VofaG)

300
Guardians of the Galaxy was good but they lost me on the 3rd film.
Posted by: polynikes

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I'm amazed at you folks who get into these franchises and even form opinions on them. The mere sight of a cape or unitard makes me swipe left.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 05:12 PM (QNdZb)

301 Thank you for your viewpoint, Eris.

I went to Disneyland just over a year ago with my boys and the wedding party. We spent two days and criss-crossed Disney and CA Adventures several times. I was looking HARD for gay crap.

Didn’t see any. Just because there are brightly
colored pictures and costumes doesn’t mean everything is a fag rainbow. I just didn’t get the gay vibe. And I tried to find it.

People were just happy and friendly and having a great time with friends and family.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 05:12 PM (mT+6a)

302 Don't fuck with Wesley! He's a true action hero, - he went to jail for tax evasion, if I recall correctly.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 05:12 PM (a/G0f)

303 Oh, and I just saw "Jurassic Whatever". Some good thrills, but not something I'd see ever again, unlike the first in the series.

All the last 5 or so Jurassic movies have been dumb as hell but they all make enormous bank. So much so that I am baffled that nobody else is making dinosaur movies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:13 PM (dfIr7)

304 @MikeBenzCyber: "the EU’s “Voluntary Code of Conduct on Disinformation” just became MANDATORY. US social media platforms will now get whipped by huge EU fines if they don’t throttle what the EU calls “disinfo”"

Europe despises freedom of speech.

USA out of NATO now.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 05:13 PM (xYXPm)

305 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:11 PM (ULPxl)

Yes an unfortunate hash.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:13 PM (VofaG)

306 And the new Star Wars stuff was mind blowing. Totally freaking awesome.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 05:13 PM (mT+6a)

307 The mere sight of a cape or unitard makes me swipe left.

I feel the same way about rom-coms and musicals. But some very few of them are okay.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:14 PM (dfIr7)

308 Warhammer is about the hottest IP right now.

If they make a movie that generally follows any of the established lore/books/games they will make money hand over fist.

But Games Workshops thinks they are in business to sell minis so they will find a way to screw it up.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 05:14 PM (t0Rmr)

309 >>> 289
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The ZOMBIES are the real victims here
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:10 PM (8avO+)

I think it was the BBC that had a show a few years back about "ex" zombies trying to adjust to normal life after their "recovery".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:14 PM (ULPxl)

310 Oh, and I just saw "Jurassic Whatever". Some good thrills, but not something I'd see ever again, unlike the first in the series.

All the last 5 or so Jurassic movies have been dumb as hell but they all make enormous bank. So much so that I am baffled that nobody else is making dinosaur movies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:13 PM (dfIr7)

TEH DINOS ARE THE REAL VICTIMS...actually I usually do root for them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:14 PM (8avO+)

311
If The Rat was smart, they'd expand the Stormtrooper vlog thing into a full-length, R-rated comedy film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wal35YpLB8M
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 05:07 PM (y9nCu)

They'd only ruin it. Didn't one of them have a Star Trek cartoon version that was supposed to be edgy?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:08 PM (8avO+)

As long as it has Nicole, the Blue Skin Alien THOT, it'll make bank.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 05:14 PM (y9nCu)

312 >>> Would they have lost this much money if they simply let Adrian tell his story?

Disney changes its stories all the time. It's part of the process. In Tangled, Lasseter realized they needed boy appeal, so he made them add Flynn Rider as a character and make it more fun. Everything clicked.

Frozen famously swapped Elsa into a heroine instead of the villain in the 11th hour, and made it about the bond of sisters. Everything clicked, it made a bazillion dollars.

Professionals in animation can handle these changes. They are in a business where that's the job. If you can't pivot when things aren't working and made huge changes, find another business.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 05:14 PM (Eng1Z)

313 ============

I'm amazed at you folks who get into these franchises and even form opinions on them. The mere sight of a cape or unitard makes me swipe left.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
--------------------------------

One wonders if they really are 29.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 05:14 PM (K91ZZ)

314 >>> 305
==
Yes an unfortunate hash.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:13 PM (VofaG)

Have you tried rebooting your computer???

Posted by: Hello, my name is Sam at July 02, 2025 05:15 PM (ULPxl)

315 Didn’t see any. Just because there are brightly
colored pictures and costumes doesn’t mean everything is a fag rainbow. I just didn’t get the gay vibe. And I tried to find it

You must have missed the dude dressed up as the fairy godmother's apprentice.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:15 PM (dfIr7)

316 @MikeBenzCyber: "the EU’s “Voluntary Code of Conduct on Disinformation” just became MANDATORY. US social media platforms will now get whipped by huge EU fines if they don’t throttle what the EU calls “disinfo”"

Europe despises freedom of speech.

USA out of NATO now.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 05:13 PM (xYXPm)

They gonna love being cut off from Twitter.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:15 PM (8avO+)

317 he went to jail for tax evasion, if I recall correctly.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 05:12 PM (a/G0f)

Because he's a sovereign citizen nut . At least that was his defense IIRC.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:16 PM (VofaG)

318
Apparently gen z employees are asking permission to have rooms in their workplaces to shack up, and for in-office sex to be allowed. Because of course they are.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91350604/
gen-z-wants-office-hook-up-spaces

No janitor in their right mind would enter that room. It'll look like a jackson pollock painting.
Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 05:08 PM

Snap on tools calendars are sexual harassment and I hope these kids get their little afternoon delight break room because the pendulum needs to swing back. it's also a lawsuit waiting to happen

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 05:16 PM (BvTfc)

319 Is Wesley’s superpower his preternatural ability to always evoke a “Shut up” from Picard?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:16 PM (77rzZ)

320 We should drop Hollywood on Iran.

right?

Guys?

Posted by: eleven at July 02, 2025 05:16 PM (fV+MH)

321 >>> 302 Don't fuck with Wesley! He's a true action hero, - he went to jail for tax evasion, if I recall correctly.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 05:12 PM (a/G0f)

*tee hee*

Posted by: Rev. Al Shaprton at July 02, 2025 05:16 PM (ULPxl)

322 The only purpose of modern filmmaking is to try and destroy western culture.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 02, 2025 05:16 PM (Vfq+S)

323 Dixar

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 05:17 PM (/U5Yz)

324 Would they have lost this much money if they simply let Adrian tell his story?

They wouldn't have lost as MUCH money because it wouldn't have cost 1.3x as much or more. But it would not have done the Disney brand any favors. They would have had both a massive bomb and more people annoyed at their beloved family brand turned into yet more perversion.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:17 PM (dfIr7)

325 Ace is The Critical Drinker without the Scottish accent

Posted by: zombie at July 02, 2025 05:18 PM (pMi6S)

326 ============

I'm amazed at you folks who get into these franchises and even form opinions on them. The mere sight of a cape or unitard makes me swipe left.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
--------------------------------

One wonders if they really are 29.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 05:14 PM (K91ZZ)

I have staff that cuts them down, laughs at all the stupid bits and makes up jokes for me...at no cost.

Guys like Nerdrotic and Disparu.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:18 PM (8avO+)

327 A California jury has ordered Google to pay $314 million after a class action lawsuit claimed the internet giant used Android users’ cellular data to collect information without their knowledge or consent.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)

328 I feel the same way about rom-coms and musicals. But some very few of them are okay.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:14 PM (dfIr7)

Even though I have a tag hash I'm confident enough in my heterosexuality to admit RomComs have always been a favorite genre.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:18 PM (VofaG)

329 I have staff that cuts them down, laughs at all the stupid bits and makes up jokes for me...at no cost.

Saves a ton of money, too

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:19 PM (dfIr7)

330 We should drop Hollywood on Iran.

right?

Guys?
Posted by: eleven at July 02, 2025 05:16 PM (fV+MH)

There are some war crimes that are just unthinkable.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:19 PM (8avO+)

331 You must have missed the dude dressed up as the fairy godmother's apprentice.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:15 PM (dfIr7)

Like I said. I was there and looked hard and didn’t see overt or even subtle homosexual overtones, undertones or anything. Not to say it hasn’t happened. But. I didn’t see it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 05:19 PM (mT+6a)

332 Don't fuck with Wesley! He's a true action hero, - he went to jail for tax evasion, if I recall correctly.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 05:12 PM (a/G0f)
---
Blade is more of an anti-hero. He's not "good" but he's "good enough" because he's fighting true blood-sucking demons. He does try to fight against his own nature, recognizing that he can make a choice to be good (or evil).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 05:19 PM (7fElN)

333 [Google] used Android users’ cellular data to collect information without their knowledge or consent.

I mean... doesn't everyone already figure that is happening anyway? Who thought otherwise?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:20 PM (dfIr7)

334 Really, Disney is the worst, but every major studio product has the same tagline and it's "Eat Your Slop, Pig - You'll Take What We Give You, and Love It."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 05:20 PM (BI5O2)

335 Any musical made before the 70s rocks. Well, maybe not Hair.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

336 >>> 331 You must have missed the dude dressed up as the fairy godmother's apprentice.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:15 PM (dfIr7)

Like I said. I was there and looked hard and didn’t see overt or even subtle homosexual overtones, undertones or anything. Not to say it hasn’t happened. But. I didn’t see it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 05:19 PM (mT+6a)

Isn't the Fairy (!!) Godmother in Disneyworld?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:20 PM (ULPxl)

337 >>> Warhammer is about the hottest IP right now.
If they make a movie that generally follows any of the established lore/books/games they will make money hand over fist. But Games Workshops thinks they are in business to sell minis so they will find a way to screw it up.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 05:14 PM (t0Rmr)

I think Henry Caville is an executive producer? So there are good hopes. He's a huge geek, and he got burned by both the Superman and Witcher execs changing the series in ways that sabotage the essence of them.

He also famously supports the fans, being one. He said they have passion, and passion is ok, when a reporter tried to get him to hate on fans in an interview. It was surprisingly unwoke.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 05:21 PM (Eng1Z)

338
You're so gay, you probably think this song is about you

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 05:21 PM (NtVYv)

339 The reason zombie apocalypse movies resonate is because they are invasion movies! In a time when we can’t make a movie in Hollywood about the invasion of illegals into our country, these movies about people who are sort of like us, but really not, “people” who mess the whole country up and live off the real people: it resonates because it talks about the thing, in an exaggerated way, that’s really happening to us, only you’re not supposed to talk about it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 05:21 PM (SEFV4)

340 Ace is The Critical Drinker without the Scottish accent
Posted by: zombie at July 02, 2025 05:18 PM (pMi6S)

His friends sometime bitch that they put out an 8 hour set of reviews, or 40 hours for the Longman, and CD cuts to the essence in about 30 minutes or less.

Drives them nuts.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:21 PM (8avO+)

341 I remember distinctly when Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Ain't no law we can't break!"

It's engraved in the African American Constitution.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 05:22 PM (a/G0f)

342 Proposition: Groundhog Day is a rom-com.

Discuss

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)

343 A California jury has ordered Google to pay $314 million after a class action lawsuit claimed the internet giant used Android users’ cellular data to collect information without their knowledge or consent.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)

Where's my check dammnit ?!

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 05:22 PM (NtVYv)

344 They had the gay kid in School of Rock making the band's outfits.

Stereotypes are funny sometimes in small doses.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:22 PM (VofaG)

345 I think Henry Caville is an executive producer? So there are good hopes. He's a huge geek, and he got burned by both the Superman and Witcher execs changing the series in ways that sabotage the essence of them.

He also famously supports the fans, being one. He said they have passion, and passion is ok, when a reporter tried to get him to hate on fans in an interview. It was surprisingly unwoke.
Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 05:21 PM (Eng1Z)

Henry's a good egg. I hope he does well though from what I hear Warhammer is not a happy fun world.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:23 PM (8avO+)

346 Proposition: Groundhog Day is a rom-com.

Discuss
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)

Without question.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:23 PM (VofaG)

347 '"Eat Your Slop, Pig - You'll Take What We Give You, and Love It."'

It's colorful and moves rapidly and has music. Any old crap to distract the kids for a couple of hours, give the parents a break. TV and Movies: raising our kids for eight decades now.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 05:23 PM (xYXPm)

348 "From the lazy bad cinematography to the lackluster bad graphics, bad wooden performances, and bad writing."

Theory - women, gays and people of color are not in the driver's seat for major film productions due to misogyny, racism, etc.

Experiment: Give these people a chance!

Result: Absolute tragically bad garbage, over and over.

Conclusion: Racism and misogyny were not the actual problem here. Lack of talent and bad ideas was the reason you were being held back.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 05:23 PM (gDhA9)

349 339 The reason zombie apocalypse movies resonate is because they are invasion movies! In a time when we can’t make a movie in Hollywood about the invasion of illegals into our country, these movies about people who are sort of like us, but really not, “people” who mess the whole country up and live off the real people: it resonates because it talks about the thing, in an exaggerated way, that’s really happening to us, only you’re not supposed to talk about it!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 05:21 PM (SEFV4)

There's been the theory for a while now that the popularity of zombies and vampires corresponds to shifts in the political climate because zombies are the abstraction of the fear of the left - mindless consumers, etc. whereas vampires are the fear of the right - uninhibited sexuality.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 05:24 PM (B9Prs)

350 342 Proposition: Groundhog Day is a rom-com.

Discuss
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)

Groundhog Day is the most religious movie ever made that never discusses religion.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 05:24 PM (uWKK8)

351 Still waiting on a proper TMNT rubber suit remake that’s rated R.

Don’t know why anyone hasn’t done Castlevania for a movie. Tons of story to go through there and it would be a fairly straightforward action movie. Popcorn summer fun.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 02, 2025 05:24 PM (eZwyX)

352 Woke is a warning sign the product, on a basic level, is going to be bad. Because your attention is NOT on the quality of the product at all, and how the customers might enjoy it. It is on yourself.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 05:24 PM (gDhA9)

353 Any musical made before the 70s rocks. Well, maybe not Hair.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

I can only rarely get around the fact that nobody just breaks out in song like that. Many of them were well put together.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)

354 Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Ain't no law we can't break!"

NO KING DAY!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 05:25 PM (9avc6)

355 Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 05:24 PM (B9Prs)

I like both when done well. I never ever thought of political causation.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:25 PM (VofaG)

356 It's not bad because it is woke, it's woke because it is bad.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 05:25 PM (gDhA9)

357 Again: Where did professionalism go?

----------------

It's infantilism all the way down ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 05:25 PM (eaE/x)

358 Groundhog Day is the most religious movie ever made that never discusses religion.
Posted by: Tom Servo

True. Jonah Goldberg actually wrote a good article on this topic in NR way back in the day.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:25 PM (77rzZ)

359 Satanists are getting a little on the nose with Iron heart. Tranny murderer who sells soul to Satan. Yeah, feel good movie of the year

Posted by: Boundless insanity and depravity isn't really appealing to the non possessed at July 02, 2025 05:25 PM (uflOM)

360 joe, living dangerously -

No, it’s not left vs. right: it’s Us vs. Them!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 05:26 PM (SEFV4)

361 Isn't the Fairy (!!) Godmother in Disneyworld?

Probably? Disneyland is pretty small, they have a lot less stuff in it.

The reason zombie apocalypse movies resonate is because they are invasion movies!

See the way some of you all feel about superhero stuff? I feel about zombie stuff. Its idiotic and insultingly bad. Zombies are one of the weakest, worst undead, they are ridiculously easy to defeat and avoid. The only way anyone can make them a serious threat is to either make the people incredibly stupid, isolate them in a single building in a graveyard, or change them so that they aren't zombies any longer. Its the dumbest genre in fiction.

But you're right about invasions. We cannot have people invade or its something stupid like the remake of Red Dawn. Can't be the Russians or Chinese, its gotta be like the Albanians, someone who isn't going to sue or has too small a population to care.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:26 PM (dfIr7)

362 >>> His friends sometime bitch that they put out an 8 hour set of reviews, or 40 hours for the Longman, and CD cuts to the essence in about 30 minutes or less. Drives them nuts.

I can see that...but that tells me CD understands the average attention span of people nowadays. And that not all of an 8 hour review is gold.

Look, I LOVE long podcasts. But I don't know if I can do 8 hours every week for one show. He's taking friends shooting the breeze for 8 hours and giving you the highlights. And it works. Whatever he's doing, even if they hate it, is business savvy enough to work for his audience and get him a following.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 05:26 PM (Eng1Z)

363 >>> 358 Groundhog Day is the most religious movie ever made that never discusses religion.
Posted by: Tom Servo

True. Jonah Goldberg actually wrote a good article on this topic in NR way back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:25 PM (77rzZ)

Ghostwritten or stolen from Ace?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:26 PM (ULPxl)

364 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 05:24 PM (uWKK

Interesting. Never thought of it. Awesome movie though.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 02, 2025 05:26 PM (eZwyX)

365 The woke is there to cover up the bad, to distract you from it, or make an excuse because the rest of it doesn't have to be good.

I don't have to worry about character motivations if my goal is to send a message to the patriarchy.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 05:26 PM (gDhA9)

366 352 I try to watch a movie without actively searching for reasons to hate it. If they're there, I'll find them. But I'm not on the hunt.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 05:27 PM (xYXPm)

367 But this "superhero," "Riri" Williams, remains absolutely certain in her own entitlement and her unshakable belief that the world owes her fame and wealth and she is justified in committing any crime necessary to achieve these selfish goals.

--------------------

"Reparations be costly, yo!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 05:27 PM (eaE/x)

368 Musicals are for fags.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 05:28 PM (mT+6a)

369 Henry's a good egg. I hope he does well though from what I hear Warhammer is not a happy fun world.

In the grim dark future of the 41st millennia there is only war.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 05:28 PM (t0Rmr)

370 Proposition: Groundhog Day is a rom-com.

Discuss
Posted by: Bulg

Dat groundhog tho, amirite? I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Richard Gere at July 02, 2025 05:28 PM (1tFD7)

371 >>> 368 Musicals are for fags.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 05:28 PM (mT+6a)

Mongo straight!!!

Posted by: John Travolta at July 02, 2025 05:28 PM (ULPxl)

372 Experiment: Give these people a chance!

Result: Absolute tragically bad garbage, over and over.

Conclusion: Racism and misogyny were not the actual problem here. Lack of talent and bad ideas was the reason you were being held back.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 05:23 PM (gDhA9)

If you were a writer or actor before woke, you got treated based on your skills, got plots that fitted your talents and when time came for you to prove yourself, you had advice and training that let you write something that other people wanted to see that could appeal to most people.

Now we indoctrinate everyone with one, fairly nonsensical world view and give them 200 million to play with. It isn't a shocker that they fail, and badly.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:28 PM (8avO+)

373 Where's my check dammnit ?!
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

No comment.

Posted by: Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe at July 02, 2025 05:29 PM (mlg/3)

374 I hope he does well though from what I hear Warhammer is not a happy fun world.

Its a grim, dismal misery fest with lovecraftian level evil barely held back by mankind basically becoming its absolutely worst grinding level of brutality with an immortal absolute dictator.

Its British fantasy, which means there are no good guys, no hope, and no fun. I don't honesty know why people like it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:29 PM (dfIr7)

375 I always loved that. Where do all the kids come from if Reich wingers all hate sex?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s)

376 I can only rarely get around the fact that nobody just breaks out in song like that. Many of them were well put together.
Posted by: Oldcat

I admit that I have an issue with musical numbers that are set as "staged" numbers within the musical itself -- e.g., nightclub numbers, etc. Most musicals seem to include those types of numbers, though.

The best musicals are precisely those that do have people just breaking out in song, and only that -- because they reveal what the characters are thinking, and thus add psychologial depth and advance the plot

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:29 PM (77rzZ)

377 When a dude with a beard shows up at Disneyland as a fairy godmother, is that decision about you as a customer? or about the dude? or about the corporation signaling?

It isn't for the benefit of the customer, that's for sure. It's a signal that we take you for granted and don't care.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 05:29 PM (gDhA9)

378 I don't see Groundhog Day as a religious movie at all. I see a RomCom where it takes decades for a narcissistic man to change to get the woman he loves.

But I guess you can interpret anything in anyway if you're a good enough wordsmith.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:30 PM (VofaG)

379 Warhammer (both fantasy and 40k) are grim dark. Appealing but can also get tiresome.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 05:30 PM (zZu0s)

380 Conclusion: Racism and misogyny were not the actual problem here. Lack of talent and bad ideas was the reason you were being held back.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 05:23 PM (gDhA9)

There are allowed to be multiple problems.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 05:30 PM (B9Prs)

381 Apparently gen z employees are asking permission to have rooms in their workplaces to shack up, and for in-office sex to be allowed. Because of course they are.

-
Coming soon! Lawsuits against employers for employees getting STDs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 05:30 PM (L/fGl)

382 368 Musicals are for fags.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 05:28 PM (mT+6a)

_Oh contraire mon Amie
Randy Marsh

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 02, 2025 05:30 PM (DwKKA)

383 Musicals are for fags.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Sounds like something you'd say. Go back to your damn otters.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:30 PM (77rzZ)

384 I would like to see a movie where Tony Stark puts on his old (newest) suit and fights Ironheart and ekes out a narrow victory despite her underhanded tricks! Who’s the better engineer, indeed! Never will happen till the copyrights expire sometime in the next century, and then who will care?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM (SEFV4)

385
new one

Posted by: four seasons at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM (3ek7K)

386 304 @MikeBenzCyber: "the EU’s “Voluntary Code of Conduct on Disinformation” just became MANDATORY. US social media platforms will now get whipped by huge EU fines if they don’t throttle what the EU calls “disinfo”"

Europe despises freedom of speech.

USA out of NATO now.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 05:13 PM (xYXPm)

-------

The EU is another means to kill Western Civilization.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM (PMtkd)

387 I always liked 1776 as a musical.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

388 But Whale produced top-notch entertainment -- classics like The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:32 PM (omVj0)

Wrong James Whale.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM (5xuJ/)

389 369 Henry's a good egg. I hope he does well though from what I hear Warhammer is not a happy fun world.

In the grim dark future of the 41st millennia there is only war.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 05:28 PM (t0Rmr)

You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn’t die. That is when I began to believe.

God was real, and he hated us.

Posted by: The Horus Heresy at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM (TbWk/)

390 Bye Bye Birdie was basically porn for me as a kid, Ann Margaret changing her clothes in her bedroom while dining is spellbinding.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:32 PM (VofaG)

391 >>> 385
new one
Posted by: four seasons at July 02, 2025 05:31 PM (3ek7K)

Gotta use your outside voice.

NOOD

CIA and OMG RUSSIA

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 05:32 PM (ULPxl)

392 True. Jonah Goldberg actually wrote a good article on this topic in NR way back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:25 PM (77rzZ)

Ghostwritten or stolen from Ace?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Don't know. Did Ace ever do a post about Groundhog Day?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:32 PM (77rzZ)

393 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 05:29 PM (dfIr7)

You’re a space marine in a battle suit killing evil. That’s enough for a lot of people.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 02, 2025 05:33 PM (eZwyX)

394 60 "Plus: Marvel's New "Superheo" is a Black Teen Genius Girlboss and Sociopathic Criminal Who Literally Sells Her Soul to the Devil"

What's next for disney, human sacrifice?

No, my money is on a new character played by Pedro Pascal. He'll be a full on pdf file; he calls himself...The Kiddler.

Thank you. I'll be here all week.

Posted by: Nelly at July 02, 2025 05:34 PM (cHLus)

395 Now we indoctrinate everyone with one, fairly nonsensical world view and give them 200 million to play with. It isn't a shocker that they fail, and badly. Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:28 PM (8avO+)

Yep. Old and male = decades of experience, hard gained.

But like I say above, woke is there to cover the lack of talent. Woke seems to be saying something important, but frankly, the message isn't that important - it is completely stale.

I thought we beat racism and sexism pretty much to death in the 1990s. There was so little of it after 2000...So why, 25 year later, is this a big issue? It's a subject as stale as Pompeii bread at this point. No one cares.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 05:34 PM (gDhA9)

396 nood

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 05:34 PM (xYXPm)

397 Look, I LOVE long podcasts. But I don't know if I can do 8 hours every week for one show. He's taking friends shooting the breeze for 8 hours and giving you the highlights. And it works. Whatever he's doing, even if they hate it, is business savvy enough to work for his audience and get him a following.
Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 05:26 PM (Eng1Z)

For most of them, the 8 is for a 8 show series, about an hour per show. Now for Mauler, his famed Star War sequels review (for one of them) were about 13 hours and his review of the first one likely will never be completed. His panel shows are 10+ and are not really supposed to be done in one sitting.

Everyone assumes people today have no attention span, but the growth of the alt-reviewers shows that people will adjust to you if you are good enough.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:36 PM (8avO+)

398 The Red Letter Media grumps just dropped "Half in the Bag: 2025 Mid-Year Catch-up":

https://m.youtube.com/
watch?v=1tePkLTMPlg

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 02, 2025 05:36 PM (kpS4V)

399 Noodus CIA

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 05:37 PM (omVj0)

400 I like American musicals, but I also like the French style of musical, like Les jeunes filles de Rochefort. It helps that I’m francophone. Their style is more like a mix of operetta and opera. The songs are not that difficult to sing, but they sing almost everything! The dance numbers are not bad either! It’s beautiful if you can appreciate it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 05:37 PM (SEFV4)

401 I thought we beat racism and sexism pretty much to death in the 1990s. There was so little of it after 2000...So why, 25 year later, is this a big issue? It's a subject as stale as Pompeii bread at this point. No one cares.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 05:34 PM (gDhA9)

The Dems need to break people into groups to control them, playing one off against each other. The problem is the process never ends, you have to subdivide and subdivide forever.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:38 PM (8avO+)

402 You’re a space marine in a battle suit killing evil. That’s enough for a lot of people.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 02, 2025 05:33 PM

You're also serving evil, and are yourself evil. I want to root for mankind because, well, mankind, but I doubt I share any DNA with what mankind had become.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 05:38 PM (jc0TO)

403 Old and busted - Spend years honing your craft.

New and Hot - Those years are just a way to keep the black woman down!

Old and busted - Those years are just a way to keep the black woman down!

New and Hot - Spend years honing your craft.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 05:38 PM (gDhA9)

404 378 I don't see Groundhog Day as a religious movie at all. I see a RomCom where it takes decades for a narcissistic man to change to get the woman he loves.

But I guess you can interpret anything in anyway if you're a good enough wordsmith.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 05:30 PM (VofaG)

She's not the focus, the way that his soul is redeemed and transformed is the focus. The fact that his soul is changed is what allows him to finally have a healthy relationship with another human being, for probably the first time in his existence.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 05:40 PM (uWKK8)

405 The best musicals are precisely those that do have people just breaking out in song, and only that -- because they reveal what the characters are thinking, and thus add psychologial depth and advance the plot
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 05:29 PM (77rzZ)

I admit the utility, my mind just cries "THATS NOT HOW PEOPLE ACT!" every so often.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 05:41 PM (8avO+)

406 Sorry! I remembered the title wrong: it’s Les Demoiselles de Rochefort: in English The Young Girls of Rochefort!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 05:42 PM (SEFV4)

407 I just saw "Jurassic Whatever".

-
I see there's a "Digital 3D" version available. What is that. Do you need glasses?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 05:42 PM (L/fGl)

408 Groundhog Day is a religious movie: who do you think is giving him all these second chances? And third, and fourth, etc. Mind you we don’t get do-overs in this life, but if we did, who would supply them?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 05:47 PM (SEFV4)

409 British fantasy, which means there are no good guys, no hope, and no fun.
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CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien are not amused.

Posted by: Um yeah, what happened? at July 02, 2025 05:51 PM (uflOM)

410 God is telling Phil “You’re going to keep doing this day until you get it right!” Granted, that’s not how God interacts with us, but it’s a fantasy, and you’re allowed one little twist to reality to set the story in motion. This is what the writers chose.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 05:53 PM (SEFV4)

411 384 I would like to see a movie where Tony Stark puts on his old (newest) suit and fights Ironheart and ekes out a narrow victory despite her underhanded tricks! Who’s the better engineer, indeed! Never will happen till the copyrights expire sometime in the next century, and then who will care?

Narrow victory? Pfft. Use Supernatural rules against her. Trap in her in a hidden demon trap. Magic Armor is useless. B*kkake holy water on her stupid *ss until she smokes out. Head for the impala for Beer and talking about our feelings.

Posted by: Nelly at July 02, 2025 05:57 PM (cHLus)

412 > Disney's other bomb factory Marvel has produced what sounds like the most morally repugnant kid's show in history, one in which the supposed "superhero" main character goes on a crime spree of armed theft and extorting millionaires into signing over their companies to the crime ring.

Read a few issues of whatever Ironman comic started off IronHeart. Horrifically bad but I'm impressed that the TV show is even worse.

Posted by: comradearthur at July 02, 2025 05:57 PM (OdNzD)

413 They're all about "sanding down".
Sanding down girls' boobs and boys' penises.

Posted by: UncleJefe at July 02, 2025 06:01 PM (DzC+b)

414 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

https://i.yt___.com/vi/L8IFKFxhL5k/maxresdefault.jpg

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 06:54 PM (SEFV4)

415 The marvel crapfest reminds me of the show on now about a British hedgefund that they keep promoting all over (yet i still can't care to remember the name)

The lead is a black girl who breaks every rule and does what she wants because she's actually smarter than all those old dudes in the company. But she constantly f's up, and then cries about it or does something that saves her ass but hurts someone who spent the whole show helping her. And it's not doing that to show she has flaws, because she never learns from it and that never plays in to the idea she's ruthless. Then we're supposed to always feel bad for her. And none of this is done ironically or tongue in cheek. It's just shitty writing that they hope they can make up for with having the other female lead be naked half the time.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 02, 2025 07:31 PM (RxQkI)

416 This Riri was introduced in Black Panther 2 as a super-genius.

However, the writers couldn't get that right.
They tried to demonstrate her genius because of the classes she took at MIT, but they listed differential equations, which a lot of MIT students take in high school.

Posted by: MikeN at July 02, 2025 08:29 PM (HVZOH)

CNN Poll: Trump Now More Beloved By Republicans Than Even the Great Ronald Reagan Was

Before getting to that: CNN's and MSNBC's ratings are falling. Again.

From the NY Post:

MSNBC and CNN suffered staggering losses in viewership over the past year -- while Donald Trump's ascendancy supercharged Fox News in the cable news ratings war.
The left-leaning networks -- which will both be spun off by their respective parent companies -- suffered year-over-year declines in all major metrics for the second quarter compared to the same period last year, according to the latest Nielsen data, which was reported by AdWeek.
Comcast-owned MSNBC, with its rabid anti-Trump lineup of anchors, drew an average 1.008 million primetime viewers from April to June, a year-over-year decline of 15%, Nielsen figures show.
In the the advertiser-covered 25-to-54 demographic, primetime viewership plunged 20%, to 91,000 compared to last year -- despite star anchor Rachel Maddow returning to full-time duty during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
Jen Psaki took over her 9 p.m. primetime slot Tuersdays through Fridays midway through the second quarter ratings period.
The exodus of eyeballs was even worse during the day, with total viewership plummeting 26%, to an average of 596,000, and 31%, to 57,000, in the key demo compared to the same quarter last year.
CNN, which has languished in last place despite paying anchor Anderson Cooper a reported $18 million in salary, averaged 538,000 total viewers in primetime for the three-month period and 105,000 in the demo, according to Nielsen
Year-over-year, the network saw declines of 13% in total viewers in primetime and a 15% drop in the 25-54 demo.
The cable news pioneer, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, dropped 14% in total viewers during the day, to an average of 406,000, and 16% in the demo, to 71,000, year-over-year, according to Nielsen.

It's not just ratings. We know the deranged left thinks and dreams and obsesses about politics and defeating TRUMPHITLER!!! every waking moment. They are voracious propaganda addicts and doom junkies.

They are not watching the news because:

1, Trump keeps on winning,

2, the leftwing propaganda outlets cannot hide this fact no matter how hard they try,

3, they're beginning to suspect that their propaganda outlets are lying to them,

and

4, the Democrat-Media Party seems completely unable to even get a simple information operation going that the public cares about. Ten years of hysteria and hoaxes have finally ended the left's ability to mount a proper psyop. Leftwing lunatics not only know they're losing, but they look at the Democrat-Media Party and see no signs and no reasonable hope for improvement in the near term.

So they tune out. The plummeting ratings aren't just doom for CNN and MSNBC. They're also a strong signal of complete demoralization of the left.

On to the finding that Trump is the most popular president among Republicans in history:

I say this not to slight Trump but to boost Reagan: Most liberal Rockefeller/Bush Republicans remained in the party under Reagan. They didn't approve of Reagan, but they still called themselves Republicans.

Liberal fake Republicans hate Trump so much they're now just Democrats, though some still continue to play True Conservative on MSNBC. So Trump's Republican Party is more Republican and conservative (and Trumpian) than Reagan's Republican Party was.

But still, this is wild: 65% of Republicans strongly approve of Trump. Not just approve, which I think is at something like 90%, but strongly approve.

Rarely do presidents deliver so much to their base that a supermarjority are strong supporters.

GOP voters love for Trump is record breaking. His strong approval (63%) is up like a rocket from term 1 (53%).

It's higher than any GOP prez on record at this pt.

95%+ of those Trump endorses win primaries. When you mess with Trump, you go in the grinder to quote Good Burger. pic.twitter.com/1Op7Wjq479
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 1, 2025

That's not all the CNN poll finds: it now finds that the Democrat-Media Party is majority pro-Hamas.

Jason Cohen
@JasonJournoDC
NEW: CNN's Harry Enten *GOBSMACKED* by how pro-Palestinian Dems have become
"In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. Look at this: They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points more than with the Palestinians."
"But look at the sea change! Now Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians by 43 points!"
"Oh my God! That is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years!"
"So all of a sudden, it's the pro-Palestinian position that actually reigns supreme in Democratic politics -- not the Israeli position."

🚨NEW: CNN's Harry Enten *GOBSMACKED* by how pro-Palestinian Dems have become🚨

"In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. Look at this: They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points more than with the Palestinians."

"But look at the sea change! Now Democrats� pic.twitter.com/nUlDFpZUpc
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) July 2, 2025

CNBC forced to recognize that Trump's tariffs have brought in over $121 BILLION to the US without imposing a burden on the consumers.

It's almost like the "experts" were wrong!pic.twitter.com/oaHfWcyFsr
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 30, 2025

Bill Kristol and his gay Wormtongue Tim Miller used to claim to be Republicans and derange it into pursuing the left's goals.

Now they're just boring, tedious, drab communist Democrats like a myriad others.

Bill Kristol: Defund ICE and DHS.

�I've sort've come around to defunding ICE about a month or two ago, and now I just want to defund DHS." pic.twitter.com/fjP4Da5XzX
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 2, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 03:15 PM

Comments

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 02, 2025 03:15 PM (GYt5+)

2 Buncha Reagan-loving Centrists, over here.

Posted by: mikeski at July 02, 2025 03:15 PM (DgGvY)

3 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 02, 2025 03:15 PM (GYt5+)

4 Nope

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 02, 2025 03:15 PM (GYt5+)

5 But still, this is wild: 65% of Republicans strongly approve of Trump. Not just approve, which I think is at something like 90%, but strongly approve.

Rarely do presidents deliver so much to their base that a supermarjority are strong supporters.

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Fighting for the base has positive effects?

Weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

6 Both were former democrats. Both had Hollywood ties. Interesting.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (/U5Yz)

7 Kristol is a wicked anti_american bastard

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (FZn/N)

8 Alt Headline:

Orange Hitler Gains Popularity in 2nd Term.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 03:17 PM (T4A2M)

9 Donaldus Magnus.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 03:17 PM (dPfyF)

10 🚨NEW: CNN's Harry Enten *GOBSMACKED* by how pro-Palestinian Dems have become🚨

"In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. Look at this: They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points more than with the Palestinians."

"But look at the sea change! Now Democrats� pic.twitter.com/nUlDFpZUpc

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) July 2, 2025

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It was a lie. A pro-Israeli part doesn't nominate Barack Obama.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

11 They're beginning to suspect that their propaganda outlets are lying to them
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They are incredibly stupid, so that helps too.

Posted by: San Franpyscho at July 02, 2025 03:17 PM (oXJtT)

12 Whelp, that oughta' show 'em.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 03:18 PM (Q4IgG)

13 The leftards were convinced for years that it was over and that they "had" Trump. The realization of his and our victory left them in a position where they didn't know what to think or do - and they certainly don't want to hear any "news" about it.

Considering it's all an operation meant to enrage and "activate" (yes) them anyway, they have tuned out.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:18 PM (VPwHp)

14 We Hate Truump !!!

Trump lyed to are Black Presdent and that is worst then any crime conmittered by the Clombs Guy.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, Vt DSB/AB (S28) ---------- ARM EXT at July 02, 2025 03:18 PM (BG4v0)

15 "Hello, this is a call from CNN Polling."

"Who? Who is CNN?"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 03:18 PM (FUvyF)

16 Kristol has developed a mighty gunt.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 03:18 PM (lIio7)

17 That was a short-lived centering. Guess the boss was watching.

Posted by: mikeski at July 02, 2025 03:19 PM (DgGvY)

18 Yeah, I gotta say. Trump passed Reagan in my eyes some time ago.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 03:19 PM (Q4cxx)

19 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (H7X8V)

20 Ahoy!

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (4+fJ0)

21 According to Historians, he's still the 49th worst president.

Or is that 49th best. I am so easily confused. Let's just say he's ranked 49th.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (VPwHp)

22 19 Good afternoon good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (H7X8V)

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What about the rest of us?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

23 I wonder what Reagan would have thought of Trump.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

24 Bill K will soon be muttering about being ready for his close up.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (8AONa)

25 Reagan empowered the deep state, and turned all elements of domestic policy into instruments to support foreign policy.

As admirable as he was, and as capable as he turned out, his focus was increasing the power of the state and his team wanted that more than anything.

I wonder what would have happened if he had chosen Governor John Connally as his running mate instead of GHW Bush

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (D7oie)

26 Saw Gay Wormtongue open for Pussy Riot in '95 at the Filmore.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:21 PM (/U5Yz)

27 Leftwing lunatics not only know they're losing, but they look at the Democrat-Media Party and see no signs and no reasonable hope for improvement in the near term.

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"But we were promised 24x7x60x60 for more than a decade now that there'd be billions and billions of bodies worldwide stacked like cordwood in the streets courtesy of the Red, White, & #OrangeBadMan! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 03:21 PM (z3mAd)

28 > t's not just ratings. We know the deranged left thinks and dreams and obsesses about politics and defeating TRUMPHITLER!!! every waking moment. They are voracious propaganda addicts and doom junkies.
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They're also hyper insecure about, well, everything. It's like they need the propaganda outlets to reinforce their insanity as the proverbial "this is fine, everything's fine" meme.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 03:21 PM (Q4IgG)

29 The comparison is, well...

Reagan was great for his time.

Trump is good for ours.

Two different people for two different times.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 03:21 PM (FUvyF)

30 Kristol: Define ICE and DHS but keep TSA

Figures he would want to keep the bloated part that hassles normies while the elite can bypass it

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 03:21 PM (+Wa+b)

31 Kristol looks somewhat like Nikita Kruschev… the guy in the tight pants sitting there… just some Gay Bob I guess…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 03:22 PM (PCK5/)

32 Little Billy Kristol looks like a soft boiled egg of a man. Probably has never done a hard days work in his life.

Posted by: Old Iron Pants at July 02, 2025 03:22 PM (4dUzE)

33 Kristol: Defund ICE and DHS but keep TSA

Figures he would want to keep the bloated part that hassles normies while the elite can bypass it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 03:22 PM (+Wa+b)

34 Gaydar pinging off the charts from that picture.

Posted by: steevy at July 02, 2025 03:22 PM (YwEeS)

35 "But look at the sea change! Now Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians by 43 points!"
"Oh my God! That is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years!"

It's almost like they have no principles at all, and just believe what they're told to believe.

Almost.

Posted by: mikeski at July 02, 2025 03:22 PM (DgGvY)

36 I've got to say that the spectacle of Trump and Musk, two repulsive and mediocre oligarchs, fawning over themselves and each other, brings out the inner social democrat in me.

It's always been there Billy boy. Always.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 03:22 PM (Ul4ZN)

37 Ten years of hysteria and hoaxes have finally ended the left's ability to mount a proper psyop.
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I'll recommend it again, go watch the clip of the "Democratic Doctors Caucus" trying to give a press conference in front of Speaker Johnson's office.

Costumed up in lab coats, 4 clowns stand there yelling about Medicare cuts while the public ... ignores them and everyone keeps walking on by.

LOL, from Obama's "doctors for ObamaCare" to this pathetic bullshit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 03:23 PM (CBWwv)

38 Fighting for the base has positive effects?

Weird.
---------------
Yeah, I know. Who would do such a thing?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 03:23 PM (W3T6M)

39 Trump has much dumber enemies. Foreign and Domestic.

Posted by: DaveA at July 02, 2025 03:23 PM (FhXTo)

40 There was a fox poll released a few days ago that said 53% of Republicans disapprove of Trump’s handling of…. Immigration. LOL.

That’s the conservative Fox News guys. They must be accurate.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 03:23 PM (nwGCR)

41 Kristol calling Anyone mediocre…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 03:23 PM (PCK5/)

42 "Little Billy Kristol looks like a soft boiled egg of a man. Probably has never done a hard days work in his life."

Working as Dan Quayle's chief of staff was not exactly loading 16 tons.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (+Wa+b)

43 Ace, stop lying to me with your forked tongue. I'm assured by schmat media dingleberries that Trump voters are turning against him because of his reckless, dangerous, and poopy-headed conduct that we didn't vote for.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

44 4, the Democrat-Media Party seems completely unable to even get a simple information operation going that the public cares about

I can confirm this , judging from the radio silence from my AWFL coworkers.

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (dCxaZ)

45 Morons are ascendant!

We are the people we've been waiting for.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (viF8m)

46 Tim Miller is sitting in an extremely gay way while wearing extremely gay pants. Kristol body is looking like Nadler's

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (eBgDF)

47 37 I'll recommend it again, go watch the clip of the "Democratic Doctors Caucus" trying to give a press conference in front of Speaker Johnson's office.

Costumed up in lab coats, 4 clowns stand there yelling about Medicare cuts while the public ... ignores them and everyone keeps walking on by.

LOL, from Obama's "doctors for ObamaCare" to this pathetic bullshit.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 03:23 PM (CBWwv)

=======

It feels like four people got a normal tour from a Senator who provided them with a table, and they just set up while the staff told security to leave them alone.

It's just pathetic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

48 Saw Gay Wormtongue open for Pussy Riot in '95 at the Filmore.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

* golf clap *

"Fill more." ha!

Posted by: mikeski at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (DgGvY)

49 Holy shit. Kathy Griffin looks like a horror movie creature. Trump is 15 years old than her and he looks so much better.

http://tiny.cc/n9io001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (lIio7)

50 The comparison is, well...

Reagan was great for his time.

Trump is good for ours.

Two different people for two different times.

This is the point. In Reagan's time, the Dems pretended to be good Americans. Now, it's a point of honor among them to see who can be the most critical of everything American.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (Riz8t)

51 As far as I can see, my most liberal acquaintances do appear to have stopped watching the news as much, and largely it goes along with that they don't want to hear about Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (Q4cxx)

52 43 Ace, stop lying to me with your forked tongue. I'm assured by schmat media dingleberries that Trump voters are turning against him because of his reckless, dangerous, and poopy-headed conduct that we didn't vote for.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

=====

I'll be honest.

I'm never going to vote for him again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

53 I wonder what would have happened if he had chosen Governor John Connally as his running mate instead of GHW Bush
Posted by: Kindltot

JJ, I think, linked an article in an MR not long ago advocating the idea that Oswald was really out to kill Connally, not Kennedy. Maybe, but there's no reason he couldn't have been persuaded to try to take out both.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

54 Presidents are people of their times. Nixon was willing to give up a lot to get us out of the Vietnam War without losing. Likewise Reagan gave up a lot to break the Soviet Union. Trump is doing what he has to do to remind people of the American Dream.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (jc0TO)

55 Reagan, McKinley and Trump are a nice three headed hydra of Republican Presidents.

We can call them Ronald McDonald.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (VPwHp)

56 Morons are ascendant!
We are the people we've been waiting for.
Posted by: JackStraw

Which one of us is Godot?

I guess we'll never know, actually.

Posted by: mikeski at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (DgGvY)

57 CNN's next attempt to stem the bleeding...

Debuting this Fall, a new and improved version of Crossfire.

It will be called Misfire.

Posted by: Lefty NPC #8574 at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (5yDGQ)

58 *older

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (lIio7)

59 Kristol calling anyone else mediocre, let alone two incredibly successful individuals (one of them the richest man in the world), is just hilariously sad.

Posted by: far cry at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (Uxybj)

60 Will no one rescue that poor woman stuck in the shower in her wheelchair?

Posted by: Moronco at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (vFG9F)

61 3 I wonder what Reagan would have thought of Trump.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

Reagan would have bought a room in Mar a Lago just to be near him. I think they'd get along just fine.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (g8Ew8)

62 Holy shit. Kathy Griffin looks like a horror movie creature. Trump is 15 years old than her and he looks so much better.

Dear GOD! What is that?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (Riz8t)

63 59 Kristol calling anyone else mediocre, let alone two incredibly successful individuals (one of them the richest man in the world), is just hilariously sad.
Posted by: far cry at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (Uxybj)

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Why is, "I don't like their policy preferences or their style of politics," not enough?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

64 Both Trump and Reagan show flair and panache, but of quite a different sort… flair and panache are well received by our side… obviously.

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (PCK5/)

65 Costumed up in lab coats, 4 clowns stand there yelling about Medicare cuts while the public ... ignores them and everyone keeps walking on by.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 03:23 PM (CBWw

Medicaid not Medicare

Some twat my wife is friends with had a Facebook post saying how cruel republicans are that they cut Medicaid to millions of poor people. Then she said in the same breath essentially, Medicaid is only for the very poor and it’s not even that expensive.

So it’s barely a thing, but if you cut funding for it millions will die.

Ooooh Kay.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (nwGCR)

66 1) Bill K ought not use the wold Repulsive about other people
2) Bill K ought not use the term "fawning" as a perjorative against other people's presentation
3) Bill K ought not use the term "mediocre" as a put down against other people

and 4: Is Bill's inner social democrat hidden by that thick maske of his OUTER social democrat?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (D7oie)

67 "Tim Miller is sitting in an extremely gay way"

The only testosterone in Tim Miller's body was left there by another man.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (+Wa+b)

68 I don't know a SINGLE person who supports Trump!!!!!!

Posted by: M.I. Dwit, PhD, West Hartford, CT at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (qUkBO)

69 Leftist American Jews will say "the Dems are favoring the Palestinians because they don't like Trump, just like us". Whistling past the graveyard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (eBgDF)

70 Didn't a Moron post stats the other day that showed that MSDNC averages 10K viewers in the 25-55 age group?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)

71 Trump is the best Republican president since Calvin Coolidge!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (SEFV4)

72 >>> Ace, stop lying to me with your forked tongue. I'm assured by schmat media dingleberries that Trump voters are turning against him because of his reckless, dangerous, and poopy-headed conduct that we didn't vote for.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

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I, myself, am waiting for the Biden "Miss me yet? billboards.

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (6TlG5)

73 Who is that Kansas City faggot to the right of Kristol?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (3AwA+)

74 60 Will no one rescue that poor woman stuck in the shower in her wheelchair?
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Bring back the MILF Sexpot. She had nice tits.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (W3T6M)

75 I wonder what Reagan would have thought of Trump.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

There is a picture of them shaking hands

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (D7oie)

76 49 Holy shit. Kathy Griffin looks like a horror movie creature. Trump is 15 years old than her and he looks so much better.

http://tiny.cc/n9io001
Posted by: bonhomme

The undead begin to walk the Earth. Remember, head shots are required to neutralize the undead.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (/U5Yz)

77 71 Trump is the best Republican president since Calvin Coolidge!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (SEFV4)

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None will approach the greatness of William Henry Harrison, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

78 There was a fox poll released a few days ago that said 53% of Republicans disapprove of Trump’s handling of…. Immigration. LOL.

That’s the conservative Fox News guys. They must be accurate.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 03:23 PM (nwGCR)
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Well, in fairness I don't approve of Trump's handling of immigration. I want him to load all these dracunculus fucks into C5s and drop them into the Atlantic Ocean. I'm sure there are others who similarly disapprove.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

79 "But we were promised 24x7x60x60 for more than a decade now that there'd be billions and billions of bodies worldwide stacked like cordwood in the streets courtesy of the Red, White, & #OrangeBadMan! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS

My favorite is we got them to say 'Pussy' over and over and over and even wear Pussy Hats.

That showed us!!! HAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 03:28 PM (H7X8V)

80 PBS has a poll claiming that a majority of Republicans regret voting for Trump. Which one is correct?

None of them, its all crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 03:28 PM (dfIr7)

81 Both very funny men.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:28 PM (VPwHp)

82 Ace, stop lying to me with your forked tongue. I'm assured by schmat media dingleberries that Trump voters are turning against him because of his reckless, dangerous, and poopy-headed conduct that we didn't vote for.

Eric must read the Houston Comical. Their headline article since yesterday is Trump's failing popularity in Texas.

Posted by: DanMan at July 02, 2025 03:28 PM (8uzBS)

83 I don't remember those guys.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 03:28 PM (WIJBc)

84 Crystal Magnum > Bill Crystal.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 03:29 PM (T4A2M)

85 I regret that I can't vote for Trump again.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 03:29 PM (jc0TO)

86 There is a picture of them shaking hands
Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (D7oie)

I've seen it captioned as "The President Meets Ronald Reagan".

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:29 PM (VPwHp)

87 60 Will no one rescue that poor woman stuck in the shower in her wheelchair?
Posted by: Moronco at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (vFG9F)

Happy has to win the golf tournament so he can afford his grandmas house and get her out of that nursing home!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 03:29 PM (Mxf84)

88 Trump is so bad Lia Thomas is just another swinging Richard now, but in the girl's locker room.

Posted by: Operator Error at July 02, 2025 03:29 PM (mb3hl)

89 Costumed up in lab coats, 4 clowns stand there yelling about Medicare cuts while the public ... ignores them and everyone keeps walking on by.

LOL, from Obama's "doctors for ObamaCare" to this pathetic bullshit.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 03:23 PM (CBWwv)

are you sure they aren't the "Slo-Mo" guys from Youtube?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:29 PM (D7oie)

90 Trump has definitely moved up in my presidential rankings. My knowledge of history is minimal so my opinion is suspect, but Trump is now ranked #2 after George Washington.

Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (rF2iL)

91 Holy shit. Kathy Griffin looks like a horror movie creature. Trump is 15 years old than her and he looks so much better.

http://tiny.cc/n9io001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (lIio7)
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Isn't that the evil clown from that Stephen King book?

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

92 >>> Holy shit. Kathy Griffin looks like a horror movie creature. Trump is 15 years old than her and he looks so much better.

http://tiny.cc/n9io001
Posted by: bonhomme

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Carrot Top's evil twin sister?

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (6TlG5)

93 Bill Kristol and his gay Wormtongue Tim Miller ...

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Damn, Ace ... Brain Bleach Stat!

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (/SgBN)

94 All the YouTubers seem to have taken the rest of the week off.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (WIJBc)

95 Trump fake severed head looks better than Kathy Griffin

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (eBgDF)

96 To be fair to Kommadore Kristol, most oligarchs since the Bronze Age were proven to be even more repulsive and mediocre than either Trump or Musk.

Posted by: Lefty NPC #8574 at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (5yDGQ)

97 Ahoy!

Who is the audience for Bill Kristol again? They exist in a small bubble with other like minded NPC's, fapping to themselves. It's pathetic.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (sAmhv)

98 94 All the YouTubers seem to have taken the rest of the week off.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (WIJBc)

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New RedLetterMedia video today!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

99 Well, in fairness I don't approve of Trump's handling of immigration. I want him to load all these dracunculus fucks into C5s and drop them into the Atlantic Ocean. I'm sure there are others who similarly disapprove.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah true, I suppose there could be some of that. Although people do need a sense of reality. It took 40 years for this mess to happen. It can l’t be fixed in a few months.

Trump sealed the border. For that alone he deserves bigly kudos.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 03:31 PM (nwGCR)

100 During election season my mom got handed a pamphlet from some "Jewish" organization that claimed Trump hates Jews and only wants war and death, while Kamala was the true pro-Israel candidate. Shameless.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:31 PM (VPwHp)

101 Where Bill is not mediocre is in the sack.

Posted by: The Rick Wilson at July 02, 2025 03:31 PM (/U5Yz)

102 Speaking of Ronaldus Magnus, I've been listening to archived episodes of the Rush Limbaugh program lately on my way to work. It's amazing how much has changed, yet how many things are just the same. Just listening to Rush makes me feel happy. I wish he was still around. I think he'd be very proud of DJT.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 02, 2025 03:31 PM (bNf8H)

103 Let's not get carried away. I'm glad Trump is President but he couldn't carry Reagan's jockstrap.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (P7Iz+)

104 Holy shit. Kathy Griffin looks like a horror movie creature

I think she is a couple of steps away from tatooing spirals on her cheeks and calling herself "Jigsaw"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (D7oie)

105 I regret that I can't vote for Trump again.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 03:29 PM (jc0TO)
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I'm not letting the dream die that easily!

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (Q4cxx)

106 >>> Both were former democrats. Both had Hollywood ties. Interesting. Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (/U5Yz)

Both loved America more than they loved the Global elitist bullies. Their Hollywood experience taught them how to communicate this to the American people in a way that resonates. And the left tried to assassinate them both, narrowly missing.

Reagan and Trump both have made some errors. The left doesn't understand we realize they weren't perfect. I'm happy to admit their flaws. But I can still admire the net good they brought to the country.

Unfortunately Reagan had a terrible VP, and HWB destroyed the conservative momentum and cemented the deep state in DC. Hopefully Trump is training the next generation of conservative youngsters how to do it right, so we can extend the current victories onward and keep peeling off liberal normie sane voters.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (Eng1Z)

107 100 During election season my mom got handed a pamphlet from some "Jewish" organization that claimed Trump hates Jews and only wants war and death, while Kamala was the true pro-Israel candidate. Shameless.
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:31 PM (VPwHp)

“From the river to the sea,
You should vote for me!”

*cackles*

~ Kamala H.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (Mxf84)

108 Good Afternoon Ace

Willowed from Diddler thread because i'm loathe to let a good rant go to waste.....

402 29 Didn't follow.
Didn't care.
I wish the Beer Girl cart would come around again. I'm on the 11th hole and I'm getting thirsty.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (1bdKO)

Exactly my perspective!

Now where's my hiking boots.....

On a serious note, I wonder if they did the same screw-up as with the OJ trial. They were so anxious to avoid any appearance of racism that the judge, jury, and prosecutors were all DEI hires. The only non-DEI expert I remember was the defenses DNA expert who basically destroyed the prosecution's case.

The OJ judge, Lance Ito was the same guy who screwed up the Junk Bond King (Milkin?) case which was eventually thrown out after the PB spent a few years in jail. Last I heard he was hearing night-time traffic court in Torrance.

The prosecutor lady (forget her name) wrote a book which was basically several hundred pages blaming everybody else and her recent divorce and so forth...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (QGaXH)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (QGaXH)

109 Let's not get carried away. I'm glad Trump is President but he couldn't carry Reagan's jockstrap.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (P7Iz+)

You threw away that vote for DeSantis did you

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (VPwHp)

110 >>I regret that I can't vote for Trump again.

TRUMP 2028

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (T4A2M)

111 110 >>I regret that I can't vote for Trump again.

TRUMP 2028
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (T4A2M)

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I'll probably end up voting Trump 26, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

112 >>> Holy shit. Kathy Griffin looks like a horror movie creature. Trump is 15 years old than her and he looks so much better.

http://tiny.cc/n9io001
Posted by: bonhomme

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Carrot Top's evil twin sister?
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (6TlG5)

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Is she auditioning for the tranny reboot of Beetlejuice?

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 03:33 PM (/SgBN)

113 Is Michael Reagan still with us? Haven't heard anything from him in ages.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)

114 Holy shit. Kathy Griffin looks like a horror movie creature
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Hey!!!

Posted by: A horror movie creature at July 02, 2025 03:33 PM (VPwHp)

115 Holy shit. Kathy Griffin looks like a horror movie creature

It turns out a life of drugs, being peed on, debauchery, spirit cooking, and hate takes a toll on you.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 03:33 PM (dfIr7)

116 "That's not all the CNN poll finds: it now finds that the Democrat-Media Party is majority pro-Hamas."

It turns out that all those years Democrats were calling us "Nazis," they meant it as a compliment.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (j6Ika)

117 Who is the doofus Bill Kristol is talking to?

You know he bought those pants in the ladies department like he's a 1970s rock star buying ladies blouses.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (fGmWu)

118 What's hilarious is going to the comments on the Toks of all these lefties trying to gin up sympathy and outrage and all the top comments are "I voted for this!"

LOLGF

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (CBWwv)

119 With annual inflation at 1.25%, finally you can buy a government bond, for a bridge, say, and expect (hope?) to beat inflation!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (SEFV4)

120 Harry Enten is really good - excellent gestures, excellent energy. I don't know who is with him the Pali clip, and she was a non-entity here, but she might be attractive - wonderful hair! - which is an undervalued trait in a newswaitress.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (MMp6W)

121 I don't understand how cable news gets any ratings anymore, unless it's the 60+ crowd holding them up. And maybe waiting rooms and airports.

Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (jGJov)

122 I wonder what would have happened if he had chosen Governor John Connally as his running mate instead of GHW Bush
Posted by: Kindltot

JJ, I think, linked an article in an MR not long ago advocating the idea that Oswald was really out to kill Connally, not Kennedy. Maybe, but there's no reason he couldn't have been persuaded to try to take out both.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

Next they'll be saying it was Jackie they wanted to hit. Revisionists are poison.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (8avO+)

123 102 Speaking of Ronaldus Magnus, I've been listening to archived episodes of the Rush Limbaugh program lately on my way to work. It's amazing how much has changed, yet how many things are just the same. Just listening to Rush makes me feel happy. I wish he was still around. I think he'd be very proud of DJT.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 02, 2025 03:31 PM (bNf8H)

I wish my dad was still around, he passed just before the 2016 election. He would have loved Trump being a fellow Native New Yorker.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (QGaXH)

124 Belch, off lefty drone sock.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (5yDGQ)

125 Let's not get carried away. I'm glad Trump is President but he couldn't carry Reagan's jockstrap.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (P7Iz+)

You threw away that vote for DeSantis did you
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:32 PM (VPwHp)

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"It's hard to resist a man in platform shoes."

/obligatory Elton John

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 03:35 PM (/SgBN)

126 Donald Trump is an "oligarch?" Hmmm...I thought he was the elected president. And he has virtually the entire mainstream media against him. He has to be the worst oligarch ever!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 02, 2025 03:35 PM (XMwZJ)

127 Both Trump and Reagan show flair and panache, but of quite a different sort… flair and panache are well received by our side… obviously.
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 03:26 PM (PCK5/)

If Trump's flair and panache involved sequins, feathers, and platform heels the Left would build shrines to him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 03:35 PM (ExV1e)

128 Reagan tried to reform USAID. Trump ended it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:35 PM (viF8m)

129 Is Michael Reagan still with us? Haven't heard anything from him in ages.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)
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Yeah, he's still kicking around somewhere.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 03:35 PM (Q4cxx)

130 Well, in fairness I don't approve of Trump's handling of immigration. I want him to load all these dracunculus fucks into C5s and drop them into the Atlantic Ocean. I'm sure there are others who similarly disapprove.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade

A lifetime newsletter subscription if you please!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 03:35 PM (H7X8V)

131 I don't understand how cable news gets any ratings anymore, unless it's the 60+ crowd holding them up. And maybe waiting rooms and airports.
Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (jGJov)

they don't. That's why they hide the absolute numbers if they can. nobody watches them on tv, and even fewer watch them online.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)

132 Evil eats Kaffi Gryphon from the inside.

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 03:36 PM (jgmnb)

133 Who is the audience for Bill Kristol again? They exist in a small bubble with other like minded NPC's, fapping to themselves. It's pathetic.
Posted by: Puddleglum

They live in NYC, DC, and QATAR.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 03:36 PM (mlg/3)

134 Next they'll be saying it was Jackie they wanted to hit.
Posted by: Oldcat

Oh, I think there were a lot of guys who wanted to hit Jackie.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:36 PM (77rzZ)

135 What's hilarious is going to the comments on the Toks of all these lefties trying to gin up sympathy and outrage and all the top comments are "I voted for this"

Indeed, its comical seeing leftists post something like closing the Department of Education and demanding "did you vote for this???"

Yes, sweety, that's exactly what the large majority of Americans voted for.

They are so out of touch with their average American neighbor that they are utterly unaware of the rage, frustration, horror, and bewilderment at their insane perversion forced on us for decades.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 03:36 PM (dfIr7)

136 > That is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years!

That is because leftist sheep will adopt any viewpoint that their "thought leaders" advocate. They are utterly incapable of original thought (if they weren't, they wouldn't be leftists, right?)

Remember how in the book "1984" everyone would suddenly switch from "knowing" that Oceania was at war with Eastasia, and had *always* been at war with Eastasia, to "knowing" that Oceania was at war with Eurasia, and had *always* been at war with Eurasia?

Well, there you go.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 03:37 PM (qpyNK)

137 don't understand how cable news gets any ratings anymore, unless it's the 60+ crowd holding them up. And maybe waiting rooms and airports.
Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (jGJov)

I think about about 500,000 people a night tune into Erin Burnet so we're talking about roughly the viewership of your average House Hunters rerun or BBQ Wars.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:37 PM (VPwHp)

138 Medicaid is only for the very poor and it’s not even that expensive.

Reply with "If you were a good person you'd fund it yourself to show everyone how much better you are... since it's not even that expensive."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 03:37 PM (ExV1e)

139 Reagan was great for his time.

Trump is good for ours.

Two different people for two different times.

Posted by: WitchDoktor

Our expectations were lower in the 1980s. Reagan won the cold war, which is huge, but we had no idea then just how corrupt our country had become.

Trump, if he manages to permanently destroy a good portion of the deep state, will be remembered just as fondly as Reagan, perhaps more so.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 02, 2025 03:37 PM (Vfq+S)

140 P. Diddy for NYC Mayor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 02, 2025 03:37 PM (q/j2W)

141 People forget how much the Establishment GOP hated Reagan.

George Will coined the term "Voodoo Economics" to describe Reagans tax policy.

John Anderson ran a spoiler campaign in an effort to siphon off enough votes to re elect the Carter.

Reagans ""11th Commandment' came about because of establishment Republicans attacking him.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 03:37 PM (+Wa+b)

142 Back in the day, Imalways thought that Bill Kristol was overrated and a whiny defeatist. Now ai know why.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 02, 2025 03:37 PM (BugZp)

143 Evil eats Kaffi Gryphon from the inside.

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 03:36 PM (jgmnb)
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I know the feeling.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at July 02, 2025 03:38 PM (Q4cxx)

144 NASDAQ on track for another record close today.

This Trump tariff depression is awful. Just awful.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 03:38 PM (nwGCR)

145 I don't understand how cable news gets any ratings anymore, unless it's the 60+ crowd holding them up. And maybe waiting rooms and airports.
Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (jGJov)

I'm sure there is no pressure at all on these ratings services to adjust the numbers because once cable dies nobody will hire them to count ratings.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:38 PM (8avO+)

146 118 What's hilarious is going to the comments on the Toks of all these lefties trying to gin up sympathy and outrage and all the top comments are "I voted for this!"

LOLGF
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (CBWwv)

Love it!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 03:38 PM (QGaXH)

147 140 P. Diddy for NYC Mayor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 02, 2025 03:37 PM (q/j2W)

The parties would be lit....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 03:38 PM (VE6XX)

148 > unless it's the 60+ crowd holding them up.

Dunno... I've definitely of the 60+ persuasion, and the last time I remember watching a significant amount of cable news was way back in Gulf War I.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 03:38 PM (qpyNK)

149 Speaking of Ronaldus Magnus, I've been listening to archived episodes of the Rush Limbaugh program lately on my way to work. It's amazing how much has changed, yet how many things are just the same. Just listening to Rush makes me feel happy. I wish he was still around. I think he'd be very proud of DJT.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 02, 2025 03:31 PM (bNf8H)

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My eulogy here to El Rushbo (PBUH) was something along the lines of:

"Rush virtually single-handedly saved conservatism after President Reagan left office ... just long enough to hand the movement off and over to President Trump."

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 03:38 PM (/SgBN)

150 128 Reagan tried to reform USAID. Trump ended it.
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Trump is doing what Reagan didn't - take on illegal immigration straight up.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 03:38 PM (W3T6M)

151 Bill Kristol has not only completely obliterated his own reputation but we don't much care for Irving Kristol anymore either.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 03:38 PM (MMp6W)

152 Reagan confronted external evil, Trump confronts internal evil… oversimplified I know, but still…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 03:38 PM (PCK5/)

153 >>People forget how much the Establishment GOP hated Reagan.

Reagan was too friendly to/with the Democrats.

Trump hasn't made that mistake.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 03:39 PM (T4A2M)

154 153 >>People forget how much the Establishment GOP hated Reagan.

Reagan was too friendly to/with the Democrats.

Trump hasn't made that mistake.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 03:39 PM (T4A2M)

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Well, he was much too friendly in his first term when they were calling him Putin's cockholster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

155 John Anderson ran a spoiler campaign in an effort to siphon off enough votes to re elect the Carter.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Instead, he took votes from Carter. I think the Reagan Campaign offered to pay off all his campaign expenses in gratitude.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:39 PM (77rzZ)

156 I mean it about Calvin Coolidge: he cut the size of government in half! Neither Reagan nor Trump 45 were able to cut government the way he did! And I doubt Trump 47 will do it either!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:39 PM (SEFV4)

157 The undead begin to walk the Earth. Remember, head shots are required to neutralize the undead.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (/U5Yz)

Apparently, she got divorced this year. I would say can you imagine being that poor bastard but he married her in 2020 so he got what he deserved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 03:40 PM (ExV1e)

158 Let's not forget that, about 9 years ago, the NeverTrump was birthed at some Dem conference at some island resort where Krystol et al. all swore to "stop Trump."

And the only list longer than Trump's wins is the list of the NeverTrump losses.

Their most spectacular and brilliant being, "hey, how about we get 50 of our members of Congress, multi-term incumbents and committee chairs, to resign, throwing the House to the Democrats?"

You can't pay for enemies that stupid. That's a religious zeal for death that can't be bought.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 03:40 PM (CBWwv)

159 Medicaid is only for the very poor and it’s not even that expensive.

Their cries are falling on deaf ears. People are posting stuff like "it cost me 30 grand WITH INSURANCE to fix my daughter's horrible illness and you're saying people who are here illegally should get that for free? You can smoke my pepperoni."

Another heartstring-tugging attempt they are pushing is "ICE deported a guy whos been here 50 years illegally!"

well he had five @#(%&ing decades to legalize himself didn't he? The longer he's here breaking the law the WORSE it is, not the sadder.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 03:40 PM (dfIr7)

160 >>Reagan was too friendly to/with the Democrats.

>>Trump hasn't made that mistake.

Well they did impeach him twice, try to bankrupt him, throw him in prison and then murder him. Things like that will focus your attention.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:40 PM (viF8m)

161 My truck could use a set of mud flaps like these.

https://tinyurl.com/4cf46muc

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:40 PM (/U5Yz)

162
I think about about 500,000 people a night tune into Erin Burnet so we're talking about roughly the viewership of your average House Hunters rerun or BBQ Wars.
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:37 PM (VPwHp)

I bet half of those numbers are from nursing homes and waiting rooms with televisions tuned to CNN.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 03:40 PM (fGmWu)

163 >>> I wonder what Reagan would have thought of Trump.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

If he were still alive and without mental decline, I think Reagan was media savvy enough that he would have swiftly grasped what Trump was trying to do with MAGA, and would have supported it. He would have been a fabulous mentor and helped Trump get on top of the swamp rats sooner. Ah, what could have been. My two cents.

They met several times during Reagan's life. Some cool pics:
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/
audiovisual/white-house-photo-collection
-galleries/meeting-vips

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 03:40 PM (Eng1Z)

164 Orange sock off.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 03:40 PM (qpyNK)

165 Babylon Bee: Diddy celebrates victory with massive freak off

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 03:41 PM (eBgDF)

166 Gunt, what gunt?

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at July 02, 2025 03:41 PM (PiwSw)

167 Do not take Raddatz if you are allergic to Raddatz. Raddatz has been known to cause long term reproductive harm in young healthy females. Talk to your doctor before starting a course of Raddatz. Raddatz may cause bleeding from the eyes, the ears, or even your wherever. Some people on Raddatz have complained of irreparable cranial-anal fissures. Ask your psychiatrist if Raddatz is right for you.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:41 PM (VPwHp)

168 Hamas approval is a proxy for antisemitism, or more accurately, rabid Jew hatred.

Must be depressing for Jewish Democrats; even if they pretend to not be Jewish, the haters know. They always know.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (wBaIH)

169 @5

>>Fighting for the base has positive effects?

It goes beyond mere worlds, he legitmately put his fame, fortune and very life on the line for his base.

That's not a trivial thing.

That will not be forgotten, ever.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (XV/Pl)

170 To be honest, I'm surprised there haven't been more suicides. The "Trans" movement actually uses that as a talking point. Additionally, I expected overextended parasites down in DC dependent upon the various grand and Aid programs to take that route when they realized the spigot had been turned off. Then, there are the unstable simpletons of the Left side of the aisle. Unfortunately, they're so self centered they prefer to kill other people rather than themselves.

(did I just bring down the mood?)

Posted by: Orson at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (dIske)

171 Trump has definitely moved up in my presidential rankings. My knowledge of history is minimal so my opinion is suspect, but Trump is now ranked #2 after George Washington.
Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (rF2iL)

Understandable.

https://youtu.be/sbRom1Rz8OA

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (ExV1e)

172 I mean it about Calvin Coolidge: he cut the size of government in half! Neither Reagan nor Trump 45 were able to cut government the way he did! And I doubt Trump 47 will do it either!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Despite his present bad rep, Warren Harding wasn't a horrible president. But probably his greatest achievement was dying in office and giving us Silent Cal.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (77rzZ)

173 I would support Trump, even if he wanted to start rounding up his enemies and putting them in interment camps.

Our country is at a crisis point, and things like due process in front of biased courts will take too long. If Trump can provide reasonable proof to the public of the subversive activities of bad actors, I wouldn't care if he began rounding them up and putting them in work camps.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (DN7vq)

174 Well they did impeach him twice, try to bankrupt him, throw him in prison and then murder him. Things like that will focus your attention.

Yeah and I think most of what he is doing at this point is not driven so much by doctrinaire opposition or ideology but just "oh you like this do you? Well F you" and "This helps you? Then its gone."

Which in practice ends up being the same.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 03:43 PM (dfIr7)

175 glad Trump is President but he couldn't carry Reagan's jockstrap.

He'd have to snatch it from under your sniffing nose.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 03:43 PM (KePtS)

176 > well he had five @#(%&ing decades to legalize himself didn't he?

If it's the one I'm thinking of, he would've been entitled to US citizenship on the basis of serving in combat (I believe it's one year in non-combat, as little as one day in combat), except for the fact that he was convicted of drug dealing and numerous other crimes, and his criminal career has not stopped over the intervening 50 years.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 03:44 PM (qpyNK)

177 Hamas approval is a proxy for antisemitism, or more accurately, rabid Jew hatred.

Must be depressing for Jewish Democrats; even if they pretend to not be Jewish, the haters know. They always know.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (wBaIH)

Or they don't care if someone gets caught in the crossfire. Didn't hear in the Gaza attack that anyone was checking if the person they murdered was an Israeli Arab or Christian rather than a Jew

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:44 PM (8avO+)

178 The GOPe spent 30 years not doing the things the voters elected them to do.

It should be no shock then that the voters like Trump.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 03:44 PM (t0Rmr)

179 Ugh, I agree with Kristol. Well, let me put it another way: defunding DHS and TSA might be a good idea.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 03:45 PM (PMtkd)

180 > Our country is at a crisis point, and things like due process in front of biased courts will take too long.

The Supremes delivered a stinging bitchslap to Judge Pakalolo Mahu and all his buddies just the other day.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 03:45 PM (qpyNK)

181 112 >>> Holy shit. Kathy Griffin looks like a horror movie creature. Trump is 15 years old than her and he looks so much better.

Hate, sun damage, drug and alcohol abuse, the mental illness of being an AWFL, and being Anderson Cooper's fag hag all take a toll. But I think it's mostly the hate.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 03:45 PM (Eng1Z)

182 Who is the audience for Bill Kristol again?

I assume the children in his basement are forced to watch. Probably something like A Clockwork Orange.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 03:45 PM (ExV1e)

183 Understandable.

https://youtu.be/sbRom1Rz8OA

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (ExV1e)

Was hoping this is what you linked to and you delivered!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 03:46 PM (t0Rmr)

184 171 Trump has definitely moved up in my presidential rankings. My knowledge of history is minimal so my opinion is suspect, but Trump is now ranked #2 after George Washington.
Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (rF2iL)

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We are simpatico.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 03:46 PM (PMtkd)

185 To be honest, I'm surprised there haven't been more suicides. The "Trans" movement actually uses that as a talking point. Additionally, I expected overextended parasites down in DC dependent upon the various grand and Aid programs to take that route when they realized the spigot had been turned off. Then, there are the unstable simpletons of the Left side of the aisle. Unfortunately, they're so self centered they prefer to kill other people rather than themselves.

(did I just bring down the mood?)
Posted by: Orson at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (dIske)

Suicide rates are not affected by getting trans 'treatment' or not getting it. Its about 50 percent in both cases. Now, to me this says that neither are getting proper treatment

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:46 PM (8avO+)

186 They tried to murder him.

True, but I like to say:
They shot him in the head!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:46 PM (SEFV4)

187 I've heard (but have not confirmed) that, in nearly 25 years, TSA has yet to stop a single highjacking attempt. Not one.

I'll leave it to someone else to calculate how many man-years of time have been wasted on Keystone Kop-level security theatre, not to mention the taxpayer money spent on funding this clown show in the first place.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (qpyNK)

188 >>> To be honest, I'm surprised there haven't been more suicides. The "Trans" movement actually uses that as a talking point.

I too thought there would be more trans suicides. The explosion of trans mass murdering shooters, however, was definitely not on my Bingo card.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (Eng1Z)

189 Suicide rates are not affected by getting trans 'treatment' or not getting it. Its about 50 percent in both cases. Now, to me this says that neither are getting proper treatment

Going back to 50s era social structure would get rid of this and most of our other social pathologies but that would mean no GloboHomo or GirlBoss Feminism so the left is just offering "hopes and prayers"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)

190 Clicked on a link this morning about new federal taxes on wind and solar projects.

Only when it opened, did I realize it went to a CNN article. I scanned the emotional BS portions of the article looking for the actual description of the structure of the tax and the rate.

Guess what information was never given in the entire article about a new tax burden?

Do you think any of the "high education - low information" Democrats are finally starting to catch on that their "news" sources provide zero actual news?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (HlyYF)

191 They met several times during Reagan's life. Some cool pics:
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/
audiovisual/white-house-photo-collection
-galleries/meeting-vips
Posted by: LizLem

Wow never knew that Reagan and Netanyahu met.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (77rzZ)

192
The exodus of eyeballs was even worse during the day, with total viewership plummeting 26%, to an average of 596,000, and 31%, to 57,000, in the key demo compared to the same quarter last year.

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When do they go off the effing air already!?!?!?

When do basic laws of economics kick in? Heck, basic laws of physics ought to have finished them by now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (egH3D)

193 While we've all aged, Kristol Meth looks bloated and uglier than the last time I noticed him...a decade ago.

I was a lukewarmish liberalish college coed. Until I had my first son during Reagan. I voted for Reagan's second term. I totally believed the newsprint propaganda his first election, of him being senile, etc.

That said, I LOVE President Trump. I will admit when he first ran I thought he was a clown. When he announced he was running the third time I probably rolled my eyes. The GOP debate he had me again.

President Reagan didn't have what President Trump has in 2025. I am sure no one would have thought most of this could happen. Iran has always been a problem since Carter, and Israel vs ME. He did not inherit loss of huge amts of $$$ to foreign pockets to laundry for politicians, increasing national cebt.

Reagan did not have to clean up after the mess Biden left our country in: tens of millions of illegals, some from Iran or similar flavor wanting another 9/11. Reagan did not have people confused about bathroom use. Reagan did not have Auntifa, and super deluxe crazy people hating him as much as sadly exist now. Reagan did not have the entire world against him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 02, 2025 03:48 PM (6PCLE)

194 After 9/11, I doubt you could pull off a successful hijacking. The passengers will go full Beemer on you.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 03:48 PM (jc0TO)

195 >>> To be honest, I'm surprised there haven't been more suicides. The "Trans" movement actually uses that as a talking point.

the "your parents will bury you with your birth name" card really grinds their gears

Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 03:48 PM (jGJov)

196 Trump's trajectory already suggests great President status.

And Reagan never did shit about Jummah's stupid 55mph crap.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 02, 2025 03:48 PM (pohLc)

197 The Supremes delivered a stinging bitchslap to Judge Pakalolo Mahu and all his buddies just the other day.

....

It won't stop them. They'll play lawfare forever.

I wouldn't mind if Trump just started sending out squads of his own personal police force to arrest these activist judges and locking them in that gator prison that DeSantis built.

If they can get another Democrat president elected, fine, then they can get their pardon. But in the meantime they should be arrested and hauled out in leg irons and forced to do manual labor for the rest of society for as many years as Republicans hold the White House, even if that means they die in prison.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 03:48 PM (DN7vq)

198 >>> I wonder what Reagan would have thought of Trump.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

If he were still alive and without mental decline, I think Reagan was media savvy enough that he would have swiftly grasped what Trump was trying to do with MAGA, and would have supported it. He would have been a fabulous mentor and helped Trump get on top of the swamp rats sooner. Ah, what could have been. My two cents.

Reagan gave Trump the solid Red south to work with. You don't have to tear down one, the giants stand on the shoulders of their predecessors.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:49 PM (8avO+)

199 Do you think any of the "high education - low information" Democrats are finally starting to catch on that their "news" sources provide zero actual news?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (HlyYF)

No. Unfortunately they just don't want to "hear" the news. They probably still read plenty from their fellow traveling idiots and believe every word.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 03:49 PM (VPwHp)

200 161 My truck could use a set of mud flaps like these.

https://tinyurl.com/4cf46muc
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:40 PM (/U5Yz)

Wow...NSFW!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 03:49 PM (QGaXH)

201 Trump gets up ridiculously early every morning and structures his day according to how he can maximize as many good things as possible in American lives.

Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 03:49 PM (rF2iL)

202 I too thought there would be more trans suicides. The explosion of trans mass murdering shooters, however, was definitely not on my Bingo card.

Telling people with this level of mental illness all their problems are because others won't "accept" them and you are intentionally creating terrorists.

Imagine, for example, if we told psychotics that the voices they hear are real and are coming from TV news anchors. Would anyone be surprised to see more "What's the Frequency Kenneth?" moments?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 03:49 PM (t0Rmr)

203 Yes, sweety, that's exactly what the large majority of Americans voted for.

In fact, we've been desperately trying to vote for it shit that Department got created.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 03:50 PM (ExV1e)

204 A Judge ruled today that Trump can't block people at the border from claiming asylum....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 03:50 PM (VE6XX)

205 I, myself, am waiting for the Biden "Miss me yet? billboards.
____

Who's that guy up on the billboard?

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 02, 2025 03:50 PM (Dv3i1)

206 >>Wow never knew that Reagan and Netanyahu met.

I met Netanyahu.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:50 PM (viF8m)

207 The suicide rates for “trans” people may be the same with or without treatment, but they seem to kill a lot more other people when they get “treatment”!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:50 PM (SEFV4)

208 Trump gets up ridiculously early every morning and structures his day according to how he can maximize as many good things as possible in American lives.
Posted by: Emmie

Doesn't he claim to only sleep, like, 4 hours every night? Dude's an orange Energizer Bunny.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (77rzZ)

209 After 9/11, I doubt you could pull off a successful hijacking. The passengers will go full Beemer on you.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 03:48 PM (jc0TO)

Last I heard of the pilot cut the oxygen and went to high altitude to suffocate everyone. He was the designated pilot though.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (8avO+)

210 Sheeeeeeeeeet Bro I am announcing my candidacy for Mayor of NYC today.

My platform is "We need to stop the Ho's and Bitches from Ripping Off the Brothers"

Posted by: P. Diddy at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (J7c+Z)

211 Do you think any of the "high education - low information" Democrats are finally starting to catch on that their "news" sources provide zero actual news?

During the Obama years they'd tell you that sure the economy is bad for them but they "hear" it is good for almost everyone else and so they'd just believe what they were told - literally believing them over their "lying" eyes.

I suspect the same thing is true now.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)

212 204 A Judge ruled today that Trump can't block people at the border from claiming asylum....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 03:50 PM (VE6XX)

======

The larger issue with the ruling is declaring...the entire planet outside of the US as a class under Rule 23 (the formation of classes).

He declared. Trump will appeal. He'll get his stay within 24 hours. It'll be struck down, probably by the Circuit because the Circuit is gonna be smart enough to know that if they don't do it because Rule 23 was abused (it was), then SCOTUS will gut Rule 23 completely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

213 >>Wow never knew that Reagan and Netanyahu met.

I met Netanyahu.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:50 PM (viF8m)

Jackstraw is Reagan. PROOF!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (8avO+)

214 176 > well he had five @#(%&ing decades to legalize himself didn't he?

If it's the one I'm thinking of, he would've been entitled to US citizenship on the basis of serving in combat (I believe it's one year in non-combat, as little as one day in combat), except for the fact that he was convicted of drug dealing and numerous other crimes, and his criminal career has not stopped over the intervening 50 years.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 03:44 PM (qpyNK)

And had the opportunity during the Reagan amnesty in the mid-80's

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (QGaXH)

215 Do you think any of the "high education - low information" Democrats are finally starting to catch on that their "news" sources provide zero actual news?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (HlyYF)

Our millennial, PhD relatives watch CNN television news every night. Fortunately, they mentioned that fact during a phone call so they couldn't see me roll my eyes.

Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 03:52 PM (rF2iL)

216 Cuck of the year material?

https://tinyurl.com/mvpd6aaj

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:52 PM (/U5Yz)

217 204 A Judge ruled today that Trump can't block people at the border from claiming asylum....
____

A Judge ruled today that the administration that the American people elected to block people at the border from claiming asylum on their behalf, can't block people at the border from claiming asylum....

(suggested edit)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 03:52 PM (Dv3i1)

218 The Supremes delivered a stinging bitchslap to Judge Pakalolo Mahu and all his buddies just the other day.

....

It won't stop them. They'll play lawfare forever.

It's the appellate courts that have to hear the SC. If they appellates strike down the DCs promptly, what the DCs do almost doesn't matter.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 03:52 PM (jc0TO)

219 don't understand how cable news gets any ratings anymore, unless it's the 60+ crowd holding them up. And maybe waiting rooms and airports.
Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 03:34 PM (jGJov)

Yeah pretty much. Average age of cable news viewers is close to 70. It’s also why 3/4 of ad revenue for cable news comes from pharma

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 03:53 PM (nwGCR)

220 A Judge ruled today that Trump can't block people at the border from claiming asylum....

I have to wonder about standing here.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 03:53 PM (jc0TO)

221 My first vote as an adult was for Reagan '84. To me, he was the gold standard of Republicans...until Trump.

I'm of the longstanding belief that as great as RWR was, we are living in a world today with the problems that he was unable to solve, for whatever reason:

Should have bombed Iran, if not after he was inaugurated, then certainly after the Beirut Bombing.
Should never have appointed O'Connor to SCOTUS.
Should never have made that amnesty deal with Tip.
Should never have let GHWB into the fold. Laxalt should have been his running mate.

There are some more, but that's all I've got for now. Again, for his time he was amazing. For me, however, Trump surpasses him.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 02, 2025 03:53 PM (0CU3H)

222 The larger issue with the ruling is declaring...the entire planet outside of the US as a class under Rule 23 (the formation of classes).

He declared. Trump will appeal. He'll get his stay within 24 hours. It'll be struck down, probably by the Circuit because the Circuit is gonna be smart enough to know that if they don't do it because Rule 23 was abused (it was), then SCOTUS will gut Rule 23 completely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

What is stupid is that even if they asylumees follow all the rules, Trump can just deny all of them. Dumb timewasting stunts.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:53 PM (8avO+)

223 A Judge ruled today that Trump can't block people at the border from claiming asylum....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 03:50 PM (VE6XX)

======

The larger issue with the ruling is declaring...the entire planet outside of the US as a class under Rule 23 (the formation of classes).

He declared. Trump will appeal. He'll get his stay within 24 hours. It'll be struck down, probably by the Circuit because the Circuit is gonna be smart enough to know that if they don't do it because Rule 23 was abused (it was), then SCOTUS will gut Rule 23 completely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)
______

Using Rule 23 to fake giant classes for purposes of nationwide -- international? -- injunctions is exactly what The Blade expected these shitnugget judges would do. The Blade, he knows things. Trust The Blade.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

224 Trump's damn fault!

I told Mrs. Wrecks about my minor traffic altercation in which the other driver called me an "inconsiderate f*ck" and I, contrary to my general demeanor, replied that he was a "dumb c*cksucker." Mrs. Wrecks told me I was influenced by Trump dropping the F bomb the other day and now Pandora's box has been opened releasing profanity into world. I'm just glad to know it wasn't my fault.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 03:54 PM (L/fGl)

225 222 What is stupid is that even if they asylumees follow all the rules, Trump can just deny all of them. Dumb timewasting stunts.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:53 PM (8avO+)

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Judge is tempting the destruction of Rule 23 over a meaningless change in process if he gets his way.

Pre-emptive denial of asylum vs. denying asylum when everyone asks for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

226 >>A Judge ruled today that Trump can't block people at the border from claiming asylum....

>@ProfMJCleveland

>4/ OMgosh! The district court judge here bases his conclusion on . . . wait for it. . . a Justice Jackson dissent where SCOTUS granted a stay over the grant terminations.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (viF8m)

227 Emmie -

Careful, if you roll your eyes that hard they might fall out!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (SEFV4)

228 Doesn't he claim to only sleep, like, 4 hours every night? Dude's an orange Energizer Bunny.
--------------
Napoleon was like that.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (W3T6M)

229 Massie says he has 10 no votes for the BBB....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (VE6XX)

230 > 204 A Judge ruled today that Trump can't block people at the border from claiming asylum....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 03:50 PM (VE6XX)

Per the Supreme Court decision, his ruling only appies to people crossing the border in his district.

His district is DC, which (the last time I checked) doesn't have any international borders.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (qpyNK)

231 Bill Kristol is a disgusting stack of filth wearing the skin suit of a human being. There is a special place in Hell for this vile stirrer of strife.
He makes us look better by comparison, so we have that going for us.

Posted by: Pederasts at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (JNTt1)

232 184 171 Trump has definitely moved up in my presidential rankings. My knowledge of history is minimal so my opinion is suspect, but Trump is now ranked #2 after George Washington.
Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 03:30 PM (rF2iL)

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We are simpatico.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 03:46 PM (PMtkd)

My top 5 ranking:
George Washington
Abe Lincoln
Silent Cal
Donald Trump
Ronald Reagan

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (0CU3H)

233 Should never have let GHWB into the fold. Laxalt should have been his running mate.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

That was his biggest mistake, if you ask me.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

234 During the Obama years they'd tell you that sure the economy is bad for them but they "hear" it is good for almost everyone else and so they'd just believe what they were told - literally believing them over their "lying" eyes.

I suspect the same thing is true now.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)

One of our PhD relatives was telling us this week how tough is was going to be for graduating students to find jobs for the next few years.

Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (rF2iL)

235 Press Release, April 17, 2025
States United Democracy Center Welcomes William Kristol and Stephen Richer to Bipartisan Advisory Board.
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Bill Kristol is old (72) and afraid. He wants to remain part of 'something.' His fear extends to women in power.

His ramblings on the video went from defunding ICE to defunding all of DHS - maybe excluding TSA 🙄 - and then tossing in, "and Pam Bondi strutting around."

Yo, Bill! Bondi's the US Attorney General, and that's the US Justice Department you're knocking.
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Rose (Castorini): I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else.

Cosmo Castorini: Thank you, Rose.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (NFX2v)

236 223 Using Rule 23 to fake giant classes for purposes of nationwide -- international? -- injunctions is exactly what The Blade expected these shitnugget judges would do. The Blade, he knows things. Trust The Blade.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

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I suspected it as well.

I also suspected that Circuits would be shooting this stuff down quickly like the First did to Boesberg when he tried to create a class out of Tren de Agua.

We're less than an hour from dumb district judge being dumb, so there's still plenty of time for the circuit to prove me right.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

237 Can we just quit with all the Trump rah-rah-rah? Everybody knows the wall are finally closing in on him.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 03:56 PM (NXz8h)

238 If MSNBC and other leftwing propaganda organs want to regain viewers, they need to recalibrate the emotional appeal: not just repeat messaging, but deliver new stimuli that feel rewarding, energizing, and authentic. Without that, the brain chemistry that fueled engagement just isn’t there.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 03:56 PM (MMp6W)

239 237 Can we just quit with all the Trump rah-rah-rah? Everybody knows the wall are finally closing in on him.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 03:56 PM (NXz8h)

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VANCE HAS TURNED STATE'S EVIDENCE!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

240 Jackstraw is Reagan. PROOF!

Are you now or have you ever been married to ~~the hand puppet Madame~~ Nancy?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 03:56 PM (dfIr7)

241 192

When do they go off the effing air already!?!?!?

When do basic laws of economics kick in? Heck, basic laws of physics ought to have finished them by now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (egH3D)
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As soon as pharma ads are made illegal. I assume the reason they're still waiting to do this is to allow the "news" media to burn through as much money and reputation as possible first, then deal the death blow.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 02, 2025 03:56 PM (QdGJh)

242 A Judge ruled today that the administration that the American people elected to block people at the border from claiming asylum on their behalf, can't block people at the border from claiming asylum....

(suggested edit)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 03:52 PM (Dv3i1)

Again, for actual parody we should just get a judge to issue a TRO enjoining judges from enjoining the government. Why not?

Actually Trump is suing the entire Maryland district so ethically they should give up all their cases for conflict of interest.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (8avO+)

243 Afternoon, news folken! What be happenin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (omVj0)

244 Doesn't he claim to only sleep, like, 4 hours every night? Dude's an orange Energizer Bunny.
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Napoleon was like that.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (W3T6M)
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In his prime, yes. Nap also was pretty burned out by the time he was 46.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (XZ5S6)

245 I wouldn't mind if Trump just started sending out squads of his own personal police force to arrest these activist judges and locking them in that gator prison that DeSantis built.

That's weak thinking. Ship them to South Sudan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (ExV1e)

246
>4/ OMgosh! The district court judge here bases his conclusion on . . . wait for it. . . a Justice Jackson dissent where SCOTUS granted a stay over the grant terminations.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (viF8m)

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Can someone explain this to me? Yes, I know I'm a dumb hick.

What will the outcome be?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (PMtkd)

247
When do basic laws of economics kick in? Heck, basic laws of physics ought to have finished them by now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (egH3D)

Disney loses money on all their movies yet still exists year after year. CNN is the same. They’re a small part of a huge conglomerate. The leftists who run it are fine with losing money as long as the propaganda keeps churning.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (nwGCR)

248 220 A Judge ruled today that Trump can't block people at the border from claiming asylum....

I have to wonder about standing here.
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Simple retort would be to send all illegals to Hawaii.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (W3T6M)

249 Kristol does the pensive finger-to-the-temple pose in his profile pic. Anyone who does that is a pretentious fuckwit.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (p16cu)

250 This clownish ruling will get smacked down double plus quick.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (viF8m)

251 Rose (Castorini): I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else.

Cosmo Castorini: Thank you, Rose.
Posted by: L - No nic

One of my favorite flicks.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:58 PM (77rzZ)

252 The larger issue with the ruling is declaring...the entire planet outside of the US as a class under Rule 23 (the formation of classes).

He declared. Trump will appeal. He'll get his stay within 24 hours. It'll be struck down, probably by the Circuit because the Circuit is gonna be smart enough to know that if they don't do it because Rule 23 was abused (it was), then SCOTUS will gut Rule 23 completely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

What is stupid is that even if they asylumees follow all the rules, Trump can just deny all of them. Dumb timewasting stunts.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:53 PM (8avO+)
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That was my suggestion above. But I'm not sure exactly what Trump did that was just enjoined. I think he said that asylum claims could not be made at all, as if they didn't exist. So an illegal scumbag wouldn't even be able to file a claim. If a claim is filed, even if its total bullshit (they all are), it could still be granted -- at least temporarily -- by a shit judge. Better to prevent these invaders from filing claims in the first place.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

253 246 Can someone explain this to me? Yes, I know I'm a dumb hick.

What will the outcome be?
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (PMtkd)

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1. Appeal.
2. Stay.
3. Ruling in Trump's favor on merits.
3a. (if allowed to go to SCOTUS) The gutting of Rule 23 that allows judges to create classes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

254 One of our PhD relatives was telling us this week how tough is was going to be for graduating students to find jobs for the next few years.
Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (rF2iL)

That's why doctorates in Film Studies are a bad idea.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:59 PM (8avO+)

255 That's why doctorates in Film Studies are a bad idea.

I don't know that Ace's Movie Reviews will corner the market quite that thoroughly

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 03:59 PM (t0Rmr)

256 Does the judge's ruling only impact potential asylum seekers in the geographical area over which the judge presides?

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (MMp6W)

257 Careful, if you roll your eyes that hard they might fall out!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (SEFV4)

Better start wearing goggles.

Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (rF2iL)

258 It's still believe in some circles that AIDS was Reagan's fault for ... Not saying AIDS in public early enough.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (+Wa+b)

259 1. Appeal.
2. Stay.
3. Ruling in Trump's favor on merits.
3a. (if allowed to go to SCOTUS) The gutting of Rule 23 that allows judges to create classes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah somebody's concurrence on the last win for Trump warned them not to pull Rule 23 bullshit...maybe not in those words, but close enough.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (8avO+)

260 Trump can NEVER top Washington. He is more responsible for this country than any man in history.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (pohLc)

261 One of our PhD relatives was telling us this week how tough is was going to be for graduating students to find jobs for the next few years.
Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (rF2iL)

For students graduating with degrees like Trans Studies, we can only hope.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (B9Prs)

262 259 Yeah somebody's concurrence on the last win for Trump warned them not to pull Rule 23 bullshit...maybe not in those words, but close enough.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (8avO+)

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Alito's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

263 That's why doctorates in Film Studies are a bad idea.
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Snort.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (W3T6M)

264 @252

>>Better to prevent these invaders from filing claims in the first place.

A claim of asylum can't be made to just some random border patrol agent during a border stop.

There is a well established process for claiming asylum, the problem is that The Biden Junta waived away all of those processes and now the courts are seeking to enforce lawlessness.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (XV/Pl)

265 >>One of our PhD relatives was telling us this week how tough is was going to be for graduating students to find jobs for the next few years.

Can they pick strawberries? I hear there are plenty of those jobs available.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (viF8m)

266 His district is DC, which (the last time I checked) doesn't have any international borders.

Could they come in by boat on the Potomac? Or more pertinently, fly in to Dulles?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:01 PM (SEFV4)

267 It's still believe in some circles that AIDS was Reagan's fault for ... Not saying AIDS in public early enough.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Wasn't Fauci around even back then?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

268 It's still believe in some circles that AIDS was Reagan's fault for ... Not saying AIDS in public early enough.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (+Wa+b)

The people that got AIDS did not modify their behavior one iota when AIDS became a cause.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:01 PM (8avO+)

269
Trump's damn fault!

I told Mrs. Wrecks about my minor traffic altercation in which the other driver called me an "inconsiderate f*ck" and I, contrary to my general demeanor, replied that he was a "dumb c*cksucker." Mrs. Wrecks told me I was influenced by Trump dropping the F bomb the other day and now Pandora's box has been opened releasing profanity into world. I'm just glad to know it wasn't my fault.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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This gives me an idea for an app. It simply plays Trump dropping f-bombs and s-bombs, whatever you need for your occasion, so you can say you didn't say it yourself. Play it when a cop pulls you over?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 04:01 PM (egH3D)

270 It's still believe in some circles that AIDS was Reagan's fault for ... Not saying AIDS in public early enough.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (+Wa+b)

Watching it closely, in person. And not warning the couples/scrum.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:02 PM (8avO+)

271 Kristol looks like a bloated dummy.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:02 PM (PMtkd)

272 I could be wrong here, but I think President Trump is smarter than any previous president that I can remember. In understanding the economy, at least. He can rattle off facts and numbers like no one before him.

President Reagan gave great speeches, the great communicator. He was a gentleman with polish and charisma. In other words, he was my parent's president from their generation.

President Trump is a bulldozer and says exactly what he thinks. This, no doubt, horrifies my mother. I am not wild about it at times, but also think the bastards in the press sometimes deserve it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 02, 2025 04:02 PM (6PCLE)

273 In the '80s I thought Reagan was a dullard and a wannabe tyrant.

I was also literally 29.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:02 PM (omVj0)

274 >>Wasn't Fauci around even back then?

Why yes he was. And he worked with the Clinton Foundation to send useless drugs around the world.

Both he and the Clinton's made bank.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 04:02 PM (viF8m)

275 Using Rule 23 to fake giant classes for purposes of nationwide -- international? -- injunctions is exactly what The Blade expected these shitnugget judges would do. The Blade, he knows things. Trust The Blade.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

Didn't some group try to get a class certified as "all children born on or after" the date that Trump signed the BRC EO?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 04:02 PM (ExV1e)

276 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Elie Mystal: "Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us."

https://tinyurl.com/mr245mtm

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 04:02 PM (NpAcC)

277 269
Trump's damn fault!

I told Mrs. Wrecks about my minor traffic altercation in which the other driver called me an "inconsiderate f*ck" and I, contrary to my general demeanor, replied that he was a "dumb c*cksucker." Mrs. Wrecks told me I was influenced by Trump dropping the F bomb the other day and now Pandora's box has been opened releasing profanity into world. I'm just glad to know it wasn't my fault.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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Dolley has always had the vocabulary of an Irish dock worker, and I cannot get her to stop in front of the kids.

Her only successful attempt to stop the cursing was changing "fuck" to...

"fuck a duck"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

278 When do basic laws of economics kick in? Heck, basic laws of physics ought to have finished them by now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 03:47 PM (egH3D)

Disney loses money on all their movies yet still exists year after year. CNN is the same. They’re a small part of a huge conglomerate. The leftists who run it are fine with losing money as long as the propaganda keeps churning.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 03:57 PM (nwGCR)
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Disney's net income -- net, not gross -- was $5B. It was up 100% over 2023. Disney had 2 or 3 of the top 5 highest grossing movies in 2024.

Remember when all the news was Disney's cratering stock price? Well, it's back up to $122 -- the highest it's been in 3 or 4 years.

While I despise Disney as much as all of us here, the company is making piles of money. It ain't going anywhere.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

279 Trump can NEVER top Washington. He is more responsible for this country than any man in history.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Yep. Led the Continental Army to victory, presided over the Constitutional Convention, and then set much precedent for the office in his two terms as our First President.

Also started the French and Indian War, which kinda set the Revolution in motion.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:04 PM (77rzZ)

280 Trump can NEVER top Washington. He is more responsible for this country than any man in history.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (pohLc)

But Trump has crossed the Delaware LOTS MORE than George did.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:04 PM (8avO+)

281 Massie says he has 10 no votes for the BBB....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (VE6XX)

Well... all the people who've been bitching about it all day will be happy about that, I guess. We can continue to hold out for perfection until the first of never.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 04:04 PM (ExV1e)

282 Back in the day I always thought Reagan was controlled opposition.

Turns out I was right. I don't question my instincts anymore.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 04:04 PM (DN7vq)

283 278 Disney's net income -- net, not gross -- was $5B. It was up 100% over 2023. Disney had 2 or 3 of the top 5 highest grossing movies in 2024.

Remember when all the news was Disney's cratering stock price? Well, it's back up to $122 -- the highest it's been in 3 or 4 years.

While I despise Disney as much as all of us here, the company is making piles of money. It ain't going anywhere.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Its cruise line is stupidly profitable, from what I understand. Its parks are essentially money printers as well (despite any news of "empty park!" or "Epic Universe!").

The film division is weirdly uneven, and this year is gonna be bad unless F4 is a real surprise at the box office.

Elio is a millstone, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

284 Her only successful attempt to stop the cursing was changing "fuck" to...

"fuck a duck"
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Redhead rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 04:05 PM (W3T6M)

285 Massie says he has 10 no votes for the BBB....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (VE6XX)

Well... all the people who've been bitching about it all day will be happy about that, I guess. We can continue to hold out for perfection until the first of never.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 04:04 PM (ExV1e)
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Dude, don't you know that no man can have sex unless it's with 25 year old Tyra Banks? We all must hold out for her!

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:05 PM (iFTx/)

286 284 Her only successful attempt to stop the cursing was changing "fuck" to...

"fuck a duck"
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Redhead rite?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 04:05 PM (W3T6M)

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Full ginger.

I like her spots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

287 Dolley has always had the vocabulary of an Irish dock worker, and I cannot get her to stop in front of the kids.

Her only successful attempt to stop the cursing was changing "fuck" to...

"fuck a duck"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

But that's only when you make her watch Prometheus, right?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

288 Back in the day I always thought Reagan was controlled opposition.

Turns out I was right. I don't question my instincts anymore.
Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 04:04 PM

You're a silly person, Joe.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:06 PM (jc0TO)

289 Wasn't Fauci around even back then?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

Fauci was working to get gay blood donors into the blood supply to expose straight people, suppressing helpful medications, promoting harmful medications, and doing horrific medical experiments on HIV-positive orphans. Yep, he was around.

Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 04:06 PM (rF2iL)

290 Well... all the people who've been bitching about it all day will be happy about that, I guess. We can continue to hold out for perfection until the first of never.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 04:04 PM (ExV1e)

Hopefully they will come around.. I want done with it...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 04:06 PM (VE6XX)

291 Dolley has always had the vocabulary of an Irish dock worker, and I cannot get her to stop in front of the kids.

Her only successful attempt to stop the cursing was changing "fuck" to...

"fuck a duck"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025

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I've always wondered how, and whether, the late ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 modified her salty dialogue after she had kids with husbands 2 and 3. If she did, it must have been a strain for her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:06 PM (omVj0)

292 287 But that's only when you make her watch Prometheus, right?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

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*app fails to load in proper time expected*

FUCK A DUCK!

*accidentally spills some dry pasta on the floor*

FUCK A DUCK!

*almost hits head on something*

FUCK A DUCK!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

293 Sleazy Bill Kristol is a lump of a man that reminds me of an overflowing diaper. I'll wager even his pets greet him with disdain.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 04:07 PM (a/G0f)

294 God, I can't wait for the podcast cottage industry to die. Not everyone has something to say worth listening to, and I'm lumping Kristol in with that contingent.

Posted by: Octochicken at July 02, 2025 04:07 PM (oCS0o)

295 >> Massie says he has 10 no votes for the BBB....

So...MTG and 8 other Retards?

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 04:07 PM (T4A2M)

296 Yep. Led the Continental Army to victory, presided over the Constitutional Convention, and then set much precedent for the office in his two terms as our First President.

Also started the French and Indian War, which kinda set the Revolution in motion.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:04 PM (77rzZ)

Oh come on you can't call that a plus for George. Having your prisoners butchered by your Indian auxiliaries and then getting your whole force captured has to be an L.

And overall the F&I war was overall a bonding experience for the Brits and us. Parliament tossing all the deals made during the war aside was the failure that triggered the revolution.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:07 PM (8avO+)

297 194 After 9/11, I doubt you could pull off a successful hijacking. The passengers will go full Beemer on you.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 03:48 PM (jc0TO)

I imagine the airlines have more robust plans in place too. 9/11 they just surrendered the plane thinking that would avoid lawsuits over a crash caused by a crew member attempting heroics.

Now they know they no longer have that excuse.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 04:07 PM (QGaXH)

298 238 If MSNBC and other leftwing propaganda organs want to regain viewers, they need to recalibrate the emotional appeal: not just repeat messaging, but deliver new stimuli that feel rewarding, energizing, and authentic. Without that, the brain chemistry that fueled engagement just isn’t there.
Posted by: Oglebay

They'll have to rename the channel. MSNBC is too corporate and has too many letters. How about the SOMA Network. Catchy!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 04:08 PM (sAmhv)

299
Disney loses money on all their movies yet still exists year after year. CNN is the same. They’re a small part of a huge conglomerate. The leftists who run it are fine with losing money as long as the propaganda keeps churning.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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Huh, a quick check online says that CNN is still profitable for Warner Discovery! I literally thought it was a money hole but apparently not. Just declining profits, not gone into the red yet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 04:08 PM (egH3D)

300 I pulled up the actual federal statute on asylum claims a few months ago.

It clearly states in the statute that the burden of proof is on the person seeking asylum to affirmatively prove their allegations.

I did not know that - and it is certainly NEVER reported that way in the MSM!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 04:08 PM (HlyYF)

301 Disney's net income -- net, not gross -- was $5B. It was up 100% over 2023. Disney had 2 or 3 of the top 5 highest grossing movies in 2024.

Remember when all the news was Disney's cratering stock price? Well, it's back up to $122 -- the highest it's been in 3 or 4 years.

While I despise Disney as much as all of us here, the company is making piles of money. It ain't going anywhere.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Its cruise line is stupidly profitable, from what I understand. Its parks are essentially money printers as well (despite any news of "empty park!" or "Epic Universe!").

The film division is weirdly uneven, and this year is gonna be bad unless F4 is a real surprise at the box office.

Elio is a millstone, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
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All true. But the modern movie industry has become basically like PE or VC: you lose money on most of your investments. But when you hit, you hit HUGE -- more than enough to make the whole thing profitable.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:08 PM (iFTx/)

302 293 Sleazy Bill Kristol is a lump of a man that reminds me of an overflowing diaper. I'll wager even his pets greet him with disdain.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 04:07 PM (a/G0f)

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hhhahahahahahah

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:08 PM (PMtkd)

303 It's still believe in some circles that AIDS was Reagan's fault for ... ~~Not saying AIDS in public early enough~~ having Anthony Fauci researching an AIDS cure.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 04:08 PM (ExV1e)

304 Fauci was killing gays with cancer treatments that didn’t work against AIDS, but made him some cha-ching, yes (patent rights assigned[ to him). Same grift that he ran with remdesivir (run death is near - the nurses) during COVID. The man needs[/ii] that retroactive pardon! Still there should be some way to put him up on state charges: murder charges have no statue of limitations!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:08 PM (SEFV4)

305 God, I can't wait for the podcast cottage industry to die. Not everyone has something to say worth listening to, and I'm lumping Kristol in with that contingent.
Posted by: Octochicken at July 02, 2025 04:07 PM (oCS0o)

Then their podcasts die, not the industry. We've cut out the gatekeepers, nothing better than that.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (8avO+)

306 301 All true. But the modern movie industry has become basically like PE or VC: you lose money on most of your investments. But when you hit, you hit HUGE -- more than enough to make the whole thing profitable.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:08 PM (iFTx/)

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Avatar 3 will come along to make another $2 billion to save Disney for any troubles it has in the next 18 months or so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

307 >>> One of our PhD relatives was telling us this week how tough is was going to be for graduating students to find jobs for the next few years. Posted by: Emmie at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (rF2iL)

If they are going into jobs in the DC swamp, research jobs that suck the teat from government grants and USAID, involve woke studies, or DEI, then yes. Everyone else will be just fine.

Also, put the blame where it's due, on the Biden economy.That's what I'm so irritated at with socialist nepo babies like Madmani trying to blame Trump and conservatives for ruining NYC and he has to fix it. No, it's NYC's liberal bureaucratic red tape, bad liberal governance, doubling down on the pandemic, and the Biden era policies causing your city's woes. Stop acting like you'll be a savior from all the stuff your party put into place.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (Eng1Z)

308 State Department spox Tammy Bruce: 90% of foreign aid never reaches the people it was supposed to help.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (qpyNK)

309
So...MTG and 8 other Retards?
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 04:07 PM (T4A2M)

They've actually been voting and it's 213/212 for with 7 holdouts.... Some haven't made it there yet because of the weather and they are holding the vote open... I believe Green voted yes ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (VE6XX)

310 Thank God I have cancellation codes in my sig!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (SEFV4)

311 President Trump is a bulldozer and says exactly what he thinks. This, no doubt, horrifies my mother. I am not wild about it at times, but also think the bastards in the press sometimes deserve it.

Maybe I'm just old but it bothers me a lot too. If we could have Trump with Reagan's persona, I would be a lot happier. No curse words, smooth and well spoken, clean and with a smile. But this is what we get now.

https://youtu.be/QAx7G84y1OI

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (dfIr7)

312 196 Trump's trajectory already suggests great President status.

And Reagan never did shit about Jummah's stupid 55mph crap.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 02, 2025 03:48 PM (pohLc)

I'm pretty sure that was Nixon as i remember the speed limits already lowered when I started driving in 1974.

Reagan might have raised the Interstates to 65 before he left as I recall.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (QGaXH)

313 I imagine the airlines have more robust plans in place too. 9/11 they just surrendered the plane thinking that would avoid lawsuits over a crash caused by a crew member attempting heroics.

Yeah, real robust.

All the stewards are fags and old feminist sluts and they have Shamiqua and Leticia in the cockpit with AI flying the plane.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 04:10 PM (DN7vq)

314 308 State Department spox Tammy Bruce: 90% of foreign aid never reaches the people it was supposed to help.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (qpyNK)

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Remember when "cut foreign aid" was a cornerstone of Tea Party rhetoric?

Remember how cutting foreign aid never actually...happened after the Tea Party won the GOP the House and Senate in 2010?

Probably unrelated. I don't know why I bring it up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

315 >>I pulled up the actual federal statute on asylum claims a few months ago.

It clearly states in the statute that the burden of proof is on the person seeking asylum to affirmatively prove their allegations.

The Big sticking point is that they MUST claim Asylum in the 1st Country they land in...meaning, ONLY Canadians and Mexicans and maybe some Cuban / Haitian Boat People could hope to claim asylum at our border.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 04:10 PM (T4A2M)

316 They'll have to rename the channel. MSNBC is too corporate and has too many letters. How about the SOMA Network. Catchy!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025

***
"SOMA do, and SOMA don't. . . ."
( -- Henry Gibson, ca. 1970)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:10 PM (omVj0)

317 The people that got AIDS did not modify their behavior one iota when AIDS became a cause.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:01 PM (8avO+)

The people most susceptible for AIDS have not modified their behavior one iota in the decades since.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 04:10 PM (ExV1e)

318 273 In the '80s I thought Reagan was a dullard and a wannabe tyrant.

I was also literally 29.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:02 PM

Quite impressive Wolfus that you are STILL 29! (On the measurement of age scale, not the wisdom scale.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 04:10 PM (HlyYF)

319 All true. But the modern movie industry has become basically like PE or VC: you lose money on most of your investments. But when you hit, you hit HUGE -- more than enough to make the whole thing profitable.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:08 PM (iFTx/)

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Avatar 3 will come along to make another $2 billion to save Disney for any troubles it has in the next 18 months or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)
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Exactly. You make $2B on Movie X, you can afford a few massive Snow White flops.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:10 PM (iFTx/)

320 315 The Big sticking point is that they MUST claim Asylum in the 1st Country they land in...meaning, ONLY Canadians and Mexicans and maybe some Cuban / Haitian Boat People could hope to claim asylum at our border.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 04:10 PM (T4A2M)

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Isn't it possible to show up to an American consulate and claim asylum?

Like, I'm Lebanese in Lebanon, I show up to the American consulate in Lebanon, and I can apply for asylum?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

321 Sleazy Bill Kristol is a lump of a man that reminds me of an overflowing diaper. I'll wager even his pets greet him with disdain.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 04:07 PM (a/G0f)

The bacteria in his runny stools have disdain for him.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 02, 2025 04:11 PM (pohLc)

322
From the looks of that picture Kristol's TDS has morphed into an eating disorder.

Posted by: Auspex at July 02, 2025 04:11 PM (j4U/Z)

323 "Wasn't Fauci around even back then?"

ACT-UP ... In obnoxious tactics protest terms, the grandfather of Code Pink and Antifa... Was founded in part in opposition to Fauci.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 04:11 PM (+Wa+b)

324 I am innocent of all charges because the Ho lied !!!!!

Posted by: P. Diddy at July 02, 2025 04:11 PM (J7c+Z)

325 And overall the F&I war was overall a bonding experience for the Brits and us.
Posted by: Oldcat

Not from what I've red. The Royal Army officers from Britain treated George and his men with disdain because they were mere colonials. Pissed him right off.

Kinda what happened with Ben Franklin when he was colonial agent in London. Got treated like crap by the Limeys, and became an advocate for independence.

Those Brits had a talent for pissing off what would have been otherwise perfectly loyal subjects.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

326 Huh, a quick check online says that CNN is still profitable for Warner Discovery! I literally thought it was a money hole but apparently not. Just declining profits, not gone into the red yet.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 04:08 PM (egH3D)

I truly trust those accountants. This is un possible. They wouldn't be selling it if it made money.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:11 PM (8avO+)

327 In the '80s I thought Reagan was a dullard and a wannabe tyrant.

I'm starting to think that I'm the only one on this site who was never a Democrat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 04:12 PM (ExV1e)

328 319 Exactly. You make $2B on Movie X, you can afford a few massive Snow White flops.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 04:10 PM (iFTx/)

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A full year of flops, like 2023, though, strains things.

Plus, it doesn't help that streaming is a money hole. Even Disney execs are saying that streaming is dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

329 Elie Mystal: "Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us."

-
Elie Mistel.

https://is.gd/rwated

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 04:12 PM (L/fGl)

330 Peace in Congo.

Iran defanged.

Today, the U.S. just signed a massive free trade agreement with Vietnam. 20% tariff on goods from Vietnam, and zero tariff on American goods entering Vietnam.

Massive win for the president.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 04:12 PM (gDhA9)

331 I was amused the other day when the image of Trump dropping a coin into the 'swear jar' appeared.

I have a 5 gallon clear plastic jug that sits on a kitchen shelf. It is about 2/3 full now of pennies. Friends have observed it and said, 'Oh, you collect pennies'. 'No', I reply, 'that's the swear jar'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

332 State Department spox Tammy Bruce: 90% of foreign aid never reaches the people it was supposed to help.

And that is exactly why the elites want it to continue. You think Planned Parenthood gives a single damn about the women they treat? Its a clearing house for federal dollars to be moved from you to their friends.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:12 PM (dfIr7)

333 And Reagan never did shit about Jummah's stupid 55mph crap.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 02, 2025 03:48 PM (pohLc)

I'm pretty sure that was Nixon as i remember the speed limits already lowered when I started driving in 1974.

Reagan might have raised the Interstates to 65 before he left as I recall.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025

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I don't recall who raised the speed limit, but certainly the 55 mph thing was in place before Carter. I started driving in the spring of '76 and it was already an accomplished fact on the Interstates.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM (omVj0)

334 Bill Kristol sweats gravy and estrogen.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM (bNf8H)

335 329 Elie Mystal: "Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us."

-
Elie Mistel.

Wrong... The World thinks we're "Daddy"

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM (VE6XX)

336 316 They'll have to rename the channel. MSNBC is too corporate and has too many letters. How about the SOMA Network. Catchy!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025

***
"SOMA do, and SOMA don't. . . ."
( -- Henry Gibson, ca. 1970)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:10 PM (omVj0)

How bout 24 hors of hate.

Or 2 minutes of hate repeated 720 times

Posted by: Cu at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM (5hN0/)

337 Gosh, Bill, you were all for DHS before you were against it.

Whatever may have happened since GW was in office?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM (tT6L1)

338 I'm pretty sure that was Nixon as i remember the speed limits already lowered when I started driving in 1974.

Reagan might have raised the Interstates to 65 before he left as I recall.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 04:09 PM (QGaXH)

No, as I stated, Regan didnt do shit about them. I never forgave him for that.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM (pohLc)

339 Someone should gift Cap'n Bill a squirrel.

https://tinyurl.com/4px36fyr

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM (/U5Yz)

340 In the '80s I thought Reagan was a dullard and a wannabe tyrant.

I thought he was mean and was going to kill us all in nuclear fire, but I was just a kid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM (dfIr7)

341 Isn't it possible to show up to an American consulate and claim asylum?

Like, I'm Lebanese in Lebanon, I show up to the American consulate in Lebanon, and I can apply for asylum?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:11 PM

I think that is the preferred way.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (jc0TO)

342 Elie Mistel.

Wrong... The World thinks we're "Daddy"
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM (VE6XX)
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"Sugar" needs to be in front of "Daddy."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (tT6L1)

343 Oh come on you can't call that a plus for George. Having your prisoners butchered by your Indian auxiliaries and then getting your whole force captured has to be an L.
Posted by: Oldcat

It was, but it set the war in motion, and all that followed.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (77rzZ)

344 >> I'm Lebanese in Lebanon, I show up to the American consulate in Lebanon, and I can apply for asylum?

Yes.

But you can't travel through a different country and then claim asylum in a 3rd Country / at our Borders.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (T4A2M)

345 In the '80s I thought Reagan was a dullard and a wannabe tyrant.

I was also literally 29.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:02 PM
*
Quite impressive Wolfus that you are STILL 29! (On the measurement of age scale, not the wisdom scale.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025

***
Those Howard Families regeneration treatments are way expensive, but they work!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (omVj0)

346 Plus, it doesn't help that streaming is a money hole. Even Disney execs are saying that streaming is dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

Much better off selling their content to streaming services. Same with Paramount.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (gDhA9)

347 276 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Elie Mystal: "Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us."

https://tinyurl.com/mr245mtm
Posted by: redridinghood

The late PJ O'Rourke, in one of his earlier books, had a rant that was basically confirming this and fuck you! I have the book, the chapter was titled; 'Among the Euroweenies'. Holidays in Hell, is the book

https://tinyurl.com/3deudrk4

The pertinent quote is on the bottom of the page. Just various excerts from Holiday in Hell.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (sAmhv)

348 The left is pro_palistinian because they ❤️ kidnap hostage taking rape robbery and murder too!
And HERE there is no IDF to exact revenge on them for doing all the things to kill them.

Posted by: torabora at July 02, 2025 04:15 PM (XALfS)

349 Those Howard Families regeneration treatments are way expensive, but they work!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (omVj0)
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But, do you have time enough for love?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:15 PM (tT6L1)

350 344 >> I'm Lebanese in Lebanon, I show up to the American consulate in Lebanon, and I can apply for asylum?

Yes.

But you can't travel through a different country and then claim asylum in a 3rd Country / at our Borders.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (T4A2M)

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Right.

I had just made my above assertion in an argument the other day without checking on it first. I just wanted to make sure I was right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

351 >>> It's still believe in some circles that AIDS was Reagan's fault for ... Not saying AIDS in public early enough.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Wasn't Fauci around even back then?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

I didn't realize until the pandemic just how much of the botched AIDS response in the 80s was due to Fauci's meddling as director.

He initially told straight parents they could give kids AIDS by touching the same cereal box. He had no idea what he was doing.

Reagan followed him because he didn't have the medical expertise to go against him. He trusted he was using sound science. What else was he going to do at the time?

The big villain in the movie Dallas Buyer's Club, causing the protagonists to sneak in alternate drugs to treat AIDS since they are all banned by the US government, is actually Fauci.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 04:15 PM (Eng1Z)

352 Where can I meet Mrs. Madison?

Posted by: Howard at July 02, 2025 04:16 PM (gYnrv)

353 The left used to call Ronald Reagan "Ronnie RayGun" and they have not been able to reach such intellectual heights since.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 04:16 PM (MMp6W)

354 No, as I stated, Regan didnt do shit about them. I never forgave him for that.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

So, I guess Clinton deserves a big ol' "thank you" for that.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

355 Trump isn't even orange any more.

Posted by: free tibet at July 02, 2025 04:16 PM (1wtUm)

356 I crap bigger than 90,000 viewers. How is cnn staying viable?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 02, 2025 04:16 PM (17s+e)

357 Trump has crossed the Delaware LOTS MORE than George did.
Posted by: Oldcat

Hasn't killed his enemies in their sleep on Christmas morning... needs work.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 04:16 PM (K/v0v)

358 353 The left used to call Ronald Reagan "Ronnie RayGun" and they have not been able to reach such intellectual heights since.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 04:16 PM (MMp6W)

Yes TACO is lame

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 04:16 PM (VE6XX)

359 Mike Hammer -

Pennies are going away! What will you do then?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:17 PM (SEFV4)

360 Those Howard Families regeneration treatments are way expensive, but they work!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025
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But, do you have time enough for love?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025

***
And to sail beyond the sunset, too.

I've yet to teach any of my cats to walk through walls, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:17 PM (omVj0)

361 Running a streaming service, you get the fees, but out of those fees you have to pay for content. Plus pay to run the service.

If you just rent your content to other streaming services, you get royalties from the streaming services. It's all backend gravy with no cost. PLUS, you can sell it over and over, first to Netflix, then Apple, then Tubi. You get paid, over and over.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 02, 2025 04:17 PM (gDhA9)

362 I'm starting to think that I'm the only one on this site who was never a Democrat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 04:12 PM (ExV1e)

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I was never a democrat. Reagan was my first vote; I was 19. I campaigned for him. Well, put up signs.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:17 PM (PMtkd)

363 340 In the '80s I thought Reagan was a dullard and a wannabe tyrant.

I thought he was mean and was going to kill us all in nuclear fire, but I was just a kid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM

45 years later, the Democrat playbook has not changed in the slightest.

Now it is Trump that is going to get us all killed in a nuclear fire!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 04:17 PM (HlyYF)

364 I had never heard of Elie Mistal so I looked this person up. I first thought before I got a picture it was a woman with a different spelling of Ellie . Now I think it's a dumb spelling of Eli and I still have no idea who they are except for being a black leftist journalist apparently (Shrug)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 04:17 PM (2GCMq)

365 Those Howard Families regeneration treatments are way expensive, but they work!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (omVj0)
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But, do you have time enough for love?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

Lazarus was a sport due to inbreeding.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 04:17 PM (K/v0v)

366 From the looks of that picture Kristol's TDS has morphed into an eating disorder.

Posted by: Auspex at July 02, 2025 04:11 PM (j4U/Z)

I've got to say that the spectacle of Trump and Musk, two repulsive and mediocre oligarchs, fawning over themselves and each other, brings out the inner, fat, aging lesbian in me.

Posted by: Bill Kristol at July 02, 2025 04:18 PM (i24o9)

367 Reagan never avenged the dead Marines in Beirut either.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 02, 2025 04:18 PM (pohLc)

368 But you can't travel through a different country and then claim asylum in a 3rd Country / at our Borders.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM

First safe country. If you were a Jew in Chad you wouldn't have to claim it in Libya, you could wait until you reached Italy.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:18 PM (jc0TO)

369 >>Maybe I'm just old but it bothers me a lot too. If we could have Trump with Reagan's persona, I would be a lot happier. No curse words, smooth and well spoken, clean and with a smile. But this is what we get now.

I think there is a tendency to overlook that we no longer live in the same country we did when Reagan was president. Republicans and Democrats had strong disagreements on a lot of things but for the most part things were handled with a degree of civility.

Before Trump was even sworn in for his first term Democrats and McCain Republicans were calling Trump a treasonous, Russian agent and trying to destroy him, his family and anyone in his administration. It's easy to forget but Trump said after he won that he was not going to pursue an investigation of Hillary and wanted the country to come together. In return they went to war against him and it hasn't stopped in over a decade.

You can't make peace with the establishment. You can't show weakness. They will literally destroy you and everyone around you.

The only way to the other side is straight through them. No quarter. No prisoners.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 04:18 PM (viF8m)

370 90,000 viewers! Those are rookie numbers!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:18 PM (SEFV4)

371 My wife used to refer to him as 'Little Billy Kristol', and thought he was 'cute'. That was a long time ago.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (NcvvS)

372 Not from what I've red. The Royal Army officers from Britain treated George and his men with disdain because they were mere colonials. Pissed him right off.

Kinda what happened with Ben Franklin when he was colonial agent in London. Got treated like crap by the Limeys, and became an advocate for independence.

Those Brits had a talent for pissing off what would have been otherwise perfectly loyal subjects.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

Some did, and I'm sure George was happy as they got shot and killed on the way to Ft Duquesne.

By mid war, though the British military lead had a policy of dealing with the colonial governments like assistants in the army. When they wanted a force to, say take a fort, he figured out the men and supplies needed, and sent out a request. And the colonial legislatures would figure out how to do it more like a partner. How to raise the money - loans, taxes and the like was up to them.

And then seconds after the war ended England was all 'you have to pay for the war' without them getting even a voice to complain, and ignoring that they already paid for part of it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (8avO+)

373 222 What is stupid is that even if they asylumees follow all the rules, Trump can just deny all of them. Dumb timewasting stunts.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:53 PM (8avO+)

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Judge is tempting the destruction of Rule 23 over a meaningless change in process if he gets his way.

Pre-emptive denial of asylum vs. denying asylum when everyone asks for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)
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Well, as long as Rule 34 remains intact...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (7fElN)

374 90,000 viewers! Those are rookie numbers!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:18 PM (SEFV4)
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I'm pretty sure there are youtubers who believe they're losing their touch if a 4 minute video doesn't garner 90K hits.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (tT6L1)

375 Pennies are going away! What will you do then?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

I'm hoarding all my pennies now.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

376 hey e'erbody here's the new fun game...download the ICEBlock app and run around town declaring ICE in the area.

Especially fun at construction sites

Posted by: DanMan at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (8uzBS)

377 Trump 45 made the mistakes. Trump 47 has learned from them!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (SEFV4)

378 In Reagan's Dat, Drmocrats weren't saying "listen up - Communism is the goal, we're going to chop you son's dick off and sew it onto your daughter, plus death to whites and Christians!"

If that were the environment in 1983, Reagan would have won with 99% of the popular vote.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 04:20 PM (BI5O2)

379 Who is the fag Kristol is talking to?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:20 PM (PMtkd)

380 I'm starting to think that I'm the only one on this site who was never a Democrat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 04:12 PM (ExV1e)

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I was never a democrat. Reagan was my first vote; I was 19. I campaigned for him. Well, put up signs.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:17 PM (PMtkd)

Not a dem, but I voted Nader in 2000.

Posted by: Bill Kristol at July 02, 2025 04:20 PM (i24o9)

381 But, do you have time enough for love?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker
*
Lazarus was a sport due to inbreeding.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025

***
He appeared way too early in the Howard Families' breeding-for-longevity program to have been a result of it -- only about two generations into the program, I think. "He was born without prepuce, without vermiform appendix -- and apparently without a conscience."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:20 PM (omVj0)

382 376 hey e'erbody here's the new fun game...download the ICEBlock app and run around town declaring ICE in the area.

Especially fun at construction sites
Posted by: DanMan at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (8uzBS)

Hope you have a burner phone

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 04:20 PM (VE6XX)

383 Elie Mystal: "Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us."
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America: sanction Elie Mystal, please.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 04:20 PM (Dv3i1)

384 376 hey e'erbody here's the new fun game...download the ICEBlock app and run around town declaring ICE in the area.

Especially fun at construction sites
Posted by: DanMan at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (8uzBS)

Make sure to buy a burner to play.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 04:21 PM (MMp6W)

385 TN has made it a crime to rent housing to illegals.

http://tiny.cc/0dio001

This sounds good on its face, but I'm willing to bet there are a dozen laws that make it illegal NOT to rent to illegals. So now TN landlords are over a barrel.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 04:21 PM (lIio7)

386 Good lord, does the autocorrect on my new phone ever suck.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 04:21 PM (BI5O2)

387 Trump 45 made the mistakes. Trump 47 has learned from them!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (SEFV4)
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Two things DC cannot abide: a politician who loves and tries to serve their constituents and one who learns from their mistakes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:21 PM (tT6L1)

388 You can't make peace with the establishment. You can't show weakness. They will literally destroy you and everyone around you.

The only way to the other side is straight through them. No quarter. No prisoners.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 04:18 PM (viF8m)

The Democrats weren't civil when Reagan came into office. Parts of your memory are off.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:21 PM (8avO+)

389 380 I'm starting to think that I'm the only one on this site who was never a Democrat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 04:12 PM (ExV1e)

I was... The last Dem I voted for was Carter... twice...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 04:21 PM (VE6XX)

390 Elie Mystal: "Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us."

They should stop selling us their stuff.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

391 chop you son's dick off and sew it onto your daughter
You reep what you sew.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 04:21 PM (R6b5X)

392 OMgosh! The district court judge here bases his conclusion on . . . wait for it. . . a Justice Jackson dissent where SCOTUS granted a stay over the grant terminations.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:55 PM (viF8m)

Isn't it sort of a losing hand to cite a still-smoking-crater of a dissent in a Supreme Court decision?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 04:21 PM (D7oie)

393 >>First safe country. If you were a Jew in Chad you wouldn't have to claim it in Libya, you could wait until you reached Italy.

That's subject to your claim.

IF you are claiming Asylum based on Religious Persecution, that would likely qualify.

But, if you were claiming it for another reason, it may not.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 04:22 PM (T4A2M)

394 that is only true if Avatar III doesn't bomb too.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 04:22 PM (D7oie)

395 I was never a Democrat. I might be dumb but I'm not stupid.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 04:22 PM (viF8m)

396 Not a dem, but I voted Nader in 2000.
Posted by: Bill Kristol at July 02, 2025 04:20 PM (i24o9)

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That's a hilarious sock mistake.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:22 PM (PMtkd)

397 The reason I tend to try to give modern leftists and democrats the benefit of the doubt is exactly what people are saying here now. A lot of us were knuckleheads and you outgrew it. Its true today, too. Not EVERYONE on the left is a psychotic monster, many (most?) are just deluded, mistaken, mislead, and driven by feelings over facts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:22 PM (dfIr7)

398 383 Elie Mystal: "Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us."
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America: sanction Elie Mystal, please.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

America: Who?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 04:22 PM (sAmhv)

399 disney nood

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

400 I've never voted for a single G-d damned accursed Democrat in my fuckin' life.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (BI5O2)

401 I think "fuck a duck" is going to become my new go-to curse phrase.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

402 I was never a Democrat though I did vote Anderson.

Yeah, I'm that old.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (tT6L1)

403 NOOD! Disney in italics!

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (rbKZ6)

404 I was never a communist, though I poked some lefty chicks.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (jc0TO)

405 16
Kristol has developed a mighty gunt.
Posted by: bonhomme
......

He needs to defund his tailor.

Posted by: wth at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (UjdFS)

406 The fact that the BBB is the only legislation that congress has taken up, and they can't get it done is pathetic beyond my sense of contempt.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (wBaIH)

407 Not a dem, but I voted Nader in 2000.
Posted by: Bill Kristol at July 02, 2025 04:20 PM (i24o9)

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That's a hilarious sock mistake.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:22 PM (PMtkd)

*holds head high in shame*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (i24o9)

408 Noodus disneyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (omVj0)

409 He appeared way too early in the Howard Families' breeding-for-longevity program to have been a result of it -- only about two generations into the program, I think. "He was born without prepuce, without vermiform appendix -- and apparently without a conscience."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:20 PM (omVj0)

Reading references to that in the awful Number of the Beast was when I started carrying Heinlein books with fireplace tongs.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:23 PM (8avO+)

410 >>The Democrats weren't civil when Reagan came into office. Parts of your memory are off.

Really? When did the weaponize the DOJ, CIA, FBI, etc., to try and remove Reagan from office?

One of Ronnie's self-proclaimed besties was Tip O'Neil.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (viF8m)

411 Pennies are going away! What will you do then?

Read that as Penis.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (R6b5X)

412 The reason I tend to try to give modern leftists and democrats the benefit of the doubt is exactly what people are saying here now. A lot of us were knuckleheads and you outgrew it. Its true today, too. Not EVERYONE on the left is a psychotic monster, many (most?) are just deluded, mistaken, mislead, and driven by feelings over facts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:22 PM (dfIr7)

So lots of "ham and eggers" in the Democrats now?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (8avO+)

413 Elie Mystal: "Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us."
_____

America: sanction Elie Mystal, please.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

With extreme prejudice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (L/fGl)

414 I'm hoarding all my pennies now.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

I'm gonna start hoarding nickles, next

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (D7oie)

415 More Palestinian leaning......

So ... All the sane/sensible people left the demoncrat party and it is now controlled and inhabited solely by psychotic imbeciles?

Okay. Good to know.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (2J/Lj)

416 The 55mph crap was Nixon's doing (well, congress under Nixon).

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (XMwZJ)

417 Ronnie's self-proclaimed besties was (just the) Tip O'Neil.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 04:26 PM (R6b5X)

418 He appeared way too early in the Howard Families' breeding-for-longevity program to have been a result of it and apparently without a conscience."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

incest was my first clue.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 04:26 PM (K/v0v)

419 388 You can't make peace with the establishment. You can't show weakness. They will literally destroy you and everyone around you.

The only way to the other side is straight through them. No quarter. No prisoners.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 04:18 PM (viF8m)

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I remember Rush talking about Trump during his first term. His naivete about politicians of either stripe loving what he'd do for this country.

That's not how it works in DC.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 02, 2025 04:26 PM (PMtkd)

420 168 Hamas approval is a proxy for antisemitism, or more accurately, rabid Jew hatred.

Must be depressing for Jewish Democrats; even if they pretend to not be Jewish, the haters know. They always know.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (wBaIH)

It's also a proxy for anti-Americanism, anti-"Colonialism", basically anti-Western Civilization. The Jews are just the first and sadly "easiest" target.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 02, 2025 04:27 PM (8hxDK)

421 >>The Democrats weren't civil when Reagan came into office. Parts of your memory are off.

Really? When did the weaponize the DOJ, CIA, FBI, etc., to try and remove Reagan from office?

One of Ronnie's self-proclaimed besties was Tip O'Neil.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 04:24 PM (viF8m)

They said he was going to start WWIII, destroy the economy with tax cuts and that inflation was going to start every night on the nightly news for 8 years and 2 more of Bush.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:27 PM (8avO+)

422 Regarding the last photo:

Never trust any man who:

A). Has pants THAT tight
B) Crosses legs like a woman
C) exudes flaming soy wad vibes

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at July 02, 2025 04:27 PM (XLfSN)

423 BTW Christine Grady, Fauci's wife, served on President Reagan's HIV/AIDS commission.

She authored, 'The Search for an Aids Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventive HIV Vaccine.' published 1995.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 02, 2025 04:27 PM (NFX2v)

424 So lots of "ham and eggers" in the Democrats now?

Its like I didn't type anything at all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:28 PM (dfIr7)

425 More Palestinian leaning......

So ... All the sane/sensible people left the demoncrat party and it is now controlled and inhabited solely by psychotic imbeciles?

Okay. Good to know.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (2J/Lj)

Dems chose their tools and promoted them. Can't pity them any more than a fool who keeps tigers in his house with him uncaged and gets mauled.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:28 PM (8avO+)

426 293
Sleazy Bill Kristol is a lump of a man that reminds me of an overflowing diaper. I'll wager even his pets greet him with disdain.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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That's because he eats all their food.

Posted by: wth at July 02, 2025 04:29 PM (v0R5T)

427
Dems chose their tools and promoted them. Can't pity them any more than a fool who keeps tigers in his house with him uncaged and gets mauled.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Chimps make nice house pets

Posted by: Faceless Dem at July 02, 2025 04:30 PM (XeU6L)

428

They say that kind of shit about every Republican and anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows the game. Republicans push granny off the cliff and take away here social security. They even said milquetoast Romney hated women and injected people with cancer.

They literally tried multiple times to remove Trump from office and then throw him in prison for the rest of his life to prevent him from running. The hatred they have for Trump is on a completely different level.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 04:30 PM (viF8m)

429 So lots of "ham and eggers" in the Democrats now?

Its like I didn't type anything at all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 04:28 PM (dfIr7)

I disagreed with your analysis. I've been watching these liberals all my life and somehow, all their policies that destroy people under the guise of help never lead them to change the policies. Just double down. So I have to presume they were lying in the first place.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (8avO+)

430 So ... All the sane/sensible people left the demoncrat party and it is now controlled and inhabited solely by psychotic imbeciles?

Okay. Good to know.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 02, 2025 04:25 PM (2J/Lj)

They really have - the sensible ones know that it's a time just to lay low and keep quiet until this fever passes. Or else join a new party when one comes, or just accept that their day in politics is done in this lifetime. For example, Rahm Emmanueal is in that category, even a few months ago he was starting to act like he wanted to run for the nomination. But with the way Dems feel about Jews now, he's finished. Same for Josh Shapiro.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 04:34 PM (uWKK8)

431 NY Times, What Happened on Election Day
How the election and Donald Trump’s victory looks to Opinion writers.

'The Example of Ronald Reagan' By Gil Troy

It began, “I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party,” Coretta Scott King said in November, 1980. “I’m afraid things are going to blow sky high during this next term,” a nursing student said. He’s a “nitwit,” added a Democrat. “He’s shallow, superficial and frightening,” one of that year’s historic numbers of “undecideds” insisted.

Ronald Reagan “seems not to relish complexity and subtlety,” the New York Times editorial endorsing President Jimmy Carter’s re-election proclaimed. ...
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It's a short article, worth reading.

History tends to repeat itself.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 02, 2025 04:36 PM (NFX2v)

432 >>> 292 287 But that's only when you make her watch Prometheus, right?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

=======

*app fails to load in proper time expected*

FUCK A DUCK!

*accidentally spills some dry pasta on the floor*

FUCK A DUCK!

*almost hits head on something*

FUCK A DUCK!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

Was she adopted? She might be my unknown lost sister.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 04:37 PM (ULPxl)

433 265 >>One of our PhD relatives was telling us this week how tough is was going to be for graduating students to find jobs for the next few years.

Can they pick strawberries? I hear there are plenty of those jobs available.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 04:00 PM (viF8m)

They say those are jobs amuricans won't do but I'm sure if they advertised $50/hr, health insurance and 401k match there'd a be a line a mile long.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 04:39 PM (QGaXH)

434 avatar 1 and 2 sucked, bigly. I don't get it at all.

Posted by: free tibet at July 02, 2025 04:41 PM (1wtUm)

435 avatar 1 and 2 sucked, bigly. I don't get it at all.
Posted by: free tibet at July 02, 2025 04:41 PM (1wtUm)

scantily clad blue cat girls are good for box office.

turgid plots about space whales and force witches, not so much.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:43 PM (8avO+)

436 Trump over Reagan any day. Trump is cleaning up the mess Reagan left when he shipped all our manufacturing off-shore.

Posted by: creeper at July 02, 2025 04:43 PM (zFwIe)

437 I don't recall who raised the speed limit, but certainly the 55 mph thing was in place before Carter. I started driving in the spring of '76 and it was already an accomplished fact on the Interstates.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 04:13 PM (omVj0)

65 came back in 87, so Reagan.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 04:46 PM (8avO+)

438 7 Kristol is a wicked anti_american bastard
Posted by: night lifted
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Worse, he knowingly sold out his parent's values and his ethnicity for money from an anti Zionist hating part Iranian billionaire Pierre Omdiyar.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 04:48 PM (ctrM5)

439 One of our PhD relatives was telling us this week how tough is was going to be for graduating students to find jobs for the next few years.

Can they pick strawberries? I hear there are plenty of those jobs available.
Posted by: JackStraw
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They will end up becoming school teachers unless too stubborn and prideful to do it. The whole NGO academic universe is dying.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 04:49 PM (ctrM5)

440
Riri Williams is not just unrelatable--she's unlikable. She's arrogant, cold, and completely lacking in empathy. She constantly reminds the audience that she doesn't want to be a hero, has no moral obligation to anyone, and is building her suits and AI "because I can."

That's not strength--that's narcissism. Her every action is self-serving, yet the show insists we root for her because of her identity and not her choices. They try to dress it up in a narrative about her dead stepfather but it just rings hollow.

By the end of episode three, Riri commits a stone cold murder.

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Apparently there are a lot of people like this in our country, in real life. The high school punk murderer in Texas, his enthusiastically grifting family and hangers-on, any POS that donated money, etc. etc.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 02, 2025 05:09 PM (kf4RM)

441 @MikeBenzCyber "the EU’s “Voluntary Code of Conduct on Disinformation” just became MANDATORY. US social media platforms will now get whipped by huge EU fines if they don’t throttle what the EU calls “disinfo”"

USA out of NATO now.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 05:10 PM (xYXPm)

442 Trump has done More for America then any of the rest of them Carter, Biden Obama, Clinton(Bill)and of the rest of them favored by the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and sewer dwellers and Up your A** De Niro

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 02, 2025 06:28 PM (wGqjj)

Trans Erasure: The University of Pennsylvania Agrees to No Longer Allow Men in Women's Sports and to Expunge All of Will "Lia" Thomas's Fake Records

We're finally getting that much-promised "trans erasure" that extremists have been screaming about for ten years and it's beautiful.

The University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Education announced a deal on Tuesday that will strip Lia Thomas of the swimmer's records and titles.
Thomas, who is the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division 1 title, last competed for Penn in 2021-22, setting program records in the 100, 200, and 500 freestyle races and winning a national title in the 500 freestyle. However, moving forward, those accomplishments will be updated and marked with an asterisk in the official record books.
Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into Lia Thomas, claiming the swimmer competed at a heightened advantage over other swimmers. The situation, which is part of the Trump administration's investigation into transgender athletes in women's sports, came to a close on Tuesday when the Department of Education and Penn came to an agreement.
As part of the deal, Penn will restore records that Thomas broke to their original holders and send personal apologies to those swimmers and any swimmers who lost to Thomas. Additionally, the Department of Education said Penn now must "not allow males to compete in female athletic programs" while using "biology-based" definitions of male and female athletes moving forward.
"While Penn's policies during the 2021-2022 swim season were in accordance with NCAA eligibility rules at the time, we acknowledge that some student-athletes were disadvantaged by these rules," J. Larry Jameson, Penn president, said in a statement, via ESPN. "We recognize this and will apologize to those who experienced a competitive disadvantage or experienced anxiety because of the policies in effect at the time."

The trans extremists could have gone the path of just seeking and accepting a compromise accommodation. Instead, they insisted on complete and utter humiliation of their opponents, going scorched earth on anyone who dared question whether it's fair or even safe to allow men to dominate girls in their own sports divisions.

Having rejected compromise and accommodation in favor of humiliation of their opponents and unconditional surrender, the trans movement will now suffer the same terms in their defeat.

And now on to the true enemies, the insane woke falsely-"educated" class of jihadi wine-moms and fake intellectuals fomenting social revolution and civil war just because they can't get over having lost a couple of elections. (Well, they lost three, but were credited as "winning" the presidency in one loss.)

AMAZING! Education Secretary Linda McMahon announces that @Penn will be sending personal apologies to EVERY female athlete who was forced to compete against a male.

This is what winning looks likepic.twitter.com/PVeHuZu7QG
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 1, 2025

The Trump administration may cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-related treatments to children and teens.
Nine major children's hospitals recently received letters from federal officials seeking information about procedures such as hormone therapy, puberty blockers and sex-reassignment surgeries, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who now leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the goal is to protect children from "life-altering and experimental procedures."
"CMS has warned hospitals and state Medicaid programs about these dangers - and is taking regulatory enforcement actions," Oz said.

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1 St?

Posted by: Clay at July 02, 2025 02:14 PM (FGVJE)

2 I need DU thoughts on this.

Trans stuff has taken hold over there, but there seem to be some old fogies who aren't down with the struggle who get yelled at a lot.

I need to see that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

3 It's like 9/11 and the Titanic all over again.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 02:15 PM (jc0TO)

4 Whoa we don't want to get into the culture war stuff. Might upset the normies.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:16 PM (VPwHp)

5 The preference cascade continues to gather steam. It won't be long before absolutely nobody will defend what's been done in the last 5 years.

"Chop sexual organs off of children? What kind of monster are you?"
-U. Penn Med School

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

6 Oddly the left isn't freaking out about this as badly as I thought they would. I think mostly they are kind of stunned but I secretly hope that they are starting to realize how unbelievably unpopular this crap was and are quietly backing off it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (dfIr7)

7 So does that mean that the girl who lost to "Lia" (Riley Gaines?) gets the win she was cheated out of?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (77rzZ)

8 The emperor is getting a bit self-conscious about his nudity.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (Riz8t)

9 5 The preference cascade continues to gather steam. It won't be long before absolutely nobody will defend what's been done in the last 5 years.

"Chop sexual organs off of children? What kind of monster are you?"
-U. Penn Med School
Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

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The Democrat Party will continue to advocate for it because Pritzker Family money is more important to their operations than winning elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

10 Amen.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at July 02, 2025 02:18 PM (USyCi)

11 The Trans lobby greatly overestimated their appeal and influence in the culture.

My take - biggest rule in therapy is that you NEVER NEVER reinforce a patient's delusions. To me this was a double problem. Their delusions were reinforced, and then their delusions of popularity were similarly reinforced.

I'll just also say that they are still people who really need help, but have been used by cynical power players for their own ends. I think many of them have irreparable damage now.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 02:18 PM (PzXaK)

12 UoP is protecting Biden's Senator records so we can't find out about more horrible stuff he was involved in. Perhaps even being a source of the congresscritter payout for harassment of staff.

Posted by: torabora at July 02, 2025 02:18 PM (XALfS)

13 Trans-erasure.

Nothing like it.

Posted by: Pythons at July 02, 2025 02:18 PM (Q4cxx)

14 well I'm glad anyway

yay red and blue!

and screw you Harvard

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 02:19 PM (Pv3Rg)

15 Oddly the left isn't freaking out about this as badly as I thought they would. I think mostly they are kind of stunned but I secretly hope that they are starting to realize how unbelievably unpopular this crap was and are quietly backing off it.

That is exactly what's happening. They also know it's insane, but they feared the mob so they went along. Gosh, why does this sound so familiar?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:19 PM (Riz8t)

16 >>>My take - biggest rule in therapy is that you NEVER NEVER reinforce a patient's delusions

Hey now, there's hardly any money in that

Posted by: Big Pharma at July 02, 2025 02:19 PM (jGJov)

17 So does that mean that the girl who lost to "Lia" (Riley Gaines?) gets the win she was cheated out of?

I believe so, yes

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:19 PM (dfIr7)

18 12 UoP is protecting Biden's Senator records so we can't find out about more horrible stuff he was involved in. Perhaps even being a source of the congresscritter payout for harassment of staff.

they are at UD

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 02:19 PM (Pv3Rg)

19 The Trans lobby greatly overestimated their appeal and influence in the culture.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 02:18 PM (PzXaK)
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And now it's grown even more selective.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 02:19 PM (Q4cxx)

20 Trans-erasure

Isn't that an 80s band ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (NtVYv)

21 The preference cascade continues to gather steam. It won't be long before absolutely nobody will defend what's been done in the last 5 years.

"Chop sexual organs off of children? What kind of monster are you?"
-U. Penn Med School
Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

The Left already left trannies behind for their new favorite son, violent illegals, and even they are gonna be forgotten soon too at the expense of islamic terrorists (swoon).

The Left never stops. Before trannies, it was Critical Race Theory and Project 1522 or whatever for a year or two. They keep it moving.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (VPwHp)

22 That is exactly what's happening. They also know it's insane, but they feared the mob so they went along. Gosh, why does this sound so familiar?

Beats me.

Posted by: Robespierre at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (Riz8t)

23 I don't want to jump the gun but this strategy of telling leftists to go fuck themselves and crushing all their bullshit instead of mewling and complaining is so crazy it just might work.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (viF8m)

24 Posted by: Pythons at July 02, 2025 02:18 PM (Q4cxx)

Just don't post on here so much that you forget to keep an eye on the detainees in the Python Penitentiary.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

25 I wonder if they'll put William "Lia" Thomas' marks back into the male records. He'll go from first to 27th on his own team. That would be hilarious. Simply erasing all of his times would be funny too. Like he never existed.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (lIio7)

26 Trans Erasure ... The long awaited tour of Erasure and the Trans Siberian Orchestra.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (+Wa+b)

27 "openly transgender"

As if there was ever a time these freaks were in a closet.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (8avO+)

28 No one is happier about this than me.

Posted by: Lia Thomas' Gynecologist at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (EnnqV)

29 They keep it moving.
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (VPwHp)

Jackass Fatigue

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (BjH5D)

30 Was all this really necessary?

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (vFG9F)

31 "Chop sexual organs off of children? What kind of monster are you?"
-U. Penn Med School
Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

=======

The Democrat Party will continue to advocate for it because Pritzker Family money is more important to their operations than winning elections.

I doubt it. It's a surefire election killer.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (Riz8t)

32 30 Was all this really necessary?
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (vFG9F)

=======

*rubbing self furiously*
-the tranny Pritzker

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

33 17 So does that mean that the girl who lost to "Lia" (Riley Gaines?) gets the win she was cheated out of?

yep William stuff is all wiped away

asshole that he was

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (Pv3Rg)

34 "openly transgender"

"Obviously a dude"

Posted by: t-bird at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (iSdyJ)

35 When you put the WWE in charge, expect some body slams.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (MZ+PY)

36 I wonder if they'll put William "Lia" Thomas' marks back into the male records. He'll go from first to 27th on his own team. That would be hilarious. Simply erasing all of his times would be funny too. Like he never existed.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (lIio7)

My understanding is that he will still be listed as a footnote as something like "with the standards at the time, Lia Thomas held the records for....."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (PzXaK)

37 willowed:

Campbell's soup is having a problem because it tastes nothing like the original. In fact, it's rather tasteless.
And bonhomme can throw items in the Crock Pot and have a delicious soup later because he knows which pieces of junk to throw into the pot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (K91ZZ)

38 I doubt it. It's a surefire election killer.

I don't think they have figured that out yet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (dfIr7)

39 Don't be overly concerned, members of the trans community, you will always have Duke.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (MMp6W)

40 wait wait I mean his girls' team stuff. his mens' team info probably stays, from before he started cheating

that should get wiped away too but honestly it's just embarrassing for him. he sucked.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (Pv3Rg)

41 alexandriabrown
@alexthechick
21h
There is bending the knee and then there is this.

This is EXACTLY what I voted for.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (D7oie)

42 28 No one is happier about this than me.
Posted by: Lia Thomas' Gynecologist at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (EnnqV)

"OK then, 'ma'am'. First were going to take this speculum and dilate to, oh, say five centimeters or so, and then...."

"I'M A DUDE! I'M A DUDE! AAAAAHHHHHH!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 02:23 PM (BjH5D)

43 I doubt it. It's a surefire election killer.

I don't think they have figured that out yet.

The smarter ones have. Carville has been pleading with them to stop the lunacy.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:23 PM (Riz8t)

44 Seems a bit overboard to strip him of his medals, frankly. I mean, he did follow the asinine rules and win under those asinine rules.

And I think it'll be a good reminder for future female athletes looking at the historical results, in 25 years or so, of what kind of absolutely group think nonsense was going on in America in 2022 or whatever year it was.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 02:23 PM (uCjyK)

45 39 Don't be overly concerned, members of the trans community, you will always have Duke.

and stanford, maybe?

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 02:24 PM (Pv3Rg)

46 @6 Christopher, I think they're either just going quiet or they're getting hit with so many different things by Trump that they don't know how to respond. I'm sure if they return to power they'll let their freak flags fly once again. If they were willing to mutilate children there really is no basement for them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 02:24 PM (eBgDF)

47 I called the school Penn State in stead of U of Penn in a previous post, sorry about the mixup! I don't know the PA schools.

I want to find ALL the old social media posts I saw of moms of girl swimmers/athletes, or ex girl swimmers/athletes, excusing Lia and other trans swimmers and saying there wasn't a difference, and it's fine, and if I object I'm a bigot, to take this policy change, and stripping Lia of all their medals, and shove it in those ladies' smug, woke faces.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:24 PM (Eng1Z)

48 "As if there was ever a time these freaks were in a closet."

Why some people call them Pizza Huts.

No matter what business is in the building now, you can always tell it used to be a Pizza Hut.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:24 PM (+Wa+b)

49 they insisted on complete and utter humiliation of their opponents, going scorched earth on anyone who dared question whether it's fair or even safe to allow men to dominate girls in their own sports divisions.

-
Center for American Liberty@Liberty_Ctr
BREAKING: 82-year-old Julie Jaman wins $65K settlement after being banned from her local YMCA pool for objecting to men in the women’s locker room.
We're proud to officially announce this HUGE win. Free speech isn’t dead and we’re here to prove it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 02:24 PM (L/fGl)

50 44 Seems a bit overboard to strip him of his medals, frankly. I mean, he did follow the asinine rules and win under those asinine rules.

wtf Harry NO

he cheated they should be stripped my GOD

he's not an idiot, he's a cheater. he knew what he was doing and the coach even encouraged it on his behalf. do you know what ivy coaches are like? there is no rule they won't bend or break (like Duke)

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (Pv3Rg)

51 Hope the mugshot was worth it!!

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (VPwHp)

52 31 The Democrat Party will continue to advocate for it because Pritzker Family money is more important to their operations than winning elections.

I doubt it. It's a surefire election killer.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (Riz8t)

======

The Pritzker Family are some of the largest donors to the Democrat Party and are dedicated to a future where people choose their sex, inventing any sex that they want.

One of 'em is even governor of Illinois, promising to fight Trump over transgenders as he seek re-election.

https://is.gd/q3cQEo

They're religiously dedicated to the proposition and won't just drop it because others in the party want to. They got the party to adopt transgenderism as a core tenet of its party once. They can do it again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

53 Dr. Mehmet Oz, who now leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the goal is to protect children from "life-altering and experimental procedures."

He spoke at the presser describing the 14 billion dollars of Medicaid/Care fraud that had been identified and the perps arrested.

He is definitely the right man for the job

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (dCxaZ)

54 How are we supposed to cope with all this winning?

Posted by: torabora at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (XALfS)

55 "The trans extremists could have gone the path of just seeking and accepting a compromise accommodation. Instead, they insisted on complete and utter humiliation of their opponents, going scorched earth on anyone who dared question whether it's fair or even safe to allow men to dominate girls in their own sports divisions."

This is what you get when men decide to act like women.
Then we get the consequences when women decide to fight back.

Men fight for status. Women fight for dominance. Never forget this

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (D7oie)

56 Campbell's soup is having a problem because it tastes nothing like the original. In fact, it's rather tasteless.

Yeah they changed all the recipes and ruined their product. I don't know why they did it, but literally none of their soups taste right any more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (dfIr7)

57
"Dear former UPENN female swimmer,

Sorry you had to see Lia Thomas' dong.

Go Quakers!

-UPenn

Also here is a link to donate to UPENN

Posted by: UPENN at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (IifOV)

58 Oddly the left isn't freaking out about this as badly as I thought they would. I think mostly they are kind of stunned but I secretly hope that they are starting to realize how unbelievably unpopular this crap was and are quietly backing off it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (dfIr7)

Some of the people being displaced were seeing the writing on the wall - like feminazis and TERFs. Too afraid to defy the attack, but probably relieved that they are getting some kickback.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (8avO+)

59 Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (viF8m)

60 The preference cascade continues to gather steam. It won't be long before absolutely nobody will defend what's been done in the last 5 years.

Welcome to the First Turning!

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (dCxaZ)

61 Why some people call them Pizza Huts.

No matter what business is in the building now, you can always tell it used to be a Pizza Hut.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:24 PM (+Wa+b)

That is so gross I think I'm going to actually lie down.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (VPwHp)

62 Excellent result.

I do think, though, that the "asterisk" is being used not to undermine that Lia freak's accomplishments, but to continue somehow to honor him. I think the asterisk reads something like "at the time of his record-setting events, Lia Thomas was eligible to compete in the events she did," or some dogshit like that.

I could be wrong.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

63 44 Seems a bit overboard to strip him of his medals, frankly. I mean, he did follow the asinine rules and win under those asinine rules.

And I think it'll be a good reminder for future female athletes looking at the historical results, in 25 years or so, of what kind of absolutely group think nonsense was going on in America in 2022 or whatever year it was.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 02:23 PM (uCjyK)

I'd strip him of ALL his medals. Dude was on the male team 1st in college. He KNEW he was cheating. He just wanted the money and fame. Now, he can have the infamy and shame. Take them ALL away!

Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (tOcjL)

64 Q. What do you call a person with a vagina who insists they're a man?

A. A Democrat

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (+Wa+b)

65
poor Will Thomas

he worked his balls off trying to be the bestest swimmer and this is the thanks he get

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (tljrc)

66
They're religiously dedicated to the proposition and won't just drop it because others in the party want to.

If, as some here say, Pritzker wants to be the '28 presidential nom, he will. The Dems will not allow this albatross to be hung around their necks again.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (Riz8t)

67 meanwhile Penn (the Ivy, not penn state) got caught colluding on tuition costs and even FA awards for accepted students, with brown (and probably others but there's evidence of the collusion with brown)

that's an interesting story to me, too.

god I hate the ivy league they are ridiculous

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 02:27 PM (Pv3Rg)

68 Campbell's soup is having a problem because it tastes nothing like the original. In fact, it's rather tasteless.
And bonhomme can throw items in the Crock Pot and have a delicious soup later because he knows which pieces of junk to throw into the pot.
Posted by: Braenyard
======
For a variety of reasons, Americans did not like heavy seasoning in foods for a long while. Some cannot taste it, others cannot abide it, and Campbells, as a mass product like McDonalds, guaranteed edibility at a low cost that suited people that simply wanted a quick and cheap meal. Nowadays, due to labor costs, that is no longer true even at fast food restaurants but Campbell's soup still is cheap enough where a meal using it costs two bucks or less.

That is all some people can afford rather than eating out all the time. Ditto for ramen noodles, etc.

We forget that sometimes.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:27 PM (ctrM5)

69 Linda McMahon told them they would reverse course and also apologize or she would personally bich slap each one of them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:27 PM (K91ZZ)

70 Is anyone else seeing more sources pop up claiming the ID shooter was a tranny?

It would be so... unexpected.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 02:27 PM (ULPxl)

71 So does that mean that the girl who lost to "Lia" (Riley Gaines?) gets the win she was cheated out of?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (77rzZ)

If Ms Gaines had been allowed to win, she would have gone on to compete, get a degree, and live out a successful life.
Now she has massive amounts of media experience, and self confidence to do anything she wants.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 02:27 PM (D7oie)

72 I'm sure if they return to power they'll let their freak flags fly once again. If they were willing to mutilate children there really is no basement for them

Absolutely. If you are all in on murdering helpless innocent babies and mangling children after they are born, what evil will you NOT engage in? Sometimes I wonder if we are not being punished as a people for our tepid, meek response to the horrors in our midst.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:27 PM (dfIr7)

73 Lia will claim the asterisk identifies as an exclamation point.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:27 PM (VPwHp)

74 Anyone know offhand what kind of Gig William has ended up doing?

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (PCK5/)

75 The Dems do seem stubbornly determined to run on transgenders and illegals. Good luck!

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (MMp6W)

76 he cheated they should be stripped my GOD

he's not an idiot, he's a cheater. he knew what he was doing and the coach even encouraged it on his behalf. do you know what ivy coaches are like? there is no rule they won't bend or break (like Duke)
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (Pv3Rg)

he's not even a pretend transgender. He's been dating women the entire time. At least put on the purple hair.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (8avO+)

77 Post WW2 Germans would almost universally claim they fought on the Eastern Front.
I wonder what post Trump era leftists are going to claim.

Posted by: torabora at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (XALfS)

78 64 Q. What do you call a person with a vagina who insists they're a man?

A. A Democrat
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (+Wa+b)

“That’s not funny!”

~ Bruce “Call Me Caitlyn” Jenner

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (Mxf84)

79 I do think, though, that the "asterisk" is being used not to undermine that Lia freak's accomplishments, but to continue somehow to honor him. I think the asterisk reads something like "at the time of his record-setting events, Lia Thomas was eligible to compete in the events she did," or some dogshit like that.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blad

In baseball, it's to denote the likelihood of cheating, no?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (mlg/3)

80 Yeah they changed all the recipes and ruined their product. I don't know why they did it, but literally none of their soups taste right any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
=======
They got hammered for being high on sodium aka salt. So they reduced it. Condiments like salt, pepper, and ketchup can make bland food taste better.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (ctrM5)

81 wtf Harry NO

he cheated they should be stripped my GOD

he's not an idiot, he's a cheater. he knew what he was doing and the coach even encouraged it on his behalf. do you know what ivy coaches are like? there is no rule they won't bend or break (like Duke)
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (Pv3Rg)

He followed the rules the school had in place at the time, stupid as they were. And, as you say, the school not only promoted it, they shut down anyone who questioned it, and threatened the girls on the team.

So why does the school get to say "oops, nevermind, we're moving on. We'll just erase this piece of history".

The girls still didn't get their win (at the time), and this mentally unwell 21 year old guy (who clearly was being used as a pawn in the culture wars) loses his win, the school gets to pretend none of this happened, and what are we left with?

The whole thing is just ... unpleasant all around.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (uCjyK)

82 66
They're religiously dedicated to the proposition and won't just drop it because others in the party want to.

If, as some here say, Pritzker wants to be the '28 presidential nom, he will. The Dems will not allow this albatross to be hung around their necks again.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:26 PM (Riz8t)

======

Pritzker has no chance, and if he runs, it'll be to advance his pet cause more than anything else.

I can't wait for him to realize that the electorate doesn't give a shit about transgenderism and threatens to cut the Democrat Party off from his billions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

83 I'll wait until Democrats regain control of government and reverse this.

Proverbial "Duck Season/Rabbit Season" horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 02:29 PM (Q4IgG)

84 Day after day it is clearer that the GOP was giving it all away for most of my life. I'm 29.

Posted by: Mongo at July 02, 2025 02:29 PM (Ef4Ak)

85 6 Oddly the left isn't freaking out about this as badly as I thought they would. I think mostly they are kind of stunned but I secretly hope that they are starting to realize how unbelievably unpopular this crap was and are quietly backing off it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (dfIr7)

It was always a top-down movement, pushed by elites, never a grass roots one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 02:29 PM (uWKK8)

86 70 Is anyone else seeing more sources pop up claiming the ID shooter was a tranny?

It would be so... unexpected.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 02:27 PM (ULPxl)

As mentioned yesterday, Furries (which he was) have their own brand of gender and sexual freakdom involving, well, furriness as a component...they aren't Trans, but they are about as normal and mentally sane as Trans. They fell off the radar when Trans became a thing (they were much bigger in the preCovid 2010s)...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 02:30 PM (tOcjL)

87 They got hammered for being high on sodium aka salt. So they reduced it. Condiments like salt, pepper, and ketchup can make bland food taste better.
Posted by: whig

Yes, you can add anything you want to it to give it more taste.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

88 Pritzker has no chance

I know that. You know that. Bob Dole knows that. The question is, does Pritzker know that?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:30 PM (Riz8t)

89 The interesting thing about Pritzker is that so far, he's the only potential candidate that has billions of his own money to throw into the race. Of course I expect him to be an even less popular Bloomberg.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 02:30 PM (uWKK8)

90 For those interested from the previous thread, Leo and Giselle dated until 2005, she met Tom Brady in 2006. She wore a dress to the Met Gala that Leo's current girlfriend wore to the Bezos wedding over the weekend. (awkward!) And Leo's current flame utterly shredded the dress and ruined it.

Who do you think wore it better? Giselle is smoking in it, in my mind it's not even a competition.
https://tinyurl.com/3ykkf76s

Also, I was like hey, if you're at a lingerie/loungewear themed wedding party, and are ruining an expensive dress, just take it off! You're a model, noone will care if you're in underwear! But then I probably realized she's not wearing any underwear either. Celeb problems I will never have!

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:30 PM (Eng1Z)

91 Campbell's soup is having a problem because it tastes nothing like the original. In fact, it's rather tasteless.
And bonhomme can throw items in the Crock Pot and have a delicious soup later because he knows which pieces of junk to throw into the pot.
Posted by: Braenyard

I find crock pots tend to overcook the meat when doing soups, even on low. I have soup pots and make big batches and freeze it. Lasts forever.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:31 PM (8avO+)

92 What is going to happen to all of the mutilated mentally ill that the Left has produced??? What possible rehabilitation could occur??

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:31 PM (PCK5/)

93 >>> 11 The Trans lobby greatly overestimated their appeal and influence in the culture.

My take - biggest rule in therapy is that you NEVER NEVER reinforce a patient's delusions. To me this was a double problem. Their delusions were reinforced, and then their delusions of popularity were similarly reinforced.

I'll just also say that they are still people who really need help, but have been used by cynical power players for their own ends. I think many of them have irreparable damage now.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 02:18 PM (PzXaK)

The people who pushed this, and especially the medical boards who approved this and the surgeons performing the mutilations, need to be irreparably damaged.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 02:31 PM (ULPxl)

94 [To reprise my comment from yesterday:]

An apology is worthless without some punishment and atonement: how many bunker buster bombs would suffice?

/only half-joking -- UPENN Delenda Est!

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 02:31 PM (Jz/5o)

95 Personally, I like eating cold soup straight out of the can.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

96 willowed:

Campbell's soup is having a problem because it tastes nothing like the original. In fact, it's rather tasteless.
And bonhomme can throw items in the Crock Pot and have a delicious soup later because he knows which pieces of junk to throw into the pot.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (K91ZZ)
________

But is the taste any different? Campbells was always bland as fuck. I know; for some reason my dad loved their tomato soup. I never understood why he did. Tasted like water to me.

Many brands that have to appeal to a huge customer base are bland. Honda Accords are pretty bland but they are among the best selling cars. Lambo Revueltos are wild and expensive and sell in very small numbers.

But maybe Campbells did change the recipe. I don't know.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

97 Keith Olbermann was bitching at Gaines on X . He congratulated her in now finishing 4th instead of 5th. Gaines congratulated the real winner and asked Olbernann how much success he had playing sports. No response

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 02:32 PM (eBgDF)

98 Is anyone else seeing more sources pop up claiming the ID shooter was a tranny?

He looks really femmy as a kid but that's as far as I have seen it. He's definitely a Brony and possibly a furry.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:32 PM (dfIr7)

99 The Sacramento Campbell's soup plant shut down a few years ago. Sacramento didn't put up a fight to keep it open despite it being the only decent paying source of jobs in it's part of the economic landscape there. It's just sad young people dont have even factory jobs to fall back on.

Posted by: torabora at July 02, 2025 02:32 PM (XALfS)

100 Keith Olbermmann is having a normal on this subject.

'Wanted to congratulate Whiny Gaines on now being able to say she finished tied for FOURTH not tied for FIFTH in the Lia Thomas race'

https://x.com/KeithOlbermann/status/ 1940215159034941516

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:32 PM (+Wa+b)

101 As I said earlier, I so wish we could post pictures.
I found a picture of Imane Khelif doing roadwork and he looks every bit as male as Rocky Balboa or Mike Tyson.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 02:32 PM (Ul4ZN)

102 Pritzker is a Stroke,just waiting to happen.. he may well not make it to ‘28…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:32 PM (PCK5/)

103 The whole thing is just ... unpleasant all around.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (uCjyK)

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 02:33 PM (NtVYv)

104 do think, though, that the "asterisk" is being used not to undermine that Lia freak's accomplishments, but to continue somehow to honor him. I think the asterisk reads something like "at the time of his record-setting events, Lia Thomas was eligible to compete in the events she did," or some dogshit like that.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blad

In baseball, it's to denote the likelihood of cheating, no?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (mlg/3)
________

True, but the way this asterisk is worded is suspicious. If I'm right about what it says.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

105 Seems appropriate.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6uwceb

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:33 PM (viF8m)

106 Remember when this was all happening that not one, NONE OF THEM, the athletes that competed against him, would speak up against what was happening.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 02, 2025 02:33 PM (zeLd4)

107 he's not even a pretend transgender. He's been dating women the entire time. At least put on the purple hair.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (8avO+)
---
He wags his Johnson in the girls lockerroom.

Total phony perv.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 02:33 PM (Q4cxx)

108 Personally, I like eating cold soup straight out of the can.

Their bean with bacon soup used to b e great that way. Then they changed the recipe...

And its more than sodium, they didn't just reduce salt, they went with cheaper recipes and added in other crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:33 PM (dfIr7)

109 They got hammered for being high on sodium aka salt. So they reduced it. Condiments like salt, pepper, and ketchup can make bland food taste better.
Posted by: whig

Yes, you can add anything you want to it to give it more taste.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

I have a sentimental thing for veggie beef soup and PBJ sammies, so I always have one in the cupboard. But yeah, I have salt pepper and a lil bottle of some spicy sauce to put in there. The little bits of meat are almost gone.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:33 PM (8avO+)

110 When I read "practicing the barbaric ritual of child genital mutilation" I thought of male circumcision...

Posted by: Troofer at July 02, 2025 02:33 PM (S+el1)

111 Olbermann seems a catty bitch…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:33 PM (PCK5/)

112 >>> Dr. Mehmet Oz, who now leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the goal is to protect children from "life-altering and experimental procedures."

I honestly thought that since they were Oprah proteges, Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil were uber lefties. Both of them tackling the issues they have in the past few years that make lefties uncomfortable (child trafficking at the border and child mutilation surgeries), has been a very welcome surprise.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:34 PM (Eng1Z)

113 He congratulated her in now finishing 4th instead of 5th.
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"Congratulations on alienating everyone who has ever employed you. Must be your charm."

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:34 PM (VPwHp)

114 The Sacramento Campbell's soup plant shut down a few years ago. Sacramento didn't put up a fight to keep it open despite it being the only decent paying source of jobs in it's part of the economic landscape there. It's just sad young people dont have even factory jobs to fall back on.
Posted by: torabora

The Campbell's plant in Paris, Texas has, or is, re-tooling from soup to serve their Mexican food line.
A bunch of jobs will be lost. They were a huge employer in that area.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 02:34 PM (Ul4ZN)

115 Some Campbell's food soups are okay, if it's cold out and you can make a nice sammitch to go with. The chicken and dumplings ain't bad with red pepper flakes. There's a decent corn chowder that works with salt and pepper. The tortilla chicken ain't turrible

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:35 PM (+Wa+b)

116 He wags his Johnson in the girls lockerroom.

Babylon Bee: Disqualified Lia Thomas Asks If He Can Still Just Hang Out Naked In The Olympic Women’s Locker Rooms

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:35 PM (dfIr7)

117 That's going to leave a mark

For me, no rest for the weary
Have a great afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 02:35 PM (+qU29)

118 He is definitely the right man for the job
Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 02:25 PM (dCxaZ)

Oz had a top notch TV program, and he made the mistake of asking the wrong questions and having the wrong experts on, and got hammered for it, including cancellation.
I don't think he is a forgiving type

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 02:35 PM (D7oie)

119 Oh no! What's going to happen now to No Dong Sliver on Transerasure Island?? Jen Hawkins! Help!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 02:35 PM (0eaVi)

120 In baseball, it's to denote the likelihood of cheating, no?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:28 PM (mlg/3)
________

True, but the way this asterisk is worded is suspicious. If I'm right about what it says.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

The Asterisk was invented when Roger Maris, the 'wrong type' of Yankee beat Babe Ruth's HR record in 1961. It had nothing to do with cheating.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:35 PM (8avO+)

121 I like Progresso soups more than Campbell’s..

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:36 PM (PCK5/)

122 >>>but Campbell's soup still is cheap enough where a meal using it costs two bucks or less.

That is all some people can afford rather than eating out all the time. Ditto for ramen noodles, etc.

We forget that sometimes.
Posted by: whig
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But for two bucks one can purchase a small burger at McDonald's that will be as nutritious and more filling than a can of soup.

However, that was not my argument. Addressing, people aren't buying, 'even Campbell's soup is in trouble', it because of the poor, tasteless quality people are choosing other products to buy.

There are no starving people in America. We pay healthy people not to work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:36 PM (K91ZZ)

123 Campbell's soup is having a problem because it tastes nothing like the original. In fact, it's rather tasteless.

Yeah they changed all the recipes and ruined their product. I don't know why they did it, but literally none of their soups taste right any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I *stopped* buying Campbell's after they ran this ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLyrllt2SyM

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 02:36 PM (XeU6L)

124 Olbermann can cite baseball stats because he's never played the game.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 02:36 PM (Oy/m2)

125 Olbermann seems a catty bitch

Olbermann's take reminds me of Jon Steward talking about when Republicans took over congress under Bush the younger.

He had beads on the table and moved a couple around. See, it was hardly any change! *eyebrow raised* The weakest cope ever, but the crowd ate it up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:36 PM (dfIr7)

126 It's really a crap shoot what libs will back given a lib-enough message.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 02:37 PM (Q4cxx)

127 Apologize for forcing females to compete against a male and to change clothes in his presence.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 02, 2025 02:37 PM (scrlR)

128 I like Progresso soups more than Campbell’s..
Posted by: tubal

Yeah, Progresso is very good.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:37 PM (77rzZ)

129 121 I like Progresso soups more than Campbell’s..
Posted by: tubal
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My mom loved Progresso. It's got so many additives, one spoonful and my head aches and its hair stands on end.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:38 PM (K91ZZ)

130 I *stopped* buying Campbell's after they ran this ad:

Yeah that's NOT the way to get people to want your product. Whoever is in charge of that needs to be fired.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:38 PM (dfIr7)

131 "Trans-genocide!"

Yeah, telling some pervert that bought a dress from TJ Maxx and a wig from Party City that his is not a woman is literal genocide.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 02:38 PM (CBWwv)

132 129 121 I like Progresso soups more than Campbell’s..
Posted by: tubal
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My mom loved Progresso. It's got so many additives, one spoonful and my head aches and its hair stands on end.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:38 PM (K91ZZ)

Feature, or bug??

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:38 PM (PCK5/)

133 the U.S. Department of Education announced a deal on Tuesday that will strip Lia Thomas

OK, that's just wrong.

Posted by: zombie at July 02, 2025 02:38 PM (pMi6S)

134 Apologize for forcing females to compete against a male and to change clothes in his presence.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 02, 2025 02:37 PM (scrlR)

And share rooms on the road and in dorms at home.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:39 PM (8avO+)

135 Lia who?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 02:39 PM (1bdKO)

136 Even better. For you, Lia. You girl(ish)!

https://tinyurl.com/y47sc79t

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:39 PM (viF8m)

137 The tide has turned against the freaks.

Posted by: steevy at July 02, 2025 02:39 PM (YwEeS)

138 This Olberman guy seems like quite a shining wit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 02:40 PM (dPfyF)

139 It's really a crap shoot what libs will back given a lib-enough message.
Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 02:37 PM (Q4cxx)

I'm trying to determine what comes after jihadists. The next logical step is pedos but they just did that one with the trannies.

Maybe it will be election season by then and they go back to blacks but I mean beyond that. I usually "see" this stuff pretty clearly.

Maybe cannibal warlords. Yeah let's go cannibal warlords. That is a scantly explored frontier.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:40 PM (VPwHp)

140 Lia who?
Posted by: Diogenes

Lia Watha. She's a Senator.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)

141
I've noticed people aren't putting their "preferred pronouns" on their social-media profiles any more.

It's like the country is waking up after a years-long binge, holding its hangover-aching head and groaning, "Damn, what was I doing?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 02:40 PM (/HVsR)

142 137 The tide has turned against the freaks.
Posted by: steevy at July 02, 2025 02:39 PM (YwEeS)

I believe it has… the human wreckage created will be quietly forgotten… talk about exploiting people…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:40 PM (PCK5/)

143 When I was a kid my Grandma would make me toast with Campbells Chili Bean soup and cheese on top. I loved it. She would always eat it with me. Our favorite was sourdough bread. We would grate government chees on top of it. Brings bake great memories. I loved that lady and miss her more than anyone in my life.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 02:40 PM (NtVYv)

144 The Trump administration may cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-related treatments to children and teens.

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Arrest, prosecute, and imprison them for child abuse (which IMHO should be a capital offense).

* spit *

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 02:40 PM (Jz/5o)

145 Why, yes. This is what I voted for.

Posted by: Chemist at July 02, 2025 02:41 PM (HJMJw)

146 Yeah they changed all the recipes and ruined their product. I don't know why they did it, but literally none of their soups taste right any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Bought out by Pepsico, Frito, or Coke?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:41 PM (K91ZZ)

147 My mom loved Progresso. It's got so many additives, one spoonful and my head aches and its hair stands on end.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:38 PM (K91ZZ)

Feature, or bug??
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:38 PM (PCK5/)

Never really liked any of them for no good reason. They are upscale and I am a downscale eater. I got critiqued once going to an Indian restaurant and ordering poor folk food in London.

There were a few Chunky soups and knockoffs I liked - at least one had a similar quality decline.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:41 PM (8avO+)

148 Maybe cannibal warlords. Yeah let's go cannibal warlords. That is a scantly explored frontier.
Posted by: ...

*Makes "call me" gesture*
-- Barbecue, ruler of Haiti

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

149
Putting the genie back in the bottle might be possible. Atleast until the next Dem/communist president.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (IifOV)

150 Amazing homemade soups:

> Chicken noodle using the recipe on the Reames noodles package

> French onion soup following The NY Times recipe

> Leak potato soup based on the recipe that comes with the cuisinart food processor

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (MMp6W)

151 ----------------

Arrest, prosecute, and imprison them for child abuse (which IMHO should be a capital offense).

* spit *
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization
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Yes, put that surgeon in a cell with Butch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (K91ZZ)

152 When I was a kid my Grandma would make me toast with Campbells Chili Bean soup and cheese on top.

My mom used to make a meatloaf with chili bean soup in it, it was terrific. Didn't hold together real well as a loaf but tasted great. Then again, they changed the recipe and their chili bean soup started to suck.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (dfIr7)

153 >>> Campbell's soup is having a problem because it tastes nothing like the original. In fact, it's rather tasteless.
And bonhomme can throw items in the Crock Pot and have a delicious soup later because he knows which pieces of junk to throw into the pot. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (K91ZZ)

Bonhomme has it right! During Keto, I learned to make my own soups and own "cream of..." substitutes, and they are so much cheaper and tastier. It's hard to go back.

I make my own homemade bone broth (SO much better than boxed or canned chicken stock! In the IP it's so easy and fast, and uses all my old kitchen scraps, like chicken bones and the ends of veg like celery and carrots.) I add cream cheese and herbs for the cream style soups. Add tomatoes to the broth and immersion blend for tomato soup. Etc etc.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (Eng1Z)

154 For me, a kid memory is tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (PCK5/)

155 've noticed people aren't putting their "preferred pronouns" on their social-media profiles any more.

It's like the country is waking up after a years-long binge, holding its hangover-aching head and groaning, "Damn, what was I doing?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 02:40 PM (/HVsR)

It shows how fake their previous zealotry was. They are just trained dogs waiting to be sicced on anyone.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (8avO+)

156 So far in 2025, Democrats have come out in support of:

- Child sex changes
- Illegal immigrant gang members
- Welfare cheats
- The Mullahs
- Rioters

How much lower are they going to sink? Serial killers? Puppy beaters?

Trump needs to come out against puppy beating. He gave them an opening when he outlawed military experiments on dogs and cats, but they didn't take the bait.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (+Wa+b)

157 I feel like kissing the ground.

Posted by: Max Power at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (q177U)

158 @139 the left has got to be rooting for communist space aliens to arrive. That's about all they have left beyond violence

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (eBgDF)

159 Ladies, have you had a hairy man's ass shoved into you and yours while you were changing in the Ladies Room?

Are you a female who had a turgid male's tummy stick waved around in front of you and maybe slapped you across the face while you were trying to shower in the Ladies Room?

Well, call me! I want to get you some money!

1-866-SCHLONGED

Posted by: Alexander Shunnarah, Billboard King at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (4dUzE)

160 Get yourself a dutch oven. Some diced carrots, onions and celery, fry them up a bit, add some spices for a minute, then some decent stock, then make whatever soup you want. Beans, protein, barley, whatever. Will take you an hour and be way better than canned.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (VPwHp)

161 For me, a kid memory is tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich…
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (PCK5/)

Another classic. Always good.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (8avO+)

162 Well, alrighty then...

@Osint613 7m
NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (mlg/3)

163 Lia Thomas?
Say, isn't she that gal with the penis and testicles?

Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (5yGIt)

164 You know the editors of the Will Thomas story bent over backwards to avoid any pronouns. Should be several "he" references in there. IMO it'll be a "win" when all stories return to referring to biological men as he. Anything less and that camel's nose is still in the tent.

Posted by: FlapJack at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (wDYPJ)

165 Its actually pretty easy to make good soup, but not nearly as easy as "open a can, dump it in the bowl, add a can of water and microwave" which after a hard day of work or sick day is very nice to have as an alternative to an hour over a stove and an hour cooking.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (dfIr7)

166 Cold tomato soup goes great on Triscuits.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

167 162 Well, alrighty then...

@Osint613 7m
NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (mlg/3)

========

When were we allies?

When was there some sort of treaty announcing allyship?

Asking for a nation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

168 I like Progresso soups more than Campbell’s..
Posted by: tubal

Against all physics, not having to add water, (like with Campbell's), makes it taste better. My wife only buys Progresso soups.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 02:44 PM (Ul4ZN)

169 How much lower are they going to sink? Serial killers? Puppy beaters?

Trump needs to come out against puppy beating. He gave them an opening when he outlawed military experiments on dogs and cats, but they didn't take the bait.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (+Wa+b)

PETA already gasses any pet kitten or puppy they get their hands on. Don't even try to home them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:44 PM (8avO+)

170 The time (summer) has come to whip up a batch of Gazpacho Soup..

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:45 PM (PCK5/)

171 162 Well, alrighty then...

@Osint613 7m
NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (mlg/3)

Hooray?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 02:45 PM (BjH5D)

172 Trump actually started to ban animal experiments in his first term. Guess who brought them back?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:46 PM (+Wa+b)

173 The slighted females need a good civil lawyer.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 02:46 PM (/U5Yz)

174 Well, alrighty then...

@Osint613 7m
NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (mlg/3)

========

When were we allies?

When was there some sort of treaty announcing allyship?

Asking for a nation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)
__________

Well, in fairness Joey Shitbrains was trying to get Uke into NATO ....

I just think it's funny that Uke disappeared from the news, nobody gives a shit about it anymore, but this dipshit MP posts this.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

175 GOPe: Why are you all so insistent on fighting social wars when we have real fiscal problems we should be focusing on!

The Left: Why are you all so insistent on fighting social wars when we have real fiscal problems we should be focusing on!

Weird, eh?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (CBWwv)

176
Canned soup has so much sodium in it that it's not funny. I make a big pot of homemade soup, refrigerate half and freeze half for later.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (/HVsR)

177 @Osint613 7m
NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (mlg/3)

========

When were we allies?

When was there some sort of treaty announcing allyship?

Asking for a nation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

They were our proxy under Biden. Even then they worked soley to expand the war and risk war between us and Russia. Under Trump they flat out sabotaged peace feelers, along with the Euros. Screw all of them, we owe you nothing.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (8avO+)

178 Ukrainians screwed up when they listened to Bill Clinton and gave up there nukes in exchange for a security "guarantee". No treaty was made with the USA, only a handshake with Slick Willy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (eBgDF)

179 The time (summer) has come to whip up a batch of Gazpacho Soup..
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:45 PM (PCK5

Isn't that just tomato soup?

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (Oy/m2)

180 Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?

https://tinyurl.com/4pmpmb8u

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (/U5Yz)

181 The store brand tomato basil at Aldi ain't bad

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (+Wa+b)

182 I've noticed people aren't putting their "preferred pronouns" on their social-media profiles any more.
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Or cops kneeling before criminals.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (XeU6L)

183 When I was a kid my Grandma would make me toast with Campbells Chili Bean soup and cheese on top. I loved it. She would always eat it with me. Our favorite was sourdough bread. We would grate government chees on top of it. Brings bake great memories. I loved that lady and miss her more than anyone in my life.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 02:40 PM (NtVYv)

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There was a restaurant in California (Boudin Bakery?) -- likely started or based in San Francisco -- that would serve New England clam chowder in a large circular sourdough bread bowl.

Yummy ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (Jz/5o)

184 Find out this MP's net worth before the invasion.

Find out what it is now.

I have a hunch.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (BjH5D)

185 Against all physics, not having to add water, (like with Campbell's), makes it taste better. My wife only buys Progresso soups.
Posted by: rickb223

When I add the water to the soup, it takes me a while to get the mixture to a homogeneous state. It's lumps of soup floating in the water. I have to boil the heck out of it to get the two constituents (soup and water) to blend.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (77rzZ)

186 Bought out by Pepsico, Frito, or Coke?

Posted by: Braenyard
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Last I heard, Dorrance family was fighting off losing control over the soup company despite losing money for several years. Dunno about now.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (ctrM5)

187 >>> Keith Olbermmann is having a normal on this subject.
'Wanted to congratulate Whiny Gaines on now being able to say she finished tied for FOURTH not tied for FIFTH in the Lia Thomas race'

He doesn't know how to read the room, yikes. Simone Biles got SMACKED down for calling Riley Gaines a sore loser for standing up for women swimmers. She had to delete her social media. He's on the total wrong side of this. Good.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:48 PM (Eng1Z)

188 This is what I voted for.

Posted by: And still not tired of winning at July 02, 2025 02:48 PM (iH9pq)

189 Canned soup has so much sodium in it that it's not funny. I make a big pot of homemade soup, refrigerate half and freeze half for later.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (/HVsR)

The advantage is I don't slip on ice in the winter though.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:48 PM (8avO+)

190 Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”

::Closes wallet::

Posted by: Dept of State at July 02, 2025 02:48 PM (SBge8)

191 179 The time (summer) has come to whip up a batch of Gazpacho Soup..
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:45 PM (PCK5

Isn't that just tomato soup?
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (Oy/m2)

Sort of as the base.. mine has many more ingredients..

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:48 PM (PCK5/)

192 Well, alrighty then...

@Osint613 7m
NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM

Well...bye.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 02:48 PM (dPfyF)

193
Or cops kneeling before criminals.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (XeU6L)

_________

Maybe COVID madness was a passing spasm.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 02:48 PM (/HVsR)

194 I missed how we moved from discussing "Lia" Thomas and Riley Gaines to discussions about the benefits of lack thereof of various soups, but then I thought "Oh, well; It's ASHQ. Maybe I don't want to know what sparked the umm..".transition ".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 02:49 PM (2GCMq)

195 When I add the water to the soup, it takes me a while to get the mixture to a homogeneous state. It's lumps of soup floating in the water. I have to boil the heck out of it to get the two constituents (soup and water) to blend.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (77rzZ)

Spoons do exist for more than tasting. They even have stick blenders.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:49 PM (8avO+)

196 Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?

https://tinyurl.com/4pmpmb8u
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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I note an absence of guy wires.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 02:49 PM (XeU6L)

197 Microsoft is laying off 9,000 employees. I'm seeing so many people point out that Microsoft has submitted 4,000 H1B applications and complaining that Microsoft is laying off Americans and hiring H1Bs. That would be bad if it were true. HOWEVER, Microsoft is reportedly laying off sales and advertising positions, NOT developers. So this gotcha that many people are engaging in is a manipulative lie.

Now, if you want to have a talk about how Microsoft should be hiring US developers, that's fair. But I hate this manipulative crap, even when it comes from "my side."

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 02:49 PM (lIio7)

198 173 The slighted females need a good civil lawyer.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 02:46 PM (/U5Yz)

They should start doing weenie roasts outside of the events.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 02, 2025 02:49 PM (N39Ws)

199 I like Progresso soups more than Campbell’s..
Posted by: tubal
Against all physics, not having to add water, (like with Campbell's), makes it taste better. My wife only buys Progresso soups.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 02:44 PM (Ul4ZN)

Made the mistake of buying some of Rao's Soups in the glass jars. Real expensive. Tasted like Old Joshua Rao put his ass in the jar. Horrible stuff.

Posted by: Bland And Tasteless at July 02, 2025 02:49 PM (4dUzE)

200 Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?

https://tinyurl.com/4pmpmb8u
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (/U5Yz)
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Whatever it was, it stayed there.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 02:49 PM (Q4cxx)

201 I missed how we moved from discussing "Lia" Thomas and Riley Gaines to discussions about the benefits of lack thereof of various soups, but then I thought "Oh, well; It's ASHQ. Maybe I don't want to know what sparked the umm..".transition ".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 02:49 PM

SQUIRREL!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (dPfyF)

202 Keith Olbermmann is having a normal on this subject.
'Wanted to congratulate Whiny Gaines on now being able to say she finished tied for FOURTH not tied for FIFTH in the Lia Thomas race'

He doesn't know how to read the room, yikes. Simone Biles got SMACKED down for calling Riley Gaines a sore loser for standing up for women swimmers. She had to delete her social media. He's on the total wrong side of this. Good.
Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:48 PM (Eng1Z)
__________

True, but Biles had sponsors and others to keep happy. Olbermann's entire brand is being a nasty scumbag.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

203 180 Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?

https://tinyurl.com/4pmpmb8u
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (/U5Yz)

Alien botched the approach to area 51 in his invisible ship.

Crappy alien IFR. Always flaking out at the worst possible time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (BjH5D)

204 I did a West African soup for a work event once. Chicken, peanuts, sweet potato, and figs. Went over really good

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (+Wa+b)

205 194 I missed how we moved from discussing "Lia" Thomas and Riley Gaines to discussions about the benefits of lack thereof of various soups, but then I thought "Oh, well; It's ASHQ. Maybe I don't want to know what sparked the umm..".transition ".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 02:49 PM (2GCMq)

Freewheelings, or ADD, is the HQ…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (PCK5/)

206 The federal money was the catalyst, but Penn sees the writing on the wall. Those apologies are meant to stifle the civil suits that are potentially coming their way.

There were women athletes who missed out on competitions of a national nature because some guy(s) took the slots. Showing damages might be easier than expected since tuition itself could be a form of damage in that sense. All the time, money, and effort put in by students and their parents to get to that point could, also, be seen as damages.

Penn is protecting their checkbook.

Posted by: Orson at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (dIske)

207 Arrest, prosecute, and imprison them for child abuse (which IMHO should be a capital offense).

* spit *
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization
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Yes, put that surgeon in a cell with Butch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:42 PM (K91ZZ)

Yes, because the kids who had the surgery and most of them who took those shots are ruined. There is nothing reversible here and all those bastard doctors knew it and took the money. Destroy them, destroy planned parenthood that supplied hormones, and destroy the administrators of the facilities that did this. No Quarter

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (FZn/N)

208 No way.

@CIADirector
·
2h
All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump. Thank you to the career @CIA officers who conducted this review and exposed the facts.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (viF8m)

209 >>> Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (mlg/3)
========
When were we allies?

When I was on the Burisma board, duh! Good times. *snorts coke*

Posted by: Hunter Biden, "The Big Guy's" bag man at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (Eng1Z)

210 Ukrainians screwed up when they listened to Bill Clinton and gave up there nukes in exchange for a security "guarantee". No treaty was made with the USA, only a handshake with Slick Willy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (eBgDF)

Russia had the codes. The nukes were useless to them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:51 PM (8avO+)

211 Olbermann's entire brand is being a nasty scumbag.

Which is why he does a podcast out of his basement after being given like 8 second chances at various major businesess.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:51 PM (dfIr7)

212 Families of "erased" women athletes should sue anyway.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 02:51 PM (2GCMq)

213
Alien botched the approach to area 51 in his invisible ship.

Crappy alien IFR. Always flaking out at the worst possible time.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (BjH5D)

_________

DEI All-Girl Alien Spaceship Landing Team

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 02:52 PM (/HVsR)

214 The time (summer) has come to whip up a batch of Gazpacho Soup..
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:45 PM (PCK5

I used to tell people I got my recipe for gazpacho from the movie, Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, until someone seriously asked me if I made sure to leave out all the sleeping pills.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 02:52 PM (D7oie)

215
Maybe COVID madness was a passing spasm.
Posted by: Hadrian
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It *may*, perhaps, have lent to the public a scepticism regarding 'experts', and gov't-driven panics.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 02:52 PM (XeU6L)

216 Families of "erased" women athletes should sue anyway.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 02:51 PM (2GCMq)
_______

I would. They were wronged. For real. By loathsome worms who deserve to be sued.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

217 I did a West African soup for a work event once. Chicken, peanuts, sweet potato, and figs. Went over really good
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (+Wa+b)

I have half a jar of west african chutney. A few spoons in a pot makes it radioactively spicy. Tasty though.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:53 PM (8avO+)

218 214 The time (summer) has come to whip up a batch of Gazpacho Soup..
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:45 PM (PCK5

I used to tell people I got my recipe for gazpacho from the movie, Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, until someone seriously asked me if I made sure to leave out all the sleeping pills.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 02:52 PM (D7oie)

Ah hahaha..👍

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:53 PM (PCK5/)

219 I hate it when my cuisinart leaks onion soup.

Posted by: Amateur chef at July 02, 2025 02:53 PM (iH9pq)

220 > Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?
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[ ] Climate change

[ ] Trump's fault

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 02:53 PM (Q4IgG)

221 Bill Thomas needs to be made an example for future generations...so this shit is never repeated. Records expunged, titles revoked, and referred to using his real name going forward.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 02, 2025 02:53 PM (XMwZJ)

222 UPenn?
Isn’t that the same school that lost their minds over Amy Wax?

Posted by: Jmel at July 02, 2025 02:53 PM (bVhJi)

223 Willy Thomas…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:54 PM (PCK5/)

224 208 No way.

@CIADirector
·
2h
All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump. Thank you to the career @CIA officers who conducted this review and exposed the facts.
Posted by: JackStraw ]

Gee John R, you are one excellent spook. We would have never figured this out on our own. I'm glad Trump picked you.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 02:54 PM (/U5Yz)

225 Vegas:

Desert sand and gravel doesn't make great ground for anchoring poles, unless you bury the footings deep.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 02:54 PM (Q4cxx)

226 I have half a jar of west african chutney. A few spoons in a pot makes it radioactively spicy. Tasty though.
---------------
Chutney is good food.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 02:54 PM (W3T6M)

227 >>> The advantage is I don't slip on ice in the winter though.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:48 PM (8avO+)

=====

It took me a moment. 👏👏

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 02, 2025 02:54 PM (6TlG5)

228 This is all well and good that he's losing his medals but if I'm a member of that team that had his stupid pervert *ss waving his weiner around while i was changing, I would want financial and legal action taken; he exposed himself to women against their will; University should be paying out compensation and he should be arrested for being a degenerate pervert that exposed himself in a locker room. Going further, i think the administrator and coaches that allowed this to happen should also be sanctioned, fined, and/or fired.

Posted by: Nelly at July 02, 2025 02:54 PM (cHLus)

229 [ ] Climate change

[ ] Trump's fault

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 02:53 PM (Q4IgG)

“AND!”

~ your local AWFL

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (Mxf84)

230 Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?

https://tinyurl.com/4pmpmb8u
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (/U5Yz)

Beaver invasion?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (0eaVi)

231 > I used to tell people I got my recipe for gazpacho from the movie, Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, until someone seriously asked me if I made sure to leave out all the sleeping pills.

Why would I leave out the key ingredient?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (lIio7)

232 Oldcat -

Russia having the codes for fail safes means the nukes weren’t immediately usable: how long would it take to back engineer a work around? I suspect the Russian fail safes weren’t as good as, say, ours. What do you think?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (SEFV4)

233 Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?
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[ ] Climate change

[ ] Trump's fault

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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I get it, but, in reality, it was piss-poor engineering.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (XeU6L)

234 Spoons do exist for more than tasting. They even have stick blenders.
Posted by: Oldcat

Using spoons doesn't work. But, by coincidence, my wife just today requested a stick blender for her birthday next month. Hmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

235 162 Well, alrighty then...

@Osint613 7m
NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Does this mean we've stopped sending money, arms, and food to them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (K91ZZ)

236 Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?

https://tinyurl.com/4pmpmb8u

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 02:47 PM (/U5Yz)

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Crazy.

BTW, stay for the boobs in the next video that starts playing after that one ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (Jz/5o)

237
He looks really femmy as a kid but that's as far as I have seen it. He's definitely a Brony and possibly a furry.

I remember it leaked that the Uvalde school shooter was a tranny and the left/FNM denied it.

Then pictures of him with makeup and long hair came out and they argued straight teenaged boys always do that kind of stuff you you H8TER!

And then they disappeared the story.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (t0Rmr)

238 If anybody reads my prior post, you should do it in Butcher's voice from 'The Boys'. Just think 'scorched earf' in an English accent and read from there.

Posted by: Nelly at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (cHLus)

239 Families of "erased" women athletes should sue anyway.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 02:51 PM (2GCMq)

100%. Hopefully some lawyer shark smells the blood in the water with the Penn bending of the knee, and contacts the affected swimmers to represent them. Sue like the wind!

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:56 PM (Eng1Z)

240 212 Families of "erased" women athletes should sue anyway.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I agree. Think of the mental anguish and suffering. Settle for no less than $10M.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 02:56 PM (/U5Yz)

241 Does this mean we've stopped sending money, arms, and food to them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (K91ZZ)

Pretty much, yeah. Can't assure some Congress bill wont give them an odd billion but they burned all their bridges here with Trump for blowing a peace deal.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:56 PM (8avO+)

242 Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?

https://tinyurl.com/4pmpmb8u

FNM says, "Over 33K customers without power, nearly 50 power poles damaged as Las Vegas valley sees high winds "

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 02:57 PM (t0Rmr)

243 Well, in fairness Joey Shitbrains was trying to get Uke into NATO ....

I just think it's funny that Uke disappeared from the news, nobody gives a shit about it anymore, but this dipshit MP posts this.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

Zelensky,, too, is WEF and the WEF can't push their open borders, one world horseshit with a sturdy, unbroken Russia. WEF is an evil group of bastards and includes Macron, Trudeau, Chris Wray, Obama, Starmer, Sunak, Rutte, Merkel and every other promigration group.Zelensky was supposed to lead the US to war to defeat their stumbling block. He has to go.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 02:57 PM (FZn/N)

244 > Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?
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[ ] Climate change

[ ] Trump's fault

[ ] DEI Hires for engineering or installation

Posted by: A racist would say! at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (Eng1Z)

245 Why are these judges so ugly?

@EricLDaugh 36m
🚨 BREAKING: Federal judge says President Trump needs to RE-OPEN the border for "asylum seekers" - POLITICO

WTF? A JUDGE is trying to REINSTATE INVASION!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (mlg/3)

246
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”

________

Well! Now when the heathen Chinee come storming ashore at Malibu, we won't have no Azov Division backing us up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (/HVsR)

247 The store brand tomato basil at Aldi ain't bad
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

La Madeleine Tomato Basil is the bomb. Can get it at some Sam's Clubs.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (Ul4ZN)

248 And then they disappeared the story.

Which is pretty much what happened with this one. If he'd been some kind of MAGA militia member, which every leftist on social media declared the instant they heard about it we'd be hearing about this in September

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (dfIr7)

249 @Osint613 7m
NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:43 PM (mlg/3)

I'm okay with this.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (g8Ew8)

250
@Osint613 7m
NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop
-------------------------------

She looks like she tells Ukrainian Bob Crachits to work more hours and stop sniveling about their brats.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (t0Rmr)

251 All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump. Thank you to the career @CIA officers who conducted this review and exposed the facts.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:50 PM (viF8m)

So, if they're all pardoned, investigate them up the ass that wasn't part of it. Something non-political, financial crimes, sex crimes, whatever. Throw them in jail.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (0eaVi)

252 242 Just WTF went on in Vegas? Hand of God? What?

https://tinyurl.com/4pmpmb8u

FNM says, "Over 33K customers without power, nearly 50 power poles damaged as Las Vegas valley sees high winds "
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 02:57 PM (t0Rmr)

Was there fire from Heaven??? People turned into Pillars of Salt??

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (PCK5/)

253 165 Its actually pretty easy to make good soup, but not nearly as easy as "open a can, dump it in the bowl, add a can of water and microwave" which after a hard day of work or sick day is very nice to have as an alternative to an hour over a stove and an hour cooking.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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My local grocery started making packaged, cooked meals.
Heat in the microwave and eat. More nutritious than frozen dinners and about the same cost as a double burger per meal but much closer to real food than frozen dinners.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:59 PM (K91ZZ)

254 Alien botched the approach to area 51 in his invisible ship.
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LOL "Martian from another planet" here to research the governing laws of a single nation and the judicial fealty to such.

'Cause, you know, that's right tip-top of the list of "to do" for interstellar travelers.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 02:59 PM (CBWwv)

255 Using spoons doesn't work. But, by coincidence, my wife just today requested a stick blender for her birthday next month. Hmmmm...
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

they also chop up big chunk veggies into making the broth thicker. Remember to pull out part of the chunks and reserve it if you like the chunks to survive.

But yeah, those are pretty nice bits of kitchen tech and not very expensive.

-- paid agent of Bulg's wife.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:59 PM (8avO+)

256 The slot machines.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 02:59 PM (WIJBc)

257 Why are these judges so ugly?

@EricLDaugh 36m
🚨 BREAKING: Federal judge says President Trump needs to RE-OPEN the border for "asylum seekers" - POLITICO

WTF? A JUDGE is trying to REINSTATE INVASION!
Posted by: weft cut-loop

NOW is the time for Trump to tell ALL federal judges to piss up a rope.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 03:00 PM (Ul4ZN)

258 He looks really femmy as a kid but that's as far as I have seen it. He's definitely a Brony and possibly a furry.

he was a brony, then a furry, then "gender fluid"

come on!

his tik Tok was pretty clear

sick little bastard, Antifa femme-boy for certain

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 03:00 PM (Pv3Rg)

259 DU (through BlueSky "skeets") has even MORE trans erasure news:

‪@chrisgeidner.bsky.social‬

BREAKING: The 11th Circuit, 2-1, holds that a trans woman has *not* shown that Florida’s law banning her from using her proper pronouns likely violates the First Amendment. The appeals court reverses the district court.

(Katie Wood, a transwoman teacher in Florida, was barred under new state law from using the titles Mrs., Ms. or Miss, or using personal female pronouns, when addressing students on duty lol)

@whatlawfoxsays.bsky.social

sad to see this. The law is atrocious animus, as there is no basis other than animus to force workplace misgendering like this. But the claim at issue here was a 1A claim, which is trickier - still the ct gets it wrong.

*The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 02, 2025 03:00 PM (2BAti)

260 OK, feminists, we got you your spaces back. Now, can we men have ours?

(We all know the answer will be "No!")

Posted by: Eeyore at July 02, 2025 03:00 PM (od0dV)

261 More nutritious than frozen dinners and about the same cost as a double burger per meal but much closer to real food than frozen dinners.

Yeah Safeway nearby here does that too. They sell out super fast and I need like 2-3 of them to fill up. But they are pretty good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 03:01 PM (dfIr7)

262 And in another note from academia, the President of Columbia wanted to removeca Jewish member of the board and replace them with an Arab. Columbia and Harvard and others have been anti semetic . I think Columbia may be the worst.

From "Legal Insurrection" site:

https://tinyurl.com/5edahy73

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 03:01 PM (2GCMq)

263 >>> Having rejected compromise and accommodation in favor of humiliation of their opponents and unconditional surrender, the trans movement will now suffer the same terms in their defeat.

You're literally genociding us, H8ers!

Posted by: The trans community, on EVERYTHING at July 02, 2025 03:01 PM (Eng1Z)

264 90 For those interested from the previous thread, Leo and Giselle dated until 2005, she met Tom Brady in 2006. She wore a dress to the Met Gala that Leo's current girlfriend wore to the Bezos wedding over the weekend. (awkward!) And Leo's current flame utterly shredded the dress and ruined it.

Who do you think wore it better? Giselle is smoking in it, in my mind it's not even a competition.
https://tinyurl.com/3ykkf76s

Also, I was like hey, if you're at a lingerie/loungewear themed wedding party, and are ruining an expensive dress, just take it off! You're a model, noone will care if you're in underwear! But then I probably realized she's not wearing any underwear either. Celeb problems I will never have!
Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:30 PM (Eng1Z)

Confirmed. There’s a picture in that link confirming she went commando.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 03:01 PM (4uYqO)

265 Was there fire from Heaven??? People turned into Pillars of Salt??
Posted by: tubal

Now we're talking. Nothing like pillars of salt.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:01 PM (/U5Yz)

266 Chutney is good food.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 02:54 PM (W3T6M)

Thing is, chutney is regional. What I make (nom nom) would make a guy from the Caribbean sneer, and someone from India wonder what I was smoking.
I make pear and apple chutneys, because I don't have tamarind and mangos

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:02 PM (D7oie)

267 Las Vegas looks like Cool Hand Luke wandered through this morning.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 03:02 PM (MMp6W)

268 @EricLDaugh 36m
🚨 BREAKING: Federal judge says President Trump needs to RE-OPEN the border for "asylum seekers" - POLITICO

WTF? A JUDGE is trying to REINSTATE INVASION!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (mlg/3)
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Governors, you have NO control over immigration into your states, it's a federal power--to be overseen by .... unelected JUDGES!

This is how democracy wins. Let's not be able to elect the people telling everybody else what they should be doing.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 03:02 PM (Q4cxx)

269 FNM says, "Over 33K customers without power, nearly 50 power poles damaged as Las Vegas valley sees high winds "
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 02:57 PM (t0Rmr)

Yes, the winds can blow like a mo'fo' in Vegas.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 02, 2025 03:02 PM (g8Ew8)

270 FNM says, "Over 33K customers without power, nearly 50 power poles damaged as Las Vegas valley sees high winds "
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 02:57 PM (t0Rmr)

Was there fire from Heaven??? People turned into Pillars of Salt??
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 02:58 PM (PCK5/)

Cold front over warm air...air tries to reverse itself, then add mountain valleys and you can get bad winds. CA gets them out of Nevada in fire season.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:02 PM (8avO+)

271 sad to see this. The law is atrocious animus, as there is no basis other than animus to force workplace misgendering like this. But the claim at issue here was a 1A claim, which is trickier - still the ct gets it wrong.

--
Bake the cake, bigot!

LOL, go DIAF you totalitarian fucks

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 03:02 PM (CBWwv)

272 I have shakers of salt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 03:02 PM (WIJBc)

273 Maj. Healey -

$10M

Those are rookie numbers!

https://is.gd/oPiquK

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:03 PM (ZVgZ4)

274 *The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

Yeah. Want in one hand, shit in the other. See which one fills up the quickest.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 03:03 PM (Ul4ZN)

275 257. They need to be disbarred

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 03:03 PM (FZn/N)

276 Speaking of which: I MADE MY FIRST BATCH OF BLACKBERRY JAM THIS MORNING!!!

I also baked bread and chopped up a head of cabbage for sauerkraut, if anyone is keeping track.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:03 PM (D7oie)

277 276 Speaking of which: I MADE MY FIRST BATCH OF BLACKBERRY JAM THIS MORNING!!!

I also baked bread and chopped up a head of cabbage for sauerkraut, if anyone is keeping track.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:03 PM (D7oie)

What time do we need to come over??

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 03:04 PM (PCK5/)

278 Was there fire from Heaven??? People turned into Pillars of Salt??
Posted by: tubal

Now we're talking. Nothing like pillars of salt.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Good way to get rid of the wife legally.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 03:04 PM (Ul4ZN)

279 >>> *The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites.

Oh, honey, that's not how social media works. That's not how any of this works.

This is America. Where the phrases "Hold My Beer" and "Challenge Accepted" are national treasures.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 03:04 PM (Eng1Z)

280 Thing is, chutney is regional. What I make (nom nom) would make a guy from the Caribbean sneer, and someone from India wonder what I was smoking.
I make pear and apple chutneys, because I don't have tamarind and mangos
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They are all good. Pear and Apple are pretty universal. I also use Jams to sweeten things like Chilly, gravy, stews... Quick way to pump up the volume.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 03:05 PM (W3T6M)

281 I have shakers of salt.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I lost mine. Some people claim that there's a woman to blame.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:05 PM (77rzZ)

282 They need to be disbarred

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 03:03 PM (FZn/N)
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Or beaten with steel bars.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 03:05 PM (Q4cxx)

283 I have three daughters and a wife. In addition to opposing the genital mutilation of children, I ALSO oppose letting opportunistic male rapists into women's spaces!

1.) Has anyone on the Left developed a system to differentiate between actual (delusional) transgenders and opportunistic male rapists merely posing as transgender?

2.) Anyone know the statistics on forcible rape in public spaces by men versus women? I think I read once that males are 80x more likely to commit a forcible rape.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 03:05 PM (HlyYF)

284 > @Osint613 7m
NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop
-------------------------------
Fine.

Give back all our shit you haven't wasted. We'll send a bill for the rest.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 03:05 PM (Q4IgG)

285 Sue like the wind!

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:56 PM (Eng1Z)

---------------

If Johnny Cash had been a Gaia-loving hippy or a sufferer of gastric disease, he might have titled it "A Wind Named Sue" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 03:05 PM (Jz/5o)

286 Congrats Kindltot! I'm trying to make freezer jam this year. Fingers crossed it works out!

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 03:06 PM (Eng1Z)

287 If Johnny Cash had been a Gaia-loving hippy or a sufferer of gastric disease, he might have titled it "A Wind Named Sue" ...
Posted by: ShainS

*kicks dirt*
-- Mariah

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:06 PM (77rzZ)

288 Microsoft lays off 9,000 employees. Learn to shovel.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 03:07 PM (WIJBc)

289 A woman just got a $65k settlement from the YMCA because she was banned after objecting to a man in the woman's locker room. The tide is turning .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 03:07 PM (eBgDF)

290 @EricLDaugh 36m
🚨 BREAKING: Federal judge says President Trump needs to RE-OPEN the border for "asylum seekers" - POLITICO

WTF? A JUDGE is trying to REINSTATE INVASION!
Posted by: weft cut-loop

NOW is the time for Trump to tell ALL federal judges to piss up a rope.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 03:00 PM (Ul4ZN)

He does have a brand spanking new SCOTUS decision to back him up.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 02, 2025 03:07 PM (g8Ew8)

291 Why are these judges so ugly?

@EricLDaugh 36m
🚨 BREAKING: Federal judge says President Trump needs to RE-OPEN the border for "asylum seekers" - POLITICO

WTF? A JUDGE is trying to REINSTATE INVASION!
Posted by: weft cut-loop
___________

That's not really what the decision said. It was another injunction barring Trump from refusing to consider any asylum requests at all. Trump will appeal it.

The problem is that asylum requests are built into immigration law as set down by Congress. I'm not sure a president can say "well I don't care, I'm not doing it" -- although of course Obama and Biden did that without consequence.

I think the workaround for this is to allow asylum claims to be made, but just deny them all. Let them rot in Mexico during that time. Remain in Mexico was upheld, IIRC.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

292 "Oh, well; It's ASHQ. Maybe I don't want to know what sparked the umm..".transition ".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Maybe the smack down, transition adjustment is old news.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 03:07 PM (K91ZZ)

293 274 *The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites.

Oooh! That makes it even more fun!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:08 PM (SEFV4)

294 Using spoons doesn't work. But, by coincidence, my wife just today requested a stick blender for her birthday next month. Hmmmm...
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

they also chop up big chunk veggies into making the broth thicker. Remember to pull out part of the chunks and reserve it if you like the chunks to survive.

But yeah, those are pretty nice bits of kitchen tech and not very expensive.

-- paid agent of Bulg's wife.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:59 PM (8avO+)

You know what else is pretty cool and cheap? the stick sous vide cooking wands. Clamp to a pot of water, stick a steak, chop in a zip bag, press out the air and it will be cooked through without you doing anything. Add some sauce and it gets into the meat even. Then you can finish on a skillet, or not. Great for if you don't always pay attention while cooking and have time.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:08 PM (8avO+)

295 He does have a brand spanking new SCOTUS decision to back him up.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Who does the spanking, ACB or Sotomayor? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

296 Or beaten with steel bars.
Posted by: Axeman

We are available.

Posted by: Russian Street Girls at July 02, 2025 03:08 PM (/U5Yz)

297 Back in yute when girls were soft and smelled good and I never had to worry about surprise penis.

https://tinyurl.com/4w9pk6kw

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:09 PM (viF8m)

298 This would seem to fit in here. There's Methodist in their madness!

https://is.gd/SswXEo

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 03:09 PM (L/fGl)

299 Elric for AG!

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:09 PM (77rzZ)

300 291 Why are these judges so ugly?

@EricLDaugh 36m
🚨 BREAKING: Federal judge says President Trump needs to RE-OPEN the border for "asylum seekers" - POLITICO

WTF? A JUDGE is trying to REINSTATE INVASION!
Posted by: weft cut-loop
___________

Isn't that a bit of a joke considering SCOTUS decision.
Judge making a fool of himself should receive embarrassing commentary.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 03:09 PM (K91ZZ)

301 What time do we need to come over??
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 03:04 PM (PCK5/)

Whenever you want, I can always chop up another head of cabbage for guests

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:09 PM (D7oie)

302 Now we're talking. Nothing like pillars of salt.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Good way to get rid of the wife legally.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 03:04 PM (Ul4ZN)

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lol

"Your Honor -- The Defense would like to call God to The Stand."

/You know that that has had to have happened at some point by someone ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 03:09 PM (yohG9)

303 So did Will or whatever his real name was- Thomas- get a nip and tuck or he just claimed to be and pretended to be a woman, because I can't understand why any reasonable woman would want date this lying cheater and yes, I know even if he did get a nip and tuck he isn't a woman

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 03:09 PM (2GCMq)

304 >> Using spoons doesn't work. But, by coincidence, my wife just today requested a stick blender for her birthday next month. Hmmmm...
Posted by: Bulg

This is a test. Tread carefully

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:10 PM (/U5Yz)

305 Elric for AG!
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:09 PM (77rzZ)
________

The Blade is ready to serve!

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:10 PM (iFTx/)

306 >>>NEW 🔴
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezugla: “The United States is no longer our ally.”

oh no

anyway...

Posted by: brak at July 02, 2025 03:11 PM (jGJov)

307 The Dersh thinks that even the charges that stuck to Diddy will be reversed.

He's saying that the judge thinks so.

* shakes head *

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 03:11 PM (Q4cxx)

308 304 >> Using spoons doesn't work. But, by coincidence, my wife just today requested a stick blender for her birthday next month. Hmmmm...
Posted by: Bulg

This is a test. Tread carefully
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:10 PM (/U5Yz)

Probably NOT a good idea to get one from the back yard…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 03:11 PM (PCK5/)

309 "Your Honor -- The Defense would like to call God to The Stand."

/You know that that has had to have happened at some point by someone ...
Posted by: ShainS

"Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help You You?"

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

310 Oddly the left isn't freaking out about this as badly as I thought they would. I think mostly they are kind of stunned but I secretly hope that they are starting to realize how unbelievably unpopular this crap was and are quietly backing off it.

The Left never "backs off"; They just re-group until they regain power.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 02, 2025 03:11 PM (U/v1n)

311 Olbermann might not be able to run fast, but he can milk a bull like nobody's business.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 03:12 PM (jc0TO)

312 Suddenly Massie says he has enough Republican votes to block the BBB bill. Does anyone know who these idiots are so we can contact?

Posted by: AnnaS at July 02, 2025 03:12 PM (i5Vkf)

313 Or beaten with steel bars.
Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 03:05 PM (Q4cxx)

Sounds perfectly useful!

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 03:12 PM (FZn/N)

314 [some bluesky twaddle]
*The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison

* grabs crotch *

I've got a request, too.

Posted by: mikeski at July 02, 2025 03:12 PM (DgGvY)

315 The problem is that asylum requests are built into immigration law as set down by Congress. I'm not sure a president can say "well I don't care, I'm not doing it" -- although of course Obama and Biden did that without consequence.

I think the workaround for this is to allow asylum claims to be made, but just deny them all. Let them rot in Mexico during that time. Remain in Mexico was upheld, IIRC.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

Asylum requests have specific requirements on international law (and ours I guess). You can't live in Nebraska and declare asylum.

You have to stop in the first country outside your native region. No shopping. In that first country, you have to go to the embassy and wait there for it to be granted.

If we are the first country, you have a few border points where you can go apply for asylum. After that you still need to remain outside the US for it to be granted.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:12 PM (8avO+)

316 312 Suddenly Massie says he has enough Republican votes to block the BBB bill. Does anyone know who these idiots are so we can contact?
Posted by: AnnaS at July 02, 2025 03:12 PM (i5Vkf)

======

"Are these other Republicans in the room with us right now?"
-the psychologist

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

317 Well, doesn't St Petersburg have a large gay population? The only people who attend that church must be weirdo LBGT people and their allies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 03:13 PM (2GCMq)

318 >>Isn't that a bit of a joke considering SCOTUS decision.
Judge making a fool of himself should receive embarrassing commentary.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 03:09 PM (K91ZZ)
__
This is Judge Randolph Moss, who notoriously sentenced a non-violent J6er to 8 months in prison. Obama appointee and Clinton appointee to Justice Department before that.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 02, 2025 03:13 PM (bNf8H)

319 Using spoons doesn't work. But, by coincidence, my wife just today requested a stick blender for her birthday next month. Hmmmm...
Posted by: Bulg

This is a test. Tread carefully
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 03:10 PM (/U5Yz)

Yup. IT'S A TRAP!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 02, 2025 03:13 PM (g8Ew8)

320 "Your Honor -- The Defense would like to call God to The Stand."

/You know that that has had to have happened at some point by someone ...
Posted by: ShainS

"Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help You You?"
Posted by: Bulg

The jury would also have accepted capitalizing all the "Truths."

Posted by: mikeski at July 02, 2025 03:14 PM (DgGvY)

321 Massie is hell bent to self immolate, it seems.. what is his angle??

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 03:14 PM (PCK5/)

322 Why are these judges so ugly?

They say beauty is skin deep but ugly goes deep to the bone, but I think it’s the other way around: their ugliness starts at their core and spreads it’s way out like a disease. On the other hand, a person who is beautiful on the inside will have that beauty show on the outside, no matter what they look like!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:14 PM (SEFV4)

323 @RepJasonSmith
·
1h
The One, Big, Beautiful Bill repeals the Democrats’ unpopular 1099-K reporting requirement that all Venmo, PayPal, and gig transactions over $600 be reported to IRS.

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Well, that's interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

324 Pro star Kylie Page died from an overdose. Shocked I am

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 03:14 PM (eBgDF)

325 my wife just today requested a stick blender for her birthday next month.

It's a trap!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 02, 2025 03:14 PM (U/v1n)

326 Men in women's sports seems like a head fake to me. The real problem is grooming in schools and libraries.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 02, 2025 03:14 PM (wBaIH)

327 So did Will or whatever his real name was- Thomas- get a nip and tuck or he just claimed to be and pretended to be a woman, because I can't understand why any reasonable woman would want date this lying cheater and yes, I know even if he did get a nip and tuck he isn't a woman
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 03:09 PM (2GCMq)

He did nothing. No surgery, no drugs. Why the woman is there, well, he's not fat or anything. Maybe she hates women like he does.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:15 PM (8avO+)

328 NOOD, Trump vs Reagan.

No mud or jello, thankfully.

Posted by: mikeski at July 02, 2025 03:15 PM (DgGvY)

329 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 02, 2025 03:15 PM (GYt5+)

330 Suddenly Massie says he has enough Republican votes to block the BBB bill. Does anyone know who these idiots are so we can contact?
Posted by: AnnaS at July 02, 2025 03:12 PM (i5Vkf)

======

"Are these other Republicans in the room with us right now?"
-the psychologist
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

*SNORT

ISWYDT

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (Ul4ZN)

331 Pro star Kylie Page died from an overdose. Shocked I am
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 03:14 PM

Who?

Seriously...I have no idea who this was.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (dPfyF)

332 My local grocery started making packaged, cooked meals.
Heat in the microwave and eat. More nutritious than frozen dinners and about the same cost as a double burger per meal but much closer to real food than frozen dinners.
Posted by: Braenyard
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The problem with food packaging is that canning, freezing, etc. kill a lot of pathogens that 'fresh' food can serve as carriers for. Chipotle is an example from the restaurant world. If you notice, a lot of recall notices are on these newer heat and eat refrigerated items from supermarkets because certain actions make it easier for pathogens to grow. Same thing as uncured meats, etc.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (ctrM5)

333 Men in women's sports seems like a head fake to me. The real problem is grooming in schools and libraries.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 02, 2025 03:14 PM (wBaIH)

Different groups. He's not a pedo, he wants to torture the girls.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

334 WHAT is a “stick bender”?!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (SEFV4)

335 Imma thinking about hitting Food Lion tonight and pickup some Chow Chow, Country Ham and Cheer Wine.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (W3T6M)

336 Pro star Kylie Page died from an overdose. Shocked I am
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 03:14 PM (eBgDF)

ODs, suicides, domestic violence, and just plain messed up lives is the usual outcome of a porn career.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (D7oie)

337 The Dersh thinks that even the charges that stuck to Diddy will be reversed.

He's saying that the judge thinks so.

* shakes head *
Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 03:11 PM (Q4cxx)
_______

He was convicted of violating the Mann Act for bringing prostitutes over state lines. But that's a broad interpretation of the Act. It was designed to combat forced prostitution and sex trafficking. I think it's 50/50 that conviction ends up being reversed. I'm not sure what evidence the jury heard on it.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

338 The Orange Man is haunting me. He wants to keeel me!

Posted by: Derek Zoolander at July 02, 2025 03:17 PM (PiwSw)

339 "The Dersh thinks that even the charges that stuck to Diddy will be reversed."

I don't want to think about anything stuck to Diddy.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 03:17 PM (vFG9F)

340 @RepJasonSmith
·
1h
The One, Big, Beautiful Bill repeals the Democrats’ unpopular 1099-K reporting requirement that all Venmo, PayPal, and gig transactions over $600 be reported to IRS.

------

Well, that's interesting.
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But I've been told over and over that there's nothing conservative about this bill and that all it is is a Democrat wish-list re-named the BBB!!!!!!!!11!!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 03:18 PM (CBWwv)

341 "WHAT is a “stick bender”?!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit "

20 bucks! As seen on TV!

Posted by: Moronco at July 02, 2025 03:18 PM (vFG9F)

342 I got your blue sky right here.

https://tinyurl.com/yc22a2t9

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 03:18 PM (viF8m)

343 WHAT is a “stick bender”?!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:16 PM (SEFV4)

Little ship's propellor on a wand with controls on top. Press a button (hopefully underwater) and it stirs and chops and mixes what's in the pot.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:19 PM (8avO+)

344 330 Suddenly Massie says he has enough Republican votes to block the BBB bill. Does anyone know who these idiots are so we can contact?
Posted by: AnnaS

I personally think Massie is about as popular as the plague with his other Congress critters. He is probably reporting about grumblings he is hearing in the GOP cloakroom but all will become apparent when it actually gets down to voting time for the rules cmte and what rule it puts the Senate version under as far as amendments etc.

There is a reason that binary outcomes can force an issue because the choice is the lesser of all evils. So a crap sandwich with condiments usually wins versus a plain crap sandwich. Also something usually beats nothing.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 03:19 PM (ctrM5)

345 I like Mrs. Campbell’s brand chow chow! What’s your preference?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (SEFV4)

346 Russia had the codes. The nukes were useless to them.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:51 PM (8avO+)

They never really "had" them. They were just stationed on their territory. Like we station ours around Europe.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 03:20 PM (g47mK)

347 Russia having the codes for fail safes means the nukes weren’t immediately usable: how long would it take to back engineer a work around? I suspect the Russian fail safes weren’t as good as, say, ours. What do you think?

No cite, but I recall reading somewhere that we intentionally leaked the design for our Permissive Action Links precisely so the Soviets would copy it.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 02, 2025 03:22 PM (U/v1n)

348 Oh! A stick blender!

Nevermind!!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 03:22 PM (SEFV4)

349 But I've been told over and over that there's nothing conservative about this bill and that all it is is a Democrat wish-list re-named the BBB!!!!!!!!11!!!!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
========
Conservative media is about as bad as the regular media in reporting. The truth trickles in while the lies have already gone around the world.

Hair on fire is specifically used as a technique to get clicks and interests but is scarcely a close depiction to reality.

I note that many of the people have no idea that the BBB ends the continuing resolution era since Obama and furthermore puts the House and Senate if passed, on track to do rescission bills and return a new budget under reconciliation next year (two reconciliation bills allowed per two year Congress).

Budgetary processes are easily misunderstood, demagogued, and distorted to a population that never had that stuff taught to them. Likewise, most professors would be at sea with it as the nearest acquaintance most people have with a government budget is a tax bill.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 03:24 PM (ctrM5)

350 Russia having the codes for fail safes means the nukes weren’t immediately usable: how long would it take to back engineer a work around? I suspect the Russian fail safes weren’t as good as, say, ours. What do you think?

No cite, but I recall reading somewhere that we intentionally leaked the design for our Permissive Action Links precisely so the Soviets would copy it.
Posted by: Chuck C at July 02, 2025 03:22 PM (U/v1n)

What would we want with a live Russian nuke? Why would we want Ukraine to have one. If we wanted a nuke umbrella over Ukraine, we could have put one there ourselves with a word. Now that word might have triggered WWIII, but it was doable without using Russian nukes and launchers we could not maintain easily.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (8avO+)

351 338 The Orange Man is haunting me. He wants to keeel me!
Posted by: Derek Zoolander
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I heard Ukraine, Iran, or Gaza are nice this time of year. But the insider chi chi choice would be Yemen.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 03:25 PM (ctrM5)

352 What I'd like to know is, what is Lia Thomas doing these days? Is she still pretending to be a girl? Or now that the grift opportunity has passed...??

Posted by: Evil Incarnate at July 02, 2025 03:42 PM (YrqgQ)

353 The Left already left trannies behind for their new favorite son, violent illegals, and even they are gonna be forgotten soon too at the expense of islamic terrorists (swoon).

The Left never stops. Before trannies, it was Critical Race Theory and Project 1522 or whatever for a year or two. They keep it moving.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM

They didn't leave "transgender" movement behind. It is still going full speed ahead in Europe and in the USA. In fact, the overall movement already has won. "Gender identity" is a legally protected characteristic by the US federal government, which all businesses have to follow.

Every single company's "harassment" training covers this and makes clear that anyone who "identifies" as anything, especially a "transgender" is to be respected, including and especially men who want to use women's bathrooms.

Until/unless that law is changed, the "transgender" movement has already won. And as you say, the left never stops. They may get less loud about issues, but they never stop working to get their policies approved behind the scenes, thanks to their successful Long March through the Institutions.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 03:53 PM (P5BPp)

354 The Democrat Party will continue to advocate for it because Pritzker Family money is more important to their operations than winning elections.

I doubt it. It's a surefire election killer.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM

That's what everyone said about same-sex "marriage". And the left kept pushing it until the majority finally gave up and went along with it.

That is what the left does for every single thing. They never stop. They never relent.

25 years ago, everyone laughed off the idea of same-sex "marriage"; gay "Pride"; same-sex adoption; promoting, celebrating and legally protecting "transgenders"; "gender identity", "pronouns" and sexually mutilating children for "sex transition".

And yet, here we are. Because the left never gives up and never thinks inconvenient things like popular opinion and elections will prevent them from getting what they want. And they've been right for decades now.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 04:02 PM (P5BPp)

355 So does that mean that the girl who lost to "Lia" (Riley Gaines?) gets the win she was cheated out of?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM

If Ms Gaines had been allowed to win, she would have gone on to compete, get a degree, and live out a successful life.

Now she has massive amounts of media experience, and self confidence to do anything she wants.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 02:27 PM

Riley Gaines never lost to "Lia" Thomas. She finished in a 5th place tie with him.

Riley Gaines and Lia Thomas competed against each other in the 2022 NCAA Women's Swimming Championships, specifically in the 200-yard freestyle event, where they tied for fifth place.

There is no definitive record from the provided sources indicating any races where Riley Gaines directly lost to Lia Thomas, meaning Thomas placed ahead of Gaines in a final result. The tie in the 200-yard freestyle is the most prominent instance noted, and other sources suggest this was the only significant competitive encounter between the two. Therefore, based on available information, Riley Gaines did not lose any races outright to Lia Thomas; they tied in one known event.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (P5BPp)

356 This is all well and good that he's losing his medals but if I'm a member of that team that had his stupid pervert *ss waving his weiner around while i was changing, I would want financial and legal action taken; he exposed himself to women against their will; University should be paying out compensation and he should be arrested for being a degenerate pervert that exposed himself in a locker room.

Posted by: Nelly at July 02, 2025 02:54 PM

Pretty sure that he is legally protected by the US federal government to do that perversion. Since "gender identity" is a protected characteristic.

This was pointed out to us in our annual "harassment training" where they specifically stated that we were legally forced to respect someone's "preferred pronouns" as well as respect their choice of bathroom they want to use.

Unless/until that law is changed, this nonsense will continue. And no one in DC has the will to push and vote to change the law. So this insanity will continue.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 04:53 PM (P5BPp)

357 Common Sense at a University at last

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 02, 2025 06:29 PM (wGqjj)

358 "WE ARE.... PED STATE" !

Posted by: TXMarko at July 02, 2025 08:20 PM (7flhA)

CBS, Paramount Settle With Trump Over Word-Salad Election Interference Case
Update: CBS Lies About the Settlement

CBS continues insisting it will never apologize.

But it has agreed to a key demand Trump made: that they will always release a full transcript of every interview with a presidential candidate. I wish they could have gotten them to agree to release the full video of an interview, and extended this to all interviews.

But this will limit CBS's ability to butcher interviews to either boost or slander their presidential candidate interview subjects.

Paramount will settle President Trump's lawsuit over a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris for $16 million, the company announced late Tuesday.
CBS News' parent company worked with a mediator to resolve the lawsuit. Under the agreement, $16 million will be allocated to Mr. Trump's future presidential library and the plaintiffs' fees and costs. Neither Mr. Trump nor his co-plantiff, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, will be directly paid as part of the settlement.
The settlement did not include an apology.
Paramount also agreed that "60 Minutes" will release transcripts of interviews with presidential candidates in the future, "subject to redactions as required for legal or national security concerns," the statement said.

This report is from the guilty party themselves, CBS. They point out that this suit was filed in a Texas jurisdiction with only one judge, a Trump appointee.

The lawsuit was filed in Amarillo, Texas, a portion of a federal district court where the sole judge is a 2019 Trump appointee, and it was based on a state consumer protection law that is intended to prevent advertisers from misleading the public about a product being sold. CBS News is not headquartered in Texas, nor did the interview take place there.

Oh, so now forum-shopping is a bad thing? Now it's a bad thing when people sue in an area with adverse political leanings?

But it's still okay for a New York or LA judge to preside over Gavin Newsom's $800 million lawsuit against Fox, right?

It's still okay for every Democrat or Republican to be tried in 85% Democrat jurisdictions, right?

Update: CBS is lying. Shock! They didn't report of the free advertising they'd promised Trump in addition to the $16 million payoff.

In addition to the lump sum payment, it is anticipated that CBS will air eight figures worth of advertisements, PSAs, or similar content promoting conservative causes for free, a source familiar with the negotiations and settlement deal told the Washington Free Beacon. While Paramount's current brass has disputed that provision, the incoming management team that is expected to take over after the company's merger with Skydance plans to honor it, the source said.

Posted by: Ace at 01:10 PM

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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Inogame at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (53oGX)

2 shameless

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (Pv3Rg)

3 Not tired

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (jc0TO)

4 I nooded

Posted by: Inogame at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (53oGX)

5 Paramount also agreed that "60 Minutes" will release transcripts of interviews with presidential candidates in the future

So they can still lie about everyone else.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:11 PM (jc0TO)

6 Then: Allowing Trump's actual works to be broadcast is election interference

Now: Not allowing the media to remake a Harris interview into something that sounds cogent is election interference

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:12 PM (t0Rmr)

7 Yay, I guess.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 01:12 PM (+Wa+b)

8 This report is from the guilty party themselves, CBS. They point out that this suit was filed in a Texas jurisdiction with only one judge, a Trump appointee.

Oh, so now forum-shopping is a bad thing? Now it's a bad thing when people sue in an area with adverse political leanings?

But it's still okay for a New York or LA judge to preside over Gavin Newsom's $800 million lawsuit against Fox, right?

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Forum shopping should be handled by a non-partisan team of independent lawyers, appointed by the president.

Republicans should be denied the ability to hire or fire at will because Republicans are partisan hacks. Democrats should be allowed free reign to appoint and fire whomever they want because they can deny their partisanship in favor of what is good for the world.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

9 And the media is 'outraged' over the settlement.

I think they are scared spitless because there is now precedence for Trump to go after them.

More popcorn please.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 01:12 PM (6gCWo)

10 But it has agreed to a key demand Trump made: that they will always release a full transcript of every interview with a presidential candidate.

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How will that be verified?

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 01:13 PM (TpcHb)

11 Bernie hardest hit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:13 PM (MGB5H)

12 This report is from the guilty party themselves, CBS. They point out that this suit was filed in a Texas jurisdiction with only one judge, a Trump appointee.
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Comedy gold!!

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:14 PM (VPwHp)

13 Bernie Sanders is now the old guy in 'Up.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 01:14 PM (6gCWo)

14 The district would be in blue cities mostly.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 01:14 PM (WIJBc)

15 Trump should sue them for implying it's a bad verdict.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:15 PM (VPwHp)

16 This report is from the guilty party themselves, CBS. They point out that this suit was filed in a Texas jurisdiction with only one judge, a Trump appointee.

Yeah the problem with their complaint, as valid as it might be, they actually did what Trump sued them for, in violation of every ethical and journalistic standard such as there is, and really did lie about it. Whining about how you were railroaded doesn't really land when you actually did the crime. Mobsters complain about this all the time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:15 PM (dfIr7)

17 ...a state consumer protection law that is intended to prevent advertisers from misleading the public about a product being sold

That describes both CBS and Kamalalala to a T.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 01:15 PM (/y8xj)

18 Bernie Sanders is now the old guy in 'Up.'
Posted by: Anna Puma

Does that make AOC the pudgy Cub Scout?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

19 Fuck the cob-swabbler fucknuggets at CNN, but I have to say: what did they do that was illegal or that harmed Trump?

CNN was misleading with the interview, but it evidently didn't hurt Trump. He won the election, in a landslide. So whatever CNN did, what were the damages?

You need some measure of damages/injury to win a lawsuit.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

20 willowed:

Same with Harvey Weinstein. I doubt any of those women were really raped, it’s just they were willing to have sex with a really ugly guy in order to become a star.

I think he did really rape Rose McGowan

And she grabbed the reins of the PoundMeToo movement which was targeted at Trump and turned it on Weinstein.

And pretty much every prominent leftist tried to save Harvey and shut her up...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:16 PM (t0Rmr)

21 Kohberger now sitting at his table.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:16 PM (MGB5H)

22 Bernie Sanders is now the old guy in 'Up.'
Posted by: Anna Puma

Does that make AOC the pudgy Cub Scout?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

She is getting closer and closer to the wall

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:16 PM (8avO+)

23 19 Fuck the cob-swabbler fucknuggets at CNN, but I have to say: what did they do that was illegal or that harmed Trump?

CNN was misleading with the interview, but it evidently didn't hurt Trump. He won the election, in a landslide. So whatever CNN did, what were the damages?

You need some measure of damages/injury to win a lawsuit.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

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Man, their lawyers should have known this and just taken it all the way to trial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

24 Thought Elio played the Cub Scout.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 01:17 PM (6gCWo)

25 Bernie Sanders is now the old guy in 'Up.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 01:14 PM

His wife die or something?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 01:17 PM (dPfyF)

26 Shocking, I know but even CNN isn't completely stupid.

CNN’s Harry Enten: Trump’s Performance Stronger Than Past GOP Presidents

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:17 PM (L/fGl)

27 Acosta is having a fit. Good. As I said about leftists I know if it pisses off the people who have screwed this country, double down

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM (eBgDF)

28 19 Fuck the cob-swabbler fucknuggets at CNN, but I have to say: what did they do that was illegal or that harmed Trump?

CNN was misleading with the interview, but it evidently didn't hurt Trump. He won the election, in a landslide. So whatever CNN did, what were the damages?

You need some measure of damages/injury to win a lawsuit.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

I don't think it has to be as binary as costing the election. If one business were to libel another when competing for a contract there'd still seem to be grounds for a lawsuit even if they lost.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM (okun6)

29 Keep suing them until the MSM comports with reality.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM (u82oZ)

30 CNN’s Harry Enten: Trump’s Performance Stronger Than Past GOP Presidents

Who knew you had to actually try to do things to succeed?

Posted by: George Bush at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM (t0Rmr)

31 26 Shocking, I know but even CNN isn't completely stupid.

CNN’s Harry Enten: Trump’s Performance Stronger Than Past GOP Presidents
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:17 PM (L/fGl)

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More popular that W who was all, "Let's give into Democrats and never fight back when they lie about us"?

Weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

32 Oh, so now forum-shopping is a bad thing? Now it's a bad thing when people sue in an area with adverse political leanings?

their brain-dead viewership doesn't understand the concept.

all they know is they want more OrangeManBad content, it sustains them past 6pm.

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM (dCxaZ)

33 Nobody pays $16,000,000 for doing nothing wrong.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM (9FEtL)

34 Does that make AOC the pudgy Cub Scout?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:15 PM

Soon...

Posted by: Carbs at July 02, 2025 01:19 PM (dPfyF)

35 Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze

The fact that major national media networks keep settling lawsuits before discovery can happen should be a huge giant tell about what's going on with their industry.

11:07 PM · Jul 1, 2025

Posted by: pookysgirl, intent on discovering at July 02, 2025 01:19 PM (Wt5PA)

36 I heard last night that the requirement to release full transcripts is called the Trump rule inside of CBS/ Paramount. That is delicious and a reminder of what can happen when the basic principles of fair journalism are perverted into being an advocate for a political party. $16 million was a bargain settlement for CBS/Paramount for doing their part to rig a presidential election.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 01:19 PM (NXz8h)

37 More popular that W who was all, "Let's give into Democrats and never fight back when they lie about us"?

Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Well, in the end, the left was kinda right about what a PoS W was.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

38 They have to pay the legal fees too...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 01:20 PM (VE6XX)

39 Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:16 PM (t0Rmr)

He - allegedly - pretty violently raped several of the women including face punches and spitting on them. Would not call that casting couch sex.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:21 PM (VPwHp)

40 It's still okay for every Democrat or Republican to be tried in 85% Democrat jurisdictions, right?
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Or how all of the injunctions against Trump are from far-left judges in deep-blue jurisdictions?

Or how habeas petitions are filed--and granted--by courts in CT, when the person is in LA, despite clear rules that the petition must be filed in LA?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 01:21 PM (CBWwv)

41 Now, here's some psychology today!

Dr. Phil Trashes Rep. Ilhan Omar Over “Disgusting” Anti-American Rhetoric: “Kick Her A** To the Curb”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:21 PM (L/fGl)

42
Good. More of this for all partisan hack main stream media.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 02, 2025 01:21 PM (QcUc+)

43 It's still okay for every Democrat or Republican to be tried in 85% Democrat jurisdictions, right?

It's pretty obvious that the system is corrupt. Obviously, the only reasonable solution is to re-institute trial by combat and may GOD preserve the right.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 01:22 PM (ExV1e)

44 Yeah they're whining about the judge.

OK, then why didn't you take it to conclusion?

We all know why. Because you COULD NOT ALLOW the insane stuff that woudl come out from discovery to be made public.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 02, 2025 01:22 PM (setIA)

45 Republicans should be denied the ability to hire or fire at will because Republicans are partisan hacks. Democrats should be allowed free reign to appoint and fire whomever they want because they can deny their partisanship in favor of what is good for the world.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:12 PM

Sarcasm and Transmission from the Democratic Underground have now become indistinguishable.

However, I am VERY impressed that the Babylon Bee can still write articles that are one step ahead of the latest Democrat excesses!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 02, 2025 01:22 PM (HlyYF)

46 Ron Klain is going to testify? What a effing joke?! Why bother? Nothing is going to happen to him. I guess congress has nothing better to do.

Posted by: Unkaren at July 02, 2025 01:22 PM (J4BK5)

47 He - allegedly - pretty violently raped several of the women including face punches and spitting on them. Would not call that casting couch sex.
Posted by: ...

Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:23 PM (L/fGl)

48 Trump isn't quite in the "dead Republican" phase, but this (after unsuccessfully trying to jail him, ruin him, destroy him, kill him and get him killed) is when the Left and media proves their "total fairness straight down the middle" bona fides so the *next* guy can REALLY be Hitler.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:23 PM (VPwHp)

49 46 Ron Klain is going to testify? What a effing joke?! Why bother? Nothing is going to happen to him. I guess congress has nothing better to do.
Posted by: Unkaren at July 02, 2025 01:22 PM (J4BK5)

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Showboating for cameras is always going to be about 90% of what Congress does.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

50 willowed:

Same with Harvey Weinstein. I doubt any of those women were really raped, it’s just they were willing to have sex with a really ugly guy in order to become a star.

I think he did really rape Rose McGowan

And she grabbed the reins of the PoundMeToo movement which was targeted at Trump and turned it on Weinstein.

And pretty much every prominent leftist tried to save Harvey and shut her up...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:16 PM (t0Rmr)
_________

McGowan waited 20 years to report it, and only did so after a spat with Ben Affleck over sexual abuse in Hollywood. She also accused other male Hollywood power players of raping her.

She also accused multiple power players of trying to bribe and silence her, including by planting drugs on her in an airport.

Could she be telling the truth? Sure. But I have serious doubts. I think she's just nuts. She openly admitted to abusing booze and drugs. They may have fucked with her head.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

51 41 Now, here's some psychology today!

Dr. Phil Trashes Rep. Ilhan Omar Over “Disgusting” Anti-American Rhetoric: “Kick Her A** To the Curb”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West
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Omar, Crockett, Brown Jackson belong in jail. Period.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:23 PM (K91ZZ)

52 46 Ron Klain is going to testify? What a effing joke?! Why bother? Nothing is going to happen to him. I guess congress has nothing better to do.
Posted by: Unkaren at July 02, 2025 01:22 PM (J4BK5)

I can't recall, I don't remember, I forget......

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 01:24 PM (VE6XX)

53 Trump isn't quite in the "dead Republican" phase, but this (after unsuccessfully trying to jail him, ruin him, destroy him, kill him and get him killed) is when the Left and media proves their "total fairness straight down the middle" bona fides so the *next* guy can REALLY be Hitler.
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:23 PM (VPwHp)

The "Trump was a once in lifetime politician the republicans can never replicate" talking points will be coming around Jan 1 2027.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:24 PM (MGB5H)

54 Not sure paying 16 million so you don't have to apologize is the big win CBS thinks it is.

Posted by: Botched_Lobotomy at July 02, 2025 01:24 PM (/4+8Z)

55 CBS' big mistake was not admitting the Harris interview had been edited. IIRC they never claimed they did until bits leaked out. Then they fought releasing the transcripts. Then they fought releasing the unedited video.

I might be wrong, but if you say up front that a video has been edited for (insert reason here) you've, kinda' - sorta' shielded yourself from this sort of shit.

But a one-off video interview with Kamala "Coconut Jubilee" Harris that comes off as intelligent is certainly cause for doubt and concern.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 01:24 PM (Q4IgG)

56 The report from DU on this earlier was hilarious.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 01:25 PM (CBWwv)

57 53 The "Trump was a once in lifetime politician the republicans can never replicate" talking points will be coming around Jan 1 2027.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:24 PM (MGB5H)

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They've already started.

Percolating around election Twitter.

Vance can't replicate Trump, and Generic Democrat will wipe the floor with him, sorts of stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

58 You need some measure of damages/injury to win a lawsuit.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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FCC had the power to allow or deny CBS/Paramount merger with a firm run by Ellison's nepot.

Plus, as a matter of broadcast in the public interest and Red Lion, FCC had the power to remove CBS broadcast licenses in markets for its partisan conduct. While the Fair Time doctrine has been repealed during the Reagan years, there are plenty of FCC administrative rules and laws regarding broadcast fairness that CBS arguably failed to comply with.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:25 PM (ctrM5)

59 @15

>>Trump should sue them for implying it's a bad verdict.

Just like Trump was sued for claiming his innocence after the Eugene Carrol travesty.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 01:26 PM (XV/Pl)

60
Any conservative running for President who doesn't have his own film crew recording multiple angles of every moment from when the candidate walks into the building is a retard.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 01:26 PM (y9nCu)

61 The "Trump was a once in lifetime politician the republicans can never replicate" talking points will be coming around Jan 1 2027.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:24 PM (MGB5H)

Then Vance will kick some reporter in the place where normal men keep their balls and the headlines the next day will read "or not".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 01:26 PM (ExV1e)

62 If I throw a rock at your head and miss, or shoot a bullet and miss, you can’t say “oh you got nothing to complain about, there weren’t any damages.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 01:26 PM (Lhvai)

63 A hazy shade of winter.

Paul Simon, 83, Abruptly Cancels Concerts Amidst “Unmanageable” Health Scare

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:26 PM (L/fGl)

64 56 The report from DU on this earlier was hilarious.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 01:25 PM (CBWwv)

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I'm genuinely surprised there wasn't a comment like this:

"You people still don't get that the MSM is right wing? Trump had no case, and CBS just folded? Does that even make sense? This is an illegal payoff from corporate masters to their Furher. Stealing corporate money to enrich Trump. Where's Ralph Nader when we need him?!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

65 Just like Trump was sued for claiming his innocence after the Eugene Carrol travesty.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 01:26 PM (XV/Pl)

And they ruled against Trump and awarded her more millions....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (VE6XX)

66 They've already started.

Percolating around election Twitter.

Vance can't replicate Trump, and Generic Democrat will wipe the floor with him, sorts of stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:25 PM

HAH. Well the in the mainstream it'll start around Jan 27

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (MGB5H)

67 48 Trump isn't quite in the "dead Republican" phase, but this (after unsuccessfully trying to jail him, ruin him, destroy him, kill him and get him killed) is when the Left and media proves their "total fairness straight down the middle" bona fides so the *next* guy can REALLY be Hitler.
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:23 PM (VPwHp)

They maxed out their Hitler card, failed to make their Hitler payments, and are now in Hitler bankruptcy. They went full Jan Brady: Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. I don't think Hitler has any meaningful future as a political epithet after this many years of this nonsense.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (9FEtL)

68 Does that make AOC the pudgy Cub Scout?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

Head to Spanish Harlem if you want to see what she is going to look like in 10 years.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (L5An7)

69 We may be fake, but we're damn sure accurate.

Posted by: Dan Rather at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (iH9pq)

70 I might be wrong, but if you say up front that a video has been edited for (insert reason here) you've, kinda' - sorta' shielded yourself from this sort of shit.

reason -> to hide from the voters that fact that the candidate is a blithering idiot

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (/y8xj)

71 66 HAH. Well the in the mainstream it'll start around Jan 27
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (MGB5H)

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Tim Walz is just like Generic Democrat, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

72 CBS' big mistake was not admitting the Harris interview had been edited. IIRC they never claimed they did until bits leaked out. Then they fought releasing the transcripts. Then they fought releasing the unedited video.

I might be wrong, but if you say up front that a video has been edited for (insert reason here) you've, kinda' - sorta' shielded yourself from this sort of shit.

But a one-off video interview with Kamala "Coconut Jubilee" Harris that comes off as intelligent is certainly cause for doubt and concern.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 01:24 PM (Q4IgG)
________

True and that's why there are usual disclaimers to that effect in documentaries. You might interview someone about Event X for 5 hours, and only use 5 minutes of the interview in a documentary -- even if you're not trying to be misleading.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

73 Vance can't replicate Trump, and Generic Democrat will wipe the floor with him, sorts of stuff.

Hilarious

if anything, Vance is more of a rightwinger than Trump

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (dCxaZ)

74 57 53 The "Trump was a once in lifetime politician the republicans can never replicate" talking points will be coming around Jan 1 2027.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:24 PM (MGB5H)

======

They've already started.

Percolating around election Twitter.

Vance can't replicate Trump, and Generic Democrat will wipe the floor with him, sorts of stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

This is probably somewhat true, but Republicans don't need to replicate Trump. Bringing people over is harder than keeping them.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 02, 2025 01:28 PM (okun6)

75 @57

>>Vance can't replicate Trump, and Generic Democrat will wipe the floor with him, sorts of stuff.

Vance most definitely cannot replicate Trump, who could.

What he can do is just do what he's doing, being a loyal wingman and articulate MAGA principles.

He's going to be President and Rubio is going to be his VP, book it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 01:28 PM (XV/Pl)

76 Keep suing them until the MSM comports with reality.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM (u82oZ)

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We're gonna need MOAR Semiquincentennials ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 01:28 PM (TpcHb)

77 Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:25 PM (ctrM5)

How are you feeling, Mr. Whig?

I hope you are well.

Posted by: Inogame at July 02, 2025 01:28 PM (53oGX)

78 Tim Walz is just like Generic Democrat, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM

Generic Democrat now with Jazz Hands.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM (MGB5H)

79 Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (dCxaZ)

Yes but that’s not the point. Trump is a generational figure. Vance will most likely not be.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM (eZwyX)

80 I don't see the point of this whole "Weinstein probably didn't really rape them they were asking for it anyway" thing. Playing the long game on false accusations...? Staying "consistent"?

The Left propped this lefty scumbag up and excused him, promoted him, treated him like a God, until it became convenient to sacrifice him, no earlier.

Everyone knew what he was, this wasn't a sudden thing that happened put of nowhere to some decent guy running for office.

Maybe it says something about me but I feel no special solidarity with him. If you think he's not a fat rapey smelly bearded commie shitstain, good for you, but all signs point to of course he fucking is.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM (VPwHp)

81 73 Vance can't replicate Trump, and Generic Democrat will wipe the floor with him, sorts of stuff.

Hilarious

if anything, Vance is more of a rightwinger than Trump
Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (dCxaZ)

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I think Vance is genuine. He's a good ole boy, online addict, with a sense of humor about himself.

That appeal, combined with more promises of closing the border, will go a long way.

Will AOC have authenticity as well? Will she match it with some stupid popular proposal like "Free EVs for everyone," or something?

I dunno. But Vance seems like a strong potential candidate, especially when the next 3 years is going to catapult his name recognition into the heavens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

82 Vance can't replicate Trump, and Generic Democrat will wipe the floor with him, sorts of stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

The original manipulated poll.

Swap "generic" with Gavin Newsom and see what happens!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM (L5An7)

83 They've already started.

Percolating around election Twitter.

Vance can't replicate Trump, and Generic Democrat will wipe the floor with him, sorts of stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Predictions on a presidential race over three years from now is the eternal grist of those that dabbled in political news as a hobby. In reality, it is a lifetime in politics and there are many 'events' as Harold MacMillan put it between then and now.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM (ctrM5)

84 The Party IS ALWAYS RIGHT. Either accept that or face the consequences.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 02, 2025 01:30 PM (BugZp)

85
This seems appropriate for today's earworm:

We're so happy and that's how we're gonna stay
Singin', "Do wah Diddy Diddy, dum Diddy do"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 01:30 PM (0sNs1)

86 74 This is probably somewhat true, but Republicans don't need to replicate Trump. Bringing people over is harder than keeping them.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 02, 2025 01:28 PM (okun6)

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Also, Generic Democrat never appears on the ballot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

87 Well, in the end, the left was kinda right about what a PoS W was.

He is a piece of crap but not for the reasons they gave.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:30 PM (dfIr7)

88 The 1st amendment wasn't intended to protect fraud or falsehood.

At the time there was history of office holders, candidates, and supporters of the above censoring info or opinions detrimental of the above. It was believed necessary to prevent coverup shenanigans intended to prevent voters from being fully informed.

The actions of any network cutting and pasting an interview like a cosmetic surgeon to falsely present an interview with a candidate as other than what it was IS deceit. If they deliberately do it to make the candidate look better or look worse - either way it's deceitfully acting as political activists while pretending to be independent reporters. And their refusal to make the unedited copy of the interview available only confirms it was deliberate.

I have no doubt the settled now because they realized "it's a fair cop" - ie it was impossible to sell their innocence to either the public or the courts anymore. And disclosure would only make it worse, revealing just how incestious their relationship with the Harris campaign truly was.

Posted by: BobM at July 02, 2025 01:30 PM (InZE0)

89 Yes but that’s not the point. Trump is a generational figure. Vance will most likely not be.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM

He will be the first President with a beard since Benjamin Harrison.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:30 PM (jc0TO)

90 You need some measure of damages/injury to win a lawsuit.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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FCC had the power to allow or deny CBS/Paramount merger with a firm run by Ellison's nepot.

Plus, as a matter of broadcast in the public interest and Red Lion, FCC had the power to remove CBS broadcast licenses in markets for its partisan conduct. While the Fair Time doctrine has been repealed during the Reagan years, there are plenty of FCC administrative rules and laws regarding broadcast fairness that CBS arguably failed to comply with.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:25 PM (ctrM5)
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Well yea -- but where's the private rights of action? Trump brought a private civil suit. He was required to allege damages. Well, what were they? Presumably he could allege that he had to spend more on the election to counteract CNN's bullshit, but that's weak sauce. He won the election.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

91 82 The original manipulated poll.

Swap "generic" with Gavin Newsom and see what happens!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM (L5An7)

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Especially when your top 3-4 candidates right now are Kamala, AOC, Buttigieg, and Newsom.

None of them are Generic Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

92
The 16 millions was well worth it to CBS to avoid the discovery (emails, correspondence) that would have shown CBS to be just another wing of the DNC.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (IifOV)

93 The only way to stop the madness is to do unto them what they have been doing unto us, so that they decide it has to stop. Then you can affect change because everyone wants it to stop
The media, the dems and the Republicans. Make it very expensive and painful. That is how you make things stop.

Posted by: Its true and not funny at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (uflOM)

94 if anything, Vance is more of a rightwinger than Trump
Posted by: kallisto
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Vance has a scant record as a Senator and VP is not exactly where one can make their mark as a pol. So we shall see sometime in 2027 when the invisible primary begins and the sun on the Trump presidency begins to set.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (ctrM5)

95 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 02, 2025 01:28 PM (okun6)

Yep

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (eZwyX)

96 One side effect of these recent settlements between Trump and certain MSM fake news organizations is the price for being frauds is in the millions.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (NXz8h)

97 Musk and Shanahan need to get their brains off 'single issue' sponsorship and read a book on real politic or 'How Stuff Works in Politics for Dummies'. They would achieve much more of what they want by doing so.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (K91ZZ)

98 All the troons love a military man.

Posted by: Gen. Eric Democrat, USAF ret at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (jc0TO)

99 Hopefully we won’t need another Trump. Hopefully Trump will have destroyed enough of the status quo that our Nation can get back on the right track. Trump is a disruptor. We can’t survive on constant disruption. You have to stand for something solid and productive. I think Vance is a solid guy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (mT+6a)

100 33 Nobody pays $16,000,000 for doing nothing wrong.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM (9FEtL)

I think they wanted to avoid discovery. The e-mails where they conspired to do it.

Posted by: Reforger at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (SJnNf)

101 Keep suing them until the MSM comports with reality.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM

Ah, the unbridled optimism of youth!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (0sNs1)

102 Mainstream
media blackout on this settlement.

I wonder why? 🧐

Posted by: Czech Chick at July 02, 2025 01:32 PM (GFVgS)

103 Cob-swabbler Fucknuggets was the garage band name for the group that would go on to be known as Up With People throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Posted by: Music nerd at July 02, 2025 01:32 PM (iH9pq)

104 The "Trump was a once in lifetime politician the republicans can never replicate" talking points will be coming around Jan 1 2027.

I mean, they're not wrong, but that doesn't mean that Democrats are in any way healthy or hopeful for the near future.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:32 PM (dfIr7)

105 He will be the first President with a beard since Benjamin Harrison.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:30 PM (jc0TO)

Excuse me???

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 02, 2025 01:32 PM (VPwHp)

106 He's going to be President and Rubio is going to be his VP, book it.

That seems likely but personally I trust DeSantis more than Rubio. Credit where due, he has been kickin' ass and takin' names but his history of it is pretty short. Like 5 months.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (/y8xj)

107 104 The "Trump was a once in lifetime politician the republicans can never replicate" talking points will be coming around Jan 1 2027.

I mean, they're not wrong, but that doesn't mean that Democrats are in any way healthy or hopeful for the near future.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:32 PM (dfIr7)

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Obama was a once in a lifetime politician (sort of...mostly media creation).

And Democrats have been trying to replicate it ever since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

108 105 He will be the first President with a beard since Benjamin Harrison.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:30 PM (jc0TO)

Excuse me???
Posted by: Barack Obama at July 02, 2025 01:32 PM (VPw

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (VE6XX)

109 How will that be verified?
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 01:13 PM (TpcHb)

The smart play would be for anyone to have their own recording if they give any interview. And look, hey we all have phones.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (YUL+W)

110 He will be the first President with a beard since Benjamin Harrison.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:30 PM

For some definition of beard.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (0sNs1)

111 Mainstream
media blackout on this settlement.

I wonder why? 🧐
Posted by: Czech Chick at July 02, 2025 01:32 PM (GFVgS)

because they lost....again.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (8avO+)

112 The key to 26 and further out elections is keeping the economy growing and cracking down on fraud.

If the economy is doing well in red/purple areas in '26 and they stop the left from doing another '20 fortification the GOP will keep congress.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (t0Rmr)

113 If you think he's not a fat rapey smelly bearded commie shitstain, good for you, but all signs point to of course he fucking is.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM (VPwHp)

He coerced sex by using his power in the industry. I am not a lawyer, and that might not be rape, but I worked in corporate America, and at least in my company, that shit got you fired, and you lost your pension and stock.

Weinstein is an incredible sleaze and deserves everything that is happening to him. The fact that some of the people he f*cked were also sleazes doesn't make it better.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (L5An7)

114 ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID. Their first reaction? "Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (RHGPo)

115 He will be the first President with a beard since Benjamin Harrison.
Posted by: toby928
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What about Obama?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (p16cu)

116 They should be disbarred and lose license to broadcast Propaganda

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (+qU29)

117 Well yea -- but where's the private rights of action? Trump brought a private civil suit. He was required to allege damages. Well, what were they? Presumably he could allege that he had to spend more on the election to counteract CNN's bullshit, but that's weak sauce. He won the election.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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Still sufficient on the face of it to proceed to discovery which ABC, CNN, and CBS want to avoid at all costs. There is a reason that network news audiences are literally dying off and that is because they are and have been a hive of scum and villainy on par with scumbags like Epstein or Diddy albeit in a different context.

They deserve as a whole to die and never be repeated as an experiment. Likewise for PBS.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (ctrM5)

118 The part of CBS is played by Chevy Chase
The part of Trump and Co. is played by Phil Hartman

https://youtu.be/kfw21fmsVC8?si=5_4RaIbx-JnJPzAy

Posted by: Blanco at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (q83gU)

119 Rubio has been the biggest positive surprise from Trump's cabinet.

So far at least Bondi has been the most disappointing.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (t0Rmr)

120 True and that's why there are usual disclaimers to that effect in documentaries. You might interview someone about Event X for 5 hours, and only use 5 minutes of the interview in a documentary -- even if you're not trying to be misleading.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade

No reason anymore to not also make the 5hr video available, even if behind a pay wall.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (Dv3i1)

121 106 He's going to be President and Rubio is going to be his VP, book it.

That seems likely but personally I trust DeSantis more than Rubio. Credit where due, he has been kickin' ass and takin' names but his history of it is pretty short. Like 5 months.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (/y8xj)

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VP choice is mostly about consolidating the upper echelons of the party than anything else. Trump chose Pence to allay fears from the establishment. He chose Vance to tell the establishment to fuck off.

If Vance were to get the nomination, I'm not sure how he would approach the choice of VP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

122 He will be the first President with a beard since Benjamin Harrison.
Posted by: toby928

Obama?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:35 PM (L/fGl)

123 im a tiresome troll not worth paying attention to

Posted by: Mexican Bagel at July 02, 2025 01:35 PM (cpC+s)

124 122 He will be the first President with a beard since Benjamin Harrison.
Posted by: toby928

Obama?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:35 PM (L/fGl)

ICWYDT

Posted by: Inogame at July 02, 2025 01:35 PM (53oGX)

125 There are definitely women that traded sex with Harv for success - looking at you Paltrow - but I think he also raped women that didn't agree to a casting couch trade.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:35 PM (t0Rmr)

126 It's pretty obvious that the system is corrupt. Obviously, the only reasonable solution is to re-institute trial by combat and may GOD preserve the right.
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Dueling should never have been outlawed.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 01:35 PM (W3T6M)

127 Cleanup on aisle 123

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (VE6XX)

128 With all of these settlements, Trump isn't going to have to pay anything for his library, and will probably have enough left over to create a YUGE swimming pool.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (PzXaK)

129 Presumably he could allege that he had to spend more on the election to counteract CNN's bullshit, but that's weak sauce. He won the election.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

This would generally be sufficient when it comes to competition between businesses. All that is needed is that the damages be quantifiable.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (okun6)

130 Jeepers dude.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (mT+6a)

131 Posted by: Mexican Bagel at July 02, 2025 01:35 PM (cpC+s)

Hi Sid! Did your Jewish neighbor bother you again by mowing his lawn before the crack of noon?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (t0Rmr)

132 If Vance were to get the nomination, I'm not sure how he would approach the choice of VP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

Got to be Rubio in the lead for that (way early but still)

Posted by: Inogame at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (53oGX)

133 Mexican Bagels are made with pure Christian baby blood.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (jc0TO)

134 ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID. Their first reaction? "Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"

It's like any new item on global warming. Let's play Spot the Weasel* Words.

* not the good kind

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (/y8xj)

135 Rubio has been the biggest positive surprise from Trump's cabinet.

So far at least Bondi has been the most disappointing.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (t0Rmr)

Agreed. Little Marco is now wearing his big-boy pants!

And I am not tremendously impressed by Patel.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (L5An7)

136 What about Obama?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Damn Biff Pocoroba out drew me!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (L/fGl)

137 >>Vance can't replicate Trump, and Generic Democrat will wipe the floor with him, sorts of stuff.

Vance most definitely cannot replicate Trump, who could.

What he can do is just do what he's doing, being a loyal wingman and articulate MAGA principles.

He's going to be President and Rubio is going to be his VP, book it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 01:28 PM (XV/Pl)
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You could be right. We have a deep bench, though. In addition to Vance and Rubio, we have DeathSantis and to a lesser extent Zeldin, Bondi, and even Noem. Yea, I know lots of people here are upset Bondi hasn't rounded up bad guys in the middle of the night and shot them in the face, but she's doing a solid job with what she has. She's been exceptional on immigration and fighting back against all these corrupt judges.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

138 Vance would still be president in January of 2037.

2037.

Posted by: Think about that at July 02, 2025 01:37 PM (iH9pq)

139 He's going to be President and Rubio is going to be his VP, book it.

That seems likely but personally I trust DeSantis more than Rubio. Credit where due, he has been kickin' ass and takin' names but his history of it is pretty short. Like 5 months.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 01:33 PM (/y8xj)

DeSantis has failed where Vance is best - taking the message to the people and the enemy. DeS campaign was very poor and he didn't even toot his own horn. To his credit he ate up Newsome head to head.

Rubio has been doing well at State, I'll give him that. But he hasn't delivered the licking Vance gave the Euros.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:37 PM (8avO+)

140
Maybe it says something about me but I feel no special solidarity with him. If you think he's not a fat rapey smelly bearded commie shitstain, good for you, but all signs point to of course he fucking is.
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM (VPwHp)

Even before the sex stuff came out, Harvey was well-known as a bully who'd physically intimidate even men in public, especially when money and contracts were involved. Plus, there have been stories for years that he'd threaten to sic his brother on anyone he did business with, claiming that Bob W had Mossad connections.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 01:37 PM (y9nCu)

141 So far at least Bondi has been the most disappointing.
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You can't trust lawyers.

Posted by: A Lawyer at July 02, 2025 01:38 PM (qUkBO)

142 Again, I think Weinstein is a scumbag piece of filth who probably did take advantage of his position to abuse some women but I don't think he was guilty of what he was convicted for.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:38 PM (dfIr7)

143 Trump chose Pence to allay fears from the establishment. He chose Vance to tell the establishment to fuck off.

Proving that unlike most politicians, he can learn from experience.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 01:38 PM (/y8xj)

144 JD needs to avoid being the State Funeral Guy.

I'd like him to spend his spare time ruling the Senate and further raising his profile.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:38 PM (jc0TO)

145 114 ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID. Their first reaction? "Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"
Posted by: SMOD

Given that USAID likely funded many Bill Gates anti-fertility initiatives and abortion for the 'benefit' of these backwards countries, it is probably more likely that closing it saved 14 million lives. Well, any funding that was allowed to trickle out after first paying off all the true beneficiaries.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 01:39 PM (Dv3i1)

146 "ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID. Their first reaction? "Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"
Posted by: SMOD"

Most of them will be gov.t bureaucrats

Posted by: Ripley at July 02, 2025 01:39 PM (GUOwU)

147 "...have enough left over to create a YUGE swimming pool."

And join the Jelly of Month Club.

Posted by: Clark Griswold at July 02, 2025 01:39 PM (iH9pq)

148 The network of Walter Cronkite no less. Oh wait, he was a f*cking commie too.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 01:39 PM (/U5Yz)

149 113 If you think he's not a fat rapey smelly bearded commie shitstain, good for you, but all signs point to of course he fucking is.

Posted by: ...

You oughta read Mira Sorvino's tale when she rejected Harvey's embraces. It killed her career in Hollywood just after she won an Oscar in the Mighty Aphrodite. Another, I think mebbe Marissa Tomei had a similar horror story about Harvey at Cannes.

Basically scumbags often cross the criminal line when they become accustomed to taking what they want regardless of whether their target wants to yield. By that time, they feel entitled as a pseudo noble does.

Same process that violent criminals do until something stops them--they get worse and more violent.

Harvey, and now Diddly, ended up getting convicted much as Capone did for being scumbags that committed a few undeniable crimes that ended their crime spree.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:39 PM (ctrM5)

150 Credit where due, he has been kickin' ass and takin' names but his history of it is pretty short. Like 5 months.

Yeah, jury is still out on Rubio, he's been really stupidly wrong on key things in the past.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:39 PM (dfIr7)

151 He's [Vance is] going to be President and Rubio is going to be his VP, book it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 01:28 PM (XV/Pl)

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Fully armed and armored Foxy Kristi Noem hardest hit.

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 01:39 PM (Aht94)

152 You could be right. We have a deep bench, though. In addition to Vance and Rubio, we have DeathSantis and to a lesser extent Zeldin, Bondi, and even Noem. Yea, I know lots of people here are upset Bondi hasn't rounded up bad guys in the middle of the night and shot them in the face, but she's doing a solid job with what she has. She's been exceptional on immigration and fighting back against all these corrupt judges.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

I'd settle for Noem rounding me up in the middle of the night and sitting on my face...

Posted by: Pditty at July 02, 2025 01:39 PM (53oGX)

153 What about Obama?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Damn Biff Pocoroba out drew me!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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The problem is that it assumes Mooch is a chick. If not, then it was kind of a fake beard, or whatever that would be called.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 01:40 PM (p16cu)

154 Yeah, jury is still out on Rubio, he's been really stupidly wrong on key things in the past.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:39 PM

On both policy and politics.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:40 PM (jc0TO)

155 I think Vance is a better speaker and debater than Trump is. Trump has just always got this force of personality/PT Barnum thing going on, and a lot of people will always love that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 01:40 PM (uWKK8)

156 154 Yeah, jury is still out on Rubio, he's been really stupidly wrong on key things in the past.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:39 PM

On both policy and politics.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:40 PM (jc0TO)

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He's a great follower.

That doesn't mean he'd be a good president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

157 146 "ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID. Their first reaction? "Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"
Posted by: SMOD"
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That idiotic take came from Lancet. A medical journal that Trump's hires at NIH etc. have now formally branded as journal persona non grata due to its hysterics, corruption with Big Pharma, and overall anti science, pro Globo Homo, articles and opinion pieces.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:41 PM (ctrM5)

158 Hey, you try running a cabinet level department from the Fox News green room.

Posted by: Pam Blondi at July 02, 2025 01:41 PM (iH9pq)

159
I'd settle for Noem rounding me up in the middle of the night and sitting on my face...
Posted by: Pditty

She might need help from Boebert.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 01:41 PM (/U5Yz)

160 Once the Skydance merger is completed, the CBS news group will be without any leadership. Look for the FCC to open an investigation regarding the broadcast license if they don’t clean house.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 02, 2025 01:41 PM (w3u3d)

161 JD is silent while he is thinking of what to say next. Trump just streams of consciousness through it.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:41 PM (jc0TO)

162 "settle for Noem rounding me up in the middle of the night and sitting on my face... "

If she calls you bad dog and reaches for something run...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:41 PM (t0Rmr)

163 Just like Trump was sued for claiming his innocence after the Eugene Carrol travesty.
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The 3 verdicts against Trump:
1) denying that, decades ago, you raped someone--and never even met her--is defamation against her --> Pay $50 million
2) claiming your world-famous golf resort was worth more than what a judge years later values it for, on a private loan application, which loan was paid in full and the lender agreed there was no fraud, is fraud against the state --> pay $500 million
3) A ledger entry for internal bookkeeping, never meant nor required for public disclosure--entries made after the election!--was felony election interference. --> decades in prison (reduced to 0 only 'cause he won)

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 01:42 PM (CBWwv)

164 updated: CBS lied about the full scope of the settlement.

Posted by: ace at July 02, 2025 01:42 PM (KRtlO)

165 The GOPe is being pushed out by the Trump faction. They're younger and more small L libertarian conservative. The Old Dems are being pushed out by would be Marxists. That will drive the two parties further apart so it's imperative that the Trump faction govern well because the alternative is lunacy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 01:42 PM (eBgDF)

166 May we remind you here that there are *no* Republicans who are helping to redefine masculinity in the modern way we are?

Posted by: Tim Walz, Doug Emhoff, and David Hogg at July 02, 2025 01:42 PM (0sNs1)

167 They maxed out their Hitler card, failed to make their Hitler payments, and are now in Hitler bankruptcy. They went full Jan Brady: Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. I don't think Hitler has any meaningful future as a political epithet after this many years of this nonsense.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (9FEtL)

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They rehabilitated his image better than I could. My Furher(sp?) certainly had some stupid enemies.

Posted by: Josef Goebbels at July 02, 2025 01:43 PM (0nOAz)

168 I have no particular reason to not think Weinstein is guilty. But I get where some of the skepticism comes from. It goes both ways in Hollywood: there are powerful people abusing others, but there are plenty of people willing to put out for career advancement too. Some people just view sex that transactionally. There were plenty of women associated with Weinstein who had nothing whatsoever to say, fair or foul, about the man. A lot of people (not altogether unreasonably) infer they fall on the transactionally minded side of the ledger.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:43 PM (9FEtL)

169 Again, I think Weinstein is a scumbag piece of filth who probably did take advantage of his position to abuse some women but I don't think he was guilty of what he was convicted for.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:38 PM (dfIr7)
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Yea. Nobody here "supports" Fat Harv or feels any kinship with him. But we are conservatives and we're supposed to support the rule of law. Being a scumbag -- who preys on other scumbags -- isn't illegal.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

170 How many people have the Deep State killed the last five years between their stupid man made virus and vax?

This is why they have to come up with an absurd number like 14 million.

Because these cocksuckers are way ahead in the murder games.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:43 PM (VPwHp)

171 OMG! It really is Sodom and Gomorrah!

Russian Boxer Anastasia Luchkina Sparks Backlash After Giving an Orangutan a Vape Pen

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:43 PM (L/fGl)

172 The "Trump was a once in lifetime politician the republicans can never replicate" talking points will be coming around Jan 1 2027.

I mean, they're not wrong, but that doesn't mean that Democrats are in any way healthy or hopeful for the near future.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:32 PM (dfIr7)

And just because he isn't President doesn't mean he goes away. I want the face to face rallies by him to continue, and I want others to do the same or something in that style. I don't want collegiality, and I don't want butthurt whining when someone scores on you.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:44 PM (8avO+)

173 So far at least Bondi has been the most disappointing.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (t0Rmr)

Agreed. Little Marco is now wearing his big-boy pants!

And I am not tremendously impressed by Patel.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Legal cases and reforming the most woke institutions in government are going to be a hard lift for any Trump appointee plus the fact that few underlings are willing to destroy their future legal career by upsetting the overwhelmingly leftist legal community. Wasn't too long ago that many lawyers on the right had fear for their license to practice and a few lost them.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:44 PM (ctrM5)

174 Yea. Nobody here "supports" Fat Harv or feels any kinship with him. But we are conservatives and we're supposed to support the rule of law. Being a scumbag -- who preys on other scumbags -- isn't illegal.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade

That's why the overturning of his NY conviction was the right call. Allowing in tons of prejudicial witnesses is a no no.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:44 PM (MGB5H)

175 If not, then it was kind of a fake beard, or whatever that would be called.
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Its called a merkin.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 01:45 PM (W3T6M)

176
Ralph Hauenstien used to tell the story about being editor of the home town newspaper in the 30's and having a reporter get the name wrong of some woman's garden club chairwoman.

Made him go apologize in person to her and fired him when he got back.

That's journalistic standards.

Posted by: Auspex at July 02, 2025 01:45 PM (j4U/Z)

177 In fairness, I had a fertile relationship with Harvey.

Posted by: The Ficus at July 02, 2025 01:45 PM (0sNs1)

178 Basically scumbags often cross the criminal line when they become accustomed to taking what they want regardless of whether their target wants to yield. By that time, they feel entitled as a pseudo noble does.

Same process that violent criminals do until something stops them--they get worse and more violent.

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~~Prima Quotidie~~ Nocte

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 01:45 PM (Aht94)

179 Legal cases and reforming the most woke institutions in government are going to be a hard lift for any Trump appointee

Not necessarily disagreeing but I expect results.

If she can't get them Trump should replace her with someone else.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:45 PM (t0Rmr)

180 Yea. Nobody here "supports" Fat Harv or feels any kinship with him. But we are conservatives and we're supposed to support the rule of law. Being a scumbag -- who preys on other scumbags -- isn't illegal.
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No one ever thinks of my feelings on the matter.

Posted by: The Ficus at July 02, 2025 01:45 PM (Dv3i1)

181 Obama, the light bringer.. while he lowered the seas he also gutted the democrat bench...
His people took over and went to war against the blue dogs and won.
What did they win exactly?
Leadership that is at death's door being followed up by Marxist true believers..

Posted by: Inogame at July 02, 2025 01:45 PM (53oGX)

182 Still waiting on the list of pervert Congressmen that required Congress to pay off sex abuse accusers.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 01:46 PM (96jnc)

183 Still waiting on the list of pervert Congressmen that required Congress to pay off sex abuse accusers.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 01:46 PM (96jnc)

Throw a dart.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:46 PM (MGB5H)

184 I have no particular reason to not think Weinstein is guilty. But I get where some of the skepticism comes from. It goes both ways in Hollywood: there are powerful people abusing others, but there are plenty of people willing to put out for career advancement too. Some people just view sex that transactionally. There were plenty of women associated with Weinstein who had nothing whatsoever to say, fair or foul, about the man. A lot of people (not altogether unreasonably) infer they fall on the transactionally minded side of the ledger.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:43 PM (9FEtL)

If this were a bunch of nice housewives from middle america I'd have more sympathy. But these people complaining now loved the game when they could play it, said nothing aside from jokes and now they can't pull out the holier than thou card and get my sympathy.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:47 PM (8avO+)

185 181 Obama, the light bringer.. while he lowered the seas he also gutted the democrat bench...
His people took over and went to war against the blue dogs and won.
What did they win exactly?
Leadership that is at death's door being followed up by Marxist true believers..
Posted by: Inogame at July 02, 2025 01:45 PM (53oGX)

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I think the bigger problem was that they accelerated the Democrat Party's descent into machine politics.

It's why Kamala got elevated so quickly. Her performance in terms of electoral politics was poor. Her wins in CA statewide were uninspiring, at best.

But, the Obama team liked her, so they made her next in line in 2019 like appealing to the electorate wasn't an issue. This elevates people not able to appeal to the electorate over those that can because those in charge aren't looking for the right things in candidates. They're looking for brown nosers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

186 Rubio has been the biggest positive surprise from Trump's cabinet.

So far at least Bondi has been the most disappointing.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:34 PM (t0Rmr)

Agreed. Little Marco is now wearing his big-boy pants!

And I am not tremendously impressed by Patel.
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Also, RFK Jr has been killing it.
The difference is action vs. hype.

TBF, it's extremely important to the left to ensure that no one knows of any progress or positive action by Bondi/Patel at the DOJ.
It's like the German media reporting Allied advances in 1944.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 01:47 PM (CBWwv)

187 Harvey, and now Diddly, ended up getting convicted much as Capone did for being scumbags that committed a few undeniable crimes that ended their crime spree.
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This x 10. People who are without virtue, indulge their selfishness often criminally if left unchecked. Without the moderating influence of Christianity we'd all be Paolo or tik toc thots.

Posted by: Its true and not funny at July 02, 2025 01:47 PM (uflOM)

188 Still waiting on the list of pervert Congressmen that required Congress to pay off sex abuse accusers.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 01:46 PM

* pats bench *

Come sit next to me. We may be here awhile.

Posted by: The Las Vegas shooting report at July 02, 2025 01:48 PM (0sNs1)

189 They're looking for brown nosers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2022 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

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Racist.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 01:48 PM (PzXaK)

190 155 I think Vance is a better speaker and debater than Trump is. Trump has just always got this force of personality/PT Barnum thing going on, and a lot of people will always love that.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Speaking and debating skills, highly rated here, are less so by the persuadable electorate. They are looking for authenticity rather than a philosopher king. Less for story and more for actions.

Those on the left will claim whoever becomes the DNC nominee as the wisest, kindest, most intelligence, hardest worker, and morally upright leader ever.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:48 PM (ctrM5)

191 Its called a merkin.
Posted by: pudinhead
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I did not know what that was, and am sorry I looked it up.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 01:49 PM (p16cu)

192 His people took over and went to war against the blue dogs and won.
What did they win exactly?
Leadership that is at death's door being followed up by Marxist true believers..
Posted by: Inogame at July 02, 2025 01:45 PM (53oGX)

Those weren't blue dog Dems, they were just a tad less crooked and just a bit older than the cynical globalist assholes that are replacing them. The problem for thee new crowd is that the people they hired are psychopaths.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:49 PM (8avO+)

193 Transcripts for Democrats will of course remove all the Um's and awkward pauses. Republican ones will be included.

Posted by: buzzion at July 02, 2025 01:49 PM (aRLgQ)

194 Those on the left will claim whoever becomes the DNC nominee as the wisest, kindest, most intelligence, hardest worker, and morally upright leader ever.
Posted by: whig

Raymond Shaw!

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:49 PM (77rzZ)

195 Batting 1.000

Jim Acosta@Acosta
Horrible news from the world of decaying corporate media

Chris Cillizza@ChrisCillizza
Utterly appalling.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:50 PM (L/fGl)

196 Being a scumbag -- who preys on other scumbags -- isn't illegal.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

Weinstein having corporate power over the careers of these women made them incapable of agreeing freely to have sex with him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 01:51 PM (L5An7)

197 If they do air conservative PSAs, they’ll embed them with subliminal messages about buggery and such things.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at July 02, 2025 01:51 PM (Twnsy)

198
lol Trump's lawyers argued that he had suffered "mental anguish" over the chopped-up interview. I think that's what the $16mil is for. Troll-tastic!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:51 PM (egH3D)

199 China Cheerleads Elon Musk’s Campaign Against Key Trump Policies

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 01:52 PM (/U5Yz)

200 But, the Obama team liked her, so they made her next in line in 2019 like appealing to the electorate wasn't an issue. This elevates people not able to appeal to the electorate over those that can because those in charge aren't looking for the right things in candidates. They're looking for brown nosers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

Her other asset was that she appears to have always been supported by the California Tech oligarchs, which brought in a whole lot of tech (including Chinese) money. The Tech oligarchs supported her because they liked the idea of someone who would always do what she was told, no questions asked. (She proved her willingness to do that with Willy Brown) And it's actually a big drawback to have much in the way of smarts when these are the job requirements.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 01:52 PM (uWKK8)

201 Without the moderating influence of Christianity we'd all be Paolo or tik toc thots.
Posted by: Its true and not funny
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Thus, the societal decay that we are witnesssing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 01:52 PM (XeU6L)

202 190 155 I think Vance is a better speaker and debater than Trump is. Trump has just always got this force of personality/PT Barnum thing going on, and a lot of people will always love that.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Well Trump's speaking and debating skills are what made him president three times. What else did he have to lean on?

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:53 PM (VPwHp)

203 The Masshole from KY is claiming that he has a bloc of 10 GOPers to stop the BBB.

Not believing it. Bacon says he's a yes.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 02, 2025 01:53 PM (qwx/I)

204 191 Its called a merkin.
Posted by: pudinhead
__________

I did not know what that was, and am sorry I looked it up.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 01:49 PM (p16cu)

If you thought Lace Wigs were the bees knees, hold onto your hats: Introducing Lace Merkins. Our pussy doilies are handcrafted in the USA. Satisfaction (or some similar emotion) guaranteed!

Posted by: Lace Merkins at July 02, 2025 01:53 PM (9FEtL)

205 Weinstein having corporate power over the careers of these women made them incapable of agreeing freely to have sex with him.

This was the big feminist argument in the 90s that led to all sorts of laws and corporate rules about "office dating".

The funny thing is the left then went to the mat for Harv arguing that he was just engaged in run of the mill casting couch stuff.

But ff demanding sex for a role is ok, or merely "frowned upon" in Hollywood why is asking a peer female coworker on a date at GloboMegaCorp a problem?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:53 PM (t0Rmr)

206 200 Her other asset was that she appears to have always been supported by the California Tech oligarchs, which brought in a whole lot of tech (including Chinese) money. The Tech oligarchs supported her because they liked the idea of someone who would always do what she was told, no questions asked. (She proved her willingness to do that with Willy Brown) And it's actually a big drawback to have much in the way of smarts when these are the job requirements.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 01:52 PM (uWKK

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Yeah, she was a direct line to some serious money as well.

Sounds like she'd be a great bundler for the party, not a candidate.

Throw parties with rich people and Democrat office holders. Get drunk. Forget who did whom. The Democrat Party is now $10 million richer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

207 China Cheerleads Elon Musk’s Campaign Against Key Trump Policies
Posted by: Maj. Healey

As Don Black noted here yesterday, Elon needs to STFU and go back to playing with his rockets.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:54 PM (77rzZ)

208 Weinstein having corporate power over the careers of these women made them incapable of agreeing freely to have sex with him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 01:51 PM (L5An7)

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And that's important to recognize. Producers/Executive Producers/Studio Heads etc have quite a bit of power. They can afford to treat people as disposable, esp cast, because they have all the leverage. Don't play ball and you will never get a job outside of dinner theater again. No problem for the studios...they'll just manufacture another star.

It really does go beyond garden variety sexual harassment or sex for favors.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 01:54 PM (PzXaK)

209 At base, what really happened to Fat Harv is had then-consensual sex which nobody complained about at the time, which was decades later tried to turn into a crime. If they can do that to him, they can do that to any man.

And they did: look up one day the sex assault claims brought against college boys during the MeToo frenzy. Obvious consensual sex encounters were later turned into weapons.

Oh, and being in a relationship is no defense. Several of Fat Harvs accusers admitted they were in a relationship with him.

I don't give a shit about Fat Harv. In some ways, he got what he deserved from a moral standpoint. But he was railroaded in these trials. Without the rule of law, they can do that to any one of us.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:54 PM (iFTx/)

210
Those on the left will claim whoever becomes the DNC nominee as the wisest, kindest, most intelligence, hardest worker, and morally upright leader ever.
Posted by: whig

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Unfortunately for them, if it's Buttigieg vs Vance OR Rubio, they won't have the advantage on temper or bearing or "sounding smart." Buttigieg may have all that, but it won't be a calming or impressive contrast to the Republican nominee if that person turns out to be anyone we know.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:55 PM (egH3D)

211 Not necessarily disagreeing but I expect results.

If she can't get them Trump should replace her with someone else.
Posted by: 18-1

It takes using the normal process of investigating, sending those results to a grand jury in the location where the crime(s) occurred due to vicinage, obtaining relevant testimony and evidence as to crimes committed, have the grand jury issue the indictments, and then proceed to trial. Usually takes months if not years.

Plus still a lot of district attorney positions not confirmed yet. https://tinyurl.com/2xhwf6v8

Link goes to revolving door project and has a list of all confirmed or acting DoJ officials.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:55 PM (ctrM5)

212 208 And that's important to recognize. Producers/Executive Producers/Studio Heads etc have quite a bit of power. They can afford to treat people as disposable, esp cast, because they have all the leverage. Don't play ball and you will never get a job outside of dinner theater again. No problem for the studios...they'll just manufacture another star.

It really does go beyond garden variety sexual harassment or sex for favors.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 01:54 PM (PzXaK)

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More women should choose to be accountants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

213 Colin Allred has announced his (D) candidacy for the Texas U.S. Senate seat currently warmed by John Cornyn.

If at first you don't succeed ...

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 01:55 PM (0sNs1)

214 I don't give a shit about Fat Harv. In some ways, he got what he deserved from a moral standpoint. But he was railroaded in these trials. Without the rule of law, they can do that to any one of us.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:54 PM (iFTx/)

BUT THINK OF THAT POOR FICUS!!!! DO IT FOR THE FICUS!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 01:55 PM (uWKK8)

215 The GOPe is being pushed out by the Trump faction. They're younger and more small L libertarian conservative. The Old Dems are being pushed out by would be Marxists. That will drive the two parties further apart so it's imperative that the Trump faction govern well because the alternative is lunacy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 01:42 PM (eBgDF)

They are also far more realistic. Trying to dominate the world on the cheap, playing money games at the worlds expense is not gonna fly. Trump's new Monroe doctrine fits the US situation. Fixing failed states like Canada and Nicaragua in our hemisphere is fine. Propping up Totalitarian Europe is not.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:55 PM (8avO+)

216 Kohberger 5 guilty pleas are in and court has accepted them.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:55 PM (MGB5H)

217 182 Still waiting on the list of pervert Congressmen that required Congress to pay off sex abuse accusers.

pretty sure the list of non-pervert congressmen would be shorter

Posted by: anachronda at July 02, 2025 01:56 PM (edU/H)

218 213 Colin Allred has announced his (D) candidacy for the Texas U.S. Senate seat currently warmed by John Cornyn.

If at first you don't succeed ...
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 01:55 PM (0sNs1)

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"He lost to deeply unpopular Cruz by 10! He'll do great against Paxton!"
-Blue Texas is always a day away

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

219 This was the big feminist argument in the 90s that led to all sorts of laws and corporate rules about "office dating".

The funny thing is the left then went to the mat for Harv arguing that he was just engaged in run of the mill casting couch stuff.
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Heh, that was funny.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 02, 2025 01:57 PM (Dv3i1)

220 If they can do that to him, they can do that to any man.

Any man who is having sex with lots of younger women who are in some way subordinate to him.

I don't think many men are really in the danger zone here.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:57 PM (9FEtL)

221 An American grocery staple just went bankrupt.

Del Monte Foods, the 138-year-old company behind some of America's most recognizable pantry staples, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

They'll probably sell off what's left to some Chinese corporation.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 02, 2025 01:57 PM (/U5Yz)

222 Unfortunately for them, if it's Buttigieg vs Vance OR Rubio, they won't have the advantage on temper or bearing or "sounding smart." Buttigieg may have all that, but it won't be a calming or impressive contrast to the Republican nominee if that person turns out to be anyone we know.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:55 PM (egH3D)

I can't recall anyone saying Bootyjig sounded smart.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:57 PM (8avO+)

223 If you thought Lace Wigs were the bees knees, hold onto your hats: Introducing Lace Merkins. Our pussy doilies are handcrafted in the USA. Satisfaction (or some similar emotion) guaranteed!
Posted by: Lace Merkins

Whatever you do, don't give Mike Lindell this idea. We'll have to see "My Merkins" commercials until the end of time.

Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (oiNtH)

224 Heh, that was funny.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 02, 2025 01:57 PM (Dv3i1)

For the last time Bill, no I don't want to smell your cigar.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (t0Rmr)

225 WitchDoktor, repeating from yesterday, those Espada Oscuros are great, give them a week or so to rest just to make sure (always a prudent move, even if I can't always make myself do it). I reviewed them on Weasel's thread a ways back.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (1m82a)

226 The most amusing part of the recent poll showing Buttiegieg nominally in the lead with Democrats right now was the crosstab saying Buttigieg: Black Support 0%.

Buttiegieg's support in that poll was a pretty direct measure of how many gay white twinks there are in the Dem party today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (uWKK8)

227 Sentencing for Kohberger set for July 23. Judge has agreed to let all 4 families speak at sentencing.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (MGB5H)

228 Colin Allred has announced his (D) candidacy for the Texas U.S. Senate seat currently warmed by John Cornyn.

If at first you don't succeed ...
Posted by: Duncanthrax

What no Beato?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (77rzZ)

229 If you thought Lace Wigs were the bees knees, hold onto your hats:

Festive little hats!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (lYyke)

230 Unfortunately for them, if it's Buttigieg vs Vance OR Rubio, they won't have the advantage on temper or bearing or "sounding smart." Buttigieg may have all that, but it won't be a calming or impressive contrast to the Republican nominee if that person turns out to be anyone we know.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Leftism is a religion more than politics and the media covers for them even to the extreme of what they did with CBS's Kamala editing job.

The GOP is targeting the roughly 10-15 percent of the electorate that is persuadeable as the base already will refuse to vote for any Dem anyway.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:59 PM (ctrM5)

231 BUT THINK OF THAT POOR FICUS!!!! DO IT FOR THE FICUS!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo

*sniff*

Thank you, kind sir

Posted by: The Ficus at July 02, 2025 01:59 PM (Dv3i1)

232 226 The most amusing part of the recent poll showing Buttiegieg nominally in the lead with Democrats right now was the crosstab saying Buttigieg: Black Support 0%.

Buttiegieg's support in that poll was a pretty direct measure of how many gay white twinks there are in the Dem party today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (uWKK

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Let's be fair.

With the margin of error, his support could be as low as -3.5% with blacks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

233 >>> those that can because those in charge aren't looking for the right things in candidates. They're looking for brown nosers.

>>>The Tech oligarchs supported her because they liked the idea of someone who would always do what she was told, no questions asked. (She proved her willingness to do that with Willy Brown) And it's actually a big drawback to have much in the way of smarts when these are the job requirements.

Maureen Callahan posited the thought that Huma Abedin is the exact same way. The media and political elites pretend she's smarter than she is. A truly smart, ambitious woman would NOT be Hillary's purse holder for 20+ years, she'd eventually leave for her own high powered career.

I suspect her marriage to Mini-Me Soros is to be a mole and to get info/influence for the Clintons as much as anything else. Since it can't be for love.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 01:59 PM (Eng1Z)

234 If they can do that to him, they can do that to any man.

Any man who is having sex with lots of younger women who are in some way subordinate to him.

I don't think many men are really in the danger zone here.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:57 PM (9FEtL)

Men down to college age had been getting that for about a decade before Harv got expendable.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:59 PM (8avO+)

235 An American grocery staple just went bankrupt.

Del Monte Foods, the 138-year-old company behind some of America's most recognizable pantry staples, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Probably depended on jobs Americans wouldn't do.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 01:59 PM (Q4cxx)

236 Being a scumbag -- who preys on other scumbags -- isn't illegal.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

Weinstein having corporate power over the careers of these women made them incapable of agreeing freely to have sex with him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 01:51 PM (L5An7)
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What about the ones who actively sought him out? Either woman have agency or they don't.

And what Fat Harv was accused of what flat-out rape. Like he grabbed them and raped them while they struggled. He wasn't accused of coercing women into consensual sex by offering them career advancement.

The casting couch exists not only because powerful men want it, but also because certain women do too. It's an easier route to potential fame and fortune, if you can do it.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

237 Allred is an unfortunate name for someone who obviously thinks communism is the greatest idea never properly implemented.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 01:59 PM (tT6L1)

238 Well Trump's speaking and debating skills are what made him president three times. What else did he have to lean on?
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It wasn't just "debate", it is Trump's willingness to fight that sets him apart.

Posted by: Crusader at July 02, 2025 02:00 PM (TN0g+)

239 WitchDoktor, repeating from yesterday, those Espada Oscuros are great, give them a week or so to rest just to make sure (always a prudent move, even if I can't always make myself do it). I reviewed them on Weasel's thread a ways back.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (1m82a)

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Thanks, I didn't see that!

Still pissed off about the labels on the damned things.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 02:00 PM (PzXaK)

240 Whatever you do, don't give Mike Lindell this idea. We'll have to see "My Merkins" commercials until the end of time.
Posted by: Cheri

Or David Hogg.

"Hi, this is Greta Thunberg for My Merkins."

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:00 PM (77rzZ)

241 Festive little hats!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM

I'm more of a natural happy little bush kind of guy. But, hey, it's your painting!

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at July 02, 2025 02:00 PM (0sNs1)

242 The funny thing is the left then went to the mat for Harv arguing that he was just engaged in run of the mill casting couch stuff.
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Harvey donated protection money to all the right causes for lefties. The left permits buying indulgences to cover a myriad of sins.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:00 PM (ctrM5)

243 Any man who is having sex with lots of younger women who are in some way subordinate to him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:57 PM (9FEtL)
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But I was told you have to be hung up about sex to not be okay with that.

Has it changed from 1998?

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 02:01 PM (Q4cxx)

244 Just like Bush before him destroyed the Republican Party, Obama destroyed the Democratic party. Neither part is what it used to be, and that's not necessarily a bad thing for the GOP.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:01 PM (dfIr7)

245 To be clear, there's no relation or connection to Fat Harv.

Posted by: Coffee Harv at July 02, 2025 02:01 PM (q2NNn)

246 WitchDoktor I'm with ya on the enormous bands, but in my experience they're glued on just right (very lightly, or not glued at all) and come off easily with careful removal.

Great maduro profile. I've only burned the "Guard" (toro" size. They're $$$ but if you like 'em like I do, reco you check out 10-packs at Atlantic Cigar. Less than half the price of everywhere else including the cheap places.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 02:02 PM (1m82a)

247 Is this about us?

Posted by: King Harv's bikini babes at July 02, 2025 02:02 PM (iH9pq)

248 I didn't get to post this in the previous thread, but about the idea that an older man dating a younger woman is grooming:

There is an actual formula for this! Half your age plus seven. If the younger person you want to date is at least half of your age plus seven, you're ok. Younger than that and it veers into weird territory.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:03 PM (Eng1Z)

249 If they can do that to him, they can do that to any man.

Any man who is having sex with lots of younger women who are in some way subordinate to him.

I don't think many men are really in the danger zone here.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:57 PM (9FEtL)
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College boys having sex with college girls are the same age. There's no power imbalance in college. Some of the worst examples came from college sex encounters. So yea -- almost any man is in the danger zone if we don't strictly follow the rule of law when it comes to these kinds of accusations.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

250 229 If you thought Lace Wigs were the bees knees, hold onto your hats:

Festive little hats!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (lYyke)

Is this another one of those thinly-veiled references to Joos?

Posted by: Kinda sus at July 02, 2025 02:03 PM (TbWk/)

251 To be clear, there's no relation or connection to Fat Harv.
Posted by: Coffee Harv

Or to me.
-- Herk Harvey

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:03 PM (77rzZ)

252 > Obama, the light bringer.. while he lowered the seas he also gutted the democrat bench...
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Under his two terms his staff infiltrated nearly every cabinet level agency/bureau/department at managerial levels with people sympathetic to "the cause." Many are still there. I'm talking about thousands of them. Not your Senior Executive Service people, although there are probably many still there, but run-of-the-mill GS employees at various grades that have some control over the levers of power.

Not a day goes by that one of them isn't "outed" as an individual working at cross purposes to this administration. It's become so common it hardly makes news anymore.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 02:03 PM (Q4IgG)

253 Batting 1.000

Jim Acosta@Acosta
Horrible news from the world of decaying corporate media

Chris Cillizza@ChrisCillizza
Utterly appalling.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:50 PM (L/fGl)

Might want to wonder why the corporate media is decaying Mr Gangrene Acosta.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:04 PM (8avO+)

254 Del Monte Foods, the 138-year-old company behind some of America's most recognizable pantry staples, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Trump's fault! He just doesn't like companies with south of the border sounding names!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 02:04 PM (L/fGl)

255 So they can still lie about everyone else.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 01:11 PM (jc0TO)
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We would be useless to the Democratic party if we couldn't!

Posted by: Anonymous CBS Source at July 02, 2025 02:04 PM (Q4cxx)

256 If you thought Lace Wigs were the bees knees, hold onto your hats:

Festive little hats!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (lYyke)

Seasonal and holiday designs with matching / coordinating areola complex warmers?

Posted by: Market Research at July 02, 2025 02:04 PM (q2NNn)

257 There is an actual formula for this! Half your age plus seven. If the younger person you want to date is at least half of your age plus seven, you're ok.
Posted by: LizLem

I think you mean "at most half your age."

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

258 You can get AIDS from sex.
You can also get sex from aides.

Posted by: BJ Clinton at July 02, 2025 02:05 PM (iH9pq)

259 Sentencing for Kohberger set for July 23. Judge has agreed to let all 4 families speak at sentencing.
Posted by: BruceWayne

I heard on Court TV last night that at least one of the families is grateful as they dreaded having to go through a trial. This is as legitimate and honest just as two of the families are very angry and wanted him to go to trial and get the death penalty. As lawyers said last night, spending life in prison is very different than living on death row facing endless appeals that could go on for years.

A good question asked last night was why does Idaho have the death penalty if they are not going to use it for the 'worse of the worse'. A lot of anger leveled at the DA's office.

Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 02:05 PM (oiNtH)

260 ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID. Their first reaction? "Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"
Posted by: SMOD

As someone pointed out: the US has 4% of the world's population and 24% GDP. Give or take.

The other 96%/75% can't make up the difference?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 02, 2025 02:05 PM (FxH7T)

261 Obama is a commie shit weasel.
The Dem bench is all commie shit weasels.
They think they are primed for long term success.

Posted by: Accomack at July 02, 2025 02:05 PM (oERdd)

262 Yet, Karoline Leavitt is much younger than her husband.

Of course, I can understand why Karoline might prefer an older man over men close to her own age.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 02, 2025 02:06 PM (tT6L1)

263 Del Monte Foods, the 138-year-old company behind some of America's most recognizable pantry staples, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

I guess charging 25% more for the same product and a fancy can stopped paying off

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:06 PM (dfIr7)

264 I don't give a shit about Fat Harv. In some ways, he got what he deserved from a moral standpoint. But he was railroaded in these trials. Without the rule of law, they can do that to any one of us.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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He just recently had a retrial of one of the charges. Still convicted by a second jury of his peers and arguably beyond any moral panic as it was not widely reported. Harvey did the crime beyond a reasonable doubt (and probably others) to two juries and the judge and will spend most of the rest of his life behind bars.

Your arguments are unconvincing here counselor and the people have spoken-twice.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:06 PM (ctrM5)

265 They think they are primed for long term success.
Posted by: Accomack at July 02, 2025 02:05 PM (oERdd)

They could still be!

Posted by: The GOP! at July 02, 2025 02:06 PM (VPwHp)

266 There is an actual formula for this! Half your age plus seven. If the younger person you want to date is at least half of your age plus seven, you're ok.
Posted by: LizLem

I think you mean "at most half your age."
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)
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Until you're 52.

Posted by: Leonardo at July 02, 2025 02:07 PM (Q4cxx)

267 228 Colin Allred has announced his (D) candidacy for the Texas U.S. Senate seat currently warmed by John Cornyn.

If at first you don't succeed ...
Posted by: Duncanthrax

What no Beato?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (77rzZ)

I think Allred's announcement is great, because I think it probably keeps Beato out of the race. Allred looks good on paper, but he just lost a Senate race to Ted Cruz by a 53% to 45% margin, and there's no reason to believe he'd get any more than that on another go round. In fact if it's Paxton, he is likely to be more popular with Texas voters than Cruz is.
(Paxton has a lot in common with Trump, in that the voters like him a whole lot more than anyone in the establishment does)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 02:07 PM (uWKK8)

268 A good question asked last night was why does Idaho have the death penalty if they are not going to use it for the 'worse of the worse'. A lot of anger leveled at the DA's office.
Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 02:05 PM (oiNtH)

Exactly this. The Gonclaves family is furious. Also the fact that he didn't have to allocute is beyond me. Why didn't the prosecution make that part of the deal?!

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 02:07 PM (MGB5H)

269 WitchDoktor I'm with ya on the enormous bands, but in my experience they're glued on just right (very lightly, or not glued at all) and come off easily with careful removal.

Great maduro profile. I've only burned the "Guard" (toro" size. They're $$$ but if you like 'em like I do, reco you check out 10-packs at Atlantic Cigar. Less than half the price of everywhere else including the cheap places.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 02:02 PM (1m82a)

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I have the Guards too. Imma let them rest while I work through my Undercrowns.

Yes, they are $$$. I got mine from JR. They were on their deal-of-the-day thing, bulk at $42 for 10. I also had a bunch of points there from previous purchases for a $200 credit, so 60 of them ended up being $96 with tax.

Even now they are at $62 for a pack of ten, which is a LOT cheaper than a formal box but still $10 more than Atlantic.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 02:08 PM (PzXaK)

270
And I am not tremendously impressed by Patel.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

++++

He always looks excited. That should count for something.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 02, 2025 02:08 PM (yQbLg)

271 267 (Paxton has a lot in common with Trump, in that the voters like him a whole lot more than anyone in the establishment does)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 02:07 PM (uWKK

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It'll be another interesting exercise in establishment power in the state because if Cornyn goes down in the primary, the establishment will have a chance to burn some more bridges.

Cornyn doesn't endorse. Cornyn endorses Allred.

Could be interesting to watch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

272 263 Del Monte Foods, the 138-year-old company behind some of America's most recognizable pantry staples, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

I guess charging 25% more for the same product and a fancy can stopped paying off
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Canned foods have a long shelf life but due to societal changes, more people are looking for fresh, flash frozen, and prepackaged meals. Fewer people cooking nowadays and many of those that do dislike the esthetics, taste, etc. of canned goods compared with fresh. Campbell Soup is having similar problems.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:08 PM (ctrM5)

273 The half plus seven rule is about perceptions and whether other people will look askance at your relationship, not whether it will work for you. I honestly think any gap more than 10 years probably has a mercenary aspect. What can you have in common?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 02:08 PM (jc0TO)

274 "As of version 6.15, the Linux kernel will no longer support chips running the 80486 architecture, along with a gaggle of early “586” chips as well"

Warn Pixy!

"The changes remove around 15,000 lines of code."

Cripes.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 02:09 PM (xYXPm)

275 There is an actual formula for this! Half your age plus seven. If the younger person you want to date is at least half of your age plus seven, you're ok. Younger than that and it veers into weird territory.
Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:03 PM (Eng1Z)

Men don't change what they prefer. 20-25. If you get in with a man he will stick by you forever, but those are the real rules.

DeCaprio isn't gonna restrict himself to 32 year olds.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:09 PM (8avO+)

276 A good question asked last night was why does Idaho have the death penalty if they are not going to use it for the 'worse of the worse'. A lot of anger leveled at the DA's office.

Winning matters more than justice to prosecutors

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:09 PM (dfIr7)

277 There is an actual formula for this! Half your age plus seven. If the younger person you want to date is at least half of your age plus seven, you're ok.
Posted by: LizLem

I think you mean "at most half your age."
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)
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Half minus 7? But seriously, I don't care or police what goes on between consenting adults, whether it be age differences (so long as both are of legal age), disproportionate attractiveness, sugar-daddy elements, whatever. That's between them. It's not my business.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

278 The half plus seven rule is about perceptions and whether other people will look askance at your relationship, not whether it will work for you. I honestly think any gap more than 10 years probably has a mercenary aspect. What can you have in common?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 02:08 PM (jc0TO)
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I bet she don't remember the queen of soul.

Posted by: Axeman at July 02, 2025 02:10 PM (Q4cxx)

279 Cornyn doesn't endorse. Cornyn endorses Allred.

Could be interesting to watch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That burns too many bridges for Cornyn if he wants a post senatorial grifting career. An old white senate GOP former senator simply does not rate with today's left.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:10 PM (ctrM5)

280 Winning matters more than justice to prosecutors
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:09 PM (dfIr7)

There was no chance of losing that case. The evidence was mountainous.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 02:10 PM (MGB5H)

281 I honestly think any gap more than 10 years probably has a mercenary aspect. What can you have in common?
Posted by: toby928

We both love football!
-- Bill Belichick

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:10 PM (77rzZ)

282 The half plus seven rule is about perceptions and whether other people will look askance at your relationship, not whether it will work for you. I honestly think any gap more than 10 years probably has a mercenary aspect. What can you have in common?
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 02:08 PM (jc0TO)

what does any man and woman have in common? You build that after you meet.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:10 PM (8avO+)

283 Half minus 7?

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:10 PM (iFTx/)
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That's work until I'm 66. But what am I going to do afterwards?!

Posted by: Leonardo at July 02, 2025 02:11 PM (Q4cxx)

284 My oldest laptop has a "686" CPU, a weird transitional architecture. Still has the best keyboard out of the bunch.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 02:11 PM (xYXPm)

285 279 Cornyn doesn't endorse. Cornyn endorses Allred.

Could be interesting to watch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That burns too many bridges for Cornyn if he wants a post senatorial grifting career. An old white senate GOP former senator simply does not rate with today's left.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:10 PM (ctrM5)

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Retort:

Cornyn seems kind of stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

286 WitchDoktor that's a great score. Didn't know JR ever had deals like that, will have to pay attention. Just in general, the Atlantic 10-pack deals can be terrific. Hard to resist when they have any of my favorites in that format. Yes, I'm cheap. Also, after little inflation throughout the hyper-inflation starting in 2021, I'm seeing noticeable increases everywhere. Also, tariffs, of course.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 02:11 PM (1m82a)

287 Fewer people cooking nowadays and many of those that do dislike the esthetics, taste, etc. of canned goods compared with fresh. Campbell Soup is having similar problems.

Campbell's was almost bankrupt and about to shut down when the panic lockdowns hit and they had a bonanza of business. But yeah, Doordash is easier than even opening a can and microwaving it in a dish

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:12 PM (dfIr7)

288 Cornyn seems kind of stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

Tillis

Posted by: The GOP! at July 02, 2025 02:12 PM (VPwHp)

289 I honestly think any gap more than 10 years probably has a mercenary aspect. What can you have in common?
Posted by: toby928

We both love football!
-- Bill Belichick
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:10 PM (77rzZ)

The best thing about that relationship is that the gal shows no interest in football to suck up to him. Shows good character.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:12 PM (8avO+)

290 Oh sock

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 02:12 PM (VPwHp)

291 288 Cornyn seems kind of stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

Tillis
Posted by: The GOP! at July 02, 2025 02:12 PM (VPwHp)

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Tillis (not Thune!) may actually be outright retarded. Like, IQ of 85 retarded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

292 The age difference in parents was 7 years (Dad older than Mom). But they had both experienced the Depression and WWII, so they had a lot in common.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:12 PM (77rzZ)

293 You owe it to yourself to go watch the clip of the "Democratic Doctors Caucus" press conference.

Pathetic would be an improvement; it's worse than pathetic.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 02:13 PM (CBWwv)

294 what does any man and woman have in common? You build that after you meet.

As you note, there's always a struggle because of the differences, but pushing additional things on top of that like cultural differences or generational ones make it even harder. Its adding complication on an already challenging situation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 02:13 PM (dfIr7)

295 I don't give a shit about Fat Harv. In some ways, he got what he deserved from a moral standpoint. But he was railroaded in these trials. Without the rule of law, they can do that to any one of us.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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He just recently had a retrial of one of the charges. Still convicted by a second jury of his peers and arguably beyond any moral panic as it was not widely reported. Harvey did the crime beyond a reasonable doubt (and probably others) to two juries and the judge and will spend most of the rest of his life behind bars.

Your arguments are unconvincing here counselor and the people have spoken-twice.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:06 PM (ctrM5)
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Trump was convicted too. Do you claim he also did the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt? Your arguments are no more convincing than you claim mine are.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

296 If she catered to my every need and looked after me as Nancy did Ronnie because of an inheritance to come, fine with me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:14 PM (K91ZZ)

297 We all love football!
Bomb! Hurt! Kill! Arrgh!
We all love football!
Slash! Kick! Maim! Ohhh!
Football is the game that we adore

Posted by: Pythons at July 02, 2025 02:14 PM (Q4cxx)

298 Green bean casserole and chicken & rice casserole must be protected at all costs.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2025 02:14 PM (q2NNn)

299 Bulg, yes, whoops. The reverse of that formula works for groomers and leonardo dicaprio.

So let;'s see: Leo is 50 (crap, time flies!) And current girlfiend (who destroyed an iconic D&G gown at the Bezos wedding, previously worn by Leo's old ex girlfriend Giselle Bundchen, awkward since Giselle wore it better) is 27.

50/2 + 7 = 32.

So yes, the math doesn't lie. Their age difference is weird.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:14 PM (Eng1Z)

300 WitchDoktor that's a great score. Didn't know JR ever had deals like that, will have to pay attention. Just in general, the Atlantic 10-pack deals can be terrific. Hard to resist when they have any of my favorites in that format. Yes, I'm cheap. Also, after little inflation throughout the hyper-inflation starting in 2021, I'm seeing noticeable increases everywhere. Also, tariffs, of course.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 02:11 PM (1m82a)

I'm cheap too. More than $10 for a regular production cigar is a very hard sell for me.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 02:14 PM (PzXaK)

301 I remember installing Linux from pieces on a 486DX. Took 2.5 hours to build. Totally worth it.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 02:14 PM (xYXPm)

302 Trans nood

Posted by: Clay at July 02, 2025 02:14 PM (FGVJE)

303 nood

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 02:15 PM (xYXPm)

304 274 "As of version 6.15, the Linux kernel will no longer support chips running the 80486 architecture, along with a gaggle of early “586” chips as well"

Warn Pixy!

"The changes remove around 15,000 lines of code."

Cripes.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird
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Very old hand built code is usually much more secure by obscurity from hackers and also runs very fast and cheap on today's servers. It doesn't help that Ace's ad revenues have been destroyed by Big Tech anti Lefty censorship types and enforced boycotts of any advertising on any place that allows comments of the right (*wrong to them) kind.

So, Ace could move to a vamped up new system requiring registration, pay for play on comments like PJ Media, and become part of a conglomerate like PJ Media or the Daily Wire is or he can keep the current site running as cheaply as the existing revenues allow.

Your choice.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:15 PM (ctrM5)

305 Have only seen it with the sound off, but Tillis' little Fuhrerbunker rant on the Senate floor - replete in his stylish new combo of polo shirt, bolo tie, and sportscoat - is bizarre. Of course he makes the Senate effectively - on key issues - potentially 52-48 Dem for the next 18 months. Great.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 02:15 PM (1m82a)

306 Leo dated Giselle? Was this before or after Brady?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:15 PM (77rzZ)

307 Trump was convicted too. Do you claim he also did the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt? Your arguments are no more convincing than you claim mine are.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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Trump's appeals are moving onwards and he wasn't convicted twice yet via retrials. You have a personal grudge on this issue and won't let it go.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:16 PM (ctrM5)

308 > Fewer people cooking nowadays and many of those that do dislike the esthetics, taste, etc. of canned goods compared with fresh. Campbell Soup is having similar problems.

If I want soup, I can toss some basic ingredients into a crock pot in the morning. By evening, I have a fantastic soup that blows that massively over salted crap from a Campbell soup can out of the water.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 02:16 PM (lIio7)

309 He just recently had a retrial of one of the charges. Still convicted by a second jury of his peers and arguably beyond any moral panic as it was not widely reported. Harvey did the crime beyond a reasonable doubt (and probably others) to two juries and the judge and will spend most of the rest of his life behind bars.

Your arguments are unconvincing here counselor and the people have spoken-twice.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:06 PM (ctrM5)

His peers? How many fat movie execs are there on that jury?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:16 PM (8avO+)

310
Your arguments are unconvincing here counselor and the people have spoken-twice.
Posted by: whig
-------------------------

Easy peasy. Coercion is rape. Not getting a part in the movie unless you screw him is coercion therefore he raped them.
Casting couch is inadmissible evidence.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (K91ZZ)

311 I honestly think any gap more than 10 years probably has a mercenary aspect. What can you have in common?
Posted by: toby928

We both love football!
-- Bill Belichick
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 02:10 PM (77rzZ)

The best thing about that relationship is that the gal shows no interest in football to suck up to him. Shows good character.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:12 PM (8avO+)
_____

That's a very odd relationship. Not that it's a rich famous guy and a much younger woman -- that happens all the time -- but that she shits on him in public. And he defends her for it. That's unusual.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (iFTx/)

312 I think Allred's announcement is great, because I think it probably keeps Beato out of the race. Allred looks good on paper, but he just lost a Senate race to Ted Cruz by a 53% to 45% margin, and there's no reason to believe he'd get any more than that on another go round.
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That's with the tail-wind of a Presidential election on the ballot.
And he had more money than he could spend--every ad on TV and YouTube was an Allred ad.

I'm really glad he is running.
He's got the stink of loser on him now and no ad campaign will change that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (CBWwv)

313 As of version 6.15, the Linux kernel will no longer support chips running the 80486 architecture, along with a gaggle of early “586” chips as well

Does this imply that 386 support is already gone?

I am out of touch.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 02:18 PM (jc0TO)

314 On the Cornyn/Paxton race, looking around for stories I see that the GOPe is already trying to flood the zone with "Cornyn is more electable! You have to vote for the Deep State candidate, not the actual conservative!" They say that all of the drama and allegations about Paxton will drag him down - but, as with Trump, they're all quite old. They've been litigated in public for years, there isn't any one who hasn't already made up their mind about them.

Paxton has won 3 statewide races for attorney general, in 2022 winning by a 53% to 43% margin. His main task in an election is just to convince the people who've voted for him 3 times already to vote for him again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 02:19 PM (uWKK8)

315 So let;'s see: Leo is 50 (crap, time flies!) And current girlfiend (who destroyed an iconic D&G gown at the Bezos wedding, previously worn by Leo's old ex girlfriend Giselle Bundchen, awkward since Giselle wore it better) is 27.

50/2 + 7 = 32.

So yes, the math doesn't lie. Their age difference is weird.
Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 02:14 PM (Eng1Z)

DeCaprio's rule is 20-25. Then you are gone. This is known.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 02:19 PM (8avO+)

316 Trump was convicted too. Do you claim he also did the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt? Your arguments are no more convincing than you claim mine are.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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Trump's appeals are moving onwards and he wasn't convicted twice yet via retrials. You have a personal grudge on this issue and won't let it go.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 02:16 PM (ctrM5)
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Oh fuck off. It seems you have some personal issue here. Other commenters here feel the same way I do. Do we all have personal grudges?

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

317 Missed it by this >

https://is.gd/By3dkE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (L/fGl)

318 316 Do we all have personal grudges?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

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*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

319 Festive little hats!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 01:58 PM (lYyke)

Is this another one of those thinly-veiled references to Joos?
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Snort.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 02:20 PM (W3T6M)

320 "Does this imply that 386 support is already gone?

I am out of touch."

As of 2012, I think.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 02:21 PM (xYXPm)

321
I'm really glad he is running.
He's got the stink of loser on him now and no ad campaign will change that.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 02:17 PM (CBWwv)

And the best part of that race is that all through it, news outlets were saying "Allred is within one or two points! The race is too close to call, he might win!!"" on and on and on, and it was annoying because Cruz really ran a halfhearted campaign. (Do Better, Ted!!!)
and then came election day, and Oh, its Cruz 53, Allred 45. Guess it really wasn't too close to call after all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 02:22 PM (uWKK8)

322 "Your choice."

A decision far too weighty for my sloping shoulders.

I did not mean to imply any changes to code were needed. I was just joking that maybe Pixy still had a 486 server running somewhere.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 02:24 PM (xYXPm)

323 See B.S. Pays the Price for being irresponsible

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 02, 2025 06:31 PM (wGqjj)

Jury Mostly Exonerates P Diddler

I haven't followed this, but I think they got this mostly right. Half of the charges I didn't even understand. It was like Jack McCoy on Law & Order, portrayed as a crusader hero for twisting the law to fit iffy facts. Half of the fictitious people he convicted had actually committed no actual crime.

Or much like the J6 prosecutors did, coming up with strained theories about "parading" being part of a "conspiracy to defraud the United States."

There's no doubt that this guy is an absolute degenerate pervert, and a weird gay dude into cuck fantasies, but unfortunately we've pretty much made simple sexual degeneracy legal, or even approved by the state.

Diddler was found guilty of two minor charges of paying for prostitutes to cross state lines. The "crossing state lines" is what gives this law some kind of a federal pretext. Usually prostitution is handled by state courts, and usually it's not seriously prosecuted.

He was found not guilty on all of the serious charges, like some kind of a RICO charge -- I guess they argued that he was the head of a criminal syndicate to commit "Freak-Offs" -- and two counts of sex trafficking.

Hip-hop icon Sean Combs was stunningly acquitted Wednesday on federal charges of forcing his former lovers to live out his degrading sexual fantasies -- but found guilty of lesser prostitution raps.
Combs, better known by his stage name Diddy, dodged charges that carried a possible life sentence after a two-month trial that revealed twisted details about the mogul, including his preference for "freak-offs" -- watching his girlfriends have grueling, drug-fueled sex romps with male escorts.
The embattled entrepreneur, 55, had faced life in prison after being charged with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.
But a jury convicted him only of prostitution charges stemming from shipping the escorts across state lines, which could send him to prison for up to 20 years.
Jurors had deliberated for 13 hours total over three days, leading to a dramatic scene in a Manhattan federal courtroom Tuesday morning.

Combs nodded his head repeatedly as the verdict was read out and pumped his fist as the jury cleared him on a sex-trafficking charge, saying "thank you" for being cleared on the most serious charge.
He then held his hands in the prayer gesture and waved them in the direction of the jury approvingly

The jury ultimately found Combs guilty of two Mann Act Transportation counts, which are prostitution charges, each carrying a maximum prison term of 10 years.

If you're charging someone with the Mann Act you're pretty desperate.

Megyn Kelly is angry about the judgment, and insists Diddy should have been convicted for sex trafficking. Based on her reportage, apparently the prosecutors tried to prove that Diddler's "girfriends" -- or whatever they were -- were "sexually trafficked" because Diddler sometimes hit them and otherwise exerted his will over them.

In other words, she's arguing that two grown-ass women were incapable of simply leaving. She's arguing that they were essentially kept in captivity for sex, and hence, "sex trafficked."

But they weren't. They were not held against their will. They were free to come and go whenever they liked. At any time, they could have hired a lawyer to sue him or bring charges against him for assault.

But they stayed (until they didn't). Kelly argues that the fear of Diddler hitting them constituted some kind of physical/psychological prison they were kept in.

There are some women I'd say could be said to be "trafficked" even if not kept in cages. I can definitely see children being so intimidated by a man that the man can be convicted of sex trafficking even if they're allowed mostly free movement. I can see illegal alien women transported by criminals for sexual purposes. Even if they're free to walk around and go where they like, I could see an argument that they would feel imprisoned by the people who smuggled them into the country. I could see them feeling that their smugglers have leverage over them. And they also might not know that American cops are responsive to citizen complaints. They won't just yell at you and tell you to go back to your husband (or owner) and be a better concubine, as they might in some countries.

There are American women who know that American cops actually will investigate your claims, and that any lawyer would love to sue Diddler to extract money from him.

I can understand why the jury bought the defense's claim that these women could come and go as they wanted but stayed because they liked the lifestyle and the huge amounts of money Diddler spent on them. I have a hard time agreeing that if a woman chooses to stay with a man, for whatever crazy or corrupt reason, that man can be prosecuted for "trafficking" them.

Trafficked to where? To whom? The whole idea of the charge is that women and children are being taken from their homes and brought to an alien and frightening new land are put to work in actual prostitution. These women were born in America and continue to live in America. They are not isolated and alone in America. They know their way around, and they know how to leave a man if they want to.

If Diddler hit these women, absolutely, prosecute him for assault. But I can't see how he becomes, basically, a kidnapper when the women don't leave.

But again, I didn't follow the case closely. You may have a very different view. If I've missed something, let me know.

Below, Megyn Kelly is angry. She says that Diddler wasn't prosecuted for assault because the statute of limitations had passed long ago.

But... I'm sorry, but that means you can't bring that case. You can't do a Jack McCoy and twist the law to fit the facts to let you prosecute the charge under a different name.

As for the arson-- I completely forgot this was a charge. Or was it? Did the statute of limitations run on that, too, so they re-cast it as part of a RICO charge to overcome the statute of limitations?

I'm just reflexively opposed to this type of shenanigans. Yes, the law imposes limits on prosecutors. That's a feature not a bug.

Posted by: Ace at 12:13 PM

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1 Baby Oil futures are up 12%

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (XrKRU)

2 good morning Ace!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (K/v0v)

3 His god awful music is enough reason to incarcerate him.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (ASFuz)

4 Oh and First- Mornin' Ace!

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (XrKRU)

5 This is about as much as I've ever read about the case.

Because I care so much.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (uWKK8)

6 nooded

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (K/v0v)

7 Top o' the noon to ya, Ace.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (dPfyF)

8 There are some women I'd say could be said to be "trafficked" even if not kept in cages.

there were some randos who were brought to that degenerate scumlord's mansion under some pretext and then kept there for sexual entertainment.

these were not girlfriends or hangers-on, they were young women, some teens. So they were being exploited. And then threatened with dire consequences if they snitched.

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM (dCxaZ)

9 Just imagine if Epstein hadn't managed to kill himself he could have gotten a similar conviction

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM (D7oie)

10 Was he acquitted on the serious charges? Or just hung on them?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM (jc0TO)

11 I always knew rap was ghey.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM (WIJBc)

12 Does this mean a new album's about to drop?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM (Q4IgG)

13 Free Bill Cosby!

Posted by: P Diddy, Not Guilty at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM (4dUzE)

14 If you're charging someone with the Mann Act you're pretty desperate.

The Mann Act?!

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Feminazis everywhere at July 02, 2025 12:17 PM (dPfyF)

15 "Diddler was found..."

ISWYDT

Posted by: Beartooth at July 02, 2025 12:17 PM (8wKVG)

16 I don't know anything about this trial so I guess the jury knows best.

Prosecutors probably screwed up the case.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 12:17 PM (Oy/m2)

17 Didn't follow any of it. All that sort of stuff, apparently common in the entertainment industry, is just alien to me.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 02, 2025 12:18 PM (WPL6O)

18 I couldn't tell you the name of any of his music catalog.
Never bought his clothes, thought all the name changes were stupid. Basically he was 100% off my radar since he appeared on the scene.

I tried to watch the recaps of his trial but the details were literally revolting and turned my stomach.
I felt like I needed a sauna/steam bath to get the stench of those words out of my aura.

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 12:18 PM (dCxaZ)

19 Was he acquitted on the serious charges? Or just hung on them?
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM

I don't want to know anything at all about whether Diddy was hung.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 12:18 PM (dPfyF)

20 String him up.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 12:19 PM (wCk3Y)

21 Megyn Kelly Double-think: Girls are strong independent girl-boss babe kick-ass girly supergirl girl bosses, also girls can't walk out a door because they are afraid.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 12:19 PM (cpC+s)

22 I am sure he was molesting teenagers, getting people stoned and drunk and abusing them, hosting parties where all this happened, and pimped out women galore.

The problem is, proving this requires implicating a lot of powerful, rich, and "important" people, so like with the Epstein/Maxwell affair, they have to dance around things and avoid introducing a lot of things that would give them the win

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:19 PM (dfIr7)

23 I agree with your take Ace except for one thing. Maureen Comey was the prosecutor and she also handled Epstein cases.
Coincidence?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 02, 2025 12:19 PM (t/2Uw)

24 Uggg.

Read the post.
‘No Sponge for you!’

Posted by: Heirloominati at July 02, 2025 12:19 PM (euPbd)

25 Rap is full of dubious characters.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (rJ48h)

26 "Megyn Kelly is angry about the judgment, and insists Diddy should have been convicted for sex trafficking. Based on her reportage, apparently the prosecutors tried to prove that Diddler's "girfriends" -- or whatever they were -- were "sexually trafficked" because Diddler sometimes hit them and otherwise exerted his will over them."

Megyn Kelly is dead wrong but her view is not unusual. Sadly, that view really hurts victims of real sex trafficking. But with very few exceptions, nobody wants to go after real sex traffickers. Why? Because they're mostly Mexican cartels who'll cut off your head if you cross them.

So we go after guys like Diddy. He's scum but taking advantage of gold-diggers and star-fuckers ain't "sex trafficking." It's not even illegal. All these Diddy girls not only knew exactly what they were getting into, they were lined up around the block for it. And they went back repeatedly for more.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

27 So, take a step back.

...

Who is P Diddy?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

28 The jury ultimately found Combs guilty of two Mann Act Transportation counts, which are prostitution charges, each carrying a maximum prison term of 10 years.

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The Federal government shipped kids around the country. So how does the law work when the government is doing illegal things?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (Vh9CX)

29 Didn't follow.
Didn't care.
I wish the Beer Girl cart would come around again. I'm on the 11th hole and I'm getting thirsty.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (1bdKO)

30 I haven't followed it at all. I don't even know who Diddy is. A rapper?

I'm waiting for the Vindman trial, or any trial of any of the traitors under Biden.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (WHfpM)

31 Good afternoon Ace. Agreed . From what I read most of the people were willing participants. I compared it earlier to the women who went back the Weinstein's office after they had been assaulted once. You know what you're getting into. The Feds under Biden started this mess as a show trial, as evidence that they were taking action against "trafficking". There's much worse and way more criminal out there

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (eBgDF)

32 Free Harvey.

Just kidding. Free the Obama prop wife and kids.

Posted by: Auspex at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (j4U/Z)

33 The women waited until Hugh Hefner was dead to bring the same type of public charges against him.

They all claimed to be ' prisoners' .

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (VofaG)

34 Was he acquitted on the serious charges? Or just hung on them?

nope

NG

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (dCxaZ)

35 #metoo2 Electric Boogaloo.

A bunch of people chose to do disgusting things for the promise of financial rewards. Boo freaking hoo.

In the event that anyone was actually coerced... sucks for them. Did they report it at the time?

In the event that anyone was underaged at the time... well, expecting the pretty people to pay for their degeneracy is a fool's dream.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (ExV1e)

36 We will see this hashed and rehashed. Sort of like the Weinstein case. So, the jury has spoken and Diddy will start appealing immediately. But, expect incoming civil trials and Diddy's family trying to hide cash and assets around the world.

But, I will say, Diddy appears to be a protected dude and was probably an alphabet agency asset like Whitey Bulger was.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:21 PM (ctrM5)

37 Men are better than women at everything, including being women.

Posted by: El Borak at July 02, 2025 12:21 PM (JHWND)

38

A zookeeper fed his long-lived dolphins sea gulls, which was the secret to their longevity. One night he was carrying the gulls, but he had to jump over a sleeping lion, and so he was arrested for transporting gulls across staid lions for immortal porpoises

Posted by: frankly at July 02, 2025 12:21 PM (birkw)

39 I saw a documentary awhile back on that online-influencer-whatever-you-call-them Onision who was accused of grooming young girls. There was no doubt that he was a weapon's grade douchebag, but by the end of the doc it seemed the message was that women are helpless. They have no decision making powers whatsoever it seemed. Not a great message.

Posted by: Jim Rose at July 02, 2025 12:22 PM (miqrx)

40 I haven't followed it at all. I don't even know who Diddy is. A rapper?

Rap-a-rap-a-rap, they call him the rapper
Rap, rap, rap, you know what he's after

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 12:22 PM (muwun)

41 OT/willowed/still don't know who-what "P Diddy" is/was:

whig, nice to see you bring up Kuhn. But in fact his model/template was specifically science, right, so your observation that *the sciences* haven't seemed to internalize his insights is particularly alarming.

I mean, it's right there in the title: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

I was lucky to have been assigned this 3 different times, first in high school (by what would then be called a "leftist" poli sci teacher, it was a college-level class). Even though - like most things - it boils down to common sense, and human nature, still very valuable framework to view, well, human institutions and behavior.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2025 12:22 PM (1m82a)

42 "I haven't followed this, but I think they got this mostly right. Half of the charges I didn't even understand. It was like Jack McCoy on Law & Order, portrayed as a crusader hero for twisting the law to fit iffy facts. Half of the fictitious people he convicted had actually committed no actual crime."
- - - - - - - -
I want someone to lay claim to the L&O IP. Do a special movie or miniseries, small number of episodes.

Go back over the previous storylines, and all the legal chicanery that they did to Get Their Man. For the ones with very loose threads, follow up with the results of the appeals... or the news stories about suicides and posthumous exonerations when it was too late. Don't have the actor for Jack McCoy. But lay into him for how badly he screwed things up.

Basically, burn down the series, but doing so with good acting and directing.

Posted by: Another Anon at July 02, 2025 12:22 PM (4h45B)

43 The Federal government shipped kids around the country. So how does the law work when the government is doing illegal things?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Sovereign immunity and qualified immunity for its minions even if bad things happened under the Biden junta in delivering kids directly to child traffickers and abusers.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:22 PM (ctrM5)

44 I didn’t read it but it looks like Ace is mostly agreeing with Megyn Kelly’s take on the verdict?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 12:22 PM (jbnUc)

45 P Diddy is the new Jack Johnson .

I have no doubt they will actually use that to play the race card.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:22 PM (VofaG)

46 If you're charging someone with the Mann Act you're pretty desperate.

The Mann Act?

Junior, when we get home I'm gonna slap your mama.
Posted by: Sheriff Buford T. Justice

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 12:23 PM (Ul4ZN)

47 Megyn Kelly is all over the map… with cases like this one she wants to hang the perp. She had all out hate-fests on JFK and JFK Jr which seem out of proportion as well. I think for Kelly if you’re a creepy dude that mistreats woman (and all these guys are/were) you’re in the same category as Mao and Stalin.

Don’t get me wrong… This Diddy guy seems to be truly a creep…. And I didn’t follow this case closely at all. But I doubt he’s another Stalin

And I am more suspicious of prosecutors and their power now than I used to be. The J6 cases changed me… I’m no longer rah rah for cops and prosecutors

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 02, 2025 12:23 PM (5MZNC)

48 I had forgotten that Comey's daughter was one of the prosecutor's. I wonder if she did this to protect people who were involved with Diddy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 12:23 PM (eBgDF)

49 @16. I would agree that the prosecutors most likely screwed up.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 02, 2025 12:23 PM (w3u3d)

50 When one of the lawyers in the Diddy case defending him quit, saying the case was messed up and he couldn't -- and this is a prosecutor that defended Osama Bin Laden -- I knew it would be a messed up trial. Disappointing conclusion.

James Comey's daughter was one of the prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office. This pings my conspiracy theory radar. She also previously worked on the Ghislaine Maxwell case. I wonder if she was in there to do the dirty work of hiding the REAL crimes of these people, done by the elites and the swamp, while looking like she's trying to get them convicted.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 12:23 PM (gWBY1)

51 Diddler's Hoors loved the money and limelight so much that they were up for whatever Diddler wanted them to do. If Diddler was Russell from the trailer park in Akron I do not believe they would have subjected themselves to such things.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 02, 2025 12:24 PM (ycs3a)

52 Plus Diddy's ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, received 20 million within a day of filing her lawsuit.

The jury probably took that into consideration.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 12:24 PM (NpAcC)

53 Jack Johnson, former World Champion Heavyweight Boxer, was found guilty of violating the Mann Act too for sexing up the white wimmens back before TV commercials said it was ok.

Posted by: Zombie Jim Jeffries at July 02, 2025 12:24 PM (4dUzE)

54 The women waited until Hugh Hefner was dead to bring the same type of public charges against him.

They all claimed to be ' prisoners' .
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (VofaG)

To be fair, have you ever tried to find your way out of a backyard grotto when you're naked and stone cold drunk?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 12:24 PM (muwun)

55 When does that Mangioni scum go on trial?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 12:24 PM (XalnV)

56 "If Diddler hit these women, absolutely, prosecute him for assault. But I can't see how he becomes, basically, a kidnapper when the women don't leave."

Oh, he definitely hit and physically abused them. There's that stomach-turning video of him dragging that THOT girlfriend of his by her hair in a hotel hallway. What did she do about it? She stayed with him for years, and almost became his wife. She didn't complain about it until long afterwards, when she saw a way to make money off it.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

57 The Left are beginning their official turn against black men. Check back in a couple years to see it for real.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:24 PM (VPwHp)

58 Megyn Kelly Double-think: Girls are strong independent girl-boss babe kick-ass girly supergirl girl bosses, also girls can't walk out a door because they are afraid.

There is a trend right now of women posting videos of women in need of help or being attacked and guys just watching or leaving. They are crying "where are the good men!!" and complaining about the lack of chivalry.

The male response is usually "you chose the bear." And while I think men have a responsibility, a duty, the honor, of protecting the weak and aiding the helpless... the men have a point.

You cannot degrade, attack, demonize, and legally ensnare men for decades without there being consequences. You cannot act the "boss babe" slut and expect to be treated as a lady. "You chose the bear" is shorthand for "this is what you get your display that behavior and treat us like crap for my entire life."

Its just as wrong as the women's behavior, its weak and unmasculine, but its not exactly shocking to see.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:24 PM (dfIr7)

59 It's never Rico.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:25 PM (ASFuz)

60 The J6 cases changed me… I’m no longer rah rah for cops and prosecutors
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 02, 2025 12:23 PM (5MZNC)

Likewise. I watch some of the videos of Civil Rights Lawyer on youtube. The LEO and prosecutorial abuse going on in this country is frightening.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 02, 2025 12:25 PM (WHfpM)

61 The Mann Act, eh? I could tell you a thing or two about that.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at July 02, 2025 12:25 PM (VPwHp)

62 >>Plus Diddy's ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, received 20 million within a day of filing her lawsuit.

And 10 Million from the Hotel.

She got the 30 Million she was seeking.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:26 PM (ASFuz)

63 The trial was his punishment. Now they can make the movie.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 12:26 PM (vFG9F)

64 The women waited until Hugh Hefner was dead to bring the same type of public charges against him.

They all claimed to be ' prisoners' .

Critical Drinker has a very timely post on this. It starts with Scarlett Johansson whining about the "male gaze", which conveniently she's chosen to do as she's aging out of the "smokin' hot ingenue" phase of her career. (TBF, I find her, if anything, hotter now than when she was younger)

The point is, don't exploit your advantage in sex appeal while you have it, and then whine when people evaluate you as a sexual object, or worse, stop viewing you as sexually desirable as you age. If you prefer they look at you in other ways, get a degree in STEM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXSFt9b1CE

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

65 Apparently being black would have saved Epstein too...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:26 PM (t0Rmr)

66 Jack Johnson, former World Champion Heavyweight Boxer, was found guilty of violating the Mann Act too for sexing up the white wimmens back before TV commercials said it was ok.
Posted by: Zombie Jim Jeffries at July 02, 2025 12:24 PM

James Earl Jones was great in that.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:26 PM (jc0TO)

67 >>>I couldn't tell you the name of any of his music catalog.

the only song i know is the song where he extensively samples Kashmir, "Come With Me." And I only noticed that because all of the good parts were just Kashmir.

Posted by: ace at July 02, 2025 12:26 PM (KRtlO)

68 Don't care about the guy. Have no interest in his music.

I don't know whether to laugh about the failed prosecution because the prosecutors were stupid, or whether to shake my head because he got away with doing the stuff brought out.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 12:27 PM (0eaVi)

69 And 10 Million from the Hotel.

She got the 30 Million she was seeking.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:26 PM (ASFuz)

That 10 million is what chaps my ass.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:27 PM (VofaG)

70 Since men are the real criminals, all women have to do is get in a relationship with another woman and the abuse will stop.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:27 PM (VPwHp)

71 Was Comey's daughter on the prosecution team? There ya go.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:27 PM (VPwHp)

72 1 Baby Oil futures are up 12%

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (XrKRU)

No skull in baby oil?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 02, 2025 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

73 I was lucky to have been assigned this 3 different times, first in high school (by what would then be called a "leftist" poli sci teacher, it was a college-level class). Even though - like most things - it boils down to common sense, and human nature, still very valuable framework to view, well, human institutions and behavior.
Posted by: rhomboid
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People always seem to take it badly when they realize that they are not as smart as they think. Or as virtuous, humorous, stylish, etc.

Ecclesiastes should be required reading along with Proverbs as well as antidotes to that thinking. Both contain ancient wisdom still applicable today.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:28 PM (ctrM5)

74 Posted by: ace at July 02, 2025 12:26 PM (KRtlO)

He's made most of his money by being a music producer. That's how he held sway over a lot of wannabes.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:28 PM (VofaG)

75 >>the only song i know is the song where he extensively samples Kashmir, "Come With Me." And I only noticed that because all of the good parts were just Kashmir.

I hate the hook of Kashmir.

In My Time of Dying is Clearly the Better Song.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:28 PM (ASFuz)

76 It's the 21st century and America is still trying to lynch black men!

- DU (99% probability)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:28 PM (L/fGl)

77 Megyn Kelly is all over the map… with cases like this one she wants to hang the perp. She had all out hate-fests on JFK and JFK Jr which seem out of proportion as well. I think for Kelly if you’re a creepy dude that mistreats woman (and all these guys are/were) you’re in the same category as Mao and Stalin.

Megyn Kelly's relevance is drying up as quick as that 55 year old cooter.

I think ace may have a thing for her, but no one other than Tomi Lahren under 40 years old even knows who she is.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 12:28 PM (cpC+s)

78 Buford T. Justice wanted to get the Bandit for a Mann act. Top. Men.

Posted by: Mongo at July 02, 2025 12:29 PM (Ef4Ak)

79 Plus Diddy's ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, received 20 million within a day of filing her lawsuit.

And 10 Million from the Hotel.

She got the 30 Million she was seeking.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:26 PM (ASFuz)
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Yup. 10 years after the event happened. She was clearly beaten and abused. But she said nothing. She stayed with him for at least two more years; almost became his wife. Only years later -- when Diddy could do nothing more for her or her career -- did she complaint and file lawsuits. I have zero sympathy for her or people like her.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

80 It starts with Scarlett Johansson whining about the "male gaze", which conveniently she's chosen to do as she's aging out of the "smokin' hot ingenue" phase of her career. (TBF, I find her, if anything, hotter now than when she was younger)

Jennifer Connelly did this as well.

Sorry honey if you looked like Melissa McCarthy you'd never have had a career to begin with.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:29 PM (t0Rmr)

81 I avoided learning all the disgusting details and feel vindicated with that decision. My wife on the other hand followed CourtTV closely without a payoff.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:29 PM (jc0TO)

82 Likewise. I watch some of the videos of Civil Rights Lawyer on youtube. The LEO and prosecutorial abuse going on in this country is frightening.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 02, 2025 12:25 PM

I know, right?

Posted by: A Duke Lacrosse Player at July 02, 2025 12:29 PM (dPfyF)

83 The Mann Act carries no minimum sentence, so he could be sentenced to house arrest and probation.

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 12:29 PM (dCxaZ)

84 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 12:29 PM (+qU29)

85 We need a category of legal status and behavior for people who at least put up with horrible treatment in order to gain personally, or achieve a goal. Was it really coercion if you went along with it at the time willingly? Was it really abuse of power if you did something you regret later, on purpose at the time?

Take the case of a young rapper who wants to make it big. Inexplicably, Sean Combs became a powerhouse in the industry despite lack of real talent or ability as a performer or producer. Young man goes to one of his parties, gets turked by seven guys and lubed up by Puff Daddy. He puts up with it because he wants that career so badly and even pretends to like it, so he gets his record contract and is promoted.

Technically he's a victim here, but... how much of one?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:29 PM (dfIr7)

86 Junior, when we get home I'm gonna slap your mama.
Posted by: Sheriff Buford T. Justice
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 12:23 PM (Ul4ZN)

Is this the bowdlerized version of the movie? Does Buford go around saying "sumgun?"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2025 12:29 PM (0eaVi)

87 What ScarJo wants to do is what all "strong independent women" want. Use your sexuality to get rich and famous, and then when you age out, pull the ladder up from anyone who might do the same.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:30 PM (VPwHp)

88 If da condom don't fit, you must acquit!

Posted by: Johnnie Cochran at July 02, 2025 12:30 PM (PiwSw)

89 314 39 I saw a documentary awhile back on that online-influencer-whatever-you-call-them Onision who was accused of grooming young girls. There was no doubt that he was a weapon's grade douchebag, but by the end of the doc it seemed the message was that women are helpless. They have no decision making powers whatsoever it seemed. Not a great message.
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And the Mann Act is from 1910 (pre women's suffrage). It's mostly based on an idea that women accompanying men they aren't married or related to across state lines must be coerced, because no nice girl would do such a thing. The same era gave women the right to sue their seducer to marry them, "as he promised". We ditched that attitude about women but kept some of these goofy laws that assume women are large children.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 02, 2025 12:30 PM (+b4rY)

90 Now that that's over, we can finally come out and say we were there with Diddy and had a freakin' great time!

Posted by: Celebs Formerly Cowering in Fear at July 02, 2025 12:30 PM (w9Wax)

91 there were some randos who were brought to that degenerate scumlord's mansion under some pretext and then kept there for sexual entertainment.

these were not girlfriends or hangers-on, they were young women, some teens. So they were being exploited. And then threatened with dire consequences if they snitched.
Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM (dCxaZ)

So, did the prosecution fail to prove that or did the jury just decide "YOLO!"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 12:30 PM (ExV1e)

92 Megyn Kelly's relevance is drying up as quick as that 55 year old cooter.

I think ace may have a thing for her, but no one other than Tomi Lahren under 40 years old even knows who she is.
Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 12:28 PM

and yet and yet. I would still hit that with all the mechanical fury of an industrial robot gone berserk.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:30 PM (jc0TO)

93 Been wondering what was going on with Diddy, hasn't seen anything for awhile. On other hand really have no idea what the case is about because I just don't have time to care.

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 12:31 PM (+qU29)

94 The point is, don't exploit your advantage in sex appeal while you have it, and then whine when people evaluate you as a sexual object, or worse, stop viewing you as sexually desirable as you age. If you prefer they look at you in other ways, get a degree in STEM.

Mmmmm. Lab coat and glasses only.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 12:31 PM (Ul4ZN)

95 Chuck Berry also had a Mann Act conviction.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 02, 2025 12:31 PM (CNl8/)

96 Wait, I thought he had a blackmail scheme going?

(double entendre, heh)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:31 PM (bss/y)

97 I hate the hook of Kashmir.

In My Time of Dying is Clearly the Better Song.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:28 PM (ASFuz)

Everybody recognizes the first song but very few know about the other song.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 12:31 PM (Oy/m2)

98
Technically he's a victim here, but... how much of one?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:29 PM (dfIr7)

It's basically the casting couch, do this and I'll do favors for you. Those poor women sold their souls for fame and money and it makes me side eye the whole music business is just as perverted as the movie scene.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 12:31 PM (QsMb/)

99 The point is, don't exploit your advantage in sex appeal while you have it, and then whine when people evaluate you as a sexual object, or worse, stop viewing you as sexually desirable as you age

Yeah there's been a whole string of actresses whining about how men lusted after them and they only got parts for being hot. Yeah, and? That's like a weightlifter mad that they only won titles by being strong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (dfIr7)

100 Since men are the real criminals, all women have to do is get in a relationship with another woman and the abuse will stop.

IIRC lesbians have a "spousal abuse rate" something like 3X straight couples.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (t0Rmr)

101 Megyn Kelly's Reflexive Feminism will forever be her Achilles heel.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (ASFuz)

102 women are large children.

Like Little Lotta?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (wCk3Y)

103 When does that Mangioni scum ~~go on trial~~ get his acquittal?
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (L/fGl)

104 And the Mann Act is from 1910 (pre women's suffrage). It's mostly based on an idea that women accompanying men they aren't married or related to across state lines must be coerced, because no nice girl would do such a thing. The same era gave women the right to sue their seducer to marry them, "as he promised". We ditched that attitude about women but kept some of these goofy laws that assume women are large children.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 02, 2025 12:30 PM (+b4rY)

Divorce laws, primary aggressor laws and sexual harassment/employment discrimination laws still function on this basic principle.

Posted by: But it's a patriarchy you know at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (TbWk/)

105 100 Since men are the real criminals, all women have to do is get in a relationship with another woman and the abuse will stop.

IIRC lesbians have a "spousal abuse rate" something like 3X straight couples.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (t0Rmr)

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I'm 99% sure this was the joke.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

106 >>Everybody recognizes the first song but very few know about the other song.

You recognize Paul McCartney's 'Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time'.

Doesn't make it suck less.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (ASFuz)

107 The point is, don't exploit your advantage in sex appeal while you have it, and then whine when people evaluate you as a sexual object, or worse, stop viewing you as sexually desirable as you age

The NYT has some feminist writer who wrote an article complaining about being catcalled by construction workers then another not long after complaining that no one noticed her anymore even construction workers...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (t0Rmr)

108 You cannot degrade, attack, demonize, and legally ensnare men for decades without there being consequences. You cannot act the "boss babe" slut and expect to be treated as a lady. "You chose the bear" is shorthand for "this is what you get your display that behavior and treat us like crap for my entire life."

Psychology Today has a new article out explaining that women who cheat are "trying to save their marriage" because they need your money, but they want the Paolo's junk. So it's a win-win for them. Not clear what the husband/cuck is getting out of it.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (QZThv)

109 Mmmmm. Lab coat and glasses only.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 12:31 PM (Ul4ZN)

Not exactly...

https://tinyurl.com/4bk7yhts

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (bss/y)

110 “Could have left/ free will”

Hmm, how do I say this:
Ace you don’t know the 1st f@cking thing about being the abused if you think free will plays any role in it.

Posted by: CapeMayBartender at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (srdeB)

111 106 You recognize Paul McCartney's 'Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time'.

Doesn't make it suck less.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (ASFuz)

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*Mariah Carey comes out of deep freeze for another Christmas season*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

112 Like Little Lotta?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (wCk3Y)

***

Lotta Fagina?

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (ycs3a)

113 Maybe I should have gone into Sex Trafficking?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 12:34 PM (W3T6M)

114 I'm 99% sure this was the joke.

Needs a Rainier Wolfcastle sock...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:34 PM (t0Rmr)

115 Maureen Comey was the prosecutor and she also handled Epstein cases.
Coincidence?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 02, 2025 12:19 PM (t/2Uw)

He was indicted during the Biden regime, correct? Was this a case of bringing people to trial and throwing cases to bring double jeopardy into play before people got in office who might take the issue seriously? Trump went after sexually trafficked children his first term also, a practice ended by the Autopen on day 1.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 12:34 PM (ExV1e)

116 58 "There is a trend right now of women posting videos of women in need of help or being attacked and guys just watching or leaving. They are crying "where are the good men!!" and complaining about the lack of chivalry."

Well a lot of these same people supported the girl-boss infesting pop culture, and only complained when a huge "transwoman" smoked them at their sporting event. They want the benefits of men without giving anything in return other than a bad attitude.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 02, 2025 12:34 PM (+b4rY)

117 Megyn Kelly's Reflexive Feminism will forever be her Achilles heel.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (ASFuz)

That and that she whored herself to the Left for a thin dime and when they said "nah, we good" she came crawling back to the only people who ever gave a fuck about her.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:34 PM (VPwHp)

118 it makes me side eye the whole music business is just as perverted as the movie scene.

Its at least as bad, but much less covered and more winked at. OK sure, he has 14-year-old groupies making plaster casts of his wang, but its rock and roll, baby!

And yes, that really happened.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:34 PM (dfIr7)

119 116
Well a lot of these same people supported the girl-boss infesting pop culture, and only complained when a huge "transwoman" smoked them at their sporting event. They want the benefits of men without giving anything in return other than a bad attitude.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 02, 2025 12:34 PM (+b4rY)

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Why doesn't the girl take down the guy with 100 pounds on her with a quick scissor grab?

Scarlett Johannson did it all the time as Black Widow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

120 Chuck Berry also had a Mann Act conviction.
Posted by: Mark1971

For doing the man act.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (L/fGl)

121 WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!!

DIDDY PARTY!!!!!

(that baby oil isn't going to buy itself)

Posted by: Johnson & Johnson at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (dIske)

122 We will see this hashed and rehashed. Sort of like the Weinstein case. So, the jury has spoken and Diddy will start appealing immediately. But, expect incoming civil trials and Diddy's family trying to hide cash and assets around the world.

But, I will say, Diddy appears to be a protected dude and was probably an alphabet agency asset like Whitey Bulger was.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:21 PM (ctrM5)

On your first point, I agree. I followed the case somewhat, and I do not think Diddy is actually guilty of RICO violations or sex trafficking. From what was presented at trial -- there is no underlying criminal enterprise, and as ace said, the women were free to leave if they wanted to. They didnt leave because, well, money and lifestyle. He is guilty of being a disgusting pig, but that's not illegal.

On your second point -- yeah, seems likely. I think he's the black Epstein, and I think it's highly likely there is an entire world of rich & powerful people that he obtained blackmail material on. But again, it seems the women were of age and not coerced beyond, er, their desire for fame, partying, money and drugs.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (uCjyK)

123 The point is, don't exploit your advantage in sex appeal while you have it, and then whine when people evaluate you as a sexual object, or worse, stop viewing you as sexually desirable as you age

The NYT has some feminist writer who wrote an article complaining about being catcalled by construction workers then another not long after complaining that no one noticed her anymore even construction workers...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (t0Rmr)
_________

The only time catcalls are a problem for women is when no catcalls are being made

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

124 Megyn Kelly also has an all out hate vendetta going against Blake Lively…. I don’t care enough to listen to the screeds but when she gets going on that topic the hate is white hot. She still looks good to me though which is probably why I stop by her YouTube channel occasionally

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (ZtAny)

125 97
‘Everybody recognizes the first song but very few know about the other song.’

In my time of dying
10 years gone and In the Light are my 3 favorites on that album.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (jbnUc)

126 Psychology Today has a new article out explaining that women who cheat are "trying to save their marriage" because they need your money, but they want the Paolo's junk. So it's a win-win for them. Not clear what the husband/cuck is getting out of it.

One of those female relationship new-zines had at article by one of their writers titled "How cheating on my husband made me a better mother" followed a few months later within another article by the writer titled "Divorced and poor I'm jealous of the other women in my parenting circle"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (t0Rmr)

127 I think Sean Combs will no longer be alive in five years, either by his own hand or someone bumping him off. I hope he turns to God and repents before that happens. I have no idea what happened to him growing up but something did a number on him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (2GCMq)

128 Prosecutor's in NYC have also wanted Diddy for a long time. When he first got famous he promoted a concert which wasn't well planned and was oversold and a stampede occurred and nine people died. He largely skated which pissed a lot of people off

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (eBgDF)

129 100 Since men are the real criminals, all women have to do is get in a relationship with another woman and the abuse will stop.

IIRC lesbians have a "spousal abuse rate" something like 3X straight couples.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (t0Rmr)

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I'm 99% sure this was the joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM

TJM gets it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (dPfyF)

130 J6 prosecutors were surely evil, but the main culprit, who admitted that there was no law against interrupting a proceeding, and handed down severe sentences " was the same bastard who releases and tries to prevent deportation of violent illegal aliens. Boasberg loves violent illegal aliens as they will surely be ok with murdering Americans when his communist revolution begins. He, Mayorkas, and AOC need prison time and send that puke Mayorkas back to Havana.

Apart from that, I agree with you, Ace. The Epstein johns still walk free.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 12:36 PM (FZn/N)

131 129 I'm 99% sure this was the joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM

TJM gets it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (dPfyF)

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*reality folds in on itself*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

132 IIRC lesbians have a "spousal abuse rate" something like 3X straight couples.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (t0Rmr)
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They also lead the STD race, too. Hands down.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 12:36 PM (W3T6M)

133 The jury sent a note complaining that one juror was not 'following the process'. I wonder if they are responsible for the confused results.

Posted by: Candidus at July 02, 2025 12:36 PM (3aljE)

134 SEX PACKETS

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=CmvUmu4TNd4

Posted by: DIGITAL UNDERGROUND at July 02, 2025 12:36 PM (ASFuz)

135 'Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time'.
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The things I would do to get that song eliminated from existence are unspeakable.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (VPwHp)

136 So, did the prosecution fail to prove that or did the jury just decide "YOLO!"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 12:30 PM (ExV1e)

I don't know. I couldn't stomach watching the whole trial.

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (dCxaZ)

137 Well at least now know what it was about.
Picking and choosing what immoral acts are allowed or drawn up to a point.

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (+qU29)

138 the only song i know is the song where he extensively samples Kashmir, "Come With Me."

His biggest hit was just "Every Breath You Take" with some grunting added. In hindsight, that should've tipped everyone off about these parties. (That and his becoming mega successful over a lot of far more talented rappers for no discernible reason - he's gotta be someone's asset).

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (QZThv)

139
it makes me side eye the whole music business is just as perverted as the movie scene.

Its at least as bad, but much less covered and more winked at. OK sure, he has 14-year-old groupies making plaster casts of his wang, but its rock and roll, baby!

And yes, that really happened.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:34 PM (dfIr7)

Led Zeppelin and the "mud shark"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (y9nCu)

140 That 10 million is what chaps my ass.
Posted by: polynikes

Isn't that what she said?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (K/v0v)

141 Are we rioting over this guy or not? I've got to arrange for someone to babysit the dogs if we are.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (+4yJ5)

142 "There is a trend right now of women posting videos of women in need of help or being attacked and guys just watching or leaving. They are crying "where are the good men!!" and complaining about the lack of chivalry."

Feminists tell me the idea that men are stronger and better at fighting then women is a social construct.

Well, ok girlbosses, why don't you just muff flip that 250lb thug to save the woman in distress?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (t0Rmr)

143 I recognize John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

I really hate that song.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (Oy/m2)

144 Can you autocucumber on a Samsung anynore?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (WIJBc)

145 But they stayed (until they didn't). Kelly argues that the fear of Diddler hitting them constituted some kind of physical/psychological prison they were kept in.

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SeanCombs Syndrome > Stockholm Syndrome

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (jxUtM)

146 Stand up hook up shuffle to the door.
Asta la vista at the count of four.
Posted by: Boss Moss

It's probably racist to shout "Geronimo" anymore so maybe shout "Lizzy Warren!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (L/fGl)

147 127 I think Sean Combs will no longer be alive in five years, either by his own hand or someone bumping him off. I hope he turns to God and repents before that happens. I have no idea what happened to him growing up but something did a number on him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 12:35 PM (2GCMq)

Fame and Fortune and narcissism did a number on him.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (FZn/N)

148 Not clear what the husband/cuck is getting out of it
_____

Doesn't lose the house, kids and half his money. Winning?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (lY3NY)

149 But, I will say, Diddy appears to be a protected dude and was probably an alphabet agency asset like Whitey Bulger was.

I don't think it has to be that complicated. Diddy Parties had pretty much every celebrity and rich person around participating and as a result, legally liable for anything awful that happened during them. Prosecution was ordered, or chose to, avoid digging too much into certain aspects of the case because of what it might reveal and who it might implicate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (dfIr7)

150 If Diddler was Russell from the trailer park in Akron I do not believe they would have subjected themselves to such things.
Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 02, 2025 12:24 PM (ycs3a)

They wouldn't have got with Russell in the first place and if he did do them wrong, what's he going to give them in the settlement? A couple of fuzzy mirror dice, a pair of truck nuts, and a scratched Skynyrd CD?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (5C538)

151 >>> 30 I haven't followed it at all. I don't even know who Diddy is. A rapper?

Palled around with Biggie Smalls, who was a superior rapper and talent. When Biggie died, he rode on the coattails of that with a top single, "missing you." It pulls from the Police and they didn't get the rights to do that, I think there was a court battle. I think there were rumors he might have had biggie killed? I honestly don't remember.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMtZm2YuBE

He also raped Justin Bieber (allegedly!) and got Usher, who he was also mentoring, to groom him, (Allegedly!) according to gossip. Which is part of why Justin is so messed up right now, all of this Diddy stuff coming back up right when he was in a good place, finding God and having a kid.

Also dated Jennifer Lopez near the height of her celeb hotness, both in looks and in career. There was a club shooting Diddy and Jen were both involved in in 1999, involving a police chase and finding a stolen gun in their car. Moses “Shyne” Barrow, who was prosecuted for the shooting, later said he got thrown under the bus by Diddy.'s team to take the fall.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (gWBY1)

152 Are we rioting over this guy or not? I've got to arrange for someone to babysit the dogs if we are.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM

I want to wait for the sentencing.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (jc0TO)

153 The jury sent a note complaining that one juror was not 'following the process'. I wonder if they are responsible for the confused results.

there was scuttlebutt that Combs appeared so confident because there was a plant on the jury, or someone he'd paid off.

which is extremely plausible. there were witnesses who changed their minds about showing up to testify

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (dCxaZ)

154 143 I recognize John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

I really hate that song.
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (Oy/m2)

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Junior played that at his last recital.

Chosen by his teacher, piano heavy and almost exclusively cord based.

He did really well. No one sung, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

155 That and that she whored herself to the Left for a thin dime and when they said "nah, we good" she came crawling back to the only people who ever gave a fuck about her.

Yep. She's FakeAF.

Trump was right to call her out all those years ago, when the idiot right was still enthralled with her.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (cpC+s)

156 And now, we can expect a million morons to follow his lead……”hey, he wasn’t convicted why can’t I beat this girl, cage that one and rape this one?”

And our civilization dies a little more.

Posted by: CapeMayBartender at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (srdeB)

157 So the FBI "inherits" Diddy's collection of celebrity sex tapes.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (rJ48h)

158 maybe legally the verdict is adequate, but I have a bad feeling about this...for years there have been rumors that he is responsible for Tupac's murder. or was it it Biggie's? or both?

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (g47mK)

159 ‘Everybody recognizes the first song but very few know about the other song.’

In my time of dying
10 years gone and In the Light are my 3 favorites on that album.
Posted by: Dr. Claw a

Boogie with Stu

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (w9Wax)

160 140 That 10 million is what chaps my ass.
Posted by: polynikes

Isn't that what she said?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (K/v0v)

I have a roll on for that.

Posted by: Lume at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (b0Dcz)

161 Seems this was inevitable

@TomFitton May 17
James Comey's daughter is leading the P Diddy prosecution.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (mlg/3)

162 I recognize John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

Beautiful melody, too bad it was used for such an idiotic message

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (dfIr7)

163 Bob Dole says Kashmir goes harder than Bob Dole on a Blue Pill Bender.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (VPwHp)

164 The male response is usually "you chose the bear."

Sucks for the women that didn't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

165 we can expect a million morons to follow his lead……”hey, he wasn’t convicted why can’t I beat this girl, cage that one and rape this one?”

I like to think better of the Horde

Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (5C538)

166 it makes me side eye the whole music business is just as perverted as the movie scene.

Much like acting, talent doesn't matter all that much in the industry.

What matters is that you get a major record label behind you. So this gives a hell of a lot of power to the people who decide who they are going to throw those resources at...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (t0Rmr)

167 Psychology Today has a new article out explaining that women who cheat are "trying to save their marriage" because they need your money, but they want the Paolo's junk. So it's a win-win for them. Not clear what the husband/cuck is getting out of it.

And it never would have happened if the man was being the Christ-like servant leader God called him to be in the marriage. So it's his failing, not hers.

Posted by: No, I didn't make this up at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (TbWk/)

168 OJ II, Diddy Bugaloo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl)

169 that he is responsible for Tupac's murder. or was it it Biggie's?
Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (g47mK)

Is there a difference?

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (VPwHp)

170 Junior played that at his last recital.

Chosen by his teacher, piano heavy and almost exclusively cord based.

He did really well. No one sung, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

Thank god. But you were imagining the weaselly whining in your mind, weren't you?

So this is Christmas is also a shit song I hate with the passion of a 1000 suns.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (bss/y)

171 > Are we rioting over this guy or not? I've got to arrange for someone to babysit the dogs if we are.
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You know there would have been if he'd been convicted of anything "serious."

Perhaps that played into the prosecution?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (Q4IgG)

172 Hmm, how do I say this:
Ace you don’t know the 1st f@cking thing about being the abused if you think free will plays any role in it.
Posted by: CapeMayBartender at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (srdeB)

There's a difference between the vernacular use of "coerced" -- being psychologically pressured in to doing something with fame, money, "lifestyle", the power imbalance etc. and being legally coerced in to doing something.

We can all agree Diddy's behavior was disgusting, but I think we can also all agree that it's not a crime to lavish women with gifts and get them in to clubs and give them money and expect sexual favors from them. That's... well, a lot of people would be in jail if that were illegal. And that legal standard would be brutal and unworkable. "I'm suing my boss for kidnapping me because he said if I left my shift early I would be fired, so he coerced me to stay at work."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (uCjyK)

173 It's never Rico.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:25 PM (ASFuz)

If it were RICO, the feds would have been involved on the criminal end.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (ExV1e)

174 I recognize John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

I really hate that song.
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM

With the heat of a thousand suns.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (dPfyF)

175 @127 Fenelon, the family of Tupac Shakur is investigating whether Diddy was involved in his murder. If a link is discovered Diddy is toast

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (eBgDF)

176 James Comey's daughter is leading the P Diddy prosecution.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (mlg/3)

Why is the bitch still employed?

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (FZn/N)

177 170 Thank god. But you were imagining the weaselly whining in your mind, weren't you?

So this is Christmas is also a shit song I hate with the passion of a 1000 suns.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (bss/y)

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I was mostly making sure I got the best angle on the video record.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

178 From what was presented at trial -- there is no underlying criminal enterprise, and as ace said, the women were free to leave if they wanted to.

They didnt leave because, well, money and lifestyle.

Yacht girl FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 12:41 PM (Ul4ZN)

179 143
‘ I recognize John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

I really hate that song.’

It’s easy if you try.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 12:41 PM (jbnUc)

180 @18

>>I couldn't tell you the name of any of his music catalog.

His biggest protege was The Notorious BIG aka, Biggie Smalls, who was a real talent, Diddy would appear in his videos as a Hype Man, the best example of this was the song, Victory, which may be the best exemplar of rap music of the mid-90's.

After Biggie was murdered, rap went to shit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 12:41 PM (XV/Pl)

181 173 It's never Rico.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:25 PM (ASFuz)

If it were RICO, the feds would have been involved on the criminal end.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (ExV1e)

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If it were Johnny Rico, everyone would have been bug bait.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)

182 From the daily beast (yeah, I know):

"Moses “Shyne” Barrow is done faking nice with Sean “Diddy” Combs, finally claiming nearly 25 years later that the incarcerated ex-mogul set him up to take the fall for the 1999 Manhattan Club shooting, caused him to spend nearly a decade in prison, and “destroyed my life.”

Combs and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez were arrested immediately after the shooting for their alleged involvement, but the charges were ultimately dropped—and witnesses pinned the shooting on Barrow, who had also accompanied the couple to the nightclub.

Barrow, who was signed to Diddy’s Bad Boy Records, now says that Diddy and J.Lo’s dropped charges were no accident. “I was defending [Diddy] and he turned around and called witnesses to testify against me,” Barrow told the press on Thursday, “and he pretty much sent me to prison.”

The Grammy-nominated rapper-turned-politician denied any bitter feelings about his conviction for the shooting—saying in 2022 that “I blame [the conviction] more on the lawyers that were advising [Diddy]. Because his lawyers were there to secure a ‘not guilty’ verdict by any means."

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 12:41 PM (gWBY1)

183 He also raped Justin Bieber (allegedly!)
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Never name your kid Justin Bieber. The name alone means fuck me in the ass.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 12:41 PM (W3T6M)

184 James Comey's daughter was one of the prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office. This pings my conspiracy theory radar. She also previously worked on the Ghislaine Maxwell case. I wonder if she was in there to do the dirty work of hiding the REAL crimes of these people, done by the elites and the swamp, while looking like she's trying to get them convicted.

Posted by: LizLem
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Yep. Keep the rich and famous enjoying Diddy's parties out of the limelight and keep the role of the alphabet agencies in knowing and using Diddy as an asset.

I am a bit bemused by the tone though that Diddy's wimmen had it coming and ignoring the fact that there was a whole host of uncharged conduct that Diddy did that ended up with him being convicted on Mann Act. Al Capone murdered, etc. a lot of people on his rise to the top but got convicted of tax evasion. Same with other scumbags--a lot of uncharged conduct gets punished by the jury via a simple charge easy to prove. Scumbags like Diddy, Gotti, or Capone attract other scumbags for fame and fortune who turn on them in court.

That in part, is why the police love possession charges or felons with gun charges. No mens rea requirement.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:41 PM (ctrM5)

185 It's never Rico.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:25 PM (ASFuz)

he should have stayed with Dizzy...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 02, 2025 12:42 PM (v6XNT)

186 If it were Johnny Rico, everyone would have been bug bait.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:41 PM

Do you want to live forever?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:42 PM (jc0TO)

187
Led Zeppelin and the "mud shark"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM (y9nCu)

Ted Nugent had custody of his groupie/bride. But after the puff daddy thing I think even the males had to participate in the casting couch process, whether they were children or not. It's disturbing.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 12:42 PM (QsMb/)

188 186 If it were Johnny Rico, everyone would have been bug bait.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:41 PM

Do you want to live forever?
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:42 PM (jc0TO)

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I would like to know more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

189 This clown has a reckoning coming that so far transcends human retribution as to be ludicrous.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 02, 2025 12:42 PM (hKoQL)

190 I'd say well, at least his image will be tarnished among his peers...then I remember who his peers are.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 12:42 PM (qBdHI)

191 we can expect a million morons to follow his lead……”hey, he wasn’t convicted why can’t I beat this girl, cage that one and rape this one?”

I like to think better of the Horde
Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (5C53

Exactly. Why does it have to be three different girls?

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (VPwHp)

192 nd now, we can expect a million morons to follow his lead……”hey, he wasn’t convicted why can’t I beat this girl, cage that one and rape this one?”

Given a complete free pass to do any of these things I would not want to and I suspect this is true for the vast, vast majority of men.

I vaguely recall a study that found that the percentage of rapists is quite low but they often get away with it many times before finally being caught. This lead the victims and their friends to believe rapists were common when it was all just a handful of men doing it.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (t0Rmr)

193 I am happy to say that I do not read "Psychology Today" and whatever articles in it probably have no relevance for me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (2GCMq)

194 Like Little Lotta?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 12:32 PM (wCk3Y)

***

Lotta Fagina?

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From the Wayback Machine, Hill Street Blues --

Det. Belker (typing furiously): Last name!

Arrested Prostitute: Goo

Det. Belker: First name!

Arrested Prostitute: Lotta

Posted by: The Libertarian Party at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (8AONa)

195 But, I will say, Diddy appears to be a protected dude and was probably an alphabet agency asset like Whitey Bulger was.

I don't think it has to be that complicated. Diddy Parties had pretty much every celebrity and rich person around participating and as a result, legally liable for anything awful that happened during them. Prosecution was ordered, or chose to, avoid digging too much into certain aspects of the case because of what it might reveal and who it might implicate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (dfIr7)
________

Diddy's "White Parties" were legendary in the NYC and Miami social scene. It was the hottest invite in the cities. The parties were packed with rich and powerful people, including politicians and political donors. Much like with Epstein and Fat Harv, everyone knew what was going on -- probably even personally witnessed it -- but said nothing because it would jeopardize their status in the elite cliques.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

196 >>> After Biggie was murdered, rap went to shit.

Well, both Biggie and Tupac. But yes.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (gWBY1)

197 -------------
They also lead the STD race, too. Hands down.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 12:36 PM (W3T6M)

That's weird. Never thought of lesbuans as being promicuous.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (b0Dcz)

198 If it were Johnny Rico, everyone would have been bug bait.

In the movie he starts off an idiot and stays one.

In the book he learns tactics and gets better.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:44 PM (t0Rmr)

199 153 The jury sent a note complaining that one juror was not 'following the process'. I wonder if they are responsible for the confused results.

there was scuttlebutt that Combs appeared so confident because there was a plant on the jury, or someone he'd paid off.

which is extremely plausible. there were witnesses who changed their minds about showing up to testify
Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 12:38 PM (dCxaZ)

I believe on the first day of deliberations, the jury sent a note to the judge saying one of the, ahem, "Manhattanites" on the jury was a recent immigrant who seemed incapable of understanding the judge's instructions (presumably due to a language barrier).

We were discussing the case in Idaho with the guy who killed those students the other day -- this is what I meant about you never know what you're going to get with a jury. Was that guy bought off, did he truly have no idea what was going on, was someone else on the jury just pissed? Who knows?

But in federal court, the judges ask the potential jurors the questions, so presumably judge Arun Subramanian (a good Italian boy, by the sounds of it) would have filtered out anyone who literally didn't speak english.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 12:44 PM (uCjyK)

200
the only song i know is the song where he extensively samples Kashmir, "Come With Me."

I'd long suspected that Tom Morello from RATM was a fraud, but after he played some overdubs on that song, he confirmed it by doing an interview gushing over Diddy's amazing genius of basically putting Kashmir on a karaoke machine in the studio.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 12:44 PM (y9nCu)

201 198 If it were Johnny Rico, everyone would have been bug bait.

In the movie he starts off an idiot and stays one.

In the book he learns tactics and gets better.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:44 PM (t0Rmr)

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Yeah, but in the movie he banged Dina Meyer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

202 @TomFitton May 17
James Comey's daughter is leading the P Diddy prosecution.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (mlg/3)

It shouldn’t surprise me but I’m still astonished to learn about the truly interconnected incestuous power networks in this country. Is everyone in power in this country related to or sleeping with someone else in the network…. It’s like the Byzantine empire of old

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 02, 2025 12:44 PM (ZtAny)

203 Posted by: No, I didn't make this up at July 02, 2025 12:39 PM (TbWk/)

I'm reading "Infidelity in Relationships and Recovery in Couples Therapy" by Diana Tutschek (M.S.) edited Monica Vilhauer (Ph.D.). I don't read that any of the cheaters is trying to save the marriage. Most cheaters are just horny scumbags (see Swaggart) or have cripplingly low self-esteem so get infatuated with the first barista who smiles when she takes his order (reverse gender as needed).

Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 12:45 PM (5C538)

204 Sucks for the women that didn't.

it sucks for all the women even if they were foolish about the bear question. And it sucks for the men who when presented with the one chance to be the knight in shining armor instead ran away and have to live with that the rest of their lives.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:45 PM (dfIr7)

205 178 From what was presented at trial -- there is no underlying criminal enterprise, and as ace said, the women were free to leave if they wanted to.

They didnt leave because, well, money and lifestyle.

Yacht girl FTW!
Posted by: rickb223
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Now, apply that standard to male mobsters that enabled such assholes as Gotti, Capone, etc.

It is and was forever true that people seek status, money, power, goodies by getting in bed with scumbags. And that often those closest to the scumbag are willing to turn on the Big Guy when the Big Guy's fortunes are reversed and he is no longer a threat or a source for goodies.

Twas ever so.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:45 PM (ctrM5)

206 Diddy's "White Parties" were legendary in the NYC and Miami social scene. It was the hottest invite in the cities. The parties were packed with rich and powerful people, including politicians and political donors. Much like with Epstein and Fat Harv, everyone knew what was going on -- probably even personally witnessed it -- but said nothing because it would jeopardize their status in the elite cliques.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

I've heard tell of some wild white parties out in the Hamptons, but unfortunately, Diddy never invited me.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 12:45 PM (uCjyK)

207 It's never Rico.
Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:25 PM (ASFuz)

Ask Lola at the Copacabana

Posted by: She might have a thought or two at July 02, 2025 12:45 PM (TbWk/)

208 After Biggie was murdered, rap went to shit.

Rap was never good. It isn't artistic. It has no beauty. It's the musical equivalent of graffiti.

To call it art is to completely remove all meaning of the word "art".

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 12:45 PM (cpC+s)

209 Be fair.

Those Baristas know exactly what they are doing.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:45 PM (ASFuz)

210 If my eyes pop open after my death and I hear the song "Imagine," I'll know that I'm in hell.

Posted by: PabloD at July 02, 2025 12:46 PM (xUXYh)

211 Megan Kelly once again letting her emotions rule her. Bleeding out of her whatever.

Womencelebratingtheirirrationality

Posted by: Its true and not funny at July 02, 2025 12:46 PM (uflOM)

212 I am happy to say that I do not read "Psychology Today" and whatever articles in it probably have no relevance for me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (2GCMq)

Whatever it was a long time ago, it would now more accurately be called "Communism Forever". It's a real shitstain on the gay bottom of humanity.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:46 PM (VPwHp)

213 174 I recognize John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

I really hate that song.
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 12:37 PM

With the heat of a thousand suns.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 12:40 PM (dPfyF)

Imagine Yoko Ono was good looking;
Or that she could sing...

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:46 PM (uWKK8)

214 Yeah, but in the movie he banged Dina Meyer./i]

I bet he was always annoyed that Denise Richards would do a threesome with Kevin Bacon and not him...

Posted by: This thread is anow a 90s movies thread at July 02, 2025 12:46 PM (t0Rmr)

215 Reminder that Cardi B and Megan the Stallion performed and acted out 'Wet *ss P*ssy' at the televised Grammy's.

P Diddler is the rap community's moral compass.

Posted by: Candidus at July 02, 2025 12:46 PM (3aljE)

216 Rap music is not music. Period

The only exception: 1985 Chicago Bears Super Bowl Shuffle

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 02, 2025 12:46 PM (ZtAny)

217 Young man goes to one of his parties, gets turked by seven guys and lubed up by Puff Daddy. He puts up with it because he wants that career so badly and even pretends to like it, so he gets his record contract and is promoted.

Technically he's a victim here, but... how much of one?

Is he? Lots of women will willingly have sex with guys when they don't really want to but there's no force involved. Are they victims?

If you agree it doesn't matter how much you wanted it. You made the choice. Sometimes you decide that a bad choice is better than refusing it. You made the choice. Either you're an adult or you're not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 12:46 PM (ExV1e)

218 DOJ Orders Crackdown on Criminals Who Lied to Get U.S. Citizenship

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Da fuq?! Lying is a Democrat tradition!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:47 PM (L/fGl)

219 I'm reading "Infidelity in Relationships and Recovery in Couples Therapy" by Diana Tutschek (M.S.) edited Monica Vilhauer (Ph.D.). I don't read that any of the cheaters is trying to save the marriage. Most cheaters are just horny scumbags (see Swaggart) or have cripplingly low self-esteem so get infatuated with the first barista who smiles when she takes his order (reverse gender as needed).
Posted by: gKWVE
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Bear in mind that most psychology studies are not replicable. Common sense often is a better guide than psychological studies.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:47 PM (ctrM5)

220 https://sexualviolence.idas.org.uk/
surviving-sexual-violence-and-abuse/
trauma-bonds-stockholm-syndrome/
I expected more from you all.

Posted by: CapeMayBartender at July 02, 2025 12:47 PM (srdeB)

221 I'd long suspected that Tom Morello from RATM was a fraud, but after he played some overdubs on that song, he confirmed it by doing an interview gushing over Diddy's amazing genius of basically putting Kashmir on a karaoke machine in the studio.

Morello is really good at random wah-wah flailing. If your track needs that he's got you covered. Otherwise, not so much.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:47 PM (QZThv)

222 I see that Megyn Kelly is still guilty of being hawt.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

223 James Comey's daughter is leading the P Diddy prosecution.

lolol

I had wondered what the Diddler had done to exact such revenge rage from the Feds, back when they raided all his homes and published photos of his baby oil stash.

There is so much more to this story than meets the eye...

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 12:47 PM (dCxaZ)

224 Remember when a guy saved a bunch of people in NYC from a crazy guy and they arrested him for murder?

Now ask me again why there aren't white knights in blue shitties anymore...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:47 PM (t0Rmr)

225 The media will pay more attention to the verdict than they will tens of millions of people losing their health care and dying

Obviously it pays to be rich. 😡 I suspect a less privileged person of color (even if innocent) would have been found guilty on all counts.

Highly unlikely. A less privileged person of color would almost certainly never have been charged with Racketeering and Sex Trafficking. Classic case of over charging and I think they did it to make an example of a famous person that everyone already knew was a scumbag.

that is a shame. it's clear there were force, fraud, and coercion as well as trafficking, with multiple witnesses and video evidence, and the fact that others were involved makes it racketeering.

He should get zero jail time. He's not a good person. He treated women he was in a relationship with horribly. No defense. But that's not what he was convicted of. Prostitution. Really?

If the feds had put half the effort into holding Trump accountable as they have trying to convict Combs of a half-baked RICO charge, I don't think we would be in this mess.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 02, 2025 12:48 PM (JCZqz)

226 178 From what was presented at trial -- there is no underlying criminal enterprise, and as ace said, the women were free to leave if they wanted to.

They didnt leave because, well, money and lifestyle.

Yacht girl FTW!
Posted by: rickb223 at July

All that, but dont forget about the implications.

Posted by: Dennis Reynolds at July 02, 2025 12:48 PM (b0Dcz)

227 Rap was never good. It isn't artistic. It has no beauty. It's the musical equivalent of graffiti.

To call it art is to completely remove all meaning of the word "art".
Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 12:45 PM (cpC+s)

Don't tell Blondie.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 12:48 PM (Oy/m2)

228 Diddy's next album should be entitled Bad Rap.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:48 PM (L/fGl)

229 The Diddy got mostly aquitty

Posted by: Mo at July 02, 2025 12:48 PM (PuSrV)

230 225 The media will pay more attention to the verdict than they will tens of millions of people losing their health care and dying

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 02, 2025 12:48

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Doesn't matter that they're here illegally, American taxpayers must pay for their trips to the ER to deal with common cold symptoms.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

231 225 The media will pay more attention to the verdict than they will tens of millions of people losing their health care and dying

Oh FFS...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 12:48 PM (VE6XX)

232 It shouldn’t surprise me but I’m still astonished to learn about the truly interconnected incestuous power networks in this country. Is everyone in power in this country related to or sleeping with someone else in the network…. It’s like the Byzantine empire of old
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Was always thus. We don't recognize the red shirts in Star Trek represent us commoners.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (ctrM5)

233 It shouldn’t surprise me but I’m still astonished to learn about the truly interconnected incestuous power networks in this country. Is everyone in power in this country related to or sleeping with someone else in the network…. It’s like the Byzantine empire of old
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 02, 2025 12:44 PM (ZtAny)

Does look that way, doesn't it? This is the "Deep State".

They seamlessly move in and out of government, corporate america, biglaw firms. They're all related by blood and/or marriage. They all got in to the same boarding schools and colleges as legacies. Their kids all date and marry each other. And they all work jobs they are in no way (on paper at least) qualified for. Oh, plus the normal graft, corruption and insider trading.

As George Carlin once said, "it's a big club, and you ain't in it!"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (uCjyK)

234 https://sexualviolence.idas.org.uk/
surviving-sexual-violence-and-abuse/
trauma-bonds-stockholm-syndrome/
I expected more from you all.
Posted by: CapeMayBartender at July 02, 2025 12:47 PM

It's astonishing that an org whose rice bowl is sexual exploitation would find sexual exploitation.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (jc0TO)

235 The wah-wah master is K.K. Downing.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (KAi1n)

236 "....If the feds had put half the effort into holding Trump"
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There it is. He did the thing.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (VPwHp)

237
Morello is really good at random wah-wah flailing. If your track needs that he's got you covered. Otherwise, not so much.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:47 PM (QZThv)

If they really lived what they preached their concerts would be free.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 12:50 PM (QsMb/)

238 >If the feds had put half the effort into holding Trump accountable as they have trying to convict Combs of a half-baked RICO charge, I don't think we would be in this mess.

Trump lives rent-free in their minds.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 02, 2025 12:50 PM (rJ48h)

239 Technically he's a victim here, but... how much of one?

You shouldn't get ahead in a field because of your willingness to have sex with the people holding the keys.

But...should it be illegal? In an ideal world people would respond to this by boycotting companies that do this, but of course as with many of our problems plenty of people have no awareness of anything outside of what they see on the idiot box or their social media threads...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:50 PM (t0Rmr)

240 Psychology Today has a new article out explaining that women who cheat are "trying to save their marriage" because they need your money, but they want the Paolo's junk. So it's a win-win for them. Not clear what the husband/cuck is getting out of it.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (QZThv)

He gets to pay for the clothes / makeup she wears to go get plowed by the Paolo.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 12:50 PM (ExV1e)

241 It shouldn’t surprise me but I’m still astonished to learn about the truly interconnected incestuous power networks in this country.

One reason I never refer to 'the elite'. They are the hereditary aristocracy.

Posted by: Candidus at July 02, 2025 12:50 PM (3aljE)

242 236 "....If the feds had put half the effort into holding Trump"
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There it is. He did the thing.
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (VPwHp)

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That video of Trump attacking Carroll in the department store is in the FBI hands, but they're not releasing it because the FBI, under Biden, was in Trump's pocket!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

243 >>Rap was never good. It isn't artistic.

THREE MCs AND ONE DJ

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=iTNndyt_P7o

(This is a Reaction Vid...but it's of a one-take performance)

Posted by: BEASTIE BOYS at July 02, 2025 12:50 PM (ASFuz)

244 Wouldn't RICO charges by definition involve charges against other defendants involved in the "conspiracy"? Some sort of organized conspiracy.
That being said I would expect everyone who testified in this trial to die "mysteriously" soon.

Posted by: Reforger at July 02, 2025 12:50 PM (SJnNf)

245 I had wondered what the Diddler had done to exact such revenge rage from the Feds, back when they raided all his homes and published photos of his baby oil stash.

Yeah these guys are allowed to do anything they want, up to a point, then suddenly its a huge national story and celebrity trial. What changed? Something we do not and probably never will know about. There were rappers talking about what a piece of crap Combs was for years, and they were ignored.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:50 PM (dfIr7)

246 There is so much more to this story than meets the eye...
Posted by: kallisto
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Mebbe Diddy crossed someone with more juice than him or his crap got to the point that his patrons could not longer shield him from the consequences on his scumbaggery.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:51 PM (ctrM5)

247 it sucks for all the women even if they were foolish about the bear question. And it sucks for the men who when presented with the one chance to be the knight in shining armor instead ran away and have to live with that the rest of their lives.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:45 PM (dfIr7)

Why bother? There's no gratitude or reward for doing so. Hell, you might even get sued or arrested or both. It's a rational response to current conditions to just shrug and walk away.

Posted by: They made their bed now let them lie in it at July 02, 2025 12:51 PM (TbWk/)

248 The media will pay more attention to the verdict than they will tens of millions of people losing their health care and dying

Then: No undocumented immigrants have ever collected any government aid

Now: If you remove undocumented immigrants from the federal dole millions will die!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:51 PM (t0Rmr)

249 It’s like the Byzantine empire of old
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Don't look at me. I was a great emperor.

Now, that idiot brother of mine...

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 12:51 PM (77rzZ)

250 248 Then: No undocumented immigrants have ever collected any government aid

Now: If you remove undocumented immigrants from the federal dole millions will die!
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:51 PM (t0Rmr)

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The language of the portion of the Senate bill is essentially, "No one not a citizen or legal resident of the US is eligible for Medicaid benefits."

And the left is fucking freaking out about it.

It entertains me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

251 Yep. Keep the rich and famous enjoying Diddy's parties out of the limelight and keep the role of the alphabet agencies in knowing and using Diddy as an asset.

way back in the beginning, I was watching a creator describing evidence the feds had collected, word on the street type ramblings, etc etc, including all the Things...and my DS radar pinged bigly.

I thought: this Diddler is an asset!

Posted by: kallisto at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (dCxaZ)

252 It's astonishing that an org whose rice bowl is sexual exploitation would find sexual exploitation.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (jc0TO)

An org from the UK, where they let Muslims and darkies rape 10 year olds and chuck you in jail if you object.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (cpC+s)

253 Psychology Today has a new article out explaining (that marriage and the family must be destroyed) and that will save marriages. Yeah, this shit is an organized paid for op to destroy America. Satanists, I see you

Posted by: Its true and not funny at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (uflOM)

254 Diddy's "White Parties" were legendary in the NYC and Miami social scene. It was the hottest invite in the cities. The parties were packed with rich and powerful people, including politicians and political donors. Much like with Epstein and Fat Harv, everyone knew what was going on -- probably even personally witnessed it -- but said nothing because it would jeopardize their status in the elite cliques.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

I've heard tell of some wild white parties out in the Hamptons, but unfortunately, Diddy never invited me.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 12:45 PM (uCjyK)
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Me either. But I know some people who did go. They were of course two parties in one: the public face of the party, which was very PG-13 and managed and actually sponsored by fucking luxury brands, and the private party fueled by drugs, sex, prostitution, and influence peddling.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

255 Revolver News
Van Jones officially throws in the towel: ‘Trump is NOT an idiot. This dude is phenomenal’…

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (RHGPo)

256 >>The wah-wah master is K.K. Downing.

Eric Clapton in Derek and the Dominos.

Masterclass on the Wah.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (ASFuz)

257 193 I am happy to say that I do not read "Psychology Today" and whatever articles in it probably have no relevance for me.
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Imma amazed that there are magazines still in business.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (W3T6M)

258 They seamlessly move in and out of government, corporate america, biglaw firms. They're all related by blood and/or marriage. They all got in to the same boarding schools and colleges as legacies. Their kids all date and marry each other. And they all work jobs they are in no way (on paper at least) qualified for. Oh, plus the normal graft, corruption and insider trading.

As George Carlin once said, "it's a big club, and you ain't in it!"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (uCjyK)

But meanwhile we'll forbid Lara from running because muh dynasty muh principles. Because we are "better" than that.

There are paddy fields filled with people who were "better" than the commies.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:53 PM (VPwHp)

259 Run- DMC's first album was real good. Straight forward raps good beats . Hard Time, Rock Box, Wake Up.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 12:53 PM (eBgDF)

260 The media will pay more attention to the verdict than they will tens of millions of people losing their health care and dying

Oh FFS...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 12:48 PM (VE6XX)

you'd think they'd be happy about the GOPe FINALLY addressing the population bomb ....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 02, 2025 12:53 PM (v6XNT)

261 255 Revolver News
Van Jones officially throws in the towel: ‘Trump is NOT an idiot. This dude is phenomenal’…

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (RHGPo)

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I'm sorry, but anyone who disagrees with you on a matter of politics is instantly stupid. It's just how the world works.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

262

Roughly five months after implementing a 50-cent-per-egg surcharge on all orders, Waffle House is ending diners’ shell shock at the charge.

The chain has announced that the surcharge will no longer be collected. (The company reportedly quietly dropped the surcharge a month ago, but only announced the news this week.)

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2025 12:53 PM (63Dwl)

263 235 The wah-wah master is K.K. Downing.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (KAi1n)

KK can actually shred, unlike Morello

Posted by: No comparison at July 02, 2025 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

264 I expected more from you all.
Posted by: CapeMayBartender at July 02, 2025 12:47 PM (srdeB)

I don't know what you're going on about. We all agree that his behavior is shitty and he should be condemned.

We all also agree that we live in a nation of laws, many of which actually make a lot of sense and work in a logical way, and the jury said Sean Combs did not violate the laws on our books re: RICO and sex trafficking, but he did hire prostitutes to cross state lines, and he was convicted of that.

I don't really get what your argument here is. That we should change our laws on sex trafficking to make it a federal felony for a rich man to sleep with a woman if that woman later (self servingly) says "I had to do it, I was afraid of him"? In that scenario, the guy deserves decades in federal prison?

That is not a workable law.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 12:54 PM (uCjyK)

265 240 Psychology Today has a new article out explaining that women who cheat are "trying to save their marriage" because they need your money, but they want the Paolo's junk. So it's a win-win for them. Not clear what the husband/cuck is getting out of it.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:33 PM (QZThv)

He gets to pay for the clothes / makeup she wears to go get plowed by the Paolo.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Hypergamy is built into female genetics as is a male's desire for sex with as many as they can.

But as always people with strong morals and a conscience can choose not do those things. We are animals with an inbuilt conscience that have agency not to do evil things.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:54 PM (ctrM5)

266 > They also lead the STD race, too. Hands down.

What? Gay men lead the STD race. Lesbians and hetero women are some of the least likely to get STDs.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 02, 2025 12:54 PM (lIio7)

267 Revolver News
Van Jones officially throws in the towel: ‘Trump is NOT an idiot. This dude is phenomenal’…

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Wha....??? Are pigs flying?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 12:54 PM (qBdHI)

268 MAP, POCD, ZOCD = mentally abnormal who should be sequestered in Bedlam for both their safety and the public's.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 12:54 PM (6gCWo)

269 The language of the portion of the Senate bill is essentially, "No one not a citizen or legal resident of the US is eligible for Medicaid benefits."

And the left is fucking freaking out about it.

It entertains me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

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I don't even like the legal resident bit because of chain migration.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 12:54 PM (Vh9CX)

270 We found out fun things during this trial. Like LeBron James being Diddy’s butt bitch.

Posted by: Seems legit at July 02, 2025 12:55 PM (zE1wq)

271 NYPost: Obama’s Trump-Russia collusion report was corrupt from start: CIA review

The review found that Brennan directed the compilation of the ICA, and that his, Comey’s and Clapper’s “direct engagement in the ICA’s development was highly unusual in both scope and intensity” and ”risked stifling analytic debate.”

“This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump,’” said Ratcliffe in an exclusive interview.

“It was, ‘We’re going to create this and put the imprimatur of an IC assessment in a way that nobody can question it.’ They stamped it as Russian collusion and then classified it so nobody could see it.

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 12:55 PM (RHGPo)

272 They seamlessly move in and out of government, corporate america, biglaw firms. They're all related by blood and/or marriage. They all got in to the same boarding schools and colleges as legacies. Their kids all date and marry each other. And they all work jobs they are in no way (on paper at least) qualified for. Oh, plus the normal graft, corruption and insider trading.

As George Carlin once said, "it's a big club, and you ain't in it!"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (uCjyK)

Came out that Terry Moran, recently fired from ABC for nasty anti-Trump tweets, was btw, no big deal, married to a CIA analyst. All of the major networks are intertwined at the top with FBI and CIA people.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:55 PM (uWKK8)

273 269 I don't even like the legal resident bit because of chain migration.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 12:54 PM (Vh9CX)

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The SNAP restrictions in the bill attack that directly.

Essentially, if anyone in the household isn't eligible for SNAP, no one gets it.

Also, no carve outs for DACA recipients.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

274 y: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (W3T6M)

I read one magazine occasionally and one paper simply because I don't want to look at everything online. I also enjoy actual books as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 12:55 PM (2GCMq)

275 P Diddler sounds like a Batman villain. Like he should be driving around in a penis shaped car playing ice cream truck music and when you get close, an automatic arm sweeps you into the trunk.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 02, 2025 12:56 PM (PmJpT)

276 I see that Megyn Kelly is still guilty of being hawt.
Posted by: Bulg
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Needs a sammich. Gotten too thin.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 12:56 PM (p16cu)

277 So, the videos disappeared? If they showed sex with minors, I’m sure that that’s a crime. Whatever? It was a nice distraction. He’ll be released with time served. They couldn’t pin a dead body on him. Just ruined lives which apparently isn’t a crime. NEXT!

Posted by: Unkaren at July 02, 2025 12:56 PM (J4BK5)

278 MTG is claiming the senate GOP inserted a poison pill into the BBB (a gaming tax) and it won't pass the House.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 02, 2025 12:56 PM (WHfpM)

279 Van Jones officially throws in the towel: ‘Trump is NOT an idiot. This dude is phenomenal’…

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Wha....??? Are pigs flying?
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 12:54 PM (qBdHI)

Can Trump be reelected.....?

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 12:56 PM (VPwHp)

280 258 They seamlessly move in and out of government, corporate america, biglaw firms. They're all related by blood and/or marriage. They all got in to the same boarding schools and colleges as legacies. Their kids all date and marry each other. And they all work jobs they are in no way (on paper at least) qualified for. Oh, plus the normal graft, corruption and insider trading.

As George Carlin once said, "it's a big club, and you ain't in it!"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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If you want to take down the dynasties, the easiest way is to move all policy and power to the lowest level possible. There will still be networks, etc. but centralization of everything make the pseudo aristos more powerful.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:56 PM (ctrM5)

281 The real crimes never came to trial. Also, the videos of celebs joining the "party."

Posted by: Max Power at July 02, 2025 12:57 PM (q177U)

282 278 MTG is claiming the senate GOP inserted a poison pill into the BBB (a gaming tax) and it won't pass the House.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 02, 2025 12:56 PM (WHfpM)

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I remember when people said the BBB wouldn't pass the Senate because of some bullshit or other.

This Congressperson drama is tiresome every time it comes up.

Ignore it until the must pass legislation passes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

283 I really didn't follow the trial .. Just bits and pieces of sick stuff being reported.... Just glad it will finally go away...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 12:57 PM (VE6XX)

284 What? Gay men lead the STD race. Lesbians and hetero women are some of the least likely to get STDs.

Yeah, the real problem with STDs is anonymous buttsechs with dozens of people you don't even know. This is exactly how AIDS became a thing - one gay flight attendant spread it all over the first world after having sex with the wrong guy in Africa.

Lesbians don't do this kind of thing, irrespective of what "internet research" might tell you

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:57 PM (t0Rmr)

285 If your pimp hand is strong, you know the importance of caging your bitch...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 02, 2025 12:57 PM (TGPs7)

286 Came out that Terry Moran, recently fired from ABC for nasty anti-Trump tweets, was btw, no big deal, married to a CIA analyst. All of the major networks are intertwined at the top with FBI and CIA people.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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And his brother is Rick Moran of American Thinker and PJ Media. Noted anti-Trumper.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:57 PM (ctrM5)

287 I think it's safe to assume our political betters are mixed up in some seriously depraved shit. If this was strictly the entertainment/music industry's dirty laundry I don't think we'd have seen some of the high (politically connected) rollers involved with the case, professionally speaking.

Some digging needs dug.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (Q4IgG)

288 Carlin was right in his diagnosis, 100% wrong about the treatment.

Posted by: A socialist government would be even worse at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (TbWk/)

289 And now, we can expect a million morons to follow his lead……”hey, he wasn’t convicted why can’t I beat this girl, cage that one and rape this one?”

1. I don't believe there are a million people who frequent this website.
2. Most of us are too old for that sort of foolishness.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (ExV1e)

290 In other words, she's arguing that two grown-ass women were incapable of simply leaving. She's arguing that they were essentially kept in captivity for sex, and hence, "sex trafficked."

Unpopular opinion, no doubt, but I think there's something akin to the Satanic Panic of the 80s going on with many trafficking allegations. The right seems to be on about this in much the same way that the left has been referring to older men hitting on younger women of legal age as grooming.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (9FEtL)

291 hey, he wasn’t convicted why can’t I beat this girl, cage that one and rape this one?”

I like to think better of the Horde
Posted by: gKWVE
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I like to think better of women but how many copies of 50 shades of Grey sold again???? The point is, consent. Will people do degrading things for money? Yes. 5 days a week for most of us. Do some of those people enjoy it? Shame is part of the kink. He got convicted of crimes he was charged with that they proved he committed. THAT IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK. He was on trial in court. He will get another judgment...

Posted by: Its true and not funny at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (uflOM)

292 ...anyone who disagrees with you on a matter of politics is instantly stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

God, I know what you mean. People who agree with me aren't too bright either.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (MX0bI)

293 Don't tell Blondie.
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Blondie is a stand up chick. I like her cuz she has grit. Madonna can suck donkey dicks.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (W3T6M)

294 Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 12:54 PM (6gCWo

No doubt I'll be sorry I asked this, but what are a POCD and a ZOCD?. I knew what the acronym of MAP stood for.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 12:59 PM (2GCMq)

295 Didn't pay attention to the Diddy trial, have already watched 'Eyes Wide Shut.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 12:59 PM (6gCWo)

296 Came out that Terry Moran, recently fired from ABC for nasty anti-Trump tweets, was btw, no big deal, married to a CIA analyst. All of the major networks are intertwined at the top with FBI and CIA people.

A few years ago it came out one of the NYT's big writers "man on the street" interviews were all with his roommate. He just lied.

Also, you can be a high level operative in the FNM and still need a roommate to make ends meet in NYC.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:59 PM (t0Rmr)

297 292 ...anyone who disagrees with you on a matter of politics is instantly stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

God, I know what you mean. People who agree with me aren't too bright either.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (MX0bI)

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Everyone is stupid but me!

Also, I'm an illiterate asshole, so I'm no Georgia Peach.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

298 MTG is claiming the senate GOP inserted a poison pill into the BBB (a gaming tax) and it won't pass the House.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 02, 2025 12:56 PM (WHfpM)

She’s kinda nuts. All the drama… just pass the damn thing, not because it’s great or perfect but because it generates momentum and moves the ball in the right direction. Sheesh

Poison pill is DC speak for I wanna throw a hissy fit

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 02, 2025 12:59 PM (ZtAny)

299 281 The real crimes never came to trial. Also, the videos of celebs joining the "party."
Posted by: Max Power
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Good blackmail material for the Feds.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:59 PM (ctrM5)

300 Combs's head is deformed and it's serious enough that no attractive women would really want to have his child.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 02, 2025 12:59 PM (MMp6W)

301 There is a trend right now of women posting videos of women in need of help or being attacked and guys just watching or leaving. They are crying "where are the good men!!" and complaining about the lack of chivalry.

The male response is usually "you chose the bear." And while I think men have a responsibility, a duty, the honor, of protecting the weak and aiding the helpless... the men have a point.

"Chose the bear" is the funny response. The real reason is Daniel Penny.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 02, 2025 01:00 PM (U/v1n)

302 My psychology is definitely yesterday.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:00 PM (L/fGl)

303 But, I will say, Diddy appears to be a protected dude and was probably an alphabet agency asset like Whitey Bulger was.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:21 PM (ctrM5)

If any of the alleged victims feel they were denied justice, let them go buy a gun, and bust a cap or two into Diddy's festering brain, and take their chances with the courts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 01:00 PM (os5gg)

304 Blondie is a stand up chick. I like her cuz she has grit.
Posted by: pudinhead

I'd stay away from her, if I were you. Dagwood has stories...

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:00 PM (77rzZ)

305 I don't think people who agree with me are stupid. Insane, yes.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:00 PM (VPwHp)

306 301 "Chose the bear" is the funny response. The real reason is Daniel Penny.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 02, 2025 01:00 PM (U/v1n)

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If the perception of women was that they were throwing themselves at Penny for what he did, I think it would help tip the balance in terms of social incentives.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)

307 POCD - Pedo OCD

ZOCD - Zoophile OCD.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 01:01 PM (6gCWo)

308 Yacht girl FTW!
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 12:41 PM (Ul4ZN)

It can be a huge career enhancer. -- Meghan, Duchess of Suck

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 01:01 PM (ExV1e)

309 Came out that Terry Moran, recently fired from ABC for nasty anti-Trump tweets, was btw, no big deal, married to a CIA analyst. All of the major networks are intertwined at the top with FBI and CIA people.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:55 PM (uWKK

Eh, that's totally normal. Who among us doesn't know a couple where the husband is a major face on media, and the wife works for the CIA?

Right?

All joking aside, look at the wikipedia page on, well, anyone in government or media who is prominent enough to have a wikipedia page. It's like six degrees of Kevin Bacon. They're all married to or otherwise related to each other. Or like, small world, this objective reporter was roommates at Phillip Andover with the high ranking government official he's reporting on.

Even fucking Jon Stewart was a college roommate of Anthony Weiner, who was married to Huma Abadin, who is now married to Alex Soros. Plus the Clinton connections there. Very incestuous world.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 01:01 PM (uCjyK)

310 A few years ago it came out one of the NYT's big writers "man on the street" interviews were all with his roommate. He just lied.

Also, you can be a high level operative in the FNM and still need a roommate to make ends meet in NYC.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:59 PM (t0Rmr)

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LOL, my friend and roommate in college was getting a degree in Broadcasting. He had to do an interview video (this was early 90s) and he interviewed his friends.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 01:01 PM (Vh9CX)

311 Lesbians don't do this kind of thing, irrespective of what "internet research" might tell you
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They come with an Easy Bake Oven. Yes, they lead the STD race cuz moist baking oven. They are also hideous alcoholics, too.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 01:01 PM (W3T6M)

312 I dunno. You have to establish the boundaries of what constitutes criminal activity within a consensual relationship. I get there are a lot of abusive relationships based on threats. Hitting a person is obviously criminal and in fact I support lighting men who hit women on fire. But if you’re coming and going every day- why not just keep going? If there is no criminal abuse, you don’t get to come back later on and say well I was scared. You go. You get help. You buy a gun.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 02, 2025 01:01 PM (PmJpT)

313 Late to the game, but I don't even see how shipping a prostitute across state lines is that big of a deal.

I might let a man get away with hitting me one time. I do believe in forgiveness.

2nd time you hit me, I will figure out how to make you pay. It will hurt you. It might even kill you.

What I would not do is go back to your ass. I don't feel sorry for these women.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at July 02, 2025 01:01 PM (Vvh2V)

314 305 I don't think people who agree with me are stupid. Insane, yes.
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:00 PM (VPwHp)

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Some of the dumbest people I've ever spoken to about politics in real life were loyal Republican voters at an election event.

Thread bare understanding of anything, and with nothing in their back pockets but talking points.

Reminded me of myself when I was in high school, and these people were in their 60s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:02 PM (GBKbO)

315 Didn't pay attention to the Diddy trial, have already watched 'Eyes Wide Shut.'
Posted by: Anna Puma

Supposedly based on Epstein.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

316 287 I think it's safe to assume our political betters are mixed up in some seriously depraved shit. If this was strictly the entertainment/music industry's dirty laundry I don't think we'd have seen some of the high (politically connected) rollers involved with the case, professionally speaking.

Some digging needs dug.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Dangerous job there. Lots of whistleblowers, independent journalists, etc. suffering fatal 'accidents' or 'suicides' as well as mental breaks.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:02 PM (ctrM5)

317 They come with an Easy Bake Oven. Yes, they lead the STD race cuz moist baking oven.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 01:01 PM (W3T6M)

This is why I come here.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:02 PM (VPwHp)

318 There is a trend right now of women posting videos of women in need of help or being attacked and guys just watching or leaving. They are crying "where are the good men!!" and complaining about the lack of chivalry.

The male response is usually "you chose the bear." And while I think men have a responsibility, a duty, the honor, of protecting the weak and aiding the helpless... the men have a point.

"Chose the bear" is the funny response. The real reason is Daniel Penny.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 02, 2025 01:00 PM (U/v1n)
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I agree, although the responses are basically different sides of the same coin. I've said it many times here, but if I see something going on, I do not get involved. The risk is too great that I'll be the one getting in trouble. So I look the other way.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

319 Madonna can suck donkey dicks.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (W3T6M)

i'm sure she has more than once....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 02, 2025 01:02 PM (v6XNT)

320 293 Don't tell Blondie.
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Blondie is a stand up chick. I like her cuz she has grit. Madonna can suck donkey dicks.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (W3T6M)

Mexican Tour. Been there, done that.

Posted by: Madonna at July 02, 2025 01:02 PM (uWKK8)

321 I like to think better of women but how many copies of 50 shades of Grey sold again????

Its not nice to talk about but according to psychological studies and surveys, one of the top sexual fantasies for women is being taken by force. Half the bodice ripper "fantasies" have this as a feature. That's what Bernie Sanders was talking about when he made his stupid statement about women being raped.

I don't think that remotely means women actually want to be raped, and I think that the surveys are heavily skewed by who actually wants to answer that question, but women fantasize about stuff they wouldn't actually want to experience, just like men do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:03 PM (dfIr7)

322 Some of the dumbest people I've ever spoken to about politics in real life were loyal Republican voters at an election event.

Thread bare understanding of anything, and with nothing in their back pockets but talking points.

Reminded me of myself when I was in high school, and these people were in their 60s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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You've never been to a Democrat rally have you?

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:03 PM (ctrM5)

323 Ted Nugent had custody of his groupie/bride. But after the puff daddy thing I think even the males had to participate in the casting couch process, whether they were children or not. It's disturbing.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 12:42 PM (QsMb/)

David Lee Roth once said, "We're not like this because we're rock stars, we're rock stars because we're like this."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 01:03 PM (ExV1e)

324 Blackmail is a hell of a thing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 01:03 PM (BjH5D)

325 There's no doubt that this guy is an absolute degenerate pervert

Non-degenerates can't be controlled, so you can't entrust them with any power or success.

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at July 02, 2025 01:03 PM (GsIhi)

326 They are also hideous alcoholics, too.

This latter part I've seen. One woman in my circle of friends was attractive and able to meet men but she was a barely functioning alcoholic and they'd always leave so she ended up "marrying" a butch lesbian.

Oh and her father had come out as gay when she was a teen so I suspect he really screwed her up...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:03 PM (t0Rmr)

327 Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 01:01 PM (6gCWo

Thanks: I thought that the "Z" one had something to do with animals.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 01:03 PM (2GCMq)

328 M3GAN or Madonna

Who is more plastic?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 01:03 PM (6gCWo)

329 300 Combs's head is deformed and it's serious enough that no attractive women would really want to have his child.
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How fat his wallet is trumps lumpy head.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 01:04 PM (W3T6M)

330
Re "You chose the bear."

Congratulations, men, on falling for the leftist concept of group rights and group guilt, which relieves you of the moral obligations of the correct concept of individual rights. You have allowed the left to separate you from women and to separate you from God. Nice going, enjoy your snerks.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:04 PM (egH3D)

331 Now: If you remove undocumented immigrants from the federal dole millions will die!
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:51 PM (t0Rmr)

They also need to be un-included in EMTALA. Illegal aliens whether they plan to stay or head back to Peru cost us a fortune. The law says they need to be "stabilized" but how do you stabilize a cancer? You spend the 1.5M or you go to court when they sue. Remove them and the surgical chemo tourism goes away as well as the day to day ER use of the border jumpers, be they sanctioned by Scheinbaum or the Snow Mexicans who help them cross from the north.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 01:04 PM (FZn/N)

332
And good morning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:04 PM (egH3D)

333 fantasize about stuff they wouldn't actually want to experience, just like men do.

I remember have dreams about a woman with a penis and how hot it would be.

But then I married one and since then my life has been a constant pain in the ass.

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 02, 2025 01:05 PM (t0Rmr)

334 How fat his wallet is trumps lumpy head.
Posted by: pudinhead

Tell me about it!
-- John Fetterman

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:05 PM (77rzZ)

335 Diddler used his massive bank account and entertainment prestige as a hook and a club to keep his crew of willing sycophants hanging on and around. This power dynamic is baked into humanity. The kink with Diddler is he is a complete sexual pervert who used that power over his sycophants to attend to his every perversion. All of these people could have left at any moment and chose not to do that. There was no RICO conspiracy. There was no sex trafficking. What there was is a pile of weak people that willing let Diddler abuse and use them for years in exchange for money and to be let stand in the shadow of his celebrity. What was not willingly taken was the horrific beatings meted out to a few women who crossed him for which he is now headed to prison. As for the rest, his perverted narcissism is exposed to the world thus destroying his phoney importance. Living with the loss of that prestige will be his lifelong in prison. The jury got this thing just right.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 01:05 PM (NXz8h)

336 Unpopular opinion, no doubt, but I think there's something akin to the Satanic Panic of the 80s going on with many trafficking allegations. The right seems to be on about this in much the same way that the left has been referring to older men hitting on younger women of legal age as grooming.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 12:58 PM (9FEtL)

I agree. For example, I was at a barbecue last weekend where the talk of the group was that one of the girls we know is engaged to an older man, and how hes a pedophile and grooming her, etc. etc.

Guy is 41 and she is 29. They've been together for like a year. He comes from serious money, owns a yacht in Sag Harbor, and she is, well, to put it kindly -- the kind of girl who wants to hang out on a yacht in Sag Harbor.

I just assume the other women gossiping about it were jealous, and their husbands were just agreeing with their wives because why start that fight?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 01:05 PM (uCjyK)

337 And while I think men have a responsibility, a duty, the honor, of protecting the weak and aiding the helpless...

I pick my own responsibilities.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 02, 2025 01:05 PM (0+oSs)

338 Its not nice to talk about but according to psychological studies and surveys, one of the top sexual fantasies for women is being taken by force. Half the bodice ripper "fantasies" have this as a feature. That's what Bernie Sanders was talking about when he made his stupid statement about women being raped.

I don't think that remotely means women actually want to be raped, and I think that the surveys are heavily skewed by who actually wants to answer that question, but women fantasize about stuff they wouldn't actually want to experience, just like men do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:03 PM (dfIr7)

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Read the book My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday. Holy cow, I read that in my mid-teens, better than the Penthouse Forum section.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 01:06 PM (Vh9CX)

339 Statute of limitations? Ex post facto? Ha ha ha ha

Posted by: California legislature at July 02, 2025 01:06 PM (QSrLX)

340 The celebrity-flation stack:

Aspiring rapper
Hip hop performer
Hip hop artist
Hip hop star
Hip hop icon....← Sean Combs is here

and finally:

Hip hop legend

Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 01:06 PM (poXs5)

341 M3GAN or Madonna

M3GAN was designed to look like a 12 year old so, I guess I'd have to choose the 112 year old pop star if I had to pick one of the two.

Posted by: Obligatory at July 02, 2025 01:06 PM (t0Rmr)

342 >> Some of the dumbest people I've ever spoken to about politics in real life were loyal Republican voters at an election event.

Did you raise your pinky finger, sniff the air and cover your nose with your kerchief?

The people who founded this country and those who fought our initial battles understood freedom and liberty. Those are ingrained in the American spirit. People can see and smell them even if they don’t have a base understanding of specific issues being discussed.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 02, 2025 01:06 PM (PmJpT)

343 Now: If you remove undocumented immigrants from the federal dole millions will die!

I bet they were never alive. These are phantom votes with phantom banking accounts cashing these checks.

Posted by: t-bird at July 02, 2025 01:06 PM (KtPtl)

344 Trump should use this as an excuse to clean house at SDNY

Posted by: GrapeDrink at July 02, 2025 01:06 PM (mxYDr)

345 So, apparently he can touch that. What's that? Wrong rapper? Whatever.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 01:06 PM (/y8xj)

346 Its at least as bad, but much less covered and more winked at. OK sure, he has 14-year-old groupies making plaster casts of his wang, but its rock and roll, baby!

And yes, that really happened.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:34 PM (dfIr7)

It's worse. Much more GloboHomo. If that's even possible.

Posted by: front toward enemy at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (TIizU)

347 Kohberger heading into court shortly. Not even forced to allocute.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (MGB5H)

348 Congratulations, men

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:04 PM (egH3D)

This is why I'm a big Blonde Morticia fan. But don't you go falling into the same trap.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (VPwHp)

349 If any of the alleged victims feel they were denied justice, let them go buy a gun, and bust a cap or two into Diddy's festering brain, and take their chances with the courts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Contrary to most popular media, most people are not prone to violence even when in a war. Few people just 'snap'. Instead is a long trail of escalating violent behavior that suddenly gets capped with murder.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (ctrM5)

350 Wonder what his sentence will be ? I'm going with time served

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (VE6XX)

351 342 Did you raise your pinky finger, sniff the air and cover your nose with your kerchief?

The people who founded this country and those who fought our initial battles understood freedom and liberty. Those are ingrained in the American spirit. People can see and smell them even if they don’t have a base understanding of specific issues being discussed.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 02, 2025 01:06 PM (PmJpT)

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Go Team Red.

For liberty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

352 I just assume the other women gossiping about it were jealous, and their husbands were just agreeing with their wives because why start that fight?

Ann Althouse and her peers tell me Leo D having a 20 year old girl friend makes him a pedo.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (t0Rmr)

353 I agree, although the responses are basically different sides of the same coin. I've said it many times here, but if I see something going on, I do not get involved. The risk is too great that I'll be the one getting in trouble. So I look the other way.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

recent cop story, forget the city: Cop is on duty, passes a parked car, sees that inside some guy is beating the hell out of his girlfriend. So he yanks the door open, pulls the guy out, the guy fights with the cop and they're both on the sidewalk going after it. Girl (who was just getting beaten up) reaches under the seat and tosses a .38 over to her "boyfriend." (Luckily Cop intercepted it which is why we know the story)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK8)

354 MTG is claiming the senate GOP inserted a poison pill into the BBB (a gaming tax) and it won't pass the House[\i]

The poison pill is "limiting deduction of gambling losses to 90% of gambling winnings (instead of 100%). This would have cost me about 1500 last year, so I ain't too happy about it. I'm sure the casinos will fight it. If they coupled it with raising the $1200 threshold on slot winnings to $2500 or so it wouldn't be as bad.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (U/v1n)

355 Fenelon

I wish I didn't know what they mean. Evil scum trying to avoid responsibility for their sick actions.

Children and animals can't give consent.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 01:08 PM (6gCWo)

356 Also, you can be a high level operative in the FNM and still need a roommate to make ends meet in NYC.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 12:59 PM (t0Rmr)

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Frank Luntz always has a spare room with a light on ... he's like The Motel 6 of Pols.

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 01:08 PM (TpcHb)

357 You have allowed the left to separate you from women and to separate you from God. Nice going, enjoy your snerks.

Well like I and others have said, its not meant in earnest, men are not all huffy because a bunch of dimwitted street trash chose a bear over a man. Its the short hand for: this is what you get for how you have treated men in the culture you created.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:08 PM (dfIr7)

358 I like to think better of women but how many copies of 50 shades of Grey sold again????

Its not nice to talk about but according to psychological studies and surveys, one of the top sexual fantasies for women is being taken by force. Half the bodice ripper "fantasies" have this as a feature. That's what Bernie Sanders was talking about when he made his stupid statement about women being raped.

I don't think that remotely means women actually want to be raped, and I think that the surveys are heavily skewed by who actually wants to answer that question, but women fantasize about stuff they wouldn't actually want to experience, just like men do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:03 PM (dfIr7)
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The "rape fantasy" is very common among women, and not just the wilder ones. The smart nerdy types too. But it's not a fantasy about getting violently raped in an alleyway by some junkie. It's a fantasy about a very desirable dude -- that she already wants to fuck -- having his way with her. "Oh no, Mr. Rodeo Stud! Don't ravage me like the sexual beast you are!"

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:09 PM (iFTx/)

359 Some of the dumbest people I've ever spoken to about politics in real life were loyal Republican voters at an election event.

Thread bare understanding of anything, and with nothing in their back pockets but talking points.

Reminded me of myself when I was in high school, and these people were in their 60s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Hey, it was nice to catch up with you at the election event! You're a great American!

Posted by: Sean Hannity at July 02, 2025 01:09 PM (Dv3i1)

360 352 "I just assume the other women gossiping about it were jealous, and their husbands were just agreeing with their wives because why start that fight?"

Ann Althouse and her peers tell me Leo D having a 20 year old girl friend makes him a pedo.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (t0Rmr)

Wonder how they feel about Brigitte Macron

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 02, 2025 01:09 PM (okun6)

361 Some of the dumbest people I've ever spoken to about politics in real life were loyal Republican voters at an election event.

Thread bare understanding of anything, and with nothing in their back pockets but talking points.

Reminded me of myself when I was in high school, and these people were in their 60s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 01:02 PM (GBKbO)

Yes, the Fox News Boomers are one of the toughest groups of people to have a conversation with about pretty much anything other than the weather or a local sportsball team. Maybe only second to the MSNBC Boomers.

These people literally have cable news on from the moment they wake up until they go to sleep, and it's like they're updated daily with the talking points of the day but have no memory of what their talking points were last week.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 02, 2025 01:09 PM (uCjyK)

362 Time served to a few months.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 01:09 PM (WIJBc)

363 one of the top sexual fantasies for women is festive little hats.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (dOnec)

364 Wonder how they feel about Brigitte Macron

Empowering

Posted by: Ann Althouse and her peers at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (t0Rmr)

365 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 02, 2025 01:09 PM (okun6)

Hey! Good to see you!

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)

366 NOOD Paramount

Posted by: Inogame at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (53oGX)

367 They are also hideous alcoholics, too.

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I'm doing Alcoholics Anonymous. I still drink. I just use a different name.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

368 365 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 02, 2025 01:09 PM (okun6)

Hey! Good to see you!

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)

Always good seeing you guys as well, looks like we've got a new thread though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (okun6)

369 Here’s the cold truth. Women will do just about anything willingly for the right price.

Same with Harvey Weinstein. I doubt any of those women were really raped, it’s just they were willing to have sex with a really ugly guy in order to become a star.

They might be bad people, but they aren’t rapists

Posted by: Maroon at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (v95o2)

370 Claire Shipman once at CBS and ABC is now the temp president if Columbia University. She's married to Jay Carney former Barky spokesperson . It's a big club and you ain't in it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 01:10 PM (eBgDF)

371 I agree, although the responses are basically different sides of the same coin. I've said it many times here, but if I see something going on, I do not get involved. The risk is too great that I'll be the one getting in trouble. So I look the other way.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

recent cop story, forget the city: Cop is on duty, passes a parked car, sees that inside some guy is beating the hell out of his girlfriend. So he yanks the door open, pulls the guy out, the guy fights with the cop and they're both on the sidewalk going after it. Girl (who was just getting beaten up) reaches under the seat and tosses a .38 over to her "boyfriend." (Luckily Cop intercepted it which is why we know the story)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK

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Exactly. I will especially never get involved in any fight or feud between a guy and a girl. She is at least as likely to turn on me than thank me.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 01:11 PM (iFTx/)

372 Sex parties have been going on for a very long time, 5th century BCE. Also written about extensively by the Victorians. Nothing new, no new evil under the sun. I'd rather the Epstein johns went to trial than worry about Hollywood and the filthy music business. In both cases it's "not who you now but who you blow" and I can't fathom it being stopped, even though I'd like it to be. Even SHirley Temple was propositioned by producers.

Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 01:11 PM (FZn/N)

373 It's a fantasy about a very desirable dude -- that she already wants to fuck -- having his way with her. "Oh no, Mr. Rodeo Stud! Don't ravage me like the sexual beast you are!"

Yeah I think its more "Henry Cavill wants me so bad he won't even listen to me" than "I want some random hobo to attack me next to the dumpster"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:11 PM (dfIr7)

374 Is it true P Diddler's Schvanstuka looked like a Tootsie Roll?

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 02, 2025 01:11 PM (ycs3a)

375 It's noble to support the team that looks like it supports liberty, even if you aren't the sharpest bulb in the crayon box.

But it's also how you wind up with octogenarian graft magnates who would sell your mother to a gypsy for ten bucks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 01:11 PM (BjH5D)

376 Wonder what his sentence will be ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (VE6XX)

Probably "Thank God I'm fuckin connected."

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 01:11 PM (VPwHp)

377 Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 01:08 PM (6gCWo

Yes; It's awful.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 01:11 PM (2GCMq)

378 Children and animals can't give consent.

In Canada sheep can.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 01:12 PM (dOnec)

379 Some of the dumbest people I've ever spoken to about politics in real life were loyal Republican voters at an election event.

Did you raise your pinky finger, sniff the air and cover your nose with your kerchief?

The people who founded this country and those who fought our initial battles understood freedom and liberty. Those are ingrained in the American spirit. People can see and smell them even if they don’t have a base understanding of specific issues being discussed.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 02, 2025 01:06 PM (PmJpT)
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Democrats are the ones that have absolutely no idea of what is going on, much less anything about history.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 01:12 PM (NpAcC)

380 Even if children and animals could give consent, its still awful and ugly and evil.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:13 PM (dfIr7)

381 I think it's safe to assume our political betters are mixed up in some seriously depraved shit. If this was strictly the entertainment/music industry's dirty laundry I don't think we'd have seen some of the high (politically connected) rollers involved with the case, professionally speaking.

Some digging needs dug.

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I strongly believe that. If it were only a "handful of degenerates" we wouldn't have a "Epstein issue" that we've known of for 2 decades YET have no real criminal convictions (that matter). We also wouldn't have the last regime importing literally tens of thousands of undocumented children they could intentionally "lose track of". There are some really, really sick and perverted people in many of the chairs of power.

Posted by: Crusader at July 02, 2025 01:13 PM (TN0g+)

382 Revolver News
Van Jones officially throws in the towel: ‘Trump is NOT an idiot. This dude is phenomenal’…

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM

Wow...when you've lost Van Jones...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 01:13 PM (dPfyF)

383 In Canada sheep can.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 01:12 PM

Sheep lie!

Posted by: Just the punchline at July 02, 2025 01:14 PM (dPfyF)

384
The wah-wah master is K.K. Downing.

Eric Clapton in Derek and the Dominos.

Masterclass on the Wah.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 12:52 PM (ASFuz)

Anyone of you degenerates who ranks Kirk Hammett on the wah-wah list spends a week in The Box.

Although, from what I've seen in interviews, he seems to be a nice guy, with a real love for music and guitars. Anyone who spends $2M to buy Peter Green/Gary Moore's Greeny Les Paul, and play it as their #1 stage guitar can't be all bad.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 01:14 PM (y9nCu)

385 but women fantasize about stuff they wouldn't actually want to experience, just like men do.
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So obviously you accept there are dark desires on part of woman kind. Also obviously not all women act on them. Just as obvious some of them do. The question before the jury was did they prove beyond reasonable doubt that these women were not consenting.... the man act violations don't have anything to do with consent. Which is why he got those.

The term gold digger exists because it can accurately describe a given situation, individual.

Posted by: Its true and not funny at July 02, 2025 01:15 PM (uflOM)

386 Democrats are the ones that have absolutely no idea of what is going on, much less anything about history.
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Among those 45 and older, I bet half of "our" side goes home and watches the "evening news". You think they know what we do at AoS about how any of this really works, and the trash that make the preponderance of even "our" elected officials?

Posted by: Crusader at July 02, 2025 01:15 PM (TN0g+)

387 The wah-wah master is K.K. Downing.
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I'd really like to see his band KK's Priest.

Posted by: Crusader at July 02, 2025 01:17 PM (TN0g+)

388 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 01:13 PM (dfIr7)

Yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 01:17 PM (2GCMq)

389 After Biggie was murdered, rap went to shit.

Well, both Biggie and Tupac. But yes.
Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (gWBY1)

How can something that started out as shit go to shit?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 01:18 PM (Ux/Nh)

390
Now I'm starting to wonder about Easy-E dying from AIDS all those years ago. I mean, he's the only gangsta rapper who I thought was really scary. The rest are a bunch of posers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 01:22 PM (y9nCu)

391 Democrats are the ones that have absolutely no idea of what is going on, much less anything about history.
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Among those 45 and older, I bet half of "our" side goes home and watches the "evening news". You think they know what we do at AoS about how any of this really works, and the trash that make the preponderance of even "our" elected officials?
Posted by: Crusader at July 02, 2025 01:15 PM (TN0g+)

doubt it. Those days ended with Dan Rather. If the MSM got 50 percent of viewers they'd be having orgasms of joy.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:23 PM (8avO+)

392 >>Anyone who spends $2M to buy Peter Green/Gary Moore's Greeny Les Paul, and play it as their #1 stage guitar can't be all bad.

FWIW - He spent 650k on it.
Paul Winfield was trying to get 1.2 out of it...but it is kind of a dog.

Posted by: garrett at July 02, 2025 01:23 PM (ASFuz)

393 Now I'm starting to wonder about Easy-E dying from AIDS all those years ago. I mean, he's the only gangsta rapper who I thought was really scary. The rest are a bunch of posers.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 01:22 PM (y9nCu)

AIDS was also spread by needle sharing, so I can buy it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:24 PM (8avO+)

394 Sex parties have been going on for a very long time, 5th century BCE. Also written about extensively by the Victorians. Nothing new, no new evil under the sun. I'd rather the Epstein johns went to trial than worry about Hollywood and the filthy music business. In both cases it's "not who you now but who you blow" and I can't fathom it being stopped, even though I'd like it to be. Even SHirley Temple was propositioned by producers.
Posted by: night lifted at July 02, 2025 01:11 PM (FZn/N)

And these parties have been going on with approval for, what, 30 years. Like with Weinstein it is too late to complain about his issues when you've been in that crowd for decades saying nothing.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:27 PM (8avO+)

395 This happens every time one of these floozies starts poontangin' around with those show folk fags.

Posted by: Sheriff Buford T. Justice at July 02, 2025 01:29 PM (q2NNn)

396 "I just assume the other women gossiping about it were jealous, and their husbands were just agreeing with their wives because why start that fight?"

Ann Althouse and her peers tell me Leo D having a 20 year old girl friend makes him a pedo.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 01:07 PM (t0Rmr)

1000 percent cope. Bet they didn't care when they were 20s and lusting after some actor or rich dude. Now the shoe is on their feet and it pinches.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (8avO+)

397 The Federal government shipped kids around the country. So how does the law work when the government is doing illegal things?

It’s legal when they do it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:31 PM (1paM0)

398 Oldcat -
Sex parties have been going on for a very long time, 5th century BC.

I suspect winters in the ice age were long and confining in the caves and probably led to a lot of babies being born in the fall. Much worse, later pagan rites often involved sex orgies, and the babies that were born, especially a first-born male child, were to be sacrificed to their god, often by “passing through the fire” to Moloch, confer the Moabites. If you aren’t eating, look up “Saturnine grin”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:45 PM (1paM0)

399 Two words- Maureen Comey. That was the prosecutor. Yes, that Comey.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 02, 2025 01:54 PM (MZ+PY)

400 He's a baaaaaaahd man.

Posted by: The Sheep at July 02, 2025 02:02 PM (jc0TO)

401

he had detailed maps showing where all the bodies were buried

he let people know that it would be better for everybody involved if he werent convicted of any of the serious stuff

otherwise he would drop them from the sky like leaflets

Posted by: sound awake at July 02, 2025 03:15 PM (g7ym/)

402 29 Didn't follow.
Didn't care.
I wish the Beer Girl cart would come around again. I'm on the 11th hole and I'm getting thirsty.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (1bdKO)

Exactly my perspective!

Now where's my hiking boots.....

On a serious note, I wonder if they did the same screw-up as with the OJ trial. They were so anxious to avoid any appearance of racism that the judge, jury, and prosecutors were all DEI hires. The only non-DEI expert I remember was the defenses DNA expert who basically destroyed the prosecution's case.

The OJ judge, Lance Ito was the same guy who screwed up the Junk Bond King (Milkin?) case which was eventually thrown out after the PB spent a few years in jail. Last I heard he was hearing night-time traffic court in Torrance.

The prosecutor lady (forget her name) wrote a book which was basically several hundred pages blaming everybody else and her recent divorce and so forth...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 03:27 PM (QGaXH)

403 Oh..and Good Morning Ace

Thank you for covering this so we don't have to.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 03:29 PM (QGaXH)

404 Because women don't have agency, except when they do.

Posted by: rechill at July 02, 2025 04:14 PM (K1zyu)

Wednesday Morning Rant

Wokeness and Brokeness

The common refrain among many regarding poor corporate performance when it correlates with knee-jerk, all-in wokeness is "get woke, go broke." It's sometimes true, but it's often the exact opposite. It is not unheard for essentially healthy companies to go through the "Woke Pivot." When that happens, results are mixed. For Gillette and Bud Light, it is certain that their lurches into contemporary leftist ideology and marketing caused catastrophic and irreparable damage to their brands. Others have had a different experience. Nike and Target were both early boarders of the woke train, and it doesn't appear to have hurt them. It's now part of the brand identity.

But otherwise healthy companies jumping into wokeness with both feet is somewhat unusual. Often, it's more of a high-risk gambit to turn things around. Companies or brands will go through a Woke Pivot in response to structural problems in their businesses. This is almost certainly behind Victoria's Secret's disastrous leftward lurch. For companies like VS, it isn't a matter of "get woke, go broke" - it's a matter of "go broke, get woke." So, too, is likely the case with Jaguar.

As Ace covered yesterday (standard warning: don't comment on old posts), Jaguar has seen a total sales collapse in Europe as compared to last year. Last year's weak performance was followed by this year's disastrous performance. People are pointing at last year's equally disastrous ultra-woke, ultra-stupid, ultra-poorly-timed and extremely loud Woke Pivot as a major cause. It might be - but there's more to this story. From the Daily Caller article:

Jaguar's European sales plummeted by 97.5% and year-to-date figures show a 75.1% decline in sales, with just 2,665 units sold from January to April 2025. Globally, Jaguar's performance dropped sharply from 180,833 units in 2018 to 26,862 units in FY24/25, holding a market share of just 0.1% in both Australia and the U.K.

So European sales were an unmitigated disaster, but worldwide saw nowhere near the declines that Europe did - but declining they are, and across the board.

So how common is this? I decided to look at a decade's worth of Jaguar/Land Rover (JLR) annual reports and the chart of global Jaguar units sold (taken from the summary of each year's report) paints a stark picture:

With the exception of a modest bump last year, Jaguar's sales have been collapsing since 2018. Jaguar is a dying brand. It's also doing other dumb things many others have mentioned (going all-EV at precisely the wrong time, just at it went all-woke at precisely the wrong time, etc.), but the core problem is that people aren't buying Jags anymore. This year's sales decline and the European sales catastrophe - while notable and extremely dramatic - is just an acceleration of the long-existing trend. The car-buying market has no love for Jaguar, and its sales reflect that.

So they tried for the Woke Pivot. Facing brutal sales declines, an engineering pipeline focused entirely on EV powertrains, shifting market preferences and various other issues, Jaguar made a different play. It is a common and downright normal play: make a lot of noise, do something they think will shock the squares, and go hard at prog messaging in the hopes of bringing in new customers to replace their old customers. It didn't work, and almost certainly made things worse.

From what I could find, Jaguar's customers are, for the most part, well-to-do people who are solidly into - or even on the cusp of exiting - middle age. More men than women buy (or, rather, bought) Jags. With their traditional market of well-off middle-aged men and their wives drying up, they tried to bring in young people and women, and did it in the stupidest way possible - by alienating their core customers and turning themselves into a laughingstock. This was never going to work anyway (young people, by and large, can't afford Jags), but the way they pursued it was also perhaps the most destructive and dumbest way available to them. Alienating your core customers is never likely to get new customers to beat a path to your door.

But like so many companies, Jag is not an example of "get woke, go broke." They were going broke, so decided to get woke. As usual, it didn't work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 Zzzzzz

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 02, 2025 11:01 AM (Dqgxg)

2 Not first.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

3 Top 10!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 11:02 AM (+4yJ5)

4 When did they stop producing cars that they could sell?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM (a+4eV)

5 It's always at the margins where gains are to be made... but to alienate one's natural customer demographic for the sake of a "margin" that shocks and offends nearly everyone -- AND that isn't very likely to buy a Jag in the first place -- is sheer lunacy. Did the stockholders demand anyone's head?

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM (Nmmyc)

6 But like so many companies, Jag is not an example of "get woke, go broke." They were going broke, so decided to get woke. As usual, it didn't work.

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The modern audiences!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

7 That Ace guy did a post on this yesterday.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM (WIJBc)

8 I thought Target has quietly backtracked on the wokeness?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

9
Governor Gavin Newsom
@CAgovernor
·
22h
This July, we celebrate Disability Pride Month and the immense contributions of individuals with disabilities across the state.

California has, and always will, recognize people with disabilities as an integral part of what makes our state diverse ....

Posted by: 13times at July 02, 2025 11:04 AM (6iKlf)

10 Does the Podcast always come out on Thursday?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:04 AM (WIJBc)

11 It's not the $ for the car, it's the $$$ for the mechanics.

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 11:04 AM (tubbA)

12 When dealing with human decisions, it is virtually never the case that there is a single cause.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 02, 2025 11:05 AM (od0dV)

13 Jaguar needs some product placement in some major media. Something like Fast & Furious 27: Eligible for Social Security.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:05 AM (jc0TO)

14 8 I thought Target has quietly backtracked on the wokeness?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

For the most part, they have...there was no Pride month in my local store...and that's NoVa...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 11:05 AM (tOcjL)

15 Meh. I wrote off Jag after Ford bought it and screwed up an iconic body style.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 11:06 AM (dPfyF)

16 That Ace guy did a post on this yesterday.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM

Who?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:06 AM (jc0TO)

17 14 8 I thought Target has quietly backtracked on the wokeness?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

For the most part, they have...there was no Pride month in my local store...and that's NoVa...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 11:05 AM (tOcjL)

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This decision could have led to thousands of suicides!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

18 7 That Ace guy did a post on this yesterday.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM (WIJBc)
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Do people read that guy's posts, though? Many don't speak Ewok.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 02, 2025 11:06 AM (od0dV)

19 16 That Ace guy did a post on this yesterday.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM

Who?
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:06 AM (jc0TO)

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post? Is that like content?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

20 Jaguar had cachet way back when. Then they were bought by TaTa Motors, an Indian company. Say what you will about their build quality, an Indian company just doesn't carry the same aura of class and exclusivity, and if those attributes are what you're selling, you're dead.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

21 No Unicorn boxer shorts at the Walmart this year.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:07 AM (WIJBc)

22 You would think there would always be a market for a sports car above the Corvette and below the Lamborghini. Porsche lives quite comfortably there. But then, their cars are well-engineered. Not "beauty you can finally own."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 11:07 AM (QtuHt)

23 Let's poop on our target market. Did Gen Z ever take marketing 101. Seems some did not. Broke they be.

Posted by: SgtPete at July 02, 2025 11:07 AM (amaa8)

24 Thx Joe. So I guess I'm not going to be driving my Jaguar while drinking a Bud Light while going to buy Gillette razors to look good to take my date to a Disney movie

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 11:07 AM (eBgDF)

25 they tried to bring in young people and women, and did it in the stupidest way possible - by alienating their core customers

And instead of learning from this, other companies will think "We can do it right."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 11:07 AM (+4yJ5)

26 Jaguars have always been overpriced junk for posers to buy and pretend they know their way around under the hood and know how to drive fast.

Mama mama please, no more jaguars
I don't want to be a pop star...

Posted by: Nazareth at July 02, 2025 11:08 AM (4dUzE)

27 What made Nike immune? I get that Target is one competitor among many, so they actually could survive.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 02, 2025 11:08 AM (od0dV)

28 @4

>>When did they stop producing cars that they could sell?

Sometime around 1985.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 11:08 AM (XV/Pl)

29 If you don' t produce cars that will complicate deliveries.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:08 AM (WIJBc)

30 they tried to bring in young people and women, and did it in the stupidest way possible - by alienating their core customers

And instead of learning from this, other companies will think "We can do it right."

Sorta like communism.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

31 When did they stop producing cars that they could sell?
Posted by: FeatherBlade

2023. And they weren't supposed to have EVs for another year.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 11:09 AM (Ul4ZN)

32 Another Trumpmass miracle!

Waffle House@WaffleHouse
Egg-cellent news…as of June 2, the egg surcharge is officially off the menu. Thanks for understanding!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

33 >>>I thought Target has quietly backtracked on the wokeness?

They “backtracked” only in moving the gay shit from the front of the stores to the back

Posted by: one hour sober at July 02, 2025 11:09 AM (Y1sOo)

34 "go hard at prog messaging in the hopes of bringing in new customers to replace their old customers"

They still have not learned the fundamental truth that "woke" people don't buy things. They just yell about them. The Media amplifies their loudness until corporations and others believe there is a genuine market there. There isn't and never will be. The "new customers" they're aiming at do not exist.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 02, 2025 11:09 AM (WPL6O)

35 they tried to bring in young people and women, and did it in the stupidest way possible - by alienating their core customers

Yeah, the way to go is make new customers want to join your core, like it was a secret society of the uber tasteful.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:09 AM (jc0TO)

36 >>But like so many companies, Jag is not an example of "get woke, go broke." They were going broke, so decided to get woke. As usual, it didn't work.

Can you smell the desperation?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 11:09 AM (VVnrT)

37 Sorta like communism.
Posted by: Archimedes

Yeah, except Jaguar didn't kill off millions of people to prove that they had a better idea.

And no, that's not a suggestion to Jaguar either!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 11:09 AM (+4yJ5)

38 25 they tried to bring in young people and women, and did it in the stupidest way possible - by alienating their core customers

And instead of learning from this, other companies will think "We can do it right."
Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 11:07 AM (+4yJ5)

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This is very, very close to the New Coke case study.

Coke's marketing research told them over and over again that they'd lose 10% of their customers. Again and again, those customers were shown to be the most loyal customers.

But, they figured it was just 10%, the name was enough, the taste would make up for it, and they'd bring in new customers with it.

Well, that 10% bought a very, very large, outsized amount of Coke.

There was no new market. They were already Pepsi drinkers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

39 >>>I thought Target has quietly backtracked on the wokeness?

They “backtracked” only in moving the gay shit from the front of the stores to the back

I'd call that backtracking.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

40 Jag the only luxury car that came with a tool box because you were going to need it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (K/v0v)

41 The stowed the ghey shit in the rear?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (WIJBc)

42 39 >>>I thought Target has quietly backtracked on the wokeness?

They “backtracked” only in moving the gay shit from the front of the stores to the back

I'd call that backtracking.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

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They didn't commit seppuku, so nothing has happened.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

43 Jag's sales collapsed because they have no cars to sell. Literally no cars in the case of Europe. The company cut off its nuts by abandoning all ICE vehicles in favor of some all-EV fantasy.

The company won't exist in 3-5 years. Jag's been on death's door for as long as I can remember. So far, it's always found some foolish sugar daddy to rescue it. But at least then it had actual vehicles to sell. No more.

The market for expensive and exotic vehicles has coalesced around a few companies, mostly German. The expensive Brit brands are all dead or dying, with the exception of Land Rover and Bentley and Rolls (which are both German). The expensive French brands are long dead.

The only exotic Italian brands doing well is Ferrari (which is really more a "brand" than an actual car) and Lamborghini. And Lambos are German cars designed and built with the might of VW Group behind them.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

44 Diddly found guilty on 2 counts (of 5). And more (homo-)raep charges are still being found

Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (5C538)

45 Old and busted: Jaguars

New and cool: Pussies

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)

46 Commenting present

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (+qU29)

47 It does seem like companies that are flailing in the market are taking a very hard turn to the Left as if they can woo those people into their fold.

In other words, instead of catering to the 95% of people who have an outside chance of buying their product (assuming it's a quality product), they are pursuing the 5% of people who *might* conceivably buy the product so long as they meet the Leftist purity test in perpetuity.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 11:11 AM (7fElN)

48 >>Coke's marketing research told them over and over again that they'd lose 10% of their customers. Again and again, those customers were shown to be the most loyal customers.

"I don't get it -- why should you worry about alienating your most loyal fans, calling them 'toxic,' and other slurs?"
-- Disney

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 11:11 AM (VVnrT)

49 Can you smell the desperation?
Posted by: Lizzy

Like disinfectant and astroglide

Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 11:11 AM (5C538)

50 Aloominium. Jagwa.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:11 AM (WIJBc)

51 The core problem is that while companies might have negative consequences for going woke...the individuals in those companies making the choices do not.

Does anyone think the exec that choose this ad agency at Jaguar won't get a BETTER job and more money because of it?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:12 AM (t0Rmr)

52 I know a guy with a Jag with a 500hp V8. I would like to have that engine in a D-Type replica.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 11:12 AM (vFG9F)

53 They “backtracked” only in moving the gay shit from the front of the stores to the back

I'd call that backtracking.
Posted by: Archimedes

Or maybe going in the rear.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

54 When I was a teenager, my boss at my P/T job bought a new 1970 E Type Jag roadster. He let me use it for my high school homecoming dance.
It was bitchin'!! Maroon in color with tan leather interior. Drove like a dream

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 11:12 AM (1bdKO)

55 Leading from behind.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:12 AM (WIJBc)

56 But, they figured it was just 10%, the name was enough, the taste would make up for it, and they'd bring in new customers with it.

Well, that 10% bought a very, very large, outsized amount of Coke.

No one gets raises and promotions for maintaining your current customer base.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:13 AM (t0Rmr)

57 45 Old and busted: Jaguars

New and cool: Pussies
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
_______
Then they should push the Ta Ta connection.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 02, 2025 11:13 AM (od0dV)

58 Just checked the Jag web page. I don't think woke is their only problem. Their product is bland and overpriced. It will not inspire beautiful women to give their owners handy jays.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 11:13 AM (QtuHt)

59 >>they tried to bring in young people and women, and did it in the stupidest way possible - by alienating their core customers

"Jaguar is *air quotes* too fratty - we need to change that."
-- Bud Lite Marketing chick

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 11:13 AM (VVnrT)

60 That Bud Lite stuff seems to always be on sale.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:14 AM (WIJBc)

61 27 What made Nike immune? I get that Target is one competitor among many, so they actually could survive.
Posted by: Eeyore

Target has hit a brick wall recently (stock down 25 percent from 2024) and now the decline of Pride merchandise etc has provoked a boycott on the left. Nike's stock price over the last five years has went from a peak of 170 or so in 2021 to the upper 70's nowadays.

Nike ain't doing so well either. (from Yahoo Finance) "Nike said Thursday it expects sales to be down by mid-single digits in the current quarter following a 12% drop in revenue during its fiscal fourth quarter ended May 31.

Gross margins fell by 440 basis points, or 4.4%, in its fourth quarter and are forecast to fall by 350-425 basis points in the current quarter."

Both are mature companies without much room for growth and Nike in particular is at risk for its continuing support for gender transing. They refuse to talk about that financial support for research into surgeries and meds for transing as well for nearly 70 days. Fox online actually has a running comment on it.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:14 AM (ctrM5)

62 Jaguar is one of those car brands I forget exists. Like Mitsubishi.

Now I do remember it, but for the wrong reasons.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 11:14 AM (nwGCR)

63 I work in a globo mega company.

Its still all gay, lame and stupid. My cow-workers have pronouns in their emails and our CEO gave us a rah rah speech about being proud of buggery.

But in external messaging I notice they are a little less gay.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:14 AM (t0Rmr)

64 21 No Unicorn boxer shorts at the Walmart this year.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:07 AM (WIJBc)

That gave me a mental image that now requires bleach. Lots of it.

Posted by: moki at July 02, 2025 11:14 AM (wLjpr)

65 4 When did they stop producing cars that they could sell?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 02, 2025 11:03 AM (a+4eV)

There's that story line in "Mad Men"- the English guy has embezzled from the firm, he's been found out and decides to commit suicide with his complimentary Jaguar.
Which he can't get to work, so he hangs himself in his office.

Posted by: sal at July 02, 2025 11:15 AM (f+FmA)

66 In the early 2000s, Jaguar had a series of pretty cool commercials with very well-chosen sound tracks. I remember thinking "I would buy that car. You know, if I had money and didn't have 4 kids".

Here's an example.

https://is.gd/cSJKmX

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

67 56 But, they figured it was just 10%, the name was enough, the taste would make up for it, and they'd bring in new customers with it.

Well, that 10% bought a very, very large, outsized amount of Coke.

No one gets raises and promotions for maintaining your current customer base.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:13 AM (t0Rmr)

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It's interesting that marketing has gotten so bad that they'll teach the New Coke case study as something to not do and then demand all of the actions of New Coke for every major corporation.

It demonstrates a deeply stupid approach to teaching and application.

We can argue all day about how effective good ad buys are, but directly misapplying market research lessons from the example of the 80s of bad market research decisions is...so weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

68 54 When I was a teenager, my boss at my P/T job bought a new 1970 E Type Jag roadster. He let me use it for my high school homecoming dance.
It was bitchin'!! Maroon in color with tan leather interior. Drove like a dream

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 11:12 AM (1bdKO)
Pappy Eromero let me drive a 66 F100. He said I better not loose any of his tools.

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 11:15 AM (jgmnb)

69 When I was a teenager, my boss at my P/T job bought a new 1970 E Type Jag roadster. He let me use it for my high school homecoming dance.
It was bitchin'!! Maroon in color with tan leather interior. Drove like a dream

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 11:12 AM

Mmmm....E Type.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 11:15 AM (dPfyF)

70 No Unicorn boxer shorts at the Walmart this year.

The hole in the front is so any guy can make then unicorn shorts.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:15 AM (t0Rmr)

71 Nike makes sense to be women. Their customer base is young people. They need to keep 20 year olds happy not 70 year olds.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 11:15 AM (nwGCR)

72 His car looks like it's going 90 when it's broken down. His hair is always mussed. No one knows what color his eyes are as he never takes off his sunglasses. He gets handjobs from women he barely knows. He's ... the most Jaguar Man in the World.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:16 AM (jc0TO)

73 Makes sense to be woke, not women. Damn Apple autocorrect.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 11:16 AM (nwGCR)

74 With their traditional market of well-off middle-aged men and their wives drying up ...

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I blame Cougars!

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 11:16 AM (7hxLo)

75 29 year olds also wear shoes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:16 AM (WIJBc)

76 7
‘That Ace guy did a post on this yesterday.’

Joe already had his written and Ace pre-stomped the thread.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 11:17 AM (jbnUc)

77 I can't imagine "going woke" is going to help any brand or product, regardless of their financial situation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 11:17 AM (Q4IgG)

78 We can argue all day about how effective good ad buys are, but directly misapplying market research lessons from the example of the 80s of bad market research decisions is...so weird.

I think the problem is bad incentives. As most problems are.

And it is funny, no one has any idea how effective ads actually are.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:17 AM (t0Rmr)

79 The Mad Men Jaguar storyline was great. 1960s Jags were some of the most beautiful cars ever made. Absolute pieces of shit mechanically, but damn were they gorgeous. Same with many Italian cars.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 11:18 AM (nwGCR)

80 75 29 year olds also wear shoes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:16 AM (WIJBc)

Velcro straps FTW!

Posted by: You know who you are at July 02, 2025 11:18 AM (PiwSw)

81 ‘California has, and always will, recognize people with disabilities’

California. Our largest disabled state.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

82 The thing is, "get woke, go broke" worked out very well as a counter to the insanity. A simple message from the majority straights to the tiny minority perverts that we ain't buying the rainbow shit. And we didn't.

A simple message with a simple conclusion.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 02, 2025 11:18 AM (g8Ew8)

83 Both are mature companies without much room for growth and Nike in particular is at risk for its continuing support for gender transing. They refuse to talk about that financial support for research into surgeries and meds for transing as well for nearly 70 days. Fox online actually has a running comment on it.

It will be interesting to watch the corporate backing and filling now that trannies are no longer the lefty cause du jour. Times have changed. Will the woke companies change with them?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:18 AM (Riz8t)

84 23 Let's poop on our target market. Did Gen Z ever take marketing 101. Seems some did not. Broke they be.
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In fairness to Zoomers, this is more of a Millennial problem than a Gen Z problem. The oldest Zoomers turn 28 this year, and many are still in high school or even middle school.

The polling seems to show that a subset of Zoomers are indeed extremely woke and retarded (and usually also "Queer" or trans or whatever), but the average Zoomer is much less of a leftist hivemind drone than Millennials.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 02, 2025 11:19 AM (+b4rY)

85 Tata, which currently owns Jaguar, is one of the largest car companies in the world (mostly 3rd world sales) and they don't display this kind of idiocy with their other brands. So it makes one wonder if they are trying to intentionally tank Jaguar and turn it into a dead nameplate that they own, although I can't fathom the reason that they would do that.

When I searched for this topic, a new electric battery plant, subsidized by the UK and supposed to be ready in 2026, seemed to be related. If Jaguar and the EV industry collapse before then, it's very unlikely that the plant will ever open. I wonder if Tata found a way to siphon some of the construction money out ahead of time.
(rather like the plot of The Producers)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK8)

86 78 And it is funny, no one has any idea how effective ads actually are.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:17 AM (t0Rmr)

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I'd bet good money that marketing researchers know exactly how effective they are.

It's just not very.

Diminishing returns over certain dollars spent based on the size of the market, saturation of the product.

But it's in no one's interest doing the research to let Coke know that. They still need to spend $1 billion a year on ads across the globe, or whatever, because without it, the existing marketing infrastructure collapses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

87 29 year olds also wear shoes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:16 AM (WIJBc)

They’re not spending $300 on them though. Nike has perfected selling shoes that cost $11 to make in China or Vietnam for $300, to high school kids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 11:19 AM (nwGCR)

88 Yeti seems to have the go woke go broke . I have never purchased on because the price exceeded my needs.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:20 AM (VofaG)

89 It's interesting that marketing has gotten so bad that they'll teach the New Coke case study as something to not do and then demand all of the actions of New Coke for every major corporation.

It demonstrates a deeply stupid approach to teaching and application.

We can argue all day about how effective good ad buys are, but directly misapplying market research lessons from the example of the 80s of bad market research decisions is...so weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Feels marketing triumphed over analytical marketing. That coincided with marketing being feminized in both the ad makers and the ad buyers. Leftist Big Tech played a part in it become the whale in advertising and direct selling facilitators for products and services.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:20 AM (ctrM5)

90 Go Woke, and put an exclamation point to going broke

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 11:21 AM (Qy6rk)

91 29 year olds also wear shoes.

My current NB sneakers are wearing out so I tried to replace the exact model. No one was selling them.

I went to their own physical store and they told me they stopped making that version and suggested a different one. Which is more poorly made.

Well, they just lost a long time customer. But why is it so hard to make sneakers that fit a human foot and don't look like clown shoes?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:21 AM (t0Rmr)

92 Seems to have SURVIVED. Where in the world did that word go after I typed it. Autocorrect is screwing with me.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:22 AM (VofaG)

93 From what I could find, Jaguar's customers are, for the most part, well-to-do people who are solidly into - or even on the cusp of exiting - middle age.

In my view, people who buy Jaguars like the design and appreciate the second-hand James Bond coolness of the name. That's what they want, not some clown car that even Jm J Bullock wouldn't be seen dead in.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 11:22 AM (Dg2sF)

94 I have successfully boycotted Nike for a decade now.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:22 AM (VofaG)

95 In fairness to Zoomers, this is more of a Millennial problem than a Gen Z problem. The oldest Zoomers turn 28 this year, and many are still in high school or even middle school.

Yeah Gen Z isn't in charge of any businesses. There isn't a Gen Z Bill Gates out there with an amazing startup. This is Gen X and Millennial age people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:22 AM (dfIr7)

96 My little brother got me a 14 oz Yeti Rambler last Christmas. Seems rather solidly built for a cup.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:23 AM (WIJBc)

97 I don't have a problem with celebrating people with disabilities who overcome them and go to lead productive, fulfilling lives and contribute to society.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

98 But, they figured it was just 10%, the name was enough, the taste would make up for it, and they'd bring in new customers with it.

Well, that 10% bought a very, very large, outsized amount of Coke.

No one gets raises and promotions for maintaining your current customer base.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:13 AM (t0Rmr)

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It's interesting that marketing has gotten so bad that they'll teach the New Coke case study as something to not do and then demand all of the actions of New Coke for every major corporation.

It demonstrates a deeply stupid approach to teaching and application.

We can argue all day about how effective good ad buys are, but directly misapplying market research lessons from the example of the 80s of bad market research decisions is...so weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)
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The interesting thing about New Coke is ... it would have worked. The vast majority of customers liked it. The launch was intentionally sabotaged by a few guys who basically tried to extort the company. When the company refused, they astroturfed and gaslit the launch. There's a book about it.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:23 AM (iFTx/)

99 My little brother got me a 14 oz Yeti Rambler last Christmas. Seems rather solidly built for a cup.

Gravity works differently on a Yeti cup.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

100 I know Ace posted about this yesterday. I rewatched that awful commercial they did and still can't believe they did it. It was just about the most awful commercial I've ever seen. It just screamed "freaks," and it left me feeling uncomfortable. That's all I got out of it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 11:23 AM (qBdHI)

101 The new jagUar model that this ad was meant to promote looks very bland and not great. For some reason EV designers think that since you don't need a front grille, the car should have NO design features, just be a colored block.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:24 AM (dfIr7)

102 I never bought a pair of Nikes. I used to buy Reeboks on sale for about $30.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:24 AM (WIJBc)

103 Ads- do they consider that we are no longer slaves to TV commercials? We just record the show and FF through them.
Which I guess accounts for the plague of ads on the Net.

Posted by: sal at July 02, 2025 11:25 AM (f+FmA)

104 The latest NPC download is "Trump is killing deportees by throwing them out of planes and incinerating them in the TOTALLY A CONCENTRATION CAMP IN FLORIDA!!!"

Its hilarious how coordinated the message is, all at once.

Before this it was all "the Trump family has to be deported because they are all here illegally lulz!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:25 AM (dfIr7)

105 >> The oldest Zoomers turn 28 this year, and many are still in high school or even middle school

Don’t blame us! It’s the parents!

Posted by: public school teachers at July 02, 2025 11:25 AM (Y1sOo)

106 Yeti seems to have the go woke go broke . I have never purchased on because the price exceeded my needs.

When I need a cooler, I buy the cheap old styrofoam ones and let the lid blow off as I am heading down the road then dispose of the empty cooler near a homeless person for reuse, most likely as a toilet.

Posted by: Give A Hoot, Don't Pollute! at July 02, 2025 11:26 AM (4dUzE)

107 It will be interesting to watch the corporate backing and filling now that trannies are no longer the lefty cause du jour. Times have changed. Will the woke companies change with them?
Posted by: Archimedes

Personnel are policy and in the cutthroat world of the executive suite, the head honchos cannot admit making a mistake without being defenestrated. So, you get a muted and undercover strategy that pleases neither the wokies or the far more numerous normies. The normies become more indifferent to your brand and the wokies hate you for not being out, loud, and proud in promoting deviance.

The only way to play is not get involved in cultural struggle sessions-sell your product without the whiny and whinging politics.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:26 AM (ctrM5)

108 36
‘Can you smell the desperation?’

That’s a line in a pop song. Damned if I can remember the name, though.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 11:26 AM (jbnUc)

109 Target's problems are notable, because getting back to better profitability would not be hard - they have some money losing stores in declining urban areas, but successful stores in better areas. They need to quickly close several dozen of the money losing stores and stop the bleeding. However, I suspect they know that this would mark them as a non-growth company from now on, and they don't want to take that hit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 11:26 AM (uWKK8)

110 The interesting thing about New Coke is ... it would have worked. The vast majority of customers liked it.

I didn't know a single person who preferred it over the old coke. It wasn't horrible tasting, it just wasn't as good. The evidence for it being a leverage device to change the sugar to corn syrup is overwhelming.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:26 AM (dfIr7)

111 A predator trap is a feature paleontologists love for the abundance of fossils. A prey dinosaur gets stuck in a tar pit or such and numerous predators going after the prey also get stuck. It also works in Gaza.

https://is.gd/rrl0a6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:26 AM (L/fGl)

112 the car should have NO design features, just be a colored block.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:24 AM (dfIr7)

I'm parked right here- Tesla Truck

Posted by: sal at July 02, 2025 11:27 AM (f+FmA)

113 I used to buy a lot of Nike apparel and shoes. I started boycotting them before Kapernick but it's been so long I forgot why now. Mainly because the Kapernick thing overtook my memory.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:27 AM (VofaG)

114 104 The latest NPC download is "Trump is killing deportees by throwing them out of planes and incinerating them in the TOTALLY A CONCENTRATION CAMP IN FLORIDA!!!"

Its hilarious how coordinated the message is, all at once.

Before this it was all "the Trump family has to be deported because they are all here illegally lulz!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:25 AM (dfIr7)

Strangest Concentration Camp Ever - all you have to do to get out is say that you want to go home.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 11:27 AM (uWKK8)

115 I watched regular tv a couple of nights ago and the ads were worse then I remember

Several runs of an ad for a drug to reduce your chances of getting AIDS showing happy buff dudes talking to each other and one straight black couple.

Some ad for "pride" feature tarted up boys

The car commercial with a gay guy and his rat dog

and a bunch of ads for drugs I couldn't figure out what they do with happy fat black people dancing.

So do only gay people watch TV anymore?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:28 AM (t0Rmr)

116 114 Is there any video?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:28 AM (WIJBc)

117 predator trap is a feature paleontologists love for the abundance of fossils. A prey dinosaur gets stuck in a tar pit or such and numerous predators going after the prey also get stuck. It also works in Gaza.

https://is.gd/rrl0a6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:26 AM (L/fGl)

Adam Carolla's rant on the tar pits is hilarious in his movie, The Hammer.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)

118 Agreed. The trial went as I expected: the serious charges were mostly bullshit and over-charged, and the prosecution witnesses were mostly sleazy gold-diggers and scumbags. The jury didn't like them. But Puffy's a huge scumbag so I expected the jury to find him guilty of something. They did.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 10:58 AM (iFTx/)

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But it didn't bring down the entire international cartel of human trafficking, so the fix was in.

Wake up, sheeple!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)
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With few exceptions, nobody wants to go after the real sex traffickers, because those are powerful Mexican cartels that kill people. So we go after guys like Diddy. He's scum but taking advantage of gold-diggers and star-fuckers isn't sex trafficking. It's not even illegal. Just like with rape, they've watered down the meaning of sex trafficking to the point where it hurts real victims of real rape and trafficking.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

119 Here's somone actually defending what Jaguar did with this ad campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bg0PAacgDnw

He's right in that Jaguar was probably a dead company walking anyway, but that doesn't mean the solution to your problem is to stick a fork in a wall socket.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

120 Swearing in ceremony.

https://is.gd/bu1Z3G

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)

121 I almost bought a 1973 Jaguar XKE. I recall the sticker price was $9,300. Would have except it was purple.

Posted by: javems at July 02, 2025 11:30 AM (8I4hW)

122 La Brea Tarpits is another site I regret not visiting when I lived in California.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 11:30 AM (77rzZ)

123 "Well, they just lost a long time customer. But why is it so hard to make sneakers that fit a human foot and don't look like clown shoes?
Posted by: 18-1 "
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As I aged I found NB shoes to ease my foot arthritis, but lately they haven't been as good. I guess it's hard to compete with shoes made by 10 year old Chinese kids.

Posted by: Cosda at July 02, 2025 11:30 AM (EO9/2)

124 Yeah, they dont even need to click their heels together three times.

Posted by: Glenda at July 02, 2025 11:30 AM (JHWND)

125 Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

We are on the exact same page.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:30 AM (VofaG)

126 He's right in that Jaguar was probably a dead company walking anyway, but that doesn't mean the solution to your problem is to stick a fork in a wall socket.

Yeah I get the "Hail Mary" approach to save a dying company but this was like throwing bottles of nitroglycerine on a bomb to defuse it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:32 AM (dfIr7)

127 The first mistake they made was selling the company to Ford.

Posted by: El Borak at July 02, 2025 11:32 AM (JHWND)

128 Adam Carolla has a new video on Sandy Cortez.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:32 AM (WIJBc)

129 In my view, people who buy Jaguars like the design and appreciate the second-hand James Bond coolness of the name. That's what they want, not some clown car that even Jm J Bullock wouldn't be seen dead in.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect

I knew a lady that bought a new jag about every two years and I think they got uglier and uglier. I liked the older ones, the newer ones just didn't look as cool.
I showed up at her house for something and there was a brand new jag in the driveway with the motor running and when I got inside her house I told her and her response was it'll run out of gas eventually, she couldn't figure out how to turn it off. I still laugh thinking about it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 02, 2025 11:33 AM (fGmWu)

130 Target's problems are notable, because getting back to better profitability would not be hard - they have some money losing stores in declining urban areas, but successful stores in better areas. They need to quickly close several dozen of the money losing stores and stop the bleeding.

I know! NYC can take over and operate those stores!

Posted by: Zardoz Mamdani at July 02, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

131 Here's somone actually defending what Jaguar did with this ad campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bg0PAacgDnw

He's right in that Jaguar was probably a dead company walking anyway, but that doesn't mean the solution to your problem is to stick a fork in a wall socket.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)
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I think he's talking more about the rebrand in terms of styling and all-EV than the super-homo ad that launched the car.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

132 Do super-homos wear capes?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:33 AM (jc0TO)

133 I didn't watch the trial but from what I understood the prosecution had a hard time proving that Sean Combs was guilty of anything other than being a sex-crazed homosexual scumbag. He probably IS, but they had a tough time proving it.

And my guess is that this was because getting the useful witnesses and proving the case would require making very powerful and wealthy people unhappy and uncomfortable, bringing them in on the sleaze.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:34 AM (dfIr7)

134 122 La Brea Tarpits is another site I regret not visiting when I lived in California.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 11:30 AM (77rzZ)

I visited it once, the sabertooth skeletons are awesome! Lots of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 11:34 AM (uWKK8)

135 A predator trap is a feature paleontologists love for the abundance of fossils. A prey dinosaur gets stuck in a tar pit or such and numerous predators going after the prey also get stuck. It also works in Gaza.

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That could be a great plot device for a film titled "Illegal Alien vs. Predator Trap" ..

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 11:34 AM (PYAz2)

136 Another interesting thing about shoes...10 years ago most stores had salespeople that knew something about them.

So if you went in they'd measure your foot and suggest shoes to you.

Now there are just boxes and you try them on and good luck finding something that actually fits your size (whatever it says on the box) let alone something that feels nice on your foot.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 11:34 AM (t0Rmr)

137 I know the Cato Institute and many morons think the wealthy all got there through hard work and being smarter but the way most companies are run I have serious doubts about that contention.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 11:35 AM (Vh9CX)

138 That could be a great plot device for a film titled "Illegal Alien vs. Predator Trap" ..
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 11:34 AM

A Zod joint.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:35 AM (jc0TO)

139 I visited it once, the sabertooth skeletons are awesome! Lots of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 11:34 AM (uWKK

Killed by Big Oil. Sad.

Posted by: Reforger at July 02, 2025 11:35 AM (SJnNf)

140 84
‘Zoomers are indeed extremely woke and retarded (and usually also "Queer" or trans or whatever), but the average Zoomer is much less of a leftist hivemind drone than Millennials.’

That depends tremendously on whether said Zoomer is a man or a woman.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 11:35 AM (jbnUc)

141 That could be a great plot device for a film titled "Illegal Alien vs. Predator Trap" ..
Posted by: ShainS

Allosaurus Alcatraz!

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

142 I think he's talking more about the rebrand in terms of styling and all-EV than the super-homo ad that launched the car.

Agreed, but they're all part of Jaguar's "strategy". That car style will sell very few cars, and an EV that you can't build will sell even fewer.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

143 That depends tremendously on whether said Zoomer is a man or a woman.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

My male Zoomer son is definitely not woke.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)

144 It also works in Gaza.

Oh you'll love the latest pally propaganda attempt. Now they are claiming that -- get this -- the Pernicious Hebrew has set a trap by digging a pit, putting a covering on it, and putting sugar on the covering. When the desperate, starving children seeking sugar run up to grab bags of it (??) they fall into the pit and nobody can get them out. OH THE HUMANITY!

How they managed to dig a huge pit in full sight of Gaza where they deliver food and hide it is not explained. Nor is why the Israelis would even deliver huge bags of sugar or why kids would run up to get them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:37 AM (dfIr7)

145 [Tangentially related:]

Times Algebra
@TimesAlgebraIND

BIG BREAKING 🚨 After banning burqa and niqab in public in 2018, Danish Govt is now extending the ban to schools & universities.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said "I am also a woman. And I can't tolerate the oppression of women.

Religious expressions that clash with Danish values have no place in educational institutions"

"Immigrants who can’t adapt to Denmark’s cultural values should consider LEAVING" ⚡- SHE WARNS

https://is.gd/uXw4N5

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 11:37 AM (PYAz2)

146 Also ads are no longer fun.

Here's how to do woke right- the famous Bluebell ad from the '80s
https://tinyurl.com/yedezv4d

Posted by: sal at July 02, 2025 11:38 AM (f+FmA)

147 109 Target's problems are notable, because getting back to better profitability would not be hard - they have some money losing stores in declining urban areas, but successful stores in better areas. They need to quickly close several dozen of the money losing stores and stop the bleeding. However, I suspect they know that this would mark them as a non-growth company from now on, and they don't want to take that hit.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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P/E is a little over 11 so Target's glory days as a hot retailer are probably over.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:38 AM (ctrM5)

148 That could be a great plot device for a film titled "Illegal Alien vs. Predator Trap" ..
Posted by: ShainS

Why do you think they are putting them in the swamp?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 11:38 AM (Ul4ZN)

149 No idea on maintenance on a Jaguar, but I always tho6they looked very nice

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 11:38 AM (+qU29)

150 What part of "we are going to make it up in volume" don't you people understand?

Posted by: Jjjjjjaguar *jazz hands at July 02, 2025 11:39 AM (SJnNf)

151 I didn't watch the trial but from what I understood the prosecution had a hard time proving that Sean Combs was guilty of anything other than being a sex-crazed homosexual scumbag. He probably IS, but they had a tough time proving it.

And my guess is that this was because getting the useful witnesses and proving the case would require making very powerful and wealthy people unhappy and uncomfortable, bringing them in on the sleaze.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:34 AM (dfIr7)
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I don't think they even proved he had any homosexual encounters. It was 99% hearsay from people with axes to grind. The few witnesses who claimed they had first-hand knowledge were ... not great witnesses.

As I said above, Diddy is abusive scum. But I don't think he was guilty of any crime alleged, other than buying -- and probably selling -- illegal drugs. Which is barely a crime at all, let alone in those circles.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

152 the average Zoomer is much less of a leftist hivemind drone than Millennials.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 02, 2025 11:19 AM (+b4rY)

You can thank Trump for that.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 11:39 AM (VPwHp)

153 137 I know the Cato Institute and many morons think the wealthy all got there through hard work and being smarter but the way most companies are run I have serious doubts about that contention.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Big corporations start with an entrepreneur usually and then morph into a bureaucracy with market power that uses government as a shield against new competitors.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:40 AM (ctrM5)

154 Oh you'll love the latest pally propaganda attempt. Now they are claiming that -- get this -- the Pernicious Hebrew has set a trap by digging a pit, putting a covering on it, and putting sugar on the covering. When the desperate, starving children seeking sugar run up to grab bags of it (??) they fall into the pit and nobody can get them out. OH THE HUMANITY!

I saw that, too. The capper is that, after the pit is full, the horrible Jooos bulldoze over the pit, burying the chilluns alive!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 11:40 AM (Dg2sF)

155 Madmani is bringing us together!

(news) DOGE@DOGE__news
Zohran Mamdani says the aim is to gradually replace private housing with shared communal living.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

156 93
‘not some clown car that even Jm J Bullock wouldn't be seen dead in.’

Is there any car Jm J Bullock can get in and not be seen dead?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 11:40 AM (jbnUc)

157 guilty of anything other than being a sex-crazed homosexual scumbag.
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Wait is that a crime?

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at July 02, 2025 11:40 AM (VPwHp)

158 More men than women buy (or, rather, bought) Jags. With their traditional market of well-off middle-aged men and their wives drying up, they tried to bring in young people and women

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I don't understand what the wives drying up has to do with well-off middle-aged men not buying Jaguars anymore. Shouldn't it be the opposite?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 11:41 AM (dDmld)

159 Back in the early - mid 2000's my wife was looking for a new car. She was eyeing a Jaguar S type. Probably one of the ugliest cars they've made in quite a while.

I suggested she look elsewhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 11:41 AM (Q4IgG)

160 Zohran Mamdani says the aim is to gradually replace private housing with shared communal living.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:40 AM

This gucking fuy is a walking parody.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)

161 Sean Combs was guilty of anything other than being a sex-crazed homosexual scumbag. He probably IS, but they had a tough time proving it.

I saw Sex Crazed Homosexual Scumbags open for Frankie Goes To Hollywood at Candlestick Park in 1985.

Lots of the old In N Out going on...

Posted by: Right Said Fred at July 02, 2025 11:41 AM (4dUzE)

162 Now there are just boxes and you try them on and good luck finding something that actually fits your size (whatever it says on the box) let alone something that feels nice on your foot.
Posted by: 18-1
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There are still boutique shoe stores with such people but no mass chains doing so anymore because it is all about price at the low end of the shoe market.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:41 AM (ctrM5)

163 No idea on maintenance on a Jaguar, but I always thought that they looked very nice

Yeah, great design, very pretty. But they are like all Brit cars: breakdowns, constant oil leaks, high maintenance and in the garage a lot. Its a law in old car buying: never buy an old euro sports car.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:42 AM (dfIr7)

164 >>>>>>My male Zoomer son is definitely not woke.
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My kids are 4 millennial and a Z. None are woke. They are about as apolitical a bunch as I've seen these days. Too busy earning a living and raising our grandkids.

Posted by: Cosda at July 02, 2025 11:43 AM (EO9/2)

165 New Coke was a mistake - but from that came Diet Coke - and it firmly controls the diet soda market. A nice rebound. Nike did lean into woke and actually made it work for them. But they have commoditized their shoes, and their clothing is pretty eh... So they have hit a wall. They just announced a major effort at exclusivity in shoes and fitwear, which is being met with some interest - and success. But being woke in the trans world is a serious problem for them, which they need to end as quickly as possible.

Whig's comment on Target is spot on - but they too now sell a lot of junk. The suburban soccer mom who saw it as "Tar-jhay" the fashionable upscale discounter, now hate the product. Alienating shoppers on the gender bender stuff, and then losing the gender benders after they tried to recover from the first mistake just shows how stupid getting into cultural fights are for a corp.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 02, 2025 11:43 AM (GZYu7)

166 Jag should have spent money getting celebs to buy jags, and see obnoxious promos for them, or get them in rap songs. (Lots rhymes with jag, I'm sure.) Would have been better instead of making a commercial that looks like gay aliens from the future touches down on our planet. And a car commercial with NO CAR.

But ultimately, Jagoff suffered that from the get go, they were a pretty but unreliable car.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 11:43 AM (gWBY1)

167 Zohran Mamdani says the aim is to gradually replace private housing with shared communal living.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:40 AM

This gucking fuy is a walking parody.
Posted by: toby928

Stalin Redeoux.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 11:43 AM (Ul4ZN)

168 Big corporations start with an entrepreneur usually and then morph into a bureaucracy with market power that uses government as a shield against new competitors.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:40 AM (ctrM5)

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That's the way I see it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 11:43 AM (Vh9CX)

169 The polling seems to show that a subset of Zoomers are indeed extremely woke and retarded (and usually also "Queer" or trans or whatever), but the average Zoomer is much less of a leftist hivemind drone than Millennials.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 02, 2025 11:19 AM (+b4rY)

Zoomer males helped a lot getting Trump elected. Zoomer females are starting to see the error of their ways. It's the AWFLs that have absolutely no clue and probably never wil.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 02, 2025 11:43 AM (g8Ew8)

170 This gucking fuy is a walking parody.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)

AKA a plant.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at July 02, 2025 11:44 AM (VPwHp)

171 Big Pharma puts a lot of prescription drug ads on news shows: to sell prescription drugs? No, you can’t buy them! You need a prescription! To get you to bug your doctor to give you a prescription so you can buy the drug? No! Who needs one prescription drug to take if they can avoid it! Is it to get doctors to more readily prescribe the drug to their patients? No, they have drug representatives who visit the doctors in office and tout and explain the new medicines and leave free samples! So why so many prescription drug ads on news shows? So Big Pharma [owns the news shows, so they can’t report anything that would harm Big Pharma like the truth about remdesivir (run death is near! as the nurses called it) or the efficacy or long term health and reproductive ability affects of the so-called COVID “vaccine”. Public advertising of prescription drugs should be banned, just as it used to be!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 11:44 AM (1paM0)

172 Maybe if their cars weren't unreliable pieces of junk to begin with, it would help their cause. But now they are using woke, art-school-dropout advertising to market those unmitigated piles of shit. I honestly think Jaguar knows that it's garbage cars have no hope of selling and is settling for the Kaboom of the auto industry. Which is to go out with a bang using guadily-colored clowns to say goodbye.

Posted by: DavesNotHere at July 02, 2025 11:44 AM (4jytI)

173 As I said above, Diddy is abusive scum. But I don't think he was guilty of any crime alleged, other than buying -- and probably selling -- illegal drugs.

I think he probably engaged in coercive and/or drug fueled sex, and definitely was plooking underage boys like little Justin Bieber.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:44 AM (dfIr7)

174 115
‘So do only gay people watch TV anymore?’

Just certain channels I guess.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 11:45 AM (jbnUc)

175 My kids are 4 millennial and a Z. None are woke. They are about as apolitical a bunch as I've seen these days. Too busy earning a living and raising our grandkids.
Posted by: Cosda at July 02, 2025 11:43 AM

Girl928 was a hardcore anti-collectivist. She wrote a senior thesis on the information problem in command economies. And then she went to college.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:45 AM (jc0TO)

176 just shows how stupid getting into cultural fights are for a corp.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 02, 2025 11:43 AM (GZYu7)

It also shows that we should never support "corporations" ever again. They are whores and would sell us out for a new pen.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 11:45 AM (VPwHp)

177 The current Jaguar that supposedly is available is the 2024 ICE model. And it's a nice looking car. 575 HP and 0-60 in 3.5 seconds for the fastest one ($115,000).

Of course for that price there are lots of nice looking cars built by companies that will be around in five or 10 years!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 11:45 AM (L5An7)

178 Jaguar had cachet way back when. Then they were bought by TaTa Motors, an Indian company. Say what you will about their build quality, an Indian company just doesn't carry the same aura of class and exclusivity, and if those attributes are what you're selling, you're dead.

It's more complicated than that.

Land Rover, the other half of Jaguar-Land Rover, has the best cachet they've ever had. In my area (upper middle class suburban Baltimore) seemingly every arm-candy Karen is driving one now.

The actual problem is that the US market is basically all SUVs and CUVs. Any luxury sedan that isn't the Mercedes S-Class largely doesn't sell now. The Lexus IS and LS are likely going away entirely because of that (and also because current nepo baby of record Akio Toyoda doesn't want Toyota to make nice cars that don't have the family name on them).

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 11:45 AM (Byin+)

179 173 comments, and only two reference to Jags being for men who want hand jobs from gorgeous women they hardly know?
Do better horde, do better.

Posted by: Ultra Magas Brother Bob at July 02, 2025 11:46 AM (tBfGm)

180 Jag the only luxury car that came with a tool box because you were going to need it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 11:10 AM (K/v0v)

One of my friend's father was a sucker for piece of shit Brit cars. He had bought a Triumph Stag, probably late 70's. The shit box broke down just about every other week, it was never in the driveway, always at the shop. Then he bought a Jag in the very early 80's. Wasn't much better.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 02, 2025 11:46 AM (snZF9)

181 Zohran Mamdani says the aim is to gradually replace private housing with shared communal living.

Says a guy who have never lived and will never live in "communal" living if it is up to him.

Posted by: Prison Awaits at July 02, 2025 11:47 AM (4dUzE)

182 Probably off topic, sorry

The Most Canadian Man in the World

https://tinyurl.com/mr23je7y

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 11:48 AM (D7oie)

183 Alienating shoppers on the gender bender stuff, and then losing the gender benders after they tried to recover from the first mistake just shows how stupid getting into cultural fights are for a corp.
Posted by: Black JEM
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Part of the issue with the wokies is that it is a solid portion of the population that is now entering its prime spending days. Too many of those mis- and mal-educated college educated higher SES Millennial yutes want or even demand politics with their products.

Gen X and increasingly Gen Z and Y don't.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:48 AM (ctrM5)

184 The current Jaguar that supposedly is available is the 2024 ICE model.

Jaguar Border Patrol vehicles for everyone!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 11:48 AM (Ul4ZN)

185 Public advertising of prescription drugs should be banned, just as it used to be!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 11:44 AM (1paM0)

Do NOT get my internist started on drug ads. You'll be there all day...

Posted by: sal at July 02, 2025 11:48 AM (f+FmA)

186 One of my friend's father was a sucker for piece of shit Brit cars. He had bought a Triumph Stag, probably late 70's. The shit box broke down just about every other week, it was never in the driveway, always at the shop. Then he bought a Jag in the very early 80's. Wasn't much better.

Late 70s and early 80s was the nadir of British manufacturing, which is part of what got Thatcher elected.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 11:49 AM (Byin+)

187 Jaguar's top secret strategy for returning to profitability REVEALED:

1. Drive off all your existing customers with a new brand image that makes turns you into a global laughingstock;

2. Ditch your entire line of internal combustion cars for EVs that nobody wants to buy;

3. Simultaneously move your pricing from Lexus territory into Bentley territory;

4. ???

5. PROFIT!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 11:49 AM (dDmld)

188 Only Jag I liked was the 1967 XKE. Best looking car evah !

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:49 AM (VofaG)

189 Like modern day Comanche pony soldiers.

https://is.gd/HQ2baa

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:49 AM (L/fGl)

190 If you are gonna go for a Hail Mary in business, it would help if you at least went all in on your target market.

Taco Bell trying to sell lawn mowers doesn't make sense, even if a few Mexican landscapers might eat there.

Jaguar is a dude's brand, and so they should have marketed gimmicky shit to dudes. Bullet proof windows, gun racks, a whore-locater app, built in cocaine mirror and sterling silver straw, a chiller arm rest that holds a 6 pack of beer, this sort of thing.

Would it have worked? Probably not unless you drop that ridiculous price point. But still, at least try appealing to your base.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 11:49 AM (cpC+s)

191 Zohran Mamdani says the aim is to gradually replace private housing with shared communal living.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)
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He should set an example with the Mayor's mansion.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 11:49 AM (7fElN)

192 One of my friend's father was a sucker for piece of shit Brit cars. He had bought a Triumph Stag, probably late 70's. The shit box broke down just about every other week, it was never in the driveway, always at the shop. Then he bought a Jag in the very early 80's. Wasn't much better.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterstone IRL) in New Tricks drove a Stag in the series until they blew it up when he left the series (presumed dead).

Racing Green of course.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:49 AM (ctrM5)

193 Best car I owned (i've had 4 now) was a '96 Saturn SL2. Aside from underpowered A/C (but S.F.) and a terrible turn radius, I loved it. Drove it cross-country. I'd buy a used (or unsold) 2002 model if I could find one.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 02, 2025 11:49 AM (KAi1n)

194 "More men than women buy (or, rather, bought) Jags. With their traditional market of well-off middle-aged men and their wives drying up, they tried to bring in young people and women"
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What killed Jag was that the brand -- especially in America -- just lost its prestige, especially among younger buyers. Jag was selling the same cars as Land Rover, but LR was drastically outselling Jag. Why? Jag was yesterday's news.

Buyers of expensive and exotic cars are very interested in the prestige of the brand. They want something that the guy across the street doesn't have.

That's why a Lambo Urus sells for $150k more than an Audi Q8, despite being almost exactly the same car. They are 95% mechanically identical, and even look similar. People are willing to pay huge money just to have a dancing bull logo on their hood.

And even within the same brands, that's why $50k paint colors sell. The guy who buys a Lambo wants his in a color that the other guys with Lambos at his golf club doesn't have. I very much know the type.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

195 Late 70s and early 80s was the nadir of British manufacturing, which is part of what got Thatcher elected.

I'd call it less the nadir, and more like hitting bottom...and staying there.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

196 Late 70s and early 80s was the nadir of British manufacturing, which is part of what got Thatcher elected.
Posted by: Ian S.
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IT Crowd had a funny episode where every defective product in that episode had the Made in Britain stamp on it.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:50 AM (ctrM5)

197 So do only gay people watch TV anymore?’

Just certain channels I guess.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 11:45 AM (jbnUc)

Gay and Black people.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:51 AM (VofaG)

198 "And then she went to college.
Posted by: toby928"
************
Mine all went to college but somehow managed to pick up a marketable skill and leave the woke there.

Posted by: Cosda at July 02, 2025 11:51 AM (EO9/2)

199 Communal living is where they steal all of your $hit and eat all your food?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:51 AM (WIJBc)

200 @175

>>Girl928 was a hardcore anti-collectivist. She wrote a senior thesis on the information problem in command economies. And then she went to college.

It's like Issac Newton, postulated on gravity, developed the first true understanding of optics, created Calculus to explain planetary orbits, then he turned 26 and really got started.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 11:52 AM (XV/Pl)

201 I was wondering if all luxury cars had sales declines.
Rolls Royce 2023: its best-ever sales year with 6,032 vehicles delivered, surpassing the previous record of 6,021 set in 2022.

Rolls Royce 2024: Sales decreased by 5% to 5,712 vehicles, which is still the third-highest sales figure in the company's history.

RR still builds quality

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 02, 2025 11:52 AM (mNhIh)

202 I saw Arm Candy Karen open for the Spice Girls at Wembley in '96.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 11:52 AM (Dg2sF)

203 Communal living is where they steal all of your $hit and eat all your food?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:51 AM (WIJBc)

Yes! I loved it!

Posted by: Bernie Sanders, Dirty Old Hippie at July 02, 2025 11:53 AM (4dUzE)

204 200 It's like Issac Newton, postulated on gravity, developed the first true understanding of optics, created Calculus to explain planetary orbits, then he turned 26 and really got started.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 11:52 AM (XV/Pl)

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Never got laid, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

205 Like modern day Comanche pony soldiers.

https://is.gd/HQ2baa

Geez, as fast as those idiots are going, all our guys would need to do is go for a walk...perhaps an amble.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 11:53 AM (Riz8t)

206 They could have done something completely radical to turn around their declining sales--like promoting reliability, dependability, quality...wait, we're talking Jags, right? Forget it...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 02, 2025 11:53 AM (+BqEV)

207 "never buy an old euro sports car.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor "

Uh, how old?

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 11:53 AM (vFG9F)

208 201 Rolls Royce 2024: Sales decreased by 5% to 5,712 vehicles, which is still the third-highest sales figure in the company's history.

RR still builds quality
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 02, 2025 11:52 AM (mNhIh)

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Not their jet engines.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

209 Maybe we ought to talk about GM too. There is a good chance they will go under in 2027 because they basically sold their powertrain engineering to the Chinese. The Chinese also utilized their deal (which goes back to 1997) to take over GM sales in foreign countries. Once that 30 year deal ends in 2027 GM will be basically a domestic car market only business.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 11:53 AM (Vh9CX)

210 Is it true that Toyota was struggling to make headway selling its luxury cars, so it made an offshoot brand just to sell them, named "Luxury EXport to US" ... shortened to LEXUS? That kind of is amazing if that's really where the name comes from. And how Lexus got started. The name is so blatant, I love it.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 11:54 AM (gWBY1)

211 Colleges in woke cities will be super woke, It feeds upon itself.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)

212 Late 70s and early 80s was the nadir of British manufacturing, which is part of what got Thatcher elected.
Posted by: Ian S.
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IT Crowd had a funny episode where every defective product in that episode had the Made in Britain stamp on it.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:50 AM (ctrM5)
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I think that's also the episode where Britain changed its emergency number (from 999?) to a new number that was 20 digits long (or thereabouts). Catchy tune went along with it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 11:54 AM (7fElN)

213 @204

>>Never got laid, though.

I bet he'd get laid at a Diddy Party though.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 11:54 AM (XV/Pl)

214 212 I think that's also the episode where Britain changed its emergency number (from 999?) to a new number that was 20 digits long (or thereabouts). Catchy tune went along with it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 11:54 AM (7fElN)

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...

I'm disabled.

(different episode, but still)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

215 Girl928 was a hardcore anti-collectivist. She wrote a senior thesis on the information problem in command economies. And then she went to college.

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:45 AM (jc0TO)

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"If you send your kids to college now, you're playing Russian Roulette with their values."

-- Dennis Prager

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 11:55 AM (gtsS1)

216 Communal living is where they steal all of your $hit and eat all your food?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:51 AM (WIJBc)

That about sums it up.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 02, 2025 11:55 AM (g8Ew8)

217 Is it true that Toyota was struggling to make headway selling its luxury cars, so it made an offshoot brand just to sell them, named "Luxury EXport to US" ... shortened to LEXUS? That kind of is amazing if that's really where the name comes from. And how Lexus got started. The name is so blatant, I love it.

Nope. I forget the exact story, but it's derived from the Alexis Colby character on Dynasty by way of a US marketing consultant firm.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 11:55 AM (QZThv)

218 "If you send your kids to college now, you're playing Russian Roulette with their values."

-- Dennis Prager

If 4 years with f*cktard professors can change your children's values, you never instilled values in them to begin with.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 11:56 AM (cpC+s)

219 Rolls Royce 2024: Sales decreased by 5% to 5,712 vehicles, which is still the third-highest sales figure in the company's history.

RR still builds quality
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 02, 2025 11:52 AM (mNhIh)

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Not their jet engines.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)
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Rolls' sales numbers decreased, but their sales revenue increased. They have deliberately concentrated more on their custom "personalized" services. Customers basically built their own cars in terms of colors, interior trim, etc. You can literally say "I don't like that trim piece in that color, I want it in gay polka dots," and they will do it for you. For a very steep price.

So Rolls sells fewer cars, but at much higher prices.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

220 The Most Canadian Man in the World

https://tinyurl.com/mr23je7y
Posted by: Kindltot

I thought this guy was funny. Also infuriating. ePauling News.

https://is.gd/jgqDI6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:56 AM (L/fGl)

221 The difference between a car company's regular and luxury brand used to be a few extra bells and whistles but mostly quality control.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 11:57 AM (VofaG)

222 So Rolls sells fewer cars, but at much higher prices.

Going all in on the WEF crowd. We'll see how that goes when the closure of USAID is completely factored in.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 11:57 AM (QZThv)

223 Seriously, California must have its statehood revoked

https://instapundit.com/729639/

Posted by: steevy at July 02, 2025 11:57 AM (YwEeS)

224 We cannot stop winning. And no Trump, I'm not tired of it.

Car news: Trump opened up Vietnam to better trade, and now we can sell American SUVs in Vietnam!!

Rainbow crosswalks are being banned by Sean Duffy and the dept of transportation. Now Trump needs to pardon all the teens and young adults thrown in jail for being edgy and scuffing them during pride month. It was a dumb prank that should have never been prosecuted.

Penn state is STRIPPING Lia Thomas of their awards! And letting sanity reign in the female locker room, and groveling. Way too little too late, but a needed course correction.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 11:57 AM (gWBY1)

225 198 "And then she went to college.
Posted by: toby928"
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Mine all went to college but somehow managed to pick up a marketable skill and leave the woke there.
Posted by: Cosda
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Depends on the individual, the college involved, friends network, and the major. The sex of the person also plays a part because for whatever reason, females are more likely to turn left than guys (aside from gays).

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:57 AM (ctrM5)

226 219 So Rolls sells fewer cars, but at much higher prices.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

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And they have a metallurgical mixture problem on their jet engines that cause them to melt at sustained high temperatures, costing them $1 billion a year in maintenance costs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

227 I'm trying to ignore two business phone calls and two groups of chattering people from my cubicle.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 02, 2025 11:58 AM (lEahz)

228 Rainbow crosswalks are being banned by Sean Duffy and the dept of transportation. Now Trump needs to pardon all the teens and young adults thrown in jail for being edgy and scuffing them during pride month. It was a dumb prank that should have never been prosecuted.

Posted by: LizLem
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Presidents cannot pardon people for state offenses. Kemp should do it but won't.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:58 AM (ctrM5)

229 156

‘Is there any car Jm J Bullock can get in and not be seen dead?’

I make a perfectly good tasteless joke and JM J Bullock Fs it up by still being alive. I would have bet my house he was dead.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 11:59 AM (jbnUc)

230 227 I'm trying to ignore two business phone calls and two groups of chattering people from my cubicle.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 02, 2025 11:58 AM (lEahz)

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"We'll circle back around on that in another meeting."
"So, what are our takeaways?"
"I'm sorry, but you're on mute."
"Excuse me, but you're not on mute. We can hear your dogs."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

231 RR still builds quality
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 02, 2025 11:52 AM (mNhIh)
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Rolls is a German car. Bought by BMW around 1999. Rolls cars are now German, designed by Germans, using German tech. So is Bentley (bought by VW Group). The new Bentley Conti is a Porsche Panamera under the skin.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

232 >> RR still builds quality
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 02, 2025 11:52 AM (mNhIh)
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Not their jet engines.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)
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The B-52 engine upgrade (B-52J) uses RR F130 engines.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 12:00 PM (Q4IgG)

233 Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 11:56 AM (cpC+s

I think female students are more prone to the Leftist propaganda because that's just the way they're built. The Leftists target the empathy, kindness and emotional genes.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:00 PM (VofaG)

234 [O/T -- and when we moved to a small (primarily retirement) city in Northern AZ a dozen years ago, there were dozens of drug rehab homes for what we thought were mostly rich kids whose parents were being bilked (and we had a local Congress critter who did a great job getting most of them that were illegitimate shut down):]

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes

Arizona Medicaid Fraud

A group of sober living homes in Phoenix has been charging Medicaid for services they never provided. “Received more than $560 million for services that were not provided”

This is one city in America with one company. Imagine the fraud total nationwide, “This was a massive fraud scheme that billed for services that were never actually provided”

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM (gtsS1)

235 I think that's also the episode where Britain changed its emergency number (from 999?) to a new number that was 20 digits long (or thereabouts). Catchy tune went along with it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Yep. Moss then tried to call in a fire using it and forgot all the digits so eventually he sent an email to report it.

I think the show producer behind the IT Crowd said that the show could not be made in today's Britain due to its absurdist elements.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM (ctrM5)

236 Rolls' sales numbers decreased, but their sales revenue increased. They have deliberately concentrated more on their custom "personalized" services. Customers basically built their own cars in terms of colors, interior trim, etc. You can literally say "I don't like that trim piece in that color, I want it in gay polka dots," and they will do it for you. For a very steep price.

So Rolls sells fewer cars, but at much higher prices.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

Eventually Rolls will get to where it only builds one car per year, but that car will cost a Billion dollars.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM (uWKK8)

237 So Rolls sells fewer cars, but at much higher prices.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

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And they have a metallurgical mixture problem on their jet engines that cause them to melt at sustained high temperatures, costing them $1 billion a year in maintenance costs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)
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Rolls jet engine division is still British. BMW bought the car division, but not the jet/aerospace shit.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

238 With few exceptions, nobody wants to go after the real sex traffickers, because those are powerful Mexican cartels that kill people. So we go after guys like Diddy. He's scum but taking advantage of gold-diggers and star-fuckers isn't sex trafficking. It's not even illegal. Just like with rape, they've watered down the meaning of sex trafficking to the point where it hurts real victims of real rape and trafficking.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

Yup. During my years in music I saw some really over the top shit. People on that level, along with their clingers, and entourage, and gold diggers live on another planet, almost with NO rules. They're all in on it. Like you said, he may be scum, but I no doubt they were all in on it. I was a metal guy, so me and my ilk looked on these people like retarded hedonists with shit tastes in music. Make no mistake though, all the chicks involved knew damn well what they were getting into. Star fuckers indeed. They want the parties, the prestige, etc.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM (snZF9)

239 RR made the P-51 Mustang the legend it is.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:02 PM (VofaG)

240 Eventually Rolls will get to where it only builds one car per year, but that car will cost a Billion dollars.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM

[ Boeing as entered the chat ]

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:02 PM (jc0TO)

241 235 Yep. Moss then tried to call in a fire using it and forgot all the digits so eventually he sent an email to report it.

I think the show producer behind the IT Crowd said that the show could not be made in today's Britain due to its absurdist elements.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM (ctrM5)

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He also doesn't think men can become women, so he hasn't worked in television since 2016.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

242 So is Bentley (bought by VW Group). The new Bentley Conti is a Porsche Panamera under the skin.

VW AG is operating at 1980s GM levels of rebadging given VW, Porsche, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, SEAT, and Skoda. And nobody outside of card nerds has really noticed.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:02 PM (QZThv)

243 >>> Presidents cannot pardon people for state offenses. Kemp should do it but won't.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:58 AM (ctrM5)

Blast, you're right.

If we can burn an American flag, which is symbolic treason, because first amendment rights, we should be able to burn any other kind of flag. Even rainbow ones. But nope, gotta coddle the protected classes from bad feels, while crapping on America. As per usual.

That would be an amazing executive order by Trump, making burning of all flags legal. But he has other things I'd rather he focus on now. Like world peace and stuff.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 12:02 PM (gWBY1)

244 Rolls' sales numbers decreased, but their sales revenue increased. They have deliberately concentrated more on their custom "personalized" services. Customers basically built their own cars in terms of colors, interior trim, etc. You can literally say "I don't like that trim piece in that color, I want it in gay polka dots," and they will do it for you. For a very steep price.

So Rolls sells fewer cars, but at much higher prices.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

Eventually Rolls will get to where it only builds one car per year, but that car will cost a Billion dollars.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM (uWKK

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They would sell it if they did

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

245 237 Rolls jet engine division is still British. BMW bought the car division, but not the jet/aerospace shit.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

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I just know about it because my dad has been consulting on the problem for a few years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

246 This is one city in America with one company. Imagine the fraud total nationwide, “This was a massive fraud scheme that billed for services that were never actually provided”
Posted by: ShainS
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Yep. When a person is not paying directly for a service but obtains it via a third party, there is no check on a company going rogue. One PT company franchise that I had to use in the past got hammered over something similar like that. Charges where no service was rendered etc.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)

247 Rolls jet engine division is still British. BMW bought the car division, but not the jet/aerospace shit.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

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I just know about it because my dad has been consulting on the problem for a few years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
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Obviously, it's his fault. Duh.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

248 I think female students are more prone to the Leftist propaganda because that's just the way they're built. The Leftists target the empathy, kindness and emotional genes.

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This is where I wonder what gene I'm missing. Yes, I'm a very empathetic and kind person. I am emotional about lots of things, but I don't find that propagandist types can play on them with their various tricks. I just don't fall for leftist BS. I'm actually very, very thankful I'm wired that way.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 12:04 PM (qBdHI)

249 Penn state is STRIPPING Lia Thomas of their awards!
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FYI. Penn and Penn State are two different schools. Penn is PA's Ivy League entry, based in Philly and is private. Penn State is public, base in State College, in the middle of the state. They're both Marxist seminarys.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 12:04 PM (sAmhv)

250 THE Penn State

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at July 02, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

251 Medicare/Medicaid is a license to steal.

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 12:05 PM (jgmnb)

252 He's gone full 'Gusto Pinochet!

Vince Langman@LangmanVince
The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.
This is Trump Derangement Syndrome level 1,000

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:05 PM (L/fGl)

253 If 4 years with f*cktard professors can change your children's values, you never instilled values in them to begin with.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 02, 2025 11:56 AM (cpC+s)

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Millions of conservative parents would disagree.

And many of those are grandparents who aren't even allowed to see their grandchildren ... because they voted for #LiterallyHitler.

Cults exist for many reasons ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 12:05 PM (gtsS1)

254 247 I just know about it because my dad has been consulting on the problem for a few years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
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Obviously, it's his fault. Duh.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

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Obvi.

He also has stories about NASA scientists being so entrenched in their ways that they refuse all information that contradicts their long-held assumptions despite new research that clearly shows those long-held assumptions being very wrong.

It's something about tensile strength. I never pay too close attention to the details.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

255 the sabertooth skeletons are awesome! Lots of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo

And that those bones were sold as firewood!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 12:06 PM (K/v0v)

256 This is one city in America with one company. Imagine the fraud total nationwide, “This was a massive fraud scheme that billed for services that were never actually provided”
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 12:01 PM (gtsS1)

Just think of all the Boiler Room Operations "selling", at no cost to you, Hands Free Catheters! Call today!

Posted by: Gas Pump Guy at July 02, 2025 12:06 PM (4dUzE)

257 That's why a Lambo Urus sells for $150k more than an Audi Q8, despite being almost exactly the same car. They are 95% mechanically identical, and even look similar. People are willing to pay huge money just to have a dancing bull logo on their hood.

Corvette corners better, is faster, quicker off the line, and more reliable than those supercars and costs like a tenth as much. Its still super expensive, but not over a million dollars. They're making companies like Lambourghini look like the rip-off artists they are.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:06 PM (dfIr7)

258 Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 12:04 PM (qBdHI)

Were you raised in the South ?

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:06 PM (VofaG)

259 If we can burn an American flag, which is symbolic treason, because first amendment rights, we should be able to burn any other kind of flag. Even rainbow ones. But nope, gotta coddle the protected classes from bad feels, while crapping on America. As per usual.

That would be an amazing executive order by Trump, making burning of all flags legal. But he has other things I'd rather he focus on now. Like world peace and stuff.
Posted by: LizLem
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I actually misspoke, GA has a State Board of Pardons and Parole rather than direct executive power to pardon. But Kemp by now has appointed most of the members to it.

I am not sure that the 'hate' crime regarding what they did could be punished as it does not appear to comply with Scotus rulings on 'hate' crime enhancement which dealt with more serious assault, murder, etc. cases, not burning rubber on a symbol.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

260 Vince Langman@LangmanVince
The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.
This is Trump Derangement Syndrome level 1,000

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Their absurdity has no limits. They really are mentally unwell, unstable and unserious people.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 12:07 PM (qBdHI)

261 Just think of all the Boiler Room Operations "selling", at no cost to you, Hands Free Catheters! Call today!
Posted by: Gas Pump Guy at July 02, 2025 12:06 PM

Are they pre-lubed?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

262 So is Bentley (bought by VW Group). The new Bentley Conti is a Porsche Panamera under the skin.

VW AG is operating at 1980s GM levels of rebadging given VW, Porsche, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, SEAT, and Skoda. And nobody outside of card nerds has really noticed.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:02 PM (QZThv)
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Yes, VW is being smart about it. The Conti looks nothing like a Panny, and isn't even in the same market. VW is reusing a lot of the same platforms and tech, but they are hiding it from you. The platforms themselves are also state of the art. 1980s Caddy just took a cheap Chevy and put a Caddy badge on it. They seemed shocked when it didn't work.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

263 Were you raised in the South ?

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Live here now, but no. I'm from the semi-midwest state of Ohio.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 12:07 PM (qBdHI)

264 255 the sabertooth skeletons are awesome! Lots of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo

And that those bones were sold as firewood!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 12:06 PM (K/v0v
The Russians ate a frozen mammoth in Siberia.

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 12:08 PM (jgmnb)

265 And, as a complete side note:

Junior is downstairs rocking to Johnny Be Good while watching Back to the Future.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

266 Jaguar went all ev and stopped producing icvs. Their sales cratered because they had no inventory

Posted by: Doug Hanson at July 02, 2025 12:08 PM (VD8yq)

267 Rainbow crosswalks are being banned by Sean Duffy and the dept of transportation. Now Trump needs to pardon all the teens and young adults thrown in jail for being edgy and scuffing them during pride month. It was a dumb prank that should have never been prosecuted.

Penn state is STRIPPING Lia Thomas of their awards! And letting sanity reign in the female locker room, and groveling. Way too little too late, but a needed course correction.
Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 11:57 AM (gWBY1)
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I didn't hear about the rainbow sidewalks. When did that happen.

Posted by: WisRich at July 02, 2025 12:08 PM (G0vdT)

268 Seriously, California must have its statehood revoked

I honestly, truly want a constitutional amendment in which states can be reverted to territorial status if they fail certain tests and a majority of other states vote for it to happen.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:09 PM (dfIr7)

269 He's gone full 'Gusto Pinochet!

Vince Langman@LangmanVince
The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.
This is Trump Derangement Syndrome level 1,000
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:05 PM (L/fGl)
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I'd be OK with that. Not joking. You want to stop something from happening? Make a very painful example out of the guys doing it. Others will get the message.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

270 Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 12:04 PM (qBdH

What you don't want to save the whales, environment, starving children , disadvantaged minorities from the evil Conservative monsters?

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:09 PM (VofaG)

271 248 I think female students are more prone to the Leftist propaganda because that's just the way they're built. The Leftists target the empathy, kindness and emotional genes.
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This is where I wonder what gene I'm missing. Yes, I'm a very empathetic and kind person. I am emotional about lots of things, but I don't find that propagandist types can play on them with their various tricks. I just don't fall for leftist BS. I'm actually very, very thankful I'm wired that way.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 12:04 PM (qBdHI)

Women with no close family and no children find that they are desperate to find some way to focus their natural empathy and desire to do something good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:09 PM (uWKK8)

272 This is where I wonder what gene I'm missing. Yes, I'm a very empathetic and kind person. I am emotional about lots of things, but I don't find that propagandist types can play on them with their various tricks. I just don't fall for leftist BS. I'm actually very, very thankful I'm wired that way.

The secret ingredient for women to resist Marxism usually is simply being married, ideally relatively early (like early to mid 20s). It's very un-PC to note now, but actual science has shown that childless single women will transfer the feelings that they should have for their family to whatever the DNC tells them. Palestinians, illegals, Pete Buttigeg, or whatever.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:10 PM (QZThv)

273 When did it become "the thing" for the commies to start using streets to paint giant emblems of leftist crap?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 12:10 PM (qBdHI)

274 271 Women with no close family and no children find that they are desperate to find some way to focus their natural empathy and desire to do something good.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:09 PM (uWKK

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And sometimes, that good is telling the friends you do have to fuck off because they didn't get the clot shot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

275 269 Yeah!

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 12:10 PM (WIJBc)

276 266 Jaguar went all ev and stopped producing icvs. Their sales cratered because they had no inventory
Posted by: Doug Hanson at July 02, 2025 12:08 PM (VD8yq)

pretty obvious prediction - that missing inventory will never be built.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:10 PM (uWKK8)

277 And that those bones were sold as firewood!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

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The Russians ate a frozen mammoth in Siberia.
Posted by: Eromero

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They used to literally sell mummies to burn as firewood.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:10 PM (dfIr7)

278 He also has stories about NASA scientists being so entrenched in their ways that they refuse all information that contradicts their long-held assumptions despite new research that clearly shows those long-held assumptions being very wrong.

That's awful. It isn't how science is supposed to work.

Posted by: Alzheimer's researchers clinging to amyloid plaques at July 02, 2025 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

279 The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.

Air Pinochet on steroids. I like it.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:11 PM (QZThv)

280 Yeah Gen Z isn't in charge of any businesses. There isn't a Gen Z Bill Gates out there with an amazing startup. This is Gen X and Millennial age people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 11:22 AM

Any Gen Z Bill Gates out there with an amazing startup?

Via Grok: https://bit.ly/4nCJwwX

Here’s a look at a few standout Gen Z entrepreneurs with promising ventures, based on what’s out there:

Vitalik Buterin (b. 1994, technically on the cusp of Gen Z/Millennial): Co-founder of Ethereum, launched in 2015 when he was 21. Ethereum’s blockchain platform powers decentralized apps and smart contracts, with a market cap over $300 billion at times.

Ben Francis (b. 1992, late Millennial/early Gen Z): Founded Gymshark in 2012 at 19. Starting in his parents’ garage, he turned it into a global fitness apparel brand, hitting a $1.3 billion valuation by 2020.

Ritesh Agarwal (b. 1993): Started OYO Rooms at 19 in 2013, a budget hotel aggregator now valued at around $9 billion.

Melanie Perkins (b. 1987, slightly pre-Gen Z): Co-founded Canva at 25 in 2013. While she’s a bit older, her trajectory resonates with Gen Z’s creative hustle. Canva, a design platform valued at $40 bil

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 12:11 PM (P5BPp)

281 And sometimes, that good is telling the friends you do have to fuck off because they didn't get the clot shot.

I am not sure how true or wide spread this is but there's supposedly a movement of women hiding their shot status when dating because they fear men are avoiding them out of fertility concerns.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:12 PM (dfIr7)

282 Good way to run a business--determine/visualize your ideal customer, then go out of your way to alienate that customer.

Posted by: Octochicken at July 02, 2025 12:12 PM (oCS0o)

283 He also has stories about NASA scientists being so entrenched in their ways that they refuse all information that contradicts their long-held assumptions despite new research that clearly shows those long-held assumptions being very wrong.

It's something about tensile strength. I never pay too close attention to the details.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Thomas Kuhn's paradigm theory was in vogue for awhile in the social sciences but was never adopted by STEM as applicable. But, it applies to them because scientists and engineers are people too with all the virtues and vices of humanity in general.

Revolutions in science generally come from the young who are willing to challenge past assumptions, not from tired old farts heading to retirement.

It is our misfortune that NIH and NSF consistently have demonstrated hive mind on certain topics (string theory, Alzheimer's plaque theory, origins of Covid, Global Warming, etc. etc.) that reinforce the current theory du jour at the expense of real scientific progress that could undercut that theory. (causing career, money, and mental anguish).

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:12 PM (ctrM5)

284 Do you toss each illegal out of the C130 individually? Or just shackle their ankles to a chain with a drogue on the end so they deplane like a string of beads?

Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 12:13 PM (jc0TO)

285 The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.

I VOTED FOR THAT!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 12:13 PM (Ul4ZN)

286 He's gone full 'Gusto Pinochet!

Vince Langman@LangmanVince
The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.
This is Trump Derangement Syndrome level 1,000
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:05 PM (L/fGl)
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I'd be OK with that. Not joking. You want to stop something from happening? Make a very painful example out of the guys doing it. Others will get the message.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:09 PM

Jose, this is TGEOTUS....how long can you tread water?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 12:13 PM (dPfyF)

287 Vince Langman@LangmanVince
The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.
This is Trump Derangement Syndrome level 1,000
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West
............................................
Sources say Trump is going to start rounding up celebrities and do just this. He's going to start with Ben Stiller!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 12:13 PM (sAmhv)

288 Do you toss each illegal out of the C130 individually? Or just shackle their ankles to a chain with a drogue on the end so they deplane like a string of beads?
Posted by: toby928

*snort.

Illegal anal beads

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 12:13 PM (Ul4ZN)

289 Why no HD video?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (WIJBc)

290 rickb223, seconded

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (HFcKg)

291 >>> When did it become "the thing" for the commies to start using streets to paint giant emblems of leftist crap?

Not sure, but the first one I ever heard of (and have walked on) is the one in the gay district of San Francisco. And often, something niche and seemingly harmless gets exported to other states, and weaponized against normies and people with common sense.

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (gWBY1)

292 > When did it become "the thing" for the commies to start using streets to paint giant emblems of leftist crap?
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Guess they replaced the ubiquitous statues they put up everywhere with "street art."

Typical leftist bullshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (Q4IgG)

293 nood diddy

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (K/v0v)

294 Women with no close family and no children find that they are desperate to find some way to focus their natural empathy and desire to do something good.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 12:09 PM (uWKK

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And sometimes, that good is telling the friends you do have to fuck off because they didn't get the clot shot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
________

Radical movements and cults have always focused on younger women, especially in the 13-18 range. There's something about girls at that age that makes them very susceptible to indoctrination. And once you get them, they're yours for life.

I suspect girls at that age are hard-wired to find mates and start families. If you can deny them that, and/or offer an easy substitute "family" (like a cult), you can get them to do anything for it.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

295 Speaking of Tensile Strength I'm still waiting for the space elevator.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (VofaG)

296 That's awful. It isn't how science is supposed to work.

But its not unprecedented. Science has almost always had times when it rejected new ideas, challenges, and expansion. They threw the guy who discovered bacteria and encouraged hand washing into an insane asylum "tiny creatures living on things causing sickness indeed!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (dfIr7)

297 Ace is up

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 02, 2025 12:14 PM (XrKRU)

298 Girl928 was a hardcore anti-collectivist. She wrote a senior thesis on the information problem in command economies. And then she went to college.
Posted by: toby928 at July 02, 2025 11:45 AM (jc0TO)

Buy this young woman a registration to the Mises Academy, then underwrite her for a couple of seminars

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 12:15 PM (D7oie)

299 >>> The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.
This is Trump Derangement Syndrome level 1,000

Make Pinochet Great Again?

Posted by: LizLem at July 02, 2025 12:15 PM (gWBY1)

300 223 Seriously, California must have its statehood revoked
https://instapundit.com/729639/
Posted by: steevy
_____

Sodomgamorafornia

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 12:15 PM (Dv3i1)

301 Stand up hook up shuffle to the door.
Asta la vista at the count of four.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 12:15 PM (WIJBc)

302 " Others have had a different experience. Nike and Target were both early boarders of the woke train, and it doesn't appear to have hurt them"

No.

They don't just go outwardly woke; they also go batshit with hiring freaks. This dooms the company, no exceptions.

I'm in the process of watching my employer crash and burn - it only took FIVE YEARS to go from 300+ million gross per year to people questioning if we're even going to be in business in 2026. Board member's kid did the thing, then suddenly it's like the 20th Century Motor Company, except instead of the mission being to "help the less fortunate", it's "help the fat guys in wigs and dresses". Kinda hard to make money with a significant fraction of the company sitting around on the clock - in DEI roles - plotting to get all the straight white guys fired. They hired HUNDREDS of these people.

The end is near when you start seeing furries in video calls.

Posted by: heya at July 02, 2025 12:15 PM (ItxVu)

303 279 The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.

Air Pinochet on steroids. I like it.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Ironically spreading idiotic tales like that actually cause people to self deport as well reduce prospective illegals from try to enter.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM (ctrM5)

304 My wife got her PhD at Penn State in the 2000's. She said the political/activist/protest stuff, while present, was pretty easy to avoid.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM (2cS/G)

305 Governor Gavin Newsom
@CAgovernor
·
22h
This July, we celebrate Disability Pride Month and the immense contributions of individuals with disabilities across the state.

California has, and always will, recognize people with disabilities as an integral part of what makes our state diverse ....

Next month California should celebrate Stupid People's Pride Month.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 02, 2025 12:17 PM (wYBcb)

306 279 The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.

Air Pinochet on steroids. I like it.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 02, 2025 12:11 PM (QZThv)
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That's insane, but it's insanity with purpose behind it. If you can get enough ignorant third-world simpletons to believe that Trumpochet is going to give them the big toss, they'll work harder to not get caught, and possibly be more violent (fearing for their lives) when they are caught. The Left's goal is to get fewer deportations, and a few ICE agents killed in the process.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 02, 2025 12:17 PM (QdGJh)

307 DOJ Orders Crackdown on Criminals Who Lied to Get U.S. Citizenship

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Da fuq?! Lying is a Democrat tradition!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:17 PM (L/fGl)

308 "304 My wife got her PhD at Penn State in the 2000's. She said the political/activist/protest stuff, while present, was pretty easy to avoid.
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 02, 2025 12:16 PM (2cS/G)"

That changed around 2009. You started seeing the real freaks show up and it was all downhill from there. I'm talking fat guys with stubble screaming at guest speakers over pronouns and shit.

Posted by: heya at July 02, 2025 12:19 PM (ItxVu)

309 Pinochet's famous Shorts Skyvan he threw people out of is sitting on the parking area a couple hundred yards from me. I even jumped out of it. While it was sitting.

Posted by: DBCooper at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (+mXlZ)

310 Jm J Bullock is alive and well, age 70.

Posted by: Gay News Network at July 02, 2025 12:20 PM (OXFtY)

311 Stand up hook up shuffle to the door.
Asta la vista at the count of four.
Posted by: Boss Moss

It's probably racist to shout "Geronimo" anymore so maybe shout "Lizzy Warren!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)

312 Sharks gotta eat too.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 12:23 PM (vFG9F)

313
He's gone full 'Gusto Pinochet!

Vince Langman@LangmanVince
The newest conspiracy theory on TikTok is that Ice is loading up illegals on cargo planes and tossing them in the ocean.
This is Trump Derangement Syndrome level 1,000
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 12:05 PM (L/fGl)

The commie obsession with Pinochet amuses me. He only liquidated about 10k commie cocksuckers in his whole time in office, the vast majority were in the couple of months after he assumed power. Granted, he was an authoritarian asshole with bitchin' uniforms and mirrored aviator sunglasses, but that 10k is little more than a footnote compared to the commie death toll in even the smallest shithole. In return, Big P turned Chile into one of the greatest third-world economic success stories in history.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2025 12:26 PM (y9nCu)

314 39 I saw a documentary awhile back on that online-influencer-whatever-you-call-them Onision who was accused of grooming young girls. There was no doubt that he was a weapon's grade douchebag, but by the end of the doc it seemed the message was that women are helpless. They have no decision making powers whatsoever it seemed. Not a great message.
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And the Mann Act is from 1910 (pre women's suffrage). It's mostly based on an idea that women accompanying men they aren't married or related to across state lines must be coerced, because no nice girl would do such a thing. The same era gave women the right to sue their seducer to marry them, "as he promised". We ditched that attitude about women but kept some of these goofy laws that assume women are large children.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 02, 2025 12:30 PM (+b4rY)

315 We ditched that attitude about women but kept some of these goofy laws that assume women are large children.
Posted by: the lower depths
_____

Crazy to assume that. It needs to be tested and confirmed first.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 12:34 PM (lY3NY)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Feast of St. Nicholas
Jan Steen

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (omVj0)

2 Spongiform encephalopathy

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

3 This is troubling.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (H7X8V)

4 I thought we'd seen this one not too long ago?

Doesn't matter, it's very nice and invites a narrative.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (WPL6O)

5 Grumpy adults, fat children, and bread and bagels in a basket!

Just like a modern American Thanksgiving, in other words.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (omVj0)

6 Devil girl in the foreground is creepy.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

7 Whose shoe is this? A saboteur!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

8 Which one is Bob Crachitt?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (E1rj4)

9 How do you lose a shoe?

I've often wondered why you see one shoe only along side the road.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (H7X8V)

10 The nun in the back looks like she's beckoning somebody over to tell him a joke.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (omVj0)

11 In fact, most of the figures in this painting are creepy.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

12 Devil girl in the foreground is creepy.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025

***
She looks like she's stolen Sally Field's Oscar.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 09:33 AM (omVj0)

13 Bagels are eaten at a Christian Feast? Who knew?
Like this one, would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 09:33 AM (eBgDF)

14 Why is the dude on the left crying?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

15 Christmas in July.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

16 How do you lose a shoe?

I've often wondered why you see one shoe only along side the road.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025

***
Better than a dead skunk in the middle of the road!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 09:33 AM (omVj0)

17 Why is the dude on the left crying?
Posted by: Bulg

He's not crying - he's picking his nose!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (H7X8V)

18 They could use some Ozempic.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

19 In the right is that a pumpkin headed doll or a pumpkin headed kid?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (t0Rmr)

20 Is that guy checking his package AND picking his nose?

Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (5yGIt)

21 Why is the dude on the left crying?
Posted by: Bulg

Looks like he's picking a booger.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (w9Wax)

22 Why is the kid on the left crying?

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

23 Looks like those people have done a lot of feasting, and not just one day.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (MZ+PY)

24 Why is the kid on the left crying?
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

He's surrounded by mutants?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 09:35 AM (BjH5D)

25 The bearded guy in the center looks like character actor M. Emmett Walsh ("Mack" in Cannery Row w/ Nick Nolte & Deborah Winger).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 09:35 AM (omVj0)

26 Devil child: "Leggo my Eggo"

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 02, 2025 09:36 AM (w9Wax)

27 These are not attractive people.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 02, 2025 09:36 AM (RZ2SK)

28 That person in the middle looks like she's stealing a baby.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:36 AM (PzXaK)

29 In the right is that a pumpkin headed doll or a pumpkin headed kid?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025

***
Good point. In contrast to the other children, this one does not look lifelike.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 09:37 AM (omVj0)

30 Looks like those people have done a lot of feasting, and not just one day.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

And no drinking at all. Because everyone knows the Dutch are strict teetotalers.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

31 > 18 They could use some Ozempic.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

Hey, they're Dutch. Give them a break.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:37 AM (qpyNK)

32 It’s no Bruegel….

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 09:37 AM (PCK5/)

33 And no drinking at all. Because everyone knows the Dutch are strict teetotalers.
Posted by: Bulg

"A beer is just a beer unless it's Old Dutch!"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 09:37 AM (H7X8V)

34 In the basket in the bottom right I see a Stroopwafel

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:38 AM (t0Rmr)

35 sorry bottom left

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:38 AM (t0Rmr)

36 Honestly though, that looks like my Thanksgiving from three years ago.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:38 AM (PzXaK)

37
And no drinking at all. Because everyone knows the Dutch are strict teetotalers.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025

***
Then "Dutch courage" came from meth or bath salts?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 09:38 AM (omVj0)

38 > And no drinking at all. Because everyone knows the Dutch are strict teetotalers.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

Me a little Dutchman.
Me drink beer.
It make my tummy stand
Way out here.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:38 AM (qpyNK)

39 The kid on the right is singing 'Lets roll the barrel'.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)

40 Jan Steen was talented. The guy can paint and make speedos?

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 09:39 AM (4uYqO)

41 Those are some creepy looking people.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:39 AM (VofaG)

42 Nice colors and contrast and at least most of the people appear happy,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 09:39 AM (2GCMq)

43 "A beer is just a beer unless it's Old Dutch!"
Posted by: Tonypete

My Dutch grandfather brewed his own beer in his basement during Prohibition.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

44 Does the church require celebrants of the Feast of St. Nicholas to leave all the bread on the floor for the rats to eat? Because you know that house is infested with them.

Posted by: PabloD at July 02, 2025 09:39 AM (TgNVd)

45 A December 26 painting scene on July 2?

Well detailed too

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 09:40 AM (+qU29)

46 In a lot of these old Dutch paintings, the kids look like miniature adults.

Mutant miniature adults.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:40 AM (qpyNK)

47 THEY ATE SANTA CLAUS???

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 09:40 AM (vFG9F)

48 needs rodents. and bugs.

Posted by: cmeat at July 02, 2025 09:41 AM (GAyiy)

49 Could make a solid body lute out of that loaf of bread on the lower right.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 09:41 AM (4uYqO)

50 Why y'all babies look like they're in their sixties?

Creepy, man.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 09:41 AM (BjH5D)

51 This is just bargain brand Vermeer. Too much to look at. No hang.

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:41 AM (AOsQT)

52 Honestly though, that looks like my Thanksgiving from three years ago.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

"Taylor, if you sing 'Over the River and Through the Woods' ONE MORE TIME..."

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

53 In a lot of these old Dutch paintings, the kids look like miniature adults.

Mutant miniature adults.
Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:40 AM (qpyNK)

Hobbits are all from the Netherlands.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (PzXaK)

54 THEY ATE SANTA CLAUS???

Oh that is what we are gonna do.

Posted by: Oogie Boogie at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (t0Rmr)

55 If only we'd developed a way to transmit smells over the internet... then we could all enjoy the scent of a 17th Century Dutch canal full of raw sewage and dead animals.

Ah... the aroma of home.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (qpyNK)

56 Thought the Dutch had a Rep for cleanliness in comparison to the rest of Europe??

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (PCK5/)

57 With those high ceilings, it must have been difficult to keep the room warm.

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (Oy/m2)

58 Mama Told Me Not to Come

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (sJHOI)

59 Interesting historical fact: after Jan Steen started selling his paintings and making some money he moved to Miami Beach and opened a bathing suit store.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (YKyOU)

60 "They're eating kids" vibe.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (Ul4ZN)

61 Why y'all babies look like they're in their sixties?

Creepy, man.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I didn't go to medical school but I'm guessing Progeria Syndrome.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 09:43 AM (H7X8V)

62 Gramps in the background is about to clear the room by releasing some intestinal gas.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 02, 2025 09:43 AM (XwYdj)

63 My Dutch grandfather brewed his own beer in his basement during Prohibition.

==

It was his right!

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 09:43 AM (g47mK)

64 Clearly the Detroit Lions lost.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:43 AM (PzXaK)

65 "With those high ceilings, it must have been difficult to keep the room warm.
Posted by: dantesed "

Not once the basketball game starts.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 09:43 AM (vFG9F)

66 Thought the Dutch had a Rep for cleanliness in comparison to the rest of Europe??
Posted by: tubal

This was before they imported all the muzzie cleaning women.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

67 > 58 Mama Told Me Not to Come
Posted by: Otto Pen at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (sJHOI)

At least not in your sister.

See these kids for an example of how that works out.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:44 AM (qpyNK)

68 Instead of playing video games all day, the kids need to go outside and get some exercise.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

69 There are a lot of creepy things to see when you embiggen this painting.

Why is the creepy old woman trying to entice someone into bed?

Why is there an open-mouthed waxwork dummy in the corner?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 09:44 AM (Dg2sF)

70 "Taylor, if you sing 'Over the River and Through the Woods' ONE MORE TIME..."
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

That's how Grandma used to drive.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:44 AM (PzXaK)

71 Merry Chaos-mas - a limerick

'Tis the feast of St. Nick for the poor
Aunts and uncles streaming in at the door
All are in their Sunday clothes
Cousin Henrik picks his nose
And there's half a dozen bagels on the floor

Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 09:44 AM (poXs5)

72 I love the Dutch Golden Age art, especially Steen. His scenes of everyday events are pleasant, just slightly romanticized, and really convey the celebration and play of the event. All the colors are realistic, nothing jarring that would take away from the viewer's enjoyment.

Posted by: JTB at July 02, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)

73 Little girl has plans to do some voodoo with that St. Nicholas doll.

Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 09:45 AM (poXs5)

74 Why is the kid on the left crying?
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM

It's the feast of St. Nicholas, when it's traditional to observe the ceremonial bitch slap, commemorating the saint's original bitch slap of the heretic, Arius. That child drew the short straw that year.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 09:45 AM (dPfyF)

75 Steen and Vermeer were contemporaries. You can tell because the interiors of their paintings are all designed the same.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:45 AM (VofaG)

76 Better than a dead skunk in the middle of the road!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 09:33 AM (omVj0)

Loudon Wainwright III got so sick of that song that for a number of years, he demanded $500 - in cash! - up front if anyone at a concert requested it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 09:45 AM (Dg2sF)

77 The St Nicholas doll looks like a demented rooster…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 09:46 AM (PCK5/)

78 commemorating the saint's original bitch slap of the heretic, Arius.

Slap?

Get the flamer. The heavy flamer.

Posted by: Some Inquistor at July 02, 2025 09:46 AM (t0Rmr)

79 needs rodents. and bugs.
Posted by: cmeat at July 02, 2025 09:41 AM (GAyiy)
******
The bread is on the floor... it's just a matter of time.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

80 59 Interesting historical fact: after Jan Steen started selling his paintings and making some money he moved to Miami Beach and opened a bathing suit store.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (YKyOU)

Horde mind! See 40

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 09:46 AM (4uYqO)

81 Get the flamer. The heavy flamer.
Posted by: Some Inquistor at July 02, 2025 09:46 AM

I did not expect that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 09:47 AM (dPfyF)

82 the boy on the left is crying b/c at the feast of St. Nicholas 5th December those youngsters who have been good get goodies, those who reportedly have been bad get a stick to get beaten with ...

Posted by: Ann Thompson at July 02, 2025 09:47 AM (F99a0)

83 Little girl has plans to do some voodoo with that St. Nicholas doll.
Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 09:45 AM (poXs5)
******
She looks evil.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 09:47 AM (NpAcC)

84 Sinterklaas!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2025 09:47 AM (RIvkX)

85 That is one inbred family.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 09:47 AM (Ul4ZN)

86 Anneke - "I got a blueberry bagel!"
Mathias - "I got an Everything bagel!"
Hans - "All I got was a piece of lumber!"

Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 09:48 AM (poXs5)

87 Hobbits are all from the Netherlands.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM

I thought they were from New Zealand.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 09:48 AM (dPfyF)

88 another thing: in HOlland when you run an untiidy slovenly dirty crowded household it is to this very day called: A HOUSEHOLD OF JAN STEEN

Posted by: Ann Thompson at July 02, 2025 09:48 AM (F99a0)

89 One of the original St. Nicholas stories is about a poor man with three daughters. Things were so bad that he was going to be forced to sell them into prostitution.

Jolly St. Nick came along and tossed three bags of gold over the wall into their courtyard.

This is where the tradition of St. Nicholas bringing gifts came from.

For some reason the "selling them into prostitution" part generally gets left out of the kiddie stories.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:48 AM (qpyNK)

90
I did not expect that.

Oddly I've yet to see a Monty Python type skit about the Warhammer Inquisition.

Could be pretty damn funny...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:48 AM (t0Rmr)

91 I thought they were from New Zealand.

Do you think Hobbits f*ck sheep?

Posted by: Some outraged Hobbit at July 02, 2025 09:49 AM (t0Rmr)

92 Steen and Vermeer were contemporaries. You can tell because the interiors of their paintings are all designed the same.
Posted by: polynikes

After the collapse of the fine art markets, they both went on to run machine manufacturers - Steen fish processing and Vermeer stump grinding. They done good.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 09:49 AM (H7X8V)

93 So these people are from the same ethnic group that produced Rebecca Romijn and Eva Vlaardingerbroek? Does not compute.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

94 > Do you think Hobbits f*ck sheep?
Posted by: Some outraged Hobbit at July 02, 2025 09:49 AM (t0Rmr)

You're confusing them with dwarves. Sheep are too big for hobbits. With them it's rabbits. Sometimes squirrels.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:50 AM (qpyNK)

95 Trans the kids!

Posted by: Randy from the Wine Garden at July 02, 2025 09:50 AM (XQo4F)

96 That doll is akshualy of John the Baptist.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 09:51 AM (g47mK)

97 Featuring Joe Biden in drag attempting to lure a young girl into his clutches.

I'm the first to ID Joe Biden in this painting? I don't know who has commented above - they are not the regulars I know.

Anyway, would not hang.

Posted by: Gref at July 02, 2025 09:51 AM (aBgBM)

98 I would not like to go back in time and live in the 1600s in urban Europe even if I was very very rich.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:51 AM (VofaG)

99 You're confusing them with dwarves. Sheep are too big for hobbits. With them it's rabbits. Sometimes squirrels.

THOSE ARE NOT THE NUTS I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING!

/Angry clucking sound

Posted by: Some outraged Squirrel at July 02, 2025 09:52 AM (t0Rmr)

100 Hobbits buggered Gollum "Nasty little hobbitses"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 09:52 AM (eBgDF)

101 Hobbits buggered Gollum "Nasty little hobbitses"

Little is good man, little is good.

Damn you Mike.

Posted by: Barack Obama walking funny at July 02, 2025 09:53 AM (t0Rmr)

102 So , class, here we see one of the two versions in existence. The one with the girl holding a saint (the one in front of you) was made for a Catholic. The other, where the little girl is holding gingerbread is for Protestant consumption.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 09:54 AM (g47mK)

103 The St Nicholas doll looks like a demented rooster…
Posted by: tubal

Supposed to be a halo. Looks more like Pinhead.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 09:55 AM (Ul4ZN)

104
Ode on a Clog

Dutch beer drinkers? I've seen a few
And Christmas pastries? Sure, one or two
This scene appears to be the type of life for me
I'd like to be Dutch, wooden shoe?

Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 09:55 AM (poXs5)

105 This picture is too late or too early.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 02, 2025 09:55 AM (p9rFX)

106 I see little Greta wasn't always an activist. Even used to play with dolls.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 09:55 AM (VPwHp)

107 Do you think Hobbits f*ck sheep?
Posted by: Some outraged Hobbit

You're confusing them with dwarves. Sheep are too big for hobbits. With them it's rabbits. Sometimes squirrels.
Posted by: Oranje Man Goed

Just other hobbits. We would never abuse a poor animal like that.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 02, 2025 09:56 AM (RZ2SK)

108 Can't find anything online about this but I wonder if Steen was an influence on Larrson or Norman Rockwell. It could just be that they all showed happy family and group scenes.

BTW, check out Steen's still life paintings. They are gorgeous.

Posted by: JTB at July 02, 2025 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

109 Supposed to be a halo. Looks more like Pinhead.

Demon to some, jolly old elf to others

Posted by: Pinhead at July 02, 2025 09:56 AM (t0Rmr)

110 Dutch beer drinkers? I've seen a few
And Christmas pastries? Sure, one or two
This scene appears to be the type of life for me
I'd like to be Dutch, wooden shoe?
Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 09:55 AM (poXs5)

Tulips are better than one.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:56 AM (VofaG)

111 Can't find anything online about this but I wonder if Steen was an influence on Larrson

Did he do lots of cows and women with beehive hairdos?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

112 The other, where the little girl is holding gingerbread is for Protestant consumption.
Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 09:54 AM

I didn't know there was such a strong sectarian dispute over gingerbread. The things you learn here...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 09:57 AM (dPfyF)

113 Why is that boy picking his nose wearing a dress?
Is this when the trans thing started?

Posted by: Case at July 02, 2025 09:57 AM (ilX37)

114 *I'd like to be Dutch, wooden shoe?*

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: Marcia Steen at July 02, 2025 09:58 AM (XQo4F)

115 One of the original St. Nicholas stories is about a poor man with three daughters. Things were so bad that he was going to be forced to sell them into prostitution.

Jolly St. Nick came along and tossed three bags of gold over the wall into their courtyard.

This is where the tradition of St. Nicholas bringing gifts came from.

For some reason the "selling them into prostitution" part generally gets left out of the kiddie stories.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:48 AM (qpyNK)

Three bags of gold, same as in town.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 09:58 AM (4uYqO)

116 Painting: I sure am glad I'm not there.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 09:58 AM (xYXPm)

117 I didn't know there was such a strong sectarian dispute over gingerbread. The things you learn here...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Methodist excommunications over tuna-casserole recipes have entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

118 Why is that boy picking his nose wearing a dress?
Is this when the trans thing started?
Posted by: Case

I blame it on all the dikes in Holland.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

119 Three bags of gold, same as in town.

I will give you four...four bags of gold for your daughters!

Posted by: Some Arab Sheik at July 02, 2025 10:00 AM (t0Rmr)

120 Wakes up
Scratches.
Looks around
Dang. Nobody going hungry there. Wait until they get off the ship in Harlem.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 10:00 AM (1bdKO)

121 Willowed from last thread:

If the federal, state and local tax burden wasn't so GD sky-high, we wouldn't need "cheap" anything.

==========

I saw a post on Facebook questioning why the city of Bonham, Tx passed on buying a defunct golf course in the city and turning it into a park.

Hello you inbred dolts! The tax burden is so damn high because you idiots want government to fund everything.

How do you idiots think government gets the money to do that?

TAXES you asshoes.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:00 AM (Ul4ZN)

122 "Did he do lots of cows and women with beehive hairdos?"

The dead giveaway is cat eye glasses.

Posted by: And cavemen at July 02, 2025 10:00 AM (XQo4F)

123 Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 10:00 AM (1bdKO)

Geezer golf update, stat!

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

124 > I blame it on all the dikes in Holland.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

This is how we know that story is a fairy tale.

In real life, dykes don't like boys sticking their fingers in.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 10:00 AM (qpyNK)

125 On July 2, 1776:
July 2, 1776:

The Second Continental Congress voted to adopt Lee’s resolution for independence. This is the day that John Adams thought should be celebrated with “Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” (John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776).

Between July 2 and July 4, Congress argued over every word in Jefferson’s draft of the declaration, making numerous changes. On July 4, Congress voted again – this time to approve the wording of the Declaration of Independence. They didn’t actually sign the document that day. After New York’s delegates received instructions from home to vote for independence (they had initially abstained), the document was sent to Timothy Matlack to be engrossed (handwritten).

Fifty of the 56 men signed the engrossed Declaration of Independence inside Independence Hall on August 2, 1776.”

Posted by: Cheri at July 02, 2025 10:01 AM (oiNtH)

126
I saw a post on Facebook questioning why the city of Bonham, Tx passed on buying a defunct golf course in the city and turning it into a park.

In the past a concern group of locales would raise money voluntarily for something like this.

And...no reason they can't do that here.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 10:01 AM (t0Rmr)

127 Where's all the fried chicken at?

Posted by: Southern Baptists at July 02, 2025 10:01 AM (XQo4F)

128 Demon to some, jolly old elf to others
Posted by: Pinhead at July 02, 2025 09:56 AM

I'll just leave this very, very short story here:

Nicholas Was… by Neil Gaiman

Nicholas Was…older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die. The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not
actually working in the factories. Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves’ invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time. He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.

Ho. Ho. Ho.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:02 AM (dPfyF)

129 After New York’s delegates received instructions from home to vote for independence (they had initially abstained)

But courteously...

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

130 The Fed wanted to see people lose jobs and now they are getting their wish, as a fresh round of tech layoffs were announced today and the ADP estimate for payrolls came in considerably softer than expected.

Too Slow Powell is going to face a stark choice at this month's Fed meeting: continue his political obstinacy or help the economy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 10:02 AM (o5+S3)

131
This is how we know that story is a fairy tale.

In real life, dykes don't like boys sticking their fingers in.

Trust me, I can fix her.

Posted by: Some Dutch boy with very dextrous fingers at July 02, 2025 10:02 AM (t0Rmr)

132 Kid is thrilled getting a statue of Mary as a gift? Times have changed.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 02, 2025 10:03 AM (n4GiU)

133 I drove through McD just now and as the two lanes merged, I took my turn. Another driver, an older white male (they're the worst kind), yelled at me, "You inconsiderate f*ck!" to which I responded with a little traffic language, to wit, "I was here first, you dumb c*cksucker!" I surprised myself because I'm usually a polite hippy who wants to give peace a chance. When I was at the payment window, the girl apologized to me, apparently realizing the virtue of my situation. I was embarrassed for using such indelicate language in front of the girl.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 02, 2025 10:03 AM (L/fGl)

134 "He envied Prometheus"

Well, who doesn't?

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:03 AM (xYXPm)

135 Shoe down! Shoe down!!

Posted by: Weasel at July 02, 2025 10:04 AM (EDCMj)

136 Learn French from a pretty girl and a day trip to Avignon

https://tinyurl.com/82pku8dp

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 10:04 AM (Dv3i1)

137 NYS is as screwed up politically now as it was in 7/1776

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 10:05 AM (eBgDF)

138 Another driver, an older white male (they're the worst kind), yelled at me, "You inconsiderate f*ck!" to which I responded with a little traffic language, to wit, "I was here first, you dumb c*cksucker!" I surprised myself because I'm usually a polite hippy who wants to give peace a chance.

Sounds like every day here at the HQ.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 10:05 AM (Riz8t)

139 saw a post on Facebook questioning why the city of Bonham, Tx passed on buying a defunct golf course in the city and turning it into a park.

Usually a home developer buys these defunct golf courses or even ones still operating.

They sold one of the best public golf courses in Houston to a developer. Old Orchard GC.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 10:06 AM (VofaG)

140 Learn French from a pretty girl and a day trip to Avignon

Don't give the Pope any such ideas...

Posted by: Some worried Roman at July 02, 2025 10:07 AM (t0Rmr)

141 Imagine if, instead of his liver, Prometheus had his junk tore out every day. That would suck. Worse maybe.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:07 AM (xYXPm)

142 Don't give the Pope any such ideas...
Posted by: Some worried Roman at July 02, 2025 10:07 AM (t0Rmr)

Ha!

3 popes at once might have been preferable to Pope Francis, tho.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 10:08 AM (Mxf84)

143 Imagine if, instead of his liver, Prometheus had his junk tore out every day. That would suck. Worse maybe.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:07 AM

Rocky Mountain Oysters? Eww....

Posted by: The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:09 AM (dPfyF)

144 136 Learn French from a pretty girl and a day trip to Avignon

https://tinyurl.com/82pku8dp

You have to hand it to the French. They know how to make you want to learn their language.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 10:09 AM (Riz8t)

145 Breitbart:

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres wants to “turn the world around” but is lacking in one thing: other people’s money. On Monday the veteran Portuguese socialist acknowledged the financial shortfall and demanded the world step up and give to the globalist organization to fill the gap in aid donations. Guterres made his call at a meeting in Valencia, Spain, citing a “$4 trillion financing gap” as cause for immediate action. He noted “massive headwinds” exist since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew USAID contributions to U.N. projects soon after he returned to the White House via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

.. lets see .. mmm .. I just don't seem to have $4 trillion to spare

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 10:09 AM (RHGPo)

146 3 popes at once might have been preferable to Pope Francis, tho.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

What's the assessment of Pope Bob so far?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

147 145 Breitbart:

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres wants to “turn the world around” but is lacking in one thing: other people’s money. On Monday the veteran Portuguese socialist acknowledged the financial shortfall and demanded the world step up and give to the globalist organization to fill the gap in aid donations. Guterres made his call at a meeting in Valencia, Spain, citing a “$4 trillion financing gap” as cause for immediate action. He noted “massive headwinds” exist since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew USAID contributions to U.N. projects soon after he returned to the White House via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

.. lets see .. mmm .. I just don't seem to have $4 trillion to spare
Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 10:09 AM (RHGPo)

A $4 TRILLION gap?
W.T.A.F.?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 10:11 AM (Mxf84)

148 How do you idiots think government gets the money to do that?

TAXES you asshoes.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:00 AM (Ul4ZN)

I am reminded of the editorial written by some woman in Austin a few years back bemoaning the fact that she couldn't afford to stay in her home due to property taxes and included the snippet about how she was a good progressive who voted for every government initiative.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 10:11 AM (ExV1e)

149 Another driver, an older white male (they're the worst kind), yelled at me, "You inconsiderate f*ck!" to which I responded with a little traffic language, to wit, "I was here first, you dumb c*cksucker!" I surprised myself because I'm usually a polite hippy who wants to give peace a chance.

Sounds like every day here at the HQ.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 10:05 AM (Riz8t)

Or the morning drive in NJ.

Usually involves the "Jersey Salute" as well.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 02, 2025 10:12 AM (5xuJ/)

150 When does Trump get us out of the UN?

Posted by: Sounds like more winning at July 02, 2025 10:13 AM (XQo4F)

151 The US already funds about 30% of the UN .

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 10:13 AM (VofaG)

152 Diddy verdict has been reached.
They are waiting for all to arrive at the courthouse to read the verdict.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 10:13 AM (NpAcC)

153 That shoe appears to be clogging the floor drain...

Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 10:13 AM (poXs5)

154 saw a post on Facebook questioning why the city of Bonham, Tx passed on buying a defunct golf course in the city and turning it into a park.

Usually a home developer buys these defunct golf courses or even ones still operating.

They sold one of the best public golf courses in Houston to a developer. Old Orchard GC.
Posted by: polynikes

In this case they actually did. That's why the people were whining about why the city didn't buy the land.

The disconnect between cause and effect is vast. Too vast. I don't think they can ever close the gap.

Very few people know the freedom that comes with not having to pay for city services/boondoggles.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:14 AM (Ul4ZN)

155 27 These are not attractive people.

--

It's okay to say they're Dutch. Everybody else does it.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 02, 2025 10:14 AM (MX0bI)

156 That shoe appears to be clogging the floor drain...
Posted by: muldoon

So that's how the young folks are describing it now.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

157 At LAT: "Los Angeles wildfire victims want to rebuild with natural materials. ... 'If it’s going to be rebuilt, I would like it to be rebuilt in a way that matches nature and has good energy,'"

Donate your surplus dung, straw, and mud to SoCal.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:15 AM (xYXPm)

158 When does Trump get us out of the UN?
Posted by: Sounds like more winning at July 02, 2025 10:13 AM

If he could do that and get those foreign layabouts out of Turtle Bay...start working on his statue.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:15 AM (dPfyF)

159 Looks to me like they could cut back on the bread and try some veggies....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:15 AM (VE6XX)

160 "When does Trump get us out of the UN?"

Get us out of NATO. Nothing left in Europe that's worth American blood and treasure to defend.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:16 AM (xYXPm)

161 At LAT: "Los Angeles wildfire victims want to rebuild with natural materials. ... 'If it’s going to be rebuilt, I would like it to be rebuilt in a way that matches nature and has good energy,'"

Donate your surplus dung, straw, and mud to SoCal.

It'll take a while to make enough cordage out of tree bark.

Posted by: Chuck Noland at July 02, 2025 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

162 At LAT: "Los Angeles wildfire victims want to rebuild with natural materials. ...

Let's rebuild with shit that burns!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:16 AM (Ul4ZN)

163 Back in the day I overheard a woman walking down the hall on the postpartum floor of Charity Hospital in N.O. complain that she was "passing clogs".

Created a disturbing but vivid image.

Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 10:16 AM (poXs5)

164 157 At LAT: "Los Angeles wildfire victims want to rebuild with natural materials. ... 'If it’s going to be rebuilt, I would like it to be rebuilt in a way that matches nature and has good energy,'"

And they'll will burn just as easily.. What you need is sprinkler systems on the roof ....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:16 AM (VE6XX)

165 Looks to me like they could cut back on the bread and try some veggies....
Posted by: It's me donna

They need kale smoothies and exercise.

Piper...Calling Piper...

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

166 As I was returning from a walk with FenSpouse I I saw two smiling cute boys- they may have been brothers- outside on the porch of the local Eastern Orthodox Church. I'm assuming they were altar boys, but they had some long elaborate orange ( or maybe it was a shade of red) and gold vestments like done CBof the colors on this painting I don't know enough about the Eastern Orthodox Church calendar to know if it's a Holy Day in the church or whether they were dressed up for a daily service. Anyway, it interested me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 10:17 AM (2GCMq)

167 The guy in the back is showing the kids the big hairy rat that's climbing the wall.

Posted by: Case at July 02, 2025 10:17 AM (ilX37)

168 When I was at the payment window, the girl apologized to me, apparently realizing the virtue of my situation. I was embarrassed for using such indelicate language in front of the girl.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 02, 2025 10:03 AM (L/fGl)

*note to self*
Self, next road trip be sure to bring AW along. And take videos! It's gonna be lit!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 10:17 AM (1bdKO)

169 Does the girl's John the Baptist doll have a removable head??

Posted by: andycanuck at July 02, 2025 10:17 AM (2yoRf)

170 At LAT: "Los Angeles wildfire victims want to rebuild with natural materials. ... 'If it’s going to be rebuilt, I would like it to be rebuilt in a way that matches nature and has good energy,'"

And they'll will burn just as easily.. What you need is sprinkler systems on the roof ....
Posted by: It's me donna

The snail darter gets all that water.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:17 AM (Ul4ZN)

171 Damn, they be some ugly people.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 02, 2025 10:17 AM (snZF9)

172 Uggh. Typos- supposed to be "like some of the colors in this painting."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 10:18 AM (2GCMq)

173 I don't know enough about the Eastern Orthodox Church calendar to know if it's a Holy Day in the church or whether they were dressed up for a daily service. Anyway, it interested me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Len Neal could probably tell us, if he were still around.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

174 89 One of the original St. Nicholas stories is about a poor man with three daughters. Things were so bad that he was going to be forced to sell them into prostitution.

Jolly St. Nick came along and tossed three bags of gold over the wall into their courtyard.

This is where the tradition of St. Nicholas bringing gifts came from.

For some reason the "selling them into prostitution" part generally gets left out of the kiddie stories.

Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:48 AM (qpyNK)

*************

This, too, is the story of Brazzers.

Posted by: Brazzers at July 02, 2025 10:19 AM (XwYdj)

175 Star Trek legend Peter-Henry Schroeder has died aged 90.
The American actor was best known from Star Trek: Enterprise, the 2000s TV iteration of the long-running sci-fi series which ran for four seasons.

The family have asked that instead of flowers, condolences be shared through the Human Animal Life Foundation.

... "Human Animal" ??

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 10:19 AM (RHGPo)

176 The snail darter gets all that water.
Posted by: rickb223

Step off, bitch! This is my corner.
-- the delta smelt

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

177 Get us out of NATO. Nothing left in Europe that's worth American blood and treasure to defend.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:16 AM (xYXPm)

The Hasenbrau Brewery in Augsburg has entered the chat. Best bier EVAH!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 10:20 AM (1bdKO)

178 And they'll will burn just as easily.. What you need is sprinkler systems on the roof ....
Posted by: It's me donna
---------------
There was a time in Southern California when Cedar Shakes were used to roof homes. That time did not last long.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 10:20 AM (W3T6M)

179 Get us out of NATO. Nothing left in Europe that's worth American blood and treasure to defend.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:16 AM (xYXPm)

There is plenty left in Europe to defend! But if they don't want to defend it, we shouldn't take up the slack.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 10:22 AM (L5An7)

180 , as a fresh round of tech layoffs were announced today and the ADP estimate for payrolls came in considerably softer than expected.

—

No fan of Powell here. But ADP is often way off vs BLS. And tech layoffs are AI related not interest rate related. Peeps outside of tech do y fully comprehend how AI is decimating dev jobs. Especially for entry level. There’s basically no more need for junior devs, AI does all the grunt work now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:22 AM (nwGCR)

181 For some reason the "selling them into prostitution" part generally gets left out of the kiddie stories.
---------------
Same deal with Red Riding Hood escaping the wolf by telling him she needed to pinch a loaf.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 10:22 AM (W3T6M)

182 Posted by: Oranje Man Goed at July 02, 2025 09:48 AM (qpyNK)

I first heard that story at the St Nicholas Party at my seminary . It was a little play by the Professor of church history. The play mentioned the needing to possibly sell the daughters into prostitution.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 10:22 AM (2GCMq)

183 Welp, there's a new frontrunner in the gross ad category. This one shows a picture of an old guy with white hair, but mostly bald, and a young girl, and by young, I'd guess 14-15.

The ad is for Cialis.

Costco Shoppers Say This $7 Generic Cialis Is Actually Worth It

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 10:23 AM (Riz8t)

184
Diddy declared innocent of bein' not funky?

Posted by: Auspex at July 02, 2025 10:23 AM (j4U/Z)

185 LAT: "Los Angeles wildfire victims want to rebuild with natural materials. ... 'If it’s going to be rebuilt, I would like it to be rebuilt in a way that matches nature and has good energy,'"

And we the taxpayers get to pay for it of course.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:23 AM (nwGCR)

186 Whose Side Are Democrats Really On?

-
Could it be Satan?

Posted by: The Church Lady at July 02, 2025 10:24 AM (L/fGl)

187 "There is plenty left in Europe to defend!"

They arrest citizens for free speech now. They're hopelessly overrun by violent foreign invaders. I'm done with their shit.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:24 AM (xYXPm)

188 Ode on a Clog

Dutch beer drinkers? I've seen a few
And Christmas pastries? Sure, one or two
This scene appears to be the type of life for me
I'd like to be Dutch, wooden shoe?

Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 09:55 AM (poXs5)

------------------

"Well we're movin' on up (movin on up)
To the deck slide (movin on up) ..."

-- The Jeffersons reboot theme

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at July 02, 2025 10:25 AM (l5oRk)

189 Whose Side Are Democrats Really On?

—

It’s easy. Think of anything good for you, your family and your country. Dems are on the opposite side.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:25 AM (nwGCR)

190 The play mentioned the needing to possibly sell the daughters into prostitution.
----------------
Leonardo bought his slave boy from Sala's family. It seems to have been a good decision for all.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 10:26 AM (W3T6M)

191 They arrest citizens for free speech now. They're hopelessly overrun by violent foreign invaders. I'm done with their shit.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird

There's still hope for Hungary, Czechia, and maybe Poland.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

192 Len Neal could probably tell us, if he were still around.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

The truck drivin' piggly wiggly night stocker super spy with the endless stream of CIA honey pot attempts?
Yeah. Don't miss him.

Posted by: Reforger at July 02, 2025 10:26 AM (SJnNf)

193 190 The play mentioned the needing to possibly sell the daughters into prostitution.
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Leonardo bought his slave boy from Sala's family. It seems to have been a good decision for all.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 10:26 AM (W3T6M)

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I don't remember this subplot from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 10:26 AM (GBKbO)

194 Leftist are mad because the ‘internet’ said the US pays for 2/3 of the NATO financial burden. They did their usual fact check push back and only responded that of the 4 billion annual budget the US pays about 17% of it.

They of course don’t count the cost of the actual military spending and based troops in Europe . They don’t count the cost of our aircraft carriers being on call for NATO ,etc.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 10:27 AM (VofaG)

195 I don't know enough about the Eastern Orthodox Church calendar to know if it's a Holy Day in the church or whether they were dressed up for a daily service. Anyway, it interested me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Len Neal could probably tell us, if he were still around.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:19 AM

Hmmm...Monday was, but today? Nothing out of the ordinary that I can think of.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:27 AM (dPfyF)

196 'Whose Side Are Democrats Really On?'

Dems favor criminals over the law-abiding, aliens over citizens, shirkers over workers, perversion over normalcy, dogma over reason, control over liberty.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:27 AM (xYXPm)

197 The truck drivin' piggly wiggly night stocker super spy with the endless stream of CIA honey pot attempts?
Yeah. Don't miss him.
Posted by: Reforger

I found his stories amusing, anyway.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

198 I don't remember this subplot from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.
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Leonardo liked dragons not turtles.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 10:28 AM (W3T6M)

199 Nothing left in Europe that's worth American blood and treasure to defend.

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Except our blood that is buried in Europe.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 02, 2025 10:28 AM (sX1BW)

200 There's still hope for Hungary, Czechia, and maybe Poland.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

Former Yugo countries too. You don’t hear a lot of woke shit coming from there. Or maybe it’s there but not publicized? Romania’s people tried, but were silenced by the fascists.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:28 AM (nwGCR)

201 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:27 AM (dPfyF)

What was Monday? The Battle of Kosovo celebration?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

202 Leftist are mad because the ‘internet’ said the US pays for 2/3 of the NATO financial burden. They did their usual fact check push back and only responded that of the 4 billion annual budget the US pays about 17% of it.

They of course don’t count the cost of the actual military spending and based troops in Europe . They don’t count the cost of our aircraft carriers being on call for NATO ,etc.

The answer is the same as the one to the NPR lie that they get only a very small amount of taxpayer money. If it's such a small amount, then you can pay for it all yourself.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2025 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

203 "There's still hope for Hungary, Czechia, and maybe Poland."

Get back to me with hope for America.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:29 AM (xYXPm)

204 Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 10:29 AM (eBgDF)

205 Former Yugo countries too. You don’t hear a lot of woke shit coming from there. Or maybe it’s there but not publicized? Romania’s people tried, but were silenced by the fascists.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Slovenia seems sensible, too. Home of our hot first lady.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

206 "There is plenty left in Europe to defend!"

They arrest citizens for free speech now. They're hopelessly overrun by violent foreign invaders. I'm done with their shit.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:24 AM (xYXPm)

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The Cradle of Western Civilization is snuffing itself out.

The Nadir of Western Civilization?

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 10:30 AM (l5oRk)

207 204 Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution
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Wouldn't this mean that the Metro Bus Company is guilty too?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 10:31 AM (W3T6M)

208 'Whose Side Are Democrats Really On?'

The side of evil.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 02, 2025 10:31 AM (snZF9)

209 mmmm...shit pebbles in my mouth so good

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 02, 2025 10:31 AM (S3in8)

210 208 'Whose Side Are Democrats Really On?'

The side of evil.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 02, 2025 10:31 AM (snZF9)

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I prefer the side of weevils.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

211 Former Yugo countries too. You don’t hear a lot of woke shit coming from there. Or maybe it’s there but not publicized? Romania’s people tried, but were silenced by the fascists.
____

Pretty sure Slovenia received US deep state money to 'fortify' election in favor of EU friendly pol vs the 'far-right' (former) incumbent a couple years or so ago.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 10:31 AM (Dv3i1)

212 "The Nadir of Western Civilization?"

The end of American Empire. We can't fix everybody's shit. We can't fix our own.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:32 AM (xYXPm)

213 Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 10:29 AM (eBgDF)

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He's no Bawney Fwank.

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 10:32 AM (l5oRk)

214 207 204 Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution
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Wouldn't this mean that the Metro Bus Company is guilty too?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 10:31 AM (W3T6M)

As far as I'm concerned he was guilty of all of it... Hopefully he gets a lot of jail time...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:32 AM (VE6XX)

215 “They of course don’t count the cost of the actual military spending and based troops in Europe . They don’t count the cost of our aircraft carriers being on call for NATO ,etc.”

It’s the same way California is the 5th biggest economy in the world or whatever. Yeah with the US government spending tens of billions of dollars in the state on interstate highways, military bases along with millions receiving federal govt welfare or a paycheck from the federal government.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:32 AM (nwGCR)

216 199 Nothing left in Europe that's worth American blood and treasure to defend.
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Except our blood that is buried in Europe.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 02, 2025 10:28 AM (sX1BW)

And the hidden Nazi gold train.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 10:32 AM (uWKK8)

217 And Serbia is going through some unrest with 'student' led protests against govt.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 10:32 AM (Dv3i1)

218 @204

>>Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution

Verdict makes no sense.

But whatever, I'm not vested in the outcome.

So I'm just going to enjoy these Taco Supremes and get on with my day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 10:33 AM (XV/Pl)

219 After New York’s delegates received instructions from home to vote for independence (they had initially abstained), the document was sent to Timothy Matlack to be engrossed (handwritten).

"Mister Morris. . .WHAT IN HELL GOES ON IN NEW YORK?!?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 10:33 AM (Dg2sF)

220 What was Monday? The Battle of Kosovo celebration?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:29 AM

Synaxis of the 12 Apostles. Day after the feast day of Sts Peter and Paul.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:33 AM (dPfyF)

221 Post headline "Diddy Gets Off". Heh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 10:33 AM (eBgDF)

222 Slovenia seems sensible, too. Home of our hot first lady.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

Former Yugo.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:34 AM (nwGCR)

223 At LAT: "Los Angeles wildfire victims want to rebuild with natural materials. ... 'If it’s going to be rebuilt, I would like it to be rebuilt in a way that matches nature and has good energy,'"

Option 1: The serfs are required to carry stone from a distant quarry to construct my domicile.
Option 2: Fuck natural. I was space aliens to beam an indestructible home onto my lot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 10:34 AM (ExV1e)

224 Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution
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Wouldn't this mean that the Metro Bus Company is guilty too?
Posted by: pudinhead

Uber & Lyft drivers hardest hit.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:34 AM (Ul4ZN)

225 221 Post headline "Diddy Gets Off". Heh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 10:33 AM (eBgDF)

He certainly did... A lot...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:34 AM (VE6XX)

226 "Mister Morris. . .WHAT IN HELL GOES ON IN NEW YORK?!?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

My wife thinks that line was designed solely to gets laugh out of the audiences on Broadway.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

227 Trump should send the UN a "Your Lease is Up" letter, leave by labor day.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 02, 2025 10:34 AM (n4GiU)

228 Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 10:29 AM (eBgDF)

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He's no Bawney Fwank.
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 10:32 AM

Well, no...he doesn't appear to swing that way.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:34 AM (dPfyF)

229 "Mister Morris. . .WHAT IN HELL GOES ON IN NEW YORK?!?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 10:33 AM (Dg2sF)

If I can tax you there
I can tax you everywhere!
It's up to you Neee York...Neeewwww Yooorrrkkk!!!

Posted by: King George at July 02, 2025 10:35 AM (1bdKO)

230
Well, no...he doesn't appear to swing that way.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:34 AM (dPfy

From the testimony it sounded like he swung both ways....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX)

231 Diddy verdict sounds like a scotus decision. He’s guilty but not guilty.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:35 AM (nwGCR)

232 "Well, no...he doesn't appear to swing that way."

He'd bone anything. He'd shtup mud.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:35 AM (xYXPm)

233 >Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution

Verdict makes no sense.

But whatever, I'm not vested in the outcome.

So I'm just going to enjoy these Taco Supremes and get on with my day.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 10:33 AM (XV/Pl)

Transporting men and women for prostitution. I don’t understand that either because he wasn’t forcibly transporting them. He just hired them and paid for the transportation.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 10:36 AM (VofaG)

234 Another driver, an older white male (they're the worst kind), yelled at me, "You inconsiderate f*ck!" to which I responded with a little traffic language, to wit, "I was here first, you dumb c*cksucker!" I surprised myself because I'm usually a polite hippy who wants to give peace a chance.

The AoS Stylebook would also have accepted "you dumb nickelfucker."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 10:36 AM (Dg2sF)

235 From the testimony it sounded like he swung both ways....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:35 AM

Did it? Fair enough. I wasn't paying much attention.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:36 AM (dPfyF)

236 There’s basically no more need for junior devs, AI does all the grunt work now.

This will, in no way, backfire when senior devs retire... say in 163 days.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 10:36 AM (ExV1e)

237 He's no Bawney Fwank.
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 10:32 AM

Well, no...he doesn't appear to swing that way.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:34 AM (dPfyF)

A couple years in the slammer could change that.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 10:37 AM (1bdKO)

238 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:33 AM (dPfyF)

Thanks. I appreciate that kind of info and "synaxis" is such a wonderful word.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 10:37 AM (2GCMq)

239 Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution

Wouldn't this mean that the Metro Bus Company is guilty too?
Posted by: pudinhead

As far as I'm concerned he was guilty of all of it... Hopefully he gets a lot of jail time...
Posted by: It's me donna

He's gonna walk with just a fine.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:37 AM (Ul4ZN)

240 236 There’s basically no more need for junior devs, AI does all the grunt work now.

This will, in no way, backfire when senior devs retire... say in 163 days.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 10:36 AM (ExV1e)

By then AI will do their work as well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:37 AM (nwGCR)

241
He's gonna walk with just a fine.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:37 AM (Ul4ZN)

Is he really ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:37 AM (VE6XX)

242 The AoS Stylebook would also have accepted "you dumb nickelfucker."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 10:36 AM

A phrase that just isn't used enough.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:37 AM (dPfyF)

243 Synaxis of the 12 Apostles. Day after the feast day of Sts Peter and Paul.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Are you Eastern Orthodox?

I was really into studying the theology and history of Russian Orthodoxy at one point.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

244 I found his stories amusing, anyway.
Posted by: Bulg
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Another Uncle Palp.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 10:38 AM (ctrM5)

245 Now had Diddy entered the capitol building for 5 minutes on Jan 6? He’d be facing 30 to life.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:38 AM (nwGCR)

246 The truck drivin' piggly wiggly night stocker super spy with the endless stream of CIA honey pot attempts?
Yeah. Don't miss him.
Posted by: Reforger

*********

Snort. Nailed it Reforger!

Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 10:39 AM (poXs5)

247 He's gonna walk with just a fine.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:37 AM (Ul4ZN)

Is he really ?
Posted by: It's me donna

If they didn't find him guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but only giving a hooker a lift, yeah.

I'm betting that's all he gets.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:40 AM (Ul4ZN)

248 So is this Diddy verdict another OJ trial ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 10:40 AM (VE6XX)

249 Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 10:29 AM (eBgDF)

But according to testimony, Diddy was no mule.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 10:40 AM (4uYqO)

250 239 Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution

Wouldn't this mean that the Metro Bus Company is guilty too?
Posted by: pudinhead

And if the Metro Bus Company is guilty, does not that mean that our entire society is guilty as well? The entire country? Well, You Can Do Whatever You Want To Us, But We’re Not Going To Sit Here And Listen To You Badmouth The United States Of America!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 10:41 AM (uWKK8)

251 "piggly wiggly night stocker"

All the grocery stores seem to stock exclusively diurnally now. Congests the aisles something awful. Place is like a busy warehouse.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:41 AM (xYXPm)

252 There was a time in Southern California when Cedar Shakes were used to roof homes. That time did not last long.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 10:20 AM (W3T6M)

In Colorado too.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 02, 2025 10:41 AM (lFFaq)

253 243 Synaxis of the 12 Apostles. Day after the feast day of Sts Peter and Paul.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Are you Eastern Orthodox?

I was really into studying the theology and history of Russian Orthodoxy at one point.
Posted by: Bulg
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Eastern Orthodox is both exotic to flyover Americans like me and mysterious because in the rural South, congregations of Eastern Orthodox were few and far between.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 10:42 AM (ctrM5)

254 The Balkans War was basically a war of three religions.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 10:43 AM (VofaG)

255 Diddy not guilty of racketeering or sex trafficking, but guilty of transporting women for prostitution

Wouldn't this mean that the Metro Bus Company is guilty too?
Posted by: pudinhead

And if the Metro Bus Company is guilty, does not that mean that our entire society is guilty as well? The entire country? Well, You Can Do Whatever You Want To Us, But We’re Not Going To Sit Here And Listen To You Badmouth The United States Of America!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo

Gentlemen!

Ooh-rah!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:44 AM (Ul4ZN)

256 Hmmm...Monday was, but today? Nothing out of the ordinary that I can think of.
Posted by: RedMindBlueStat
Probably a funeral Mass or something.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 02, 2025 10:44 AM (n4GiU)

257 *but guilty of transporting women for prostitution*

Was that wrong?
Should I not have done that?

Posted by: The Costanza Defense at July 02, 2025 10:44 AM (XQo4F)

258 Eastern Orthodox is both exotic to flyover Americans like me and mysterious because in the rural South, congregations of Eastern Orthodox were few and far between.
Posted by: whig

Yeah, I liked the exotic aspect of it, just like with the Russian language.

During the Reformation, the Protestants thought that they could make common cause with the Orthodox against the Catholics. Wasn't possible, of course, but there was one Patriarch of Constantinople. Cyril Lucaris, who was so Protestant-adjacent that he has become known as "the Protestant Patriarch."

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

259 Looks like Suzanne van Gelder in the center has been a naughty girl as Sinter Klaus has given her a cursed voodoo doll.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 10:46 AM (6gCWo)

260 What's the penalty for transporting women for shopping?

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:46 AM (xYXPm)

261 Paramount Global and CBS agreed on Tuesday to pay President Donald Trump a sum that could reach north of $30 million to settle the president’s election interference lawsuit against the network.

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But what about freedom of the press?!

Posted by: The Church Lady at July 02, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

262 What's the penalty for transporting women for shopping?
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird

Depends what you do while they're shopping.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

263 $20. Same as downtown.

Posted by: Sorry. Couldn't resist at July 02, 2025 10:48 AM (XQo4F)

264 262 What's the penalty for transporting women for shopping?

About four hours.

Posted by: clarence at July 02, 2025 10:48 AM (qwx9o)

265 @248

>>So is this Diddy verdict another OJ trial ?

It's puzzling, apparently Diddy's Defense Attorney quitting the case caused the prosecution to drop most of the serious charges.

I don't know, I don't care, I'm just enjoying my Taco Supremes before my next Teams call.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 10:49 AM (XV/Pl)

266 When has the Balkans not been a hotbed of religious strife Alex?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 10:49 AM (6gCWo)

267 What's the penalty for transporting women for shopping?
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:46 AM (xYXPm)

Holding her purse.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 10:50 AM (4uYqO)

268 Trade deal with Vietnam. Winning!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 10:50 AM (eBgDF)

269 Can we haz an Ace of Spades Icon?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 10:50 AM (WIJBc)

270 What's the penalty for transporting women for shopping?
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird

Maxed out credit cards.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:50 AM (Ul4ZN)

271 I transported women for a garden tour once. It was actually pretty darn good. I'd do it again, even if they do try to make it illegal.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:51 AM (xYXPm)

272 Trade deal with Vietnam?

Taylor Lorenz for a water buffalo?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 10:51 AM (6gCWo)

273 Can we haz an Ace of Spades Icon?
Posted by: Boss Moss

♠️

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:51 AM (Ul4ZN)

274 254 The Balkans War was basically a war of three religions.
Posted by: polynikes
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True but hidden behind those three religions was a lot of history of bad blood caused by the Turks. Croats and Slovenians were Roman Catholics that were on the front lines of the Hapsburg fight with the Turks, Muslims in Yugo land by and large were in cities and converted. They both attacked and oppressed their fellow ethnics on behalf of the Turks. Essentially they were viewed as traitors by the Serbs and the Croats/Slovenes. Then you have the Serbs who fought endless battles, mostly losing, to the Turks and ended up being slain in mass, wives, sons, and daughters sent into sexual slavery and the rest oppressed by the Turks so Turkey could have a foothold into Europe.

Putting all these people after Versailles into a country filled with ethnic hatred was a silly idea. And WWII made it worse as ancient hatred came alive again with new grievances between the groups.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 10:51 AM (ctrM5)

275 272 Trade deal with Vietnam?

Taylor Lorenz for a water buffalo?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 10:51 AM (6gCWo)

=====

Holy shit did we get the better part of that deal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

276 "the Protestant Patriarch."
Posted by: Bulg

Lucaris Cam

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 10:51 AM (4uYqO)

277 273 I meant on the Bookmark.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 10:52 AM (WIJBc)

278 After all the craziness, stocks were up about 5% for the first half of 2025. Except if you ask the average person they’ll tell you it’s down 25%. The msm pumped the crash 24/7 and has ignored the recovery.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:52 AM (nwGCR)

279 266 When has the Balkans not been a hotbed of religious strife Alex?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Days of the Roman and Eastern Empire up to the rise of the Turk and Islam.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 10:52 AM (ctrM5)

280 Diddy case didn't matter to me . You hang around a guy like that what do you expect ?
Like going to Weinstein's room after he's already attacked you once. Get a brain

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 10:53 AM (eBgDF)

281 It's puzzling, apparently Diddy's Defense Attorney quitting the case caused the prosecution to drop most of the serious charges.

Sounds like the prosecution had a hard on for Diddy's lawyers.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:53 AM (Ul4ZN)

282 > Whenever I read something like this, I feel like I'm wasting my life.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Don't we all feel that way, when we read the many things strangers on the Internet are doing? But a good life is about more than bacon---I hope.

Okay maybe bacon is a part of it. :-)

Posted by: pjungwir at July 02, 2025 10:53 AM (q4wrI)

283 271 I transported women for a garden tour once. It was actually pretty darn good. I'd do it again, even if they do try to make it illegal.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird
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You know what you did.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 10:53 AM (ctrM5)

284 Taylor Lorenz for a water buffalo?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 10:51 AM (6gCWo)

=====

Holy shit did we get the better part of that deal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

But think of all the first-hand knowledge of ancient history we've lost!

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

285 If I own a car and my wife drives it to go shopping? Am I guilty of a crime?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:53 AM (nwGCR)

286 278 After all the craziness, stocks were up about 5% for the first half of 2025. Except if you ask the average person they’ll tell you it’s down 25%. The msm pumped the crash 24/7 and has ignored the recovery.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Facts not in evidence.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 10:54 AM (ctrM5)

287 When you think about it, all victims are guilty of something.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 10:54 AM (VPwHp)

288 AI is already singing about its world domination:

https://youtu.be/5Uf2ERoRB9w

At least we can dance to it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 02, 2025 10:55 AM (96jnc)

289 When I transport women I even turn on the passenger side airbag.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 10:55 AM (WIJBc)

290 @272 Taylor Lorenz for a water buffalo

We bombed that country for a decade. Didn't work then won't work now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 10:55 AM (eBgDF)

291 Diddy is a disgusting pervert.

But the people who participated in his freak off parties did so knowing what was going to happen. Or what was likely to happen.

There is a racial aspect here. The whole
Epstein thing was deeply secretive about the details and the participants. Diddy got all the sordid details thrown out there.

I don’t care. Some People are disgusting perverts and if you choose to be associated with them, that’s your choice. But don’t come crying to me when disgusting shit happens to you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 10:55 AM (/3Exi)

292 Facts not in evidence.
Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 10:54 AM (ctrM5)

Are you saying the msm has covered the market recovery?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:55 AM (nwGCR)

293 Are you Eastern Orthodox?

I was really into studying the theology and history of Russian Orthodoxy at one point.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:38 AM

Yes. There are a few of us lurking around here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:56 AM (dPfyF)

294 @281

>>Sounds like the prosecution had a hard on for Diddy's lawyers.

Maybe the prosecution wanted to do a deal with Diddy and Diddy's lawyer was standing in the way...

IDK, IDC, We'll never truly know if Diddy was a lesser Epstein in the grand scheme of things, which I want to know who was running Epstein more than I care about some washed up Rap Producer and his Baby Oil habit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 10:56 AM (XV/Pl)

295 They just di headlines now. There is not usually a story now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 10:56 AM (WIJBc)

296 Another Uncle Palp.

There's a name I haven't heard in a while. I miss him.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 10:56 AM (Dg2sF)

297 Naked Canadians.

Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
Activists walk around completely naked at a pride parade on the streets of Toronto.
How is this legal???

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I think they're confusing "shamelessness" for "pride."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

298 What's the penalty for transporting women for shopping?
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 10:46 AM (xYXPm)

Holding her purse.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 10:50 AM (4uYqO)

***

Being seen holding the purse by the guys you golf with....and they take pictures.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 10:57 AM (1bdKO)

299 268 Trade deal with Vietnam. Winning!
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Depends on how the deal treats the trans shipping goods from China.

For the most part, Vietnam (and Canada/Mexico) has become a conduit for scrubbing the Made in China label by adding bit of assembly or packaging then sending it on to the US.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 10:57 AM (ctrM5)

300 If I own a car and my wife drives it to go shopping? Am I guilty of a crime?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:53 AM

Depends...you in Saudi Arabia?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:57 AM (dPfyF)

301 Yes. There are a few of us lurking around here.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Cool!

When I went to church last Easter (Presbyterian), they did that Orthodox thing of saying "Christ is risen. He is risen indeed" 3 times.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

302 There's a name I haven't heard in a while. I miss him.
Posted by: Mary Poppins'
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A nic of many stories. Comparable to Baron von Munchausen.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 10:58 AM (ctrM5)

303 There are some wonderful books about Eastern Orthodox Spirituality including "The Way of a Pilgrim" and a book about an Eastern Orthodox priest sent to a Soviet Prison camp. I think his name was Fr. Arsenal (?) and he brought great comfort to the other prisoners.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 10:58 AM (2GCMq)

304 Another Uncle Palp.

There's a name I haven't heard in a while. I miss him.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 10:56 AM

His plans for the Greater North American Dignity Canal had merit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 10:58 AM (dPfyF)

305 Diddy is a disgusting pervert.

But the people who participated in his freak off parties did so knowing what was going to happen. Or what was likely to happen.

There is a racial aspect here. The whole
Epstein thing was deeply secretive about the details and the participants. Diddy got all the sordid details thrown out there.

I don’t care. Some People are disgusting perverts and if you choose to be associated with them, that’s your choice. But don’t come crying to me when disgusting shit happens to you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 10:55 AM (/3Exi)
___________

Agreed. The trial went as I expected: the serious charges were mostly bullshit and over-charged, and the prosecution witnesses were mostly sleazy gold-diggers and scumbags. The jury didn't like them. But Puffy's a huge scumbag so I expected the jury to find him guilty of something. They did.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 10:58 AM (iFTx/)

306 Holding her purse.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 02, 2025 10:50 AM (4uYqO)

This is why God created the crossbody.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 10:58 AM (/3Exi)

307 Whatever became of the Whigs?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM (WIJBc)

308 No, grandma, you can't steal my dolly!

Posted by: BobM at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM (InZE0)

309 273 Can we haz an Ace of Spades Icon?
Posted by: Boss Moss

♠️
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 10:51 AM (Ul4ZN)

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I thought it was either Cake Girl or the Wii Hula Hoop in Panties Girl.

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM (l5oRk)

310 305 Agreed. The trial went as I expected: the serious charges were mostly bullshit and over-charged, and the prosecution witnesses were mostly sleazy gold-diggers and scumbags. The jury didn't like them. But Puffy's a huge scumbag so I expected the jury to find him guilty of something. They did.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 02, 2025 10:58 AM (iFTx/)

=====

But it didn't bring down the entire international cartel of human trafficking, so the fix was in.

Wake up, sheeple!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

311 Aaahctchually Saudi changed the laws. They can drive now. It’s been a few years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM (nwGCR)

312 Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ

Very nice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM (2GCMq)

313 307 Whatever became of the Whigs?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM (WIJBc)

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Never the same once they embraced lace as the key ingredient.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

314 Whatever became of the Whigs?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Most of them became Republicans, I think. But the commenter here who bears their nic probably knows the full story.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

315 IDK, IDC, We'll never truly know if Diddy was a lesser Epstein in the grand scheme of things, which I want to know who was running Epstein more than I care about some washed up Rap Producer and his Baby Oil habit.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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I am sure that Diddy had a handler and was protected. Which alphabet agency (my guess is FBI) was doing it probably used Diddy as an informant and facilitator to point out targets of interest like Whitey Bulger.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:00 AM (ctrM5)

316 18 They could use some Ozempic.
Posted by: redridinghood

Give them a break, it was the middle of the Little Ice Age.

They needed the insulation to survive the winter.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 02, 2025 11:01 AM (a+4eV)

317 Diddy’s lawyers want him to just be able to walk out of courtroom even though he’s facing a possible (ha ha) 20 years for the transporting prostitutes across state lines charge. Government lawyers pointed out to judge that when Diddy was arrested, there were drugs in his hotel room even though he knew he was facing these charges. Judge wants letters from both lawyers, explaining their reasoning for either releasing him on bond or keeping him in jail.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 02, 2025 11:01 AM (twdxl)

318 Too many carbs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 11:01 AM (WIJBc)

319 Was Jim Comey's daughter on the prosecution team? That's all I need to know, thank you.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 11:01 AM (VPwHp)

320 Aaahctchually Saudi changed the laws. They can drive now. It’s been a few years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM

Well, crap...so much for my Middle Eastern current events knowledge.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 02, 2025 11:02 AM (dPfyF)

321 NOOD Jaguar!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 02, 2025 11:02 AM (a+4eV)

322 To be fair to the prosecution, 98% of fbi/doj resources were allocated to finding non-existent white supremacists. Hard to put together a case against Diddy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 11:04 AM (nwGCR)

323 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 10:58 AM (2GCMq)

Darn autocorrect . Not Fr. Arsenal but Arseny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 11:04 AM (2GCMq)

324 Another Trumpmass miracle!

Waffle House@WaffleHouse
Egg-cellent news…as of June 2, the egg surcharge is officially off the menu. Thanks for understanding!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 02, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)

325 Star Trek legend Peter-Henry Schroeder has died aged 90.
The American actor was best known from Star Trek: Enterprise, the 2000s TV iteration of the long-running sci-fi series which ran for four seasons.

The family have asked that instead of flowers, condolences be shared through the Human Animal Life Foundation.

... "Human Animal" ??
Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 10:19 AM (RHGPo)
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Legend? I had to look him up on IMDB. He did 2 guest spots on Enterprise.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 02, 2025 11:05 AM (f1kZG)

326 314 Whatever became of the Whigs?
Posted by: Boss Moss
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The Compromise of 1850 undid the Whigs in very short order. At that point, the South became run by the Dem fire eaters who wanted the spread of slavery to new states and secession if the North tried to stop it. So Southern Whigs faded away politically--they were older, more unionist in sympathies, and became a rump faction of moderate Dems in the South preaching caution. The Northern Whigs, after the Compromise, imploded into a mass of minor parties--Free Soilers, Anti Masonics, Know Nothings, etc. These minor parties were largely single issue types and regional which caused a rapid consolidation after the Republican Party got started in WI so by 1856, they ran a CA John Fremont, a military hero who did credibly against James Buchanan for prezzie.

By that time, all the minor parties in the North consolidated into the GOP, the Southern Whigs were now moderate Dems and served as a brake on the fire eaters for a time.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 11:07 AM (ctrM5)

327 Putting all these people after Versailles into a country filled with ethnic hatred was a silly idea. And WWII made it worse as ancient hatred came alive again with new grievances between the groups.

Posted by: whig at July 02, 2025 10:51 AM (ctrM5)

And somehow the Turks have come out being the favored group in the end.

Posted by: javems at July 02, 2025 11:17 AM (8I4hW)

328 No! Is MINEZ ... ! You no touch!

Posted by: Dr_No at July 02, 2025 11:23 AM (ayRl+)

329 The crying Kid got Coal the others got Toys

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 02, 2025 06:32 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 7/ 2 /25

Good morning kids. And so this so-called Big Beautiful Bill has passed the Senate. No I did not read this phone book-sized bill, nor if I had would I have had the time to go through it to see what's really what. Given the nature of the Leviathan of a bureaucracy that we have been saddled with at least as far back as FDR's New Deal which has been metastasizing to this day, regardless of who sat in the Oval Office and which party controlled Congress.

With that admission, I still feel that perhaps a corollary to the revolting 'We have to shred the Constitution in order to preserve the Constitution: We have to borrow and spend trillions in order to stop borrowing and spending trillions?

So, okay, Trump so far scores a political "win" thanks mostly to VP J.D. Vance casting a tie-breaking vote because 3 RINOs decided to cross the aisle and vote No on the bill.

Yeah, I didn't read the bill but here are the Cliff's notes:

Chuck Schemer retitled the bill, but they kept all the waste, fraud and grift, added a couple dozen extra "This Page Left Intentionally Blank" pages, and changed the dedication from Satan to Paul Ryan, and Chuck Schumer's Mohel and Trichologist.

So we absolutely had to pass this monstrosity because MAGA!

RUFKM?!

The Senate began what is known as a vote-a-rama on Monday morning — a rapid series of votes on dozens of proposed amendments to Trump’s big, beautiful spending bill. As of 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday, the vote-a-rama was still ongoing. One of the most disappointing results came on a measure seeking to block illegal immigrants from receiving Medicaid benefits, which failed by a vote of 56–44. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough had previously determined that the “Byrd Rule” applied in this case. Because a reconciliation bill — a type of budget bill — requires only a simple majority of 51 votes for passage, the Byrd Rule imposes restrictions on what provisions can be included. Measures deemed to be “extraneous” to the budget must secure a supermajority of 60 votes to pass. As a result, the proposal to remove undocumented immigrants from Medicaid failed by just four votes. . . If it weren’t for the Senate Parliamentarian’s interference, this vote would’ve succeeded with just 51 votes. pic.twitter.com/7eztg2RicE

Yeah, we can blame this Cunning Runt parliamentarian (transpose the C and the R) all we want, but the fact remains, the Wetbacks get our money when they should be running "Serpentine!" in Alligator Alcatraz. Meh, keep the Medicaid, send Murkowski, Collins and Thune there. Or strap them to a MOP and drop them onto the FOrdow Foundation!

Look, God bless President Trump and for the miracle of his victory last November and for his amazing accomplishments here and abroad in just six months. But if I'm out of line about the criticism of this bill, I'm open to any reasonable argument as to why.

And what's up with the President's position on illegal aliens vis a vis farm and hospitality workers? They get dispensation because why?

It was a great decision on his part, to show mercy to farmers, whose crops would be rotting in the fields in short order if every farm worker had to be in pristine immigration status. Crops need to be harvested immediately or there are no crops. Like food shortages? No farmers, no food.

Yeah, I get it. While I suppose it does avoid temporary short-term pain as well as political blowback if shortages mess up a booming economy. But then again, the whole point as he and others have been touting is the creation of jobs for Americans. No pain no gain. It also allows his enemies to paint him as a hypocrite and ridicule a key component of the MAGA agenda. Perhaps to be charitable it's a strategic retreat.

Elsewhere, Los Angeles is continuing its devolution with anti-ICE demonstrations that Karen Bass-tard is doing nothing about and/or encouraging. And we did capture an Iranian spy scoping out Jewish targets for mass murder attacks, along with some Chi-COm spies.

Meanwhile, the rise of this Mamdani momzer in NYC is causing the relatively sane among the Democrat base in NYC and nationally to be freaking out. Why, I have no idea, because the conventional wisdom is that this maniac is where the Democrat Party has been heading for decades. The objection is not necessarily his policies and worldview, it's the fact that he's open and honest about it that is causing the Dems to freak out. They win when they pretend to be as American as apple pie, hot dogs and Chevrolet (and can make their election thievery look kosher).

Whose Side Are Democrats Really On? . . . Cheering for the enemy

It's not that the Democrats are on the side of the enemy, It's that the Democrats have been America's greatest enemy for two centuries and counting.

Mamdani? Everywhere you turn it's Mamdanis all the way down.

Boston Muslim Illegal Alien Councilwoman Replaces July 4th Before Going to Prison. . . July in Boston will now be Cabo Verde Independence Month.

BUT . . . there is some good news to report, here's a smattering:

for example on the illegal alien front,

as well as the religious freedom front

And the Second Amenment...

and the transexual madness front.

Looks like Will Thomas had to tuck his tail, instead of his John Thomas and head for the hills at UPenn,

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a great day!

ISRAEL AND USA vs IRAN

The knock-out punches they didn't see coming.
The Mullahs’ Biggest Miscalculations
German authorities arrested a Danish national suspected of surveilling Jewish targets on Iran’s behalf for possible terrorist attacks, the country’s prosecutors office said Tuesday. Ali G., a pseudonym for the alleged spy, allegedly spied on three separate sites in June at the behest of Iranian intelligence, according to Reuters. Iran formally entered a ceasefire with Israel on June 23 after an extensive bombing campaign from Tel Aviv and Washington appeared to cripple Tehran’s nuclear facilities, but fears remain that Iran’s extensive global espionage network could instigate reprisal attacks against civilians in the West.
Suspected Iranian Spy Arrested For Allegedly Sizing Up Jewish Terror Targets
Gaza resident: “Hamas shoots at people to keep them away from humanitarian aid.”
Gazans Testify That Hamas Deliberately Targets Civilians Collecting Humanitarian Aid
"NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS"
The office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass did not issue a comment on the protest.
Anti-ICE Protesters Block 6th Street Bridge in Downtown Los Angeles

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
‘These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America that we’re trying to target.’
Illegal Immigrant Cannibal Tried To Eat Himself On Deportation Flight, DHS Secretary Says
‘By saying we’re going to tolerate illegal immigration, it destroys Trump’s credibility, the credibility of enforcement, and takes what is a legal system and basically makes it meaningless.’
Point: If Trump Lets Farm Workers Evade Immigration Laws, Expect The Whole World To Claim ‘Farm Worker’ Status
Thank you, President Trump.
Counterpoint: Trump puts common-sense brakes on immigration enforcement for farm and hospitality workers
In a 6-3 ruling on Friday, the justices limited the authority of district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions without addressing the birthright citizenship issue. The question will almost certainly return to the high court for a ruling on the merits after making its way through the lower courts.
Trump’s War To End Birthright Citizenship Is Far From Over
“THE TRUMP EFFECT – Total Border Patrol encounters for the entire month of June 2025 was 6,070. That is less than a single day under Biden,” Border Czar Homan posted on X on Tuesday. “Also, none of the 6,070 were released into the U.S. ZERO.”
HOMAN: Migrant Arrests at Borders Drop 41 Percent in June to New Record Low — Zero Admitted to U.S.
As the administration cracks down on illegal immigration, Mamdani threatened to use his power to “stop masked ICE agents from deporting our neighbors” during his acceptance speech on June 25. Trump said that the administration will not hesitate to arrest Mamdani if he were to violate immigration law.
Trump Threatens To Arrest Socialist Mamdani If It Comes To It
LA Mayor Karen Bass and City Council were also sued.
Trump DOJ Sues Los Angeles, Citing Supremacy Clause in Challenge to Sanctuary City Policies
Trump toured the existing Miami-Dade Collier Training Facility, which has, in just eight days, been transformed into a detention center designed to process, detain, and deport illegal immigrants, alongside Florida Governor and former Republican primary rival Ron DeSantis.“
Trump: Biden’s NYC Migrant Hotel Funding was Diverted to Build ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’
Speaking to reporters ahead of the roundtable discussion, Trump said, “Look what we inherited from this guy, this incompetent man and his administration — which wasn’t incompetent, it was radical left, lunatic, communist, whatever you want to say — I know most of them,” he said of the Biden junta.
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Boasts 400+ Security Personnel, 1,000 Staffers, 24/7 AC
The Trump White House emphasizes the use of Guantanamo Bay boosts deterrence against future illegal crossings into the United States and that the facility is being used to house high-risk detainees.
Trump Is Now Detaining Illegals From Three Continents at Gitmo.
The company offers loans throughout the United States as it explicitly markets mortgage loans to "undocumented residents." (Hello? Pam Bondi, prosecution and total asset seizure? - jjs)
Yet Another Mortgage Company Is Marketing Home Loans To Illegal Aliens
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
July in Boston will now be Cabo Verde Independence Month.
Boston Muslim Illegal Alien Councilwoman Replaces July 4th Before Going to Prison
Zara Rahim, who formerly worked for Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns, said she hoped Trump would die following the president's coronavirus diagnosis
Former Obama Staffer Who Wished Death on Trump Finds New Work for Zohran Mamdani
While most people are obsessed with Articles I through III of the Constitution, the answer to rising socialism may be hidden in plain sight in Article IV.
The Forgotten Guarantee Clause: Trump’s Constitution Cudgel Against a Radical Mayor (considering the nature of the Judiciary, now and in the future, don't bet on this - jjs)
Cheering for the enemy: (It’s not that the Democrats are on the side of the enemy, 200+ years of history prove that the Democrats ARE the enemy.)
Whose Side Are Democrats Really On?

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Founded in 1961 as John F. Kennedy sought to leverage aid to win over the developing world in the Cold War, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has now been incorporated into the State Department — after Secretary of State Marco Rubio slashed 85 percent of its programming.
Rubio hails end of USAID as Bush, Obama deplore cost in lives
Efforts to derail Emil Bove’s nomination, whether from the left or from risk-averse elements of the right, should be firmly rejected.
Surviving The Smear Campaign: Emil Bove Shines At Confirmation Hearing
Utah’s “One Door” strategy offers a model for receiving training and benefits in one place.
A Better Way to Get Welfare Recipients Back into the Labor Force
One law gutted investment in rent-stabilized units. Everyone is paying the price.
Why Are New York City’s Affordable Housing Units Falling Apart?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Kept but retitled the waste, fraud and grift, added a couple dozen extra "This Page Left Intentionally Blank" pages, Changed the dedication from Satan to Paul Ryan - jjs
Here’s What The Senate Changed In The ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill
The Senate passed the big beautiful bill Tuesday after a 27-hour amendment vote-a-rama – a new record. Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote on final passage, as well as during a couple of final amendment votes beforehand.
Senate Passes Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Now One Final Step from President’s Desk
“Fourteen states currently offer health coverage to people in the U.S. regardless of immigration status, including undocumented migrants.”
Senate Rejects Measure to End Medicaid Coverage for Illegals, 56–44
“Fortunately, we haven’t,” Jassy said when asked whether Amazon had raised prices in response to the latest round of tariffs. Speaking in an interview on CNBC’s Mad Money, he attributed price stability to a combination of strategic purchasing and seller preparation. “We did a lot of forward buying several months ago,” he said. “And then a lot of our sellers, our third-party selling partners, forward-deployed a lot of inventory to avoid some of the issues with the uncertainty around where tariffs are going to settle.”
Amazon Chief Says Tariffs Haven’t Pushed Up Prices, Undermining Critics’ Inflation Warnings
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Camp IdRaHaJe can continue its work in alignment with its Christian stance on biological sex, but Colorado is still pushing trans ideology.
Colorado Christian Camp Wins Legal Victory Against State’s Radical Transgender Rules
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
“They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money." (You Jizz Me, I Jizz You, Jizzya in the face, Islam all over the place! - jjs)
1 in 10 in the UK are on Disability
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The Trump Administration is so disgusted by CNN "promoting" a phone app to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in real time that it's considering legal action of some sort.
CNN Touts an ICE Agent Tracker the Trump Administration Fears Could Be Used to Hunt and Kill Agents
All of the victims of gender medicine deserve justice and accountability from the leaders who pushed harmful ideas about gender and continue to silence those who lost so much to speak up against them.
No, Atlantic, it wasn't an honest mistake that led major institutions down the wrong path on gender medicine
Robert Spencer: Her latest tirade includes Marco Rubio.
Joy Reid Outdoes the Leftists Who Like to Call Trump Hitler
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
'The summer heat beating down on our members is no joke.'
UPS Push For Electric Trucks Leaves Drivers Sweating — And Unions Furious
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Zhi Alan Cheng — a Queens doctor who has been held in jail without bail since 2022, when he was arrested — pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and three counts of sexual abuse on Monday, according to a report by the New York Post.
NYC Doctor Admits to Filming Himself Groping Sedated Patients, Raping Drugged Women (Are you IN me Dr. Wu, Steely Dan - jjs)

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
'We need to get somebody from the middle east or who is Arab on our board,' wrote Shipman. 'Quickly I think.'
Columbia President Claire Shipman Privately Said School Needed To Add an 'Arab' Board Member—and Remove a Jewish One
Among other forms of anti-Semitic discrimination, students drew a picture of Hitler as an example of a 'strong historical leader' and told a Jewish student they were happy about Oct. 7
Prestigious Virginia K-8 School Hit with Civil Rights Complaint over Environment 'Hostile to Jews'
The Crimson Mask: Harvard’s Institutional Antisemitism Finally Laid Bare
America’s oldest university has been exposed as fundamentally hostile to American values—and Jewish voices.
SECOND AMENDMENT
The case is Hoffman v. Bonta, and plaintiffs include Christopher J. Hoffman and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC). It challenges California’s ban against issuing concealed carry weapons permits (CCWs) to nonresidents.
U.S. District Court Judge: California Rules Barring Nonresident CCWs ‘Violate the Constitution’
Dakota News Now reported the campus carry measure was contained in Senate Bill 100, which Gov. Larry Rhoden (R) signed. Rhoden responded to critics of campus carry by saying, “There is a lot of concern that we’ll see in coming time that it is unfounded and that we can get along just right, honoring and respecting our Second Amendment rights the way they were intended.”
Campus Carry for Self-Defense Took Effect Today in South Dakota
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The FBI knew about the Chinese scheme to rig the 2020 election for Joe Biden by flooding the zone with fake voters, but covered it up and destroyed documents to protect former FBI Director Chris Wray. Wray testified to Congress that there was nothing hinky about the 2020 election, but in reality, he knew of the Chinese conspiracy to rig the election. (Likely because he was colluding with them - jjs)
STUNNING: FBI Covered Up Chinese Scheme to Heist 2020 Election
To most observers, the Kansas law is not only entirely reasonable, but sets a bare minimum expectation for how American political funding should function across the board.
Russia Hoaxer Marc Elias Loses Bid To Allow Foreign Interference In Kansas Ballot Issues
Plaintiffs argued that “[r]esidency is not inherited and cannot be established by proxy,” and that an “individual who has never personally made Arizona his home necessarily has not ‘resided in this state’ for any period of time, within the meaning of Article VII, Section 2(A)” of the Arizona Constitution.
Republicans Challenge Arizona Law Permitting Nonresidents To Register To Vote
Mail-in ballots are dangerously vulnerable. We must return to requiring a legitimate reason to vote absentee.
The Life Cycle of a Mail-In Ballot
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
“‘[Biden is] definitely complicit, but there were a lot of people behind him, like puppet masters. [Former first lady Jill Biden] very much knew what she was doing. What she did was absolutely elder abuse. There is no question in my mind,’ Li said,” Fox reported.
Report: Former DNC Insider Reveals ‘Puppet Masters’ Who Allegedly Ran Biden White House
Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is under renewed scrutiny for founding a Washington, DC, consulting firm just months after stepping down from his post in the Biden junta. Republican and Democrat lawmakers say the move betrays public trust and raises serious ethical and national security concerns.
EXCLUSIVE — Bipartisan Group of Senators Rips Lloyd Awol-austin’s Post-Pentagon Role, Cites Broken Promises and Security Concerns
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Tim Walz junta Promoted Sexual Assault Convict To Top Agency Role
Heather Gerken, who presided over 'trap house' controversy, to succeed Darren Walker (Turn it into the Fordow foundation and collapse it with a MOP from 30,000 feet - jjs)
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POLITICS
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No Victory Laps
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“I think the people in New York are crazy and they go this route. I think they’re crazy. We will have a communist for the first time.”
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The ~~democratic~~ demonic socialist blended culture and politics into a lifestyle brand.
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1 Happy Wednesday, one and all. It's a nice day out here, courtesy of some heavy rains the night before that helped cool things down. I am waiting to hear if we are getting dismissed early tomorrow or we can work our usual hours.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 07:34 AM (+4yJ5)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

3 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

4 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:35 AM (a1415)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 07:38 AM (Q4IgG)

6 I'm guessing that WWIII went well, as it certainly isn't being covered in the news anymore.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:38 AM (a1415)

7 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 07:38 AM (+qU29)

8 but for the first time in my life, I actually feel sorry for him, and those poor fucked-in-the-head kids, having a rabid Pit Viper like that for a mother

Then you are a better man than I am.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 07:39 AM (+4yJ5)

9
Happy birthday!

Seriously, the dems will have their backs against the wall only when the election cheat machine gets stopped. The Republicans aren't going to arrange for that so MAGA is going to have to.

Posted by: Auspex at July 02, 2025 07:40 AM (j4U/Z)

10 Mike Rowe talking about an ad he made and its removal from the airwaves. I have never seen someone be so scathing towards a company while staying so nice about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md216p6t-i0

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 07:41 AM (+4yJ5)

11 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

12 With that admission, I still feel that perhaps a corollary to the revolting 'We have to shred the Constitution in order to preserve the Constitution: We have to borrow and spend trillions in order to stop borrowing and spending trillions?

Balancing the budget in one go would require cutting at least 1/3 of all federal spending. More, really, since we want to spend money on border security, re-vitalizing the military, refilling the SPR, and, maybe, some actual infrastructure.

It's not going to happen. Any member of Congress who voted to do it would lose their seat. While I join your unhappiness with going even further into debt, we didn't get in this mess overnight, we won't escape overnight.

Frankly, what we should push for, is cutting some every year. Let the economy improve for a year... cut spending... let the economy improve for a year... cut spending. Sadly, the whores who get elected would do the exact opposite.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

13 The story goes that the GOP whip had to babysit Lisa Murkowski all the night through so she didn't change her mind and vote against the Big Fricken Cash Grab Bill.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 07:43 AM (9gFbO)

14 There is a lot of good stuff in the BBB. Just think where we would be if the previous administration had prevailed. Take what we can get and be happy, damn it.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

15 Oh come on, Boston.

Cape Verde is my go-to for a comedic "irrelevant country" stand in.

Don't make them relevant, you schmucks. You're wrecking my whole flow here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 07:44 AM (BjH5D)

16 But if I'm out of line about the criticism of this bill, I'm open to any reasonable argument as to why.

You're not. Its more kick the can down the road. A political win for Trump is not an automatic win for you and I.

But I would like this moment remembered, the next time we all start asking why the Democrat rank and file so slavishly follow their leaders against their own best interests. This is why.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 02, 2025 07:45 AM (quJpm)

17 Frankly, what we should push for, is cutting some every year. Let the economy improve for a year... cut spending... let the economy improve for a year... cut spending. Sadly, the whores who get elected would do the exact opposite.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

Thanks, but one can infer from this that the bigger the government/budget is the better off we are?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 07:45 AM (x0n13)

18 " I have never seen someone be so scathing towards a company while staying so nice about it:"

Damn......

And never once with a foul word or a bit of anger.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:46 AM (a1415)

19 The best news today is the tranny swimmer got kicked in the nuts.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

20 But if I'm out of line about the criticism of this bill, I'm open to any reasonable argument as to why.

Arguably, given the fact that the Medicaid cuts were removed, more could have been in this bill since, I believe, the Medicare cuts were the reason that they had to do separate rescission bills for the DOGE stuff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

21 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

You and I lived in Japan as at the same time, with our military families, albeit at different bases. It was a while ago. J.J. would be listed as a National Treasure if he was Japanese.

Instead, it is his birthday.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

22 There seems to be some confusion:

The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Ends Taxpayer-Funded Health Benefits for Illegal Immigrants
June 02, 2025

The House Ways and Means Committee website

https://tinyurl.com/4c6h9xvw

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 07:47 AM (AOsQT)

23 fd

Is there a ceremony, like drumming out a coward from the regiment?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

24 Eric Schmidt senator from MO said the provision for kicking illegals off Medicaid was put back in the bill FYI.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 07:48 AM (MGB5H)

25 uh oh

that says June, not July, huh
okay then
I blame my advanced age
I'll just be going...

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 07:49 AM (AOsQT)

26 "Is there a ceremony, like drumming out a coward from the regiment?
Posted by: NaCly Dog "

Posted by: Chuck Conners at July 02, 2025 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

27 Maybe they won't continue to get the money that is supposed to go to old people's Health Care.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:49 AM (WIJBc)

28 And the Second Amenment...

I'd prefer if the courts would recognize that the full faith and credit clause applies to CCW permits but this is something.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

29 Mike Rowe talking about an ad he made and its removal from the airwaves. I have never seen someone be so scathing towards a company while staying so nice about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md216p6t-i0
Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 07:41 AM (+4yJ5)
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Thanks for that. As it happens, I'm looking at cell service companies and now I can look at Puretalk.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 07:50 AM (q8kR1)

30 Pixar’s Elio Debacle Shows Audiences Don’t Want Studios Pushing Sexual Agendas On Kids
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As has been pointed out, Hollywood is so filled with deviant weirdos that they think this is all normal. In their world, everyone is a freak.

Therefore if you don't want to see it, YOU are the freak in their eyes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 07:50 AM (7fElN)

31 And never once with a foul word or a bit of anger.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Watch it again and look at his eyes. That was the giveaway to me.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 07:50 AM (+4yJ5)

32 14 There is a lot of good stuff in the BBB. Just think where we would be if the previous administration had prevailed. Take what we can get and be happy, damn it.
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

While CHlamydia Harris as prexy would be the bitter end... where/what is this "good stuff?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 07:50 AM (x0n13)

33 Kroger's sales suck this week.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:51 AM (WIJBc)

34 "Instead, it is his birthday."

One of many!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:51 AM (a1415)

35 These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America that we’re trying to target.’
Illegal Immigrant Cannibal Tried To Eat Himself On Deportation Flight, DHS Secretary Says
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I bet no one wants to be his cell mate

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 07:52 AM (q8kR1)

36 Illegal Immigrant Cannibal Tried To Eat Himself On Deportation Flight, DHS Secretary Says

I assume PronHub has a channel dedicated to this sort of thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

37 Point: If Trump Lets Farm Workers Evade Immigration Laws, Expect The Whole World To Claim ‘Farm Worker’ Status

Given that part of the shit sandwich the Senate made for us is the failure to protect US Tax payers and Citizens by keeping the Free Medical Services To The Planet scam in the Medicaid spending.

So not only would the invite to the world be open, but its made worse by specifically inviting in the high medical risk population into an already over burdened system.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 07:52 AM (a4flb)

38 JJ's birthdays are legion..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:52 AM (a1415)

39 One of many!

I wonder if the extra birthday every four years becomes tiring ?

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 02, 2025 07:52 AM (quJpm)

40 Under Trump, Repub voters appear to be getting at least about 50% of what they asked for, which is better than the 10% Repub politicians provided without Trump.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 07:53 AM (Dv3i1)

41 I assume PronHub has a channel dedicated to this sort of thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Rule 34 exists for a reason.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 07:53 AM (+4yJ5)

42 35 These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America that we’re trying to target.’
Illegal Immigrant Cannibal Tried To Eat Himself On Deportation Flight, DHS Secretary Says
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I bet no one wants to be his cell mate
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 07:52 AM (q8kR1)

He's bucking to be a camp Kapo in Alligator Alcatraz!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 07:53 AM (x0n13)

43 July in Boston will now be Cabo Verde Independence Month.
Boston Muslim Illegal Alien Councilwoman Replaces July 4th Before Going to Prison

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One Boston Councilwoman, let alone illegal, got to decide to axe the 4th of July?

But it's Boston. I'm sure they're all very happy to celebrate Cabo Verde instead.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)

44 36 Illegal Immigrant Cannibal Tried To Eat Himself On Deportation Flight, DHS Secretary Says

I assume PronHub has a channel dedicated to this sort of thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

Bugs Bunny cartoon with the skinny guy and fat guy stranded on the deserted island, and he puts his foot on a plate, sprinkles salt on it and digs in.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 07:55 AM (x0n13)

45 Arm-eating cannibal is like something straight out of the National Enquirer.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

46 I doubt the veracity of the autocannibal. They should have waited to see if he was serious.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:55 AM (WIJBc)

47 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 07:55 AM (Ul4ZN)

48 The company offers loans throughout the United States as it explicitly markets mortgage loans to "undocumented residents." (Hello? Pam Bondi, prosecution and total asset seizure? - jjs)

Total asset seizure for the corporate officers sounds good to me although I'm sure the courts would say no... something about unreasonable punishment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

49 Huck Follywood

We need a Crossfit vegan outlaw to be in that cell with a cannibal. Hilarity ensues.

Apex predators are dwindling because mankind is outcompeting them for prey. And we have a mental health epidemic without insane asylums.

I am seeing a solution here.

May PETA embrace the Alligator Diet solution. Go Alligators!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

50 " where/what is this "good stuff?""

The tax cut extension for one thing. The immigration stuff.

I hate the GOP and they hate me too. I hate having to settle.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

51 Paramount/CBS has settled the Trump lawsuit. Will pay 30M$ and also includes a new rule requiring unedited transcripts of future candidate interviews.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 07:56 AM (MGB5H)

52 Kroger's sales suck this week.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:51 AM (WIJBc)

Aren't they closing a bunch of stores?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 02, 2025 07:56 AM (SfhV1)

53 Balancing the budget in one go would require cutting at least 1/3 of all federal spending. More, really, since we want to spend money on border security, re-vitalizing the military, refilling the SPR, and, maybe, some actual infrastructure.

It's not going to happen. Any member of Congress who voted to do it would lose their seat. While I join your unhappiness with going even further into debt, we didn't get in this mess overnight, we won't escape overnight.

Frankly, what we should push for, is cutting some every year. Let the economy improve for a year... cut spending... let the economy improve for a year... cut spending. Sadly, the whores who get elected would do the exact opposite.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:43 AM

Even if we could somehow magically balance the budget it would do nothing to address the debt. We would need a minimum of $2 trillion a year in surplus just to start addressing the debt.

Interest on the debt will soon suck up more money than the entire military budget.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 02, 2025 07:56 AM (e5NfL)

54 Eating the Mexicans that American Alligators won't eat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:57 AM (WIJBc)

55 50 Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

Thanks for that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 07:57 AM (x0n13)

56 From a purely pragmatic political perspective, allowing the farm & restaurant working illegals to stay is a good play.

Trump has mainly focused on deporting the criminals anyhow.

Does he want as many illegals out, violent criminals or not? Yes.

Does he want to hit the economy while doing it? No.

So Homan is focusing on the criminals, and nabbing any incidental aliens around when they get the criminals.

Also, ICE doing various busts at businesses around the country used to be a regular thing. But it was always hit or miss and never a massive effort. Now they’re doing that again, which may make some of these operations think twice about who they’re hiring.

I’ve also seen some mention of a new guest visa/permit system for seasonal farm labor that DHS & State are thinking about doing for these cases.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 07:57 AM (6ydKt)

57 {{{grammie winger}}}

FYI, the Jordie Nelson kids are well brought up. and work hard at the ranch and in sports.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

58 Kroger is closing some stores. I couldn't find a list.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:58 AM (WIJBc)

59 The cannibal guy was probably just trying to drop a few pounds

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 07:58 AM (q8kR1)

60 The story goes that the GOP whip had to babysit Lisa Murkowski all the night through so she didn't change her mind and vote against the Big Fricken Cash Grab Bill.

The thing that gets me is why we just don't do what is done in every other country. Bribe the votes we want. These criminals are going to steal from us. It is no secret that Congress is an open extortion game.

So instead of pretending, just have an open auction for votes. Stand out on the front steps and have senators just tell us what the hell they want in order to vote a certain way.

If they announce a price too large, well, some of the more violent third world cultures have a way of extracting the vote they want. Since we are full blown low trust turd world, might as well quit pretending we are not.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 07:58 AM (a4flb)

61 Senate Rejects Measure to End Medicaid Coverage for Illegals, 56–44

This is a misleading headline. 56 Senators voted to end the coverage but, thanks to the Parliamentarian - and the GOP's unwillingness to override her, they required 60 votes to move forward with that provision.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

62 Time to do stuff.

Be safe, Salty!

BBIAB!

*POOF*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:58 AM (a1415)

63 He thought he had the right to rare arms.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

64 FYI, the Jordie Nelson kids are well brought up. and work hard at the ranch and in sports.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

I saw him at the NFL draft. He looked very purty.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 02, 2025 07:59 AM (SfhV1)

65 Paramount/CBS has settled the Trump lawsuit. Will pay 30M$ and also includes a new rule requiring unedited transcripts of future candidate interviews.

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Will this make Bernie burn? He insisted they did nothing wrong. If they did nothing wrong (and they know they did), they wouldn't have paid out $30 million to settle.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 02, 2025 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

66 From a purely pragmatic political perspective, allowing the farm & restaurant working illegals to stay is a good play.

Lets just admit it. The US is a slave labor camp no better than China.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:00 AM (a4flb)

67 Morning everyone, thx JJ
Senator Eric Schmidt has a thread on X and it's at Twitchy. The bill that failed to take Medicaid away from illegals was a show vote to get people on the record. The BBB which passed does contain a bar against illegals getting Medicaid. So if this bill passes the House they are barred

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:00 AM (eBgDF)

68 No, Atlantic, it wasn't an honest mistake that led major institutions down the wrong path on gender medicine

Just like it wasn't an honest mistake that led major institutions down the wrong path on the safety and efficacy of the covid shot.

Just like it wasn't an honest mistake that led major institutions down the wrong path on "climate change".

Just like it wasn't an honest mistake that led major institutions down the wrong path on...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

69 SpeakingOf

Cheap diesel fuel and extensive, specialized, farm machinery has removed the need for many farm workers. Very few people can feed many others. Well, until the Feds screw up farm policy.

Meat packing plants are another story. But even there there is progress in reducing the need for undocumented workers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

70 Thanks for that. As it happens, I'm looking at cell service companies and now I can look at Puretalk.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Happy to help. If T-Mobile irritates me too much, Puretalk guys are getting my business.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 08:01 AM (+4yJ5)

71 Who's gonna pick dat cotton??

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 02, 2025 08:02 AM (SfhV1)

72 Apex predators are dwindling because mankind is outcompeting them for prey. And we have a mental health epidemic without insane asylums.

I am seeing a solution here.
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A modern, environmentally sensitive version of Swift's "Modest Proposal"!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 08:02 AM (eRBFZ)

73 grammie winger

Tell the Rev "No worries". His wife has aged very well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

74 Tell the Rev "No worries". His wife has aged very well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

I'm a teeny bit sorry that he has a wife. j/k

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 02, 2025 08:03 AM (SfhV1)

75 grammie winger

There are too many people longing for the days of open slavery. Sheesh.

BTDT.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:04 AM (u82oZ)

76 Next year, the challenge for Trump and the GOP is to turn out base voters and enough of the casual and new voters that gave Trump the edge in swing states in 2024.

The trouble is, what has the GOP done to deserve votes?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

77 >The BBB which passed does contain a bar against illegals getting Medicaid. So if this bill passes the House they are barred

Posted by: Smell the Glove
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all of this has me confused
is it is, or is it ain't

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 08:04 AM (AOsQT)

78 Boston Muslim Illegal Alien Councilwoman Replaces July 4th Before Going to Prison. . . July in Boston will now be Cabo Verde Independence Month.

There are about 600,000 people, total, in the Cape Verde Islands.

How many Cape Verdians can there actually be in Boston? A few hundred, maybe a thousand?

Why on God’s Green Earth do the people of Boston need an entire month (their own country only gets one day) to celebrate the independence of a small archipelago that the vast majority couldn’t find on a map?

And why would the rest of the city council go along with this nonsense?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 08:04 AM (6ydKt)

79 Cheap diesel fuel and extensive, specialized, farm machinery has removed the need for many farm workers."

A fact that shows the Illiterati's stunning lack of knowledge concerning the real world.
It'd be funny if not so stupid...

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 08:04 AM (tubbA)

80 grammie winger

No you are no sorry. Because then you can think you've got a shot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

81 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. Just finished 3 hours' of work, so resting for a moment.

75 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a high in the mid 80s expected. Muggy and humid, as well. A good day for a nap in front of a fan.

Apropos of a comment on the Tech Thread, I could really go for a toasted bagel right now.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 08:05 AM (Dg2sF)

82 Kroger is closing some stores. I couldn't find a list.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:58 AM (WIJBc)

IIRC, about 80 stores to be shuttered nationwide.

Good morning.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2025 08:05 AM (wVcYX)

83 You the man JJ

Posted by: Jonah at July 02, 2025 08:05 AM (YCxFk)

84 If there's a silver lining to the budget circus it's that what DOGE uncovered illustrated just how corrupt FedGov really is and why our 'elected' officials are uninterested in cutting the federal budget. It's their primary pipeline for graft. It's why every politico is a multi-millionaire.

And they all owe favors to someone else who isn't interested in what you want from government.

Fixing all this is with the tools at our disposal is like trying to fix the space station with masking tape and a screwdriver from here on Earth. I think once people begin to understand the scope of the problem some potential solutions outside the existing system will be needed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 08:05 AM (Q4IgG)

85 Michelle Obama Doesn’t Just Hate Her Husband — She Hates Her Kids, Too

Michelle Obama is a lot like Meghan Markle. The world would be an enormously better place if we could be permitted to forget they exist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

86 This is a misleading headline. 56 Senators voted to end the coverage but, thanks to the Parliamentarian - and the GOP's unwillingness to override her, they required 60 votes to move forward with that provision.

So everyone is off the hook and zero responsibility.

We can't even name Elizabeth MacDonough, but refer to an anonymous title "Senate Parliamentarian". Then we let Lizzy off the hook because she could have been overriden, but we won't name the phuquer who could have overridden her because, the pursuit of zero responsibility.

We won't even mention that a simple majority vote by the Republicans could have overridden her, because, again, the cowardly path of Zero Accountability.

So we are stuck with some criminally stupid scam to confiscate hard earned money (in taxes and currency devaluation) to give to animals who shouldn't even be in this country, let alone racking up billions in medical costs in allready overloaded hospitals.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:05 AM (a4flb)

87 Because then you can think you've got a shot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

A girl can dream....

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 02, 2025 08:06 AM (SfhV1)

88 I don't really care about the no taxes on tips and overtime. The illegals getting Medicare farce needs to be better explained by PDT. If it's truly gone, then let's gloat.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

89 There are too many people longing for the days of open slavery. Sheesh.

We "need" that cheap farm labor no more than we "need" cheap nannies, cheap workers at the slaughter houses, or cheap roofers and drywallers.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 02, 2025 08:06 AM (quJpm)

90 And why would the rest of the city council go along with this nonsense?"

*googles "Boston City Council*

A-yup. Makes perfect sense.

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 08:07 AM (tubbA)

91 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:07 AM (77rzZ)

92 76. Are you kidding me? what is the alternative?

Posted by: Jonah at July 02, 2025 08:07 AM (YCxFk)

93 The BBB which passed does contain a bar against illegals getting Medicaid. So if this bill passes the House they are barred
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:00 AM (eBgDF)
----------------
If I read it correctly the stories say Medicaid money spent on illegals was propoing up rural hospitals, so the Senate dropped illegals and agreed to spend $50 Billion to keep those hospitals going instead.

That is a lot of smackers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 08:07 AM (q8kR1)

94 grammie winger

Time to put the Rev in training camp? Although I am not sure how six-pack abs work with all those surgical scars. He's a tough one to recover from all that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:07 AM (u82oZ)

95 @77 Don Black, per the Senator the ban is in BBB. The 56-44 vote was basically a show vote so Republicans could get the Dems in the record supporting Medicaid for illegals. Political posturing only

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:08 AM (eBgDF)

96 UPenn will send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer.

Sorry we fucked up your collegiate athletic career. Our bad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

97 Populism is the order of the day.

Nobody wants a hiccup in our food supply chain. Those who want to work should be given work, but with supervision. Pragmatism works because it's silly, not because it's conservative.

Bend all of the rules.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 08:08 AM (a/G0f)

98 He's a tough one to recover from all that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:07 AM (u82oZ)

He is. He is doing really well. God is good.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 02, 2025 08:08 AM (SfhV1)

99 Don Black, per the Senator the ban is in BBB. The 56-44 vote was basically a show vote so Republicans could get the Dems in the record supporting Medicaid for illegals. Political posturing only
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:08 AM (eBgDF)

Political posturing, but not without value.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 08:08 AM (MGB5H)

100 61. Thanks for the info Mate

Posted by: Jonah at July 02, 2025 08:08 AM (YCxFk)

101 Alec Baldwin did a good job playing Swaggart in that Jerry Lee Lewis movie.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:09 AM (77rzZ)

102 @93 Huck, yup. The sausage making is ugly, but that was the price

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:09 AM (eBgDF)

103 So after the bill is taken care of, will the Harry Reid Sen Parm finally be fired?

Posted by: Jonah at July 02, 2025 08:09 AM (YCxFk)

104 I used to have a different nic

What I want is for every fourth place girl he pushed off the podium to greet him in the no-camera girls locker room. With stiletto heels in hand. And no mercy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

105 Hi JJ I hope you are feeling well, or at least ok. I don't remember the last time I heard how you're managing but I consider it a blessing to wake up to your news every day. I promise I wouldn't know a damn thing that's going on without it.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM (VPwHp)

106 The trouble is, what has the GOP done to deserve votes?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

The GOP, nothing. But Trump is still working on effectively taking over the GOP, and he needs your vote still.
Consider this: we already know tha Mitch, Tillis, and likely Cornyn are gone in ‘26. That’s going to be a nice change.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM (0DdMG)

107 UPenn will send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer."

Yeah. That and $7.50 will get each one a semi-coffee flavored drink at Starbucks...

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM (tubbA)

108 66 Lets just admit it. The US is a slave labor camp no better than China.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Hey! We have better toilets!

Posted by: Auspex at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM (j4U/Z)

109
Internet is medicaid assistance to illegals still in BBB ?

" Section 77109 on page 602 of the legislation. The language amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to ensure that no medical assistance is provided under Medicaid to individuals not lawfully admitted for permanent residence, except for emergency services...

The Cornyn amendment, which would have penalized states for offering broader benefits, failed due to a 60-vote threshold.

But the core ban on Medicaid for illegal immigrants remains intact in the final bill.

That means states cannot use federal Medicaid dollars to cover illegal immigrants, except in emergencies."

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM (g47mK)

110 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 08:05 AM (Dg2sF)

I thought you retired. Are you still writing those prescriptions or something like that?

Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM (Oy/m2)

111 With a secure border and a reality based immigration system, the country could accommodate a monitored, regulated, heavily supervised guest worker program.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (MncNM)

112 69 SpeakingOf

Cheap diesel fuel and extensive, specialized, farm machinery has removed the need for many farm workers. Very few people can feed many others. Well, until the Feds screw up farm policy.

Meat packing plants are another story. But even there there is progress in reducing the need for undocumented workers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

Big Ag has always been a problem when it comes to illegal alien workers.

I guarantee the likes of Cargil and Archer Daniels Midland made some calls to bureaucrats & politicians, and put the pressure on claiming Armageddon was near.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (6ydKt)

113 and here I thought I understood the legislative process

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (AOsQT)

114 So after the bill is taken care of, will the Harry Reid Sen Parm finally be fired?
Posted by: Jonah at July 02, 2025 08:09 AM (YCxFk

Every term the VP should just appoint their own parliamentarian, as they are basically their to allow the VP to not have to sit in every senate session.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (MGB5H)

115 The medicaid stuff is really unnecessary. We had a worked, Paco, who lost both legs and arms in a Lettuce Combine Accident and we put him out in front of Kroger's each day with a soup bowl and people fill it up with all kinds of change, food and even a condom still in it's wrapper. We use Paco's medicaid to buy weed at the local weed store and all is good. Looking to get him on SS disability next. Gonna buy a lot of weed with that money.

Posted by: Jesus Quintana, Happy Farms Crew Chief at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (4dUzE)

116 The BBB which passed does contain a bar against illegals getting Medicaid. So if this bill passes the House they are barred

Posted by: Smell the Glove
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all of this has me confused
is it is, or is it ain't

Its like the lies and deception around the cutting off of New Green Deal scam. the Communists are lying about how the world will end because the subsidies have been cut. The "Conservatives" are lying that they cut the Green Deal subsidies. Musk is lying about it too.

The reality is, these assholes left all kinds of easy to maneuver loop-holes, variances and exceptions such where an intern in one of these subsidy farms can devise a strategy to keep the grift coming.

They all lie about everything all the time.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (a4flb)

117 84. Yes Martini. and USAID is kaput as of Monday.

That was the massive Dem slush fund

Posted by: Jonah at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (YCxFk)

118 Note that - after this bill is passed - the House and Senate could strike out what additional section of it via simple majority. Just like they could have done with ObamaCare.

They won't. But they could. That 56 - 44 "show vote". They could make it official next session. But they won't.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (quJpm)

119 A lot of confusion about what is going on is what I am reading here this morning.. events will have to unfold, as usual.

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 08:12 AM (PCK5/)

120 *I don't like except for emergencies...which means that emergency rooms will still be forced to provide services...

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:12 AM (g47mK)

121 Well now i *really* want to hear someone from Bahhhstin try to say "Cabo Verde" the Portuguese way because i guess they're too cool to say Cape Verde.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 08:12 AM (BjH5D)

122 Good Morning. Trump and Elon are having another catfight.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:12 AM (WIJBc)

123 114. Bruce, did Vance miss that one? Can she be fired now?

Posted by: Jonah at July 02, 2025 08:12 AM (YCxFk)

124 There are too many people longing for the days of open slavery. Sheesh.

BTDT.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:04 AM (u82oZ)

Because that's the slavery they're willing to admit to. What they're really doing is fronting for sex trafficking of boys and girls of all ages.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 08:12 AM (VPwHp)

125 >Lets just admit it. The US is a slave labor camp no better than China.
----

huh
Does China have alligators? Because we have alligators.

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 08:13 AM (AOsQT)

126 One could have a lot of fun with the CNN ICE tracker.

Send the mob to 'interesting, challenging' locations.

Posted by: CapeFear at July 02, 2025 08:13 AM (IIY9P)

127 Mr. Sefton, I'm willing to bet that the 'farm workers' exculpation was intended to purchase the vote of Sen. Ron Johnson. The dairy industry in Wisconsin employs hundreds (or more) illegals, many of them long-term.

Wisconsin's dairy industry is NOT the only one which benefits, of course.......

Posted by: dad29 at July 02, 2025 08:14 AM (COqtf)

128 and here I thought I understood the legislative process"

Here. Have some sausage...

Posted by: Otto V. Bismark (allegedly) at July 02, 2025 08:14 AM (tubbA)

129

The battle of Archie Bunker Hill

"Don't Fire Until you see the Whites"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 08:14 AM (x0n13)

130 The Trump Administration is so disgusted by CNN "promoting" a phone app to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in real time that it's considering legal action of some sort.

And this is why we lose. "Considering?" Really?

CNN is using public airtime to promote a product designed to not only assist illegals in evading arrest, but which can also be used to track down and potentially kill agents of the federal government who are acting according to the law.

The head of CNN should have been fucking arrested five minutes after that segment aired and ought to be sweating his balls off in GITMO right now, up on charges of treason and incitement.

Oh, but Trump and his people are 'considering' legal action! I'm sure that is going to have CNN shaking in their boots.

I am getting increasingly disgusted with this admnistration ever day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 08:14 AM (Dg2sF)

131 Bruce, did Vance miss that one? Can she be fired now?
Posted by: Jonah at July 02, 2025 08:12 AM (YCxFk)

I believe, could be mistaken because it's all inside baseball government crap, that Thune would have to displace her. But moving forward I could see incoming VPs forcing the majority leader, if their party, to oust the parliamentarian and put in their choice.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (MGB5H)

132 and here I thought I understood the legislative process
Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (AOsQT)

You understand BOHICA? Then consider yourself a legislative process whiz

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (VPwHp)

133 With a secure border and a reality based immigration system, the country could accommodate a monitored, regulated, heavily supervised guest worker program.

How about Hell No.

We have far too many lazy ass teenagers, young adults, convicts, ne're do wells, bums and lowlifes that could use the discipline of a whip to the back in a summer field or slaughter house.

Its hard to maintain a crack habit when you have to spend a night in the box.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (a4flb)

134 Can we send the illegals to China?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (WIJBc)

135 126 One could have a lot of fun with the CNN ICE tracker.

Send the mob to 'interesting, challenging' locations.
Posted by: CapeFear at July 02, 2025 08:13 AM (IIY9P)

Anderson Cooper's converted Firehouse townhome on Bleecker Street in NYC!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (x0n13)

136 Via Insty, Newsome claims he grew up poor, mother had to work 2 plus jobs:

https://tinyurl.com/dzm3b7z3

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (p16cu)

137 I'm willing to bet that the 'farm workers' exculpation was intended to purchase the vote of Sen. Ron Johnson.

Yeah, I missed his explanation of why he switched.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (SfhV1)

138 Good morning!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (xYXPm)

139 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

Looking forward to this Independence Day.

The nation as founded by some exceptional man and women can still be seen under a lot of dross. For every argument that the US is flawed, I can cite two times as much data on other countries. We have advanced mankind in myriad way, and may that continue.

Elon Musk, get Starship into orbit and on to Mars.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

140 That means states cannot use federal Medicaid dollars to cover illegal immigrants, except in emergencies."

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM (g47mK)

Well, shit.
They spend most of their time in the ER, anyhow.

This will barely change anything.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)

141 56 From a purely pragmatic political perspective, allowing the farm & restaurant working illegals to stay is a good play.

Trump has mainly focused on deporting the criminals anyhow.

Does he want as many illegals out, violent criminals or not? Yes.

Does he want to hit the economy while doing it? No.”

Agree - and also, in the past, farm workers were a majority of illegals, but today they are not. The problem today are the hordes packed into the major cities like LA, soaking up government benefits, gaining political power. Focus there, farm workers can wait til the biggest part of the problem is fixed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:17 AM (0DdMG)

142 Thanks, but one can infer from this that the bigger the government/budget is the better off we are?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 07:45 AM (x0n13)

No. One can infer that we, as a nation, are no longer capable of accepting discomfort. In several states, government benefits pay better than starting jobs... so why work? Or, if you do work, do it under the table so you can "get your bag".

While it would be great to be able to snap our fingers and have everything fixed, it just won't happen. We have to wean the nation's over-18 infants off the federal teat. Sucks. The love of the Silent Generation, and the Greatest Generation, and the Boomers (and I say this as an end stage Boomer), for ever expanding government has royally fucked the nation and will require decades of hard work to recover. It remains to be seen if we can accomplish this.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

143 Had to look up this 'Elio' movie since I had not heard of it. Apparently, the outer space setting is called the "Communiverse."

Communiverse

Really.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 08:17 AM (MncNM)

144 @125 Don, actually the only other place that has alligators is China. The two alligator species are the American and the Chinese. The Chinese don't use theirs as guards however

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:17 AM (eBgDF)

145 So, illegals will not get Medicaid anymore - that's in the bill.

Apparently, the Senate, in its infinite wisdom, had an amendment to get folks on record on the issue that had nothing to do with changing the bill. That's what failed 56-44. Stupid messaging but I guess in 2026, they want exact voting on the single issue to sell.

So, the bill keeps me from a huge tax hike this year (and now permanently vs 2017's cuts), it gets illegals off Medicaid and other government services, and gives Trump the ability and money to keep kicking them out - more wins then we've had in ages in Washington.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 08:19 AM (tOcjL)

146 >>>Lets just admit it. The US is a slave labor camp no better than China.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

>But it's not just illegals who have committed to slavery. I work with people who put in 60 hours a week. Fucking crazy.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm going to become rich doing what I do, living where I live.

Quality of life and family is more important than wealth.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 08:19 AM (a/G0f)

147 136 Via Insty, Newsome claims he grew up poor, mother had to work 2 plus jobs:

https://tinyurl.com/dzm3b7z3
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (p16cu)

Yeah he left out the part about his father was the manager of the J. Paul Getty Estate, and quite wealthy himself. Oh poor little Gavin!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:19 AM (0DdMG)

148 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:19 AM (H7X8V)

149 and here I thought I understood the legislative process
Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (AOsQT)

Here you go . . .
https://youtu.be/SZ8psP4S6BQ

Posted by: I'm Just A Bill, Schoolhouse Rock at July 02, 2025 08:19 AM (wVcYX)

150 144 I think the Chinese alligator is almost extinct. Cause the commies love nature so much.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

151 Today Is World UFO Day. 🛸

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

152 I am getting increasingly disgusted with this admnistration ever day.

Its the do nothing DOJ that you should be pissed off at.

Bondi, Patel and Bongino are incompetent frauds and should be run out as soon as possible for their do-nothing malfeasance and misuse of resources.

Hoping that DeSantis, when he terms out as governor will be the first functional AG America has had in at least three decades.

I saw the DOJ website. Considering the number of salaried staff, their accomplishments are far less than a major US city's own DOJ.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:21 AM (a4flb)

153 Yeah he left out the part about his father was the manager of the J. Paul Getty Estate, and quite wealthy himself. Oh poor little Gavin!
Posted by: Tom Servo

Wait until you hear that he was born a poor black child.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 08:22 AM (+4yJ5)

154 What happened to the "not"? dammit!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 08:22 AM (a/G0f)

155 I hate the GOP and they hate me too. I hate having to settle.
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

Failure theater.

On the one hand, I don't believe that a single Republican voted against the measure to end Medicaid for illegals. OTOH, they didn't vote to overrule the Parliamentarian either.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

156 My thoughts on the "ICETracker" app and CNN is this; if someone built a "FedTracker" that tracked and DOXX'd politicians it'd be removed in seconds, the developers arrested and jailed, and legislation passed in record time to make such an app illegal.

Someone should make one anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 02, 2025 08:22 AM (Q4IgG)

157 Wait until you hear that he was born a poor black child.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 08:22 AM

In the ghetto.......in the ghetto

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 08:23 AM (MGB5H)

158 I thought you retired. Are you still writing those prescriptions or something like that?
Posted by: dantesed at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM (Oy/m2)

Medical transcriptionist. And I was supposed to be retired, but I had an unexpected budget hiccup last year. I'm hoping to retire for good at the end of this year.

And I'd better get back to work. I don't need to bother all of you with my political bile today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 08:23 AM (Dg2sF)

159 Hey - you try running a cabinet level department out of the Fox News green room!

Posted by: Pam Blondi at July 02, 2025 08:24 AM (XQo4F)

160 I saw the DOJ website. Considering the number of salaried staff, their accomplishments are far less than a major US city's own DOJ.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:21 AM (a4flb)

They have had to defend EVERY SINGLE lawfare court case brought against Trump's EOs and deportations with half the staff of the last admin...so it's hard to start new things when you're run every direction every minute...when they get some new hires, they'll have the time to pursue some of Trump's proactive law goals...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 08:24 AM (tOcjL)

161 "Don't Fire Until you see the Whites"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 08:14 AM (x0n13)

Of they eye...?

Of *who* eye?

Fear of a Black Hat.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 08:25 AM (VPwHp)

162 Does the bad outweigh the good?

Or is this another "we are raising taxes and taking away deductions, but we named a building after Ronald Reagan" thing?

From what I'm reading, if this is merely a political and not strategic victory, then this has all been a waste of time.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 08:25 AM (vakLI)

163 150 144 I think the Chinese alligator is almost extinct. Cause the commies love nature so much.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

Who has time for ugly alligators when you’re trying to save the cutest animal ambassador you have - the panda 🐼 - if you’ve ever watched some of Ace’s panda videos you can figure out very quickly why they’re almost extinct.

Besides, they probably ate all the Chinese alligators with their bat soup decades ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 08:26 AM (6ydKt)

164 @155, Susan Collins voted against stripping illegals from Medicaid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:26 AM (eBgDF)

165 So, the bill keeps me from a huge tax hike this year (and now permanently vs 2017's cuts), it gets illegals off Medicaid and other government services, and gives Trump the ability and money to keep kicking them out - more wins then we've had in ages in Washington.

Given this Congress, I seriously doubt that illegals are off of Medicaid.

I am happy that I'm not looking at massive tax hikes and that the only functioning appointment by Trump other than RFK, Tom Homan, is going to get a huge boost in help.

I'll take the wins. I expect treachery and sedition by Congress. Totally surprised we even got what we did.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:26 AM (a4flb)

166 Most farm workers from Mexico aren't illegals. They have the right paperwork because the farm that hires them handles that stuff. Work the season, leave when you're done. "Only Illegals pick lettuce" is a fake meme from the swamp meant to manipulate the public. Illegals who live here year round don't pick lettuce, they go live in cities and suburbs and work in the service industry.

No one is gonna starve if we kick out illegals. It's a meaningless distraction. So lean into it and use their meaningless distraction against them at no risk. It's a cheap win.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 08:26 AM (BjH5D)

167 Yeah, I missed his explanation of why he switched.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (SfhV1)
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He always said he was going to support the bill to avoid the ginormous tax increase that would have happened if it failed, but he intended to fight as hard as possible for spending cuts

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 08:27 AM (9gFbO)

168 Giant pandas deserve to go extinct. What a sorry excuse for a “bear.”

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:28 AM (77rzZ)

169 Via Insty, Newsome claims he grew up poor, mother had to work 2 plus jobs:

https://tinyurl.com/dzm3b7z3
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 08:15 AM (p16cu)

Yeah he left out the part about his father was the manager of the J. Paul Getty Estate, and quite wealthy himself. Oh poor little Gavin!
Posted by: Tom Servo

Sounds like he's trying to build a narrative for a POTUS run.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 08:28 AM (Ul4ZN)

170 Warai, did you find a parasol?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:28 AM (HFcKg)

171 Schoolhouse Rock never prepared me for this shit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 08:28 AM (vakLI)

172 >>This Saturday, July 5 will mark 50 years of independence from Portugal for the country of Cabo Verde, an archipelago off the coast of West Africa with a large diaspora in southeastern Massachusetts.

This comes just as New Bedford kicks off its first-ever Cabo Verdean Heritage Month.

UGH

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 08:28 AM (VVnrT)

173 Are we sure the moat-sugar trap story by that goatfucker isn’t real? Because I’d be ok if it was. Just saying.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:28 AM (n5P77)

174 Bribe the votes we want.

Bribery, if done for the long term benefit of the American people, is illegal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

175 He always said he was going to support the bill to avoid the ginormous tax increase that would have happened if it failed, but he intended to fight as hard as possible for spending cuts

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 08:27 AM (9gFbO)

Thanks Huck. I was under the impression that he was a NO, which made me a little bit ticked off.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 02, 2025 08:29 AM (SfhV1)

176 What Rubio did with USAID is a big win..

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 08:29 AM (PCK5/)

177 "Don, actually the only other place that has alligators is China. The two alligator species are the American and the Chinese. The Chinese don't use theirs as guards however."

Also Mandarin Chinese and English are two of the only languages that have the "-er" phoneme. As in number, letter, grifter. It's weird that less than 1% of global languages use this sound... But the two most widely spoken languages on the planet do.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 08:29 AM (MncNM)

178 They have had to defend EVERY SINGLE lawfare court case brought against Trump's EOs and deportations with half the staff of the last admin...so it's hard to start new things when you're run every direction every minute...when they get some new hires, they'll have the time to pursue some of Trump's proactive law goals...

Out of curiosity, I really don't know, can't the DOJ sub-contract out to private law firms until they can restaff to previously funded levels?

I would bet that there are some junk yard dogs who would go Medieval on some well deserving DOJ targets if just aimed in the right direction and had their invoices honored.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:29 AM (a4flb)

179 Why are we paying taxes at all? Shouldn't the United States of America Incorporated be paying us dividends?

How many United States citizens are landowners?

The answer should be 100%.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 08:30 AM (a/G0f)

180 It’s “Cape” Verde, dammit!

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

181 Bright side to the BBB........maybe fiscal collapse of society will be less violent than the cultural/political violence the left is eventually going to drag us into(?)

I think we're in a race to see which one happens first. When shit hits the fan then we'll only have to worry about food n ammo.

I dunno. I'm more concerned about violent lunatics of the left being suppressed and dealt with than balancing a budget.

I hope we have a country left so that we can worry about spending.

Posted by: JROD at July 02, 2025 08:30 AM (IlL6s)

182 Susan Collins voted against stripping illegals from Medicaid
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:26 AM (eBgDF)
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She said it was to keep remote Maine hospitals solvent. Her argument was they were required by law to give the medical care snd at least Medicaid was getting them paid (at least in part) afterwards.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 08:30 AM (9gFbO)

183 The US is a slave labor camp no better than China.

How many people sneak across the Chinese border to work in one of their slave factories?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

184 Looks like we get to eat another shit sandwich. We’ve kicked the can down the road with our debt to where there’s no road left. Jerome Powell will do anything to hurt President Trump, and lawfare will slow down his agenda.
The Republicans better hold congress in 2026 or it’s going to be impeach-a-rama. Even with all his success, the president’s opposition remains strong. You’d think our political leaders would embrace a more positive approach to legislating.

Posted by: Unkaren at July 02, 2025 08:30 AM (J4BK5)

185 Pandas are delicious.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:30 AM (WIJBc)

186 >>By saying we’re going to tolerate illegal immigration, it destroys Trump’s credibility, the credibility of enforcement, and takes what is a legal system and basically makes it meaningless.’

Pretty sure farm and hotel workers can be rapists, robbers and murderers, too.

And are these really jobs Americans -- or advanced farming equipment -- won't do?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 08:30 AM (VVnrT)

187 The Left will never listen. The MSM insist on not listening except their love for the sound of the clicking of Matt Lauer's famous "locking door." The TechRat Oligarchs only listen to the sound of their net worths shooting up like rockets. And Congress, the best that money can buy, STILL are not listening. And the GOPe. . . . .well, time to pound their ears open

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & the Body Polytick at July 02, 2025 08:31 AM (HeR4S)

188 What Rubio did with USAID is a big win..

Every time I see Rubio, I'm glad that he is our SoS.

I'm willing to give him all kinds of room considering the composition of the State Department is nearly 100% Anti-American communists.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:31 AM (a4flb)

189 Oh, what a revelation. Look, it's never been a secret among our elites that Harvey Weinstein is a predatory pervert. The Obamas still sent their daughter to him as an "intern."

Those two don't care about kids. They're props to them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 08:31 AM (BI5O2)

190 "No I have not read the bill but a handfull of retarded "conservative" influencers don't like it so neither do I."
Seems to be the trend around here

Posted by: Cmonman at July 02, 2025 08:31 AM (LBrhR)

191 >>She said it was to keep remote Maine hospitals solvent. Her argument was they were required by law to give the medical care snd at least Medicaid was getting them paid (at least in part) afterwards.

Make the federal government pay for Somali healthcare in Maine!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 08:32 AM (VVnrT)

192 Sugar is bad mkay.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:32 AM (WIJBc)

193 China has alligators? Who knew...

I bet theirs are just poor quality mass manufactured copies.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 08:32 AM (9gFbO)

194 Warai, did you find a parasol?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:28 AM (HFcKg)

Not yet, haven't had a chance to really look

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 08:32 AM (m4XnY)

195 The BBB which passed does contain a bar against illegals getting Medicaid. So if this bill passes the House they are barred

So, how did they get around the Parliamentarian?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

196 171 Schoolhouse Rock never prepared me for this shit.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 08:28 AM (vakLI)

I'm just a bill.
Yes, I'm only a bill.
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law someday
At least I hope and pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 08:33 AM (6ydKt)

197
Out of curiosity, I really don't know, can't the DOJ sub-contract out to private law firms until they can restaff to previously funded levels?

I would bet that there are some junk yard dogs who would go Medieval on some well deserving DOJ targets if just aimed in the right direction and had their invoices honored.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:29 AM (a4flb)

There can contract out certain work (like editing and creating docs)...but Congress delegated certain tasks to DOJ only, so most of their work must be done by them...if it involves court (which all this stuff does) and representing the USA, that tends to be in the no-no category...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 08:33 AM (tOcjL)

198 Well, shit.
They spend most of their time in the ER, anyhow.

This will barely change anything.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)

yes, ERs are overwhelmed. But those who have official medicaid cards go way beyond that. Full medical services. That are meant for US citizens, at private clinincs etc.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:33 AM (g47mK)

199 Rubio, Homan, Noem and Bessent are the Bright Lights I see in the gloom…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 08:33 AM (PCK5/)

200 Posted by: Cmonman at July 02, 2025 08:31 AM (LBrhR)

J.J. isn't retarded, dick.

And I'm betting you didn't read the fucking thing either.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 08:33 AM (vakLI)

201 I didn't vote for the Parliamentarian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:34 AM (WIJBc)

202 Those two don't care about kids. They're props to them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 08:31 AM (BI5O2)

"punished with a baby"

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 08:34 AM (VPwHp)

203 The BBB which passed does contain a bar against illegals getting Medicaid. So if this bill passes the House they are barred

So, how did they get around the Parliamentarian?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

The ol' alley-oop play.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2025 08:34 AM (wVcYX)

204 You’d think our political leaders would embrace a more positive approach to legislating.

They are very positive. They hate Americans, they hate the Constitution and they are positively acting according to their own lizard brained motives.

Their foreign sponsors and donors are very pleased with the Congress' daily treachery against their enemy, We The People.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)

205 There were alligators throughout Malaya and Indonesia. Not just China.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 02, 2025 08:34 AM (p16cu)

206 195 The BBB which passed does contain a bar against illegals getting Medicaid. So if this bill passes the House they are barred

So, how did they get around the Parliamentarian?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

Rewrote the language to address her exact concern. That was always the backup plan.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 02, 2025 08:34 AM (tOcjL)

207 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 02, 2025 08:35 AM (53oGX)

208 So we absolutely had to pass this monstrosity because MAGA!

I saw a good theory or wish that, they pass this monster, Trump signs it, and then- because he is the Executive branch- decides line-by-line what he's going to spend.

That would be a battle royale.

Posted by: t-bird at July 02, 2025 08:35 AM (pvvko)

209 Make the federal government pay for Somali healthcare in Maine!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 08:32 AM (VVnrT)
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I think that about sums it up.

If the Feds permit illegals in huge numbers somebody has to buy them medical care and other stuff, so .... the Feds!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 08:36 AM (l/90o)

210 How many United States citizens are landowners?

The answer should be 100%.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

The correct answer is "zero".

Don't pay your property taxes and see how long you get to keep it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 08:36 AM (Ul4ZN)

211 @195 either they ignored her or she wasn't asked about it being there. The parliamentarian is advisory, she can be ignored or overruled by the VP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:36 AM (eBgDF)

212 >>Paramount/CBS has settled the Trump lawsuit. Will pay 30M$ and also includes a new rule requiring unedited transcripts of future candidate interviews.

Ha!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 08:37 AM (VVnrT)

213 I get the sense that "Parliamentarian" is a lot like "Secretary of Transportation".

If people know who you are, it means you're screwing up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 08:37 AM (BjH5D)

214 Rubio, Homan, Noem and Bessent are the Bright Lights I see in the gloom…

I've heard Bessent's sick burnz against the Enemedia talking heads and the Democrat idiots who try to box him in.

The propaganda outlets, having information dominance, doesn't allow me to see how effective his policies are, nor is any politician, "expert" or panelist honest about representing or explaining the policies.

So jury is till out for me.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:37 AM (a4flb)

215 Can't they just arrest the moochers at the ER.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:37 AM (WIJBc)

216 How many United States citizens are landowners?

The answer should be 100%.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

The correct answer is "zero".

Don't pay your property taxes and see how long you get to keep it.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 08:36 AM (Ul4ZN)

Or thanks to Kelo, the govt can just decide to take it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 08:37 AM (vakLI)

217 Kash Patel is moving the FBI into the vacated USAID offices.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 08:38 AM (jihnf)

218 Are you kidding me? what is the alternative?
Posted by: Jonah at July 02, 2025 08:07 AM (YCxFk)

The GOP has been running on "we're ever so slightly better than the Dems" for decades. That's why WE don't get wins. Democrats don't run on "we're a little better (from a lefty perspective) than Republicans", they run on "we're going to fuck everything up and steal from the normies to give to you pieces of shit".

The trajectory we're on, it all fall apart. Voting GOPe buys us another week.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

219 >>>I'm open to any reasonable argument as to why.
~~~~~

I'm not going to say you're wrong because there is a massive amount of spending in the BBB. However, I do believe that we're about to see incredible growth in our economy--we're seeing some already--and that's what will get us out of this mess.

Just yesterday I read that President Trump said he will not refinance the debt that is coming due at the usual 10-year term. He will insist on a very short term because he knows once he gets rid of Powell, rates will be coming down quickly.

We've got a true businessman at the helm now and the country is thriving as never before.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 02, 2025 08:38 AM (3ImbR)

220 So, how did they get around the Parliamentarian?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Rewrote the language to address her exact concern. That was always the backup plan.
Posted by: Nova Local

"You're fired" is better language.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 08:38 AM (Ul4ZN)

221 China has alligators? Who knew...

I bet theirs are just poor quality mass manufactured copies.

Here's your salamander!

Posted by: t-bird at July 02, 2025 08:38 AM (Vm5SY)

222 yes, ERs are overwhelmed. But those who have official medicaid cards go way beyond that. Full medical services. That are meant for US citizens, at private clinincs etc.
Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:33 AM (g47mK)

I hate to be the pessimist but I have complete faith that the Dems will find every loophole and legal maneuver they can use to make this meaningless.

I’m also waiting on President Judge Boasberg to issue an injunction any minute now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 08:38 AM (6ydKt)

223 "Mail-in ballots are dangerously vulnerable. We must return to requiring a legitimate reason to vote absentee.
The Life Cycle of a Mail-In Ballot"

How did millions of votes for FJB in 2020 vanish in 2024 for Kamala? The article provides a clue.

"According to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Election Data Science Lab, in 2018, mail-in ballots constituted about 22% of votes in America. In 2020, with COVID, it doubled to above 45%.

There were 154.6 million votes cast in 2020, which means 69.6 million of them were mail-in ballots. That is a tremendous number of ballots to be processed outside the voters’ hands, go through those 18 steps, and be handled by multiple volunteers and officials before they are cast."

Posted by: Gref at July 02, 2025 08:39 AM (aBgBM)

224 either they ignored her or she wasn't asked about it being there. The parliamentarian is advisory, she can be ignored or overruled by the VP

What was JD Vance doing that was so damned important that he couldn't be bothered with overruling Lizzy's dismantling of the BBB?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:40 AM (a4flb)

225 The GOP, nothing. But Trump is still working on effectively taking over the GOP, and he needs your vote still.
Consider this: we already know tha Mitch, Tillis, and likely Cornyn are gone in ‘26. That’s going to be a nice change.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM (0DdMG)

Oh, I will vote GOP in '26. Hopefully, I can help get Paxton into the Senate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

226 151 Today Is World UFO Day. 🛸
Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

MUFON >>> MOVE ON dot ORG

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 08:40 AM (x0n13)

227 Boasberg is Babylonian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:41 AM (WIJBc)

228 The trajectory we're on, it all fall apart. Voting GOPe buys us another week.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e

And don't forget the part where they deliberately spike Trump's agenda and lose in midterms. I'd also expect a rash of retirements next year, since everything we're seeing from them is literally a note for note cover of the tune they played in 2017.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 08:41 AM (BI5O2)

229 Chuck Schumer's Mohel and Trichologist

I don't know about his trichology skills, but his mohel skills are top-notch, given how little he had to work with.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:42 AM (0sNs1)

230 That means states cannot use federal Medicaid dollars to cover illegal immigrants

So states will use federal Medicaid dollars to cover citizens and state Medicaid dollars to cover illegals. It's all for show.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

231 Boasberg is Babylonian.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:41 AM

I wonder how he took it when SCOTUS told him he wasn't god king of the universe.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 08:42 AM (MGB5H)

232 227 Boasberg is Babylonian

But he moved to Arizona.

Posted by: Like King Tut at July 02, 2025 08:42 AM (XQo4F)

233 Rewrote the language to address her exact concern. That was always the backup plan.

They could have stuffed more cash into an envelope too.

I would rather have to pay a few million in additional bribes than pay a few billion because we didn't.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:42 AM (a4flb)

234 And don't forget the part where they deliberately spike Trump's agenda and lose in midterms. I'd also expect a rash of retirements next year, since everything we're seeing from them is literally a note for note cover of the tune they played in 2017.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 08:41 AM

Why mess with success?

Posted by: GOPe at July 02, 2025 08:43 AM (0sNs1)

235 221 China has alligators? Who knew...

I bet theirs are just poor quality mass manufactured copies.

Here's your salamander!
Posted by: t-bird at July 02, 2025 08:38 AM (Vm5SY)

Pangorin >>> Arrigatol! Pooh Pooh Prattel Xi!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 08:43 AM (x0n13)

236 Boasberg is Babylonian.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:41 AM (WIJBc)

Born in Arizona
Moved to Babylonia (King Tut)

Dancin' by the Nile (Disco Tut)
The ladies love his style (Boss Tut)
Rockin for a mile (Rockin' Tut)
He ate a crocodile (Ooh)

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2025 08:43 AM (wVcYX)

237 What confounds the left about Alligator Alcatraz (Allegatraz?) is that Trump and DeSantis were able to get it up and operational in a week. I everyone on the left was sure there would be at least a year of environmental impact statements, then several months of bidding and rebidding, and then 3 - 4 years of construction with multiple requests for more money.
How dare Trump and DeSantis just go out and get it built!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:44 AM (Lhvai)

238 You turned off your Italics tag. I hope that catches on.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:44 AM (WIJBc)

239 Was the no tax on social security part of the tax cut?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:44 AM (HFcKg)

240 Oh, I will vote GOP in '26. Hopefully, I can help get Paxton into the Senate.

That seems like a worthy cause, get that piece of shit Cornhole out of the senior senator role.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:44 AM (a4flb)

241 What confounds the left about Alligator Alcatraz (Allegatraz?) is that Trump and DeSantis were able to get it up and operational in a week. I everyone on the left was sure there would be at least a year of environmental impact statements, then several months of bidding and rebidding, and then 3 - 4 years of construction with multiple requests for more money.
How dare Trump and DeSantis just go out and get it built!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:44 AM (Lhvai)

Kinda like a bridge after a hurricane.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 08:44 AM (MGB5H)

242 >>Zhi Alan Cheng — a Queens doctor who has been held in jail without bail since 2022, when he was arrested — pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and three counts of sexual abuse on Monday, according to a report by the New York Post.

"After obtaining a search warrant for the doctor’s home, authorities discovered several horrifying videos, including footage featuring Cheng groping sedated women as young as 19 in the hospital, the New York Post reported.

Additional footage showed the gastroenterologist raping unconscious women — who appeared to be drugged — in his home, with some of the victims being people who had met him from dating apps.

Cocaine, fentanyl, ketamine, LSD, MDMA, as well as propofol and sevoflurane — drugs used for sedation — were also found in Cheng’s apartment, prosecutors said."

Yiiiikes!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 08:44 AM (VVnrT)

243 Section 112030: it looks like they will only eliminate the NFA tax on silencers. Nothing else.

They need to fix that in reconciliation. It should be all NFA items.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 02, 2025 08:45 AM (Qgg5f)

244 227 Boasberg is Babylonian.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:41 AM (WIJBc)

Isn't Penn State U in Baosberg Pa? /S

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 08:45 AM (x0n13)

245 We've got a true businessman at the helm now and the country is thriving as never before.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 02, 2025 08:38 AM (3ImbR)

--

My concern is that government is not a business. He certainly understands the concerns of businesses. That said, businesses aren't able to vote themselves more revenue.

I'm being flippant, granted.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 08:45 AM (vakLI)

246 What was JD Vance doing that was so damned important that he couldn't be bothered with overruling Lizzy's dismantling of the BBB?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 02, 2025 08:40 AM (a4flb)

He was busy not doing that because it's a completely unnecessary battle it would be utterly stupid to wade into.

The bill doesn't matter. It could be fifty thousand pages of Wesley Willis lyrics printed over and over. It could be one page saying "mitch mcconnell is a fag". Legislation means nothing right now. Fight the war where it matters, in the judiciary and in the executive. The only victory to be had from congress is the public perception boost of getting a bill passed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 08:45 AM (BjH5D)

247 >> After obtaining a search warrant for the doctor’s home,

They should have just lit that m’fer on fire.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 02, 2025 08:46 AM (Qgg5f)

248 " I everyone on the left was sure there would be at least a year of environmental impact statements, then several months of bidding and rebidding, and then 3 - 4 years of construction with multiple requests for more money."

I'm not a wacko environmentalist by any means but I do wonder where all the sewage is going to go when that place is fully occupied.

Posted by: pawn at July 02, 2025 08:47 AM (QB+5g)

249 Don, actually the only other place that has alligators is China. The two alligator species are the American and the Chinese. The Chinese don't use theirs as guards however
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:17 AM (eBgDF)

Being Chinese, I assume they eat their penises as an aphrodisiac.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:47 AM (ExV1e)

250 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2025 08:47 AM (RIvkX)

251
Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
Elon Musk gives President Trump credit for making peace.

https://tinyurl.com/2zdswnxp

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

252 Lithuania tells Chinese Diplomats you go now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 08:48 AM (WIJBc)

253 229 Chuck Schumer's Mohel and Trichologist

I don't know about his trichology skills, but his mohel skills are top-notch, given how little he had to work with.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:42 AM (0sNs1)

Old Yeller Levin always rags on his hair transplant as "Cornrows"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 08:49 AM (x0n13)

254 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

From above, 'July in Boston will now be Cabo Verde Independence Month.'

Front Page, "In 2019, future Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson, a former illegal alien, became an American citizen." Why & how? Marriage. To Tanzerious Anderson, in jail for murder in the first degree, armed robbery and illegal possession of a firearm. (Wikipedia)

That's not half of it. She's also a non-profit executive and, reportedly, a foster mother to 17 children!

Her political career is/was (seems she might have just resigned) unspeakable...in a bad way, and the citizenry of Boston took that BS for ages.

Cape Verde became independent from Portugal in 1975, and since the early 1990s, has been a stable representative democracy, remaining one of the most developed and democratic countries in Africa.
Tania (nee Fernandes) Anderson was born in 1979. Why was she even in the US illegally?

The List for her, too!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 02, 2025 08:49 AM (NFX2v)

255 Its the do nothing DOJ that you should be pissed off at.

https://www.justice.gov/news

People keep complaining about the "do nothing DOJ" but it just isn't true.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

256 Gotta say, J. D. Vance seems to be the busiest Vice President of my lifetime.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

257 And don't forget the part where they deliberately spike Trump's agenda and lose in midterms. I'd also expect a rash of retirements next year, since everything we're seeing from them is literally a note for note cover of the tune they played in 2017.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 02, 2025 08:41 AM (BI5O2)

Trump and the country desperately need the tax cuts to be made permanent, otherwise the economy tanks and Trump loses the rest of his term to economic upheaval. That’s in the BBB.
It’s welcome to be able to do more than that, but not as vital to survival.
After this, it won’t really matter what Congress does the rest of the term. There are things that would be very nice for them to do, but thanks to good appointments, many can now be handled through the agencies is now possible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:50 AM (Lhvai)

258 At Post Millennial: "USAID officially dead, international aid will now flow from State Department"

Oh, good. So glad that's 'fixed' now.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 02, 2025 08:50 AM (xYXPm)

259 UPenn reinstated the proper record holders for their women's swim team HOWEVER they included this: NOTE: Competing under eligibility rules in effect at the time, Lia Thomas set program records in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle during the 2021-22 season,

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 08:50 AM (MGB5H)

260 I'm not a wacko environmentalist by any means but I do wonder where all the sewage is going to go when that place is fully occupied.
Posted by: pawn

55 gallon drum burn barrels.
If it's good enough for our military, it's damn sure good enough for some wetbacks.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 08:51 AM (Ul4ZN)

261 >>'We need to get somebody from the middle east or who is Arab on our board,' wrote Shipman. 'Quickly I think.'

*eye roll*

Yeah, that will totally clear up any notions that Columbia sides with the anti-Israel Pali protesters.
Sure!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 08:51 AM (VVnrT)

262 Mohel?

https://youtu.be/Zy-URspwUGA

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at July 02, 2025 08:51 AM (XQo4F)

263 Susan Collins voted against stripping illegals from Medicaid
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:26 AM (eBgDF)

Ah. Because of course she did.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

264 "No I have not read the bill but a handfull of retarded "conservative" influencers don't like it so neither do I."
Seems to be the trend around here
Posted by: Cmonman at July 02, 2025 08:31 AM (LBrhR)

I don't like the title "Big Beautiful Bill." I am sick unto death of this sort of silliness.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 08:51 AM (Dg2sF)

265 Gavin Newsom was Titty Caca's landlord in Bronx/ Westchester!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 08:52 AM (x0n13)

266 Well, damn. That's certainly "a take."

"The OBBB was just a renamed Democrat bill and the Democrats loved everything about it and that's why ... they all voted against it."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 08:52 AM (MtMvg)

267 Just when you think you've heard it all, this shows up: F-35s cannot carry external fuel tanks! Drop or CFTs.

https://tinyurl.com/3dwku7kc

"Range-extending external fuel tanks for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have re-emerged as part of the ongoing Block 4 modernization effort for those aircraft, years after a requirement for streamlined drop tanks was eliminated. More recently, the Israelis reportedly did additional work on drop tanks, as well as conformal fuel tanks (CFT), for the F-35I variant. External tanks could be especially important for carrier-based F-35Cs in service with the U.S. Navy, now that the service’s plans for a longer-ranged F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter are set to be put on hold.

"The U.S. Air Force is requesting funds to explore adding external fuel tanks to the F-35 in its proposed budget for the 2026 Fiscal Year. The current combat radius of the land-based F-35A is generally stated to be around 670 nautical miles (close to 1,241 kilometers). The reach of the carrier-based F-35C variant is slightly longer, while that of the short-takeoff and vertical-landing capable F-35B version is significantly shorter. All F-35s can also be refueled in flight."

Posted by: Gref at July 02, 2025 08:52 AM (aBgBM)

268 >>Gotta say, J. D. Vance seems to be the busiest Vice President of my lifetime.

Wonderful, isn't it? He's running with it, and doing so much. Love his X comments.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 08:53 AM (VVnrT)

269 Was the no tax on social security part of the tax cut?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:44 AM (HFcKg)
~~~~~

Hi Ben. It's not a straight "no tax," but additional deductions so that 88% of seniors will no longer be taxed. See here:

https://tinyurl.com/yc3tmytd

Posted by: IrishEi at July 02, 2025 08:54 AM (3ImbR)

270 264 "No I have not read the bill but a handfull of retarded "conservative" influencers don't like it so neither do I."
Seems to be the trend around here
Posted by: Cmonman at July 02, 2025 08:31 AM (LBrhR)

I don't like the title "Big Beautiful Bill." I am sick unto death of this sort of silliness.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 08:51 AM (Dg2sF)

Hyperbole should be used judiciously…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 08:54 AM (PCK5/)

271 I don't like the title "Big Beautiful Bill." I am sick unto death of this sort of silliness.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

But it's huuuuuge!

Posted by: And bigly at July 02, 2025 08:54 AM (XQo4F)

272 Her argument was they were required by law to give the medical care snd at least Medicaid was getting them paid (at least in part) afterwards.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 08:30 AM (9gFbO)

Honestly, not an unreasonable argument.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

273 My mohel scaled the mountain.

He retired the very next day.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 08:55 AM (a/G0f)

274 But it's huuuuuge!
Posted by: And bigly at July 02, 2025 08:54 AM (XQo4F)

AOS Style Guide says it needs to be spelled with a y: “yuuuuge”

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 08:56 AM (Mxf84)

275 C’mon, MP4, that’s just Trump’s way. Part of his larger-than-life persona.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

276 Irish Ei. Thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:56 AM (HFcKg)

277 Survival Level tasks required for Trump when he was inaugurated:
1) Cleaning up and reforming Pentagon, State Dept, DOJ, FBI, CIA - failing to do this well cost Trump his first term.
2) catching a break from SCOTUS limiting the lawfare - this just happened, still work to do.
3) dealing with foreign threats around the world , and ending at least some wars - extremely successful.
4) stopping and reversing the flood of immigrants - his best success.
5) extending the tax cuts and saving the economy - BBB with all of its flaws does that.

Of course there are very many other things that can and should be done, but after those they’re just icing on the cake.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:57 AM (0DdMG)

278 We harvested our crops for decades with the help of seasonal laborers. What changed?

And good morning.

Posted by: creeper at July 02, 2025 08:57 AM (zFwIe)

279 I don't like the title "Big Beautiful Bill." I am sick unto death of this sort of silliness.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
~~~~~

Agree that it's a bit silly, but I like it because the dems hate it. Especially Schumer, who went so far as to force a name change just before Vance broke the tie. But it will always be the Big Beautiful Bill to us--just like the "Affordable Care Act" will forever be Obamacare.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 02, 2025 08:58 AM (3ImbR)

280 You should add Harmeet Dhillon to that list of shining lights.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 02, 2025 08:58 AM (AcTAo)

281 >China. The two alligator species are the American and the Chinese. The Chinese don't use theirs as guards however
----

Good old Yankee ingenuity

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 08:58 AM (AOsQT)

282 How much medical training does a mohel need to have?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

283 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
President Trump drops the hammer saying he will not let Communist Lunatic Zohran Mamdani destroy NYC:

“I’ll save New York City and make it “Hot” and “Great” again, just like I did with the Good Ol’ USA!”

https://tinyurl.com/57w9c48x

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

284 …saving the economy…
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:57 AM (0DdMG)

Remains to be seen - the economy needs to grow to outpace our debt obligation. I’m hopeful, but it’s not certain.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 08:59 AM (Mxf84)

285 @277 Tom, good list. I'd add unfucking our energy policy because energy is everything

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 08:59 AM (eBgDF)

286 “Women’s reproductive health is about our life. It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life. It’s a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that’s producing it—if you want to whittle us down to a machine—if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two,” Michelle Obama said.

Incoherent, as usual.

If I had to pick a word to describe Michelle Obama, it would be "ungrateful." The key to happiness is gratitude -- something she appears incapable of felling.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 09:00 AM (VVnrT)

287 It's not going to happen. Any member of Congress who voted to do it would lose their seat. While I join your unhappiness with going even further into debt, we didn't get in this mess overnight, we won't escape overnight.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

The Democrats joyfully sacrificed 63 House and 6 Senate seats to pass Obamacare. They KNEW they get destroyed in the following election, but did it anyway, because they are true believers. They were willing to sacrifice their careers to do something they believed bettered the nation.

The Republicans don't have any true believers. None of them are willing to joyfully sacrifice their Congressional seat in order to better the nation.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 02, 2025 09:01 AM (fCgdX)

288 Old Yeller Levin always rags on his hair transplant as "Cornrows"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 08:49 AM (x0n13)
~~~~~

I thought he looked like he had more hair! So the old geezer really did have a transplant.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 02, 2025 09:01 AM (3ImbR)

289 We harvested our crops for decades with the help of seasonal laborers. What changed?

And good morning.
Posted by: creeper at July 02, 2025 08:57 AM (zFwIe)

As far as i can tell, nothing.

It's just more chaff and distraction from the usual crooked manipulators. "If we don't let illegals in we'll starve!" Nonsense. Just about every motto they have that boils down to "if we do the obvious and sensible thing you want to do, bad things will happen" can typically be assumed to be based on some lie or another. It's what cults and manipulators always do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 09:01 AM (BjH5D)

290 He only took tips.

Posted by: Just the punchline at July 02, 2025 09:01 AM (XQo4F)

291 I saw a good theory or wish that, they pass this monster, Trump signs it, and then- because he is the Executive branch- decides line-by-line what he's going to spend.

I think that depends on the wording. If the bill says "shall spend", then federal law requires him to spend the money. If it says "may spend up to", which is what it should say, then he doesn't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

292 A corollary to the saying “hard times create hard men, etc.”: Hard times create war in the Middle East, hard men create war in the Middle East, good times create war in the Middle East, and soft people create War in the Middle East.”

(We're currently in the war in the Middle East part of the cycle)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 09:02 AM (Lhvai)

293 The Democrats joyfully sacrificed 63 House and 6 Senate seats to pass Obamacare. They KNEW they get destroyed in the following election, but did it anyway, because they are true believers. They were willing to sacrifice their careers to do something they believed bettered the nation.

The Republicans don't have any true believers. None of them are willing to joyfully sacrifice their Congressional seat in order to better the nation.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 02, 2025 09:01 AM (fCgdX)

The Dems also take care of their own, the Repubs just say "well sorry boutcha"

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 09:02 AM (MGB5H)

294 Yiiiikes!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 08:44 AM (VVnrT)

He could be the next Mayor of NYC

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 09:03 AM (VPwHp)

295 If I had to pick a word to describe Michelle Obama, it would be "ungrateful." The key to happiness is gratitude -- something she appears incapable of felling.
Posted by: Lizzy

Incoherent.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 09:04 AM (Ul4ZN)

296 BBB just got slapped on as a nickname after Trump said he didn’t want numerous spending bills, because he knew it would take forever to go through, be butchers in committee and the Dems would filibuster every one of them.

So he said: “Let’s just do one big beautiful bill.”
And it stuck.

I have no idea if that’s the actual title of the legislation or if they just keep calling it the BBB.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 09:04 AM (6ydKt)

297 It really is amazing how, relying upon a media that hates Trump, hates Republicans, and hates conservatives, folks still believe themselves informed about what OBBB does or does not do.

Better to throw a Massie-tantrum and vote against it.

Despite having no alternative proposals or having expended any effort to build a coalition for those yet-to-be-drafted proposals.

Damnit Jim, I have principles!

Yes, I know: Losing

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 09:04 AM (MtMvg)

298 Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 09:00 AM (VVnrT)

The opposite of gratitude is resentment which sums her up. Or in her case specifically - envy.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 09:04 AM (VPwHp)

299 I have no idea if that’s the actual title of the legislation or if they just keep calling it the BBB.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 09:04 AM (6ydKt)

Schumer forced a name change from OBBB to OBBB Act. So that's the official name.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 09:05 AM (MGB5H)

300 Just yesterday I read that President Trump said he will not refinance the debt that is coming due at the usual 10-year term. He will insist on a very short term because he knows once he gets rid of Powell, rates will be coming down quickly.

And then, hopefully, they refinance at 1000 year terms to lock in the low rates. And force all members of Congress to spend all their wealth on buying bonds.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

301 Dems will oppose Trump finding a cure for cancer. So the fact they oppose BBB is meaningless. It’s a shit bill.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:05 AM (nwGCR)

302 “Women’s reproductive health is about our life. It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life. It’s a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that’s producing it—if you want to whittle us down to a machine—if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two,” Michelle Obama said.

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having read it.

I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 09:05 AM (Ul4ZN)

303 Have they broken ground for the Tehran Trump Tower yet?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 02, 2025 09:05 AM (XQo4F)

304 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
LMAO

https://tinyurl.com/4dbnw25j

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

305 Fire Powell is on my wish list to Trump, at the top..

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 09:06 AM (PCK5/)

306 >>I don't like the title "Big Beautiful Bill." I am sick unto death of this sort of silliness.

Think of it this way: the Left has been dictating the terms of our politics for decades via euphemisms - "pro-life" "undocumented" and so on.

We now have a guys who is doing this for us. Every time you cringe hearing Big Beautiful Bill, just imagine how much it enrages the Lefties to hear it!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 09:06 AM (VVnrT)

307 The BBB is not great but better then the ad hoc CRs we've been doing.

And while I would want Trump to do more looking at the vote totals I don't think he could have.

Letting the Democrats openly steal 4 Senate seats and a dozen house seats in the last election is going to keep causing us problems.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (t0Rmr)

308 Remains to be seen - the economy needs to grow to outpace our debt obligation. I’m hopeful, but it’s not certain.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 08:59 AM (Mxf84)

Agree - but Trump is also working on that with his tarriffs and his drive to push manufacturing back home.

And watching the Green New Deal die, even if it’s happening too slowly, is delightful. Zeldin needs another year to really clean out the EPA.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (0DdMG)

309 297 Despite having no alternative proposals or having expended any effort to build a coalition for those yet-to-be-drafted proposals.

Damnit Jim, I have principles!

Yes, I know: Losing
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 09:04 AM (MtMvg)

======

"The only way to get real cuts to spending is through entitlements."

"Okay. Here are some cuts to entitlements."

"It doesn't fix everything. Vote against it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (GBKbO)

310 Paramount said late Tuesday that it has agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” an extraordinary concession to a sitting president by a major media organization. … Paramount said its payment includes Mr. Trump’s legal fees and costs and that the money, minus the legal fees, will be paid to Mr. Trump’s future presidential library.

As part of the settlement, Paramount said that it had agreed to release written transcripts of future “60 Minutes” interviews with presidential candidates. The company said that the settlement did not include an apology. The deal is the clearest sign yet that Mr. Trump’s ability to intimidate major American institutions extends to the media industry.

The extortionist president. coercian, extortion, emoluments violations... its a racket.

Trump will punish the media when they give honest, fair, positive coverage of liberals. The media will learn its lesson and favorable coverage only goes to Trump. Damn the media.

And the christo-fascist farce continues thanks to those 6 nasty f6cks on the SC. Is there any end to this insanity?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (JCZqz)

311 55 gallon drum burn barrels.
If it's good enough for our military, it's damn sure good enough for some wetbacks.
-----------------
Oddly enough, our forces are not allowed to burn shit in a barrel anymore. They must contract with the locals for porta shitters.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (W3T6M)

312
Your IDF Babes of the Day
An occasional series

https://tinyurl.com/8p6959wt

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (AOsQT)

313 302 “Women’s reproductive health is about our life. It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life. It’s a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that’s producing it—if you want to whittle us down to a machine—if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two,” Michelle Obama said.

It's like a Venn diagram.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (XQo4F)

314 BBB just got slapped on as a nickname after Trump said he didn’t want numerous spending bills, because he knew it would take forever to go through, be butchers in committee and the Dems would filibuster every one of them.

—

So what if it takes longer? I’d rather get it done right than fast.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (nwGCR)

315 310 Trump will punish the media when they give honest, fair, positive coverage of liberals. The media will learn its lesson and favorable coverage only goes to Trump. Damn the media.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (JCZqz)

=====

Hilarious.

Love it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

316 309

The only way to get real cuts to spending is through entitlements."

"Okay. Here are some cuts to entitlements."

"It doesn't fix everything. Vote against it."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (GBKbO)

Back for the Daily Scrum, JM??

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 09:08 AM (PCK5/)

317 It’s a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that’s producing it—if you want to whittle us down to a machine—if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two,” Michelle Obama said.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 09:00 AM (VVnrT)

The only people whittling humans down to machines are the progressives, socialists, and communists.

To them, we are all just replaceable cogs in the machinery of the state.

Except fetuses, they’re just clumps of cells with the potential to become cogs, but only if Mom is feelin’ it at the moment.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (6ydKt)

318 As for the BBB, like I told my son yesterday when he asked about it the most correct answer about what the bill actually does is, "no one really knows." The debate has been hair-on-fire on both sides of the political spectrum about what the bill does or doesn't do.

It's all bullshit and the congress members are just screaming at each other for sound bites they can use in their reelection campaign. I hate them all.

Posted by: AnchorPoint at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (qgPFD)

319 >>>How much medical training does a mohel need to have?

Posted by: Bulg

>At 8 yrs. old, I used to castrate calves, inoculate them, tag them and brand them for the local neighboring rancher. Does that count?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (a/G0f)

320 Also Mandarin Chinese and English are two of the only languages that have the "-er" phoneme. As in number, letter, grifter. It's weird that less than 1% of global languages use this sound... But the two most widely spoken languages on the planet do.
_____

Add French speaking Quebeckers to the list. Criminy, they turned a beautiful sounding language into a trainwreck.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (Dv3i1)

321 My concern is that government is not a business.

I bet we'd be doing better as a country if the businessman / lawyer ratio in Congress were higher.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

322 Trump will punish the media when they give honest, fair, positive coverage of liberals.

That's a pretty interesting way to say CBS admitted to deceptively editing an interview...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (t0Rmr)

323 Have they done away with CAFE standards yet?

Posted by: Every guy looking for a small pickup truck at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (XQo4F)

324 303 Have they broken ground for the Tehran Trump Tower yet?
Posted by: I gotta ask

Uh...only if they plan on building at Fordow, Natanz, or Isfahan? Plenty of ground broken there.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (JCZqz)

325
We now have a guys who is doing this for us. Every time you cringe hearing Big Beautiful Bill, just imagine how much it enrages the Lefties to hear it!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 09:06 AM (VVnrT)

Exactly, Trump is such a freaking subversive I love it. He knows what they do with their stupid baby branding of these monstrosities so he does it too and does it better.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 09:10 AM (VPwHp)

326 322 Trump will punish the media when they give honest, fair, positive coverage of liberals.

That's a pretty interesting way to say CBS admitted to deceptively editing an interview...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (t0Rmr)

======

They only admitted it because Trump is a fascist who will use the power of the state to destroy speech he doesn't like.

Now, why isn't Trump continuing the practice of jawboning with social media companies to shut up speech Biden didn't like?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:10 AM (GBKbO)

327 312
Your IDF Babes of the Day
An occasional series

https://tinyurl.com/8p6959wt
Posted by: Don Black

Some faggy Brit got the whole of the Glastonbury festival to chant for their death. Terrible.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 02, 2025 09:11 AM (Dv3i1)

328 I would love to be in the CBS employees lounge when they heard about the settlement with Trump. Weeping, gnashing of teeth, hair being pulled out etc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 09:11 AM (eBgDF)

329 > I wonder if she realizes that her daughters are listening and learning how to be women and mothers through her example.

I think they're probably not learning anything. The last time I saw the older one, she looked like a drugged-out zombie.

I'd guess she's on heavy psych drugs.

It's understandable she'd be mentally fucked up, having those parents.

Remember, they pimped her out to Harvey Weinstein twice before she was even out of high school.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 09:11 AM (qpyNK)

330 So what if it takes longer? I’d rather get it done right than fast.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (nwGCR)

It’s not really Trump’s fault.

Congress pretty much gave up on doing regular order spending bills after the financial crash in ‘08.

They keep on promising to go back to regular order… next year.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 09:11 AM (6ydKt)

331 Exactly, Trump is such a freaking subversive I love it. He knows what they do with their stupid baby branding of these monstrosities so he does it too and does it better.

I remember the left was pissed that the term the public took from Obama's Health Insurance destruction was "Obamacare" and not "The Affordable Healthcare whatever" he called it

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)

332 Here is a simple 1 page bill to cut spending. whatever was spent on a federal
Program last year, we spend 99% on it this year. And 99% of this years amount next year. And so on.

Do that for 10 years and adjusted for inflation you’ll have a 50% cut in spending.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:11 AM (nwGCR)

333 > Uh...only if they plan on building at Fordow, Natanz, or Isfahan? Plenty of ground broken there.
Posted by: Military Moron at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (JCZqz)

Certainly they wouldn't have to build any parking lots.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 09:12 AM (qpyNK)

334 Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has a condition known as 5-alpha reductase deficiency. He has XY chromosomes. The enzyme deficiency keeps him from converting testosterone (which his body produces in normal amounts) to 5⍺-dihydrotestosterone (DHT). DHT plays a crucial role in fetal development of male genitalia. Deficiency can result in underdeveloped male sex organs (small penis, hypospadias, pseudo-vagina, etc.) so that the external appearance can be ambiguous. But the XY chromosomes and the normal testosterone levels allow for more typical male musculoskeletal development during puberty. This is what gives Khelif an advantage over biologically female boxers.

This condition is very rare, probably only a few hundred in the entire world. It occurs more commonly in areas with high consanguinity rates (in-breeding). Just because he has weird looking penis doesn't mean he has a right to beat up on girls.

Posted by: muldoon at July 02, 2025 09:12 AM (poXs5)

335 BBB just got slapped on as a nickname after Trump said he didn’t want numerous spending bills

BBB is better than the alternatives, like BBW, BBL, or even the identically named BBB (Better Business Bureau).

Posted by: Moron Math at July 02, 2025 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

336 First thing I smell in the mornings is shit and diesel.

I'm home sick.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 02, 2025 09:12 AM (6Qyxy)

337 We're fake, but accurate.

Posted by: Dan Rather at July 02, 2025 09:12 AM (XQo4F)

338 Now, why isn't Trump continuing the practice of jawboning with social media companies to shut up speech Biden didn't like?

You know what would crack me up? If he forced social media sites to ban anyone that claims the clot shot is safe or effective...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:13 AM (t0Rmr)

339 330 It’s not really Trump’s fault.

Congress pretty much gave up on doing regular order spending bills after the financial crash in ‘08.

They keep on promising to go back to regular order… next year.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 09:11 AM (6ydKt)

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This actually is regular order. Budget then appropriations is regular order.

Splitting it up into individual budget bills by department used to be common practice and should be returned to, but it's not a requirement for regular order.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

340 > I remember the left was pissed that the term the public took from Obama's Health Insurance destruction was "Obamacare" and not "The Affordable Healthcare whatever" he called it
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)

As I recall, Barky was all about "Obamacare" until the initial rollout turned into a disaster.

Then it suddenly became "racist" to call it that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 09:14 AM (qpyNK)

341 If I had to pick a word to describe Michelle Obama, it would be "ungrateful." The key to happiness is gratitude -- something she appears incapable of felling.
Posted by: Lizzy
+++
Poor poor Michelle. She is the eternal victim. She has had such hard life. People just don't understand.
They actually had to pay for their food when they were living in the white house.
She's a poor black woman in America.
Life is not fair.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 02, 2025 09:14 AM (Lo97M)

342 Even if we could somehow magically balance the budget it would do nothing to address the debt. We would need a minimum of $2 trillion a year in surplus just to start addressing the debt.
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People who's largest debt in their life time, a house of some $200-$500k, are not going to understand how "saving money" or "living within your means" will never pay off $38 trillion.

That's what's retarded about 1) demanding a balanced budget and 2) demanding massive spending cuts.

There is one--and only one way--to pay off that massive a debt:
Massive growth in revenue.
Convert the debt from a crushing burden to manageable leverage.
Something a billionaire real estate developer knows real well how to do.

There's also bankruptcy. That's your "pay it off now!" solution if you think your kitchen table budgetary skills are relevant.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 09:14 AM (MtMvg)

343 > BBB is better than the alternatives, like BBW, BBL, or even the identically named BBB (Better Business Bureau).
Posted by: Moron Math at July 02, 2025 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

I prefer the BBC myself, and I'm not talking about that British television network.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey Graham at July 02, 2025 09:15 AM (qpyNK)

344 Here is a simple 1 page bill to cut spending. whatever was spent on a federal
Program last year, we spend 99% on it this year. And 99% of this years amount next year. And so on.

Do that for 10 years and adjusted for inflation you’ll have a 50% cut in spending.

So if you do that the Dems will refuse to pass it and a bunch of right leaning groups will join in and force the GOPe to vote against it as well.

I'd suggest instead start with dramatic reductions in areas that go to mostly leftwingers - like they did with USAID. So for example halve the budget of HUD. The people impacted almost all have Dem reps that are already voting against any cuts...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:15 AM (t0Rmr)

345 How much medical training does a mohel need to have?
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

Hours spent playing billiards with a cue in hand
Will help you cultivate horse sense
And a cool hеad and a keen eye.

Posted by: Professor Harold Hill at July 02, 2025 09:15 AM (wVcYX)

346 342 That's what's retarded about 1) demanding a balanced budget and 2) demanding massive spending cuts.

There is one--and only one way--to pay off that massive a debt:
Massive growth in revenue.
Convert the debt from a crushing burden to manageable leverage.
Something a billionaire real estate developer knows real well how to do.

There's also bankruptcy. That's your "pay it off now!" solution if you think your kitchen table budgetary skills are relevant.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 09:14 AM (MtMvg)

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Except we've seen explosions in revenue over the past 20 years and spending has just increased.

The only reason people think this bill doesn't decrease spending is because the CBO says that repealing tax cuts is spending.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

347 TJM, I watched a movie last night that may have out ghost shipped Ghost Ship. Its called Sahara staring Matthew McConaughey. This movie is one ridiculous sub plot to a ridiculous plot after another. The funny part was I enjoyed it. It also mined every vein in the mine of Action Adventure. It seems the script writers could not contain themselves. Oh, and it opens with the idea that a Confederate Iron Clad sailed across the Atlantic to West Africa loaded with Confederate gold.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:16 AM (W3T6M)

348 It's not that the Democrats are on the side of the enemy, It's that the Democrats have been America's greatest enemy for two centuries and counting.

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Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 02, 2025 09:16 AM (kU4R9)

349 Fire Powell is on my wish list to Trump, at the top..
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 09:06 AM (PCK5/)

Powell's term ends in 6 months and firing him would cause a shitshow from the Dems and weak sisters. Not worth it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

350 341 If I had to pick a word to describe Michelle Obama, it would be ~~"ungrateful." The key to happiness is gratitude -- something she appears incapable of felling.~~ male.
Posted by: Lizzy

Suggested edit for accuracy and brevity. I waw going to suggest "masculine", but being a whiny bitch isn’t a masculine trait, but the Left has plenty of whiny, entitled soy beta males.

Posted by: Fake AoS editor at July 02, 2025 09:17 AM (JCZqz)

351 Morn' all... I see "we" hate the BBB.... Yeah, it stinks on ice but there are a few good things in it.... I'm just tired of it at this point... Pass it and move along.. And I'm not sure the House is gonna do that....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 09:17 AM (VE6XX)

352 >If I had to pick a word to describe Michelle Obama, it would be "ungrateful." ....
Posted by: Lizzy

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You're too kind.

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:17 AM (AOsQT)

353 346

Except we've seen explosions in revenue over the past 20 years and spending has just increased.

The only reason people think this bill doesn't decrease spending is because the CBO says that repealing tax cuts is spending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO

That makes no sense to me, at all…

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 09:17 AM (PCK5/)

354 344 I'd suggest instead start with dramatic reductions in areas that go to mostly leftwingers - like they did with USAID. So for example halve the budget of HUD. The people impacted almost all have Dem reps that are already voting against any cuts...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:15 AM (t0Rmr)

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If I were in Thomas Massie's position and my #1 issue was the debt, I would use my position on the Rules committee to find spending I wanted cut and demand that inclusion into the OBBB for my bill.

I'd find 5-10 others in the caucus willing to do that and band together to come up with somewhere between $100 and $500 billion in cuts for our votes.

The spending should be centered in blue districts as well. Like, funding for a new research facility in Boston, or something. Whatever can be found.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)

355 I saw Schumer's Mohel open for Umphrey's McGee at Northlands on the 15th last month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIAiFxzgoXE

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 02, 2025 09:18 AM (Dxdzg)

356 Paramount said late Tuesday that it has agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” an extraordinary concession to a sitting president by a major media organization. … Paramount said its payment includes Mr. Trump’s legal fees and costs and that the money, minus the legal fees, will be paid to Mr. Trump’s future presidential library.

As part of the settlement, Paramount said that it had agreed to release written transcripts of future “60 Minutes” interviews with presidential candidates. The company said that the settlement did not include an apology. The deal is the clearest sign yet that Mr. Trump’s ability to intimidate major American institutions extends to the media industry.
*****
It is now being referred to as the Trump Rule by all of CBS.
Not getting tired of Winning!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 02, 2025 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

357 My one suggest to the younger brothers out there. Never marry a woman with a bigger penis then your own. She'll be a real pain in the ass. Trust me I know

Posted by: Barack Obama walking funny at July 02, 2025 09:18 AM (t0Rmr)

358 Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization
Posted by: ShainS

I mean, the Germans are basically doing that with AfD, so there IS precedent...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 02, 2025 09:18 AM (JCZqz)

359 347 TJM, I watched a movie last night that may have out ghost shipped Ghost Ship. Its called Sahara staring Matthew McConaughey. This movie is one ridiculous sub plot to a ridiculous plot after another. The funny part was I enjoyed it. It also mined every vein in the mine of Action Adventure. It seems the script writers could not contain themselves. Oh, and it opens with the idea that a Confederate Iron Clad sailed across the Atlantic to West Africa loaded with Confederate gold.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:16 AM (W3T6M)

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Sahara is fun. Not Indy fun, but fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)

360 Circumcised and baptized, I'm your huckleberry.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 09:18 AM (a/G0f)

361 businessman / lawyer ratio in Congress were higher.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

I'd quibble that we're talking entrepreneurs, not businessmen.

Businessmen would likely be even worse than lawyers. They'd sell Texas to Mexico and then force a "Merger Of Equals" with Sierra Leone. And no one would be able to log in to The System to pay their taxes so we'd all get in trouble for not paying our taxes.

But it's OK. We'll still have trannies in all our commercials.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 09:19 AM (BjH5D)

362 There’s only 2 ways the debt gets paid off. Default or hyperinflation.

It’s a matter of when not if.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:19 AM (nwGCR)

363 351 Morn' all... I see "we" hate the BBB.... Yeah, it stinks on ice but there are a few good things in it.... I'm just tired of it at this point... Pass it and move along.. And I'm not sure the House is gonna do that....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 02, 2025 09:17 AM (VE6XX)

There are good things happening, and some good people in the new Admin… helps to see that amidst all the not so good..

Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 09:19 AM (PCK5/)

364 Only writers can milk an alligator.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 02, 2025 09:19 AM (6Qyxy)

365 Powell's term ends in 6 months and firing him would cause a shitshow from the Dems and weak sisters. Not worth it.
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Trump has his Budget. No reason not to piss off the Dems now.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:19 AM (W3T6M)

366 Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has a condition known as 5-alpha reductase deficiency. He has XY chromosomes.

I so wish we could post pictures here.
You should see the picture of him doing road work like Rocky Balboa or Mike Tyson. Looks just like a guy. No way in hell you mistake him for a woman. Not even a butchy butch.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 09:20 AM (Ul4ZN)

367 It is now being referred to as the Trump Rule by all of CBS.
Not getting tired of Winning!
Posted by: redridinghood

Violation of the Trump rule may result in disciplinary action, and vigorous schlonging of Paramount/CBS by Trump or his designees.

Posted by: CBS Style Guide Update at July 02, 2025 09:20 AM (JCZqz)

368 @359 Sahara was fun. Based on a Clive Cussler book. Mm looks nothing like Cussler's Dirk Pitt but the movie was entertaining

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 09:21 AM (eBgDF)

369 Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization
Posted by: ShainS

I mean, the Germans are basically doing that with AfD, so there IS precedent

Start smaller with BLM, Antifa, and those anti-ICE folks. And start sending those guys to prison merely for membership.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:21 AM (t0Rmr)

370 362 There’s only 2 ways the debt gets paid off. Default or hyperinflation.

It’s a matter of when not if.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:19 AM (nwGCR)

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You know why people don't care about this anymore?

A lot of spending increases since Paul Ryan's run as VP in 2012. A lot.

No default.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

371 BBB just got slapped on as a nickname after Trump said he didn’t want numerous spending bills, because he knew it would take forever to go through, be butchers in committee and the Dems would filibuster every one of them.
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So what if it takes longer? I’d rather get it done right than fast.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:07 AM (nwGCR)

It wouldn't have been done right. Look at how long it took to get what we got. They'd have drug out individual bills until they said "OMG! We have to do an omnibus CR that spends 8% more than last year" like they've done since 2008.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

372 Michelle Obama, in one word: Spoiled Brat.

Posted by: davidt at July 02, 2025 09:21 AM (i0F8b)

373 Sahara is fun. Not Indy fun, but fun.
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Yeah, but everything is preposterous. Hell, they even brought Lawrence of Arabia into the script. Not to mention Dr. No.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:22 AM (W3T6M)

374 As for the BBB, like I told my son yesterday when he asked about it the most correct answer about what the bill actually does is, "no one really knows."

Given that it hasn't passed Congress in it's final form... this is absolutely true.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

375 Like liked MM in True Detective.

But his recent attempt to run as a Dem in Texas was perhaps the best comedic acting he's done.

He wanted to run as as something approaching an actual moderate Dem and he quickly found out that wasn't allowed. Its balls to the walls insanity or nothing.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:22 AM (t0Rmr)

376 Program last year, we spend 99% on it this year. And 99% of this years amount next year. And so on.

Do that for 10 years and adjusted for inflation you’ll have a 50% cut in spending.
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I was told there would be no math and now I can kind of see why.

I think we're closer to 25% there, broski, but hell I'd even take that.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 09:23 AM (VPwHp)

377 372 Michelle Obama, in one word: Spoiled Brat.
Posted by: davidt

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TWO WORDS. OR HE'S RETARDED.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 02, 2025 09:23 AM (JCZqz)

378 You know why people don't care about this anymore?

A lot of spending increases since Paul Ryan's run as VP in 2012. A lot.

No default.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

You don’t have to care about math but math cares about you.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:23 AM (nwGCR)

379 It wouldn't have been done right. Look at how long it took to get what we got. They'd have drug out individual bills until they said "OMG! We have to do an omnibus CR that spends 8% more than last year" like they've done since 2008.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

Dumb Q: since it’s using the House/Senate reconciliation process, and the “no filibuster” procedure in the senate, how is the BBB not a continuing resolution?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 09:24 AM (Mxf84)

380 368 @359 Sahara was fun. Based on a Clive Cussler book. Mm looks nothing like Cussler's Dirk Pitt but the movie was entertaining
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 09:21 AM (eBgDF)

It was so far removed from the book that Cussler swore off every working with Hollywood again. Only a few elements remained. Cussler didn't write books that translated well if at all to movies.

As you say, a fun movie, but imo it wasn't the book.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:24 AM (PzXaK)

381 >Sahara was fun. Based on a Clive Cussler book.
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I read his "Raise The Titanic". Can't remember the plot point as to why they wanted to. Confederate gold, maybe.

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:24 AM (AOsQT)

382
I think we're closer to 25% there, broski, but hell I'd even take that.
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 09:23 AM (VPwHp)

Assume 3% inflation yearly and 1% cut yearly, compound it and it’s around 50%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:24 AM (nwGCR)

383 374 As for the BBB, like I told my son yesterday when he asked about it the most correct answer about what the bill actually does is, "no one really knows."

Given that it hasn't passed Congress in it's final form... this is absolutely true.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

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House's self-imposed deadline is the 4th. Really, that's just today and tomorrow.

Most likely, they'll vote on an amendment to make the House version identical to the Senate version, especially since Thune kind of just...bullshitted his way to including most of the "controversial" provisions into the final version of the Senate bill. They don't want the Senate to vote on it again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

384 TJM, I watched a movie last night that may have out ghost shipped Ghost Ship. Its called Sahara staring Matthew McConaughey. This movie is one ridiculous sub plot to a ridiculous plot after another. The funny part was I enjoyed it. It also mined every vein in the mine of Action Adventure. It seems the script writers could not contain themselves. Oh, and it opens with the idea that a Confederate Iron Clad sailed across the Atlantic to West Africa loaded with Confederate gold.
Posted by: pudinhead

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Sahara is fun. Not Indy fun, but fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It's a Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt adventure.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (Ul4ZN)

385 The semi final games in the Gold Cup (soccer) are being played tonight.
US vs Guatemala, Mexico vs Honduras.
If the US and Mexico advance to the finals, there will be a treasure trove of Illegal Aliens attend the game and rooting for Mexico in Houston on Sunday.
We could fill Alligator Alcatraz 10 times over with dreamers rooting against their new country holding Mexican flags.

Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (5yGIt)

386 Here is a simple 1 page bill to cut spending. whatever was spent on a federal
Program last year, we spend 99% on it this year. And 99% of this years amount next year. And so on.

Do that for 10 years and adjusted for inflation you’ll have a 50% cut in spending.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:11 AM (nwGCR)

1. The comments here would be filled with people bitching that we were spending ANY money on programs x, y, or z.
2. That would mean no increase in spending for border enforcement, rounding up illegals, or refilling the SPR.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

387 I read his "Raise The Titanic". Can't remember the plot point as to why they wanted to. Confederate gold, maybe.
Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:24 AM (AOsQT)

It's always confederate gold.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (MGB5H)

388 378 You don’t have to care about math but math cares about you.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:23 AM (nwGCR)

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What does math say is the default point?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

389 I read his "Raise The Titanic". Can't remember the plot point as to why they wanted to. Confederate gold, maybe.
Posted by: Don Black

Only ONE group of mother fuckers I can think of that would go through all that trouble for some motherfucking gold....and I think we ALL know who I'm talkin' bout...

Posted by: Kanye West at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

390 That is such an odd, depressing story about the head of the Boston City Council and renaming the 4th of July. Great way to have people feel great about illegal aliens. Well, she isn’t one now , but was one for years. She’s “just” Completely crooked and a leftist.

And on another note, “Babylon Bee” headline for this week: “Mamdani clarifies he’s not a Communist. He merely wants to seize the means of production and out all the capitalists in gulags.”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (2GCMq)

391 > 362 There’s only 2 ways the debt gets paid off. Default or hyperinflation.

It’s a matter of when not if.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:19 AM (nwGCR)

If it comes to that, we wouldn't be the first country to default.

I just looked it up and Argentina has defaulted 9 times, and is still a going concern.

So... if it happens, it will suck, but I doubt it will be the end of the United States.

There's also the Machiavelli Solution: "Gold won't necessarily get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can always get you gold."

Posted by: Miss Lindsey Graham at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (qpyNK)

392 Assume 3% inflation yearly and 1% cut yearly, compound it and it’s around 50%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:24 AM (nwGCR)

I either assumed less inflation or my compounding skills have been found wanting.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (VPwHp)

393 One word for Michelle Obama?

Beard

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (E4CTU)

394 Here is a simple 1 page bill to cut spending. whatever was spent on a federal
Program last year, we spend 99% on it this year. And 99% of this years amount next year. And so on.

Do that for 10 years and adjusted for inflation you’ll have a 50% cut in spending.

--

Hannity was pushing that years ago.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (PzXaK)

395 379 Dumb Q: since it’s using the House/Senate reconciliation process, and the “no filibuster” procedure in the senate, how is the BBB not a continuing resolution?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 09:24 AM (Mxf84)

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It's a budget for the full year under normal reconciliation rules.

Passing this allows for other budget-related things like rescissions that aren't allowed under continuing resolutions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

396 >>>Michelle Obama, in one word: Spoiled Brat.

Posted by: davidt

>That's two words, bro.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (a/G0f)

397 It's a Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt adventure.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (Ul4ZN

It's certainly no Brent Norwalk Chip Driver mystery.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (MGB5H)

398 What does math say is the default point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

Whatever the temperature of the Earth is supposed to be.

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (VPwHp)

399 > Only ONE group of mother fuckers I can think of that would go through all that trouble for some motherfucking gold....and I think we ALL know who I'm talkin' bout...
Posted by: Kanye West at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

Black rappers looking for bling?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (qpyNK)

400 “put” in gulags, not “out”.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (2GCMq)

401
Hannity was pushing that years ago.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (PzXaK)

That man is truly a great American.

Posted by: Sean hannity at July 02, 2025 09:27 AM (t0Rmr)

402 Which gender has beards?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 09:27 AM (WIJBc)

403 It's always confederate gold.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Romanov gold > Confederate gold

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:28 AM (77rzZ)

404 What does math say is the default point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

It’s complicated by the fact that the dollar is the world reserve currency, our military is still (mostly) capable, and China has no interest in our economy going to poop (yet).

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 09:28 AM (Mxf84)

405 I read his "Raise The Titanic". Can't remember the plot point as to why they wanted to. Confederate gold, maybe.
Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:24 AM (AOsQT)

His best book imo. Seriously intricate plots. The movie was an abomination

The plot point was that there was (supposedly) mined minerals in the hold of the Titanic that would power an impenetrable missile shield over the US. I'm way way way oversimplifying.

The confederate gold was in Sahara.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:28 AM (PzXaK)

406 That makes no sense to me, at all…
Posted by: tubal at July 02, 2025 09:17 AM (PCK5/)

Yeah, but apparently during some Dem administration they passed a law requiring that the CBO treat it that way.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:28 AM (ExV1e)

407 The 50/50 tie should have told you something...alas no. The Trump bias is still very strong.

Posted by: Mongo at July 02, 2025 09:28 AM (Ef4Ak)

408 > Romanov gold > Confederate gold
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:28 AM (77rzZ)

Nazi gold needs to be in there too.

That reminds me. It's about time for a repeat viewing of Kelly's Heroes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 02, 2025 09:28 AM (qpyNK)

409 We "need" that cheap farm labor no more than we "need" cheap nannies, cheap workers at the slaughter houses, or cheap roofers and drywallers.
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If the federal, state and local tax burden wasn't so GD sky-high, we wouldn't need "cheap" anything.

When the federal income tax was implemented it was the equivalent of $890 if and only if you made over $89,000 that year.

90%+ of us should be paying $0 in taxes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 02, 2025 09:28 AM (MtMvg)

410 399 > Only ONE group of mother fuckers I can think of that would go through all that trouble for some motherfucking gold....and I think we ALL know who I'm talkin' bout...
Posted by: Kanye West at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

Black rappers looking for bling?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Wrong! That answer is WRONG! Here's a hint- the North Atlantic is very stormy. Raising all that gold would be a complex, multi-day project. Who could somehow CONTROL the weather to ensure a successful recovery?

Posted by: Kanye West at July 02, 2025 09:29 AM (JCZqz)

411 The US is in an interesting place in regards to at what point a default happens.

Since we are the reserve currency people still trust we'll pay off the debt (how I don't know). When people lose that trust and start demanding much higher interest rates because of the risk of default then we'll enter a spiral that can't be stopped.

But we aren't at that point yet.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:29 AM (t0Rmr)

412 What does math say is the default point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

From a purely math approach it would be when interest payments exceed GDP I suppose. Theoretically government could spend on nothing but interest payments and tax at 100%.

But realistically it’s when interest payments exceed some % of gdp. I don’t know what that is, but whatever it is, we will hit it in the not too distant future.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:29 AM (nwGCR)

413 Best part of the DU posts is how absolutely defeated all of them feel.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 09:29 AM (0DdMG)

414 It's a budget for the full year under normal reconciliation rules.

Passing this allows for other budget-related things like rescissions that aren't allowed under continuing resolutions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

Are budgets not subject to Senate filibuster shenanigans?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 09:29 AM (Mxf84)

415 It was so far removed from the book that Cussler swore off every working with Hollywood again. Only a few elements remained. Cussler didn't write books that translated well if at all to movies.
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Well Clive has to first admit an Iron Clad could not have transited the Atlantic ocean. Iron Clad gunboats are like Guam - they tip over. Then the fresh water and coal required to make the transit would have required several support ships. Then there was the idea that the Confederates had barrels of Confederate gold coins.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:29 AM (W3T6M)

416 If I were in Thomas Massie's position and my #1 issue was the debt, I would use my position on the Rules committee to find spending I wanted cut and demand that inclusion into the OBBB for my bill.

If I were in Thomas Massie's position and my #1 issue was the debt, I would demand inclusion of some spending cut into every single bill that gets passed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:29 AM (ExV1e)

417 As an aside, I've read all of the "true" Cussler books. When he started inserting himself in cameo appearances and then started having "co writers" I checked out.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (PzXaK)

418 I'd like to see a bill pass requiring the government to sell enough assets to pay off 10% of Treasury debt within Trump's term.

Land, buildings, whatever. Sell it, and retire some bonds.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (Riby4)

419 402 Which gender has beards?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Who, but a biologist, could know?

Posted by: Justice Jackson Brown at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (JCZqz)

420 If the federal, state and local tax burden wasn't so GD sky-high, we wouldn't need "cheap" anything.

That and the Bidenflation as well. He intentionally raised the prices of food by 100% in 4 years...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (t0Rmr)

421 414 Are budgets not subject to Senate filibuster shenanigans?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 09:29 AM (Mxf84)

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Not under reconciliation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

422 407 The 50/50 tie should have told you something

—

It told me we have 3 RINO senators who are lying pieces of traitorous shit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (nwGCR)

423 >>It's always confederate gold.

Except when it's Nazi gold.

Posted by: Pvt. (formerly Lt.) Kelly at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (Y1sOo)

424 Trump has his Budget. No reason not to piss off the Dems now.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:19 AM (W3T6M)

Still need the rescission bills.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

425 415 It was so far removed from the book that Cussler swore off every working with Hollywood again. Only a few elements remained. Cussler didn't write books that translated well if at all to movies.
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Well Clive has to first admit an Iron Clad could not have transited the Atlantic ocean. Iron Clad gunboats are like Guam - they tip over. Then the fresh water and coal required to make the transit would have required several support ships. Then there was the idea that the Confederates had barrels of Confederate gold coins.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:29 AM (W3T6M)

--

Or just explain it away in a single sentence...

"Yeah, it's amazing they did that!"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (PzXaK)

426 It's a budget for the full year under normal reconciliation rules.

Passing this allows for other budget-related things like rescissions that aren't allowed under continuing resolutions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

This is, to me, a HUGE victory. Getting back to regular order is absolutely vital.

Plus, when Trump says 'trust me, we'll do recissions later,' I believe him more than I've ever believed any politician anywhere. Not completely, not without some hesitation, not blindly, but I trust him way more than any other politician. Ever.

He's earned that from me.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (fCgdX)

427 Not under reconciliation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

The Senate really is a magical place.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (Mxf84)

428 >>>>>the idea that a Confederate Iron Clad sailed across the Atlantic to West Africa loaded with Confederate gold.
Posted by: pudinhead
********
That was from a Clive Clusser book.

Posted by: Cosda at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (EO9/2)

429 So has Elon created his party yet?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (nwGCR)

430 remote Maine hospitals solvent. "

Well, someone has to keep buying equipment!

*medline, GE, etc.*

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (tubbA)

431 427 Not under reconciliation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

The Senate really is a magical place.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (Mxf84)

======

You really can just do things.

Like Thune last second including the Medicaid cuts that the Parliamentarian had demanded taken out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (GBKbO)

432 Wouldn't confederates sneaking gold have been more likely to go to Latin America or Europe?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (t0Rmr)

433 Like Thune last second including the Medicaid cuts that the Parliamentarian had demanded taken out.

Are those the "cuts" to take illegals off of Medicaid?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:33 AM (t0Rmr)

434 > The Senate really is a magical place.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 02, 2025 09:31 AM (Mxf84)

They even let me wear my ruby slippers.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey Graham at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (qpyNK)

435 Like Thune last second including the Medicaid cuts that the Parliamentarian had demanded taken out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (GBKbO)

You mean Tillis....

Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (VPwHp)

436 MAFT is laying off another 9000 employees.

The AI monster continues to gobble up tech jobs.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (nwGCR)

437 MSFT not MAFT

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (nwGCR)

438 Nood (but not nood people in the painting, thank heavens).

Posted by: PabloD at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (TgNVd)

439 433 Like Thune last second including the Medicaid cuts that the Parliamentarian had demanded taken out.

Are those the "cuts" to take illegals off of Medicaid?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:33 AM (t0Rmr)

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Yes.

Most of what she demanded pulled out got put back in.

The secret is that the parliamentarian is reactive, not proactive. Thune sneaking it into the final version without Democrats realizing it meant that Democrats never raised objections under the Byrd rule and just voted on it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (GBKbO)

440 435 Like Thune last second including the Medicaid cuts that the Parliamentarian had demanded taken out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (GBKbO)

You mean Tillis....
Posted by: ... at July 02, 2025 09:34 AM (VPwHp)

=======

Got 'em straight this time!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 02, 2025 09:35 AM (GBKbO)

441 Wouldn't confederates sneaking gold have been more likely to go to Latin America or Europe?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2025 09:32 AM (t0Rmr)

I think Cussler wanted to tell an Africa story and just needed a hook to get Pitt and Giordino there.

He was also pretty vocal that he discovered the wreck of the Hunley (debatable, but really I don't care), so Confederate ships may have been on his mind and he wanted to work one in...somewhare, somehow.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:35 AM (PzXaK)

442 Sigh - *somewhere.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 02, 2025 09:35 AM (PzXaK)

443 Whom the godz destroy they first make Mad: fElon Musk -- would you buy a car from this Guy? let alone a one-way trip to Marz? a solar array that costs? and batteries that catch fire?

Proof positive People are Your BEST entertainment value, a plus that it also involve Thiel's "Deadly escalation between Technology and Politics" -- viz Politics always wins.

Truly, just as AI isn't the answer to coding; Politics isn't the answer to Governance. Will Victory remain the absence of De-feet, or Das-boot? Guess we're gonna find out!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 02, 2025 09:36 AM (/CwoM)

444 There's A Lot Of Honest Pain Out There

But replacing broken monetary policy with socialism isn’t just wrong—it’s disastrously wrong.

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 09:38 AM (RHGPo)

445 The Good The Bad and the Ugly had Confederate gold

somebody's gold- I know there was gold

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:38 AM (AOsQT)

446 “He Started Eating Himself”: Noem Reveals Shocking Cannibal Case Amid Biden Border Failure

“The other day I was talking to some Marshals that had been partnering with ICE,” Noem said during her visit.

“They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home and while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself, and they had to get him off and get him medical attention.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 09:42 AM (RHGPo)

447 ADP Reports Biggest Drop In Service-Provider Jobs Since COVID Lockdown

"...a hesitancy to hire and a reluctance to replace departing workers led to job losses last month

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 09:45 AM (RHGPo)

448
The morning walk yielded two cups of black raspberries.

Posted by: Auspex at July 02, 2025 09:45 AM (j4U/Z)

449 Report: Former DNC Insider Reveals ‘Puppet Masters’ Who Allegedly Ran Biden White House

“They deny the cover-up, but I had a front-row seat watching it happen. People like [Chief of Staff to the First Lady] Anthony Bernal. I saw him running the White House like he was in charge, like he was a king,” Li continued. “It’s just so amazing now to see him dodge a subpoena and completely dodge accountability. He can run, but he can’t hide. His name is going to go down in infamy forever.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 09:48 AM (RHGPo)

450 California Moves Forward With Higher Marijuana Excise Tax

The cost of legal weed will increase starting July 1. Sellers say the higher price will drive more customers to the black market.

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 09:49 AM (RHGPo)

451 432 Wouldn't confederates sneaking gold have been more likely to go to Latin America or Europe?
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The most likely destination would have been England if they had barrels of gold.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:52 AM (W3T6M)

452 On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that he isn’t necessarily against eliminating taxes on tips, but “would prefer just to have a much more progressive income tax so people who are making a lot of money are paying more, much more, like happened under very conservative presidents like Nixon or Eisenhower, than to give people the kind of symbolic consolation prize of saying, we’re not going to tax tips.”

... JFK got rid of the top bracket and the economy took off

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 09:53 AM (RHGPo)

453 Sellers say the higher price will drive more customers to the black market.
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That's rayciss.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:53 AM (W3T6M)

454 ... JFK got rid of the top bracket and the economy took off
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True, but Ike had paid off the WWII and Korean war debt.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 09:54 AM (W3T6M)

455 Doubt you will see this, JJ, but the Guarantee Clause link comes back to the HQ.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 02, 2025 10:03 AM (NcvvS)

456 Webacks?

Look at the hebe hurling slurs...

Posted by: Jose at July 02, 2025 10:07 AM (S+el1)

457 449 Report: Former DNC Insider Reveals ‘Puppet Masters’ Who Allegedly Ran Biden White House

This should be a surprise to no one, and the most ominous warning against one who "wouldn't change a thing"

https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-NotChangeAThing

LIBs. Not Just Mistaken, EVIL.

“Such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of president of the United States,” Pelosi'24 feeling that she's getting real on IceKingJOE

The LIBs ceaseless quest for the unearned remains forever ceaseless because the Value Illicitly Obtained retains no Value.

"Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory" -- Shameless Politico THUG, Nancy Pelosi'09 in Red China.

Remember who did this: OBAMA put HIM in charge of Ukraine, just like IceKingJOE put ctHARRIS in charge of the border. LosAngelesTimes/WashingtonExaminer
https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-HeDidTHIS-Ukraine
https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-BlamesObama
https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-ReignOverTheRubble

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 02, 2025 10:09 AM (jfJva)

458 168 Giant pandas deserve to go extinct. What a sorry excuse for a “bear.”
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They are big Raccoons.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 02, 2025 10:13 AM (W3T6M)

459 Lindy Li has a lot to say but I never see any receipts...just words. I don't trust her. I think she's an attention hog enjoying her fifteen minutes.

Posted by: creeper at July 02, 2025 10:19 AM (zFwIe)

460 455 Doubt you will see this, JJ, but the Guarantee Clause link comes back to the HQ.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 02, 2025 10:03 AM (NcvvS)

Ugh. Will fix but at this point the thread is dead.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 02, 2025 10:23 AM (x0n13)

461 Thanks, JJ. Surprised that no one saw it/said anything earlier.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 02, 2025 10:40 AM (NcvvS)

462 "Los Angeles is continuing its devolution with anti-ICE demonstrations that Karen Bass-tard is doing nothing about and/or encouraging."

Is it Bass-tard, or Bass-turd?
I suppose Bass-tard in print, Bass-turd in speech.

Posted by: LibertyDefender at July 02, 2025 10:47 AM (5gdIf)

463 Kroger is closing some stores. I couldn't find a list.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:58 AM (WIJBc)

IIRC, about 80 stores to be shuttered nationwide.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2025 08:05 AM

Kroger has announced plans to close approximately 60 stores across the U.S. over the next 18 months, starting from June 2025, as part of a strategy to improve profitability by shuttering underperforming locations. Below is a list of some confirmed store closures based on available information:

Grok: https://bit.ly/4nuznCl

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 11:07 AM (P5BPp)

464 But the core ban on Medicaid for illegal immigrants remains intact in the final bill.

That means states cannot use federal Medicaid dollars to cover illegal immigrants, except in emergencies."

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:10 AM

Does the Big Beautiful Bill ban illegal aliens from Medicaid?

The "Big Beautiful Bill" does not explicitly ban undocumented immigrants from Medicaid because they are already ineligible for federally funded Medicaid under current U.S. law. However, the bill includes provisions that aim to further restrict Medicaid eligibility, potentially affecting immigrants, including some with legal status, by tightening rules or reducing federal funding to states that provide health care to certain immigrants.

Grok: https://bit.ly/45RY70X

"Already ineligible". Which, as I posted yesterday, means that all these laws are meaningless unless there is someone in a position of authority with the will to enforce them. As has NOT been happening for decades.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 02, 2025 11:18 AM (P5BPp)

465 You’re wrong about Thune, JJ.
Trump likes him. He’s hitting home runs.
From Stephen Miller last night;:

Stephen Miller
@StephenM

The Senate bill cuts more spending than the House bill.

Funds more border security.

And is a more conservative bill.

To some of my conservative friends: it’s OK to win. Winning is good. In fact, winning is the only way to save civilization.

Posted by: Purple at July 02, 2025 12:43 PM (lpwPq)

466 Its HOLD YOUR FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES You Dumb Cluck

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 02, 2025 06:34 PM (wGqjj)

Daily Tech News 2 July 2025

Top Story

Search engines like Google and Bing will be required to verify the age of users from Australia by the end of 2025, forcing them into safe mode if they are logged in and under the age of 18. (Information Age)

Which is stupid for many reasons, not least of which even under the law it doesn't work if you're not logged in.
In more surprising but more welcome news, Chris Elston - "Billboard Chris" on Twitter - and Elon Musk won in separate cases against Australia's "eSafety Commissioner" Julie Inman Grant and some random crazy lady who goes by the name of Teddy Cook. (MSN)
In the post, Mr Elston, who goes by the name Billboard Chris on X, slammed the proposed appointment of Mr Cook, a biological female, to a World Health Organisation panel on healthcare delivery.
The post reads: "This woman (yes, she's female) is part of a panel of 20 'experts' hired by the WHO to draft their policy on caring for 'trans people'. People who belong in psychiatric wards are writing the guidelines for people who belong in psychiatric wards."
Speaking of random crazy women:
Ms Grant labelled the remarks "degrading" and issued a takedown notice to X on March 22, threatening the company with a fine of up to $782,500 for any refusal to remove the post.
Not only is the relevant law stupid - which is the ground state in these matters - but Australia's Administrative Review Tribunal ruled that Grant broke the law in forcing the content to be taken down.

Elston and Musk sued separately to have the posts restored, and both won.

Tech News

You could steal half a million dollars from a museum and nobody would notice. (Calvin.sh)

The million-dollar cube in the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Money Museum contains a little over $1.5 million.
Websites used to be simple. (Simplesite)

Some still are:
You're experiencing it right now. This website is looped through a RS-232 serial connection at 56k baud rate (actually a little bit extra to handle protocol overhead). I disabled the server cache so you can experience the scrollbar shrinking as content slowly loads in.
The way nature intended.
The Crucial T710 is that company's latest PCIe 5.0 SSD. (Serve the Home)

It's fast, yes. It's also expensive at $280 for 2TB. You're still better off with two PCIe 4.0 SSDs. Or even just one of them.
Speaking of expensive, Synology's new PCIe 3.0 SSD costs twice as much as that. (Tom's Hardware)

$535 for 1.6TB. It's sold as a caching device for NASes, so the critique in this article is a little misplaced. Even at PCIe 3.0 speeds it can easily keep up with two 10Gb Ethernet ports running at full speed in both directions.

It does have a pretty substantial write endurance of 2900TB, but a 4TB Crucial T500 is twice as fast, offers more than twice the storage, still promises 2400TB of endurance, and sells for around $300.
Xerox just bough Lexmark for $1.5 billion. (Nerds)

I think I ran a brief article about this last year when the deal was first announced; the acquisition has now been completed.
The GOP's spending bill could kill renewable energy projects. (The Verge)

Promise?

Totally Not Tech News

Sameko Saba, the latest incarnation of the same person behind spoiler and spoiler, just hit one million subscribers on YouTube.

It took three days.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Wanna see me do it again?

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 04:30 AM (+qU29)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at July 02, 2025 04:30 AM (CQE5S)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 02, 2025 04:31 AM (BLOW1)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 04:34 AM (sAmhv)

5 Howdy y'all

Posted by: OkJohn at July 02, 2025 04:43 AM (NC/it)

6 from the ONT:

258 Pixy-misa remembering Steven Den Beste

https://ai.mee.nu/life/remembering_steven_den_beste
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:25 PM (u4KuU)

Posted by: m at July 02, 2025 04:53 AM (CQE5S)

7 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 02, 2025 04:55 AM (XQo4F)

8 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 02, 2025 04:56 AM (hoCmQ)

9 Hello late nighters and early risers. And insomniacs.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 02, 2025 05:04 AM (g3gst)

10 People Magazine Online - Australian Edition
https://is.gd/d7bM0t

This age verification nonsense is straight up censorship. Censorship always fails especially if it involves teen age boys and porn. When this crap fails, and it will, the government will amp up the restrictions and enforcement. And when that doom loop fails enough I predict the Australian internet will be run by the North Koreans who will nuke the country when they fail. This is the origin story of Mad Max.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 05:06 AM (NXz8h)

11
The GOP's spending bill could kill renewable energy projects.

Oh, no!

Stop ....

Don't ...

Where was I?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 05:07 AM (xG4kz)

12 For some reason the title of this devotional from Numbers 16:3, The problem with complaining" from the rabbi's daughter at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews" made me laugh. I guess it's because the people spend a whole lot of time complaining through the Old Testament and then do the same through the New Testament: Anyway, some good thoughts about trusting God:

https://tinyurl.com/mr25tx6c

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:08 AM (2GCMq)

13
This is the origin story of Mad Max.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions

Make sure that you work the grounding of a cargo vessel carrying colanders and face masks on the Queensland coast into that story line.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 05:10 AM (xG4kz)

14 I had an entire day without a major first world problem. I feel empty and depressed.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 05:11 AM (NXz8h)

15 And insomniacs.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 02, 2025 05:04 AM (g3gst)

Maybe it is nature telling us to drink Bandol!

[I'm looking for some]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 05:11 AM (L5An7)

16
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 02, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)

17 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 02, 2025 05:11 AM (AN2gy)

18 And a Christian devotional from 2nd Corinthians 3:7-18, "From glory to glory". It is followed by a reflection, prayer and insight:

https://tinyurl.com/32s7f9we

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:14 AM (2GCMq)

19
Mankind was expelled from Eden because eating the apple led to Adam and Eve complaining incessantly.

When God came home and heard this perpetual wailing, He warned them to stop it, immediately, or He would "give them something to really complain about."

Guess what Adam and Eve didn't do?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 05:16 AM (xG4kz)

20 So I'm going to give myself until 5:30 Eastern time to complain and then ( through God's grace ) hopefully stop. Complaint- my phone screen is still jumping around like it has St, Vitus' Dance and tells me there is a problem on this site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:17 AM (2GCMq)

21 19-Hah, Krebs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:19 AM (2GCMq)

22
Xerox just bough Lexmark for $1.5 billion. (Nerds)

I think I ran a brief article about this last year when the deal was first announced; the acquisition has now been completed.

Big X' plan to corner the market on the use of "x" in companies' names is just getting started!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 05:19 AM (xG4kz)

23 >>> The GOP's spending bill could kill renewable energy projects.

Isn't 'renewable' a misnomer? After one extracts the joules, watts or calories that puff of wind is not coming back.

Heck, firewood grows on trees and is renewable, if you have time.

Posted by: fluffy at July 02, 2025 05:20 AM (AN2gy)

24 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 02, 2025 05:22 AM (Z5NUn)

25
You know who else hit one million subscribers?

Posted by: The Ppster Who Always Asks, "You Know Who Else ...?" at July 02, 2025 05:23 AM (xG4kz)

26 CBD in Bandol the big horse is Domaine Tempier which also has one of the coolest labels in the wine business.

It can occasionally be reasonably priced. Lots of less expensive ones but the consistency is surprisingly variable for a French wine region.

This is based on a relatively small sample size admittedly.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 02, 2025 05:23 AM (g3gst)

27 Bandol is a key appellation of the Provence wine region in far south-eastern France. Created in 1941, the title covers red, white and rosé wines from roughly 1550 hectares (3830 acres) of vineyards around the Mediterranean coastal town of Bandol.

That is like a 6 square mile region or in terms I understand: it takes about 15 minutes to drive across Las Cruces in any direction. Or 9.6 km using French math.

We don't have anything like Bandol but we do have flat green chile chicken enchiladas. Flat enchiladas are the waffles of enchiladas. Now you know. Sorry.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 05:24 AM (NXz8h)

28 This is based on a relatively small sample size admittedly.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 02, 2025 05:23 AM (g3gst)

Thus your insomnia.

Get cracking...open that Domaine Tempier!

https://is.gd/epVM2S

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 05:28 AM (L5An7)

29
No, not The Saturday Evening Post

Posted by: The Poster Who Always Asks, "You Know Who Else ...?" at July 02, 2025 05:28 AM (xG4kz)

30 A very nice morning psalm- Psalm 57:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhb4ed8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:28 AM (2GCMq)

31 Flat enchiladas are the waffles of enchiladas. Now you know. Sorry.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 05:24 AM (NXz8h)

Is a “flat enchilada “ an open face tostada? Chicken and green chile omelette is a longtime standard in our house.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 02, 2025 05:29 AM (g3gst)

32 They're still doing it:

Federal judge blocks Trump's immigration policy in shocking decision on Haitian protections
Judge claims DHS Secretary Noem 'does not have statutory authority' to modify TPS status for over 520,000 Haitians

https://tinyurl.com/yc3srrxr

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 05:29 AM (AOsQT)

33 >>> The GOP's spending bill could kill renewable energy projects.

I was hopeful that it would, but it seems that it will actually perpetuate and even increase the grifting.

gee. what a surprise.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 02, 2025 05:30 AM (Z5NUn)

34
thanks for The Platters, Pixy

they're the tip of the whip for that era's vocal groups

to paraphrase Bob Slydell, I celebrate their entire catalog

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 02, 2025 05:31 AM (tljrc)

35
How long will it be before The Zohran is exposed as a kiddie diddler?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 05:31 AM (xG4kz)

36 Last time I was in Paris I found Domaine Tempier in that wine shop at that giant food hall in the Bon Marche.

The Rose at least. The red is killer.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 02, 2025 05:32 AM (g3gst)

37
Flat enchiladas are the waffles of enchiladas. Now you know. Sorry.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 05:24 AM (NXz8h)

Is a “flat enchilada “ an open face tostada? Chicken and green chile omelette is a longtime standard in our house.

Gentlemen, this confusion cries out for a seasoned explainer of complexity!

Do we know anyone well versed in the arts of Venn Diagrams?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 05:34 AM (xG4kz)

38 My long new Dell computer nightmare is over. It took 2 months, 2 mail in repairs, and 1 extended phone support session. All ended with the box not booting. Things got a bit spicy when I said I wanted my money back or a new box. At first I was told no. I encouraged them to do the right thing. I got a new machine which works. The upside here is my comprehension of Hindi English improved dramatically.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 05:35 AM (NXz8h)

39 Last time I was in Paris I found Domaine Tempier in that wine shop at that giant food hall in the Bon Marche.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 02, 2025 05:32 AM (g3gst)

That's a Metro ride (or a long walk) for me, but as you know it's a great place!

I have been poking around my local shops, but so far no luck.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 05:39 AM (L5An7)

40 Is a “flat enchilada “ an open face tostada? Chicken and green chile omelette is a longtime standard in our house.
Posted by: Pete Bog

Flat enchiladas. Make enchilada stuff. Get a tortilla and put it on a plate. Smother it with enchilada stuff. Repeat until done. Top with a final tortilla, salsa and cheese. Bake until stuff melts. Serve. Andele's uses queso in their enchilada stuff - it is divine. I swear their queso is made from velvetta.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 05:40 AM (NXz8h)

41
From the looks of things, Teddy Cook was doing just fine degrading itself itself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 05:40 AM (xG4kz)

42 Good morning!

Chicken and green chile omelette is a longtime standard in our house.

Fish tacos made with grilled steelhead trout and topped with mango/habanero salsa here.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 02, 2025 05:41 AM (3Ope8)

43 Whenever I feel the need to improve my foreign language skills I just wander into Lowe's where all the signs are bilingual.

Oh, so that's how you say "toilet tank flapper valve" in Spanish?
Good to know.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 02, 2025 05:42 AM (XQo4F)

44 They're still doing it:

Federal judge blocks Trump's immigration policy...
Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 05:29 AM (AOsQT)

Why would they stop? The Supreme Court? No, I don't think so.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 02, 2025 05:43 AM (wQOIH)

45 The last time I was in Paris her heart was warm and gay. And I heard the laughter of her heart whenever I would visit a street café.

Posted by: Martin Dean at July 02, 2025 05:47 AM (XQo4F)

46 Good morning Horde , thx Pixy.
The Platters were a brilliant vocal group. Thx for the early morning The Pretender

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 02, 2025 05:47 AM (eBgDF)

47
Yo. Morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 05:48 AM (/HVsR)

48 The Platters, "The Great Pretender" (1959)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at July 02, 2025 05:51 AM (CQE5S)

49 Evening and morning on this Woden's Day! We're halfway through the week. Actually, for a lot of us, more than halfway, since the U.S. has Friday off. Woo-hoo!

I'm up a little early (as usual), having coffee and a pipe before breakfast. I have my surgeon appt. this morning; with any luck he will set a surgery date sometime this month so I can get it over with and get busy recovering before the summer is over. My plan is to hit the road to Indiana in Sept., soon after Labor Day. Only five months later than I planned, but "that's the way it goes sometimes moving West." (A favorite expression of the late, and ex-, Mrs. Wolfus No. 2.)

So, whass happenin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 05:51 AM (omVj0)

50
Websites used to be simple. (Simplesite)

Some still are

One of life's simple pleasures in that simpler time was a website, "Minsky's Worst of the Web". Its curator made a point of surfing the web to find sites whose presentations and / or appearances were especially cheesy, gaudy or otherwise unintentionally hilarious.

It was truly a "you had to be there at the right moment" kind of viewing experience because sites singled out by Mirsky often worked to remove whatever it was that he had mocked about the site. Viewers late to the party thus did not experience the naked aggression of a site's original cheesiness.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 05:52 AM (xG4kz)

51 Time to decide on my own breakfast after having fed the furry thugs. Perhaps my usual scrambled seasoned egg plus small beef & bean burrito?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

52 from the ONT:

570 don’t confuse andouille with andouillette.

Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:34 AM (eZywV)

Anduillette is foul.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 04:42 AM (L5An7)

Andouillette
Gentille andouillette
Andouillette
Je te plumerai

Posted by: m at July 02, 2025 05:54 AM (CQE5S)

53
His name was Mirsky, not Minsky

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 05:55 AM (xG4kz)

54 G'morning everyone,

Well that was a short break. I'm driving again for the summer.

@32/Don Black: "They're still doing it: "

And they'll continue to do it until someone gives them a legal smack down that actually hurts.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 02, 2025 05:55 AM (O7YUW)

55 G'morning, all!

Passed my annual physical yesterday.

Doctor was delighted with the 40+ pound weight loss, and overall improvement in health.
Gotta work on bringing cholesterol down lower without medication.

I think I can attribute that to a massive increase in egg and cheese consumption, that I need to significantly reduce.

But overall, I'm in much better shape than 12 months ago.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 05:59 AM (a1415)

56
Well done, VIA!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 06:00 AM (xG4kz)

57 VIA, you're just going to have to cut down on all those omelettes au fromage. CBD has been a bad influence.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 02, 2025 06:01 AM (PiwSw)

58 VIA, That is an accomplishment. Good Job.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 06:01 AM (NXz8h)

59 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 05:59 AM (a1415)

That's great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 06:01 AM (2GCMq)

60 Looks like the city of Baltimore is facing a rebellion by some Court workers.

But don't worry....Law enforcement is on it.

https://tinyurl.com/mux9d235

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:01 AM (a1415)

61
Seeing as how it rained last night and therefore the weeds are easier to extract, I'm going to put an hour or so into ending their miserable existsnce.

Later.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 02, 2025 06:02 AM (xG4kz)

62 His name was Mirsky, not Minsky

"Minsky's," of course, was a legendary NYC burlesque house. I'd recommend The Night They Raided Minsky's as a fun summer read. The movie adaptation was lousy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 02, 2025 06:03 AM (Dg2sF)

63
Its curator made a point of surfing the web to find sites whose presentations and / or appearances were especially cheesy, gaudy or otherwise unintentionally hilarious.

The X37 Webcam pop-up ad.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 06:03 AM (/HVsR)

64 Good for you VIA. I've lost some weight over the last few years by removing carbs and sugar from my eating habits. Nowadays breakfast is about six ounces of steak and two hard boiled eggs.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 02, 2025 06:05 AM (XQo4F)

65 "VIA, you're just going to have to cut down on all those omelettes au fromage. CBD has been a bad influence."

And that is actually one of the issues.
Mrs VIA took to reseasoning ALL of her cast iron cookware recently. Which has led to a daily six egg bacon/peppers and cheese omelet split between us.

And on the days that we only have traditional steel cut oatmeal, I will consume 4-5 hard boiled eggs throughout the day.

And of course one of the two daily salads must have shredded cheese and thousand island dressing. With a sliced HB egg.

I think I know where I can improve on that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:06 AM (a1415)

66 @55/Village Idiot's Apprentice:

Eggs aren't likely your problem. This from the Mayo Clinic:
https://tinyurl.com/yshd44e5

"Chicken eggs are an affordable source of protein and other nutrients. They're also naturally high in cholesterol. But the cholesterol in eggs doesn't seem to raise cholesterol levels the way some other foods, such as those high in trans fats and saturated fats, do."

Going back to butter from margarine could have a positive effect, for instance.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 02, 2025 06:06 AM (O7YUW)

67 *Going back to butter from margarine could have a positive effect, for instance.*

Ghee. It just tastes butter.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 02, 2025 06:08 AM (XQo4F)

68
But overall, I'm in much better shape than 12 months ago.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 05:59 AM (a1415)

I try to stay away from carbs (rice, pasta, bread, regular sodas) and walk 10,000 steps a day. At my top, I was nearly 230 but now I'm down to 180.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 06:09 AM (/HVsR)

69 Isn't 'renewable' a misnomer? After one extracts the joules, watts or calories that puff of wind is not coming back.

Heck, firewood grows on trees and is renewable, if you have time.
Posted by: fluffy at July 02, 2025 05:20 AM (AN2gy)

Even if one accepts the notion that oil is watery, compressed dinosaurs, oil is renewable if you have the time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 06:09 AM (ExV1e)

70 Flat enchiladas. Make enchilada stuff. Get a tortilla and put it on a plate. Smother it with enchilada stuff. Repeat until done. Top with a final tortilla, salsa and cheese. Bake until stuff melts. Serve. Andele's uses queso in their enchilada stuff - it is divine. I swear their queso is made from velvetta.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 05:40 AM (NXz8h)

So... savory Mexican cake?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 06:11 AM (ExV1e)

71 "*Going back to butter from margarine could have a positive effect, for instance.*

Ghee. It just tastes butter."

One of the things that I miss is our old Wegman's store.

Wegman's is the only store that I know of that carries a French butter known as Butter Boy/with sea salt crystals in it.

What I call a 'dessert butter'.

Few things on earth taste as good as fresh warm french bread with that stuff lumped on it in incredible amounts.

Now I'm hungry.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:12 AM (a1415)

72 >>> The GOP's spending bill could kill renewable energy projects.

I was hopeful that it would, but it seems that it will actually perpetuate and even increase the grifting.

gee. what a surprise.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 02, 2025 05:30 AM (Z5NUn)

Reminder: A system's purpose is what it does. "Representative" government placates you while they loot the Treasury.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 06:12 AM (i24o9)

73 "I try to stay away from carbs (rice, pasta, bread, regular sodas) and walk 10,000 steps a day."

Same thing here.

My carb intake was massive.

Reduced it, and began the 4 mile almost daily walk, which is what got me from 221 down to about 178 so far.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:14 AM (a1415)

74 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Not so much.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 02, 2025 06:17 AM (XZ5S6)

75 "Even if one accepts the notion that oil is watery, compressed dinosaurs, oil is renewable if you have the time."

I think the same argument can be made for coal.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:18 AM (a1415)

76 But overall, I'm in much better shape than 12 months ago.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 05:59 AM (a1415)

All the bread and incredible cheese has gone straight to my midsection. By the time I return home I'll bet I will be 15 pounds heavier, having enjoyed every mouthful!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 06:20 AM (L5An7)

77 My carb intake was massive.

Reduced it, and began the 4 mile almost daily walk, which is what got me from 221 down to about 178 so far.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:14 AM (a1415)

The best, bar none.

It worked for me once, and I am confident it will work again, once I am away from the irresistible temptation of French food!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 06:21 AM (L5An7)

78 For some reason the title of this devotional from Numbers 16:3, The problem with complaining" from the rabbi's daughter at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews" made me laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 05:08 AM (2GCMq)
-

All of this could have been avoided had the suggestions box been invented back then.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 02, 2025 06:22 AM (SLJQR)

79 "I encouraged them to do the right thing."

I would love to hear the details of that. Pretty impressive that you finally got them to do their jobs. Even if we desperately need more Indian tech support centers for some reason.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 06:24 AM (+4yJ5)

80 "It worked for me once, and I am confident it will work again, once I am away from the irresistible temptation of French food!"

I do envy you the opportunity to enjoy their food for a while.

Now for a dumb question.

Have you ever seen a fat French mime?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:25 AM (a1415)

81 Why would I give two shits about logging into a search engine? Too bad, so sad. These things are not necessary.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 06:25 AM (hNiAS)

82 Have you ever seen a fat French mime?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:25 AM (a1415)

Non.

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at July 02, 2025 06:26 AM (PiwSw)

83 At some point, I do want to refocus on my long term goal of home media streaming and owning a NAS for here at the house.

That would be on topic for the morning Tech Thread.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:34 AM (a1415)

84 Poor Red Panda. Injured at a WNBA halftime performance. It's like Pavarotti straining his vocal cords at Hooters karaoke night.

Posted by: Wally at July 02, 2025 06:34 AM (TFgMp)

85 Will Thomas just had all his swimming records and titles taken away.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 02, 2025 06:36 AM (PiwSw)

86 Looks like UPenn has a policy change.

Lia Thomas hardest hit.

( But not hard enough, IMHO)

https://tinyurl.com/y6dz2pwc

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:37 AM (a1415)

87 Horde mind

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 02, 2025 06:38 AM (PiwSw)

88 Scary...in't it?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:39 AM (a1415)

89 Will Thomas just had all his swimming records and titles taken away.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 02, 2025 06:36 AM (PiwSw)

It's another Trumpmas miracle!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 06:39 AM (i24o9)

90 85 Will Thomas just had all his swimming records and titles taken away.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 02, 2025 06:36 AM (PiwSw

His season in the sun…….now he has to go on The View.

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 06:41 AM (jgmnb)

91 We can ask "Lia" Thomas if this hurts more than a kick in the nuts.

Posted by: Wally at July 02, 2025 06:42 AM (TFgMp)

92 I'd like it if someone would interview all the Penn swimmers who would not speak out about the Will Thomas thing.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 02, 2025 06:43 AM (zeLd4)

93 Wait...Has UPenn discovered a way to identify what a woman is?

I had heard that was rather difficult to do.

So this is an amazing technological breakthrough.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:43 AM (a1415)

94 Have you ever seen a fat French mime?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:25 AM (a1415)

It is truly impressive how they manage their weight in the presence of so much deliciousness.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 06:44 AM (L5An7)

95 At some point, I do want to refocus on my long term goal of home media streaming and owning a NAS for here at the house.

That would be on topic for the morning Tech Thread.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:34 AM (a1415)

Symology makes owning and maintaining a NAS easy. And they are the least of the big names suffering security issues reported here.

Otherwise, OMV on an old PC with 3 large HDDs is a well-worn path. I stream both to Kodi boxes (RaspberryPi running LibreElec), also well-worn paths.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 06:44 AM (i24o9)

96 Good morning, good people. 2 more days until the birthday of the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by an extraordinary people who are governed, not ruled, by a political system unique in history.

It should be noted that during the course of our history we have met and prevailed over issues even more serious than the current mess, with an unbroken success record. I have the utmost faith that this record will remain unbroken.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 02, 2025 06:44 AM (hKoQL)

97 "It is truly impressive how they manage their weight in the presence of so much deliciousness."

Perhaps a support group of some type.

Where they get together and talk about their goals and support each others effor........

No, that can't be it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:46 AM (a1415)

98 "Symology makes owning and maintaining a NAS easy. And they are the least of the big names suffering security issues reported here."

I tend to think that this is a project that I will solve the old fashioned way.....money.

After watching many videos, and reading many tech articles, I have come to accept the fact that some things are simply beyond my ability to get my brain around effectively.

And building a system seems to fall right into that category.

But not this week.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:49 AM (a1415)

99 At some point, I do want to refocus on my long term goal of home media streaming and owning a NAS for here at the house.

That would be on topic for the morning Tech Thread.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I use a Synology NAS where I store all my media. I have this attached to my modem/router. To get things rolling, I have a Plex server running on the NAS. This setup broadcasts access to my streaming media to my home network. My Roku TV has a Plex client app which I connect to the server. At that point it looks like any other streaming media service that you can purchase. Additionally, I have on my phone an app that taps into my server and allows me to stream my music as you would Spotify. Via Android auto my Plex app shows up and it streams through my car stereo. It is all quite slick.

Keep in mind you will have to purchase a subscription to the Plex service to make this work or you can buy a lifetime license. There are other options that I did not explore because this was easily available to me.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 06:50 AM (NXz8h)

100 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 02, 2025 06:51 AM (Ul4ZN)

101 "If you push something hard enough, it will fall over."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 02, 2025 06:52 AM (WPL6O)

102 Meanwhile, folks ask why I seem to focus on Maryland, and Baltimore in particular.

Besides having moved from there, we need to keep in mind the upcoming Presidential election.

And Maryland's Governor, Wes Moore (D) is going to be a strong contender for that title.

So it's important to keep an eye on the damage that he is doing to the State of Maryland as we get closer to 2028.

Cause we are going to see his name again.

https://tinyurl.com/352s79ah

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:53 AM (a1415)

103 And building a system seems to fall right into that category.

But not this week.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:49 AM (a1415)

Easy. Cheap. Works. Pick two.

My Synology NAS is probably ten years old and still maintained by Synology, which is just OS and application updates. It's stupid simple and utterly reliable, which is a breath of fresh air for modern tech.

About $5/month or less over its life is cheap, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 06:55 AM (i24o9)

104 "I use a Synology NAS where I store all my media..."

Thank you!

Sort of what I have been thinking of.

Although lately, Jellyfish (?) seems to be a topic of discussion if one wants to avoid the cost of Plex subscriptions.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:56 AM (a1415)

105 I do want to refocus on my long term goal of home media streaming and owning a NAS for here at the house.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:34 AM (a1415)

I'm in.

I want it to be accessible from the outside, which may be more complicated.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 06:57 AM (L5An7)

106 So it's important to keep an eye on the damage that he is doing to the State of Maryland as we get closer to 2028.

As a current resident of the GPROMD, I will be happy to feed the Horde current information.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 02, 2025 06:58 AM (+4yJ5)

107 Media storage, some thoughts.
Or more like 'questions'

I probably have near to 500 CD's of music, and about 500 DVDs. I don't see myself increasing those numbers by any appreciable amount.

And I have an interest in possibly going with SSD's as well. But I won't rule out HDD's.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:00 AM (a1415)

108 "I want it to be accessible from the outside, which may be more complicated."

Simply leave your front door open.

Easy Peasy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:01 AM (a1415)

109 And the same tourist AWFL Karens are complaining that Saba is Loli-bait.

Uh hello you stupid twat-waffles, look at her previous avatars.

Now please go roll in the grass and find a fire ant mound.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2025 07:01 AM (u4KuU)

110 I'm in.

I want it to be accessible from the outside, which may be more complicated.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

You're upstream bandwidth from your home internet gates a lot of what's possible. I don't have sufficient upstream to do video but I can stream high resolution music files. What you want is totally doable and I don't think it would be overwhelmingly difficult to pull off.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 07:02 AM (NXz8h)

111 I avoided Plex, for the cost and entanglement/security, but it seems slick and people find it useful and easy.

But I don't even use Synology's external access to avoid entanglement/security. I would use a personal VPN if I wanted external access.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 07:03 AM (i24o9)

112 "You're upstream bandwidth from your home internet gates a lot of what's possible. "

With Spectrum I get about 600 download, but only about 20 for upload.

Factor in 9 WYZE cameras feeding the cloud constantly, and I suspect that streaming outside of the house might be an issue.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:05 AM (a1415)

113 Time for my shave and shower!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2025 07:05 AM (omVj0)

114 Money cube is hollow.

Posted by: torabora at July 02, 2025 07:05 AM (ImJx8)

115 But I won't rule out HDD's.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:00 AM (a1415)

Four Bay NAS with HDDs. You can hot swap disks that fail, and get 24 terabytes of storage for less than $1k. SSDs are a lot more than that!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 07:05 AM (L5An7)

116 83 At some point, I do want to refocus on my long term goal of home media streaming and owning a NAS for here at the house.

That would be on topic for the morning Tech Thread.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 06:34 AM (a1415)

I did something similar with the Plex software when it first came out to be able to stream movies from my computer to the iPad or SmartTV.

Setting it up is easy with the right hardware.

The difficult, time consuming part is encoding VHS tapes or DVDs to mp4 video for streaming.

Depending on the size of the collection, the speed of the computer and the quality settings you use to encode, all of that can take awhile.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 07:06 AM (6ydKt)

117 I don't have sufficient upstream to do video but I can stream high resolution music files. What you want is totally doable and I don't think it would be overwhelmingly difficult to pull off.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 07:02 AM (NXz8h)

I switched ISPs recently and their upstream is very fast...at least 100GB, and sometimes 6X that.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 07:07 AM (L5An7)

118 “ He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.””

Matthew 17:20

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 07:08 AM (ittVa)

119 And I have an interest in possibly going with SSD's as well. But I won't rule out HDD's.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:00 AM (a1415)

You want HDDs for for storage cost, redundancy, reliability. I wouldn't go SSDs unless fast access is required such as for large file transfer and access such as in video editing.

Otherwise, consider a UPS in your budget if you don't already have one. Utter reliability come from safe/stable power over its lifetime.

I've not lost one device HDD since everything has been on UPS.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 07:08 AM (i24o9)

120 mornin yall. The day that I am required to submit my face or fingerprint to log in to something is the day I move to the far side of the swamp.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

121 mornin yall. The day that I am required to submit my face or fingerprint to log in to something is the day I move to the far side of the swamp.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

Thar be Linuxes there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 07:11 AM (i24o9)

122 Today last of prep work for new roof.
House had zero fan vents or dormer vents. 105° typical summer afternoon.Thankfully plumbing vented through roof.

Even the cooking stove hood vent wasn't vented. Just blew stove air back into kitchen. Charcoal filter dumb dumb dumb.
Built 1989. Told inspector took bribes. That's our government for you. Just like the Soviets.

Posted by: torabora at July 02, 2025 07:12 AM (ImJx8)

123 I want to thank everyone who has responded concerning media streaming/NAS questions.

Knowing that there are Morons who have successfully walked this path already gives me comfort.

But any moment, a certain bagel loving COB is gonna show up with the Morning Report.

And we will of course, do that Corgi thing.

Because, that's the Moron way.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:13 AM (a1415)

124 With Spectrum I get about 600 download, but only about 20 for upload.

Factor in 9 WYZE cameras feeding the cloud constantly, and I suspect that streaming outside of the house might be an issue.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:05 AM (a1415)

Yeah, 20 wouldn’t be enough.

If you want to upgrade to the full 1gig up & down AT&T Fiber is the way to go, if they’ve laid the fiber in your neighborhood and you don’t mind paying more for it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 07:14 AM (6ydKt)

125 FenelonSpoke, thanks for the morning readings. Today's links spoke to me.

Posted by: RandomDave at July 02, 2025 07:15 AM (aJQbY)

126 "Even the cooking stove hood vent wasn't vented. Just blew stove air back into kitchen. Charcoal filter dumb dumb dumb.
Built 1989. Told inspector took bribes. That's our government for you. Just like the Soviets."

Do you have bathroom ceiling vent fans?

Might want to make sure that they didn't just exhaust them into the attic as another short cut.

Not as uncommon as one would think.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:15 AM (a1415)

127 I switched ISPs recently and their upstream is very fast...at least 100GB, and sometimes 6X that.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Aren't you all fancy.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 07:16 AM (NXz8h)

128 " if they’ve laid the fiber in your neighborhood"

And therein lies the problem.

No fiber.

Cellular based is slowly moving into the area, and we do have a tower within 500 yards of the house.

But I think I want to let that tech mature for a bit before I do anything stupid.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:18 AM (a1415)

129 Cellular based is slowly moving into the area, and we do have a tower within 500 yards of the house.

But I think I want to let that tech mature for a bit before I do anything stupid.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I use Verizon cellular internet and it's been rock solid. Because we're dealing with radio waves, line of sight is an issue. My tower is about a mile away and I don't have any great interference. 500 yd shouldn't be a problem provided you don't have like a 20-story building between you and the tower. Cellular internet is one of those things where you have to try it to figure out if it works or not.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 07:21 AM (NXz8h)

130 But I think I want to let that tech mature for a bit before I do anything stupid.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:18 AM (a1415)

A friend who lives up in Cainhoy has T-Mobile home 5G.

His speeds are pretty decent.
Faster than cable but not as good as fiber.

All he uses it for is streaming music and TV.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 07:21 AM (6ydKt)

131 Does anyone know why, when I add the Ace website to my favorites, on my Mac, the icon is for the New York Post? It is an “A”, in a gray box, my iPad,

Posted by: Shipoopi at July 02, 2025 07:23 AM (t1uwd)

132 Have no idea.

Posted by: Bob from the NSA at July 02, 2025 07:24 AM (XQo4F)

133 "500 yd shouldn't be a problem provided you don't have like a 20-story building between you and the tower"

Absolutely clear line of sight.
And probably far less than 500 yards. Maybe even 500 foot.

And both Verizon and T-Mobile ride that tower.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:26 AM (a1415)

134 Trump got $16 Million from Paramount.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:26 AM (WIJBc)

135 "Trump got $16 Million from Paramount."

Plus Atty Fees?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:27 AM (a1415)

136 85 Will Thomas just had all his swimming records and titles taken away.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 02, 2025 06:36 AM (PiwSw)

Thanks mostly to Riley Gaines and the few who had the guts to speak out and take the threats and slander. No thanks for the go-along, get-along silent cowards.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 02, 2025 07:28 AM (WHfpM)

137 Heck, I'm on dsl still and i haven't had any noticeable problems.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 07:28 AM (BjH5D)

138 A friend who lives up in Cainhoy has T-Mobile home 5G. His speeds are pretty decent. Faster than cable but not as good as fiber. All he uses it for is streaming music and TV.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

When the Verizon towers first started broadcasting cellular home internet, there was a few glitches that could last 30 seconds to 3 or 4 minutes. That might happen once or twice a week. Since then they have tuned their towers and I've had zero downtime. Cell systems go down from time to time, but generally they're the most reliable communication systems around in my experience. Cellular home internet again is location dependent on line of sight to your Tower. A good proxy for understanding this is how well does your phone operate in your house? If you have to stand on one foot with tin foil on your head, cellular internet probably isn't a good idea for you.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 07:28 AM (NXz8h)

139 Heck, I'm on dsl still and i haven't had any noticeable problems.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Prior to my Verizon Cellular connection, I was using CenturyLink DSL with a twisted pair 100 megabits per second. I had zero problems with it but that isn't always the case. Companies are no longer investing into DSL and if you get a problem good luck!. I've read of cases where people are waiting months to get their DSL internet up and running.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 07:30 AM (NXz8h)

140 I didn't se attorney fees mentioned.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:30 AM (WIJBc)

141 " If you have to stand on one foot with tin foil on your head, cellular internet probably isn't a good idea for you."

But if I take the tin foil off, the voices come back!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2025 07:30 AM (a1415)

142 Does the tin foil help?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:32 AM (WIJBc)

143 The voices in my head always get snippy when they catch me eavesdropping on them.

Jerks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 02, 2025 07:33 AM (BjH5D)

144 Way to go, VIA. I hope your life is as much better as your "numbers"

Posted by: Old Toby at July 02, 2025 07:33 AM (eqWxE)

145 131 Does anyone know why, when I add the Ace website to my favorites, on my Mac, the icon is for the New York Post? It is an “A”, in a gray box, my iPad,
Posted by: Shipoopi at July 02, 2025 07:23 AM (t1uwd)

I’ve found over the years that browsers screw up the site icons a lot.

I’m not sure why but it will get them mixed up,
If you clear your browser cache and close the browser completely then restart it, the browser will reload the icon after you visit the website again.

It must be a bug to do with how the browser keeps track of site icons.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 07:33 AM (6ydKt)

146 Nood

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 02, 2025 07:35 AM (i24o9)

147 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

148 "Does the tin foil help?"

Absolutely!

* Snickers*

Posted by: Bob, from NSA at July 02, 2025 07:35 AM (a1415)

149 I don't get an icon for this site. Just a gray A.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 07:36 AM (WIJBc)

150 When the Verizon towers first started broadcasting cellular home internet, there was a few glitches that could last 30 seconds to 3 or 4 minutes. That might happen once or twice a week. Since then they have tuned their towers and I've had zero downtime. Cell systems go down from time to time, but generally they're the most reliable communication systems around in my experience. Cellular home internet again is location dependent on line of sight to your Tower. A good proxy for understanding this is how well does your phone operate in your house? If you have to stand on one foot with tin foil on your head, cellular internet probably isn't a good idea for you.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 02, 2025 07:28 AM (NXz8h)

Yeah, he’d complain about everything freezing on his TV every now and then. I assumed it was to do with connection drops, but he also has a Roku TV so maybe that was part of the problem also because he could be streaming music on his PC and it would work flawless while his sports all game on the streaming TV would stop & start on him.

The most reliable service will always come across a wire but that’s not always possible.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2025 07:39 AM (6ydKt)

151 I learned recently that T-Mobile 5G home internet is available in my neighborhood because of changes made to the street lamps. They are a carriage style of lamp that used to have translucent panes and gave off an amber colored illumination.
Now the panes have been removed and a bright LED shines down with a hideous glare. But up on top is a little black top hat that looks like a photo sensor and is the T-Mobile 5G transmitter.

The more you know...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 02, 2025 07:43 AM (XQo4F)

152 >>This Saturday, July 5 will mark 50 years of independence from Portugal for the country of Cabo Verde, an archipelago off the coast of West Africa with a large diaspora in southeastern Massachusetts.

This comes just as New Bedford kicks off its first-ever Cabo Verdean Heritage Month.

I'd like to send this salad back to the chef, please.
This is ridiculous.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2025 08:28 AM (VVnrT)

153 sock off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 02, 2025 09:29 AM (w9Wax)

154 Senate GOP didn't eliminate Biden's "green energy" subsidies, it guaranteed them.

https://x.com/AlexEpstein/status/1940089077409489010

Posted by: Galt at July 02, 2025 09:30 AM (9UnaD)

155 China’s Semiconductor industry enters failure phase - Shanghai Wusheng Semiconductor is bankrupt, while 23 others have pulled their IPOs, according to a report in Tom’s Hardware. Almost 11 thousand chip companies were closed in 2023.

This does not signal that China’s semiconductor industry is in trouble. China’s typical economic policy has been not to pick winners, but to fertilize and water a market with far more money than it can absorb. This generates thousands of competitors in the initial phase, few of which ever generate the profitability to survive. Profitability is the market’s weed killer and China uses it well. This happened in smartphones in the last decade. In the end, the market consolidated into a few giants. So China’s failure phase in its economic policy is really a de-weeding of the bad and a consolidation of the good. One proof of this is that the underperformance of China’s chip stocks versus other regions has recently turned to the positive, suggesting the real winners are becoming visible. So it’s not time to do a victory lap, as the competition will get hotter.

Posted by: SMOD at July 02, 2025 10:24 AM (RHGPo)

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - July 1, 2025 [scampydog]

Pic texted to me with the following comment: Montana Restaurant

Good evening and welcome to the Tuesday ONT of digital sanitation. A collation of abandoned drafts, lukewarm takes, and general decluttering.

Attention Lurkers

Per the Official AoS Handbook, subsection 4b, all lurkers are encouraged to submit one (1) comment per quarter. Today marks the start of Q3 on the Gregorian calendar, so go ahead and check this task off your list. Dive in and join the lively chatter.

Acceptable topics are whatever you want. This is an open thread. Some ideas to get you going:

-Anything chaotic
-Commentary on the content (lightly skimmed/ignored is expected). We know about the content reading/lack thereof
-Anything random, weird, or questionably relevant (weird is very on-brand)

Members of the 50 Cent Army, Internet Research Agency, and other state-sponsored propaganda squads: you're excused. Sit this one out.

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As the cool kids say, "Stay with it to the end."

Watch this vid before you take your kids with you to work 😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/63fDs3KAKW
— 🔥⭐️Edwin⭐️🔥 (@Nuked4Every1) June 24, 2025

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Operation Midnight Hammer is officially in the books.

Let's see what else is tucked away in the archives. Some amusing military operation names.

Operation Frequent Wind. And more.

Operation Frequent Wind was the 1975 evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese citizens from Saigon before it fell. So we’ve established this was a pretty big deal and our side comes up with “Operation Frequent Wind” for a name. Leave it to a bunch of military guys to make a fart joke around one of the most visible missions in history.

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There are a fair amount of thoughts around: What the hell is the DOJ spending their time doing?

The Tuesday ONT is here for you. Here is the link to their press release page. Searchable by date and keyword. Some interesting reading.

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Life Skills - Rites of Passage: Polishing shoes - dead art? Walk in heels (only those that can define what a woman is). Properly pressing a shirt? Dressing appropriately for any occasion? Change a tire? Apply nail polish? How to tie a tie? Share some life skills - rites of passage in the comments.

Had the opportunity to have an incidental learning session with a young man recently on how to properly tie a tie. I prefer the 1/2 Windsor but the military knot and full Windsor have their time and place. My mother actually taught me how to tie a tie.

Pretty much every imaginable knot at this link. Never learned how to tie the bow tie - they do make it looks sexy in the movies when a woman ties it on a man.

High heels seem like a torture device. I suspect there is value - on those occasions when they must be worn, in knowing how to operate those creatures. Is there a song or something? Heal, toe, short step, short step.

Don't take long strides in your heels. As tempting as it can be to strut your stuff, you've got to learn how to walk before you can run. Take small steps by planting your heel firmly on the ground. Roll through the ball of your foot, push off with your toes, and keep your strides controlled and short. Avoid overextending your legs. Focus on maintaining a steady pace and distributing your weight evenly. Take your time to adjust to the height and feel of the heels, gradually increasing your stride length as you gain comfort and support.

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Not what you expect it to be.

Such a good boy😂😂. pic.twitter.com/06oj8V6Lh5
— SonnyBoy🇺🇸 (@gotrice2024) June 24, 2025

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What could possibly go wrong? Large banks are ramping up leverage again.

In the early 2000's, large bank leverage was roughly 20 to 1. Sometime around 2008 they increased to 30 to 1 (and I lost my mind). Previous life - the company I worked for did some deals with Lehman - thankfully prior to their demise. Current ratios are running about 10/15 to 1.

Uh huh, tell me about those low-risk assets. Way too deep of a topic to litigate in an ONT post, but plenty of room in the comment section for those interested or read in on such things.

ESLR (enhanced supplementary leverage ratio).

Large U.S. global banks can expect as much as $6 trillion in additional balance sheet capacity and billions in freed up capital under a Federal Reserve plan to relax leverage rules, Wall Street brokerages estimated Thursday.
The U.S. Fed unveiled a proposal on Wednesday that would overhaul how much capital large global banks must hold against relatively low-risk assets, as part of a bid to boost participation in U.S. Treasury markets.

Here is a deeper dive.

The relationship between the Treasury market and leverage ratios, and the ESLR in particular, is intuitive: Since a leverage ratio requires the same amount of capital for every asset with the same nominal value, it incentivizes banks to move away from low-risk assets like Treasuries and toward higher-risk, higher-yielding assets. Risk-weighted capital requirements incentivize banks in the opposite direction-toward lower-risk assets. But when the minimum required leverage ratio is high enough, it can dominate bank decisions on how to allocate capital among asset classes and activities. This effect is likely to be especially pronounced for banks with relatively higher amounts of trading activity-both because Treasuries are the most traded asset in the world and because of their use as collateral in repo transactions.
Before the ESLR was adopted in 2013, Federal Reserve officials (including me) discussed internally whether the new requirement of a 5% SLR for G-SIBs might interfere with monetary policy implementation or the smooth functioning of the Treasury market. Given expected levels of Treasury debt and reserves, they did not anticipate a problem. But many, both inside and outside the Fed, recognized that the ESLR might in some future circumstances adversely affect the Treasury market, especially during a period in which hedge funds and other institutions holding Treasuries needed to monetize them to obtain liquidity. Banks approaching their minimum leverage ratio would not be able to take more Treasuries onto their balance sheets.

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One of those silly songs that has hung in there.

Charlie Rich, Behind Closed Doors from 1973. Went to #1 on US Country Songs and #15 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

I'm not on Spotify, but it is a popular tool. Most streamed song by year. A lot of streaming! Streaking was the '70's, or so I was told.

Parents, what have you done, or do you still do that embarrasses your littles?

Poker Face - Lady Gaga, 2008. Some Moron used that as their alarm on their phone for a couple of years to annoy their children. Daaaad!!!! You're not cool enough to know that song. You're embarrassing!

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Technically, none below are wrong - all will be consumed. However, let's not pretend there isn't a hierarchy of proper "doneness." Prepare for opinions. Loud ones. Friendships may be tested. Some of you will get this wrong - the correct response is somewhere between 1.5 and 2. Scampywife insists that 6 is the correct carbon state of bacon.

Good Morning Y’all ☕️🥓
3-4 perfect bacon pic.twitter.com/e0Mi96XLIB
— LaylaTexas77🌹 (@LaylaTexas77) April 3, 2025

This ONT is brought to you by: If you're here, you survived Pride Month. Congrats.

Also, No Go Zones.

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Last minute ONT additions:

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day. One of the greatest sports stories of this generation.

As has been the case since 2011, Bonilla today will receive a $1.19 million annual payment from the Mets, a continuation of a deferral structure created in 2000, and lasting until 2035. Overall, the Mets deal, thanks to the deferrals and compounded interest, has turned an initial $5.9 million contract obligation to Bonilla into nearly $30 million for the six-time All-Star.

Trump wins again. UPenn male swimmer cosplaying as a woman has swim records stripped.

The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor following an investigation by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

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My proton email account is kaput. I'd like to say it was something clever that I did, but it wasn't. Testing out - coming soon, the new and improved... Atomic mail.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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1 Yay, International Joke Day ONT!

Also Canada Day. Not sure if that's just coincidence or not.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

2 And they told me you can't get there from here. HA!

Posted by: mindful webworker - artificially ignorant at July 01, 2025 10:00 PM (4yKs6)

3 you have to expect some cheetahs

Posted by: Ciampino - No brrrrrs at July 01, 2025 10:00 PM (sPQoU)

4 Doggo! Congrats for posting the ONT subtly above the cafe.

Posted by: TRex at July 01, 2025 10:01 PM (IQ6Gq)

5 Blanco wins firstness.

I blinked after refreshing the front page. Never blink.

Posted by: mindful webworker - artificially ignorant at July 01, 2025 10:01 PM (4yKs6)

6 Hey y'all!

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at July 01, 2025 10:01 PM (hftn9)

7 yo!

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 10:01 PM (gKWVE)

8 Not first!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:01 PM (1paM0)

9 Doggo! Congrats for posting the ONT subtly above the cafe.
Posted by: TRex
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Subtle. I love it.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:02 PM (41CYW)

10 Dang...thought i was frist for sure, I blinked as well.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at July 01, 2025 10:02 PM (hftn9)

11 Blanco wins firstness.

I'd like to thank Ace for creating the blog, scampydog for posting the ONT that made it all possible, and single minded obsession.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)

12 No way I could be first on this antiquated iPad.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:04 PM (1paM0)

13 Operation Midnight Hammer is officially in the books.

Whew!

Posted by: Paul P at July 01, 2025 10:04 PM (0eaVi)

14 I like my bacon chewy on toast with apple or pear jelly or tomatoes from my garden.

Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 10:04 PM (n2swS)

15 Heard from ScaryMary. She is helping her parents. Wishes everyone well and will join in when she can.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 10:05 PM (HFcKg)

16 Heard from ScaryMary. She is helping her parents. Wishes everyone well and will join in when she can.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Thanks for the update, Ben Had.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:07 PM (41CYW)

17 "as part of a bid to boost participation in U.S. Treasury markets."

Or we could issue less debt

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 01, 2025 10:07 PM (pIfcn)

18 She’s a good actress, but I doubt she has a meeting with HR or a daughter!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:07 PM (1paM0)

19 Use thicker bacon and between 2&3.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2025 10:07 PM (cduTK)

20 The answer is 2

Posted by: Solutus at July 01, 2025 10:08 PM (KhJWo)

21 Gawd, I hate that Chrlie Rich song. I worked the summer of '74, out of high school, at a fancy steak house/supper club. I was a busboy with my little jacket and bow tie and all. Anyway, they had a house band. I heard that song at least once a set (3 or 4 times), every night I worked.

Kill me now.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)

22 Bacon: 2

Operation Movie Sign!

Posted by: Insert New Nic Here at July 01, 2025 10:09 PM (0aYVJ)

23 I have to agree with banana Dream!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:09 PM (1paM0)

24 scampydog, thank you for all your hard work.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 10:09 PM (HFcKg)

25 Evening, ONT Horde, and our esteemed host.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:10 PM (jYYer)

26 Sorry I'm late. I thought I had inadvertently wandered i to a sci-fi convention. Turns out, I had only been abducted by aliens.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 01, 2025 10:10 PM (zyYVb)

27 Good evening morons en bedankt Doggo

If you like bacon 3-5, reconsider your life-choices.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

28 scampydog, thank you for all your hard work.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Well thank you! It's fun - glad the Horde hasn't run me off. Wait... what's that lamppost doing in the front yard?

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:10 PM (41CYW)

29 Happy Dominion Day to our Canadien Horde …

Posted by: browndog doing penance at July 01, 2025 10:11 PM (TTAGa)

30 I have to be up extra early and no one is settling here, hopping on the bed, hopping off the bed, growling at the puppy, digging around in the blankets, leaving the crate, coming back to the crate, a minor zoomie episode, more blanket digging that just sent a chewie flying. I am turning all lights off in the hopes that helps. 🤣 good night!

Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2025 10:11 PM (pRpzT)

31 Technically, none below are wrong - all will be consumed.

Yes.

Another crazy woman thing? Not wanting to eat crispy bacon??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

32 On the bacon - 2 or 3, but I'm not kidding anyone... I'd eat all of them

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:13 PM (mNhIh)

33 Happy Dominion Day to our Canadien Horde …
Posted by: browndog doing penance at July 01, 2025 10:11 PM (TTAGa)

Yes. Happy New Dominion Day.

~ From someone who grew up in the Old Dominion.

(See, tildes have a use.)

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:13 PM (gKDq2)

34 I wanna talk about the cannibal illegal on the airplane from Ace's Kristi Noem post.

I know we should not have favorites of illegal bastids, but he's mine so far.

Still laughing about the Moron comments. Man I love you guys (and 'ettes).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 10:13 PM (6PCLE)

35 Also, thanks, Scampydog. The bear was funny!

Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2025 10:13 PM (pRpzT)

36 Bonne fête du Canada!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:13 PM (RIvkX)

37 One time I walked into the kitchen, late morning and there was this giant plate of bacon. A bacon mountain. I started going to town eating the bacon both hands full and my wife comes up and steals the plate away from me saying the bacon was all for some crumble on top a pork loin or something later.

You do not just leave a giant plate of bacon sitting out. I suffer trauma still to this day from that experience.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2025 10:15 PM (cduTK)

38 Such a good boy
*LOLs*

In the early 2000's, large bank leverage was roughly 20 to 1.…
*eyes glaze over*

bacon
*wakes back up*

Posted by: mindful webworker - shallow reader at July 01, 2025 10:15 PM (4yKs6)

39 Let’s get this lurker’s obligation checked off:

Life Skill Rite of Passage: I’ll take either:

1) knowing how to drive a manual transmission (my son learned the shift patterns at the age of 6, back when America was great and kids could ride in the front passenger seat); or

2) knowing how to tie a BOW tie without making a mess of it..

Posted by: pikkumatti at July 01, 2025 10:15 PM (FY8nG)

40 Reforger '90 was called Centurion Shield. I would have loved being the E-4 coming up with operation names.

Operation Nuclear Behemoth
Operation Ouzo Hangover

Posted by: Insert New Nic Here at July 01, 2025 10:15 PM (0aYVJ)

41 You do not just leave a giant plate of bacon sitting out. I suffer trauma still to this day from that experience.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2025 10:15 PM (cduTK)
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"It's for company!!!"

- everyone's mom

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:17 PM (mNhIh)

42 I lurked for years because good opsec.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

43 3

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:18 PM (aBgBM)

44
2025 Is Half Over.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 10:18 PM (bymjT)

45

The 2020's Are Half Over.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 10:18 PM (bymjT)

46 Evenin'

First World problem. Cox Internet has whigged out so no streaming at the moment. So I wait and watch Grit OTA. It's ok. One of the greatest westerns ever made is on. The Outlaw Josey Wales

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 10:18 PM (6HmqW)

47 Good news from earlier today:

Rubio: USAID is officially, completely, and finally dead. The last dollar has gone out the door. Finito. Muerte. Pinin' for the gulag.

Julie Jaman, the 82-year-old woman who got banned from the Y for objecting to trannies in her locker room just won a $65K settlement. That should keep her in Metamucil for a while.

Andrew Clyde (R-Georgia, and a gun store owner) introduced an amendment to the BBB that removes the NFA requirements for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs. I don't know if this will make it into the final bill, but it's good to see someone thinking about it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM (qpyNK)

48
The 21st Century Is Half Over.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM (bymjT)

49 I believe I can safely declare Day 1 of Gluttony Month to be a roaring success.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM (JkO4W)

50 39 Let’s get this lurker’s obligation checked off:

Life Skill Rite of Passage: I’ll take either:

1) knowing how to drive a manual transmission (my son learned the shift patterns at the age of 6, back when America was great and kids could ride in the front passenger seat); or

2) knowing how to tie a BOW tie without making a mess of it..
Posted by: pikkumatti
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Manual transmission. Been a while. Four on the floor, three on the tree - a bunch of lines we never hear anymore. Thanks for jumping in, pikkumatti.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)

51 I lurk therefore I am.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (1Nv0l)

52
21st Century being a quarter complete is depressing.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (bymjT)

53 42 I lurked for years because good opsec.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:17 PM (RIvkX)
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I lurked for a long time because I knew I'd get lit up like never before in these comments if my reasoning showed any flaws. I'm sure it did, but I lived.

To this day I appreciate you guys letting me hang out.

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (mNhIh)

54 Thanks for the girthy Tuesday Night ONT, scampydog!

Perfect bacon is 3-4. It is known. I want my bacon strip to stand up and salute, not wimp and bend over.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (kB9dk)

55 For the record, after the last twenty years or so, I do love all this winning. 😸

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (w3u3d)

56 Right of passage? Being taught by my father how to light an oxy-acetylene torch and adjust it for a neutral flame.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:21 PM (jYYer)

57 I would always tell my wife, "I need to go work on a well" (oil or gas well), when I knew I would have to be out of town for the next few days.

After hearing this dozens of times, my 6 y.o. daughter said she wanted to go work on a well, so I actually did "take your daughter to work" day in the oil patch.

I had four different sub-contractors on this location with at least five semi-trucks plus numerous pickup trucks - guys running all over the place setting up equipment, hammering on the wellhead, etc.

I finally crawl into the logging truck with her and shut the door behind us to be able to speak to the engineer. As soon as it was quiet, she says, "I thought you were going to go work on a well, but you are the only person here NOT working!"

The logging engineer fell out of his seat he was laughing so hard. He then told the story at least five more times that day (that I know of). He would still remind me of that observation by my daughter ten years later.

I kind of wish I had the video of the mom referring to the clowns at work to show him on my phone at the time!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:21 PM (HlyYF)

58 Right of passage - never ever flinch when applying jumper cables.

Thank you for the ONT scampydog!

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (IrYHD)

59 Taught both sons to drive a manual. They both still drive cars with manual. Becoming more and more hard to find.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)

60 The first time I was considered old enough to change a tire.

Man, I felt like a grown man that day.

The thrill soon wore off, however (my grandmother, God rest her soul, always bought crap-level recaps, so she got a lot of flats).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (qpyNK)

61 >>>I suspect there is value - on those occasions when they must be worn, in knowing how to operate those creatures. Is there a song or something?

Oh, there's value all right.
https://youtu.be/iVaqQe3V498

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (p4nXC)

62 How do I like my bacon?

With a fried egg and pancakes. Or on a bacon-and-egg sandwich. Or crumbled on a baked potato. Or…

I didn't mean "or." I meant "and."

Posted by: mindful webworker - preferably not raw at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (4yKs6)

63 Bacon-- chewy. Somewhere between 1 and 2. But, yeah, I'd eat crispy as well.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (rdVOm)

64 The logging engineer fell out of his seat he was laughing so hard. He then told the story at least five more times that day (that I know of). He would still remind me of that observation by my daughter ten years later.

I kind of wish I had the video of the mom referring to the clowns at work to show him on my phone at the time!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:21 PM (HlyYF)

Hah! Great story!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:24 PM (jYYer)

65 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 10:25 PM (H7X8V)

66 48 the 2020s were half over january 1st.
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 -- 5 years
2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 -- also 5 years

The midpoint of the 2020s was midnight 12/31/2024.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at July 01, 2025 10:26 PM (1Nv0l)

67 The logging engineer fell out of his seat he was laughing so hard. He then told the story at least five more times that day (that I know of). He would still remind me of that observation by my daughter ten years later.

I kind of wish I had the video of the mom referring to the clowns at work to show him on my phone at the time!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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That is a spectacular story. I LOL'd. Sometimes they just get one over on you.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:26 PM (41CYW)

68 The 21st Century Is Half Over.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Um… Does this mean the 21st Century will only last 'til 2050? Yike.

Posted by: mindful webworker - does this involve math? at July 01, 2025 10:26 PM (4yKs6)

69 Damn, I just had dinner half an hour ago, but all this talk of bacon...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 10:27 PM (qpyNK)

70 I lurked for a long time because I knew I'd get lit up like never before in these comments if my reasoning showed any flaws. I'm sure it did, but I lived.

To this day I appreciate you guys letting me hang out.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (mNhIh)

I can't remember when I first posted a comment here (2005-ish?), but I was nervous as hell, like I was wearing bloomers on a stage with Curley Bill and the Cowboys shooting at me.

Fortunately, my comment was ignored.

As they often are now.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (0aYVJ)

71 Tying a tie. Two weeks ago I went to a funeral. The first in a long time, thankfully. I have not tied a tie in 15 years! I could not remember how. After fumbling around for 5 minutes I think I tied a double Windsor by accident. Whatever I tied it looked OK. I suppose I should practice tie knots every month or so, so I don't forget. After closely watching utube vids.

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (aBgBM)

72 Um… Does this mean the 21st Century will only last 'til 2050? Yike.
Posted by: mindful webworker - does this involve math? at July 01, 2025 10:26 PM (4yKs6)

Well, for this 29 y/o … more than likely 🤔🤷‍♂️💀

Posted by: browndog doing penance at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (TTAGa)

73 Bacon:1, maybe 2
Life skills: manual transmission - absolutely
polishing shoes - yes
Walk ihn herls - yes but ugh
Pressing a shirt - yes
Dressing appropriately - yes, I think so
Change a tire - needs work
Apply nail polish - yes
Tie a tie - no need, not a trans

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (irahp)

74 I always make sure to put bacon on any dish served at the potluck meal or organized church meals.

It is a good identifier of religious subversives if they will not eat it.

Posted by: Insider Tricks at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM (cpC+s)

75 High heels seem like a torture device. I suspect there is value - on those occasions when they must be worn, in knowing how to operate those creatures.

Don't walk on grass.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM (0Htd1)

76 early fireworks..on the wrong side of town .."Iranian media reported that on Tuesday evening, an explosion occurred at a missile base belonging to the Revolutionary Guards.

The cause of the incident remains unclear at this time."

I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, don't drop the munitions !

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM (g47mK)

77 Dad wore a tie to work every day when I was little. Later, he changed jobs and didn't need to dress so formally.

Over the years, he lost the knack & so Mom would tie it for him when he really needed to look dapper. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 10:31 PM (rdVOm)

78 First World problem. Cox Internet has whigged out so no streaming at the moment. So I wait and watch Grit OTA. It's ok. One of the greatest westerns ever made is on. The Outlaw Josey Wales
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 10:18 PM (6HmqW)

F'n Cox. Been losing connectivity out here all day, too. I noticed they've changed their pricing plans. Couldn't be because Google Fiber is coming to town? Nah, that couldn't be it....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 10:31 PM (0eaVi)

79
2) knowing how to tie a BOW tie without making a mess of it..
Posted by: pikkumatti

_______

Nobody except a puppy should be wearing a bow tie. Therefore there is no reason to know how to tie one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (/HVsR)

80 The logging engineer fell out of his seat he was laughing so hard. He then told the story at least five more times that day (that I know of). He would still remind me of that observation by my daughter ten years later.

I kind of wish I had the video of the mom referring to the clowns at work to show him on my phone at the time!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:21 PM (HlyYF)

LOL I spent 10 years as a logging engineer, I can see that scene exactly!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (0DdMG)

81 Speaking of "Take Your Daughter to Work Day," Arrow Video recently released a beautiful 4K of 1998's "Dark City." It has both the theatrical release and the director's cut in 4K.

If you've seen the director's cut, you know of what I speak.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (CHHv1)

82 Pride Month over so soon.......

We hardly knew ye...

LOLOLOL!!!!

Kung-Fu fighting...to this day I drive down the road going 'hi-ya' when the satellite radio channel plays it....one of these days there's gonna be a cop next to me at a light.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (QGaXH)

83 Well, since I must comment, let me say at the ripe old age of almost 29, that I no longer wear high heels. Cuz ain't nobody got time for that!

Posted by: Texican ette at July 01, 2025 10:33 PM (SNf74)

84 I had a function a few weeks ago where I wore a necktie, and that was probably the first non wedding or funeral where I wore in tie in about 15 years or so. Took about three tries, but once I stopped thinking about it, was able to let my hands tie a full Windsor on their own.

Overall I like the symmetry of that knot, but somehow I still end up slightly off center.

Independence Day ftw!

Posted by: 3 Angry Irish Inches at July 01, 2025 10:33 PM (H2Hko)

85 So does BBB kick illegals off Medicaid or not?

I'm seeing conflicting stories on the internet, which is a network of 'smart tubes'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 10:33 PM (AOsQT)

86 Jimmy Swaggart: I have sinned with the 9 year old daughter of a black prostitute as tears run down his face from all the money he is losing from little old ladies trying to buy their way into heaven. Satan, Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and soon Jimmy bakker welcome him home.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at July 01, 2025 10:34 PM (i8Cgf)

87 Dad wore a tie to work every day when I was little. Later, he changed jobs and didn't need to dress so formally.

Over the years, he lost the knack & so Mom would tie it for him when he really needed to look dapper. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 10:31 PM (rdVOm)

My Dad worked for NCR back in the day. His work attire was almost a uniform: short sleeve white shirt, black tie, black slacks. They all looked like Michael Douglas in Falling Down.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a Whammy Burger Like on the Menu at July 01, 2025 10:34 PM (0aYVJ)

88 Apparently Gen Z has no clue how to make an actual phone call, and apparently need coaching for it.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 01, 2025 10:34 PM (17wcv)

89 25 Evening, ONT Horde, and our esteemed host.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:10 PM (jYYer)

Happy Dominion Day AOP!

And all the rest of the northern friends...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (QGaXH)

90
I got to looking the pictures from this fellow, Andrew McCarthy who took a fantastic shot of the ISS transiting the sun.

He recently took this recreating of Hubble's famous "Pillars of Creation" photo:
https://tinyurl.com/25z3tghn

And he's doing that from his backyard in AZ, light pollution and all. It takes some fancy camera equipment and image processing know-how, but this shows how this kind of thing is now accessible to anyone with modern camera tech.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (w6EFb)

91 How do you wake Lady Gaga up from a nap?

Poke her face!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (17wcv)

92
Walking in high heels: very difficult. Not worth it. Find pretty flats. I don't know how Melania does it.

Other: Huh. Carl DeMaio says Katie Porter is a formidable threat to any bid Kamala Harris makes for California governor. Right after she lost in November, she was at 47% to win governor. Now she's at 31%.

Porter is another commie, of course. She got mad that Adam Schiff played dirty in the US Senate campaign and pulled the rug out from under her candidacy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (egH3D)

93 ***What the hell is the DOJ spending their time doing?***

What they are not doing 💩 : Every felonious member of the Biden admin is still on the street. Not one has been called in much less arrested or perp walked. _∅_

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (UFztX)

94 On the bacon; 2 is excellent.

If it came out of the skillet a little early, I am still giddy to be eating bacon that is a 1.

BTW, anybody know how raw I can eat the bacon and still have no concerns about trichinosis? Because I am pretty sure I would also eat bacon that was only 0.5!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (HlyYF)

95 I was all dressed and ready for school, almost running late, walked out and saw my Mustang had a flat.

I'd never changed a flat. But knew the theory. Had that car jacked up, spare swapped in, and got to school on time. Felt pretty good. Didn't even muss my attire.

Posted by: mindful webworker - now I just call triple-A at July 01, 2025 10:36 PM (4yKs6)

96 Excellent invitation to the lurkers - join the fun!

Bacon 3.5

Good evening all

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:36 PM (PcTds)

97 Little can drive a stick and he loves it. Still can't tie a tie, though...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 01, 2025 10:36 PM (bA75n)

98 Would an alligator give a scorpion a ride across the water?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 10:37 PM (63Dwl)

99 Bacon: 1 and 2. But since my kids get to it first, I usually end up eating 3-6.

Lurking: I have lurked for years because a) I'm old enough but not yet Almost 29 and b) I'm not as funny as y'all.

Child embarrassment: I have a teenager, so...everything. Clothes, jokes, teasing her friends. Dancing to her music is an especially fun one- she didn't know what to do when I busted out The Sprinkler.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:38 PM (6nQni)

100 "Large U.S. global banks can expect as much as $6 trillion in additional balance sheet capacity and billions in freed up capital under a Federal Reserve plan to relax leverage rules, Wall Street brokerages estimated Thursday."

I don't have a lot of comprehension on this subject, but the smart guys I read think this policy is dangerous, maybe criminal. But that is the plan ... keep ramping up the markets to infinity, mo' money, mo' money.

Inflation is maybe "hiding" in markets? idk, but so many have trusted their life savings in those stocks that Always Go Up, But Every Dip. Should stocks really be valued at 40PE, or is that like that tulip bulb mania?

Like the housing market crash of 2008, what if stocks don't keep ramping up forever? But how else do we escape our infinite debt debacle? idk ... smart guys think this is dangerous, or maybe criminal. Trump says he will only approve of a next fed chair that will lower rates ... Keep the Easy Money flowing, till it all collapses?

or that is my short, not precise, version of the current debt insanity.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 10:38 PM (vbXSk)

101 The U.S. Fed unveiled a proposal on Wednesday that would overhaul how much capital large global banks must hold against relatively low-risk assets, as part of a bid to boost participation in U.S. Treasury markets.

The European Central banks are talking about forcing banks and investors into taking Euro central bank bills for investments and backing deposits. Which are about as stable as you can guess

The US has several possible futures, one is to issue stablecoions backed by Treasuries, making the main international instrument based on US Treasuries, boosting demand, another is revalue the gold in the gold reserves to a realistic level which will automatically deleverage US Debt quite a bit. That means the dollar will stop being over valued at $42.222 a troy ounce and be overvalued at $3K per troy ounce.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 10:40 PM (D7oie)

102 As a general rule,
Better to be overdressed than under for just about any occasion.

Pajamas and crocs should never be worn in public.

Exercise gear should not be worn unless you are actually exercising. Sport shorts at Mass are not ok.

Shoes need to be clean.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:40 PM (mT+6a)

103 Anyone here get their home internet over 5g?

I am moving soon and the new place has 5g coverage that is cheaper than the cable company that sucks.

Posted by: pawn at July 01, 2025 10:40 PM (QB+5g)

104 Folks, you owe it to yourselves to add a Google review for the Alligator Alcatraz on Google Maps.

Trust me on this.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 10:40 PM (H7X8V)

105
1 Yay, International Joke Day ONT!

Also Canada Day. Not sure if that's just coincidence or not.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

In honor of the occasion:

I don't live too far from the zoo, which I am only telling you because it is actually germaine to the story, which, at its base, is about an escaped gorilla that showed up in the aspen tree in my back yard, and it would stretch credibility a bit too much if there were no zoo in the proximity.
So, I woke up one morning, and heard on the radio that Kimbu, the lowland gorilla had somehow escaped from the local zoo. I didn't really think much of it, until I happened to glance out my back window to see a large, fur-covered figure sitting a few branches up in the aspen. Immediately worrying about my property values and only a little bit about how my mortgage effects my bank's leverage ratio, I called the zoo to politely request they retrieve their wandering resident.

About fifteen minutes later, a panel truck shows up at my door, and an unexpectedly diminutive fellow chomping on a cigar is knocking on my door. "Is you da guy dat reported a gorilla in your aspen?"
"Yes, I am."
(See next post)

Posted by: tankdemon at July 01, 2025 10:40 PM (zyYVb)

106 Operation Frequent Wind

Back when I could still eat beans...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh)

107 "I'm Mr. Travers, Certified Animal Recovery Specialist. Can you show me where Kimbu is now?"
I showed the gentleman where the gorilla had gotten itself, and he he assured me things were all under control. He went back to the panel van, grabbed a ladder, a net, and brought out the biggest, most ferocious looking mastiff I had ever laid eyes on. He also had a shotgun.
"Sir," he explained to me, "Here is what is about to happen- I am going to climate the Lauder, and start shaking the branch Kimbu is sitting on. Kimbu will lose balance and fall to the ground. When thst happens, ol' Squeeky there is going to immediately bite his genitals, rendering him incapacitated until I am able to get the netting around him and subdue him."
"Seems a bit Rube Goldberg to me, but your Certified. I only have one question; what's the shotgun for"
"I want you to keep that shotgun ready," he said. "If something goes wrong and I'm the one who falls out of the tree, you need to shoot that gol-darned dog."

Posted by: tankdemon at July 01, 2025 10:41 PM (zyYVb)

108 But since my kids get to it first, I usually end up eating 3-6.

Bacon 6? I think I have some charcoal briquettes out back if you’re still hungry.

Posted by: Kratwurst at July 01, 2025 10:41 PM (fcDpY)

109 Bobby Bonilla. In 1991 I did Rotisserie League baseball for the first time. I joined an established league. I was hopeless at bidding for players. I got Bobby Bonilla, who no one else really wanted. He had a terrific season at the plate. I also got Dennis Martinez, Expos starting pitcher, cheap. Had a career low ERA, career best number of shutouts including a perfect game. I ended up with several other players and pitchers who unexpectedly did above their career averages. My pitching staff was best in our league. I finished third in a 10 team league, and in the money. Everyone hated me.

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:42 PM (aBgBM)

110 59 Taught both sons to drive a manual. They both still drive cars with manual. Becoming more and more hard to find.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)

I taught myself to drive stick by buying a manual car (on purpose, I wanted to learn). Now it's all I want and I can't find one to save my life.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:42 PM (6nQni)

111 >Would an alligator give a scorpion a ride across the water?
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To get to the other side!
what do I win?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 10:42 PM (AOsQT)

112
Good girls wear high heels to work.

Bad girls wear high heels to bed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (/HVsR)

113 Right of passage? Being taught by my father how to light an oxy-acetylene torch and adjust it for a neutral flame.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Now I am picturing a 5 yr old AOP holding an oxyacetylene torch and receiving instruction from dad.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (PcTds)

114 Being as how some might not have seen this at the tail-end of the cafe, I repost:

I can't remember where I find things online. Did some Moron link to this?

Will ChatGPT Replace Me? | Don McMillan Comedy
https://youtu.be/Q09zsqfnmpo

Meanwhile, in Florida, this almost funny eight minutes
GATOR GITMO (Alligator Alcatraz)
Wicked AI
https://youtu.be/_jjrkvoMHA8

Posted by: mindful webworker - repost =/= riposte at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (4yKs6)

115 Pride Month over so soon.......

We hardly knew ye...

LOLOLOL!!!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (QGaXH)

Today's date's right in your hash.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

116 "I want you to keep that shotgun ready," he said. "If something goes wrong and I'm the one who falls out of the tree, you need to shoot that gol-darned dog."
Posted by: tankdemon at July 01, 2025 10:41 PM (zyYVb)

LOL!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (jYYer)

117 Good girls wear high heels to work.

Bad girls wear high heels to bed.

https://youtu.be/vV_1gqyaPwQ

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (lUFok)

118 Fortunately, my comment was ignored.

As they often are now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (0aYVJ)

Just so you know, I always read your comments, even if I don't respond.

*waves at you and Mrs. Mahon*

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (NMVj6)

119 Anyone have status on CA gas prices? I'm on vacation out of state.
Bacon is 3, of course.

Q3 Lurker obligation fulfilled.

Posted by: CA Token at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (MPQQd)

120 Now I am picturing a 5 yr old AOP holding an oxyacetylene torch and receiving instruction from dad.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (PcTds)

I think I was about ten.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:45 PM (jYYer)

121 or that is my short, not precise, version of the current debt insanity.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 10:38 PM (vbXSk)
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They just write it off, Jerry.
/too lazy to put a Kramer sock on

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

122 Life Skills - Rites of Passage:

How to circumcise my boys with a sharp stone. Hey, G-d told me to.

Posted by: Moses at July 01, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)

123 85 So does BBB kick illegals off Medicaid or not?

I'm seeing conflicting stories on the internet, which is a network of 'smart tubes'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 10:33 PM

I believe it actually does kick them off.

Apparently, the Republicans did something kind of smart yesterday. The vote we lost yesterday was a "messaging amendment" ... to get the Democrats on the record as voting to provide Medicaid to illegal immigrants.

https://tinyurl.com/399x95wf (link to Breitbart)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:45 PM (HlyYF)

124 Bacon 6? I think I have some charcoal briquettes out back if you’re still hungry.
Posted by: Kratwurst at July 01, 2025 10:41 PM (fcDpY)

I would, but then I'd be called an ash-kisser.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (6nQni)

125 I think I was about ten.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:45 PM (jYYer)
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I imagine this like the scene in Animal House with D-Day about to make the parade float.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (RIvkX)

126 Delurking for the first time ever. I've been lurking for a few years now - heard about this place back in the post-9/11 days when Instapundit was its own domain and Steven den Beste was still around. Been thinking about delurking for a while.

I read the content, the more fool I.

Sorry Scampy, but bacon should be mostly crisp (but rarely crunchy), so 2-3 is obviously correct.

Posted by: RandomDave at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (aJQbY)

127 I always make sure to put bacon on any dish served at the potluck meal or organized church meals.

It is a good identifier of religious subversives if they will not eat it.
Posted by: Insider Tricks at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM (cpC+s)

7th Day Adventists. Follow Kosher rules. The one I once worked with grew up on a farm in Iowa raising, among other animals, pigs. Go figure.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (gKDq2)

128 1 Yay, International Joke Day ONT!

Ok, I'll play:

The last time I was in London, I queued up for a bus at a bus stop. The wind was rather brisk and the woman next to me was struggling mightily to hold her dress down. A sudden gust surprised her though and blew he dress up to her shoulders exposing her and showing the world she was without panties.

After she fought her dress back down, she noticed I noticed so I felt I needed to say something to diffuse the awkward silence.

"A bit airy, isn't it" I offered.

"Well what did you expect, feathers?"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 10:47 PM (H7X8V)

129
As they often are now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (0aYVJ)

_________

Nonsense. I read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest your comments and only then forget about them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:47 PM (/HVsR)

130 The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor following an investigation by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

_______________________________

There will be circumstances where a female swimmer didn't make the cut to compete at a higher level (Nationals) because the disguised male took one of those slots. I would seem to me that this has the potential for a civil liability matter. The difficult part would be to show damages. Well, how about parents time and money supporting these female athletes. One could make the argument that possibly the tuition to a school that behaved as they did could be seen as damages.

Penn isn't out of the woods with their sudden grasp of reality. They might want to keep the check book handy.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 10:47 PM (dIske)

131 Bacon. 2.25

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (mT+6a)

132 I taught myself to drive stick by buying a manual car (on purpose, I wanted to learn). Now it's all I want and I can't find one to save my life.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:42 PM (6nQni)

My 2013 Nissan Frontier 4x4 is a six-speed manual. I love it. Got it for a steal, because nobody wanted a truck with manual, no electric locks, roll-down windows. Dealer was happy to get rid of it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a Whammy Burger Like on the Menu at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)

133
Bacon 1 through 5.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (/HVsR)

134 "And he's doing that from his backyard in AZ, light pollution and all. It takes some fancy camera equipment and image processing know-how, but this shows how this kind of thing is now accessible to anyone with modern camera tech."

Since I am sadly looking at retirement now, I've decided to get back into astrophotography.

The equipment and results available today are amazing compared to what was available back in the film era.

It's possible to use filters to mitigate the terrestrial light pollution which plagues me where I I live now.

Posted by: pawn at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (QB+5g)

135 >Folks, you owe it to yourselves to add a Google review for the Alligator Alcatraz on Google Maps.

Trust me on this.
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Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (AOsQT)

136 53
I lurked for a long time because I knew I'd get lit up like never before in these comments if my reasoning showed any flaws. I'm sure it did, but I lived.

To this day I appreciate you guys letting me hang out.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (mNhIh)
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Same. I lurked for just over nine years before making a comment. Six years later, still commenting, although sporadically, in fits and starts. Luckily, I recognize and embrace the fact that I'm not smart enough to know if I've been mocked or laughed at, so it's all been ignorantly blissful. Or blissfully ignorant. Whatever. It's all good.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM (qUYGJ)

137 Fortunately, my comment was ignored.

As they often are now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at

*Puts on argumentative mode*
No, it wasn't. No they aren't.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM (PcTds)

138 Scampywife insists that 6 is the correct carbon state of bacon.

That bacon slice must've done something evil in its life; it still burning in hell.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)

139 BTW, anybody know how raw I can eat the bacon and still have no concerns about trichinosis? Because I am pretty sure I would also eat bacon that was only 0.5!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Heat it to at least 165F, and hold the temp for 3-5 minutes, is what I was told. This is the recommended temperature for "safe" re-heating of foods.

This is sufficient to kill Trichinella.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM (rdVOm)

140 Pride Month over so soon.......

We hardly knew ye...

LOLOLOL!!!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (QGaXH)
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~~Today's date's right in your hash.~~

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

Sorry. I misread you.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (gKDq2)

141 comments have been turned off
Posted by: Don Black.

Really - I was able to add one and I can still see it.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (H7X8V)

142 'Anything chaotic'- "I've got more rhymes than Phyllis Diller!" G'nite all

Posted by: Scarecrow at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (EdNu8)

143 Manual transmission. Been a while. Four on the floor, three on the tree - a bunch of lines we never hear anymore. Thanks for jumping in, pikkumatti.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM

I never learned to drive three on the tree - Big Brother did because he needed to help Dad cut and haul firewood.

I learned to drive stick on an '80s Ford Fairmont aka box on wheels.

Baby Brother drove a Mustang. Spoiled brat!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (yoqKl)

144 132 I taught myself to drive stick by buying a manual car (on purpose, I wanted to learn). Now it's all I want and I can't find one to save my life.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:42 PM (6nQni)
______________________

The ironic thing is that my favorite car to drive was an old Dodge Dart. Crappy looking car....your typical generic green with the vinyl roof. BUT....THREE ON THE TREE BABY.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (dIske)

145 Life Skills - Rites of Passage:

Balancing a checkbook by hand...

Tying a tie - wore one every day from 1980 until I changed jobs in 1997 and at the new job no one wore ties. One day I came in wearing one just to stay in practice, my new boss chased me with a pair of scissors threatening to cut it and more off if I ever showed up with one again unless presenting to customers.

I noticed in the factory environment of the 8-'s a definite attire hierarchy. Hourly workers wore tees, work shirts, etc; technicians wore collared shirts, no ties, professionals all wore ties.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (QGaXH)

146 Delurking for the first time ever. I've been lurking for a few years now - heard about this place back in the post-9/11 days when Instapundit was its own domain and Steven den Beste was still around. Been thinking about delurking for a while.

I read the content, the more fool I.

Sorry Scampy, but bacon should be mostly crisp (but rarely crunchy), so 2-3 is obviously correct.
Posted by: RandomDave
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Welcome, RandomDave and all de-lurkers.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)

147 I think I was about ten.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That's probably a good age at which to learn. I figured you started 5 years earlier because of all you know now.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (PcTds)

148 Sliced termater with salt and pepper make for a good snack. Dad and Grandpa taught me well.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (0aYVJ)

149 In light of RFKs interview with Tucker, it's time for the right to have their come to Jesus moment on vaccines and autism.

Yes, crazy leftists were loud about vaccines, and so you instinctively pushed it away as nutbaggery.

But the curtain is being pulled back and the pernicious individuals that f*cked with American health are being revealed.

If the right is, indeed, the party of rational thinkers that are open to diversity of thought, it's important to embrace this information and adjust your views in light of new information.

Given the obvious failure and openly criminal behavior of the CoVID vaxx, as mentioned by ace in his post on its effect on fertility, it's time to begin to revisit the orthodoxy of vaccines in general and open your minds to the possibility you were likely lied to about their deleterious effects.

It's important for your kids and your kids' kids.

Posted by: Free Thinker at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (cpC+s)

150 I think #2 or #3 maybe even #4 on the bacon, but I would eat any of them, even the bacon bits in training #5.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2025 10:52 PM (snZF9)

151 109: Gref, Bonilla was very good in Pittsburgh.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 10:52 PM (6HmqW)

152 127 I always make sure to put bacon on any dish served at the potluck meal or organized church meals.

It is a good identifier of religious subversives if they will not eat it.
Posted by: Insider Tricks at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM (cpC+s)

7th Day Adventists. Follow Kosher rules. The one I once worked with grew up on a farm in Iowa raising, among other animals, pigs. Go figure.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (gKDq2)

More like push being vegetarian, not kosher per se.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

153 I found this place in late 2016. Dived right in with comments.

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:53 PM (aBgBM)

154 Bacon 3 or Bacon 4, prolly closer to 3

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 01, 2025 10:53 PM (sJHOI)

155 No, it wasn't. No they aren't.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM (PcTds)

Yeah, huh! Durr, hey!

Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 10:53 PM (0aYVJ)

156 151 109: Gref, Bonilla was very good in Pittsburgh.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 10:52 PM (6HmqW)
___________________________

Weren't there a couple years in Pittsburgh where Bonilla and Bonds were batting back to back?

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 10:54 PM (dIske)

157 >>> 131 Bacon. 2.25
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (mT+6a)

Nurse Johnson is right!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2025 10:54 PM (ULPxl)

158 I think I wore a tie for work for about 15 years. Then we went to 'casual' attire. Cost me a fortune to replace my work wardrobe. I didn't have casual attire. Just slacks and a sport coat when a suit wasn't necessary. That or total grunge.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (gKDq2)

159
Since I no longer go to concerts, I only wear a tie when I'm going to Mass. I'm among the minority of guys who wear one. But I consider myself as wearing one on behalf of those that don't.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (/HVsR)

160 Great job with the ONT scampydog

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (PcTds)

161
Vegetarianism is popular within Seventh-day Adventism because we value personal health and believe that a vegetarian diet is a good way to care for our bodies, maintain wellness, and honor God (1 Corinthians 6:20; 10:31; Romans 12:1-2). God originally gave human beings a vegetarian diet, according to Genesis 1:29, and today, research is increasingly showing the benefits of a diet low in animal products and high in fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts.
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Fascinating.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

162 Pride Month was quite the loser this year without that retard in the White House egging it on.
By next year it might be Pride Week. 2% of the year so about right.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (ImJx8)

163 Life skills: Apparently I only ever learned the full Windsor. Some of those smaller and larger knots could have been occasionally useful!

Used to know how to polish shoes... sorta... carefully avoided ever needing to remember it.

Can change a tire, or an outlet, though! And my smoke detectors do not beep (and they even have batteries in them!)

Posted by: RandomDave at July 01, 2025 10:56 PM (aJQbY)

164 Scampywife insists that 6 is the correct carbon state of bacon.

That bacon slice must've done something evil in its life; it still burning in hell.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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I let the scampywife know that the Horde is not impressed with 6. She said, "Well, there are a lot of idiots in the world." I replied, "The correct term is Morons." She went to bed. Without me!

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)

165 139 BTW, anybody know how raw I can eat the bacon and still have no concerns about trichinosis? Because I am pretty sure I would also eat bacon that was only 0.5!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Heat it to at least 165F, and hold the temp for 3-5 minutes, is what I was told. This is the recommended temperature for "safe" re-heating of foods.

This is sufficient to kill Trichinella.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM

OK, my new bacon answer is 0.5 - 2.0 is excellent.

3 is still very good.

I do eat the 4-5 bacon, because I let Bride of PI choose first ... she is still my better half!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:57 PM (HlyYF)

166 161
Vegetarianism is popular within Seventh-day Adventism because we value personal health and believe that a vegetarian diet is a good way to care for our bodies, maintain wellness, and honor God (1 Corinthians 6:20; 10:31; Romans 12:1-2). God originally gave human beings a vegetarian diet, according to Genesis 1:29, and today, research is increasingly showing the benefits of a diet low in animal products and high in fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts.
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Fascinating.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

They do live a bit longer than the average. They tend to be a bit low on cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12). You have to eat a shit-ton of mushrooms to get the USRDA.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 10:57 PM (ynpvh)

167 Hiya, HH!

How are the critters?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:57 PM (mT+6a)

168 151 109: Gref, Bonilla was very good in Pittsburgh.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 10:52 PM (6HmqW)

Yep. For some reason he went relatively cheap in my '91 Rotisserie League bidding. Better to be dumb than intelligent sometimes. Because boy, was I dumb my first time at bidding to get a full team out of a fixed budget. I ended up with some unspent 'draft' money. Very bad. Normally.

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:58 PM (aBgBM)

169 pikkumatti +

1. But can you drive a Porsche racing shift?
2. That’s easy! If you can tie your shoelaces, you can tie a bow tie. It’s the same knot!

NB: my old man liked Porsches, and while what I said is true about bow ties, you’ll probably learn how to tie it easier with any of the many online guides: there are even more than one way to tie a bow tie depending on how tight a knot you want!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:58 PM (1paM0)

170 53 42 I lurked for years because good opsec.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:17 PM (RIvkX)
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I lurked for a long time because I knew I'd get lit up like never before in these comments if my reasoning showed any flaws. I'm sure it did, but I lived.

To this day I appreciate you guys letting me hang out.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (mNhIh)

Same here. I knew that you 'rons and 'ettes would hang me out to dry if I showed flaws. As it turns out, you folks did...but it wasn't that bad. Glad I'm not a lurker anymore. As I use my real name, I suppose I'm a super-nonlurker.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 10:59 PM (0CU3H)

171 she didn't know what to do when I busted out The Sprinkler.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:38 PM (6nQni)
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Great visual.

I think scampydog is building an insurmountable lead in the 3rd quarter recruitment drive tonight.

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:59 PM (SJrOE)

172 Damn it!

I'm an hour late. I read that everyone needs a comment once a quarter.

I skipped everything else.

Has boobs been taken?

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (jvJvP)

173 The mere thought of "leverage" gives me the heebee jeebies. My grandfather worked for a stock brokerage house, and I was taught that "leverage" was a really nasty four letter word. The old boy also drilled into my young mind the time FDR closed all the banks.

I remember way back listening to the news about Freddy Mac being on the skids. The media and the gubment quickly swept it under the rug, laughing at any one who believed that BS was a gullible idiot. To this day, I do not believe a single word coming out of the Fed.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (sZyeE)

174 164 Scampywife insists that 6 is the correct carbon state of bacon.

That bacon slice must've done something evil in its life; it still burning in hell.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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I let the scampywife know that the Horde is not impressed with 6. She said, "Well, there are a lot of idiots in the world." I replied, "The correct term is Morons." She went to bed. Without me!

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)

Well, I guess it's better than #0 (no bacon)...
Or raw bacon, although each bacon show (except #6) and raw bacon can be cooked a bit more...

As a matter of fact, you can tell her #6 was in the top 10 Moron choices for bacon...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (ynpvh)

175 I almost never wear ties. When I do, it's not even a half Windsor. More like a quarter windsor. My son had a name for it. I like it. the knot is small, and asymmetrical.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)

176 119 Anyone have status on CA gas prices? I'm on vacation out of state.
Bacon is 3, of course.

Q3 Lurker obligation fulfilled.
Posted by: CA Token at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (MPQQd)

I did a short sortie around my part of town and prices seemed unchanged from yesterday, low 4's or thereabouts.

Perhaps it goes into effect at midnight?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (QGaXH)

177 A pleasant evening to all.

Bacon: 2, maybe 2 1/2.

Life skill: driving a manual transmission (thanks for the reminder, pikkumatti!) with my first car (a Honda Civic) after getting my driver's license at 16. My very patient dad rode with me, having me practice on a quiet country road with a steep grade. I learned pretty fast after that first day of embarrassing fits and starts and kills and miscellany.

Earlier life skill: babysitting for the first time with no adult around. Girl I'd never met was 5 and blind. She had a seizure while in my care -- had not had one since about age 1.5, and the parents hadn't thought to mention that. No 911 in those days, so I called my mom, just up the road. The seizure was over by the time she arrived. Mom or I, can't remember now, then called the restaurant where the girl's parents had gone out to eat. (No cell phones, either, in those days.)

Whew.

Posted by: Official Delurker, adventures in life skills at July 01, 2025 11:01 PM (F73yU)

178 Gawd, I hate that Chrlie Rich song. I worked the summer of '74, out of high school, at a fancy steak house/supper club. I was a busboy with my little jacket and bow tie and all. Anyway, they had a house band. I heard that song at least once a set (3 or 4 times), every night I worked.

Kill me now.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)

Man, you and me both. My parents had this slight obsession with country in the 70's, and that song drove me frigging crazy. I'm also going to give honorable mention to Tammy Wynette and that miserable stand by your man, and some other female singer with her fucking rose garden, and....holy shit.

Got my revenge though..lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2025 11:01 PM (snZF9)

179 Around here "kosher" means simply meatless. Not like back East where it means two sets of dishes, two sinks, two cutting boards, etc.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:01 PM (RIvkX)

180 A slice of bacon should not *disintegrate into pieces* when you bite down on it.

As the saying goes:

"Five is right out!"

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm)

181 Life Skill: learnin' to shoot. Safely.

Dad never taught us, so I taught myself, just like I taught myself to drive a stick using Dad's '64 Ford Econoline van...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (ynpvh)

182 the knot is small, and asymmetrical.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
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Does it involve a counter-clockwise swirl?

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (SJrOE)

183 126 Delurking for the first time ever. I've been lurking for a few years now - heard about this place back in the post-9/11 days when Instapundit was its own domain and Steven den Beste was still around. Been thinking about delurking for a while.

I read the content, the more fool I.

Sorry Scampy, but bacon should be mostly crisp (but rarely crunchy), so 2-3 is obviously correct.
Posted by: RandomDave at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (aJQbY)

Welcome, RD. I haven't read the name Steven den Beste (PBUH) for years. Thanks for that.

Re: Bacon. 3.5 Bacon >>>>>>Don Bacon.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (0CU3H)

184 115 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (QGaXH)

Today's date's right in your hash.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

I'm not seeing it...?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (QGaXH)

185 183 126 Delurking for the first time ever. I've been lurking for a few years now - heard about this place back in the post-9/11 days when Instapundit was its own domain and Steven den Beste was still around. Been thinking about delurking for a while.

I read the content, the more fool I.

Sorry Scampy, but bacon should be mostly crisp (but rarely crunchy), so 2-3 is obviously correct.
Posted by: RandomDave at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (aJQbY)

Welcome, RD. I haven't read the name Steven den Beste (PBUH) for years. Thanks for that.

Re: Bacon. 3.5 Bacon >>>>>>Don Bacon.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (0CU3H)

Ahem...

Posted by: Sir Francis Bacon at July 01, 2025 11:04 PM (ynpvh)

186 19 Anyone have status on CA gas prices? I'm on vacation out of state.
Bacon is 3, of course.

Q3 Lurker obligation fulfilled.
Posted by: CA Token at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (MPQQd)

The AAA website has state by state average gas prices for all octanes and blends. Maybe for major cities, too. I've never looked for that.

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:04 PM (aBgBM)

187 Why are soo many pastor’s wives now being called pastor also? Was the wife ordained? Did she go to seminary? Was she called by God to serve as a pastor (hope). My husband is a physician. Can I now be called a Dr. also like the pastor’s wife is called pastor? Did I learn everything he learned in medical school by osmosis? Just asking.

Posted by: Deborah Hamilton at July 01, 2025 11:04 PM (QrgRG)

188 127 I always make sure to put bacon on any dish served at the potluck meal or organized church meals.

It is a good identifier of religious subversives if they will not eat it.

Posted by: Insider Tricks at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM

We would occasionally get BLTs at our dorm cafeteria in college. We would always go back as many times as possible until the lunch ladies would chase us away with a ladle.

One of my Jewish friends that kept kosher always ate the alternative choice, but was amazed at our BLT gluttony.

He finally decided to try one. The look on his face was magical - he couldn't believe his parents (and his faith) had kept him from enjoying such tasty fare.

However, we didn't permanently corrupt him. About 10 years after graduation he became a rabbi!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 11:05 PM (HlyYF)

189 Has boobs been taken?
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (jvJvP)
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*punches ticket*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:05 PM (RIvkX)

190 Well, I'm out for a bit.

Posted by: Sir Francis Bacon at July 01, 2025 11:05 PM (ynpvh)

191
Not one has been called in much less arrested or perp walked. _∅_

Posted by: Braenyard

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

Neera Tanden got called in -- to CLOSED testimony. She basically admitted that she routinely submitted decisions to the autopen without knowing whether Biden had authorized them, or who in fact had.

She didn't seem one bit fazed by her experience, bouncing out and chirping happy answers at the press the same way Huma Abedin did after she got quizzed about Hillary's email practices.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:05 PM (egH3D)

192 Re: Bacon. 3.5 Bacon >>>>>>Don Bacon.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM

Welcome!

I was looking for people as angry as myself. Oh, and we were all so much less angry then. The first post here though, good for you.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (jvJvP)

193 youtu.be/kwrOTR5dsBU

Grit TV cut the final song, Old 1812, so here it is.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (6HmqW)

194 Manual transmission. Been a while. Four on the floor, three on the tree - a bunch of lines we never hear anymore. Thanks for jumping in, pikkumatti.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)

I learned to drive in a 1964 Ford Falcon Station Wagon, three on a tree which made me feel just like a queen. Lots of chrome, beautiful cream color with bright red vinyl seats with little longhorns imprinted in it. The truck was a 1958 Ford F100, baby blue, lots of chrome, an engine you could climb into to change the oil, but that was a five speed, and shifting was like throwing your back out. I needed a phone book under my ass and behind my back to drive that one.

Driving automatic just feels like cheating.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (1Gsou)

195
Isn't the year 2000 "technically" in the 20th Century?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (uvvqE)

196 More life skills:

Learning to dress in "business casual," the dress code at the music studio where I teach. It's been an enjoyable experience putting together outfits. But no high heels for me! I'm already 5'8" and don't need more height!

Latest life skill (still a work in progress): going to bed when I'm tired, instead of pushing through it.

Good night, horde. Thanks for the great ONT, scampydog.

Posted by: Official Delurker, why am I so tired on my week off? at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (F73yU)

197 I'm not seeing it...?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (QGaXH)

I was wrong/misread you. Ignore what I wrote.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:07 PM (gKDq2)

198 the knot is small, and asymmetrical.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
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Does it involve a counter-clockwise swirl?
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (SJrOE)

To be honest, it's been so long I no longer remember. Heh.

I did not wear a tie for my Dad and sister's funerals. A nice shirt and slacks. Most likely I am done with ties.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:07 PM (0aYVJ)

199 Neera Tanden got called in -- to CLOSED testimony. She basically admitted that she routinely submitted decisions to the autopen without knowing whether Biden had authorized them, or who in fact had.

She didn't seem one bit fazed by her experience, bouncing out and chirping happy answers at the press the same way Huma Abedin did after she got quizzed about Hillary's email practices.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:05 PM (egH3D)

Tanden has Get Out Of Jail Free cards in-hand. As does her long-time friend and mentor, Hillzebub.

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (aBgBM)

200 140 Today's date's right in your hash.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

Sorry. I misread you.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (gKDq2)

I thought I was going (more) crazy...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (QGaXH)

201 Bacon is understood to be acceptable once it exhibits no appreciable bending while held in the center.

Nobody likes floppy bacon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)

202 126 Delurking for the first time ever. I've been lurking for a few years now - heard about this place back in the post-9/11 days when Instapundit was its own domain and Steven den Beste was still around. Been thinking about delurking for a while.

-similar journey RandomDave. You're only about 50 posts behind me. I miss USS Clueless.

Posted by: 3 Angry Irish Inches at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (H2Hko)

203 I taught Mrs. F. to drive manual. She kept putting it in 3rd instead of 1st and stalling out at stop signs. It was quite a scene.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:09 PM (RIvkX)

204
Another "all from his backyard in AZ with an 11" scope". See Jupiter's winds, differential rotation, and rotation of the Red Spot:

https://tinyurl.com/28ny9pol

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 11:09 PM (w6EFb)

205 179 Around here "kosher" means simply meatless. Not like back East where it means two sets of dishes, two sinks, two cutting boards, etc.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:01 PM (RIvkX)

I helped design a kosher house in Anchorage, of all places. Two dishwashers, two of everything.

Also, my dad helped design the local mikvah.

I had no idea there were so many Jews in Anchorage.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:09 PM (1Gsou)

206 Bacon is understood to be acceptable once it exhibits no appreciable bending while held in the center.

Nobody likes floppy bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)

Waitaminnit.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:10 PM (gKDq2)

207 Operation Frequent Wind was the first combat deployment of the new Grumman F-14A Tomcat.

VF-1 Wolfpack and VF-2 Bounty Hunters were aboard USS Enterprise for that mission.

Alas Charlie did not come out to play.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:10 PM (u4KuU)

208 Old-school skills I have:

Making a bed with "hospital corners" that Granny learned as a candy-striper (not "stripper," ya morons!).

Making columns on a manual typewriter (and I still type about 80 words a minute without mistakes!)

Dialing a rotary phone

Sewing a seam, replacing a button, and darning socks (although even the "wool" socks have polyester in them, which shred easily)

I used to be able to run in high heels. I can tell you right now, you don't put your weight on the heel and roll forward on the ball of your foot like a low heel. You would die. Instead, you're almost stomping your foot and doing a quick rocking motion from heel to ball.

I was an amateur compared to my great-aunt. As a teen, she wore narrow heels nicknamed "carpet punchers" in the 1920s. Even in her old age, she walked around in heels and crossed her legs in a very elegant way.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 11:11 PM (yoqKl)

209 I did not wear a tie for my Dad and sister's funerals. A nice shirt and slacks. Most likely I am done with ties.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:07 PM (0aYVJ)

DH moved up here with 6 suits, 12 ties, cuff links, all that jazz. He has worn them exactly zero times since then.

Generally if you see someone in Anchorage wearing a suit and tie, it means they are a California lawyer, best avoided socially and professionally.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:11 PM (1Gsou)

210 145 Life Skills - Rites of Passage:

I noticed in the factory environment of the 8-'s....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (QGaXH)

That should read 'factory environment of the 80's...'

Apologies for any corn-fusion this might have caused...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:11 PM (QGaXH)

211 172 Damn it!

I'm an hour late. I read that everyone needs a comment once a quarter.

I skipped everything else.

Has boobs been taken?

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM

The AOS Style Guide is very clear on that matter ... there is no limit to the number of boobs references in any given thread, nor a daily limit.

Of course, the 'ettes are also free to call us small "m" morons as many times as they want!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (HlyYF)

212 201 Bacon is understood to be acceptable once it exhibits no appreciable bending while held in the center.

Nobody likes floppy bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)

As Trump would say, 'so true...so true.' I don't like floppy bacon (hence the 3.5), but I don't like bent bacon either. It needs to be as flat as possible. I do that by cooking it relatively low and slow on the griddle, so the cooking fat on the slice doesn't have a chance to curl up off the heating surface. If a restaurant serves up bacon, I don't care how it's made, but if I make it, I get all particular about how it's made.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (0CU3H)

213 I've lurked here daily since coming over from LGF. My first post ended up being a thrilling First!

I will eat Bacon at any number, but I don't like thick-cut pieces.

Posted by: Berwyn Ken at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (HcbZb)

214 SpaceX launch tonight.

Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 1:29 a.m. EDT (0529 UTC) on Wednesday, July 2.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8DMwOgaBFzA

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (r6SF4)

215 Bacon: Between 4 and 5. Here me out - my gall bladder is long gone. I have to ration my daily grease quotient or the undigested grease acts as a pretty good lubricant.
Ties: Unless you are wearing an abomination like a wide knit tie, a full Windsor is the ONLY knot. Half-Windsor and four-in-hand knots look, and are, lopsided. The only time I wear a bow tie is with a tux, and, being a traditionalist, I tie it by hand... 4 or 5 times to get it right. Those pre-tied things look bad, and besides, at 1 in the morning, you can untie it and look as cool as Sammy Davis, Jr.
At least in my own head.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (khd/k)

216
One thing's for sure, we're in the 3rd Quarter, which means the 2Q GDP data will be released soon...and politicized.

If it's good, they'll say it's bad, or credit build back better, or both.

If it's bad, they'll say we're in a depression.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (uvvqE)

217 195
Isn't the year 2000 "technically" in the 20th Century?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (uvvqE)

Yes. (I think) First year of a century, decade, whatever is not the '0' year but the '1' year. As when you count to ten - you begin with one, not zero. What I cannot recall is if there is a Year 0 BC or AD. Was it 1 BC then 1 AD?

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (aBgBM)

218
Welcome, RandomDave!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:13 PM (egH3D)

219 Of course, the 'ettes are also free to call us small "m" morons as many times as they want!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (HlyYF)

Little head thinkers.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:13 PM (gKDq2)

220 The bacon needs to be done enough to hold up in a cheeseburger or grilled cheese

you don't want to take a bite and have the whole slice come out

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 11:13 PM (AOsQT)

221 LOL I spent 10 years as a logging engineer, I can see that scene exactly!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (0DdMG)

Just looked up logging engineer / jobs. Dang, they are in demand, all over the world. Especially HAL

Posted by: javems at July 01, 2025 11:13 PM (8I4hW)

222 ESLR -> Jerome Powell seeking another way to fuck us beside not lowering interest rates?

https://tinyurl.com/2s46zewr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:14 PM (UFztX)

223 Little head thinkers.

Here!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 11:14 PM (lUFok)

224 Making columns on a manual typewriter (and I still type about 80 words a minute without mistakes!)

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 11:11 PM (yoqKl)

I still kill keyboards, even though I have lightened up from manual typewriter typing. I usually wear out the F and J first....

The old Underwoods required a half inch throw, and if you do that sort of strike on a sensitive keyboard it dies a horrible death.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:14 PM (1Gsou)

225
UPenn rescinds all of Wiiliam Thomas's records??

Bans gay men from girls sports??

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (uvvqE)

226 I was following Steven Den Beste and Bill Whittle for so many, many years. Even when Steve went into anime reviews.

Poor guy. Died alone and undetected for days.
Col. Tom Kratman tried to collect his old posts into book form, but I don't think Steve's brother ever responded to his inquires.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (EOjZq)

227
I remember way back listening to the news about Freddy Mac being on the skids. The media and the gubment quickly swept it under the rug, laughing at any one who believed that BS was a gullible idiot. To this day, I do not believe a single word coming out of the Fed.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (sZyeE)

Accounting parlor tricks are a bad idea. Accounting parlor tricks using $8,000,000,000 of I.O.U.s may bankrupt us yet.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (pIfcn)

228 Just Cause was Purple Penny for much of the planning stage. I think some Airlift Wing’s ORE or ORI later used Purple Penny as well.

Posted by: Johnny Lanctot at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (tVuDA)

229 Was it 1 BC then 1 AD?
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (aBgBM)

No year zero. And as it turns out, Jesus was not born then, either. Very confusing.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (1Gsou)

230 153 I found this place in late 2016. Dived right in with comments.
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:53 PM (aBgBM)

I think I was about the same time, maybe a little earlier. I think my late b-i-l pointed me to it. He would have fit right in here, especially the gun thread. He had amassed quite a collection, even reloading rounds and casting his own bullets...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (QGaXH)

231
Tanden has Get Out Of Jail Free cards in-hand. As does her long-time friend and mentor, Hillzebub.
Posted by: Gref

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

They all do -- or they all must, for the lack of interest the DoJ seems to have in summoning them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (egH3D)

232 Operation Frequent Wind was the first combat deployment of the new Grumman F-14A Tomcat.

VF-1 Wolfpack and VF-2 Bounty Hunters were aboard USS Enterprise for that mission.

Alas Charlie did not come out to play.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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This is why I love this place. Thanks, Anna Puma for the knowledge drop.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (41CYW)

233 I have had such a horrible year. Damn it, I have been watching "The Conners."

Even with the wokeness, the show spoke to me.

There was a lesbian chick ace accurately called ugly hot. Darlene is there. The blonde is pretty cute and in her 40's.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (jvJvP)

234 Papers, I need to see your papers.
You have no Papers?
Hey, it's good to be back home again. (John Denver)
Next!

Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (5yGIt)

235 And 2.5 on the bacon

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (EOjZq)

236 225
UPenn rescinds all of Wiiliam Thomas's records??

Bans gay men from girls sports??
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (uvvqE)

Sure, but he still got to swing his wang in front of all the ladies. Dude should have been jailed for indecent exposure.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (1Gsou)

237 8 y/o grandson gets into my truck. I'll admit it's a bit primitive. No power nothing. Also no A/C. We get going on our Papa takes grand shooting excursion and about 5 minutes in he asks...

"Papa. How do you roll down the window in this thing?"
So I got to explain the root source of "roll down" to him.

Posted by: Reforger at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (LgDgc)

238 UPenn rescinds all of Wiiliam Thomas's records??

Which Starbucks or Jack-in-the-Box does he work at nowadays?

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (aBgBM)

239 225 UPenn rescinds all of Wiiliam Thomas's records??

Bans gay men from girls sports??

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM

However, it was done gently ... they waited until the first day after Pride Month ended!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (HlyYF)

240 I was in Anchorage on business and bumped into an orthodox tour group in the hotel who basically demanded to feed me food they brought from Brooklyn but then they made me pray for 3 hours.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (RIvkX)

241 Charlie Rich, good man cut down in his prime.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (UFztX)

242 201 Bacon is understood to be acceptable once it exhibits no appreciable bending while held in the center.

---------

Flexibility is critical to maintaining the bacon's optimal tensile strength.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (JkO4W)

243 Gawd, I hate that Chrlie Rich song. I worked the summer of '74, out of high school, at a fancy steak house/supper club...Anyway, they had a house band. I heard that song at least once a set (3 or 4 times), every night I worked.
Kill me now.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:08

Working in the same situation while tending bar I heard "Marion Thomas and the Summerwinds" sing their namesake song...and the Summmerwinds kept blowing in...way too many times.

Today it makes me laugh and I'll start singing it to my wife who also worked there.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (55Qr6)

244 Half-Windsor and four-in-hand knots look, and are, lopsided.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (khd/k)

The only time I wore that was with those tab collars. They need really tiny knots.

I couldn't wear certain ties with a tab collar as the knot was too big and it looked ridiculous. Like a striped suit and a plaid shirt.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (gKDq2)

245 231
Tanden has Get Out Of Jail Free cards in-hand. As does her long-time friend and mentor, Hillzebub.
Posted by: Gref

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

They all do -- or they all must, for the lack of interest the DoJ seems to have in summoning them.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (egH3D)

To me, that's quite alright. This is not a quest for criminal justice - it's a quest for political justice. If Trump & Co can tie the Dems to a culture of corruption (like Pelosi did 20 years ago), we can destroy them in 2026 and get DOGE working with the next Congress, big-time.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (0CU3H)

246 242 201 Bacon is understood to be acceptable once it exhibits no appreciable bending while held in the center.

---------

Flexibility is critical to maintaining the bacon's optimal tensile strength.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (JkO4W)

This is great! The Horde is talking about bacon in the same way Eskimos probably talk about snow.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:19 PM (0CU3H)

247 ESLR -> Jerome Powell seeking another way to fuck us beside not lowering interest rates?

https://tinyurl.com/2s46zewr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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I've got both my legs in my cranky pants about Powell.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:21 PM (41CYW)

248 233 I have had such a horrible year. Damn it, I have been watching "The Conners."

Even with the wokeness, the show spoke to me.

There was a lesbian chick ace accurately called ugly hot. Darlene is there. The blonde is pretty cute and in her 40's.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (jvJvP)

And, in her own way, the term 'ugly hot' defines Lady Gaga.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:21 PM (0CU3H)

249 >> What I cannot recall is if there is a Year 0 BC or AD. Was it 1 BC then 1 AD?

In the standard AD/BC convention, there is no Year 0. This is problem for the math (leap year arithmetic, and converting to Julian dates and such). The standard astronomical date convention is thus to make the 1BC be the year zero, and use negative year numbers.

Thus a BC year is - (BC - 1).

The Julian vs Gregorian transition is also a bit of a mess. Standard there is to use the actual adoption of the Gregorian back in Oct 1582. Julian calendar dates before, Gregorian after, so there are 10 days that don't exist. That makes a bit of mess in the arithmetic.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 11:21 PM (w6EFb)

250 Musical counter point.
Mike, it's not Oleo.

https://tinyurl.com/yxs59cpd

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:22 PM (UFztX)

251 91 How do you wake Lady Gaga up from a nap?

Poke her face!
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry
—————

What do you recommend to poke her with?
I know what honest William J Clinton would use!

Posted by: M.L. Car at July 01, 2025 11:22 PM (yRVXt)

252 All those bacons look good to me.

Posted by: EastBayLarry at July 01, 2025 11:23 PM (D9EP7)

253 239 225 UPenn rescinds all of Wiiliam Thomas's records??

Bans gay men from girls sports??

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM

However, it was done gently ... they waited until the first day after Pride Month ended!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (HlyYF

Dude has to go to plan B.

Personalized silicone testicles that can from the back of cars and trucks.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:23 PM (jvJvP)

254 Nobody likes floppy bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)

That's what she said.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 01, 2025 11:24 PM (5xuJ/)

255 The strip of bacon should easily break in half.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 11:24 PM (AOsQT)

256 @242

>>Flexibility is critical to maintaining the bacon's optimal tensile strength.

Within a narrow range, say 2-3 degrees, any more and property cooked bacon should break.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:24 PM (XV/Pl)

257 The Julian vs Gregorian transition is also a bit of a mess. Standard there is to use the actual adoption of the Gregorian back in Oct 1582. Julian calendar dates before, Gregorian after, so there are 10 days that don't exist. That makes a bit of mess in the arithmetic.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Had an awesome history teacher in HS (they weren't always furry, pride, anti-American teachers). He explained is very similarly to the way you did. A lively discussion ensued about the 10 days. He laughed and explained it again.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:25 PM (41CYW)

258 Pixy-misa remembering Steven Den Beste

https://ai.mee.nu/life/remembering_steven_den_beste

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:25 PM (u4KuU)

259 245
To me, that's quite alright. This is not a quest for criminal justice - it's a quest for political justice. If Trump & Co can tie the Dems to a culture of corruption (like Pelosi did 20 years ago), we can destroy them in 2026 and get DOGE working with the next Congress, big-time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (0CU3H)
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If we can keep Musk from tossing a grenade into it. He's a good guy, but somebody needs to put him in front of some cartoons or something for a while to keep him occupied.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 01, 2025 11:26 PM (qUYGJ)

260 255 The strip of bacon should easily break in half.

That's some wisdom there.

Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 01, 2025 11:26 PM (5yGIt)

261 I lurked for years because good opsec.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:17

Ditto here. You have to learn the lay of the land. And the characters...boy you better learn the characters.

What's the strangest one you recall? Besides yourself?

That Tickled Pink was a hoot for a while.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (55Qr6)

262 I was reading here in 2002. A little timid to post, it was like a wild west saloon back then, and didn't make one until 2003. Posted here more often once that other place went off the rails/back to Bicycle Boy's lefty roots.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (gKDq2)

263 Mark Andrew Edwards -

Steven Den Beste’s site is still up! It’s being hosted at

http://chizumatic.mee.nu

The last post is, in hindsight, hard to read.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (1paM0)

264 Ok. Bacon on a BLT should be a 3-3.25

Bacon for bacon and eggs more like a 2

Bacon with pancakes a 2.5.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (mT+6a)

265
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-25
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: July 2, 2025
Launch Time: 1:29 a.m. EDT, 0529 UTC, 0729 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/Rz152SnpMHU

Posted by: Ciampino - are brrrrrs or bzzzzzzs vibrations? at July 01, 2025 11:28 PM (sPQoU)

266 This is great! The Horde is talking about bacon in the same way Eskimos probably talk about snow.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:19 PM

Do Eskimos have multiple ways of cooking snow?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 11:28 PM (yoqKl)

267 187 Why are soo many pastor’s wives now being called pastor also? Was the wife ordained? Did she go to seminary? Was she called by God to serve as a pastor (hope). My husband is a physician. Can I now be called a Dr. also like the pastor’s wife is called pastor? Did I learn everything he learned in medical school by osmosis? Just asking.
Posted by: Deborah Hamilton at July 01, 2025 11:04 PM (QrgRG)

I think it all started with Hillary and qualified on day one by virtue of being married to Bill. Anyone else remember when Bill was first inaugurated the two of them saying they were 'co-presidents' until the backlash shut that down hard?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:29 PM (QGaXH)

268 Worked as a programmer back in the early 90’s in Boston. Had to wear a tie, dress shirt, dress pants everyday. Tied all my ties and left them in my rucksack I took to work. Know how to iron my pants, thanks mom and army.

Bacon any number will do, because Bacon.

Miss driving a stick on the floor or on the tree. Nothing like it.

Posted by: morigu at July 01, 2025 11:29 PM (i94X/)

269 I'm crashing, welcome delurkers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:29 PM (RIvkX)

270 I almost never wear ties. When I do, it's not even a half Windsor. More like a quarter windsor. My son had a name for it. I like it. the knot is small, and asymmetrical.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)

Four-in-hand

I was always told not to wear that to an interview, but I figured anywhere that judged me on a tie and not my abilities can hire a tie cheaper than they could hire me.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:30 PM (D7oie)

271 All those bacons look good to me.
Posted by: EastBayLarry at July 01, 2025 11:23 PM (D9EP7)

A true omnivore.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:30 PM (gKDq2)

272 Rite of passage:

Unrestricted driver's license!

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:31 PM (rdVOm)

273 I got here shortly after the small verdant spheroids site blew up. Been lurking a long time; only recently been posting, and have changed my handle at least once.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 11:31 PM (1paM0)

274 "Col. Tom Kratman tried to collect his old posts into book form, but I don't think Steve's brother ever responded to his inquires."

I have a compendium of the USS Clueless posts on my computer somewhere.

Pixy was actually involved in preserving his work back in the day.

Here's a rabbit hole for you:

https://tinyurl.com/5n7z4a7t

Posted by: pawn at July 01, 2025 11:31 PM (QB+5g)

275 I have 6 more beers.

But my living situation is finally resolved. And I have taken care of parents forever.

I'm easing back into real life.

Including dress shirts and ties for some sweet young women.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:31 PM (jvJvP)

276 257 The Julian vs Gregorian transition is also a bit of a mess. Standard there is to use the actual adoption of the Gregorian back in Oct 1582. Julian calendar dates before, Gregorian after, so there are 10 days that don't exist. That makes a bit of mess in the arithmetic.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Had an awesome history teacher in HS (they weren't always furry, pride, anti-American teachers). He explained is very similarly to the way you did. A lively discussion ensued about the 10 days. He laughed and explained it again.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:25 PM (41CYW)

The Russian Empire used the Julian Calendar. So they were 10 days behind most all other countries. I think this is why the October Revolution day back in the day (Julian Oct. 25, 1917?) was celebrated since 1918 or 1919 in November. I think - past my bedtime - brain has shut down - good night all.

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:31 PM (aBgBM)

277 Lil Pooky is constantly expanding his reach, and when I left him with Pooky today, he pulled my keyboard and mouse to the floor, mashed them several times, and would have printed the entirety of the AoSHQ front page if he hadn't clicked elsewhere. 27 pages!

Posted by: pookysgirl, warning of the nonsense comments ahead at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM (Wt5PA)

278 All y’all lurkers, welcome.

How fun to “meet” you!!

I lurked for a couple years before diving in. And before that, I followed ace and didn’t even KNOW there was a comment section.

I’m not the brightest rock in the nest.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM (mT+6a)

279 I'm so happy for you, Stateless, that your housing situation is finally resolved in your favor!

Yay!

And that you have critters to keep you company.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

280 That Tickled Pink was a hoot for a while.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (55Qr6)

i miss Fjordman.
I am happy zombie is back.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM (jvJvP)

281 What's the strangest one you recall? Besides yourself?

That Tickled Pink was a hoot for a while.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (55Qr6)

That was a weird one. I tend to remember nics more than the content of said nic.

Purple Avenger
Niedermeyer's Dead Horse
These Fishsticks are Hard as Tits
Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper

And my all-time favorite: Asscheeks of Saturn

Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM (0aYVJ)

282 Did I learn everything he learned in medical school by osmosis? Just asking.
Posted by: Deborah Hamilton at July 01, 2025 11:04 PM (QrgRG)

Maybe Pastor is something that rubs off in bed, I think?

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:34 PM (D7oie)

283 That Tickled Pink was a hoot for a while.
Posted by: Farmer
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Yep, she/he was a hoot! Had a lot of people going for a while...

Posted by: lin-duh at July 01, 2025 11:34 PM (VCgbV)

284 Lil Pooky is truly a budding moron of the highest calibre - 9mm.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:34 PM (u4KuU)

285 265
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-25
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: July 2, 2025
Launch Time: 1:29 a.m. EDT, 0529 UTC, 0729 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/Rz152SnpMHU
Posted by: Ciampino - are brrrrrs or bzzzzzzs vibrations?
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Wish someone would get Musk's attention and teach him some real-politic.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:35 PM (UFztX)

286 I miss Uncle Palpatine.

And insomniac.

And JT.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 11:36 PM (mT+6a)

287
Anyone have status on CA gas prices? I'm on vacation out of state.
Bacon is 3, of course.

Q3 Lurker obligation fulfilled.
Posted by: CA Token

Gasbuddy

https://t.ly/Z9vxr

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 11:36 PM (63Dwl)

288 258 Pixy-misa remembering Steven Den Beste

https://ai.mee.nu/life/remembering_steven_den_beste
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:25 PM (u4KuU)

This. Was. Awesome. Thank you, Anna Puma.

This brought back memories. The Monopoly board with all those old blogs (and Clueless on Broadway) was amazing. Even moreso were all the commenters giving their tributes. Little did we know then that several of them would do insane over The Orange One.

Anyway, enough of my flurry of commenting for the night. See ya, folks.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:37 PM (0CU3H)

289 I enjoyed the tales of commenter 'Stuck on Stupid'

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:37 PM (rdVOm)

290 279 I'm so happy for you, Stateless, that your housing situation is finally resolved in your favor!

Yay!

And that you have critters to keep you company.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM

Thank you for all the support.

The animals and I are still in celebration mode. They are eating well. Snowflake. 9.4 pounds. Sweet.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:37 PM (jvJvP)

291 We have seen far too many commentors go off the deep end. Ohers sold us out for fleeting fame.

While others will be dearly missed as they have graduated to the great blog in Heaven.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:37 PM (u4KuU)

292 When tickled pink appeared it was time to go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:38 PM (UFztX)

293 >> A lively discussion ensued about the 10 days. He laughed and explained it again.

The transition period from when the Gregorian was first adopted until most all the countries were using it (looking at you, England!) is always going to be a mess. Great Britain didn't adopt the Gregorian (and didn't call it that, just the "New Style" calendar, because Catholic) until 1752. And then, it jumped 11 days. There was a lot of fussing about "stealing 11 days!".

Before then, in the "Old Style", the new year didn't begin until Mar. 25th, "Lady Day". So they went to the Gregorian and then changed New Years day to the now standard Jan 1. Thus the year 1751 has only about 9 months.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 11:39 PM (w6EFb)

294 I hear there are some big trucks with automatic transmissions now. Where's the fun in that. Driving one you learn to slip/shift. The only time you need the clutch is to start or stop. Good thing too as the synchronizer was the first thing to fail in the trucks I drove, well second after the fuel gauge.

Posted by: javems at July 01, 2025 11:39 PM (8I4hW)

295 I never understood why people want to create drama. Firm opinion, yes, bullshit drama, no. What, they miss their daily televised 'stories'?

I guess narcissism is a helluva drug.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:41 PM (gKDq2)

296 For a while, I just read the posts and avoided the comments on AoS because, you know, most comment sections are full of obnoxiousness. I was happily surprised when I finally read comments. One of these days I may go back to reading the posts!

Har har.

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - cultural topography at July 01, 2025 11:41 PM (4yKs6)

297 I am very sad that Trump and Elon are now at each other's throats.

Unless...this is some SUPREME PSYOPS... (my hope)

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2025 11:41 PM (25kuG)

298
When tickled pink appeared it was time to go.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

HA!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 11:42 PM (63Dwl)

299
Many of the Founding Father's birth dates were affected by the "New Style" change. George Washington is the most famous (Ben Franklin affected as well).

At the time he was born on Feb. 11, 1731. In the Gregorian, that's Feb. 21, 1732. If you born between Jan 1 and March 24, the year start change affected you.

It was a matter of preference whether to proleptically change your birth date, or just keep the old one. There were a lot of complaints.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 11:42 PM (w6EFb)

300 Acceptable topics are whatever you want. This is an open thread. Some ideas to get you going:

This is how threads turn into Boob Threads

Posted by: kbdabear at July 01, 2025 11:43 PM (zBOzm)

301 I learned to drive in an old VW pickup, the one that was based on the bus. It had a throw on the stick shift like throwing the switches down at the rail-yard. I loved that thing. I have had a number of manual transmission vehicles and I do like them, even the ones with the worn out syncros that made me double-clutch.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:43 PM (D7oie)

302 I like Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi. A favorite of strip clubs back when.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 11:43 PM (VofaG)

303
I am very sad that Trump and Elon are now at each other's throats.

Unless...this is some SUPREME PSYOPS... (my hope)
Posted by: Nightwatch

This is their second nervous breakdown.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 11:44 PM (63Dwl)

304 Checking in for my quarterly quota quote.

Taught my sons how to tie a Double Windsor (which my dad taught me). When my older son got married, I was thrilled to see the two of them teaching groomsmen (younger son was best man) how to tie their toes.
We have a tradition that I began when I got married. The morning of the wedding, I went to a local barber and got a straight razor shave. My older son had the three of us meet at the same barber shop to get one the morning before he got married. Younger son is engaged and hope he continues it.

Posted by: ERF at July 01, 2025 11:45 PM (qqD/x)

305 Curious was colorful. She kept dossiers on all of her blog enemies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 11:45 PM (JkO4W)

306 This is how threads turn into Boob Threads
Posted by: kbdabear
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Nice to see you in the comments. Been a while. I believe the style guide suggests that kbdabear posts include links. For ummm... science.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:45 PM (41CYW)

307 And my all-time favorite: Asscheeks of Saturn
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:33

Now that you say that, I haven't seen Masturbatin' Pete in a long time.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 01, 2025 11:45 PM (55Qr6)

308 Gas prices in Commiefornia, already the highest in the nation, will now kick it up another couple of cents...because that is what they do.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2025 11:46 PM (25kuG)

309 303
I am very sad that Trump and Elon are now at each other's throats.

Unless...this is some SUPREME PSYOPS... (my hope)
Posted by: Nightwatch

This is their second nervous breakdown

Wait till they get to their 19th nervous breakdown.

Posted by: morigu at July 01, 2025 11:46 PM (i94X/)

310 ties...tying toes is tricky....

Posted by: ERF at July 01, 2025 11:46 PM (qqD/x)

311 187 Why are soo many pastor’s wives now being called pastor also? Was the wife ordained? Did she go to seminary? Was she called by God to serve as a pastor (hope). My husband is a physician. Can I now be called a Dr. also like the pastor’s wife is called pastor? Did I learn everything he learned in medical school by osmosis? Just asking.
Posted by: Deborah Hamilton

In my church the preacher explains that women are not to preach to men, but only to children and younger women, and cites 1 Timothy 2:8-15. He also believes the passages citing deaconesses are actually references to the wives of deacons, not deacons themselves. He explains that women are called by God to other duties that are complementary to the roles of men, and are not fulfillable by men. The issue of calling his wife “pastor” does not come up.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 11:47 PM (1paM0)

312 Curious was colorful. She kept dossiers on all of her blog enemies.
Posted by: Cicero
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Oh, yeah... "cat piss" LOL

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)

313 310 ties...tying toes is tricky....
Posted by: ERF at July 01, 2025 11:46 PM (qqD/x)

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Try tying boobs. You can do it, but they always come loose.

Posted by: Nanzi Pelosi at July 01, 2025 11:48 PM (JkO4W)

314 "BOOBS???"...0-0😛

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2025 11:48 PM (25kuG)

315 Now that we have all the de-lurkers right where we want them, at what point do we push them in the sugar trap?

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 11:48 PM (txH+0)

316 ESLR -> Jerome Powell seeking another way to fuck us beside not lowering interest rates?
https://tinyurl.com/2s46zewr
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:14 PM (UFztX)

The EU and UK are scrambling to fund their economies and are having to borrow USD at OUR rate, and are trying to print their way out of the hole to be in a position to pay it back. Powell is breaking the Bank of England and the European central bank.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:49 PM (D7oie)

317 Empire of Jeff was a funny guy.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 11:50 PM (VofaG)

318 Now that we have all the de-lurkers right where we want them, at what point do we push them in the sugar trap?
Posted by: 496
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Has anyone seen Akbar?

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:50 PM (41CYW)

319 i315 Now that we have all the de-lurkers right where we want them, at what point do we push them in the sugar trap?
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 11:48 PM (txH+0)

Sugar what? Someone said 'boobs' and I got distracted.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 11:51 PM (6nQni)

320 Has anyone seen Akbar?

Don't answer that, it's a trap!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 11:52 PM (lUFok)

321 There are the occassional commenters whose names I can't remember because I just scrolled on by. 'Werner Herzog', I believe the nick was, was one that I studiously ignored.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:53 PM (gKDq2)

322 Best Hollywood unnekkid boobs.

Laura San Giacomo

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 11:54 PM (VofaG)

323 My wife's good friend was born in the refugee camp in Guam after her parents were taken off from Vietnam. Basically they got asked on the base they worked if they wanted to go along as they US troops started evacuating. They couldn't tell their families.
Her mom spent most of the rest of her life sponsoring relatives to come over to the US. The Socialist Republic charged a lot of money to leave, and not a few escaped through China.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:54 PM (D7oie)

324 Yeah, Empire of Jeff was unique. Wonder what happened to him.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 11:54 PM (JkO4W)

325 Lol. Conners reminded me of a great line from kids shows... "School of Rock"

Paraphrased...

Summer: "Man, things were so much easier in Grade 4. You just gave them a note. 'If you like me, check box 1. If you don't, check box 2.'"

Breanna Yde. "Yeah, those checkboxes made things REAL clear."

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:55 PM (jvJvP)

326 I don't know what the gas prices are in California. But they are high. Probably the highest in the country. Like their people. Also if you do any walking,watch your step. The sidewalks double as the toilets.

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2025 11:55 PM (ilX37)

327
This is not a quest for criminal justice - it's a quest for political justice. If Trump & Co can tie the Dems to a culture of corruption (like Pelosi did 20 years ago), we can destroy them in 2026 and get DOGE working with the next Congress, big-time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

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

Well, grumble grumble, I see your logic. But I still think that anyone who wants to go to bed at night knowing they live in a land where the rule of law prevails and applies equally to all is still a bit screwed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:56 PM (egH3D)

328 317 Empire of Jeff was a funny guy.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 11:50 PM (VofaG

Thank you!
I couldn't remember the name.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:56 PM (jvJvP)

329 It can be lunch time
Thank for reminding me I need gas just to get home today. $3,10 at Wawa down the block, getting over $3.30 at home

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 11:57 PM (rKJ4Y)

330 I helped design a kosher house in Anchorage, of all places. Two dishwashers, two of everything.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Fisher & Paykel, a New Zealand company, makes a dishwasher called a DishDrawer, which, instead of a front that opens out, has two separate drawers, one above the other. The outlet hoses are joined at a "Y" fitting, but, if they are separated and run to the sink outlet separately, the rabbi can certify it as kosher.
The Fisher and Paykel families are Jewish.
I had the DishDrawer and their counter-depth refrigerator in my last house.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 01, 2025 11:58 PM (khd/k)

331 I am very sad that Trump and Elon are now at each other's throats.
Unless...this is some SUPREME PSYOPS... (my hope)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2025 11:41 PM (25kuG)

Legislator RINOs getting upitty with Trump, knowing that Elon, with all his billions, will have their backs. The day of the first big ad buy, Elon goes, "Psych!" and funds the Trump-endorsed challengers.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 01, 2025 11:59 PM (r6SF4)

332 Commenting at this site is, as somebody said “like drinking from a fire hose.” It’s only recently when I’ve been laid up in bed, recovering from surgery, and have had a lot of time on my hands, that I’ve been able to keep up enough to do it. It helps to have a good sense of humor, and requires you to be humble.

By contrast, commenting at Sarah Hoyt’s site, where I post under another alias, is like drinking from a garden hose: nostalgic, and a little warm. I don’t have a lot in common with a lot of the posters there, who are mostly writers, but I am an Odd, and in that way I fit in.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 12:00 AM (1paM0)

333 322 Best Hollywood unnekkid boobs.

Laura San Giacomo

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 11:54 PM (VofaG)
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They were up there (heh heh)

Posted by: 496 at July 02, 2025 12:00 AM (q/UWX)

334 Yeah, Empire of Jeff was unique. Wonder what happened to him.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 11:54 PM (JkO4W)

IIRC Him and ace had a disagreement. He quit and ace banned him at the same time.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:00 AM (VofaG)

335 I rather like the idea of thick cut Bacon, but considerable research hath shewn that ordinary Bacon fried quickly to crispy crumbly is most flavorful. More wrinkles and crinkles.

And it is supplied in those efficiently handy 1 Pound Single Serving packages, so we got that going for us, which is nice.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 12:01 AM (qgiNH)

336 Must be John Vernon night on Grit TV. 'One More Train to Rob' with George Peppard. 1971. Peppard character is similar to his A-Team one except he robs trains. Vernon plays Vernon which is not a knock. He had a commanding presence, even in this low budget western.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 12:02 AM (6HmqW)

337 Laura San Giacomo is 62 years old. Damn I am over 29.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:02 AM (VofaG)

338 Posted by: RandomDave at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (aJQbY)

Welcome to you and all the other delurkers! You've all made excellent debuts. Please stick around!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at July 02, 2025 12:02 AM (Vvh2V)

339 It is my hope that over the next 2 years, the democrat party will be forced out into the political desert for the next 2 decades.

Burma Shave.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 02, 2025 12:02 AM (25kuG)

340 Thanks and good night.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 02, 2025 12:04 AM (25kuG)

341 I remember times would go to AoSHq at 4 am and find no comments since 0130 because a few would piss off Maet and the comments got set down.

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 12:04 AM (rKJ4Y)

342 Kind of makes me wonder what Steven DB would think of Trump.

Posted by: pawn at July 02, 2025 12:04 AM (QB+5g)

343 IIRC Him and ace had a disagreement. He quit and ace banned him at the same time.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:00 AM (VofaG

Damn I missed a lot.

I bet the jab wars were gloriously ugly.

By the way, this is my first day as homeowner. Dominion Day. I still have 5 beers left.

The animals are happy.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:05 AM (jvJvP)

344 Love BLTs but too lazy to clean up the grease and clean up the skillet so I just buy the pre cooked bacon and nuke it for 30 seconds. Makes a very agreeable BLT .

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:05 AM (VofaG)

345 Checking in for Q3 from far SW about 20 miles from the border.
Bacon 1-5. It's all good cause it's bacon!
My life skill was learning to parallel park. That was accomplished by taking one driving lesson. The teacher let me use his car to take the test. In over 50 years of driving, I never parallel parked again.
I love this place.

Posted by: AlmostYuman at July 02, 2025 12:06 AM (bj34f)

346 Told this story before, but back in New Jersey, I lived next to a single mom and her kid. One night I was heading out and the kid's staring at a flat tire on his car. He has a tire iron, and he's dejectedly tapping it against the flat. Mom's not around.

"You know how to change a tire, Ray?"

"Nope"

"Well, the tire iron is a good start, but pop the trunk and let's get the rest of the stuff out. You probably noticed the spare in there, grab that too, we'll need it."

My understanding from Ray's mom was that dad was in prison and belonged there. Ray was a good kid, but pinning the quiet and awkward needles due to his age and circumstances. He'd be in his 30's by now, I reckon. Like to imagine him driving a tow truck. Maybe he's got a fleet of them...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 02, 2025 12:07 AM (bA75n)

347 And we also had doomsday Monty. Now half of aos is doomsday.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:07 AM (VofaG)

348 By the way, this is my first day as homeowner.

Congrats on that, FWIW.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 02, 2025 12:07 AM (lUFok)

349 No more 'yellow cards'-- lucky to see a warning comment from a cob, before... *poof* if ya don't tone it down.

Meh.

At least we don't need to "sign up" and that's a BIG plus!

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:07 AM (rdVOm)

350 When I was 15, I inspected, greased, adjusted the air brakes and made my Dad's Kenworth ready for his upcoming trip. I found a flat tire (inside on the trailer). My Dad, Mom and the rest of the family were out of town visiting relatives. I broke down, pulled the tube and fixed that tire, and made it ready to go. My Dad often said that what I did that day made him proud. That works for me.

Posted by: 625Boatrider at July 02, 2025 12:08 AM (nN+lv)

351 Love BLTs but too lazy to clean up the grease and clean up the skillet so I just buy the pre cooked bacon and nuke it for 30 seconds. Makes a very agreeable BLT .
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:05 AM (VofaG)

You can bake bacon in the oven if you want.

I buy the "bag o' bits and pieces" and mostly use them for cooking down in the skillet to make potatoes.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 02, 2025 12:08 AM (D7oie)

352 Trump and Musk were a match, shame it went south

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (rKJ4Y)

353 Monty would at least soften the DOOM with cat pictures.

Now, we have the Cafe to lighten the mood.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (rdVOm)

354 Not to put too fine a point on it, but technically speaking gasoline prices are not higher in California. The gasoline Taxes in California are considerable.

Leftists bitching about gasoline prices is a perennial favorite. They always reserve their invective for the people who drill it out of the ground, refine it, transport it, and dispense it, and clear maybe Ten Cents a gallon, reserving their profitability by selling chips and soda.

Not, of course, acknowledging in any way the Assclowns who add $1.75 in various shakedown schemes on top.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (AC6Bk)

355 To me, when it comes to the bacon chart, it depends on what the bacon will be used for, what preparation? Crispy crumbly for a baked potato or in an omlette. A little chewy if it's bacon strips on the side, a rasher. Just firm for a sandwich, not too chewy but not too crumbly, either, a snap but not a shatter. Partially cooked bacon strips get wrapped around shrimp or oysters and onto a grill. The bacon isn't totally crispy but who cares?

That's why we love bacon. It's the versatile food.

Oh, yeah, and thick-cut.

Posted by: RickZ at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (gKDq2)

356
In over 50 years of driving, I never parallel parked again.
I love this place.
Posted by: AlmostYuman

Convenient parking at AoS.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (63Dwl)

357 I hate that I have to get out the manual now to change a tire on my truck . At least for the first time. ( which I hope never happens) .

I did read once when I first bought the truck but I’m going to have to refresh my memory.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:10 AM (VofaG)

358 Now, we have the Cafe to lighten the mood.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (rdVOm)
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The Cafe is a damn good touch. Brilliant.

Posted by: 496 at July 02, 2025 12:10 AM (mNhIh)

359 345 Checking in for Q3 from far SW about 20 miles from the border.
Bacon 1-5. It's all good cause it's bacon!
My life skill was learning to parallel park. That was accomplished by taking one driving lesson. The teacher let me use his car to take the test. In over 50 years of driving, I never parallel parked again.
I love this place.
Posted by: AlmostYuman
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16 yr old driving test memory flood. Welcome, and thanks for jumping in the comments.

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:10 AM (41CYW)

360 By the way, this is my first day as homeowner. Dominion Day. I still have 5 beers left.

The animals are happy.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS!

Congratulations! A home, happy animals, and beer on hand. Happy Dominion Day! (If you have some hours left...)

H

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 02, 2025 12:11 AM (yoqKl)

361 Hi delurkers!

If you really want to be baptised, feel free to tell me to fuck off.

Yeah, I haven't done anything to you, but I am Canadian.

But if you have to build up to 'Fuck Off Asshole", keep posting and I am here.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:12 AM (jvJvP)

362 Bacon 1 or 2. No more. I do not like it crunchy.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:12 AM (bss/y)

363 You can bake bacon in the oven if you want.

I buy the "bag o' bits and pieces" and mostly use them for cooking down in the skillet to make potatoes.
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks
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Just tried baking bacon.
Not bothering to look nothing I just put them on a foil lined cookie, foil on top to stop splatter, 400 until it looked good.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 12:13 AM (/lPRQ)

364
I think it was as late as the 1920s before "most all countries of significance" were using the Gregorian, at least for official purposes. You know important stuff to align with the rest of the world. Local usage of older systems, like the Chinese calendar still persist.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 02, 2025 12:13 AM (w6EFb)

365 347 And we also had doomsday Monty. Now half of aos is doomsday.
Posted by: polynikes
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I enjoyed the Monty DOOM posts. Keep hoping he'll make a surprise appearance.

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:14 AM (41CYW)

366 348 By the way, this is my first day as homeowner.

Congrats on that, FWIW.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 02, 2025 12:07 AM (lUFok

Thanks.

Potential homelessness for 6 months was exhausting.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:15 AM (jvJvP)

367 I enjoyed the Monty DOOM posts. Keep hoping he'll make a surprise appearance.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:14 AM (41CYW)

He was on... Gab(?) a while back.

Is that even still a thing or has everyone migrated to Twitter?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:17 AM (bss/y)

368 There isn’t really a standardized rasher. Sure, 3 strips, but what size? I recall ordering a bacon cheeseburger at an AAFES run establishment overseas. I didn’t see any bacon, but upon lifting the bun to check - there it was! They included two Johnson and Johnson size Band-Aids of millimeter thick strips of … something. That’s pretty gay.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 12:18 AM (AC6Bk)

369 Congratulations! A home, happy animals, and beer on hand. Happy Dominion Day! (If you have some hours left...)

H

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 02, 2025 12:11

Five!

But I rejoin reality and society in August.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:18 AM (jvJvP)

370 16 yr old driving test memory flood. Welcome, and thanks for jumping in the comments.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:10 AM (41CYW)

I went to get my permit at 14 and was devastated that I didn’t leave with one because I didn’t pass the eye test. I was blind as a bat but never told anyone. Went and got glasses and never wore them except to get my license. I don’t know if I call it vanity rather it was just being a teenage boy not wanting to hurt his chances with the ladies. I eventually got soft contacts when they first came out.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:18 AM (VofaG)

371 "Potential homelessness for 6 months was exhausting."

You admitted a couple of nights ago after a nood was called that you were sitting on a quarter of a million in gold.

True?

Posted by: pawn at July 02, 2025 12:18 AM (QB+5g)

372 Had split rims and spokes, never touched the damned things.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 12:20 AM (UFztX)

373 Years ago, Turkey was 1/2 hour out of step with the rest of Europe in time zones. Kind of whacky.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 12:20 AM (AC6Bk)

374 >>>Johnson and Johnson size Band-Aids of millimeter thick strips of … something. That’s pretty gay.
Posted by: Common Tater
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LOL! Subway did the same. I used to like their "club" sandwiches. Nope, haven't been back in over a decade.
Bacon was so thin, I could SEE THROUGH the strips! Flavor? What flavor? Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:21 AM (rdVOm)

375 Iran is in the 7 and a half hour place for some reason.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 12:22 AM (LL6Kc)

376
It is tempting to proleptically extend the Gregorian calendar indefinitely back in time. Some have advocated doing that for astronomical date purposes. It would eliminate the mess about Julian date conversions, no discrete jump to have to worry about.

They didn't do this because, before Oct 15, 1582, nobody was using it, and no historical dates ever used it, so there would be a mess of error and confusion trying to do that. So, if you're tying some historical analysis (was the moon full on the date of some battle, and stuff like that), it would be a mess.

That mess of confusion does exist always between 1582 and really, 1920, but maybe practically until the 19th century, no matter what you do. There have been a lot errors, think two events happened on the same date when they did not, or vice versa. And some errors have propagated, because they didn't retain the original date, but just erroneously converted it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 02, 2025 12:22 AM (w6EFb)

377 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. The Ukrainians conducted some more drone attacks deep inside Russia. Pretty obvious that they are sneaking into Russia and launching far from the air defense zones at the borders. Hopefully the US military is taking notes and working on defenses for US bases.
2. The Ukrainians also attacked using what might be a homegrown cruise missile. This would be a big deal if there was a safe spot in the country to make them. Expect a missile attack on the factory soon.
3. The Russians continue to advance at multiple locations, forcing the Ukrainians to dash about plugging gaps and struggling to get their people out of cauldrons.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 12:23 AM (r6SF4)

378 Jersey Mikes asks you if you want the bacon even if you order a sandwich that comes with bacon. I don’t know if that’s something they do in all the stores or the one I frequented.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:23 AM (VofaG)

379 Two parrots walk into a bar...

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 12:26 AM (QSrLX)

380 I worked with an older guy who kept kosher. For one of the office potlucks I brought cornbread and told him I used crisco instead of lard because I knew he was on statins.

He kind of short circuited on that for a second.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 02, 2025 12:26 AM (D7oie)

381 Trump settled his lawsuit with CBS for a reported estimate of 30 million.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:27 AM (VofaG)

382
I've always wondered about the term "proleptic". I would say "retroactive" would be better for applying a calendar backwards in time. But the "pro", forward sense comes from thinking of a date in the past as "now", and thinking in terms of using a future calendar "now". Why they think that way, I don't know.

But note in the astronomical convention they do proleptically/retroactively extend the Julian calendar indefinitely back in time. No one was using an such calendar before 45BC (year -44). But no one even thinks of dates in whatever mish-mash of local calendar systems used before then, so it's proleptic Julian all the way back to the when the earth cooled.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 02, 2025 12:27 AM (w6EFb)

383 >>Jersey Mikes asks you if you want the bacon even if you order a sandwich that comes with bacon. I don’t know if that’s something they do in all the stores or the one I frequented.
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WTH?

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:28 AM (rdVOm)

384 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. The Ukrainians conducted some more drone attacks deep inside Russia. Pretty obvious that they are sneaking into Russia and launching far from the air defense zones at the borders. Hopefully the US military is taking notes and working on defenses for US bases.
2. The Ukrainians also attacked using what might be a homegrown cruise missile. This would be a big deal if there was a safe spot in the country to make them. Expect a missile attack on the factory soon.
3. The Russians continue to advance at multiple locations, forcing the Ukrainians to dash about plugging gaps and struggling to get their people out of cauldrons.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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I keep going back to Russian attrition. Time as a weapon.

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (41CYW)

385 The entire crew in Nashville who are dealing with our niece's heart transplant could certainly use some serious prayers:

https://tinyurl.com/4e65rjyj

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (SRRAx)

386 publius, Rascally Mr. Miley,

When you comment, I always feel so much dumber. Thanks.

Posted by: RickZ at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (gKDq2)

387 Two parrots walk into a bar...
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 12:26 AM (QSrLX)

And the bartender asks ‘ why didn’t you fly? ‘

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (VofaG)

388 Stardate-Zero

There was a loud noise.

Posted by: pawn at July 02, 2025 12:30 AM (QB+5g)

389 Real men use anno urbis conditae.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 02, 2025 12:31 AM (D7oie)

390 SpaceX launch delayed for an hour. 2:28 EDT now.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 12:32 AM (r6SF4)

391 3. The Russians continue to advance at multiple locations, forcing the Ukrainians to dash about plugging gaps and struggling to get their people out of cauldrons.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 12:23 AM (r6SF4)

Wait, I thought Ukraine destroyed their entire air force and would be marching on Moscow within the month?

(for like the fifth time.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:32 AM (bss/y)

392 Bacon?
Bacon!

For me, it has to have crunch and most of the fat near crisp, but not turned to dust with a bite, either. Also, in BLT sandwiches, soggy bacon sucks.

either a 3 or a 4, best is closer to 3.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 02, 2025 12:33 AM (dadcM)

393 Posted by: pawn at July 02, 2025 12:18 AM (QB+5g

I had enough to pay off the house.

But I was a fulltime caregiver for 14 years. I really thought my brother would give me a year to get life together.

I'm alright now.

I don't have a ton, but I am fine for a few years. Worse after this but the house was remodelled. And it's pretty big. I'm closing off rooms to the cat.

Probably means that I need to start a family.

Oh. Open question. I am in my family home. Now mine.

I'm still sleeping in my childhood twin bed. A tv is here but there are two rooms with large beds. Whatever, this is day 2 of me rejoining society.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:33 AM (jvJvP)

394 378 Jersey Mikes asks you if you want the bacon even if you order a sandwich that comes with bacon. I don’t know if that’s something they do in all the stores or the one I frequented.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:23 AM (VofaG)

I still like Jimmy Johns. To be fair, I have not tried Jersey Mikes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:34 AM (bss/y)

395 387 Two parrots walk into a bar...
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 12:26 AM (QSrLX)

And the bartender asks ‘ why didn’t you fly? ‘
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (VofaG)

Brilliant! Go buy a quick pick!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 12:34 AM (QSrLX)

396 387 Two parrots walk into a bar...
Posted by: Hokey Pokey
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And walk up to the jukebox and play Free Bird instead of Charlie Rich.

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (41CYW)

397 Huh. There's a Jersey Mikes that just opened up near me in a new shopping center.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (bss/y)

398 I still like Jimmy Johns. To be fair, I have not tried Jersey Mikes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:34 AM (bss/y)

I like Firehouse Subs. I liked Quiznos the best but I think they are down to two stores in the country.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (VofaG)

399 343
By the way, this is my first day as homeowner. Dominion Day. I still have 5 beers left.

The animals are happy.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:05 AM (jvJvP)

Congratulations if you're still here.

You've inspired me to have a beer in your honor.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (QGaXH)

400 Oh no! I have let my comment certification lapse. It's been a while. Moved from Fort Worth to the Woodlands down south a while back. Much better for bird watching in the backyard. I have Black Bellied Whistling Ducks that for some reason like my backyard. They are comical and fun to watch. They come by all day. But when their young ones are ready sometimes 50+ show up in the late summer.

Quick question for the horde. I saw this plier designed to remove the membrane on the back of ribs that looks handy. The Sherum Rib Pro or some such. Anybody try anything like that?

Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at July 02, 2025 12:37 AM (HueKi)

401 Greetings! If you look for it you can find pre-cooked bacon. Not all the way cooked, not crispy but partially cooked. A quick hit on the skillet or even a micro wave and voila, crispy.
Worth the extra $ if you can find it. I get mine at Costco.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 02, 2025 12:38 AM (JFVnT)

402 Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at July 02, 2025 12:37 AM (HueKi)

I’m somewhat your neighbor in the Conroe area. Welcome back.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:39 AM (VofaG)

403 1h
Trump Says Israel Agrees To 60-Day Gaza Ceasefire, Urges Hamas To Accept
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Send them to Egypt or Allah.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 12:40 AM (UFztX)

404 Congratulations if you're still here.

You've inspired me to have a beer in your honor.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (QGaXH

Dominion Day!

Have 6 beers!

Thank you.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:40 AM (jvJvP)

405 I like Firehouse Subs. I liked Quiznos the best but I think they are down to two stores in the country.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (VofaG)

Firehouse is good too. Their steak and cheese without green peppers is great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:40 AM (bss/y)

406 Jersey Mikes is pricey ($13 for a medium sandwich) but the sandwiches are superb. Try the #9 Club Supreme on Rosemary bread.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 12:41 AM (JkO4W)

407 I saw this plier designed to remove the membrane on the back of ribs that looks handy. The Sherum Rib Pro or some such. Anybody try anything like that?
Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo
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I just use a paper towel to help grip the membrane. Peels off easily once you can get ahold of it.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:43 AM (rdVOm)

408 Firehouse is good too. Their steak and cheese without green peppers is great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:40 AM (bss/y)

Hah. That’s exactly how I order it at both Firehouse and Jersey Mikes.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:44 AM (VofaG)

409 I keep going back to Russian attrition. Time as a weapon.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (41CYW)

One of these days a Ukrainian commander is going to call for reinforcements, and be told that The Last Ukrainian reported for duty two weeks ago, and there won't be any more, ever.

The draft age for males is still 25. There are calls to lower the draft age to 18 and start drafting women, which would probably trigger the collapse of the government.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 12:44 AM (r6SF4)

410 Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:39 AM (VofaG)

Hey! Was just up there with the wife a couple of weeks back. We caught 46 catfish (Mostly channel but some blues) and one Bluegill.

Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at July 02, 2025 12:45 AM (HueKi)

411 When I was in college Blimpies was the sandwich shop we went to.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:46 AM (VofaG)

412 386 publius, Rascally Mr. Miley,

When you comment, I always feel so much dumber. Thanks.
Posted by: RickZ
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Have a kid with a brain that thumps like our friend publius. Never want to be in a room that those two jointly occupy - fast, curious, and in need a whiteboard.

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:47 AM (41CYW)

413 Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at July 02, 2025 12:45 AM (HueKi)

We have an abundance of catfish restaurants. I do love fried catfish.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:47 AM (VofaG)

414 380 I worked with an older guy who kept kosher. For one of the office potlucks I brought cornbread and told him I used crisco instead of lard because I knew he was on statins.

He kind of short circuited on that for a second.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 02, 2025 12:26 AM (D7oie

When I was in Columbus, I brought stuff to a potluck and "Dave's Insanity Sauce" which is a million Scovilles.

I warned everyone. I brought it because they were all used to hot stuff. Some guy I never saw before comes along, dumps a lot of the Insanity sauce and eats before I noticed and could stop him.

Damn, my coworkers broke out laughing.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:49 AM (jvJvP)

415 411 When I was in college Blimpies was the sandwich shop we went to.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:46 AM (VofaG)

Dagwood's in Bloomington.

Oh God, it was so good. Bread - like actual bread. A loaf. Toppings piled high. Roast beef that was amazing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:49 AM (bss/y)

416 India did not participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) group's joint statement on the Iranian-Israeli War.
The SCO condemned recent Israeli strikes on Iran and called them a threat to international stability.
India did not sign

Later:

ts Defense Minister refused to sign the joint statement that was supposed to conclude last week’s meeting because the document didn’t condemn late April’s Pahalgam terrorist attack ...

This could be a breakaway. US better get on the stick and rustle up a good ally.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 12:50 AM (UFztX)

417 zerohedge@zerohedge . 3h

New Mexico Is The Most-Dependent State On The Federal Govt, New Jersey The Least
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Don't let CBD see this we'll never hear the end of it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 12:53 AM (UFztX)

418 Good Night Everyone!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 12:53 AM (QGaXH)

419 I like Firehouse subs but only in store: there’s something about the way they steam them that if you eat it then and there, it’s great, but not so great later, if you do take out. Does anyone else have the same experience?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 12:53 AM (1paM0)

420 G'night, ARiK. We need to connect when I get my email sorted out.

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:54 AM (41CYW)

421 76 early fireworks..on the wrong side of town .."Iranian media reported that on Tuesday evening, an explosion occurred at a missile base belonging to the Revolutionary Guards.

The cause of the incident remains unclear at this time."

For once, it probably WAS the Jews to blame...

Posted by: azjaeger at July 02, 2025 12:55 AM (3/XaG)

422 Braenyard -

How do you (or zerohedge) define “dependent”?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 12:56 AM (1paM0)

423
Don't worry, calendar arithmetic is some of the most tedious and error prone calculations to do. Quick, what will be the date 1142 days from now? Or, quick, how many days since June 1, 1981 'till now?

If you try to write a program to do that, your first attempt will be very buggy. :-) And you'll fix them, and eventually reinvent that wheel, but it will be quick tedious.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 02, 2025 12:57 AM (w6EFb)

424 Dagwood's in Bloomington.

Oh God, it was so good. Bread - like actual bread. A loaf. Toppings piled high. Roast beef that was amazing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:49 AM (bss/y)

That sounded way better than Blimpies. Way better.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:59 AM (VofaG)

425 Tjey had this one called Zero's. The Grinder was very good.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 12:59 AM (LL6Kc)

426 422 Braenyard -

How do you (or zerohedge) define “dependent”?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Should have included a link now I have to go back and look at the actual article. work, work, work no secretary either.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 12:59 AM (UFztX)

427 Every year, billions in federal tax dollars are redistributed to the 50 states and the District of Columbia through grants, contracts, and benefit programs.

Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao ranks the states to see who benefits the most from the flows so readers can see the fiscal winners and losers at a glance.

Data for this visualization comes from MoneyGeek, which uses Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis figures.

https://tinyurl.com/4hvj5fa4

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:01 AM (UFztX)

428 How did all these chains go away? Quizno's used to be huge.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 01:02 AM (LL6Kc)

429 370

"I got my permit at 14"

I was in Belize with my 19-yr-old sons. We got around in tuk-tuks (golf carts, basically) provided by our hotel

The police wouldn't let my kids drive, even though they were 17 or 18 (I forget which), & both of them already had their U.S. DLs.

I've never forgotten that chickenzh*t!

Posted by: mnw at July 02, 2025 01:03 AM (kd60y)

430 Morticia's not here, JQ, Mike Hammer, mikeleskovich, AOP all MIA.
What's up?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:03 AM (UFztX)

431 Oh God, it was so good. Bread - like actual bread. A loaf. Toppings piled high. Roast beef that was amazing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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*Drooling* The bread - central paver in the road to sammich awesomeness.

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 01:04 AM (41CYW)

432 A high-resolution Earth-observation satellite designed to monitor and map global methane emissions has been lost after a power failure.
The $88 million satellite, called MethaneSAT, owned by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and backed by Jeff Bezos, was lost ten days ago...

No comment .... (snicker)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:07 AM (UFztX)

433 NASA has a handy bi-directional Julian Date Calendar / Day-of-Year (JDay) Calculator:

https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/tools/jday.htm

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:08 AM (1paM0)

434 Braenyard-- I'm here! Just not 'tarbending' tonight, LOL!

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:12 AM (rdVOm)

435 “Environmental Defense Fund”

How much you want to bet? Watermelons. Green on the Outside. Red on the Inside.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 01:16 AM (HpBvd)

436 Why is there Hebrew underneath Palestine Airways Limited @AbujomaaGaza?

Palestine Airways 1934
Years before Zionist occupation

https://tinyurl.com/64nxv2nr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:16 AM (UFztX)

437 428 How did all these chains go away? Quizno's used to be huge.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 01:02 AM (LL6Kc)

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Quiznos was bought by a private equity firm that squeezed every last ounce of profit out of the franchisees. A major class action lawsuit by the franchisees ensued, but something like 90% of the stores were shuttered in the process.

The chain went from 4000+ stores at its height to a couple of hundred today.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 01:17 AM (JkO4W)

438 As of July 1 2025 California gas tax on a gallon of gas is $0.61. Just went up. So if you buy 10 gallons of gas in California you will pay $6.10 in state tax.
And who knows what in the hell their government does with that money.

Posted by: Case at July 02, 2025 01:17 AM (BXeMA)

439 Hey Horde, what a lovely ONT.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2025 01:18 AM (0nHVk)

440 When I lived in Boston a co-worker had a sister who worked as a pastry chef at a fancy restaurant. She said pastry chefs had two secrets: everything is better with more butter and more bacon.

Posted by: pjungwir at July 02, 2025 01:18 AM (q4wrI)

441 There are only 3 kinds of people in the world,
Those that can count and those that can't.

Posted by: Specto at July 02, 2025 01:19 AM (xlZjs)

442 >>So if you buy 10 gallons of gas in California you will pay $6.10 in state tax.
And who knows what in the hell their government does with that money.
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IIRC, dinner at The French Laundry starts at $300/plate.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

443 “Environmental” Groups should be staunchly against illegal migrants. Millions and millions of people pouring across the border. Increased demands for roads, housing, water, sewage, timber, more pollution, urban sprawl, you name it.

Not a fucking peep. The only possible conclusion is they are not too concerned about the “Environment”. Not enough to broach the subject. Why would that be, one wonders.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 01:20 AM (HpBvd)

444 Morticia's not here, JQ, Mike Hammer, mikeleskovich, AOP all MIA.
What's up?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:03 AM (UFztX)

I am here, caught in a Ewetoob rabbit hole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 01:20 AM (roA1L)

445 The police wouldn't let my kids drive, even though they were 17 or 18 (I forget which), & both of them already had their U.S. DLs.

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Fucking Belize.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 01:20 AM (JkO4W)

446 Hi, Debby! May I buy you a drink?

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

447 The war in Ukraine will stop as soon as NATO stops funding it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 01:21 AM (viF8m)

448 Braenyard -

Thank you for the link! They don’t make it clear what the algorithm is: I would just look at how much they get back from the Feds vs. how much they pay in, on a per capita basis, but then they tie it in to Fed funding as a percent of state revenue! What has that got to do with it?! I remain perplexed.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:22 AM (1paM0)

449 "The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor following an investigation by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
- - - - - - - - - -
Simone "Full Of" Biles hardest hit. Hit so hard it went back in time to last Tuesday, blowing away her X account.

Posted by: Another Anon at July 02, 2025 01:23 AM (4h45B)

450 Hi, AOP! Bummer about the transmission kit not containing the bushings... sux to put projects on hold, especially for "parts issues" ugh.

*A Caesar for you*

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:24 AM (rdVOm)

451 Bacon Chart: I like 4 and 5.

I've also been known to dip it in catsup.

Feel free to thrown yourselves on the floor and scream about it. I. Don't. Care.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:24 AM (un9MU)

452 Quiznos was bought by a private equity firm that squeezed every last ounce of profit out of the franchisees. A major class action lawsuit by the franchisees ensued, but something like 90% of the stores were shuttered in the process.

The chain went from 4000+ stores at its height to a couple of hundred today.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 01:17 AM (JkO4W)

Friend of mine got into one right around that time. He had it for about a year, and realized he was putting in more hours than his previous 9-5 and making about 60% of the income. He was happy and relieved when he found a buyer for it..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 02, 2025 01:24 AM (bA75n)

453
Oh, hey! I'm here. I was off in some other tabs toting up expenses.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:25 AM (egH3D)

454 *Chivas, neat, for Debby*

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:25 AM (rdVOm)

455 Paying the delurk tax. *waves* Still here, just don't have much to say most of the time. Have a prayer request I'll shoot to Annie's Stew when I have a bit more info.

Now to catch up on the other comments again....

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at July 02, 2025 01:26 AM (11+Pf)

456 Bacon Chart: I like 4 and 5.

I've also been known to dip it in catsup.

Feel free to thrown yourselves on the floor and scream about it. I. Don't. Care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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No problem! Hell, by the time you cook bacon that much, all the flavor's gone anyway. May as well dip it in catsup.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:27 AM (rdVOm)

457 Boomer stamps for cursive, driving a stick and shooting a revolver are over. Now it's chastity, purity and continence. And no stories to tell. No need for them. I can hear the wailing now.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 01:27 AM (QSrLX)

458
Simone "Full Of" Biles hardest hit. Hit so hard it went back in time to last Tuesday, blowing away her X account.
Posted by: Another Anon

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No, Simone flounced from X? I'm sure she stuck the landing anyway.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:28 AM (egH3D)

459 Okay, Mom's dog, now mine is on the bed.

The cat that isn't mine, Snowflake, is next to him. A foot away grooming herself.

I have 4 beers left.

I think I'm going to try to find out who the hell "Black Adam" was, why I never heard of him and why he was a movie.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 01:28 AM (jvJvP)

460 >>Boomer stamps for cursive, driving a stick and shooting a revolver are over. Now it's chastity, purity and continence. And no stories to tell. No need for them. I can hear the wailing now.

Ridiculous. Gen stupid doesn't even know what bathroom to use.

Toughpicks who code all day aren't taking over anything.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 01:32 AM (viF8m)

461 >> I was off in some other tabs toting up expenses.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Ick. Sounds like work. Ready for a beverage?

*will slide your drink of choice down the bar, upon request*

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:33 AM (rdVOm)

462 It's going to be end of mine day, however before end I am reading this impressive paragraph to increase my experience.

Posted by: exhibition stand build at July 02, 2025 01:33 AM (7Mbwa)

463
Ick. Sounds like work. Ready for a beverage?

*will slide your drink of choice down the bar, upon request*
Posted by: JQ

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Ick is right. It's work. Past ready for a beverage. Boilermaker, please. House bourbon and Adams anything.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:35 AM (egH3D)

464 Yeah, 4 and 5 on the chart are practically burnt, this is an atrocity with Bacon.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 01:35 AM (aNeGK)

465 "...Now it's chastity, purity and continence. And no stories to tell..."
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Ok. Continence? I'll grant that. Heh.

Chastity?
Purity?

You're talking about... some generation(s) *after* the boomers, right?

Bwahahahaa! *wheeeze* Hahahahaha!!!!!

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:36 AM (rdVOm)

466 434 Braenyard-- I'm here! Just not 'tarbending' tonight, LOL!
Posted by: JQ
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JQ, you picking up a Club shift this Saturday?

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 01:39 AM (41CYW)

467 If you make your own bacon, curing it with pink salt and smoking it to 150 degrees, then it is already twice done, and you can eat it at 0.

Posted by: pjungwir at July 02, 2025 01:40 AM (q4wrI)

468 I would eat any of the bacon 🥓 on the chart, even without catsup, but preference is toward the lower numbers. Ah! Now I want bacon with my omelette tomorrow!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:41 AM (1paM0)

469 Thanks JQ!!!

Bacon #4 looks tasty, I love when the fat gets that little golden crust on it, got a really soggy slice of bacon in a Bloody Mary one time, it was like bacon bubblegum, lots of chewing.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2025 01:43 AM (0nHVk)

470 JQ, you picking up a Club shift this Saturday?
Posted by: scampydog
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Dunno, Doggo... Got fambly in town for a week (or more?) and everything is up in the air each day. Ugh, my youngest sibling is SO scatterbrained!

I will be as much virtual tarbender as possible, though. It's my only escape from this personal h3ll.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:44 AM (rdVOm)

471 Now, coming up on the fourth year since my wife died, purity, chastity, and continence are about all I have in that department. It’s good practice for Heaven, where there will be no giving or taking in marriage. I do look forward to seeing my late wife as a sister in Christ.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:46 AM (1paM0)

472 If I can be here for ClubONT, it'll need to be on the Late Shift I'd guess.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:47 AM (rdVOm)

473 Here's my quarterly de-lurker comment: I was at Costco today and was shocked to see a giant Halloween decoration AND boxes of Christmas gift ribbon. July 1. Come on.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at July 02, 2025 01:48 AM (FFn+L)

474 Good night all. Time to read my evening devotional. God bless you all!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:48 AM (1paM0)

475
If you make your own bacon, curing it with pink salt and smoking it to 150 degrees, then it is already twice done, and you can eat it at 0.
Posted by: pjungwir

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Curious how the cost compares to buying it at the store.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:48 AM (egH3D)

476 ibs of TikTok@libsoftiktok

Unreal. CNN is now promoting an app which tracks the movement of ICE agents to warn illegals.

ICE agents face a 500% increase in assault and threats.

CNN knows exactly what they’re doing.
---
James Woods@RealJamesWoods

To protect our law enforcement personnel, post “sightings” everywhere you can. Overwhelm this website.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:49 AM (UFztX)

477 Blondie, I think CBD did a post on home-made bacon/smoked meats, or featured someone who'd made their own? Years ago... my old computer bit the dust, so don't have a link handy.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:51 AM (rdVOm)

478 Well, time for me to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 01:53 AM (roA1L)

479 Got fambly in town for a week (or more?) and everything is up in the air each day. Ugh, my youngest sibling is SO scatterbrained!

I will be as much virtual tarbender as possible, though. It's my only escape from this personal h3ll.
Posted by: JQ
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Ha. Similar here. We'll get it covered - we know how this works - the Horde always answers the bell. Enjoy your time with the fambly.

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 01:53 AM (41CYW)

480 @WallStreetApes

People need to go to prison

Senator Josh Hawley “What you're telling us is these big insurance companies went to a consulting firm, McKinsey, and asked them to design a program to help rip off policyholders?”

“That is correct, sir”

Josh Hawley “And that has that been successful? I mean, has their program been successful in ripping off policyholders?”

“It's been incredibly successful, sir. It is actually part of this systemic fraud that's occurring every day now.”
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Lot of nasty stuff going on. Goes back that question in the content; 'What the hell is the DOJ spending their time doing?'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:55 AM (UFztX)

481 Enjoy your time with the fambly.
Posted by: scampydog
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Thanks, but it's anything *but* enjoyable...

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

482 Pam Anderson was born on the 100th anniversary of Dominion Day.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 02, 2025 01:55 AM (XwYdj)

483 I like my bacon 12345

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 01:55 AM (WF/xn)

484 >>Thanks, but it's anything *but* enjoyable...

heh

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 01:57 AM (viF8m)

485 Thanks, but it's anything *but* enjoyable...
Posted by: JQ
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The Horde is here. Enjoyable! And full of vinegar.

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 02:00 AM (41CYW)

486 I miss Quiznos. The Chicken Carbonara was my favorite sandwich, though by no means the only one I would get when I went there. We used to have two franchises in the city I've lived in for the past twenty years, but both of them closed. The partners in that private equity fund should be tarred and feathered for what they did to Quiznos.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 02, 2025 02:00 AM (XwYdj)

487 The Horde has been my lifeline for years.. but even more so, in the last 6 months!

Fambly mean well, but are more hindrance than help, IYKWIM.

Love them. But they keep me from doing what needs to be done.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:04 AM (rdVOm)

488 Thanks to all that delurked. Do so more often. And thanks for tolerating the Tuesday doggo posts. Fun night. Go solve the challenges Smarties. Independence Day inbound, and it's about both the past and the future. G'night, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 02:07 AM (41CYW)

489 Family.

https://tinyurl.com/4xm6zbsa

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:07 AM (viF8m)

490 Why is there Hebrew underneath Palestine Airways Limited @AbujomaaGaza?

Palestine Airways 1934
Years before Zionist occupation

https://tinyurl.com/64nxv2nr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:16 AM (UFztX)
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I'm assuming you know the answer.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 02, 2025 02:09 AM (SLJQR)

491 > Curious how the cost compares to buying it at the store.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I use this recipe, more or less: https://ruhlman.com/homemade-bacon/

The only material cost is the belly. I guess wood pellets/charcoal. And your time.

I gave away a lot of gallon ziplocks for Christmas last year and people said it was the best bacon they'd ever had.

Posted by: pjungwir at July 02, 2025 02:11 AM (q4wrI)

492 Good night scampydog and the rest of the Horde, I need to sleep. See you all tomorrow.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2025 02:11 AM (0nHVk)

493 The EU and UK are scrambling to fund their economies and are having to borrow USD at OUR rate, and are trying to print their way out of the hole to be in a position to pay it back. Powell is breaking the Bank of England and the European central bank.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:49 PM (D7oie)
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I'm beginning to wonder whether Trump and Powell are in cahoots with each other and Trump's "idiot Powell" rants are all a coordinated act.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 02, 2025 02:11 AM (SLJQR)

494 https://tinyurl.com/4xm6zbsa
Posted by: JackStraw
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Great song, Jack! One of my favorites from way-back-when. Thank you.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)

495
Lot of nasty stuff going on. Goes back that question in the content; 'What the hell is the DOJ spending their time doing?'.
Posted by: Braenyard

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Which kind of insurance? (As if they're not all doing it, but I'm curious who's copping to it)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 02:19 AM (egH3D)

496 >>I'm beginning to wonder whether Trump and Powell are in cahoots with each other and Trump's "idiot Powell" rants are all a coordinated act.

The answer is no.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:20 AM (viF8m)

497
I gave away a lot of gallon ziplocks for Christmas last year and people said it was the best bacon they'd ever had.
Posted by: pjungwir a

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Whenever I read something like this, I feel like I'm wasting my life.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 02:20 AM (egH3D)

498 By the way.

I am a homeowner. And on vacation.

Hey, the dog is outside. Dominion Day. I have a 12 pack. 4 left.

I can tell you who Kraven is, Venom, sure, Madame Web...yes believe it or not. And I like DC!

I have seen plenty of DC.

But who the hell is Black Adam? Like seriously. I've watched a lot of DC over the years. Never, EVER, saw him.

Well back to the movie.

And last beers. Sigh

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 02:20 AM (jvJvP)

499 Quiznos was awesome sammiches and shitty business.
"We are only allowed to use the best ingredients." A proud franchisee told me when I first went in one.
I said "where do you get that?"
Proudly... "From blah blah company."
"Never heard of 'em. When did they corner the '"best ingredients" market?"
*confused "what did that asshole just imply" look.
I knew it was doomed from that point on. Probably 6 months later came the sporadic closures and decline in the menu. Then gone.
They were a draw buisness for an ice cream shop next door too and that closed soon after. I miss both.

I at one time toyed with the idea of becoming a franchisee of something and going it on my own.
I think the best deal I came across was a Papa Murphys take and bake pizza shop. The initial investment was high but the long term prospects were good. There did pop up one about where I wanted to go and it's off the hook busy.

Posted by: Reforger at July 02, 2025 02:25 AM (LgDgc)

500 >>I'm beginning to wonder whether Trump and Powell are in cahoots with each other and Trump's "idiot Powell" rants are all a coordinated act.

The answer is no.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:20 AM (viF8m)
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Why can't Trump simply fire Powell? So I asked Grok. Good L-ord! They've created a monster!

https://tinyurl.com/2ewfu72h

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 02, 2025 02:25 AM (SLJQR)

501 Just reading about the history of the Julian calendar. The Roman priests initially made an error, an "off by one" error in calculating leap years. They added a leap day every 3 years instead of 4.

This was caught sometime after Augustus took over, and he ordered it fixed. There were 3 extra leap days added, and he ordered 12 years to have no leap days to let it catch up.

Only problem is, historians aren't sure when this was actually done, but it was no later than 8 AD. So, they can't really be sure of any date before 8 AD using the proleptic Julian.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 02, 2025 02:27 AM (w6EFb)

502 483 I like my bacon 12345
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway
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That's my choice. #1 would be the least but I'll not pass.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:29 AM (UFztX)

503 Obligatory quarterly comment. Still out here.

Posted by: DKM at July 02, 2025 02:30 AM (cFehY)

504 Obligatory quarterly comment. Still out here.

Posted by: DKM at July 02, 2025 02:30 AM (cFehY)
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To comment again, please insert another quarter into you computer's USB slot.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 02, 2025 02:33 AM (SLJQR)

505 Lurker challenge accepted. I’m going for the chaos gambit. If perchance, anyone actually looks at the following, I will probably be recommended for reversion back to strictly lurking status.

Ace is preposterously, laughably wrong about Oswald - demonstrably not stupid as he quickly picked up Russian and spoke it well enough to initially convince Marina that he was a native speaker. He supposedly committed the American crime of the century, but had no escape plan - couldn’t even drive a car. Before starting out on his great escape by hitching a ride on a bus, a cop found him coolly sipping a soda in the breakroom moments after the attack on the president. During a brief interview with reporters while in custody, the supposed passionate communist kook chose not to expound on the virtues of communism, but rather declared he was patsy.
Oswald was shot by an imposter. Just look at the pictures - that’s just not the same guy. Also look at all the people in the room who were in on it and contemplate the ramifications.

Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:34 AM (2/gPo)

506 More lurker-generated chaos:
For heaven’s sake why has nobody called out Simone Biles for her obvious abuse of steroids? She has used so much that her face has been messed up. Compare her face with the faces of female bodybuilders. Steroid abuse might also explain with her flighty actions at the Olympic competitions and her simmering resentment towards the coaches.

I read “All the President’s Men” just to find out what Nixon did that was so terrible. The big reveal? He used government money to fund the plumbers’ legal defense. Of course, supporting the plumbers’ legal defense was completely legal and certainly not something so egregious that the President of the United States must resign his office. I am working on the theory that Nixon resigned because he was blackmailed - perhaps because of some connections to the JFK assassination.

Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:36 AM (2/gPo)

507 Insurance. Sounds great, until you actually file a claim. My parents paid for nearly 40 years, average homeowner policy, and then had "smoke damage" (? I don't know all the specifics, but their house did NOT burn down) and whaddaya know?

Once the "contractor" (who was, evidently, in bed with the adjuster) sucked all the cash out of the job, parents were left with: a barely cleaned-up house & furnishings; valuables missing; shitty carpet that wasn't stretched properly; broken floor joists (from when contractor pried off fireplace brickwork in a huge piece, and refused to admit fault when it crashed down, lowering the floor by 2 inches)...

I'll stop there.

So, then insurance co. cancelled them & they scrambled to find a new carrier. JACKED RATES-- like they practically had to reimburse for what was paid out, regardless of the many thousands in premiums they had already paid over years and years.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:36 AM (rdVOm)

508
Oswald was shot by an imposter.

Posted by: anteatersrule

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Wait, Oswald was shot by an imposter or the guy who was shot was not Oswald, but an imposter?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 02:37 AM (egH3D)

509 Kirsti Noem, sorry spelling, was just on the Hannity repeat.

Damn, that's a beautiful woman.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 02:38 AM (jvJvP)

510 Continued lurker-generated chaos:
I haven’t seen any comments on the East LA accent that the vice-mayor of Cudahy was using when she was calling for the LA gangs to confront the ICE agents. I have lived in the LA area near Cudahy and am familiar with that accent, although it doesn’t sound like a Mexican accent or like that of Cheech Marin’s character. To my ear the accent sounded genuine but is overly emphasized as if she was trying to display her bona fides as a East LA resident that had mingled with cholas. The accent did not give off the vibe of a serious, 40-something politician, but rather that of a preteen girl trying to sound like a cutsie Hispanic East Angelina.

Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:39 AM (2/gPo)

511 perhaps because of some connections to the JFK assassination.
Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:36 AM (2/gPo)

I think Liddy was involved.

Posted by: Reforger at July 02, 2025 02:39 AM (LgDgc)

512
Insurance. Sounds great, until you actually file a claim.

Posted by: JQ

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We have a rule in our family. Just fix the damage yourself and don't let the insurance company know. You won't get your stuff fixed, and they'll jack up the rates. Just keep paying in case your entire house burns to the ground. That's the bet you're making.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 02:40 AM (egH3D)

513
Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:39 AM (2/gPo)

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That's some pretty nice chaos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 02:42 AM (egH3D)

514 Bridget Gray . @Winggal_123 Replying to @WallStreetApes

Several insurance companies have faced scrutiny or investigations for practices aimed at increasing profitability at the expense of policyholders, often involving strategies like claim denials, delays, or underpayments. Below is a list of companies that have been highlighted in recent reports, legal actions, or public discussions for such practices, based on available information:
_ _ _ It's too long for here

Some of the companies: Allstate, •State Farm:•AIG:•Progressive:•Aetna (owned by CVS Health)•Elevance Health (formerly Anthem) and Humana:•Conseco and WellPoint:•USAA:

Here's the post:

https://tinyurl.com/mr3j8szy

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:42 AM (UFztX)

515 Another installment of lurker-generated chaos:
Ketanji Brown-Jackson (or whatever her name is). I read some commenters quoting excerpts of her dissent - those in which she used “....wait for it….” and “full stop”. Obviously, such sophomoric expressions are more appropriate for a snarky, not-so-imaginative commenter on a blog, not for a Supreme Court justice. I looked at the sentences accompanying those quotes and was struck by the substandard English and the poor, overly complicated sentence structure.

Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:42 AM (2/gPo)

516 Just fix the damage yourself and don't let the insurance company know. You won't get your stuff fixed, and they'll jack up the rates. Just keep paying in case your entire house burns to the ground. That's the bet you're making.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Yep.
Fk them.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:42 AM (rdVOm)

517 >>Why can't Trump simply fire Powell?

I sometimes wonder if despite we know about how DC really people still get it.

When they couldn't bankrupt or toss Trump into prison they tried to assassinate. Twice. For you younger morons, this is not normal. It's not normal for us old fucks either but somehow many seem to pretend it is.

Leftists spent decades taking over this country to the point they allowed 20 million illegals at least to flood this country. They teach our kids that transgerism and all kinds of perverted sex shit is cool and nobody has done shit to stop them until Trump.

What is happening right now is much bigger than Powell. In the grand scheme he is a minor problem. He'll be gone soon enough without Trump getting impeached. Again.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:45 AM (viF8m)

518 How do I like my bacon??

YES!

Posted by: Mark at July 02, 2025 02:46 AM (gP8ie)

519 505 Lurker challenge accepted. I’m going for the chaos gambit. If perchance, anyone actually looks at the following, I will probably be recommended for reversion bace room who were in on it and contemplate the ramifications.

Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:34 AM (2/gPo

I haven't hit paragraph 2. But I am happy you are here. Keep posting. I wanted to welcome you here.

There are so many better moron welcome members.

But you get me tonight.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 02:46 AM (jvJvP)

520 ================

Wait, Oswald was shot by an imposter or the guy who was shot was not Oswald, but an imposter?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Brain blank, he went to jail because he wouldn't give up trump.
Behind the scenes operative. Tattoo of Ronald Reagan on his back.
Has a new book out on Who Shot Kennedy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:47 AM (UFztX)

521 Final installment of lurker-generated chaos (ban me if you like, I'm just a lurker)
I found one of the KBJ quotes: “Simply stated, what it means to have a system of government that is bounded by law is that everyone is constrained by the law, no exceptions. And for that to actually happen, the courts must have the power to order everyone (including the Executive) to follow the law - full stop.” In standard English the word “it” should refer to something that the reader can identify, perhaps an action, a concept or an object. She should have used “bound” not “bounded” as flagged by my word processing program. I think “bounded” is used when writing about kangaroos. Sentences should not start with “And”. The overall sentence structure is not simple and elegant, Instead, the reader has to bear down a bit to get her meaning. Finally, she is arguing for something that pretty much everyone already agrees with. The issue is not whether the courts can order around the president. Rather, the issue is whether the courts can arbitrarily assign de facto class action status to a case before that court. Conclusion: midwit KBJ = SCOTUS. Me = bumbling lurker.

Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:49 AM (2/gPo)

522 What is happening right now is much bigger than Powell. In the grand scheme he is a minor problem. He'll be gone soon enough without Trump getting impeached. Again.
Posted by: JackStraw
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We fix the culture the culture fixes the budget.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:50 AM (UFztX)

523 Maybe oops.

Canada Day.
Dominion Day.
Finally not homeless.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 02:50 AM (jvJvP)

524 Love them. But they keep me from doing what needs to be done.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:04 AM (rdVOm)

No, no they do not. You know what needs to be done, and you have the will to do so.

I found that out the hard way. Just do it. Be done. If there is fallout, it isn't on your head.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 02:54 AM (1Gsou)

525 Me make drinks.

Me dumbass bartender, not smarty political wonk.

That's ok. It takes all kinds, to make a community.

*retreats to far table & shuts mouth*

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:54 AM (rdVOm)

526 Kenjia Brown Jackson should be in jail along with Jackson Crockett.
They are rabble-rousers speaking out against the law and inciting impressionable people break it. Incitement to riot is what they do.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:54 AM (UFztX)

527 Too lazy to cook bacon is the same shame I would feel if I went to a Lady Gaga live performance.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 02:55 AM (hNiAS)

528 Incitement to riot is what they do.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:54 AM (UFztX)

As it turns out, even the "progressives" think those two are idiots. Luckily.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 02:57 AM (1Gsou)

529 Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 02:54 AM

Thanks for that. I really need the courage to just f'ing DO IT!

Yeah, there's gonna be fallout. Oh, Lordy, there's gonna be plenty of hard feelings!

So what? I've been the do-er and the scapegoat for so fk'ing long... I've had it. I'm too old for this shit.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

530 So what? I've been the do-er and the scapegoat for so fk'ing long... I've had it. I'm too old for this shit.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

One thing you don't have to be is a victim. If they don't get it now, they will eventually. They WILL get over it. And they will be glad you did it and didn't leave it up to them to do.

Whatever it is.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 03:00 AM (1Gsou)

531 I had no idea Boston was so messed up. Nutcase leftists make their city council.

And on another note, Daniel Greenfield from "FrontPage " magazine is a wonderful writer . He and Ace are gifts to the blogosphere and they manage to be insert scathing humor into their political writing:

https://tinyurl.com/45x2755a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 03:02 AM (2GCMq)

532
Some of the companies: Allstate, •State Farm:•AIG:•Progressive:•Aetna (owned by CVS Health)•Elevance Health (formerly Anthem) and Humana:•Conseco and WellPoint:•USAA:

Here's the post:

https://tinyurl.com/mr3j8szy
Posted by: Braenyard -

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Great, I'm in there three times! A former company and two current companies.

And with that, I must go. Phone call at 8:30 in the morning.

See you on the dayside, lurkers-no-more!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 03:04 AM (egH3D)

533 529 Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 02:54 AM

Thanks for that. I really need the courage to just f'ing DO IT!

Yeah, there's gonna be fallout. Oh, Lordy, there's gonna be plenty of hard feelings!

So what? I've been the do-er and the scapegoat for so fk'ing long... I've had it. I'm too old for this shit.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:57 AM (rdVOm

I don't even know what's going on.

But I am so on your side.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:04 AM (jvJvP)

534 Best darkly humorous comments from Greenfield:

You are an ally in the fight for equity, and you are Boston’s Harriet Tubman,” Councilman Brian Worrell (D), the first second generation Jamaican immigrant, claimed. “Thank you for your service.”

History does not dwell on the time that Harriet Tubman got a kickback in the bathroom. That’s usually something Boston city council members do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 03:06 AM (2GCMq)

535 Whatever it is.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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The "it" in question, is the emptying and sale of our Dad's house. Youngest sibling has been guilt-tripping me to keep it, ever since Dad died, saying he 'needs more time' to get his own place so that he can get furniture & stuff that he wants out of there.

Fast forward: here we are, years later, and he *still* hasn't a pot or a window. Right now, he and his kid and dog are staying there for "a visit" -- a vacation, you might say, because ain't shit getting moved out or sorted through-- he's simply fucking off for a week, hiding out from his bitchy wife, and not having to pay for a hotel.

1/?

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

536 Aetna is the worst. They denied every claim at first, until I raised hell with them. Once you threaten them with legal action, they get after it, but you really have to mean it. They should have been put out of business years ago.

State Farm: I had insurance through then for over 30 years. My son, a miscreant, drove my car well over the limit through a stop light and got a hideous ticket for it. They called to cancel my car insurance. I told them to cancel the homeowners as well. Either you insure me or you do not. They still tried to charge me for homeowners and the camper. I told them to piss up a rope.

Trying Allstate. We shall see. They all kind of suck.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 03:08 AM (1Gsou)

537 Almost half way home

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 03:09 AM (kMh07)

538 he's simply fucking off for a week, hiding out from his bitchy wife, and not having to pay for a hotel.

1/?
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

List the house. Go in with "Got Junk" and clear it out. Nothing is worth that hassle. If he wants to go, he will. If not, have him removed.

Your folks' stuff is not worth the aggravation. Trust me on this. Did something very similar when my folks passed. Sisters be damned.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 03:11 AM (1Gsou)

539 JQ

Tons of fallout.

So sweet, I can be helpful. I'll figure out extra contact info if you ever want or need it.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:13 AM (jvJvP)

540 Sibling is barely working. He got fired from his job at the start of June, but did do *some* work for former boss lately-- enough to buy gas to get here & fk off for a week or 2. He's just having a blast with his friends, going swimming & stuff with his kid, and dragging his poor old mutt with him.

This winter and spring, when weather was cool, was when I planned to really get after it-- call for charity pick-up of furniture. Rent a dumpster. Hire movers for the furniture I want... etc etc.

But NOOOO-- hubby blasted into dementia and I tried to care for him at home until I couldn't anymore-- then all the trips to hospital and getting him into nursing home & all the extra dr. appts.

I'm... toast. PTSD?

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:14 AM (rdVOm)

541 Aetna is the worst. They denied every claim at first, until I raised hell with them. Once you threaten them with legal action, they get after it, but you really have to mean it. They should have been put out of business years ago.
----

I have a claim in with Progressive. One of their policy holders rear-ended my car. They have refused to settle, say,' Hire a lawyer'.

I am now in the middle of two homeowner claims for post-storm roof repairs. Safeco. We'll see how it goes...still in the works. No insurance company has *any* interest in the well-being of the policy holders. They are profit-driven leeches.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 03:19 AM (XeU6L)

542 Young bro does not "live at" Dad's house.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:19 AM (rdVOm)

543 538 he's simply fucking off for a week, hiding out from his bitchy wife, and not having to pay for a hotel.

1/?
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

List the house. Go in with "Got Junk" and clear it out. Nothing is worth that hassle. If he wants to go, he will. If not, have him removed.

Your folks' stuff is not worth the aggravation. Trust me on this. Did something very similar when my folks passed. Sisters be damned.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 03:1

Sorry. Beer day. Dominion Day. My first day in the house that is now mine And the cat that is not mine is sleeping here on the bed by the dog.

I just went through this.

If any moron needs encouragement, contact me. I'm working on t.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:23 AM (jvJvP)

544 #2 or really 2.5. Perfect crispiness and juiciness.

The DoJ was a good read. I like the nic that one of the monkey crush video perps chose: Sparkle Fancy Pants. https://tinyurl.com/568f9s9j

Also the church arson case where the perp stole some stuff before lighting church on fire, including 21 apples. For one thing, he had all of those apples stuffed in a backpack with some other things. For another thing, why apples? And why did the DoJ include the number of apples? https://tinyurl.com/5f7a4e8e

Posted by: H at July 02, 2025 03:26 AM (2gjbv)

545 I'm... toast. PTSD?
Posted by: JQ
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[cracks bottle of Old Suntory. Pours off two fingers, slides glass down the chat to JQ]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 03:27 AM (XeU6L)

546 Sorry.

Tired.

And my friend's cat Snowflake is sleeping on the bed right behind the dog.

Not my cat. That's funny.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:28 AM (jvJvP)

547 Thanks, Mike Hammer.

*sends Mike a double of Suntory Q*

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:28 AM (rdVOm)

548 [tosses back nightcap] G'night folks.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 03:33 AM (XeU6L)

549 'Night, Mike Hammer

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:34 AM (rdVOm)

550 JQ, how are you?

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:37 AM (jvJvP)

551 Hi, Stateless.

I'm OK. Just numb. The last few months wiped me out, and I'm certain you, especially, can relate!

Just when I think I can actually DO something on my list, some other shit happens that needs immediate attention instead.

Grr. Ugh.

Just putting out fires, one after the other.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:40 AM (rdVOm)

552 Finally home

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 03:48 AM (+qU29)

553
Grr. Ugh.

Just putting out fires, one after the other.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:40 A

I am so going to figure out how to let you contact me when and if I sober up.

Nah. I'm good sober wise ....after checking spelling.

But there's a cat that's not mine in bed with the dog.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:54 AM (jvJvP)

554 Just chatting with The Horde helps me. More than any of you know, probably.

I'm ok. Just disappointed in myself, that I didn't push harder and sooner, to get this crap done. Thought I'd give little bro some time to get his shit together. (What's a Big Sister for, right?) But I guess bro has different priorities, which are at odds with what *must* be done.

Hubby had been slipping for a couple years, but went downhill so rapidly this winter-- sudden and shocking to me-- it was a scramble to get him 'placed' and I've been still in a state of immobilizing shock for a while.

Coming up for air, finally, I think...

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 04:03 AM (rdVOm)

555 Bacon should never be overdone. #2 looks perfect.

That is not to say that overdone bacon isn't worth eating.

Bacon is ALWAYS worth eating!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 04:05 AM (L5An7)

556 I think bacon #3

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 04:06 AM (+qU29)

557 Crispy, perhaps #4, for dunking in that Bloody Mary.

It really depends on the bacon's ultimate use.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 04:09 AM (rdVOm)

558 Bacon should not *shatter* when you bite into it! IMO, of course.

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 04:17 AM (rdVOm)

559 So, this is my second morning as a homeowner. In Canada. Holy crap, put me in dress clothes and I may be attractive to sweet biological females.

I have 3.5 beers left.

I'm resting a bit.

When Ralphy became my dog; legally mine; in reality he was always Mom's dog, I would take him to the dog park, conveniently 90 seconds away!

I had Ralphy on a leash. I was a runner

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 04:21 AM (jvJvP)

560 I would comment more but I’m 6 hours ahead of EST and by the time I see the main topic I’d get banned if I comment. It’s too bad because I’m a fascinating person who could make astute comments on the state of Europe and Hollywood, or not, who knows ;-). I love your blog but not thrilled with the comments system.

Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:24 AM (eZywV)

561 I love your blog but not thrilled with the comments system.

Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:24 AM (eZywV)

The lack of tech, or the way in which the commenters interact?

I too am EST +6, in Paris. Where are you?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 04:26 AM (L5An7)

562 560 I would comment more but I’m 6 hours ahead of EST and by the time I see the main topic I’d get banned if I comment. It’s too bad because I’m a fascinating person who could make astute comments on the state of Europe and Hollywood, or not, who knows ;-). I love your blog but not thrilled with the comments system.
Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:24 AM (eZywV)

Being banned for commenting on old threads doesn't happen so quickly!

Posted by: m at July 02, 2025 04:27 AM (CQE5S)

563 Testing

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 04:29 AM (+qU29)

564 Anyways, that squirrel chasing dog is now sleeping in my bed.

With a cat that's not ours next to him.

That's funny.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 04:29 AM (jvJvP)

565 A+, Skip.

Posted by: m at July 02, 2025 04:29 AM (CQE5S)

566 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 02, 2025 04:30 AM (CQE5S)

567 You're doing great, Stateless! Keep up the good work.

I'm sure you'll find a *special someone* when the time is right.

For now? Let the dust settle. Get comfortable in your new situation. Love your critters. (yes, even the "not mine" cat! LOL)

You're gonna be alright!

Goodnight, greybox friend!

Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 04:30 AM (rdVOm)

568 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 04:30 AM (+qU29)

569 I like bacon between 2 and 3. Crispy and fatty. American bacon has become very popular in France and the U.K. but they cook it like 1 or even less. Traditional British bacon is like shoe leather scraps and their sausages have so much filler they squish. Every other European country does excellent sausage but don’t confuse andouille with andouillette. You’ll have an unpleasant surprise.
The French do wrap their filet mignon in either pork fat or beef fat and it really upgrades the experience.

Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:34 AM (eZywV)

570 don’t confuse andouille with andouillette.

Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:34 AM (eZywV)

Anduillette is foul.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 04:42 AM (L5An7)

571 someone should market I C E hats jackets and t-shirts
cheap everyone buys and wears them flood the zone style

Posted by: nancysjet at July 02, 2025 06:36 AM (UktIc)

572 Charlie Rich was a regular at the now-defunct John Wills Barbecue in Memphis when I worked there during college in the late '80s. He was a always a really nice guy.

Posted by: JV at July 02, 2025 09:26 AM (GKOEm)

573 Was Watching season 4 of Clarkson's Farm, and Gerald played an old pub game called Aunt Sally.
Players throw sticks.

Posted by: liz953 at July 02, 2025 09:49 AM (2ZTG1)

574 I met my Section 4b quota on today - July 2's Morning Report. Is cross-posting permitted? Encouraged? Frowned upon?

It has to do with Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass' proper form of address: Karen Bass-tard, or Karen Bass-turd.

Whoa - 2 posts, and we're only 2 days into the quarter. At this rate, by Sept. 15th I'll be posting "First!" as comment 12 to the Daily Tech Thread.

And "d'oh!" as comment 14.

Posted by: LibertyDefender at July 02, 2025 10:59 AM (5gdIf)

575 Highly energetic post, I loved that bit.
Will there be a part 2?

Posted by: wokeness mushroom at July 02, 2025 12:49 PM (6N5iu)

576 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na_wePUq-jA Flo and Eddie, Kung Fu Killer

Posted by: Harry at July 02, 2025 02:54 PM (qnV6d)

Big Cats Cafe

A golden tiger, a snow white tiger,
a Bengal tiger, and a white tiger

An old vid: lions run to hug and kiss their old caregiver.

Sassy snow leopard. Fixed: Now contains infinity percent more snow leopard.

When you're on safari, you have to expect some cheetahs are going to get into your car.

Baby tiger pounces on mom.

Mother cat introduces her kittens to the dog.

An "octopus tree" grows suspended above a trail. It's not the Octopus Tree in Oregon.

Rollin' up to the cops wearing a Michael Myers mask.

Dog slithers through a fountain.

Dog slithers down a hill.

Dog loves seeing the FedEx guy even more than the owners do.

Compilation of older dogs meeting the new puppies.

A little tough to watch but very poignant: A compilation of dogs grieving the fellow pets that have passed.

Dog meets the new pupper.

Caution: Falling trees.

Baby elephant plays chase with dog until he gets frustrated and goes cryin' to mama.

Steve Inman:

A quick street beatdown for a skel who attacked a citizen's car.

More street justice for car-assaulters.

Classic street justice for antifa road pirates.

The street tax paid for bothering people on the street is getting higher.

Teaching some hooligans some manners.

Some beatdowns for people who have earned it.

Old man breaks out the pimp hand.

Not Inman, but related: How Switzerland deals with Hamas street-blockers.

Also related: Would-be arsonists and low-IQ criminals succeed only in setting themselves and their car on fire.

Being funny wasn�t enough � had to hit every beat too!😂🎵🎬 pic.twitter.com/lMo8sjvWlE
— Nina Deer (@longdepzai_n) June 25, 2025

Kings of the valley 🐐 pic.twitter.com/u7zGqbxhFR
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 26, 2025

It can't all be cats:

A new kind of therapy pic.twitter.com/wkiggDErkr
— dog (@Dog__Dog0) June 30, 2025

AI is making me doubt every video I post here:

Can you tell the difference between reality and AI?pic.twitter.com/XhOvH20Txw
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 1, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM

Comments

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1 We've lost Jay Guevara?

When did this happen?

Rest peacefully, good man.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 01, 2025 07:32 PM (h7ZuX)

2 Ooh, oh, like felines. Nevermind.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (uCjyK)

3 I believe that's a cheetah in the car.

Posted by: Paco at July 01, 2025 07:34 PM (mADJX)

4 oh that's sad about Jay Guevera. He was just here a few days ago, wasn't he?

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (KRtlO)

5 Ace, do you ever see Chuy around?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (0sNs1)

6 >>>3 I believe that's a cheetah in the car.

you're probably right

i just found out that a jaguar and panther are the same animal so i'm out to sea when it comes to identifying big cats

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2025 07:36 PM (KRtlO)

7 Just saw another film besides Caught Stealing to peak my interest, apparently PTA is directing a dramedy starring DiCaprio, that looks really good.

Seeing as there really hasn't been a genuinly funny comedy in well over a decade.

I've had this idea for a movie that takes place during the COVID era, it's kind of a mashup of It's A Mad Mad Mad World meets convoy meets Smokey and The Bandit, whereby all of these truckers have to race to California to pick up a MacGuffen and get it back to the east coast.

Daniel Day Lewis is in it in a comedic role, his driving partner is a midget, and there's a scene where they get drunk and he has to toss his partner into the truck.

I just want to see DDL tossing a midget.

This is definitely a film PTA would direct.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 07:37 PM (XV/Pl)

8 Ha Puppy Breath Paradise is def therapeutic . ..
Whoa awesome Tigers.
Yup Snow Leopards are very elusive Ace's link proves it..

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 01, 2025 07:38 PM (DwKKA)

9 @Ace: "Sassy Snow Leopard" links to the "lions run to hug and kiss their old caregiver." video.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 07:38 PM (O7YUW)

10 And I don't care how domesticated they are, I ain't letting no tiger get access to my neck.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 07:38 PM (XV/Pl)

11 No meow meow meow

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 01, 2025 07:40 PM (22Uv/)

12 >>9 @Ace: "Sassy Snow Leopard" links to the "lions run to hug and kiss their old caregiver." video.

thank you. I fixed it. that was one of the only videos that I used the video's title for in the post, so I was able to find it again

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2025 07:40 PM (KRtlO)

13 Also related: Would-be arsonists and low-IQ criminals succeed only in setting themselves and their car on fire.
_____________________________

Remember, kids...pay attention in Science class. Focus on how it's the FUMES that ignite, not the gasoline. We'll see everybody tomorrow. Please read chapter 7 tonight, and we'll do some practical experiments with flaming shots of Sambuca.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 07:41 PM (dIske)

14 Jaguars are purring cat, right?

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 07:43 PM (xn0Ie)

15 Yay!

I’m off until Monday!!!! Whoofreakinghoo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 07:45 PM (K2TH6)

16 Why does the movie Thunderbolts* have an asterisks in the title?

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 07:46 PM (xn0Ie)

17
Remember, kids...pay attention in Science class. Focus on how it's the FUMES that ignite, not the gasoline. We'll see everybody tomorrow. Please read chapter 7 tonight, and we'll do some practical experiments with flaming shots of Sambuca.
Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 07:41 PM (dIske)

ha Yes and for that reason boats with low fuel levels are much more likely to explode than full tanks.
battery+sparks=boom

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 01, 2025 07:46 PM (DwKKA)

18 I’m off until Monday!!!! Whoofreakinghoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 07:45 PM (K2TH6)

Nice! Have a great (long, patriotic) weekend, nurse r.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 01, 2025 07:46 PM (h7ZuX)

19 Saw "F1" on an IMAX screen today. Fun movie. Good summer entertainment.

Posted by: Tuna at July 01, 2025 07:48 PM (lJ0H4)

20 Are those tits AI?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 01, 2025 07:48 PM (0bqfM)

21 Kittuhs!!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 07:49 PM (sAmhv)

22 @12/Ace: "thank you. I fixed it."

And thank you as well. Very cute snow leopard cub and mom!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 07:50 PM (O7YUW)

23 oh that's sad about Jay Guevera. He was just here a few days ago, wasn't he?
Posted by: ace at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (KRtlO)

The 6/20 Morning Prayer thread said he was in the hospital with a brain bleed. Some few days later he passed.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2025 07:50 PM (/HDaX)

24 The snow white tiger looks significantly larger.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 07:51 PM (zZu0s)

25 Flammable vapors ignite.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 07:51 PM (NFX2v)

26 A little tough to watch but very poignant: A compilation of dogs grieving the fellow pets that have passed.

It was, but thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 07:52 PM (NFX2v)

27 Got willowed down below, so once more, Happy Canada Day to out like-minded brethren north of the 49th parallel!

Posted by: John Drake at July 01, 2025 07:53 PM (LcfSi)

28 Are those tits AI?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 01, 2025 07:48 PM (0bqfM)

You'd think she'd go for larger.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 07:54 PM (zZu0s)

29 A little tough to watch but very poignant: A compilation of dogs grieving the fellow pets that have passed.

It was, but thank you.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 07:52 PM (NFX2v)

The last dog looked like it was sobbing. That got me.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:55 PM (gKDq2)

30 Why does the movie Thunderbolts* have an asterisks in the title?
Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 07:46 PM (xn0Ie)

*The New Avengers

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 01, 2025 07:56 PM (r6SF4)

31
In Hollywood, there's nothing more instantly in flammable as a car.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 07:57 PM (/HVsR)

32 The whole Thunderbolts/new avengers thing is idiotic. If marvel had wanted to set their brand on fire, they could not have done a better job.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

33 Correction: The Weekly Prayer List in the 6/21 Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2025 08:00 PM (/HDaX)

34 Thunderbolts*

*We totally destroyed our moneymaking franchise, so here is a lame attempt to restart it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 01, 2025 08:01 PM (r6SF4)

35
When we lost Phoenix, Her Majesty took it very hard. Diana did everything she could to comfort her. They just know.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 08:01 PM (/HVsR)

36 I’m off until Monday!!!! Whoofreakinghoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Excellent!

Gotta trudge in one more day myself. *sigh*

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2025 08:01 PM (ftFVW)

37 ace, panther is sort of a generic term for a large cat. I know it as an alternate term for Mountain Lion, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2025 08:03 PM (D7oie)

38 It is apparent to me that we will have to use AI to detect AI. I mean, it wouldn't lie to us would it?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 08:06 PM (XeU6L)

39 A little tough to watch but very poignant: A compilation of dogs grieving the fellow pets that have passed.
-------
Couldn't watch it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 08:07 PM (XeU6L)

40 Be on the lookout

For a white man dressed in a green ski mask and a Scooby-Doo costume.

Duncanville, AL police say the suspect broke into a convenience store and stole money. But no snacks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 08:09 PM (u4KuU)

41 This is the meme right here, for Gator Gitmo

https://x.com/realannapaulina/status/
1940199804015174099

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 08:10 PM (AOsQT)

42 Sex Panther.

Tread lightly.

Posted by: Homer Simpson at July 01, 2025 08:11 PM (0aYVJ)

43 It is apparent to me that we will have to use AI to detect AI. I mean, it wouldn't lie to us would it?

You're Turing me off on AI nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 08:11 PM (u4KuU)

44 "Would-be arsonists and low-IQ criminals succeed only in setting themselves and their car on fire."

Ahhhhh, it warms my evil little heart.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2025 08:11 PM (ftFVW)

45 ace, panther is sort of a generic term for a large cat. I know it as an alternate term for Mountain Lion, too.
Posted by: Kindltot

Painter. Authentic mountain man lingo

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:12 PM (cPGH3)

46 The original Avengers had Emma Peel.

The new Avengers had Uma Thurman.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 08:13 PM (u4KuU)

47 ganged by puppies!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 08:13 PM (Z5NUn)

48 For a white man dressed in a green ski mask and a Scooby-Doo costume.

Duncanville, AL police say the suspect broke into a convenience store and stole money. But no snacks.
Posted by: Anna Puma

No snacks? Must be an imposter, but be on the lookout for the Mystery Machine just in case.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2025 08:14 PM (ftFVW)

49
Spectacular astrophotography. A guy in AZ captured this image of the ISS transiting the Sun:
https://tinyurl.com/2xqwqkjk

That is processed to bring out the details. This is some damned fancy camera work. Such as this:
https://tinyurl.com/24tzdn6z

That's a time lapse of several hours.

He also does cat photos....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 08:14 PM (w6EFb)

50 Or...
yerneamin
Authentic mountain man gibberish.

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:14 PM (cPGH3)

51
Painter. Authentic mountain man lingo
Posted by: MkY
--

I think Natty Bumpo used that term often.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 08:15 PM (XeU6L)

52 I'm not sure I want to live in an area where random goats with large horns are walking on my roof.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 08:15 PM (viF8m)

53 This is AI

The Most Canadian Man in the World

https://tinyurl.com/ysehb5ba

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2025 08:15 PM (D7oie)

54
You're Turing me off on AI nyah
Posted by: Anna Puma
------

Don't be so testy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 08:16 PM (XeU6L)

55
Would-be arsonists and low-IQ criminals succeed only in setting themselves and their car on fire.

_________

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. - Psalms 34:21

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 08:18 PM (/HVsR)

56 Two things I learned upon opening my browser at home:

1. The Mets are STILL paying Bobby Bonilla a mullion a year.

2. The jury has reached a verdict on 4 of 5 charges in the Diddy trial. Knowing nothing about it, I'm predicting those four are Not Guilty.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 08:18 PM (tif+3)

57 The Pumaman

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 08:18 PM (63Dwl)

58
Del Gue:
Ain't that Hatchet Jack's rifle?

Jeremiah Johnson:
Yep. Found him froze to a tree.

Del Gue:
Damn! He was a wild one, old Hatchet Jack. He was livin' two year in a cave up on the Musselshell with a female panther. She never did get used to him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 08:18 PM (XeU6L)

59
The Mets are STILL paying Bobby Bonilla a mullion a year.

________

My understanding is that the Mets actually came out ahead on this deal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 08:19 PM (/HVsR)

60 I'm not sure I want to live in an area where random goats with large horns are walking on my roof.
Posted by: JackStraw

With horns like that they surely bestow blessings of great fertility on the occupants. Or maybe just big piles of dung. Hard to say.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2025 08:20 PM (ftFVW)

61 When I was in fifth grade, our German shepherd had a litter of 12 puppies. I’d come home after school and go lie down in the puppy cave. They’d usually be asleep in a pile. One would roll off the pile, see me there, and pounce. That would wake the swarm, and they’d be all over me. It was turrible, just turrible.

Posted by: Advo at July 01, 2025 08:20 PM (jO4mz)

62 . . . Florida panthers are mountain lions. But it might be a regionalism.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2025 08:21 PM (D7oie)

63 Litter of 12?

I had a dog give birth to seven and wanted to rename her "Clown Car."

Posted by: tankdemon at July 01, 2025 08:22 PM (zyYVb)

64 Cougar, mountain lion, puma, catamount, panther. All the same cat species.

A guy I work with says mountain lion tastes like pork.

Posted by: Homer Simpson at July 01, 2025 08:22 PM (0aYVJ)

65 Or does pork taste like mountain lion?

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 08:23 PM (vFG9F)

66 62 . . . Florida panthers are mountain lions. But it might be a regionalism.

Posted by: Kindltot

Stanley Cup Champions too!

Swamp Panthers don't have the same ring as Florida Panthers.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 08:24 PM (sAmhv)

67 Since you're posting big cat pics, I'm going to plug my two favorite orgs:

lionwhisperer.co.za

wildanimalsanctuary.org

Doing God's work, saving and protecting the big cats and other animals.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 08:24 PM (lH8E4)

68 12 German Shepherd puppies. Sheesh. The furniture is doomed.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 08:25 PM (vFG9F)

69 . . . Florida panthers are mountain lions.
----

Somehow, 'Panther' makes more sense for a swamp dweller. I mean, I don't know what max elev. in FL is, but it ain't much.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 08:25 PM (XeU6L)

70 The Mets are STILL paying Bobby Bonilla a mullion a year.

________

My understanding is that the Mets actually came out ahead on this deal.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 08:19 PM (/HVsR)

I can't imagine how.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 08:25 PM (2WLlF)

71 @56

>>The Mets are STILL paying Bobby Bonilla a mullion a year.

Fun Fact: Bonilla also has a deferred contract with the Baltimore Orioles for 500k annually that started in 2004 and pays out every year until 2028.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 08:26 PM (XV/Pl)

72 There was a guy here in town that had a mountain lion that would ride in the back of his truck. Gorgeous cat.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 08:26 PM (HFcKg)

73 You are the Puma Man.

Posted by: Aztec with Huge Face at July 01, 2025 08:27 PM (0aYVJ)

74

Exotic Feline Rescue Center (EFRC) in Center Point, IN.

https://efrc.org/

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 08:28 PM (63Dwl)

75 @70

>>I can't imagine how.

At the time, The Mets were banking on the massive ROI Bernie Madoff was getting them to continue, everything went tits up.

Bonilla turned 5.9m into 30m.

That's a trick Jim Cramer would be proud of.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 08:29 PM (XV/Pl)

76 Mets last payment is July 1, 2035

Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2025 08:31 PM (IG7T0)

77 Can Zuckerberg be held responsible for defaming and incitement he alllows on Facebook

Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 08:31 PM (FZn/N)

78 I'm not sure I want to live in an area where random goats with large horns are walking on my roof.
Posted by: JackStraw

I dunno. Wouldn't have to go far to hunt.
Maybe I'm lazy that way.

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:31 PM (cPGH3)

79 The Mets are STILL paying Bobby Bonilla a mullion a year.
----------
Fun Fact: Bonilla also has a deferred contract with the Baltimore Orioles for 500k annually that started in 2004 and pays out every year until 2028.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 08:26 PM (XV/Pl)

I wonder if that's who's paying him, and not the Mets. Baseball Reference says the Mets released him from his contract prior to the 2000 season. But that's confusing... how could they release him from the contract? From the team, sure, but the contract originally said they would keep paying him for however long it said.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 08:31 PM (7bmh6)

80 Mets last payment is July 1, 2035
Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2025 08:31 PM (IG7T0)

Well, there you go. Long after Skynet takes over.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 08:32 PM (7bmh6)

81 Somehow, 'Panther' makes more sense for a swamp dweller.
-------

Swamp dweller? Hell, the bars in Sarasota are filled with Cougars.

Posted by: Florida Man at July 01, 2025 08:33 PM (XeU6L)

82 Bobby Bonilla Day makes the local news in NYC.

Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2025 08:33 PM (IG7T0)

83 Mother cat introduces her kittens to the dog.

AKA she trapping the poor bastard into paying for the kittens college.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 08:34 PM (1bdKO)

84 George Brett is still on the Royals payroll. Have no idea how much and for how long, but my guess is it's substantial.

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:34 PM (cPGH3)

85 Good thread at Twitchy from Senator Schmidt about the fact that Medicaid has in fact been stripped from illegals. The vote that was taken and lost 56-44 was a show vote to put the Dems on the record . The bill does strip it from illegals

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 08:34 PM (eBgDF)

86 Evening, Ace and Cafe patrons!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 08:34 PM (PXoV/)

87 AKA she trapping the poor bastard into paying for the kittens college.
Posted by: Diogenes

You owe me one keyboard, and one Dudley Dooright watch (still in pristine condition, except for that time-keeping problem every now and then).

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:35 PM (cPGH3)

88 69 . . . Florida panthers are mountain lions.
----

Somehow, 'Panther' makes more sense for a swamp dweller. I mean, I don't know what max elev. in FL is, but it ain't much.

Posted by: Mike Hammer,

The highest point in Florida is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.

(probably not)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 08:36 PM (sAmhv)

89 If the illegals actually are dumped from Medicaid, that is enough for the W

Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2025 08:36 PM (IG7T0)

90
I had a dog give birth to seven and wanted to rename her "Clown Car."
Posted by: tankdemon

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

Alternative: name her Illegal Alien.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 08:36 PM (egH3D)

91 'Rollin' up to the cops wearing a Michael Myers mask.'

Those cops seemed to have a sense of humor. I can see some police pulling the guy over just for screwing with them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 08:37 PM (3wi/L)

92 Got willowed down below, so once more, Happy Canada Day to out like-minded brethren north of the 49th parallel!
Posted by: John Drake at July 01, 2025 07:53 PM (LcfSi)

Many of us like-minded Canucks prefer the old name, Dominion Day. Not because we are raging monarchists, but because the holiday was renamed by filthy Liberals without our consent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 08:37 PM (PXoV/)

93 71 @56

>>The Mets are STILL paying Bobby Bonilla a mullion a year.

Fun Fact: Bonilla also has a deferred contract with the Baltimore Orioles for 500k annually that started in 2004 and pays out every year until 2028.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Well, he was never ever going to see that kind of money in Pittsburgh.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 08:37 PM (sAmhv)

94 "The vote that was taken and lost 56-44 was a show vote to put the Dems on the record"

Not just Dems. Good news if true.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 08:37 PM (vFG9F)

95 Fostered 13 Aussie pups. Would do it again in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 08:38 PM (HFcKg)

96
Did anyone here realize that the US Department of State has a Substack page?

My head, it is making a buzzing sound, this cannot be real

https://statedept.substack.com/
p/making-foreign-aid-great-again

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2025 08:38 PM (D7oie)

97 @79

>>I wonder if that's who's paying him

The Mets owed Bonilla 5.9m on his last contract when they released him, instead of paying him 5.9m upfront, the geniuses that are the Wilpons came up with a scheme whereby they would pay him 30m over 25 years.

It's something the GOP would do.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 08:38 PM (XV/Pl)

98 Exotic Feline Rescue Center (EFRC) in Center Point, IN.
------

Odd location, considering the climate. Close to Terre Haute.

Perhaps John Cougar escaped from that place.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 08:38 PM (XeU6L)

99 38 It is apparent to me that we will have to use AI to detect AI. I mean, it wouldn't lie to us would it?

Quick, spring Sarah Connor out of that insane asylum!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 08:38 PM (1paM0)

100 My understanding is that the Mets actually came out ahead

Bwahahahahaha!!!
Oh stop it!
The Mets coming out ahead.
You're killing me here.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 08:38 PM (1bdKO)

101 Mother cat introduces her kittens to the dog.

AKA she trapping the poor bastard into paying for the kittens college.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 08:34 PM (1bdKO)

Well, you know they outlawed DNA testing for such things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 08:39 PM (YUL+W)

102 The highest elevation in Florida is about 350 feet, which is about 15 feet less than where I am right now.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 08:40 PM (vFG9F)

103 Bwahahahahaha!!!
Oh stop it!
The Mets coming out ahead.
You're killing me here.
Posted by: Diogenes

Mets. Washington Generals of MLB

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:40 PM (cPGH3)

104 AKA she trapping the poor bastard into paying for the kittens college.
Posted by: Diogenes

You owe me one keyboard, and one Dudley Dooright watch (still in pristine condition, except for that time-keeping problem every now and then).
Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:35 PM (cPGH3)

Snort!
*Adds hash mark to side of desk*

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 08:40 PM (1bdKO)

105 1 baud Knock Out. He's kinda slow, but he's deadly.
(Hash interpretation)

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:43 PM (cPGH3)

106
The Mets owed Bonilla 5.9m on his last contract when they released him, instead of paying him 5.9m upfront, the geniuses that are the Wilpons came up with a scheme whereby they would pay him 30m over 25 years.

It's something the GOP would do.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 08:38 PM (XV/Pl)

They bought an annuity for 4.9 million.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 08:43 PM (VofaG)

107 Kindltot I linked that Rubio page earlier today. Without knowing the history and background a lot of what he says there can be opaque or misleading actually, but no point in trying to clarify for some audiences.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 08:43 PM (1m82a)

108
The Mets coming out ahead.
You're killing me here.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 08:38 PM (1bdKO)

_________

I misspoke. I read an analysis once that Bonilla would have been better off taking the $5 million at the time and investing it. I no longer have the book that explained it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 08:44 PM (/HVsR)

109 Who needs stock photos. My cams have caught a coyote on the east deck the last two nights. Neighbor two lots down the hill a piece caught a mountain lion Saturday. Don't even talk to me about the moose, Bobcats, badgers etc. My mom says I live in a zoo.😁

Posted by: Sacred Cow at July 01, 2025 08:44 PM (DpY2X)

110 Hola, Hall.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 08:45 PM (77rzZ)

111 You owe me one keyboard, and one Dudley Dooright watch (still in pristine condition, except for that time-keeping problem every now and then).
Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:35 PM (cPGH3)

So...Dudley Doright was right at least twice a day. Nell probably disagrees.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 08:46 PM (1bdKO)

112 I just had to move the car -- holy shit its gross outside.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 08:46 PM (uCjyK)

113 A friend had go pro cam of a mountain lion camping out next to the deer feeder.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 08:46 PM (HFcKg)

114
Mets. Washington Generals of MLB
Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:40 PM (cPGH3)

________

To me, the Mets have always been a cheapjack, plastic excuse for a team playing in a cheapjack, plastic stadium. Brief moments of success are squashed by their stupid management.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 08:47 PM (/HVsR)

115 so I had a thought ... does anyone think it's possible ace replaced himself with AI and he's actually living out his life on an island somewhere?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 08:48 PM (uCjyK)

116 To me, the Mets have always been a cheapjack, plastic excuse for a team playing in a cheapjack, plastic stadium. Brief moments of success are squashed by their stupid management.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 08:47 PM (/HVsR)

The Mariners have entered the discussion.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 08:48 PM (1bdKO)

117 'A little tough to watch but very poignant: A compilation of dogs grieving the fellow pets that have passed.'

Damn. That was hard to watch. When you compare the dogs in the video to how dogs usually act you can really measure the sorrow.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 08:49 PM (3wi/L)

118
he's actually living out his life on an island somewhere?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 08:48 PM (uCjyK)

_______

Or under a bridge.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 08:49 PM (/HVsR)

119 and he's actually living out his life on an island somewhere?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 08:48 PM (uCjyK)

Gotta be an underground lair beneath a volcano. It's canon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 08:49 PM (PXoV/)

120 @106

>>They bought an annuity for 4.9 million.

The Mets did not take out an annuity, at the time, they were in bed with Bernie Maddoff, they thought the money they were making with Madoff would more than cover the layout to Bonilla, the deal made no financial sense, but little of what The Wilpons did made much financial sense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 08:50 PM (XV/Pl)

121 Gotta be an underground lair beneath a volcano. It's canon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 08:49 PM (PXoV/)

How does one put a lair BENEATH a volcano?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 08:50 PM (uCjyK)

122
I misspoke. I read an analysis once that Bonilla would have been better off taking the $5 million at the time and investing it. I no longer have the book that explained it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

If he had invested it WISELY.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 08:50 PM (63Dwl)

123 I am a sports prophet. Cowboys, Rangers and Stars don't make any playoffs this year. Oops, neither do the Mavericks.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 08:50 PM (HFcKg)

124 How does one put a lair BENEATH a volcano?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Did I mention it's DEEP!?

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:51 PM (cPGH3)

125 91 'Rollin' up to the cops wearing a Michael Myers mask.'

Those cops seemed to have a sense of humor. I can see some police pulling the guy over just for screwing with them.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 08:37 PM (3wi/L)

Or some rookie blasting him dead and shouting "I GOT HIM! I GOT MICHAEL MYERS!" until the supervisor shows up and breaks the news.

Posted by: But still gets paid admin leave and a promotion at July 01, 2025 08:51 PM (TbWk/)

126 so I had a thought ... does anyone think it's possible ace replaced himself with AI and he's actually living out his life on an island somewhere?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

More like an Endorian forest city. But nah, I think it would be hard for AI to match his verbal creativity.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2025 08:51 PM (ftFVW)

127 My automatic transmission rebuilding efforts have hit a snag. The rebuild kit lacked any bushings, and I want to replace some key ones. So a bushing kit is ordered; will hopefully get it in a week.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 08:52 PM (PXoV/)

128
Anyone remember back in 2006 when the Democrats, inexplicably, successfully campaigned on "torture" and "water boarding?"

Even mccain joined them in their obvious gaslighting.

They're trying to do that again with the Illegarinos and the prison in Florida, it appears.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 08:53 PM (pViE/)

129 With a 6% annual interest rate, investing $5,000,000 for 30 years will grow to approximately $29 million.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 08:54 PM (VofaG)

130 How does one put a lair BENEATH a volcano?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 08:50 PM (uCjyK)

Canon has it that volcanic islands become hollow when the lava column in them subsides. Goes back to Jules Verne, at least.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 08:54 PM (PXoV/)

131 More like an Endorian forest city. But nah, I think it would be hard for AI to match his verbal creativity.
Posted by: She Hobbit

...(original) verbal creativity.

AI gets caught by people who really know their stuff.
Good legal clerks catch them in court cases, e.g..
Not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if some serious fans (no doubt demented) could quote every one of Ace's stingers.

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:54 PM (cPGH3)

132 >>>Avoid feeding the animal or exiting the vehicle, as these actions increase risk...
----

The clip where a lion reaches into the window, pulls a woman out and runs off with her. Keep the windows up seems like a good idea.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 08:55 PM (UFztX)

133 To me, the Mets have always been a cheapjack, plastic excuse for a team playing in a cheapjack, plastic stadium. Brief moments of success are squashed by their stupid management.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 08:47 PM (/HVsR)

Wait. You're telling me George Foster and Ellis Valentine were never going to be the 'men'? Who'd'a thunk it.

But I will say, I got to witness said success in '86. My friend had a Sunday plan. She got two World Series games. She took her Dad to Game 2. She took me to Game 6. Billy Buckner's knees.

The scoreboard in the middle of the 10th, with the Red Sox up 5-3, briefly flashed 'Congratulations Boston Red Sox'. My entire section was pissed. We all knew with the crazy Mets that season, it was never over 'til it was over. It wasn't, eiither.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 08:56 PM (gKDq2)

134 They're trying to do that again with the Illegarinos and the prison in Florida, it appears.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 08:53 PM (pViE/)

FYI, the actual Mexican term is "mojados" pronounced "mo-Ha-thos" meaning "wetbacks" because it is impossible to be Mexican and offensively bigoted apparently.

The more you know!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2025 08:56 PM (D7oie)

135 Finished removing all of the shutters, house painting and window replacement is scheduled for next week.

Then I got put up all of the new shutters.

The work never ends.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 08:56 PM (XV/Pl)

136 'Old man breaks out the pimp hand.'

You dumb shit. Why do you think the old guy was picking the chair up for?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 08:56 PM (3wi/L)

137 Don't even talk to me about the moose, Bobcats, badgers etc. My mom says I live in a zoo.😁
Posted by: Sacred Cow
------

Not so exotic, but if it has feathers, fur, or scales it has visited my yard here in Appalachia. Bears, deer, foxes, coyotes, wild cats, snakes, woodchucks.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 08:57 PM (XeU6L)

138 Not so exotic, but if it has feathers, fur, or scales it has visited my yard here in Appalachia. Bears, deer, foxes, coyotes, wild cats, snakes, woodchucks.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

So you have what I would call a balanced diet?

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:58 PM (cPGH3)

139 Damn I love Steve Inman!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 08:59 PM (Lhvai)

140 Not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if some serious fans (no doubt demented) could quote every one of Ace's stingers.
Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 08:54 PM (cPGH3)

ace has retired a number of bits. If AI took over they would bring them back and that's how we would know.

Though I would like it if ace started blaming his screw ups on those darn Puerto Rican kids again.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 09:00 PM (VofaG)

141 Ace is living in a van down by the river!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 09:01 PM (1paM0)

142 128
'They're trying to do that again with the Illegarinos and the prison in Florida, it appears.'

I knew they would. Now we get to see how much average Americans hate the illegals running around.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 09:01 PM (3wi/L)

143 >>But I will say, I got to witness said success in '86. My friend had a Sunday plan. She got two World Series games. She took her Dad to Game 2. She took me to Game 6. Billy Buckner's knees.

>>The scoreboard in the middle of the 10th, with the Red Sox up 5-3, briefly flashed 'Congratulations Boston Red Sox'. My entire section was pissed. We all knew with the crazy Mets that season, it was never over 'til it was over. It wasn't, eiither.

I worked in an office in Boston of about 50 people that year. 49 of them were Sox fans, I was the Mets fan.

I will never forget the looks I got the day after that game or how hard I had to work at not laughing and gloating.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 09:01 PM (viF8m)

144 Sorry, but the Tiger photo?

Clearly RAAAAAACIST!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 09:03 PM (mP0Kj)

145 So you have what I would call a balanced diet?
Posted by: MkY
-----

A good crop of Pokeweed, Oxalis and Service berry, in season.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 09:03 PM (XeU6L)

146 The Left is lucky they have Trump! They can’t even imagine what the real right wing alternative would be!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 09:03 PM (1paM0)

147 ace is in Vermont surrounded by quaint little shops.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 09:04 PM (HFcKg)

148 A Pantone of tigers!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 09:04 PM (JkO4W)

149 Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 09:01 PM (viF8m)

Was a Raiders fan for many many years (not so much now)...

But... Navy Ship DEPLOYED to a really shitty place? in 1983?

Yeah... helped just a bit...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 09:06 PM (mP0Kj)

150 I will never forget the looks I got the day after that game or how hard I had to work at not laughing and gloating.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 09:01 PM (viF8m)

I would call that a good day. One of life's little treasure's of a day.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 09:08 PM (gKDq2)

151 Jack Straw, the Mets fan... what a lonely, pitiful epitaph.
Jack, I will never make fun of you again, now knowing what I know.
You ate Kaboom as a kid, too, didn't you?
Did you root for the wild hogs in Old Yeller?
Did you think Scout was a meddling little kid in To Kill a Mockingbird?
You didn't clap for Tinkerbell, did you?
But you had that one day of victory, and it made your entire life complete.
OK. I weep for you, but now I know for whom I weep.

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 09:08 PM (cPGH3)

152 A Steve Inman night is a good night.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 09:09 PM (Wnv9h)

153 (Quick! Hide me)

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 09:09 PM (cPGH3)

154 146
'They can’t even imagine what the real right wing alternative would be!'
I'm happy with Trump but I do like to imagine such a right wing leader would be like.
You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 09:09 PM (3wi/L)

155 Was a Raiders fan for many many years (not so much now)...

But... Navy Ship DEPLOYED to a really shitty place? in 1983?

Yeah... helped just a bit...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 09:06 PM (mP0Kj)

I, too, was a Raiders fan of old. Biletnikoff, Lamonica, Blanda, that gang. Still pissed about The Immaculate Reception. And I don't follow football anymore.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 09:10 PM (gKDq2)

156 Citi Field is said to be a great stadium. Met fans tend to be spazzes. Yankee fans huff their own farts.

Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2025 09:12 PM (IG7T0)

157 Is it too early to bow to our AI overlords?

https://youtu.be/5Uf2ERoRB9w

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 01, 2025 09:12 PM (Vh9CX)

158 Fever's Sophie Cunningham criticizes WNBA expansion plan, cities

ESPN: https://bit.ly/4et4iL4

"You want to listen to your players, too. Where do they want to play? Where are they gonna get excited to play and draw fans?" said Cunningham, 28.

Um, the WNBA does not draw fans anywhere. And hasn't for its entire existence.

"I do think that Miami would have been a great [location]. Nashville is an amazing city. Kansas City, amazing opportunity.

"... I'm not so sure what the thought process is there, but at the end of the day, you want to make sure that you're not expanding our league too fast. I think that that's also another thing.

"It's kind of a hard decision-making situation. But man, I don't know how excited people are to be going to Detroit or [Cleveland]."

Says the member of a team playing in... Indiana.

Also, no one is excited about people playing in the WNBA in general. Doesn't matter in what city it is.

Also, when it comes to a business that does not bring in any money at all for a city, and likely loses money, you take what cities are stupid enough to want a franchise.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 09:18 PM (P5BPp)

159 >>Jack Straw, the Mets fan... what a lonely, pitiful epitaph.

Could be worse. I could be a Rockies fan.

And as much of a love/hate relationship I have with the Red Sox I did live a few blocks from Fenway for years. As uncomfortable, quirky and old timey as that place is it is probably one the best pure ballparks anywhere. There's not much better than a Saturday afteroon game at Fenway.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 09:18 PM (viF8m)

160 147 ace is in Vermont surrounded by quaint little shops.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 09:04 PM (HFcKg)

Custom Croc shops?

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 09:19 PM (aBgBM)

161 Jack Straw, the Mets fan... what a lonely, pitiful epitaph.

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 09:08 PM (cPGH3)

Hey! Knock it off!

We got the Daily Double going. Mets fans and Rangers fans. I helped pay Gary Carter's salary. And Messier's. And . . .

I had seasons to the Rangers for 20 years. I live 4 subway stops from Shea. I used to ride my 10-speed to Shea when tickets went on sale and get 10-12 games a year. Then my friend got a Sunday plan, so I got those two seats every once in a while, too. Nice seats, 3rd base, mezzanine.

Went to Citifield twice with her. Never again. The prices are outrageous. And it's not a baseball game, it's an event.

I used to love doubleheaders.

In 1997, I had tickets for the second opening day, if you will. The official opening day game was rained out. My game now was an opening day doubleheader. You don't see that too often.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 09:20 PM (gKDq2)

162 @156

>>Citi Field is said to be a great stadium. Met fans tend to be spazzes. Yankee fans huff their own farts.

It's ok, it's supremely annoying to have to enter the home of The Mets through the Jackie Robinson Rotunda and as you are going up the escalator look around and feel as if you are in a shrine to the Dodgers.

The Wilpons were assholes that way.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 09:20 PM (XV/Pl)

163

That's like expanding Fuddruckers with more stores instead of closing.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:20 PM (7fTXR)

164
How is it that nonhuman baby mammals are so darn cute? They're also identifiable. Puppies look like baby dogs, kittens baby cats, etc.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 09:22 PM (egH3D)

165
We used to have an Ice Cream chain store up here called Brighams. Damn good ice cream.

First ones to come out with SNICKERS ice cream.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:25 PM (7fTXR)

166 Tempe, AZ, 1987: Flaky Jake's>>>>Fuddruckers

Posted by: Aztec with Huge Face at July 01, 2025 09:25 PM (0aYVJ)

167 Puppies look like baby dogs, kittens baby cats, etc.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 09:22 PM (egH3D)

Baby cows look like veal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 09:25 PM (jYYer)

168 Howdy, y'all.

Where did June go? Seems like it was just here.

July exists so we don't go directly from June to August. Because that would be bad.

Posted by: mindful webworker - I can see September on the horizon. EEK at July 01, 2025 09:26 PM (4yKs6)

169
I remember when Oreo Cookie ice cream was invented. That happened, when, in 1980?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:26 PM (7fTXR)

170 Many of us like-minded Canucks prefer the old name, Dominion Day. Not because we are raging monarchists, but because the holiday was renamed by filthy Liberals without our consent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 08:37 PM (PXoV/)

A happy Dominion Day to you AOP ...

I like to use Dominion Day, as it upsets all the right people.

Though I don't use it at the Peace Bridge when I cross over ... I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

Posted by: browndog misses the Canada of yor at July 01, 2025 09:27 PM (TTAGa)

171 I remember when Oreo Cookie ice cream was invented. That happened, when, in 1980?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:26 PM

Per Grok:

The exact invention date of Oreo Cookie ice cream, commonly known as Cookies and Cream, is debated. Malcolm Stogo, an ice cream consultant, claims he created the flavor around 1976-1978. Another account credits Shirley Seas, a dairy plant manager, and two students with developing it in 1979. No definitive earlier date exists in available records.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 09:28 PM (P5BPp)

172 Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor - best ever!
For celebrations, we’d go to the one at Scottsdale Road and Indian School. Some big building there today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 09:28 PM (Lhvai)

173 Puppies look like baby dogs, kittens baby cats, etc.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 09:22 PM (egH3D)

Hard to strangle something so darn cute after they poop or puke on your favorite sweatshirt. It's a defense mechanism.

Posted by: Aztec with Huge Face at July 01, 2025 09:28 PM (0aYVJ)

174
I would go to Brighams and order a Snickers frappe with a scoop of Oreo Cookie in it. It was called a Frappe Float.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:28 PM (7fTXR)

175
Get it?

A scoop of ice cream floating in an ice cream frappe. Frappe Float?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:31 PM (7fTXR)

176
You People call 'em "shakes."

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:32 PM (7fTXR)

177 Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor - best ever!
For celebrations, we’d go to the one at Scottsdale Road and Indian School. Some big building there today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 09:28 PM

Loved that place as a kid. I remember my uncle and grandparents taking me there and being so jealous of others who were there for their birthday and had the Farrell's staff come out and sing Happy Birthday where the entire restaurant could hear it. Made me so excited to want to come back there when it was my birthday.

Sadly, the one on south side of Chicago near my grandma's house near 79th and Cicero near the Ford City Mall closed around 1990.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 09:33 PM (P5BPp)

178
I loved the Shamrock Shake at McD's.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:34 PM (7fTXR)

179 When they turned him over, there were three guns and five knives under him.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at July 01, 2025 09:35 PM (xn0Ie)

180 You People call 'em "shakes."
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:32 PM (7fTXR)

My people call it "the D.T.s"

Posted by: Kindltot- with a long familial history of dipsomania at July 01, 2025 09:37 PM (D7oie)

181 I watched one dumb "parallel universe" video and now YouTube is throwing all kinds of videos at me.

But it got me thinking. This Marco Rubio fellow is not the same one from several years ago. Mirror universe Rubio?

Or maybe he's AI.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Ai yi yi at July 01, 2025 09:37 PM (4yKs6)

182 I made a pig of myself at Farrell’s.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 09:37 PM (jc0TO)

183 But it got me thinking. This Marco Rubio fellow is not the same one from several years ago. Mirror universe Rubio?

Or maybe he's AI.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Ai yi yi at July 01, 2025 09:37 PM (4yKs6)

Road to Damascus, or a really big mirror.

Posted by: Kindltot- with a long familial history of dipsomania at July 01, 2025 09:38 PM (D7oie)

184

LOL

idiot "actress" who has no talent or personality decides the best way to promote her new stupid Jurassic Park movie is to tell men to stop staring at her body.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:39 PM (7fTXR)

185 You know what would liven up the WNBA?

A half a dozen trannies.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 09:39 PM (mT+6a)

186 Hi! The musical dogs with all the Shibas? They do that. They have springs in their feets. And they chase their tails - and catch them - a lot. They are a very cool, but VERY dramatic breed.

Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2025 09:39 PM (p4NUW)

187 That's like expanding Fuddruckers with more stores instead of closing.

Posted by: Soothsayer
===

Do they exist anymore.
Was on a business some years ago, one right next to the hotel and I got myself baloney sandwiches instead.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 09:41 PM (/lPRQ)

188 You know what would liven up the WNBA?

A half a dozen trannies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 09:39 PM (mT+6a)

What would liven up the WNBA?

Talent.

Just my opinion.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 09:41 PM (gKDq2)

189

Marco "Quebranta huesos" Rubio

Posted by: Kindltot- with a long familial history of dipsomania at July 01, 2025 09:41 PM (D7oie)

190 Huskies are all drama and yodeling, and once in a while they get the "wolf" look in their eyes.

Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 09:43 PM (D7oie)

191 What would liven up the WNBA?

Talent.

Just my opinion.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 09:41 PM (gKDq2)

Just have them play women's beach volleyball instead. Of course many of the WNBA honeys lack the "talent" for that, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 09:45 PM (jYYer)

192
What's more stupid & annoying & unjustly opinionated than an actress?

An aging actress.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:45 PM (7fTXR)

193 Open enough thread to tell Elon to calm his tits down?
Blue Origin may overrun his Big Bertha Starship if he doesn't get his shot together.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 09:46 PM (/lPRQ)

194 Ace o' Spades brain damage:

I was taking a shower and thought of a funny line for the arm-eating deported cannibal and laughed loudly.

I hope someone finds a photo of the weirdo.

Don't know how my family puts up with me, but they are used to it.

G'nite. RIP, Jay. I miss you.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 09:47 PM (6PCLE)

195 AI girl is just on the holodeck fooling around.

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2025 09:48 PM (LHPAg)

196
Fuddruckers still exists!

Ir does??

I thought they went teets up in the 80's.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:48 PM (7fTXR)

197 Shot == shit
Thanks prudish autocucumber

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 09:48 PM (/lPRQ)

198
Did you see the rocket?

BEEERRRRRRIES all the way.

Posted by: Ciampino - No brrrrrs at July 01, 2025 09:48 PM (sPQoU)

199 I could generally tell what was AI and what was real: it’s not that good yet. But here’s my question: how do we know the girl is real?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 09:52 PM (1paM0)

200 I thought they went teets up in the 80's.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:48 PM (7fTXR)

Went to a Fuddrucker's in Buenos Aires in Feb. '92.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 09:52 PM (gKDq2)

201
They remade The Running Man?

Arnold ruined so many scifi flicks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 09:52 PM (lLiZq)

202 199 I could generally tell what was AI and what was real: it’s not that good yet. But here’s my question: how do we know the girl is real?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 09:52 PM (1paM0)

LOL too meta for me but good question. I definately had a hard time telling.

Posted by: Iris at July 01, 2025 09:53 PM (bOJ2I)

203 Is a spaceship launch a “shot”?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 09:53 PM (1paM0)

204 203 Is a spaceship launch a “shot”?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 09:53 PM (1paM0)

It certainly isn't a cocktail.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 01, 2025 09:55 PM (zyYVb)

205 so there's an Honest Trailer for Spaceballs

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 09:56 PM (gKWVE)

206 I can't remember where I find things online. Did some Moron link to this?

Will ChatGPT Replace Me? | Don McMillan Comedy
https://youtu.be/Q09zsqfnmpo

Meanwhile, in Florida, this almost funny eight minutes
GATOR GITMO (Alligator Alcatraz)
Wicked AI
https://youtu.be/_jjrkvoMHA8

Posted by: mindful webworker - artificially ignorant at July 01, 2025 09:57 PM (4yKs6)

207 RIP Jimmah Swagert. It was Jimmah that taught me even when I availed myself to women of the night Jesus would be there to forgive. Seriously I was steeped in guilt.

Plus Jimmah put out a tape How To Pray
ACTS
Adoration
Confession
Thanksgiving
Supplication
From 1979

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 01, 2025 09:57 PM (DwKKA)

208
190 Huskies are all drama and yodeling, and once in a while they get the "wolf" look in their eyes.
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid

The spitz in them! Shibas are a basal breed so you do get a little mini wolf every now and again.

Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2025 09:58 PM (p4NUW)

209 205 so there's an Honest Trailer for Spaceballs

Do you have a link, gKWVE?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:00 PM (1paM0)

210 Listened to a NPR show talking about ICE raids. If you knew nothing about illegal immigrations you’d think they’re all the salt of the earth. Not a criminal among them. Those evil ice agents (with masks on!!!!!!!!) are removing the best people on earth from America.

Produced of course with my tax money.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:01 PM (nwGCR)

211 There's a NOOD ONT for that
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=415456

Posted by: mindful webworker - cafe is closed at July 01, 2025 10:02 PM (4yKs6)

212 A decade ago, we'd say "Pics or it didn't happen." It won't be long before we'll say "In-person or it didn't happen."

Posted by: Alex at July 01, 2025 11:39 PM (LmEbi)

Quick Hits

New absurd Hamas jihadi propaganda drops:

This may surprise you, but the 33-year-old former "rapper" and jihadi communist Zohran Mamdani has about the same level of basic competence as Alexandria Donkey-Chompers.

He claims he will pay for his "government run grocery stores" using "subsidies" that are currently paid to for-profit grocery stores.

But the government isn't paying these stores money -- they're merely giving them tax breaks. And these tax breaks are offered to accomplish the left-wing goal of opening grocery stores in the left-wing hallucination of "food deserts."

There is no money just sitting around waiting to be spent.

When Zohran Mamdani, the New York Democratic mayoral nominee, defends his idea of socialist grocery stores, he says he can pay for them by cutting city subsidies to "corporate grocery stores."
This claim is based on a basic misunderstanding of the city's current grocery subsidies. The money he plans to use to pay for his city-owned grocery stores is money the city doesn't have.
Specifically, he wrongly believes that the city is spending $140 million to subsidize private grocery stores, and he thinks he can take half of that money and use it to build government groceries.
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According to Mamdani, his five grocery stores would cost $60 million.
"That should be compared to the city's existing program called City FRESH, where they are set to spend $140 million, subsidizing corporate grocery stores ... So we would take less than half of the money the city is already set to spend, and actually deliver results," he said.
What is this FRESH program?
The Food Retail Expansion to Support Health is a bundle of tax breaks and special regulatory relief for grocery stores that open up in so-called food deserts: poor neighborhoods where the city has concluded residents don't have adequate access to produce and other healthy foods.
The subsidy includes some tax breaks: building taxes stay at the pre-improvement level for a few years, land taxes are abated, there are some tax breaks for building the store, and some of the transfer taxes are cut. (The store still collects and remits sales tax, pays payroll taxes, pays corporate income taxes, et cetera.)
The FRESH program can also include some zoning and regulatory relief.
The tax breaks have saved the grocery stores a few million dollars each year.

If you take those tax breaks away, these stores in the "food deserts" will probably close because companies have determined it's a money-losing proposition to open up stores there. Which is fine by me, but ending the tax breaks does not suddenly make money appear in the government's bank accounts.

The Democrat-Media Party keeps claiming that Mamdani isn't a communist just as much as Biden wasn't senile.

You will not be surprised to learn that the Democrat-Media Party is lying.

Just the News:

Zohran Mamdani, the self-described "democratic socialist" and presumptive Democratic Party nominee to be mayor of New York City, has been supported by so-called "fact-checkers" and legacy media in denying that he is a Communist -- but his oft-repeated past comments strongly contradict his denials. Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), but he denies that he is a Communist.
An investigation by Just the News shows that in tweets, speeches, and affiliations, Mamdani, at his core, holds a strong affinity for straight-up Communism: praising and campaigning with a Marxist state senator in New York; declaring that NYC needed a mayor just like a famously young Indian mayor who was a member of an explicitly Marxist and Communist Party; praising the 1917 Russian Revolution which led to the overthrow of the Czar and, soon, the establishment of the Soviet Union at the cost of millions of lives; arguing about the need to "seize the means of production" in a reference to a core Marxist principle; praising famous radical Communist figures; and much more.
After the win by Mamdani on Tuesday, President Trump weighed in by declaring Mamdani "a 100% Communist Lunatic."
...
The self-described fact-checking website PolitiFact declared last week that "Zohran Mamdani is favored to win the NYC mayoral primary. Claims he's a communist are False." The outlet said that "some politicians and social media posts falsely labeled him a communist" and that "experts say he hasn't espoused key tenets of communism, such as government takeover of industry and private property."
PolitiFact also alleged that "accusing Democrats of being communists or communist sympathizers is a frequent misleading attack line by some Republicans" and that "it is a red scare tactic that has existed in U.S. politics for decades, but has been transformed by the success of some democratic socialists."
...
The denials notwithstanding, Mamdani's own words may very well reveal what is behind the facade.
Mamdani has repeatedly praised his fellow "comrades" in the DSA, and seems to have been especially close with New York State Sen. Julia Salazar, who endorsed him and with whom he campaigned during his 2020 run for the New York state assembly, and whom he also praised and thanked for her endorsement when he was running for mayor in 2025.
Salazar is a self-described "Democratic Socialist" who has repeatedly declared that she is an avowed Marxist. Mamdani made it clear in 2020 that he was well aware of Salazar's Marxist views -- and strongly suggested he agreed with them, meaning Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour is not Mamdani's only controversial close associate.
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[Salazar] tweeted that "I'm a Marxist" in January 2019, and tweeted again in April 2020 that "I have a Marxist worldview." Salazar tweeted again that "to be clear, as ever, I'm a Marxist" in October 2023.
Salazar also played a role in helping Mamdani win during his 2020 race for New York state assembly. Mamdani repeatedly touted being endorsed by Salazar in his 2020 race, and the two collaborated on issues and virtually campaigned together in the lead up to the election.
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Mamdani has also repeatedly praised famous Communist figures and leaders. A tweet by him from December 2020 was especially striking, as it suggested that he believed NYC needed a Communist mayor -- a job he would pursue himself just a few years later while denying that he is a Marxist.
"them: so what kind of mayor does nyc need right now? me:" Mamdani tweeted as he shared a Twitter thread from the Indian Puducherry State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) -- or the CPI(M).
"Comrade Arya Rajendran, age 21, new Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She will be the youngest mayor of a major city in the world. Here she leads a detachment of Red Volunteers in @CPIMKerala. #CPIM #LeftAlternative #Communist," the Indian Communist Party tweeted. The profile for that branch of the Communist Party included a hammer and sickle emoji in its Twitter description.
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When Mamdani tweeted in June 2020 that NYC should pull down a statue of Christopher Columbus, among the three options he suggested for statues to replace Columbus was a famous Italian Communist.
"In 2017, NYC ordered a review of public works constituting "symbols of hate" for potential removal. But a statue of Columbus remains in Astoria, in defiance of the values of humanity, empathy & justice that we stand for. It has to go. Sign the petition," Mamdani tweeted. He then ran a Twitter poll, asking, "The Italian-American community has a rich history in Astoria. Who should we honor instead? Tony Bennett (Astoria native, music icon) Walter Audisio (Communist partisan, killed Mussolini) Sacco & Vanzetti (Executed due to anti-Italian sentiment)."
...

Mamdani has repeatedly posted approvingly about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the fall of Czar Nicholas II, which soon ushered in Communist rule in Russia and the establishment of the brutal Communist-led Soviet Union.
Mamdani tweeted in March 2023 -- and then again with the exact same language in March 2024 -- praise for the 1917 February Revolution in Russia, which led to the abdication and murder of the Romanov family and the Bolshevik takeover.
"On March 8, 1917, women textile workers in Russia organized a massive strike, calling for 'bread and peace,' an end to war and the fall of the Czar. A week later, he abdicated. Women received the right to vote. The 1st #InternationalWomensDay in Russia was a revolution," Mamdani tweeted in both 2023 and 2024.
An analysis by History.com made it clear that this February Revolution -- named such because the Russians used the Julian calendar -- led almost directly to Vladimir Lenin's dictatorship in Russia.
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Mamdani spoke of "the end goal of seizing the means of production" in 2021 while he was a New York state assemblyman.
Karl Marx's book Das Kapital repeatedly uses the term "means of production," which has become a central pillar of Marxist theory. "Capital is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks," is just one example of the phrase appearing in Marx's work.
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Momdani seemed to have previewed this sentiment in a December 2020 tweet. The Democratic Party had tweeted that "the Biden-Harris administration is committed to rebuilding an economy that welcomes everyone as full participants." That didn't go far enough for Mamdani, who responded by saying that "if we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production."
Mamdani hasn't just used the "Comrade" moniker for his Marxist ally Julia Salazar, but it is rather a term of endearment he repeatedly uses with his fellow DSA members and allies.
The term "comrade" has a long -- but not exclusive -- association with Communist movements. Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin was referred to as "Comrade Stalin" and Chinese Communist Party dictator Mao Zedong called himself "Comrade Mao" -- among many such examples. When Mamdani spoke at the YDSA winter conference in February 2021, he referred to the other elected socialist officials as his "comrades."
Mamdani loves to call his fellow leftwing and socialist candidates his "comrades" on Twitter. As one example, he tweeted his congratulations to Lee J. Carter in November 2019 when the Virginia socialist won reelection in the Virginia House of Delegates.

The Cheapfake Media is claiming that it was just some youthful exuberance that has led Mamdani to repeatedly call for the seizing of the "means of production" and delivering them over to the proletariat.

He was 30 when he said these things. He's now 33.

The Democrat-Media Party is also trying to claim that "seizing the means of production" Akshually Isn't Communist at All. It's just seizing the money and equipment of the exploitative capitalist class and turning them over to the revolutionary proletariat to be held communally, that's all.

Where are you seeing "communism" in this, Bigot? Is it because his face is slightly more brownish than yours, Racist?

Trump's DOJ is suing California for its insurrectionary blocking of federal agents from carrying out their appointed duties.

The DOJ lawsuit targets Los Angeles' sanctuary city ordinances, claiming they directly violate federal law and enable illegal aliens to evade deportation.
The complaint links Los Angeles' refusal to cooperate with immigration enforcement to recent "rioting, looting, and vandalism" that forced the deployment of the National Guard and U.S. Marines.
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said the city's policies "contributed to a lawless and unsafe environment," adding that the Constitution "prohibits the City from picking and choosing which federal laws will be enforced."

FBI chief Kash Patel says he will shut down the J. Edgar Hoover Building and move FBI operations to the Ronald Reagan Building.

FBI Director Kash Patel is shutting down the J. Edgar Hoover building and moving its headquarters across Washington to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, with President Donald Trump touting the move, telling Fox News Digital that the FBI "will finally have the kind of building they deserve."
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a Tuesday memo Patel sent to the FBI, notifying employees of the relocation, and stressing that it is "most cost-effective way" to serve the American people, Fox News Digital has learned.
Patel, in May, first hinted that the bureau would be reallocating its workforce around the country, and would move agents out of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which opened in 1975.
The FBI and the General Services Administration (GSA) have been looking at options for a new FBI headquarters for more than a decade, including locations near D.C. in Maryland and Virginia.
"Team, the FBI Headquarters will be moving down the street to the Ronald Reagan Building, and the Hoover building will be shut down," Patel wrote in the memo, exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital.
Trump told Fox News Digital that the Ronald Reagan Building is "a wonderful building," and said the FBI is "a wonderful group of people.
"The FBI will finally have the kind of building they deserve," the president told Fox News Digital. "Congratulations to Kash Patel, Dan Bongino and all the great people at the FBI."

At least they're not going with the Wray/Biden plan of spending billions of taxpayer dollars on a new, completely-undeserved Palace of Justice.

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
BREAKING: USAID has OFFICIALLY ceased operations, Secretary Rubio announces
This was a TOP priority of @ElonMusk while he was at DOGE, even calling it a "CRIMINAL organization."
The Democrat slush fund for kickbacks and corruption is no more.

Here's how CNN reported it:

🚨ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID.

Their first reaction?

"Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!" pic.twitter.com/1Mr9qPRu4z
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 1, 2025

This guy wants to bankrupt Medicaid by importing millions of illegal immigrants and giving them healthcare that ought by right go to his fellow citizens. Now he pretends to care about them.

The dishonesty is off the charts. https://t.co/M1h9dZG5Lc
— JD Vance (@JDVance) July 1, 2025

Trump promotes NC-native Lara Trump to replace disgraceful Democrat saboteur Thom Tillis:

I�ve said from day one�Lara Trump shouldn�t be appointed to a Florida Senate seat. She should primary Thom Tillis in North Carolina instead.

Could that actually come to fruition? pic.twitter.com/9Aimu0KS4m
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) July 1, 2025

NEW: Hundreds of women hold up their babies into the air to show they're willing to offer them up as martyrs in Tehran, Iran according to CNN pic.twitter.com/aITxd7m7Qb
— dustin mills (@dustinemills24) June 29, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:35 PM

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1 with President Donald Trump touting the move, telling Fox News Digital that the FBI "will finally have the kind of building they deserve."

With bars of steel, but a nice view of the yard.

Posted by: t-bird at July 01, 2025 06:37 PM (98iWb)

2 MadManI scares me because he's an attractive guy that can talk.

Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:38 PM (jvJvP)

3 >>>Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?

don't sell them on it, they'll say yes

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2025 06:40 PM (KRtlO)

4 I wish that retard/sugar trap story was true.
They deserve it and worse.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 01, 2025 06:41 PM (xcxpd)

5 ooo, yeah, gimme a hit off that!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:42 PM (Z5NUn)

6 I find it very hard to believe that, in post Biden NYC, you could open grocery stores for just 12 million each.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2025 06:42 PM (od0dV)

7 And MattY is a hack fraud and has been for decades. He's both deeply unserious and deeply stupid.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 01, 2025 06:42 PM (xcxpd)

8 Yeah, I'm completely convinced every single one of those Muslim mothers freely offered up their kids.

I also believe the BBB cuts spending by a trillion dollars.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:42 PM (tT6L1)

9 3 >>>Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?

don't sell them on it, they'll say yes

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2025 06:40 PM (KRtlO)

They already are.

Oh, "Stargirl" on Amazon. 3 seasons. Fun show. Solomon Grundy. Kick ass robot. Not really woke. It was fun.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:43 PM (jvJvP)

10 "He claims he will pay for his "government run grocery stores" using "subsidies" that are currently paid to for-profit grocery stores."

LOL this guy's an economic retard.

Posted by: jsg at July 01, 2025 06:43 PM (1l+t9)

11 Is it too late to donate to The Gaza Humanitarian Fund?

Do it today!

Posted by: George Costanza at July 01, 2025 06:43 PM (R/m4+)

12 Hundreds of women hold up their babies into the air to show they're willing to offer them up as martyrs in Tehran, Iran

Target rich environment.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 01, 2025 06:43 PM (TSfHI)

13 Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:38 PM (jvJvP)

Not just a commie Trudeau. Osama bin Lenin is all for the Global Intifada, too. I guess he includes neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens.

Couldn't vote in the closed primary so all I can do is vote for Adams iin the General. Without Mandami in the race, I'd vote for Sliwa. But I want to beat this commie muzzzie or muzzie commie, whatever the fuck he is. So I'll go with Adams. I know he'll get the black vote and the sane vote as well.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 06:44 PM (gKDq2)

14 >>>That should be compared to the city's existing program called City FRESH, where they are set to spend $140 million, subsidizing corporate grocery stores ... So we would take less than half of the money the city is already set to spend, and actually deliver results

Ooh, that makes sense. I didn't actually nail down what he meant by "corporate subsidies" during the campaign because really, who cares?

That's kind of funny though. So we'll likely lose some C-Towns in shit neighborhoods, to be replaced with nothing and the people in those neighborhoods can go back to eating McDonalds and bodega sandwiches as their primary food sources.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:44 PM (uCjyK)

15 Socialists/Commies, Tomato/ToMotto don't care about what comes after they succeed.

They only care about the destruction.

Posted by: jsg at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (1l+t9)

16 Hmm, the main cutout for Democrat funding, USAID, is gone.

Interesting.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (tT6L1)

17 That 'sugar pit' idea is great.
And I think the Palis are dumb enough to fall for it.

If any truth to sugr demand would be that they are making prison toilet hootch with it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (/lPRQ)

18 Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:38 PM (jvJvP)

What percentage of New Yorkers do you think know who Justin Trudeau is?

Keeping in mind that 40% of people living in New York City today were not born in the US, and most of them are far from fluent in English.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (uCjyK)

19 Hundreds of women hold up their babies into the air to show they're willing to offer them up as martyrs in Tehran, Iran

Wait a minute... I'M the martyr?!

Posted by: Iranian Baby at July 01, 2025 06:46 PM (WFXLZ)

20 WitchDoktor: those Espada Oscuros are really nice. Yep, covered in dumb bands. I reviewed them on Weasel's thread a ways back. Let them rest for a week or two if you can, they just get better. Enjoy.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 06:46 PM (1m82a)

21 They only care about the destruction.
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Don't you know you can count me out...

Posted by: Zombie John L. at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (TN0g+)

22 If Trump wants to help defeat Madmani his best course of action is step back. There is probably a fair size group of Democrats NYers who are on the fence. But if Trump says don’t vote for him they’ll just knee jerk do the opposite of what he says.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (nwGCR)

23 This may surprise you, but the 33-year-old former "rapper" and jihadi communist Zohran Mamdani has about the same level of basic competence as Alexandria Donkey-Chompers.

Like Donkey-Chompers it is a Cum Dumpster too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (/lPRQ)

24 The plan is to recreate the food deserts so government stores can open to fill the need. Increasing poverty is a method of draining wealth from those just above it.
A receding tide strands all boats.

Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (IG7T0)

25 Damn it. Dominion Day. Beer drinker. Pizza in the fridge. And the animals I have a home for 2 years.

Time to lose my virginity and watch "Alien."

I have seen "Aliens' a few times. I don't see a lot of movies..There is a Wiki! I may pass the the next quiz.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (jvJvP)

26 More like effendi khaan over in london,

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 06:48 PM (bXbFr)

27 16 Hmm, the main cutout for Democrat funding, USAID, is gone.

Interesting.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (tT6L1)

Oh, I'm sure the money is still flowing through their other, numerous funding sources across the federal government.

What happened to DOGE doing a full audit of the fed gov, by the way? USAID is a tiny little blip on the radar, I thought we were opening the books on the entitlements and Defense. That's where the real money is, and where it would be easiest to hide gigantic slush funds.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:48 PM (uCjyK)

28 Quick hits take a long time.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 06:48 PM (63Dwl)

29 Shouldn't have to wait too long for a Democrat to wail about President Trump creating martyr babies.

Of course, pointing out to Democrats they're for abortion, no matter the age, will be a waste of breath.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (tT6L1)

30 At least they're not going with the Wray/Biden plan of spending billions of taxpayer dollars on a new, completely-undeserved Palace of Justice.
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Maybe we should build the crappiest HQ possible, and name it after Wray.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (od0dV)

31 >>This may surprise you, but the 33-year-old former "rapper" and jihadi communist Zohran Mamdani has about the same level of basic competence as Alexandria Donkey-Chompers.

He claims he will pay for his "government run grocery stores" using "subsidies" that are currently paid to for-profit grocery stores.
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Nothing is impossible to a man who doesn't have to pay for it himself.

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (aBgBM)

32 Wait a second. It will cost $60M to build 5 grocery stores? Da fuuuuqqq?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (nwGCR)

33 They need to get organizized.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (22Uv/)

34 What percentage of New Yorkers do you think know who Justin Trudeau is?

Keeping in mind that 40% of people living in New York City today were not born in the US, and most of them are far from fluent in English.
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IF there were an easy way to completely remove the illegals from just 3 cities (NYC, LA, & ATL), I wonder what percentage of the total illegal population that would represent and how it might affect future voting?

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (TN0g+)

35 Those Iranian women got nothing on Abraham.

Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 06:50 PM (n2swS)

36 > Hundreds of women hold up their babies into the air to show they're willing to offer them up as martyrs in Tehran, Iran according to CNN

When my son was born, I remember tearfully thanking God that He trusted me enough to raise one of His special children. I still thank Him every day for my family.

These people who twist their children to such hatred are alien and evil.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 06:50 PM (lIio7)

37 Momdani seemed to have previewed this sentiment in a December 2020 tweet. The Democratic Party had tweeted that "the Biden-Harris administration is committed to rebuilding an economy that welcomes everyone as full participants." That didn't go far enough for Mamdani, who responded by saying that "if we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production."

You can call yourself a sack of potatoes for all I care, the point is that the things for which you advocate are Communist nuttery.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (Riz8t)

38 Zohran Mamdani will make a brilliant mayor and eventual President of the world.

Posted by: Penguins On The March at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (vFG9F)

39 The FBI should be out of DC and moved to Padooka.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (rvwwT)

40 MadManI scares me because he's an attractive guy that can talk.

Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:38 PM

Self-governance means the people have the right to be wrong and should get what they vote for, gooder and harderer.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (xn0Ie)

41 ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID.

Their first reaction?

"Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"

And monkeys COULD fly out of my butt. I'm not stocking up on bananas, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (Riz8t)

42 24 The plan is to recreate the food deserts so government stores can open to fill the need. Increasing poverty is a method of draining wealth from those just above it.
A receding tide strands all boats.
Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (IG7T0)

The reason there are few grocery stores in bad neighborhoods is because
a) there isnt a huge demand. A lot of people in poor neighborhoods just prefer to eat garbage. I can't really explain it, but it does seem to be the case
and
b) the shoplifting / armed robberies are out of control and make it difficult to make money in those neighborhoods.

For example, if you go up to 125th st and check out the Whole Foods up there, you'll notice that the place looks like a fucking casino with the number of security guards and cameras everywhere, but they still have rampant theft.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (uCjyK)

43 What happened to DOGE doing a full audit of the fed gov, by the way? USAID is a tiny little blip on the radar, I thought we were opening the books on the entitlements and Defense. That's where the real money is, and where it would be easiest to hide gigantic slush funds.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:48 PM (uCjyK)

Musk is gone... Big Balls resigned a couple weeks ago... not seeing anymore DOGE press conferences...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 06:52 PM (mP0Kj)

44 Netanyahu is travelling to DC next week to meet with Trump and Co. Who will be the Democrat/Communist lame brain that will make a fool of themselves to protest this? Will Mamdani try to stage an arrest of Bibi? Will the squad members chain themselves to the WH fence? Tune in next week for the continuing saga of "I am a Slimy Political Ass-wipe" on your local channels.

Posted by: Cheri at July 01, 2025 06:52 PM (oiNtH)

45 If Democrats understood economics ... they wouldn't be Democrats.

(Please note, this is merely ONE entry on a nearly infinite list.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 06:52 PM (HlyYF)

46 with President Donald Trump touting the move, telling Fox News Digital that the FBI "will finally have the kind of building they deserve."

With bars of steel, but a nice view of the yard.
Posted by: t-bird at July 01, 2025 06:37 PM (98iWb)

Unfortunately, Trump probably won't treat the FBI like they should be.

Trials followed by long-term prison sentences for the worst offenders, including Obama himself.

But, that's not who we are are something.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 06:52 PM (r2ymA)

47 The activities that USAID formerly conducted - well those that have not been discontinued - have been moved to regional bureaus of State. Rubio has a short statement that gives some bare-bones on this on the State website.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 06:52 PM (1m82a)

48 Are we still funding NPR and PBS?

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 06:53 PM (xn0Ie)

49 Was the pit lined with stakes?

Ball pit?

Jello?

Cuck chairs?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

50 Their first reaction?

"Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"
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According to Grok, roughly 60 million people die every year. Divide 14 million by 5 years and you're pretty much talking a rounding error, year over year.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:54 PM (tT6L1)

51 Democrats: Humans are a parasite on mother Earth! People need to stop having children!

Also Democrats: Cutting USAID will kill MILLIONS!

Posted by: Max Power at July 01, 2025 06:54 PM (q177U)

52 IF there were an easy way to completely remove the illegals from just 3 cities (NYC, LA, & ATL), I wonder what percentage of the total illegal population that would represent and how it might affect future voting?

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (TN0g+)

I don't know, and I don't know how many of them are illegals. Think about it -- if someone showed up illegally at the border in 2022, she very likely has at least 2 or 3 US-born kids now. Or if someone is here on a visa, same story. And we have a wide open legal immigration system as well, lets not forget, that lets in millions of people a year.

For context, the population of New Hampshire is 1.4 million. We're issuing about that many green cards annually.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:55 PM (uCjyK)

53 Musk is gone... Big Balls resigned a couple weeks ago... not seeing anymore DOGE press conferences...
Posted by: Romeo13

He is but my understanding is that the DOGE boys team is still working although we've not seen any more announcements/information on what is current status.

Posted by: Cheri at July 01, 2025 06:55 PM (oiNtH)

54 Stephen A. Smith, a rare voice of reason. Hope someone is listening.
"Democrats will ‘have no chance’ if they become like Mamdani!"
“You might have a democratic socialist sprinkled here and there, but that ain’t what America is. America’s about capitalism! America’s about dollars and cents,” Smith said.
“America’s about an economy, a flourishing economy, OK? And you know what it’s not about? Free stuff.”
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Aljazeera
News, Israel-Palestine conflict, Jul1, 2025
'UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?'
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza. Companies from other countries – from China to Mexico – are also named.

Her latest report is scheduled to be presented at a news conference in Geneva on Thursday.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 06:55 PM (NFX2v)

55 > Wait a second. It will cost $60M to build 5 grocery stores? Da fuuuuqqq?

Building a new Costco costs anywhere between $15-30 million dollars. It really isn't that far fetched to believe five NYC grocery stores could cost that much.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 06:55 PM (lIio7)

56 Isn't it strange that even after losing three presidential elections in a row, and despite all this constant talk about them needing to appeal to "mainstream America", the Democrats are not moderating their "message" even slightly... and in fact have moved to straight up 24/7 marxist communist illegal alien tranny jihad.

Makes you wonder if they know something we don't. Maybe something about their "opposition"...

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (E0p3T)

57 Are we still funding NPR and PBS?
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They're both national treasures. I enjoy the thought pieces from NPR and the "This Old House" reruns from PBS.

Posted by: Conservative Senator Lankford at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+)

58 Regarding the Iranian mothers offering up their babies to by martyrs:

"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”

-- Golda Meir

Golda did not get a chance to see peace in her time, or in the following two generations.

I wonder how long it will be before her observation becomes true? If ever?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (HlyYF)

59 What can a baby martyr possibly accomplish?

Posted by: Max Power at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (q177U)

60 >>Musk is gone... Big Balls resigned a couple weeks ago... not seeing anymore DOGE press conferences...

Big Balls is back.

He actually took a new job in the Social Security Administration.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 06:57 PM (viF8m)

61 I just push-mowed for 15 minutes and I'll never go back to that "yard of death."

*lays down*

I need some sugar.....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 06:57 PM (Q4IgG)

62 Hegseth welcomed the DOGErs to the Pentagon a few weeks ago, photos and stuff. Have no idea what they're doing or where it stands. And somewhere my eye caught that "Big Balls" had returned in some capacity, to some federal perch.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 06:57 PM (1m82a)

63 Hey, I am going upstairs to watch "Alien."

Dominion Day. The animals aren't homeless. I'm drinking,

But HEY! If you want to see probably the most Patriotic, pro-American bit of American tv in the last 10 years, Just watch the first 3 minutes of 'Stargirl', episode 1, season 3.

"Coming to America" playing,
It was a beautiful scene.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:58 PM (jvJvP)

64 I need some sugar.....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 06:57 PM (Q4IgG)

Watch out for the pit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

65 I, for one, was really looking forward to a full audit of the Fort Knox reserves

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 06:58 PM (LPgB/)

66 *lays down*

I need some sugar.....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 06:57 PM (Q4IgG)
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I'm here for you, big boy!

Posted by: Triggly Puff at July 01, 2025 06:59 PM (tT6L1)

67 The picture of the women holding up their babies to die for the cause reminds of nothing so much as the Phillistines = Palestinians in Latin (the real ones from the Old Testament) making their first-born male child to “pass through the fire” to Moloch. In other words, burning him to death! The details are even worse. If you aren’t eating look up the details behind a “Saturnine grin”. The current claimants to the name Palestinians seem to be no better than the true Palestinians = Phillistines.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 06:59 PM (1paM0)

68 FBI chief Kash Patel says he will shut down the J. Edgar Hoover Building

I hope they demolish it with C4.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 01, 2025 06:59 PM (mlg/3)

69 What can a baby martyr possibly accomplish?
Posted by: Max Power at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (q177U)

PR.

Posted by: Hooray For Pallywood! at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (gKDq2)

70 If Trump wants to help defeat Madmani his best course of action is step back. There is probably a fair size group of Democrats NYers who are on the fence. But if Trump says don’t vote for him they’ll just knee jerk do the opposite of what he says.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM

I would rather that madman win the election, then NYC would get fvcked good and hard like they deserve to be after voting for this freak. Once all of the cops quit and times square turns into barter town maybe they will wake up and stop being stupid.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (e5NfL)

71 Amazon Prime

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (jvJvP)

72 [O/T -- Okay, I have a new favorite idiom/meme:]

Was listening to (fill-in for Larry Elder) radio talk show host Carl Jackson, who was speaking admiringly of Trump's foreign policy and how much he liked it that, vis-à-vis Iran:

Trump "tapped that booty and got out of there ..."

lol

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (oDSG/)

73 I, for one, was really looking forward to a full audit of the Fort Knox reserves
Posted by: 496

They wrote it off, Jerry. They just wrote it off.
(apologies to whomever put it here first)

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (cPGH3)

74 I hope they demolish it with C4.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 01, 2025 06:59 PM (mlg/3)
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C4, C5. Whatever it takes.

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (LPgB/)

75 The sugar-pit tweet REALLY sounds like someone ridiculing hamas propaganda.
If someone actually wrote that while thinking it was believable, that is some VERY impressive stupidity.

Posted by: irright at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (XkkIn)

76 56, boom, there it is!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (Z5NUn)

77 Stephen A. Smith, a rare voice of reason. Hope someone is listening.
"Democrats will ‘have no chance’ if they become like Mamdani!"
“You might have a democratic socialist sprinkled here and there, but that ain’t what America is. America’s about capitalism! America’s about dollars and cents,” Smith said.

LOL, Smith is about as an installed establishment voice that you can get.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 07:01 PM (r2ymA)

78 Get armed, get trained, get organized, get ready. Don't fucking tell me it can't happen here.

4 July 2026. Let’s give the founding fathers a 250th that would make them proud.

100% agree. It is happening here and we just had a president say explicitly he has the right to expel anyone from the country that he sees fit "deport". And deport doesn't mean just leave the country, he is funding prison camps around the world that those people he sees as his enemies will spend the rest of their days on this earth at, no trial, no charges, just disappeared to a foreign prison indefinitely

Now we are supporting gun-humping ammosexuals. That'll help us gain votes.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 01, 2025 07:01 PM (ycI94)

79 Didn't some pop tart have a pop song about her sugar pit?

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

80 /off gelatinous tub of goo sock

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:02 PM (tT6L1)

81 I would rather that madman win the election, then NYC would get fvcked good and hard like they deserve to be after voting for this freak. Once all of the cops quit and times square turns into barter town maybe they will wake up and stop being stupid.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (e5NfL)

The cops arent walking away from their pensions, and I don't know if you've been to Times Square lately, but uh... way ahead of you on that one.

Also, you'll be glad to know that the Africans have set up a bazaar on Canal Street (in Chinatown). Which is a big part of the reason the Chinese voted for Trump. They don't like their scam being elbowed in on.

It's fun walking to the court house and a bunch of gigantic west african dudes are shoving massive baggies of weed, stolen ipads, and knock off purses in your face.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM (uCjyK)

82 >>Are we still funding NPR and PBS?

Passed the House. Thune said the Senate wouldn't be taking it up until after the BBB passed.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM (viF8m)

83
For all the Fucknozzles complaining about the BBB, what do you think harris' first piece of major legislation would be like?

Something awful, yes?

Something that makes everything Worse, right?

At least this BBB goes in the Right Direction.

Fags.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM (qQgZS)

84
"Then a bulldozer came and buried them alive."

It's got to be a joke.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM (egH3D)

85 Musk got run out of DOGE.

Posted by: pawn at July 01, 2025 07:04 PM (QB+5g)

86 Omar Hamd - what a nut. Even if that story was true, WTF?

1) desperate for ...sugar?

2) fell for the cheapest and most obvious deception possible?

3) Then they got buried by the Americans? What, did they just stand around after they fell in?

4) And the reason for this would be...what? I mean, we don't HAVE TO provide them with anything. If we wanted to kill them, we could just let them starve to death. Hell, just shoot them while they are standing in line.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 01, 2025 07:04 PM (D1vbu)

87 78, LOL, we can only hope; gene pool needs some bleach ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 07:04 PM (Z5NUn)

88 to leftists, a corporate tax rate of 25 percent is a subsidy when it could just as easily be 40 percent. after all it's their money not yours or mine

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 01, 2025 07:04 PM (CWTWj)

89 Didn't some pop tart have a pop song about her sugar pit?
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

I only know of this one:

https://tinyurl.com/3auktvjt

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:04 PM (tT6L1)

90
And I've had my fill of Elon fucking Musk.

President Trump did A Lot, (too much, in my opinion) for the South Africans. And he ONLY did that for Elon Musk.

No One, especially me, gives no shit about the "white" "South Africans" who Created The Mess They're In.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 07:05 PM (qQgZS)

91 Mamdani is a little brunch boy leftist who will get thousands killed if he's elected. Julia Salazar the so called "Marxist" is another little liar . She alleged Sephardic heritage but her family knew nothing about it. Everything about her says power hungry liar . She'll work with Mamdani until one or the others ego leads them to throw the other under the bus

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 07:05 PM (eBgDF)

92 For all the Fucknozzles complaining about the BBB, what do you think harris' first piece of major legislation would be like?

Something awful, yes?

Something that makes everything Worse, right?

At least this BBB goes in the Right Direction.

Fags.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM (qQgZS)

You can't turn a ship of state around on a dime. Especially as big a behemoth as our ship of State is.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:05 PM (gKDq2)

93
Out: Suicide vests

In: Baby diaper bombs...and not the kind you are thinking of

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:06 PM (XeU6L)

94 Wait a second. It will cost $60M to build 5 grocery stores? Da fuuuuqqq?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (nwGCR)

5 stores for a city with what, 15 million peeps? 3 million people a day?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

95 The self-described fact-checking website PolitiFact declared last week that "Zohran Mamdani is favored to win the NYC mayoral primary. Claims he's a communist are False."

I'm in a lousy mood right now for reasons that I will not burden you with but I am slap outta sh*ts to give about New York and its stupidity. If they can't see what's right in front of their faces then they deserve to get exactly what they want.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 01, 2025 07:06 PM (qeyVO)

96 "Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"
............................
CNN came up with that number the same way Bono did.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (sAmhv)

97 Because I need to fold laundry, or something, I missed a thread regarding the ICE app. Mea culpa.

News 4 (WOAI) San Antonio
CNN, "Why this developer created an app to alert ICE sightings."

Joshua Aaron, a musician and developer, created an app called ICEBlock, where people can post sightings of U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers across the country.

CNN's Clare Duffy speaks to Aaron about what motivated him to create the application and the efforts he has made to keep it accurate and prevent it from identifying users.

Transcript available.
(Btw, the app won't work on Android.)
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Seems to be the same gentleman:

You Tube, Description
Joshua Aaron is an award-winning American-Israeli independent singer and songwriter who was recently listed as one of the Jewish Global 100 influencers. He and his wife Jeannie raised their five children in Israel near the Sea of Galilee. Their eldest (Sergeant Emma) recently finished her IDF service, and their son, Shuki, currently serves in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) in the Combat Corps of Engineering.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (NFX2v)

98 Hammad is a humble pharmacist and filn critic a cross between mr gower and roger ebert so totes that seems true

The gaza foundation doesnt grift for the ngos

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (bXbFr)

99 84
"Then a bulldozer came and buried them alive."

It's got to be a joke.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (ycI94)

100 Too much sugar is bad for you. Just look what happened to those Palestinians.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

101 yup, 93, just what I was thinking, strollerbombs

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (Z5NUn)

102 People who are evil are no human weevils.

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2025 07:08 PM (DXbAa)

103 IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (ycI94)
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Yet, this always makes me snicker...

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:08 PM (tT6L1)

104 That whole pit with a tarp thing - me and my friends did it in sixth grade, and nobody fell for it. But then again, we were already high on sugar.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 01, 2025 07:08 PM (D1vbu)

105 No One, especially me, gives no shit about the "white" "South Africans" who Created The Mess They're In.
Posted by: Soothsayer

I feel sorry for them. Half didn't vote for that shit, and many of the rest were tricked

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 01, 2025 07:08 PM (ycI94)

106
Israel agrees to a 60-day cease fire with Iran.

Posted by: four seasons at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (3ek7K)

107
The activities that USAID formerly conducted - well those that have not been discontinued - have been moved to regional bureaus of State. Rubio has a short statement that gives some bare-bones on this on the State website.
Posted by: rhomboid

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Yeah, this is the thing I wanted to drill down on. The Dean of DEI is dead, long live the Dean of Student Outreach? How much bogus aid is still flowing, under new letterhead?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (egH3D)

108 I believe you can actually buy that sugar trap directly from Acme.

Posted by: STV at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (+opPw)

109 That Hamas post above: did this poster just give away a Hamas tactic? Sure seems like it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (sAmhv)

110 "Then a bulldozer came and buried them alive."

It's got to be a joke.

See previous comment and substitute "Gaza" for "New York."

Posted by: Oddbob at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (qeyVO)

111 There will be a People's Grocery Store with mostly empty shelves stocked with crap nobody eats like canned beets. Outside it will be marked PGS #1 but infested with criminals bum scat trash rats....

Then there will be a 'secret' grocery store for the Party elites stocked with everything but crap like canned beets. It will be unmarked outside but fancy inside. Guarded by secret police.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (gAG18)

112 IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (ycI94)
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Yet, this always makes me snicker...
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Per the AoS Style Guide its "Saint Rachel of Pancake".

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (TN0g+)

113 My guess - They put the pit in to catch the ones shoving old ladies down to get to the front of the line, so they could take all the sugar.

Muzzies do pretty horrible things to each other, given half a chance.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (D1vbu)

114 The sugar-pit tweet REALLY sounds like someone ridiculing hamas propaganda.
If someone actually wrote that while thinking it was believable, that is some VERY impressive stupidity.
Posted by: irright at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (XkkIn)

I believe everything I read on the internet.

After all, it would be damn near impossible for anyone to pull out a device and video the goings on. Which is a shame, because we all LLLLOOOOOOOOOOVE seeing people buried alive in sugar pits.

So we're just going to have to believe it happened, until someone proves it didn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (dGCAG)

115 Had she not have been bulldozed she would have martyred herself

Yeah its been two generations since apartheid ended

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (bXbFr)

116 That bulldozer made a skip kitty out of Rachel Corrie.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (gAG18)

117 It's fun walking to the court house and a bunch of gigantic west african dudes are shoving massive baggies of weed, stolen ipads, and knock off purses in your face.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

It's difficult to realize we live in the same country. I can't imagine what it is like to have to accept that as part of the activities of daily life.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (F3Dlr)

118 5 stores for a city with what, 15 million peeps? 3 million people a day?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

There is no shortage of grocery stores in most neighborhoods.

I have 4 full sized (well, NYC full sized) within 4 or 5 blocks of me.

In poor neighborhoods, there are way fewer. Some would argue due to racism, most would argue that there used to be grocery stores there, but they went out of business due to a combination of shop lifting and low sales.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (uCjyK)

119 > CNN, "Why this developer created an app to alert ICE sightings.
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Someone needs to make an app that tracks and can DOXX politicians. Bet this shit stops yesterday.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (Q4IgG)

120 So we're just going to have to believe it happened, until someone proves it didn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (dGCAG)
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.....this is CNN

/most likely

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (tT6L1)

121 Lured to their deaths with sugar, huh?

Wait'll they find out about the beads.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (MX0bI)

122 The best name I saw for the NYC gubmint grocery stores was "Holodo-mart." Saw it on this venue, to be precise.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Big Talking Non-Musician at July 01, 2025 07:12 PM (0aYVJ)

123 Sheena Easton was the one with the song about her sugar pit.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

124 I believe you can actually buy that sugar trap directly from Acme.
Posted by: STV at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (+opPw)

109 That Hamas post above: did this poster just give away a Hamas tactic? Sure seems like it.
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Another secret tactic is--check this out--they lay out this loop of rope on the ground and tie it to tree limb that has been pulled downwards...and then when someone steps inside the loop....

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (TN0g+)

125 I believe you can actually buy that sugar trap directly from Acme.
Posted by: STV at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (+opPw)

You can, but the problem is, when you try to trap a small bird with it, the bird can just come and peck away at all the sugar, then just walk off.

But if you're a coyote, as soon as you step onto the tarp, yoink! In you go.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (dGCAG)

126 5 stores for a city with what, 15 million peeps? 3 million people a day?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

There is no shortage of grocery stores in most neighborhoods.

I have 4 full sized (well, NYC full sized) within 4 or 5 blocks of me.

In poor neighborhoods, there are way fewer. Some would argue due to racism, most would argue that there used to be grocery stores there, but they went out of business due to a combination of shop lifting and low sales.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (uCjyK)

There won't be once the government is in direct competition with them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)

127 It's difficult to realize we live in the same country. I can't imagine what it is like to have to accept that as part of the activities of daily life.
Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (F3Dlr)

It's infuriating. And yeah, yeah, I know, NYC has always been a bit like this.

But it is noticeably worse since COVID. Like crazily worse.

The homeless problem is also out of control. I have to deal with screaming schizophrenics at least 10% of the time I take the subway, but (assuming I leave my apartment), I don't go a single day without seeing homeless people who should be in a mental hospital or somewhere other than sleeping on the streets.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (uCjyK)

128 We flatten people with tank treads. Nice of Joe to leave us working tanks.

Posted by: ISIS at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (gAG18)

129 Sheena Easton was the one with the song about her sugar pit.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

Wasn't she the one who rode a zebra for a video or something? Not that I care. Just a vague memory of her doing that.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (gKDq2)

130 Thats how science works

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (bXbFr)

131 81. Also, you'll be glad to know that the Africans have set up a bazaar on Canal Street (in Chinatown)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes
--

Philadelphia Africatown

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (NFX2v)

132 Probably been mentioned before, but nonetheless, Happy Canada Day to all our like-minded brethren north of the 49th Parallel!

Posted by: John Drake at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (LcfSi)

133 There won't be once the government is in direct competition with them.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)

No one's building a government grocery store in my neighborhood, ha.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (uCjyK)

134 The cops arent walking away from their pensions, and I don't know if you've been to Times Square lately, but uh... way ahead of you on that one.

Also, you'll be glad to know that the Africans have set up a bazaar on Canal Street (in Chinatown). Which is a big part of the reason the Chinese voted for Trump. They don't like their scam being elbowed in on.

It's fun walking to the court house and a bunch of gigantic west african dudes are shoving massive baggies of weed, stolen ipads, and knock off purses in your face.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM

The last time I was in NYC I was a truck driver and that was 20 years ago. When I stopped in some places in the Bronx and Brooklyn the cops would pull up behind my truck to make sure nothing was stolen when I went inside to make a delivery. I once told a couple of cops in Queens that my truck was empty and they didn't need to watch it, they asked me if I wanted my truck to be there when I got done with my paperwork. They stayed.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (e5NfL)

135 Another secret tactic is--check this out--they lay out this loop of rope on the ground and tie it to tree limb that has been pulled downwards...and then when someone steps inside the loop....
Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (TN0g+)
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Those never work, though. Either the tree falls over on the person setting it up or it catches the person trying to set it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (tT6L1)

136 So we're just going to have to believe it happened, until someone proves it didn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (dGCAG)
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.....this is CNN

/most likely
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (tT6L1)

Where's Charles Jerko with a microphone when you need him?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:15 PM (dGCAG)

137 If only someone or something could be more tone deaf and clueless than a party running a nepot, faux-Third Worlder who thinks every one of his sophomoric utterances is a bolt of truth-lightning in the dark world, starved for his enlightenment....

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the NY GOP.

Posted by: Zek at July 01, 2025 07:15 PM (VnYzE)

138 Sheena Easton was the one with the song about her sugar pit.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

Think it actually Sugar Walls.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 07:15 PM (r2ymA)

139 A sugar trap! Dammit, and I've always used honey!!

Posted by: Chinee Spy at July 01, 2025 07:15 PM (0eaVi)

140 Sheena Easton was hot, but her voice was really unremarkable. But, then, that wasn't the point, was it?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Big Talking Non-Musician at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (0aYVJ)

141 My GF puts out sugar traps for the hummingbirds but they always get the sugar before they're trapped.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (gAG18)

142
FBI chief Kash Patel says he will shut down the J. Edgar Hoover Building and move FBI operations to the Ronald Reagan Building.

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I was hoping he'd move it to Flyover Country. Buy one of those dead malls.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (egH3D)

143 Sheena Easton was the one with the song about her sugar pit.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

Wasn't she the one who rode a zebra for a video or something? Not that I care. Just a vague memory of her doing that.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (gKDq2)

They probably spray painted a horse. I hear zebras aren't cool with riders.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (8avO+)

144
Wait, is the App still up & operating??

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (qQgZS)

145 Harry Paratestes,

It's funny. The day after the election, the street vendors clogging up the streets in Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue were gone. After the inauguration, you can walk around during the day and the crowds are way down.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (gKDq2)

146 "Think it actually Sugar Walls.
Posted by: chavon

Oh, well. Look who's the music expert now.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

147 Hush little baby
Don't you cry
Momma's gonna be proud when you die
Momma's gonna make you a suicide vest
Teach you how to cry out "Death to the West"

Tehran lullaby

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (gm9Sb)

148 A sugar trap! Dammit, and I've always used honey!!
Posted by: Chinee Spy at July 01, 2025 07:15 PM (0eaVi)

Yeah, Ji Jiping keeps ordering more honey pots for some reason.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (dGCAG)

149
And why not charge the PLATFORMS hosting the App, like Android & Apple?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (qQgZS)

150 Yeah, this is the thing I wanted to drill down on. The Dean of DEI is dead, long live the Dean of Student Outreach? How much bogus aid is still flowing, under new letterhead?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (egH3D)

I would guess most if not all of it is flowing through different cut outs and NGO's under different memo lines in different budgets.

Not that I'm against shutting down USAID. It absolutely should have been shut down back in the 1970's after it became clear that USAID was the cut out used to spin up wars all over Indochina. But I guarantee it is far from the only funding source of getting fed dollars to deep state-sponsored activities.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (uCjyK)

151 She had that charming irish lilt

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:18 PM (bXbFr)

152 Mmm, floor-pie!

*snare grabs his foot*

*Sadly* d'oh!

Posted by: Homer Simpson at July 01, 2025 07:18 PM (0aYVJ)

153 Let me take you somewhere you've never been
I can show you things you've never seen
I can make you never want to fall in love again
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls
****
Nice
Put me down for one night.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 07:18 PM (gAG18)

154 Mamdani Is a friggin' op.
His whole thing is bullsh*t.
This dumbass probably can't balance his checkbook. Fu*k him.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 07:18 PM (1bdKO)

155 137, lol Zek, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 07:19 PM (Z5NUn)

156 According to Mamdani, his five grocery stores would cost $60 million.
.......

Beet Mart.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 07:19 PM (v0R5T)

157 The picture of the women holding up their babies to die for the cause reminds of nothing so much as the Phillistines = Palestinians in Latin (the real ones from the Old Testament) making their first-born male child to “pass through the fire” to Moloch.
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Last letter from Magda Goebbels:

Life will not be worth living in the world that will come after Hitler and National Socialism.

Therefore, I have also brought the children here with me. They are too precious for the life that will come after us; a merciful God will understand me when I myself help them to a merciful deliverance. You will live on, and for you I have but one request; never forget that you are a German. Do nothing against your honour and take care that you do nothing with your life that will have made our death purposeless.
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Then...she poisoned the six children.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:19 PM (XeU6L)

158 112 IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (ycI94)
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Yet, this always makes me snicker...
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Per the AoS Style Guide its "Saint Rachel of Pancake".

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (TN0g+)
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I prefer to think it was actually a steamroller that got Ms. Corrie instead of a bulldozer.

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 07:20 PM (QbJcY)

159 It's funny. The day after the election, the street vendors clogging up the streets in Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue were gone. After the inauguration, you can walk around during the day and the crowds are way down.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (gKDq2)

I'll bet. Didn't one of the vendors get caught killing a pigeon to eat for lunch over there recently?

I haven't been in a few months, I rarely make it farther than Astoria these days.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:20 PM (uCjyK)

160 Does IKEA offer a cuck chair?

Asking for David F.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

161 151

Who had an Irish lilt?

Posted by: STV at July 01, 2025 07:20 PM (+opPw)

162 "Then...she poisoned the six children.
Posted by: Mike Hammer"

She doesn't seem nice.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (vFG9F)

163 And yeah, yeah, I know, NYC has always been a bit like this.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Honestly, I can't imagine your life. I need to stop being so naive and realize that our life is not everyone's life.
I hope you have a safe and enjoyable Independence Day.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (F3Dlr)

164 "Think it actually Sugar Walls.
Posted by: chavon

Oh, well. Look who's the music expert now.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

When she was in her early 20s it was Sugar Walls.

Now it's prolly Sour Pustule Flaps.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (dGCAG)

165 USAID was pure graft.

The problem is there are thousands of programs that are pure graft.

It's like sticking a finger in a dyke.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (XV/Pl)

166 Time to lose my virginity and watch "Alien."

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (jvJvP)

How you doin'?

Posted by: Chest Buster at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (0eaVi)

167 I can't believe those dumb Palis feel for the Ruthless Podcast's monkey banana moat trick!

Posted by: yoyopg at July 01, 2025 07:22 PM (YZlOS)

168 Mamdani announcing he will establish a world-class salsa manufacturing outfit would go a long way to ameliorating some of the anti-NYC sentiment out there.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 07:22 PM (0sNs1)

169 -
They probably spray painted a horse. I hear zebras aren't cool with riders.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM
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That is also how we earn a living. I won't bring up our second jobs.

Posted by: Tijuana Burros Local #132 at July 01, 2025 07:23 PM (XkkIn)

170 USAID was pure graft.

The problem is there are thousands of programs that are pure graft.

It's like sticking a finger in a dyke.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (XV/Pl)

You misspelled CIA Sugar Pit.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)

171 Black bread - Wednesdays only.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 07:23 PM (v0R5T)

172 Sheena easton

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:23 PM (bXbFr)

173 Why are so many people regurgitating the line that this mohammedani guy is charismatic and good looking.
He looks like a melon headed cab driver in a cheap suit.
I'm judging you ladies.
"squints eyes"

Posted by: Cmonman at July 01, 2025 07:24 PM (Pm+t0)

174
About Mamdani the commie, he could easily slither out of most of that gotcha story from Just the News. Of course he supports the Russian Revolution! Would you want a CZAR in America? Isn't that what we fought our own Revolutionary War for? I never said I supported what came after!

etc.

It's interesting background, but I'd analyze his free buses and government-run grocery stores.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:24 PM (egH3D)

175 Mamdani has a hip new Idea for you Cool Cats:

Government-owned Community Land Trusts, to buy housing for community ownership.
He's going to end subsidies for luxury housing and use it to build "beautiful, high-quality social housing projects."

Yes.
He wants to bring back the projects.

Ho Lee Fuk.
The stupid kids are going to vote for this. Because they all think they are going to get free apartments in NYC.

This is going to be so awesome! I can't wait for them to build a wall to keep us out of their paradise.

Go, go Mamdani!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 07:24 PM (LbQ3Z)

176 Honestly, I can't imagine your life. I need to stop being so naive and realize that our life is not everyone's life.
I hope you have a safe and enjoyable Independence Day.
Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (F3Dlr)

Thank you. And yes, I have lived all over the East Coast, I know this isn't exactly "normal" for most people, but it is a harbinger of what's to come as our New Americans spread out across the country. And spreading out they are.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (uCjyK)

177 I foresee a familiar New York Post headline in the next few years if Madmani gets elected:

TRUMP TO CITY: DROP DEAD

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (6ydKt)

178 Then...she poisoned the six children.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:19 PM (XeU6L)

She was a 'family annihilator'. But at least she annihilated herself. (Thinking of John List.)

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (gKDq2)

179 I want Trump to do an executive order to change the current red/blue dynamic. WE should be blue, THEY should be red. They’re commies.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (b294k)

180 Wow, so much winning the last several days, I feel like I might need a dose of naloxone.

Posted by: Paco at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (mADJX)

181
Why are so many people regurgitating the line that this mohammedani guy is charismatic and good looking.
He looks like a melon headed cab driver in a cheap suit.
I'm judging you ladies.
"squints eyes"
Posted by: Cmonman

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

His looks don't appeal to me, but I can see how one would call him objectively attractive.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (egH3D)

182 Mamdani announcing he will establish a world-class salsa manufacturing outfit would go a long way to ameliorating some of the anti-NYC sentiment out there.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Hummus...would you go for hummus?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:26 PM (XeU6L)

183 The rats will get the apartments

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:26 PM (bXbFr)

184 77 Stephen A. Smith, a rare voice of reason. Hope someone is listening.
"Democrats will ‘have no chance’ if they become like Mamdani!"
“You might have a democratic socialist sprinkled here and there, but that ain’t what America is. America’s about capitalism! America’s about dollars and cents,” Smith said.

LOL, Smith is about as an installed establishment voice that you can get.
Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 07:01 PM (r2ymA)

Wasn't he the down-low bro who went after that kid wearing face paint at that KC Chiefs game?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 01, 2025 07:26 PM (bA75n)

185 From above:

NEW: Hundreds of women hold up their babies into the air to show they're willing to offer them up as martyrs in Tehran, Iran according to CNN

Run out the video until the end 1:39, expand and freeze it and look at the women's faces.

There are many distressed, unhappy.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (NFX2v)

186 She was a 'family annihilator'. But at least she annihilated herself. (Thinking of John List.)
Posted by: RickZ
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Yup. Faint praise, but noteworthy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (XeU6L)

187 @170

>>You misspelled CIA Sugar Pit.

I bet programs like USAID and others were the source of Epstein's funding.

If you gave me the necessary clearances and access to Sentinal, Trident and Echelon, I got some queries I'd like to run.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (XV/Pl)

188 Blonde Morticia don't think it's a similar situation, Rubio is distributing things (mostly, I'd guess) by regional bureaus, removing a separate USAID hierarchy and placing things under, for example, the Asst. Sec. for Latin America, thence to the the Brazil, southern cone, Central America desks etc. Idea being to align activities (and budgets) with national policy.

Which of course doesn't really parse out if, as should be the case, you're policing USAID as you should be in terms of alignment, but whatever. Doesn't really track with the way things were way back, but I strongly suspect things went waaaay off the rails starting with Obama and the nutcase he put in charge as administrator.

Of course you've got the inherent problem of the quality and mindset of State personnel, but that's an old challenge Rubio faces anyway. Basically you can count on the funding for Brazilian transgender operas being gone, but I'd expect African river blindness programs and disaster relief to proceed much as before.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (1m82a)

189 He's going to end subsidies for luxury housing and use it to build "beautiful, high-quality social housing projects."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 07:24 PM (LbQ3Z)

Did he say that?

If so, now I think he's a plant.

Hear me out: the biggest (and I mean biggest) complaint of the rich people in NYC is that all new apartment buildings need to have "affordable housing".

So if you want to live in a $8,000 a month apartment with a parking garage and pool on the roof, and that building has been built in the last 10 years or whatever, something like 10% of your building will be "affordable housing" types. Now, in some contexts thats okay -- NYC is weird with how they define poor (my friend makes $150k a year and is one of those apartments). But usually that means you have ghetto people partying in your pool 24/7.

If this chucklehead is saying he's going to eliminate that and segregate the poors in to projects, the rich will be over the moon about it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:28 PM (uCjyK)

190 171 Black bread - Wednesdays only.
Posted by: wth

Edward Teach > Black bread

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 01, 2025 07:28 PM (ycI94)

191 The rats will get the apartments
Posted by: Miguel cervantes
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AKA, 'food'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:28 PM (XeU6L)

192 TRUMP TO CITY: DROP DEAD

Trump to city: watch out for that sugar pit.
City: F*ck you, don't tell us what to do!

Posted by: Oddbob at July 01, 2025 07:29 PM (9IGJf)

193 180 Wow, so much winning the last several days, I feel like I might need a dose of naloxone.

Posted by: Paco at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (mADJX)

I've been seeing the weirdest ads on YouTube in the last few weeks.

Apparently, some government agency is funding public service ads telling regular people to carry around Naloxone with them, you know, just in case somebody around you has an overdose.

WTF.

Are we all living in Pulp Fiction now?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 07:29 PM (6ydKt)

194 New absurd Hamas jihadi propaganda drops:
______________________________

I'm relieved to see that Hamas has access to mid 20th century Looney Tune Cartoons. That tarp trick was used in at least 40% of them.

I guess that makes Hamas Wile E. Coyote. *Meep *Meep

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 07:30 PM (dIske)

195 Edward Teach > Black bread
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 01, 2025 07:28 PM

Was the Moose a black beard?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 07:30 PM (0sNs1)

196 but I'd expect African river blindness programs and disaster relief to proceed much as before.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (1m82a)

This African river blindness. Is it cured by screwing virgin girls?

Asking for a continent.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:30 PM (gKDq2)

197 Black bread - Wednesdays only.
Posted by: wth

Edward Teach > Black bread
Posted by: Moron Analyst
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[tries to make comment using 'Queen Anne's Revenge'. Fails]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:30 PM (XeU6L)

198 Pardon my french but after they had a (redacted) rat epidemic sweeping the city, they are going for this tool!

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:31 PM (bXbFr)

199 Golda did not get a chance to see peace in her time, or in the following two generations.

I wonder how long it will be before her observation becomes true? If ever?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (HlyYF)

"Martyr Babies" goes all the way back to the PLO and Fatah and other Islamist expressions of terrorism. Sunni and Shi'a. The Sunnis even make cute little cammies and fake bomb vests for their kids.

Besides, the US has seen this before - namely the Hitler Jugend and Japanese school children armed with bamboo spears and rudimentary explosives. In the case of Germany, US GIs did what they had to do. For the Japanese kids and their mothers, the US XXI Bomber Command fire bombed every major city in Japan followed by two nukes, which ended that business.

I sure hope the Ayatollahs pay attention to US military history.

Posted by: mrp at July 01, 2025 07:31 PM (rj6Yv)

200 Basically you can count on the funding for Brazilian transgender operas being gone, but I'd expect African river blindness programs and disaster relief to proceed much as before.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (1m82a)

Yeah, yeah, but the bigger picture here is that USAID was set up like a money laundering operation. We have no idea if the money was used for transgender operas in India (as the line item said), or if it was used to fund black lives matter. The money disperses in to a web of non profits and becomes difficult if not impossible to follow.

So instead of the line item being "transgender operas" and coming from USAID, change it to "assistance for minority farmers" and throw it in the Dept of Ag budget, and send it through a similar web of NGO's, and it ends up with black lives matter at the end of the day anyways.

That's the real scandal here. And that's why I'm not sure shutting down USAID will have any long term impact on that money laundering structure at all.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:32 PM (uCjyK)

201 If someone actually wrote that while thinking it was believable, that is some VERY impressive stupidity.
Posted by: irright at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (XkkIn)

Some guy named "Soliman" or something like that posted a series about how Mossad were hiding actual Star Destroyers under Tel Aviv business offices. A depressing number of pro-Israel accounts dropped by to say "no, this isn't true" in the replies. Clearly hadn't watched the whole thing; just jerked knees.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 07:32 PM (gKWVE)

202 Look Omar this is America. We've got attack Killer bees if we need them and the stickiest honey on the planet.

Posted by: DaveA at July 01, 2025 07:32 PM (FhXTo)

203 179 I want Trump to do an executive order to change the current red/blue dynamic. WE should be blue, THEY should be red. They’re commies.
Posted by: Blutarski at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (b294k)

IIRC, it was not always this way - the colors were reversed at one point in the past. Too lazy to look it up.

*pauses*

Just looked it up. It was codified in the 2000 election, but before that it was a bit of a free-for-all, depending upon the broadcaster. In 1980, ABC used red for Ds and blue for Rs, for instance.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (0CU3H)

204 nood pussy

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (uCjyK)

205 Could that actually come to fruition?

Pride Month is almost over!?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (0bqfM)

206 I sure hope the Ayatollahs pay attention to US military history.
Posted by: mrp
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I hope that *our* politicians pay attention to U.S military history.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (XeU6L)

207 Cafe is open.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (h7ZuX)

208 172 Sheen Easton

Oh. I thought's that who you meant. She's Scottish.

Posted by: STV at July 01, 2025 07:34 PM (+opPw)

209 As I did not want to click on a CNN propaganda video, what were the mothers offering their babies for? Sugar?
Come bomb me?

I love babies and am sorry you have these women for mothers.

The sugar pit deal sounds like a bunch of baloney as well. Who drove the bulldozer? Need more facts Omar Taqiyya.

No cannibals involved in this thread.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (6PCLE)

210 and lives the more, the more labor it sucks,"

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (0bqfM)

211 i[]That's the real scandal here. And that's why I'm not sure shutting down USAID will have any long term impact on that money laundering structure at all.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:32 PM (uCjyK)

Oh I think it does. The Dems wouldn't be squealing so loudly if it wasn't.

A lot of NGO funding via third parties of Democrat campaigns ended.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (gKDq2)

212 Ah...they want their sweet babies to be martyrs.

Now I see. NOT

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (6PCLE)

213 179 I want Trump to do an executive order to change the current red/blue dynamic. WE should be blue, THEY should be red. They’re commies.
Posted by: Blutarski at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (b294k)

I once heard that it was NBC News that first came up with the red/blue thing back in the early 2000's. Obviously, it stuck. NBC was doing propaganda way back then. To the surprise of nobody.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 01, 2025 07:36 PM (dadcM)

214 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:28 PM (uCjyK)

Did he say where he's putting them. 🤔

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 07:37 PM (E0p3T)

215 I once heard that it was NBC News that first came up with the red/blue thing back in the early 2000's. Obviously, it stuck. NBC was doing propaganda way back then. To the surprise of nobody.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 01, 2025 07:36 PM (dadcM)

Prior to that, the electoral map changed color for the Parties each election. Growing up, there was no such thing as a Red State or a Blue State. That's a recent addition to our vocabulary.

Look at campaign posters from back then. All colors were used by both Parties, the red, the white and the blue.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:39 PM (gKDq2)

216 A couple of notes on the "successful" young "democratic" communist mayor in India: 1. Power centers were divided up in advance. 2. Much of the money for the area came from remittances from abroad. 3. The locals tend to kick the communists out every five years or so.

https://x.com/peterboghossian/status/
1939075238538682601

Posted by: KT at July 01, 2025 07:43 PM (xekrU)

217 I'm sure we've all got a list of Hoover Building employees we'd invite to the demolition ceremony. Closely.

Posted by: DaveA at July 01, 2025 07:43 PM (FhXTo)

218 Shit I just watched a video of the Sex Pistols playing Road Runner. It will be in my head for the rest of the week

With the radio on.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 01, 2025 07:44 PM (wBaIH)

219 Instead of a pit, The Americans should set up big box held up by a stick with a long string on it.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 07:44 PM (xn0Ie)

220 Did anyone call nood? Cause cafe is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 07:51 PM (zZu0s)

221 161 151

Who had an Irish lilt?

I took that as a quote from 'Ronin'. Dierdre was the character's name. It was from her first meeting with the mercenary team; Sean Bean (posing as a former SAS soldier) asked something like

'And what are we to infer from your charming Irish lilt?'

And she just batted it back to him. 'Ye can infer whatever ye like'.

Great action movie even though I would love to c*nt punt De Niro into a giant garbage can.

Posted by: Nelly at July 01, 2025 08:05 PM (cHLus)

222 I would rather that madman win the election, then NYC would get fvcked good and hard like they deserve to be after voting for this freak. Once all of the cops quit and times square turns into barter town maybe they will wake up and stop being stupid.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM

Considering NYC is a "sanctuary city", I doubt it will stop being stupid. If Mandami wins, consider NYC conquered by the Marxist Islamist left, similar to all the cities in the UK which have been conquered and are now controlled with Muslim mayors/leaders. Similar to how the Marxist left has taken over Minnesota and California and Colorado.

There is going to be no one left in NYC to save it, considering the Marxist policies are going to drive out anyone with any sanity. Kiss NYC goodbye if he wins. And that will be a massive victory for the Islamists, just 24 years after they attacked arguably the USA's greatest city, now they would taken control of it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 08:10 PM (P5BPp)

223 He is but my understanding is that the DOGE boys team is still working although we've not seen any more announcements/information on what is current status.

Posted by: Cheri at July 01, 2025 06:55 PM

From the DOGE X feed:

Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE

Contracts Update!

Over the last 7 days, agencies have terminated 312 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2.8B and savings of $470M, including a DoD $286k professional and management development contract for an “entrepreneurship course at Harvard University”, and a $485k USAID contract for a “senior general development advisor at USAID Madagascar."

8:39 AM · Jun 26, 2025 - https://bit.ly/44pBJJY

GSA @USGSA

Outdated contracts & redundancies are being removed as @USGSA sharpens focus on wasteful contracts, efficiency, & taxpayer return -- reducing admin burden & strengthening acquisition performance. Thank you for help on this effort @DOGE!

2:03 PM · Jun 26, 2025

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 08:22 PM (P5BPp)

224 Soothsayer -

You know apartheid ended in 1994: 31 years ago. How do young white South Africans bear any responsibility for a system they had no part in? I think of Serpentza from YouTube or Elon Musk himself. They no longer belong in the country they were born in! Modern day white South Africans were supposed to be forgiven for the crimes of the past: they had national commissions to do this. But instead it’s all “Kill the Boer,” and “Seize the land!”
But the people they give the land to after the owners have been killed, can’t even farm! South Africa is setting itself up for famine! But we shouldn’t give asylum to white South African farmers just because they are being persecuted for the color of their skin! You do know the Zulus are the recent interlopers, right? The Dutch settlers got there 400 years ago. The Zulus invaded from the north in the late 1800s. If anybody deserves to be called the original inhabitants of South Africa it would be the Hottentots!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 08:24 PM (1paM0)

225 132 Probably been mentioned before, but nonetheless, Happy Canada Day to all our like-minded brethren north of the 49th Parallel!

Posted by: John Drake at July 01, 2025 07:1

Thank you so much.

I have a 12 pack and am apparently a contrarion?

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 08:28 PM (jvJvP)

226 USAID is shut down and suddenly the Democrats are broke. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

Posted by: Warmongerel at July 02, 2025 01:17 AM (iUyX0)

The Fake Republicans in the Senate Screwed Us and the Fake Republicans in the House Are Complaining They Didn't Screw Us Enough

Here's how our liberal "Republican" Senators screwed us on the Big Bloated Bill:

Changes to phase-outs of clean energy tax credits in the bill remained central to the final hours of debate among Republicans, as hard-line conservatives have called for strict, swift cuts and more centrist lawmakers pushed for extended wind-downs to avoid major market and investment disruptions.
The now-passed Senate bill includes steep cuts for these tax credits, ending incentives for wind and solar projects placed in service, meaning operational and plugged into the grid, by the end of 2027.
Moderates were able to squeeze in a carve-out allowing projects that begin construction less than one year after the bill is enacted to claim the credit. Any projects that start construction after that time frame must be operational and in service by 2027 to be eligible.

This is a fake cut: they have rigged these "cuts" so that no money will be cut at all.

Alex Epstein
@AlexEpstein
Senate fails to terminate Green New Scam
The Senate bill *looks like* it has a 2027 "placed in service" cutoff for new solar/wind subsidies.
But one last-minute paragraph makes it worthless--because projects making a recoverable 5% investment in the next 12 months are exempt!
The idea of a 2027 "placed in service" cutoff was that new subsidies would actually end during the Trump administration.
But under the last-minute carveout, Big Green has 12 months to initiate as many subsidized projects as it wants using the insanely-easy-to-meet "construction" threshold. (All you need to do is commit 5% of expected project cost to buying re-sellable assets like solar panels.)
Once they declare "construction"--e.g., in July 2026--they'll have 4 years (e.g., July 2030) to "place in service." And then some of those projects, e.g., most wind projects, will get 10 years of subsidies.
So we'll still have wind subsidies on Donald Trump's 94th birthday!
Here's how much worse the Senate bill just got:
* Two days ago: "Placed in service" by 12-31-27--with new subsidized solar/wind projects stopping very quickly, and Trump being able to let subsidies truly end.
* Today: "Placed in service" by JULY 2030--with new subsidized solar/wind projects absolutely spamming the rid and ripping off taxpayers like never before, and Trump having no control over whether the subsidies end.
The current Senate bill is arguably worse than the original Senate Finance one. At least that bill decreased solar/wind subsidies starting in 2026 to 60%. The current bill just increased them to 100%.
The current bill is a solar/wind lobbyist's dream. It does not terminate the Green New Scam in any way, shape or form. It absolutely perpetuates it. And offensively so, I might add, by keeping the "placed in service" cutoff language so many people courageously fought for, then totally undoing it with a single last-minute paragraph that makes it worthless.
If the Senate wanted to extend the Green New Scam it should have said so, not insulted our intelligence by trying to bury the extension in one sneaky little paragraph.
PS Several Senators have already told me they didn't know about or understand this last-minute paragraph. If that's the case they should do whatever they can to fix the situation.

An unnamed Republican congressman sounds off about the "shit sandwich" the Senate RINOs are trying to force on the House.

But unfortunately he's not calling for more cuts, but for fewer. He objects to the Senate cutting Medicaid.

Reese Gorman
@reesejgorman
Vibe check in the House from one GOP member:
"The Senate took a bill that had a year's worth of work in it - and in a month turned it into a shit sandwich. They're trying to jam the House, because they think they're this sacred body. In reality they're sending back a bill that members of my Congress can't defend because they don't understand Medicaid like they need to."

The Hill talks about the Medicaid cuts in the Senate version of the Big Bloated Bill.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed the largest cuts to Medicaid since the program began in the 1960s, a move that would erode the social safety net and cause a spike in the number of uninsured Americans over the next decade.
The tax and spending bill is projected to cost more than $3 trillion during that time, but it would be partially paid for with about $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.
Almost 12 million lower-income Americans would lose their health insurance by 2034, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
It still needs to pass the House again, where some moderate Republicans have expressed concerns about the cuts.

The Washington Examiner's fact check says that Medicaid isn't being cut, only the rate of growth is being slowed. But it does impose work requirements on able-bodied adults without children who were allowed to enroll in Medicaid by Obama.

Senate Republicans are defending their changes to federal Medicaid spending in their final push to pass President Donald Trump's budget reconciliation bill before Independence Day, arguing that the bill does not technically cut the health insurance program for disabled and low-income people.
Republican leadership has insisted for weeks that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is not primarily a healthcare reform package, but reductions in Medicaid spending have been a crucial piece to recoup some of the costs from the sweeping tax cuts that take center stage in the legislation.
...
Democrats have waged a multimonth campaign against what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has called the "big ugly betrayal" by saying that the bill will decimate coverage for low-income people.
...
"We are fiscally making Medicaid more sound," Marshall said. "It's only in Washington, D.C., that you increase spending at a rate faster than inflation and you call it a cut."
Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) posted on X on Sunday evening that Medicaid spending has increased by more than 200% since 2008 and by roughly 51% since 2019, largely due to increases in enrollment from the Medicaid expansion population of able-bodied adults without dependents.
The Congressional Budget Office's projected federal spending on Medicaid and Obamacare increased by $1.9 trillion, increasing 25% from 2021 to 2025, according to conservative think tank the Paragon Health Institute.
Robing Rudowitz, vice president at the healthcare think tank KFF and Medicaid policy specialist, told the Washington Examiner that the CBO's analysis of the most up-to-date version of the bill "will reduce federal Medicaid spending over the next ten years by about $1 trillion relative to expected federal spending without the legislation."
Much of the spending cuts come from imposing work requirements on able-bodied adults without dependents and changing federal reimbursement rates for the Medicaid expansion population.
Medicaid eligibility was extended to able-bodied adults without dependents under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, better known as Obamacare.

No wonder that craven RINO congressman spoke anonymously, and to the left-leaning The Hill.

Unrelated: What's a Cuck Chair?

What's a cuck chair? You might have seen the term online, often in jokes about hotel rooms. But is there more to it?
A "cuck chair" is a slang term for a chair facing a bed, linked to the idea of passivity. The word "cuck" comes from "cuckold," an old term for a man with an unfaithful wife.
In this post, you'll learn the history behind the term, its cultural impact, and why the meme continues to spread.
...
The term "cuck chair" has an unusual yet fascinating history, deeply rooted in language evolution, cultural shifts, and internet meme culture. While it may seem like a recent phenomenon, its origins trace back centuries to the words "cuck" and "cuckold."
...
In contemporary online debates, the term often symbolizes perceived emasculation or powerlessness, particularly in discussions surrounding masculinity and vulnerability. This usage appears frequently in social media, forums, and satirical commentary.

Design Features of a Cuck Chair
Traditional Design
Historically, cuck chairs were designed for practicality and affordability, often found in homes of the less affluent. Their defining characteristics include:
Armless Design A simple structure without armrests, making it easier to move and reposition.
Low-Seated Typically sits lower than standard chairs, emphasizing a subtle, passive seating posture.

Portable & Lightweight Designed for convenience rather than comfort, allowing for easy relocation.

You'll want it light so you can move it to the closet at your convenience.

These features made cuck chairs affordable and functional. They were often used as secondary seating, not meant for extended relaxation but rather temporary use in different settings.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 05:31 PM (H7X8V)

2 I'm on vacation - I'm not nooding Damnit!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 05:31 PM (H7X8V)

3 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 01, 2025 05:32 PM (xcxpd)

4 And you will NEVER get Congress, the Uniparty, to cut spending.

It must be forced on them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 01, 2025 05:33 PM (xcxpd)

5

I am utterly shocked as shit about this.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 01, 2025 05:33 PM (et1vG)

6 As ever, the GOP is a useless pile of dogshit.

And roughly 1/3 of any federal budget is pure graft and corruption.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 05:34 PM (4BNRr)

7 Steaming pile of dogshit >> Republican's in Congress

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 05:34 PM (/U5Yz)

8 Just shut everything down for two weeks to stop the spread.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 05:34 PM (vFG9F)

9 >> The Fake Republicans in the Senate Screwed Us and the Fake Republicans in the House Are Complaining They Didn't Screw Us Enough

I’m right here you know.

Posted by: Obamacare at July 01, 2025 05:35 PM (vIl3q)

10 impose work requirements on able-bodied adults without festive little hats. B

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 01, 2025 05:35 PM (EQgWw)

11 Hey, could I get somebody to pull this knife out my back? Anybody?

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2025 05:36 PM (LHPAg)

12 Second look at Musk's new party?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 05:36 PM (/U5Yz)

13 Ok ace, it's appreciated that you want to set Congressional Republicans on fire by their nostrils. But the expansive cuck chair segment.... gross.

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 05:36 PM (Bhsk7)

14 You fucked up. You trusted us.

Posted by: Otter at July 01, 2025 05:36 PM (1lCkZ)

15 You'll want it light so you can move it to the closet at your convenience.

But it still has to be solid so it won't squeak as you rock back and forth.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (xn0Ie)

16 12 Second look at Musk's new party?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 05:36 PM (/U5Yz)

Naw… he is Mr. Feckless.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (PCK5/)

17 our party needs to return to the days of mccain and romney and president obama. how else do we successfully fund raise?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (CWTWj)

18 Thune put almost everything in last second that the parliamentarian pulled out, man.

Posted by: TJM's phone at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (GBKbO)

19 I did NOT suck that d&ck and pimp my wife just to make a lousy $175,00 a year, dammit!

Posted by: Congresscritter at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (cPGH3)

20 Second look at Musk's new party?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 05:36 PM

Muskrats

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (xn0Ie)

21 SHUT IT ALL DOWN!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 01, 2025 05:38 PM (96jnc)

22 This is a fake cut: they have rigged these "cuts" so that no money will be cut at all.

-
Hey! That's my diet plan!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 05:38 PM (L/fGl)

23 I honestly hate the 'Republicans' in Congress more than the Dems. At least with the Dems, I know where their loyalties lie and how they'll act/vote. I swear they are all compromised and instead of coming out and admitting it, they'll allow themselves to be manipulated for eternity - all at America's expense.

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at July 01, 2025 05:38 PM (BpyRO)

24 Fen, if you're on this thread, cover your eyes

I have to say fuck these fucking fuckers. They always, always vote against us wearing pious robes. Wolves in sheep's clothing. What if "Let's Roll" happened on the other plane and....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 05:39 PM (0eaVi)

25 So, pretty much just like every other time something was cut.

Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 05:39 PM (n2swS)

26 bull musk party. tip of the hat to the guy who gave us president wilson

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 01, 2025 05:39 PM (CWTWj)

27 20 Second look at Musk's new party?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 05:36 PM

Muskrats
Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (xn0Ie)
---------

LOL!

Posted by: WisRich at July 01, 2025 05:39 PM (G0vdT)

28 Also Medicaid the fed give states 1.33$ for every state dollar for a disabled child. The give 9$ for every 1$ for adle bodied single adults. Thats what Johnson was working so hard to end. This was part of the lightbringer expansion. Don't know where it ended up.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:39 PM (MGB5H)

29 At some point one must realize one has no allegiance to such a State as ours.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 01, 2025 05:40 PM (96jnc)

30 Honestly I am surprised that we are going to get as much as we are… this is DC we’re talking about..

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 05:40 PM (PCK5/)

31 You gotta be careful as it's quite the needle to thread - Suzanna Pleshette is wonderbar but if it gets to Marge Schott territory, we've all gone way too far!!

Marge: "Would you buy a lady a drink?"

TP: "Sure if one walks in!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 05:29 PM (H7X8V)

NFA?

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:41 PM (MGB5H)

32 The GOP is cuckolding us all with this bill.

Always my fear, the talk of cuts means more and more spending.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2025 05:41 PM (rvwwT)

33 Next year there is going to be another budget and the year after that too.
What do we want? We want it all. When do we want it? We want it now. What we have is the return to regular order for the first time in years.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 05:41 PM (HFcKg)

34 >>Armless Design A simple structure without armrests, making it easier to move and reposition.

That's not why they have no armrests.

Posted by: David French at July 01, 2025 05:41 PM (Y1sOo)

35 Ugh ignore 31 paste fail

Thune put almost everything in last second that the parliamentarian pulled out, man.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (GBKbO)

NFA?

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:41 PM (MGB5H)

36 Shorter version: It's where Jonah Goldberg sits.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2025 05:41 PM (od0dV)

37 The DC GOP is obviously totally corrupt and completely Uniparty. They have sought to undermine Trump at every step and will continue to.

My only question is how much Trump is aware of it and what he is willing to do about it.

He seems to me a little bit clueless.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 05:42 PM (r2ymA)

38 News of the future:

Republican reps and senators are under siege in their houses by Antifa.

A hurried call to the local constabulary by a R Congressman: "Help, police!"

Police: "click. bzzzzzz"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 05:42 PM (0eaVi)

39 GOPe is trying to look good to the greenies. And to anyone else who will stick money in their cracks. They would literally screw up a wet dream

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 05:43 PM (eBgDF)

40 Is there a point where free government money and free cocaine and meth aren't the same?

When you can't live without it....

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:44 PM (jvJvP)

41 35
Thune put almost everything in last second that the parliamentarian pulled out, man.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (GBKbO)

NFA?
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:41 PM (MGB5H)

===

Almost everything, but apparently not that.

Posted by: TJM's phone at July 01, 2025 05:44 PM (GBKbO)

42 37 The DC GOP is obviously totally corrupt and completely Uniparty. They have sought to undermine Trump at every step and will continue to.

My only question is how much Trump is aware of it and what he is willing to do about it.

He seems to me a little bit clueless.
Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 05:42 PM (r2ymA)

Well, maybe… but short of burning down DC permanent change is unlikely… we vote for people to go there and be corrupted, on a regular basis…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 05:44 PM (PCK5/)

43 How about once a month sending a congress critter to Alligator Alcatraz, and film him trying to get out?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2025 05:44 PM (od0dV)

44 NFA?
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:41 PM (MGB5H)

===

Almost everything, but apparently not that.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 01, 2025 05:44 PM (GBKbO)

Lemme go to the other room and get my shocked face.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:44 PM (MGB5H)

45 I'm with Elon.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 01, 2025 05:45 PM (RU1zG)

46 The Princess of Long Island speaks!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
JD Vance was the deciding vote to cut Medicaid across the country.
An absolute and utter betrayal of working families.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 05:45 PM (L/fGl)

47
What's equally bad about the Green New Scam is that those damn windmills and solar farms are wildlife killers. I really don't like that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 05:45 PM (egH3D)

48 Where can any of this come from besides grift?

They are all getting side money from wind and solar companies. They all have kids working for them getting big bonuses.

They all are getting side money from health industry lobbyists.

They are all criminals.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 01, 2025 05:46 PM (RU1zG)

49 What's equally bad about the Green New Scam is that those damn windmills and solar farms are wildlife killers. I really don't like that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 05:45 PM (egH3D)

They are also egregious eyesores on great vistas. The Arbuckle mountains have been completely ruined.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:46 PM (MGB5H)

50 Did AI write that cuck chair article? It reads like it is somehow trying to sell you one.

Or written by Jack Murphy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 05:46 PM (zZu0s)

51 47
What's equally bad about the Green New Scam is that those damn windmills and solar farms are wildlife killers. I really don't like that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 05:45 PM (egH3D)

Too bad the damned deer don’t fly… rats with hooves.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 05:46 PM (PCK5/)

52 At some point one must realize one has no allegiance to such a State as ours.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 01, 2025 05:40 PM (96jnc)

The social compact is kaput.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 05:47 PM (i24o9)

53 Second look at Musk's new party?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 05:36 PM

Muskrats
Posted by: toby928

Well, apparently he is good at Muskrat Love.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 05:47 PM (L/fGl)

54 The senate sucks hairy moose balls. I’m so tired of being screwed over by gutless, self serving cowards.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:47 PM (vIl3q)

55 Good news however . U of Penn is renting trans athletes. Lia Thomas is a man again. Keith Olbermann hardest hit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 05:47 PM (eBgDF)

56 Elon Musk motivations are to get to Mars. Everything else is to help advance that motivation.

Ace, did you h/t David French on that cuck chair stuff?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 05:48 PM (sAmhv)

57 You don’t see Trump twisting arms to make more cuts.

Posted by: Maroon at July 01, 2025 05:48 PM (HS92B)

58 I thought the NFA tax elimination provision stayed, not the registration elimination.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:49 PM (vIl3q)

59 Good news however . U of Penn is renting trans athletes. Lia Thomas is a man again. Keith Olbermann hardest hit
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 05:47 PM (eBgDF)

Ya they had to apologize to Paula Scanlon and her teammates for making them strip in front of a dude with a hard on.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:49 PM (MGB5H)

60 I was about to comment that we all know what a cuck chair is, being 'Rons of the World, but it also read like a self own.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 05:50 PM (zZu0s)

61 Screw reality.

Dominion Day. This is my first full day as a homeowner. I have a 12 pack. And pizza in the fridge.

The animals are going to get fed. Kirkland chicken with their food. Then screw the news.

" Alien" . Never seen

Maybe "Aliens." Newt was the best.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:50 PM (jvJvP)

62 So the much hyped BBB is complete BS?

My shocked face is in the repair shop.

DC is a cesspool incapable of reform.

Posted by: pawn at July 01, 2025 05:51 PM (QB+5g)

63 So I am really interested in what we actually got in this bill except making the tax cut’s permanent. Where’s all the other shit Trump promised?

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:51 PM (vIl3q)

64 The Arbuckle mountains have been completely ruined.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:46 PM (MGB5H)

It was that damned lying woman!

Posted by: Roscoe at July 01, 2025 05:51 PM (0eaVi)

65 Dominion Day. This is my first full day as a homeowner. I have a 12 pack. And pizza in the fridge.

The animals are going to get fed. Kirkland chicken with their food. Then screw the news.

" Alien" . Never seen

Maybe "Aliens." Newt was the best.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:50 PM (jvJvP)

Sounds like a great evening. I'll head on over.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:51 PM (MGB5H)

66 25 So, pretty much just like every other time something was cut.
Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 05:39 PM (n2swS)

Yeah, it's the same old same old we're used to.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 05:52 PM (uCjyK)

67 Not surprised that this big beautiful bill went sideways.

They have and will always put in pork in bills for their special interests from constituents. Bastids.

The idea that Medicaid can be obtained by illegals makes me furious. There is enough fraud with legal citizens.

From the minute their feet touch ground in DC as elected buffoons, all they do is plan for their next election and start pocketing money. In the event they lose, my understanding is they get to keep the campaign money. There may be a few who don't, but I doubt it.

Tit for tat. Pat for peen. Tar/feather/castrate. Pikes.

Now I will go forth and conquer something and be productive.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:52 PM (6PCLE)

68 Consider:
Just how much of these reports should we trust?

Like, even conservative sites crib their info from the mainstream media.

And every one, even the "good guys," are needing to hype the story for views.
Outrage gets clicks.

I'm not saying here so much as I'm saying everything is fake and gay now, so how do we know we're getting the straight dope?
We are really accelerating into a low-trust society and I don't like it one bit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 05:52 PM (LbQ3Z)

69 We need more cannibals in Congress.

Posted by: Cannibals For Congress at July 01, 2025 05:52 PM (vFG9F)

70 Tax cuts and much money for border control and deportations is what I like about the bill.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 05:52 PM (PCK5/)

71 Don't pass this or any other bill. Be done with it, and no more continuing resolutions either. No more federal spending other than the minimum that law already prescribes to be more or less automatic.

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 05:52 PM (TN0g+)

72 The idea that Medicaid can be obtained by illegals makes me furious. There is enough fraud with legal citizens.

======

Schmidt from MO said that was back in.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:52 PM (MGB5H)

73 There was some talk about what makes Trump great. I've got a few thoughts.

* He's very intelligent.
* He's very experienced.
* He knows everyone, foreign and domestic, and understands human nature.
* He very energetic.
* He's brave. He has the courage to do the right thing and isn't afraid to go toe to toe with anyone and exchange blows.
* He insures that his enemies always have the sun in their eyes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 05:53 PM (L/fGl)

74 63 So I am really interested in what we actually got in this bill except making the tax cut’s permanent. Where’s all the other shit Trump promised?
Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:51 PM (vIl3q)

Yeah, well, what's really important is we hate Rand Paul and this Massey fellow for not being sufficiently on board with this spending bill.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 05:53 PM (uCjyK)

75 Sounds like a great evening. I'll head on over.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:51 PM (MGB5H)

Perfect. You are more than welcome.

I'm pushing for "Teeth" whenever talk of moron movie night comes up.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:53 PM (jvJvP)

76 Soooo.... it's lookin like we all voted to cut Gov spending... and applauded DOGE actions to cut crap from Gov spending...

Applauded that all this 'fraud' that is now being uncovered...

But Congress just want to continue spending more money.

They really need to be hit with a Clue Bat.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)

77 STARTS construction.

And you can rest assured the far leftist bureaucrats in charge of determining what 'starts' means will accept literally putting up a sign on a vacant lot saying CONSTRUCTION ZONE.

How about this, jackasses.

If you don't FINISH the project by a specified date, you get nothing.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 01, 2025 05:54 PM (setIA)

78 If we can remove millions of illegals from Medicade, it has to be a win.

Posted by: Indy Bill at July 01, 2025 05:54 PM (niX3I)

79 61:Maybe "Aliens." Newt was the best.

If I recall my useless movie trivia, the actress who played Newt, that was her only role. She 'retired' from acting. Ok, her parents probably decided that the Hollywood industry was not a good place for kids. I don't know. She went on to become a teacher in California. Probably still is. Still keeps in contact with some of the actors from 'Aliens'. Sigoruny Weaver for one.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 05:54 PM (sAmhv)

80 Perfect. You are more than welcome.

I'm pushing for "Teeth" whenever talk of moron movie night comes up.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:53 PM (jvJvP)

*does backflip and snoopy dance*

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:55 PM (MGB5H)

81 The House could author a one paragraph bill that simple states that not illegal immigrant or non citizen is eligible for Medicaid or any other federal assistance. They don’t need to make it an amendment. It could be a straight up one issue bill. Make every House and senate member vote on it.

You know why they won’t do it? Yes, you do.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:55 PM (vIl3q)

82 The senate sucks hairy moose balls. I’m so tired of being screwed over by gutless, self serving cowards.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:47 PM (vIl3q)

So many of those cowards are sent there in deep-red states.

They go to DC and become establishment corruptocrats and get re-elected in perpetuity.

The blame lies in the Republican primary voter's, who are either too stupid or too lazy to do their due diligence.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 05:55 PM (r2ymA)

83 Fuck Medicaid and everyone on it. I’ve been hearing sob stories about this shitbag program since I was a kid. It’s a total scam. Why are taxpayers paying for someone else’s medical care? Pay for your own medical care or drop fucking dead.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 01, 2025 05:55 PM (n5P77)

84 Remember when ace would ban you for saying 'cuck?'

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 01, 2025 05:56 PM (oSeBJ)

85 I'm not saying here so much as I'm saying everything is fake and gay now, so how do we know we're getting the straight dope?
We are really accelerating into a low-trust society and I don't like it one bit.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 05:52 PM (LbQ3Z)

Agreed, and I'm not going to spend a month reading through this bill. We know no one in Congress is going to either.

But yes, the fact that we're well on the road to being a low trust society is one of the reasons I feel as strongly as I do about immigration and our foreign policy adventures.

Hard to have a functioning society when no one knows what the fuck is going on and huge swaths of your fellow occupants / citizens don't speak your language and showed up 3 years ago. Oh, and spent their entire lives learning about how horrible and racist white people are. Which gets further reinforced when they move here. While meanwhile, we're arming people all over the world and dropping bombs wherever our deep state tells us to.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 05:56 PM (uCjyK)

86 First thought ... it all seems like the continued expansion of the Cloward-Piven plan to force overuse of the "benevolent system", in order to destroy "it" (America).

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 05:57 PM (vbXSk)

87 81 You know why they won’t do it? Yes, you do.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:55 PM (vIl3q)

====

Because it's already in both versions of the bill.

Posted by: TJM's phone at July 01, 2025 05:57 PM (S+JBi)

88 No matter who wins, you lose.

Posted by: brak at July 01, 2025 05:57 PM (jGJov)

89 We need more cannibals in Congress.
Posted by: Cannibals For Congress
......

We need more Martians attacking Congress.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 05:57 PM (v0R5T)

90 83 Fuck Medicaid and everyone on it. I’ve been hearing sob stories about this shitbag program since I was a kid. It’s a total scam. Why are taxpayers paying for someone else’s medical care? Pay for your own medical care or drop fucking dead.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 01, 2025 05:55 PM (n5P77)

Well I'm not on board with THAT either, but I get where you're coming from.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 05:57 PM (uCjyK)

91 Remember when ace would ban you for saying 'cuck?'

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 01, 2025 05:56 PM (oSeBJ)

Now he's advertising cuck chairs on his site.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 05:57 PM (i24o9)

92 Here's the game the GOP is playing: the figure they can jam spending through, because they know there's no way the GOP wants to be blamed for a massive tax increase.

Though, I might add, While the GOP stalwarts may hate this bill, Democrats have turned into screeching amoebas over this bill, in that they're screaming senselessly into the void without anything which resembles rational thought.

It's really amazing how bad this bill truly is, yet, Democrats still hate it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (tT6L1)

93
We should have tollbooths at every port of entry.

Illegals walk up, Border Patrol tells them the toll is a million dollars a head, cash.

Posted by: four seasons at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (3ek7K)

94 benevolent system", in order to destroy "it" (America).
Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 05:57 PM (vbXSk)

I first read that as "bayonet system". And I was intrigued.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (MGB5H)

95
ROFL, the Daily Mail is fat-shaming Gutfeld:
https://tinyurl.com/2yk3zkop

I hope he has fun with this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (w6EFb)

96 What's equally bad about the Green New Scam is that those damn windmills and solar farms are wildlife killers. I really don't like that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 05:45 PM (egH3D)

They are also egregious eyesores on great vistas. The Arbuckle mountains have been completely ruined.
------------

But think of all that beautiful sweet, sweet, sweet *grift* that went into every damn one of them!

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (TN0g+)

97 > What's equally bad about the Green New Scam is that those damn windmills and solar farms are wildlife killers. I really don't like that.

There's also some evidence large windmills emit low frequency sound pulses that affect people and animals for miles around. It raises stress levels and makes sleep more difficult. In twenty years, someone will do a groundbreaking study that shows all sort of health issues caused by this.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (lIio7)

98 Dan Zaksheske @RealDanZak

BREAKING: UPenn has agreed to APOLOGIZE for allowing male Lia Thomas to compete on the women's swimming team. They will also vacate all of Thomas' "records" and restore them to the women who rightfully earned them.

X: https://bit.ly/44Ezcgh

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (P5BPp)

99 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
JD Vance was the deciding vote to cut Medicaid across the country.
An absolute and utter betrayal of working families.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 05:45 PM (L/fGl)

Only to illegals, twunt. Illegals who - you assure me - are not currently collecting Medicaid anyway... So... what's the problem?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (oSeBJ)

100 The other C word would get you in trouble too. That why I spell it with a K.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (vFG9F)

101 So Obamacare repeal all over again.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 05:59 PM (nwGCR)

102 And are we supposed to believe these Congressmen read the bill?
And also understand what it does?

Or are they regurgitating information fed to them by their almost-certain left-wing staffers?
Who were fed that info from their liberal sources ... in the media?
Who were fed that info by hard-left staffers of Democrats.

Let's be honest: Everyone in Congress is not an "expert in what this bill does" merely by virtue of their election to Congress.
They are "experts in repeating what they were told to say."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 05:59 PM (LbQ3Z)

103 gosh, what a surprise ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 05:59 PM (Z5NUn)

104
The blame lies in the Republican primary voter's, who are either too stupid or too lazy to do their due diligence.
Posted by: chavon

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

*swallows dementia pill*

Aye.

Posted by: 90-year-old GOP Senator running for reelection at July 01, 2025 05:59 PM (egH3D)

105 Riley Gaines is doing a happy dance about now.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 05:59 PM (HFcKg)

106
*does backflip and snoopy dance*
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:55 PM (MGB5H)
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For some reason, I just pictured that backflip ending with a howl of pain because somehow some of your hair got caught under a hand.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 05:59 PM (tT6L1)

107 86 First thought ... it all seems like the continued expansion of the Cloward-Piven plan to force overuse of the "benevolent system", in order to destroy "it" (America).
Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 05:57 PM (vbXSk)

Maybe. I think it's just complete apathy on behalf of our deep state / "elite" class.

As in, they are completely apathetic (at best) about what happens to, you know, the rest of us in their pursuit of money and power.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 05:59 PM (uCjyK)

108 What's equally bad about the Green New Scam is that those damn windmills and solar farms are wildlife killers. I really don't like that.

There's also some evidence large windmills emit low frequency sound pulses that affect people and animals for miles around. It raises stress levels and makes sleep more difficult. In twenty years, someone will do a groundbreaking study that shows all sort of health issues caused by this.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (lIio7)

They don't run for more than a few weeks in my experience.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 06:00 PM (8avO+)

109 They are also egregious eyesores on great vistas. The Arbuckle mountains have been completely ruined.
------------

But think of all that beautiful sweet, sweet, sweet *grift* that went into every damn one of them!
Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (TN0g

A not only that. The tiny little power they do generate goes to freaking Nebraska. 2 states away!!!

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 06:00 PM (MGB5H)

110 How many pages in this bill,again??? Hmm? Lots of places to hide graft.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 06:00 PM (PCK5/)

111 BREAKING: UPenn has agreed to APOLOGIZE for allowing male Lia Thomas to compete on the women's swimming team. They will also vacate all of Thomas' "records" and restore them to the women who rightfully earned them.

X: https://bit.ly/44Ezcgh

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (P5BPp)

It's another Trumpmas miracle!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 06:00 PM (i24o9)

112 >>>There's also some evidence large windmills emit low frequency sound pulses that affect people and animals for miles around. It raises stress levels and makes sleep more difficult

the "hum" -- it stresses cows out and they give less milk

Posted by: brak at July 01, 2025 06:00 PM (jGJov)

113 >> What's equally bad about the Green New Scam is that those damn windmills and solar farms are wildlife killers. I really don't like that.

There's also some evidence large windmills emit low frequency sound pulses that affect people and animals for miles around. It raises stress levels and makes sleep more difficult. In twenty years, someone will do a groundbreaking study that shows all sort of health issues caused by this.

They are also destroying crop land as they deteriorate and spread forever chemicals across the landscape.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2025 06:01 PM (ASFuz)

114 Dems got 95% of what they anted and are still angry.

Which I kinda get. They are used to getting 100%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:01 PM (nwGCR)

115 What's a Cuck Chair?

--------------

"When I seek comfort from and sit in the lap of my wife's bull for that evening?"

/Dame David of the French-Cucked Davidians.

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at July 01, 2025 06:01 PM (GiIml)

116 BREAKING: UPenn has agreed to APOLOGIZE for allowing male Lia Thomas to compete on the women's swimming team. They will also vacate all of Thomas' "records" and restore them to the women who rightfully earned them.

X: https://bit.ly/44Ezcgh
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (P5BPp)

——————-

Paging Simone Biles. Simone Biles, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2025 06:01 PM (u73oe)

117 For some reason, I just pictured that backflip ending with a howl of pain because somehow some of your hair got caught under a hand.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 05:59 PM (tT6L1)

It's not an unreasonable thought.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 06:01 PM (MGB5H)

118
We need more Martians attacking Congress.
Posted by: wth

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

What planet do Martians come from?

Posted by: Senate-approved Ketanji Brown Jackson at July 01, 2025 06:02 PM (egH3D)

119 Remember when ace would ban you for saying 'cuck?'
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating

and, mishum would do the same if you said "c_nt".
AOS has changed with the times.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 06:02 PM (F3Dlr)

120 93
We should have tollbooths at every port of entry.

Illegals walk up, Border Patrol tells them the toll is a million dollars a head, cash.

Posted by: four seasons at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (3ek7K)

That law is already on the books... if you invest in a company that will create or save 10 or more US Jobs, you get an EB-5 Visa.

So... mid scale Restaurant? yer in... Buy a BIG Farm with 10 employees? In... Hell... even a Car Dealership has 10 employees if you have a garage.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 06:02 PM (mP0Kj)

121 So I am really interested in what we actually got in this bill except making the tax cut’s permanent. Where’s all the other shit Trump promised?

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:51 PM (vIl3q)

Just a few items:

$1.6 trillion in spending cuts.
Work requirement for welfare.
Funds and finishes the wall
Removes 87,000 IRS agents
Golden Dome
Keystone Pipeline
Ends taxpayer funded abortions abroad
Defunds Planned Parenthood
Eliminates federal Covid powers
Requires proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 01, 2025 06:02 PM (oSeBJ)

122 93
We should have tollbooths at every port of entry.

Illegals walk up, Border Patrol tells them the toll is a million dollars a head, cash.

Posted by: four seasons at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (3ek7K)
----
Somebody's gonna have to go back and get a shitload of dimes!

Posted by: Slim Pickens at July 01, 2025 06:03 PM (5aZAZ)

123 It's really amazing how bad this bill truly is, yet, Democrats still hate it.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (tT6L1)

The Dems loved the auto increase without discussion with bonus pork.

Once we have it if anyone sees garbage pork they should get a group together and pass a law to cut it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 06:04 PM (8avO+)

124 And are we supposed to believe these Congressmen read the bill?
And also understand what it does?
-----------

The moment Nancy Pelosi uttered "You'll have to pass the bill to know whats in it" with a straight face and "our" leadership more or less went along with it was the moment civil war should have broken out in earnest. Here we are around 15 years later with the same bullshit artists pretending to represent us, when all they truly represent are the grifting they're all arm-deep in.

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 06:04 PM (TN0g+)

125 There's also some evidence large windmills emit low frequency sound pulses that affect people and animals for miles around. It raises stress levels and makes sleep more difficult. In twenty years, someone will do a groundbreaking study that shows all sort of health issues caused by this.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (lIio7)

They don't run for more than a few weeks in my experience.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 06:00 PM (8avO+)

Yeah... uh... there will be no study... just like there will be no US Mia Culpa on Coved.

Remember all the 'studies' about Cancer clusters and such under Power Lines?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 06:04 PM (mP0Kj)

126 That law is already on the books... if you invest in a company that will create or save 10 or more US Jobs, you get an EB-5 Visa.

So... mid scale Restaurant? yer in... Buy a BIG Farm with 10 employees? In... Hell... even a Car Dealership has 10 employees if you have a garage.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 06:02 PM (mP0Kj)

...EB-5's are also, as you may guess, a gigantic fraud. But they're a visa class that seems to be popular with our Chinese friends. They pool a bunch of money to build a condominium in Queens, "save or create" hundreds of jobs on paper (with their cousins construction company as the contractor, faking the numbers), then they sell the condos, cash out if they can and they're all on the path to citizenship!

Of course, the condos are built like Chinese condos, and the unsuspecting owners end up suing the shit out of the entity that built / owns the condos, but theres no money left there anyways.

It's a good scam.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:05 PM (uCjyK)

127 If I recall my useless movie trivia, the actress who played Newt, that was her only role. She 'retired' from acting. Ok, her parents probably decided that the Hollywood industry was not a good place for kids. I don't know. She went on to become a teacher in California. Probably still is. Still keeps in contact with some of the actors from 'Aliens'. Sigoruny Weaver for one.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 05:54 PM (sAmhv

Exactly.

Thank you. Exactly right and you saved me typing.

Thank you Puddleglum!

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:05 PM (jvJvP)

128 spot-on, illiniwek

slightly reworked to make the perpetrators multimillionaires in the process

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:05 PM (Z5NUn)

129
There's also some evidence large windmills emit low frequency sound pulses that affect people and animals for miles around. It raises stress levels and makes sleep more difficult. In twenty years, someone will do a groundbreaking study that shows all sort of health issues caused by this.

They are also destroying crop land as they deteriorate and spread forever chemicals across the landscape.
Posted by: garrett

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

If only there was a federal agency that looked after that sort of thing and rigorously fought it.

Oh, and here's my budget submission for an additional $1bil this year.

Posted by: Department of Interior at July 01, 2025 06:05 PM (egH3D)

130 No IronShart thread?

Posted by: Nelly at July 01, 2025 06:06 PM (cHLus)

131 Just a few items:

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 01, 2025 06:02

Thank you. It's a good day and I'm so thankful for PDT and his administration.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 06:06 PM (F3Dlr)

132 If I recall my useless movie trivia, the actress who played Newt, that was her only role. She 'retired' from acting. Ok, her parents probably decided that the Hollywood industry was not a good place for kids. I don't know. She went on to become a teacher in California. Probably still is. Still keeps in contact with some of the actors from 'Aliens'. Sigoruny Weaver for one.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 05:54 PM (sAmhv)

Talk about going from the frying pan into the fire...

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 06:06 PM (8avO+)

133 That UPenn thing is bigly yuuugely yuuge.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:07 PM (nwGCR)

134 AFAIK, there are studies that show that survival and longevity rates are the same with or without Medicare.

But "it's my money, goldarnit!!"

Good luck convincing the olds that their precious Medicare isn't going to make them live longer or survive their next illness.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 06:07 PM (LbQ3Z)

135 Fuck Medicaid and everyone on it. I’ve been hearing sob stories about this shitbag program since I was a kid. It’s a total scam. Why are taxpayers paying for someone else’s medical care? Pay for your own medical care or drop fucking dead.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 01, 2025 05:55 PM (n5P77)

Well I'm not on board with THAT either, but I get where you're coming from.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 05:57 PM (uCjyK)

Confiscated wealth taken from one and given to another is simple theft.

Our current "system" has become so convoluted that it's too make heads or tails of it.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 06:08 PM (r2ymA)

136 The moment Nancy Pelosi uttered "You'll have to pass the bill to know whats in it" with a straight face and "our" leadership more or less went along with it was the moment civil war should have broken out in earnest. Here we are around 15 years later with the same bullshit artists pretending to represent us, when all they truly represent are the grifting they're all arm-deep in.

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 06:04 PM (TN0g+)

nothing to add to this excellent summary

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:08 PM (Z5NUn)

137 AFAIK, there are studies that show that survival and longevity rates are the same with or without Medicare.

But "it's my money, goldarnit!!"

Good luck convincing the olds that their precious Medicare isn't going to make them live longer or survive their next illness.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 06:07 PM (LbQ3Z)

I don't want to start the Generational War again, but the Boomers sure did set themselves (ahem, and only themselves) up well, didn't they?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:08 PM (uCjyK)

138
and, mishum would do the same if you said "c_nt".
AOS has changed with the times.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 06:02 PM (F3Dlr)

I have actually not been allowed in places. Like banned. Work, travel, school, restaurants, bars, sports crap.

There's a word for that. Hmmm.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:08 PM (jvJvP)

139 126 That law is already on the books... if you invest in a company that will create or save 10 or more US Jobs, you get an EB-5 Visa.

We’re still doing the create or save job bullshit?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:08 PM (nwGCR)

140 "It's really amazing how bad this bill truly is, yet, Democrats still hate it."

Easy to understand once you realize the Democrat party is nothing but performative hate tantrums against everything Trump does.

Biden could have done this exact same bill (apparently) and Dems would be bragging about all the great stuff init. Green Energy subsidies! No spending cuts!

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 06:09 PM (tLLc9)

141 And the elimination of the green energy tax credits is what made Man child Musk so angry that he had to start the Trump war again.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 06:09 PM (VofaG)

142 Confiscated wealth taken from one and given to another is simple theft.

Our current "system" has become so convoluted that it's too make heads or tails of it.
Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 06:08 PM (r2ymA)

Yeah, but I also don't think we survive as a society if we let poor people die in the streets because they couldn't afford metformin or whatever.

The entire medical system is fucked at this point. I don't know how you unfuck it, or if it's even possible to unfuck it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:09 PM (uCjyK)

143 Note the phrasing here in the last part:

"Changes to phase-outs of clean energy tax credits in the bill remained central to the final hours of debate among Republicans, as hard-line conservatives have called for strict, swift cuts and more centrist lawmakers pushed for extended wind-downs to avoid major market and investment disruptions."

The bias rot runs deep.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 06:10 PM (O5Ote)

144 There's also some evidence large windmills emit low frequency sound pulses that affect people and animals for miles around. It raises stress levels and makes sleep more difficult. In twenty years, someone will do a groundbreaking study that shows all sort of health issues caused by this.

-----------------

"Tilting At Trannies: Blaming Windmills for the Imaginary Great Trans Genocides of the Early 21st Century."

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at July 01, 2025 06:10 PM (GiIml)

145 It's Medicaid cuts not Medicare.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 06:10 PM (VofaG)

146 I wonder what percent of the 535 elected peeps in DC can distinguish between Medicaid and Medicare. Is it over 50?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:10 PM (nwGCR)

147 "the Boomers sure did set themselves (ahem, and only themselves) up well, didn't they?"

They were originally called "The Me Generation" with good reason.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 06:10 PM (tLLc9)

148 Though, I might add, While the GOP stalwarts may hate this bill, Democrats have turned into screeching amoebas over this bill, in that they're screaming senselessly into the void without anything which resembles rational thought.

It's really amazing how bad this bill truly is, yet, Democrats still hate it.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (tT6L1)

Dems hate it because Trump wants it. Even the numbers don't matter because the government can just not spend money and retire debt if they are inclined to.

Give whistleblowers a bounty if they find waste and corruption and get their backbiting working for us.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 06:10 PM (8avO+)

149 139 126 That law is already on the books... if you invest in a company that will create or save 10 or more US Jobs, you get an EB-5 Visa.

We’re still doing the create or save job bullshit?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:08 PM (nwGCR)

Trump actually EXPANDED the program a couple months back...

But yeah, BUY an existing business, or start one yerself... and yer in.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 06:11 PM (mP0Kj)

150 Add to 121:

Defines a man and a woman for federal laws
Requires ID to vote in federal elections
Makes the Trump tax cuts permanent

I'm not sure if the requirement that plaintiffs post bond for injunctions made it.

But, there's a whole lot of good in this bill.

And it's real retarded, xir, to throw that out for spending cuts that ... basically us here, are agitated about.

I keep saying, there is no majority coalition that will support spending cuts now.
Maybe soon.
But not now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 06:11 PM (LbQ3Z)

151 41, of course not

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:11 PM (Z5NUn)

152 They were originally called "The Me Generation" with good reason.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 06:10 PM (tLLc9)

George Carlin certainly had some thoughts on the subject.

https://tinyurl.com/yhxpjfuh

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:12 PM (uCjyK)

153 There's a word for that. Hmmm.
Posted by: Stateless

This is Ace's site. It is part of his reputation and income.

There's a difference between what you say in the local coffee shop and what you say on a site that is accessible by the entire world.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 06:12 PM (F3Dlr)

154 Deep down we all knew this was the end result. Spending will never be cut. Might as well just accept it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:12 PM (nwGCR)

155 Screw it. The dog and cat are fed. Chicken! Our first day not homeless.

Time to watch "Alien" for the first time.

And it's been such a year of loss and pain, maybe I'll get to "Promethious." Spelling....

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:12 PM (jvJvP)

156 What I wanna know is, what Republican in a bluish district ends up winning because they inserted this bullshit into the bill?

The attack commercials are going to be exactly the same

Posted by: Maroon at July 01, 2025 06:13 PM (HS92B)

157 Jimmy Swaggart RIP

https://tinyurl.com/ywny56jv

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 01, 2025 06:13 PM (uqyLy)

158 And Schumer had to be a dick and even managed to change the name of the bill to the Act.

You think if it was going to be the disaster he claims he would want the name on it associated with Trump.

So it was nothing but a childish asshole move.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 06:14 PM (VofaG)

159 America's Untold Stories episode on Jimmy Swaggart

https://www.youtube.com/live/QSwYOPUSZtk

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 01, 2025 06:14 PM (uqyLy)

160 I'm not gonna get an ulcer over this ... If it makes the tax cuts permanent I'll take that....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 06:14 PM (VE6XX)

161
Maybe Schumer will grill cheeseburgers this weekend and get a bad case of Ecoli.

Posted by: four seasons at July 01, 2025 06:15 PM (3ek7K)

162 I think 10 employees is way too low. But whatever the number, making it created OR SAVED jobs is ridiculous. That is the idiocy Obama started with the stimulus bill. I saved 1M jobs. It’s impossible to prove you didn’t.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:15 PM (nwGCR)

163 Defines a man and a woman for federal laws
Requires ID to vote in federal elections
Makes the Trump tax cuts permanent

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 06:11 PM

Just asked Grok about this and the answer is that neither of the first two items are in the bill.

The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (H.R. 1), passed by the Senate in June 2025, does not appear to include provisions explicitly defining a man and a woman for federal laws or requiring ID to vote in federal elections, based on available information. Here's a detailed breakdown:

Full Grok detailed answer: https://bit.ly/4l1n3b0

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 06:15 PM (P5BPp)

164 Just a thought...

This is just what we know about. I wonder how many more easter eggs are in there.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 06:15 PM (O5Ote)

165 141 And the elimination of the green energy tax credits is what made Man child Musk so angry that he had to start the Trump war again.
Posted by: polynikes
....................................
He's all about going to Mars. Everything revolves around that. Over on X, he's talking up China's solar power program and how they are way ahead of the USA. Because you can trust the ChiComs to provide accurate information. He's dangerously naive.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (sAmhv)

166 So did we lose taxes on tips and overtime ?

I've been expecting the old bait 'n switch.

Posted by: jsg at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (1l+t9)

167
I believe there are far more illegals than 1.whatever million sucking up Medicaid money.

Posted by: four seasons at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (3ek7K)

168 153 There's a word for that. Hmmm.
Posted by: Stateless

This is Ace's site. It is part of his reputation and income.

There's a difference between what you say in the local coffee shop and what you say on a site that is accessible by the entire world.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 06:12 PM (F3Dlr

Which is why I am respectful. With occasional slips.

Have you been back here in Canada for a bit? Food prices aren't too horrible but I shop around. Housing is crazy.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (jvJvP)

169 I'm not gonna get an ulcer over this ... If it makes the tax cuts permanent I'll take that....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 06:14 PM (VE6XX)
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Same.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (tT6L1)

170 Are there any L.A. morons here? Apparently the 6th St bridge is infested with protesters.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (lIio7)

171 The entire medical system is fucked at this point. I don't know how you unfuck it, or if it's even possible to unfuck it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:09 PM (uCjyK)

--------------

The only way is via complete deregulation and going back to total laissez-faire free-market capitalism -- with respect to both healthcare providers and insurers.

Insurance for catastrophic illnesses primarily -- like auto insurance, with pretty much everything else pay-as-you-go or participation in large market groups like employers or other (civic or religious) organizations..

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (GiIml)

172 Biden could have done this exact same bill (apparently) and Dems would be bragging about all the great stuff init. Green Energy subsidies! No spending cuts!
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Just how much of the outrage over the bill from the right is due to fake bullshit ginned up by the left to try and get the right to throw the baby out in a fit of anger?

'Cause there's no fucking way 90% of this bill would ever see the light of day under a Dem Senate.

But yeah, let's pretend that the continuation of bankruptcy-level spending--that has been going on near two decades now--, and the smallest part of this bill, is suddenly THE HILL to die on.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (LbQ3Z)

173 Over on X, he's talking up China's solar power program and how they are way ahead of the USA. Because you can trust the ChiComs to provide accurate information. He's dangerously naive.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (sAmhv)

It’s not naive. It’s a calculated lie. China’s market for EVs is massive. He has to keep the CCP happy in order to have access to it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:17 PM (nwGCR)

174 NO taxes on tips and overtime, I meant

Posted by: jsg at July 01, 2025 06:17 PM (1l+t9)

175 Clay Travis @ClayTravis

Reminder @espn celebrated women’s athletics by praising Lia Thomas, a man, for winning a women’s college sports title. This aired on the network just two years ago. Shameful. Apologize to all sports fans for this, ESPN:

X video: https://bit.ly/3Gr35r2

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 06:18 PM (P5BPp)

176 Respectful?! When did that start?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

177 The Fake Republicans in the Senate Screwed Us and the Fake Republicans in the House Are Complaining They Didn't Screw Us Enough

There was never a doubt in my mind that those Reprobates would never make personal sacrificess in enacting cuts in spending. At least half the budget is fraud, corruption and grift. 80% is not even Constitutionally authorized, they just take it because we haven't stopped them.

Knowing that demons inhabit Babylon DC, I'll take the permanent tax cuts.

Screw the bogus "Principled Conservatives" who vote like Democrats - they conspired to raise my taxes AND keep the spending at maximum levels AND fail to defend the borders.

Primary those assholes and let them go play Principled Conservative in the middle of a busy street.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 01, 2025 06:18 PM (a4flb)

178 Is the House even gonna agree to this ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 06:18 PM (VE6XX)

179 But yeah, let's pretend that the continuation of bankruptcy-level spending--that has been going on near two decades now--, and the smallest part of this bill, is suddenly THE HILL to die on.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (LbQ3Z)

Dude!! There are no spending cuts in this bill. The bankruptcy level spending will continue unabated. That’s the fucking problem.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:18 PM (nwGCR)

180 146 I wonder what percent of the 535 elected peeps in DC can distinguish between Medicaid and Medicare. Is it over 50?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:10 PM (nwGCR)

I wonder what percent of them know that neither of them have any constitutional justification as federal government "programs."

My guess would be 0%.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 06:18 PM (r2ymA)

181 He's all about going to Mars. Everything revolves around that. Over on X, he's talking up China's solar power program and how they are way ahead of the USA. Because you can trust the ChiComs to provide accurate information. He's dangerously naive.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (sAmhv)

He's not naive. He's either appeasing the Chinese, or he's threatening us. "fine, I'll just take my cars and rockets and move to China if you won't give me money!"

Either way, he's an asshoe. I'm dropping this Tweet of his again in the comments to remind everyone who Elon really is:

"The reason I'm in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B, Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend."

America is only strong due to him and other immigrants. That's how he feels about you and me. In fact, he declared war on us.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:20 PM (uCjyK)

182 NO taxes on tips and overtime, I meant
Posted by: jsg at July 01, 2025 06:17 PM (1l+t9)

It'd better be. My kid's lemonade stand is going up next weekend and despite IGTD's objections I don't think he should pay taxes on his tips.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 06:20 PM (O5Ote)

183 I'm so used to getting fucked, I just pre-lube with Vaseline anymore so it won't bleed.

Posted by: jsg at July 01, 2025 06:21 PM (1l+t9)

184 PS Several Senators have already told me they didn't know about or understand this last-minute paragraph. If that's the case they should do whatever they can to fix the situation.
_____

Find out who put it in. May whatever days they have left be lived in infamy.

Out: Tarring & Feathering
In: Drawing & Quartering

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 06:21 PM (Dv3i1)

185 That cuck chair link is from a Chinese furniture website. Hilarious.

Posted by: cobacoba98 at July 01, 2025 06:21 PM (IuIym)

186 Can we all just top off our ammo supplies and go John Galt?

I am tired of paying taxes to fund my own demise.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 06:21 PM (HlyYF)

187 I don't think the left is capable of fixing their problems

@aaronsibarium
EXCLUSIVE: Before she became the acting president of Columbia University, Claire Shipman argued that the school needed to get an "Arab on our board"—and suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 01, 2025 06:22 PM (mlg/3)

188 I don't give a FFAARD what's in the bill so long as they codify Trump's standard deduction for income tax. KISS.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 01, 2025 06:22 PM (wBaIH)

189 AFAIK, there are studies that show that survival and longevity rates are the same with or without Medicare.

Who was in the control group since Medicare is mandatory?

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 06:22 PM (xn0Ie)

190 This is on Trump, too. Is he a fake Republican, too? If this isn't on Trump, then let Trump use that VETO pen. Simple.

Posted by: My name was erased at July 01, 2025 06:22 PM (5DTn7)

191 EXCLUSIVE: Before she became the acting president of Columbia University, Claire Shipman argued that the school needed to get an "Arab on our board"—and suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 01, 2025 06:22 PM (mlg/3)

And then listened to the complete album collection of Bob Vylan

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:23 PM (nwGCR)

192 So the tone for the night is slow kissing our 1911 business end, eh?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

193 Have you been back here in Canada for a bit?
Posted by: Stateless

I visit my 93yo mom every week and see her slowly leaving this world, and me. My adult son lives in Manitoba and i see him as often as we can.
I don't mean to sound harsh toward you. I'm sorry you don't realize what a good life being born in Canada has provided.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 06:25 PM (F3Dlr)

194 The renewable energy scam ticks found the skin of GOPe Senators incredible easy to penetrate. As did too many other US Treasury-sucking parasites.

Posted by: Fake Jake Fapper at July 01, 2025 06:25 PM (aBgBM)

195 Hey! Hey! A Spades A Spade, Hands Off My Medicaid!

Hey! Hey! Don't Get Us In A Rut! Eliminate All The Greedy Rich's Tax Cuts!

Hey! Hey!

Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Boomer Moocher Who Loves A Good Chant at July 01, 2025 06:25 PM (R/m4+)

196 meh, i'm not even agitated about this, or any of the rest of it either ... currently replacing the so-called 48-hour-rule with the new, improved, modern 168-hour-rule.

my remaining hair is my precious, i refuse to set it on fire over trivia

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:26 PM (Z5NUn)

197 ooof - off old Fapper sock

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 06:26 PM (aBgBM)

198
Over on X, he's talking up China's solar power program and how they are way ahead of the USA. Because you can trust the ChiComs to provide accurate information. He's dangerously naive.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (sAmhv)

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

I've seen that and I want to know what he's praising. I mean, Cuba is waayyyy ahead of us on horse-driven plow power.

[not necessarily factual, just for purposes of analogy]

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 06:27 PM (egH3D)

199 >>>And you can rest assured the far leftist bureaucrats in charge of determining what 'starts' means will accept literally putting up a sign on a vacant lot saying CONSTRUCTION ZONE.

Is anyone going to tell him?

Posted by: Max Power at July 01, 2025 06:27 PM (q177U)

200 Yeh fact nobody can definitely say what’s in the bill is the problem. What we need is a word limit to any bill. Anything more than 1000 words and you need to break it up.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (nwGCR)

201 183 I'm so used to getting fucked, I just pre-lube with Vaseline anymore so it won't bleed.

Posted by: jsg at July 01, 2025 06:21 PM (1l+t9

That's my last year.

Screw it. Time for "Alien". I'm excited but Canada tipsy.

Canada tipsy means we post on American websites about how much I love you all and am going to watch "Alien."

But NBC news is almost on. President Trump has such a great 10 days or so that they have to suck it.

"Alien" at 6:35pm.

The animals are fed. And Snowflake, just weighed, is about 9.4 pounds. She was outside for almost a month. I am learning to limit food without guilt.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (jvJvP)

202 Speaking of China: "Humanoid robots stumble through AI-powered football match in Beijing" from flipboard.

https://tinyurl.com/937593fk

Funny at around 40 seconds.

Posted by: javems at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (8I4hW)

203 192 So the tone for the night is slow kissing our 1911 business end, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

I don't think so. We're just so used to the backstab it's easy to understand the cynicism.

Posted by: jsg at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (1l+t9)

204 Fuck Medicaid and everyone on it. I’ve been hearing sob stories about this shitbag program since I was a kid. It’s a total scam. Why are taxpayers paying for someone else’s medical care? Pay for your own medical care or drop fucking dead.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 01, 2025 05:55 PM

My brother had a heart attack at work up in a bucket truck cutting trees off of power lines after a storm. His company carried him on their insurance long after it was legal to do so and when that ran out he had to go on medicaid and SS disability. Even though he wants to go back to work Social security disability will not clear him to work so he has to stay on medicaid.

When you pay taxes from your paycheck part of that goes to fund medicaid.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (e5NfL)

205 So the tone for the night is slow kissing our 1911 business end, eh?
---------
Nah, I think its just just a lot of people who are told "we" (Republican supporters) need to take baby steps when we have 52% of the control, and meanwhile we know damn well that when THEY (Democrats) have even 50.1% of the control they do every single thing in their power to PUMMEL us.

If it weren't for Trump, the gig would be up for Rs of every stripe. But they're too stupid and too morally *filthy* to understand that.

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (TN0g+)

206 It is hard for Trump to get everything in the Bill because you have all these Spineless Republicans in the House and Senate.

Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (q/j2W)

207 China’s market for EVs is massive"

Ain't regulated markets great?

Posted by: man at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (tubbA)

208 Democrats and RINOs: "Hey the spending in this bill is no problem whatsoever, we can always just print more money!"

Democrats and RINOs a few years from now: "Wow, inflation has come roaring back. No one could have seen that coming!"

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 06:29 PM (HlyYF)

209 AoSHQ guidelines

https://youtu.be/m4ZBcXlU9LI

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 06:29 PM (xn0Ie)

210 200 Yeh fact nobody can definitely say what’s in the bill is the problem. What we need is a word limit to any bill. Anything more than 1000 words and you need to break it up.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (nwGCR)

Kind of funny how no one knows whats in the bill theyre voting on and no one can identify the names of the people who wrote the bill either.

It just shows up out of nowhere, everyone lights their hair on fire (WE MUST PASS THIS BILL!) or (WE MUST STOP THIS BILL!) then the bill passes and we get to find out what was in it years later when we've all moved on.

This is not what I was taught in civics class, nor what I learned from Schoolhouse Rock, but hey -- I guess this is how government operates now.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:30 PM (uCjyK)

211 Off topic - just received a shipment of Montecristo Espada Oscuros. Every damn part of that cigar is covered in a label. There's like .25 sq in of the actual cigar showing.

Carry on.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 06:30 PM (O5Ote)

212 go, stateless! congratulations again!

*12-er & a pizza! fistbump!*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:30 PM (Z5NUn)

213 Well, there is a lot of snow in Maine.

Steve Guest@SteveGuest
WATCH: Maine Democrat Governor Janet Mills when asked about her alleged cocaine use and if sniffing cocaine at work a "human right":
"What the fuck."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 06:30 PM (L/fGl)

214 because you have all these Spineless Republicans in the House and Senate.
Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (q/j2W)

I don't think they're spineless. They just do not give a shit about anyone else's priorities.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

215 185 That cuck chair link is from a Chinese furniture website. Hilarious.
Posted by: cobacoba98 at July 01, 2025 06:21 PM (IuIym)

I have a reading chair in my bedroom.... not a Cuck chair...

and I have had sex on it... with a Woman even... so I guess that makes it a...

Fuck Chair?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 06:31 PM (mP0Kj)

216 158 And Schumer had to be a dick and even managed to change the name of the bill to the Act.
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 06:14 PM (VofaG)

Trump should run with it and troll Schumer by calling it the Trump-Schumer Bipartisan Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 01, 2025 06:31 PM (eb5mD)

217 They canceked school house rock for a reason

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 06:32 PM (bXbFr)

218 "Kind of funny how no one knows whats in the bill they're voting on and no one can identify the names of the people who wrote the bill either."

uhuh, weird, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:32 PM (Z5NUn)

219 Maine Democrat Governor Janet Mills when asked about her alleged cocaine use and if sniffing cocaine at work a "human right":
"What the fuck."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 06:30 PM (L/fGl)

Heh. I like her more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

220
I don't think the left is capable of fixing their problems

@aaronsibarium
EXCLUSIVE: Before she became the acting president of Columbia University, Claire Shipman argued that the school needed to get an "Arab on our board"—and suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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

And they need to be told this.

Them: "Okay, we'll reform."

Us: "You can't. If you could, you wouldn't need to. We're tearing you down like an Iranian centrifuge and we'll talk to whoever rebuilds you as an actual learning center."

I was thinking about this in terms of other moral revolutions. Tell slave owners they have to institute reforms that comply with Constitutional principles re individual freedom? Even after you destroy slavery in a war, they'll work around the principles with Jim Crow-ism.

The left isn't capable of fixing their problems.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 06:33 PM (egH3D)

221 207 China’s market for EVs is massive"

Ain't regulated markets great?

Posted by: man at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (tubbA)

You shall buy and use EV to get to work, Comrade!
You shall not use lack of charge on EV as excuse for late to work, Comrade!

Posted by: The Red Guards Economics Committee at July 01, 2025 06:34 PM (aBgBM)

222 When you pay taxes from your paycheck part of that goes to fund medicaid.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (e5NfL)

Medicaid was unconstitutional from the start. But I guess we gave that battle up a long time ago.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 06:35 PM (r2ymA)

223 I visit my 93yo mom every week and see her slowly leaving this world, and me. My adult son lives in Manitoba and i see him as often as we can.
I don't mean to sound harsh toward you. I'm sorry you don't realize what a good life being born in Canada has provided.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 06:2

Lol.

The morons need to see Canadians fight. For amusement.

Beautiful country. And a lot of nice people.

But near 50% taxation.

And Covid was an eye opener. It was dystopian.

My mother was in her late 80's. I was her caregiver. We were waiting on the shots. And I became skeptical. As did Mom.

I spent 2 years worrying about her health and the government denying healthcare. Couldn't go anywhere. Nephew dropped out of school.

There's nothing wrong with Canada that 25 million dead wouldn't fix. It was bad. I was surprised.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:35 PM (jvJvP)

224 Yes only moabing or bluing morning side heighrs will do

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 06:36 PM (bXbFr)

225 BREAKING: UPenn has agreed to APOLOGIZE for allowing male Lia Thomas to compete on the women's swimming team. They will also vacate all of Thomas' "records" and restore them to the women who rightfully earned them.

X: https://bit.ly/44Ezcgh

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 05:58 PM (P5BPp)

It's another Trumpmas miracle!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 06:00 PM (i24o9)

----------------

An apology is worthless without some punishment and atonement: how many bunker buster bombs would suffice?

/only half-joking -- UPENN Delenda Est!

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at July 01, 2025 06:36 PM (v2nXy)

226 When you pay taxes from your paycheck part of that goes to fund medicaid.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (e5NfL)

Yeah, this whole 'saving money' on Medicare? uh... it's not part of the General Fund... its supposed to be separate as it has its OWN Tax.

Medicaid? Funded by States through State Taxes.

So these 'savings'? Bullshit to make their spending more from the General Fund look better than it is.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 06:36 PM (mP0Kj)

227 I am assuming the Chinese 'market' for EVs is strictly dominated by domestic manufacturers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:36 PM (zZu0s)

228 214 because you have all these Spineless Republicans in the House and Senate.
Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 01, 2025 06:28 PM (q/j2W)

I don't think they're spineless. They just do not give a shit about anyone else's priorities.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

Yeah, seriously. They certainly find their spines when they're voting for something THEY care about.

Had no problem locating the ol' spine when it came to sending unlimited money to the CIA war in Ukraine.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:37 PM (uCjyK)

229 I for one would like to see the USA go back to fee for service: the prices should be 1/5 of what we pay now. As far as Medicare goes you are forced on it: if you try to decline it, you lose your Social Security pension too! We can debate whether the Ponzi scheme called Social Security should exist another time. Right now, too many people foolishly depend on it to sustain them in their old age. It typically means a drastic reduction in your standard of living, if you were so foolish as to not scrimp and save and thoughtfully invest during your working life. Me, I invested in Apple 🍎 in the 90s when everyone thought they were goners. I also put some money in General Dynamics, based on a WSJ article I read just before they got the contract to build all those Strykers. I could pay my medical bills on my own even without Medicare. Not everyone can.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 06:38 PM (1paM0)

230 BBB is typical gop negotiating

Dems we want X

Reps: we’ll give 80% of X

Dems: Come on you can do better

GOP: OK how’s 98% sound?

Dems: Cool

Then Dems still run ads calling the gop Nazis.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:38 PM (nwGCR)

231 ooof - off old Fapper sock
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 06:26 PM

You don't love me anymore?

Posted by: Jake at July 01, 2025 06:39 PM (g07/a)

232 "The left isn't capable of fixing their problems."

for a start, they would have to want to. not gonna happen.

we need to fix the left. one way or another.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:39 PM (Z5NUn)

233 There is a Nood.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:39 PM (jvJvP)

234 Social Security should exist another time. Right now, too many people foolishly depend on it to sustain them in their old age.

—

I hope fdr is rotting in hell for creating this monstrosity.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:41 PM (nwGCR)

235 and I have had sex on it... with a Woman even... so I guess that makes it a...

Fuck Chair?
Posted by: Romeo13

Need more info... what kind of sex?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 06:42 PM (/lPRQ)

236 >>And they need to be told this.

Them: "Okay, we'll reform."

Us: "You can't. If you could, you wouldn't need to. We're tearing you down like an Iranian centrifuge and we'll talk to whoever rebuilds you as an actual learning center."

I was thinking about this in terms of other moral revolutions. Tell slave owners they have to institute reforms that comply with Constitutional principles re individual freedom? Even after you destroy slavery in a war, they'll work around the principles with Jim Crow-ism.

The left isn't capable of fixing their problems.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 06:33 PM (egH3D)

They all need to enter a Leftist Twelve Steps program. Never gonna happen. They are more addicted to Leftist Dogma than any alcohol or narcotics addict.

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 06:44 PM (aBgBM)

237 In re the UPENN apology: yay! Also U Penn is one of the Ivies! And yes, they are making restitution: read the article. My point is, we’re beginning to break through on the Ivies! Also, Trump is a U Penn alumnus: the Wharton School of Business is part of the U of Penn. One of the things that infuriates the Left is that Trump is a class traitor, preferring us low life types to his own class!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (1paM0)

238 BBB is SOP for the GOP. Not sure why anyone over 35 is upset. Disappointed, sure. But, upset? We do this every time. The hard right has no balls and the soft right always threatens to take their ball and go home.
So, as we have every time since the 80's remember, vote for it because it is better than the alternative.

Posted by: ohnonotme at July 01, 2025 08:53 PM (s8WNT)

239 The Thune Chair?
See it at next SOTU.

Posted by: Beaver at July 02, 2025 12:18 AM (tCdjd)

240 Our government is the only form of organized crime we vote in. For decades Republican presidents have had to pay a vig to the establishment RINOs while Democrat presidents get EVERYTHING they desire.

The RINOs want to manage the decline of our country while getting rich.

Posted by: Jcelephant at July 02, 2025 08:11 AM (rhP7v)

Kristi Noem: We Are Investigating CNN for Promoting an App That Allows Radicals and Criminals to Track Indivdual ICE Agents' Movements

The Democrat-Media Party's browshirts are attacking ICE agents and posting pictures of their family members along with threats to harm them, and CNN decides to advertise an app that allows antifa, trantifa, and assorted other criminals to track them.

Wesley Hunt
@WesleyHuntTX
Is CNN pushing an app that helps DOXX ICE agents in real time?!
The app "ICEBLOCK" tracks the movements of federal agents and has the potential to put their lives at risk, and CNN is running a "story," on it.
Will Apple and Google keep this in their app stores?
Will Congress act as fast to ban this as they did with TikTok?
Because if exposing American law enforcement to danger doesn't raise red flags, what will?

Unreal. CNN is now promoting an app which tracks the movement of ICE agents to warn illegals.

ICE agents face a 500% increase in assault and threats.

CNN knows exactly what they�re doing. pic.twitter.com/qgFLHq9LSv
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 30, 2025

Noem says the DHS is looking at CNN's behavior to determine if criminal:

The White House is looking into possible criminal charges against CNN after it published a report about an app allowing users to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in their area.

President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem discussed the matter with reporters at the grand opening of a Florida detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz." A reporter brought up border czar Tom Homan's assertion that CNN should be prosecuted for essentially promoting the app to its readers.
"We're working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that, because what they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities, operations," Noem said. "We're going to actually go after them and prosecute them with the partnership of [Attorney General Pam Bondi] if we can, because what they're doing, we believe, is illegal."

Trump also added that CNN "may be prosecuted" over its bogus Iran disinformation. That's just silly. I assume he meant "we may sue him for defamation" or something, but that would also be pretty silly.

Trump also says he'll be watching the "communist" Zohran Mamdani very closely. "We'll have to arrest him," Trump says, if the communist stays true to his declaration that he'll block ICE from arresting illegals in NYC.

Sadly, Noem reported that a Cultural-Enriching Cancer-Curing Cannibal Illegal Alien Criminal began attempting to eat his own arms during his deportation flight.

1, it's so sad that now cancer won't be cured, because his arms are injured and he won't be able to do Tom Cruise Cocktail-style flourishes and tube-spins with his beakers and Ehrlenmeyer Flasks,

and 2, it's also sad that he's gone, because he would have been the perfect Inmate #1 at the Alligator Alcatraz.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed a bizarre and sickening account Tuesday of how federal agents nabbed a cannibal illegal migrant who started to eat his own arms during a deportation flight.
Noem shared the disturbing anecdote while visiting the "Alligator Alcatraz" deportation camp in the Everglades alongside President Trump.
She used the anecdote to argue that federal agents are targeting the worst of the worst illegal migrants in the US.
"The other day I was talking to some Marshals that had been partnering with ICE," Noem said. "They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home and while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself, and they had to get him off and get him medical attention."

"These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America that we're trying to target and get out of our country because they are so deranged, they don't belong here," she added.

Kristi Noem says a cannibal who had been detained started to eat himself after being put on a plane.

pic.twitter.com/7upYI0h48t
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 1, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 04:30 PM

Comments

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1 !

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (UjdFS)

2 Are there any apps that let people track MSM people?

I'm asking for friends.

But you don't need to worry. They are all liberals...

Oh wait!

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:32 PM (jvJvP)

3 1 !
Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (UjdFS)

Hungry?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 04:32 PM (gKWVE)

4 Cannibal on a Plane! Muthaf*cka!

Posted by: DBCooper at July 01, 2025 04:32 PM (lhJtm)

5 Sadly, Noem reported that a Cultural-Enriching Cancer-Curing Cannibal Illegal Alien Criminal began attempting to eat his own arms during his deportation flight.

=======

"I'll take him in!"
-AWFL in Martha's Vineyard

Right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

6 Autophagy... the next TikTok challenge?

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 04:34 PM (cPGH3)

7 I think my arms would taste like chicken.

Cooking the second one is problematic.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:34 PM (jvJvP)

8 JAIL or this is just more theatre.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 04:34 PM (N1DT3)

9 Well the cannibal got out of deportation...Expect more of them...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 04:34 PM (VE6XX)

10 Try my new app, GOODCOMMIE.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 04:34 PM (i24o9)

11 Why do those ICE agents have to wear masks, it makes it harder to target their wives and kids!

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (D7oie)

12 >>>Kristi Noem says a cannibal who had been detained started to eat himself after being put on a plane.

Diversity is our . . . WTF is going on here?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (i24o9)

13 Hungry?
Posted by: gKWVE
......

Maybe just a finger snack.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (UjdFS)

14 I feel for him.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (gKDq2)

15 The arm eater would have made a great henchman for Cyrus “The Virus”.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 01, 2025 04:36 PM (EuK0F)

16 FoxNews.

Assaults on ICE agents up 690%

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:36 PM (jvJvP)

17 "They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home and while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself, and they had to get him off and get him medical attention."

Import the 3rd world.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 04:36 PM (N1DT3)

18 Every conservative should download ICEBLOCK and post as many false stories as possible Just don't reference Home Depot in the post, it might actually be an ICE target.

Posted by: Indy Bill at July 01, 2025 04:36 PM (wM7T1)

19 If this is now a country where autophagy isn't an approved behavior, I don't want to live here anymore.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

20 Cannibal on a Plane! Muthaf*cka!

Posted by: DBCooper at July 01, 2025 04:32 PM (lhJtm)

I'm tired of the steaks on the plane!

Posted by: Air Cannibal at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (i24o9)

21 a cannibal who had been detained started to eat himself after being put on a plane.
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I admit to mixed emotions about this.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (XeU6L)

22 "I want you to beat me, beat me
Come on and eat me, ooh, ah"

https://youtu.be/nywLVPvvuAg

Posted by: DaveA at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (FhXTo)

23 Newsom is going around talking about his poor upbringing, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

24 "They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home and while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself"
......

Guess he was allergic to the peanuts.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (UjdFS)

25 Please keep your hands and arms inside the plane, unless, you know, you're hungry. Then have some finger food.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:38 PM (Riz8t)

26 >>Sadly, Noem reported that a Cultural-Enriching Cancer-Curing Cannibal Illegal Alien Criminal began attempting to eat his own arms during his deportation flight.

He's not doing it right.

Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer at July 01, 2025 04:38 PM (n2swS)

27 Diversity is our . . . WTF is going on here?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (i24o9)

He's just eating the arms that Americans won't eat! Don't be so racist.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:38 PM (uCjyK)

28 Try my new app, GOODCOMMIE.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 04:34 PM (i24o9)

Just prints a list of nearby cemeteries.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:38 PM (8avO+)

29 Nobody in my family is in ICE, but we support their operations. If any member of the dem/media machine post a picture of my kids, they will deal with me.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 04:38 PM (1bdKO)

30 The arm eater would have made a great henchman for Cyrus “The Virus”.
Posted by: Cray Cray at July 01, 2025 04:36 PM (EuK0F)

"What's wrong with him"

"My first thought would be... A lot"

Posted by: Cameron Poe at July 01, 2025 04:38 PM (N1DT3)

31 Are you saying that the in-flight meal wasn't good enough for him???

Posted by: dantesed at July 01, 2025 04:39 PM (qm5Wv)

32 27 Diversity is our . . . WTF is going on here?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (i24o9

They're definitely not sending their best and brightest.... Or maybe they are....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 04:39 PM (VE6XX)

33 At least he was just eating himself. Staying carbon neutral.

Posted by: Kurt Cobain at July 01, 2025 04:39 PM (zZu0s)

34 I feel for him.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (gKDq2)

You're not yourself when you're hungry.

Posted by: Snickers at July 01, 2025 04:39 PM (i24o9)

35 I think my arms would taste like chicken.

Cooking the second one is problematic.
Posted by: Stateless
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NOT FUNNY

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 01, 2025 04:39 PM (XeU6L)

36 Newsom is going around talking about his poor upbringing, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

Poor as in instilling cripplingly bad moral values and erratic judgement? I'll agree with that.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (8avO+)

37 Try my new app, GOODCOMMIE.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 04:34 PM (i24o9)

Everyone should download the ICE tracking app and flood it with false information.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (N1DT3)

38 I suppose it would be wrong to make an app that tracks journalists locations or list their home address.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (1lCkZ)

39 "What's wrong with him"

"My first thought would be... A lot"
Posted by: Cameron Poe at July 01, 2025 04:38 PM (N1DT3)

Nice. Two Con-Air refs.

Posted by: Kurt Cobain at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

40 All joking aside, it is possible to eat your own arm with your hands handcuffed?

I don't think human teeth are strong enough to literally rip the flesh off the bone. We're not wolves.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (uCjyK)

41 They're definitely not sending their best and brightest.... Or maybe they are....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 04:39 PM (VE6XX)

He's just eating the cannibals that the American people don't want to eat.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (i24o9)

42 The in-flight snacks left a lot to be desired.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 04:41 PM (UjdFS)

43 While she’s at it, can she do something about the antifa terrorists protesting the Seattle ICE building nightly?

Andy NGO has been covering it, and they created some new noise making thing specifically to harass the nearby residents for complaining about their noise. Seattle PD does nothing, and these residents are concerned that they and their pets are being injured.

Honestly, why TF are antifa allowed to carry on like this?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 04:41 PM (Hkcdp)

44 Everyone should download the ICE tracking app and flood it with false information.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (N1DT3)

Or, to take the comment just after yours, flood it with journalists info.

Posted by: Kurt Cobain at July 01, 2025 04:41 PM (zZu0s)

45 I like Kristi but as DHS Secretary she's going to be asked to provide some proof of this cannibal anecdote and she'll look stupid if she can't do that.

Bring his name and mugshot if you're going to talk about something that unbelievable in public. That way there's no questioning about the veracity.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 04:41 PM (6ydKt)

46 Arrest and deport anyone who attacks an agent, even if they are US citizens.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:41 PM (8avO+)

47
I don't think human teeth are strong enough to literally rip the flesh off the bone. We're not wolves.

Speak for yourself. Arooooooooo!

Posted by: Werewolves of London at July 01, 2025 04:41 PM (Riz8t)

48 Damn, ace beat Fox today.
Jaguar story next.

Again. Dominion Day. 12 pack opened.

I'm finally not homeless. And a homeowner. I'm taking a month off but slowly cleaning the house and rejoining society. And maybe watching "Black Adam."

Who the hell is "Black Adam?" And I actually know who Kraven and Madame Web were.

By the way. Dominion Day and beer.
And first day not potentially homeless. Sweet.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:41 PM (jvJvP)

49 45 I like Kristi but as DHS Secretary she's going to be asked to provide some proof of this cannibal anecdote and she'll look stupid if she can't do that.

Bring his name and mugshot if you're going to talk about something that unbelievable in public. That way there's no questioning about the veracity.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 04:41 PM (6ydKt)

I want to see a video. There better be lots of blood!

Also, was he a cannibal before he bit his arm, or was he foraying in to a new hobby?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:42 PM (uCjyK)

50 "They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home and while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself, and they had to get him off and get him medical attention."

Ruh Roh. Now every guy put on a Get the F^ck Out plane will take a bite out of himself. To be able to stay in a comfy hospital bed, at least one day more in the Estados Unitos. How many bites can a person take of himself before killing himself? Hopefully we will find out!

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 04:42 PM (aBgBM)

51 I don't think human teeth are strong enough to literally rip the flesh off the bone. We're not wolves.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (uCjyK)

Probably not easy to Crack bone, but tear the flesh off, I think people could do it. It's like chewing a rare steak.

Posted by: Kurt Cobain at July 01, 2025 04:42 PM (zZu0s)

52 Andy NGO has been covering it, and they created some new noise making thing specifically to harass the nearby residents for complaining about their noise. Seattle PD does nothing, and these residents are concerned that they and their pets are being injured.

Honestly, why TF are antifa allowed to carry on like this?

It's what the citizens of that city vote for. Let them have all they want.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:42 PM (Riz8t)

53 I would not have gotten Cannibal medical attention. Wrapping him up in a Hefty trash bag and/or masked him would have saved time and money. Perhaps a quick dental procedure of ripping out his teeth. No one asked me.

I am assuming he was cuffed and needed a snack.

Not sure I can call him a barbarian, as that seems too classy. Probably from Haiti. Has the kuru cravings.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 04:42 PM (6PCLE)

54 Dang, that cannibal deportee is right out of a a Stephen King short story.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 04:43 PM (Hkcdp)

55 While she’s at it, can she do something about the antifa terrorists protesting the Seattle ICE building nightly?

Andy NGO has been covering it, and they created some new noise making thing specifically to harass the nearby residents for complaining about their noise. Seattle PD does nothing, and these residents are concerned that they and their pets are being injured.

Honestly, why TF are antifa allowed to carry on like this?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 04:41 PM (Hkcdp)

Because the state and local governments want it that way. Trump is after bigger fish that those citadels of WOKE.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:43 PM (8avO+)

56 I'm allergic to human flesh. Food allergy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 04:43 PM (XeU6L)

57 By the way. Dominion Day and beer.
And first day not potentially homeless. Sweet.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:41 PM (jvJvP)

Congrats!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:43 PM (uCjyK)

58 What pairs better with your own arms, red or white?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2025 04:43 PM (u73oe)

59 Have we been bamboozled?

https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/
1940137902094393692

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 04:43 PM (AOsQT)

60 At least he was just eating himself. Staying carbon neutral.
Posted by: Kurt Cobain
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Courtney killed Kurt--I saw it in a youtube documentary called "Soaked in Bleach".

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 04:44 PM (TN0g+)

61 I would not have gotten Cannibal medical attention. Wrapping him up in a Hefty trash bag and/or masked him would have saved time and money. Perhaps a quick dental procedure of ripping out his teeth. No one asked me.

I am assuming he was cuffed and needed a snack.

Not sure I can call him a barbarian, as that seems too classy. Probably from Haiti. Has the kuru cravings.

A Hannibal Lecter mask would solve the problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:44 PM (Riz8t)

62 Probably not easy to Crack bone, but tear the flesh off, I think people could do it. It's like chewing a rare steak.
Posted by: Kurt Cobain
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It happens.

Posted by: The Donner party at July 01, 2025 04:44 PM (XeU6L)

63 I downloaded the App and plan on using it before a MLS soccer game, Construction sites etc gonna be fun

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 01, 2025 04:44 PM (FCrpy)

64 UPenn will strip Lia Thomas of his women's swimming titles and apologize to everyone for being neo-Marxist douchebags.

https://tinyurl.com/n3vr6ckt

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 01, 2025 04:44 PM (paSBy)

65 Did he have cannibal insurance?

Posted by: dantesed at July 01, 2025 04:44 PM (qm5Wv)

66 Probably not easy to Crack bone, but tear the flesh off, I think people could do it. It's like chewing a rare steak.
Posted by: Kurt Cobain at July 01, 2025 04:42 PM (zZu0s)

You think so? We should do some studies on this.

Maybe we keep the cannibal in the country for a while. You know, for science.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:44 PM (uCjyK)

67 Remember when the mention that Valarie Plame's husband was the source of the "sought yellowcake Uranium from Africa" was a national scandal because it "put a CIA agent at risk!!!"

Yep, merely mentioning the name of a desk jockey--who everyone knew worked at the CIA--was going to result in swarthy men from the Middle East abducting her under the cover of darkness.
Or some sort of fevered spy novel bullshit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (LbQ3Z)

68 "Kristi Noem says a cannibal who had been detained started to eat himself after being put on a plane."

Probably flying Spirit airlines

Posted by: Ripley at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (GUOwU)

69 All joking aside, it is possible to eat your own arm with your hands handcuffed?

I don't think human teeth are strong enough to literally rip the flesh off the bone. We're not wolves.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (uCjyK)

My little brother made a good start, and he was biting through winter clothes a sweater and a down jacket.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (8avO+)

70 27 Diversity is our . . . WTF is going on here?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (i24o9)

The official theme song of white, western countries.
Well done!

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (jvJvP)

71 59 Have we been bamboozled?

https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/
1940137902094393692
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 04:43 PM (AOsQT)

=======

No one seemed to notice it was still in until Schmidt said it was. The section is apparently in there, the final version passed by the Senate.

The parliamentarian did some damage in the end, but less than reported. Also, with the need to bring the two versions into alignment, some of what got left out might get back in anyway.

But starting from here is actually pretty strong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

72 The people opposing these flights remind me of a forty-year-old Bloom County comic in which Steve Dallas is arguing to a jury that his client wasn't guilty of cannibalism, and the client, frame-by-frame, puts Steve's hand in his mouth and starts chewing.

These progressive old ladies remind me of Steve Dallas, who at least was just doing his job. If you put the cannibal in their home, he would certainly eat them.

Posted by: A Concerned Citizen at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (OAxw3)

73 /off potential Courtney love victim sock

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

74 UPenn will strip Lia Thomas of his women's swimming titles and apologize to everyone for being neo-Marxist douchebags.

https://tinyurl.com/n3vr6ckt

It's amazing what the threat of losing money can accomplish.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

75 25 Please keep your hands and arms inside the plane, unless, you know, you're hungry. Then have some finger food.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:38 PM (Riz8t)

This content is why I am here.

He thought he was going on the Donner Party Plane and was confused.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 04:46 PM (6PCLE)

76 74 It's amazing what the threat of losing money can accomplish.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

======

Not to everyone.

CA is going to stand strong in the face of mean ole Trump regarding its Title VI violations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:46 PM (GBKbO)

77 If I ran DHS, I would require ICE Deputies to announce ten raids per day on this app. Run the fuckers ragged.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 04:47 PM (xn0Ie)

78 I treat all viewpoints equally! I would have informed my viewers how to get an Antifa Goon Tracking App! Swearsies! But my staff refused to develop one. But I tried!

Posted by: Fake Jake Fapper at July 01, 2025 04:47 PM (aBgBM)

79 "They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home and while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself, and they had to get him off and get him medical attention."

Cannibals on the plane?

I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 04:47 PM (Wnv9h)

80 Not to everyone.

CA is going to stand strong in the face of mean ole Trump regarding its Title VI violations.

I'd bet a large amount of money that that position will change within a year.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

81 Probably not easy to Crack bone, but tear the flesh off, I think people could do it. It's like chewing a rare steak.
Posted by: Kurt Cobain at July 01, 2025 04:42 PM (zZu0s)

Oh, yes, it can be done.

Posted by: Evander Holyfield at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (gKDq2)

82 No one seemed to notice it was still in until Schmidt said it was. The section is apparently in there, the final version passed by the Senate.

The parliamentarian did some damage in the end, but less than reported. Also, with the need to bring the two versions into alignment, some of what got left out might get back in anyway.

But starting from here is actually pretty strong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

They probably have it in there 5 times, since nobody reads these bills.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (8avO+)

83 I'd bet a large amount of money that that position will change within a year.

Assuming Trump sticks to his guns.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (Riz8t)

84
Fine Young cannibals.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (IifOV)

85 Noem reported that a Cultural-Enriching Cancer-Curing Cannibal Illegal Alien Criminal began attempting to eat his own arms during his deportation flight.
_____________________________

Now this guy I wouldn't deport. I'd enroll him at Columbia and let the fun begin. Give him a job in the college cafeteria just for kicks and giggles.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (dIske)

86 Also, was he a cannibal before he bit his arm, or was he foraying in to a new hobby?
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He was a cannibal before, but he had just turned his life around...until the stress of this deportation flight...

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (TN0g+)

87 74 UPenn will strip Lia Thomas of his women's swimming titles and apologize to everyone for being neo-Marxist douchebags.

https://tinyurl.com/n3vr6ckt

It's amazing what the threat of losing money can accomplish.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

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Finally some long overdue social justice for Riley Gaines and all of her teammates.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

88 I don't think human teeth are strong enough to literally rip the flesh off the bone. We're not wolves.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

You'd be surprised. It's rare, but, for example Austin Harrouff, a former college student, was involved in a criminal murder case in 2016 where he killed a Florida couple, John Stevens and Michelle Mishcon Stevens, and attempted to eat one of the victims' faces. Harrouff pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and a judge ultimately accepted a plea deal that sent him to a mental health facility instead of prison.

During the attack, Harrouff was biting chunks off John Stevens' face, and it took several officers, an electric stun gun, and a police dog to subdue him.

That Chapter is a true crime YouTube channel and has a good analysis of it. https://tinyurl.com/y7mwp6tk

One of the few times where I'd 100% let the guy off for an insanity plea, despite how horrific the attack was.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (JCZqz)

89 I've been out all afternoon so just getting caught up but saw a couple of things I thought wee significant in case no one's mentioned them.

@SenEricSchmitt·
53mSo to reiterate: The "ban Medicaid for illegal immigrants" amendment failed because it didn't reach the 60-vote threshold—but the original ban was already in the bill.

The bill that the Senate just passed.

Basically, the Republicans forced the Democrats to put their vote on the record for a vanity amendment that meant nothing because the ban is already in the bill.

A massive victory for America First

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (t/2Uw)

90 I'll have the ladyfingers.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (bNf8H)

91 What's the DEAL with airline food?

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (q177U)

92 Signpost that "America is Back:"

ICEBLOCK is actually a government honeypot spyware that steals the contacts, texts and emails from the users phone to trace the network of Antifa, etc.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (LbQ3Z)

93 Not to everyone.

CA is going to stand strong in the face of mean ole Trump regarding its Title VI violations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:46 PM (GBKbO)

Have fun getting your sportsball teams games all forfeited. The NCAA is playing ball with DJT.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)

94 82 They probably have it in there 5 times, since nobody reads these bills.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (8avO+)

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It's section 77109.

But yeah, no one reads them.

I've been wondering when some GOP staffer would sneak in some major change into must pass legislation under everyone's noses. I was always hoping for the end of federal withholding of taxes on paychecks, but kicking 1.4 million illegals off Medicaid will do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

95 In the book Heart of the Sea, the sailors stranded in small boats in the middle of the Pacific eventually ended up eating their mates. There was no ability to cook.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

96 18 USC 1324.... read it... love it.... live it...

FUCKING ENFORCE IT!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (mP0Kj)

97 Dude! hoarde mind!

Posted by: Max Power at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (q177U)

98 He was a cannibal before, but he had just turned his life around...until the stress of this deportation flight...
Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (TN0g+)

Let he who has never eaten human flesh cast the first stone!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (uCjyK)

99 84
Fine Young cannibals.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (IifOV)

She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
And I can't help myself

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (6ydKt)

100 Mitt Romney approves of self deporting and self eating.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (0VH88)

101 89 The bill that the Senate just passed.

Basically, the Republicans forced the Democrats to put their vote on the record for a vanity amendment that meant nothing because the ban is already in the bill.

A massive victory for America First
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (t/2Uw)

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"My vote was supposed to mean nothing!"
-Fetterman's monster

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

102 Why did they stop him, the cannibal, I mean?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (1paM0)

103 Dang, that cannibal deportee is right out of a a Stephen King short story.
Posted by: Lizzy
.......

Survivor Type

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (UjdFS)

104 what's the deal with congresspeople like Drama Mama Mace saying they can't vote bc of the weather?!?!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (Pv3Rg)

105
OUT: Eat Me.
IN: ME Eat Me.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (wtvvX)

106 95 In the book Heart of the Sea, the sailors stranded in small boats in the middle of the Pacific eventually ended up eating their mates. There was no ability to cook.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

I have no doubt you could eat human raw if you had knives to, er, prepare the muscles and chop them up.

But just using your teeth as your only tool? I don't know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (uCjyK)

107 UPenn will strip Lia Thomas of his women's swimming titles and apologize to everyone for being neo-Marxist douchebags.

well, the first part, at least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (dfIr7)

108 104 what's the deal with congresspeople like Drama Mama Mace saying they can't vote bc of the weather?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (Pv3Rg)

=======

Are you suddenly paying attention to Nancy Mace now?

Well, that's why.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

109 I came close: I once bit off a hangnail when I was being deported.

It gets crazier every day.

We are living in a Gary Larson comic. This is basically my mentality on a normal day.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (6PCLE)

110 One of the few times where I'd 100% let the guy off for an insanity plea, despite how horrific the attack was.

Posted by: Military Moron

I would too, but only if it is agreed that he will NEVER get out of a hospital for the criminally insane. I'm not willing to trust some psychologist's opinion on this.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (Riz8t)

111 Late to the party. Day off. I loved the comments a couple of threads back on NZ critters. All wrong except for having no native snakes. Carry on.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (9XVG3)

112 Now this guy I wouldn't deport. I'd enroll him at Columbia and let the fun begin. Give him a job in the college cafeteria just for kicks and giggles.
Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (dIske)

Nobody knows what an ombudsman is. How do we know it isn't the resident insane cannibal on staff?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (8avO+)

113 Nobody in my family is in ICE, but we support their operations. If any member of the dem/media machine post a picture of my kids, they will deal with me.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 04:38 PM (1bdKO)

These asshole will keep it up until a cop, or family member, is killed and then there will be hell to play.

Posted by: javems at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (8I4hW)

114 I would download the app and make false reports to f with the leftoids, but I need the dopamine hit from being a bedwetting blackpiller in every thread.
Priorities.

Posted by: Cmonman at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (8/ZDf)

115 87 74 UPenn will strip Lia Thomas of his women's swimming titles and apologize to everyone for being neo-Marxist douchebags.

https://tinyurl.com/n3vr6ckt

It's amazing what the threat of losing money can accomplish.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

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Finally some long overdue social justice for Riley Gaines and all of her teammates.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (6ydKt)
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Great news.

Posted by: WisRich at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (G0vdT)

116 102 Why did they stop him, the cannibal, I mean?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (1paM0)

"Holy shit, Johnson, that guys trying to eat himself! We should stop him"

"Ehhh... let's give it a few and see how this one plays out."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:52 PM (uCjyK)

117 108 104 what's the deal with congresspeople like Drama Mama Mace saying they can't vote bc of the weather?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (Pv3Rg)

She better get her bony ass there and vote.....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 04:52 PM (VE6XX)

118 But can I use "ICEBLOCK" to clear out a Home Depot ?
Or Section 8 Housing ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 04:52 PM (/lPRQ)

119 Newsom is going around talking about his poor upbringing, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

What, he was forced to drive the Porche with cloth seats?

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 04:52 PM (D7oie)

120 Why did they stop him, the cannibal, I mean?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (1paM0)

To his credit, he wasn't a vegan.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 04:53 PM (i24o9)

121 Are you suddenly paying attention to Nancy Mace now?

Well, that's why.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

I liked Nancy, a little, at first.

Now I'm kinda scared she'll be my next governor.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

122 It they are going to sneak stuff in, why not repeal the Hughes Amendment?

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 04:53 PM (xn0Ie)

123 >>114 I would download the app and make false reports to f with the leftoids, but I need the dopamine hit from being a bedwetting blackpiller in every thread.

that's a good idea.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2025 04:53 PM (KRtlO)

124 That Chapter is a true crime YouTube channel and has a good analysis of it. https://tinyurl.com/y7mwp6tk

One of the few times where I'd 100% let the guy off for an insanity plea, despite how horrific the attack was.
Posted by: Military Moron at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM (JCZqz)

Oh shit, I remember that horrific story. He was growling like an animal during the attack, right?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:53 PM (uCjyK)

125 Philly airport is a hot mess but it's not all the weather - it's the strike

god this place sucks

municipal worker strike - so, garbage men on strike, libraries closed, etc - but I think some of these workers were airport workers too

and now some other unions are sympathy striking, which is incredibly annoying

I have to give Mayor Parker credit for standing up to this tbh

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 04:54 PM (Pv3Rg)

126 121 I liked Nancy, a little, at first.

Now I'm kinda scared she'll be my next governor.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

=======

She's gonna force the legislature in session to look at grainy video footage of her naked.

She will then veto constitutional carry legislation because conservative.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

127 Have ICE announce, plan, leak 10 raids a day, then go on 10 different raids that day!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:54 PM (1paM0)

128 All wrong except for having no native snakes. Carry on.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM

I find this modifier suspicious.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 04:54 PM (Wnv9h)

129 123 >>114 I would download the app and make false reports to f with the leftoids, but I need the dopamine hit from being a bedwetting blackpiller in every thread.

that's a good idea.
Posted by: ace at July 01, 2025 04:53 PM (KRtlO)

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I would never put such an app on my phone. The tracking. The info sharing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

130 Stateless-

What do they do in Canada on Dominion Day?
Is it like the 4th of July here were people put out flags and have barbecues and set off fireworks and sometimes have a special reading of the Declaration of Independence. Yes, folks I realize that the DOI is an American thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 04:54 PM (2GCMq)

131 I liked Nancy, a little, at first.

Now I'm kinda scared she'll be my next governor.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

At least she ain't black. We're having a bad run of black female politicians.

Posted by: Evander Holyfield at July 01, 2025 04:55 PM (gKDq2)

132 56 I'm allergic to human flesh. Food allergy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

*flips open pocket notebook*
*takes out pencil*

So, tell me, where were you and what were you doing when you first suspected that you had this.. condition?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 04:55 PM (Dv3i1)

133 You know I hadn't thought of having illegal alien cannibals eat their fellow illegals. Sometimes a common sense solution presents itself in a way that hadn't been considered. Tom Massie would probably object

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 04:55 PM (eBgDF)

134 Bye, Evander.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 04:55 PM (gKDq2)

135 > What's the DEAL with airline food?

Alaska Airlines has a nice cheese and fruit plate I eat every time I fly with them. I would happily eat it just about anytime.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 04:55 PM (lIio7)

136 Oh shit, I remember that horrific story. He was growling like an animal during the attack, right?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:53 PM

That's the one. Some seriously freaky shit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 04:55 PM (Wnv9h)

137 Then, when the Left figures it out, actually go on some of the leaked raids: then stop doing that!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:55 PM (1paM0)

138 I would too, but only if it is agreed that he will NEVER get out of a hospital for the criminally insane. I'm not willing to trust some psychologist's opinion on this.
Posted by: Archimedes

If I recall, he started acting weird maybe a few days before the event, and shortly thereafter, but otherwise didnt have a history of mental illness. Seemed like a pretty normal dude, which makes it all the more terrifying, that it potentially could happen to anyone, at anytime.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 01, 2025 04:56 PM (JCZqz)

139 Kristi Noem says a cannibal who had been detained started to eat himself after being put on a plane.
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The jokes write themselves. Or they should.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 04:56 PM (VPwHp)

140 She's gonna force the legislature in session to look at grainy video footage of her naked.

She will then veto constitutional carry legislation because conservative.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

Well if she signs the veto naked I could wait until the next governor for that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 04:56 PM (6ydKt)

141 98 He was a cannibal before, but he had just turned his life around...until the stress of this deportation flight...
Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (TN0g+)

Let he who has never eaten human flesh cast the first stone!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (uCjyK

When do you officially become a cannibal? Interesting question.

Unlike lipstick lesbians, I'm guessing the cannibals don't get a chance to experiment?

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:56 PM (jvJvP)

142 Cannibal Bob, to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (XZ5S6)

143 102 Why did they stop him, the cannibal, I mean?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:50 PM (1paM0)

They forgot the A-1 Steak Sauce?

I guess bandage him up and adios! Teeth proof bandages, Halloween mask, and cuffs should get him on the next plane. LaTeefah protests from Congress!

I have become a coldhearted beetch as I get older. I will continue to blame Dimmycrats.All I need now is a mole on my chin with a black hair sprouting from it, as I stir the caldron. The problem is that I cannot stand facial moles and would have it removed pronto.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (6PCLE)

144 I would never put such an app on my phone. The tracking. The info sharing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Old cell phone, wireless connection from some place's free wifi. Install, make fake reports, remove. Then repeat whenever you go out to eat or shop.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (ctrM5)

145 Let's go full Commie on CNN and seize THEIR means of production and rename it MAGA Network ... the end justifies the means.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (FCPbW)

146 >>I don't think human teeth are strong enough to literally rip the flesh off the bone. We're not wolves.

You'd be completely wrong.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (ASFuz)

147 Can't we have an app to stalk them?

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (gAG18)

148 Diversity is our strength!!!!

Warning: The following foods are cultural appropriation;
1. Tacos
2. Burritos
3. Moo Goo Gai Pan
4. Arms

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (dIske)

149 So why doesn’t someone make a “liberal politician” app, giving their home addresses, family members, where their kids go to school, etc?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (Vh9CX)

150 Oh shit, I remember that horrific story. He was growling like an animal during the attack, right?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Right beforehand, his mom saw him in the kitchen chugging a bottle of vegetable oil before walking out of the house. Crazy AND probably had the shits.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (JCZqz)

151 That's the one. Some seriously freaky shit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 04:55 PM (Wnv9h)

Was that the one with the guy on bath salts?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (i24o9)

152 Geez. You eat one guy...

Posted by: Joe the cannibal at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (P+mok)

153 From the last thread

It's why they always threatened to fire "cops and teachers" at the local level if you don't agree to pay more in property taxes. Or why they allow the roads to go to shit. You say "seriously, there is nothing else to cut in the budget other than cops and teachers?" and they will tell you with a straight face that it's either that, or they get rid of road maintenance or plowing

Town near mine had used "emergency" COVID funds to hire a bunch of permanent employees. When the state finally pulled those funds they asked for a 25% tax increase or else they'd have to fire a bunch of teachers.

Some people looked into it and noticed that over 10 years the number of kids were down by about 1/3. The reaction? What does that have to do with how much we need to spend on the schools?!?

And they found things in the budget like a new $100k salary "climate change engineer". And nope, couldn't cut that position either.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (t0Rmr)

154 Cannibals would reduce food costs at Alligator Alcatraz.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 01, 2025 04:58 PM (kTd/k)

155 UPenn also had to agree to only use the biological definition of male and female in Trump's EO. No funds for gender affirming care is also in the BBB. Maybe we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 01, 2025 04:58 PM (t/2Uw)

156 began to eat his own arms
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*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 01, 2025 04:58 PM (VPwHp)

157 Newsom is going around talking about his poor upbringing, by the way.

It was a very bizarre, contradictory speech. He talked about not having enough room so his sister slept in the hall, then talked about having to rent the spare bedroom to someone...

"Ehhh... let's give it a few and see how this one plays out."

I'm with this guy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:58 PM (dfIr7)

158 If I recall, he started acting weird maybe a few days before the event, and shortly thereafter, but otherwise didnt have a history of mental illness. Seemed like a pretty normal dude, which makes it all the more terrifying, that it potentially could happen to anyone, at anytime.
Posted by: Military Moron at July 01, 2025 04:56 PM

It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors.

Posted by: Dr. Caron at July 01, 2025 04:58 PM (xn0Ie)

159 151 That's the one. Some seriously freaky shit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 04:55 PM (Wnv9h)

Was that the one with the guy on bath salts?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

No, he wasn't on anything.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 01, 2025 04:58 PM (JCZqz)

160 The soccer teamthat went down in the Andes didn't have a way to cook. They did have knives and the air basically freeze dried the flesh.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 01, 2025 04:58 PM (AcTAo)

161 128
But accurate. Even if we are a 3rd world country we still have zoos.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 01, 2025 04:59 PM (9XVG3)

162 Regarding New Zealand having no Snakes: remember what Fritz Leiber taught us - it’s either Snakes or Spiders!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:59 PM (1paM0)

163 There are cannibal citizens.
Yep there are.
Cannibals need terminated with extreme prejudice.
Do NOT retire the A10.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 04:59 PM (gAG18)

164 So lets say I'm going somewhere and I want the illegals to clear out, I can just use this app and say ICE is coming?

Beautiful.

Seems like this app could easily be used for fun by conservatives.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2025 04:59 PM (rvwwT)

165 If it were my app it would track the person who is using the app.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 04:59 PM (vFG9F)

166 Late to the party. Day off. I loved the comments a couple of threads back on NZ critters. All wrong except for having no native snakes. Carry on.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (9XVG3)

Some of the sheep are pretty scary though.

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 04:59 PM (D7oie)

167 148 Diversity is our strength!!!!

Warning: The following foods are cultural appropriation;
1. Tacos
2. Burritos
3. Moo Goo Gai Pan
4. Arms

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (dIske)

I'm celebrating this week and plan on having 3 out of 4 of those foods.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:00 PM (jvJvP)

168 So why doesn’t someone make a “liberal politician” app, giving their home addresses, family members, where their kids go to school, etc?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (Vh9CX)

See my GOODCOMMIE app.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 05:00 PM (i24o9)

169 Did anyone notice that American Greatness is gone? Maybe just a web problem.

I now feel really bad about not sending them money.
Wake up people -- send money to all the important Right wing news sites before they can't afford their domain registrations. (starting with the HQ)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 01, 2025 05:00 PM (RU1zG)

170 We just need common sense cannibal control.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 05:00 PM (VPwHp)

171 It's why they always threatened to fire "cops and teachers" at the local level if you don't agree to pay more in property taxes.

Yeah Oregon just had a HUGE tax increase for "transportation" and it finally failed in the legislature. The governor responded by saying she had to fire 600 DMV workers which is like a third of the staff. Oregon has a strange law in which if they pull in more revenue in a given year than the budget requires, then taxpayers automatically get a "kicker" back in their taxes the next year. They have one almost every year, but somehow still are always out of money.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 05:00 PM (dfIr7)

172 But diddy wah diddy!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 05:01 PM (63Dwl)

173 I'm with this guy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:58 PM (dfIr7)

Time for "Alien" soon. Thanks

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:01 PM (jvJvP)

174 Newsom gets sloshed on $360 bottles of wine he's got an ownership share in.
He gets high on his own supply.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 05:01 PM (gAG18)

175 I am all for self deleting illegal alien cannibals.

Posted by: steevy at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM (YwEeS)

176 125 Philly airport is a hot mess but it's not all the weather - it's the strike

god this place sucks

municipal worker strike - so, garbage men on strike, libraries closed, etc - but I think some of these workers were airport workers too

and now some other unions are sympathy striking, which is incredibly annoying

I have to give Mayor Parker credit for standing up to this tbh
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 04:54 PM (Pv3Rg)

In other words, Paris.

We left the last time just before a summer garbage and metro strike.

No photos are complete now without a rat infested garbage heap near the Eiffel Tower with Abdul and Mo photo shopping with a machete.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM (6PCLE)

177 >>In the book Heart of the Sea, the sailors stranded in small boats in the middle of the Pacific eventually ended up eating their mates. There was no ability to cook.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 04:49 PM

I read that one. They should have sailed to Tahiti instead of back toward South America.

Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM (n2swS)

178 If I recall, he started acting weird maybe a few days before the event, and shortly thereafter, but otherwise didnt have a history of mental illness. Seemed like a pretty normal dude, which makes it all the more terrifying, that it potentially could happen to anyone, at anytime.
Posted by: Military Moron at July 01, 2025 04:56 PM

It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors.
Posted by: Dr. Caron at July 01, 2025 04:58 PM (xn0Ie)
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There were a couple of episode of The X-Files that used this as a premise. In one episode, people were being conditioned to be triggered through a combination of chemicals added to their water and subliminal messaging. They'd suddenly go crazy for no apparent reason.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM (7fElN)

179 Eating one human body a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM (P+mok)

180 But can I use "ICEBLOCK" to clear out a Home Depot ?

Genius. If you're going to Home Depot for something and it's crowded, use the app to say there's an ICE raid there about 15 minutes ahead of time.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM (AIhUY)

181 >>I don't think human teeth are strong enough to literally rip the flesh off the bone. We're not wolves.

You'd be completely wrong.
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (ASFuz)

garret is so obviously right here, do I even need to second it?

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM (r2ymA)

182 began attempting to eat his own arms during his deportation flight
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Damn it leave some for us!!

Posted by: The Alligators at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM (VPwHp)

183 3. Moo Goo Gai Pan

Posted by: Orson

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All I know about Moo Goo Gai Pan is that it sounded really sexy when Suzanne Pleshette said it on the Bob Newheart show when I heard it 40 years ago. I think it must have been an inside joke with them because she brought it up a lot (IIRC)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 01, 2025 05:03 PM (RU1zG)

184 I'm celebrating this week and plan on having 3 out of 4 of those foods.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:00 PM (jvJvP)
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You don't like Moo Goo Gai Pan?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2025 05:03 PM (7fElN)

185 It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors.

"That's a great idea! But we'll put it in a fake vaccine instead!" - Pfizer, probably

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2025 05:04 PM (AIhUY)

186 Holy Smokes!!! You know the thunderstorm is really next level when the thunder shakes the house so hard it knocks things off your fireplace mantle.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 05:04 PM (dIske)

187 Eating one human body a month ought to be enough for anybody.
Posted by: Karen McAwfl at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM

To be fair, sometimes you get a comedian or clown, and they taste funny.

Posted by: New Guinea Highlander at July 01, 2025 05:04 PM (0sNs1)

188 In honestly-I-didn't-know-he-was-alive news, Jimmy Swaggert has died.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 05:04 PM (xn0Ie)

189 Wasn't it just a few months ago that the left was so very, very concerned about our noble government employees being fired by Trump? I seem to recall that they went on and on about it for weeks. How worried they were for these people. Some of those fired had been veterans!!

But, not so much when it comes to ICE agents. Huh.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 01, 2025 05:04 PM (j6Ika)

190 In honestly-I-didn't-know-he-was-alive news, Jimmy Swaggert has died.

Now he can weep before God about how he sinned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 05:05 PM (dfIr7)

191 In honestly-I-didn't-know-he-was-alive news, Jimmy Swaggert has died.

Wow. I could've sworn he died like 25 years ago.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2025 05:05 PM (AIhUY)

192 "began attempting to eat his own arms during his deportation flight"

Exercising his right to rare arms.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 05:05 PM (vFG9F)

193 If you fired the climate change engineer the climate would change and someone's relative would have to find a job.
Good luck with that on your resume.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 05:05 PM (gAG18)

194 Parking for the summer park concert series just got easier.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2025 05:06 PM (rvwwT)

195 What wine does one pair with a self-eating cannibal?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 05:06 PM (i24o9)

196 Do you add carrots when you're eating arm?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 05:06 PM (eBgDF)

197 But diddy wah diddy!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 05:01 PM

May I suggest do wah diddy?

Posted by: Manfred Mann at July 01, 2025 05:06 PM (0sNs1)

198 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always thinks that at July 01, 2025 05:06 PM (P+mok)

199 > Now he can weep before God about how he sinned.

He won't be the only one doing so.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 05:06 PM (lIio7)

200 154 Cannibals would reduce food costs at Alligator Alcatraz.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 01, 2025 04:58 PM (kTd/k)

My husband just asked what I am laughing about and I told him. He told me I was crazy, which he does most days.

I could be doings something productive but I am here for the content.

I want to see this cannibal's photo. His face,not his arm. Or in action.

I seriously would have patched him up, taped his forehead to the seat with duct tape (along with his mouth), and kept flying.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:07 PM (6PCLE)

201 Trump Asked Why Mayorkas Hasn’t Been Arrested for Border Invasion, Tells DOJ to Start Looking Into It

I sense a little regret on the Bondi hire. Could be a gentle reminder to her to do her f*cking job like she promised.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 05:08 PM (/U5Yz)

202 well, Jesus sat with prostitutes and sinners, so I guess Swaggart did one better by letting them sit on him

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 05:08 PM (gKWVE)

203 He won't be the only one doing so.

We all will be, but televangelists are on my most loathed people list

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 05:08 PM (dfIr7)

204 I downloaded this app and have been posting ICE sightings near every major construction site, factory and ethnic restaurant.

Posted by: Deport Them All at July 01, 2025 05:08 PM (cpC+s)

205 An ouroborus immigrant.
Autocanibalistic.
A man eater.

Or someone trying to make a scene to make them take him off the flight and maybe get some of that CNN love and VIP visits with margaritas to keep the grift going as long as possible?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 01, 2025 05:08 PM (RU1zG)

206 ICEBlock isn't on Android yet because of a requirement that you have to store the Device ID so that it can be subpoenaed by law enforcement.

I know this is going to sound paranoid, but isn’t this just ripe to be a trap. Like what if ICE gets ahold of this info. Or puts out something similar?

Yeah this is getting the Admin "Big Mad". Pam Bondi got real upset and Tom Homan says they should sue CNN for reporting on it.

Hopefully this generates a "Streisand effect"

ICE thugs are rounding up people indiscriminately on the street. I seriously doubt when they jump out of a van and start tackling people at the Home Depot parking lot, they're targeting specific individuals with specific deportation orders.

This is a dragnet, it's unconstitutional and unAmerican.

The issue with these is that scumbags end up bombarding the system with fake records. My snooping in the Conservative sub confirms that people will 100% make malicious false reports.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 01, 2025 05:09 PM (JCZqz)

207 What could go wrong:

"Microsoft is accelerating its move away from traditional passwords and urging users to adopt passkey, a login method that uses your fingerprint or face to sign in securely."

I've seen this movie.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 05:09 PM (vFG9F)

208 I know this is going to sound paranoid, but isn’t this just ripe to be a trap. Like what if ICE gets ahold of this info. Or puts out something similar?

Well well, they're not all idiots

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 05:10 PM (dfIr7)

209 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 05:10 PM (H7X8V)

210 Mind you, just to be topical, my forebears did meet real cannibals when they got here in 1845. Luckily for me our lot are Scots Irish and not to be fucked with.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 01, 2025 05:10 PM (9XVG3)

211 187 Eating one human body a month ought to be enough for anybody.
Posted by: Karen McAwfl at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM

To be fair, sometimes you get a comedian or clown, and they taste funny.
Posted by: New Guinea Highlander at July 01, 2025 05:04 PM (0sNs1)

You are confusing them with pythons. Cannibals and pythons on a plane. Who wins?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:10 PM (6PCLE)

212 My husband just asked what I am laughing about and I told him. He told me I was crazy, which he does most days.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:07 PM (6PCLE)

Tell him you're hungry, then look him up and down like he was a plate of chicken wings.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 05:10 PM (i24o9)

213 But just using your teeth as your only tool? I don't know.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (uCjyK)

So you think humans only ate vegetables before cutlery was invented?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 05:11 PM (YUL+W)

214 Tell him you're hungry, then look him up and down like he was a plate of chicken wings.

"Hon, could you try on this buffalo sauce just for tonight? I want to try something different."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 05:11 PM (dfIr7)

215 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat -

Margaret Hamilton was not a bad-looking lady in her youth, but she could never escape her typecasting as the Wicked Witch of the West/Almira Gulch in The Wizard of Oz. She played up the connection in a lot of later roles, with a good bit of humor. If you want a treat, see her role as Professor Crabwell, a University professor specializing in the occult in 1973’s The Night Stalker!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 05:12 PM (1paM0)

216 >>But just using your teeth as your only tool? I don't know.

Just go ahead and catalog it in the vast library of things you don't know.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2025 05:12 PM (ASFuz)

217 I'm reminded of the movie line "face eating , Jack?"
Anybody remember the movie? And who said it? Hint it was a Horde favorite

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 05:12 PM (eBgDF)

218 So they could shut down all social media talk of Hunter's Laptop being Real, but they can't stop CNN from interfering with ICE making raids (which is supporting/abetting criminal activity)?

What a wonderful world this could be ... if we didn't have ultra rich globalists (globalists say 'thank you MAG7 stock buyers, for your support') trying to overthrow America, and Western/Christian Liberty/Values in general.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 05:12 PM (vbXSk)

219 Eating one human body a month ought to be enough for anybody.
Posted by: Karen McAwfl at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM

To be fair, sometimes you get a comedian or clown, and they taste funny.
Posted by: New Guinea Highlander at July 01, 2025 05:04 PM (0sNs1)

You are confusing them with pythons. Cannibals and pythons on a plane. Who wins?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:10 PM

Wait a bit, and we do, with the invention of pythbal.

Posted by: New Guinea Highlander at July 01, 2025 05:13 PM (0sNs1)

220 LOL Chuck Schumer tries to warn people: "Today, it's USAID. Next it might be the IRS or the intelligence agencies"

Stop Chuck, the doctor already warned me about my priapism.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 05:13 PM (dfIr7)

221 Eating one human body a month ought to be enough for anybody.
Posted by: Karen McAwfl

A man of a certain ethnic extraction was out hunting and walked up upon a lovely, smiling, voluptuous nekid woman. He asked her "Are you game?"

She smiled coyly and said "Why yes, yes I am."

So he shot her.

Posted by: The entire joke at July 01, 2025 05:13 PM (H7X8V)

222 There is something wrong when a 30 character password with upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols is not good enough and now they need my fingerprint and a picture of my face.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 05:14 PM (vFG9F)

223 What wine does one pair with a self-eating cannibal?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 05:06 PM

Chianti.

Posted by: H. Lecter at July 01, 2025 05:14 PM (Wnv9h)

224 Looks like there is a verdict in the Diddy Trial.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2025 05:14 PM (ASFuz)

225 Hack it, you idiots.

Hack it, fill it with false locations, and use it to round-up the illegals.

What, is the NSA too busy to hack a web app?

Posted by: Mr. Proton at July 01, 2025 05:14 PM (WYlyw)

226 ICEBlock isn't on Android yet because of a requirement that you have to store the Device ID so that it can be subpoenaed by law enforcement.

I know this is going to sound paranoid, but isn’t this just ripe to be a trap. Like what if ICE gets ahold of this info. Or puts out something similar?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 01, 2025 05:09 PM (JCZqz)

And they would be correct. If they report an ICE Raid, and an ICE Agent gets Hurt, or worse, Killed... under 18 USC 1324 Aiding and Abetting Illegal Aliens, they are guilty of a FELONY and can lead to a 20 YEAR sentence.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 05:14 PM (mP0Kj)

227 Eating one human body a month ought to be enough for anybody.
Posted by: Karen McAwfl

A man of a certain ethnic extraction was out hunting and walked up upon a lovely, smiling, voluptuous nekid woman. He asked her "Are you game?"

She smiled coyly and said "Why yes, yes I am."

So he shot her.
Posted by: The entire joke
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I'm going to wait for BEN to explain this one...

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 05:15 PM (TN0g+)

228 verdict in the Diddy Trial.
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2025 05:14 PM (ASFuz)

We find the defendant "damn freaky, yo"

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 05:15 PM (gKWVE)

229 Hey. Canada Day.

The CBC is asking what being Canadian means to us.

I'm tempted to tell them that being Canadian means I had to worry about my elderly mother's healthcare since we refused an experimental shot, my estranged nephew left university, and even though I was taking care of Mom and not leaving the house, I was forbidden from travel, bars, restaurants, anywhere fun. Or jobs. School. Organized Sports.

Being Canadian. I am a second class jogger for not taking the knee. That's what Canada Day means to me.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:15 PM (jvJvP)

230 Be a shame if people began spamming that app with false reports

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 05:15 PM (3QagQ)

231 I thought Swaggart was dead, too. A few decades ago I dreamed Judge Judy was dead and spread a rumor of this in my family. A week later my father called me to say she was not dead. I can't keep up!

I hope CNN gets a whopping big lawsuit or shame perp walk or something!

I already said if I was illegal and saw the El Salvador Trip of a Lifetime, I would have deported myself somewhere. Today's event in FL would certainly do it.

Riding with cannibals would deter being caught as well. I wonder if they were eating the cats, too? Or those were from Haiti and catching ducks in ponds.

I am telling you all, somehow we have gone into a Gary Larson cartoon. Maybe when we slept.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:15 PM (6PCLE)

232 @217/Smell the Glove: {{ I'm reminded of the movie line "face eating , Jack?"
Anybody remember the movie? And who said it? Hint it was a Horde favorite }}

Walter (played by Brian Dennehy) in Cocoon (1985).

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 05:15 PM (O7YUW)

233 They should make a new studio for CNN on Alligator Alcatraz.

Posted by: t-bird at July 01, 2025 05:16 PM (SnwCX)

234 A man of a certain ethnic extraction

Aggie?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 05:16 PM (gKWVE)

235 verdict in the Diddy Trial.
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2025 05:14 PM (ASFuz)

We find the defendant "damn freaky, yo"

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 05:15 PM (gKWVE)

And 100% homo.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 05:16 PM (i24o9)

236 Where my mind goes. I would use that app, then go to the officer and tell him a neighborhood watch is being set up around his house.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 05:16 PM (HFcKg)

237 Ouch.

Primetime Viewers Per Day
Fox News 2.6 million
MSNBC 1.0 million
CNN 538,000

24-54 Viewers Per Day
202,000 Fox
71,000 CNN
57,000 MSNBC

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 05:17 PM (NXz8h)

238 So evidently it was an inside joke about Moo Goo Gai Pan on the Bob Newheart show. They did an episode where Bob got drunk and phoned in an order to a Chinese restaurant and had trouble saying it.

I don't remember that, but I do remember Emily saying it in that, or a different episode. I liked Emily.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 01, 2025 05:17 PM (RU1zG)

239 @229/Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS!:

Do it. They should never be allowed to forget their complicity.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 05:17 PM (O7YUW)

240 Can ICE hack the app, and make it say "ICE is disguising themselves as CNN reporters, show no mercy"?

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 05:17 PM (vbXSk)

241 @232 five quataloos for the winner

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 05:17 PM (eBgDF)

242 The Fifth Circuit ruling here in a few weeks is going to massively piss off the left.

Recall, that is the case that precipitated Roberts' illegal Midnight Order.

By indications of the oral arguments, the panel has already written their opinion.
A lot of questions like, "so what gives us the power to second-guess the Commander in Chief" when it comes to war and national defense.

The ACLUs ouroboros response, since the SCOTUS took up the injunction, there must be some authority for courts to intervene--filing suit grants you the power to ... file the suit?

Best part? After they lose, they won't request a full panel. Because James Ho is fired up ready to torch them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 05:17 PM (LbQ3Z)

243 Post 215

You're right , Nemo, Margaret Hamilton looked rather elegant as a younger person. Not gorgeous but I bet she was capable of playing all kinds of roles onstage:

https://tinyurl.com/5f8bkxud

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:18 PM (2GCMq)

244 So you think humans only ate vegetables before cutlery was invented?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Didn’t people have bigger jaws and teeth, once upon a time? Seems like the transition to agriculture went along with more people with smaller stature and smaller jaws and teeth?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 05:18 PM (1paM0)

245 232 @217/Smell the Glove: {{ I'm reminded of the movie line "face eating , Jack?"
Anybody remember the movie? And who said it? Hint it was a Horde favorite }}

Walter (played by Brian Dennehy) in Cocoon (1985).
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 05:15 PM (O7YUW)

Pretty sure it was hoyt axton in gremlins.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 01, 2025 05:18 PM (OA79/)

246 Swaggert was one of the last prominent Christian cultural figures in America.

Following him and other evangelical leaders America has become a largely secular Nation.

Following in the footsteps of the Western Europe.

The formerly Christian West, which rose to the greatest heights, has seemingly chosen a path to destruction. For some reason.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 05:18 PM (r2ymA)

247 Your honor the jury finds the defendant has a penis the size color of a Tootsie Roll

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 05:19 PM (eBgDF)

248 "A jury ruled on Thursday in favor of 13 employees with the St. Louis Public Schools System who were forced to take the COVID vaccine despite religious objections.

The court awarded the 13 employees $4 million for the injustice."

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 05:19 PM (vbXSk)

249 Newhart... The boys got drunk one night and were ordering Chinese.
1st order, Moo Goo Gai Pan
2nd, same... with hilarity.
Third.. Bob finally stumbles out, "More Goo to go".
I'll try to find it.

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 05:19 PM (cPGH3)

250 America's Hat turns 158 today.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 05:20 PM (LL6Kc)

251 Being Canadian. I am a second class jogger for not taking the knee. That's what Canada Day means to me.
Posted by: Stateless

I was born and raised in Winnipeg, married my American husband 25 years ago and have lived in ND since.
I love my birth country, Canada, there is so, so much to be proud of.
I love my new country, USA. There is so, so much to be proud of.
I wonder where some of you people would prefer to live.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 05:20 PM (F3Dlr)

252 ...looking like the Judge is sending the Jury back to deliberate over one count they are hung on.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2025 05:20 PM (ASFuz)

253 The jury is hung?

Posted by: Unlike Diddy at July 01, 2025 05:21 PM (vFG9F)

254 Kristi Noem says a cannibal who had been detained started to eat himself after being put on a plane.

-
Well, those bags of peanuts are awful small.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 05:21 PM (L/fGl)

255 I think Bob Newhart just thought "moo goo gai pan" sounded funny, which... it does.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 05:21 PM (dfIr7)

256 Newhart came home drunk one night cand after putting a pizza in the cupboard, he said " do you realize the provalone means for valone and antipasto means against pasto?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 05:21 PM (eBgDF)

257 Margaret Hamilton was not a bad-looking lady in her youth, but she could never escape her typecasting as the Wicked Witch of the West/Almira Gulch in The Wizard of Oz. She played up the connection in a lot of later roles, with a good bit of humor. If you want a treat, see her role as Professor Crabwell, a University professor specializing in the occult in 1973’s The Night Stalker!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 05:12 PM (1paM0)

She scared the crap out of me as a kid. I still remember scooting back on the floor to basically sit on my mother's feet. Maybe to keep a house from landing on them.

I cannot handle creepy movies at all. In college one of my classmates too me to see The Omen and I have never been the same. With that and a serial killer on the loose my college years ended anything demonic.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:21 PM (6PCLE)

258 https://tinyurl.com/3dx745xw

Newhart Moo Goo skit

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 05:22 PM (cPGH3)

259 the Judge is sending the Jury back to deliberate over one count they are hung on.
Posted by: garrett

"Zesty" or just "sweet"?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 05:22 PM (gKWVE)

260 18 U.S.C. § 119: This federal statute makes it illegal to knowingly publish restricted personal information (e.g., home address, phone number) of certain federal officials (like judges, prosecutors, or law enforcement officers) with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite violence. Violators can face up to 7 years in prison.

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at July 01, 2025 05:23 PM (OgsJk)

261 Sign up for the Ice Dox App. Give them all your lib neighbors.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:24 PM (vIl3q)

262 260 18 U.S.C. § 119: This federal statute makes it illegal to knowingly publish restricted personal information (e.g., home address, phone number) of certain federal officials (like judges, prosecutors, or law enforcement officers) with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite violence. Violators can face up to 7 years in prison.
Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist)

We're on this like Epstein on an underage girl.

Posted by: DOJ Barbie at July 01, 2025 05:24 PM (/U5Yz)

263 >> Sadly, Noem reported that a Cultural-Enriching Cancer-Curing Cannibal Illegal Alien Criminal began attempting to eat his own arms during his deportation flight.

Gives new meaning to in flight meal.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:25 PM (vIl3q)

264 Newhart Moo Goo skit
Posted by: MkY

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Thanks, but I want to see Suzanne Pleshette's pouty lips say it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 01, 2025 05:25 PM (RU1zG)

265 I've heard of Champagne Socialists and Cocaine Communists. What is a spoiled brat Muslim Socialist/Communist?

Besides Mayor of NYC, I mean.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 01, 2025 05:26 PM (wBaIH)

266 I have a serious problem with CNN promoting this new app. No, not the content of the app, that's probably a trap.

My problem is "news" organizations doing advertisements presented as a news report. They do this all the time. Check out this new book! What's happening in tonight's episode of trashy romance reality show? Washed up rock star has a concert tonight! None of that is freaking news you hacks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 05:26 PM (dfIr7)

267 Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 05:18 PM (r2ymA)

Not quite yet. John MacArthur is still preaching as well as a number of other high profile conservative preachers. Your concern is important, but continue to pray for revival - Psalm 85 is a good one for this and was prayed by an Episcopal minister in September 1774 at the second Continental Congress.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:26 PM (2GCMq)

268 I wonder where some of you people would prefer to live.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 05:20 PM

For me, here at home for 2 years while I create a life after caregiving for years. After that, I don't know.

I'm going to have to set some goals. I have a few.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:26 PM (jvJvP)

269 If I ran DHS, I would require ICE Deputies to announce ten raids per day on this app. Run the fuckers ragged.
Posted by: toby928

Make sure to include locations frequented by the woke so as to make commuting easier. ;-)

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 01, 2025 05:27 PM (2sMLA)

270
More goo to go!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 05:27 PM (w6EFb)

271 Thanks, but I want to see Suzanne Pleshette's pouty lips say it.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Best voice ever!
Bourbon and cigarettes... gets me hot!

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 05:27 PM (cPGH3)

272 USAID is officially mort.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 01, 2025 05:27 PM (t/2Uw)

273 The cannibal was ‘eating his arms’ to remove gang tats. Or just hoping he would need medical attention and it would delay his deportation.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 01, 2025 05:27 PM (n5P77)

274 I wonder where some of you people would prefer to live.

The new earth.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 05:28 PM (dfIr7)

275 The minute you sign up for that app they have all the information needed to prosecute you. They can very easily find you. No VPN or spoofing or burner phone will save you.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 05:28 PM (vIl3q)

276 The cannibal was ‘eating his arms’ to remove gang tats. Or just hoping he would need medical attention and it would delay his deportation.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 01, 2025 05:27 PM (n5P77)

Slap some gauze and a straight jacket on the fucker and put him on the next flight out.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:28 PM (MGB5H)

277 179 Eating one human body a month ought to be enough for anybody.
Posted by: Karen McAwfl

I could feed a village for a month.

Posted by: Lizzo at July 01, 2025 05:28 PM (/U5Yz)

278 Elric, I'm betting delayed deportation.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 05:28 PM (HFcKg)

279
How can there be a partial verdict in the pervert's case?

Posted by: four seasons at July 01, 2025 05:29 PM (3ek7K)

280 Isn't cannabolism just another name for cultural enrichment?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 05:29 PM (4BNRr)

281 The formerly Christian West, which rose to the greatest heights, has seemingly chosen a path to destruction. For some reason.
Posted by: chavon

Some of us choose to walk the straight and narrow path that leads to eternal salvation. I pray that the Holy Ghost will touch your heart, if you are not already Saved, such that you can believe in Jesus Christ as the substitutional sacrifice for your sins, and by believing in Him may attain eternal life. Amen

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 05:29 PM (1paM0)

282 > Microsoft is accelerating its move away from traditional passwords and urging users to adopt passkey, a login method that uses your fingerprint or face to sign in securely.

That is a massively oversimplified explanation.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 05:29 PM (lIio7)

283 186 Holy Smokes!!! You know the thunderstorm is really next level when the thunder shakes the house so hard it knocks things off your fireplace mantle.

Posted by: Orson

Go check to see if Thor is outside.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 05:29 PM (sAmhv)

284 Thanks, but I want to see Suzanne Pleshette's pouty lips say it.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Best voice ever!
Bourbon and cigarettes... gets me hot!
Posted by: MkY

You gotta be careful as it's quite the needle to thread - Suzanna Pleshette is wonderbar but if it gets to Marge Schott territory, we've all gone way too far!!

Marge: "Would you buy a lady a drink?"

TP: "Sure if one walks in!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 05:29 PM (H7X8V)

285 So you think humans only ate vegetables before cutlery was invented?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Didn’t people have bigger jaws and teeth, once upon a time? Seems like the transition to agriculture went along with more people with smaller stature and smaller jaws and teeth?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 05:18 PM (1paM0)

Not homo sap, really. But even without external tools you can clamp on a bit of meat and they push the bone away from you with both muscular arms until the meat rips.

And you can bash things with a rock and do even more.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:30 PM (8avO+)

286 How can there be a partial verdict in the pervert's case?
Posted by: four seasons at July 01, 2025 05:29 PM (3ek7K

The couldn't agree on count 1 which is the racketeering count. Agreed on 2-5. Judge said get back in there and figure it out.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 05:30 PM (MGB5H)

287 247 Is it a "Fun Size" Toosie Roll? Asking for the former Mayor of South Bend.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 01, 2025 05:30 PM (wBaIH)

288 Create an app that tracks and can DOXX politicians and this shit stops yesterday.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 05:30 PM (Q4IgG)

289 186 Holy Smokes!!! You know the thunderstorm is really next level when the thunder shakes the house so hard it knocks things off your fireplace mantle.

Posted by: Orson

Are you sure it was thunder? What did your neighbor have for lunch?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 05:31 PM (/U5Yz)

290 189 Wasn't it just a few months ago that the left was so very, very concerned about our noble government employees being fired by Trump? I seem to recall that they went on and on about it for weeks. How worried they were for these people. Some of those fired had been veterans!!

But, not so much when it comes to ICE agents. Huh.

Posted by: 29Victor

Our 'concerns' are situational.

Posted by: MSM at July 01, 2025 05:31 PM (sAmhv)

291
Thanks BruceWayne

Posted by: four seasons at July 01, 2025 05:31 PM (3ek7K)

292 Nood.

More goo to go! (fake republicans)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 01, 2025 05:31 PM (RU1zG)

293 Excuse me, stewardess, I speak cannibal.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2025 05:31 PM (u73oe)

294 There's a reason hand axes have existed for 1.6 million years.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 05:32 PM (xn0Ie)

295 Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 05:20 PM (F3Dlr)

Nice post. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:32 PM (2GCMq)

296 'cannibals on a plane' would be a great name for certain kinds of rock groups. they could yell about eating the idf from river to sea

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 01, 2025 05:32 PM (CWTWj)

297 I cannot handle creepy movies at all. In college one of my classmates too me to see The Omen and I have never been the same. With that and a serial killer on the loose my college years ended anything demonic.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:21 P

I used to just have the older kids shows on.

Tough year. You should see some of the horror movies I watched. So many penes cut off.

And the 'Saw' series was great. Luke from 'Gilmore Girls' was in three of them or so! Good for him. He's on a Canadian show now. I don't care enough to watch...but dude is working.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 05:32 PM (jvJvP)

298 For me, here at home for 2 years
Posted by: Stateless

Good luck.
I hope you find a different country you can be proud of.
Canada is a wonderful, unique, magnificent country. I only hope you can enjoy it the next 2 years before you leave.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 05:32 PM (F3Dlr)

299 TP: "Sure if one walks in!!"
Posted by: Tonypete

I'm sorry, sir, but you just compared Suzanne Pleshette to Marge Schott.
Good day, sir, I say to you. Good day!
(Harumphs away)

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 05:33 PM (cPGH3)

300 What is it about “please arrive 15 minutes early to your appointment to fill out some forms” that is so hard to understand?

wtf.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 05:33 PM (KhKk6)

301 I cannot handle creepy movies at all. In college one of my classmates too me to see The Omen and I have never been the same. With that and a serial killer on the loose my college years ended anything demonic.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:21 PM (6PCLE)

I remember hearing how scary that was, when I finally saw it in college it was the funniest thing ever.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:33 PM (8avO+)

302 The minute you sign up for that app they have all the information needed to prosecute you. They can very easily find you. No VPN or spoofing or burner phone will save you.
------
I feel that's likely the truth. Even if used in jest...I just wouldn't want it coming back to me...and I believe it would.

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 05:34 PM (TN0g+)

303 What is it about “please arrive 15 minutes early to your appointment to fill out some forms” that is so hard to understand?

wtf.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 05:33 PM (KhKk6)

the doctor is 40 minutes late.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:34 PM (8avO+)

304 181 >>I don't think human teeth are strong enough to literally rip the flesh off the bone. We're not wolves.

You'd be completely wrong.
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (ASFuz)

garret is so obviously right here, do I even need to second it?
Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 05:02 PM (r2ymA)

During the Chimp Era of raising two toddler sons, one once left complet dental imprints on his big brother's bare shoulder in their playroom. The crime of the century? Big brother stepped on his quilt's arms. I did not know his quilt had arms until that day. I punished the one not screaming in pain. The bad toddler was wearing a diaper and I doubt it fazed him.

If he was a bit older and I am pretty confident he could have ripped flesh, as he was only 2yrs old and did not have the python jaw strength yet.

This concludes the scientific reason I agree with garrett.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:35 PM (6PCLE)

305 There was some talk about what makes Trump great. I've got a few thoughts.

* He's very intelligent.
* He's very experienced.
* He knows everyone, foreign and domestic, and understands human nature.
* He very energetic.
* He's brave. He has the courage to do the right thing and isn't afraid to go toe to toe with anyone and exchange blows.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 05:35 PM (L/fGl)

306 If I recall, he started acting weird maybe a few days before the event, and shortly thereafter, but otherwise didnt have a history of mental illness. Seemed like a pretty normal dude, which makes it all the more terrifying, that it potentially could happen to anyone, at anytime.
Posted by: Military Moron

Drugs are bad, mmmkay

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 01, 2025 05:35 PM (a+4eV)

307 > Microsoft is accelerating its move away from traditional passwords and urging users to adopt passkey, a login method that uses your fingerprint or face to sign in securely.

That is a massively oversimplified explanation.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 05:29 PM (lIio7)

Most computers don't have cameras or fingerprint readers.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:36 PM (8avO+)

308 the doctor is 40 minutes late.
Posted by: Oldcat

Not if I’m working with them.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (/mzXQ)

309 If he was a bit older and I am pretty confident he could have ripped flesh, as he was only 2yrs old and did not have the python jaw strength yet.

This concludes the scientific reason I agree with garrett.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 05:35 PM (6PCLE)

My little brother did that on my shoulder through winter clothes and a down jacket - complete dental imprint bruise.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:38 PM (8avO+)

310 Oldcat -

I’m only an amateur anthropologist, unlike my late wife, but I seem to remember something about human beings breeding themselves towards smaller stature and finer features along about the time agriculture was introduced. Something about domesticating ourselves…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 05:39 PM (1paM0)

311 the doctor is 40 minutes late.
Posted by: Oldcat

Not if I’m working with them.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 05:37 PM (/mzXQ)

That made me laugh while drinking some near tea

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:39 PM (8avO+)

312 Nice post. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I celebrate how extremely fortunate i have been to be born in Canada and now, live in the United States of America. and, on July 4th I will celebrate again!

Have a wonderful July 4th, Independence Day, FS.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 05:40 PM (F3Dlr)

313 I’m only an amateur anthropologist, unlike my late wife, but I seem to remember something about human beings breeding themselves towards smaller stature and finer features along about the time agriculture was introduced. Something about domesticating ourselves…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 05:39 PM (1paM0)

Your local NBA team disagrees.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)

314 The Princess of Long Island speaks!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
JD Vance was the deciding vote to cut Medicaid across the country.
An absolute and utter betrayal of working families.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 05:42 PM (L/fGl)

315 There's a reason hand axes have existed for 1.6 million years.
Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 05:32 PM (xn0Ie)

people are lazy, and hide is tough.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:43 PM (8avO+)

316 Remember the cannibal ‘bath salts’ attacks? Humans were eating human flesh right to the bone.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 01, 2025 05:44 PM (n5P77)

317 Toby928 -

Objection!
Hand axes =/= teeth!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 05:44 PM (1paM0)

318 The Princess of Long Island speaks!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
JD Vance was the deciding vote to cut Medicaid across the country.
An absolute and utter betrayal of working families.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 05:42 PM (L/fGl)

the families that are taxed to pay for medical care for criminal gangs? That what you mean you fraud?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:45 PM (8avO+)

319 I EAT CANNIBALS

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 01, 2025 05:46 PM (n5P77)

320 Newhart came home drunk one night cand after putting a pizza in the cupboard, he said " do you realize the provalone means for valone and antipasto means against pasto?"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 05:21 PM (eBgDF)

You have antipasto and pasto in hte same place and they vaporize each other and the entire city.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:47 PM (8avO+)

321 Microsoft is accelerating its move away from traditional passwords and urging users to adopt passkey, a login method that uses your fingerprint or face to sign in securely.

That is a massively oversimplified explanation.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 05:29 PM (lIio7)

Most computers don't have cameras or fingerprint readers.

Linux Mint or Zorin..

Both are very close to Windows in terms of looks and feel.

give them a once over

Posted by: Blanco at July 01, 2025 05:52 PM (q83gU)

322 Warning: The following foods are cultural appropriation;
1. Tacos
2. Burritos
3. Moo Goo Gai Pan
4. Arms

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 04:57 PM (dIske)

My Lazy Samosas are double appropriation.

take a flour tortilla, make filling from mashed potatoes, peas and Indian seasonings to taste. Put the filling on one side, smosh to make it an even layer, then skillett heat until the tortilla is crisped up a bit. Salt the outside.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)

323 Oldcat -

I am referring to a trend discovered in the sizes of skeletal remains dating to the introduction of agriculture. Before agriculture, the remains are fewer and far between, suggesting less people in general, but, on average larger in size. After agriculture, there are more remains, suggesting more people, but the skeletons are typically smaller than before. I think the explanation proffered was that agriculture can support more people in a given region, but growing up on a diet of mainly millet seed, say, for ancient China, instead of a diet of meat and gathered vegetables, leads to a scrawnier specimen of humanity. This hypothesis might be skewed because the older skeletal remains date from an earlier time and may just be harder to find. As far as modern day giants, look how the average size of people in Japan increased after WWII when the Japanese had access to better nutrition and modern antibiotics. This is only one of many, many reasons I wish my late wife were here. If I could, I would just turn to her and get her view on the matter.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 05:57 PM (1paM0)

324 I want my antipasto before my pasto to avoid such an annihilation! And my pasto should be pasta!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 06:04 PM (1paM0)

325 My city took in a very large number of Vietnamese refugees circa 1975.

As the families matured, the children (now on an American diet) were ALWAYS taller than their parents.

Frequently, the daughters were even taller than their fathers.

Genetics does matter on human "sizes", but diet also matters a great deal.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 06:12 PM (HlyYF)

326 NOOD!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 06:13 PM (HlyYF)

327 The smartest thing national-level Republicans can do to Mamdani is to ignore him. Or at best say NYC deserves him.

Posted by: Butch at July 01, 2025 08:09 PM (2XtVR)

Poll: Thomas Massie Would Lose to a Republican Challenger?

Thomas Massie votes against all spending bills because he wants to be able to fundraise off of that questionable honor.

And now Trump and Musk are on opposite sides of Massie's reelection. Musk wants the House to vote against the Big Bloated Bill, and Trump wants them to vote in favor of it.

Musk says he will support Massie if he's primaried:

Tesla CEO and former Trump administration special employee Elon Musk says he'll back Rep. Thomas Massie in his 2026 primary race after President Donald Trump vowed to fund a primary challenger for the Kentucky Republican.
"Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame! And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth," Musk, who led the administration's Department of Government Efficiency, posted Monday on X.
Former Michigan GOP Rep. Justin Amash replied to Musk, asking whether he'd support Massie after he came out against Trump's "big beautiful bill" over concerns of it adding to the deficit.
"I will," Musk responsded.

Trump is highlighting a new poll showing that Massie is on thin ice.

Not just for the budget dispute, but for opposing Trump's strike on Iran.

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie is losing support among Republican primary voters in his own district, a new Kaplan Strategies poll shows. He now trails challenger Nicole Lee Ethington as voters turn on him for opposing major parts of President Trump's agenda.
Key Details:
Only 19% of likely GOP voters in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District say they would vote to reelect Massie no matter who challenges him -- a number that drops to 14% if Trump endorses an opponent.
In a head-to-head matchup, Massie trails Ethington 31% to 19%, with a majority of voters still undecided.
Massie's unfavorable rating stands at 62%, while Trump's favorability among respondents hits 89%.
Diving Deeper:
Congressman Thomas Massie is entering his 2026 reelection bid with little margin for error, according to a new poll from Kaplan Strategies released Monday. The poll, conducted June 23--24 among 368 likely Republican primary voters in Kentucky's 4th District, shows Massie lagging well behind challenger Nicole Lee Ethington in early support -- and facing sharp disapproval over several key votes.
Ethington, a registered nurse, currently leads Massie 31% to 19% in a hypothetical primary matchup. A significant 50% of voters remain undecided, but the underlying numbers signal deep dissatisfaction with Massie's record. Just 23% of respondents view him favorably, compared to a commanding 62% who view him unfavorably. President Donald Trump, by contrast, enjoys 89% favorability in the same poll -- and a Trump endorsement would drop Massie's support to just 14%.
The poll highlights a growing rift between Massie's libertarian-leaning approach and the prevailing MAGA sentiment in the GOP base. According to Kaplan Strategies, large majorities of voters expressed concern with Massie's past votes:
72% say they're less likely to support him because he opposed Trump's tax cuts and budget,
69% disapprove of his vote against the Take it Down Act, which would criminalize deepfake revenge porn,
58% are less likely to vote for him due to his opposition to Trump's pro-Israel policy stance.

Hey, it's a slow news day. Give me a break. I've got to put up anything close to newsy.

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 1

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 03:29 PM (N1DT3)

2 so close

Posted by: barbarausa at July 01, 2025 03:30 PM (enw9G)

3 I appreciate standing on principle, but I also understand that we can't make the perfect the enemy of the good.

Vote for it, and then talk about how disgusting the bill is and then NAME AND SHAME the people responsible for making it such a porked up mess.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 03:31 PM (N1DT3)

4 I'm commenting "present" on this one.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:31 PM (uCjyK)

5 Youth Save Democracy brings A Vision for Democracy and Progress Project 2029

.. the long awaited response to the Democrat's "Boogeyman" Project 2025

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 03:31 PM (RHGPo)

6 Can't stay around, off to work again
Have a great afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 03:32 PM (+qU29)

7 nooded

Posted by: barbarausa at July 01, 2025 03:32 PM (enw9G)

8 Polls this far out are usually garbage IMO.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 03:32 PM (e5NfL)

9 Hey, it's a slow news day. Give me a break. I've got to put up anything close to newsy.

======

Dude.

Biggest news so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD18ddeFuyM

Yuge. Edgar Wright is making another movie!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

10 Massie would lose even Elon bankrolls him

Yes, ask though is just going to payroll everyone that opposes this bill, he’s got a lot more Democrats to pick from they just focusing it on massie

Do nothing Libertarians aren’t helping cause

Posted by: Maroon at July 01, 2025 03:33 PM (HS92B)

11 Massie sucks assie

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

12 Musk is not wrong about the bill: it is objectively bad. Is it the best outcome possible given the makeup of Congress? I don’t know.

Posted by: Open Channel D at July 01, 2025 03:33 PM (gYnrv)

13 Ace you can write about how HOT it is in , you know, summer...

Posted by: steevy at July 01, 2025 03:33 PM (YwEeS)

14 I'm just curious what Massie did on his posts in the Transportation, Judiciary, and Rules committees to help make the House version of the OBBB less terrible in his eyes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

15 In other, similarly important news-

Detroit is getting a WNBA team!

And the local fox news station, as part of the promotion, included a picture of a women's basketball in the air... about to brick off the front of the rim.

Perfect.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (N1DT3)

16 Slow news day my eye.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (fV+MH)

17 I no longer care about the federal budget. Accounting and monetary policy are both witchcraft on their own, let alone combined.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (B9Prs)

18 You have to win elections to craft better laws.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (LL6Kc)

19 I've been reading Howard Chapelle's very detailed 1949 History of the American Sailing Navy, and it's striking how worthless libertarians have been right from the get-go. Jefferson was against a navy, but then used the one Adams and the Federalists had built in a very incompetent way to fight the Barbary Pirates. But he and Madison (pre-1812, Madison changed his tune later) wouldn't build anymore frigates or sloops. No sir. They built really tiny gunboats as some sort of waterborne equivalent to the state militias they had such a hard-on for.

I'm beginning to suspect that libertarianism going back to the anti-federalists is just an excuse in doing nothing and feeling virtuous about it at best, and a sort of non-Marxist escape from reality at worst.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (+b4rY)

20 Hey, it's a slow news day. Give me a break. I've got to put up anything close to newsy.

======

Dude.

Biggest news so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD18ddeFuyM

Yuge. Edgar Wright is making another movie!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
_____

Meh. I'm waiting for the Snow White sequel.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

21 RFK Jr. Unloads Disturbing Vaccine Secrets On Tucker... And Surprises Everyone On Trump

“I had [Trump] pegged as a narcissist, when narcissists are incapable of empathy....[but] he’s one of the most empathetic people that I’ve met,”

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (RHGPo)

22 Well, shoot, ace, I can load you up on articles

Former Venezuelan military intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal drug trafficking charges in the U.S. after striking a deal with prosecutors that leaves open the possibility of his cooperation with law enforcement in exchange for a reduced sentence.

(he looks like a corrupt thumb with links to the major leftist parties in South America, But mostly a corrupt thumb)'

https://tinyurl.com/5fwfvuxx

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 03:35 PM (D7oie)

23 Given that House incumbents are re-elected at something like a 98% clip, I don't think Massie should be too worried.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 03:35 PM (r2ymA)

24 This can work out for the best. We get this bill, the best we can do now ,and get rid of a bunch of RINOs so the next one is much better.

Posted by: steevy at July 01, 2025 03:35 PM (YwEeS)

25 It's Go Time Donald, please re-post your classic comment from last thread (the one about the two billionaires).

Outstanding. Ace-like, even.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:35 PM (1m82a)

26 Ethington is not a bad looker. That alone puts her over Massie

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 03:35 PM (eBgDF)

27 Hey, it's a slow news day. Give me a break. I've got to put up anything close to newsy.

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

Crutchy is my favorite.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 01, 2025 03:35 PM (EuK0F)

28 17 I no longer care about the federal budget. Accounting and monetary policy are both witchcraft on their own, let alone combined.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (B9Prs)

=======

The high water mark of people actually caring about the budget was probably 2012.

And then Obama won, spending continued out of control, covid happened, spending went wild, Biden got elected, spending went even wilder, and the country still isn't bankrupt.

And I don't think 2012 really meant that people truly cared about the deficit. It was more of a partisan thing to attack Obama with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

29 Screw windbag Massie. I don't care what Musk wants, I didn't vote for him or his stupid EV's.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:36 PM (/U5Yz)

30 21 Tbh this has been obvious for quite some time. I also back in his celebrity days thought he was nothing but a narcissist.

Posted by: steevy at July 01, 2025 03:36 PM (YwEeS)

31 20 Meh. I'm waiting for the Snow White sequel.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

======

Edgar Wright could make a Snow White sequel or a new version of A Star is Born, and I'd still be there for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

32 There's definitely a bunch of losers that need to get primaried.

Apparently Madmani is inspiring other woke Gen Z skulls full of mush to run for office. Not sure if that's good or bad. But they can't all be slick, multiple accent sporting nepo babies.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 03:37 PM (Eng1Z)

33 SpaceX is providing real value for the government money. I half expect Musk will just say F it and stop providing launch services to the Feds after contracts expire. Then he can post a nice photo of his middle finger on Trump’s Truth Social.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 01, 2025 03:37 PM (Vh9CX)

34 Wait till they race and gender swap Pinnochio.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 03:37 PM (LL6Kc)

35 Chunk Uygur praises Massie for "telling the truth about AIPAC."

Dude.

http://tiny.cc/4efo001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 03:38 PM (lIio7)

36 PSOE (Spanish workers party, the main political party in Spain for 40 years) is having a corruption issue

[A] political crisis shaking Spain, where the Socialist government (PSOE) of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is on the edge of a cliff. This time, it’s not just lies and sex — it’s an alleged corruption scheme involving kickbacks received by top Sánchez advisors in exchange for political favors, mostly related to public works contracts. The scandal has reached deep into the PSOE leadership and continues to unfold.

https://tinyurl.com/57vwzjp8

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 03:38 PM (D7oie)

37 OK I goggled Nicole Lee Ethington
Oomph. Yowza. She's a beaut.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

38 How much of this “deficit exploding“ bullshit is just because a tax cut was renewed?

There’s a great way to shrink the deficit and that’s to go back to the Obama tax rates. Is that now the official libertarian position?

Posted by: Maroon at July 01, 2025 03:39 PM (HS92B)

39 "You have to win elections to craft better laws."

Technically.

But as most GOP voters have discovered for 30 years, no necessary connection between the two. Plus, "better laws" mean nothing in a bad-faith collapsed civic culture (with a mostly lawless wildly usurping judiciary as a huge weapon). With an electorate that refuses to enforce its will, except episodically (2010, 2016, 2024)

See the Soviet constitution for better laws, and what they can amount to.

Still the odds favor "winning" elections, vs. not doing so.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:39 PM (1m82a)

40 Good News of the Afternoon

Rubio: USAID is officially, completely, and finally dead. No more money is going out.

Julie Jaman, the 82-year-old woman who got banned from the Y for objecting to trannies in the locker room just won a $65K settlement. That should keep her in Metamucil for a while.

Andrew Clyde introduces an amendment to the BBB that removes the NFA requirements for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 03:40 PM (qpyNK)

41 How did the state that had the Creationist Museum end up with a liberal Governor and liberal/RINO Rep?

Posted by: Linda Richman at July 01, 2025 03:40 PM (36PRH)

42 While OrangeManBad and Elon are busy arguing who is going to primary useless twatwaffles like Thune and Cornyn?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2025 03:40 PM (ULPxl)

43 Ethington needs a new website. Holy shit is it bad. Like something from 1980s BBS. And she should lay off the heavily filtered photos. She's an attractive lady. No need to look like a THOT.

https://www.nikileecongress.com/

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:40 PM (iFTx/)

44 Elon is pretty new to politics to be fighting so hard right out of the gate.

I get, for whatever reason, he thinks this is urgent do or die situation but he's putting a lot of political, and financial, capital on the line for something that isn't really worth it.

That he's diametrically opposing Trump so publicly because of a large spending bill going through Congress is really quite silly.

It's like he's only been watching Congress for a year and suddenly discovered there's a lot of crazy shit and ridiculous spending going on around there.

Cool your jets, Elon, a lot of us have been watching Congress screw things up for decades. This is nothing new under the sun. They lie, they spend money, and then they lie about what they spend money on.

You're bankroll and loud mouth aren't going to change that.
It's the nature of the beast.

Trump realizes this, instinctively, so he doesn't want to lose the good trying to chase the perfect.

Elon is fixated on it like it's life or death.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 03:40 PM (6ydKt)

45 Detroit is getting a WNBA team!

And the local fox news station, as part of the promotion, included a picture of a women's basketball in the air... about to brick off the front of the rim.

Perfect.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (N1DT3)

When I'm watching a WNBA game, I always love the air-layups.

That's where a player attempts an open layup and misses the basket entirely.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 03:41 PM (r2ymA)

46 I would probably like Massie more if I saw evidence of consistency in principle. I give Rand Paul a pass on all this because he has consistently stood against spending and debt limit increases -- it's practically his whole brand. He's no ally to the Democrats.

But I've literally never even heard of Massie before this term. Is he actually consistent when it comes to opposing spending increase and debt limit increases, or is he a Johnny-come-lately who just wants to get press for being a thorn in Trump's side?

Posted by: Caiwyn at July 01, 2025 03:41 PM (yHxqC)

47 > Oomph. Yowza. She's a beaut.
Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

She's okay. Too heavy on the makeup for my taste.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 03:41 PM (qpyNK)

48 Primary Massie - he frequently votes against the R's
I've had enough of his "Oh, I'm not antisemitic just anti-Israel or whatever" bs

Fuck him

Posted by: Big Star at July 01, 2025 03:41 PM (Modkf)

49 President Trump on Tuesday said that he will look into prosecuting Biden Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his dereliction of duty in allowing the worst invasion of illegal aliens in history.

Dereliction of duty? How about sedition and treason?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:41 PM (/U5Yz)

50 Elon is a smart guy but he knows absolutely fuck-all bupkes about politics and he should probably refrain from having really strong public opinions about the process of getting anything passed through Congress with the raft of useless RINOs and outright turncoats that infest its halls.

Posted by: ballistic at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (5aZAZ)

51 People want to tread lightly with Musk. F that. He obviously used access for his own purposes and then proceeded to undermine Republicans using that knowledge. He’s a dreamer, not a realist nor acquainted with our government or its history in any way.

Like it or not, it’s about math and what will pass. It’s been that way since the first continental Congress. I suppose if you have a wide majority and at least 60 solid votes in the senate you can do the impossible. But that’s not happening anytime soon.

It’s really the ultimate betrayal by a guy who frames himself as an idealist, but is unattached to reality.

This bill isn’t perfect. I also believe there are a few seats we should go after from people who bent us over a barrel to spend more than we should and support the welfare process in their states. That includes the crank, Massie. If he’s Musk’s idea of a perfect candidate, he may want to stop smoking the cheeba. He’s exactly what needs to be smoked from the party.

Oh and bottom line, Trump is more popular with the party than Musk.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (iVCFV)

52 I've got to put up anything close to newsy.

* bugle playing 'Charge!' *

Let me help you out, Ace:

For you Morons hoping to score a bottle of Meghan Markle's As Ever rosé wine ($90 for a 3-pack) the good news is it's been released.

The bad news? It's already sold out.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (0sNs1)

53 Bob Vylan
@BobbyVylan
I swear, I’m gonna write a book for all the dumb dumbs in bands that can’t help but make terrible business decisions and cry about them later.
11:58 AM · Apr 14, 2021

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (RHGPo)

54 https://shorturl.at/8P5OR

By the way, interesting article here comparing Elon's political ineptitude to the Whites in Russia's Civil War (the comparison makes sense, actually).

Posted by: the lower depths at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (+b4rY)

55 Have we talked about RFK possibly, maybe, uncovering that the CDC hid studies showing that Hepatitis B vaccines are linked to a 1135% increase in Autism?

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)

56 Musk needs to read up on 'real politic', just a little.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (UFztX)

57 Meh. I'm waiting for the Snow White sequel.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

======

Edgar Wright could make a Snow White sequel or a new version of A Star is Born, and I'd still be there for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)
________

Yea, but you love Prometheus so your shit's all fucked up! Wright is one of the most overrated directors out there.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

58 Massie is annoying and called for January 6 protesters to be shot, he's not on my list of favorite people. I, too, want spending reduced and the debt eliminated, but I suspect his desires are not driven by small government integrity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (dfIr7)

59 We want regular order was the cry. No more CRs they railed.

This bill sucks!!!!

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (HFcKg)

60 There’s a great way to shrink the deficit and that’s to go back to the Obama tax rates. Is that now the official libertarian position?
Posted by: Maroon at July 01, 2025 03:39 PM (HS92B)

I don't know, it seems we've collectively decided to ignore the unsustainable deficits and long term debt.

But yes, if we were serious about it, I think we're at the point where we would likely need to increase taxes to try to cover our massive deficits. I don't think any short term growth from cutting additional taxes and/or keeping tax rates the same is going to close that gap.

But we're not serious about it, so we will continue to increase spending and not even try to pretend to make revenue cover the expenditures. And that'll keep working. Until it doesn't.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:43 PM (uCjyK)

61 57 Yea, but you love Prometheus so your shit's all fucked up! Wright is one of the most overrated directors out there.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

======

False!

Wonderful talent and energy!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

62 42 While OrangeManBad and Elon are busy arguing who is going to primary useless twatwaffles like Thune and Cornyn?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2025 03:40 PM (ULPxl)

Paxton will take care of Cornyn.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 01, 2025 03:43 PM (BugZp)

63 I don't much care about Massie. We have a lot of unlikeable flakes in the party. I'd rather see the GOP come up with a plan to expand its numbers in the houseenough so that the flakes matter less.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 03:43 PM (4/BuS)

64 "Does anyone else now have aversions to drinks or food they used to like when younger?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

Ummm...I ate red clay when I was a kid.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 03:28 PM (fV+MH)

Milk Bone Dog Biscuits

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2025 03:43 PM (wVcYX)

65 Tbh this has been obvious for quite some time. I also back in his celebrity days thought he was nothing but a narcissist.
Posted by: steevy at July 01, 2025 03:36 PM (YwEeS)

Massie, just voting NO is not a policy. Find specific problems and get a lobby to cut them, like Elon did with DOGE. You have to know where tons of money could be cut that would gain public support, that could be shoved in these bills to make progress.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 03:43 PM (8avO+)

66 Meh. I'm waiting for the Snow White sequel.

This is kind of unrelated but my mom used to always say that the romance stories were dumb because they always ended with the marriage. She said the romance BEGINS at the marriage, when the infatuation fades, and love is an every day effort.

Kind of like love songs. Marty Robbins has a wonderful song called My Woman, My Wife that is a love song to his wife. Not a lot of that out there.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:44 PM (dfIr7)

67 Massie is a piece of shit that voted for the Biden Boondoggle that literally REMOVED the debt ceiling for the duration and let them pile up more debt than at any point in history.

But yeah, now that Trump's in office his precious 'principles' are TOTALLY about cutting spending.

It just shocks me that anybody lends any credence to this fraud.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 01, 2025 03:44 PM (setIA)

68 Hey, it's a slow news day. Give me a break. I've got to put up anything close to newsy.

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

----------------

[O/T -- for clarity, Xwitter #1 of many explanations that followed:]

Senator Eric Schmitt
@SenEricSchmitt

The Big Beautiful Bill kicks 1.4 MILLION illegal immigrants off Medicaid.

For too long, Americans have been paying for the welfare of people who shouldn't even be in our country.

Today, the Senate voted to end that.

And yes—this DID make it into the final draft of the bill. 🧵

https://is.gd/olxTpj

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at July 01, 2025 03:44 PM (zHyGC)

69 Maybe we can really get rid of Murky next time, since so many of her DC frenz are going to be gone, and there's less graft money to send her way.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 03:44 PM (qpyNK)

70 Hah! Coulda been a contender, instead of a bum, which let’s face it, is what I am! Was too busy finishing my comments in the last thread!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:44 PM (1paM0)

71 Wonderful talent and energy!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:43 PM

Thank you! I try.

Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (0sNs1)

72 Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (iVCFV)

Seems he’s one of those really really smart guys who are really dumb about some things.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (VofaG)

73 Last Night in Soho was dreck. And that Running Man preview looks equally awful.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (4/BuS)

74 Hey, it's a slow news day. Give me a break.

----------------

The Kohberger plea seemed like more-than-side-bar news. Looks like the case was becoming a slam dunk for the death penalty and prosecutors granted a plea deal without consulting victim families. A lot of assumptions in that, but if it's wrong, why is the one family so upset about him getting life with no parole and no appeal; better than Nicole Brown Simpson's family got...? But if it's true he was headed for the death penalty, what kinda Idaho prosecutor would do this...?

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (Bhsk7)

75 I liked Sweet Tarts and then I didn't. Necco's are chalk.

They're both chalk but I still liked them when I stopped eating candy.

Does anyone else now have aversions to drinks or food they used to like when younger?

I used to love braunschweiger, and hate it now. I would eat every single bit of a chicken leg down to the bone and they kind of disgust me now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (dfIr7)

76 ace, an open thread is your friend.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (HFcKg)

77 Yea, but you love Prometheus so your shit's all fucked up! Wright is one of the most overrated directors out there.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

======

False!

Wonderful talent and energy!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)
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Pretentious and boring! Baby Driver is a movie I should have loved. Wrong. I almost fell asleep. Maybe I did. Don't remember.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

78 Meh. I'm waiting for the Snow White sequel.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

It is the story of how the King leaves her for a series of mistresses, dumping on her the job of keeping the kingdom in line during his extended "trips of state", while she splurges on purchasing shoes to console herself that she might have got lucky and turned out like Cinderella, that bitch, look at her, balls all the time and all she does is order the staff around and doesn't have to figure out how to afford 12 acres of Tulle twice a month and Prince Charming just writes a check. It's not like SHE has to keep mining infrastructure going, with those damned dwarves, no just dancing and buffets.

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (D7oie)

79 > Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (fV+MH)

Hey, I want to apologize for calling you a communist earlier today.

Mistakes on all sides, I reckon.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 03:46 PM (qpyNK)

80 I thought this was a reconciliation bill to get us over the no tax hike.I should.

Next year ( always next year), we'll make big cuts in the budget

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 01, 2025 03:46 PM (QbJcY)

81 77 Pretentious and boring! Baby Driver is a movie I should have loved. Wrong. I almost fell asleep. Maybe I did. Don't remember.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

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I can't imagine how one would call Baby Driver pretentious, or boring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

82 https://shorturl.at/8P5OR

By the way, interesting article here comparing Elon's political ineptitude to the Whites in Russia's Civil War (the comparison makes sense, actually).
Posted by: the lower depths at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (+b4rY)

The Whites are another example of why just being against things is a political failure. Each cluster of Whites had different goals, area of support and they didn't coordinate with each other enough to keep the Reds on the ropes.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 03:46 PM (8avO+)

83 12 Musk is not wrong about the bill: it is objectively bad. Is it the best outcome possible given the makeup of Congress? I don’t know.
Posted by: Open Channel D at July 01, 2025 03:33 PM (gYnrv)

I'm not sure about it being objectively bad - simply extending the Trump Tax Cuts makes it worthwhile in my book. I think the better way to look at this is to see what the headlines would look like if the OBBB were to fail. The press would be spinning this as Trump has no power in his gov't. This take would hurt him in other areas, such as tariff negotiations. If he's not seen as the alpha, then it opens him up to stalled negotiations, which would hurt him going into the midterms. This stall tactic would then be used in every other area. A showing that he can get this legislation done in DC extends his 'aura' (my Zoomer son's term) into every aspect of this presidency.

When you look at the cui bono aspect of these talks, it's clear that the Dems, MFM, GOPe, EU, etc etc etc are all on the side of this failing. Simply because of that, it needs to pass.

I get Elon's antipathy, but a win for Trump here helps him get some real reform done next year. If he loses, it's over.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 03:46 PM (0CU3H)

84 Eric Schmitt is the real deal, as far as any Senator can be worth much… reading this I realize it is faint praise…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 03:47 PM (PCK5/)

85 Elon isn't stupid. He must know that the BBB is as good as it gets with the obstructionist Democrats. I have no idea why he is doing what he is doing. Support Rs in primaries that are onboard with your agenda, and complete the takeover of the Republican party. As someone pointed out... he bought Twitter and reformed it rather than starting a new app.

And Massie should realize that obstructionism isn't a platform for Republicans to get elected on in 2026.

Posted by: Ann at July 01, 2025 03:47 PM (4neFu)

86 Dear Tom;

Pointless defiance is never a good look.

Love, Franpsycho

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 03:47 PM (oXJtT)

87 I heard there were 11 million illegals on Medicaid, but I’ll take 1.4 million off the rolls, as a starter!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:47 PM (1paM0)

88 That he's diametrically opposing Trump so publicly because of a large spending bill going through Congress is really quite silly.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 03:40 PM (6ydKt)

Elon Musk spent a lot of money on Trumps election, undoubtably with an expectation that Trump would pay him back through govt subsidies and contracts.

Trump did not do that.

Elon Musk is now mad that he wasted his money.

He had a similar falling out with the Democrats a few years back. This was entirely predictable (and, in fact, I did predict it and got attacked for doing so).

I don't know why political nerds don't understand that most people are not ideological. They vote / donate based on their own perceived best interests, or based on vibes. People donate huge amounts of money to politicians because they think they're going to get something out of it, not because they're huge fans of political theory.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:48 PM (uCjyK)

89 Seems he’s one of those really really smart guys who are really dumb about some things.

I think that applies to one degree or another to all of us, other than the really smart thing. We all have blind spots, the tough part is being wise enough and self aware enough to recognize that.

For example, I am really ignorant when it comes to raising kids and driving supercars around a track.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:48 PM (dfIr7)

90 > Massie is annoying and called for January 6 protesters to be shot, he's not on my list of favorite people.

I don't know a lot about him. He seems to be a bit too reflexively contrarian and can't seem to do much coalition building.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 03:48 PM (lIio7)

91 We need the bill to pass it has some good things in it.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 03:48 PM (PCK5/)

92 Next year ( always next year), we'll make big cuts in the budget
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 01, 2025 03:46 PM

And they take effect 10 years out, but hey ... you do what you have to do to get invited to the right cocktail parties.

Posted by: The Uniparty at July 01, 2025 03:48 PM (0sNs1)

93 >> Milk Bone Dog Biscuits
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2025 03:43 PM (wVcYX)

The Milk Bone Peanut butter and Bacon bites are an excellent source of protein.

You dont want to know how I know that.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2025 03:48 PM (iVCFV)

94 I just don’t like that the Republican asshole triad comes from Kentucky.

Kentucky voters are screwing with me all the way down in Texas.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:49 PM (VofaG)

95 91 We need the bill to pass it has some good things in it.
Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 03:48 PM (PCK5/)

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Returning to regular order is worth it on its own.

If the bill were worse than it currently is (it's in two forms right now, the House version much better than the Senate version), it'd still be worth it to get a cap on a lot of automatic CR spending.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

96 Or the South in the Civil War where many states were extremely skeptical of any unification of command and control and authority from Richmond.

You can be so libertarian, that you let the commies screw you in the ass.

Posted by: Kurt Cobain at July 01, 2025 03:49 PM (zZu0s)

97 Elon isn't stupid. He must know that the BBB is as good as it gets with the obstructionist Democrats. I have no idea why he is doing what he is doing

Elon spent every year of his life up to around 2022 utterly apolitical and disinterested in politics. He's new at this, he hasn't gone through the ups and downs and learned how awful and evil and nasty it is. Its fresh to him and he's having the same frustrated, angry, bitter, and frightened feelings we all did when we started figuring this stuff out.

The difference is he has a gigantic megaphone, tons of fame, and nearly a trillion dollars of net worth at his disposal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:49 PM (dfIr7)

98 People donate huge amounts of money to politicians because they think they're going to get something out of it, not because they're huge fans of political theory.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:48 PM

You're a little young to be so cynical.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 03:50 PM (0sNs1)

99 97 Elon spent every year of his life up to around 2022 utterly apolitical and disinterested in politics. He's new at this, he hasn't gone through the ups and downs and learned how awful and evil and nasty it is. Its fresh to him and he's having the same frustrated, angry, bitter, and frightened feelings we all did when we started figuring this stuff out.

The difference is he has a gigantic megaphone, tons of fame, and nearly a trillion dollars of net worth at his disposal.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:49 PM (dfIr7)

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He waited 6 hours to shake Obama's hand.

He wasn't disinterested and apolitical. He was a cultural Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

100 Kentucky voters are screwing with me all the way down in Texas.
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:49 PM (VofaG)

This state is weird, that is all I can say.

Posted by: Kurt Cobain at July 01, 2025 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

101 Edgar Wright? Is a Cornetto Trilogy sequel in the works?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2025 03:50 PM (wVcYX)

102 CRs (appropriations bills rolled into one, with a long duration vs. a brief place-holding duration) and reconciliation are not really related.

I'd imagine there's a Congressional Research Service document that lays out all the concepts and terminology.

Appropriations bills passed individually (there used to be 12, dunno now) can be just as disastrous and irresponsible as when they are rolled into a CR (also called an omnibus). The point of individual bills used to be that increased political accountability - both at committee-markup, and on the floor, roll call votes on individual issues*.

Rolling into omnibus/CRs, passing them within 48 hours, etc., of course completely removes all this from the process (though most parts still get committee mark-up).

* "GOP controlled" House Approps last week marked up an immigration-related bill, adopting - by voice vote - many provisions, some only advisory, that could have been in press releases from Mayorkas' DHS, or Catholic Charities, or La Raza. Enjoy!

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (1m82a)

103 WKYT dot com, 6/2/25
'Washington Post calls Massie, McConnell, Paul the ‘Bluegrass Resistance’

"While the overwhelming majority of Republicans cower in fear of primary challenger threats against anyone who opposes him, these Kentuckians brush aside the Trump bluster."

🤷‍♀️ It'll take a while to see how the voters feel.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (NFX2v)

104 I used to think the tiff between Elon and Donald was all kayfabe to convince people to stop vandalizing Teslas and put some distance between the two. But if so, it’s very convincing kayfabe! But let’s see if the two don’t reconcile in the next few weeks…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (1paM0)

105 Listen, you can be libertatiany and mavericky but when the rubber hits the road, be a team player, or at least not a complete dickhead.

The Democrats never have to put up with this kind of bullsh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (XV/Pl)

106 When you look at the cui bono aspect of these talks, it's clear that the Dems, MFM, GOPe, EU, etc etc etc are all on the side of this failing. Simply because of that, it needs to pass.

I get Elon's antipathy, but a win for Trump here helps him get some real reform done next year. If he loses, it's over.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 03:46 PM (0CU3H)
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Agree. The BBB is not beautiful. It's a Hardees 5 after the janitor left and nobody is around to clean the toilets. But the BBB is better than the toothless bucktoothed smelly sasquatch with a penis that we've been sleeping with for 20 years. There's some good stuff in the BBB and its better than the non-budget process that we've been doing.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

107 Musk was useful… turn the page.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (PCK5/)

108 94 I just don’t like that the Republican asshole triad comes from Kentucky.

Kentucky voters are screwing with me all the way down in Texas.
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:49 PM (VofaG)

Ahem!

Posted by: SC Voters at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (0CU3H)

109 The high water mark of people actually caring about the budget was probably 2012.

And then Obama won, spending continued out of control, covid happened, spending went wild, Biden got elected, spending went even wilder, and the country still isn't bankrupt.
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Some of you near 29 may recall the annual feature of the budget negotiations of the 80's and 90's (the last time we did budgets--and even a "balanced" budget) was the circus of the Blue Dog Democrat coalition that was totes gonna chart a middle path between the wild and crazy tax-n-spend liberals and the draconian spending cuts and tax give-aways of the Republicans.

It was a pile of horseshit that always only ever resulted in increased spending and more taxes.

But gol-durned them Blue Dogs were a'fightin' for Americans.

Moral of the story: Americans have never, in your lifetime, ever really gave a fuck about spending--they just want everyone to pretend like it is a problem, not DO anything about it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (LbQ3Z)

110 Kentucky voters are screwing with me all the way down in Texas.
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:49 PM

* waves *

Posted by: Dade Phelan at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (0sNs1)

111 it's clear that the Dems, MFM, GOPe, EU, etc etc etc are all on the side of this failing. Simply because of that, it needs to pass.
......

Best "in a nutshell" argument for the BBB I've heard all day.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (v0R5T)

112 Trump has started blasting the airwaves here running attack ads on Massie.

Notably, it is probably way to early for Massie to start seriously campaigning.

Who is running this poll, btw? Cause I ain't heard from anyone. Massie is pretty dang popular around here.

Posted by: ghbucky at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (/xDbx)

113 The Kohberger plea seemed like more-than-side-bar news. Looks like the case was becoming a slam dunk for the death penalty and prosecutors granted a plea deal without consulting victim families. A lot of assumptions in that, but if it's wrong, why is the one family so upset about him getting life with no parole and no appeal; better than Nicole Brown Simpson's family got...? But if it's true he was headed for the death penalty, what kinda Idaho prosecutor would do this...?
Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (Bhsk7)

I don't know much about the case, but I'd say most prosecutors would rather take a plea than go to trial. Prosecutors live and die by their conviction rates, and you never know which way a jury is going to go.

As far as the family's input? I hate to be blunt about it, but they're not really part of the process here. In our legal system, the aggrieved party is the state, not the family.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (uCjyK)

114 LOL. Pixar's Elio was originally GAY GAY GAY, but test audiences hated it. So the top brass changed it. But the audience yawned and it flopped. Now the GAY GAY GAY Pixar employees are lashing out because they wanted their "queer-coded" Elio released.

So Pixar's getting hammered from inside and from outside.

http://tiny.cc/qdfo001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (lIio7)

115 >> Seems he’s one of those really really smart guys who are really dumb about some things.
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (VofaG)

Musk largely functions on pathos. You can’t act that way in Washington. You have to understand what the rules are and how to win the game. To be really good you have to be like Trump and be willing to risk it all for principle. Musk isn’t that guy. He’s not someone you want on your team because it’s all about him in the end. Period.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (iVCFV)

116 Hey, it's a slow news day. Give me a break. I've got to put up anything close to newsy.

From yesterday (not sure if it was mentioned here):

Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell on Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six-decade-old humanitarian and development organization...

This is all so crazy. And the way Big Orange has his followers cheering this on after inspiring in them such animosity toward the rest of the world, and to the poor. I feel like I'm stuck in a moment and I can't get out of it.

Musk called this program a, "criminal enterprise." I'm sure because its saved millions of lives in other countries, promoting good will for our country. Sliding it over to the State Dept., and calling it, "America First," tells you exactly what this admin has in mind.

Bush should shut his pie hole. He didn't want to endorse Kamala, and his silence was pretty damning.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (JCZqz)

117 The Milk Bone Peanut butter and Bacon bites are an excellent source of protein.

You dont want to know how I know that.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2025 03:48 PM (iVCFV)

Consumer Reports?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 03:52 PM (PiwSw)

118 Iraq Claims Top Spot Among OPEC Crude Suppliers To The US

Rising oil exports provide vital fiscal support for Iraq, where crude sales generate about 90% of government revenue

... at last, the oil for all that blood

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 03:52 PM (RHGPo)

119 Pretentious and boring! Baby Driver is a movie I should have loved. Wrong. I almost fell asleep. Maybe I did. Don't remember.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

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I can't imagine how one would call Baby Driver pretentious, or boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
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The Blade knows film

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

120 Trumps next rally needs to have Poke Salad Annie (Gator's got your granny) as his walk up song. BTW can any southern moron help me on what the hell is poke salad?

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 03:52 PM (ewjUl)

121 ‘ And now Trump and Musk are on opposite sides of Massie's reelection. ’

Is there any chance Trump and Musk are running the Good Cop/Bad Cop play on the Republican Party?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 03:52 PM (jbnUc)

122 Yea, but you love Prometheus so your shit's all fucked up! Wright is one of the most overrated directors out there.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

Wright needs Simon Pegg at his side.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 03:52 PM (y9nCu)

123 >>> I think the better way to look at this is to see what the headlines would look like if the OBBB were to fail.

The media has already written them. If it fails -- or even if it just doesn't get passed by the 4th -- the media will crow that Trump is impotent and his plans are all failing. That he lied on "promises made promises kept" and is just another politician that promises bigly and doesn't ever deliver.

Worst case scenario, IF that actually resonates with the independents and fence sitters that voted for him, that aren't full MAGA, it could sink republicans in the midterms.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 03:52 PM (Eng1Z)

124 96 Or the South in the Civil War where many states were extremely skeptical of any unification of command and control and authority from Richmond.

You can be so libertarian, that you let the commies screw you in the ass.
Posted by: Kurt Cobain at July 01, 2025 03:49 PM (zZu0s)

The most extreme case of this was when Lee's Army, defending Richmond, was running short of shoes, blankets, and ammunition. Georgia had plenty of all 3 in warehouses that it controlled; but the Georgia Governor said he thought that his home guard forces needed them more, so he refused to send any of it. Confederate Government had no authority to override him, not even when their survival was on the line.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (uWKK8)

125 He wasn't disinterested and apolitical. He was a cultural Democrat.

Yeah but at a fanboy level, not political. He didn't love Obama because he loved Obama's policies and technical aspects of how things get done in Washington. He just bought into the "Obama is cool" thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (dfIr7)

126 Go take a look at Massie’s voting record. He’s a guy who wakes up every day trying to get to no.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (iVCFV)

127 From Senator Eric Schmitt:

The Big Beautiful Bill kicks 1.4 MILLION illegal immigrants off Medicaid.

For too long, Americans have been paying for the welfare of people who shouldn't even be in our country.

Today, the Senate voted to end that.

And yes—this DID make it into the final draft of the bill.

(long thread, spaces)

https://x.com/SenEricSchmitt/
status/1940116528365506892

Posted by: Ann at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (4neFu)

128 Massie should emigrate to Germany. I think he might like it there.

https://tinyurl.com/56r7kjvc

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (/U5Yz)

129 116 This is all so crazy. And the way Big Orange has his followers cheering this on after inspiring in them such animosity toward the rest of the world, and to the poor. I feel like I'm stuck in a moment and I can't get out of it.

Musk called this program a, "criminal enterprise." I'm sure because its saved millions of lives in other countries, promoting good will for our country. Sliding it over to the State Dept., and calling it, "America First," tells you exactly what this admin has in mind.

Bush should shut his pie hole. He didn't want to endorse Kamala, and his silence was pretty damning.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (JCZqz)

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Sounds like Africa needs to start fixing its outlook on property rights in order to grow crops regularly and without interruption.

*regards South Africa briefly*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

130 Attorneys Push For Class Action In Birthright Citizenship Case After Supreme Court Ruling

The Supreme Court’s decision on June 27 left open the possibility of judges broadly blocking Trump’s policies through class actions

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (RHGPo)

131 singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell on Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

My favorite ice cream flavor. Lib tears.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (ewjUl)

132 I don't know which is worse, RINOs or these principled pricks. In Maine, the insufferable Susan Collins will be the state's last Republicanish senator. Look at Maine's governor, for chrissakes. That's the trajectory.

And then there's these Kentucky assholes who pretend thwarting conservativism is better than incrimentalism.

Now that I think about it, Maine and Kentucky have got to be top five states for inbreeding.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (wBaIH)

133 it's clear that the Dems, MFM, GOPe, EU, etc etc etc are all on the side of this failing. Simply because of that, it needs to pass.
......

Best "in a nutshell" argument for the BBB I've heard all day.

……

This is probably the best way to look at it.

Posted by: Open Channel D at July 01, 2025 03:54 PM (gYnrv)

134 Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration

Rare????

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:54 PM (dfIr7)

135

Elon must not remember the idiot Harry Browne and all the asshole libertarians that have existed before and don't jack shit.

I remember seeing Browne on Mahers show or somewhere years ago. He was loving himself long time, loved being the "neutral" commentator who could disagree with both sides.

It was then that I knew he was nothing more than a gadfly. Reason mag soon turned into light Commie, Liberty mag too.

People are ugly and messy, politics is just like people. I mean, this Thune guy got installed for some reason by the GOP. If they can do that out in the open, how is a libertarian going to get anything done. Especially a hardcore one, who is probably totally full of shit.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 01, 2025 03:54 PM (et1vG)

136 He waited 6 hours to shake Obama's hand.

He wasn't disinterested and apolitical. He was a cultural Democrat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, he was a huge Obama fan and a fan favorite of Democrat voters and elected officials for a decade. Then he switched sides, allegedly over COVID and his son going trans.

Want to bet he switches back if he thinks the next president will be a democrat?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:54 PM (uCjyK)

137 31 Edgar Wright could make a Snow White sequel or a new version of A Star is Born, and I'd still be there for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu

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Eh, he's just the next version of Guy Ritchie. Great stuff early out (Lock Stock + Snatch = Shaun, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim), then married Madonna (did Edgar Wright marry some leftist twat in 2011?) and his sh*t sucked for 10 years, then ditched her and kinda made good stuff every now and then.

Running Man is already Leftist / anti-American. It was campy fun enough with Arnold and Richard Dawson etc. We don't need a modern 'hip' anti-American film. That pattern is full...

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 03:54 PM (Bhsk7)

138 I used to think the tiff between Elon and Donald was all kayfabe to convince people to stop vandalizing Teslas and put some distance between the two. But if so, it’s very convincing kayfabe! But let’s see if the two don’t reconcile in the next few weeks…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (1paM0)

I wonder though, who would a third party take votes from?
Would they be moderate Dems, horrified at the Socialist policies of the DNC elite? Or the populists in the Republican party horrified at the blindness of the GOPe?

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 03:54 PM (D7oie)

139 Massie is annoying and called for January 6 protesters to be shot, he's not on my list of favorite people. I, too, want spending reduced and the debt eliminated, but I suspect his desires are not driven by small government integrity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (dfIr7)

Did Massie call for J6ers do be shot?

He actually seemed to be, pretty early, calling into question possible government involvement in J6.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 03:55 PM (r2ymA)

140 Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration

Rare????
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:54 PM (dfIr7)
________

In other news, I just took the rare act of breathing

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

141 After 100.

Eiffel Tower closes early amid European heat wave.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 03:55 PM (NFX2v)

142 53 Bob Vylan
@BobbyVylan
I swear, I’m gonna write a book for all the dumb dumbs in bands that can’t help but make terrible business decisions and cry about them later.
11:58 AM · Apr 14, 2021
Posted by: SMOD
...............................
LoL!!!!!

The Internet is a harsh mistress.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (sAmhv)

143 127 From Senator Eric Schmitt:

The Big Beautiful Bill kicks 1.4 MILLION illegal immigrants off Medicaid.

For too long, Americans have been paying for the welfare of people who shouldn't even be in our country.

Today, the Senate voted to end that.

And yes—this DID make it into the final draft of the bill.

(long thread, spaces)

Posted by: Ann at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (4neFu)

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Okay, that video of the amendment vote did confuse me. I assumed the narrative around it was true, though, and that it had been taken out.

And now here's a Senator saying it's actually in.

That's nice. I feel a bit better about the Senate version now.

Not that my feelings matter. Or that I actually have them.

I am dead inside.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

144 I wonder if the Euro Smell is overpowering??

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (PCK5/)

145 Elon just wants to go to Mars. I think he views everything through the lens of "is this an assist or an impediment to me getting to Mars" so his politics wind up a little all over the place. Especially when you factor in the aspergers.

Posted by: brak at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (jGJov)

146 17 I no longer care about the federal budget. Accounting and monetary policy are both witchcraft on their own, let alone combined.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (B9Prs)

Find a zealot to balance the budget and a numbers person who can hit a curve ball for the FED and you'll bend all sorts of curves in your favor.

Trouble is, if you try to get there in one year, you'll likely kill the patient.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (pIfcn)

147 113 As far as the family's input? I hate to be blunt about it, but they're not really part of the process here. In our legal system, the aggrieved party is the state, not the family.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

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I thought a prosecutor would at least discuss with the victim's family before accepting, as a courtesy if nothing else. Especially in a red(?) jurisdiction... But maybe that's because all the law I know is from Law & Order...

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (Bhsk7)

148 According to Rubio, USAID has sent out its last penny and is shuttered.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (dfIr7)

149 Guy Ritchie did a good job with Fountain of Youth. Interesting angles, etc. The opening sequence was very fun.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 03:57 PM (ky8PV)

150 149 Guy Ritchie did a good job with Fountain of Youth. Interesting angles, etc. The opening sequence was very fun.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 03:57 PM (ky8PV)

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His King Arthur is underappreciated.

Lovecraftian.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

151 People donate huge amounts of money to politicians because they think they're going to get something out of it, not because they're huge fans of political theory.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:48 PM

You're a little young to be so cynical.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 03:50 PM (0sNs1)

I don't think it's cynical. It's just the way the world works.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:57 PM (uCjyK)

152 ‘ Bush should shut his pie hole.’

For once, I agree with the Rats underground.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 03:57 PM (jbnUc)

153 Senate fails to terminate Green New Scam

Let the filthy green lucre start roiling in again boys.

Why do I vote R again?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:57 PM (/U5Yz)

154 For years. I voted libertarian, when they had good candidates.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 01, 2025 03:57 PM (QbJcY)

155 The BBB is a bill and not a CR. Good! Also making Trump’s tax cuts permanent is a win! Even dropping taxes on tips is a plus, so I’ll take it! Now…how to make all my income count as tips…hhmmm?!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:57 PM (1paM0)

156 >>> 62
==
Paxton will take care of Cornyn.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 01, 2025 03:43 PM (BugZp)

Ha, I should have remembered that!

... also your hash seems appropriate for Paxton vs Cornyn.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2025 03:58 PM (ULPxl)

157 Okay, that video of the amendment vote did confuse me. I assumed the narrative around it was true, though, and that it had been taken out.

And now here's a Senator saying it's actually in.

That's nice. I feel a bit better about the Senate version now.

Not that my feelings matter. Or that I actually have them.

I am dead inside.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

Illiteracy does that to a person.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 03:58 PM (ky8PV)

158 Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media

BREAKING NEWS: The entire country of Germany has been submerged with molten lava as a result of normal summer temperatures.

X image: https://bit.ly/4kC88TT

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 03:58 PM (P5BPp)

159 For years. I voted libertarian, when they had good candidates.

...so, never? In my entire life of almost 60 years I cannot remember a single good libertarian candidate

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:58 PM (dfIr7)

160 @141

>>Eiffel Tower closes early amid European heat wave.

It's 94 with very low humidity.

Freaking pansies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 03:58 PM (XV/Pl)

161 148 According to Rubio, USAID has sent out its last penny and is shuttered.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (dfIr7)

Oh Frabjous Day, Calloo Callay!!
Comes to my arms my Beamish Rubio!!

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 03:58 PM (PCK5/)

162 157 Illiteracy does that to a person.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 03:58 PM (ky8PV)

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Such cruelty.

Ace-worthy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

163 >>> Elon isn't stupid. He must know that the BBB is as good as it gets with the obstructionist Democrats. I have no idea why he is doing what he is doing.

I said this yesterday, but Elon is in his naive, idealistic "Mr Elon Goes to Washington" era. Trump was in that era back in 2016, he gets it now. But it takes a while to truly learn.

There are stages of grief for the uninitiated in politics. It's harsh to realize it isn't pure, it's swampy and requires compromise, and won't go your way just because you want good things. Especially if you are a businessmen used to getting what you want all the time. Elon is currently in his "anger" stage of grief.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 03:59 PM (Eng1Z)

164 The BBB is far from good but its better then what we've been doing.

So if you want budget discipline shouldn't you be in favor of moving in the right direction?

Unfortunately the Republicans get the Dems steal 4 senate seats and a dozen house seats on election night so they have little room to maneuver on the budget and the Dems are not going to join them since they are all leftwing lunatics...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 03:59 PM (t0Rmr)

165 doing my part to add news to slow news day -

HOUSTON (Alliance Defending Freedom) — Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Monday on behalf of a Texas family after a Houston school district repeatedly flouted their requests to stop treating their daughter as a boy—a so-called “social transition.”

In March 2025, ADF attorneys sent a letter to the district on behalf of the Osborn family asking it to confirm that the couple’s daughter would only be referred to by her given name and correct pronouns, and ADF asked the district to provide documents related to the events that occurred. The school district did not provide any documents and ignored the Osborns request that they stop treating their daughter as a boy. The Osborns had no choice but to file a lawsuit against the district to stop them from continuing this action.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 03:59 PM (Dv3i1)

166 King Arthur was a very good movie…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 03:59 PM (PCK5/)

167 Hey, it's a slow news day. Give me a break. I've got to put up anything close to newsy.

Posted by Ace at 03:30 PM Comments

So where's the gorn?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2025 04:00 PM (g8Ew8)

168 And grok agrees with Schmitt:

https://x.com/grok/status/
1940125244880297990

So, neat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

169 Is Elon going to recruit Massey into his Muskrat Party?

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 04:00 PM (jc0TO)

170 Sun can't melt steel.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 04:00 PM (LL6Kc)

171 "For too long, Americans have been paying for the welfare of people who shouldn't even be in our country."

To put a finer point on it, we can't afford to borrow the money from Beijing to pay for their benefits

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 01, 2025 04:00 PM (pIfcn)

172 Musk and Trump have two different ideal outcomes here. At this point in the game I think Musk is being more idealistic than he should be.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 04:00 PM (ky8PV)

173 Bob Vylan
@BobbyVylan
I swear, I’m gonna write a book for all the dumb dumbs in bands that can’t help but make terrible business decisions and cry about them later.
11:58 AM · Apr 14, 2021
Posted by: SMOD
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LoL!!!!!

The Internet is a harsh mistress.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (sAmhv)
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That post was from 2021. He musta been talking about something else. The karma!

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

174 148 According to Rubio, USAID has sent out its last penny and is shuttered.
____

burn it down and salt the ashes

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 04:00 PM (Dv3i1)

175 134 Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration

Rare????
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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USAID getting neutered must have really hurt there grifts.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 04:01 PM (sAmhv)

176 BREAKING NEWS: The entire country of Germany has been submerged with molten lava as a result of normal summer temperatures.

I like the side by side pictures people have been posting of European temperature maps from 20 years ago with the same numbers, but back then they didn't put up scary colors...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:01 PM (t0Rmr)

177 150 His King Arthur is underappreciated. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu

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It looked like a hackey moneygrab. But I've been half-interested in it after how bad@ss Charlie Hunnam was in The Gentlemen...

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 04:01 PM (Bhsk7)

178 I thought a prosecutor would at least discuss with the victim's family before accepting, as a courtesy if nothing else. Especially in a red(?) jurisdiction... But maybe that's because all the law I know is from Law & Order...
Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (Bhsk7)

It is a requirement that the victims family is notified ahead of time in some states. But I think its more common in blue states, although I don't know that for sure. In some states, there is a job known as some flavor of "victim advocate" -- basically a social worker type who deals with the victim and/or his family and keeps them updated on the case and whatnot.

That may not be the case in Idaho, I have no idea.

I'm not against there being a victim advocate by the way. I think it is important for victims and their families to feel like they are part of the process, even if, legally speaking, they are not. And for good reason! In a lot of tribal law systems in the ME, for example, the family decides on the punishment. That leads to rich criminals being able to bribe poor victims families to decide to not punish them or only minimally punish the. That's not exactly the system of justice we want to emulate.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:01 PM (uCjyK)

179 Musk largely functions on pathos. You can’t act that way in Washington. You have to understand what the rules are and how to win the game. To be really good you have to be like Trump and be willing to risk it all for principle. Musk isn’t that guy. He’s not someone you want on your team because it’s all about him in the end. Period.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2025 03:51 PM (iVCFV)

Actually he's great to have on your team, because he can do great things - but you gotta know you're gonna have to jettison him at some point. So get as much out of him while you can.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 04:01 PM (uWKK8)

180 ShainS, thanks for that.

I am *still* not entirely clear on the substance or procedural details, but Sen. Schmitt is claiming flat out that the "original" ban on Medicaid for illegals* was always in the bill, and the failed amendment didn't affect that.

One interesting point he made, related to my dull dissertation above about CRs and such - he said yesterday's "failed" amendment was a "messaging" vote (we called them "walk the plank" votes) to get Dems to vote against barring Medicaid to violent criminal illegals. So at least there are signs of some political life in the Senate, again. BTW this explains why 4-6 Dems actually voted with GOP on this one - all of them up this cycle of course.

* did not check, friend advises a 1996 law already bars Medicaid to illegals - if so, why TF wasn't a suit filed on Jan. 21, 2025 on this against the blue (and probably some red) states doing this?

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 04:01 PM (1m82a)

181 177 150 His King Arthur is underappreciated. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu

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It looked like a hackey moneygrab. But I've been half-interested in it after how bad@ss Charlie Hunnam was in The Gentlemen...
Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 04:01 PM (Bhsk7)

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It was part of a larger studio effort to make cinematic universes out of cheap (mostly public domain) properties. There were 6 movies planned.

Still, the one that did get made is fun. I like it. I have the 4K.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

182 Bilwis, etc. -

Trouble is, if you try to get there in one year, you'll likely kill the patient.

Agreed! It took us over a hundred years to get in this mess, we’re not going to get out of it overnight!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:02 PM (1paM0)

183 The next fun camp for illegals should be built in Crawford, TX. Right next to that treasonous cocksucker George Bush's ranch.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 04:02 PM (/U5Yz)

184 Massie is a grandstanding, showboating Libertarian opportunist who latched onto the GOP like a bloodsucking lamprey because (for some mysterious reason) the Libertarian Party's otherworldly policy ideas and stoned-while-campaigning style don't seem to catch on with the voting public. Go figure. I'm glad he's getting primaried and pray he loses bigly.

I hope Elon Musk wastes millions pouring money into the big black hole of Massie's campaign because I'm just about done with Musk, too. Everything Trump is doing works. Don't screw with what works.

Posted by: troyriser at July 01, 2025 04:02 PM (DPeYO)

185 Have the Euros unwrapped the mysteries of airconditioning yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 04:03 PM (LL6Kc)

186 Why do I vote R again?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:57 PM (/U5Yz)

Otherwise the Dems will win!!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 01, 2025 04:03 PM (Mxf84)

187 The left: Any claims there are ANY undocumented workers collecting any government benefits is a LIE

Also the left: If we ban Medicaid for undocumented immigrants 1.4M people will no longer have healthcare coverage!!!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:03 PM (t0Rmr)

188 Oh.. I was talking about the 2004 King Arthur movie… nevermind.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 04:03 PM (PCK5/)

189 66 Meh. I'm waiting for the Snow White sequel.

This is kind of unrelated but my mom used to always say that the romance stories were dumb because they always ended with the marriage. She said the romance BEGINS at the marriage, when the infatuation fades, and love is an every day effort.

Kind of like love songs. Marty Robbins has a wonderful song called My Woman, My Wife that is a love song to his wife. Not a lot of that out there.
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It starts with Lust then comes Intimacy. Then Love can take root. A lot of people confuse Lust and Love.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 04:03 PM (W3T6M)

190 Have the Euros unwrapped the mysteries of airconditioning yet?

Using AC will make baby Gaia cry

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:04 PM (t0Rmr)

191 I wonder if the Euro Smell is overpowering??
Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 03:56 PM (PCK5/)

Back in the 70's Europe smelled like good pussy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2025 04:04 PM (g8Ew8)

192 43 Ethington needs a new website. Holy shit is it bad. Like something from 1980s BBS. And she should lay off the heavily filtered photos. She's an attractive lady. No need to look like a THOT.

https://www.nikileecongress.com/

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:40 PM (iFTx/)

That probably takes more money than her campaign currently has...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 04:04 PM (tOcjL)

193 Have the Euros unwrapped the mysteries of airconditioning yet?
Posted by: Boss Moss
Soon.
They are still working on the science of modern dentistry.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 04:05 PM (/U5Yz)

194 Hillbilly Massie thinks pulling the old Luap Nor Act of voting against all the bad pork and pretending the deficit is against his principles but always getting his pork will work on the hillbillies in his district, because it does.

Fuck him in his brown eye.

Posted by: Luap Dnar at July 01, 2025 04:05 PM (1ngll)

195 France has nuclear power. They should be OK.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 04:05 PM (LL6Kc)

196 A good example of the fiscal discipline of people living off other's money is Great Expectations, where Pip and his roommate, facing the regular depletion of their funds due to their profligate spending habits, sit down and furiously scribble figures to chart austerity and solvency.
Complete with solemn vows to adhere to their budget from now on.

Until the next stipend arrives.

Upon which they immediately depart their rooms and resume their spendthrift ways.

This too, is Congress.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 04:05 PM (LbQ3Z)

197 "Hey, I want to apologize for calling you a communist earlier today.

Mistakes on all sides, I reckon.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia"

No problemo.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:05 PM (fV+MH)

198 She said the romance BEGINS at the marriage, when the infatuation fades, and love is an every day effort.

Hmm, the tingles are gone. After we got married I got Mr Right to take that corporate jobs and now he is boring as hell. He claims he has to work all week instead of planning romantic adventures?!?

Where is that divorce lawyer's phone number again?

Posted by: American Romance at July 01, 2025 04:05 PM (t0Rmr)

199 BREAKING NEWS: The entire country of Germany has been submerged with molten lava as a result of normal summer temperatures.
X image: https://bit.ly/4kC88TT

Like staring into the Crack of Doom in Mordor.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 04:06 PM (Dv3i1)

200 197 "Hey, I want to apologize for calling you a communist earlier today.

Mistakes on all sides, I reckon.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia"

No problemo.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:05 PM (fV+MH)

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Why are you communists apologizing to each other?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

201 Running Man had to be the most 80's thing that ever 80'ed.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:06 PM (fV+MH)

202 Amash is my former Congressman and a POS. He ran as libertarian but his family business ties to China came first in his every position that he weasel worded his "stand" on.

Musk should stay far away from him.

Posted by: geoffb at July 01, 2025 04:06 PM (r//c2)

203 201 Running Man had to be the most 80's thing that ever 80'ed.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:06 PM (fV+MH)

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According to science, that title belongs to Rocky IV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgTVPydfmoc

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

204 Media fannin the flames of personal problems amongst Repubs...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (mP0Kj)

205 200 197 "Hey, I want to apologize for calling you a communist earlier today.

Mistakes on all sides, I reckon.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia"

No problemo.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:05 PM (fV+MH)

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Why are you communists apologizing to each other?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

Indeed. Camaraderie is a commie trait. Comrade.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (ky8PV)

206 159 For years. I voted libertarian, when they had good candidates.

...so, never? In my entire life of almost 60 years I cannot remember a single good libertarian candidate
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Dude, thanks for the support. If you're living life the right way, man, of course you won't remember past candidates (takes deep bong hit). Maaaan, I can't even remember last week (giggles uncontrollably...)

Posted by: Gary Johnson at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (JCZqz)

207 Wes Roley was allegedly a “Broney” (a boy interested in My Little Pony)

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (RHGPo)

208 "Hey, it's a slow news day."

I just looked around for some news, and you're correct.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (xYXPm)

209 Meh. I'm waiting for the Snow White sequel.

This is kind of unrelated but my mom used to always say that the romance stories were dumb because they always ended with the marriage. She said the romance BEGINS at the marriage, when the infatuation fades, and love is an every day effort.

Kind of like love songs. Marty Robbins has a wonderful song called My Woman, My Wife that is a love song to his wife. Not a lot of that out there.
-----------------
It starts with Lust then comes Intimacy. Then Love can take root. A lot of people confuse Lust and Love.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 04:03 PM (W3T6M)
_________

Gotta love the lust!

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (iFTx/)

210 Why are you communists apologizing to each other?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:06 PM

You're paid to comment, not dance around like a bunch of Kansas City Bolsheviks.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (jc0TO)

211 Back in the 70's Europe smelled like good pussy.

Shag carpet on the floor and shag carpet on la donna....

Posted by: Obligatory at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (t0Rmr)

212 The next fun camp for illegals should be built in Crawford, TX. Right next to that treasonous cocksucker George Bush's ranch.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 04:02 PM (/U5Yz)

Better yet, Kelo his land.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (y9nCu)

213 >>> 183 The next fun camp for illegals should be built in Crawford, TX. Right next to that treasonous cocksucker George Bush's ranch.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 04:02 PM (/U5Yz)

YES!

Upwind of his ranch.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2025 04:07 PM (ULPxl)

214 160 @141

>>Eiffel Tower closes early amid European heat wave.

It's 94 with very low humidity.

Freaking pansies.
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Its suppose to be 100 in Germany tomorrow and we stopped fire bombing the place a long time ago.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (W3T6M)

215 Maybe on slow news days we can get weather reports?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (ky8PV)

216 Can’t remember when the last funny movie was made… humor is a casualty of Wokeism..

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (PCK5/)

217 The VP candidate in 2016 for the LP was one of the most authoritarian people to run for higher office in the US.

Yay "Libertarian" Party

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (t0Rmr)

218 @IanJaeger29
·
43m
BREAKING: USAID is no longer giving out funds, per Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (viF8m)

219 If Musk founds an actual modern-day Bull Moose Party we have to boycott it. Teddy’s ill-fated Bull Moose run got us Wilson as president, and that man was the start of most of our present-day troubles!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (1paM0)

220 @203

>>According to science, that title belongs to Rocky IV.

My monies on Hardbodies, feathered hair, pastel clothing, bikinis, gratuitous nudity, ribald fun that would get a filmmaker canceled today.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (XV/Pl)

221 I believe some of the "USAID going away" = its functions, budgets, and direct oversight moving to regional bureaus of State. At least this is what Rubio said out of the gate. Makes sense. The outlandish nonsense that almost certainly started in the Obama years (WRT much of the programming) was no part of the picture before that, and much of the activity - especially emergency humanitarian relief - is long-standing and pretty non-controversial.

A friendly reforming state like El Salvador gets walloped with a massive earthquake, or a volcanic disaster, we're not going to simply look on. And I doubt State is eliminating the mechanisms or $ to respond.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (1m82a)

222 Amazing how we can get rid of one “maverick “ in the GOP, and then another one springs up to replace him.

So very tired of this game - McCain wore it out 20+ years ago.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (Hkcdp)

223 Blazing Saddles for the cancellation win....

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (ky8PV)

224 US captured cannibal illegal migrant who tried to eat his own arms during deportation flight, Kristi Noem reveals in wild press conference
(HY Post, not The Onion)

https://tinyurl.com/y7xs6hae

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (D7oie)

225 BREAKING: USAID is no longer giving out funds, per Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Extra credit for Rubio if USAID starts taking in funds.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (Dv3i1)

226 Its suppose to be 100 in Germany tomorrow and we stopped fire bombing the place a long time ago.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (W3T6M)

It was 100 in NYC last week, and we survived.

Of course, we also have air conditioning and an electric grid that can (usually) handle that.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (uCjyK)

227 Can’t remember when the last funny movie was made… humor is a casualty of Wokeism..
Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM

I thought Free Guy was lighthearted, albeit, not laugh out loud funny.

It was a smiler.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (jc0TO)

228 165 doing my part to add news to slow news day -

HOUSTON (Alliance Defending Freedom) — Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Monday on behalf of a Texas family after a Houston school district repeatedly flouted their requests to stop treating their daughter as a boy—a so-called “social transition.”
Posted by: Chuck Martel

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!!!! My wife just sent me the Texas Scorecard link to this story. The principal named in the lawsuit lived 8 doors down from us until a coupla years ago when he transferred to Bellaire from Waltrip, mostly cuz Waltrip is awful and his oldest was moving into high school; he actually had them in the same Lutheran school as ours for elementary, also why he transferred to the 'better' school zone to avoid the controversy of principal in public school with kids in private; since he left, Waltrip has gone to complete hell. And our neighborhood (and much of Bellaire) is middle-upper gentrified turf. This guy didn't seem so bad, but you can't advance in a public school district and keep your soul. He deserves this for what he's doing. Wouldn't agree to call the kid the name and pronouns the parents demanded!!

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (Bhsk7)

229 I heard Browneye had a motorcycle gang member for a father, a restraining order from his parents, and an altercation involving a girl and a knife.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 04:10 PM (LL6Kc)

230 216 Can’t remember when the last funny movie was made… humor is a casualty of Wokeism..
Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (PCK5/)

=======

This is why God created Taskmaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YhsooE5xY

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

231 Oh my... Obama and Bush try to drum up support to keep US Aid alive... because both parties used it for slush funds?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:10 PM (mP0Kj)

232 So we are back to the Republicans voting for big bloated spending bills to get tax cuts passed?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 04:10 PM (3QagQ)

233 Running Man had to be the most 80's thing that ever 80'ed.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:06 PM (fV+MH)

You could argue the music too.

The 80s were pretty bad culturally.

And I don't think it's gotten much better since.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 04:10 PM (r2ymA)

234 https://www.tiktok.com/discover/
europeans-react-to-air-conditioning

https://www.tiktok.com/@atfrenchies/
video/7269068796118256939
"Ah Europeans and their "science," we just call it being "soft" in America."

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 04:10 PM (Eng1Z)

235 170 Sun can't melt steel.
Posted by: Boss Moss

YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT!!!

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at July 01, 2025 04:11 PM (JCZqz)

236 224 US captured cannibal illegal migrant who tried to eat his own arms during deportation flight, Kristi Noem reveals in wild press conference
(HY Post, not The Onion)

https://tinyurl.com/y7xs6hae
Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (D7oie)

Diversity is our strength.

Also, didn't Joe Biden's uncle get eaten by a cannibal or something? I can see why Uncle Joe wanted this kind of diversity here.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:11 PM (uCjyK)

237 Or the South in the Civil War where many states were extremely skeptical of any unification of command and control and authority from Richmond.

You can be so libertarian, that you let the commies screw you in the ass.
Posted by: Kurt Cobain at July 01, 2025 03:49 PM (zZu0s)

Given that Jeff Davis kept giving jobs to Braxton Bragg, they may have had a point.

But the poster child for state obstructionism, Vance from North Carolina, gets something of a bad rap. Theres a story about him holding uniforms instead of giving them to the Army of Northern VA, but on the other hand the state had paid for those uniforms out of their own state funds. Given the lack of diplomatic skill of Davis, I doubt that the states were entirely in the wrong.

And the supply problems Lee had were mostly because Davis' supporting another incompetent as the commissary. When he was replaced, even with the nation collapsing the supply situation was much improved in 1865

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:11 PM (8avO+)

238 The 80s were all about my generation telling our parents "Fuck you, I'm getting a haircut and a job."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 04:11 PM (ky8PV)

239 >>Oh my... Obama and Bush try to drum up support to keep US Aid alive... because both parties used it for slush funds?

Among other things.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 04:11 PM (viF8m)

240 217 The VP candidate in 2016 for the LP was one of the most authoritarian people to run for higher office in the US.

Yay "Libertarian" Party
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (t0Rmr)

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I've said it before, but 2016 was the year the LP could have become serious. The year they could have taken dissatisfaction from both parties, in particular the GOP, and gotten a real foothold in American politics by hitting 5% of the popular vote and then accepting federal funding of elections from then on.

Instead, they intentionally tanked it.

They now get fewer votes in presidential elections percentage wise than they did in the 90s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

241 231: Yep.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 04:12 PM (sAmhv)

242 100 degrees in Germany! Isn’t that hot enough to boil water (go metric with me here)?! Oh noes! Gerbil Warming!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:12 PM (1paM0)

243 In my entire life of almost 60 years I cannot remember a single good libertarian candidate
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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We were gonna have good candidates, but then we got high

Posted by: The Libertarian Party at July 01, 2025 04:12 PM (8AONa)

244 @Ace: "Hey, it's a slow news day. Give me a break. I've got to put up anything close to newsy."

You could always elaborate on the link that J.J. Sefton provided this morning: "Toronto Zoo Hires Drag Queen Who Posts Naked Photos Online To Read To Kids"

And then include this page that I found on the Toronto Zoo's website.
https://tinyurl.com/bd44cbpk

Put those two things together.

"Oh HELL no."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 04:12 PM (O7YUW)

245 222 Amazing how we can get rid of one “maverick “ in the GOP, and then another one springs up to replace him.

So very tired of this game - McCain wore it out 20+ years ago.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (Hkcdp)

There are always two... a Master and an Apprentice....

OH... wait... no longer Cannon...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:13 PM (mP0Kj)

246 216 Can’t remember when the last funny movie was made… humor is a casualty of Wokeism..
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I am of the opinion Dave Chapelle was encouraged to step aside so as not to interfere with the Ascension of Sparky to the WH.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 04:13 PM (W3T6M)

247 Ssssssss

Posted by: The Slow Newsday Gorn at July 01, 2025 04:13 PM (jc0TO)

248 H1B Musk can go jump in a lake. Yeah, I member.

Posted by: Mongo at July 01, 2025 04:13 PM (Ef4Ak)

249 Can’t remember when the last funny movie was made… humor is a casualty of Wokeism..
Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 04:08 PM (PCK5/)

Last one I can think of? Maybe Tropical Thunder?

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 04:13 PM (r2ymA)

250 The last Libertarian Prez candidate I paid attention to was a guy who said he wanted to chain prisoners to their beds so they wouldn't work out in the weight rooms and get more powerful than the guards.

Hard to take any of them seriously after that.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 04:13 PM (ky8PV)

251 232 So we are back to the Republicans voting for big bloated spending bills to get tax cuts passed?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 04:10 PM (3QagQ)

Yes. This whole last few months really reminds me of the glory days of Bush Jr.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:13 PM (uCjyK)

252 >> Actually he's great to have on your team, because he can do great things - but you gotta know you're gonna have to jettison him at some point. So get as much out of him while you can.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 04:01 PM (uWKK

Nah. I don’t want a guy on my team who is going to fail when he’s needed most, especially because he puts himself first. In fact I’ve been in enough bad situations in my life to know he’s exactly what I don’t want on my team.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2025 04:13 PM (SOF+/)

253 The LP in Kentucky actually celebrated "delicious conservative tears" after helping Andy Beshear win.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 04:14 PM (3QagQ)

254 They now get fewer votes in presidential elections percentage wise than they did in the 90s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

Was that wrong - should we not have had a naked dude parading around on stage high as a kite?

~ LP

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 01, 2025 04:14 PM (Mxf84)

255 A friendly reforming state like El Salvador gets walloped with a massive earthquake, or a volcanic disaster, we're not going to simply look on. And I doubt State is eliminating the mechanisms or $ to respond.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (1m82a)

USAID is not involved in any of that sort of thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:14 PM (8avO+)

256 How is the temperature in Deutschland germane to the conversation?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 04:14 PM (LL6Kc)

257 "You could argue the music too.

The 80s were pretty bad culturally.

And I don't think it's gotten much better since.
Posted by: chavon"

I just kept listening to 70's music in the 80's and then moved on to the 90's. Which I did like.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:14 PM (fV+MH)

258 Funny movie?
Maybe Hot Fuzz, but that was years ago…

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 04:14 PM (Hkcdp)

259 255 A friendly reforming state like El Salvador gets walloped with a massive earthquake, or a volcanic disaster, we're not going to simply look on. And I doubt State is eliminating the mechanisms or $ to respond.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 04:09 PM (1m82a)

USAID is not involved in any of that sort of thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:14 PM (8avO+)

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They occasionally bought rice to send to people.

Otherwise, it was a slush fund for DC connected cronies who were always 2 years away from fixing starvation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

260 Running Man had to be the most 80's thing that ever 80'ed.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:06 PM (fV+MH)

I was gonna say that 'A Knight's Tale' was the most 90's thing of the 90's... but it came out in 2001.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:15 PM (mP0Kj)

261 178 I think it is important for victims and their families to feel like they are part of the process, even if, legally speaking, they are not. And for good reason! In a lot of tribal law systems in the ME, for example, the family decides on the punishment. That leads to rich criminals being able to bribe poor victims families to decide to not punish them or only minimally punish the. That's not exactly the system of justice we want to emulate.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

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Interesting info, thx. Def not advocating for victim family's to be the decision makers, just to be consulted. I just have this antiquated memory of the old (sorry) Law & Order episode with Bill Kunstler defending, and the murdered cop's widow in Michael Moriarty's face saying "I want you to think about this (photo of her deceased husband) before making any kinda DEAL!" Then Michael Moriarty saying to his assistant 'Yeah, let's go ahead with the trial; and make sure the jury sees her in the front row...'

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 04:16 PM (Bhsk7)

262 170 Sun can't melt steel.

I don’t know: get me a few acres of reflecting mirror out in the Arizona desert, and let’s see how hot a focus we can get!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:16 PM (1paM0)

263 The 80s were pretty bad culturally.

And I don't think it's gotten much better since.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 04:10 PM

I spent the 80s outside of the country mostly. Caught the tail end of 1989 when I left the carrier and got sent to do a tour at RTC Great Lakes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 04:16 PM (e5NfL)

264 When he was replaced, even with the nation collapsing the supply situation was much improved in 1865
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Well, they fucked up sending food to Lee's Army as he was exiting Petersburg.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 04:16 PM (W3T6M)

265 Cain on FoxNews is talking about the Bill.

I need to read up more on it. There's a ton of infrastructure, specifically the electrical grid, that could probably be updated.

It's insane that a country grinds to a halt, or whatever, without 4 or 5 trillion dollar injections. Meth addicts probably think that's messed up.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:17 PM (jvJvP)

266 The Toronto Zoo did whaaaaaat?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 04:17 PM (Hkcdp)

267 Slow news day PLUS hot European weather?

https://tinyurl.com/mseswd39

Sounds like the perfect excuse for weathergirl Euroboobs!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 01, 2025 04:17 PM (JCZqz)

268 My favorite 80’s movie.. Sixteen Candles. funny, very funny.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 04:17 PM (PCK5/)

269 "As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance. Foreign assistance programs that align with administration policies—and which advance American interests—will be administered by the State Department, where they will be delivered with more accountability, strategy, and efficiency." - Sec. Rubio

As I assumed.

Interesting how the statement really focuses on post-Cold War period. I still expect the histrionic idiocy (transgender operas in Rio favelas, etc) started only in 2009.

Here's the whole thing: https://tinyurl.com/yuujvthk

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 04:17 PM (1m82a)

270 1989 when I left the carrier and got sent to do a tour at RTC Great Lakes.
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That had to be a bit chilly. Did you guys still have Pea Coats then?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 04:17 PM (W3T6M)

271 Some action Germany today. Apparently, they just arrested some guy in Iranian intelligence who was casing various Jewish locations, and checking locations for Jewish officials. They only ID him as Ali S. So, obviously, Irish.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 04:17 PM (dIske)

272 Last one I can think of? Maybe Tropical Thunder?

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 04:13 PM (r2ymA)

Yup. Tropic Thunder. Time for a rewatch.

Posted by: LMAO funny at July 01, 2025 04:18 PM (R2M/s)

273 USAID was first and foremost the connective tissue between the CIA and the State Dept. They were the organization that helped fuel regime changes, both foreign and domestic, as well were deeply involved in things like pandemic response. Often ones they helped create.

The infamous "soft power" all the DC chuds are going about.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 04:18 PM (viF8m)

274 "Ssssssss
Posted by: The Slow Newsday Gorn "

fkn lol.

I would counter with Slow News Day Sleestak but I can't remember what sound they made.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:18 PM (fV+MH)

275 I was gonna say that 'A Knight's Tale' was the most 90's thing of the 90's... but it came out in 2001.
Posted by: Romeo13

Maybe The Matrix?

Posted by: Movie Moron at July 01, 2025 04:18 PM (JCZqz)

276 258 Funny movie? Maybe Hot Fuzz, but that was years ago… Posted by: Lizzy

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If you're talking about Edgar Wright, then Scott Pilgrim was good / funny. In general, feels like there are some examples, but Deadpool is the lowest common denominator of funny movie in the past 10 years...

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 04:18 PM (Bhsk7)

277 The most extreme case of this was when Lee's Army, defending Richmond, was running short of shoes, blankets, and ammunition. Georgia had plenty of all 3 in warehouses that it controlled; but the Georgia Governor said he thought that his home guard forces needed them more, so he refused to send any of it. Confederate Government had no authority to override him, not even when their survival was on the line.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (uWKK

you realize the Home Guard at that time was fighting the Yanks under Sherman in North Georgia? What was Davis doing to not procure shoes and uniforms in Virginia? The person in charge of that was one of Davis' cronies.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:18 PM (8avO+)

278 267 Slow news day PLUS hot European weather?

https://tinyurl.com/mseswd39

Sounds like the perfect excuse for weathergirl Euroboobs!!
____

Is that Emhoff's daughter?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 04:19 PM (Dv3i1)

279 We were gonna have good candidates, but then we got high
Posted by: The Libertarian Party at July 01, 2025 04:12 PM (8AONa)

Instead of mentioning how absolutely hilarious that particular joke is, now the what, fiftieth Odd time you told it ?(and really man, your joke makes my side ache with my laughter every time you tell it, let me say that some people would think you a repetitive bigot, but I understand true brilliance and memetic humor, I commend you)

The ex-chair of the LNC had made some comments about actual FBI agents trying to get state LP staff to be CIs and had made some comments about the interesting sorts that seem to always show up to clog the system up, almost as if they were snakebit.

I am waiting in mild interest to find out what Angela McArdle decides to produce as evidence.

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 04:19 PM (D7oie)

280 One of you suggested a new movie from 2016 that was pretty good. Infinity Chamber. Thanks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 04:19 PM (LL6Kc)

281 Running Man had to be the most 80's thing that ever 80'ed.

The trailer looks fun, dumb fun. That definitely is a valid remake

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:19 PM (dfIr7)

282 Hollywood moved away from comedies because they don't translate overseas as well.

So you have make another Transformers or Superhero movie and people in China can "enjoy" them as well as an American can, but a My Cousin Vinny is going to lose much of the humor in translation and because the people there won't get the stereotypes being made fun of....

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:19 PM (t0Rmr)

283 I need to read up more on it. There's a ton of infrastructure, specifically the electrical grid, that could probably be updated.

It's insane that a country grinds to a halt, or whatever, without 4 or 5 trillion dollar injections. Meth addicts probably think that's messed up.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:17 PM (jvJvP)

Well, Obama spent a trillion dollars on infrastructure. Trump spend hundreds of billions. Then Biden spent another trillion or so on infrastructure.

And yet, as Trump said back in 2016, drive through much of the country and we have "failing third world infrastructure."

It is infuriating. I see bridges rusting through everywhere that could probably have had their lives extended by decades if they were just painted and maintained, but thats not how government operates. They need constant crises so they can get more money.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:19 PM (uCjyK)

284 "USAID is not involved in any of that sort of thing."

WTF? Wrong. OFDA is the implementing agency, under USAID. I don't how the organization chart looks now, but I'd bet $9 OFDA or its equivalent remains (largely unchanged), under some State bureau.

USAID didn't just house OFDA, but its various bureaus coordinated with OFDA whenever it made sense (follow-on aid following major disasters, for example).

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (1m82a)

285 Yup. Tropic Thunder. Time for a rewatch.
Posted by: LMAO funny

This is why I love watching YouTube reaction channels so much. I get to rematch the movies I love AND see people's fresh reaction to them as well.

Posted by: Movie Moron at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (JCZqz)

286 1989 when I left the carrier and got sent to do a tour at RTC Great Lakes.
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That had to be a bit chilly. Did you guys still have Pea Coats then?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 04:17 PM

Yes we did. I gave mine to the uniform thrift store when I made Chief Petty Officer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (e5NfL)

287 New last line to the Faygo song?

Pony rides and Sunday nights
Roller skates and yo-yo's
Fairy tales and snowball fights
Getting sniped through the window

https://tinyurl.com/ycyjdzkt

Posted by: one hour sober at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (Y1sOo)

288 "Does anyone else now have aversions to drinks or food they used to like when younger?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

Unless you're talking REALLY young, no. I have a dislike of all sugary candy, which I'm sure I loved, but mostly I have more things I like now than I ever did.

I have developed a distaste for soda, as well. I can drink it, but I don't enjoy it. (Mostly.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (N1DT3)

289 54 https://shorturl.at/8P5OR

By the way, interesting article here comparing Elon's political ineptitude to the Whites in Russia's Civil War (the comparison makes sense, actually).
Posted by: the lower depths at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (+b4rY)

That is an extremely perceptive article - I think he has Elon pegged just right.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (uWKK8)

290 Some action Germany today. Apparently, they just arrested some guy in Iranian intelligence who was casing various Jewish locations, and checking locations for Jewish officials. They only ID him as Ali S. So, obviously, Irish.
Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 04:17 PM (dIske)

This shows why EU cowardice doesn't pay. The terrorists will blow stuff up in Europe anyway.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+)

291 282 Hollywood moved away from comedies because they don't translate overseas as well.

So you have make another Transformers or Superhero movie and people in China can "enjoy" them as well as an American can, but a My Cousin Vinny is going to lose much of the humor in translation and because the people there won't get the stereotypes being made fun of..

They don't have youts in china?

Posted by: Chuck Norris at July 01, 2025 04:21 PM (HcoTw)

292 If you think Law and Order, in any of its many permutations has anything pertinent to say about real law and order, you are vastly mistaken! I refused to watch it because, from the very first episode, the prosecution, that is to say, the State, gets to go last! That’s totally against our system of laws! And no one even comments on it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:21 PM (1paM0)

293 I was gonna say that 'A Knight's Tale' was the most 90's thing of the 90's... but it came out in 2001.

A Knight's Tale sucked so bad, I wanted to find everyone responsible and beat them with a flanged mace. It turned me against Heath Leger for life until I saw him as Joker.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:21 PM (dfIr7)

294 And if anyone's thirsty for a 'new' movie that's funny... I'd vote for 'Saturday Night'. Surprisingly really enjoyed it

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 04:21 PM (Bhsk7)

295 I think the last funny movie I saw was Max Steel, which wasn't even supposed to be funny.

Mad respect for making a movie so bad it was hilarious.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 04:21 PM (ky8PV)

296 If Trump signs this Evil Tax Break Big Bill, then children color in African Communist Shit-Hole Countries will starve !!

Do you want this on your Conscience ??????

Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 01, 2025 04:21 PM (q/j2W)

297
Also, didn't Joe Biden's uncle get eaten by a cannibal or something? I can see why Uncle Joe wanted this kind of diversity here.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:11 PM (uCjyK)

Michael Rockefeller, Nelson's kid.

And of course, Nelson died of a heart attack while shtupping his mid-20s mistress about 20 years later.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 04:21 PM (y9nCu)

298 Disney/Pixar already got two flop cartoons featuring ghey characters, so they de-ghey the title character of Elio and . . . wind up with their biggest flop cartoon ever?

Something something heart of stone something laugh.

John Lasseter should never have been ousted.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (74dzI)

299
They don't have youts in china?

NO.

Posted by: A Chinese Tiger Mom hitting her child with a shoe because he only spend 2 hours on homework today at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (t0Rmr)

300 Hmmm, Game Night with Jason Bateman was funny.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (Hkcdp)

301 150 149 Guy Ritchie did a good job with Fountain of Youth. Interesting angles, etc. The opening sequence was very fun.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 03:57 PM (ky8PV)

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His King Arthur is underappreciated.

Lovecraftian.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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Boorman captures the Arthurian mythos better. Whole movie seems like a dream. Plus nudity, gore, and a wisecracking Nicol Williamson.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (ctrM5)

302 Going to the movies was always a big thing for us. I'm in a small farming community.

I have seen so few movies.

Yet, in the theatres, I still saw "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!"

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (jvJvP)

303 They only ID him as Ali S. So, obviously, Irish.
Posted by: Orson

I was going to guess UK citizenship, but he'd probably just be named Mohammed at that point.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (JCZqz)

304 > Can’t remember when the last funny movie was made… humor is a casualty of Wokeism..

I liked Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (lIio7)

305 301 Boorman captures the Arthurian mythos better. Whole movie seems like a dream. Plus nudity, gore, and a wisecracking Nicol Williamson.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (ctrM5)

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I do like Boorman's take more, as insane as Boorman is (dude's still alive, surprisingly).

But Ritchie's take is fun, and I'm a sucker for Lovecraftian horror, even in small doses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

306 "Does anyone else now have aversions to drinks or food they used to like when younger?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

As a kid I was so disgusted by coagulated egg white that I only could eat softboiled so soft that my mom was repulsed. I got over it.

Somewhere in my late 30s my favorite meal of enchiladas with beef started making me ill as in throwing up driving home. beef and melted cheese.
switching to chicken was OK.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:23 PM (8avO+)

307 Humor in China is when you lose the beads off your abacus.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 04:24 PM (v0R5T)

308 Hollywood moved away from comedies because they don't translate overseas as well.

They can, but they have to be something that broadly translates well like silent comedy, or connects with something generally understood, like Blazing Saddles. Any comedy that relies heavily on language or specific cultural beats is not going to work well in other nations and cultures or especially languages.

Harold Lloyd is funny in China and Africa and Canada and Chile. Air plane requires too much understanding of disaster movies, American culture, and puns.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:24 PM (dfIr7)

309 My conscience can handle it. Sally Struthers ftw.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 04:24 PM (LL6Kc)

310 WTF? Wrong. OFDA is the implementing agency, under USAID. I don't how the organization chart looks now, but I'd bet $9 OFDA or its equivalent remains (largely unchanged), under some State bureau.

USAID didn't just house OFDA, but its various bureaus coordinated with OFDA whenever it made sense (follow-on aid following major disasters, for example).
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (1m82a)

USAID was, and has been from its inception, a slush fund used by the CIA and State Department to throw money around overseas as part of projecting "soft power" after Kennedy lost his shit on the CIA for their bumbling projections of, er, "hard power" like the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

Did some of that money ever go to a "good cause"? Yeah, probably. Do we know that for sure? No, because they didn't / don't keep accurate records of anything, like most of the federal government.

Do we want our intel agencies running a shadow government / shadow foreign policy operations around the world with no oversight? I would say no, but apparently I'm in the minority on this site with that view.

Is USAID the only such area of the budget where these slush funds exist? Absolutely not.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:24 PM (uCjyK)

311 Basically there hasn't been a really funny film in over 15 years.

The closest you could probably come up with is Bridesmaids.

As with much of the rest of the culture, everything went to shit around the time Obama was elected.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 04:24 PM (XV/Pl)

312 304 > Can’t remember when the last funny movie was made… humor is a casualty of Wokeism..

I liked Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (lIio7)

That was funny...especially if you play.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 04:25 PM (tOcjL)

313 just kept listening to 70's music in the 80's and then moved on to the 90's. Which I did like.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:14 PM (fV+MH)

The 90's had some really good stuff.

Since 00s it's been really slim pickinings.

Maybe one good song a year at best.

Mostly one-offs with no sustained excellence.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 04:25 PM (r2ymA)

314 I liked Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

I liked it, although they got Displacer Beasts all wrong (that is NOT how they work) and it was a bit too long.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:25 PM (dfIr7)

315 turned me against Heath Leger for life until I saw him as Joker.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

So...for the rest of HIS life, at least.

Posted by: Movie Moron at July 01, 2025 04:25 PM (JCZqz)

316 This is why I love watching YouTube reaction channels so much. I get to rematch the movies I love AND see people's fresh reaction to them as well.

Posted by: Movie Moron at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (JCZqz)

I probably would enjoy that. What is it actually?

Posted by: LMAO funny at July 01, 2025 04:26 PM (R2M/s)

317 305 301 Boorman captures the Arthurian mythos better. Whole movie seems like a dream. Plus nudity, gore, and a wisecracking Nicol Williamson.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (ctrM5)

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I do like Boorman's take more, as insane as Boorman is (dude's still alive, surprisingly). But Ritchie's take is fun, and I'm a sucker for Lovecraftian horror, even in small doses. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu

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Guy Ritchie 'King Arthur' or Antoine Fuqua 'King Arthur' (the Clive Owen one)? Haven't seen the former. Guilty pleasure liking the latter. Awesome cast...

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 04:26 PM (Bhsk7)

318 Michael Rockefeller, Nelson's kid.

And of course, Nelson died of a heart attack while shtupping his mid-20s mistress about 20 years later.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 04:21 PM (y9nCu)

Yes, I know that story. I was making fun of Joe Biden's hilarious lie about his uncle who got shot down in WWII.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:26 PM (uCjyK)

319 That was funny...especially if you play.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 04:25 PM (tOcjL)

Why only 3 questions? Why not 5?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 01, 2025 04:26 PM (Mxf84)

320 They only ID him as Ali S.

That can't be his real name.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 04:26 PM (Wnv9h)

321 296 If Trump signs this Evil Tax Break Big Bill, then children color in African Communist Shit-Hole Countries will starve !!

Do you want this on your Conscience ??????
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Hardly a bother. Black Fatigue is a real thing these days. I channel surf for films to watch. If the film features blacks I just move on.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 04:26 PM (W3T6M)

322 Massie needs to be recycled as Secretary of Agriculture. He'd do much better than whatever woman is in charge of that.

And Trump needs to do something for the Amish who turned out in droves to win Pennsylvania. Ask Scott Presler and Robert Barnes. They're being harassed by PA. We need food freedom in America.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (w6EFb)

323 I liked Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Hugh Grant was really good. Though while I haven't played D&D in forever aren't tieflings supposed to be kind of evil?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (t0Rmr)

324 The ex-chair of the LNC had made some comments about actual FBI agents trying to get state LP staff to be CIs and had made some comments about the interesting sorts that seem to always show up to clog the system up, almost as if they were snakebit.

I am waiting in mild interest to find out what Angela McArdle decides to produce as evidence.
Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 04:19 PM (D7oie)

Yeah, I'm pretty much convinced that Perot and the Reform Party was the first major casualty of the Elder Bush's Deep State.

Look at the story... suddenly a guy gets INSIDE information from Government sources, that his family is in danger... but then the government sources call him nuts? and run a Big Gov Leak campaign through the media, which destroys his credibility.

Gee, where else have we seen Government insiders tell Lies about a Political Opponent... which then get taken as credible by the Press... and is the top story for weeks...

Can you say 'Russian Collusion'? I knew you could...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (mP0Kj)

325 > Hmmm, Game Night with Jason Bateman was funny.

I liked that one too.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (lIio7)

326 The Guard, about a small town Irish Guardia police gets mixed up into a drug war and a FBI agent investigating mix it up
Really funny

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (FCrpy)

327 317 Guy Ritchie 'King Arthur' or Antoine Fuqua 'King Arthur' (the Clive Owen one)? Haven't seen the former. Guilty pleasure liking the latter. Awesome cast...
Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 04:26 PM (Bhsk7)

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I probably like Ritchie's a little better. Fuqua's is weird, but the battles are fun and Stellan Skarsgaard's bored performance as the main baddie is actually kind of really fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

328 Oh and the best Easter egg in the D&D movie was having a party that looked like the cast of the old D&D cartoon.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:28 PM (t0Rmr)

329 As with much of the rest of the culture, everything went to shit around the time Obama was elected.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 04:24 PM (XV/Pl)

Barky is of islam. There's no laughter in islam.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2025 04:28 PM (g8Ew8)

330 323 I liked Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Hugh Grant was really good. Though while I haven't played D&D in forever aren't tieflings supposed to be kind of evil?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (t0Rmr)

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Apparently, Grant writes most of his dialogue in all of his movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

331 The one movie where I thought Mollie Ringwald was hot, she played a psycho.

Not really sure what that says about me.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 04:28 PM (fV+MH)

332 I think Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was funny...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 04:28 PM (VE6XX)

333 Movies today:
Not funny ha ha, funny queer

Posted by: Carl Childers at July 01, 2025 04:29 PM (HcoTw)

334 Just saw another film besides Caught Stealing to peak my interest, apparently PTA is directing a dramedy starring DiCaprio, that looks really good.

I've had this idea for a movie that takes place during the COVID era, it's kind of a mashup of It's A Mad Mad Mad World meets convoy meets Smokey and The Bandit, whereby all of these truckers have to race to California to pick up a MacGuffen and get it back to the east coast.

Daniel Day Lewis is in it in a comedic role, his driving partner is a midget, and there's a scene where they get drunk and he has to toss his partner into the truck.

I just want to see DDL tossing a midget.

This is definately a film PTA would direct.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 04:29 PM (XV/Pl)

335 Reading Rubio's statement is interesting, having been very directly involved in some of this in the (now distant?) past. Some of it echoes things from the early 90s, when it was actually shocking how non-stupid much of the activity was (for those expecting it to be thoroughly Peace Corps/NPR/do-gooder crap). Reinforcing my presumption that - along with so much else - the Obama years disfigured and weaponized foreign aid.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 04:29 PM (1m82a)

336 This is why I love watching YouTube reaction channels so much. I get to rematch the movies I love AND see people's fresh reaction to them as well.

Posted by: Movie Moron at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (JCZqz)

I probably would enjoy that. What is it actually?
Posted by: LMAO funny at July 01, 2025 04:26 PM (R2M/s)

People watching the movie and you see cut down clips of them on top of the movie. There's a group of three Vietnamese girls that are funny - in Tropic Thunder they were cheering on the NVA and critiquing the view of their country. Sometimes they have issues understanding American stuff, which is also interesting.

They really were weepy during Its a Wonderful Life.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:29 PM (8avO+)

337 It’s been for years now that comedies have to also be either cringe/crude (There’s Something About Mary) or violent (Mel Gibson’s Fat Man). Not much G Comedy anymore.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 04:29 PM (Hkcdp)

338 288 "Does anyone else now have aversions to drinks or food they used to like when younger?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"
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When very young, I loved fish, and various seafood. Now, I can't stand it. Not sure why...

On a side note. This got me kicked out of a restaurant about 4 years ago. I needed to make a quick trip outside to take care of parking due to a fire across the street. The person I was with asked me what I wanted to order because the waitress was just arriving. I said, "Not Seafood." This implied anything else was fine.

All the Jewish waitress heard was "Nazi Food." When I returned from the car my dinner companion was standing at the front door ready to leave. She had been asked to vacate.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (dIske)

339 There was a recent analysis of "regime change" actions that pointed out that the regime change only lasted as long as the new regime was subsidized by USAID.

Which is sort of depressing. All that money and violence has to be subsidized.

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (D7oie)

340 Guy Ritchie 'King Arthur' or Antoine Fuqua 'King Arthur' (the Clive Owen one)? Haven't seen the former. Guilty pleasure liking the latter. Awesome cast...

I didn't care for the latter, but the score for it is magnificent

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (dfIr7)

341 Yeah, I'm pretty much convinced that Perot and the Reform Party was the first major casualty of the Elder Bush's Deep State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (mP0Kj)

The Bush family is probably the most deep state family this side of the Rockefellers, so I have no doubt they were / are capable of that. But I have not looked in to it at all.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (uCjyK)

342 It is infuriating. I see bridges rusting through everywhere that could probably have had their lives extended by decades if they were just painted and maintained, but thats not how government operates. They need constant crises so they can get more money.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:19 PM (uCjyK

Hell, I'm in Canada but I'm worried about your electricty grid. I've read a few articles before.

I'd love to think this bill miraculously fixes things. But you're right. Things have to collapse to be addresed.

Hey, I'm starting today's Dominion Day 12 pack! I'm taking a month off aside from the animals. And I'll thoroughly go through the house since it's now mine.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (jvJvP)

343 We need food freedom in America.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (w6EFb)

We need a famine so we can stop coming up with nonsensical phrases like this. Or “ultra processed food”, etc etc etc.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (BugZp)

344 340 Guy Ritchie 'King Arthur' or Antoine Fuqua 'King Arthur' (the Clive Owen one)? Haven't seen the former. Guilty pleasure liking the latter. Awesome cast...

I didn't care for the latter, but the score for it is magnificent
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (dfIr7)

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Fuqua's is weirdly preachy. About a heresy that's been dead for more than 1500 years.

So weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

345 Massie is a piece of shit that voted for the Biden Boondoggle that literally REMOVED the debt ceiling for the duration and let them pile up more debt than at any point in history.

But yeah, now that Trump's in office his precious 'principles' are TOTALLY about cutting spending.

It just shocks me that anybody lends any credence to this fraud.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 01, 2025 03:44 PM (setIA)

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Sure enough: https://tinyurl.com/3jfmkyvp
He was the lone Republican on the House Rules Committee -- appointed by Kevin McCarthy, no less -- to advance the debt limit increase in 2023. His "principles" aren't worth the paper they're written on.

Posted by: Caiwyn at July 01, 2025 04:31 PM (yHxqC)

346 332 I think Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was funny...
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Who doesn't have a flame thrower in their shed?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 04:31 PM (W3T6M)

347 342 It is infuriating. I see bridges rusting through everywhere that could probably have had their lives extended by decades if they were just painted and maintained, but thats not how government operates. They need constant crises so they can get more money.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:19 PM (uCjyK

It helps to hold government to account, but people are uninterested in doing that.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 01, 2025 04:31 PM (BugZp)

348 Government employees are pretty open about why maintenance doesn't happen and work takes forever.

Don't
Kill
The
Job

Why fix that road in a week when you can do it in four? Why paint that bridge when you can hire your brother in law's company to replace it when it collapses?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:31 PM (t0Rmr)

349 Hell, I'm in Canada but I'm worried about your electricty grid. I've read a few articles before.

I'd love to think this bill miraculously fixes things. But you're right. Things have to collapse to be addresed.

Hey, I'm starting today's Dominion Day 12 pack! I'm taking a month off aside from the animals. And I'll thoroughly go through the house since it's now mine.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (jvJvP)

Our grid works fine in the parts of the country that haven't had a massive increase in population.

But yes, it should have been upgraded over the years as part of routine maintenance, but hasn't been and won't until the next catastrophe when we need TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS RIGHT NOW OR WE ALL DIE.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:31 PM (uCjyK)

350 Gee, where else have we seen Government insiders tell Lies about a Political Opponent... which then get taken as credible by the Press... and is the top story for weeks...

Can you say 'Russian Collusion'? I knew you could...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (mP0Kj)

George it would have been simpler to keep your word and not raise taxes.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 04:32 PM (8avO+)

351 Seems like many a fine lawn amoung the commenters.

Posted by: Mongo at July 01, 2025 04:32 PM (Ef4Ak)

352
Yes, I know that story. I was making fun of Joe Biden's hilarious lie about his uncle who got shot down in WWII.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:26 PM (uCjyK)

Oh yeah. I'd forgotten about that.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 04:32 PM (y9nCu)

353 This is why I love watching YouTube reaction channels so much. I get to rematch the movies I love AND see people's fresh reaction to them as well.

Posted by: Movie Moron at July 01, 2025 04:20 PM (JCZqz)

I get the same thing from watching them with my children.

We watched "Taken" with out teenagers last night (both as a good movie, but also as a "beware of what can happen" warning.)

My son was shouting out advice to Liam Neeson, and unlike most movies, he did exactly what my son recommended. It was hilarious. My son loved it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 04:33 PM (N1DT3)

354 I liked Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 04:22 PM (lIio7)

I was really surprised by this movie, and I liked it as well.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 01, 2025 04:33 PM (FCrpy)

355 323 I liked Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Hugh Grant was really good. Though while I haven't played D&D in forever aren't tieflings supposed to be kind of evil?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:27 PM (t0Rmr)

Anything can be reskinned...I play Duffy the Bear as a College of Lore Bard who can call all his magical stuffy and movie friends as "help"...the number of spells I have renamed to be "more G rated" amuses my GM...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 04:33 PM (tOcjL)

356 The one movie where I thought Mollie Ringwald was hot, she played a psycho.

That was the only one she took her top off in, and showed that she has really big ones. Apparently she always had, they just put her into loose clothes and strapped them down pretty well to make her look younger.

I have heard mixed things about her personally, apparently absolutely no one who worked with her likes her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:33 PM (dfIr7)

357 304 I liked Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
Posted by: bonhomme

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I love the Money Pit. That is my answer to that statement.

Posted by: Peter Griffin at July 01, 2025 04:34 PM (Bhsk7)

358 Why fix that road in a week when you can do it in four? Why paint that bridge when you can hire your brother in law's company to replace it when it collapses?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:31 PM (t0Rmr)

Sure, that's part of it.

But the bigger part is the politicians want a crisis around every corner. Scared people vote to give politicians more money.

It's why they always threatened to fire "cops and teachers" at the local level if you don't agree to pay more in property taxes. Or why they allow the roads to go to shit. You say "seriously, there is nothing else to cut in the budget other than cops and teachers?" and they will tell you with a straight face that it's either that, or they get rid of road maintenance or plowing. Or, you know, give them more money and nothing will get fixed but at least you'll still have cops, teachers, and road plowing in the winter!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:34 PM (uCjyK)

359 I probably would enjoy that. What is it actually?
Posted by: LMAO

Here's a favorite of mine, Popcorn in Bed. A sweet young woman who grew up very sheltered, exploring movies and being terrified of many of them. Here she is watching The Thing lol
https://tinyurl.com/3md5assk

Coincidentally, she and her sister are in their latest video watching The Dungeons and Dragons movie being discussed!

Posted by: Movie Moron at July 01, 2025 04:34 PM (JCZqz)

360 Pretty sure that Obama’s TARP infrastructure bill spent the most money on …. Public schools. Not bridges and roads, not the electricity grid, etc.

Gotta reward the teachers unions for reliably being the biggest donors to Democrat candidates.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (Hkcdp)

361 Oh yeah. I'd forgotten about that.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 04:32 PM (y9nCu)

It's hard to keep track of Bidens outlandish lies. That one always stuck with me, though, because it made me laugh. He couldn't just say "my uncle was shot down in the pacific during WWII." He had to embellish the story and make it sound absurd.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (uCjyK)

362 There was a reference to that Lancet* study that claimed 14 million are going to die for lack of USAID.

Oh, and how many millions of Americans have died because that money was spent there instead of here?

Why do we need to house, feed and clothe the world?

*how many studies have they had to retract over the years because they were completely fabricated?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (LbQ3Z)

363 The Thing is one of the most genuinely frightening movies I have ever seen. That and Alien scared the crap out of me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:35 PM (dfIr7)

364 I have heard mixed things about her personally, apparently absolutely no one who worked with her likes her.

ringwald always always rubbed me the wrong way! did not like

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 04:36 PM (Pv3Rg)

365 We watched "Taken" with out teenagers last night (both as a good movie, but also as a "beware of what can happen" warning.)

My son was shouting out advice to Liam Neeson, and unlike most movies, he did exactly what my son recommended. It was hilarious. My son loved it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 04:33 PM (N1DT3)

Jake Speed, the same premise but it’s a comedy where pulp novels are real and guys like Doc Savage are real 80s goofy dumb movie

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (FCrpy)

366
Dodgeball
Team America

Soderberg's pandemic film Contagion starts off as a great comedy, watching Gwenny Goop having a seizure and croaking in the first 10 minutes. But it ends disappointingly with Matt Damon surviving.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (y9nCu)

367 I do like Boorman's take more, as insane as Boorman is (dude's still alive, surprisingly). But Ritchie's take is fun, and I'm a sucker for Lovecraftian horror, even in small doses. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu
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Eh, I can understand why but I have never cared much for horror, written or depicted in movies.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 04:37 PM (ctrM5)

368 Why fix that road in a week when you can do it in four? Why paint that bridge when you can hire your brother in law's company to replace it when it collapses?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 04:31 PM (t0Rmr)

I moved back to Central Calif to take care of Mom, 13 years ago... at the time there was a 'Shovel Ready Project' to expand 99 highway to 3 lanes.... to alleviate traffic. The signs of the Obama funded project to do so went up 13 years ago.

It's still not done... although signs are now down... they DID do 1.5 YEARS of Construction through my little town, and the neighboring bigger town, during which is was the Most DEADLY Highway in the US... people DIED during that construction... and....

They didn't widen the bridges and overpasses, so it is still only 2 lanes per side wide.

Note, this is in one of the Republican sections of California... so we will be the last to get any money from the State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:39 PM (mP0Kj)

369 Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons -

There's no laughter in islam.

Beg to differ: they laugh uproariously as they chop your hand off, or your head!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (1paM0)

370 *how many studies have they had to retract over the years because they were completely fabricated?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Lancet is scared shitless of what is coming down the pike for Big Pharma and their bullshit studies.

Latest one regards a heart medication but a more serious problem is the coming judgment on the Alzheimer plaque group. They have sacrificed billions for drugs that do not work because the theory is worthless and many of those trials are dubious to say the least.

Similar to string theory and the NSF.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (ctrM5)

371 ringwald always always rubbed me the wrong way!

She always had an approachable adorability, like a girl you could know and talk to that was still really pretty. But yeah something about her personality was off.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (dfIr7)

372 I have heard mixed things about her personally, apparently absolutely no one who worked with her likes her.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 04:33 PM (dfIr7)

She shit on John Hugh’s saying his movies are sexist and racist and shouldn’t be watched anymore

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (FCrpy)

373
Even when I was young, I never found Ringwald to be attractive, physically or her personality. Especially in Sixteen Candles, she was a painfully neurotic asshole.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 04:42 PM (y9nCu)

374 Bush family and the Rockefellers go way back to around WWI. Oil business connections.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 04:42 PM (ctrM5)

375 Fuqua's is weirdly preachy. About a heresy that's been dead for more than 1500 years. So weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu

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I never dwelled on that part of the plot, I guess. Just well made, decent script, and awesome cast. Like the top 10 or so billed are all awesome (Mads Milkelsen, Joel Edgerton before he was known, Ray Winstone, Ray Stevenson, Stellan Skarsgard as the Saxon warlord, Til Schweiger before Inglorious Bastards...). Sure, Keira Knightley's character was a token annoying fiction, but she herself didn't ruin it and it was worth the watch IMHO...

Posted by: Peter Griffin at July 01, 2025 04:43 PM (Bhsk7)

376 @libsoftiktok
BREAKING:
@Penn to APOLOGIZE for allowing male swimmer Lia Thomas to invade the women's team.

The University will also be adopting definitions for male and female consistent with biological sex, strip all records/titles from Thomas and return them to female swimmers, and issue personal apologies to all female swimmers who were affected.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 04:44 PM (Dv3i1)

377 @libsoftiktok
BREAKING:
@Penn to APOLOGIZE for allowing male swimmer Lia Thomas to invade the women's team.

The University will also be adopting definitions for male and female consistent with biological sex, strip all records/titles from Thomas and return them to female swimmers, and issue personal apologies to all female swimmers who were affected.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 04:44 PM

It's all fun and games until Daddy takes the credit card away.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (xn0Ie)

378 371 ringwald always always rubbed me the wrong way!

She always had an approachable adorability, like a girl you could know and talk to that was still really pretty. But yeah something about her personality was off.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Resting bitch face intimating resentment and dislike of others. Worked when paired off as pseudo antagonists in Breakfast Club or 16 Candles. Not so well as a romantic lead by herself.

Ally Sheedy though made a career out of acting better than Ringwald did by having a sense of fun with her (even appeared as the villain turned good girl in Psych episodes).

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 04:45 PM (ctrM5)

379 Penn to APOLOGIZE…

Yay!!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:46 PM (1paM0)

380 376 @libsoftiktok
BREAKING:
@Penn to APOLOGIZE for allowing male swimmer Lia Thomas to invade the women's team. The University will also be adopting definitions for male and female consistent with biological sex, strip all records/titles from Thomas and return them to female swimmers, and issue personal apologies to all female swimmers who were affected. Posted by: Chuck Martel

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Flaming skull??! Please let this story be true...

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 04:46 PM (Bhsk7)

381 nood

Posted by: bearski at July 01, 2025 04:47 PM (Bhsk7)

382 Latest one regards a heart medication but a more serious problem is the coming judgment on the Alzheimer plaque group. They have sacrificed billions for drugs that do not work because the theory is worthless and many of those trials are dubious to say the least.

Similar to string theory and the NSF.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 04:40 PM (ctrM5)

Had a new Doc at the Practice I've gone to for years... he bitched at me about not taking Cholesterol Meds, then saw I was unVax'd for Covid... and made a comment about the Patient knowing more than the Doctor...

Uh... dude... I put in the Computer system you are using to pass on the Diagnose and Prescriptions your Big Pharma owners tell you to...

Nurse in the room, whom I've known for years... just looked at me and shook her head...

I went to the front Desk and had it put into my Record that I did not want to see that Doctor again...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:47 PM (mP0Kj)

383 The Bushes are Deep State through and through: Skull and Bones - it’s worse than you think, much worse!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 04:48 PM (1paM0)

384
Note, this is in one of the Republican sections of California... so we will be the last to get any money from the State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:39 PM (mP0Kj)

Even the blue areas of CA take their sweet ass time. The 101/405 intersection in LA has been under construction for about 20 years. They leave construction equipment in the median for years at a time. There was a generator sitting there in the open that I mentally kept track of. Sitting in exactly the same spot for at least 8 years.

On the other hand, Texas doesn't fuck around. They build shit so fast that I suspect they have space alien construction equipment in the inventory. A 10 year project in CA will take about 18 months in Texas.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 04:51 PM (y9nCu)

385 I guess I understood that this bill needed to be passed. Once it was passed, subsequent bills would go through that would decrease spending. It had something to do with how funds were allocated and how procedurally they would need to be eliminated.
The danger was always in the follow up bills not getting through. Is this not the case? Because if this is the case, and Musk must know this if it is, why the public bitching?

Posted by: Black JEM at July 01, 2025 04:52 PM (GZYu7)

386 384
Note, this is in one of the Republican sections of California... so we will be the last to get any money from the State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 04:39 PM (mP0Kj)

Even the blue areas of CA take their sweet ass time. The 101/405 intersection in LA has been under construction for about 20 years. They leave construction equipment in the median for years at a time. There was a generator sitting there in the open that I mentally kept track of. Sitting in exactly the same spot for at least 8 years.

I can't believe no one figured out how to help themselves to that generator.

Posted by: Octochicken at July 01, 2025 05:40 PM (oCS0o)

387 We need a famine so we can stop coming up with nonsensical phrases like this. Or “ultra processed food”, etc etc etc.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 01, 2025 04:30 PM (BugZp)

WTF is wrong with you? Food freedom is a thing. Many people can't take regular dairy - they need raw milk and raw milk products. And it's not dangerous, despite what Big Dairy tells you.

Do you not know what ultra processed food is?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 01, 2025 06:16 PM (w6EFb)

388 Hopefully someone can get through to Musk that trying to create a new party, will just give Democrats a super majority in both houses.

He should work to primary Republicans that stray from conservative ideals (voting for this bill really isn't ove of them though, since we know the bullshit involved in funding and how only Democrats ever get their way 100%, so this was a stay for conservatives) Musk should also be reminded he got what he wanted from this bill too, where they lessened ther burden on Indians sending money back to Indian, which are Musk's primary workforce.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (rjFCX)

389 Answer no, but it doesn't matter. He votes Republican most of the time. His schtick isn't any worse that Ron Paul's was, and in the end is meaningless. If you really want to do something, pull him off any good committee. Let him be on the name the day of the month committee

Posted by: ohnonotme at July 01, 2025 08:57 PM (s8WNT)

Trump Tours "Alligator Alcatraz;" Agrees to Let DeSantis Deputize National Guardsmen as Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations

The left is always complaining that we need judges to handle the huge wave of illegal third-world immigration they encourage.

Okay, how about National Guard soldiers sworn in to be immigration judges?

This is the kind of innovation in government I'm looking for.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would approve Florida's plan to expedite deportations by having qualified National Guard members work as immigration judges.
Trump made the announcement during his visit to a new state-run immigration detention center in South Florida dubbed Alligator Alcatraz.
For months now, Gov. Ron DeSantis has sought the approval of the federal government to deputize Florida National Guard Judge Advocate General Corps. officers to act as immigration judges.
On Tuesday, Trump said he is in favor of the plan.
"He didn't even have to ask me. He has my approval," Trump said during a roundtable discussion at the immigration detention center in the Everglades.
DeSantis on Monday said having the National Guard work as immigration judges on site at the detention center could fast-track deportations.
On Tuesday, DeSantis said his goal was to cut through "bureaucracy."
Because the detention center is built on an old airstrip, DeSantis and others have also said it will speed up the deportation process by allowing the federal government to fly migrants out of the site.
Attorney General James Uthmeier, who was instrumental in the detention center's planning, said on social media Tuesday that it was a "one stop shop for immigration enforcement."
"Come in, get your 'process,' and fly out," Uthmeier said.

I love it. Unfortunately he's not talking about just making thousands of National Guardsmen judges, just Guardsman in the judge advocate corps. Lawyers, then.

President Trump & Gov. DeSantis confirm Florida will deputize National Guardsmen as immigration judges

Instead of waiting 3 years for a deportation decision, it will be made in less than 3 days at Alligator Alcatraz

Every Red state needs to follow suit pic.twitter.com/frOgCmPGzT
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 1, 2025

🚨 JUST IN: President Donald Trump confirms to Governor Ron DeSantis that the federal government will APPROVE Florida's request to use Florida National Guardsman as immigration judges

This will EXPEDITE deportations

DeSantis: "I'm sure Pam [Bondi] will approve."

Trump: "Yep."� pic.twitter.com/bl9OEcns7K
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 1, 2025

President Trump at Alligator Alcatraz

�Biden wanted me in here ... Didn't work out that way.

That son of a bitch.� pic.twitter.com/rHCvOltNYQ
— 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧 (@michael_texan) July 1, 2025

This is outstanding:

Doocy: With Alliagator Alcatraz, is the idea that if some illegal immigrant escapes, they just get eaten by an alligator?

Trump: I guess that�s the concept. Snakes are fast but alligators� we�re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator. Don�t run in a straight line,� pic.twitter.com/xnGTUTALDr
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 1, 2025

The left is boohoo wailin' and gnashin' over this one.

TherealRonin #AbortionIsAWomansRight
@ACTIdgit
Donnie is treating the idea of a concentration camp on US soil as a fucking joke. I'm sure something similar was said by German leadership during the Third Reich.

They're also posting memes of slaves being hunted by their masters, boohoo sobbin' and snifflin' "So we're back to this."

Posted by: Ace at 02:13 PM

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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 02:13 PM (N1DT3)

2 On the Immigration Judges, I'm more than happy to volunteer, too.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 02:14 PM (N1DT3)

3 And Biden sent the illegals collected from MV Island to a concentration camp.

It literally means a camp where you concentrate people.

Now socialists often kill people in concentration camps, but fortunately here Trump isn't one.

Oh and these people can always just volunteer to go home to leave right away...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 02:14 PM (t0Rmr)

4 They really, REALLY, need to have Swamp Buggy competitions to see who gets to be appointed as a new Immigration Judge!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 02:14 PM (uWKK8)

5 Off topic, but I think they should have added an abortion tax to the bill.

Its tax! They can tax anything according to SCOTUS.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2025 02:15 PM (oz2l0)

6 What a strange Concentration Camp - you can leave anytime you say you wanna go home.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 02:15 PM (uWKK8)

7 On Trump answering the alligator question- this is why he won.

He will not talk like a politician, and it drives the politicians crazy.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 02:15 PM (N1DT3)

8 Don't run in a straight line.... I'm still laughing....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 02:15 PM (VE6XX)

9 LOL got to love Trump

Posted by: steevy at July 01, 2025 02:17 PM (YwEeS)

10 Look at it this way, most of these "refugees" would go home on vacation to the countries they were supposedly fleeing from - Trump is just giving them a free plane ticket for their next such vacation...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 02:17 PM (t0Rmr)

11 I love it. Unfortunately he's not talking about just making thousands of National Guardsmen judges, just Guardsman in the judge advocate corps. Lawyers, then.

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Of course, the proceedings are administrative in nature.

They just need a body to stamp the deportation order.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

12 Remember the Left is simultaneously the party of Hamas and of Anne Frank.

But Anne Frank was a Jew?

Forget it, they're rolling.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:18 PM (VPwHp)

13 If the left thinks these criminals are so great, why are they not taking them in, housing them, giving them their own food, buying them clothes, offering to pay for their healthcare, getting them jobs, stealing SSNs for them? Why do they believe the taxpayers should support them, when they believe these people deserve our charity?

They really can't see the difference between charity and taxation, can they? Nor can they understand that if someone is willing to break the law to get here, they are likely to break the law to stay.

I have no time for these bleeding heart, empty headed idiots until they have skin in the game.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:18 PM (1Gsou)

14 3 days is not fast enough. "Doo process" should take about 5 minutes per person.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2025 02:18 PM (SLJQR)

15 A Moron suggested Gator Gitmo, which I like better.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 02:18 PM (jc0TO)

16 I love this. Everything about this. The name, the alliteration in the name, the AI joke memes popping up. Everything.

It's really more like Ellis Island, libtards, not an internment or concentration camp. Except this time we are processing people to LEAVE, not stay!

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 02:18 PM (Eng1Z)

17 TherealRonin #AbortionIsAWomansRight
@ACTIdgit
Donnie is treating the idea of a concentration camp on US soil as a fucking joke. I'm sure something similar was said by German leadership during the Third Reich.

They're also posting memes of slaves being hunted by their masters, boohoo sobbin' and snifflin' "So we're back to this."

Posted by: Ace at 02:13 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yes. It's a concentration camp. Bodies are going to be stacked everywhere. Once he's done with the illegals, he'll be going after the Alphabet people! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! (Canada looks nice, try there.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 02:18 PM (N1DT3)

18 Nooded.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 02:18 PM (0sNs1)

19 Somewhere a wire fence is missing its Fake AOC Tears.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (VPwHp)

20 4 They really, REALLY, need to have Swamp Buggy competitions to see who gets to be appointed as a new Immigration Judge!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 02:14 PM (uWKK

On ESPN, live.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (1Gsou)

21 Miami
( . ) ( . )

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (xcxpd)

22 17 TherealRonin #AbortionIsAWomansRight
@ACTIdgit
Donnie is treating the idea of a concentration camp on US soil as a fucking joke. I'm sure something similar was said by German leadership during the Third Reich.

They're also posting memes of slaves being hunted by their masters, boohoo sobbin' and snifflin' "So we're back to this."

Posted by: Ace at 02:13 PM

=======

"And I'm going to be next if I don't shut up!"
-Ben Stiller, not shutting up

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

23 Alligator Ellis Island doesn't have the same ring as Alligator Alcatraz, unfortunately!

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (Eng1Z)

24 I am fed up with the stupid.

Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (KxMNK)

25 Do alligators like Mexican food?

Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (n2swS)

26 LizLem, apparently Anna Wintour did not care for Mrs. Bezos' dress.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (0sNs1)

27 #Winning
#Ivotedforthis

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (Hkcdp)

28 I still can't believe that Trump and DeathSantis made this thing happen, and in like a week.

When I first heard about AA, I thought it was a Babylon Bee joke, or yet another delusional conservative plan.

But they built it! Awesome. I hope some of these verminous scumbags do try to make a run for it. Gators and snakes need to eat too, ya know.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

29 It's got AC and a 10000 foot runway.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:20 PM (LL6Kc)

30
Them: I personally wouldn't take on the deep state. They have a million ways to Sunday of getting back at you.

Trump: ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:20 PM (VPwHp)

31 Trump again showing his trolling skillz.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:20 PM (PzXaK)

32 31 Trump again showing his trolling skillz.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:20 PM (PzXaK)

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But he's so uncouth!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

33 Bets on how long before an antifa protester outside gets eaten by a gator?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:20 PM (Hkcdp)

34 Unfortunately he's not talking about just making thousands of National Guardsmen judges, just Guardsman in the judge advocate corps. Lawyers, then.

If they rule poorly, they'll get called up to active duty for the next three years.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM (jc0TO)

35 7 On Trump answering the alligator question- this is why he won.

He will not talk like a politician, and it drives the politicians crazy.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 02:15 PM (N1DT3)

He's right though! Or at least, that's what I've heard about getting away from alligators, I've never tested it.

Zig zagging confuses their lizard brains.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM (uCjyK)

36 Alligator Alcatraz has another bonus feature.

When the only road is guarded and thus leaving a swamp full of gators and pythons to trek through, I do not foresee many protestors showing up.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM (JmEcb)

37 This pleases me.

In an almost sexual fashion.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM (wtvvX)

38 PDJT ... is HILARIOUS

my God. we don't deserve him! lol omg

and yeah it's not a 'camp' you can always go home pendejo

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM (Pv3Rg)

39 Remember when Iran was going to be the End of Trump?

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM (VPwHp)

40 Coming this fall: Anchorage Alcatraz

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM (jc0TO)

41 Caiman and get ‘em, Nayib!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (Hkcdp)

42 Bets on how long before an antifa protester outside gets eaten by a gator?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:20 PM (Hkcdp)

Sorry, I can't make a bet on that because it will just be wish-casting.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (N1DT3)

43 DeSantis not only kicked his ass in a debate he has better hair than Newsome too.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (VofaG)

44 But he's so uncouth!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, ain't it fantastic?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (1Gsou)

45 When the only road is guarded and thus leaving a swamp full of gators and pythons to trek through, I do not foresee many protestors showing up.

oh but it would be so fun if they did

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (Pv3Rg)

46 Illegals do not have due process rights. They may submit habeas corpus requests and have to pay for their own representation.

The left has made up this due process rights for illegals.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (oz2l0)

47 Bets on how long before an antifa protester outside gets eaten by a gator?

that poor poor gator

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (JmEcb)

48 Only Michael J "Crocodile" Dundee wouldn't fear that place.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (PzXaK)

49 What did the Hawaiian judge say?

Posted by: Ford designers at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (jGJov)

50 44 But he's so uncouth!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, ain't it fantastic?
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (1Gsou)

======

The GOP will be in the political wilderness for decades because of his uncouthness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

51 I was leaning toward being against Trump but this has really tipped the scales.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (VPwHp)

52 Joseph Zeballos-Roig @josephzeballos 22m
👀Surprise policy change in BBB:
Undocumented immigrants can now set up the so-called “Trump accounts,” as long as the kids are born in the US.

The provision mandating SSN numbers for parents was struck by the Senate parliamentarian.

H/t tax whiz @George_A_Callas

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM (2yoRf)

53 Will these Immigration Judges have the power to overrule District Judges? That would be sweet.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM (od0dV)

54 Escapees wandering around the Everglades would probably die of foot rot before they ever even SEE an alligator.

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM (poXs5)

55 When the only road is guarded and thus leaving a swamp full of gators and pythons to trek through, I do not foresee many protestors showing up.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM (JmEcb)

I don't think I'd be too scared of the alligators. They don't normally eat people, especially adult sized people, and they're pretty dumb and lazy.

The pythons though would terrify me. I don't know if that's rational or not, but I would be very afraid of death by snake.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM (uCjyK)

56 "They're also posting memes of slaves being hunted by their masters"

It's a window into their true thoughts. They really see these illegals as their slaves. A new slave class to replace the old slave class that the North forced them to set free.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

57 51 I was leaning toward being against Trump but this has really tipped the scales.
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That's everyone's tail.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM (2yoRf)

58 This whole "talk like a politician" thing confounds me. I don't engage in much bullshit, and I've always thought straight talk made much more sense. Either you mean something or you don't. Obfuscating it just wastes everyone's time.

And of course, if you have to lie to make your point, you don't have one.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM (1Gsou)

59 If they do escape, they'll have to eat crawfish, and it will take them so long to get a decent meal they'll either be gator food or ICE will capture them.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (PzXaK)

60 Video appropriate of this thread

Animal rights activists 'rescue' Wally Gator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtsbRQ6taQ&t=10s

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (JmEcb)

61 Does Judge Kamahamaha have standing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (LL6Kc)

62 20 4 They really, REALLY, need to have Swamp Buggy competitions to see who gets to be appointed as a new Immigration Judge!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 02:14 PM (uWKK

On ESPN, live.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (1Gsou)

The Ocho?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (mP0Kj)

63 56 "They're also posting memes of slaves being hunted by their masters"

It's a window into their true thoughts. They really see these illegals as their slaves. A new slave class to replace the old slave class that the North forced them to set free.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

======

Enforcement of any law is just slavery.

Now, for bringing the state down on people who were near DC on 1/6.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

64 15 A Moron suggested Gator Gitmo, which I like better.
Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 02:18 PM (jc0TO)

It needs many names, so you can rifle through them like Ham Porter in the Sandlot burning through names for Babe Ruth.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (Mxf84)

65 Next up: Shark Sing Sing

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (Hkcdp)

66 What did the Hawaiian judge say?
Posted by: Ford designers at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (jGJov)

I believe it was something mumbled about Coney-Barrett...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (N1DT3)

67 Inspector is disappointed it's going to be JAG and not sergeants making the determination.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (lFFaq)

68 TherealRonin #AbortionIsAWomansRight @ACTIdgit

Donnie is treating the idea of a concentration camp on US soil as a fucking joke. I'm sure something similar was said by German leadership during the Third Reich.

They're also posting memes of slaves being hunted by their masters, boohoo sobbin' and snifflin' "So we're back to this."

That's true. Well, aside from the whole "you can leave whenever you're ready to go back whence you came" thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (Riz8t)

69 Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM (2yoRf)

Geez but I've been wondering where you are.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (VPwHp)

70 Undocumented immigrants can now set up the so-called “Trump accounts,” as long as the kids are born in the US.

this sound sucky but honestly in the current environment there is no way the moms will want to try to get any extra govt attention

they can still get bennies galore from their blue state/cities instead

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (Pv3Rg)

71 I shot the gator
But I did not shoot no croc-o-dile

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (2yoRf)

72 "WON'T ANYBODY THINK OF THE ALLIGATORS!"

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (dzZCL)

73
OUT: Snakes on a Plane
IN: Gators on an Airboat

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (wtvvX)

74 They are building another one on an airstrip up by Jacksonville.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (MGB5H)

75 I thought Jag was all in on trannies and EVs.....?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (PzXaK)

76 68 That's true. Well, aside from the whole "you can leave whenever you're ready to go back whence you came" thing.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 02:24 PM (Riz8t)

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Going back to countries with socialized medicine is a human rights violation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

77 The Dems forced this to be a reality.

It is ENTIRELY their fault.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (fV+MH)

78 It is not a concentration camp.

It is a detention center for deportees awaiting deportation.

The people detained there aren't being forced into hard labor.
Their lives are not being threatened by the authorities there.

They came here illegally and are leaving legally.

Illegal aliens can avoid this entirely by packing up and heading home, in which case Trump has so generously offered them a free one-way plane ticket and $1000 once they get there.

If they don't like it, tough.
Make a choice - deal with the results.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (6ydKt)

79 Suggestions for people to deputize as immigration judges.

- The first line people at insurance companies who reject every claim

- The asian lady at the dry cleaners who deals with customers who have a claim for a ruined shirt.

- The guy at the DMV, when you ask them for something that involves getting up from their seat to get a different form

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (RU1zG)

80 I don't know. Most of these people come from areas that feature Salt Water Crocs. Those swimming lizards make gators look like fagz.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (W3T6M)

81 More examples of the Left’s inability to make logical comparisons.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (VofaG)

82 There are legends of giant spiders at Fort Polk in Louisiana. Send some folks there, too.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (77rzZ)

83
Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
President Trump says that communist Mamdani will be arrested if he obstructs ICE.

Trump adds that many say Mamdani is here illegally.

A member of the House has already called for Mamdani to be deported.

https://tinyurl.com/2td3nt59

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (NpAcC)

84 Remember America is a singularly racist country that abuses "brown" people AND if you send illegals home you are an evil person that hates "brown" people

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (t0Rmr)

85 Anaconda Attica

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (Hkcdp)

86 What Alligator Alcatraz needs is sister winter camp in Wyoming surrounded by snow, wolves and grizzlies.

Posted by: Ripley at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (GUOwU)

87 Python Prison...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (mP0Kj)

88 42 Bets on how long before an antifa protester outside gets eaten by a gator?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:20 PM (Hkcdp)

Woke Salad Annie,
'Gator got you Trannie

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (wtvvX)

89 The left has made up this due process rights for illegals.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (oz2l0)

Illegals, by definition, are not citizens, and therefore do not enjoy the protections of the US Constitution. They are, however, subject to punishment under US law.

Sucks to be them. Too bad, so sad.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (1Gsou)

90 Won't this exacerbate Florida's Real Estate crisis?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (LL6Kc)

91 I want to be an Immigration Judge. I would order them all to be deported. But first, I would have the males castrated, so it will be easy to identify the ones that try to return. The females I would brand with a "T" for Trump on the buttocks. Some would most likely enjoy it.

Posted by: Judge Chop Chop Sizzle at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (1ngll)

92 80 Yeah, crocodiles are much more badass than gators.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)

93 The pythons though would terrify me. I don't know if that's rational or not, but I would be very afraid of death by snake.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM

No step on snek.

Posted by: Sneks at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (0sNs1)

94
I suppose the libs could try to dub it Alligator Auschwitz but that could backfire bigly

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (VPwHp)

95 > Donnie is treating the idea of a concentration camp

Can someone change this fool's diaper and give him a bottle? It's a holding facility. Concentration camps as commonly understood were DEATH CAMPS. You were either worked to death, starved to death, or directly murdered by the people in the camp.

Yes, I know. There is some nuance between the work camps and the death camps run by the NAZIs. This facility is neither of those things. Additionally, hundreds of thousands of people died in those "work camps," so I don't really accept the difference anyway.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (lIio7)

96
>>Unfortunately he's not talking about just making thousands of National Guardsmen judges, just Guardsman in the judge advocate corps. Lawyers, then.

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

As long as it takes only 3 days, I'm cool with it. And I count, dammit!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (egH3D)

97 I won't be happy until there are bloodhounds chasing them, a la Cool Hand Luke. I don't care if they actually catch them, it would just be entertaining.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (Riz8t)

98 Guardsman in the judge advocate corps. Lawyers, then.
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This is about me, isn't it.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (XeU6L)

99 >>> What Alligator Alcatraz needs is sister winter camp in Wyoming surrounded by snow, wolves and grizzlies.

Did you find that escaped one?

We found what was left...

Posted by: brak at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (jGJov)

100 What Alligator Alcatraz needs is sister winter camp in Wyoming surrounded by snow, wolves and grizzlies.
Posted by: Ripley at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM

Attu Alcatraz

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (jc0TO)

101 I realize most here are too sophisticated to watch "Swamp People", but one of the stars, a Cajun gent named Troy Landry should have a position at the camp as Chief Gator Wrangler. "Dad gum dat be one big boy. Mebbe we need da folks here a little up close look". (Troy goes looking for some guy from Morocco to see if da Cajun French works). Drags Moroccan to the water line to see "Big Jean Claude".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (gm9Sb)

102 I don't know. Most of these people come from areas that feature Salt Water Crocs. Those swimming lizards make gators look like fagz.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 02:25 PM (W3T6M)

... I'm pretty sure we aren't dealing with an explosion of Australian illegals.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 02:28 PM (N1DT3)

103 It’s Gatordise.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:28 PM (VofaG)

104 Do they have a box?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:28 PM (LL6Kc)

105 Gator Gitmo is my absolute favorite.

"Biden wanted to put me in here. Didn't work out that way. That son of a bitch."

Bwahahahahaha

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 01, 2025 02:28 PM (fCgdX)

106 Recruiting guards.

https://is.gd/8PuPZx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 02:28 PM (L/fGl)

107 Bats Bastille

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:28 PM (VPwHp)

108 They will snack on an escapee and wash him down with Gatorade.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:28 PM (PzXaK)

109 Launch Time: 5:04 p.m. EDT, 2104 UTC, 23:04 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/MUims7kDjGg

Posted by: Ciampino - No brrrrrs at July 01, 2025 02:28 PM (sPQoU)

110 89 The left has made up this due process rights for illegals.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2025 02:22 PM (oz2l0)

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They are getting due process.

They're not being picked up off the street and put onto a plane. They're being held, brought before an IJ who asks for proof of their legal right to be in America. And when the illegal can't provide it, giving them final deportation orders.

The left isn't defining due process, of course. They're implying there is none. Their literal word choices say that they want more due process, implying something like a full jury trial to determine if people can stay.

And...the American people don't care. And they're going to continue to not care as crime rates go down (already happening), rent prices go down (already happening), and employment opportunities go up (already happening).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

111 Woke Salad Annie,
'Gator got you Trannie

Bwahahahaha!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 02:29 PM (Riz8t)

112 So just like Nazi death camps ? I must have missed the ovens...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 02:29 PM (VE6XX)

113 99 >>> What Alligator Alcatraz needs is sister winter camp in Wyoming surrounded by snow, wolves and grizzlies.

I like this

and another in the Nevada desert maybe ...

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 02:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

114 The pythons though would terrify me. I don't know if that's rational or not, but I would be very afraid of death by snake.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM

No step on snek.
Posted by: Sneks at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (0sNs1)
________

I had boas as pets when I was a kid. I wanted a reticulated python, but they insanely expensive -- and illegal, I think -- and grew much too big.

Most of what people think about snakes is wrong.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

115 Will need to get them all deported before hurricane season starts to kick in.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2025 02:29 PM (oz2l0)

116 > I realize most here are too sophisticated to watch "Swamp People"
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Kinfolk.... like watching home movies.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (Q4IgG)

117 LizLem, apparently Anna Wintour did not care for Mrs. Bezos' dress. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 02:19 PM (0sNs1)

Haha. I thought it was a slightly tacky take on the Grace Kelly and Sofia Loren wedding dresses, like I said yesterday. But the libs are piling on it SO HARD, it's triggering my Oppositional Defiance Disorder tendencies, and I'm circling around to actually genuinely liking it.

The elements are all good! It's just trying to do too many things, is my problem. Like Coco Chanel said, take off ONE thing. Remove the buttons in the front, or the mermaid skirt, or the mixed lacework on the front, it would sing. But D&G decided to go OTT, bless them.

I think the left is creating a Streisand effect; they are ragging on it SO hard, that it's making it a buzzed about dress for years to come. Not their intent, but they're making her an icon.

Also, if she inspires a decade of classy sleeved wedding dresses, YES PLEASE. So many brides wear the wrong size of bust or strapless bra for their dress (or they lose too much weight before the day, and their boobs shrink and then fit poorly), and it always ruins the look. More sleeves please! And pockets while you're at it!

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (Eng1Z)

118 Don't run in a straight line

"Serpentine!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (WPL6O)

119 It's hilariously pathetic how the left is desperately clinging to the belief that they are just one "sick burn" or "fire meme" away from defeating Trump.

No, not relying on better policies or better results:
Better words. Funny words. Mean words.

"Why is this not working?!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (LbQ3Z)

120 First, they came for MS-13...

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (VPwHp)

121 That last video is golden

"your chances go up about 1%"

It needs the "Serpentine, Shelly. Serpentine!" clip.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (RU1zG)

122 won't be happy until there are bloodhounds chasing them, a la Cool Hand Luke. I don't care if they actually catch them, it would just be entertaining.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (Riz8t)

I'm shaking the tree, Jefe.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (MGB5H)

123 Illegals, by definition, are not citizens, and therefore do not enjoy the protections of the US Constitution. They are, however, subject to punishment under US law.

Sucks to be them. Too bad, so sad.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (1Gsou)

Pretty much everyone in the US gets the protections of the US Constitution, since those protections are there to stop the government from doing stuff, not as an affirmative (or positive) right for the people.

I am about as anti-immigrant as anyone, and I have no problem giving illegals due process. That due process is usually a very short hearing. I think that's fine, a 5-10 minute hearing before the final deportation order to make sure the person is really illegal and really has no legal right to be here.

The issue is that that has to be the limit of it -- "are you here illegally?" "yes, but --" "deported. Next case on the docket, please." You don't get a quasi trial designed to waste time.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (uCjyK)

124 Damn! Wish I knew that before.

That 'gator got one percent of me.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (MX0bI)

125 What was that prison escape movie with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier chained together?

The Odd Couple?

I think it had alligators.

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (poXs5)

126 What did the Hawaiian judge say?

Posted by: Ford designers

No one gives a shit.
- SCOTUS

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (QcUc+)

127 There must be some retired test ranges in the Nevada desert.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (LL6Kc)

128 106 Recruiting guards.

https://is.gd/8PuPZx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 02:28 PM (L/fGl)

Named him after a Man of the Cloth...
Called him Amos Moses...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (mP0Kj)

129 115 Will need to get them all deported before hurricane season starts to kick in.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2025 02:29 PM (oz2l0)

======

"Hurricane's comin'. Flood waters are going to be up to the roof. However, we don't have room to house you anywhere else. Sign the waiver to go home right now, and we'll have you on the plane by evening. Don't sign, and we'll do what we can in the face of the hurricane. But, again, we don't have anywhere else to put you right now."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

130 I'm sure something similar was said by German leadership during the Third Reich.

Yeah, the Nazis had a huge immigration problem.

Posted by: t-bird at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (fL/bX)

131 Is the Legend of Boggy Creek still available to serve as warden?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

132 My understanding is that the only snakes to really be absolutely wary of are the venomous ones. Most other snakes don't give a shit about you.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (PzXaK)

133 112 So just like Nazi death camps ? I must have missed the ovens...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 02:29 PM (VE6XX)

Setting this up is a Nazi death camp, but when Hamas/Hezbollah etc supporters chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!", that's just colorful language.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (9Ovst)

134 "Biden wanted to put me in here. Didn't work out that way. That son of a bitch."

-
A lyric I always liked is from Raised On Robbery.

First he bought a fifty-seven Biscayne, he put it in the ditch
He drunk up all the rest, that son of a bitch

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (L/fGl)

135 "...And I cried, because although I was not MS-13 myself I was sympathetic to the drugs, rape, murder, and rape..."

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (VPwHp)

136 Agreed, LizLem. It was conservative for her personal style, so it’s a win.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (Hkcdp)

137 127 There must be some retired test ranges in the Nevada desert.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (LL6Kc)

didn't we build a miles deep cave system in Utah to story Nuc Waste... with Rail Lines and Airport nearby?

One the Judges won't let us use?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (mP0Kj)

138 Don't run in a straight line

*hic!*

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (FdyuK)

139 Afuera!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (7aURE)

140 84 Remember America is a singularly racist country that abuses "brown" people AND if you send illegals home you are an evil person that hates "brown" people
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (t0Rmr)

When DH and I were adopting our son from Guatemala, one of the social workers "challenged us to confront our inherent racism." Sure. That's why we were paying an exorbitant amount to every agency available so we could adopt our little Mayan boy. Because of our inherent racism.

When I told her I was nearly a minority at my high school she was surprised and asked where I attended. I told her East Anchorage. Her response: "I meant in the United States."

Oh, the ignorance. It should really have hurt.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:32 PM (1Gsou)

141 I used to go fishing before dawn in the Sabine reserve and the number of pair of glowing red eyes you would see were disconcerting. Especially since you were only in a 12 foot flat bottom aluminum boat.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:32 PM (VofaG)

142 This doesn't even account for Swamp Thing.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:32 PM (PzXaK)

143 Your name is Toby!

My name is Juan Pablo Antonio de Jesus Miguel Luis Gonzalez!

*thwack*

Your name is Toby!

Posted by: Mexican Roots at July 01, 2025 02:32 PM (wVcYX)

144 Death Valley Detention Center would work well.

Not much in the way of scary critters, but sprinkling the road there with a few human skulls and bones would do the trick.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 01, 2025 02:32 PM (+WNSO)

145 A camp in the middle of the Arkansas/Missouri Ozarks, surrounded by people from the Arkansas/Missouri Ozarks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 02:32 PM (gm9Sb)

146 Wait, you put up what? WHERE?

Posted by: SwampThing at July 01, 2025 02:32 PM (mP0Kj)

147 "Denied!
Wait, what? I can only deny it in my district? What kind of Nazi crap is that???"
--Judge Kamehameha

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 02:33 PM (dfIr7)

148 Old and busted: From the river to the sea

New and cool: From the river to the swamp.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 02:33 PM (L/fGl)

149 Smithsonian National Museum of American History

American Internment Camps

Fearful of threats to homeland security, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. His order authorized the removal of “any or all persons” from areas of the country deemed vulnerable to attack or sabotage. Nearly 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans—two-thirds of them U.S. citizens—were forced from their businesses and homes. Most had only several days’ notice before they were relocated. They were held in internment camps in isolated locations for up to four years. Approximately 11,000 German nationals and 1,600 Italian nationals were arrested, with many interned.

NOTE: Two-thirds of them ^^ U. S. citizens.
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So, no, never back to the evilness of Democratic/progressive standards.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 02:33 PM (NFX2v)

150 127 There must be some retired test ranges in the Nevada desert.

How flexible are you willing to be on the "retired" thing?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 02:33 PM (Riz8t)

151 >>>I wanted a reticulated python, but they insanely expensive -- and illegal, I think -- and grew much too big.

Which is the reason people dump them in the Everglades. And now there's a large invasive population of them.

Posted by: brak at July 01, 2025 02:33 PM (jGJov)

152

remember when commies said it was BAD BAD BAD to bring in children to this horrid world.

But import millions of Obrega Garcias (whatever), hey, more of that.

Those fucking commies.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 01, 2025 02:33 PM (et1vG)

153 Choot em! Choot em Elidabeth!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2025 02:33 PM (u73oe)

154 Speedtly Gonzalez will be fine. Slow Poke Rodriugez not so much.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:34 PM (LL6Kc)

155 Now we're over 100, I'm adding my willowed take on M3GAN 2.0:

Went and saw 28 Years Later in theatres. The popcorn bucket for M3GAN 2.0 is absolutely horrifying! The face rips off to show the robot face underneath. But the Jaws popcorn bucket was awesome.

Should have gone the Chucky route instead of Terminator. Horror fans don't want a bait and switch. If they want action, they want action. If they want horror, they want horror. I love mixing genres, but a true horror film needs to stay in its lane. (Ironically, I LOVE Godzilla minus one because it mashes historical fiction AND Kaiju. But they do it right.)

People are claiming the fear of AI turned people off from seeing M3GAN 2.0. I doubt it. They also tried to make M3GAN the doll a trans icon (gross), and I think that did FAR more damage.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 02:34 PM (Eng1Z)

156 Any man what gets eaten by an alligator spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Carr at July 01, 2025 02:34 PM (PiwSw)

157 128 We had a dog when I was a kid that was named Amos Moses.

That song was playing on the radio when they were bringing him home from the pound.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

158 Washington Nearsider

Furball decals sucks bigly when it comes to the Gulf of Sidra F-14As.

101, 102, and 107 are printed in black. So are the AJ on the rudders. And the 01, 02, and 07 on the rudders are also printed in black. All should be dark gray. I am having to use the original 1982 D&S decal sheet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:34 PM (JmEcb)

159 The Caiman Island

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:35 PM (2yoRf)

160 101 I realize most here are too sophisticated to watch "Swamp People", but one of the stars, a Cajun gent named Troy Landry should have a position at the camp as Chief Gator Wrangler.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (gm9Sb)

Troy was actually going down to the Everglades several times over the past five or so years to catch boa constrictors, anacondas, and other invasive species, that have infested the area.

People let their exotic pets go and they all end up in the Everglades so Florida offers bounties for these big snakes.

I haven't watched it in a few years, but Landry was out there getting it done, coming back with bags full of 10, 15, 20 foot snakes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 02:35 PM (6ydKt)

161 "...And I cried, because although I was not MS-13 myself I was sympathetic to the drugs, rape, murder, and rape..."
Posted by: ...

Particularly the rape.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 02:35 PM (L/fGl)

162 I realize most here are too sophisticated to watch "Swamp People"
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM

Considering that 87.624% of the commenters here sip their hot beverages with their pinkies extended, I rate this statement as true.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at July 01, 2025 02:35 PM (0sNs1)

163 Surround the facility with killer bees..

Bee Sting SingSing

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 02:35 PM (poXs5)

164 Wait until they see the prison garb picked out for Alligator Alcatraz. Apparently, they hired the same misguided soul who designed Lady GaGa's meat suit.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (dIske)

165 Most of what people think about snakes is wrong.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

There are no sneks in AK. I like it that way.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (1Gsou)

166 I see Kristy Noem photobombing the video...

My assessment of Kristy is this:

She is doing good stuff now (although she is a total attention whore), but it is ONLY because of Trump.

If she was doing the same job, but in a Biden administration, she'd be as bad as or worse than Mayorkas.

Posted by: EFG at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (as22/)

167 Really needs to be appreciated: This has a built-in antifa protester deterrent: alligators!

They made it necessary with their continued attacks on ICE facilities. I can see how it went from joke to “hold on — that’s actually genius!” And then to built in a week or two. Thank the Seattle antifa ICE terrorists in particular.

Seeing the inevitable video of Democrat Congresspeople at the gate demanding entry will be an added treat.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (Hkcdp)

168
It's the 50th anniversary of Jaws, so maybe Trump and DeSantis could work in a few sharks too.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (IifOV)

169 145 A camp in the middle of the Arkansas/Missouri Ozarks, surrounded by people from the Arkansas/Missouri Ozarks.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 02:32 PM (gm9Sb)

Juan, you got a purty mouth?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (mP0Kj)

170 Like a fish needs a bicycle.

Feminist win! Denmark is now registering all ladies for the draft because it is afraid of Russia

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (L/fGl)

171 My understanding is that the only snakes to really be absolutely wary of are the venomous ones.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (PzXaK)

So, Python Penitentiary is a no go?

Posted by: Boswell at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (NTVPI)

172 Furball decals sucks bigly when it comes to the Gulf of Sidra F-14As.

101, 102, and 107 are printed in black. So are the AJ on the rudders. And the 01, 02, and 07 on the rudders are also printed in black. All should be dark gray. I am having to use the original 1982 D&S decal sheet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:34 PM (JmEcb)

Masks are your friend.

I'll never go back.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (fCgdX)

173 Death Valley Detention Center would work well.

Not much in the way of scary critters, but sprinkling the road there with a few human skulls and bones would do the trick.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 01, 2025 02:32 PM (+WNSO)

Sidebar. On a road trip my sister and I went through Death Valley (just to see it...). She stopped for a break and thought the car would cool off faster if she left her door open (yeah yeah,...). A mouse got in and rode with us for several days. That was scary enough for her.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (PzXaK)

174 I think Utah has the bees.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (LL6Kc)

175 I'm sure something similar was said by German leadership during the Third Reich.

Yeah, the Nazis had a huge immigration problem.
Posted by: t-bird at July 01, 2025 02:30 PM (fL/bX)

This is the retarded part of their comparison. The Nazis wouldn’t let undesirable people just leave and those ‘undesirables’ weren’t fighting tooth and nail to come and to stay in Nazi Germany.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (VofaG)

176 all this python talk is reminding me of the book Little Heaven (a scary one)

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (Pv3Rg)

177 156 Any man what gets eaten by an alligator spends a night in the box.
Posted by: Carr at July 01, 2025 02:34 PM (PiwSw)

_________________________

Clarification: A shoe box.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM (dIske)

178 I started laughing when reading this. Oh, she had the most cherubic smile while being butt fucked...

Brazzers@Brazzers

The Brazzers team is deeply saddened to learn of Kylie Page’s passing.

Kylie will be remembered for her laughter, kindness and bringing light wherever she went. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Kylie’s family, friends, and fans during this difficult time. 🤍

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM (TGPs7)

179 Considering that 87.624% of the commenters here sip their hot beverages with their pinkies extended, I rate this statement as true.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at July 01, 2025 02:35 PM (0sNs1)

Bob! Still not doged, I see. Good for you.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM (1Gsou)

180 remember when commies said it was BAD BAD BAD to bring in children to this horrid world.

But import millions of Obrega Garcias (whatever), hey, more of that.

Those fucking commies.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 01, 2025 02:33 PM (et1vG)

It's all part of the plan of "spreading the wealth", increasing the consumer base, and driving down wages, brought to you by the ghouls in the US and European deep state.

From a completely sociopathic point of view, it makes perfect sense. Think about how many billions of people there are outside of the US and Europe who could also buy our Big Homo cars if only we grabbed some money from the middle class in the US and Europe and sent it overseas, OR just brought the overseas people to the US and Europe!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM (uCjyK)

181 Fucking hell. Concentration camp?

Because Hitler got all those joos on a plane and out of Germany to the destination of their choice, right?

Assholes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM (BjH5D)

182 They're not being picked up off the street and put onto a plane. They're being held, brought before an IJ who asks for proof of their legal right to be in America. And when the illegal can't provide it, giving them final deportation orders.
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Right now, in IL, the ACLU is arguing that ICE must have a prior warrant, and present said warrant upon demand, prior to arresting or even detaining any illegal.

The judge is highly sympathetic and is certain to issue a nation wide injunction.

The basis being that some settlement agreement, where the government agreed to limit the use of general warrants against illegals, entered into years ago by neither this administration nor the current plaintiffs, over-rules and supersedes federal law.

If you don't understand how that Constitutional, it's because you didn't go to Harvard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM (LbQ3Z)

183 160 In my little ammo dump I have a couple boxes of CCI .22 Stingers, Troy Landry series.They labeled them "Stangers".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM (gm9Sb)

184 The socialist candidate for mayor of NYC plans for the government to own much of the housing in the city. Hard to say if he got this idea directly from his parents, who chose his middle name to honor a famous African revolutionary even after being kicked out of Uganda by Idi Amin, the denied citizenship by a later government.

Peter W. Wood also discusses Zohran at Bowdoin. https://thespectator.com/topic/
education-zohran-mamdani-bowdoin/

Posted by: KT at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM (xekrU)

185 I wanted a reticulated python, but they insanely expensive -- and illegal, I think -- and grew much too big.

Which is the reason people dump them in the Everglades. And now there's a large invasive population of them.
Posted by: brak at July 01, 2025 02:33 PM (jGJov)
______

The pythons in the everglades are Burmese pythons. They weren't dumped by people. A huge hurricane (Andrew?) destroyed an exotic pet store and the pythons escaped into the swamps. They've been breeding ever since.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

186 This is what we voted for.

Posted by: Trump voters everywhere at July 01, 2025 02:38 PM (P+mok)

187 Valkyries drafted to defend Greenland.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:38 PM (LL6Kc)

188 “That son of a bitch.”
LOLOL

Posted by: Jmel at July 01, 2025 02:38 PM (bVhJi)

189
[cues up a little Ry Cooder, from 'Southern Comfort']

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 02:38 PM (XeU6L)

190 Living in a state of da Nile.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:38 PM (2yoRf)

191 168
It's the 50th anniversary of Jaws, so maybe Trump and DeSantis could work in a few sharks too.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (IifOV)

Only if they have fricken laser beams on their heads.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:38 PM (1Gsou)

192 Masks are your friend.

I'll never go back.

Is that you, Taylor Lorenz?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 02:38 PM (lIio7)

193 Two trips to the vet for one cat wiped out my reserve funds to afford such fancy stuff Washington Nearsider.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:39 PM (JmEcb)

194 The pythons in the everglades are Burmese pythons. They weren't dumped by people. A huge hurricane (Andrew?) destroyed an exotic pet store and the pythons escaped into the swamps. They've been breeding ever since.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

So...like Sharknado.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:39 PM (PzXaK)

195
Dems/Libs equate genocidal extermination with detainment and deportation?

Sounds about right.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 01, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)

196 >>> 145 A camp in the middle of the Arkansas/Missouri Ozarks, surrounded by people from the Arkansas/Missouri Ozarks.

yeah I'm in Missouri and can confirm that would be a deterrent

Posted by: brak at July 01, 2025 02:39 PM (jGJov)

197 The left screaming about Alligator Alcatraz being a concentration camp, tell me EXACTLY what they will use it for if they ever get unfettered power.

Does anyone remember the bestselling novel "Skinny Dip" from the 2000s? If I ever get sent to "Alligator Auschwitz" in the future, if the dems send the Horde there, I might have to reread it beforehand. Remind myself how the main character survived being dumped in the Everglades and left for dead by her boyfriend.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 02:39 PM (Eng1Z)

198 realize most here are too sophisticated to watch "Swamp People", but one of the stars, a Cajun gent named Troy Landry should have a position at the camp as Chief Gator Wrangler.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 02:27 PM (gm9Sb)

I personally know a bunch of ‘Troys’ . They are under selling what these guys do for fun.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:39 PM (VofaG)

199 Posted by: EFG at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (as22/)

_____________________________

I'd like to see what happens if we put Kristy Noem in a locked room with Nancy Mace. Then, place a camera on the table in the middle of the room.

There would be blood.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 02:39 PM (dIske)

200 171 Rattlesnake Rikers

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

201 Danish bikini team to defend Greenland?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:40 PM (JmEcb)

202 There are no sneks in AK. I like it that way.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM

Well, 'ceppin for them one-eyed trouser sneks.

Posted by: Sourdough Sam at July 01, 2025 02:40 PM (0sNs1)

203
They're not being picked up off the street and put onto a plane. They're being held, brought before an IJ who asks for proof of their legal right to be in America. And when the illegal can't provide it, giving them final deportation orders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

I'm hoping that when they shout their one English word ("ASYLUM!") the judge sends them back to the safe country nearest their country of origin.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 02:40 PM (egH3D)

204 The cool thing about Swamp People is that the show is subtitled for people who can't speak Cajun.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 02:40 PM (PiwSw)

205 Every time these shitbags piss and moan, i have to think "well, the alternative is shoot them in the fucking head at the border before they ever can get in. And shoot you in the fucking head for trying to interfere with national security. You dickheads want that instead? Because I'm cool either way. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2025 02:40 PM (BjH5D)

206 As I said earlier this is another thing that is driving the middle class left bat shit crazy on Facebook. We here know it's not a concentration camp, but trying to convince them is impossible without getting "fascist" "Nazi" or "you have no empathy or morals". Some are going to stroke out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 02:40 PM (eBgDF)

207 40 Coming this fall: Anchorage Alcatraz
Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM (jc0TO)

My last job at the Corps was putting together estimates for projects on the North Slope. One main expense was labor for a guy with a huge gun to watch for polar bears.

Polar bears don't care who you are. They will eat you. They particularly like hanging out at the municipal dump, because, food.

I'd have no problem putting another detention center up North somewhere, but it would be expensive. I doubt even the idiots they house there would risk being eaten by a polar bear.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:41 PM (1Gsou)

208 Death Valley Detention Center

I like it!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:41 PM (Hkcdp)

209 203
I'm hoping that when they shout their one English word ("ASYLUM!") the judge sends them back to the safe country nearest their country of origin.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 02:40 PM (egH3D)

=======

Trump effectively ended the asylum system.

All asylum claims (with some exceptions) are being denied. Just because someone screams Asylum doesn't mean the executive has to accept it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

210 "Feminist win! Denmark is now registering all ladies for the draft because it is afraid of Russia."

Fun factoid: at the height of the Cold War, one Danish opposition party had a campaign commercial in which they said their defense policy would be to install an answering machine at the defense ministry that said "We surrender" in Russian.

P.S. "afraid of Russia" - hilarious. At the current rate, the Russian "juggernaut" might make it to Schleswig-Holstein, then Denmark, by 2078.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 02:41 PM (1m82a)

211 173 WD, was that Taylor, or do you have other sisters?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

212 206 As I said earlier this is another thing that is driving the middle class left bat shit crazy on Facebook. We here know it's not a concentration camp, but trying to convince them is impossible without getting "fascist" "Nazi" or "you have no empathy or morals". Some are going to stroke out
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 02:40 PM (eBgDF)

======

"I can't wait to put Trump voters in there!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

213 206 As I said earlier this is another thing that is driving the middle class left bat shit crazy on Facebook. We here know it's not a concentration camp, but trying to convince them is impossible without getting "fascist" "Nazi" or "you have no empathy or morals". Some are going to stroke out
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 02:40 PM (eBgDF)

Here's a little secret:
They either don't believe it and are just repeating the talking points of the day because they think they're the smart ones and other people are stupid and need to be lied to, OR they are complete morons who do believe the talking points of the day.

So no, you're not going to convince either group to change their mind.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:42 PM (uCjyK)

214 Next!

Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 01, 2025 02:42 PM (5yGIt)

215 If you don't understand how that Constitutional, it's because you didn't go to Harvard.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 02:37 PM

You know who did go to Harvard?

Posted by: David Hogg at July 01, 2025 02:42 PM (0sNs1)

216 205 Every time these shitbags piss and moan, i have to think "well, the alternative is shoot them in the fucking head at the border before they ever can get in. And shoot you in the fucking head for trying to interfere with national security. You dickheads want that instead? Because I'm cool either way. "
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2025 02:40 PM (BjH5D)

Obligatory: https://youtu.be/XbYZhMMLHGo

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:42 PM (1Gsou)

217 Two trips to the vet for one cat wiped out my reserve funds to afford such fancy stuff Washington Nearsider.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:39 PM (JmEcb)

That'll do it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 01, 2025 02:43 PM (fCgdX)

218 How about using Eminent Domain and putting a detention center on Martha's Vineyard?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 02:43 PM (PiwSw)

219 Next!
Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 01, 2025 02:42 PM

Shouldn't there be in eructation in front of that expostulation?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 01, 2025 02:43 PM (0sNs1)

220 I wanted a reticulated python, but they insanely expensive -- and illegal, I think -- and grew much too big.

-
I saw a 20/20 the other day about a snake breeder murdered by his wife. They mentioned he sold some of his snakes for a ridiculous amount of money like $180,000.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 02:43 PM (L/fGl)

221 211 173 WD, was that Taylor, or do you have other sisters?
Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

Just the one.

She was going apeshit looking for that mouse. Every night we'd get back into the car and find where it had chewed through the bags where our snacks were, etc. Finally found it days later, gorged, fat, and dead. But at least he died happy.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:43 PM (PzXaK)

222 Police suspect foul play.

Posted by: Old Dennis Miller line at July 01, 2025 02:43 PM (P+mok)

223
Any man what gets eaten by an alligator spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Carr at July 01, 2025 02:34 PM

is anyone making book on when the first illegal alien detainee is attacked by an alligator?

I gots ten quatloos what says it'll be by noon-ish on Sunday

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 01, 2025 02:44 PM (tljrc)

224
A huge hurricane (Andrew?) destroyed an exotic pet store and the pythons escaped into the swamps. They've been breeding ever since.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade

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

That is a made-to-order movie plot. It could even have that supertitle at the beginning: BASED ON FACTS -- and then one at the end showing actual footage of pythons in American swamps.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 02:44 PM (egH3D)

225 Come to think of it, Alligator Alcatraz does sound like something out of a Carl Hiassam novel 😎

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:44 PM (Hkcdp)

226 TJM, more like restoring the asylum process. The absurd gymnastics that allowed millions of people to claim asylum (which is for personal persecution or danger due to political, religious, or other "protected" reasons) by presenting themselves to a point of entry was always one of the most outrageous bits of vandalism, which is saying something.

Almost all of these people would by definition have crossed *multiple* safe countries, instantly vaporizing their asylum claims - which were laughably spurious anyway.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 02:44 PM (1m82a)

227
Make the libs explode

Make the Kennedy Center for Arts into an immigrant processing center.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 01, 2025 02:44 PM (IifOV)

228 Woohoo!!!
Gator Gitmo!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 02:44 PM (1bdKO)

229 Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:42 PM (1Gsou)

Ha!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2025 02:44 PM (BjH5D)

230 The judge is highly sympathetic and is certain to issue a nation wide injunction.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

That so called hack in black, can fuck right off.
-SCOTUS

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM (QcUc+)

231 If you have ever driven Alligator Alley, you know no one is leaving this facility on foot.

Posted by: Ann at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM (4neFu)

232 226 TJM, more like restoring the asylum process. The absurd gymnastics that allowed millions of people to claim asylum (which is for personal persecution or danger due to political, religious, or other "protected" reasons) by presenting themselves to a point of entry was always one of the most outrageous bits of vandalism, which is saying something.

Almost all of these people would by definition have crossed *multiple* safe countries, instantly vaporizing their asylum claims - which were laughably spurious anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 02:44 PM (1m82a)

======

It's a fair reading. Trump did offer asylum to the white farmers from South Africa as their political leadership called for the murder of them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

233 is anyone making book on when the first illegal alien detainee is attacked by an alligator?

I gots ten quatloos what says it'll be by noon-ish on Sunday
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 01, 2025 02:44 PM (tljrc)

And somehow CNN will have a camera there...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM (mP0Kj)

234 >>> Agreed, LizLem. It was conservative for her personal style, so it’s a win. Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (Hkcdp)

I know! If she inspires older women to dress their age and bring classy hotness back, bless her. Though the rest of her dresses from the weekend showed a lot of boob.

Supposedly she was going to go strapless, but then going to space "changed her." Sigh. But she saw Loren's dress and decided to go the classy route. (Her "something blue" was also from the space trip, because of course!)

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM (Eng1Z)

235 A huge hurricane (Andrew?) destroyed an exotic pet store and the pythons escaped into the swamps. They've been breeding ever since.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade

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

Reminds me of one of the funniest movie scenes ever and it was in PeeWee’s big adventure when the pet store was on fire.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM (VofaG)

236 People yell concentration camp out of a mix of ignorance (they don't really know what one is beyond "bad" and what this camp is) and the need to justify calling someone a Nazi.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM (dfIr7)

237 You can check out any time you like or you could just leave.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM (LL6Kc)

238 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

I asked President Trump about putting crocodiles in the Rio Grande to stop illegal crossings.

The President told me he actually wants to go further, importing ruthless African crocodiles:

“If you want to know the truth... They were serious. They were actually crocodiles. They were crocodiles from Africa. They are a step beyond.”

Absolute savage

https://tinyurl.com/37cdk6wh

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (NpAcC)

239
They should have Amos Moses by Jerry Reed played over the loudspeakers at Alligator Alcatraz.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (IifOV)

240 Much of this will also deter any travelers that think they can just come on in... I mean much of this advertisement is to encourage people to self deport or not come in the first place.

Posted by: Inogame at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (53oGX)

241 So how do you get in on this boom for deporting people?
Like, as a judge or something. Or are they only hiring JAG?

Posted by: SimoHayha at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (5/e+B)

242 Serpentine, Shelly, serpentine!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (wBaIH)

243 Gator Gitmo actually does make more sense. Alcatraz was for convicted criminals. Gitmo is for holding foreigners and has nothing to do with the penal system.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (BjH5D)

244
Trump effectively ended the asylum system.

All asylum claims (with some exceptions) are being denied. Just because someone screams Asylum doesn't mean the executive has to accept it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Well, since asylum cases have to have addresses and contact info and such, it should be easy to find them...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (egH3D)

245 Martha’s Vinyard facility could be atop the Gay Head cliffs!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:47 PM (Hkcdp)

246 This concept makes me very happy.

Now do the Rio Grande River National Moat.

https://tinyurl.com/3zefya9r

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 02:47 PM (6PCLE)

247 236 People yell concentration camp out of a mix of ignorance (they don't really know what one is beyond "bad" and what this camp is) and the need to justify calling someone a Nazi.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM (dfIr7)

Well, to be fair... Florida in the Summer does kinda feel like an Oven...

/Rimshot

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 02:47 PM (mP0Kj)

248 Get a kind of them snappers Ralph!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 02:47 PM (1bdKO)

249 >>> >>> 145 A camp in the middle of the Arkansas/Missouri Ozarks, surrounded by people from the Arkansas/Missouri Ozarks.

Wait, it'll be next door to Monster Hunter International? The MHI team can handle a couple of Tren De Aragua gang members, no sweat, after all the monsters they've fought.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 02:47 PM (Eng1Z)

250 This is interesting:

RFK Human Rights Organization

Press

Advocacy groups urge the United Nations to address United States’ escalating abuse of immigrants, asylum seekers

In part, Washington, D.C., April 8 – "Yesterday, a group of 23 nonprofit organizations published a report urging the United Nations to address the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation of non-citizens in the United States. The report was submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, which is scheduled to formally review U.S. policies and practices in November.

The participating organizations called out the U.S. government’s ongoing violations of non-citizens’ fundamental rights through mass detention, denial of due process, abusive and discriminatory policing, labor exploitation, and suppression of civic space."

Much more followed.

The FINAL UPR Imm. Coalition Submission_4.7.25 was also attached therein, and everyone of nonprofits involved were listed.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 02:47 PM (NFX2v)

251
And somehow CNN will have a camera there...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM

I hope so

that siht would be too good not to televise

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 01, 2025 02:47 PM (tljrc)

252 Make New York Zimbabwe Again

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:47 PM (VPwHp)

253 @FoxNews
·
8h
Elon Musk indicates he'll donate to Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican who has been excoriated by Trump

and so it begins

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (AOsQT)

254 244
Well, since asylum cases have to have addresses and contact info and such, it should be easy to find them...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (egH3D)

======

I kept misunderstanding the calendar of events, but it seems like the timeline has begun for the hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the US on asylum claims to go back home.

They have less than 2 months.

And, remember, Haiti is already great and not at all a shithole, according to Conan O'Brien.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)

255 There are no sneks in AK. I like it that way.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM

*****
*ahem*

Posted by: Senator Murkowski at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (as22/)

256 But at least he died happy.
---------
That's how I want to go.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (2yoRf)

257 I thought killing Jews was a good thing? Why apologize for a concentration camp?

Are we globalizing this intifada or not, here, people?!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (BjH5D)

258 Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (NpAcC)

Would you rather have been an American sailor on the USS Indianapolis or a Japanese soldier at the Battle of Ramree?

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (VofaG)

259 They're also posting memes of slaves being hunted by their masters, boohoo sobbin' and snifflin

That reminds me, whatever happened to our Harriet Tubman $20 bill? I wanted the picture of her with the big flintlock pistol.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (eStot)

260 239
They should have Amos Moses by Jerry Reed played over the loudspeakers at Alligator Alcatraz.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (IifOV)

Only two things I'm afraid of...
Women, and Pohleese

Posted by: Gator at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (mP0Kj)

261 The cool thing about Swamp People is that the show is subtitled for people who can't speak Cajun.

***********

With LeeRoy and Pork Chop their accents and lingo are so garbled that even the subtitles are indecipherable.

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 02:49 PM (poXs5)

262 That reminds me, whatever happened to our Harriet Tubman $20 bill? I wanted the picture of her with the big flintlock pistol.

I'm good with that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 02:49 PM (dfIr7)

263 Hope the mugshot was worth it!!

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:50 PM (VPwHp)

264 and so it begins
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (AOsQT)

What? Musk's political irrelevance?

He's got a couple billion dollars to throw around.

A couple billion of your own dollars won't get you anywhere beyond a handjob and a friendly farewell in that town.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2025 02:50 PM (BjH5D)

265 251
And somehow CNN will have a camera there...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 02:45 PM

"Inexplicably, CNN camera crews have recently been qutting en masse."

Posted by: New York Times, page 23A at July 01, 2025 02:50 PM (PiwSw)

266 They should have Amos Moses by Jerry Reed played over the loudspeakers at Alligator Alcatraz. Posted by: Frank Barone at July 01, 2025 02:46 PM (IifOV)

Left arm gone clean up to the elbow!

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (eStot)

267 171 My understanding is that the only snakes to really be absolutely wary of are the venomous ones.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:31 PM (PzXaK)

I live in Florida and there are six poisonous snakes. I do not worry about alligators much in my area (and I live on a golf course near a lake), I worry about the snakes. I belong to the Florida Snake Lady Facebook group which has made me a little less crazy worrying about how to identify the poisonous ones, but snakes are an issue here.

(spaces)

https://floridapoisoncontrol.org/
poisoning-in-florida/snakes/

Posted by: Ann at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (4neFu)

268 Just send MHIs pals the garden gnomes to deal with TdA…

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (Hkcdp)

269 I f**king love Trump, I love everything about him.

We are truly going to miss him when he's gone.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (XV/Pl)

270 Would you rather have been an American sailor on the USS Indianapolis or a Japanese soldier at the Battle of Ramree?
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (VofaG)
******
Tough choice.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (NpAcC)

271 "All asylum claims (with some exceptions) are being denied. Just because someone screams Asylum doesn't mean the executive has to accept it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu"

None of these countries south of the border are engaged in massive ware or experiencing a famine that might be a basis of the claim. Just the usual poverty, corruption and drug violence. That is their problem and why they should be forced to stay to clean it up.

Posted by: Ripley at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (GUOwU)

272 Ugh, Trump is swiping at Musk again.

http://tiny.cc/ebfo001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (lIio7)

273 Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2025 02:50 PM (BjH5D)

Soros did it better (worse for us)

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (VofaG)

274 *ahem*
Posted by: Senator Murkowski at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (as22/)

Not a snek. A form of weasel.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:52 PM (1Gsou)

275 Donnie is treating the idea of a concentration camp on US soil as a fucking joke. I'm sure something similar was said by German leadership during the Third Reich.

The Third Reich gassed it's inmates. We fly them home.

Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 01, 2025 02:52 PM (5yGIt)

276 The Topaz internment camp is still in Delta, Utah! Though it's now more of a ghost town memorial with an interpretive center, I think. I always meant to go there.

https://topazmuseum.org/

There is PLENTY of federal land in Utah that could be turned into a detention center, since the libs won't let us use it for anything else.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 02:52 PM (Eng1Z)

277 261 I watched a couple YT programs done by a cute French girl, student of the French language. She maintained that Cajun French was much closer to a classic 17th century French than what is now spoken in the Metropolitan. She did say there's a marked difference between Cajun and Louisiana French.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 02:52 PM (gm9Sb)

278 253 @FoxNews
·
8h
Elon Musk indicates he'll donate to Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican who has been excoriated by Trump

and so it begins

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 02:48 PM (AOsQT)

Honestly, I don't know if that helps or hurts Massie in KY...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 02:52 PM (tOcjL)

279 Ugh, Trump is swiping at Musk again.

http://tiny.cc/ebfo001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (lIio7)

Musk started it again. I wish Trump realizes he won the battle and just let it go for now. Musk is the one looking like an ass.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:53 PM (VofaG)

280 @TJM, due process doesn't actually require an in-person hearing. It can be a paper hearing on a claimant's written affidavit. All that's required is notice and opportunity to be heard.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 01, 2025 02:53 PM (eStot)

281 269 I f**king love Trump, I love everything about him.

We are truly going to miss him when he's gone.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (XV/Pl)

=======

I just wish he was more couth. Then he might have a chance at the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

282 Okay, Grandpa.

"A simple word like groceries. It was like a strange word. I hadn't heard the word grocery in so long. But what could be more beautiful than ‘grocery’?'" - PDT

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:53 PM (2yoRf)

283 Orson at July 01, 2025 02:39 PM (dIske)

****

Jesus...

Posted by: EFG at July 01, 2025 02:53 PM (CVU8X)

284 No shit??

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
BEZOS-BACKED METHANE-TRACKING SATELLITE LOST IN SPACE, EDF SAYS

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:53 PM (2yoRf)

285 271 None of these countries south of the border are engaged in massive ware or experiencing a famine that might be a basis of the claim. Just the usual poverty, corruption and drug violence. That is their problem and why they should be forced to stay to clean it up.
Posted by: Ripley at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (GUOwU)

=======

The only populations that I think could fit would be Christians in African countries being overrun by Islamic extremists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

286 14 3 days is not fast enough. "Doo process" should take about 5 minutes per person.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
-----------------------

Take the win and move on.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 02:54 PM (UFztX)

287 280 @TJM, due process doesn't actually require an in-person hearing. It can be a paper hearing on a claimant's written affidavit. All that's required is notice and opportunity to be heard.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 01, 2025 02:53 PM (eStot)

======

Also true.

Can also be done over Skype.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

288 We should ask Madmani what he thinks about the Holocaust.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:54 PM (VPwHp)

289 Soros did it better (worse for us)
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (VofaG)

Soros is a great counter-example. That Innsmouth looking homunculus ain't spending a dime out of his own pockets, but he got his hands on everyone else's wallets so now he gets to call the tune.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (BjH5D)

290 165 Most of what people think about snakes is wrong.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

There are no sneks in AK. I like it that way.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (1Gsou)

You're welcome. I was on a roll, and I had some time to kill, so I thought "why not?"

Posted by: St Patrick at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (PiwSw)

291 BEZOS-BACKED METHANE-TRACKING SATELLITE LOST IN SPACE, EDF SAYS
Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:53 PM (2yoRf)

Fuck! Some damn thing just flew right up my ass!

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (iPe48)

292 288 We should ask Madmani what he thinks about the Holocaust.
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:54 PM (VPwHp)

======

"It didn't happen, and it's good that it did."
-Mamdani

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

293 272 Ugh, Trump is swiping at Musk again.

http://tiny.cc/ebfo001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 02:51 PM (lIio7)

Good. Fuck Elon Musk. Let's never forget this Musk tweet:

"The reason I'm in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B. Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend."

So not only has he declared war on me and large segments of the American people / MAGA base, but he also is asking me to fuck myself in the face.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (uCjyK)

294 285 271 None of these countries south of the border are engaged in massive ware or experiencing a famine that might be a basis of the claim. Just the usual poverty, corruption and drug violence. That is their problem and why they should be forced to stay to clean it up.
Posted by: Ripley
------------------------

It's not like times of Communists invading Central America.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (UFztX)

295 I had a thought... The old Naval base on Viequez Island in Puerto Rico is just sitting there abandoned. Why not turn THAT into a processing center too?

It's not easy to get back to the mainland of PR. Plus sharks and currents.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (Eng1Z)

296 No shit??

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
BEZOS-BACKED METHANE-TRACKING SATELLITE LOST IN SPACE, EDF SAYS
Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:53 PM (2yoRf)

I wasn't on that spaceship!

Posted by: Dr. Smith at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (wVcYX)

297 Trump should just sic Bessent on Musk again. Give him two black eyes this time.
Imagine your kid trooning out and you get beat up by a homosexual.
Sad

Posted by: Cmonman at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (jSF6p)

298 Cow fart powered satellite.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:56 PM (LL6Kc)

299 We should ask Madmani what he thinks about the Holocaust.

He would carefully lie without mentioning Jews. Kind of like he did in his press release pretending to condemn the molotov cocktail murderer

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 02:56 PM (dfIr7)

300 He would carefully lie without mentioning Jews. Kind of like he did in his press release pretending to condemn the molotov cocktail murderer

==

"I condemn violence on both sides !"

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2025 02:57 PM (g47mK)

301 The only populations that I think could fit would be Christians in African countries being overrun by Islamic extremists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

I wish them well, but that is not our problem. Let them sort it out amongst themselves.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:57 PM (uCjyK)

302 BTW, I see from Wiki that there are actually four or so crocodile species in the southern US, the Caribbean and South America.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 02:57 PM (2yoRf)

303 >If she was doing the same job, but in a Biden administration, she'd be as bad as or worse than Mayorkas.

what a dumb, f-ing b.s.statement

Posted by: cherries in season at July 01, 2025 02:57 PM (yKg/+)

304 301 The only populations that I think could fit would be Christians in African countries being overrun by Islamic extremists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

I wish them well, but that is not our problem. Let them sort it out amongst themselves.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:57 PM (uCjyK)

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When talking about the proper application of the asylum system, if they should apply, I think they would qualify.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

305 There’s also the abandoned CDC facility on plum Island (the one off of Long Island, not the Plum Island off of Newburyport). Just so ICE can quickly process those scooped up in NYC…

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 02:58 PM (Hkcdp)

306 Fun fact: New Zealand has no snakes. You'd think an island with crazy fauna like NZ has would be teaming with big-ass snakes. Nope.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 02:58 PM (iFTx/)

307 Musk forms a pack to get Democrats out of the Republican Congress, gets my donation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 02:58 PM (UFztX)

308 306 Fun fact: New Zealand has no snakes. You'd think an island with crazy fauna like NZ has would be teaming with big-ass snakes. Nope.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 02:58 PM (iFTx/)

=====

Also, you'd expect hobbits everywhere.

But nope.

The movies lied.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

309 They should have Amos Moses by Jerry Reed played over the loudspeakers at Alligator Alcatraz.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Speaking of songs . . .

https://is.gd/0qbcck

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 02:58 PM (L/fGl)

310 When talking about the proper application of the asylum system, if they should apply, I think they would qualify.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

And the German couple who just wanted to homeschool their kid.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 02:59 PM (VofaG)

311 NZ does have big ass spiders.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:59 PM (LL6Kc)

312 295 I had a thought... The old Naval base on Viequez Island in Puerto Rico is just sitting there abandoned. Why not turn THAT into a processing center too?

It's not easy to get back to the mainland of PR. Plus sharks and currents
Lots of unexploded ordnance, too.

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2025 02:59 PM (LHPAg)

313 Almost all of these people would by definition have crossed *multiple* safe countries, instantly vaporizing their asylum claims - which were laughably spurious anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 02:44 PM (1m82a)

a very large number of the Venezuelans originally went through Brazil first, since Brazil took them in as asylum seekers.
Only later did they contract to be brought to the US border

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 02:59 PM (D7oie)

314 That Innsmouth looking homunculus ain't spending a dime out of his own pockets, but he got his hands on everyone else's wallets so now he gets to call the tune.

yeah he's an amazing individual, he figured out how to promote communism and get rich at the same time

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 02:59 PM (dfIr7)

315 I wish them well, but that is not our problem. Let them sort it out amongst themselves.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 02:57 PM (uCjyK)

Give them arms and ammunition, and training, and tell them to whack every muzzie they can find.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 02:59 PM (iPe48)

316 Ribbon Creek, Parris Island, SC.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 03:00 PM (gm9Sb)

317 When talking about the proper application of the asylum system, if they should apply, I think they would qualify.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

They should not qualify, there are many safe countries between Africa and the US.

Also, again, not our problem.

Also, it's not written in stone that we need to accept any refugees / asylum claimers. I don't understand how that's a beneficial thing for the American middle class.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:00 PM (uCjyK)

318 These two aren't going to be swapping warm stories by the fire anytime soon:

Trump on whether Republicans will be swayed by Elon Musk: "What's going to happen is DOGE is going to look at Musk! And if DOGE looks at Musk, we're going to save a fortune....I don't think he should be playing that game with me."

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 03:00 PM (AOsQT)

319 > Fun fact: New Zealand has no snakes. You'd think an island with crazy fauna like NZ has would be teaming with big-ass snakes. Nope.

Same story in Hawaii. Although I've heard some non-native species occasionally get out into the wild.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 03:01 PM (lIio7)

320 BTW, I see from Wiki that there are actually four or so crocodile species in the southern US, the Caribbean and South America.
Posted by: andycanuck

The James Carvilles and what else?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 03:01 PM (L/fGl)

321 Musk forms a pack to get Democrats out of the Republican Congress, gets my donation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 02:58 PM (UFztX)

He may have formed a PAC, but I like your interpretation better

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 03:01 PM (D7oie)

322 > Also, you'd expect hobbits everywhere.

Stupid fat hobbits.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 03:01 PM (lIio7)

323 I don't have a problem with legitimate asylum claims. But it more or less needs to scrapped, with congress rewriting the law in this area, because at present it's a farce. 20 years or so ago I attended an asylum CLE designed to get lawyers to take asylum cases (because it was cheap and provided a full day of credit) and it was nothing but leftist activism then, and it's gotten worse.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 03:01 PM (4/BuS)

324 295 I had a thought... The old Naval base on Viequez Island in Puerto Rico is just sitting there abandoned. Why not turn THAT into a processing center too?

It's not easy to get back to the mainland of PR. Plus sharks and currents.
Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (Eng1Z)

*****

I recommend Ice Station Zebra.

Posted by: EFG at July 01, 2025 03:01 PM (CVU8X)

325 317 They should not qualify, there are many safe countries between Africa and the US.

Also, again, not our problem.

Also, it's not written in stone that we need to accept any refugees / asylum claimers. I don't understand how that's a beneficial thing for the American middle class.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:00 PM (uCjyK)

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If they applied at the American consulate in country, they probably would.

I know you're on 0 immigration, no exceptions. But many people would consider this a valid exception.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

326 Do Cubans who are able to escape and make it to the US still get automatic asylum?

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:01 PM (VofaG)

327 Are they taking volunteers for immigration judges?

Posted by: blaster at July 01, 2025 03:02 PM (UpwUi)

328 36 Alligator Alcatraz has another bonus feature.

When the only road is guarded and thus leaving a swamp full of gators and pythons to trek through, I do not foresee many protestors showing up.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM (JmEcb)

It's Legal to run over Protestors in FL

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 01, 2025 03:02 PM (FCrpy)

329 Trump is open to the idea of stocking the Rio Grande with crocs.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:02 PM (/U5Yz)

330 #293 Alb @amandalouise416 Jun 26
As tech layoffs surge, H-1B demand hasn’t slowed down.

Microsoft just cut thousands of American workers...yet they’ve already requested 14,181 more H-1B workers this year, and it’s only Q2.

If AI is the reason Americans are being let go, why are companies still asking for hundreds of thousands of foreign tech workers?

Something doesn’t add up.

masterlongevity. @masterlongevity Jun 27
Generally supportive of very high skilled temporary visa for exceptional people, but the above is a big issue

Alb @amandalouise416 Jun 27 Replying to @masterlongevity
I've seen all the H-1B applications filed by employers for the last five years. These are not high skilled workers in big tech, little tech, wannabe tech, or anything remotely tech related. It's all a lie.

Next time someone says it's highly skilled, ask them to prove it.

STEM OPT @BantryBlue2 Jun 28
The number I've seen is that 65% of H1Bs are entry level and require no experience. Similarly the 250,000 STEM OPT jobs are entry level. American graduates are being shut out.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 03:02 PM (2yoRf)

331 326 Do Cubans who are able to escape and make it to the US still get automatic asylum?
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:01 PM (VofaG)

Let’s ask Bill Clinton and Janet Reno.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 01, 2025 03:02 PM (Mxf84)

332

Fun fact:

You can kill a saltwater crocodile by stabbing it in the head.

G'day mates.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 03:03 PM (AOsQT)

333 NZ does have big ass spiders.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 02:59 PM (LL6Kc)
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The spiders ate the snakes?

I think I'll stay right here, thanks...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2025 03:03 PM (7fElN)

334 >>> Lots of unexploded ordnance, too.
Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2025 02:59 PM (LHPAg)

See? Perfect.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 03:03 PM (Eng1Z)

335 332

Fun fact:

You can kill a saltwater crocodile by stabbing it in the head.

G'day mates.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 03:03 PM (AOsQT)

======

I can die by a wooden stake to the heart.

This means I am a vampire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

336 Hawaiian judge deputizes water moccasins and invasive pythons to fight ICE and gators in 3,2,1...

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 03:04 PM (eBgDF)

337 pi]Fun fact:

You can kill a saltwater crocodile by stabbing it in the head.

G'day mates.

Crikey!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:04 PM (/U5Yz)

338 No indigenous land mammals in NZ. Big reason for endangerment of things like the kiwi - their nests are just sitting on the ground. Importation of small varmints which of course thrive there has caused lots of problems.

You drive around the South Island and the roadkill is constant and phenomenal.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:04 PM (1m82a)

339 I can die by a wooden stake to the heart.

This means I am a vampire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

But if you float, you’re a witch.

YOU’RE A WITCH VAMPIRE!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 01, 2025 03:05 PM (Mxf84)

340 There's a risk in supporting persecuted Christians in Africa, or elsewhere, in that the second they get security and power they're just as likely to go full communist and become an even bigger thorn in the world's ass.

Let Americans do what they can as they see fit, but I'm fine if the United States of America itself keeps its powder dry.

Let us get our own feet beneath us before we worry about fixing the world with anything other than a great big boom and a hearty Fuck You.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2025 03:05 PM (BjH5D)

341 "I just wish he was more couth. Then he might have a chance at the presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"

Wait a minute.

I see what you did there.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 03:05 PM (fV+MH)

342 A rare AOS reptile thread!

Posted by: Let's savor it at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM (P+mok)

343 Fun fact:

You can kill a saltwater crocodile by stabbing it in the head.

G'day mates.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 03:03 PM (AOsQT)

I'd prefer to use a 12-gauge autoloader with armor-piercing slugs, TYVM.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM (iPe48)

344 >>>Give them arms and ammunition, and training, and tell them to whack every muzzie they can find.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
----

Sounds reasonable, maybe mercenaries. Mercenaries would be effective, no ROE.

Otherwise, that's the way we moved into VietNam first it was advisors, then arms, then we trained the Viet, then we were there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM (UFztX)

345 Greenland snakes are covered in blubber.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM (fV+MH)

346 323 I don't have a problem with legitimate asylum claims. But it more or less needs to scrapped, with congress rewriting the law in this area, because at present it's a farce. 20 years or so ago I attended an asylum CLE designed to get lawyers to take asylum cases (because it was cheap and provided a full day of credit) and it was nothing but leftist activism then, and it's gotten worse.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 03:01 PM (4/BuS)

The problem is that we give an inch on this shit and wind up here. I, too, have taken several immigration CLE's, and it's beyond infuriating.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM (uCjyK)

347 According to the law there are 5 valid reasons for claims of asylum in the US. Obama and Biden broadened those by policy. For example, being afraid to return is not a valid reason.

You would think that it would be easy enough to just say we are abiding by the law and only those asylum justifications in law will be accepted for consideration.

Posted by: blaster at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM (UpwUi)

348 The Leftists will find a Commissar Judge to stop this

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM (+qU29)

349 Trump needs to have Crocodile Rock as his walk up song at his next rally.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM (ewjUl)

350 >>>>What Alligator Alcatraz needs is sister winter camp in Wyoming surrounded by snow, wolves and grizzlies.
Posted by: Ripley at July 01, 2025 02:26 PM (GUOwU)
***********
Grizzlies hibernate during the winter.

Posted by: Cosda at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM (EO9/2)

351 339 I can die by a wooden stake to the heart.

This means I am a vampire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

Do you have a Hungarian accent or are you sparkly?

Posted by: St Patrick at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (PiwSw)

352

Posted by: St Patrick at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (PiwSw)

353 The Leftists will find a Commissar Judge to stop this
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM

Judge Jumangi hardest hit.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (ewjUl)

354 347 You would think that it would be easy enough to just say we are abiding by the law and only those asylum justifications in law will be accepted for consideration.
Posted by: blaster at July 01, 2025 03:06 PM (UpwUi)

=======

That's pretty much what Trump is doing.

And it's a controversy.

Because Trump is doing it.

Like when W asked all USAs to resign. It was common practice suddenly made controversial by the wrong person doing it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

355 The number I've seen is that 65% of H1Bs are entry level and require no experience. Similarly the 250,000 STEM OPT jobs are entry level. American graduates are being shut out.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 03:02 PM (2yoRf)

And this has been going on for over 20 years...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (mP0Kj)

356 The President told me he actually wants to go further, importing ruthless African crocodiles:

“If you want to know the truth... They were serious. They were actually crocodiles. They were crocodiles from Africa. They are a step beyond.”

Crocodiles? Please. Hippos.
There's even a naturalized population in South America that we could take. Colombia would probably thank us.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (a+4eV)

357 > You can kill a saltwater crocodile by stabbing it in the head.

Is there anything that can't be killed by stabbing it in the head?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (lIio7)

358 351 Do you have a Hungarian accent or are you sparkly?
Posted by: St Patrick at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (PiwSw)

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Can't it be both?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

359 Fine, I'll go see if there are any snakes in The Barrel.

Posted by: St Patrick at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (PiwSw)

360 H1Bs improve the bottom line, and you can fire them if they complain about being shorted on their paychecks.
Seriously, you don't even have to take their passports away. And when they "don't pay taxes" for whatever reason, they are safely out of country by the time the garnishment order comes through and that is an extra expense eliminated from the salary and taxes paid!

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (D7oie)

361 They came to do good and ended up doing very well.

Posted by: As Michael Savage used to say at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (P+mok)

362 Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming
Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues
Cane toads...

Posted by: Tim Finn at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (1ngll)

363 bear, problem is not really the law, just the collapse of civic culture and integrity that makes "up is down! 1 + 1 = 13" common, especially in the legal system.

You can't write a law that bad faith, a lazy/distracted/ignorant electorate, and a useless political class and legal cult can't effectively ignore, eviscerate, or turn on its head.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (1m82a)

364 Komodo dragons don't kill right away. They infect and then eat the dead body at a later time when the victim croaks of sepsis.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (/U5Yz)

365 STEM OPT @BantryBlue2 Jun 28
The number I've seen is that 65% of H1Bs are entry level and require no experience. Similarly the 250,000 STEM OPT jobs are entry level. American graduates are being shut out.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 03:02 PM (2yoRf)

True. Science and tech shut out recent college grads in favor of cheap foreign labor.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 03:08 PM (tOcjL)

366 This means I am a vampire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:04 PM

I hear the Pina Colada's at Trader Vic's are to die for.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 03:08 PM (ewjUl)

367 Google AI tells me the Cuban wet foot,dry foot asylum policy was ended in 2017.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:08 PM (VofaG)

368 Fending off coconut crabs is no picnic, either.

Posted by: Amelia Earhart at July 01, 2025 03:08 PM (wVcYX)

369 > 14 3 days is not fast enough. "Doo process" should take about 5 minutes per person.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2025 02:18 PM (SLJQR)

Indeed.

Judge: Mr. Mxtplx, it says here that you are a citizen of Outer Jackoffistan. Is that correct?
Illegal Alien: Yes, Your Honor.
Judge: And do you have a visa or some other document that allows you to be legally present in the United States?
Illegal Alien: No, Your Honor.
Judge: Guilty. Bailiff, escort Mr. Mxtplx to the bus. Next case.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 03:08 PM (qpyNK)

370 Sidebar. On a road trip my sister and I went through Death Valley (just to see it...). She stopped for a break and thought the car would cool off faster if she left her door open (yeah yeah,...). A mouse got in and rode with us for several days. That was scary enough for her.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 01, 2025 02:36 PM (PzXaK)

LOL! My brother would put up with me fishing in our lake in college. I was there for the beer and taking photos. If he pointed out a damn water moccasin's head, those serpents of evil and horror, I'd put my feet up in the boat. Like that would save me. He'd patiently tell me, while laughing, that they could not climb into the boat with us. That he had both the oar and a gun and would protect me. I still kept my feet in the air.

Many years later my husband was hanging out on the dock. Bro told him to not move then got a log and killed a copperhead without hesitation. My Brother, Protector of Me from Snakes.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 03:08 PM (6PCLE)

371 292 288 We should ask Madmani what he thinks about the Holocaust.
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 02:54 PM (VPwHp)

======

"It didn't happen, and it's good that it did."
-Mamdani

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

"Some people did some things..."

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 03:08 PM (6ydKt)

372 Concentration camp? The odea of such a camp is they never let you out. This is more of a concentration bus terminal.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 01, 2025 03:08 PM (gDhA9)

373 Fun video: Kentucky Ordinance gets a T Rex head made with artificial bone and ballistic gel (had to be 10 grand). Then he tests out guns on it to see what might actually harm or kill it.

By the end he's pulling out stuff that barely fits the definition of a rifle.

https://youtu.be/7Pf6E8yjMAI

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:09 PM (dfIr7)

374 132 My understanding is that the only snakes to really be absolutely wary of are the venomous ones. Most other snakes don't give a shit about you.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

But where aren't they in Florida?

I was in Deland visiting my mom's grave years ago and it finally dawned on me I was probably looking at a coral snake in the little fenced, wooded cemetery area.

I fled back to the church parking lot and just a few minutes later, sirens went off because a plumber working nearby had been bitten.

BTW, DeLand was one of only three hospitals in the US with the specific antivenin.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 03:09 PM (NFX2v)

375 Alb @amandalouise416 Jun 27 Replying to @masterlongevity
I've seen all the H-1B applications filed by employers for the last five years. These are not high skilled workers in big tech, little tech, wannabe tech, or anything remotely tech related. It's all a lie.

Next time someone says it's highly skilled, ask them to prove it.

STEM OPT @BantryBlue2 Jun 28
The number I've seen is that 65% of H1Bs are entry level and require no experience. Similarly the 250,000 STEM OPT jobs are entry level. American graduates are being shut out.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 03:02 PM (2yoRf)

This is 100% true. Most of the people coming in on H1B's are doing low skill (entry level) white collar work while American kids can't find jobs.

They're willing to work for cheaper, but I think it's more than that. Why would Microsoft not say "hey, American kid, instead of laying you off, we'll pay you H1B wages?" I think most American kids would take that option over unemployment. Instead, they do mass layoffs then hire people from India to replace them at 70-80% of the American kids' salary.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:09 PM (uCjyK)

376 > I hear the Pina Colada's at Trader Vic's are to die for.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 03:08 PM (ewjUl)

Only if your hair is perfect.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 03:09 PM (qpyNK)

377 363 bear, problem is not really the law, just the collapse of civic culture and integrity that makes "up is down! 1 + 1 = 13" common, especially in the legal system.

You can't write a law that bad faith, a lazy/distracted/ignorant electorate, and a useless political class and legal cult can't effectively ignore, eviscerate, or turn on its head.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (1m82a)

No, I think the law is part of it. For example, allowing domestic violence as a basis for asylum.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 03:10 PM (4/BuS)

378 374 BTW, DeLand was one of only three hospitals in the US with the specific antivenin.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 03:09 PM (NFX2v)

======

We always make DeLand a joke on our trips to Orlando because the name is silly.

No more or less silly than most Florida names, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

379 Hungarian Vampires reek of Paprika.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 03:10 PM (LL6Kc)

380 So here is my question: state of, say, Oregon declares a class action suit for illegals.

How does one qualify as a member of a class for purpose of a stay? Does one go to ICE and declare oneself an Illegal, or is it on a don't ask don't tell basis?
What happens if the stay goes away, does ICE have to get rid of the lists and addresses of the people declaring to be illegals and start all over again?

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 03:10 PM (D7oie)

381 380 So here is my question: state of, say, Oregon declares a class action suit for illegals.

How does one qualify as a member of a class for purpose of a stay? Does one go to ICE and declare oneself an Illegal, or is it on a don't ask don't tell basis?
What happens if the stay goes away, does ICE have to get rid of the lists and addresses of the people declaring to be illegals and start all over again?
Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 03:10 PM (D7oie)

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Forming a class is not an easy thing.

Boesberg tried to do with Tren de Agua members and failed, and it was a smaller class.

And forming a class is made the more complicated by the fact that the forming itself is appealable and people can sue the ones forming the class because they don't want to be part of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

382 The Leftists will find a Commissar Judge to stop this

Gonna be challenging to find one in the 11th district

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:11 PM (dfIr7)

383 *No more or less silly than most Florida names, though.*

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Okefenokee at July 01, 2025 03:11 PM (P+mok)

384 I wonder if the guy who “yoinks” the crazy Florida animals will do that to an escaping illegal.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 01, 2025 03:11 PM (EuK0F)

385 Bwahahahahahahaha!!!

Karmelo Anthony Supporters Are Raging Online For Their Money Back After His Parents Reportedly Blew Through Over $500,000 In Donations

Karmelo Anthony once had thousands, if not millions, of supporters from around the country.

The campaign has not yet reached its $600,000 goal, but it appears the family is in need of more money.
Many online reports state that Anthony’s parents blew through half a million dollars and are allegedly asking for more money. His supporters are not only unhappy, some of them are demanding to have their money back.

“They chipped in money to a black murderer solely because he murdered a white guy. I’m glad they got scammed. They deserve it,” one person said.

https://tinyurl.com/5jjjaf6f

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 03:11 PM (KdGoM)

386 Since they have Bull sharks and Hammerheads in Tampa Bay, lets see how well they woukd do in the swamp. Hammerhead probably not but the Bull sharks might do fine.

Posted by: Megthered at July 01, 2025 03:11 PM (GOJbT)

387 385 “They chipped in money to a black murderer solely because he murdered a white guy. I’m glad they got scammed. They deserve it,” one person said.

https://tinyurl.com/5jjjaf6f
Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 03:11 PM (KdGoM)

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I have found my spirit animal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

388 Leftists chanting death to the IDF while whining about this being a Concentration camp is peak 2020s.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 03:12 PM (nwGCR)

389 And this has been going on for over 20 years...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (mP0Kj)

Same thing that happened in the trades.

Yeah, it sucks being a laborer on a job site. But you know what? That used to be the path to the middle class or upper middle class for a lot of people.

You start out by humping around lumber and getting yelled at by a bunch of overweight alcoholics, but in 5 years, you're making good money as a carpenter.

When you take away those entry level jobs that have real possibility of career advancement, you're fucking people over for life and relegating them to a life of working in the service industry. Which is also going through the same thing.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:12 PM (uCjyK)

390 They came to do good and ended up doing very well.
Posted by: As Michael Savage used to say at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (P+mok)

Mark Twain said, "The came to do good and they did very well indeed" but I guess Savage can read the classics as well as I can

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (D7oie)

391 @357

>>Is there anything that can't be killed by stabbing it in the head?

The Mountain from GOT for one, Michael Myers.

Anything undead really.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (XV/Pl)

392 391 @357

>>Is there anything that can't be killed by stabbing it in the head?

The Mountain from GOT for one, Michael Myers.

Anything undead really.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (XV/Pl)

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Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

393 If you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain.
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape.
Then I'm the love that you've looked for.
Write to me and escape.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (6ydKt)

394 Karmelo Anthony Supporters Are Raging Online For Their Money Back After His Parents Reportedly Blew Through Over $500,000 In Donations
LOL good.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (/U5Yz)

395 Karmelo Anthony Supporters Are Raging Online For Their Money Back After His Parents Reportedly Blew Through Over $500,000 In Donations

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (nwGCR)

396 394 Karmelo Anthony Supporters Are Raging Online For Their Money Back After His Parents Reportedly Blew Through Over $500,000 In Donations
LOL good.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (/U5Yz)

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Sucker born every minute.

But maybe this group of suckers won't donate the next time.

Maybe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

397 The FINAL UPR Imm. Coalition Submission_4.7.25 was also attached therein, and everyone of nonprofits involved were listed.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Oh, hey, that's handy, and easy way to see who got government grants and revoke their federal funding.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 01, 2025 03:14 PM (a+4eV)

398 I wonder if the guy who “yoinks” the crazy Florida animals will do that to an escaping illegal.

"I'm in Florida looking for that elusive 30 foot python, and look what I found! YOINK! A Veneuzuelan gang member! You don't belong here, I'll get you repatriated soon"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:14 PM (dfIr7)

399 bear, fine, tweak the asylum language (or any other law on any other topic).

Then watch bad faith, a lazy/ignorant/distracted electorate, and collapsed corrupted institutions and a useless political class just turn it upside down or ignore it.

The rot here is fundamental and seemingly universal, it's not just asylum law and policy.

Some progress can be made in some cases, depends. Military can hopefully be deloused of all the racism and other idiocy (maybe). But that's ironically the quickest/easiest institution to fix (see Truman's desegregation EO).

Not saying it can't be done, but fixing the letter of the law is about 15% of the struggle.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:14 PM (1m82a)

400 Bwahahahahahahaha!!!

Karmelo Anthony Supporters Are Raging Online For Their Money Back After His Parents Reportedly Blew Through Over $500,000 In Donations

You fucked up and trusted us . Sorry,not sorry

Yours Truly

the Anthony Family

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:14 PM (VofaG)

401 DogeDesigner @cb_doge 6h
REPORTER: "Are you going to deport Elon Musk?"

TRUMP: "We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies."

https://tinyurl.com/mr2a97v4

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!
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"DOGE is going to look at Musk, and if DOGE looks at Musk, we're going to save a fortune. I don't think he should be playing that game with me."

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 03:14 PM (2yoRf)

402 @392

>>Trump.

Facts.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 03:15 PM (XV/Pl)

403 Karmelo Anthony Supporters Are Raging Online For Their Money Back After His Parents Reportedly Blew Through Over $500,000 In Donations

That's a lotta hookers and blow...

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Pardoned Sex Pest Hiding Out In South Africa at July 01, 2025 03:15 PM (1ngll)

404 BTW, I see from Wiki that there are actually four or so crocodile species in the southern US, the Caribbean and South America.
Posted by: andycanuck
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Is Caiman alligator, or croc?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 03:16 PM (XeU6L)

405 Karmelo Anthony Supporters Are Raging Online For Their Money Back After His Parents Reportedly Blew Through Over $500,000 In Donations

I can guess how this went for a lot of them. They heard that a black kid stabbed a white preppy and just knew it was self defense and for once the black man was gonna get justice and threw money at the case without even bothering to find out.

I say this, because they are having a hard time getting enough donations for a family night out at Red Lobster now: people found out what happened and went "well maybe this ain't what I thought it was"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:16 PM (dfIr7)

406 When the only road is guarded and thus leaving a swamp full of gators and pythons to trek through, I do not foresee many protestors showing up.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 02:21 PM

Come on, protestors! Show Trump who's boss!

Posted by: The Sneks at July 01, 2025 03:16 PM (kgE5c)

407 The whole deport Elon thing is so retarded. Elon legally immigrated here and is a US citizen. But to leftists that’s too much to figure out I guess.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 03:16 PM (nwGCR)

408 403 Karmelo Anthony Supporters Are Raging Online For Their Money Back After His Parents Reportedly Blew Through Over $500,000 In Donations

That's a lotta hookers and blow...
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Pardoned Sex Pest Hiding Out In South Africa at July 01, 2025 03:15 PM (1ngll)

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I want Anthony in prison for life (an exception for his youth to get the death penalty would be acceptable as well), and his parents sued into oblivion for fraud on the fundraising.

I want it a very public thing.

I want people to realize that this shit behavior does not lead to wealth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

409 394 Karmelo Anthony Supporters Are Raging Online For Their Money Back After His Parents Reportedly Blew Through Over $500,000 In Donations
LOL good.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (/U5Yz)

The media is shocked at this turn of events.

Nobody could've seen this coming.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 03:17 PM (6ydKt)

410
That's a lotta hookers and blow...
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Pardoned Sex Pest Hiding Out In South Africa

I wonder color Escalade they bought?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:17 PM (/U5Yz)

411 Is Caiman alligator, or croc?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 03:16 PM (XeU6L)

I’m guessing more closely related to a croc based on the snout.

Now I need to google. The intertubes are both a blessing and curse😀

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:17 PM (VofaG)

412 That's a lotta hookers and blow...
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Pardoned Sex Pest Hiding Out In South Africa at July 01, 2025 03:15 PM (1ngll)

And 32 inch rims.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 03:17 PM (nwGCR)

413 >>> “They chipped in money to a black murderer solely because he murdered a white guy. I’m glad they got scammed. They deserve it,” one person said.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of racists.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 03:18 PM (Eng1Z)

414 I don't wish pain and suffering on anyone, but I wouldn't mind millions of illegals high-tailing it to Chicago, NYC, and LA for relief.

Posted by: mrp at July 01, 2025 03:18 PM (rj6Yv)

415 Bwahahahahahahaha!!!

Karmelo Anthony Supporters Are Raging Online For Their Money Back After His Parents Reportedly Blew Through Over $500,000 In Donations

You fucked up and trusted us . Sorry,not sorry

Yours Truly

the Anthony Family
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:14 PM (VofaG)
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OH NOES! That's so very very sad. Anyway.

I continue to believe these idiots thought the Karmelo Anthony they were giving money to was ... the basketball player.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:18 PM (iFTx/)

416 Intertubes say I am wrong. More close related to alligator.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:18 PM (VofaG)

417 Is Caiman alligator, or croc?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 03:16 PM

Order: Crocodilia
Family: Alligatoridae

So, yes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 03:18 PM (kgE5c)

418 Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 03:13 PM (6ydKt)

I loathe that song. If I have to go to hell - but I'm trusting in the Lord to forgive me and save me- I will have to hear the Pina Colada song on an endless loop.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 03:18 PM (2GCMq)

419 Can you get Crocs made out of actual crocs?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 03:19 PM (LL6Kc)

420 @Minnfidel, in a bizarre turn of events, I had a meeting once with a Pakistani businessman who held court during the day at a table in Trader Vic's as his London office. Trader Vic's is in the basement under the Park Lane Hilton in Westminster. I had a Gen-Z kid with me and told him he should order a pina colada. He didn't understand why, but I told him, it's a story you'll be able to tell someday.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 01, 2025 03:19 PM (eStot)

421 The H-1B thing is as big and outrageous an outrage as the asylum abuse or even the open border. Quick insight into Musk's unworldliness (yes) was his idiotic, ignorant outburst on H-1Bs

30 years ago I worked on H-1B cases that got escalated all the way to the Senate, for direct intervention by senators with INS. You wouldn't believe them, I couldn't. Highly, highly specialized and skilled people who wouldn't "overstay" in a million years (European engineers and technical specialists supporting European-made equipment), with *the CEOs and general counsels* of the companies involved, begging for an H-1B.

THAT is what the H-1B program was meant to be. Unless the law has been enormously amended since then, most H-1B issuance today is outrageous and unlawful.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:19 PM (1m82a)

422 Honestly I am not sure where all the money went with Anthony's family. They bought a house, but they bought that before the big payoff. Probably purses and trips and shoes and stupid crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:19 PM (dfIr7)

423 414 I don't wish pain and suffering on anyone, but I wouldn't mind millions of illegals high-tailing it to Chicago, NYC, and LA for relief.
Posted by: mrp at July 01, 2025 03:18 PM (rj6Yv)

Not Boston right?
- Martha’s Vineyard Liberals

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 03:19 PM (nwGCR)

424 Comparing deporting illegals to fugitive slaves will only work with AWFLs: blacks and legal Hispanics hate the illegals and want them gone more than most whites do!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (1paM0)

425 BTW, I see from Wiki that there are actually four or so crocodile species in the southern US, the Caribbean and South America.
Posted by: andycanuck
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Is Caiman alligator, or croc?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 03:16 PM (XeU6L)
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Caiman is its own species or even genus, IIRC

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

426 But Caesar, was the Z kid's hair perfect?

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (1m82a)

427 As a Syracuse fan I was taken aback by the news that he had been charged with murder.

I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (fV+MH)

428 Well, you can obey the law and GTFO or you can end up in Alligator Alcatraz or Somalia if your country won’t take you back.

Seems like an easy choice. Seems.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (R44ZX)

429 I want people to realize that this shit behavior does not lead to wealth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:17 PM

And eliminate the Ghetto Lottery?! Dats rayciss!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (kgE5c)

430 =======

I want Anthony in prison for life (an exception for his youth to get the death penalty would be acceptable as well), and his parents sued into oblivion for fraud on the fundraising.

I want it a very public thing.

I want people to realize that this shit behavior does not lead to wealth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu
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Let's add politicians and actors promoting this to the list.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (UFztX)

431 424 Comparing deporting illegals to fugitive slaves will only work with AWFLs: blacks and legal Hispanics hate the illegals and want them gone more than most whites do!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (1paM0)

=======

Trump promised the largest deportation effort in history (history includes Operation Wetback, by the way).

He won 50% of the Hispanic vote and a record amount of the black vote (Pew has it at about 15%).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

432 Yeah, apparently people found out the Anthony family blew through the money when the parents applied for a public defender because they're indigent, after raising all that money for the kid's defense & bail costs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 03:21 PM (6ydKt)

433 Not saying it can't be done, but fixing the letter of the law is about 15% of the struggle.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:14 PM (1m82a)

I'm not so pessimistic on that front; changing the law here would produce real results. At any rate, the law being changed is at least feasible at some level. I'm not so sure that people can be made less corrupt or opportunistic. If the plan to save the immigration system depends on a rebirth of civicmindedness or the like, we may as well just grant mass asylum and get it over with.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 03:21 PM (4/BuS)

434 And now for something completely different. Robot soccer.

https://is.gd/2UViw9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 03:22 PM (L/fGl)

435 I had a Gen-Z kid with me and told him he should order a pina colada. He didn't understand why, but I told him, it's a story you'll be able to tell someday.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 01, 2025 03:19 PM (eStot)
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Only if his hair was perfect.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 01, 2025 03:22 PM (XZ5S6)

436 Make Third World Shitholes Great Again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 03:22 PM (LL6Kc)

437 THAT is what the H-1B program was meant to be. Unless the law has been enormously amended since then, most H-1B issuance today is outrageous and unlawful.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:19 PM (1m82a)

That is still the intention of the law on paper. For highly specialized skills that no American citizen possesses.

Of course, like all things government, it's just a bunch of boxes to check now.

I know an instagram travel influencer here on an o1 (extraordinary talent) visa. She is well endowed though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:22 PM (uCjyK)

438 H1Bs are a distraction. The real killer is l visas. These are visas for foreign workers brought in by foreign companies. And there is no cap on them.

Technically they’re supposed to be non immigrant visas. But like all things in the immigration system there are a bunch of loopholes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 03:22 PM (nwGCR)

439 Our movie theater is showing free kids' movies each Tuesday this summer.

Guess who had a cameo in "The Little Rascals" today?

Posted by: sal at July 01, 2025 03:23 PM (f+FmA)

440 I’m unclear why they didn’t just give Florida Man a cooler full of iced beer, a smoker, a small camper, a hunting rifle and a free fire zone.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 03:23 PM (R44ZX)

441 132 My understanding is that the only snakes to really be absolutely wary of are the venomous ones. Most other snakes don't give a shit about you.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

But where aren't there venomous snakes in Florida? (Florida has six species of venomous snakes, all of which are native to the state. These include the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Timber Rattlesnake, Pygmy Rattlesnake, Copperhead, Cottonmouth, and Eastern Coral Snake)

I was in Deland visiting my mom's grave years ago & it finally dawned on me I was probably looking at a coral snake inside the little fenced, wooded cemetery area.

I fled back to the church parking lot and just moments later, sirens went off because a plumber working nearby in the town had been bitten.

BTW, DeLand was one of only three hospitals in the US with the specific antivenom.
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See West Virginia poisonous vipers (2 types), PA poisonous vipers (3 types), etc.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 03:23 PM (NFX2v)

442 I watched a video yesterday of all of the trucks loaded with supplies for Gator Traz and on the long road the trucks were driving on, both sides were lines with protestors. Not one protestor got in the street to try and block the trucks due to the law in FL that your ass can be run over if you try and stop a vehicle on the road.

DeSantis, you magnificent bastard.

Posted by: Cheri at July 01, 2025 03:23 PM (oiNtH)

443 Komodo swallows you whole

https://youtu.be/LHLeHYKRIUw

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 03:23 PM (AOsQT)

444 I loathe that song. If I have to go to hell - but I'm trusting in the Lord to forgive me and save me- I will have to hear the Pina Colada song on an endless loop.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 03:18 PM (2GCMq)

It's not one of my favorites, but it's a good 'story' song the way the lyrics are written.

I remember it mainly from when I was a kid.
It was on the radio all the time back then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 03:24 PM (6ydKt)

445 >>>THAT is what the H-1B program was meant to be. Unless the law has been enormously amended since then, most H-1B issuance today is outrageous and unlawful.
Posted by: rhomboid
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So, as with other things theses days, it's not the law it's the abuse of the law. (I smell payola)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 03:24 PM (UFztX)

446 Comparing deporting illegals to fugitive slaves will only work with AWFLs: blacks and legal Hispanics hate the illegals and want them gone more than most whites do!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (1paM0)

=======

Trump promised the largest deportation effort in history (history includes Operation Wetback, by the way).

He won 50% of the Hispanic vote and a record amount of the black vote (Pew has it at about 15%).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
_________

Trump probably got 50% of the male black vote who actually voted (not harvested or frauded). And probably 30% of the female black vote that actually voted.

If we can somehow clean up the elections in deep blue cities, the GOP would dominate the country. I'm convinced that this overwhelming support that Dumocraps have in blue cities is mostly fraudulent.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

447 Wow, orange man goin' nukylar on Elon.

Surprise!

So now we get another histrionic p***ing match?

But to correct Trump's outburst a bit, the EV thing is absolutely correct, but space launches and telecom from Musk haven't been "subsidies", any more than the massive and unavoidable involvement of guvamint in space and telecom, as "public goods", are subsidies. Perhaps incorrect, removable interventions (doubt it, not completely anyway).

But when it's personal, you get the most outlandish Trump.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:24 PM (1m82a)

448 Old joke
Guy goes to Africa, wants to do it all...
Decides to swim a river. When he gets out, the villagers are rubbing his skin, checking him out.
Asks the interpreter. Guy says, "They want to feel your magic skin."
Guy says it's not magic, just white.
No, says interpreter, if they swim the river, crocodiles eat them.

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 03:25 PM (+Pp+Q)

449 I have a neighbor who is a legal immigrant from South America. The people who came in illegally laughed at him for doing it the right way. Guess who is laughing now?

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2025 03:25 PM (R44ZX)

450 I was in Deland visiting my mom's grave years ago and it finally dawned on me I was probably looking at a coral snake in the little fenced, wooded cemetery area.

I fled back to the church parking lot and just a few minutes later, sirens went off because a plumber working nearby had been bitten.

BTW, DeLand was one of only three hospitals in the US with the specific antivenin.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 03:09 PM (NFX2v)

You are supposed to quietly say to yourself, black on red, fellow dead or something.

You did the right thing and exactly what I would have done (unless you were not screaming, I would be screaming).

We had "harmless" black snakes in FL on the Atlantic. I was more afraid of them than sharks. One as tall as me lived in our front hedge in the summers, forcing me to get the mail from the garage.

Florida blew my mind, and I hail from the deepest heart of the Deep South. I totally feared pythons in the toilet to finish me off one fine morning.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 03:25 PM (6PCLE)

451 419 Can you get Crocs made out of actual crocs?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 03:19 PM (LL6Kc)

My man ... but of course.

Posted by: Xzibit at July 01, 2025 03:25 PM (TTAGa)

452 443 Komodo swallows you whole

https://youtu.be/LHLeHYKRIUw
Posted by: Don Black. Message
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But they can't hear you scream from his belly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 03:25 PM (UFztX)

453 Saw Raging Online open for Suicidal Tendencies at a warehouse show in LA back in '84.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 03:26 PM (qpyNK)

454 Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 01, 2025 03:19 PM (eStot)

I used to like pina coladas in my early days of drinking . Now I wouldn't be able to drink them because I'm not crazy about pineapple and I can't stand coconut.

Does anyone else now have aversions to drinks or food they used to like when younger?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 03:26 PM (2GCMq)

455 Komodo swallows you whole

https://youtu.be/LHLeHYKRIUw
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 03:23 PM (AOsQT)

That's the quick way. The slow way is a little nibble followed by death a few days later from sepsis poisoning.

Posted by: mrp at July 01, 2025 03:27 PM (rj6Yv)

456 Is Caiman alligator, or croc?
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Gators?

Crocodilia is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, which includes true crocodiles, the alligators, and caimans; as well as the gharial and false gharial. A member of this order is called a crocodilian, or colloquially a crocodile.

The 9 genera and 28 species of Crocodilia are split into 3 subfamilies: Alligatoridae, alligators and caimans; Crocodylidae, true crocodiles; and Gavialidae, the gharial and false gharial.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxat6p5

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 03:27 PM (2yoRf)

457 Was there any announcements about detention center Banjo Music?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 03:27 PM (W3T6M)

458 Amazon Chief Says Tariffs Haven’t Pushed Up Prices, Undermining Critics’ Inflation Warnings

Miraculous !

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:27 PM (/U5Yz)

459 The great thing about Karmelo Anthony and his family blowing through all that money on temporary frivolities is that now he has that much less for his defense! He’s going to lose, by the way, because the county his trial is being held in doesn’t put up with any DEI nonsense. So you’re going down, Karmelo, your family’s going back to grifting, poor, and if you don’t repent (I sincerely pray that you would, wholly and completely) you are going to spend Eternity roasting in hell.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:27 PM (1paM0)

460 Komodo swallows you whole

https://youtu.be/LHLeHYKRIUw
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 03:23 PM (AOsQT)
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The poor goat's legs were broken, probably by tourists so they could watch it get eaten.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

461 "Does anyone else now have aversions to drinks or food they used to like when younger?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

Ummm...I ate red clay when I was a kid.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 03:28 PM (fV+MH)

462 459 The great thing about Karmelo Anthony and his family blowing through all that money on temporary frivolities is that now he has that much less for his defense! He’s going to lose, by the way, because the county his trial is being held in doesn’t put up with any DEI nonsense. So you’re going down, Karmelo, your family’s going back to grifting, poor, and if you don’t repent (I sincerely pray that you would, wholly and completely) you are going to spend Eternity roasting in hell.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:27 PM (1paM0)

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And his public defender has 200 other cases they're trying to keep up with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

463 Escapees wandering around the Everglades would probably die of foot rot before they ever even SEE an alligator.
Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 02:23 PM (poXs5)

Plus the grass and reeds that grow in the glades are like razor wire. And the skeeters.......

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2025 03:28 PM (g8Ew8)

464 In the Elon Trump fight, I’m cheering for the billionaire who owns a social media platform and has multiple kids from several wives and never knows when to shut up for his own good.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 03:28 PM (nwGCR)

465 "355 The number I've seen is that 65% of H1Bs are entry level and require no experience. Similarly the 250,000 STEM OPT jobs are entry level. American graduates are being shut out.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 03:02 PM (2yoRf)

And this has been going on for over 20 years...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (mP0Kj) "

damn, you mean someone besides me noticed this? who knew?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 03:28 PM (Z5NUn)

466 452 443 Komodo swallows you whole

https://youtu.be/LHLeHYKRIUw
Posted by: Don Black. Message
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But they can't hear you scream from his belly.
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Or, Yes they can. That's some gross presentation.

It should have a caution note.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 03:29 PM (UFztX)

467 pudinhead -

Paddle faster, I hear banjo music!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:29 PM (1paM0)

468 452 443 Komodo swallows you whole

https://youtu.be/LHLeHYKRIUw
Posted by: Don Black. Message

I was waiting for a burp.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:29 PM (/U5Yz)

469 Speaking of illegals, now seeing posts on X that, in fact, those 1.4M illegals have been kicked off of Medicaid.

How? Beats me. Didn't the Parliamentarian strip it from the bill.

Posted by: WisRich at July 01, 2025 03:29 PM (G0vdT)

470 > That's the quick way. The slow way is a little nibble followed by death a few days later from sepsis poisoning.
Posted by: mrp at July 01, 2025 03:27 PM (rj6Yv)

Those things have more putrefacient mouths than Kamala Harris.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 03:30 PM (qpyNK)

471 In the Elon Trump fight, I’m cheering for the billionaire who owns a social media platform and has multiple kids from several wives and never knows when to shut up for his own good.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 03:28 PM (nwGCR)

Hah.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 03:30 PM (VofaG)

472 306 Fun fact: New Zealand has no snakes. You'd think an island with crazy fauna like NZ has would be teaming with big-ass snakes. Nope.

Let me guess, something even more horrible ate them all? Or maybe the local bird population picked up the snakes and dropped them on people until they ran out? There are never positive sides to statements like that. There is always something worse in the details.

Posted by: Nelly at July 01, 2025 03:30 PM (cHLus)

473 In the Elon Trump fight, I’m cheering for the billionaire who owns a social media platform and has multiple kids from several wives and never knows when to shut up for his own good.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 03:28 PM (nwGCR)

You mean the one that gets wound up and shitposts?

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 03:30 PM (D7oie)

474 I used to like pina coladas in my early days of drinking . Now I wouldn't be able to drink them because I'm not crazy about pineapple and I can't stand coconut.

Does anyone else now have aversions to drinks or food they used to like when younger?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 03:26 PM (2GCMq)

It's better if you put the lime in the coconut

LINK (YT) https://tinyurl.com/y4ppm5ws

Posted by: mrp at July 01, 2025 03:30 PM (rj6Yv)

475 The great thing about Karmelo Anthony and his family blowing through all that money on temporary frivolities is that now he has that much less for his defense! He’s going to lose, by the way, because the county his trial is being held in doesn’t put up with any DEI nonsense. So you’re going down, Karmelo, your family’s going back to grifting, poor, and if you don’t repent (I sincerely pray that you would, wholly and completely) you are going to spend Eternity roasting in hell.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:27 PM (1paM0)

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And his public defender has 200 other cases they're trying to keep up with.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:28 PM (GBKbO)
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Something happened. Something changed. He and his family went from defiant and boastful to simps practically overnight. I suspect what happened is they saw the video of the murder that we've been hearing exists.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

476 nood massie

Posted by: barbarausa at July 01, 2025 03:31 PM (enw9G)

477 > How? Beats me. Didn't the Parliamentarian strip it from the bill.
Posted by: WisRich at July 01, 2025 03:29 PM (G0vdT)

The bill isn't in effect yet. Senate passed it, but now it has to go back to the House.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 03:31 PM (qpyNK)

478 475 Something happened. Something changed. He and his family went from defiant and boastful to simps practically overnight. I suspect what happened is they saw the video of the murder that we've been hearing exists.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

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Their angel lied to them?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

479 nood

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 03:31 PM (uCjyK)

480 BTW, just to add more encouraging facts, the H-2A (seasonal ag worker) program is also abuse- and corruption-ridden. And remember that's the *legal* imported labor component of the problem.

The rest are just farmers and ag companies that go full retard and use illegal labor, routinely.

And Trump's emitting noises indicating ag will get special exemptions or treatment. Because of course ag "interests" are as patriotic, responsible, and civic-minded as the LA City Council - but hey they're Republicans! Big donors! "Conservatives"!!!

Fixing a third world country has never really been accomplished (OK, gray area cases like Singapore, British Hong Kong, maybe even El Salvador, Botswana). And fixing the US looks very much like fixing one of these places has always looked.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 03:31 PM (1m82a)

481 Tune in next week for a new episode:
Orange Jumpsuits and Afraid
filmed on location in the Florida swamp.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 03:32 PM (v0R5T)

482 I was in Deland visiting my mom's grave years ago and it finally dawned on me I was probably looking at a coral snake in the little fenced, wooded cemetery area.
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Saw one in my back yard the other day.
Shit's kinda freaky; second in toxicity only to the black mamba.

But, everything I've read/seen says they really, really prefer to run away and will only bite if mishandled.
Said also that only about 10% of the bites are envenomating.
90% are "MFer, leave me the F alone, will you?"

Another cool fact: they like to eat other snakes, specifically, the rough earth snake.
So, if you see little brown snakes, that's probably it's prey.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 03:32 PM (LbQ3Z)

483 There was that story of some poor lady in Indonesia getting eaten by a giant python.

The husband went looking for his missing wife and sees a snake as fat as an alligator then realizes the worst has happened.

I guess when it comes to small women and children a big snake sees a big meal sometimes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 03:32 PM (6ydKt)

484 In the Elon Trump fight, I’m cheering for the billionaire who owns a social media platform and has multiple kids from several wives and never knows when to shut up for his own good.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Yeah! The tall one!

Posted by: andycanuck at July 01, 2025 03:32 PM (2yoRf)

485 306 Fun fact: New Zealand has no snakes. You'd think an island with crazy fauna like NZ has would be teaming with big-ass snakes. Nope.

Unlike gawd awful Australia where everything is poisonous.
Death by Platypus.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 03:32 PM (/U5Yz)

486 Does anyone else now have aversions to drinks or food they used to like when younger?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 03:26 PM (2GCMq)
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I liked Sweet Tarts and then I didn't. Necco's are chalk.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 03:33 PM (W3T6M)

487 Yikes. Thought croc, or gator question was simple.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (XeU6L)

488 LOL. Pixar's Elio was originally GAY GAY GAY, but test audiences hated it. So the top brass changed it. But the audience yawned and it flopped. Now the GAY GAY GAY Pixar employees are lashing out because they wanted their "queer-coded" Elio released.

So Pixar's getting hammered from inside and from outside.

http://tiny.cc/qdfo001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (lIio7)

489 464 In the Elon Trump fight, I’m cheering for the billionaire who owns a social media platform and has multiple kids from several wives and never knows when to shut up for his own good.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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There's video of Howard Hughes before a Senate committee.
When a citizen attains the strength and independence and authority of a true citizen they play hell with pompous asshoes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (UFztX)

490 First the FA, then the FO.

Trump, Noem vow to prosecute CNN for reporting on ICE app, Iran strike
Trump officials vowed to prosecute CNN over coverage of app tracking ICE agents, …

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (L/fGl)

491 In re NZ and Snakes and just for you fans of Fritz Leiber: remember - it’s either Snakes or Spiders!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:34 PM (1paM0)

492 By the way, in today's update to cultural decay, New York City put up a big pink dildo in the city as a fountain that spurts out the tip when you spin nearby foot petals. It has mouths and lips and stuff all over it, and a foot at the end *wink wink* to claim its not just a dildo. Its like ten feet tall.

I don't mind someone creating something that looks like Eroll Otus would have drawn it, kids have been doing this for centuries with clay and play-do and whatever. I mind that the city decided to spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy and install it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:35 PM (dfIr7)

493 Well, I didn't have pina coladas when I was young. When I was 18 you could still drink legally.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 03:35 PM (2GCMq)

494 Neccos have always been chalk.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:36 PM (1paM0)

495 Pixar's Elio was originally GAY GAY GAY, but test audiences hated it.

What is funny is that in internal screenings people kinda liked it but not a single one said they would go see it in the theater. So they tried to fix it, but it still sucks and cost like 300 million to make.

The original director is a flaming homosexual, and in a jarring twist he insisted on filming a movie about a homosexual 11 year old boy. I know, right? So unexpected.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:36 PM (dfIr7)

496 I liked Sweet Tarts and then I didn't. Necco's are chalk.

They're both chalk but I still liked them when I stopped eating candy.

Does anyone else now have aversions to drinks or food they used to like when younger?

I used to love braunschweiger, and hate it now. I would eat every single bit of a chicken leg down to the bone and they kind of disgust me now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2025 03:38 PM (dfIr7)

497
Screw the JAG lawers, put the E-4 Mafia on the bench.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 03:38 PM (3acbK)

498 NYC is going the way of the Northern Kingdom, Israel. I wonder who will play the role of the Assyrian Empire for them, and will they ever come back, even as Samaritans?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:39 PM (1paM0)

499 I eat a lot of things as an adult that I hated as a child. English peas is an example: as a child I detested them, in my adolescence I went on a campaign to try to like them, now as an adult I like them just fine!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 03:42 PM (1paM0)

500 @16/LizLem: "It's really more like Ellis Island, libtards, not an internment or concentration camp. Except this time we are processing people to LEAVE, not stay!"

Exit Island.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 03:53 PM (O7YUW)

501 357 > You can kill a saltwater crocodile by stabbing it in the head.

Is there anything that can't be killed by stabbing it in the head?
Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 03:07 PM (lIio7)

*****

A virus.

The Headless Horseman.

Posted by: EFG at July 01, 2025 04:12 PM (CVU8X)

502 ESCAPIES WILL BE EATEN

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 01, 2025 06:11 PM (wGqjj)

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